That whole part of the world would be relegated to status: irrelevant. They could nuke each other off the planet for all we care.
They can still nuke us off the planet, though - that's (purportedly) why we're going to war. If we weren't buying their oil, they might be even more likely to do something that could otherwise damage business relations.
And of course we can't just stop the auto industry. We can make them want to change, or we can pay Congress to force them to change. Except that they're busy paying Congress to keep things the way they are. Or we could take steps to reduce political corruption, so Congress would do the right thing without being paid for it. I'm not optimistic.
Many Mac peripherals and Windows peripherals are hardware-identical but with different drivers.
Video cards would seem to be a notable exception - they're NEARLY identical but have different firmware. I think this has to do with the way the BIOS has to initialize the card before the OS boots, and maybe endian issues between platforms. Aside from that, and not counting older peripherals you can't buy anymore, the only issue is that there are Windows drivers for everything, and Mac drivers for a select subset of peripherals.
Now that Mac OS X is gaining popularity, open source developers are starting to release open source third party hardware drivers. Yay!
The problem here is that Circuit City does not carry a xxxx that works in an x86 machine running the GNU/Linux operating environment.
Officially it doesn't work in anything other than Windows, because that's what's listed on the box. Even if there are Mac and Windows drivers available. Even if Apple has included support for that chipset in the Mac OS for the last 10 years. Even if Linux has fully supported it since the 2.0 kernel.
Select to copy, middle-click to paste is consistent in X, and it bugs the hell out of me. Please, is there any way to disable select-to-copy? Middle-clicking to paste is perfectly fine, I have no problem with that, it's just a shortcut. Select-to-copy is a pain in the ass that I'm constantly fighting to work around ("oh wait, I can't do that because X is retarded, ok, um, I'll do it this way instead").
I understand that X was never designed to copy and paste with a clipboard like Mac OS or Windows; the behavior was a (somewhat strange, but reasonable at the time) implementation of drag-and-drop. On Mac OS, you select something, then drag to the destination and release. In X, you select something, then middle-click at the destination. In X it always copies what you selected; in Mac OS when you drag-and-drop between apps it copies; when you drag-and-drop within one app it moves, or copies if you hold the Option key (same behavior as dragging a file in the Finder within one volume or between volumes).
And that's fine. I use drag-and-drop. But I ALSO use copy, cut and paste, which are not the same thing. When I copy or cut something, it goes onto the clipboard, and it stays there until I copy or cut something else. In the mean time, I can select other things, delete them, drag things around, etc. I can highlight the current URL in Mozilla, replace it by typing over it, highlight the new URL and replace it by pasting what I had copied. I can switch to BBEdit (editor of the gods), highlight some text, and drag it around to where I want it. Then I can switch to AIM, highlight a word I just typed, and click the Italics button for emphasis. Then I can paste the same URL I pasted a couple minutes ago.
And of course, as someone else mentioned, I can do the same with formatted text, graphics, or anything else.
phroggy@panther:~$ ftp ftp.webwizardry.net Connected to webwizardry.net. 220 ftp.webwizardry.net Microsoft FTP Service (Version 5.0). Name (ftp.webwizardry.net:phroggy):
Wait a minute. We need tougher laws in the United States, because organized crime gangs in Russia and Malaysia are counterfitting Windows CDs (including the hologram, so people can't tell it's not official) and selling them, which is already illegal? What exactly can the USDOJ do to stop this?
Because software is evil. Where have you been? Stand back as I release munitions from my brain to my fingers and into vi, which then goes into gcc and reveals great desctructive powers! Behold the bits that are evil! In short time I shall destroy commerce and freedom! I am the ultimate terrorist -- I can code!
If you're lazy, you can illegally export munitions simply by clicking the submit button on this page.
The Mac OS X version of Mozilla is now Mach-O instead of CFS, meaning the code underneath is UNIX-ish instead of Mac-ish, and it builds with gcc. This makes it faster.
The splash screen is missing (bug 112559), and the font size in Chatzilla is too small (bug 181039). The latter can be worked around with an altered stylesheet (look for "larger" here).
Finally mozilla supports unicode in the titlebar properly and also the address bar! Not the most important feature but it certaintly made things ugly to look at when you look at sites in different character sets. (This is reffering to Windows rels. btw)
Works in OSX as well. Nice to have my Taiwanese spam display the subject line in the title bar correctly, even if I can't read it.
...when you're downloading in the middle of a slashdotting, and it's *still* going at max speed. Sigh.
Either that, or perhaps AOL/Time Warner has a hell of a lot of bandwidth at their disposal? Hmmmm... largest ISP in the world, huge media conglomerate, lot of bandwidth...
Created most weekdays from the previous day's work, these will probably work, but may not. Use them to verify that a bug you're tracking has been fixed.
If you're running a nightly build, and you're expecting it to be stable, well, that's your own fault, isn't it?
Go to http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/.
If the latest nightly is crashing consistently and repeatedly, try to search for an existing bug report, and if you can't find one, submit your own. Somebody else who's more familiar with Bugzilla will probably find the existing bug you couldn't find, and mark yours as a duplicate, so at least make the effort to search before submitting, but don't feel too bad about it. If it's really not a duplicate, somebody will try to reproduce it, and if they can, it will get fixed. If they can't, it'll be marked "works for me" and closed, so make sure you leave detailed steps on how to reproduce the bug. You'll be notified by e-mail as people add comments or change the status of the bug (and if it gets marked as a dupe you'll be notified of updates to that one too). When it's marked as resolved, wait a day or so and then try the next nightly.
When spammers use my e-mail address as the "From" address on their spam, please do not post it to a web site. Getting all the "User unknown" bounces is annoying enough.
Religion is a much bigger threat to women than porn ever could be, on many, many levels.
Are you suggesting that those rapists must have been punished for religious reasons, since all atheists condone pornography?
Or are you suggesting that people who believe in certain moral guidelines are more likely to violate those guidelines than people who don't believe in them? Can someone explain how that makes sense?
I took a class in Java once, and I remember something about JavaDoc, which would let you comment your code in a special format, and you could run something that would produce automated documentation based on your comments. I LOVE this idea, and have been wondering if there's something similar for Perl.
I started putting my comments in a particular format, and wrote a Perl script to grab them all and generate an HTML page, which I can print and tape to my wall for reference. When you've got 3,000 lines of code in custom modules, it's nice to have a reference when you forget what order a sub takes its arguments in. I shouldn't have to write my own documentation script. Nor should I have to maintain documentation in a seperate file, and worry about it getting out of date when I make changes.
Can somebody point me in the right direction? If there is no such thing for Perl 5, will there be for Perl 6?
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Hooray... maybe Apple finally grew up. Hooray to the end of the fruityness.
Apple grew up a long time ago; the parent post was talking about everybody ELSE maybe finally growing up and stop making fruit-colored staplers.
That whole part of the world would be relegated to status: irrelevant. They could nuke each other off the planet for all we care.
They can still nuke us off the planet, though - that's (purportedly) why we're going to war. If we weren't buying their oil, they might be even more likely to do something that could otherwise damage business relations.
And of course we can't just stop the auto industry. We can make them want to change, or we can pay Congress to force them to change. Except that they're busy paying Congress to keep things the way they are. Or we could take steps to reduce political corruption, so Congress would do the right thing without being paid for it. I'm not optimistic.
Many Mac peripherals and Windows peripherals are hardware-identical but with different drivers.
Video cards would seem to be a notable exception - they're NEARLY identical but have different firmware. I think this has to do with the way the BIOS has to initialize the card before the OS boots, and maybe endian issues between platforms. Aside from that, and not counting older peripherals you can't buy anymore, the only issue is that there are Windows drivers for everything, and Mac drivers for a select subset of peripherals.
Now that Mac OS X is gaining popularity, open source developers are starting to release open source third party hardware drivers. Yay!
The problem here is that Circuit City does not carry a xxxx that works in an x86 machine running the GNU/Linux operating environment.
Officially it doesn't work in anything other than Windows, because that's what's listed on the box. Even if there are Mac and Windows drivers available. Even if Apple has included support for that chipset in the Mac OS for the last 10 years. Even if Linux has fully supported it since the 2.0 kernel.
Select to copy, middle-click to paste is consistent in X, and it bugs the hell out of me. Please, is there any way to disable select-to-copy? Middle-clicking to paste is perfectly fine, I have no problem with that, it's just a shortcut. Select-to-copy is a pain in the ass that I'm constantly fighting to work around ("oh wait, I can't do that because X is retarded, ok, um, I'll do it this way instead").
I understand that X was never designed to copy and paste with a clipboard like Mac OS or Windows; the behavior was a (somewhat strange, but reasonable at the time) implementation of drag-and-drop. On Mac OS, you select something, then drag to the destination and release. In X, you select something, then middle-click at the destination. In X it always copies what you selected; in Mac OS when you drag-and-drop between apps it copies; when you drag-and-drop within one app it moves, or copies if you hold the Option key (same behavior as dragging a file in the Finder within one volume or between volumes).
And that's fine. I use drag-and-drop. But I ALSO use copy, cut and paste, which are not the same thing. When I copy or cut something, it goes onto the clipboard, and it stays there until I copy or cut something else. In the mean time, I can select other things, delete them, drag things around, etc. I can highlight the current URL in Mozilla, replace it by typing over it, highlight the new URL and replace it by pasting what I had copied. I can switch to BBEdit (editor of the gods), highlight some text, and drag it around to where I want it. Then I can switch to AIM, highlight a word I just typed, and click the Italics button for emphasis. Then I can paste the same URL I pasted a couple minutes ago.
And of course, as someone else mentioned, I can do the same with formatted text, graphics, or anything else.
Here.
:-X
Please mod this down so I don't get slashdotted too badly.
The communism one is better, sinces it's factually accurate, which adds to the humor.
"Downloading communism" is factually accurate?
Why pay a sound guy who knows what the hell he's doing, when your neighbor's kid claims he can run sound and costs a lot less?
Can someone explain why a magnet apparently won't damage a black-and-white TV, but it will damage a color TV?
The Matrix.
Wait a minute. We need tougher laws in the United States, because organized crime gangs in Russia and Malaysia are counterfitting Windows CDs (including the hologram, so people can't tell it's not official) and selling them, which is already illegal? What exactly can the USDOJ do to stop this?
hehehe I dunno what the mozilla mailer is capable of, but I have Evolution blacklisting several non-English character sets. You should give it a shot!
Hardly any of it gets past SpamCop; if I didn't have that filtering, I would.
um, that really wasn't funny.
Because software is evil. Where have you been? Stand back as I release munitions from my brain to my fingers and into vi, which then goes into gcc and reveals great desctructive powers! Behold the bits that are evil! In short time I shall destroy commerce and freedom! I am the ultimate terrorist -- I can code!
If you're lazy, you can illegally export munitions simply by clicking the submit button on this page.
The Mac OS X version of Mozilla is now Mach-O instead of CFS, meaning the code underneath is UNIX-ish instead of Mac-ish, and it builds with gcc. This makes it faster.
The splash screen is missing (bug 112559), and the font size in Chatzilla is too small (bug 181039). The latter can be worked around with an altered stylesheet (look for "larger" here).
Finally mozilla supports unicode in the titlebar properly and also the address bar! Not the most important feature but it certaintly made things ugly to look at when you look at sites in different character sets. (This is reffering to Windows rels. btw)
Works in OSX as well. Nice to have my Taiwanese spam display the subject line in the title bar correctly, even if I can't read it.
...when you're downloading in the middle of a slashdotting, and it's *still* going at max speed. Sigh.
Either that, or perhaps AOL/Time Warner has a hell of a lot of bandwidth at their disposal? Hmmmm... largest ISP in the world, huge media conglomerate, lot of bandwidth...
If you're running a nightly build, and you're expecting it to be stable, well, that's your own fault, isn't it?
Go to http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/.
If the latest nightly is crashing consistently and repeatedly, try to search for an existing bug report, and if you can't find one, submit your own. Somebody else who's more familiar with Bugzilla will probably find the existing bug you couldn't find, and mark yours as a duplicate, so at least make the effort to search before submitting, but don't feel too bad about it. If it's really not a duplicate, somebody will try to reproduce it, and if they can, it will get fixed. If they can't, it'll be marked "works for me" and closed, so make sure you leave detailed steps on how to reproduce the bug. You'll be notified by e-mail as people add comments or change the status of the bug (and if it gets marked as a dupe you'll be notified of updates to that one too). When it's marked as resolved, wait a day or so and then try the next nightly.
When spammers use my e-mail address as the "From" address on their spam, please do not post it to a web site. Getting all the "User unknown" bounces is annoying enough.
Spamcop is a much better idea.
Is that a skin cream? Micro-so-soft!
Works as mosquito repellant too.
Religion is a much bigger threat to women than porn ever could be, on many, many levels.
Are you suggesting that those rapists must have been punished for religious reasons, since all atheists condone pornography?
Or are you suggesting that people who believe in certain moral guidelines are more likely to violate those guidelines than people who don't believe in them? Can someone explain how that makes sense?
I took a class in Java once, and I remember something about JavaDoc, which would let you comment your code in a special format, and you could run something that would produce automated documentation based on your comments. I LOVE this idea, and have been wondering if there's something similar for Perl.
I started putting my comments in a particular format, and wrote a Perl script to grab them all and generate an HTML page, which I can print and tape to my wall for reference. When you've got 3,000 lines of code in custom modules, it's nice to have a reference when you forget what order a sub takes its arguments in. I shouldn't have to write my own documentation script. Nor should I have to maintain documentation in a seperate file, and worry about it getting out of date when I make changes.
Can somebody point me in the right direction? If there is no such thing for Perl 5, will there be for Perl 6?
Gee, they hold an obfuscated C contest every year. You think C would vanish by now given the disgusting crap the coders write for the contest.
And the guy who wrote Perl usually wins.
160,000 Join Massachusetts Do-Not-Call List
Massachusetts Appealing Microsoft Ruling
given the recent law passed in Massachusetts, which prevents people from just throwing away old computers and monitors....
Pretty impressive...
I got a reply from my state senator; he says they'll keep an eye on that bill. Hopefully it'll pass. :-)