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The latest DVD Player.app does this. Go into preferences and click on the Full Screen widget then look for the "Remain in full screen when DVD Player is inactive".
Now only if they would add this feature to iChat for video conferencing.:-)
When I click the middle button, the position of the mouse is zeroed.
Ah, from your original post it sounded like you were referring to just using a scroll bar but now that you've reworded it to just middle clicking I see what you are referring to.
But my argument still stands, you are doing dimension conversion with the nub (or middle clicking then moving the mouse). You are going from distance (1 cm) to speed (1 ln/second). That isn't as natural as a wheel. Your mousewheel isn't comparable to the scrollwheel of the iPod (or other MP3 player equipped with one) because the mousewheel isn't continous, you have to lift your finger thus giving you a non-smooth scrolling action on the screen. That's probably the reason you prefer the middle click/scroll for long webpages to the mouse wheel.
An airplane is a slightly different scenario because you not controlling a position (such as a selection in a list or position on screen) but are controlling a direction in which you want plane to point. That and it's a whole heckuva lot easier to control two dimensions with one stick than with two wheels.
I feel that I am now on the path to true wisdom.
Glad I could help. Just one more thing to help you on your way to true wisdom, they're ailerons (for roll) and elevator (for pitch). While in definition they are 'flaps', you shouldn't refer to them by that name as there is another device on aircraft referred to as 'flaps' that is used to increase lift or drag.
I don't understand the rationale behind this argument. From a functional point of view I can't see why it's any easier to move a lever up or down to scroll through a list than it is to spin a wheel.
The rationale is subtle. You have a list, there are two things you want to do, but it isn't a binary operation. There is a third dimension, speed. How fast do you want to go up and down the list. With the wheel, the speed dimension is related to how fast you move your thumb around the wheel. With the nub, how fast you go up or down the list is how hard you push on the nub. You have to convert dimensions which makes it unnatural (or at least not as natural as with the wheel when you stay within the same dimension).
...it's a heck of a lot more convenient to click down on my scroll wheel (logitech mouse) and then gently push the mouse up or down to scroll down the page...
This argument is completely negated because the wheel isn't at all like moving the mouse up and down for the basic reason that you have to pick the mouse up and move when you run out of space. You will never run out of room with the wheel because, of course, it spins.
When it comes to media formats and players I've always seen Real And Apple/Quicktime as being two sides of the same dark coin. Both use closed formats with proprietary players with increasingly slow and bloated interfaces.
If by calling Quicktime closed/proprietary you mean completely open and documented, you'd be right. Quicktime is a container format. Quicktime supports many many completely open codecs. In fact, here is a GPLed Quicktime Player for Linux! It's the codecs that are closed. If you want to bash Sorenson then bash Sorenson.
Also, if you don't like the Quicktime player interface I suggest you try one of the alternatives such as Multiplex or NicePlayer (the later of which ranks in at 80K, how's that for not being bloated?)
Apple, on the other hand, seems to love breaking legacy app and hardware support for no real reason, I wonder how much will break when 10.4 will come out...
Through the classic environment, Mac OS X maintains compatibility with applications written for the precursors (Mac OS 9, etc), some of which ran on a completely different CPU architecture (68000). If that's not backwards compatibility for legacy apps, I don't know what is.
...and hardware support...
You could lend some weight to that if you listed examples.
One thing that initially concerned me about puchasing from iTMS was what happens if a laptop is stollen. I can't very well deauthorize it.
If you call Apple and explain that your laptop was an authorized machine and has been stolen, they'll fix your account to make it look like the stolen laptop was deauthorized. If you search some Mac forums you'll find accounts of people calling Apple to do this.
iTunes actually did have stuff by Radiohead. Unfortunately their label had worked out a deal with them where they weren't allowed to distribute their music that way. Hopefully they'll work out their problems soon.
On the left hand side look for "Requests and Feedback". Click it.
Type in your request and submit it.
Once you've done that, drop a letter to the record company of the artist you want has signed with. Let them know you want them to distribute their music on iTunes. Apple is very good about getting new content, you just have to let them know what you want.
Plus, if I get a hard drive crash (like I did over a week ago) then it's all gone.
This is a non-issue. What happens if you lose the a CD? It's the same thing, it's all gone unless you've made backups. So make backups... You're allowed and encouraged to backup your iTMS music.
It's not possible for someone to reset your password to circumvent FileVault.
It's a symmetric encryption system and your password is being used as a key to encrypt your home directory. If somebody were to boot single user and change your user's password then login they'd just get an error because the new password couldn't unencrypt your home directory.
This release looks like it cleaned up those nasty home-directory-gets-nuked bugs and is probably pretty solid.
So for anyone that was clinging on to that version but wants to integrate PCs into the iTunes party, there doesn't seem to be a choice but to upgrade iTunes to 4.0.1 or 4.1 and lose the 'net sharing capability.
Being able to easily share music over a LAN. How easy? My roommate (who runs Windows) starts iTunes and voila, he's sees my shared music. He even sees my playlists. He clicks a single button to share his music and instantly he appears as source in my list on iTunes. No mounting of disks, no mucking around with servers, it's just there and it works. Instant gratification.
Oh yea, the interface is so much better than anything else out there (except those that are attempting to clone the iTunes interface).
More things that I'm sure people will talk about: The Dells are 1U and 2U boxes......about 1/3 the physical space as the enormous PowerMac G5.
The trouble with 1U and 2U rackmount boxes are they are aren't suited for sitting on your desk. In another couple years, VT will be able to retire the cluster and then distribute the G5s (which are already conveniently enclosed in a desktop case) to faculty and other staff.
But I realize the desire to be in a big computing list with other big dogs.
Credit card - no, not possible since I am a student.
Most banks offer debit cards that can also be used as pseudo credit cards (they're sometimes called checkcards). They work as credit cards, but just deduct immediately from your account. They will work fine for places that only accept credit cards.
This is fascinating stuff but does not address one of the major reasons people buy Cds, that is as gifts.
It's still a brand new service. So open up iTunes, go to the music store and click "Requests and Feedback" link and tell them you'd like a gift feature.
Simply predict where the cursor is going, if it's going to stop before it gets to the menu bar then switch, otherwise don't switch applications.
It's already done with menus (though it's just more of a delay than a prediction). Notice how you can switch from a menu to an item in a submenu and cross over the desktop yet the submenu doesn't disappear? That's the same technique that can be applied to the cursor follows mouse control.
Fastest method I know of, includes locking the device so it won't be turned on again by accident, and it only takes two minutes for the iPod to shut itself down.
Press and hold down the play button for about two seconds and the iPod will immediately turn off.
Speaking about the Zeitgeist, I imagine they'll have a graph showing the spike in searches for "pictures of mountains" and how it relates to when this article was posted...:-)
Okay, I need less caffeine and more sleep. I was referring to ISNs (pf's modulate state) in my above post, ISNs aren't the same thing as IP IDs. Oh well... But now you now know the story on why pf has the modulate state command.:-)
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The latest DVD Player.app does this. Go into preferences and click on the Full Screen widget then look for the "Remain in full screen when DVD Player is inactive".
Now only if they would add this feature to iChat for video conferencing. :-)
Two laptap backpacks that don't look like laptop bags are the Big and Little Easy Pack's from LL Bean.
They are inexpensive (around $49/$59 for little/big) and have the standard backpack straps, messenger bag (sling strap) and briefcase handle.
Ah, from your original post it sounded like you were referring to just using a scroll bar but now that you've reworded it to just middle clicking I see what you are referring to.
But my argument still stands, you are doing dimension conversion with the nub (or middle clicking then moving the mouse). You are going from distance (1 cm) to speed (1 ln/second). That isn't as natural as a wheel. Your mousewheel isn't comparable to the scrollwheel of the iPod (or other MP3 player equipped with one) because the mousewheel isn't continous, you have to lift your finger thus giving you a non-smooth scrolling action on the screen. That's probably the reason you prefer the middle click/scroll for long webpages to the mouse wheel.
An airplane is a slightly different scenario because you not controlling a position (such as a selection in a list or position on screen) but are controlling a direction in which you want plane to point. That and it's a whole heckuva lot easier to control two dimensions with one stick than with two wheels.
Glad I could help. Just one more thing to help you on your way to true wisdom, they're ailerons (for roll) and elevator (for pitch). While in definition they are 'flaps', you shouldn't refer to them by that name as there is another device on aircraft referred to as 'flaps' that is used to increase lift or drag.
The rationale is subtle. You have a list, there are two things you want to do, but it isn't a binary operation. There is a third dimension, speed. How fast do you want to go up and down the list. With the wheel, the speed dimension is related to how fast you move your thumb around the wheel. With the nub, how fast you go up or down the list is how hard you push on the nub. You have to convert dimensions which makes it unnatural (or at least not as natural as with the wheel when you stay within the same dimension).
This argument is completely negated because the wheel isn't at all like moving the mouse up and down for the basic reason that you have to pick the mouse up and move when you run out of space. You will never run out of room with the wheel because, of course, it spins.
Seems a couple other people beat me to rebuking this, but I figured I'd throw another link in just in case there is any lingering doubt.
Glass is not a liquid. Glass is an amorphous solid.
If by calling Quicktime closed/proprietary you mean completely open and documented, you'd be right. Quicktime is a container format. Quicktime supports many many completely open codecs. In fact, here is a GPLed Quicktime Player for Linux! It's the codecs that are closed. If you want to bash Sorenson then bash Sorenson.
Also, if you don't like the Quicktime player interface I suggest you try one of the alternatives such as Multiplex or NicePlayer (the later of which ranks in at 80K, how's that for not being bloated?)
I recommend PulpFiction for an RSS/Atom reader on OS X. I much prefer the interface and how it treats the news compared to NNW.
Through the classic environment, Mac OS X maintains compatibility with applications written for the precursors (Mac OS 9, etc), some of which ran on a completely different CPU architecture (68000). If that's not backwards compatibility for legacy apps, I don't know what is.
You could lend some weight to that if you listed examples.
If you call Apple and explain that your laptop was an authorized machine and has been stolen, they'll fix your account to make it look like the stolen laptop was deauthorized. If you search some Mac forums you'll find accounts of people calling Apple to do this.
iTunes actually did have stuff by Radiohead. Unfortunately their label had worked out a deal with them where they weren't allowed to distribute their music that way. Hopefully they'll work out their problems soon.
Once you've done that, drop a letter to the record company of the artist you want has signed with. Let them know you want them to distribute their music on iTunes. Apple is very good about getting new content, you just have to let them know what you want.
This is a non-issue. What happens if you lose the a CD? It's the same thing, it's all gone unless you've made backups. So make backups... You're allowed and encouraged to backup your iTMS music.
It's not possible for someone to reset your password to circumvent FileVault.
It's a symmetric encryption system and your password is being used as a key to encrypt your home directory. If somebody were to boot single user and change your user's password then login they'd just get an error because the new password couldn't unencrypt your home directory.
This release looks like it cleaned up those nasty home-directory-gets-nuked bugs and is probably pretty solid.
Na, just download one of the many Rendezvous proxies out there.
Being able to easily share music over a LAN. How easy? My roommate (who runs Windows) starts iTunes and voila, he's sees my shared music. He even sees my playlists. He clicks a single button to share his music and instantly he appears as source in my list on iTunes. No mounting of disks, no mucking around with servers, it's just there and it works. Instant gratification.
Oh yea, the interface is so much better than anything else out there (except those that are attempting to clone the iTunes interface).
For those on the go an OTP calculator for the Palm OS: http://palmkey.sourceforge.net/.
The trouble with 1U and 2U rackmount boxes are they are aren't suited for sitting on your desk. In another couple years, VT will be able to retire the cluster and then distribute the G5s (which are already conveniently enclosed in a desktop case) to faculty and other staff.
Nope, you obviously didn't realize anything.
Most banks offer debit cards that can also be used as pseudo credit cards (they're sometimes called checkcards). They work as credit cards, but just deduct immediately from your account. They will work fine for places that only accept credit cards.
Yea, it was so fast that they had to add the feature where holding down the mouse button paused the operating system.
It's still a brand new service. So open up iTunes, go to the music store and click "Requests and Feedback" link and tell them you'd like a gift feature.
Don't be so depressed, the problem that the poster mentioned isn't really a problem at all. :-)
Your major problem has already been addressed.
Simply predict where the cursor is going, if it's going to stop before it gets to the menu bar then switch, otherwise don't switch applications.
It's already done with menus (though it's just more of a delay than a prediction). Notice how you can switch from a menu to an item in a submenu and cross over the desktop yet the submenu doesn't disappear? That's the same technique that can be applied to the cursor follows mouse control.
Press and hold down the play button for about two seconds and the iPod will immediately turn off.
Speaking about the Zeitgeist, I imagine they'll have a graph showing the spike in searches for "pictures of mountains" and how it relates to when this article was posted... :-)
Okay, I need less caffeine and more sleep. I was referring to ISNs (pf's modulate state) in my above post, ISNs aren't the same thing as IP IDs. Oh well... But now you now know the story on why pf has the modulate state command. :-)