CodeWarrior has a feature no other current Windows-based IDE has - independent free floating edit windows without being locked into an MDI container with grey backdrop. I'd gladly pay a few hundred dollars for a modern, actively supported editor that had such a feature (I hear SlickEdit has been planning it, but they have yet to deliver).
Mod parent up. Why is it that, two decades after GUIs became the norm for spreadsheets and word processors, programmers still have to make do with tabbed editors and split-screens? (This is not to say that tabs and split views aren't important.) Am I the only developer who'd like to use his second monitor for something other than Slashdot?
Yes, it's easy to open, but you'd know whether someone tried to tamper with it.
Try spraying the envelope with refrigerant. The paper becomes translucent when wetted and you can sometimes read what's inside, and then it dries without a trace (unlike wetting it with water, which swells up the paper fibers leaving the telltale signs of tampering.)
Learned this one from a history of the U.S. Black Chamber.
Does anyone not use "security" envelopes anymore? (The ones that are printed with a dense line pattern on the inside?) I didn't know they sold plain envelopes anymore, except for greeting cards.
Apple's stance appears to be, right or wrong, that Java on the desktop and mobile devices is no longer the best way to develop and deploy software, and thus, they've allowed the Java implementation in OS X to grow long in the tooth, and have outright declined to port it to the iPhone/iPod Touch OS.
This certainly appears to be Apple's stance as of late.
The reason this is an issue is that Sun has granted Apple an exclusive license to Java on the Mac. As a result, Sun has released up-to-date, patched versions of Java on Windows and Linux, but can't do so for Mac OS X.
Microsoft, for example, has historically been even more ambivalent (even hostile) to Java than Apple is now. But Microsoft doesn't prevent Sun from maintaining a fully functional and up-to-date JVM for Windows.
If Apple doesn't want to support and update Java, that's fine. It just needs to get out of the way.
west of vero beach is the stomping grounds of nasa engineers. I was in melbourne (like a 20 minute drive from vero beach) this past weekend and spoke with a few engineers who worked for nasa through contracts. That entire area is known as the "space coast". This was probably taken by an ex-nasa engineer or photographer. About month ago when I was up there was a rocket launch and there were probably 5-10 nasa guys in the street watching it. That area is absolutley saturated with guys who have an interest in nasa's activities and the professional know-how to do such things. While it could still be a hoax, there is nothing physically impossible and the location of origin of the photo only lends credibility.
Well, there you have it then. NASA at work. That's the agency that faked the moon landings, you know.
What exactly makes the job immoral and unethical? I will admit that I myself have been annoyed by some in the industry who could care less about regulations, but the company I worked for did nothing to show either of these things. When I worked in QA, if I saw/heard anything even remotely questionable it was immediately reported to both my manager and the rep's supervisor. The problems rarely surfaced again after that. I really hate that people generalize an industry because of a few bad apples.
If your company was selling a legitimate product/service for a reasonable amount of money, it would not have to cold-call random people to do so. Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door, as they say.
But I'll bite, anyway. Go ahead: Name the company or companies and products you were representing, and the prices you offered to them. Let us hear about this useful product or service and the fair prices you were offering.
The truth shall set you free. You say you don't work for them, anymore, so you have nothing to lose.
Whenever I'm having a bad day I can just wait for their call and keep yelling obscenities and laughing like a twelve-year-old. In fact yesterday morning I got one and greeted with "PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS lol."
Since when has "Penis" been an obscenity?
Damn Puritan influence has people believing half their bodies are obscene.
Then will the same groups go on to shut down Better Homes, Oprah, Family Circle and Good Housekeeping magazines?
I think that, if you were to launch a magazine with the exact same content, but advertising itself as "The Magazine for Women!" then it, too, would become the target of a similar protest. Sometimes, subtle is the way to go.
Absolutely, I mean, so what if those guys broke into your house and killed you and raped your mom *right in your own basement bedroom*... y'know, you should have had better locks, and used them more consistently; y'know, if you'd really cared.
Sure, there are *much* better backup strategies; that having been said, somebody broke in and did a bunch of damage for shits and grins. They suck.
They are the scum of the earth, to be sure.
But on the other hand, if you left your mom home, by herself, with the spare key under the doormat, after using up her cell phone battery so she couldn't call the police, while you left to go play games at the arcade, should you feel guilty? Yes, you probably should.
Apple is making under-the hood changes, not userland changes. No flash, no sizzle, no fancy demos. Just nuts-and-bolts technical changes.
It's much like a new kernel release. The Average Joe won't notice it the way he would a new Gnome release: there's no new eye candy. But it makes important architectural changes that will enable applications (and future versions of userland tools) to work better.
Wrong attitude. You have a business agreement of equals with your employer, you're not their slave.
Indeed. And, as an equal, if my employer were denigrating me in public (or semi-public), I would not hesitate to terminate all agreements with them. Thus, I do not fault them if they would do the same to me.
You give them time, they give you money. At no point do you have to or should you ever be subservient to them or give up any of your human rights, or anything else they haven't already agree to pay you for.
Indeed. And under no religion, or charter I am aware of is the right to be abusive without consequence a human right.
Yet for some reason especially in the USA employees let their employers walk all over them, which sends the message that we're all a bunch of pussies that will put up with anything, so the employer does it even more. Basically its the fault of every employee with an attitude like yours that it can happen in the first place.
I, for one, am not a pussy. I wield the ultimate power over my employer: the right to walk away if I am dissatisfied in any way, at any time. And I see nothing in the summary that would make a reasonable person exercise that right.
Modal dialog boxes interrupt workflow. We need to make most dialog boxes modeless and dockable.
The Mac version of Office has one (the Toolbox, they call it) and the vast majority of document formatting tasks that were formerly modal can be done with it. It uses accordion-style organization, but with as many panels open as you have room for. And it's a draggable palette, but it'll snap to a screen edge or corner.
Oh, and in Office 08, the traditional menu structure and modal dialog boxes are there, too, so old-timers aren't forced to relearn everything, as with Office 07.
If they hadn't sabotaged it by removing VBA, Office 08 would be a pretty awesome suite.
If only. My office voicemail uses two keys (* 3) and my cell phone use one, totally different key (7) and my previous cell phone used a different key altogether. And i have to remember which one's which.
Whereas with email, you do get one-key delete. And it's always the same key. And that key is helpfully labeled "Delete."
No, but compared to PCs of the era I could probably get away with calling the SE/20 or SE/30 fashion accessories.
They were certainly great little machines too, but style was key (and that's where you start hearing the anecdotes about Steve micromanaging the UI design of everything.)
Odd, since Jobs had left the company (ie. been fired) by then.
ere is no way to get that info - e.g. a list of links on a page, each to a file of a different type. If it says http://example.com/file.doc, you know what to expect. Metadata sufficient to render file extensions obsolete would leave us with http://example.com/file, with no way to tell what it contains.
Such metadata already exists. You cannot depend on a URL to tell you the file type of the resulting downloaded object. It's too easy for a malicous site to use server-side URL mapping to redirect the apparent URL http://example.com/file.pdf to a server-side application that delivers up an executable, complete with HTTP header like Content-Disposition:attachment;filename=file.pdf.exe
Which will trigger your browser to ask you where you'd like to save file.pdf.exe.
On the plus side, an OS X executable has to be zipped (or tar'd, or packaged in a disk image) before it can be sent as an email attachment or downloaded from a website. It's more than a little suspicious when you have to unzip a Word doc.
The biggest flaw in OS X's handling of file types, though, is the default setting in Safari which will unzip archives and mount disk images that are downloaded automatically. WTF?!! That checkbox shouldn't exist, much less be the default.
For what its worth, OS X does warn you when you run a downloaded executable for the first time. (So do Vista and Win 7, I believe.)
Your average new car costs very roughly $3000 a year in depreciation. It may be less if you have a cheap japanese model, and much more if you have a American SUV.
A car is very expensive compared to taking trains when you factor in depreciation and insurance.
True, but if you have a car anyway (for use on weekends, out-of-town, etc.) then you pay for only the additional depreciation of increased mileage. Most of that $3000 will still disappear.
Same deal with insurance; most of the cost of insurance is a function of vehicle make and geographic and demographic risk factors, not on miles traveled.
We however have grown concerned over your ability to operate our traffic as a neutral controller, as some of your states believe they can hijack and disable our traffic lights, if it bothers their locals. They have not been entirely successful yet, but they have caused disruptions that should never of been possible in the first place.
"...have not been entirely successful yet...?" That's some Fox News-worthy spin if ever I've heard one.
Have you even read the URL of the link you posted? The state of Kentucky itself decided it could not do what it thought it could. See, Kentucky has an appeals court system, whose primary job is to prevent idiots in government from running amuck. And in the case you pointed, it did its job, on its own, without any outside help, before it could cause a problem for anyone. Even the people of Kentucky.
That's about as shining an example of how oversight is supposed to work as I can think of. (And by the way, there are several other levels of oversight above that. Namely, higher state courts and federal courts.) Yes, the US has idiots who will try to seize power, but the it also has a governmental system designed from day 1 to keep those idiots in check.
(Never mind that the state of Kentucky has about as much jurisdiction over ICANN, or the broader Internet, as I do.)
Agreed. Even the words "market share" are almost meaningless for Linux. "Market share" is the share of the market...how exactly do you count sales for something that's given away for free?
If I buy a PC with an OEM Windows license, then download and install Linux on that box, what does that mean? I've given money to Microsoft in exchange for a product, and no money to any of its competitors. Obviously, a market share point in MS's favor.
The Net Applciations numbers track "usage share" (the percentage of people using Linux for day-to-day tasks) and is probably the most meaningful if you were, say, trying to figure out whether to port your desktop app or game to Linux. (This number is skewed slightly since a large percentage of web surfing is done from work PCs...if you're a game developer, you don't care about work PCs.)
TFA also suggests counting Firefox downloads. That's a seperate quantity, akin to counting the number of Ubunto ISOs downloaded. It gives you the number of people experimenting with Linux, not necessarily using it. Naturally this is higher than the Net Applications number...my two Linux VMs both count toward this number, even though I spend less than 5% of my time playing with them.
As for USA vs. Europe/Asia...well, it kind of depends on why you care. If you're just a armchair Linux advocate, then you'll get the warm fuzzies hearing about global Linux adoption. If you're a US software corporation, you probably don't give a rat's ass.
At that price, they're competing directly with full tablet PCs.
(For example: an HP tx2z with 2GB of memory is $900 right now after rebate. It weighs under 5 lbs.)
Granted, the iRex probably has some size/weight and battery life advantages, but it's dramatically less versatile than a full-featured computer. Unless they can drop the price significantly, I don't forsee many ebook devices at that size.
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CodeWarrior has a feature no other current Windows-based IDE has - independent free floating edit windows without being locked into an MDI container with grey backdrop. I'd gladly pay a few hundred dollars for a modern, actively supported editor that had such a feature (I hear SlickEdit has been planning it, but they have yet to deliver).
Mod parent up. Why is it that, two decades after GUIs became the norm for spreadsheets and word processors, programmers still have to make do with tabbed editors and split-screens? (This is not to say that tabs and split views aren't important.) Am I the only developer who'd like to use his second monitor for something other than Slashdot?
Yes, it's easy to open, but you'd know whether someone tried to tamper with it.
Try spraying the envelope with refrigerant. The paper becomes translucent when wetted and you can sometimes read what's inside, and then it dries without a trace (unlike wetting it with water, which swells up the paper fibers leaving the telltale signs of tampering.)
Learned this one from a history of the U.S. Black Chamber.
Does anyone not use "security" envelopes anymore? (The ones that are printed with a dense line pattern on the inside?) I didn't know they sold plain envelopes anymore, except for greeting cards.
... a young generation of cybersecurity researchers ... attacking and defending digital targets, stealing data ...
Isn't it funny that whenever there is talk about security it generally means the opposite?
Military thinking 101: The best defense is a good offense.
Apple's stance appears to be, right or wrong, that Java on the desktop and mobile devices is no longer the best way to develop and deploy software, and thus, they've allowed the Java implementation in OS X to grow long in the tooth, and have outright declined to port it to the iPhone/iPod Touch OS.
This certainly appears to be Apple's stance as of late.
The reason this is an issue is that Sun has granted Apple an exclusive license to Java on the Mac. As a result, Sun has released up-to-date, patched versions of Java on Windows and Linux, but can't do so for Mac OS X.
Microsoft, for example, has historically been even more ambivalent (even hostile) to Java than
Apple is now. But Microsoft doesn't prevent Sun from maintaining a fully functional and up-to-date JVM for Windows.
If Apple doesn't want to support and update Java, that's fine. It just needs to get out of the way.
But Apple bowed to its third party developers....
They sure learned their lesson well.
I like the mass hallucination that causes everyone to pronounce Linksys as Linkskees.
You mean English spelling? Not sure if that's a halucination or a deeper form of insanity.
west of vero beach is the stomping grounds of nasa engineers. I was in melbourne (like a 20 minute drive from vero beach) this past weekend and spoke with a few engineers who worked for nasa through contracts. That entire area is known as the "space coast". This was probably taken by an ex-nasa engineer or photographer. About month ago when I was up there was a rocket launch and there were probably 5-10 nasa guys in the street watching it. That area is absolutley saturated with guys who have an interest in nasa's activities and the professional know-how to do such things. While it could still be a hoax, there is nothing physically impossible and the location of origin of the photo only lends credibility.
Well, there you have it then. NASA at work. That's the agency that faked the moon landings, you know.
(Yes, I am kidding.)
What exactly makes the job immoral and unethical? I will admit that I myself have been annoyed by some in the industry who could care less about regulations, but the company I worked for did nothing to show either of these things. When I worked in QA, if I saw/heard anything even remotely questionable it was immediately reported to both my manager and the rep's supervisor. The problems rarely surfaced again after that. I really hate that people generalize an industry because of a few bad apples.
If your company was selling a legitimate product/service for a reasonable amount of money, it would not have to cold-call random people to do so. Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door, as they say.
But I'll bite, anyway. Go ahead: Name the company or companies and products you were representing, and the prices you offered to them. Let us hear about this useful product or service and the fair prices you were offering.
The truth shall set you free. You say you don't work for them, anymore, so you have nothing to lose.
Whenever I'm having a bad day I can just wait for their call and keep yelling obscenities and laughing like a twelve-year-old.
In fact yesterday morning I got one and greeted with "PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS lol."
Since when has "Penis" been an obscenity?
Damn Puritan influence has people believing half their bodies are obscene.
Then will the same groups go on to shut down Better Homes, Oprah, Family Circle and Good Housekeeping magazines?
I think that, if you were to launch a magazine with the exact same content, but advertising itself as "The Magazine for Women!" then it, too, would become the target of a similar protest. Sometimes, subtle is the way to go.
Absolutely, I mean, so what if those guys broke into your house and killed you and raped your mom *right in your own basement bedroom* ... y'know, you should have had better locks, and used them more consistently; y'know, if you'd really cared.
Sure, there are *much* better backup strategies; that having been said, somebody broke in and did a bunch of damage for shits and grins. They suck.
They are the scum of the earth, to be sure.
But on the other hand, if you left your mom home, by herself, with the spare key under the doormat, after using up her cell phone battery so she couldn't call the police, while you left to go play games at the arcade, should you feel guilty? Yes, you probably should.
Apple is making under-the hood changes, not userland changes. No flash, no sizzle, no fancy demos. Just nuts-and-bolts technical changes.
It's much like a new kernel release. The Average Joe won't notice it the way he would a new Gnome release: there's no new eye candy. But it makes important architectural changes that will enable applications (and future versions of userland tools) to work better.
Wrong attitude.
You have a business agreement of equals with your employer, you're not their slave.
Indeed. And, as an equal, if my employer were denigrating me in public (or semi-public), I would not hesitate to terminate all agreements with them. Thus, I do not fault them if they would do the same to me.
You give them time, they give you money. At no point do you have to or should you ever be subservient to them or give up any of your human rights, or anything else they haven't already agree to pay you for.
Indeed. And under no religion, or charter I am aware of is the right to be abusive without consequence a human right.
Yet for some reason especially in the USA employees let their employers walk all over them, which sends the message that we're all a bunch of pussies that will put up with anything, so the employer does it even more. Basically its the fault of every employee with an attitude like yours that it can happen in the first place.
I, for one, am not a pussy. I wield the ultimate power over my employer: the right to walk away if I am dissatisfied in any way, at any time. And I see nothing in the summary that would make a reasonable person exercise that right.
Modal dialog boxes interrupt workflow. We need to make most dialog boxes modeless and dockable.
The Mac version of Office has one (the Toolbox, they call it) and the vast majority of document formatting tasks that were formerly modal can be done with it. It uses accordion-style organization, but with as many panels open as you have room for. And it's a draggable palette, but it'll snap to a screen edge or corner.
Oh, and in Office 08, the traditional menu structure and modal dialog boxes are there, too, so old-timers aren't forced to relearn everything, as with Office 07.
If they hadn't sabotaged it by removing VBA, Office 08 would be a pretty awesome suite.
Voice Mail is easier than E-Mail.
With voice mail, you can:
1: Delete by quickly pressing 1 key
If only. My office voicemail uses two keys (* 3) and my cell phone use one, totally different key (7) and my previous cell phone used a different key altogether. And i have to remember which one's which.
Whereas with email, you do get one-key delete. And it's always the same key. And that key is helpfully labeled "Delete."
Look, this is the News for Nerds site. You're looking for the News for Mystics site. Perhaps Google can help you find it.
... Even the dog was a little wary of them.
Yeah, obviously, arachnophobia is an unnatural, learned phobia.
No, but compared to PCs of the era I could probably get away with calling the SE/20 or SE/30 fashion accessories.
They were certainly great little machines too, but style was key (and that's where you start hearing the anecdotes about Steve micromanaging the UI design of everything.)
Odd, since Jobs had left the company (ie. been fired) by then.
ere is no way to get that info - e.g. a list of links on a page, each to a file of a different type. If it says http://example.com/file.doc, you know what to expect. Metadata sufficient to render file extensions obsolete would leave us with http://example.com/file, with no way to tell what it contains.
Such metadata already exists. You cannot depend on a URL to tell you the file type of the resulting downloaded object. It's too easy for a malicous site to use server-side URL mapping to redirect the apparent URL http://example.com/file.pdf to a server-side application that delivers up an executable, complete with HTTP header like
Content-Disposition:attachment;filename=file.pdf.exe
Which will trigger your browser to ask you where you'd like to save file.pdf.exe.
On the plus side, an OS X executable has to be zipped (or tar'd, or packaged in a disk image) before it can be sent as an email attachment or downloaded from a website. It's more than a little suspicious when you have to unzip a Word doc.
The biggest flaw in OS X's handling of file types, though, is the default setting in Safari which will unzip archives and mount disk images that are downloaded automatically. WTF?!! That checkbox shouldn't exist, much less be the default.
For what its worth, OS X does warn you when you run a downloaded executable for the first time. (So do Vista and Win 7, I believe.)
Your average new car costs very roughly $3000 a year in depreciation. It may be less if you have a cheap japanese model, and much more if you have a American SUV.
A car is very expensive compared to taking trains when you factor in depreciation and insurance.
True, but if you have a car anyway (for use on weekends, out-of-town, etc.) then you pay for only the additional depreciation of increased mileage. Most of that $3000 will still disappear.
Same deal with insurance; most of the cost of insurance is a function of vehicle make and geographic and demographic risk factors, not on miles traveled.
You know what's worse? I've seen it in actual dictionaries.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fish
We however have grown concerned over your ability to operate our traffic as a neutral controller, as some of your states believe they can hijack and disable our traffic lights, if it bothers their locals. They have not been entirely successful yet, but they have caused disruptions that should never of been possible in the first place.
http://blog.cdt.org/2009/01/24/kentucky-court-rules-that-domain-names-arent-craps-tables/
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"...have not been entirely successful yet...?" That's some Fox News-worthy spin if ever I've heard one.
Have you even read the URL of the link you posted?
The state of Kentucky itself decided it could not do what it thought it could. See, Kentucky has an appeals court system, whose primary job is to prevent idiots in government from running amuck. And in the case you pointed, it did its job, on its own, without any outside help, before it could cause a problem for anyone. Even the people of Kentucky.
That's about as shining an example of how oversight is supposed to work as I can think of. (And by the way, there are several other levels of oversight above that. Namely, higher state courts and federal courts.) Yes, the US has idiots who will try to seize power, but the it also has a governmental system designed from day 1 to keep those idiots in check.
(Never mind that the state of Kentucky has about as much jurisdiction over ICANN, or the broader Internet, as I do.)
Agreed. Even the words "market share" are almost meaningless for Linux. "Market share" is the share of the market...how exactly do you count sales for something that's given away for free?
If I buy a PC with an OEM Windows license, then download and install Linux on that box, what does that mean? I've given money to Microsoft in exchange for a product, and no money to any of its competitors. Obviously, a market share point in MS's favor.
The Net Applciations numbers track "usage share" (the percentage of people using Linux for day-to-day tasks) and is probably the most meaningful if you were, say, trying to figure out whether to port your desktop app or game to Linux. (This number is skewed slightly since a large percentage of web surfing is done from work PCs...if you're a game developer, you don't care about work PCs.)
TFA also suggests counting Firefox downloads. That's a seperate quantity, akin to counting the number of Ubunto ISOs downloaded. It gives you the number of people experimenting with Linux, not necessarily using it. Naturally this is higher than the Net Applications number...my two Linux VMs both count toward this number, even though I spend less than 5% of my time playing with them.
As for USA vs. Europe/Asia...well, it kind of depends on why you care. If you're just a armchair Linux advocate, then you'll get the warm fuzzies hearing about global Linux adoption. If you're a US software corporation, you probably don't give a rat's ass.
At that price, they're competing directly with full tablet PCs.
(For example: an HP tx2z with 2GB of memory is $900 right now after rebate. It weighs under 5 lbs.)
Granted, the iRex probably has some size/weight and battery life advantages, but it's dramatically less versatile than a full-featured computer. Unless they can drop the price significantly, I don't forsee many ebook devices at that size.