I'd be quite happy if someone could come up with a quarter-size version of this built into a back that fits on my 1958 Rolleicord TLR. I have a feeling it'll be a very (inifinitely?) long wait! I suspect it would compete happily with 6x6 for my needs.
They sure aren't acting like a company that wants to take the market over.
Well maybe they're happy with the profits and hugely loyal customer base that they have. Steve Jobs has long since acknowledged that Microsoft won the "PC Wars" [1] and has also long held the view that Apple needed to innovate its way of its predicament in the late 1990s [2]. In my view, taking on Microsoft at its own game doesn't appear to be part of strategy. However, the fact that Jobs said to Bill Gates "Thank you for your support of this company. I think the world's a better place for it" suggests that co-existing peacefully with Microsoft is a part of their strategy[3].
[1] Linzmayer, O. (1999) Apple Confidential. (p.238) 1st edition. San Francisco: No Starch Press. Quote from an interview with Fortune magazine given in February 1996.
[2] Linzmayer, 1999, p.217
[3] Linzmayer, 1999, p.238
I've toyed with the idea of not voting too (I'm also in the UK) but in the end I decided that even if I felt there wasn't someone worth voting for, there were plenty of people worth voting against so I did that instead of not voting. For me, and I accept that this is a hugely personal matter, it's important to be able to say, when criticising this government, that I tried to stop them from being elected.
In the 1920s, the first 35 mm camera (the Leica) had barely reached its teens, and certainly not wide acceptance. Plate cameras were far more common, and guess what, you stand back and look at the image on a screen to frame it. The main difference in terms of compsing the picture is that the screen is bigger (the size of the negative itself), the image is upside down, and camera's on a tripod.
Oh, and carrying the thing around is backbreaking.
Oh, oh - I haven't read the article - that would be unslashdotlike.
I know they already exist, but I'm thinking in terms of their being commonplace.
Main CPU box worn on the body, display spectacles, wireless keyboard and mouse (if desired) or wireless input tablet a la Wacom if preferred. Maybe a decent voice recognition system for dictation.
All doable now, of course, but how long before it costs less than a thousand pounds?
The "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" comprises England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Isles of Scilly (but not, I believe, the Isle of Man);
England, Scotland and Wales are nations;
Great Britain is the mainland of England, Wales and Scotland.
Confusingly, if one is a citizen of one of the above, one is, according to my passport, a British Citizen.
I know that the Professional Version can import and export Visio documents, although I don't know how well it works. That said (and even if it works well) constantly importing and exporting in and out of OG would probably end in tears sooner or later, especially if it's a constant back and forth! Probably it's easier to stick with Visio and Windows, which you know to work.
If you like Visio, you might want to take a look at Omnigraffle (http://www.omnigroup.com/ which is for Mac OS X. My apologies if you already know of it (and I'm just a satisfied customer - no connections to the company).
A police state to save the environment is still a police state.
You're closer than perhaps you realise to an awkward fact (admittedly one of many) that politicians prefer to avoid: a deep green political agenda or scenario is actually quite authoritarian, since it requires people to give up comforts that they'd otherwise choose to keep. The logic is that to avoid the "tragedy if the commons"*, people need to be protected from themselves.
* From The Economist website: TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS
A 19th-century amateur mathematician, William Forster Lloyd, modelled the fate of a common pasture shared among rational, UTILITY-maximising herdsmen. He showed that as the POPULATION increased the pasture would inevitably be destroyed. This tragedy may be the fate of all sorts of common resources, because no individual, firm or group has meaningful PROPERTY RIGHTS that would make them think twice about using so much of it that it is destroyed.
Once a resource is being used at a rate near its sustainable capacity, any additional use will reduce its value to its current users. Thus they will increase their usage to maintain the value of the resource to them, resulting in a further deterioration in its value, and so on, until no value remains. Contemporary examples include overfishing and the polluting of the atmosphere. (See PUBLIC GOODS and EXTERNALITY.)
One of the advantages of the capatialst system, is that is does allow extreem wealth to be concentrated into the hands of those who know how to intelligently use it.
Of course, "intellegent use" is a catch-all phrase that does not preclude, maliciousness, selfishness, greed, dishonesty, or any number of equally pernicious human traits.
To conflate intelligence with a desire to do good is a mistake.
...everyone's getting so worked up about this 'big brother state', but what are you *honestly* doing that's gonna cause any serious concern/suspicion on the part of the ruling authorities?
The problem is that the ruling authorities define right and wrong. So if you do something that they define as "wrong", you're in trouble. And because you acquiesced in giving them those powers (for to do nothing is still to adopt an ethical position), you have no real comeback - you have given them a mandate to act as tyrants.
Like you, I'm irate that they want to charge for these things. But I'm terrified that they're succeeding in doing it at all.
Check out this page of photographs of Albert Einstein. When he developed his theory of relativity, he was in his twenties, and you will see that in the picture that shows him as a young man, he is dressed conventionally. He worked in a patent office at the time. His 'mad scientist' persona coincided with the ever-increasing media profile that came with the immense fame that followed his discoveries.
You could try SideTrack by Raging Menace - that allows for extensive modification of the trackpad including horizontal scrolling, and hot corners. At the moment, they say that they're still working on a MacBook Pro version. It has decent try before you buy period as well.
Modern UK dwellings still fall far behind German and Scandinavian standards - I believe that the requirements in terms of energy saving for UK dwellings are roughly where Sweden was in the in the 1950s or 1960s.
What's much worse, is that the regulations that do exist simply aren't enforced by the local authorities, so the actual standard of construction often falls below the required level.
Britain has a long legacy of promoting and carrying through such ideas. Ebenezer Howard came up with the concept of the Garden City in 1898, based on the ideas of Peter Kropotkin, which was intended to be self-sufficient and economically viable in the laissez-faire capitalist economic environment of the late 19th century. This legacy can be seen both in the garden cities such as Welwyn and Letchworth, and in the three generations of New Towns built after the second World War. Admittedly, arguments about the merits of these places rage to this day, although the underlying principles behind them, such as self-determination, and self-sufficiency are generally accepted, in that people will pay lip-service to them.
The concept has been updated by Colin Ward and Peter Hall in "Sociable Cities" (1998), and organisations such as the Town & Country Planning Association in the UK, and the Regional Pllaning Association in the US still acitvely campaign for more sustainable cities.
Disclaimer: I'm on the policy council of the TCPA.
As someone else said, it belongs, if anywhere, in a sociology class.
ID is nothing more and nothing less than a pseudo-scientific construct derived with the specific intention of disproving a particular scientific theory that its proponents find threatening to their religious beliefs, and in that respect it should be conceptualised in terms of the sociology that lies behind its original construction.
Interesting. I've just stopped using my Logitech MX510 and gone back to my Apple one-button mouse because the Logitech, for all its extra functionality, makes my wrist ache by virtue of its size.
This is a problem I've never had with Apple mice (which have all tended to be quite small). So I'm afraid I can't tell you why you should use one (and nor would I presume to), but I use one because I find it comfortable for hours at a time.
For drag and drop it's true - you have to hold the click while you're dragging.
But for accessing menu items, there's no need. Since Mac OS X came out in 2000 (IIRC) menus have been "sticky" so you can click and release once on say "Bookmarks" in Safari, and then move the mouse about to get to the relevant item. Clicking again once you've got there (with or without lifting the mouse en route) selects the item. This works for both my standard one button bluetooth mouse (which is small and very comfortable) and my Logitech MX 510 (which feels enormous and makes my wrist ache, but has lots of buttons).
"Apparently the best way to develop a "visually intuitive" user interface is glass and more animation!"
One would have hoped that MS had at least have learned from Apple's early faux pas with transparency in OS X (overuse, basically), and figured that it needs to be very carefully thought through.
The transparency is 10.4 is still there, but it's much more subtle than it was in 10.0, and in some cases (window title bars, for example) it's been eliminated, while in others, such as menus, it's been dramatically reduced. In terms of the basic interface, it seems to me that it's primarily used for icons and denoting the edges of windows, sheets and menus now.
Why the assumption that everyone wants to use dual monitors? I know VERY few people who use dual monitor set-ups, and the kinds of people at whom the iBook is aimed (not "power users") probably neither want nor need such a set up.
So for them it's not crippled. And for those for whom it matters, the possibility of the hack remains.
On Mac OS X, the windows are borderless (so more efficient use of space). The drop shadow around them is the visual cue that tells you where the window stops.
I guess the same applies to the menus, but it's not strictly necessary.
The other thing is, and this is purely subjective, is that if I'm going to spend 12 hours a day staring at a computer screen, I'd like it to look nice! But that's because I'm more productive when I'm in a good mood!
Slashdot Mirror
Good point.
...and the fact that Slashdot posts drivel like this is why I prefer Ars Technica. Shame really, Slashdot used to be informative.
I'd be quite happy if someone could come up with a quarter-size version of this built into a back that fits on my 1958 Rolleicord TLR. I have a feeling it'll be a very (inifinitely?) long wait! I suspect it would compete happily with 6x6 for my needs.
They sure aren't acting like a company that wants to take the market over.
Well maybe they're happy with the profits and hugely loyal customer base that they have. Steve Jobs has long since acknowledged that Microsoft won the "PC Wars" [1] and has also long held the view that Apple needed to innovate its way of its predicament in the late 1990s [2]. In my view, taking on Microsoft at its own game doesn't appear to be part of strategy. However, the fact that Jobs said to Bill Gates "Thank you for your support of this company. I think the world's a better place for it" suggests that co-existing peacefully with Microsoft is a part of their strategy[3].
[1] Linzmayer, O. (1999) Apple Confidential. (p.238) 1st edition. San Francisco: No Starch Press. Quote from an interview with Fortune magazine given in February 1996.
[2] Linzmayer, 1999, p.217
[3] Linzmayer, 1999, p.238
I've toyed with the idea of not voting too (I'm also in the UK) but in the end I decided that even if I felt there wasn't someone worth voting for, there were plenty of people worth voting against so I did that instead of not voting. For me, and I accept that this is a hugely personal matter, it's important to be able to say, when criticising this government, that I tried to stop them from being elected.
In the 1920s, the first 35 mm camera (the Leica) had barely reached its teens, and certainly not wide acceptance. Plate cameras were far more common, and guess what, you stand back and look at the image on a screen to frame it. The main difference in terms of compsing the picture is that the screen is bigger (the size of the negative itself), the image is upside down, and camera's on a tripod.
Oh, and carrying the thing around is backbreaking.
Oh, oh - I haven't read the article - that would be unslashdotlike.
I know they already exist, but I'm thinking in terms of their being commonplace.
Main CPU box worn on the body, display spectacles, wireless keyboard and mouse (if desired) or wireless input tablet a la Wacom if preferred. Maybe a decent voice recognition system for dictation.
All doable now, of course, but how long before it costs less than a thousand pounds?
To clarify:
The "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" comprises England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Isles of Scilly (but not, I believe, the Isle of Man);
England, Scotland and Wales are nations;
Great Britain is the mainland of England, Wales and Scotland.
Confusingly, if one is a citizen of one of the above, one is, according to my passport, a British Citizen.
Hope that helps!
Charlie
I know that the Professional Version can import and export Visio documents, although I don't know how well it works. That said (and even if it works well) constantly importing and exporting in and out of OG would probably end in tears sooner or later, especially if it's a constant back and forth! Probably it's easier to stick with Visio and Windows, which you know to work.
Regards
Charlie
If you like Visio, you might want to take a look at Omnigraffle (http://www.omnigroup.com/ which is for Mac OS X. My apologies if you already know of it (and I'm just a satisfied customer - no connections to the company).
Best regards
Charlie
Facts don't exist. What is fact and what is fiction changes depending upon whom you are talking to.
That is of course your opinion. But how do I know it's right?
A police state to save the environment is still a police state.
You're closer than perhaps you realise to an awkward fact (admittedly one of many) that politicians prefer to avoid: a deep green political agenda or scenario is actually quite authoritarian, since it requires people to give up comforts that they'd otherwise choose to keep. The logic is that to avoid the "tragedy if the commons"*, people need to be protected from themselves.
* From The Economist website:
TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS
A 19th-century amateur mathematician, William Forster Lloyd, modelled the fate of a common pasture shared among rational, UTILITY-maximising herdsmen. He showed that as the POPULATION increased the pasture would inevitably be destroyed. This tragedy may be the fate of all sorts of common resources, because no individual, firm or group has meaningful PROPERTY RIGHTS that would make them think twice about using so much of it that it is destroyed.
Once a resource is being used at a rate near its sustainable capacity, any additional use will reduce its value to its current users. Thus they will increase their usage to maintain the value of the resource to them, resulting in a further deterioration in its value, and so on, until no value remains. Contemporary examples include overfishing and the polluting of the atmosphere. (See PUBLIC GOODS and EXTERNALITY.)
One of the advantages of the capatialst system, is that is does allow extreem wealth to be concentrated into the hands of those who know how to intelligently use it.
Of course, "intellegent use" is a catch-all phrase that does not preclude, maliciousness, selfishness, greed, dishonesty, or any number of equally pernicious human traits.
To conflate intelligence with a desire to do good is a mistake.
The problem is that the ruling authorities define right and wrong. So if you do something that they define as "wrong", you're in trouble. And because you acquiesced in giving them those powers (for to do nothing is still to adopt an ethical position), you have no real comeback - you have given them a mandate to act as tyrants.
Like you, I'm irate that they want to charge for these things. But I'm terrified that they're succeeding in doing it at all.
Check out this page of photographs of Albert Einstein. When he developed his theory of relativity, he was in his twenties, and you will see that in the picture that shows him as a young man, he is dressed conventionally. He worked in a patent office at the time. His 'mad scientist' persona coincided with the ever-increasing media profile that came with the immense fame that followed his discoveries.
a y/Einstein.html
Here's the link.
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/PictDispl
You could try SideTrack by Raging Menace - that allows for extensive modification of the trackpad including horizontal scrolling, and hot corners. At the moment, they say that they're still working on a MacBook Pro version. It has decent try before you buy period as well.
I don't work for them, just a satisfied customer.
Here's a link http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/sidetrack/
Regards
Charlie
Modern UK dwellings still fall far behind German and Scandinavian standards - I believe that the requirements in terms of energy saving for UK dwellings are roughly where Sweden was in the in the 1950s or 1960s.
What's much worse, is that the regulations that do exist simply aren't enforced by the local authorities, so the actual standard of construction often falls below the required level.
I think Steve Jobs once said that he wanted Apple to be the next Sony. Don't have time to chase up references, though!
Season's greetings to all from Manchester, England!
Charlie
Britain has a long legacy of promoting and carrying through such ideas. Ebenezer Howard came up with the concept of the Garden City in 1898, based on the ideas of Peter Kropotkin, which was intended to be self-sufficient and economically viable in the laissez-faire capitalist economic environment of the late 19th century. This legacy can be seen both in the garden cities such as Welwyn and Letchworth, and in the three generations of New Towns built after the second World War. Admittedly, arguments about the merits of these places rage to this day, although the underlying principles behind them, such as self-determination, and self-sufficiency are generally accepted, in that people will pay lip-service to them.
The concept has been updated by Colin Ward and Peter Hall in "Sociable Cities" (1998), and organisations such as the Town & Country Planning Association in the UK, and the Regional Pllaning Association in the US still acitvely campaign for more sustainable cities.
Disclaimer: I'm on the policy council of the TCPA.
Nick Green
As someone else said, it belongs, if anywhere, in a sociology class.
ID is nothing more and nothing less than a pseudo-scientific construct derived with the specific intention of disproving a particular scientific theory that its proponents find threatening to their religious beliefs, and in that respect it should be conceptualised in terms of the sociology that lies behind its original construction.
That's It. End of story.
Interesting. I've just stopped using my Logitech MX510 and gone back to my Apple one-button mouse because the Logitech, for all its extra functionality, makes my wrist ache by virtue of its size.
This is a problem I've never had with Apple mice (which have all tended to be quite small). So I'm afraid I can't tell you why you should use one (and nor would I presume to), but I use one because I find it comfortable for hours at a time.
For drag and drop it's true - you have to hold the click while you're dragging.
But for accessing menu items, there's no need. Since Mac OS X came out in 2000 (IIRC) menus have been "sticky" so you can click and release once on say "Bookmarks" in Safari, and then move the mouse about to get to the relevant item. Clicking again once you've got there (with or without lifting the mouse en route) selects the item. This works for both my standard one button bluetooth mouse (which is small and very comfortable) and my Logitech MX 510 (which feels enormous and makes my wrist ache, but has lots of buttons).
Hope that helps.
"Apparently the best way to develop a "visually intuitive" user interface is glass and more animation!"
One would have hoped that MS had at least have learned from Apple's early faux pas with transparency in OS X (overuse, basically), and figured that it needs to be very carefully thought through.
The transparency is 10.4 is still there, but it's much more subtle than it was in 10.0, and in some cases (window title bars, for example) it's been eliminated, while in others, such as menus, it's been dramatically reduced. In terms of the basic interface, it seems to me that it's primarily used for icons and denoting the edges of windows, sheets and menus now.
Any other views on overuse of transparency?
Why the assumption that everyone wants to use dual monitors? I know VERY few people who use dual monitor set-ups, and the kinds of people at whom the iBook is aimed (not "power users") probably neither want nor need such a set up.
So for them it's not crippled. And for those for whom it matters, the possibility of the hack remains.
On Mac OS X, the windows are borderless (so more efficient use of space). The drop shadow around them is the visual cue that tells you where the window stops.
I guess the same applies to the menus, but it's not strictly necessary.
The other thing is, and this is purely subjective, is that if I'm going to spend 12 hours a day staring at a computer screen, I'd like it to look nice! But that's because I'm more productive when I'm in a good mood!