Grab the regular apple zero-button mouse. I know its got no buttons on top, but it's ok, don't be scared. Click it like you're used to. Did it click? It did? Good. Thats because the clicking button bit is just hidden on the bottom. Now click it with your right finger. It still clicks? Good.
Now the mighty-mouse is the same thing, it clicks! But its got a touch sensor under each finger to determine WHICH finger made it click.
They also added a BALL on the top to scroll left, right, up, down, and click for button-3. The 2 gray tabs on the side are pressure sensitive "squeeze-click" for button-4. You can still click-n-hold using the side tabs without fear of activating button-4, since this button is pressure sensitive.
I believe the builtin speaker is for the ball and squeeze-click buttons, not the primary 2 buttons.
Smart design... complicated engineering... intuitive to use... nice to look at... it's not for everybody.
And then I borrow your car and run a red light. Guess who's getting the ticket!
In my shitbrain town, for redlight and speeding cameras, the violation they send me has a big ole checkbox for me to claim someone else was driving, but I must provide them with that person's information, so they may pay the fine.
>Question 4: Why announce this chip swap a year before it will even begin for customers? As said before Developers. Because there is no other way you can give ALL the developers a heads up and keep it a secret.
I think more to save face for the whole "3GHz in a year!" promise of 2 years ago. This announcement gives Apple an excuse for failing to deliver the 2 things every Apple customer has been expecting/hoping for: a G5 Powerbook and a 3GHz Powermac.
"Importing most of our oil from Canada" does not invalidate the "blood for oil" concept behind the war in Iraq. Oil is an international commodity whose value can not be controlled by simply saying "screw them arabs, im buyin oil from canada" or better yet "we ditch them arabs and get all the oil we need from Alaskan wildelife refuge but them damn freedom hating environmentalists..." It's much more complicated than that.
So "blood for oil" is a very true assessment of the situation, but not in the sense of "kill em n take their oil"
1. Regime change in Iraq 2. ? 3. Profit!
Phase 2 Is the complicated part, but the basis is "democracy and freedom are contagious". People in the oil-lands are supposed to dig what's become of Iraq, revolt against the oppressive sheiks and kings, embrace democracy, fall in love with USA and bring stability to the region, peace love and happiness for all. Islamic fundamentalism will diminish as they embrace freedom and we will all be safe from evil-doers. Oh yeah oil will be cheaper too.
Now if we can figure out how to fix the mess we made in Phase 1 we will be practically on autopilot all the way to Phase 3!
US Dollars spent buying imports (from China or elsewhere) bounce around on the international market until someone uses them to buy US exports. As the US imports more than it exports (trade deficit) more US Dollars enter the international currency market which means they dont get spent in the US anytime soon. This tends to de-value US Dollars on the international market.
This + a strong Euro is bad for the US economy. "Crossing the streams" bad.
Fillibusters are a senate rule, not a constitutional one. Republicans are voting to disallow fillibusters in the case of judicial nominations (ONLY) so that judges can get the up or down vote they are allowed by the Constitution.
Only because it is currently beneficial for them to do so. The proposed rule change has nothing to do with the Constitution, as it still allows other vote blocking measures like holds.
The filibuster is allowed under Senate rules for the purposes of preventing tyranny of the majority. Frist would have you believe that the Senate Dems are using the filibuster along party lines to stall every judge or bill put before them because they are sore sports. The truth is quite the opposite, 200+ judges passed, 10 filibustered. Noone likes the filibuster because it wastes time and is effectively a minority veto. Yet it is allowed because it is used (by Reps and Dems alike) in rare cases of extreme dissent to prevent tyrrany of the majority. In order to prevent its abuse, the filibuster can be ended with 60 votes.
Chuck Hagel, Rep Senator from Nebraska is on the right track: "The United States Senate is a minority rights institution unique in the world, And I don't think either side wants to give that up. Now, the other part of this, which I also believe strongly, is that presidents deserve votes on their nominees.... The Republicans' hands aren't clean on this either. What we did with Bill Clinton's nominees _ about 62 of them _ we just didn't give them votes in committee or we didn't bring them up" In fact 4 (IIRC) of the 10 blocked judges are from a district in Michigan with vacancies dating back to the Clinton era where his appointees were blocked by Reps, kinda annoying.
That's one of the reasons for the invasion... TO STOP THE BUTCHERY!
Gotta love that 20/20 hindsight. I recall in the days leading upto the invasion of Iraq the reason was to protect America from an iminent threat, something about weapons and 9/11. Sure they mentioned other things like torture and butchery, but those things are pretty common in nations of the Middle East, Africa, South America, Asia... but Iraq was a real threat, stockpiling WMDs to hurl at the USA and somehow linked to Osama BinLaden. After "Mission Accomplished" and no WMDs were found, well the tune has changed to "spread peace through freedom and democracy" and "end the suffering". So we were sorta wrong but we're still the good guys, I guess its all in how you spin it.
which takes away time for the really important things like steriods in baseball and unconsititional laws regarding a specific individual's right to refuse medical treatment.
its called branding. they want you to 1) be able to identify "apple" apps at a glance 2) become familiar with and appreciate their design, so as to entice you to try other apple products (ipod, os)
The North American Truckers' Union recently brought a trademark infringement suit against Apple Computer for naming the latest version of their Macintosh Operating System "ten-four"
I must chime in here with regard to your hatred for task switching in OS X. The dock is probably the most polarizing component of OS X. Some love it, others hate it, fortunately you can hide it, resize it, enable/disable magnification and move it to the side of the screen if you want. Personally, I keep it hidden, auto-sized and disable magnification.
But, just like windows, you can quickly switch tasks with cmd-tab. Expose is a truly amazing way to find the specific window you are looking for, in a fast visual manner. MS tried something visual with the powertoy alt-tab thing, but it was pretty horrid.
I genuinely prefer the dock to the WinXP taskbar for both task management and application launching. The XP taskbar, shows tiny icons with descriptive text which you must read. Unless I keep the taskbar 2 rows high the text gets truncated once 6 apps are open, so now my IE tasks are all indistinguishable. The dock is visual and can be a little faster to use for me. Plus it saves space by combining the quick launch icons with the running task icons. On my xp machine the taskbar takes up as much screen as my os x dock and is less intuitive to use.
Of course cmd-tab (or alt-tab) is the fastest app-switcher. Here again the mac way is more efficient for me. Under WinXP, I have 5 explorer windows and 5 ie windows plus some other apps running, thats around 15 things to alt-tab through, half of which are visually identical, so I need to read the title of each to find my window... it works, but not as efficient. In os x, all the finder windows and ie windows are grouped together when I cmd-tab, so I only have 3-5 choices, all visual=fast. Now I can cmd-~ (which is right next to tab on the keyboard for efficiency) to visually pop through my 5 open finder windows. Faster, more efficient, more elegant.
For launching applications I only slightly prefer OS X with the dock and applications folder (which i keep on the dock for quick access) to the start menu + quick launch on WinXP. Application installers tend to wreak havoc on the start menu, making it even more of an efficiency nightmare to navigate (again lots of reading since all the folder icons look the same). At least xp does try to make life a little easier by wrangling your most frequently used programs to the base of the start menu. The os x dock can get crowded (making the icons small) if you put too much stuff there, I keep it for my most frequently used apps. The XP quicklaunch bar on the other hand has tiny icons and pretty much sucks compared to the dock, but its still the way I prefer to open my 5 most frequently used apps on windows. But, combine the dock with the wonderful and free quicksilver on os X and you've got a best in class app launching setup.
The systray is just plain garbage. And I can't figure out which branding is more annoying: the mac i____ or the windows My_____ and Windows______.
I have to use an xp pc at work. When I get home and sit down at the computer to browse the web, check email, run quicken etc.. I want to get things done efficiently and with as little discomfort as possible. It took like 10 trips to the apple store for me to finally be convinced that os x was worth the extra $500 it cost to get a powerbook over a similar dell.
I don't know what MPEG-2 software decoder the tester used (I assume intervideo), but in my experience with PVR-250 on windows under SageTV, the software decoder has a HUGE impact on the video quality.
The bundled Intervideo decoder is pretty much crap and most people on the SageTV forums suggest the latest NVDVD decoder (which incidently comes with the eVGA card) for best quality. I personally used the Sonic decoder on my Hauppage card and the improvement over the stock on is like night and day.
Not to discount the merits of the other cards in the test, but the PVR-150 in this review is brought down because of the crappy software decoder they bundled it with. I wonder how the output of these cards would compare if used with the same NVDVD decoder?
Whoa whoa whoa slow down Tex. One button at a time.
Let the mouse button wars begin!!
25 years later...
mac OS XX user: "WOW the new Apple Bluetooth mouse has 3 buttons and a scroll wheel"
Windows Longwhore SP4 user: "Lame, my MS Intellimouse has 16 buttons, 2 pressure-sensitive-tilt-slide-rotate-scroll wheels, 2 lasers, a 3-axis fiber optic ring gyroscope with GPS tracking, an inertial-charging battery system and 2-parameter biometric analyser to combat privacy, I mean piracy"
Since you are planning to revolutionize the mac mousing world with 2 buttons, can you please make the friggin things just a little bigger? You make my hand hurt.
SageTV with commercial auto skip enabled is friggin amazing. It scans and marks the recording for commercials. Playback the show and no commercials! No skipping ahead 30sec. Its pretty accurate for most shows, but occasionally you need to manually skip one or backup a few seconds. Furthermore you can hit another button and burn the show to dvd with the commercials removed. A work in progress, but very nice. I guess MythTv has something similar.
In the context of the constitution, this language means armed citizens with the purpose of protection from tyranical govt, be it a states militia defending states rights from federalism (remember the colonies?) etc. This is inferred since the Bill of Rights primarily is to limit the powers of the Federal government.
Not arms for protection from each other, not arms for gathering food. Those things of course were allowed as there were no laws against them, but they were not garaunteed by the 2nd ammendment. It's just not in there. Your personal right to bear arms is a side effect of this intent.
Protection from the federal government's continual errosion of rights and liberties is THE reason for the 2nd ammendment. It is THE reason you have the right to own a gun.
Now, any "armed militia" that protests federalism is by current definitions "a terrorist group". The Bush "Global War on Terror" is therefore a war on "armed militia" and by extension a war on the the intended protections of the 2nd ammendment. We must therefore repeal the 2nd ammendment in the name of Homeland security, to outlaw the "domestic terrorist militia".
If you want to own some guns for sport and personal protection that would have to be a non-constitutional issue, something subject to federal and state regulation.
Rhetoric asside, who has successfully used the 2nd ammendment to protect the 1st?
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Grab the regular apple zero-button mouse. I know its got no buttons on top, but it's ok, don't be scared. Click it like you're used to. Did it click? It did? Good. Thats because the clicking button bit is just hidden on the bottom. Now click it with your right finger. It still clicks? Good.
Now the mighty-mouse is the same thing, it clicks! But its got a touch sensor under each finger to determine WHICH finger made it click.
They also added a BALL on the top to scroll left, right, up, down, and click for button-3. The 2 gray tabs on the side are pressure sensitive "squeeze-click" for button-4. You can still click-n-hold using the side tabs without fear of activating button-4, since this button is pressure sensitive.
I believe the builtin speaker is for the ball and squeeze-click buttons, not the primary 2 buttons.
Smart design... complicated engineering... intuitive to use... nice to look at... it's not for everybody.
And then I borrow your car and run a red light. Guess who's getting the ticket!
In my shitbrain town, for redlight and speeding cameras, the violation they send me has a big ole checkbox for me to claim someone else was driving, but I must provide them with that person's information, so they may pay the fine.
>Question 4: Why announce this chip swap a year before it will even begin for customers?
As said before Developers. Because there is no other way you can give ALL the developers a heads up and keep it a secret.
I think more to save face for the whole "3GHz in a year!" promise of 2 years ago. This announcement gives Apple an excuse for failing to deliver the 2 things every Apple customer has been expecting/hoping for: a G5 Powerbook and a 3GHz Powermac.
*looking into crystal ball*
mmmmm its a bit blurry
but it looks like an imac
its getting clearer
AH! Apple imac by HP! Intel inside!
"Importing most of our oil from Canada" does not invalidate the "blood for oil" concept behind the war in Iraq. Oil is an international commodity whose value can not be controlled by simply saying "screw them arabs, im buyin oil from canada" or better yet "we ditch them arabs and get all the oil we need from Alaskan wildelife refuge but them damn freedom hating environmentalists..." It's much more complicated than that.
So "blood for oil" is a very true assessment of the situation, but not in the sense of "kill em n take their oil"
1. Regime change in Iraq
2. ?
3. Profit!
Phase 2 Is the complicated part, but the basis is "democracy and freedom are contagious". People in the oil-lands are supposed to dig what's become of Iraq, revolt against the oppressive sheiks and kings, embrace democracy, fall in love with USA and bring stability to the region, peace love and happiness for all. Islamic fundamentalism will diminish as they embrace freedom and we will all be safe from evil-doers. Oh yeah oil will be cheaper too.
Now if we can figure out how to fix the mess we made in Phase 1 we will be practically on autopilot all the way to Phase 3!
US Dollars spent buying imports (from China or elsewhere) bounce around on the international market until someone uses them to buy US exports. As the US imports more than it exports (trade deficit) more US Dollars enter the international currency market which means they dont get spent in the US anytime soon. This tends to de-value US Dollars on the international market.
This + a strong Euro is bad for the US economy. "Crossing the streams" bad.
The whole thing is more of a project than a product. It's something that I enjoy playing around with and it relaxes me.
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Fillibusters are a senate rule, not a constitutional one.
... The Republicans' hands aren't clean on this either. What we did with Bill Clinton's nominees _ about 62 of them _ we just didn't give them votes in committee or we didn't bring them up" In fact 4 (IIRC) of the 10 blocked judges are from a district in Michigan with vacancies dating back to the Clinton era where his appointees were blocked by Reps, kinda annoying.
Republicans are voting to disallow fillibusters in the case of judicial nominations (ONLY) so that judges can get the up or down vote they are allowed by the Constitution.
Only because it is currently beneficial for them to do so. The proposed rule change has nothing to do with the Constitution, as it still allows other vote blocking measures like holds.
The filibuster is allowed under Senate rules for the purposes of preventing tyranny of the majority. Frist would have you believe that the Senate Dems are using the filibuster along party lines to stall every judge or bill put before them because they are sore sports. The truth is quite the opposite, 200+ judges passed, 10 filibustered. Noone likes the filibuster because it wastes time and is effectively a minority veto. Yet it is allowed because it is used (by Reps and Dems alike) in rare cases of extreme dissent to prevent tyrrany of the majority. In order to prevent its abuse, the filibuster can be ended with 60 votes.
Chuck Hagel, Rep Senator from Nebraska is on the right track: "The United States Senate is a minority rights institution unique in the world, And I don't think either side wants to give that up. Now, the other part of this, which I also believe strongly, is that presidents deserve votes on their nominees.
That's one of the reasons for the invasion... TO STOP THE BUTCHERY!
Gotta love that 20/20 hindsight. I recall in the days leading upto the invasion of Iraq the reason was to protect America from an iminent threat, something about weapons and 9/11. Sure they mentioned other things like torture and butchery, but those things are pretty common in nations of the Middle East, Africa, South America, Asia... but Iraq was a real threat, stockpiling WMDs to hurl at the USA and somehow linked to Osama BinLaden. After "Mission Accomplished" and no WMDs were found, well the tune has changed to "spread peace through freedom and democracy" and "end the suffering". So we were sorta wrong but we're still the good guys, I guess its all in how you spin it.
Filibusters WASTE time.
which takes away time for the really important things like steriods in baseball and unconsititional laws regarding a specific individual's right to refuse medical treatment.
When did the government nationalize the factories?
The US government nationalized its factories all the way to China.
its called branding. they want you to
1) be able to identify "apple" apps at a glance
2) become familiar with and appreciate their design, so as to entice you to try other apple products (ipod, os)
More importantly what kind od assailant wears a rug on his right arm only?
The North American Truckers' Union recently brought a trademark infringement suit against Apple Computer for naming the latest version of their Macintosh Operating System "ten-four"
I must chime in here with regard to your hatred for task switching in OS X. The dock is probably the most polarizing component of OS X. Some love it, others hate it, fortunately you can hide it, resize it, enable/disable magnification and move it to the side of the screen if you want. Personally, I keep it hidden, auto-sized and disable magnification.
But, just like windows, you can quickly switch tasks with cmd-tab. Expose is a truly amazing way to find the specific window you are looking for, in a fast visual manner. MS tried something visual with the powertoy alt-tab thing, but it was pretty horrid.
I genuinely prefer the dock to the WinXP taskbar for both task management and application launching. The XP taskbar, shows tiny icons with descriptive text which you must read. Unless I keep the taskbar 2 rows high the text gets truncated once 6 apps are open, so now my IE tasks are all indistinguishable. The dock is visual and can be a little faster to use for me. Plus it saves space by combining the quick launch icons with the running task icons. On my xp machine the taskbar takes up as much screen as my os x dock and is less intuitive to use.
Of course cmd-tab (or alt-tab) is the fastest app-switcher. Here again the mac way is more efficient for me. Under WinXP, I have 5 explorer windows and 5 ie windows plus some other apps running, thats around 15 things to alt-tab through, half of which are visually identical, so I need to read the title of each to find my window... it works, but not as efficient. In os x, all the finder windows and ie windows are grouped together when I cmd-tab, so I only have 3-5 choices, all visual=fast. Now I can cmd-~ (which is right next to tab on the keyboard for efficiency) to visually pop through my 5 open finder windows. Faster, more efficient, more elegant.
For launching applications I only slightly prefer OS X with the dock and applications folder (which i keep on the dock for quick access) to the start menu + quick launch on WinXP. Application installers tend to wreak havoc on the start menu, making it even more of an efficiency nightmare to navigate (again lots of reading since all the folder icons look the same). At least xp does try to make life a little easier by wrangling your most frequently used programs to the base of the start menu. The os x dock can get crowded (making the icons small) if you put too much stuff there, I keep it for my most frequently used apps. The XP quicklaunch bar on the other hand has tiny icons and pretty much sucks compared to the dock, but its still the way I prefer to open my 5 most frequently used apps on windows. But, combine the dock with the wonderful and free quicksilver on os X and you've got a best in class app launching setup.
The systray is just plain garbage. And I can't figure out which branding is more annoying: the mac i____ or the windows My_____ and Windows______.
I have to use an xp pc at work. When I get home and sit down at the computer to browse the web, check email, run quicken etc.. I want to get things done efficiently and with as little discomfort as possible. It took like 10 trips to the apple store for me to finally be convinced that os x was worth the extra $500 it cost to get a powerbook over a similar dell.
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"Tiger may lack some of the niceties that make Windows more appealing to new users"
*cough* *splutter* - what!?
Understandable. Spellcheck commonly misinterprets *appaling* as *appealing*
I don't know what MPEG-2 software decoder the tester used (I assume intervideo), but in my experience with PVR-250 on windows under SageTV, the software decoder has a HUGE impact on the video quality.
The bundled Intervideo decoder is pretty much crap and most people on the SageTV forums suggest the latest NVDVD decoder (which incidently comes with the eVGA card) for best quality. I personally used the Sonic decoder on my Hauppage card and the improvement over the stock on is like night and day.
Not to discount the merits of the other cards in the test, but the PVR-150 in this review is brought down because of the crappy software decoder they bundled it with. I wonder how the output of these cards would compare if used with the same NVDVD decoder?
I say that every damned time I walk out of that store.
Let the mouse button wars begin!!
25 years later...
mac OS XX user: "WOW the new Apple Bluetooth mouse has 3 buttons and a scroll wheel"
Windows Longwhore SP4 user: "Lame, my MS Intellimouse has 16 buttons, 2 pressure-sensitive-tilt-slide-rotate-scroll wheels, 2 lasers, a 3-axis fiber optic ring gyroscope with GPS tracking, an inertial-charging battery system and 2-parameter biometric analyser to combat privacy, I mean piracy"
Since you are planning to revolutionize the mac mousing world with 2 buttons, can you please make the friggin things just a little bigger? You make my hand hurt.
Thank you
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SageTV with commercial auto skip enabled is friggin amazing. It scans and marks the recording for commercials. Playback the show and no commercials! No skipping ahead 30sec. Its pretty accurate for most shows, but occasionally you need to manually skip one or backup a few seconds. Furthermore you can hit another button and burn the show to dvd with the commercials removed. A work in progress, but very nice. I guess MythTv has something similar.
2nd ammendment = Right to armed militia.
In the context of the constitution, this language means armed citizens with the purpose of protection from tyranical govt, be it a states militia defending states rights from federalism (remember the colonies?) etc. This is inferred since the Bill of Rights primarily is to limit the powers of the Federal government.
Not arms for protection from each other, not arms for gathering food. Those things of course were allowed as there were no laws against them, but they were not garaunteed by the 2nd ammendment. It's just not in there. Your personal right to bear arms is a side effect of this intent.
Protection from the federal government's continual errosion of rights and liberties is THE reason for the 2nd ammendment. It is THE reason you have the right to own a gun.
Now, any "armed militia" that protests federalism is by current definitions "a terrorist group". The Bush "Global War on Terror" is therefore a war on "armed militia" and by extension a war on the the intended protections of the 2nd ammendment. We must therefore repeal the 2nd ammendment in the name of Homeland security, to outlaw the "domestic terrorist militia".
If you want to own some guns for sport and personal protection that would have to be a non-constitutional issue, something subject to federal and state regulation.
Rhetoric asside, who has successfully used the 2nd ammendment to protect the 1st?
Plenty of people could accuse a sysadmin or software engineer of "sitting at a computer and clicking keys all day. How hard could that be."
And if someone paid money to sit above my cubicle to actually watch me click keys all day?
...but it just seems silly to say that without the 2nd you can't defend the 1st.
Yeah, but it does make a good bumper sticker.
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