Off topic and you are out to lunch as well if you think this
I was recalling the exit polls of the 2004 presidential election and my own discussions with die-hard, straight-ticket GOP voters. I think it's accurate to call these people the "base" targeted by the party's campaign strategy, but if you need Congressmen showboating religion as a partisan wedge issue:
"The long war on Christianity continues today on the floor of the United States House of Representatives...Like a moth to a flame, Democrats can't help themselves when it comes to denigrating and demonizing Christians."
John Hofstadtler, R-IN, US House, Defense Spending, 6-20-2005, CNN
I commend and confederate your uprighteous efforts to put in their place these so-called games producers. The auspices of the Rockstar company have poisoned the wells of the soil of our children's fertile minds and ripped the tranquilacity out from under our citizens' noses.
We are seeing in our streets violence of imprecedented levels which has been scientifically demonstrated to have these violent rampages of simulatory criminality as its explanation. When the chickens will not answer for the false foibles of their irresponsibility, it is time the People brought them home to roost.
It is in this spirit of intolerability that I ask the citizens of New York to join me in removing this product from the shelves of consumer stores. Only by our organized efforts to purchase every available copy, followed by the subsequent cleavage, incarceration, or otherwise destruction of the actual compactified discs can we show this company we mean business.
Our example will serve as a reminder to all procurers of indecent industry that their good feasance is a necessary condition to having their products pressed forth upon our vigilante public. I trust you will join me in telling these bamboozlers they have trespassed beyond the boundaries of inacceptability. As the French say, écriture sur le mur c'est la bonne.
Prestidigitatiously,
Dr. Rev. Sen. Minister Louis XIV Farrakhan
What if in games, when you get shot, your keyboard pulses red. When you swim, your keyboard looks like water, with bubbles floating past. Keys show pictures of the weapons they would switch you to, and how much ammo they hold. Keys show the spells they would cast
Why on earth would you look to the keyboard for any of this information? 'Keyboard's flashing, better take my eyes off the screen to investigate that.' It's like putting the speedometer at the bottom of your steering wheel.
The functionality you cite is already available, just without the "ooh" factor and godawful expense. I'm all for customizable bindings, and not just for games. But natural selection drives a largely universal set of hotkeys. Contextual ones are easy to learn, or map to mouse buttons.
Optimal input is muscle memory.
You don't look at the input device once you learn what's what. Increasing functionality on your chameleon keys quickly becomes the clutter-sort you're trying to avoid. Do you honestly see value in having "File Edit View Go Bookmarks Tools Help" appear on the keyboard, when ALT will get you there?
It takes about once to learn how to fly through the grocery store self-checkout. Maybe longer for BIG MAC EXTRA sauce NO pickle, or the phone number-address-order rigamarole of a pizza store. Even when the input device is the display, user efficiency has a learning curve.
Your brain doesn't parse an array of pictures quicker than any other symbol--try resorting your cluttered desktop. Organizational hierarchy is king, and you don't need a $1000 grid of mini-LCDs for that. You shouldn't take a condescending attitude to critics of an idea that, while cool, is not at all practical.
So I normally treat non-productive time as time-out or standby periods for employees, they're getting paid to provide continuous service availability throughout the day.
Dude, if I ever need anything marketed, I am calling you.
I read this article back when it was called Nick Broomfield. Then the sequel which was called Michael Moore. There is no objective editing, only proving your opinions in the scientific manner Feynmann called "bending over backwards" to answer criticism, and being a windbag.
It's not "controlling the chokepoints of the solar system" or "exporting national rivalries beyond the atmosphere." Under the assumption we haven't developed Project Goldeneye, which I think is reasonable, these orbits are important insofar as they relate to conventional warfare today, not conquering the galaxy in 2345. Information Age stuff, not Space Age stuff.
Here's a gem from page 3 of the USAFSC journal:
The foundation of Space Superiority is Space Situation Awareness, which means having a complete understanding of what is happening in space. To that end, we must have continuous
situation awareness of...space.
I'm not a fanboy for the military, but I think one needs to keep the audience in mind when interpreting the mag's tone. For better or worse, we don't get unmanned warfare without comsats.
That said, can somebody explain why the stable orbits have more strategic value than the ones we currently use?
There are issues worth considering here--like what may be an expiring US monopoly on GPS. But the authors of these pieces, unlike the knuckleheads we elect, hold PhDs, and write thoughtful opinions. Unfortunately the p. 46 article, which reads like a high school book report, is more marketable.
One of the great cultural divides in Western democracies is between those who still retain a measure of courage or at least respect for those who are brave and those who're simply trying to muddle through life as affluently and comfortably as possible, avoiding all danger and discomfort.
You think that captures the difference between the Republican and Democrat voter base? And, moreover, the "affluent and comfortable" comprise the latter? Boy are you out to lunch.
The "base" of today's GOP is motivated by two things: tax breaks and Jesus. There are self-styled "paleoconservatives" who still believe in limited government, fiscal responsibility, and the kind of isolationism that declines helping dictators overthrow foreign governments. But they're drowned out by Reaganite rhetoric that pretends (or has no idea) Dick Perle, Paul Wolfowitz and their colleagues were politically weaned on the Socialist Party USA.
The "great cultural divide" in our republic (look that up too) is between closet religious fanatics--which I define as anyone who thinks other people should convert, rather than mind his own business--and those of us who don't buy into the popular myth of "clashing civilizations." On your side are the terrorists, the KKK, and these winners. On mine are these guys--don't skip that, it has some new insight on why shutting off your TV means the terrorists lose.
Rush Limbaugh is a hypocrite blowhard. Tolkien's work is a fairy tale. You're gullible.
Interesting that you characterize others as cowards when you're only willing to sacrifice other people's lives in a final showdown you're gunning for as hard as any suicide bomber.
"Raincoast and Bloomsbury, along with our global partners, have promised fans of Harry Potter that we would do our best to ensure that they would be the first to discover the secrets contained within Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince on July 16th," said Jamie Broadhurst Director of Marketing for Raincoast Books, "and we felt that we had to take all necessary legal action to keep our promise to Canadian fans."
Oh Jesus galloping Christ. LEGAL ACTION. for spoilers. in a CHILDREN'S NOVEL.
From the Polite Letter with Teeth:
The terms of the Court Order mean that if you have obtained a copy of the book early you must not disclose or reveal any information about its contents or give any copies that you may have to anyone else. The Court Order also requires anyone who has a copy or copies of the book to return them to Raincoast immediately.
It's inconsistent with the corporation's fiduciary responsibility (look that one up, it's a real thing) to act in that manner. That is to say, if a corporate leader does things because "it's the right thing to do for the world/the customers/the industry", rather than "it makes more money for the stockholders and exposes the corporation to less risk", then they violate that responsibility.
At best, that violation is unethical. At worst, it's criminal.
You're arguing from ethics for deliberate intellectual dishonesty. That ridiculous contradiction in terms can be applied to any sociopathic business practice from dishonest accounting to doctored safety reports.
There's more to ethics than what's good for me and mine. According to your notion of "fiduciary responsibility," slavery is ethical. I will not stand for doubletalk whereby "right thing to do" is "criminal" and "makes more money" becomes unqualified good.
I remember the recent story of Equifax whining that consumers are entitled by law to a free credit report provided perhaps by some other agency. They reason that this utterly sensible right treads on their "fiduciary responsibility" to sell the same information to the same consumers. So apparently anything short of a monopoly on the market becomes criminally unethical, as a competitor with better prices is invariably taking food out of their children's mouths.
Set your "fiduciary responsibility" on fire and cram it up your ass. That you do otherwise violates my responsibility, as CEO of Jargon & Lighters Inc., to deliver profit to my shareholders.
He did say "minute ways," and when you figure how many seconds are in the comet's orbital period of 5.5 years, you discover the straight-line displacement is far less negligible.
OK, the thing flies between Mars and Jupiter, with Jupiter affecting its trajectory, and hasn't been closer than half an AU...but the matter of scale is something to check, not dismiss out of hand.
I'm sure you meant "look up the math." Far from being pointless or unmeasurable, the displacement turns out not to be amplified over time, and we wipe the sweat off our foreheads.
If the author of Darknet is to be believed, industry spokespeople (not sure about their lawyers) consistently make overreaching statements about what you're not allowed to do with their copyrighted works. The grassroots people (and their lawyers) he quotes contradict these boisterous pronouncements, in keeping with "common knowledge" about fair use.
If you write a letter asking permission for almost any use, you'll be turned down. That's a matter of company policy and not law. I'm confident that if an unreasonable prohibition of fair use existed, both sides would advertise it.
Consider this, how do you turn off display of all icons on the desktop in windows? You would think it would be in the customize desktop section of Display properties since that is where you can turn on/off various special icons but it is hidden in a contextual menus called "arrange icons by" for the desktop.
Interesting example. Right-click / Arrange icons by / Show Desktop Icons is the most natural place to put this, and that's where it is.
By contrast, you have to work harder to perma-hide My Computer and IE. I guess that's idiot-proofing.
What you call a drawback in the OS is versatility. People harp about design, but when you consider the vast difference in target audience, higher design complexity is a requirement. I don't doubt Mac is easier to use out of the box, but they aren't aiming at everyone from third-grade classrooms, to small business, to large business, to soccer moms, to gamers, to retirees, so there's far less separation between the platform and what it needs to do.
*groan*
These ants have suffered under the regime of an oppressive dictator. We've given them Freedom. Some people say ants aren't capable of Democracy, but I believe they are.
Anyone with some sort of degree in psychology/human interfaces want to tell me why? I'd like to know.
There's some insight in your post:
Here are some reasons I don't like windows:
Windows is just too dull and corporate. WinXP annoys you all the time with stupid patronizing little yellow bubbles in the system tray. The default theme is god awful.
Sounds aesthetic.
By way of comparison: to me, patronizing is when I mistype a login and the screen shudders. Or the sad mac / happy mac business. "Unfathomable" best describes my opinion of this marriage between productivity tool and Furby.
Windows apps use their own widgets all the time and never seem to comform to any kind of standard user experience, which tends to slow me down because I have to make sense of what I'm looking at, rather than just looking at something familiar I can just use.
I have precisely the opposite experience with what's intuitive about the UI. On the hardware side, the monitor LED doubling as the system's power switch, or the CD tray opening from (and only from) the keyboard feels like spiteful iconoclasm.
Many people used to taking things apart share this reaction. What things do is laid bare by how they fit together; form is function. Apple's MO has been to obscure that relationship, which requires engineering types to accept a set of rules that is apparently arbitrary. Mac has historically been the car you don't [can't] tinker with. Somewhere between pride and thrift, needing a "professional" to change your oil stirs feelings of revolt and revulsion.
There have always been great, free Windows apps: I'm running Samurize, DTools, EAC, AdAware, ABC, and emacs as I type this, and most of those are just frontends for other great homebrewed apps. The internet is much too big a place for "crappy / horrible / suck"-ware to be popular. (You do get recommendations, right?)
The culture is moving towards the middle in both camps. MS is helping lock people out of their purchases; more developers are writing for OSX.
Your platform, like your car, should suit your needs and tastes. Either way, most people don't care to be told what they're missing.
And here's what actual insurance data says: at an equal number of miles driven, women cause _half_ the number of accidents that guys cause.
At the risk of exaggerating the faux-sexist irony of my post above, I'd like to point out, in all seriousness, that nobody files an insurance claim for hitting a stationary object. Of my acquaintances, the females are vastly more guilty of this. And crying to get out of tickets.
you can easily use the built-in "sticky note" widget to jot down several items.
Or make a text file. Lemme guess, the "sticky note" widget comes with a "wite-out" widget, in case you make a typo?
What if you want to know the 5 day forcast for this week? You could launch up firefox...and glance at the corner, where you installed Weatherfox.
Need to do some quick multiplication? Instead of searching google for a bloody online calculatorOK, first, google *is* a calculator. But this button on my keyboard, labeled "calculator"? Guess what it does.
so how would you do all that with a web browser, especially if you have... no internet connection?
Sweetheart, if your Mac can give me a local forecast without being online, I'll buy one. As to the multiplying and post-it-leaving and games...Jesus Christ.
Slashdot Mirror
IUPUI mascot Jinx the Jaguar?
No, it's still creepy.
They have some fantastic people in the math department. The school's ranking and reputation, of course, depends entirely on what you plan to study.
Off topic and you are out to lunch as well if you think this
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I was recalling the exit polls of the 2004 presidential election and my own discussions with die-hard, straight-ticket GOP voters. I think it's accurate to call these people the "base" targeted by the party's campaign strategy, but if you need Congressmen showboating religion as a partisan wedge issue:
"The long war on Christianity continues today on the floor of the United States House of Representatives...Like a moth to a flame, Democrats can't help themselves when it comes to denigrating and demonizing Christians."
John Hofstadtler, R-IN, US House, Defense Spending, 6-20-2005, CNN
Daily Show, "Hyperbolic Rhetoric," video here, 2:52: http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_daily_show
Stewart, as usual, cleans his clock.
To the Honorable Mrs. President Clinton,
I commend and confederate your uprighteous efforts to put in their place these so-called games producers. The auspices of the Rockstar company have poisoned the wells of the soil of our children's fertile minds and ripped the tranquilacity out from under our citizens' noses.
We are seeing in our streets violence of imprecedented levels which has been scientifically demonstrated to have these violent rampages of simulatory criminality as its explanation. When the chickens will not answer for the false foibles of their irresponsibility, it is time the People brought them home to roost.
It is in this spirit of intolerability that I ask the citizens of New York to join me in removing this product from the shelves of consumer stores. Only by our organized efforts to purchase every available copy, followed by the subsequent cleavage, incarceration, or otherwise destruction of the actual compactified discs can we show this company we mean business.
Our example will serve as a reminder to all procurers of indecent industry that their good feasance is a necessary condition to having their products pressed forth upon our vigilante public. I trust you will join me in telling these bamboozlers they have trespassed beyond the boundaries of inacceptability. As the French say, écriture sur le mur c'est la bonne.
Prestidigitatiously,
Dr. Rev. Sen. Minister Louis XIV Farrakhan
She really, really should have stuck with health care.
What if in games, when you get shot, your keyboard pulses red. When you swim, your keyboard looks like water, with bubbles floating past. Keys show pictures of the weapons they would switch you to, and how much ammo they hold. Keys show the spells they would cast
Why on earth would you look to the keyboard for any of this information? 'Keyboard's flashing, better take my eyes off the screen to investigate that.' It's like putting the speedometer at the bottom of your steering wheel.
The functionality you cite is already available, just without the "ooh" factor and godawful expense. I'm all for customizable bindings, and not just for games. But natural selection drives a largely universal set of hotkeys. Contextual ones are easy to learn, or map to mouse buttons.
Optimal input is muscle memory. You don't look at the input device once you learn what's what. Increasing functionality on your chameleon keys quickly becomes the clutter-sort you're trying to avoid. Do you honestly see value in having "File Edit View Go Bookmarks Tools Help" appear on the keyboard, when ALT will get you there?
It takes about once to learn how to fly through the grocery store self-checkout. Maybe longer for BIG MAC EXTRA sauce NO pickle, or the phone number-address-order rigamarole of a pizza store. Even when the input device is the display, user efficiency has a learning curve.
Your brain doesn't parse an array of pictures quicker than any other symbol--try resorting your cluttered desktop. Organizational hierarchy is king, and you don't need a $1000 grid of mini-LCDs for that. You shouldn't take a condescending attitude to critics of an idea that, while cool, is not at all practical.
So I normally treat non-productive time as time-out or standby periods for employees, they're getting paid to provide continuous service availability throughout the day.
Dude, if I ever need anything marketed, I am calling you.
I read this article back when it was called Nick Broomfield. Then the sequel which was called Michael Moore. There is no objective editing, only proving your opinions in the scientific manner Feynmann called "bending over backwards" to answer criticism, and being a windbag.
I, for one, welcome our new Ur-Quan masters.
Not unless it's a virtually massive one.
It's not "controlling the chokepoints of the solar system" or "exporting national rivalries beyond the atmosphere." Under the assumption we haven't developed Project Goldeneye, which I think is reasonable, these orbits are important insofar as they relate to conventional warfare today, not conquering the galaxy in 2345. Information Age stuff, not Space Age stuff.
Here's a gem from page 3 of the USAFSC journal: The foundation of Space Superiority is Space Situation Awareness, which means having a complete understanding of what is happening in space. To that end, we must have continuous situation awareness of...space.
I'm not a fanboy for the military, but I think one needs to keep the audience in mind when interpreting the mag's tone. For better or worse, we don't get unmanned warfare without comsats. That said, can somebody explain why the stable orbits have more strategic value than the ones we currently use?
There are issues worth considering here--like what may be an expiring US monopoly on GPS. But the authors of these pieces, unlike the knuckleheads we elect, hold PhDs, and write thoughtful opinions. Unfortunately the p. 46 article, which reads like a high school book report, is more marketable.
One of the great cultural divides in Western democracies is between those who still retain a measure of courage or at least respect for those who are brave and those who're simply trying to muddle through life as affluently and comfortably as possible, avoiding all danger and discomfort.
You think that captures the difference between the Republican and Democrat voter base? And, moreover, the "affluent and comfortable" comprise the latter? Boy are you out to lunch.
The "base" of today's GOP is motivated by two things: tax breaks and Jesus. There are self-styled "paleoconservatives" who still believe in limited government, fiscal responsibility, and the kind of isolationism that declines helping dictators overthrow foreign governments. But they're drowned out by Reaganite rhetoric that pretends (or has no idea) Dick Perle, Paul Wolfowitz and their colleagues were politically weaned on the Socialist Party USA.
The "great cultural divide" in our republic (look that up too) is between closet religious fanatics--which I define as anyone who thinks other people should convert, rather than mind his own business--and those of us who don't buy into the popular myth of "clashing civilizations." On your side are the terrorists, the KKK, and these winners. On mine are these guys--don't skip that, it has some new insight on why shutting off your TV means the terrorists lose.
Rush Limbaugh is a hypocrite blowhard. Tolkien's work is a fairy tale. You're gullible.
Interesting that you characterize others as cowards when you're only willing to sacrifice other people's lives in a final showdown you're gunning for as hard as any suicide bomber.
if you take the software and pay (x-x)$ you have stolen something
Somewhere, an algebra teacher is crying.
"Raincoast and Bloomsbury, along with our global partners, have promised fans of Harry Potter that we would do our best to ensure that they would be the first to discover the secrets contained within Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince on July 16th," said Jamie Broadhurst Director of Marketing for Raincoast Books, "and we felt that we had to take all necessary legal action to keep our promise to Canadian fans."
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Oh Jesus galloping Christ. LEGAL ACTION. for spoilers. in a CHILDREN'S NOVEL.
From the Polite Letter with Teeth: The terms of the Court Order mean that if you have obtained a copy of the book early you must not disclose or reveal any information about its contents or give any copies that you may have to anyone else. The Court Order also requires anyone who has a copy or copies of the book to return them to Raincoast immediately.
http://raincoast.com/harrypotter/injunction.html
If anyone would care to join me in informing Madam Justice Kirsti-with-an-I M. Gill she's a stupid git, her office may be reached here: http://www.dir.gov.bc.ca/gtds.cgi?esearch=&view=d
It's inconsistent with the corporation's fiduciary responsibility (look that one up, it's a real thing) to act in that manner. That is to say, if a corporate leader does things because "it's the right thing to do for the world/the customers/the industry", rather than "it makes more money for the stockholders and exposes the corporation to less risk", then they violate that responsibility.
At best, that violation is unethical. At worst, it's criminal.
You're arguing from ethics for deliberate intellectual dishonesty. That ridiculous contradiction in terms can be applied to any sociopathic business practice from dishonest accounting to doctored safety reports.
There's more to ethics than what's good for me and mine. According to your notion of "fiduciary responsibility," slavery is ethical. I will not stand for doubletalk whereby "right thing to do" is "criminal" and "makes more money" becomes unqualified good.
I remember the recent story of Equifax whining that consumers are entitled by law to a free credit report provided perhaps by some other agency. They reason that this utterly sensible right treads on their "fiduciary responsibility" to sell the same information to the same consumers. So apparently anything short of a monopoly on the market becomes criminally unethical, as a competitor with better prices is invariably taking food out of their children's mouths.
Set your "fiduciary responsibility" on fire and cram it up your ass. That you do otherwise violates my responsibility, as CEO of Jargon & Lighters Inc., to deliver profit to my shareholders.
I, uh...wasn't really using that karma.
They do have billboards for it, though.
EVERYBODY'S A WEINER ONLY 3,726 MILES TO PEDRO'S
the cost of ruining the 'natural balance of forces in the universe' is $300 mil US. Wonder how she arrived at that figure...
Teamsters. Can't have just anybody restoring natural balance of forces in the universe ya know.
He did say "minute ways," and when you figure how many seconds are in the comet's orbital period of 5.5 years, you discover the straight-line displacement is far less negligible.
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OK, the thing flies between Mars and Jupiter, with Jupiter affecting its trajectory, and hasn't been closer than half an AU...but the matter of scale is something to check, not dismiss out of hand.
Fortunately, people have. Give your source some credit.
http://deepimpact.umd.edu/science/tempel1-orbital
I'm sure you meant "look up the math." Far from being pointless or unmeasurable, the displacement turns out not to be amplified over time, and we wipe the sweat off our foreheads.
If the author of Darknet is to be believed, industry spokespeople (not sure about their lawyers) consistently make overreaching statements about what you're not allowed to do with their copyrighted works. The grassroots people (and their lawyers) he quotes contradict these boisterous pronouncements, in keeping with "common knowledge" about fair use.
If you write a letter asking permission for almost any use, you'll be turned down. That's a matter of company policy and not law. I'm confident that if an unreasonable prohibition of fair use existed, both sides would advertise it.
Consider this, how do you turn off display of all icons on the desktop in windows? You would think it would be in the customize desktop section of Display properties since that is where you can turn on/off various special icons but it is hidden in a contextual menus called "arrange icons by" for the desktop.
Interesting example. Right-click / Arrange icons by / Show Desktop Icons is the most natural place to put this, and that's where it is.
By contrast, you have to work harder to perma-hide My Computer and IE. I guess that's idiot-proofing.
What you call a drawback in the OS is versatility. People harp about design, but when you consider the vast difference in target audience, higher design complexity is a requirement. I don't doubt Mac is easier to use out of the box, but they aren't aiming at everyone from third-grade classrooms, to small business, to large business, to soccer moms, to gamers, to retirees, so there's far less separation between the platform and what it needs to do.
*groan*
These ants have suffered under the regime of an oppressive dictator. We've given them Freedom. Some people say ants aren't capable of Democracy, but I believe they are.
Anyone with some sort of degree in psychology/human interfaces want to tell me why? I'd like to know.
There's some insight in your post: Here are some reasons I don't like windows: Windows is just too dull and corporate. WinXP annoys you all the time with stupid patronizing little yellow bubbles in the system tray. The default theme is god awful.
Sounds aesthetic.
By way of comparison: to me, patronizing is when I mistype a login and the screen shudders. Or the sad mac / happy mac business. "Unfathomable" best describes my opinion of this marriage between productivity tool and Furby. Windows apps use their own widgets all the time and never seem to comform to any kind of standard user experience, which tends to slow me down because I have to make sense of what I'm looking at, rather than just looking at something familiar I can just use.
I have precisely the opposite experience with what's intuitive about the UI. On the hardware side, the monitor LED doubling as the system's power switch, or the CD tray opening from (and only from) the keyboard feels like spiteful iconoclasm.
Many people used to taking things apart share this reaction. What things do is laid bare by how they fit together; form is function. Apple's MO has been to obscure that relationship, which requires engineering types to accept a set of rules that is apparently arbitrary. Mac has historically been the car you don't [can't] tinker with. Somewhere between pride and thrift, needing a "professional" to change your oil stirs feelings of revolt and revulsion.
There have always been great, free Windows apps: I'm running Samurize, DTools, EAC, AdAware, ABC, and emacs as I type this, and most of those are just frontends for other great homebrewed apps. The internet is much too big a place for "crappy / horrible / suck"-ware to be popular. (You do get recommendations, right?)
The culture is moving towards the middle in both camps. MS is helping lock people out of their purchases; more developers are writing for OSX. Your platform, like your car, should suit your needs and tastes. Either way, most people don't care to be told what they're missing.
And here's what actual insurance data says: at an equal number of miles driven, women cause _half_ the number of accidents that guys cause.
At the risk of exaggerating the faux-sexist irony of my post above, I'd like to point out, in all seriousness, that nobody files an insurance claim for hitting a stationary object. Of my acquaintances, the females are vastly more guilty of this. And crying to get out of tickets.
You have got to be a woman.
you can easily use the built-in "sticky note" widget to jot down several items.
Or make a text file. Lemme guess, the "sticky note" widget comes with a "wite-out" widget, in case you make a typo?
What if you want to know the 5 day forcast for this week? You could launch up firefox...and glance at the corner, where you installed Weatherfox.
Need to do some quick multiplication? Instead of searching google for a bloody online calculatorOK, first, google *is* a calculator. But this button on my keyboard, labeled "calculator"? Guess what it does.
so how would you do all that with a web browser, especially if you have... no internet connection?
Sweetheart, if your Mac can give me a local forecast without being online, I'll buy one. As to the multiplying and post-it-leaving and games...Jesus Christ.