pedant:) I didnt say they did it to deliberately slow you down (in fact they wanted to maximize the speed with mechanical technology), just that it wasnt statistically optimized for touch typing if there had been no moving parts.
Also, it doesnt make much sense anyway. Apparently Qwerty was developed to avoid the actual typing heads from jamming when typing at speed. Allegedly. I dont have proof of this. AFAIK, this means keeping the frequently hit keys away from each other. Yes you can learn to type fast on it, but I'm pretty sure its not the most efficient layout when you dont have moving type heads. Dvorak developed a very efficient layout.
Discussing this at lunch recently with some Indian colleagues, and was told that in Bombay and Bangalore, a decent house cost 200-300k. Now of course size,neighbourhood matters etc - but it seems that the house price factor isn't as high. Well maybe compared to San Francisco, where a 2 bedroom condo is $700k, and a house is 1.1-1.2 million minumun.
This site was recommeneded to me through a Mac Blog site (http://www.powerpage.com, that also had a good article on frequency stuff). I havent used them, but they have been pretty responsive to my questions.
Bear in mind that Euro GSM phones are on 900,1800 and 1900, where as carriers in the US use 850 in certain areas, so you could find yourself screwed.
Anyway, this is the site: http://www.gsmphonesource.com/
Good luck,
Winton
Actually, I dont think it means that per-se - more that you a virtually clean playing field to start off on... Its the classic story of combined and uneven development (to quote some Marxist economist).
Basically, for example, in the US, the development of Cell Phone standards was screwed by competing behemoths that already had a stranglehold on the telecoms market. Ditto with Broadband/DSL deployment. I guess in China, they have nothing much, so they will start off with the now state of the Art... whereas the US still has difficulty with the last mile.
Well, I sat and watched Firefly back to back over a week or so. Brilliant. I found a new favorite science fiction quote to add to my collection... Actually Bladerunner and Aliens are so chock full, its hard to pick the best, but these are my choices.
Blade Runner: Roy: I've seen things you little people wouldn't believe, attack ships on fire of the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near Tannhauser Gate. All those...moments will be lost...in time, like tears...in rain. Time...to die.
Aliens: Hudson: Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man? Vasquez: No, have you?
Firefly: Wash: This sounds like something outta science fiction. Zoe: Honey, you live on a spaceship.
I really still miss the Control Bar - that initially came along with the Powerbooks but was later released to everyone. It was a snazzzy little metallic icon that sat generally to the bottom left
http://toastytech.com/guis/macos9logout.png
Combined with the Finder Folder tabs it really felt better than the Dock. Dont get me wrong, I actually like the Dock a LOT, but I wish these two UI features were still there. My menubar is crowded with little controls.
Yeah, and so do ASM and Fruitmenu, mainly because they replicate OS 8 and 9 functionality for me.
However, I have to take issue with Tog on DragThing. Firstly yes, I MISS FINDER TABS. But this application is annoying. First, it is an APPLICATIOn. Secondly, it does seem to actually Do Tabs. Its YAMD (Yet Another Multi Dock) which I personally cannot stand as a way to organize my desktop.
Of course, you might like them and thats fine. My poiny is that I spent 20 mins trying to do "Finder Tabs", and I could not get it to do it. Maybe its only in Panther (I'm not ready to bleed yet, still on 10.2.8), but he could have said that (as indeed is Minimize in Place). So, its very misleading. I really wanted to get Finder Tabs:) believe me. There was no clear and obvious way to get that to happen.
.. is also in Love Actually, the usual Annual Hugh Grant British Feel Good Movie, written & directed by Richard Curtis, one of Britain's finest comedy writers (think Blackadder), although without the attraction of Julia Roberts or any other hot American actresses..
If you haven't seen this movie, do. It's still playing in a few places, and Stephen Moore is hilarious as the "Body Double" delicately and cringingly embarressingly entering a workplace romance.
... still get screwed with shit like this. Maybe OS configuration doesnt suck so bad, few if any viruses, but dealing with stuff like printers that have minimal Mac support, or trying to make Eudora talk to the corporate Mail Server (MS of course), can waste as much time. I am quite on the cusp of switching after 10 years of using Mac's. The one saving grace is the Unix base and the gorgeous UI, but these days the hardware sucks (my GF's $3000 al Book), and lack of stuff like Teamspeak is just a no no. As for the external hardware, well, I am now firmly of the opinion that there should be a class action suite over the Titaniums and aluminium's (mine is pitted already after 2 months).
One way to improve it. Don't use it.
on
Effective XML
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Ok, maybe I'm missing a point, but the next time I see an XML file like this...
<RECORD NAME=".." ADDRESS=".." AGE = ".."> <RECORD NAME=".." ADDRESS=".." AGE = ".."> <RECORD NAME=".." ADDRESS=".." AGE = ".."> <RECORD NAME=".." ADDRESS=".." AGE = "..">
instead of this
..\t..\t.. ..\t..\t.. ..\t..\t..
I am going to go nuts.
Yes, XML is an improvement for truly hierarchical or repeating data, but efficient it isn't and a pain in the butt to use with AWK or anyone of a million Unix utilities. The one downside I have on ESR's Art of Unix is that while espousing how clean is with pipes and text, he then starts waxing lyrical about XML...
Winton
Not a bad idea. As soon as you exercise stock options (and hold the value) you have to pay taxes, so why not patents. You assign a dollar amount for licencing, and have to pay tax on that, regardless of whether it is used or not. If you then sue someone for not paying it (or claim they breach), then the maximum damages would be those that you claimed. Time value would be hard to predict - but it should put an end to overly broad patent claims OR would force the claimer to put their money (in the form of taxes) where their mouth is. One could almost imagine a derivatives market here somewhere as well. At the very least, one could look and say (in 1994) hey ATT took this patent out and valued it at 1 billion dollars... perhaps they have something clever... Lawsuits and stuff would still apply - and you wouldnt get ya taxes back if they called No Clothes...
Clever idea, mod this guy up, and send him to Congress!
It actually seems like a good idea.Some problems I can imagine are optimization flags may have non speed related side-effects?
However, this seems like a great candidate for GA's - a fitness function (ie speed of execution), and a nice binary vector of atributes (flags).
Interesting that the gains aren't that great it would seem to sugges that the flags don't do much:) or maybe the base-line is already close to optimal, and so it isnt a hard problem?
But Kudos nevertheless. No expert in the GA field, so its possible someones tackled this before, but if they haven't, extra Kudos.
Slashdot Mirror
Morena Baccarin aka Inara from Firefly. Not sure the BBC could afford her, but she's currently out of a job I guess....
pedant :) I didnt say they did it to deliberately slow you down (in fact they wanted to maximize the speed with mechanical technology), just that it wasnt statistically optimized for touch typing if there had been no moving parts.
Also, it doesnt make much sense anyway. Apparently Qwerty was developed to avoid the actual typing heads from jamming when typing at speed. Allegedly. I dont have proof of this. AFAIK, this means keeping the frequently hit keys away from each other. Yes you can learn to type fast on it, but I'm pretty sure its not the most efficient layout when you dont have moving type heads. Dvorak developed a very efficient layout.
Oh, ok found a reference
Winton
Discussing this at lunch recently with some Indian colleagues, and was told that in Bombay and Bangalore, a decent house cost 200-300k. Now of course size,neighbourhood matters etc - but it seems that the house price factor isn't as high. Well maybe compared to San Francisco, where a 2 bedroom condo is $700k, and a house is 1.1-1.2 million minumun.
This site was recommeneded to me through a Mac Blog site (http://www.powerpage.com, that also had a good article on frequency stuff). I havent used them, but they have been pretty responsive to my questions. Bear in mind that Euro GSM phones are on 900,1800 and 1900, where as carriers in the US use 850 in certain areas, so you could find yourself screwed. Anyway, this is the site: http://www.gsmphonesource.com/ Good luck, Winton
Actually, I dont think it means that per-se - more that you a virtually clean playing field to start off on... Its the classic story of combined and uneven development (to quote some Marxist economist).
Basically, for example, in the US, the development of Cell Phone standards was screwed by competing behemoths that already had a stranglehold on the telecoms market. Ditto with Broadband/DSL deployment. I guess in China, they have nothing much, so they will start off with the now state of the Art... whereas the US still has difficulty with the last mile.
Just my 2c worth.
W
You mean:
:-) Much easier to read.
#!/bin/sh
lynx -dump 'http://imdb.com/title/tt0151804/'
Wow, a lot cheaper, than launching an international legal court case. Just get em slashdotted...
Think Different.
Well, I sat and watched Firefly back to back over a week or so. Brilliant. I found a new favorite science fiction quote to add to my collection... Actually Bladerunner and Aliens are so chock full, its hard to pick the best, but these are my choices.
Blade Runner:
Roy: I've seen things you little people wouldn't believe, attack ships on fire of the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near Tannhauser Gate. All those...moments will be lost...in time, like tears...in rain. Time...to die.
Aliens:
Hudson: Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?
Vasquez: No, have you?
Firefly:
Wash: This sounds like something outta science fiction.
Zoe: Honey, you live on a spaceship.
whistling the theme to Firefly in his head...
Actually, it did when it was AT&T cable too...
I steadfastly refuse to have to pay 70 dollars a month to watch HBO... which is the cheapest way you can get it on your line up. Outrageous.
I'd rather by a DVD boxed set each month for that much - and get better programming as a result. Heck I could Netflix it 3x over...
Its extremely strange as basic cable comes in at 15 bucks month.
well as soon as I can get a "normal" (1) phone with Bluetooth out here in the States, I'll worry about it.
Winton
(1) Normal -> one with out a 15" color screen, video camera and gamepad attached.
Spot on critique of Applescript. I'd mod you up, but your already at 5!
Winton
Ok, I'm intrigued. But. Guys. Do. Not. Host. Download. MPEGs. On. The. Same. Site. As. Your. Online. Store.
/.'ed.
I would really, actually buy one of these to see what all the fuss is about, but the Store is
Winton
I really still miss the Control Bar - that initially came along with the Powerbooks but was later released to everyone. It was a snazzzy little metallic icon that sat generally to the bottom left
http://toastytech.com/guis/macos9logout.png
Combined with the Finder Folder tabs it really felt better than the Dock. Dont get me wrong, I actually like the Dock a LOT, but I wish these two UI features were still there.
My menubar is crowded with little controls.
Yeah, and so do ASM and Fruitmenu, mainly because they replicate OS 8 and 9 functionality for me.
:) believe me. There was no clear and obvious way to get that to happen.
However, I have to take issue with Tog on DragThing. Firstly yes, I MISS FINDER TABS. But this application is annoying. First, it is an APPLICATIOn. Secondly, it does seem to actually Do Tabs. Its YAMD (Yet Another Multi Dock) which I personally cannot stand as a way to organize my desktop.
Of course, you might like them and thats fine. My poiny is that I spent 20 mins trying to do "Finder Tabs", and I could not get it to do it. Maybe its only in Panther (I'm not ready to bleed yet, still on 10.2.8), but he could have said that (as indeed is Minimize in Place). So, its very misleading. I really wanted to get Finder Tabs
Winton
.. is also in Love Actually, the usual Annual Hugh Grant British Feel Good Movie, written & directed by Richard Curtis, one of Britain's finest comedy writers (think Blackadder), although without the attraction of Julia Roberts or any other hot American actresses..
If you haven't seen this movie, do. It's still playing in a few places, and Stephen Moore is hilarious as the "Body Double" delicately and cringingly embarressingly entering a workplace romance.
... still get screwed with shit like this. Maybe OS configuration doesnt suck so bad, few if any viruses, but dealing with stuff like printers that have minimal Mac support, or trying to make Eudora talk to the corporate Mail Server (MS of course), can waste as much time. I am quite on the cusp of switching after 10 years of using Mac's. The one saving grace is the Unix base and the gorgeous UI, but these days the hardware sucks (my GF's $3000 al Book), and lack of stuff like Teamspeak is just a no no. As for the external hardware, well, I am now firmly of the opinion that there should be a class action suite over the Titaniums and aluminium's (mine is pitted already after 2 months).
Winton
I can take the train from SF to LA in 3 hours...
is pretty funny
Not a bad idea. As soon as you exercise stock options (and hold the value) you have to pay taxes, so why not patents. You assign a dollar amount for licencing, and have to pay tax on that, regardless of whether it is used or not. If you then sue someone for not paying it (or claim they breach), then the maximum damages would be those that you claimed. Time value would be hard to predict - but it should put an end to overly broad patent claims OR would force the claimer to put their money (in the form of taxes) where their mouth is. One could almost imagine a derivatives market here somewhere as well. At the very least, one could look and say (in 1994) hey ATT took this patent out and valued it at 1 billion dollars... perhaps they have something clever... Lawsuits and stuff would still apply - and you wouldnt get ya taxes back if they called No Clothes...
Clever idea, mod this guy up, and send him to Congress!
Winton
Anyone else feel like they were reading an excerpt from one of the fine M.Y.T.H novels by Robert Aspirin...
It actually seems like a good idea.Some problems I can imagine are optimization flags may have non speed related side-effects?
:) or maybe the base-line is already close to optimal, and so it isnt a hard problem?
However, this seems like a great candidate for GA's - a fitness function (ie speed of execution), and a nice binary vector of atributes (flags).
Interesting that the gains aren't that great it would seem to sugges that the flags don't do much
But Kudos nevertheless. No expert in the GA field, so its possible someones tackled this before, but if they haven't, extra Kudos.
Winton
For us Mac Heads with their shiny new Powerbooks, here's a LONG discussion of iSync and 6310i.
h tm l
http://canikickit.org/archives/gadgets/000074.s
I just spent 10 minutes on the phone to ATT WS, and they arent sure if they stock em any more...
Winton