Ken asked me to post some pictures of Camile’s new home in Lord of the Rings Online. Here they are:
Outdoor shot with falls in the background
Camile practicing her lute by the fire
The house is very small inside — small enough that I had to decide between having a table or a bed — but it’s home.
Steve Jobs can be such an a**hole sometimes.
According to Gizmodo, he said about the Amazon Kindle:
“It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore… The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.”
Hey, Steve, ever think that your iPods are part of the reason why fewer people are reading? People used to read books on the bus, now they just listen. Why not show some societal responsibility and bring some of that trademark Apple coolness to something that drives intellectual development, so your next generation of customers will be able to get jobs that let them afford to buy iPods.
Here are a few random notes about the XO, after a day of playing with it:
rpm -ivh http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/updates/7/i386/fbreader...(Note: You probably have to be su’ed to do that.)
To start it, you type “FBReader” at the shell prompt. To exit, you hit “ctrl-Q”. The default font, font sizes, margin spacing, and keybindings all need to be adjusted on first use, but the values are remembered so it’s not a big deal. It may just be personal taste, but I find the resulting experience to be more pleasing than using the built in PDF reader. In any case, it’s certainly faster.
48 today (ugh!), but guess what was on my front step when I got home: My XO!
More info once I’ve had a chance to play with it. Yes, I’m using it to send this.
So the Macworld keynote has come and gone, and I must say, there wasn’t really anything that thrilled me. A new NAS? I guess. But they’re awfully late to the table, and it’s not cheap. Movie rentals? Not in Canada. An upgrade to get mail on the Touch? Great! But wait, you want to charge for it, even though it’s going to be free on all new ones sold? Come on!
And then there’s the MacBook Air. Am I the only person who thinks this is way too expensive? It’s got only an 80Gig HD, no optical drive, no wired ethernet, only one USB port, no Firewire and a significantly slower processor than the other Apple laptops. I guess it’s nice that it comes with 2Gig of memory, but you’ll notice that they had to put 2Gig in at the factory, since there’s no way to upgrade it.
Compare it to a black MacBook… Same size screen and the same graphics chip. The MB is cheaper, but it has less memory, so let’s say we upgrade the memory to 2Gig and throw in the 250Gig HD — we still only come up to the price of the MBA. And the MB does have an optical drive, a firewire port, a second USB port and a 2.0GHz processor (vs. 1.6GHz on the MBA).
I’m sorry, but making it thin around the edges and backlighting the keyboard is not enough compensation for those limitations. Essentially, no one should buy the MacBook Air.
Update: OMFG, it doesn’t even have a user replaceable battery! WTF?
What these people are doing to innocent children is abhorrent. Accepting this behaviour would be well beyond religious tolerance; It’s cult brainwashing at its absolute worst. For God’s sake, can we not take these poor kids away from their sadly misguided parents before it’s too late?
(Yes, I realize it’s not a new documentary.)
For the last few years, my family has been getting season passes at Mount Pakenham. It’s not a big hill, but it’s close, the people are friendly, and (as Dennis likes to remind me) the terrain park is awesome. Well, the park isn’t open yet, but things definitely looked promising when we were up this weekend. There were three runs open, and lots of snow on the remaining ones. Maybe next week.
Now all I have to do is get back in shape, so I can do more than six runs before collapsing in exhaustion. Oh well, the season is young. Here’s a Treo shot from the lift on Sunday. See. Snow! 🙂
Apologies, but it seems that both of the CBC links in this article are gone. now — a reminder of why article permanence is important!
What kind of a world gives us both this…
…and this…
To my eye, it seems like there is a distinct lack of forthrightness here on the part of either the board, the original person requesting the “review” or both. The fact that nobody involved is willing to discuss why the review was requested seems like an obvious attempt to deflect the natural criticism that this situation would engender.
And it’s clear what the situation is: The Golden Compass specifically targets the myths of Christianity and inverts them, providing a clear “what if” scenario that, heaven forbid (sic), might actually cause young people to think about their beliefs.
Well, we can’t have that!
It’s time for us to realize, as a species, that ignorance is never the answer. By all means, talk to your child about the books. Remind him that they are fiction. Heck, if you’re feeling especially daring, discuss whether the world would be significantly different if what the books describe were real.
Whatever you do though, don’t hide the books from your kids. If their faith is so fragile that The Golden Compass can disrupt it, then perhaps there’s a bigger picture you need to be considering.
Not sure whether the consensus in the community is that 10.5.1 is better than 10.5, but several of the problems that hit me personally were not fixed, and I developed a new one: Now, my firewire audio interface disappears at random intervals using the built-in drivers, and attempts to run the official Yamaha ones were unsuccessful. bah! (and again I say, bah!).
