Your point makes me think of an interesting side effect of overprotection: video screenshots. For various reasons, I've needed to get screenshots of files playing in Windows Media over the years... and print screen doesn't work. It's frustrating, having to do research online to grab a program to get a still capture of the image I can see right there in front of me.
Naturally, when I recently tried to grab a screenshot of a movie playing in Quicktime, I braced for the worst, expecting to be forced to buy the Pro version or some such. But just as I began my research for a little program to do the job, I gave the old "print screen" button a try and... it worked! Apple doesn't hate me for trying to promote some video content (Hot Fuzz trailer, getting screenshot for my website) playing in Quicktime! Thanks!
If they're such a pioneer, why does their product weight over 4.5 times what an iPod does? As has been said in previous comments... size _does matter_ in portable devices.
Ahh yes, but John Gruber of Daring Fireball makes the very convincing point that engineers aren't being pulled off anything, but are simply focusing on the iPhone as a part of the overarching development of OS X.
There's a difference between throwing new hires at a late project (which almost never works, and almost always in fact makes things worse), and allocating the OS team the resources it needs. OS X is being asked to do far more - powering both iPhone and Apple TV while continuing its role as a desktop and server OS for the Mac - but with almost no additional engineering talent.
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If this is anything like the phenomenal YUI javascript library, then I would be very confident in its usefulness. The documentation for the YUI is just so unbelievably easy to use, it makes developing using those tools very pleasant. I would imagine the experience with Pipes would be the same.
This may be tough on my karma, but I have to get it out: goddammit what's with the worthless tagging? I know the feature's beta, but if I see "haha" or "yes" followed by "no" one more time... (ok I have no recourse). But seriously guys this feature is supposed to, as far as I can tell, eventually provide a useful augmentation or even replacement for search. Please try not to screw it up.
If you want a fascinating read about grabbing an expiring domain, you might be interested in an excellent article by Mike Davidson about that very topic. There are a few legitimate businesses who specialize taking advantage of the loopholes in ICANN's expiration process. Really cool stuff.
I don't think "using the internet" (an umbrella term, to say the least) is necessarily antisocial. I've found that I use it when I can't actually interact with people, but still want to feel connected to them. I like websites that frequenly update not only because there are new things to read and learn, but it makes me feel like there is someone on the other end of the line. Even if it is simply a MySQL flip past 'now()'.
Think about the fastest growing parts of the internet: social networking, video sharing, along with the old standby's, blogs and instant messaging - it's all about connecting to people. I don't think humans are any more addicted to the internet than they are addicted to being around other humans...
Actually, the last cellular service report I read from Consumer Reports broke coverage quality down by metropolitan region. In my region, Verizon was on top, in other regions, it wasn't. This is about as in depth as one could expect from a national magazine.
Incidentally, you don't even have to bind the keyword: 98% of my searches that are of the form "wikipedia X" in Firefox's location bar go right to wikipedia since firefox uses the first hit of google when you type keywords into the address bar.
It would be nice if, sometimes, large organizations realized that applying computers to solving the problems of a paper trail is going to cause many many problems before any benefits are seen. In working with my university, I've seen time and again the tendency of higher-ups to see computers as a panacea to any/all problems an office might confront in keeping records on things.
For example, our housing lottery system was, until this past year, an in-person process where people were assigned times, showed up, claimed rooms, and was a fair system that worked. Then, the university got all fancy pants and replaced that lottery with this unbelievably crappy system called Residential Management System. To use: kill ad blocker, only use it in IE for Windows, ensure javascript settings are correct, and then wait until the clock allows you into the online lottery system. Attempt to use a non-intuitive UI that is completely new because you couldn't look at it before while time ticks away and other people claim the rooms you wanted. Even though I got the room I wanted, the experience was horrifyingly bad.
For these large organizations, I think less can be more. Keep your paper trail, but create a highly efficient system for digitizing documents. That way, you start to have some advantages of computers (search, organization, cross-referencing) without the liability of a completely paperless system. From here, you can slowly make a transition from leaning on paper to leaning on machines. But that would be the sane way of doing things, and we're talking about a governement organization here.
Here are some excerpts of this type of spam from my school's mail filtering system, Mail Marshall:
"One cannot bring children into a world like this. She tried to get hold of things by the right end anyhow. She stood her upright, dusted herfrock, kissed her. Perfect nonsense it was;about death; about Miss Isabel Pole. And of course she enjoyed life immensely. He has his penny, he reasoned it out..."
Here's my favorite, with some bizarre non sequiters:
"Yes, we are dirty, said Maggie, looking at her; she was in her day clothes. Prejudiced;narrow; unfair, he repeated, tapping her hand with his finger. The light from the engine lit up a quiet group of cows; and a hedge of hawthorn."
Thing is, the spam detection already catches it... so I'm not sure how this will "train" the filters.
High resolution displays should _not_ be making users squint. I believe Apple has the underlying technology to make OS X scalable (increases relative size of application elements, including fonts, as screen real estate increases)... I should hope Vista has the same. In fact, I would hope that Vista enables a scalable environment by default to push OS X further down that path.
Anybody know more about this - I was a little unclear when I read the article's "12-point type will actually be 12-point on the screen." I think this means the scalability I referred to will be present.
How about China, with one fifth of the world's population, learns from this and stops censoring their internet, allowing Chinese citizens to fully participate in the online world community?
When does this become more than a case of he-said she-said? Microsoft claims its obligations were not clear, others claim they were. Isn't that the ideal situation for keeping this in the courts indefinitely? I have to think that we would have seen this all across the usual news channels (TV, newspaper, magazines) if this fine was really going to have teeth this time around. The whole case seems destined to simmer beneath the surface. I hope that the fine actually will be paid, but can anyone outline how that could happen?
Would a miniature Faraday cage be feasible in an application like this? I would be more comfortable with these devices if, like cell phones, their communication with the world could be controlled by the user.
You are unlikely to have dual-7800 Ultra cards running SLI with an AMD X2 with Cool-N-Quiet, and Raid 0 in a laptop.
If you did have a laptop with those specs, it might actually be hotter than the MacBook Pro... in which case everyone would call it a "notebook.":)
I reference the Apple Product Cycle (emphasis mine):
The obligatory "I'm waiting for Rev. B" discussion appears in the Mac forums. People who've been burned by first-generation Apple products open up their old wounds and bleed their tales of woe.
I hate articles like this, too. Do this: open about 20 of the pages sequentially in new tabs (if I was anywhere but slashdot, I'd say "use the scroll click on the mouse")... as you read each page, hit control+w and you'll be on the next page - makes the reading a lot more pleasant.
We should consider the preventative side when we look at how sick America is. We are one of the few industrialized countries whose policy says "first put the product on the market, then remove it only if proven damaging to public health." In most other countries, if there are concerns for health, products are kept off the market until proven safe.
A few examples: (1) new-car smell sprays are still legal here - they use toluene (the source of actual new car smell), a known carcinogen. (2) our "wrinkle free low maintenance" fabrices encorporate Teflon, whose production byproducts (specifically, PFOA) are water soluble and suspected carcinogens. This cautious attitude towards chemical exposure isn't hyper sensitivity -- it's common sense that other countries follow and America misses.
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Your point makes me think of an interesting side effect of overprotection: video screenshots. For various reasons, I've needed to get screenshots of files playing in Windows Media over the years ... and print screen doesn't work. It's frustrating, having to do research online to grab a program to get a still capture of the image I can see right there in front of me.
... it worked! Apple doesn't hate me for trying to promote some video content (Hot Fuzz trailer, getting screenshot for my website) playing in Quicktime! Thanks!
Naturally, when I recently tried to grab a screenshot of a movie playing in Quicktime, I braced for the worst, expecting to be forced to buy the Pro version or some such. But just as I began my research for a little program to do the job, I gave the old "print screen" button a try and
If they're such a pioneer, why does their product weight over 4.5 times what an iPod does? As has been said in previous comments ... size _does matter_ in portable devices.
"cut-and-pate plagiarism" ... sounds tasty.
I'm pretty sure Jobs does not embrace DRM.
If this is anything like the phenomenal YUI javascript library, then I would be very confident in its usefulness. The documentation for the YUI is just so unbelievably easy to use, it makes developing using those tools very pleasant. I would imagine the experience with Pipes would be the same.
This may be tough on my karma, but I have to get it out: goddammit what's with the worthless tagging? I know the feature's beta, but if I see "haha" or "yes" followed by "no" one more time ... (ok I have no recourse). But seriously guys this feature is supposed to, as far as I can tell, eventually provide a useful augmentation or even replacement for search. Please try not to screw it up.
If you want a fascinating read about grabbing an expiring domain, you might be interested in an excellent article by Mike Davidson about that very topic. There are a few legitimate businesses who specialize taking advantage of the loopholes in ICANN's expiration process. Really cool stuff.
I don't think "using the internet" (an umbrella term, to say the least) is necessarily antisocial. I've found that I use it when I can't actually interact with people, but still want to feel connected to them. I like websites that frequenly update not only because there are new things to read and learn, but it makes me feel like there is someone on the other end of the line. Even if it is simply a MySQL flip past 'now()'.
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Think about the fastest growing parts of the internet: social networking, video sharing, along with the old standby's, blogs and instant messaging - it's all about connecting to people. I don't think humans are any more addicted to the internet than they are addicted to being around other humans
Actually, the last cellular service report I read from Consumer Reports broke coverage quality down by metropolitan region. In my region, Verizon was on top, in other regions, it wasn't. This is about as in depth as one could expect from a national magazine.
You must have read Mr. Gruber's thoughts on these Amazon Zune sales, as he said the exact same thing about the record player.
Incidentally, you don't even have to bind the keyword: 98% of my searches that are of the form "wikipedia X" in Firefox's location bar go right to wikipedia since firefox uses the first hit of google when you type keywords into the address bar.
Other than the whole "girlfriend" thing.
Gold. Gold?! Shouldn't we convert the prices to lead or something? Perhaps tin. Definitely not a precious metal, though.
It would be nice if, sometimes, large organizations realized that applying computers to solving the problems of a paper trail is going to cause many many problems before any benefits are seen. In working with my university, I've seen time and again the tendency of higher-ups to see computers as a panacea to any/all problems an office might confront in keeping records on things.
For example, our housing lottery system was, until this past year, an in-person process where people were assigned times, showed up, claimed rooms, and was a fair system that worked. Then, the university got all fancy pants and replaced that lottery with this unbelievably crappy system called Residential Management System. To use: kill ad blocker, only use it in IE for Windows, ensure javascript settings are correct, and then wait until the clock allows you into the online lottery system. Attempt to use a non-intuitive UI that is completely new because you couldn't look at it before while time ticks away and other people claim the rooms you wanted. Even though I got the room I wanted, the experience was horrifyingly bad.
For these large organizations, I think less can be more. Keep your paper trail, but create a highly efficient system for digitizing documents. That way, you start to have some advantages of computers (search, organization, cross-referencing) without the liability of a completely paperless system. From here, you can slowly make a transition from leaning on paper to leaning on machines. But that would be the sane way of doing things, and we're talking about a governement organization here.
Here are some excerpts of this type of spam from my school's mail filtering system, Mail Marshall:
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... so I'm not sure how this will "train" the filters.
"One cannot bring children into a world like this. She tried to get hold of things by the right end anyhow. She stood her upright, dusted herfrock, kissed her. Perfect nonsense it was;about death; about Miss Isabel Pole. And of course she enjoyed life immensely. He has his penny, he reasoned it out
Here's my favorite, with some bizarre non sequiters:
"Yes, we are dirty, said Maggie, looking at her; she was in her day clothes. Prejudiced;narrow; unfair, he repeated, tapping her hand with his finger. The light from the engine lit up a quiet group of cows; and a hedge of hawthorn."
Thing is, the spam detection already catches it
High resolution displays should _not_ be making users squint. I believe Apple has the underlying technology to make OS X scalable (increases relative size of application elements, including fonts, as screen real estate increases) ... I should hope Vista has the same. In fact, I would hope that Vista enables a scalable environment by default to push OS X further down that path.
Anybody know more about this - I was a little unclear when I read the article's "12-point type will actually be 12-point on the screen." I think this means the scalability I referred to will be present.
How about China, with one fifth of the world's population, learns from this and stops censoring their internet, allowing Chinese citizens to fully participate in the online world community?
When does this become more than a case of he-said she-said? Microsoft claims its obligations were not clear, others claim they were. Isn't that the ideal situation for keeping this in the courts indefinitely? I have to think that we would have seen this all across the usual news channels (TV, newspaper, magazines) if this fine was really going to have teeth this time around. The whole case seems destined to simmer beneath the surface. I hope that the fine actually will be paid, but can anyone outline how that could happen?
Would a miniature Faraday cage be feasible in an application like this? I would be more comfortable with these devices if, like cell phones, their communication with the world could be controlled by the user.
I hate articles like this, too. Do this: open about 20 of the pages sequentially in new tabs (if I was anywhere but slashdot, I'd say "use the scroll click on the mouse") ... as you read each page, hit control+w and you'll be on the next page - makes the reading a lot more pleasant.
Speaking of that crash, this is a link to it.
We should consider the preventative side when we look at how sick America is. We are one of the few industrialized countries whose policy says "first put the product on the market, then remove it only if proven damaging to public health." In most other countries, if there are concerns for health, products are kept off the market until proven safe. A few examples: (1) new-car smell sprays are still legal here - they use toluene (the source of actual new car smell), a known carcinogen. (2) our "wrinkle free low maintenance" fabrices encorporate Teflon, whose production byproducts (specifically, PFOA) are water soluble and suspected carcinogens. This cautious attitude towards chemical exposure isn't hyper sensitivity -- it's common sense that other countries follow and America misses.