you voice a strong and by consequence wrong opinion.
Huh? To me that seems a rather clear non sequitur, but maybe I'm reading you wrong. It may be strong, and/or it may be wrong, but I certainly hope that one does not follow from the other!
Although, it would be an interesting twist to a debate, balancing good, weak arguments against strong, wrong ones.:-p
My best guess is that the name Apple was intended to be symbolic for "conveyor of insights" or something along those lines, hinting at the apple that hit Newton on the head.
when I write by hand I'm starting to write letters out of order. Say I want to hand write "literacy", I end up writing "ilterayc" or something like that. [...] I doesn't stress me out, but it does makes me wonder.
You're not alone, I'm doing the same thing myself. Albeit not on every line down the page, but certainly a few times on each page. It's very peculiar. Perhaps it's because writing is a slower process by hand than by keyboard, and we've become so accustomed to the new speed that, when handwriting, we "outthink" our hand and get a sort of "frame drop" or hiccup in the buffer? I'm sure it's something along those neurological lines...
And this news from China and Japan makes me even the more curious about this and the effect of computers in daily hand writing. Be it kanji or latin, heavy computer usage certainly seems to have a negative effect in basic writing skills.
I had a different thought: every now and then, there's debate whether or not "lol", "l33t", and so on should become part of the formal vocabulary since they are already part of the informal vocabulary -- taking this a step further, maybe it's time the Chinese should reconsider their use of that obviously very complicated glyph system, and maybe switch to something simpler (say, romulan)? I've got nothing personal against the chinese, but TFA was about their type of writing specifically. We've been optimising the hell out of everything else, so why not writing systems as well?
of course, the problem is gravity here is not strong enough for it
I don't think stronger gravity would help -- at any gravity, while heavy elements sink into atmo, the lighter ones would float to the top, as it were, and drift away. The problem is the presence of heavier elements... as well as what the other respondents say.
Well, yes, brand recognition. But they're going about it wrong. At least around here, ads are of the amazingly annoying variety, so any brand recognition would end up manifesting itself as "oh yeah, Brand X, that's them with those annoying ads. What else you got that does the same thing?".
Okay, let's follow this train of thought: - Oracle wins, forcing destruction of all copies that violate copyright. - This means _all_ Android handsets must be not only factory reset, but zapped entirely. This also includes _all 3rd party_ apps and services from the professional and recreational community. That's _a lot_ of software. - All Android users will be up in arms. - Hundreds of thousands of Americans will file a class action law suit (but against whom, Google or Oracle?). - Hundreds of thousands of non-Americans will (AFAIK?) not be able to participate in that American lawsuit, but there will most likely be a similar suit on EU-level (by users or by a trade commission).
In the end, the big loser will be the many individuals who were not able to partake in, or did not benefit from, any of the lawsuits, and/or(!) relied upon (as in: have stored data in) apps for which no other alternative exists, or whose data cannot be migrated.
...or Google will repurpose the whole software/user base with a different --and hopefully compatible!-- OS.
That is my thought, too. Although her ability to do so depends not only on her physical ability, but also on her mental perspective on her own impending death. (Wasn't this essentially what Randy Pausch* did?)
I would suggest that HER memories, her thoughts and concerns, her dreams are what need to be preserved. What I would do is to write several long, hand-written letters to my daughters, separated for different periods of their lives, so that they have some measure of "mom" available to support them when they really need her down the road.
Letters are easy to keep and simple to access. The last thing you want is to be dependent on some old technology when you're sitting there sobbing, longing for a loved one.
(* Randy Pausch: The Last Lecture http://www.thelastlecture.com/ takes about an hour to watch, but then you'll want to share it with your loved ones, and watch it again on occasion.)
As the other poster said, airflow. It's really your friend if you want to keep your system's noise level down. And if you're particular about your components (or software), a Mac Mini (or similarly-sized case) is probably not the best bet.
It's a very interesting solution, and good to know that its price and space competitive -- but what about noise? Yes, I realise that you may just not care, and that's fine, but I do, and that's why I'm asking. Don't four drives make an awful racket, what with both spindle noise and their cross harmonics? Are they suspended/dampened/cooled in a sensible way?
I have four of those 5" bays, and one 3" bay (screw the decimals:-p ). I have one DVD-drive, but the rest are not used for anything at all but air. Why then? The Antec P182 is one of the best for passive cooling, featuring lots of sound damping and, yes, open space for hot air to go and dissipate in. I'm running a 3GHz dual-core CPU with a passive cooler (and it's doing just fine).
I'd sooner just buy a smaller PC without the bays. Heck, why doesn't anyone make a single piece keyboard like the old Atari 800, or C=64, or Amiga 500?
Um, wasn't there a story about this just the other day?
Oh yeah, here it is: Commodore 64 Primed For a Comeback In June on 2010-03-24 14:09 Posted by timothy on 2010-03-24 14:09 from the new-use-old-number dept. angry tapir writes "The Commodore 64 is getting a makeover, with a new design and some of the latest computing technologies, as the brand gets primed for a comeback. The revamped computer will be available through the Commodore USA online store, which is set to open June 1. The computer will be an all-in-one keyboard, with Intel's 64-bit quad-core microprocessors and 3D graphics capabilities."
Yeah, I have a sinking feeling that that "consumer support" is nothing more than " lack of active consumer opposition". You can shovel shit over the counter and still make a profit, if that's what all the other shops do, too. Or "counter"="news reports" and "shops"="political parties", if you want to pretend this is really about governing (in which case "consumers" is an odd choice of word).
Victor Borge: Many years ago in Denmark we had inflation, and you are familiar with that problem. In inflation, we have numbers rising. Prices go up. Anything that has to do with money goes up...except the language. See, we have hidden numbers in the words like "wonderful," "before," "create," "tenderly." All these numbers can be inflated and meet the economy, you know, by rising to the occcassion. I suggest we add one to each of these numbers to be prepared. For example "wonderful" would be "two-derful." Before would be Be-five. Create, cre-nine. Tenderly should be eleven-derly. A Leiutenant would be a Leiut-eleven-ant. A sentance like, "I ate a tenderloin with my fork" would be "I nine an elevenderloin with my five-k." And so on and so fifth. I have a book here that I have brought, I have a story here that I would like to read to you so that you can get an idea of Inflationary Language, how it sounds when it's being used:
Twice upon a time, there lived in Sunny Califivenia a young man named Bob. He was a third leiutelevenant in the US Air Fiveces. Bob had been fond of Anna, his one-and-a-half sister, ever since she saw the light of day for the second time. And all three of them were proud of the fact that two of his fivefathers had been among the crenineders of the US Constithreetion.
They were dining on the terrace. "Anna," he said as he took a bite of a marininded herring, "You look twoderful threenight. You never looked that lovely befive." Anna looked twoderful, despite of the illness from which she had not yet recupininded. "Yes," repeated Bob, "You look twoderful threenight...but you have three of the saddest eyes I have ever seen."
The table was tastefully deconinded with Anna's favorite flowers: Threelips. They were now talking about Anna's asseten husband, from whom she was sepeninded. While on the radio, an Irish elevenor sang "Tea For Three." it was midnight; A clock in the distance struck thirteen. And suddenly, there in the moonlight stood her husband Don Two, obviously intoxicnineded.
"Anna," he said, "Fivegive me. I am only young twice and you are my two and only." Bob jumped to his feet, "Get out of here, you three-faced triplecrosser!" But Anna warned, "Watch out, Bob. He is an officer." "Yes, he is two. But I am two three!"
Anytwo five elevennis?
"All right," said Don Two as he wiped his fivehead. He then left and when he was one-and-a-halfway through the revolving door, he muttered, "I'll go back to Elevennessee and be double again. Farewell, Anna. Three-de-loo, three-de-loo.
Exactly. I'm in the unfortunate position that one of my clients uses just that, spaces and tabs for newlines. To read each of her emails, I have to resize my mail app to the size hers was when she wrote it. *smacks forehead* Such is the life of a modern IT worker...
Under this same logic, Egyptian pyramids are a total engineering failure, because most likely there was no requirement for them to last 4000+ years.
Are you sure? I was under the impression that they built those tombs exactly so that they *would* provide eternal shelter for the bodily remains, which the afterlife-god is somehow still dependent upon.
Har har har. But that's actually been discussed, and discarded. It's a *very* long trek, and in the mean time Spirit would be dead anyway. Sad, in a way.
As for "developer's option" whether or not to cache, let's be honest... at least half the developers publishing commercial apps don't have the slightest clue in HELL how to implement a secure caching scheme, and they aren't going to purchase a proprietary one that demands more money up front than they're likely to earn from the app's sale. So, anybody care to guess what's going to happen? Most apps in Market are going to end up checking the server every goddamn time, because the alternatives are too hard/expensive for most Android publishers to deal with.
First of all, the devs don't have to implement very much else than an API call ("LicenseChecker.checkAccess()") and supplying code for the two callbacks "allow()" and "dontAllow()". See http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/licensing.html (yeah, they call it a "licensing service" rather than DRM, no real surprise).
Second, it's very easy for devs to choose the best (from our point of view) option: you use an instance of either "ServerManagedPolicy" (uses cache fallback) or "StrictPolicy" (insists on connection).
Maybe if paid apps for android market where available for everywhere, piracy rates would be much smaller. I'd rather google made paid apps available everywhere before they add DRM.
...or just came out and said what the hell it is we're waiting for. As it is, it might take another month, or another decade -- we have no clue.:-(
The problem is trying to type things that aren't complete words
or needing to use words from two (or more) languages. On most systems, switching between dictionaries is rather roundabout -- if a dictionary even exists. And sometimes, a different keyboard layout is involved as well, although in that case I grant that a touchscreen has the advantage.
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you voice a strong and by consequence wrong opinion.
Huh? To me that seems a rather clear non sequitur, but maybe I'm reading you wrong. It may be strong, and/or it may be wrong, but I certainly hope that one does not follow from the other!
Although, it would be an interesting twist to a debate, balancing good, weak arguments against strong, wrong ones. :-p
I never understood why that wasn't standard treatment for links in submitted articles...?
My best guess is that the name Apple was intended to be symbolic for "conveyor of insights" or something along those lines, hinting at the apple that hit Newton on the head.
Here's an image of the "Apple I Operation Manual", which shows the pre-apple Apple logo.
http://www.vintage.org/special/2003/apple-1/apple-1-manual.jpg
Later on, Jobs was thinking about a "bicycles for the mind" analogy.
when I write by hand I'm starting to write letters out of order. Say I want to hand write "literacy", I end up writing "ilterayc" or something like that. [...] I doesn't stress me out, but it does makes me wonder.
You're not alone, I'm doing the same thing myself. Albeit not on every line down the page, but certainly a few times on each page. It's very peculiar. Perhaps it's because writing is a slower process by hand than by keyboard, and we've become so accustomed to the new speed that, when handwriting, we "outthink" our hand and get a sort of "frame drop" or hiccup in the buffer? I'm sure it's something along those neurological lines...
And this news from China and Japan makes me even the more curious about this and the effect of computers in daily hand writing. Be it kanji or latin, heavy computer usage certainly seems to have a negative effect in basic writing skills.
I had a different thought: every now and then, there's debate whether or not "lol", "l33t", and so on should become part of the formal vocabulary since they are already part of the informal vocabulary -- taking this a step further, maybe it's time the Chinese should reconsider their use of that obviously very complicated glyph system, and maybe switch to something simpler (say, romulan)? I've got nothing personal against the chinese, but TFA was about their type of writing specifically. We've been optimising the hell out of everything else, so why not writing systems as well?
of course, the problem is gravity here is not strong enough for it
I don't think stronger gravity would help -- at any gravity, while heavy elements sink into atmo, the lighter ones would float to the top, as it were, and drift away. The problem is the presence of heavier elements ... as well as what the other respondents say.
Well, yes, brand recognition. But they're going about it wrong. At least around here, ads are of the amazingly annoying variety, so any brand recognition would end up manifesting itself as "oh yeah, Brand X, that's them with those annoying ads. What else you got that does the same thing?".
Okay, let's follow this train of thought:
- Oracle wins, forcing destruction of all copies that violate copyright.
- This means _all_ Android handsets must be not only factory reset, but zapped entirely. This also includes _all 3rd party_ apps and services from the professional and recreational community. That's _a lot_ of software.
- All Android users will be up in arms.
- Hundreds of thousands of Americans will file a class action law suit (but against whom, Google or Oracle?).
- Hundreds of thousands of non-Americans will (AFAIK?) not be able to participate in that American lawsuit, but there will most likely be a similar suit on EU-level (by users or by a trade commission).
In the end, the big loser will be the many individuals who were not able to partake in, or did not benefit from, any of the lawsuits, and/or(!) relied upon (as in: have stored data in) apps for which no other alternative exists, or whose data cannot be migrated.
What a fun idea! ... just make sure to have the really important tests at the beginning, and the nice-to-have's at the end. Just sayin'.
That is my thought, too. Although her ability to do so depends not only on her physical ability, but also on her mental perspective on her own impending death. (Wasn't this essentially what Randy Pausch* did?)
I would suggest that HER memories, her thoughts and concerns, her dreams are what need to be preserved. What I would do is to write several long, hand-written letters to my daughters, separated for different periods of their lives, so that they have some measure of "mom" available to support them when they really need her down the road.
Letters are easy to keep and simple to access. The last thing you want is to be dependent on some old technology when you're sitting there sobbing, longing for a loved one.
(* Randy Pausch: The Last Lecture http://www.thelastlecture.com/ takes about an hour to watch, but then you'll want to share it with your loved ones, and watch it again on occasion.)
As the other poster said, airflow. It's really your friend if you want to keep your system's noise level down. And if you're particular about your components (or software), a Mac Mini (or similarly-sized case) is probably not the best bet.
It's a very interesting solution, and good to know that its price and space competitive -- but what about noise? Yes, I realise that you may just not care, and that's fine, but I do, and that's why I'm asking. Don't four drives make an awful racket, what with both spindle noise and their cross harmonics? Are they suspended/dampened/cooled in a sensible way?
I have four of those 5" bays, and one 3" bay (screw the decimals:-p ). I have one DVD-drive, but the rest are not used for anything at all but air. Why then? The Antec P182 is one of the best for passive cooling, featuring lots of sound damping and, yes, open space for hot air to go and dissipate in. I'm running a 3GHz dual-core CPU with a passive cooler (and it's doing just fine).
I'd sooner just buy a smaller PC without the bays. Heck, why doesn't anyone make a single piece keyboard like the old Atari 800, or C=64, or Amiga 500?
Um, wasn't there a story about this just the other day?
Oh yeah, here it is:
Commodore 64 Primed For a Comeback In June on 2010-03-24 14:09
Posted by timothy on 2010-03-24 14:09
from the new-use-old-number dept.
angry tapir writes "The Commodore 64 is getting a makeover, with a new design and some of the latest computing technologies, as the brand gets primed for a comeback. The revamped computer will be available through the Commodore USA online store, which is set to open June 1. The computer will be an all-in-one keyboard, with Intel's 64-bit quad-core microprocessors and 3D graphics capabilities."
PS: here's an image of the new thing:
http://www.arnnet.com.au/slideshow/340148/commodore_64_awakes_from_slumber_makeover/?image=2
Yeah, I have a sinking feeling that that "consumer support" is nothing more than " lack of active consumer opposition". You can shovel shit over the counter and still make a profit, if that's what all the other shops do, too. Or "counter"="news reports" and "shops"="political parties", if you want to pretend this is really about governing (in which case "consumers" is an odd choice of word).
Victor Borge: Many years ago in Denmark we had inflation, and you are familiar with that problem. In inflation, we have numbers rising. Prices go up. Anything that has to do with money goes up...except the language. See, we have hidden numbers in the words like "wonderful," "before," "create," "tenderly." All these numbers can be inflated and meet the economy, you know, by rising to the occcassion. I suggest we add one to each of these numbers to be prepared. For example "wonderful" would be "two-derful." Before would be Be-five. Create, cre-nine. Tenderly should be eleven-derly. A Leiutenant would be a Leiut-eleven-ant. A sentance like, "I ate a tenderloin with my fork" would be "I nine an elevenderloin with my five-k." And so on and so fifth. I have a book here that I have brought, I have a story here that I would like to read to you so that you can get an idea of Inflationary Language, how it sounds when it's being used:
Twice upon a time, there lived in Sunny Califivenia a young man named Bob. He was a third leiutelevenant in the US Air Fiveces. Bob had been fond of Anna, his one-and-a-half sister, ever since she saw the light of day for the second time. And all three of them were proud of the fact that two of his fivefathers had been among the crenineders of the US Constithreetion.
They were dining on the terrace. "Anna," he said as he took a bite of a marininded herring, "You look twoderful threenight. You never looked that lovely befive." Anna looked twoderful, despite of the illness from which she had not yet recupininded. "Yes," repeated Bob, "You look twoderful threenight...but you have three of the saddest eyes I have ever seen."
The table was tastefully deconinded with Anna's favorite flowers: Threelips. They were now talking about Anna's asseten husband, from whom she was sepeninded. While on the radio, an Irish elevenor sang "Tea For Three." it was midnight; A clock in the distance struck thirteen. And suddenly, there in the moonlight stood her husband Don Two, obviously intoxicnineded.
"Anna," he said, "Fivegive me. I am only young twice and you are my two and only." Bob jumped to his feet, "Get out of here, you three-faced triplecrosser!" But Anna warned, "Watch out, Bob. He is an officer." "Yes, he is two. But I am two three!"
Anytwo five elevennis?
"All right," said Don Two as he wiped his fivehead. He then left and when he was one-and-a-halfway through the revolving door, he muttered, "I'll go back to Elevennessee and be double again. Farewell, Anna. Three-de-loo, three-de-loo.
Credits: Victor Borge,
via http://www.whysanity.net/monos/victor_borge.html
Exactly. I'm in the unfortunate position that one of my clients uses just that, spaces and tabs for newlines. To read each of her emails, I have to resize my mail app to the size hers was when she wrote it. *smacks forehead* Such is the life of a modern IT worker...
I use four-tab spaces. ...and write *very* concise code, or it won't fit on the lines.
Under this same logic, Egyptian pyramids are a total engineering failure, because most likely there was no requirement for them to last 4000+ years.
Are you sure? I was under the impression that they built those tombs exactly so that they *would* provide eternal shelter for the bodily remains, which the afterlife-god is somehow still dependent upon.
Har har har. But that's actually been discussed, and discarded. It's a *very* long trek, and in the mean time Spirit would be dead anyway. Sad, in a way.
When I die, I'd like to go peacefully in my sleep, like grandpa.
Not screaming and panicking, like his passengers. (badum-tish)
http://xkcd.com/538/
That is all.
As for "developer's option" whether or not to cache, let's be honest... at least half the developers publishing commercial apps don't have the slightest clue in HELL how to implement a secure caching scheme, and they aren't going to purchase a proprietary one that demands more money up front than they're likely to earn from the app's sale. So, anybody care to guess what's going to happen? Most apps in Market are going to end up checking the server every goddamn time, because the alternatives are too hard/expensive for most Android publishers to deal with.
First of all, the devs don't have to implement very much else than an API call ("LicenseChecker.checkAccess()") and supplying code for the two callbacks "allow()" and "dontAllow()". See http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/licensing.html (yeah, they call it a "licensing service" rather than DRM, no real surprise).
Second, it's very easy for devs to choose the best (from our point of view) option: you use an instance of either "ServerManagedPolicy" (uses cache fallback) or "StrictPolicy" (insists on connection).
As I'm sure you've read from the other comments by now, a simple yet huge factor is the non-availability of paid apps in so many countries.
Maybe if paid apps for android market where available for everywhere, piracy rates would be much smaller. I'd rather google made paid apps available everywhere before they add DRM.
...or just came out and said what the hell it is we're waiting for. As it is, it might take another month, or another decade -- we have no clue. :-(
The problem is trying to type things that aren't complete words
or needing to use words from two (or more) languages. On most systems, switching between dictionaries is rather roundabout -- if a dictionary even exists. And sometimes, a different keyboard layout is involved as well, although in that case I grant that a touchscreen has the advantage.