They didn't seem to need me to call when I signed up in the first place. An offered option shouldn't be hidden or require negotiating a maze of circuitous channels. What a bunch of knuckleheads!
I've tried repeatedly to restart my subscription, since the DVD-only option is very appealing. But they don't even offer it. (No lie.) I don't see streaming as a viable option for many years, so it's back to the public library for me.
Right. And each and every one of those people are a group of cells. So shouldn't we say that "Tony Blair are of the opinion that..."? C'mon now. Grammar can seem restricting at times, but there's no reason to smack her in the mouth.
It's just one of those curiosities of regional English. It's clearly grammatically incorrect, but usage dicates incorrect grammar is some parts of the world. (In the U.S. it's common to say "real good" in place of "really good," for example.) Nonetheless, it is jarring and distracts from the content of what one is trying to say.
What I find odd is the implication that a team cannot be though of as a unit, only as a collective of individuals. But the law views a corporation as a single entity.
But really, I can't see why not having Flash availabe is much of a drawback. I see it primarily as adware, which is why I have it blocked by default. I suppose it would be nice if one wanted to idle some time away watching YouTube videos, but at $500+? I can't imagine.
Really? I assumed Apple avoided Verizon because they're using a receding standard, one that's incompatible with most networks worldwide. But then, I hear a lot of businesses still cling to Microsoft, so who can say?
Now, now. Cory is definitely a fan of gratuitous self-promotion, but he's not an enemy of copyright. My reading is that he's an enthusiastic advocate for copyright. That is, copyright, as it was intended when created -- a means of promoting creativity by allowing the creator a limited period of exclusive control over his or her work.
Copyright was never meant to be a means for copyright owners (vs. creators) to build monopolistic empires.
> You don't have to open links in tabs. You can set them to open in the same window or in a new window. ------------- Could you be more specific? I've looked into it fairly extensively and numerous posts indicate this basic option doesn't exist. This is why the tabkiller extension does exist, though it doesn't seem to work with version 2. When I cmd-click or cmd-shift-click on a link, it always opens a cursed tab.
How hard can it be? Is the development team so ossified and chauvinistic that they want to force a particular navigation scheme on all users? Let folks who want to use tabs use them, but don't make the rest of us drink from a separate drinking fountain around the back!
I think it would be interesting to see a comsumption analysis for the trip in terms of oil. (Setting aside, for the moment, coal-genereated power, etc.). Perhaps the Segway vs. a bicycle vs. an efficient motorcycle vs a hybrid car.
But despair not: "tries" is what you're looking for. Or if you were going for a brief, elliptical headline: "Your Rights Online: Verso Trials, Skype-Blocking in China." That is the most likely reading of the subject line as written, but, on further reading, it seems this wasn't intended.
"English -- It's O.K.!"
(And it prevents one from sounding like a hollow suit.)
Javascript is appropriate for conscientiously enhancing the user experience, but it should *never* be required for functionality. When in doubt, always avoid it, but if you've got some time to kill and you want to add some fancy non-essential features, go for it. Just don't forget that it's extra. (And don't forget to test it on every browser on every OS...)
"Our company recently migrated to Linux workstations after years of Windows. Can't say that I see much of a difference between Linux and Windows GUIs nor I miss Windows GIU at all."
If it works as well as Quicksilver, it will be impressive. But this kind of feature isn't for everybody, to be sure. With Quicksilver, one can spare oneself a lot of poking about and futzing with the mouse -- once accustomed to how it works.
Am I missing something or is this just a way to trap e-mail addresses? Does anyone know what paths/mechanisms are being used to send the e-mail? Perhaps it's simply using configured accounts in the Mail app.
The XML suite will be usefull, I hope, XML tools on the Mac side are pretty paltry. Though Oxygen has a functional kluge, the interface is dismal.
Well, the sense in which I use the word 'engage' is a bit less two-dimensional than popular usage (military press briefings, for example, where even that second dimension is derided as unnecessarily complex.)
Two definitions from the OED offer context: Engage (v. trans.) - To bind by a contract or formal promise. - To pledge oneself; to enter into a covenant or undertaking
In this sense, 'engage' isn't simply a euphemism for attacking or bulldozing the proponents of a perceived threat. It has more to do with, first, investigating whether the threat is real, second, taking steps to understand the threat, and third, addressing any actual threat (or misunderstanding) in the context of facts.
In this sense, one wouldn't say that the Chinese government "engaged" the protesters on Tiananmen Square when it ran them over with tanks, but that it ran them over with tanks because it saw no reason to engage them.
This is interesting because politically the U.S. is so much like Microsoft - a lumbering dinosaur of stasis that won't engage an evolving world. Instead, it looks to impose it's will by brute force and deceitful stratagems.
From my travels in France, I've found the people to be as forward-thinking (and well-informed) politically as they are conformist and sycophantic technologically. Chirac's cluelessness doesn't suprise me in this regard.
The French government has a reputation for opportunism when it come to matters such as peddling arms to all comers, but, at the same time, it's a government much more likely to be reigned in by an engaged populus -- as opposed to the U.S. where folks rely on pseudo news organizations such as Fox News.
It's strange how France's romance for American culture has been contorted into a self-abasing worship of one America's largest coporate leech.
It's become clear over the years that to most folks the GUI just doesn't matter. It may well be the most important component of an OS and the one that determines how much time one spends getting a job done, but people just don't care. Look at the state-of-the-art windows GUI or the most bleeding edgle linux hack. Bleah! Mac built the better mouse trap, but most people just wanted a big, cheap sledge hammer. More power to 'em.
Indeed, it's a bit like confusing a medical clerk with a surgeon. But it's not too surprising, given the bastardized used of the word "Library" in this venue to indicate a mere database or repository.
Or Spiderman again. I thought a review of The Corporation might hit Slashdot, but no, stereotypes get a boost today, just as they did with every review of StarWarts X or Matricks N or Lord of the WebRings Z. Alas, we are but moths bouncing against an LED screen, unconsciously yearning for ecstatic enlightenment in the form of a high-voltage zapper.
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Yeah, me too. I don't really consider the public library a competitor, but they do have better quality content, overall.
They didn't seem to need me to call when I signed up in the first place. An offered option shouldn't be hidden or require negotiating a maze of circuitous channels. What a bunch of knuckleheads!
I've tried repeatedly to restart my subscription, since the DVD-only option is very appealing. But they don't even offer it. (No lie.) I don't see streaming as a viable option for many years, so it's back to the public library for me.
I think you mean "Maximum PC went on a behind-the-scenes tour ..."
Right. And each and every one of those people are a group of cells. So shouldn't we say that "Tony Blair are of the opinion that ..."? C'mon now. Grammar can seem restricting at times, but there's no reason to smack her in the mouth.
It's just one of those curiosities of regional English. It's clearly grammatically incorrect, but usage dicates incorrect grammar is some parts of the world. (In the U.S. it's common to say "real good" in place of "really good," for example.) Nonetheless, it is jarring and distracts from the content of what one is trying to say. What I find odd is the implication that a team cannot be though of as a unit, only as a collective of individuals. But the law views a corporation as a single entity.
Why, the same way you'd use an M-16 hands-free.
(Better a deal-killer than a pedestrian killer!)
But really, I can't see why not having Flash availabe is much of a drawback. I see it primarily as adware, which is why I have it blocked by default. I suppose it would be nice if one wanted to idle some time away watching YouTube videos, but at $500+? I can't imagine.
Really?
I assumed Apple avoided Verizon because they're using a receding standard, one that's incompatible with most networks worldwide. But then, I hear a lot of businesses still cling to Microsoft, so who can say?
Now, now.
Cory is definitely a fan of gratuitous self-promotion, but he's not an enemy of copyright. My reading is that he's an enthusiastic advocate for copyright. That is, copyright, as it was intended when created -- a means of promoting creativity by allowing the creator a limited period of exclusive control over his or her work.
Copyright was never meant to be a means for copyright owners (vs. creators) to build monopolistic empires.
> You don't have to open links in tabs. You can set them to open in the same window or in a new window.
-------------
Could you be more specific? I've looked into it fairly extensively and numerous posts indicate this basic option doesn't exist. This is why the tabkiller extension does exist, though it doesn't seem to work with version 2. When I cmd-click or cmd-shift-click on a link, it always opens a cursed tab.
How hard can it be? Is the development team so ossified and chauvinistic that they want to force a particular navigation scheme on all users? Let folks who want to use tabs use them, but don't make the rest of us drink from a separate drinking fountain around the back!
I think it would be interesting to see a comsumption analysis for the trip in terms of oil. (Setting aside, for the moment, coal-genereated power, etc.). Perhaps the Segway vs. a bicycle vs. an efficient motorcycle vs a hybrid car.
But despair not: "tries" is what you're looking for. Or if you were going for a brief, elliptical headline:
"Your Rights Online: Verso Trials, Skype-Blocking in China."
That is the most likely reading of the subject line as written, but, on further reading, it seems this wasn't intended.
"English -- It's O.K.!"
(And it prevents one from sounding like a hollow suit.)
Sorry, I'm an incorrigible romantic.
Javascript is appropriate for conscientiously enhancing the user experience, but it should *never* be required for functionality. When in doubt, always avoid it, but if you've got some time to kill and you want to add some fancy non-essential features, go for it. Just don't forget that it's extra. ...)
(And don't forget to test it on every browser on every OS
My point exactly.
"Our company recently migrated to Linux workstations after years of Windows. Can't say that I see much of a difference between Linux and Windows GUIs nor I miss Windows GIU at all."
I would, too. But, as much as I work via the CLI, I also need a mature GUI. OS X is the only game in town in that regard.
("Damn the electric fence!")
If it works as well as Quicksilver, it will be impressive. But this kind of feature isn't for everybody, to be sure. With Quicksilver, one can spare oneself a lot of poking about and futzing with the mouse -- once accustomed to how it works.
Am I missing something or is this just a way to trap e-mail addresses? Does anyone know what paths/mechanisms are being used to send the e-mail? Perhaps it's simply using configured accounts in the Mail app.
The XML suite will be usefull, I hope, XML tools on the Mac side are pretty paltry. Though Oxygen has a functional kluge, the interface is dismal.
Well, the sense in which I use the word 'engage' is a bit less two-dimensional than popular usage (military press briefings, for example, where even that second dimension is derided as unnecessarily complex.)
Two definitions from the OED offer context:
Engage (v. trans.)
- To bind by a contract or formal promise.
- To pledge oneself; to enter into a covenant or undertaking
In this sense, 'engage' isn't simply a euphemism for attacking or bulldozing the proponents of a perceived threat. It has more to do with, first, investigating whether the threat is real, second, taking steps to understand the threat, and third, addressing any actual threat (or misunderstanding) in the context of facts.
In this sense, one wouldn't say that the Chinese government "engaged" the protesters on Tiananmen Square when it ran them over with tanks, but that it ran them over with tanks because it saw no reason to engage them.
This is interesting because politically the U.S. is so much like Microsoft - a lumbering dinosaur of stasis that won't engage an evolving world. Instead, it looks to impose it's will by brute force and deceitful stratagems.
From my travels in France, I've found the people to be as forward-thinking (and well-informed) politically as they are conformist and sycophantic technologically. Chirac's cluelessness doesn't suprise me in this regard.
The French government has a reputation for opportunism when it come to matters such as peddling arms to all comers, but, at the same time, it's a government much more likely to be reigned in by an engaged populus -- as opposed to the U.S. where folks rely on pseudo news organizations such as Fox News.
It's strange how France's romance for American culture has been contorted into a self-abasing worship of one America's largest coporate leech.
40,000 volumes. Compared to 8 million for Stanford and 7 million for Michigan. The latter already has almost 20 million pages online.
It's become clear over the years that to most folks the GUI just doesn't matter. It may well be the most important component of an OS and the one that determines how much time one spends getting a job done, but people just don't care. Look at the state-of-the-art windows GUI or the most bleeding edgle linux hack. Bleah! Mac built the better mouse trap, but most people just wanted a big, cheap sledge hammer. More power to 'em.
Indeed, it's a bit like confusing a medical clerk with a surgeon. But it's not too surprising, given the bastardized used of the word "Library" in this venue to indicate a mere database or repository.
Or Spiderman again.
I thought a review of The Corporation might hit Slashdot, but no, stereotypes get a boost today, just as they did with every review of StarWarts X or Matricks N or Lord of the WebRings Z. Alas, we are but moths bouncing against an LED screen, unconsciously yearning for ecstatic enlightenment in the form of a high-voltage zapper.