Does anyone find the irony of a company is being sued for infringing on a patent that revolves around the way you use their own products just a little much?
perhaps we might revisit the meaning of the word 'handicapped'?
despite a tendency for it to be taken the wrong way, due to long periods of misuse, and misapplication. it is still just a synonym for 'disabled' or 'given assistance.' the thing is, I have met people with physical... 'inhibitions(?)' on both sides of the argument. some who get really ticked off at "handicapped" and some who get ticked off at anything else.
I think I'm too much of a language pedant to keep reading here... (or perhaps not enough...(I'm too wishy-washy...))
I don't think that you should use calculators in that context anyway. part of what you are learing is.428571... ==3/7, but part of it is learning the process, and how do you discover that process. (as well as perhaps noticing the neat property of the decimal of 7ths.)
Contrary to the response which I've actually gotten from some math teachers, the reason you learn math is *not* " so you can tell when a train leaving chicago at 50 mph meets a train leaving boston at 60 mph..."* It is how do you discover the method of finding the answer. the actual answer is just a way of keeping track. A calculator will not help this process.
* I want to make absolutely clear I am not being snide here. this is what actual math teachers, high-school math teachers have said in response to the question "why do we learn math?"** this is not hearsay, though I admit my sampling is very small.
** the actual answer is never, the chicago train is going to LA. (Now I'm being snide!)
No, I didn't miss the point, I just don't use Word. I do a task, but I use a variety of applications to do it, and because they are not segregated by having a master window for each application, all the work is just work. I can line up an illustrator document, photoshop image, etc. and drag and drop between them. I think about the only thing I miss from windows world is the control that lets you cascade or tile windows. but I don't miss it that much. (without it my 'desktop' looks just like my desktop.)
The dock is avoidable, for the most part I don't use it. I may launch a bunch of applications, and I keep the Applications forlder in it to find all the ones I dont use frequently. You can even make every finder window a quicklaunch bar if you want, (I keep a hex editor there myself,) but after that, it's command-tab to switch, similar to alt-tab on windows, and then command-` to move about the individual app's documents. (only flash fails here, but it fails in many other places too.) everyonce in a while I even use Expose, but I haven't *trained* myself to it yet.;-)
And sorry, I should clarify, I don't adjust the size and shape of the window to make it easier to find in the dock, simply that I use many different shape windows depending on what is in them, as a *result* of that, it becomes easier to see the differences... no extra work at all. (I remember a dev at an old job who had all his xterm windows a different color so he could tell them apart when minimized.) I can see how if you are using nothing but word, things could get a bit ridiculous pretty fast.
As I said originally, I use a variety of applications, which inherently all look different in the dock. where I should add if you minimize a document it shows up there just like the little boxes in the classic view of the windows task bar. Also similarly, each document visible in the dock as a minimized object has the application logo superimposed on it. just like the windows classic task bar. I have had things get trapped under the windows task bar too. the thing is, there really isn't much to separate the two except habit. I was a windows user for a few years, even doing tech support, (application support actually,) mac os 9 for a while, and now osX, hell, in college it was AIX.
Bear in mind I am not trying to slag you, or blindly be a zealot. I just have a different view of whether or not Mac UI does it well. for my purposes it does. for yours apparently not. My experience with windows is that the UI gets in the way. I have heard people rhapsodize about quicksilver as an alternative to the dock, I have it, but I find it is not where I go.
As far as modifying my own behaviour, I sincerely doubt that there is *anyone* reading any of this who has not modified their behaviour to use a computer of any sort. I have a load of little scripts and aliases that I use in the terminal too. I can't believe I'm alone in training myself that way.
As it happens I suspect there are many more similarities between KDE and Windows, than between KDE and Mac, (though I don't know what mods you may have done. though I suspect not many to be more Mac like) which would lead you to have habits that are similar to ones expected of a Windows user rather than a Mac user. forgive me if I'm wrong, but my little experience with KDE indicates that I would have to modify my habits massively to use it. for that matter the same goes for windows now. I have a knoppix disc for this powerbook, it looks delightful in many ways. but I wouldn't switch, I'm trained too well;-)
when you get down to the bottom of it though, the machine I have spent less time with the OS and more with the applications running on it is Mac*. In the end, I don't buy a computer to use the OS, I buy one to not notice the OS. and the one that I don't notice the most, (least?) is Mac. As is quite obvious, YMHasVaried.
My only real objection to the original post was really for the "they are wrong" rather than "it is not my way." T
I had a similar problem after taking two years* of typography in college. I couldn't look at anything, (labels, billboards, books, ads...) without critiqueing the typesetting.
I'm happy to say that years of therapy have finally gotten me to the point where I can look at a hershey bar and scream because of the chocolate inside, and not because of the godawful letterspacing on the label...
The question of whether a person who has studied a subject can enjoy that subject is a bit silly though. Like anyone you just hold it to a higher standard.
Take star wars and its effects as an example, in 1977, Star Wars was mind blowing. Since then, people have come to understand how the effects are made, and hold new effects to that standard. Now the new Star Wars movie has much better effects, and is once again mindblowing. (Unfortunately the writing did not follow the same curve. but that's a different story) The fact that the effects in the original are a bit primitive now, and we all know how they are done does not detract from the fact, that even for the period, they are done *very* well. In the case of science and movies, anything that does not jar you out of your suspension of disbelief, makes the movie stronger. So why not use real science/technology where possible, so as not to piss off the ones 'in the know.' those 'not in the know' won't know any different anyway, but when the eventually find out, they won't be dissappointed when the see it again.
To more directly answer your question, it depends on the book. Personally, I like to feel that the author has paid enough attention to the details, so that I should as well. If they don't care enough about the subject they are writing about, why should I? If you don't want to have to deal, put your story into a context where it doesn't matter. This is what sci-fi, and to a greater extent fantasy lit. is all about. It's much easier to set the rules convincingly, then to break them convincingly...
For example, one of the Dan Brown books(digital fortress i think,) hinges on the presence of a dial tone on a cell phone. You can argue about the logical fallacies of a lot of the rest of his books, but I'm unaware of any modern cell phone that has a dial tone. Pissed me off for the rest of the book.
*I understand that if you go through the full course of training, you learn the secrets of 'sew-wha.' but not until the end of the third year, and then, only if you are deemed worthy by the master. I have managed to achieve nearly this level of mastery, and it has led to a much more relaxing existance...
I dunno, when you think that much of the justification for 'beating the crap out of each other' was that we were *not* of common ancestry, don't you think that when a situation arises when it actually proves to be true, the same thing will happen?
As I understand it, one of the biggest parts ('aims' anyway) of military training (and for that matter marketing), is the 'de-humanizing' of the enemy.
As a sarcastic aside, the only way I see it working is if both species view the other as "cute."
--quote Mac OS is "application-centric". --unquote
funny, I always thought of this as a benefit, allowing me to feel more like I am working in an application rather than an-application-running-in-windows. a small psychological point, to be sure, but somehow I find it nicer. again subjective.
as far as I recall though, in recent versions of windows, applications group their open windows into grouped buttons on the task bar, is this not true? so instead of having 100 unidentifiable little boxes on the task bar you would have only a few, segregated on a per-application basis, that would raise a menu when you held the mouse button down on it, or brought that application to the front if you just clicked on it. just like the dock. (perhaps it is the other way round, I will not pretend to know the chronology...)
as far as a moving target goes, if you regularly use many different applications does the start menu's tendency to be helpful in initially only showing the applications you might have recently used, forcing you to hit the double arrow and go hunting not constitute a moving target? I agree with you about parts of the dock, they eventually moved the application switcher feature into the middle of the screen on a bezel, but I take exception to some of your other gripes.
for instance, the dock only looks like a moving target really, the actual hit area of an icon as it slides past is the same as if it hadn't magnified. you can see this as a good or bad thing really. mark the screen and check. if you set it not to magnify for a bit, or at least not much, and work with it for a while, then bring the magnification back later. took a bit of practice, but these days what doesn't? and eventually the large magnification solves that 80 pixel difficulty. Also, I tend to make my windows different shapes, which helps distinguish them somewhat more.
as far as the no open window bit, that's just an easy way to set up fast 'launching' I regularly have several applications open that take forever to launch, (photoshop, Illustrator, lightwave, flash etc.) but with no windows open. why? why not? doesn't take up any screen, can use the image in one window as a reference for another without the outer window getting in the way. using the command key I can manipulate windows of other applications without bringing any of it to the front, (this may be true on windows now, I haven't looked in a while...(curiously the only exception to this is microsoft apps which for some reason, hide their scrrollbars when they are not the frrontmost application. this is true in excel at least haven't looked all that hard at the rest.))) and both the dock and bezel app-switcher have text labels... are you on 10.2?
3 is the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be 3. 4 shall thou not count, neither shalt thou count 2 excepting that thou then proceedest to 3. 5 is right out!
now for some heat induced musings... --curiously, when I first got my pismo, my office machine was a dual 733 xeon box, NT4, Wildcat video card, all the fun stuff of the day. I used to do finish work in AfterEffects, and for curiosity's sake, occasionally i would run renders of identical scenes on both. the pismo (g3 400) kept pace. this is the kind of thing that let's me ignore chipspeed arguments. you work with what you got, write to be elegant, and eventually there will be enough computer to do it fast enough.
I guess I'm "old school" enough to not mind a certain amount of 'offline' time in my graphics work. you just have to time it right so that the filter/action/render takes just slightly less time than the other thing that you have to do. that way you don't spend anytime just sitting there looking at progress bars.
needless to say this seems to be an unusual opinion...;)
anyway, I too am on the verge of an AlBook, have to hurry so I can still get the education/staff discount!
true, but bear in mind when those vendors *initiated* their work, apple had a much larger market share. when cosa, macromind, aldus, and others created their flagship products, Apple was still a hot place to be.
as far as the other statistic goes, I've only ever bought 2 computers, (soon 3) both were apples, but one was a IIe. the pismo, I have regularly updated, until my replacement hardrive gave out last fall. I've been using the mac at work since then, which I inherited from my predecessor. I suspect you are right about the software piracy though.
I have done little to improve the market share, but I am staunchly part of the user base.
you misunderstand me, I wasn't defending the number itself, merely that the number could be "news," and why, which was the original question. Not that it 'will' make a difference, but seen in a particular light, it 'could.'
As I have said elsewhere, I work on a Mac, my own is a G3 Pismo. bought in 2000, still haven't really got a good reason to upgrade my own. Besides, my job keeps handing me new ones to work on. (which is a job I am leaving shortly, so anyone who wants a job that comes with (mostly) shiny 17" powerbook, see me soon!)
I think the news is that since a lot of hay is made over the 3% number. People tend to regard it as a foolhardy move to try and create software for only 3% of the market.
If in fact apple has 16% of the install-base, there is a much greater reason for commercial developers to spend the time and resources to port or start their work with the apple platform in mind.
Since one of the major complaints about Macs by people that don't have them (along with "one-button-mouse," "lack-of-expandability," etc. etc) is that there isn't enough software available for the mac, because no one is going to port this big package if only 3% of all users is likely to ever buy this. and a small fraction of that 3% to boot. 16% though, that's double digits that is, not to mention more than 5 times the normally perceived level of usage.
I'm a mac user too, but I haven't bought a new one for 5 years. so I'm contributing to the base, but not the market. the side effect of selling computers that don't allow for a lot of expansion, is that you tend to get bought by people who don't require it.
Honestly I think that the color of your hair affects how people treat you, and the "blonds have more fun" thing becomes sort of self fulfilling. I've noticed that because people tend to think that blondes are dumb leads them to offer to do things for the blond in the belief that the blond would be incapable themselves. I've also noticed that many of the smarter blonds notice this and us it to their advantage. ( And because they're *really* smart, they generally don't ever let you know this!)
I've actually gone through most of the colors of the rainbow in my hair at this point, and it was really kind of interesting to see how the different colors affected people around me, as well as my own mood.
If you have longer hair, it tends to impinge on your view. You can see it arround the edges of your field of vision. When I was blond, things looked lighter, when I had redder hair, a bit more energetic, (and I had a slightly shorter temper,) darker hair tended to depress. I dyed it bright green for a bit and noticed that I tended to feel a bit queasy, so I tend to avoid that color in the front now.
One of the entertaining side effects though was the effect this had on people around me. For some reason, the sight of a guy with brightly colored hair brought many people to believe that they were the funniest person in the world. This was usually followed by an intense compulsion to prove themselves wrong on this point in the loudest possible manner.
My evidence on this is purely anecdotal and personal, but if someone would like to provide me with some grant money, I'm sure I could put together a coherent study that would revolutionize the haircare and fashion industries. (we could get rid of all that damn khaki at the same time. (Beau Brummel has a lot to answer for!!!))
there seems to be a tendency for some articles to get cross-pollinated replies, I've been noticing it for a little while now. it's not random text, it's on-topic for the article about oxytocin that was posted earlier today.
it's quite odd, kind of like overhearing a nearby conversation at a restaurant.
Does anyone know if there has been a major change in slashcode or the database used by/.? I have also noticed a bunch of 503 errors of late that seem to have accompanied the arrival of this curious problem.
They may have really meant 'notes,' this has been seen in the wild... the person who I knew who worked there lamented about it quite a lot. but it is done... sad to say.
Slashdot Mirror
The Hockey team at RISD was called 'the Nads,' largely for the cheer...
I'd forgotten that... oh for a mod point...
Does anyone find the irony of a company is being sued for infringing on a patent that revolves around the way you use their own products just a little much?
And perhaps a bit troublesome?
perhaps we might revisit the meaning of the word 'handicapped'?
despite a tendency for it to be taken the wrong way, due to long periods of misuse, and misapplication. it is still just a synonym for 'disabled' or 'given assistance.' the thing is, I have met people with physical... 'inhibitions(?)' on both sides of the argument. some who get really ticked off at "handicapped" and some who get ticked off at anything else.
I think I'm too much of a language pedant to keep reading here... (or perhaps not enough...(I'm too wishy-washy...))
I don't think that you should use calculators in that context anyway. part of what you are learing is .428571... ==3/7, but part of it is learning the process, and how do you discover that process. (as well as perhaps noticing the neat property of the decimal of 7ths.)
Contrary to the response which I've actually gotten from some math teachers, the reason you learn math is *not* " so you can tell when a train leaving chicago at 50 mph meets a train leaving boston at 60 mph..."* It is how do you discover the method of finding the answer. the actual answer is just a way of keeping track. A calculator will not help this process.
* I want to make absolutely clear I am not being snide here. this is what actual math teachers, high-school math teachers have said in response to the question "why do we learn math?"** this is not hearsay, though I admit my sampling is very small.
** the actual answer is never, the chicago train is going to LA. (Now I'm being snide!)
No, I didn't miss the point, I just don't use Word. I do a task, but I use a variety of applications to do it, and because they are not segregated by having a master window for each application, all the work is just work. I can line up an illustrator document, photoshop image, etc. and drag and drop between them. I think about the only thing I miss from windows world is the control that lets you cascade or tile windows. but I don't miss it that much. (without it my 'desktop' looks just like my desktop.)
;-)
The dock is avoidable, for the most part I don't use it. I may launch a bunch of applications, and I keep the Applications forlder in it to find all the ones I dont use frequently. You can even make every finder window a quicklaunch bar if you want, (I keep a hex editor there myself,) but after that, it's command-tab to switch, similar to alt-tab on windows, and then command-` to move about the individual app's documents. (only flash fails here, but it fails in many other places too.) everyonce in a while I even use Expose, but I haven't *trained* myself to it yet.;-)
And sorry, I should clarify, I don't adjust the size and shape of the window to make it easier to find in the dock, simply that I use many different shape windows depending on what is in them, as a *result* of that, it becomes easier to see the differences... no extra work at all. (I remember a dev at an old job who had all his xterm windows a different color so he could tell them apart when minimized.) I can see how if you are using nothing but word, things could get a bit ridiculous pretty fast.
As I said originally, I use a variety of applications, which inherently all look different in the dock. where I should add if you minimize a document it shows up there just like the little boxes in the classic view of the windows task bar. Also similarly, each document visible in the dock as a minimized object has the application logo superimposed on it. just like the windows classic task bar. I have had things get trapped under the windows task bar too. the thing is, there really isn't much to separate the two except habit. I was a windows user for a few years, even doing tech support, (application support actually,) mac os 9 for a while, and now osX, hell, in college it was AIX.
Bear in mind I am not trying to slag you, or blindly be a zealot. I just have a different view of whether or not Mac UI does it well. for my purposes it does. for yours apparently not. My experience with windows is that the UI gets in the way. I have heard people rhapsodize about quicksilver as an alternative to the dock, I have it, but I find it is not where I go.
As far as modifying my own behaviour, I sincerely doubt that there is *anyone* reading any of this who has not modified their behaviour to use a computer of any sort. I have a load of little scripts and aliases that I use in the terminal too. I can't believe I'm alone in training myself that way.
As it happens I suspect there are many more similarities between KDE and Windows, than between KDE and Mac,
(though I don't know what mods you may have done. though I suspect not many to be more Mac like) which would lead you to have habits that are similar to ones expected of a Windows user rather than a Mac user. forgive me if I'm wrong, but my little experience with KDE indicates that I would have to modify my habits massively to use it. for that matter the same goes for windows now. I have a knoppix disc for this powerbook, it looks delightful in many ways. but I wouldn't switch, I'm trained too well
when you get down to the bottom of it though, the machine I have spent less time with the OS and more with the applications running on it is Mac*. In the end, I don't buy a computer to use the OS, I buy one to not notice the OS. and the one that I don't notice the most, (least?) is Mac. As is quite obvious, YMHasVaried.
My only real objection to the original post was really for the "they are wrong" rather than "it is not my way." T
I had a similar problem after taking two years* of typography in college. I couldn't look at anything, (labels, billboards, books, ads...) without critiqueing the typesetting.
I'm happy to say that years of therapy have finally gotten me to the point where I can look at a hershey bar and scream because of the chocolate inside, and not because of the godawful letterspacing on the label...
The question of whether a person who has studied a subject can enjoy that subject is a bit silly though. Like anyone you just hold it to a higher standard.
Take star wars and its effects as an example, in 1977, Star Wars was mind blowing. Since then, people have come to understand how the effects are made, and hold new effects to that standard. Now the new Star Wars movie has much better effects, and is once again mindblowing. (Unfortunately the writing did not follow the same curve. but that's a different story) The fact that the effects in the original are a bit primitive now, and we all know how they are done does not detract from the fact, that even for the period, they are done *very* well. In the case of science and movies, anything that does not jar you out of your suspension of disbelief, makes the movie stronger. So why not use real science/technology where possible, so as not to piss off the ones 'in the know.' those 'not in the know' won't know any different anyway, but when the eventually find out, they won't be dissappointed when the see it again.
To more directly answer your question, it depends on the book. Personally, I like to feel that the author has paid enough attention to the details, so that I should as well. If they don't care enough about the subject they are writing about, why should I? If you don't want to have to deal, put your story into a context where it doesn't matter. This is what sci-fi, and to a greater extent fantasy lit. is all about. It's much easier to set the rules convincingly, then to break them convincingly...
For example, one of the Dan Brown books(digital fortress i think,) hinges on the presence of a dial tone on a cell phone. You can argue about the logical fallacies of a lot of the rest of his books, but I'm unaware of any modern cell phone that has a dial tone. Pissed me off for the rest of the book.
*I understand that if you go through the full course of training, you learn the secrets of 'sew-wha.' but not until the end of the third year, and then, only if you are deemed worthy by the master. I have managed to achieve nearly this level of mastery, and it has led to a much more relaxing existance...
it wouldn't have been much of an investment if it couldn't... Seriously, the tugboat captains never get their fair share of the glory...;-)
I dunno, when you think that much of the justification for 'beating the crap out of each other' was that we were *not* of common ancestry, don't you think that when a situation arises when it actually proves to be true, the same thing will happen?
As I understand it, one of the biggest parts ('aims' anyway) of military training (and for that matter marketing), is the 'de-humanizing' of the enemy.
As a sarcastic aside, the only way I see it working is if both species view the other as "cute."
and remember only the sith think in absolutes...
--quote
Mac OS is "application-centric".
--unquote
funny, I always thought of this as a benefit, allowing me to feel more like I am working in an application rather than an-application-running-in-windows. a small psychological point, to be sure, but somehow I find it nicer. again subjective.
as far as I recall though, in recent versions of windows, applications group their open windows into grouped buttons on the task bar, is this not true? so instead of having 100 unidentifiable little boxes on the task bar you would have only a few, segregated on a per-application basis, that would raise a menu when you held the mouse button down on it, or brought that application to the front if you just clicked on it. just like the dock. (perhaps it is the other way round, I will not pretend to know the chronology...)
as far as a moving target goes, if you regularly use many different applications does the start menu's tendency to be helpful in initially only showing the applications you might have recently used, forcing you to hit the double arrow and go hunting not constitute a moving target? I agree with you about parts of the dock, they eventually moved the application switcher feature into the middle of the screen on a bezel, but I take exception to some of your other gripes.
for instance, the dock only looks like a moving target really, the actual hit area of an icon as it slides past is the same as if it hadn't magnified. you can see this as a good or bad thing really. mark the screen and check. if you set it not to magnify for a bit, or at least not much, and work with it for a while, then bring the magnification back later. took a bit of practice, but these days what doesn't? and eventually the large magnification solves that 80 pixel difficulty. Also, I tend to make my windows different shapes, which helps distinguish them somewhat more.
as far as the no open window bit, that's just an easy way to set up fast 'launching' I regularly have several applications open that take forever to launch, (photoshop, Illustrator, lightwave, flash etc.) but with no windows open. why? why not? doesn't take up any screen, can use the image in one window as a reference for another without the outer window getting in the way. using the command key I can manipulate windows of other applications without bringing any of it to the front, (this may be true on windows now, I haven't looked in a while...(curiously the only exception to this is microsoft apps which for some reason, hide their scrrollbars when they are not the frrontmost application. this is true in excel at least haven't looked all that hard at the rest.))) and both the dock and bezel app-switcher have text labels... are you on 10.2?
3 is the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be 3.
4 shall thou not count, neither shalt thou count 2 excepting that thou then proceedest to 3.
5 is right out!
but oh PLEASE do not let them near the debugger. there is not a bigger disaster than the flash debugger.
If that is the cost, it's too high.
god I am totally incoherent this afternoon, sorry...
Quite alright, I just wanted to be clearer.
now for some heat induced musings...
--curiously, when I first got my pismo, my office machine was a dual 733 xeon box, NT4, Wildcat video card, all the fun stuff of the day. I used to do finish work in AfterEffects, and for curiosity's sake, occasionally i would run renders of identical scenes on both. the pismo (g3 400) kept pace. this is the kind of thing that let's me ignore chipspeed arguments. you work with what you got, write to be elegant, and eventually there will be enough computer to do it fast enough.
I guess I'm "old school" enough to not mind a certain amount of 'offline' time in my graphics work. you just have to time it right so that the filter/action/render takes just slightly less time than the other thing that you have to do. that way you don't spend anytime just sitting there looking at progress bars.
needless to say this seems to be an unusual opinion...;)
anyway, I too am on the verge of an AlBook, have to hurry so I can still get the education/staff discount!
ooh boy the humidity is killing me
true, but bear in mind when those vendors *initiated* their work, apple had a much larger market share. when cosa, macromind, aldus, and others created their flagship products, Apple was still a hot place to be.
as far as the other statistic goes, I've only ever bought 2 computers, (soon 3) both were apples, but one was a IIe. the pismo, I have regularly updated, until my replacement hardrive gave out last fall. I've been using the mac at work since then, which I inherited from my predecessor. I suspect you are right about the software piracy though.
I have done little to improve the market share, but I am staunchly part of the user base.
you misunderstand me, I wasn't defending the number itself, merely that the number could be "news," and why, which was the original question. Not that it 'will' make a difference, but seen in a particular light, it 'could.'
As I have said elsewhere, I work on a Mac, my own is a G3 Pismo. bought in 2000, still haven't really got a good reason to upgrade my own. Besides, my job keeps handing me new ones to work on. (which is a job I am leaving shortly, so anyone who wants a job that comes with (mostly) shiny 17" powerbook, see me soon!)
>trying to make coherent posts to Slashdot at 4 in the morning...
ah the best way to post...
I think the news is that since a lot of hay is made over the 3% number. People tend to regard it as a foolhardy move to try and create software for only 3% of the market.
If in fact apple has 16% of the install-base, there is a much greater reason for commercial developers to spend the time and resources to port or start their work with the apple platform in mind.
Since one of the major complaints about Macs by people that don't have them (along with "one-button-mouse," "lack-of-expandability," etc. etc) is that there isn't enough software available for the mac, because no one is going to port this big package if only 3% of all users is likely to ever buy this. and a small fraction of that 3% to boot. 16% though, that's double digits that is, not to mention more than 5 times the normally perceived level of usage.
I'm a mac user too, but I haven't bought a new one for 5 years. so I'm contributing to the base, but not the market. the side effect of selling computers that don't allow for a lot of expansion, is that you tend to get bought by people who don't require it.
Honestly I think that the color of your hair affects how people treat you, and the "blonds have more fun" thing becomes sort of self fulfilling. I've noticed that because people tend to think that blondes are dumb leads them to offer to do things for the blond in the belief that the blond would be incapable themselves. I've also noticed that many of the smarter blonds notice this and us it to their advantage. ( And because they're *really* smart, they generally don't ever let you know this!)
I've actually gone through most of the colors of the rainbow in my hair at this point, and it was really kind of interesting to see how the different colors affected people around me, as well as my own mood.
If you have longer hair, it tends to impinge on your view. You can see it arround the edges of your field of vision. When I was blond, things looked lighter, when I had redder hair, a bit more energetic, (and I had a slightly shorter temper,) darker hair tended to depress. I dyed it bright green for a bit and noticed that I tended to feel a bit queasy, so I tend to avoid that color in the front now.
One of the entertaining side effects though was the effect this had on people around me. For some reason, the sight of a guy with brightly colored hair brought many people to believe that they were the funniest person in the world. This was usually followed by an intense compulsion to prove themselves wrong on this point in the loudest possible manner.
My evidence on this is purely anecdotal and personal, but if someone would like to provide me with some grant money, I'm sure I could put together a coherent study that would revolutionize the haircare and fashion industries. (we could get rid of all that damn khaki at the same time. (Beau Brummel has a lot to answer for!!!))
Ash:"Gimme some sugar baby."
now we know why he was lost in time...
there seems to be a tendency for some articles to get cross-pollinated replies, I've been noticing it for a little while now. it's not random text, it's on-topic for the article about oxytocin that was posted earlier today.
/.? I have also noticed a bunch of 503 errors of late that seem to have accompanied the arrival of this curious problem.
it's quite odd, kind of like overhearing a nearby conversation at a restaurant.
Does anyone know if there has been a major change in slashcode or the database used by
They may have really meant 'notes,' this has been seen in the wild... the person who I knew who worked there lamented about it quite a lot. but it is done... sad to say.
don't know about anyone else, but I wouldn't mind terribly. could you pick a country that supports the idea of "siesta" though? much obliged!
well, 0 rpm I hope. hmmm.
btw, have you been to a train station lately?