Listening to how articulate Bush was in the gubernatorial debates against Ann Richards, I conclude that either 1) He's got Parkinson's, or 2) he's dumbing himself down to appeal to the NASCAR crowd.
Love him or hate him, he's got the best political operators since Machiavelli running his show.
" I think she may be attributing to all men what only a few men---and a few women as well---commit to"
But she couched it in a blatantly sexist way. She changed it from an ill-founded overgeneralization into bigotry.
If any given person wants to do any particular thing with their career, I think that's just fine. I think it is not appropriate for any given one of us to say "I am superior to other people (particularly those of the other gender) that do things that I percieve as being of low value."
No, it's the big pitfall of being a poor communicator. She said, directly, that her ambitions were superior to those of the men in her class. That's a direct insult.
If she had said that "I have a different set of goals from others in my class", it would have been a non-issue.
But that's just the point. You didn't "mean to", but you WERE. You've got this preconcieved notion in your head of How Men Are, and that informs your judgement.
I suggest to you that that's a bad thing, and you should combat it.
People are people. The similarities are bigger than the differences. (Of course, the differences are way a lot of fun! One might even say, "Viva la difference!")
If you stop assuming that "men" have a different set of hopes and dreams than you do, you're well on your way. Now, it's CERTAINLY accurate to say that individual PEOPLE have a different set of hopes and dreams as you do, but it's inappropriate for you to denigrate half the population of Earth just because you feel like your calling is somehow higher than theirs.
"While some men apparently would be happy to spend the next 40 years of their lives working on the next version of MS Office, I want to *do* something."
Why is it that you felt the need to denigrate men in this sentence? Does that make you feel better somehow?
Guess what. For most of us guys, the patriarchy isn't returning our calls. The Man isn't giving us full rides to Yale. We have to work hard, and scramble, and burn the midnight oil to succeed, just like you do.
If you don't like people who are sexist pigs, don't be one.
"utomator - Microsoft has had "Scriptomatic" for at least 2.5 years and it's available via www.microsoft.com for free. "
And Scriptomatic has been the abstruse, useless POS for just under 2.5 years. Since about four nanoseconds after it got posted to Microsoft's web server.
Never mind that AppleScript and HyperCard have been around since at LEAST 1992.
".Mac Sync - Microsoft has had "File and Settings Transfer" wizard for 3.5 years. Sounds like the "Who stole what from who" is a bit mixed up!"
Which one works? Ah, right. Apple's.
"QuickTime 7 Pro - C'on...WMP is FREE! But with Apple you have to pay!"
WMP is free, but you get what you pay for.
"iChat - MSN Messenger is also FREE!"
So? So is iChat. Download it today.
"Safari RSS - Another FREE download! "
Where is Microsoft's RSS feed reader? And their tabbed web browser, while we're on the topic...?
"Mail Search - Microsoft bought Lookout for Outlook about 2 years ago which does the same thing."
Yeah, but then you have to use Outlook. Shudder. Mail.app kicks ass. The new version with Spotlight looks sublime.
"VoiceOver - Microsoft has had speech for disabled people for at least 3.5 years!"
Uh huh. And Apple's had it since 1994. What's your point?
"Microsoft has had WinFS and SideShow for a long time now"
WTF?
"The only diff is that Apple beat them to market."
Oh, so the only difference is that one exists in the real world, and the other is in Steve Ballmer's rectum. Ah. Okay.
"I find it extremely entertaining that many will pay $129 every year for an "upgrade" to OS X"
Sounds like a free market at work. Wouldn't that be a nice thing for the PC world?
" when most of the included features should be FREE DOWNLOADS"
In your esteemed opinion. Righto. How many successful software companies do you run?
"Seem like their including a few fluffy things to sell and fixing A LOT of bugs on the backend."
Care to substantiate that?
Thing is, I can't buy a secure Microsoft OS for any price. I think Tiger is worth the money, so I bought it. I think I paid too much for XP, and it only cost me $5 at the University bookstore.
You are, of course, free to choose otherwise. Isn't that nice?
Look, it works for you, and I think that's great. It doesn't work for me, which is why I'm glad that there are smart engineers working on simplifying it.
1) The people who originally decided that there were 1024 bytes in a kilobyte were unwise in choosing their prefix. The meaning of "kilo" was well established, and they disregarded it. The confusion is their fault.
2) Whoopsy! My bad! you're absolutely right. Long week.
If the marketing to the unwashed masses yielded substantial inaccuracies, I'd probably agree with you. Since it's not substantial, and follows a well-established standard (called the Systeme Internationale) I don't have an issue with it.
"Not quite automatically, but if the ID3 info is already in the.mp3 files, the hard work is already done. Just put each file in a directory, "$artist/$album/$title" - or whatever you want, though this particular heirarchy seems very natural to me. But you could additionally (or instead) make another heirarchy grouping things by genre, or whatever."
Sounds like about four days' worth of work. iTunes did it, by itself, for a 30gb music collection, in an hour or two.
Spotlight is going to do the same thing for every other document on my hard drive. Let me be the first to say "Boo yah."
"I just think people sometimes don't appreciate that filenames are an example of this gee-whizzy "metadata" stuff, and that this particular example of metadata is quite flexible and extremely well supported."
I don't care about gee-whizzy. I care about USEFUL. Apple is the company that has brought good file metadata management to the desktop. You might say "Eh, it's not interesting because it's a logical extension of the filename metadata". I say "It's interesting because they've taken a simple idea and made it extremely powerful."
But what creates these paths? There's not a path fairy. Someone or something has to create those paths, and "any file browser" does not have the capabilities of doing that. Explorer gets confused when it traverses a shortcut.
Somebody has to create the links. Me, I'm not at all interested in the mechanism of the links. I'm interested in being able to generate a playlist (or a slide show or whatever) according to real-world criteria, not some silly hierarchy some programmer thought made sense to him.
When I say "much better", I'm expressing my opinion. Since I don't have either the power, or the inclination, to deny you your choices, I am free to express my opinion, and you are free to disregard it.
iTunes organizes files into Artist/Album/Track.mp3 file structure, but I never pay any attention to that. I build a playlist by saying "bring me the 500 most recently added tracks that are not yet rated, and are in the Electronic or Ambient genres".
I'm not a database guy, so I don't know how to answer your second question. Fortunately, iTunes is designed so that it's easy for not database guys to drive the program in a very flexible way.
It's entirely possible that I'm ignorant on the subject, but no, I'm not aware of any remotely usable tool for browsing file metadata on UNIX. I'm sure there's some command line thing that Eric Raymond chipped out of a piece of flint, that has a MAN page measured in megabytes.
But I'm talking about things that are actually useful to people who don't have serial ports in the backs of their skulls.
Don't get me wrong! I'm GLAD there are people with serial ports in the backs of their skulls working on computers. I just don't want to be one.
But something has to create that multiple paths linking. It doesn't just automagically happen. And you sure DO need a "specialized program"...you need a file browser that understands that hard linking file system.
Don't worry. Apple's got this stuff figured out. Microsoft will be able to ride their coattails to almost-usability sometime in 2011.
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What does the fact that they're union made have to do with the fact that they taste like licking a school bus?
I'll take a nice local stout, thank you. Miller? Ugh.
Listening to how articulate Bush was in the gubernatorial debates against Ann Richards, I conclude that either 1) He's got Parkinson's, or 2) he's dumbing himself down to appeal to the NASCAR crowd.
Love him or hate him, he's got the best political operators since Machiavelli running his show.
Yeah, it's almost like he's an American and is using the American spelling of the word. How peculiar...
While we're on the subject, there's no such thing as "aluminium".
Except in this case, they're trying to scare people into paying KPMG to make them more spreadsheets.
And I guarantee that getting KPMG to make errors for you is going to cost you more than $10 grand.
" I think she may be attributing to all men what only a few men---and a few women as well---commit to"
But she couched it in a blatantly sexist way. She changed it from an ill-founded overgeneralization into bigotry.
If any given person wants to do any particular thing with their career, I think that's just fine. I think it is not appropriate for any given one of us to say "I am superior to other people (particularly those of the other gender) that do things that I percieve as being of low value."
Are they? What are my preconceptions, exactly?
No, it's the big pitfall of being a poor communicator. She said, directly, that her ambitions were superior to those of the men in her class. That's a direct insult.
If she had said that "I have a different set of goals from others in my class", it would have been a non-issue.
But that's just the point. You didn't "mean to", but you WERE. You've got this preconcieved notion in your head of How Men Are, and that informs your judgement.
I suggest to you that that's a bad thing, and you should combat it.
People are people. The similarities are bigger than the differences. (Of course, the differences are way a lot of fun! One might even say, "Viva la difference!")
If you stop assuming that "men" have a different set of hopes and dreams than you do, you're well on your way. Now, it's CERTAINLY accurate to say that individual PEOPLE have a different set of hopes and dreams as you do, but it's inappropriate for you to denigrate half the population of Earth just because you feel like your calling is somehow higher than theirs.
If they really want to just execute civilians, why would they need guidance systems?
Dude, your preconceptions are showing.
"While some men apparently would be happy to spend the next 40 years of their lives working on the next version of MS Office, I want to *do* something."
Why is it that you felt the need to denigrate men in this sentence? Does that make you feel better somehow?
Guess what. For most of us guys, the patriarchy isn't returning our calls. The Man isn't giving us full rides to Yale. We have to work hard, and scramble, and burn the midnight oil to succeed, just like you do.
If you don't like people who are sexist pigs, don't be one.
Yep. And now more than four people will get to use it, which is a Good Thing.
I wouldn't argue that Apple invented the idea. They did refine it, and they're certainly going to deploy it broadly.
BeOS was technically nifty. Maybe if Gassee hadn't asked for so much cash for an OS that couldn't print, he'd be doing Steve's Job.
Wonder if he'd have been as effective.
Oh boy. This is a good one.
"utomator - Microsoft has had "Scriptomatic" for at least 2.5 years and it's available via www.microsoft.com for free. "
And Scriptomatic has been the abstruse, useless POS for just under 2.5 years. Since about four nanoseconds after it got posted to Microsoft's web server.
Never mind that AppleScript and HyperCard have been around since at LEAST 1992.
".Mac Sync - Microsoft has had "File and Settings Transfer" wizard for 3.5 years. Sounds like the "Who stole what from who" is a bit mixed up!"
Which one works? Ah, right. Apple's.
"QuickTime 7 Pro - C'on...WMP is FREE! But with Apple you have to pay!"
WMP is free, but you get what you pay for.
"iChat - MSN Messenger is also FREE!"
So? So is iChat. Download it today.
"Safari RSS - Another FREE download! "
Where is Microsoft's RSS feed reader? And their tabbed web browser, while we're on the topic...?
"Mail Search - Microsoft bought Lookout for Outlook about 2 years ago which does the same thing."
Yeah, but then you have to use Outlook. Shudder. Mail.app kicks ass. The new version with Spotlight looks sublime.
"VoiceOver - Microsoft has had speech for disabled people for at least 3.5 years!"
Uh huh. And Apple's had it since 1994. What's your point?
"Microsoft has had WinFS and SideShow for a long time now"
WTF?
"The only diff is that Apple beat them to market."
Oh, so the only difference is that one exists in the real world, and the other is in Steve Ballmer's rectum. Ah. Okay.
"I find it extremely entertaining that many will pay $129 every year for an "upgrade" to OS X"
Sounds like a free market at work. Wouldn't that be a nice thing for the PC world?
" when most of the included features should be FREE DOWNLOADS"
In your esteemed opinion. Righto. How many successful software companies do you run?
"Seem like their including a few fluffy things to sell and fixing A LOT of bugs on the backend."
Care to substantiate that?
Thing is, I can't buy a secure Microsoft OS for any price. I think Tiger is worth the money, so I bought it. I think I paid too much for XP, and it only cost me $5 at the University bookstore.
You are, of course, free to choose otherwise. Isn't that nice?
"I refuse to even own a microwave"
I refuse to even own a screwdriver. Luddites of the world unite!
Sounds like fun. Not. Sounds user friendly. Not.
Look, it works for you, and I think that's great. It doesn't work for me, which is why I'm glad that there are smart engineers working on simplifying it.
Or I could use iTunes.
Why would I not do that?
1) The people who originally decided that there were 1024 bytes in a kilobyte were unwise in choosing their prefix. The meaning of "kilo" was well established, and they disregarded it. The confusion is their fault.
2) Whoopsy! My bad! you're absolutely right. Long week.
If the marketing to the unwashed masses yielded substantial inaccuracies, I'd probably agree with you. Since it's not substantial, and follows a well-established standard (called the Systeme Internationale) I don't have an issue with it.
The metric system was codified before computers were measuring their data storage. Therefore, "mega" means 1000 and "giga" means 1,000,000.
Bitch at the dumb geeks who thought 1000=1024.
"The biggest benefit so far in implementing this system has been rapid context switches: the biggest benefit so far has been faster context switches:"
Wow! And it comes with free redundant sentence structure! I'm THERE!
(I kid, I kid!)
If there's a document that you don't trust somebody with, don't send it to them.
It's not that complicated.
"Not quite automatically, but if the ID3 info is already in the .mp3 files, the hard work is already done. Just put each file in a directory, "$artist/$album/$title" - or whatever you want, though this particular heirarchy seems very natural to me. But you could additionally (or instead) make another heirarchy grouping things by genre, or whatever."
Sounds like about four days' worth of work. iTunes did it, by itself, for a 30gb music collection, in an hour or two.
Spotlight is going to do the same thing for every other document on my hard drive. Let me be the first to say "Boo yah."
"I just think people sometimes don't appreciate that filenames are an example of this gee-whizzy "metadata" stuff, and that this particular example of metadata is quite flexible and extremely well supported."
I don't care about gee-whizzy. I care about USEFUL. Apple is the company that has brought good file metadata management to the desktop. You might say "Eh, it's not interesting because it's a logical extension of the filename metadata". I say "It's interesting because they've taken a simple idea and made it extremely powerful."
Naw. And they're sending Halle Berry to your house to blow you, too.
But what creates these paths? There's not a path fairy. Someone or something has to create those paths, and "any file browser" does not have the capabilities of doing that. Explorer gets confused when it traverses a shortcut.
Somebody has to create the links. Me, I'm not at all interested in the mechanism of the links. I'm interested in being able to generate a playlist (or a slide show or whatever) according to real-world criteria, not some silly hierarchy some programmer thought made sense to him.
When I say "much better", I'm expressing my opinion. Since I don't have either the power, or the inclination, to deny you your choices, I am free to express my opinion, and you are free to disregard it.
iTunes organizes files into Artist/Album/Track.mp3 file structure, but I never pay any attention to that. I build a playlist by saying "bring me the 500 most recently added tracks that are not yet rated, and are in the Electronic or Ambient genres".
I'm not a database guy, so I don't know how to answer your second question. Fortunately, iTunes is designed so that it's easy for not database guys to drive the program in a very flexible way.
It's entirely possible that I'm ignorant on the subject, but no, I'm not aware of any remotely usable tool for browsing file metadata on UNIX. I'm sure there's some command line thing that Eric Raymond chipped out of a piece of flint, that has a MAN page measured in megabytes.
But I'm talking about things that are actually useful to people who don't have serial ports in the backs of their skulls.
Don't get me wrong! I'm GLAD there are people with serial ports in the backs of their skulls working on computers. I just don't want to be one.
But something has to create that multiple paths linking. It doesn't just automagically happen. And you sure DO need a "specialized program"...you need a file browser that understands that hard linking file system.
Don't worry. Apple's got this stuff figured out. Microsoft will be able to ride their coattails to almost-usability sometime in 2011.