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Unfortunately, the article doesn't say so
...because most likely the answer is "not yet". Rendezvous was implemented in MacOS X 10.2, but when the OS came out, nothing really took advantage of it. It took time for developers (and even Apple) to understand the implications of Rendezvous and subsequently add it to their apps. The underpinnings have to be there first.
There will have to be some built-in limits on what can be made in a "Desktop Fabricator", however, otherwise an intelligent enough machine could end up like the maker in Warren Ellis' excellent "Transmetropolitan" series; constantly manufacturing and taking its own drugs.
...so who wants to zip up their calculator and post it somewhere on the internet for everyone? For everyone who was stupid enough to turn on the other views in 10.3.5?
One of the major annoyances my company is finding during our internal Thunderbird testing is this freakish behavior:
1) user gets email.
2) user replies to email, text wraps correctly.
3) user forwards email and the text does not wrap at all, but instead runs off the screen horizontally causing annoying readability issues.
Does anyone know why this is? It still appears to be in Thunderbird 0.9. I'm confused as to if it is a bug or by design. If it's a bug, it's kind of a big one. If it's by design, it's kind of a poor design and there should be an option or preference to have "reply" and "forward" act consistently.
Otherwise, Thunderbird ROCKS -- nice work Thunderbird developers. It's fast, free and just getting better and better with each release.
...things like this feel "too little too late" -- I mean sure, its great to memorialize him now. But wouldn't it have been better to do this while he was alive?
A tribute is a tribute. There's plenty of things in this world to second-guess, but not stuff like this. If it makes people feel better about the loss of someone that meant something to them, let it be.
A sort-of on-topic question which occurred to me during the VP debate, when Cheney was chiding Edwards for missing votes in the senate: why is it so hard to get our congress-people to vote? "Missing votes" seems to be a ongoing and constant criticism of even our best political representatives.
Do they have to be physically present to cast a vote? If so, why? Can't we afford to get these people a blackberry or a treo or something? (I'm not being facetious, I just don't know.)
Somehow, blogs about blogs (meta-blogs?) usually wind up being more interesting than the blogs themselves; which makes me wonder if blogs about blogs about blogs would be even more geometrically interesting than that.
Or what about a message board post about blogs about meta-blogs, such as this one you're reading right now? Possibly, following the previous logic, what you're reading now is the most interesting thing ever. We are through the looking glass, here, people.
I don't understand this argument -- specifically when made on slashdot; it seems like most readers of slashdot would welcome an excuse to take their iPods apart and replace the battery.
TiVo has the mindshare and still remains the best of breed PVR out there, both in terms of technology and UI. Geeks might not think UI is important but it really is; jJust examine this account of what goes wrong when the technology is there (sort of) but the UI is not.
Why did you take John's nicely formatted article and ass it up like that? Additionally, he's selling memberships to help pay for his site, I'm sure he'd probably like people to actually come to the site to buy them...
iRobot is a cool company; if you need replacement parts for your Roomba, the friendly people on the phone are more than happy to mail them out post-haste to you.
So the new Roomba models head back to their base to recharge themselves. That's really cool. But can they be put on a timed or daily schedule? That would address the top two questions I got asked about my first-gen Roomba.
The only official and publicly released statement from Apple is here, which says that Tiger's upgraded kernel is based on "FreeBSD 5.x"; but maybe someone who's poked around the developer preview of 10.4 (or wouldn't mind anonymously breaking NDA) can give a more complete answer.
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Can you spot the subtle differences?
~jeff
Unfortunately, the article doesn't say so
~jeff
There will have to be some built-in limits on what can be made in a "Desktop Fabricator", however, otherwise an intelligent enough machine could end up like the maker in Warren Ellis' excellent "Transmetropolitan" series; constantly manufacturing and taking its own drugs.
~jeff
Man, that game was awesome. When my friends and I found out that you could hit the cow and it would "moo", that's all we wanted to do.
Anyhow, it had both "ghost racers" that represented your best lap, and a replay mode when you cracked up spectacularly.
(Like me?)
~jeff
One of the major annoyances my company is finding during our internal Thunderbird testing is this freakish behavior:
1) user gets email.
2) user replies to email, text wraps correctly.
3) user forwards email and the text does not wrap at all, but instead runs off the screen horizontally causing annoying readability issues.
Does anyone know why this is? It still appears to be in Thunderbird 0.9. I'm confused as to if it is a bug or by design. If it's a bug, it's kind of a big one. If it's by design, it's kind of a poor design and there should be an option or preference to have "reply" and "forward" act consistently.
Otherwise, Thunderbird ROCKS -- nice work Thunderbird developers. It's fast, free and just getting better and better with each release.
~jeff
p.s. Inline spell check would be nice
a legal torrent of which is here.
I like the David Byrne and the Le Tigre track, the rest is a little so-so, IMHO.
~jeff
I look forward to your upcoming Abe Vigoda tribute.
A tribute is a tribute. There's plenty of things in this world to second-guess, but not stuff like this. If it makes people feel better about the loss of someone that meant something to them, let it be.
~jeff
A sort-of on-topic question which occurred to me during the VP debate, when Cheney was chiding Edwards for missing votes in the senate: why is it so hard to get our congress-people to vote? "Missing votes" seems to be a ongoing and constant criticism of even our best political representatives.
Do they have to be physically present to cast a vote? If so, why? Can't we afford to get these people a blackberry or a treo or something? (I'm not being facetious, I just don't know.)
~jeff
Please tell me how exempting the fastest growing, most poluting economy on the face of the planet will make one bit of difference.
Progress that's not all-encompassing still continues to be progress.
~jeff
Don't be fooled, people, that suspiciously cute robokitty takes lithium-ion batteries! Here's a picture from the same day as proof:
j pg
http://pldaniels.com/photos/2004092001/mpic00002.
~jeff
Somehow, blogs about blogs (meta-blogs?) usually wind up being more interesting than the blogs themselves; which makes me wonder if blogs about blogs about blogs would be even more geometrically interesting than that.
Or what about a message board post about blogs about meta-blogs, such as this one you're reading right now? Possibly, following the previous logic, what you're reading now is the most interesting thing ever. We are through the looking glass, here, people.
~jeff
With the proper drivers and a little rewiring... all you need to do is change the connector.
That's a different definition of "working" than I'm used to.
~jeff
You just don't get that kind of entertainment with modern gaming systems.
Oh yes you do. I love the hidden game in my X-Box, called "Disk is Dirty or Damaged". That game seems to come up all the time!
~jeff
Version Tracker is your friend.
~jeff
~jeff
I don't understand this argument -- specifically when made on slashdot; it seems like most readers of slashdot would welcome an excuse to take their iPods apart and replace the battery.
~jeff
an oldie, but a goodie:
http://www.somethingawful.com/jeffk//cliifyintarv
~jeff
Both GmailStatus and GCount use the in-development Mac OS X Growl framework for cute little pop-up notifiers.
If you (understandably) don't want to compile Growl, here's a compiled version.
~jeff
TiVo has the mindshare and still remains the best of breed PVR out there, both in terms of technology and UI. Geeks might not think UI is important but it really is; jJust examine this account of what goes wrong when the technology is there (sort of) but the UI is not.
~jeff
Sure, except for the one problem with the Griffin radioSHARK; it doesn't exist yet. It's been "shipping soon" for about 9 months now.
~jeff
Why did you take John's nicely formatted article and ass it up like that? Additionally, he's selling memberships to help pay for his site, I'm sure he'd probably like people to actually come to the site to buy them...
~jeff
iRobot is a cool company; if you need replacement parts for your Roomba, the friendly people on the phone are more than happy to mail them out post-haste to you.
So the new Roomba models head back to their base to recharge themselves. That's really cool. But can they be put on a timed or daily schedule? That would address the top two questions I got asked about my first-gen Roomba.
~jeff
the last line of his memo:
PS: I'm sending this from my hospital bed using my 17-inch PowerBook and an Airport Express.
Note he stops just short of asserting it was the Airport Express that cured his cancer...
In all seriousness, any time anyone beats cancer it is Good News. Has there been any reports on how the cancer was caught so quickly?
~jeff
The only official and publicly released statement from Apple is here, which says that Tiger's upgraded kernel is based on "FreeBSD 5.x"; but maybe someone who's poked around the developer preview of 10.4 (or wouldn't mind anonymously breaking NDA) can give a more complete answer.
~jeff