So this piece of shit bans people for free speech he doesn’t like, but then has the balls to sue if you don’t advertise on the platform?!
Edit: Grammar check thinks it’s so much smarter than it is.
So this piece of shit bans people for free speech he doesn’t like, but then has the balls to sue if you don’t advertise on the platform?!
Edit: Grammar check thinks it’s so much smarter than it is.
Challenging user interface, fantastic graphics
Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2012
The first thing that strikes you about Tuscan Whole Milk (I got the fully loaded 128 fl oz model) is the minimalism. I spent half an hour failing to find the power switch, until my roommate, who is much more technical than I am, explained that Tuscan Whole Milk doesn’t have one. The user – he explained the design philosophy to me – shouldn’t have to know whether his Tuscan Whole Milk is on or not; it’s not part of what he’s trying to do. So the unit is always on: it stays in sleep mode until you use it, and then it goes into full power mode without any further user intervention. Talk about Steve Jobs, only even more so!
But it’s not easy on the user. I expected to be able to simply point and click, but I couldn’t find a ‘pour’ icon, and it turns out there isn’t a trackpad or even a mouse. Instead, the user interacts with Tuscan Whole Milk through a ‘handle’, a gripping device built into one side of the unit, that you insert your hand into; it can be lifted or tilted. In a way, it’s very elegantly conceived: flow is controlled by angle of tilt, and flow destination by moving the unit as a whole, via its handle, to a target bowl or glass. It takes a little while to learn, but the ‘pick up the handle and pour’ metaphor is compelling, and radically innovative – the biggest step forward in interface design since the glove.
Being fixated on the controlling metaphor isn’t always a good thing, however. Users are used to point and click interfaces, and these should be provided as an option. And I was curious about what other software packages were available for the Tuscan Whole Milk, and how they would exploit the handle interface. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that there aren’t any. That’s right, there’s no app store, no third party vendors online. And even if you found a third party app, you couldn’t install it. There’s no internet connectivity, not even a USB port. Tuscan Whole Milk is dedicated single-purpose hardware.
Apropos: Another reviewer says he rooted and bricked his unit. Frankly, I’m skeptical. As far as I can tell, user access to the OS is completely blocked – I couldn’t even get a shell terminal – and I don’t see how he could have done it.
Worse, Tuscan Whole Milk isn’t rechargeable. There’s no way even to plug it in. Once your Tuscan Whole Milk is ‘empty’(indicated by the ‘fluid level’ on the external display reaching the bottom of the unit), you’re supposed to throw it out. So it’s not just single-purpose hardware, it’s disposable. Elegance is elegance, but this is taking a nice idea way too far.
Although I’m disappointed with what was made of a very promising user interface concept, I have to mention the graphics, which almost make up for it. When you pour, the ‘milk’ looks absolutely convincing; the algorithm team managed something special here. The animation was so good that it actually fooled my cat, who drank some of the Tuscan Whole Milk.
“Thou shall not kill”…
Ahhh! I had a client a hundred years ago that did a “save as webpage” from a Word doc and wanted me to clean it up… I’m like, “it’ll be easier to throw it out and start over”, so that’s what i did. Then i charged her for the time it would have taken, had i bothered to try and clean up the code. She was happy to pay it!?
Ugh, you just unlocked a core memory: Every element is assigned a class, but they are unique to the element, thus defeating the whole damn point of the class functionality?!
I always hated Dreamweaver, so no big loss.
Fireworks, on the other hand, had the best compression engine in the game, even Photoshop dulled the colors on every “compress for web” job i threw at it.
I started as a flash developer, don’t miss it since jQuery and the Green Sock Animation Platform does everything flash could do, but better.
🎶 “Hail the Klingons, Uhura!” 🎶
This one is my favorite from the specials, I’ve re watched it about 5 times so far. It’s even better than 73 yards, and I fuggen loved that episode.
I love the episodes were the doctor doesn’t know what’s going on, the terror in his face as he tries to comprehend.
And the scene where they find the camera drone! The creepy, lonely music. The absence of stars. And the doctor, literally standing on the edge of reality, face pressed against the glass, monologuing about nothingness.
10/10
Fuck you “Rafael”…
The complete and utter lack of a mobile friendly interface is beyond frustrating. No android, i don’t want you to snap zoom to the search bar every fucking time i go to my stacks page!?
And we love you for it! My current favorite YouTuber is doing a “Star Trek Reviewed by a pedant” https://youtube.com/@unlimited_lives?si=h3DEcI8wWpVj-MgK
I wish my ex husband and i had done couples counseling. I sabotaged that relationship because i just didn’t have the words to tell him how i needed to act a certain way in front of my very MAGA parents. He also had to pressure me into going to Thanksgiving and Christmas, and just couldn’t understand why.
I am this comment…
“You don’t need glasses/braces/a new toothbrush (!?), you’re just being dramatic!”
That’s the guy! Luke Daniels performs the Magic 2.0 books (i made another comment about this).
Dude could do (maybe does?) voice over work and make bank.
I loved the first few Magic 2.0 books that came out.
When it starts, the narrator (Luke Daniels) says “performed by…” and my first thought was jerk off motion.
Ten minutes into the book, and yeah, it’s a performance! Not just making his voice high pitched for females, but some characters sound like they are being read by an actual VO artist.
Edit to add name.
Only thing i can think of, is they probably wanted to kill the mutants at the end, but didn’t want to use up Bb&Rs?
Yes, but my parents would beat us if we made enough noise to wake them up… I learned to walk on eggshells from my first steps, so making any noise, even breathing, gives me anxiety.
They should sell just the dust. I’d eat it with a spoon.