...theory of civilization's evolutionary re-adjustment, where gamers and Slashdot mega-posters are put on a spaceship to escape (MEGA-AIR-QUOTES) "the planet falling into the Sun."... or was it the Sun exploding?
>>We all do it when we're talking to people outside of our field.
Okay, unfortunately for me, your statement is exactly right with respect to the "hundreds of times bigger" phrase.
BUT... sprinkling "massive," "monstrous," "mammoth" throughout doesn't provide any useful context to a person that doesn't know that Saturn is HUGE (regardless of that person's respiratory orifice of choice).
It's like telling one's grandma "my laptop has a monstrous hard drive and massive amounts of RAM"
I move that all planetary or astronomical research reporting be prefaced with with Douglas Adams' "you may think it's a long way to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts compared to space" quote as mantra. And when referencing weather on our gas giant planets, especially on Saturn & Jupiter, it be prefaced with "Saturn is a huge ball of weather 763 times Earth's volume*"
*That makes Saturn sound very loud, doesn't it?
Ah, well, my heart's no longer in this grumpy rant, so I regretfully let it go. (but seriously, you are STILL ON MY LAWN!)
so I cynically give this article an honorary (-1) for over-sensationalized adjectives. "Monstrous", "massive", "hundreds of times stronger than storms on earth" - (I say in good humor) - isn't Saturn A SUPER-HUGE GAS GIANT OVER 763 TIMES THE VOLUME OF EARTH? So, yes, IT HAS BIG WEATHER. I certainly DO appreciate the exploration & research, it's just that I don't think anyone's impressed with the "monstrous storms" characterization anymore; maybe the Science Channel has desensitized us to scale superlatives. Also, get off my lawn!:-D http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Saturn&Display=Facts&System=Metric
Me no do feel stupid now, as me has do been using iphone for....
Oh, screw the witty reply - it's been the best phone year of my life, and you are dumb.
Whenever a p2p technology (or the way it's implemented) becomes so easy that (the average) grandma can use it, it will be shut down, and the community will invent new grandma-proof p2p.
Napster went down because my mom or grandma could download music. So today, when the non-technical user can "go to web page and click the shows they want to illegally acquire", the clock is running.
Backroom file-getting in the old(er) days via Hotline always seemed just difficult enough that the masses wouldn't get involved.
The sign in front of the ride has always been: "you have to be 'this' clever to get free stuff."
Would the airport express combined with a 11g-enabled next-gen iPod be the bees knees of mobile audio, or what?
Maybe Apple or third party could make a power inverter attachment that connects directly to the airport express like the power cord.
I know this probably wouldn't be the coolest possible application of a 11g-enabled iPod, and I'm sure the 4-gen iPod has been talked to death, but this seems like a clear application of "wi-fi data to stereo audio" adaptor.
Apple _could_ have included the admittedly simple app switching mechanism of LiteSwitch when they first showed us OS X, but they didn't. They decided to pile everything onto the dock. What comedy.
Trying to include the following two UI functions in the dock was a screw-up by Apple from the start. 1. (primary) App-switching 2. (primary) "Easy-access app & file repository"
This is a fact, proven by Apple's _replacements_ for both implementations: (1: the new Panther app-swx, and 2: the new Panther (finder) sidebar.)
Apple did the right thing by fixing this crap.
Does Proteron have a legal case? Of course not! But they're not claiming they do.
Apple "made the call" to go with a UI "app & file selection" model that was flawed. They didn't fix it in 10.1, and they didn't fix it in Jag. I see LiteSwitch as filling a need like Now(Action)Menus filled in OS 8.
Apple purposefully _didn't_ include this switching mechanism for a couple years, so when they finally do admit that their intended dock model was _broken_ (UI-wise), and mimic 80% of the function of some little software company's fix of Apple's problem......
I'm just saying I can see where maybe Proteron deserves a prop or two.
(I did buy liteswitch x, but I'm not affiliated with Proteron)
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...theory of civilization's evolutionary re-adjustment, where gamers and Slashdot mega-posters are put on a spaceship to escape (MEGA-AIR-QUOTES) "the planet falling into the Sun." ... or was it the Sun exploding?
For me, at least in google reader. And what they all said about skyhook wifi faux-gps asking location permission for a LONG while now :-p
-Marcie
'Massive in comparison to the surface area, covering fully 20%'
exactly - is that too much to ask? Enjoy your virtual margarita, sir or madam, you have earned it.
>>We all do it when we're talking to people outside of our field.
Okay, unfortunately for me, your statement is exactly right with respect to the "hundreds of times bigger" phrase.
BUT... sprinkling "massive," "monstrous," "mammoth" throughout doesn't provide any useful context to a person that doesn't know that Saturn is HUGE (regardless of that person's respiratory orifice of choice).
It's like telling one's grandma "my laptop has a monstrous hard drive and massive amounts of RAM"
I move that all planetary or astronomical research reporting be prefaced with with Douglas Adams' "you may think it's a long way to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts compared to space" quote as mantra. And when referencing weather on our gas giant planets, especially on Saturn & Jupiter, it be prefaced with "Saturn is a huge ball of weather 763 times Earth's volume*"
*That makes Saturn sound very loud, doesn't it? Ah, well, my heart's no longer in this grumpy rant, so I regretfully let it go. (but seriously, you are STILL ON MY LAWN!)
so I cynically give this article an honorary (-1) for over-sensationalized adjectives. "Monstrous", "massive", "hundreds of times stronger than storms on earth" - (I say in good humor) - isn't Saturn A SUPER-HUGE GAS GIANT OVER 763 TIMES THE VOLUME OF EARTH? So, yes, IT HAS BIG WEATHER. I certainly DO appreciate the exploration & research, it's just that I don't think anyone's impressed with the "monstrous storms" characterization anymore; maybe the Science Channel has desensitized us to scale superlatives. Also, get off my lawn! :-D http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Saturn&Display=Facts&System=Metric
...anti-dentite.
Me no do feel stupid now, as me has do been using iphone for.... Oh, screw the witty reply - it's been the best phone year of my life, and you are dumb.
Whenever a p2p technology (or the way it's implemented) becomes so easy that (the average) grandma can use it, it will be shut down, and the community will invent new grandma-proof p2p.
Napster went down because my mom or grandma could download music. So today, when the non-technical user can "go to web page and click the shows they want to illegally acquire", the clock is running.
Backroom file-getting in the old(er) days via Hotline always seemed just difficult enough that the masses wouldn't get involved.
The sign in front of the ride has always been: "you have to be 'this' clever to get free stuff."
Would the airport express combined with a 11g-enabled next-gen iPod be the bees knees of mobile audio, or what?
Maybe Apple or third party could make a power inverter attachment that connects directly to the airport express like the power cord.
I know this probably wouldn't be the coolest possible application of a 11g-enabled iPod, and I'm sure the 4-gen iPod has been talked to death, but this seems like a clear application of "wi-fi data to stereo audio" adaptor.
Apple _could_ have included the admittedly simple app switching mechanism of LiteSwitch when they first showed us OS X, but they didn't. They decided to pile everything onto the dock. What comedy.
Trying to include the following two UI functions in the dock was a screw-up by Apple from the start.
1. (primary) App-switching
2. (primary) "Easy-access app & file repository"
This is a fact, proven by Apple's _replacements_ for both implementations: (1: the new Panther app-swx, and 2: the new Panther (finder) sidebar.)
Apple did the right thing by fixing this crap.
Does Proteron have a legal case? Of course not! But they're not claiming they do.
Apple "made the call" to go with a UI "app & file selection" model that was flawed. They didn't fix it in 10.1, and they didn't fix it in Jag. I see LiteSwitch as filling a need like Now(Action)Menus filled in OS 8.
Apple purposefully _didn't_ include this switching mechanism for a couple years, so when they finally do admit that their intended dock model was _broken_ (UI-wise), and mimic 80% of the function of some little software company's fix of Apple's problem......
I'm just saying I can see where maybe Proteron deserves a prop or two.
(I did buy liteswitch x, but I'm not affiliated with Proteron)
nibbs