You might find it interesting that although the U.S is indeed the largest spender on aid (though 20 something-th in terms of % of GNP) the lions share goes to just three countries - from the top. Russia, Israel, Egypt. Oh - Pakistan is at number 4.
Absolutely agreed. I work in publishing, I'm not a programmer, but I cobbled together some Hypercard stuff to parse exported data from Quark Xpress pages and prepare them for online use. Everyone was impressed and it saved us a LOT of time. Would I have bought a dev environment? Never because, of course... I'm not a programmer.
Other people have answered some of your other points, but this may be of help:
"Finder doesn't have a button to go up one directory level"
If you hold down Apple and click on the folder name in the top of a Finder window it will display the entire directory hierarchy and let you go up n levels.
Handy, but I agree - hidden
Not really - you don't actually need to use keyboard shortcuts do do anything on a Mac. However a bazillion (metric) shortcuts are available, which can let you do nifty things quite quickly.
The easiest way to find them is to select Help in your favourite app and search for 'shortcuts' believe it or not.
Many/most are consistent across all apps, so you only have to learn them once.
I don't actually think I know a production professional who uses Framemaker - although it is not bad for BIG documents. Clearly Adobe is putting its weight behind Indesign it is battle to dislodge the (in my opinion) excorable Quark Xpress.
To attempt to fathom out exactly what problems they are trying to avoid with this new policy; it isn't clear from the original post.
Are they trying to avoid people yacking all day (seems strange; what about IM and e-mail)
Are they worried about proprietary secrets being leaked due to people with camera-wielding mobiles?
Old fashioned control-freakery with no reason? (seems unlikely)
Once you have figured this out, you will have a better idea of how to get the policy turned around or amended, without treading on the aims of the policy.
Isn't that curious - this Mac just figured out that I was using a Logitech 2 button mouse with scroll wheel and 'just used it', I plugged in an external firewire drive... and there it was on my desktop. The JVC video camera was detected, as was the HP digital camera and the USB music keyboard... none of which were sourced from Apple.
Don't forget the Strowger automated telephone exchange was originally invented by Mr Strowger, the owner of funeral parlour.
He was prompted to do so because the wife of one of his his competitors was employed at the local phone exchange, and mysterously calls kept getting misdirected.
You over simplify; the BBC archive os beset by complex ownership issues; especially the older stuff. In many cases, the actors, writers, directors have rights involving repeat showing fees etc.
Much kudos to the BBC to attempt to find a way through these problems.... Yes the new contracts have this sorted out.
I was a long time Mac user in the System 6-8 days, then switched away when cooperative multitasking etc. Just got old.
I switched back specifically because of OSX - I had always wanted to learn about and tinker with Unix - run PostgreSQL, whatever - but I had never got around to it because I also needed to use Office etc, and didn't want to muck about with multiple machines, or dual-boot hilarity..... so its a book for me.
If you're a 'me too' poster then what does that make me? I thought PR was really quite tepid. In many places it struck me as just trying too hard - highlighting the oddities of Japan to western cultural eyes, seemed like an easy trick. In some places I had the feeling that he had read some guide books, or had ridden around a particular city in a taxi and was transcribing his 'Oooo this is odd' feelings verbatim.
Yes, the ride from the airport in a strange city can be exciting and surreal, but a novel it does not make.
I invite you to mosey on over and try running the UT 2004 demo on my 800MHz G4 iMac with 512MB RAM bought 1.5 years ago when it was the top of the line iMac.
It doesn't so much run the demo as walk it.
As for Halo - pah!
I'm a Mac fan, but hyperbole like this makes me feel queezy,
...might wonder whether Google is afraid of IPOing because of the level of detail about their business operations and technology that they would have to reveal.
There has been speculation about the Internet search engine's ability to scale, or the lack thereof. Filing for an IPO forces any company to come clean about the potential shortcomings or problems that it faces. Not always nice.
Probably nothing of the kind, but worth keeping at the back of your mind.
Books? Pah!
Reading the HHGTHG robs a person of the chance to experience the wonderful world of Douglas Adams *first hand* - in the fabulous radio series.
I assume you know this already, but in case you don't there is tons of software out there that adds at least some elements of PDA functionality to the iPod. Check out
this list
The iPod case reminds me a lot the similar questions and arguments when Palm bought out the original Palm V. Until, then of course, Palms had used good old AAA batteries, and there were all kinds of concerns voiced over the fact that the V's LiON batteries would
1. eventually degrade in performance
2. The only way to get into a Palm V involved using a hair dryer to melt the case's glue.
Palm, of course gave no up-front warnings abou tthis when you bought the device.
Now I know that the parallels are not exact, however it would be interesting to go back and see if there were any similar class action suits levelled against Palm, and to see how they fared.
For what it's worth, my Palm V; bought in 1999 is still bhaving fine, with daily use and no noticeable reduction in battery life.
London Telehouse is similarly amusing. This was one of the first purpose-built Internet colo facilities; the first in London. They rented out rack space, but didn't control who put wires where. Now they, like the Chinese have a situation where they don't know which wires thet can safely yank.
A riser cabinet the size of a small room will be just filled with cables of all sizes and hues that no-one has a clue about. More amusingly, there is no so much cable in the underfloor spaces that when you walk along the corridors the floor plates rock from side to side as you tread on them.
You have opened my eyes, I think. I was thinking of a beer bubble as a pocket of gas within the liquid; you are talking about a bubble in terms of the free-floating entity.
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You might find it interesting that although the U.S is indeed the largest spender on aid (though 20 something-th in terms of % of GNP) the lions share goes to just three countries - from the top. Russia, Israel, Egypt. Oh - Pakistan is at number 4.
Oh yes, guns are so effective against dirty bombs.
Absolutely agreed. I work in publishing, I'm not a programmer, but I cobbled together some Hypercard stuff to parse exported data from Quark Xpress pages and prepare them for online use. Everyone was impressed and it saved us a LOT of time. Would I have bought a dev environment? Never because, of course... I'm not a programmer.
Other people have answered some of your other points, but this may be of help: "Finder doesn't have a button to go up one directory level" If you hold down Apple and click on the folder name in the top of a Finder window it will display the entire directory hierarchy and let you go up n levels. Handy, but I agree - hidden
Not really - you don't actually need to use keyboard shortcuts do do anything on a Mac. However a bazillion (metric) shortcuts are available, which can let you do nifty things quite quickly.
The easiest way to find them is to select Help in your favourite app and search for 'shortcuts' believe it or not.
Many/most are consistent across all apps, so you only have to learn them once.
Q. Can we install A.N Random OS build on your machine and have you support it?
A. Sorry, no.
Is any one seriously surprised?
I don't actually think I know a production professional who uses Framemaker - although it is not bad for BIG documents. Clearly Adobe is putting its weight behind Indesign it is battle to dislodge the (in my opinion) excorable Quark Xpress.
To attempt to fathom out exactly what problems they are trying to avoid with this new policy; it isn't clear from the original post.
Are they trying to avoid people yacking all day (seems strange; what about IM and e-mail)
Are they worried about proprietary secrets being leaked due to people with camera-wielding mobiles?
Old fashioned control-freakery with no reason? (seems unlikely)
Once you have figured this out, you will have a better idea of how to get the policy turned around or amended, without treading on the aims of the policy.
Isn't that curious - this Mac just figured out that I was using a Logitech 2 button mouse with scroll wheel and 'just used it', I plugged in an external firewire drive ... and there it was on my desktop. The JVC video camera was detected, as was the HP digital camera and the USB music keyboard ... none of which were sourced from Apple.
It certainly drove the growth in the uptake of video recorders. Porn was one of the early successful exponents of pre-record commercial videos.
You wouldn't freeze eh? because radiation is much slower.
Who would have thought that the sun heated the earth through convection eh?
Don't forget the Strowger automated telephone exchange was originally invented by Mr Strowger, the owner of funeral parlour.
He was prompted to do so because the wife of one of his his competitors was employed at the local phone exchange, and mysterously calls kept getting misdirected.
You over simplify; the BBC archive os beset by complex ownership issues; especially the older stuff. In many cases, the actors, writers, directors have rights involving repeat showing fees etc. Much kudos to the BBC to attempt to find a way through these problems. ... Yes the new contracts have this sorted out.
I was a long time Mac user in the System 6-8 days, then switched away when cooperative multitasking etc. Just got old.
... so its a book for me.
I switched back specifically because of OSX - I had always wanted to learn about and tinker with Unix - run PostgreSQL, whatever - but I had never got around to it because I also needed to use Office etc, and didn't want to muck about with multiple machines, or dual-boot hilarity..
If you're a 'me too' poster then what does that make me? I thought PR was really quite tepid. In many places it struck me as just trying too hard - highlighting the oddities of Japan to western cultural eyes, seemed like an easy trick. In some places I had the feeling that he had read some guide books, or had ridden around a particular city in a taxi and was transcribing his 'Oooo this is odd' feelings verbatim.
Yes, the ride from the airport in a strange city can be exciting and surreal, but a novel it does not make.
Oh I think you may well find that all those Windows iPods out there, may drive additional demand for Firewire
I invite you to mosey on over and try running the UT 2004 demo on my 800MHz G4 iMac with 512MB RAM bought 1.5 years ago when it was the top of the line iMac.
It doesn't so much run the demo as walk it.
As for Halo - pah!
I'm a Mac fan, but hyperbole like this makes me feel queezy,
...might wonder whether Google is afraid of IPOing because of the level of detail about their business operations and technology that they would have to reveal.
There has been speculation about the Internet search engine's ability to scale, or the lack thereof. Filing for an IPO forces any company to come clean about the potential shortcomings or problems that it faces. Not always nice.
Probably nothing of the kind, but worth keeping at the back of your mind.
Books? Pah! Reading the HHGTHG robs a person of the chance to experience the wonderful world of Douglas Adams *first hand* - in the fabulous radio series.
Does it come bundled with iMovie, iDVD, iTunes and GarageBand equivalents.
FWIW, there was no comment on whether the existing free components would remain free. on not.
I assume you know this already, but in case you don't there is tons of software out there that adds at least some elements of PDA functionality to the iPod. Check out this list
Interesting stuff - thanks
The iPod case reminds me a lot the similar questions and arguments when Palm bought out the original Palm V. Until, then of course, Palms had used good old AAA batteries, and there were all kinds of concerns voiced over the fact that the V's LiON batteries would 1. eventually degrade in performance 2. The only way to get into a Palm V involved using a hair dryer to melt the case's glue. Palm, of course gave no up-front warnings abou tthis when you bought the device. Now I know that the parallels are not exact, however it would be interesting to go back and see if there were any similar class action suits levelled against Palm, and to see how they fared. For what it's worth, my Palm V; bought in 1999 is still bhaving fine, with daily use and no noticeable reduction in battery life.
London Telehouse is similarly amusing. This was one of the first purpose-built Internet colo facilities; the first in London. They rented out rack space, but didn't control who put wires where. Now they, like the Chinese have a situation where they don't know which wires thet can safely yank. A riser cabinet the size of a small room will be just filled with cables of all sizes and hues that no-one has a clue about. More amusingly, there is no so much cable in the underfloor spaces that when you walk along the corridors the floor plates rock from side to side as you tread on them.
You have opened my eyes, I think. I was thinking of a beer bubble as a pocket of gas within the liquid; you are talking about a bubble in terms of the free-floating entity.
:-)
Damn English and its ambiguous words