If that were the case, wouldn't Apple just charge some symbolic amount? Perhaps $1?
I'd guess that they have to be careful to not appear to be trying to circumvent the law. The amount of money this will bring in wouldn't even cover the rental on the hall for the keynote, so it's not a profit motive, at least not directly.
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I started work on a second edition of "Loving Lisp, or the Savvy Programmer's Secret Weapon" two weeks ago
Does that mean your Ruby AI book is on hold? That's something I'd really like to read.
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So Ruby is the output of a plan to take a syntax-less language and make it a bit more like a language with, IMO, one of the shittiest syntaxes around?
No, Ruby is the output of a plan for one man to make himself happier while programming. If it also makes you happy, well he likes that too.
"When modding, I work around deficiencies in the moderation system."
How, by introducing other deficiencies? Funny used to be worth Karma. It's not by a bug or an oversight that it no longer is. Some people adjust the bonus upward for insightful and downward for funny. Modding funny as insightful breaks that useful feature.
The purpose of moderation is to improve the discussion, not to "reward" the poster. By modding incorrectly you lessen the discussion.
Apple's answer to this: integrate spam into the OS.
Some rumor site speculates on possible uses for a rumored technology, and by the time it gets to you it's already happened.
It would be a very useful thing. Thinking it's bad simply because someone might use it to advertise is like saying the telephone is a bad thing because it enables tele-marketers to call.
Except it confuses the hell out of the power users coming from Windows, ya know, the ones (like me) that don't know it can even be turned on.
Apparently, Lord Jedi, you are not quite as powerful as you can possibly imagine.
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I'm sorry to hear that application developers don't offer you the same flexibility on OSX that we tend to get everywhere else.
It used to be that there were important interface guidelines that users expected applications to respect, so arbitrary skins didn't really make sense. Of course now that Apple doesn't seem to worry so much about those "trivial" matters I suppose skinning will become more commonplace.
This is Slashdot. As in "News for Nerds who Know What the Free Software Foundation Is." Next you'll be revealing to the world the identity of those perenially mysterious acronyms, GNU, RMS and GPL.
It's not people are born knowing these things. The guy has a seven digit id. He's new to the site, and took the time to educate himself, and figured he might not be the only one who didn't know. And you give him shit for that.
I think the FSF did a very nice job with BadVista.org
I'm not so sure. The first thing that happens is that you get redirected - so right away a curious but casual visitor thinks that either he's done something wrong or the site's not yet ready. Then, when (and if) he figures out that this weird.fsf.org is the right place, he's swamped with too much text that all looks the same. There's no single part that catches his eye and says "read me first, this is the idea. Then maybe if you like that then look at the rest of this stuff." Instead he says "I'm not reading all this crap. I'll come back when they're organized." and closes the window.
It needs to be much, much simpler. Then once the basic ideas are conveyed the more complex parts can be explored. The casual reader will not be motivated until he's drawn in. You can't just throw a big pile of stuff at him and say "Here's all the info you need. Just wade through it all and figure it out."
'Knowledge is like a candle, when one candle lights another it does not diminish its light.'
"He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me." - Thomas Jefferson
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Seems to me that "inside" is the only place that anything can be hollow.
Well I would say 7 and 14, but then nobody writes jokes in base 13.
We'll never know. They got him.
Too bad he wasn't dictating. Then we'd have seen the aaaargh.
I'd guess that they have to be careful to not appear to be trying to circumvent the law. The amount of money this will bring in wouldn't even cover the rental on the hall for the keynote, so it's not a profit motive, at least not directly.
Does that mean your Ruby AI book is on hold? That's something I'd really like to read.
No, Ruby is the output of a plan for one man to make himself happier while programming. If it also makes you happy, well he likes that too.
How, by introducing other deficiencies? Funny used to be worth Karma. It's not by a bug or an oversight that it no longer is. Some people adjust the bonus upward for insightful and downward for funny. Modding funny as insightful breaks that useful feature.
The purpose of moderation is to improve the discussion, not to "reward" the poster. By modding incorrectly you lessen the discussion.
What difference does it make what your browser of choice is? You're developing, not browsing.
If Microsoft had produced this phone they'd be starting up hockey leagues in Hell.
Watch the keynote demo. You'll change your mind.
Some rumor site speculates on possible uses for a rumored technology, and by the time it gets to you it's already happened.
It would be a very useful thing. Thinking it's bad simply because someone might use it to advertise is like saying the telephone is a bad thing because it enables tele-marketers to call.
Apparently, Lord Jedi, you are not quite as powerful as you can possibly imagine.
It used to be that there were important interface guidelines that users expected applications to respect, so arbitrary skins didn't really make sense. Of course now that Apple doesn't seem to worry so much about those "trivial" matters I suppose skinning will become more commonplace.
I'm not trying to be a smartass, just letting you know that you might want to read this.
It's not people are born knowing these things. The guy has a seven digit id. He's new to the site, and took the time to educate himself, and figured he might not be the only one who didn't know. And you give him shit for that.
I'm not so sure. The first thing that happens is that you get redirected - so right away a curious but casual visitor thinks that either he's done something wrong or the site's not yet ready. Then, when (and if) he figures out that this weird .fsf.org is the right place, he's swamped with too much text that all looks the same. There's no single part that catches his eye and says "read me first, this is the idea. Then maybe if you like that then look at the rest of this stuff." Instead he says "I'm not reading all this crap. I'll come back when they're organized." and closes the window.
It needs to be much, much simpler. Then once the basic ideas are conveyed the more complex parts can be explored. The casual reader will not be motivated until he's drawn in. You can't just throw a big pile of stuff at him and say "Here's all the info you need. Just wade through it all and figure it out."
On the other hand, one might say that the clock continues to tick on the delay of what Longhorn was supposed to be.
Flushing a toilet costs 1.5p, but the cost of requiring flushing is, of course, only 1p.
I don't in what sense you're using mate, but unless it involves chess here's what you do:
1. Take two weeks vacation.
2. Fly to the Central American country of your choice.
3. Hang out for two weeks, and explain why you're there.
I guarantee you will have offered to you whatever it is you're looking for*.
*Of course, the usual "be careful what you wish for" caveat applies.
"He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me." - Thomas Jefferson
Are you suggesting that back then the Earth's temperature never changed?
Sure, but if a guy can play football well enough, nobody turns him down because he doesn't have the right look.
What laurels would those be?
thx :-)
If I might make a small suggestion - consider reducing the frequency of the word actually in your writing.