Where was there any mention (either outright or implied) of liberal/conservative or left/right in the aforementioned post? Perhaps you're reading things into it that aren't really there?
Wake me when Logitech's Mac driver is no longer worse than useless. I have a Logitech MX-500 and a Logitech keyboard festooned with extra buttons, but their software for Mac OS X is absolutely fucking atrocious; check reviews of it at versiontracker.com and macupdate.com, I'm not just being picky here. I use USB Overdrive for the mouse, but it doesn't handle keyboards, so I am unable to use any of the extra buttons on it. Logitech makes great hardware (okay, acceptable hardware), but if they can't get their shit together on the Mac platform, I'm going back to Kensington for the next batch of toys.
Let's see how much attention this gets in middle America. The level of hystrionics will be a good indicator of what proportion of the public was consciously aware that spyware actually, you know, spies on you.
Two buttons under the top shell, two side buttons, and the scrolly thing being clickable is the fifth. At least that's the way I'm reading it, but their site isn't quite as clear on the matter as it could be.
I wasn't sure at first, either. But that makes it effectively a five button mouse. I can't believe there's an Apple mouse that I could even consider using. It's still two buttons less than my Logitech MX-500, but it might just be adequate if the scrolly thing works as well as they say.
I suppose there's a lesson to be learned here about blindly parroting what you learned in school... As far as I can recall I'd never heard that idea about the origins of the Menehunes. Interesting, though. Makes a lot of sense in hindsight. I believe we were taught that the Menehunes were a carryover of superstitions they brought with them from Polynesia. My Hawai'ian History teacher was pretty hard core (test every Friday, nothing but essay questions) which is why I just sort of assumed without questioning (yes, I know) that I knew the full story. Thanks.
There was an episode of The X-Files where Mulder asked a genie (yes, as in bottle, three wishes, etc.) for peace on Earth. The wish is granted, he walks outside, and realizes he's the only person left in Washington, D.C., and presumably the planet.
Show me a hand-held device that defeats television. Show me a device which will de-fuse a rabid neo-con. Show me a tool that can be used to bring religions together in peace.
Hawai'ians were the first people there. There's no record of or any reason to believe that anyone else had ever set foot on those islands when they arrived.
And Hawai'i, while certainly not the only case, is one of the most clearly defined instances in history of a soverign nation being taken over in an imperial manner.
I spend too much time in front of Firefox at work, but I do most of the organization's site maintenance at home, so I don't feel *too* bad about it.
I also restrict myself to primarily news and tech: news.google.com, topix.net, slashdot.org, arstechnica.com, theregister.co.uk, dealmac.com, and a bit of boingboing.net. I don't read long in-depth essays on the natue of morality, and my slashdot comments from work tend to be of the short, pithy variety, not the long winded three-hours-to-compose-and-seven-hours-writing-rep lies type.
Okay, time to burn some time getting coffee and a pastry...
I've gone through System 6, System 7, OS 8.1/8.6, pretty much skipped OS 9, and then from 10.0.4 on up to 10.4.2. That has carried me across 8mhz 68000s, some 68020s, a IIfx (I still pine for that machine), various 030s and 040s, a handful of PPC601 upgrade cards, eventually to native PPC machines (some of those with 486 cards in them!), all the way to my current 533mhz G4 tower and G3 iBook.
So what was the question? Whether or not I'm gonna ditch the Mac because of a processor change?
I dismiss all of those by asserting that given the nearly infinite time frame involved, a nearly infinite range of temporal tourists (most likely reeking of coconut suntan lotion, as tourists of all stripes are wont to do) will have washed ashore, and that if only a few break their locality's version of the Prime Directive, that small fraction multiplied by a nearly infinite number...
Of course, random teenagers taking Dad's time machine on a Friday night and wreaking havoc in the past would be about the only thing that could explain why this current timeline is getting vastly stranger every year than could ever be explained by human nature and entropy stirred together in a bubbling cauldron. In fact, if you will allow me to trot out my most shopworn Jim Morrison quote, "This is the strangest life I've ever known."
I've used RentACoder in the past. Only small stuff, but it was dirt cheap to have some guy out in Colorado implement some fixes for an amount comprable to the time I burned defining the scope of the job and communicating with him.
Didn't have any problems, so I can't speak to their dispute resolution system. Got what I paid for first time around, perfectly smooth, etc.
Reminds me of the argument I frequently use to prove that time travel (at least to the past) is, and always will be impossible. If it can be done, at any point in the future of the universe, it will be done. From the time of its invention until the end of the universe should be a length of time close enough to infinite for this purpose. So the fact that we have not been awash in time tourists from this gargantuan period of time after the eventual invention of time travel shows that it will never happen.
[I usually explain it more eloquently than that, but I'm usually not explaining it at the end of a very gruelling day at the office.]
I think she's doing all that to draw fire from whoever they field as the real candidate. I mean c'mon, really. If the Democrats put her up as their candidate in '08, I'm starting a write-in campaign for J. Danforth Quayle!
I was having hotfiles_erupt on a twelve hour cycle, so it wasn't until getting home from work today that I could be sure it was really fixed. Now I can return to the quiet life of an uptime whore; rebooting nightly sucks out loud.
I typed that comment on my iBook, which is currently running 10.4.1. However, Firefox doesn't utilize the system-wide spell checking service. And I'm not at a Mac to check, but I don't think Chardonnay is in the standard dictionary, is it?
And all that aside, I was clearly being facetious... I only drink red wines.
The hotfiles_evict thing is fucking killing me. If it weren't for the iBook, I would have had to do a clean install on the tower by now. If 10.4.2 doesn't fix it, you're gonna have (at least) one pissed off Apple Fanboy on your hands!!!1011!!
'"Do you hear me Jobs?!?!?" he cried, sloshing chardonnay(sp?) all about the joint.'
There's nothing like going into Blockbuster, asking for Brazil, and being directed to the travel section.
Ironically enough, I didn't have much better luck typing 'Brazil' into Netflix's search field. Knowing that Terry Gilliam directed it, I searched on his name, and see 'Brazil' listed as one of the movies he's directed, but still haven't yet been given a link to add it to my queue. In fact, even searching 'Brazil Gilliam' gets me to a listing of various Python and non-Python movies, but still no Brazil. I'm starting to wonder if they even carry it. Very odd.
I'm constantly wanting to stop people in traffic and use the Socratic Method to determine just what the hell they mean by the yellow ribbon "Support Out Troops" stickers they're sporting.
As a leftwing idealist type (depending on your perspective, of course), I have to concur; I see an indymedia link posted to corroborate a fact, I automatically doubt its credibility. Which isn't to say that nothing on an indymedia server is true, much of what they claim I know to be true from other sources. But yes, there is a whole lot of wackjob shit on their sites mixed in with the facts, diluting the value of the worthwhile stuff. So I can only marvel at the fact that the feds lend indymedia credibility by raiding their racks like that.
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It did get picked up on BoingBoing, if that's any consolation.
Where was there any mention (either outright or implied) of liberal/conservative or left/right in the aforementioned post? Perhaps you're reading things into it that aren't really there?
Wake me when Logitech's Mac driver is no longer worse than useless. I have a Logitech MX-500 and a Logitech keyboard festooned with extra buttons, but their software for Mac OS X is absolutely fucking atrocious; check reviews of it at versiontracker.com and macupdate.com, I'm not just being picky here. I use USB Overdrive for the mouse, but it doesn't handle keyboards, so I am unable to use any of the extra buttons on it. Logitech makes great hardware (okay, acceptable hardware), but if they can't get their shit together on the Mac platform, I'm going back to Kensington for the next batch of toys.
Heh. I'd chuckled at your current .sig when I saw it around, but never made the connection. Here's a sneak preview of next year's model.
Let's see how much attention this gets in middle America. The level of hystrionics will be a good indicator of what proportion of the public was consciously aware that spyware actually, you know, spies on you.
Oh, really? Damn. That doth surely suck.
Okay, four buttons it is then. I sit corrected.
Two buttons under the top shell, two side buttons, and the scrolly thing being clickable is the fifth. At least that's the way I'm reading it, but their site isn't quite as clear on the matter as it could be.
Besides the left- and right-click functions, the Scroll Ball clicks down to act as a third mouse button.
I wasn't sure at first, either. But that makes it effectively a five button mouse. I can't believe there's an Apple mouse that I could even consider using. It's still two buttons less than my Logitech MX-500, but it might just be adequate if the scrolly thing works as well as they say.
I suppose there's a lesson to be learned here about blindly parroting what you learned in school... As far as I can recall I'd never heard that idea about the origins of the Menehunes. Interesting, though. Makes a lot of sense in hindsight. I believe we were taught that the Menehunes were a carryover of superstitions they brought with them from Polynesia. My Hawai'ian History teacher was pretty hard core (test every Friday, nothing but essay questions) which is why I just sort of assumed without questioning (yes, I know) that I knew the full story. Thanks.
There was an episode of The X-Files where Mulder asked a genie (yes, as in bottle, three wishes, etc.) for peace on Earth. The wish is granted, he walks outside, and realizes he's the only person left in Washington, D.C., and presumably the planet.
That said, it was a joke.
Show me a hand-held device that defeats television. Show me a device which will de-fuse a rabid neo-con. Show me a tool that can be used to bring religions together in peace.
http://www.freep.com/art/2000/mar/03/handgun.jpg
Eesh, that's gotta stink.
Hawai'ians were the first people there. There's no record of or any reason to believe that anyone else had ever set foot on those islands when they arrived.
And Hawai'i, while certainly not the only case, is one of the most clearly defined instances in history of a soverign nation being taken over in an imperial manner.
I spend too much time in front of Firefox at work, but I do most of the organization's site maintenance at home, so I don't feel *too* bad about it.
p lies type.
I also restrict myself to primarily news and tech: news.google.com, topix.net, slashdot.org, arstechnica.com, theregister.co.uk, dealmac.com, and a bit of boingboing.net. I don't read long in-depth essays on the natue of morality, and my slashdot comments from work tend to be of the short, pithy variety, not the long winded three-hours-to-compose-and-seven-hours-writing-re
Okay, time to burn some time getting coffee and a pastry...
Computer user since December 25, 1982
Mac user since July 5th, 1988
I've gone through System 6, System 7, OS 8.1/8.6, pretty much skipped OS 9, and then from 10.0.4 on up to 10.4.2. That has carried me across 8mhz 68000s, some 68020s, a IIfx (I still pine for that machine), various 030s and 040s, a handful of PPC601 upgrade cards, eventually to native PPC machines (some of those with 486 cards in them!), all the way to my current 533mhz G4 tower and G3 iBook.
So what was the question? Whether or not I'm gonna ditch the Mac because of a processor change?
I dismiss all of those by asserting that given the nearly infinite time frame involved, a nearly infinite range of temporal tourists (most likely reeking of coconut suntan lotion, as tourists of all stripes are wont to do) will have washed ashore, and that if only a few break their locality's version of the Prime Directive, that small fraction multiplied by a nearly infinite number...
Of course, random teenagers taking Dad's time machine on a Friday night and wreaking havoc in the past would be about the only thing that could explain why this current timeline is getting vastly stranger every year than could ever be explained by human nature and entropy stirred together in a bubbling cauldron. In fact, if you will allow me to trot out my most shopworn Jim Morrison quote, "This is the strangest life I've ever known."
I've used RentACoder in the past. Only small stuff, but it was dirt cheap to have some guy out in Colorado implement some fixes for an amount comprable to the time I burned defining the scope of the job and communicating with him.
Didn't have any problems, so I can't speak to their dispute resolution system. Got what I paid for first time around, perfectly smooth, etc.
Hi, Chris!
Reminds me of the argument I frequently use to prove that time travel (at least to the past) is, and always will be impossible. If it can be done, at any point in the future of the universe, it will be done. From the time of its invention until the end of the universe should be a length of time close enough to infinite for this purpose. So the fact that we have not been awash in time tourists from this gargantuan period of time after the eventual invention of time travel shows that it will never happen.
[I usually explain it more eloquently than that, but I'm usually not explaining it at the end of a very gruelling day at the office.]
I think she's doing all that to draw fire from whoever they field as the real candidate. I mean c'mon, really. If the Democrats put her up as their candidate in '08, I'm starting a write-in campaign for J. Danforth Quayle!
It's fixed!
I was having hotfiles_erupt on a twelve hour cycle, so it wasn't until getting home from work today that I could be sure it was really fixed. Now I can return to the quiet life of an uptime whore; rebooting nightly sucks out loud.
I typed that comment on my iBook, which is currently running 10.4.1. However, Firefox doesn't utilize the system-wide spell checking service. And I'm not at a Mac to check, but I don't think Chardonnay is in the standard dictionary, is it?
And all that aside, I was clearly being facetious... I only drink red wines.
The hotfiles_evict thing is fucking killing me. If it weren't for the iBook, I would have had to do a clean install on the tower by now. If 10.4.2 doesn't fix it, you're gonna have (at least) one pissed off Apple Fanboy on your hands!!!1011!!
'"Do you hear me Jobs?!?!?" he cried, sloshing chardonnay(sp?) all about the joint.'
There's nothing like going into Blockbuster, asking for Brazil, and being directed to the travel section.
Ironically enough, I didn't have much better luck typing 'Brazil' into Netflix's search field. Knowing that Terry Gilliam directed it, I searched on his name, and see 'Brazil' listed as one of the movies he's directed, but still haven't yet been given a link to add it to my queue. In fact, even searching 'Brazil Gilliam' gets me to a listing of various Python and non-Python movies, but still no Brazil. I'm starting to wonder if they even carry it. Very odd.
I'm constantly wanting to stop people in traffic and use the Socratic Method to determine just what the hell they mean by the yellow ribbon "Support Out Troops" stickers they're sporting.
As a leftwing idealist type (depending on your perspective, of course), I have to concur; I see an indymedia link posted to corroborate a fact, I automatically doubt its credibility. Which isn't to say that nothing on an indymedia server is true, much of what they claim I know to be true from other sources. But yes, there is a whole lot of wackjob shit on their sites mixed in with the facts, diluting the value of the worthwhile stuff. So I can only marvel at the fact that the feds lend indymedia credibility by raiding their racks like that.