I remember him: my number was one of the ones stolen from cduniverse. My card was cancelled, but they didn't tell me until I was at the front of a many-deep line at Best Buy. In fact, the clerk "called it in" and contacted Discover security, who then wanted to talk to me. When you're seventh in line, it's not moving, and the clerk and the customer are on the phone, now you know why. Sorry, I didn't enjoy it either.
Ironically, my number was stolen and the card pre-emptivly cancelled for a second time just two weeks ago. Fortunately, through both incidents, I haven't had to pay a dime.
So the obvious missing feature of mozilla is a spell checker. Is this planned for any upcoming version?
Yes. See bugs http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56301 and
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129704 , as well as the mozdev project for spellchecking at
http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/index.html . (I'd link, but bugzilla rejects links from slashdot, so you're going to have to get there the hard way.)
One of the coolest features that people are working on (I'm pretty sure it's tracked under a different bug) is to enable reall-time spellchecking (underlines misspelled words in red as you type) in form widgets. Very cool.
According to this , both Farnsworth and Baird were shown up Paul Nipkow, who patented television in 1884!
Oh, sure, smart people will point out that Farnsworth invented the device that became modern television, but Baird had a working television (of a completely different technology) before that, and that Nipkow's device wasn't really practical. Logical folks will realize that there is nothing new under the sun and all inventions are built upon the shoulders of giants.
But this is the internet, so forget smart and logical! Instead, I see a lot of people arguing without facts, a lot of name calling, and people blowing perceived slights against their country into calls for war. Blech.
Would you like some cheese to go along with your whine? Crikey, they warned you about the realmedia in the blurb! If you really care, stop being such a little girl and find the nearest loser with a box that can play the video. Alternatively, you could just use your imagination and pretend you watched the video; by this time tomorrow, you won't know the difference. Or you could just suck it up and keep quiet.
Yes, this is a flame, feel free to mod me down, but you have to admit the original poster isn't being very proactive. (The irony that I'm whining about someone else whining isn't lost on me, either, but what the hell...)
I agree with the main point you're making, so let me clarify: I feared the UI might not feel unixy enough for me. X, xterm, gnome, x's cut-n-paste, xpilot, xemacs, those type of things. (Pedantic people will argue these aren't really a part of Unix. There is a reason those people don't have many friends.:) The OSX guts are very clearly good unix guts, which is a big part of the reason I felt comfortable owning a mac for the first time in my life.
Ok, gosh.. you bought your iBook, no need to show off on Slashdot. Some of us can't afford Apple hardware.
I hope you're thinking of the powerbooks (which are a little ostentatious), because the iBooks are actually pretty reasonable and are priced competitively with Wintel laptops. Apple desktops can seem pricey for what you get (although apple die-hards will argue on this) but I can't complain about their notebook prices. Look into it; you'll probably be surprised.
When I bought my iBook, I also purchased Yellow Dog, because I feared that even though OSX is BSD under the hood, it wouldn't feel "Unixy" enough for me. But thanks to the porting efforts of the fink team, I have pretty much everything I'd want on my OSX box. In fact with X & Gnome, I have it set up to look exactly like my Solaris box at work. I ended up never installing YDL.
Of course, I'm not everyone, so I'll ask: Is there any really compelling reason to go to a Linux distro left?
It's on the main xpilot page, but it's worth calling out the link to The Story of Xpilot from the ACM crossroads. It's the fascinating history of the development of xpilot back in the days when most people hadn't even considered that multiplayer games could exist.
I still play xpilot today, btw, and although it can't keep up with the graphics of modern day games (or even 5 year old games) it's all about the gameplay, and it still has it there.
Are you telling me that you think that non-slashdot people like my mom like spam? I can tell you that they in fact do not. Even if they don't know about spamcop, or spamassassin, or whatever, they still hate junk mail in their inbox.
Walking down the street banging on a pan screaming "I am so great, I am so great" might get you a lot of eyeballs, but few votes. Yet politicians think that the cyberspace equivalent will work, for some reason. I guess they will find out that it does not.
I have a Windows box with an OK printer. I'd like to be able to print to it from the mac using the normal printer-sharing thing that Windows does. (If it's not clear already, I don't print very often, and am clearly not an expert in the configuration of printing)
As far as I can tell, this isn't possible using Mac OS 10.1; is it possible using Jagwire?
Also, is there any other way to get printing from my mac to my windows box working? The easier the better, of course. I have seen that there's a program called "Dave", but it's too expensive a solution for my casual printing needs, and the box is a little, well, too touchy-feely old-school "Mac" for me.:)
If you don't need the protection (and weight) fo a hardtop case, you should check out the variety of computer carrying equipment at CaseAce. I haven't used their new LCD harness, but the regular old CRT carrying harness has been a great investment. Turns something that's awkward into something easy to carry.
Probably my favorite thing about Andale Mono is that the zero has a dot in the center, making it trivial to distinguish from the letter O, which does not have the dot. Few other monospaced fonts today have that feature.
To programmers, that's a big win. In fact, making C-syntax characters look different ("1" v. "l", "{}" v. "()", "O" v. "0", "." v. ",", ":" v. ";", "'" v. "`") should be a priority for anybody working on an Andale Mono replacement. (Andale Mono could be improved on a few of these).
I've often wondered if I might even use a font where a "{" had an extra do-hickey (not quite sure what that would be) to distinguish it from "(". Even if it didn't look like a traditional "{" it might be a win. (But of course, I'd have to see it first).
(P.S. Since I'm dreaming, I might as well wish for a pony, too...)
A guy at my work used to work at the JPL branch of the team, and has some pretty interesting stories. (JPL in Pasedena has a bunch of MIT grads and other assorted geniuses, and is a lot closer to Vegas than Boston is, so it's a natural fit for the club.) He was never one of the really big high-rollers, but did manage to get to go to Vegas with 25K or 50K several times.
On interesting thing he mentioned is that the club really started to fall apart when the group's average winnings began to fall far below what theory predicted. There were two possible explanations: Vegas had changed something to make the game more in their favor (but I guess nobody ever figured out what they changed) or the members were getting greedy and underreporting winnings back to the group.
I have no doubt that within the next 30 years, you will be able to buy a flawless diamond the size of your head for about the same cost as a lump of coal. The techniques for synthesizing such diamonds would probably be there today if it weren't for the constant efforts of the DeBeers cartel to shut down all research on those fronts. But you can only slow down progress for so long, the state-of-the art is getting better (and cheaper) every day.
Don't believe it? It's happened before. Aluminum used to be a rare and exotic metal, until we discovered better extraction techniques. The top of the Washington Monument was supposed to be made out of aluminum, until it was stolen because the cost of aluminum was about equal to the price of silver! Of course now we throw alumnium cans
away when we can't find a recycling bin.
The point is, of course, not that you shouldn't buy a diamond, it's just that you shouldn't expect its value (or rarity, or symbolism of your love, or "specialness", or whatever) to be lasting when we're probably going to be able to crank out diamonds for the same cost as class beads. Buy a small diamond for its (current but temporary) symbolic value, if anything.
I find this a question a little un-geeklike, because Alton's recipes usually are as simple as they can be while still producing quality food. (Unlike Emeril or Martha, who in my opinion have recipes that are needlessly complicated for no good reason...) Not only that, but he's one of the few people who actually explain the whys of their recipes; it's quite akin to getting commented source code. His recipes explain everything, which make it really easy to make experimental changes.
In other words, he's already giving you high-quality food source code. If I were him, I wouldn't want my name attached to any lower-quality source code that sacrifices quality.
To extend the analogy, asking Alton this question is sort of the moral equivalent of asking Linus Torvalds for some Visual Basic code.
My guess: The temperature inside the wad of leaves is exactly 212 degrees Fahrenheit, the temperature that water from the leaves turns to steam. It doesn't matter if it's in the oven or in the lava; that internal temperature is exactly the same. I do bet that you end up charring the leaves much worse in the lava, though.
You should check out "Alton's Essential Elements" from his web page, which is his top 25 kitchen tools. It includes a lot of the ever-famous tools from the show, including the Lodge cast iron skillet and the probe thermometer.
I mention this because I'd like to see slashdot add to the internet's collective pool of Alton Brown knowledge, not repeat stuff that we already known.
I agree with the other replies to this. Redundant (copied from an earlier post)
At the time I submitted, the earlier post that you claim I "copied from" wasn't actually up yet. Of course, since by the time my post was submitted and showed up, the other post was there, and my post was in fact redundant. I wouldn't have been very upset having been moderated as such. I just want to point out it wasn't on purpose. ("Sure," you're thinking, "that's a mighty suspicious coincidence." But note my message and the other appliedautonomy message are stamped the same time.)
A more interesting change to Slashdot might be allowing authors to moderate their own posts, but only downwards, but without losing karma. In such a system, I would have marked my own post as "redundant". (Of course, the trolls would probably find some crazyass way to abuse this too, so maybe not.)
Although I still think the remote controlled spraypaint robot is kinda bitchin'.
Well, not only graffiti taggin' super robots, but also graffiti taggin' super cargo van (think "A-Team") and graffiti taggin' super remote controlled cars can be found at Applied Autonomy. Very cool.
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I remember him: my number was one of the ones stolen from cduniverse. My card was cancelled, but they didn't tell me until I was at the front of a many-deep line at Best Buy. In fact, the clerk "called it in" and contacted Discover security, who then wanted to talk to me. When you're seventh in line, it's not moving, and the clerk and the customer are on the phone, now you know why. Sorry, I didn't enjoy it either.
Ironically, my number was stolen and the card pre-emptivly cancelled for a second time just two weeks ago. Fortunately, through both incidents, I haven't had to pay a dime.
So the obvious missing feature of mozilla is a spell checker. Is this planned for any upcoming version?
Yes. See bugs http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56301 and http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129704 , as well as the mozdev project for spellchecking at
http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/index.html . (I'd link, but bugzilla rejects links from slashdot, so you're going to have to get there the hard way.)
One of the coolest features that people are working on (I'm pretty sure it's tracked under a different bug) is to enable reall-time spellchecking (underlines misspelled words in red as you type) in form widgets. Very cool.
According to this , both Farnsworth and Baird were shown up Paul Nipkow, who patented television in 1884!
Oh, sure, smart people will point out that Farnsworth invented the device that became modern television, but Baird had a working television (of a completely different technology) before that, and that Nipkow's device wasn't really practical. Logical folks will realize that there is nothing new under the sun and all inventions are built upon the shoulders of giants.
But this is the internet, so forget smart and logical! Instead, I see a lot of people arguing without facts, a lot of name calling, and people blowing perceived slights against their country into calls for war. Blech.
Would you like some cheese to go along with your whine? Crikey, they warned you about the realmedia in the blurb! If you really care, stop being such a little girl and find the nearest loser with a box that can play the video. Alternatively, you could just use your imagination and pretend you watched the video; by this time tomorrow, you won't know the difference. Or you could just suck it up and keep quiet.
Yes, this is a flame, feel free to mod me down, but you have to admit the original poster isn't being very proactive. (The irony that I'm whining about someone else whining isn't lost on me, either, but what the hell...)
You didnt think BSD was 'Unixy' enough for you!!?
I agree with the main point you're making, so let me clarify: I feared the UI might not feel unixy enough for me. X, xterm, gnome, x's cut-n-paste, xpilot, xemacs, those type of things. (Pedantic people will argue these aren't really a part of Unix. There is a reason those people don't have many friends. :) The OSX guts are very clearly good unix guts, which is a big part of the reason I felt comfortable owning a mac for the first time in my life.
Ok, gosh.. you bought your iBook, no need to show off on Slashdot. Some of us can't afford Apple hardware.
I hope you're thinking of the powerbooks (which are a little ostentatious), because the iBooks are actually pretty reasonable and are priced competitively with Wintel laptops. Apple desktops can seem pricey for what you get (although apple die-hards will argue on this) but I can't complain about their notebook prices. Look into it; you'll probably be surprised.
When I bought my iBook, I also purchased Yellow Dog, because I feared that even though OSX is BSD under the hood, it wouldn't feel "Unixy" enough for me. But thanks to the porting efforts of the fink team, I have pretty much everything I'd want on my OSX box. In fact with X & Gnome, I have it set up to look exactly like my Solaris box at work. I ended up never installing YDL.
Of course, I'm not everyone, so I'll ask: Is there any really compelling reason to go to a Linux distro left?
It's on the main xpilot page, but it's worth calling out the link to The Story of Xpilot from the ACM crossroads. It's the fascinating history of the development of xpilot back in the days when most people hadn't even considered that multiplayer games could exist.
I still play xpilot today, btw, and although it can't keep up with the graphics of modern day games (or even 5 year old games) it's all about the gameplay, and it still has it there.
Majorly cool. Thanks!
For the superlazy, here's the URL HTMLified: link.
Are you telling me that you think that non-slashdot people like my mom like spam? I can tell you that they in fact do not. Even if they don't know about spamcop, or spamassassin, or whatever, they still hate junk mail in their inbox.
Walking down the street banging on a pan screaming "I am so great, I am so great" might get you a lot of eyeballs, but few votes. Yet politicians think that the cyberspace equivalent will work, for some reason. I guess they will find out that it does not.
I have a Windows box with an OK printer. I'd like to be able to print to it from the mac using the normal printer-sharing thing that Windows does. (If it's not clear already, I don't print very often, and am clearly not an expert in the configuration of printing)
As far as I can tell, this isn't possible using Mac OS 10.1; is it possible using Jagwire?
Also, is there any other way to get printing from my mac to my windows box working? The easier the better, of course. I have seen that there's a program called "Dave", but it's too expensive a solution for my casual printing needs, and the box is a little, well, too touchy-feely old-school "Mac" for me. :)
In return, I'll feel free to think you suck, and to never vote for you.
Do you really want to alientate the people you're trying to get to vote for you?
Mozilla has zoom. Ctrl +/- zoom in and out.
But that doesn't zoom images. But fortunately, you can get mozilla to zoom images with a bookmarklet from the Pornzilla page.
I don't throw this word around lightly, but... I think I might love you. ProFont looks pretty dammed sweet. Thanks!
If you don't need the protection (and weight) fo a hardtop case, you should check out the variety of computer carrying equipment at CaseAce. I haven't used their new LCD harness, but the regular old CRT carrying harness has been a great investment. Turns something that's awkward into something easy to carry.
Probably my favorite thing about Andale Mono is that the zero has a dot in the center, making it trivial to distinguish from the letter O, which does not have the dot. Few other monospaced fonts today have that feature.
To programmers, that's a big win. In fact, making C-syntax characters look different ("1" v. "l", "{}" v. "()", "O" v. "0", "." v. ",", ":" v. ";", "'" v. "`") should be a priority for anybody working on an Andale Mono replacement. (Andale Mono could be improved on a few of these).
I've often wondered if I might even use a font where a "{" had an extra do-hickey (not quite sure what that would be) to distinguish it from "(". Even if it didn't look like a traditional "{" it might be a win. (But of course, I'd have to see it first).
(P.S. Since I'm dreaming, I might as well wish for a pony, too...)
A guy at my work used to work at the JPL branch of the team, and has some pretty interesting stories. (JPL in Pasedena has a bunch of MIT grads and other assorted geniuses, and is a lot closer to Vegas than Boston is, so it's a natural fit for the club.) He was never one of the really big high-rollers, but did manage to get to go to Vegas with 25K or 50K several times.
On interesting thing he mentioned is that the club really started to fall apart when the group's average winnings began to fall far below what theory predicted. There were two possible explanations: Vegas had changed something to make the game more in their favor (but I guess nobody ever figured out what they changed) or the members were getting greedy and underreporting winnings back to the group.
I have no doubt that within the next 30 years, you will be able to buy a flawless diamond the size of your head for about the same cost as a lump of coal. The techniques for synthesizing such diamonds would probably be there today if it weren't for the constant efforts of the DeBeers cartel to shut down all research on those fronts. But you can only slow down progress for so long, the state-of-the art is getting better (and cheaper) every day.
Don't believe it? It's happened before. Aluminum used to be a rare and exotic metal, until we discovered better extraction techniques. The top of the Washington Monument was supposed to be made out of aluminum, until it was stolen because the cost of aluminum was about equal to the price of silver! Of course now we throw alumnium cans away when we can't find a recycling bin.
The point is, of course, not that you shouldn't buy a diamond, it's just that you shouldn't expect its value (or rarity, or symbolism of your love, or "specialness", or whatever) to be lasting when we're probably going to be able to crank out diamonds for the same cost as class beads. Buy a small diamond for its (current but temporary) symbolic value, if anything.
I find this a question a little un-geeklike, because Alton's recipes usually are as simple as they can be while still producing quality food. (Unlike Emeril or Martha, who in my opinion have recipes that are needlessly complicated for no good reason...) Not only that, but he's one of the few people who actually explain the whys of their recipes; it's quite akin to getting commented source code. His recipes explain everything, which make it really easy to make experimental changes.
In other words, he's already giving you high-quality food source code. If I were him, I wouldn't want my name attached to any lower-quality source code that sacrifices quality.
To extend the analogy, asking Alton this question is sort of the moral equivalent of asking Linus Torvalds for some Visual Basic code.
My guess: The temperature inside the wad of leaves is exactly 212 degrees Fahrenheit, the temperature that water from the leaves turns to steam. It doesn't matter if it's in the oven or in the lava; that internal temperature is exactly the same. I do bet that you end up charring the leaves much worse in the lava, though.
Neat technique, though.
You should check out "Alton's Essential Elements" from his web page, which is his top 25 kitchen tools. It includes a lot of the ever-famous tools from the show, including the Lodge cast iron skillet and the probe thermometer.
Many of the answers to some of the questions asked so far can be found at www.altonbrown.com and also at (especially check the FAQS on this site).
I mention this because I'd like to see slashdot add to the internet's collective pool of Alton Brown knowledge, not repeat stuff that we already known.
I agree with the other replies to this. Redundant (copied from an earlier post)
At the time I submitted, the earlier post that you claim I "copied from" wasn't actually up yet. Of course, since by the time my post was submitted and showed up, the other post was there, and my post was in fact redundant. I wouldn't have been very upset having been moderated as such. I just want to point out it wasn't on purpose. ("Sure," you're thinking, "that's a mighty suspicious coincidence." But note my message and the other appliedautonomy message are stamped the same time.)
A more interesting change to Slashdot might be allowing authors to moderate their own posts, but only downwards, but without losing karma. In such a system, I would have marked my own post as "redundant". (Of course, the trolls would probably find some crazyass way to abuse this too, so maybe not.)
Although I still think the remote controlled spraypaint robot is kinda bitchin'.
Well, not only graffiti taggin' super robots, but also graffiti taggin' super cargo van (think "A-Team") and graffiti taggin' super remote controlled cars can be found at Applied Autonomy. Very cool.
until they can get a 3D lara to give me a lap-dance, i'm not impressed.
Now there's an interesting tie-in with the "force feedback controllers" article.