Yes, I care about desktop search because I'm an unorganized, digital packrat of a power user... as is plainly obvious by the folder labeled "Stuff" in my dock:D
Honestly, this is a little distressing. I've been a long-standing user of both companies' products and I'm not even sure what to think.
Probably my biggest fear is that they'll do something to ruin Flash.
Now before you say "good riddance" (I realize that/. as a whole hates Flash)... I still think the true power of Flash has yet to be fully realized, and the destruction of Flash will have a greater impact than on just Flash itself.
Prime example: since version 2 of Flash, I've had a desire to be able to write Flash-based apps in a traditional programming or XML tagged based environment. Macromedia finally released my dream with Flex -- an XML development platform that uses Flash for the display teir without the worry of browser or platform incompatabilities.
There's a "sales-y" video demo of a shopping cart system in Flex as well as some example components and existing apps that you can view if you what to see what Flex can do.
It's still fairly young and I'd really hate to see this combination of technology fade into obscurity due to mismanagement from a company primarily involved in developing content-creation tools, and who seemingly doesn't listen to its customers as well as Macromedia (just my personal experience).
I'm hesitantly optimistic that I'm worrying for no reason.
I'm not blaming the victim here - I'm just stating that the whole story is not known. There are a lot of questions that need to be answered.
For example, the article doesn't specifically say if their explicit conversations even took place *ON* AOL.
Is AOL also responsible for any voice communication outside their network? Think carefully before you answer;)
For all we know, the chat room WAS safe. The "unsafe" parts may not have even been on the network and (depending on what the unsafe bits were) might make things different in terms of what AOIL is responsible for.
Sadly, I predict that the court experience will be FAR more mentally disturbing for this girl than the conversations she had with the guy.
Distress from what exactly? Her escapades with this dufus, or the fact that her parents divorced and she has trouble making friends (as stated in the article)?
I'm sorry, but I find it hard to believe that a girl age 15 - 17 doesn't know what she's doing -- especially when she is old enough to drive and obviously smart enough to sue a company like AOL 2 years later.
And where are the parents in all this? Didn't they teach their kid responsibility and give her the power to say "no?" Why was it even possible for this girl to virtually hang out and chat with this guy for two years and plan a get-together without them being involved or in the know? Did they themselves coerce her into suing AOL?
This doesn't add up.
AOL's parent controls are not a substitute for proper parenting.
In all seriousness, they do make other stuff too: armbands, cables and adapters, other cases besides the sock, iPod camera connector, headphones w/remote, and battery packs for the shuffle.
QuickSilver was written by an individual who orignally developed the app for himself and then decided to share it with everyone. I imagine he'll (some day) make it shareware, but it's free till then.
Did you look at the Preview page? It gives a nice, simple explanation of some of the abilities of QS.
But I digress:)
The reason that it isn't described well is because it cannot be easily or simply described.
Instead, let me give you a few details.
QuickSilver doesn't take up real estate. It sits in the background waiting for commands from you (mostly via the keyboard, but also via the mouse in some instances)
You activate QS with a shortcut key, it pops up with a text field.
You begin typing the name of the app or doc that you want to manipulate. Or, typing a command to activate a plugin (like '=' to signify you are typing a calculation)
When your selection comes up (usually after two letters or so), you can then choose an action to perform on that object. For example: Launch (for apps), Reveal, Rename, e-mail, move to, delete, etc. (there are a ton of actions - you can make things defaults too)
Some actions also have further input you can provide (all without moving your mouse and all without having to navigate anywhere or launch other programs).
It is plug-in based, so you can easily add other functionality. There are plug-ins available to even change the look of QS (I prefer the Spotlight style interface that pops up just under the menu bar). There's also plugins to allow you to control iTunes, iChat, Adium and other apps via the keyboard. There's even a weather and calculator plugin.
It is adaptive and learns from how you use it - moving things around in the list so that frequently referenced items are selected more quickly.
All that said, you cannot really understand how QuickSilver will improve your OS X experience until you use it. I cannot live without it and often find myself wanting a Windows version as well. Give it a try - it's a drag/drop install and is removed just as easily.
I recommend the plugins: Mail, Clipboard (adds multiple clipboards), iTunes, Flashlight, Dictionary, Address Boook and Calculator. Most of these can be installed automatically when you run the app the first time if you choose.
... that what you want is THREE 30" displays so you can have one in the center as well as one each to the left and right so they wrap around you. Sounds good to me!
Anyone know of a mod for UT2004 so it'll display properly on all three monitors?:D
It's the ISPs who should be annoyed at the amount of spam coming through their pipes. After all, they are the ones that have to pay for the bandwidth... at least until they get smart and start charging everyone based on in/out bandwidth usage.
I sat through the 6-part TV series and got (at least some measureable amount of) enjoyment out of it. I'll be impressed if the movie is less entertaining.
I realize that prison may not be much of a deterrent of crime of any kind, but I'd wager that if you just fined spammers or gave them a few years that there'd be absolutely no decline in the number of spammers flooding our e-mail with crap.
It [the spam problem] continues because it is so easy and cheap to get away with -- and till now, there's no punishment.
Add publicly announced huge fines and long jail terms to the mix and at maybe a few would-be spammers would at least think twice before taking part.
Certain software that needs access to system-wide stuff, sure. Software that you are installing for all users, sure. Other stuff, not so much.
If software requires admin privileges to install, there's a ton of things that that software could do in addition to just installing the software. Some examples that come to mind are: installing other software such as spyware, trojans, viruses and backdoors; scatterying random hidden files on your drive; f'ing your system in general.
Personally, I don't ever fully trust anyone's software other than my own (and even that is questionable sometimes;), and giving some arbitrary shareware admin privileges is simply way too scary -- especially when there is no need for it.
I try to completely avoid software that requires an administrator password to install and/or run - and let the author know so.
With the obvious exception to something running at system level, there isn't much need for any app to require admin/owner privileges to run.
For that matter, I also try to avoid software that has any kind of installer app as well. If it can't be installed by simply copying the app to my HD, then forget it.
Don't use a computer without one if you value your privacy.
Almost *every* app these days does some kind of outgoing communication - whether it's update checking, phoning home, or serial number checking.
It's trivially easy to configure most reverse firewalls to disallow any outgoing activity from specific apps. For Windows there is obviously ZoneAlarm and others. With OS X, I recommend Little Snitch.
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No and yes.
No, I don't care about the race.
Yes, I care about desktop search because I'm an unorganized, digital packrat of a power user... as is plainly obvious by the folder labeled "Stuff" in my dock
Best Star Wars trailer ever
I swear... I was fully expecting the helmet to come off at the end of that last spot followed by:
"Owwww! This helmet is chafing my eyebrows!"
Ugh.
Honestly, this is a little distressing. I've been a long-standing user of both companies' products and I'm not even sure what to think.
Probably my biggest fear is that they'll do something to ruin Flash.
Now before you say "good riddance" (I realize that
Prime example: since version 2 of Flash, I've had a desire to be able to write Flash-based apps in a traditional programming or XML tagged based environment. Macromedia finally released my dream with Flex -- an XML development platform that uses Flash for the display teir without the worry of browser or platform incompatabilities.
There's a "sales-y" video demo of a shopping cart system in Flex as well as some example components and existing apps that you can view if you what to see what Flex can do.
It's still fairly young and I'd really hate to see this combination of technology fade into obscurity due to mismanagement from a company primarily involved in developing content-creation tools, and who seemingly doesn't listen to its customers as well as Macromedia (just my personal experience).
I'm hesitantly optimistic that I'm worrying for no reason.
I'm not blaming the victim here - I'm just stating that the whole story is not known. There are a lot of questions that need to be answered.
For example, the article doesn't specifically say if their explicit conversations even took place *ON* AOL.
Is AOL also responsible for any voice communication outside their network? Think carefully before you answer
For all we know, the chat room WAS safe. The "unsafe" parts may not have even been on the network and (depending on what the unsafe bits were) might make things different in terms of what AOIL is responsible for.
Sadly, I predict that the court experience will be FAR more mentally disturbing for this girl than the conversations she had with the guy.
So you're saying that being divorced is an excuse to not be a good parent?
Let me get this straight:
She meets this guy online.
She chats with the guy online.
She gives the guy her phone number.
She talks to the guy on the phone.
They have increasingly explicit conversations.
She claims emotional distress.
Distress from what exactly? Her escapades with this dufus, or the fact that her parents divorced and she has trouble making friends (as stated in the article)?
I'm sorry, but I find it hard to believe that a girl age 15 - 17 doesn't know what she's doing -- especially when she is old enough to drive and obviously smart enough to sue a company like AOL 2 years later.
And where are the parents in all this? Didn't they teach their kid responsibility and give her the power to say "no?" Why was it even possible for this girl to virtually hang out and chat with this guy for two years and plan a get-together without them being involved or in the know? Did they themselves coerce her into suing AOL?
This doesn't add up.
AOL's parent controls are not a substitute for proper parenting.
I forgot to mention that I recently discovered a clone of QuickSilver specifically for Gnome (though I haven't tried it yet):
http://micke.hallendal.net/gnome-launch-box/
Well, the do make the iPod sock anyway
In all seriousness, they do make other stuff too: armbands, cables and adapters, other cases besides the sock, iPod camera connector, headphones w/remote, and battery packs for the shuffle.
QuickSilver was written by an individual who orignally developed the app for himself and then decided to share it with everyone. I imagine he'll (some day) make it shareware, but it's free till then.
Did you look at the Preview page? It gives a nice, simple explanation of some of the abilities of QS.
But I digress
The reason that it isn't described well is because it cannot be easily or simply described.
Instead, let me give you a few details.
For example, if I select a document on my desktop, I can pick "e-mail" then select from my address book who to e-mail (just by typing part of their name) and QS will launch mail, start a new e-mail and attach the file I selected. You can even FTP this way too.
All that said, you cannot really understand how QuickSilver will improve your OS X experience until you use it. I cannot live without it and often find myself wanting a Windows version as well. Give it a try - it's a drag/drop install and is removed just as easily.
I recommend the plugins: Mail, Clipboard (adds multiple clipboards), iTunes, Flashlight, Dictionary, Address Boook and Calculator. Most of these can be installed automatically when you run the app the first time if you choose.
I agree that the Finder has its issues. However, install QuickSilver and you won't bitch as much about the Finder anymore.
Most incredible and helpful piece of software ever.
... that what you want is THREE 30" displays so you can have one in the center as well as one each to the left and right so they wrap around you. Sounds good to me!
Anyone know of a mod for UT2004 so it'll display properly on all three monitors?
It's the ISPs who should be annoyed at the amount of spam coming through their pipes. After all, they are the ones that have to pay for the bandwidth... at least until they get smart and start charging everyone based on in/out bandwidth usage.
I sat through the 6-part TV series and got (at least some measureable amount of) enjoyment out of it. I'll be impressed if the movie is less entertaining.
Well crap.
I'll never use humans to build my house again, that's for sure -- I bet those robot built homes don't leak like mine does.
lol - great link, thanks!
Here's a direct link to the SWF for archival purposes.
Thank goodness they've come up with a way to make HDs store more data!
If you didn't know already, here's a link to the song (Dragostea Din Tei, by O-Zone) in the iTunes Music Store
I realize that prison may not be much of a deterrent of crime of any kind, but I'd wager that if you just fined spammers or gave them a few years that there'd be absolutely no decline in the number of spammers flooding our e-mail with crap.
It [the spam problem] continues because it is so easy and cheap to get away with -- and till now, there's no punishment.
Add publicly announced huge fines and long jail terms to the mix and at maybe a few would-be spammers would at least think twice before taking part.
I disagree.
Certain software that needs access to system-wide stuff, sure. Software that you are installing for all users, sure. Other stuff, not so much.
If software requires admin privileges to install, there's a ton of things that that software could do in addition to just installing the software. Some examples that come to mind are: installing other software such as spyware, trojans, viruses and backdoors; scatterying random hidden files on your drive; f'ing your system in general.
Personally, I don't ever fully trust anyone's software other than my own (and even that is questionable sometimes
I try to completely avoid software that requires an administrator password to install and/or run - and let the author know so.
With the obvious exception to something running at system level, there isn't much need for any app to require admin/owner privileges to run.
For that matter, I also try to avoid software that has any kind of installer app as well. If it can't be installed by simply copying the app to my HD, then forget it.
Well I'm neither. The joke was that *both* sides suck -- and since I'm neither, it's equally fun to poke at both sides.
:/
Aparently, the moderators aren't smart enough to understand that
lol - looks like they figured it out and finally removed the article from their site :)
Lunar dust mites (loo-near duhst mytes)n.
Small, ugly tick-like creatures that cause allergic reactions.
See Democrats.
Don't use a computer without one if you value your privacy.
Almost *every* app these days does some kind of outgoing communication - whether it's update checking, phoning home, or serial number checking.
It's trivially easy to configure most reverse firewalls to disallow any outgoing activity from specific apps. For Windows there is obviously ZoneAlarm and others. With OS X, I recommend Little Snitch.