I was trying to find a way to contact you privately but no dice. Anyway, I have a 3 axis CNC mill I've been learning how to use for a few months now. If you are interested, I'd love to cut these pieces out based on your design. Maybe I could make a set for me and one for you, or something. Get in touch if you are interested: jason@vonnieda.org
I'll be the first to admit that Interface Builder (in OS X at least) is an incredible, life changing piece of software. If you've never written a GUI using Cocoa with Interface Builder you can't even imagine how easy it can be.
And Gorm is supposed to be Interface Builder for GNUStep.
That said, it's not GNOME or KDE. You've still got to write that whole boring desktop thing. Gorm might make it a lot easier to write all the stuff that's still missing but saying it made GNOME and KDE obsolete is just plain bullshit.
Dragging an application to the Trash will not delete anything the application has created such as user preferences. It's a valid argument to say the user might not want them deleted, but they should at least be given a choice.
Even worse is if you've installed third party drivers (my Brother laser printer driver comes to mind), kernel extensions, screen savers, preference panes and anything else that must be installed outside of an.app file. These kinds of things are very difficult for the average user (and even the not so average user) to get rid of without some kind of system keeping track of what's installing what and where.
While I am sure the author of the software (which I use, and love) has his own reasons for not making open source, one thing to keep in mind is that if he had made it open source and therefore "unremoveable" he might be in worse trouble than he is now.
Right now the unnamed company is saying "Take it all down and we'll let you live." If they didn't have that option they might be saying "We're suing for damages and you are screwed."
Man, I hate to feed the trolls but I got karma to burn.
Ever consider that maybe you just suck?
300 failed attempts since 1998? I've never walked away from an interview without getting an offer and I've been at it since 1994. Most of those interviews happened because I have a good reputation and people know about me. When I kicked it all off I had to get my foot in the door like everyone else and I did that by knowing my shit and making it sound good when asked.
Jobs are getting outsourced every day and I've seen plenty of people lose theirs but not mine. I know my shit and I'm considered valuable to the people that employ me.
I'm confused about this. Do you not have a valid driver's license or something? I fly all the time and have never had to present a passport. I don't even have one.
Your example is well suited to my situation. I love to drink beer, and I love to brew it. Same with software, and electronics. Some people enjoy something better that they create, even if it takes blood, sweat and Mountain Dew to get there.
'I spent three days of productive work time listening to polyphonic ringtone versions of speed metal, trying to find exactly the ringtone that expressed my personality with enough irony and enough coolness that I could live with it going off ten times a day. In a quiet room, in a meeting, this phone's gonna go off-- what are they going to hear?'
They should hear the phone gently vibrate against your keys, from your pocket. When someone's phone starts ringing in a quiet room, in a meeting I give them a look so evil that they sometimes they burst into flame right on the spot.
Vibrate. Learn it, use it, love it.
A green laser pointer is a great aid in pointing out specific stars, objects and parts of the sky to an observer. It's difficult to describe, you really need to try it, but a green laser point makes a perfect green line directly at what you are pointing at. It's the difference between pointing something that is a few inches long (your finger) vaguely in the direction of an object or pointing something that is miles long (the visibility of a laser beam) directly at an object. It really helps someone you are trying to point something out to find what you are pointing at.
As for young child / lasers. Check your favorite supermarket check out lane next time you go shopping. They sell laser pointers with little shapes you can put over the end to shape the beam. Shapes like a heart, "I love you", happy faces and so on. Those cute shapes aren't for the elderly. Kids have been playing with laser pointers since they became cheap.
Too much imagination gets us things like the PATRIOT Act. I'd like our administration to have a little less imagination now and then. You'll note from the article you linked that no damage was done. The entire point of my posts was that no damage could be done with that laser and that it didn't need to be regulated. I never said it was impossible to bounce a laser around at a plane. I said you couldn't do any damage with the laser from the link.
I don't know if you've ever played with a laser pointer or not, but I can't even hold one still enough to keep a dot within a centimeter from one side of my living room to the other for a few seconds. That's about 11 feet. Now, I suppose that if you could get within 11 feet of the pilot you might be able to blind him if he didn't see you standing there with a laser but from that distance you could just throw a rock into the turbine and blow the engine up.
More likely, if you are in the pilot blinding business you are going to be a good few thousand feet away. Add in to that that it's going to be difficult to find a place where you can stand and get line of sight into the pilots eyes. I don't know about you, but when I look up at a plane I see the bottom, which is usually made of metal, not glass. I'll give that if you tried real hard you might be able to find a tall hill within a few thousand feet of the airport that would give you line of sight to the pilots eyes.
Now that you've got your hill, and your laser and a plane is taking off (or landing) facing directly at you you just need to aim it right at his eyes. I'm assuming here that you have mounted some huge scope to the laser so you can *find* the pilot's eyes from 1000+ feet. And probably a tripod. All that's left is to hold that beam right on his eye for several seconds while he's moving, the plane's moving and you are moving. Don't forget the beam is going to be spread out some at that distance, which means less power per square centimeter which means you have to hit him longer.
Is it possible? Just barely with great resources and planning. Is it likely? No. Once again, just buy a $150 rifle from Walmart and shoot holes in the fuel tanks.
1) Our Department of Homeland Security *is* a complete joke. 2) You can go to Walmart and buy a rifle, or bow and arrow or heck, even a BB gun that is just as dangerous as this laser is. Should those be regulated by the Department of Homeland Security? (Please, for the sake of my sanity, if you are going to answer yes to that rhetorical question, don't.)
This is my biggest gripe. I recently switched to Thunderbird from Outlook Express and thought it would be a good time to get my contacts in order. I regularly use three computers. Work, which is a Windows XP machine and my two home machines, a Windows XP box and a Powerbook. I run Thunderbird on all three using IMAP for central mail storage. I thought I would set up a LDAP server and use that for central contact storage. Thunderbird's LDAP support looked like it would be great. Imagine my surprise when I found it was read only.
LAME!
I'd love to see Thunderbird's LDAP support expanded to be read/write. I realize LDAP isn't the easiest beast to deal with, but we have it and it's free. Until someone comes up with something better this would be a great way to solve #3.
He didn't do the work for a corporate entity. He did the work for himself, and his users. He got his software on millions on machines, which to many programmers is the best pay you can receive.
Assault weapons != automatic weapons. The only difference between an AK-47 and every other rifle that wasn't banned during the assault weapons ban is the way it looks and it's name. The AK-47s that are legal now are 7.62mm semi-automatic rifles, just like other ones that were perfectly legal during the ban.
Read the assault weapons ban sometime. It's stupid.
If only they WOULD do exactly that for the Roady2. I bought one a few weeks ago, and I really, really, REALLY love it, but the home kit is not yet available. I didn't realize that before I bought it, so I've been scrounging parts together here and there so I can listen to my XM in places aside from my car.
But yea, they generally already do everything one could need.
I do this with a little AppleScript and OS X's built in text to speech for Mail.app. When I get new email it says "New mail from [username] in [mailbox]." and it would be a matter of seconds to change it to recite the subject. I love it, but it tends to scare the hell out of me if I forget to turn my speakers off before I go to bed.
Just one little nit. You can't just copy your files over to the iPod and listen to them. The iPod has an internal database that is required to be updated with song information before it will play them. That said, there is software available for about every OS that will do it for you.
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I was trying to find a way to contact you privately but no dice. Anyway, I have a 3 axis CNC mill I've been learning how to use for a few months now. If you are interested, I'd love to cut these pieces out based on your design. Maybe I could make a set for me and one for you, or something. Get in touch if you are interested: jason@vonnieda.org
That case is really awesome. Did you ever make the case, or is that just a rendering? I'd love to have that clock on my desk :)
Ha! I just read that book last night :) Good one.
(The Door Into Summer by Heinlein for those wondering)
I'll be the first to admit that Interface Builder (in OS X at least) is an incredible, life changing piece of software. If you've never written a GUI using Cocoa with Interface Builder you can't even imagine how easy it can be.
And Gorm is supposed to be Interface Builder for GNUStep.
That said, it's not GNOME or KDE. You've still got to write that whole boring desktop thing. Gorm might make it a lot easier to write all the stuff that's still missing but saying it made GNOME and KDE obsolete is just plain bullshit.
Dragging an application to the Trash will not delete anything the application has created such as user preferences. It's a valid argument to say the user might not want them deleted, but they should at least be given a choice.
.app file. These kinds of things are very difficult for the average user (and even the not so average user) to get rid of without some kind of system keeping track of what's installing what and where.
Even worse is if you've installed third party drivers (my Brother laser printer driver comes to mind), kernel extensions, screen savers, preference panes and anything else that must be installed outside of an
While I am sure the author of the software (which I use, and love) has his own reasons for not making open source, one thing to keep in mind is that if he had made it open source and therefore "unremoveable" he might be in worse trouble than he is now.
Right now the unnamed company is saying "Take it all down and we'll let you live." If they didn't have that option they might be saying "We're suing for damages and you are screwed."
Man, I hate to feed the trolls but I got karma to burn.
Ever consider that maybe you just suck?
300 failed attempts since 1998? I've never walked away from an interview without getting an offer and I've been at it since 1994. Most of those interviews happened because I have a good reputation and people know about me. When I kicked it all off I had to get my foot in the door like everyone else and I did that by knowing my shit and making it sound good when asked.
Jobs are getting outsourced every day and I've seen plenty of people lose theirs but not mine. I know my shit and I'm considered valuable to the people that employ me.
Tiger was accidentally (maybe) released earlier this week. Thousands of people already have fully legit retail copies of it.
How about two? :)
Bow wow... chikka chikka bow wow...
I'm confused about this. Do you not have a valid driver's license or something? I fly all the time and have never had to present a passport. I don't even have one.
Your example is well suited to my situation. I love to drink beer, and I love to brew it. Same with software, and electronics. Some people enjoy something better that they create, even if it takes blood, sweat and Mountain Dew to get there.
'I spent three days of productive work time listening to polyphonic ringtone versions of speed metal, trying to find exactly the ringtone that expressed my personality with enough irony and enough coolness that I could live with it going off ten times a day. In a quiet room, in a meeting, this phone's gonna go off-- what are they going to hear?'
They should hear the phone gently vibrate against your keys, from your pocket. When someone's phone starts ringing in a quiet room, in a meeting I give them a look so evil that they sometimes they burst into flame right on the spot. Vibrate. Learn it, use it, love it.
You agree by remaining a citizen. If you disagree with the contract you can simply renounce your citizenship. Easy!
The millions of business and game users for whom the technology is targetted at will care.
The three guys with Linux laptops might not.
A green laser pointer is a great aid in pointing out specific stars, objects and parts of the sky to an observer. It's difficult to describe, you really need to try it, but a green laser point makes a perfect green line directly at what you are pointing at. It's the difference between pointing something that is a few inches long (your finger) vaguely in the direction of an object or pointing something that is miles long (the visibility of a laser beam) directly at an object. It really helps someone you are trying to point something out to find what you are pointing at.
As for young child / lasers. Check your favorite supermarket check out lane next time you go shopping. They sell laser pointers with little shapes you can put over the end to shape the beam. Shapes like a heart, "I love you", happy faces and so on. Those cute shapes aren't for the elderly. Kids have been playing with laser pointers since they became cheap.
Too much imagination gets us things like the PATRIOT Act. I'd like our administration to have a little less imagination now and then. You'll note from the article you linked that no damage was done. The entire point of my posts was that no damage could be done with that laser and that it didn't need to be regulated. I never said it was impossible to bounce a laser around at a plane. I said you couldn't do any damage with the laser from the link.
Nope, and neither can this laser.
I don't know if you've ever played with a laser pointer or not, but I can't even hold one still enough to keep a dot within a centimeter from one side of my living room to the other for a few seconds. That's about 11 feet. Now, I suppose that if you could get within 11 feet of the pilot you might be able to blind him if he didn't see you standing there with a laser but from that distance you could just throw a rock into the turbine and blow the engine up.
More likely, if you are in the pilot blinding business you are going to be a good few thousand feet away. Add in to that that it's going to be difficult to find a place where you can stand and get line of sight into the pilots eyes. I don't know about you, but when I look up at a plane I see the bottom, which is usually made of metal, not glass. I'll give that if you tried real hard you might be able to find a tall hill within a few thousand feet of the airport that would give you line of sight to the pilots eyes.
Now that you've got your hill, and your laser and a plane is taking off (or landing) facing directly at you you just need to aim it right at his eyes. I'm assuming here that you have mounted some huge scope to the laser so you can *find* the pilot's eyes from 1000+ feet. And probably a tripod. All that's left is to hold that beam right on his eye for several seconds while he's moving, the plane's moving and you are moving. Don't forget the beam is going to be spread out some at that distance, which means less power per square centimeter which means you have to hit him longer.
Is it possible? Just barely with great resources and planning. Is it likely? No. Once again, just buy a $150 rifle from Walmart and shoot holes in the fuel tanks.
1) Our Department of Homeland Security *is* a complete joke.
2) You can go to Walmart and buy a rifle, or bow and arrow or heck, even a BB gun that is just as dangerous as this laser is. Should those be regulated by the Department of Homeland Security? (Please, for the sake of my sanity, if you are going to answer yes to that rhetorical question, don't.)
This is my biggest gripe. I recently switched to Thunderbird from Outlook Express and thought it would be a good time to get my contacts in order. I regularly use three computers. Work, which is a Windows XP machine and my two home machines, a Windows XP box and a Powerbook. I run Thunderbird on all three using IMAP for central mail storage. I thought I would set up a LDAP server and use that for central contact storage. Thunderbird's LDAP support looked like it would be great. Imagine my surprise when I found it was read only.
LAME!
I'd love to see Thunderbird's LDAP support expanded to be read/write. I realize LDAP isn't the easiest beast to deal with, but we have it and it's free. Until someone comes up with something better this would be a great way to solve #3.
He didn't do the work for a corporate entity. He did the work for himself, and his users. He got his software on millions on machines, which to many programmers is the best pay you can receive.
Assault weapons != automatic weapons.
The only difference between an AK-47 and every other rifle that wasn't banned during the assault weapons ban is the way it looks and it's name. The AK-47s that are legal now are 7.62mm semi-automatic rifles, just like other ones that were perfectly legal during the ban.
Read the assault weapons ban sometime. It's stupid.
If only they WOULD do exactly that for the Roady2. I bought one a few weeks ago, and I really, really, REALLY love it, but the home kit is not yet available. I didn't realize that before I bought it, so I've been scrounging parts together here and there so I can listen to my XM in places aside from my car.
But yea, they generally already do everything one could need.
And XM rules.
Or better yet, read the article which says the system would do exactly that!
I do this with a little AppleScript and OS X's built in text to speech for Mail.app. When I get new email it says "New mail from [username] in [mailbox]." and it would be a matter of seconds to change it to recite the subject. I love it, but it tends to scare the hell out of me if I forget to turn my speakers off before I go to bed.
Just one little nit. You can't just copy your files over to the iPod and listen to them. The iPod has an internal database that is required to be updated with song information before it will play them. That said, there is software available for about every OS that will do it for you.