A few years ago my MS SQL server was cracked into by a worm going around then. (I don't remember which...it was my fault for using really stupidly lax security.)
Speakeasy quite quickly cut my connection and pleasantly provided me information on how to fix it. I applaud providers who do this sort of thing.
What do you want, items dragged out of the dock to create a new alias on the desktop? Ick.
He probably wants it to behave just like dragging an icon around does everywhere else in the OS and *move* it.
But you didn't *move* the item into the dock. Maybe that's the core point under discussion, but the fact is if you didn't move or create anything by placing a a shortcut to an item into the dock, you shouldn't create or move anything by dragging items out of the dock. No more than dragging items into/out of the new Sidebar, or that adding/removing items from your Bookmarks should affect the original webpage.
I'd imagine it the scaling and the clarity of the icons would look very bad because the UI is not vector based like OS X.
To be pedantic, while XP's 'resizing' is worse than OS X's IMO, OS X icons are not vector based. They simply have multiple sizes of graphics and choose the next-largest size and scale it down. It's still bitmaps.
That's the thing about HCI people. They're part of an entire field devoted to telling you that your opinion is wrong.
Or, as the joke goes:
"Give an HCI person a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach an HCI person how to fish, and he'll give you a Visio diagram detailing why your way is all wrong.":)
What does this mean? Using something like TinkerTool (as a convenience interface to writing the preferences) you can anchor it to the left/right edge at the bottom of the screen, so it only grows in one direction...which means applications are always in the same spot, if you anchor it to the left. Is this what you mean by 'lockable'?
2. When icons are dragged off the dock, instead of going *poof* they should be moved to the desktop
This is a poor idea, IMO. The dock is like a favorites list, not a storage location. Items don't get moved 'into' the dock, they just get pointed to from it. What do you want, items dragged out of the dock to create a new alias on the desktop? Ick.
I got the new Sony for christmas and it fell on the floor (from 1 meter), and almost broke in half. I mean wtf? I think I'll just be sticking with Apple powerbooks from now on as they make the most durable and stable laptops on the market.
I can attest to the strength of the PowerBook firsthand. My 17" PBG4 fell off the top of my suitcase (~2.5') inside it's minimal-padding sleeve, and landed head first, right on the corner, onto concrete.
The result is that the case in that corner became slightly flattened. No damage to the screen. No change in functionality.
Yay for quality engineering. My wife just bought a Sony PCG-8N1L, and while not purporting to be thin (it's a fricking thick huge beast) it's all plastic. Having been used to Apple's solid designs, it seems so cheesy and cheap:)
Apple will manufacture the player, which will not have the iPod name but will have the same design and features as Apple's third-generation iPod players, Phil Schiller, senior vice president at Apple, said in an interview. Also, the HP music player will come in "HP Blue," he said.
"The way we look at it, HP will be reselling an iPod device," said Schiller, who noted that the device will display the Apple logo at start-up and will work with all of the accessories made for the white-hued Apple varieties.
So it sounds like it'll be blue, but other than that be the normal iPod, running the same OS.
Like all simulated surround, this one likely requires you to be in a very specific sweet spot [...]
RTFA. I quote:
The signal manipulations require 600 million calculations per second. Nirotek also claims its system
does not require the listener to be directly in front of the speaker to be effective.
No sweet spot. It likely is doing signal manipulation to mimic the accoustic modification your ear makes as sound comes in from various locations, rather than just phase differences.
Lack of radio is a small but important one for me.
It isn't an issue for me, and only 1 out of 5 iPod owners I know wanted radio. For that 1 person, it was simple to buy a tiny inline receiver that works with the iPod.
Messing with Font Book messes up Panther. Screwed up (and eventually fixed) two machines now.
Set Font Book to Copy fonts when added (rather than moving) and that Disabling a set should disable all the fonts in it.
Create a new set. Disable it. (Be annoyed the Font Book makes you confirm every freaking action the first time. "Are you sure you want to turn this on? Are you sure you want to turn this off? Are you sure you know what you're doing?")
Drag Adobe Font Folio (600 fonts) into the set.
Reboot. Notice that it takes 5+ minutes to get past the login screen, and Mail takes 100% CPU for 15 minutes and does nothing.
Be annoyed to discover that despite previous setting, fonts added to a disabled set are enabled. Select all and disable them. (Wait a long time on a Dual GHz G4.)
You should now be in the same state as you started, right? Wrong.
Reboot. Notice that things still go somewhat slowly, but eventually open. Sometimes apps hang and take 100% CPU trying to launch. Sometimes you force quit them and they start right up on the next launch.
Look in ~/Library/Fonts and discover 2,500 files.
Attempt to delete the disabled fonts. (Manually, because you can't sort by enabled/disabled.) Be really annoyed at how long it takes to update things.
Find out that halfway through the deletion process, Font Book hangs. Restart. Find your fonts in a higgeldy-piggeldy state.
Install Panther on a new drive, boot into that, delete Font Book prefs and manually restore all fonts to their proper initial set.
Vow never to touch Font Book again until it's patched.
So you're not restricted to using AppleScript to get those benefits.
And in fact, the OSA is more than a theoretical possibility. There's a free Javascript OSA module available...use Script Editor to control your mac using Javascript!
...until I started doing some serious work with iPhoto
What? Look, this isn't a MacOS bash--I love my macs and use iPhoto all the time. But other than filling up iPhoto with thousands of photos (and that doesn't even count) what is 'serious work' with iPhoto? It's simply not that deep an application.
What do I do to stay in shape? I eat as many or less calories than my body needs. I do 5 minutes of exercise in the morning, and once a week I get to play some Ultimate Frisbee.
The Hacker's Diet - it's really easy, very logical, and quite effective.
While a million tracks may sound impressive, you need to keep in mind that it's quite unlikely that they can keep that rate up for very long.
FWIW, Apple has said that their measure for success was a million songs in the first month. That they did it in the first week is very exciting, but not what they counted on in their business plan. I assume they also recognized there would be a surge at the beginning and trickling off, and hence probably were not even banking on another million in the second month.
Yeah, I think Apple's doing well for themselves, Mr. Armchair business plan pseudo-analyst:p
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A few years ago my MS SQL server was cracked into by a worm going around then. (I don't remember which...it was my fault for using really stupidly lax security.)
Speakeasy quite quickly cut my connection and pleasantly provided me information on how to fix it. I applaud providers who do this sort of thing.
Next question, please.
But you didn't *move* the item into the dock. Maybe that's the core point under discussion, but the fact is if you didn't move or create anything by placing a a shortcut to an item into the dock, you shouldn't create or move anything by dragging items out of the dock. No more than dragging items into/out of the new Sidebar, or that adding/removing items from your Bookmarks should affect the original webpage.
To be pedantic, while XP's 'resizing' is worse than OS X's IMO, OS X icons are not vector based. They simply have multiple sizes of graphics and choose the next-largest size and scale it down. It's still bitmaps.
SGI's IRIX is vector based. OS X is not.
Or, as the joke goes:
"Give an HCI person a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach an HCI person how to fish, and he'll give you a Visio diagram detailing why your way is all wrong." :)
What does this mean? Using something like TinkerTool (as a convenience interface to writing the preferences) you can anchor it to the left/right edge at the bottom of the screen, so it only grows in one direction...which means applications are always in the same spot, if you anchor it to the left. Is this what you mean by 'lockable'?
This is a poor idea, IMO. The dock is like a favorites list, not a storage location. Items don't get moved 'into' the dock, they just get pointed to from it. What do you want, items dragged out of the dock to create a new alias on the desktop? Ick.
I can attest to the strength of the PowerBook firsthand. My 17" PBG4 fell off the top of my suitcase (~2.5') inside it's minimal-padding sleeve, and landed head first, right on the corner, onto concrete.
The result is that the case in that corner became slightly flattened. No damage to the screen. No change in functionality.
Yay for quality engineering. My wife just bought a Sony PCG-8N1L, and while not purporting to be thin (it's a fricking thick huge beast) it's all plastic. Having been used to Apple's solid designs, it seems so cheesy and cheap :)
From the first paragraphs at zdnet:
So it sounds like it'll be blue, but other than that be the normal iPod, running the same OS.
Just out of curiosity, they didn't happen to link to an SSID named 'linksys', and think it was the right network, did they? :)
CO doesn't want fingerprints. I just got my (first/new) driver's license here in CO 1 year ago. No (thumb|finger)print taken or asked for.
RTFA. I quote:
No sweet spot. It likely is doing signal manipulation to mimic the accoustic modification your ear makes as sound comes in from various locations, rather than just phase differences.
Oops, it's actually now up to 25 minutes of 'skip protection', as they call it.
It isn't an issue for me, and only 1 out of 5 iPod owners I know wanted radio. For that 1 person, it was simple to buy a tiny inline receiver that works with the iPod.
Well, FWIW, if you're not constantly fast forwarding or skipping songs, the hard drive buffers 20 minutes of music and then spins down.
I charge my iPod overnight, and take it to work with me. I have consistently had battery to spare after 8-9 hours, lasting the drive home.
I don't know what flights they're taking, or where they get the 6 hour number from, but that's just flat wrong.
NB this is with the original 5GB iPod, I have no experience with newer models.
I hope they find a way to sue SCO if they lose, something like misrepresenting the facts of the case in order to get the law firm to take them on.
(IANAAL, I have no idea if this sort of thing would be allowed, but in this case it should :)
I wonder if instead of massive shielding, the military is increasingly interested in optical computing for reasons like this.
And in fact, the OSA is more than a theoretical possibility. There's a free Javascript OSA module available...use Script Editor to control your mac using Javascript!
a=1+4 == 5
... its less characters and faster execution than new Number() or parseInt(foo,10);
a=1+'4' == '14'
a=1+'4'*1 == 5
Just *1 your strings
What? Look, this isn't a MacOS bash--I love my macs and use iPhoto all the time. But other than filling up iPhoto with thousands of photos (and that doesn't even count) what is 'serious work' with iPhoto? It's simply not that deep an application.
The Hacker's Diet - it's really easy, very logical, and quite effective.
You mean the 1% using NS4 and 1% using IE4?
I wouldn't call that sizeable. I'd call that miniscule.
IEMac was one of the first browsers to support full 8-bit transparency. It's only IEWin that's broken, and been broken a long time.
FWIW, Apple has said that their measure for success was a million songs in the first month. That they did it in the first week is very exciting, but not what they counted on in their business plan. I assume they also recognized there would be a surge at the beginning and trickling off, and hence probably were not even banking on another million in the second month.
Yeah, I think Apple's doing well for themselves, Mr. Armchair business plan pseudo-analyst :p