The cow is a mamal. It has six sides, left, right, and upper and below. At the back it has a tail on which hangs a brush. With this it sends the flies away so that they will not fall in the milk. The head is for the purpose of growing horns, and so that the mouth can be somewhere. The horns are to butt with. The mouth is to moo with. Under the cow hangs the milk. It is arranged for milking.
When people milk, the milk comes, and there is never an end to the supply. How the cow does it I have not yet realised, but it makes more and more. The cow has a fine sense of smell; one can smell it far away. This is the reason for the fresh air in the country.
The cow does not eat much, but what it eats it eats twice, so that it gets enough. When it is hungry it moos, and when it says nothing it is because all its inside is full up of grass.
-Essay by a 10-year-old boy at Kittybrewster School, Aberdeen.
It’s pretty sad that booting Windows XP in a VM is quicker than launching Photoshop CS5. Does it really take all of my MacBook Pro’s brain to manipulate graphics?!
Engadget: “…in our testing, we had far, far fewer dropped calls than we experienced on our 3GS. Let’s just say that again: yes, the iPhone 4 does seem to alleviate the dropped call issue.”
Apple Insider: “the overwhelming majority of reviews are reporting that iPhone 4 has significantly better reception and fewer dropped calls than previous iPhones.”
Venture Beat: “I honestly do see less dropped calls with the iPhone 4.”
Boing Boing: “Dropped or garbly calls did still occur sometimes with this new iPhone. But a little less often”
Apple: “iPhone 4 drops less than one additional call per 100 than the 3GS.”
People keep talking about the end of traditional journalism, but apparently a worthy replacement has yet to be found.
“ I was really hoping my shirt would straighten itself once I put it on… but nope, still wrinkly
Mary
You have to force-quit apps that continue to run when they shouldn’t.
I used a background-enabled GPS app during my drive home from NYC to Baltimore this weekend. After I got home, and the app had announced that I had “arrived at my destination,” it continued to try to recalculate the route as I walked around my house. My only option was to double-click the home button and force-quit the app.
That’s fine for me, but would grandma be able to figure that little trick out? Probably not.
More likely, the iPhone would utter “recalculating” in her pocketbook until the battery died and she would go back to using a calling card.
