In other news, a Best Buy in Hoboken, NY had a clogged toilet. Two employees attempted to unclog it before professional help was called in. Bob's Plumbing was rushed to the scene.
"It was a standard class 4 poop," the plumber stated, "nothing I can't handle."
The stall was returned to normal operation shortly thereafter.
* Replace the Slashdot front page with some sort of error message typical of Windows error messages. Let the real front page get through every 1,000 visits or something.
* Reverse the moderation system. I.E. all "good" moderations actually count negative.
* AJAX-ify the living shit out of the front page.
* Trade domains with Digg for a day.
Etc.
April fools day is supposed to be a day where you see if you can fool people. Not a day where you make jokes. I'll admit, the Ponies thing was kinda funny, but it's not going to fool anyone. But WordPress' prank (WordPattern) was inspired. There was a lot of work put in to it and it was pretty funny.
A successful April Fools joke gets reported in the mainstream media as truth, only to be retracted the next day.
I'm hoping the "gay" tags were parodies of Digg. I sure hope the Slashdot community isn't as immature as the Digg community. Digg has cool links every now and then, but the comments make me want to get violent in a local public school.
This is something of a disturbing trend among kids these days. I play lots of Halo online and it's flooded with immature tweens always screaming "THIS LAG IS GAY" and tripe of that nature. I'm not a huge English nut, but this perversion of English really busts my nuts. It doesn't even make sense! "This lag is homosexual!" "That computer is heterosexual!"
This "ZOMG YUR GAY" shit bugs the shit out of me, and I'm straight. I can only imagine how the gay community feels about this. How does pink imply homosexuality anyways? Because it's a feminine color? Does that mean blue is "straight"?
Sadly, the tagging here on Slashdot doesn't allow people to remove tags or moderate them. I guess I better start tagging stories based on their perceived sexuality!
You just brought up an interesting point: people have no problem installing plug-ins but refuse to upgrade to Firefox. The solution is obvious!
The Firefox Plug-In!
Seriously, that would be awesome. Switch out the rendering engine with a plug-in and save me (a web-developer) the pain in the ass of hacking my pages to work on the abomination that is IE. Tell the users that it comes with new emoticons and wallpapers and other equally worthless crap and they'll install in droves. SpreadFirefox.com wont know what hit 'em!
My nano is proper fucking loud, uncomfortably so, esp with the apple ear buds (I prefer bang & olfsen for the quality) and that level of noise directed straight at your eardrum cant be good for you.
You are aware that your iPod has a volume control, correct?
How the hell is porn harmful? That's the worst part of this American culture. Killing people is glorified but OH CHRIST DON'T LET ANYONE BE SEEN MAKING LOVE!
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Flickr isn't really about the "image hosting" part of it - it's about the social aspect of it. Putting pictures in pools, commenting on people who take pictures with the same camera you do, finding photographers you like and can gain inspiration from, sharing photos with friends, and so on.
Gallery 2 is a great piece of image organizing and hosting software, though. It's just missing the social aspect that Flickr has.
I thought it was a nice overview. There's merit in both the Hannibal-type dissection and this kind of "Joe Six-pack" review. I myself prefer real-world tests such as the battery and Photoshop tests in this review. I don't care about pipelines and watts and floating point instructions nor do 99% of consumers. They (we) just want a nice tool that is fast and worth the money.
Not to mention, film has an analog quality that is currently nearly impossible for digital to emulate. Sure, I could drop $3,000 on a 12-megapixel camera and spend hours tweaking a photo in Photoshop to get some nice effects. But I can get those effects from my cheap Olympus OM-4 set-up with a tilt-shift lens or my custom pin-hole lens.
I love my digital camera, really. But there's so much more warmth, depth, and life in my film camera shots.
Just like music - digital has a ways to go before it can match the nuances and quirks of analog.
You are painfully on target. (Pun intended, I guess.)
I spent my Senior year in High School going through a series of "necessary" gingival grafts. The pain was excruciating because the Viccodin didn't do much for me and I ended up not taking it because it screwed with my attention span, which was bad when I was drilling myself through AP Calculus and English among other things (girlfriend included!).
It turns out that everyone in my family has "receding" gums. That's just how they are - small. The doctor made a few thousand dollars, I got one cool picture of my shredded mouth roof. Exciting. Thank you, profit motive!
I have recently acquired the rights to myself as a statistic. You may license me as a single number in your statistics if you pay an appropriate licensing fee.
Otherwise, you must cease including me in your statistics, like so:
I think that down the road, we'll see a lot more PC games on the Mac because now the effort to port apps will be minimized. No longer will much of a game's codebase need to be rewritten to take advantage of PowerPC architecture. I'm a Mac fan-boy, but I don't have a TV or XBox/PS2, so I miss out on a lot of games.
Maybe that's a good thing, being in college with two jobs and all...
Probably because the iMac is the mid-range desktop and the PowerMac (what will its new name be?) is their high-end desktop. I imagine that the PowerMac will get the 3GHz processor when it's updated. (WWDC at the very latest, I would imagine.)
And a MacBook Pro that's 10x more powerful than a iBook?!? There goes the iBook market...
The iBook is 1/2 the price of the MacBook Pro, which is enough of a differentiation, really. But yeah, that MacBook Pro is one juicy piece of hardware. You're right, though, it's certainly an awkward product lineup.
I believe the current "funk" in the product line is entirely a product of the fact that the transition to Intel is going to be uneven as the engineering teams work on each individual model to bring them in to the Intel future. The iMac is equivalent in power to a PowerMac, it looks like, which only bodes well for the next PowerMac ("MacDesktop Pro"? "Mac Pro"?) - that puppy will be one seriously powerful monster.
But like Steve said, they'll be transitioning them throughout the year. I imagine that once all the machines are moved over, the pricing will settle a bit and we'll get back our 12" and 17" laptop models.
My 12" PowerBook used to seem so powerful... Cripes.
Does anyone else get frustrated carrying around 9 chargers for trips?
You're contradicting yourself in one post. You say you're tired of carrying around tons of different plugs and chargers and converters but then you bash this device. Your gripe is exactly one of those solved by this mouse. You need no batteries and no cables to use this mouse. What could be better? A majority of laptops have PC card slots but they're hardly used anymore.
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Which is good, because you'll be doing a whole damn lot of reformatting!
"Stuff that mattters!"
In other news, a Best Buy in Hoboken, NY had a clogged toilet. Two employees attempted to unclog it before professional help was called in. Bob's Plumbing was rushed to the scene.
"It was a standard class 4 poop," the plumber stated, "nothing I can't handle."
The stall was returned to normal operation shortly thereafter.
So, now Slashdot gets gradients and a new font. That's it? That's not a redesign. It's a "visual update".
And if they play all the blank DVDs they find, goatse.cx is going to get a whole new lease on life.
Oddly enough, I think "mortage.com" could be a clever company name for a mortgage company:
"Mortage: When you need some G's."
If it's an American beer, yeah.
A few ideas I had while folding laundry:
* Replace the Slashdot front page with some sort of error message typical of Windows error messages. Let the real front page get through every 1,000 visits or something.
* Reverse the moderation system. I.E. all "good" moderations actually count negative.
* AJAX-ify the living shit out of the front page.
* Trade domains with Digg for a day.
Etc.
April fools day is supposed to be a day where you see if you can fool people. Not a day where you make jokes. I'll admit, the Ponies thing was kinda funny, but it's not going to fool anyone. But WordPress' prank (WordPattern) was inspired. There was a lot of work put in to it and it was pretty funny.
A successful April Fools joke gets reported in the mainstream media as truth, only to be retracted the next day.
I'm hoping the "gay" tags were parodies of Digg. I sure hope the Slashdot community isn't as immature as the Digg community. Digg has cool links every now and then, but the comments make me want to get violent in a local public school.
This is something of a disturbing trend among kids these days. I play lots of Halo online and it's flooded with immature tweens always screaming "THIS LAG IS GAY" and tripe of that nature. I'm not a huge English nut, but this perversion of English really busts my nuts. It doesn't even make sense! "This lag is homosexual!" "That computer is heterosexual!"
This "ZOMG YUR GAY" shit bugs the shit out of me, and I'm straight. I can only imagine how the gay community feels about this. How does pink imply homosexuality anyways? Because it's a feminine color? Does that mean blue is "straight"?
Sadly, the tagging here on Slashdot doesn't allow people to remove tags or moderate them. I guess I better start tagging stories based on their perceived sexuality!
You just brought up an interesting point: people have no problem installing plug-ins but refuse to upgrade to Firefox. The solution is obvious!
The Firefox Plug-In!
Seriously, that would be awesome. Switch out the rendering engine with a plug-in and save me (a web-developer) the pain in the ass of hacking my pages to work on the abomination that is IE. Tell the users that it comes with new emoticons and wallpapers and other equally worthless crap and they'll install in droves. SpreadFirefox.com wont know what hit 'em!
You are aware that your iPod has a volume control, correct?
There's two other patches out there that work pretty damn well:
1 and 2.
So if you have 5 friends, someone's going to have to sit outside!
Required listening for any self-respecting DJ
How the hell is porn harmful? That's the worst part of this American culture. Killing people is glorified but OH CHRIST DON'T LET ANYONE BE SEEN MAKING LOVE!
Flickr isn't really about the "image hosting" part of it - it's about the social aspect of it. Putting pictures in pools, commenting on people who take pictures with the same camera you do, finding photographers you like and can gain inspiration from, sharing photos with friends, and so on.
Gallery 2 is a great piece of image organizing and hosting software, though. It's just missing the social aspect that Flickr has.
I thought it was a nice overview. There's merit in both the Hannibal-type dissection and this kind of "Joe Six-pack" review. I myself prefer real-world tests such as the battery and Photoshop tests in this review. I don't care about pipelines and watts and floating point instructions nor do 99% of consumers. They (we) just want a nice tool that is fast and worth the money.
But hey, to each his own.
Not to mention, film has an analog quality that is currently nearly impossible for digital to emulate. Sure, I could drop $3,000 on a 12-megapixel camera and spend hours tweaking a photo in Photoshop to get some nice effects. But I can get those effects from my cheap Olympus OM-4 set-up with a tilt-shift lens or my custom pin-hole lens.
I love my digital camera, really. But there's so much more warmth, depth, and life in my film camera shots.
Just like music - digital has a ways to go before it can match the nuances and quirks of analog.
You are painfully on target. (Pun intended, I guess.)
I spent my Senior year in High School going through a series of "necessary" gingival grafts. The pain was excruciating because the Viccodin didn't do much for me and I ended up not taking it because it screwed with my attention span, which was bad when I was drilling myself through AP Calculus and English among other things (girlfriend included!).
It turns out that everyone in my family has "receding" gums. That's just how they are - small. The doctor made a few thousand dollars, I got one cool picture of my shredded mouth roof. Exciting. Thank you, profit motive!
I have recently acquired the rights to myself as a statistic. You may license me as a single number in your statistics if you pay an appropriate licensing fee.
Otherwise, you must cease including me in your statistics, like so:
MLB Fans: 27 - 1
I think that down the road, we'll see a lot more PC games on the Mac because now the effort to port apps will be minimized. No longer will much of a game's codebase need to be rewritten to take advantage of PowerPC architecture. I'm a Mac fan-boy, but I don't have a TV or XBox/PS2, so I miss out on a lot of games.
Maybe that's a good thing, being in college with two jobs and all...
Correction: That was an intentional Yes Men prank and it happened in 1993 - more than a "few" years ago. You can read more here.
Probably because the iMac is the mid-range desktop and the PowerMac (what will its new name be?) is their high-end desktop. I imagine that the PowerMac will get the 3GHz processor when it's updated. (WWDC at the very latest, I would imagine.)
The iBook is 1/2 the price of the MacBook Pro, which is enough of a differentiation, really. But yeah, that MacBook Pro is one juicy piece of hardware. You're right, though, it's certainly an awkward product lineup.
I believe the current "funk" in the product line is entirely a product of the fact that the transition to Intel is going to be uneven as the engineering teams work on each individual model to bring them in to the Intel future. The iMac is equivalent in power to a PowerMac, it looks like, which only bodes well for the next PowerMac ("MacDesktop Pro"? "Mac Pro"?) - that puppy will be one seriously powerful monster.
But like Steve said, they'll be transitioning them throughout the year. I imagine that once all the machines are moved over, the pricing will settle a bit and we'll get back our 12" and 17" laptop models.
My 12" PowerBook used to seem so powerful... Cripes.
You're contradicting yourself in one post. You say you're tired of carrying around tons of different plugs and chargers and converters but then you bash this device. Your gripe is exactly one of those solved by this mouse. You need no batteries and no cables to use this mouse. What could be better? A majority of laptops have PC card slots but they're hardly used anymore.
Slashdotters these days. Yeesh.