Yeah, I tried it just the other day. There's just something about ctl-x ctl-s on a Mac that I just can't deal with. Don't get me wrong, I love emacs; it's always been my editor of choice on *nix systems. But my attachment to command-s predates my first emacs encounter by several years;-)
Other than the look and feel, and maybe the applescripting
These are two of the most important features in BBEdit. To be honest, BBEdit doesn't offer much that Emacs doesn't, in terms of functionality. But I didn't buy a $3k titanium laptop so I could run an un-mouseable text editor in a terminal window (nor did I buy it so that I could install X and xemacs, so that's not a solution). BBEdit feels at home on the Mac; to me, that is its most compelling feature.
Never mind that this article is from 1995 -- the Slashdot summary is incorrect. Bill isn't saying that Microsoft never fixes bugs. He says, "We don't do a new version to fix bugs.... We'd never be able to sell a release on that basis." [Emphasis added.] This doesn't mean that Microsoft never fixes bugs, or that Bill doesn't think bugfixes are important. He's saying that a product can't be sold on bugfixes alone.
And he's probably right. Consider Apple's release of Mac OS X 10.2. They charged people who already had 10.1. Those people complained pretty loudly about being charged for a "point-one" upgrade, and that was bugfixes and a feature release. Guess how much Apple's "point-oh-one" updates cost? Nothing.
If you try to charge people for upgrades that only contain bugfixes, you will either be ignored or yelled at.
The question remains: Why are cellphones forbidden while WiFi is obviously allowed in planes?
The notion that this is a safety concern is a popular misconception. The law that forbids cell phone use aboard aircraft was created by the FCC, not the FAA.
The following information is second-hand; I can't promise its accuracy, and unfortunately, I can't track down the source anymore. I do know that it's from a private pilot who tried to use his phone while airborne and ended up with some insane roaming charges.
Cell phones are designed to be used on the ground, and really bizarre things can happen to them in the air. Cell towers radiate RF mostly horizontally and very little vertically. This means that in the air, your phone can't see the tower directly beneath you, but it can see towers hundreds of miles away. And it can see lots of them. Imagine your cell network doing a handoff from a tower in Chicago to one in Louisville, then to Dayton, Detroit, St. Louis, and Nashville. Now imagine it doing that over and over again, and it's easy to see why using a cell phone on a plane is a bad idea.
Unless you know exactly where you are dropping things and have scoped things out, dropping things from a plane isn't too smart.
Not just dumb, but illegal. Unless you have made every effort to ensure that no people will be hurt, and no property will be damaged (other than your own, I suppose), you're in violation of FAA regs.
Of course, if you know everything's safe (relatively), then you are legally allowed to drop stuff out of planes! I have to admit I've been tempted to launch squadrons of plastic army men with little parachutes from a Cessna.
Even Office 97 has a large plethora of thoroughly useless features.
Send To Routing Recipient, Send To Fax Recipient, Footnotes, Comments, Document Map, Field, Cross-Reference, Index & Tables, Insert Object, Insert Bookmark, Look Up Changes, Track Changes, Change Case, Style Gallery, Merge Documents, Letter Wizard, Formula
If you think these features are useless, you're using the wrong program. People in my department use many of these features on a weekly, if not daily, basis. In fact, just today I used "Track Changes" to make changes to a job description before sending it to my superior for approval.
unsavory applications... tracking paper files through a building
I am well aware that some Slashdotters are paranoid about privacy rights and I make no judgement on that, but seriously dude, what planet are you from?
I think that the main reason why CD sales have decreased is that THEY ARE TOO EXPENSIVE.
I agree that CDs are too expensive. However, I've thought this since CDs replaced tapes. CDs have been $15-$20 since before the days of P2P. Given that, can you explain why CD sales are just recently decreasing? The prices haven't changed, so something else has.
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Is it specifically illegal for me to print up a 10,000 Flugelbucks and then convince everyone in my community that they should accept and use my Flugelbucks as a form of payment?
A lot of college towns do something very similar to this. You can get a card which you basically use like a debit card, but instead of spending dollars, you spend "collegebucks" (or whatever they call it in your town). Various merchants throughout the community agree to honor these collegebucks. Of course, one generally puchases this currency with real national currency.
I use a Palm Vx with a Magellan GPS receiver to fly planes. It gets me where I want to go, and more importantly, it keeps me away from restricted airspace.
My only complaint is that I can only use it as a horizontal situation indicator (a bit like a compass with some additional course guidance). With the better screen and faster processor on the iQue, I could conceivably use it for vector-based moving maps. Of course, I'll need the extra memory to store the map data.
Just to put it into perspective, this unit is $589. Garmin's portable aviation moving map GPS is a whopping $1500.
Your quote (which, by the way, is not regulatory) refers to instrument flight rules. It is perfectly legal to use GPS as your primary means of navigation under VFR. Also, the Aeronautical Information Manual, section 1-1-21, paragraph e(b) states:
Aircraft using GPS navigation equipment under IFR must be equipped with an approved and operational alternate means of navigation appropriate to the flight.
Active monitoring of alternative navigation equipment is not required if the GPS receiver uses RAIM for integrity monitoring. [Emphasis added.] Active monitoring of an alternate means of navigation is required when the RAIM capability of the GPS equipment is lost.
I was unable to locate any pertinent regulations. The incomplete copy of the regs on my Palm makes no mention of GPS. Perhaps this would be a good question for AOPA's legal services!
As a pilot who routinely uses GPS, if I catch some bastard jamming my signal because they think it makes them 1337, I'll personally pee on their head from 4500 feet.
I was offered a job at Digital Convergence. They needed someone to make the CueCat work on Macs. I declined, telling the recruiter that if I were to take the job, I'd be out of a job after not too long.
Needless to say, I'm very glad I didn't accept. The funny thing is, most of my knowledge of DC came from Slashdot. Whether that's good or bad, I'm not sure -- but I can honestly say that Slashdot kept me from being unemployed!
... not sure why it's called "not pretty". It seems more or less like any other modern device...
Let's not forget the context of the discussion. Apple's industrial design is hardly "like any other modern device". Personally, I think that thing looks like an alarm clock.
...radically new way to store and retrieve documents.... define any number of document attributes when saving a document and then query a database of those attributes...
I don't mean to be a jerk -- I think document metadata is a great when you have tons of documents -- but this isn't "radically new". The concept of indexing documents by attributes is the foundation of any document management system. Take a look at OnBase, 1mage, and Laserfiche. Of course, those are all commercial, proprietary products, so if you're dedicated to Free software, they won't do.
Despite that, I think this is a cool project. The direct system integration is neat. I just completely reorganized my Documents folder, but I'm still not satisfied and I feel constrained by the file system. This is the kind of thing I need to help keep my stuff in order.
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Well said, and I agree. However, I think the point of these books is that you'll never throw them away.
Eh? Are you saying they re-released the original Phantasy Star for the Megadrive? Or are you talking about the Sega Master System? Just curious -- Phantasy Star was my introduction to RPGs and I still absolutely love it. If there's a Megadrive/Genesis version of the original, I will track it down.;-)
It might be the other way around, too. They could all be in the money pit. Profit equals revenue minus expenses. Positive revenue does not necessarily mean positive profit.
It's called travelling. You make it sound like you've never been more than 15 minutes away from home.
If you're out in the middle of nowhere on a road that's not even on the map what do you do?
I don't know if you've ever actually tried to use a cell phone in "the middle of nowhere", but they barely work on large portions of major interstate highways. It seems that the phone companies are much more concerned with our ability to get directory assistance in Lincoln Park than they are with real nationwide coverage. If I ever get lost in the boonies, I guarantee my phone will not get me back home.
I've heard that it's actually illegal to make telemarketing calls to a cell phone. Something about how you are paying for the call. In fact, I've received one spam call on my cell phone, and as soon as I said the magic words "cell phone", they apologized profusely and hung up. --
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Yeah, I tried it just the other day. There's just something about ctl-x ctl-s on a Mac that I just can't deal with. Don't get me wrong, I love emacs; it's always been my editor of choice on *nix systems. But my attachment to command-s predates my first emacs encounter by several years ;-)
These are two of the most important features in BBEdit. To be honest, BBEdit doesn't offer much that Emacs doesn't, in terms of functionality. But I didn't buy a $3k titanium laptop so I could run an un-mouseable text editor in a terminal window (nor did I buy it so that I could install X and xemacs, so that's not a solution). BBEdit feels at home on the Mac; to me, that is its most compelling feature.
Sure enough. My German is crap.
He speaks the truth. I just downloaded it from there.
Indeed.
Never mind that this article is from 1995 -- the Slashdot summary is incorrect. Bill isn't saying that Microsoft never fixes bugs. He says, "We don't do a new version to fix bugs. ... We'd never be able to sell a release on that basis." [Emphasis added.] This doesn't mean that Microsoft never fixes bugs, or that Bill doesn't think bugfixes are important. He's saying that a product can't be sold on bugfixes alone.
And he's probably right. Consider Apple's release of Mac OS X 10.2. They charged people who already had 10.1. Those people complained pretty loudly about being charged for a "point-one" upgrade, and that was bugfixes and a feature release. Guess how much Apple's "point-oh-one" updates cost? Nothing.
If you try to charge people for upgrades that only contain bugfixes, you will either be ignored or yelled at.
The notion that this is a safety concern is a popular misconception. The law that forbids cell phone use aboard aircraft was created by the FCC, not the FAA.
The following information is second-hand; I can't promise its accuracy, and unfortunately, I can't track down the source anymore. I do know that it's from a private pilot who tried to use his phone while airborne and ended up with some insane roaming charges.
Cell phones are designed to be used on the ground, and really bizarre things can happen to them in the air. Cell towers radiate RF mostly horizontally and very little vertically. This means that in the air, your phone can't see the tower directly beneath you, but it can see towers hundreds of miles away. And it can see lots of them. Imagine your cell network doing a handoff from a tower in Chicago to one in Louisville, then to Dayton, Detroit, St. Louis, and Nashville. Now imagine it doing that over and over again, and it's easy to see why using a cell phone on a plane is a bad idea.
Not just dumb, but illegal. Unless you have made every effort to ensure that no people will be hurt, and no property will be damaged (other than your own, I suppose), you're in violation of FAA regs.
Of course, if you know everything's safe (relatively), then you are legally allowed to drop stuff out of planes! I have to admit I've been tempted to launch squadrons of plastic army men with little parachutes from a Cessna.
If you think these features are useless, you're using the wrong program. People in my department use many of these features on a weekly, if not daily, basis. In fact, just today I used "Track Changes" to make changes to a job description before sending it to my superior for approval.
Maybe you should try WordPad.
I am well aware that some Slashdotters are paranoid about privacy rights and I make no judgement on that, but seriously dude, what planet are you from?
I didn't even realize I'd misread it until I saw your post.
So this thing edits the naughty bits out of films? I thought WalMart already did this.
Power struggles are far from meaningless, friend -- especially in this industry.
I agree that CDs are too expensive. However, I've thought this since CDs replaced tapes. CDs have been $15-$20 since before the days of P2P. Given that, can you explain why CD sales are just recently decreasing? The prices haven't changed, so something else has.
A lot of college towns do something very similar to this. You can get a card which you basically use like a debit card, but instead of spending dollars, you spend "collegebucks" (or whatever they call it in your town). Various merchants throughout the community agree to honor these collegebucks. Of course, one generally puchases this currency with real national currency.
My only complaint is that I can only use it as a horizontal situation indicator (a bit like a compass with some additional course guidance). With the better screen and faster processor on the iQue, I could conceivably use it for vector-based moving maps. Of course, I'll need the extra memory to store the map data.
Just to put it into perspective, this unit is $589. Garmin's portable aviation moving map GPS is a whopping $1500.
I was unable to locate any pertinent regulations. The incomplete copy of the regs on my Palm makes no mention of GPS. Perhaps this would be a good question for AOPA's legal services!
As a pilot who routinely uses GPS, if I catch some bastard jamming my signal because they think it makes them 1337, I'll personally pee on their head from 4500 feet.
Well, duh.. they only waited two weeks!
I was offered a job at Digital Convergence. They needed someone to make the CueCat work on Macs. I declined, telling the recruiter that if I were to take the job, I'd be out of a job after not too long.
Needless to say, I'm very glad I didn't accept. The funny thing is, most of my knowledge of DC came from Slashdot. Whether that's good or bad, I'm not sure -- but I can honestly say that Slashdot kept me from being unemployed!
Let's not forget the context of the discussion. Apple's industrial design is hardly "like any other modern device". Personally, I think that thing looks like an alarm clock.
I don't mean to be a jerk -- I think document metadata is a great when you have tons of documents -- but this isn't "radically new". The concept of indexing documents by attributes is the foundation of any document management system. Take a look at OnBase, 1mage, and Laserfiche. Of course, those are all commercial, proprietary products, so if you're dedicated to Free software, they won't do.
Despite that, I think this is a cool project. The direct system integration is neat. I just completely reorganized my Documents folder, but I'm still not satisfied and I feel constrained by the file system. This is the kind of thing I need to help keep my stuff in order.
Well said, and I agree. However, I think the point of these books is that you'll never throw them away.
Eh? Are you saying they re-released the original Phantasy Star for the Megadrive? Or are you talking about the Sega Master System? Just curious -- Phantasy Star was my introduction to RPGs and I still absolutely love it. If there's a Megadrive/Genesis version of the original, I will track it down. ;-)
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If you're out in the middle of nowhere on a road that's not even on the map what do you do?
I don't know if you've ever actually tried to use a cell phone in "the middle of nowhere", but they barely work on large portions of major interstate highways. It seems that the phone companies are much more concerned with our ability to get directory assistance in Lincoln Park than they are with real nationwide coverage. If I ever get lost in the boonies, I guarantee my phone will not get me back home.
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I've heard that it's actually illegal to make telemarketing calls to a cell phone. Something about how you are paying for the call. In fact, I've received one spam call on my cell phone, and as soon as I said the magic words "cell phone", they apologized profusely and hung up.
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