The difference is that with Down's syndrome, although there is a hole (usually between the chambers), the heart is otherwise a fully functional muscle. Repair is a matter of staunching the leak with a material flexible and durable enough.
In heart attacks a portion of the muscle dies (ironically, because of impeded blood flow) and cannot be repaired using current techniques since it would involve wholesale replacement of the affected region to restore full function.
By way of analogy: a steel plate will fix a skull fracture, but isn't much use if half your head is missing. Same principle.
People should require having a license to use a computer.
As much as I appreciate this idea from the "at least I don't have to fix it" perspective, you do realise that cheap commodity boxes are cheap precisely because they are commodities, right? Let's say 10% of the population qualifies for a license*: without the economies of scale and cut-throat competition, the price will probably rise towards what they were when only 10% of people had computers - I doubt quite that far, but enough to hurt.
Considering the idiocy I see regularly on the roads, I don't see a licensing system having any real impact on how people actually use their machines once they've qualified. Besides, the idea of putting overly onerous (read: effective) restrictions on who can or can't use computers would result in just about any government being handed its goolies on a plate - not least by the/. crowd...
*10% seems like a good estimate of the number of people who really understand or even care about the significance of basic security.
I think you missed one: Windows Media Player for Mac.
No, I specifically left WMP out because of the two quality issues I cited: (1) It can't jump form place to place on the timeline without leaving a black screen (even though flip4mac for QuickTime can), and (2) the audio is IMO uniformly terrible (my high frequency hearing is very good, and I want to keep it that way; 10 minutes of WMP audio and I feel like someone has jammed spikes in my ears). The former is completely unacceptable to me in an on-demand media player, the latter is just plain unacceptable.
Also, since you hadn't noticed, I was deliberately listing players that use the QuickTime architecture to play a variety of formats; last time I tried, the only formats that WMP could play were WMV and WMA (I've never been able to get it to play anything else, but I'd be interested if your luck is different).
The point I was making is that if your biggest gripe about the QuickTime Player is that you have to pay for full screen, then there are plenty of free, small footprint (which WMP is not) players that will do the job. Some of them even have better performance than the QTPlayer; try some, you will be pleasantly surprised and find it a worthwhile exercise.
Sure, not my first choice either, but it does work.
Can't shuttle, horrible audio, hit-and-miss recognition of format versions (depending on whether or not Microsoft sees fit to keep the Mac & PC versions concurrent, which is not my experience)...that sounds like the Windows definition of "it does work". Are you sure you own a Macintosh?;)
It may come as a shock to learn that for some of us file export is actually more important than full screen.
And as for wit and sophistication, I claim neither since it was merely a slightly sarcastic observation of Apple's marketing strategy (its not very clever mistaking sarcasm for wit, you know)
the basic, "free", QT client doesn't even support full screen mode
The free client also doesn't support file conversion and export...barbaric, I know, but that's just the method Apple use to encourage some to pay for it.
You could of course try one of the free alternative players that do give you full screen:
And that's just the search results from one site, I'm sure there are more out there. You could trash the QuickTime Player and relace it with any of those, because unlike Real and WMV, QuickTime codecs are available to any software that uses the relevant APIs (which is why these programs are so small: the codecs are already in the OS, so they just contain interface components. They'll even play WMVs if you have the third-party codec installed).
WMV on Mac is better than QuickTime on Mac. It shouldn't be, but it is. It does what it's supposed to do. Performance is excellent.
I don't know about you, but for me "performance" means being able to jump forwards and backwards on the timeline and see more than black screen (the third party WMV codecs for QuickTime can do this, why can't Microsoft manage it?); even my old VHS has a functional "fast forward" button. I'd take that over the minor inconvenience of a tiny fraction of my screen being taken up by window edges any day (not that its really an issue for me, since I do use the export features of QTPro its worth paying for it). And I can't say I'm impressed by WMP's audio at any data rate.
Yeah, it really must suck to be a huge corporation with billions of dollars in revenue regularly using its market share to force out any competition. Especially since it defies the laws of physics (or something) for them to bundle other vendors' software and give users an option...
You cannot increase the number of groves (or whatever they call them now)...
The technical term is "track pitch"; to nitpick, there is only one groove/data track per side/layer on most linear disk formats (Monty Python's "Matching Tie and Handkerchief" being a notable exception).
You want your porn to be high-definition so you can read the labels.
Actually, if the resolution is low enough you can safely watch even bestial midget transexual porn, provided you aren't disturbed by one large pixel changing colour in lewd fasion.
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I had an old teacher who's had TWO artificial hearts.
So he's a Time Lord, then?
(Sounds a bit like my grandmother, who after three hip replacements has difficulty walking, but waltzes divinely)
The difference is that with Down's syndrome, although there is a hole (usually between the chambers), the heart is otherwise a fully functional muscle. Repair is a matter of staunching the leak with a material flexible and durable enough.
In heart attacks a portion of the muscle dies (ironically, because of impeded blood flow) and cannot be repaired using current techniques since it would involve wholesale replacement of the affected region to restore full function.
By way of analogy: a steel plate will fix a skull fracture, but isn't much use if half your head is missing. Same principle.
In that case you'll have to slap yourself twice: once for wanting one, once for running out.
Google "Pine Gap".
No, just slap yourself any time you feel like a Guiness.
...but at most, two semesters of English. I say "at most" because one could easily substitute Music or Art courses in place of English (which I did).
Leading to the following scene:
Prof: Mr Cosmas, this essay is completely unintelligable!
DC: Want me to paint you a picture?
Prof: Do you know you're a disgrace to this institution?
DC: No, but hum a few bars...
(No offfense intended. Your spelling and grammar are impeccable.)
People should require having a license to use a computer.
/. crowd...
As much as I appreciate this idea from the "at least I don't have to fix it" perspective, you do realise that cheap commodity boxes are cheap precisely because they are commodities, right? Let's say 10% of the population qualifies for a license*: without the economies of scale and cut-throat competition, the price will probably rise towards what they were when only 10% of people had computers - I doubt quite that far, but enough to hurt.
Considering the idiocy I see regularly on the roads, I don't see a licensing system having any real impact on how people actually use their machines once they've qualified. Besides, the idea of putting overly onerous (read: effective) restrictions on who can or can't use computers would result in just about any government being handed its goolies on a plate - not least by the
*10% seems like a good estimate of the number of people who really understand or even care about the significance of basic security.
Our browser support goes back to IE 5.5 Win, NS 6, FF .8, and Safari (forget which version).
Considering Safari stands at 2.0.3, I'd hazard a guess and say version 1...
Why can't the computer industries do what TV is doing in America?
Ask Apple.
You can voice your opinions without resorting to disrespectful attitudes
Killjoy.
I never checked what it said at the end of "Jesus Christ Superstar" though...
It said: "Any similarity between this musical and entertainment, either living or dead, is entirely coincidental"
Its called the "Mighty Mouse". Oh, wait, that was a Harveytoon...
...the Queen feeds Snow White a poison banana.
I think I saw that version in the adult video section...and you thought 7-up was a soft drink!
Does it means Steve Jobs will appear in cartoons?
No, but it means Mickey's pants will have only one button.
I just wish to express my utterly redundant agreement with your valid but redundant point about linguistic precision being redundant.
Ironically, this post will probably be modded up as "Insightful"...
I think you missed one: Windows Media Player for Mac.
;)
No, I specifically left WMP out because of the two quality issues I cited: (1) It can't jump form place to place on the timeline without leaving a black screen (even though flip4mac for QuickTime can), and (2) the audio is IMO uniformly terrible (my high frequency hearing is very good, and I want to keep it that way; 10 minutes of WMP audio and I feel like someone has jammed spikes in my ears). The former is completely unacceptable to me in an on-demand media player, the latter is just plain unacceptable.
Also, since you hadn't noticed, I was deliberately listing players that use the QuickTime architecture to play a variety of formats; last time I tried, the only formats that WMP could play were WMV and WMA (I've never been able to get it to play anything else, but I'd be interested if your luck is different).
The point I was making is that if your biggest gripe about the QuickTime Player is that you have to pay for full screen, then there are plenty of free, small footprint (which WMP is not) players that will do the job. Some of them even have better performance than the QTPlayer; try some, you will be pleasantly surprised and find it a worthwhile exercise.
Sure, not my first choice either, but it does work.
Can't shuttle, horrible audio, hit-and-miss recognition of format versions (depending on whether or not Microsoft sees fit to keep the Mac & PC versions concurrent, which is not my experience)...that sounds like the Windows definition of "it does work". Are you sure you own a Macintosh?
It may come as a shock to learn that for some of us file export is actually more important than full screen.
And as for wit and sophistication, I claim neither since it was merely a slightly sarcastic observation of Apple's marketing strategy (its not very clever mistaking sarcasm for wit, you know)
you don't have to pass your one junk email down to your children
You mean those children he should be having with Ali and Ali's sister? http://homestarrunner.com/sbemail35.html
the basic, "free", QT client doesn't even support full screen mode
The free client also doesn't support file conversion and export...barbaric, I know, but that's just the method Apple use to encourage some to pay for it.
You could of course try one of the free alternative players that do give you full screen:
Echidna Movie Viewer (296KB) http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/6068
Fullscreen Movie Player (926KB) http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11670
LittleView (208KB) http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/20230
Movie Time (176KB) http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/14774
Nice Player (672KB) http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15136
Playlist Player (202KB) http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/9442
PresentMovie: (14KB) http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7534
QT Full Screen (92KB) http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19158
QTAmateur (77K) http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/18278
QuikTime FS (17K) http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/16959
Xinema (1MB) http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10767
And that's just the search results from one site, I'm sure there are more out there. You could trash the QuickTime Player and relace it with any of those, because unlike Real and WMV, QuickTime codecs are available to any software that uses the relevant APIs (which is why these programs are so small: the codecs are already in the OS, so they just contain interface components. They'll even play WMVs if you have the third-party codec installed).
WMV on Mac is better than QuickTime on Mac. It shouldn't be, but it is. It does what it's supposed to do. Performance is excellent.
I don't know about you, but for me "performance" means being able to jump forwards and backwards on the timeline and see more than black screen (the third party WMV codecs for QuickTime can do this, why can't Microsoft manage it?); even my old VHS has a functional "fast forward" button. I'd take that over the minor inconvenience of a tiny fraction of my screen being taken up by window edges any day (not that its really an issue for me, since I do use the export features of QTPro its worth paying for it). And I can't say I'm impressed by WMP's audio at any data rate.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Yeah, it really must suck to be a huge corporation with billions of dollars in revenue regularly using its market share to force out any competition. Especially since it defies the laws of physics (or something) for them to bundle other vendors' software and give users an option...
I'm still emotionally scarred ever since Wowbagger paid a visit...
He's up to 'z' already, and he missed me? You have no idea how rejected that makes me feel...
You cannot increase the number of groves (or whatever they call them now)...
The technical term is "track pitch"; to nitpick, there is only one groove/data track per side/layer on most linear disk formats (Monty Python's "Matching Tie and Handkerchief" being a notable exception).
But the write times are ridiculous!
You want your porn to be high-definition so you can read the labels.
Actually, if the resolution is low enough you can safely watch even bestial midget transexual porn, provided you aren't disturbed by one large pixel changing colour in lewd fasion.
Personally, I can't really think of a reason someone would want to steal a bunch of track balls.
I can think of two reasons: (1) They aren't nailed down, and (2) At high velocity, a steel ball coated in rubber really hurts.