I drove by the museum yesterday on my way back to Atlanta. I convinced my wife that we should pull over and check it out. I said "They have dinosaurs on Noah's Ark! I gotta see that!" and she was convinced. On the outside the building looked nice. I was disappointed to see that it was closed. We saw the rallyforreason.com guys sitting outside. What was more concerning was that we saw a guy walking towards the rallyforreason tent with a rifle. This made us decide NOT to get the documentation that was being handed out by these guys.
Oh well, we can check it out next time. I'm sure it will be good for a laugh.
yes, linux had transparent terminals way before OSX(before it existed even...). it was one of my reasons for switching to linux way back when... i don't remember the thumbnailed apps in enlightenment, but i love the dock implementation, particularly when you have dock magnification maxed out. you get a nice clean representation of your app as you mouse over. how did it work in enlightenment?
i should be more specific. the original post says "and in some ways useful" when refering to translucent menus and windows with alpha channels. the aqua interface (and many of the third party themes for OSX) use this extensively. I believe the following are the most useful.
I bought one of these gadgets the day they came out. I'm here to tell you that it is truly a marvel. After your phone is activated, it displays a setup screen that allows you to create a tmobile username and acount. This has several wonderful advantages. You get an easy to remember email address (username@tmail.com) instead of using the phone number for mail (777-777-7777@tmmobile.com). tmobile.com has a webpage that they call the "desktop interface". this page gives you access to your email, address book, calendar, to do list, notes, and camera applications. This makes it very easy to make a large number of changes on your device (while using a full size keyboard).
I purchased the device thinking that i'd use it mostly for web browsing. I couldn't have been more wrong. The browser is well designed and the interface is easy to use. However, the always on AIM application has proven to be more useful. So far I've spent 90% of my time on the device using AIM, the email client, and the text messaging(not AIM) client. That other 10% was spent using the web browser for looking up words while I was studying a little physics.
having the ability to have dictionary.com, google.com, and always on AIM in my pocket is definitely worth $200 ($39 a month).
I only have two complaints. Tmobile is only offering the device with one service plan. This plan is great for data, but 200 anytime minutes just isn't enough talk time. I decided to pay the extra $5 a month for 500 tmobile to tmobile minutes. My second complaint is the lack of a calculator. I can't believe they didn't put a calculator on this thing. get rid of one of the stupid games and add something useful. hopefully they'll add this later.
i've been using IE 5.5 and windows 2000 advanced server on a 2+ year old machine since IE 5.5 was released. it hasn't crashed a single time.
(i also use BeOS and Linux on my laptop, but that's another story)
I"ve been using Opera 5.0 for several weeks now. Opera 5.0 is a fairly stable browser that renders most pages correctly. At under 2megs it can't be beat.
i forgot my point......
times change, my friends....
people used to walk to their jobs. we rode bikes on the street. we viewed web pages without graphics. we listened to music on 8-tracks.
saying that the web should be text based and all pages should work in every browser is like saying we should lower the speed limit to 15mph so the bikes and pedestrians can keep up. if you want to use an outdated browser on a slow machine, you should be viewing the outdated material designed for it. don't let progress upset you. embrace it, or step aside.
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I drove by the museum yesterday on my way back to Atlanta. I convinced my wife that we should pull over and check it out. I said "They have dinosaurs on Noah's Ark! I gotta see that!" and she was convinced. On the outside the building looked nice. I was disappointed to see that it was closed. We saw the rallyforreason.com guys sitting outside. What was more concerning was that we saw a guy walking towards the rallyforreason tent with a rifle. This made us decide NOT to get the documentation that was being handed out by these guys.
Oh well, we can check it out next time. I'm sure it will be good for a laugh.
i'm a fan of the genie effect, but i wouldn't call it useful.
yes, linux had transparent terminals way before OSX(before it existed even...). it was one of my reasons for switching to linux way back when... i don't remember the thumbnailed apps in enlightenment, but i love the dock implementation, particularly when you have dock magnification maxed out. you get a nice clean representation of your app as you mouse over. how did it work in enlightenment?
expose (application name display upon mouseover)
thumbnailed snapshot of applications on the dock
transparent terminal (though i prefer iTerm)
shadow intensity indicating the front most app
I said nothing of the sort. I was just pointing out that the phrase "in some ways useful" could be applied to OSX. I just pointed without pointing =)
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I bought one of these gadgets the day they came out. I'm here to tell you that it is truly a marvel. After your phone is activated, it displays a setup screen that allows you to create a tmobile username and acount. This has several wonderful advantages. You get an easy to remember email address (username@tmail.com) instead of using the phone number for mail (777-777-7777@tmmobile.com). tmobile.com has a webpage that they call the "desktop interface". this page gives you access to your email, address book, calendar, to do list, notes, and camera applications. This makes it very easy to make a large number of changes on your device (while using a full size keyboard).
I purchased the device thinking that i'd use it mostly for web browsing. I couldn't have been more wrong. The browser is well designed and the interface is easy to use. However, the always on AIM application has proven to be more useful. So far I've spent 90% of my time on the device using AIM, the email client, and the text messaging(not AIM) client. That other 10% was spent using the web browser for looking up words while I was studying a little physics.
having the ability to have dictionary.com, google.com, and always on AIM in my pocket is definitely worth $200 ($39 a month).
I only have two complaints. Tmobile is only offering the device with one service plan. This plan is great for data, but 200 anytime minutes just isn't enough talk time. I decided to pay the extra $5 a month for 500 tmobile to tmobile minutes. My second complaint is the lack of a calculator. I can't believe they didn't put a calculator on this thing. get rid of one of the stupid games and add something useful. hopefully they'll add this later.
an mp3 recorder that maxes out with a 128kbps bit rate should not be called "professional"
no problem. i'm good at stealing stuff for my webpage.
the link to the image is down. i mirrored it here. http://pangburn.cc
the link to the image is down. i mirrored it here http://pangburn.cc
i've been using IE 5.5 and windows 2000 advanced server on a 2+ year old machine since IE 5.5 was released. it hasn't crashed a single time. (i also use BeOS and Linux on my laptop, but that's another story) I"ve been using Opera 5.0 for several weeks now. Opera 5.0 is a fairly stable browser that renders most pages correctly. At under 2megs it can't be beat. i forgot my point......
times change, my friends.... people used to walk to their jobs. we rode bikes on the street. we viewed web pages without graphics. we listened to music on 8-tracks. saying that the web should be text based and all pages should work in every browser is like saying we should lower the speed limit to 15mph so the bikes and pedestrians can keep up. if you want to use an outdated browser on a slow machine, you should be viewing the outdated material designed for it. don't let progress upset you. embrace it, or step aside.
I can't believe this post only got a "score: 1."
i agree 100%.
i love all of card's work (except enchantment)
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