I prefer one tool that does a job well to a dozen that do it badly.
So is the argument here that Mac has too few apps, or too many that aren't good enough?
Fact is, Mac has about 80%-90% of the functionality of Windows on the desktop and the server. It's missing certain key business segments (I don't think there's any serious accounting software for Mac, for instance - no, QuickBooks is not the kind of serious I'm talking about) and games, and the WP software still stinks (including Office v.X), but it's getting there. It is the platform of choice for design, sub-feature length film, and sound, with apps that have nothing comparable on the Windows platform - no, Premiere is not comparable to Final Cut Pro, and I usually use Premiere, so I know). And since the majority of lusers just want a convenient web surfing station they can also make DVDs and play MP3s on, and the Apple experience - except for the browsers - is superior in all these areas (Mail, iTunes, iChat, iDVD, iPhoto, QuickTime, etc.), I think the argument that Apple can be categorizeed as a collection of a dozen tools that do the same job badly is at best a mischaracterization
I don't know anyone who's had a problem with a post-Jobs'-return Mac (the Sculley era ones, on the other hand...). Every fourth Dell seems to be a POS that won't boot, or has a bad HD, or some other hardware issue. That's the result of focusing on their business model rather than the quality of their product.
How come I have no problems synching my Palm using Palm Desktop? Because I have a brain.
Word's Unicode support has gotten much, much better since Word 97; indeed, the main thing that Microsoft is to be complimented for nowadays (IMHO) is its internationalization and its work with fonts and character sets. It also more recently started moving toward incorporating different UI elements (that I'm not too happy about, myself) and incorporating some WordPerfect like features. So MS Word has changed over the past 6 years, just not always for the better. In comparison with WordPerfect, it has been moving forward. Can't say I'm happy about giving them any kind of positive feedback, but truth is truth....
Nope. It's a reference to the fact that Unicode support isn't quite 100% there yet, though it's improving (important to me, if not to all users), and there are other things (I don't like the paradigm for the equation editor, for instance). OO is definitely 1.0 software, it's rough around the edges and quite finicky. It's like RedHat 6 or Mozilla 1.0 or Netscape 2, or Windows 3.0. But it's on the way there; by 3.0 it should be indisputably able to do "everything that MS Office does."
I'm on OS X, myself, so I'd really rather have an Aqua than an X11 office environment; I'm using BBEdit for most of my typing, and TextEdit for stuff that needs Unicode (I've had problems with BBEdit's Unicode rendering). I'd love to see OO get there, though. Ideally, I'd love to see something more WordPerfect like, with a source screen showing the XML code for an XML-based document format (rather than "reveal codes" in WP).
Yeah, but most folks tend to stick with shorter email addresses. E.g., less than 8 letters. If you can ignore case and punctuation, and numerics, and stick with 7-bit ASCII valid addresses, you would get 26^8. That's more managable; and you could limit it further by running a phone book's list of surnames in combination with initials.
RTFA. Microsoft is suing the spammers for using a type of dictionary attack to find valid hotmail addresses. Your test account would be vulnerable to that attack.
Learn how to interact with people in a way that is pleasurable to them, and they will enjoy your company. It does not really matter what your IQ is. For example: don't talk down to them don't talk over their head don't tell them things they do not want to know do talk/ask about things they want to talk about avoid being negative be yourself, and be comfortable with yourself
I was with you until the last one.... how can I be myself without talking down to them and being negative?
Awards don't technically have to be given out every year. Of course, the academy would force itself to use the excuse, but this thought experiment assumes ideal human behavior, right? (Like ignoring friction in classical physics problems.)
But, then, who is the actor? The guy that did the voice, or the animators that drew the character and gave him form?
Acting performance, thus actor, thus the guy that did the voice or the body movements that the animation was based upon. The animators that drew the character and gave him form could be treated differently again: best digital enhancement of a character, an analog to "best costume" and "best makeup." Even better: "Best Enhanced Character Design." Yeah, the name is quite messy, but noone watching on TV would ever have to hear the name of the award, since it would be one of the "presented this afternoon before the broadcast" awards anyway.
This does not bode well for the new character being introduced in The Return of the King [parent's link to bbspot.com] who is also digitally generated.
Supposedly, top talent have chosen to make movies because they love the artform. So why would an award be meaningful to them? Awards are useful in athletic competitions but are they truly appropriate for art?
Acting awards go back to the 6th century or at worst early 5th century BC. That's right, BC. The terms "protagonist" and "antagonist" go back to the technical Greek terms for the first and second actors of a tragedy or comedy; there were prizes for the best protagonist (as well as for the best 4-play tragic production or 1-play comic production).
I think rather than continuing to just ignore roles like this that "don't fit" into a category, they should do SOMETHING..or have a special award for this ..
Best Voice / Digitally Enhanced Acting Performance. That would also let actors from animated films get a chance.
AFAIK, Jar Jar wasn't really fully digital in any sense distinguishable from Serkis' performance. ILM used Ahmed Best's movements to help them model the way Jar Jar's clothes would move, for instance.
OSX is not a Linux replacement. Although it may be a good Windows replacement. If someone specifically asks for Linux, chances are they're not interested in what OSX has to offer.
The only significant difference is ideological. If you're going to buy a new laptop, you have three choices: 1. buy one with Windows, 2. buy one with OS X, 3. buy one from a niche player who installs a free OS like Linux (or GNU/Linux, if you must) or FreeBSD, like Emperor Linux (http://www.emperorlinux.com/), in order of increasing preference. Why? Because given MS and Apple, Apple is the lesser of two evils, and every win for Apple against MS is a win for Unix against Windows, and so is better for Linux than a Windows win would be.
Given the quality of the Apple hardware, I'd suggest getting the Apple. Dual-booting an Apple is a dream.
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I prefer one tool that does a job well to a dozen that do it badly.
So is the argument here that Mac has too few apps, or too many that aren't good enough?
Fact is, Mac has about 80%-90% of the functionality of Windows on the desktop and the server. It's missing certain key business segments (I don't think there's any serious accounting software for Mac, for instance - no, QuickBooks is not the kind of serious I'm talking about) and games, and the WP software still stinks (including Office v.X), but it's getting there. It is the platform of choice for design, sub-feature length film, and sound, with apps that have nothing comparable on the Windows platform - no, Premiere is not comparable to Final Cut Pro, and I usually use Premiere, so I know). And since the majority of lusers just want a convenient web surfing station they can also make DVDs and play MP3s on, and the Apple experience - except for the browsers - is superior in all these areas (Mail, iTunes, iChat, iDVD, iPhoto, QuickTime, etc.), I think the argument that Apple can be categorizeed as a collection of a dozen tools that do the same job badly is at best a mischaracterization
I don't know anyone who's had a problem with a post-Jobs'-return Mac (the Sculley era ones, on the other hand ...). Every fourth Dell seems to be a POS that won't boot, or has a bad HD, or some other hardware issue. That's the result of focusing on their business model rather than the quality of their product.
How come I have no problems synching my Palm using Palm Desktop? Because I have a brain.
Actually, you're talking about Ami Pro.
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Word's Unicode support has gotten much, much better since Word 97; indeed, the main thing that Microsoft is to be complimented for nowadays (IMHO) is its internationalization and its work with fonts and character sets. It also more recently started moving toward incorporating different UI elements (that I'm not too happy about, myself) and incorporating some WordPerfect like features. So MS Word has changed over the past 6 years, just not always for the better. In comparison with WordPerfect, it has been moving forward. Can't say I'm happy about giving them any kind of positive feedback, but truth is truth
Corel has ruined it. They've done nothing to improve it really since 8.0. A terrible shame.
Nope. It's a reference to the fact that Unicode support isn't quite 100% there yet, though it's improving (important to me, if not to all users), and there are other things (I don't like the paradigm for the equation editor, for instance). OO is definitely 1.0 software, it's rough around the edges and quite finicky. It's like RedHat 6 or Mozilla 1.0 or Netscape 2, or Windows 3.0. But it's on the way there; by 3.0 it should be indisputably able to do "everything that MS Office does."
I'm on OS X, myself, so I'd really rather have an Aqua than an X11 office environment; I'm using BBEdit for most of my typing, and TextEdit for stuff that needs Unicode (I've had problems with BBEdit's Unicode rendering). I'd love to see OO get there, though. Ideally, I'd love to see something more WordPerfect like, with a source screen showing the XML code for an XML-based document format (rather than "reveal codes" in WP).
No, it cannot do everything that MS Office can do. Not yet. But it's getting there.
So it is! Mia culpa.
Sorry, man, but that's mea culpa in Latin.
A much better solution. What about integrating Wine with Bochs? Is Bochs capable of getting Wine to work on a PowerPC processor?
Yeah, but most folks tend to stick with shorter email addresses. E.g., less than 8 letters. If you can ignore case and punctuation, and numerics, and stick with 7-bit ASCII valid addresses, you would get 26^8. That's more managable; and you could limit it further by running a phone book's list of surnames in combination with initials.
RTFA. Microsoft is suing the spammers for using a type of dictionary attack to find valid hotmail addresses. Your test account would be vulnerable to that attack.
And, amazingly, I have a three-button scroll mouse from MacAlly that works on my OS X machine. But I can also use the one-button trackpad no problem.
Re: Imagine the feedback loop that could develop...
"All your base are belong to us" is already being used in marketing. Don't you guys listen to NPR?
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Learn how to interact with people in a way that is pleasurable to them, and they will enjoy your company. It does not really matter what your IQ is. For example:
don't talk down to them
don't talk over their head
don't tell them things they do not want to know
do talk/ask about things they want to talk about
avoid being negative
be yourself, and be comfortable with yourself
I was with you until the last one.... how can I be myself without talking down to them and being negative?
Sorry, _am99_, I just couldn't resist that one.
Awards don't technically have to be given out every year. Of course, the academy would force itself to use the excuse, but this thought experiment assumes ideal human behavior, right? (Like ignoring friction in classical physics problems.)
But, then, who is the actor? The guy that did the voice, or the animators that drew the character and gave him form?
Acting performance, thus actor, thus the guy that did the voice or the body movements that the animation was based upon. The animators that drew the character and gave him form could be treated differently again: best digital enhancement of a character, an analog to "best costume" and "best makeup." Even better: "Best Enhanced Character Design." Yeah, the name is quite messy, but noone watching on TV would ever have to hear the name of the award, since it would be one of the "presented this afternoon before the broadcast" awards anyway.
Ah but Jar Jar's repugnance must have been digitally enhanced. Look at the difference in public reception between these two.
Just goes to show you: Content is EVERYTHING.
Since the Rush song is based upon a story called "A Nice Morning Drive," I would guess that the movie you saw was also based upon that story.
Well, some of it, anyway: Falling asleep in front of a computer every night, getting chewed out by the boss for coming in too late ...
This does not bode well for the new character being introduced in The Return of the King [parent's link to bbspot.com] who is also digitally generated.
Don't look. It's too painful. Don't look!
I warned you.
Supposedly, top talent have chosen to make movies because they love the artform. So why would an award be meaningful to them? Awards are useful in athletic competitions but are they truly appropriate for art?
Acting awards go back to the 6th century or at worst early 5th century BC. That's right, BC. The terms "protagonist" and "antagonist" go back to the technical Greek terms for the first and second actors of a tragedy or comedy; there were prizes for the best protagonist (as well as for the best 4-play tragic production or 1-play comic production).
I think rather than continuing to just ignore roles like this that "don't fit" into a category, they should do SOMETHING. .or have a special award for this . .
Best Voice / Digitally Enhanced Acting Performance. That would also let actors from animated films get a chance.
AFAIK, Jar Jar wasn't really fully digital in any sense distinguishable from Serkis' performance. ILM used Ahmed Best's movements to help them model the way Jar Jar's clothes would move, for instance.
OSX is not a Linux replacement. Although it may be a good Windows replacement. If someone specifically asks for Linux, chances are they're not interested in what OSX has to offer.
The only significant difference is ideological. If you're going to buy a new laptop, you have three choices: 1. buy one with Windows, 2. buy one with OS X, 3. buy one from a niche player who installs a free OS like Linux (or GNU/Linux, if you must) or FreeBSD, like Emperor Linux (http://www.emperorlinux.com/), in order of increasing preference. Why? Because given MS and Apple, Apple is the lesser of two evils, and every win for Apple against MS is a win for Unix against Windows, and so is better for Linux than a Windows win would be.
Given the quality of the Apple hardware, I'd suggest getting the Apple. Dual-booting an Apple is a dream.