Heaven forbid that people expand their education, or that a popular movie offer an in-depth look at what goes into filming on this scale. Even if they go to show that making a movie is no different than day-to-day living in some areas, that's still something I, at least, didn't know before. Education, instruction and de-hyping Hollywood sounds like positive goals, to me. I'm looking forward to it.
If you don't care, or if you already knew, then do what a lot of people are going to do anyway: Get a copy from a friend who shelled out the extra bucks for the Director's Cut. (Or get the Cut and don't watch the extra footage.) No one's forcing you to watch it, just to pay for it, and not necessarily even that.
Even so (and this is suggested in one or two previous posts), Apple would still benefit for making a presence. If they really want to break the "keynote means new product" cycle, why not go and talk about philosophy? About support? About recent decisions and how they are going? Sure, they are all things that they could do via standard PR routes, but so is the notification of new hardware or services.
I can't believe that nothing else but new product is keynote-worthy, but I'll agree that "We don't want to be in New York" is an excuse for something else. Apple must feel sincerely feel that the constant exposure via MWNY/B isn't worth it. Maybe it comes out of their advertising budget.
Maybe I'm missing the standard for it (I'm not on the bleeding edge of things), but I was looking at the HTML 4.01 link rel types and can't find "preload". Fortunately, according to the FAQ, "next" will do just fine.
This is a not nit-pick, but with all the touting of how 100% standards compliant Mozilla is, I'm wondering what the philosophy is on extending the standard, if "preload" isn't in some later HTML standard that I don't yet know about us.
While it's nice to have a lot of UNIX apps available for the Macintosh, many, especially those requiring the installation of an XWindow-For-Aqua solution, are for the *NIX tinkerer. This describes a demographic that Apple certainly wants to keep happy, but not one the one that will make Apple the market share they want.
For that, they need Aqua apps that "Just Work"(tm). Simple to install (or uninstall), laid out in an expected manner. Possibly expandable through CLI-level tweaking of scripts, but working out of the box.
Though I'm constantly happy to see OS/X offering the more-or-less best of both worlds. Definitely the better-than-anyone-else of both worlds. And I'm downright giddy that OpenOffice is embracing the OS and philosophy.
Most things that your average consumer wants has been coded before, and the beauty of (true) open-source is that anyone can get the functions. Or, at the very least, see how someone else has done it and saved hours of design time.
And if it hasn't been coded before, and the average consumer wants them, someone will code it. Why else would someone waste time coding these things for MSOffice if they didn't think it would sell? Besides the obvious "MS Is Snooping My Machine Through Office" functions, I mean.
Yet every one of your instances of information that a library might keep about a book, the one bit of information that they don't necessarily need to keep for any length of time beyond the original loan of the book is your name.
I was talking about the marketing-level information of keeping track of habits. Keeping track of who currently has which books out is, yes, necessary. Keeping track of the names of who checked out beyond the useful scope of the information isn't.
Book stores need this spending information for the marketing which drives their very business, but their model (a library information lending vs a business product selling) is extremely different.
This only just came to mind, so I hope I'm not repeating anyone, but libraries, at least, can foil the system by simply not keeping track of people's lending habits. Nothing compells a library to do this kind of marketing history, unless there are actual laws to do the compelling for them.
From the website: "The droid who helped the Empire!"
I want to see the PR spin on this. "Oh, no, we mean before it was evil. I mean, really evil. I mean, we wiped his memory so we're sure he doesn't remember anything, but just in case, remember to take the batteries out before you go to sleep."
Copyright infringement has never before been a crime committed by individuals procuring their own entertainment.
And yet, it has always been illegal to own song sheets that you did not legitimately buy. "But I did it for my own entertainment" was not a solid argument in the 50s and it's not a solid argument now. The only difference is one of atom-to-bit-shifting.
Now imagine owning several thousand different songs and you let anyone come by and make a copy of one. Even I (who am not the most clean of people in this example) can't imagine that when the idea of "Fair Use" was created anyone thought the everyman could make thousands and thousands of copies.
This is not a new concept, this is just a renewed concept. There is no sudden "new type of criminal", just a new type of person to be an old type of criminal.
Stealing a song is not like stealing a car. One involves the deprivation of a personal property, and the other involves breaking a social contract.
Oh, sorry, I didn't realize that laws weren't supposed to uphold the social ideals of the civilization they're meant to serve.
As of EV:Override, Cap'n Hector shoots at you after the 30 days. For those who aren't aware of the game, Cap'n Hector is one fast, deadly ship. Only a few ships (in the unmodded game) can even pace it.
The other nice thing about the EV series is the gobs and gobs of mods ranging from blatant cheats to full game conversions. (The Babylon 5 mod for EV:O is still my favorite with Star Wars a close second.)
So yes, EV is a true fun timewaster, and since it doesn't depend on a mouse you won't get finger-cramp from the pad on the iBook.
One warning is that it's a cross between a trading game and a top-down space combat shooter, but with a great number of branching plots and sidequests. If you don't like elements of either of these, try something else.
Another warning is that EV:Nova uses 3-d effects which can kick the fan into high mode and eat up battery.
As for my opinion, EV:Override is my favorite of the three Escape Velocities to date.
I wonder if he will prevent booting to Debian while he's there.
As long as you buy the hardware, why would he care? If you buy a Mac, you're paying for the hardware and the software already. If you don't want to run the software, well, hey, it's your cash. I mean Apple's. (Mine certainly is. Too much of it. Ugh.)
As for the idea of "Mac users seem to enjoy being told what to do," how about: "Dude, you're getting a Dell!" Dell, Gateway, Sony and an increasing number of PC (not Mac) manufacturers are discovering people do like to have the technical thinking done for them and are marketing to these people. Software is no different; one-click CD copying is deeply indicative of this, not to mention intelligent design in most cases.
I think the number of testimonals from people who are still running ancient macintoshes with ancient operating systems that do what they want.
And, hey, jumping off a sinking ship? Who knew! (And who knew it was really that sinking; I still know plenty of people who swear by 9.2.) Unsupported sure doesn't mean useless. Anyone out there still have a reason to use MSDOS? If not, why are people still creating MSDOS clones that run off floppy drives?
A little off-topic but having everything to do with the coupon, I noticed Adobe Photoshop Essentials 2.0 on the coupon, yet after a long search on Amazon I could not find it. I know it's almost out. Is Amazon trying to get rid of their 1.0 copies, ya think? Or are they just slower to pre-announce with software?
While a move like this would (hopefully) stick in Microsoft's craw, wouldn't that also prompt them to say, "See? See? They're doing it too! Go after them!"
I get the same feeling about hard-core PC gamers sometimes. While it would be cool to have my mac glowing blue neon from the inside, I have to wonder: what's the point? And the answer: Because it's cool. Go to ThinkGeek sometime and wonder why people buy half this stuff. The answer: Because it's cool.
So Mac Users don't even come close to having a monopoly on the "Form Over Function" philosophy. Don't even get me started about artists. Function? What function! And people/want/ artistic things? *tch* *tch* *tch*... and they call themselves people.
The point being, just because platforms have different philosophies doesn't mean the kind of overreaction of the original post is warrented. Some people get worked up over silly things.
In the meantime, I'm going to go see if I can get my Mac to glow blue neon from the inside. That would be so cool.
The poster didn't suggest "standard". He (or she; I admit not knowing) suggested it might be done "at all".
Does Dell ship cad/cam tablets standard because AutoCad suggests using them?
No, but they might sell cad/cam tablets if they had the idea that more people might want them, which is what the poster was probably suggesting.
I, personally, would be very interested to see what the Apple Design Group would do for a 3-button mouse, but I'm so hooked on my lasermouse-with-mousewheel (that acts like a 3rd mouse button, in a pinch) that even snazzy design and the "Jobs Reality Field" probably couldn't pull me away from it. I'd rather see the ADG work on more important tasks.
Unfortunately, I found the review a little lacking. It was informative with what was provided and what these things did, in the reasonable benchmark comparisons, but then in the last words mentioned problems with stability without actually mentioning what the problems actually were. Is this usual for their reviews or did I miss something?
I'm sure they're not just threatened, but some could be legitimately concerned that people will take this diagnostic database as some kind of authoritative source.
No, they shouldn't; it should be treated just like a book, but I'm just counting the days before someone sues the database for "giving them bogus information". And I'm counting the hours until we all become hypocondriacs.
If I were a doctor, that's what I'd be concerned about.
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Heaven forbid that people expand their education, or that a popular movie offer an in-depth look at what goes into filming on this scale. Even if they go to show that making a movie is no different than day-to-day living in some areas, that's still something I, at least, didn't know before. Education, instruction and de-hyping Hollywood sounds like positive goals, to me. I'm looking forward to it.
If you don't care, or if you already knew, then do what a lot of people are going to do anyway: Get a copy from a friend who shelled out the extra bucks for the Director's Cut. (Or get the Cut and don't watch the extra footage.) No one's forcing you to watch it, just to pay for it, and not necessarily even that.
Even so (and this is suggested in one or two previous posts), Apple would still benefit for making a presence. If they really want to break the "keynote means new product" cycle, why not go and talk about philosophy? About support? About recent decisions and how they are going? Sure, they are all things that they could do via standard PR routes, but so is the notification of new hardware or services.
I can't believe that nothing else but new product is keynote-worthy, but I'll agree that "We don't want to be in New York" is an excuse for something else. Apple must feel sincerely feel that the constant exposure via MWNY/B isn't worth it. Maybe it comes out of their advertising budget.
Maybe I'm missing the standard for it (I'm not on the bleeding edge of things), but I was looking at the HTML 4.01 link rel types and can't find "preload". Fortunately, according to the FAQ, "next" will do just fine.
This is a not nit-pick, but with all the touting of how 100% standards compliant Mozilla is, I'm wondering what the philosophy is on extending the standard, if "preload" isn't in some later HTML standard that I don't yet know about us.
Does that mean most of my data transfer would be logged as "localhost"?
While it's nice to have a lot of UNIX apps available for the Macintosh, many, especially those requiring the installation of an XWindow-For-Aqua solution, are for the *NIX tinkerer. This describes a demographic that Apple certainly wants to keep happy, but not one the one that will make Apple the market share they want.
For that, they need Aqua apps that "Just Work"(tm). Simple to install (or uninstall), laid out in an expected manner. Possibly expandable through CLI-level tweaking of scripts, but working out of the box.
Though I'm constantly happy to see OS/X offering the more-or-less best of both worlds. Definitely the better-than-anyone-else of both worlds. And I'm downright giddy that OpenOffice is embracing the OS and philosophy.
Most things that your average consumer wants has been coded before, and the beauty of (true) open-source is that anyone can get the functions. Or, at the very least, see how someone else has done it and saved hours of design time.
And if it hasn't been coded before, and the average consumer wants them, someone will code it. Why else would someone waste time coding these things for MSOffice if they didn't think it would sell? Besides the obvious "MS Is Snooping My Machine Through Office" functions, I mean.
Yet every one of your instances of information that a library might keep about a book, the one bit of information that they don't necessarily need to keep for any length of time beyond the original loan of the book is your name.
I was talking about the marketing-level information of keeping track of habits. Keeping track of who currently has which books out is, yes, necessary. Keeping track of the names of who checked out beyond the useful scope of the information isn't.
Book stores need this spending information for the marketing which drives their very business, but their model (a library information lending vs a business product selling) is extremely different.
This only just came to mind, so I hope I'm not repeating anyone, but libraries, at least, can foil the system by simply not keeping track of people's lending habits. Nothing compells a library to do this kind of marketing history, unless there are actual laws to do the compelling for them.
With OUR luck, the ending will be reported in a Slashdot article on the front page.
Well, look, it's Cowboy Neal. If he's going to be a repeat in all the Slashdot Polls, why not go to the logical conclusion?
From the website: "The droid who helped the Empire!"
I want to see the PR spin on this. "Oh, no, we mean before it was evil. I mean, really evil. I mean, we wiped his memory so we're sure he doesn't remember anything, but just in case, remember to take the batteries out before you go to sleep."
for more unattainable information i would goto this oracle of truth
I'd use a procedure call, but that's just me.
You know, I like Junkyard Wars, but I wouldn't want to risk my life to it.
Copyright infringement has never before been a crime committed by individuals procuring their own entertainment.
And yet, it has always been illegal to own song sheets that you did not legitimately buy. "But I did it for my own entertainment" was not a solid argument in the 50s and it's not a solid argument now. The only difference is one of atom-to-bit-shifting.
Now imagine owning several thousand different songs and you let anyone come by and make a copy of one. Even I (who am not the most clean of people in this example) can't imagine that when the idea of "Fair Use" was created anyone thought the everyman could make thousands and thousands of copies.
This is not a new concept, this is just a renewed concept. There is no sudden "new type of criminal", just a new type of person to be an old type of criminal.
Stealing a song is not like stealing a car. One involves the deprivation of a personal property, and the other involves breaking a social contract.
Oh, sorry, I didn't realize that laws weren't supposed to uphold the social ideals of the civilization they're meant to serve.
As of EV:Override, Cap'n Hector shoots at you after the 30 days. For those who aren't aware of the game, Cap'n Hector is one fast, deadly ship. Only a few ships (in the unmodded game) can even pace it.
The other nice thing about the EV series is the gobs and gobs of mods ranging from blatant cheats to full game conversions. (The Babylon 5 mod for EV:O is still my favorite with Star Wars a close second.)
So yes, EV is a true fun timewaster, and since it doesn't depend on a mouse you won't get finger-cramp from the pad on the iBook.
One warning is that it's a cross between a trading game and a top-down space combat shooter, but with a great number of branching plots and sidequests. If you don't like elements of either of these, try something else.
Another warning is that EV:Nova uses 3-d effects which can kick the fan into high mode and eat up battery.
As for my opinion, EV:Override is my favorite of the three Escape Velocities to date.
I wonder if he will prevent booting to Debian while he's there.
As long as you buy the hardware, why would he care? If you buy a Mac, you're paying for the hardware and the software already. If you don't want to run the software, well, hey, it's your cash. I mean Apple's. (Mine certainly is. Too much of it. Ugh.)
As for the idea of "Mac users seem to enjoy being told what to do," how about: "Dude, you're getting a Dell!" Dell, Gateway, Sony and an increasing number of PC (not Mac) manufacturers are discovering people do like to have the technical thinking done for them and are marketing to these people. Software is no different; one-click CD copying is deeply indicative of this, not to mention intelligent design in most cases.
I think the number of testimonals from people who are still running ancient macintoshes with ancient operating systems that do what they want.
And, hey, jumping off a sinking ship? Who knew! (And who knew it was really that sinking; I still know plenty of people who swear by 9.2.) Unsupported sure doesn't mean useless. Anyone out there still have a reason to use MSDOS? If not, why are people still creating MSDOS clones that run off floppy drives?
This concludes your broadcast day.
Note to self: Be careful with fingers.
A little off-topic but having everything to do with the coupon, I noticed Adobe Photoshop Essentials 2.0 on the coupon, yet after a long search on Amazon I could not find it. I know it's almost out. Is Amazon trying to get rid of their 1.0 copies, ya think? Or are they just slower to pre-announce with software?
While a move like this would (hopefully) stick in Microsoft's craw, wouldn't that also prompt them to say, "See? See? They're doing it too! Go after them!"
I get the same feeling about hard-core PC gamers sometimes. While it would be cool to have my mac glowing blue neon from the inside, I have to wonder: what's the point? And the answer: Because it's cool. Go to ThinkGeek sometime and wonder why people buy half this stuff. The answer: Because it's cool.
/want/ artistic things? *tch* *tch* *tch* ... and they call themselves people.
So Mac Users don't even come close to having a monopoly on the "Form Over Function" philosophy. Don't even get me started about artists. Function? What function! And people
The point being, just because platforms have different philosophies doesn't mean the kind of overreaction of the original post is warrented. Some people get worked up over silly things.
In the meantime, I'm going to go see if I can get my Mac to glow blue neon from the inside. That would be so cool.
The poster didn't suggest "standard". He (or she; I admit not knowing) suggested it might be done "at all".
Does Dell ship cad/cam tablets standard because AutoCad suggests using them?
No, but they might sell cad/cam tablets if they had the idea that more people might want them, which is what the poster was probably suggesting.
I, personally, would be very interested to see what the Apple Design Group would do for a 3-button mouse, but I'm so hooked on my lasermouse-with-mousewheel (that acts like a 3rd mouse button, in a pinch) that even snazzy design and the "Jobs Reality Field" probably couldn't pull me away from it. I'd rather see the ADG work on more important tasks.
Unfortunately, I found the review a little lacking. It was informative with what was provided and what these things did, in the reasonable benchmark comparisons, but then in the last words mentioned problems with stability without actually mentioning what the problems actually were. Is this usual for their reviews or did I miss something?
411 might have been amusing.
911 is just sad.
Never, ever, ever, ever buy a Mac right before Macworld Season.
Some lessons are learned the hard way.
I'm sure they're not just threatened, but some could be legitimately concerned that people will take this diagnostic database as some kind of authoritative source.
No, they shouldn't; it should be treated just like a book, but I'm just counting the days before someone sues the database for "giving them bogus information". And I'm counting the hours until we all become hypocondriacs.
If I were a doctor, that's what I'd be concerned about.