The event is centered around the man's orgasm; the woman's role is to receive and appreciate. Considerations of her sexual functioning, which are highly anxiety-inducing, are completely absent.
Female orgasms are also rarely as visually obvious as the male orgasm, although female ejaculation is a popular niche. Mechanically speaking, you can't film a female orgasm very well, just as you can't film cunnilingus very well.
Outside of the 'must-have' cache it has in some circles, I just dont see it hitting like the ipod.
I don't know about the iPhone, but my MacBook has 2 MB of L2 cache per processor, and while it's "must-have", it's also not much of a brand distinction. You mean cachet
The #1 thing is 3G. you'd be crazy to buy a phone now that doesn't have 3G.
Sure, if you live in Europe or Japan. In the US, there aren't many 3G networks yet. But there are plenty of WiFi networks everywhere. Do I want to download vast amounts of data from AT&T (which I'll probably have to pay for somehow), or connect to the nearby coffee shop, office, apartment, or McDonalds for free? 3G is not a fundamentally big deal if you have WiFi.
Likewise, It's a REQUIREMENT for my phone (and music player) that I be able to swap files EASILY, and add/remove music (and other files) from ANY computer.
Fair enough, so you still use the old Rio paradigm (music consists of little files that you copy back and forth by hand) instead of the Apple paradigm (you have a music library, and you sync it to your iPod). As for "files", I guess you want your phone to be a USB flash driver too? That's not an unreasonable expectation.
Finally -- I wanted to sync my address book and calendar from my device with my gmail account. Both WM5 and Google are open APIs! So I'm writing it (which means it will suck, but still). Apple does not to seem to want you to be able to do that.
I think the fact that you have to write your own code to do this suggests that this isn't a solved problem anywhere yet.
Also, if I want to make an mp3 into my ringtones, the 8525 says "go right ahead!" On the Iphone, you have to buy ringtones from ITMS.
I call bullshit. Apple has never distinguished between iTMS and other tracks in iTunes or on iPod, other than by restricting iPod-to-computer copying and DRM restrictions on iTMS tracks. On the other hand, they might block you from turning your MP3 of "Baby Got Back" or, more horrifyingly, "Ice Ice Baby" as your ringtone out of sheer social responsibility.
As crazy as it sounds, the Windows Mobile Platform is MUCH more open than the IPhone. Is that CRAZY? Yes.... When I worked at Palm we worked HARD to court independent developers, who cranked out great apps for the Palm platform.
You know, I had a Palm once, and I loaded a few third-party programs on it. My Palm crashed and lost all my data and reverted to what it came with. On the other hand, using my Palm as a TV remote control and portable SimCity machine was fun while it lasted. In any case, Apple has said it's working on ways to allow third-party development without jeopardizing the stability of iPhone so we can have the best of both worlds.
I guess many things do require a yes/no answer if you have two buttons. I'd rather touch "contacts", "new", a series of fields I can touch and type, and a "save" button onscreen. Now you only need one hard-coded button, your "escape/go home/go away from this thing now" button, which always has the same function. Whereas with two hard-coded buttons, if there's no binary option you them to random crap like "contacts" and "recent calls", or "text message" and "contacts", or "eat a burrito" and "pay us for overpriced ringtones".
If you have too many yes/no dialogs, you have made a horrible mistake in your user interface.
- not provide a cancel mechanism when changing system preferences (though iTunes does)
I'm not sure I see the utility of this. If you want to cancel something you just click to uncheck the checkbox you just clicked, or move the slider back where it was before, or whatever. Few preference panels are sophisticated enough for you to forget these things. If you've noticed, there's also no "apply" button--changes just happen when you select them. So instead of a "cancel", perhaps a "revert" button or "undo" function for more complicated panes would be useful.
place minimize, maximize, close buttons to the left of the window when most applications require the use of window scrolling (which is on the right)
I'd like to see someone scroll and minimize at the same time. Similar functions belong together, dissimilar functions should be separated. Then again, if you have a scrolling mouse or trackpad, the scrollbar mainly serves as a visual cue to where you are in a document. (An actual gripe I have with Mac OS X is that the mail program puts "send" in the same corner as the close button, so if you click without looking a very similar thing happens onscreen but your email may or may not have been sent.)
make the default key for Expose F9 which is *not* easy to hit with the left hand (you generally use a mouse with Expose and most people are right-handed so left hand is most often on the keyboard when using a mouse)
Is your keyboard so large you can't reach across it? I think that's more of a UI problem than assigning F9-F12 to Expose and Dashboard.
require holding a mouse button to select a specific minimized application window when the application has multiple windows open (in windows, the taskbar groups all windows to a single tab and can be accessed with no holding. kde/gnome just have separate tabs - if I remember correctly)
I think I know what you mean here, but I'm not sure. If a window is minimized, it's in the Dock and you just click that window once to bring it back out. (If you rollover the windows the titles should come up, or you can use magnification). If the application is hidden (instead of minimized), you click on the application and all the windows come up at once. If they won't all fit onscreen (if you're doing some hardcore Photoshopping or something), yeah, you do have to right-click, but it's easier to just click the app and use F10 to Exposé that app.
Any UI is going to be imperfect, but the flaws you mention are nowhere near as fundamental and ubiquitous as the flaws in Windows or Linux. "Epitome of UI design"? I'd put the automobile and iPod ahead of the Mac in terms of that, but maybe I'm just into wheels.
Shit, I just said something dumb. I meant "an even more poorly-thought-out idea than a downloaded-movie-burned-to-DVD store". An online movie store is the GOOD idea.
To service those who do not yet have access to movie on demand.
WTF is "movie on demand"? It's called downloading the movie, and if you want to set up an internet service to do that legally (iTunes, for instance), more power to you. "Movie on demand" sounds like some sort of pay-per-view scheme where you're DRMed out of saving the stream to disk--an even more poorly-thought-out idea than an online movie store.
Russia invaded Finland twice at the time, which was followed by a German invasion of Finland. Finland managed to defend itself without the direct help of the other powers through most of that.
That "dream" of yours is kind of like those old American admirals after Pearl Harbor who still thought that aircraft carriers should be escort ships while battleships were the flagships. Let me see if I'm getting this right--we've got high-speed data networks and the ability to download movies over the Internet, and your suggestion is to drive to a store and buy a disc of a downloaded movie?
Another small point about Carbon, to add to the discussion--Carbon is partially based on the old API they were developing for Copland, the modern Mac OS they were trying to develop before Mac OS X came along.
However many "lots" were, it wasn't a whole "lot", since wave after wave of European immigrants rolled over them.
Either you're using "European" to mean "white", or you're not well-versed in North American history. Most of the Louisiana Territory wasn't settled until after the US purchased it--the parts that were settled were largely in what is now the American state of Louisiana, which is far smaller than the actual territory. In any case, having gunpowder and smallpox on your side helps things a bit. Is it okay if a large number of white immigrants commits genocide on a small number of Great Plains tribes, but not a large number of them? If a large section of land is already inhabited by an entire race of human beings, at what numerical advantage is it acceptable to "roll over them", slaughtering them with armies and with biological warfare?
"Climate change" does have certain factual advantages. For instance, local climates may indeed cool or remain at the same temperature due to global warming, but they will indeed change somehow. Hell, if Canada and Greenland melt, the effects on ocean currents will freeze some places out entirely.
There is no way the VW Golf and the Ford Focus use the same platform
There is no way your brain and the English language use the same platform. He obviously meant that the US and UK Golf use the platform, and that the US and UK Focus, each use the same platform as well.
Large parts of Iraq are inhabited by Persians, and were part of ancient Persia. "Iraq" is a fictitious entity created by Britain that's part Arab, part Persian, part Assyrian, part Kurdish, and so forth. It's as much a Persian country as it is an Arab country, and to a lesser extent it belongs to the other groups as well.
The original claim to Louisiana was made by France, and it only transferred back and forth between France and Spain on friendly terms--Spain kept it so that Britain wouldn't get it after war between Britain and France. The original claim wasn't very legitimate though, since France vaguely claimed the entire Mississippi watershed, which was already inhabited by lots of people who weren't French, or European for that matter.
By that same argument you also use public education and many of the other things the government funds with tax money. That's not an argument for or against it, just an illustration of how interconnected the economy is.
As I explained in a cousin comment, expansionism does not necessarily infer aggression. You can expand by purchasing land as well.
Texas, IIRC, was a separate country which fought for independence from Mexico, and then decided to join the USA. The other western states (AZ, CA, NM, etc.) were seized from Mexico because Mexico chose to go to war with the US, and lost. Spoils of war.
Texas "fought for independence from Mexico" after it was settled by Americans, and "then decided to join the USA". Either way, America expanded. The United States was the aggressor in the Mexican War, not Mexico.
There's land in France that was seized from Germany at the end of WWII; are you going to say they should give that back too?
When did I ever make a statement about what countries "should" do? Are you saying that France didn't expand its territory?
Expansionism only refers to expanding your territory. It's not necessarily aggressive--you can claim uninhabited lands as new territory as well, which is also expansionist.
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Female orgasms are also rarely as visually obvious as the male orgasm, although female ejaculation is a popular niche. Mechanically speaking, you can't film a female orgasm very well, just as you can't film cunnilingus very well.
You only have one finger per hand?
I don't know about the iPhone, but my MacBook has 2 MB of L2 cache per processor, and while it's "must-have", it's also not much of a brand distinction. You mean cachet
Sure, if you live in Europe or Japan. In the US, there aren't many 3G networks yet. But there are plenty of WiFi networks everywhere. Do I want to download vast amounts of data from AT&T (which I'll probably have to pay for somehow), or connect to the nearby coffee shop, office, apartment, or McDonalds for free? 3G is not a fundamentally big deal if you have WiFi.
Fair enough, so you still use the old Rio paradigm (music consists of little files that you copy back and forth by hand) instead of the Apple paradigm (you have a music library, and you sync it to your iPod). As for "files", I guess you want your phone to be a USB flash driver too? That's not an unreasonable expectation.
I think the fact that you have to write your own code to do this suggests that this isn't a solved problem anywhere yet.
I call bullshit. Apple has never distinguished between iTMS and other tracks in iTunes or on iPod, other than by restricting iPod-to-computer copying and DRM restrictions on iTMS tracks. On the other hand, they might block you from turning your MP3 of "Baby Got Back" or, more horrifyingly, "Ice Ice Baby" as your ringtone out of sheer social responsibility.
You know, I had a Palm once, and I loaded a few third-party programs on it. My Palm crashed and lost all my data and reverted to what it came with. On the other hand, using my Palm as a TV remote control and portable SimCity machine was fun while it lasted. In any case, Apple has said it's working on ways to allow third-party development without jeopardizing the stability of iPhone so we can have the best of both worlds.
I guess many things do require a yes/no answer if you have two buttons. I'd rather touch "contacts", "new", a series of fields I can touch and type, and a "save" button onscreen. Now you only need one hard-coded button, your "escape/go home/go away from this thing now" button, which always has the same function. Whereas with two hard-coded buttons, if there's no binary option you them to random crap like "contacts" and "recent calls", or "text message" and "contacts", or "eat a burrito" and "pay us for overpriced ringtones".
If you have too many yes/no dialogs, you have made a horrible mistake in your user interface.
I'm not sure I see the utility of this. If you want to cancel something you just click to uncheck the checkbox you just clicked, or move the slider back where it was before, or whatever. Few preference panels are sophisticated enough for you to forget these things. If you've noticed, there's also no "apply" button--changes just happen when you select them. So instead of a "cancel", perhaps a "revert" button or "undo" function for more complicated panes would be useful.
I'd like to see someone scroll and minimize at the same time. Similar functions belong together, dissimilar functions should be separated. Then again, if you have a scrolling mouse or trackpad, the scrollbar mainly serves as a visual cue to where you are in a document. (An actual gripe I have with Mac OS X is that the mail program puts "send" in the same corner as the close button, so if you click without looking a very similar thing happens onscreen but your email may or may not have been sent.)
Is your keyboard so large you can't reach across it? I think that's more of a UI problem than assigning F9-F12 to Expose and Dashboard.
I think I know what you mean here, but I'm not sure. If a window is minimized, it's in the Dock and you just click that window once to bring it back out. (If you rollover the windows the titles should come up, or you can use magnification). If the application is hidden (instead of minimized), you click on the application and all the windows come up at once. If they won't all fit onscreen (if you're doing some hardcore Photoshopping or something), yeah, you do have to right-click, but it's easier to just click the app and use F10 to Exposé that app.
Any UI is going to be imperfect, but the flaws you mention are nowhere near as fundamental and ubiquitous as the flaws in Windows or Linux. "Epitome of UI design"? I'd put the automobile and iPod ahead of the Mac in terms of that, but maybe I'm just into wheels.
Shit, I just said something dumb. I meant "an even more poorly-thought-out idea than a downloaded-movie-burned-to-DVD store". An online movie store is the GOOD idea.
WTF is "movie on demand"? It's called downloading the movie, and if you want to set up an internet service to do that legally (iTunes, for instance), more power to you. "Movie on demand" sounds like some sort of pay-per-view scheme where you're DRMed out of saving the stream to disk--an even more poorly-thought-out idea than an online movie store.
Russia invaded Finland twice at the time, which was followed by a German invasion of Finland. Finland managed to defend itself without the direct help of the other powers through most of that.
That "dream" of yours is kind of like those old American admirals after Pearl Harbor who still thought that aircraft carriers should be escort ships while battleships were the flagships. Let me see if I'm getting this right--we've got high-speed data networks and the ability to download movies over the Internet, and your suggestion is to drive to a store and buy a disc of a downloaded movie?
Another small point about Carbon, to add to the discussion--Carbon is partially based on the old API they were developing for Copland, the modern Mac OS they were trying to develop before Mac OS X came along.
I wasn't trying to be offensive. Sorry for the misguided attempt at cleverness.
Either you're using "European" to mean "white", or you're not well-versed in North American history. Most of the Louisiana Territory wasn't settled until after the US purchased it--the parts that were settled were largely in what is now the American state of Louisiana, which is far smaller than the actual territory. In any case, having gunpowder and smallpox on your side helps things a bit. Is it okay if a large number of white immigrants commits genocide on a small number of Great Plains tribes, but not a large number of them? If a large section of land is already inhabited by an entire race of human beings, at what numerical advantage is it acceptable to "roll over them", slaughtering them with armies and with biological warfare?
"Climate change" does have certain factual advantages. For instance, local climates may indeed cool or remain at the same temperature due to global warming, but they will indeed change somehow. Hell, if Canada and Greenland melt, the effects on ocean currents will freeze some places out entirely.
There is no way your brain and the English language use the same platform. He obviously meant that the US and UK Golf use the platform, and that the US and UK Focus, each use the same platform as well.
A hybrid SUV. It's almost as efficient as a Volkswagen with half the safety!
Well, energy that we can use at least. We might have a problem with energy we can't control. Antimatter doesn't strike me as particularly safe.
The North? What the fuck are you talking about? Korea? The US Civil War? Canada?
Large parts of Iraq are inhabited by Persians, and were part of ancient Persia. "Iraq" is a fictitious entity created by Britain that's part Arab, part Persian, part Assyrian, part Kurdish, and so forth. It's as much a Persian country as it is an Arab country, and to a lesser extent it belongs to the other groups as well.
The original claim to Louisiana was made by France, and it only transferred back and forth between France and Spain on friendly terms--Spain kept it so that Britain wouldn't get it after war between Britain and France. The original claim wasn't very legitimate though, since France vaguely claimed the entire Mississippi watershed, which was already inhabited by lots of people who weren't French, or European for that matter.
And each other.
By that same argument you also use public education and many of the other things the government funds with tax money. That's not an argument for or against it, just an illustration of how interconnected the economy is.
As I explained in a cousin comment, expansionism does not necessarily infer aggression. You can expand by purchasing land as well.
Texas "fought for independence from Mexico" after it was settled by Americans, and "then decided to join the USA". Either way, America expanded. The United States was the aggressor in the Mexican War, not Mexico.
When did I ever make a statement about what countries "should" do? Are you saying that France didn't expand its territory?
Expansionism only refers to expanding your territory. It's not necessarily aggressive--you can claim uninhabited lands as new territory as well, which is also expansionist.
I think Nixon did that in the 1970's.
The US military can't even successfully make war on a small Middle Eastern country.