Forget where I read the comparison but that's the whole point.
Briefly it went like this: Ford makes black cars. Everybody buys Ford's black cars. All cars look the same and do pretty much the same stuff. Chevrolet come along with a nicer looking car. People buy it because they want to look individual.
The same is true of the mobile phone handset. The same is true of computers.
For the home user they are pretty much maxing out in terms of necessary horsepower so now they want different computers for different things. One for the study, one for the living room, one for the kitchen. Each of these will have a different outward design to fit in with its place of use. Computers are now commodities so you need design to distinguish yours from the rest of the Fords (Dells).
The Book of Ultimate Truths has Cornelius Murphy and diminutive sidekick Tuppe searching through the forbidden zones for Hugo Rune, he which penned the book of the title.
The forbidden zones for the uninitiated are those areas of the map to which mere mortals do not generally have access. To illustrate their existence Hugo rune took a regular map of the world and a ball. Everybody knows the world is round, yet when you attempt to fit the map onto the spherical object what you find is that it doesn't fit. you have to make all sorts of cuts in the map and even then you end up with big gaps everywhere. This empty space is the area covered by the forbidden zones. This is where all the biros go and where London's cabbies drive through to avoid the traffic.
Exactly. My internal morality gland prevents me from downloading cinematic movies and DVD rips but I have no qualms about watching something which has been recorded off a TV. It's entirely justifiable in my opinion.
It seems to be standard practice for Sky (Fox) to hand out series to terrestrial UK channels for a while and then whip them back when they become popular in order to increase their subscriber count. Channel 4 too is notorious for buying new series and making them popular (for channel 4 anyway) and then burying them in the nighttime schedule so you have to record them if you want to watch them regularly anyway (see 6ft under, Sopranos etc).
OK, honestly, I've NEVER owned a Windows machine. I run OSX. I can't say I've never had a crash or lost information I was working on but it's no exaggeration of the facts that in 4 years of running OS X I've had about 5 complete system freezes.
In every case I was running Virtual PC or Windows Media Player or Office or any combination of the above. I know MS didn't invent Virtual PC but there must be something stinkin' about their code, it just can't be a coincidence.
I confess to not looking at the software demo but if all it does is provide a greater surface area on which you place icons then there is absolutely no benefit to having it in 3D.
Having a spherical desktop does not make it any easier to find your files since there is no point of reference.
I saw the looking glass demo a long time ago, and even this does not go as far as it should.
If you imagine a 3d terrain, preferably photographic, with recognisable features as your desktop picture, you could place files in the distance or in the foreground and they would scale automatically in relation to their depth within the 'picture'. Now it wouldn't matter how small the icon was or even whether it was so distinguishable from the next one. The point is I would more easily remember which one it was because of WHERE it was - on the rocky outcrop to the left of the farmhouse.
A 3D sphere does not give you this frame of reference.
He's waiting in SEATTLE? Now I'm no American but isn't Seattle like 3 hours behind New York? Someone could conceivably see the movie in NY and phone him to tell him the ending and have an hour to spare.
Better yet, if it's a worldwide simultaneous opening day then he should make his way to Tokyo or something is he really wants to see it first. Idiot.
You can buy a CD from any label, major and independant, and it will work with EVERY CD player.
Not always been true. In the early 90s I bought a CD which skipped and jumped on my 3 year old CD player. I took it back for a replacement. Same thing. Then more and more CDs did the same thing. Odd thing is that all my old CDs played fine. I'm damned certain that they (meaning CD manufacturers everywhere) changed the format of CDs forcing me to buy a new player compatible with the discs. Over 10 years later that same CD player plays old CDs (prior to the change) with no problem but steadfastly refuses to play anything newer. Why should I have to buy a new player when the old one should still be working fine?
I'm with you on that. All this effort on finding renewable energy resources will prove pointless once we harness fusion. As far as I'm concerned we need to bang some heads to stop people arguing about where the hell they're going to build the next prototype and start concentrating people's minds, time and money into getting a net producing nuclear fusion reactor. We know all the physics and know that one day it will work so why not spend every expense to bring that day closer?
Slightly OT here butalso in the UK we have lots of drivers and tv celebs openly whining about speed cameras catching people and fining them for going 4 mph over the prescribed limit. It's reaching the point where it's now becoming socially acceptable to speed again because it wasn't your fault it was the stupid camera. Well my attitude is this. If the camera really was genuinely hidden from view and you couldn't see it coming up in time to slow down then you are guilty of speeding because the road is obviously not suited to driving at that speed. If the camera was preceeded by warning signs, which is the case in the majority of instances, then quite frankly you must not have seen the warning signs so you should automatically be charged with driving without due care and attention.
Hi, I'm what might commonly be regarded as a 'grammar nazi' although as far as I am aware spelling is not directly related to syntax. But anyway that's by the by. I was just stopped in my tracks by your post. In particular your correct spelling of the word 'lose". You my friend appear to be in a minority of internet users when it comes to being able to spell that particularly tricky word. Normally I might find myself ranting about how it isn't spelt with a double-o at this stage in my posting but in the interests of good karma (and no I'm not talking about my Slashdot Karma Rating(TM) which I couldn't give a flying toss about) I thought I'd congratulate you and thank you for paying attention in school.
Of course he wouldn't. He'd fashion something out of whatever was to hand. Why by merely warming over some plastic explosive, a hairpin could be used to read and write data to the soft squidgy platter and MacGuyver could create the zeroes and ones of the password cracking software by simply modifying his vocal tones utilising the glottoral stop to write the machine code.
Wasn't that what a ZIP disk was? As far as I know all Iomega did was change the casing so that they could spin the disk at ever higher speeds than the floppy casing allowed which meant they could write to the disk with a smaller head(s). I think that's why your floppy ain't getting any faster. It already reached maximum velocity.
Totally offtopic but you mention ID4 which was the background text on the poster for Independence Day. I never did find out why the hell it was there but obviously ID could stand for Independence Day. The only thing I came up with was that in Roman Numerals ID is 499 499 x 4 = 1996 which was when the film came out. Was I right?
Looks flat on my monitor. This is crud. Just like all those digital HDTVs they keep advertising on telly. They look no better picture wise than my 14" portable.
The planetary population IS out of control. Sooner or later there WILL be a correction. It's been going on in nature for millions of years. Why should we consider ourselves above it all. I only hope that after the correction, the new world's population can put all that religious shit out of the way and start cooperating on an effort which would would benefit all mankind.
Nine Hundred and Ninety Nine Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety Nine Million Billion Nine Hundred and Ninety Nine Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety Nine Million Nine hundred and Ninety Nine Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety Nine.
Is that right. You're right it does get complicated. Who said scientists were logical?
I there's any justice they won't. There is a logic to the scientific numbering system which dictates you only use a different term when you run out of options and you can't duplicate prefixes like million million.
I tried to post a long winded list of numbers here from 1,000 up to 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (1 Trillion: The proper 1 Trillion the one that's one more than Nine Hundred and Ninety Nine Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety Nine Million Nine Hundred and Ninety Nine Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety Nine) But it didn't pass the lameness filter.
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Forget where I read the comparison but that's the whole point.
Briefly it went like this:
Ford makes black cars.
Everybody buys Ford's black cars.
All cars look the same and do pretty much the same stuff.
Chevrolet come along with a nicer looking car.
People buy it because they want to look individual.
The same is true of the mobile phone handset.
The same is true of computers.
For the home user they are pretty much maxing out in terms of necessary horsepower so now they want different computers for different things. One for the study, one for the living room, one for the kitchen. Each of these will have a different outward design to fit in with its place of use. Computers are now commodities so you need design to distinguish yours from the rest of the Fords (Dells).
The Book of Ultimate Truths has Cornelius Murphy and diminutive sidekick Tuppe searching through the forbidden zones for Hugo Rune, he which penned the book of the title.
The forbidden zones for the uninitiated are those areas of the map to which mere mortals do not generally have access. To illustrate their existence Hugo rune took a regular map of the world and a ball. Everybody knows the world is round, yet when you attempt to fit the map onto the spherical object what you find is that it doesn't fit. you have to make all sorts of cuts in the map and even then you end up with big gaps everywhere. This empty space is the area covered by the forbidden zones. This is where all the biros go and where London's cabbies drive through to avoid the traffic.
Screw Pratchett. We need a Robert Rankin movie. I vote for The Book of Ultimate Truths.
Exactly.
My internal morality gland prevents me from downloading cinematic movies and DVD rips but I have no qualms about watching something which has been recorded off a TV. It's entirely justifiable in my opinion.
It seems to be standard practice for Sky (Fox) to hand out series to terrestrial UK channels for a while and then whip them back when they become popular in order to increase their subscriber count. Channel 4 too is notorious for buying new series and making them popular (for channel 4 anyway) and then burying them in the nighttime schedule so you have to record them if you want to watch them regularly anyway (see 6ft under, Sopranos etc).
OK, honestly, I've NEVER owned a Windows machine. I run OSX. I can't say I've never had a crash or lost information I was working on but it's no exaggeration of the facts that in 4 years of running OS X I've had about 5 complete system freezes.
In every case I was running Virtual PC or Windows Media Player or Office or any combination of the above. I know MS didn't invent Virtual PC but there must be something stinkin' about their code, it just can't be a coincidence.
I confess to not looking at the software demo but if all it does is provide a greater surface area on which you place icons then there is absolutely no benefit to having it in 3D.
Having a spherical desktop does not make it any easier to find your files since there is no point of reference.
I saw the looking glass demo a long time ago, and even this does not go as far as it should.
If you imagine a 3d terrain, preferably photographic, with recognisable features as your desktop picture, you could place files in the distance or in the foreground and they would scale automatically in relation to their depth within the 'picture'. Now it wouldn't matter how small the icon was or even whether it was so distinguishable from the next one. The point is I would more easily remember which one it was because of WHERE it was - on the rocky outcrop to the left of the farmhouse.
A 3D sphere does not give you this frame of reference.
He's waiting in SEATTLE?
Now I'm no American but isn't Seattle like 3 hours behind New York?
Someone could conceivably see the movie in NY and phone him to tell him the ending and have an hour to spare.
Better yet, if it's a worldwide simultaneous opening day then he should make his way to Tokyo or something is he really wants to see it first. Idiot.
You can buy a CD from any label, major and independant, and it will work with EVERY CD player.
Not always been true. In the early 90s I bought a CD which skipped and jumped on my 3 year old CD player. I took it back for a replacement. Same thing. Then more and more CDs did the same thing. Odd thing is that all my old CDs played fine. I'm damned certain that they (meaning CD manufacturers everywhere) changed the format of CDs forcing me to buy a new player compatible with the discs. Over 10 years later that same CD player plays old CDs (prior to the change) with no problem but steadfastly refuses to play anything newer. Why should I have to buy a new player when the old one should still be working fine?
This guy hasn't got a case though.
They're gonna add another box to the forms you fill in every day. Sorted.
Did someone in the boat let of a flare?
I'm with you on that. All this effort on finding renewable energy resources will prove pointless once we harness fusion. As far as I'm concerned we need to bang some heads to stop people arguing about where the hell they're going to build the next prototype and start concentrating people's minds, time and money into getting a net producing nuclear fusion reactor. We know all the physics and know that one day it will work so why not spend every expense to bring that day closer?
..axis of Levi ?
Actually, YOU'RE wrong.
"Your right but it's a bad comparison for the current situation."
In this sentence the poster intends the line to read as: YOU ARE RIGHT, BUT IT'S....
So YOU'RE is the contraction of YOU ARE.
You're, You're!
Slightly OT here butalso in the UK we have lots of drivers and tv celebs openly whining about speed cameras catching people and fining them for going 4 mph over the prescribed limit. It's reaching the point where it's now becoming socially acceptable to speed again because it wasn't your fault it was the stupid camera.
Well my attitude is this. If the camera really was genuinely hidden from view and you couldn't see it coming up in time to slow down then you are guilty of speeding because the road is obviously not suited to driving at that speed.
If the camera was preceeded by warning signs, which is the case in the majority of instances, then quite frankly you must not have seen the warning signs so you should automatically be charged with driving without due care and attention.
Hi, I'm what might commonly be regarded as a 'grammar nazi' although as far as I am aware spelling is not directly related to syntax. But anyway that's by the by. I was just stopped in my tracks by your post. In particular your correct spelling of the word 'lose". You my friend appear to be in a minority of internet users when it comes to being able to spell that particularly tricky word. Normally I might find myself ranting about how it isn't spelt with a double-o at this stage in my posting but in the interests of good karma (and no I'm not talking about my Slashdot Karma Rating(TM) which I couldn't give a flying toss about) I thought I'd congratulate you and thank you for paying attention in school.
Mod -5 offtopic - betcha!
They just moved indoors to avoid being hit by David Beckham's penalty kick.
Of course he wouldn't.
He'd fashion something out of whatever was to hand.
Why by merely warming over some plastic explosive, a hairpin could be used to read and write data to the soft squidgy platter and MacGuyver could create the zeroes and ones of the password cracking software by simply modifying his vocal tones utilising the glottoral stop to write the machine code.
Piece of piss- we've all done it.
Wasn't that what a ZIP disk was?
As far as I know all Iomega did was change the casing so that they could spin the disk at ever higher speeds than the floppy casing allowed which meant they could write to the disk with a smaller head(s).
I think that's why your floppy ain't getting any faster. It already reached maximum velocity.
Totally offtopic but you mention ID4 which was the background text on the poster for Independence Day.
I never did find out why the hell it was there but obviously ID could stand for Independence Day.
The only thing I came up with was that in Roman Numerals ID is 499
499 x 4 = 1996
which was when the film came out.
Was I right?
Looks flat on my monitor. This is crud.
Just like all those digital HDTVs they keep advertising on telly. They look no better picture wise than my 14" portable.
The planetary population IS out of control. Sooner or later there WILL be a correction. It's been going on in nature for millions of years. Why should we consider ourselves above it all.
I only hope that after the correction, the new world's population can put all that religious shit out of the way and start cooperating on an effort which would would benefit all mankind.
Nine Hundred and Ninety Nine Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety Nine Million Billion Nine Hundred and Ninety Nine Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety Nine Million Nine hundred and Ninety Nine Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety Nine.
Is that right. You're right it does get complicated. Who said scientists were logical?
Oops I missed out the Billions
I there's any justice they won't.
There is a logic to the scientific numbering system which dictates you only use a different term when you run out of options and you can't duplicate prefixes like million million.
I tried to post a long winded list of numbers here from 1,000 up to 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (1 Trillion: The proper 1 Trillion the one that's one more than Nine Hundred and Ninety Nine Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety Nine Million Nine Hundred and Ninety Nine Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety Nine)
But it didn't pass the lameness filter.