Posts by Bad Beaver 846 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Jul 2007
As iPhoto has the habit of creating *X* versions of your pics whenever you manipulate them, you could just as well drag a copy to the Finder when you want to work on something individually. That will also assure that you are getting the picture you were actually looking at in the first place. What you can also do is simply drag the picture from iPhoto to another application, say to GraphicConverter and dabble away. If you do not specify a new directory, the changes will be reflected in iPhoto after restarting it, though likely only at full-size due to the multiple-variant method until there is a database refresh. Not as elegant as it could be in any way. Nevertheless, it's far from not being able to work with files individually. In my view, the main point of database viewers like iPhoto (and also iTunes) is to spare you the agonizing manual crawl through the thickets of directories to find "that file" in the first place. On the other hand, I would greatly prefer if there *was* a halfway logical directory structure in place somewhere (as with iTunes) as that would be much easier to recover just in case.
Yeah. That would mean that *every* unmoderated way of online communication is diving headlong towards being illegal per se due to the possibility of abuse. Great, just great.
I am positively SICK of these ideas being floated *each and every time* by playing the pedo-card (if they know they can't get away with the terror-card). Further criminalization of criminals does not get you anywhere and one should be well aware of that. You protect your kids online the same way you do IRL: You teach them not to trust strangers and until you're sure they got the concept you do some parenting and stay by their side instead of parking them in front of the PC.
So what is the true purpose of this?
As long as they keep Michael Bay away from it, it could be interesting. It is an interesting plot, after all. Although — I don't quite see how you would "better" the Carpenter version. Replace the creature effects with less convincing CG? It did not work for any of the more recent Alien / AvP movies, in fact it made them less intense. I also doubt you could cast a more convincing set of actors.
Can't be me, as I am not American, suffered from SE products and their "you bought it, your problem" attitude for years, and saw enough SE units break or die (other than mine), sometimes within days of purchase, to clearly state that stuff coming out of SE is mediocre at best. If I had to choose, I would rather have a Motorola these days. I guess that says it all.
do I need to differentiate all those Sony / Sony Ericsson products? The phones look like the music players and they all have cryptic names and employ proprietary tech like this was the 90s. Some have some more useless software features than others but you will likely never know. Try browsing their website, you'll be in tears. Sony needs to slim that shit down (all of it), give all of their devices proper names and make them distinct — you know, like that Xperia thingy, but available for purchase and working well out of the box. Otherwise it's just "some crap Sony (Ericsson)" even to people who care about gadgets, and "some phone" to everybody else. You don't want that.
Pfff, that Mac Box Set bundle. Was that close to getting it. Then I noticed $169 translating directly to €169. 'Course it's still heck of a bargain, but I don't see why I should pay €40 extra just for being European when 2/3 of the package will come free with the next machine anyway.
Oh and raving angry loony, in my experience OO3.0 is mindbogglinglidinglylishly sluggish on non-Intel Macs. In the time it takes to launch and start up a new presentation, I would be half-done making a new quick one in Keynote. Also, Keynote doesn't take much learning. That is exactly the the appealing part about it. It's dead easy and you get results that make PPT-users eyeballs implode in no time.
Exactly. With that approach, law-abiding USERS draw the line by reporting illegal activity to the authorities who can then prosecute, just like in the offline world. They do not have lines drawn for them by an authority they cannot check on — as I would expect the gov to find a way to get around the laws concerning freedom of information, via some homeland security scheme. That would make sense IIGTR, otherwise there would be lists of blocked sites available to the public, which defies the logic of having them blocked in the first place.
Geez, no! Kiddy porn is illegal in this country, period. It is a vile, vile thing and people who engage in its production and distribution need to be prosecuted, and they are. Nevertheless, blocking the web is government induced censorship and we cannot have that. I do not need my government to tell a company I pay for being able to look at the internet what I am allowed to see. This is not China, remember?
Gawd, teh h0tz0r! So I will be able to control my TV by wildly flailing my arms in front of it, as if I was performing some rad Jedi-mind-trick on it? That's just great. And stupid me hoped developers would spend their time on making TVs more energy-efficient while producing a better picture...
Yeah, from a phone booth, using some Atari portable and acoustic coupler *g* Too bad there hardly are phone booths anymore... in Germany, the few that remain are slowly replaced with "telepoles" that only have one pane and a joke of a roof. Heaven forbid you be in private or at least dry...
Dear AC: So ranting about people stealing your time by imposing their com-prefs on you is autistic? I get that right? Let's get some things straight:
- I live in a place where "unlimited texts" is hard to get, usually you pay through the nose for SMS.
- in the US, you pay for received texts unless you cough up for "unlimited". In my place, SMS are more more expensive, but only the sender pays.
I love to use SMS myself. They allow for time-delayed communication, they can be stored for reference, they are halfway reliable. Nevertheless, if I was in the US I would wonder why the hell I should be forced into an unlimited plan in order to compensate for other peoples' ways of communication. Otherwise, why would I care if some kid wastes its days and thumbs away? Back in the day, teens would clog up the phone-lines, so what? Most of them grew into halfway responsible adults regarding their com-skills. But I see this growth-process being lost. Therefore I see nothing wrong with being annoyed by adults who cannot be arsed to make the slightest effort to think about what they are doing and how their action affects other peoples' time. Further, please do not mangle up my rant. There is nothing wrong with webmail. But if I see people in their late twenties, many of them academics or soon to be, exhibiting the behaviors and lack of education described, it does make me think. Their messy behaviors shape our future communications, with all the bloat and cost and disfunction it brings in its wake. Sue me, but I like stuff to be clean and efficient. If you cannot see how giving a shit or two about your impact on others has some inherent value, I cannot help you.
@ boltar: For the same reason they annoy you with messages via $social_network or $IM instead of sending you a proper e-mail: Because they are morons and do not spend a split second thinking about whether there might be a more clever way of communicating involving less hassle and/or cost. These are the people who even in their late twenties still do not employ a proper e-mail client but only their freakin' webmailer. Some of these people do not even know that there there are such things as e-mail clients. These are the people who, if they bother with e-mail at all, send TOFU HTML, forward "funny" PPTs, and stuff even the smallest bit of text into attached DOCs. In short, the kind that doesn't give a rats ass about anything but their own most imminent desires and in a better world should not be allowed within ten feet of a computer in the first place. These are the people that will make the Palm Pre a boiling success, as they BUG you to no end on ALL platforms and channels available to them EXCEPT e-mail, as honestly e-mail is just too compatible and convenient on the receiving end so you are clearly not devoting enough time to their important inquiry, and the Pre will help you _sort that shit out_. Can't wait!
@ Chris: Because text has a lot of advantages compared to a call, think about it.
Come on, the battery sounds neat-o, the price is in the ok-range (Euroshafting as usual), one will have to see how it performs in real life.
In fact, taking away the possibility to replace it on the go gives 3rd parties a superb opportunity: Sell 17" Mac-heads external batteries that come with a Magsafe cable. This has a number of advantages:
- variable in size
- no need to match Apple's hardware in shape or color
- one model fits all Macbooks, not just the 17"
- can sell to other makes by just changing the cable
To the user it should not really matter as much whether they lug along a second battery or hook up an external one.
As people say, "drivers" are doing anything but concentrating on the road, so ban the driver's use of the phone in a moving vehicle. That way, they can focus on their makeup, changing diapers, shouting at passengers, daydreaming or masturbation, and will not be FURTHER distracted by the needs of a remote conversation. How to enforce sufficiently? Who cares, just make it really, really expensive to get caught.
.. in a good while that I am actually tempted by a new phone. Slick, slick, slick, and you can replace the battery whenever you feel like it.
Oh, and Palm, be sure to make it play nice with OS X. I want to see it sync Apple's native apps, including the iCal and Addressbook categories. I am sick of "smartphones" that cannot handle those.
to see how this performs with OS X on it. It's the nice.
Oh, and I would love to see some more "content" in these videos, more than just another underage marketing drone (did they kidnap this one on the way home from school?) oozing out its spin. If they claim the keyboard is nice, it would be sooo informative if you actually put the thing down, typed a couple of sentences and let us know about your feelings, you know... otherwise these vids would be pretty worthless.
Why exactly are the comments moderated when we can get away with wishing death upon a person due to us disliking their choice of... display connectors? Irritating.
Regarding the product: Whee, nice! I'm not even a color pro and I'd still love to have something with this kind of performance just to look at photos. Yet, as already said, too bad it's a LaCie.
Gawd, what a rad idea, send some folks into a more than hostile environment with limited supplies and tell them to happily enjoy self-reliance while you promise to get everything sorted till the next launch window comes along. I mean, it is not as if you would hand them a bag of seeds, spade, ax and hoe and tell them to get along once they reach the other shore.
"Have you, applicant, been diagnosed as at least latently suicidal or do you suffer from an acute death-wish?"
"Yes."
"Would you, applicant, be happy to die from decompression, undamped impact, fire, radiation or starvation, all on a mission classified as one-way by design?"
"Sure thing, bring the pain!"
"Welcome aboard, Spaceman."
OTOH it would be quite a waste not to use the remaining orbiters as a basis for some bigger space-built craft. I'd imagine you would have to add a massive amount of cargo space just to bring sufficient water & food, not even to speak of equipment and fuel. The whole thing would be much too big to land, so the more rational approach would be to have detachable cargo-bays that can survive going down to the surface on their own and use a landing module for the crew while the main craft stays in orbit. That's if you want your crew back alive. If you man the whole thing with people you want to get rid of, well, you can use the old orbiters, pack them to the brim with those to be expended and tie the bays shut with shoestring. Tell them they are going to deflect a killer-meteor or something. But that is *not* a nice thing to do.
Hmmmm, 2500 prints? Seeing that your super low cost korean contender for what, €120?, will only get you some 1000 pages, with the refill clocking in at €130, spending 300 on something with likely better built quality seems almost logical *haaahahahahahahaha*
No. Fuck this shit. Sell me something proper you dumbshits!
Come on, you cannot seriously read an advocation of male rape into telling a delinquent about the possible consequences of his actions. Yes, rape is wrong, yes, it also should not happen in prison, yet if you think just because something is wrong it does not happen you are being delusional. He's telling a kid with a "whatever" attitude that he won't be spending a couple months lifting weights with slightly misunderstood philanthropists if he keeps fucking up. If that keeps the kid from damaging himself or others on the road, I'm fine with it.
"It is a real concern that someone like that is out on the street.”
I beg your pardon, WHAT?! Yes, sure, it's a pity there is someone going about shoplifting and littering, but I would much, MUCH rather have some guy enjoying a stolen doll in the alley every single day of the week than that have the same guy rape a single random passerby.
Of course, to make a point, if you use a doll you did not pay for you are as much a disgrace to society as are folks who dare to gain enjoyment from pirated media. You all deserve to be shot.
The problem with tablet is the size and the lack of a keyboard. You need a decent size in order to write on it well, but not too big to be bulky. The old Newton 2x00 is about perfect in this regard, and if you compare you will see that all those UMPCs nobody buys thanks to their shoddy OS and "battery life" are about the same dimensions. Any bigger and I would rather have a convertible tabletbook which hopefully is not too ergo-challenged in tablet-mode. You will need a keyboard no matter what the guys in marketing think, and if the machine is 14" it might well be permanently attached.
I would *love* to see Apple come up with a UMPC one can actually work on. Or maybe OQO can get their act together and put out a machine with a touchscreen one could then put OS X on, although running a deskop OS on a pen-operated machine is deep into Bad Idea Land. At that size, it is all about ergonomics. Apple is pretty spot-on with those on their mobile consumption machines, now give me something that admits people need to work every now and again. Apple has all the Newton patents in the drawer, they just need to undust it, add a few 2009 features, and they are go. The size and weight of a pocketbook, the power of a full system. Worked for me for years, would love to refresh any day.
Come on folks, you can do better. This is a tech site, after all. "An over-ear set" translates to circumaural = enclosing the ears, vs. supra-aural = sitting on the ear. Also, I would like to read whether these sets produce any audible hiss, the bane of active headphones. Next up is speed — just how fast is the cancellation circuit and how well does it respond to sudden peaks? Such peaks rarely occur in the comfort of an airliner, when these kinds of phones are happy to reduce the drone of turbines, but more often on trains. As trains pass each other at high speed, things go bang, a most unpleasant experience with active cancellation phones which are not up to speed.
In most cases, you are much better off with IEM-style passive isolators. Not only are they smaller and have no peak-problems, you will also get much better phones for the same money minus the worry about yet another set of batteries. Circumaural phones with active cancellation are only a good choice if you have IEM-related comfort issues or have to take off your phones every five minutes for some reason.
"living rooms with Wii-ready TVs"
I do wonder what makes a TV "Wii-ready", but I highly welcome the opportunity to phone friends and family inquiring on whether they had a Wii in the living room and on how they rate the value of the experience. I'll likely employ an iPhone well equipped with fart-apps to enrich my personal communications experience.
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