Keep in mind who you're dealing with here: guys who build heat rays in their backyards for fun.
To them, setting things on fire is fun. Making things explode is AWESOME.
Try driving an SUV while listening to the Halo soundtrack. THAT'S dangerous.
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At least that was the case for me. Apple was suppose to send me a reminder email this morning, but I guess they're holding those until their servers stop melting.
I watch Dr. Who in a Piraty manner because the episodes they show on BBC America are always two weeks behind the ones showing in Britain.
Tolkein said that his hobbits "like to have books filled with things they already know, set out fair and square with no contradictions," and I imagine that humans are not far different, scientist or otherwise.
It takes a rare soul indeed to see a contradiction in a beloved text, be it the Bible or a Physics text, and explore that contradiction, throwing away long-held assumptions, in order to find a deeper truth. The only difference is that in science, such explorations are sometimes rewarded with praise and sometimes with ridicule, whereas in religion they are rewarded with a cup of hemlock, burning at a stake, or a crazy old lady telling you she'll pray for your soul.
They released no-CD patches for Warcraft 3, Diablo 2, and Starcraft 1, you know. They have a good track record here.
They didn't scrap it, they never had a project in the first place. It was just a mockup to deny apple some mindshare.
My best use for Wave: FAQs.
It's honestly my only use for wave, but it's a good one. Someone asks a question, someone else answers, someone else corrects the answer, someone else provides links to citations.
An example, the wave I manage: https://wave.google.com/wave/waveref/googlewave.com/w+N0MhqpVgB
Active discussions require a very active moderator to keep the wave from getting so large as to die the slow death of lag. Most collaborative documents are better handled in Google Docs. Random "which do you like best" polls should be purged from the internet in general.
At the moment, the service only shares HIGHLIGHTS, not notes. So, there's an underline under certain points of text, but additional text from other readers is never inserted.
The iPhone app hasn't been updated to reflect the new features yet.
They only "share" highlights that three or more people have highlighted, and only from books purchased from Amazon. They don't back up notes/highlights from third-party content, like books purchased from Baen or personal documents you loaded up yourself.
So, if there's a book published and available for purchase on Amazon that has your phone number in it, and you highlighted it, and two other people purchased and highlighted that same phone number, then it might show up as highlighted on the books of additional purchases.
Notes are not shared via this service at all.
You do know the whole "share my highlights" thing is opt-in, right? And it's a different setting than "back up my highlights."
And they rolled out a new copy of the User Manual to explain the changes.
The same thing goes for other consumer technologies. Insurance companies are willing to throw down thousands on huge, ugly, bulky Augmentative Communication devices for autistic kids, but I bet they wouldn't put down the $400 on an iPod Touch + Proloquo2Go, which is a) a much better solution altogether, and b) less likely to be rejected by younger kids.
A lot of kids reset having to carry around a huge box that marks them as needing special assistance - even if they really do need that assistance just to communicate. Putting that same functionality into an otherwise awesome iPod makes the kid a lot less likely to throw the device out a window in frustration- especially if the kid has music and games on it too. Unfortunately, the same music, games, and social flags that cause the kid to accept it is what causes the insurance companies to not pay for it.
It also weighs you and calculates your BMI every time you use it, and then proceeds to tell you that you're fat.
I started my shift from sedentary to kinda-sorta fit with Wii Fit Plus. The cardio is pretty low-level, but more than enough to wear out a fat video game nerd. Push-ups, however, are still push-ups, even if you're doing them on a balance board. In any case, I started with the Wii Fit, and now I pretty much only use it as a scale, and I get my actual exercise running. But, even though I don't use it now, if I hadn't had it to get me started, I probably would still be unable to run a mile without wanting to puke.
He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. -- Bion
