You do know that they made films out of The Lord of the Rings? True, I pretty much despise those films (except maybe the first one which wasn't too horrible), but plenty of people do like them...
From the context of your post, I'll assume that you also despise Tolkien.
Have you actually read anything by Frank Herbert other than Dune? Some of his early stuff is conventional, with a faint resemblance to Kornbluth. But The Santaroga Barrier and Helstrom's Hive touch on psychoactive substances and hive minds. It's all fairly trippy.
The cap and trade model theoretically allows a cap to be achieved as efficiently as possible. Some plants will emit less because they will have already switched to less emittive technologies. Some other plants have not. The extra fees allow the cost of using a greenhouse emitting technology to be properly reflected on the books.
San Ji Wu Xian was sued by CNNIC for 150,000 RMB and the court ruled out favorably towards CNNIC.
Tell me why I should trust a Chinese court. Because the Chinese Communist Party tells me they're trustworthy? Sorry, I'm not sure I should trust the CCP. Can you provide a trustworthy source that will attest to the CCP's ethics?
I'm not willing to trust Google Book's OCR efforts just yet. Good for building a fulltext index, perhaps, but definitely not good enough to ditch the high resolution scans. Besides, many of the more interesting, and rare specimens to be found at LoC have footnotes, typographical oddities, diagrams, and plates that defy conversion into Unitext-- to say nothing of Ascii.
I know how to use them. Other than that, I program in shell script, Perl & a bit of C, pretty much all command-line stuff so, no, I don't know how to program interfaces.
The purpose of an interface is to facilitate interaction between the user and the data on a computer. A good one is intuitive, so that the user doesn't protest "Do what I mean, not what I say", and instead fluently translates motivation into action. A good one is also attractive-- so as to encourage user interaction. But attractiveness is not a end in itself.
Consider publicly released astronomical pictures. Each picture is a rendering of an astronomical dataset for the purpose of inspiring awe. But renderings for the astronomical community are designed to highlight scientifically interesting data, so as to answer scientific questions or inspire new ones. A well designed interface shouldn't sacrifice usefulness for attractiveness. "Eye Candy" tends to make that trade. Are transparent terminal windows really all that useful?
I do know a bit of Java and a bit of Cocoa. Although it's fairly easy to create buttons and hook them up to classes, it's not so easy to create a well designed interface, although in some respect "Interface Builder/XCode" subtly encourages consistency.
There's a YouTube app. When you click on someone's YouTube link in Safari or something, surprise surprise, it opens the YouTube app and plays the video.
Well, if you like the unix tools/APIs, and enjoy using a shell, but expect a bit of spit and polish in your email client, web browser, etc, Mac OSX offers both. I mean, I have Terminal.app in my dock not because of any limitations in the Mac GUI, but because I use "octave" a lot, and need to build/port/modify the occasional unix program, or run a docbook script. I never really got into Automator, apple's gui scripting tool.
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Each edge of a Rubik's cube is 5.7 cm long. The cubesats are 5.5 times as large.
Didn't the director disown that particular cut?
I don't think you understand Dune. I also don't think you understand al Qaeda. But you do understand Hollywood.
You do know that they made films out of The Lord of the Rings? True, I pretty much despise those films (except maybe the first one which wasn't too horrible), but plenty of people do like them...
From the context of your post, I'll assume that you also despise Tolkien.
Avatar's screenplay (pdf format) is 147 pages long. Perhaps you prefer a smaller typeface.
Have you actually read anything by Frank Herbert other than Dune? Some of his early stuff is conventional, with a faint resemblance to Kornbluth. But The Santaroga Barrier and Helstrom's Hive touch on psychoactive substances and hive minds. It's all fairly trippy.
The cap and trade model theoretically allows a cap to be achieved as efficiently as possible. Some plants will emit less because they will have already switched to less emittive technologies. Some other plants have not. The extra fees allow the cost of using a greenhouse emitting technology to be properly reflected on the books.
San Ji Wu Xian was sued by CNNIC for 150,000 RMB and the court ruled out favorably towards CNNIC.
Tell me why I should trust a Chinese court. Because the Chinese Communist Party tells me they're trustworthy? Sorry, I'm not sure I should trust the CCP. Can you provide a trustworthy source that will attest to the CCP's ethics?
Enjoy your luggage.
Optical Drive (CD/DVD/Blu-Ray)
Physical keyboard (at least as an optional model)
Sounds like quite a tablet you've got there. I bet it feels solid and weighty.
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Professor Knuth," Steve Jobs said. "I've read all of your books."
"You're full of shit," Knuth responded.
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what more could you possibly want?
Guinness is more than a dilution of Everclear.
I'm not willing to trust Google Book's OCR efforts just yet. Good for building a fulltext index, perhaps, but definitely not good enough to ditch the high resolution scans. Besides, many of the more interesting, and rare specimens to be found at LoC have footnotes, typographical oddities, diagrams, and plates that defy conversion into Unitext-- to say nothing of Ascii.
I know how to use them. Other than that, I program in shell script, Perl & a bit of C, pretty much all command-line stuff so, no, I don't know how to program interfaces.
The purpose of an interface is to facilitate interaction between the user and the data on a computer. A good one is intuitive, so that the user doesn't protest "Do what I mean, not what I say", and instead fluently translates motivation into action. A good one is also attractive-- so as to encourage user interaction. But attractiveness is not a end in itself.
Consider publicly released astronomical pictures. Each picture is a rendering of an astronomical dataset for the purpose of inspiring awe. But renderings for the astronomical community are designed to highlight scientifically interesting data, so as to answer scientific questions or inspire new ones. A well designed interface shouldn't sacrifice usefulness for attractiveness. "Eye Candy" tends to make that trade. Are transparent terminal windows really all that useful?
I do know a bit of Java and a bit of Cocoa. Although it's fairly easy to create buttons and hook them up to classes, it's not so easy to create a well designed interface, although in some respect "Interface Builder/XCode" subtly encourages consistency.
I see... so you mean to tell me that your love of OS X has absolutely nothing to do with the "eye candy" of the user interface.
I'm beginning to think that you know nothing about interfaces.
There's a YouTube app. When you click on someone's YouTube link in Safari or something, surprise surprise, it opens the YouTube app and plays the video.
But what if someone sends me a youporn link?
Themes? Oh my. I was never very good at programming interfaces, so too often themes present a tyranny of choice.
Really, your wife is really really ignorant or just really good at selling you on her buying a new toy.
Instead of buying her a new computer, you could always get her a couple of DIMMs.
I was waiting with baited breath to see what Apple was going to deliver.
Toothpaste helps with that.
Well, if you like the unix tools/APIs, and enjoy using a shell, but expect a bit of spit and polish in your email client, web browser, etc, Mac OSX offers both. I mean, I have Terminal.app in my dock not because of any limitations in the Mac GUI, but because I use "octave" a lot, and need to build/port/modify the occasional unix program, or run a docbook script. I never really got into Automator, apple's gui scripting tool.
_No_ _vendor_ _lock_ _in_. No apple store only.
So how do you write apps for the iPad? Do you have to get your builds approved by the Apple Store before you can test them?
Userfriendliness requires more than just placing bets.
Why do you believe that a computer must be an either/or proposition?
My car runs on voice commands.