Jobs acknowledged that the TiBook only has one mouse button. Mr. Jobs is reported to have said "Of course it's only got one mouse button. What kind of f***ing idiot would want more than one f***ing mouse button? It's a Mac. That means it has a screen, a keyboard, and one f***ing mouse button. Get over it, loser."
Oh...I guess Taco forgot to mention the mouse button part...never mind.
I guarantee that director is making more than he was in HK. Otherwise, why do most HK directors aspire to do a Hollywood movie? It's not like anybody put a gun to Woo Ping's head. I bet they'd be sad if they tried...I betcha that old man can whup some serious gwailo ass.
I'd wager that a successful HK film director makes more on his (her?) first Hollywood picture than an Indie director from the states. Success in Hong Kong does not mean success in the US market. Predictions of success drive a director's salary. It's called a free market...look into it.
Why should American producers pay the actors what they're worth? The HK producers certainly don't...except for a very few high-profile superstars.
And no, while Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh are superb action stars, they did NOT invent Hong Kong action cinema. Woo Ping, well, he's definitely one of the grand old men of the genre, but he's not the only, and certainly not the first.
Rather than whine about the lack of multiple mouse buttons, program the trackpad to recognize taps in the corners as different events. Program them to do whatever you want..."right mouse" button, control click, command click, whatever. Program it like the Thinking Mouse I've been using on my Mac for five years-different button mapping, designed by me, for each application.
In other words, why are all these people so willing to work around the limitations of commercially available hardware unless it has an Apple logo on it?
Uh...hello? Did you notice the blackouts in California they're talking about in this article we're discussing? Blackouts means there's not enough electricity. So your magic clean environment electricity generation fantasy is, uh, not working.
The hatred for environmental legislation is inappropriate. Reasoned objection to overly restrictive environmental legislation, that leads to a direct and catastrophic influence on people's quality of life (yes, Virginia, nowadays that includes a car and electricity...) is called democracy. Some of the time, it even works.
What does "support natively" mean? My multi-button Mac mouse (a Kensington Thinking Mouse with four buttons) does whatever I tell it to, in whatever application I tell it to.
It's not silly to argue against useful and timesaving enhancements to the UI if they are confusing and can exacerbate RSI. I don't have RSI, and I don't find the scroll wheel confusing, but I know many users with one or both of those problems. People who want multi-button mice can add them.
The problem is that you have to take about three metric asstons of rocket fuel with you. You might be interested in checking out a book called The Case for Mars, Robert Zubrin's very well-thought-out plan for using indigenous Martian gases to make methane fuel for rockets.
Basically, the plan goes like this:
1. Shoot an empty return spacecraft (no return fuel) to Mars using a slow, but fuel-efficient, transfer orbit. Have it land autonomously after a ~6-8 month trip, and turn on its simple mechanism to decant rocket fuel from the atmosphere. (The mechanism to do this is supposed to be just staggeringly simple...details in the book)
2. Shoot the spacecraft with the crew, and an additional dry return ship, to Mars. Use a faster orbit to get the people there, and the same slow boat for the dry craft. Land the people near the now fully fueled return craft, and land the dry return craft at a convenient place for the NEXT mission, which will be no farther than the crew can travel overland. This way, you have redundant return vehicles, one ready to go, one that will be ready in a couple months (which is the length of the planned stay on Mars).
Anyhow, it's brilliant engineering and mission planning. Zubrin says he could do the whole shooting match, with continuing trips to Mars, in ten years, for 1/10 of NASA's current budget.
Well and good...do what you love. But how much should you pay for the priviledge? Check out what happened at http://www.combatsim.com. Combatsim is probably the best resource on the 'net for hard core military simulation fans. The guy who runs the site was shelling out many thousands of dollars a month for the bandwidth to server umpty million page views. He couldn't sell banner ads profitably enough to continue, so he went to a subscription model. While I think that $3.95/mo is pretty steep, I am not opposed in principle to paying for high quality information.
In other words, doing it out of love gets expensive, if you do it well.
Maybe it's just my pet peeve talking, but I REALLY resent it when people use defects as an excuse for job security. I'm good enough at what I do that I can find work without needing somebody else to be bad at their job. If you're not, well, it sucks to be you.
What's the value add of a "new" book? Why should I pay full price if the same product is available for less? Why the hell shouldn't I get to buy a used book if one's available? Why the hell shouldn't I be able to pay Amazon to find me one? Why the hell should I worry about the publisher's bottom line? They certainly don't worry about mine.
Your argument basically says, "Used book selling is OK, as long as you don't do it efficiently and conveniently. Then it's a Bad Thing."
Ummmmm...how does a book become a used book? Lessee...somebody buys it, reads it, and sells it to somebody else. That's one sale for the publishers, right? Is there any way to become a used book that doesn't involve it being bought from a publisher? If the publishers don't want their books to be resold, they ought to publish works of sufficient quality for me to want to keep them around. If they don't...(have you actually ever READ a Ken Follett book? Or just about anything Crichton has written since Jurassic Park? I want my TIME back!)...I've got no sympathy for them.
In other words, book publishers, "Wah."
Let me go ahead and say that if the book publishers do the same shysterish underhanded crap that spawns things like the BMG Record Club, the Author's Guild ought to go after THEM with their harshly worded letters. It's wrong to abrogate your contractual obligation to pay someone's royalties just because your accountant labeled these "Promotional use only".
What language do most Amazon employees speak?
What language do most Amazon customers speak?
What language do most people who have access to the Internet speak?
What language do most silly people who want to make their mark on the universe by participating in stupid polls speak?
If you answered anything other than "English" to these questions, I think you're confused. Right wrong or indifferent, right now English is the lingua franca of the Internet.
Someday somebody's going to have to sit down and explain to me what the hell is so great about Great Expectations. I found it a dull, pointless, long winded, whiny diatribe. Tale of Two Cities was better, but not by much.
If you want to inspire children to read, give them C. S. Lewis and Madeleine L'Engle, not Charles Dickens and James "I've got your epiphany right over here, nelly boy" Joyce. High school literature classes DESTROY their subject.
And, popular or not, the Harry Potter books are the best young adult fiction since The Chronicles of Narnia.
A followup: Most impressed with the RS60 cans. Sound REALLY good, with minimal hiss and signal loss. They also come with two battery packs, one of which sits in the transmitter/charger waiting for you to use up the one in the phones.
Perfect? No. They sound as good as some very much less expensive wired cans. However, for the wireless mobility, they are THE way to go.
The poster is looking for something where he can land at somebody's desk, plug something in, have a good keyboard, unplug it, and walk away. Wonder if you could get a USB dongle that would do that...that'd be cool!
I've got a pair of RS60's I'm going to pick up tomorrow. They're not cheap ($170 US), but they're reputed to be good. Check out their web site for details. The 60's are the mid-range jobs. The 80's have digital transmission throughout, and the 40's don't have the RF filtering circuitry.
Couldn't disagree more. I think that any human being, initially, is entitled to my acceptance and respect. That doesn't mean I have to think immediately that they're an amazingly wonderful human being, but it does mean that I ought to treat them courteously and kindly, just by virtue of the fact that they are a fellow traveler in this universe.
Then they're free to act the fool and make me dislike them. : ) But initially, strangers do get my respect and acceptance.
I've had a couple Gerber MultiPliers. I gave my original to my ex-girlfriend. (oops.) It had a rather nice straight blade, and a sheep's foot serrated blade for cutting heavy duty stuff (rope), which worked also as a light-duty saw. The pliers were very good, comfortable to hold, and could be opened with one hand. Only drawback is that due to the way the hinge was set up, the jaws would only open to 70-75 degrees or so. I never had a problem with it, and I don't know how you'd design a folding pliers that didn't have the same issue, but it's something to keep in mind.
Now I carry the smaller Gerber Scout model. (Now available in fashion colors!) I liked the narrower profile (same length, but less thickness...and noticeably lighter) along with the needlenose jaws (which are also an option on the full-sized Gerber).
Having said all that, if I was buying one today I'd get the Leatherman Wave. Unlike other Leatherman tools, the Wave has finished edges next to your hands when you're using the pliers. I could never really crank down very hard on a Leatherman because the edges of the housing dug into my hands...very uncomfortable. Although the pliers cannot be easily opened with one hand, the two large blades (straight and serrated) are openable and closeable with one hand, with a liner-lock lockback action. Very very good feature...I need a one-handed knife more often than I need a one-handed pliers. The scissors on the Wave are also superb, and fold in a rather clever manner. They look like the same blades as my Leatherman Micra (whose tweezers cannot be beat...cuz you can't lose 'em!).
Anyhow. I played with a Spyderco, and thought it was a bit gimmicky (and I like gimmicks!). Great blade, very mediocre pliers, good screwdriver, mediocre crescent wrench (!). If it were me, I'd check out the Leatherman Crunch with the vise-grip pliers or carry a small crescent wrench in my scabbard if I were going to be needing a wrench.
Anyhow, http://www.knifecenter.com is a great resource for seeing what's available and checking prices. Good luck!
You are totally missing my point. There are no camera angles that are not Western influenced, because the camera is a Western invention. That is, without Western influence, there would be zero kung fu movies. Or movies period.
Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is up to you. Whether the invention of the camera, and by extension enabling the kung fu movie, makes Western influence less than the pervasive evil that everybody seems to think it is, is also up to you.
Me, I'm going to go watch Seven Samurai and enjoy Kurosawa's contribution to cinema. Even though he was using evil Western devices to make it.
That is what insurance IS. If you only stood to gain out of insurance what you paid into it, you'd be much better off investing in a CD.
I don't know whether insurance is "fair" or not. I do know that it's the only way a person could possibly get through a major medical catastrophe and remain financially solvent.
So, your point is correct. Insurance is not "fair", but it's designed not to be fair. You are purchasing security. If I am able to purchase security, any other person ought to be able to purchase security too. If somebody is not allowed to buy something because of a condition that they are born with, that's (in my non-binding legal opinion) illegal discrimination, just like discrimination based on race would be.
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Jobs acknowledged that the TiBook only has one mouse button. Mr. Jobs is reported to have said "Of course it's only got one mouse button. What kind of f***ing idiot would want more than one f***ing mouse button? It's a Mac. That means it has a screen, a keyboard, and one f***ing mouse button. Get over it, loser."
Oh...I guess Taco forgot to mention the mouse button part...never mind.
I guarantee that director is making more than he was in HK. Otherwise, why do most HK directors aspire to do a Hollywood movie? It's not like anybody put a gun to Woo Ping's head. I bet they'd be sad if they tried...I betcha that old man can whup some serious gwailo ass.
I'd wager that a successful HK film director makes more on his (her?) first Hollywood picture than an Indie director from the states. Success in Hong Kong does not mean success in the US market. Predictions of success drive a director's salary. It's called a free market...look into it.
Why should American producers pay the actors what they're worth? The HK producers certainly don't...except for a very few high-profile superstars.
And no, while Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh are superb action stars, they did NOT invent Hong Kong action cinema. Woo Ping, well, he's definitely one of the grand old men of the genre, but he's not the only, and certainly not the first.
Rather than whine about the lack of multiple mouse buttons, program the trackpad to recognize taps in the corners as different events. Program them to do whatever you want..."right mouse" button, control click, command click, whatever. Program it like the Thinking Mouse I've been using on my Mac for five years-different button mapping, designed by me, for each application.
In other words, why are all these people so willing to work around the limitations of commercially available hardware unless it has an Apple logo on it?
Uh...hello? Did you notice the blackouts in California they're talking about in this article we're discussing? Blackouts means there's not enough electricity. So your magic clean environment electricity generation fantasy is, uh, not working.
The hatred for environmental legislation is inappropriate. Reasoned objection to overly restrictive environmental legislation, that leads to a direct and catastrophic influence on people's quality of life (yes, Virginia, nowadays that includes a car and electricity...) is called democracy. Some of the time, it even works.
What does "support natively" mean? My multi-button Mac mouse (a Kensington Thinking Mouse with four buttons) does whatever I tell it to, in whatever application I tell it to.
It's not silly to argue against useful and timesaving enhancements to the UI if they are confusing and can exacerbate RSI. I don't have RSI, and I don't find the scroll wheel confusing, but I know many users with one or both of those problems. People who want multi-button mice can add them.
It's certainly not harmful to the crew, it's just insanely hard and expensive and heavy to do with any known propulsion system.
The problem is that you have to take about three metric asstons of rocket fuel with you. You might be interested in checking out a book called The Case for Mars, Robert Zubrin's very well-thought-out plan for using indigenous Martian gases to make methane fuel for rockets.
Basically, the plan goes like this:
1. Shoot an empty return spacecraft (no return fuel) to Mars using a slow, but fuel-efficient, transfer orbit. Have it land autonomously after a ~6-8 month trip, and turn on its simple mechanism to decant rocket fuel from the atmosphere. (The mechanism to do this is supposed to be just staggeringly simple...details in the book)
2. Shoot the spacecraft with the crew, and an additional dry return ship, to Mars. Use a faster orbit to get the people there, and the same slow boat for the dry craft. Land the people near the now fully fueled return craft, and land the dry return craft at a convenient place for the NEXT mission, which will be no farther than the crew can travel overland. This way, you have redundant return vehicles, one ready to go, one that will be ready in a couple months (which is the length of the planned stay on Mars).
Anyhow, it's brilliant engineering and mission planning. Zubrin says he could do the whole shooting match, with continuing trips to Mars, in ten years, for 1/10 of NASA's current budget.
I dunno...people are starting to realize that the Internet is being used to LOSE money at a pretty staggering rate.
How do you make a small fortune on the Internet? Same way you do with auto racing...start with a large fortune.
Well and good...do what you love. But how much should you pay for the priviledge? Check out what happened at http://www.combatsim.com. Combatsim is probably the best resource on the 'net for hard core military simulation fans. The guy who runs the site was shelling out many thousands of dollars a month for the bandwidth to server umpty million page views. He couldn't sell banner ads profitably enough to continue, so he went to a subscription model. While I think that $3.95/mo is pretty steep, I am not opposed in principle to paying for high quality information.
In other words, doing it out of love gets expensive, if you do it well.
Maybe it's just my pet peeve talking, but I REALLY resent it when people use defects as an excuse for job security. I'm good enough at what I do that I can find work without needing somebody else to be bad at their job. If you're not, well, it sucks to be you.
Glad I'm not the only one. What IS the fascination with that totally insipid book?
What's the value add of a "new" book? Why should I pay full price if the same product is available for less? Why the hell shouldn't I get to buy a used book if one's available? Why the hell shouldn't I be able to pay Amazon to find me one? Why the hell should I worry about the publisher's bottom line? They certainly don't worry about mine.
Your argument basically says, "Used book selling is OK, as long as you don't do it efficiently and conveniently. Then it's a Bad Thing."
Ummmmm...how does a book become a used book? Lessee...somebody buys it, reads it, and sells it to somebody else. That's one sale for the publishers, right? Is there any way to become a used book that doesn't involve it being bought from a publisher? If the publishers don't want their books to be resold, they ought to publish works of sufficient quality for me to want to keep them around. If they don't...(have you actually ever READ a Ken Follett book? Or just about anything Crichton has written since Jurassic Park? I want my TIME back!)...I've got no sympathy for them.
In other words, book publishers, "Wah."
Let me go ahead and say that if the book publishers do the same shysterish underhanded crap that spawns things like the BMG Record Club, the Author's Guild ought to go after THEM with their harshly worded letters. It's wrong to abrogate your contractual obligation to pay someone's royalties just because your accountant labeled these "Promotional use only".
Isn't striking a nerve what being an author is all about? Try this sentence on for size:
"Talk about C. S. Lewis over Shakespere (sic), get real...he only struck a nerve with kids and became famous over it."
That's what authors DO. That's what they're FOR. Just because something's popular doesn't mean it's not good.
Why does this surprise you?
Quick quiz.
What language do most Amazon employees speak?
What language do most Amazon customers speak?
What language do most people who have access to the Internet speak?
What language do most silly people who want to make their mark on the universe by participating in stupid polls speak?
If you answered anything other than "English" to these questions, I think you're confused. Right wrong or indifferent, right now English is the lingua franca of the Internet.
Someday somebody's going to have to sit down and explain to me what the hell is so great about Great Expectations. I found it a dull, pointless, long winded, whiny diatribe. Tale of Two Cities was better, but not by much.
If you want to inspire children to read, give them C. S. Lewis and Madeleine L'Engle, not Charles Dickens and James "I've got your epiphany right over here, nelly boy" Joyce. High school literature classes DESTROY their subject.
And, popular or not, the Harry Potter books are the best young adult fiction since The Chronicles of Narnia.
A followup: Most impressed with the RS60 cans. Sound REALLY good, with minimal hiss and signal loss. They also come with two battery packs, one of which sits in the transmitter/charger waiting for you to use up the one in the phones.
Perfect? No. They sound as good as some very much less expensive wired cans. However, for the wireless mobility, they are THE way to go.
Maybe you missed this part of the question.
"without messing with software key remapping"
The poster is looking for something where he can land at somebody's desk, plug something in, have a good keyboard, unplug it, and walk away. Wonder if you could get a USB dongle that would do that...that'd be cool!
I've got a pair of RS60's I'm going to pick up tomorrow. They're not cheap ($170 US), but they're reputed to be good. Check out their web site for details. The 60's are the mid-range jobs. The 80's have digital transmission throughout, and the 40's don't have the RF filtering circuitry.
Mics? I have no idea. : )
Couldn't disagree more. I think that any human being, initially, is entitled to my acceptance and respect. That doesn't mean I have to think immediately that they're an amazingly wonderful human being, but it does mean that I ought to treat them courteously and kindly, just by virtue of the fact that they are a fellow traveler in this universe.
Then they're free to act the fool and make me dislike them. : ) But initially, strangers do get my respect and acceptance.
I've had a couple Gerber MultiPliers. I gave my original to my ex-girlfriend. (oops.) It had a rather nice straight blade, and a sheep's foot serrated blade for cutting heavy duty stuff (rope), which worked also as a light-duty saw. The pliers were very good, comfortable to hold, and could be opened with one hand. Only drawback is that due to the way the hinge was set up, the jaws would only open to 70-75 degrees or so. I never had a problem with it, and I don't know how you'd design a folding pliers that didn't have the same issue, but it's something to keep in mind.
Now I carry the smaller Gerber Scout model. (Now available in fashion colors!) I liked the narrower profile (same length, but less thickness...and noticeably lighter) along with the needlenose jaws (which are also an option on the full-sized Gerber).
Having said all that, if I was buying one today I'd get the Leatherman Wave. Unlike other Leatherman tools, the Wave has finished edges next to your hands when you're using the pliers. I could never really crank down very hard on a Leatherman because the edges of the housing dug into my hands...very uncomfortable. Although the pliers cannot be easily opened with one hand, the two large blades (straight and serrated) are openable and closeable with one hand, with a liner-lock lockback action. Very very good feature...I need a one-handed knife more often than I need a one-handed pliers. The scissors on the Wave are also superb, and fold in a rather clever manner. They look like the same blades as my Leatherman Micra (whose tweezers cannot be beat...cuz you can't lose 'em!).
Anyhow. I played with a Spyderco, and thought it was a bit gimmicky (and I like gimmicks!). Great blade, very mediocre pliers, good screwdriver, mediocre crescent wrench (!). If it were me, I'd check out the Leatherman Crunch with the vise-grip pliers or carry a small crescent wrench in my scabbard if I were going to be needing a wrench.
Anyhow, http://www.knifecenter.com is a great resource for seeing what's available and checking prices. Good luck!
You are totally missing my point. There are no camera angles that are not Western influenced, because the camera is a Western invention. That is, without Western influence, there would be zero kung fu movies. Or movies period.
Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is up to you. Whether the invention of the camera, and by extension enabling the kung fu movie, makes Western influence less than the pervasive evil that everybody seems to think it is, is also up to you.
Me, I'm going to go watch Seven Samurai and enjoy Kurosawa's contribution to cinema. Even though he was using evil Western devices to make it.
That is what insurance IS. If you only stood to gain out of insurance what you paid into it, you'd be much better off investing in a CD.
I don't know whether insurance is "fair" or not. I do know that it's the only way a person could possibly get through a major medical catastrophe and remain financially solvent.
So, your point is correct. Insurance is not "fair", but it's designed not to be fair. You are purchasing security. If I am able to purchase security, any other person ought to be able to purchase security too. If somebody is not allowed to buy something because of a condition that they are born with, that's (in my non-binding legal opinion) illegal discrimination, just like discrimination based on race would be.
Portable and armored are opposites. If you want something to be heavy duty, it can't be lightweight. See?