I agree. The problem occurs when you ignore the fundies, but the fundies are still hammering their message to the masses. What are you left with? A scientific community that is ignoring the "issue" and a vocal, fundamental population that is influencing the majority of people that watch too much Fox News.
From his letter: Any Bar complaint coming from these morons arising out of the above incident is baseless and itself constitutes a violation of a specific federal civil rights statute.
Jebus - Now he's threatening the Bar Association of Florida?! This guy either has some set, or he's a complete idiot...or a dangerous combination of both.
Gamers are chief among the reasons why Intel, AMD, ATI and nVidia keep putting out better and better chips. If people realize that they don't need a Pentium 8 10.0GHz system with 256MB Video RAM to browse the web, read email and create documents, who's going to buy new hardware?
I mean, i think if we found bunny rabbit like creatures on another planet that would be cool, but would that qualify as intelligent life? What about primate-like or dolphin-like? Would that be considered intelligent?
I think there's life out there, but it's more likely that we're not going to recognize it right away. It's more likely to be adapted to its environment, like we have to ours, and depending on what their environment looks like...
That's funny, i walked out or ROTS shaking my head. As long as Lucas is involved the only thing you'll see is stuff that "tests" well. I wonder why Yoda will be so involved with the storyline in the pre-prequel? Could it be that his lightsaber battles were the best part of AOTC and made ROTS tolerable? Lucas doesn't know how to write or tell a story - but he can read the hell out of opinion polls.
Just bought a new MX1000 to replace an MX700
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My MX700 recently died. I'd had it for maybe 3-4 years - got it when they first came out. It stopped charging even after replacing the batteries and vigorously cleaning the brass contacts on both the mouse and charger.
All-in-all i loved the MX700 with one exception - the ergonomics were designed to "rehabilitate" people into using their index finger for the left button, middle finger for the scroll wheel and ring finger for the right button. Naturally, i've always used my index finger for both the left and middle buttons, and middle finger for the right button and found it a wee bit akward to use the mouse for any extended period of time (the sculpted right side of the mouse was a bit uncomfortable using the "traditional" fingering).
Thankfully, they've abandoned this re-Neducation in the MX1000. The ergonomics now allow you to use the mouse with any "reasonable" finger combination you have grown accustomed to. It still has a wicked fast recharge rate, but instead of consumer replaceable AA's they've switched to a non-replaceable litium ion battery. I'm not worried about needing to replace it since i never had to replace the stock AA's that came with the MX700.
I have had some issues with the software in mapping certain keys to do things (forward and back buttons stop working intermittently) but i've been too lazy to reinstall the drivers. I'm fairly sure this will fix the issue.
All in all the MX1000 is a great mouse that i would whole-heartedly recommmend to anyone. It is a bit pricey, but what the hell - when was the last time you upgraded your mouse? You deserve wireless goodness.
I mean, they called it the Phantom, for Pete's sake. Are they that arrogant?! Because if i was a [n incredibly stupid] venture capitalist that fell for this one, i'd want their asses but quick.
Google.com (and all of it's sub-products)- kick ass search engine
GMail - Mass storage webmail
Picassa - Photo management
Keyhole - Mapping stuff
Desktop Search - Better than Find could ever hope to be (i'm not holding my breath for Longhorn - it's here now)
Google Labs - All the other cool stuff Google does
What the hell kind of math do they use over there in Redmond anyway?
I started a project like this last fall, but abandoned it after i determined that it wouldn't pass the most important test of all. If my wife wouldn't be able to use it, it was worthless.
Not like she's a retarded spider monkey or anything - she's a graphic designer and uses OS X (left myself wide open for that one, i know) but if she's got to use three different remotes and a keyboard, there's no way in hell she's going to use the damn thing. I don't need her calling me at work to walk her through how to watch a DVD or listen to music.
Plus, if it's really easy and slick, then she'll be a lot more accepting of the equipment purchases that i tell her about.
I mean how can they charge people for a tool that detects and removes a virus from exploiting a hole in an operating system they created.
It would be like car manufacturers asking you to pay for safety recalls or to pay a monthly subscription in the event there is a safety recall.
If i'm paying Microsoft for anti-virus protection, i'd better get a herve villechaize to stand next to my machine and tell me "You got a virus boss. You want me to take care of it?".
$10 says this doesn't go to release as a pay service. Remember how they said Giant^H^H^H^H^H their antispyware tool ws going to cost you something only to announce that it was going to be free three months later?
or it could mean that they need to advertise more
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You know about Firefox. I know about firefox. But Joe User might not know about it/remember it. And we can't tell everyone about it now, can we?
AFAIK, its growth was pretty much tied to the full-page ad in the NYT. If growth is slowing, they need to pump out some TV commercials, start advertising on google, and keep up the print campaign.
Non-technical people tend to have a very short attention span on things like this. They just need to be reminded that it's out there.
I think it's great we're replacing the shuttle. It was great design to turn the corner from rockets and capsules to something else. But the new concepts lack something, i don't know...sexy. We need another leap like there was from rockets to the shuttle that not only provides significant techincal and safety benefits, but also inspires and reinvigorrates the public to back NASA.
I really think this is where it's at. Imagine a room in your house, or a corner of your livingroom that would act as your IVY. It could be an extension of the web as it is now - except online shopping would mean that you would actually "visit" a "store" and would be able to walk around and talk to "salespeople" (don't even get me started on radid prototyping to match). I mean - how much more helpful are the kids at Gap compared to a SalesBot? Telecommuting would mean that you could truly be in the office without being in the office - but if everyone had such a system, there wouldn't be the need for an office. If you think about it, we work terribly inefficiently now - what with all the commuting and separation. You could have cluster meetings and conference calls with other peoples' avatars - except those avatars would actually be porjections of the other users from within their IVY's.
Plus - it's already got the name - IVY. Now that's something that can fit in to the vernacular - "Honey, i'm going into the IVY to buy some new shoes, you want anything?"
Meh - Star Wars was a space western - set in a time and place different from that of "traditional" westerns, but still using the same basic principles of the "traditional" western.
Firefly was a western set in, what, the future? I mean they used revolvers, had train robberies and all of the characters were predictable and pedestrian. I mean, c'mon - the ship's preacher is named Shepherd Book?
Maybe it was cancelled not because of a poor timeslot or bad promotion, but the fact that it just wasn't good. It's like Whedon created it with as little effort as possible as a barometer of his fans' undying loyalty.
Buffy was good. Angel was alright. Firefly was not good.
Big US breweries switched to using rice in their mash during WW2 to appeal to the predominately female population and because of grain rationing. When the war ended, they found it was cheaper just to continue to use rice.
The microbrew craze a while back has become popular almost soley due to the fact that they're using "traditional" ingredients like malt to make a more robust tasting beer - like we used to drink.
Does it really matter to the common user that wants to run OSX on their windows box? I'm sure they're still going to charge for it. Most people don't know the difference between open and closed source software.
They tried to pull a fast one, the OS community caught them, and now, what are the consequences?
Well, considering i've never had the hankering for an iguana sandwich, i think i'll be passing on the T-Rex ribs. Afterall, it is a Terrible LIZARD, isn't it?
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I agree. The problem occurs when you ignore the fundies, but the fundies are still hammering their message to the masses. What are you left with? A scientific community that is ignoring the "issue" and a vocal, fundamental population that is influencing the majority of people that watch too much Fox News.
I've noticed that the text in a lot of this type of spam that i get is actually text from Stephen King's Misery. I wonder if the pun is intended.
It's all fine and good if i take 300 pictures of St. Peter's...but how many models will be available and in what format will they be in?
Just because they haven't been found doesn't mean they don't exist.
From his letter:
Any Bar complaint coming from these morons arising out of the above incident is baseless and itself constitutes a violation of a specific federal civil rights statute.
Jebus - Now he's threatening the Bar Association of Florida?! This guy either has some set, or he's a complete idiot...or a dangerous combination of both.
Gamers are chief among the reasons why Intel, AMD, ATI and nVidia keep putting out better and better chips. If people realize that they don't need a Pentium 8 10.0GHz system with 256MB Video RAM to browse the web, read email and create documents, who's going to buy new hardware?
I mean, i think if we found bunny rabbit like creatures on another planet that would be cool, but would that qualify as intelligent life? What about primate-like or dolphin-like? Would that be considered intelligent?
I think there's life out there, but it's more likely that we're not going to recognize it right away. It's more likely to be adapted to its environment, like we have to ours, and depending on what their environment looks like...
That's funny, i walked out or ROTS shaking my head. As long as Lucas is involved the only thing you'll see is stuff that "tests" well. I wonder why Yoda will be so involved with the storyline in the pre-prequel? Could it be that his lightsaber battles were the best part of AOTC and made ROTS tolerable? Lucas doesn't know how to write or tell a story - but he can read the hell out of opinion polls.
My MX700 recently died. I'd had it for maybe 3-4 years - got it when they first came out. It stopped charging even after replacing the batteries and vigorously cleaning the brass contacts on both the mouse and charger.
All-in-all i loved the MX700 with one exception - the ergonomics were designed to "rehabilitate" people into using their index finger for the left button, middle finger for the scroll wheel and ring finger for the right button. Naturally, i've always used my index finger for both the left and middle buttons, and middle finger for the right button and found it a wee bit akward to use the mouse for any extended period of time (the sculpted right side of the mouse was a bit uncomfortable using the "traditional" fingering).
Thankfully, they've abandoned this re-Neducation in the MX1000. The ergonomics now allow you to use the mouse with any "reasonable" finger combination you have grown accustomed to. It still has a wicked fast recharge rate, but instead of consumer replaceable AA's they've switched to a non-replaceable litium ion battery. I'm not worried about needing to replace it since i never had to replace the stock AA's that came with the MX700.
I have had some issues with the software in mapping certain keys to do things (forward and back buttons stop working intermittently) but i've been too lazy to reinstall the drivers. I'm fairly sure this will fix the issue.
All in all the MX1000 is a great mouse that i would whole-heartedly recommmend to anyone. It is a bit pricey, but what the hell - when was the last time you upgraded your mouse? You deserve wireless goodness.
I mean, they called it the Phantom, for Pete's sake. Are they that arrogant?! Because if i was a [n incredibly stupid] venture capitalist that fell for this one, i'd want their asses but quick.
Um, let's see...
Google.com (and all of it's sub-products)- kick ass search engine
GMail - Mass storage webmail
Picassa - Photo management
Keyhole - Mapping stuff
Desktop Search - Better than Find could ever hope to be (i'm not holding my breath for Longhorn - it's here now)
Google Labs - All the other cool stuff Google does
What the hell kind of math do they use over there in Redmond anyway?
How long before 40oz manufactures start adding kudzu to their malt liquor, bottling it in 20oz bottles and charging twice as much?
Or hell, add it to a regular 40oz, and call it an (80)oz.
BTW - i call dibbs on these ideas! You all are my witnesses.
I started a project like this last fall, but abandoned it after i determined that it wouldn't pass the most important test of all. If my wife wouldn't be able to use it, it was worthless.
Not like she's a retarded spider monkey or anything - she's a graphic designer and uses OS X (left myself wide open for that one, i know) but if she's got to use three different remotes and a keyboard, there's no way in hell she's going to use the damn thing. I don't need her calling me at work to walk her through how to watch a DVD or listen to music.
Plus, if it's really easy and slick, then she'll be a lot more accepting of the equipment purchases that i tell her about.
I mean how can they charge people for a tool that detects and removes a virus from exploiting a hole in an operating system they created.
It would be like car manufacturers asking you to pay for safety recalls or to pay a monthly subscription in the event there is a safety recall.
If i'm paying Microsoft for anti-virus protection, i'd better get a herve villechaize to stand next to my machine and tell me "You got a virus boss. You want me to take care of it?".
$10 says this doesn't go to release as a pay service. Remember how they said Giant^H^H^H^H^H their antispyware tool ws going to cost you something only to announce that it was going to be free three months later?
You know about Firefox. I know about firefox. But Joe User might not know about it/remember it. And we can't tell everyone about it now, can we?
AFAIK, its growth was pretty much tied to the full-page ad in the NYT. If growth is slowing, they need to pump out some TV commercials, start advertising on google, and keep up the print campaign.
Non-technical people tend to have a very short attention span on things like this. They just need to be reminded that it's out there.
No, something more along these lines:
SpaceShipOne
I think it's great we're replacing the shuttle. It was great design to turn the corner from rockets and capsules to something else. But the new concepts lack something, i don't know...sexy. We need another leap like there was from rockets to the shuttle that not only provides significant techincal and safety benefits, but also inspires and reinvigorrates the public to back NASA.
I really think this is where it's at. Imagine a room in your house, or a corner of your livingroom that would act as your IVY. It could be an extension of the web as it is now - except online shopping would mean that you would actually "visit" a "store" and would be able to walk around and talk to "salespeople" (don't even get me started on radid prototyping to match). I mean - how much more helpful are the kids at Gap compared to a SalesBot? Telecommuting would mean that you could truly be in the office without being in the office - but if everyone had such a system, there wouldn't be the need for an office. If you think about it, we work terribly inefficiently now - what with all the commuting and separation. You could have cluster meetings and conference calls with other peoples' avatars - except those avatars would actually be porjections of the other users from within their IVY's.
Plus - it's already got the name - IVY. Now that's something that can fit in to the vernacular - "Honey, i'm going into the IVY to buy some new shoes, you want anything?"
Meh - Star Wars was a space western - set in a time and place different from that of "traditional" westerns, but still using the same basic principles of the "traditional" western.
Firefly was a western set in, what, the future? I mean they used revolvers, had train robberies and all of the characters were predictable and pedestrian. I mean, c'mon - the ship's preacher is named Shepherd Book?
Maybe it was cancelled not because of a poor timeslot or bad promotion, but the fact that it just wasn't good. It's like Whedon created it with as little effort as possible as a barometer of his fans' undying loyalty.
Buffy was good. Angel was alright. Firefly was not good.
...that there were gay mice and dogs.
That's weird.
Big US breweries switched to using rice in their mash during WW2 to appeal to the predominately female population and because of grain rationing. When the war ended, they found it was cheaper just to continue to use rice.
The microbrew craze a while back has become popular almost soley due to the fact that they're using "traditional" ingredients like malt to make a more robust tasting beer - like we used to drink.
Does it really matter to the common user that wants to run OSX on their windows box? I'm sure they're still going to charge for it. Most people don't know the difference between open and closed source software.
They tried to pull a fast one, the OS community caught them, and now, what are the consequences?
$1 to the first editor that stops posting April Fools articles. One i can handle, all of them is rediculous...again.
I go by the 5 epoch rule, so it should still be good, no?
Well, considering i've never had the hankering for an iguana sandwich, i think i'll be passing on the T-Rex ribs. Afterall, it is a Terrible LIZARD, isn't it?