ACs -- they can't type, they can't find the shift key, they certainly can't form a link tag, and they can't read.
Oh, I can find the 5 GB iPod just fine. After all, they're still advertising it rather prominently (at the top of the main store page! Starting at $299!) as I mentioned. What I couldn't do, if I were so inclined at the moment which overall I am not, is purchase the damned thing.
See how it says, underneath the 5 GB iPod, "Due to significant demand, the 5GB iPod is temporarily unavailable"? In nice, bold letters? See how there isn't a set of links to purchase one in Macintosh or Windows format like there are for the 10 GB and 20 GB models?
At least you have given me a reason to live on in spite of the crushing blow delivered earlier by Apple and Burton, AC -- to debunk your ill-conceived and ill-executed post.
(Anyone else -- this paper I'm writing is putting me in a lousy mood. Just ignore me.)
You know, ever since the 5 GB iPod (which IMHO has had a terrible price point when compared with the 10 GB and 20 GB models, which gave you so much more iPod for proportionally little more money) stopped being available at the Apple Store, which was, oh, three months ago, I have gone into fits every time Apple updated every damned aspect of their product line besides the poor iPods, which I want to see updated or at least reduced in price so very very much.
And now, this...thing, while the 5 GB iPod is still advertised (starting at just $299!) and yet still "temporarily unavailable"... it adds insult to injury. Except that I no longer have the capacity to feel either insult or injury.
*shakes fist at Cupertino*
Damn you, Apple! You've devoured my soul! Are you happy now???
Hey, who are you to judge? I like carrying my computer around with me and chilling on the internet from time to time. It's an ideal way to recharge my batteries (like about 25% percent of the population, I'm an introvert) so that I can "enjoy the world with my complete attention."
Although I do feel compelled to tell a lot of people on this thread to get the hell away from their computers and stop reading slashdot and whatever else is making you so damned unhappy. Maybe you need to keep an email address that you only give to people you care about hearing. Maybe you should do the same with a mobile, if you can afford it. No doubt you should tell your boss and your annoying ex-girlfriend or whoever that they won't be able to reach you until you get back from the vacation you so desperately need.
I wonder how most people use trackpads? I'm right handed, I touch my pointing finger with my thumb as if holding a pen, the other fingers are folded in fist like while my pointing finger touches the pad with movement assistance from my thumb (which I find gives less jerky movement). If I ever need small accurate movements, I find rolling my finger around on one spot works very well.
Ouch. My hand hurts just thinking about doing that, much less when I tried it.
I'm also right-handed, and I have an iceBook. I use my right index finger, with my palm resting on the laptop most of the time (especially when I'm trying to do something precise). My thumb hovers over the button. My other three fingers are curled up in the air above the laptop, naturally, with my pinky being farthest up, rather like an affected person drinking tea.
I'm personally in the "this is as natural as typing or breathing" category with it comes to my touchpad. YMMV.
NYUHome - My university's interface for webmail/file management/various crap. Gives you an error and an invitation to "upgrade" to a supported browser. Works just fine under OmniWeb as long as it is set to identify as one of the "supported" browsers.
Albert - My university's system for registering for classes, checking grades, and all kinds of important stuff online. Second only in annoyance level to the phone system that does the same thing (Welcome...to...Torch...Tone...) This thing is so crufty that it barfs under anything but sufficiently advanced versions of MSIE/Netscape. It doesn't even admit that it works under IE, but it does.
I wouldn't visit these sites if it were optional, but there you have it.
You might want to shop around for some priorities yourself. "Time to find the Yahoo marketing settings (takes a couple of seconds if you do, in fact, know what you're looking for)? Nah, too busy. Time to mooch around on Slashdot and post a message about how I haven't found my marketing settings in Yahoo because I have a life? Of course!"
I admit that I didn't look at the iPhoto site because I don't have a digital camera, or at least won't until I get home:)
But as far as "Apple Mail" being the "official" name...the actual file is called Mail.app (Mail when you aren't viewing all extensions). When you hold your mouse over the icon in the dock, it says "Mail." For all your normal, everyday intents and purposes, it is called "Mail."
This is just a wild guess here...but I bet they mean that those pictures will be emailed via Apple's very own "Hello from Cupertino" Mail.app. Otherwise known as Mail, minus extension.
A verb (although I have heard people say "let's linux this project," which made me want to slap them)
You may have missed this trend in geek language, but some of us noticed it literally over a decade ago: all nouns can be verbed, and also all verbs can be nouned. While it is not "proper english", neither is most anyone's dialogue these days.
I'm not claiming to speak for the parent or anything, and I'm a descriptive linguist à la Steven Pinker too, but come on. What does "linux" as a verb mean? Is it meaningful, even as a neologism in casual conversation? By analogy with every other verbed noun, it means "to turn into Linux." Why the hell would one want to turn their project into Linux? Surely the neologism they are looking for is "to open source" or perhaps "to GPL." I would want to slap them too.
My Googling concurs. There is furthermore no mention of the cult on his website (they want all their "success stories" to advertise their status, don't they?) and he seems to me too fundamentally sane at this moment to be an active Co$ member.
Just because something is not explicitly denied does not make it implicitly granted.
It does, or can, at least theoretically, when it comes to construing the Constitution, because of the wording of the 10th amendment. The federal government has no business making laws about shoplifting cheeses; that is taken care of just fine on the local level anyway.
An argument can certainly be made that the federal government is overstepping its bounds here in one way or another without resorting to utter anarchy and cheese thievery.
Okay, fine, they're allegedly going to bring out the Google-killing version tomorrow (News for April Fools, Stuff that makes for a really good laugh).
The real question is, are they going to get rid of that lame, butt-ugly logo that just screams "cheap knockoff"?
Also, in my profoundly unscientific survey of two friends on AIM, neither of them were able to correctly recall the name Teoma. Just because it means something cool doesn't mean that it will actually be a cool name...
I'm pretty sure everyone in the US knows what the Northern Lights are. If nothing else, they learned from Balto:)
Having read (and absolutely adored, and would recommend without hesitation, although the so-called "satisfying conclusion" will drive you mad) all three books, "The Golden Compass" is quite a good title for the first one. In fact, I would say it was a much better title, because Philip Pullman decided to title the other two books after the important magical objects that are introduced in them, creating a nice parallelism.
Did I mention that I loved these books? I told both my English teachers in high school to read them, used Philip Pullman's Carnagie medal acceptance speech in my collage admissions essay, recommended them again to my advisor freshman year, put them on display when I worked at the public library....
Ok. Tell me about Loom(TM)! Are you by any chance referring to the classic LucasArts game?
Yep, that sure was a classic. By the time I played it the second time with my cousins I had so many post-its and bits of paper with spells scribbled all over them.
Cobb, the wearer of the button in the Secret of Monkey Island which reads "Ask me about LOOM(TM), has a whole spiel about it when you ask, ending by urging you to buy it. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if LucasArts still offers it for sale; the last time I looked at their website they hardly admitted they had ever done anything but Star Wars. You can find it on abandonware sites, though.
Bringing this post around to a semblance of on-topicness, Cobb, unlike Laurence Canter, won't make his pitch to you unless you ask:)
Your average spammer doesn't seem to be making any effort to discriminate by sex, much less sexual orientation, among their marks. Makes sense, since they usually just have wads of addresses with no information about the addressees.
I get sex-inappropriate spam every time I flush my hotmail account. Today it was "Urgent information for all men" and two herbal Viagras.
In an alternate universe, that might be a weird fringe activity, like speaking in Klingon or playing chess by mail. In this one, of course, it can be quite important or at least rather convenient.
Meghan
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And Y spammer would never lie about the number of replies received. That would be downright scummy, and we all know that people who send bulk email hold themselves to a higher standard.
</sarcasm>
Also, I'm pretty sure very few of us have the time to reply creatively to a lot of spam, or want to make that our new time-sucking hobby. I doubt it would be statistically significant.
So far, I have yet to be spammed for anything I want: I don't want hot teens or any variation thereof, I don't have a penis to lengthen or keep erect, I'm earning a real degree that will come with a much nicer diploma, I don't have credit card debt or want to morgage anything, and I definitely don't need to boost Windows speed (I run OS X). I'm not really worried about being tempted by any of the ludicrous and shady offers that come via my old Hotmail account.
The last trackball I saw was also in an old AT&T laptop that someone gave to my brother as a sort of toy.
Personally, I love my trackpad. It took me a good two weeks to get used to it, but now it is my input device of choice, and at least seems to me like it gives me the fastest cursor that is also precise, unlike the nipple things that always send your cursor off two inches in the wrong direction. And I have used those for long stretches as well.
But then, I have an iBook, which means that I move with my right index finger and click with my right thumb, which is always right where it needs to be, because it's all one mouse button. Flame away about how you, personally, would go into catatonic shock if you were deprived of the other 2-3 buttons on your mouse, but it is just dandy for me.
Yeah, this is much more interesting than the push-button retread article that got posted (can you tell I submitted this nicely and it got rejected?)
Google is providing some code for a "ripper" that processes data and a nice selection of about 900,000 pre-parsed websites for you to play with. Your task is to come up with something interesting to do with said data: the two tracks they suggest are systems, involving infrastructure for handling the data, and applications, involving the semantics of the data.
To bring this around to being "on topic," you could whip up a quick payola implementation as an "application," but the odds are against Google going for that...:)
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If open source software somehow becomes as useable as English magic is at the end of the book ... well ... I'm so there, and so is everyone else.
How old are you? Four?
"Cockburn" is a Scottish name that is indeed pronounced "Co-burn". Try a little Google search, for instance.
I'd close by admonishing you not to be such an ignorant tool, but this is Slashdot, after all.
>Copying is the sincerest form of plagurism.
Copying from the dictionary is the surest-fire way of spelling "plagiarism" correctly.
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/c anadastore.woa/71403/wo/e51a6av6O0W5229uChx1y09vfc H/2.3.0.3.27.8
ACs -- they can't type, they can't find the shift key, they certainly can't form a link tag, and they can't read.
Oh, I can find the 5 GB iPod just fine. After all, they're still advertising it rather prominently (at the top of the main store page! Starting at $299!) as I mentioned. What I couldn't do, if I were so inclined at the moment which overall I am not, is purchase the damned thing.
See how it says, underneath the 5 GB iPod, "Due to significant demand, the 5GB iPod is temporarily unavailable"? In nice, bold letters? See how there isn't a set of links to purchase one in Macintosh or Windows format like there are for the 10 GB and 20 GB models?
You're going to have to take my word, or perhaps that of Think Secret, for it that it's been like that since Christmas.
At least you have given me a reason to live on in spite of the crushing blow delivered earlier by Apple and Burton, AC -- to debunk your ill-conceived and ill-executed post.
(Anyone else -- this paper I'm writing is putting me in a lousy mood. Just ignore me.)
And now, this...thing, while the 5 GB iPod is still advertised (starting at just $299!) and yet still "temporarily unavailable" ... it adds insult to injury. Except that I no longer have the capacity to feel either insult or injury.
*shakes fist at Cupertino*
Damn you, Apple! You've devoured my soul! Are you happy now???
Although I do feel compelled to tell a lot of people on this thread to get the hell away from their computers and stop reading slashdot and whatever else is making you so damned unhappy. Maybe you need to keep an email address that you only give to people you care about hearing. Maybe you should do the same with a mobile, if you can afford it. No doubt you should tell your boss and your annoying ex-girlfriend or whoever that they won't be able to reach you until you get back from the vacation you so desperately need.
Don't tell us, tell Apple!
Meghan
Ouch. My hand hurts just thinking about doing that, much less when I tried it.
I'm also right-handed, and I have an iceBook. I use my right index finger, with my palm resting on the laptop most of the time (especially when I'm trying to do something precise). My thumb hovers over the button. My other three fingers are curled up in the air above the laptop, naturally, with my pinky being farthest up, rather like an affected person drinking tea.
I'm personally in the "this is as natural as typing or breathing" category with it comes to my touchpad. YMMV.
Meghan
Well, here are the two I visit:
NYUHome - My university's interface for webmail/file management/various crap. Gives you an error and an invitation to "upgrade" to a supported browser. Works just fine under OmniWeb as long as it is set to identify as one of the "supported" browsers.
Albert - My university's system for registering for classes, checking grades, and all kinds of important stuff online. Second only in annoyance level to the phone system that does the same thing (Welcome...to...Torch...Tone...) This thing is so crufty that it barfs under anything but sufficiently advanced versions of MSIE/Netscape. It doesn't even admit that it works under IE, but it does.
I wouldn't visit these sites if it were optional, but there you have it.
Meghan
You might want to shop around for some priorities yourself. "Time to find the Yahoo marketing settings (takes a couple of seconds if you do, in fact, know what you're looking for)? Nah, too busy. Time to mooch around on Slashdot and post a message about how I haven't found my marketing settings in Yahoo because I have a life? Of course!"
Meghan
I admit that I didn't look at the iPhoto site because I don't have a digital camera, or at least won't until I get home :)
But as far as "Apple Mail" being the "official" name...the actual file is called Mail.app (Mail when you aren't viewing all extensions). When you hold your mouse over the icon in the dock, it says "Mail." For all your normal, everyday intents and purposes, it is called "Mail."
Meghan
This is just a wild guess here...but I bet they mean that those pictures will be emailed via Apple's very own "Hello from Cupertino" Mail.app. Otherwise known as Mail, minus extension.
Meghan
I'm not claiming to speak for the parent or anything, and I'm a descriptive linguist à la Steven Pinker too, but come on. What does "linux" as a verb mean? Is it meaningful, even as a neologism in casual conversation? By analogy with every other verbed noun, it means "to turn into Linux." Why the hell would one want to turn their project into Linux? Surely the neologism they are looking for is "to open source" or perhaps "to GPL." I would want to slap them too.
Meghan
My Googling concurs. There is furthermore no mention of the cult on his website (they want all their "success stories" to advertise their status, don't they?) and he seems to me too fundamentally sane at this moment to be an active Co$ member.
Meghan
It does, or can, at least theoretically, when it comes to construing the Constitution, because of the wording of the 10th amendment. The federal government has no business making laws about shoplifting cheeses; that is taken care of just fine on the local level anyway.
An argument can certainly be made that the federal government is overstepping its bounds here in one way or another without resorting to utter anarchy and cheese thievery.
Meghan
Okay, fine, they're allegedly going to bring out the Google-killing version tomorrow (News for April Fools, Stuff that makes for a really good laugh).
The real question is, are they going to get rid of that lame, butt-ugly logo that just screams "cheap knockoff"?
Also, in my profoundly unscientific survey of two friends on AIM, neither of them were able to correctly recall the name Teoma. Just because it means something cool doesn't mean that it will actually be a cool name...
Meghan
Er, yeah, that would be "college" that I'm attending, now wouldn't it....
Having read (and absolutely adored, and would recommend without hesitation, although the so-called "satisfying conclusion" will drive you mad) all three books, "The Golden Compass" is quite a good title for the first one. In fact, I would say it was a much better title, because Philip Pullman decided to title the other two books after the important magical objects that are introduced in them, creating a nice parallelism.
Did I mention that I loved these books? I told both my English teachers in high school to read them, used Philip Pullman's Carnagie medal acceptance speech in my collage admissions essay, recommended them again to my advisor freshman year, put them on display when I worked at the public library....
Meghan
Good, because I just hate sitting around watching elves recite the formations of verb tenses.
Meghan
Yep, that sure was a classic. By the time I played it the second time with my cousins I had so many post-its and bits of paper with spells scribbled all over them.
Cobb, the wearer of the button in the Secret of Monkey Island which reads "Ask me about LOOM(TM), has a whole spiel about it when you ask, ending by urging you to buy it. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if LucasArts still offers it for sale; the last time I looked at their website they hardly admitted they had ever done anything but Star Wars. You can find it on abandonware sites, though.
Bringing this post around to a semblance of on-topicness, Cobb, unlike Laurence Canter, won't make his pitch to you unless you ask :)
Meghan
Very straight.
Funny?
No, not really.
Your average spammer doesn't seem to be making any effort to discriminate by sex, much less sexual orientation, among their marks. Makes sense, since they usually just have wads of addresses with no information about the addressees.
I get sex-inappropriate spam every time I flush my hotmail account. Today it was "Urgent information for all men" and two herbal Viagras.
Happily, my university addess gets NO spam.
Meghan
...for opening and writing Word documents =)
In an alternate universe, that might be a weird fringe activity, like speaking in Klingon or playing chess by mail. In this one, of course, it can be quite important or at least rather convenient.
Meghan
And Y spammer would never lie about the number of replies received. That would be downright scummy, and we all know that people who send bulk email hold themselves to a higher standard.
</sarcasm>
Also, I'm pretty sure very few of us have the time to reply creatively to a lot of spam, or want to make that our new time-sucking hobby. I doubt it would be statistically significant.
So far, I have yet to be spammed for anything I want: I don't want hot teens or any variation thereof, I don't have a penis to lengthen or keep erect, I'm earning a real degree that will come with a much nicer diploma, I don't have credit card debt or want to morgage anything, and I definitely don't need to boost Windows speed (I run OS X). I'm not really worried about being tempted by any of the ludicrous and shady offers that come via my old Hotmail account.
Meghan
The last trackball I saw was also in an old AT&T laptop that someone gave to my brother as a sort of toy.
Personally, I love my trackpad. It took me a good two weeks to get used to it, but now it is my input device of choice, and at least seems to me like it gives me the fastest cursor that is also precise, unlike the nipple things that always send your cursor off two inches in the wrong direction. And I have used those for long stretches as well.
But then, I have an iBook, which means that I move with my right index finger and click with my right thumb, which is always right where it needs to be, because it's all one mouse button. Flame away about how you, personally, would go into catatonic shock if you were deprived of the other 2-3 buttons on your mouse, but it is just dandy for me.
Meghan
Google is providing some code for a "ripper" that processes data and a nice selection of about 900,000 pre-parsed websites for you to play with. Your task is to come up with something interesting to do with said data: the two tracks they suggest are systems, involving infrastructure for handling the data, and applications, involving the semantics of the data.
Check out the link for more, of course.
To bring this around to being "on topic," you could whip up a quick payola implementation as an "application," but the odds are against Google going for that... :)
Meghan