Do OS X fans also go crazy over other office equipment, such as staplers or paperclips?
I can't speak for all OSX fans, but I am very design conscious. A well designed stapler like an older swingline 767 is a thing of beauty over some Chinese crap from office depot. Sure they both staple a few sheets of paper about the same, but the swingline is a much nicer tool to use. I care about how the tools I use feel and work, and to me, it's worth the money to get ones that make me happy to use. Life is too short to use sub-optimal tools.
I played Addams Family in grad school. The Student Union had it, and before that, they had Funhouse. Man did I drain a lot of quarters in that thing. A few years ago, I bought my own Addams Family, and while it's fun, it doesn't have the "magic" of going to the union and spending money I shouldn't have wasted.
However, with Cydia there's a huge range of apps that make your phone significantly better. And most importantly they are the sorts of aps that you can't get on the official app-store. Things like frameworks to change the look and feel of your phone (winterboard, and springboard replacements, new keyboards etc). There's better ways to control your phone like SBSettings where all your critical settings are a simple swipe away.
So no, there aren't a lot of apps that could be sold in the app store (because you'd most likely want to sell them in the official app store), but cydia is like having a couple more isles in the store full of the stuff that will make your life better even though it's officially not allowed.
Now, where's my damn jailbreak for the new iPhone?!?
Those packages are fantastic and really 90% of what I use in python are in those packages. I have been using enthought edition python rather than active-state (many reasons), and this tips the scales a bit more toward recommending active-state to others.
FYI: Matplotlib makes 2D and 3D presentation quality plots of data (even an absurd quantity of data). Numpy and scipy provide scientific and matrix functions that pretty much cut matlab off at the knees unless you are a simulink user. Matlab is many thousands of dollars, python is free, and they are both remarkable similar, except matlab chokes on large data sets where python doesn't.
Aside from the fact that this is already being done (maybe not to zip+4 level). Ads for things where I live aren't as relevant to me as ads from my purchasing and surfing history. The restaurants around where I live suck, I have to drive a bit of a distance to get to the few local things I find useful. So in that regard, pure location info isn't going to be a particularly good hit for me. If advertisers knew my shopping patterns, they'd do a lot better job, and it's just a matter of time until they do.
People could eavesdrop in on my boring conversations with friends and family. That's a serious waste of intercept technology and time and effort.
Given that it's a RF broadcast signal, people shouldn't have an over-developed sense of privacy.
If this led to a release of my credit card info etc, then I'm worried. If it's a release of my email address that every spammer already has, then wake me when this story blows over.
So much for the "Don't text and Drive" billboards, now we'll have don't "4Chan and Drive" or "/b/ and Driving = Death you friggin B'tards"
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I would think it was some sort of sample bias, but not having tried Safari on Windows, I can still believe it based on my experience with iTunes on Windows.
I use iTunes on my mac with lots of movies and tv shows and about 15000 music tracks, and it works smoothly and reasonably well (aside from movies being inside something called iTUNES). But iTunes on XP (maybe that's the problem) is a dog, slow, halting, problematic etc. And that's with comparable hardware.
Given the number of iPods and iPhones Apple has sold to windows users, I'd say it's criminal that iTunes runs as badly as it does on Windows.
I realize the absurdity of that, but the broadcasters NEVER interrupt commercials, they always interrupt the content that we are given in metered doses between "product indoctrination sessions"
I can see it now, they kept trying to text the other hive and when they didn't get a response, the first hive realized that they weren't BFF and got depressed and stopped collecting pollen, making honey and doing the nasty with the queen...
The discovery is 50 years old, and my parents laser printer is nearly 20 years old. The CD player is almost 30 years old. That's very fast from discovery to use to trickle down to consumer crap we can all buy. Sadly it took too long to turn the technology into a cat toy...
Customers can take their business elsewhere; consumers must go to particular providers (i.e. copyright holders of shows) if they want a particular product.
That was true until the time of significant broadband penetration and the rise of peer-to-peer sharing. Even if the "pirates" are an insignificant percentage of "consumers", they are the wolves at the door that are a force to keep the bastards in check somewhat.
I realize that it's a translation, but it reads like "enemy of the future" as in apple doesn't like and will fight the future. Not a "future enemy" like you are poking the sleeping bear with a stick...
I'm a huge fan of Graffiti 1, I used to sit in meetings taking notes without looking at the palmpilot, you can't do that with any on-screen keyboard. Graffiti 2 was crap. That said, I'm way faster with my on screen keyboard than I ever was with graffiti, I do consider it a step up in usability although I have to look at the device to use it.
I like how the article is spread over as many pages as palm had models, maximizing ad viewing. After the first page of non-information I bailed like a good slashdot reader.
I feel your pain. I have a 17" laptop screen that is 1920x1200. By that token a high dpi 30" screen should be a lot more than ~2500x1600
I would also love a second display for my laptop but good luck finding a desktop monitor of any size with the same DPI as the laptop. As a result I've got small windows and big windows.
So I guess instead of punching the monkey in an old-school style, I'll have more of an opportunity to hunt him down and flack cannon the bejesus out of him, all while I'm trying to do something more important in my browser, my CPU fans going nuts will help alert me that there is a monkey fragging opportunity where I'm sure to win an iPod Touch.
Nor do people have to say "Have a blessed day". Same thing.
Nowhere close. You can bless others by your conduct or you can be an ass. Nothing in the word “blessed” demands that you believe in God.
I'm going to have to call bullshit on that one. The word "blessed" is as closely tied to Christianity as "holocaust" is to the Nazis. Sure we can use it in other contexts, "I was blessed with extra chicken on my burrito by the hot server at Chipotle". Or: "The Haitian earthquake was a real holocaust". But both of those sentences cause you to think of the main meaning of the words and the sentences are really awkward.
It appears that Kaspersky is butthurt because it sees a potential market for more crap we don't need and the controllers of that market don't want, and have the ability to lock them out of that market.
From Apple's point of view, they have remote wipe on both the corporate and personal levels already. And having somebody inside your shorts providing duplicate functionality is fail from top to bottom. I'm surprised that apple even answered the phone when they saw who was calling.
Also Kaspersky can have the SDK anytime they want, it's free. They will have to pay $99 to actually deploy the apps though. What they want is a super special "inside your shorts" SDK that I'd bet isn't coming anytime soon.
Is the fact that Gates isn't worth as much may be a function of him giving away his wealth as part of the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation? If so, I see him slipping as a sign that he is really putting his money where his mouth is, and actually doing something to improve the world with the results of his hard work like he said he would.
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Do OS X fans also go crazy over other office equipment, such as staplers or paperclips?
I can't speak for all OSX fans, but I am very design conscious. A well designed stapler like an older swingline 767 is a thing of beauty over some Chinese crap from office depot. Sure they both staple a few sheets of paper about the same, but the swingline is a much nicer tool to use. I care about how the tools I use feel and work, and to me, it's worth the money to get ones that make me happy to use. Life is too short to use sub-optimal tools.
Don't get me started on paperclips...
Sheldon
I played Addams Family in grad school. The Student Union had it, and before that, they had Funhouse. Man did I drain a lot of quarters in that thing. A few years ago, I bought my own Addams Family, and while it's fun, it doesn't have the "magic" of going to the union and spending money I shouldn't have wasted.
Sheldon
However, with Cydia there's a huge range of apps that make your phone significantly better. And most importantly they are the sorts of aps that you can't get on the official app-store. Things like frameworks to change the look and feel of your phone (winterboard, and springboard replacements, new keyboards etc). There's better ways to control your phone like SBSettings where all your critical settings are a simple swipe away.
So no, there aren't a lot of apps that could be sold in the app store (because you'd most likely want to sell them in the official app store), but cydia is like having a couple more isles in the store full of the stuff that will make your life better even though it's officially not allowed.
Now, where's my damn jailbreak for the new iPhone?!?
Sheldon
Those packages are fantastic and really 90% of what I use in python are in those packages. I have been using enthought edition python rather than active-state (many reasons), and this tips the scales a bit more toward recommending active-state to others.
FYI: Matplotlib makes 2D and 3D presentation quality plots of data (even an absurd quantity of data). Numpy and scipy provide scientific and matrix functions that pretty much cut matlab off at the knees unless you are a simulink user. Matlab is many thousands of dollars, python is free, and they are both remarkable similar, except matlab chokes on large data sets where python doesn't.
Sheldon
Aside from the fact that this is already being done (maybe not to zip+4 level). Ads for things where I live aren't as relevant to me as ads from my purchasing and surfing history. The restaurants around where I live suck, I have to drive a bit of a distance to get to the few local things I find useful. So in that regard, pure location info isn't going to be a particularly good hit for me. If advertisers knew my shopping patterns, they'd do a lot better job, and it's just a matter of time until they do.
Sheldon
People could eavesdrop in on my boring conversations with friends and family. That's a serious waste of intercept technology and time and effort.
Given that it's a RF broadcast signal, people shouldn't have an over-developed sense of privacy.
If this led to a release of my credit card info etc, then I'm worried. If it's a release of my email address that every spammer already has, then wake me when this story blows over.
Sheldon
So much for the "Don't text and Drive" billboards, now we'll have don't "4Chan and Drive" or "/b/ and Driving = Death you friggin B'tards"
Sheldon
I would think it was some sort of sample bias, but not having tried Safari on Windows, I can still believe it based on my experience with iTunes on Windows.
I use iTunes on my mac with lots of movies and tv shows and about 15000 music tracks, and it works smoothly and reasonably well (aside from movies being inside something called iTUNES). But iTunes on XP (maybe that's the problem) is a dog, slow, halting, problematic etc. And that's with comparable hardware.
Given the number of iPods and iPhones Apple has sold to windows users, I'd say it's criminal that iTunes runs as badly as it does on Windows.
At least my model is getting old...
It's called a bladder: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urinary_bladder
It's pretty good about letting me know to take a break and deal with something else.
Sheldon
I realize the absurdity of that, but the broadcasters NEVER interrupt commercials, they always interrupt the content that we are given in metered doses between "product indoctrination sessions"
Sheldon
I can see it now, they kept trying to text the other hive and when they didn't get a response, the first hive realized that they weren't BFF and got depressed and stopped collecting pollen, making honey and doing the nasty with the queen...
Sheldon
The discovery is 50 years old, and my parents laser printer is nearly 20 years old. The CD player is almost 30 years old. That's very fast from discovery to use to trickle down to consumer crap we can all buy. Sadly it took too long to turn the technology into a cat toy...
Sheldon
Customers can take their business elsewhere; consumers must go to particular providers (i.e. copyright holders of shows) if they want a particular product.
That was true until the time of significant broadband penetration and the rise of peer-to-peer sharing. Even if the "pirates" are an insignificant percentage of "consumers", they are the wolves at the door that are a force to keep the bastards in check somewhat.
I realize that it's a translation, but it reads like "enemy of the future" as in apple doesn't like and will fight the future. Not a "future enemy" like you are poking the sleeping bear with a stick...
Sheldon
You had me until you said duct-tape. Try heat shrink tubing...
I'm a huge fan of Graffiti 1, I used to sit in meetings taking notes without looking at the palmpilot, you can't do that with any on-screen keyboard. Graffiti 2 was crap. That said, I'm way faster with my on screen keyboard than I ever was with graffiti, I do consider it a step up in usability although I have to look at the device to use it.
I like how the article is spread over as many pages as palm had models, maximizing ad viewing. After the first page of non-information I bailed like a good slashdot reader.
Sheldon
I feel your pain. I have a 17" laptop screen that is 1920x1200. By that token a high dpi 30" screen should be a lot more than ~2500x1600
I would also love a second display for my laptop but good luck finding a desktop monitor of any size with the same DPI as the laptop. As a result I've got small windows and big windows.
Sheldon
So I guess instead of punching the monkey in an old-school style, I'll have more of an opportunity to hunt him down and flack cannon the bejesus out of him, all while I'm trying to do something more important in my browser, my CPU fans going nuts will help alert me that there is a monkey fragging opportunity where I'm sure to win an iPod Touch.
Sheldon
Nor do people have to say "Have a blessed day". Same thing.
Nowhere close. You can bless others by your conduct or you can be an ass. Nothing in the word “blessed” demands that you believe in God.
I'm going to have to call bullshit on that one. The word "blessed" is as closely tied to Christianity as "holocaust" is to the Nazis. Sure we can use it in other contexts, "I was blessed with extra chicken on my burrito by the hot server at Chipotle". Or: "The Haitian earthquake was a real holocaust". But both of those sentences cause you to think of the main meaning of the words and the sentences are really awkward.
Sheldon
It appears that Kaspersky is butthurt because it sees a potential market for more crap we don't need and the controllers of that market don't want, and have the ability to lock them out of that market.
From Apple's point of view, they have remote wipe on both the corporate and personal levels already. And having somebody inside your shorts providing duplicate functionality is fail from top to bottom. I'm surprised that apple even answered the phone when they saw who was calling.
Also Kaspersky can have the SDK anytime they want, it's free. They will have to pay $99 to actually deploy the apps though. What they want is a super special "inside your shorts" SDK that I'd bet isn't coming anytime soon.
Sheldon
Is the fact that Gates isn't worth as much may be a function of him giving away his wealth as part of the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation? If so, I see him slipping as a sign that he is really putting his money where his mouth is, and actually doing something to improve the world with the results of his hard work like he said he would.
Sheldon
I just clicked on this article, now apparently I own it, so: get off my lawn!!
Sheldon
Well, we have photoshop...
By the time you get comfortable and proficient in the game, it's worthless.
Sheldon
(whenever people think XP they always think of the disney world theme for example).
There, I fixed that for you...
BTW, I hate that theme.
Sheldon