I won't argue with your conclusion. Lawyers are a pest that solve a completely imaginary problem that wouldn't exist if we didn't have any lawyers in the first place.
However, in your workplace, you have 5 people in total, with 3 people bringing in the money. I know someone working at a lawyer's office, they have two lawyers there, 4 secretaries and 2 additional assistants with a law degree. That's a 2/8 ratio compared to your 3/5 ratio (cleaning service excluded for both). You also have to keep in mind that the office has to be larger and thus more expensive for them.
If you are _really_ concerned about going green, the biggest (and likely simplest) impact you can have is to never have children, especially in the developed world where per-capita energy consumption is highest.
On the other hand, that child might be the one person to become the scientist who solves the energy crisis or the global warming problem once and for all. Children in the third world never have the opportunity for that.
Freewave is a WLAN hotspot provider here in Austria, where you can get totally free Internet in many restaurants without having to freeride on some private Internet user's account.
I used one of these once on a conference. It's an interesting concept, but it doesn't really work that well. The whole thing has a huge inertness due to its mass. This means that you have to do large steps to get it to move, and then it's hard to get it to stop. Abrupt movements are out of the question.
I think one person on that conference actually fell while trying it.
Additionally, it doesn't really feel like walking in a virtual environment, since you can feel that sphere underneath your feet. Maybe hamster wheel feeling describes it better (not that I've ever been in one).
Maybe somebody should point out that Audiacity works fine on Mac OS X, too (even without X11). I'm using it all the time for minor cropping/ogg-encoding work.
despite having it's own organization devoted to developing the standard [...] Most of these issues are in the form of deprecated extensions.
"despite" is the wrong word here. If you have a bunch of people that are paid for developing a standard, that standard will constantly evolve.
I think the real reason for all those changes all the time is that the standard is relatively new. This will settle in the next few years, when the optimal solution for every feature has been found.
However, even now it's not that bad, because implementing most of those extensions is relatively easy, and supporting both the new and old variant of features can be done (for example, pidgin and Adium support both the vcard-based and the PEP-based avatar standards for both sending and receiving).
I had some problems with scummvm on the iPhone (tried Monkey Island 2 & Indiana Jones 4).
The main problem is that the games aren't designed for it, and so you have to click on things that are a tenth of the area of your finger, most of the time I just missed them. Additionally, you don't see the items highlighted, because you aren't moving the cursor around at all.
I had to switch to trackpad mode all the time, and then my finger was obstructing the screen.
I think it would be cool if Asus packaged a detachable SSD so that you could unplug it from the Eee in the kitchen, and plug it back in to the Eee in the bedroom.
I think you're missing the point of an ultra-portable subnotebook.
My DM had even harder challenges in the past... The most complicated one involved a lock controlled by four rotating discs, where I had to mathematically proof to him that there is no solution to his puzzle before he let us pass:)
I'm also using CUDA for my master's thesis right now. It's no problem mixing CUDA with OpenGL or Direct3D, in fact, there's even an API for connecting them. If you have some calculation that takes more than 5 seconds to calculate, your code isn't suited for real-time computer graphics anyways (your kernel should only take <20ms to execute, otherwise your frame rate is too low for real-world usage).
In this way, I've let my program run for an hour without any issues.
The only issue with CUDA for games is that you absolutely need an NVidia 8 or better, ATI is not supported. That kinda limits the audience.
I guess it means that they're really scientists. In statistics, there's no such thing as a zero probability (or a probability of one, for that matter). It's even possible that you spontaneously turn into the Loch Ness Monster right now, though the probability for it is essentially zero.
Connect to the share, press cmd-shift-c in a Finder window to get to the volumes view, then cmd-alt-drag the share to the desktop to create an alias (This alias can also be added to the dock). Kinda non-intuitive, but it works best.
Another option would be to write out the whole URL (smb://<ip>/<share>) in TextEdit, then select it and drag it to the desktop, creating a URL clip.
I'd advise against using mount_smbfs, since the Finder wouldn't know about this volume.
Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.
- L. Ron Hubbard
It's a spaghetti mess in there, one of the worst APIs ever known to man. Apple have to re-write it from scratch to fix it, and the likelihood of that is as slim as the likelihood of more disasters like this happening is large.
Actually, they have done exactly what you suggest for Leopard, it's called QTKit. According to Apple, the old API is deprecated and all developers should use the new one on Mac OS X 10.5+.
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The licensing agreement is for Acrobat Reader, not the file. You might want to use some other PDF viewer instead (ghostscript for example).
I won't argue with your conclusion. Lawyers are a pest that solve a completely imaginary problem that wouldn't exist if we didn't have any lawyers in the first place.
However, in your workplace, you have 5 people in total, with 3 people bringing in the money. I know someone working at a lawyer's office, they have two lawyers there, 4 secretaries and 2 additional assistants with a law degree. That's a 2/8 ratio compared to your 3/5 ratio (cleaning service excluded for both). You also have to keep in mind that the office has to be larger and thus more expensive for them.
Don't forget that they have to pay a whole company with that wage. IT consultants usually don't have multiple secretaries and an office.
If you are _really_ concerned about going green, the biggest (and likely simplest) impact you can have is to never have children, especially in the developed world where per-capita energy consumption is highest.
On the other hand, that child might be the one person to become the scientist who solves the energy crisis or the global warming problem once and for all. Children in the third world never have the opportunity for that.
Freewave is a WLAN hotspot provider here in Austria, where you can get totally free Internet in many restaurants without having to freeride on some private Internet user's account.
Actions like this one definitely don't help keeping your jobs, though.
I don't know why, but I always though of Mars as a planet without an atmosphere.
Uh, did you miss the very recent slashdot article?
I used one of these once on a conference. It's an interesting concept, but it doesn't really work that well. The whole thing has a huge inertness due to its mass. This means that you have to do large steps to get it to move, and then it's hard to get it to stop. Abrupt movements are out of the question.
I think one person on that conference actually fell while trying it.
Additionally, it doesn't really feel like walking in a virtual environment, since you can feel that sphere underneath your feet. Maybe hamster wheel feeling describes it better (not that I've ever been in one).
It's not so much that you can't use it, but it looks extremely ugly and inelegant. Mac-users actually look at this kind of thing.
Well, the UI does suck, but when I have the choice between a sucky UI and not being able to do the task at all...
Maybe somebody should point out that Audiacity works fine on Mac OS X, too (even without X11). I'm using it all the time for minor cropping/ogg-encoding work.
In my experience, you only get ICQ spam when you enable the web indicator, because those spamming bots only send their messages to online account.
despite having it's own organization devoted to developing the standard [...] Most of these issues are in the form of deprecated extensions.
"despite" is the wrong word here. If you have a bunch of people that are paid for developing a standard, that standard will constantly evolve.
I think the real reason for all those changes all the time is that the standard is relatively new. This will settle in the next few years, when the optimal solution for every feature has been found.
However, even now it's not that bad, because implementing most of those extensions is relatively easy, and supporting both the new and old variant of features can be done (for example, pidgin and Adium support both the vcard-based and the PEP-based avatar standards for both sending and receiving).
No, this is just a way to connect to the ICQ network by using an XMPP client, it still doesn't federate (talk to other XMPP servers).
Besides, I've never managed to connect to this service, I think they've canceled this project.
Yes, muscle memory is stored in the cerebellum, not the cerebrum. That's why you don't have to "think" about it to do it.
Most of the martial arts training is about moving the information from the latter to the former.
I had some problems with scummvm on the iPhone (tried Monkey Island 2 & Indiana Jones 4).
The main problem is that the games aren't designed for it, and so you have to click on things that are a tenth of the area of your finger, most of the time I just missed them. Additionally, you don't see the items highlighted, because you aren't moving the cursor around at all.
I had to switch to trackpad mode all the time, and then my finger was obstructing the screen.
I think you're missing the point of an ultra-portable subnotebook.
My DM had even harder challenges in the past... The most complicated one involved a lock controlled by four rotating discs, where I had to mathematically proof to him that there is no solution to his puzzle before he let us pass :)
I'm also using CUDA for my master's thesis right now. It's no problem mixing CUDA with OpenGL or Direct3D, in fact, there's even an API for connecting them. If you have some calculation that takes more than 5 seconds to calculate, your code isn't suited for real-time computer graphics anyways (your kernel should only take <20ms to execute, otherwise your frame rate is too low for real-world usage).
In this way, I've let my program run for an hour without any issues.
The only issue with CUDA for games is that you absolutely need an NVidia 8 or better, ATI is not supported. That kinda limits the audience.
Heise reports that the vote process in Germany was manipulated, too, although on a more obvious level:
link (German only, sorry)
The members of the German institute for norms (DIN) were basically unable to vote "no", only "yes" and "abstain" were allowed.
I guess it means that they're really scientists. In statistics, there's no such thing as a zero probability (or a probability of one, for that matter). It's even possible that you spontaneously turn into the Loch Ness Monster right now, though the probability for it is essentially zero.
Sixxs provides a list of ISPs providing native IPv6.
Connect to the share, press cmd-shift-c in a Finder window to get to the volumes view, then cmd-alt-drag the share to the desktop to create an alias (This alias can also be added to the dock). Kinda non-intuitive, but it works best.
Another option would be to write out the whole URL (smb://<ip>/<share>) in TextEdit, then select it and drag it to the desktop, creating a URL clip.
I'd advise against using mount_smbfs, since the Finder wouldn't know about this volume.
Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.
- L. Ron Hubbard
Actually, they have done exactly what you suggest for Leopard, it's called QTKit. According to Apple, the old API is deprecated and all developers should use the new one on Mac OS X 10.5+.