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Try ffmpegX:

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BWA HA HA HA HAHA HA AHAH HA!!!

*cough*

Used Office recently?

• Should the application title come first (Excel) or last (Word)?
• Should the document title appear in square brackets (PowerPoint) or not (Word)?
• Should we even show the application title? (Preview)
• Should the application's icon appear in the title bar (Outlook) or not (Preview)?
• Should there be four dots on the left underneath the menu (Outlook) or three (everything else)?

Here's another doozy. Tried printing or saving recently? This one speaks for itself.

If this counts as "seamless interface design with other Microsoft products," I'll eat my mouse pad.

I guess it's a matter of taste, to me it looked much better than some much more expensive movies. Some reviewers, like this one, were actually upset that it looked too polished--that it had lost it's TV retro feel. The director gives a lot more background on Jack Green's work in this interview and this book.

So instead of having a piece of (admittedly-brittle) hardware with your own documents and licensed software on it, you'd rather spend $X/month to lease a platform that is even less upgradable than a laptop and that is completely inaccessible without an Internet connection.

To me, using a word processor written in JavaScript is like buying an MP3 player made out of folded paper. Then again, I don't write word processors.

http://homepage.mac.com/merussell/iblog/B835531044 /C1592678312/E20050916182427/index.html

Section II, first question.

M.E. Russel (Q): "Firefly" and "Serenity"'s political and cultural underpinnings are unusually well thought-out. You've obviously developed a whole system of planets, a Sino-American political system, a mix of languages. How long did the concept fester in your head before you started writing?

Joss Whedon (A): It festered for a while. It was probably two or three years after I came up with the idea that I made the TV show, a year-and-a-half doing that, and then a couple of years to write the movie. So it's had time to bake. And people are always like, "They're fighting an evil empire!" And I'm like, "Well, it's not really an evil empire." The trick was always to create something that was complex enough that you could bring some debate to it -- that it wasn't black-and-white. It wasn't, "If we hit this porthole in the Death Star, everything will be fine!" It was messier than that, and the messiest thing is that the government is basically benign. It's the most advanced culturally....

-CZ

Didn't work for us. My fiancee once purchased a prescription from an online pharmacy. Every single day they'd call. Every single day. I asked to be removed from their list, and usually all I got in reply was a dead line.

Eventually I started fucking with them, and still they'd call. I asked where they were located..."John Smith", who had a curiously thick Indian accent said "Florida". When I pressed for information, the caller would hang up.

I looked up the receipt for the prescription...no help. I eventually began recording the calls in the hope that by humiliating these people, they'd stop. I threatened them, I cajoled. Sometimes the calls would stop for a day or two, then they'd start again, at all times of day and night.

I wrote to the FTC. I wrote to the California AG. Nothing worked.

The "Online Pharmacy" was spoofing numbers with a Maine area code, or calling with a faked/invalid name and number combination like "Joe Smith 000-354-xxxx". I e-mailed the FTC this info and had no success getting anyone to pay attention.

Finally, we moved and changed our number. We no longer get calls, but at no time was this business given explicit permission to call us, dozens of times we asked to removed from their list, and we are on the do-not-call list. Appealing to the FTC seems to have been as viable a strategy as jumping up and down and crying.

Clearly, there are businesses out there who can and are using technology to flout this law. What's the FTC doing about it? Nothing at all, from where I stand.

Oh come on! Nobody else watches The Daily Show?

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http://homepage.mac.com/matthewdotcom/nano/cracked .html

I wonder how common that is.

you want an example of american fascism in action? well here you go.

This is a page and video showing how the governent has eroded our right to peacefully gather, even when an event is fully legal.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/8/22/13030/ 7546 -article
http://homepage.mac.com/apexgrin/FileSharing2.html -video

ah the home of the free in-fucking-deed.

Have you tried XShelf? I can't live without it on my Mac.

Ugh. There's a lot to like about C#, but I would never call it beautiful. It's got more keywords than C++, it's chock full of silly features (did you know you can use a keyword as an identifier if you prefix it with @?), and, most egregiously, Microsoft commonly pollutes the language to make up for deficiencies in their toolset.

(Oh, and Spotlight is a lot deeper than just a nice interface on top of the existing search.)

You might also be surprised by what AppleScript is capable of. It has support for very modern features, including inheritance, exceptions, closures, eval... It's not meant to be the shell - that's why OS X ships with bash, tcsh, and zsh. It's more like VB Script, except vastly nicer and easier to write. (Your criticism of its syntax is dead on, but believe it or not, AppleScript really does have a syntax, which as far as I know has only been fully documented once.)

Apple definitely has the in-house people to write an OS. The guy who wrote Mach works at Apple. The author of one of the slickest filesystems ever works there too. Oh yeah, and remember this guy? Seriously, Apple has been out-delivering Microsoft since 2001; you can't pick on them for not knowing how to write an OS.

(And, just to be snarky, Microsoft got their kernel folks from somewhere else too.)

I'm glad my OS was designed by, err, designers, incidentally. Apple has some computer science folk, but a computer scientist designing an OS is like a physicist designing a car.

I'm eagerly awaiting Longhorn, incidentally.

Actually, that wasn't the problem I was referring to, though it seems to be almost as bad!

When I looked at buying one of these beasties a year or two back, there was some major problem that caused part of the screen to go really dim. IIRC, it was something to do with a failed board and the backlight. This was everywhere over the web when I looked before. See this page for an example that's still there. (I love the comment at the top about Apple deleting the posts.)

Apple had given Xerox shares in exchange for just a demo of what they had achieved at PARC.

Reference please. I see many Apple shills pulling this out, but it seems to be contradicted by Xerox sueing Apple. [utexas.edu]

Mr. Jobs had been permitted to visit the Xerox laboratory in return for allowing Xerox to invest in one of Apple's last private financing offerings.

And another reference:

Jobs offered Xerox the opportunity to invest $1 million in Apple by buying 100,000 shares at $10 each. Apple was about to go public and the company was already the number one producer of home computers and had the most advanced home units in the world. Xerox jumped at the chance and within a year these shares split into 800,000 shares worth $17.6 million when Apple went public.

I like to play the race card as much as possible, Ali-G Style

A quick search on google gave me this: How To Use Your GSM Cell Phone as a Bluetooth Modem on Mac OS X and another hint.

It seems to be a running belief that putting one's poorly thought out, poorly edited words into pdf forms makes it professional - just like the big boys!

Actually, I think Doki Doki Panic had different music from Mario 2. That and the sprites were pretty much the only changes. Doki Doki Panic music, more Doki Doki Panic music.

Actually, I think Doki Doki Panic had different music from Mario 2. That and the sprites were pretty much the only changes. Doki Doki Panic music, more Doki Doki Panic music.

http://www.nsa.gov/snac/

http://www.net-security.org/dl/articles/Securing_M ac_OS_X.pdf

http://eq.rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/radmind/

http://homepage.mac.com/hogfish/PhotoAlbum2.html

Best tip (not a flame) - simply don't run any Microsoft software, support open or other vendors software please, also W3C standards, thanks.

It is here - http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/07/06/HNPalmso urce_1.html
- vineetb
(http://homepage.mac.com/vineetb/iblog

you can implement this scalable and redundant, it offers all services mentioned plus more. With this http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/cs/index .html you can also use the oracle database as datastore for all kinds of docs, effectively replacing fileservers. Don't forget things like backup & recovery ... I don't know how others think about this or have experiences with it but I think it worth some investigation. It has a price tag per user but with a full implementation it could be a nice price... http://homepage.mac.com/ik_zelf/oracle

what no mac support? *opens mouth & spits fire*
auto turn off is nice.
how about a feature to interact with the clipboard more easily?
http://homepage.mac.com/vineetb/iblog

Chibi style vs More believable style:
http://homepage.mac.com/adambetts/forums/abetterli nkdesign.jpg

Honestly, which one would you prefer to play as? I know I will enjoy Zelda: TWW a lot more with this more believable design. It's hard to feel emotionally attached to chibi one.

It has nothing to do with cel-shading itself, it's all about art direction which most people didn't like.

i know others have already pointed this out, but i thought i'd add a graphic to go along. this is a breakdown of the original article based on the frequency of each character used. i thought maybe he'd like to take a look and see wy the spacebar is a big key...
http://homepage.mac.com/fizzwinkus/forums/spacebar .jpg
(CR stands for carriage return)

For those who haven't seen this...

the adventures of the starship exeter. The "Tressaurian Intersection" looks good. Ep 1 was good, but this one looks even better, judging from the teaser...

Here is the website http://www.music-versus-guns.org and Video of Jeffrey Coombs.

http://news.google.com/news?q=utah%20rave&num=50&h l=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=wn

statement from the promoters

http://www.music-versus-guns.org/versuspress.html

a video here as well

http://homepage.mac.com/apexgrin/FileSharing2.html

I'm using Lotus Notes 6.5 and it goes right from the 2nd to the 14th. Honest to god.

DisableTigerFeatures 1.0.3 - FREE

http://software.filkifan.com/

Mighty Mouse dissected detailed pictures and 76 widgets at once

http://homepage.mac.com/hogfish/PhotoAlbum2.html

Watching my DotMac bandwidth get Slashmelted - PRICELESS

Here's a shout-out to Z-Term on my MacOS 7.1 computer. It's still available, if you want it:

http://homepage.mac.com/dalverson/zterm/

I have a Stompbox in my car...

http://homepage.mac.com/frednix/PhotoAlbum21.html

It automatically boots up and links in to a cellular data service, turning itself into an access point. Turn on your laptop, join the network and voila -- you're on the net! It's just like using a hotspot (such as they have at Starbucks and airports), but it goes anywhere you car goes. Some people have even hauled them around in backpacks to make themselves into a walking network access site. (http://www.stompboxnetworks.com/)

I have been very happy with the service. I am considering putting a harddrive in it as it runs on a CF Card now.

It is only ON durning the day, but the website hosted in my trunk is http://honda.getmyip.com/

Also, the freeways in L.A. are the worst made roads in the world. Sure, I haven't travelled on every single road in the world, but I can't easily imagine anything worse, even as a hypothetical.

For reference, the average number of road fatalities per year in Australia is roughly 9 per 100,000 people. In the U.S.A., it's closer to twice that, at around 15. See this blog. Up to date stats for Australia also available from the ABS (Australia Bureau of Statistics); can't find a U.S.A. equivalent.

The biggest problem with Australias roads, imho, is that idiots can get licenses, while good drivers can easily luck out and fail license tests. The number of young drivers I know who have *never in their entire life* parallel parked, or reversed into a parking spot, is just embarassing. And I know a number of people who've failed license tests because, for example, they braked suddenly to avoid an animal on the road (a dog, from memory). Well, that might be the right thing to do, they're told, but that's an automatic fail. Sheesh.

Then again, for whatever advantage we have in road safety, we make up for it with one of the worst public transport networks imaginable. Today, for example, I had to wait 45 minutes for a tram (which, ultimately was a bus chartered as a replacement), because the power was out over the last 7 or so km of the line. Fine, that happens. The annoying thing was that no one had any idea what was going on. There were at least half a dozen people from the tram company there, and none of them had any idea what was going on, excepting one had heard some mention of a bus. Or something. He only said anything at all after being prompted.

That's the third time this week I've had to wait an obscene amount of time for a tram. And it's not even Friday yet. But at least I get to rant about it. :P

After Automated doors and Cell-phones
Star Trek seems to continue to predict
technological developments,
this technology was seen in Star Trek
TOS episode: Spock's Brain:
http://homepage.mac.com/m5comp/trekbits/trekpics/b rain/
Where we see Spock being controlled by remote controll
using a device placed on his head.

  Me.

To be fair, those people will have all sorts of problems in Mac OS X, where no two buttons require the same sort of mouse-click. For example, single-click to go into a folder in system preferences, but double-click to go into a folder in Finder.

They'll love learning to click-and-hold to get any context menus, or apple-click (much more intuitive than a second button, if you're an EMACS user...)

X11 applications are the best - click twice on GIMP's toolbox to select a tool, then click twice on the image to use that tool...

Oh, and don't expect alt-tab (apple-tab) to work consistantly -- if the window you want is too similar to the one you're using, it becomes apple-backtick.

...take a look at my site, it's got some pretty nice screenshots.

http://homepage.mac.com/hogfish/PhotoAlbum2.html

That explains why I went the LCD route. Also, I love the kick ass wall mount that lets me move my 46 inch LCD about two feet from the wall and swivel it so I can watch it from my kitchen while making dinner.

Not to say projectors don't kick ass, but hey, like OSes... different strokes for different folks... :-) And this isn't to say my TV has been flawless.. I have a Samsung LTP-468W (which took three tries for Samsung to get "right" with no dead pixels), but it meets my needs the best of all the options out there.

Also... projectors (and plasma displays) tend not to support the high resolutions like 1080p (yes, "p"), so using my Mac Mini with it at 1920x1080 makes it the bomb as a (big ass) computer monitor.

Found a great side-by-side image comparison of the Dell 2405 vs Apple Cinema showing nothing but black. Dell wins.

Pixar replaced their PC renderfarm with X-servers, the muscle work is still done using Linux, but the design, animation is done on Mac OS X.

Any pictures you see of Pixars PC renderfarm is old.

http://homepage.mac.com/hogfish/PhotoAlbum2.html

No, it's obviously the Mac car that drives in an infinite loop.

It allows you resize/move a window anywhere within the window (similar to many X11 window managers), and is highly configurable.

WindowDragon is free (as in beer).

Mirror of Mac, Windows and nix version (English) here.

I threw it into PS and adjusted the levels real quick to see for myself and its clearly a cut and past job. Here are my results side by side with a screenshot I took... Enjoy! http://homepage.mac.com/murdockscott/otherimages/d upeFake.jpg Doc.

For you, maybe, but not for me.

When the iPod Photo was announced during Apple's October 2004 special music event, Steve Jobs was adamant that there was not going to be a video iPod. "Nobody has the content. And even if they did, the screens are much too small to watch video anyway. So we think these products are wrong."

Holy radio buttons, Batman...

This one belongs in the Interface Hall of Shame. Have drop-down lists gone out of style?

Oh and BTW, how can you tell the new episode is better than the original if you cant even see it yet? I admit the savage nation one was pretty good though.

Here's a direct link to the trailer for the new episode, which is ALL THATS AVAILIBLE ONLINE CURRENTLY.
http://homepage.mac.com/starshipexeter/Website/fra me3/movies/TTI00.html

G4 Optimized Firefox 1.1 pre-alpha nightlies (fast!)
http://homepage.mac.com/krmathis/