I need to see some research on the effects of changing the legal drinking age, but my gut feeling has always been that raising the drinking age increased the amount of binge drinking in college.
The current drinking age handcuffs parents by preventing them from teaching their kids how to drink responsibly. By the time their kids are able to drink legally, the parent’s influence is greatly diminished.
I’ve been having an issue recently where MobileMe sync (in particular, dotmacsyncclient and dmnotifyd) would spike up to 100% CPU usage, and hang indefinitely. It appears that syncing doesn’t work so well when you have HTTP proxies configured.
I turned off my HTTP proxy in System Preferences and syncing takes a matter of seconds now, and very little CPU. Apparently this is a problem that existed in earlier revisions of Leopard, was fixed, and then returned in 10.5.4.
Here’s hoping Apple fixes this bug, again.
Scientists operating with the best of intentions, using the best tools at their disposal, have taught us to look at food in a way that has diminished our pleasure in eating it while doing little or nothing to improve our health.
37signals on the recent bashing of TripLog’s UI:
When we talk about “usable” or “intuitive” interfaces, Apple devotees and the web app crowd (myself included) tend to bias toward the first-time user. The idea is an interface is easy to use if new users can figure it out and get running quickly. Or an interface is “clear” if all the parts and functions can be immediately parsed upon eye contact. Typically this means stacking features in time so that each screen has fewer elements and is easier to digest. TripLog, while far from perfect, has a different focus. Rather than first-impressions, Patt is thinking about repetition. Spatial memory and adjacency play a major role in repetitive tasks. How many of you keep an assortment of pens, papers, and peripherals on your desk in specific positions instead of moving them in and out of drawers every day?
