to switch between all windows of the current application in OSX, Cmd-` cycles through them.
If only that were the case.
One of my usability peeves with OS X: Cmd-tab switches between applications, not windows. That's fine. Cmd-backtick switches between windows in the current app. That's fine too, even though I have to say I was more used to alt-tab doing both for me in other OSes.
The problem arises when trying to keyboard-navigate to windows of an app that are minimized to the dock
Unfortunately, cmd-backtick doesn't "switch between all windows of the current application". It only switches between all non-minimized windows of the current application.
Now, given that I don't have multiple or virtual desktops, I'm forced to hide unused apps and minimize windows of apps that I'm using, just to keep my desktop reasonably organized. And it still doesn't work too well. Ah well.
While some would argue that any of those isometric-view or 3D Pac Man games from the late eighties and early nineties (Pac Man World, anyone?) "tainted" the original, I'd say even more would just go "huh? Never heard of 'em."
Did Frogger 3D "taint" the original Frogger? IMO, no, it's just pretty much been forgotten. Even better yet, what about Centipede 3D?
Dragon's Lair 3D might be a total waste of time and money for anyone developing or playing it, but that doesn't mean that it detracts from the original (which was pretty much as close to a video game version of "simon says" as you could get, of course. But, ooh, it's on a laserdisc! Eh, whatever...)
The post-match interview explained this a bit -- basically, Kasparov psyched himself out in that fifteen minutes, trying to determine if the rook sacrifice was the blunder that would cost him the match, since Junior can capitalize on mistakes better than a human can (or so Kasparov claimed).
Even though he was in a much stronger position, he was spent; worrying about whether the next move would be the move that cost him the match, and made him the two-time world-champion loser-of-a-major-computer-match.
He agreed to a draw a few moves later once Junior et al realized they were in an extremely weak position.
Seems to me it was a pretty wussy way to end it. Junior got lucky. If you're up five runs in the fourth, you still don't pray for rain even if the other team's got a monster closer.
But that's the point! If I lose a rare CD, no FLAC file could be a compensation [...] and i think you can get nearly every piece of music at Napster's childs
I agree with your first point -- that losing a rare CD sucks and just having the audio is, of course, not the same.
However: Assuming you wanted the CD not only for the art and packaging but also for the music.... I think you missed the point of the rest of my post when you suggested downloading MP3s to replace your lost disc. Those MP3s are effectively impossible to transfer to a less-compressed (or even differently compressed) format if you want to gain the benefits of the lesser compression. The audio signal's just not there any more. And if you try to change from one psychoacoustical model to a different one, you're essentially ending up with the minimus of the two.
MP3s are great for some purposes. Getting your audio back to a virgin state isn't one of them.
Say you've got your collection of CDs at home, and you're just about to encode them all for your iPod. "Okay", you figure, "I'm going to pick.. umm.. 192kbps MP3s, since that's pretty good and I'm going to be listening to them over cheap headphones on the train on the way to work."
So you go ahead and encode your entire 600-album collection to 192 kbps MP3s. And you put them on your iPod, and everything's fine... until you decide you want to listen to them at work as well, and 192kpbs just isn't good enough for listening in the quieter environment in your cube.
Now you've gotta take your 600 CDs and re-encode them at 320 kbps, because if you were to do something silly like extract your 192 kbps MP3s to wave files and re-encode to 320 kbps, you'd just end up with inflated 192 kbps MP3s.
Better yet, say you want (vbr) ogg files at work; or Apple (heaven forfend) finally comes out with a portable player with ogg support. You still need to go back to your original CDs (are they scratched yet? Did you lend 'em to your friend and forget he had it before he left for Maryland? Did your wife take your favorite disc to work with her, where one of her students used it for an art project?) and re-encode everything.
Now, say instead you use FLAC (or SHN, or even APE which I've never personally used).
You take your collection to work; turns out your servers are slightly too small for the FLAC files, so you expand to wave and encode to 320 kpbs MP3s using a simple shell script for the entire collection.
You want ogg files for your new next-generation iPod; great, just run a slightly different shell script to expand to wave and encode to ogg.
Your apartment is broken into and your entire 600 CD collection is stolen, including that ultra-rare CD you got from that band that was once part of that other band but split off when the original drummer OD'd, but they only burned 300 copies of their indie CD and besides they haven't been together since '94. No problem, you've still got the FLAC files and can at least burn yourself a virgin, bit-for-bit exact copy (depending on how carefully you originally extracted it, of course) of the audio -- your artwork and individually-numbered disc are still gone, sorry.
And that's not to mention new compression algorithms, media formats, etc. MP3 and any other lossy compression algorithm doesn't handle future-readiness very well.
If they do that, they can set a precident allowing for other pieces of software to be pro-actively certified.
"Pro-actively certified"? Yikes. How about "chilling effect" or "prior restraint"?
The last thing I want to see is OSS projects needing to file a bunch of paperwork just to make sure they can't get sued by an ??AA before they're even started.
I haven't done any research on this whatsoever, but could you explain the difference between this SpeedStep stuff and the "Processor Performance" pulldown on the Energy Saver -> Options tab in System Preferences on my new TiBook?
(The options are "Highest" and "Reduced", with no indication of what they're actually referring to)
Either way, you're definitely right about the "good battery lives" bit... I can usually watch nearly two full DVDs on a single battery, which has been extremely useful for longer flights.
And that girl in "The Crying Game" is really a guy.
For people who haven't seen the movie yet, the attribution wouldn't mean anything -- until you pointed it out, and now it might stick. Oh well.
(And the grandparent's spelling of "Keyser Soze" is the worst I've ever seen. King Sousa? I don't remember the part where Kobayashi was a tuba player in a high school marching band...)
So, if Grandma can install Windows but not Debian, there's something wrong with Debian
You're forgetting that Grandma can't install Windows -- Grandma gets her computer with Windows pre-installed. Oh, and if there's ever any problem she pays the teenage kid next door five bucks to fix it for her.
Quite frankly, I'm not sure what the fuss is about, regarding the Debian installer. I'm hardly a "guru", but I've had no problems with the installer the last few times I've had to use it (most recently, two weeks ago). It's intuitive enough for anyone who can actually handle a clean-install of pretty much any operating system, and it's easily navigable if you don't quite get it right the first time.
-A decent baby-sized tool box -- with a good hammer, screwdrivers (flat & philips head), pliers, and all the other little goodies.
Seconded. A hex (not magnetic) modular screwdriver is excellent for college; and make sure the hammer you get is a full-sized one, not one of those tiny light hammers.
I'd also add a 15' (or so) tape measure.
Having the only fully-equipped toolbox on my floor made me pretty damn popular, the two years I was in the dorms.
Years back the Atari 2600 (and related) system had a button pad for accessing different functions of games.
The keypad on my
Atari 5200 was all I ever needed to convince all of my grade-school buddies that my 5200 was infinitely better than any game system they could ever show me.
At least until the Nintendo hit US shores. Ah well.
The funny thing is, despite the fact that my parents ended up having to buy six or eight of those controllers because the trigger buttons on the side kept breaking, the "1" and "Start" buttons had a terrible habit of almost never working, and the joystick wasn't self-centering (and therefore suffered from a lot of abuse at my six-to-eight-year-old hands), I thought it rocked.
And I can still remember which numbers corresponded to which plays in Football. The screen pass was nearly unstoppable:-)
It's about time they've done something useful. "Insomniac" (off their self-titled album, "Billy Pilgrim") is still just about their only song worth listening to.
What I'm saying is that the teacher has no business giving his opinion on ANYTHING under any circumstances.
Are you kidding? Everything's an opinion to someone. Fundie-types think teaching evolution in biology is just the sort of "indoctrination" you're railing against.
It's impossible to educate without expressing an opinion, even if the opinion being expressed is "I believe that 2+2=4".
Just out of curiosity (and on a tangential note), could you give an example of a "pro-EULA, pro-consumer" argument?
At that point we're supposed to believe MS is a big cozy teddy bear and really wants to help
"Oh, sure, they look cute now, b-b-but in just a second they're going to get big, and they're going to get mean. Didn't any of you guys ever WATCH the show??"
Let's get the schools switched to Linux before a Microserf eats Guy!
This is actually great news, and I'd be surprised if it's not what they were expecting to do all along (of course, they'd never admit to it).
Think of it from the States' point of view: "Yeah, we've got a version of the OS running modularly, but you didn't want us to show it. So no, you can't see how we did it. But you'd better get cracking."
In addition, they don't actually have to demonstrate its stability and all that -- it's just taken at face value that it's stable enough, since that's how it was presented when it was introduced.
This is great. Looks like a win-win scenario for the States.
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One of my usability peeves with OS X: Cmd-tab switches between applications, not windows. That's fine. Cmd-backtick switches between windows in the current app. That's fine too, even though I have to say I was more used to alt-tab doing both for me in other OSes.
The problem arises when trying to keyboard-navigate to windows of an app that are minimized to the dock
Unfortunately, cmd-backtick doesn't "switch between all windows of the current application". It only switches between all non-minimized windows of the current application.
Now, given that I don't have multiple or virtual desktops, I'm forced to hide unused apps and minimize windows of apps that I'm using, just to keep my desktop reasonably organized. And it still doesn't work too well. Ah well.
On second thought, he was a kicker.
While some would argue that any of those isometric-view or 3D Pac Man games from the late eighties and early nineties (Pac Man World, anyone?) "tainted" the original, I'd say even more would just go "huh? Never heard of 'em."
Did Frogger 3D "taint" the original Frogger? IMO, no, it's just pretty much been forgotten. Even better yet, what about Centipede 3D?
Dragon's Lair 3D might be a total waste of time and money for anyone developing or playing it, but that doesn't mean that it detracts from the original (which was pretty much as close to a video game version of "simon says" as you could get, of course. But, ooh, it's on a laserdisc! Eh, whatever...)
Even though he was in a much stronger position, he was spent; worrying about whether the next move would be the move that cost him the match, and made him the two-time world-champion loser-of-a-major-computer-match.
He agreed to a draw a few moves later once Junior et al realized they were in an extremely weak position.
Seems to me it was a pretty wussy way to end it. Junior got lucky. If you're up five runs in the fourth, you still don't pray for rain even if the other team's got a monster closer.
However: Assuming you wanted the CD not only for the art and packaging but also for the music.... I think you missed the point of the rest of my post when you suggested downloading MP3s to replace your lost disc. Those MP3s are effectively impossible to transfer to a less-compressed (or even differently compressed) format if you want to gain the benefits of the lesser compression. The audio signal's just not there any more. And if you try to change from one psychoacoustical model to a different one, you're essentially ending up with the minimus of the two.
MP3s are great for some purposes. Getting your audio back to a virgin state isn't one of them.
Say you've got your collection of CDs at home, and you're just about to encode them all for your iPod. "Okay", you figure, "I'm going to pick.. umm.. 192kbps MP3s, since that's pretty good and I'm going to be listening to them over cheap headphones on the train on the way to work."
So you go ahead and encode your entire 600-album collection to 192 kbps MP3s. And you put them on your iPod, and everything's fine... until you decide you want to listen to them at work as well, and 192kpbs just isn't good enough for listening in the quieter environment in your cube.
Now you've gotta take your 600 CDs and re-encode them at 320 kbps, because if you were to do something silly like extract your 192 kbps MP3s to wave files and re-encode to 320 kbps, you'd just end up with inflated 192 kbps MP3s.
Better yet, say you want (vbr) ogg files at work; or Apple (heaven forfend) finally comes out with a portable player with ogg support. You still need to go back to your original CDs (are they scratched yet? Did you lend 'em to your friend and forget he had it before he left for Maryland? Did your wife take your favorite disc to work with her, where one of her students used it for an art project?) and re-encode everything.
Now, say instead you use FLAC (or SHN, or even APE which I've never personally used).
You take your collection to work; turns out your servers are slightly too small for the FLAC files, so you expand to wave and encode to 320 kpbs MP3s using a simple shell script for the entire collection.
You want ogg files for your new next-generation iPod; great, just run a slightly different shell script to expand to wave and encode to ogg.
Your apartment is broken into and your entire 600 CD collection is stolen, including that ultra-rare CD you got from that band that was once part of that other band but split off when the original drummer OD'd, but they only burned 300 copies of their indie CD and besides they haven't been together since '94. No problem, you've still got the FLAC files and can at least burn yourself a virgin, bit-for-bit exact copy (depending on how carefully you originally extracted it, of course) of the audio -- your artwork and individually-numbered disc are still gone, sorry.
And that's not to mention new compression algorithms, media formats, etc. MP3 and any other lossy compression algorithm doesn't handle future-readiness very well.
The last thing I want to see is OSS projects needing to file a bunch of paperwork just to make sure they can't get sued by an ??AA before they're even started.
(The options are "Highest" and "Reduced", with no indication of what they're actually referring to)
Either way, you're definitely right about the "good battery lives" bit... I can usually watch nearly two full DVDs on a single battery, which has been extremely useful for longer flights.
By the way, "Rosebud" was Citizen Kane's sled.
And that girl in "The Crying Game" is really a guy.
For people who haven't seen the movie yet, the attribution wouldn't mean anything -- until you pointed it out, and now it might stick. Oh well.
(And the grandparent's spelling of "Keyser Soze" is the worst I've ever seen. King Sousa? I don't remember the part where Kobayashi was a tuba player in a high school marching band...)
You're forgetting that Grandma can't install Windows -- Grandma gets her computer with Windows pre-installed. Oh, and if there's ever any problem she pays the teenage kid next door five bucks to fix it for her.
Quite frankly, I'm not sure what the fuss is about, regarding the Debian installer. I'm hardly a "guru", but I've had no problems with the installer the last few times I've had to use it (most recently, two weeks ago). It's intuitive enough for anyone who can actually handle a clean-install of pretty much any operating system, and it's easily navigable if you don't quite get it right the first time.
I'm thinking more along the lines of "Waco, Texas". The outcome was similar, in any case.
I don't think my toaster has ever had an aneurism. Neither, for that matter, has Threepio.
Bonus points for spelling the wrong word right though, especially hereabouts.
But surely they've had a chance to examine our historical documents?
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Seconded. A hex (not magnetic) modular screwdriver is excellent for college; and make sure the hammer you get is a full-sized one, not one of those tiny light hammers.
I'd also add a 15' (or so) tape measure.
Having the only fully-equipped toolbox on my floor made me pretty damn popular, the two years I was in the dorms.
The keypad on my Atari 5200 was all I ever needed to convince all of my grade-school buddies that my 5200 was infinitely better than any game system they could ever show me.
At least until the Nintendo hit US shores. Ah well.
The funny thing is, despite the fact that my parents ended up having to buy six or eight of those controllers because the trigger buttons on the side kept breaking, the "1" and "Start" buttons had a terrible habit of almost never working, and the joystick wasn't self-centering (and therefore suffered from a lot of abuse at my six-to-eight-year-old hands), I thought it rocked.
And I can still remember which numbers corresponded to which plays in Football. The screen pass was nearly unstoppable :-)
Virtua Tennis: July 11, 2000
Mario Tennis: August 29, 2000
And I won't bother debating how superior Virtua Tennis was as a game.
Out of curiosity, are you in school, still? Those of us in the Real World(tm) generally pay for bandwidth.
On the other hand...
It takes less than a second to close a pop under.
Renters insurance.
Too bad, too.
Are you kidding? Everything's an opinion to someone. Fundie-types think teaching evolution in biology is just the sort of "indoctrination" you're railing against.
It's impossible to educate without expressing an opinion, even if the opinion being expressed is "I believe that 2+2=4".
Just out of curiosity (and on a tangential note), could you give an example of a "pro-EULA, pro-consumer" argument?
"Oh, sure, they look cute now, b-b-but in just a second they're going to get big, and they're going to get mean. Didn't any of you guys ever WATCH the show??"
Let's get the schools switched to Linux before a Microserf eats Guy!
Think of it from the States' point of view: "Yeah, we've got a version of the OS running modularly, but you didn't want us to show it. So no, you can't see how we did it. But you'd better get cracking."
In addition, they don't actually have to demonstrate its stability and all that -- it's just taken at face value that it's stable enough, since that's how it was presented when it was introduced.
This is great. Looks like a win-win scenario for the States.