Re: Genius or idiot savant?

2008-09-22 Thread Bill Page
Apple is becoming Microsoft.

Re: flexcar.com

2008-01-22 Thread Bill Page
Anyone else pissed that Google did that with Google Video when they bought Youtube? I thought I was the only one!

Re: itunes ratings, click with /feeling/

2007-07-14 Thread Bill Page
sure it's stupid that you can't do it with the keyboard, but you can just turn on the triggers for rating in quicksilver, which is about as close to default osx as you can get while remaining something that makes the mac worthwhile On 7/13/07, Patrick Quinn-Graham pf...@mac.com wrote: On

Re: itunes ratings, click with /feeling/

2007-07-14 Thread Bill Page
oh right sorry, i clearly wasn't reading properly i blame it on the moonlight On 7/14/07, Ricardo SIGNES rjbs-ha...@lists.manxome.org wrote: * Bill Page bill.p...@gmail.com [2007-07-13T15:04:05] sure it's stupid that you can't do it with the keyboard, but you can just turn on the triggers

Re: Thoughtful operating system

2007-04-17 Thread Bill Page
i use this with quicksilver when i want to kill the dash for a bit or you can just not be lazy and type the whole thing, but sheesh really i mean typing who can be fucked with that top posting is the way of the future On 4/18/07, Jonathan Katz j...@jonworld.com wrote: Yeah, I'm top-posting...

Re: The Second Life of Firefox

2007-04-15 Thread Bill Page
When does it crash? For example, when I've just entered the URL secondlife.com. that's not a bug, that's a feature protects you from vapid online worlds i know i demand it from the next release of safari On 4/16/07, Yossi Kreinin yossi.krei...@mobileye.com wrote: I have the newest Firefox. At

Convenient helpful power-saving feature!

2007-01-12 Thread Bill Page
Wow! I sure am happy that my video camera turns off after 5 minutes of no use! That helpful battery saving feature makes it impossible to use it for time-lapse capture over firewire, which is of course a silly thing to be doing in the first place anyway. I was really glad that it forces me to

Re: DRM can bite my ass

2006-12-05 Thread Bill Page
On 12/5/06, sabrina downard v...@ziggurat.org wrote: so what you're saying is that you didn't use the tools provided, or pay attention to the backup you were trying to use? no, i was saying that iTunes shouldn't be removing files from my iPod without any iWarning based on an iFaulty

Re: Excel's chart title sizing

2006-11-21 Thread Bill Page
right click - properties (or format, i forget) - font - slap someone silly for including resize handles that do nothing (i think that works, but i'm not sure, not having made a graph for a long time now..thank god) On 11/21/06, Michael Leuchtenburg mich...@slashhome.org wrote: A very specific

Re: Hating the Mac OS X installer

2006-11-20 Thread Bill Page
you may be interested in something called activity monitor quicksilver it up, kill what needs to be killed yes it should do it automatically but really how hard is it to push apple+q in itunes? On 11/20/06, Timothy Knox t...@thelbane.com wrote: So Software Updater recently told me it wanted to

Re: yum and its stupid config files

2006-11-06 Thread Bill Page
You may or may not be interested in google's Sponsored Link Boot.ini - PCbeginner.com - Fix It Yourself. Easy for PC Beginner! Thanks, evil robots reading my mail! On 11/6/06, Earle Martin hates-softw...@downlode.org wrote: Yum. The Fedora package manager. Feature of hates past and surely

Re: USB keys to the gate of madness

2006-10-29 Thread Bill Page
On 10/29/06, Peter da Silva pe...@taronga.com wrote: What someone else puts on them is a different ball of tentacles. I misread that as a different ball of *testicles*. Just to let you know.

Re: iTunes

2006-10-13 Thread Bill Page
Did I really need to give something so very close to a physical format an exemption? I guess so - a hardware solution is the equivalent to having Moses on your side, standing there with an umbrella. On 10/13/06, A. Pagaltzis pagalt...@gmx.de wrote: * Bill Page bill.p...@gmail.com [2006-10-13 01

Re: iTunes

2006-10-13 Thread Bill Page
On 10/13/06, A. Pagaltzis pagalt...@gmx.de wrote: You're telling me that with a general-purpose CPU running at 1.5GHz, backed by a bus that's capable of pushing a few dozen (or hundred?) GByte/sec, it's still necessary to dedicate specialised silicon to get a 100KByte/sec stream from the platter

Re: iTunes on Windows

2006-10-03 Thread Bill Page
I just wish that honking great iTMS carbuncle at the bottom would go away. Am I missing some config option? View - show ministore I was vaguely surprised that it didn't have an interface like the iPods which I would have liked. But that's a preference thing. click the eye down the bottom in

Re: and on the topic of firefox biting shiny metal asses

2006-06-20 Thread Bill Page
off of = eww On 6/21/06, sabrina downard v...@ziggurat.org wrote: failing to block pop-unders *that play sounds at me*. at least if they're silent i won't be bothered by them until all my memory's used up and firefox is using 70% of my cpu! freshly off of where the hell is that *noise* coming

Re: Windows for teletubbies

2006-06-15 Thread Bill Page
you know what i hate? when people have their email clients set to wrap at a wider size than everyone elses, making the text stretch ever so slightly over to the next line before starting again On 6/15/06, Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org wrote: There are many reasons to hate Windows. But this one

Re: Windows for teletubbies

2006-06-15 Thread Bill Page
On 6/15/06, John Handelaar j...@userfrenzy.com wrote: Bill Page wrote: you know what i hate? when people have their email clients set to wrap at a wider size than everyone elses, making the text stretch ever so slightly over to the next line before starting again On 6/15/06, Nicholas Clark

Re: mac disk image images

2006-06-02 Thread Bill Page
I know it's probably classified as an alpha geek thing, but using quicksilver kinda negates any use of the dock (or /Applications) as a launcher - but if we're talking about people that leave things in dmgs and run them from there, well. ouch. On 6/2/06, Ricardo SIGNES

Re: A simple hate today.

2006-05-28 Thread Bill Page
-\? is 4 keystrokes, all in annoying places. (Dvorak does - a little better than QWERTY.) you sicken me

Re: javascript:history.back() as a previous link

2006-02-19 Thread Bill Page
i may or may have not used this myself think of all the effort you're not putting in by using it On 2/18/06, Anton Berezin to...@tobez.org wrote: Retarded beyond help. Extra bonus for not having a table of contents page or equivalent. Words escape me.