Seconded. When I bought mine I thought I would hardly use it - I'm a sucker for apple stuff so I bought it anyway. It ended up being the thing I use the most.
You're lucky. I work on building sites and I got through three of those things inside a year. They may be rugged, but dust would get into the screen and then the buttons stopped working. I liked the phone though.
You have my sympathy and Alzheimer's is ghastly. Huntington's Disease shares many of its qualities. I watched my mother die of it aged 59. I am currently watching my sister progress through the disease. She is 45, denies that there is anything wrong with her, making it impossible for us to arrange proper care for her. Her nerve endings are shot so she scolds herself on the kettle. As a teenager I would come home and my mother would be asleep by a gas fire even though you could smell her skin cook. She would have aggressive mood swings, then in the later stages when her temperament had improved but her movements deteriorated, she would continuously be accused of being drunk.
My mother and two of her four siblings died of it. Of my two siblings and 11 cousins six are known to be affected. This number will likely rise. Whilst it is a rare disease it devastates whole families. Whilst I am glad it is so rare, were it more well known more money would be spent trying to cure it.
All of these diseases are terrible, and many of them are related. Let's hope that when one is solved they all fall like a deck of cards.
Dude, if you read the article it will tell you that he is actively against it - otherwise he wouldn't be challenging the record companies in this way. Or did you read TFA?
Building is actually one of the strongholds of the imperial system - at least in small projects. Most builders who were apprenticed think in imperial for everything except kitchens and bathrooms which are now totally metric. Stud walls have 16" centres. Many things that are now described in metric are actually still imperial in size (15mm and 22mm piping are half and three quarter inch). Carpenters use imperial a great deal, and there is a reason. One of the most common tasks in building is to find the centre of something - this is MUCH easier in imperial. If something is 28 3/4" to successively half it is trivial: 14 3/8, 7 3/16, 3/ 22/32 - only the last of these is remotely challenging. If something is 27.7cm this process is harder - and as this would often be marked as 2770mm which is harder still. Try it in your head. Both imperial and metric have their place, and people arguing for the automatic superiority of the metric system are missing some of the benefits of imperial.
While it is easier, as someone above stated, to multiply and divide by ten, systems designed around the number 12 are more divisible. There is a reason why there will never be a metric clock, and there will never be a 500 degree circle. 360 is divisible by 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10,12,15,16(nearly - 22.5),18, and 20 and on and on. By comparison 1000 - a much larger number, is divisible by 1,2,4,5,8,10,16(nearly - 62.5), and 20. 360 has 14 factors under 20, while 1000 has only 8. There are reasons to use base 12. The pyramids were built in imperial, and there ain't a lot wrong with them. Just my 2 cents.
You're entirely misunderstaning write speeds on disks. They are designed to work at a certain speed. If you buy 8x disks, they may not word on 2x disks. Setting 1x recording is utterly retarded, and entirely wrong.
>That's appropriate when pluralizing acronyms. How many ENIAC's were built?
I still think that that's wrong. ENIACs is fine, but as you say, living language, and the convention is growing.
I have no idea what you can find in the Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, but the problem with your sentence is that 'sleeping', even in its adjectival form, is not a steady state but a continual action (a sleeping child is not the same as a child asleep). Hence: 'he seems asleep', or 'he seems to be sleeping' are fine. In terms of grammar the problem is that English is governed by usage and not grammar - grammar rules such as prepositions at ends of sentences and split infinitives are merely the pointless attempts of neo-classicists to wrestle English inconsistency into Latin grammar forms.
I'm really sorry but you're talking bollocks. Find me a printer or digital camera or anything that one might reasonably need that won't work with a Mac. And when you do, remember that you can run Windows on a Mac as well. You call him a fanboi, but what you describe suggests your Mac experience hails from somewhere circa 1994.
So what is your point? Mac Os X has a CLI, as do Linux and Windows. So what if people rooted in MacOs 7.5 think it's a failure because of it? What are you saying?
Not out of the box in Safari, but you might want to check out Shiira. It has the very nice Tab Expose feature and it uses Webkit. It has quite a few little innovations and the tabs are draggable.
I take your point, but the Express Card 34 slot provides even faster I/O and allows for dual Firewire 800 on one card. If I had to choose one over the other then I would make the same choice as Apple, particularly as it allows for much improved video options in the future.
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Who are as dedicated to android as the apple fanbois are to the shit that apple sells.
Yes, I'm an android fanboi and I don't even own one (yet). I do know that I will NEVER buy an apple product.
So not so much a fan then, more a zealot.
And what hardware do you propose to use these software innovations on?
Seconded. When I bought mine I thought I would hardly use it - I'm a sucker for apple stuff so I bought it anyway. It ended up being the thing I use the most.
You're lucky. I work on building sites and I got through three of those things inside a year. They may be rugged, but dust would get into the screen and then the buttons stopped working. I liked the phone though.
http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/archives/2006/08/24 /hex-fiend-11/
Maybe this will help - maybe not.
You have my sympathy and Alzheimer's is ghastly. Huntington's Disease shares many of its qualities. I watched my mother die of it aged 59. I am currently watching my sister progress through the disease. She is 45, denies that there is anything wrong with her, making it impossible for us to arrange proper care for her. Her nerve endings are shot so she scolds herself on the kettle. As a teenager I would come home and my mother would be asleep by a gas fire even though you could smell her skin cook. She would have aggressive mood swings, then in the later stages when her temperament had improved but her movements deteriorated, she would continuously be accused of being drunk.
My mother and two of her four siblings died of it. Of my two siblings and 11 cousins six are known to be affected. This number will likely rise. Whilst it is a rare disease it devastates whole families. Whilst I am glad it is so rare, were it more well known more money would be spent trying to cure it.
All of these diseases are terrible, and many of them are related. Let's hope that when one is solved they all fall like a deck of cards.
How is 7% a majority stockholding?
Dude, if you read the article it will tell you that he is actively against it - otherwise he wouldn't be challenging the record companies in this way. Or did you read TFA?
No, I love my mac because it's shiny.
Building is actually one of the strongholds of the imperial system - at least in small projects. Most builders who were apprenticed think in imperial for everything except kitchens and bathrooms which are now totally metric. Stud walls have 16" centres. Many things that are now described in metric are actually still imperial in size (15mm and 22mm piping are half and three quarter inch). Carpenters use imperial a great deal, and there is a reason. One of the most common tasks in building is to find the centre of something - this is MUCH easier in imperial. If something is 28 3/4" to successively half it is trivial: 14 3/8, 7 3/16, 3/ 22/32 - only the last of these is remotely challenging. If something is 27.7cm this process is harder - and as this would often be marked as 2770mm which is harder still. Try it in your head. Both imperial and metric have their place, and people arguing for the automatic superiority of the metric system are missing some of the benefits of imperial.
While it is easier, as someone above stated, to multiply and divide by ten, systems designed around the number 12 are more divisible. There is a reason why there will never be a metric clock, and there will never be a 500 degree circle. 360 is divisible by 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10,12,15,16(nearly - 22.5),18, and 20 and on and on. By comparison 1000 - a much larger number, is divisible by 1,2,4,5,8,10,16(nearly - 62.5), and 20. 360 has 14 factors under 20, while 1000 has only 8. There are reasons to use base 12. The pyramids were built in imperial, and there ain't a lot wrong with them. Just my 2 cents.
This so deserves modding up. Sadly my mod points expired an hour before I read it. At least you know someone would have.
Check this out: http://www.divx.com/divx/mac/?gaw-mac-ad2&gclid=CM n9xPyAjYgCFSkPQgodZg87HQ
You're entirely misunderstaning write speeds on disks. They are designed to work at a certain speed. If you buy 8x disks, they may not word on 2x disks. Setting 1x recording is utterly retarded, and entirely wrong.
>That's appropriate when pluralizing acronyms. How many ENIAC's were built? I still think that that's wrong. ENIACs is fine, but as you say, living language, and the convention is growing.
Midway through your post I suddenly found myself in a happier kinder place. It was almost dreamlike. Thank you.
I have no idea what you can find in the Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, but the problem with your sentence is that 'sleeping', even in its adjectival form, is not a steady state but a continual action (a sleeping child is not the same as a child asleep). Hence: 'he seems asleep', or 'he seems to be sleeping' are fine. In terms of grammar the problem is that English is governed by usage and not grammar - grammar rules such as prepositions at ends of sentences and split infinitives are merely the pointless attempts of neo-classicists to wrestle English inconsistency into Latin grammar forms.
You can also press Command + Option + Escape. This brings up the Force Quit dialogue.
I'm really sorry but you're talking bollocks. Find me a printer or digital camera or anything that one might reasonably need that won't work with a Mac. And when you do, remember that you can run Windows on a Mac as well. You call him a fanboi, but what you describe suggests your Mac experience hails from somewhere circa 1994.
So what is your point? Mac Os X has a CLI, as do Linux and Windows. So what if people rooted in MacOs 7.5 think it's a failure because of it? What are you saying?
I'm sorry, but if you can't figure out the Dock then you're retarded. You don't have to like it, but it's not like it's difficult.
Brilliant - a perfect summary of all of Dan's plot turds. Thank you. Made my day.
Not out of the box in Safari, but you might want to check out Shiira. It has the very nice Tab Expose feature and it uses Webkit. It has quite a few little innovations and the tabs are draggable.
Run your PowerBook from full power to when it cuts out and it will recalibrate the meter for you.
I take your point, but the Express Card 34 slot provides even faster I/O and allows for dual Firewire 800 on one card. If I had to choose one over the other then I would make the same choice as Apple, particularly as it allows for much improved video options in the future.
Dashboard steels the look of Konfabulator, itself a stolen idea. Yahoo buys Konfabulator and steals the name of Dashboard. Whatever next?