That's what I thought, but given the way the senders screwed it up, it's possible that the Reply-To address was set to the same alias (or a different one) that included all the journalists' email addresses.
i.e. hitting a normal reply button would actually reply to everyone (a bit like a mailing list, really...)
In Back to the Future, Marty goes faster than 88mph in the DeLorean, and finds himself transported from his neighbourhood into a big field, before his neighbourhood was even built.
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Will that drive work with iDVD though? Does it qualify as a 'SuperDrive'?
Apple seem to have that a bit nailed down, as another poster has pointed out. That's kind of annoying.
(I mean, if you think about it, having DVD authoring software that refuses to work unless you're using a particular model of DVD drive is a bit 1999, really, isn't it? I'm still not sure why they do this - do they subsidise iDVD development from the money they make selling SuperDrives?)
My first actual computer experience was going to work with my Dad. Not uncommon, you might think, but my Dad worked for the Royal Observer Corps. One of their duties was to monitor for nuclear attacks, and on a visit to one of the (huge and mostly underground) observation posts, I remember seeing the computers that they used to communicate with the other major observation posts. You couldn't see much, but they did use paper tape, which was kind of interesting, but a slight let down from seeing computers on Star Trek.
The next time was when they brought a computer to school - to let us see what they could do. I remember wondering what it would be like, and imagined all sorts of boxes with banks of flashing lights etc. If you've seen the scene at the end of Airplane 2 where Bill Shatner is going around asking what all the weird equipment does, that's what I was imagining.
To see what they actually bought to school was a bit of a letdown (a Commodore PET) but still pretty interesting. They had a simple program where you would think of a number and it would try to guess what it was (i.e. a binary chop). Not exactly TIE Fighter, but sort of cool. Once we found the command to unlock the 'Lukewarm Tea' minigame things soon got exciting. Ok, that bit was a lie.
I recount both of these tales to evoke a time when people just didn't know what computers were like. I think most people at the time would have reacted the same way I did - remember things they'd seen on Star Trek (or similar shows) and imagine something like that.
Things certainly have changed here on Walton's Mountain.
...that our BBC Micro had finally arrived, after six months of waiting.
Six months! Damn, we had some patience in those days...now I get pissed off when my new CPU doesn't arrive within 3 days:-)
To be fair, I had come home from school every day for six months and asked my parents if 'it' had arrived yet, so I guess I wasn't that patient.
We ordered it so early, we only had to pay £335 for the Model B, instead of the £399 it went up to later (still months before the first ones were delivered, of course). Ph34r me!
I can't really remember much about that evening...although I do remember the Welcome pack - which still seems more fun than the 'Tour of Windows' you get these days.
I also remember thinking once (about 3 months before it even arrived), "You can have red text if you want! Red!" I told my Mum but she was less exuberant about this exciting piece of chromatic information.
Round about that time, I was also just getting into Douglas Adams' stuff - little did I know that my patient interest in computers would result in me working with Douglas about 20 years later. It's a funny old world.
Before the BBC Micro, we had a Commodore PET 2001 for a few months that a family friend lent to us. It used to boot up and report that it had 7,167 bytes free. Sometimes I wonder if I will ever forget that number:-)
Google tend not to do new UI. That's not the point. They do consistently good UI.
They keep things simple, responsive, and easy to use.
That is their innovation. The world is full of developers who can't see how much their UI sucks, and instead expect the average person to be able to see how advanced/cool their underlying technology is.
Newsflash: people won't do that. Unless you have good UI.
Yeah, but it's on every message. e.g. I've got search results on a Tivo forum when looking for a graphics card problem because somebody thought anyone would care what PC they have, etc.
Well, they do now, anyway. I get the impression that this Hybrid stuff has been around a while, but they were trying to get the mapping correct (I mean mapping between co-ordinate systems used by the source data). It wasn't long ago that if you switched between map and satellite view (at least in my area) they didn't match up exactly.
It was pretty good, but not enough for overlaying the two. However the hybrid view of where I live is now pretty damn good. Having said that, they still clearly have problems with some areas.
I'm tempted to say this is just a question of getting the maths right, but I expect there's a whole load of inconsistent crap in the source data that they (and anyone else who does this) has to cope with. Goddamn humans:-)
I hate that spec wankery. Goddamn forums where everyone posts their full machine spec as their signature. Who gives a toss? (Does anyone really care about the speed of your RAM?) All it does is poison search engine results. Oh good, I'm searching for info about an nVidia G6200 bug, I get a billion hits on forums where someone who happens to own such a card has a problem with something entirely unrelated. (Luckily, the kids seem to have found a new way of doing this - they make a GIF of their specs and use that as their forum signature - God knows why, because it looks horrid, but at least it doesn't get picked up by search engines).
It's a weird kind of playground showing off, I guess. I recently started building an MCE PC, and found the forums on MCE-related sites had loads of people posting saying "Here's the spec of my latest MCE PC...pretty cool, huh?"
It's like they expect a load of people to reply saying, "Wow, that PC is hot - you really are the coolest person we know!"
That's what I thought while watching the trailer. I mean, do you think they'd have the guts to use a well-known actor like Weaving, and then not show his face? Probably not. Which is a shame, given the relevant scene in the comic.
On the other hand, unlike the general whining and moaning here, I watched the trailer and thought, hey, it actually looks like V for Vendetta - which I wasn't expecting. Familiar and striking images from the comic have been reproduced - the outline of Evey's interrogator, the suicide bomb pack, etc. It all sort of gave me the feeling of, hey, this might actually work.
I'll wait to see how faithfully they recreate A Vocational Viewpoint and Valerie though:)
Of course, it is just a trailer, and as someone on/. pointed out when the Hitchhiker trailer was released, a film trailer represents the film the studio thought they were getting when they signed the cheques:-)
Unfortunately, the uniformity of support for DnD is very poor under Windows. At least, it's not as wide-spread as it is under OS X.
I'm not hugely convinced about that - I found when I used Mac OS for a while that the drag and drop wasn't as widespread as I'd been led to believe - it kept not working with various things. In general, I had more problems with Mac OS than with Windows. I guess our mileage varies. (NB. This was mostly with OS 9 rather than OS X.)
But...
(Actually, the only application that I use regularily that doesn't support it under OS X is WMP.:P)
Then I'd say Apple and MS are even, because QuickTime Player for Windows is a universally crap Windows application, and still doesn't (as of v6.5.2) allow you to drop a movie on a player window to play it. Even though they go to the trouble of registering for file drag'n'drop, so the drag cursor changes shape over the QTPlayer window, to make it look like it's going to work.
Odd. I bought a Dell PC about 8 months ago, and it came with a standard XP CD (albeit it printed with the Dell logo, I think). There was another disk with the drivers on it.
I know it worked properly, because the first thing I did was format the system and reinstall XP from scratch to get rid of all the shite 3rd party software (Sonique CD burner, endless AOL crap).
An expensive keyboard doesn't typically provide the same value as "the hottest CPU or latest video card".
About ten years ago (or thereabouts) I started to get slight pains in my wrists from typing (I'm a professional programmer). It worried me, and at the time, Microsoft had just launched their ergonomic keyboard. At 100ukp, it was expensive, but I liked the sound of the idea, and thought it might help, and considered my hands were probably worth it.
After about 2 weeks, the pain was completely gone. Of course, you can argue (as with Qwerty to Dvorak change) that it was just because I was using different habits/muscles. However, since then, I've always used Microsoft ergonomic keyboards (along with a few friends, I've built up a small stockpile for when Microsoft totally fuck up the keyboard layout and stop selling decent keyboards), and the pain has never come back.
I'd say saving me from pain/RSI/compulsory career change is pretty good value. Certainly better than being able to run Half Life 2 at a slightly higher resolution, anyway.
I have similar views on mice - I generally buy good ergonomic mice, and am prepared to spend more than 15ukp on them, unlike some people. It just seems worth it for something I'm going to use for 8 hours a day.
However, I have no doubt that this keyboard will suck big time from an ergonomics point of view (even though they're just renders, they look nasty - flat, limited key travel, not split, etc) so I'd have to agree that this is really a gimmick and doesn't provide "a $300 value" as they say these days. They might make it a good ergonomic keyboard, but it seems unlikely.
A good keyboard can provide good value, but I don't see it in this one yet. It's a nice feature, and I can think of lots of nice uses for such a keyboard, but for $300? No.
But in general, most people who use computers a lot should spend more than they do on keyboards, mice and chairs. (And for Cliff's sake, stop using the laptop's built-in keyboard!)
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That's what I thought, but given the way the senders screwed it up, it's possible that the Reply-To address was set to the same alias (or a different one) that included all the journalists' email addresses.
i.e. hitting a normal reply button would actually reply to everyone (a bit like a mailing list, really...)
In Back to the Future, Marty goes faster than 88mph in the DeLorean, and finds himself transported from his neighbourhood into a big field, before his neighbourhood was even built.
This is slashdot, right? :)
Will that drive work with iDVD though? Does it qualify as a 'SuperDrive'?
Apple seem to have that a bit nailed down, as another poster has pointed out. That's kind of annoying.
(I mean, if you think about it, having DVD authoring software that refuses to work unless you're using a particular model of DVD drive is a bit 1999, really, isn't it? I'm still not sure why they do this - do they subsidise iDVD development from the money they make selling SuperDrives?)
Depends what you mean by soon.
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I joke, of course :-)
That'll teach you to go faster than 88mph.
I forgot a couple of neat things:
My first actual computer experience was going to work with my Dad. Not uncommon, you might think, but my Dad worked for the Royal Observer Corps. One of their duties was to monitor for nuclear attacks, and on a visit to one of the (huge and mostly underground) observation posts, I remember seeing the computers that they used to communicate with the other major observation posts. You couldn't see much, but they did use paper tape, which was kind of interesting, but a slight let down from seeing computers on Star Trek.
The next time was when they brought a computer to school - to let us see what they could do. I remember wondering what it would be like, and imagined all sorts of boxes with banks of flashing lights etc. If you've seen the scene at the end of Airplane 2 where Bill Shatner is going around asking what all the weird equipment does, that's what I was imagining.
To see what they actually bought to school was a bit of a letdown (a Commodore PET) but still pretty interesting. They had a simple program where you would think of a number and it would try to guess what it was (i.e. a binary chop). Not exactly TIE Fighter, but sort of cool. Once we found the command to unlock the 'Lukewarm Tea' minigame things soon got exciting. Ok, that bit was a lie.
I recount both of these tales to evoke a time when people just didn't know what computers were like. I think most people at the time would have reacted the same way I did - remember things they'd seen on Star Trek (or similar shows) and imagine something like that.
Things certainly have changed here on Walton's Mountain.
...that our BBC Micro had finally arrived, after six months of waiting.
Six months! Damn, we had some patience in those days...now I get pissed off when my new CPU doesn't arrive within 3 days :-)
To be fair, I had come home from school every day for six months and asked my parents if 'it' had arrived yet, so I guess I wasn't that patient.
We ordered it so early, we only had to pay £335 for the Model B, instead of the £399 it went up to later (still months before the first ones were delivered, of course). Ph34r me!
I can't really remember much about that evening...although I do remember the Welcome pack - which still seems more fun than the 'Tour of Windows' you get these days.
I also remember thinking once (about 3 months before it even arrived), "You can have red text if you want! Red!" I told my Mum but she was less exuberant about this exciting piece of chromatic information.
Round about that time, I was also just getting into Douglas Adams' stuff - little did I know that my patient interest in computers would result in me working with Douglas about 20 years later. It's a funny old world.
Before the BBC Micro, we had a Commodore PET 2001 for a few months that a family friend lent to us. It used to boot up and report that it had 7,167 bytes free. Sometimes I wonder if I will ever forget that number :-)
Dude. You can't just make stuff up :-)
Google tend not to do new UI. That's not the point. They do consistently good UI. They keep things simple, responsive, and easy to use.
That is their innovation. The world is full of developers who can't see how much their UI sucks, and instead expect the average person to be able to see how advanced/cool their underlying technology is.
Newsflash: people won't do that. Unless you have good UI.
Oh, no, I wasn't trying to put it down to just gamers. Like I said, media PC freaks seem to do it too. As do Tivo owners who hack their Tivo, etc.
:)
Doesn't stop it annoying me though
What I worry about is that people will follow the roads marked on the Google map instead of where the road actually is.
Because as we all know, of course, user interface doesn't really matter.
Yeah, but it's on every message. e.g. I've got search results on a Tivo forum when looking for a graphics card problem because somebody thought anyone would care what PC they have, etc.
Although your css solution intrigues me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Well, they do now, anyway. I get the impression that this Hybrid stuff has been around a while, but they were trying to get the mapping correct (I mean mapping between co-ordinate systems used by the source data). It wasn't long ago that if you switched between map and satellite view (at least in my area) they didn't match up exactly.
It was pretty good, but not enough for overlaying the two. However the hybrid view of where I live is now pretty damn good. Having said that, they still clearly have problems with some areas.
I'm tempted to say this is just a question of getting the maths right, but I expect there's a whole load of inconsistent crap in the source data that they (and anyone else who does this) has to cope with. Goddamn humans :-)
I hate that spec wankery. Goddamn forums where everyone posts their full machine spec as their signature. Who gives a toss? (Does anyone really care about the speed of your RAM?) All it does is poison search engine results. Oh good, I'm searching for info about an nVidia G6200 bug, I get a billion hits on forums where someone who happens to own such a card has a problem with something entirely unrelated. (Luckily, the kids seem to have found a new way of doing this - they make a GIF of their specs and use that as their forum signature - God knows why, because it looks horrid, but at least it doesn't get picked up by search engines).
It's a weird kind of playground showing off, I guess. I recently started building an MCE PC, and found the forums on MCE-related sites had loads of people posting saying "Here's the spec of my latest MCE PC...pretty cool, huh?"
It's like they expect a load of people to reply saying, "Wow, that PC is hot - you really are the coolest person we know!"
Very odd.
That's what I thought while watching the trailer. I mean, do you think they'd have the guts to use a well-known actor like Weaving, and then not show his face? Probably not. Which is a shame, given the relevant scene in the comic.
On the other hand, unlike the general whining and moaning here, I watched the trailer and thought, hey, it actually looks like V for Vendetta - which I wasn't expecting. Familiar and striking images from the comic have been reproduced - the outline of Evey's interrogator, the suicide bomb pack, etc. It all sort of gave me the feeling of, hey, this might actually work.
I'll wait to see how faithfully they recreate A Vocational Viewpoint and Valerie though :)
Of course, it is just a trailer, and as someone on /. pointed out when the Hitchhiker trailer was released, a film trailer represents the film the studio thought they were getting when they signed the cheques :-)
If The Getaway was a bit faster maybe fewer people would have bought GTA:SA, and we wouldn't be having this argument.
I'm not hugely convinced about that - I found when I used Mac OS for a while that the drag and drop wasn't as widespread as I'd been led to believe - it kept not working with various things. In general, I had more problems with Mac OS than with Windows. I guess our mileage varies. (NB. This was mostly with OS 9 rather than OS X.)
But...
Then I'd say Apple and MS are even, because QuickTime Player for Windows is a universally crap Windows application, and still doesn't (as of v6.5.2) allow you to drop a movie on a player window to play it. Even though they go to the trouble of registering for file drag'n'drop, so the drag cursor changes shape over the QTPlayer window, to make it look like it's going to work.
But it doesn't.
Handsome. :-)
It's only been like half a day since you posted the last dupe or incomprehensible post!
Give the other editors a chance.
(Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs!)
Odd. I bought a Dell PC about 8 months ago, and it came with a standard XP CD (albeit it printed with the Dell logo, I think). There was another disk with the drivers on it.
I know it worked properly, because the first thing I did was format the system and reinstall XP from scratch to get rid of all the shite 3rd party software (Sonique CD burner, endless AOL crap).
About ten years ago (or thereabouts) I started to get slight pains in my wrists from typing (I'm a professional programmer). It worried me, and at the time, Microsoft had just launched their ergonomic keyboard. At 100ukp, it was expensive, but I liked the sound of the idea, and thought it might help, and considered my hands were probably worth it.
After about 2 weeks, the pain was completely gone. Of course, you can argue (as with Qwerty to Dvorak change) that it was just because I was using different habits/muscles. However, since then, I've always used Microsoft ergonomic keyboards (along with a few friends, I've built up a small stockpile for when Microsoft totally fuck up the keyboard layout and stop selling decent keyboards), and the pain has never come back.
I'd say saving me from pain/RSI/compulsory career change is pretty good value. Certainly better than being able to run Half Life 2 at a slightly higher resolution, anyway.
I have similar views on mice - I generally buy good ergonomic mice, and am prepared to spend more than 15ukp on them, unlike some people. It just seems worth it for something I'm going to use for 8 hours a day.
However, I have no doubt that this keyboard will suck big time from an ergonomics point of view (even though they're just renders, they look nasty - flat, limited key travel, not split, etc) so I'd have to agree that this is really a gimmick and doesn't provide "a $300 value" as they say these days. They might make it a good ergonomic keyboard, but it seems unlikely.
A good keyboard can provide good value, but I don't see it in this one yet. It's a nice feature, and I can think of lots of nice uses for such a keyboard, but for $300? No.
But in general, most people who use computers a lot should spend more than they do on keyboards, mice and chairs. (And for Cliff's sake, stop using the laptop's built-in keyboard!)
You see the part that says 'probably'?
If you're lucky. Otherwise they'll refer to it as 'the hard drive'.
Hey, I think I just figured out why the guy who wrote the article thinks it's important to make smaller hard drives... :)
Too...many...jokes...
...must...mock...America.