Rush Limbaugh would be an especially interesting choice, as his vocal patterns are somewhat influenced by his deafness, which is only partially mitigated by the installation of cyborg ear parts.
You here much of a difference? I got the impression he trained hard to work over those. I'm fairly impressed he still attempts impersonations with monotone hearing.
No, they are not a computing company. I've made this argument here recently, and people argue the nitty points without looking at the broader picture.
It's been clear since the early success of the iPhone that Apple has been transitioning to a gadgets company (yes the iPod started it, but the iPhone cemented it). Mac OS X will go the away of iOS and eventually the Mac will be gone. They say Steve Jobs left them with a 4-year roadmap, so don't count on finding any Macintosh-branded products for sale after 2015 (expect a 2014 "it's been 30 good years" announcement).
I'd been slowly transitioning away from Apple to Linux for desktop work since 2006, but it tool me until 2009 to finally sell my MacBook Pro (it'd been running Fedora for 6 months at that point). I still miss its refined interface pretty often, but I'm glad to not be skating to where the puck was.
Yeah; there's a lot that hasn't reached the public mythology.
Boy, that's a good way to put it. My daughter is in government schools, and they truly teach a form of historically-inspired folklore instead of history.
Flat-earth theory w/r/t Columbus, Lincoln started the Civil War to free the slaves, etc. etc. I've gotta do a round of deprogramming every once in a while.
I remember the old Matrix documentary where they did the Bullet-Time effect by setting up something like the number of cameras you have in an arc and having them all take a picture of the focal point simultaneously. I think they then played the images back in sequence.
What on earth makes you think he paid for them? He co-founded the company... as if he doesn't get any Apple product he wants for free.
Consider the hassle involved with arranging for free product vs. making a credit card purchase, where in the time it takes to complete the online order he'll have made more in interest on his wealth than is spent on the order.
Why would a billionaire stand in line all night long to get a cellphone that his company sells?
I know this will sound crazy, but "he enjoys other human beings?" I know, the only reasonable thing for a wealthy man to do is sit home and count his money, but for some reason Woz goes out and interacts with other Apple aficionados.
The last time this story ran, he was helping a woman figure out what was wrong with her Macbook. Afterwards people said to her, "do you know who that was?" Any reasonable rich guy would have told her to pound sand or at least talk to the Genius Bar (despite both of those words being misleading).
spending dozens of hours trying to put together a finicky pile of junk that can sorta produce one crude design per run before it jams or self destructs and needs a major overhaul
Oh, you've used a MakerBot? Hey, the FX-80 buzzing is sorta nostalgic, though.
The problem I see here is that 100 $2,000 Makerbot/scanners aren't better than 1 $200,000 3d rapid prototyper, for somebody who uses it a few times a week.
The service bureaus charge an arm and a leg, but some sort of geek/maker coop/timeshare must be feasible (and already exists?).
static display costs nothing, things like shelf price tags that last ages on tiny batteries should be quite doable
IIRC, JC Penney did a field test of this back c. 2002. e.Ink shelf tags, small wireless transmitter (pager tech?) In the central office, they updated a price in a mainframe, and a few minutes later the shelf tags updated.
No word on whether they did this during the day to purposely drive shoppers insane.
I don't know how it turned out, but I suspect it was too expensive then. Today, with cheap e.Ink and something like ZigBee, I think it's probably ready for the market.
We *want* AMD to be making money off of the linux driver to keep them interested. If they depend on it for a commercial product they're going to keep pouring resources into it. As it is I can't even get my LCD panel to show a picture in the right spot (it's shifted up and left on two radeon cards, perfect on nVidia/nouveau). It needs more engineering resources, and this Windows blob might just be the enticement they need.
I realize copyright law is going to be a problem to navigate around, but we should really find a way to make this work, not complain about perceived injustices.
I suspect the reality is you type at somewhere between 25-50% of the speed you can talk, and that's for ordinary words.
I can type reliably at 90WPM, but it requires a much higher cognitive load than if I'm speaking. I get distracted by typing, but talking is very natural for me and doesn't really distract from composition.
I've been typing almost 30 years, so I don't think it's going to get better anytime soon.
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Good job, you're managing to live an ethos that was conquered nearly four millennia ago.
Congrats, you're going to have the lowest operational Slashdot UID some day.
Dude, and risk spending time in a Canadian prison? Do you know what happens there?
To the best of my knowledge, they fart on you a lot.
s/here/hear/
Rush Limbaugh would be an especially interesting choice, as his vocal patterns are somewhat influenced by his deafness, which is only partially mitigated by the installation of cyborg ear parts.
You here much of a difference? I got the impression he trained hard to work over those. I'm fairly impressed he still attempts impersonations with monotone hearing.
No, they are not a computing company. I've made this argument here recently, and people argue the nitty points without looking at the broader picture.
It's been clear since the early success of the iPhone that Apple has been transitioning to a gadgets company (yes the iPod started it, but the iPhone cemented it). Mac OS X will go the away of iOS and eventually the Mac will be gone. They say Steve Jobs left them with a 4-year roadmap, so don't count on finding any Macintosh-branded products for sale after 2015 (expect a 2014 "it's been 30 good years" announcement).
I'd been slowly transitioning away from Apple to Linux for desktop work since 2006, but it tool me until 2009 to finally sell my MacBook Pro (it'd been running Fedora for 6 months at that point). I still miss its refined interface pretty often, but I'm glad to not be skating to where the puck was.
How many children were killed by US bombs yesterday? And these guys have the temerity to express outrage over a web browser while that is going on?
Congressmen: do your fucking job. It's described in the instruction manual.
3. Roll back all the taxes and regulations that prevent them from being manufactured in the US in the first place.
bwahahhaah, no, let's wave our huge penises at China and taunt, "losers!"
Yeah; there's a lot that hasn't reached the public mythology.
Boy, that's a good way to put it. My daughter is in government schools, and they truly teach a form of historically-inspired folklore instead of history.
Flat-earth theory w/r/t Columbus, Lincoln started the Civil War to free the slaves, etc. etc. I've gotta do a round of deprogramming every once in a while.
I remember the old Matrix documentary where they did the Bullet-Time effect by setting up something like the number of cameras you have in an arc and having them all take a picture of the focal point simultaneously. I think they then played the images back in sequence.
Thanks - I hadn't seen Brian's slide deck before; there's no more authoritative source.
Let's see.... :google google google: Oh, figures.
What on earth makes you think he paid for them? He co-founded the company... as if he doesn't get any Apple product he wants for free.
Consider the hassle involved with arranging for free product vs. making a credit card purchase, where in the time it takes to complete the online order he'll have made more in interest on his wealth than is spent on the order.
I wouldn't bother.
What a 1%er.
More like 0.00001%er, based on his accomplishments.
If he's getting one for his wife at the store, that means the first two are for him.
My guess: 1 to use, 1 to take apart.
Why would a billionaire stand in line all night long to get a cellphone that his company sells?
I know this will sound crazy, but "he enjoys other human beings?" I know, the only reasonable thing for a wealthy man to do is sit home and count his money, but for some reason Woz goes out and interacts with other Apple aficionados.
The last time this story ran, he was helping a woman figure out what was wrong with her Macbook. Afterwards people said to her, "do you know who that was?" Any reasonable rich guy would have told her to pound sand or at least talk to the Genius Bar (despite both of those words being misleading).
Woz - man of mystery.
Multifox?
Do you seriously want your Google Apps account suspended for something you posted on Google+ that a Google algorithm finds 'offensive'?
spending dozens of hours trying to put together a finicky pile of junk that can sorta produce one crude design per run before it jams or self destructs and needs a major overhaul
Oh, you've used a MakerBot? Hey, the FX-80 buzzing is sorta nostalgic, though.
The problem I see here is that 100 $2,000 Makerbot/scanners aren't better than 1 $200,000 3d rapid prototyper, for somebody who uses it a few times a week.
The service bureaus charge an arm and a leg, but some sort of geek/maker coop/timeshare must be feasible (and already exists?).
They're utterly impossible to read at night; they just look like a big blur.
Do you mean the new police car LED light bars that are designed to blind oncoming traffic and increase revenue for 'driving off a cliff' citations?
And what's wrong with the old fashioned way, even if I wanted more?
Dude, /rapid/ prototyping.
Varying standards requires forethought which is an even bigger stretch for government than flexibility.
Please, our legislators are made of a finer strain of human than we mere citizens.
Maybe it's just me, but I think Steve sightings could become the new Elvis sightings.
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static display costs nothing, things like shelf price tags that last ages on tiny batteries should be quite doable
IIRC, JC Penney did a field test of this back c. 2002. e.Ink shelf tags, small wireless transmitter (pager tech?) In the central office, they updated a price in a mainframe, and a few minutes later the shelf tags updated.
No word on whether they did this during the day to purposely drive shoppers insane.
I don't know how it turned out, but I suspect it was too expensive then. Today, with cheap e.Ink and something like ZigBee, I think it's probably ready for the market.
We *want* AMD to be making money off of the linux driver to keep them interested. If they depend on it for a commercial product they're going to keep pouring resources into it. As it is I can't even get my LCD panel to show a picture in the right spot (it's shifted up and left on two radeon cards, perfect on nVidia/nouveau). It needs more engineering resources, and this Windows blob might just be the enticement they need.
I realize copyright law is going to be a problem to navigate around, but we should really find a way to make this work, not complain about perceived injustices.
I suspect the reality is you type at somewhere between 25-50% of the speed you can talk, and that's for ordinary words.
I can type reliably at 90WPM, but it requires a much higher cognitive load than if I'm speaking. I get distracted by typing, but talking is very natural for me and doesn't really distract from composition.
I've been typing almost 30 years, so I don't think it's going to get better anytime soon.