You have no way of feeling or hearing if you accidentally mashed a couple keys
The iPhone makes an audible click when you press a key on screen. You cannot "mash a couple of keys", the software requires a single touch for each key typed. In addition, its predictive typing algorithm makes the hit zone for each key bigger or smaller based on what it thinks your next most likely keystroke will be, so you don't always have to press the exact center of the key.
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Don
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All these fanboys think that TextMate is the first extensible editor on the Mac. Well, way over ten years ago, Pete Keleher wrote Alpha.
Alpha was shareware, based on TCL and had different modes based on the language being edited. It could be extended using TCL scripts and was pretty advanced for its time. It won numerous awards from Mac magazines and was predicted to overtake BBEdit at any moment.
depending on the implementation this feature may violate a patent
You've got to be kidding, right? What patent? In Apollo, you attach a listener to a networkChange event, set a boolean when you get the notification that the network is down, and through the beauty of if-then-else you decide what to do (like maybe, oh, how about, don't go out to the internets?). If your friend has a patent on a boolean variable, he must be a fucking genius!
Will Apollo's use of WebKit result in a new HTML engine that developers have to account for?
No. Our goal is to maintain complete compatibility with existing WebKit implementations. This will help ensure that content that runs in WebKit based browsers, such as Apple's Safari, will also run within Apollo applications.
Which means that any changes that Adobe makes to WebKit go back to the WebKit project. There is no need to distribute separate source, you can get it at http://www.webkit.org./
It seems like it might be able to be a web-based plug in
No, it's not a plugin, it is a runtime that sits on top of your OS that allows Flash and/or HTML based applications to run as desktop applications. This is similar to Dashboard apps on Mac OS X and Widgets on Vista. You can combine Flash and HTML by embedding Flash in your HTML and vice versa for cool mashups. When your system is offline, the app can be coded to save data to your hard drive until the system is back online (for things like RSS readers or email apps).
Apollo allows you to use "standard" chrome, which are the widgets from the underlying OS. You can also use some fake widgets that look like the OS (so your app can look like Windows everywhere), or you can use your own interface elements and styles.
Back in the 1980s the Supreme Court ruled that "secular humanism" is a "religion"
According to this Wikipedia entry, Justice Black (in a 1961 opinion) referred to secular humanism being a religion. This was not the Court's opinion, but merely a personal comment by the justice and not considered part of the ruling.
In a case in 1994 (a teacher sued the school district claiming that by being forced to teach evolution, he was being forced to teach the religion of humanism), the Ninth Circuit wrote "We reject this claim because neither the Supreme Court, nor this circuit, has ever held that evolutionism or secular humanism are 'religions' for Establishment Clause purposes.".
In his letter, the guy states he wants his privacy, and yet two paragraphs before he states "...Nano-related blog posts I'd written on my own website, on The Unofficial Apple Weblog and on The MacCast".
Hey dude, the internets ain't private. You want privacy, write your thoughts in your diary and keep it under your pillow.
Impossible. If you run a server, you get spam. You may filter it out before it hits your inbox, but it still travels down the wire to your box. You should care, spam anywhere costs EVERYBODY.
Yes, it is easy to parse, because Apple's plist file is not full blown XML, it is a subset. It only has a few "types": dictionary, array, string, integer, real and boolean.
Apple has a utility/usr/bin/plutil, which you can use to check the syntax of a plist file, it weighs in at 30K. My version of libexpat.a is 410K.
Then, of course, it's open source, so you can modify the configuration file parser any way you want.
Exactly, but when cron was written ages ago, UNIX mainframes were not portable and ran 24/7. If I shut off my laptop overnight and start it up at 9 am, my 3 am cron job will never run. Wouldn't it be nice if my delayed cron jobs could run on startup?
Right now, I use cron to run a script to process files dumped into a directory, but it does not run less than once a minute and it will run every minute, even if the directory is empty. I'd like a cron job that runs only when there is something in the directory and can run multiple times per minute to process multiple files.
Apple's original plist files (from the NeXt days) used a syntax similar to Perl's arrays and hashes, so the parent's example would look like this (roughly, I'm typing from a hazy memory):
Adams did the closing keynote at the Apple Developer Conference in 1997. He told a great story about how Microsoft wanted his opinion as a writer on using the latest/greatest version of Word. He talked about how most word processors were not conducive to the writing process (cutting/pasting story snippets, notes in the margins, organizing plot outlines, etc). He tried to explain to the pointy heads in Redmond about the features that would turn Word into something that writers could use (as opposed to what business people use). The response he got is that it would be difficult to add those features because they wouldn't have enough key combos for all of them.
Reverend Hutcherson is a crack-pot. He threatened Microsoft with a boycott if they didn't back down on their support. Now MS says they just didn't have the resources to support this bill. Their "support" in previous years amounted to just sending a letter of support for the bill.
Two employees of Microsoft testified in support of the bill, but not as representatives of Microsoft. Hutcherson wanted Microsoft to fire them as well. You think it's OK for someone to be fired just because of their personal views? Its nice that Microsoft declined to fire these employees, but what about the next company that caves in when threatened?
If you think this is not news, look at what is happening today, the so called "Justice Sunday", where every religious wacko out there wants to go nuclear because they don't get their way.
If it is ground down smooth and equally round, yes it is an awl. But for his purposes, it appears to be ground to a four sided pyramid shape. This is known as a reamer.
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What would be funny is some guy complains that someone at the repair center tagged his virgin white unit he sent in for repairs.
You have no way of feeling or hearing if you accidentally mashed a couple keys
The iPhone makes an audible click when you press a key on screen. You cannot "mash a couple of keys", the software requires a single touch for each key typed. In addition, its predictive typing algorithm makes the hit zone for each key bigger or smaller based on what it thinks your next most likely keystroke will be, so you don't always have to press the exact center of the key.
Here's the trial decision:
/ 2001/612.html
/ 112.html
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/federal_ct
Here's the decision on appeal:
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/FCAFC/2002
What was the point in this?
No Paris Hilton news this week...
http://www.lionbridge.com/lionbridge/en-US/service s/outsourced-testing/benchmark-software.htm
Click the EULA link on this page, accept the terms, then you can FTP the software.
Don
All these fanboys think that TextMate is the first extensible editor on the Mac. Well, way over ten years ago, Pete Keleher wrote Alpha.
Alpha was shareware, based on TCL and had different modes based on the language being edited. It could be extended using TCL scripts and was pretty advanced for its time. It won numerous awards from Mac magazines and was predicted to overtake BBEdit at any moment.
http://www.kelehers.org/alpha/
and they're not mentioning anything about the security model
e ntation:Understanding_Apollo_security
Ah, yes, those dastardly Adobe people have hidden details about Apollo security under this seemingly innocuous link:
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Apollo:Docum
depending on the implementation this feature may violate a patent
You've got to be kidding, right? What patent? In Apollo, you attach a listener to a networkChange event, set a boolean when you get the notification that the network is down, and through the beauty of if-then-else you decide what to do (like maybe, oh, how about, don't go out to the internets?). If your friend has a patent on a boolean variable, he must be a fucking genius!
Where are the sources?
From the Developer FAQ:
Will Apollo's use of WebKit result in a new HTML engine that developers have to account for?
No. Our goal is to maintain complete compatibility with existing WebKit implementations. This will help ensure that content that runs in WebKit based browsers, such as Apple's Safari, will also run within Apollo applications.
Which means that any changes that Adobe makes to WebKit go back to the WebKit project. There is no need to distribute separate source, you can get it at http://www.webkit.org./
what rendering engine does it use?
It uses Webkit.
It seems like it might be able to be a web-based plug in
No, it's not a plugin, it is a runtime that sits on top of your OS that allows Flash and/or HTML based applications to run as desktop applications. This is similar to Dashboard apps on Mac OS X and Widgets on Vista. You can combine Flash and HTML by embedding Flash in your HTML and vice versa for cool mashups. When your system is offline, the app can be coded to save data to your hard drive until the system is back online (for things like RSS readers or email apps).
Apollo allows you to use "standard" chrome, which are the widgets from the underlying OS. You can also use some fake widgets that look like the OS (so your app can look like Windows everywhere), or you can use your own interface elements and styles.
Back in the 1980s the Supreme Court ruled that "secular humanism" is a "religion"
According to this Wikipedia entry, Justice Black (in a 1961 opinion) referred to secular humanism being a religion. This was not the Court's opinion, but merely a personal comment by the justice and not considered part of the ruling.
In a case in 1994 (a teacher sued the school district claiming that by being forced to teach evolution, he was being forced to teach the religion of humanism), the Ninth Circuit wrote "We reject this claim because neither the Supreme Court, nor this circuit, has ever held that evolutionism or secular humanism are 'religions' for Establishment Clause purposes.".
Sorry, this press release has expired, your news rebate cannot not be redeemed.
In his letter, the guy states he wants his privacy, and yet two paragraphs before he states "...Nano-related blog posts I'd written on my own website, on The Unofficial Apple Weblog and on The MacCast".
Hey dude, the internets ain't private. You want privacy, write your thoughts in your diary and keep it under your pillow.
For god's sake, can we please stop the nonsensical MS bashing?
Yes, from now on only sensical MS bashing will be allowed!!!
A 404 is just as good to a spammer as downloading an image. You've just told the spammer that a human lives at your email address.
The funny thing is that the headline to the print version of the story read "Spam fillers work, says Microsoft".
Impossible. If you run a server, you get spam. You may filter it out before it hits your inbox, but it still travels down the wire to your box. You should care, spam anywhere costs EVERYBODY.
"Social engineering" gives it an aura of false-respectability.
Which is why Kevin Mitnick used it so often...
If you want to process plist files, you can use this Perl module:
Mac::PropertyList
Yes, it is easy to parse, because Apple's plist file is not full blown XML, it is a subset. It only has a few "types": dictionary, array, string, integer, real and boolean.
/usr/bin/plutil, which you can use to check the syntax of a plist file, it weighs in at 30K. My version of libexpat.a is 410K.
Apple has a utility
Then, of course, it's open source, so you can modify the configuration file parser any way you want.
It runs things at specified times
Exactly, but when cron was written ages ago, UNIX mainframes were not portable and ran 24/7. If I shut off my laptop overnight and start it up at 9 am, my 3 am cron job will never run. Wouldn't it be nice if my delayed cron jobs could run on startup?
Right now, I use cron to run a script to process files dumped into a directory, but it does not run less than once a minute and it will run every minute, even if the directory is empty. I'd like a cron job that runs only when there is something in the directory and can run multiple times per minute to process multiple files.
launchd can do this and more.
Apple's original plist files (from the NeXt days) used a syntax similar to Perl's arrays and hashes, so the parent's example would look like this (roughly, I'm typing from a hazy memory):
{
"Label" = "com.example.exampled";
"ProgramArguments" = ( "exampled" );
"OnDemand" = "false";
};
This format is backward compatible, so if you hate XML (or Apple's XML-Lite) you could use this format for configuration files.
Adams did the closing keynote at the Apple Developer Conference in 1997. He told a great story about how Microsoft wanted his opinion as a writer on using the latest/greatest version of Word. He talked about how most word processors were not conducive to the writing process (cutting/pasting story snippets, notes in the margins, organizing plot outlines, etc). He tried to explain to the pointy heads in Redmond about the features that would turn Word into something that writers could use (as opposed to what business people use). The response he got is that it would be difficult to add those features because they wouldn't have enough key combos for all of them.
Reverend Hutcherson is a crack-pot. He threatened Microsoft with a boycott if they didn't back down on their support. Now MS says they just didn't have the resources to support this bill. Their "support" in previous years amounted to just sending a letter of support for the bill.
Two employees of Microsoft testified in support of the bill, but not as representatives of Microsoft. Hutcherson wanted Microsoft to fire them as well. You think it's OK for someone to be fired just because of their personal views? Its nice that Microsoft declined to fire these employees, but what about the next company that caves in when threatened?
If you think this is not news, look at what is happening today, the so called "Justice Sunday", where every religious wacko out there wants to go nuclear because they don't get their way.
Wake up people!!
If it is ground down smooth and equally round, yes it is an awl. But for his purposes, it appears to be ground to a four sided pyramid shape. This is known as a reamer.