I think you're hitting on something very important here. This is why I was able to watch the entire run of Buffy when I had cable and it was on weekday afternoons for two hours right after I got home from work but I've had seasons 2 and 3 in my house for a month and haven't gotten around to watching it.
How about how every single cleaning product marketed shows a woman using it except for the Swiffer which is so easy to use that even a man could do it?
Or commercials for food that talk about how moms choose awesome food for their kids? Because obviously dads are never involved in that process. And dads never drive minivans to take their kids to soccer practice. Nope, never happens.
Those are the commercials that infuriate me. I hate the stereotyped portrayal of either sex. If the commercials you speak of merely had smart talented women doing awesome things and didn't rely on putting men down to show it, I'd be all for it. Sexism is stupid.
Right, because women totally like the stereotype of the nagging housewife.
Whatever, dude. Sexism sucks either way. The same people who like Yes, Dear and Everybody Loves Raymond probably laugh at dumb blonde jokes with no irony.
You fail to see the difference between Ray's wife nagging him about talking to his kids because lord knows a father shouldn't have to deal with that sort of thing by default, he needs a nag and Lois trying to serve breakfast on Peter's passed out body because he got stupid drunk while getting turned on by the Statue of Liberty?
Dude, you need to chill out. Family Guy is so far over the top that if you don't get that it's satire, you really shouldn't be watching it.
(Also, a hint for you: nobody is a better pianist when drunk.)
It's not ties-in to EpIV that I'm looking for. Lucas already has too much *wink wink* about things. See also: "This is my girlfriend, Baru." "This is my robot, C3PO."
He's breaking the things that he originally wrote to wink at the audience, and that's stupid.
It's funny, because people who weren't born / raised in the US often wonder how sighted people can tell the difference among the bills.
All I can say is that they are really really different, even just in the corners. I can tell the difference between bills below a fifty without having to see very much of it, just from use.
God, that really MUST be annoying, your computer making sure that you don't accidentally close a program without saving your work. What an inconvenience! Man, if only you could set it so that it woudl completely ignore that you have unsaved documents open; that would make MUCH more sense.
Okay, sarcasm off. I couldn't help myself.
I do think that was a foul anecdote. Especially if the person is using Mail for OS X; it saves drafts automatically.
No, not just hot. 180 degrees. That's scalding. That's capable of almost instantaneous destruction of skin, flesh and muscle.
Coffee at 140 degrees spilled on your lap? Man, that must be a little painful. This McDonald's had had people complaining about the heat (which was far, far over the company standard) and other people had received 3rd degree burns. THIRD DEGREE. Do you understand how painful that is?
That woman spent seven days in the hospital.
I am so tired of people saying that the McDonald's lawsuit was frivolous, especially people who don't know any of the details involved, just that some old lady put the coffee cup in her lap and then was surprised that it spilled. She was in a car and opened it to put cream in when it spilled, dumping 180 degree liquid onto her lap. She deserved to be compensated for their negligence.
Wait, so if we all start putting the rel="nofollow" on our website comments, the spammers will stop spamming the comments of sites that use it.. and move to the sites that haven't.
So basically you're saying this is going to be a wild success at stopping spammers from flooding my comments. I mean, at least until the end where your line of reasoning starts to ignore logic.
Do you mean that you want to listen to part of a 45 minute track, then listen to something else, and then come back to finish the rest of the 45 minute track?
I'm not sure I understand why you'd want to do that. Seriously, I am curious.
If you are just listening to part and then not listening to anything and then coming back to it, the iPod will remember where you were.
Because school violence is becoming so rampant and having 100 kids with cell phones will make everything better when the kids they picked on for 10 years start shooting!
Why are you letting people install things on your computer? That strikes me as a very bad idea, and also why they made that Java based virtual IM thing. Doesn't install anything, and he can chat with his friends.
Someone in another thread said that while the RAM might not be hard to install, it will be very obvious that your warranty has been voided.
So, I mean, if you don't mind THAT, go for it.
Wait, you mean... there are computers out there that are CHEAPER than Apple? My god, man! Why didn't anyone tell me before? I could have saved ALL THIS MONEY!
You know, I was thinking about that too, but I would never by a 1st gen product from Apple and then immediately void my warranty. It's just asking for trouble.
Give it a cycle or two to get the kinks out and then have at it, but don't do that for a 1st gen unless you want a $500 paperweight.
Yeah, tabbing in browsers can be sort of annoying, but it has gotten MUCH better in the past couple of years than what I had experienced before.
The only thing I miss about Windows is that I could tab to a drop-down list and navigate through it without the mouse. That works sometimes on OS X, sometimes not.
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Yes, you can hack the firmware.
Decent != superior. Just something to keep in mind.
I think you're hitting on something very important here. This is why I was able to watch the entire run of Buffy when I had cable and it was on weekday afternoons for two hours right after I got home from work but I've had seasons 2 and 3 in my house for a month and haven't gotten around to watching it.
How about how every single cleaning product marketed shows a woman using it except for the Swiffer which is so easy to use that even a man could do it?
Or commercials for food that talk about how moms choose awesome food for their kids? Because obviously dads are never involved in that process. And dads never drive minivans to take their kids to soccer practice. Nope, never happens.
Those are the commercials that infuriate me. I hate the stereotyped portrayal of either sex. If the commercials you speak of merely had smart talented women doing awesome things and didn't rely on putting men down to show it, I'd be all for it. Sexism is stupid.
Right, because women totally like the stereotype of the nagging housewife.
Whatever, dude. Sexism sucks either way. The same people who like Yes, Dear and Everybody Loves Raymond probably laugh at dumb blonde jokes with no irony.
You fail to see the difference between Ray's wife nagging him about talking to his kids because lord knows a father shouldn't have to deal with that sort of thing by default, he needs a nag and Lois trying to serve breakfast on Peter's passed out body because he got stupid drunk while getting turned on by the Statue of Liberty?
Dude, you need to chill out. Family Guy is so far over the top that if you don't get that it's satire, you really shouldn't be watching it.
(Also, a hint for you: nobody is a better pianist when drunk.)
What on earth are you talking about? Source, please. Your own experiences? What programs are you running?
I call shenanigans.
It's not ties-in to EpIV that I'm looking for. Lucas already has too much *wink wink* about things. See also: "This is my girlfriend, Baru." "This is my robot, C3PO."
He's breaking the things that he originally wrote to wink at the audience, and that's stupid.
Dear George Lucas,
learn subtlety.
Love,
emilymildew
Yes, it is your responsibility, GP, to make Firefox known.
In other news, what? That's really stupid. He's not reinforcing anything.
It's funny, because people who weren't born / raised in the US often wonder how sighted people can tell the difference among the bills.
All I can say is that they are really really different, even just in the corners. I can tell the difference between bills below a fifty without having to see very much of it, just from use.
God, that really MUST be annoying, your computer making sure that you don't accidentally close a program without saving your work. What an inconvenience! Man, if only you could set it so that it woudl completely ignore that you have unsaved documents open; that would make MUCH more sense.
Okay, sarcasm off. I couldn't help myself.
I do think that was a foul anecdote. Especially if the person is using Mail for OS X; it saves drafts automatically.
People still advocate that, and I've seen it used casually on websites and in conversations, but never actually heard someone say it.
See here and here.
God, that's hysterical! What a witty, funny joke.
Thank you for explaining it, otherwise I would have understood the humor.
Is your sig a joke?
No, not just hot. 180 degrees. That's scalding. That's capable of almost instantaneous destruction of skin, flesh and muscle.
Coffee at 140 degrees spilled on your lap? Man, that must be a little painful. This McDonald's had had people complaining about the heat (which was far, far over the company standard) and other people had received 3rd degree burns. THIRD DEGREE. Do you understand how painful that is?
That woman spent seven days in the hospital.
I am so tired of people saying that the McDonald's lawsuit was frivolous, especially people who don't know any of the details involved, just that some old lady put the coffee cup in her lap and then was surprised that it spilled. She was in a car and opened it to put cream in when it spilled, dumping 180 degree liquid onto her lap. She deserved to be compensated for their negligence.
Wait, so if we all start putting the rel="nofollow" on our website comments, the spammers will stop spamming the comments of sites that use it.. and move to the sites that haven't.
So basically you're saying this is going to be a wild success at stopping spammers from flooding my comments. I mean, at least until the end where your line of reasoning starts to ignore logic.
Do you mean that you want to listen to part of a 45 minute track, then listen to something else, and then come back to finish the rest of the 45 minute track?
I'm not sure I understand why you'd want to do that. Seriously, I am curious.
If you are just listening to part and then not listening to anything and then coming back to it, the iPod will remember where you were.
Because school violence is becoming so rampant and having 100 kids with cell phones will make everything better when the kids they picked on for 10 years start shooting!
(That was sarcasm.)
Why are you letting people install things on your computer? That strikes me as a very bad idea, and also why they made that Java based virtual IM thing. Doesn't install anything, and he can chat with his friends.
Someone in another thread said that while the RAM might not be hard to install, it will be very obvious that your warranty has been voided. So, I mean, if you don't mind THAT, go for it.
Wait, you mean... there are computers out there that are CHEAPER than Apple? My god, man! Why didn't anyone tell me before? I could have saved ALL THIS MONEY!
Throwing it away, oh, the horror, the horror.
You know, I was thinking about that too, but I would never by a 1st gen product from Apple and then immediately void my warranty. It's just asking for trouble.
Give it a cycle or two to get the kinks out and then have at it, but don't do that for a 1st gen unless you want a $500 paperweight.
Yeah, tabbing in browsers can be sort of annoying, but it has gotten MUCH better in the past couple of years than what I had experienced before.
The only thing I miss about Windows is that I could tab to a drop-down list and navigate through it without the mouse. That works sometimes on OS X, sometimes not.
Were you using Panther? Keyboard shortcuts are much more universal across the OS in Panther than in previous versions.
I rarely use the mouse, and I don't find that my workflow is interrupted when I do. What specific programs / tasts were you having problems with?
Wait, you want the storage space of an iPod, and the features of an iPod, but not the price tag?
No wonder you were disappointed at this keynote. Why didn't they just provide THAT?