Re:The scroll wheel invented here?...
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It's both irritating and flattering/vindicating when an idea you had gets taken up. But drawings are not products, and if you didn't patent...
I also "invented" the iTrip about 3 years ago, and the Airport Express about the same time, but apart from telling a few people "wouldn't it be great if...", I did nothing about it. I don't mind, i'm glad these things do now exist. There are thinkers and there are doers - but if you are purely a thinker then someone else will eventually come up with the same idea, team up with a doer and be the one to make the millions.
Director long predates QuickTime, since it was originally called VideoWorks, then something else, before the Director name was used. Once upon a time it was probably quite cool, but now it's hateful. I have recently done some Director programming (I had to) and the whole structure of the thing as an application development tool is really horrible.
...why should I even care? I use my iPod to listen to music in the car and that's about it. This is just using technology, inappropriately, for its own sake. Get a bloody life!!!
"A small nearly out of the way check box that takes 2 hours to find is not intuitive."
I agree, it's not intuitive by that definition. But whose fault is it? Their expectations were conditioned by years of crappy, braindead interfaces implemented by lazy programmers and designers.
A Mac user wouldn't have been misled like that, but more importantly, a completely new user to any computer would probably not have been either. It's about time someone took a good hard look at how hard networking is for the average joe, since it's becoming increasingly a part of the average joe's environment. The main advances I see recently are in OS X. (Rendezvous et. al.)
I'm sure this has been there for several years - in fact I saw it when I was in London and I've since emigrated! I heard that the smell they recreated was actually a lot tamer than the original would have done, since obviously they didn't want people keeling over or being sick - so the smell they have there is more like vaguely rotting cabbage than the stench of rancid meat. Certainly when I saw it it didn't smell all that bad.
Yeah, an LC for the new millenium...
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"Hopefully, Apple will one day offer something like the eMac without a built in monitor"
I agree - an LC style (physically) machine with a 1.5GHz G4, etc would be great. Make a great headless home server and could be very low cost.
--Graham
Is it unique or isn't it? What part of "Unique" = the only one of something - isn't clear? Things cannot be "almost" unique, or one of the most unique. Sloppy.
Sydney -> Newcastle -> Hexham ->Raymond Terrace -> turn left off onto (Bucketts Way) -> Stroud -> Gloucester -> (Thunderbolt's Way) -> Nowendoc ->Walcha ->Uralla -> TR onto (New England highway) -> Armidale -> Guyra -> Glen Innes -> Tenterfield ->(QLD border) -> Warwick, etc, etc.
The route up from the pacific highway through Gloucester is spectacular - I'd love to see that at 95x speed! And it'll save you several hours over the other main routes because a) it's a straight line and b) there are very few cars and no cops.
Well, you could use the New England highway...
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..instead. It would be a more interesting route as you have to climb then descent the Great Dividing Range, and it's actually shorter than the Pacific Highway. Just a thought! Oh, and stop off in Armidale while you're at it and spend some tourist dollars;-)
It's not clear that the majority does disagree with me. Almost everyone I know, including a good number of American friends, is currently very worried about the stance the US is taking on almost every major issue. If that doesn't worry YOU, as an American, it should. It seems to many of the rest of us that the good citizens of the US are being sadly led up the garden path by its government and its media right now. We cannot vote in your elections, but what we can do is to try and reason with you at a grass-roots level and try and influence you that way.
Iraq isn't the only issue. One way in which the US (and be clear I mean its govt's policies, not its people) is currently fucking the rest of us over is its refusal to sign up to the Kyoto Protocol. When the world becomes uninhabitable on a large scale - as a recent Pentagon report says it will do in the next 25 years, a report that seems to have largely been "buried" since it doesn't tell us what we want to hear - then I think people will start looking back and saying - ummm, maybe we should have chucked that Bush guy out when we had the chance.
Australia in particular is being fucked over by the US right now in the recent so-called Free Trade Agreement, which basically gives the US everything it wants while forcing us to swallow a few small concessions. The govt of Australia went along with this because it's unreasonably shit-scared of Indonesia and knows that if its worst nightmare comes true and Indonesia invades, it will need the US to come bail it out. This is very unlikely, the terms "piss-up" and "brewery" come to mind with respect of Indonesia's ability to organise itself, let alone invade another country - but that's where Australia's govt's mindset is right now.
Democracies are supposed to work by being the will of the majority, as you correctly state. Do you honestly believe that's how they ACTUALLY work? If that was true Bush wouldn't even be president. If it's true, why do election campaigns cost so much money? Sadly and alarmingly it seems to many of us that are your allies that the people of America are being blindly led, kept in the dark, and told what they want to hear in order to further the cause of a very small minority - a) that which seeks to create a new fundamentalist Christian cause, a la Crusades, and b) oil interests. If you think this is hogwash, fair enough, but at least avail yourself of ALL of the facts before responding with a knee-jerk reaction. In obtaining the facts, as I implore all citizens of the US to do, you may find that you discover some unpleasant truths which might convince you that the rest of the world might have a point after all.
Under Bush, terrorism has increased, not decreased. If you think America is making the world a happier, safer place for the majority, you are mistaken. The "war on terror" is a pointless sham which achieves nothing much except it keeps the industrial-military machine ticking over, keeps the citizens in fear and therefore under control, and distracts from domestic problems, on which Bush's record is no better.
The problem is that these days it's not just your country. Whoever you elect gets to fuck (or not) the rest of us over, and we have no say in that. In the UK and Australia among many others, there is no party willing to say, "vote for us and we'll tell the US where to stick it", so those who think Bush and co. are the worst things to happen to planet Earth in a long time are currently totally disenfranchised. And of course "they" want to keep it that way, no matter what the cost.
This is exactly the sort of thing that Slashdotters mock "soviet russia" for. The USA is slowly heading down the same path. The terrorists have already won - they've reduced you all to a bunch of scared, quivering, liberty-sapping jellies fearing the knock-on-the-door-in-the-night. Call a halt to this madness now - start by throwing out your so-called leader, and start growing up.
People are always looking at modern art and saying " I could have done that!" Well the answer is: but you didn't. That's the difference between you and an artist, and why we need artists.
BTW, the artist in question here is female.
FWIW, I think it's pretty cool, but then, I tend to like modern art anyway.
I've been following the progress of home buyilders of similar turbines for at least the last 5 years. Many modellers are using these designs in actual flying model aircraft, and have been for some time. How is it news?
He also designed nearly everything that we drove in the 70s and 80s in Europe. VW Golf, Polo and Scirocco, Fiat Uno, Citroen BX, Fiat Panda, Lotus Esprit, Lancia Delta, SAAB 9000, Audi 80, Alfasud. He practically invented the "folded paper" school of auto design, those that weren't his were copying his.
It's not a rumour - John Delorean was arrested and charged with selling cocaine to help prop up the failing business, but he'd sold it to some undercover cops, and later got off by pleading entrapment. The firm went bust despite the British government pouring millions into it, and 2000 people lost their jobs. It was a bag o' shite anyway.
Basically an Isuzu Piazza wrapped in a not very practical body design, built by a guy with the morals of a weasel, with money extorted from the fine taxpaying folk of Ireland. It doesn't even look good!
This is just silly and way over the top. Ever heard of a map? Or if you haven't got a map, you can stop another person and ask them. Duh, surely even the geekiest of geeks still knows how to ask another person for directions? And frankly, the "technology" involved in speaking to and understanding another person is way cooler than anything we've yet invented. By comparison this photo idea is decidedly lame.
Well, there are quite a few "ifs" there, and on the whole, I tend to agree. However, it doesn't mean it's impossible, so for those resourceful enough, willing to spend the cash, or who happen to have the right sort of knowledge, there is no reason the question shouldn't be asked. Hoping that a particular question should "die" just because you feel you know all the pitfalls it implies is arrogant - how the hell did mankind ever get beyond the cave with that sort of attitude?
And, if I need to establish some sort of credentials on this, I'm an electronics engineer myself - well, I trained as one, been mostly working on software for the last decade, but that's by the by. A few years back I asked myself the "question that wouldn't die (tm)" in connection with an 640 x 480 LCD panel from an old Powerbook Duo. Admittedly it's nowhere near as complex as modern ones (passive matrix for one thing), but I did get it working. I was lucky in that I obtained datasheets for the panel - yes, I agree that that's pretty much a must. Didn't cost me too much either, since I had a lot of odd parts lying about anyway. All those things you are throwing back assume you want to make something repeatable, manufacturable, etc. Most casual experimenters probably don't need that - wire-wrap will be fine for a one-off, for example. What I'm saying is that it can be done, with caveats. I just don't see the point in discouraging someone just because you wouldn't do it. They'll either succeed or fail, in either case they'll learn something, which has got to be worth something.
It's not a stupid question, just because to YOU it may be not worth the trouble/effort or within your expertise doesn't mean it isn't interesting to others. Obviously the screen does work, it was designed to show images when connected to the right sort of circuitry, so it's not alien science to be able to fix it up so it does something useful. Whether it's worthwhile is something only the individual concerned can answer, so no, the question won't die, because some people are more curious, interested and skilled than you are.
Re:The cache of owning an Apple?
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Duh. I know. And your point is?
My point was that it isn't cache - that's pronounced "kash" (or maybe "kaysh", if you're Australian (but what do they know?)
The cache of owning an Apple?
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Cache = store, etc. I think you might mean cachet. That's pronounced "kash-ay" for you Americans that don't speak foreign.
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It's both irritating and flattering/vindicating when an idea you had gets taken up. But drawings are not products, and if you didn't patent...
I also "invented" the iTrip about 3 years ago, and the Airport Express about the same time, but apart from telling a few people "wouldn't it be great if...", I did nothing about it. I don't mind, i'm glad these things do now exist. There are thinkers and there are doers - but if you are purely a thinker then someone else will eventually come up with the same idea, team up with a doer and be the one to make the millions.
And: Flash! Ah-aaaah...! He'll save every one of us!
Director long predates QuickTime, since it was originally called VideoWorks, then something else, before the Director name was used. Once upon a time it was probably quite cool, but now it's hateful. I have recently done some Director programming (I had to) and the whole structure of the thing as an application development tool is really horrible.
...why should I even care? I use my iPod to listen to music in the car and that's about it. This is just using technology, inappropriately, for its own sake. Get a bloody life!!!
"A small nearly out of the way check box that takes 2 hours to find is not intuitive."
I agree, it's not intuitive by that definition. But whose fault is it? Their expectations were conditioned by years of crappy, braindead interfaces implemented by lazy programmers and designers.
A Mac user wouldn't have been misled like that, but more importantly, a completely new user to any computer would probably not have been either. It's about time someone took a good hard look at how hard networking is for the average joe, since it's becoming increasingly a part of the average joe's environment. The main advances I see recently are in OS X. (Rendezvous et. al.)
I'm sure this has been there for several years - in fact I saw it when I was in London and I've since emigrated! I heard that the smell they recreated was actually a lot tamer than the original would have done, since obviously they didn't want people keeling over or being sick - so the smell they have there is more like vaguely rotting cabbage than the stench of rancid meat. Certainly when I saw it it didn't smell all that bad.
"Hopefully, Apple will one day offer something like the eMac without a built in monitor" I agree - an LC style (physically) machine with a 1.5GHz G4, etc would be great. Make a great headless home server and could be very low cost. --Graham
Is it unique or isn't it? What part of "Unique" = the only one of something - isn't clear? Things cannot be "almost" unique, or one of the most unique. Sloppy.
Sydney -> Newcastle -> Hexham ->Raymond Terrace -> turn left off onto (Bucketts Way) -> Stroud -> Gloucester -> (Thunderbolt's Way) -> Nowendoc ->Walcha ->Uralla -> TR onto (New England highway) -> Armidale -> Guyra -> Glen Innes -> Tenterfield ->(QLD border) -> Warwick, etc, etc.
The route up from the pacific highway through Gloucester is spectacular - I'd love to see that at 95x speed! And it'll save you several hours over the other main routes because a) it's a straight line and b) there are very few cars and no cops.
..instead. It would be a more interesting route as you have to climb then descent the Great Dividing Range, and it's actually shorter than the Pacific Highway. Just a thought! Oh, and stop off in Armidale while you're at it and spend some tourist dollars ;-)
It's not clear that the majority does disagree with me. Almost everyone I know, including a good number of American friends, is currently very worried about the stance the US is taking on almost every major issue. If that doesn't worry YOU, as an American, it should. It seems to many of the rest of us that the good citizens of the US are being sadly led up the garden path by its government and its media right now. We cannot vote in your elections, but what we can do is to try and reason with you at a grass-roots level and try and influence you that way.
Iraq isn't the only issue. One way in which the US (and be clear I mean its govt's policies, not its people) is currently fucking the rest of us over is its refusal to sign up to the Kyoto Protocol. When the world becomes uninhabitable on a large scale - as a recent Pentagon report says it will do in the next 25 years, a report that seems to have largely been "buried" since it doesn't tell us what we want to hear - then I think people will start looking back and saying - ummm, maybe we should have chucked that Bush guy out when we had the chance.
Australia in particular is being fucked over by the US right now in the recent so-called Free Trade Agreement, which basically gives the US everything it wants while forcing us to swallow a few small concessions. The govt of Australia went along with this because it's unreasonably shit-scared of Indonesia and knows that if its worst nightmare comes true and Indonesia invades, it will need the US to come bail it out. This is very unlikely, the terms "piss-up" and "brewery" come to mind with respect of Indonesia's ability to organise itself, let alone invade another country - but that's where Australia's govt's mindset is right now.
Democracies are supposed to work by being the will of the majority, as you correctly state. Do you honestly believe that's how they ACTUALLY work? If that was true Bush wouldn't even be president. If it's true, why do election campaigns cost so much money? Sadly and alarmingly it seems to many of us that are your allies that the people of America are being blindly led, kept in the dark, and told what they want to hear in order to further the cause of a very small minority - a) that which seeks to create a new fundamentalist Christian cause, a la Crusades, and b) oil interests. If you think this is hogwash, fair enough, but at least avail yourself of ALL of the facts before responding with a knee-jerk reaction. In obtaining the facts, as I implore all citizens of the US to do, you may find that you discover some unpleasant truths which might convince you that the rest of the world might have a point after all.
Under Bush, terrorism has increased, not decreased. If you think America is making the world a happier, safer place for the majority, you are mistaken. The "war on terror" is a pointless sham which achieves nothing much except it keeps the industrial-military machine ticking over, keeps the citizens in fear and therefore under control, and distracts from domestic problems, on which Bush's record is no better.
Now would be a good time to re-read "1984".
The problem is that these days it's not just your country. Whoever you elect gets to fuck (or not) the rest of us over, and we have no say in that. In the UK and Australia among many others, there is no party willing to say, "vote for us and we'll tell the US where to stick it", so those who think Bush and co. are the worst things to happen to planet Earth in a long time are currently totally disenfranchised. And of course "they" want to keep it that way, no matter what the cost.
ref Lionel Hutz, The Simpsons.
This is exactly the sort of thing that Slashdotters mock "soviet russia" for. The USA is slowly heading down the same path. The terrorists have already won - they've reduced you all to a bunch of scared, quivering, liberty-sapping jellies fearing the knock-on-the-door-in-the-night. Call a halt to this madness now - start by throwing out your so-called leader, and start growing up.
That should be MHz, not mHz.
People are always looking at modern art and saying " I could have done that!" Well the answer is: but you didn't. That's the difference between you and an artist, and why we need artists.
BTW, the artist in question here is female.
FWIW, I think it's pretty cool, but then, I tend to like modern art anyway.
I've been following the progress of home buyilders of similar turbines for at least the last 5 years. Many modellers are using these designs in actual flying model aircraft, and have been for some time. How is it news?
He also designed nearly everything that we drove in the 70s and 80s in Europe. VW Golf, Polo and Scirocco, Fiat Uno, Citroen BX, Fiat Panda, Lotus Esprit, Lancia Delta, SAAB 9000, Audi 80, Alfasud. He practically invented the "folded paper" school of auto design, those that weren't his were copying his.
It's not a rumour - John Delorean was arrested and charged with selling cocaine to help prop up the failing business, but he'd sold it to some undercover cops, and later got off by pleading entrapment. The firm went bust despite the British government pouring millions into it, and 2000 people lost their jobs. It was a bag o' shite anyway.
Basically an Isuzu Piazza wrapped in a not very practical body design, built by a guy with the morals of a weasel, with money extorted from the fine taxpaying folk of Ireland. It doesn't even look good!
This is just silly and way over the top. Ever heard of a map? Or if you haven't got a map, you can stop another person and ask them. Duh, surely even the geekiest of geeks still knows how to ask another person for directions? And frankly, the "technology" involved in speaking to and understanding another person is way cooler than anything we've yet invented. By comparison this photo idea is decidedly lame.
Well, there are quite a few "ifs" there, and on the whole, I tend to agree. However, it doesn't mean it's impossible, so for those resourceful enough, willing to spend the cash, or who happen to have the right sort of knowledge, there is no reason the question shouldn't be asked. Hoping that a particular question should "die" just because you feel you know all the pitfalls it implies is arrogant - how the hell did mankind ever get beyond the cave with that sort of attitude?
And, if I need to establish some sort of credentials on this, I'm an electronics engineer myself - well, I trained as one, been mostly working on software for the last decade, but that's by the by. A few years back I asked myself the "question that wouldn't die (tm)" in connection with an 640 x 480 LCD panel from an old Powerbook Duo. Admittedly it's nowhere near as complex as modern ones (passive matrix for one thing), but I did get it working. I was lucky in that I obtained datasheets for the panel - yes, I agree that that's pretty much a must. Didn't cost me too much either, since I had a lot of odd parts lying about anyway. All those things you are throwing back assume you want to make something repeatable, manufacturable, etc. Most casual experimenters probably don't need that - wire-wrap will be fine for a one-off, for example. What I'm saying is that it can be done, with caveats. I just don't see the point in discouraging someone just because you wouldn't do it. They'll either succeed or fail, in either case they'll learn something, which has got to be worth something.
It's not a stupid question, just because to YOU it may be not worth the trouble/effort or within your expertise doesn't mean it isn't interesting to others. Obviously the screen does work, it was designed to show images when connected to the right sort of circuitry, so it's not alien science to be able to fix it up so it does something useful. Whether it's worthwhile is something only the individual concerned can answer, so no, the question won't die, because some people are more curious, interested and skilled than you are.
Duh. I know. And your point is?
My point was that it isn't cache - that's pronounced "kash" (or maybe "kaysh", if you're Australian (but what do they know?)
Cache = store, etc. I think you might mean cachet. That's pronounced "kash-ay" for you Americans that don't speak foreign.