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I have one and use OSX. http://homepage.mac.com/WebObjects/FileSharing.woa /wa/Microwave.mov.mov-zip.zip?a=downloadFile&user= barrywoods&path=/Movies/Microwave.mov/ Here's a movie of my microwave running. No, it's not leaking, all microwaves will show this. I'm standing about 10 feet from it. It's doesn't seem to bother my wifi network. Oh, it's a big file for the dial-up folks.

The grandparent was looking for the book title containing an essay they once read on accidental discoveries. Possibly The Left Hand of the Elecron which includes the essay The Eureka Phenomenon, about sudden discoveries in science. This essay may or may not include the quote I linked some 2 hours before you misquoted it. Many other posters made attempts at recalling that quote as well. That quote can be found as worded on many quote sites, however I couldn't find any attribution to a particular essay, article, book or speach by Asimov. The above listed essay may contain that vaguely remembered by so many of us quote, but not having a copy handy I can't check it. Anyone have a copy?

Notes has always been built around replication--every document (or form or view) has a multi-part identifier (UNID) to distinguish it from other revisions made on different replicas. FileMaker apparently requires a third-party tool to support replication. I have trouble believing it works very well with no builtin support for the idea, especially when the designer of a database may not have even thought to accomodate it up front (it can be tricky).

Otherwise, yeah, there's a reason Notes had its own section in the Interface Hall of Shame.

Yes, we use TRIM - a product from Tower Software. They suck so badly I'm not going to link to them. The interface is horrible. The system can easily go down for 4 hours on a random afternoon - leaving everyone without their documents which are locked up by TRIM. Getting documents in and out is a pain in the ass. There is no transparent interface from Windows Explorer. Converting documents into TRIM is a pain in the ass. There is no easy way in, no easy way out.

Let's start on the interface. It should be added to the hall of shame. It's quite possibly worse than Lotus Notes. One particular problem is that 'Tower' have not got the hang of using virtual displays of information. Eg: Some 'file names' inside TRIM can be more than 150 characters - and that is before the actual file name is put on. Ever tried viewing 200 characters of filename on a screen? Fun stuff. They can't even display a file virtually or use a system like Gmail's tagging. It really gets fun when your 'search results' come back with 100 documents.. all with 150+ character names and you need one of them. Yes, you CAN spend all day scrolling around. It's lot of fun.

To sum up:
Don't use TRIM (Tower Software)
The interface is horrible
The cost is prohibitive (even for government depts the licencing is damn horrible. It's so bad we won't be upgrading in the near future)
Transitioning into and out of TRIM is a pain in the ass, and the software does NOT help
Trying to use TRIM from (for example) Windows Explorer is a right pain
Trying to use TRIM with, for example, Notes can be an exercise in futility, pain and frustration
Special note: If you need to you can 'unhook' TRIM from Windows. (Here's how it works: You hit File>Save and this box pops up asking you to save the document in TRIM. Regardless of the type of document you are writing. Regardless of the state of the document. Can cause all sorts of wonderful problems with your PC, none the which of least is that Office programs start saving into temporary files instead of the actual file location.. this is a serious pain in the ass if you are locked out of your local temporary folder and can't even open the temporary files to get your document back).

I'm sure that there is something better out there. Slashdot, feel free to tell us what it is because everything I've seen so far makes it just so much better to have a file server and Deal With It.

Here's One

how great is it that a google image search for "DVDA pics" brought up this It actually is a dual vacuum dual advance (DVDA) distributor, and it has a retard hose to boot. With a little imagination you can make the connection.

• "Two Way" Firewall == Windows Firewall
• Deframent == Disk Deframenter
• Frees up hard disk space == Disk Cleanup
• Tracks updates for Windows XP and other Microsoft programs == Microsoft Update

Green on Black? That was the whole point of my entry ;-)

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Green on Black? That was the whole point of my entry ;-)

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The "interface hall of shame" site is ludicrously out of date. It refers to Notes release 4.6, for God's sake! That was released in what, 1996? We're up to version 7 now! It's a little silly to keep harping on an interface that hasn't even been used in 10 years.

And criticizing Lotus Notes because you don't like the interface of a Notes application is somewhat like criticizing Linux because you don't like the GIMP. Applications can be well or poorly designed in any environment.

Sean

Despite its age, it has plenty of valuable lessons. For instance, abuse of tabs is certainly as relevant today as it was eight years ago.

There are some great videos of a similar behavior in a drop of mercury undergoing a cyclic surface reaction. It's a classic, called the "mercury beating heart." The drop will pulse in trianguloid and hexagonoid patterns. "Activity 5" is particularly good.

I think that Tivo's partnership with Brightcove will give them multiple opportunities to redefine advertising and create a great deal of value beyond the IP-TV component people speak about.

I did a recent post on this that you may find of interest:

TIVO Makes A Very 'Bright' Move...
http://web.mac.com/digitalpodium/iWeb/TheDigitalEd ge/Blog/22D1E57F-6427-4B69-AF7E-F50B9ADC35DB.html

-john

How many people *have to* play Oblivion as *their work* ?
(I mean, really. Not what's the average slashdotter's dream).

Look around : in most enterprise, computer are just used for basic office work and accessing the intranet/googling information from the internet.

A lot of enterprise (inssurance companies, etc...) are starting to use laptops as working station for their employee, because it's easier for them to move their data around with them, faster to relocate them to different office, lets them work at home or in their train etc...

And docking a laptop to nice big screen and a full sized keyboard, isn't that much different than hooking a smartphone/PDA to those same peripherals. The only difference is in the "work in their train" part, where the Smartphone/PDA user loose some screen/keyboard estate.
(although there're nice fullsized foldable keyboards. I use one with my Palm. And in some professions having a pocketable unit is BETTER than a laptop. HINT: Doctors. We like to have drugs database on pockter-sized devices that are much more handy than carying around a full sized laptop when visiting patients)

Now look at the current trends in products :
- foldable keyboard (like Thinkoutside's, Targus', etc...)
- or even laser virtual keyboards
- smart phone that can be hooked to TV-Set and Projectors (initially designed so you can watch the nice picture you took with you phone. But now company realised that they can market them as "able to display your PowerPoint presentation without a PC !!!")
- Laser-based matchbox-sized Projectors are currently researched.

So yes, your home made l33t Beige Box is more powerful.
But for a corporate worker it is also clunky.

Tomorrow traveling salesman are very likely to have their work stored on their Smartphone/PDA.
(Even today some doctors keep their patient's medical imaging handy in iPods - Powerful radiology stations are nice, but taking an iPod to a patient's bed is easier).

the fact remains that Diebold has shown themselves to be capable of making reasonably secure ATM machines.

That run Windows?

BTW, why do I have to post this every freaking time Diebold comes up on slashdot? Well maybe this will brighten your day: Diebold posters, and my favorite

the fact remains that Diebold has shown themselves to be capable of making reasonably secure ATM machines.

That run Windows?

BTW, why do I have to post this every freaking time Diebold comes up on slashdot? Well maybe this will brighten your day: Diebold posters, and my favorite

The site has languished since Apple stopped preventing the driver from working without hackery. But that's the best use I've found for the Cardbus slot so far.

Right, and with the ability to download a fresh nightly build of WebKit at any time while waiting for official Safari updates, I am that much safer with respect to bugs and vulnerabilities than I would be were I using Internet Explorer.

I use NightShift to automatically download WebKit builds.

There is an 8 dollar fee when you purchase Macs now... It's a Recycling Fee. So yeah... Not free. http://homepage.mac.com/xidius/17mbp.jpg

• Like every other "Pro" application, Apple seems to throw the entire Mac UI out the window. All the UI elements get tiny, and start behaving strangely. Dialog boxes you can't escape out of look like Windoids- and in one case, I hit "delete" while a text field wasn't selected in the Windoid, and Aperture trapped the delete in the main window instead, and deleted a photo! What the?
  
  The look-and-feel *is* a Mac UI. It's the ProKit UI that tries to maximise the space available, because, well, you've got a limited screen space and a lot of media to show. Every Pro-App uses this look and feel.
• The backup system sucks- you can't archive anything conveniently (you have to export projects by hand, remember where you put them, etc). That flies in the face of how almost every pro photographer works. Aperture instead only allows you to basically rsync the Aperture folder (oops, I mean, Library) to another disk, aka "Vault", and if you delete a "master", on the next sync, it deletes it from the "Vault" as well. There is no way to reconcile specific differences from Vaults; it's an all-or-nothing system to make it as fast+easy to implement as possible.
  
  The 'fast+easy' is supposition on your part, and the system is IMHO anyway not meant to be a backup, it's meant to be snapshot-in-time of what you wanted to save. If you want to back stuff up in a more-permanent way, there is always the (free download) Apple Backup application.
• Aperture can wedge the system so badly during an import that clicking on a menu in the Finder (nothing else open), the system takes 10+ seconds to respond. On a Macbook with 1GB of ram.
  
  Well, yes, I can see that happening pretty easily. With only 1G of RAM and doing RAW conversion to an in-memory form (which is completely uncompressed), I could easily see it taking more than 1G, therefore swapping out other programs to disk, and incurring a wait as they are swapped back in when you want to do something. I can't see any way around that for the application...
• You create a project. You have 700 photos. You've already sorted them, or they are different days, etc. Anyway- you want to logically seperate them out and only have ONE master in ONE folder. Nope, sorry, can't do that- masters reside in the Project all together. If you import a folder with 6 subfolders, the main folder is created as a folder, and the subfolders are created as "albums". The wonderful joy with albums is that a "version" can be in multiple albums.
  
  Are you trying to say that you want 700 folders ? If you want to separate masters, create a 'smart album' (which is an album consisting of the results of a search) and specify the search to limit the album to the image you want. Admittedly this will get tedious for 700 items, but I can't really see the advantage of 700 separate folders anyway.
  Perhaps an Applescript could be written for your situation, so Aperture could be told to create smart-searches based on a criteria (eg: pathname-to-original-directory) for all distinct instances of that criteria. That oughtn't be too hard - then you just get one project and your 700 smart-folders inside.
• You can't use != in any of the smart folder/album/whatevers. Let's say I want to find all images in my project that I haven't tagged with "adjusted" (more on why this is necessary below); I can't.
  
  Agreed. This is a pain.
• Aperture lets you assign plenty of metadata, but can't make smart folders based on steps in a workflow. I import an image, rank it, then adjust it, fix rotation, crop, etc. I want to be able to set up smart folders based on those steps to show me only what is left to do in any particular category. Nope! I have to create custom metadata buttons/tags to do it.
  
  To be fair, that would be rather hard unless it was 'have applied *any* rotation/crop/etc.', and I'm not sure how useful that

I cleaned up many of the topics. Grab em while they're hot. Here

What this statistic lacks though, is who is wearing a helment and proper gear. I live in Orlando, FL and on nice sunny days I see tons of motorcyclists (I myself am one). I ride with guanlet style double reinforced leather gloves, a tight body fitting armored textile jacket and a full face helmet. Pics here

You won't believe how many harley riders wear no gear. They think there bike is like a lazy boy on wheels. It's supposed to be as comfortable as possible. So I'm not surprised they die. As for the unsafe sport bike riders (we call em squids). They are pretty retarded. Granted most of them wear helmets, but that the only gear they wear. The rest of their outfit consists of a wife beater, shorts, and sneakers. It's also not uncommon to see people ride motorcycles with flip-flops on. One accident and you won't be walking properly.

Also, one more thing, most people who die here in the States don't take the MSF Litte fact, In the state of Florida, no rider has died, who has taken the MSF I think in like 2 or 3 years. That's pretty stunning. I would dig up some links but I'm sorry I have a final in an hour. :(

Yumex is very nice for GUI-lovers. It's just a front-end for Yum, but it's easier than explaining all the ways to grep what packages are available for a certain feature (say games).

Here's a screenshot.

Here is the full size logo from the installer...

Oh, I have a link to a cat in sink shot for you here.

Not only are the fat clients clunky. The Web client sucks too. The've got all bases covered. Its slow and just about runs under FF.

Its also ironic that IBM are pushing Notes and have thus far refused to release a decent Linux client, and the web client only runs at a decent speed under IE.

I think every long term notes reader has read its entry in The Interface Hall Of Shame.

The only reason most corporates keep it is to reduce the chance of getting hit by email viruses looking for Exchange/Outlook hosts...

there is a graphical version of otool that is perhaps a bit easier to use. It is called "TimmyOTool" and is located here.

"Of course mass matters! I mean, a meteor the size of a grain of sand is going not to get through the atomosphere is it? What I meant was that above a certain size, mass is, of course, irrelevant. It has nothing to do with the so-called 'friction' (which is actually adiabatic heating), which was what you were stating."

The mass (and composition and trajectory) determines if a meteor explodes, burns up, or slams into the surface. To improve the chances that a meteor hits the surface, it needs to have a fairly steep trajectory and be made of heavier materials. If the object has a large percent of volatiles and skims through the atmosphere then it is more likely to burn up or airburst (like tunguska). And I don't know what your obsessions is which "adiabatic heating". As far as I can tell all meteors leave a trail of very hot gas, so the energy is not in a closed system. Don't you mean Ram Pressure instead of 'friction'?

"The point about the rifle bullet is only that it indicated that bacteria can survive tremendous decelerations. You brought up the irrelevant matters of heat and mass. I don't know why. Do you have some philosphical objection to the idea of meteor delivery of microorganisms to planetary surfaces?"

I said that the shock from deceleration was not the important factor in wether bacteria could survive, and a small rifle bullet doesn't even show that bacteria can survive meteor type decelerations. I originally said that we need to use a supercomputer to model the solar system from the protoplanetary disk onwards to calculate the hit rate of meteors (their characteristics) and the time frames. So I don't think that is philosphical.

"I fail to see why you are arguing - everything I have stated is perfectly clear. The fact that the centres of meteors retain their original structures provide conclusively that there is no major heating of their centres - there simply isn't time. And this effect (above, of course, a minimal size) is not affected by mass."

I'm arguing because you insisted on saying that mass was irrelevant and that it was a question of force and not heating. I have shown you that it's been a factor of heating and therefore mass/velocity/density/composition that has put a large constraint on the size of meteors that could get to the planet surface. If you do a bit of digging around you will see that most asteroids are stoney and that under 100m they burn up or explode. Only around 5% are thought to be heavy metals, which would hit at a smaller size. http://idisk.mac.com/mpaineau-Public/paine_tsunami _asteroid99.pdf

Asteroids larger than 1km can cause global damage. So there is a fairly small window of asteroid size and composition that can make it through intact. For all the millions of asteroids that hit our skies only a few will have the right features to have the chance of transporting life here.

Then of course the impact into the ground itself varies for many reasons. I'm sure this limits things further. I think the only ones we can count on being suitable are those that "fall into people's back yards". They are usually a few kg in weight by the time they land, having eroded during the fall, due to ram pressure. So really the mass is very important, depending on the composition.

The QuickTime architecture seems solid and elegantly designed, and I like that it avoids the morass of codec problems that so often plagues Windows Media Player.

Despite all this, I still can't bring myself to use it any more often than absolutely necessary, because the user interface is frankly awful. This is especially true on Windows, where QT Player retains a Mac OS brushed-metal design, instead of looking like any other Windows app. It's jarring.

A classic game (which is freeware now by the way - probably one of the best freeware games out there, having been donated by Cassady and Green when they went out of business) is Glider. It can be played one or two player. In this game (in retro-2D) you pilot paper airplanes through houses, art museums, ships, grocery stores, and everything else in between. It is essentially a maze/puzzle game that requires dexterity. The game play is quite clever since you have to find air vents and other contraptions to keep yourself afloat. When you play two-player, once the first player reaches the end of the room, the game play waits until the second player also reaches the end. This might seem frustrating, but if your purpose is to help someone get better at the game, it works quite well since you can turn your attention to helping them once you make it out yourself. It has quite a following with a multitide of user-created houses and even active newsgroups. When you play two-player you are working as a team to solve the puzzles.

Here's the rest of the ad campaign. Or this.

The second* said "We deliver the vote" reminding me of how some official in Ohio in charge of the voting machines said 'we will deliver Ohio to Bush' or something to that effect.

The second* said "We deliver the vote" reminding me of how some official in Ohio in charge of the voting machines said 'we will deliver Ohio to Bush' or something to that effect.

In related news, it seems that Diebold has since started a new ad campaign.

In more related news, stock of the Harland Company, parent company of Scantron, got a small bump today.

In related news, it seems that Diebold has since started a new ad campaign.

In more related news, stock of the Harland Company, parent company of Scantron, got a small bump today.

In related news, it seems that Diebold has since started a new ad campaign.

In more related news, stock of the Harland Company, parent company of Scantron, got a small bump today.

The Zombie Apocolypse and You

A Quicktime movie

try ffmpegx, it might convert it to something useable for you.

http://homepage.mac.com/major4/

yeah, that's stopped a lot of other people from making software to put things on my iPod i'm "not supposed to".

Because you have made to beleive there is no other choice!

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i bought a 3.2ghz, 1gig RAM laptop from hp around a year ago for less than these "cutting edge" 2.16ghz mac's

so I still know what it feels to be a Windows user

and what does that feel like exactly?

In that time, I'm amazed at how many services or features on the modern OS X Tiger Mac are network-reliant. All those cute Widgets pull in data from the net and really cease to function without internet connectivity.

This was illustrated for me vividly when my parents moved from a well-served community in Florida to rural South Carolina. They live near a lovely little town with miles of scenic cotton fields (Elloree is the town - tres cute), but there's only one internet provider in town. They have some crazy expensive 'business' DSL for the little patch of a town, but only a wireless microwave scheme for the rest of the surrounding area: http://www.ntinet.com/

So, they're on dial-up which is an insanely slow 33.6-ish and now she isn't really able to log on and use, say, iChat or Skype or even see my latest photographs ( http://homepage.mac.com/nevermore/ ).

My mum never thought she needed broadband before, but now longs for the day we can stay in touch quickly, easily and (fairly) cheaply. Broadband at $50 monthly isn't sooooo much, is it?

Apple has a great product (I own one myself, and I LOVED it), but the ipods have a few flaws, ok,ALOT of flaws.

If Amazon could design a device that a) has a battery that doesnt die after 1 year b) has a hard drive that doesn't die after 1 year I'd be alot happier.

I have a 5 year old mp3 player that still works great (too bad it only holds 128 megs). My 4G ipod just died after 1 year 1 month exactly (never dropped it or anything which would damage it in any way). Now, I understand hardware can die, but for $400, I'd expect it to last more then a year. Luckily I bought a 2 year warranty so I got mine replaced for free, but many other people weren't so lucky and now have a $400 paperweight.

If your ipod isn't under warranty you can always get the battery replaced for around $60-70, if its the hard drive, you might aswell buy a new one. I will never buy another iPod or Apple product again after the stress and fustration this ordeal has caused me.

This last christmas, my sister and her husband decided to buy themselves 2 ipod nanos, they ended up returning them and getting replacements about 5 times because they didnt work (each replacement didnt work either). They eventually gave up on the nano and bought 2 ipod videos.

I'll probably be modded down for speaking out against Apple/ipod.

dead ipods faulty ipods

Ipod Battery Class Action Lawsuit Class Action Lawsuit against Apple for their faulty Ipod Nano Apple settles Ipod Class Action Lawsuit

The iPod Customer Service Story and Other Fairy Tales

http://www.ipodsdirtysecret.com/

Hopefully Amazon's "ipod" will work for more then a year. I could care less about how it looks, it will be in my pocket 99% of the time anyway. So please, design something that is a quality product, not just pretty looking.

A handheld based around Inkwell

Some folks have it working in principle using a Nokia 770 and Einstein.

...400 crackpots. Really, why is this a front page /. story?

How hard would it be to write an OS which could address both CPUs and pass instructions to the most suitable processor?

I would say industrial-strength hard, given that there isn't even any drivers (actually an application called "PC Setup") for the PC Compatibility Card for (pure) 32-bit operating systems, just to be able to copy data back and forth between two independant operating systems over the PCI bus, see here for more info.

The real issue is cost / benefit. What are the chances that a nation is going to develop such fanatical fever that it thinks nuking the US and promptly getting glassed over in response is a good idea? The US position on nukes is pretty clear. Nuke us, and we are going to glass you, so it isn't like they are going to be confused by the response.

Exactly, even insane dictators turn sane when they develop nuclear strike capability, or rather if they were that insane they wouldn't manage their job in the first place. One dictator doesn't a dictatorship make. A crash course in nuclear warfare can be found at 101, 102 and 103.

The scary scenario is a terrorist group aquiring a weapon, as there's no one to retaliate against with nuclear weapons.

The real issue is cost / benefit. What are the chances that a nation is going to develop such fanatical fever that it thinks nuking the US and promptly getting glassed over in response is a good idea? The US position on nukes is pretty clear. Nuke us, and we are going to glass you, so it isn't like they are going to be confused by the response.

Exactly, even insane dictators turn sane when they develop nuclear strike capability, or rather if they were that insane they wouldn't manage their job in the first place. One dictator doesn't a dictatorship make. A crash course in nuclear warfare can be found at 101, 102 and 103.

The scary scenario is a terrorist group aquiring a weapon, as there's no one to retaliate against with nuclear weapons.

The real issue is cost / benefit. What are the chances that a nation is going to develop such fanatical fever that it thinks nuking the US and promptly getting glassed over in response is a good idea? The US position on nukes is pretty clear. Nuke us, and we are going to glass you, so it isn't like they are going to be confused by the response.

Exactly, even insane dictators turn sane when they develop nuclear strike capability, or rather if they were that insane they wouldn't manage their job in the first place. One dictator doesn't a dictatorship make. A crash course in nuclear warfare can be found at 101, 102 and 103.

The scary scenario is a terrorist group aquiring a weapon, as there's no one to retaliate against with nuclear weapons.

... my friends and family as well. Um ... don't understand the vituperative comment. When I used to attend MacWorld in NYC, I was amazed at the heaps of creatives that had similar stories to mine. I've been a computer nut since I was six (I'm 33 now) and had my share of goofy / fun / useful machines - a TRS-80 Color Computer for some text adventure games (learned to type), Atari 800 and Bank Street Writer, but I'll never forget my first exposure to a Mac.

When I went to uni joined the paper and was introduced to the MacSE/80 and my God what a world opened up for me. Writing, printing, typography - cut my teeth on QuarkXPress and the first version of Photoshop. Later I went to film school and eventually couldn't afford the processing, etc ... I was in heaven years later when I beta tested FinalCutPro. Made a decent amount of money with it before selling all my equipment and leaving for England.

These days, it's iChat that keeps me in touch with a mum a thousand miles away, the iTunes music store podcasts that keep me hooked into 93.9FM WNYC and the rest of NPRs programming on my iPod. I post my creative snapshots and personal photos for friends and famliy on my .Mac website (http://homepage.mac.com/nevermore). Hey, and that iPod. Wonderful refinement. Sold my Creative Nomad and never looked back! The world is a grim enough place. Let's hear it for someone who contributes to the fun, innovative, enlightening, enabling side of things.

Again, what the devil has Gates done for anyone, really? He makes a so-so operating system. So what. His business software can be somewhat useful although it helps just to turn off all the damn Office toolbars. Um ... so ... what else is there that's actually useful?

So, kudos to the Gates's charity work. Really.

But the business side of Bill Gates is loathesome.