Damn. I'd be piiiiissed if I had to loose ComedyCentral. Ya, the reruns of Strips and Blankman get old, but the DailyShow and next-day-Conan make that channel awesome.
Then again, you can still see the best of the Dailyshow the next day online:) http://www.comedycentral.com/tv_shows/ds/
So now MS is even stealing Apple's least liked ideas... brushed metal.
Does Microsoft, a multibillion dollar company tied the richest man in the WORLD, even own a god damn industrial design department?! They contract other designers to make their icons (mac geeks of course, http://www.iconfactory.com/ ), they acquire 99% of their photography from Getty and Corbis, and their desktops are completely devoid of anything intuitive.
I'm sure MS spends a butt load of money on overrated geeks who have been specifically schooled in HCI / Human Factors. However, they don't seem to have a staff that understands graphic and, more importantly, interactive design.
These bizzaro Apple desktops are getting old. MS has the money and power to make a NICE and ORIGINAL desktop... but for some reason they chose not to. Why is this?
Dude, this is alpha software. Moreover, MS is applying a new display system similar to Quartz Extreme. That thing is going to use up a LOT of resources until MS gets it down solid.
My OS X box has 1.25gigs of RAM. Right not I'm only running 1 major application, Safari. However, my system has about 40+ process open.. with only a few actually running and using the CPU. Those processes in include the dock, the window server, core services, etc etc.
370megs of RAM are being "used" by my machine right now. about 150megs of that is inactive. Because I have 1.25 gigs, my machine tends to stretch out and get comfortable. Nevertheless, OS X uses a shit load of RAM.
Operating systems like OS X and Windows have quite a few toys and tools that slackware does not have....These things require ram.
and I thought ground zero was creepy.... that beats it.
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Could you imagine the security problems we'd have if Microsoft developed software that forced us to leave machines open to remote connections in order to "pay" for mail.
I have enough security problems with downloading email and web content onto Windows machines. God only knows what would happen if people could upload shit onto my machine without my approval.
It's a novel idea. But I wouldn't trust MS to implement it.
After playing the demos I can't say I'm a big fan of this game's vehicles. The vehicles don't drive well.
It feels like vehicles have been tossed in to compete with Halo. However, they don't feel like a polished and integrated piece of of the game... like they do in Halo.
Gimp's old UI was bad, and the new one is bad as well. You can tell it was made by developers and inspired by photoshop. It wasn't created by interface or interactive designers:/
If the Gimp ever wants to become a legitimate piece of software that can gain recognition within the design community, it is going to need a better UI. And by "better UI" I don't mean new icons and added widgets.
First off, http://www.co2andclimate.org/ is a site run by the Greening Earth Society. The Greening Earth Society is a public relations organization founded, funded, and run by the Western Fuels Association. The Western Fuels Association is an associated composed of coal burning utility companies.
The Greening Earth Society does not participate in legitimate academic research (which by it very nature, must adhere to the scientific method and be objective) . Referencing the The Greening Earth Society is, at best, laughable. Their work lacks any credibly and could never have materials accepted by a pear reviewed scientific journal.
And as for the ICC. Here in the US we have a number of figures that could potential be tried for international and war crimes. Henry Kissinger's a good example of someone who would alsmot certainly get screwed. Currently, that man can not leave the states because a number of nations want to see him detained and tried as a war criminal.
http://www.thetrialsofhenrykissinger.com/trials. ht ml
I doubt it. Google may have more things indexed, but it web search still sucks when compared to Teoma'a and it's image search still sucks when compared to AllTheWeb's.
Hehe, That's a manufacturing and or engineering problem, not a product design problem. That iBook case is still one sexy bitch:)
And, hey, with that iBook, Apple gave notice of a recall and repaired / replaced them. Apple is usually fairly good about fixing something if it goes bad.
This year I met a guy who was having problems with a noisy, yet functional Powerbook. Since he couldn't part with his machine due to work, Apple hooked him up. Apple shipped a newer, faster Powerbook in addition to an empty shipping box with paid postage. After he transferred his data over to the newer machine, he stuck the old one in the box and set it on it's way.
No doubt, if Apple did that for everyone, they'd be broke. Yet there ability to do little things like this every now and then is why Mac users keep coming back.
Kids usually don't want to learn anything more then they have to... at least in elementary school. In 2nd grade no one want to sit inside and write when they could be outside playing.
The kids that I tutored -had- to learn a second language for some reason or another. I never met one that voluntarily decided to undertake more classwork and homework.
Kids that learn a second language have a better understanding of the fundamental structures of language. They get to see how written and verbal communication functions within different dialects. From that they get to see what structures and concepts can be applied to multiple languages.
I'm not surprised. A few years ago I had a job as a literacy tutor. At my school (an elementary school), kids who studied a second language usually performed better with reading and writing in English.
This is a stupid idea. The university is going to pay for music to be streamed from Napster, but students won't be able to download, burn, or transfer this music. They're still going to rip it off.
Moreover, giving students access to high quality streams of full songs is really really dumb. Come on, have we already forgotten our older bootlegging methods? If it makes noise, it can be recorded. One can either run a line out to a tape deck or find something like Audio Hijack to record system audio to the harddisk.
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I had hoped to see a shitty trailer for Robocop 3 when I clicked that link. But, to my dismay, I got a stupid article talking about Robo"t"cop 3 :(
Stupid Hong Kong and it's stupid cheesy robots that don't fight crime or drive a black Ford Torus.
it's kind'a hard to tell the difference when we're looking at an AVI file with a set frame rate.
Now, is Pixar going to end every movie with a shitty gif of a spinning Apple logo that says "Made on a Mac" ?
Damn. I'd be piiiiissed if I had to loose ComedyCentral. Ya, the reruns of Strips and Blankman get old, but the DailyShow and next-day-Conan make that channel awesome.
:)
Then again, you can still see the best of the Dailyshow the next day online
http://www.comedycentral.com/tv_shows/ds/
So now MS is even stealing Apple's least liked ideas... brushed metal.
Does Microsoft, a multibillion dollar company tied the richest man in the WORLD, even own a god damn industrial design department?! They contract other designers to make their icons (mac geeks of course, http://www.iconfactory.com/ ), they acquire 99% of their photography from Getty and Corbis, and their desktops are completely devoid of anything intuitive.
I'm sure MS spends a butt load of money on overrated geeks who have been specifically schooled in HCI / Human Factors. However, they don't seem to have a staff that understands graphic and, more importantly, interactive design.
These bizzaro Apple desktops are getting old. MS has the money and power to make a NICE and ORIGINAL desktop... but for some reason they chose not to. Why is this?
Dude, this is alpha software. Moreover, MS is applying a new display system similar to Quartz Extreme. That thing is going to use up a LOT of resources until MS gets it down solid.
...These things require ram.
My OS X box has 1.25gigs of RAM. Right not I'm only running 1 major application, Safari. However, my system has about 40+ process open.. with only a few actually running and using the CPU. Those processes in include the dock, the window server, core services, etc etc.
370megs of RAM are being "used" by my machine right now. about 150megs of that is inactive. Because I have 1.25 gigs, my machine tends to stretch out and get comfortable. Nevertheless, OS X uses a shit load of RAM.
Operating systems like OS X and Windows have quite a few toys and tools that slackware does not have.
Ya know there's going to be 200 of them. ::shrug::
and I thought ground zero was creepy.... that beats it.
Could you imagine the security problems we'd have if Microsoft developed software that forced us to leave machines open to remote connections in order to "pay" for mail.
I have enough security problems with downloading email and web content onto Windows machines. God only knows what would happen if people could upload shit onto my machine without my approval.
It's a novel idea. But I wouldn't trust MS to implement it.
After playing the demos I can't say I'm a big fan of this game's vehicles. The vehicles don't drive well.
:/
It feels like vehicles have been tossed in to compete with Halo. However, they don't feel like a polished and integrated piece of of the game... like they do in Halo.
This game is kind of weak
Actually designing the kennel panic screen would be graphic design.
:P
--designer
Nahhh.
They'll have those perdy Apple kernel panic screens that have been professionally designed by typographers.
No one's turned the GameCube into a Mac.
Gimp's old UI was bad, and the new one is bad as well. You can tell it was made by developers and inspired by photoshop. It wasn't created by interface or interactive designers :/
If the Gimp ever wants to become a legitimate piece of software that can gain recognition within the design community, it is going to need a better UI. And by "better UI" I don't mean new icons and added widgets.
-- an annoyed designer
Ya, but to convert Apple's AAC files to MP3 you have to burn them and then rip them again.
Bleh.
First off, http://www.co2andclimate.org/ is a site run by the Greening Earth Society. The Greening Earth Society is a public relations organization founded, funded, and run by the Western Fuels Association. The Western Fuels Association is an associated composed of coal burning utility companies.
. ht ml
The Greening Earth Society does not participate in legitimate academic research (which by it very nature, must adhere to the scientific method and be objective) . Referencing the The Greening Earth Society is, at best, laughable. Their work lacks any credibly and could never have materials accepted by a pear reviewed scientific journal.
And as for the ICC. Here in the US we have a number of figures that could potential be tried for international and war crimes. Henry Kissinger's a good example of someone who would alsmot certainly get screwed. Currently, that man can not leave the states because a number of nations want to see him detained and tried as a war criminal.
http://www.thetrialsofhenrykissinger.com/trials
The first companys named for inspection are google, sony playstation and Mac OS X.
I used to work for MacOSX, but they fired me. Now I work for Playstation.
Jobs probably used that $5 to buy his first black T-shirt at Mervyn's in 1972.
"Yes, this is horrible, this idea." - Samir
I doubt it. Google may have more things indexed, but it web search still sucks when compared to Teoma'a and it's image search still sucks when compared to AllTheWeb's.
Google is most non triumphant.
Hehe, That's a manufacturing and or engineering problem, not a product design problem. That iBook case is still one sexy bitch :)
And, hey, with that iBook, Apple gave notice of a recall and repaired / replaced them. Apple is usually fairly good about fixing something if it goes bad.
This year I met a guy who was having problems with a noisy, yet functional Powerbook. Since he couldn't part with his machine due to work, Apple hooked him up. Apple shipped a newer, faster Powerbook in addition to an empty shipping box with paid postage. After he transferred his data over to the newer machine, he stuck the old one in the box and set it on it's way.
No doubt, if Apple did that for everyone, they'd be broke. Yet there ability to do little things like this every now and then is why Mac users keep coming back.
(however, there still is that iPod battery issue)
No, we only have the market cornered on GOOD product design.
Kids usually don't want to learn anything more then they have to... at least in elementary school. In 2nd grade no one want to sit inside and write when they could be outside playing.
The kids that I tutored -had- to learn a second language for some reason or another. I never met one that voluntarily decided to undertake more classwork and homework.
Kids that learn a second language have a better understanding of the fundamental structures of language. They get to see how written and verbal communication functions within different dialects. From that they get to see what structures and concepts can be applied to multiple languages.
I'm not surprised. A few years ago I had a job as a literacy tutor. At my school (an elementary school), kids who studied a second language usually performed better with reading and writing in English.
This is a stupid idea. The university is going to pay for music to be streamed from Napster, but students won't be able to download, burn, or transfer this music. They're still going to rip it off.
Moreover, giving students access to high quality streams of full songs is really really dumb. Come on, have we already forgotten our older bootlegging methods? If it makes noise, it can be recorded. One can either run a line out to a tape deck or find something like Audio Hijack to record system audio to the harddisk.