I know what GP means. I've been playing DragonQuest VIII and watching some LooneyToons DVDs (Xmas presents for me and wifey). The DragonQuest animation looks better than the BugsBunny cartoons.
Regardless, BBEdit does feature good python integration.
But I agree, BBEdit is overpriced. I originally bought BBEdit back in the 1990s (when it was reasonably priced). I finally got fed up with paying for upgrades.
That's the main reason I learned Vim. Steep learning curve, but the price is right.
I like Vim better for two reasons. First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words Don't Panic inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.
It seems like IT professionals are getting like investment brokers: when you give them two weeks notice they give you the money and ask you to leave.
I don't think it's anything personal. It's just the way some businesses nowadays prefer to operate. I think it's a mistaken attempt at managing risk. Think about it: would a guy who wants to screw you over give two weeks notice? No, they'd do you dirt and take off with no notice.
About a year back, I brought home a copy of Final Fantasy X (my first excursion into the FF series) and described the box to my wife as "the one with Meg Ryan on the cover".
>>So nobody's bothered correcting the blatant error that a minute's research with google would tell you.
Except you...:-)
It's my experience that you watch/care for wikipedia articles that interest you. For instance, I like Jazz Music from the 1930s to the 1960s. Most of my watchlist is for musicians of that era. So, if somebody makes a change to Chick Webb I'm going to see it in a day or so. If it appears to be contrary to my knowledge, I do some research. I might even check the contributions of the poster to see if s/he's a crank or a vandal.
As wikipedia gets more popular, there will be more eyeballs to catch the problems. There might not be as many eyeballs for 'artex' as needed, but it's an incremental process.
1) Sunscreen 2) Ballcap 3) Sunglasses 4) Bugspray 5) Hand sanitizer 6) First aid kit (for splinters, blisters, cuts) 7) Neosporin or some other anti-bacterial cream 8) Allergy tablets (I always get f*cked up in a new climate) 9) Comfortable shoes and lots of clean socks 10) Something to while away downtime. I suggest the "Su Doku for Dummies" book. Hours of puzzle-solving fun and no electricity needed.
Be prepared to rough it. Don't expect a king-sized bed at the Omni. I just got to Texas today and I'm in a decent hotel room, but tomorrow I don't have a place to stay. I hope the back seat of the car is comfortable...
The CC:PD licence does something else. It markets the Creative Commons. After all, if you use the CC:PD licence, you're bringing attention to the Creative Commons as a place for all types of license schemes.
Oh, I suppose I might have to buy Word. Or, since I'm buying a new computer, I can just use iWork which should be included on the new machine. Or, I suppose I could just use AbiWord or OpenOffice.org.
Read today's Sidney Blumenthal article at Salon.com. Cheney tasked the CIA, people who knew Wilson's background asked his wife if he would be interested. She probably broached the subject with him, but she didn't 'authorize' him.
Again, you can believe the spin, or you can determine the facts. Fortunately, Patrick Fitzgerald is concentrating on the facts.
The reason why there is a special prosecutor is because the CIA asked the justice department to investigate the alleged violation. Atty General John Ashcroft took a look at the allegations and decided that is was worth investigating. It was Ashcroft that assigned Fitzgerald as the special prosecutor.
Pundits and Politicos can argue over whether she was a NOC or not, but the CIA apparently thought a violation occurred, and I trust they would know her status.
...so Slashdot is printing thinly-veiled press releases.
Isn't there a "Wor of teh World Sucks" movie review in the queue?
I looked at the Pepper Pad. Ho-hum. It's got a 20-gig harddrive, it has yesterday's WiFi (b not g) and USB (1.0 not 2.0), a Blackberry keyboard, and it runs some oddball version of Linux.
NARA makes a distinction between a document and a record. Any old piece of paper or email is a document, but a record is something which shows how the US government did business.
For example, the email to my supervisor asking when I can take a week's vacation isn't a record. The leave request form I get him to sign is a record. An email about lunch plans: not a record. An email to a coworker about a grant application probably is.
Besides obvious records (eg: financial and legal records), there are many documents that may or may not be records. For the most part, it's up to each program to decide which documents are records and archive them appropriately.
In the federal government, it's about the only approved PDA you can get that will let you sync your work email. Some models also double as cell phones.
You know you're sitting in a room of "very important bureaucrats" because you see them checking their email during meetings.
The ostensible reason they're so popular is during 9/11, cellphones didn't work, but Blackberries worked fine.
OTOH: My biggest problem with using a webapp for notetaking is a lack of control with the editor. You know, plain text can be viewed in a browser, so I suppose you could just use Emacs or vim or notepad. But then you don't get fancy formatting options...
Some very interesting websites (Basecamp for one) have sprung up from using Rails. Many people designing web applications see Rails as a powerful framework for website development.
However, there's not a lot of good Rails documentation out there yet. This book is highly anticipated and the distribution model (Beta now, Final later) is also unusual.
Frankly, I think Rails is Ruby's 'killer app'. I actually think that Ruby could swap spaces with Python in popularity.
So some attention is deserved.
But like Napoleon said: "Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence." Sometimes, to paraphrase Gertrude Stein: "A Dup is a dup is a dup."
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I know what GP means. I've been playing DragonQuest VIII and watching some LooneyToons DVDs (Xmas presents for me and wifey). The DragonQuest animation looks better than the BugsBunny cartoons.
Bugs Bunny still wins for better plots and music.
Regardless, BBEdit does feature good python integration.
But I agree, BBEdit is overpriced. I originally bought BBEdit back in the 1990s (when it was reasonably priced). I finally got fed up with paying for upgrades.
That's the main reason I learned Vim. Steep learning curve, but the price is right.
If I'm learning a language (as opposed to working on a project with others), I find I seldom need all the bells and whistles an IDE provides.
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I know of two text editors that provide excellent Python integration.
* BBEdit: http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/index.sh
* Vim: http://macvim.org/OSX/index.php
I like Vim better for two reasons. First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words Don't Panic inscribed
in large friendly letters on its cover.
It seems like IT professionals are getting like investment brokers: when you give them two weeks notice they give you the money and ask you to leave.
I don't think it's anything personal. It's just the way some businesses nowadays prefer to operate. I think it's a mistaken attempt at managing risk. Think about it: would a guy who wants to screw you over give two weeks notice? No, they'd do you dirt and take off with no notice.
>>OS X only has MS Office as a fully functional native office suite.
Not exactly true. AppleWorks 6 still works, runs, and is quite enough for three households I know.
Of course, I think it's a pretty good office suite, for 1997.
Regardless of my opinion, it's a fully-functional (WP, spreadsheet, database, presentations) native (for OS X even) office suite.
About a year back, I brought home a copy of Final Fantasy X (my first excursion into the FF series) and described the box to my wife as "the one with Meg Ryan on the cover".
>>So nobody's bothered correcting the blatant error that a minute's research with google would tell you.
:-)
Except you...
It's my experience that you watch/care for wikipedia articles that interest you. For instance, I like Jazz Music from the 1930s to the 1960s. Most of my watchlist is for musicians of that era. So, if somebody makes a change to Chick Webb I'm going to see it in a day or so. If it appears to be contrary to my knowledge, I do some research. I might even check the contributions of the poster to see if s/he's a crank or a vandal.
As wikipedia gets more popular, there will be more eyeballs to catch the problems. There might not be as many eyeballs for 'artex' as needed, but it's an incremental process.
Here's what I brought down to the gulf...
1) Sunscreen
2) Ballcap
3) Sunglasses
4) Bugspray
5) Hand sanitizer
6) First aid kit (for splinters, blisters, cuts)
7) Neosporin or some other anti-bacterial cream
8) Allergy tablets (I always get f*cked up in a new climate)
9) Comfortable shoes and lots of clean socks
10) Something to while away downtime. I suggest the "Su Doku for Dummies" book. Hours of puzzle-solving fun and no electricity needed.
Be prepared to rough it. Don't expect a king-sized bed at the Omni. I just got to Texas today and I'm in a decent hotel room, but tomorrow I don't have a place to stay. I hope the back seat of the car is comfortable...
Not for long. I think Ahnold is strictly a one-term-in-ator.
Pocket Fluff, a candy wrapper, and a golden frog!
Shame on you for animal abuse.
Take some personal responsibility and figure out when all of your domains expire. I've heard this 'whois' thing-a-ma-bob works wonders.
Then put the dates on your calendar and remind yourself a month ahead of time.
When you get reminded, renew your registration.
Done.
I mean, if your domain name is important enough that you will miss it when it's gone, you shouldn't be leaving it in the hands of anybody else.
To date the cutest girl in the dorm.
Good news: I started dating her in late September.
Bad news: She broke up with me by late October.
Worse news: She got under my skin in the worst way and I moped around for the next 2-3 years.
All in all, I probably should've done an honors project instead.
The CC:PD licence does something else. It markets the Creative Commons. After all, if you use the CC:PD licence, you're bringing attention to the Creative Commons as a place for all types of license schemes.
95% of the software I use on the Mac I don't need to buy again...
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Safari
Firefox
Mail.app
iTunes
iPhoto
iTer
Python
Ruby
Apache
vim
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Oh, I suppose I might have to buy Word. Or, since I'm buying a new computer, I can just use iWork which should be included on the new machine. Or, I suppose I could just use AbiWord or OpenOffice.org.
If Patrick Fitzgerald says that Rove didn't do anything illegal, I'll believe him.
Fitzgerald might be a Republican, but he's a smart, honest, law-and-order Republican. He's a far more competent prosecutor than Ken Starr ever was.
Read today's Sidney Blumenthal article at Salon.com. Cheney tasked the CIA, people who knew Wilson's background asked his wife if he would be interested. She probably broached the subject with him, but she didn't 'authorize' him.
Again, you can believe the spin, or you can determine the facts. Fortunately, Patrick Fitzgerald is concentrating on the facts.
The reason why there is a special prosecutor is because the CIA asked the justice department to investigate the alleged violation. Atty General John Ashcroft took a look at the allegations and decided that is was worth investigating. It was Ashcroft that assigned Fitzgerald as the special prosecutor.
Pundits and Politicos can argue over whether she was a NOC or not, but the CIA apparently thought a violation occurred, and I trust they would know her status.
...so Slashdot is printing thinly-veiled press releases.
Isn't there a "Wor of teh World Sucks" movie review in the queue?
I looked at the Pepper Pad. Ho-hum. It's got a 20-gig harddrive, it has yesterday's WiFi (b not g) and USB (1.0 not 2.0), a Blackberry keyboard, and it runs some oddball version of Linux.
For a $200 more, you can get a G4 iBook.
NARA makes a distinction between a document and a record. Any old piece of paper or email is a document, but a record is something which shows how the US government did business.
For example, the email to my supervisor asking when I can take a week's vacation isn't a record. The leave request form I get him to sign is a record. An email about lunch plans: not a record. An email to a coworker about a grant application probably is.
Besides obvious records (eg: financial and legal records), there are many documents that may or may not be records. For the most part, it's up to each program to decide which documents are records and archive them appropriately.
In the federal government, it's about the only approved PDA you can get that will let you sync your work email. Some models also double as cell phones.
You know you're sitting in a room of "very important bureaucrats" because you see them checking their email during meetings.
The ostensible reason they're so popular is during 9/11, cellphones didn't work, but Blackberries worked fine.
I recommend "Instiki".
It's a Ruby application that includes a webserver. It's fairly lightweight, SUPER-EASY to install, and runs on anything Ruby runs on.
http://instiki.org/
OTOH: My biggest problem with using a webapp for notetaking is a lack of control with the editor. You know, plain text can be viewed in a browser, so I suppose you could just use Emacs or vim or notepad. But then you don't get fancy formatting options...
I thought chromatic's comment was funny. (Mainly because I own a copy of O'Reilly's Slash book) and I know what he's talking about.
Do you?
You made me laff. ha ha.
Not just the beta PDF.
In all cases, you get the beta version PDF now, intermediate PDF releases, and the final PDF version.
If you buy the book too, you get the book when published.
Some very interesting websites (Basecamp for one) have sprung up from using Rails. Many people designing web applications see Rails as a powerful framework for website development.
However, there's not a lot of good Rails documentation out there yet. This book is highly anticipated and the distribution model (Beta now, Final later) is also unusual.
Frankly, I think Rails is Ruby's 'killer app'. I actually think that Ruby could swap spaces with Python in popularity.
So some attention is deserved.
But like Napoleon said: "Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence." Sometimes, to paraphrase Gertrude Stein: "A Dup is a dup is a dup."