As for finding specific songs on an iPod, have you ever used one? The UI is fantastic... I can find any song in seconds... that's one of the reasons why I got an iPod as opposed to something else as the UI is just so good for large music collections.
I too think the UI of the iPod is fantastic and that there is at the moment no other player that is as good as an iPod.
My problem is that I don't want to fiddle every other song with the player. When a song starts that I don't like to hear right at the moment I'll have to switch as I know that there are better songs on the player.
Maybe I have to much audio books on my player or songs that I only want to listen to when I'm in a special mood for them, but the random selection of (hardware and software) players is usually quite bad.
Is there know player out there that allows to combine playlists on the fly? Or maybe even set operations over playlists (play only the songs from playlist A that are not in playlist B)? Such dynamic playlist is a feature I miss in even the most sophisticated software music players.
My music collection is nowadays around 7 GB. But that includes of course music I hardly ever listen to. And even if I would want to even on an iPod it is not that convenient to search for specific songs in a heap of several thousands.
I don't think that there are a lot of people around who could fill 10 GB with legal music. What would they put on a 10 GB iPod Nano? For the normal iPod we have a solution: Movies.
But for the iPod Nano? Flip-books?
People will probably buy those Nanos just to be cool and be able to say "my iPod Nano is larger than yours".
And compare that to LaTeX. LaTeX may be a bitch to get running.
Really? MiKTeX has everything one could want and installs without a problem.
But once you have a working it can be quite nice for handling technical documents.
I'd say it is quite nice for writing almost any type of document. Only when I really need WYSIWYG I use something else. But then I need a real DTP program which Word isn't
Nethack DeusEx Tetris Frontier: Elite 2 M.U.L.E Several Sid Meier games like Railroad Tycoon, Pirates and Civilisation (Civ4 doesn't have proven its replay value up until now) All old LucasArts adventures, even though I almost know their storyline by heart:-)
I tend to use other applications to do these tasks. they tend to do a much better job.
Which Mail/Newsreader is better than Gnus? Which LaTeX-Editor is better than Emacs with enabled AUCTeX, RefTeX and preview-latex?
I have a multitasking OS.
I agree, this is an issue, although a minor one for me. It is quite seldom that my XEmacs is blocked so I can't use it for something different. But you can always open a second XEmacs to do something else.
What I want is folding, syntax completion, and parenthesis matching that works in both directions.
I think Emacs 22 has generic folding support. For syntax completion there are several possibilities, but if you want IntelliSense, google for CEDET.
I have yet to see a parenthesis matching that is better than what you get with
(setq paren-sexp-mode 't)
(setq paren-display-message 'only)
(paren-activate)
and in viper-mode you get the nifty %.
1. It's a philosophy, not a dogma. 2. Emacs is not really only a text editor. It is a lisp interpreter whose first program was written to emulate a text editor. From there it developed. 3. Vim tries to be only a text editor and look what a monster this thing has grown into!;-)
I think to hold the everything-and-the-kitchen-sink approach against the Emacs family of programs would be like to question Linux because it implements things that are not found in other Unix OS.
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Well, I'd like to see another editor with which I can read mail, news, rss-feeds or which builts wikis or which has superior LaTeX support. And this are only my needs.
Which UI guidelines? Text editor UI guidelines? Care to provide a link?
I don't know about Emacs, but XEmacs fits nicely into Windows' GUI. Better than both on Linux.
That's a completely grammatical sentence in the dialect it is spoken. All it shows is that the author wasn't trying to communicate in standard formal English. Linguist studies have shown that poorly educated low-class people tend to have a near-perfect command of their language, even if that language is not the standard formal dialect.
This is more a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SociolectSociolect than a Dialect. The problem with this is that you lose the ability to communicate with those who can't speak "proper" english. That's fine with me. I don't have to talk to them but they most certainly have to talk to people who don't speak their variation of english.
Language is an instinct; everyone without brain damage speaks their native language grammatically.
I wouldn't be too sure about that. You learn a language by imitation, but if there too many different impression you don't learn it well. Such a person might speak a language, but he is the only one who does.
I don't think there are considerably more people like this today, but nowadays they are allowed to go to talk shows.
How come details of these exploits have been released to the public (and heavily publicised on slashdot, no less) the day after notifications of the problems were sent to package maintainers.
I got the email with the details to the bug in my program on Dec.15 9:15 AM by djb himself. And I thank him for informing me.
But the posting on Bugtraq is by another person as are the submitter generationxyu and jlong2 who put the copies of the notification emails on the web. I think, this shouldn't have happened and djb would have waited longer before publishing the results.
So why was it handled this way?
Well, if generationxyu or jlong2 are djb's students, djb might have missed to include a lesson on the proper behaviour when finding a bug. But I haven't checked the slides to the course, yet.
And if he addressed the issue of bug release protocol and those two are his students, I hope they fail because of this.
It serves them right. They should fail for trying to find security holes in *nix-based software!:-)
As one of the authors of one of those programs, I have to say that technically my program is not *nix-based software as it is completely ANSI-C.
But using C should be counted as security hole on itself...
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I don't think I quite understand you.
You're annoyed because the Free-TV premiere of a dubbed movie in Germany is before the undubbed version is shown in Danemark? What keeps you from watching the undubbed movie in Danish movie theaters?
Aren't you forgetting that in German cinemas they usually also show a dubbed version? Most Germans don't have the possibility to watch an undubbed movie.
Personally, my view is that when text is "zoomed" the point to pixel conversion should be scaled up - IE doesn't scale the points and Mozilla only scales the font sizes. (Again, if you look at my webpage, I think that when I scale the font size up, the layout should scale along with the new font size since the font size and the layout are both specified in points. It doesn't scale at all in IE and Mozilla just makes the glyphs larger/smaller.)
My experience too is that Mozilla only scales the glyphs if you use Ctrl-+ odr Ctrl--.
A very crude but also straightforward solution is to press the reload button afterwards. Then it will be shown correctly. Don't know if there's bugzilla number on this...
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I too think the UI of the iPod is fantastic and that there is at the moment no other player that is as good as an iPod.
My problem is that I don't want to fiddle every other song with the player. When a song starts that I don't like to hear right at the moment I'll have to switch as I know that there are better songs on the player.
Maybe I have to much audio books on my player or songs that I only want to listen to when I'm in a special mood for them, but the random selection of (hardware and software) players is usually quite bad.
Is there know player out there that allows to combine playlists on the fly? Or maybe even set operations over playlists (play only the songs from playlist A that are not in playlist B)? Such dynamic playlist is a feature I miss in even the most sophisticated software music players.
To create a gap for the iPod Pico. It will have a whooping 128 MB of RAM to hold all your favourite ring tones.
My music collection is nowadays around 7 GB. But that includes of course music I hardly ever listen to. And even if I would want to even on an iPod it is not that convenient to search for specific songs in a heap of several thousands.
I don't think that there are a lot of people around who could fill 10 GB with legal music. What would they put on a 10 GB iPod Nano? For the normal iPod we have a solution: Movies.
But for the iPod Nano? Flip-books?
People will probably buy those Nanos just to be cool and be able to say "my iPod Nano is larger than yours".
Really? MiKTeX has everything one could want and installs without a problem.
But once you have a working it can be quite nice for handling technical documents.I'd say it is quite nice for writing almost any type of document. Only when I really need WYSIWYG I use something else. But then I need a real DTP program which Word isn't
Don't know. But I would not know how to do that in Word, too.
I'm using LaTeX not Lyx. That's why I was asking if Lyx wouldn't be good enough.
scrlttr2 would be easy enough for the average office worker. Especially if you give them some examples.
I am convinced that every secretary who can cope with the quirks and annoyances of Word could work with LaTeX. It's not rocket science, you know?
Maybe they are afraid of the looks of a LaTeX file, but honestly, the looks of Microsoft Word scares the shit out of me, too!
Lyx is not good enough for them?
Nethack :-)
DeusEx
Tetris
Frontier: Elite 2
M.U.L.E
Several Sid Meier games like Railroad Tycoon, Pirates and Civilisation (Civ4 doesn't have proven its replay value up until now)
All old LucasArts adventures, even though I almost know their storyline by heart
Which Mail/Newsreader is better than Gnus? Which LaTeX-Editor is better than Emacs with enabled AUCTeX, RefTeX and preview-latex?
I have a multitasking OS.I agree, this is an issue, although a minor one for me. It is quite seldom that my XEmacs is blocked so I can't use it for something different. But you can always open a second XEmacs to do something else.
What I want is folding, syntax completion, and parenthesis matching that works in both directions.I think Emacs 22 has generic folding support. For syntax completion there are several possibilities, but if you want IntelliSense, google for CEDET.
I have yet to see a parenthesis matching that is better than what you get with (setq paren-sexp-mode 't)
(setq paren-display-message 'only)
(paren-activate)
and in viper-mode you get the nifty %.
1. It's a philosophy, not a dogma. ;-)
2. Emacs is not really only a text editor. It is a lisp interpreter whose first program was written to emulate a text editor. From there it developed.
3. Vim tries to be only a text editor and look what a monster this thing has grown into!
I think to hold the everything-and-the-kitchen-sink approach against the Emacs family of programs would be like to question Linux because it implements things that are not found in other Unix OS.
Well, I'd like to see another editor with which I can read mail, news, rss-feeds or which builts wikis or which has superior LaTeX support. And this are only my needs.
Which UI guidelines? Text editor UI guidelines? Care to provide a link?
I don't know about Emacs, but XEmacs fits nicely into Windows' GUI. Better than both on Linux.
And the killing ratio for a GRB would be more like 100-250 ly. 10 ly away even a normal supernova would be an extinction event.
In this article, a GRB 6'000 ly away is assumed to have a devastating effect on Earth's lifeforms: Galactic Explosions Inhibit Life
GRBs might also be the cause for the Non-Existence of a galactic Civilisation: An Astrophysical Explanation for the Great Silence.
H.P. Lovecraft was right after all!
He describes those algae in "At the Mountains of Madness"!
We are all doomed!!!!11
And now I'm too old to learn them properly. Pah! I don't need them anyway.
I've got a brand new Competition Pro USB stick and play games as I did 15 years ago.
Excuse me while I have a game of Bubble Bobble.
Seriously, you may have not seen what has happened with the gnome proyect, do you?
The point was in removing features to improve usability.
I don't think there are considerably more people like this today, but nowadays they are allowed to go to talk shows.
How come details of these exploits have been released to the public (and heavily publicised on slashdot, no less) the day after notifications of the problems were sent to package maintainers.
I got the email with the details to the bug in my program on Dec.15 9:15 AM by djb himself. And I thank him for informing me.
But the posting on Bugtraq is by another person as are the submitter generationxyu and jlong2 who put the copies of the notification emails on the web. I think, this shouldn't have happened and djb would have waited longer before publishing the results.
So why was it handled this way?
Well, if generationxyu or jlong2 are djb's students, djb might have missed to include a lesson on the proper behaviour when finding a bug. But I haven't checked the slides to the course, yet.
And if he addressed the issue of bug release protocol and those two are his students, I hope they fail because of this.
But using C should be counted as security hole on itself ...
I don't think I quite understand you.
You're annoyed because the Free-TV premiere of a dubbed movie in Germany is before the undubbed version is shown in Danemark? What keeps you from watching the undubbed movie in Danish movie theaters?
Aren't you forgetting that in German cinemas they usually also show a dubbed version? Most Germans don't have the possibility to watch an undubbed movie.
SF2 is a swiss-german channel. If at all it is only available in the southern parts of Germany close to the Swiss border.
Personally, my view is that when text is "zoomed" the point to pixel conversion should be scaled up - IE doesn't scale the points and Mozilla only scales the font sizes. (Again, if you look at my webpage, I think that when I scale the font size up, the layout should scale along with the new font size since the font size and the layout are both specified in points. It doesn't scale at all in IE and Mozilla just makes the glyphs larger/smaller.)
My experience too is that Mozilla only scales the glyphs if you use Ctrl-+ odr Ctrl--.
A very crude but also straightforward solution is to press the reload button afterwards. Then it will be shown correctly. Don't know if there's bugzilla number on this...