That said, so what? The vast majority of that 83% is agricultural use or just because there happens to be a road in the area. Yeah, we've touched that area but we're using it to GROW crops, which is a good use of land and hardly means we've destroyed it.
It's destroyed for whatever animals used to graze, hunt, etc. there and for all the plants that used to grow there.
Just because it provides a short-term good for humans does not make it overall good. It sure ain't good for ecological diversity, which BTW is very good for humans.
Thought you'd like to know, esp. since it has pictures.
Also note, they refer to it as "prototype device that can transform in seconds into a handheld (shown), desktop (shown), laptop, tablet or wearable computer." Woo hoo!
Why should MS care? They're one of the bigger game software producers around, so technically XB is cannibalizing their own market. What do they care if people run XB games on their MS Windows computer?
But more importantly, Microsoft kills off companies through anticompetitive BS all the time. Losing.01% of market share of one of their lower-profit products is the least that can be done to them.
Partially out of curiosity and partially because it could result in better answers to your question... why does your boss want a kajillion OSes?
With multiple partitions, she/he could boot into any OS. The advantage is that each OS would run at full power, the disadvantage is that all Windows and many Unix flavors would be unavailable.
With VirtualPC, they could run pretty much any OS. And they could have a multitude of OSes running in different windows at the same time. Last VPC I used was version 2, which was good. Version 5 is supposed to be phenomenal.
But there could be different options which would be more appropriate depending on what he/she is trying to accomplish. Is this just a power trip, or is there a serious reason for this?
Doesn't that require either taking the hand off the mouse or using your left hand?
That's the nice thing about the space bar for scrolling in Explorer. I've found I can sit back on the couch and smack the spacebar with my foot. That or pull the keyboard into my lap and left-hand it....
I think "a lot" is overstating the case. The great majority of USB devices I've seen do work on Macs. I recently got a Brother fax machine for work and was pleasantly surprised to notice that it not only had a USB port, but also a Mac driver. I'm pretty sure Mac drivers are pretty dang easy to develop.
The USB devices that are the most Mac-specific are keyboards, since they're different for Macs vs. Windows.
I still have one 1-button Mac, and the ways to scroll are to use the arrow keys and/or the page-up/page-down/home/end buttons and/or the spacebar. All work well without too much hastle....
I've been using Macs almost exclusively for... well for almost as long as there have been Macs. And one of my favorite innovations in the Mac was the advent of the Control-click (ie, contextual menu). Then when Macs went USB and people started making Mac drivers for two-button mice, it was like heaven. I love contextual-menus, and it's much easier to get to them from a mouse button than from a Control-click.
Maybe in a few more years Apple will finally figure this out. Oh, and the scroll-wheel is a wonderful invention that Apple needs to think about too. OTOH, the 3rd party mouse makers are probably quite happy with Apple's doggedness, and it does make it easier for the novice.
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A 3 year old may learn mousing much better than a 50 year old. Kids learn fast. Adults can get stuck in their ways.
I've seen people spend a day trying to get used to a mouse, and still not get the hang of it. It depends on age, intelligence, and... nerdiness. Some people have it, some don't.
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I love the look and feel of the Apple ProMouse. But when I rest my hand on it, I tend to accidentally click a lot.
Also, in my cramped mousing space, I tend to bump it aginst things a lot, which also sometimes results in a click.
Apple got rid of the "puck" a long time ago. The mouse they've been using for the last year or so is much more ergonomic, and the entire mouse is a button. Still only has one button though.
Look at the bottom of the iMac page for a small preview.
Here are the full details on it, though this is yesterday's model. It looks like the new one is white but otherwise unchanged....
Then use the macally one
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The macally iOptinet mouse is a two-button, optical, scroll-wheel mouse. Works great, and looks pretty OK. 'Tis my mouse of choice.
But the macally MicroMouse just came out and seems even cooler. I'm thinking of gettin' me one of those....
If you think about it... take a bunch of primordial star-material. condense it into a system and let the planets cool for a few billion years.
At that point, you will find water. And you will most likely find liquid.
But Earth is at the triple-point of water... we have it in solid, liquid, and gaseous form. I would think that would be more important to fostering life than the mere existance of water, or of liquid.
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I've heard that some people spend college studying and going to class and stuff like that.
Go figure. Seems like a waste of youth to me....
My Apple Centris 660AV is one of the rarest Macs ever made (a couple months after it came out, it was replaced with the near-identical Quadra 660AV).
Lessee... it has a non-functioning 40 MB hard drive, and something like 16 MB of RAM. It's been sitting in a box of computer junk for four years.
How much are y'all willing to pay for it? Howabout something near the $1,700 it cost originally?
Name says it all!
...but one Xserve could probably replace the whole mess in some of those pictures.
It's destroyed for whatever animals used to graze, hunt, etc. there and for all the plants that used to grow there.
Just because it provides a short-term good for humans does not make it overall good. It sure ain't good for ecological diversity, which BTW is very good for humans.
There is more to the Earth than land and oceans. Perhaps the fishing refers to lakes...?
Here is the information from IBM.
Thought you'd like to know, esp. since it has pictures.
Also note, they refer to it as "prototype device that can transform in seconds into a handheld (shown), desktop (shown), laptop, tablet or wearable computer." Woo hoo!
But more importantly, Microsoft kills off companies through anticompetitive BS all the time. Losing .01% of market share of one of their lower-profit products is the least that can be done to them.
Indeed, that's the only inspired one so far.
So would that be "my SQueaL?"
How about: "Logo, the text-icon hybrid."
Look, Xebgor! A map! Ooooh! And look at that tasty chemistry!
Got any plans for the weekend, or you wanna go conquer some idots?
With multiple partitions, she/he could boot into any OS. The advantage is that each OS would run at full power, the disadvantage is that all Windows and many Unix flavors would be unavailable.
With VirtualPC, they could run pretty much any OS. And they could have a multitude of OSes running in different windows at the same time. Last VPC I used was version 2, which was good. Version 5 is supposed to be phenomenal.
But there could be different options which would be more appropriate depending on what he/she is trying to accomplish. Is this just a power trip, or is there a serious reason for this?
That's the nice thing about the space bar for scrolling in Explorer. I've found I can sit back on the couch and smack the spacebar with my foot. That or pull the keyboard into my lap and left-hand it....
The USB devices that are the most Mac-specific are keyboards, since they're different for Macs vs. Windows.
I still have one 1-button Mac, and the ways to scroll are to use the arrow keys and/or the page-up/page-down/home/end buttons and/or the spacebar. All work well without too much hastle....
Maybe in a few more years Apple will finally figure this out. Oh, and the scroll-wheel is a wonderful invention that Apple needs to think about too. OTOH, the 3rd party mouse makers are probably quite happy with Apple's doggedness, and it does make it easier for the novice.
I've seen people spend a day trying to get used to a mouse, and still not get the hang of it. It depends on age, intelligence, and... nerdiness. Some people have it, some don't.
Also, in my cramped mousing space, I tend to bump it aginst things a lot, which also sometimes results in a click.
Thus my move to the MicroMouse.
Look at the bottom of the iMac page for a small preview.
Here are the full details on it, though this is yesterday's model. It looks like the new one is white but otherwise unchanged....
But the macally MicroMouse just came out and seems even cooler. I'm thinking of gettin' me one of those....
Just another one of those weird cross-breeding things, I guess.
If you think about it... take a bunch of primordial star-material. condense it into a system and let the planets cool for a few billion years. At that point, you will find water. And you will most likely find liquid. But Earth is at the triple-point of water... we have it in solid, liquid, and gaseous form. I would think that would be more important to fostering life than the mere existance of water, or of liquid.