Um... You can get both a 13" and 15" Mac laptop with integrated graphics. The addition of integrated graphics in the 15" form factor was one of the things I liked about the last refresh. Even if you get a higher end 15" model or the 17" model you still get integrated graphics in addition to the discrete graphics so while you can't avoid the cost of the discrete graphics on these higher end systems you don't need to suffer the battery penalty discrete graphics brings. The discrete graphics adds maybe $100 to the cost of the machines it's on and at $3200 AUD for the cheapest Mac laptop with discrete graphics it's hardly an unbearable cost if you decide you don't need it.
Compared to the PC world, Apple certainly does have an anaemic product line but you can't force them to make a computer just for you. Apple makes premium machines so they're always going to cost more than merely average machines. If you don't demand a premium product, look elsewhere. Personally, I find the PC world to be a sea of bad to mediocre products. Sure they're cheap but I don't want a fat machine, or a machine that flexes when I pick it up, or something that's unreasonably heavy. Perhaps there are premium PCs out there but I haven't seen them for sale around here.
I like the third person camera whenever I need to _see_ anything (eg. while moving about above ground or engaged in a sword fight). But I'm playing an archer now so I need the first person camera whenever there's enemies nearby.
I could handle having only a third person camera if the game handled archery a little less precisely but a first person only camera would be annoying unless the game came with ultra-widescreen wrap-around 3D glasses. There's a reason why FPSes tend to feature underground levels so heavily. It's hard to see the world when you're looking through a 90 degree lens.
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Here's how you avoid losing history. I know... you said "the default should be" but it is at least possible. I'm sure most people don't actually use multiple shells at the same time anyway;)
# Don't clobber.bash_history shopt -s histappend HISTFILE=$HOME/.bash_history # This should be enough to last for years HISTFILESIZE=1000000000 HISTSIZE=1000000 #HISTCONTROL=ignorespace # start a command with a space and it doesn't go into t HISTCONTROL=ignoredups # ignore duplicates #HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth # both of the above precmd() {
history -a # export history } PROMPT_COMMAND=precmd
I have precmd as a function because my precmd actually does more than just exporting history.
What this does is to append every command you run in every shell to ~/.bash_history. If you run history -n you import watever is not in your current shell's history from.bash_history. You can even put history -n in your precmd but that can give somewhat unexpected results when you are using multiple shells at once.
The problem with that is that the big venues charge huge amounts to use them.
I was involved with an amateur musical production group and for a while and was involved in 2 musicals. One was in the hall owned by the group. Tickets were around $10 but there was only seating for around 50. The other musical was in a performing arts centre. It could hold lots more people (probably over 1000) but tickets were $50, AND we had to ensure close to full house every night just to break even.
This was a performing arts centre. Now imagine how much a sports stadium will charge a band to hold a gig. At least the smaller groups can be found in various pubs and clubs across the country.
As far as I can tell, the point of drive-by downloading is for things like Java Web Start. With this setting off, you cannot just click a JWS link and have it open. Instead, you have to manually navigate to the file and open it from the Finder.
Older browsers (eg. IE and anything that used "Internet Config") had a list of specific mime types/extensions that should be opened by apps rather than downloaded. Mozilla browsers have this too but it's not pre-populated so the default action is to ask if you want to open or save the file.
Personally, I prefer the old behaviour. The only annoyance was having to remove all the file types when you first setup your browser (there must have been about 50 entries for stuffit!).
Cane Toads are making their way through the NT and totally ruining the native wildlife populations as they go. I remember reading somewhere that experts have estimated large tourist areas could be devastated in just a few years.
The problem is that none of the native animals have seen a toad so they don't know not to eat them. Once they do, they die before they can pass on the bad news;)
I got a Motorola V220. The V-series is very hackable. In fact, even though it's not supposed to work, I can upload Java games directly from my Mac using some open source software (moto4lin). It's much simpler than the official way Motorola wants you to do it. I can even "backup" any Java apps I choose to purchase.
I do my J2ME compiles against the Motorola SDK (I had to borrow a Windows machine to get the jars) using mpowerplayer for the preverify/local testing. Then I just upload the.jar file, reboot the phone and I'm running on the device. About the only thing missing is local testing of Motorola-specific APIs but so far I've just avoided them. If could always fire up a Windows box to run the Motorola emulator on.
I'm not so concerned about other people being able to access Java apps that I write so I haven't even thought about that part. My operator (Virgin Mobile) doesn't even let me connect to the internet (just to their site, which has nothing useful that doesn't cost money) so even if I could setup a server that'd let people download my jars I'd have no way to test it.
I wonder sometimes why someone can't just create an insulating layer that connects some standard interface to the kernel. Driver writers target the standard interface and the user installs the kernel interface for their kernel + the driver.
ok, so it's not as simple as having a stable interface in the kernel but don't you think distros would love something like this? It doesn't matter if it's not in the main kernel because the average joe user doesn't use that one.
All it would take is a few of those companies/people that want to have a stable API to "port" the compatibility blanket to each new kernel version.
I believe in both ID *and* evolution. "What?" I hear you ask. "Those things are incompatible!". They're not but you have to have a particular view of time.
Here's how it fits in my mind...
To me God really did create the earth in 7 days. Time started when the earth was created. Think of the universe as a simulation in a computer. There's no real "free will", just a random number generator (to us it *is* free will because we are inside the simulation). The simulation was run for ~16b years (or however old scientists think the universe is) to make it suitable for humans. Yes, I do believe that we are not descended from animals. There were hominids around but they weren't "human" because they lacked a soul.
The 7 days thing? That's how long it took God to "code" the initial conditions of the simulation. You know, code up the universe, run it and go "oh yeah, some animals would be nice, let's just tweak this here and recompile."
To me evolution is just a way of explaining the process used in the simulation. Scientists are reverse-engineering God's thoughts. Of course they get some bits wrong (like "we are descended from animals") but they'll figure it out eventually:)
You know, unlike the morons that made FireWire 800, USB 2.0 is backwards compatible. I use an iPod Shuffle with my Sawtooth Mac just fine.
Actually, unless the nano has faster flash, the speeds of USB 2.0 are wasted. I reckon my shuffle does about 20MB/s, compared with 11MB/s for USB 1.1 and 480MB/s for USB 2.0.
Sure everyone else is telling you how great it is but if you're not going to do serious app development there's just no point in learning it.
The cross platform stuff works just fine. I've written apps for my Mac using Java, Tcl, Perl and Qt. If you don't mine X11 stuff you can use just about any X toolkit (eg. Gtk). I think WxWidgets works natively on the Mac too.
None of these is all that similar to MSVC.NET but at least they work on Windows and Unix too.
I don't think I could get any work done at home. I've got a wife and a daughter. Getting even an hour of uninterrupted time in the evening/weekends is almost impossible (I usually have to stay up after they go to sleep).
At least I can concentrate on work when I'm at the office. It's relatively quiet too.
The iPod HDs have a lower MTBF than "desktop" HDs. If you just copy stuff to and from the drive every now and then (ie. "standard" use of an iPod HD) you'll be ok but if you cause lots of seeking (which will happen if you boot an OS from the drive) you will kill it.
I've used everything from older "big iron" running HP-UX to modern systems running Mac/Linux/BSD/Win32. Really, it's irrelevant.
What matters is your personal environment. At home I have a FrankenMac (heavily modded and upgraded G4 tower). At a previous job I used Windows 2000 as my primary system. At my current job my primary system is KDE on SuSE Linux but I also regularly use Windows XP and Mac OS X on an old G4 tower.
What really matters is my personal environment. I'm a coder so what matters to me is a good editor (currently gvim 6.2 on *all* platforms) and a consistent set of commands/scripts/etc. to work with. Really, there's only minor differences between the different platforms I use (when I'm working).
Beyond that, there's "productivity apps" like browsers/email/etc. I use different apps at home and work but that's not a problem.
Probably the most important way to handle multiple platforms is to use cross platform software. I'm not saying there won't be native software that you might prefer (I use Firefox on Windows and Linux but Safari or Camino on Mac OS X).
I have a Tevion 8 device Universal Remote that is programmable. I got it for $20 AUD which is cheaper than most non-programmable models. I got it from Aldi (a bugdet supermarket chain). It's awesome considering the price. Slightly slower button response than my original remotes but it controls 3 devices at the moment (TV/VCR/PVR). The only thing it can't handle is the VCR timer recording (there's 10 buttons dedicated to this on the VCR remote). I could "waste" a "device" and learn those codes onto buttons on the universal remote anyway (but I don't really care).
If you're not in Australia, you might be out of luck since Aldi doesn't sell products from their web site. The manufacturer is also known as Medion so perhaps this remote is out there somewhere.
I've always thought a compiler option should turn off checked exceptions. It would basically turn all Exceptions into RuntimeExceptions, letting you deal with it at runtime (which is really useful when you don't want to just repackage the exceptions but you also don't want to deal with them).
gee. I hope you allowed for people like me who have a 1920x1440px screen but a browser window about 1000x720px. Not everyone uses all their apps maximised!
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Um... You can get both a 13" and 15" Mac laptop with integrated graphics. The addition of integrated graphics in the 15" form factor was one of the things I liked about the last refresh. Even if you get a higher end 15" model or the 17" model you still get integrated graphics in addition to the discrete graphics so while you can't avoid the cost of the discrete graphics on these higher end systems you don't need to suffer the battery penalty discrete graphics brings. The discrete graphics adds maybe $100 to the cost of the machines it's on and at $3200 AUD for the cheapest Mac laptop with discrete graphics it's hardly an unbearable cost if you decide you don't need it.
Compared to the PC world, Apple certainly does have an anaemic product line but you can't force them to make a computer just for you. Apple makes premium machines so they're always going to cost more than merely average machines. If you don't demand a premium product, look elsewhere. Personally, I find the PC world to be a sea of bad to mediocre products. Sure they're cheap but I don't want a fat machine, or a machine that flexes when I pick it up, or something that's unreasonably heavy. Perhaps there are premium PCs out there but I haven't seen them for sale around here.
I like the third person camera whenever I need to _see_ anything (eg. while moving about above ground or engaged in a sword fight). But I'm playing an archer now so I need the first person camera whenever there's enemies nearby.
I could handle having only a third person camera if the game handled archery a little less precisely but a first person only camera would be annoying unless the game came with ultra-widescreen wrap-around 3D glasses. There's a reason why FPSes tend to feature underground levels so heavily. It's hard to see the world when you're looking through a 90 degree lens.
Here's how you avoid losing history. I know... you said "the default should be" but it is at least possible. I'm sure most people don't actually use multiple shells at the same time anyway ;)
# Don't clobber .bash_history
shopt -s histappend
HISTFILE=$HOME/.bash_history
# This should be enough to last for years
HISTFILESIZE=1000000000
HISTSIZE=1000000
#HISTCONTROL=ignorespace # start a command with a space and it doesn't go into t
HISTCONTROL=ignoredups # ignore duplicates
#HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth # both of the above
precmd()
{
history -a # export history
}
PROMPT_COMMAND=precmd
I have precmd as a function because my precmd actually does more than just exporting history.
What this does is to append every command you run in every shell to ~/.bash_history. If you run history -n you import watever is not in your current shell's history from .bash_history. You can even put history -n in your precmd but that can give somewhat unexpected results when you are using multiple shells at once.
My cable modem has some voodoo.i ght-goes-on-light-goes-off.html
http://members.optusnet.com.au/a1291762/2006/03/l
The problem with that is that the big venues charge huge amounts to use them.
I was involved with an amateur musical production group and for a while and was involved in 2 musicals. One was in the hall owned by the group. Tickets were around $10 but there was only seating for around 50. The other musical was in a performing arts centre. It could hold lots more people (probably over 1000) but tickets were $50, AND we had to ensure close to full house every night just to break even.
This was a performing arts centre. Now imagine how much a sports stadium will charge a band to hold a gig. At least the smaller groups can be found in various pubs and clubs across the country.
As far as I can tell, the point of drive-by downloading is for things like Java Web Start. With this setting off, you cannot just click a JWS link and have it open. Instead, you have to manually navigate to the file and open it from the Finder.
Older browsers (eg. IE and anything that used "Internet Config") had a list of specific mime types/extensions that should be opened by apps rather than downloaded. Mozilla browsers have this too but it's not pre-populated so the default action is to ask if you want to open or save the file.
Personally, I prefer the old behaviour. The only annoyance was having to remove all the file types when you first setup your browser (there must have been about 50 entries for stuffit!).
Cane Toads are making their way through the NT and totally ruining the native wildlife populations as they go. I remember reading somewhere that experts have estimated large tourist areas could be devastated in just a few years.
;)
The problem is that none of the native animals have seen a toad so they don't know not to eat them. Once they do, they die before they can pass on the bad news
I got a Motorola V220. The V-series is very hackable. In fact, even though it's not supposed to work, I can upload Java games directly from my Mac using some open source software (moto4lin). It's much simpler than the official way Motorola wants you to do it. I can even "backup" any Java apps I choose to purchase.
.jar file, reboot the phone and I'm running on the device. About the only thing missing is local testing of Motorola-specific APIs but so far I've just avoided them. If could always fire up a Windows box to run the Motorola emulator on.
I do my J2ME compiles against the Motorola SDK (I had to borrow a Windows machine to get the jars) using mpowerplayer for the preverify/local testing. Then I just upload the
I'm not so concerned about other people being able to access Java apps that I write so I haven't even thought about that part. My operator (Virgin Mobile) doesn't even let me connect to the internet (just to their site, which has nothing useful that doesn't cost money) so even if I could setup a server that'd let people download my jars I'd have no way to test it.
My Mac has a Celeron Inside sticker. It's also designed for the Intel Tualatin chipset.
My Mac lives in an ex-PC case and the previous inhabitant sported a Tualatin Celeron. Now it's a dual G4.
If Apple didn't prefer form over function, the Sawtooth case would have let me have 2 optical drives and enough space for decent cooling.
I wonder sometimes why someone can't just create an insulating layer that connects some standard interface to the kernel. Driver writers target the standard interface and the user installs the kernel interface for their kernel + the driver.
ok, so it's not as simple as having a stable interface in the kernel but don't you think distros would love something like this? It doesn't matter if it's not in the main kernel because the average joe user doesn't use that one.
All it would take is a few of those companies/people that want to have a stable API to "port" the compatibility blanket to each new kernel version.
I believe in both ID *and* evolution. "What?" I hear you ask. "Those things are incompatible!". They're not but you have to have a particular view of time.
:)
Here's how it fits in my mind...
To me God really did create the earth in 7 days. Time started when the earth was created. Think of the universe as a simulation in a computer. There's no real "free will", just a random number generator (to us it *is* free will because we are inside the simulation). The simulation was run for ~16b years (or however old scientists think the universe is) to make it suitable for humans. Yes, I do believe that we are not descended from animals. There were hominids around but they weren't "human" because they lacked a soul.
The 7 days thing? That's how long it took God to "code" the initial conditions of the simulation. You know, code up the universe, run it and go "oh yeah, some animals would be nice, let's just tweak this here and recompile."
To me evolution is just a way of explaining the process used in the simulation. Scientists are reverse-engineering God's thoughts. Of course they get some bits wrong (like "we are descended from animals") but they'll figure it out eventually
You know, unlike the morons that made FireWire 800, USB 2.0 is backwards compatible. I use an iPod Shuffle with my Sawtooth Mac just fine.
Actually, unless the nano has faster flash, the speeds of USB 2.0 are wasted. I reckon my shuffle does about 20MB/s, compared with 11MB/s for USB 1.1 and 480MB/s for USB 2.0.
I have had this before... (can't remember the update though). Just re-install the latest Java updater and you should be good again.
Sure everyone else is telling you how great it is but if you're not going to do serious app development there's just no point in learning it.
The cross platform stuff works just fine. I've written apps for my Mac using Java, Tcl, Perl and Qt. If you don't mine X11 stuff you can use just about any X toolkit (eg. Gtk). I think WxWidgets works natively on the Mac too.
None of these is all that similar to MSVC.NET but at least they work on Windows and Unix too.
I don't think I could get any work done at home. I've got a wife and a daughter. Getting even an hour of uninterrupted time in the evening/weekends is almost impossible (I usually have to stay up after they go to sleep).
At least I can concentrate on work when I'm at the office. It's relatively quiet too.
Their hard drives aren't designed for booting OSes from. Too much seeking will fry them.
The iPod HDs have a lower MTBF than "desktop" HDs. If you just copy stuff to and from the drive every now and then (ie. "standard" use of an iPod HD) you'll be ok but if you cause lots of seeking (which will happen if you boot an OS from the drive) you will kill it.
I've used everything from older "big iron" running HP-UX to modern systems running Mac/Linux/BSD/Win32. Really, it's irrelevant.
What matters is your personal environment. At home I have a FrankenMac (heavily modded and upgraded G4 tower). At a previous job I used Windows 2000 as my primary system. At my current job my primary system is KDE on SuSE Linux but I also regularly use Windows XP and Mac OS X on an old G4 tower.
What really matters is my personal environment. I'm a coder so what matters to me is a good editor (currently gvim 6.2 on *all* platforms) and a consistent set of commands/scripts/etc. to work with. Really, there's only minor differences between the different platforms I use (when I'm working).
Beyond that, there's "productivity apps" like browsers/email/etc. I use different apps at home and work but that's not a problem.
Probably the most important way to handle multiple platforms is to use cross platform software. I'm not saying there won't be native software that you might prefer (I use Firefox on Windows and Linux but Safari or Camino on Mac OS X).
No registry fragments but any file written by the app will still exist.
Check out your ~/Library/Preferences directory some time. Did you app crash? ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter will have a file for it.
The main problems with the registry are it's ability to get corrupted and that it gets loaded into memory.
I have a Tevion 8 device Universal Remote that is programmable. I got it for $20 AUD which is cheaper than most non-programmable models. I got it from Aldi (a bugdet supermarket chain). It's awesome considering the price. Slightly slower button response than my original remotes but it controls 3 devices at the moment (TV/VCR/PVR). The only thing it can't handle is the VCR timer recording (there's 10 buttons dedicated to this on the VCR remote). I could "waste" a "device" and learn those codes onto buttons on the universal remote anyway (but I don't really care).
If you're not in Australia, you might be out of luck since Aldi doesn't sell products from their web site. The manufacturer is also known as Medion so perhaps this remote is out there somewhere.
I've always thought a compiler option should turn off checked exceptions. It would basically turn all Exceptions into RuntimeExceptions, letting you deal with it at runtime (which is really useful when you don't want to just repackage the exceptions but you also don't want to deal with them).
I've been on the bugzilla entry for this bug for three years! The fix was in CVS before the security bulletin came out.
gee. I hope you allowed for people like me who have a 1920x1440px screen but a browser window about 1000x720px. Not everyone uses all their apps maximised!
all caps HTML was good until standards like CSS made it bad.
CSS is case sensitive so <P> and <p> are not equivalent.
I think the XHTML spec says not to use uppercase tags.
NetBSD will support your machine. So will most of the PPC linux distros.