I spent 20 minutes fooling around with the various experiments in Safari 4 and I am BLOWN AWAY.
This is the future of the web. Do you hear me? When you consider "Gravity" you can easily get a sense of how designers might enable users to, for example, create a drag-and-drop, cut-and-paste custom interface for any web page they might load.
Users could also easily add content/widgets/paid apps, you name it.
Who knew HTML 5 would be so . . . different than 4 strict?
It's great Amazon is opening up the market to iPhone and iPod Touch users. The other shoe will drop when they release a desktop version of the Kindle.
The ebook wars will be on their way to over if that happens.
The point of your parent is that crediting Microsoft with pioneering these algorithms is sort of akin to saying Al Gore invented the Internet.
While Microsoft may have in fact taken augmented reality into the domain of cellphones and made the tech more accessible and mainstream, they should not be credited with inventing the technology.
None of this is to say that the grandparent (TubeSteak's post) suggests Microsoft invented this technology. I'm only pointing out that all of this defensive and aggressiveness over Microsoft is really unhealthy and, more importantly, unnecessary.
Learning how to position elements using CSS certainly is more difficult than learning HTML, which most people do by viewing source code. CSS stylesheets add a layer of abstraction and several degrees of complexity to HTML, and inspecting the code will give even smart people headaches.
Just when I was starting to suspect that CSS positioning is so hard as to be nearly unusable, I spent forty minutes reading Chapter 10 of the second edition of O'Reilly's Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, "Floating and Positioning." There, I learned that CSS positioning is actually pretty straightforward, based on a procedural model that many programmers will readily grok. But unlike HTML, CSS positioning requires a very clear discussion and laying out of principles. While it's not rocket science, CSS positioning is very fault intolerant
Here's a plug (from a satisfied user) for the open source but Mac-only Skim.
Skim is lightweight, fast, and scriptable. It allows for easy markup of PDFs either to the original file or separately. With Skim, one can convert annotations between its open format (written into the extended attributes) and Adobe's PDF standard. Combined with Apple's Preview.app, Skim can provides much of the functionality Adobe Acrobat.
Apple seems to have a separation between its left-brain UNIX underpinnings and its right-brain Quartz GUI.
For example, with the last several Security Updates, which contain very little information about what all's rolled in, Apple modifies/etc/postfix/main.cf
inet_interfaces = all
to
inet_interfaces = localhost.
This effectively breaks all Internet-accessible postfix installs. Now, the question is why does Apple apply this to postfix installations explicitly enabled as Internet-accessible? I can't think of any good answer for this except as part of some other bass-ackwards security measures Apple applies in a schizophrenic attitude to the server functions of its UNIX-based client OS.
For another example, the Aiport Extreme Base Station prior to firmware 7.3.1 had a version of DMZ host (default host in Apple bizarro-world) that worked flawlessly. In April 2007 or thereabouts, Apple rolls out firmware 7.3.1, since which default host is broken for only for BIND (UDP port 53) and all mail ports (587, 110. 995, etc) but works for WoW, BitTorrent, and all other ports. WTF?! If I set my router to designate one computer as the default/universal host, why is it still blocking certain ports that have to be opened using port mapping?
This split-mind on UNIX vs. GUI seems to pervade Apple's mentality everywhere which is especially problematic to people like me that are not full-time developers but make extensive use of UNIX-layer services.
Really stupid stuff, Apple. I wish you'd cut it out.
"Claimed not superior to" is different than "claimed inferior to" and "claimed equivalent to". If the headline summary reflects the research findings which falsify the hypothesis "Dvorak is superior to QWERTY", then the author's choice of words are accurate, if poorly chosen.
It could be the case that your "F" should be just a "C" (for crummy style).
(Credential/Disclaimer: I am a professor of English.)
It is interesting to think what would have happened if the black turnout hadn't been so extraordinary thanks to Obama, I seem to remember exit polls saying that most african american voters voted against gay marriage.
Your idea doesn't make sense. Why would.ing or.est be desirable? Rather than renting, say, anyth.ing from you. I'd just buy.anything and be done with it.
I've heard statistics from some sources as high as 97% of black voters will be voting for Obama,
Blacks voting for Obama are mainly voting their interest, and Obama is an amazing candidate by many measures. If someone like Clarence Thomas were running for president do you think many blacks would be voting for him? Me neither.
Blacks in the US *have* to think pragmatically. They can't afford (or they act as if they can't afford, which I wish most folks would do) to elect officials who are going to play shenanigans with their sons' and daughters' bodies in a godless (you heard me) war over oil. Black folk by and large send their sons and daughters to college to get law and medical degree, and they vote for candidates who reflect their interest.
While in one month the company may not recover the cost of the prize, the possibility of generating enough of sales to earn a quarter of a million dollars is there.
Your point also works in the other direction (so to speak). With a firewire-equipped laptop one can boot up a firewire-equipped desktop in target disk mode and perform maintenance on the desktop with the laptop, everything from reformatting and restoring the drive to cloning it.
The loss of firewire in the MacBooks severely limits their usefulness in situations which happen with some regularity, almost as frequently as every 10.x.x update of Mac OS.
Without providing an alternative interface by which to invoke target disk mode, Apple is forcing users to use desktops or the pro line of laptops to get this incredibly useful functionality.
Target disk mode is *not* possible over USB. You can boot modern Macs from USB drives, but this is not target disk mode.
Target disk mode is when you turn the entire computer into an enclosure for a hard drive with Firewire as the interface. Not possible at present using USB.
This is standard reception for academic guests at many universities and it is a serious problem insofar as electronic access is important to scholarly work (which in most cases it is).
I visited NYU in the Spring and was stunned that it was impossible to get electronic access (wired or otherwise) through the university. My own university (OU) also has no mechanism to allow visitors to access its computing network.
I spent most of last summer in San Francisco and there I rediscovered the Public Library. The SFPL main branch right near the Civic Center is clean, well-designed, and WiFi-open.
OK, the SFPL network engineers (or their contracted delegates) have bolloxed up the WiFi so that it flakes out nearly every five minutes but at least it's there to flake out. What else can one expect where all the real talent work for companies like Google and Cisco?
The long version: The first time I saw the demo of Photosynth I was blown away. The second viewing wasn't as exciting which tells me that it's the concept of connecting 2D photos to a 3D model that's really amazing, a spatial way to navigate disconnected 2D data.
I agree that it would be nice if Netflix had a more robust database that could be queried by users. I offer this suggestion as a possible partial workaround, as the movies in the IMDB are do not coincide with the films inventoried by Netflix. The advanced option costs money, but at least the option exists.
Your post is so reactionary and simple-minded that it certainly seems to have been written by an American, short on rationality as it is. In fact, in the last day or so/. has had several posts like yours modded up because they say absurd things such as the high cost of oil is due in part to the restrictions on domestic drilling.
If you think the US economy is in the shitter because of environmental protections you are an embarrassment to the genetic legacy your ancestors have bequeathed you.
The US economy is in the craphole because of the massive debt that has been leveraged against insolvent debtors. This came in the form of the mortgage crisis and its effects have reverberated and multiplied through the banking system. This has led to a crisis in commercial credit which has taken away the ability of consumers to fuel the economy which further erodes the ability of the banking system to maintain solvency. The causes of the credit crisis caused by the tanking of the mortgage system has not yet finished and we are likely to see much worse before it stops.
Regarding the offshoring of manufacturing and environmentalism, the real impact of environmental legislation in the United States is not to preserve non-human species, but to protect humans themselves. Look at the places where mining companies, steel refineries, chemical manufacturing plants, and pulp mills have operated and what you'll find are poisoned water tables and insanely elevated cancer rates. Additionally, the relative low-production of minerals from mining is due mainly to evisceration of the lands where valuable resources once existed, not due to the governmental restrictions on development.
For you to say something like "the tree huggers over her taking so much power" is laughable. Opening all the protected lands in the US would to natural resource exploitation do virtually nothing to fix the GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS let alone the paltry problem of the US economy stumbling against the stronger European economy. The kind of neanderthal thinking that bad economic times can generate amongst people is amazing and your post is an example of such stupidity.
Environmentalism has not caused the US economic crisis. Bad banking practice has.
Los Angeles has it good compared to the entire San Joaquin Valley, Fresno in particular.
Walking out of the house at 5:30 in the morning (exercise to beat the heat), one notices that the air smells like someone just lit a firecracker. During the day, the haze is orange-brown and often so dense there is no visibility after half a mile.
The air is so bad, one asthmatic friend of mine who teaches at Fresno State had to move to Santa Cruz. He now commutes twice a week (2.5 hours one way). After his bike rides he'd come home and start hacking blood, the air was that bad.
I'm glad I was only visiting, but Fresno, Los Banos, and all of the infernal SJV has it bad.
Smog is a serious problem. (Not all of it is caused by internal combustion engines. A lot of it also comes from crop dusting the thousands of acres of fertile California Valley soil.)
There is no such thing as "beyond physical." Everything we know of has a basis in physical reality. Even ideas. Unless you're positing some kind of transcendental disembodied magic, everything has a physical existence.
Your formulation of the problem is an example of how selfish people can be, how someone can believe their trivial desires not only can but should trump the right to life of others.
The reason a person might decide not to eat peanuts given that doing so might kill someone is that he or she might conclude that someone's life outweighs another's pleasure in eating peanuts.
Can you be that impervious to the concept of the greater good?
No, no, no . . you're going about it all wrong. The ones who attempt suicide are at least smart enough to know that they should.
You gotta go after the ones to dumb to even try.
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I spent 20 minutes fooling around with the various experiments in Safari 4 and I am BLOWN AWAY.
This is the future of the web. Do you hear me? When you consider "Gravity" you can easily get a sense of how designers might enable users to, for example, create a drag-and-drop, cut-and-paste custom interface for any web page they might load.
Users could also easily add content/widgets/paid apps, you name it.
Who knew HTML 5 would be so . . . different than 4 strict?
It's great Amazon is opening up the market to iPhone and iPod Touch users. The other shoe will drop when they release a desktop version of the Kindle. The ebook wars will be on their way to over if that happens.
The point of your parent is that crediting Microsoft with pioneering these algorithms is sort of akin to saying Al Gore invented the Internet.
While Microsoft may have in fact taken augmented reality into the domain of cellphones and made the tech more accessible and mainstream, they should not be credited with inventing the technology.
None of this is to say that the grandparent (TubeSteak's post) suggests Microsoft invented this technology. I'm only pointing out that all of this defensive and aggressiveness over Microsoft is really unhealthy and, more importantly, unnecessary.
Learning how to position elements using CSS certainly is more difficult than learning HTML, which most people do by viewing source code. CSS stylesheets add a layer of abstraction and several degrees of complexity to HTML, and inspecting the code will give even smart people headaches.
Just when I was starting to suspect that CSS positioning is so hard as to be nearly unusable, I spent forty minutes reading Chapter 10 of the second edition of O'Reilly's Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, "Floating and Positioning." There, I learned that CSS positioning is actually pretty straightforward, based on a procedural model that many programmers will readily grok. But unlike HTML, CSS positioning requires a very clear discussion and laying out of principles. While it's not rocket science, CSS positioning is very fault intolerant
Here's a plug (from a satisfied user) for the open source but Mac-only Skim.
Skim is lightweight, fast, and scriptable. It allows for easy markup of PDFs either to the original file or separately. With Skim, one can convert annotations between its open format (written into the extended attributes) and Adobe's PDF standard. Combined with Apple's Preview.app, Skim can provides much of the functionality Adobe Acrobat.
Apple seems to have a separation between its left-brain UNIX underpinnings and its right-brain Quartz GUI.
For example, with the last several Security Updates, which contain very little information about what all's rolled in, Apple modifies /etc/postfix/main.cf
to
This effectively breaks all Internet-accessible postfix installs. Now, the question is why does Apple apply this to postfix installations explicitly enabled as Internet-accessible? I can't think of any good answer for this except as part of some other bass-ackwards security measures Apple applies in a schizophrenic attitude to the server functions of its UNIX-based client OS.
For another example, the Aiport Extreme Base Station prior to firmware 7.3.1 had a version of DMZ host (default host in Apple bizarro-world) that worked flawlessly. In April 2007 or thereabouts, Apple rolls out firmware 7.3.1, since which default host is broken for only for BIND (UDP port 53) and all mail ports (587, 110. 995, etc) but works for WoW, BitTorrent, and all other ports. WTF?! If I set my router to designate one computer as the default/universal host, why is it still blocking certain ports that have to be opened using port mapping?
This split-mind on UNIX vs. GUI seems to pervade Apple's mentality everywhere which is especially problematic to people like me that are not full-time developers but make extensive use of UNIX-layer services.
Really stupid stuff, Apple. I wish you'd cut it out.
"Claimed not superior to" is different than "claimed inferior to" and "claimed equivalent to". If the headline summary reflects the research findings which falsify the hypothesis "Dvorak is superior to QWERTY", then the author's choice of words are accurate, if poorly chosen.
It could be the case that your "F" should be just a "C" (for crummy style).
(Credential/Disclaimer: I am a professor of English.)
Those exit polls were exaggerated.
Your idea doesn't make sense. Why would .ing or .est be desirable? Rather than renting, say, anyth.ing from you. I'd just buy .anything and be done with it.
Blacks voting for Obama are mainly voting their interest, and Obama is an amazing candidate by many measures. If someone like Clarence Thomas were running for president do you think many blacks would be voting for him? Me neither.
Blacks in the US *have* to think pragmatically. They can't afford (or they act as if they can't afford, which I wish most folks would do) to elect officials who are going to play shenanigans with their sons' and daughters' bodies in a godless (you heard me) war over oil. Black folk by and large send their sons and daughters to college to get law and medical degree, and they vote for candidates who reflect their interest.
While in one month the company may not recover the cost of the prize, the possibility of generating enough of sales to earn a quarter of a million dollars is there.
Why do I mention $250,000? Because that's how much Steve Demeter's puzzle game Trism earned between 11 July and 18 September.
This mentioned by John Gruber on the very day.
My best guess is that if this prize money get the company many downloads, the company may easily make back it's money in the first week.
Your point also works in the other direction (so to speak). With a firewire-equipped laptop one can boot up a firewire-equipped desktop in target disk mode and perform maintenance on the desktop with the laptop, everything from reformatting and restoring the drive to cloning it.
The loss of firewire in the MacBooks severely limits their usefulness in situations which happen with some regularity, almost as frequently as every 10.x.x update of Mac OS.
Without providing an alternative interface by which to invoke target disk mode, Apple is forcing users to use desktops or the pro line of laptops to get this incredibly useful functionality.
Without question, Apple made a big mistake.
Target disk mode is *not* possible over USB. You can boot modern Macs from USB drives, but this is not target disk mode.
Target disk mode is when you turn the entire computer into an enclosure for a hard drive with Firewire as the interface. Not possible at present using USB.
This is standard reception for academic guests at many universities and it is a serious problem insofar as electronic access is important to scholarly work (which in most cases it is).
I visited NYU in the Spring and was stunned that it was impossible to get electronic access (wired or otherwise) through the university. My own university (OU) also has no mechanism to allow visitors to access its computing network.
I spent most of last summer in San Francisco and there I rediscovered the Public Library. The SFPL main branch right near the Civic Center is clean, well-designed, and WiFi-open.
OK, the SFPL network engineers (or their contracted delegates) have bolloxed up the WiFi so that it flakes out nearly every five minutes but at least it's there to flake out. What else can one expect where all the real talent work for companies like Google and Cisco?
The short version: it's pretty fucking cool.
The long version: The first time I saw the demo of Photosynth I was blown away. The second viewing wasn't as exciting which tells me that it's the concept of connecting 2D photos to a 3D model that's really amazing, a spatial way to navigate disconnected 2D data.
"Cease" and "desist" do not mean the same thing. Neither do "will" and "testament," nor do "intents" and "purposes." Use a dictionary to verify.
To start you off: "cease" means "to stop" while "desist" means "to refrain from doing."
No kidding.
DISCLAIMER: I am an Apple user and iPhone owner.
I agree that it would be nice if Netflix had a more robust database that could be queried by users. I offer this suggestion as a possible partial workaround, as the movies in the IMDB are do not coincide with the films inventoried by Netflix. The advanced option costs money, but at least the option exists.
Have you considered imdb's regular search page or their keyword search (click in the "Areas to Search" sidebar)?
My guess is that a Pro membership will allow you to boolean your searches.
Good luck and hope this helps.
Your post is so reactionary and simple-minded that it certainly seems to have been written by an American, short on rationality as it is. In fact, in the last day or so /. has had several posts like yours modded up because they say absurd things such as the high cost of oil is due in part to the restrictions on domestic drilling.
If you think the US economy is in the shitter because of environmental protections you are an embarrassment to the genetic legacy your ancestors have bequeathed you.
The US economy is in the craphole because of the massive debt that has been leveraged against insolvent debtors. This came in the form of the mortgage crisis and its effects have reverberated and multiplied through the banking system. This has led to a crisis in commercial credit which has taken away the ability of consumers to fuel the economy which further erodes the ability of the banking system to maintain solvency. The causes of the credit crisis caused by the tanking of the mortgage system has not yet finished and we are likely to see much worse before it stops.
Regarding the offshoring of manufacturing and environmentalism, the real impact of environmental legislation in the United States is not to preserve non-human species, but to protect humans themselves. Look at the places where mining companies, steel refineries, chemical manufacturing plants, and pulp mills have operated and what you'll find are poisoned water tables and insanely elevated cancer rates. Additionally, the relative low-production of minerals from mining is due mainly to evisceration of the lands where valuable resources once existed, not due to the governmental restrictions on development.
For you to say something like "the tree huggers over her taking so much power" is laughable. Opening all the protected lands in the US would to natural resource exploitation do virtually nothing to fix the GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS let alone the paltry problem of the US economy stumbling against the stronger European economy. The kind of neanderthal thinking that bad economic times can generate amongst people is amazing and your post is an example of such stupidity.
Environmentalism has not caused the US economic crisis. Bad banking practice has.
Los Angeles has it good compared to the entire San Joaquin Valley, Fresno in particular.
Walking out of the house at 5:30 in the morning (exercise to beat the heat), one notices that the air smells like someone just lit a firecracker. During the day, the haze is orange-brown and often so dense there is no visibility after half a mile.
The air is so bad, one asthmatic friend of mine who teaches at Fresno State had to move to Santa Cruz. He now commutes twice a week (2.5 hours one way). After his bike rides he'd come home and start hacking blood, the air was that bad.
I'm glad I was only visiting, but Fresno, Los Banos, and all of the infernal SJV has it bad.
Smog is a serious problem. (Not all of it is caused by internal combustion engines. A lot of it also comes from crop dusting the thousands of acres of fertile California Valley soil.)
What if most evolve beyond physical forms?
There is no such thing as "beyond physical." Everything we know of has a basis in physical reality. Even ideas. Unless you're positing some kind of transcendental disembodied magic, everything has a physical existence.
Your formulation of the problem is an example of how selfish people can be, how someone can believe their trivial desires not only can but should trump the right to life of others.
The reason a person might decide not to eat peanuts given that doing so might kill someone is that he or she might conclude that someone's life outweighs another's pleasure in eating peanuts.
Can you be that impervious to the concept of the greater good?
No, no, no . . you're going about it all wrong. The ones who attempt suicide are at least smart enough to know that they should. You gotta go after the ones to dumb to even try.