a) Did you read my comment? I mentioned this in it.
b) Have you actually tried this? As I stated in my comment, that only applies to new windows created by hitting command-N or choosing "New Window" from the file menu - neither of which I ever, ever use. When you just open a window by double-clicking on a folder or drive, it doesn't work.
due to the fact that Safari used to be unable to open PDFs in the browser.
Now THIS is what they REALLY need to fix. *sigh*
As for the rest, I sometimes forget about the need to idiot-proof (or at least, newbie-proof) things. I think the ideal solution would go something like this:
- You click a file that opens in an external program, like preview or WMP.
- You get a dialog box where the choices are "Save to..." and "Open and Store a copy in *path of temp directory*" (The temp directory shouldn't be as well-hidden as the Windows ones are. Something at the top of your home directory, for instance.
- Somehow, the computer won't let any program but Safari (perhaps this would be editable to add other web browsers) save to that directory, so if you try to save the file, it automatically makes you "Save As" and pick somewhere else to save it. I have no idea how feasible this is, but I said "ideal," now didn't I?
- Temp directory is automatically cleared out at a user-defined time or space interval (a month, or when it reaches 100 MB, for example)
But there's a specific reason for that - those magazines are saying "Look at this woman! She's prettier than you, sexier than you, and looks better in her clothes than you! BUT - if you buy this magazine we can teach you how to look like her and tell you what products to buy to be just as sexy, we promise!"
Same for TV ads for beauty products. However, if you watch daytime TV, where the ads are for cleaning products and targeted at housewives, you don't see that - you see actors who look like "average" (but slightly thinner with slightly better skin and hair) hosuewives, doing their laundry or dishes or whatever.
The point of a video game isn't to sell the player something that will make them more like the character. It's for the player to identify with the character and enjoy living the character's life for a while, doing whatever it is the character does in the game.
A better comparison would be a chick flick. Women in action movies are like women in video games - busty, tight clothes, etc. Women in chick flicks are very different - prettier and thinner than average (because directors just won't hire anyone else), but much closer to normal, wearing much closer to normal clothing. Most women would choose a chick flick over an action movie, because most women identify with the female characters and enjoy living through them for a couple of hours, having whatever romantic comedy or tearjerker adventure they're having. A chick flick where the leads are all DDs wearing skin-tight low-cut tank tops and shorts with their butts hanging out would cease to be a chick flick, because women would have a much harder time identifying with the characters. (Well, occasionally such a character is in one, but they're usually scorned or pitied by the other characters.)
I don't see why there's not a temp directory for browsers to use on files that you choose to open rather than save, that's automatically emptied now and then. I, too, usually make a "Downloads" folder on my desktop - but it takes constant maintenance to sort out the stuff I actually wanted to save from the stuff I wanted to view once and forget about. Letting Safari download to two places - an automatically-deleted temp folder if you don't choose "save", plus whatever you specify as your download folder if you do - would make things *so* much easier.
If I were the tinfoil hat sort who looks for conspiracies, I would suspect that there is a plot to force everyone to use Column view
No, if this were true, they'd make it easier to get windows to open in column view by default. I adore column view, but it's a bitch to get it by default. Sure you can tell it to "open new windows in column view" - but that only works when you actually choose "New Finder window" or hit command-N, neither of which I ever do. If you open a window by double-clicking on a folder or drive, it opens in some other view - anything but column. I finally found out on the Apple discussion forums that if you hold shift when you close a window, the next time you open that particular folder or whatever it will open in whatever view you closed it in. Which is nice, but until I've closed every folder that way I still have to change stuff back to column view a lot.
Personally, I was wondering why they gave us this great new view and then made it so incredibly hard to make Finder use it.
Part of the problem is that Safari's default download folder is the desktop - and every time you open a PDF it downloads it there. It's easy to accumulate tons and tons of PDFs on your desktop if you don't clean it up regularly. And Firefox is no better, because if you choose "Open with Preview" instead of "Save to..." it saves it to the desktop as well - even though if you had saved it, you could have chosen a location.
You don't have to do anything other than say, "Yes, I believe that Jesus died for my sins so that I might enter heaven."
My point was, the crime becomes not believing in Jesus, rather than your sins. It's still finite, and the punishment is still infinite. You could certainly argue that it's become much, much easier to not commit the crime (I heard a sermon this Sunday that was basically all about how much easier Lutherans have it than Catholics and Jews), but finite crime = infinite punishment still stands, and still seems unfair.
How does that change anything? Doesn't it just change the finite crime from "sinning" to "not believing in Jesus"? And if you do it, you still get the infinite punishment. How does changing the definition of the crime make the punishment any more just?
Well, now we know why any company would ever want to put out such a crappy piece of equipment at such an insane price point with no retail support.... Money laundering, anyone?
"Yeah, we lost that $20M because of... Uh... Gizmondo. Man, yeah, that was a blow."
Or you could be like Nintendo, and push the new Zelda game *just* far enough back to keep quality... and capitalize on all those gift cards everyone receives these days.
I swear, I do more shopping in the two weeks after Christmas than in the two months before.
I let some kids on a train in India use my Palm Pilot to play some games once, they figured it out pretty fast. They weren't street kids, but they'd never used a PDA before. Kids are kids everywhere - give them a toy, and they will figure out how to play with it.
I'm sure it helped that the game involved a monkey flinging poo. Give kids anything to do with poo flinging and they'll figure out how to play with it even faster.
Wow, so now he's threatening the Bar Association. I'm sure they like that.
He claims that Penny Arcade owns ThinkGeek? That's pretty easily proven false - I'm sure the Bar will really be on his side when they realize how crappy his fact-checking is. Just because they sell their stuff through ThinkGeek doesn't mean they're TG's "parent company".
his claiming the Beltway snipers "trained extensively with Halo,"
I've been wondering how, exactly, aiming and shooting a nonexistant gun with a little stick and some buttons could possibly teach me to aim and shoot a real gun with a trigger, weight, and recoil.
I don't play FPS games, but I was thinking it would be a good experiment to go out on a shooting range once, get a baseline of how bad I am at ait, then play an FPS for a few months and go back to the shooting range to see if I've improved any.
With no Microsoft-centric frame of reference, Microsoft cannot look good.
Meaning, with even a neutral frame of reference, Microsoft would not look good. Microsoft can only look good if you're coming at them from a MS-centric frame of reference. Maybe this guy's onto something.
The OS on a mini is the exact same OS as on a powermac. I'm not sure what you'd be missing, unless you're doing something that takes a lot of power. But if you just want to get the Mac Experience(tm) I can't imagine why a mini wouldn't meet your needs. I've got a 3-year-old eMac that's much slower than the mini, and I certainly feel I'm still getting the full Mac Experience(tm).
Because in a lot of UN countries, the national-level government runs a lot more stuff than it does in the US (health care, education, etc). It makes them nervous to have something like the internet controlled by something that's not a government agency.
Plus, they claim that having it controlled by an entity that happens to be in the US (even though it's not at all a part of US government) gives us some kind of "advantage" or "biases" it toward us somehow.
SBC doesn't exist everywhere. The town I just moved from, DSL was $30/month (plus, of course, you have to have a landline, which I didn't - but if this guy uses dialup I guess he must). Luckily, the DSL company moving in made my cable company lower my rates from $50 to $40. But I can still see plenty of people thinking $30/month is too much for something they don't need. I sure wouldn't pay that for cable TV.
Woah. Okay mods, I appreciate the karma and all, but I've got to admit that this was really not insightful. *Everybody* pretty much said this exact same thing, and it's painfully obvious to begin with. I was just kinda venting. K?
No kidding, what an ass. Who jokes about giving $10,000 to charity? I mean, if he'd offered it as a direct prize to the winner, that's one thing - but claiming you're going to give it to charity and then renegging? No wonder the NIMF wants him to never mention their name again.
If a person is hypersensitive to one thing (like chlorine in water), there's a good chance they're hypersensitive to all kinds of other things (like thread count in sheets) - it's called "sensual overexcitability."
Actually, I think that eBay bills itself as a "venue" for holding an auction, not as the auctioneer.
But the thing is, I don't think the seller is really an auctioneer, either - this is auctioning without an auctioneer, that's part of the point of it. Although I think it's a great idea for consignment places to get bonded, etc, I'd rather just see people be smart enough to only sell through bonded sellers rather than it be legislated.
So, if you read a book from a library, does that mean you should be entitled to download it as a PDF for free?
(Remember, for the ABC shows at least, you DIDN'T have to pay your cable company to watch them - you could just as easily have disconnected your cable and used rabbit ears for free. You were paying the cable companies for all those other channels, and just happened to keep getting the regular broadcast ones, too. So don't tell me you're paying your cable company for ABC.)
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b) Have you actually tried this? As I stated in my comment, that only applies to new windows created by hitting command-N or choosing "New Window" from the file menu - neither of which I ever, ever use. When you just open a window by double-clicking on a folder or drive, it doesn't work.
Now THIS is what they REALLY need to fix. *sigh*
As for the rest, I sometimes forget about the need to idiot-proof (or at least, newbie-proof) things. I think the ideal solution would go something like this:
- You click a file that opens in an external program, like preview or WMP.
- You get a dialog box where the choices are "Save to..." and "Open and Store a copy in *path of temp directory*" (The temp directory shouldn't be as well-hidden as the Windows ones are. Something at the top of your home directory, for instance.
- Somehow, the computer won't let any program but Safari (perhaps this would be editable to add other web browsers) save to that directory, so if you try to save the file, it automatically makes you "Save As" and pick somewhere else to save it. I have no idea how feasible this is, but I said "ideal," now didn't I?
- Temp directory is automatically cleared out at a user-defined time or space interval (a month, or when it reaches 100 MB, for example)
But there's a specific reason for that - those magazines are saying "Look at this woman! She's prettier than you, sexier than you, and looks better in her clothes than you! BUT - if you buy this magazine we can teach you how to look like her and tell you what products to buy to be just as sexy, we promise!"
Same for TV ads for beauty products. However, if you watch daytime TV, where the ads are for cleaning products and targeted at housewives, you don't see that - you see actors who look like "average" (but slightly thinner with slightly better skin and hair) hosuewives, doing their laundry or dishes or whatever.
The point of a video game isn't to sell the player something that will make them more like the character. It's for the player to identify with the character and enjoy living the character's life for a while, doing whatever it is the character does in the game.
A better comparison would be a chick flick. Women in action movies are like women in video games - busty, tight clothes, etc. Women in chick flicks are very different - prettier and thinner than average (because directors just won't hire anyone else), but much closer to normal, wearing much closer to normal clothing. Most women would choose a chick flick over an action movie, because most women identify with the female characters and enjoy living through them for a couple of hours, having whatever romantic comedy or tearjerker adventure they're having. A chick flick where the leads are all DDs wearing skin-tight low-cut tank tops and shorts with their butts hanging out would cease to be a chick flick, because women would have a much harder time identifying with the characters. (Well, occasionally such a character is in one, but they're usually scorned or pitied by the other characters.)
I don't see why there's not a temp directory for browsers to use on files that you choose to open rather than save, that's automatically emptied now and then. I, too, usually make a "Downloads" folder on my desktop - but it takes constant maintenance to sort out the stuff I actually wanted to save from the stuff I wanted to view once and forget about. Letting Safari download to two places - an automatically-deleted temp folder if you don't choose "save", plus whatever you specify as your download folder if you do - would make things *so* much easier.
No, if this were true, they'd make it easier to get windows to open in column view by default. I adore column view, but it's a bitch to get it by default. Sure you can tell it to "open new windows in column view" - but that only works when you actually choose "New Finder window" or hit command-N, neither of which I ever do. If you open a window by double-clicking on a folder or drive, it opens in some other view - anything but column. I finally found out on the Apple discussion forums that if you hold shift when you close a window, the next time you open that particular folder or whatever it will open in whatever view you closed it in. Which is nice, but until I've closed every folder that way I still have to change stuff back to column view a lot.
Personally, I was wondering why they gave us this great new view and then made it so incredibly hard to make Finder use it.
Part of the problem is that Safari's default download folder is the desktop - and every time you open a PDF it downloads it there. It's easy to accumulate tons and tons of PDFs on your desktop if you don't clean it up regularly. And Firefox is no better, because if you choose "Open with Preview" instead of "Save to..." it saves it to the desktop as well - even though if you had saved it, you could have chosen a location.
My point was, the crime becomes not believing in Jesus, rather than your sins. It's still finite, and the punishment is still infinite. You could certainly argue that it's become much, much easier to not commit the crime (I heard a sermon this Sunday that was basically all about how much easier Lutherans have it than Catholics and Jews), but finite crime = infinite punishment still stands, and still seems unfair.
How does that change anything? Doesn't it just change the finite crime from "sinning" to "not believing in Jesus"? And if you do it, you still get the infinite punishment. How does changing the definition of the crime make the punishment any more just?
"Yeah, we lost that $20M because of... Uh... Gizmondo. Man, yeah, that was a blow."
*sigh*
We're screwed, aren't we?
I swear, I do more shopping in the two weeks after Christmas than in the two months before.
I'm sure it helped that the game involved a monkey flinging poo. Give kids anything to do with poo flinging and they'll figure out how to play with it even faster.
He claims that Penny Arcade owns ThinkGeek? That's pretty easily proven false - I'm sure the Bar will really be on his side when they realize how crappy his fact-checking is. Just because they sell their stuff through ThinkGeek doesn't mean they're TG's "parent company".
I've been wondering how, exactly, aiming and shooting a nonexistant gun with a little stick and some buttons could possibly teach me to aim and shoot a real gun with a trigger, weight, and recoil.
I don't play FPS games, but I was thinking it would be a good experiment to go out on a shooting range once, get a baseline of how bad I am at ait, then play an FPS for a few months and go back to the shooting range to see if I've improved any.
Meaning, with even a neutral frame of reference, Microsoft would not look good. Microsoft can only look good if you're coming at them from a MS-centric frame of reference. Maybe this guy's onto something.
The OS on a mini is the exact same OS as on a powermac. I'm not sure what you'd be missing, unless you're doing something that takes a lot of power. But if you just want to get the Mac Experience(tm) I can't imagine why a mini wouldn't meet your needs. I've got a 3-year-old eMac that's much slower than the mini, and I certainly feel I'm still getting the full Mac Experience(tm).
Plus, they claim that having it controlled by an entity that happens to be in the US (even though it's not at all a part of US government) gives us some kind of "advantage" or "biases" it toward us somehow.
SBC doesn't exist everywhere. The town I just moved from, DSL was $30/month (plus, of course, you have to have a landline, which I didn't - but if this guy uses dialup I guess he must). Luckily, the DSL company moving in made my cable company lower my rates from $50 to $40. But I can still see plenty of people thinking $30/month is too much for something they don't need. I sure wouldn't pay that for cable TV.
Woah. Okay mods, I appreciate the karma and all, but I've got to admit that this was really not insightful. *Everybody* pretty much said this exact same thing, and it's painfully obvious to begin with. I was just kinda venting. K?
No kidding, what an ass. Who jokes about giving $10,000 to charity? I mean, if he'd offered it as a direct prize to the winner, that's one thing - but claiming you're going to give it to charity and then renegging? No wonder the NIMF wants him to never mention their name again.
How often do you post this, anyhow?
If a person is hypersensitive to one thing (like chlorine in water), there's a good chance they're hypersensitive to all kinds of other things (like thread count in sheets) - it's called "sensual overexcitability."
But the thing is, I don't think the seller is really an auctioneer, either - this is auctioning without an auctioneer, that's part of the point of it. Although I think it's a great idea for consignment places to get bonded, etc, I'd rather just see people be smart enough to only sell through bonded sellers rather than it be legislated.
Does this mean they'll have to forfeit their Ig Nobel?
(Remember, for the ABC shows at least, you DIDN'T have to pay your cable company to watch them - you could just as easily have disconnected your cable and used rabbit ears for free. You were paying the cable companies for all those other channels, and just happened to keep getting the regular broadcast ones, too. So don't tell me you're paying your cable company for ABC.)