Are you talking about Paul Donahue? I took his fundamentals of mortgage orgination class (which met NC's education requirement). It was awesome. I've since left the career, but I still remember his insight and inspiration.
Not if you use, oh, any stock tracker, where it annotates the split price vs. the price at the time. Apple's stock has completely skyrocketed, why the insistence that it hasn't? Did you have a tip to buy and pass it up?:-)
Hey, right click on the input text boxes (like this one on slashdot) and you can select something like Check Spelling While You Type. I'm not entirely sure of the name because I'm posting from work. It's pretty awesome.:-)
Or, applying Occam's razor, Anakin didn't encode a unique voice or custom build parts, but rather built C3P0 from generic scrap pieces from the junk yard. Why go looking for a complicated solution, eh? There are probably dozens of protocol droids that look and sound exactly like C3P0.
BTW in the Clone Wars cartoons Anakin does meet the fully finished C3P0.
Don't worry, I wasn't expecting Spotlight to create any metadata, just to read the metadata I already have. Although comments will be handy, I didn't know about that.
I know that it looks into word docs, but does it look at word doc metadata (file, properties). Right now my word docs have category, keywords, and comments in metadata that aren't really taken advantage of. As a librarian I am all about metadata usage. I have used partial solutions for sorting and categorizing using my file's metadata for years, spotlight looks like it will combine all of my efforts into one slick package.
Hey, you aren't alone! Second to Spotlight I am drooling over the little robot buddy of Automator. I have specifically saved a few tasks that would normally be time consuming to try him out on.
My system is backed up, my copy of Tiger is on some fedex ramp, I'm ready to go!
Comparing process clock cycles between x86 chips and powerpc chips is a meaningless exercise. It's how much gets done during each cycle that's important. Much harder to casually measure, so use the machines you are interested in and see how you like their responsiveness in the tasks you like to do.
Go to the Apple store, play with a computer in your price range. Edit some photos, browse the web, launch some apps, mess around. And then do the same on a comparable system at (Best Buy, Fry's, etc) and see what you think.
"In my tests, on three different Macs during the past couple of weeks, Tiger performed generally well. Installation took about an hour and went smoothly in each case. None of the computers ever crashed, and every program I tested worked fine, despite the change in operating-system versions."
I will dissolve my structured storage wholeheartedly. Smart folders will be my directory structure. Fear will keep the local files in line.
It will be a lot easier to just add the project information into the metadata than rely on a fixed directory structure. For example, if I want to view files related to projects A, B, and C then I can just search for all three. If I want them conviently grouped, I'll create a smart folder. When I don't care if they are grouped anymore, smart folder is gone.
Sure it's going to take some adjustment and I'm not going to lump everything together. Although...there's no reason why different filetypes need to be separated. Hmm, I think the degree of my file lumping will be determined by smart folder details.
If I could say, group all jpg files that have resolutions of (1024x768, 1280x1024, etc) that would be fantastic. If I can store metadata (like theme, mood, etc) in jpg files without using iPhoto (I don't like to mix my photographs with my desktop wallpaper) then it would be even better.
Rent Babylon 5. It's a little dated by today's standards, but at the time it was a groundbreaking series. Inertia...in space! Used in combat! True it did fall back to sound in space, but... inertia!
Sorry, while I do disagree with the negative connotation that has been atrributed to "hacker," I have to say that "cracker" is, putting it mildly, extremely lame. Rather than trying to force 99% of the population to conform to your vocabulary, just think of a new word for what you call hacker. Please don't make it rhyme.
Oh I know! It's crazy. I hope that in crazy obsessive fashion Lucas will at least do some technobabble irreparable rocket damage that explains why R2 didn't use those things when they'd really be useful. Umm...his little droid memory was erased and he forgot he had rockets. Yeah.
They weren't just hover rockets either, he could really pull some moves with those things!
Maybe I should have added: R2 joins in the speeder chase using the rockets he totally always had.
Did they really put a rocket-powered r2d2 in a game...man.
No no. He'll completely remake 4, 5, and 6 to fully realize the vision he had a filmmaker that, no matter how much he edited after the fact, he just couldn't achieve.
Fans will denounce it, but still line up three months in advance so they can see the Death Star attack in glorious modern special effects. Just wait until you see the all CGI Darth Vader walking around. Oh, and to counter fans who said that that the ewoks should have been wookies because an army of Chewbacca kin would be awesome---well don't cry too hard when you see that Chewbacca is now an ewok. Instead of "That's 'cause droids don't tear your arms off if they lose." it will be "That's cause droids don't hit you with puppy dog eyes if they loose." : cut to an "adorable" chewie with gigantic black eyes and quivering lip.
Oh and:
Greedo will clearly shoot first, no lame added in shot. He will run into the bar, punch a girl, kick a dog, step on a kittens tail and then the noble Han Solo will try to steer him from the path of evil and only resort to shooting him with a tazer as a very last resort.
That whole Darth Vader doesn't recognize Tantooine or the droids will be fixed. There will be a touching reunion scene were C3PO's loyalty is tested, he chooses to erase his memory rather than serve the empire.
Leia won't kiss Luke on Hoth.
Yoda won't just complain that Luke is too old, he'll totally flip out when asked to train such a decrepit geezer. (Also Obi Wan's voice over will say, "Was I any different when QuiGonn taught me?")
Stormtroopers will aim better.
Luke won't use "dark" powers to get into Jabba's palace. He won't kill the rancor but turn it to the ways of good, it will then break free and live a peaceful life in the desert.
Han will still accidentally kill off Boba Fett, but the ensuing slapstick will set off a chain reaction and destroy a gigantic Hutt crime base.
R2 will occasionally rocket around on the leg rockets he totally always had.
Han Solo will be revealed to have an untapped force talent, which explains why Ben offered to teach him. (Which wouldn't make sense if he didn't have midichorians to begin with.) Mystic mumbo-jumbo about living energy that binds us replaced with tiny bug talk.
Emperor takes more of an active hand in the plots of all three movies via unsubtle political manipulation.
More footage of galactic congressional meetings on trade embargos.
Admiral Ackbar spits a lot more (ala Gungan ruler).
Darth Vader will be played by Christian Haydenson, right down to a digitally altered robotic voice (no more James Earl).
In a Back to the Future-ish turn: Luke's new love interest turns out to be distant relative of Amidala who bears more than a passing resemblance to Natalie Portman.
My wife is not really into video games. (Except Tetris with a passion, and webboggle.) But she loves to watch me play RE4. So much so that we only play it together. She makes popcorn and watches it like a movie, I blast away shambling villagefolk.
It's actually one of the more watchable games that I've come across. It's a pretty decent horror movie. Actually given the length its more like a horror series in one package.
Previously she watched me play through Grim Fandango (after I knew all the puzzles of course, otherwise it'd be boring as hell while I do the throw the inventory at the puzzle and wander around trying to figure things out). That game is hands down the best game/movie I've seen.
A good portion of the Wing Commander games are good too, but the space battles get repetitive for the view unless they are a player as well.
She also likes watching parts of Splinter Cell, but the sneaking around is less fun to watch.
You drop Stalin and China in the same point? Remember China kicked out Stalin's cominterns when they said that China couldn't be communist because they hadn't had an industrial revolution. Boiling down a lot Mao said that China could skip all that revolution of the proletariat because the peasants of China were blank slates upon which he could write any ideology he wanted. China was only and is only communist in name only, not by ideology.
Here's a fun fact. In the early twentieth century China's ancient gentry system of government was overthrown by popular revolt. In the mid-twentieth century the new government was overthrown by the children of the former gentry rulers. The more things change....
China can't be truly totalitarian, it's much too big. There is a common saying in the outlying provinces when they talk about government. "Beijing is far away and the mountains are very tall."
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So you created a slashdot user account...just so you could reply to a minor comment buried in a article containing a short review you did of Tiger.
And not even to disagree with the comment, but affirm it.
Wacky.
Are you talking about Paul Donahue? I took his fundamentals of mortgage orgination class (which met NC's education requirement). It was awesome. I've since left the career, but I still remember his insight and inspiration.
Not if you use, oh, any stock tracker, where it annotates the split price vs. the price at the time. Apple's stock has completely skyrocketed, why the insistence that it hasn't? Did you have a tip to buy and pass it up? :-)
Hey, right click on the input text boxes (like this one on slashdot) and you can select something like Check Spelling While You Type. I'm not entirely sure of the name because I'm posting from work. It's pretty awesome. :-)
You are supposed to tell him to move along.
Quoth the parent with my own emphasis: "but I've always wanted to see that, not anakin do this (as is implied in the trailer), but vader."
So. There you go. I agree with that btw. I want to see Vader in his "prime" causing destruction and mayhem, not more of Anakin cutting loose.
Or, applying Occam's razor, Anakin didn't encode a unique voice or custom build parts, but rather built C3P0 from generic scrap pieces from the junk yard. Why go looking for a complicated solution, eh? There are probably dozens of protocol droids that look and sound exactly like C3P0.
BTW in the Clone Wars cartoons Anakin does meet the fully finished C3P0.
Don't worry, I wasn't expecting Spotlight to create any metadata, just to read the metadata I already have. Although comments will be handy, I didn't know about that.
I know that it looks into word docs, but does it look at word doc metadata (file, properties). Right now my word docs have category, keywords, and comments in metadata that aren't really taken advantage of. As a librarian I am all about metadata usage. I have used partial solutions for sorting and categorizing using my file's metadata for years, spotlight looks like it will combine all of my efforts into one slick package.
Sweet.
Best story ever? It was great, but not that great. It is my favorite Ultima game though, although I flipflop between it and 7.
Check out Grim Fandango by Lucasarts. Or the excellent (and free!) text adventure game Photopia .
Swing and a miss.
Hey, you aren't alone! Second to Spotlight I am drooling over the little robot buddy of Automator. I have specifically saved a few tasks that would normally be time consuming to try him out on.
My system is backed up, my copy of Tiger is on some fedex ramp, I'm ready to go!
Comparing process clock cycles between x86 chips and powerpc chips is a meaningless exercise. It's how much gets done during each cycle that's important. Much harder to casually measure, so use the machines you are interested in and see how you like their responsiveness in the tasks you like to do.
Go to the Apple store, play with a computer in your price range. Edit some photos, browse the web, launch some apps, mess around. And then do the same on a comparable system at (Best Buy, Fry's, etc) and see what you think.
Or go to CompUSA and hit both in one store.
From TFA, talking about upgrading:
"In my tests, on three different Macs during the past couple of weeks, Tiger performed generally well. Installation took about an hour and went smoothly in each case. None of the computers ever crashed, and every program I tested worked fine, despite the change in operating-system versions."
I will dissolve my structured storage wholeheartedly. Smart folders will be my directory structure. Fear will keep the local files in line.
It will be a lot easier to just add the project information into the metadata than rely on a fixed directory structure. For example, if I want to view files related to projects A, B, and C then I can just search for all three. If I want them conviently grouped, I'll create a smart folder. When I don't care if they are grouped anymore, smart folder is gone.
Sure it's going to take some adjustment and I'm not going to lump everything together. Although...there's no reason why different filetypes need to be separated. Hmm, I think the degree of my file lumping will be determined by smart folder details.
If I could say, group all jpg files that have resolutions of (1024x768, 1280x1024, etc) that would be fantastic. If I can store metadata (like theme, mood, etc) in jpg files without using iPhoto (I don't like to mix my photographs with my desktop wallpaper) then it would be even better.
He, ah, did. At the pentium release.
iPod -> Pod
Exactly. Pod. As in containment device.
Rent Babylon 5. It's a little dated by today's standards, but at the time it was a groundbreaking series. Inertia...in space! Used in combat! True it did fall back to sound in space, but ... inertia!
Calm down and run the Target Alert Firefox extension. It'll be ok dude.
Sorry, while I do disagree with the negative connotation that has been atrributed to "hacker," I have to say that "cracker" is, putting it mildly, extremely lame. Rather than trying to force 99% of the population to conform to your vocabulary, just think of a new word for what you call hacker. Please don't make it rhyme.
Oh I know! It's crazy. I hope that in crazy obsessive fashion Lucas will at least do some technobabble irreparable rocket damage that explains why R2 didn't use those things when they'd really be useful. Umm...his little droid memory was erased and he forgot he had rockets. Yeah.
They weren't just hover rockets either, he could really pull some moves with those things!
Maybe I should have added: R2 joins in the speeder chase using the rockets he totally always had.
Did they really put a rocket-powered r2d2 in a game...man.
No no. He'll completely remake 4, 5, and 6 to fully realize the vision he had a filmmaker that, no matter how much he edited after the fact, he just couldn't achieve.
Fans will denounce it, but still line up three months in advance so they can see the Death Star attack in glorious modern special effects. Just wait until you see the all CGI Darth Vader walking around. Oh, and to counter fans who said that that the ewoks should have been wookies because an army of Chewbacca kin would be awesome---well don't cry too hard when you see that Chewbacca is now an ewok. Instead of "That's 'cause droids don't tear your arms off if they lose." it will be "That's cause droids don't hit you with puppy dog eyes if they loose." : cut to an "adorable" chewie with gigantic black eyes and quivering lip.
Oh and:
Greedo will clearly shoot first, no lame added in shot. He will run into the bar, punch a girl, kick a dog, step on a kittens tail and then the noble Han Solo will try to steer him from the path of evil and only resort to shooting him with a tazer as a very last resort.
That whole Darth Vader doesn't recognize Tantooine or the droids will be fixed. There will be a touching reunion scene were C3PO's loyalty is tested, he chooses to erase his memory rather than serve the empire.
Leia won't kiss Luke on Hoth.
Yoda won't just complain that Luke is too old, he'll totally flip out when asked to train such a decrepit geezer. (Also Obi Wan's voice over will say, "Was I any different when QuiGonn taught me?")
Stormtroopers will aim better.
Luke won't use "dark" powers to get into Jabba's palace. He won't kill the rancor but turn it to the ways of good, it will then break free and live a peaceful life in the desert.
Han will still accidentally kill off Boba Fett, but the ensuing slapstick will set off a chain reaction and destroy a gigantic Hutt crime base.
R2 will occasionally rocket around on the leg rockets he totally always had.
Han Solo will be revealed to have an untapped force talent, which explains why Ben offered to teach him. (Which wouldn't make sense if he didn't have midichorians to begin with.) Mystic mumbo-jumbo about living energy that binds us replaced with tiny bug talk.
Emperor takes more of an active hand in the plots of all three movies via unsubtle political manipulation.
More footage of galactic congressional meetings on trade embargos.
Admiral Ackbar spits a lot more (ala Gungan ruler).
Darth Vader will be played by Christian Haydenson, right down to a digitally altered robotic voice (no more James Earl).
In a Back to the Future-ish turn: Luke's new love interest turns out to be distant relative of Amidala who bears more than a passing resemblance to Natalie Portman.
Then he will make 7,8, and 9.
But, as she has repeatedly asserted, she doesn't want to play video games. But she does like to watch some of the nicer looking ones. :-)
My wife is not really into video games. (Except Tetris with a passion, and webboggle.) But she loves to watch me play RE4. So much so that we only play it together. She makes popcorn and watches it like a movie, I blast away shambling villagefolk.
It's actually one of the more watchable games that I've come across. It's a pretty decent horror movie. Actually given the length its more like a horror series in one package.
Previously she watched me play through Grim Fandango (after I knew all the puzzles of course, otherwise it'd be boring as hell while I do the throw the inventory at the puzzle and wander around trying to figure things out). That game is hands down the best game/movie I've seen.
A good portion of the Wing Commander games are good too, but the space battles get repetitive for the view unless they are a player as well.
She also likes watching parts of Splinter Cell, but the sneaking around is less fun to watch.
Hey...that's just crazy enough to work!
"Your idea of a donut-shaped universe intrigues me Homer; I may have to steal it." - Stephen Hawking on The Simpsons.
You drop Stalin and China in the same point? Remember China kicked out Stalin's cominterns when they said that China couldn't be communist because they hadn't had an industrial revolution. Boiling down a lot Mao said that China could skip all that revolution of the proletariat because the peasants of China were blank slates upon which he could write any ideology he wanted. China was only and is only communist in name only, not by ideology.
Here's a fun fact. In the early twentieth century China's ancient gentry system of government was overthrown by popular revolt. In the mid-twentieth century the new government was overthrown by the children of the former gentry rulers. The more things change....
China can't be truly totalitarian, it's much too big. There is a common saying in the outlying provinces when they talk about government. "Beijing is far away and the mountains are very tall."