Maybe if Cherry-OS had gone quietly into the night (with a little "my bad" message) the FIRST time that he showed it off, and everybody and their brother explained to him that what he was doing was ripping them off, your defense would hold some water. But they kept trying to push it, and kept trying to claim it was original work, in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. This makes him more than dumb, foolish, and incompetant. It makes him a grade-A jerk. And the longer that a person acts like a jerk (months in his case) the longer his comeuppance will likely be.
Yep, but that doesn't mean I have to like it;) Anyways, if all of those cities were providing an outlet for the excess population, Tempe's housing market should stay in lockstep with them. Vice Versa, if capacity was the only thing driving up the market rate, 30 and 40 year old houses in the rest of the valley would be pacing Tempe's prices, but they aren't. The same Del Web house in Tempe and Glendale will be priced differently. I just paid around 15K (~10%) less for a nice condo **just north across the river** in a decent neighborhood than I would have for a crappier one in Tempe. The fact is, Tempe provides a different environment than those cities. That 852** zip code is worth something.
And it's a good thing, because sprawl provides an unsustainable tax base--it only generates taxes when its being built; after that, it begins to consume more services than it can provide for. The only answer is more sprawl, pyramid-scheme style. Sprawl also decays in the middle alarmingly quickly. Witness the 15 year old developments that are already turning south. In a decade, Tempe's economy will be diversified and stable, and will be able to weather a burst in the real estate bubble. The other cities will all be wrecked.
While true, ASU's student population hasn't doubled in the last five years. Meanwhile, the price of a house nearly has. I hesitate to put more than a fraction of this on the students, who aren't usually looking to buy $250K houses and $300K condos.
*Sigh.* For the folks unfamiliar with AZ politics, Sheriff Joe is the Sheriff of Maricopa County, not "Sheriff of Tempe." How I feel about Sheriff Joe is irrelevant to a discussion of Tempe's merits. His lot is decided by about 3 million more people than live in Tempe (pop. ~160K). Even if everybody in Tempe (one of the more liberal cities) voted against Sheriff Joe, they'd only represent a tiny fraction of the vote. You might as well say "You just love George Bush, don't you?" or "You just love Janet Napolitano, don't you?"
>Tucson, on the other hand, *is* surrounded by mountains.
Lol. Who cares? I said, "Tempe is one of the best run cities in the valley." For those who don't know, Tucson (>100 miles away) is not in the same valley as Tempe. On top of that, what Arizonans colloquially refer to as "the Valley," is the Phoenix Metro area. While there are other valleys in AZ that get that treatment, *nobody* refers to the location of Tucson as "the valley." Tucson is completely irrelevant to a discussion about the merits of Tempe WHEN COMPARED TO OTHER VALLEY CITIES.
Futhermore, given this ingenius arguement, Tucson is *not* landlocked, as it can annex its way through Marana right up I-10 to Phoenix if it so chooses. Which it will not. As another respondant pointed out, a city (country, state, etc) can be POLITICALLY landlocked as well as GEOGRAPHICALLY.
Dear Parent: Next time you want to be pompous, at least keep it on topic. Also, knowing what you're talking about helps, too.
Tempe is one of the best-run cities in the valley (make that THE BEST). As one of the only land-locked cities, the powers-that-be are interested in doing more than just sprawling out another patch of stripmalls and stucco houses--they're being forced to compete for business and residents by improving services and density. Yes, Daisy, competition works in government, too!
Unfortunately, it's making housing prices go through the roof (even compared to the rest of the valley), and it's pricing some of us young urban professionals out (even though I really wanted to stay and 'vote' my support for Tempe with my feet & taxes). Hopefully some of that free wireless will make it accross the river into Phoenix, where I had to move:(
Having recently spent almost 6 years in college (4.5 in engineering, 1 in education), I can faithfully attest that only about 0.001% (that's a generous 1 in 1000) of college students record lectures. If that many. I think parent's point stands; this is a niche feature (at BEST) that is perfectly suited for niche products and aftermarket add-ons. Just because you (and I'm not knocking you) use it for a specific application (recording a language class), doesn't mean it's an important mass-market feature.
I work as a teacher, and it absolutely kills me everytime some kid wearing a "Disturbed" shirt, greasy mod haircut, with pierced lip, reading a skate punk magazine complains about "conformists."
Doing things "to be different" just makes you a different kind of teeny bopper fashion slave, it doesn't make you original--you are paying just as much (if not more) time and stupid attention to trendy bullshit as they are. Doing what you like and what you need to do, and not feeling guilty about it or worrying about what other people think, does.
Think about it: they wouldn't just open Fairplay; they'd open EVERYBODY's DRM. Including Microsoft's!!:D
That sounds like the kind of kamikaze mission Apple would be happy to send their DRM scheme into. Isn't the consensus on/. that Fairplay is consistently engineered to be "just good enough" to keep the record companies at bay? Why NOT use their position to try and spoil everybody's fun?
I have heard it is. Several of Apples' recent software updates (10.3.whatever) have, I am told, been very favorable to WoW (tweaks that speeded it up)--basically, Apple going out of their way to make sure this popular game works great on the machines Blizzard says it will work on.
Same here; I have had my iBook G4/800 for exactly a year (I know because Apple called me to tell me that my warranty is expiring!) and I always wrote off iPods (and basically MP3 players) as being 'not for me;' the ones I like are too expensive, and I wouldn't use it enough to justify.
But I've been eyeing that iPod shuffle very jealously lately......
I remember when the EV1 came out a few years ago, we would see them from time to time around Phoenix and Tucson. Compared to the other models from those years, I thought they were pretty nice for a sporty coupe. Certanly no uglier than the Ford Probes and Toyota Celicas. They supposedly had a range of around a hundred miles for a charge. This didn't seem like much, until you figured in that most of the people using them had chargers at work and home. The charger was cool, too, because it was inductive so it could be used by toddlers in a rainstorm; it was completely shielded and posed no electrocution danger.
Not only that, but the EV1 was partially designed to counter the stereotype of the "gutless" electric car--apparently, they had plenty of power, handled well in rush hour traffic, and were just a fun to drive coupe... but at the cost of some range.
Really. Wouldn't it be refreshing if Microsoft offered customers a choice and let THEM decide what best fits their needs, instead of choosing for them?
Excel isn't for prettiness; Excel can be the engineer's duct tape, or envelope-back. It 'excels' at quick-n'-dirty, with the emphasis on quick. Nobody worth their credentials uses it for plotting important data, but you can make some nifty simple models in Excel before going for that 'elegant solution' with a big-gun package. It's one of the few MS programs that (most of the time) Just Works. You can import or paste in all sorts of bizarrely formated data, and see some results quickly.
They're only referred to as the "British" or "Imperial" units by tradition; really the modern units used in the US diverged from their counterpart Imperial units in (or before) the 19th century and are more properly called "US Customary" units.
'Hoax' and 'fraud' are pretty strong words for what is, with little investigation, obviously a spoof. I mean really; if I posted a link to the Onion on slashdot, that doesn't mean the *article* was a fraud--the scam was that it got past the crack editorial staff.
If you want confirmation, just go read his article on lapping and you'll see that yes, it is tongue-firmly-in-cheek. The silly staged 'cooking' pictures also could have clued you in;)
(I'm not an electrical engineer and I caught this one...)
Agreed! FALLOUT is perfect, the worlds are huge, the stories varied, the pace and control are well-suited for mouse-only. Also, I'd throw in the Sims; it's 'kind of' an RTS because it does move in real time, but moves at a pace that's much easier to work around than more frenetic games like Starcraft... plus it's insanely addictive.
If you want to play an MMORPG, try City of Heroes. The battles feel practically turnbased; it would be less sensative to a little 'latency' than other FPS. Then again, I may be talking out of my nether-regions here...
Try this with City of Heroes; same thing. I didn't go so far as calling them, since I was using my bro's disks, and his account was inactive. I just called him and got his login info, then reactivated his account with my creditcard.
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It was amusingly difficult to switch back after I turned my screen upside down... lol...
Like all the other rubes who've posted above me, I had to quit System Pref's and restart it to get the option back.
And just like he said, you are a niche customer buying a niche product in a niche market. NOT what Apple goes after.
Maybe if Cherry-OS had gone quietly into the night (with a little "my bad" message) the FIRST time that he showed it off, and everybody and their brother explained to him that what he was doing was ripping them off, your defense would hold some water. But they kept trying to push it, and kept trying to claim it was original work, in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. This makes him more than dumb, foolish, and incompetant. It makes him a grade-A jerk. And the longer that a person acts like a jerk (months in his case) the longer his comeuppance will likely be.
Well, not exactly what you want, but the Stickies program is still there... so you could just use the old stickies.
Cheers ;)
I should have said 8528*
Yep, but that doesn't mean I have to like it ;) Anyways, if all of those cities were providing an outlet for the excess population, Tempe's housing market should stay in lockstep with them. Vice Versa, if capacity was the only thing driving up the market rate, 30 and 40 year old houses in the rest of the valley would be pacing Tempe's prices, but they aren't. The same Del Web house in Tempe and Glendale will be priced differently. I just paid around 15K (~10%) less for a nice condo **just north across the river** in a decent neighborhood than I would have for a crappier one in Tempe. The fact is, Tempe provides a different environment than those cities. That 852** zip code is worth something.
And it's a good thing, because sprawl provides an unsustainable tax base--it only generates taxes when its being built; after that, it begins to consume more services than it can provide for. The only answer is more sprawl, pyramid-scheme style. Sprawl also decays in the middle alarmingly quickly. Witness the 15 year old developments that are already turning south. In a decade, Tempe's economy will be diversified and stable, and will be able to weather a burst in the real estate bubble. The other cities will all be wrecked.
While true, ASU's student population hasn't doubled in the last five years. Meanwhile, the price of a house nearly has. I hesitate to put more than a fraction of this on the students, who aren't usually looking to buy $250K houses and $300K condos.
>You just love Sherriff Joe, don't you?
*Sigh.* For the folks unfamiliar with AZ politics, Sheriff Joe is the Sheriff of Maricopa County, not "Sheriff of Tempe." How I feel about Sheriff Joe is irrelevant to a discussion of Tempe's merits. His lot is decided by about 3 million more people than live in Tempe (pop. ~160K). Even if everybody in Tempe (one of the more liberal cities) voted against Sheriff Joe, they'd only represent a tiny fraction of the vote. You might as well say "You just love George Bush, don't you?" or "You just love Janet Napolitano, don't you?"
>Tucson, on the other hand, *is* surrounded by mountains.
Lol. Who cares? I said, "Tempe is one of the best run cities in the valley." For those who don't know, Tucson (>100 miles away) is not in the same valley as Tempe. On top of that, what Arizonans colloquially refer to as "the Valley," is the Phoenix Metro area. While there are other valleys in AZ that get that treatment, *nobody* refers to the location of Tucson as "the valley." Tucson is completely irrelevant to a discussion about the merits of Tempe WHEN COMPARED TO OTHER VALLEY CITIES.
Futhermore, given this ingenius arguement, Tucson is *not* landlocked, as it can annex its way through Marana right up I-10 to Phoenix if it so chooses. Which it will not. As another respondant pointed out, a city (country, state, etc) can be POLITICALLY landlocked as well as GEOGRAPHICALLY.
Dear Parent: Next time you want to be pompous, at least keep it on topic. Also, knowing what you're talking about helps, too.
Tempe is one of the best-run cities in the valley (make that THE BEST). As one of the only land-locked cities, the powers-that-be are interested in doing more than just sprawling out another patch of stripmalls and stucco houses--they're being forced to compete for business and residents by improving services and density. Yes, Daisy, competition works in government, too!
:(
Unfortunately, it's making housing prices go through the roof (even compared to the rest of the valley), and it's pricing some of us young urban professionals out (even though I really wanted to stay and 'vote' my support for Tempe with my feet & taxes). Hopefully some of that free wireless will make it accross the river into Phoenix, where I had to move
Having recently spent almost 6 years in college (4.5 in engineering, 1 in education), I can faithfully attest that only about 0.001% (that's a generous 1 in 1000) of college students record lectures. If that many. I think parent's point stands; this is a niche feature (at BEST) that is perfectly suited for niche products and aftermarket add-ons. Just because you (and I'm not knocking you) use it for a specific application (recording a language class), doesn't mean it's an important mass-market feature.
Hallelujah!!!! +5 insightful.
I work as a teacher, and it absolutely kills me everytime some kid wearing a "Disturbed" shirt, greasy mod haircut, with pierced lip, reading a skate punk magazine complains about "conformists."
Doing things "to be different" just makes you a different kind of teeny bopper fashion slave, it doesn't make you original--you are paying just as much (if not more) time and stupid attention to trendy bullshit as they are. Doing what you like and what you need to do, and not feeling guilty about it or worrying about what other people think, does.
...maybe they WANT Congress to throw DRM open.
:D
/. that Fairplay is consistently engineered to be "just good enough" to keep the record companies at bay? Why NOT use their position to try and spoil everybody's fun?
Think about it: they wouldn't just open Fairplay; they'd open EVERYBODY's DRM. Including Microsoft's!!
That sounds like the kind of kamikaze mission Apple would be happy to send their DRM scheme into. Isn't the consensus on
I have heard it is. Several of Apples' recent software updates (10.3.whatever) have, I am told, been very favorable to WoW (tweaks that speeded it up)--basically, Apple going out of their way to make sure this popular game works great on the machines Blizzard says it will work on.
Also because it's x-treme.
Same here; I have had my iBook G4/800 for exactly a year (I know because Apple called me to tell me that my warranty is expiring!) and I always wrote off iPods (and basically MP3 players) as being 'not for me;' the ones I like are too expensive, and I wouldn't use it enough to justify.
But I've been eyeing that iPod shuffle very jealously lately......
I remember when the EV1 came out a few years ago, we would see them from time to time around Phoenix and Tucson. Compared to the other models from those years, I thought they were pretty nice for a sporty coupe. Certanly no uglier than the Ford Probes and Toyota Celicas. They supposedly had a range of around a hundred miles for a charge. This didn't seem like much, until you figured in that most of the people using them had chargers at work and home. The charger was cool, too, because it was inductive so it could be used by toddlers in a rainstorm; it was completely shielded and posed no electrocution danger.
Not only that, but the EV1 was partially designed to counter the stereotype of the "gutless" electric car--apparently, they had plenty of power, handled well in rush hour traffic, and were just a fun to drive coupe... but at the cost of some range.
I think he was referring to "Debra" by Beck.
Really. Wouldn't it be refreshing if Microsoft offered customers a choice and let THEM decide what best fits their needs, instead of choosing for them?
Excel isn't for prettiness; Excel can be the engineer's duct tape, or envelope-back. It 'excels' at quick-n'-dirty, with the emphasis on quick. Nobody worth their credentials uses it for plotting important data, but you can make some nifty simple models in Excel before going for that 'elegant solution' with a big-gun package. It's one of the few MS programs that (most of the time) Just Works. You can import or paste in all sorts of bizarrely formated data, and see some results quickly.
They're only referred to as the "British" or "Imperial" units by tradition; really the modern units used in the US diverged from their counterpart Imperial units in (or before) the 19th century and are more properly called "US Customary" units.
Ditto. Mod GP "WTF"
'Hoax' and 'fraud' are pretty strong words for what is, with little investigation, obviously a spoof. I mean really; if I posted a link to the Onion on slashdot, that doesn't mean the *article* was a fraud--the scam was that it got past the crack editorial staff.
If you want confirmation, just go read his article on lapping and you'll see that yes, it is tongue-firmly-in-cheek. The silly staged 'cooking' pictures also could have clued you in ;)
(I'm not an electrical engineer and I caught this one...)
Agreed! FALLOUT is perfect, the worlds are huge, the stories varied, the pace and control are well-suited for mouse-only. Also, I'd throw in the Sims; it's 'kind of' an RTS because it does move in real time, but moves at a pace that's much easier to work around than more frenetic games like Starcraft... plus it's insanely addictive.
If you want to play an MMORPG, try City of Heroes. The battles feel practically turnbased; it would be less sensative to a little 'latency' than other FPS. Then again, I may be talking out of my nether-regions here...
Try this with City of Heroes; same thing. I didn't go so far as calling them, since I was using my bro's disks, and his account was inactive. I just called him and got his login info, then reactivated his account with my creditcard.