Ah... but we're online just now, which brings the Mornington Crescent Standard Issue Ruleset Revised For An Electronic Age (1982) into play. Therefore, he avoids spoon and I get to pull a backwards complex:
This is the big question, isn't it? Let's see if we can extrapolate from a few non-computer devices that I have had personal experience upgrading
I've been livid about the upgrade ever since the first new iPods came out - I'm dying to get rating on the go, as I use my iPod to listen to review new CDs, and have to mark tracks so I can find them again later from the sea of sounds.
But this is the first post in that whole time that has convinced me I'm wrong. The 10-year-old in me still sniffs that they could and should do it [1], but I appreciate this not-a-computer line. Nice one, shamino0
[1] Like, it is such an incremental upgrade I don't see that anyone will buy a new iPod for it, and the fact that they didn't offer it to old users isn't great PR for first-timers choosing a new one.
Yes, but that's not the point. Take google groups. the standard text shows up fine on that, but the smaller text used for controls (order by date and so on) now shows up as tinytinytinyTINY - like too many things do on the Mac. So you font zoom to make it legible and - hello! - the standard text is now HUGE. Grr. It used to work and now it's broke.
You fud. I'm dropping my mods to reply to your irritating post. Why exactly do you "hate to say this"? That's what sent everyone off on the wrong tangent, ie that you think IBM has given in. Twat.
Let's think... You hate to say it because... you don't like IBM and hoped they'd cave. You hate to say it because... you like SCO and hoped they'd win You hate to say it because... you can't write for shit.
.. something kinda subscription based... UGC cinemas in Britain offer a £10 a month unlimited movies deal. It's fantastic. It makes money for them on the months you see few movies, and when you want to see loads, your price per film plummets.
They also offer card holders special preview screenings and bring-a-friend offers. Only problem is the screens are understaffed, so bams run wild - I've seen mobile phone calls being *made* - and the evening showings start at 5.40. I finish work at 6. That aside, it's genius
The windshield washer pump sprays fluid on to the glass, but what causes it to start the next stage?
The car has a rain-sensor fitted that automatically starts the wipers when the screen gets wet. And auto headlights, that light when it gets dark. Slinky.
Why should that matter, really? Is that the only quantification of success? Once the governments realised it wasn't going to be a success, the logic of your link says that they should pull out and cut their losses But in that case, we're left with a lot of lost money, and nothing to show for it. Their way, we get a *great* and *beautiful* plane, and to hang with the cost, because the money's lost anyway. Roll on Concorde, piss off MBA-lords
The funny thing about this line is that it meant "TV snow", which is becoming very rare now that most tuners blank out the picture to a neon blue, so now most readers probably think the sky was unnaturally blue and blank.
Er... when was the last time you saw sky that was coloured anything like snow? The point was that the sky *WAS* blue. The phrase was forward-looking, because at the time that it was written TVs had only just begun to turn blue on no input. That was his sub-textual point, "hello, this is new-technology talking".
It's not hard to understand, either. Which one makes more sense to you? "The sky was the colour of snowing" or "The sky was the colour of something really astonishingly blue"?
All I want in my perfect tool is always-visible wordcount. I'd prefer not to use a GUI for my editing although I would if I had to, but I'm a writer and I absolutely have to be able to see how many words I've done, and cute little dialogs or displaying the results of a count at a keypress just isn't enough.
The only editor I've ever seen that does this is Quark CopyDesk, and it is, as you'd expect from Quark, *shit*. InCopy is probably a lot better, but you can't buy it standalone, and I can't find any wareZ.
My first Powerbook was a 145. I had this handle strap that I got at a MacWorld Expo, that attched with the top screw holes. Well, one day I got confused as to which hand held it, and dropped it.
YOU WHAT?! You forgot which hand held it?
(imagines)
Man goes to pick up powerbook, fumbles it, can't remember which hand to pick it up with. Drops it. Walks into tree. Forgets how to breathe....
and 350 PCs running NT for the client side. *snip* We expect we will have to replace the new system in five years.
1. You had PC's running NT just to connect to a VAX? Or if they were running other stuff, surely, then...
2. You'd have had to upgrade in 5 years amyway, Except, there's no reason to. If your kit works then don't replace it. We have QPS (Quark publishing system) running on Mac LCIII's which are nearly 10 years old now - and being Mac's are the real newspaper publisher's tool), and are only upgrading to get something meaty enough to run web browsers:)
Atex (which, it must be said, is shit) and/or VAX dont have inherent up-to-dateness, it's no feature of theirs that you've not had to upgrade.
Me, I car-jack just to see if I like a car or not. If I find that I really like it, I'm going to go out and buy it. If not, no harm done, they've lost a sale.
What is starting to rankle a little is how sanctimonious people are being about the evil record industry stealing copyright. That's right, you ignoring copyright laws is really striking a blow for poor, oppressed musicians. How touchingly altruistic of you. You don't get anything out of it.
would agree that it would be wrong for a car company to make a car that doesn't let you look at the engine.
Except, no. A new sportscar, by someone like Porsche whom I can't remember, has a completely sealed engine unit. The only access is through a panel in the trunk which has access to the battery, oil, and water.
No-one disagrees with this. The engine is so advanced, and so complicated that no-one outside of a dealer garage should be allowed anywhere near it. Same with some software. I am more than happy to leave the maintenance of my software to the company that created it. Even if said company takes longer than I'd like to fix it.
We don't have a right to fix either our cars or our software. Why should we? We didn't create it, we only bought it. The manufacturers choose to allow us to fix it. If their opinion is that we cannot reasonably fix (no user servicable parts) it, then they do not allow it. Same with software.
From the linked statement it seems impossible to get an idea of what is going on. Amiga is not only a box or an OS apparently. Um, yes it is. what the hell else is it? What is there to run on other vendors hardware. no os - no nada. It sounds to me like this marks the end of the game. They have absolutely nothing to market according to that statement, except a spurious vision of 'Amiga' subtracting of course AmigaOS and all the hardware. It must surely be the ultimate in vapourware - hyping something that doesn't exist - even at the idea stage. Hype a vision. Sell it? Hello?
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Ah ... but we're online just now, which brings the Mornington Crescent Standard Issue Ruleset Revised For An Electronic Age (1982) into play. Therefore, he avoids spoon and I get to pull a backwards complex:
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This is the big question, isn't it? Let's see if we can extrapolate from a few non-computer devices that I have had personal experience upgrading
I've been livid about the upgrade ever since the first new iPods came out - I'm dying to get rating on the go, as I use my iPod to listen to review new CDs, and have to mark tracks so I can find them again later from the sea of sounds.
But this is the first post in that whole time that has convinced me I'm wrong. The 10-year-old in me still sniffs that they could and should do it [1], but I appreciate this not-a-computer line. Nice one, shamino0
[1] Like, it is such an incremental upgrade I don't see that anyone will buy a new iPod for it, and the fact that they didn't offer it to old users isn't great PR for first-timers choosing a new one.
Anyway, you've got a font zoom haven't you?
Yes, but that's not the point. Take google groups. the standard text shows up fine on that, but the smaller text used for controls (order by date and so on) now shows up as tinytinytinyTINY - like too many things do on the Mac. So you font zoom to make it legible and - hello! - the standard text is now HUGE. Grr. It used to work and now it's broke.
You fud. I'm dropping my mods to reply to your irritating post. Why exactly do you "hate to say this"? That's what sent everyone off on the wrong tangent, ie that you think IBM has given in. Twat.
... you don't like IBM and hoped they'd cave. ... you like SCO and hoped they'd win ... you can't write for shit.
Let's think...
You hate to say it because
You hate to say it because
You hate to say it because
.. something kinda subscription based...
UGC cinemas in Britain offer a £10 a month unlimited movies deal. It's fantastic. It makes money for them on the months you see few movies, and when you want to see loads, your price per film plummets.
They also offer card holders special preview screenings and bring-a-friend offers. Only problem is the screens are understaffed, so bams run wild - I've seen mobile phone calls being *made* - and the evening showings start at 5.40. I finish work at 6. That aside, it's genius
The windshield washer pump sprays fluid on to the glass, but what causes it to start the next stage?
The car has a rain-sensor fitted that automatically starts the wipers when the screen gets wet. And auto headlights, that light when it gets dark. Slinky.
Everything one has invested is lost regardless.
Why should that matter, really? Is that the only quantification of success? Once the governments realised it wasn't going to be a success, the logic of your link says that they should pull out and cut their losses But in that case, we're left with a lot of lost money, and nothing to show for it.
Their way, we get a *great* and *beautiful* plane, and to hang with the cost, because the money's lost anyway. Roll on Concorde, piss off MBA-lords
The funny thing about this line is that it meant "TV snow", which is becoming very rare now that most tuners blank out the picture to a neon blue, so now most readers probably think the sky was unnaturally blue and blank.
... when was the last time you saw sky that was coloured anything like snow? The point was that the sky *WAS* blue. The phrase was forward-looking, because at the time that it was written TVs had only just begun to turn blue on no input. That was his sub-textual point, "hello, this is new-technology talking".
Er
It's not hard to understand, either. Which one makes more sense to you? "The sky was the colour of snowing" or "The sky was the colour of something really astonishingly blue"?
All I want in my perfect tool is always-visible wordcount. I'd prefer not to use a GUI for my editing although I would if I had to, but I'm a writer and I absolutely have to be able to see how many words I've done, and cute little dialogs or displaying the results of a count at a keypress just isn't enough.
The only editor I've ever seen that does this is Quark CopyDesk, and it is, as you'd expect from Quark, *shit*. InCopy is probably a lot better, but you can't buy it standalone, and I can't find any wareZ.
MOD THIS FUNNY!
Why do you never have points when you need them? That's the first comment to make me laugh here in ages
YOU WHAT?! You forgot which hand held it?
(imagines)
Man goes to pick up powerbook, fumbles it, can't remember which hand to pick it up with. Drops it. Walks into tree. Forgets how to breathe....
You. Twat.
1. You had PC's running NT just to connect to a VAX? Or if they were running other stuff, surely, then...
2. You'd have had to upgrade in 5 years amyway, Except, there's no reason to. If your kit works then don't replace it. We have QPS (Quark publishing system) running on Mac LCIII's which are nearly 10 years old now - and being Mac's are the real newspaper publisher's tool), and are only upgrading to get something meaty enough to run web browsers :)
Atex (which, it must be said, is shit) and/or VAX dont have inherent up-to-dateness, it's no feature of theirs that you've not had to upgrade.
Can we not have MICROS~.ONE and MICROS~.TWO?
Me, I car-jack just to see if I like a car or not. If I find that I really like it, I'm going to go out and buy it. If not, no harm done, they've lost a sale.
What is starting to rankle a little is how sanctimonious people are being about the evil record industry stealing copyright. That's right, you ignoring copyright laws is really striking a blow for poor, oppressed musicians. How touchingly altruistic of you. You don't get anything out of it.
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Except, no. A new sportscar, by someone like Porsche whom I can't remember, has a completely sealed engine unit. The only access is through a panel in the trunk which has access to the battery, oil, and water.
No-one disagrees with this. The engine is so advanced, and so complicated that no-one outside of a dealer garage should be allowed anywhere near it. Same with some software. I am more than happy to leave the maintenance of my software to the company that created it. Even if said company takes longer than I'd like to fix it.
We don't have a right to fix either our cars or our software. Why should we? We didn't create it, we only bought it. The manufacturers choose to allow us to fix it. If their opinion is that we cannot reasonably fix (no user servicable parts) it, then they do not allow it. Same with software.
From the linked statement it seems impossible to get an idea of what is going on. Amiga is not only a box or an OS apparently. Um, yes it is. what the hell else is it? What is there to run on other vendors hardware. no os - no nada. It sounds to me like this marks the end of the game. They have absolutely nothing to market according to that statement, except a spurious vision of 'Amiga' subtracting of course AmigaOS and all the hardware. It must surely be the ultimate in vapourware - hyping something that doesn't exist - even at the idea stage. Hype a vision. Sell it? Hello?