Yes.. I think/. is missing the point of April Fools day.
The idea with Aprils Fools--Although I'm sure we all already know--is to trick people into something. So you can then yell HAHA!! April Fool!!!
In/.'s case this should be posting links to semi-belivible articals like my example here.
*sigh*... I didn't even see anything on the news today about April Fools... I think the death of the Queen Mother has clouded it.
I'm not sure what OS X would be like if you ripped quicktime out of it, or removed the finder. It probably wouldn't work to well.
I don't see why IE should be removed. WMP on the otherhand, I have yet to see how that is a core part of the OS, maybe that's what the movie and MP3 preview things in Explorer uses.
I stand by a statement I made a long time ago - circuit boards and manufacturing labels are inherently ugly. Perhaps I'm not geek enough to appreciate them properly (although I still find the new-electronics smell a pleasant one), but I'm very glad my computer has a case you can't see through
Really? Although I'm not to hot in the idea of making my iBook transparent (I'd prefer opaque canary yellow). I've always been facinated by electronics, esscpcialy boards on the back of LCD's, and harddrives...All the thin lines can make some nice patterns etc, and some looks like minature cities. But yes... I can understand why people don't like it. Half the time these transparent things just look messy IMHO.
For another example: most modern aircraft, notably jetliners and military aircraft don't rely on [monmouth.com] the Bernoulli effect [andrews.edu] (you know, the faster-air-lower-pressure-over-wing thing you're taught in science classes at school) to fly. Think about it: if Bernoulli kept aeroplanes in the air, how could you fly one upside down? (-:
While I can't confirm if most modern aircraft don't rely on the Bernoulli effect.
I can say it's possable to fly a plane upside-down. You just adjust the angle of attack to compensate for the Bernoulli effect pulling the plane down. The plane's nose would be pointing upwards slightly. Not the most efficient way, but still quite possable.
Except that 99% of the sites out there use fixed font stylesheets that dont let you use larger font sizes.
NOTE: The w3c.org's CSS specs say that browsers should alow options to adjust font sizes, for all unit's, not just all except pixels.
If you browser enlarges all except fonts defined in pixels, that is that fault of whoever wrote the browser. And you should pressure them to support the standards better.
Mac OS X has built-in spell checking, but Mozilla does not implement it, as it largely refuses to implement any platform-specific features
And this is why I unfortunalty will probably never use mozilla as my default browser. For any OS.
Mozilla for OS X is damn ugly. It looks nothing like the other native cocoa apps. I won't go into details, because I would be here all day.
Same goes for mozilla for windows. It maybe a great browser. It just doesn't look or behave like a windows app. And untill it does. It will just be something to play with, or used for browser testing.
At first. I really like the idea of a keyboard. Untill I realised that the only reason I would want it is because I find graffiti annoying. All that would be needed to solve that problem would be decent recognition software like on the Newton. It's not like I could ever type as fast on this small keyboard, as I can on a real keyboard anyway.
The MP3 play seems nice. But I'm never going to bother with an MP3 play that can't hold all my music. It's just too much hassle for me otherwise. I'm saving up for an iPod, or a might wait for a 10gig microdrive + CF MP3 player.
Camera. At first I thought this would be really neat. Since I don't carry my proper camera with me all the time. But then I discovered that it was only 320 x 240. Not even worth it IMHO. I was expecting at least 800x600. If I was going to get one, I'd save some $ and the cameraless model.
Clamshell design. That's reall neat, I really like how that works, esspecialy the swivel screen. Great stuff....But only reason that this whole design is needed, is because it has a keyboard. Which I'd rather not have for the reason above.
What would impress me, was if they could get that nice screen (maybe a monochrome one if colour won't fit) into a PDA the size of a Vx, and leave the camera/keboard etc out of it. And run a OS like Newton OS.
If I want something that has powerfull multimedia capabilities, but with the trade off of not quite being pocketable. I would rather have a PPC.
I'm sure these's plently of people for whom this PDA is perfect. But I'm just giving my opinion on it, and what suits me.
Zoom tool? Why? (Adobe STILL has NOT gotten this figured out. The image should zoom CENTERED ON WHERE THE MOUSE IS DAMNIT. ON WHERE THE MOUSE IS. NOT the upper left hand corner of the picture, NOT the absolute center of the picture, but where the MOUSE POINTER IS!!! Ugh. Damn stubborn bastards.:(:(:( )
Hell! I thought I was the only one!
If you want to see the scrollwheel well implimented in an image program. Get hold of a copy of corel photopaint. I used to use photopaint before I switched to photoshop.
In photopaint. I could navagate anywhere, very quickly and easly, just by using the scrollwheel. Much much faster than hitting CTRL + or CTRL -, holding down the spacebar to pan, zoom in a bit more, pan, zoom,pan...
Plus the fact that photopaint zooms in logical steps, like 25%, 50% 100%, 200% 400% etc. As opposed to photoshops closer together (slower zooming), un-computer friendly numbers (66.6%, 27.5, 40.3%) which make the image look horrible on the display. And that fact that it randomly decided to use the scrollwheel to pan verticaly when it feels like it.
Wonder if photoshop 7 will fix this blatantly obvious bug? Or have they been too busy rearranging the user interface to make it appear as if they have added more features?
Lots of mouse buttons come in handy. Trust me, they do.:)
Hehe. I have my extra buttons set as copy and paste. I use them all the time.
Yes, but only after dragging out the suit for 10 years. After which time, the object of the suit will be deemed obsolete, and the affair will be quietly shelved before any penalties are decided.
I doubt that. Not for this kind case... MS would deffinitly not want the kinda of publicity that would come with discriminading against the blind/dissabled people. It would just be much easier for them to make it comapatable in the first place.
There are alot of issues that MS could be in the wrong for. But something like disscrimation against the blind is something that even joe never-used-a-computer-before can see clearly is wrong.
First of all. I'm not saying that meat is unhealtly. But when humans where evolving to be omnivores. We didn't have the ride range of non-meat products that are avalible now. Or the scientific experties to go along with it.
Evolving to be an omnivore was a good way to get what we needed. Now we have other ways to get what we need.
Maybe it's to emphisize the fact that if you place a CD on to a buttock, that it will mold coveniently to it, like a lot of wallets that get stored in back pockets end up doing?
Could it be something to do with the fact that this CD is somewhat "flacid" compared to a normal "hard" CD?
Ha! I'd hate to have to use OS X on a 350Mhz G3. I've got a new 600MHz iBook. I just got another 256MB RAM, to bring it up to 384MBs. It does make a difference like everyone said it would (even though it should work out of the box for it's price). But it's still painfully slow.
If you find more info on this suit. Let me know.
Still waiting to hear back from Apple about the e-mail I sent them, conserning improvments for optimisation on the G3. But no reply yet.
Spose you can't expect too much from a company that has obviously sold-out. Woz should really be the one in charge.
Why? I thought that they'd be pretty neat too. Untill I reasilsed that I could probably bike faster, And also that I'd prefer to bike or walk since I hardly get any exercise anyway (like most people).
Sure... The technology is impressive. And it would be great for old people, or people who have been injured, or are dissabled etc. But I just can't imagine everyone using a segway instead of walking or taking the bus.
What's disgraceful is your complete lack of regard for the people actually making the music. Yeah pirate more music.
But what say I own an MP3 player, use lots of CD and CD-R, and use them legaly? Why should I then give cash to some company that is already making billions by ripping people off. Hell the musicians who are too lazy to revolt against the big lables will never see a dime of the money anyway.
It's all very well to cry 'what about the artist' But they hardly get any of the money from the companies to start with since the artist will still be ripped off no matter how much or little piracy is going on.. And I don't see any movments of any sort from the artists against the lables.
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You should really be more carefull following links you find in /. comments on April Fools day.
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No hard feelings I hope?
The idea with Aprils Fools--Although I'm sure we all already know--is to trick people into something. So you can then yell HAHA!! April Fool!!! /.'s case this should be posting links to semi-belivible articals like my example here.
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*sigh*... I didn't even see anything on the news today about April Fools... I think the death of the Queen Mother has clouded it.
I don't see why IE should be removed. WMP on the otherhand, I have yet to see how that is a core part of the OS, maybe that's what the movie and MP3 preview things in Explorer uses.
Really? Although I'm not to hot in the idea of making my iBook transparent (I'd prefer opaque canary yellow). I've always been facinated by electronics, esscpcialy boards on the back of LCD's, and harddrives...All the thin lines can make some nice patterns etc, and some looks like minature cities. But yes... I can understand why people don't like it. Half the time these transparent things just look messy IMHO.
While I can't confirm if most modern aircraft don't rely on the Bernoulli effect.
I can say it's possable to fly a plane upside-down. You just adjust the angle of attack to compensate for the Bernoulli effect pulling the plane down. The plane's nose would be pointing upwards slightly. Not the most efficient way, but still quite possable.
Yes, but would it be possable to get an ordernary fire to burn as it did if it didn't have the 6,000 gallons of jet fuel to kick-start it?
"Why hello there..." *click* *click* *click* *pause* "...No Match! How's your day been?"
You idea of a decent digital camera must not be very decent IMHO. I'd have to say atleast $600.
NOTE: The w3c.org's CSS specs say that browsers should alow options to adjust font sizes, for all unit's, not just all except pixels.
If you browser enlarges all except fonts defined in pixels, that is that fault of whoever wrote the browser. And you should pressure them to support the standards better.
And this is why I unfortunalty will probably never use mozilla as my default browser. For any OS.
Mozilla for OS X is damn ugly. It looks nothing like the other native cocoa apps. I won't go into details, because I would be here all day.
Same goes for mozilla for windows. It maybe a great browser. It just doesn't look or behave like a windows app. And untill it does. It will just be something to play with, or used for browser testing.
At first. I really like the idea of a keyboard. Untill I realised that the only reason I would want it is because I find graffiti annoying. All that would be needed to solve that problem would be decent recognition software like on the Newton. It's not like I could ever type as fast on this small keyboard, as I can on a real keyboard anyway.
The MP3 play seems nice. But I'm never going to bother with an MP3 play that can't hold all my music. It's just too much hassle for me otherwise. I'm saving up for an iPod, or a might wait for a 10gig microdrive + CF MP3 player.
Camera. At first I thought this would be really neat. Since I don't carry my proper camera with me all the time. But then I discovered that it was only 320 x 240. Not even worth it IMHO. I was expecting at least 800x600. If I was going to get one, I'd save some $ and the cameraless model.
Clamshell design. That's reall neat, I really like how that works, esspecialy the swivel screen. Great stuff....But only reason that this whole design is needed, is because it has a keyboard. Which I'd rather not have for the reason above.
What would impress me, was if they could get that nice screen (maybe a monochrome one if colour won't fit) into a PDA the size of a Vx, and leave the camera/keboard etc out of it. And run a OS like Newton OS.
If I want something that has powerfull multimedia capabilities, but with the trade off of not quite being pocketable. I would rather have a PPC.
I'm sure these's plently of people for whom this PDA is perfect. But I'm just giving my opinion on it, and what suits me.
Hell! I thought I was the only one!
If you want to see the scrollwheel well implimented in an image program. Get hold of a copy of corel photopaint. I used to use photopaint before I switched to photoshop.
In photopaint. I could navagate anywhere, very quickly and easly, just by using the scrollwheel. Much much faster than hitting CTRL + or CTRL -, holding down the spacebar to pan, zoom in a bit more, pan, zoom ,pan...
Plus the fact that photopaint zooms in logical steps, like 25%, 50% 100%, 200% 400% etc. As opposed to photoshops closer together (slower zooming), un-computer friendly numbers (66.6%, 27.5, 40.3%) which make the image look horrible on the display. And that fact that it randomly decided to use the scrollwheel to pan verticaly when it feels like it.
Wonder if photoshop 7 will fix this blatantly obvious bug? Or have they been too busy rearranging the user interface to make it appear as if they have added more features?
Lots of mouse buttons come in handy. Trust me, they do. :)
Hehe. I have my extra buttons set as copy and paste. I use them all the time.
Like the software modem / win modem in my iBook?
I doubt that. Not for this kind case... MS would deffinitly not want the kinda of publicity that would come with discriminading against the blind/dissabled people. It would just be much easier for them to make it comapatable in the first place.
There are alot of issues that MS could be in the wrong for. But something like disscrimation against the blind is something that even joe never-used-a-computer-before can see clearly is wrong.
Then they would probaly have a very big lawsuit coming their way. And they would probably loose quite badly.
what if the image was randomly offset or rotated etc. after each click? The X,Y info would be useless.
Evolving to be an omnivore was a good way to get what we needed. Now we have other ways to get what we need.
Better the family heirlooms than your new expensive toy! ;)
I think the key work here is tumble. Instead of just falling flat on it's face. It probably dives into a forward roll, curled up into a ball etc.
The problem's that I'm not a fucking slave.
Could it be something to do with the fact that this CD is somewhat "flacid" compared to a normal "hard" CD?
Sex appeal?
Who knows.. Only time will tell.
If you find more info on this suit. Let me know.
Still waiting to hear back from Apple about the e-mail I sent them, conserning improvments for optimisation on the G3. But no reply yet.
Spose you can't expect too much from a company that has obviously sold-out. Woz should really be the one in charge.
Why? I thought that they'd be pretty neat too. Untill I reasilsed that I could probably bike faster, And also that I'd prefer to bike or walk since I hardly get any exercise anyway (like most people).
Sure... The technology is impressive. And it would be great for old people, or people who have been injured, or are dissabled etc. But I just can't imagine everyone using a segway instead of walking or taking the bus.
HAHAHA! Sorry. But that's the funniest thing I have read all week.
WAY TO GO ADOBE!
You know what the depressing thing is? This will start to get more common, and the humor will dissapear.
But what say I own an MP3 player, use lots of CD and CD-R, and use them legaly? Why should I then give cash to some company that is already making billions by ripping people off. Hell the musicians who are too lazy to revolt against the big lables will never see a dime of the money anyway.
It's all very well to cry 'what about the artist' But they hardly get any of the money from the companies to start with since the artist will still be ripped off no matter how much or little piracy is going on.. And I don't see any movments of any sort from the artists against the lables.