"In most cases, applications that are not document-based should quit when the main window is closed.
Okay, then why does iPhoto? It has a range of photo-editing tools and can open many windows for individual photos. It always seemed pretty "document based" to me.
"If an application continues to perform some function when the main window is closed, however, it may be appropriate to leave it running when the main window is closed.
Okay, again I'll use iPhoto. A function - and arguably the application's main function - of iPhoto is to synch photos from your camera when you plug it in. In this case it seems that it would be appropriate for the application to keep running ready to copy photos off cameras you plug in even if the main window viewing the library of photos is closed.
The applications I listed are Apple applications. If Apple can't even get its flagship applications to be logically consistent with its HIG there's little chance third-party devs can. The result is that the Mac OS X user interface is inconsistent. I think it's much less so than the mess that is Windows or the major linux distributions, but it's far from logical.
Run Mail in the background if you want it to continuously check for mail and notify you. Run iTunes in the background if you want to keep your music playing. Run iCal in the background so you can pop it open quickly when a reminder or event comes up.
Use cases that are better served by Hide [application] or apple-H.
It's pointless to run iPhoto in the background since the point of it is to view pictures. It's also pointless to run Disk Utility in the background, so of course it quits automatically when you close the window.
Except that you may want to keep iPhoto ready to synch your photos when you plug your camera in, and you may want Disk Utility running in the background while you are using it to burn a DVD or repair a disk.
It keeps the term "marriage" to mean a man and a woman, that's all. Prop 8 has no effect on civil unions. Cohabitating couples can still live together. Couples can still get civil unions. Couples still have visitation rights, insurance rights, etc, just like a marrage. Except, it is not called a marriage. That is all. Nobody is "breaking up" anything.
People in your country once used the same sort of rhetoric to defend having doctors' offices with a door for whites and a door for coloureds. It'd be the same service, just different.
The fact of the matter is that marriage is something people world-wide regard as special and important. It has ritual and implications far beyond the legal rights it grants. It carries this importance and tradition for people of a huge range of nationalities, races, and faiths (or lack thereof). Civil Unions have all the gravity and importance of registering a dog. It's wrong to think that denying gay people the right to marriage is of no consequence because civil unions provide the same service, just different.
"On some Apple made apps closing the main windows does not close the app, on others (still made by apple) it does."
Right, and there is a good reason for which one is which. Your point is?
Could you please explain to me the good reasons? Mail, iTunes and iCal don't quit when you close their main window even though these are basically single-window applications. iPhoto, Disk Utility and Calculator do.
Seriously, I'd like to know. I've been using Apple computers since before there was the Macintosh and the logic of it remains utterly opaque to me.
Maybe you can then explain to me why when you click on the controls of an application in the background, three different things can happen: with iTunes the controls work but the application stays in the background; with Quicktime Player the controls work and the application pops to the front and with iCal the application pops to the front but doesn't register the action.
ECON 481 Introduction to Mathematical Statistics (5) NW Probability, generating functions; the d-method, Jacobians, Bayes theorem; maximum likelihoods, Neyman-Pearson, efficiency, decision theory, regression, correlation, bivariate normal. Prerequisite: STAT/ECON 311; either MATH 136 or MATH 126 with either MATH 308 or MATH 309. Recommended: MATH 324. Offered: jointly with CS&SS/STAT 481; A.
Look at those pre-reqs:
Math 126/136 - 3rd quarter of calculus or honors 3rd quarter of calculus - Introduction to Taylor polynomials and Taylor series, vector geometry in three dimensions,introduction to multivariable differential calculus, double integrals in Cartesian and polar coordinates. Math 308 - MATH 308 Matrix Algebra with Applications (3) NW Systems of linear equations, vector spaces, matrices, subspaces, orthogonality, least squares, eigenvalues, eigenvectors, applications. For students in engineering, mathematics, and the sciences. MATH 309 Linear Analysis (3) NW First order systems of linear differential equations, Fourier series and partial differential equations, and the phase plane. MATH 324 Advanced Multivariable Calculus I (3) NW Topics include double and triple integrals, the chain rule, vector fields, line and surface integrals. Culminates in the theorems of Green and Stokes, along with the Divergence Theorem.
I really don't mean to sound like a snob, but that stuff doesn't strike me as particularly esoteric. I was led to believe that in the US system, the first digit of the unit code typically represents the year it is taken at. Taylors series and multivariable calculus is high school maths. Seriously, the chain rule is introduced at third year? Fourier series is something you should have a handle on in high school physics (fundamental wave behaviour) and have codified in first year. Third year mathematics should be things like advanced cryptanalysis, combinatorics, fluid dynamics, geometry and topology, not introduction to the concept of a matrix or a double integral.
If this is the general standard set by US universities, you're worse off than I thought you were.
What are the benefits/limitations of an Arduino versus an FPGA?
The Ardino is far less powerful and less flexible. On the other hand, it comes with nice tools and has a popular community. Community means a lot, as it means sample code and people who will help you if you've got questions.
The comparison is a bit apples and oranges because the Arduino is a board with regulator and other bits, while an FPGA is just a chip. There are a range of FPGA boards designed for experimenters, but few come as cheap as you can get the Arduino.
Your familiarity with the languages can be a factor - the Arduino can be programmed by anyone with an understanding of C. Starting to play with FPGAs will require you to learn Verilog (or VHDL) and that can be either a positive or negative to you. I personally found that HDL starts off easy but can quickly become pain as your designs get more complicated and you have to start hunting down odd timing glitches. After a year of projects, I'm back on the FPGA kool-ade, though, and am looking forward to some SDR projects when I scrape the money together for a USRP2.
There's basically no Mac tools for FPGA work, if that's your platform of choice. You'll have to emulate / virtualise to use the FPGA tools.
The FPGA IDEs from the two big vendors suck serious balls. I'd assume the tools from smaller vendors are worse. I haven't tried Altium's FPGA tools, though.
There's also somewhat of a halfway option in the Parallax Propeller, which is a multi-core microcontroller.
Moving from iiNet to TPG has proved to be one of the worst decisions I've made with my ISPs.
Their support is not good. It's terrible. It seems whenever I call I get put on hold and forgotten about. I once made the mistake of admitting I was using a Mac and the problems I was having with the TPG-supplied modem not registering with the SIP proxy for VoIP were suddenly because I wasn't using Internet Explorer.
They have accidently made charges to my account I had to have them revoke.
TPG use transparent proxies in some areas - thankfully not where I am anymore - which don't re-write the IP address properly, and (for the six months I was in their proxying pool) I'd find sites would tell me I was banned because someone else on the same proxy had incurred the wrath of the moderators and they'd banned the IP. You'd have similar problems with sites like RapidShare.
Finally, there are a lot of ways they get money out of you. Their contracts are long and their disconnection fee is very high. You have to buy one of their modems for many of their plans. Perhaps most annoyingly changing plans resets the contract period.
My experience with TPG has been one of pain and suffering I would only wish upon child molesters and people who talk in the theatre. As soon as my contract is out I'm dropping them for iiNet, Internode or Netspace.
The Liberals did try to bring in internet censorship under the same sort of system that is currently being rammed through. When their research showed it would slow down the internet and be ineffective anyway, they instead handed out free filtering software for anyone who wanted to install it on their own computer (see: http://www.netalert.gov.au/ ) Unsurprisingly, only a tiny fraction of the population actually wanted the filtering software at all, and after trying it only a fraction of those ever updated it, so the programme was a near complete waste of money.
You seem to have misunderstood my concern - I don't doubt that we're diagnosing more cases of autism. I think you need to cite a reliable source for your assertion that it's being caused by child immunisation. This contention stands in direct contradiction to the wikipedia article on Autism, which states "the vaccine hypotheses lack convincing scientific evidence", citing a meta-study published in Acta Paediatrica.
I'm not sure how the decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court have bearing on a discussion of the great firewall of Australia, even if we do joke the country is the 52nd state.
Bloody hell. This guy makes Richard Alston look competent.
I wish that were the case, as it would mean this whole filtering bullshit would fall flat on its arse. The problem is that Conroy has a shred of competence to him, and an extreme socially conservative ideology pushing him forward.
I'd have voted to bring Alston back rather than put Conroy in.
Obviously it's difficult to tell with such a sparse description of your project but it sounds to me like you might be better off implementing it directly in a HDL.
Otherwise, if it's a pet project you might not care too much about the very best performance. In that case the SOC utility that the big two vendors provide with their FPGA kit (NIOS II with Altera, PowerPC with Xlinx) would probably be the best route to your solution as you'll spend less time mucking around with compilers and just getting the damn thing to work.
Conroy is pushing forward with this because he's a religious nutjob. I don't think you can get through to that type of individual by writing a letter. They've been vaccinated against reason.
To be honest the parent is probably the target market, i.e. gamers.
TFA mentions that is a wireless mouse, which gamers generally shun for lagginess and weight, and includes the quote "Explorer Mouse and Explorer Mini Mouse perform at 1000 dpi, which we find is the ideal speed for productivity mice."
Looking at my shelf I realise that every game I've purchased is one I first played at a LAN. Somebody bought a copy and we all installed it. The ones I adore (Myth II, for example) made this trivially easy.
No LAN support for Diablo III is really lame. A LAN is the only setting I really feel comfortable plying multiplayer in. There is no griefing when you can simply walk over to the culprit and whack them upside the head. When somebody does something amazing or we finally lay waste to some boss/level, there's a real cheer. No co-op / competitive rule sets can be as instantly enjoyable or applicable as those that you negotiate at the start of the game with your mates. No internet ranking ladder is gives the same sense of accomplishment as finally trouncing that guy across from you who has previously always had the edge.
There's a sort of sort of enjoyment you get at LANs not matched by internet play, and Diablo I and II each had their time as jewels of LAN gaming. To hear Diablo III will be missing it is very disappointing.
The half gig "lost" is because x86 is a memory-mapped architecture. The graphics card memory and all your peripherals are mapped over the top part of your memory address space.
Why should the educated and informed be the only ones represented in parliament? The actions of the government affect the bright and the dumb. You (and I) may think there's a section of the population whose votes we'd be better off without, but the solution is not to discourage them from voting but to encourage them to raise their political awareness. The heart of a representative democracy is every person getting a vote.
When you have compulsory voting politicians are forced to address issues that matter to their electorate (rather than just the subset who are voters) and people who otherwise would cynically ignore elections are forced to pay attention to their choices and how they will be affected by them.
I don't - when that day comes he/she will be just as out of touch with the young people of the time as the caggy old bastards we have now are with our current issues.
Actually, you might be interested in real studies on the matter. Here's one from UCLA (hardly a right-wing place), which determines that drudge, fox news, etc are actually pretty damn even and not as right-wing as you claim, while the "traditional" media lean FAR left.
Well, that seems to depend on your reference point. Americans have a very wide range of media sources to get their news from, and they can choose to change the news sources they consume anytime they like. In comparison they've got an entrenched two party political system you can only change every four years. (And believe me, from an outsider's perspective it's sometimes extremely difficult to tell your two parties apart)
Both the average political leaning of your media and your elected representatives present choices your population has made. I'd argue that they are far more free in scope to choose when it comes to the media and so that better represents their collective will than your elected politicians do. The disparity is not that your media is to the left of your population, it's that your politics is to the right.
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From the Apple Human Interface Guidelines:
"In most cases, applications that are not document-based should quit when the main window is closed.
Okay, then why does iPhoto? It has a range of photo-editing tools and can open many windows for individual photos. It always seemed pretty "document based" to me.
"If an application continues to perform some function when the main window is closed, however, it may be appropriate to leave it running when the main window is closed.
Okay, again I'll use iPhoto. A function - and arguably the application's main function - of iPhoto is to synch photos from your camera when you plug it in. In this case it seems that it would be appropriate for the application to keep running ready to copy photos off cameras you plug in even if the main window viewing the library of photos is closed.
The applications I listed are Apple applications. If Apple can't even get its flagship applications to be logically consistent with its HIG there's little chance third-party devs can. The result is that the Mac OS X user interface is inconsistent. I think it's much less so than the mess that is Windows or the major linux distributions, but it's far from logical.
Run Mail in the background if you want it to continuously check for mail and notify you. Run iTunes in the background if you want to keep your music playing. Run iCal in the background so you can pop it open quickly when a reminder or event comes up.
Use cases that are better served by Hide [application] or apple-H.
It's pointless to run iPhoto in the background since the point of it is to view pictures. It's also pointless to run Disk Utility in the background, so of course it quits automatically when you close the window.
Except that you may want to keep iPhoto ready to synch your photos when you plug your camera in, and you may want Disk Utility running in the background while you are using it to burn a DVD or repair a disk.
Just a guess on Mail and iTunes: because you might get mail and want to see it, and you might be playing tunes and want them to keep playing.
In those cases the more appropriate action is the Hide [application] menu item (or apple-H).
It keeps the term "marriage" to mean a man and a woman, that's all. Prop 8 has no effect on civil unions. Cohabitating couples can still live together. Couples can still get civil unions. Couples still have visitation rights, insurance rights, etc, just like a marrage. Except, it is not called a marriage. That is all. Nobody is "breaking up" anything.
People in your country once used the same sort of rhetoric to defend having doctors' offices with a door for whites and a door for coloureds. It'd be the same service, just different.
The fact of the matter is that marriage is something people world-wide regard as special and important. It has ritual and implications far beyond the legal rights it grants. It carries this importance and tradition for people of a huge range of nationalities, races, and faiths (or lack thereof). Civil Unions have all the gravity and importance of registering a dog. It's wrong to think that denying gay people the right to marriage is of no consequence because civil unions provide the same service, just different.
"On some Apple made apps closing the main windows does not close the app, on others (still made by apple) it does."
Right, and there is a good reason for which one is which. Your point is?
Could you please explain to me the good reasons? Mail, iTunes and iCal don't quit when you close their main window even though these are basically single-window applications. iPhoto, Disk Utility and Calculator do.
Seriously, I'd like to know. I've been using Apple computers since before there was the Macintosh and the logic of it remains utterly opaque to me.
Maybe you can then explain to me why when you click on the controls of an application in the background, three different things can happen: with iTunes the controls work but the application stays in the background; with Quicktime Player the controls work and the application pops to the front and with iCal the application pops to the front but doesn't register the action.
ECON 481 Introduction to Mathematical Statistics (5) NW
Probability, generating functions; the d-method, Jacobians, Bayes theorem; maximum likelihoods, Neyman-Pearson, efficiency, decision theory, regression, correlation, bivariate normal. Prerequisite: STAT/ECON 311; either MATH 136 or MATH 126 with either MATH 308 or MATH 309. Recommended: MATH 324. Offered: jointly with CS&SS/STAT 481; A.
Look at those pre-reqs:
Math 126/136 - 3rd quarter of calculus or honors 3rd quarter of calculus - Introduction to Taylor polynomials and Taylor series, vector geometry in three dimensions,introduction to multivariable differential calculus, double integrals in Cartesian and polar coordinates.
Math 308 - MATH 308 Matrix Algebra with Applications (3) NW
Systems of linear equations, vector spaces, matrices, subspaces, orthogonality, least squares, eigenvalues, eigenvectors, applications. For students in engineering, mathematics, and the sciences.
MATH 309 Linear Analysis (3) NW
First order systems of linear differential equations, Fourier series and partial differential equations, and the phase plane.
MATH 324 Advanced Multivariable Calculus I (3) NW
Topics include double and triple integrals, the chain rule, vector fields, line and surface integrals. Culminates in the theorems of Green and Stokes, along with the Divergence Theorem.
I really don't mean to sound like a snob, but that stuff doesn't strike me as particularly esoteric. I was led to believe that in the US system, the first digit of the unit code typically represents the year it is taken at. Taylors series and multivariable calculus is high school maths. Seriously, the chain rule is introduced at third year? Fourier series is something you should have a handle on in high school physics (fundamental wave behaviour) and have codified in first year. Third year mathematics should be things like advanced cryptanalysis, combinatorics, fluid dynamics, geometry and topology, not introduction to the concept of a matrix or a double integral.
If this is the general standard set by US universities, you're worse off than I thought you were.
What are the benefits/limitations of an Arduino versus an FPGA?
The Ardino is far less powerful and less flexible. On the other hand, it comes with nice tools and has a popular community. Community means a lot, as it means sample code and people who will help you if you've got questions.
The comparison is a bit apples and oranges because the Arduino is a board with regulator and other bits, while an FPGA is just a chip. There are a range of FPGA boards designed for experimenters, but few come as cheap as you can get the Arduino.
Your familiarity with the languages can be a factor - the Arduino can be programmed by anyone with an understanding of C. Starting to play with FPGAs will require you to learn Verilog (or VHDL) and that can be either a positive or negative to you. I personally found that HDL starts off easy but can quickly become pain as your designs get more complicated and you have to start hunting down odd timing glitches. After a year of projects, I'm back on the FPGA kool-ade, though, and am looking forward to some SDR projects when I scrape the money together for a USRP2.
There's basically no Mac tools for FPGA work, if that's your platform of choice. You'll have to emulate / virtualise to use the FPGA tools.
The FPGA IDEs from the two big vendors suck serious balls. I'd assume the tools from smaller vendors are worse. I haven't tried Altium's FPGA tools, though.
There's also somewhat of a halfway option in the Parallax Propeller, which is a multi-core microcontroller.
Moving from iiNet to TPG has proved to be one of the worst decisions I've made with my ISPs.
Their support is not good. It's terrible. It seems whenever I call I get put on hold and forgotten about. I once made the mistake of admitting I was using a Mac and the problems I was having with the TPG-supplied modem not registering with the SIP proxy for VoIP were suddenly because I wasn't using Internet Explorer.
They have accidently made charges to my account I had to have them revoke.
TPG use transparent proxies in some areas - thankfully not where I am anymore - which don't re-write the IP address properly, and (for the six months I was in their proxying pool) I'd find sites would tell me I was banned because someone else on the same proxy had incurred the wrath of the moderators and they'd banned the IP. You'd have similar problems with sites like RapidShare.
Finally, there are a lot of ways they get money out of you. Their contracts are long and their disconnection fee is very high. You have to buy one of their modems for many of their plans. Perhaps most annoyingly changing plans resets the contract period.
My experience with TPG has been one of pain and suffering I would only wish upon child molesters and people who talk in the theatre. As soon as my contract is out I'm dropping them for iiNet, Internode or Netspace.
the 5th of November also happens to be the day after the US presidential election.
The US election is on the 4th of November in the US, which, for the most part, is the 5th of November in Australia.
The Liberals did try to bring in internet censorship under the same sort of system that is currently being rammed through. When their research showed it would slow down the internet and be ineffective anyway, they instead handed out free filtering software for anyone who wanted to install it on their own computer (see: http://www.netalert.gov.au/ ) Unsurprisingly, only a tiny fraction of the population actually wanted the filtering software at all, and after trying it only a fraction of those ever updated it, so the programme was a near complete waste of money.
You seem to have misunderstood my concern - I don't doubt that we're diagnosing more cases of autism. I think you need to cite a reliable source for your assertion that it's being caused by child immunisation. This contention stands in direct contradiction to the wikipedia article on Autism, which states "the vaccine hypotheses lack convincing scientific evidence", citing a meta-study published in Acta Paediatrica.
Autism rates are up all over North America. Lots of research points to the ridiculous amount of cocktail vaccines that are now given to children.
[citation needed]
I'm not sure how the decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court have bearing on a discussion of the great firewall of Australia, even if we do joke the country is the 52nd state.
Bloody hell. This guy makes Richard Alston look competent.
I wish that were the case, as it would mean this whole filtering bullshit would fall flat on its arse. The problem is that Conroy has a shred of competence to him, and an extreme socially conservative ideology pushing him forward.
I'd have voted to bring Alston back rather than put Conroy in.
Obviously it's difficult to tell with such a sparse description of your project but it sounds to me like you might be better off implementing it directly in a HDL.
Otherwise, if it's a pet project you might not care too much about the very best performance. In that case the SOC utility that the big two vendors provide with their FPGA kit (NIOS II with Altera, PowerPC with Xlinx) would probably be the best route to your solution as you'll spend less time mucking around with compilers and just getting the damn thing to work.
Conroy is pushing forward with this because he's a religious nutjob. I don't think you can get through to that type of individual by writing a letter. They've been vaccinated against reason.
To be honest the parent is probably the target market, i.e. gamers.
TFA mentions that is a wireless mouse, which gamers generally shun for lagginess and weight, and includes the quote "Explorer Mouse and Explorer Mini Mouse perform at 1000 dpi, which we find is the ideal speed for productivity mice."
Looking at my shelf I realise that every game I've purchased is one I first played at a LAN. Somebody bought a copy and we all installed it. The ones I adore (Myth II, for example) made this trivially easy.
No LAN support for Diablo III is really lame. A LAN is the only setting I really feel comfortable plying multiplayer in. There is no griefing when you can simply walk over to the culprit and whack them upside the head. When somebody does something amazing or we finally lay waste to some boss/level, there's a real cheer. No co-op / competitive rule sets can be as instantly enjoyable or applicable as those that you negotiate at the start of the game with your mates. No internet ranking ladder is gives the same sense of accomplishment as finally trouncing that guy across from you who has previously always had the edge.
There's a sort of sort of enjoyment you get at LANs not matched by internet play, and Diablo I and II each had their time as jewels of LAN gaming. To hear Diablo III will be missing it is very disappointing.
If you ride a bicycle for a while it will quickly become very intuitive how to take a hill using the least energy.
These numbers speak tones.
That's fucking awesome! How do they make them do that?
32-bit operating systems on x86 can get around this with PAE. Windows XP and Vista don't have support for it, though.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/09/03/road_to_mac_os_x_snow_leopard_64_bits_santa_rosa_and_the_great_pc_swindle.html
The half gig "lost" is because x86 is a memory-mapped architecture. The graphics card memory and all your peripherals are mapped over the top part of your memory address space.
Why should the educated and informed be the only ones represented in parliament? The actions of the government affect the bright and the dumb. You (and I) may think there's a section of the population whose votes we'd be better off without, but the solution is not to discourage them from voting but to encourage them to raise their political awareness. The heart of a representative democracy is every person getting a vote.
When you have compulsory voting politicians are forced to address issues that matter to their electorate (rather than just the subset who are voters) and people who otherwise would cynically ignore elections are forced to pay attention to their choices and how they will be affected by them.
"Gaming" LCDs are optimised for fast pixel response times, not for colour reproduction.
That said, the technology is still improving and the difference between a panel designed for speed and one design for colour is getting smaller.
I don't - when that day comes he/she will be just as out of touch with the young people of the time as the caggy old bastards we have now are with our current issues.
Actually, you might be interested in real studies on the matter. Here's one from UCLA (hardly a right-wing place), which determines that drudge, fox news, etc are actually pretty damn even and not as right-wing as you claim, while the "traditional" media lean FAR left.
Well, that seems to depend on your reference point. Americans have a very wide range of media sources to get their news from, and they can choose to change the news sources they consume anytime they like. In comparison they've got an entrenched two party political system you can only change every four years. (And believe me, from an outsider's perspective it's sometimes extremely difficult to tell your two parties apart)
Both the average political leaning of your media and your elected representatives present choices your population has made. I'd argue that they are far more free in scope to choose when it comes to the media and so that better represents their collective will than your elected politicians do. The disparity is not that your media is to the left of your population, it's that your politics is to the right.