"Ford and Microsoft have done a lot of marketing for their joint Sync car stereo system, but after using it on a Focus, let me tell you it's the equivalent of DOS in a Windows 7 world, composed of nine buttons whose purpose is utterly unclear, unintuitive controls, and inconsistent operation with my smartphone. For example, it doesn't work with my smartphone's navigation app and won't play back the driving instructions through its speakers, though it passes through my music. My five-year-old midprice Sony car stereo does all of that better. For a device aimed at young people, Sync's clueless design makes you feel that you should be using eight-track tapes."
I have a 2011 Ford Fusion with Sync and Navigation, and honestly, I love the set up, and it doesn't feel dated at all. It's touch screen, voice activated, and I can customize whether or not to have voice prompts or tones for the navigation portion. I honestly don't know why he'd want the instructions to go back to his phone, because I know I wouldn't be able to hear my phone over my car stereo. I also know that 2012+ versions of Sync offer more interaction with smartphones than mine does, although I can't comment on that right now because I've been deployed and my wife's vehicle is the one with the newer version of Sync.
Either way, when someone finds a version of DOS that has touch screen capabilities and voice activation, let me know.
I for one believe that WotLK (the next expansion) has been done or nearly done since before the end of the year, and that they are waiting to unleash it a month or so before the 'next big competitor' (I believe Age of Conan) is released. I went to Blizzcon, and was able to play WotLK, and I can definitely say at that time, it was no where near done. They only had one workable zone, and it really wasn't that workable, plus if you died, there was no way to really find your corpse. It might be much closer to being in beta stages now, but when they had it for a demo at Blizzcon, it was very much still alpha at that point.
And you are saying this after the big story on Wednesday in a US investigation found that Iran had suspended nuclear weapons work in 2003 and was unlikely to produce enough weapons-grade uranium for a bomb until at least 2010, which also reverses the assessment that they would go after building nuclear bombs no matter what. Guess you're gonna have to find your "bunch-of-religious-radicals with a nuclear bomb" elsewhere.
The temperature isn't the same year after year. As I said, you don't need million-year-old temperatures to tell that the Earth is now warming. You're changing the subject to whether the current warming is natural. (You're also confusing interannual variability with long-term climate trends.)
As for the natural vs. anthropogenic debate, the past climate is only half of the rationale behind anthropogenic global warming. Million-year data is not so relevant (yes, we know it was warmer in the Cretaceous), but for the recent warming, temperature trends over the last few centuries to millennia tell us that the current climate change is both large and rapid compared with natural climate trends. But they're not the only thing that tell us that the current warming is unusual: we can also apply our knowledge of climate physics, and conclude that natural sources of warming are currently not as large as manmade sources. Both paleoclimate and climate physics give independent reasons to attribute the current warming trend to humans.
I'm not saying you need a million year record. I'm just saying that speaking in terms of sampling size, you need something a bit more substantial than a.015% sampling size to make a valid conclusion. That's like me going to 8 of my closest friends and asking them how they're going to vote in the upcoming election and determining the results from that. It's too small of a sampling size, and not enough information to make a substantial conclusion. At least in some of these reports, some of the scientists claim at best that these are assumptions and don't try to say that their results are fact or make inferences that their statements can be taken as fact.
Back to my original statement, gather more information, and then when you get enough information, make your conclusion. Isn't that what the scientific method is all about anyways--making conclusions from substantiated observations, and not assumptions?
You don't need data from millions of years ago to know that the Earth is warming now. All that will tell you is how the Earth has warmed (or cooled) in the past.
You can go ahead and make that claim with insufficient evidence, or you can wait and gather more data and validate it or find out there's actually a pattern of continually shifting climate changes. Last time I checked, it wasn't always sunny in one area, or nature wasn't a static beast, so why would you expect the same exact temperature year after year?
It doesn't amount to much at all if your goal is to infer the climate at all times over the past billion years. If your goal is to infer the global temperature over the last 100-150 years, yes, it is enough.
But if your ultimate goal is to prove that humans have contributed to global warming, then to present it as fact, you would need sufficient data. Again, since global data would be needed to infer that global warming is occurring, and that data is very spotty over that time period, it's at best an assumption or hypothesis that global warming is occuring and not fact.
Honestly, from looking at the article, they were taking out the spin of global warming. For some reason, people act like the conclusions scientists make are golden and shouldn't be questioned, such as global warming. With as long as the Earth has been around (either if you believe millions or thousands of years), the amount of reliable statistical data we have about the Earth's climate is rather wanting and nowhere near enough to form solid conclusions about global warming existing or not. If they really want to push the envelope about it, wait for a few hundred more years to pass and continue to collect data, then you may have enough to possibly reach a definite conclusion. Seriously though, 100-150 years of meteorological data (and the fact that all that data doesn't even represent all the major climate regions of the Earth, especially the arctic regions) is like a grain of sand on the beach and doesn't amount to much at all.
Yes, but HD quality != DVD quality. HD quality is either 720p, 1080i, or 1080p, while DVD quality is 420p, 300+ lines less depending upon your resolution. So, while what they're offering isn't HD quality, it is DVD quality, which is exactly what you get from a DVD, so I don't know what you're griping about. It's definitely not YouTube quality.
Actually, OS X is set up so you have a prerequisite phrase that you have to say before it will initiate any voice driven commands, and you can change it to whatever, so you can actually get your computer to respond to "Simon Says"!
I did it at one point just because I could, then turned it off because it was just something to play around with.
In my opinion the only place where Windows is really far ahead of Mac OS X is.NET. Or more specifically: C# 2.0. C# is simply the nicest programming language and.NET the most consistent and easiest API that I've ever used. I went from a Java and Obj-C advocate to a C# maniac in about one month of using it. The biggest drawback with.NET is Visual BASIC which is horribly verbose and seems to attract idiot developers.
I think it would be great if Apple would adopt C# as the future of development on Mac OS X. I hate to say this but in comparison Objective-C 2.0 looks positively dated.
Ever heard of Mono? It's not developed by Apple, but it's an open source project sponsored by Novell made to allow for those who run UNIX, Linux, Solaris, and OS X to develop on a.NET platform and run binaries compiled by.NET. So, it is possible to write and develop C# programs if you wanted to on a Mac, and you still don't have to pay the pretty penny you do if you had to purchase.NET;)
You're comparing apples to oranges. Yes, Apple is only hovering around 6% market share, but at what? If you're comparing OSes, then you just aren't getting it. Apple is a computer company first and foremost, and the only reason they have all this software is because as I've heard it put before, Apple likes to sell "experiences", not just computers.
Now, if you compare computer marketshares, you'll find that Apple is in fourth place, with Dell (32.1%), HP (23%), and Gateway(6.4%) ahead of it, and Toshiba (4.2%) is in fifth behind Apple. Now days, you can't just simply translate one computer company as one OS market, because people might have bought a Dell or HP and put Linux on it. Hell, you can't even do that with Apple now days, because you can now buy an Apple and put Windows on it as well as any *NIX variant or flavor. I don't know why in the hell you'd want to do that, but eh, different strokes for different folks, eh?
The point is though, that you're doing what a lot of other people do and just translating a CPU to OS, and what the user decides to do with their CPU after they buy it is their own discretion, and what is shipped with is not always the end result. Either way, they're not doing bad at all in the computer market, and in fact, they've had nothing but a steady growth over the past few years, so kudos to them (=
Today Apple Computer again revolutionizes the computer industry again by unveiling the no-button mouse! This amazing breakthrough once again affirms apples commitment to simple computing interfaces "for the rest of us".
Where have you been? Apple has had the "no-button" mouse for five years now! However what a lot of/. users tend to forget time and time again is that most computer users are not tech savvy. This article best explains why Apple sticks to a one-button mouse, but also points out that its OS has supported the use of a two-button mouse since MacOS 8.6.
I too have a similar experience to share. I had bought on of the original TiBooks (the 400MHz ones), and for some reason or another, had frequent problems with it. Well, I didn't buy the warranty at first which I thought was going to bite me in the ass whenever I did have another problem with it (Most of my problems were related to the optical drive going out).
Well, they ended up still treating it still as a warranty repair even though it was out of warranty, but instead of repairing it yet again since I had an extensive repair history, Apple ended up sending me a brand new TiBook (800 MHz). I ended up getting better screen resolution, double the processor speed, 4 times the video memory and hard drive space.
I ended up buying the Apple Care on this one, and to date with this new one, I've hade to send it in a couple of times, one time because the power adaptor that came with the unit was faulty, and the other time was a malfunction that would happen sometimes with a DVD playing. From that I got an even newer optical drive (old one was 8/4/8 speed, this new one is 24/8/24 speed on CDs); not only that, but there was a dead pixel on the monitor, and they ended up replacing that as well, although all I asked was for them to just check on it. All in all, I'm very satisfied with the service I've gotten from Apple, and every time I've gotten a repair, they've only used new parts on me. So, I'm definitely giving my kudos to Apple on their repair service.
3.) Safari has the weirdest Bookmark behavior. Try to drag a bookmark to the trashcan and it's impossible. Drag a bookmark to the page displayed in the Safari window, and it DELETES THE BOOKMARK with a poof.
I dunno, but it looks like you answered your own question. Also, have you tried just simply clicking the bookmark? That's not weird behavior, it's just common sense.
4.) I have found no way to get a Mac notebook to hibernate. Not sleep, hibernate. Neither have my users. Why is it if my machine is about to die I can't save the RAM on the hard drive like just about every Windows notebook out there. Why do I have to completely shutdown if I can't find a plug, stopping all my work?
Apparently you really haven't used a battery all the way out. You'll find that if you do, the computer automatically goes to sleep and will not wake up until you have it connected to a power source. Then all you have to do is wake it up and continue on where you were. You don't have to have a hibernate, nor do you have to completely shut it off. There's been times where I was sitting 15 minutes into one of my classes (back when my battery was going bad--it was over 2 years old), and it just went to sleep automatically. The class was over an hour long, and I couldn't plug it up anywhere. However, whenever I got out of my class, I simply plugged it into a power outlet, and voila! My current state was intact as well as the notes I was taking that I haven't saved.
It seems that Apple was a bit smart in how they implemented battery use in laptops and the sleep function. It works very well, and if your battery doesn't have enough life and you continue to work on it, it simply goes to sleep--no lost work, no restarts--all you need to do is just plug it in and continue to work.
I'd be wary of hibernation anyways and never use it even if I had a PC laptop. With hibernation, if you get an I/O error when it is writing your memory contents to hard disk (which by the way is very possible), then it can cause an error, you'll get a BSOD, and then you'll have to restart anyways. Worse off, if the I/O error is critical enough, you might have to reinstall your system, which I have seen happen before.
Wow, you've got a DVI TiBook, and were getting framerates that poor? Mine wasn't far off, but I was getting a whole lot better framerates, and another thing I noticed is that this last time I went to erase and reinstall everything, I made a separate partition for OS X, Classic, and a partition just to mess around with Linux, the performance of literally everything improved on my system, even running WoW. 10.3.7 improved WoW a little, and hopefully with this next patch of WoW, it will improve it even better.
I haven't been able to try UT 2k4 since I erased and reinstalled, but I'm sure the performance on that will be greatly improved as well. I'm just hoping there won't be another really great game come along before Apple decides to release an update to the PowerBooks in January 2005.
It uses a little over 1500 dual Xserve G5s and can exceed 25 TFlops. I can also guarantee that this one didn't cost much more (comparatively speaking in supercomputer prices) than Virginia Tech's system.
Well, it's not zero -- one of the more hardcore Mac users I know switched to Win XP because she's a web developer (if most of your users are on Windows, it makes sense for you to be) and has remained there ever since.
Commercial web development for the Mac here.
Open source programs for web development here, here, and here.
Now, that doesn't include by any stretch all the open source programs, and the only thing that Windows has over Mac web development is.NET, which sometimes has difficulties working for other browsers besides MSIE6.
Konfabulator was not originally Rose's idea by any stretch of the imagination. This idea first came to light in the mid 1980s with the introduction of Desk Accessories. If anything, it's sorta like the idea that the MacOS was originally Apple's idea. Neither is an original idea, and each got the idea from another source.
I did, however, Konfabulator for a while, and just found the way that it handles as bothersome as the original desk accessories that cluttered the desktop--not very intuitive at all, just maybe looked a bit more fancy. However, the dashboard coming out under Tiger looks like it resolves the "clutter" issue, and would definitely a more preferential choice for me anyways.
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From the article:
"Ford and Microsoft have done a lot of marketing for their joint Sync car stereo system, but after using it on a Focus, let me tell you it's the equivalent of DOS in a Windows 7 world, composed of nine buttons whose purpose is utterly unclear, unintuitive controls, and inconsistent operation with my smartphone. For example, it doesn't work with my smartphone's navigation app and won't play back the driving instructions through its speakers, though it passes through my music. My five-year-old midprice Sony car stereo does all of that better. For a device aimed at young people, Sync's clueless design makes you feel that you should be using eight-track tapes."
I have a 2011 Ford Fusion with Sync and Navigation, and honestly, I love the set up, and it doesn't feel dated at all. It's touch screen, voice activated, and I can customize whether or not to have voice prompts or tones for the navigation portion. I honestly don't know why he'd want the instructions to go back to his phone, because I know I wouldn't be able to hear my phone over my car stereo. I also know that 2012+ versions of Sync offer more interaction with smartphones than mine does, although I can't comment on that right now because I've been deployed and my wife's vehicle is the one with the newer version of Sync.
Either way, when someone finds a version of DOS that has touch screen capabilities and voice activation, let me know.
Actually, they disbanded four days ago, and accessibility to casuals wasn't a reason.
http://www.dtguilds.com/index.php
Finally! Someone spells out one of these non-sensical acronyms! IGTOSAIDK (I get tired of seeing acronyms I don't know).
So basically, Uranus is the Dennis Rodman of Planets?
And you are saying this after the big story on Wednesday in a US investigation found that Iran had suspended nuclear weapons work in 2003 and was unlikely to produce enough weapons-grade uranium for a bomb until at least 2010, which also reverses the assessment that they would go after building nuclear bombs no matter what. Guess you're gonna have to find your "bunch-of-religious-radicals with a nuclear bomb" elsewhere.
The temperature isn't the same year after year. As I said, you don't need million-year-old temperatures to tell that the Earth is now warming. You're changing the subject to whether the current warming is natural. (You're also confusing interannual variability with long-term climate trends.)
As for the natural vs. anthropogenic debate, the past climate is only half of the rationale behind anthropogenic global warming. Million-year data is not so relevant (yes, we know it was warmer in the Cretaceous), but for the recent warming, temperature trends over the last few centuries to millennia tell us that the current climate change is both large and rapid compared with natural climate trends. But they're not the only thing that tell us that the current warming is unusual: we can also apply our knowledge of climate physics, and conclude that natural sources of warming are currently not as large as manmade sources. Both paleoclimate and climate physics give independent reasons to attribute the current warming trend to humans.
I'm not saying you need a million year record. I'm just saying that speaking in terms of sampling size, you need something a bit more substantial than a .015% sampling size to make a valid conclusion. That's like me going to 8 of my closest friends and asking them how they're going to vote in the upcoming election and determining the results from that. It's too small of a sampling size, and not enough information to make a substantial conclusion. At least in some of these reports, some of the scientists claim at best that these are assumptions and don't try to say that their results are fact or make inferences that their statements can be taken as fact.
Back to my original statement, gather more information, and then when you get enough information, make your conclusion. Isn't that what the scientific method is all about anyways--making conclusions from substantiated observations, and not assumptions?
...And I get modded down to troll. Guess a mod takes Global warming as fact.
You don't need data from millions of years ago to know that the Earth is warming now. All that will tell you is how the Earth has warmed (or cooled) in the past.
You can go ahead and make that claim with insufficient evidence, or you can wait and gather more data and validate it or find out there's actually a pattern of continually shifting climate changes. Last time I checked, it wasn't always sunny in one area, or nature wasn't a static beast, so why would you expect the same exact temperature year after year?
It doesn't amount to much at all if your goal is to infer the climate at all times over the past billion years. If your goal is to infer the global temperature over the last 100-150 years, yes, it is enough.
But if your ultimate goal is to prove that humans have contributed to global warming, then to present it as fact, you would need sufficient data. Again, since global data would be needed to infer that global warming is occurring, and that data is very spotty over that time period, it's at best an assumption or hypothesis that global warming is occuring and not fact.
Honestly, from looking at the article, they were taking out the spin of global warming. For some reason, people act like the conclusions scientists make are golden and shouldn't be questioned, such as global warming. With as long as the Earth has been around (either if you believe millions or thousands of years), the amount of reliable statistical data we have about the Earth's climate is rather wanting and nowhere near enough to form solid conclusions about global warming existing or not. If they really want to push the envelope about it, wait for a few hundred more years to pass and continue to collect data, then you may have enough to possibly reach a definite conclusion. Seriously though, 100-150 years of meteorological data (and the fact that all that data doesn't even represent all the major climate regions of the Earth, especially the arctic regions) is like a grain of sand on the beach and doesn't amount to much at all.
Yes, but HD quality != DVD quality. HD quality is either 720p, 1080i, or 1080p, while DVD quality is 420p, 300+ lines less depending upon your resolution. So, while what they're offering isn't HD quality, it is DVD quality, which is exactly what you get from a DVD, so I don't know what you're griping about. It's definitely not YouTube quality.
Actually, OS X is set up so you have a prerequisite phrase that you have to say before it will initiate any voice driven commands, and you can change it to whatever, so you can actually get your computer to respond to "Simon Says"!
I did it at one point just because I could, then turned it off because it was just something to play around with.
In my opinion the only place where Windows is really far ahead of Mac OS X is .NET. Or more specifically: C# 2.0. C# is simply the nicest programming language and .NET the most consistent and easiest API that I've ever used. I went from a Java and Obj-C advocate to a C# maniac in about one month of using it. The biggest drawback with .NET is Visual BASIC which is horribly verbose and seems to attract idiot developers.
.NET platform and run binaries compiled by .NET. So, it is possible to write and develop C# programs if you wanted to on a Mac, and you still don't have to pay the pretty penny you do if you had to purchase .NET ;)
I think it would be great if Apple would adopt C# as the future of development on Mac OS X. I hate to say this but in comparison Objective-C 2.0 looks positively dated.
Ever heard of Mono? It's not developed by Apple, but it's an open source project sponsored by Novell made to allow for those who run UNIX, Linux, Solaris, and OS X to develop on a
You're comparing apples to oranges. Yes, Apple is only hovering around 6% market share, but at what? If you're comparing OSes, then you just aren't getting it. Apple is a computer company first and foremost, and the only reason they have all this software is because as I've heard it put before, Apple likes to sell "experiences", not just computers.
Now, if you compare computer marketshares, you'll find that Apple is in fourth place, with Dell (32.1%), HP (23%), and Gateway(6.4%) ahead of it, and Toshiba (4.2%) is in fifth behind Apple. Now days, you can't just simply translate one computer company as one OS market, because people might have bought a Dell or HP and put Linux on it. Hell, you can't even do that with Apple now days, because you can now buy an Apple and put Windows on it as well as any *NIX variant or flavor. I don't know why in the hell you'd want to do that, but eh, different strokes for different folks, eh?
The point is though, that you're doing what a lot of other people do and just translating a CPU to OS, and what the user decides to do with their CPU after they buy it is their own discretion, and what is shipped with is not always the end result. Either way, they're not doing bad at all in the computer market, and in fact, they've had nothing but a steady growth over the past few years, so kudos to them (=
Today Apple Computer again revolutionizes the computer industry again by unveiling the no-button mouse! This amazing breakthrough once again affirms apples commitment to simple computing interfaces "for the rest of us".
Where have you been? Apple has had the "no-button" mouse for five years now! However what a lot of /. users tend to forget time and time again is that most computer users are not tech savvy. This article best explains why Apple sticks to a one-button mouse, but also points out that its OS has supported the use of a two-button mouse since MacOS 8.6.
I too have a similar experience to share. I had bought on of the original TiBooks (the 400MHz ones), and for some reason or another, had frequent problems with it. Well, I didn't buy the warranty at first which I thought was going to bite me in the ass whenever I did have another problem with it (Most of my problems were related to the optical drive going out).
Well, they ended up still treating it still as a warranty repair even though it was out of warranty, but instead of repairing it yet again since I had an extensive repair history, Apple ended up sending me a brand new TiBook (800 MHz). I ended up getting better screen resolution, double the processor speed, 4 times the video memory and hard drive space.
I ended up buying the Apple Care on this one, and to date with this new one, I've hade to send it in a couple of times, one time because the power adaptor that came with the unit was faulty, and the other time was a malfunction that would happen sometimes with a DVD playing. From that I got an even newer optical drive (old one was 8/4/8 speed, this new one is 24/8/24 speed on CDs); not only that, but there was a dead pixel on the monitor, and they ended up replacing that as well, although all I asked was for them to just check on it. All in all, I'm very satisfied with the service I've gotten from Apple, and every time I've gotten a repair, they've only used new parts on me. So, I'm definitely giving my kudos to Apple on their repair service.
BTW. The sail emits carbon monoxide to get its speed boost. You know, the stuff the kills humans almost as fast as dihydrogen monoxide.
You really want to be behind that thing for a whole month?
You know, it's really sad that no one gets this parody anymore. Here's the link. Oh yes, DHMO is dangerous! /sarcasm
Anyways, for those who still don't get it, think about the chemical symbol for DHMO (Hint: it isn't DHMO!)
3.) Safari has the weirdest Bookmark behavior. Try to drag a bookmark to the trashcan and it's impossible. Drag a bookmark to the page displayed in the Safari window, and it DELETES THE BOOKMARK with a poof.
I dunno, but it looks like you answered your own question. Also, have you tried just simply clicking the bookmark? That's not weird behavior, it's just common sense.
4.) I have found no way to get a Mac notebook to hibernate. Not sleep, hibernate. Neither have my users. Why is it if my machine is about to die I can't save the RAM on the hard drive like just about every Windows notebook out there. Why do I have to completely shutdown if I can't find a plug, stopping all my work?
Apparently you really haven't used a battery all the way out. You'll find that if you do, the computer automatically goes to sleep and will not wake up until you have it connected to a power source. Then all you have to do is wake it up and continue on where you were. You don't have to have a hibernate, nor do you have to completely shut it off. There's been times where I was sitting 15 minutes into one of my classes (back when my battery was going bad--it was over 2 years old), and it just went to sleep automatically. The class was over an hour long, and I couldn't plug it up anywhere. However, whenever I got out of my class, I simply plugged it into a power outlet, and voila! My current state was intact as well as the notes I was taking that I haven't saved.
It seems that Apple was a bit smart in how they implemented battery use in laptops and the sleep function. It works very well, and if your battery doesn't have enough life and you continue to work on it, it simply goes to sleep--no lost work, no restarts--all you need to do is just plug it in and continue to work.
I'd be wary of hibernation anyways and never use it even if I had a PC laptop. With hibernation, if you get an I/O error when it is writing your memory contents to hard disk (which by the way is very possible), then it can cause an error, you'll get a BSOD, and then you'll have to restart anyways. Worse off, if the I/O error is critical enough, you might have to reinstall your system, which I have seen happen before.
Apparently, you've never implemented psyco. The psyco module speeds up Python and gives it a whole lot better speeds, close to that of C++.
Wow, you've got a DVI TiBook, and were getting framerates that poor? Mine wasn't far off, but I was getting a whole lot better framerates, and another thing I noticed is that this last time I went to erase and reinstall everything, I made a separate partition for OS X, Classic, and a partition just to mess around with Linux, the performance of literally everything improved on my system, even running WoW. 10.3.7 improved WoW a little, and hopefully with this next patch of WoW, it will improve it even better.
I haven't been able to try UT 2k4 since I erased and reinstalled, but I'm sure the performance on that will be greatly improved as well. I'm just hoping there won't be another really great game come along before Apple decides to release an update to the PowerBooks in January 2005.
How about this one for you:
It uses a little over 1500 dual Xserve G5s and can exceed 25 TFlops. I can also guarantee that this one didn't cost much more (comparatively speaking in supercomputer prices) than Virginia Tech's system.
...And then they discovered they had some dirt on their lens.
Well, it's not zero -- one of the more hardcore Mac users I know switched to Win XP because she's a web developer (if most of your users are on Windows, it makes sense for you to be) and has remained there ever since.
Commercial web development for the Mac here. .NET, which sometimes has difficulties working for other browsers besides MSIE6.
Open source programs for web development here, here, and here.
Now, that doesn't include by any stretch all the open source programs, and the only thing that Windows has over Mac web development is
Seems easy enough...now, only if I had 4 friends up at NASA...
Konfabulator was not originally Rose's idea by any stretch of the imagination. This idea first came to light in the mid 1980s with the introduction of Desk Accessories. If anything, it's sorta like the idea that the MacOS was originally Apple's idea. Neither is an original idea, and each got the idea from another source.
I did, however, Konfabulator for a while, and just found the way that it handles as bothersome as the original desk accessories that cluttered the desktop--not very intuitive at all, just maybe looked a bit more fancy. However, the dashboard coming out under Tiger looks like it resolves the "clutter" issue, and would definitely a more preferential choice for me anyways.