Yeah, the first response to Pokari Sweat tends to be euw.
But then you figure out that it's meant to balance the body after sweating, or in marketese "with the appropriate density and electrolytes, close to that of human body fluid", and suddenly the message makes sense. Kinda.
The same will happen with 'Wii'. It's actually pretty good in most languages.
Thus, it would be logical that all of the PC guy's behaviour in the ad applies to a Mac, too. This actually seems to be the case, though in less significant amounts than in a pure PC.
Need for an occasional reboot? Check.
Malware? Check (Well, attempts do count. And CNET articles.)
iTunes, clock, calculator? Yup.
Networking glitches? Sure.
Rave reviews? Hmm... I'm sure Vista will get some.
I'd say the Mac is a PC. Because he's younger and chooses to wear contact lenses, you can't tell, but in 15 years or so...
On a related note, it was one of those great Apple moments when I noticed Safari was actually capable of high resolution printing of images on a web page. For example, when instructing it to print a 800 x 600 pixel image at 8cm by 6cm, it would actually squeeze all those pixels in.
Even today, many browsers simply print out the pixels as if rendered on screen first, in other words a pixelated blob.
What made the Apple moment one of those really great ones was that I had actually submitted a wish for this. I'm sure I wasn't the only one, but it felt nice. And it wasn't the first time:)
"Super Mario 64 wasn't a killer app for the N64. Frankly, I don't remember there being much to like about the N64 at all..."
Edge gave it 10/10. Edge. It was heralded as revolutionary redefinition of the genre. It has sold close to 12 million. I think it's one of the best games ever made.
Super Mario 64 was a killer app for the N64. Frankly, I remember there being much to like about the N64. ; )
Several nations have indeed set special laws governing the use of the emblem and if they've signed the Geneva Convention, this falls under it. In Finnish law, you face fines or up to 6 months of jail for misuse.
Then again, as some western administrations have recently demonstrated, why should the Geneva convention apply to them, even if they've signed. Torture is ok if you don't call it torture, misuse of the Red Cross emblem is really just trademark dispute, and so on....
"Although video games as a whole may not be art by some opinions, the scenery and graphics often are."
You got it.
The difference between art and design is that design uses art (and other tools) to achieve a goal, typically a functional end product.
The relationship of art and design reminds me of the relation between math and physics. One has beauty in itself, the other strives for a tangible purpose, mostly. It's a crude analogy, but there's something to it:)
I've been to Europe. They do not have a higher standard of living than the US. It's actually considerably lower. How did you come up with this?
Where I'm from (North Europe), the US actually seems a bit 'old-fashioned' or 'quaint', when it comes to infrastructure and household technology. Electricity, water and air quality especially - as if there were no standards, just random experiences to be had when attempting a long, hot shower. Indivual safety seems to be an issue and sometimes the poverty in some areas can feel really overwhelming.
Of course, these are things that can be encountered when traveling east/south in Europe, too.
The Intellivision controllers were d-pads. They were just round instead of a plus.
But they had 16 directions, equally accessible, without needing to hold down two buttons as in d-pad diagonals. It was a great controller.
J
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Strange.
We came to appreciate all of our 7100's as the sturdy, reliable ones. Later abominations, such as the 4400, would keep crashing all day while the 7100 just chugged along.
Actually, heated sidewalks can be found in Helsinki.
What's far more disturbing is the ongoing tearing up of streets all over the city to install a central cooling grid!!!
Then again, it makes sense. Ground is slowly rising in Helsinki at a 40 cm per 100 years rate (the ice age glaciers were pretty heavy) which compensates nicely for rising sea levels. The cooling thing must be for rising temperatures. ; )
I have this piece of trivia stuck in my head from the early days of Mac OS X, which I recall as "icons are actually windows" and that there was talk of keeping the desktop clean already back then.
Either my Google-Fu is particularly bad today, or I'm making it up, or this is a huge cover-up. Anyone got details?
e) 'Unlimited' energy that can be created on location or fed from an existing grid, instead of shipping around limited quantities of hazardous chemicals. You'll need to choose between cheap and fast, though.
They call their technology volumetric, but from the description you get the idea that it's just flat, non-stereographic video captured and projected in a spherical way.
Not that it isn't interesting and immersive, but given the recent interest in stereo by big names such as Spielberg, Cameron and Rodriguez, I was hoping that it would have indeed been at least 360 stereographic, if not holographic, which volumetric IMHO kinda implies.
- Buying music from the iTunes store - Downloading podcasts via the iTunes store - Buying audio books through the iTunes store - Using iTunes to manage audio to expose yourself to the above features
NeoOffice/J still has some way to go in order to get the 'feel' part right. The Mac UI experience relies on consistency and standard ways of doing things and a number of things feel or function 'wrong' in this app.
That shouldn't stop anybody from using it, of course, but in the context of other apps it stands out as a bit.... clumsy. The 'amateurish' (and unnecessary) splash screen, the weird name and somewhat intimidating dialog boxes (such as 'Save') may be seen as signs of a non-credible application.
Hopefully, they'll be appreciative of the bunch of critical feedback they'll get and can take a bit of time to polish this aspect of the app next. As pointed out, most things have indeed been done right in this app so far : )
To me, the game felt like a slightly long tutorial. Then it suddenly ended. So I hope this new stuff is an expansion, not just an extension.
HL2 takes you through various, unique levels, introducing new tools (car, boat, ants, traps) which I duly noted and couldn't wait to use when the game would revisit earlier locations.
But that never happened. You couldn't go back. The story wouldn't take you back. "This is the car level." "This is the ants level." As if it was a movie with pre-scripted interaction, including a pre-scripted player. "Do this now."
The game never released you to explore, but kept you on a narrow track.
After the end I felt that Valve must be tricking us and new content, some resolution, some real gameplay would be pushed through Steam after a very short while.
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The stuff tastes exactly like sweat, with just a little added citrus and sugar. Think "Gatorade" without fruit flavor. That's pretty much what it is.
:p
I actually liked it, when I first tried it. Chances are I'll develop a liking for Wii, too.
J
Yeah, the first response to Pokari Sweat tends to be euw.
But then you figure out that it's meant to balance the body after sweating, or in marketese "with the appropriate density and electrolytes, close to that of human body fluid", and suddenly the message makes sense. Kinda.
The same will happen with 'Wii'. It's actually pretty good in most languages.
J
Well, to be fair, the Mac is a PC.
Thus, it would be logical that all of the PC guy's behaviour in the ad applies to a Mac, too. This actually seems to be the case, though in less significant amounts than in a pure PC.
Need for an occasional reboot? Check.
Malware? Check (Well, attempts do count. And CNET articles.)
iTunes, clock, calculator? Yup.
Networking glitches? Sure.
Rave reviews? Hmm... I'm sure Vista will get some.
I'd say the Mac is a PC. Because he's younger and chooses to wear contact lenses, you can't tell, but in 15 years or so...
J
The Firepod by Presonus is a very good piece of gear.
Combined with Apple's Garageband, which can record 8 tracks simultaneously, you'd have a simple, clean and good recording setup with low latency.
J
On a related note, it was one of those great Apple moments when I noticed Safari was actually capable of high resolution printing of images on a web page. For example, when instructing it to print a 800 x 600 pixel image at 8cm by 6cm, it would actually squeeze all those pixels in.
Even today, many browsers simply print out the pixels as if rendered on screen first, in other words a pixelated blob.
What made the Apple moment one of those really great ones was that I had actually submitted a wish for this. I'm sure I wasn't the only one, but it felt nice. And it wasn't the first time
J
"Super Mario 64 wasn't a killer app for the N64. Frankly, I don't remember there being much to like about the N64 at all ..."
Edge gave it 10/10. Edge. It was heralded as revolutionary redefinition of the genre. It has sold close to 12 million. I think it's one of the best games ever made.
Super Mario 64 was a killer app for the N64. Frankly, I remember there being much to like about the N64. ; )
J
Several nations have indeed set special laws governing the use of the emblem and if they've signed the Geneva Convention, this falls under it. In Finnish law, you face fines or up to 6 months of jail for misuse.
Then again, as some western administrations have recently demonstrated, why should the Geneva convention apply to them, even if they've signed. Torture is ok if you don't call it torture, misuse of the Red Cross emblem is really just trademark dispute, and so on....
J
The topic reminds me of the time Gordon Frohman had this accidental insertion happen to him.
J
"Although video games as a whole may not be art by some opinions, the scenery and graphics often are."
:)
You got it.
The difference between art and design is that design uses art (and other tools) to achieve a goal, typically a functional end product.
The relationship of art and design reminds me of the relation between math and physics. One has beauty in itself, the other strives for a tangible purpose, mostly. It's a crude analogy, but there's something to it
J
I've been to Europe. They do not have a higher standard of living than the US. It's actually considerably lower. How did you come up with this?
Where I'm from (North Europe), the US actually seems a bit 'old-fashioned' or 'quaint', when it comes to infrastructure and household technology. Electricity, water and air quality especially - as if there were no standards, just random experiences to be had when attempting a long, hot shower. Indivual safety seems to be an issue and sometimes the poverty in some areas can feel really overwhelming.
Of course, these are things that can be encountered when traveling east/south in Europe, too.
J
The Intellivision controllers were d-pads. They were just round instead of a plus.
But they had 16 directions, equally accessible, without needing to hold down two buttons as in d-pad diagonals. It was a great controller.
J
Strange.
We came to appreciate all of our 7100's as the sturdy, reliable ones. Later abominations, such as the 4400, would keep crashing all day while the 7100 just chugged along.
J
Actually, heated sidewalks can be found in Helsinki.
What's far more disturbing is the ongoing tearing up of streets all over the city to install a central cooling grid!!!
Then again, it makes sense. Ground is slowly rising in Helsinki at a 40 cm per 100 years rate (the ice age glaciers were pretty heavy) which compensates nicely for rising sea levels. The cooling thing must be for rising temperatures. ; )
J
http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/0 01_300/270.html
J
I have this piece of trivia stuck in my head from the early days of Mac OS X, which I recall as "icons are actually windows" and that there was talk of keeping the desktop clean already back then.
Either my Google-Fu is particularly bad today, or I'm making it up, or this is a huge cover-up. Anyone got details?
J
e) 'Unlimited' energy that can be created on location or fed from an existing grid, instead of shipping around limited quantities of hazardous chemicals. You'll need to choose between cheap and fast, though.
j.
They call their technology volumetric, but from the description you get the idea that it's just flat, non-stereographic video captured and projected in a spherical way.
Not that it isn't interesting and immersive, but given the recent interest in stereo by big names such as Spielberg, Cameron and Rodriguez, I was hoping that it would have indeed been at least 360 stereographic, if not holographic, which volumetric IMHO kinda implies.
J
When you're listening to radio, you're not:
- Buying music from the iTunes store
- Downloading podcasts via the iTunes store
- Buying audio books through the iTunes store
- Using iTunes to manage audio to expose yourself to the above features
I think there's a subtle hint in there.
J
Please stop confusing design with art.
J
The article incorrectly states that the sound quality is the same across the iPod line.
This test and actually, just comparing by the ear, shows interesting results from a number of players:
http://home.comcast.net/~machrone/playertest/play
J
Well, what better time than this to appreciate Winsongs 95, by Apple employees.
Including the hits 'You can't use this' and 'Killing me softly with Windows'!
( Somebody please mirror/seed it before host explodes? )
J
"But I hate touch sensitive input devices which provide absolutely no feedback. "
The mouse provides feedback 'clicks' and 'rolls' using a built-in speaker.
They should, of course, add a microphone for speech recognition. 'Computer...'
J
Apperance does not a Mac user interface make.
NeoOffice/J still has some way to go in order to get the 'feel' part right. The Mac UI experience relies on consistency and standard ways of doing things and a number of things feel or function 'wrong' in this app.
That shouldn't stop anybody from using it, of course, but in the context of other apps it stands out as a bit.... clumsy. The 'amateurish' (and unnecessary) splash screen, the weird name and somewhat intimidating dialog boxes (such as 'Save') may be seen as signs of a non-credible application.
Hopefully, they'll be appreciative of the bunch of critical feedback they'll get and can take a bit of time to polish this aspect of the app next. As pointed out, most things have indeed been done right in this app so far : )
J
To me, the game felt like a slightly long tutorial. Then it suddenly ended. So I hope this new stuff is an expansion , not just an extension .
HL2 takes you through various, unique levels, introducing new tools (car, boat, ants, traps) which I duly noted and couldn't wait to use when the game would revisit earlier locations.
But that never happened. You couldn't go back. The story wouldn't take you back. "This is the car level." "This is the ants level." As if it was a movie with pre-scripted interaction, including a pre-scripted player. "Do this now."
The game never released you to explore, but kept you on a narrow track.
After the end I felt that Valve must be tricking us and new content, some resolution, some real gameplay would be pushed through Steam after a very short while.
It's later now, but I'm hoping this is it.
J
Splash screens are just one way of notifying the user that an app is actually launching.
Mac OS X nicely takes care of this by bouncing the application in the Dock while the app is starting, making irritating splash screens less necessary.
Of course some people find that irritating, too, so it can be disabled.
I believe it's a developer guideline in the Apple docs: avoid splash screens.
J