You've really eaten up some bullshit reasoning there.
Take a defensive driving course, and you'll learn pretty quickly what a difference of 10mph has on your breaking distances.
What really pisses me off is that it's folks who love their SVU's who really seem to cultivate these attitudes.
I was actually quite pleased by the quick insight - the third post was "The download is a unix executable file which opens in Terminal but is disguised as a jpeg.".
We've known about this since Gmail started. It's actually a VERY USEFUL FEATURE.
I don't believe that there is any mis-delivery going on, because from memory you can't register cmdr.taco@gmail.com if cmdrtaco@gmail.com has already been used.
So no one is going to be reading your mail.
I've got to say I agree - it opened 2 nights ago here in Australia, so I've seen it and it rocks (ok - I know that's not my best formal review language, but still).
It's got all the quick moving fun that made the first StarWars films so enjoyable. It's got the trade make character dialogue and that fans of Buffy will love. It's great, and you'll love it.
Except the automobile manufacturers aren't selling oil.
Does it really matter? The way you put that makes it seem like you think it does, but I can't for the life of me think what the issue is. Sure, Apple will want to keep song prices low to make iTunes more attractive/competitive....but so would any other music store.
The fact they also sell the music player as well....well, so what?
I guess that's why the article suggests applications in "disposable" computing. I don't really have a problem with this - it's much the same as saying paper is easily destroyed by a glass of water or red wine. You just know to keep things in the right environment.
You haven't like...err...heard of the IRA by any chance? Or ETA? Or maybe swarthy Irish and Spaniards are dark skinned enough to count as "Middle Eastern"?
You will be only using your fingers if you have a huge huge hand - to reach the buttons on most mice you will have to have your wrist quite close to the back of the mouse, and be reaching up over it. It may seem like your fingers are doing most of the work, but you are also rolling around on your wrist - check it out closely and you'll see what I mean.
The puck is so low profile that you don't have this problem - and with the sensitivity right up, you can move the pointer right across the screen with TINY movements of your fingers. You have to try it to apprecite the difference.
For the record, I don't use one and haven't for many years now. But I do think it's such a shame that many people - especially those here who are for the most part proponents of clever and considered design - dismiss it outright without considering why it is like it is.
Heh. Maybe I should have a new warcry - Viva Amiga, and the Puck!
Look. For a group of people who spend a load of time with problems cause by our hardware (like carpal tunnel syndrome) you (we) aren't very perceptive about the causes of these problems (ok this sounds a bit flame-ish, so I'll tone it down now...sorry)
The puck mouse was designed to address a real issue/problem. With a normal mouse, you need to rest your wrist on the table, and then to move the mouse, you have to move your whole wrist sideways/forwards/round in circles...you get the picture. It's slow, cumbersome, and causes all sorts of prolonged use problems.
Now enter the puck mouse. You still rest your wrist on the table, but you can move the whole mouse with ONLY your fingers! Very fast, light, easy, and sensible.
Now, I'm not going to deny it sucks the first time to use a puck mouse. In fact I'm one of the people who threw them away when they started coming with the Macs for the labs at university. But one week I was forced to use one - and guess what, your body starts to remember/know which way around the mouse is after about...ohhh...an hour of use.
When you think about it, this is no where near the learning curve of a Dvorak keyboard, which is everyone's darling at the moment. So - enough of the lame puck mouse bashing. Go get one on ebay for like 10c. Your wrist will love you, and you too will have the chance to marvel at possible the most underrated and misunderstood computer inventions of the past decade.
Errr...I should have said "hold down the mouse over the Applications icon in the dock" - stoopid me. Also, you'll have to put Applications folder in the right hand section of the dock (ie, over near the trash can).
For your OS X dock issue, just drag the Applications folder into the dock. Hold down the mouse button (not single click) and the applications appear as a list. Magic!
And I think your point 3 is a positive thing - I like the "window is just a window" mentality.
GP is talking about average traffic speed - in city traffic you might be doing 30-40 between lights, then stopping...and waiting....
I know in London prior to the congestion charges, the average travel speed across the city had dropped over the last 100 years! Modern mass marketing/media makes it very easy to convince us that 'not-going-anywhere' is equal to 'progress'.
I was going to say essentially the same thing - it's not America doesn't practice capitalism, or democracy. The only game in town now is Feudalism.
It doesn't help that you might own or be paid stocks in a company - the miniscule amount or power you have compared to the largest shareholders doesn't translate to ownership at all. It's like the serf 'owning' his plot - sure, in a literal sense, he owns it. But he can't sell it, can't sell his produce to anyone else, and he sure can't move anywhere else. His whole life belongs to the Feudal lord, 21C, aka, Microsoft/etal.
I'm truly not trying to start a flame war, or be a troll, and I'm not the only one to think this. Kim Stanley Robertson paints a similar picture in the Mars trilogy. It's worth the read just to see a future vision of politics.
I was pretty excited about the original Google Desktop for work - the projects we run have thousands of emails and documents, and the Google desktop search was turning out to be a goodsend for tracking old, but vital documents. However, there didn't seem to be any way to get the index out of a user's personal folders - which meant of course that the 1GB+ index files were getting written back to the server with each log-off.
I know Google have some Enterprise level appliances and tools...but we're only 25 people. That doesn't mean we don't generate butt loads of data - just that we can't afford the big kit. Google desktop would be great if it was just a bit more network friendly and configurable, but at the moment it seems targeted strictly for the home user.
I'm hoping that someone will tell me this version will prove me wrong, but I can't see anything to suggest that in the documentation yet...
Sorry, and I should also point out that I'm not trying to suggest that you are disputing global warming, rather - this is a common kind of argument by those who are in denial ("it's local warming, doesn't mean global warming!").
And for those who believe it is a natural warming cycle, well that's not quite right - the cycle of ice ages means that if anything we should be experiencing a period of cooling. We have had an above average length balmy period (12,000 years). We should be seeing signs of cooling, not warming.
Agreed. There's lots of comments here along the lines of "but ctrl-c and ctrl-v are much easier!" -lots of people don't seem to see the real power and benifits of 'drag and drop'.
I suspect that this is a really a product of heavy Windows use, where standard behaviour is to maximise every application making drag-drop operations pretty useless (as well as closing minds to alternative and ' bloody convenient' ways of working).
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Take a defensive driving course, and you'll learn pretty quickly what a difference of 10mph has on your breaking distances. What really pisses me off is that it's folks who love their SVU's who really seem to cultivate these attitudes.
Fuck me!
Could you just write a full fucking sentence please?
A fucking men.
We've known about this since Gmail started. It's actually a VERY USEFUL FEATURE. I don't believe that there is any mis-delivery going on, because from memory you can't register cmdr.taco@gmail.com if cmdrtaco@gmail.com has already been used. So no one is going to be reading your mail.
Come on mods, this is hilarious, and neatly sums up the one big issue in this whole article...who do you have faith in - Steve or Michael?
It's got all the quick moving fun that made the first StarWars films so enjoyable. It's got the trade make character dialogue and that fans of Buffy will love. It's great, and you'll love it.
Does it really matter? The way you put that makes it seem like you think it does, but I can't for the life of me think what the issue is. Sure, Apple will want to keep song prices low to make iTunes more attractive/competitive....but so would any other music store.
The fact they also sell the music player as well....well, so what?
I guess that's why the article suggests applications in "disposable" computing. I don't really have a problem with this - it's much the same as saying paper is easily destroyed by a glass of water or red wine. You just know to keep things in the right environment.
You haven't like...err...heard of the IRA by any chance? Or ETA? Or maybe swarthy Irish and Spaniards are dark skinned enough to count as "Middle Eastern"?
Damn you Taco! Give me back my broken html, non validating Slashdot!
ps - doesn't look to hot in Firefox at the moment. You might need to tweak a few things.
"Windows Server 2003...not"?
The puck is so low profile that you don't have this problem - and with the sensitivity right up, you can move the pointer right across the screen with TINY movements of your fingers. You have to try it to apprecite the difference.
For the record, I don't use one and haven't for many years now. But I do think it's such a shame that many people - especially those here who are for the most part proponents of clever and considered design - dismiss it outright without considering why it is like it is.
Heh. Maybe I should have a new warcry - Viva Amiga, and the Puck!
The puck mouse was designed to address a real issue/problem. With a normal mouse, you need to rest your wrist on the table, and then to move the mouse, you have to move your whole wrist sideways/forwards/round in circles...you get the picture. It's slow, cumbersome, and causes all sorts of prolonged use problems.
Now enter the puck mouse. You still rest your wrist on the table, but you can move the whole mouse with ONLY your fingers! Very fast, light, easy, and sensible.
Now, I'm not going to deny it sucks the first time to use a puck mouse. In fact I'm one of the people who threw them away when they started coming with the Macs for the labs at university. But one week I was forced to use one - and guess what, your body starts to remember/know which way around the mouse is after about...ohhh...an hour of use.
When you think about it, this is no where near the learning curve of a Dvorak keyboard, which is everyone's darling at the moment. So - enough of the lame puck mouse bashing. Go get one on ebay for like 10c. Your wrist will love you, and you too will have the chance to marvel at possible the most underrated and misunderstood computer inventions of the past decade.
Ok - off my chest now...peace :)
Errr...I should have said "hold down the mouse over the Applications icon in the dock" - stoopid me. Also, you'll have to put Applications folder in the right hand section of the dock (ie, over near the trash can).
And I think your point 3 is a positive thing - I like the "window is just a window" mentality.
It's the experience of a number of people I know that a little cash goes a long way with the party officials in China.
You're not kidding? I think you've been had my friend. If I were you, I'd close that account like right now.
I know in London prior to the congestion charges, the average travel speed across the city had dropped over the last 100 years! Modern mass marketing/media makes it very easy to convince us that 'not-going-anywhere' is equal to 'progress'.
It doesn't help that you might own or be paid stocks in a company - the miniscule amount or power you have compared to the largest shareholders doesn't translate to ownership at all. It's like the serf 'owning' his plot - sure, in a literal sense, he owns it. But he can't sell it, can't sell his produce to anyone else, and he sure can't move anywhere else. His whole life belongs to the Feudal lord, 21C, aka, Microsoft/etal.
I'm truly not trying to start a flame war, or be a troll, and I'm not the only one to think this. Kim Stanley Robertson paints a similar picture in the Mars trilogy. It's worth the read just to see a future vision of politics.
Scarey stuff.
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I know Google have some Enterprise level appliances and tools...but we're only 25 people. That doesn't mean we don't generate butt loads of data - just that we can't afford the big kit. Google desktop would be great if it was just a bit more network friendly and configurable, but at the moment it seems targeted strictly for the home user.
I'm hoping that someone will tell me this version will prove me wrong, but I can't see anything to suggest that in the documentation yet...
And for those who believe it is a natural warming cycle, well that's not quite right - the cycle of ice ages means that if anything we should be experiencing a period of cooling. We have had an above average length balmy period (12,000 years). We should be seeing signs of cooling, not warming.
Happy now? Time to stop the denial then.
I suspect that this is a really a product of heavy Windows use, where standard behaviour is to maximise every application making drag-drop operations pretty useless (as well as closing minds to alternative and ' bloody convenient' ways of working).