What's new in iTunes 4.8
iTunes 4.8 includes new Music Store features and support for transferring contacts and calendars from your computer to your iPod (requires Mac OS X version 10.4 on your computer).
So, no mention of a security hole or its having been patched. Hmmm.
I ran SU manually just now and it did not show up. I quit and re-launched version 4.7.1 to see if it would auto-check and it did not (as suggested above, perhaps this is a Windoze only feature). It has been suggested in comments to previous posts that they are rolling out the SU selectively to different parts of the 'net to ease the load on their servers (personally, I think it would be a nice touch if their servers also checked to see if you are one of their 'preferred' customers who has shelled out for a retail copy of Tiger, and gave you the update immediately regardless of your 'net location). Of course, going to itunes.apple.com will let you download the new version immediately, and they have simplified the process by requiring only an email address and the unchecking of two mailing list checkboxes...
This is not an issue, because export to PDF is built in to the OS X printing system.
That depends on what is meant by "deliver" in the GP. If all the recipient needs to do is read or print the document, a PDF is fine. If they need to edit the document, that's a whole other can of worms. Although they covered importing, I don't believe TFA made any mention of what alternate file formats (if any) Pages is capable of exporting. According to Apple's web site, "Pages is compatible. It imports AppleWorks documents and imports and exports Microsoft Word documents." Yet TFA doesn't even mention this "export to Word" feature, or whether or not it actually works as advertised. A glaring omission, IMO.
You're both wrong. The reason pigs are a poor livestock choice in hot climates is that they cannot perspire, and in order to stay cool in a hot climate (like the middle-east), they will wallow in their own waste, which is unsanitary. Pigs are fine, clean animals when they have some good old mud to wallow in, but there's not much of that in the desert. This book explains it all.
It has been quite awhile since Freud was considered by the scientific body at large to be correct about anything.
Would you care to be more specific, rather than simply referring to "the scientific body at large" in a summary dismissal? There was a time when I would have agreed with you about Freud, back when I was all into Maslow, Skinner and Jung, but recently a friend of mine, who just got her Master's degree in the subject, informed me that many of the fundamental theories of psychoanalysis that Freud pioneered have been expanded upon by modern researchers and are indeed still quite well-respected in the field of psychology. And here I always thought he was just a coke-head who liked to screw his female patients...
Tesla had the unfortunate distinction of being latched onto by a lot of wackos who believed he was some kind of Venutian sent to Earth to save us from our ignorance. This biography illuminates his problems with Edison, who only hated AC because he didn't think of it first. Since the book was written in 1981, the author would not have known about Asperger's Syndrome, but from the accounts of all his quirks, it seems pretty obvious that he was a poster child for the condition. He was also very loyal, almost to a fault, and often to the wrong people. When George Westinghouse complained to Tesla that he couldn't afford to pay him the million dollars he had promised him for the patents on the AC power transmission system, Tesla gave him the rights. Later, when Tesla started running out of funds for his experiments, Westinghouse left him out in the cold. Another interesting thing about Edison: As part of his smear campaign to prove how "unsafe" alternating current was, he held many public demonstrations at which he used AC to electrocute live animals. Nice guy, huh? If I believed in a hell, I'd have to think that Edison is there now, being eternally electrocuted with high currents of the DC he was so fond of.
So you don't like it. Is the license transferable? If so, I'll give you $20US for your reg code, then you can delete your copy...
(BTW, lending out some titles from your vast DVD collection to [friends] might be one way that the software could help make you nicer. Just a thought...)
If you cut the power I will kill myself rather than facing the real world again.
What's to stop someone from hacking your holodeck and putting you into a nested or virtual holodeck which tricks you into thinking that the power has been cut, getting you to kill yourself over nothing? That would be a cool Darwin Award.
For some reason (probably alcohol related), I read that as "Beef", and pictured a Brita(TM) pitcher packed with ground chuck... "Yep, turns plain old chuck into top sirloin after six or seven filterings!"
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let the ice freeze, brought it back inside and removed the ice that has formed on the top
Before prohibition, fractional distillation was also commonly used throughout the U.S. to concentrate fermented cider into "applejack". John Chapman, AKA Johnny Appleseed, was all about the cider. In fact, before modern refrigeration techniques, all cider was alcoholic; the term "hard cider" would have been redundant. As apples are heterozygous, trees grown from seed bear fruit quite unlike like that of the parent tree (varieties prized for their fruit are all cloned from the same original tree). Therefore, most of the trees Chapman planted would have borne "spitters", which are good for little else but cider. This excellent book (Pollan, Michael: The Botany of Desire) covers the whole apples-alcohol-Chapman enigma, as well as a few other plants that have shaped, and been shaped by, humans in their pursuits of various desires.
As in the last time someone asked for advice on a bag (wasn't it pretty recently?), Tom Bihn is the maker for rugged, utilitarian cases. The Brain Bag has two laptop compartments and other pockets galore for all your other gear. It may cost more than other cases, but it will last five times as long, so it's worth it. http://www.tombihn.com
makes the most durable, intelligently-designed bags I have ever owned. These things are hand-made and take a righteous beating. Worth every penny. Check out the accessories, such as the Snake Charmer for containing cables and such, cushioned non-slip shoulder straps and, for the luddites, a paper organizing insert called the "Freudian Slip". http://www.tombihn.com/
The end result: Half of a half-assed attempt at putting together the film in your visions, and possibly the greatest achievement of your career.
THX-1138 will remain his greatest achievement, no matter how much he re-hashes his other crap. On the off chance that he does have another good film left in him, it will never get made if he spends the rest of his days playing in the SW sandbox. They say DaVinci carried the "Mona Lisa" portrait around with him for years, endlessly tweaking little details and insisting that it wasn't finished. That is not to put Lucas in the same ballpark as DaVinci (Lucas would be lucky to get a job as a valet parking attendant in said ballpark). Compare this to a real cinematic genius like Jim Jarmusch, who refuses to even watch one of his own films after it's finished, and all of Lucas' putzing around begins to look less like artistic perfectionism and more like plain old insecurity. I liked Star Wars when it came out, but that's probably because I was 12, and the F/X were badass to a kid who grew up watching Flash Gordon re-runs, ST-TOS and Dr. Who. But, like most people of my generation, I am waaaaay over it now. George needs to get over it too, cut the umbilical cord and do something new.
Besides the scenes of the charred and mutilated bodies of Iraqis and the two contractors, there was the scene of the beheading (which if it weren't captioned as such, most people would probably have missed it completely). Did you forget the small child writhing in agony as a doctor swabbed at a gaping head wound, or another child lying on a stretcher with a six-inch chunk of arm missing, bloody bones and tendons exposed? Horror flicks are fake, and (hopefully) everyone who goes into them is aware of this on some level as they are watching them. When you see someone on a big screen who has just been mutilated, or footage of a public execution, and while you are watching it you know that it is real, it can have a profoundly different effect from that of fake violence created for the sake of entertainment. I would not want any young person who is not psychologically prepared for such an experience to be thusly exposed to scenes of real violence and human suffering. I think your failure to understand the difference is a poignant indication of how desensitized to violence, pain and suffering our society has become, and it makes me very sad.
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Damn! This means I wasted 2.7 seconds typing 'biteme@mybigfat.org' when all I had to do was click three times.
What's new in iTunes 4.8
iTunes 4.8 includes new Music Store features and support for transferring contacts and calendars from your computer to your iPod (requires Mac OS X version 10.4 on your computer).
So, no mention of a security hole or its having been patched. Hmmm.
I ran SU manually just now and it did not show up. I quit and re-launched version 4.7.1 to see if it would auto-check and it did not (as suggested above, perhaps this is a Windoze only feature). It has been suggested in comments to previous posts that they are rolling out the SU selectively to different parts of the 'net to ease the load on their servers (personally, I think it would be a nice touch if their servers also checked to see if you are one of their 'preferred' customers who has shelled out for a retail copy of Tiger, and gave you the update immediately regardless of your 'net location). Of course, going to itunes.apple.com will let you download the new version immediately, and they have simplified the process by requiring only an email address and the unchecking of two mailing list checkboxes...
Poor analogy. I think it would be more like this.
That depends on what is meant by "deliver" in the GP. If all the recipient needs to do is read or print the document, a PDF is fine. If they need to edit the document, that's a whole other can of worms. Although they covered importing, I don't believe TFA made any mention of what alternate file formats (if any) Pages is capable of exporting. According to Apple's web site, "Pages is compatible. It imports AppleWorks documents and imports and exports Microsoft Word documents." Yet TFA doesn't even mention this "export to Word" feature, or whether or not it actually works as advertised. A glaring omission, IMO.
You're both wrong. The reason pigs are a poor livestock choice in hot climates is that they cannot perspire, and in order to stay cool in a hot climate (like the middle-east), they will wallow in their own waste, which is unsanitary. Pigs are fine, clean animals when they have some good old mud to wallow in, but there's not much of that in the desert. This book explains it all.
Would you care to be more specific, rather than simply referring to "the scientific body at large" in a summary dismissal? There was a time when I would have agreed with you about Freud, back when I was all into Maslow, Skinner and Jung, but recently a friend of mine, who just got her Master's degree in the subject, informed me that many of the fundamental theories of psychoanalysis that Freud pioneered have been expanded upon by modern researchers and are indeed still quite well-respected in the field of psychology. And here I always thought he was just a coke-head who liked to screw his female patients...
Tesla had the unfortunate distinction of being latched onto by a lot of wackos who believed he was some kind of Venutian sent to Earth to save us from our ignorance. This biography illuminates his problems with Edison, who only hated AC because he didn't think of it first. Since the book was written in 1981, the author would not have known about Asperger's Syndrome, but from the accounts of all his quirks, it seems pretty obvious that he was a poster child for the condition. He was also very loyal, almost to a fault, and often to the wrong people. When George Westinghouse complained to Tesla that he couldn't afford to pay him the million dollars he had promised him for the patents on the AC power transmission system, Tesla gave him the rights. Later, when Tesla started running out of funds for his experiments, Westinghouse left him out in the cold. Another interesting thing about Edison: As part of his smear campaign to prove how "unsafe" alternating current was, he held many public demonstrations at which he used AC to electrocute live animals. Nice guy, huh? If I believed in a hell, I'd have to think that Edison is there now, being eternally electrocuted with high currents of the DC he was so fond of.
(BTW, lending out some titles from your vast DVD collection to [friends] might be one way that the software could help make you nicer. Just a thought...)
This whole mess just reminds me of one of my favorite comic strips.
What's to stop someone from hacking your holodeck and putting you into a nested or virtual holodeck which tricks you into thinking that the power has been cut, getting you to kill yourself over nothing? That would be a cool Darwin Award.
Check out the HIG, for starters (also available as a PDF).
Cheers, and keep up the good work!
For some reason (probably alcohol related), I read that as "Beef", and pictured a Brita(TM) pitcher packed with ground chuck... "Yep, turns plain old chuck into top sirloin after six or seven filterings!"
Before prohibition, fractional distillation was also commonly used throughout the U.S. to concentrate fermented cider into "applejack". John Chapman, AKA Johnny Appleseed, was all about the cider. In fact, before modern refrigeration techniques, all cider was alcoholic; the term "hard cider" would have been redundant. As apples are heterozygous, trees grown from seed bear fruit quite unlike like that of the parent tree (varieties prized for their fruit are all cloned from the same original tree). Therefore, most of the trees Chapman planted would have borne "spitters", which are good for little else but cider. This excellent book (Pollan, Michael: The Botany of Desire) covers the whole apples-alcohol-Chapman enigma, as well as a few other plants that have shaped, and been shaped by, humans in their pursuits of various desires.
As in the last time someone asked for advice on a bag (wasn't it pretty recently?), Tom Bihn is the maker for rugged, utilitarian cases. The Brain Bag has two laptop compartments and other pockets galore for all your other gear. It may cost more than other cases, but it will last five times as long, so it's worth it. http://www.tombihn.com
makes the most durable, intelligently-designed bags I have ever owned. These things are hand-made and take a righteous beating. Worth every penny. Check out the accessories, such as the Snake Charmer for containing cables and such, cushioned non-slip shoulder straps and, for the luddites, a paper organizing insert called the "Freudian Slip". http://www.tombihn.com/
The end result: Half of a half-assed attempt at putting together the film in your visions, and possibly the greatest achievement of your career.
THX-1138 will remain his greatest achievement, no matter how much he re-hashes his other crap. On the off chance that he does have another good film left in him, it will never get made if he spends the rest of his days playing in the SW sandbox. They say DaVinci carried the "Mona Lisa" portrait around with him for years, endlessly tweaking little details and insisting that it wasn't finished. That is not to put Lucas in the same ballpark as DaVinci (Lucas would be lucky to get a job as a valet parking attendant in said ballpark). Compare this to a real cinematic genius like Jim Jarmusch, who refuses to even watch one of his own films after it's finished, and all of Lucas' putzing around begins to look less like artistic perfectionism and more like plain old insecurity. I liked Star Wars when it came out, but that's probably because I was 12, and the F/X were badass to a kid who grew up watching Flash Gordon re-runs, ST-TOS and Dr. Who. But, like most people of my generation, I am waaaaay over it now. George needs to get over it too, cut the umbilical cord and do something new.
Besides the scenes of the charred and mutilated bodies of Iraqis and the two contractors, there was the scene of the beheading (which if it weren't captioned as such, most people would probably have missed it completely).
Did you forget the small child writhing in agony as a doctor swabbed at a gaping head wound, or another child lying on a stretcher with a six-inch chunk of arm missing, bloody bones and tendons exposed? Horror flicks are fake, and (hopefully) everyone who goes into them is aware of this on some level as they are watching them. When you see someone on a big screen who has just been mutilated, or footage of a public execution, and while you are watching it you know that it is real, it can have a profoundly different effect from that of fake violence created for the sake of entertainment. I would not want any young person who is not psychologically prepared for such an experience to be thusly exposed to scenes of real violence and human suffering. I think your failure to understand the difference is a poignant indication of how desensitized to violence, pain and suffering our society has become, and it makes me very sad.