As Macworld approached, dinners were missed, kids were not tucked in properly, and family plans were disrupted, especially over the holidays. And for what? "Sorry, that's classified" is not considered a satisfactory answer in many households when Mom or Dad misses the school play or the big wedding anniversary dinner.
I'm not sure any job is worth this, let alone producing a gadget.
I must say that she writes a sex column; her crededentials are appropriate and well-suited for the job.
Really? Being a sex columnist makes her well-suited to write a story that admits in the first paragraph that it has nothing at all to do with sex? How do you figure?
What a lame argument you're making. It's no different from, and as valid as, this one:
"Man, I just got laid off, despite my fantastic track record and measurable performance. You know why?
"My old company is devoted entirely to sucking people dry, and they have no compunction whatsoever what that does to people's livelihoods or families or reputations. They do so even when you haven't crossed their business path, because they invent a totally fictitious one of their own: the ridiculous and totally non-existent "loss" that they claim to incur when people don't do the things they would do in the company's perfect world.
"My old company doesn't kill, but they might as well do so. After my life and reputation and credit rating are shattered in court and my livelihood is demolished by utterly incredible invented damages and lawyer fees, there's very little left worth living for, I'm a total wreck. Yet, what did I do to deserve this? I did a GOOD thing, I worked hard. And for that the company mobsters destroyed my life.
Phrased that way, it doesn't sound so noble, does it? It sounds like the life of an everyday Joe. The RIAA isn't bad in some special way. They're bad the way all large, privately funded, unchecked business are: they don't give two shits about anything except themselves, right now.
I'm not passing judgment that it is a "good thing" or a "bad thing". It is what it is, and it generally seems to work. I'm just pointing out the the RIAA isn't some dear-god-who-could-have-seen-the-serpent-coming sort of organization. This is an agency we all built together, the unavoidable product of our economy. If I remember correctly, Eli Whitney either broke even or *lost* money on the cotton gin because farmers stole his intellectual property (plans to make a cotton gin) and refused to buy Whitney's gin. In fact, the arguments were nearly the same as they are about file sharing: Whitney's gin damages the cotton! (purchased music comes with DRM!). It's cheaper to make my own! (It's cheaper to download my own!). Could you really tell me that if Whitney had an agency like the RIAA for farm equipment, he wouldn't have enlisted their services?
Secondly, the flimsy policy prohibits reporters from querying those analysts that would seem to know their subjects best. In a story about Microsoft, a reporter should apparently quote an analyst who covers LSI Logic or orange juice makers, not one who covers Microsoft.
That's known as a false dichotomy. It isn't as if the only choices for sources are 1) people taking money from Microsoft or 2) completely unrelated analysts.
A better policy might insist that the Times disclose the ties between an analyst and a vendor, leaving the reader to make the credibility judgement.
Shouldn't the reader be making this analysis anyway, no matter who the source? I mean, if we don't even trust our own President on his word alone (as we shouldn't), why in the world would we trust a newspaper implicitly?
Good for the Times, I say. It's a move in the right direction. You know all those movie posters that quote "reviewers" and give trash movies "four thumbs WAY up!!!1"? Remember when it was exposed that they were shills?
Numbers 4 and 5 are right on the mark, as well as Finder refresh and file renaming. Also, keyboard navigation is still pretty half-assed.
The hell are you talking about? Enter/Return renames a file. Which leads us to...
I can only pray that Apple realizes that they MUST continue adapting OS X towards "power users," an overstated name for someone who simply bothers to learn how to use their damn OS/computer.
Personally, I use terminal to navigate most directory structures. But beside that point, some keyboard shortcuts are non-obvious, like apple-downarrow to launch a program or open a file (enter/return renames, remember?)
It has always bothered me that macs are thought of as THE platform of choice for designers or those in some kind of professional graphic arts/design, because the vast majority of these people have never touched a PC, and thus aren't even aware of the tiny little details they're missing.
I'm a professional designer that started on a PC and has been on a Mac for a year now. You know what I miss about Windows?
Oh, I see, inadequacy, inability, and stupidity are the "black" traits, huh? If it weren't for the glass ceiling, we'd learn, too! It's a conspiracy of menthol cigarettes and government-sponsored crack! You racist! I demand an apology and reparations in the form of Apple Cinema Displays!
When you think about it, the first truly tech saavy generation (as a whole, not just a select few) is starting to come to maturation. Snail Mail will always have a roll...
And you inadvertantly proved an important point with your use of "roll" instead of "role": even with all the tech we have, kids growing up will still need to learn old-school fundamentals. I don't know of a spell checker that would have caught your error.
The article is spread over 6 short pages and there is no printer-friendly URL.
...and that's just to start. The article is maybe 2 inches wide, flanked on either side by an ad tower and more "articles" broken up in no discernable fashion. Don't forget the google ads after the first paragraph of the article!
Really, kdawson, we're not so hard up for stories around here that this should be an okay thing to do. And it isn't as if you didn't look at the article first... what's up?
You know, back in high school when I sold computers for a chain, I came up with this helper:
Let's say your computer is a kitchen. Your hard drive is the cabinets, and your RAM is the countertop. If you have lots of cabinets and a small countertop, you can still cook whatever you want, you'll just be cleaning up and putting pots and pans away a lot more often. If you have a large counter, you can cook and cook until you're done, and clean it all up at once.
Nothing earthshattering, but I got a lot of "Ohhhh!!"s after explaining it that way.
(in a if every day you have the chance of something happening, after enough days go by you're likely to have had it happening sense).
Perhaps OT, but your example doesn't accurately characterize what I think it is you're saying. Consider a coinflip. Assume the chance of the coin landing heads-up is 1:2, as is the chance of it landing tails up. Assume you're going to flip the coin once. What are the chances of a heads-side-up landing? 1:2, of course. What about if you flip 700 times? 1:2, still. The fallacy that a random event can be predicted by a past event is often called the Gambler's Fallacy or Folly ("the roulette wheel just landed 20 reds in a row, black MUST be next!").
Anyway, it's an important distinction to make; a cell's chance of mutation doesn't always just stay at [arbitrary %], rather, the odds increase with time.
Among the list of remedies proposed by the EFF include [...] hav[ing] the FTC bar [AOL] from storing users' search activities "except where necessary... to the rendition of AOL's services or the protection of AOL rights and property." At most, AOL should only be allowed to keep 14 days' worth of data, argues the EFF.
Why do they keep such logs, anyway? If it's to help tailor results better, or to help sell advertising, then why is it correlated with a user ID? My company, for example, saves a keyword search history, but there is no user-identfiable information correlated with it. And it's plenty of information for our needs.
If nothing else, it's a terrible, terrible reminder that no matter where you are, no matter what you're searching for, someone could be watching.
Did your friend live in Limon, for god's sake?!?!?
Colorado Springs, but we were in Denver.
And ohno, thunderstorms!:O
Dude, I like thunderstorms as much as the next guy, but it's just weird when you're out in shorts on a sunny July day and then out of nowhere... Thunderstorm. I feel like scolding those clouds like I would a small child: "Look, man, there is an appropriate time and place...!". Then I would beat the clouds.
Seriously, I missed having, you know, WEATHER.
I know of nowhere else where you can surf in the morning and then ski/snowboard in the evening. The mountains are a quick jaunt from the coast. And there are plenty who live in Northern CA (Auburn, Grass Valley, etc) who get all 4 seasons (yep, snow and everything). The weather argument is just silly.
Quote from a friend of mine who lives out there while I was visiting:
Her: Can you see all the [Rocky] mountains?! Me: Uh, yeah, there's definitely nothing blocking my view. No trees. No hills. Nothing.
Oh, and don't forget the snow. And the THUNDERSTORMS IN THE MIDDLE OF JULY (wtf?!).
But I never laughed so hard as I did when I saw the bathrooms at Denver Int'l double as tornado shelters.
It's one thing to say that there are good jobs, a lower cost of living, etc (and hey, Denver is a cool city). But it's quite another to imply that it's "better". Personally, I prefer the climate and culture of California. If the job landscape changes, then perhaps I'll have to move out of necessity; but as long as I'm able, I'll stick with California, thanks.
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I'm not sure any job is worth this, let alone producing a gadget.
I'm not passing judgment that it is a "good thing" or a "bad thing". It is what it is, and it generally seems to work. I'm just pointing out the the RIAA isn't some dear-god-who-could-have-seen-the-serpent-coming sort of organization. This is an agency we all built together, the unavoidable product of our economy. If I remember correctly, Eli Whitney either broke even or *lost* money on the cotton gin because farmers stole his intellectual property (plans to make a cotton gin) and refused to buy Whitney's gin. In fact, the arguments were nearly the same as they are about file sharing: Whitney's gin damages the cotton! (purchased music comes with DRM!). It's cheaper to make my own! (It's cheaper to download my own!). Could you really tell me that if Whitney had an agency like the RIAA for farm equipment, he wouldn't have enlisted their services?
Shouldn't the reader be making this analysis anyway, no matter who the source? I mean, if we don't even trust our own President on his word alone (as we shouldn't), why in the world would we trust a newspaper implicitly?
Good for the Times, I say. It's a move in the right direction. You know all those movie posters that quote "reviewers" and give trash movies "four thumbs WAY up!!!1"? Remember when it was exposed that they were shills?
Nothing.
Don't kid yourself. It's not that organized.
Oh, I see, inadequacy, inability, and stupidity are the "black" traits, huh? If it weren't for the glass ceiling, we'd learn, too! It's a conspiracy of menthol cigarettes and government-sponsored crack! You racist! I demand an apology and reparations in the form of Apple Cinema Displays!
Hmmph.
or radio.
Really, kdawson, we're not so hard up for stories around here that this should be an okay thing to do. And it isn't as if you didn't look at the article first... what's up?
Nothing earthshattering, but I got a lot of "Ohhhh!!"s after explaining it that way.
Anyway, it's an important distinction to make; a cell's chance of mutation doesn't always just stay at [arbitrary %], rather, the odds increase with time.
If nothing else, it's a terrible, terrible reminder that no matter where you are, no matter what you're searching for, someone could be watching.
Dude, I like thunderstorms as much as the next guy, but it's just weird when you're out in shorts on a sunny July day and then out of nowhere... Thunderstorm. I feel like scolding those clouds like I would a small child: "Look, man, there is an appropriate time and place...!". Then I would beat the clouds.
I know of nowhere else where you can surf in the morning and then ski/snowboard in the evening. The mountains are a quick jaunt from the coast. And there are plenty who live in Northern CA (Auburn, Grass Valley, etc) who get all 4 seasons (yep, snow and everything). The weather argument is just silly.
Quote from a friend of mine who lives out there while I was visiting:
Oh, and don't forget the snow. And the THUNDERSTORMS IN THE MIDDLE OF JULY (wtf?!).
But I never laughed so hard as I did when I saw the bathrooms at Denver Int'l double as tornado shelters.
It's one thing to say that there are good jobs, a lower cost of living, etc (and hey, Denver is a cool city). But it's quite another to imply that it's "better". Personally, I prefer the climate and culture of California. If the job landscape changes, then perhaps I'll have to move out of necessity; but as long as I'm able, I'll stick with California, thanks.
Hmm. You have a valid point (see also: Microsoft), but does it logically follow that it's the way things should be?
"Protecting civil rights" is a cliche that DOES apply. That's why this should be called for the bullshit that it is.
I tried that once. My girlfriend didn't appreciate it.