In today's society, understanding the arguments surrounding the regulations of science and technology are based around politics and social issued masked in technical standards. The class teaches you to sift through what is presented to you, debunk the myths and see for yourself what the motivations behind such laws are.
It's part of the greater learning, while a course I'm taking now is similar to fill my "Natural Science" elective, the hardcore math and physics wouldn't suit me well working as a graphic designer. Taking a course like this, it uses a great case study that is both current and has much information surrounding it to educate people that there is more to science than math.
And while you claim it may be some poor physics teacher, my professor is a historian of science, teaching the class out of passion and not necessity.
I really would like to see a study on how this will effect long term vision. I haven't been able to find anything (although, I haven't really tried) on the effects of CRTS vs LCDs in computer use and now the multitude of TV formats. With rapidly changing lights being emitted directly in front of your eyes, this must deal out some serious wear and tear.
Any thoughts?
Just out of curiousity, does damage to eyes play a factor in new display technologies? I'm not qualified to make any judgements, but shouldn't that be the prominent feature of a display you're looking at, probably over 8 hours a day? I think that would be a far better selling feature than cheaper! ligther! less energy consumption!
Yes, but buying doing the opposite - buying the DVDs so they drop their predjudice against P2P would have the same negative ramifcations. "DRM media has effectlively prevented filesharing of [big budget movie], and because of that sales have gone up 20%!"
It's an ethical issue each person can choose for themselves.
I switched in 2002 after growing up on DOS when I was 4, then being all excited over windows 3.1 when I was 6 and it was heaven when windows 95 hit whenever that was. I was 15 or 16 when I finally switched (I'm 18 now, at University for design) and I have to say the switch was very easy.
The OS is very intuitive, just remember that control+click is right click, the dock can hold shortcuts to programs and also holds your open programs, and is great for putting folder shortcuts (although the new finder in 10.3 is good for that was well).
The file management system is what messed me up the most. I was so used to window's Explorer. I still get confused.
You'll enjoy it, and the lack of spyware/adware/virii and it's just a much better experience. Expose rocks, you'll like that. Buy a 5 button mouse and program it for expose, you won't regret it.
And remember, pretend "apple key" is control and all your shortcuts are the same.
I recently (thursday) ordered a 17" Powerbook from Apple over the phone. My first name is Marko and is an ucommon spelling with a K. I own the domain my e-mail is in, and the e-mail is my first name@domain.com.
The Apple CSR did check the spelling of my name, but his subconcious got the best of him and he wrote marco@domain.com. Had I not had the catch-all activated I would have lost all the order and shipping information (especially since most of it was shipped that night) thinking Apple was being slow. With the catch-all I was able to call them back to make the correction, rather then noreply@apple.com getting it bounced back.
Catch-All is a good thing. My random spam is low to zilch, but the spam to my main account is moderate.
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In today's society, understanding the arguments surrounding the regulations of science and technology are based around politics and social issued masked in technical standards. The class teaches you to sift through what is presented to you, debunk the myths and see for yourself what the motivations behind such laws are. It's part of the greater learning, while a course I'm taking now is similar to fill my "Natural Science" elective, the hardcore math and physics wouldn't suit me well working as a graphic designer. Taking a course like this, it uses a great case study that is both current and has much information surrounding it to educate people that there is more to science than math. And while you claim it may be some poor physics teacher, my professor is a historian of science, teaching the class out of passion and not necessity.
I really would like to see a study on how this will effect long term vision. I haven't been able to find anything (although, I haven't really tried) on the effects of CRTS vs LCDs in computer use and now the multitude of TV formats. With rapidly changing lights being emitted directly in front of your eyes, this must deal out some serious wear and tear. Any thoughts?
Just out of curiousity, does damage to eyes play a factor in new display technologies? I'm not qualified to make any judgements, but shouldn't that be the prominent feature of a display you're looking at, probably over 8 hours a day? I think that would be a far better selling feature than cheaper! ligther! less energy consumption!
Yes, but buying doing the opposite - buying the DVDs so they drop their predjudice against P2P would have the same negative ramifcations. "DRM media has effectlively prevented filesharing of [big budget movie], and because of that sales have gone up 20%!" It's an ethical issue each person can choose for themselves.
I think you just described the United States of America...
I switched in 2002 after growing up on DOS when I was 4, then being all excited over windows 3.1 when I was 6 and it was heaven when windows 95 hit whenever that was. I was 15 or 16 when I finally switched (I'm 18 now, at University for design) and I have to say the switch was very easy. The OS is very intuitive, just remember that control+click is right click, the dock can hold shortcuts to programs and also holds your open programs, and is great for putting folder shortcuts (although the new finder in 10.3 is good for that was well). The file management system is what messed me up the most. I was so used to window's Explorer. I still get confused. You'll enjoy it, and the lack of spyware/adware/virii and it's just a much better experience. Expose rocks, you'll like that. Buy a 5 button mouse and program it for expose, you won't regret it. And remember, pretend "apple key" is control and all your shortcuts are the same.
I believe the "dark buttons" are because they are transparent to allow for an optional backlight for the wheel.
I recently (thursday) ordered a 17" Powerbook from Apple over the phone. My first name is Marko and is an ucommon spelling with a K. I own the domain my e-mail is in, and the e-mail is my first name@domain.com.
The Apple CSR did check the spelling of my name, but his subconcious got the best of him and he wrote marco@domain.com. Had I not had the catch-all activated I would have lost all the order and shipping information (especially since most of it was shipped that night) thinking Apple was being slow. With the catch-all I was able to call them back to make the correction, rather then noreply@apple.com getting it bounced back.
Catch-All is a good thing. My random spam is low to zilch, but the spam to my main account is moderate.