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[English professor mode] I'm sure this came up already, but "flammable" is a recent coinage and emerges really from confusion over whether "inflammable" means "not flammable." As Strunk and White put it in the "frequently misused words and expr…
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Quote: Originally Posted by addabox Oh sure, like I'm so supposed to pick out references to other things that aren't in a contrasting color and underlined and just begging to be clicked. Just ask your students. You mean my students who usuall…
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Quote: Originally Posted by addabox Here's a pretty nice blog post about just what we've been discussing. Interestingly (to me, because it validates my line of though, and what's more interesting than that?), he makes the same point I was ma…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dr Millmoss I thought the UI on the Canon Cat was sort of Raskin's dream come true Hrm. Maybe I'm mixing up my Raskinses and my Togses.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dr Millmoss I could spend an hour (if I wanted to) just explaining the Finder. These concepts are far from obvious and clear; they take real mental adjustment to understand. Yup. And nevermind the bizarre mental a…
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Yup. When you stop to think about it, the fact that sooooo many people own really, really powerful computers is pretty bizarre?it's sort of like we've only had an option for supercars when all we need to do is drive to the store and back. This mov…
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My wife really, really wants one. I'm a little skeptical, but I find myself leaning more and more towards getting one. If I were to get one of these, I can totally see myself using it for my lecture notes. I do everything in OmniOutliner and then…
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Quote: Originally Posted by addabox Dude! Hola!
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Apple's move for ages now has been to abstract as much of the file system away as is possible so that users interact with applications which, in turn, deal with the files so the user doesn't have to (e.g. iPhoto, iTunes). The iPhone and iPod Touch …