The old, dear Mac SE was produced for a while containing a model of hard disks whose bearings would start "sticking" after a number of years. That means that, when you switched on the machine, the hard disk would not spin up, and the machine wouldn't start. The standard solution to the problem was simply to lift the Mac half an inch or so, and let it drop down. The hard disk would then "react" and finally spin up:)
You cannot disable them for good. New metallic windows will still appear every now and then.
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Far from trying to be a troll. Maybe you haven't paid attention to all the criticism going around on the Dock, specifically referring to it as a flashy tool for marketing rather than a useful tool.
While the Dock accomplishes, to an extent, what it is supposed to do, it does so poorly.
For example, there are two distinct ways of hiding windows. If you "hide" an application, its windows are no longer individually selectable using the Dock. The same goes for the fabled exposé: it doesn't show you the windows of hidden applications, and it doesn't show minimized windows.
The nifty animation of application zooming in and out serves no specific function except making new users drool. Not even the visual hint that the windows is minimized in a given place is useful if magnification is used: icons change position, and after doing some other work you can no longer remember which one is which.
The visual appearance of minimized windows gives little indication of which windows is which: if you have ten finder windows, finding the right one is impossible without checking the names one by one.
Exposé (which is part of the dock) has its own failings too: you cannot disable the cute (and time consuming) zoom effect. If you want to reveal the desktop, all the windows will pop in front again as soon as you start doing something.
I could go on, but I believe I have elaborated enough at this point, there are far more elaborate analyses around.
As much as it pains me to admit that, I think the Windows taskbar is actually a lot more effective: you see the name of the window you want, you click on it.
If they could give us an option to disable the metallic Finder windows for good, and improve arrow key navigation (it is not as precise as the old Finder), I think I would be quite content. Oh, yes: and replace the Dock with something that actually works.
I use, and recommend, a Sun Type 6 keyboard, Item-number #320-1271. It comes with a standard USB connector and a Mac-friendly layout, including the "command" key in the correct position.
There is another scarcely mentioned, but equally great feature of the Sunray stations: they have no fans!! If you think that is no big deal, enter your standard computer lab again and pay attention to all the noise... I have worked in a large institution where the whole building was Sunray-based. A completely silent computing environment. You can actually hear the birds chirping outside. You have no idea what it feels like until you've tried it!!
And I quote from Bradbury's testimony: "would found a nation of 300 million people that would become the center of civilization, the center of a new thing called democracy".
Excuse me, but wasn't democracy invented in ancient Greece? Granted, with a somewhat different connotation, but definitely *not* a new thing.
Patriotism is fine, but when it deliberately ignores facts it becomes more like an ideology. It is an unfortunate trend, to put it mildly.
As a matter of fact, I am favourable to the pint in the UK (as it is 568mL), but I am utterly opposed to it in the US (where, if you are given a pint of beer, you get less than 1/2 litre!!:)
There are other ways. Think about academia. Results of years of research are published and freely available for all to use. Is research dead because of that? Far from it. There is a pool of public money used to reward research. How to judge who deserves the reward (cash/publications)? Peer review. Do you see the point? The current laws almost never reward the actual creator of the intellectual property, but only those who have the economic power to exploit that creativity. Things could improve for users as well as for inventors/artists. A form of peer review could be the key.
True, except that once upon a time such damage was often restored by a scholastic exposure to Pascal, essential but very elegant. Then you would move to objects. Modern day programmers do not have a similar advantage, and the "style" obtained starting with C (and often never moving, if not towards Java) often leads to unreliable (or plain ugly) code for a lifetime. Modern code is *extremely* fragile, and the programming language that is in use has much more to do with that than most people care to admit.
I still find the idea of prequels in Star Trek rather silly. In Star Wars there was a storyline, so in that case it might have made some sense, but Star Trek? The only result is that they can show *less* technological tricks, *less* alien species, and, importantly, *less* developed Star Trek ideals and moral conflicts. No Prime Directive? No teleporting? I would find much more appealing a series or a movie some two-hundred years *after* TNG, instead...
Translations can be an endless source of involuntary humor. The best example I can recall is a power key on a computer, whose label was translated in Italian as "potere". According to that label, the humble key is something that, if pressed, will give you the kind of "power" that a dictator have...!:)
As a non-American I must say that I am puzzled. Europe is supposed to be a far less integrated market, yet when I buy a product in any EU country, the only tax that is paid is the sale tax (VAT or equivalent) in that country. Since there are basically no restrictions on goods movement I can then take the stuff that I bought anywhere I please, without tax concerns. That is what a single, unified market without frontiers is supposed to be all about. Now, the US is a strictly integrated economic environment. Why do interstate taxes exist at all? Aren't they arbitrary restrictions to the movement of goods? What about free market and free competition (even between states)? Please enlighten me.
You are probably using a keyboard with an ANSI layout (Item #320-1273, or equivalent national variations). If you get the keyboard #320-1271, you get the standard PC layout. Which is good.:)
There is another option for an excellent keyboard with the Alt/Command keys in the right place for a Mac user: a Sun keyboard. I am typing this on a Sun Microsystem's Type 6 USB keyboard, Item-number #320-1271. You can order one at the Sun Store for $60:
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The old, dear Mac SE was produced for a while containing a model of hard disks whose bearings would start "sticking" after a number of years. That means that, when you switched on the machine, the hard disk would not spin up, and the machine wouldn't start. :)
The standard solution to the problem was simply to lift the Mac half an inch or so, and let it drop down. The hard disk would then "react" and finally spin up
See? Sometimes hitting the machine can help!
You cannot disable them for good. New metallic windows will still appear every now and then.
Far from trying to be a troll. Maybe you haven't paid attention to all the criticism going around on the Dock, specifically referring to it as a flashy tool for marketing rather than a useful tool.
While the Dock accomplishes, to an extent, what it is supposed to do, it does so poorly.
For example, there are two distinct ways of hiding windows. If you "hide" an application, its windows are no longer individually selectable using the Dock. The same goes for the fabled exposé: it doesn't show you the windows of hidden applications, and it doesn't show minimized windows.
The nifty animation of application zooming in and out serves no specific function except making new users drool. Not even the visual hint that the windows is minimized in a given place is useful if magnification is used: icons change position, and after doing some other work you can no longer remember which one is which.
The visual appearance of minimized windows gives little indication of which windows is which: if you have ten finder windows, finding the right one is impossible without checking the names one by one.
Exposé (which is part of the dock) has its own failings too: you cannot disable the cute (and time consuming) zoom effect. If you want to reveal the desktop, all the windows will pop in front again as soon as you start doing something.
I could go on, but I believe I have elaborated enough at this point, there are far more elaborate analyses around.
As much as it pains me to admit that, I think the Windows taskbar is actually a lot more effective: you see the name of the window you want, you click on it.
Much more effective.
If they could give us an option to disable the metallic Finder windows for good, and improve arrow key navigation (it is not as precise as the old Finder), I think I would be quite content. Oh, yes: and replace the Dock with something that actually works.
I am absolutely shocked to see that Robert Sheckley is not in the list!
The author of the AAA Ace Agency series, Mindswap, the priceless Dimension of Miracles, and countless others...!
How can it be??
For further info: http://www.sheckley.com/
I use, and recommend, a Sun Type 6 keyboard, Item-number #320-1271. It comes with a standard USB connector and a Mac-friendly layout, including the "command" key in the correct position.
Here is a diagram, a picture, and the online ordering page.
Sometimes it can be ordered for less from different online stores.
Since it's quantum computing, you will be
able to watch all existing porn simultaneously..!
A very useful multi-language dictionary is Logos.it
His obsession for cubes is obviously inappropriate. Everyone knows that geeks prefer flat things.
Well, in case you had forgotten, Italians know a few things about making cars...
Only if you're sure the weight of the item is 5.500000000 ounces. You see, significant digits do matter.
There is another scarcely mentioned, but equally great feature of the Sunray stations: they have no fans!!
If you think that is no big deal, enter your standard computer lab again and pay attention to all the noise... I have worked in a large institution where the whole building was Sunray-based. A completely silent computing environment. You can actually hear the birds chirping outside. You have no idea what it feels like until you've tried it!!
And I quote from Bradbury's testimony: "would found a nation of 300 million people that would become the center of civilization, the center of a new thing called democracy".
Excuse me, but wasn't democracy invented in ancient Greece? Granted, with a somewhat different connotation, but definitely *not* a new thing.
Patriotism is fine, but when it deliberately ignores facts it becomes more like an ideology. It is an unfortunate trend, to put it mildly.
As a matter of fact, I am favourable to the pint in the UK (as it is 568mL), but I am utterly opposed to it in the US (where, if you are given a pint of beer, you get less than 1/2 litre!! :)
So was Leonardo da Vinci, according to most historians, although he kept a very low profile about it (for obvious reasons. Turing was not so lucky)
There are other ways. Think about academia. Results of years of research are published and freely available for all to use.
Is research dead because of that? Far from it. There is a pool of public money used to reward research. How to judge who deserves the reward (cash/publications)? Peer review.
Do you see the point? The current laws almost never reward the actual creator of the intellectual property, but only those who have the economic power to exploit that creativity.
Things could improve for users as well as for inventors/artists.
A form of peer review could be the key.
True, except that once upon a time such damage was often restored by a scholastic exposure to Pascal, essential but very elegant. Then you would move to objects.
Modern day programmers do not have a similar advantage, and the "style" obtained starting with C (and often never moving, if not towards Java) often leads to unreliable (or plain ugly) code for a lifetime.
Modern code is *extremely* fragile, and the programming language that is in use has much more to do with that than most people care to admit.
I still find the idea of prequels in Star Trek rather silly. In Star Wars there was a storyline, so in that case it might have made some sense, but Star Trek?
The only result is that they can show *less* technological tricks, *less* alien species, and, importantly, *less* developed Star Trek ideals and moral conflicts.
No Prime Directive? No teleporting?
I would find much more appealing a series or a movie some two-hundred years *after* TNG, instead...
Yes, we can definitely say that he "has guts"
Translations can be an endless source of involuntary humor. The best example I can recall is a power key on a computer, whose label was translated in Italian as "potere". :)
According to that label, the humble key is something that, if pressed, will give you the kind of "power" that a dictator have...!
As a non-American I must say that I am puzzled. Europe is supposed to be a far less integrated market, yet when I buy a product in any EU country, the only tax that is paid is the sale tax (VAT or equivalent) in that country. Since there are basically no restrictions on goods movement I can then take the stuff that I bought anywhere I please, without tax concerns. That is what a single, unified market without frontiers is supposed to be all about.
Now, the US is a strictly integrated economic environment. Why do interstate taxes exist at all? Aren't they arbitrary restrictions to the movement of goods? What about free market and free competition (even between states)? Please enlighten me.
You are probably using a keyboard with an ANSI layout (Item #320-1273, or equivalent national variations). If you get the keyboard #320-1271, you get the standard PC layout. Which is good. :)
There is another option for an excellent keyboard with the Alt/Command keys in the right place for a Mac user: a Sun keyboard.
= SunStore&cmdViewProduct_CP&boxid=%2523320-1271
I am typing this on a Sun Microsystem's Type 6 USB keyboard, Item-number #320-1271. You can order one at the Sun Store for $60:
http://store.sun.com/CMTemplate/CEServlet?process
or apparently here for $40.
You can even use the extra keys on Linux.
Here's a picture.
"Incontriamoci il 17 aprile 2004" (Italian)
Paying some form of tax to be free from advert-driven television, in this case, is really not so bad...