As far as I can tell, chflags nohidden does nothing to "." files as far as Finder is concerned.
I can hide other files in Finder using chflags hidden and it hides them immediately (and they then reappear immediately using chflags nohidden) but "." files and directories remain hidden. (This is using Mavericks as IT hasn't approved Yosemite yet.)
I live in an apartment complex outside of Boston. FIOS is already wired down the street I live on. When I asked Verizon about FIOS, they told me that in order to offer it in my building, the building owners would have to pay to wire it and they'd have to get half the units in the building to sign up ahead of time.
Right here, the list is located on the side of that page. I have JavaScript disabled as well, but I still found it in the menu at the top of each page.
Anyway, the full list:
Ammon, ID Auburn, IN Austin, TX Boston, MA Centennial, CO Champaign, IL Chattanooga, TN Clarksville, TN Jackson, TN Kansas City, KS Kansas City, MO Lafayette, LA Leverett, MA Louisville, KY Montrose, CO Morristown, TN Mount Vernon, WA Palo Alto, CA Ponca City, OK Portland, OR Raleigh, NC Rockport, ME San Antonio, TX Sandy, OR Santa Cruz County, CA Santa Monica, CA South Portland, ME Urbana, IL Westminster, MD Wilson, NC Winthrop, MN
And, bringing it right back around to video games, Ogg Vorbis is apparently used in a ton of video game engines. Something about it not requiring a license and being better at looping than MP3s. I'm unclear on the technical merits, but apparently there are still technical merits that make it a good choice for video games above and beyond the "no license fee" thing.
I know that the Unreal Engine started using Vorbis a long time ago, and from their API docs, it looks like they still do, along with Opus.
If you View Source, you'll see that they do, in fact, use an <audio> tag. They also have a JavaScript library that replaces it with an HTML GUI. I guess if it detects your browser is old enough to not support HTML5, it goes with a Java applet instead.
Compared to Dolphin, I find Finder far too limited, especially the inability to show hidden files. I've got no idea why there is no such menu toggle built into it. What are Apple afraid of? This is especially annoying when I have to look for.m2 and.git files. Sure, I can use the command line, but it's not as intuitive.
Others have pointed out the hidden preference to change this, but since that's incredibly unintuitive and very annoying, I'll offer a different method.
If you only want to descend into a hidden directory that you know exists, you can use Shift-Command-G and enter the path directly. This will open the Finder window inside that path. You won't see any hidden files (other than the specific directory you're in) but it's the "quick and easy" way of entering hidden directories.
But I agree, there really, really should be a toggle somewhere to show hidden files. It shouldn't be all or nothing. When I need to see hidden files, I need to see them, but having my home folder filled with...
$ ls -d1 ~/.* | wc -l 38
38 little folders I generally don't need to see is incredibly obnoxious. I'd absolutely love to be able to toggle hidden folders on and off. The "hidden setting" method involves completely restarting Finder.
Green plus: Only maximizes windows in Yosemite. Schizophrenic behavior is gone.
The review disagrees. In windows that don't support full screen, the green + still does whatever it is that it does, and if for some reason you want to do that on windows with real fullscreen support, you can Option-click the green dot.
Which means that in Yosemite, clicking on the green dot will either take you into fullscreen mode or do who even knows when it's a plus and not a pair of arrows. I'm not sure that's really an improvement if you want to remove "schizophrenic behavior."
They're making it possible to make and receive phone calls on the desktop.
According to the article, they've ported iOS-specific APIs back to the desktop, including things like their version of Androids Intents (that they call "extensions"). However, since they come from iOS, they only work with apps that are sold through the App Store.
They added the notifications pane from iOS (stolen from Android, natch) to the desktop. It's now literally identical, other than swiping in from the side rather than the top.
They're changing a bunch of apps to more closely mimic the cellphone UI. According to the review itself, this is resulting in UIs with excessive whitespace due to the lack of space on iOS devices compared to a desktop. (The examples the review uses are the maps app and Safari.)
So, yes, they're slowly iOS-ifying Mac OS X. I guess they learned they need to "boil the frog" from Microsoft: if they add the changes in slowly enough, people won't even notice their desktop OS is now slowly becoming a mobile OS.
From what I can tell, Apple is going whole-hog in the "whole lot worse" category.
You know how people (rightly) shit on Microsoft for going the whole "let's bring Windows Phone to the desktop!" thing they did with Windows 8?
From what I can see of Yosemite, Apple is doing the same thing with Mac OS X. So congrats, Apple users, you can now experience the same joy that is the phone-ification of the desktop that Windows users got with Windows 8.
Goat Simulator's actually quite a lot of fun. Maybe not $10 worth of fun, but if you want something that's fun to screw around with for an hour or so, it's actually quite fun.
Especially when you find out you can combine powers like "summon minions," the jetpack, and the black hole.
How? The way Apple described it was like "in-app purchases for physical items" - you pay using your Apple Account, but instead of just doing in-app purchases, you can now order physical goods from stores. How are they kept out of the loop when they're the one inherently validating and performing the transaction?!
The way I understand it is that this isn't "really" a x.1 version, it's "8.1" because it's the version that adds Apple Pay and support for the new iPads.
Basically iOS 8.0 was released missing features that the couldn't finish in time for launch, and 8.1 will be the originally intended 8.0 with all the features iOS 8 was supposed to have from the get-go.
Which, uh, really doesn't instill much confidence either, now that I think about it.
How doesn't it? My understanding is that instead of paying by your credit card, your Apple Account gets hit for the charge and Apple pays the vendor and then Apple charges your linked credit card, just like for existing in-app purchases. Since it's your Apple Account doing the purchasing, Apple is in the loop and sees every transaction that you make.
Well, I was about to post this to the Firehose submission in the hopes that it wouldn't be posted because this is basically a non-story. It means nothing.
As Ars Technica's version makes clear this is absolutely meaningless: Comcast will almost certainly be allowed to take over for Charter over the city council's objections because they don't actually have the power to prevent it. It's local political theater and nothing more.
So have you ever found an exploit in a game or something and used it to your advantage? Or what's the coolest, unintentional behavior you've done with a computer program?
You may have posted anonymously but I'm going to back you up on that. I think I had like five domains blacklisted on Google when they used to support that feature. The ones I remember were w3schools.com, experts-exchange.com, and javaranch.com.
Never, ever anything useful on any of those sites.
(Not that this really has anything to do with the article or that I doubt her skills with the Java language. I just found javaranch to be utterly useless.)
Radcliffe didn't become a full part of Harvard until 1977. Only then could you argue that a Harvard degree and a Radcliffe degree were effectively the same thing.
Sure, at least Harvard was educating women, but there was still a definitive dividing line between "education for women" and "education for men" at Harvard through 1977 at the earliest.
Which still makes them honoring Malala Yousafzai somewhat ironic considering how long it took them to get around to providing women the same education they provided men.
That thought got mangled while I was editing the comment to try and make it more generic.
It was an email from the very same vendor suggesting I might be interested in the item I just bought from them a week ago based on a purchase made two weeks ago.
2) If ads are too well-targeted then they become creepy
Creepiest ad I ever saw was an ad that keyed off my location and the weather to advertise a tent. (Not sure why they decided I'd want a tent because it was raining, but the ad included my incorrectly detected location and weather based on said location.)
6) Targeting only works sometimes. Example: I look for something on Ebay when logged on & get an email the day after 'Are you still looking for this?' If the answer is yes then cool. On the other hand if I've bought that particular article somewhere else or was just browsing aimlessly then Ebay is wasting my time and bandwidth.
I've learned to always open Amazon.com links in incognito windows. Tons of people link to weird products on Amazon.com and I definitely don't need to have Amazon.com try and sell me the really weird fetish fanfic that someone's seriously trying to sell for $5 just because someone linked it to me. Amazon still tries to sell me 40 pound bags of cereal marshmallows. I still have no idea why that's a product anyone who isn't making knock-off Lucky Charms would want.
Also annoying is getting emails from vendors for things I already bought from the vendor because apparently Big Data is good enough to figure out I might be interested but not good enough to realize that the reason it thinks I might be interested is because I already purchased the item.
There actually is a standard for Java version numbers, though, and in this hypothetical API, various OS versions would be represented using a common API, allowing consistent code that needs to ask for a version range.
Of those numbers, none of them are valid Java version numbers.
Then again, the current Java version (1.8.0_20) is also not valid by that spec. So, uh, yeah. Go Oracle.
If your code is old enough to be checking for Windows 9x, chances are you're really asking "am I running under NT, or 9x?"
And os.version is 100% useless for that, since Windows NT and Windows 95 could both (honestly) report an os.version of "4.0".
So instead they checked the os.name since that check was easier and you had two "4.0" lines of code you wanted to tell apart. (Of course, then there was Windows ME. Oops. Of course, they could have checked for Windows NT. But then there was Windows 2000. Oops.)
Of course, the real problem is that the Java API for checking the underlying OS version sucks ass and is literally a collection of three strings that have no well-defined values. (What's os.name under Linux? Just "Linux"? "GNU/Linux"? The distro name? I guess any of those are just as valid!)
You'd think by Java version 8 they could have added some better API for dealing with the OS like something as simple as an "os.family" value ("Windows NT", "OS X", "Linux") and APIs for dealing with comparing version numbers. But, nope. I mean, after all, there's a spec for what version numbers should look like but the API for dealing with them still processes them as strings! (Well, there is java.lang.Package.isCompatibleWith(String) which would still be useless in this case.)
It doesn't. There's a set of three properties for the OS, and that's all you get. They're documented as follows:
os.name
Operating system name
os.arch
Operating system architecture
os.version
Operating system version
Now you might be wondering, "well, OK, what sort of values does os.name contain?" And the answer is as you saw in the code shown "things like Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows XP".
os.arch contains things like x86 and amd64 but I forget exactly what it reports for which OSes. I think it's amd64 for all 64-bit x86 platforms, but I could be wrong.
That final os.version reports the "real" Windows version, so it reports like "5.1" for XP and "6.0" for Vista. (Under Linux, it's apparently the kernel version.)
Of course, the documentation doesn't provide any sort of "examples of what these values can contain" so the only way people would know is by trying out various VMs on various OSes. And even then the documentation is vague enough that I suspect a VM is OK in returning anything it pleases in those fields. Plus the user can override them by starting the JVM with -Dos.name=whatever.
It's also worth noting that despite being an incredibly common thing, there's still no Java API for dealing with version numbers. There are on the other hand two UI toolkits (or maybe three, not sure what JavaFX counts as), at least three different ways of parsing XML I know of, two different "string buffer" classes, and two entirely different I/O libraries.
(Although frequently the newer APIs use parts of the older APIs, so JavaFX is built on Swing is built on AWT and the "new" I/O library uses some (but not all) of the "old" I/O library. Welcome to Java.)
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As far as I can tell, chflags nohidden does nothing to "." files as far as Finder is concerned.
I can hide other files in Finder using chflags hidden and it hides them immediately (and they then reappear immediately using chflags nohidden) but "." files and directories remain hidden. (This is using Mavericks as IT hasn't approved Yosemite yet.)
I live in an apartment complex outside of Boston. FIOS is already wired down the street I live on. When I asked Verizon about FIOS, they told me that in order to offer it in my building, the building owners would have to pay to wire it and they'd have to get half the units in the building to sign up ahead of time.
Needless to say, I'm still on Comcast.
Right here, the list is located on the side of that page. I have JavaScript disabled as well, but I still found it in the menu at the top of each page.
Anyway, the full list:
Ammon, ID
Auburn, IN
Austin, TX
Boston, MA
Centennial, CO
Champaign, IL
Chattanooga, TN
Clarksville, TN
Jackson, TN
Kansas City, KS
Kansas City, MO
Lafayette, LA
Leverett, MA
Louisville, KY
Montrose, CO
Morristown, TN
Mount Vernon, WA
Palo Alto, CA
Ponca City, OK
Portland, OR
Raleigh, NC
Rockport, ME
San Antonio, TX
Sandy, OR
Santa Cruz County, CA
Santa Monica, CA
South Portland, ME
Urbana, IL
Westminster, MD
Wilson, NC
Winthrop, MN
And, bringing it right back around to video games, Ogg Vorbis is apparently used in a ton of video game engines. Something about it not requiring a license and being better at looping than MP3s. I'm unclear on the technical merits, but apparently there are still technical merits that make it a good choice for video games above and beyond the "no license fee" thing.
I know that the Unreal Engine started using Vorbis a long time ago, and from their API docs, it looks like they still do, along with Opus.
If you View Source, you'll see that they do, in fact, use an <audio> tag. They also have a JavaScript library that replaces it with an HTML GUI. I guess if it detects your browser is old enough to not support HTML5, it goes with a Java applet instead.
So... update your browser?
Compared to Dolphin, I find Finder far too limited, especially the inability to show hidden files. I've got no idea why there is no such menu toggle built into it. What are Apple afraid of? This is especially annoying when I have to look for .m2 and .git files. Sure, I can use the command line, but it's not as intuitive.
Others have pointed out the hidden preference to change this, but since that's incredibly unintuitive and very annoying, I'll offer a different method.
If you only want to descend into a hidden directory that you know exists, you can use Shift-Command-G and enter the path directly. This will open the Finder window inside that path. You won't see any hidden files (other than the specific directory you're in) but it's the "quick and easy" way of entering hidden directories.
But I agree, there really, really should be a toggle somewhere to show hidden files. It shouldn't be all or nothing. When I need to see hidden files, I need to see them, but having my home folder filled with...
$ ls -d1 ~/.* | wc -l
38
38 little folders I generally don't need to see is incredibly obnoxious. I'd absolutely love to be able to toggle hidden folders on and off. The "hidden setting" method involves completely restarting Finder.
Green plus: Only maximizes windows in Yosemite. Schizophrenic behavior is gone.
The review disagrees. In windows that don't support full screen, the green + still does whatever it is that it does, and if for some reason you want to do that on windows with real fullscreen support, you can Option-click the green dot.
Which means that in Yosemite, clicking on the green dot will either take you into fullscreen mode or do who even knows when it's a plus and not a pair of arrows. I'm not sure that's really an improvement if you want to remove "schizophrenic behavior."
They're making it possible to make and receive phone calls on the desktop.
According to the article, they've ported iOS-specific APIs back to the desktop, including things like their version of Androids Intents (that they call "extensions"). However, since they come from iOS, they only work with apps that are sold through the App Store.
They added the notifications pane from iOS (stolen from Android, natch) to the desktop. It's now literally identical, other than swiping in from the side rather than the top.
They're changing a bunch of apps to more closely mimic the cellphone UI. According to the review itself, this is resulting in UIs with excessive whitespace due to the lack of space on iOS devices compared to a desktop. (The examples the review uses are the maps app and Safari.)
So, yes, they're slowly iOS-ifying Mac OS X. I guess they learned they need to "boil the frog" from Microsoft: if they add the changes in slowly enough, people won't even notice their desktop OS is now slowly becoming a mobile OS.
From what I can tell, Apple is going whole-hog in the "whole lot worse" category.
You know how people (rightly) shit on Microsoft for going the whole "let's bring Windows Phone to the desktop!" thing they did with Windows 8?
From what I can see of Yosemite, Apple is doing the same thing with Mac OS X. So congrats, Apple users, you can now experience the same joy that is the phone-ification of the desktop that Windows users got with Windows 8.
Goat Simulator's actually quite a lot of fun. Maybe not $10 worth of fun, but if you want something that's fun to screw around with for an hour or so, it's actually quite fun.
Especially when you find out you can combine powers like "summon minions," the jetpack, and the black hole.
How? The way Apple described it was like "in-app purchases for physical items" - you pay using your Apple Account, but instead of just doing in-app purchases, you can now order physical goods from stores. How are they kept out of the loop when they're the one inherently validating and performing the transaction?!
Also have to give them credit for the bit at the very start where they proudly reiterated their very new widget and Intents features.
You know, cutting edge stuff that no one's ever seen in a smart phone before.
The way I understand it is that this isn't "really" a x.1 version, it's "8.1" because it's the version that adds Apple Pay and support for the new iPads.
Basically iOS 8.0 was released missing features that the couldn't finish in time for launch, and 8.1 will be the originally intended 8.0 with all the features iOS 8 was supposed to have from the get-go.
Which, uh, really doesn't instill much confidence either, now that I think about it.
How doesn't it? My understanding is that instead of paying by your credit card, your Apple Account gets hit for the charge and Apple pays the vendor and then Apple charges your linked credit card, just like for existing in-app purchases. Since it's your Apple Account doing the purchasing, Apple is in the loop and sees every transaction that you make.
Well, I was about to post this to the Firehose submission in the hopes that it wouldn't be posted because this is basically a non-story. It means nothing.
As Ars Technica's version makes clear this is absolutely meaningless: Comcast will almost certainly be allowed to take over for Charter over the city council's objections because they don't actually have the power to prevent it. It's local political theater and nothing more.
Virgin Airlines has a video instead of flight attendants do the safety spiel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtyfiPIHsIg
A lot of them have been.
Not all of them are as interesting as the Virgin Airlines video (and some are just a video of the standard lecture) but they're not uncommon.
OK, so since it seems no one else knows who RAPstar or Mano Paul is either, let's go with this dumb question: what's your favorite Pokemon?
Actually, I think I can turn this into something vaguely on topic since someone managed to do a TAS of Pokemon Yellow that manages to run arbitrary code, ultimately calculating pi to several digits.
So have you ever found an exploit in a game or something and used it to your advantage? Or what's the coolest, unintentional behavior you've done with a computer program?
You may have posted anonymously but I'm going to back you up on that. I think I had like five domains blacklisted on Google when they used to support that feature. The ones I remember were w3schools.com, experts-exchange.com, and javaranch.com.
Never, ever anything useful on any of those sites.
(Not that this really has anything to do with the article or that I doubt her skills with the Java language. I just found javaranch to be utterly useless.)
Radcliffe didn't become a full part of Harvard until 1977. Only then could you argue that a Harvard degree and a Radcliffe degree were effectively the same thing.
Sure, at least Harvard was educating women, but there was still a definitive dividing line between "education for women" and "education for men" at Harvard through 1977 at the earliest.
Which still makes them honoring Malala Yousafzai somewhat ironic considering how long it took them to get around to providing women the same education they provided men.
What's really ironic is Harvard awarding Malala Yousafzai "Humanitarian of the Year" for her efforts in promoting education for women.
Harvard started accepting women in 1999. Malala would have been two at the time.
That thought got mangled while I was editing the comment to try and make it more generic.
It was an email from the very same vendor suggesting I might be interested in the item I just bought from them a week ago based on a purchase made two weeks ago.
From other comments, this isn't exactly uncommon.
2) If ads are too well-targeted then they become creepy
Creepiest ad I ever saw was an ad that keyed off my location and the weather to advertise a tent. (Not sure why they decided I'd want a tent because it was raining, but the ad included my incorrectly detected location and weather based on said location.)
6) Targeting only works sometimes. Example: I look for something on Ebay when logged on & get an email the day after 'Are you still looking for this?' If the answer is yes then cool. On the other hand if I've bought that particular article somewhere else or was just browsing aimlessly then Ebay is wasting my time and bandwidth.
I've learned to always open Amazon.com links in incognito windows. Tons of people link to weird products on Amazon.com and I definitely don't need to have Amazon.com try and sell me the really weird fetish fanfic that someone's seriously trying to sell for $5 just because someone linked it to me. Amazon still tries to sell me 40 pound bags of cereal marshmallows. I still have no idea why that's a product anyone who isn't making knock-off Lucky Charms would want.
Also annoying is getting emails from vendors for things I already bought from the vendor because apparently Big Data is good enough to figure out I might be interested but not good enough to realize that the reason it thinks I might be interested is because I already purchased the item.
There actually is a standard for Java version numbers, though, and in this hypothetical API, various OS versions would be represented using a common API, allowing consistent code that needs to ask for a version range.
Of those numbers, none of them are valid Java version numbers.
Then again, the current Java version (1.8.0_20) is also not valid by that spec. So, uh, yeah. Go Oracle.
If your code is old enough to be checking for Windows 9x, chances are you're really asking "am I running under NT, or 9x?"
And os.version is 100% useless for that, since Windows NT and Windows 95 could both (honestly) report an os.version of "4.0".
So instead they checked the os.name since that check was easier and you had two "4.0" lines of code you wanted to tell apart. (Of course, then there was Windows ME. Oops. Of course, they could have checked for Windows NT. But then there was Windows 2000. Oops.)
Of course, the real problem is that the Java API for checking the underlying OS version sucks ass and is literally a collection of three strings that have no well-defined values. (What's os.name under Linux? Just "Linux"? "GNU/Linux"? The distro name? I guess any of those are just as valid!)
You'd think by Java version 8 they could have added some better API for dealing with the OS like something as simple as an "os.family" value ("Windows NT", "OS X", "Linux") and APIs for dealing with comparing version numbers. But, nope. I mean, after all, there's a spec for what version numbers should look like but the API for dealing with them still processes them as strings! (Well, there is java.lang.Package.isCompatibleWith(String) which would still be useless in this case.)
It doesn't. There's a set of three properties for the OS, and that's all you get. They're documented as follows:
os.name Operating system name os.arch Operating system architecture os.version Operating system versionNow you might be wondering, "well, OK, what sort of values does os.name contain?" And the answer is as you saw in the code shown "things like Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows XP".
os.arch contains things like x86 and amd64 but I forget exactly what it reports for which OSes. I think it's amd64 for all 64-bit x86 platforms, but I could be wrong.
That final os.version reports the "real" Windows version, so it reports like "5.1" for XP and "6.0" for Vista. (Under Linux, it's apparently the kernel version.)
Of course, the documentation doesn't provide any sort of "examples of what these values can contain" so the only way people would know is by trying out various VMs on various OSes. And even then the documentation is vague enough that I suspect a VM is OK in returning anything it pleases in those fields. Plus the user can override them by starting the JVM with -Dos.name=whatever.
It's also worth noting that despite being an incredibly common thing, there's still no Java API for dealing with version numbers. There are on the other hand two UI toolkits (or maybe three, not sure what JavaFX counts as), at least three different ways of parsing XML I know of, two different "string buffer" classes, and two entirely different I/O libraries.
(Although frequently the newer APIs use parts of the older APIs, so JavaFX is built on Swing is built on AWT and the "new" I/O library uses some (but not all) of the "old" I/O library. Welcome to Java.)