Yea, some of them will be the wave of the future. And some will always remain outside the mainstream, where they want to be, admired by those w/ (the?) taste.
Long before Manifesto has been Ambrosia. They make lots of fun games, and have a real cult following for Escape Velocity. And this programmer-controlled company has workers who really seem to enjoy doing what they do.
that sucks. did you buy any of these things using a credit card? a little known fact about most cards is that they automatically double the warranty of products purchased on them. call your card company, they will give you the right mastercard or visa number
if non os x makes you ill and you want more than two years coverage, maybe the apple warranty can be justified over 3 yrs. i wouldnt count on anything running on the hacked beta os x x86
i think on the mac youre supposed to use a combination of application hiding (using command-h or the hide menu option) and minimizing (cmd-m). you can tab through open windows using tab-` and bring up minimized windows using cmd- (this last one doesnt seem to be supported by all apps, forcing you to use the mouse for those)
apple ux has been repeatedly asked about managers, and they pretty much seem to be saying: thats not intuitive and thats not our way
there is a certain firewire chipset that is known to have a bug that causes freezes with os x. drive manufacturers have released fixes. check your manufacturers site
context menus are supposed to have less options than the menu bar by definition. context menus only have options that are relevant to that context, and in addition ux people will tell you they should only have the most relevant ones, not the whole kit and cabodle. context menus wouldnt save you any time if you had to dig through as many options as the menu bar
the close window control is supposed to close a window, and not shut down the application. you may be used to windows, where closing the last open window also shuts down the app, but many ux peeps will tell you this is not a good assumption to make: if you close the last window of a database server (say, a query window), do you want the database to shut down? if you close the last window to your mail app, do you want all mail services to shut down (i like still being able to see when ive got incoming mail)? the apple ux teams position on these things and others are well known (try google)
im surprised you would trust development to a system you see as so flaky
You should be glad. This is a trojan horse. Open POWER is dead, it's all a clever trick to get the Chinese to waste time on an amazing yet dead-in-the-water technology.
Chalk one up for India.
Oh, I'm sorry, did you want something good to happen to the US?
1 all the ones ive seen dont. how do i know which is which? how do i know when a library quietly changes its policy?
2 why cant i swipe the anon card to see whats checked out?
3 bookstores dont need to tack extra surcharges onto a book for "processing", but whatever... just charge a little extra to the anon card to cover your processing
librarian, talk to your it people. yes, i am an "it people":)
Libraries (and individuals) are generally allowed to lend materials and/or resell materials under the concept of the "right of first sale". Libraries are not (generally) making copies of any of their materials, so they cannot be in violation of copyright law.
you keep saying this, but its not that simple. if i start publically screening dvds ive purchased, even though no copies have been made, the mpaa will come down hard (w/ the fbi, they promise)
Do they need fingerprints to prevent children from checking out material unsuitable for children? If "the children!" is their real concern, why don't they just check age? All the public libraries I go to have a separate section for children, with computers. Simply don't allow children to use computers in the adult area.
And if the kids are getting these passwords from friends and relatives, then there's your problem, and nothing stops the friends/relatives from logging them in, or buying them porn, or buying them alcohol. Believe it or not, stuff like this happens.
Yet the solution you like is locking down the entire internet, since that is natual progression of your argument. Otherwise the kids could just go next door to the cafe with free wireless that does not require fingerprints. Great, now we need govt regulated fingerprint-only access to the internets... Think of the children! Won't you do it for the children?!
Despite state issued ID, kids still get alcohol, and kids still get laid. The govt can not protect you from poor parenting. At least a human scanning IDs for age can't track your activities.
I can see Stalin rolling in his grave... laughing. *Shakes head* And we used to laugh at the Soviets. I've heard many Americans look at the Soviets or the Nazis and say "That could never happen here". Don't be so sure, it already is...
I'm not sure the value of news agencies has anything to do with the medium in which news is delivered. As long as people desire news, news agencies will be useful. Google certainly seems to find AFP useful, and so do lots of other news sites.
There is a big debate going on (fueled by Apple supposedly sueing bloggers) over whether bloggers can be good journalists, much less news agencies. Almost all blogs I've seen are very high on opinion, and somewhat lower on facts and investigation. Uninformed opinion a news agency does not make.
There is an interesting parallel with OSS of course, and OSS/has/ lead to high quality products. The question is whether OSS produces high quality end products, or high quality frameworks. It's possible that like blogs and news agencies, commercial and OSS operate on different yet complementary planes.
As with OSS, there also remains the question of how the free beer model pays for college (where you learn programming and journalism) and a family.
Leader: That is, can the USA eliminate our economic dependence on crude oil with a large scale federal program to build and maintain enough nuclear power plants to replace our current oil-based energy needs?
Parent: France is far less dependent on foreign energy for power than most countries... we could reduce pollution, reduce energy costs, and reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
I really don't understand this (largely American) dependence-on-oil argument. We are dependent on others for a lot of other things, too: electronics, consumer goods, even clothes. In an interconnected world, everyone buys important items from others.
Yet certain American leaders can justify wars as "defending our interests" when it comes to oil (even though it is not "ours"), but we don't find it necessary to attack China to defend our economy even though a Chinese embargo would ruin it. We don't talk of protecting "our" electronics industry abroad.
Get over it. We buy foreign products. They need our money. Even oil embargos against South Africa failed. Make your leaders explain their wars a little better.
This story is plausible. I recall a potential legal struggle over MiGs at the Paris Airshow several years ago. Creditors of Russia looking to recoup their money got an order to hold a state-of-the-art MiG which was in Paris for the show. The Paris Airshow, wanting to keep good relations with the Russians so that they would see MiGs in the future, quietly passed word that the MiG was on the verge of being impounded. Minutes before the creditors showed up, the Russian pilot jumped in the jet and roared back to Russia. Pretty dramatic, and apparently no one was able to stop it.
Yet Microsoft can't quite shake fears that its real intention is to use its monopoly position to charge Hollywood outrageous fees to access the computer desktop.
And of course this goes counter to what MS has been saying recently, and conventional wisdom. MS has explicity stated to shareholders that it has saturated OS and Office markets and is searching for new markets to grow profits.
Do antitrust laws prevent a monopoly from becoming monopolies in other industries?
Yes, but Congress is the same way. So is any democratic political structure. The squabbling is useful to get all opinions aired. Sometimes it's not very productive. But the ability to air different views is always very important.
The day the UN/Congress/et al starts unanimously agreeing to everything will be a very sad (and suspicious) day indeed.
I think there's another thing going on, too: tech features vs. desirability. Jobs understands that it's not only a list of technical features that's important, but a more wholistic view of the product, which includes usability and "sex appeal".
This is probably why most geeks at first thought the iPod was lame. Like a lot of Apple products (and products of other upscale manufacturers), the spec sheet doesn't do it justice; you have to use it for a bit.
the Americans backed bin Laden, regardless of what name he calls his group now. As they tend to back a lot of horrible groups/regimes, since the horrible ones can be persuaded to do "whatever it takes" to "protect American interests".
Oh, if you're looking for a movie to watch, Farenheit 9/11 is pretty good. Just leave the propaganda "us good everyone else bad" we were taught in highschool at the door. There really isn't an "us".
Annalee had a nice writeup at AlterNet about how this would affect mp3 players, CD burners, video players, and a host of consumer devices. Coming hot on the heels of the Gartner report recommending the banning of iPods at work one has to wonder why in a free society we feel so much needs to be banned and prohibited.
I believe this is yet more misguided legislation to protect the profit streams of corporations while ignoring changing realities and efficiencies. But if we stubbornly insist on staying in the past, I doubt Asia and others will join us.
You make good points about cost effectiveness but one of your paragraphs made me laugh:
I'd still earn a lot more than the typical offshore worker due to excellent English skills. All I would need to do is learn how to communicate with them and I'd be in demand in the same way the Los Angeles auto mechanic head is. He typically gives instructions to the hispanics who do the real work. No different from my scenerio.
English is easy. If excellent "English skills" bought you anything, Indian English majors would be making the big bucks. What they value is programming quality. Your image of being the American who is eagerly made chief by the illeterate natives is delusion. You would be as welcome in India as detroit autoworkers in Japan.
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Yea, some of them will be the wave of the future. And some will always remain outside the mainstream, where they want to be, admired by those w/ (the?) taste.
Long before Manifesto has been Ambrosia. They make lots of fun games, and have a real cult following for Escape Velocity. And this programmer-controlled company has workers who really seem to enjoy doing what they do.
that sucks. did you buy any of these things using a credit card? a little known fact about most cards is that they automatically double the warranty of products purchased on them. call your card company, they will give you the right mastercard or visa number
if non os x makes you ill and you want more than two years coverage, maybe the apple warranty can be justified over 3 yrs. i wouldnt count on anything running on the hacked beta os x x86
i think on the mac youre supposed to use a combination of application hiding (using command-h or the hide menu option) and minimizing (cmd-m). you can tab through open windows using tab-` and bring up minimized windows using cmd- (this last one doesnt seem to be supported by all apps, forcing you to use the mouse for those)
apple ux has been repeatedly asked about managers, and they pretty much seem to be saying: thats not intuitive and thats not our way
there is a certain firewire chipset that is known to have a bug that causes freezes with os x. drive manufacturers have released fixes. check your manufacturers site
context menus are supposed to have less options than the menu bar by definition. context menus only have options that are relevant to that context, and in addition ux people will tell you they should only have the most relevant ones, not the whole kit and cabodle. context menus wouldnt save you any time if you had to dig through as many options as the menu bar
the close window control is supposed to close a window, and not shut down the application. you may be used to windows, where closing the last open window also shuts down the app, but many ux peeps will tell you this is not a good assumption to make: if you close the last window of a database server (say, a query window), do you want the database to shut down? if you close the last window to your mail app, do you want all mail services to shut down (i like still being able to see when ive got incoming mail)? the apple ux teams position on these things and others are well known (try google)
im surprised you would trust development to a system you see as so flaky
Are you sure you can afford it? I hear it costs $100 billion a year.
It helps us identify courts with bias, and hopefully correct that.
...an 802.11 hub that plugs into your receiver, so that you can pick receivers from your computer: Airport Express.
You should be glad. This is a trojan horse. Open POWER is dead, it's all a clever trick to get the Chinese to waste time on an amazing yet dead-in-the-water technology.
Chalk one up for India.
Oh, I'm sorry, did you want something good to happen to the US?
Well, now that you've posted it to /. it's not very private, is it?
Thanks a lot...
oh, come on... there aren't even a million mac users, much less a million mac zealots
1 all the ones ive seen dont. how do i know which is which? how do i know when a library quietly changes its policy?
:)
2 why cant i swipe the anon card to see whats checked out?
3 bookstores dont need to tack extra surcharges onto a book for "processing", but whatever... just charge a little extra to the anon card to cover your processing
librarian, talk to your it people. yes, i am an "it people"
Libraries (and individuals) are generally allowed to lend materials and/or resell materials under the concept of the "right of first sale". Libraries are not (generally) making copies of any of their materials, so they cannot be in violation of copyright law.
you keep saying this, but its not that simple. if i start publically screening dvds ive purchased, even though no copies have been made, the mpaa will come down hard (w/ the fbi, they promise)
Do they need fingerprints to prevent children from checking out material unsuitable for children? If "the children!" is their real concern, why don't they just check age? All the public libraries I go to have a separate section for children, with computers. Simply don't allow children to use computers in the adult area.
And if the kids are getting these passwords from friends and relatives, then there's your problem, and nothing stops the friends/relatives from logging them in, or buying them porn, or buying them alcohol. Believe it or not, stuff like this happens.
Yet the solution you like is locking down the entire internet, since that is natual progression of your argument. Otherwise the kids could just go next door to the cafe with free wireless that does not require fingerprints. Great, now we need govt regulated fingerprint-only access to the internets... Think of the children! Won't you do it for the children?!
Despite state issued ID, kids still get alcohol, and kids still get laid. The govt can not protect you from poor parenting. At least a human scanning IDs for age can't track your activities.
I can see Stalin rolling in his grave... laughing. *Shakes head* And we used to laugh at the Soviets. I've heard many Americans look at the Soviets or the Nazis and say "That could never happen here". Don't be so sure, it already is...
But when they charge something like $1/song, and I must pay for all the downloading cost, something seems basically unfair.
do you pay for gas (petrol) to the store? bus fare? teleportation?
otherwise i agree with you
I'm not sure the value of news agencies has anything to do with the medium in which news is delivered. As long as people desire news, news agencies will be useful. Google certainly seems to find AFP useful, and so do lots of other news sites.
There is a big debate going on (fueled by Apple supposedly sueing bloggers) over whether bloggers can be good journalists, much less news agencies. Almost all blogs I've seen are very high on opinion, and somewhat lower on facts and investigation. Uninformed opinion a news agency does not make.
There is an interesting parallel with OSS of course, and OSS
As with OSS, there also remains the question of how the free beer model pays for college (where you learn programming and journalism) and a family.
Leader: That is, can the USA eliminate our economic dependence on crude oil with a large scale federal program to build and maintain enough nuclear power plants to replace our current oil-based energy needs?
Parent: France is far less dependent on foreign energy for power than most countries... we could reduce pollution, reduce energy costs, and reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
I really don't understand this (largely American) dependence-on-oil argument. We are dependent on others for a lot of other things, too: electronics, consumer goods, even clothes. In an interconnected world, everyone buys important items from others.
Yet certain American leaders can justify wars as "defending our interests" when it comes to oil (even though it is not "ours"), but we don't find it necessary to attack China to defend our economy even though a Chinese embargo would ruin it. We don't talk of protecting "our" electronics industry abroad.
Get over it. We buy foreign products. They need our money. Even oil embargos against South Africa failed. Make your leaders explain their wars a little better.
This story is plausible. I recall a potential legal struggle over MiGs at the Paris Airshow several years ago. Creditors of Russia looking to recoup their money got an order to hold a state-of-the-art MiG which was in Paris for the show. The Paris Airshow, wanting to keep good relations with the Russians so that they would see MiGs in the future, quietly passed word that the MiG was on the verge of being impounded. Minutes before the creditors showed up, the Russian pilot jumped in the jet and roared back to Russia. Pretty dramatic, and apparently no one was able to stop it.
Got a letter from Verizon and LG saying they got a bunch of "fake" LG batteries that they were recalling due to overheating.
The lengths they went to to emphasize the batteries were not really LG made me wonder...
Yet Microsoft can't quite shake fears that its real intention is to use its monopoly position to charge Hollywood outrageous fees to access the computer desktop.
And of course this goes counter to what MS has been saying recently, and conventional wisdom. MS has explicity stated to shareholders that it has saturated OS and Office markets and is searching for new markets to grow profits.
Do antitrust laws prevent a monopoly from becoming monopolies in other industries?
Yes, but Congress is the same way. So is any democratic political structure. The squabbling is useful to get all opinions aired. Sometimes it's not very productive. But the ability to air different views is always very important.
The day the UN/Congress/et al starts unanimously agreeing to everything will be a very sad (and suspicious) day indeed.
Like my director says: analysis paralysis.
I think there's another thing going on, too: tech features vs. desirability. Jobs understands that it's not only a list of technical features that's important, but a more wholistic view of the product, which includes usability and "sex appeal".
This is probably why most geeks at first thought the iPod was lame. Like a lot of Apple products (and products of other upscale manufacturers), the spec sheet doesn't do it justice; you have to use it for a bit.
Mr Droopy Drawers,
the Americans backed bin Laden, regardless of what name he calls his group now. As they tend to back a lot of horrible groups/regimes, since the horrible ones can be persuaded to do "whatever it takes" to "protect American interests".
Oh, if you're looking for a movie to watch, Farenheit 9/11 is pretty good. Just leave the propaganda "us good everyone else bad" we were taught in highschool at the door. There really isn't an "us".
Annalee had a nice writeup at AlterNet about how this would affect mp3 players, CD burners, video players, and a host of consumer devices. Coming hot on the heels of the Gartner report recommending the banning of iPods at work one has to wonder why in a free society we feel so much needs to be banned and prohibited.
I believe this is yet more misguided legislation to protect the profit streams of corporations while ignoring changing realities and efficiencies. But if we stubbornly insist on staying in the past, I doubt Asia and others will join us.
Sounds just like beautician. Just what I've wanted all my life.
You make good points about cost effectiveness but one of your paragraphs made me laugh:
I'd still earn a lot more than the typical offshore worker due to excellent English skills. All I would need to do is learn how to communicate with them and I'd be in demand in the same way the Los Angeles auto mechanic head is. He typically gives instructions to the hispanics who do the real work. No different from my scenerio.
English is easy. If excellent "English skills" bought you anything, Indian English majors would be making the big bucks. What they value is programming quality. Your image of being the American who is eagerly made chief by the illeterate natives is delusion. You would be as welcome in India as detroit autoworkers in Japan.