Given the abundance of freely available fonts... for all tastes and purposes, I clearly see no reason to ever buy a commercial one.
This just means that you don't know what kerning is, probably don't need or use ligatures, don't reproduce the font at very large sizes, and don't need to ever convert the font to tool paths (such as a cutter, or router).
If you did, you would know that there is a WORLD of difference between most freebie fonts and ones that have been painstakingly worked over.
It's too bad the news sites you keep open don't "syndicate" their content. Then someone could devise a "really simple" way to aggregate this content. I think this "really simple syndication" would be an excellent way to get a "rich site summary" without needing a million tabs.
All of you (non-commercial) people on the tweetspaces... you now need to start using those hashtags for all sorts of unsavory things. If they're going to be that way about it, make sure the tags are useless.
Did they learn nothing from the whole "Santorum" debacle?
We're all used to the summaries leaving out important information, but if you're going to write a whole article focusing on the "Long Term Support" you should be expected to at least mention what "long term" means for the project in question. (Apparently, 2 years.)
There is a huge amount of FOSS that has an entire "front" web page that tells people in exquisite detail what changes have been made, who contributed, how others can get involved and what bugs are outstanding without ever mentioning what the hell the project does, or what benefits it brings the world. This just adds one more to the tally.
It's not the project's fault that the submitter/editors linked to the release notes rather than the main page.
From the main page:
"KDevelop is a free, open source IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, Max OS X and other Unix flavors.
It is a feature-full, plugin extensible IDE for C/C++ and other programming languages.
It is based on KDevPlatform, and the KDE and Qt libraries and is under development since 1998."
So, your statement about "adding one more to the tally" of projects that do not "mention what the hell the project does" is incorrect.
Though, I would agree with the sentiment higher up, that editors really should be including a brief summary on many of these things, even though I knew what the project is, myself.
The reason I'm not thrilled about the idea of the refurb (or the last gen white macbook) has to do with perceived availability.
If I make the switch, I'm going to have a little investment (upgrades to Photoshop and Illustrator) to cross platforms. If I go with the last gen unit and something happens to it, it may then leave me in a position where the only available replacement (now that I'm committed) is to move to the current MBPro. The $700 price difference for something where I only care about the $5 part is hard to tolerate.
If the current MB had firewire, I'd at least feel comfortable with the idea that there would be replacement when/if needed. I know they are continuing the white MacBook, but consensus seems to be that it is only for a while to burn off inventory and so they could launch being able to say "starting at 999".
An external adapter would still require somewhere to plug into. The MacBook doesn't have an ExpressCard slot like the MBPro does.
The only ports available are 2xUSB2 and Gigabit Ethernet. USB2 can't keep up with FW400 (even though the theoretical max is slightly higher) and doesn't transfer in the realtime mode needed by DV cams. There is talk of Firewire over Ethernet, but there is no known compatible adapter.
If the Ethernet adapter in the MacBook supports this (but possibly not until Snow Leopard is released, then come out and say so now. That would likely shut a number of people up.
I was planning on switching to a MacBook because the video card in the old one wouldn't work properly with Blender (Apple's OpenGL problems, as the same card works with Win/Linux and Blender)... but the lack of a FW400 port means I can't hook in my DV camera, and using iMovie/iDVD was one of the reasons to want to switch to a Mac to begin with.
Having to capture on another computer and then move the video to the Mac means having to have a system around specifically for when I want to capture. Not very elegant at all. Now, I'm thinking I'll probably get a ThinkPad.
It's not like you can take Nader's 1/2 million votes and just apply them *anywhere*. If you gave every one of Nader's votes in each state to Kerry the outcome of each state election stays the same (assuming OO.o Calc doesn't have some odd adding bug).
In fact, of Nader's 465,150 votes - 283,585 of them were from states that Kerry won anyway. This leaves less than 1/4 million votes split across a number of states that could have potentially gone to Kerry (but as earlier mentioned, wouldn't have changed the math).
Remember, you have 48 states with "winner take all" electoral votes so it isn't total popular vote that matters, but instead the sum of voting at each state level.
It can import MS Project files as well as use its own XML format. I find it is a nice addition to OpenOffice.org to allow me to work with the MSOffice files of others.
I know you're being snarky, but if you actually think about it, the address bar really *does* belong under the tab bar.
The address is a property of the current page. Placing it above the tabs puts it into the same space as the persistent elements like the file/edit menus. Those are application-wide. Below the tabs puts it into the same space as the page content, which makes sense as it isn't an application-wide property, but is directly related to the selected tab.
I'd never thought about it before, and can't say I'm bothered with the current setup (address above the tabs) but there is a sense to it.
i think this is how firefox should behave (perhaps even loading the page and then warning the user)
That would be an absolutely terrible thing to do ("load the page and then warn the user").
A page request can contain variables passed via POST or GET, as well as cookies. If the site is NOT the site you want to visit, passing that information ahead of time would mean your sensitive information is already gone before you've had a chance to stop it.
It's really not that big of a deal. I've added the self signed certs for a few development boxes and one web site and never get bothered again. In fact, the easy ability to add the self signed cert permanently is better than the behavior from FF2 where I would be prompted every time. This at least would warn me if the cert changes (man in the middle).
I understand I am "more technical" than your average web user, and know what I'm doing when I do this. However, your "average" web user is less likely to even encounter a self-signed certificate than I am, as they tend to stay tied to a few larger commercial sites. I think the extra warning is a good thing as it may cause them to ask someone more knowledgeable what to do.
Because other than the "gee, that's pretty" factor, a color image doesn't have as much significance as a grayscale image that has been taken through specific filters. The probe has multiple filters so they can take images that are sensitive at different wavelengths (depending on what they want to "see").
If they want a standard color image, they can take three pictures with R, G, B filters and combine them. It's not like anything they're (likely) going to take a picture of is going to move anyway, so taking 3 sequential images won't be a problem.
Grayscale images are also smaller (bandwidth-wise) so they can transmit faster. No use wasting time transmitting a larger image if your camera is pointed at the wrong thing.
I have an old laptop that I use as a remote SSH gateway for my home network when I'm away.
Even with the low specs (Pentium 133, 144Mb ram, 1.5Gb HDD) it handles the task nicely. It just boots up into CLI and starts the SSH service. I have it set to check my external IP address at startup and email me (in case my address has changed - I know, I could do the DynDNS thing.)
I can proxy Firefox through it in the event I need to test something from another network, I also connect it to my NAS and mount the shares to a local mount point so that I can SCP to/from my NAS (which doesn't support SCP) from anywhere by going through the gateway.
I hooked it up through the Kill-A-Watt, and it doesn't use much electricity at all when I turn off the display. I've thought about replacing the drive with CF, but the cost of the card and CF-IDE bridge outweigh the cost of running it with the HDD - especially when I may not use it for weeks at a time when I don't need it.
It can also run a bittorrent client so that it's easier to leave a system going full time, but the internal disk space is limited, so it either needs to save over the network or plug in an external drive.
While I don't agree that python would be a good idea, counting it out because of its whitespace would be stupid. You could include scripts, just like like you include javascript and css outside of the html.
If you wanted to include an external *.py script, then yes it would be easy to control the whitespace and indenting as you would have the entire file created ahead of time.
But a lot of times your client scripting code is generated dynamically as a result of code running on the server (through Java, PHP, ASP, etc.). Often, these languages (especially tag-based languages like PHP or JSP) insert whitespace between different tags and it gets difficult to control their output precisely without doing works around the language. If that happens, your server script could put more or less whitespace than you intend into the dynamically generated *.py that would then execute incorrectly in the browser.
This gets even worse if your server code is not all generated in one block, but is assembled by a number of small blocks (like Struts/Tiles) as the small template that you are modifying may be included by another block (which is included by another) and if the indenting changes at the top level, you'll need to know and go find it in all the child levels to modify it.
Ever look at the source HTML to a lot of dynamically generated sites and wonder why there are odd patches of whitespace? Since it isn't (for the most part) significant in HTML, existing web server-scripting technologies have been built without necessarily caring about what it outputs. To suddenly need to care would mean re-working a whole lot of other tech just to make it work.
I'm not knocking Python or even its whitespace significance, but it definitely would introduce a huge problem for browser read scripts that weren't statically generated.
I bought a car (Ford Escort) back in 94-95 that had a factory CD player.
It had a 'comp' (compression) button that would apply audio compression to the CD as it played. This meant that you could listen with the full dynamic range when you wanted, but if you were in a noisy environment (like traffic) you could apply the dynamic compression so as to allow you to normalize the overall volume to compete with road noise.
This seems to be the ideal situation. Let the playback devices have the option to add compression for people who want loud, crushed music and keep the recordings with the full dynamic range (as there's no way to get it back when it's gone.)
It's not about whether prior art exists, it's about whether prior art exists AND it is seen by the patent examiner during the process.
Otherwise, you have prior art that could *potentially* be used to ust a patent, but that involves getting tied up in litigation which very few independent developers can afford.
There are already avenues to have prior art published (called 'technical disclosures'), some have more chances than others of being seen by examiners.
I agree it is out of place as a Windows desktop application.
Though, if you look at it as the iPhone SDK instead, some of the choices make sense. You'd want to (for example) use the same anti-aliasing mechanism and widgets as the target device so that you know you're seeing things as they will look when deployed.
I don't plan on using Safari as my primary browser, but for compatibility testing websites, the fact that it isn't using a different Windows-specific rendering style makes it valuable for that role.
The ring wouldn't be closer. The ring would be like Niven's, out at Earth distance.
The *sphere* would be at a much closer distance to the sun so that you wouldn't need as much material to construct it. Its only purpose would be to collect energy. You would just leave the center with 'cutout' sections to allow energy to continue to travel out to the ring at its further distance.
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This just means that you don't know what kerning is, probably don't need or use ligatures, don't reproduce the font at very large sizes, and don't need to ever convert the font to tool paths (such as a cutter, or router).
If you did, you would know that there is a WORLD of difference between most freebie fonts and ones that have been painstakingly worked over.
It's too bad the news sites you keep open don't "syndicate" their content. Then someone could devise a "really simple" way to aggregate this content. I think this "really simple syndication" would be an excellent way to get a "rich site summary" without needing a million tabs.
All of you (non-commercial) people on the tweetspaces ... you now need to start using those hashtags for all sorts of unsavory things. If they're going to be that way about it, make sure the tags are useless.
Did they learn nothing from the whole "Santorum" debacle?
We're all used to the summaries leaving out important information, but if you're going to write a whole article focusing on the "Long Term Support" you should be expected to at least mention what "long term" means for the project in question. (Apparently, 2 years.)
https://github.com/nodejs/LTS#...
It's not the project's fault that the submitter/editors linked to the release notes rather than the main page.
From the main page:
"KDevelop is a free, open source IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, Max OS X and other Unix flavors.
It is a feature-full, plugin extensible IDE for C/C++ and other programming languages.
It is based on KDevPlatform, and the KDE and Qt libraries and is under development since 1998."
So, your statement about "adding one more to the tally" of projects that do not "mention what the hell the project does" is incorrect.
Though, I would agree with the sentiment higher up, that editors really should be including a brief summary on many of these things, even though I knew what the project is, myself.
The reason I'm not thrilled about the idea of the refurb (or the last gen white macbook) has to do with perceived availability.
If I make the switch, I'm going to have a little investment (upgrades to Photoshop and Illustrator) to cross platforms. If I go with the last gen unit and something happens to it, it may then leave me in a position where the only available replacement (now that I'm committed) is to move to the current MBPro. The $700 price difference for something where I only care about the $5 part is hard to tolerate.
If the current MB had firewire, I'd at least feel comfortable with the idea that there would be replacement when/if needed. I know they are continuing the white MacBook, but consensus seems to be that it is only for a while to burn off inventory and so they could launch being able to say "starting at 999".
An external adapter would still require somewhere to plug into. The MacBook doesn't have an ExpressCard slot like the MBPro does.
The only ports available are 2xUSB2 and Gigabit Ethernet. USB2 can't keep up with FW400 (even though the theoretical max is slightly higher) and doesn't transfer in the realtime mode needed by DV cams. There is talk of Firewire over Ethernet, but there is no known compatible adapter.
If the Ethernet adapter in the MacBook supports this (but possibly not until Snow Leopard is released, then come out and say so now. That would likely shut a number of people up.
I was planning on switching to a MacBook because the video card in the old one wouldn't work properly with Blender (Apple's OpenGL problems, as the same card works with Win/Linux and Blender) ... but the lack of a FW400 port means I can't hook in my DV camera, and using iMovie/iDVD was one of the reasons to want to switch to a Mac to begin with.
Having to capture on another computer and then move the video to the Mac means having to have a system around specifically for when I want to capture. Not very elegant at all. Now, I'm thinking I'll probably get a ThinkPad.
Where do you get that Nader's votes would have changed the election?
Look at how the votes went in 2004:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2004
It's not like you can take Nader's 1/2 million votes and just apply them *anywhere*.
If you gave every one of Nader's votes in each state to Kerry the outcome of each state election stays the same (assuming OO.o Calc doesn't have some odd adding bug).
In fact, of Nader's 465,150 votes - 283,585 of them were from states that Kerry won anyway. This leaves less than 1/4 million votes split across a number of states that could have potentially gone to Kerry (but as earlier mentioned, wouldn't have changed the math).
Remember, you have 48 states with "winner take all" electoral votes so it isn't total popular vote that matters, but instead the sum of voting at each state level.
OT, but since others may not know as well - there is GanttProject:
http://ganttproject.biz/
It can import MS Project files as well as use its own XML format.
I find it is a nice addition to OpenOffice.org to allow me to work with the MSOffice files of others.
I know you're being snarky, but if you actually think about it, the address bar really *does* belong under the tab bar.
The address is a property of the current page. Placing it above the tabs puts it into the same space as the persistent elements like the file/edit menus. Those are application-wide. Below the tabs puts it into the same space as the page content, which makes sense as it isn't an application-wide property, but is directly related to the selected tab.
I'd never thought about it before, and can't say I'm bothered with the current setup (address above the tabs) but there is a sense to it.
That would be an absolutely terrible thing to do ("load the page and then warn the user").
A page request can contain variables passed via POST or GET, as well as cookies. If the site is NOT the site you want to visit, passing that information ahead of time would mean your sensitive information is already gone before you've had a chance to stop it.
It's really not that big of a deal. I've added the self signed certs for a few development boxes and one web site and never get bothered again. In fact, the easy ability to add the self signed cert permanently is better than the behavior from FF2 where I would be prompted every time. This at least would warn me if the cert changes (man in the middle).
I understand I am "more technical" than your average web user, and know what I'm doing when I do this. However, your "average" web user is less likely to even encounter a self-signed certificate than I am, as they tend to stay tied to a few larger commercial sites. I think the extra warning is a good thing as it may cause them to ask someone more knowledgeable what to do.
Because other than the "gee, that's pretty" factor, a color image doesn't have as much significance as a grayscale image that has been taken through specific filters. The probe has multiple filters so they can take images that are sensitive at different wavelengths (depending on what they want to "see").
If they want a standard color image, they can take three pictures with R, G, B filters and combine them. It's not like anything they're (likely) going to take a picture of is going to move anyway, so taking 3 sequential images won't be a problem.
Grayscale images are also smaller (bandwidth-wise) so they can transmit faster. No use wasting time transmitting a larger image if your camera is pointed at the wrong thing.
I have an old laptop that I use as a remote SSH gateway for my home network when I'm away.
Even with the low specs (Pentium 133, 144Mb ram, 1.5Gb HDD) it handles the task nicely. It just boots up into CLI and starts the SSH service. I have it set to check my external IP address at startup and email me (in case my address has changed - I know, I could do the DynDNS thing.)
I can proxy Firefox through it in the event I need to test something from another network, I also connect it to my NAS and mount the shares to a local mount point so that I can SCP to/from my NAS (which doesn't support SCP) from anywhere by going through the gateway.
I hooked it up through the Kill-A-Watt, and it doesn't use much electricity at all when I turn off the display. I've thought about replacing the drive with CF, but the cost of the card and CF-IDE bridge outweigh the cost of running it with the HDD - especially when I may not use it for weeks at a time when I don't need it.
It can also run a bittorrent client so that it's easier to leave a system going full time, but the internal disk space is limited, so it either needs to save over the network or plug in an external drive.
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
But we'll have goatees.
Cloudscape == Derby
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Derby
One particularly funny exchange between PeeWee and Cowboy Curtis (Laurence Fishburne) when Cowboy Curtis needs new boots.
... (long pause) ... big boots!
PeeWee: Gee, Cowboy Curtis, you sure have big feet.
Curtis: Well, you know what they say, PeeWee. Big feet
If you wanted to include an external *.py script, then yes it would be easy to control the whitespace and indenting as you would have the entire file created ahead of time.
But a lot of times your client scripting code is generated dynamically as a result of code running on the server (through Java, PHP, ASP, etc.). Often, these languages (especially tag-based languages like PHP or JSP) insert whitespace between different tags and it gets difficult to control their output precisely without doing works around the language. If that happens, your server script could put more or less whitespace than you intend into the dynamically generated *.py that would then execute incorrectly in the browser.
This gets even worse if your server code is not all generated in one block, but is assembled by a number of small blocks (like Struts/Tiles) as the small template that you are modifying may be included by another block (which is included by another) and if the indenting changes at the top level, you'll need to know and go find it in all the child levels to modify it.
Ever look at the source HTML to a lot of dynamically generated sites and wonder why there are odd patches of whitespace? Since it isn't (for the most part) significant in HTML, existing web server-scripting technologies have been built without necessarily caring about what it outputs. To suddenly need to care would mean re-working a whole lot of other tech just to make it work.
I'm not knocking Python or even its whitespace significance, but it definitely would introduce a huge problem for browser read scripts that weren't statically generated.
I bought a car (Ford Escort) back in 94-95 that had a factory CD player.
It had a 'comp' (compression) button that would apply audio compression to the CD as it played. This meant that you could listen with the full dynamic range when you wanted, but if you were in a noisy environment (like traffic) you could apply the dynamic compression so as to allow you to normalize the overall volume to compete with road noise.
This seems to be the ideal situation. Let the playback devices have the option to add compression for people who want loud, crushed music and keep the recordings with the full dynamic range (as there's no way to get it back when it's gone.)
Not quite.
Tron more extensive usage of computer generated imagery, but it was beat by almost a decade by Westworld.
typo in parent post:
s/ust/bust/
It's not about whether prior art exists, it's about whether prior art exists AND it is seen by the patent examiner during the process.
Otherwise, you have prior art that could *potentially* be used to ust a patent, but that involves getting tied up in litigation which very few independent developers can afford.
There are already avenues to have prior art published (called 'technical disclosures'), some have more chances than others of being seen by examiners.
I agree it is out of place as a Windows desktop application.
Though, if you look at it as the iPhone SDK instead, some of the choices make sense. You'd want to (for example) use the same anti-aliasing mechanism and widgets as the target device so that you know you're seeing things as they will look when deployed.
I don't plan on using Safari as my primary browser, but for compatibility testing websites, the fact that it isn't using a different Windows-specific rendering style makes it valuable for that role.
MicroProse's F15 Strike Eagle (combat flight sim) had a system like that.
They crafted it into part of the gameplay in that you had to enter your "secret code" as part of receiving your mission.
The ring wouldn't be closer. The ring would be like Niven's, out at Earth distance.
The *sphere* would be at a much closer distance to the sun so that you wouldn't need as much material to construct it. Its only purpose would be to collect energy. You would just leave the center with 'cutout' sections to allow energy to continue to travel out to the ring at its further distance.