Pretty crafty letting a robot take the blame. I can hear the stories years from now...
"And the next morning, the robot failed to come out of its tent. When they went in to check, they found the robot frozen in horror, its monitor displaying The Blue Screen of Death!"
There's nothing worse than transferring a friend's data from an old mail client, noticing a duplicate, and not being sure which address is current. Think of all the places where something as simple as an address or e-mail address may be duplicated: e-mail software at home and work, Palm/contact software at home and office, phone numbers in the cell phone, etc.. Being able to sync contacts between work and home via the Palm was a huge step, but even now if I have information in a mail client or a cell phone it's a pain to keep it synchronized.
Donald Norman complained about this effort to "set up" stuff in The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design back in 1990, and this is the first time that I've seen an integrated solution to deal with this. Sure, things like my newsreader (MacSOUP) and mail client (PowerMail) will have to be modified to work with these, but this is totally sweet.
In a related matter, I'm totally psyched for iCal. Despite its lame name, this looks like it has the potential to replace my Palm desktop application (which took its own sweet time getting ported to OS X in the first place -- but as a longtime Mac user and former U.S. Robotics/3Com shareholder, I'm used to getting the shaft from Palm).
Now while I don't have a huge need to publish my calendar to millions of people or even within a large business, for several years I've been looking at something to simply allow my wife and I to compare Palm schedules so that we know what the other has planned before one of us tells others that we'd love to go to that party or movie. I guess we'd count as a small workgroup. Several Palm options exist, but they're all about US$50 and either require Windows (but of course the sites don't bother to say that until you're on the demo download page, do they?) or an Internet service that (a) I don't necessarily trust with my whole calendar, and (b) who knows when they're gonna go belly up. Being able to handle the whole thing behind my own firewall looks great.
In terms of the upgrade cost, I prefer to think of it this way: The upgrade is $129, but includes the features I've liked in the demo of the kick-ass application Watson ($29) in Sherlock, a workgroup-synchronizing Palm calendar (~$50), and a Unicode character palette (comparable to ~$9 shareware). So, as far as I'm concerned, the upgrade is really only about forty bucks, which while not free, offers enough cool features and improvements (multithreaded finder, finder search, spring-loaded folders, Quartz extreme) that I'm not too concerned. Heck, with iChat I might even turn into one of those instant message wankers.
Dunno if it counts as an Easter egg, but all of my sites have a pi symbol in the lower corner. If you click it, it takes you to the wicked-super-secret home page.
On my sites, if you type whois, you also get color pictures.
I've worked as a usability engineer on a bunch of applications, and it always comes down to the client or the project manager saying "Most people use..."
So everyone loads IE on their development boxes and writes the application, never bothing with things like validation.
The next thing you know, the developers are bitching and re-coding because it looks like crap in Navigator and they only figured this out in testing. As this point, the last thing they want to hear about is writing HTML to any sort of standard, so they decide they can just get around the problem by requiring the user to use IE. After all, notes the client and the project manager, most people...
Imagine there's a spammer somewhere halfway across the world. If you could push a button and kill the spammer without getting caught, would you do it for a million dollars?'
No way. I'd put that box on eBay and make even more.
Besides, killing a single spammer won't fix much. You need spammers to know that the box exists, that people are willing to line up to pay for the thrill of pressing that button again and again and again.
The MP3's on CD sounded fantastic when played on my dedicated stereo but upon connecting the Mine, I was simply shocked at how mush the sound quality had degraded.
So much for using oatmeal as a storage medium. Back to the drawing board.
I first saw this ad in the inside cover of the latest edition of *Scientific American*. After sealing my geek fate by laughing at the tag line (and then having to explain to my wife why it was funny), I realized that it's one of the few times that Apple has actually placed an ad suggesting that the Mac is technologically superior in a place where the readers might care.
Slashdot Mirror
What the fuck is that?!
That's when a Microsoft PR person writes about "switching."
Pretty crafty letting a robot take the blame. I can hear the stories years from now...
"And the next morning, the robot failed to come out of its tent. When they went in to check, they found the robot frozen in horror, its monitor displaying The Blue Screen of Death!"
IIRC he is involved in OSS.
That's CIA now.
Oh, and a tape recorder to take notes.
I'm going to wait for the remotely operated chainsaw.
Combine that with the flying robot and we'll be unstoppable.
And the first five seconds of every scene after a commercial are superimposed with ads for some *other* show they want you to watch.
Perfect copy, my ass.
Or you could remove the JavaScript altogether:
<a href="somewhere.html" target="_blank">Link to somewhere</a>
...used to be used to make bipolar chips for mainframes.
Bipolar chips for mainframes. My God, that explains so much!
For the same reason you need a drivers license to buy alcohol.
Forgot your Admin password, huh?
And once the new iPods are out with contacts and calendars, I will be putting my Palm up for sale on eBay
Not so fast. Remember, there isn't a way to input data on the iPod. Yet.
The idea of putting a LCD in a CRT case is stupid
It sounds like you're confusing the 17" LCD iMac with the 17" CRT eMac.
That's not really surprising, seeing that you're one of those fucktards who writes MAC when you mean Mac.
These are big. These are very big.
There's nothing worse than transferring a friend's data from an old mail client, noticing a duplicate, and not being sure which address is current. Think of all the places where something as simple as an address or e-mail address may be duplicated: e-mail software at home and work, Palm/contact software at home and office, phone numbers in the cell phone, etc.. Being able to sync contacts between work and home via the Palm was a huge step, but even now if I have information in a mail client or a cell phone it's a pain to keep it synchronized.
Donald Norman complained about this effort to "set up" stuff in The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design back in 1990, and this is the first time that I've seen an integrated solution to deal with this. Sure, things like my newsreader (MacSOUP) and mail client (PowerMail) will have to be modified to work with these, but this is totally sweet.
In a related matter, I'm totally psyched for iCal. Despite its lame name, this looks like it has the potential to replace my Palm desktop application (which took its own sweet time getting ported to OS X in the first place -- but as a longtime Mac user and former U.S. Robotics/3Com shareholder, I'm used to getting the shaft from Palm).
Now while I don't have a huge need to publish my calendar to millions of people or even within a large business, for several years I've been looking at something to simply allow my wife and I to compare Palm schedules so that we know what the other has planned before one of us tells others that we'd love to go to that party or movie. I guess we'd count as a small workgroup. Several Palm options exist, but they're all about US$50 and either require Windows (but of course the sites don't bother to say that until you're on the demo download page, do they?) or an Internet service that (a) I don't necessarily trust with my whole calendar, and (b) who knows when they're gonna go belly up. Being able to handle the whole thing behind my own firewall looks great.
In terms of the upgrade cost, I prefer to think of it this way: The upgrade is $129, but includes the features I've liked in the demo of the kick-ass application Watson ($29) in Sherlock, a workgroup-synchronizing Palm calendar (~$50), and a Unicode character palette (comparable to ~$9 shareware). So, as far as I'm concerned, the upgrade is really only about forty bucks, which while not free, offers enough cool features and improvements (multithreaded finder, finder search, spring-loaded folders, Quartz extreme) that I'm not too concerned. Heck, with iChat I might even turn into one of those instant message wankers.
Dunno if it counts as an Easter egg, but all of my sites have a pi symbol in the lower corner. If you click it, it takes you to the wicked-super-secret home page.
On my sites, if you type whois, you also get color pictures.
The site was /.ed when if first came out in the WSJ and now it's /.ed again.
Haven't these poor people suffered enough?
I've worked as a usability engineer on a bunch of applications, and it always comes down to the client or the project manager saying "Most people use..."
So everyone loads IE on their development boxes and writes the application, never bothing with things like validation.
The next thing you know, the developers are bitching and re-coding because it looks like crap in Navigator and they only figured this out in testing. As this point, the last thing they want to hear about is writing HTML to any sort of standard, so they decide they can just get around the problem by requiring the user to use IE. After all, notes the client and the project manager, most people...
Imagine there's a spammer somewhere halfway across the world. If you could push a button and kill the spammer without getting caught, would you do it for a million dollars?'
No way. I'd put that box on eBay and make even more.
Besides, killing a single spammer won't fix much. You need spammers to know that the box exists, that people are willing to line up to pay for the thrill of pressing that button again and again and again.
Just what Americans need. Another excuse to avoid reading.
The MP3's on CD sounded fantastic when played on my dedicated stereo but upon connecting the Mine, I was simply shocked at how mush the sound quality had degraded.
So much for using oatmeal as a storage medium. Back to the drawing board.
Tubes tend to produce even-order harmonics when they distort. Transistors (except MOSFETS -- others?) produce odd-order harmonics
So use twice as many transistors to get even-order harmonics.
C'mon, people, I thought you knew math.
Almost. I think I'll just settle for buying the draganflyer x-pro from rctoys.
Another poster already covered this sort of, but... how is shutting down your computer "special"?
Because it's not crashing down, that's why.
Yoda then unleashes a combination of spins, slashes, and jumps so overwhelming I think my heart stopped.
This, from someone old enough to have a job. Get a grip, Sparky; it's a puppet.
They're not really dead. It's part of the, y'know, the conspiracy.
But even still, why, why, why couldn't it have been the stupid guy and the Eva Savealot chick instead?
I first saw this ad in the inside cover of the latest edition of *Scientific American*. After sealing my geek fate by laughing at the tag line (and then having to explain to my wife why it was funny), I realized that it's one of the few times that Apple has actually placed an ad suggesting that the Mac is technologically superior in a place where the readers might care.