According to one source I found on the net published in October of 2008 (link)
In Europe, 35% of new cars are silver, while Asia goes even farther to 37%. North American buyers only choose silver 20% of the time, however, because white (18%) and black (17%) are both gaining ground. Red (13%) and blue (12%) are also popular, with categories like 'naturals' and 'other' bringing up the rear with 9% and 7% respectively. Green gets just 4% of the market.
Actually, and I don't understand this myself, one of the most popular colour for Porsches is 'Speed Yellow' which is a similar garish yellow to the one on the car in the article.
Do you have a source on the #s of each colour that Porche makes / sells for recent model years, or are you just going by what you see? I've always wondered how the colors break down.
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There were rumors flying that this update would include an improved version of iChat that would support tabbed chats in a single window, like Adium does. Alas, no joy. I like Adium well enough, but I like the tighter integration of iChat with the rest of the OS (showing who's online in Mail.app, for instance).
For a different opinion on this, see http://www.projectorcentral.com/formats.htm, and in particular the section called "Why get a 4:3 projector with a 4:3 screen?". What I find particularly interesting is this quote:
Personally, I prefer a big 4:3 screen. Here's why. I want to watch widescreen movies in their widescreen glory, no doubt about it. So I have a 4:3 screen that is wide enough to give me the 16:9 display I want, which in my theater is 8 feet wide.
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It's a 600MHz Celeron with 60MB RAM. I was surprised I didn't see any smoke when I went to reboot it. I just throttled back MaxClients in httpd.conf. You'll be able to get in a little bit easier now, for a little while at least.
And no, I have no control over the content or the hardware.
In addition, is anyone running probabilistic filtering on a large system with lots of users? Say, 1,000,000 messages a day? I'd be curious to know how you do it while keeping your load down on your mail machines.
One feature that will not be added is the ability to copy files from the iPod. Apple designed the iPod as a one-way device when it comes to music, meaning that it was only designed to accept MP3 files but not to send them back to a computer. Apple's iTunes software does not allow the user to copy MP3 files from the iPod to a Macintosh, and in a similar manner Mediafour's XPlay software will not allow the user to copy MP3 files from the iPod to any PC. Copying MP3 files off the device is not a difficult feature to implement, but Mediafour decided to respect Apple's wishes with the iPod and maintain the copy protection feature.
In other words, by turning off the automatic sync functions and saying "no" when asked if you would like your iPod library erased, you can simply drag and drop your iPod music files from iTunes to another Mac.
So why has Mediafour "decided to respect Apple's wishes" when Apple's own software allows the copying of MP3's to different Macs?
When I wrote my thesis in College, I went through a similar process of trying to figure out what to use on a Linux platform. For the thesis, the choice was fairly clear: TeX and friends (I used LaTeX). It might seem a bit overkill to use for documentation, but I'd recommend giving it an extended try.
The Good: You can use CVS on your.tex|.bib files; they're raw text. You can take your tex files and convert to HTML and postscript with ease.
The Bad: You're learning a new markup language.
The Ugly: My thesis, when converted to HTML, didn't look very good because all of the math equations got turned into gifs. However, things may have changed since then (1997) and since you're writing documentation, it may be a non-issue.
Note that on apple's purchasing site (store.apple.com) the lower end new iMacs aren't available until March. The only one available in January is the top of the line $1800 one with the Superdrive (DVD writer & CD-RW). The other new item which I saw (didn't see the Keynote, so don't know how much attention was paid to it) is the 14.1" screen on the new top end iBook.
The Oregon-based company may once again fuel controversy among advertisers with a function that automatically eliminates commercials during the recording of programs.
I've got a pretty good record pause/unpause trigger finger for the VCR, but I'm curious as to how a DVR/PVR can detect the end of show / beginning of a commercial / end of a commercial / beginning of show sequence. Is there some sort of signal that can be detected?
My Aeron is fantastic. As another poster pointed out, you can't just sit down and expect miracles. You've got to adjust it to your own body. Not that I'm claiming they will work for everybody. I just know that my whole office has one, and everybody seems to like them.
If you've got ergonomic issues, it's critical that you get the problems fixed. Otherwise you're looking at life changing permanent damage to your back, hands, or whatever. I've just been through hand therapy, and believe me, nothing scares me more than the thought of losing the use of my hands. I'm a programmer, systems administrator, and piano player. My hands are a critical part of my livelyhood. Plus I want to be able to pick up my kids someday!
Check out www.tifaq.org. It's a great resource on general ergonomics, as well as a central place to find things like chairs and keyboards and pointing devices.
There are a number of different ways to get "Passwordless Authentication":
1. Hostbased Authentication
Host based Authentication can be done with both protocol 1 and 2. You use ssh-keyscan for protocol 1 from the destination machine, and copy the/etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub on the source machine to/etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts2 on the destination machine for protocol 2. "HostbasedAuthentication yes" goes in both ssh_config and sshd_config.
2. rhosts/shosts authentication
You can enable rhost and/or shost authentication, which then allows a user to create a.rhosts or.shosts file with the name of the machines that are to be given seamless access. This is useful along with Host based, because host based doesn't work for root.
3. ssh-agent
This isn't truly passwordless, but if you have your RSA/DSA keys set up, you can run the ssh-agent either in your xterm or through your.xsession. Mine looks like this:
exec echo "ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_dsa</dev/null; exec fvwm2" | exec ssh-agent sh
So when I log into X, I'm prompted one time for my id_dsa key, and then everywhere where I've put my id_dsa.pub file, I get "passwordless" access.
My wife and I are closing on our first house at the end of the month. Our experience (IANARealEstateAgent):
The market in CT is a sellers market. We made offers that were above the asking price that were rejected because someone came in $5k, $10k, $15k higher than our asking price, all cash, seller allowed to stay in the house rent free for a certain amount of time after the closing, etc. Rediculous! Now, I'm not claiming that those buyers are necessarily going to get their investment back in 3-5 years, but still. The speed of the market is such that the web information is outdated too quickly.
We got a Real Estate agent. Regardless of your likes or dislikes for them, get one. My wife and I got very frustrated trying to track down houses listed on the web that we thought were interesting. Sure, the web is nice to use to get an idea of the market, but everyone takes pictures of houses at favorable angles so that you don't notice that the house next door is 3 feet away and that there's huge ugly oil tank in the back yard. Getting a good Real Estate agent will save you a lot of headaches. The house that we wound up buying went on the market, our agent called me on a Wednesday, and we made the offer the same day. Given the market, it wouldn't have waited until the weekend to be sold. That seems to be the current trend (in CT, anyways, and I suspect in many other parts of the country).
I believe that this is one area where the web has not successfully replaced or complimented a human. The real estate agents have much more recent data and can get a feel for what sort of house you are looking for. I have yet to see a real estate web site that understands that you want a quiet neighborhood with not a lot of traffic and neighbors who are likely to invite you over for drinks and watch over your house when you're on vacation. As far as I've seen, no web site can get that personal.
In other words, pull the stick out of your ass and enjoy the little diversion. Maybe in a few months Slashdot will interview Jack Chick or Archie Plutonium or someone other net.kook.
Sorry, I think you missed my point. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the interview, and personally think it's a crock, but I don't think I need to be told it's a crock ahead of time. I'd rather learn that by reading the interview and drawing my own conclusions. Your comment about the first 100 posts calling CmdrTaco an idiot is dead on, though! (The posts, not that CmdrTaco is an idiot)
Almost all Slashdot interview guests are suggested by readers. One week we might invite a physicist; the next week a
tech-interested politician or lawyer; the week after that an outstanding programmer. And once in a while we choose
someone off-the-wall -- like Alex Chiu -- to keep things from getting too serious around here. Please realize that not
every Slashdot interview is going to be your particular cup of tea, but it is someone's. (And, of course, you can send your
interview guest suggestion to roblimo@slashdot.org. I read every one.) But enough of that. Let's turn the floor over to Alex
Chiu, purveyor of Eternal Life Rings and decidedly non-mainstream opinions on religion, science, and politics.
I think this "introduction" is a load of crap. It's clear that Roblimo thinks that Alex Chiu is "off-the-wall", but is there really any need for him to push this view on the rest of us? Let us read the interview and decide for ourselves, and give the interview a chance to stand or flop on its own!
Personally, I'm not convinced that Alex's device works, even after looking at the web pages and reading his reviews. But I am convinced that Alex himself believes in what he is doing. Give the guy a chance, and then if you want to, add your additional comments below. What you've done is equivalent to saying "Here, try this really bad beer!". Yeah, sure, thanks, but no thanks.
There is a wonderful FAQ at www.tifaq.com which has a lot of info about alternative keyboards and such. There are lots to choose from, including chording keyboards (a la Infogrip's BAT) and split keyboards etc. One thing to keep in mid is that the keyboard alone is not a solution. You need to practice good overall ergonomics, and this includes a good desk and chair, as well as taking breaks and repositioning yourself.
By digging one more layer down, you can find this at W3:
Abstract
SOAP is a lightweight protocol for exchange of information in a decentralized, distributed environment. It is an XML based protocol that consists of three parts: an envelope that
defines a framework for describing what is in a message and how to process it, a set of encoding rules for expressing instances of application-defined datatypes, and a convention
for representing remote procedure calls and responses. SOAP can potentially be used in combination with a variety of other protocols; however, the only bindings defined in this
document describe how to use SOAP in combination with HTTP and HTTP Extension Framework.
The resellers -- a bunch of no-nonsense businessmen and not your typical artsy-fartsy Macintosh types -- were impressed by his candor. (emphasis mine)
Now that's funny!
I think it's unprofessional for a CEO of a company to do what he did, but what are you going to do, dock his pay? I'm not going against the bet that he was drunk, either. Besides, if Steve was playing it Frank, maybe it wasn't Steve after all.
What's porn? There is too much of a grey area, and it differs from person to person and country to country. In some places, the sky's the limit, in others, a picture of a woman showing her ankle might be defined as porn.
Who's going to enforce a.xxx domain for all "porn" content?
Who's going to check all non-.xxx for "porn" and prosecute?
Why wouldn't a pornmaster want to keep his pornyporn.com sight and just add a pornyporn.xxx, to have the best of both worlds?
I think enforcing compliance would be a big problem, especially when there's no way that I can see to define porn in the first place.
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No real world example of CLI? How about natural language?
"Pass the salt, please!"
"Here you go!"
sudo make me a sandwich
According to one source I found on the net published in October of 2008 (link)
In Europe, 35% of new cars are silver, while Asia goes even farther to 37%. North American buyers only choose silver 20% of the time, however, because white (18%) and black (17%) are both gaining ground. Red (13%) and blue (12%) are also popular, with categories like 'naturals' and 'other' bringing up the rear with 9% and 7% respectively. Green gets just 4% of the market.
Actually, and I don't understand this myself, one of the most popular colour for Porsches is 'Speed Yellow' which is a similar garish yellow to the one on the car in the article.
Do you have a source on the #s of each colour that Porche makes / sells for recent model years, or are you just going by what you see? I've always wondered how the colors break down.
Don't hold your breath, have you seen the Google Appliance?
Settings -> Mail -> Messages -> Auto-Check
I think the default is "Manual", but you can set it for as fast as every 15 minutes.
Due to the average Yes track length, at 99 cents a track, whole albums only cost me about $2 or $3 each.
I'm waiting for the new extended dance remix of Heart of the Sunrise to pare it down to one track.
There were rumors flying that this update would include an improved version of iChat that would support tabbed chats in a single window, like Adium does. Alas, no joy. I like Adium well enough, but I like the tighter integration of iChat with the rest of the OS (showing who's online in Mail.app, for instance).
For a different opinion on this, see http://www.projectorcentral.com/formats.htm, and in particular the section called "Why get a 4:3 projector with a 4:3 screen?". What I find particularly interesting is this quote:
Personally, I prefer a big 4:3 screen. Here's why. I want to watch widescreen movies in their widescreen glory, no doubt about it. So I have a 4:3 screen that is wide enough to give me the 16:9 display I want, which in my theater is 8 feet wide.
It's a 600MHz Celeron with 60MB RAM. I was surprised I didn't see any smoke when I went to reboot it.
I just throttled back MaxClients in httpd.conf. You'll be able to get in a little bit easier now, for a little while at least.
And no, I have no control over the content or the hardware.
In addition, is anyone running probabilistic filtering on a large system with lots of users? Say, 1,000,000 messages a day? I'd be curious to know how you do it while keeping your load down on your mail machines.
But, according to http://www.macobserver.com/article/2001/10/29.4.s
So why has Mediafour "decided to respect Apple's wishes" when Apple's own software allows the copying of MP3's to different Macs?
When I wrote my thesis in College, I went through a similar process of trying to figure out what to use on a Linux platform. For the thesis, the choice was fairly clear: TeX and friends (I used LaTeX). It might seem a bit overkill to use for documentation, but I'd recommend giving it an extended try.
.tex|.bib files; they're raw text. You can take your tex files and convert to HTML and postscript with ease.
The Good: You can use CVS on your
The Bad: You're learning a new markup language.
The Ugly: My thesis, when converted to HTML, didn't look very good because all of the math equations got turned into gifs. However, things may have changed since then (1997) and since you're writing documentation, it may be a non-issue.
Note that on apple's purchasing site (store.apple.com) the lower end new iMacs aren't available until March. The only one available in January is the top of the line $1800 one with the Superdrive (DVD writer & CD-RW). The other new item which I saw (didn't see the Keynote, so don't know how much attention was paid to it) is the 14.1" screen on the new top end iBook.
The Oregon-based company may once again fuel controversy among advertisers with a function that automatically eliminates commercials during the recording of programs.
I've got a pretty good record pause/unpause trigger finger for the VCR, but I'm curious as to how a DVR/PVR can detect the end of show / beginning of a commercial / end of a commercial / beginning of show sequence. Is there some sort of signal that can be detected?
My Aeron is fantastic. As another poster pointed out, you can't just sit down and expect miracles. You've got to adjust it to your own body. Not that I'm claiming they will work for everybody. I just know that my whole office has one, and everybody seems to like them.
If you've got ergonomic issues, it's critical that you get the problems fixed. Otherwise you're looking at life changing permanent damage to your back, hands, or whatever. I've just been through hand therapy, and believe me, nothing scares me more than the thought of losing the use of my hands. I'm a programmer, systems administrator, and piano player. My hands are a critical part of my livelyhood. Plus I want to be able to pick up my kids someday!
Check out www.tifaq.org. It's a great resource on general ergonomics, as well as a central place to find things like chairs and keyboards and pointing devices.
There are a number of different ways to get "Passwordless Authentication":
/etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub on the source machine to /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts2 on the destination machine for protocol 2. "HostbasedAuthentication yes" goes in both ssh_config and sshd_config.
.rhosts or .shosts file with the name of the machines that are to be given seamless access. This is useful along with Host based, because host based doesn't work for root.
.xsession. Mine looks like this: /dev/null; exec fvwm2" | exec ssh-agent sh
1. Hostbased Authentication
Host based Authentication can be done with both protocol 1 and 2. You use ssh-keyscan for protocol 1 from the destination machine, and copy the
2. rhosts/shosts authentication
You can enable rhost and/or shost authentication, which then allows a user to create a
3. ssh-agent
This isn't truly passwordless, but if you have your RSA/DSA keys set up, you can run the ssh-agent either in your xterm or through your
exec echo "ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_dsa<
So when I log into X, I'm prompted one time for my id_dsa key, and then everywhere where I've put my id_dsa.pub file, I get "passwordless" access.
If you put four of these shoes on the feet of gerbils running on their power generating wheels, would you double the power generated?
My wife and I are closing on our first house at the end of the month. Our experience (IANARealEstateAgent):
The market in CT is a sellers market. We made offers that were above the asking price that were rejected because someone came in $5k, $10k, $15k higher than our asking price, all cash, seller allowed to stay in the house rent free for a certain amount of time after the closing, etc. Rediculous! Now, I'm not claiming that those buyers are necessarily going to get their investment back in 3-5 years, but still. The speed of the market is such that the web information is outdated too quickly.
We got a Real Estate agent. Regardless of your likes or dislikes for them, get one. My wife and I got very frustrated trying to track down houses listed on the web that we thought were interesting. Sure, the web is nice to use to get an idea of the market, but everyone takes pictures of houses at favorable angles so that you don't notice that the house next door is 3 feet away and that there's huge ugly oil tank in the back yard. Getting a good Real Estate agent will save you a lot of headaches. The house that we wound up buying went on the market, our agent called me on a Wednesday, and we made the offer the same day. Given the market, it wouldn't have waited until the weekend to be sold. That seems to be the current trend (in CT, anyways, and I suspect in many other parts of the country).
I believe that this is one area where the web has not successfully replaced or complimented a human. The real estate agents have much more recent data and can get a feel for what sort of house you are looking for. I have yet to see a real estate web site that understands that you want a quiet neighborhood with not a lot of traffic and neighbors who are likely to invite you over for drinks and watch over your house when you're on vacation. As far as I've seen, no web site can get that personal.
In other words, pull the stick out of your ass and enjoy the little diversion. Maybe in a few months Slashdot will interview Jack Chick or Archie Plutonium or someone other net.kook.
Sorry, I think you missed my point. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the interview, and personally think it's a crock, but I don't think I need to be told it's a crock ahead of time. I'd rather learn that by reading the interview and drawing my own conclusions. Your comment about the first 100 posts calling CmdrTaco an idiot is dead on, though! (The posts, not that CmdrTaco is an idiot)
Almost all Slashdot interview guests are suggested by readers. One week we might invite a physicist; the next week a tech-interested politician or lawyer; the week after that an outstanding programmer. And once in a while we choose someone off-the-wall -- like Alex Chiu -- to keep things from getting too serious around here. Please realize that not every Slashdot interview is going to be your particular cup of tea, but it is someone's. (And, of course, you can send your interview guest suggestion to roblimo@slashdot.org. I read every one.) But enough of that. Let's turn the floor over to Alex Chiu, purveyor of Eternal Life Rings and decidedly non-mainstream opinions on religion, science, and politics.
I think this "introduction" is a load of crap. It's clear that Roblimo thinks that Alex Chiu is "off-the-wall", but is there really any need for him to push this view on the rest of us? Let us read the interview and decide for ourselves, and give the interview a chance to stand or flop on its own!
Personally, I'm not convinced that Alex's device works, even after looking at the web pages and reading his reviews. But I am convinced that Alex himself believes in what he is doing. Give the guy a chance, and then if you want to, add your additional comments below. What you've done is equivalent to saying "Here, try this really bad beer!". Yeah, sure, thanks, but no thanks.
There is a wonderful FAQ at www.tifaq.com which has a lot of info about alternative keyboards and such. There are lots to choose from, including chording keyboards (a la Infogrip's BAT) and split keyboards etc. One thing to keep in mid is that the keyboard alone is not a solution. You need to practice good overall ergonomics, and this includes a good desk and chair, as well as taking breaks and repositioning yourself.
By digging one more layer down, you can find this at W3:
Abstract
SOAP is a lightweight protocol for exchange of information in a decentralized, distributed environment. It is an XML based protocol that consists of three parts: an envelope that defines a framework for describing what is in a message and how to process it, a set of encoding rules for expressing instances of application-defined datatypes, and a convention for representing remote procedure calls and responses. SOAP can potentially be used in combination with a variety of other protocols; however, the only bindings defined in this document describe how to use SOAP in combination with HTTP and HTTP Extension Framework.
The resellers -- a bunch of no-nonsense businessmen and not your typical artsy-fartsy Macintosh types -- were impressed by his candor. (emphasis mine)
Now that's funny!
I think it's unprofessional for a CEO of a company to do what he did, but what are you going to do, dock his pay? I'm not going against the bet that he was drunk, either. Besides, if Steve was playing it Frank, maybe it wasn't Steve after all.
- What's porn? There is too much of a grey area, and it differs from person to person and country to country. In some places, the sky's the limit, in others, a picture of a woman showing her ankle might be defined as porn.
- Who's going to enforce a
.xxx domain for all "porn" content?
- Who's going to check all non-.xxx for "porn" and prosecute?
- Why wouldn't a pornmaster want to keep his pornyporn.com sight and just add a pornyporn.xxx, to have the best of both worlds?
I think enforcing compliance would be a big problem, especially when there's no way that I can see to define porn in the first place.