Seriously, though, thats the only time I use IE anymore. Well, that, and when an application hard codes it as the web browser to open, but I am genernally not pleased with such behavior. Really, folks, how hard can it be to pass a URL to the ShellExecute call and let the OS hand it off to the prefered browser?
If you display HTML content in your application using the Web Control, that's IE running. So when you code external links in your HTML content (with target=blank) another IE window opens.
If you want those external links to open in the preferred browser, you have to jump through hoops and write non-compliant HTML.
"Right now, Apple's videos are at 320x240, probably for bandwidth reasons as well as the fact that HD H.264 decoding requires a powerful machine that most don't have yet."
Au contraire, the new ipod specs say it supports [H.264]
H.264 video: up to 768 Kbps, 320 x 240, 30 frames per sec., Baseline Profile up to Level 1.3 with AAC-LC up to 160 Kbps, 48
He said HD H.264. Last I checked, this required significant horsepower to decode. More than a Mac Mini can handle, for sure.
It's a well-kept secret, a scriptable interface to Core Image. It allows you to do bitmap manipulations in a script, and it's very, very fast. Here's the help:
sips 1.0 - scriptable image processing system. This tool is used to query or modify raster image files and ColorSync ICC profiles. Its functionality can also be used through the "Image Events" AppleScript suite.
On MacOSX, most (all?) network services such as ftp, sshd, httpd... are turned off by default. And automatic software update (prompting the user) is on by default. That, coupled with a better security model from the ground up will ensure that the MacOS never becomes the trojan-infected mess that Windows has become.
Methinks that Symantec is propagating FUD to drum up sales...
There is a reason why the code looks like this: bandwidth. With the amount of people loading Google.com every day, even one character off their home page must make a significant difference.
The "nearly" part above... a number of people were bothered, not by the "witchcraft" but by the fact that in the first couple of books, Harry can do no wrong. Rules are bent or overlooked, everything is forgiven or ignored once it's all over, he makes bad decisions and doesn't discover -- via consequences, like the rest of us did -- that they were bad.
In the first book (and to a degree, in the second as well), people know Harry Potter by reputation, so he's surfing on this (albeit unwittlingly): he is cut some slack because he is Harry Potter.
Later, people realize that Harry Potter is not all he cracked up to be (he had "disappeared for 10 years, so the legend grew unchecked). Now that he's in the public eye, making the Sorcerer's Gazette, he's no longer invincible and screwups happen.
It may not have been planned that way, but it's a good apology:-)
It's long-winded, reminescent of Jerry Pournelle's columns in Byte. It takes forever to get to the point. It's from a guy who (apparently) has a 204 MB music collection!
And we should pay attention to him why?
P.S. that thing looks huge. It has a GUI, for cryin' out loud!
I saw this first-hand as a Biostatistics TA (in Biology, no one expects to do math and this class is compulsory, so students hate it).
I was reviewing a student's test. He didn't do well (60%, or a low C). I explained his mistakes and why he got 60%. He stared at me blankly: "Bbbbut, I *paid* for this class! You *have* to give me a good grade!".
I will never forget the look of despair on his face. He was part of that "yuppie kid" generation that had everything spoon-fed (given enough money). And that was in 1992.
I like the Opera web browser a lot, but it is closed source, ad supported (for the free version) or costs money (if you want to get rid of the banner ads). Opera is almost exactly what I'm looking for in a web browser as far as features are concerned [...]
If you like it so much, what's wrong with paying for it? Yeah, yeah, I hear the cry "software wants to be free!", but the truth is, I have to put bread on the table.
Toast is a luxury if you've got bread, but people still happily buy toasters (one friend of mine even calls bread "raw toast").
If stores would stop selling partially-cooked bread (aka sliced bread, "wonder bread"...), the market for toasters would be dramatically reduced. Ever since I learned how to make bread, I have had utter distaste for that white, mush stuff. It's so full of air that you can actually compress it to 1/4th the length!
You can become a passable FORTRAN programmer in a couple of hours if you already know another language, such as C or Pascal. There are a couple of gotchas (predeclared variables & COMMON statements IMHO).
If you are going to touch any heavy simulation code (such as statistics, physics & biology) learn FORTRAN. It works very well for those problems. Yes, it is old, but that doesn't mean it's bad. It's not modern, but it works surprisingly well.
I find myself teaching FORTRAN to budding scientists, and they are able to write complex stuff very quickly because they don't trip all over the language (e.g. '==' vs '=' in C).
always thought it was funny that the only element of Office that _didn't_ start on the Mac is Access
IIRC, MS-Access was previously FoxPro, which was the most widely used relational database on the Mac at the time (early 90s). There was also Helix, which was relational, and FileMaker Pro, which at the time was not.
Whilst I agree with the thrust of your thesis, you can't track the decline that far back. The problems really started in 1976. The Montreal games were a financial disaster (it is rumoured that the city still hasn't fully settled the account).
It's not a rumor. Montrealers are still paying for the 1976 games. In fact, it has been shown that it would be more cost-effective to destroy the olympic stadium than to keep paying for its maintenance... The olympic debt would have been paid much sooner without that white elephant to maintain.
You don't need to move it, just to hide it (call HideCursor). Moving the cursor, e.g. to bring it on top of the OK button in a dialog, is confusing to the user. He/she should have complete control over it. This is not Steve Jobs gospel, but years of UI research at Apple. Ask Bruce Tognazzini.
That doesn't make any sense at all. If you compress time linearly, it's still an exponential curve, no matter how flat it looks. (Any differentiable function locally resembles a line, but that doesn't mean it's linear.)
Sorry, I should have explained further. Of course an exponential curve will still "look" exponential if your scale is linear, no matter what resolution you're looking at. But the exponential "curve" of the Cambrian explosion is just a list of species (i.e., real data) to which an experimental curve was fitted. The experimental curve that best fit the data was exponential, hence the term "Cambrian explosion". But look at the data in more detail, at the 100,000 or million-year interval, and the fitted curve is no longer exponential. *That's* what I meant:-)
I want to point out that the dinosaurs did not disappear "suddenly", 65MY ago. The decline of dinosaurs began millions of years before that fateful iridium trace in the geological record (aka the cretaceous-tertiary or K-T boundary), and dinosaurs were found in the fossil record on top of that boundary. It's not like they disappeared in one, ten or a hundred years. It took millions of years (tens of thousands of generations) for the dinosaurs to disappear.
Philippe
This is akin to the "Cambrian explosion" theory where at the beginning of the Cambrian, there was suddenly (here's that word again) "exponential" increase in diversity of form (see the Burgess shale for an example). But if you look at it in linear time, and not in compressed (geological) time, the exponential curve looks more and more linear. An explosion that takes hundreds of millions of years to occur is not really an explosion, wouldn't you say?
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ProgressQuest works in your browser now... http://progressquest.com/play/main.html
Open the application bundle, navigate to Contents/Resources and voilà! Source code.
If you display HTML content in your application using the Web Control, that's IE running. So when you code external links in your HTML content (with target=blank) another IE window opens.
If you want those external links to open in the preferred browser, you have to jump through hoops and write non-compliant HTML.
He said HD H.264. Last I checked, this required significant horsepower to decode. More than a Mac Mini can handle, for sure.
On MacOSX, most (all?) network services such as ftp, sshd, httpd... are turned off by default. And automatic software update (prompting the user) is on by default. That, coupled with a better security model from the ground up will ensure that the MacOS never becomes the trojan-infected mess that Windows has become.
Methinks that Symantec is propagating FUD to drum up sales...
There is a reason why the code looks like this: bandwidth. With the amount of people loading Google.com every day, even one character off their home page must make a significant difference.
Yes, you are comparing XP Home with MacOSX when you should be comparing with XP Pro. Does XP Home have Fast User switching?
In the first book (and to a degree, in the second as well), people know Harry Potter by reputation, so he's surfing on this (albeit unwittlingly): he is cut some slack because he is Harry Potter.
Later, people realize that Harry Potter is not all he cracked up to be (he had "disappeared for 10 years, so the legend grew unchecked). Now that he's in the public eye, making the Sorcerer's Gazette, he's no longer invincible and screwups happen.
It may not have been planned that way, but it's a good apology
It's long-winded, reminescent of Jerry Pournelle's columns in Byte. It takes forever to get to the point. It's from a guy who (apparently) has a 204 MB music collection!
And we should pay attention to him why?
P.S. that thing looks huge. It has a GUI, for cryin' out loud!
You mean like this?
Hey, that really *is* longer than my mortgage!
Well, I use ZWiki (Wiki within Zope), and last save wins...
I guess it's implementation-dependent.
The problem with wikis is that they don't allow concurrent editing. Last save wins, destroying all other changes...
This one is live.
I saw this first-hand as a Biostatistics TA (in Biology, no one expects to do math and this class is compulsory, so students hate it).
I was reviewing a student's test. He didn't do well (60%, or a low C). I explained his mistakes and why he got 60%. He stared at me blankly: "Bbbbut, I *paid* for this class! You *have* to give me a good grade!".
I will never forget the look of despair on his face. He was part of that "yuppie kid" generation that had everything spoon-fed (given enough money). And that was in 1992.
If you like it so much, what's wrong with paying for it? Yeah, yeah, I hear the cry "software wants to be free!", but the truth is, I have to put bread on the table.
If stores would stop selling partially-cooked bread (aka sliced bread, "wonder bread"...), the market for toasters would be dramatically reduced. Ever since I learned how to make bread, I have had utter distaste for that white, mush stuff. It's so full of air that you can actually compress it to 1/4th the length!
You can become a passable FORTRAN programmer in a couple of hours if you already know another language, such as C or Pascal. There are a couple of gotchas (predeclared variables & COMMON statements IMHO).
If you are going to touch any heavy simulation code (such as statistics, physics & biology) learn FORTRAN. It works very well for those problems. Yes, it is old, but that doesn't mean it's bad. It's not modern, but it works surprisingly well.
I find myself teaching FORTRAN to budding scientists, and they are able to write complex stuff very quickly because they don't trip all over the language (e.g. '==' vs '=' in C).
IIRC, MS-Access was previously FoxPro, which was the most widely used relational database on the Mac at the time (early 90s). There was also Helix, which was relational, and FileMaker Pro, which at the time was not.
It's not a rumor. Montrealers are still paying for the 1976 games. In fact, it has been shown that it would be more cost-effective to destroy the olympic stadium than to keep paying for its maintenance... The olympic debt would have been paid much sooner without that white elephant to maintain.
You don't need to move it, just to hide it (call HideCursor). Moving the cursor, e.g. to bring it on top of the OK button in a dialog, is confusing to the user. He/she should have complete control over it. This is not Steve Jobs gospel, but years of UI research at Apple. Ask Bruce Tognazzini.
Philippe
This is akin to the "Cambrian explosion" theory where at the beginning of the Cambrian, there was suddenly (here's that word again) "exponential" increase in diversity of form (see the Burgess shale for an example). But if you look at it in linear time, and not in compressed (geological) time, the exponential curve looks more and more linear. An explosion that takes hundreds of millions of years to occur is not really an explosion, wouldn't you say?
Userland Frontier has been doing that since at least 1995 (the Aretha release).
Corel already has the Corel Graphics Suite for OS X. There's Draw (like Illustrator) and Photopaint (like Photoshop). Plus, KPT is native.