The vast majority of people do want to pay $5/month to be told what music they should claim to like. They're not looking for good music, they're looking for what opinions they should have in order to fit in with their peers.
The more interesting issue is spacing after a colon. Do you use two spaces or one? Does it depend on whether the stuff after the colon is a dependent or independent clause?
What would the enforcement procedure look like for that? You'd have to either pull over every car to check how the occupants are related or just let the spouse situation go every time. Unenforceable laws are obeyed by few.
Thanks for the information. The Microsoft mouse was the only wireless mouse I've ever used that didn't feel slightly laggy in its response. Its only flaws were the interminable wake-up process and the charger base not making a good connection with the mouse, which led me to just use alkaline batteries rather than trying to get it to recharge. I'm currently thinking about a new iMac (which wasn't really mentioned in this article, but they got some great updates today, too) and it helps to know what people think of the standard peripherals.
Here's a question for you, as an Apple touch-surface mouse user. I presume your mouse is Bluetooth. How well does that work? I recently quit using my Microsoft Bluetooth mouse with my Power Mac because I got sick of its startup times - there would be anywhere from a full minute at the low end to five minutes at the high end of false starts (move the pointer an inch then stall for another 20 seconds, etc.) each time I started using it after a multi-hour absence (sleep, work, etc.). Is that a Microsoft issue or an Apple issue? Also, how long do your batteries on the mouse (and, if applicable, Bluetooth keyboard) last in normal usage?
I'm with you. I strongly prefer two-finger scrolling to scroll zones. The latter take away usable trackpad space and are much more prone to accidental activation than multitouch pads are.
Huge multitouch surface. Two-finger scrolling on my Powerbook's trackpad makes it a useful machine for browsing the web without an external mouse attached. That said, my desktop is most likely always going to have an external mouse attached, so I don't know how much usability gain you get from it.
More of a turn-off than i-everything? Honestly, if you're going to pick an Apple product naming issue to complain about, 'magic' is always going to be striving for the silver medal.
I am running a dual G5 Power Mac as my primary home machine. I use it for multitrack audio recording and editing, multimedia purposes, occasionally a development workstation, and a whole hell of a lot of web browsing and IMing. Electricity cost savings are not sufficient to justify a newer machine, although I am indeed drooling about a 27" iMac and hoping I can convince myself to spend the money on an appropriate storage solution and the new machine in the not too distant future. In the meantime, *whoosh*.
You can tell that it's advertising because every single statement in the article summary describes every open-source game and the other comments indicate that this particular game is nonsensical and unnecessarily complex. There is nothing at all new or special here and anything interesting about it was already true of open-source games in existence for decades, such as Netrek (1988), Nethack (1987 and based on older games whose open-source status I do not know), Battle for Wesnoth (2003), Lincity (1995), and plenty of others.
I don't know enough to comment on the substance of what you said, but I do know from shopping for Christmas gifts for artistic family members that Wacom makes at least one tablet that does not require a stylus. The Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch is one example. But then, when I was looking for that link, I came across the Cintiq line. It's got the pen tablet and display in one - now just add the computer and make it pen-and-touch like the Bamboo and you're set.
While I agree that there are very few internet comics actually finding success, I wonder if it's anything like the guitarist market. For every one guitarist who is making enough money from it to call a part of the guitar industry, there are 20,000 people who want to buy the same guitar, amp, effects, cables, strings, picks, hats, and condoms as the hero is using. That's a large part of what drives the guitar-related product market. The same applies to hip-hop artists in their mothers' basements doing whatever it takes to get ahold of an MPC, a couple of good turntables, a good condenser microphone, and a recording console of some sort. High school kids' parents spend untold fortunes on whatever top-end basketball shoes are hot on the market that year.
Does the same phenomenon occur with internet comics? Are there enough wannabes to drive the market for these features in a tablet computer?
I will likely end up with a Droid, as well. I actually had a Pearl 8130 for 2 years until this past January, when my contract came up and I got a 1-year contract on a Curve 8330 on a $20.10 promotion. My desire was to let the local Alltel assets get switched to AT&T and let Verizon get the Nexus One (which didn't happen) and have the bugs ironed out on both fronts by next January, when I will either get a Droid or (if available - AT&T's acquisition here has been a no-apparent-progress thing for the past 2 years or more) iPhone.
My iPod Touch is a curse, though - it makes me really want an iPhone. But I'm sure I'd be happy with a Droid as well. All I know is that a buggy Droid would beat my BlackBerry, which has no excuse for that kind of crap given how long they've had to mature the platform.
I currently have a BlackBerry, and the operating system is horrid. I regularly have to pull the battery because the device's media processor gets tied up by software malfunctions, preventing ringtones from being played. The browser currently crashes entirely when viewing any Wikipedia page. Even sending a text message can take up to 90 seconds from the time I hit send and the time the device is usable again, apparently due to some ridiculously bad programming on the part of whoever wrote the message display software.
I am currently thinking about getting an iPad to replace my personal laptop entirely, probably after a few more first adopter issues get sorted out and I am convinced that I can carry on my normal workflow with it, browsing web pages and being able very quickly to switch to read and reply to instant messages and e-mails (which will most likely be in another browser window until a better Gmail app with threading becomes available), etc. I have an iPod Touch and believe that there is actual potential for the iPad to effectively replace my personal laptop. I also have a BlackBerry and I can't imagine a larger version of it being even the least bit useful.
I stopped reading the review when I got to the "largely an undocumented process until just recently" line, as well. The best book on DSLs I've ever seen is On Lisp, published in 1993 and available for free from the author. Lisp is almost a meta-DSL - a domain-specific language for the domain of writing domain-specific languages - and this book will get you from "I don't get why the professor is making us write Hello World in Lisp" to thinking in terms of DSLs (and applying that thought process to all programming languages) between its covers.
You can, of course, write DSLs in any language. But you should learn to do so as a matter of writing DSLs instead of as a language-specific technique. How worthwhile is it to read a book about how to make a linked list specifically in Pascal? Learn how to do the thing in a conceptual sense and then use your knowledge of a language to turn the concept into code.
That's a good theory, but I think it's proven wrong by the fact he silently (without even posting an 'updated' note on the article) fixes those errors after a few scathing comments get posted.
I am flattered by your response - I hope you manage to find this comment so you know that. At the very least, this guy shouldn't start with a sleeve. As to your policy: Four years is fair. The point isn't the duration, it's the comprehension of just how permanent the ink is. Thank you for explaining that to your canvas before you paint on it - you are a small but valuable part of making the world a less cliche and more artistic place. Keep the elevator music in the elevators.
A quick check of which editor did the work is almost always a guarantee of how poorly done you can expect it to be. Some of them regularly add an editorial sentence with a spelling error, some are known for cheesy jokes, and one in particular nearly always goes out of his way to make things factually incorrect.
The point is not to deliberate on any decision for a decade. The point is that most people justify tattoos by claiming they are an expression of their individuality. If your tattoo is not an expression of your individuality, then perhaps permanently affixed to your body is not the best place for it. If it is, then it should be equally true about your individuality in ten years as it is today. Failing that, it's an expression of a thought you once had and should be permanently recorded somewhere other than your body, if for no other reason than that you have only so much skin to work with and will hopefully have enough unique thoughts to fill it entirely within a decade. Otherwise, you're a total bore, no matter what tattoos you have.
Please state some logical reasons to get tattoos. I know many subjective reasons, some valid and others not so much, to get a tattoo, but none of these reasons can be demonstrated by objective, logical reasoning. I'm all ears if you know of several that can.
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The vast majority of people do want to pay $5/month to be told what music they should claim to like. They're not looking for good music, they're looking for what opinions they should have in order to fit in with their peers.
The more interesting issue is spacing after a colon. Do you use two spaces or one? Does it depend on whether the stuff after the colon is a dependent or independent clause?
What would the enforcement procedure look like for that? You'd have to either pull over every car to check how the occupants are related or just let the spouse situation go every time. Unenforceable laws are obeyed by few.
What is California's definition of "partial zero-emissions"? To me, that translates as "non-zero emissions" but I'm not fluent in Californian.
Thanks for the information. The Microsoft mouse was the only wireless mouse I've ever used that didn't feel slightly laggy in its response. Its only flaws were the interminable wake-up process and the charger base not making a good connection with the mouse, which led me to just use alkaline batteries rather than trying to get it to recharge. I'm currently thinking about a new iMac (which wasn't really mentioned in this article, but they got some great updates today, too) and it helps to know what people think of the standard peripherals.
Here's a question for you, as an Apple touch-surface mouse user. I presume your mouse is Bluetooth. How well does that work? I recently quit using my Microsoft Bluetooth mouse with my Power Mac because I got sick of its startup times - there would be anywhere from a full minute at the low end to five minutes at the high end of false starts (move the pointer an inch then stall for another 20 seconds, etc.) each time I started using it after a multi-hour absence (sleep, work, etc.). Is that a Microsoft issue or an Apple issue? Also, how long do your batteries on the mouse (and, if applicable, Bluetooth keyboard) last in normal usage?
I'm with you. I strongly prefer two-finger scrolling to scroll zones. The latter take away usable trackpad space and are much more prone to accidental activation than multitouch pads are.
Huge multitouch surface. Two-finger scrolling on my Powerbook's trackpad makes it a useful machine for browsing the web without an external mouse attached. That said, my desktop is most likely always going to have an external mouse attached, so I don't know how much usability gain you get from it.
More of a turn-off than i-everything? Honestly, if you're going to pick an Apple product naming issue to complain about, 'magic' is always going to be striving for the silver medal.
I am running a dual G5 Power Mac as my primary home machine. I use it for multitrack audio recording and editing, multimedia purposes, occasionally a development workstation, and a whole hell of a lot of web browsing and IMing. Electricity cost savings are not sufficient to justify a newer machine, although I am indeed drooling about a 27" iMac and hoping I can convince myself to spend the money on an appropriate storage solution and the new machine in the not too distant future. In the meantime, *whoosh*.
For people who keep caps lock on and type the entire message in the subject.
You can tell that it's advertising because every single statement in the article summary describes every open-source game and the other comments indicate that this particular game is nonsensical and unnecessarily complex. There is nothing at all new or special here and anything interesting about it was already true of open-source games in existence for decades, such as Netrek (1988), Nethack (1987 and based on older games whose open-source status I do not know), Battle for Wesnoth (2003), Lincity (1995), and plenty of others.
List sucks.
Are you sure it's the language and not your own personal problem?
I don't know enough to comment on the substance of what you said, but I do know from shopping for Christmas gifts for artistic family members that Wacom makes at least one tablet that does not require a stylus. The Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch is one example. But then, when I was looking for that link, I came across the Cintiq line. It's got the pen tablet and display in one - now just add the computer and make it pen-and-touch like the Bamboo and you're set.
While I agree that there are very few internet comics actually finding success, I wonder if it's anything like the guitarist market. For every one guitarist who is making enough money from it to call a part of the guitar industry, there are 20,000 people who want to buy the same guitar, amp, effects, cables, strings, picks, hats, and condoms as the hero is using. That's a large part of what drives the guitar-related product market. The same applies to hip-hop artists in their mothers' basements doing whatever it takes to get ahold of an MPC, a couple of good turntables, a good condenser microphone, and a recording console of some sort. High school kids' parents spend untold fortunes on whatever top-end basketball shoes are hot on the market that year.
Does the same phenomenon occur with internet comics? Are there enough wannabes to drive the market for these features in a tablet computer?
Have you considered going on strike?
I will likely end up with a Droid, as well. I actually had a Pearl 8130 for 2 years until this past January, when my contract came up and I got a 1-year contract on a Curve 8330 on a $20.10 promotion. My desire was to let the local Alltel assets get switched to AT&T and let Verizon get the Nexus One (which didn't happen) and have the bugs ironed out on both fronts by next January, when I will either get a Droid or (if available - AT&T's acquisition here has been a no-apparent-progress thing for the past 2 years or more) iPhone.
My iPod Touch is a curse, though - it makes me really want an iPhone. But I'm sure I'd be happy with a Droid as well. All I know is that a buggy Droid would beat my BlackBerry, which has no excuse for that kind of crap given how long they've had to mature the platform.
I currently have a BlackBerry, and the operating system is horrid. I regularly have to pull the battery because the device's media processor gets tied up by software malfunctions, preventing ringtones from being played. The browser currently crashes entirely when viewing any Wikipedia page. Even sending a text message can take up to 90 seconds from the time I hit send and the time the device is usable again, apparently due to some ridiculously bad programming on the part of whoever wrote the message display software.
I am currently thinking about getting an iPad to replace my personal laptop entirely, probably after a few more first adopter issues get sorted out and I am convinced that I can carry on my normal workflow with it, browsing web pages and being able very quickly to switch to read and reply to instant messages and e-mails (which will most likely be in another browser window until a better Gmail app with threading becomes available), etc. I have an iPod Touch and believe that there is actual potential for the iPad to effectively replace my personal laptop. I also have a BlackBerry and I can't imagine a larger version of it being even the least bit useful.
Best. Comment. Evar.
I stopped reading the review when I got to the "largely an undocumented process until just recently" line, as well. The best book on DSLs I've ever seen is On Lisp, published in 1993 and available for free from the author. Lisp is almost a meta-DSL - a domain-specific language for the domain of writing domain-specific languages - and this book will get you from "I don't get why the professor is making us write Hello World in Lisp" to thinking in terms of DSLs (and applying that thought process to all programming languages) between its covers.
You can, of course, write DSLs in any language. But you should learn to do so as a matter of writing DSLs instead of as a language-specific technique. How worthwhile is it to read a book about how to make a linked list specifically in Pascal? Learn how to do the thing in a conceptual sense and then use your knowledge of a language to turn the concept into code.
That's a good theory, but I think it's proven wrong by the fact he silently (without even posting an 'updated' note on the article) fixes those errors after a few scathing comments get posted.
I am flattered by your response - I hope you manage to find this comment so you know that. At the very least, this guy shouldn't start with a sleeve. As to your policy: Four years is fair. The point isn't the duration, it's the comprehension of just how permanent the ink is. Thank you for explaining that to your canvas before you paint on it - you are a small but valuable part of making the world a less cliche and more artistic place. Keep the elevator music in the elevators.
A quick check of which editor did the work is almost always a guarantee of how poorly done you can expect it to be. Some of them regularly add an editorial sentence with a spelling error, some are known for cheesy jokes, and one in particular nearly always goes out of his way to make things factually incorrect.
The point is not to deliberate on any decision for a decade. The point is that most people justify tattoos by claiming they are an expression of their individuality. If your tattoo is not an expression of your individuality, then perhaps permanently affixed to your body is not the best place for it. If it is, then it should be equally true about your individuality in ten years as it is today. Failing that, it's an expression of a thought you once had and should be permanently recorded somewhere other than your body, if for no other reason than that you have only so much skin to work with and will hopefully have enough unique thoughts to fill it entirely within a decade. Otherwise, you're a total bore, no matter what tattoos you have.
Please state some logical reasons to get tattoos. I know many subjective reasons, some valid and others not so much, to get a tattoo, but none of these reasons can be demonstrated by objective, logical reasoning. I'm all ears if you know of several that can.