I'm a recreational pilot, and I've had first-hand experience with mobile phone that interfere with the avionics on a light aircraft. I've not witnessed any issues with nagivation instruments being affected, but I've certainly had interference on the communication systems (radio) from the mobile phone, when, for example, I've forgotten to turn my own mobile phone off (quickly remedied, thankfully:)
However, it's mostly GSM phones that are the problem. When the phone detects that it's losing contact with the cell, it makes a short burst of very high energy transmissions that, on the radio, sound like 'dt-dt-dt dt-dt-dt dt-dt-dt' (morse code for SSS?:). It's very annoying.
However, I've NEVER noticed this with a CDMA (okay, technically IS-95) phones, which are a lot more common in the USA (vs England and Australia which primarily use GSM now). So, the UK's test is probably more accurate for GSM phones. However, I'm also sure it's not a black/white issue, but rather a matter of proportions.
Personally, if *I* was in charge of the safety of a passenger-carrying flight, I'd want to make damn sure there wasn't ANYTHING that could adversely affect navigation, even if the chance was remote. Flying around IFR at night is/scarey/:)
Further studies need to be done. Operators need to weigh the costs of shielding the navigation instruments against the benefit of allowing passengers to use bluetooth/WiFi on the aircraft. And, passengers need to damn well obey flight crew instructions:)
Folk... don't click the AC's link to google... it isn't really a link to google, but some stupid 'click this link and make me a bunch of points in some stupid game' link.
There are a number of popular Weblogs (blogs, whatever) that are being hit with this kind of thing. The reasoning is that these logs often display their referrers to the public. So, as a spammer, you can get some free advertising on these sites by accessing the blog with a referrer containing your message.
Stupid, yes, but who is attributing spammers with intelligence??:)
Well, given that Apple were making more systems than Gateway, and there's a LONG held belief that the Apple systems are overpriced, profit margins can't be THAT slim:)
Again, if Apple release OS/X for the x86 platform, they're going to have to get a lot more interested in DRM. This isn't just a policy change; it's a complete about-face.
Me and a few friends have long held the belief that Apple releasing OS/X for the x86 platform would KILL Apple. Unlike Microsoft, Apple's 'coin' is their hardware platform, rather than software. The software is just there to sell the hardware. If they released OS/X for x86, then their hardware sales would plummet.
Yes, they could make some money off selling OS/X. However, they would then have to become MUCH more interested in ensuring their software is not being pirated, and that means some kind of DRM. A lot of folk love Apple because of their anti-DRM stance, and a lot of that love would disappeaer if Apple went down this route. As it is, Apple don't seem THAT concerned about piracy of their software, instead relying on those that want to 'do the Right Thing' with Apple, which is a fair percentage of their user base.
Instead, this is my theory on the Apple/AMD relationship, if there is one.
- It would be STUPID of Apple to rely on a single-source for their new processors, so, who better than to ask as a 'second source' than AMD? Yes, I'm sure Apple/IBM will get a leetle percentage out of all the chips that AMD make, but I'd bet my dollars that's what's going on.
Of course, the other possiblity is that AMD HAD talks with Apple, and they consisted of "Hey, lets go do lunch." "No.":) But... that's still 'talks', isn't it?:)
Oh, I know perfectly how it works. I also know that exceptional circumstances make exceptions to every 'rule', and this is about as exceptional as it gets.
2 million dollars is certainly worth chasing after.
The US government has spent HOW MANY billions of dollars on the Iraq war? They're going to be cancelling as many contracts and grants, etcetc, as possible to recoup some of those costs.
For all Theo has done for the OpenBSD, and open-source movements, I think his 'speculation' is treating his words in the paper a little more seriously than it deserves.
The BitTorrent files pointed to by the torrent file at f.scarywater.net are slightly corrupted; parts 5 and 6 are 'short'.
I've create a new torrent at http://onca.catsden.net/~chris/anachronx.torrent that people are welcome to point to. The guy at scarywater is going to replace the torrent there with mine, but you can get in early:)
You can 'fake' 'pass by reference' by passing a list instead. Viz:
def fn (a): _ a[0] = 'Goodbye'
a = ['Hello'] fn (a) print a # This will print goodbye
However, it's VERY rare that you need to use pass by reference. Instead, consider using multiple return values.
(Underscore used to force indentation)
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I really don't see what the problem is. I learned Python TOTALLY from the documentation that is included with the Python package. I went through the tutorial to get the 'flavour' for the language, then browsed the library documentation to see what kinds of libraries there were, and the same with the language documentation. I go back to the library and language documentation when I need more information.
It's, for the most part, fine.
Yes, there ARE some holes here and there, as there are with a lot of the other types of documentation too. but it's hardly 'useless'.
FYI, I used to be a avid Perl programmer until I had to reverse-engineer a Python program to modify it. (Xerox DocuShare)
For people's information, parts 5 and 6 from the BitTorrent link on ScaryWater are 'short'. Ie, they cut off way too soon.
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Thanks for the clarification. Yes, that does sound like it would be neat.
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Granted. Move and copy operations in the finder are SLOW. It's much faster to do that through the shell.
I'm hoping that's one of the things they'll fix in 10.3
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Ooo! Thanks!
Actually, all you have to do is click on the text and move mouse (not drag). No second click required. That's neat.
And it makes sense, too. You click on the part you want to edit, and move the mouse out of the way so you can edit it.
(Only works in icon views... in list or column views, there's still the delay)
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I never used OS9 myself. I 'switched' only when OS/X was available, but the same sentiment is felt with all the Mac users I know in the office. They miss features from OS9, but would never go back.
OS/X is still evolving, though... every minor release has resolved many a gripe. Compare this to Windows... which seems to create MORE gripes as things progress:)
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The collumn view is the last of the three choices, is it not? Icon, list and collumn. I still can't get it to sort by anything but name, even if I sort by date in the list view,it doesn't change in the collumn view.
My bad, I was referring to the list view, where you can change the sorting order just fine. The column view you can't... but... since it doesn't display anything other than file names, why would you want to?
Pop up folders are different from spring loaded folders. OS9 Pop up folders sit at the bottom of the screen, and 'pop up' when single clicked on . Spring loaded folders 'spring' open when dragging a document and hover over a folder.
Not really sure what the feature you're describing here, is. Try this: Put a folder into the dock. When you click-hold (or right click, or control-click) the folder, a list pops up with the contents of the folder. You can go n-levels deep, too. Is that the feature you were looking for?
Other points not mentioned are conceded.
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Too many files: Apple's Finder chokes on multiple thousands of files.
Does not. I have one directory with some 3000 directories in it, each with from 1-500 files inside, and I can open them up and do tonnes of stuff with them. Yes, it starts to slow down, but no more than my Windows box does on the same directory.
Renaming files: There is a delay in renaming that makes me crazy. I'll click on a file and it won't go into the rename unless I wait a moment and click again.
Does not. Here, I'll test. Click and keep the mouse pointer over the file name. After 2 seconds it goes into rename mode, no further click required. (Yes, the delay is still required)
There is no undo for renaming. Just renamed a file, and hit command-Z, and it undooed the rename just fine.
Collumn view: No viewing by date, size, or anything but name. It's there in the other 'views', why can't I have it here?
Click on the detail view (The icon with the number of horizonal lines), and then click on the column title that you want to sort by. How hard is this?
Save Dialogs: Same with collumn view. I hated how the old os9 save dialog (think pagemaker - grr.) would pop up and be immovable - invaribly, I needed some info that was immediately under that window. Let me move it. Let me sort the contents by date, size, name.
Granted the save dialog doesn't have the same viewing options as a finder window, but it's certainly movable.
Pop-up folders were swell, however I don't miss them like the labels.
Older versions of OS/X were missing this feature, but 'spring-loaded folders' are back.
Not according to the American Heritage Dictionary:
NOUN: 1. The unnamed day on which an operation or offensive is to be launched. 2. The day on which the Allied forces invaded France during World War II (June 6, 1944).
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I'm a recreational pilot, and I've had first-hand experience with mobile phone that interfere with the avionics on a light aircraft. I've not witnessed any issues with nagivation instruments being affected, but I've certainly had interference on the communication systems (radio) from the mobile phone, when, for example, I've forgotten to turn my own mobile phone off (quickly remedied, thankfully :)
:). It's very annoying.
/scarey/ :)
:)
However, it's mostly GSM phones that are the problem. When the phone detects that it's losing contact with the cell, it makes a short burst of very high energy transmissions that, on the radio, sound like 'dt-dt-dt dt-dt-dt dt-dt-dt' (morse code for SSS?
However, I've NEVER noticed this with a CDMA (okay, technically IS-95) phones, which are a lot more common in the USA (vs England and Australia which primarily use GSM now). So, the UK's test is probably more accurate for GSM phones. However, I'm also sure it's not a black/white issue, but rather a matter of proportions.
Personally, if *I* was in charge of the safety of a passenger-carrying flight, I'd want to make damn sure there wasn't ANYTHING that could adversely affect navigation, even if the chance was remote. Flying around IFR at night is
Further studies need to be done. Operators need to weigh the costs of shielding the navigation instruments against the benefit of allowing passengers to use bluetooth/WiFi on the aircraft. And, passengers need to damn well obey flight crew instructions
Folk... don't click the AC's link to google... it isn't really a link to google, but some stupid 'click this link and make me a bunch of points in some stupid game' link.
Troll.
Because, 99c appears to be much less than a dollar than just the 1c. Unless, of course, if you think about it.
This is the very same reason stuff you buy at the store is $9.99, or $9.95, instead of $10.
Okay, I have a developer account... lead me to the documentation.
There are a number of popular Weblogs (blogs, whatever) that are being hit with this kind of thing. The reasoning is that these logs often display their referrers to the public. So, as a spammer, you can get some free advertising on these sites by accessing the blog with a referrer containing your message.
:)
Stupid, yes, but who is attributing spammers with intelligence??
You can't say "I believe that...", offer no proof, and then say that the question doesn't exist :)
The question DOES exist, and here it is: Does apple's technology have DRM in it? And, prove it!
Well, given that Apple were making more systems than Gateway, and there's a LONG held belief that the Apple systems are overpriced, profit margins can't be THAT slim :)
Again, if Apple release OS/X for the x86 platform, they're going to have to get a lot more interested in DRM. This isn't just a policy change; it's a complete about-face.
Me and a few friends have long held the belief that Apple releasing OS/X for the x86 platform would KILL Apple. Unlike Microsoft, Apple's 'coin' is their hardware platform, rather than software. The software is just there to sell the hardware. If they released OS/X for x86, then their hardware sales would plummet.
:) But... that's still 'talks', isn't it? :)
Yes, they could make some money off selling OS/X. However, they would then have to become MUCH more interested in ensuring their software is not being pirated, and that means some kind of DRM. A lot of folk love Apple because of their anti-DRM stance, and a lot of that love would disappeaer if Apple went down this route. As it is, Apple don't seem THAT concerned about piracy of their software, instead relying on those that want to 'do the Right Thing' with Apple, which is a fair percentage of their user base.
Instead, this is my theory on the Apple/AMD relationship, if there is one.
- It would be STUPID of Apple to rely on a single-source for their new processors, so, who better than to ask as a 'second source' than AMD? Yes, I'm sure Apple/IBM will get a leetle percentage out of all the chips that AMD make, but I'd bet my dollars that's what's going on.
Of course, the other possiblity is that AMD HAD talks with Apple, and they consisted of "Hey, lets go do lunch." "No."
Scarywater has the new torrent file. Get it from there, please :)
The complaint, then, would make sense if this was the ONLY government contract being pulled. Is it?
Oh, I know perfectly how it works. I also know that exceptional circumstances make exceptions to every 'rule', and this is about as exceptional as it gets.
2 million dollars is certainly worth chasing after.
The US government has spent HOW MANY billions of dollars on the Iraq war? They're going to be cancelling as many contracts and grants, etcetc, as possible to recoup some of those costs.
For all Theo has done for the OpenBSD, and open-source movements, I think his 'speculation' is treating his words in the paper a little more seriously than it deserves.
The BitTorrent files pointed to by the torrent file at f.scarywater.net are slightly corrupted; parts 5 and 6 are 'short'.
:)
I've create a new torrent at http://onca.catsden.net/~chris/anachronx.torrent that people are welcome to point to. The guy at scarywater is going to replace the torrent there with mine, but you can get in early
You can 'fake' 'pass by reference' by passing a list instead. Viz:
def fn (a):
_ a[0] = 'Goodbye'
a = ['Hello']
fn (a)
print a # This will print goodbye
However, it's VERY rare that you need to use pass by reference. Instead, consider using multiple return values.
(Underscore used to force indentation)
I really don't see what the problem is. I learned Python TOTALLY from the documentation that is included with the Python package. I went through the tutorial to get the 'flavour' for the language, then browsed the library documentation to see what kinds of libraries there were, and the same with the language documentation. I go back to the library and language documentation when I need more information.
It's, for the most part, fine.
Yes, there ARE some holes here and there, as there are with a lot of the other types of documentation too. but it's hardly 'useless'.
FYI, I used to be a avid Perl programmer until I had to reverse-engineer a Python program to modify it. (Xerox DocuShare)
For people's information, parts 5 and 6 from the BitTorrent link on ScaryWater are 'short'. Ie, they cut off way too soon.
Thanks for the clarification. Yes, that does sound like it would be neat.
Granted. Move and copy operations in the finder are SLOW. It's much faster to do that through the shell.
I'm hoping that's one of the things they'll fix in 10.3
Ooo! Thanks!
Actually, all you have to do is click on the text and move mouse (not drag). No second click required. That's neat.
And it makes sense, too. You click on the part you want to edit, and move the mouse out of the way so you can edit it.
(Only works in icon views... in list or column views, there's still the delay)
I never used OS9 myself. I 'switched' only when OS/X was available, but the same sentiment is felt with all the Mac users I know in the office. They miss features from OS9, but would never go back.
:)
OS/X is still evolving, though... every minor release has resolved many a gripe. Compare this to Windows... which seems to create MORE gripes as things progress
The collumn view is the last of the three choices, is it not? Icon, list and collumn. I still can't get it to sort by anything but name, even if I sort by date in the list view,it doesn't change in the collumn view.
My bad, I was referring to the list view, where you can change the sorting order just fine. The column view you can't... but... since it doesn't display anything other than file names, why would you want to?
Pop up folders are different from spring loaded folders. OS9 Pop up folders sit at the bottom of the screen, and 'pop up' when single clicked on . Spring loaded folders 'spring' open when dragging a document and hover over a folder.
Not really sure what the feature you're describing here, is. Try this: Put a folder into the dock. When you click-hold (or right click, or control-click) the folder, a list pops up with the contents of the folder. You can go n-levels deep, too. Is that the feature you were looking for?
Other points not mentioned are conceded.
Too many files: Apple's Finder chokes on multiple thousands of files.
Does not. I have one directory with some 3000 directories in it, each with from 1-500 files inside, and I can open them up and do tonnes of stuff with them. Yes, it starts to slow down, but no more than my Windows box does on the same directory.
Renaming files: There is a delay in renaming that makes me crazy. I'll click on a file and it won't go into the rename unless I wait a moment and click again.
Does not. Here, I'll test. Click and keep the mouse pointer over the file name. After 2 seconds it goes into rename mode, no further click required. (Yes, the delay is still required)
There is no undo for renaming.
Just renamed a file, and hit command-Z, and it undooed the rename just fine.
Collumn view: No viewing by date, size, or anything but name. It's there in the other 'views', why can't I have it here?
Click on the detail view (The icon with the number of horizonal lines), and then click on the column title that you want to sort by. How hard is this?
Save Dialogs: Same with collumn view. I hated how the old os9 save dialog (think pagemaker - grr.) would pop up and be immovable - invaribly, I needed some info that was immediately under that window. Let me move it. Let me sort the contents by date, size, name.
Granted the save dialog doesn't have the same viewing options as a finder window, but it's certainly movable.
Pop-up folders were swell, however I don't miss them like the labels.
Older versions of OS/X were missing this feature, but 'spring-loaded folders' are back.
Actually, I think this is getting MORE funny with each posting... :)
I wonder, exactly, how many people submitted this story... or is CmdrTaco just making them up?
Not according to the American Heritage Dictionary:
NOUN:
1. The unnamed day on which an operation or offensive is to be launched. 2. The day on which the Allied forces invaded France during World War II (June 6, 1944).
ETYMOLOGY:
D (abbr. of day) + day.
It seems likely that this is a 'back-definition'.
Using the Camino nightly build is hardly a good way of testing Safari.