For me the thing was the touchpad. Using a touchpad instead instead of a mouse made me forget I had CT until I switched back to a desktop machine again.
It still doesn't minimize to the tray (single most common complaint on Windows), but maximize does make it full screen now. Otherwise there's no discernible diffeence.
Does anybody ever get the feeling sometimes that maybe things are simpler than our smartest people currently make them out to be?
I think you're right, but it's not a new phenomenon. Some 40 years ago the Norwegian historian Jens Arup Seip coined the phrase "The American disease" to signify academics who use difficult words as subsitutes for original ideas. That disease is alive and well, not just in the USA.
The first time I saw it mentioned in Norway a couple of years ago it was precisely lovestruck teenagers Netcom was targetting. Think of the market you have if teenagers are willing to pay to set up "chance encounters" every time they fall in love!
And I have trouble reading a file transcribed in 1990 (Texto database formatted for PCWrite). However, the 400 year old original is perfectly readable.
On the other hand, we're drowning in sources from the eighteenth century and forward. In many countries, medievalists can reasonably expect to read all, or at least most, of the preserved texts from the period they study. Anyone working on later periods will just have to make some sort of selection and hope it's representative.
The degree to which drafts of manuscripts and musical scores from earlier periods have survived is already arbitrary, and it will be so in the future: Backups will contain the drafts in the future. Some them will surely survive.
is that there is no MP3 player that will fit all uses and users (as if we didn't know that). I still prefer my iPod to any other player I've tried, but longer battery life would have been nice.
Good post. I think in general that this search is at its most useful in non-fiction, to see content not mentioned explicitly in the title, headings, or in the publisher's write up.
Another thing, I don't know if I would want to be reminded what I bought the last time I passed this section of the aisle.
I agree, and it does perhaps raise some privacy issues (or at least the potential for embarrasment) if it reminds you what you bought the previous time if you drop by to shop with your friends/boss/wife.
Don't forget the many people who wish to change history. Being a historian can sometimes land you in hot water for just that reason. Just take a look at Turkish reactions to anyone who mentions the genocide of Armenians in 1918.
OK, so you were trolling. However, for moderators trying to keep an open mind and moderating up well written posts they disagree with, it can be very difficult to see that posts such as yours are actually trolls.
Apart from that, I agree with your three assertions, in particular that taking time to thinking about and reading the articles means that you will not be read.
Counting at the gates doesn't help if you're trying to find out how people use the entire system, i.e. things such as who changes lines where and when. Having exact information of how people actually do travel makes this kind of statistics much easier to assemble.
This is the same experience as my father had in China with the telecommunications industry. The only way to stay in business was to continue to innovate since the local copies were always one generation behind. If the development cycles became too long the copycats caught up with them and sold a comparable product at a much lower price.
I sympathise. However, let me tell you that teaching a mix of geniuses and dunces (which in my experience is the typical student population today) is no easy task. No matter what you do, somebody is going to feel that they learnt nothing, and they'll be right.
Not that there aren't poor and disinterested lecturers...
I did not learn much from lectures when I was an undergraduate, and I don't like giving them today.
Having said that, lectures give me a way of providing a synthesis when there is none on the syllabus, and to stress subjects I feel haven't been given enough consideration in the textbooks.
However, if I in the future have to put a written verison of my lectures on the univerity website as some busybody in the administration wants, then I really don't see the point in giving them in the first place! In that case we should simply drop the lectures and replace them with unpublished course material: Lecture manuscripts (which, btw, then could no longer be written in short hand)
OT nitpick: The witch hunts were an early modern phenomenon, and much more severe in Protestant than Catholic countries. Blaming the medieval church is incorrect.
Is this really surprising? Am I missing something? I mean, what other internet use by private persons even comes close to needing as much bandwith? Media files are large, and as long as there are few legal ways of getting them, P2P will dominate bandwith usage.
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For me the thing was the touchpad. Using a touchpad instead instead of a mouse made me forget I had CT until I switched back to a desktop machine again.
let WebFountain troll it
I sincerely hope you meant trawl it. The last thing we need is for IBM to build and sell an automated system for trolling the entire internet!
It still doesn't minimize to the tray (single most common complaint on Windows), but maximize does make it full screen now. Otherwise there's no discernible diffeence.
Does anybody ever get the feeling sometimes that maybe things are simpler than our smartest people currently make them out to be?
I think you're right, but it's not a new phenomenon. Some 40 years ago the Norwegian historian Jens Arup Seip coined the phrase "The American disease" to signify academics who use difficult words as subsitutes for original ideas. That disease is alive and well, not just in the USA.
The first time I saw it mentioned in Norway a couple of years ago it was precisely lovestruck teenagers Netcom was targetting. Think of the market you have if teenagers are willing to pay to set up "chance encounters" every time they fall in love!
And I have trouble reading a file transcribed in 1990 (Texto database formatted for PCWrite). However, the 400 year old original is perfectly readable.
On the other hand, we're drowning in sources from the eighteenth century and forward. In many countries, medievalists can reasonably expect to read all, or at least most, of the preserved texts from the period they study. Anyone working on later periods will just have to make some sort of selection and hope it's representative.
The degree to which drafts of manuscripts and musical scores from earlier periods have survived is already arbitrary, and it will be so in the future: Backups will contain the drafts in the future. Some them will surely survive.
is that there is no MP3 player that will fit all uses and users (as if we didn't know that). I still prefer my iPod to any other player I've tried, but longer battery life would have been nice.
Good post. I think in general that this search is at its most useful in non-fiction, to see content not mentioned explicitly in the title, headings, or in the publisher's write up.
Another thing, I don't know if I would want to be reminded what I bought the last time I passed this section of the aisle.
I agree, and it does perhaps raise some privacy issues (or at least the potential for embarrasment) if it reminds you what you bought the previous time if you drop by to shop with your friends/boss/wife.
Don't forget the many people who wish to change history. Being a historian can sometimes land you in hot water for just that reason. Just take a look at Turkish reactions to anyone who mentions the genocide of Armenians in 1918.
The MusicMatch service is US only, though that didn't stop them from offering it to me by e-mail...
OK, so you were trolling. However, for moderators trying to keep an open mind and moderating up well written posts they disagree with, it can be very difficult to see that posts such as yours are actually trolls.
Apart from that, I agree with your three assertions, in particular that taking time to thinking about and reading the articles means that you will not be read.
Counting at the gates doesn't help if you're trying to find out how people use the entire system, i.e. things such as who changes lines where and when. Having exact information of how people actually do travel makes this kind of statistics much easier to assemble.
The 80GB drive is 4200 on the Powerbook too.
And several European countries consider electronic voting and have had field tests already.
This is the same experience as my father had in China with the telecommunications industry. The only way to stay in business was to continue to innovate since the local copies were always one generation behind. If the development cycles became too long the copycats caught up with them and sold a comparable product at a much lower price.
I sympathise. However, let me tell you that teaching a mix of geniuses and dunces (which in my experience is the typical student population today) is no easy task. No matter what you do, somebody is going to feel that they learnt nothing, and they'll be right.
Not that there aren't poor and disinterested lecturers...
I did not learn much from lectures when I was an undergraduate, and I don't like giving them today.
Having said that, lectures give me a way of providing a synthesis when there is none on the syllabus, and to stress subjects I feel haven't been given enough consideration in the textbooks.
However, if I in the future have to put a written verison of my lectures on the univerity website as some busybody in the administration wants, then I really don't see the point in giving them in the first place! In that case we should simply drop the lectures and replace them with unpublished course material: Lecture manuscripts (which, btw, then could no longer be written in short hand)
OT nitpick: The witch hunts were an early modern phenomenon, and much more severe in Protestant than Catholic countries. Blaming the medieval church is incorrect.
Where do you buy them? I couldn't see any online store or listed retailers.
Is this really surprising? Am I missing something? I mean, what other internet use by private persons even comes close to needing as much bandwith? Media files are large, and as long as there are few legal ways of getting them, P2P will dominate bandwith usage.
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divide press speakers Juergen Buehl with: The residents of Munich city administration
Rifle?! Why not just buy a Praga M53 with double 20mm AA guns? Just £8000 delivered in the UK.
:)
http://www.tanksforsale.co.uk/M53/M53.htm
The Guns are deactivated, of course, but that's just the right kind of challenge, eh?
The funny thing is that today's Engrish sounds just like the Iraqi Information minister:
You! Invaders!
Get you the hot bullets of shotguns to die!
Maybe he'll have a future career after all, writing taunts and insults for video games?