Sorry, I didn't read every word of your post--it was pretty long. Hopefully the brevity of my answer will make up for my inattention. If you hook up a DV camera to an Apple laptop, you might be able to use iMovie, QuickTime Broadcaster, Final Cut or something else to capture directly from the camera to disk. At 9.5 minutes for 2 GB of DV (maybe higher in Final Cut) you would need 50 GB of disk space for 4 hours, so a 60 or 80 GB PowerBook should do the trick.
"Modern." Funny. This has been common for about 25 years--Friday the 13th 3 in 1982, and Jaws 3 and SPACEHUNTER from 1983 spring to mind. People older than me might remember examples from the '70s. Not sure when it became common, but it was quit the fad in the early '80s.
He "plugs his products" with a little line that automatically gets included to the bottom of each page. He is a very smart guy with a profitable (the only thing that matters) small software company. He worked at MS in the early 90s (working on VB for Excel), then at Juno when they were a free ISP, then for his own little company, so he has a wide range of experience--everything from the 800-lb gorilla to a 2-man shop. Plus he is an excellent writer and is really into making good user interfaces. Of course, "good writing" is subjective, so visit the archive and judge for yourself.
Here's a random sample, about why it's rarely a good idea to toss all your old code and rewrite from scratch:
"The idea that new code is better than old is patently absurd. Old code has been used. It has been tested. Lots of bugs have been found, and they've been fixed. There's nothing wrong with it. It doesn't acquire bugs just by sitting around on your hard drive. Au contraire, baby!... it has grown little hairs and stuff on it and nobody knows why. Well, I'll tell you why: those are bug fixes.
"One of them fixes that bug that Nancy had when she tried to install the thing on a computer that didn't have Internet Explorer. Another one fixes that bug that occurs in low memory conditions. Another one fixes that bug that occurred when the file is on a floppy disk and the user yanks out the disk in the middle. That LoadLibrary call is ugly but it makes the code work on old versions of Windows 95.
"Each of these bugs took weeks of real-world usage before they were found. The programmer might have spent a couple of days reproducing the bug in the lab and fixing it. If it's like a lot of bugs, the fix might be one line of code, or it might even be a couple of characters, but a lot of work and time went into those two characters. When you throw away code and start from scratch, you are throwing away all that knowledge. All those collected bug fixes. Years of programming work."
If the author of this review had even bothered to read the information on the Apple website, he would have found that there are no sounds associated with the mouse.
Now Hear This
Mighty Mouse even sounds as good as it feels. The audio feedback built into Mighty Mouse provides an aural sensation that responds to your movements. When you scroll or click, Mighty Mouse produces subtle sound effects based on your actions.
Teaching, computers, games, yeah, fascinating... so, what's the deal with the moderation here? Why are there so few comments with scores over +3? My default is +5 and the whole front page right now shows *zero* comments at that level. Did they get real stingy with the mod points all of a sudden?
The language you're referring to is probably Logo. Logo had a cursor called the turtle that you gave commands to draw. To make a boxy seven, you might say "FD 100 LT 90 FD 50" which means "forward 100, left turn 90 degrees, forward 50."
If I had a holodeck, I'd lose the door and never come out until I died of exhaustion. It would be hard to convince me I should be anywhere but in the holodeck, getting my oil massage from Cindy Crawford and her simulated twin sister... I'm afraid the holodeck will be society's last invention.
Because SVG is XML, which is text, it can be generated by anything that can create text--Perl, PHP, ASP, whatever. Here is a sample (with source) done in PHP. Fun, fun, fun. I haven't coded vector graphics in ages. Anyone else remember things like Apple's HPLOT and Basic's LINE? I do. I think this will work:
Acid2 is kind of out there, and as others are pointing out, our beloved FF won't pass it, either. The real questions are: Will it even fully support just pure CSS1? And for the person who said this: "At the time that the codebase of IE was starting, the w3 standards weren't as hyped as they were today. As a result, it's no surprise that Microsoft didn't listen to them."--Um, why are we giving them a pass here? Everyone else has gotten their shit together in the meantime, why can't MS? Weren't they one of the original members of the w3c in the first place?
I never got why HP did this. It looked nothing more than what it probably was--a desperate attempt to try to cash in on a popular name. Was there any reason to buy an HP iPod instead of an Apple one? Same price, same warranty, same everything, right? Didn't even have an HP logo on it, IIRC. I always thought the only people who would buy one were people who bought one at the same time they were buying a machine. Is it worth it to advertise, track inventory, etc., for what must have been only a handful of sales? (Evidently not.) No sense mentioning that carrying a competitor's product always seemed pretty dumb.
I hate to sound like one of those people who say "Apple is perfect and everyone should copy them" but one of the good things Apple has done recently is simplify and standardize their line and ComHPaq should really follow. PowerMac and PowerBook have been around for ages, and even if people might not know the name "powermac" (thinking instead of it as just "a Macintosh") there are just as many people who think *any* notebook is "a powerbook." iMac and iBook have both been around for over 5 years. Those items, plus the iPod, are the core of their line and just about everyone knows them. Those items, plus the Mac mini, eMac, and displays, are pretty much Apple's *entire line*, so it's easy to figure out what's going on, there is very little overlap and, even more importantly, clear distinctions as to *why* you should buy one over another--not just categories for categories' sake. (The only fuzziness comes from the 12" PowerBook. Lots of people ask me about that versus the iBooks, especially now that the iBooks have G4s. Otherwise, everything else is clear as day. People pretty much look at the line and figure out what they want in a few minutes.)
OTOH, only a few people even recognize the names 'Presario' and 'Pavilion' (nothing like carrying two lines that totally overlap; I see no difference today compared to how the lines were when HP & CPQ were two companies) and beond the general product names, look at the items--d4100y, d4100e, a1050y, a1010y, a1030e, a1000y, SR1020T, SR1010Z, SR1020V. (Yes, the mix of upper- and lower-case letters is just as ComHPaq describes them.) What the fuck is all that?
Assuming you're not trolling, I'll answer. Command lines are good for lots of things. Here's one set of reasons to like the CLI.
Anything you can do at a command line...
can be done remotely over even the slowest network link.
can be put into a script...
...which can be scheduled with CRON
produces textual output, which can be
instantly sent to a printer (hack-proof!--hard to delete logs when they're already printed*)
emailed
shown on a web page
Without a command line's texty goodness, how could I do something like this?
There are two kinds of fool. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, "This is new, and therefore better" -- John Brunner, "The Shockwave Rider"
I agree 100%. And Scott Hacker said it best: "...people in the print industry pay good money for paper opaque enough not to let other pages show through, while OS X spends valuable CPU cycles to enable the opposite effect. Transparency can sometimes make things look cluttered and hard to read."
Reading other posts, it seems that maybe MS is doing something good. I'll reserve judgment until I see for myself. (Yeah, I know, I must be new here.:-) )
I don't remmber where I saw it, but I saw a system like this on TV about 10 years ago. I mean, these guys might be the first to do it comercially, or cheaply, but the idea has been around for ages. I'm sure a slashdot reader somewhere works in a facility that already has something like this in place?
How much you want to bet that if you disable whatever shitty built-in desktop search program they include and set it to "Classic Windows Look" you'll be able to run it on a 1.0GHz cpu with 256MB.
Sorry, "Classic" look only goes back one generation... so "Classic" in Vista will be like the default theme from XP. Aggh! *scoops out eyeballs with rusty spoon*
Not sure if this is what you're after, but a good way to explain OSS it is compare to recipes. Say you come up with a great way to cook meatloaf. Once you've done this, and written down the recipe anyway, it takes a trivial amount of effort to share that recipe. Others can see it, modify it, and if they share back their changes, you wind up with a better recipe that you can use yourself. Your meatloaf becomes better and it took no effort to do so--just release your work and wait for improvements to arrive.
If you're a good storyteller you can embellish this a lot and since sharing recipes is very similar to sharing code (a set of instructions, intellectual work that can be duplicated cheaply, etc etc etc) you can draw a million and one parallels.
"It seems Apple was tired of losing the gigahertz competition to the PC world. Apple had been promising faster computers for some time and had not been able to deliver them. In addition, they were frustrated at IBM's inability to produce a fast low-powered chip for laptops."
Hmm, where did he get that idea... possibly from THE FUCKING WWDC KEYNOTE?!?!?
I think we need a new federal law where any journalist who says 'OMG Apple is dieing!!!11' needs to lick Steve Job's balls in public if Apple is still profitable 1 year after the date of publication. (Or should that be handled at the state level?)
PS: The OS is already 'ported', it just isn't available to the public.:-)
Like Google, most Disney property is strangely and suddenly indistinct in the satellite views. Most of Epcot is pretty good but as soon as you try to go over the Magic Kingdom the quality goes to hell. But you can see Sea World and Universal just fine, thankyouverymuch. Also, the tents over Cirque Du Soleil are visible, though they were torn off in the 2004 storms. No surprise there, though; average age of the pics seems to be about 2 years.
MS also shows the World Trade towers as well. OTOH, their zooming effect is really neat and less disorienting than Google's "bang! here's a new view!" method. Double-click on MS zooms; re-centers on Google. Also just noticed that Google has 'hybrid' mode--map info overlaying sat photos. Neat. Oh, and MS's unrequested business info popups are annoying. Sorry for the meandering post, but this was my first time looking @ MS's offering--I couldn't get to it the other day when first announced here.
The most honest line (and a funny one, too) I've ever read in a Linux review: "[The OS on the Zaurus] is not all that stable. I had 2-3 full crashes in the last few days. Some of them could possibly be solved if you SSH to your Zaurus and kill/restart QPE, but I don't see the average businessman [doing] anything of the like." The image of an exec SSHing to his handheld is priceless. (Although, if an associate had the same Zaurus with a Terminal app, I guess it could happen...:-) )
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Sorry, I didn't read every word of your post--it was pretty long. Hopefully the brevity of my answer will make up for my inattention. If you hook up a DV camera to an Apple laptop, you might be able to use iMovie, QuickTime Broadcaster, Final Cut or something else to capture directly from the camera to disk. At 9.5 minutes for 2 GB of DV (maybe higher in Final Cut) you would need 50 GB of disk space for 4 hours, so a 60 or 80 GB PowerBook should do the trick.
OK, OK, we'll compromise--how does "DNS cache phoisoning" sound?
"Modern." Funny. This has been common for about 25 years--Friday the 13th 3 in 1982, and Jaws 3 and SPACEHUNTER from 1983 spring to mind. People older than me might remember examples from the '70s. Not sure when it became common, but it was quit the fad in the early '80s.
He "plugs his products" with a little line that automatically gets included to the bottom of each page. He is a very smart guy with a profitable (the only thing that matters) small software company. He worked at MS in the early 90s (working on VB for Excel), then at Juno when they were a free ISP, then for his own little company, so he has a wide range of experience--everything from the 800-lb gorilla to a 2-man shop. Plus he is an excellent writer and is really into making good user interfaces. Of course, "good writing" is subjective, so visit the archive and judge for yourself.
Here's a random sample, about why it's rarely a good idea to toss all your old code and rewrite from scratch:
"The idea that new code is better than old is patently absurd. Old code has been used. It has been tested. Lots of bugs have been found, and they've been fixed. There's nothing wrong with it. It doesn't acquire bugs just by sitting around on your hard drive. Au contraire, baby!... it has grown little hairs and stuff on it and nobody knows why. Well, I'll tell you why: those are bug fixes.
"One of them fixes that bug that Nancy had when she tried to install the thing on a computer that didn't have Internet Explorer. Another one fixes that bug that occurs in low memory conditions. Another one fixes that bug that occurred when the file is on a floppy disk and the user yanks out the disk in the middle. That LoadLibrary call is ugly but it makes the code work on old versions of Windows 95.
"Each of these bugs took weeks of real-world usage before they were found. The programmer might have spent a couple of days reproducing the bug in the lab and fixing it. If it's like a lot of bugs, the fix might be one line of code, or it might even be a couple of characters, but a lot of work and time went into those two characters. When you throw away code and start from scratch, you are throwing away all that knowledge. All those collected bug fixes. Years of programming work."
If the author of this review had even bothered to read the information on the Apple website, he would have found that there are no sounds associated with the mouse.
Then what, pray tell, is the meaning behind this?
Now Hear This
Mighty Mouse even sounds as good as it feels. The audio feedback built into Mighty Mouse provides an aural sensation that responds to your movements. When you scroll or click, Mighty Mouse produces subtle sound effects based on your actions.
Teaching, computers, games, yeah, fascinating... so, what's the deal with the moderation here? Why are there so few comments with scores over +3? My default is +5 and the whole front page right now shows *zero* comments at that level. Did they get real stingy with the mod points all of a sudden?
The language you're referring to is probably Logo. Logo had a cursor called the turtle that you gave commands to draw. To make a boxy seven, you might say "FD 100 LT 90 FD 50" which means "forward 100, left turn 90 degrees, forward 50."
If I had a holodeck, I'd lose the door and never come out until I died of exhaustion. It would be hard to convince me I should be anywhere but in the holodeck, getting my oil massage from Cindy Crawford and her simulated twin sister... I'm afraid the holodeck will be society's last invention.
--From The Dilbert Future by Scott Adams
Because SVG is XML, which is text, it can be generated by anything that can create text--Perl, PHP, ASP, whatever. Here is a sample (with source) done in PHP. Fun, fun, fun. I haven't coded vector graphics in ages. Anyone else remember things like Apple's HPLOT and Basic's LINE? I do. I think this will work:
10 SCREEN 2
20 A=INT(RND(1)*200)
30 B=INT(RND(1)*200)
40 LINE (0,0)-(A,B)
50 GOTO 20
Acid2 is kind of out there, and as others are pointing out, our beloved FF won't pass it, either. The real questions are: Will it even fully support just pure CSS1? And for the person who said this: "At the time that the codebase of IE was starting, the w3 standards weren't as hyped as they were today. As a result, it's no surprise that Microsoft didn't listen to them."--Um, why are we giving them a pass here? Everyone else has gotten their shit together in the meantime, why can't MS? Weren't they one of the original members of the w3c in the first place?
I never got why HP did this. It looked nothing more than what it probably was--a desperate attempt to try to cash in on a popular name. Was there any reason to buy an HP iPod instead of an Apple one? Same price, same warranty, same everything, right? Didn't even have an HP logo on it, IIRC. I always thought the only people who would buy one were people who bought one at the same time they were buying a machine. Is it worth it to advertise, track inventory, etc., for what must have been only a handful of sales? (Evidently not.) No sense mentioning that carrying a competitor's product always seemed pretty dumb.
I hate to sound like one of those people who say "Apple is perfect and everyone should copy them" but one of the good things Apple has done recently is simplify and standardize their line and ComHPaq should really follow. PowerMac and PowerBook have been around for ages, and even if people might not know the name "powermac" (thinking instead of it as just "a Macintosh") there are just as many people who think *any* notebook is "a powerbook." iMac and iBook have both been around for over 5 years. Those items, plus the iPod, are the core of their line and just about everyone knows them. Those items, plus the Mac mini, eMac, and displays, are pretty much Apple's *entire line*, so it's easy to figure out what's going on, there is very little overlap and, even more importantly, clear distinctions as to *why* you should buy one over another--not just categories for categories' sake. (The only fuzziness comes from the 12" PowerBook. Lots of people ask me about that versus the iBooks, especially now that the iBooks have G4s. Otherwise, everything else is clear as day. People pretty much look at the line and figure out what they want in a few minutes.)
OTOH, only a few people even recognize the names 'Presario' and 'Pavilion' (nothing like carrying two lines that totally overlap; I see no difference today compared to how the lines were when HP & CPQ were two companies) and beond the general product names, look at the items--d4100y, d4100e, a1050y, a1010y, a1030e, a1000y, SR1020T, SR1010Z, SR1020V. (Yes, the mix of upper- and lower-case letters is just as ComHPaq describes them.) What the fuck is all that?
- can be done remotely over even the slowest network link.
- can be put into a script...
...which can be scheduled with CRON- produces textual output, which can be
- instantly sent to a printer (hack-proof!--hard to delete logs when they're already printed*)
- emailed
- shown on a web page
Without a command line's texty goodness, how could I do something like this?* without physical access, of course.
There are two kinds of fool.
One says, "This is old, and therefore good."
And one says, "This is new, and therefore better"
-- John Brunner, "The Shockwave Rider"
I agree 100%. And Scott Hacker said it best: "...people in the print industry pay good money for paper opaque enough not to let other pages show through, while OS X spends valuable CPU cycles to enable the opposite effect. Transparency can sometimes make things look cluttered and hard to read."
:-) )
Reading other posts, it seems that maybe MS is doing something good. I'll reserve judgment until I see for myself. (Yeah, I know, I must be new here.
Yes! That's what I was talking about. I remember the name 'sunflower' and the hexagonal collectors. Thank you!
I don't remmber where I saw it, but I saw a system like this on TV about 10 years ago. I mean, these guys might be the first to do it comercially, or cheaply, but the idea has been around for ages. I'm sure a slashdot reader somewhere works in a facility that already has something like this in place?
...feels much snappier! Oh, wait, wrong thread...
How much you want to bet that if you disable whatever shitty built-in desktop search program they include and set it to "Classic Windows Look" you'll be able to run it on a 1.0GHz cpu with 256MB.
Sorry, "Classic" look only goes back one generation... so "Classic" in Vista will be like the default theme from XP. Aggh! *scoops out eyeballs with rusty spoon*
Not sure if this is what you're after, but a good way to explain OSS it is compare to recipes. Say you come up with a great way to cook meatloaf. Once you've done this, and written down the recipe anyway, it takes a trivial amount of effort to share that recipe. Others can see it, modify it, and if they share back their changes, you wind up with a better recipe that you can use yourself. Your meatloaf becomes better and it took no effort to do so--just release your work and wait for improvements to arrive.
If you're a good storyteller you can embellish this a lot and since sharing recipes is very similar to sharing code (a set of instructions, intellectual work that can be duplicated cheaply, etc etc etc) you can draw a million and one parallels.
"It seems Apple was tired of losing the gigahertz competition to the PC world. Apple had been promising faster computers for some time and had not been able to deliver them. In addition, they were frustrated at IBM's inability to produce a fast low-powered chip for laptops."
:-)
Hmm, where did he get that idea... possibly from THE FUCKING WWDC KEYNOTE?!?!?
I think we need a new federal law where any journalist who says 'OMG Apple is dieing!!!11' needs to lick Steve Job's balls in public if Apple is still profitable 1 year after the date of publication. (Or should that be handled at the state level?)
PS: The OS is already 'ported', it just isn't available to the public.
If it's an Intel box, it should be able to run BeOS as well. :-)
"He admitted he was wrong, maybe we can cut him some slack?"
Mmm, probably not. But maybe he'll get lucky and the source story will be corrected by the time the dupe gets posted in a few hours.
Like Google, most Disney property is strangely and suddenly indistinct in the satellite views. Most of Epcot is pretty good but as soon as you try to go over the Magic Kingdom the quality goes to hell. But you can see Sea World and Universal just fine, thankyouverymuch. Also, the tents over Cirque Du Soleil are visible, though they were torn off in the 2004 storms. No surprise there, though; average age of the pics seems to be about 2 years.
MS also shows the World Trade towers as well. OTOH, their zooming effect is really neat and less disorienting than Google's "bang! here's a new view!" method. Double-click on MS zooms; re-centers on Google. Also just noticed that Google has 'hybrid' mode--map info overlaying sat photos. Neat. Oh, and MS's unrequested business info popups are annoying. Sorry for the meandering post, but this was my first time looking @ MS's offering--I couldn't get to it the other day when first announced here.
The most honest line (and a funny one, too) I've ever read in a Linux review: "[The OS on the Zaurus] is not all that stable. I had 2-3 full crashes in the last few days. Some of them could possibly be solved if you SSH to your Zaurus and kill/restart QPE, but I don't see the average businessman [doing] anything of the like." The image of an exec SSHing to his handheld is priceless. (Although, if an associate had the same Zaurus with a Terminal app, I guess it could happen... :-) )
Ah yes, yet another pretender to the iPod Flea throne. :-)
(Note: embedded WMV. For stills, go here or Google 'ipod flea'.)