What the hell? Actually, I don't. I voted for Giuliani (twice) and I'm voting for Bloomberg (twice). That said, I'm happy to call myself a liberal, and I'd rather cut off my penis--or better yet, yours!--than vote for Bush. Thanks for asking.
That's a good point re: the failure of planned cities. It's best if government steps in only when the need arises, as it did in America in the beginning of the skyscraper era. Even before zoning, there were such regulations as health and tenement laws (and almost certainly fire code, but I'm not familiar with it) to govern construction in NYC. These did much in their day to improve conditions and to keep the city tolerable, if not exactly a vacation destination.
It's (usually) illegal to live in a building not zoned for residential use, and to run a large business from, say, a brownstone in Brooklyn Heights. I know people who've been arrested for living illegally in lofts (though many others manage to pull it off). These restrictions exist for a reason, and even if they're sometimes mistaken, on the whole they do a lot to improve the quality of life.
I keep mentioning Houston because it's probably the best example of the horrors of the libertarian approach to zoning. I mean, where would you rather live, New York City or Houston? For most people, I dare say, it's no contest.
Fact is, to the best of my knowledge in urban planning and design, libertarian "paradises" (like Houston in the field of real estate development) usually turn out to be anything but. Most people would rather live and work in a built environment with effective government--which isn't necessarily the same, mind you, as limited government.
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You mean like most of the world's great cities? Here in NYC, for example, our government "plans in advance" where you can live and work (zoning laws), what we can do there (labor law and industry incentives), how we get to work (automobile restrictions and public transit), what products we can buy (consumer safety), where to buy them (business regulation), and where to dispose of the wrappers (litter law, trash pickup, mandatory recycling).
Of course, if you prefer to live in a libertarian shithole like Houston, Texas (no zoning laws, few social services, motor vehicle free-for-all, etc.), that's entirely up to you--and so much the better for the rest of us in livable environments, as we won't have to waste time talking down all the suckers at the teats of Ayn Rand.
There's always Safari RSS, the best of both worlds. Firefox is poky and sort of ugly, anyway.
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I've read that many adult ADHD-type personalities, if you buy into that whole diagnosis, find that smoking helps them focus their attention better, though of course there are other drugs (amphetamines) that can provide the same benefit. People diagnosed with ADD are much likelier to be smokers than the general population.
Also interesting is that Japan, a country with one of the highest rates of smoking in the world, has a population with a longer life expectancy than almost anyone else. Is it genetic? Dietary? I don't know for sure, but I take it as an indication that smoking's overrated as a killer compared to other lifestyle choices.
Not to dispute your larger point, but I can't resist pointing out that interstate highways are literally the worst boondoggle ever conceived and implemented by the federal government. Thanks in large part to this one infrastructure project, we're stuck with all the problems of sprawl, a favored mode of transportation inordinately dependent on oil, inefficient development, and dehumanizing trends in urban design, to name a few, and that's in addition to the ongoing cost of roadway maintenance. America would be twice the country it is without our government stepping in to subsidize motor vehicle ownership--look at all the wealth we throw away on cars. Fuck 'em.
Thin clients are barely usable for word processing and email, let alone cutting the kinds of movies you're suggesting would benefit from remote processing. You might--might--want to offload your final cut to a remote processor farm, but interactive editing would suck a hundred times the ass.
Splice your movie together locally and you can still benefit from low-res quick previews rendered on your own machine.
Scientists, particularly in academia, probably fall into the category of "...and other creative personalities." Think about it. They're unafraid to question established doctrine. They rave about theoretical "elegance" and "beauty," in fields ranging from physics and mathematics to astronomy and earth sciences. Science used to fall under philosophy's umbrella, you know.
The Economist a few weeks ago ran a great article on the nascent field of biosimulation, which promises to yield highly accurate computer models of human biology and pathology. Obviously, this would be of great help in medical research, replacing the cross-your-fingers shotgun approach to pharmacology.
Sorry I don't have a subscription to give out. Anyone?
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If you archive iTunes.app before updating, you can always restore it later. Let us know how it goes... I'd be pretty disappointed in Apple if they'd go behind your back like that, updating iTunes without your knowledge. I can't remember that they've ever done it before--but that doesn't mean they haven't, or won't.
Well, for one thing, if you're trapped in a crush of strangers on a downtown train 8 a.m. Monday morning, you'll have an easier time burying your head in A.M. New York than trying to fold your WiFi-equipped laptop over your face. And plenty of people just plain hate reading text onscreen, what with the terrible resolution and contrast inferior even to newsprint. There's always the convenience and superior presentation that makes print an attractive choice.
That said, as internet delivery matures, it'll no longer make sense to keep printing classifieds, job/real estate listings, and things of that nature. These are all are better served online. Detailed news coverage, too, will move off the printed page. You'll pick up a print edition for the morning commute with summaries of the day's news and events, and after you arrive at work, you'll go online to check out the full story, context, related articles, and updates.
With that in mind, I predict that papers with an urban readership (NY Times, London Times, Mainichi Shimbun) will begin offering tabloid-format editions--magazine-style folding, that is, as opposed to broadsheet--simply because it's more convenient for the commute. These will shift to summary/teaser form, as nobody's going to be reading them for anything more than to pass the time and to find out what they have to look forward to online. It's easy enough to find up-to-the-minute headlines and detailed reports in a city environment, anyways (web, outdoor news tickers, taxicab LCDs).
God knows I'd appreciate a tabloid edition of the Times. Stick the crossword on the back page and I'm set for the commute home too.
If it's a balanced and comprehensive understanding of current issues you want, it's a mistake to rely on any one source of news, any one perspective--if only because people will attack you for your choice. For the record, I'll spend my time flipping between the NY Times, the Economist, Salon, the Village Voice, the NY Observer, NewsMax, CNN, and Fox News, and I find that's a salad that works for me. But no matter what you're reading, approach your sources critically and you'll probably do much better at understanding what's important to you.
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I'd be surprised if it did, since the update is delivered as a single package and there's no changes listed for iTunes, hence no reason to include it in the package. In any event, couldn't you just right-click iTunes.app and make a backup archive?
"I should be able to drag an email message (or an attachment thereto) and drop it onto the icon representing my scheduling software, and have the latter extract and store the appointment."
I know you've heard it all before, but FYI, that's exactly what happens on OS X with Apple Mail and iCal. You could probably swap out iCal with Outlook or anything else accepts those little appointment files (ics, vcs, whatever).
After my PowerBook's rubber feet fell off, I picked up some replacements at the local Ace Hardware. As far as keeping it cool, I've been keeping a few of these cold compresses in rotation from the freezer. It's the perfect size for a 12 inch laptop.
The summary you link to is crap. Where's Safari? Surely greater than 0.15% (Netscape's supposed share)? It seems they've lumped it in with either Firefox or IE; either way, like I said, it's crap.
It was just a throwaway comment, like "stand up to the Man." The Man's everywhere, and everywhere there's the phone, there's Ma Bell. Don't freak out about it.
If you're looking at two products side by side to use with your iPod, and one of them says "3/8 inch audio connector for use with any compatible audio device," and the other says "made for iPod," which are you gonna pick? Well, I dunno about you, but most people will do the safe thing and buy the one they know, based on the slogan alone, was designed to work with their music player.
Also, "made for iPod" implies it's going to match in color, style, simplicity, elegance, and everything else for which you bought your iPod. "3/8 inch blah blah blah" pretty much guarantees the exact opposite.
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What the hell? Actually, I don't. I voted for Giuliani (twice) and I'm voting for Bloomberg (twice). That said, I'm happy to call myself a liberal, and I'd rather cut off my penis--or better yet, yours!--than vote for Bush. Thanks for asking.
That's a good point re: the failure of planned cities. It's best if government steps in only when the need arises, as it did in America in the beginning of the skyscraper era. Even before zoning, there were such regulations as health and tenement laws (and almost certainly fire code, but I'm not familiar with it) to govern construction in NYC. These did much in their day to improve conditions and to keep the city tolerable, if not exactly a vacation destination.
It's (usually) illegal to live in a building not zoned for residential use, and to run a large business from, say, a brownstone in Brooklyn Heights. I know people who've been arrested for living illegally in lofts (though many others manage to pull it off). These restrictions exist for a reason, and even if they're sometimes mistaken, on the whole they do a lot to improve the quality of life.
I keep mentioning Houston because it's probably the best example of the horrors of the libertarian approach to zoning. I mean, where would you rather live, New York City or Houston? For most people, I dare say, it's no contest.
Great comeback! You really destroyed my point.
Fact is, to the best of my knowledge in urban planning and design, libertarian "paradises" (like Houston in the field of real estate development) usually turn out to be anything but. Most people would rather live and work in a built environment with effective government--which isn't necessarily the same, mind you, as limited government.
You mean like most of the world's great cities? Here in NYC, for example, our government "plans in advance" where you can live and work (zoning laws), what we can do there (labor law and industry incentives), how we get to work (automobile restrictions and public transit), what products we can buy (consumer safety), where to buy them (business regulation), and where to dispose of the wrappers (litter law, trash pickup, mandatory recycling).
Of course, if you prefer to live in a libertarian shithole like Houston, Texas (no zoning laws, few social services, motor vehicle free-for-all, etc.), that's entirely up to you--and so much the better for the rest of us in livable environments, as we won't have to waste time talking down all the suckers at the teats of Ayn Rand.
There's always Safari RSS, the best of both worlds. Firefox is poky and sort of ugly, anyway.
I've read that many adult ADHD-type personalities, if you buy into that whole diagnosis, find that smoking helps them focus their attention better, though of course there are other drugs (amphetamines) that can provide the same benefit. People diagnosed with ADD are much likelier to be smokers than the general population.
Also interesting is that Japan, a country with one of the highest rates of smoking in the world, has a population with a longer life expectancy than almost anyone else. Is it genetic? Dietary? I don't know for sure, but I take it as an indication that smoking's overrated as a killer compared to other lifestyle choices.
Not to dispute your larger point, but I can't resist pointing out that interstate highways are literally the worst boondoggle ever conceived and implemented by the federal government. Thanks in large part to this one infrastructure project, we're stuck with all the problems of sprawl, a favored mode of transportation inordinately dependent on oil, inefficient development, and dehumanizing trends in urban design, to name a few, and that's in addition to the ongoing cost of roadway maintenance. America would be twice the country it is without our government stepping in to subsidize motor vehicle ownership--look at all the wealth we throw away on cars. Fuck 'em.
Thin clients are barely usable for word processing and email, let alone cutting the kinds of movies you're suggesting would benefit from remote processing. You might--might--want to offload your final cut to a remote processor farm, but interactive editing would suck a hundred times the ass.
Splice your movie together locally and you can still benefit from low-res quick previews rendered on your own machine.
Scientists, particularly in academia, probably fall into the category of "...and other creative personalities." Think about it. They're unafraid to question established doctrine. They rave about theoretical "elegance" and "beauty," in fields ranging from physics and mathematics to astronomy and earth sciences. Science used to fall under philosophy's umbrella, you know.
+5 Insightful. And I think I'm qualified to say.
The Economist a few weeks ago ran a great article on the nascent field of biosimulation, which promises to yield highly accurate computer models of human biology and pathology. Obviously, this would be of great help in medical research, replacing the cross-your-fingers shotgun approach to pharmacology.
Sorry I don't have a subscription to give out. Anyone?
If you archive iTunes.app before updating, you can always restore it later. Let us know how it goes... I'd be pretty disappointed in Apple if they'd go behind your back like that, updating iTunes without your knowledge. I can't remember that they've ever done it before--but that doesn't mean they haven't, or won't.
Well, for one thing, if you're trapped in a crush of strangers on a downtown train 8 a.m. Monday morning, you'll have an easier time burying your head in A.M. New York than trying to fold your WiFi-equipped laptop over your face. And plenty of people just plain hate reading text onscreen, what with the terrible resolution and contrast inferior even to newsprint. There's always the convenience and superior presentation that makes print an attractive choice.
That said, as internet delivery matures, it'll no longer make sense to keep printing classifieds, job/real estate listings, and things of that nature. These are all are better served online. Detailed news coverage, too, will move off the printed page. You'll pick up a print edition for the morning commute with summaries of the day's news and events, and after you arrive at work, you'll go online to check out the full story, context, related articles, and updates.
With that in mind, I predict that papers with an urban readership (NY Times, London Times, Mainichi Shimbun) will begin offering tabloid-format editions--magazine-style folding, that is, as opposed to broadsheet--simply because it's more convenient for the commute. These will shift to summary/teaser form, as nobody's going to be reading them for anything more than to pass the time and to find out what they have to look forward to online. It's easy enough to find up-to-the-minute headlines and detailed reports in a city environment, anyways (web, outdoor news tickers, taxicab LCDs).
God knows I'd appreciate a tabloid edition of the Times. Stick the crossword on the back page and I'm set for the commute home too.
So where do you get your news, Indymedia? Please.
If it's a balanced and comprehensive understanding of current issues you want, it's a mistake to rely on any one source of news, any one perspective--if only because people will attack you for your choice. For the record, I'll spend my time flipping between the NY Times, the Economist, Salon, the Village Voice, the NY Observer, NewsMax, CNN, and Fox News, and I find that's a salad that works for me. But no matter what you're reading, approach your sources critically and you'll probably do much better at understanding what's important to you.
I'd be surprised if it did, since the update is delivered as a single package and there's no changes listed for iTunes, hence no reason to include it in the package. In any event, couldn't you just right-click iTunes.app and make a backup archive?
"I should be able to drag an email message (or an attachment thereto) and drop it onto the icon representing my scheduling software, and have the latter extract and store the appointment."
I know you've heard it all before, but FYI, that's exactly what happens on OS X with Apple Mail and iCal. You could probably swap out iCal with Outlook or anything else accepts those little appointment files (ics, vcs, whatever).
One layer of towel. If using my computer on a damp towel is going to kill my computer or myself, I don't want to know about it.
After my PowerBook's rubber feet fell off, I picked up some replacements at the local Ace Hardware. As far as keeping it cool, I've been keeping a few of these cold compresses in rotation from the freezer. It's the perfect size for a 12 inch laptop.
The summary you link to is crap. Where's Safari? Surely greater than 0.15% (Netscape's supposed share)? It seems they've lumped it in with either Firefox or IE; either way, like I said, it's crap.
It was just a throwaway comment, like "stand up to the Man." The Man's everywhere, and everywhere there's the phone, there's Ma Bell. Don't freak out about it.
It's called "American English."
"Anonymously," of course, meaning less anonymous than if you were to create an account.
You can have as many usernames as you wish, after all, but your IP remains constant, and traceable.
If you're looking at two products side by side to use with your iPod, and one of them says "3/8 inch audio connector for use with any compatible audio device," and the other says "made for iPod," which are you gonna pick? Well, I dunno about you, but most people will do the safe thing and buy the one they know, based on the slogan alone, was designed to work with their music player.
Also, "made for iPod" implies it's going to match in color, style, simplicity, elegance, and everything else for which you bought your iPod. "3/8 inch blah blah blah" pretty much guarantees the exact opposite.
You gotta wonder.
(note: yes, it's all bullshit)