Great idea. I've been meaning to spend a few hours learning how to write a Safari extension to do just that. But I'm busy right now and perpetually lazy, unfortunately. And as far as I know it doesn't exist for Safari, and I don't think Firefox when I looked.
My experience doesn't match yours. I'm looking to my left to the 2nd monitor without turning my head, and it has a wide area of clear vision. Oddly, and it's the first time I've noticed, the right lens has a much more narrow field of usable view. Not as bad as you state, but definitely worse than the left lens.
Anyway, I think by the time one gets to the age of bifocals, the lens get so tricky that it's hard to get them right (whether it's poor quality control at the optometrist, lab, or other step along the way, I don't know). I've gone from "just correct the myopia" to "myopia, bifocals, and *whee!* my eyes don't line up anymore, so throw prisms in there". I certainly make more return trips than I ever did in my younger years. So maybe go back, throw them on the counter, and say "try again"?
and as long as you're not using Windows, it's not too hard to change font sizes.
Or not using Mac OS. That's my one major complaint with Mac OS: 27" screen, and I can't bump the system-wide font size up.
Don't know why you're picking on Windows, though. For quite a while there's been a system setting for "large fonts". Whether or not individual apps honor that is a different story.
Bifocals are just a general pain in the ass, even with progressives. Their one saving grace is that they're better than the alternative. Well, I guess it's the plural of "alternative" now. I'll still be sticking with progressives rather than these over-complicated devices.
No, you're absolutely right. They don't build strip hotels on the few grand we might drop in a bad week in Vegas.
I know the odds, I know the house advantage on every game we play (and avoid the ones I haven't figured out). I also assume we're the exception. That has always put me at odds with participating in an industry that is, and traditionally has been, sleazy.
The truth doesn't hurt, but it is evidence of Carlin's rapidly progressing bitterness in his old age. George Carlin didn't see the point in one of my forms of entertainment? Yeah, I'm hurt, I really am.
I gave up on AC/DC a while back. No digital downloads, and they have an exclusive deal with WalMart for their recent stuff. Sorry, boys, I don't go to WalMart; too much of a pain to get to even if I wanted. But's there's a Pirate Bay right here in my neighborhood. You can't even download Rock Band tracks. You have to go to WalMart to buy a physical RB disc.
Thing is, if the AC/DC box set showed on iTunes tomorrow, I'd drop the $149US as fast as I could type my iTunes password. Instead, they haven't seen a dime of my money in over ten years, money I'm more than happy to give them. Maybe they have more business acumen than I'll ever have, but it strikes me as shockingly dumb.
I don't know where you got your CCW, but I've been trained in nothing of the sort. No felonies, run a background check, here's your CCW. If there was a "hinky behavior detection" class, I skipped it.
Regardless, I do not want questionably trained civilians carrying a firearm in a pressurized cabin that is densely packed with innocents. Run that scenario through your head. What are the odds you're popping a non-bad guy in the noggin?
In the city to which I'm currently residing in Kentucky (you know, south of the Mason-Dixon, where all of those gun-toting conservatives people love to make fun of so much)
Though south of the Mason-Dixon (which probably doesn't divide what you think it does), Kentucky was not a Confederate state. Put aside your pre-conceived notions, and you shouldn't be surprised to find all that you describe in Louisville. Now take a trip to anywhere away from the interstate or US 25. Still got your Best Buys, Whole Foods, and choice of three Indian restaurants?
Second AC's choice of Apple. Not only are the bits built in and good quality, more importantly it's nearly trivial for devs to make accessible apps whether on Mac OS or iOS. (Said from the perspective of someone who used to be an accessibility lead at MSFT.)
The editor doesn't auto-cap them for you? I programmed in FoxPro for years, and convention said keywords were all caps. I don't know that I ever touched the caps lock key; the editor took care of the formatting. I'd be surprised if there weren't a vim plug-in that did this for you.
I don't mean to play anonymous Internet tough guy here, but I'm really surprised that someone who tells customers with a legitimate complain "I know where you live" still has full use of both knee caps. I would have thought by now he would have pissed off the wrong person who happens to be within driving distance. Then again, when it comes to the stacks of money he's making, maybe he's full of shit and doesn't have that many customers to piss off.
In order to make the spoof, one must first have watched the show. People that spend their time sitting around watching Cribs probably don't end up on the ISS.
Hey, you don't have to convince us. Ultimately you have to convince a jury. And Namco pulls a screenshot from your own site and asks, "what you do you think, ladies and gentlemen? PacMan, or a derivative work?"
Look, your game isn't "inspired", it's a clone a.k.a. "rip-off". You set out to do PacMan for Android, and from the looks of it did a damned fine job. But pointing out the subtle differences is silly. Be honest, were each of your points of difference deliberate design decisions, or just parts you couldn't get quite right before releasing it?
Want to avoid DMCA woes? Don't make a pixel-for-pixel copy of someone else's game.
You learned a valuable lesson: companies defend trademarks. Granted, DMCA takedown notice probably isn't the correct avenue, but they would have hit you with something regardless. As would you, if the roles were reversed.
There is absolutely no way that slideshow was produced on the iPad.
Unless you were there, why would you say that? You can create Keynote presentations on an iPad, complete with video. I'd rather use a Mac, but an iPad can do it.
Before Apple and their App Store, it was each phone on each provider.
Just a minor correction to an otherwise fine post: you could create and distribute apps for Windows Mobile without any carrier interaction well before Apple showed up. What Apple brought to the table was a distribution mechanism that didn't involve setting up your own server, and didn't rip you off (a la Handango).
What can you do with an iPad that I can't do with linux on any other tablet from 5 years ago?
Not beat my head against the wall trying to find a $IMPORTANT_FUNCTIONALITY driver that actually works, not have to spend any time learning a UI, and play Angry Birds.
Seriously, if that doesn't sum it up for you you're either being disingenuous, or you're forever going to just not get it. The latter is fine, but you should really quit torturing yourself by trying to grock it.
Sorry, I spent far too many minutes than were healthy skimming through the Engadget comments shortly before heading over to/.. Some of those folks weren't kidding when saying similar things. But, yes, it is Engadget after all.
AAPL was up about $8 this morning before Engadget posted the correction. Dutch commenters on Engadget have equated the Dutch paper doing the quoting with the UK's The Sun or The National Enquirer in the US.
Me, I just remember the numerous times I've been interviewed or quoted by publications, or read a report about something that I witnessed. Almost without fail I'll be misquoted at some point (usually not horribly, but it's certainly not exactly what I said), and the report of what I witnessed gets something wrong. So I'm more willing to believe that a paper with a less-than-stellar reputation got it wrong rather than spin off into some conspiracy theory.
I was trying to keep the reply constrained to arguing against parent Troll Boy's ridiculous premise. But since you asked...
Part of the problem was solved with GitHub (which could have been done with my own external-facing machine), and later Unfuddle. But to solve the problem of keeping the machines synchronized, something external-facing wasn't needed at all. I could have just pushed/pulled to the other machine(s) when I got home. One of the differences with git (or other DCVS) is that each machine has a copy of the repository. The end result is that you can push/pull the changes to any other repository that resides on another machine. As far as I can tell with SVN, there is the repository. As someone else pointed out, the SVN repository could be kept on the laptop, but it would have to be running when I'm on the desktop and screwed if the laptop isn't around.
Which brings us to the second part of how a DCVS solved my problem. Something like SVNHub does exist in the form of Unfuddle (I use them for git repositories, and would recommend them). But Unfuddle's SVN support wouldn't fix the problem of working on the bus. Back before my own thing turned into my day job, I was in the mode of "start a side company nights and weekends" outside of my day job. I'd fix bugs on my 45 minute bus ride. In bug-fix mode, I could knock out a few in that 90 minute round trip. Here are the modes for SVN (as I understand SVN) and git: SVN: fix three bugs, two of which I fixed over eight hours ago. Get home, go to check in. Check-in comment is something like: "three bug fixes. Null pointer dereference, menu fix and one that I can't remember because I've worked a full day since fixing it". All fixes are crammed into one big check-in. If it breaks, back all of it out. No one-to-one relationship between check-ins and bugs (or features, or what have you).
git: fix those same three bugs in the same time frame. Do a commit (SVN's "check-in") after each bug fix, with descriptive message. I can do this because I have a local copy of the repository and therefore can do granular commits even on the bus. Get home, push to Unfuddle or a local machine and build. If it breaks, back out the one bad commit/check-in.
Okay, so I'm working out of an office in my house. No more bus rides (or at least not as many), would I still recommend git for the single developer? Yup. Anybody that's worked at home knows you sometimes have to get out of the house. I pick up the laptop (after pulling changes) and go to the coffee shop. Wife takes the laptop someplace, I use the desktop. Point is, I never worry about where the repository lives, because it lives on every machine. For me, that simplifies things a lot.
Not directly related to the question, but git's branching and merging are trivial compared to SVN, at least to me. Working on a feature, create a local branch, get it working, merge to mainline and push it out. OTOH, if I went completely the wrong direction, delete the branch and start over. All of it is one or two entries on the command line, and I don't give a second thought to creating a branch for the most trivial things (bug fixes, for instance). SVN just didn't seem as easy for the same tasks. It wasn't why I started using git, but it's one of the things keeping me using it.
Finally (and I thank you for even reading this far), why Unfuddle vs. GitHub? IIRC, Unfuddle gives more bang for the buck (as in actually US bucks; I use private repositories for the commercial stuff). But it was mainly because of better bug tracking and tying bugs to commits/check-ins. There's some lightweight project tracking, too, that's sufficient for my needs. Some may scoff that it's overkill for a one-man team. But I'm old and forgetful, and tracking customer bugs via email (and internal stuff via PostIt) isn't going to work. I also don't plan to remain a one-man team forever.
"Up to" 35mpg? I know it's a tired argument, but I was getting 35mpg in a Chevy Citation (which was a complete POS) thirty years ago. And, yes, I know why cars don't do any better than they do these days. That still doesn't mean I must be impressed by something getting 35mpg, unless it's an Escalade. (Feel free to insert standard "European diesels get 100mpg" comment here.)
Where does the power for normal ICE cars come from? A million individual power plants for which it is hard and expensive to control the pollutants. Contrast to a single electric plant, whatever the fuel source, that is easier to scrub, maintain, and regulate than a million cars (or however many EVs a plant could supply).
Here in the Pacific Northwest, most of the power comes from hydro making it nearly a non-issue.
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Great idea. I've been meaning to spend a few hours learning how to write a Safari extension to do just that. But I'm busy right now and perpetually lazy, unfortunately. And as far as I know it doesn't exist for Safari, and I don't think Firefox when I looked.
My experience doesn't match yours. I'm looking to my left to the 2nd monitor without turning my head, and it has a wide area of clear vision. Oddly, and it's the first time I've noticed, the right lens has a much more narrow field of usable view. Not as bad as you state, but definitely worse than the left lens.
Anyway, I think by the time one gets to the age of bifocals, the lens get so tricky that it's hard to get them right (whether it's poor quality control at the optometrist, lab, or other step along the way, I don't know). I've gone from "just correct the myopia" to "myopia, bifocals, and *whee!* my eyes don't line up anymore, so throw prisms in there". I certainly make more return trips than I ever did in my younger years. So maybe go back, throw them on the counter, and say "try again"?
and as long as you're not using Windows, it's not too hard to change font sizes.
Or not using Mac OS. That's my one major complaint with Mac OS: 27" screen, and I can't bump the system-wide font size up.
Don't know why you're picking on Windows, though. For quite a while there's been a system setting for "large fonts". Whether or not individual apps honor that is a different story.
Bifocals are just a general pain in the ass, even with progressives. Their one saving grace is that they're better than the alternative. Well, I guess it's the plural of "alternative" now. I'll still be sticking with progressives rather than these over-complicated devices.
No, you're absolutely right. They don't build strip hotels on the few grand we might drop in a bad week in Vegas.
I know the odds, I know the house advantage on every game we play (and avoid the ones I haven't figured out). I also assume we're the exception. That has always put me at odds with participating in an industry that is, and traditionally has been, sleazy.
But we do have fun, ethical dilemmas be damned!
The truth doesn't hurt, but it is evidence of Carlin's rapidly progressing bitterness in his old age. George Carlin didn't see the point in one of my forms of entertainment? Yeah, I'm hurt, I really am.
I gave up on AC/DC a while back. No digital downloads, and they have an exclusive deal with WalMart for their recent stuff. Sorry, boys, I don't go to WalMart; too much of a pain to get to even if I wanted. But's there's a Pirate Bay right here in my neighborhood. You can't even download Rock Band tracks. You have to go to WalMart to buy a physical RB disc.
Thing is, if the AC/DC box set showed on iTunes tomorrow, I'd drop the $149US as fast as I could type my iTunes password. Instead, they haven't seen a dime of my money in over ten years, money I'm more than happy to give them. Maybe they have more business acumen than I'll ever have, but it strikes me as shockingly dumb.
Weird, huh? It's like the guy's selling something while not having a clue ("assembler language", huh?), yet...there's no sales pitch.
Already trained in detecting "hinky" behavior
I don't know where you got your CCW, but I've been trained in nothing of the sort. No felonies, run a background check, here's your CCW. If there was a "hinky behavior detection" class, I skipped it.
Regardless, I do not want questionably trained civilians carrying a firearm in a pressurized cabin that is densely packed with innocents. Run that scenario through your head. What are the odds you're popping a non-bad guy in the noggin?
In the city to which I'm currently residing in Kentucky (you know, south of the Mason-Dixon, where all of those gun-toting conservatives people love to make fun of so much)
Though south of the Mason-Dixon (which probably doesn't divide what you think it does), Kentucky was not a Confederate state. Put aside your pre-conceived notions, and you shouldn't be surprised to find all that you describe in Louisville. Now take a trip to anywhere away from the interstate or US 25. Still got your Best Buys, Whole Foods, and choice of three Indian restaurants?
There isn't a single released browser (according to the page) that supports it. WebGL isn't baked yet.
Second AC's choice of Apple. Not only are the bits built in and good quality, more importantly it's nearly trivial for devs to make accessible apps whether on Mac OS or iOS. (Said from the perspective of someone who used to be an accessibility lead at MSFT.)
The editor doesn't auto-cap them for you? I programmed in FoxPro for years, and convention said keywords were all caps. I don't know that I ever touched the caps lock key; the editor took care of the formatting. I'd be surprised if there weren't a vim plug-in that did this for you.
I don't mean to play anonymous Internet tough guy here, but I'm really surprised that someone who tells customers with a legitimate complain "I know where you live" still has full use of both knee caps. I would have thought by now he would have pissed off the wrong person who happens to be within driving distance. Then again, when it comes to the stacks of money he's making, maybe he's full of shit and doesn't have that many customers to piss off.
In order to make the spoof, one must first have watched the show. People that spend their time sitting around watching Cribs probably don't end up on the ISS.
Hey, you don't have to convince us. Ultimately you have to convince a jury. And Namco pulls a screenshot from your own site and asks, "what you do you think, ladies and gentlemen? PacMan, or a derivative work?"
Look, your game isn't "inspired", it's a clone a.k.a. "rip-off". You set out to do PacMan for Android, and from the looks of it did a damned fine job. But pointing out the subtle differences is silly. Be honest, were each of your points of difference deliberate design decisions, or just parts you couldn't get quite right before releasing it?
Want to avoid DMCA woes? Don't make a pixel-for-pixel copy of someone else's game.
You learned a valuable lesson: companies defend trademarks. Granted, DMCA takedown notice probably isn't the correct avenue, but they would have hit you with something regardless. As would you, if the roles were reversed.
There is absolutely no way that slideshow was produced on the iPad.
Unless you were there, why would you say that? You can create Keynote presentations on an iPad, complete with video. I'd rather use a Mac, but an iPad can do it.
Before Apple and their App Store, it was each phone on each provider.
Just a minor correction to an otherwise fine post: you could create and distribute apps for Windows Mobile without any carrier interaction well before Apple showed up. What Apple brought to the table was a distribution mechanism that didn't involve setting up your own server, and didn't rip you off (a la Handango).
What can you do with an iPad that I can't do with linux on any other tablet from 5 years ago?
Not beat my head against the wall trying to find a $IMPORTANT_FUNCTIONALITY driver that actually works, not have to spend any time learning a UI, and play Angry Birds.
Seriously, if that doesn't sum it up for you you're either being disingenuous, or you're forever going to just not get it. The latter is fine, but you should really quit torturing yourself by trying to grock it.
Sorry, I spent far too many minutes than were healthy skimming through the Engadget comments shortly before heading over to /.. Some of those folks weren't kidding when saying similar things. But, yes, it is Engadget after all.
AAPL was up about $8 this morning before Engadget posted the correction. Dutch commenters on Engadget have equated the Dutch paper doing the quoting with the UK's The Sun or The National Enquirer in the US.
Me, I just remember the numerous times I've been interviewed or quoted by publications, or read a report about something that I witnessed. Almost without fail I'll be misquoted at some point (usually not horribly, but it's certainly not exactly what I said), and the report of what I witnessed gets something wrong. So I'm more willing to believe that a paper with a less-than-stellar reputation got it wrong rather than spin off into some conspiracy theory.
I was trying to keep the reply constrained to arguing against parent Troll Boy's ridiculous premise. But since you asked...
Part of the problem was solved with GitHub (which could have been done with my own external-facing machine), and later Unfuddle. But to solve the problem of keeping the machines synchronized, something external-facing wasn't needed at all. I could have just pushed/pulled to the other machine(s) when I got home. One of the differences with git (or other DCVS) is that each machine has a copy of the repository. The end result is that you can push/pull the changes to any other repository that resides on another machine. As far as I can tell with SVN, there is the repository. As someone else pointed out, the SVN repository could be kept on the laptop, but it would have to be running when I'm on the desktop and screwed if the laptop isn't around.
Which brings us to the second part of how a DCVS solved my problem. Something like SVNHub does exist in the form of Unfuddle (I use them for git repositories, and would recommend them). But Unfuddle's SVN support wouldn't fix the problem of working on the bus. Back before my own thing turned into my day job, I was in the mode of "start a side company nights and weekends" outside of my day job. I'd fix bugs on my 45 minute bus ride. In bug-fix mode, I could knock out a few in that 90 minute round trip. Here are the modes for SVN (as I understand SVN) and git:
SVN: fix three bugs, two of which I fixed over eight hours ago. Get home, go to check in. Check-in comment is something like: "three bug fixes. Null pointer dereference, menu fix and one that I can't remember because I've worked a full day since fixing it". All fixes are crammed into one big check-in. If it breaks, back all of it out. No one-to-one relationship between check-ins and bugs (or features, or what have you).
git: fix those same three bugs in the same time frame. Do a commit (SVN's "check-in") after each bug fix, with descriptive message. I can do this because I have a local copy of the repository and therefore can do granular commits even on the bus. Get home, push to Unfuddle or a local machine and build. If it breaks, back out the one bad commit/check-in.
Okay, so I'm working out of an office in my house. No more bus rides (or at least not as many), would I still recommend git for the single developer? Yup. Anybody that's worked at home knows you sometimes have to get out of the house. I pick up the laptop (after pulling changes) and go to the coffee shop. Wife takes the laptop someplace, I use the desktop. Point is, I never worry about where the repository lives, because it lives on every machine. For me, that simplifies things a lot.
Not directly related to the question, but git's branching and merging are trivial compared to SVN, at least to me. Working on a feature, create a local branch, get it working, merge to mainline and push it out. OTOH, if I went completely the wrong direction, delete the branch and start over. All of it is one or two entries on the command line, and I don't give a second thought to creating a branch for the most trivial things (bug fixes, for instance). SVN just didn't seem as easy for the same tasks. It wasn't why I started using git, but it's one of the things keeping me using it.
Finally (and I thank you for even reading this far), why Unfuddle vs. GitHub? IIRC, Unfuddle gives more bang for the buck (as in actually US bucks; I use private repositories for the commercial stuff). But it was mainly because of better bug tracking and tying bugs to commits/check-ins. There's some lightweight project tracking, too, that's sufficient for my needs. Some may scoff that it's overkill for a one-man team. But I'm old and forgetful, and tracking customer bugs via email (and internal stuff via PostIt) isn't going to work. I also don't plan to remain a one-man team forever.
"Up to" 35mpg? I know it's a tired argument, but I was getting 35mpg in a Chevy Citation (which was a complete POS) thirty years ago. And, yes, I know why cars don't do any better than they do these days. That still doesn't mean I must be impressed by something getting 35mpg, unless it's an Escalade. (Feel free to insert standard "European diesels get 100mpg" comment here.)
Where does the power for normal ICE cars come from? A million individual power plants for which it is hard and expensive to control the pollutants. Contrast to a single electric plant, whatever the fuel source, that is easier to scrub, maintain, and regulate than a million cars (or however many EVs a plant could supply).
Here in the Pacific Northwest, most of the power comes from hydro making it nearly a non-issue.