I knew a 'tweaker more than artist' before..
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No More Mac Tweaking?
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He had his mac tweaked out, and tried constantly to change something about its configuration, that he never got his 'art' done.. his 'art' consisted at throwing filter after filter in photoshop onto a photo (usually something along the porn lines) at low res until it 'became' art or something. I called it crap. You can tweak all you want, but you are missing the point of 'just works'
I saw this in Cleveland last October, and it was truly worth the while going out there from Pittsburgh. They are coming to Pittsburgh this year, and I'm planning on going to the 'shorts' show.
Well, I have it on tape, paid too much for Koy and Pow on DVD on Amazon ($25, incl shipping. Costco had it for $19 grr) and I've seen the Philip Glass Ensamble perform Koyaanisqatsi live. Is that obsessive enough. I got the discs in yesterday and watched the interview, but I was too busy to go through the films, which I may do tonight. The series is great, and I can't wait for Naq next month, as well as seeing the shorts performance, for which I have to go get tickets.
My left hand stays on the keyboard when going for my mouse anyway, so I don't really mind hitting a modifier to use context menus.. but the fact of the matter is that I probably already know the keyboard shortcut for what I am going to do, so the point of using the modifier is moot.
The pro mouse is perfectly ergonomic: it's the right shape for most sizes of hand, it doesn't require you to press it in the exact same spot each time (click anywhere) and it's a lot lower to the desk thanks to to its use optics over roller ball. Something, I might add, that adds a lot of comfort to my daily usage, since I don't have the spine crushing drop associated with thicker mice (at least in my experience, this is why I switched to trackballs for most pc work)
I see the irony: The major lack in OS X is actually X.
1) Look up irony before you use it next time. It's pronounced "OS Ten" not "OS Ecks", so the irony is pretty much lost there.
2) The lack of X is why I like using the newest MacOS.
I ran linux on a desktop at home for two years. I went back to windows because the experience was so horrible. I then switched over to the Macintosh line because I was tired of constantly upgrading my machine. I converted the PC to a BSD box that runs only on the command line. Life is good.
It drives me nuts..gov and.mil used to belong to the us... I've heard that.mil is going onto Internet2 and is leaving Internet. That takes care of.mil. Now it is the time to retire.gov. Move it to.gov.us, and there will be one address to worry about hiding from terrorists.
www.gov.us could be the central directory to states and federal goverment agencies. That such a site doesn't exist (it sorta does in firstgov, and some news sites, but that's difficult to remember) is rather sad.
The whole point of this heirarchy would be to have a website on anything and everything in the government, and have that site name be obvious.
And another thing.. try going to http://state.pa.us... can't do it without the 'www.' because the dns entry doesn't exist or else has been aliased improperly. The www. should be considered optional at this point. Hell, even eBay has a problem with this.
True, but for every 1 good show I watch 3 horrible ones.
Then you are the problem, not television. You see, that remote control is for changing the channel when the show sucks. Better yet, record what you like, and watch it at your leisure. I never have to worry about watching commercials on a premiere night for a show I like when I can just start 15 minutes late and skip the commercials.
The best part of either the Dominion War or the Klingon/Federaton was was the one shot they had on the back of the photon torpedo. It actually showed the SFX guys wanted to do truly 3d battles. There was also a shot in all good things of the 1701-D of the future carving a Klingon heavy cruiser (or was it a D'deridex?) in two with its type Z main gun. The ship came up on the Klingons from below with a cloak. One of the few great space shots in the series.
OK... go to this page on the font tage read "The font element was deprecated in HTML 4.01." and "The font element is not supported in XHTML 1.0 Strict DTD." This is the future of browsing. FONT will be going away, along with a lot of 'style' elements in future versions of HTML. xHTML is just the latest in the line of HTML specs; it is not being developed in parallel with HTML5, it is, essentially HTML 5.
Oh, I should mention that I agree with the notion of using "text/xhtml" as the mimetype instead of "text/html" or "text/xml".. It is its own beast. I can't get my website to validate strict because of the tags in it. This is a known problem, usually solved by wrapping RDF tags in another namespace, or using something like XHTML with modules to handle the conflict. Still a ways to go before perfection.
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He had his mac tweaked out, and tried constantly to change something about its configuration, that he never got his 'art' done.. his 'art' consisted at throwing filter after filter in photoshop onto a photo (usually something along the porn lines) at low res until it 'became' art or something. I called it crap. You can tweak all you want, but you are missing the point of 'just works'
I saw this in Cleveland last October, and it was truly worth the while going out there from Pittsburgh. They are coming to Pittsburgh this year, and I'm planning on going to the 'shorts' show.
Well, I have it on tape, paid too much for Koy and Pow on DVD on Amazon ($25, incl shipping. Costco had it for $19 grr) and I've seen the Philip Glass Ensamble perform Koyaanisqatsi live. Is that obsessive enough. I got the discs in yesterday and watched the interview, but I was too busy to go through the films, which I may do tonight. The series is great, and I can't wait for Naq next month, as well as seeing the shorts performance, for which I have to go get tickets.
In other news, they changed their name to 'the department of the introverted'
My left hand stays on the keyboard when going for my mouse anyway, so I don't really mind hitting a modifier to use context menus.. but the fact of the matter is that I probably already know the keyboard shortcut for what I am going to do, so the point of using the modifier is moot.
The pro mouse is perfectly ergonomic: it's the right shape for most sizes of hand, it doesn't require you to press it in the exact same spot each time (click anywhere) and it's a lot lower to the desk thanks to to its use optics over roller ball. Something, I might add, that adds a lot of comfort to my daily usage, since I don't have the spine crushing drop associated with thicker mice (at least in my experience, this is why I switched to trackballs for most pc work)
I see the irony: The major lack in OS X is actually X.
1) Look up irony before you use it next time. It's pronounced "OS Ten" not "OS Ecks", so the irony is pretty much lost there.
2) The lack of X is why I like using the newest MacOS.
I ran linux on a desktop at home for two years. I went back to windows because the experience was so horrible. I then switched over to the Macintosh line because I was tired of constantly upgrading my machine. I converted the PC to a BSD box that runs only on the command line. Life is good.
It drives me nuts. .gov and .mil used to belong to the us... I've heard that .mil is going onto Internet2 and is leaving Internet. That takes care of .mil. Now it is the time to retire .gov. Move it to .gov.us, and there will be one address to worry about hiding from terrorists.
... can't do it without the 'www.' because the dns entry doesn't exist or else has been aliased improperly. The www. should be considered optional at this point. Hell, even eBay has a problem with this.
www.gov.us could be the central directory to states and federal goverment agencies. That such a site doesn't exist (it sorta does in firstgov, and some news sites, but that's difficult to remember) is rather sad.
The whole point of this heirarchy would be to have a website on anything and everything in the government, and have that site name be obvious.
And another thing.. try going to http://state.pa.us
this era of stupid web architecture must end.
So you are saying that unix didn't exist until the mid-80s? riiiight.
Perhaps someone can counter with the BSD Daemon giving it to Tux. At least rednecks understand cornholing.
I got one of those after logging out. It was the damndest thing. I thought it generated an error message, but then I noticed that it was my MAC ID.
Spongebob already has 6 half-hour episodes on DVD.. Where have you been?
True, but for every 1 good show I watch 3 horrible ones.
Then you are the problem, not television. You see, that remote control is for changing the channel when the show sucks. Better yet, record what you like, and watch it at your leisure. I never have to worry about watching commercials on a premiere night for a show I like when I can just start 15 minutes late and skip the commercials.
It's true -- you've never heard of an 0wn3d C64+4..
The best part of either the Dominion War or the Klingon/Federaton was was the one shot they had on the back of the photon torpedo. It actually showed the SFX guys wanted to do truly 3d battles. There was also a shot in all good things of the 1701-D of the future carving a Klingon heavy cruiser (or was it a D'deridex?) in two with its type Z main gun. The ship came up on the Klingons from below with a cloak. One of the few great space shots in the series.
Best Simpsons post ... ever!
Did someone happen to whack her with the hardcover edition of the book? If anyone ever deserved it..
Still trying to figure out how a guy who was born in 58 could be dead at 54...
He was named n'grath. You going to argue with the black goat of the woods with a thousand young? I didn't think so.
It was the rainbow on the jumpsuit. Seriously. But it was the 80s.. when you look back at it a lot of the 80s seems rather 'gay' now.
Data and Lore weren't computers, they were Ubermensch.
God == Man vs. himself. "In the beginning, man created God."
ET is better, man. He could fly.
OK... go to this page on the font tage read "The font element was deprecated in HTML 4.01." and "The font element is not supported in XHTML 1.0 Strict DTD." This is the future of browsing. FONT will be going away, along with a lot of 'style' elements in future versions of HTML. xHTML is just the latest in the line of HTML specs; it is not being developed in parallel with HTML5, it is, essentially HTML 5.
Oh, I should mention that I agree with the notion of using "text/xhtml" as the mimetype instead of "text/html" or "text/xml".. It is its own beast. I can't get my website to validate strict because of the tags in it. This is a known problem, usually solved by wrapping RDF tags in another namespace, or using something like XHTML with modules to handle the conflict. Still a ways to go before perfection.