Most large changes relate to registrars (e.g. GoDaddy) changing their infrastructure on servers serving pages for parked domains (as parked domains make up a rather alarming percentage of domain names).
Editing as a whole has gone down the tubes. Check out this paragraph from the article itself, which contains a strange sentence fragment:
Hannigan explained that SHOW is plug and play and should work with any video-out capable devices, including laptops, the iPod touch, and some phones. The pocket-size projector.
Most likely, it is a copy-and-paste job from the article written for another medium (e.g. the print version of PC Mag), but I see these kind of errors all too often.
So you're saying the one time I got kernel crashes due to an unsupported, beta (at the time) mouse driver, and I fixed by looking at a simple to understand kernel log, is analogous to every Windows BSOD caused by every 3rd-party Windows driver, which you absolutely have to install in order to have reasonable performance... right.
I have Leopard on several systems and know of several others running Leopard, and other than Apple-acknowledged installation issues on one system, it has been a trouble-free experience. I did not have any serious issues with 10.5.0, but I didn't have much time to run that before 10.5.1 came out.
My guess is that this PC Magazine guy is running some piece of software that's causing his system to go nuts. I have done this myself in the past. After a few crashes, I looked at the kernel log and it was a 3rd-partybeta mouse driver I had installed. I got rid of it and my system was golden.
Some of his other points are fine. I don't think the new features are particularly fantastic. I didn't think so with Tiger either. But I don't think this is an alarm-raising Vista-level catastrophe.
Well, this is the fault of one or more likely-teenaged employees. When you return anything, there is a chance that they will say they never got it—it doesn't matter whether you returned it late or not. Basically, I have to summarize your experience as unlucky. Granted, Blockbuster might do this twice as often as some other vendor--not saying they're great or anything.
Here is an example timeline of the "No late fees" feature:
* You rent a movie January 1. * It is due January 8th. * If you don't return it by January 15th, they assume you are keeping it forever. You get charged the price of the movie. * If you return it before February 15th, the price of the movie is refunded and you are charged a $1.95 restocking fee.
They make this completely clear when their automated system calls you about your movie being overdue.
I still don't think this lives up to "no late fees," but as they used to charge $4/night for late fees, it could be a lot worse.
(PS. Where is the textile markup option for Slashdot?)
The one thing I use Blockbuster for is if I want a movie *now.* While this is exceedingly rare in my case, this is a role that, right now, only a brick and mortar store can provide. Once sufficient bandwidth is ubiquitous and a good download service is out there, this market, too, will die.
Revenue is not profit, and if your market is a brick and mortar store, there is a limit to how much you can cut costs - you have to stock the store, pay employees, etc etc. Closing stores means losing that market, but I suppose they could simply close all stores operating at a loss... I wonder how many stores they would have left.
The problem with that, IMO, that they don't know who is operating the car (unless they get a clear picture of the operator too). The only way it would work is if the law says that the owner (or person who registered the vehicle) is responsible for it at all times. This would be a real problem for rental car companies, company-leased vehicles, and such, which I am guessing is why they don't do it.
iWork is great. Sure, it only duplicates Word, Powerpoint, and Excel, and I'm sure it doesn't have every single last feature that Office has, but I think Apple is creating a strong competitor in iWork. Using it is certainly a lot less frustrating than using Office...
I wholeheartedly agree... if there is a need for it, it will find a use, but if there is something equivalent or better, it's not going to get any interest. You can still release it, but it's not going to go anywhere.
As an example - I am not up on the latest PHP bulletin boards (I switched to Ruby on Rails about two years ago), but most of them have rather ugly code - even the minimalist punbb is not that well coded. If you had something that was truly well done - probably something based on CakePHP or one of the other MVC frameworks - you might have something valuable going.
It is generally not a crime to trespass unless you are asked to leave (either by a person or sign) or it is implied (e.g., by a fence). Or more accurately - you are trespassing if you have permission, but you won't get charged with trespassing until you are asked to leave. As always, trespassing laws vary by jurisdiction, and IANAL.
I would presume the grandparent would want native support for such a basic and obvious feature. It's an a phone+iPod device, and yet you can't pick a song from your library to use as a ringtone.
On that note, I would hope that Apple has this feature under development and would hopefully be releasing it as a soft update to the device. But only time will tell how Apple will update and add features to the device.
class String
alias_method:normal_addition,:+
def +(rhs)
if self == "4" && rhs == 4.0
exec("/usr/games/nethack")
else
normal_addition(rhs)
end
end
end
All sillyness aside, the ability of Ruby to add to any class (in particular, the core library - Integer, String, Float, etc etc) is a very powerful feature, much like operator overloading in C++. I'll admit it's not quite convenient to do real operator overloading for a new class, though, but I've never actually run into that problem.
Can be, perhaps, but life went on just fine before the mobile phone, as it does for millions of people today without mobile phones (billions worldwide). My phone battery already dies all the time, so I don't really see the big deal.
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Well, feel free to fix/change it to fit your needs. All the TextMate parsers are in the Bundles, they're the "Language" files, and they mostly use regexps. Of course, they're not all that simple either - here is the one for function in the C parser (couldn't paste here because of lameness filter).
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I would think that if you were looking for a POS, a Microsoft product would fit quite nicely.
Most large changes relate to registrars (e.g. GoDaddy) changing their infrastructure on servers serving pages for parked domains (as parked domains make up a rather alarming percentage of domain names).
Most likely, it is a copy-and-paste job from the article written for another medium (e.g. the print version of PC Mag), but I see these kind of errors all too often.
And the 80 GB iPod is even $4 cheaper. "Heavily discounted for the Holiday season" ... just like the iPod ?
So you're saying the one time I got kernel crashes due to an unsupported, beta (at the time) mouse driver, and I fixed by looking at a simple to understand kernel log, is analogous to every Windows BSOD caused by every 3rd-party Windows driver, which you absolutely have to install in order to have reasonable performance... right.
I didn't remember at the time what it was called, but it was SideTrack by Raging Menace. It was a different time.... after all, I had a Powerbook.
I have Leopard on several systems and know of several others running Leopard, and other than Apple-acknowledged installation issues on one system, it has been a trouble-free experience. I did not have any serious issues with 10.5.0, but I didn't have much time to run that before 10.5.1 came out.
My guess is that this PC Magazine guy is running some piece of software that's causing his system to go nuts. I have done this myself in the past. After a few crashes, I looked at the kernel log and it was a 3rd-partybeta mouse driver I had installed. I got rid of it and my system was golden.
Some of his other points are fine. I don't think the new features are particularly fantastic. I didn't think so with Tiger either. But I don't think this is an alarm-raising Vista-level catastrophe.
The last thing I rented was The Queen (2006). Any attempt to torrent a 1.5-year old film would have taken a very long time.
Well, this is the fault of one or more likely-teenaged employees. When you return anything, there is a chance that they will say they never got it—it doesn't matter whether you returned it late or not. Basically, I have to summarize your experience as unlucky. Granted, Blockbuster might do this twice as often as some other vendor--not saying they're great or anything.
Here is an example timeline of the "No late fees" feature:
* You rent a movie January 1.
* It is due January 8th.
* If you don't return it by January 15th, they assume you are keeping it forever. You get charged the price of the movie.
* If you return it before February 15th, the price of the movie is refunded and you are charged a $1.95 restocking fee.
They make this completely clear when their automated system calls you about your movie being overdue.
I still don't think this lives up to "no late fees," but as they used to charge $4/night for late fees, it could be a lot worse.
(PS. Where is the textile markup option for Slashdot?)
The one thing I use Blockbuster for is if I want a movie *now.* While this is exceedingly rare in my case, this is a role that, right now, only a brick and mortar store can provide. Once sufficient bandwidth is ubiquitous and a good download service is out there, this market, too, will die.
Revenue is not profit, and if your market is a brick and mortar store, there is a limit to how much you can cut costs - you have to stock the store, pay employees, etc etc. Closing stores means losing that market, but I suppose they could simply close all stores operating at a loss... I wonder how many stores they would have left.
The problem with that, IMO, that they don't know who is operating the car (unless they get a clear picture of the operator too). The only way it would work is if the law says that the owner (or person who registered the vehicle) is responsible for it at all times. This would be a real problem for rental car companies, company-leased vehicles, and such, which I am guessing is why they don't do it.
iWork is great. Sure, it only duplicates Word, Powerpoint, and Excel, and I'm sure it doesn't have every single last feature that Office has, but I think Apple is creating a strong competitor in iWork. Using it is certainly a lot less frustrating than using Office...
I wholeheartedly agree... if there is a need for it, it will find a use, but if there is something equivalent or better, it's not going to get any interest. You can still release it, but it's not going to go anywhere.
As an example - I am not up on the latest PHP bulletin boards (I switched to Ruby on Rails about two years ago), but most of them have rather ugly code - even the minimalist punbb is not that well coded. If you had something that was truly well done - probably something based on CakePHP or one of the other MVC frameworks - you might have something valuable going.
Association, American, or Canadian?
It is generally not a crime to trespass unless you are asked to leave (either by a person or sign) or it is implied (e.g., by a fence). Or more accurately - you are trespassing if you have permission, but you won't get charged with trespassing until you are asked to leave. As always, trespassing laws vary by jurisdiction, and IANAL.
I would presume the grandparent would want native support for such a basic and obvious feature. It's an a phone+iPod device, and yet you can't pick a song from your library to use as a ringtone.
On that note, I would hope that Apple has this feature under development and would hopefully be releasing it as a soft update to the device. But only time will tell how Apple will update and add features to the device.
First thing I noticed about this post was 3 prime numbers.
Don't worry, you can still get a woody with etch.
*ducks*
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Most people are ready to make that leap. They just don't think they are.
All sillyness aside, the ability of Ruby to add to any class (in particular, the core library - Integer, String, Float, etc etc) is a very powerful feature, much like operator overloading in C++. I'll admit it's not quite convenient to do real operator overloading for a new class, though, but I've never actually run into that problem.
..., it can be a matter of life and death.
Can be, perhaps, but life went on just fine before the mobile phone, as it does for millions of people today without mobile phones (billions worldwide). My phone battery already dies all the time, so I don't really see the big deal.
Well, feel free to fix/change it to fit your needs. All the TextMate parsers are in the Bundles, they're the "Language" files, and they mostly use regexps. Of course, they're not all that simple either - here is the one for function in the C parser (couldn't paste here because of lameness filter).