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Re: Apple's most annoying feature (Scripting News)

Kevin Marks — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:58:37 -0000

It was in System Prefs at one point, but that was probably pre-iPhoto. You're seeing the results of an Apps group vs OS group turf war at Apple.
ImageCapture app can be handy though if you don't want to use iPhoto, as it will copy off the photos and movies to folders of your choice.

Re: You Should Twitter

Kevin Marks — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 04:39:19 -0000

Why, yes indeed you can, Miss Booth. Tantek demonstrated this earlier today:
http://www.technorati.com/blogs/twitter.com/t</p>

here's the post in question:

http://twitter.com/t/statuses/979933

Re: Gizmodo: Microsoft has its evil back

Kevin Marks — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 01:49:52 -0000

OK, lets ask a different question. Do QuickTime Player, iTunes and VLC instal and run on this new toy?
If so, you can avoid the evil DRM.

Re: Can this week ever end?

Kevin Marks — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 01:02:15 -0000

Here's another theory. Maybe 40% of Vista components are closed for submissions, and 60% are still open for fixes. When I was working on OS X we had that kind of progressive lockdown of OS components.
OTOH, we did ship a version about once a year, which made it easier for teams to accept a lockdown, and not try to squeeze in 'one more feature' in the guise of a bugfix.

Re: MP3 of the week and other stuff from my aggregator

Kevin Marks — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 01:04:36 -0000

Didn't you see Ray's demo? Outlook is a microformat application now.

Re: More bloggers ill from UCG

Kevin Marks — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 04:41:55 -0000

And I suggested 'amateur', though retranslated to english as 'lovingly created media'.

Re: Monad gets renamed to PowerShell

Kevin Marks — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:04:25 -0000

Leaving out the spaces makes PowerShell one word?

Re: A blog is not a blog unless…

Kevin Marks — Wed, 17 May 2006 16:28:52 -0000

I'd make #2 an 'and' not an 'or'. Ping multiple ping receivers, we do differnt things with your pings.

Re: What is social media?

Kevin Marks — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19:35:52 -0000

This reminds me of an old discussion about social software.
Friedrich Hayek famously said that the word 'social' empties the noun it is applied to of their meaning. Hayek goes on:
"it has in fact become the most harmful instance of what, after Shakespeare's 'I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs' ( As You Like It , II, 5), some Americans call a 'weasel word'. As a weasel is alleged to be able to empty an egg without leaving a visible sign, so can these words deprive of content any term to which they are prefixed while seemingly leaving them untouched. A weasel word is used to draw the teeth from a concept one is obliged to employ, but from which one wishes to eliminate all implications that challenge one's ideological premises. "