If you have an SVG capable browser or the SVG plugin (from Adobe, IIRC), go here http://www.inkscape.org/doc/examples/text-on-path. svg. Then marvel at how you can select the text. Then peek at the source. It's all good.
This is the start of something big in web graphics.
When the iPod first came out, it was still pretty pricey so a lot of buyers who used the iTMS were cashed up thirty somethings who were replacing existing music. Now it's the kids who are buying the cheaper iPods and filling them with new music from the iTMS.
Next stage: add video. For only $50 more*. Then sell videos through the iTMS. Would you decide to save $50 by not buying the video-enabled iPod? Probably not. (Unless you're getting the kids' old iPods when they want new ones:-) ) You probably won't watch movies on it either, but you may throw on some home videos, and your kids will definitely want the vPod to watch music videos with tehir friends.
Apple's about evolution, not revolution. Rather than release a clunky chunky Archos that requires all sorts of semi-tech know-how to operate, the iPod will evolve from an easy to use music device with the best music store and the best software, to an easy to use music device with the best music store and the best software plus video.
I've started shutting down my G4 because it spontaneously wakes from sleep. Sometimes 10 minutes after I put it to sleep, sometimes a few hours. Sometimes never. Very annoying.
Unless the owner of the vPod is a teenager who is buying video clips from the iTMS to show their friends.
Good enough resolution to be watchable on a small screen and maybe even doubled for play on a standard def TV, but not good enough for mass duplication ("don't steal video clips").
People mightn't watch full movies on one of these things, but they will watch video clips. The iTMS has them already. And people will show videos that they've shot themselves. Think "iMovie -> Share -> move to vPod".
Picture Steve on stage. Music video clip playing in the background. Jumps to another clip. Then another one. Steve's controlling the output with a vPod hidden from view. Another clip. Then the vPod interface shows on the big screen. Steve reveals the vPod. Crowd goes nuts. Product is an instant success. I'd buy it.
Do you really think that Apple gets IBM's processor plans from press releases? My guess is that Apple knew what IBM's roadmap was and found it wanting.
My next guess is that DRM-in-da-chip that Intel is promising is a bonus for Apple. They will have the iTunes movie shop in the next few years.
The folks who are "moral" vegetarians and yet seek simulated meat are *deep* into the gray, IMHO
I suppose I might be seen as a "moral" vegetarian, and yet I seek out meat substitutes... And the gray area discussion is very relevant - at the end of the day, I said "f%#@ it, I'll draw the line here: don't eat anything that had aheartbeat/mother/etc." Less hassles with the gray area and also most people with half a brain can understand it (the others say things like "So you're a vegetarian. Would you like chicken instead?")
The only two substitutes I eat regularly are a bacony-type thing. The artificial bacon flavour has been around for years and you'll find it in a lot of bacon-flavoured foods. I like it and I think I'd like it even if I hadn't tried bacon before. Come to think of it, I'm not really eating that much anymore.
The other is a hot-dog thing. I really liked hot dogs with cheese, onion, tomato sauce (ketchup?) and mustard. After I gave up meat I realised that the actual "dog" was kind of irrelevant (does anyone think those things actually taste like meat anyway? God knows what they're made of.) so I substituted the fake ones for the sake of completion more than anything.
If anything, i'd say "moral" vegetarians may seek out meat substitutes because we are still a product of our society, and ingrained habits run deep.
BTW, has anyone asked why the cultured meat can't be of human origin?
I use Opera on the PC at work and Safari on my Mac.
There are enough sites that deliberately break with Opera that I have it identify itself as IE.
I can't name any at the moment*, but it does happen and if you weren't aware that it could be browser-sniffing webmasters playing silly buggers, you might conclude that it's Opera that's broken. That's why it's set to identify itself as IE by default.
It doesn't seem that the judges have a problem with the manufacturers, but rather the people relying on the machines do.
It will work like this: judge dismisses case because manufacturer is unable or unwilling to disclose how it works. Cops get mad, go to bosses and say "get rid of these machines", cops get new ones from manufacturer who is willing to disclose how it works (this is breath alcohol testing - it's not rocket science) and everyone's happy.
Why wouldn't the manufacturer disclose the methodology? Perhaps because it's unreliable; perhaps there are false positives associated with it; who knows. We never will.
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Which is why even the dedicated MS-haters blanched at having to use NN4. It was bloated, buggy, crappy.
MS didn't achieve browser dominance just through (mis)use of their monopoly. Netscape helped them by releasing NN4.
If you have an SVG capable browser or the SVG plugin (from Adobe, IIRC), go here http://www.inkscape.org/doc/examples/text-on-path. svg. Then marvel at how you can select the text. Then peek at the source. It's all good.
This is the start of something big in web graphics.
My wife lived in Saudi for a while and she said the supermarket workers would tell you which aisles had all the necessary brewing ingredients.
Though, just like any illegal practice that the cops allow, they can use it to bust people they don't like.
And it's the kids that will drive this.
:-) ) You probably won't watch movies on it either, but you may throw on some home videos, and your kids will definitely want the vPod to watch music videos with tehir friends.
When the iPod first came out, it was still pretty pricey so a lot of buyers who used the iTMS were cashed up thirty somethings who were replacing existing music. Now it's the kids who are buying the cheaper iPods and filling them with new music from the iTMS.
Next stage: add video. For only $50 more*. Then sell videos through the iTMS. Would you decide to save $50 by not buying the video-enabled iPod? Probably not. (Unless you're getting the kids' old iPods when they want new ones
Apple's about evolution, not revolution. Rather than release a clunky chunky Archos that requires all sorts of semi-tech know-how to operate, the iPod will evolve from an easy to use music device with the best music store and the best software, to an easy to use music device with the best music store and the best software plus video.
*This is a guess. Based on nothing.
I've started shutting down my G4 because it spontaneously wakes from sleep. Sometimes 10 minutes after I put it to sleep, sometimes a few hours. Sometimes never. Very annoying.
It did it with all the 10.3s and now 10.4.2
Maybe the Intellimouse is dodgy. Hoo-nose.
Mobile video playback just isn't a killer app.
Unless the owner of the vPod is a teenager who is buying video clips from the iTMS to show their friends.
Good enough resolution to be watchable on a small screen and maybe even doubled for play on a standard def TV, but not good enough for mass duplication ("don't steal video clips").
People mightn't watch full movies on one of these things, but they will watch video clips. The iTMS has them already. And people will show videos that they've shot themselves. Think "iMovie -> Share -> move to vPod".
Picture Steve on stage. Music video clip playing in the background. Jumps to another clip. Then another one. Steve's controlling the output with a vPod hidden from view. Another clip. Then the vPod interface shows on the big screen. Steve reveals the vPod. Crowd goes nuts. Product is an instant success. I'd buy it.
Do you really think that Apple gets IBM's processor plans from press releases? My guess is that Apple knew what IBM's roadmap was and found it wanting.
My next guess is that DRM-in-da-chip that Intel is promising is a bonus for Apple. They will have the iTunes movie shop in the next few years.
The folks who are "moral" vegetarians and yet seek simulated meat are *deep* into the gray, IMHO
I suppose I might be seen as a "moral" vegetarian, and yet I seek out meat substitutes... And the gray area discussion is very relevant - at the end of the day, I said "f%#@ it, I'll draw the line here: don't eat anything that had aheartbeat/mother/etc." Less hassles with the gray area and also most people with half a brain can understand it (the others say things like "So you're a vegetarian. Would you like chicken instead?")
The only two substitutes I eat regularly are a bacony-type thing. The artificial bacon flavour has been around for years and you'll find it in a lot of bacon-flavoured foods. I like it and I think I'd like it even if I hadn't tried bacon before. Come to think of it, I'm not really eating that much anymore.
The other is a hot-dog thing. I really liked hot dogs with cheese, onion, tomato sauce (ketchup?) and mustard. After I gave up meat I realised that the actual "dog" was kind of irrelevant (does anyone think those things actually taste like meat anyway? God knows what they're made of.) so I substituted the fake ones for the sake of completion more than anything.
If anything, i'd say "moral" vegetarians may seek out meat substitutes because we are still a product of our society, and ingrained habits run deep.
BTW, has anyone asked why the cultured meat can't be of human origin?
how about excel as a page layout tool? i love that one.
Maybe it's a maximum of 21 years per charge. Or maybe "being brought down" would be a little more final than a crash tackle.
And just to reply to myself...
A story on El Reg today:
Were a study to be done using Opera, I'm sure similar figures would be obtained.Firefox users turned away from 10% of top UK sites
I use Opera on the PC at work and Safari on my Mac.
:-)
There are enough sites that deliberately break with Opera that I have it identify itself as IE.
I can't name any at the moment*, but it does happen and if you weren't aware that it could be browser-sniffing webmasters playing silly buggers, you might conclude that it's Opera that's broken. That's why it's set to identify itself as IE by default.
*supposed to be working
DTP can also be Direct To Plate, a printing method :-)
http://www.uh.edu/~jwaite/DTOPLATE.html
He is different from you and I am different from him and you are different from me.
Oh wow man I get it! I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
goo goo gj00b :-}
It doesn't seem that the judges have a problem with the manufacturers, but rather the people relying on the machines do.
It will work like this: judge dismisses case because manufacturer is unable or unwilling to disclose how it works. Cops get mad, go to bosses and say "get rid of these machines", cops get new ones from manufacturer who is willing to disclose how it works (this is breath alcohol testing - it's not rocket science) and everyone's happy.
Why wouldn't the manufacturer disclose the methodology? Perhaps because it's unreliable; perhaps there are false positives associated with it; who knows. We never will.
Did someone say false positives?I suggest you submit your concerns about Moscow's sewerage problem to Flushdot.
Has it come to this? I use a Mac dammit! We used to laugh at those DOS people...
Not knowing who Melinda Gebbie is, I Googled her and got this. Is this a fair representation of her work?
Communism is an ideal system and would work really well as long as you don't get people involved. They'll ruin it every time.
Novell's Groupwise does this. Apple's Mail app does it to, and if you click on the "name" address, it gives you the real email address.
The XBox 360 is liquid cooled.
At Number 42.
Not the flying grommet assembly! The di-lithium xtals canna take it!
The simple fact that he's convinced you he "knows" so much when he hasn't offered any support to back his claims is proof of that.
I think that makes him a consultant.
I've already seen them for A$99 at Aldi, so they're bound to be that cheap somewhere in N. America.