This is such a slapdash attempt at a laptop it's pointless. There's a one-inch margin around the edge of the keyboard, yet the keyboard itself doesn't even have full-sized cursor keys. You've got a full-sized monitor, why not a full-sized keyboard?
Obviously it's meant to be lugged around as a gaming machine for LAN parties and the like, but if you're going all-out, why not actually make the thing useable?
Seriously. I do not know what people did. Did they write snail mail letters and/or phone tag each other? What a waste of time.
Yes, and yes. And they also got up out of their cubicles and talked with other people. Email can be a waste of time too, spending lots of time crafting a perfect message when a quick phone call can accomplish the same thing.
The fact that they're that close really does say something, though -- Apple's earnings are nearly half that of Dell's. Given that a few years back, Apple would have been lucky to make 1 percent of what Dell made, that's impressive.
Here in the South, people not only expect an answer to "how are you," but they actually expect an honest answer. I can't tell you how many times I've been at the post office and seen someone say "how are you," and then the other person replies, "well, my cat just died and I've got an awful case of the runs," or some such. It's really rather amazing to see. After 11 years, I still haven't gotten used to it.
I would prefer they just give us every upgrade for free!!
Wouldn't that be cool?
Seriously, few people have actually spent that much money coming from 10.0, because nearly everyone has upgraded their computer during that time frame, and the new OS came free. Personally I think I only paid full price for one upgrade -- Jaguar. If I buy Tiger, that will be two, but I haven't decided whether it's worth it. Spotlight seems nice, but I've got my HD pretty well organized anyway, so I may not need to bother.
My father has worked for years in a robotic prescription-filling department. He visually checks each pill bottle the robot fills against a computer database photo showing what that particular pill is supposed to look like. His department only handles refills: a human has to fill the initial prescription. He says there are far fewer errors in this system than the old manual system, and it eliminates many sources of human error. Of course, a human still has to fill all the hoppers with the right pills, so there still is the potential for error there, especially with many pills looking quite similar. Then the error might be repeated over several hundred prescriptions, instead of just one.
Combines the crappiness of VOIP voice transmission with the unreliability of cell phones! Now we just need to get Microsoft in on this to really ruin it!
Actually, students also find fractional font sizes, letterspacing, and 30-point linespacing to be useful in stretching a paper to the required page length. Fortunately, all these features are available in TextEdit!
My writing style is very visually oriented -- I've found that one of the things I do to monitor what I've written is actually to remember where it is on the page. I write better on a WYSIWYG editor than on a simple text editor, because there are "mileposts"--page breaks and paragraph breaks--that give me a visual sense of what I've written and what I need to write.
Not only that, but when I print it out for others to edit, page numbers are essential: how else are we going to communicate what section we are referring to? Headers and footers aren't absolutely essential, but they too make it easier to establish a point of reference in a larger text: they can indicate the chapter in a book, for example.
For 99 percent of the writing I do (books) I definitely use page numbers, headers, and footers. But the other features, which I use 1 percent of the time, are generally used for very important documents, so even though I might only spend 1 percent of my time on them, they give me, say, 90 percent of the program's value. That's why I'm willing to pay for a word processor even though there are plenty of free apps out there. Indeed, I do use a free tool (NeoOffice) for 99 percent of my writing. But I still use MS Word for a few key features. If Apple's new product provides these features, I'll be able to (happily) ditch Word.
The only thing it's really missing is table support
Well, page numbers would be nice, too. And real control over your margins. And footnotes. And mail merge. And maybe headers and footers. Multi-columns would be nice. Okay, so maybe it needs *just* a bit more than tables. But tables would be nice, too.
Horace Mann, one of the schools used in the examples, is where I did my student teaching, many moons ago. It is one of the most prestigious private schools in the nation.
This was pre-IM, pre-Web, and the students were just about as mean to each other in person as they were online.
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Yes, according to the article, this is the first season. In that sense, his "record' isn't that impressive. Earlier this year someone got to 7, now he's crushed that.
Yeah, I remember one year (1986?) participants were required to obtain Mike Royko's autograph on that day's issue of the Chicago Tribune. While dozens of students harrassed the real Royko all day, another enterprising team found a different "Mike Royko" in Pinola, Indiana. No problem getting his autograph!
This is pretty neat. I'm posting from the trailblazer browser itself. It's rather slow, but the history function works as advertised. I suppose I won't be the first to say that this will add a new dimention to the porn browsing experience!
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This is such a slapdash attempt at a laptop it's pointless. There's a one-inch margin around the edge of the keyboard, yet the keyboard itself doesn't even have full-sized cursor keys. You've got a full-sized monitor, why not a full-sized keyboard? Obviously it's meant to be lugged around as a gaming machine for LAN parties and the like, but if you're going all-out, why not actually make the thing useable?
Yes, and yes. And they also got up out of their cubicles and talked with other people. Email can be a waste of time too, spending lots of time crafting a perfect message when a quick phone call can accomplish the same thing.
The fact that they're that close really does say something, though -- Apple's earnings are nearly half that of Dell's. Given that a few years back, Apple would have been lucky to make 1 percent of what Dell made, that's impressive.
Allen and Gates went to the Lakeside School, not the nonexistent Lakewood School. Whatever.
Here in the South, people not only expect an answer to "how are you," but they actually expect an honest answer. I can't tell you how many times I've been at the post office and seen someone say "how are you," and then the other person replies, "well, my cat just died and I've got an awful case of the runs," or some such. It's really rather amazing to see. After 11 years, I still haven't gotten used to it.
Come to think of it, MS Paint and Photoshop both run on the same processor. Why should I waste all that money on Photoshop?
I would prefer they just give us every upgrade for free!! Wouldn't that be cool? Seriously, few people have actually spent that much money coming from 10.0, because nearly everyone has upgraded their computer during that time frame, and the new OS came free. Personally I think I only paid full price for one upgrade -- Jaguar. If I buy Tiger, that will be two, but I haven't decided whether it's worth it. Spotlight seems nice, but I've got my HD pretty well organized anyway, so I may not need to bother.
Well, trying to kill someone generally nets you less than that. I assume if you actually succeeded you'd get a bit more than 25 years.
My father has worked for years in a robotic prescription-filling department. He visually checks each pill bottle the robot fills against a computer database photo showing what that particular pill is supposed to look like. His department only handles refills: a human has to fill the initial prescription. He says there are far fewer errors in this system than the old manual system, and it eliminates many sources of human error. Of course, a human still has to fill all the hoppers with the right pills, so there still is the potential for error there, especially with many pills looking quite similar. Then the error might be repeated over several hundred prescriptions, instead of just one.
Combines the crappiness of VOIP voice transmission with the unreliability of cell phones! Now we just need to get Microsoft in on this to really ruin it!
Actually, students also find fractional font sizes, letterspacing, and 30-point linespacing to be useful in stretching a paper to the required page length. Fortunately, all these features are available in TextEdit!
Not only that, but when I print it out for others to edit, page numbers are essential: how else are we going to communicate what section we are referring to? Headers and footers aren't absolutely essential, but they too make it easier to establish a point of reference in a larger text: they can indicate the chapter in a book, for example.
For 99 percent of the writing I do (books) I definitely use page numbers, headers, and footers. But the other features, which I use 1 percent of the time, are generally used for very important documents, so even though I might only spend 1 percent of my time on them, they give me, say, 90 percent of the program's value. That's why I'm willing to pay for a word processor even though there are plenty of free apps out there. Indeed, I do use a free tool (NeoOffice) for 99 percent of my writing. But I still use MS Word for a few key features. If Apple's new product provides these features, I'll be able to (happily) ditch Word.
Well, page numbers would be nice, too. And real control over your margins. And footnotes. And mail merge. And maybe headers and footers. Multi-columns would be nice. Okay, so maybe it needs *just* a bit more than tables. But tables would be nice, too.
We always used to play with the values reversed: the 1 was the strongest and the 10 was the weakest. Made for some interesting strategy.
Duke's Web site has more pictures and a longer article
Yep. It's funny. I laughed.
You can replace the battery through Apple's own battery replacement program without voiding the warranty: see here
Horace Mann, one of the schools used in the examples, is where I did my student teaching, many moons ago. It is one of the most prestigious private schools in the nation. This was pre-IM, pre-Web, and the students were just about as mean to each other in person as they were online.
Yes, according to the article, this is the first season. In that sense, his "record' isn't that impressive. Earlier this year someone got to 7, now he's crushed that.
Once we teach the computers to write, what will we need humans for? I've blogged about this here.
Unfortunately we haven't heard much from them lately (Notice the "last updated" date). I suspect they're still waiting on their G5 xServes.
Yeah, I remember one year (1986?) participants were required to obtain Mike Royko's autograph on that day's issue of the Chicago Tribune. While dozens of students harrassed the real Royko all day, another enterprising team found a different "Mike Royko" in Pinola, Indiana. No problem getting his autograph!
Ooh. A freudian typo: new "dimention"! It's so wrong.... but also so right!
This is pretty neat. I'm posting from the trailblazer browser itself. It's rather slow, but the history function works as advertised. I suppose I won't be the first to say that this will add a new dimention to the porn browsing experience!