Raymond Brigleb

NEVER, NEVER FORGET?

On Sep 11, 2010, at 11:00 AM, someone wrote:

I remember my Mom calling me crying and asking if I was watching TV.  I said, “No”.  Crying she said turn it on…..this was 9/11/2001 (6 mo. prior to her own death).  To think Islamic terrorists could kill so many innocent people, and their followers to laugh at our death toll.  Now they want “an Islamic mosque at Ground Zero which is a slap in the face of freedom and seriously fails the heroes of 9/11.” (per Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel for ACLJ -Americans Center for Law & Justice, which is a large group of lawyers which fight for the rights of issues like this and fighters for our Lord Jesus Christ and His children.)

“It’s a repetition of a pattern that we’ve seen throughout history; the Islamists try to build their icons on top of the icons of the people they have conquered or intend to conquer.” (per Islam expert Andrew McCarthy).

If you’re interested in helping ACLJ stop this travesty of building the Islamic mosque at Ground Zero  — the very site of the 9/11 attacks in New York City! - then send donations to: …

On Sep 11, 2010, at 8:00 PM, I replied:

I fear extremists of every religion. Every one.

You know there is a Mosque two blocks from the WTC site that was there before the building first went up, and still exists peacefully. The one you’re talking about, the community center, would be six blocks away.

Also, this is not a Christian nation. Read the first amendment again. America was founded by people escaping from England’s state religion, which you had to practice

America was founded on religious tolerance. I still believe in it, too.

Raymond

Apple’s Attention to Detail

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In July 2002, Appled filed a patent for a “Breathing Status LED Indicator” (No. US 6,658,577 B2). They described it as a “blinking effect of the sleep-mode indicator in accordance with the present invention mimics the rhythm of breathing which is psychologically appealing.”

The average respiratory rate for adults is 12-20 breaths per minute, which is the rate that the sleep-indicator light fades in and out on most Apple laptops. Older models such as the Macintosh PowerBook, however, use a blinking LED indicator, with discrete pulses in one-second intervals.

The other day, I noticed that my friend’s Dell laptop had a similar feature but with a shorter fade-in-fade-out period. Its rate was around 40 blinks per second, or the average respiratory rate for adults during strenuous exercise—not very indicative of something in sleep-mode.

It’s interesting how a lot of companies try to copy Apple but never seem to get it right. This is yet another example of Apple’s obsessive attention to detail.

Now if you don’t mind, I’m going to stare at the gentle, soothing light on my Macbook Pro.