I wrote this in to Wired's Vaporware awards this year to Steve's promising 3Ghz G5s for Last Summer.
Then did St. Steve raise on high the Holy G5 of Cupertino, saying, 'Bless this, O Lord, that with it thou mayst blow thine Dell enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy.' And the people did rejoice and did feast upon the renderings of lambs and toads and tree sloths and fruit bats and orangutans and lickable icons.... Now did the Lord say, 'Thou in 12 months, thou must count to three. Three shall be the number of the GHz and the number of the GHz shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two-point-five, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the number of the GHz, be reached, then thine will be great and powerful in my sight, however if thou shall have more than one button on thou mouse, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff thine's life.
Now has thy Matriarch of the Macintosh forsaken us or what here?
Works for me, with the expense, cost and pain of ink and printers it's not worth it to me to have a printer at home. So if I feel I need a hard copy of something or have something just a bit more tangible than what just a save would give me (like web receipts), I just act like I'm printing and receive to what amounts to a digital "hard" copy. It'll be exactly the same at any time and I can open it on practically any computer and if need be, able to print it out at later time, with no hassles.
I always felt that Amazon was a spectacularly crowded UI, with product pages that try to put everything and including the kitchen sink in there.
Just look at the iPod page, I believe it's still their most popular product.
It's no less than 11 pages long, and with that Amazon doesn't even tell you what the price is if you were to buy it from them! But damn if they were able to tell you other people's prices if you were to buy it from them. Then you have to go through several layers of what other products that is like the current product your looking at or what might go well with the product, all before you get to actual description of the product your looking at, it takes me no less than three 'Page Downs' before I even get to the product description.
Then you have all your user reviews, lists, 'So you would like too...'s, widgets, rating the item, recently viewed items then some advertisements, and even a suggestion box?!?. And why do I need redundant and international store links at the bottom every single page? Never the less the fact that I am logged in with a cookie with an US address.
All this adds up to one hell of a crowded web page, where the product that you would like to look at and maybe buy gets nearly lost in. Awful, awful UI.
I agree with you on Enterprise's theme, it's god awful. When I tuned in to watch the first episode and that came on, I knew that this wasn't the Trek the I have grown up enjoying and loved. Now Firefly's theme might get some geers, but it does kinda grow on you, and it fits the 'verse that it was creating. Unlike any of the Enterprise series -theme included, which does not fit anywhere in my view of the Star Trek's timeline or universe.
Personally I didn't mind Voyager, it certainly wasn't the greatest, but it had a few good elements and I felt that premise was a logical "next step" for Trek to go. It is sad that dribble like Enterprise stays on, while Firefly and Farscape get canned. Here's hoping that Battlestar Galactica continues at the level that it has, so far it has been some of the best TV that I have seen in along time. I've even gotten my wife to watch it, which is quite a test since she use to call Farscape my 'Muppets in Space' show.
Ok I have a button to Yahoo's Launchcast, but no support. Yahoo's Launchcast is great, But why oh why do I have to have two browsers open in order to listen to Yahoo's music?
Maybe somebody shouldn't link to stories using document standards that commonly kill all other processes while the a single page loads and throws up a splash screen, that could of easily been put into HTML not have this problem.
Give us a PDF link with out a proper warning is really bad form/..
Did this article really need to put in to a PDF? Does anyone save any kind of bandwidth or anything by doing this? At least is it worth pissing off the people who are linked to it?
Back on subject, I wonder if they are planning something on the lines of the DS, were there would be a touch screen on the controller.
From the little that I've played with the DS, and from the reviews of other people it's pretty cool and innovative. Plus it just seems like an evolution to their GameBoy/GameCube connected titles, like The Four Swords and FF: Crystal Chronicles.
I don't use open-source software because I believe in the open-source ideal, I use open-source software because it's better.
Open-source software is free in more ways than just one, it is free from restrictions, it is free to become whatever it needs to be on whatever platform that you choose that it needs to be on.
If OSS apps cause improvements to commercial apps, it would be a good thing. In the end we just want a better desktop/computing experience, and any kind of improvement is a good thing, no matter what group or corporate entity that brings it.
The only thing that can kill Firefox or Linux is if something better would come along, and replaces 'em. FF and Linux will continue to be there and be used as long as its the right tool for your needs. If the tool needs improvement, than make it better, that's why it's open in the first place.
As stated hundreds of times before, iTunes would import all of your 500 CDs DRM free, strait into MP3 or AAC, whatever your preference that you like. AAC isn't a DRM product, it can be added to files such as the music that you download from iTMS, but when you import your CDs in iTunes it has no DRM. The only DRM is in the iTunes Music Store, and if you don't like it you can even turn that feature off too. Via preferences you can remove the store link and the snazzy little buttons, that it adds to the Artist, and Albums to look for more music of its ilk. One the great features of iTunes is that you can basically set it to auto-pilot, were you would just put one of your 500 CDs in your CD drive, and it automatically imports the music to your already specified bitrate and type, and places the files in an easy to understand artist/album/track directories and then pops the CD out ready for the next. What's better is if you already have a whole bunch of music lying around in a bunch of arcaic places, iTunes can have all those music files copied to one place and set-up as stated before an artist/album/track directories. In the newest version of iTunes, it goes even a step more in organizing your music and will find all of your multiples of the same tracks, were you might of imported an "Best Of..." and the artist's original album and have multiple instances of the same exact song. iTunes is great, quit your bitching and try it.
My Dad is a Rush listening, Fox News watching, God-fearing Republican, as are all my brothers and sister, all from dark red states (Indiana, Texas, and Colorado). During this pass election my father and I got into an argument from him sending out all these pro-Bush mass-emails.
Boy I hope my they enjoy their contributions to the ACLU.
From what I remember in reading the Weekly Reader in a very "Red State" the reader most likely has a larger conservative base. While another kids vote probably has larger liberal base.
I think nearly all predictors and polls will be tossed out this year. With polls moving 10-20% by weekly, unprecedented new registrants, questionable electronic voting machines, armies of lawyers already prepped, and even our sworn enemy, that the incumbent has said that he wanted "Dead or Alive", and the other saying that "He will hunt down and kill", Osama Bin Laden is even telling us to get out and vote.
This going to hell of a crazy election, and I have a feeling that it won't be over until well into next year.
Did Jonathan Ive retire or something, this seems butt-ass ugly.
Oh well I was expecting the new iMac to be a Tablet connected to a WiFi base station, where the Tablet would hold the processer and harddrive and the base could carry the Superdrive, airport and the ports.
I usually run at 5 since I don't have the time to read it all, but I also via preferences, modify the funny comments up.
I love Slash, its a breeze for large stories that just choke up on messaging boards, such as Yahoo's or other sites that might use vBulletin. These just don't cut the mustard when you have several hundred comments and rising, and you just want to get some good comments from the board, or try to have or a decent web-board discussion.
Slash allows you to receive only the good if you like, or dive into the drek very easily and coherently, What I would like to see is Google News taking on Slash, and adding comment section under their news blurbs.
I may sound like one of those guys who don't have TVs, but I have been living w/o a car for quite while now and I love it. I just moved closer to where I work so I can just walk or just take a short bus ride if I feel lazy.
It's really nice since I don't have a car I'm able to afford a great apartment in downtown Seattle that is ten times better then anything I could afford if I had to worry about the expenses that come with ownership. I don't have to worry about finding parking or worry about leaving it out on a street for anyone to do evil things with it. If I need to be somewhere more immediately than public trans. I just take a cab, the cost is negotiable with the fact that I'm already saving money every day by not having a car.
The one problem that I have found is in grocery shopping, big supermarkets don't thrive downtown in any city I've known, and you always have to be thinking about weight ratios w/o a big SUV sitting in the parking lot, What's worse is trying to shop for food at the small convenience/grocery stores it can get quite expensive. But with internet grocery shopping getting better that's becoming a none point
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Darn, instead of a HolyOhMyFuckingGod!!-Truckload of cash they just made a simple OhMyFuckingGod!!-Truckload this quarter
Well sucks for them...I guess.
Well the way Jobs acts sometimes (at certain points justifiably), I wouldn't usually describe as masculine.
Still not they're not 3GHz, so Apple is missing a promise given by Stevie himself by 12 months.
And I just bought a DL-16x DVD drive for about $30 just last month at OfficeMax. So that isn't such a big deal
So solid update? Nah, I would call it Interim
- Then did St. Steve raise on high the Holy G5 of Cupertino, saying, 'Bless this, O Lord, that with it thou mayst blow thine Dell enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy.' And the people did rejoice and did feast upon the renderings of lambs and toads and tree sloths and fruit bats and orangutans and lickable icons.... Now did the Lord say, 'Thou in 12 months, thou must count to three. Three shall be the number of the GHz and the number of the GHz shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two-point-five, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the number of the GHz, be reached, then thine will be great and powerful in my sight, however if thou shall have more than one button on thou mouse, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff thine's life.
Now has thy Matriarch of the Macintosh forsaken us or what here?Works for me, with the expense, cost and pain of ink and printers it's not worth it to me to have a printer at home. So if I feel I need a hard copy of something or have something just a bit more tangible than what just a save would give me (like web receipts), I just act like I'm printing and receive to what amounts to a digital "hard" copy.
It'll be exactly the same at any time and I can open it on practically any computer and if need be, able to print it out at later time, with no hassles.
I just bought a silver one for my wife as a Valentines present, and not even two weeks later they go and update it.
DAMN YOU STEVE!!!
I always felt that Amazon was a spectacularly crowded UI, with product pages that try to put everything and including the kitchen sink in there.
Just look at the iPod page, I believe it's still their most popular product.
It's no less than 11 pages long, and with that Amazon doesn't even tell you what the price is if you were to buy it from them! But damn if they were able to tell you other people's prices if you were to buy it from them. Then you have to go through several layers of what other products that is like the current product your looking at or what might go well with the product, all before you get to actual description of the product your looking at, it takes me no less than three 'Page Downs' before I even get to the product description. Then you have all your user reviews, lists, 'So you would like too...'s, widgets, rating the item, recently viewed items then some advertisements, and even a suggestion box?!?. And why do I need redundant and international store links at the bottom every single page? Never the less the fact that I am logged in with a cookie with an US address.
All this adds up to one hell of a crowded web page, where the product that you would like to look at and maybe buy gets nearly lost in. Awful, awful UI.
I agree with you on Enterprise's theme, it's god awful. When I tuned in to watch the first episode and that came on, I knew that this wasn't the Trek the I have grown up enjoying and loved.
Now Firefly's theme might get some geers, but it does kinda grow on you, and it fits the 'verse that it was creating. Unlike any of the Enterprise series -theme included, which does not fit anywhere in my view of the Star Trek's timeline or universe.
Personally I didn't mind Voyager, it certainly wasn't the greatest, but it had a few good elements and I felt that premise was a logical "next step" for Trek to go.
It is sad that dribble like Enterprise stays on, while Firefly and Farscape get canned. Here's hoping that Battlestar Galactica continues at the level that it has, so far it has been some of the best TV that I have seen in along time. I've even gotten my wife to watch it, which is quite a test since she use to call Farscape my 'Muppets in Space' show.
Ok I have a button to Yahoo's Launchcast, but no support.
Yahoo's Launchcast is great, But why oh why do I have to have two browsers open in order to listen to Yahoo's music?
Maybe somebody shouldn't link to stories using document standards that commonly kill all other processes while the a single page loads and throws up a splash screen, that could of easily been put into HTML not have this problem.
Give us a PDF link with out a proper warning is really bad form /..
Did this article really need to put in to a PDF?
Does anyone save any kind of bandwidth or anything by doing this? At least is it worth pissing off the people who are linked to it?
Alright who is working on MgroeningFortune 6.6?
I simply must have this.
Whst mouse button?
This Mac is so easy that it doesn't even have or need a mouse!!
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Not if we included case-specifice TLAs, then we could have 140,608.
Umm yea Nintendo never made many great RPGs
Back on subject, I wonder if they are planning something on the lines of the DS, were there would be a touch screen on the controller.
From the little that I've played with the DS, and from the reviews of other people it's pretty cool and innovative. Plus it just seems like an evolution to their GameBoy/GameCube connected titles, like The Four Swords and FF: Crystal Chronicles.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
I don't use open-source software because I believe in the open-source ideal, I use open-source software because it's better.
Open-source software is free in more ways than just one, it is free from restrictions, it is free to become whatever it needs to be on whatever platform that you choose that it needs to be on.
If OSS apps cause improvements to commercial apps, it would be a good thing. In the end we just want a better desktop/computing experience, and any kind of improvement is a good thing, no matter what group or corporate entity that brings it.
The only thing that can kill Firefox or Linux is if something better would come along, and replaces 'em. FF and Linux will continue to be there and be used as long as its the right tool for your needs. If the tool needs improvement, than make it better, that's why it's open in the first place.
As stated hundreds of times before, iTunes would import all of your 500 CDs DRM free, strait into MP3 or AAC, whatever your preference that you like. AAC isn't a DRM product, it can be added to files such as the music that you download from iTMS, but when you import your CDs in iTunes it has no DRM.
The only DRM is in the iTunes Music Store, and if you don't like it you can even turn that feature off too. Via preferences you can remove the store link and the snazzy little buttons, that it adds to the Artist, and Albums to look for more music of its ilk.
One the great features of iTunes is that you can basically set it to auto-pilot, were you would just put one of your 500 CDs in your CD drive, and it automatically imports the music to your already specified bitrate and type, and places the files in an easy to understand artist/album/track directories and then pops the CD out ready for the next. What's better is if you already have a whole bunch of music lying around in a bunch of arcaic places, iTunes can have all those music files copied to one place and set-up as stated before an artist/album/track directories.
In the newest version of iTunes, it goes even a step more in organizing your music and will find all of your multiples of the same tracks, were you might of imported an "Best Of..." and the artist's original album and have multiple instances of the same exact song.
iTunes is great, quit your bitching and try it.
My Dad is a Rush listening, Fox News watching, God-fearing Republican, as are all my brothers and sister, all from dark red states (Indiana, Texas, and Colorado).
During this pass election my father and I got into an argument from him sending out all these pro-Bush mass-emails.
Boy I hope my they enjoy their contributions to the ACLU.
From what I remember in reading the Weekly Reader in a very "Red State" the reader most likely has a larger conservative base. While another kids vote probably has larger liberal base.
I think nearly all predictors and polls will be tossed out this year. With polls moving 10-20% by weekly, unprecedented new registrants, questionable electronic voting machines, armies of lawyers already prepped, and even our sworn enemy, that the incumbent has said that he wanted "Dead or Alive", and the other saying that "He will hunt down and kill", Osama Bin Laden is even telling us to get out and vote.
This going to hell of a crazy election, and I have a feeling that it won't be over until well into next year.
Did Jonathan Ive retire or something, this seems butt-ass ugly.
Oh well I was expecting the new iMac to be a Tablet connected to a WiFi base station, where the Tablet would hold the processer and harddrive and the base could carry the Superdrive, airport and the ports.
Now someone just say it's shipping with Duke Nukem Forever and get a +1 Funny...
I always liked making a Mozilla Sidebar RSS from The One Ring. It should work with all versions of Mozilla/Firefox, and its rather painless.
I usually run at 5 since I don't have the time to read it all, but I also via preferences, modify the funny comments up. I love Slash, its a breeze for large stories that just choke up on messaging boards, such as Yahoo's or other sites that might use vBulletin. These just don't cut the mustard when you have several hundred comments and rising, and you just want to get some good comments from the board, or try to have or a decent web-board discussion. Slash allows you to receive only the good if you like, or dive into the drek very easily and coherently, What I would like to see is Google News taking on Slash, and adding comment section under their news blurbs.
It's really nice since I don't have a car I'm able to afford a great apartment in downtown Seattle that is ten times better then anything I could afford if I had to worry about the expenses that come with ownership. I don't have to worry about finding parking or worry about leaving it out on a street for anyone to do evil things with it. If I need to be somewhere more immediately than public trans. I just take a cab, the cost is negotiable with the fact that I'm already saving money every day by not having a car.
The one problem that I have found is in grocery shopping, big supermarkets don't thrive downtown in any city I've known, and you always have to be thinking about weight ratios w/o a big SUV sitting in the parking lot, What's worse is trying to shop for food at the small convenience/grocery stores it can get quite expensive. But with internet grocery shopping getting better that's becoming a none point