It's no surprise that a mac person would claim that sticking to old, antiquated screen resolutions was somehow an advantage. At any rate, it's not screen dpi that matters...
Good argument against and for Apple's DPI choices.
Highschool kids aren't as bright as they used to be.
American education isn't bad because it's run by the government. It's bad because people don't give a crap about fixing it.
There is nothing to fix on the education side, its a function of ideology. Thought precedes action.
Americans have little value in education, because education does not give what Americans want.
Is being educated going to make you rich?
Nope. (Although you will probably make more money than your lesser educated person).
Is being educated going to make you good looking or help you get laid?
Nope.
Watch MTV cribs (or the Jessica Simpson newlywed thing if you can stand it) to see what young people want. In a nutshell, they want stuff, but don't want to work for it, just like those rappers, athletes, etc.
I'm not putting down rappers and athletes for having a bunch of cash _now_. Everybody gets paid what they are worth. Its the whole mentality of "I want and deserve stuff", which is something I first noticed in our society 10 years or so when I was in college. I was older than many of my classmates, by only a couple of years, but that appears to be significant, because people my age and older do not seem to share this mentality.
Things now are at an all time low for Americans in terms of the effort and time it takes to do something, and the younger generations (Did I just write that???) simply do not know what it is like to have to work or wait for something. Working and waiting is "old school".
Yes, slightly. The iBook video card can do 2 displays, the mini can do one.
I believe that the iBook's external display is only supposed to mirror what is on the primary laptop display, but I believe that this can be hacked to work as two discrete displays.
Personally, one of the biggest distractors from the mini is its lack of dual display, even if its only mirroring, but I may be in the minority.
The 1024x768 screens, while certainly nothing to look down on, really need to be upgraded. Is it 96 pixels per inch now? Would increasing that be too expensive? (Not rhetorical; I'd like to know.)
So you know. All Mac monitors now and always have been (and I assume will always be) about 100 pixels/inch.
Its a consistency thing, especially for those graphics people.
Larger monitors give you more real estate space, but the same DPI (or PPI if you prefer pixels). Its really cool to see a bunch of macs with different monitor sizes and all the icons look and feel is basically the same, you simply have more space on larger monitors.
Its funny to see those Windows gurus squinting at the screen to read stuff. You know, that one MAXIMIZED application that is right in front of them.
Microsoft's font smoothing works only in the horizontal dimension and makes even small text look smooth and pleasing to the eye. Apple, on the other hand, tries to smooth things both vertically and horizontally. This looks fantastic at really big sizes, but at a normal size such as 12 point, horizontal bars (such as in "H" and "E" become gray and cause eyestrain.
Can't comment on Microsoft's font smoothing. Apple's on the other hand is at least between 10.3 (Jaguar) and 10.4 (Tiger) is completely different from each other, with the Tiger font smoothing on the sucky side. Jaguar's font smoothing is perfect IMHO.
Hopefully in the next update or so, Apple will fix the font smoothing in Tiger.
I remember seeing this sort of thing way back in the DOS days. Battery backed RAM on an ISA card. Product died out because RAM was more expensive than HD.
Yes, and things were much different back then. Laptops and notebooks were affectionately called lugables instead of laptops or notebooks, and things like MP3 players or other portable digital music players were not available.
I see this kind of drive essential for smaller portable electronics where battery life and mobile reliability are important.
What is it like when you're hallucinating? Do you believe what you're seeing is real, or do you recognize that the images/sounds/whatever are only a product of your mind and not of reality?
When I'm depressed, the hallucinations are dreamlike with a slight soundtrack of repetitive music or pieces of a song. Its hard to explain, but dreamlike is the best way.
The hallucinations when I'm manic are more mental, like with the psychic thoughts and other "thoughts of grandeur" kind of stuff.
Maybe hallucinations are a bit of an exaggeration or the wrong word. But I do go through mental processes and thoughts and perceptions that are not "normal". To a degree I know what is going on, but perception is all we have. If something seems like it takes "forever" and its only a minute or so, the "forever" perception is the real one, not the elapsed time.
What's even more difficult is that its hard for me to realize that I am depressed, unless I'm really super depressed, but even then my thoughts and feelings seem real. I have to remind myself that its only temporary, and I won't think and feel so bad forever, but its common for me to have suicidal thoughts that may or may not have anything to do with external events. I will say that I am getting better at recognizing my states and dealing with them, especially when depressed. When manic, I basically don't like it. My attention span is too short, and I get frustrated with all of my grandiose thoughts that have over 99% failure rate in being fulfilled. I'm also just uncomfortable. Nothing really satisfies me.
Over the past 5 or 6 years, I've been drinking large amounts of alcohol to deal with the situation, but I simply cannot drink to that extreme anymore. I've gotten in a decent amount of legal problems from it, and more importantly to me, the health issues have gotten to be undesirable. I had diarrhea for over a year, and my brain and motivation were going to mush. I will say though, that alcohol is a pretty damn good mood stabilizer. If I'm depressed, the feeling goes away, and I become more social and outgoing. If I'm manic, it calms me down. I can sleep, and be even more life of the party:) Now, I'm talking about also being on my medication and that the extremes are not that extreme, but noticeable.
The idea of depression being "due to a problem with the brain" is something of a misconception; of course it is one that has been promoted and reenforced by pharmaeutical companies.
Although I would love to agree with this, having issues with depression for over 20 years, I believe that I know a thing or two about it.
I have bipolar disorder (aka manic-depression), and I do need to be on medication to control it. I cannot say that situational events outside of my brain chemistry have no effect on my mood like anybody else, however I do go through distinct mood swings, even with medication.
A brief description of bipolar disorder goes like this -- Depression is the underlying issue for both the depressive side (duh) and the manic side. This is from what I understand, and it matches my experience as well, the manic phase is due to a biological reaction to being so depressed for an extended period of time. I compare it to anorexia-nervosa. There is an ironic characteristic with anorexia where the body goes into hyper mode after dropping below a certain level of fat tissue in the body that puts the body into "flight" mode. Biologically, one theory behind this is that it is a survival trait that when the body is without adequate food for a certain time, the body goes into overdrive so that the individual can have the energy to relocate and get food and survive.
Granted, I don't believe that there is much of a survival aspect with being manic as with the anorexic, but mania does appear to be a reaction to being depressed for an extended period of time. In fact, if I only take an antidepressant without a mood stabilizer as well, I will go into a manic phase fairly shortly.
I would love to be free of medication, the responsibility to take it, its cost, and the side effects, but I have come to accept that the positives of taking the meds outweighs the negatives. Now, its not like if I stop taking my meds I will be in a bad state within a week to two. It could be up to a year, depending on other things. Its a matter of when, not if.
I will say that being depressed sucks. In itself, being depressed is depressing. I loose interest and motivation to do things. I don't care about much. I can get into a compulsive work mode in an effort to make myself feel better, but it really only keeps my mind off of things. I get this empty bottomless pit feeling in my gut, and I simply do not feel good. I don't want to be around people or go out, I would rather just sit in my misery. When I'm very depressed, I can hallucinate a bit.
Now, being manic can be fun to an extent. The best way that I can explain it to most people is that it is like being on LSD for weeks or months at a time. I have gone without sleep for a good part of 2 weeks. I can get into very interesting sexual situations. I'm slightly psychic. I have very racing thoughts and mood swings throughout the day where I'm irritable and cranky to full of life and the life of the party. I have the attention span of a fly. Its almost impossible to do something like read or anything else where I have to sit still for an extended period of time.
I will also mention that I know a few people with my disorder as well. I'm unsure if anybody has it as severe as I do. As far as the manic-depressive scale goes, I'm off the charts. The most extreme manic swing is characterized as having psychotic features (manic psychosis, I believe) and that is where I have been, although not in years. Also, its worth noting that every time an individual goes through a manic episode, it impairs the person even further each time. I've seen an older woman that was bipolar that I believe (and the court believes) that she will never be able to function on her own.
Now, back to the skeptical view. I do believe that depression is over diagnosed and I find it difficult that humans have evolved over the years into a more depressed group of people. It does not biologically make sense. Aside from some benefits of be
I mean seriously, whens the last time you used ctrl+c and ctrl+v to move and deposit physical objects (rhetorical)?
When was the last time you steered a car with reins like your great great grandparents did with their horse and buggy?
Most of the time, using metaphors is like skinning a crocodile with a waterlogged toothpick.
But seriously, I use Apple+C and Apple+V all the time in real life. I Apple+C something to short-term memory (like a phone number, or something) and then I Apple+V it to a piece of paper or my computer so I wont forget it later when I need to use it.
Macs have had some similar DND feature since OS9 I believe (Maybe 8). It is called something like "spring loaded folders" so that when you drag something to a folder and hold it there a while it opens up that folder for you. If it worked better, it might be more useful, but copying and pasting is usually more accurate.
Putting a disclaimer such as the one you are proposing, is offensive and amateurish.
I agree and disagree with this statement.
I believe that it is offensive and amateurish when I see something like "Best viewed with IE version x.y or above". I also get annoyed when people tell me how wide my browser needs to be too.
However, putting a disclaimer that has a link in detail about what issues IE has and how it is not standards compliant, and that is a problem with Microsoft's browser, not the standards.
I'm very conservative with things that are meant to be portable, so I would code to standards from a while back, and maybe some that add better eye candy, but the functionality of the site should work with any normal browser from a couple of years back.
Honestly and gratefully, I see this becoming less and less of an issue. I use Safari for my browser, and I don't remember the last time I had to fire up IE to see a site (many times the site does not render in the Mac IE either). Over the past couple of years, I have seen a vast improvement in the portability of websites.
I agree completely. I've never understood the mentality of work to consume thing. If you hate your job, odds are you hate yourself too, and that attracts other miserable people in turn. Work is a part of life. The percentage of that part is up to you.
In one of my senior CS courses, the professor asked what the department could do that would make things better for the educational experience. He was expecting things like more course offerings, more focus on newer languages and approaches, stuff like that. The response that resounded with too many of the students was that the professors should do a better job at helping the students learn how to translate a project specification into code.
Sorry, but translating a project spec into code is not CS. Hell, its not even science, its an art that comes with experience.
I've worked with few CS majors in my career. Well, maybe about 50% of the people were CS, the other 45% had _insert random degree here_ and another 5% had none.
I would imagine that CS majors are in decline because graduating from a CS degree does not teach you much about most of the IT jobs out there. System administration, programming, DBA, etc, has little to nothing to do with computer science. Granted there are some programming jobs that utilize a CS person, but that is in the minority. Most programmers are code monkeys that, err, translate project specs into code for non-commercial (custom or inhouse) applications like for another company, government agency, or what have you.
They don't want to learn stuff outside of class.
I don't know where these poor puppies work. Oh, maybe thats the tech support people that still live in the US.
Why invest in a career where you have little confidence of supporting yourself?
Why do _anything_ where you have little confidence?
I got a degree in Psych and a minor in Philosophy and bunches of Math and Physics/Engineering thrown in for geekness. I only had some minor difficulty in getting a job right out of school because of my education and skillset mismatch, but once the ball rolled, my career has been fine.
I knew I wanted to work with Beowulf clusters years ago, now I do.
Funny how successful people have a chronic case of good luck.
Under normal copyright law, for someone to take a piece of your work and do something with it, even if it's post it in their blog, is an infringement of copyright. If I were to quote your text on Slashdot here and put it somewhere else, say, in an email to a friend, that's copyright infringement.
One way to avoid violating copyright is to paraphrase material--to put it into your own words--or use indirect quotes. You should, however, always give credit to the source and refrain from extensive use of paraphrasing or indirect quotes. The copyright law itself, under the fair use provision, protects the users' right to copy copyrighted material. The copying of copyrighted work for scholarship or research, among other purposes, is not an infringement of copyright protection. Furthermore, you are not restricted from publishing (or otherwise selling) your scholarship or research.
I was instructed on how to cite and paraphrase, quote, and use extended quotes since I first started research papers. So, am I now a felon at the direction of my private and public education?
Disallow cities from forcing companies to pay extortion to them in "franchise fees"
In looking at my bills, there is a neatly itemized bill that is outside of all advertised pricing that says: "franchise fee".
So to me it seems like I am being extorted, not the poor company.
Now, lets wait until the FCC has fucked up the internet like phones and collects about 33% of the bill due to various FCC fees for the privilege of using the internet like I have for over 10 years already.
Why is it that gasoline filling stations are few of the companies out there that actually tell you up front how much something is going to cost (with a big sign visible to boot)? Everywhere else I go, I can expect to pay an additional 10 to 30 someodd percent additional on my bill for the things that the company "forgot" to put on the price.
....and pharmaseutical companies are telling us every commercial break that things like heartburn, insomnia, and arthritis are threats to our very lives.
Oh. Many of the ads I see are filled with green fields and blue skies and all the ad says is that I need some name brand medication that can cause any of the following laundry list of "rare" side effects. Often times they neglect to even say what the medication is used for, just "Ask your doctor".
I've seen several GPs, a couple of dermatologists, and an infectious disease specialist for the infection that keeps popping up all over my legs. Aside from the antibiotics, the things I've read about eczema on the web have helped me more than the vague advice given by the family doctors and dermatologists.
That's my experience as well. After 4 years of regular college and 4 years of memorization, doctors are given almost godlike esteem with little to no evidence of them deserving their godlike aura (aside from their pay).
I've often wished there was a service that graded or had some kind of feedback on the quality of a doctor, however, as I understand it, the buddy-buddy system inside of the medical community is so tight that the lack of good information to the general public is not a coincidence. A shady businessman can only go on so far until his reputation catches up with him. The number of doctors that have been found liable for malpractice multiple times keep practicing medicine. Its very rare that a doctor looses his license.
Without citations, how can you really trust anything you read there?
Without checking the citations and all of their citations and waiting to make sure that either the citations or the citations' citations were done by credible scientists and not ones who are falsifying data. Even then, can you be 100% sure?
My beef with web information is that there is so much plagiarism without any reference to the original source. If you look up something that is a little more underground than mainstream common knowledge kind of stuff its common to get the same info cut and pasted over and over again as well as completely conflicting info cut and pasted over and over again.
In general, I find that the web has little to no accountability for the content provided to you. The only degree of accountability are SSL certs, but they only assure that someone is who they say they are via a 2nd party, and there is nothing that says that the information there is any good.
I will say, that a vast majority of the information out there is mostly accurate. Who would take the time to completely set up a website that has 100% made up information on a slew of diseases or any other topic in detail? There is nothing to gain from it. Once a pattern of errors are discovered, the site's pagerank will go down and people will just loose interest.
The article doesn't say anything, but am I missing something, or is this an advertorial?
My Sony TV does this already. I have a widescreen TV and I can watch 2 4:3 TV shows side by side. I forgot the exact measurements, but on my TV I can get something like 2 25" screens side by side.
The thing that sucks is that the "active" screen has the sound. Before I got a DVR and a program guide, it would have been really cool to have the sound on the inactive screen so that I could flip between channels while looking for something new to watch. However, my DVR does this now.
How about Mosaic? I admit that Netscape was a big step forward, but it was evolutionary, rather than revolutionary.
The details are fuzzy in my head, but back then I used Mosaic as the first graphical web browser. It sucked. It wasn't able do concurrently download text and images at the same time (or even multiple images concurrently). It would suck down the HTML, and then at the bottom status bar it would say something like "Downloading images...", while you waited. I believe that Netscape was more powerful from the get go in terms of features like this. Revolutionary, probably not, but much more useful than Mosaic was.
Oh, and for those that don't know, most of the Netscape guys were Mosaic defectors.
The thing I liked most about Netscape, was that they made a browser for every platform under the Sun. They had almost something like 20 ports of their product. I know of no other GUI application that can claim that. For so long it was the only viable browser for Linux. It sucked when the web went more IE-centric.
Oh, and people bash Netscape for the <blink/> tag. Well, IMHO, it has gotten _much_ worse with animated gifs and flash advertisements.
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It's no surprise that a mac person would claim that sticking to old, antiquated screen resolutions was somehow an advantage. At any rate, it's not screen dpi that matters...
Good argument against and for Apple's DPI choices.
Highschool kids aren't as bright as they used to be.
American education isn't bad because it's run by the government. It's bad because people don't give a crap about fixing it.
There is nothing to fix on the education side, its a function of ideology. Thought precedes action.
Americans have little value in education, because education does not give what Americans want.
Is being educated going to make you rich?
Nope. (Although you will probably make more money than your lesser educated person).
Is being educated going to make you good looking or help you get laid?
Nope.
Watch MTV cribs (or the Jessica Simpson newlywed thing if you can stand it) to see what young people want. In a nutshell, they want stuff, but don't want to work for it, just like those rappers, athletes, etc.
I'm not putting down rappers and athletes for having a bunch of cash _now_. Everybody gets paid what they are worth. Its the whole mentality of "I want and deserve stuff", which is something I first noticed in our society 10 years or so when I was in college. I was older than many of my classmates, by only a couple of years, but that appears to be significant, because people my age and older do not seem to share this mentality.
Things now are at an all time low for Americans in terms of the effort and time it takes to do something, and the younger generations (Did I just write that???) simply do not know what it is like to have to work or wait for something. Working and waiting is "old school".
ummm.. No. If you do the math, the 1024x768 display on the 14.1" iBook works out to 90-91 dpi. The 1024x768 on the 12.1" iBook is about 106 dpi.
Ghesh, to me, when I say about 100 DPI, I mean, about 100 DPI. 90 and 106 DPI are within 10% of 100.
Oh really ? Do you have a link to that ?
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Maybe. try: http://www.rutemoeller.com/mp/ibook/supportlist_e
Does that mean the iBook has a better video card?
Yes, slightly. The iBook video card can do 2 displays, the mini can do one.
I believe that the iBook's external display is only supposed to mirror what is on the primary laptop display, but I believe that this can be hacked to work as two discrete displays.
Personally, one of the biggest distractors from the mini is its lack of dual display, even if its only mirroring, but I may be in the minority.
The 1024x768 screens, while certainly nothing to look down on, really need to be upgraded. Is it 96 pixels per inch now? Would increasing that be too expensive? (Not rhetorical; I'd like to know.)
So you know. All Mac monitors now and always have been (and I assume will always be) about 100 pixels/inch.
Its a consistency thing, especially for those graphics people.
Larger monitors give you more real estate space, but the same DPI (or PPI if you prefer pixels). Its really cool to see a bunch of macs with different monitor sizes and all the icons look and feel is basically the same, you simply have more space on larger monitors.
Its funny to see those Windows gurus squinting at the screen to read stuff. You know, that one MAXIMIZED application that is right in front of them.
Microsoft's font smoothing works only in the horizontal dimension and makes even small text look smooth and pleasing to the eye. Apple, on the other hand, tries to smooth things both vertically and horizontally. This looks fantastic at really big sizes, but at a normal size such as 12 point, horizontal bars (such as in "H" and "E" become gray and cause eyestrain.
Can't comment on Microsoft's font smoothing. Apple's on the other hand is at least between 10.3 (Jaguar) and 10.4 (Tiger) is completely different from each other, with the Tiger font smoothing on the sucky side. Jaguar's font smoothing is perfect IMHO.
Hopefully in the next update or so, Apple will fix the font smoothing in Tiger.
100 for a 4gb solid state drive is affordable, but not worth the price.
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For you maybe, but people do this every day http://www.nextag.com/serv/main/buyer/outpdir.jsp
What makes it so expensive to competetivly price large solid state storage devices?
No moving parts. No "spin up" time. No power used when idle. Ability to transfer the storage like a CD/DVD.
On a sidenote, is anyone going to buy this drive that is 4gb and costs 100 bucks? I don't think it's much use to anyone.
I would buy one in a heartbeat. Better deal than 1 Gig at $100.
I remember seeing this sort of thing way back in the DOS days. Battery backed RAM on an ISA card. Product died out because RAM was more expensive than HD.
Yes, and things were much different back then. Laptops and notebooks were affectionately called lugables instead of laptops or notebooks, and things like MP3 players or other portable digital music players were not available.
I see this kind of drive essential for smaller portable electronics where battery life and mobile reliability are important.
Show me VoIP that does 99.99% and then I'll consider switching.
Yeah, reliability has killed the cellphone market.
I guess once cells are reliable, people will start using them.
What is it like when you're hallucinating? Do you believe what you're seeing is real, or do you recognize that the images/sounds/whatever are only a product of your mind and not of reality?
:) Now, I'm talking about also being on my medication and that the extremes are not that extreme, but noticeable.
When I'm depressed, the hallucinations are dreamlike with a slight soundtrack of repetitive music or pieces of a song. Its hard to explain, but dreamlike is the best way.
The hallucinations when I'm manic are more mental, like with the psychic thoughts and other "thoughts of grandeur" kind of stuff.
Maybe hallucinations are a bit of an exaggeration or the wrong word. But I do go through mental processes and thoughts and perceptions that are not "normal". To a degree I know what is going on, but perception is all we have. If something seems like it takes "forever" and its only a minute or so, the "forever" perception is the real one, not the elapsed time.
What's even more difficult is that its hard for me to realize that I am depressed, unless I'm really super depressed, but even then my thoughts and feelings seem real. I have to remind myself that its only temporary, and I won't think and feel so bad forever, but its common for me to have suicidal thoughts that may or may not have anything to do with external events. I will say that I am getting better at recognizing my states and dealing with them, especially when depressed. When manic, I basically don't like it. My attention span is too short, and I get frustrated with all of my grandiose thoughts that have over 99% failure rate in being fulfilled. I'm also just uncomfortable. Nothing really satisfies me.
Over the past 5 or 6 years, I've been drinking large amounts of alcohol to deal with the situation, but I simply cannot drink to that extreme anymore. I've gotten in a decent amount of legal problems from it, and more importantly to me, the health issues have gotten to be undesirable. I had diarrhea for over a year, and my brain and motivation were going to mush. I will say though, that alcohol is a pretty damn good mood stabilizer. If I'm depressed, the feeling goes away, and I become more social and outgoing. If I'm manic, it calms me down. I can sleep, and be even more life of the party
Yuck, I hate this stuff.
The idea of depression being "due to a problem with the brain" is something of a misconception; of course it is one that has been promoted and reenforced by pharmaeutical companies.
Although I would love to agree with this, having issues with depression for over 20 years, I believe that I know a thing or two about it.
I have bipolar disorder (aka manic-depression), and I do need to be on medication to control it. I cannot say that situational events outside of my brain chemistry have no effect on my mood like anybody else, however I do go through distinct mood swings, even with medication.
A brief description of bipolar disorder goes like this -- Depression is the underlying issue for both the depressive side (duh) and the manic side. This is from what I understand, and it matches my experience as well, the manic phase is due to a biological reaction to being so depressed for an extended period of time. I compare it to anorexia-nervosa. There is an ironic characteristic with anorexia where the body goes into hyper mode after dropping below a certain level of fat tissue in the body that puts the body into "flight" mode. Biologically, one theory behind this is that it is a survival trait that when the body is without adequate food for a certain time, the body goes into overdrive so that the individual can have the energy to relocate and get food and survive.
Granted, I don't believe that there is much of a survival aspect with being manic as with the anorexic, but mania does appear to be a reaction to being depressed for an extended period of time. In fact, if I only take an antidepressant without a mood stabilizer as well, I will go into a manic phase fairly shortly.
I would love to be free of medication, the responsibility to take it, its cost, and the side effects, but I have come to accept that the positives of taking the meds outweighs the negatives. Now, its not like if I stop taking my meds I will be in a bad state within a week to two. It could be up to a year, depending on other things. Its a matter of when, not if.
I will say that being depressed sucks. In itself, being depressed is depressing. I loose interest and motivation to do things. I don't care about much. I can get into a compulsive work mode in an effort to make myself feel better, but it really only keeps my mind off of things. I get this empty bottomless pit feeling in my gut, and I simply do not feel good. I don't want to be around people or go out, I would rather just sit in my misery. When I'm very depressed, I can hallucinate a bit.
Now, being manic can be fun to an extent. The best way that I can explain it to most people is that it is like being on LSD for weeks or months at a time. I have gone without sleep for a good part of 2 weeks. I can get into very interesting sexual situations. I'm slightly psychic. I have very racing thoughts and mood swings throughout the day where I'm irritable and cranky to full of life and the life of the party. I have the attention span of a fly. Its almost impossible to do something like read or anything else where I have to sit still for an extended period of time.
I will also mention that I know a few people with my disorder as well. I'm unsure if anybody has it as severe as I do. As far as the manic-depressive scale goes, I'm off the charts. The most extreme manic swing is characterized as having psychotic features (manic psychosis, I believe) and that is where I have been, although not in years. Also, its worth noting that every time an individual goes through a manic episode, it impairs the person even further each time. I've seen an older woman that was bipolar that I believe (and the court believes) that she will never be able to function on her own.
Now, back to the skeptical view. I do believe that depression is over diagnosed and I find it difficult that humans have evolved over the years into a more depressed group of people. It does not biologically make sense. Aside from some benefits of be
"Prosumers." You know, people who think they have to spend $600 more to get features like dual-monitor support that Apple cripples out of the iBook*.
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* Apparently you have to hack an iBook to get its graphics card to do something it was built to do.
Here is the hack: http://www.rutemoeller.com/mp/ibook/supportlist_e
I mean seriously, whens the last time you used ctrl+c and ctrl+v to move and deposit physical objects (rhetorical)?
When was the last time you steered a car with reins like your great great grandparents did with their horse and buggy?
Most of the time, using metaphors is like skinning a crocodile with a waterlogged toothpick.
But seriously, I use Apple+C and Apple+V all the time in real life. I Apple+C something to short-term memory (like a phone number, or something) and then I Apple+V it to a piece of paper or my computer so I wont forget it later when I need to use it.
Macs have had some similar DND feature since OS9 I believe (Maybe 8). It is called something like "spring loaded folders" so that when you drag something to a folder and hold it there a while it opens up that folder for you. If it worked better, it might be more useful, but copying and pasting is usually more accurate.
Putting a disclaimer such as the one you are proposing, is offensive and amateurish.
I agree and disagree with this statement.
I believe that it is offensive and amateurish when I see something like "Best viewed with IE version x.y or above". I also get annoyed when people tell me how wide my browser needs to be too.
However, putting a disclaimer that has a link in detail about what issues IE has and how it is not standards compliant, and that is a problem with Microsoft's browser, not the standards.
I'm very conservative with things that are meant to be portable, so I would code to standards from a while back, and maybe some that add better eye candy, but the functionality of the site should work with any normal browser from a couple of years back.
Honestly and gratefully, I see this becoming less and less of an issue. I use Safari for my browser, and I don't remember the last time I had to fire up IE to see a site (many times the site does not render in the Mac IE either). Over the past couple of years, I have seen a vast improvement in the portability of websites.
The best moments are made by people.
Shutup and consume you hippie.
I agree completely. I've never understood the mentality of work to consume thing. If you hate your job, odds are you hate yourself too, and that attracts other miserable people in turn. Work is a part of life. The percentage of that part is up to you.
In one of my senior CS courses, the professor asked what the department could do that would make things better for the educational experience. He was expecting things like more course offerings, more focus on newer languages and approaches, stuff like that. The response that resounded with too many of the students was that the professors should do a better job at helping the students learn how to translate a project specification into code.
Sorry, but translating a project spec into code is not CS. Hell, its not even science, its an art that comes with experience.
I've worked with few CS majors in my career. Well, maybe about 50% of the people were CS, the other 45% had _insert random degree here_ and another 5% had none.
I would imagine that CS majors are in decline because graduating from a CS degree does not teach you much about most of the IT jobs out there. System administration, programming, DBA, etc, has little to nothing to do with computer science. Granted there are some programming jobs that utilize a CS person, but that is in the minority. Most programmers are code monkeys that, err, translate project specs into code for non-commercial (custom or inhouse) applications like for another company, government agency, or what have you.
They don't want to learn stuff outside of class.
I don't know where these poor puppies work. Oh, maybe thats the tech support people that still live in the US.
Why invest in a career where you have little confidence of supporting yourself?
Why do _anything_ where you have little confidence?
I got a degree in Psych and a minor in Philosophy and bunches of Math and Physics/Engineering thrown in for geekness. I only had some minor difficulty in getting a job right out of school because of my education and skillset mismatch, but once the ball rolled, my career has been fine.
I knew I wanted to work with Beowulf clusters years ago, now I do.
Funny how successful people have a chronic case of good luck.
Either I was taught wrong in school, or this statement is wrong. From http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/copyright.shtm
Disallow cities from forcing companies to pay extortion to them in "franchise fees"
In looking at my bills, there is a neatly itemized bill that is outside of all advertised pricing that says: "franchise fee".
So to me it seems like I am being extorted, not the poor company.
Now, lets wait until the FCC has fucked up the internet like phones and collects about 33% of the bill due to various FCC fees for the privilege of using the internet like I have for over 10 years already.
Why is it that gasoline filling stations are few of the companies out there that actually tell you up front how much something is going to cost (with a big sign visible to boot)? Everywhere else I go, I can expect to pay an additional 10 to 30 someodd percent additional on my bill for the things that the company "forgot" to put on the price.
....and pharmaseutical companies are telling us every commercial break that things like heartburn, insomnia, and arthritis are threats to our very lives.
Oh. Many of the ads I see are filled with green fields and blue skies and all the ad says is that I need some name brand medication that can cause any of the following laundry list of "rare" side effects. Often times they neglect to even say what the medication is used for, just "Ask your doctor".
I've seen several GPs, a couple of dermatologists, and an infectious disease specialist for the infection that keeps popping up all over my legs. Aside from the antibiotics, the things I've read about eczema on the web have helped me more than the vague advice given by the family doctors and dermatologists.
That's my experience as well. After 4 years of regular college and 4 years of memorization, doctors are given almost godlike esteem with little to no evidence of them deserving their godlike aura (aside from their pay).
I've often wished there was a service that graded or had some kind of feedback on the quality of a doctor, however, as I understand it, the buddy-buddy system inside of the medical community is so tight that the lack of good information to the general public is not a coincidence. A shady businessman can only go on so far until his reputation catches up with him. The number of doctors that have been found liable for malpractice multiple times keep practicing medicine. Its very rare that a doctor looses his license.
Without citations, how can you really trust anything you read there?
Without checking the citations and all of their citations and waiting to make sure that either the citations or the citations' citations were done by credible scientists and not ones who are falsifying data. Even then, can you be 100% sure?
My beef with web information is that there is so much plagiarism without any reference to the original source. If you look up something that is a little more underground than mainstream common knowledge kind of stuff its common to get the same info cut and pasted over and over again as well as completely conflicting info cut and pasted over and over again.
In general, I find that the web has little to no accountability for the content provided to you. The only degree of accountability are SSL certs, but they only assure that someone is who they say they are via a 2nd party, and there is nothing that says that the information there is any good.
I will say, that a vast majority of the information out there is mostly accurate. Who would take the time to completely set up a website that has 100% made up information on a slew of diseases or any other topic in detail? There is nothing to gain from it. Once a pattern of errors are discovered, the site's pagerank will go down and people will just loose interest.
The article doesn't say anything, but am I missing something, or is this an advertorial?
My Sony TV does this already. I have a widescreen TV and I can watch 2 4:3 TV shows side by side. I forgot the exact measurements, but on my TV I can get something like 2 25" screens side by side.
The thing that sucks is that the "active" screen has the sound. Before I got a DVR and a program guide, it would have been really cool to have the sound on the inactive screen so that I could flip between channels while looking for something new to watch. However, my DVR does this now.
I don't know what you consider "reasonably priced", but http://www.apple.com/powermac/graphics.html does what you want.
How about Mosaic? I admit that Netscape was a big step forward, but it was evolutionary, rather than revolutionary.
The details are fuzzy in my head, but back then I used Mosaic as the first graphical web browser. It sucked. It wasn't able do concurrently download text and images at the same time (or even multiple images concurrently). It would suck down the HTML, and then at the bottom status bar it would say something like "Downloading images...", while you waited. I believe that Netscape was more powerful from the get go in terms of features like this. Revolutionary, probably not, but much more useful than Mosaic was.
Oh, and for those that don't know, most of the Netscape guys were Mosaic defectors.
The thing I liked most about Netscape, was that they made a browser for every platform under the Sun. They had almost something like 20 ports of their product. I know of no other GUI application that can claim that. For so long it was the only viable browser for Linux. It sucked when the web went more IE-centric.
Oh, and people bash Netscape for the <blink/> tag. Well, IMHO, it has gotten _much_ worse with animated gifs and flash advertisements.