Hard News: Mac Ouch
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Our model is the trapezoid...
LOL
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code mane? oh no!
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There are no surviving recordings of Mark Twain, but the impersonations here and here (actually voiced by a contemporary of Clemens') seem to be within the ballpark.
I listened a few times and then reread the text, D Dawg was banished and the words came to life in a new voice.
And its was even more inspiring, 'specially that last sentence with its drawn out sc's, br's and w's.
Scatterbrained web society sounds so different. -
This isn't one of those shady pyramid schemes you've been hearing about. No sir. Our model is the trapezoid...
A headless pyramid! No one wins. What could be fairer?
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Can I second that with a small warning? I don't want to know about everything you can do with rosary beads.
Never did stick at them long enough to find out. As for their functionality, there were basic beads, made by the Little Yellow Sisters of the Sick or whoever, somewhere in Ireland, and a deluxe model with a little plastic bubble on the crucifix component, which was claimed to contain actual dust from the catacombs of Rome. I guess that added a kind of broadband capability.
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jb,
MacMini? I was on the verge of doing exactly the same - before they repriced....
In mid-December, the top of the line MacMini worked out at US$924/€814/GBP567 and NZ$1478.It's now US$1049/€1029/GBP849 and NZ$2428
+14%, +28%, +49%, +64%.
So it's off to New Hampshire in April - works out at €840, including the credit card charge
What was that about comparative advantage....?
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__This isn't one of those shady pyramid schemes you've been hearing about. No sir. Our model is the trapezoid...__
A headless pyramid! No one wins. What could be fairer?
Get a publisher!
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if it weren't for this Chicago-boys inspired piece of Thatcherite Rogernomics
You mean this neoliberal Chicago-boys inspired piece of Thatcherite Rogernomics? Cause otherwise I'm not sure enough that I'm supposed to think it's a bad thing.
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Get a publisher!
I'd rather perish.
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A headless pyramid! No one wins. What could be fairer?
What could be fairer indeed Mr Wilson? Now just sign here, here, just-under-this-bit-about-first-born-something-or-other, here annnnnnd here.
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I like the redesign of the Stuff site, in the main, but yeah, too much with the white space. It could be reduced by 30-50% between all the elements, and still provide enough "cleanness", I think.
Also, why are people making menu bars so fat these days? What looks like the full width of the text all round is just a bit excessive.
I do like the fact that no-one's assumed I have a stonking wide-screen monitor, nor conversely do I own some 640x480 jobbie from 1994. Can't tell if it's fixed-width yet, but it works great on my 1024x768 laptop. Also, yay for a decent text size by default and the text size + tool.
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It has mostly changed my feelings about trying to read, listen to an iPod and use a stairmaster at the same time.
I have two key pieces of advice:
1) use an arm strap rather than trying to balance the iPod on the console.
2) tuck the excess cable under your sports bra strap so it doesn't fly around catching on things. I don't know what the functional equivalent for men is - putting on iPod before shirt so all the cable is on the inside?
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Don, I like the redesign. Have you tested with screenreadees and suchlike?
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You know what I meant <reaches for more coffee>..
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Now just sign here, here, just-under-this-bit-about-first-born-something-or-other, here annnnnnd here.
I do love contract negotiations, especially the bit where people say "oh, don't worry about that clause, we'll never use it". To which the answer is, "In that case, remove it".
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Sacha
Thanks, although we don't claim any credit for the design (which I happen to like BTW). I probably need to say here I don't speak for Fairfax at all, just trying to make sure the tech side is as solid as we can get it and of course there is nothing like real user experience to help with that.
However, if you want to email me offline we could discuss screen readers.
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Sorry for the threadjack, but I need some advice: How pathetically geeky is someone going to see 'Watchmen' at 12.01am?
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your patheticism knows no bounds - we still all love you anyway ....
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If you love me, want to come around and apply drops to my aching eyeballs? They hurt...
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2) tuck the excess cable under your sports bra strap so it doesn't fly around catching on things.
Can I vote against Jake taking more photos of this? Ta.
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Completely off topic, because I can't be bothered going back and finding the US voting system thread we had last year some time.
Report: Diebold Voting System Has 'Delete' Button for Erasing Audit Logs
But the most startling information in the state's 13-page report (.pdf) is not why the system lost votes, which Wired.com previously covered in detail, but that some versions of Diebold's vote tabulation system, known as the Global Election Management System (Gems), include a button that allows someone to delete audit logs from the system.
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Apparently Premier/Diebold was aware that having a Clear button on its system was a bad idea. According to California's report, one of the system's developers wrote in an e-mail in 2001: "Adding a Clear button is easy, but there are too many reasons why doing that is a bad idea." Yet the company included the button in its system anyway.
Can we send our electoral office to the states and teach them how to suck eggs?
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Craig - you might appreciate this:
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I was wondering what you guys were on about because I read this in T'erald yesterday.
Apple also introduced a new Mac Pro desktop PC aimed at business users. The new Mac Pro starts at $2,499, $300 less than the previous Mac Pro.
In addition, the company unveiled two new Mac Mini desktops, measuring 6.5 inches by 6.5 inches by 2 inches, with the entry-level price unchanged at $599.
I copied it to a note as I have clients looking at upgrading stuff. When I looked at T'erald today I found,
The new Mac Pro, with Intel's "Nehalem" Xeon processor, starts at $5599 in New Zealand.
Yesterdays piece was cut and pasted from a Reuters article then changed and buried (Tech articles in the Herald, usually, hover around in the Tech headlines for days) What is the point I am making here?
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Sorry for the threadjack, but I need some advice: How pathetically geeky is someone going to see 'Watchmen' at 12.01am?
Shows you care.
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Completely off topic, because I can't be bothered going back and finding the US voting system thread we had last year some time.
Report: Diebold Voting System Has 'Delete' Button for Erasing Audit Logs
The pile of rank bad practices that has accumulated around this is simply staggering.
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