I know this has been mentioned before, but I think it merits further emphasis.
Quicktime pro being a payable extra is patently ridiculous. All of the elements of tiger work flawlessly together, but quicktime pro, something that makes things a lot easier as well as nicer (I mean, full screen, that's an extra?) is a lot to ask a computer user.
I cannot imagine the revenue retained by apple by maintain quicktime pro is very much; and the good karma earned by making it available to everyone would be beneficial. It made sense a few years ago, perhaps, but now everyone should expect the things that are included to be with pro to be inherent in the basic version.
As long as it remains an add on, on either platform, the longer it feels like one piece of the apple puzzle that just doesn't fit. It's like apple is big and shiny but there is one huge bite out of it. But not in an aesthetically pleasing, oh this is a nice logo way.
Please, apple, make the pro version standard. Why is it so different from everything else on the system?
This is a good start. 'Soft should think of replacing other things on the 'c. Like 'nting, or 'uments.
Remind me a little of the guy who couldn't pronounce the t in the middle of planet arium.
Why is this headline news, again? Imagine the brouhaha if they decided to rename the start button go.
This is such an inane post, it is hard to come up with stuff to beat it.
Previously unenforced laws suddenly being enforced has historically led to massive resentment and revolution. Some of the taxation that was collected prior to the american war for independence had been on the books for some time. Imagine what would happen in the us if police routinely started pulling people over for speeding only a few miles over the speedlimit. (provided that they, of course, removed the uncertainty from the guestimation of the speed of trave)l.
On the other hand, reminds me a bit of the 'patriot' act. Oooh, don't worry, we'll only use it for the terrorists (which we now include people who disagree with the president).
Lack of enforcement is a tricky tricky thing. I've always thought that regulations should represent how things work, not the way we wish they worked. Saves this kind of doublespeak from occurring.
We had just been cruising Slashdot that night for the fourth time, geeks of the oldskhool, loving the linux/os x shrillaction, still jazzed about the Tiger's release outstripping longhorn's vaporware inaction. This idiot poster responded to my vacuous though personal story regarding some sort of altercation in highschool, with self-righteous incredulity. "How is this Interesting? Blah blah blah, I write unwieldy sentences, but claim excellent communication skills!" Rolling his eyes, knowingly. I then proceeded to attempt to demonstrate how his response was missing the point entirely, that there was irony implicit in my post underscored by a saliency that resonated with many people also reading the forums, but the person looked at me like I was nuts. He wouldn't hear of it, wouldn't listen to my insistence on a better, more compelling conversation regarding individual events and memory. My inability to get through to this idiot still haunts me to this day: I'm usually far more able to explicate my points and get through to idiotic self-righteous assholes, but I feel like I failed this git. Hopefully, wherever this refuse is now, he'll hear read this news and recognize what an idiot he was and have a moment of quiet reflection on how he shouldn't have been so sophmoronic.
We had just watched Last Crusade for the fourth time, freshman in highschool, loving the ford/connery interaction, still jazzed about the marvelous escape into the crevice from petra's treasury.
This idiot senior responded to my vague hope that they would make a fourth film, with self-righteous incredulity.
"It was the LAST crusade get it? Get it?" Rolling his eyes, knowingly.
I then proceeded to attempt to explain how the crusade was actually a reference to the fact that indiana et al were searching for the holy grail much like crusaders during the middle ages, but the person looked at me like I was nuts. He wouldn't hear of it, wouldn't listen to my insistence on a better, correct interpretation of the title.
My inability to get through to this idiot still haunts me to this day: I'm far more able to explicate my points and get through to idiotic self-righteous assholes, but I feel like I failed this git.
Hopefully, wherever this refuse is now, he'll hear this news and recognize what an idiot he was and have a moment of quiet reflection on how he shouldn't have been so sophmoronic.
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Google just keeps on being cool. I'm still looking at places I've lived in satellite maps, I'm trying to fill out my massively increasing gmail account, finishing editing some videos to upload and now I don't need to figure out what tracker number goes where? I love you, google.
Your reading of the stockmarket is pretty shortsighted, I think. The correction which plagues apple stock right this moment is a crisis of faith; the looking for miracles rather than a logical progression of business. it's hard to imagine the ipod being more of success right now, or apple's star to look any brighter in the future.
The idea of a critical mass has a beautiful ring to it, but it is the fundamentals and the continued approach to success which will continue Apple's ascension. It doesn't really matter what the marketplace will bring; with leadership like Jobs is showing the momentum seems like it will just continue.
buy on rumor; sell on news. 2nd quarter earnings? News; hence profit taking...
Apple is in strong shape, I mean, I don't want to give stock advice, and god knows I'm not buying right now, but things just keep on looking better and better for fruitikins. Looking to stock price for judgment of company is a sketchy prospect at best, so many factors to keep in mind, it's not saying what you think it means, it isn't saying what you think it means, it's not saying what you think it means: with this in mind, that's when you try to determine what the stock price is saying to you. Simple, neh?
Depends on what zeitgeist one feels like being immersed in. There are great works of literature surround us in every library, but the best sellers, the things that always sell the most (except old favorites like the bible or shakespeare). Reading what everyone else is reading also allows for a sense of camaraderie, a joined purpose towards greater enlightenment.
I wonder how many people go read old slashdot articles or wait for the latest dupe so they can go through the latest iteration in real time, formulaic, yes, but fresh.
This makes sense to me, especially when you are dealing with the chaotic and capricious world of finance. It's nice to have a paper with you, sure, but with the ever changing world of business, you need to have now headlines now, and yesterday's news may be obsolete by the time it gets to your door.
True enough, with capital and name recognition, money can multiply exponentially. It's just pretty incredible to me that 'Mr. bigwig likes the idea of cookies too.' is such a big deal. I mean, it is, and but it's the stark depressing stunning beauty of economic fluidity and it's nice just to sit back with a glass of milk, and say, 'damn, cookies. that's just so damn cool, they are going like hotcakes'.
Yeah, I wouldn't mind a piece of the pie as well. Netflix, let me jump on the back of your obviously well designed and considerably successful business. Will you just send me a check, or should I do anything else?
You've missed the point entirely, Julia, there were no monkeys.
-t.s. eliot, cocktail party
The point I was making is that evolution also occurs in small little bits, rather than only in great huge changes. Recognizable species wide evolution takes place during periods of limited supply, in times of survival- when genetic diversity means the difference between life and death, but the increase in genetic diversity occur all the time, through random mutation and intermixing of multiple sources.
The interesting thing about these small little varients that happen during periods of less drastic survival is that they are not selected by necessity; rather they are the normal drift that comes from the melting pot of dna alteration and intermingling. Because of random variance and chance, the genetic makeup of a different times will be different.
What you were babbling on about is learned phenomena which is not at all genetic and therefore has no place in a discussion regarding offspring.
The interesting thing about separate but recent generational stratification is the genetic differences; these differences have nothing, nothing to do with learned behavior.
A theory with dancing angels, full symphonic orchestra and sacrificial lambs, i.e. religion or may sweeps. The more creative one can get in being able to get people to envision and believe a hypothesis, the more it can become part of the populaces understanding of reality.
The more we can show all the different ways evolutions happens, the greater in depth we can get people to look at the what's really there rather than what they'd like to be there. Make people focus on the real unanswerable questions, the greater the mind of the collective reasoning power of humanity.
if you can get that much useful change in such a short amount of time, how much more can occur over hundreds of thousands of years?
I think the real interesting things will occur when you start breeding the 200 year old chickadees with the present day chickadees. Old, lost protections that have been weeded out accidently, will return to the genomes and help shore up the genetic diversity of the present day.
Controls for diversity divestment, when a useful genome is lost through genetic drift.
This is freaking awesome. Jurassic park, except less Jurassic and more like last week, but I think anything that aids with understanding how evolution occurs is good for our possible survival as a species. We should make entire ecosystems of our own private galapagos, with different generations of creatures, to see if survival mutations end up being the same. I think it's an interesting idea, to really think of species as more as a temporal thing than just genetically different from others of their kind, they are different from others of their own family minus generations.
Human beings of eighty years ago would have been able to deal with this impending crisis much more efficiently, let's bring some of that natural genetic drift back, for example. Sort of gets away from another accidentally arbitrary classifications.
Back in the day, I loved that free adcritic website, what with all of the spec commercials and whatnot available for perusal and download. I imagine this could turn into a depository of marvelous to crappy short films, a next iteration place for all of those 'funny video' clips that propagate across the net.
I think I might actually get around to editing all those films I shot at NYU film school, just to get them published on some level. Thousands of intriguing shorts exist by students and enthusiasts across the earth; it would certainly be neat to have a place where such films can be organized and archived well.
Of course, this could be like ifilm or something else already in existence, but for some reason I intuit this seems to have more intrinsic cohesion. Since google is involved, it makes me feel more confident that all parties will less likely be taken advantage of, I feel like google, although not necessarily the most efficient will be at least reasonable in their monetary sponging of the users, and might actually allow artists a chance to share visions with the rest of the world. Either that, or it will become the most pointless extension of "america's funniest home videos", a terrifying prospect that no doubt drives fear into the heart of any person who has an ounce of class.
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That would be your DNS. Make sure you've got the right servers registered, in your network settings. There are some public DNS servers out there too, I think. Damn, I'm really replying to this when I don't know what I'm talking about. Of course, that's the danger in asking such an offopic question is such a public forum.
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Identity theft is really becoming more of institution these days. So much information is out there, so quickly can someone hijack someone's life and such a pain in the ass it is to reclaim it. How much of a problem will this have to become before the laws change and identity is more easily secured? Can this be done without some sort of national privacy-killing registry?
I think your idea actually could be used for an entirely new musical instrument, it's like adding another dimension to a synthesizer, with variable speed and length. It would be a great puzzle game as well, kind of a simon says game that is analog in it's complexity. I'd also think it would be interesting to watch two people attempt to, within a limited amount of time create the best music from the same elements. Could be really neat to watch on tv in an iron chef format.
The educational aspect of it is what I really groove with as well. The tangible, unimposing quality of switches and gears could create a useful environment fo potentially limitless insight.
I hadn't seen BallDroppings before. That is mad fun, yo. I'm going to be showing this to a friend of mine who teaches music; this type of visual sound organization takes music creation to an instinctual level that can help teach the essential relationship between timing, spacial distance, musicality and visual anticipation. Damn cool program.
Eventually there will be an affordable, portable, wireless device that will allow instantaneous access to local and remote information of the choice of the user, basically a universal reference ebook reader, with several means of input. This is inevitable since such an item would be the ultimate knowledge tool. Cell phone tools, wireless laptops, tablet pcs, pdas, and data watches are all technological stepping stones to an actual, useful, guide to the universe.
Since it is organic waste, and since until excreted it remains part of my digestive system, one could argue that since as digestion occurs, the extraction of nutrients is a biochemical function that it is indistinct from the organic life that houses that interaction, so therefore, shit, until completely expunged, is living. And since this story gave me a anxiety induced feeling (technically known as the willies), my sympathetic flight routine extended not only throughout my nervous system but also throughout the entire biochemical structure of the human body. Hence, the living shit, the organic excrement, being part of the terrified self.
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I know this has been mentioned before, but I think it merits further emphasis. Quicktime pro being a payable extra is patently ridiculous. All of the elements of tiger work flawlessly together, but quicktime pro, something that makes things a lot easier as well as nicer (I mean, full screen, that's an extra?) is a lot to ask a computer user. I cannot imagine the revenue retained by apple by maintain quicktime pro is very much; and the good karma earned by making it available to everyone would be beneficial. It made sense a few years ago, perhaps, but now everyone should expect the things that are included to be with pro to be inherent in the basic version. As long as it remains an add on, on either platform, the longer it feels like one piece of the apple puzzle that just doesn't fit. It's like apple is big and shiny but there is one huge bite out of it. But not in an aesthetically pleasing, oh this is a nice logo way. Please, apple, make the pro version standard. Why is it so different from everything else on the system?
This is a good start. 'Soft should think of replacing other things on the 'c. Like 'nting, or 'uments. Remind me a little of the guy who couldn't pronounce the t in the middle of planet arium. Why is this headline news, again? Imagine the brouhaha if they decided to rename the start button go. This is such an inane post, it is hard to come up with stuff to beat it.
Previously unenforced laws suddenly being enforced has historically led to massive resentment and revolution. Some of the taxation that was collected prior to the american war for independence had been on the books for some time. Imagine what would happen in the us if police routinely started pulling people over for speeding only a few miles over the speedlimit. (provided that they, of course, removed the uncertainty from the guestimation of the speed of trave)l.
On the other hand, reminds me a bit of the 'patriot' act. Oooh, don't worry, we'll only use it for the terrorists (which we now include people who disagree with the president).
Lack of enforcement is a tricky tricky thing. I've always thought that regulations should represent how things work, not the way we wish they worked. Saves this kind of doublespeak from occurring.
We had just been cruising Slashdot that night for the fourth time, geeks of the oldskhool, loving the linux/os x shrillaction, still jazzed about the Tiger's release outstripping longhorn's vaporware inaction. This idiot poster responded to my vacuous though personal story regarding some sort of altercation in highschool, with self-righteous incredulity. "How is this Interesting? Blah blah blah, I write unwieldy sentences, but claim excellent communication skills!" Rolling his eyes, knowingly. I then proceeded to attempt to demonstrate how his response was missing the point entirely, that there was irony implicit in my post underscored by a saliency that resonated with many people also reading the forums, but the person looked at me like I was nuts. He wouldn't hear of it, wouldn't listen to my insistence on a better, more compelling conversation regarding individual events and memory. My inability to get through to this idiot still haunts me to this day: I'm usually far more able to explicate my points and get through to idiotic self-righteous assholes, but I feel like I failed this git. Hopefully, wherever this refuse is now, he'll hear read this news and recognize what an idiot he was and have a moment of quiet reflection on how he shouldn't have been so sophmoronic.
We had just watched Last Crusade for the fourth time, freshman in highschool, loving the ford/connery interaction, still jazzed about the marvelous escape into the crevice from petra's treasury. This idiot senior responded to my vague hope that they would make a fourth film, with self-righteous incredulity. "It was the LAST crusade get it? Get it?" Rolling his eyes, knowingly. I then proceeded to attempt to explain how the crusade was actually a reference to the fact that indiana et al were searching for the holy grail much like crusaders during the middle ages, but the person looked at me like I was nuts. He wouldn't hear of it, wouldn't listen to my insistence on a better, correct interpretation of the title. My inability to get through to this idiot still haunts me to this day: I'm far more able to explicate my points and get through to idiotic self-righteous assholes, but I feel like I failed this git. Hopefully, wherever this refuse is now, he'll hear this news and recognize what an idiot he was and have a moment of quiet reflection on how he shouldn't have been so sophmoronic.
Google just keeps on being cool. I'm still looking at places I've lived in satellite maps, I'm trying to fill out my massively increasing gmail account, finishing editing some videos to upload and now I don't need to figure out what tracker number goes where? I love you, google.
Your reading of the stockmarket is pretty shortsighted, I think. The correction which plagues apple stock right this moment is a crisis of faith; the looking for miracles rather than a logical progression of business. it's hard to imagine the ipod being more of success right now, or apple's star to look any brighter in the future.
The idea of a critical mass has a beautiful ring to it, but it is the fundamentals and the continued approach to success which will continue Apple's ascension. It doesn't really matter what the marketplace will bring; with leadership like Jobs is showing the momentum seems like it will just continue.
buy on rumor; sell on news. 2nd quarter earnings? News; hence profit taking...
Apple is in strong shape, I mean, I don't want to give stock advice, and god knows I'm not buying right now, but things just keep on looking better and better for fruitikins. Looking to stock price for judgment of company is a sketchy prospect at best, so many factors to keep in mind, it's not saying what you think it means, it isn't saying what you think it means, it's not saying what you think it means: with this in mind, that's when you try to determine what the stock price is saying to you. Simple, neh?
Depends on what zeitgeist one feels like being immersed in. There are great works of literature surround us in every library, but the best sellers, the things that always sell the most (except old favorites like the bible or shakespeare). Reading what everyone else is reading also allows for a sense of camaraderie, a joined purpose towards greater enlightenment.
I wonder how many people go read old slashdot articles or wait for the latest dupe so they can go through the latest iteration in real time, formulaic, yes, but fresh.
This makes sense to me, especially when you are dealing with the chaotic and capricious world of finance. It's nice to have a paper with you, sure, but with the ever changing world of business, you need to have now headlines now, and yesterday's news may be obsolete by the time it gets to your door.
True enough, with capital and name recognition, money can multiply exponentially. It's just pretty incredible to me that 'Mr. bigwig likes the idea of cookies too.' is such a big deal. I mean, it is, and but it's the stark depressing stunning beauty of economic fluidity and it's nice just to sit back with a glass of milk, and say, 'damn, cookies. that's just so damn cool, they are going like hotcakes'.
Yeah, I wouldn't mind a piece of the pie as well. Netflix, let me jump on the back of your obviously well designed and considerably successful business. Will you just send me a check, or should I do anything else?
The interesting thing about these small little varients that happen during periods of less drastic survival is that they are not selected by necessity; rather they are the normal drift that comes from the melting pot of dna alteration and intermingling. Because of random variance and chance, the genetic makeup of a different times will be different.
What you were babbling on about is learned phenomena which is not at all genetic and therefore has no place in a discussion regarding offspring. The interesting thing about separate but recent generational stratification is the genetic differences; these differences have nothing, nothing to do with learned behavior.
What more is there to be than "just" a theory?
A theory with dancing angels, full symphonic orchestra and sacrificial lambs, i.e. religion or may sweeps. The more creative one can get in being able to get people to envision and believe a hypothesis, the more it can become part of the populaces understanding of reality.
The more we can show all the different ways evolutions happens, the greater in depth we can get people to look at the what's really there rather than what they'd like to be there. Make people focus on the real unanswerable questions, the greater the mind of the collective reasoning power of humanity.
if you can get that much useful change in such a short amount of time, how much more can occur over hundreds of thousands of years?
I think the real interesting things will occur when you start breeding the 200 year old chickadees with the present day chickadees. Old, lost protections that have been weeded out accidently, will return to the genomes and help shore up the genetic diversity of the present day.
Controls for diversity divestment, when a useful genome is lost through genetic drift.
This is freaking awesome. Jurassic park, except less Jurassic and more like last week, but I think anything that aids with understanding how evolution occurs is good for our possible survival as a species. We should make entire ecosystems of our own private galapagos, with different generations of creatures, to see if survival mutations end up being the same. I think it's an interesting idea, to really think of species as more as a temporal thing than just genetically different from others of their kind, they are different from others of their own family minus generations.
Human beings of eighty years ago would have been able to deal with this impending crisis much more efficiently, let's bring some of that natural genetic drift back, for example. Sort of gets away from another accidentally arbitrary classifications.
e=mc^2 except where c is like slower and fuck, headache.
Back in the day, I loved that free adcritic website, what with all of the spec commercials and whatnot available for perusal and download. I imagine this could turn into a depository of marvelous to crappy short films, a next iteration place for all of those 'funny video' clips that propagate across the net.
I think I might actually get around to editing all those films I shot at NYU film school, just to get them published on some level. Thousands of intriguing shorts exist by students and enthusiasts across the earth; it would certainly be neat to have a place where such films can be organized and archived well.
Of course, this could be like ifilm or something else already in existence, but for some reason I intuit this seems to have more intrinsic cohesion. Since google is involved, it makes me feel more confident that all parties will less likely be taken advantage of, I feel like google, although not necessarily the most efficient will be at least reasonable in their monetary sponging of the users, and might actually allow artists a chance to share visions with the rest of the world. Either that, or it will become the most pointless extension of "america's funniest home videos", a terrifying prospect that no doubt drives fear into the heart of any person who has an ounce of class.
That would be your DNS. Make sure you've got the right servers registered, in your network settings. There are some public DNS servers out there too, I think. Damn, I'm really replying to this when I don't know what I'm talking about. Of course, that's the danger in asking such an offopic question is such a public forum.
Identity theft is really becoming more of institution these days. So much information is out there, so quickly can someone hijack someone's life and such a pain in the ass it is to reclaim it. How much of a problem will this have to become before the laws change and identity is more easily secured? Can this be done without some sort of national privacy-killing registry?
I think your idea actually could be used for an entirely new musical instrument, it's like adding another dimension to a synthesizer, with variable speed and length. It would be a great puzzle game as well, kind of a simon says game that is analog in it's complexity. I'd also think it would be interesting to watch two people attempt to, within a limited amount of time create the best music from the same elements. Could be really neat to watch on tv in an iron chef format. The educational aspect of it is what I really groove with as well. The tangible, unimposing quality of switches and gears could create a useful environment fo potentially limitless insight.
I hadn't seen BallDroppings before. That is mad fun, yo. I'm going to be showing this to a friend of mine who teaches music; this type of visual sound organization takes music creation to an instinctual level that can help teach the essential relationship between timing, spacial distance, musicality and visual anticipation. Damn cool program.
Eventually there will be an affordable, portable, wireless device that will allow instantaneous access to local and remote information of the choice of the user, basically a universal reference ebook reader, with several means of input. This is inevitable since such an item would be the ultimate knowledge tool. Cell phone tools, wireless laptops, tablet pcs, pdas, and data watches are all technological stepping stones to an actual, useful, guide to the universe.
Since it is organic waste, and since until excreted it remains part of my digestive system, one could argue that since as digestion occurs, the extraction of nutrients is a biochemical function that it is indistinct from the organic life that houses that interaction, so therefore, shit, until completely expunged, is living. And since this story gave me a anxiety induced feeling (technically known as the willies), my sympathetic flight routine extended not only throughout my nervous system but also throughout the entire biochemical structure of the human body. Hence, the living shit, the organic excrement, being part of the terrified self.
You are, of course, correct, and I shall no longer make such silly mistakii.