Well. I'm a Mac user. I can't ever recall telling someone I had a better computer than them. I could care less about what other people use, because the only thing I really care about in the universe is myself.
I like the look of these new machines. I don't claim to understand the SPECmark numbers, or care that much, frankly. a) It's faster than my current G4 hardware, b) I still have a need for more performance for some of my applications, and that's all it comes down to.
A lot of Muds have had stuff like this for a few years now ( and the attendant headaches when someone implements them buggily and priest characters wander around marrying people to npc dogs and rats... ) - I think it will be a nice addition! I wonder if the Wedding March they use will be the same one from Sonicteams other great game, "Samba de Amigo".
I put in a ( poorly written ) submission earlier today about some other problems Sonicteam are having with their PSO franchise atm - seems someone stole a bunch of their preproduction character models / designs from their PSO Card Battle booth at e3. Weird! ( Link )
Who is Apple suing for using Apples trademark then?
Well, they punched a hole right through Apple Telecommunications here in Australia. ( Google cache link - original article has long since gone... ) They asked them ( not sure how much they got ) to change their name and fork over $100,000 "compensation" and their legal costs.
I think their claim of them being in the same industry was extremely weak. I love Apple equipment, but sometimes it seems like the left hand ( design and development ) doesn't know what the right hand ( legal ) is doing.
The only thing that was found during the investigation was a farmhouse and in the farmhouse the entire family had been killed. Their necks had been broken.
The issue of what constitutes parody came up in the Penny Arcade / American Greetings discussions a while ago. Is a scene for scene remake a protected 'parody' when it does not excercise criticism ( usually humorously or mockingly ) upon the original work?
I think 'derivative work' is a more fitting appelation here. Of course, I am not a lawyer, nor do I play one on television, but I'm pretty sure that Parody isn't a catch all term that grabs all works in this class.
Something tells me that optical mouse isn't gonna work to well on that entirely glass desktop...
Indeed, the Pro mice play up on any highly reflective surface. The original Macworld review for the mouse points this out.
I guess thats when you fall back to a traditional mousepad - I use one anyway, because the desk I work at is caked in all kinds of crap ( used to be a cooking / dining table ), and I don't want it lifting off and attaching to the mouse.
Because the amount of movement required to steer the mouse is not very great with the sensitivity turned up ( I think the mouse itself is 400dpi ), the pad doesn't have to be very big. I use a pad of post-it notes - this also means I have a ready supply of new mousepads underneath the current one.;-)
The shots are very good, and demonstrate the same problem I have with my eMac on a crappy old wooden bench. But I must ask, why did you toss the stock / pro keyboard?
As we're talking about Apple design ( heh ) this is one of the things that really surprised me when first using the e - the keyboard has very clean lines, nice key size and elevation, and very satisfying tactile response. The special keys are well laid out and chosen ( even if the contrast ones don't seem to be marked? ) and it even shipped with little plastic end-caps over the connector to protect it from dust / particles in shipping.
Its possibly one of the best keyboards I've ever used, including an old "clicky" IBM one I had in one of my old jobs. Is this also one of Ives designs? The only problem I have with it is that if it gets crap in it ( e.g., if you eat crackers at the keyboard while you're working ) the curvature of the transparent plastic optically blows them up into huge Godzilla Scale crumbs, which then attact mockery from nearby friends.
Well, a Canadian gentleman who wishes to wrestle with Grizzly Bears developed a suit which might be closer to what you have in mind, which was documented in the 1997 film Project Grizzly ( picture of the Ursus Mark VI suit here ). His suit is also flame/truck/bullet/fall/impact/axe proof, but apparently none to maneuverable.
If you're in Sydney, Australia, this movie is playing at the Sydney Film Festival this year, and might be worth checking out. Maybe the DoD could talk to this guy? Might be handy if the United States is ever invaded by ill-tempered grizzly bears with lasers strapped to their foreheads.
I've been discussing a similar problem with some friends - specifically, we want to tag specific sites with custom CSS stylesheets, in an enhanced form of what mozilla already allows globally.
This has been filed as a feature request with Moz, but is ranked as very low priority: see bug 41975.
A possible hack to get around all this would be if CSS attached a pseudo attribute to all elements specifying the page URI. This would allow you to use the CSS2 specification stuff ( e.g. [obj_uri~='gamespot'] ) to solve the problem.
If you want something that works on the fly, I think it can be done building a bookmarklet that executes javascript to embed CSS... small reference here. I had a much better page, but I can't find it now, sorry!
Well, yes, I remember hearing about Firebird - here on Slashdot, no less, because it had a backdoor superuser account ( from back when it was the closed source 'Inprise' DB ) that nobody noticed for ages - despite the fact the source had been opened since the 25th of July, 2000. ( Vulnerability was published December, 2001 ). Citation.
How is this offtopic? Isn't it obvious he wants a bittorrent link for the demo, which would be the logical way to spread the load off the main distribution points? If this is offtopic, surely any other posts about downloading it from 3dgamers or such must be equally so.
No doubt this point has been made before ( its hard to see through this many posts ), but Americans previous parodies have been of characters in the public domain, yes? I don't think he or his House would risk an open for-profit usage of something currently covered by someone elses marks.
On a misconfigured terminal, hitting the backspace key would produce a Ctrl-H instead of actually backspacing over the text you'd just typed. This has become a 'joke' where you type what you were thinking, and hastily backspace over it and type something more tactful, only to get inserted control characters instead! We laughed for seconds.
Anyway, I hope this makes you feel less of a pathetic n00b^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hclears things up for you.
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I like the look of these new machines. I don't claim to understand the SPECmark numbers, or care that much, frankly. a) It's faster than my current G4 hardware, b) I still have a need for more performance for some of my applications, and that's all it comes down to.
Thank you, and goodnight.
Sure... if you can find an airline that has direct flights to the ISS...
In a similar vein to your analogy, I present the following... "This tomahawk missile sure is a lot more dangerous than this orange!"
Yours,
YLFI.
I put in a ( poorly written ) submission earlier today about some other problems Sonicteam are having with their PSO franchise atm - seems someone stole a bunch of their preproduction character models / designs from their PSO Card Battle booth at e3. Weird! ( Link )
YLFI,
Mysterious Burning Ranger.
Well, they punched a hole right through Apple Telecommunications here in Australia. ( Google cache link - original article has long since gone... ) They asked them ( not sure how much they got ) to change their name and fork over $100,000 "compensation" and their legal costs.
I think their claim of them being in the same industry was extremely weak. I love Apple equipment, but sometimes it seems like the left hand ( design and development ) doesn't know what the right hand ( legal ) is doing.
Yours,
YLFI.
Perhaps somebody dropped a spoon.
Ah, that page always cracks me up.
I think 'derivative work' is a more fitting appelation here. Of course, I am not a lawyer, nor do I play one on television, but I'm pretty sure that Parody isn't a catch all term that grabs all works in this class.
Indeed, the Pro mice play up on any highly reflective surface. The original Macworld review for the mouse points this out.
I guess thats when you fall back to a traditional mousepad - I use one anyway, because the desk I work at is caked in all kinds of crap ( used to be a cooking / dining table ), and I don't want it lifting off and attaching to the mouse.
Because the amount of movement required to steer the mouse is not very great with the sensitivity turned up ( I think the mouse itself is 400dpi ), the pad doesn't have to be very big. I use a pad of post-it notes - this also means I have a ready supply of new mousepads underneath the current one. ;-)
As we're talking about Apple design ( heh ) this is one of the things that really surprised me when first using the e - the keyboard has very clean lines, nice key size and elevation, and very satisfying tactile response. The special keys are well laid out and chosen ( even if the contrast ones don't seem to be marked? ) and it even shipped with little plastic end-caps over the connector to protect it from dust / particles in shipping.
Its possibly one of the best keyboards I've ever used, including an old "clicky" IBM one I had in one of my old jobs. Is this also one of Ives designs? The only problem I have with it is that if it gets crap in it ( e.g., if you eat crackers at the keyboard while you're working ) the curvature of the transparent plastic optically blows them up into huge Godzilla Scale crumbs, which then attact mockery from nearby friends.
-- YLFI
<futurama>Calculon: I was all of history's great acting robots: Acting Unit 0.8, Thespo-mat, David Duchovny!</futurama>
Based on the content, I suspect the original posters IP address might originate lie within the address space allocated to... Soviet Russia! [1]
YLFI.
[1] Sorry!
If you're in Sydney, Australia, this movie is playing at the Sydney Film Festival this year, and might be worth checking out. Maybe the DoD could talk to this guy? Might be handy if the United States is ever invaded by ill-tempered grizzly bears with lasers strapped to their foreheads.
Not everyone agrees.
Euro bank notes to embed RFID chips by 2005
Unfortunately, you're about 2,400 years too late, young man.
I would say something here about the nature of metafailure, but It's been overdone.
This has been filed as a feature request with Moz, but is ranked as very low priority: see bug 41975.
A possible hack to get around all this would be if CSS attached a pseudo attribute to all elements specifying the page URI. This would allow you to use the CSS2 specification stuff ( e.g. [obj_uri~='gamespot'] ) to solve the problem.
If you want something that works on the fly, I think it can be done building a bookmarklet that executes javascript to embed CSS... small reference here. I had a much better page, but I can't find it now, sorry!
"Many Eyes" indeed.
Moderator, you do know what bittorent is, right?
-- YLFI
In which case, it's more like 'you got camcorder on my toast'.
-- YLFI
-- YLFI
-- YLFI
In Soviet Russia, the first post fails you!
YLFI.
You had better hope this guy doesn't get his hands on you.
YOU METAFAIL IT!
Your pal,
YLFI.
*wipes coke off keyboard*
YLFI
On a misconfigured terminal, hitting the backspace key would produce a Ctrl-H instead of actually backspacing over the text you'd just typed. This has become a 'joke' where you type what you were thinking, and hastily backspace over it and type something more tactful, only to get inserted control characters instead! We laughed for seconds.
Anyway, I hope this makes you feel less of a pathetic n00b^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hclears things up for you.
Yours,
You Likewise Fail it.