Hey, where's the button?
The amazing new trackpad doubles as a button â" just press down anywhere and consider it clicked. No separate button means there's 39 percent more room for your fingers to move on the silky glass surface. Now that Multi-Touch gestures have come to MacBook, all the function is in your fingers. Use two fingers to scroll up and down a page. Pinch to zoom in and out. Swipe with three fingers to flip through your photo libraries. Rotate to adjust an image with your fingertips. Using the new four-finger swipe gesture, swipe up or down to access Expose modes and left or right to switch between open applications. If you're coming from a right-click world, you can right-click with two fingers or configure a right-click area on the trackpad. The more you use the Multi-Touch trackpad, the more you'll wonder what you ever did without it.
Just want to correct one thing: Aperture is not a replacement for photoshop it is a competitor of Adobe Lightroom. Apple doesn't have a direct replacement for photoshop.
It makes you wonder why TV shows don't skip the network alltogether and go straight to DVD in the first place.
Because most of television is still about being a gimmick to get people to watch advertisements. They aren't called "soap operas" because everyone is clean; it's because the serials started as a way to sell soap. It makes me shake my head at people bitching about product placements when at one time all radio and television were were a series of product placements.
Yes, it is evolving and networks like HBO are creating more and more of their own content for its own sake. But as long as this is a capitalist society the majority of television will be an excuse to sell eyeballs to advertisers. And the rising costs of films and video games will push those even further towards product placements for block-buster type films and games.
Why should Silver members get anything? They weren't paying, so they didn't suffer any material loss whatsoever. Whether the outages were excessive for a $50/year payment is one question, but I don't see how Silver can complain. Heck, what can you even do with Silver other than download updates and post a Gamerscore?
I quietly point out to her that in the next rack, we proudly carry Whittle Stop Railroad, a 100% USA made product. She pulls out an engine from the peg, looks at the price, and starts complaining even LOUDER, '$29.99! This is over DOUBLE the cost of this one! That's highway robbery, how can you charge prices like this?'
This is why I couldn't work retail. I'd say something like "That extra money pays for people who give a damn that their toys aren't poisonous."
One interesting way to look at it is that Science explains the HOW and Religion explains the WHY.
No it isn't. A better way of looking at it is that science puts forth ideas on HOW things work and then tests them to confirm/deny/build upon them. While some of those ideas get trapped in 'groupthink' that puts down challenges, in reality all scientific ideas are open to debate and retooling over time. Religion (and philosophy) put forth ideas on WHY things work but have no real mechanisms to test those ideas so they are put forth as loud beliefs that can only be defended through louder reiteration. While questioning a scientific idea may not make you popular if you are correct your idea will eventually be recognized. Questioning a religious belief does not have that same freedom.
After all, the Roman Catholics only apologized to Galileo for the heliocentric viewpoint in 1992. Some quotes that might help:
First you guess. Don't laugh, this is the most important step. Then you compute the consequences. Compare the consequences to experience. If it disagrees with experience, the guess is wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science. It doesn't matter how beautiful your guess is or how smart you are or what your name is. If it disagrees with experience, it's wrong. That's all there is to it.
-- Dr. Richard Feynman
We do not embrace reason at the expense of emotion. We embrace it at the expense of self-deception. -- Herbert Muschamp
"Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery."
-- Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, 1901-1954
A company is making money in a business deal! What is this country coming to when a company can produce a product people want to buy and then actually make money selling it?
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Um, the 'light sensor bar' you set above or below your screen reads infrared for aiming, and probably has little to do with motion sensing per se. Most actual motion sensing that I've seen so far has been for wide motions (swinging a bat, yanking a fishing rod, waving up & down to run). All of the fine sensing seems light-based and involve aiming of some kind.
Unless there was some other 'crap' in your Wii box that you "strapped" on your TV, for some bizarre reason.
I'll never understand the incredulity towards man having a large-scale effect on the environment. We've gotten rivers to burn and destroyed large sections of land with nuclear explosions (intentional and unintentional). The environment has certainly had effects on us, what with the Black Plague, AIDS, and Mad Cow Disease. Heck, before penicillin was discovered a simple unnoticed cut could become life threatening if left untreated.
If nothing else, there are two possibilities. One, it's not our fault and we're basically screwed. Two, it is our fault and we're only screwed if we ignore or deny it. Either way, we're not getting into space on fossil fuel. For my money we need both Russia and China to get viable space programs moving again, just to give us a kick in the pants.
First you have to accept that 'virgin birth' meant 'conception without sex', and not that it simply meant 'young woman birth' when applying a translation of a hebrew word to tie Jesus' birth back to the predictions written about in Isaiah 7:14:
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
The King James Version mistranslates the Hebrew word "almah", which means "young woman" as "virgin". (The Hebrew word, "bethulah", means "virgin".) In addition, the young woman referred to in this verse was living at the time of the prophecy. And Jesus, of course, was called Jesus -- and is not called Emmanuel in any verse in the New Testament.
Of course, I recall singing songs about Emmanuel around Easter. Like it was his Super Secret name only true believers knew, or something.
To produce a male offspring by parthenogenesis, the mother would have to be a chimera formed between her and a fraternal twin, and somehow produced an egg from the male-chimeric half's cells, which then underwent parthenogenesis.
So that's how Jesus' midi-chlorian level was so high!
Of course, that would mean that Jesus was genetically Mary's twin brother.
So hers were the same level? Now I'm confused.
So because development can happen without a specific SDK, no one will develop anything amazing?
I don't remember there being an SDK when Visicalc was created. Just an environment and a need. I think the point that any app could potentially work without specifically trying means the iPhone could be a 'Killer App-liance', rather than a device needing a 'Killer App'.
Finally, an explanation of deja-vu that makes sense - the perception of parabolic ripples of collapsing flux capacitors killing their inventors before they are made! It naturally follows that as the ripples propogating through the ether cause my arms and legs to sleep when I'm awake, not to mention that every time I remember something different from my wife it's just the Uncertainty Principle asserting itself retroactively! Though it's suspicious that it's always in her favor...
Who knew Chicago had it right all these years; I really do no longer know what time it is.
You lost me here. I don't know about everyone else, but I've got a bin downstairs filled with aluminum that I have to pay to get hauled off. Heck, in one of the drawers in my kitchen there's a roll of the stuff.
I'll grant you I don't much gallium sitting around, so if you're going to attack the supply line I think that's where you should start.
The part I find really interesting is this:
"Right now it costs more than $1 a pound to buy aluminum, and, at that price, you can't deliver a product at the equivalent of $3 per gallon of gasoline,"... "Therefore, when and if fuel cells become economically viable, our method would compete with gasoline at $3 per gallon even if aluminum costs more than a dollar per pound."
Given that we're passing $3+/gallon, it seems there is potential to be price-competitive. Because the gallium's property is simple chemistry, anyone can come up with a new batch method of applying it to the aluminum to get around whatever patents may be currently held. Since we're talking a real-world process and not software it should be the method that matters and not the result. Not to mention there may be other -iums that have a similar influence on aluminum, but no one's bothered to look for yet.
Barring all other arguments, we aren't going to travel through space on fossil fuels. Whether or not there's real pressure to replace gasoline engines everywhere, there are many other reasons to search for alternative fuels.
One thing I've always hated about Windows is how applications throw their dialog boxes in front of other application windows. I can't even count how many times I've been touch-typing and answered a dialog box without even seeing it. Do the UAC boxes respond to keys as well? Seems like it could have the exact same problem.
And I'm not sure what the point is with that link. It's referring to a patch almost three years old and therefore certainly incorporated in 10.4. Also, one of the first sentences is "All an attacker needs to do is find an exploit in a frequently used component, one that would have already been launched through LaunchServices for most users (such as help:), and they will be able to launch an attack on almost as many systems as they would have without this patch." Has this actually happened? Seems like if it were easy to do it would have been done before now.
If you truly mean "now and then", I don't see a problem. Casual players aren't usually as concerned about getting the latest games as soon as possible. Even if you are, the development gap has been steadily decreasing.
I am not saying that video games should be banned, but its sad that there is so very little room left for meaningful discussion of such topics.
Games have a ratings system, the same that movies do, and more than books do. Anyone can go to a library and read worse than you'll find in a game. Hell, have you read the so-called 'holy' book? Lots of violence there, not too mention the negative attitudes towards women in general.
The only possible meaningful discussion is by psychologists and psychological researchers, and there in the realm of nurture vs. nature in behavioral studies in general. Unfortunately, it's not an easy subject to study in a laboratory as people frown on raising twins or triplets in controlled environments just to answer this question. There are too many variables in real life to attribute a person's attitude to any one influence, or to conclude that it would be markedly different under a slightly different attitude.
This whole debate reminds me of the Simpsons episode "Itchy and Scratchy and Marge":
Meyers: I did a little research and I discovered a startling thing...
There was violence in the past, long before cartoons were invented. Kent: I see. Fascinating. Meyers: Yeah, and know something, Karl? The Crusades, for instance.
Tremendous violence, many people killed, the darned thing went
on for thirty years. Kent: And this was before cartoons were invented? Meyers: That's right, Kent.
If you want to have some crazy logic, why not blame the labor laws? Kids wouldn't have time to play violent video games if they worked all day.
Don't get me wrong; I don't think a six year old should be playing GTA unsupervised. But every kid is different in what he/she can handle, and it's up to the parents to monitor their children and help them deal with it. It is not up to the government to interfere in what entertainment I can access just because some kid, somewhere, can't handle it. I grew up with Daffy repeatedly getting his beak blown off and I haven't killed anyone yet; though I'm tempted to every time I see it on TV now with that part edited out. Thankfully the DVD isn't edited.
They did one episode of South Park in normal prime time with a hundred-whatever 'shit's in it. If they put Futurama on at 10 (and given their success with South Park, Futurama should probably either have its own 10 o'clock night or follow S.P.) the should be able to say whatever they want.
But you never know. The initial release of the South Park DVDs bleeped out 'dirty jew', so who knows where they'll be censor-wise on the broadcasts.
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Yeah, because adding 'AND Prize IS NOT NULL' is so much harder than having dozens of tables.
Hey, where's the button? The amazing new trackpad doubles as a button â" just press down anywhere and consider it clicked. No separate button means there's 39 percent more room for your fingers to move on the silky glass surface. Now that Multi-Touch gestures have come to MacBook, all the function is in your fingers. Use two fingers to scroll up and down a page. Pinch to zoom in and out. Swipe with three fingers to flip through your photo libraries. Rotate to adjust an image with your fingertips. Using the new four-finger swipe gesture, swipe up or down to access Expose modes and left or right to switch between open applications. If you're coming from a right-click world, you can right-click with two fingers or configure a right-click area on the trackpad. The more you use the Multi-Touch trackpad, the more you'll wonder what you ever did without it.
... yet.
It makes you wonder why TV shows don't skip the network alltogether and go straight to DVD in the first place.
Because most of television is still about being a gimmick to get people to watch advertisements. They aren't called "soap operas" because everyone is clean; it's because the serials started as a way to sell soap. It makes me shake my head at people bitching about product placements when at one time all radio and television were were a series of product placements.
Yes, it is evolving and networks like HBO are creating more and more of their own content for its own sake. But as long as this is a capitalist society the majority of television will be an excuse to sell eyeballs to advertisers. And the rising costs of films and video games will push those even further towards product placements for block-buster type films and games.
Why should Silver members get anything? They weren't paying, so they didn't suffer any material loss whatsoever. Whether the outages were excessive for a $50/year payment is one question, but I don't see how Silver can complain. Heck, what can you even do with Silver other than download updates and post a Gamerscore?
I think perhaps it's more about why there are no 3rd party iTunes stores?
They're called 'buy the CD and do it yourself'. There's probably a store in your town!
I quietly point out to her that in the next rack, we proudly carry Whittle Stop Railroad, a 100% USA made product. She pulls out an engine from the peg, looks at the price, and starts complaining even LOUDER, '$29.99! This is over DOUBLE the cost of this one! That's highway robbery, how can you charge prices like this?'
This is why I couldn't work retail. I'd say something like "That extra money pays for people who give a damn that their toys aren't poisonous."
No it isn't. A better way of looking at it is that science puts forth ideas on HOW things work and then tests them to confirm/deny/build upon them. While some of those ideas get trapped in 'groupthink' that puts down challenges, in reality all scientific ideas are open to debate and retooling over time. Religion (and philosophy) put forth ideas on WHY things work but have no real mechanisms to test those ideas so they are put forth as loud beliefs that can only be defended through louder reiteration. While questioning a scientific idea may not make you popular if you are correct your idea will eventually be recognized. Questioning a religious belief does not have that same freedom.
After all, the Roman Catholics only apologized to Galileo for the heliocentric viewpoint in 1992. Some quotes that might help:
Well, it's not like any of them could see it coming.
A company is making money in a business deal! What is this country coming to when a company can produce a product people want to buy and then actually make money selling it?
Um, the 'light sensor bar' you set above or below your screen reads infrared for aiming, and probably has little to do with motion sensing per se. Most actual motion sensing that I've seen so far has been for wide motions (swinging a bat, yanking a fishing rod, waving up & down to run). All of the fine sensing seems light-based and involve aiming of some kind.
Unless there was some other 'crap' in your Wii box that you "strapped" on your TV, for some bizarre reason.
I'll never understand the incredulity towards man having a large-scale effect on the environment. We've gotten rivers to burn and destroyed large sections of land with nuclear explosions (intentional and unintentional). The environment has certainly had effects on us, what with the Black Plague, AIDS, and Mad Cow Disease. Heck, before penicillin was discovered a simple unnoticed cut could become life threatening if left untreated.
If nothing else, there are two possibilities. One, it's not our fault and we're basically screwed. Two, it is our fault and we're only screwed if we ignore or deny it. Either way, we're not getting into space on fossil fuel. For my money we need both Russia and China to get viable space programs moving again, just to give us a kick in the pants.
The best part about advanced data analysis is when someone picks out one bullet point and says 'Duh! Anyone could see that!'.
Of course, I recall singing songs about Emmanuel around Easter. Like it was his Super Secret name only true believers knew, or something.
To produce a male offspring by parthenogenesis, the mother would have to be a chimera formed between her and a fraternal twin, and somehow produced an egg from the male-chimeric half's cells, which then underwent parthenogenesis.
So that's how Jesus' midi-chlorian level was so high!
Of course, that would mean that Jesus was genetically Mary's twin brother.
So hers were the same level? Now I'm confused.
Wait, what? Now who's not playing well with others? My hypocrisy meter just pegged.
I think this is a little different. It's one thing to go to a bald barber. It's another to eat at a restaurant where the chef won't eat the food.
For example, small talk is considered unnecessary or even rude in some situations. Getting to the point is a virtue in any conversation.
All these years I thought I was a social misfit, but apparently I'm just Finnish.
Boy will my parents be surprised.
Finally, stop using 12345.
Dammit; now I need to buy new luggage.
So because development can happen without a specific SDK, no one will develop anything amazing?
I don't remember there being an SDK when Visicalc was created. Just an environment and a need. I think the point that any app could potentially work without specifically trying means the iPhone could be a 'Killer App-liance', rather than a device needing a 'Killer App'.
Finally, an explanation of deja-vu that makes sense - the perception of parabolic ripples of collapsing flux capacitors killing their inventors before they are made! It naturally follows that as the ripples propogating through the ether cause my arms and legs to sleep when I'm awake, not to mention that every time I remember something different from my wife it's just the Uncertainty Principle asserting itself retroactively! Though it's suspicious that it's always in her favor...
Who knew Chicago had it right all these years; I really do no longer know what time it is.
I'll grant you I don't much gallium sitting around, so if you're going to attack the supply line I think that's where you should start.
The part I find really interesting is this:Given that we're passing $3+/gallon, it seems there is potential to be price-competitive. Because the gallium's property is simple chemistry, anyone can come up with a new batch method of applying it to the aluminum to get around whatever patents may be currently held. Since we're talking a real-world process and not software it should be the method that matters and not the result. Not to mention there may be other -iums that have a similar influence on aluminum, but no one's bothered to look for yet.
Barring all other arguments, we aren't going to travel through space on fossil fuels. Whether or not there's real pressure to replace gasoline engines everywhere, there are many other reasons to search for alternative fuels.
One thing I've always hated about Windows is how applications throw their dialog boxes in front of other application windows. I can't even count how many times I've been touch-typing and answered a dialog box without even seeing it. Do the UAC boxes respond to keys as well? Seems like it could have the exact same problem.
And I'm not sure what the point is with that link. It's referring to a patch almost three years old and therefore certainly incorporated in 10.4. Also, one of the first sentences is "All an attacker needs to do is find an exploit in a frequently used component, one that would have already been launched through LaunchServices for most users (such as help:), and they will be able to launch an attack on almost as many systems as they would have without this patch." Has this actually happened? Seems like if it were easy to do it would have been done before now.
If you truly mean "now and then", I don't see a problem. Casual players aren't usually as concerned about getting the latest games as soon as possible. Even if you are, the development gap has been steadily decreasing.
The only possible meaningful discussion is by psychologists and psychological researchers, and there in the realm of nurture vs. nature in behavioral studies in general. Unfortunately, it's not an easy subject to study in a laboratory as people frown on raising twins or triplets in controlled environments just to answer this question. There are too many variables in real life to attribute a person's attitude to any one influence, or to conclude that it would be markedly different under a slightly different attitude.
This whole debate reminds me of the Simpsons episode "Itchy and Scratchy and Marge": If you want to have some crazy logic, why not blame the labor laws? Kids wouldn't have time to play violent video games if they worked all day.
Don't get me wrong; I don't think a six year old should be playing GTA unsupervised. But every kid is different in what he/she can handle, and it's up to the parents to monitor their children and help them deal with it. It is not up to the government to interfere in what entertainment I can access just because some kid, somewhere, can't handle it. I grew up with Daffy repeatedly getting his beak blown off and I haven't killed anyone yet; though I'm tempted to every time I see it on TV now with that part edited out. Thankfully the DVD isn't edited.
They did one episode of South Park in normal prime time with a hundred-whatever 'shit's in it. If they put Futurama on at 10 (and given their success with South Park, Futurama should probably either have its own 10 o'clock night or follow S.P.) the should be able to say whatever they want. But you never know. The initial release of the South Park DVDs bleeped out 'dirty jew', so who knows where they'll be censor-wise on the broadcasts.