Good post, legLess; but this isn't a good analogy, as the vulnerabilities in a child car seat can be exploited by forces of nature, while security vulnerabilities usually can only be exploited by human agents (i.e., black hats).
Interesting idea. Would this really need to be 3D, though? After all, why couldn't you have a 2D cluster of widgets in a small box that you open up to use?
The interesting issue to me is this: how do you navigate a 3D display? A mouse is a 2D input device. I suppose you could use the scroll button for that purpose, or you could use something like the gyroscopic pointers they had for a while, but adding a z-axis to a pointing device would be a non-trivial usability hurdle, don't you agree?
Buy a MacAlly or MacMice.com (http://www.macmice.com/pics.html) mouse and shut up about it. The machine has the option, Apple just doesn't care to offer their own multi-buttoned mouse.
It's a niche effect. Mac users are what, 5% of the user base? They can either feel like losers being left out, or like the elite. So they choose to feel like the elite.
Good post. A couple of more things to keep in mind:
The context of this article is video (note that it is in the/motion/ tree, which is "digital video products"). Apple has been making a big push into video, and has a shindig at NAB to talk about their video strategy, right? And Adobe competes with Apple on several fronts in video. Now, let's say that Adobe recommends that digital video customers go with Premiere and AfterEffects on Mac. Won't those customers be tempted by Final Cut Pro (there's scuttlebut that FCP4 is coming out soon)? Could it be that Adobe is here preparing a way to block migrations from Adobe Premiere to FCP4 by pushing Premiere users toward Windows?
Sure, an FCP user is likely to buy Photoshop, too. But Adobe makes more money from the user with Photoshop and Premiere then they do from the user with just Photoshop.
(I've never used AfterEffects, so I don't know how that fits in.)
You're talking about 3D graphing; that makes some sense to me. But go beyond information display and explain to me how a 3D interface will improve my ability to switch between active processes, manage files (beyond 3DX style file-size cylinders), etc. And don't resort to "why would anyone need a GUI" kind of argument, that's argument from false analogy, as you haven't proved why a change from 2D to 3D is analogous to the change from command line to gui.
Seriously, I'd be very interested in your ideas.
Mod parent +1 funny. It's a perfect example of the kind of thought processes I was talking about. They're thinking in terms of "the features of MS Outlook" not "the capabilities of a contact/messaging management suite."
Apple may come out with an advanced OS, but Microsoft's performance with actually meeting the needs of the wider marketplace gives them an edge in taking it to mainstream usage
Only because the massagement lusers are defining those needs in terms of Microsoft's offerings. When the average corporate IT buyer thinks in terms of "we need an Exchange server" instead of "we need a package that supports IMAP and LDAP," Apple is screwed to begin with.
No, massagement is not a typo. Massage therapy is all the rage around here.
Heinlein? Don't you mean Ellison?
(Harlan Ellison, author of City on the Edge of Forever, also a creative consultant on B5. "New Wave" SF writer, famous in ST lore for having a terrible row with Roddenberry over changes to his script for CEF, from which the Great Bird of the Galaxy deleted a drug scene etc., and then submitting the original screenplay to the Emmys and winning one. Yes, I'm a geek.)
Pretty close to it. Trials and Tribbulations is the one episode of post-Shatner Star Trek that everyone loved, including the purists. Another great one (also paraphrased): Jadzia: "I had no idea he was so attractive." Sisko: "Oh, yes, he had quite a reputation as a lady's man, I think." Jadzia: "Really? I'm surprised." Sisko: "Yes, Kirk was famous for that." Jadzia: "I'm not talking about Kirk. Spock!" Remember that in the early eps Jadzia was dating the scientist with the transparent skull and the very large brain. Which does make you wonder what she saw in Worf....
People need to stop complaining about X's fonts. Just use the same TrueType fonts you would use on OS X or Windows (some of them are free as in beer). RTF Font Deuglification HOWTO, for heaven's sake.
Open Source fonts are a very, very difficult deal, as fonts need to be coherent from script to script, and have a single artistic vision behind them to be satisfactory.
Fine. Review of Children of Dune: a travesty of Dune Messiah and Children of Dune with all the subtlety of a fart at a funeral. Instead of wasting your time watching it, read the books. (Well, ok, the actress playing Ghani' was nice to look at, but otherwise....) They age the twins about 10 years in the miniseries, which is acceptable. The guy who plays Bijaz was good. Overall, the series is a not so gentle reminder that Paul is not well cast: he strikes me as more of a football player than a supermentat with prescience. Edric and the main Scytale identity were ok. Alia was just a scenery chewer. Weniscia was Susan Sarandon's most mediocre performance since Rocky Horror. Examples of their lack of subtlety: they retime Weniscia's expulsion to coincide with Farad'n's arrival on Arrakis, thus collapsing his entire development into a few seconds. The sandtrout never manage to cover Leto entirely, and yet he survives a Coriolis storm (one wonders how he ran so fast when only his arm was integrated into the sandworm bodies). Ghanima's self-hypnosis was ignored. There were lines about Hayt's eyes kept in the series that related to his Tleilaxu eyes, even though they never mention the fact that Hayt has Tleilaxu eyes!!! But then you never hear the name Hayt - he is called Duncan throughout. They collapse the mid-novel scene in which Alia recognizes that Paul is the Preacher with the Preacher's death scene, managing somehow to motivate Alia's return upstairs for her to fall on her crysknife rather than pitch herself out the window. Mercifully, they never mention the fact that Leto is going to live 4,000 years and turn into a sandworm, so I think we can rest assured there will be no God Emperor of Dune miniseries (frankly Herbert's novels dropped precipitously in quality after Children of Dune, perhaps because of the long hiatus, and CoD itself isn't as good as Dune Messiah, being far more uneven. Chapterhouse:Dune and the other Dune book whose name escapes me were OK, but nowhere near the genuinely literary quality of the original).
Farscape 4.22: a good bit, except they should have done one of two things: either a. cut the last 127 seconds, or b. cut the line about retrieving the aliens and the "TO BE CONTINUED" and, horribile dictu, end the series on a tragic note. There's no way they'll ever resolve the cliffhanger, but maybe, just maybe they'll get a movie.
A bad adaptation of a good sequel to a great novel (Dune is a great novel by any measure) isn't as satisfying to watch as a good episode of a good TV series. Instead of wasting their money on remaking Dune poorly, and making that silly cross between the X-Files and CE3K, Taken, and making, o my God, a remake of Battlestar Galactica, and making - my fingers shake as I type this - a series out of the Tremors movies, movies so bad they make me nostalgic for Teen Wolf 2 - not to mention the "fake cross between psychics and psychoanalysis, Jon Edwards", the "silly excuse for lots of lesbian sex fantasy commercials, Dream Team", and "bad ripoff of Sixth Sense with Adrian Paul", none of which have anything to do with SF, they should have just stuck with a show that was beginning to build a strong following in a solid demographic.
Shi'ia is no more violent by nature than Sunnism. Even Ismailism isn't. For instance, Osama Bin Laden is a Sunni.
The distinction between Shi'ia and Sunni is basically a theological and ecclesiological distinction: who is the true successor to the Prophet Mohammed?
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Very nice work. Ok, now I'm going to have to build the damned thing (E17, that is; I usually use E16).
Good. The more thought put into how to move beyond the desktop paradigm, the better off we'll be in the future.
Good post, legLess; but this isn't a good analogy, as the vulnerabilities in a child car seat can be exploited by forces of nature, while security vulnerabilities usually can only be exploited by human agents (i.e., black hats).
Interesting idea. Would this really need to be 3D, though? After all, why couldn't you have a 2D cluster of widgets in a small box that you open up to use?
The interesting issue to me is this: how do you navigate a 3D display? A mouse is a 2D input device. I suppose you could use the scroll button for that purpose, or you could use something like the gyroscopic pointers they had for a while, but adding a z-axis to a pointing device would be a non-trivial usability hurdle, don't you agree?
Buy a MacAlly or MacMice.com (http://www.macmice.com/pics.html) mouse and shut up about it. The machine has the option, Apple just doesn't care to offer their own multi-buttoned mouse.
They're called OS X in a Nutshell and OS X for Unix Geeks, both from O'Reilly. This book (Missing Manual) was never for your needs.
It's a niche effect. Mac users are what, 5% of the user base? They can either feel like losers being left out, or like the elite. So they choose to feel like the elite.
(A Mac user, though not at the office).
Good post. A couple of more things to keep in mind:
The context of this article is video (note that it is in the /motion/ tree, which is "digital video products"). Apple has been making a big push into video, and has a shindig at NAB to talk about their video strategy, right? And Adobe competes with Apple on several fronts in video. Now, let's say that Adobe recommends that digital video customers go with Premiere and AfterEffects on Mac. Won't those customers be tempted by Final Cut Pro (there's scuttlebut that FCP4 is coming out soon)? Could it be that Adobe is here preparing a way to block migrations from Adobe Premiere to FCP4 by pushing Premiere users toward Windows?
Sure, an FCP user is likely to buy Photoshop, too. But Adobe makes more money from the user with Photoshop and Premiere then they do from the user with just Photoshop.
(I've never used AfterEffects, so I don't know how that fits in.)
You're talking about 3D graphing; that makes some sense to me. But go beyond information display and explain to me how a 3D interface will improve my ability to switch between active processes, manage files (beyond 3DX style file-size cylinders), etc. And don't resort to "why would anyone need a GUI" kind of argument, that's argument from false analogy, as you haven't proved why a change from 2D to 3D is analogous to the change from command line to gui. Seriously, I'd be very interested in your ideas.
Mod parent +1 funny. It's a perfect example of the kind of thought processes I was talking about. They're thinking in terms of "the features of MS Outlook" not "the capabilities of a contact/messaging management suite."
Why do we need a 3D operating system, though? I can see needing to do serious 3D imaging for modeling and other purposes, but for the OS?
Apple may come out with an advanced OS, but Microsoft's performance with actually meeting the needs of the wider marketplace gives them an edge in taking it to mainstream usage
Only because the massagement lusers are defining those needs in terms of Microsoft's offerings. When the average corporate IT buyer thinks in terms of "we need an Exchange server" instead of "we need a package that supports IMAP and LDAP," Apple is screwed to begin with.
No, massagement is not a typo. Massage therapy is all the rage around here.
Watch DS9 from the beginning. You need the backstory to understand it, even though it doesn't really get good until Worf shows up.
Heinlein? Don't you mean Ellison? (Harlan Ellison, author of City on the Edge of Forever, also a creative consultant on B5. "New Wave" SF writer, famous in ST lore for having a terrible row with Roddenberry over changes to his script for CEF, from which the Great Bird of the Galaxy deleted a drug scene etc., and then submitting the original screenplay to the Emmys and winning one. Yes, I'm a geek.)
Imagine a hack on "City on the Edge of Forever," though. Fits right into the temporal cold war.
Pretty close to it. Trials and Tribbulations is the one episode of post-Shatner Star Trek that everyone loved, including the purists. Another great one (also paraphrased): Jadzia: "I had no idea he was so attractive." Sisko: "Oh, yes, he had quite a reputation as a lady's man, I think." Jadzia: "Really? I'm surprised." Sisko: "Yes, Kirk was famous for that." Jadzia: "I'm not talking about Kirk. Spock!" Remember that in the early eps Jadzia was dating the scientist with the transparent skull and the very large brain. Which does make you wonder what she saw in Worf....
Did I say MS fonts? I said "TrueType" fonts.
People need to stop complaining about X's fonts. Just use the same TrueType fonts you would use on OS X or Windows (some of them are free as in beer). RTF Font Deuglification HOWTO, for heaven's sake. Open Source fonts are a very, very difficult deal, as fonts need to be coherent from script to script, and have a single artistic vision behind them to be satisfactory.
is the best revenge. Give the money to ADV and directly to Henson.
Fine. Review of Children of Dune: a travesty of Dune Messiah and Children of Dune with all the subtlety of a fart at a funeral. Instead of wasting your time watching it, read the books. (Well, ok, the actress playing Ghani' was nice to look at, but otherwise ....) They age the twins about 10 years in the miniseries, which is acceptable. The guy who plays Bijaz was good. Overall, the series is a not so gentle reminder that Paul is not well cast: he strikes me as more of a football player than a supermentat with prescience. Edric and the main Scytale identity were ok. Alia was just a scenery chewer. Weniscia was Susan Sarandon's most mediocre performance since Rocky Horror. Examples of their lack of subtlety: they retime Weniscia's expulsion to coincide with Farad'n's arrival on Arrakis, thus collapsing his entire development into a few seconds. The sandtrout never manage to cover Leto entirely, and yet he survives a Coriolis storm (one wonders how he ran so fast when only his arm was integrated into the sandworm bodies). Ghanima's self-hypnosis was ignored. There were lines about Hayt's eyes kept in the series that related to his Tleilaxu eyes, even though they never mention the fact that Hayt has Tleilaxu eyes!!! But then you never hear the name Hayt - he is called Duncan throughout. They collapse the mid-novel scene in which Alia recognizes that Paul is the Preacher with the Preacher's death scene, managing somehow to motivate Alia's return upstairs for her to fall on her crysknife rather than pitch herself out the window. Mercifully, they never mention the fact that Leto is going to live 4,000 years and turn into a sandworm, so I think we can rest assured there will be no God Emperor of Dune miniseries (frankly Herbert's novels dropped precipitously in quality after Children of Dune, perhaps because of the long hiatus, and CoD itself isn't as good as Dune Messiah, being far more uneven. Chapterhouse:Dune and the other Dune book whose name escapes me were OK, but nowhere near the genuinely literary quality of the original).
Farscape 4.22: a good bit, except they should have done one of two things: either a. cut the last 127 seconds, or b. cut the line about retrieving the aliens and the "TO BE CONTINUED" and, horribile dictu, end the series on a tragic note. There's no way they'll ever resolve the cliffhanger, but maybe, just maybe they'll get a movie.
A bad adaptation of a good sequel to a great novel (Dune is a great novel by any measure) isn't as satisfying to watch as a good episode of a good TV series. Instead of wasting their money on remaking Dune poorly, and making that silly cross between the X-Files and CE3K, Taken, and making, o my God, a remake of Battlestar Galactica, and making - my fingers shake as I type this - a series out of the Tremors movies, movies so bad they make me nostalgic for Teen Wolf 2 - not to mention the "fake cross between psychics and psychoanalysis, Jon Edwards", the "silly excuse for lots of lesbian sex fantasy commercials, Dream Team", and "bad ripoff of Sixth Sense with Adrian Paul", none of which have anything to do with SF, they should have just stuck with a show that was beginning to build a strong following in a solid demographic.
There. Satisfied?
Not that easy. A 20 mile wide column of tanks in a 400 mile wide stretch of mostly desert...
Mod parent up. Not sure if it's insightful or funny, but it's better than +1 any day.
Shi'ia is no more violent by nature than Sunnism. Even Ismailism isn't. For instance, Osama Bin Laden is a Sunni.
The distinction between Shi'ia and Sunni is basically a theological and ecclesiological distinction: who is the true successor to the Prophet Mohammed?
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what do you mean: they are busy from legitimate traffic, or that they are being DOSed?