I don't have to worry about the higher echelon of life-problems that are brought on by people questioning the soundness of one's "loyalties"; take yourself, for example.
I'm sure the people reading your mail have you pegged as disloyal, then.
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FACT: insert unsubstantiated opinion here
Try showing that your "facts" are, in fact, "facts" rather than merely asserting that they are. And when you do, you won't need to resort to such ham handed propaganda techniques.
Oh, and the other joke is that BD Live just brings Blu-ray up to (nearly) the same level as HD DVD. Yes, at the time WHV threw its weight behind Blu-ray, Blu-ray was both more expensive than HD DVD, and less powerful (capacity excepting.)
Did you actually use those more "powerful" features?
"Mimicking the human brain" may or not be an effective programming strategy, but it's still a novel one that must be incorporated into schedulers, languages, and programming styles.
they very well may be going to explore underwater caves. An odd choice of words. Cave diving is a dangerous, niche sport. The certification rituals are quite difficult-- whereas getting a recreational diving license is fairly easy, and caving clubs are ubiquitous.
In any case, software archeology presents no risk of death-- despite what Vernor Vinge's novels might imply.
"I know of at least one major office supply retailer that powers its site by connecting AS400s to Web front ends," says Andrew Gelina, CEO of Syrinx Consulting, in Waltham, Mass. "The cost of rewriting or migrating these apps is huge and the risk is high, so they look for any way possible to reuse and reconnect to modern technologies. It's like marine archeology. You'll need a spelunker to dive deep into them, figure out how they can be bolted and duct-taped into a more modern integration engine, like a SOAP/XML front end."
A spelunker explores caves, not underwater wrecks.
If you're trying to communicate to a user-interface designer-- you don't say
"I'm physically challenged. Fix the interface"
you say
"I can't operate a mouse with more than one button" or "I have trouble keeping my hand steady" or one of a thousands of other symptoms. Euphemisms make people feel better. Accurate descriptions are useful.
If you're talking to a busybody, say whatever you like.
If you must know, the context was two guys (I was one one of them, he was the other) with physical disabilities chatting it up.
My point: If you have a good mouse, and properly adjust your mouse's acceleration, aiming your mouse is trivial. It does not require finely honed or even average level hand-eye coordination.
Why shade truths? One of my maths professors, who contracted polio in his younger years, was quite content to use that term to describe himself, when it was relevant.
Unless you have some physical condition that prevents it, there's really very little excuse for poor mousing skills. If the mouse doesn't track properly, or isn't weighted correctly, buy a new one.
So why is closing a Mac window harder than threading a needle? And with the close button so small, why do standard dialogs generally lack an "OK" or "Close" button, with the expectation that we use those itty-bitty buttons way up in the corner?
Are you some sort of cripple? It's a mouse. It's an extension of your hand. Just aim the cursor. Slow movements are more precise, fast movements are coarser.
And I have no idea what you could possibly mean by dialogues lacking certain buttons. Give me an example.
According to their corporate timeline, the first products Symantec released were "natural language" tools for databases. Then, they started mergers and acquisitions. Funny, I've always thought of them as a compiler company (who moved on to other things), but their compilers were from yet another buyout. In 1987, they bought Think Technologies, makers of Lightspeed C and Lightspeed Pascal.
Apple isn't trying to sell standardized products, it's trying to sell distinctive products. The ipod isn't just a MP3 player, it's a player with a distinctive user interface, with a distinctive design. It's something that others want to copy. Patents make sure that simply copying the ipod in its entirety isn't possible.
I ran 10.4 on a 500 MHz G3 iBook with 384 Megabytes of Ram. It was usable, but it wasn't a joy to use. Because the graphics card couldn't accelerate Quartz, Expose was kind of slow..
10.5 can't be used on such a machine. I have 10.5 it on my 1.2 GHz G4 with 1280 Megabytes-- and the extra memory is very useful here. At the same time, however, it's not 100% up to speed. Most of the "eye candy", is turned off. I don't really miss it. Every so often though, it slows down to a crawl-- it's probably the fault of time machine.
Face it, machines get old. OS designers get sloppy. New features that take advantage of silicon on new machines don't do so well on older machines.
For those of you who haven't played AA, Medic Training consists of walking into a classroom, sitting down, looking at the screen, and listening to a lecture. Then you take a multiple choice exam. So, there's a real possibility of learning something.
Wireless keyboards are neat because a user can move them around, put them on her lap or whatever, without getting tangled up in wires. the same with a wireless mouse-- the tail prevents her from being as free with it as she would like.
But for other things, wireless becomes little more than a gimmick. Look, Ma, I'm wireless!
If she has a tower under your desk, then, yeah, touching her mp3 player to something under her desk might be problematic. Solution? A nice antenna pad, wired to her desktop computer, or maybe an antenna on her screen-- which is wired anyway.
If she has a laptop, touching her mp3 player to it shouldn't make a bit of difference, ergonomically.
Maybe Sony's solution also has speed advantages over Wireless USB that are not immediately apparent without testing. Repeated tests have shown Firewire-400 to be faster than USB-480, because of architectural differences.
Wireless USB seems to be about setting up a network of various devices without wires. Reduce desktop clutter, I suppose.
Sony's technology is based on touching your mp3 player to a pad connected to your computer-filling it up with new data-- no bandwidth to share, no strange interference problems to solve. It's one to one, rather than a network. It's simple, but it's not designed to connect scanners or printers or hard drives.
Matter of fact, why would you want your printer or scanner to use wireless USB instead of 802.11n? And why are wireless hard drives so important? Wouldn't you rather use a secure, reliable, fast USB3 connection?
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I'm sure the people reading your mail have you pegged as disloyal, then.
So, you're a loyal supporter of the government, who refrains from doing anything that could be even possibly construed as naughty?
Try showing that your "facts" are, in fact, "facts" rather than merely asserting that they are. And when you do, you won't need to resort to such ham handed propaganda techniques.
"Mimicking the human brain" may or not be an effective programming strategy, but it's still a novel one that must be incorporated into schedulers, languages, and programming styles.
And.... we're back to square one.
In any case, software archeology presents no risk of death-- despite what Vernor Vinge's novels might imply.
A spelunker explores caves, not underwater wrecks.
If you're trying to communicate to a user-interface designer-- you don't say
"I'm physically challenged. Fix the interface"
you say
"I can't operate a mouse with more than one button" or "I have trouble keeping my hand steady" or one of a thousands of other symptoms. Euphemisms make people feel better. Accurate descriptions are useful.
If you're talking to a busybody, say whatever you like.
If you must know, the context was two guys (I was one one of them, he was the other) with physical disabilities chatting it up.
My point:
If you have a good mouse, and properly adjust your mouse's acceleration, aiming your mouse is trivial. It does not require finely honed or even average level hand-eye coordination.
Why shade truths? One of my maths professors, who contracted polio in his younger years, was quite content to use that term to describe himself, when it was relevant.
Unless you have some physical condition that prevents it, there's really very little excuse for poor mousing skills. If the mouse doesn't track properly, or isn't weighted correctly, buy a new one.
Are you some sort of cripple? It's a mouse. It's an extension of your hand. Just aim the cursor. Slow movements are more precise, fast movements are coarser.
And I have no idea what you could possibly mean by dialogues lacking certain buttons. Give me an example.
According to their corporate timeline, the first products Symantec released were "natural language" tools for databases. Then, they started mergers and acquisitions. Funny, I've always thought of them as a compiler company (who moved on to other things), but their compilers were from yet another buyout. In 1987, they bought Think Technologies, makers of Lightspeed C and Lightspeed Pascal.
It's not backlit by an LED, but there probably is a florescent bulb behind the screen
PS 2.0?
Excuse me, but on MacOSX, we use openGL and fragment shaders. None of this DirectX stuff, thankyouverymuch.
It is a stopgap between DVD and downloadable video, just as 8-track was between LP disc and cassettes and MD was between CDs and MP3.
Download 40--50 GB on a regular basis, do you?
OK, you explain the iPod's popularity.
Apple isn't trying to sell standardized products, it's trying to sell distinctive products. The ipod isn't just a MP3 player, it's a player with a distinctive user interface, with a distinctive design. It's something that others want to copy. Patents make sure that simply copying the ipod in its entirety isn't possible.
Or to a technology licensing firm so they can fund more innovation!
I ran 10.4 on a 500 MHz G3 iBook with 384 Megabytes of Ram. It was usable, but it wasn't a joy to use. Because the graphics card couldn't accelerate Quartz, Expose was kind of slow..
10.5 can't be used on such a machine. I have 10.5 it on my 1.2 GHz G4 with 1280 Megabytes-- and the extra memory is very useful here. At the same time, however, it's not 100% up to speed. Most of the "eye candy", is turned off. I don't really miss it. Every so often though, it slows down to a crawl-- it's probably the fault of time machine.
Face it, machines get old. OS designers get sloppy. New features that take advantage of silicon on new machines don't do so well on older machines.
ahem. Federal District Court is the "trial-level" court in the Federal System. There are 94 such districts in the United States.
For those of you who haven't played AA, Medic Training consists of walking into a classroom, sitting down, looking at the screen, and listening to a lecture. Then you take a multiple choice exam. So, there's a real possibility of learning something.
Rabbit ears are vhf antennas-- and pretty poor ones at that. Much of the available atsc programming uses the uhf spectrum.
Furthermore, things like this don't happen by rouge low level staffers. Decisions to destroy vital records comes from the highest levels.
My friends, we must act now, and we must act decisively. It is clear that communist agents have infiltrated the highest levels of government.
Wireless keyboards are neat because a user can move them around, put them on her lap or whatever, without getting tangled up in wires. the same with a wireless mouse-- the tail prevents her from being as free with it as she would like.
But for other things, wireless becomes little more than a gimmick. Look, Ma, I'm wireless!
If she has a tower under your desk, then, yeah, touching her mp3 player to something under her desk might be problematic. Solution? A nice antenna pad, wired to her desktop computer, or maybe an antenna on her screen-- which is wired anyway.
If she has a laptop, touching her mp3 player to it shouldn't make a bit of difference, ergonomically.
Maybe Sony's solution also has speed advantages over Wireless USB that are not immediately apparent without testing. Repeated tests have shown Firewire-400 to be faster than USB-480, because of architectural differences.
Wireless USB seems to be about setting up a network of various devices without wires. Reduce desktop clutter, I suppose.
Sony's technology is based on touching your mp3 player to a pad connected to your computer-filling it up with new data-- no bandwidth to share, no strange interference problems to solve. It's one to one, rather than a network. It's simple, but it's not designed to connect scanners or printers or hard drives.
Matter of fact, why would you want your printer or scanner to use wireless USB instead of 802.11n? And why are wireless hard drives so important? Wouldn't you rather use a secure, reliable, fast USB3 connection?