I don't have a link handy, but there's a famous user interface rule that bigger targets are easier to hit, and that the corners and edges of the screen are in effect infinitely big. Although it may not seem like it to you, it's actually quicker and easier for you to hit the top of the screen than to hit an in-window menu bar even if it's closer, because you don't have to bother aiming, it's just full speed ahead to the top. They've done tests, and people always get to the Mac menu bar faster than a Windows menu bar for this reason. A very quick flick of the wrist or an undirected shove forwards is always going to be quicker than aiming the mouse.
You don't seem to understand business. In business, only fools let animosities come before profit. Michael Dell is probably smart enough that he never had anything against Apple, he just knows how to play the PR game.
Because the US is the wealthiest country in the world as well as the largest industrialized nation (China and Russia are larger, but not as completely industrialized). Per capita, nuclear power is a smaller percentage of US power generation than that of other nations.
You totally missed the point. There hasn't been a single nuclear plant built in the US since the 1970's. Americans are afraid of nuclear power--it's a matter of cultural and political attitude that other cultures in other industrialized nations don't share.
The vast majority of electricity in France and Japan, for instance, is generated by nuclear power. Fucking Japan! If anyone has reason to fear nuclear technology it's Japan. Nah, Americans are just afraid of technology.
Actually, NeXT was the one who was damn lucky, because they're the ones who built NeXTStep out of BSD/Mach in the late 80's. (NeXT, by the way, was also damn lucky that they hired one of the guys who wrote Mach.)
Apple was just damn lucky they could buy NeXT and build a new Mac OS out of it. But Mac OS X isn't directly based on BSD/Mach, it's based on NeXT, which in turn is based on BSD/Mach. In fact, if Apple knew from the outset that they were getting into a Unix-based Mac OS they might have just developed A/UX.
Mac OS X already does this. You can turn off "check spelling as you type" but still get a contextual menu from any selected text and bring up a spellcheck (well, user-entered text that is). From the same contextual menu you can Google the text or look it up in the dictionary, or get a text-to-speech of it.
Correction: As I know better than to be too familiar with Episode I, I now believe (from a brief googling) that the exact quote may be "Always two there are, no more, no less: a master and an apprentice". Needless to say this makes my point far more thoroughly.
Well, I misquoted, it's "always two there are: a master and an apprentice". "There are two Sith" has a relatively simple literal interpreation: at any given time, two Sith, no more, no less, exist.
According to some more Expanded Universe history the idea of only two Sith in the galaxy started with Darth Bane, the sole survivor of an old Sith order that destroyed itself through infighting. Apparently rules like "promotion through killing your superiors" and "be an angry murderous warlord" don't lead to large, stable organizations.
There's also the concrete fact that, in the films, there are never more than two Sith at the same time. If there are other pairs of Sith wandering around, where the hell are they? And if any pair is supposed to be "together", then why are they so far apart, with Sidious either on Naboo or Coruscant all the time, while Maul is galavanting out alone and later Tyranus being a separatist warlord across enemy lines? Really, what are all the other Sith Lords doing out there while Sidious and his apprentice plot to take over the galaxy? Even more pedantically, Yoda says to Obi-Wan in Revenge of the Sith, "Destroy the Sith we must", and proceeds to detail how they will destroy Sidious and Vader, respectively. If Yoda wants to destroy the Sith, why is he stopping at just killing two of them if there are other pairs of Sith adventuring out there?
Tariffs and quotas are forms of diplomacy. In fact, war is a form of diplomacy; Clausewitz said that war was the continuation of diplomacy by other means.
Looking at it another way, diplomacy, tariffs, and quotas are all forms of war.
I think there's a small difference between "minor typos" and "not knowing what the fuck you're talking about." For instance, you are firmly in the second category.
The article points this out by example, saying that the Mac evangelists bashed Intel until the day Jobs said Apple was switching to Intel. Now they're adjusting their arguements to fit in with the new belief that Intel is good.
No, the rule is that there's one master and one apprentice. There can't be two Sith Masters. The only chance for Vader to advance is to off Palpatine. That's how the Sith work.
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I don't have a link handy, but there's a famous user interface rule that bigger targets are easier to hit, and that the corners and edges of the screen are in effect infinitely big. Although it may not seem like it to you, it's actually quicker and easier for you to hit the top of the screen than to hit an in-window menu bar even if it's closer, because you don't have to bother aiming, it's just full speed ahead to the top. They've done tests, and people always get to the Mac menu bar faster than a Windows menu bar for this reason. A very quick flick of the wrist or an undirected shove forwards is always going to be quicker than aiming the mouse.
You don't seem to understand business. In business, only fools let animosities come before profit. Michael Dell is probably smart enough that he never had anything against Apple, he just knows how to play the PR game.
Wikinews. From the creators of Wikipedia.
I dunno, I get most of my orgasms from Google already.
Being a modern consumer means spiting anyone who tries to make money, haven't you heard?
Because the US is the wealthiest country in the world as well as the largest industrialized nation (China and Russia are larger, but not as completely industrialized). Per capita, nuclear power is a smaller percentage of US power generation than that of other nations.
You totally missed the point. There hasn't been a single nuclear plant built in the US since the 1970's. Americans are afraid of nuclear power--it's a matter of cultural and political attitude that other cultures in other industrialized nations don't share.
s/humanity/superstitious Americans
The vast majority of electricity in France and Japan, for instance, is generated by nuclear power. Fucking Japan! If anyone has reason to fear nuclear technology it's Japan. Nah, Americans are just afraid of technology.
You just rehashed rule #2, dumbass.
The Soviet Union, however, landed one of the first space probes on the Moon and claimed it as Soviet soil.
Someone gave you a job posting pedantic replies to Slashdot comments? Damn! Are they hiring? I could use a job right now too...
Actually, NeXT was the one who was damn lucky, because they're the ones who built NeXTStep out of BSD/Mach in the late 80's. (NeXT, by the way, was also damn lucky that they hired one of the guys who wrote Mach.)
Apple was just damn lucky they could buy NeXT and build a new Mac OS out of it. But Mac OS X isn't directly based on BSD/Mach, it's based on NeXT, which in turn is based on BSD/Mach. In fact, if Apple knew from the outset that they were getting into a Unix-based Mac OS they might have just developed A/UX.
Mac OS X already does this. You can turn off "check spelling as you type" but still get a contextual menu from any selected text and bring up a spellcheck (well, user-entered text that is). From the same contextual menu you can Google the text or look it up in the dictionary, or get a text-to-speech of it.
So keep your DVD's away from your kids and teach them to respect other people's property. Jeez, who's in charge of your household?
Sorry to hear you're unemployed.
Correction: As I know better than to be too familiar with Episode I, I now believe (from a brief googling) that the exact quote may be "Always two there are, no more, no less: a master and an apprentice". Needless to say this makes my point far more thoroughly.
Well, I misquoted, it's "always two there are: a master and an apprentice". "There are two Sith" has a relatively simple literal interpreation: at any given time, two Sith, no more, no less, exist.
According to some more Expanded Universe history the idea of only two Sith in the galaxy started with Darth Bane, the sole survivor of an old Sith order that destroyed itself through infighting. Apparently rules like "promotion through killing your superiors" and "be an angry murderous warlord" don't lead to large, stable organizations.
There's also the concrete fact that, in the films, there are never more than two Sith at the same time. If there are other pairs of Sith wandering around, where the hell are they? And if any pair is supposed to be "together", then why are they so far apart, with Sidious either on Naboo or Coruscant all the time, while Maul is galavanting out alone and later Tyranus being a separatist warlord across enemy lines? Really, what are all the other Sith Lords doing out there while Sidious and his apprentice plot to take over the galaxy? Even more pedantically, Yoda says to Obi-Wan in Revenge of the Sith, "Destroy the Sith we must", and proceeds to detail how they will destroy Sidious and Vader, respectively. If Yoda wants to destroy the Sith, why is he stopping at just killing two of them if there are other pairs of Sith adventuring out there?
That's what happens when it's Microsoft making the decisions.
Tariffs and quotas are forms of diplomacy. In fact, war is a form of diplomacy; Clausewitz said that war was the continuation of diplomacy by other means.
Looking at it another way, diplomacy, tariffs, and quotas are all forms of war.
Indeed. You've just described how IBM developed the PowerPC 970.
I think there's a small difference between "minor typos" and "not knowing what the fuck you're talking about." For instance, you are firmly in the second category.
with ram i meant sdr & ddr, don't be so inane
You mean SDRAM? You do realize that SDRAM isn't "single data rate" as per DDR, it's "synchronous dynamic RAM".
But she was trained in the dark side. Forgive me for exaggerating.
The article points this out by example, saying that the Mac evangelists bashed Intel until the day Jobs said Apple was switching to Intel. Now they're adjusting their arguements to fit in with the new belief that Intel is good.
Suddenly, my sig is on-topic!
No, the rule is that there's one master and one apprentice. There can't be two Sith Masters. The only chance for Vader to advance is to off Palpatine. That's how the Sith work.