They are going to put some crappy unremastered version onto this DVD as a bonus, and when people complain that their 1996 VHS version looks better, they will rerelease the THX version on the next DVD set.
As I understand it, there was a switch to start the car, but it only worked when the "key" was nearby, although that stayed in the driver's pocket or bag.
The article talks about luxury cars, but these keyless systems are far more common than they make them out to be. At least in Europe.
I spent ten days in England recently, and with the exception of my grandmother's 20 year old Peugeot, every car I rode in had a keyless system. None of them were luxury cars. Some, far from it.
Well, that could be like how people in movies and tv seem to think 555 is a valid start of a phone number.
On the other hand, it could just be a dumb mistake. I preferred the one where Wayne Palmer says something to the effect of "we traced the account address to your IP".
"You win, because you weren't using all your hard drive and bandwidth anyway (and presumably it gives your data precedence). Apple wins because they no longer have to pay as much to distribute iTunes data and software updates."
Who do you think ends up paying for the bandwidth?
Your ISP doesn't expect everyone to fully saturate their given bandwidth. If they did, they would probably charge more. Do you think Google would offer as much space for Gmail if they thought everyone would use all that is given to them?
So what happens when this gets off the ground and everyone starts using all available bandwidth?
10 years ago, I had to get a new green card. I went to a police station to get my fingerprints taken with ink on a paper sheet, brought that to the INS office, had them take a polaroid, and put together my card on the spot.
Yesterday, I went to my biometrics appointment from my new green card.
They took down my name, SS#, address, and phone number, and had me sit down and wait. Next came the fingerprints, which were done with a scanner that told the operator how readable the prints were (pass/fail). When they all passed, I sat down in front of a digital camera for my photo.
Once they had all of my info, they said I'd get the new card in the mail.
Anyway, the point is 10 years ago they had a bunch of info on me probably on xeroxes and stuffed into some file cabinet somewhere. My green card was an ID card that basically got me back into the country when travelling.
Now, all of the above info is probably stored in some database, and can probably be called up instantly, and I feel that my green card was just an excuse to get that data. Not that I plan on doing anything where that may be used against me in some way, but it still bothers me for some reason.
Heck, I can't help but wonder if at some point in that process there was a secret DNA test.
"In other words, look at Sketchup - but don't touch if you want access to your data."
Do you do 3D work?
Some of us do. These days, we mostly "access" our data with 3D software. Not text editors. *Most* 3D programs use proprietary formats to store data specific to their own features.
With that said, Sketchup offers several import and export options to other standard 3D formats, and can be extended with plugins to support more.
"The only problem with it from my point of view is that it isn't really made for rendering..."
That's not a problem at all.
A lot of people get into computer graphics and try to find one software package that does everything really well, but it just doesn't exist (or at least, they would get their work done a lot quicker with multiple tools).
SketchUp is a modeling program, and for certain types of work, it is very good at what it does, and offers several export formats to let you work with other programs for the other stuff (rendering, curved surfaces, etc.).
Personally, I've been using it for architectural modeling for about 4 years along with Rhino for curved surfaces and Maya (previously Cinema 4D) for rendering. No, I don't have work online to show, but you can browse the gallery forum at sketchup.com to see what others do with it.
But then, the extra options for dir don't work either.
What's weird is that they've also decided to make options start with the - instead of the/, but instead of offering both, or some kind of backwards compatibility, you need to learn all new options for the common commands.
Of course, you need to know that the default help command is now -? instead of/?.
And then, the help for most commands is now several pages long, instead of just a listing of options and what they do.
Well, a mistake is one thing. I'm still pissed that a few years ago, they just decided out of nowhere to delete all of the mail in my "sent" folder. I wasn't anywhere near my mailbox limit, and this happened without warning (unless it came in one of those annoying hotmail staff spams).
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I'm calling it now.
They are going to put some crappy unremastered version onto this DVD as a bonus, and when people complain that their 1996 VHS version looks better, they will rerelease the THX version on the next DVD set.
Well yes, the cars were all from London. One of them was a rental.
But no, I'm not making it up. I think I was probably in six different cars on the trip, and five of them were keyless.
They were all recent models except my grandmother's, but they were not luxury.
As I understand it, there was a switch to start the car, but it only worked when the "key" was nearby, although that stayed in the driver's pocket or bag.
The article talks about luxury cars, but these keyless systems are far more common than they make them out to be. At least in Europe.
I spent ten days in England recently, and with the exception of my grandmother's 20 year old Peugeot, every car I rode in had a keyless system. None of them were luxury cars. Some, far from it.
And the start menu is any better with that?
Some apps put their start menu shortcuts several subfolders deep with the company name as the first one.
I go in and rearrange start menu items after every install.
Well, that could be like how people in movies and tv seem to think 555 is a valid start of a phone number.
On the other hand, it could just be a dumb mistake. I preferred the one where Wayne Palmer says something to the effect of "we traced the account address to your IP".
"You win, because you weren't using all your hard drive and bandwidth anyway (and presumably it gives your data precedence). Apple wins because they no longer have to pay as much to distribute iTunes data and software updates."
Who do you think ends up paying for the bandwidth?
Your ISP doesn't expect everyone to fully saturate their given bandwidth. If they did, they would probably charge more. Do you think Google would offer as much space for Gmail if they thought everyone would use all that is given to them?
So what happens when this gets off the ground and everyone starts using all available bandwidth?
Oh wait. We're talking just Mac users here...
Nevermind.
Oh please.
Changing the search engine in IE 7 involves all of two clicks. How is that the same?
10 years ago, I had to get a new green card. I went to a police station to get my fingerprints taken with ink on a paper sheet, brought that to the INS office, had them take a polaroid, and put together my card on the spot.
Yesterday, I went to my biometrics appointment from my new green card.
They took down my name, SS#, address, and phone number, and had me sit down and wait. Next came the fingerprints, which were done with a scanner that told the operator how readable the prints were (pass/fail). When they all passed, I sat down in front of a digital camera for my photo.
Once they had all of my info, they said I'd get the new card in the mail.
Anyway, the point is 10 years ago they had a bunch of info on me probably on xeroxes and stuffed into some file cabinet somewhere. My green card was an ID card that basically got me back into the country when travelling.
Now, all of the above info is probably stored in some database, and can probably be called up instantly, and I feel that my green card was just an excuse to get that data. Not that I plan on doing anything where that may be used against me in some way, but it still bothers me for some reason.
Heck, I can't help but wonder if at some point in that process there was a secret DNA test.
"In other words, look at Sketchup - but don't touch if you want access to your data."
Do you do 3D work?
Some of us do. These days, we mostly "access" our data with 3D software. Not text editors. *Most* 3D programs use proprietary formats to store data specific to their own features.
With that said, Sketchup offers several import and export options to other standard 3D formats, and can be extended with plugins to support more.
"The only problem with it from my point of view is that it isn't really made for rendering..."
That's not a problem at all.
A lot of people get into computer graphics and try to find one software package that does everything really well, but it just doesn't exist (or at least, they would get their work done a lot quicker with multiple tools).
SketchUp is a modeling program, and for certain types of work, it is very good at what it does, and offers several export formats to let you work with other programs for the other stuff (rendering, curved surfaces, etc.).
Personally, I've been using it for architectural modeling for about 4 years along with Rhino for curved surfaces and Maya (previously Cinema 4D) for rendering. No, I don't have work online to show, but you can browse the gallery forum at sketchup.com to see what others do with it.
Um, what if they made a game out of that Queer Eye show?
Are you suggesting that there would be no way to tell that the characters in the game are gay?
Or are you trying to point out that there would be no way to prove it without seeing them engage in intercourse?
These days everyone knows what HD means. These days most people have DVD players.
Blu-Ray? What's that?
Yes, but the extra options don't work.
/, but instead of offering both, or some kind of backwards compatibility, you need to learn all new options for the common commands.
/?.
In fact, it's the same as the dir command.
But then, the extra options for dir don't work either.
What's weird is that they've also decided to make options start with the - instead of the
Of course, you need to know that the default help command is now -? instead of
And then, the help for most commands is now several pages long, instead of just a listing of options and what they do.
I haven't tried this release yet, but the last one, seemed to run in the same command prompt window, so all GUI functions were the same.
One nifty feature though, is that you no longer have to type the drive letter first to change to a directory on it.
In other words cyou can be in "c:\foo", and just type "cd d:\bar". You used to have to type "d:" and then "cd d:\bar".
"PLUS it could save face for the touchscreen miss."
Wait a second?
Are you suggesting that Apple should somehow make up for not releasing something they themselves never intended to in the first place?
Right.
It's almost more useless now than it was when I was using my iDisk 5 years ago on dialup.
Quicktime movie of it in action:
http://www.apple.com/dotmac/idisk.html
In case anyone needs further explanation...
.Mac.
Apple has offered an online virtual hard drive since the OS 9 days (that's the previous millenium) with
It mounts as any other disk on your system, and even offers sharing with other people from that disk.
There is a saying that goes something like "the only purpose of a lock is to prevent you from getting into your own house."
Um... Didn't we know this like 20 years ago?
Why don't you just turn off your computer for the day and go outside?
If any of these aren't hoaxes, they will still be here tomorrow.
Oh. Maybe I wasn't clear.
It's normal now. If you want to keep your sent items, you need to move them out of the sent folder. From the top of the sent folder page:
"Messages more than 30 days old will be automatically deleted from this folder."
My point was that this new policy came without any obvious warning. One day, I just looked in there and a few hundred messages were gone.
It just seems stupid. Why do they assume your own sent mail is as worthless to you as the stuff in your trash folder?
Well, a mistake is one thing. I'm still pissed that a few years ago, they just decided out of nowhere to delete all of the mail in my "sent" folder. I wasn't anywhere near my mailbox limit, and this happened without warning (unless it came in one of those annoying hotmail staff spams).
http://www.google.com/search?q=x64
It's pretty widely accepted, adn if Microsoft can use it to refer to the 64-bit version, why can't we?