Here's a piece that discusses a University of Utah study. Hands-free or not, when talking on a cell phone or (as Dr. Dean always points out) to a passenger, you are not as safe. Period.
Plus, factor in the danger of thousands of Americans trying to learn this new gesture technology in their new car (turned guided missle) while doing 65 down the freeway. Oh, learn it in your driveway? Yeah right, we are talking about Americans, here...
Get thee to lordofthecows and get Safari Enhancer. You can remove underlines, activate debugging menu, set minimum font sizes, give Safari a (very pretty) Aqua interface, and other maintenance and bookmark tweaks.
A very useful "no need for getting under the hood" app and worth the donation just for the Aqua.
the telemarketing industry is a severe drain on the resources of this country
This has been more my beef with the whole industry, even more than just the annoyance to myself. I am thrilled with the do not call list, as my own personal campaign wasn't bringing the industry to it's knees.
I had a friend tell me that if enough people said "Sure, he's home let me get him for you!" and then set down the phone until the person gave up and hung up, it would destroy profit margins for telemarketers. They have to get so many calls in per hour to turn a profit, and by wasting their time like that you could destroy that ability. I have been doing that for 2 years, and it hasn't seemed to make much of an impact.;)
If I shit in a bucket and carefully label and document everything does that make it a bucket of gold?
No. It makes it a container containing homo sapien fecal matter, deposited on June 24 at 16:21 after a lunch of onion rings and a Rodeo cheesburger from the Burger King establishment.
And to top it off, you now have to deal with a shit in a bucket.
Re:What was the default font before?
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with all due respect, I don't think we are hanging onto serifs because of old rocks. It's all because of readability.
Other factors such as leading and acender/decender height have a huge impact, but none as great as serif/san-serif.
I too, have a degree in printing, and have had textbook after texbook after teacher beat me over the head with case studies in readability.
Especially that slab-serifs (where the serifs and bars have a minimal difference) are kings of readability.
This piece brings up anther interesting factor. Not only are serifs supposedly physically easier to follow in long text, but according to the piece, there is a cultural component as well.
I'm not sure how completely I buy that, as I have read texts citing all sorts of optical testing of jabber text and controls to ensure unfamiliarity. And serif comes out more readable. You can debate whether bylines, captions, or headlines should be serif or san, but try reading Moby Dick in Futura and then after your eyes stop cramping, we'll talk.
I'd like to see some independently-verified benchmarks before I believe that it's the "Fastest desktop in the world". I seriously doubt ol' bullshitter Stevo would tell the full truth.
Indeed. Nay, marketing should play no part whatsoever in selling product.
Apple has some gall trying to spice up the hype a bit. They should be emulating MS, who is so honest about their goods, they've been putting their to-do list right on their homepage : "write more secure code."
The design is the only thing he worries about - doesn't give a shit about performance.
To be fair, he had apparently already seen it the day before. He knew how it performed, and possibly, was satisfied with that aspect. He did, after all, say it was a teriffic machine that looked like a piece of shit.
From the article, I gathered the meeting was less to wow these guys with the product, and more to discuss the way it should be introduced/marketed. And, as His Steveness knows, marketing is all about look (design).
Where have you been living (apart from Hazard County)? Apple's one of the most cash rich companies around. Tramping all over the SV, feeding rumors of buyouts and actually buying some heavy hitters (Shake, logic, etc.)
Apple consistent history of rebates, is that it precedes new products.
On a more serious note, Quark has other problems. When 4.0 came out, a few people upgraded- and they hated it. Everyone else saw how much they hated it, and refused to upgrade. A few shops bought 4.0 in case someone came to them with a 4.0 file, but for the most part, Quark threw a party and NOBODY showed up.
I didn't see this at all. In our agency, we all moved to 4 and rejoiced in being able to actually control our printing.
We haven't, however, even bothered with 5 because of all of the useless HTML bloat. If you build clean files, layers aren't really that great, anyways.
Our entire creative department has been hamstrung to OS 9 until now. I spend 90 percent of my day in Quark, and I know it top to bottom (kinda). The hit I would take, and the ensuing struggle to learn a new app while in the middle of a jam packed schedule prevented us from switching to InDesign.
Finally, we can rejoin the real world. Huzzahs! I bring my laptop to work just so I can keep some aqua in my life. Bye, bye Happy Mac!
for a company who sold one of their first computers for $666 dollars, I'd imagine some of the bands are very disappointed in them using such a good codec.
I mean, damn them! Nirvana didn't pay $606.17 to record Bleach so that some Corporate Asswipe could make a high fidelty copy of it!
The Ramones would be very peeved to find all the work they put into keeping most songs to three, dingy, distorted chords, ripped to a high fidelty format.
Which is why we will smack this dumb-ass propsal down, if it comes to us, as quickly as we have bitch-slapped a sales tax 9 times.
Multomah County (most of Portland) has just self-imposed a rather big 3 year levy to help save our schools and, somewhat, our social services. Just show us what legitimate good it will do, and we'll give you the money for it.
Give us anything that comes across as government control of our lives, and you will get the hippy beat-down from Hell.
I live in Portland, and have several Vancouver residents working at our agency. There is no salary adjustments for Vancouver residents.
However, an oft proposed subject here is tolls for the two major WA/OR bridges (I-5 and I-205) and other public transportation methods of bleeding the 'proper' amount out of the WA residents who commute to our fair city.
I'm gonna go buy some sales-tax free beer now and go have some pump-monkey fill up my Northwest Approved Subaru.;)
I live in Oregon, and while it would be fair to say we are a timber state, I think driving around with a board sticking out of the hood of my car might raise the troopers eyebrows a bit.;)
Kidding aside, you are correct. Until they come up with some thing more hack-proof, this is, as you said, a "non-starter."
Incedentally, I use the bus, and my car is parked all the time. Therefore, I'm way more interested in 'insurance-by-the-mile' than mileage based gas tax.
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Whatever happened to watercoolers?
It's California, man. Every drinks their own bottled water!
is there any good explanation anywhere about what on demand means? Is that latin for "You are totally f'ed when you pay for a song, then want to listen on-demand at home on your dial-up"?
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Plus, factor in the danger of thousands of Americans trying to learn this new gesture technology in their new car (turned guided missle) while doing 65 down the freeway. Oh, learn it in your driveway? Yeah right, we are talking about Americans, here...
In other news, Hormel lauds Spamgourmet.com as a damn fine service all around.
A very useful "no need for getting under the hood" app and worth the donation just for the Aqua.
Hold on...I'm downloading one right now...
This has been more my beef with the whole industry, even more than just the annoyance to myself. I am thrilled with the do not call list, as my own personal campaign wasn't bringing the industry to it's knees.
I had a friend tell me that if enough people said "Sure, he's home let me get him for you!" and then set down the phone until the person gave up and hung up, it would destroy profit margins for telemarketers. They have to get so many calls in per hour to turn a profit, and by wasting their time like that you could destroy that ability. I have been doing that for 2 years, and it hasn't seemed to make much of an impact. ;)
No. It makes it a container containing homo sapien fecal matter, deposited on June 24 at 16:21 after a lunch of onion rings and a Rodeo cheesburger from the Burger King establishment.
And to top it off, you now have to deal with a shit in a bucket.
Other factors such as leading and acender/decender height have a huge impact, but none as great as serif/san-serif.
I too, have a degree in printing, and have had textbook after texbook after teacher beat me over the head with case studies in readability.
Especially that slab-serifs (where the serifs and bars have a minimal difference) are kings of readability.
This piece brings up anther interesting factor. Not only are serifs supposedly physically easier to follow in long text, but according to the piece, there is a cultural component as well.
I'm not sure how completely I buy that, as I have read texts citing all sorts of optical testing of jabber text and controls to ensure unfamiliarity. And serif comes out more readable. You can debate whether bylines, captions, or headlines should be serif or san, but try reading Moby Dick in Futura and then after your eyes stop cramping, we'll talk.
Behold... the iUrinal!
If you need #2, then I guess it could be said you are shit out of luck...
I'm wetting my pants with glee here, not wondering why the independantly wealthy Mac users won't be able to stuff terrabytes of RAM into their boxes.
Indeed. Nay, marketing should play no part whatsoever in selling product.
Apple has some gall trying to spice up the hype a bit. They should be emulating MS, who is so honest about their goods, they've been putting their to-do list right on their homepage : "write more secure code."
Yes THEY are the ones setting the bar.
With a box like that sitting on your desk, where the hell are you gonna be going? I sure as hell wouldn't be 'mobile' for the next 2 months...
and those fuckers at Mercedes won't sell me a standalone engine or sell me a whole car at a price I can afford. What a bunch of jerks.
To be fair, he had apparently already seen it the day before. He knew how it performed, and possibly, was satisfied with that aspect. He did, after all, say it was a teriffic machine that looked like a piece of shit.
From the article, I gathered the meeting was less to wow these guys with the product, and more to discuss the way it should be introduced/marketed. And, as His Steveness knows, marketing is all about look (design).
Ahhhhhh....Aqua-riffic!
Looks MUCH nicer.
the only upside of that would be that black turtlenecks don't show the horrendous pit sweat stains as well.
(I'm the guy laughing to fit in. I would never get this in 10 years.)
Right about when I'm havin' a good ol' time on /., something like this makes me realize that I'm probably missing half the jokes.
Apple consistent history of rebates, is that it precedes new products.
I didn't see this at all. In our agency, we all moved to 4 and rejoiced in being able to actually control our printing.
We haven't, however, even bothered with 5 because of all of the useless HTML bloat. If you build clean files, layers aren't really that great, anyways.
Our entire creative department has been hamstrung to OS 9 until now. I spend 90 percent of my day in Quark, and I know it top to bottom (kinda). The hit I would take, and the ensuing struggle to learn a new app while in the middle of a jam packed schedule prevented us from switching to InDesign.
Finally, we can rejoin the real world. Huzzahs! I bring my laptop to work just so I can keep some aqua in my life. Bye, bye Happy Mac!
I mean, damn them! Nirvana didn't pay $606.17 to record Bleach so that some Corporate Asswipe could make a high fidelty copy of it!
The Ramones would be very peeved to find all the work they put into keeping most songs to three, dingy, distorted chords, ripped to a high fidelty format.
Which is why we will smack this dumb-ass propsal down, if it comes to us, as quickly as we have bitch-slapped a sales tax 9 times.
Multomah County (most of Portland) has just self-imposed a rather big 3 year levy to help save our schools and, somewhat, our social services. Just show us what legitimate good it will do, and we'll give you the money for it.
Give us anything that comes across as government control of our lives, and you will get the hippy beat-down from Hell.
However, an oft proposed subject here is tolls for the two major WA/OR bridges (I-5 and I-205) and other public transportation methods of bleeding the 'proper' amount out of the WA residents who commute to our fair city.
I'm gonna go buy some sales-tax free beer now and go have some pump-monkey fill up my Northwest Approved Subaru. ;)
Kidding aside, you are correct. Until they come up with some thing more hack-proof, this is, as you said, a "non-starter."
Incedentally, I use the bus, and my car is parked all the time. Therefore, I'm way more interested in 'insurance-by-the-mile' than mileage based gas tax.
It's California, man. Every drinks their own bottled water!
is there any good explanation anywhere about what on demand means? Is that latin for "You are totally f'ed when you pay for a song, then want to listen on-demand at home on your dial-up"?
You mean Apple worked out a deal with the record companies to take all the cd's off the shelves? Wow!
The only way you can get your music is via a hamstrung, brow-beating, ball-and-chain restricted format? Shocking!
Go out and buy the fuckin music on a cd. Nobody's making you use Apple's service.
If you still have problems with restrictions on the cd's, direct your vitriol toward the record co.'s.