Yeah, it isn't like Apple ever had little desk accessories before this, aid- uh, wait a minute...
Sorry, toots, but Konfabulator was pretty late to this horse race.
It's a nice product, but that is ALWAYS the danger when you create widget-ware, as opposed to something like a Usenet browser or an accounting program or a spreadsheet.
was wondering who, if anyone, has room for this kind of thing on their desk.
Um, people who create movies and other multimedia content professionally, which is a core market for Apple. Those people will happily make whatever room is required. Not everyone is sitting there with a little compu-hutch from Office Depot.
I wrote a SF story in college where there were fingerprint scanners that also looked at the skin oils and other biometrics. The protagonist had to use an elaborate device to fake a finger print. If I recall, it was a micro-pingrid array with synthetic skin on the tops of the pins, and little cannister of actual skin oil and other stuff. You could program the pins to be anyone's fingerprint, and the bio-goos would be mixed to the appropriate levels. Of course, it worked perfectly.
Just thought I'd mention it.:) The story also had "heavy water fusion batteries" 4 years before the world learned the term "cold fusion". This was back in 1985 before my creativty was destroyed by life and career and reality television.
...you're probably not that far off. One of my pet theories is that terrorists are generated mostly in areas where there's simply nothing better to do, or a lack of varied sensory input, like reading the Koran 12 hours a day for 15 years under the tutelage of an extremist imam, just to toss out a completely and utterly random example.
It's not the ideo/theology, it's the brain wigging out from existential boredom.
The entertainment industry will save civilization yet.
"Remember, moms, after you've returned from the English countryside with your hand picked wild pumpkins, only use platnium carving knives (available online from buymarthascrap.com) for maximum effect. Now, of course you're thriving hives out behind the pool house have led to a bumper crop of natural beeswax candles this year, so..."
There was a rumor that Stewart cut an album with Snoop Dogg or Dogg Pound or Mighty Dogg or one of those Dogg people. It's a concept album where Whatever Dogg plays Satan and Stewart is his little demoness bitch. It's called "Fook Dat Beyatch Upp!" and it's sung entirely in Aramaic with instrumental arrangements by Yani.
Maybe that one is in the collection. Or maybe it's something that floating into my brain last week when I hit my head.
How about a Wonder Woman series that brings back all the bondage and female domination themes from the original Dr. Marston issues? Put it on HBO and go nuts.
the famous Apple cluster didn't make the list, because it was out of service for hardware upgrades
:-\
In other news, Car & Driver released their list of top ten coolest cars. The new Ford GT was not included because Bob had it in the garage for an oil change.
Umm, all the jingoism I've seen has come from this side of the pond.
No offense, but then you really are not paying attention, or you have allowed ideology to destroy your critical thinking abilities. There has been tons of "Americans this" and "Americans that" flying around over there. I have family in Cypress, and they send me updates (they are rather embarassed by it), but it's readily available over here from the normal news sources.
I'm not talking about a handful of American jokes or French jokes. Some of the best French jokes I have ever heard came from a Frenchman. I'm not even talking about such piffle as "Freedom Fries". I'm talking about the ugly, hateful stuff those people are spewing, from the man in the street up to their alleged leaders. Some of it is really vile, and plays right into the hands of those that would destroy the West.
Anyway, it's either domestic or Japanese for my next car, and I'm leaning '05 Mustang GT. Love the retro look.:-)
Isn't the Crossfire more of a roadster? People who buy a roadster don't give a flying fig if it can hold groceries. It's like complaining that the SSR can't carry 4x8 foot sheets of plywood, or that the Boxter is limited in its brick carrying capacity. Roadsters are supposed to be a second fun car in addition to a primary.
As for manual transmissions, well, each to his own, I guess. I got sick of stick shifts years ago when I left my teens and stopped being a wannabe race car driver. I'm looking at new cars right now, and the availablity of manual versus automatic seems about the same for domestic versus import. Some of the import luxury sedans don't offer manuals at all. Not sure why you'd pin that exclusively on domestics.
I've not looked much at Euro cars, so maybe you mean them. I like some of the stuff from Europe, but the way they have been treating my country and fellow citizens lately, well, they can collectively suck my big fat balls. Express dislike for the current President, fine (I don't like him either), but enough with the hypocritical jingoism already.
Handbrakes; never used it in 22 years of driving beyond using it as a parking break, which is what most people call it nowadays. What are you doing wrong that you need to use it? Haven't modern ABS obsoleted their use on the road for the most part? The only guy I ever saw use it was someone in high school who'd use it to facilitate 180 degree slides, or "bootlegger 180s" as he called tham as we all slowly backed away. It always figured it was called an emergency brake because activating it would *cause* an emergency.;-)
Where's the sungularity? Where's the life altering technologies? Where's the ability to enhance my reality to something that doesn't suck more than the suckiest thing that ever sucked? Where's the sexbots? Even my gadammned wonder-DirecTivo box still misses the beginning or ending of a show when the *F*U*C*K*E*D* *U*P* networks decide that they are going to adhere to a time zone in the Bizarro universe. It's that or search for bitter-torrents on web servers of a dubious nature.
Where's the vast superscience solutions to the world's ailments we were promised at World's Fairs dating back to the late Miocene? "Some day, Ugg, we will control fire, and there will one day be delicious iron skillet seared aged beef steaks as far as the eye can see." Is anyone working on this? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Anyone?
The technological pinnacle of the Earth's history, and all we can work on is how to put some grotty 3D game into a cheap, plastic phone. More time will be spent optimizing the numer of dropped frames than the number of dropped calls. Intercell handoff, my ass! More like intercell fumble and turnover that lost the big game.
Hey, you could put Madden 2005 on the phone, and a fumble animation can be displayed whenever your phone call is dropped into the abyss, or a referee calling interference when more than 2 dB of background noise makes the person on the other end unintelligible. And if the girlfriend calls, it can show the Star Player[tm] fielding a call about the nine paternity suits aginst him. Just a gentle reminder to wear those condoms, boys, from the SUPERSCIENCE phone company.
You mean the angle where we don't project the out of context words of ONE person into the mindset of an entire country? That's always a good angle, and it's generally completely unoccupied.
The USA has never been perfect. What set it apart from other countries was that at least it tried.
Well, this USA-ian appreciates your realistic attitude, something that has been in short supply on ALL sides lately.
I hope it starts trying again.
We'll be OK. Reports of our collapse into a fasictic singularity are a bit exaggerated.
It's a time of turmoil, with new threats and realities and factors unimagined just a couple decades ago. The pendulum will resonate for a while before settling out someplace. We at least can have some say on where it settles. Unfortunately, some of the activists indulge in histrionics and that doesn't help very much.
I understand the need to monitor criminals and terrorists, but I really don't like the idea of having the government (anyone in fact) able to freely track my every movement.
There's ways to have great fun with this. Visit a fertilizer store, an electronics store and a Ryder truck rental place all on the same day. Wheee!:-)
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Yeah, well, somewhere are patents concerning Sarin gas, the Tacoma Narrows bridge and the Edsel.
If you're going to jump ship to another company, and develop a new product using IP from your old company, avoid naming it after yourself.
Sorry, toots, but Konfabulator was pretty late to this horse race.
It's a nice product, but that is ALWAYS the danger when you create widget-ware, as opposed to something like a Usenet browser or an accounting program or a spreadsheet.
Um, people who create movies and other multimedia content professionally, which is a core market for Apple. Those people will happily make whatever room is required. Not everyone is sitting there with a little compu-hutch from Office Depot.
Sheesh!
We send them to the Steve Wozniak Clinic to detox.
I don't make much sense, do I?
Just thought I'd mention it. :) The story also had "heavy water fusion batteries" 4 years before the world learned the term "cold fusion". This was back in 1985 before my creativty was destroyed by life and career and reality television.
Well, for *themselves* under an oppressive theofacistic paradigm, anyway.
It's not the ideo/theology, it's the brain wigging out from existential boredom.
The entertainment industry will save civilization yet.
"Remember, moms, after you've returned from the English countryside with your hand picked wild pumpkins, only use platnium carving knives (available online from buymarthascrap.com) for maximum effect. Now, of course you're thriving hives out behind the pool house have led to a bumper crop of natural beeswax candles this year, so..."
There was a rumor that Stewart cut an album with Snoop Dogg or Dogg Pound or Mighty Dogg or one of those Dogg people. It's a concept album where Whatever Dogg plays Satan and Stewart is his little demoness bitch. It's called "Fook Dat Beyatch Upp!" and it's sung entirely in Aramaic with instrumental arrangements by Yani.
Maybe that one is in the collection. Or maybe it's something that floating into my brain last week when I hit my head.
I see a strange, fragile comic book dealer in this kid's future.
Add an X and go for spacepr0n.
The Spice Network presents EXXXTREME SPACE!
Just think, in microgravity everyone has perky breasts!
Just wear those condoms, guys. We don't need your spooge getting in the attitude controls.
How about a Wonder Woman series that brings back all the bondage and female domination themes from the original Dr. Marston issues? Put it on HBO and go nuts.
:-\
In other news, Car & Driver released their list of top ten coolest cars. The new Ford GT was not included because Bob had it in the garage for an oil change.
EOM
No offense, but then you really are not paying attention, or you have allowed ideology to destroy your critical thinking abilities. There has been tons of "Americans this" and "Americans that" flying around over there. I have family in Cypress, and they send me updates (they are rather embarassed by it), but it's readily available over here from the normal news sources.
I'm not talking about a handful of American jokes or French jokes. Some of the best French jokes I have ever heard came from a Frenchman. I'm not even talking about such piffle as "Freedom Fries". I'm talking about the ugly, hateful stuff those people are spewing, from the man in the street up to their alleged leaders. Some of it is really vile, and plays right into the hands of those that would destroy the West.
Anyway, it's either domestic or Japanese for my next car, and I'm leaning '05 Mustang GT. Love the retro look. :-)
As for manual transmissions, well, each to his own, I guess. I got sick of stick shifts years ago when I left my teens and stopped being a wannabe race car driver. I'm looking at new cars right now, and the availablity of manual versus automatic seems about the same for domestic versus import. Some of the import luxury sedans don't offer manuals at all. Not sure why you'd pin that exclusively on domestics.
I've not looked much at Euro cars, so maybe you mean them. I like some of the stuff from Europe, but the way they have been treating my country and fellow citizens lately, well, they can collectively suck my big fat balls. Express dislike for the current President, fine (I don't like him either), but enough with the hypocritical jingoism already.
Handbrakes; never used it in 22 years of driving beyond using it as a parking break, which is what most people call it nowadays. What are you doing wrong that you need to use it? Haven't modern ABS obsoleted their use on the road for the most part? The only guy I ever saw use it was someone in high school who'd use it to facilitate 180 degree slides, or "bootlegger 180s" as he called tham as we all slowly backed away. It always figured it was called an emergency brake because activating it would *cause* an emergency. ;-)
Where's the sungularity? Where's the life altering technologies? Where's the ability to enhance my reality to something that doesn't suck more than the suckiest thing that ever sucked? Where's the sexbots? Even my gadammned wonder-DirecTivo box still misses the beginning or ending of a show when the *F*U*C*K*E*D* *U*P* networks decide that they are going to adhere to a time zone in the Bizarro universe. It's that or search for bitter-torrents on web servers of a dubious nature.
Where's the vast superscience solutions to the world's ailments we were promised at World's Fairs dating back to the late Miocene? "Some day, Ugg, we will control fire, and there will one day be delicious iron skillet seared aged beef steaks as far as the eye can see." Is anyone working on this? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Anyone?
The technological pinnacle of the Earth's history, and all we can work on is how to put some grotty 3D game into a cheap, plastic phone. More time will be spent optimizing the numer of dropped frames than the number of dropped calls. Intercell handoff, my ass! More like intercell fumble and turnover that lost the big game.
Hey, you could put Madden 2005 on the phone, and a fumble animation can be displayed whenever your phone call is dropped into the abyss, or a referee calling interference when more than 2 dB of background noise makes the person on the other end unintelligible. And if the girlfriend calls, it can show the Star Player[tm] fielding a call about the nine paternity suits aginst him. Just a gentle reminder to wear those condoms, boys, from the SUPERSCIENCE phone company.
Feh... just gimme a holodeck.
It computes really fast as long as you don't actually want the answer.
You mean the angle where we don't project the out of context words of ONE person into the mindset of an entire country? That's always a good angle, and it's generally completely unoccupied.
Well, this USA-ian appreciates your realistic attitude, something that has been in short supply on ALL sides lately.
I hope it starts trying again.
We'll be OK. Reports of our collapse into a fasictic singularity are a bit exaggerated.
It's a time of turmoil, with new threats and realities and factors unimagined just a couple decades ago. The pendulum will resonate for a while before settling out someplace. We at least can have some say on where it settles. Unfortunately, some of the activists indulge in histrionics and that doesn't help very much.
There's ways to have great fun with this. Visit a fertilizer store, an electronics store and a Ryder truck rental place all on the same day. Wheee! :-)
Two words: Las Vegas.
You get married cheaply, and you might even win a little cash to buy some extra RAM.
Just call me the problem solver.
You know, there uses for these 'puter things other than tinkering with the 'puter itself.