I'm not exactly in the seasonal spirit this year, it has to be said
'There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child'
humbug!
Just did my Christmas shopping, checked out the iPhone and the new iMac in the flesh, gotta be said the new iMac is amazing, most gorgeous thing ever. I'm always amazed at how apple finds a way to constantly refine what I keep thinking couldn't get any better.
Swarms of... uhm ethnic minorities in hoodies hurding round the iPhones. I'm not racist i've always said I hate everybody equally, but my god, every single one of them stunk. Stereotypes exist for a reason and It's almost like wearing a hoodie is becoming a personal statement about your hygiene now.. at least it was in this Apple Store.
I had to leave in the end it was assaulting my senses.
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The manual for Adobe Flex is terrible, you basically have to already know what your doing for it to make any sense. It's like reading a legal document most of the time at best, and at worst like a riddle or an iq test.
I can't get basic things to work because the examples are all incomplete or don't work, not helped by the fact this is beta and the stuff online is talking about beta version 2 and I\'m using v3
None of the examples seems to work as is, they are missing things or don't explain how to tie them up into a working example. It expects you to already know how to glue them in and what they are doing.
So I'm basically going to have to read and learn the whole manual/program in order to complete any one example.
*sarcastically claps*
I learn by examples, I get something that does what I want and then I pick it apart to find out how it works by systematically breaking it
:-)
reverse engineer really. Some of the examples are just overly complex and do 100 things to demonstrate 1 simple thing making it impossible to reverse engineer, added to the fact the thing doesn't even work to begin with.
All I'm trying to do is change the native menu items... 3 hours I spent on it and got nothing. I'm not that stupid.
I was talking with my mate a week ago about what a pure intelliegnce would be, and we basially came to the conclusion that it wouldnt think anything, because there is no need to
And any giant human like intelligence, should it exist, would basically be depressed as it would know everythinig and that would make it miserable, it would also have no real motivation of It's own, I thought this before I saw Hitchikers Guide, but they pegged it brilliantly:
Marvin: I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.
Trillian: Well, we have something that may take your mind off it.
Marvin: It won't work, I have an exceptionally large mind.
Trillian: Yeah, we know.
Also touched on the concept of personal accountability
Ultimately no one is responsible for there own actions as It's all a product of something else happening prior
These bizarre human concepts fall completely apart when taken out of the narrow band of existence that we experience.
They only help describe the immediate reality we experience, which of course exists only in our own head.
A make believe world of reason/purpose
Ultimately I keep coming back to the same kind of conclusion, and It's not a unique one by far
We only do things we want to do
Reason and purpose exist only in your mind, and ONLY to your own mind
This basically means anything you do, you do for your own reason... anything.
It's not physically possible to do things for someone elses reason, unless they implanted something in your head.
