Are you kidding? Outlook does a poor job on the PC, and iCal does a passing job on the Mac, but neither of them sync with each other and neither of them are web based. Hell, you should be able to syndicate a calendar with RSS feeds.
If their calendar works as well as iCal, but brings it to the rest of the planet, that would be a complete coup.
I hope you're trolling. Sure, I don't see that it's the most groundbreaking thing Google will ever do, but you're crazy if you don't think they have a team or three working on calendar solutions. They have a lot of people.
Oh yeah, looks like it's time for you to change your password.
Already done. Muscle memory means that password will be with me for months. I still have "Yat1wof,b!" and "Yatlafa#2sd." stuck with me, and my current password will be completely indelible.
If I take a picture of my face from the front right as a reference, and the next time from the front left, how will it stil recognize me? Same goes for a number of different angles.
And honestly, removing this "feature" might improve accuracy and security. Make the face recognition more fuzzy, and depend on muscle memory to make people hold the camera in a generally similar position every time they take the picture. That might be kindof hard to forge, and it might *help* the process.
I think muscle memory is a pretty decent way to come up with a secure identifier. My last password was:
S*3wcT*2ascswfG.
I can usually show people my passwords, and they still couldn't type it in correctly before they're locked out of the system. I mean, I can show it to them briefly.
The point is that if you can drive yourself to quantity, you will achieve quality as well. Ask novel writers. Once you've created 5 new comic strips every week for a few months, you'll be better at creating good comic strips.
Anyway, what you want is Command+LeftArrow and Command+RightArrow. That goes to beginning of line and end of line, respectively, on OS X.
No, what I want is a list of all the standard keyboard shortcuts for text editing in OS X. I've been using Macs since 1984, and I always have to do at least three separate key presses to get to the end of a line. So thanks.
No one (not even you) has the time to research and listen to every music style, every musician, every song written on the entire planet. We all (yes, you included) listen to the genres that intrigue us the most or that we have had the most direct contact with. Some go deeper into a few genres. Some go more broad covering many genres but none of them deeply. No one can claim to know everything.
I agree completely. That is a significantly different statement than you started with. If you hadn't said:
Somehow I have a hard time seeing a string of obsenities and verbal abuse as "art", which seems to be what most of the rappers are all about.
There'd have been no raised hackles whatsoever. You don't have to like rap music, and you don't have to research it until you find some that you like. Just don't act like you know enough about rap that you can characterize it as "a string of obsenities and verbal abuse".
I don't listen to opera. I've seen a couple, but been bored to tears. I wouldn't, however, assume that they're all as inane as Die Fledermaus, or that every arrangement is as boring as the two I saw. If I suggested that it was, you could accuse me of the same kind of ignorance. Dig it?
Yes, it is. No, "from Montana and against heavy swearing" was not the clue. The indicator is that you equate hip hop with "a string of obsenities and verbal abuse". Ignorance isn't the most remote conclusion.
As a side note, rap has never been and never will be my preferred style of music. I love strong melodies and harmonies more than a heavy beat, and lean more toward music with orchestral scores.
Right, step away from MTV. Download "All Things To All Men" or "Everyday" from Cinematic Orchestra's website this weekend. Then go back to your Braveheart knockoffs.
This is probably as big of a reason as any why I have never heard of mc chris.
Oh, no, you've never heard of him because he's not very good. I'd rather listen to fingernails on a chalkboard.
Because my girlfriend prefers to use her computer, not mine. When we're just listening that's fine, but not when she's stealing & compiling tracks from the internet.
There's probably nothing they can really do about this.
I said that, but it's not true. They could write software that would buffer everything coming out of the compositing engine, or perhaps just one window, and play it back a second or two later. Obviously this would be resource intensive and prone to annoyances, but it could work on big, burly machines.
They answer that question in the FAQ. Yes, the audio will be out of sync. This can be solved with VLC or MPlayer by manually synchronizing the video and audio. This cannot be solved with DVD Player.app, RealPlayer, or anything else that won't let you decouple audio from video. There's probably nothing they can really do about this.
I want to be able to use my computer as an AirTunes sink, not a source. I'm not about to buy an Airport Express, but I'd like to be able to pipe audio from my girlfriend's iBook to my desktop's speakers.
Then yeah, I'd like to be able to do it with DVD Player.app as well as iTunes.
What is the trust, though? I just don't see how it's the RIAA that's doing the price fixing here. It's certainly all the members of the RIAA, but not via the RIAA. There is no one business entity doing this price hike. Not only that, the labels aren't all in agreement, so it's not even price fixing. Yet.
Honestly, I don't know what Jobs was expecting. Did he think that he was going to get these greedy bastards to heel forever? Even if it was in their best interest? Rather than grow their new market, and establish it as a permanent force, they want to hike prices and cash out.
If they cut prices, they might start to really demolish p2p. Thank god they don't. We've got them fighting the downhill battle for us. Fucking morons.
It's not a monopoly, it's price fixing/collusion/whatever. There are several different firms, so it can't be a monopoly.
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That last link is fantastic. Halfway into the article:
I must admit that after I came to appreciate the importance of interconnects and speaker wire, I still didn't think that power cords would make any real contribution to the sound of the system. I'm sure that what happened to me has happened to many others in that after installing a high quality power cord, the sound of my system improved. The major change was in the bass; it became fuller and more extended. At that point, I became a believer in high end power cords.
And in closing:
The largest impact that these cords had on my system was the addition of harmonic fullness and tonal weight. As a result, instruments sounded much more solid and therefore, more realistic. Many systems that I have occasion to hear sound very light and somewhat thin compared to live music. Here, the sound was warm but not overly so. The images throughout the soundstage were well defined and stable. Where there was depth in the recording, it was presented as well as I have heard in my system. There was a pleasant lack of any edge or glare with the Golden Sound cords. Since I tend to be sensitive to these flaws, this was a good thing.
Overall, I have a real appreciation for what the Golden Sound cables can do. If your system is on the dark or overly euphonic side, these might not be the cables for you. If on the other hand, your system sounds somewhat thin, bright or lacking in tonal weight, the Golden Sound power cords could be just the solution. Within the current universe of power cords, the Golden Sound power cords are reasonably priced. Given their effectiveness, they should be considered a bargain.
Everyone is just saying, "don't optimize a line of code, optimize your damn algorithm," which is dead on.
However, the guy is still asking a *somewhat* valid question. His mistake is in optimizing prematurely. After his code is correct, if there are reasons that it would be better if it were faster, he should optimize his algorithms. After he optimizes his algorithms, if there are still reasons that the code needs to run faster, then he should try single line optimizations like the one he describes on the bottleneck inner loops. Check the results with a stopwatch. You don't have to know the first thing about the state of the art in compiler optimizations.
Maybe he's found a situation where less readable, hinky code is worthwhile. You only find that out after you've discovered a performance problem.
The remaining interesting question is, what is the state of the art in compiler optimizations. I haven't a fucking clue. And I don't know whether it's better or worse in embedded systems. I code database GUIs in VB for a living. You can optimize my code when you pry it from the runtime's cold, dead hands.
I played around with sun's cc optimizations in my compiler course in college, and it did a pretty good job of sniping the low-hanging fruit, like unused branches & loops & etc. Since I was not (am not?) much of a programmer, I couldn't imagine what the challenging aspects of optimization would be, so I couldn't poke around.
I guess the general rule is that you should use the chip vendor's compiler, right? Intel's compiler has always been faster than gcc and VS C/C++ in the past, and IBM's stuff certainly beat the pants off gcc for POWER/PPC. And Sun's cc was oodles better than gcc in my little toy tests in college four years ago.
It manages system virtualization. Sits between the OS and the iron, and can host several OSs simultaneously. This is a big, important feature of IBM's products.
You have it completely backwards. Microsoft admits to checking and not running Windows Update on WINE. That's good, because WINE users are not running Windows. They're running WINE instead.
Office update does not check for WINE. Works fine. So Microsoft hasn't done a damn thing wrong. Jeremy White, Mr. WINE, posted here saying that everything is peachy. So... what's your problem?
I'm sorry, you're oversimplifying. When you specify a new maximum bid of $125, you are agreeing to pay that much if that's what's required to win the auction. In this case, it's not. $100.01 is what's required to win the auction, and that's what you've already bid.
The reason that this is a dubious lawsuit is that the behavior is already described by eBay's documentation. That doesn't mean it's the right way to do things.
Why shouldn't eBay force people to bid when they raise their maximum? For the same reason that they shouldn't force people to always pay their "maximum bid" amount. There may be reasons why this lawsuit is BS, but yours isn't one of them.
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If you really want the dock so much, I could go digging through my room and try to find mine for you. I certainly never use it.
It's just a body count issue. If Microsoft had twice the time or twice the number of people, C# 2.0 would have had twice the number of new features. Lots of good stuff got jettisoned. Everywhere you look on blogs.msdn.com, folks are talking about what they woulda/coulda/shoulda done with more time.
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Are you kidding? Outlook does a poor job on the PC, and iCal does a passing job on the Mac, but neither of them sync with each other and neither of them are web based. Hell, you should be able to syndicate a calendar with RSS feeds.
If their calendar works as well as iCal, but brings it to the rest of the planet, that would be a complete coup.
I hope you're trolling. Sure, I don't see that it's the most groundbreaking thing Google will ever do, but you're crazy if you don't think they have a team or three working on calendar solutions. They have a lot of people.
And honestly, removing this "feature" might improve accuracy and security. Make the face recognition more fuzzy, and depend on muscle memory to make people hold the camera in a generally similar position every time they take the picture. That might be kindof hard to forge, and it might *help* the process.
I think muscle memory is a pretty decent way to come up with a secure identifier. My last password was:I can usually show people my passwords, and they still couldn't type it in correctly before they're locked out of the system. I mean, I can show it to them briefly.
The point is that if you can drive yourself to quantity, you will achieve quality as well. Ask novel writers. Once you've created 5 new comic strips every week for a few months, you'll be better at creating good comic strips.
Anyway, what you want is Command+LeftArrow and Command+RightArrow. That goes to beginning of line and end of line, respectively, on OS X.
No, what I want is a list of all the standard keyboard shortcuts for text editing in OS X. I've been using Macs since 1984, and I always have to do at least three separate key presses to get to the end of a line. So thanks.
I assumed you were going to make a joke about masturbation.
I don't listen to opera. I've seen a couple, but been bored to tears. I wouldn't, however, assume that they're all as inane as Die Fledermaus, or that every arrangement is as boring as the two I saw. If I suggested that it was, you could accuse me of the same kind of ignorance. Dig it?
Because my girlfriend prefers to use her computer, not mine. When we're just listening that's fine, but not when she's stealing & compiling tracks from the internet.
It's lossless, but there's lag.
They answer that question in the FAQ. Yes, the audio will be out of sync. This can be solved with VLC or MPlayer by manually synchronizing the video and audio. This cannot be solved with DVD Player.app, RealPlayer, or anything else that won't let you decouple audio from video. There's probably nothing they can really do about this.
I want to be able to use my computer as an AirTunes sink, not a source. I'm not about to buy an Airport Express, but I'd like to be able to pipe audio from my girlfriend's iBook to my desktop's speakers.
Then yeah, I'd like to be able to do it with DVD Player.app as well as iTunes.
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What is the trust, though? I just don't see how it's the RIAA that's doing the price fixing here. It's certainly all the members of the RIAA, but not via the RIAA. There is no one business entity doing this price hike. Not only that, the labels aren't all in agreement, so it's not even price fixing. Yet.
Honestly, I don't know what Jobs was expecting. Did he think that he was going to get these greedy bastards to heel forever? Even if it was in their best interest? Rather than grow their new market, and establish it as a permanent force, they want to hike prices and cash out.
If they cut prices, they might start to really demolish p2p. Thank god they don't. We've got them fighting the downhill battle for us. Fucking morons.
It's not a monopoly, it's price fixing/collusion/whatever. There are several different firms, so it can't be a monopoly.
Everyone is just saying, "don't optimize a line of code, optimize your damn algorithm," which is dead on.
However, the guy is still asking a *somewhat* valid question. His mistake is in optimizing prematurely. After his code is correct, if there are reasons that it would be better if it were faster, he should optimize his algorithms. After he optimizes his algorithms, if there are still reasons that the code needs to run faster, then he should try single line optimizations like the one he describes on the bottleneck inner loops. Check the results with a stopwatch. You don't have to know the first thing about the state of the art in compiler optimizations.
Maybe he's found a situation where less readable, hinky code is worthwhile. You only find that out after you've discovered a performance problem.
The remaining interesting question is, what is the state of the art in compiler optimizations. I haven't a fucking clue. And I don't know whether it's better or worse in embedded systems. I code database GUIs in VB for a living. You can optimize my code when you pry it from the runtime's cold, dead hands.
I played around with sun's cc optimizations in my compiler course in college, and it did a pretty good job of sniping the low-hanging fruit, like unused branches & loops & etc. Since I was not (am not?) much of a programmer, I couldn't imagine what the challenging aspects of optimization would be, so I couldn't poke around.
I guess the general rule is that you should use the chip vendor's compiler, right? Intel's compiler has always been faster than gcc and VS C/C++ in the past, and IBM's stuff certainly beat the pants off gcc for POWER/PPC. And Sun's cc was oodles better than gcc in my little toy tests in college four years ago.
You jackass. They help pay Linus' damn salary. I suspect they might kick a few pennies towards sourceforge as well.
No, funding and using public Open Source tools does not seem rude.
It manages system virtualization. Sits between the OS and the iron, and can host several OSs simultaneously. This is a big, important feature of IBM's products.
Huh. Good point.
You have it completely backwards. Microsoft admits to checking and not running Windows Update on WINE. That's good, because WINE users are not running Windows. They're running WINE instead.
Office update does not check for WINE. Works fine. So Microsoft hasn't done a damn thing wrong. Jeremy White, Mr. WINE, posted here saying that everything is peachy. So... what's your problem?
I'm sorry, you're oversimplifying. When you specify a new maximum bid of $125, you are agreeing to pay that much if that's what's required to win the auction. In this case, it's not. $100.01 is what's required to win the auction, and that's what you've already bid.
The reason that this is a dubious lawsuit is that the behavior is already described by eBay's documentation. That doesn't mean it's the right way to do things.
Why shouldn't eBay force people to bid when they raise their maximum? For the same reason that they shouldn't force people to always pay their "maximum bid" amount. There may be reasons why this lawsuit is BS, but yours isn't one of them.
If you really want the dock so much, I could go digging through my room and try to find mine for you. I certainly never use it.
It's just a body count issue. If Microsoft had twice the time or twice the number of people, C# 2.0 would have had twice the number of new features. Lots of good stuff got jettisoned. Everywhere you look on blogs.msdn.com, folks are talking about what they woulda/coulda/shoulda done with more time.