Having a slideout keyboard is ALREADY better than the iPhone. Uses multitouch-like gestures to surf the Web and navigate the device. Decent camera in it. Elegant hardware design. User-replaceable battery. I'd say Palm has come the closest so far to creating a real competitor to the iPhone. Now we need more information on how it handles media and so forth, but it's looking damn good so far. I've always admired Palm products, particularly their OS (my Tungsten T3 is still my primary handheld).. if they were to come out and say the new webOS is backward compatible with PalmOS 5 then they've got my money the day this thing is released.
7 passes is all it takes? Damn, I don't ever let one of my old machines out the door until it's completed the 35-pass run using OS X's Disk Utility. Takes several days to complete. Call me paranoid, but.. I want to be sure.
This is not a troll, it's actually quite funny. As long as you're not one of the people who lost their blog on Journalspace. Mods, please correct, kthx.
Agree: Extended Keyboard II had the BEST key feel. Pity it's so hard to find one anything like it anymore, although Logitech usually puts out some damn fine units. (It's infuriating to me how they so RARELY put out Mac OS drivers for their better models, like the 5500 and the 3200. WHAT ARE THEY WAITING FOR??)
It's a testament to the engineering excellence of Mac architecture that virtually all Logitech keyboards and mice function on a plug-and-play basis without Mac OS drivers, but it's still frustrating as hell to not be able to program them.
Agreed. Jerry and Mike not only know their audience but they are both fountains of talent, and their lifelong friendship gives them such a depth of knowledge about each other that they can play to each other's strengths. The result is an authentic, insightful and usually hilarious window into gamer culture and lifestyles. They've taken their wildly successful online product, which they disseminate for free, and leveraged it into not only an immensely popular (and probably highly lucrative) gamer convention but also started an eyebrow-raising global charity which has brought smiles to thousands (if not millions) of children the world over.
I think of these two people as examples of the kind of rare but wonderful success that can be found when one simply does what s/he loves, and chooses to embrace what s/he is. That mixed with healthy doses of dedication and luck can have alchemical results beyond the wildest expectations.
I picked up a copy of TR from Best Buy the other night cause it was going for fifteen bucks, and I wanted to see the world before it closed down.
I took it home, installed it, registered for an account and started playing. I had to enter the serial code for the game, but I don't remember giving them any credit card information. I was off and playing.
Apple has a golden delicious reputation with most of its customers, even in spite of the very mild DRM attached to its music downloads, for two reasons: 1) the DRM is pathetically easy to remove, Apple knows it and anyone with half a brain will figure it out in approx. 2 seconds, and 2) Apple hasn't f*cked over its customers to a level anywhere approaching what Sony or Microsoft has done with their absolutely outrageous efforts at DRM. To this day I refuse to buy Sony products of any kind due to the rootkit bullsheet back in late 2005. And don't get me started on Microsoft and "Palladium".
> I stand by my position, and refuse to alter it. I don't care what he was talking about, to me it says that my pain is less than something else.
Your position is irrelevant, then, if you refuse to even consider that what he said is not at all what you think he said.
> BTW, when arresting someone we're REQUIRED to identify their name and crime, it's called DUE PROCESS.
You really don't have any idea what we're talking about, do you? News outlets routinely protect the identities of victims/accusers to save them from embarrassment. Those accused, however, are granted so much protection, and the media knows that simply publishing a man's name in the context of "was arrested for [insert sensational sex crime here]" will irrevocably destroy that man's name in his community, whether the accusations are true or not. This is a double standard which is unfair.
Yes, rape is evil. Yes, being a rape victim is very difficult. That's not what we're talking about though, so when you feel like joining the actual conversation at hand, by all means do so.
> You feel like shit, and it took me more than a week to even TRUST any man
Wow, you mean a whole week?
I've known adult women who, being sexually assaulted as children, still refuse to trust men.
Depression IS NOT a disease. It is a condition the brain--ANYone's brain--comes fully loaded to shift into should enough emotional stress and circumstances grow to be overbearing. It is a natural response designed to further separate the strong from the weak, so that the weak can be preyed upon and removed from the herd. That is the purpose of depression/suicide and that is what we have seen here borne out.
Doesn't mean it shouldn't be treated, or that people like Lori Drew should be out there removing people like Megan Meier from societal herds. But depressives are constantly made to believe that they are broken, damaged, diseased and have to be cured or otherwise repaired. That's compounding their problem, particularly if their problem is self-esteem.
Megan Meier wasn't diseased in my opinion.. she was vulnerable, and it was up to her parents, particularly her mother, to give her support and love until she could move through her condition like most teenage girls do. But instead Lori Drew, acting predatory (as in protecting her young), came along and facilitated her suicide. That should absolutely be actionable as a crime, but absolutely NOT in the way it was done.
Apple is pushing anyone with a Firewire videocamera--which includes a lot of non-video professionals--up to the Pro line when that wasn't previously necessary. That's why people are upset by this.
I personally won't buy an external drive unless it's Firewire, but then I would never buy a MacBook so this doesn't really affect me. And I won't be buying one of these new MacBook Pros anyway because of the glossy screen, but that's another whole thread.
It's actually more like meeting yourself in a dark alley, except there is no fight left. Only a winner and a loser. The "winner" is the one who kills the other; then both die.
I've come to believe severe depression that results in suicide is not actually a mental disorder in the literal sense. It is natural selection in its cruelest form.
Most attempted suicides (read as: cries for help) are committed by women. Most actual, completed suicides, by a vast margin, are committed by men. I've come to believe depression--feelings of worthlessness, failure, extreme lethargy, withdrawal from social contact, etc.--is a biological subroutine that kicks in to remove "weak" men and women from the gene pool. Note that depression can strike a person of any race, gender, social status, economic class, etc. We are all capable of depression, even severe depression. I think it's because we're all wired with it, in case we can't cope emotionally with whatever adversity life hands us.
Society has its own agendas and ways of appraising it, treating it and trying to stop it. And ultimately many of us, with help of psychotropics, therapy, or just good friends and loving family are strong enough to fight suicidal ideation with the knowledge that things can get better, or an appreciation of the people around us who would be permanently and grievously hurt. But not everybody. Those who succumb to it are probably just doing what their genetic programming is insisting that they do: take themselves permanently out of the pack, leaving more resources for the stronger.
It just sucks that people like David Foster Wallace couldn't find any more reasons to keep going, not even his wife. Depression is a bitch, folks.
> The only time when someone should commit suicide is when they are like Bush
Wow, you almost had me thinking you weren't a complete idiot. Then you had to say that.
Speaking as someone who's dealt with suicidal ideation and years of therapy, in many ways the person who commits suicide does so precisely to avoid being a burden on others who care about him. This is why there are no "pleas for help" or such. Yes, it can be construed by some as being selfish, but then there are cases where severe depression or other mental illness has them convinced they are worthless people who only do harm to others.
Funny you should mention Stride.. I remember an Orbit chewing gum commercial where a guy driving a car starts chewing a piece of gum, then begins admiring himself teeth in the rear view mirror while his car drives headlong into a building, plowing through wall after wall while the driver is blissfully grinning at his own teeth in the mirror.
I can't seem to find it on YouTube unfortunately. But I laughed.
But not as hard as I laughed at this commercial for some kind of Tide stain remover: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgtfC5LBAW4
I kept backing it up and rewatching it over and over. It's just my kind of funny, I guess.
Dollars to donuts that a Microsoft Sync-equipped vehicle will refuse to work with an iPod. (Even if you buy an Alpine head unit or other iPod-friendly device.)
It seems to me the phone's not the one that's lying. It's the marketing and promotion (I'm looking at you, AT&T) that implies that more bars = stronger signal. As the Chief Engineer succinctly puts it, "A computer doesn't lie."
If we had some actual truth in advertising it would clear up many misconceptions about technology and how it really works.
(Wow, my sig is actually pseudo-relevant in this thread!)
> Maybe birds? If I don't have too many to deal with I just flush them.
Ooh that's dangerous! Because they breed in the sewers. And eventually you've got evil-smelling huge flocks of soiled budgies flying out of people's lavatories infringing their personal freedom.
I spend a lot of time on my gaming rig, and I want input devices that are not only comfortable, but fun to use. And I use Logitech for just about everything, including a G15 keyboard (the blue one), MOMO force-feedback wheel, MX620 mouse and Precision headset. Does spending all that money make me a better gamer? Probably not*, but do I enjoy playing video games with them? Definitely.
*Actually, with the purchase of the mouse, it has. The MX620 is the same form factor as my mouse at work AND my mouse on my Mac at home. So my fingers are already well-acquainted with the placement of the buttons, and having mapped them to commonly used keyboard shortcuts, it makes those commands a lot more accessible during play (for instance mapping the Ventrilo PTT button to a mouse button instead of somewhere on the keyboard).
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Having a slideout keyboard is ALREADY better than the iPhone. Uses multitouch-like gestures to surf the Web and navigate the device. Decent camera in it. Elegant hardware design. User-replaceable battery. I'd say Palm has come the closest so far to creating a real competitor to the iPhone. Now we need more information on how it handles media and so forth, but it's looking damn good so far. I've always admired Palm products, particularly their OS (my Tungsten T3 is still my primary handheld) .. if they were to come out and say the new webOS is backward compatible with PalmOS 5 then they've got my money the day this thing is released.
7 passes is all it takes? Damn, I don't ever let one of my old machines out the door until it's completed the 35-pass run using OS X's Disk Utility. Takes several days to complete. Call me paranoid, but .. I want to be sure.
This is not a troll, it's actually quite funny. As long as you're not one of the people who lost their blog on Journalspace. Mods, please correct, kthx.
So you're saying Cally and Tyrol shoulda died.
Agree: Extended Keyboard II had the BEST key feel. Pity it's so hard to find one anything like it anymore, although Logitech usually puts out some damn fine units. (It's infuriating to me how they so RARELY put out Mac OS drivers for their better models, like the 5500 and the 3200. WHAT ARE THEY WAITING FOR??)
It's a testament to the engineering excellence of Mac architecture that virtually all Logitech keyboards and mice function on a plug-and-play basis without Mac OS drivers, but it's still frustrating as hell to not be able to program them.
Agreed. Jerry and Mike not only know their audience but they are both fountains of talent, and their lifelong friendship gives them such a depth of knowledge about each other that they can play to each other's strengths. The result is an authentic, insightful and usually hilarious window into gamer culture and lifestyles. They've taken their wildly successful online product, which they disseminate for free, and leveraged it into not only an immensely popular (and probably highly lucrative) gamer convention but also started an eyebrow-raising global charity which has brought smiles to thousands (if not millions) of children the world over.
I think of these two people as examples of the kind of rare but wonderful success that can be found when one simply does what s/he loves, and chooses to embrace what s/he is. That mixed with healthy doses of dedication and luck can have alchemical results beyond the wildest expectations.
Toast to Jerry and Mike!
I picked up a copy of TR from Best Buy the other night cause it was going for fifteen bucks, and I wanted to see the world before it closed down.
I took it home, installed it, registered for an account and started playing. I had to enter the serial code for the game, but I don't remember giving them any credit card information. I was off and playing.
Apple has a golden delicious reputation with most of its customers, even in spite of the very mild DRM attached to its music downloads, for two reasons: 1) the DRM is pathetically easy to remove, Apple knows it and anyone with half a brain will figure it out in approx. 2 seconds, and 2) Apple hasn't f*cked over its customers to a level anywhere approaching what Sony or Microsoft has done with their absolutely outrageous efforts at DRM. To this day I refuse to buy Sony products of any kind due to the rootkit bullsheet back in late 2005. And don't get me started on Microsoft and "Palladium".
> I stand by my position, and refuse to alter it. I don't care what he was talking about, to me it says that my pain is less than something else.
Your position is irrelevant, then, if you refuse to even consider that what he said is not at all what you think he said.
> BTW, when arresting someone we're REQUIRED to identify their name and crime, it's called DUE PROCESS.
You really don't have any idea what we're talking about, do you? News outlets routinely protect the identities of victims/accusers to save them from embarrassment. Those accused, however, are granted so much protection, and the media knows that simply publishing a man's name in the context of "was arrested for [insert sensational sex crime here]" will irrevocably destroy that man's name in his community, whether the accusations are true or not. This is a double standard which is unfair.
Yes, rape is evil. Yes, being a rape victim is very difficult. That's not what we're talking about though, so when you feel like joining the actual conversation at hand, by all means do so.
> You feel like shit, and it took me more than a week to even TRUST any man Wow, you mean a whole week? I've known adult women who, being sexually assaulted as children, still refuse to trust men.
Depression IS NOT a disease. It is a condition the brain--ANYone's brain--comes fully loaded to shift into should enough emotional stress and circumstances grow to be overbearing. It is a natural response designed to further separate the strong from the weak, so that the weak can be preyed upon and removed from the herd. That is the purpose of depression/suicide and that is what we have seen here borne out.
Doesn't mean it shouldn't be treated, or that people like Lori Drew should be out there removing people like Megan Meier from societal herds. But depressives are constantly made to believe that they are broken, damaged, diseased and have to be cured or otherwise repaired. That's compounding their problem, particularly if their problem is self-esteem.
Megan Meier wasn't diseased in my opinion .. she was vulnerable, and it was up to her parents, particularly her mother, to give her support and love until she could move through her condition like most teenage girls do. But instead Lori Drew, acting predatory (as in protecting her young), came along and facilitated her suicide. That should absolutely be actionable as a crime, but absolutely NOT in the way it was done.
So how many percentage points does her shopping budget increase with each new acquisition?
Your second sentence counterpoints your first.
Apple is pushing anyone with a Firewire videocamera--which includes a lot of non-video professionals--up to the Pro line when that wasn't previously necessary. That's why people are upset by this.
I personally won't buy an external drive unless it's Firewire, but then I would never buy a MacBook so this doesn't really affect me. And I won't be buying one of these new MacBook Pros anyway because of the glossy screen, but that's another whole thread.
If there are cameras positioned correctly the company will enable images and video to be taken of the driver and passengers
In related news, window tinting businesses report record profits this year.
It's actually more like meeting yourself in a dark alley, except there is no fight left. Only a winner and a loser. The "winner" is the one who kills the other; then both die.
I've come to believe severe depression that results in suicide is not actually a mental disorder in the literal sense. It is natural selection in its cruelest form.
Most attempted suicides (read as: cries for help) are committed by women. Most actual, completed suicides, by a vast margin, are committed by men. I've come to believe depression--feelings of worthlessness, failure, extreme lethargy, withdrawal from social contact, etc.--is a biological subroutine that kicks in to remove "weak" men and women from the gene pool. Note that depression can strike a person of any race, gender, social status, economic class, etc. We are all capable of depression, even severe depression. I think it's because we're all wired with it, in case we can't cope emotionally with whatever adversity life hands us.
Society has its own agendas and ways of appraising it, treating it and trying to stop it. And ultimately many of us, with help of psychotropics, therapy, or just good friends and loving family are strong enough to fight suicidal ideation with the knowledge that things can get better, or an appreciation of the people around us who would be permanently and grievously hurt. But not everybody. Those who succumb to it are probably just doing what their genetic programming is insisting that they do: take themselves permanently out of the pack, leaving more resources for the stronger.
It just sucks that people like David Foster Wallace couldn't find any more reasons to keep going, not even his wife. Depression is a bitch, folks.
> The only time when someone should commit suicide is when they are like Bush
Wow, you almost had me thinking you weren't a complete idiot. Then you had to say that.
Speaking as someone who's dealt with suicidal ideation and years of therapy, in many ways the person who commits suicide does so precisely to avoid being a burden on others who care about him. This is why there are no "pleas for help" or such. Yes, it can be construed by some as being selfish, but then there are cases where severe depression or other mental illness has them convinced they are worthless people who only do harm to others.
Now kindly go DIAF.
Funny you should mention Stride .. I remember an Orbit chewing gum commercial where a guy driving a car starts chewing a piece of gum, then begins admiring himself teeth in the rear view mirror while his car drives headlong into a building, plowing through wall after wall while the driver is blissfully grinning at his own teeth in the mirror.
I can't seem to find it on YouTube unfortunately. But I laughed.
But not as hard as I laughed at this commercial for some kind of Tide stain remover: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgtfC5LBAW4
I kept backing it up and rewatching it over and over. It's just my kind of funny, I guess.
Dollars to donuts that a Microsoft Sync-equipped vehicle will refuse to work with an iPod. (Even if you buy an Alpine head unit or other iPod-friendly device.)
Anybody tried this?
It seems to me the phone's not the one that's lying. It's the marketing and promotion (I'm looking at you, AT&T) that implies that more bars = stronger signal. As the Chief Engineer succinctly puts it, "A computer doesn't lie." If we had some actual truth in advertising it would clear up many misconceptions about technology and how it really works. (Wow, my sig is actually pseudo-relevant in this thread!)
> Maybe birds? If I don't have too many to deal with I just flush them. Ooh that's dangerous! Because they breed in the sewers. And eventually you've got evil-smelling huge flocks of soiled budgies flying out of people's lavatories infringing their personal freedom.
> P.S. he didn't "find" the planets, they were already there
wtf? And nobody else had picked them out of the night sky yet, so yes, he found them.
Learn what words mean.
I predict good guys, bad guys and explosions as far as the eye can see.
Many lives were lost but eventually the champion stood, the rest saw their better: Mr. Jobs in a bloodstained turtleneck.
Yes, and that's common knowledge. But don't let facts get in the way of any opportunity to link a religious whack job to Bush.
And, welcome to Slashdot. :)
Yes, to the above.
I spend a lot of time on my gaming rig, and I want input devices that are not only comfortable, but fun to use. And I use Logitech for just about everything, including a G15 keyboard (the blue one), MOMO force-feedback wheel, MX620 mouse and Precision headset. Does spending all that money make me a better gamer? Probably not*, but do I enjoy playing video games with them? Definitely.
*Actually, with the purchase of the mouse, it has. The MX620 is the same form factor as my mouse at work AND my mouse on my Mac at home. So my fingers are already well-acquainted with the placement of the buttons, and having mapped them to commonly used keyboard shortcuts, it makes those commands a lot more accessible during play (for instance mapping the Ventrilo PTT button to a mouse button instead of somewhere on the keyboard).