No person is compelled to say the pledge. Just like no person is compelled to read the ten comandments. And no person is compelled to read their coins. Why is it when it comes to every form of "offensive" speech other than religion, the common view is if you don't like it, don't read it. But when it comes to religion, it must be eliminated in all forms at all costs?
But what happens in the next election when a candidate looses in an area and pulls up the website trade logs saying "Look more people were supposed to vote for me. They must have been confused on the ballots.
I only see bad things comming out of this.
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First you seem to be talking iBooks here not TiBooks.
Second, IIRC, none of the clamshell iBooks or later came with IR ports.
I've been using my Ti all over stuffed in a bag and taken all arround and haven't had crakced screens etc.
TiBooks don't have saucer power adapters, and nither do the iBooks anymore (and the saucer lasted me a good 2 years before someone kicked the cord out).
But overall yes the TiBooks were built less rugged than the iBook.
Not that you would actualy care because that would shoot your entire troll to all hell, but there is a wonderful utility out there called uControl
Availible right here it will allow you to MAP THE CONTROL KEY TO THE CAPSLOCK KEY or any other god damned key you choose. So now that your problem is solved, go buy a mac and stop posting this over and over.
I don't recall the name of it off hand, but IIRC there was a program floating about that turned the physical button on the trackpad into a second button while retainign the regular click function of the trakpad.
And if I'm just halucinating, why don't you write such a program?
"An error of type 1 has occured" no memory protection until OSX. What were they thinking? Losing your work is very user friendly
Yeah memory protection was something they fuxored on, but it's been fixed, and even in the old days it wasn't that common. And, as of system 7 was imansely easy to get arround (usualy) if you knew about the interupt switch (command - power) and the right sequence of code (G F, or G Finder, or if neither of those worked, SM O A9F4 >enterTo eject/umount a disk, drag it to the trash! I've seen Human Computer Interaction "experts" trying to defend this as good design. Talk about tortured logic..
I always used the key command anyways, but what other graphical method would you recomend for removing a disk from the computer?
Have you ever tried using that hockey puck iMac mouse? RSI within a week, I promise!
I have actualy, and once you get over the fact that the puck mouse was meant to be guided and not gripped, it was actualy a very useable mouse, ideal for small spaces. Users however were too ingrained in their old ways, and it was killing Apple to try and change them, bye bye puck.
Good interface design goes deep, I agree. Somebody go out and shoot the Quicktime player designers. In fact, any of those "brushed metal" interfaces are monsters!
God are people still ranting over the POS design that was QT 4? Alright so they used a jog wheel as a volume control, yes that sucked, I've seen it done before, it sucked then too. Apple has since fixed this, again, get over it.
Two words: "Apple keyboards". I celebrate the birthday of my IBM M-Series keyboard, thanking the higher powers I don't have to kill my hands on a Mac keyboard.
The desktop keyboards do suck, I grant that, but after using nothing but a laptop keyboard for nearly 2 years now, I hate all desktop keyboards. Buy a new one, $5.
Floppy disks. Somtimes the Mac will spit it out, sometimes it will fail to recognise the floppy at all (hello paperclip), sometimes it will not recognise the format any more. No wonder they abandoned floppies; they couldn't make them work.
Floppy disks were spit out on only two ocassions, a power down, or a failed format. Under all other conditions, unless you specify for an eject, they didn't eject. I've seen lots of computers fail to recognize floppies, even the great RedHat. Nothing new. I have never seen a mac not recognize the format though if it wasn't a corrupt disk. As for abondoning them, they abondonned them because they were old and outdated. Email and CDs and cheaper large capacity storage is more efficient.
How can Apple and Linux not be helping each other?
Apple provides Linux the commercial backing and support that it needs to make companies look at OSS and say, hey maybe we can actualy use this.
In the mean time, Linux provides Apple with a fresh stream of ideas to work with and create as well as open their system well beyond anyting it has ever been before.
And don't go into the bullshit about apple stealing code. If you don't want others to use your code, don't distribute it open source.
What is evidence other than gathered anecdotes though? The fact that there is no comprehansive study done on this is probalby because it would take to long to complete in a world where we want more and we want it yesterday.
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They would just switch to the M$ model. Release a new version, charge $300 and make it entirely incompatible with old versions, force people to upgrade of become obsolete.
My original mac was a PowerMac 8500/180. It was an all in one case design, 15 inch monitor capable of thousands of colors, 16MB RAM, no graphics card to speak of, video / audio in / out, SCSI, 1.5 Gig HDD, grand total of something like $2,600 with a printer.
It over the years recieved many memory upgrades to it's current state of 142 MB (which I do not think is the max). Memory upgrades really are the life blood of the mac. More memory will usualy do away with any slowdown you have. Arround the release of the first round of G4s, we bought a processor upgrade from Sonnet taking it to a 300 Mhz G3 and adding 256k of cache. It also took a PCI USB card, and a 40 Gig HDD upgrade. Total we've spent maybe $3000 on this machine, not counting OS upgrades (8 & 9 at roughly $70 a piece). This machine is still in use, still churns away and did me just fine while I was waiting for my new G4 Powerbook this year. So this is roughly 6 years of usage, the only other mac I bought inbetween this time was a returned open box iBook from sears for $800, which when the iBooks were going for $1,600 was a steal. THat laptop served me fine as a travel machine (durable as hell) till this year when it met it's untimely death when it found itself in an electrified puddle of water.
of course, that requires two hands to perform an action which could easily be performed with one. Not a big issue, but annoying enough for those of us who work one hand on the keyboard and one on the mouse.
Here's one issue of useability. Keyboard shortcuts in windows, many of them use control. They should be using alt. Think about it, if you're someone who used keyboard shortcuts, look at how your hanvd lays on the keyboard. Notice how little adjustment is nessesary to hit the alt key and then hit C or V or X or A or P or any of the other letters. Now try doing the same using the control key, notice how much more your hand has to shift. Bad design.
YES! GOD FORBID!!! What kind of geeks would we be if we allowed ouselves to be sucked into the common culture that is booze, cheerleaders and assholes? You sir are a heathen for suggesting that geeks should like sports, and a moron for not knowing sarcasm when you see it.
With the exception of the fact that it has been pointed out many many many time and many different ways that themes which render the program unusable or nearly so are BAD. Yet it doesn't seem to get through.
A note on the eyes. Eyes are one of the most expressive features of the human body. YOu can tell a lot about a person's mood and thoughts merely by watching their eyes. It's very hard to get a series of emotions to come across in small drawn eyes, so they draw them larger to allow more room to show changes.
You're right, anime is cartoons, just like bugs bunny, and the simpsons, and king of the hill, and the stuff on comedy central. Why is it that just because something is animated it is dismissed out of hand as childish? There are hundreds of ways to convey a story, using the styles of anime is just one of the ways, and certainly no less valid than a live action movie or a syndicated TV show.
Maybe you don't realize this, but espesialy as a study of cultural analysis and criticism, Anime and other cartoons are actualy excelent mediums to look at, as well as comics. They actualy give a very good sense of the cultural mindsets and thoughts behind the creators. And since these shows are generaly religiously watched by kids, they in some way or another will shape our kids mind sets.
Seeing as how most of us college students pay a fixed rate regardless of the number of classes taken (over 12 hours), why not? YOu fins people with similar interests to you as well as have something to do with your time and you can enjoy going to class.
These artists could play local gigs, do their own recordings from a computer and promote themselves with MP3s and web sites.
Or conversely they could do what you suggest and buy into production. So they sunk $30,000 into a business. Hmmm so what? Anyone who wants to start a business has to sink money into it with risk. It's called being an entepreneur (sp?). You take a risk, put up the money and run with it. If it works you have a business, if it doesn't, you try to sell off your equipment to minimize your losses. Plenty of other people have lost money trying to start a business, what makes a musician any different? It's also not like your asking one person to front the $30,000. For any decent set of sound, your going to have at minimum 3 people, so that's 10,000 a piece.
The problem we have is people still seem to think that musicians should live like millionares. Why do they have to? Why can't a musician live like any other normal middle class family?
Well it would cetainly make voting less confusing for the old geezers in florida. Forget punching holes and butterfly ballots and hanging chads, just put pick a piece of colored paper and put it in the box.
As others have already pointed out, free speech is not absolute. When you access a web page or web board, you are agreeing to adhere to the rules of that forum because the website (contrary to many people's beleifs) is not public property.
Second, though the drummer may not be arrested for merely drumming and chanting, he can be arrested under charges of Disorderly Conduct and Disturbing the Peace if:
enough people complain about him he causes interference with the normal course of business on that street he degrades the business occuring in the shops on that street
You have the right to free speech, but not to be destructive.
It's called a reliable machine that actualy works beyond 2 years. When you build a product that can be regularly used and abused for 4+ years in a market where the average lifespan of a product is 2 years people aren't going to be buying as many as often.
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No person is compelled to say the pledge. Just like no person is compelled to read the ten comandments. And no person is compelled to read their coins. Why is it when it comes to every form of "offensive" speech other than religion, the common view is if you don't like it, don't read it. But when it comes to religion, it must be eliminated in all forms at all costs?
But what happens in the next election when a candidate looses in an area and pulls up the website trade logs saying "Look more people were supposed to vote for me. They must have been confused on the ballots.
I only see bad things comming out of this.
First you seem to be talking iBooks here not TiBooks.
Second, IIRC, none of the clamshell iBooks or later came with IR ports.
I've been using my Ti all over stuffed in a bag and taken all arround and haven't had crakced screens etc.
TiBooks don't have saucer power adapters, and nither do the iBooks anymore (and the saucer lasted me a good 2 years before someone kicked the cord out).
But overall yes the TiBooks were built less rugged than the iBook.
I don't see a problem with this. That means the only P2P apps will be ad free and spyware free.
Not that you would actualy care because that would shoot your entire troll to all hell, but there is a wonderful utility out there called uControl
Availible right here it will allow you to MAP THE CONTROL KEY TO THE CAPSLOCK KEY or any other god damned key you choose. So now that your problem is solved, go buy a mac and stop posting this over and over.
I don't recall the name of it off hand, but IIRC there was a program floating about that turned the physical button on the trackpad into a second button while retainign the regular click function of the trakpad.
And if I'm just halucinating, why don't you write such a program?
Blaming the son for the sins of the father eh?
"An error of type 1 has occured" no memory protection until OSX. What were they thinking? Losing your work is very user friendly
Yeah memory protection was something they fuxored on, but it's been fixed, and even in the old days it wasn't that common. And, as of system 7 was imansely easy to get arround (usualy) if you knew about the interupt switch (command - power) and the right sequence of code (G F, or G Finder, or if neither of those worked, SM O A9F4 >enterTo eject/umount a disk, drag it to the trash! I've seen Human Computer Interaction "experts" trying to defend this as good design. Talk about tortured logic..
I always used the key command anyways, but what other graphical method would you recomend for removing a disk from the computer?
Have you ever tried using that hockey puck iMac mouse? RSI within a week, I promise!
I have actualy, and once you get over the fact that the puck mouse was meant to be guided and not gripped, it was actualy a very useable mouse, ideal for small spaces. Users however were too ingrained in their old ways, and it was killing Apple to try and change them, bye bye puck.
Good interface design goes deep, I agree. Somebody go out and shoot the Quicktime player designers. In fact, any of those "brushed metal" interfaces are monsters!
God are people still ranting over the POS design that was QT 4? Alright so they used a jog wheel as a volume control, yes that sucked, I've seen it done before, it sucked then too. Apple has since fixed this, again, get over it.
Two words: "Apple keyboards". I celebrate the birthday of my IBM M-Series keyboard, thanking the higher powers I don't have to kill my hands on a Mac keyboard.
The desktop keyboards do suck, I grant that, but after using nothing but a laptop keyboard for nearly 2 years now, I hate all desktop keyboards. Buy a new one, $5.
Floppy disks. Somtimes the Mac will spit it out, sometimes it will fail to recognise the floppy at all (hello paperclip), sometimes it will not recognise the format any more. No wonder they abandoned floppies; they couldn't make them work.
Floppy disks were spit out on only two ocassions, a power down, or a failed format. Under all other conditions, unless you specify for an eject, they didn't eject. I've seen lots of computers fail to recognize floppies, even the great RedHat. Nothing new. I have never seen a mac not recognize the format though if it wasn't a corrupt disk. As for abondoning them, they abondonned them because they were old and outdated. Email and CDs and cheaper large capacity storage is more efficient.
How can Apple and Linux not be helping each other?
Apple provides Linux the commercial backing and support that it needs to make companies look at OSS and say, hey maybe we can actualy use this.
In the mean time, Linux provides Apple with a fresh stream of ideas to work with and create as well as open their system well beyond anyting it has ever been before.
And don't go into the bullshit about apple stealing code. If you don't want others to use your code, don't distribute it open source.
What is evidence other than gathered anecdotes though? The fact that there is no comprehansive study done on this is probalby because it would take to long to complete in a world where we want more and we want it yesterday.
They would just switch to the M$ model. Release a new version, charge $300 and make it entirely incompatible with old versions, force people to upgrade of become obsolete.
Ender's Game reference
As if you needed any more convincing:
My original mac was a PowerMac 8500/180. It was an all in one case design, 15 inch monitor capable of thousands of colors, 16MB RAM, no graphics card to speak of, video / audio in / out, SCSI, 1.5 Gig HDD, grand total of something like $2,600 with a printer.
It over the years recieved many memory upgrades to it's current state of 142 MB (which I do not think is the max). Memory upgrades really are the life blood of the mac. More memory will usualy do away with any slowdown you have. Arround the release of the first round of G4s, we bought a processor upgrade from Sonnet taking it to a 300 Mhz G3 and adding 256k of cache. It also took a PCI USB card, and a 40 Gig HDD upgrade. Total we've spent maybe $3000 on this machine, not counting OS upgrades (8 & 9 at roughly $70 a piece). This machine is still in use, still churns away and did me just fine while I was waiting for my new G4 Powerbook this year. So this is roughly 6 years of usage, the only other mac I bought inbetween this time was a returned open box iBook from sears for $800, which when the iBooks were going for $1,600 was a steal. THat laptop served me fine as a travel machine (durable as hell) till this year when it met it's untimely death when it found itself in an electrified puddle of water.
of course, that requires two hands to perform an action which could easily be performed with one. Not a big issue, but annoying enough for those of us who work one hand on the keyboard and one on the mouse.
Here's one issue of useability. Keyboard shortcuts in windows, many of them use control. They should be using alt. Think about it, if you're someone who used keyboard shortcuts, look at how your hanvd lays on the keyboard. Notice how little adjustment is nessesary to hit the alt key and then hit C or V or X or A or P or any of the other letters. Now try doing the same using the control key, notice how much more your hand has to shift. Bad design.
YES! GOD FORBID!!! What kind of geeks would we be if we allowed ouselves to be sucked into the common culture that is booze, cheerleaders and assholes? You sir are a heathen for suggesting that geeks should like sports, and a moron for not knowing sarcasm when you see it.
Wait, you mean charging money for software that you put time and effort into isn't evil? Holy shit! Stop the presses!!!
With the exception of the fact that it has been pointed out many many many time and many different ways that themes which render the program unusable or nearly so are BAD. Yet it doesn't seem to get through.
Funny, the anime club arround here is composed of roughly a 50 50 split between guys and gals, you just live in the wrong area.
A note on the eyes. Eyes are one of the most expressive features of the human body. YOu can tell a lot about a person's mood and thoughts merely by watching their eyes. It's very hard to get a series of emotions to come across in small drawn eyes, so they draw them larger to allow more room to show changes.
You're right, anime is cartoons, just like bugs bunny, and the simpsons, and king of the hill, and the stuff on comedy central. Why is it that just because something is animated it is dismissed out of hand as childish? There are hundreds of ways to convey a story, using the styles of anime is just one of the ways, and certainly no less valid than a live action movie or a syndicated TV show.
Maybe you don't realize this, but espesialy as a study of cultural analysis and criticism, Anime and other cartoons are actualy excelent mediums to look at, as well as comics. They actualy give a very good sense of the cultural mindsets and thoughts behind the creators. And since these shows are generaly religiously watched by kids, they in some way or another will shape our kids mind sets.
Seeing as how most of us college students pay a fixed rate regardless of the number of classes taken (over 12 hours), why not? YOu fins people with similar interests to you as well as have something to do with your time and you can enjoy going to class.
If you can't profit off a CD, why bother?
These artists could play local gigs, do their own recordings from a computer and promote themselves with MP3s and web sites.
Or conversely they could do what you suggest and buy into production. So they sunk $30,000 into a business. Hmmm so what? Anyone who wants to start a business has to sink money into it with risk. It's called being an entepreneur (sp?). You take a risk, put up the money and run with it. If it works you have a business, if it doesn't, you try to sell off your equipment to minimize your losses. Plenty of other people have lost money trying to start a business, what makes a musician any different? It's also not like your asking one person to front the $30,000. For any decent set of sound, your going to have at minimum 3 people, so that's 10,000 a piece.
The problem we have is people still seem to think that musicians should live like millionares. Why do they have to? Why can't a musician live like any other normal middle class family?
Well it would cetainly make voting less confusing for the old geezers in florida. Forget punching holes and butterfly ballots and hanging chads, just put pick a piece of colored paper and put it in the box.
As others have already pointed out, free speech is not absolute. When you access a web page or web board, you are agreeing to adhere to the rules of that forum because the website (contrary to many people's beleifs) is not public property.
Second, though the drummer may not be arrested for merely drumming and chanting, he can be arrested under charges of Disorderly Conduct and Disturbing the Peace if:
enough people complain about him
he causes interference with the normal course of business on that street
he degrades the business occuring in the shops on that street
You have the right to free speech, but not to be destructive.
It's called a reliable machine that actualy works beyond 2 years. When you build a product that can be regularly used and abused for 4+ years in a market where the average lifespan of a product is 2 years people aren't going to be buying as many as often.