I hope people would make intelligent, informed decisions about driving after drinking.
Who can consistently make intelligent, informed decisions about anything after drinking?
Zero-tolerance with regards to drinking and driving ensures that people do not consider it as a first option, or even a viable option, even while they are drunk. If you tell people that it is a certainty that they will go to jail for driving drunk, they'll think twice. I agree with your "know your rights" attitude, but it seems a little irresponsible to be telling people step-by-step how to go from "dangerous drunk" to "legally drunk" while having a nice chat with a cop on the side of the road.
You do realize that if the cop pulled you over, there's usually a traffic-related reason? Like... perhaps you missed the stop sign back there, or you've had your left blinker on since you left the bar, or maybe you're playing chicken with the trees. If you've been pulled over because your driving is not up to snuff, you damn well should be riding in the backseat of a friend's or squad car.
Good for you for knowing your rights and your limit, and for being able to safely control a motor vehicle while impaired. Just remember that not everyone is as talented as you are.
As a Mac user with an LCD display, I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you. Yes, Apple appears to bias toward font trueness (adding the blurry factor), while Microsoft biases toward pixel-grid alignment (removing differences between fonts at small sizes). But to me at least, the Apple method appears easier to read. When you hammer the shapes of all the letters to fit the up-down grid on screen like MS does, it becomes harder and harder to tell the letters apart. Many times while reading on a Windows computer I've been forced to increase text size just to make my reading speed up to par.
Call me a weirdo mac fanboy with aspirations of artsy snootyness, but as a native speaker/reader/writer of the English language, I believe that typeface rendering should be truer to the font in order to preserve easy legibility. The MS way makes all characters with vertical lines (l, b, i...) appear nearly identical and flat-out destroys inter-character spacing, in the interest of preserving pixel boundaries. This destroys the "gray percentage" of the paragraph and makes it less like natural text that I've grown up reading. Leave the pixel-perfect order for package tracking grids that have to be machine-readable-- my eyes use fuzzy logic, so exploit the anti-aliasing to its fullest!
That was the best explanation of the point being attempted. Seriously, before this particular gem I was in a fog as to why this guy was getting his panties in a quantum twist over leaving p-zombies everywhere. I wouldn't mind being a p-zombie... but would I want to experience death?
Then that made me ask "what is death" in this context... say the teleporter does an instant quantum "deletion" of your particles, all at once. Then, can it also preserve the electrical currents in the brain? What would it "feel" like to have your brain deleted in an instant? Would it hurt? Would it be scary? Unfortunately, I think that by definition this thought experiment can have no answer unless we invoke a supernatural. My current thought is that death (of this type) is nothing more than a (sudden) sleep, and shouldn't hurt or harm the "soul". So I don't think I have any problem with our theoretical teleporters assuming they are perfect in reproducing a functional p-zombie who is convinced s/he still has a soul.
Perhaps that's why some (many?) scientists/mathy types defend their belief in an afterlife-- Let's call it the equivalent of a complex number plane, that is more complete than our current universe. If you believe in "i think, therfore i am" and that your consciousness has some sort of higher order meaning, then I can see why you would want to believe in a meta-state, in which someone can let you examine and reflect over your experience of dying. I for one am curious, though I'm going to wait a fewmany decades before trying it out;)
If you're not even slightly concerned that some nation has the ability to affect others on a global scale, I suggest you hit the history books and learn a few things. A nation the size of China implementing (successfully enough, so far) such ridiculous privacy and freedom policies in the name of national security... very scary stuff indeed. Remember, we have always been at war with Oceania.
Actually, in order to optimise hard drive seek times on the iPod (seek time == battery wasted) it uses a highly efficient tree structure. The database in the iPod OS makes sure that when you choose a playlist, the iPod knows exactly which sectors to load into RAM, and therefore you increase battery life and decrease possible damage (iPod user jogging while listening == possible HD crash during heavy seek)
"cable" here most likely refers to the internet provider used. That is, even "old" 802.11b hardware at 11mb/s half-duplex can easily saturate a standard home broadband connection at 1.5mb/s. Most home networks aren't for sharing files, but rather "the web" and maybe an odd printer here and there.
My 5-button mouse using standard OSX drivers (nothing 3rd party) works perfectly in Firefox and Safari. Clicking the wheel (button 3) opens a link in a new tab, and also closes tabs when you center-click on the tab bar. Check system preferences for a strange mapping maybe?
There are also a few trigger words that will auto-switch to Korean from English, and they are legitimate English words! Personally I think that a few things should _never_ be auto-magically taken over by the computer, and input method is one of them.
Pretty much, yeah. The first is comical due to incompetence. Who releases a game in a foreign market without getting a real professional to translate it properly? The second is attempting humor due to inability for learned speech phonemes to morph for other languages' sounds. In case you haven't noticed, English is extremely diverse in the sounds we produce. That's why there are so many differet 'accents' that can be associated with it. Other, simpler (more sane) languages like Japanese and Spanish have less phonemes and thus native speakers have a disadvantage when trying to learn the complex and mindfucked English.
Summary: AYBABTU: funny because of an avoidable screw-up. "berong"/"solly"/etc: not funny, just insensitive to verbal inabilities.
More like, Microsoft don't change a thing for years, yet still charge $300 for Office $YEAR when Word '97 or whatever is actually a decent piece of software (ignoring macro viruses). Now that they change something, it's an utterly pointless change.
Imagine paying a $3k upcharge for the new model year of car simply because they now offer it in Forest Green. What's the point? They have to raise the price because more people are just getting Office free from their teenage kids with KaZaA?
Actually, it's not the rain that makes it so depressing 10 months out of the year. It's just the constant cloud cover and threat of rain. And water stays on the ground here too. A week after a rain, we're still seeing our reflections in the sidewalk more than our shadows.
Plus summer's actually not that bad. I guess we're getting the better end of global warming/cooling/drying/wetting/whatever the flavor environmental change is going on right now.
The amateur says, "Gee, I wish I had better equipment." The rich man says, "Gee, I wish my opponent wouldn't beat me with lesser equipment." The professional says, "Why the hell are people WATCHING ME play a game that is so slow-paced it makes molasses look fast?! I just play to de-stress! It's not like I have to head off my opponent at the 8th hole and prevent his shot from counting! It's not basketball for chrissakes!"
I call BS on the phone plan advice. I know several friends who literally throw their money away because they have bad credit and are required to use Pay-as-you-go plans (from various carriers). They spend $10 to get 50 minutes of air time, and end up using that up in a week due to "hidden costs" and fees to connect. On the other hand, I have a year-contract $29.99/mo plan that gets me 300 minutes per month plus free nights and weekends. And I don't have to constantly tell my friends to wrap it up so I don't run out of minutes...
Unless you actually only use your cell phone once in a long while (or maybe as a SMS/email-only data device with different pricing rates), pay-as-you-go really makes no sense at all.
Bullshit. Just because a person may have a natural instinct to have sex with someone of the same gender does NOT mean there is no instinct to procreate. I could probably show you more straight men who have little to no interest in causing the conception, birth, and rearing of a child than gay men who would gladly spend time and money raising an adopted child. Homosexuality has NOTHING to do with an "instinct to procreate"!
Google Desktop appears to include some kind of "Live Search" functionality, bringing Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger's "Spotlight" experience to Windows.
I wonder how it'll fare in terms of integration-- Spotlight gets updated whenever you touch a file (giving always-live info, but at the expense of constant DB updates). GD claims (FAQ) to update the DB only when the computer is not in use (removing the performance drag some people experience with Spotlight, but at the expense of missing recent files).
Any current users of both GD on Windows and Spotlight on Tiger that care to compare?
Seriously though, It's good to see some developers going back to the roots of coding tight, efficient programs given certain constraints, instead of making huge bloated apps and recommending PCs built around the app.
This most likely refers to the graphics tablets by Wacom and friends that can be used for graphics editing and design (and also used for HWR by way of old Newton tech that lives on in OSX through the "Inkwell" utility).
If you convert some video to simple 20fps JPEG stills, the iPod Photo has PLENTY of CPU horses and HDD bandwidth to play video using your thumbscrolling to keep it in manual sync with audio (export the soundtrack of a movie as mp3, play that in the background while you scroll through your "moving pictures"). It's a great gimmick, and I damn well expect Apple to support video in a firmware update down the line.
And yes, I acknowledge that all-keyframe motion JPEG is radically different from delta-frame compression techniques. The main issue right now with playing video on the iPod isn't moving the pictures from RAM to screen (lightning-fast burst framerates until you run out of frames in memory), but rather keeping the RAM full of upcoming frames (scroll through a big album and notice hiccups every 250 or so frames if you go it all in one swell foop)
Interestingly (and sadly), those 5 miles downhill you enjoy do very little to offset the 5 miles uphill you strain at to go home.
5 miles uphill at 10mpg averaged with 5 miles downhill at 70mpg comes out to (10+70)/2 = 40mpg at the pump right?
Wrong. Uphill, say you eat.5 gallon (5mi / 10mpg). Downhill, let's give you the benefit of the doubt, say you cut the engine entirely and consume 0 gal fuel. So total trip distance = 10mi, total trip fuel =.5 gal.
Overall efficiency? 20mpg. Probably you get even worse than 10mpg uphill, so this is a very conservative estimate. Sucks eh? I love driving downhill as much as you, but going home (uphill) every day makes my wallet cringe in fear.
Has anyone else noticed the new "HD-DVD" creation feature of DVD Studio Pro 4? Not a mention of Blu-Ray anywhere. I though Apple was part of the Blu-Ray consortium?
Author SD or HD DVDs with greater speed, efficiency and flexibility than ever before. Integrated, scalable H.264 encoding allows you to fit HD content on DVDs using existing drives and media. Go from native HDV to HD on DVD with no recompression from Final Cut Pro. Even create HD DVD versions from existing SD DVD projects. link
CUPERTINO, California--March 10, 2005--The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) today announced that Apple® will become a member of the consortium's Board of Directors. Apple has been a leader in driving consumer adoption... link
I smell a strange conflict of interest. Apple's even got the HD-DVD logo (not Blu-Ray!) emblazoned on DVD Studio Pro's page.
Personally, the MacOS seemed to have been designed to marry well with *nix consoles from day one. All (well, almost all) GUI keyboard shortcuts involve the "command" key (no, please don't call it the Apple key). This means one can do meta-C and meta-V in Terminal and get proper copy/paste behavior like they've expected for the past 20 years, and ctrl-c and ctrl-v are properly passed directly to the command-line program running. Perfect.
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Who can consistently make intelligent, informed decisions about anything after drinking?
Zero-tolerance with regards to drinking and driving ensures that people do not consider it as a first option, or even a viable option, even while they are drunk. If you tell people that it is a certainty that they will go to jail for driving drunk, they'll think twice. I agree with your "know your rights" attitude, but it seems a little irresponsible to be telling people step-by-step how to go from "dangerous drunk" to "legally drunk" while having a nice chat with a cop on the side of the road.
You do realize that if the cop pulled you over, there's usually a traffic-related reason? Like... perhaps you missed the stop sign back there, or you've had your left blinker on since you left the bar, or maybe you're playing chicken with the trees. If you've been pulled over because your driving is not up to snuff, you damn well should be riding in the backseat of a friend's or squad car.
Good for you for knowing your rights and your limit, and for being able to safely control a motor vehicle while impaired. Just remember that not everyone is as talented as you are.
As a Mac user with an LCD display, I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you. Yes, Apple appears to bias toward font trueness (adding the blurry factor), while Microsoft biases toward pixel-grid alignment (removing differences between fonts at small sizes). But to me at least, the Apple method appears easier to read. When you hammer the shapes of all the letters to fit the up-down grid on screen like MS does, it becomes harder and harder to tell the letters apart. Many times while reading on a Windows computer I've been forced to increase text size just to make my reading speed up to par.
Call me a weirdo mac fanboy with aspirations of artsy snootyness, but as a native speaker/reader/writer of the English language, I believe that typeface rendering should be truer to the font in order to preserve easy legibility. The MS way makes all characters with vertical lines (l, b, i...) appear nearly identical and flat-out destroys inter-character spacing, in the interest of preserving pixel boundaries. This destroys the "gray percentage" of the paragraph and makes it less like natural text that I've grown up reading. Leave the pixel-perfect order for package tracking grids that have to be machine-readable-- my eyes use fuzzy logic, so exploit the anti-aliasing to its fullest!
That was the best explanation of the point being attempted. Seriously, before this particular gem I was in a fog as to why this guy was getting his panties in a quantum twist over leaving p-zombies everywhere. I wouldn't mind being a p-zombie... but would I want to experience death?
;)
Then that made me ask "what is death" in this context... say the teleporter does an instant quantum "deletion" of your particles, all at once. Then, can it also preserve the electrical currents in the brain? What would it "feel" like to have your brain deleted in an instant? Would it hurt? Would it be scary? Unfortunately, I think that by definition this thought experiment can have no answer unless we invoke a supernatural. My current thought is that death (of this type) is nothing more than a (sudden) sleep, and shouldn't hurt or harm the "soul". So I don't think I have any problem with our theoretical teleporters assuming they are perfect in reproducing a functional p-zombie who is convinced s/he still has a soul.
Perhaps that's why some (many?) scientists/mathy types defend their belief in an afterlife-- Let's call it the equivalent of a complex number plane, that is more complete than our current universe. If you believe in "i think, therfore i am" and that your consciousness has some sort of higher order meaning, then I can see why you would want to believe in a meta-state, in which someone can let you examine and reflect over your experience of dying. I for one am curious, though I'm going to wait a fewmany decades before trying it out
If you're not even slightly concerned that some nation has the ability to affect others on a global scale, I suggest you hit the history books and learn a few things. A nation the size of China implementing (successfully enough, so far) such ridiculous privacy and freedom policies in the name of national security... very scary stuff indeed. Remember, we have always been at war with Oceania.
Actually, in order to optimise hard drive seek times on the iPod (seek time == battery wasted) it uses a highly efficient tree structure. The database in the iPod OS makes sure that when you choose a playlist, the iPod knows exactly which sectors to load into RAM, and therefore you increase battery life and decrease possible damage (iPod user jogging while listening == possible HD crash during heavy seek)
"cable" here most likely refers to the internet provider used. That is, even "old" 802.11b hardware at 11mb/s half-duplex can easily saturate a standard home broadband connection at 1.5mb/s. Most home networks aren't for sharing files, but rather "the web" and maybe an odd printer here and there.
My 5-button mouse using standard OSX drivers (nothing 3rd party) works perfectly in Firefox and Safari. Clicking the wheel (button 3) opens a link in a new tab, and also closes tabs when you center-click on the tab bar. Check system preferences for a strange mapping maybe?
There are also a few trigger words that will auto-switch to Korean from English, and they are legitimate English words! Personally I think that a few things should _never_ be auto-magically taken over by the computer, and input method is one of them.
Pretty much, yeah. The first is comical due to incompetence. Who releases a game in a foreign market without getting a real professional to translate it properly? The second is attempting humor due to inability for learned speech phonemes to morph for other languages' sounds. In case you haven't noticed, English is extremely diverse in the sounds we produce. That's why there are so many differet 'accents' that can be associated with it. Other, simpler (more sane) languages like Japanese and Spanish have less phonemes and thus native speakers have a disadvantage when trying to learn the complex and mindfucked English.
Summary:
AYBABTU: funny because of an avoidable screw-up.
"berong"/"solly"/etc: not funny, just insensitive to verbal inabilities.
More like, Microsoft don't change a thing for years, yet still charge $300 for Office $YEAR when Word '97 or whatever is actually a decent piece of software (ignoring macro viruses). Now that they change something, it's an utterly pointless change.
Imagine paying a $3k upcharge for the new model year of car simply because they now offer it in Forest Green. What's the point? They have to raise the price because more people are just getting Office free from their teenage kids with KaZaA?
Actually, it's not the rain that makes it so depressing 10 months out of the year. It's just the constant cloud cover and threat of rain. And water stays on the ground here too. A week after a rain, we're still seeing our reflections in the sidewalk more than our shadows.
Plus summer's actually not that bad. I guess we're getting the better end of global warming/cooling/drying/wetting/whatever the flavor environmental change is going on right now.
I'd guess the golf version goes like so:
The amateur says, "Gee, I wish I had better equipment." The rich man says, "Gee, I wish my opponent wouldn't beat me with lesser equipment." The professional says, "Why the hell are people WATCHING ME play a game that is so slow-paced it makes molasses look fast?! I just play to de-stress! It's not like I have to head off my opponent at the 8th hole and prevent his shot from counting! It's not basketball for chrissakes!"
I call BS on the phone plan advice. I know several friends who literally throw their money away because they have bad credit and are required to use Pay-as-you-go plans (from various carriers). They spend $10 to get 50 minutes of air time, and end up using that up in a week due to "hidden costs" and fees to connect. On the other hand, I have a year-contract $29.99/mo plan that gets me 300 minutes per month plus free nights and weekends. And I don't have to constantly tell my friends to wrap it up so I don't run out of minutes...
Unless you actually only use your cell phone once in a long while (or maybe as a SMS/email-only data device with different pricing rates), pay-as-you-go really makes no sense at all.
Bullshit. Just because a person may have a natural instinct to have sex with someone of the same gender does NOT mean there is no instinct to procreate. I could probably show you more straight men who have little to no interest in causing the conception, birth, and rearing of a child than gay men who would gladly spend time and money raising an adopted child. Homosexuality has NOTHING to do with an "instinct to procreate"!
Were you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?
Google Desktop appears to include some kind of "Live Search" functionality, bringing Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger's "Spotlight" experience to Windows.
I wonder how it'll fare in terms of integration-- Spotlight gets updated whenever you touch a file (giving always-live info, but at the expense of constant DB updates). GD claims (FAQ) to update the DB only when the computer is not in use (removing the performance drag some people experience with Spotlight, but at the expense of missing recent files).
Any current users of both GD on Windows and Spotlight on Tiger that care to compare?
"640k ought to be enough for anybody"
Seriously though, It's good to see some developers going back to the roots of coding tight, efficient programs given certain constraints, instead of making huge bloated apps and recommending PCs built around the app.
This most likely refers to the graphics tablets by Wacom and friends that can be used for graphics editing and design (and also used for HWR by way of old Newton tech that lives on in OSX through the "Inkwell" utility).
If you convert some video to simple 20fps JPEG stills, the iPod Photo has PLENTY of CPU horses and HDD bandwidth to play video using your thumbscrolling to keep it in manual sync with audio (export the soundtrack of a movie as mp3, play that in the background while you scroll through your "moving pictures"). It's a great gimmick, and I damn well expect Apple to support video in a firmware update down the line.
And yes, I acknowledge that all-keyframe motion JPEG is radically different from delta-frame compression techniques. The main issue right now with playing video on the iPod isn't moving the pictures from RAM to screen (lightning-fast burst framerates until you run out of frames in memory), but rather keeping the RAM full of upcoming frames (scroll through a big album and notice hiccups every 250 or so frames if you go it all in one swell foop)
Interestingly (and sadly), those 5 miles downhill you enjoy do very little to offset the 5 miles uphill you strain at to go home.
.5 gallon (5mi / 10mpg). Downhill, let's give you the benefit of the doubt, say you cut the engine entirely and consume 0 gal fuel. So total trip distance = 10mi, total trip fuel = .5 gal.
5 miles uphill at 10mpg averaged with 5 miles downhill at 70mpg comes out to (10+70)/2 = 40mpg at the pump right?
Wrong. Uphill, say you eat
Overall efficiency? 20mpg. Probably you get even worse than 10mpg uphill, so this is a very conservative estimate. Sucks eh? I love driving downhill as much as you, but going home (uphill) every day makes my wallet cringe in fear.
What's good for the Google is good for the gander!
Has anyone else noticed the new "HD-DVD" creation feature of DVD Studio Pro 4? Not a mention of Blu-Ray anywhere. I though Apple was part of the Blu-Ray consortium?
I smell a strange conflict of interest. Apple's even got the HD-DVD logo (not Blu-Ray!) emblazoned on DVD Studio Pro's page.So does that mean the Jedi Will Return?
I'm confused.Did Han shoot first?
Does Jar-jar finally die?
I believe it is not actually Bono, but a sample from some other song that is incorrect.
And 14 is 'catorce' in Spanish.
Personally, the MacOS seemed to have been designed to marry well with *nix consoles from day one. All (well, almost all) GUI keyboard shortcuts involve the "command" key (no, please don't call it the Apple key). This means one can do meta-C and meta-V in Terminal and get proper copy/paste behavior like they've expected for the past 20 years, and ctrl-c and ctrl-v are properly passed directly to the command-line program running. Perfect.