Posts by Paul Bruneau

I tried it

Seems to be an OK implementation. Except for one note: why do people feel the urge to full-justify lines that contain 3 or 4 words???

@Bert Ragnarok, AMOS user

I programmed AMOS from 1995 until about 1999. We had the VCR tapes lying around from the past, but I didn't have to use them. We had a DAT drive by the time I got there :)

Prohibited computer use except email...

So they prohibit his use of a computer, except they allow the thing he got in trouble for?

I don't really get it.

this authentication is a pain

I'm with you, Reg. I would rather take Edge speed than jump through those hoops. Hand entering my cell number and clicking a box? What century is this again?

Consumers want turds

You are right, Pete, it's crap I completely agree, just a prius clone.

But look, when Honda did try even a few new things with my original Insight, the public ran away in droves.

-2 seater! "but I can't haul my buddies/stuff around!"

- All aluminum construction "But it'll get smashed like a soda can!"

- Tiny and very light "But it'll get smashed like a soda can!" "The handling is crap!" "The road noise!!!"

- extremely efficient design with .25 drag coefficent "But it looks like the 50's version of the car of tomorrow!!!"

- UV-blocking glass to reduce cabin cooling cost "Huh???"

So this cool car with actual interesting ideas that WORKS at 66 mpg (yes sorry it still does use gasoline) sold...wait for it...700 units/year in its last several years.

It's not Honda's fault that everything is shite, it's our's.

I'm an idiot...

...who thinks the sound is fine.

But ok convince me. You say the SNR of an ipod is bad, please show me the test results. The test result that another poster posted showed it was just fine.

You say there is no snake oil involved? I'm ready to be convinced.

In Soviet-era Poland...

...the iPhone queues up to buy you!

It was more than just the early episodes

In later years, the SE was replaced by a 20th anniversary Mac

I too am starting to wonder about the point

There are so many interesting _supported_ parts of Cocoa that could use articles like these...why do we care about hacking around in private methods?

Why no lithium?

Why does lithium have to go?

good engineering students foreigners

> There's also the possibility...that a large number of the good engineering students going through US universities now ARE foreigners.

There is no doubt that this is true. So how do you get more domestic engineering students?

Here's Bill's idea: Allow US companies to hire more foreign grads!

What can kill an incoming college student's desire to become an engineer more than the knowledge that he'll be competing against a boatload of foreign grads who are desperate to stay in the states?

How about let the good ol' market force the US companies to hire US citizens? Demand will go up, and students will want to be engineers in order to get a good job upon graduation. Nah, US companies only like the free market when they make a killing from it, not when it might hurt them a little.

Sony Rootkit? drop it already

OK someone in sony music had a really bad idea. They don't do it anymore, the marketplace spoke and sony listened. What do you want, blood?

I want MacBook LED backlight dammit

When when when!?!? My $100 iPhone coupon is still burning a hole in my pocket.

Congrats HD-DVD...

Now please die. Thank you.

Futile?

yes, you're right. It would be much better if it were a manned mission so that they could play golf there and hop around like they did on the moon.

Oni first game? hardly

Before Oni was Myth and before that was the excellent Mac-Only Marathon and a few others before that on the Mac.

It broke my heart when the evil empire bought my lovely Bungie.