Word 5.1 still runs great under classic... and everyone knows that was the best version of Word ever. I mean, I use Excel 2000, but Word 5.1. And talk about quality! All 8 floppies that it originally came on installed without any bad data.
Gigabit, standard on most macs: 16 seconds. Even with overhead, 60 seconds max. Still, I agree that it's kinda useless today, and hopefully for a good long time.
When you put content on the web, you implicitly give permission to me, a web user, to store that content in cache. In particular, you are assumed to understand when you release a file of type text/html how a typical browser handles that file. In particular, it creates copies of that file, in various forms, to at least three places: a memory cache, a disk cache, and a screen buffer. To say that I am disallowed to cache data is to say that you did not release that file, yet you explicitly published information (available when I typed in the file's address) saying that it is released, and providing the content.
No, you do not have permission to set up a spy cam in my living room. Feel free to set one up in your living room (that is, the property you own... as google owns their servers and associated resources), and I'll probably still come and visit without complaining, as long as you tell me (as google does in their privacy statement). Now, you could argue that if the camera is in your room, you don't have a responsibility to inform me... but that's a moot point now, since google very clearly does.
You need make no effort to maintain your privacy. As long as you do nothing, your privacy is inviolate (at least by google). It is when you take an active action and hand some third party your information on a silver platter (or a tcp packet) that it is, yes, your responsibility to ask that third part what they plan to do with your gift (there's no contract, is there?) to them.
Except, of course, that there is no backlit screen. There's a frontlit screen, which is about as good a source of light as the lamp in the living room, just smaller and harder to adjust the angle of.
I guess I don't see what the big deal is. If you don't want cookies, don't accept them. If you don't like their published policies for the toolbar, don't install it. If you don't want them accessing your IP, you should be surfing through an anonymizer. If you don't like that they record your searches... then don't use a search engine. Nothing that google does is hidden, malicious, or surprising, and all of it is avoidable.
The main thing is just how easy it is to write widgets. It took me about ten minutes to write a widget that keeps track of my amazon associates account, which was something I wanted to just have always visible. But amazingly, it actually makes writing widgets so easy that graphics designers, not programmers, can do most of it, which means that quick one-off widgets are often astoundingly good looking.
Yes. Do you really think I always go to that exact same directory? Besides, if it takes me about a second or two to type that, plus the other variants I use most, why bother?
Um, 300 wpm seems reasonable to me. I type about 90-95 wpm. And when I'm typing
cd ~/Documents/Projects/Agent/Current/lib/docs/kawa or whatever, a line that I type probably every ten minutes, I'd be absolutely stunned if I didn't hit 250+ wpm (that is, 1200-1500 characters per minute). Presumably, a better typist than me, or one who uses muscle memory for long phrases more, could easily hit 300wpm for a single line.
Why is enter a useless key? There a distinction between adding a carriage return to a stream of text and indicating that you wish to enter input for processing. For examples, see anything from Microsoft Office's help search feature (at least on mac) to Mathematica. How would you distinguish between these two functions? Something silly like shift-return, which has no inherent meaning in the context of entering input, as it implies inserting a different type of line break? For that matter, I'm typing this in a text box now. If I press return
I'm saying that I want a new line. On the other hand, if I press enter
It really depends what you're doing. In my limited experience: Graphics -> Probability Hardware -> Boolean Logic Software Engineering -> Graph Theory Basically Everything -> Discrete Math
But the most important skill you'll learn in a CS Math course is to look at a problem and know intuitively if it's possible, and whether it's going to be easy or hard. Exponential search space, but we can limit it to 24-bit integers? Easy. Requires 100-bit precision? Probably doable, but hard if I don't have good libraries. Optimize an 8-input boolean function? A bitch by hand. A bitch to code. Numbers don't matter, we have the best tools of any profession, including mathematicians, for dealing with numbers. It's feeling these values and knowing how to deal with them that is the valuable skill. And, really, a one-semester course can give students a feel for basically anything... if it were my course, I'd skip probability and such, and make them take a specialized class there, and then try to cover boolean loggic, discrete math, and set and graph theory, probably along with some estimation techniques in a non-rigorous fashion.
Forgot to say, that's an associates link. Sorry, bad habit. Don't want anyone to accuse me of being a bum (and don't want that to prevent people from reading the book), so here's a clean link.
For those of you about to ask why anyone would care about IPv6... well, we've all heard the answers, mostly larger address space (sounds surprisingly familiar to the 32-bit / 64-bit bickering we hear). If you're really interested, though, and want to see why it matters to you as a developer or IT person, I think IPv6 Essentials is a good, though not great, read. Developers will be disappointed but educated; sysadmins will be pleased and educated.
Pudge, why not just write a little perl script to copy every story from the Macslash database to Slashdot as soon as it's published. It seems like thats what happens anyway, you might as well make life easier for everyone.
Presumably if I was willing to pay the domain registration fees anyway, yes. It just seems like this is a massive hole which totally prevents the whole idea of 'if it's my name, I have priority.'
I don't mean to be crude, but... ah, heck, let's be crude, it demonstrates the point. Do you honestly believe that legless girls with three noses get laid as much as the more conventional folk?
So if I draw a five-minute cartoon of George Bush the Walrus-Man and trademark the character I can block any other George Bush (of which there are far too many) from ever getting george.bush.name?
And what about the fact that there are a thousand John Smith's? Personal names (that is, names of persons, not your company) are not designed to avoid name collisions, and the.name system that attempts to do so seems silly.
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Word 5.1 still runs great under classic... and everyone knows that was the best version of Word ever. I mean, I use Excel 2000, but Word 5.1. And talk about quality! All 8 floppies that it originally came on installed without any bad data.
Gigabit, standard on most macs: 16 seconds. Even with overhead, 60 seconds max. Still, I agree that it's kinda useless today, and hopefully for a good long time.
But if you had Linux, and presumably hardware support for the network port, you could use Linux as a bootloader to run whatever you want.
Actually, they were able to say it had 100% availability for that first week, they just didn't think marketing would buy it. Then the machine crashed.
When you put content on the web, you implicitly give permission to me, a web user, to store that content in cache. In particular, you are assumed to understand when you release a file of type text/html how a typical browser handles that file. In particular, it creates copies of that file, in various forms, to at least three places: a memory cache, a disk cache, and a screen buffer. To say that I am disallowed to cache data is to say that you did not release that file, yet you explicitly published information (available when I typed in the file's address) saying that it is released, and providing the content.
Google is doing the same thing I am.
Really? In the US, there's one in every major city, at least. With free access, and some good books, to boot.
isn't "educated"?
No, you do not have permission to set up a spy cam in my living room. Feel free to set one up in your living room (that is, the property you own... as google owns their servers and associated resources), and I'll probably still come and visit without complaining, as long as you tell me (as google does in their privacy statement). Now, you could argue that if the camera is in your room, you don't have a responsibility to inform me... but that's a moot point now, since google very clearly does.
You need make no effort to maintain your privacy. As long as you do nothing, your privacy is inviolate (at least by google). It is when you take an active action and hand some third party your information on a silver platter (or a tcp packet) that it is, yes, your responsibility to ask that third part what they plan to do with your gift (there's no contract, is there?) to them.
Except, of course, that there is no backlit screen. There's a frontlit screen, which is about as good a source of light as the lamp in the living room, just smaller and harder to adjust the angle of.
120 dpi? When most printers are 1200dpi, and even your $250 home laser printer is 600dpi? I can't imaginen any difficulties.
I guess I don't see what the big deal is. If you don't want cookies, don't accept them. If you don't like their published policies for the toolbar, don't install it. If you don't want them accessing your IP, you should be surfing through an anonymizer. If you don't like that they record your searches... then don't use a search engine. Nothing that google does is hidden, malicious, or surprising, and all of it is avoidable.
The main thing is just how easy it is to write widgets. It took me about ten minutes to write a widget that keeps track of my amazon associates account, which was something I wanted to just have always visible. But amazingly, it actually makes writing widgets so easy that graphics designers, not programmers, can do most of it, which means that quick one-off widgets are often astoundingly good looking.
Moderators: You understand that parent is a joke, right? Moderators puffin' the pipe again.
Yes. Do you really think I always go to that exact same directory? Besides, if it takes me about a second or two to type that, plus the other variants I use most, why bother?
Um, 300 wpm seems reasonable to me. I type about 90-95 wpm. And when I'm typing
cd ~/Documents/Projects/Agent/Current/lib/docs/kawa
or whatever, a line that I type probably every ten minutes, I'd be absolutely stunned if I didn't hit 250+ wpm (that is, 1200-1500 characters per minute). Presumably, a better typist than me, or one who uses muscle memory for long phrases more, could easily hit 300wpm for a single line.
Why is enter a useless key? There a distinction between adding a carriage return to a stream of text and indicating that you wish to enter input for processing. For examples, see anything from Microsoft Office's help search feature (at least on mac) to Mathematica. How would you distinguish between these two functions? Something silly like shift-return, which has no inherent meaning in the context of entering input, as it implies inserting a different type of line break? For that matter, I'm typing this in a text box now. If I press return
I'm saying that I want a new line. On the other hand, if I press enter
It really depends what you're doing. In my limited experience:
Graphics -> Probability
Hardware -> Boolean Logic
Software Engineering -> Graph Theory
Basically Everything -> Discrete Math
But the most important skill you'll learn in a CS Math course is to look at a problem and know intuitively if it's possible, and whether it's going to be easy or hard. Exponential search space, but we can limit it to 24-bit integers? Easy. Requires 100-bit precision? Probably doable, but hard if I don't have good libraries. Optimize an 8-input boolean function? A bitch by hand. A bitch to code. Numbers don't matter, we have the best tools of any profession, including mathematicians, for dealing with numbers. It's feeling these values and knowing how to deal with them that is the valuable skill. And, really, a one-semester course can give students a feel for basically anything... if it were my course, I'd skip probability and such, and make them take a specialized class there, and then try to cover boolean loggic, discrete math, and set and graph theory, probably along with some estimation techniques in a non-rigorous fashion.
Forgot to say, that's an associates link. Sorry, bad habit. Don't want anyone to accuse me of being a bum (and don't want that to prevent people from reading the book), so here's a clean link.
For those of you about to ask why anyone would care about IPv6... well, we've all heard the answers, mostly larger address space (sounds surprisingly familiar to the 32-bit / 64-bit bickering we hear). If you're really interested, though, and want to see why it matters to you as a developer or IT person, I think IPv6 Essentials is a good, though not great, read. Developers will be disappointed but educated; sysadmins will be pleased and educated.
"Mars is Heaven"? Included in The Martian Chronicles as "The Third Expedition." Check it out.
Pudge, why not just write a little perl script to copy every story from the Macslash database to Slashdot as soon as it's published. It seems like thats what happens anyway, you might as well make life easier for everyone.
Presumably if I was willing to pay the domain registration fees anyway, yes. It just seems like this is a massive hole which totally prevents the whole idea of 'if it's my name, I have priority.'
I don't mean to be crude, but... ah, heck, let's be crude, it demonstrates the point. Do you honestly believe that legless girls with three noses get laid as much as the more conventional folk?
So if I draw a five-minute cartoon of George Bush the Walrus-Man and trademark the character I can block any other George Bush (of which there are far too many) from ever getting george.bush.name?
And what about the fact that there are a thousand John Smith's? Personal names (that is, names of persons, not your company) are not designed to avoid name collisions, and the .name system that attempts to do so seems silly.