Any country, *any* country, that uses nuclear weapons against another country had better let it weigh on their soul for as long as that country exists.
Really?
This was my grandfather's war. And my grandfather wasn't even involved in the construction of the bomb, the decision to drop it, or the delivery of the device.
I live in a country with nuclear weapons, like the majority of the population of this earth. A country, which has, for 60 years, had the capability to deploy nuclear weapons, but has never used them since. I like to think that that demonstrates that this nation has the capacity to learn from its mistakes. That it can continue on with it's collective life and not be paralyzed with guilt or uncertainty over the actions of it's fathers and grandfathers.
I believe that it's important to be given a chance to make a fresh start. If the United States is forever regarded as "The country that nukes it's enemies," it'll be too easy for it to live up to that reputation in the future. We should learn from past experience, but not be consumed by it.
It did have three buttons, which had, essentially, the following functions select move activate
Which Apple confusingly replaced with "click" "drag" and "double click."
Personally, I'm so glad that most sane people have chosen to use multiple buttons. Can you imagine what it would be like if we had to "click twice in rapid succession" the way Apple would have us do? Or "hold down a button while moving?"
Give me my "activate" and "move" buttons anyday. Let those crazy Apple users "double click," I want no part of it.
First, try telling a clueless user to right-click or even left-click over the phone. Thankfully, since these will mainly be used on Macs, you'll never have to tell anyone to right-click. Remember how all the commands on a Mac are available to single-button mice?
Second, the original one button rocker mouse was a pain for new users because when they ran out of mouse pad it was hard to pick up without releasing the button It's an optical mouse. There's no reason to use a mousepad, and it's really hard to run out of desk.
Unlike mice that have obvious buttons and scroll wheels, this one looks the same no matter how its configured, so you can't know if right-clicking is enabled (or disabled) without sitting down and becoming frustrated with it.
I take it you've never noticed that the Control Panel under Windows also allows you to swap buttons? And you've never used any of the dozen other multi-button scroll mice with custom-config software?
Or do you know of some other mouse that looks different when configured differently?
Duct tape, originally known as duck tape, is a strong, fabric-based, multi-purpose adhesive tape, usually silver in color, although many other colors, including transparent, are also available, and is usually 2 inches (50 mm) wide. It was originally developed during World War II in 1942 as a waterproof sealing tape for ammunition casings. Permacel, then a division of Johnson & Johnson, used a rubber-based adhesive to help the tape resist water and a fabric backing to facilitate ripping. Because of these properties, it was also used to quickly repair military equipment, including jeeps, guns, and aircraft. Because the original tape was made of cotton duck fabric, and it repelled moisture like "water off a duck's back", it was originally referred to as "duck tape".
Part of the mission was to test the use of such a compound on a spacewalk.
On the first spacewalk of the mission, Noguchi will open this [package of pre-damaged Shuttle parts] and attempt to repair the tiles using a sticky, thick grey substance called "emittance wash".
Robinson will then test a crack repair technique using a material referred to as Noax, for Non-Oxide Adhesive Experimental.
1. Release beta version with DRM to prevent installation on non-Apple machines 2. Watch people crack it 3. Repeat 1-2 until 2 fails 4. Release final version 5. Profit, of course.
They really only got serious about it with OS-X. Their previous attempts were rather crippled.
In the time period in question (1982-1984) the Lisa and Macintosh OS was anything but crippled.
Compared to PC-DOS/MS-DOS, or AppleDOS, the Lisa/Mac GUI was extremely powerful. High-res graphics, a system Clipboard, WYSIWYG fonts, built-in sound....
Of course, it was lightweight compared to Unix, but Unix was expensive (more even than the $10K Lisa) and proprietary (Linux woud be almost a decade in coming, and BSD was more research project than product.)
The Motion Picture Association of America and Regal Entertainment corporation have assured me that the theater is perfectly safe, and that any reports of fire are greatly exaggerated.
Not surprisingly, the studies that favored Apple's dialog order came from Apple. Obviously, Apple has been rigging the studies for its own gain. You see it all the time: "Buy an iPod: iTunes has the right dialog box arrangement." "Switch to OS X: You'll love our dialog boxes." "Power Mac G5: no computer displays correct dialog boxes faster."
The rest of your reply just underscores the pervasive arrogance that keeps me solidly in one "camp". Sad.
Arrogance? You mean, like, saying, "I don't like those guys, I know better?"
Um, did you ever learn to read with comprehension? Parent only says 'Pixar moved to OS X for their desktop/office applications, not production', the article confirms that 'Pixar moved their main production to OS X'.
Apparently, I comprehend things better than you do. Let me try to spell it out for you. The parent to which I am referring said: "They switched to OS X for (most of?) their desktops. Their render farm is still running on Linux." The linked article/story says: "Pixar was switching to Mac OS X and G5 workstations for its production work
Workstations = Desktops. As in, a computer system used by an individual in a stationary configuration, often found on a desk or other horizontal fixed surface.
The linked article does not mention or address Pixar's renderfarm, which is probably still the Linux/x86 blade system they bought a while ago to replace their suns, and was used to render The Incredibles (Check the credits.)
Dialogs should support natural idiom, including those of English, and not the whims of some developers, Says you, right? And who are you, and why does your opinion supersede those of the developers and HCI experts?
Regardless of how many single-sourced HCI studies they can cite. You do realize that if there are many HCI studies, then they are, by definition, not "single-sourced?"
Apple hasn't been maligning IBM's chip-building technology. It merely stated the facts: that IBM isn't delivering what Apple needs.
First, IBM failed to deliver on their roadmap. The PowerPC 970 roadmap circa 2003 called for 3.0GHz, 90nm CPUs shipping in volume by mid-2004. The 90nm transition was harder than expected, so Apple was left without chips (which made it less competitive, which impeded sales volume, which meant IBM sold fewer chips.)
IBM also has no significant low-power CPUs for mobile applications. The mobile PPC970s were late, and are currently clocked lower than the G4, and would not offer any real performance advantage if crammed into a Mac portable. (Whcih means Freescale gets all of Apple's mobile CPU business, and IBM gets none.)
Perhaps if IBM had made the necessary investments, Apple would have been more competitive in the market, and IBM would have sold more CPUs. As it is, IBM wasn't interested in supporting Apple. Business relationships work both ways: both customer and supplier have to be committed to one another.. Capabilities are irrelevant: IBM didn't deliver what Apple wanted, so Apple left. Maybe IBM could have, but it didn't, and that's all anyone has complained about.
Ah. Well, as you are neither a creationist your own beliefs, nor, it would seem, are you interested in discussing the actual article...Logic would dictate that you are merely posting deliberately contentious material to stimulate. You are then, by definition, a troll.
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Any country, *any* country, that uses nuclear weapons against another country had better let it weigh on their soul for as long as that country exists.
Really?
This was my grandfather's war. And my grandfather wasn't even involved in the construction of the bomb, the decision to drop it, or the delivery of the device.
I live in a country with nuclear weapons, like the majority of the population of this earth. A country, which has, for 60 years, had the capability to deploy nuclear weapons, but has never used them since. I like to think that that demonstrates that this nation has the capacity to learn from its mistakes. That it can continue on with it's collective life and not be paralyzed with guilt or uncertainty over the actions of it's fathers and grandfathers.
I believe that it's important to be given a chance to make a fresh start. If the United States is forever regarded as "The country that nukes it's enemies," it'll be too easy for it to live up to that reputation in the future. We should learn from past experience, but not be consumed by it.
Or how would you suggest to cancel a drag?
On a Mac, you'd just move back to where you started and let go.
It did have three buttons, which had, essentially, the following functions
select
move
activate
Which Apple confusingly replaced with "click" "drag" and "double click."
Personally, I'm so glad that most sane people have chosen to use multiple buttons. Can you imagine what it would be like if we had to "click twice in rapid succession" the way Apple would have us do? Or "hold down a button while moving?"
Give me my "activate" and "move" buttons anyday. Let those crazy Apple users "double click," I want no part of it.
First, try telling a clueless user to right-click or even left-click over the phone.
Thankfully, since these will mainly be used on Macs, you'll never have to tell anyone to right-click. Remember how all the commands on a Mac are available to single-button mice?
Second, the original one button rocker mouse was a pain for new users because when they ran out of mouse pad it was hard to pick up without releasing the button
It's an optical mouse. There's no reason to use a mousepad, and it's really hard to run out of desk.
It wasn't until 1995 that Microsoft (following OS/2's lead, and God knows how many Unices) gave the second button something to do.
Windows, up through version 3.x, didn't really support two-button mice. The second button did nothing in 90+% of all apps.
Unlike mice that have obvious buttons and scroll wheels, this one looks the same no matter how its configured, so you can't know if right-clicking is enabled (or disabled) without sitting down and becoming frustrated with it.
I take it you've never noticed that the Control Panel under Windows also allows you to swap buttons? And you've never used any of the dozen other multi-button scroll mice with custom-config software?
Or do you know of some other mouse that looks different when configured differently?
Then they said Apple would keep the one button mouse for ever.
Well, the standard mouse on all Macs is still the one-button model, and there isn't a CTO option for this new mouse on the online store yet.
This mouse is a $50 separate purchase. If you want a Mac, you'll still get a one-button mouse in the box, at least for now.
It clicks mechanically.
The touch sensors are used to distinguish which finger you clicked with.
It makes a clicky sound, has a clicky feel, and won't activate by touch alone. Happy?
Everyone keeps jumping to harp on this guy...
It has a mechanical button to register clicks, and touch-sensitive regions to distinguish left- and right-clicks.
So it does actually "click" when you press on it.
Duct tape, originally known as duck tape, is a strong, fabric-based, multi-purpose adhesive tape, usually silver in color, although many other colors, including transparent, are also available, and is usually 2 inches (50 mm) wide. It was originally developed during World War II in 1942 as a waterproof sealing tape for ammunition casings. Permacel, then a division of Johnson & Johnson, used a rubber-based adhesive to help the tape resist water and a fabric backing to facilitate ripping. Because of these properties, it was also used to quickly repair military equipment, including jeeps, guns, and aircraft. Because the original tape was made of cotton duck fabric, and it repelled moisture like "water off a duck's back", it was originally referred to as "duck tape".
Part of the mission was to test the use of such a compound on a spacewalk.
On the first spacewalk of the mission, Noguchi will open this [package of pre-damaged Shuttle parts] and attempt to repair the tiles using a sticky, thick grey substance called "emittance wash".
Robinson will then test a crack repair technique using a material referred to as Noax, for Non-Oxide Adhesive Experimental.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4676473.stm
1. Release beta version with DRM to prevent installation on non-Apple machines
2. Watch people crack it
3. Repeat 1-2 until 2 fails
4. Release final version
5. Profit, of course.
They really only got serious about it with OS-X. Their previous attempts were rather crippled.
In the time period in question (1982-1984) the Lisa and Macintosh OS was anything but crippled.
Compared to PC-DOS/MS-DOS, or AppleDOS, the Lisa/Mac GUI was extremely powerful. High-res graphics, a system Clipboard, WYSIWYG fonts, built-in sound....
Of course, it was lightweight compared to Unix, but Unix was expensive (more even than the $10K Lisa) and proprietary (Linux woud be almost a decade in coming, and BSD was more research project than product.)
The Motion Picture Association of America and Regal Entertainment corporation have assured me that the theater is perfectly safe, and that any reports of fire are greatly exaggerated.
Not surprisingly, the studies that favored Apple's dialog order came from Apple.
Obviously, Apple has been rigging the studies for its own gain. You see it all the time:
"Buy an iPod: iTunes has the right dialog box arrangement."
"Switch to OS X: You'll love our dialog boxes."
"Power Mac G5: no computer displays correct dialog boxes faster."
The rest of your reply just underscores the pervasive arrogance that keeps me solidly in one "camp". Sad.
Arrogance? You mean, like, saying, "I don't like those guys, I know better?"
Um, did you ever learn to read with comprehension? Parent only says 'Pixar moved to OS X for their desktop/office applications, not production', the article confirms that 'Pixar moved their main production to OS X'.
Apparently, I comprehend things better than you do. Let me try to spell it out for you. The parent to which I am referring said:
"They switched to OS X for (most of?) their desktops. Their render farm is still running on Linux."
The linked article/story says:
"Pixar was switching to Mac OS X and G5 workstations for its production work
Workstations = Desktops. As in, a computer system used by an individual in a stationary configuration, often found on a desk or other horizontal fixed surface.
The linked article does not mention or address Pixar's renderfarm, which is probably still the Linux/x86 blade system they bought a while ago to replace their suns, and was used to render The Incredibles (Check the credits.)
Dialogs should support natural idiom, including those of English, and not the whims of some developers,
Says you, right? And who are you, and why does your opinion supersede those of the developers and HCI experts?
Regardless of how many single-sourced HCI studies they can cite.
You do realize that if there are many HCI studies, then they are, by definition, not "single-sourced?"
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157194&t hreshold=-1&commentsort=0&tid=126&mode=thread&cid= 13179020
Um...that link confirms exactly what the parent said....
Apple hasn't been maligning IBM's chip-building technology. It merely stated the facts: that IBM isn't delivering what Apple needs.
First, IBM failed to deliver on their roadmap. The PowerPC 970 roadmap circa 2003 called for 3.0GHz, 90nm CPUs shipping in volume by mid-2004. The 90nm transition was harder than expected, so Apple was left without chips (which made it less competitive, which impeded sales volume, which meant IBM sold fewer chips.)
IBM also has no significant low-power CPUs for mobile applications. The mobile PPC970s were late, and are currently clocked lower than the G4, and would not offer any real performance advantage if crammed into a Mac portable. (Whcih means Freescale gets all of Apple's mobile CPU business, and IBM gets none.)
Perhaps if IBM had made the necessary investments, Apple would have been more competitive in the market, and IBM would have sold more CPUs. As it is, IBM wasn't interested in supporting Apple. Business relationships work both ways: both customer and supplier have to be committed to one another.. Capabilities are irrelevant: IBM didn't deliver what Apple wanted, so Apple left. Maybe IBM could have, but it didn't, and that's all anyone has complained about.
from the online Apple Store.
blah blah blah.
Yeah. I expect Apple will replace the 1.67 GHz G4s with 1.6 GHz G5s any minute now.
Especially since, clock for clock, the G5 performs about the same to slightly worse than the G4. (Poor AlitVec implementation, but better FPU)
In a portable? Taking up space, and adding a few ounces more to the total weight?
Sure, if I was a pro photographer. Or even a dedicated amateur. Or, heck, maybe if I even if I used my digital camera more than once a month.
As it is, I'd rather leave that at home.
Now, a third USB port...that I could use....
Disclaimer: I am not a creationist.
Ah. Well, as you are neither a creationist your own beliefs, nor, it would seem, are you interested in discussing the actual article...Logic would dictate that you are merely posting deliberately contentious material to stimulate. You are then, by definition, a troll.
Q.E.D.