satellite radio... The music and talk selection isn't really any better than what you'd get on AM/FM.
Are you serious? Have you tried to listen to terrestrial radio lately? Aside from the odd college or community station, nobody -- and I mean nobody -- is willing to play anything even slightly adventurous, anything that diverges from their cast-in-stone format. And if you don't like one of the three available formats, sorry, too bad.
Satellite's got a much wider range of channels, and no commercials. Sure, I wish there were even more channels, and I'll admit that the whole thing is a needless luxury, but it's definitely one I'm willing to pay money for.
No, you don't have to take it apart! There's a slot on the outside of the device, that you can open with a paperclip, that opens the tray with the SIM card.
It's amazing how 21 years later MacOS still has the same crappy voice synthesizer.
That particular speech synthesizer hasn't been used for almost 15 years. This old technote describes why. Brief summary: it talked directly to the sound hardware, and Apple never actually owned the code.
Look at OS X... the whole damn GUI is rendered via PDF
This is utter nonsense, although most of Slashdot seems to believe it. The Quartz display model in OS X uses primitives which are very similar to what's in PDF (and PostScript), which makes it very easy to render to and from PDF. However, everything is NOT streamed through a PDF interpreter before it gets to the screen. Doing so would be a nightmare for performance.
Because aliases and symlinks do different things. Normally users want aliases, since they have been around on the traditional MacOS for years.
In a nutshell: symlinks only point to one fixed path. If the target file's name is changed, or the name of any directory in its path changes, the symlink will no longer work. Aliases, however, can track a file even if it is renamed or moved, or if any of its parent directories are renamed or moved.
The Finder, as well as most applications, can deal with either one.
It's not bad design to do things that most users want, and to provide a way for power users (who know about symlinks) to get what they want as well. I could imagine a better way to do it than through an obscure key combination, but that's not what you were complaining about.
Where is there any Objective-C++ in the kernel? I really don't think there is any in there, but you're welcome to prove me wrong. File names, please... I don't see any.m or.mm files in the xnu project in Darwin at all.
It's interesting to note that under Nextstep/Openstep, drivers WERE written in Objective-C (using the "DriverKit"). Apple decided to switch to C++ for OS X, to lower the barrier to driver authors a little bit.
As always with IBM, things aren't as simple as they appear. There are a number of different products which are all called DB2, ranging from small PC-size DBs to stuff that could only work on a mainframe. (For all I know, the big and little DB2s don't even share any code.)
Several years ago, I ran a DB2 database on a medium-level PC, without problems. I don't see why it would be any more of a problem now.
Yes, it's definitely time to worry when your boss's boss doesn't know how to print out something....
Especially when you're working at "The Document Company"!
I remember giving a resume to some Xerox recruiter at a job fair in college (mostly because I thought PARC was interesting). A few weeks later I got a letter back from them confirming that they had received it...unfortunately, my name and address were mispelled in three or four different ways! It looked like they OCR'd it sloppily and never checked the output. Not very impressive for a company which claimed to be on the cutting edge of document processing.
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Are you serious? Have you tried to listen to terrestrial radio lately? Aside from the odd college or community station, nobody -- and I mean nobody -- is willing to play anything even slightly adventurous, anything that diverges from their cast-in-stone format. And if you don't like one of the three available formats, sorry, too bad.
Satellite's got a much wider range of channels, and no commercials. Sure, I wish there were even more channels, and I'll admit that the whole thing is a needless luxury, but it's definitely one I'm willing to pay money for.
No, you don't have to take it apart! There's a slot on the outside of the device, that you can open with a paperclip, that opens the tray with the SIM card.
On OS X, rsync -E will copy resource forks and extended attributes. Works fine for backup.
That particular speech synthesizer hasn't been used for almost 15 years. This old technote describes why. Brief summary: it talked directly to the sound hardware, and Apple never actually owned the code.
> PowerPC G4 750FX
The PowerPC 750FX is a G3, not a G4. (It's made by IBM; all G4s are made by Motorola.)
Also note that Apple doesn't ship any G3 processors anymore; the low-end in new machines is a G4.
man pmset. You probably want to 'sudo pmset -a sleep 0' when you log in.
What about the Green River Intergalactic Spaceport in Wyoming?
Try GDAM! Designed by DJs, built by DJs...
Look at OS X... the whole damn GUI is rendered via PDF
This is utter nonsense, although most of Slashdot seems to believe it. The Quartz display model in OS X uses primitives which are very similar to what's in PDF (and PostScript), which makes it very easy to render to and from PDF. However, everything is NOT streamed through a PDF interpreter before it gets to the screen. Doing so would be a nightmare for performance.
Because aliases and symlinks do different things. Normally users want aliases, since they have been around on the traditional MacOS for years.
In a nutshell: symlinks only point to one fixed path. If the target file's name is changed, or the name of any directory in its path changes, the symlink will no longer work. Aliases, however, can track a file even if it is renamed or moved, or if any of its parent directories are renamed or moved.
The Finder, as well as most applications, can deal with either one.
It's not bad design to do things that most users want, and to provide a way for power users (who know about symlinks) to get what they want as well. I could imagine a better way to do it than through an obscure key combination, but that's not what you were complaining about.
Where is there any Objective-C++ in the kernel? I really don't think there is any in there, but you're welcome to prove me wrong. File names, please... I don't see any .m or .mm files in the xnu project in Darwin at all.
It's interesting to note that under Nextstep/Openstep, drivers WERE written in Objective-C (using the "DriverKit"). Apple decided to switch to C++ for OS X, to lower the barrier to driver authors a little bit.
As always with IBM, things aren't as simple as they appear. There are a number of different products which are all called DB2, ranging from small PC-size DBs to stuff that could only work on a mainframe. (For all I know, the big and little DB2s don't even share any code.)
Several years ago, I ran a DB2 database on a medium-level PC, without problems. I don't see why it would be any more of a problem now.
Mac OS X still has fat binaries, actually. You should be able to build binaries which will run on Mac OS X or Darwin (PPC) and Darwin (Intel).
Obviously the Darwin/Intel contingent is pretty small, so I haven't seen this in practice.
On my Mac OS X 10.1.2 box:
% which lipo
/usr/bin/lipo
Qwest uses hallucinogenic drugs to deal with DSL? That explains a few things!
Apparently a plane has also crashed near (on?) the Pentagon in Washington DC.
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http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_395726.htm
Especially when you're working at "The Document Company"!
I remember giving a resume to some Xerox recruiter at a job fair in college (mostly because I thought PARC was interesting). A few weeks later I got a letter back from them confirming that they had received it...unfortunately, my name and address were mispelled in three or four different ways! It looked like they OCR'd it sloppily and never checked the output. Not very impressive for a company which claimed to be on the cutting edge of document processing.