Am I the only person who is tired of the rhetoric "Since September 11th, each and every American's life has changed"? For those outside of the goverment, and particularly the military, has it really? Certainly we have mangled the Bill of Rights beyond recognition, but am I the only one whose reaction to the 2nd attack on the WTC was "well, it finally happened?" And the notion that using commercial airliners as weapons was unthought of? Given that Tom Clancy is a best selling author, the odds that no one in our security infrastructure read about that scenario is close to zero.
Calling a pile of dung a flower doesn't make it smell sweet. Theft is theft. I don't have to delete every piece of software and MP3 that I haven't paid for, because I never downloaded any in the first place.
Why not a working Mac _and_ an Aquarium
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Don't knock it till you've tried it. My point is that all of the previous comments are from people who have actually used the iTunes software. It also appears that these are people who have tried other options and found them severely lacking. Marketing usually starts to fade when you have actually experienced a product and its competitors.
I would be even cooler if my in-class exercises were done in half the time. (my students are fine---but there is only so much email one can hadle in little one minute intervals while simultaneously watching to see where people are stuck)
I may be completely spoiled from too many years of using my Macintosh as a front end to numerous headless unix machines, but I don't understand the comment about incompatible monitors. Obviously, video cards have to have drivers. But how can a monitor be incompatible?
The first part of this article reminded me remarkably of when I was a summer student at Apple. Almost all the developers had multiple monitors, usually one big one and one or more smaller ones on book shelves to one side or the other. Some people had sound effects turned on so windows closing and such made a noise. One of the hot things that got passed around was a little utility that allowed the mouse and keyboard to be shared across machines. The people in the next office over were using speech to control their computers, which was kind of annoying to listen to. There were a few videos being sent around in emails.
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This issue was deal with many years ago with a never implemented encyclopedia system called the interpedia. The main notion was "Seals of Approval". For a brief introduction, see http://www.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1994q 1/1003.html
Am I the only person who is tired of the rhetoric "Since September 11th, each and every American's life has changed"? For those outside of the goverment, and particularly the military, has it really? Certainly we have mangled the Bill of Rights beyond recognition, but am I the only one whose reaction to the 2nd attack on the WTC was "well, it finally happened?" And the notion that using commercial airliners as weapons was unthought of? Given that Tom Clancy is a best selling author, the odds that no one in our security infrastructure read about that scenario is close to zero.
Calling a pile of dung a flower doesn't make it smell sweet. Theft is theft. I don't have to delete every piece of software and MP3 that I haven't paid for, because I never downloaded any in the first place.
030 working MacAquarium
I'm hoping the bulls aren't getting excited by steers.
Don't knock it till you've tried it. My point is that all of the previous comments are from people who have actually used the iTunes software. It also appears that these are people who have tried other options and found them severely lacking. Marketing usually starts to fade when you have actually experienced a product and its competitors.
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Posting before coffee, again.
I would be even cooler if my in-class exercises were done in half the time. (my students are fine---but there is only so much email one can hadle in little one minute intervals while simultaneously watching to see where people are stuck)
I may be completely spoiled from too many years of using my Macintosh as a front end to numerous headless unix machines, but I don't understand the comment about incompatible monitors. Obviously, video cards have to have drivers. But how can a monitor be incompatible?
Can somone moderate this down please?
The first part of this article reminded me remarkably of when I was a summer student at Apple. Almost all the developers had multiple monitors, usually one big one and one or more smaller ones on book shelves to one side or the other. Some people had sound effects turned on so windows closing and such made a noise. One of the hot things that got passed around was a little utility that allowed the mouse and keyboard to be shared across machines. The people in the next office over were using speech to control their computers, which was kind of annoying to listen to. There were a few videos being sent around in emails.
So when did this all happen?
1992.
I was interviewed by the local newspaper about the UNIVAC. The facts are all mangled (don't blame me, I tried!), but you do get to see a shot of me with a plugboard and a IBM 85 Card Collator. http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/news/stories/7246new sarchivedstorypage.html