Is that how you read it? I guess you could - sounds a bit strange and passive that way to me, maybe it's a more common form of construction in the US than in UK or Australia, where I am from. Not spotting that sort of ambiguity is still bad journalism.
The Macintosh II, released in 1987, was capable of 24-bit color, which is something like millions of colors more than 15.
Strictly speaking the Mac II only had 8-bit (256 from a palette of 24bits) colours because a) graphics cards capable of higher were not readily available and b) Quickdraw had not yet been updated to draw in 24-bits colour. The Mac II added new data structures that could support 24-bit colour, but the routines to operate on those data structures were not there. The QuickDraw 32 extension that shipped a while later added those routines as new cards that could display the colours trickled onto the market. Eventually QD32 got rolled into the system software - I think that was in the System 6.0.x era.
I'd love to ditch bigpond, but where I live the only broadband is ADSL (not even ADSL2+) and the maximum plan is 50GB @ $99 per month. I could move to other providers e.g. TPG, but their prices are exactly the same for the same caps. We only got ADSL in 2006, before that the best available was a pair of ISDN lines. The irony is that my area is one chosen for the pre-roll out of Kevinnet (or should that now be Julianet?) so people I know just a few blocks away can get 19GB lines while I'm stuck with this stupid 8M/384K ADSL "service".
One thing to note is that Telstra occasionally alter the caps on different plans but don't tell you - if you keep an eye on it you can quickly change plans to a better deal (same price, higher cap), but if you don't notice they'll happily continue to overcharge you until you do.
OK, but who are you going to vote for? The Mad Monk? I can't help thinking that his regime would very likely be even worse. Seriously, we're between a rock and a hard place here, Kevin '07 has pissed away all his goodwill leaving us with a nightmare choice between two right-wing Big Brother regimes. WTF????
Not quite true. It was played occasionally on Anne Nightingale's Radio 1 request show (1980s, Radio 1, UK, Sunday evenings) which in itself was a national institution, and where I first heard the song. It now has a permanent place in my iTunes collection as a result (along with Kristina's version of "Is That All There Is?" and "Win a Night Out With A Well-Known Paranoiac" by Barry Andrews).
It works in Safari because Apple have been readying Safari to work with HTML5 for some time. What have other browser vendors being doing to get their browsers ready? Nothing? Or more slowly? Well, who's to blame if it can't be viewed in other browsers? Not Apple, is it?
What a self-righteous tit you sound. It's not black and white, you get involved when you judge it to be overall in your best interests (and of those you care for around you, which sometimes might include total strangers who you feel empathy for). Otherwise, the society we have built generally supports the view of the parent post - don't get involved because chances are you'll come off worst. In his case he hadn't reckoned on a) the stupid loyalty of girlfriends whose boyfriends are violent morons, and b) the stupidity of the police in general.
Mildly diverting story, but not supported by the science of course. Think how small and cold The Sun is even as close as the orbit of Jupiter. For an extra-solar event to devastate the earth it would have to be billions of times larger than the sun and still very close. You cannae beat the laws o' physics - in this case the inverse-square law.
PDF is the built-in common text and image data interchange format in OS X and iPhone/iPad. Apple use their own code to generate/display it, Adobe Reader is not involved. As an interchange format it's pretty good, as it can embody pretty much anything you might want to move between apps along with the author's intended formatting. No idea whether the security issues apply to Apple's implementation or only Adobe's.
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable : "I had fallen through a trapdoor of depression," said Mark, who was fond of theatrical metaphors | her poetry depends on suggestion and metaphor.
a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, esp. something abstract : the amounts of money being lost by the company were enough to make it a metaphor for an industry that was teetering.
DERIVATIVES
metaphoric |-frk| adjective
metaphorical |-frk()l| adjective
metaphorically |-frk()li| adverb
ORIGIN late 15th cent.: from French métaphore, via Latin from Greek metaphora, from metapherein 'to transfer.'
Haven't they heard of PDF? I mean, it's not as if the iPad doesn't have PDF written into its DNA from top to bottom, and that the format was pretty much invented for the very purpose to which they are not putting it here.
Jobs may have declared war on Adobe's Flash format but Adobe's PDF format is a whole other story.
You are quite correct, it's just a (very) lame stunt. It might help to put thing sin perspective - Uni of Reading is not exactly Ivy League, if you get my drift.
Apple is the worst. It's their software, their hardware, and their rules.
While true, it's also the system with the most usable UI, the best quality software and the best customer satisfaction. It also has an excellent development environment (IDE, frameworks, APIs etc) that is a pleasure to program with. Grumble all you like, ideology amounts to zilch.
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Is that how you read it? I guess you could - sounds a bit strange and passive that way to me, maybe it's a more common form of construction in the US than in UK or Australia, where I am from. Not spotting that sort of ambiguity is still bad journalism.
No it's not. "Founders" is plural, but it's not a possessive. "Push" here is a verb - the founders are pushing for open source education.
The headline of the article has a totally random trailing apostrophe after "founders". Why?
The Macintosh II, released in 1987, was capable of 24-bit color, which is something like millions of colors more than 15.
Strictly speaking the Mac II only had 8-bit (256 from a palette of 24bits) colours because a) graphics cards capable of higher were not readily available and b) Quickdraw had not yet been updated to draw in 24-bits colour. The Mac II added new data structures that could support 24-bit colour, but the routines to operate on those data structures were not there. The QuickDraw 32 extension that shipped a while later added those routines as new cards that could display the colours trickled onto the market. Eventually QD32 got rolled into the system software - I think that was in the System 6.0.x era.
For someone with the ability to telecommute 100% of the time, then the idea of sailing around the world with a paycheck direct deposited
I can't believe anyone could do both of those things competently and simultaneously. I'm glad I'm not paying you, or sharing the oceans with you...
Hella is cool - I used to have a set on my rally car. They're bright, but not 10^27 bright...
I'd love to ditch bigpond, but where I live the only broadband is ADSL (not even ADSL2+) and the maximum plan is 50GB @ $99 per month. I could move to other providers e.g. TPG, but their prices are exactly the same for the same caps. We only got ADSL in 2006, before that the best available was a pair of ISDN lines. The irony is that my area is one chosen for the pre-roll out of Kevinnet (or should that now be Julianet?) so people I know just a few blocks away can get 19GB lines while I'm stuck with this stupid 8M/384K ADSL "service".
One thing to note is that Telstra occasionally alter the caps on different plans but don't tell you - if you keep an eye on it you can quickly change plans to a better deal (same price, higher cap), but if you don't notice they'll happily continue to overcharge you until you do.
Queensland also has a female state premier - Anna Bligh.
OK, but who are you going to vote for? The Mad Monk? I can't help thinking that his regime would very likely be even worse. Seriously, we're between a rock and a hard place here, Kevin '07 has pissed away all his goodwill leaving us with a nightmare choice between two right-wing Big Brother regimes. WTF????
The subversive kids will go along with it - then install Windows on their MacBook. That'll show 'em!
That's is you, isn't it, Sarah Palin?
The only place that song EVER got played
Not quite true. It was played occasionally on Anne Nightingale's Radio 1 request show (1980s, Radio 1, UK, Sunday evenings) which in itself was a national institution, and where I first heard the song. It now has a permanent place in my iTunes collection as a result (along with Kristina's version of "Is That All There Is?" and "Win a Night Out With A Well-Known Paranoiac" by Barry Andrews).
It works in Safari because Apple have been readying Safari to work with HTML5 for some time. What have other browser vendors being doing to get their browsers ready? Nothing? Or more slowly? Well, who's to blame if it can't be viewed in other browsers? Not Apple, is it?
The Sun has no veracity.[...] a major national newspaper
One part of this is untrue.
Last I checked, this was a government by the People for the People
Are you certain about that? Really?
and if you are a citizen of the United States of America
Actually, I'm not. It was a hypothetical question.
Argh! for the 8^56th time!
That's a very specific (and large) number of times you've answered this point. Or did you forget the *^%$ shift key?
What a self-righteous tit you sound. It's not black and white, you get involved when you judge it to be overall in your best interests (and of those you care for around you, which sometimes might include total strangers who you feel empathy for). Otherwise, the society we have built generally supports the view of the parent post - don't get involved because chances are you'll come off worst. In his case he hadn't reckoned on a) the stupid loyalty of girlfriends whose boyfriends are violent morons, and b) the stupidity of the police in general.
Why would I help the government? Are they going to pay me? If not, it's hardly "too good to be true", more like doing their work for them.
Mildly diverting story, but not supported by the science of course. Think how small and cold The Sun is even as close as the orbit of Jupiter. For an extra-solar event to devastate the earth it would have to be billions of times larger than the sun and still very close. You cannae beat the laws o' physics - in this case the inverse-square law.
Or is it going to explode soon, and future generations can witness it?
How would we know, until its light reaches us? Nothing can travel faster than light, not even knowledge.
PDF is the built-in common text and image data interchange format in OS X and iPhone/iPad. Apple use their own code to generate/display it, Adobe Reader is not involved. As an interchange format it's pretty good, as it can embody pretty much anything you might want to move between apps along with the author's intended formatting. No idea whether the security issues apply to Apple's implementation or only Adobe's.
metaphor |mtf| |-f|
noun
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable : "I had fallen through a trapdoor of depression," said Mark, who was fond of theatrical metaphors | her poetry depends on suggestion and metaphor.
a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, esp. something abstract : the amounts of money being lost by the company were enough to make it a metaphor for an industry that was teetering.
DERIVATIVES
metaphoric |-frk| adjective
metaphorical |-frk()l| adjective
metaphorically |-frk()li| adverb
ORIGIN late 15th cent.: from French métaphore, via Latin from Greek metaphora, from metapherein 'to transfer.'
Haven't they heard of PDF? I mean, it's not as if the iPad doesn't have PDF written into its DNA from top to bottom, and that the format was pretty much invented for the very purpose to which they are not putting it here.
Jobs may have declared war on Adobe's Flash format but Adobe's PDF format is a whole other story.
You are quite correct, it's just a (very) lame stunt. It might help to put thing sin perspective - Uni of Reading is not exactly Ivy League, if you get my drift.
Apple is the worst. It's their software, their hardware, and their rules.
While true, it's also the system with the most usable UI, the best quality software and the best customer satisfaction. It also has an excellent development environment (IDE, frameworks, APIs etc) that is a pleasure to program with. Grumble all you like, ideology amounts to zilch.