Here's a very funny and well written article about Turbonique history and the insanty of rocket dragsters. Found via Coop's blog with a comment along the lines of "If this doesn't make you tight in the pants, I don't know what will."
does anyone know of good websites where I can upload my photographs and let others "compete" openly to making them look better? ... I pay to have my lawn mowed. I pay to have my house cleaned. I pay to have my food prepared. I pay to get driven around (sometimes). Why not pay to have my photos "corrected" or "enhanced"?
Why don't you pay someone to find the answer to your original question?
I work in advertising. I'm a copywriter, and years ago my art director (most agencies have CW's and AD's work as teams on the accounts) left for another job. When he gave notice, the impetus was to squeeze as much work out of him as possible in the three weeks he had left. I suppose it's because his ideas were the valuable thing, and they needed to be realized before he left to insure the integrity of them (most creatives hate getting handed someone else's idea, only to be asked to just execute the rote parts/prouction of it.).
I don't want to be a downer on you, but were you bringing something to the job that any other person couldn't waltz in and do? I'll admit I know about jack crap about running servers and administering a corporate network, but perhaps, if your specific body being there wasn't a big deal, they decided the security risk (my art director could have easily deleted all kind of archived, un-backed up work if he was feeling nefarious) wasn't worth it.
From all the other posts from people who know the IT industry, it seems that this was par for the course, and you should just enjoy your vacation and prep for your next job. From my perspective, I'd feel I still have some more to offer, ads to button up, website copy to write, etc. before leaving and my agency would want that stuff badly. If that's how you feel, I could see why you'd be bummed (slap in the face, right?). But take heart in the fact that even if you had a ton to offer during the time you offered them, it sounds like it's just a security thing that's likely more dictated by their insurance company than by how they feel about your contributions.
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and I went to prefs, set stuff how I liked (pretty much their stock config), and went to Slashdot. A big-ass banner was at the top of the page.
Safari combined with Pithhelmet blocks everything, right off the bat, no wacky configuring involved. I don't even want to bother figuring how to get the banners blocked in FF. Sorry, FF, but I'm a computer retard, and until I can be up and running in 5 min with a better setup (thanks for auto-importing my Safari bookmarks, though! Nice feature!) I won't use you.
Hard materials like diamond and sapphire are pretty much inherently expensive.
I think you stumbled on the answer to this whole Nano-scratch debacle!
See, people who purchase Nanos are rich, thereby increasing the odds that they will have diamonds annd sapphires bouncing around in their pockets with their mp3 players!
conflict between creating a GUI that emulates the bubbliness of Windows and OS X, and creating a GUI that allows people to get work done efficiently and effectively.
And you, you are one person with an opinion. Just like someone else. Just like me. However, what's not an opinion is that "bubbly" absolutely, without a doubt, means unproductive. What makes someone more productive in a "bare bones" work environment? The fact that their interface looks like the cubicle they work in and they flee to the command line, and get back to work, just to stop from being visually assaulted by their windows?
Remember, this is a NEW project. If you think current bubbly, fruity-pants themes suck, that doesn't mean a new one will. C'mon... buck up. Think positive. You could put frickin' Pokemon characters in my windows, and if stuff is where I expect it and like-functioned items are in similar areas, I'd have a hard time arguing that it's not a "productive" system.
As always, arguing taste is an unwinnable argument, but I think arguing that something with aesthetic appeal to is, by its very nature, unproductive is a pretty poor position.
I know it doesn't give me any authority, as consumers are the real gauge of how effective an ad is, but holy crap, those are awful ads. First off, they do almost as much pitching for the competition as they do Sun. Second,.. well, they just plain suck. Word play and throwing in a useless mild swear word isn't a hallmark of "bold", just an unimaginative mind.
I'm gonna go wash the taste of those out of my mouth now...
Those all had the original Airport (802.11b) cards in them. Once those went out of production, they were going, used, for almost more than their original retail price on eBay. People who owned older Macs and figured they'd add wireless "someday" were now forced to buy now or never.
The school district should have at least stripped those out, sold the 'Books for $50, and then the cards for another 50 bones apiece.
But making a savvy financial descision was clearly not an option on the table here, anyway.
By that logic South Africa could be referred to as Africa.
No, your example sucks. Just like there is no country of South America, there is no country called Africa. Shortening the United States of America to America doesn't lead to confusion with a continent.
Maybe the original ranter would like it more if when referring to North and South America, people just said the Americas. I'm fine with that. North, Central and South, all in one tidy name.
So I don't buy a computer? What the hell are you replying to? We're talking about sequels and the five games and required systems that those entailed. I never said anything about buying computers.
The makers of THPS have had me shell out an inordinate amount of money for their products and the consoles to play them, and I loved it. Nothing more, nothing less. I thought that's what we were discussing here. Sequels. Not some shit-ass PC gamez machine. And yes, I still have my NES with your aforementioned titles. What does that have to do with anything again?
I don't play any games on my computer. I do, however, keep purchasing the latest Playstation, without fail. Why? To play one game, and one game only. Tony Hawk Pro Skater. And the reason I continue to do so, is that with each successive release, they push the bar so much higher. Now, my definition of "so much higher" may be skewed. I don't know how other games progress version to version, as I don't play any of them.
But the THPS folks have pushed the features and fun of the game with each release so much, that I fork over for a whole damn system just to get the fix of the new goods.
I don't even know if I am an anomaly because I spend no time at all in the gaming circles (short of reading this/. article).
My Shuttle Pro automatically switches function states dependant on the program I'm using. If I'm in Final Cut, the scroll wheel scrubs the timeline. If I switch to the Finder, it's set to turn the main volume up and down. If I'm in iTunes, it controls iTune's volume (and the keys I use to make In and Out points in FCP skip songs in iTunes.)
All of this is easily customizable from the contol panel for the Shuttle Pro. You can specify program level buttons or bind a global key command to any button you want.
I don't see why this would be any different with this keyboard. It's just a driver issue, right?
I am pleased to joint the cacaphony of folk singing the praises of this post. I have (well, the wife has) a bun in the oven right now, and I'm settling down as we speak to think about the way in which I will parent. This post is a great example to me of well-reasoned thinking; balancing reality with ideology.
I love it. Brain food for soon-to-be and new parents. Good show, my friend.
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Here's a very funny and well written article about Turbonique history and the insanty of rocket dragsters. Found via Coop's blog with a comment along the lines of "If this doesn't make you tight in the pants, I don't know what will."
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I pay to have my lawn mowed. I pay to have my house cleaned. I pay to have my food prepared. I pay to get driven around (sometimes). Why not pay to have my photos "corrected" or "enhanced"?
Why don't you pay someone to find the answer to your original question?
I don't want to be a downer on you, but were you bringing something to the job that any other person couldn't waltz in and do? I'll admit I know about jack crap about running servers and administering a corporate network, but perhaps, if your specific body being there wasn't a big deal, they decided the security risk (my art director could have easily deleted all kind of archived, un-backed up work if he was feeling nefarious) wasn't worth it.
From all the other posts from people who know the IT industry, it seems that this was par for the course, and you should just enjoy your vacation and prep for your next job. From my perspective, I'd feel I still have some more to offer, ads to button up, website copy to write, etc. before leaving and my agency would want that stuff badly. If that's how you feel, I could see why you'd be bummed (slap in the face, right?). But take heart in the fact that even if you had a ton to offer during the time you offered them, it sounds like it's just a security thing that's likely more dictated by their insurance company than by how they feel about your contributions.
and less storage than a Nomad.
"We won't just stop with OS X. We give greater coverage - all the way up to OS Z!"
Safari combined with Pithhelmet blocks everything, right off the bat, no wacky configuring involved. I don't even want to bother figuring how to get the banners blocked in FF. Sorry, FF, but I'm a computer retard, and until I can be up and running in 5 min with a better setup (thanks for auto-importing my Safari bookmarks, though! Nice feature!) I won't use you.
Just the opinon of a non-propellerhead Joe.
I think you stumbled on the answer to this whole Nano-scratch debacle!
See, people who purchase Nanos are rich, thereby increasing the odds that they will have diamonds annd sapphires bouncing around in their pockets with their mp3 players!
And you, you are one person with an opinion. Just like someone else. Just like me. However, what's not an opinion is that "bubbly" absolutely, without a doubt, means unproductive. What makes someone more productive in a "bare bones" work environment? The fact that their interface looks like the cubicle they work in and they flee to the command line, and get back to work, just to stop from being visually assaulted by their windows?
Remember, this is a NEW project. If you think current bubbly, fruity-pants themes suck, that doesn't mean a new one will. C'mon... buck up. Think positive. You could put frickin' Pokemon characters in my windows, and if stuff is where I expect it and like-functioned items are in similar areas, I'd have a hard time arguing that it's not a "productive" system.
As always, arguing taste is an unwinnable argument, but I think arguing that something with aesthetic appeal to is, by its very nature, unproductive is a pretty poor position.
but I have 9 other chances to switch that one up once "guessed." ;)
"Flame me and then brag about your setup."
I'm gonna go wash the taste of those out of my mouth now...
Duh. I ran out of money.
"Because life is random. Really, really random. Like, 60 Gigs of random."
The school district should have at least stripped those out, sold the 'Books for $50, and then the cards for another 50 bones apiece.
But making a savvy financial descision was clearly not an option on the table here, anyway.
No, your example sucks. Just like there is no country of South America, there is no country called Africa. Shortening the United States of America to America doesn't lead to confusion with a continent.
Maybe the original ranter would like it more if when referring to North and South America, people just said the Americas. I'm fine with that. North, Central and South, all in one tidy name.
The makers of THPS have had me shell out an inordinate amount of money for their products and the consoles to play them, and I loved it. Nothing more, nothing less. I thought that's what we were discussing here. Sequels. Not some shit-ass PC gamez machine. And yes, I still have my NES with your aforementioned titles. What does that have to do with anything again?
But the THPS folks have pushed the features and fun of the game with each release so much, that I fork over for a whole damn system just to get the fix of the new goods.
I don't even know if I am an anomaly because I spend no time at all in the gaming circles (short of reading this /. article).
Here's a first broken promise. Where will the evil end? Oh, *sob*, the children!
I'm not. I love extended keyboards. Hey, I must be the target market!
All of this is easily customizable from the contol panel for the Shuttle Pro. You can specify program level buttons or bind a global key command to any button you want.
I don't see why this would be any different with this keyboard. It's just a driver issue, right?
Initially, the signal that these TV's will require will only be broadcast for the Charlie Chaplin Channel.
Apples!
I love it. Brain food for soon-to-be and new parents. Good show, my friend.
Well, of course it is, silly. I just bought one for $149 a few weeks ago.
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