How can people be talking about a GameCube][ when Nitendo have not yet released a MarioKarts for the GameCube! I mean it's only the greatest game ever made. I still have a banged up old N64 just for MK, and will buy a GC in a flash when Mk is finally if ever released.
yep my terminals are a lovely translucent navy blue with white text. looks great and is the envy of the suckers I work with who insist on using windows still. so funny to see them struggle with such simple things as a terminal that contains text longer than 80 chars - haha, i laughed when i saw they could not widen their terminals in winXP. still! I mean at least their terminals have scroll bars now which is a huge step up from win2k, but then there's me, resizing at will mid compile cos my debug messages are quite wide, and i didn't even realize i was doing anything special. macs rock as a java developer, there is no two ways about it.
Improves Mail's selection of character encoding for messages sent in these languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian.
all well and good but it has not added Greece, Russia Thailand, Bulgaria or the Ukraine to the Address Book's list of Address Formats. This is such a pain as lots of people in my address book are in those countries, and I am pretty sure that MapQuest supports those countries. ahh well perhaps in 10.3.
Address book. It works fine for me. Person calls, a window pops up saying "blah blah calling... " shows the number and asks if i want to answer the call or not. to dial just click and hold on the number in the address book and voila, the options include "large type", "SMS message", or "dial". This does of course presume you have a bluetooth phone and it's been paired to your Mac.
One of the executives may say: "Sir, we had a consultant a few months ago, he did some good work- Also, he saw this coming. Perhaps we should bring him back on to help us get out of this?"
Company President replies: "Mr Jones, call that consultant. You can spend double the normal per consultant budget to get him in, we need this fixed NOW."
and in the real world...
woe betide the consultant hauled in at the last minute, lured by the promise of double the money to fix it fast. It's the equivalent of offering the taxi driver double the fare to get you to the airport in 10 mts.
sure there are people who will trott out the old "the customer is always right but they should pay for their arrogance" line but in truth you do yourself no favours by taking on jobs with unreasonable expectations, especially from a client who has refused to listen to you in the past.
I am a bit sad I missed getting the 17" model. I have a feeling I would have loved it even more.
tell me about it. i am thinking of buying a cinema display this week just cos I am going out of my mind with pages or text all over my screen. man i wish i could make all my windows slightly translucent. that would solve about 80% of my screen real estate problems i recon.
My point is I already own a Mac and a phone, my Mac has a mike and a speaker. I use my Mac to drive the phone in every respect except to actually talk to people via voice, and issue voice instructions to the phone. So rather than spend more money on a bluetooth headset that I'd only lose anyway, I want the bluetooth stack in osx to handle audio. Consider the possibilities.
I wonder if I'll finally be able to use my mac as a virtual bluetooth headset. i mean i love being able to dial, send sms messages and answer the phone from my mac but then i have to go into the other room and find my phone to actually talk to anyone. It would be much more awesome to just click answer and then speak/listen, and to be able to use the voice activatable functions in the phone etc. Then my phone can stay in its drawer where it belongs until it's walkies time.
My company buys Windows machines for about $550 including an XP Pro license. You'd still need a FireWire card (say $100) and a monitor ($130). So we have about a $780 system that can, theoretically, edit video using Windows Movie Maker bundled with XP.
of course you forgot to add in the 12 hours of install, config, finding those authentic winXP installer disks to load the right drivers, working out to get WMM to do what you want, etc at a rate of say ?50 per hour (or whatever a video edit tech charges where you are). then the mac is easily the cheapest option - by a country mile, and whats more you'd be working on a very nice looking machine.
What I actually use is a $3,000 PowerBook G4 with 1GB RAM. But that's because I like to freak restaurant owners out by editing video during my lunch break. Sometimes I even haul in my XL1 and do video capture right on the table.
i have the same (only mine was US$3200 ex tax cos i couldn't live without the dvd burner) and all i get is people coming up to me in airports and asking if they can check [ their mail | flight times | what happened to air canada ] quickly. sheesh, just cos I have a mac does not make me a public access net cafe. it's pretty funny tho having all this kit as the real power is there just to sate my hobbies. my work involves editing text. gotta have a 1Ghz, 1Gb powerbook with a dvd burner for that of course.
just out of interest, here is the top readout from my mac as for a few mts ago. I leave almost every program I have running almost all the time. with 1gb ram it's just magic:-)
Note not a lot of wasted memory there. Nothing really sucking on my processor, but when i flip to photoshop it's like a milisecond wait, hooray for that.
dave
Because the application is irrelevant and should be completely transaparent. The user doesn't (and shouldn't have to) care what application is being used to open their documents.
I don't know about you but I would hate it if the many various text files I work with somehow chose their own app to run in. I regularly open tomcat log files in BBEdit for example. I open PDF files in preview mostly but sometime want to open them in smacrobat. I open most graphics in preview but every so often want to open them in photoshop. sometimes I want to open html files in bbedit, sometimes in safari, sometimes in omniweb. Same docs, entirely different applications.
I swapped my new laptop battery for an older one that was working a-okay. The old one, although reporting full charge, was run down to absolute flat in about an hour. I charged it again overnight and retried and after a few tries it runs flat now in under 30 mts. So i swapped back to my new battery which is lasting me a good 3 hrs or so. I was happy to blame the old battery (it was made in 2000) but it does seem odd that this behaviour should coincide with upgrading to osx10.2.4 - and so many others are also reporting this problem now.
Books by Phil Agee - CIA Diary: Inside the Company and On the Run. Both out of print, no suprise but I got my copies through a mail order house in the UK. The were posted a day after my order but took a month and a half to get to me. suspicious moi? Although more about the CIA they contain fascinating insights into the overall operations of the Intelligence Services as they were in the 70s. Especially interesting is Agee's description of the CIA being alerted to his every move from hotel checkins, phone taps, border checks and so forth. Makes you think twice about checking into a hotel - anywhere. Also very interesting is his description of standard CIA destabilisation stratagem - you can see these same tactics being deployed today against Chavez in Venezuela and Schröder in Germany.
A Secret Country by John Pilger. The chapter on the CIA's infiltration of the Australian labor movement and the subsequent 'dismissal' of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam is excellent in particular. Whitlam had threatened to evict the NSA's Pine Gap and Narrungar remote monitoring and relay facilities from Australia. This was also aroud the time of the ill fated Nugan Hand bank which was being used by the CIA to launder heroin money. The NHB was the prototype for the equally ill fated BCCI, Bank of Credit and Commerce International aka Bank of Crooks and Criminals International. The bases, with their unregulated traffic were perfect conduits for heroin from south east asia.
American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand - If you like his style, and many people don't, this is historical fiction by James Ellroy that is rich with character driven insight into the working of corruption on the grandest of scales. If i see the Cold6K on someone's shelf I just can't help picking it up, turning to a random page and reading. I am always immediatly drawn in. I can't wait for the 3rd in the series to come out.:-)
enjoy, stay alert, trust no-one and keep a link to google handy.
Like the parent post, I don't do anything illegal, so I say, collect away!
This argument is fine when the law is fair and reasonable, but let's just say hypothetically that there is something you like to do, that is one day perfectly legal, but that becomes illegal - say because you moved states or countries. Hemp law is an obvious example here. All of a sudden you have become a law breaker, and depending on where you moved you could face harassment, a fine, jail, torture, or death - all for behaviour that was perfectly legal, and still is perfectly reasonable to you personally.
many laws are only on the statute books because they give the state the power of selective enforcement, that is they can choose to prosecute or not based on all manner of reasons which may have little if any relationship to the law itself. In Holland it is not legal to smoke grass, but there is a policy of selective enforcvement. If, hypothetically, the Dutch govt. knows you are a pot smoker and takes offence at something you have done - like pissing on the american embassy in museumplein (not likely now they've put a bloody great tank outside it) - they can arrest you for posession of pot, or at least threaten you with that. Drug laws in particular are always used for this type of social control.
so while "I don't break the law, thus do what you like" seems like a valid argument, it fails to recognise that many laws are stupid, and should you find yourself in disagreement with a stupid law, you must resort to criminal behaviour if you want to resist.
i guess that depends on your state of mind:-) iTunes needs a mood setting, or at least a way of grouping genres so i could have a meta-genre like 'chilled' that included ambient, trance. indian minimalism etc and then set up smart playlists to only play me chilled music when i am coding, but 'indi-rock' when debugging.
I have made a smart playlist i call 'rockin track 3s' based on the theory that track 3 on any cd is always the bext track. but i only want rokin' music so i had to go
track# is 3
genre is not 'ambient'
genre is not 'easy listening'
genre is not 'clasic rock'
genre is not 'classical'
genre is not 'cabaret'
genre is not 'world'
genre is not 'spoken word'
genre is not 'comedy'
genre is not 'electronic'
genre is not 'trance'
genre is not 'new age'
genre is not 'new wave'
genre is not 'indian/minimalism'
genre is not 'drum and base'
genre is not 'music hall'
genre is not 'techno'
and i still have to put up with unrated music.and i'm gonna run out of screen space if i have to exclude any more genres.
better would be if i could go
rating > 2 and track# is 3 and (genre is 'alternative & punk' or 'rock' or 'eighties' or 'disco')
I have almost 4,000 tunes in my iTunes library. That's 18Gb of music, almost 1/3 of my laptop's total hard drive; a mere 12.2 days of music. It's also all of my onld CDs, my girlfriends' CDs and a few random tracks gathererd from friends. My iPhoto collection weighs in at around the same size (almost 7000 photos) leaving me few backup options and sod-all space for work files. luckily I am programmer and text takes up almost no room. I doubt I would ever hit the 32,000 song limit, even if I ripped all of my friends' CDs too. I'll run out of drive space in my laptop well before that happens.
I have a 'smart playlist' called "unheard faves" that selects 75 tracks with a rating of 3 or more, and a play count of 3 or less. I set it to random and repeat and let it play while working. This way I almost simulate what it is like to have the radio on at work, but without ads or annoying DJs. When the playlist starts to shrink I kno wit's time to rate some more music.
I do wish the 'smart playlists' would allow better use of boolean operators. How can you ask for all songs rated 3+ but not ambient music or trance? iTunes needs a mood switch.
I'd like to write a small script that pretends to be an MP3 file, but actually just reads out the current time, the weather and some news headlines. Then I'd get it to play on the hour... Kind of like "It's 10am and you are listening to dave's unheard faves. It's -6 outside and snowing. In the news headlines the USA has declared war on Germany - citing their support for international terrorism, and that they started the last two world wars." Ideally this would said using the voice of "Princess":-)
I'm using Java1.4 DP10 for a project involving JDO, Tomcat4.1, Ant 1.5.1, Jini 1.2.1 (JavaSpaces/Rio) and Struts1.1B3 and it's all working sweet except the Tomcat tasks for Ant don't seem to work too well anymore. (caveat - that could be my fault, not Java's but it's simpler to work around by just restarting tomcat between builds than to investigate the problem). Some people have reported a few Swing issues and the readme for Java1.4DP10 does mention a few Swing issues, but as all my work these days is under the GUI hood, I am not too concerned. I don't use an IDE, (BBEdit, SSHAgent and the terminal are the Java developer's friends) but Eclipse seems to work a-okay.
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How can people be talking about a GameCube][ when Nitendo have not yet released a MarioKarts for the GameCube! I mean it's only the greatest game ever made. I still have a banged up old N64 just for MK, and will buy a GC in a flash when Mk is finally if ever released.
yep my terminals are a lovely translucent navy blue with white text. looks great and is the envy of the suckers I work with who insist on using windows still. so funny to see them struggle with such simple things as a terminal that contains text longer than 80 chars - haha, i laughed when i saw they could not widen their terminals in winXP. still! I mean at least their terminals have scroll bars now which is a huge step up from win2k, but then there's me, resizing at will mid compile cos my debug messages are quite wide, and i didn't even realize i was doing anything special. macs rock as a java developer, there is no two ways about it.
nothing is impossible except skiing through a revolving door.
all well and good but it has not added Greece, Russia Thailand, Bulgaria or the Ukraine to the Address Book's list of Address Formats. This is such a pain as lots of people in my address book are in those countries, and I am pretty sure that MapQuest supports those countries. ahh well perhaps in 10.3.
Address book. It works fine for me. Person calls, a window pops up saying "blah blah calling... " shows the number and asks if i want to answer the call or not. to dial just click and hold on the number in the address book and voila, the options include "large type", "SMS message", or "dial". This does of course presume you have a bluetooth phone and it's been paired to your Mac.
"Sir, we had a consultant a few months ago, he did some good work- Also, he saw this coming. Perhaps we should bring him back on to help us get out of this?"
Company President replies:
"Mr Jones, call that consultant. You can spend double the normal per consultant budget to get him in, we need this fixed NOW."
and in the real world...
woe betide the consultant hauled in at the last minute, lured by the promise of double the money to fix it fast. It's the equivalent of offering the taxi driver double the fare to get you to the airport in 10 mts.
any decent consultant has read "the mythical man month" and "the peter principle" cover to cover and would not touch such a job with a 12 metre barge pole.
sure there are people who will trott out the old "the customer is always right but they should pay for their arrogance" line but in truth you do yourself no favours by taking on jobs with unreasonable expectations, especially from a client who has refused to listen to you in the past.
tell me about it. i am thinking of buying a cinema display this week just cos I am going out of my mind with pages or text all over my screen. man i wish i could make all my windows slightly translucent. that would solve about 80% of my screen real estate problems i recon.
the address book will dial the phone and answer the phone, just not let you talk on the phone.
no but it does imply bad programming.
My point is I already own a Mac and a phone, my Mac has a mike and a speaker. I use my Mac to drive the phone in every respect except to actually talk to people via voice, and issue voice instructions to the phone. So rather than spend more money on a bluetooth headset that I'd only lose anyway, I want the bluetooth stack in osx to handle audio. Consider the possibilities.
I wonder if I'll finally be able to use my mac as a virtual bluetooth headset. i mean i love being able to dial, send sms messages and answer the phone from my mac but then i have to go into the other room and find my phone to actually talk to anyone. It would be much more awesome to just click answer and then speak/listen, and to be able to use the voice activatable functions in the phone etc. Then my phone can stay in its drawer where it belongs until it's walkies time.
of course you forgot to add in the 12 hours of install, config, finding those authentic winXP installer disks to load the right drivers, working out to get WMM to do what you want, etc at a rate of say ?50 per hour (or whatever a video edit tech charges where you are). then the mac is easily the cheapest option - by a country mile, and whats more you'd be working on a very nice looking machine.
What I actually use is a $3,000 PowerBook G4 with 1GB RAM. But that's because I like to freak restaurant owners out by editing video during my lunch break. Sometimes I even haul in my XL1 and do video capture right on the table.
i have the same (only mine was US$3200 ex tax cos i couldn't live without the dvd burner) and all i get is people coming up to me in airports and asking if they can check [ their mail | flight times | what happened to air canada ] quickly. sheesh, just cos I have a mac does not make me a public access net cafe. it's pretty funny tho having all this kit as the real power is there just to sate my hobbies. my work involves editing text. gotta have a 1Ghz, 1Gb powerbook with a dvd burner for that of course.
sorry but *real men* just direct. they delegate the editing etc to others. ...and now and then they wonder who the real men are.
well DMJ sure does work. Noe if only i knew what the hell it does. reminds me of the original wizardry on the apple][
Note not a lot of wasted memory there. Nothing really sucking on my processor, but when i flip to photoshop it's like a milisecond wait, hooray for that. dave
I don't know about you but I would hate it if the many various text files I work with somehow chose their own app to run in. I regularly open tomcat log files in BBEdit for example. I open PDF files in preview mostly but sometime want to open them in smacrobat. I open most graphics in preview but every so often want to open them in photoshop. sometimes I want to open html files in bbedit, sometimes in safari, sometimes in omniweb. Same docs, entirely different applications.
I swapped my new laptop battery for an older one that was working a-okay. The old one, although reporting full charge, was run down to absolute flat in about an hour. I charged it again overnight and retried and after a few tries it runs flat now in under 30 mts. So i swapped back to my new battery which is lasting me a good 3 hrs or so. I was happy to blame the old battery (it was made in 2000) but it does seem odd that this behaviour should coincide with upgrading to osx10.2.4 - and so many others are also reporting this problem now.
or opendoc.
- Body of Secrets - Anatomy of the ultra secret National Security Agency by James Bramford. - I'm reading this now and it is excellent. It is quite astounding what the NSA were capable of in the 50s, let alone today.
- Report by the European Parliament into Echelon - huge, amazing, has some great pics. Quite focussed on Echelon's abilities in the corporate espionage area.
- Books by Phil Agee - CIA Diary: Inside the Company and On the Run. Both out of print, no suprise but I got my copies through a mail order house in the UK. The were posted a day after my order but took a month and a half to get to me. suspicious moi? Although more about the CIA they contain fascinating insights into the overall operations of the Intelligence Services as they were in the 70s. Especially interesting is Agee's description of the CIA being alerted to his every move from hotel checkins, phone taps, border checks and so forth. Makes you think twice about checking into a hotel - anywhere. Also very interesting is his description of standard CIA destabilisation stratagem - you can see these same tactics being deployed today against Chavez in Venezuela and Schröder in Germany.
- A Secret Country by John Pilger. The chapter on the CIA's infiltration of the Australian labor movement and the subsequent 'dismissal' of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam is excellent in particular. Whitlam had threatened to evict the NSA's Pine Gap and Narrungar remote monitoring and relay facilities from Australia. This was also aroud the time of the ill fated Nugan Hand bank which was being used by the CIA to launder heroin money. The NHB was the prototype for the equally ill fated BCCI, Bank of Credit and Commerce International aka Bank of Crooks and Criminals International. The bases, with their unregulated traffic were perfect conduits for heroin from south east asia.
- American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand - If you like his style, and many people don't, this is historical fiction by James Ellroy that is rich with character driven insight into the working of corruption on the grandest of scales. If i see the Cold6K on someone's shelf I just can't help picking it up, turning to a random page and reading. I am always immediatly drawn in. I can't wait for the 3rd in the series to come out.
:-)
enjoy, stay alert, trust no-one and keep a link to google handy.This argument is fine when the law is fair and reasonable, but let's just say hypothetically that there is something you like to do, that is one day perfectly legal, but that becomes illegal - say because you moved states or countries. Hemp law is an obvious example here. All of a sudden you have become a law breaker, and depending on where you moved you could face harassment, a fine, jail, torture, or death - all for behaviour that was perfectly legal, and still is perfectly reasonable to you personally.
many laws are only on the statute books because they give the state the power of selective enforcement, that is they can choose to prosecute or not based on all manner of reasons which may have little if any relationship to the law itself. In Holland it is not legal to smoke grass, but there is a policy of selective enforcvement. If, hypothetically, the Dutch govt. knows you are a pot smoker and takes offence at something you have done - like pissing on the american embassy in museumplein (not likely now they've put a bloody great tank outside it) - they can arrest you for posession of pot, or at least threaten you with that. Drug laws in particular are always used for this type of social control.
so while "I don't break the law, thus do what you like" seems like a valid argument, it fails to recognise that many laws are stupid, and should you find yourself in disagreement with a stupid law, you must resort to criminal behaviour if you want to resist.
each new law creates a new class of criminal.
i guess that depends on your state of mind :-) iTunes needs a mood setting, or at least a way of grouping genres so i could have a meta-genre like 'chilled' that included ambient, trance. indian minimalism etc and then set up smart playlists to only play me chilled music when i am coding, but 'indi-rock' when debugging.
a better one is this.
I have made a smart playlist i call 'rockin track 3s' based on the theory that track 3 on any cd is always the bext track. but i only want rokin' music so i had to go
- track# is 3
- genre is not 'ambient'
- genre is not 'easy listening'
- genre is not 'clasic rock'
- genre is not 'classical'
- genre is not 'cabaret'
- genre is not 'world'
- genre is not 'spoken word'
- genre is not 'comedy'
- genre is not 'electronic'
- genre is not 'trance'
- genre is not 'new age'
- genre is not 'new wave'
- genre is not 'indian/minimalism'
- genre is not 'drum and base'
- genre is not 'music hall'
- genre is not 'techno'
and i still have to put up with unrated music.and i'm gonna run out of screen space if i have to exclude any more genres. better would be if i could gorating > 2 and track# is 3 and (genre is 'alternative & punk' or 'rock' or 'eighties' or 'disco')
I have a 'smart playlist' called "unheard faves" that selects 75 tracks with a rating of 3 or more, and a play count of 3 or less. I set it to random and repeat and let it play while working. This way I almost simulate what it is like to have the radio on at work, but without ads or annoying DJs. When the playlist starts to shrink I kno wit's time to rate some more music.
I do wish the 'smart playlists' would allow better use of boolean operators. How can you ask for all songs rated 3+ but not ambient music or trance? iTunes needs a mood switch.
I'd like to write a small script that pretends to be an MP3 file, but actually just reads out the current time, the weather and some news headlines. Then I'd get it to play on the hour... Kind of like "It's 10am and you are listening to dave's unheard faves. It's -6 outside and snowing. In the news headlines the USA has declared war on Germany - citing their support for international terrorism, and that they started the last two world wars." Ideally this would said using the voice of "Princess" :-)
too true, i still have 2 boo.com shirts :-)
I'm using Java1.4 DP10 for a project involving JDO, Tomcat4.1, Ant 1.5.1, Jini 1.2.1 (JavaSpaces/Rio) and Struts1.1B3 and it's all working sweet except the Tomcat tasks for Ant don't seem to work too well anymore. (caveat - that could be my fault, not Java's but it's simpler to work around by just restarting tomcat between builds than to investigate the problem). Some people have reported a few Swing issues and the readme for Java1.4DP10 does mention a few Swing issues, but as all my work these days is under the GUI hood, I am not too concerned. I don't use an IDE, (BBEdit, SSHAgent and the terminal are the Java developer's friends) but Eclipse seems to work a-okay.