marick- this is mostly for HanzoSan, but your last line got me started.
Would you advise that person to get another job?
Yes. When I was broke (as in where will I get money for food broke) I worked 4 jobs. I had to. I didn't have any free time. I woked for less than minimum wage (even after commisions) at one job because I had no choice. If you want something bad enough you work for it. If not, then you whine and bitch and the world laughs at you.
I have friends who work three jobs and send money to their parents because they need the help. People who have tons of free time and complain about not having money should try having to eat nothing but pasta because you can get it three meals for $0.70. If people are too lazy to work, well then that's their problem and I don't want to hear about it.
A guy who lives down the hall from me was homeless for seven years as a child. His idea of a luxury was reading a newspaper that was left on a bench. He has practically everything he wants now. He even drives a sports car. Why? He was willing to work for it.
If you want anything - stuff, a relationship to work out, better grades, etc., All you have to do is try. Learn some responsibility and do it. Nobody is holding you back. There's no guarantee you will succeed, but at least you won't fail for lack of effort.
Get a job. No, really, I mean it. You cannot afford the things you want and have lots of free time. If you get a job, you'll be able to afford things like music, etc. You'll also gain valuable experience and meet new people.
Part of the value is reliability and trust. You know that if you buy it from Apple, it will be the actual song from the masters, not a bad recording or somethign else entirely. You'll also get a great connection.Don't forget: you get the cover art too.
At 8-14 tracks average per CD, going to Sam Goody and buying a disc costs the consumer somewhere between $1 and $2 per track. For them to charge anywhere near that price range for degraded-quality, use-limited, non-physical, no-cover-art-and-liner-notes-having version of the same content is ridiculous.
You can buy albums for about $10 from Apple's store.
no-cover-art-and-liner-notes-having version of the same content is ridiculous
Even if you only buy individual tracks, you get the cover art, etc. You can even get videos for some of them.
Additionally, you get your musig immediately, and can burn two or three albums to a single CD, thus saving storage space.
My bet is that the price will drop once the whole system has turned a consistent profit for over a year.
Making the entire mouse a button means you can't rest your hand on the mouse.
You've obviously never used one. You can rest your hand on it. I've never accidentally clicked it. I've been working on my sister's eMac and the mouse is quite nice. In any case, I still prefer my TurboBall.
At the local community college, I walked past a stack of surplus hardware sitting in a hall outside the A/V dept. There was a post-it note on one of the machines with a hostname, username, password, and use instructions for the student information server.
In the article it says that there were weights (bolts, etc) attached to the inside of the tires so that when they were bumped, the weight shifted causing them to roll uphill.
There were spreadsheets, powerful word processors, databases, CAD apps for early PCs, and "StickyBear's Learning Adventure" for the Apple II.
This is entirely wrong. Long before IBM had even made a PC, there was VisiCalc. VisiCalc was _the_ killer business app. Read more here. Apple was _the_ business pc before IBM entered the market.
In any case, this was about OS wars. Windows never competed against the Apple II's OS! DOS (and eventually windows) was in competition with the Macintosh System. If you compare a Mac and an IBM Compatible from 1984-1995 running software from that time,the Mac is the better system hands down. Hell, as far as business use, which system did Excell and Word come out for first? The Mac. Shitty marketting in the early '90s stopped Apple from taking its rightful place as the market leader in the computer industry. OS X is giving Apple back some hope of recapturing the market share it lost in the IBM PC vs Apple II days.
I've had no problems with linux on my Stylistic 1200. I don't know how different the two are, but mine recognized the pen as a serial mouse w/out any problems. It even tried to do chording (tap while squeezing the side button) for button 3. I want to open up my pen and access the second side switch (the connectors are ther, but there's no button) to improve that. I'm also working on a hwr system that works w/out X. Yes, you can write directly to the console.
I don't know what it has to do with YRO, but that is where many other articles about freedom in general have gone. PolSci nerds are no less nerds than CompSci nerds. I'm proud to be both. Don't descriminate in nerddom. In any case, this is definately "Stuff that matters."
They had overlapping windows, but not clipping. IIRC they just drew everything starting from the bottom. In any case it was Bill Atkinson that made that fortunate mistake. See "Insanely Great" by Steven Levy pg 87.
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From the story: Wow, there is absolutely nothing good to post in the bin today
It can't be offtopic now.
There was something good in the bin:
* 2003-04-04 17:19:21 Oregon Law Would Jail War Protesters as Terrorists (yro,usa) (rejected)
Since it's a slow news day, you might want to read that article in my journal:
Oregon is considering a
law that would label protestors who disrupt traffic as terrorists. They would face 25 to life. So much for freedom of assembly. According to the article even the police union is opposed to this one.
IEEE-1394 -- In a consortium.
ColorSync -- no. Color compensation has been done, many times. Apple just built it into a personal computer. QuickTime -- No. Apple licensed the codec from Sorenson.
There's three off the top of my head. Inventions are rare in the computer industry, yes, but Apple is the exception.
That's three out of your ass. Care to try again? Apple likes to portray themselves as "oh-so-innovative", but they haven't invented anything. They *might* be able to take credit for some GUI elements. Of course, that was over 20 years ago, and they haven't done jack since.
Apple invented Firewire. They may have invited industry input, but it was their initiative.
Apple invented ColorSync. Similar things may have been done before but that is irrelevant. Did Honda not invent the Insight? I mean the Model-T came first and they are both cars.
Finally, repeat after me: "QuickTime is not a codec." QuickTime is a system for dealing with time-based data. It can store text, images, video, etc. It can even store objects with motion information. It can contain hyperlinks and even SWF content. Sorrenson is one of many codecs available for use in storing movie data in the QuickTime format.
Besides these three there are things like HyperCard, QuickDraw, etc. Both of those were many years ahead of their time. Clipping wasn't done until QuickDraw. Look at HyperCard then look at Director and Flash. Look at Revolution. Look at the web itself.
Lets have another. Looc at MacTV. Now look at all these "media PCs" being merketted as innovative. The MacTV is many years older than any of these. Give gredit where credit is due. There is nothing substantially different (given the technology of the time) between these media PCs and the MacTV.
Also, don't forget the innovations in the Newton and the Pippen. Apple has innovated more than most modern hardware or software manufacturers with a fraction of the income.
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Uh... this article is about the Finder. The Finder is an application, not a "desktop"
The Finder is what provides the desktop metaphor on the Mac.
I have peanut on my fujitsu tablet. It used to be 90MB. Too bad it got so bloated. I had to install it over paralell once. 90MB was bearable. 340 takes it out of the tiny range.
You try writing cross-browser dhtml, js, and css that works in 4.0 browsers for a while. Now try doing it in Flash. Which took less time?
I've taught both JavaScript and Flash at the local community collage. Flash does things simply that are a pain to accomplish in JavaScript. Of course, there is debate over wether these things should be done on a web page at all.
For people that look at web design from a graphic design point of view, Flash is a godsend. Elements stay where you put them and you don't have to worry about some new browser breaking compatibility, since the people who make the renderer also make the standard.
Exactly! All it says is that there was an article written that included some benchmarks in which a PC achieved better ratings than a Mac. There was no comment from Adobe on what this means for them.
I have used multiple versions of Photoshop and I have found the upgrades, in general, to be intelligently engineered enhancements. I did not feel that they radically altered the user interface.
Were you around for the 2.x -> 3.0 conversion? I remember every Photoshop user I knew at the time bitching and moading about how the keyboard commands changed. I think they swapped command for option in a few commonly used commands and it drove us all nuts. When you make the same stupid mistake a dozen times a day because of muscle memory, those little changes are a big deal.
This guy thinks that Apple's experience in creating SMP G4 systems somehow translates into experience integrating Itanium and PowerPC processors in a multiprocessor environment.
Look, I like the design of the Itanium. I like the PowerPC. I think that the proposed design would be pretty cool from a cross platform compatibility point of view (just like the LCs with a 486 on a PDS card). I doubt it will happen. IF it does, it won't be for the reasons stated in the article.
If we can unquestionably prove that the current administration does not believe in democracy (as if the coup they got in with wasn't enoug) then maybe they won'e be there come 2004. Protest lets everyone know that there stil is opposition, that a significant chunk of America is opposed to the war no matter what Mr. Bush has to say.
If we just shut up, then Bush wins. I hope to be a thorn in his sides up until the day he leaves office -- hopefully by resigning or being impeached for corruption.
Actually, last time I checked, most of the world is opposed to the war. If anyone out there had the guts to REALLY stand up to this unelected president of ours, there would be UN resistance to this illegal war.
Where do you get that from? The U.S. wouldn't even have won a simple majority in the Security Council. It is more like Bush (w/ sidekick Blair) vs The World.
I hope that Blair is ousted for this. Too bad we have to wait until 2004 to get rid of Bush.
If you take the cost of buying all the crude Iraq produces and then subtract the extra costs the US or US based companies would have to spend getting the oil back to the US, and then compare it to the cost of conquering Iraq - buying the oil is cheaper.
Ah... But the war is an expense on the taxpayers whereas the profits go to oil companies. See, for the oil companies it's glorious war: they artificially inflate domestic prices. they sell oil to the military. then they are given(!) oil fields.
We lose: we pay high gas prices we pay ($ in the short term, increased terrorism in the long term) for an unjust war we buy oil from the oil companies.
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marick- this is mostly for HanzoSan, but your last line got me started.
Would you advise that person to get another job?
Yes. When I was broke (as in where will I get money for food broke) I worked 4 jobs. I had to. I didn't have any free time. I woked for less than minimum wage (even after commisions) at one job because I had no choice. If you want something bad enough you work for it. If not, then you whine and bitch and the world laughs at you.
I have friends who work three jobs and send money to their parents because they need the help. People who have tons of free time and complain about not having money should try having to eat nothing but pasta because you can get it three meals for $0.70. If people are too lazy to work, well then that's their problem and I don't want to hear about it.
A guy who lives down the hall from me was homeless for seven years as a child. His idea of a luxury was reading a newspaper that was left on a bench. He has practically everything he wants now. He even drives a sports car. Why? He was willing to work for it.
If you want anything - stuff, a relationship to work out, better grades, etc., All you have to do is try. Learn some responsibility and do it. Nobody is holding you back. There's no guarantee you will succeed, but at least you won't fail for lack of effort.
I have free time, I just dont have money.
Get a job. No, really, I mean it. You cannot afford the things you want and have lots of free time. If you get a job, you'll be able to afford things like music, etc. You'll also gain valuable experience and meet new people.
Part of the value is reliability and trust. You know that if you buy it from Apple, it will be the actual song from the masters, not a bad recording or somethign else entirely. You'll also get a great connection.Don't forget: you get the cover art too.
At 8-14 tracks average per CD, going to Sam Goody and buying a disc costs the consumer somewhere between $1 and $2 per track. For them to charge anywhere near that price range for degraded-quality, use-limited, non-physical, no-cover-art-and-liner-notes-having version of the same content is ridiculous.
You can buy albums for about $10 from Apple's store.
no-cover-art-and-liner-notes-having version of the same content is ridiculous
Even if you only buy individual tracks, you get the cover art, etc. You can even get videos for some of them.
Additionally, you get your musig immediately, and can burn two or three albums to a single CD, thus saving storage space.
My bet is that the price will drop once the whole system has turned a consistent profit for over a year.
Making the entire mouse a button means you can't rest your hand on the mouse.
You've obviously never used one. You can rest your hand on it. I've never accidentally clicked it. I've been working on my sister's eMac and the mouse is quite nice. In any case, I still prefer my TurboBall.
At the local community college, I walked past a stack of surplus hardware sitting in a hall outside the A/V dept. There was a post-it note on one of the machines with a hostname, username, password, and use instructions for the student information server.
In the article it says that there were weights (bolts, etc) attached to the inside of the tires so that when they were bumped, the weight shifted causing them to roll uphill.
There were spreadsheets, powerful word processors, databases, CAD apps for early PCs, and "StickyBear's Learning Adventure" for the Apple II.
This is entirely wrong. Long before IBM had even made a PC, there was VisiCalc. VisiCalc was _the_ killer business app. Read more here.
Apple was _the_ business pc before IBM entered the market.
In any case, this was about OS wars. Windows never competed against the Apple II's OS! DOS (and eventually windows) was in competition with the Macintosh System. If you compare a Mac and an IBM Compatible from 1984-1995 running software from that time,the Mac is the better system hands down. Hell, as far as business use, which system did Excell and Word come out for first? The Mac. Shitty marketting in the early '90s stopped Apple from taking its rightful place as the market leader in the computer industry. OS X is giving Apple back some hope of recapturing the market share it lost in the IBM PC vs Apple II days.
I've had no problems with linux on my Stylistic 1200. I don't know how different the two are, but mine recognized the pen as a serial mouse w/out any problems. It even tried to do chording (tap while squeezing the side button) for button 3. I want to open up my pen and access the second side switch (the connectors are ther, but there's no button) to improve that. I'm also working on a hwr system that works w/out X. Yes, you can write directly to the console.
I don't know what it has to do with YRO, but that is where many other articles about freedom in general have gone. PolSci nerds are no less nerds than CompSci nerds. I'm proud to be both. Don't descriminate in nerddom. In any case, this is definately "Stuff that matters."
They had overlapping windows, but not clipping. IIRC they just drew everything starting from the bottom. In any case it was Bill Atkinson that made that fortunate mistake. See "Insanely Great" by Steven Levy pg 87.
From the story: Wow, there is absolutely nothing good to post in the bin today
It can't be offtopic now.
There was something good in the bin:
* 2003-04-04 17:19:21 Oregon Law Would Jail War Protesters as Terrorists (yro,usa) (rejected)
Since it's a slow news day, you might want to read that article in my journal:
Apple invented Firewire. They may have invited industry input, but it was their initiative.
Apple invented ColorSync. Similar things may have been done before but that is irrelevant. Did Honda not invent the Insight? I mean the Model-T came first and they are both cars.
Finally, repeat after me: "QuickTime is not a codec." QuickTime is a system for dealing with time-based data. It can store text, images, video, etc. It can even store objects with motion information. It can contain hyperlinks and even SWF content. Sorrenson is one of many codecs available for use in storing movie data in the QuickTime format.
Besides these three there are things like HyperCard, QuickDraw, etc. Both of those were many years ahead of their time. Clipping wasn't done until QuickDraw. Look at HyperCard then look at Director and Flash. Look at Revolution. Look at the web itself.
Lets have another. Looc at MacTV. Now look at all these "media PCs" being merketted as innovative. The MacTV is many years older than any of these. Give gredit where credit is due. There is nothing substantially different (given the technology of the time) between these media PCs and the MacTV.
Also, don't forget the innovations in the Newton and the Pippen. Apple has innovated more than most modern hardware or software manufacturers with a fraction of the income.
Uh... this article is about the Finder. The Finder is an application, not a "desktop"
The Finder is what provides the desktop metaphor on the Mac.
Your exact example is in the article.
I have peanut on my fujitsu tablet. It used to be 90MB. Too bad it got so bloated. I had to install it over paralell once. 90MB was bearable. 340 takes it out of the tiny range.
You try writing cross-browser dhtml, js, and css that works in 4.0 browsers for a while. Now try doing it in Flash. Which took less time?
I've taught both JavaScript and Flash at the local community collage. Flash does things simply that are a pain to accomplish in JavaScript. Of course, there is debate over wether these things should be done on a web page at all.
For people that look at web design from a graphic design point of view, Flash is a godsend. Elements stay where you put them and you don't have to worry about some new browser breaking compatibility, since the people who make the renderer also make the standard.
Exactly! All it says is that there was an article written that included some benchmarks in which a PC achieved better ratings than a Mac. There was no comment from Adobe on what this means for them.
I have used multiple versions of Photoshop and I have found the upgrades, in general, to be intelligently engineered enhancements. I did not feel that they radically altered the user interface.
Were you around for the 2.x -> 3.0 conversion? I remember every Photoshop user I knew at the time bitching and moading about how the keyboard commands changed. I think they swapped command for option in a few commonly used commands and it drove us all nuts. When you make the same stupid mistake a dozen times a day because of muscle memory, those little changes are a big deal.
This guy thinks that Apple's experience in creating SMP G4 systems somehow translates into experience integrating Itanium and PowerPC processors in a multiprocessor environment.
Look, I like the design of the Itanium. I like the PowerPC. I think that the proposed design would be pretty cool from a cross platform compatibility point of view (just like the LCs with a 486 on a PDS card). I doubt it will happen. IF it does, it won't be for the reasons stated in the article.
If we can unquestionably prove that the current administration does not believe in democracy (as if the coup they got in with wasn't enoug) then maybe they won'e be there come 2004. Protest lets everyone know that there stil is opposition, that a significant chunk of America is opposed to the war no matter what Mr. Bush has to say.
If we just shut up, then Bush wins. I hope to be a thorn in his sides up until the day he leaves office -- hopefully by resigning or being impeached for corruption.
Actually, last time I checked, most of the world is opposed to the war. If anyone out there had the guts to REALLY stand up to this unelected president of ours, there would be UN resistance to this illegal war.
That said, I believe in NONVIOLENT protest.
It wouldn't balance out for me. I rarely send e-mail. I get tons of it, though. People who send me mail would not be happy with this system.
Iraq vs. The World
Where do you get that from? The U.S. wouldn't even have won a simple majority in the Security Council. It is more like Bush (w/ sidekick Blair) vs The World.
I hope that Blair is ousted for this. Too bad we have to wait until 2004 to get rid of Bush.
If you take the cost of buying all the crude Iraq produces and then subtract the extra costs the US or US based companies would have to spend getting the oil back to the US, and then compare it to the cost of conquering Iraq - buying the oil is cheaper.
Ah... But the war is an expense on the taxpayers whereas the profits go to oil companies. See, for the oil companies it's glorious war:
they artificially inflate domestic prices.
they sell oil to the military.
then they are given(!) oil fields.
We lose:
we pay high gas prices
we pay ($ in the short term, increased terrorism in the long term) for an unjust war
we buy oil from the oil companies.