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tell application "System Events" if UI elements enabled then set FrontApplication to (get name of every process whose frontmost is true) as string tell process FrontApplication click button 2 of window 1 --button 2 is the green "zoom" button for all applications --window 1 is always the frontmost window. end tell else tell application "System Preferences" activate set current pane to pane "com.apple.preference.universalaccess" display dialog "UI element scripting is not enabled. Check 'Enable access for assistive devices'" end tell end if end tell
Pretty cool. Hook it up as a Quicksilver trigger, as described on the MacOSXHints.com page linked above and you're on to something. Finding out that alt-space, r, x (iirc) maximizes on Windows really sped up things for me. I hate using the mouse. Waaaaay too slow for anything that's not a FPS shooter or MMO. Computers are digital after all. Everything's discreet. No reason for analog control 95% of the time you're doing something even semi-serious.
The Amiga suffered from an identity crisis that the company never solved. Was it a gaming machine? People were happy enough with their Ataris.
This smells like it either wasn't written by someone alive on the early 80s, or, if he was, they didn't play video games. Though the 2600 certainly lasted a while, by the C=64's time, pretty much the whole crowd had moved on from the Atari, maybe several times -- Intellivision, Colecovision. When the C=64 was released, it was *the* game console to have, PC or no.
If being a game console helped make the C=64 what it was, why would being a game console hurt the Amiga? I think you've got to go places other than an identity crisis. Seems the Amiga wasn't exactly a great deal either... (though trust me, I'll remember playing Speedball on the Amiga for the first time in 1990. Lots of fun, and it looked great.)
posted by ruffin
at 4/30/2009 09:53:00 AM
In singling out industries benefiting from the downturn, Mintel gave top position to bread as 'faring the recession quite well.' Its original study predicted bread market growth in 2008 of 2.1%, which contrasts with figures placing growth last year at 7%.
Another indicator that we're approaching the economic trough, perhaps?
I'm an idiot. I didn't figure out that G2, the half sugared, half synthetic sweetened, fairly new version of Gatorade, was made to get by the more stringent sugar/calorie requirements of vending machines on some school districts' schoolyards.
This also explains the weird cartoon Tiger Woods Gatorade commercials.
posted by ruffin
at 4/20/2009 06:14:00 PM
Ah yes, Mr. Pollan, the champion of the people who showed us the inherent deceit of contemporary nutritionism.
This is, of course, while he (contrary to this blog post) tells us how great omega-3 or 6 or whatever it is fatty acids are on pages 5, 31, 37, 38, 39, 44, 59, 87, 108, 109, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 134, 140, 141, 155, 165, 167, 171 of that same book, as well as a few more times in the notes for good measure. (Admittedly that's from a quick Google Books search, but, for most anyone having read the book, the list makes the point.)
The book was great and well written overall. His deconstruction of white whole wheat bread was a classic, capturing our moment in society perfectly, and should be read in freshman composition classes (or whatever they're calling them then) decades into the future. Yet the logic in the book backtracked and undercut itself a number of times; the omega issue was the most startling of those self-deflations for me.
This is to say we all have our pet hypocrisies. JLD's seem to be that she's happy to sell out what sounds like a good, solid, eco-friendly lifestyle if hit with enough cash. We get the Marxist critique and the Bernstein and Woodward-ian method. But given that there is a breaking point for most professionals living in a capitalistic society, the issue isn't to point out what an actor is doing is "wrong", but to see how they might best use this wrongness to promote something positive. What should JLD be doing as ConAgra spokesperson to help fix what's broken? Can her message be co-opted, warts and all, just as we've been able to do with Pollan's?
Resistance isn't futile. It's just that traditional forms of resistance have been anticipated.
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