"I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!"
I'm not just talking about family photos. Imagine maps, scanned handwritten notes...
I'm imagining these things being shrunk too small to possibly be of any use. Could you really use a map or handwritten notes shrunk down to the size of an iPod screen?
Why would Apple waste its time with a USB-based video capture device? The video quality sucks, you have to jerry-rig a system for ouput, etc. USB + Video Capture == Bad idea.
If Apple was gonna do something, it would do it right with something like this.
I don't know, but you can experiment using the pbcopy and pbpaste shell commands. You can pipe and direct in and out of them and everything. They're really cool.
This is why I think something like OS X is such a good idea, that is a mix of a proprietary desktop and free software backen. Why? Because OSS desktop developers will make something that *they* like, not something that end users like.
OSS desktop developers seem to want something that makes them feel powerful, which means making everything so wildly customizable, even in the UI. The end user doesn't need or want to know how to reconfigure the most minute aspect of a desktop interface. As a result, the end user suffers. I think this is a fundamental problem when OSS tries to appeal to outsiders who don't possess the same skills and values as its developers.
Proprietary development has its own biases, but UI design seems to be less of one.
Hey, I like Apple. I'm writing this on a TiBook, so I must like Apple.
There's no reason why once you've made a commitment to Apple to excuse all of its mistakes. Apple can make mistakes. There is no reason to deny that.
I used to be a Mac zealot. I'm not implying you do it, but I used to refuse to believe or would play down any of the stupid, painful mistakes Apple would make, which at the time were pretty serious.
Now I don't feel the need to do that anymore. Maybe I realized that it's ok to like something even if it isn't perfect all the time, but whatever the reason I don't feel the need to do that anymore.
Apple are quite a big company, but they are not THAT big - perhaps they should learn from this and the iCube, and plan a little more carefully before they launch certain products?
This won't happen, because "Apple's market research" can be restated as "Steve's design sense", which, in case you haven't noticed, is a measure of how symmetrical something is.
Apple seems to always make marketing blunders when radial symmetry -- the highest order of Steve's Design Sense -- is involved in the design. Examples: the Cube, the round mouse, the new iMac. Steve is obviously brilliant, but sometimes he takes his particular taste a little too far.
.... and shame on the Democratic party for not being able to do a god damned thing about it. How could they let this happen? What the Hell is the matter with them?
I honestly think I personally could do a better job if I was in charge of the DNC, and that's a sad state of affairs. I think I could come up with something better than the jab-and-retreat, non-aggression and "appeasement" strategies for dealing with conservatives and their rhetoric. I don't know what's going going on in their heads, but whatever it is they clearly don't have the right mindset. And since party leaders aren't chosen democratically I don't feel like there is anything I can do about it.
The economy is not Bush's fault, at least not directly. (It could be argued that it is partially the fault of his friends in the Wall Street Journal hype machine.)
However, what is being done about economy? I don't have any idea, because all I heard about on the news is an n-way war Bush is pushing HARD with questionable priority. Why does he want to spend 100 times more money and 1000 times more men on Iraq than al Qaeda?
The US has more nuclear, chemical and biological weapons than every other country on earth combined.
I don't believe that is true. Can you support that with some evidence?
But I think this is what the US wants - because it's good for the economy. Wars are very good for the US economy. The US banks are well known for lending money to BOTH sides of wars to buy weapons from the US industrial military complex. Very good for the economy...
Again, evidence please? Wars are not always good for the economy.
You make some very emotional points. Make whatever wild claims you want when you talk to yourself, but BACK THEM UP WITH SOME FUCKING EVIDENCE when you talk to me. Thanks.
I often tell folks that there's not much difference between writing a short story or coding a project under a deadline.
Really? I do the same thing, write and code, but I can't do them both at the same time. If I've been coding for a few days, writing is difficult for me. It's just the problems that I've been working on in my head are so different -- It's hard to switch frames. For me I like to think the two arts use totally different parts of my brain, and I have to sort of switch modes from time to time to get back to what I was doing before.
There is only a limited amount of space to build grocery stores in -- so let a single regional provider do that.
Don't be ridiculous. Utilities need by far the most amount of space per consumer than any other business -- they require physical control of an complete pathway to their customers. The space a utility line consumes is not only large per customer, but that space must be located in a specific, small range of space for each and every customer to the point where it actually must connect to their home/business. A grocery store takes a vastly smaller amount space per customer and that space can be located miles away from those customers.
Yes, of course it has. What has that got to do with whether or not it is right?
At least somebody must believe it is right, or it would have gotten shot down by now. The fact that it has survived assaults under each branch of government must imply there are some good arguments for it lurking somewhere.
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No, it's economics. The idea is that there is only a limited amount of space to run wires in -- so let a single regional provider do that. A virtually unlimited number of companies could provide LD service over those wires -- so let them compete to the death.
This is the idea that broke up AT&T. Whether it applies to DSL I have my doubts, but the regulation has withstood numerous challenges in court, at the agency level (FCC) and in Congress.
The sample sizes used in this post are so small that there is no way you could draw a statistical inference. In all of your examples, you compare *only two years*. How can you draw a conclusion from only 2 years of data when obviously the information from later and earlier years exists yet is omitted?
Here's another one: you say gun murders in Victoria increased from 6 to 18! A three-fold increase! 4.5 million people live in Victoria. The number is so tiny compared to the population size that a small total increase will lead to a large proportionate increase -- so the proportionate increase should not be used as the relevant statistic. According to those number, per 1000 head the gun murder rate increased from 0.0013 to 0.004.
Increasing the amount of software available for your platform makes your platform more valuable. Apple seems to believe this when it publicly courts the open source community.
Rather than buying it out, Apple appears have been engaging in "friendship projects" with OSDN to increase its exposure. To name a few: giving Sourceforge OS X Servers for its compile farm, giving the Slashdot crew TiBooks, encouraging Apple sections of Slashdot and now Freshmeat.
I stopped using Yahoo when they decided advertisers were their "real" customers. The search box is this little tiny thing in the corner now -- but wouldn't you rather hear about this exciting new MusicLaunch event?!
When they started that ad campaign advertising, literally, "content", I knew they were heading for a fall. "Sign up for SBC-Yahoo and get exciting content, now!" Advertising using terminology that resonates with management and not the general public is a big sign that the company has totally lost touch. Bye-bye.
I'm an OOL customer, too. A few weeks ago we had brownouts here, in Fairfield County, CT. During peak hours, which was about from 3:00 pm to 10:00 pm, the internet would totally shut off for 20-30 seconds at a time every 2 minutes. This went on for 3-4 weeks. As someone who needs to use the net for work from home, needless to say, this was beyond frustrating.
I just installed the update, and now the CVS utilities have vanished from my system! I was just expecting it to overwrite/etc/motd (which it did not), not uninstall CVS!!
Questions:
1. WTF???
2. Anyone know where I can find an OS X CVS installer package?
Now, for accounting purposes, what dollar value do we put on that time? How much does your average computer-literate thief charge per hour anyway? Do you have to withhold taxes?
Most economists assume a person's value of their own time is the same as their hourly wage at work. So, if you earn $5 an hour, 3 hours is worth $15 to you. That may be only partly accurate, but that's the formula.
You're right that merchants shouldn't have to compete with piracy, however, widespread piracy is a signal that there is a huge amount of demand by consumers that isn't being met because of overpricing. If they lowered prices, they could tap into this unmet demand and quite possibly make even more money. In the short run, until they fall into irrelevancy. But that's another story...
How about amazing glance-at-own-site technology? Maybe a read-over-what-you've-just-written-you-dummy perl script?
Maybe we're not thinking on the right level. Remember that early episode of the Simpsons where they all went to Dr. Monroe and he let them give each other (too many) electric shocks? Something like that.
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I'm imagining these things being shrunk too small to possibly be of any use. Could you really use a map or handwritten notes shrunk down to the size of an iPod screen?
If Apple was gonna do something, it would do it right with something like this.
I don't know, but you can experiment using the pbcopy and pbpaste shell commands. You can pipe and direct in and out of them and everything. They're really cool.
OSS desktop developers seem to want something that makes them feel powerful, which means making everything so wildly customizable, even in the UI. The end user doesn't need or want to know how to reconfigure the most minute aspect of a desktop interface. As a result, the end user suffers. I think this is a fundamental problem when OSS tries to appeal to outsiders who don't possess the same skills and values as its developers.
Proprietary development has its own biases, but UI design seems to be less of one.
Hobbes: Is it a right to remain ignorant?
Calvin: I don't know, but I refuse to find out!
[Chalk up another point for libertarianism!]
There's no reason why once you've made a commitment to Apple to excuse all of its mistakes. Apple can make mistakes. There is no reason to deny that.
I used to be a Mac zealot. I'm not implying you do it, but I used to refuse to believe or would play down any of the stupid, painful mistakes Apple would make, which at the time were pretty serious.
Now I don't feel the need to do that anymore. Maybe I realized that it's ok to like something even if it isn't perfect all the time, but whatever the reason I don't feel the need to do that anymore.
This won't happen, because "Apple's market research" can be restated as "Steve's design sense", which, in case you haven't noticed, is a measure of how symmetrical something is.
Apple seems to always make marketing blunders when radial symmetry -- the highest order of Steve's Design Sense -- is involved in the design. Examples: the Cube, the round mouse, the new iMac. Steve is obviously brilliant, but sometimes he takes his particular taste a little too far.
> winpm install Mozilla
Must satisfy dependency: Microsoft-Office-XP
> winpm install CuteFTP
Must satisfy dependency: Microsoft-Office-XP
> winpm install StarOffice
Must satisfy dependency: Microsoft-Office-XP
hmmmm
I honestly think I personally could do a better job if I was in charge of the DNC, and that's a sad state of affairs. I think I could come up with something better than the jab-and-retreat, non-aggression and "appeasement" strategies for dealing with conservatives and their rhetoric. I don't know what's going going on in their heads, but whatever it is they clearly don't have the right mindset. And since party leaders aren't chosen democratically I don't feel like there is anything I can do about it.
However, what is being done about economy? I don't have any idea, because all I heard about on the news is an n-way war Bush is pushing HARD with questionable priority. Why does he want to spend 100 times more money and 1000 times more men on Iraq than al Qaeda?
I don't believe that is true. Can you support that with some evidence?
But I think this is what the US wants - because it's good for the economy. Wars are very good for the US economy. The US banks are well known for lending money to BOTH sides of wars to buy weapons from the US industrial military complex. Very good for the economy...
Again, evidence please? Wars are not always good for the economy.
You make some very emotional points. Make whatever wild claims you want when you talk to yourself, but BACK THEM UP WITH SOME FUCKING EVIDENCE when you talk to me. Thanks.
Really? I do the same thing, write and code, but I can't do them both at the same time. If I've been coding for a few days, writing is difficult for me. It's just the problems that I've been working on in my head are so different -- It's hard to switch frames. For me I like to think the two arts use totally different parts of my brain, and I have to sort of switch modes from time to time to get back to what I was doing before.
He's running for governor.
Don't be ridiculous. Utilities need by far the most amount of space per consumer than any other business -- they require physical control of an complete pathway to their customers. The space a utility line consumes is not only large per customer, but that space must be located in a specific, small range of space for each and every customer to the point where it actually must connect to their home/business. A grocery store takes a vastly smaller amount space per customer and that space can be located miles away from those customers.
Yes, of course it has. What has that got to do with whether or not it is right?
At least somebody must believe it is right, or it would have gotten shot down by now. The fact that it has survived assaults under each branch of government must imply there are some good arguments for it lurking somewhere.
This is the idea that broke up AT&T. Whether it applies to DSL I have my doubts, but the regulation has withstood numerous challenges in court, at the agency level (FCC) and in Congress.
Here's another one: you say gun murders in Victoria increased from 6 to 18! A three-fold increase! 4.5 million people live in Victoria. The number is so tiny compared to the population size that a small total increase will lead to a large proportionate increase -- so the proportionate increase should not be used as the relevant statistic. According to those number, per 1000 head the gun murder rate increased from 0.0013 to 0.004.
Rather than buying it out, Apple appears have been engaging in "friendship projects" with OSDN to increase its exposure. To name a few: giving Sourceforge OS X Servers for its compile farm, giving the Slashdot crew TiBooks, encouraging Apple sections of Slashdot and now Freshmeat.
When they started that ad campaign advertising, literally, "content", I knew they were heading for a fall. "Sign up for SBC-Yahoo and get exciting content, now!" Advertising using terminology that resonates with management and not the general public is a big sign that the company has totally lost touch. Bye-bye.
I'm an OOL customer, too. A few weeks ago we had brownouts here, in Fairfield County, CT. During peak hours, which was about from 3:00 pm to 10:00 pm, the internet would totally shut off for 20-30 seconds at a time every 2 minutes. This went on for 3-4 weeks. As someone who needs to use the net for work from home, needless to say, this was beyond frustrating.
Couldn't this have been worded better?
Questions:
1. WTF???
2. Anyone know where I can find an OS X CVS installer package?
Most economists assume a person's value of their own time is the same as their hourly wage at work. So, if you earn $5 an hour, 3 hours is worth $15 to you. That may be only partly accurate, but that's the formula.
You're right that merchants shouldn't have to compete with piracy, however, widespread piracy is a signal that there is a huge amount of demand by consumers that isn't being met because of overpricing. If they lowered prices, they could tap into this unmet demand and quite possibly make even more money. In the short run, until they fall into irrelevancy. But that's another story...
Maybe we're not thinking on the right level. Remember that early episode of the Simpsons where they all went to Dr. Monroe and he let them give each other (too many) electric shocks? Something like that.