This problem requires a low tech solution. And fortunately, this is a problem that has a lot of practical solutions, derived from years of experience dealing with hospitalized, incapacitated patients. I used these to help take care of my mom, she was unable to talk.
Consult your hospital, they often have little message boards. There are some that have a little flip chart at the top, divided into functional categories like "I feel.. (sleepy, nauseous, good, thirsty etc.)" I want (water, pain meds, bedpan, etc.)" and then it has an alphabet at the bottom to spell out words that aren't on the chart, along with a list of common words so she doesn't have to spell them out (it, and, the, etc.).
If she can write, I recommend a "Magna-Doodle" pad. Very easy to use, clears with a push of the lever, designed for little kids so it's easy to use even for someone weak and incapacitated. Get a big Magna-doodle pad, that makes it easier to write long messages, or write big if you have poor motor control.
Yeah right. He deserves the millions of bucks he earned, shilling for Microsoft?
Let me tell you a little Louderbeck anecdote, I still remember this incident vividly. A few years back, a cable tech channel (ZNet TV? I forget) carried the Macworld Conference Keynote with Steve Jobs live on their channel. A Stevenote is compelling enough a performance on its own to hold the audience, but for some incomprehensible reason, ZNet decided to have Louderbeck do commentary DURING the keynote. I don't even remember what products Jobs was announcing, all I remember is how the audio kept switching to Louderbeck's "commentary," he was continually bitching about how the new product sucked, and how it lacked important features. At one point, he was whining about one missing feature at the very moment that Jobs was describing that exact feature. Louderbeck looked like a complete and utter asshole. I note that since that day, Apple has never allowed any TV channel to broadcast their Keynotes and announcements.
While your post is mere flamebait, you almost got to the core issue: Mac users will see the Internet as MICROSOFT intended. Excuse me if I think this is a very bad thing.
I doubt it. I've noticed an interesting phenomenon. In the olden days of 1200 baud modems, it was difficult to transmit a whole 400k floppy, so game programmers often bulked up their apps with extra graphics etc. to fill the disk and make it too large to easily send to your friends via modem. Then 56k modems came out, and full CDs were considered large enough to be a pain to transmit. Then broadband, and now lots of vendors fill a DVD (and now DVD-9s) to make it very time consuming (even with broadband) to transmit. Soon enough, they'll be filling BlueRay or HD discs, and even FIOS won't be able to easily exchange that big a packet.
Of course this means nothing to data discs (like movies) that can be compressed or downrezzed to easily transmitted size, without too much degradation in quality. Thats why MP3s became popular. But for software (like apps) that can't be compressed, it's still a successful strategy, until a few years later when the net gets faster (and by then hopefully your software is obsolete and nobody cares anymore).
It's my understanding that Safari for Windows installs QuickTime, it's required for WebKit. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, I don't know for sure since I don't own a Windows box.
Almost everything Apple does is designed to drive QuickTime adoption in the PC market. QT is Apple's greatest asset and its key to wider success in media-driven markets. This is Apple's chance to get even for Microsoft wanting to "knife the baby." iTunes installs have driven QT installs on PCs, now Safari does it too.
I saw this on a TV news report, an interview with a N.O. resident where he complained that the nearby oil storage facility had burst in the flooding and severely contaminated his neighborhood. He showed puddles of oil on the ground, and said the stench of oil was so bad you could hardly breathe. Then he wiped a finger on the dry side of a house and smeared around the oily residue. This wasn't "normal" dirt and grime from a flood.
To which I would add: toxic waste cleanup. Most of the pics I saw of the N.O. floods showed residue from flooded oil refineries and chemical plants. Many houses had oil slicks all the way up the sides, I'm sure the insides were equally contaminated, and so is the ground. And you want to live in the middle of a toxic waste disaster area?
sounds similar to what I do. I have a 1-cup Melitta plastic cone, it sits right on top of your coffee mug. I add the paper cone and coffee, get my water heated just to below boiling, then drizzle in enough water to moisten the grounds. Then I let it sit for a maybe 15 or 20 seconds, and add about 1/2 cup of water. Swirl the cone so the grounds circulate, then add the rest of the water and keep swirling. Everyone loves my coffee. The only problem is that I can only make one cup at a time.
Nothing beats a single-cup Melitta drip cone. If you go to a good coffee shop and ask for a regular coffee, they'll make you a single cup with a filter cone. I used to watch the coffee shop girls in Japan and they make filter-cone coffee with such precision, it's incredible. Some people say that drip filters leach too much from some grounds and too little from others. So just swish the water around in the filter while it's brewing, make sure the grounds get all mixed together instead of sticking to the sides of the cone. Makes a big difference.
ha.. when I was a little kid, probably 1st grade, we had a fire drill at our school. When everyone came back in, we were milling around in the halls, and I pretended to take the little hammer and smash the little glass cover that tripped the fire alarm. I didn't actually hit the alarm, ok, goofing around over, I set the little hammer down on the end of the chain, turned, and started to walk away. I got about 2 feet away and suddenly the fire alarm started blaring again. It was pandemonium, everyone was trying to get IN to the classrooms when suddenly they had to go back OUT again. So after a while, the second alarm was over and everyone was settled back in class. The principal stormed into our classroom, he was furious, the alarm really did go off, so he was going around from class to class, questioning everybody. Of course I got fingered for tripping the alarm, the squealer even told just which alarm I supposedly tripped (which probably saved me from considerable trouble, but I didn't know that at the time). I protested, I told them the story of how I was goofing around but didn't actually trip the alarm, I demanded to go out to the alarm, I'd show them that the alarm panel wasn't broken so I couldn't have set it off. There it was, the old antiquated alarm panel that I had supposedly smashed, but perfectly intact and unbroken. Then the principal then examined my hands closely. I didn't know why he would do that, when it was perfectly clear that the alarm wasn't tripped. Well what really saved my ass was that these were weird old alarms that when triggered, squirted out blue dye, so that if anyone set them off as a prank, they'd be marked. And I was unmarked. Vindicated! But still, nobody could figure out why the alarm went off if none of the alarm panels were tripped. I got a stern lecture in the principal's office to NEVER EVER touch the alarm panels again, and another lecture from my dad when I got home, and that was the end of that.
Did you people all flunk math? Those are MODELS of a Klein Bottle, not a REAL Klein bottle. The Klein Bottle is a construct that cannot exist in normal 3D space. Now I suppose you're going to tell me that a drawing of a cube on a piece of paper is a real 3D cube?
Yeah right. Show me how the neck of these Klein Bottles pass through the side wall without intersecting it. That's the unique property of a Klein Bottle.
I don't quite see how anyone can claim they designed such a thing. It is sort of like saying Klein designed a bottle that holds everything on the outside on the inside. Of course a Klein Bottle is impossible to construct, sure it's an interesting mathematical idea but it's not anything you can make in reality, so it's senseless to say it's been designed. Let's just say it's been imagined.
Schirra was a tech freak, he was determined that all his missions were absolutely by-the-book and even if they weren't the most daring missions, he'd achieve all the technical goals with absolute accuracy. From what I read, he achieved all everything he hoped for.
In an odd coincidence, my Dad just sent me a copy of Schirra's book "Schirra's Space" (ISBN 1557507929) a couple of days ago. I haven't even had a chance to read it, but it freaked me out when he died just after I got it in the mail. Looks like an interesting book.
Schirra (and all the Mercury astronauts) were my heroes when I was just a little kid. Now one more hero is gone. We need more heroes like Schirra.
This is the usual Korea vs. Japan nationalist bickering I see all over the net. And the source is notorious for these stupid articles, for example, their stories about the "unfair" labeling of the Sea of Japan which according to them should be called the East Sea. I would be more surprised if there were NOT accusations against the Japanese, since the Koreans had contact with them. But there's no proof the code was stolen, just unproven accusations. If there are any economic losses, it would be more the fault of the disbanding of the coding team, not from code theft. But in Korea, the Japanese are always handy when you need to blame someone.
It is obvious why these lawsuits don't get any attention, under our current political regime. In the Bush era, justice is for the rich. But if you had filed a lawsuit against a Democratic candidate for political spamming, the recently appointed US Attorneys would be lining up to handle this case for you.
The obvious implication of Shirky's Law is that Web 2.0 services are an attractive nuisance and give spammers and other griefers an incentive to game the system. Any new web service has to account for this and build in extremely high levels of security. Obviously nobody is doing this.
You are correct, it's a hoax. It's not even a very convincing hoax. The Dell monitor he used has two inputs so he could easily switch between video sources, and there's obviously a second Mac nearby since it's running other software from another system before the demo. Notice how the video cuts off part of the Mac screen (like the Dock) when he launches apps. And everybody knows how easy it is to fake the contents of the System Profiler screen. More evidence: notice how there are two disk drives mounted on the AppleTV.
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This problem requires a low tech solution. And fortunately, this is a problem that has a lot of practical solutions, derived from years of experience dealing with hospitalized, incapacitated patients. I used these to help take care of my mom, she was unable to talk.
Consult your hospital, they often have little message boards. There are some that have a little flip chart at the top, divided into functional categories like "I feel.. (sleepy, nauseous, good, thirsty etc.)" I want (water, pain meds, bedpan, etc.)" and then it has an alphabet at the bottom to spell out words that aren't on the chart, along with a list of common words so she doesn't have to spell them out (it, and, the, etc.).
If she can write, I recommend a "Magna-Doodle" pad. Very easy to use, clears with a push of the lever, designed for little kids so it's easy to use even for someone weak and incapacitated. Get a big Magna-doodle pad, that makes it easier to write long messages, or write big if you have poor motor control.
Yeah right. He deserves the millions of bucks he earned, shilling for Microsoft?
Let me tell you a little Louderbeck anecdote, I still remember this incident vividly. A few years back, a cable tech channel (ZNet TV? I forget) carried the Macworld Conference Keynote with Steve Jobs live on their channel. A Stevenote is compelling enough a performance on its own to hold the audience, but for some incomprehensible reason, ZNet decided to have Louderbeck do commentary DURING the keynote. I don't even remember what products Jobs was announcing, all I remember is how the audio kept switching to Louderbeck's "commentary," he was continually bitching about how the new product sucked, and how it lacked important features. At one point, he was whining about one missing feature at the very moment that Jobs was describing that exact feature. Louderbeck looked like a complete and utter asshole.
I note that since that day, Apple has never allowed any TV channel to broadcast their Keynotes and announcements.
While your post is mere flamebait, you almost got to the core issue: Mac users will see the Internet as MICROSOFT intended. Excuse me if I think this is a very bad thing.
I doubt it. I've noticed an interesting phenomenon. In the olden days of 1200 baud modems, it was difficult to transmit a whole 400k floppy, so game programmers often bulked up their apps with extra graphics etc. to fill the disk and make it too large to easily send to your friends via modem. Then 56k modems came out, and full CDs were considered large enough to be a pain to transmit. Then broadband, and now lots of vendors fill a DVD (and now DVD-9s) to make it very time consuming (even with broadband) to transmit. Soon enough, they'll be filling BlueRay or HD discs, and even FIOS won't be able to easily exchange that big a packet.
Of course this means nothing to data discs (like movies) that can be compressed or downrezzed to easily transmitted size, without too much degradation in quality. Thats why MP3s became popular. But for software (like apps) that can't be compressed, it's still a successful strategy, until a few years later when the net gets faster (and by then hopefully your software is obsolete and nobody cares anymore).
There you go. You can crack and copy the app, but if it's tied to a server to function, the copy is worthless.
This is why software companies want to switch customers to the Thin Client/Software As Service model.
Ric Ford was blogging in early 1994 at Macintouch.com and he's still at it today.
6. To get PC users to install QuickTime.
It's my understanding that Safari for Windows installs QuickTime, it's required for WebKit. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, I don't know for sure since I don't own a Windows box.
Almost everything Apple does is designed to drive QuickTime adoption in the PC market. QT is Apple's greatest asset and its key to wider success in media-driven markets. This is Apple's chance to get even for Microsoft wanting to "knife the baby." iTunes installs have driven QT installs on PCs, now Safari does it too.
Ah, good research, that is the one. Now that you showed me this, I do recall hearing the name Murphy Oil during that news report.
I saw this on a TV news report, an interview with a N.O. resident where he complained that the nearby oil storage facility had burst in the flooding and severely contaminated his neighborhood. He showed puddles of oil on the ground, and said the stench of oil was so bad you could hardly breathe. Then he wiped a finger on the dry side of a house and smeared around the oily residue. This wasn't "normal" dirt and grime from a flood.
To which I would add: toxic waste cleanup. Most of the pics I saw of the N.O. floods showed residue from flooded oil refineries and chemical plants. Many houses had oil slicks all the way up the sides, I'm sure the insides were equally contaminated, and so is the ground. And you want to live in the middle of a toxic waste disaster area?
sounds similar to what I do. I have a 1-cup Melitta plastic cone, it sits right on top of your coffee mug. I add the paper cone and coffee, get my water heated just to below boiling, then drizzle in enough water to moisten the grounds. Then I let it sit for a maybe 15 or 20 seconds, and add about 1/2 cup of water. Swirl the cone so the grounds circulate, then add the rest of the water and keep swirling. Everyone loves my coffee. The only problem is that I can only make one cup at a time.
Nothing beats a single-cup Melitta drip cone. If you go to a good coffee shop and ask for a regular coffee, they'll make you a single cup with a filter cone. I used to watch the coffee shop girls in Japan and they make filter-cone coffee with such precision, it's incredible.
Some people say that drip filters leach too much from some grounds and too little from others. So just swish the water around in the filter while it's brewing, make sure the grounds get all mixed together instead of sticking to the sides of the cone. Makes a big difference.
ha.. when I was a little kid, probably 1st grade, we had a fire drill at our school. When everyone came back in, we were milling around in the halls, and I pretended to take the little hammer and smash the little glass cover that tripped the fire alarm. I didn't actually hit the alarm, ok, goofing around over, I set the little hammer down on the end of the chain, turned, and started to walk away. I got about 2 feet away and suddenly the fire alarm started blaring again. It was pandemonium, everyone was trying to get IN to the classrooms when suddenly they had to go back OUT again.
So after a while, the second alarm was over and everyone was settled back in class. The principal stormed into our classroom, he was furious, the alarm really did go off, so he was going around from class to class, questioning everybody. Of course I got fingered for tripping the alarm, the squealer even told just which alarm I supposedly tripped (which probably saved me from considerable trouble, but I didn't know that at the time). I protested, I told them the story of how I was goofing around but didn't actually trip the alarm, I demanded to go out to the alarm, I'd show them that the alarm panel wasn't broken so I couldn't have set it off. There it was, the old antiquated alarm panel that I had supposedly smashed, but perfectly intact and unbroken. Then the principal then examined my hands closely. I didn't know why he would do that, when it was perfectly clear that the alarm wasn't tripped.
Well what really saved my ass was that these were weird old alarms that when triggered, squirted out blue dye, so that if anyone set them off as a prank, they'd be marked. And I was unmarked. Vindicated! But still, nobody could figure out why the alarm went off if none of the alarm panels were tripped. I got a stern lecture in the principal's office to NEVER EVER touch the alarm panels again, and another lecture from my dad when I got home, and that was the end of that.
Did you people all flunk math? Those are MODELS of a Klein Bottle, not a REAL Klein bottle. The Klein Bottle is a construct that cannot exist in normal 3D space.
Now I suppose you're going to tell me that a drawing of a cube on a piece of paper is a real 3D cube?
Yeah right. Show me how the neck of these Klein Bottles pass through the side wall without intersecting it. That's the unique property of a Klein Bottle.
I don't quite see how anyone can claim they designed such a thing. It is sort of like saying Klein designed a bottle that holds everything on the outside on the inside. Of course a Klein Bottle is impossible to construct, sure it's an interesting mathematical idea but it's not anything you can make in reality, so it's senseless to say it's been designed. Let's just say it's been imagined.
Schirra was a tech freak, he was determined that all his missions were absolutely by-the-book and even if they weren't the most daring missions, he'd achieve all the technical goals with absolute accuracy. From what I read, he achieved all everything he hoped for.
In an odd coincidence, my Dad just sent me a copy of Schirra's book "Schirra's Space" (ISBN 1557507929) a couple of days ago. I haven't even had a chance to read it, but it freaked me out when he died just after I got it in the mail. Looks like an interesting book.
Schirra (and all the Mercury astronauts) were my heroes when I was just a little kid. Now one more hero is gone. We need more heroes like Schirra.
This is the usual Korea vs. Japan nationalist bickering I see all over the net. And the source is notorious for these stupid articles, for example, their stories about the "unfair" labeling of the Sea of Japan which according to them should be called the East Sea. I would be more surprised if there were NOT accusations against the Japanese, since the Koreans had contact with them. But there's no proof the code was stolen, just unproven accusations. If there are any economic losses, it would be more the fault of the disbanding of the coding team, not from code theft. But in Korea, the Japanese are always handy when you need to blame someone.
It is obvious why these lawsuits don't get any attention, under our current political regime. In the Bush era, justice is for the rich. But if you had filed a lawsuit against a Democratic candidate for political spamming, the recently appointed US Attorneys would be lining up to handle this case for you.
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Riiight. Facebook is absolutely secure and immune from security problems and spam because of their preventative measures.
"Social Software is stuff that gets spammed."
The obvious implication of Shirky's Law is that Web 2.0 services are an attractive nuisance and give spammers and other griefers an incentive to game the system. Any new web service has to account for this and build in extremely high levels of security. Obviously nobody is doing this.
You are correct, it's a hoax. It's not even a very convincing hoax. The Dell monitor he used has two inputs so he could easily switch between video sources, and there's obviously a second Mac nearby since it's running other software from another system before the demo. Notice how the video cuts off part of the Mac screen (like the Dock) when he launches apps. And everybody knows how easy it is to fake the contents of the System Profiler screen. More evidence: notice how there are two disk drives mounted on the AppleTV.
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This article was amateurish at best.