Hey, that is a pretty darn good solution, especially if the root theme is protected from applications wanting to mimic for password sniff.. I'm going to try it.
You should put this up as an entry at MacOSXHints, anyway.. its pretty good.
Well, my experience was different. In LA, my friends, my girlfriend, and I, had been talking about the 'quake weather' for the week before Northridge, and although I'd only been in San Fran for 2 weeks on business before the '89 quake, I still recall thinking 'quake weather' in the days preceding, not after..
I lived in LA for 15 years. 'quake weather' was a pretty constant meme in those parts.. but hey, maybe my crowd were more generally paranoid than yours. Could be.
I don't believe the principal actors (read: Bush & Co.) have enough altruism to sacrifice themselves to achieve such a goal.
Then I believe you are being very naive. The PNAC crew are very familiary with political shenanigans of this order; Machiavelli would be proud.
They're not immunizing other cultures from America, for the cause of America. They're instead creating conditions favourable to their lords and masters, the weapons makers, in 'the name' of America, guarantee'ing future economies in the trade of warfare and turmoil by agitating under the front of 'The Creation of An American Empire' (which stands only to suffer extremely poorly under the conditions created for it so far by this crowd).
Since the American economy is in a shambles, they can even justify this sacrifice of American virtue for the good of multi-national (but primarily American/European) War Machine Corps Profit as a 'national security matter'.. they have the language for that in the Exec Orders, for sure.. and those War Machine Corps' represent a significant revenue to the U.S. Gov't, and its People...
Well, that's not strictly true. I think that app certification could work if it weren't centralized. If instead, prior to running someones code, your certification process involved establishing a direct relationship with the original author that implied a degree of resonsibility on their part when it came to asking for sensitive information.
But even then, this would only provide insurance/sanctity, not security. I could be a bad-guy software author collecting admin passwords, but still end up writing software that everyone wants to run, and do run, after certification.
(I find it interesting that nobody has really proposed what I think is the ultimate answer to the 'trusted app' problem: source tarballs and a certification system for that source...)
.. (as I have already mentioned elsewhere).. and I think that maybe your problem is you need to buy another one.
The thing is, I don't really agree with you on the assumption that everyone will wind up in the same boat as you.
Sure, the cables are short: but not if they're plugged into your USB keyboard. I have an Apple extended keyboard (fantastic) and it serves as a hub- I have a black and silver PowerMate plugged into each side, and the short cable length, in this situation, is a plus, not a negative.
I've set up my PM's for every major app I use, and the driver defaults already for a lot of 'regular' apps, such as my web browser. Its quite fun to sit back in my chair, thumbmates in hand, one to scroll the window, the other to select hyperlinks in a web page. After 20 seconds of use, its now the most 'natural-feeling' way of surfing the web for me; I find the mouse to be utterly awkward in comparison. ick!
Great for movies and audio scrubbing too! Way more fun to skip frames with a big fat wheely knob than try to get the mouse to do anything accurate..
I have two, one on each side of my USB keyboard, and I have to say that once you've used a 2-Powermate setup for audio/video/midi editing, you'll wonder how you'll ever go back to that primitive mouse interface.
In fact, I rarely use my mouse any more, actually, except when I really need to. Everything I need to do is way more fun from either side of my 'pinball rotary' setup. No more right-hand-only RSI.. well, at least not as a result of any mouse activity, anyway..
In the field I work in (synthesizers), the perceptive nature of our customers (musicians) when relating to a user interface is indeed a tricky and wonderful force to behold. Rotary knobs, and the general 'feel' of a system as a result of simple interface kinetics, is fairly well-established in this field.
I've always viewed the standard computer interface (keyboard/mouse) as being curiously unburdened by progress and change; you cannot say the same for the synth business, where there is no one standard for how you ought to use knobs.
I've got two PowerMates, both on each side of an Apple extended keyboard, they are without doubt among the most precious peripheral I have on my desk. I've also got a couple of faderfox boxes, an LV1 and an LX1, which are also awesome primary/secondary interfaces, as well offering endless rotaries for various nefarious uses..
The attempt by Microsoft to commodotize their 'peripheral assets' (MS Natural keyboard) while providing pitiful support (beyond HID) for application authors, and the tendency of other interface mfr's to vector off into 'cool but ultimately useless plastic hack' (anyone remember the Cyberman?) is fairly common. Once again, its all about the operating system.
But you know, if you want to know more about endless uses for rotary knobs, look no further than the audio/synth/pro-media tool markets. Especially of the 80's and 90's.. a veritable wasteland of proprietary hack after propietary hack, all with their own individual utility lifespan, designed to give muso's a haptic kick or two.
What saves us from war is when we wake up to the fact that its the war-mongers profiting from our demise that drove us into the war in the first place.
Which is why I say, make no business with a maker of weapons.
I never built castles in a sandbox, I'd build them on the beach, where its actually okay to piss on the sand because there's plenty.. and I mean plenty.. of fresh clean sand to move to..
Wish I could say this allegory had a parallel in the computing science realm, but it doesn't. So maybe I'll give up and go surfing for a while.
i've never though of Python as a replacement for Java. I've thought of it as a replacement for Perl, many, many, many times over, and have used it in that capacity quite well, too.
That said, I'm learning Ruby these days. Ruby continues to impress me.. I found a Ruby script to do administration on HTML files which nearly brought tears to my eyes, it was so well-written, so fun to understand, and it worked so damned well.
Something thats always bothered me about OSX is how easy it is to write a program that prompts the user to enter their Admin password, and how many users just enter it when requested, for any old program.
I don't really know how Apple can address this.. perhaps some sort of 'certification' system for "programs which need admin access", but I've seen how that approach got dealt with by Microsoft and I don't really see it as a solution; just more problems. (App Certification is a crappy idea..)
Really, there's just no such thing as a piss-free sandbox. *sigh*
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Yeah, umm... break your bubble, man. Not every single inch on the planet is susceptible to hail. There are some places where hail would be welcomed; you can still nevertheless use these tiles to improve life conditions in those area's.
Sometimes, it amazes me, how some peoples' arguments even get through their miles-thick bubble..
The problem isn't COST.
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Its greed.
COST is arbitrary. Sunlight isn't.
(Yours is the stupidest argument I've ever heard. Greed, man, GREED!)
My family has a beach-house in Australia, and my Dad is putting another floor on it as we talk (i.e. its gonna be 3-story instead of 2).. I've considered proposing that we embed a camera system in one of the limestone blocks he's using to build the house with, and making it part of the house computing system so that pics can be taken any time of the year of the incredible beach view from the house.
This analemma idea might just be the clincher. It'd be superb for this house (on its way to being a historic monument, heh heh) to have a collection of such images added to its already-impressive position...
There are some - not all tin-foil - folks who believe that PNAC is a straw man. In fact, what PNAC is doing, is eroding the American Empire, by fostering anti-American'ism both abroad, and on the home front.
Using the "American Empire" meme to propagate criminal activity (Iraq, Afghanistan) is a means to alloy other world systems (EU, Russia, IMF, etc.) against the existing American society, paving the way for PNAC failure, opening the door for future integration of the American system into other fledgling world movements, such as the push for a One World Government (non-American).
In other words, Push America to Defeat America.
Its not all tin-foil, either. Some very smart people have caught on to this fact..
I lived in California for a while and survived both the '89 quake in San Fran, and the Northridge quake in LA.
Both of these quakes were preceded by what the locals all felt was "quake weather", a sort of 'strange heat and cold' combination that just seemed like it was building up pressure over the land. For days before Northridge, we'd been 'feeling like theres gonna be a quake', a sort of perception of the weather system.
Its interesting to see that tides affect the plates. I wonder if there's more research done on the 'quake weather' factor, even though its entirely a subjective observation, it really seems to me that there was a sort of 'on again off again' pressure-cooker weather system preceding both of those quakes.
Yeah. What if all those kids just walked into town, let their beards grow a little, took their weapons off, and just hung out with the locals, instead of treating them like "The Enemy" (tm)?
I'll tell you: the war would be over. Iraqi's would get to know Americans. Americans would get to know Iraqi's.
Right now, the war is perpetuated by the thin layer that exists between Iraqi and America (uniform, weapon, ammo, base camp). Get rid of that layer, and you'll have no more war.
Human contact is highly effective at finishing war. Imagine if those cruise missiles were delivering water pump parts to Darfur, instead?
And, before the hard-ass warmongers come down on me as a 'non-realist', and try to remind me that if you throw away your weapons, you're setting yourself up for a headshot, let me just say that its a damned good thing that your type haven't figured out how to weaponize human relationships.. yet.
why should a language be all about string handling? thats what good libs are for.
this article starts out with the 'some people program in Perl and use terrible habits' point. the problem is, Perl allows you into this bad habit territory, by design of the language.
string handling is just one use for a language. python has plenty of superb string handling libs. its also very difficult to get into the same 'bad habit' territory that you can get into with Perl..
my original post was to make the point that if you don't want to have to 're-optimize' your badly-written Perl code, just use Python in the first place.
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Hey, that is a pretty darn good solution, especially if the root theme is protected from applications wanting to mimic for password sniff.. I'm going to try it.
You should put this up as an entry at MacOSXHints, anyway.. its pretty good.
Well, my experience was different. In LA, my friends, my girlfriend, and I, had been talking about the 'quake weather' for the week before Northridge, and although I'd only been in San Fran for 2 weeks on business before the '89 quake, I still recall thinking 'quake weather' in the days preceding, not after
I lived in LA for 15 years. 'quake weather' was a pretty constant meme in those parts.. but hey, maybe my crowd were more generally paranoid than yours. Could be.
I don't believe the principal actors (read: Bush & Co.) have enough altruism to sacrifice themselves to achieve such a goal.
.. they have the language for that in the Exec Orders, for sure .. and those War Machine Corps' represent a significant revenue to the U.S. Gov't, and its People...
Then I believe you are being very naive. The PNAC crew are very familiary with political shenanigans of this order; Machiavelli would be proud.
They're not immunizing other cultures from America, for the cause of America. They're instead creating conditions favourable to their lords and masters, the weapons makers, in 'the name' of America, guarantee'ing future economies in the trade of warfare and turmoil by agitating under the front of 'The Creation of An American Empire' (which stands only to suffer extremely poorly under the conditions created for it so far by this crowd).
Since the American economy is in a shambles, they can even justify this sacrifice of American virtue for the good of multi-national (but primarily American/European) War Machine Corps Profit as a 'national security matter'
I can't agree with you.
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Well, that's not strictly true. I think that app certification could work if it weren't centralized. If instead, prior to running someones code, your certification process involved establishing a direct relationship with the original author that implied a degree of resonsibility on their part when it came to asking for sensitive information.
But even then, this would only provide insurance/sanctity, not security. I could be a bad-guy software author collecting admin passwords, but still end up writing software that everyone wants to run, and do run, after certification.
(I find it interesting that nobody has really proposed what I think is the ultimate answer to the 'trusted app' problem: source tarballs and a certification system for that source
.. (as I have already mentioned elsewhere) .. and I think that maybe your problem is you need to buy another one.
..
The thing is, I don't really agree with you on the assumption that everyone will wind up in the same boat as you.
Sure, the cables are short: but not if they're plugged into your USB keyboard. I have an Apple extended keyboard (fantastic) and it serves as a hub- I have a black and silver PowerMate plugged into each side, and the short cable length, in this situation, is a plus, not a negative.
I've set up my PM's for every major app I use, and the driver defaults already for a lot of 'regular' apps, such as my web browser. Its quite fun to sit back in my chair, thumbmates in hand, one to scroll the window, the other to select hyperlinks in a web page. After 20 seconds of use, its now the most 'natural-feeling' way of surfing the web for me; I find the mouse to be utterly awkward in comparison. ick!
Great for movies and audio scrubbing too! Way more fun to skip frames with a big fat wheely knob than try to get the mouse to do anything accurate
I have two, one on each side of my USB keyboard, and I have to say that once you've used a 2-Powermate setup for audio/video/midi editing, you'll wonder how you'll ever go back to that primitive mouse interface.
.. well, at least not as a result of any mouse activity, anyway ..
In fact, I rarely use my mouse any more, actually, except when I really need to. Everything I need to do is way more fun from either side of my 'pinball rotary' setup. No more right-hand-only RSI
In the field I work in (synthesizers), the perceptive nature of our customers (musicians) when relating to a user interface is indeed a tricky and wonderful force to behold. Rotary knobs, and the general 'feel' of a system as a result of simple interface kinetics, is fairly well-established in this field.
I've always viewed the standard computer interface (keyboard/mouse) as being curiously unburdened by progress and change; you cannot say the same for the synth business, where there is no one standard for how you ought to use knobs.
I've got two PowerMates, both on each side of an Apple extended keyboard, they are without doubt among the most precious peripheral I have on my desk. I've also got a couple of faderfox boxes, an LV1 and an LX1, which are also awesome primary/secondary interfaces, as well offering endless rotaries for various nefarious uses..
The attempt by Microsoft to commodotize their 'peripheral assets' (MS Natural keyboard) while providing pitiful support (beyond HID) for application authors, and the tendency of other interface mfr's to vector off into 'cool but ultimately useless plastic hack' (anyone remember the Cyberman?) is fairly common. Once again, its all about the operating system.
But you know, if you want to know more about endless uses for rotary knobs, look no further than the audio/synth/pro-media tool markets. Especially of the 80's and 90's
Yeah damn. Way to get rid of them all in one shot... I mean, you know, if something were to go wrong.
Who said anything about 'other' OS'es? We're talking about OSX here.
Yeah, I live in Germany (for now) and its very hard not to do business with war-mongers, even still ..
What saves us from war is when we wake up to the fact that its the war-mongers profiting from our demise that drove us into the war in the first place.
Which is why I say, make no business with a maker of weapons.
Oooh! You don't want to go surfing! Someone might have pissed in the sea.
Yeah, but at least I'd be surfing.
I never built castles in a sandbox, I'd build them on the beach, where its actually okay to piss on the sand because there's plenty .. and I mean plenty .. of fresh clean sand to move to..
Wish I could say this allegory had a parallel in the computing science realm, but it doesn't. So maybe I'll give up and go surfing for a while.
So I just write an interface that clones the look and feel of the System Auth password box, and away we go ..
You can never trust computers.
i've never though of Python as a replacement for Java. I've thought of it as a replacement for Perl, many, many, many times over, and have used it in that capacity quite well, too.
.. I found a Ruby script to do administration on HTML files which nearly brought tears to my eyes, it was so well-written, so fun to understand, and it worked so damned well.
That said, I'm learning Ruby these days. Ruby continues to impress me
Something thats always bothered me about OSX is how easy it is to write a program that prompts the user to enter their Admin password, and how many users just enter it when requested, for any old program.
I don't really know how Apple can address this.. perhaps some sort of 'certification' system for "programs which need admin access", but I've seen how that approach got dealt with by Microsoft and I don't really see it as a solution; just more problems. (App Certification is a crappy idea..)
Really, there's just no such thing as a piss-free sandbox. *sigh*
Yeah, umm ... break your bubble, man. Not every single inch on the planet is susceptible to hail. There are some places where hail would be welcomed; you can still nevertheless use these tiles to improve life conditions in those area's.
..
Sometimes, it amazes me, how some peoples' arguments even get through their miles-thick bubble
Its greed.
COST is arbitrary. Sunlight isn't.
(Yours is the stupidest argument I've ever heard. Greed, man, GREED!)
My family has a beach-house in Australia, and my Dad is putting another floor on it as we talk (i.e. its gonna be 3-story instead of 2) .. I've considered proposing that we embed a camera system in one of the limestone blocks he's using to build the house with, and making it part of the house computing system so that pics can be taken any time of the year of the incredible beach view from the house.
...
This analemma idea might just be the clincher. It'd be superb for this house (on its way to being a historic monument, heh heh) to have a collection of such images added to its already-impressive position
They want an empire.
There are some - not all tin-foil - folks who believe that PNAC is a straw man. In fact, what PNAC is doing, is eroding the American Empire, by fostering anti-American'ism both abroad, and on the home front.
Using the "American Empire" meme to propagate criminal activity (Iraq, Afghanistan) is a means to alloy other world systems (EU, Russia, IMF, etc.) against the existing American society, paving the way for PNAC failure, opening the door for future integration of the American system into other fledgling world movements, such as the push for a One World Government (non-American).
In other words, Push America to Defeat America.
Its not all tin-foil, either. Some very smart people have caught on to this fact..
I lived in California for a while and survived both the '89 quake in San Fran, and the Northridge quake in LA.
Both of these quakes were preceded by what the locals all felt was "quake weather", a sort of 'strange heat and cold' combination that just seemed like it was building up pressure over the land. For days before Northridge, we'd been 'feeling like theres gonna be a quake', a sort of perception of the weather system.
Its interesting to see that tides affect the plates. I wonder if there's more research done on the 'quake weather' factor, even though its entirely a subjective observation, it really seems to me that there was a sort of 'on again off again' pressure-cooker weather system preceding both of those quakes.
Yeah. What if all those kids just walked into town, let their beards grow a little, took their weapons off, and just hung out with the locals, instead of treating them like "The Enemy" (tm)?
.. yet.
I'll tell you: the war would be over. Iraqi's would get to know Americans. Americans would get to know Iraqi's.
Right now, the war is perpetuated by the thin layer that exists between Iraqi and America (uniform, weapon, ammo, base camp). Get rid of that layer, and you'll have no more war.
Human contact is highly effective at finishing war. Imagine if those cruise missiles were delivering water pump parts to Darfur, instead?
And, before the hard-ass warmongers come down on me as a 'non-realist', and try to remind me that if you throw away your weapons, you're setting yourself up for a headshot, let me just say that its a damned good thing that your type haven't figured out how to weaponize human relationships
"Its only high-tech so I can sell it to you."
why should a language be all about string handling? thats what good libs are for.
this article starts out with the 'some people program in Perl and use terrible habits' point. the problem is, Perl allows you into this bad habit territory, by design of the language.
string handling is just one use for a language. python has plenty of superb string handling libs. its also very difficult to get into the same 'bad habit' territory that you can get into with Perl..
my original post was to make the point that if you don't want to have to 're-optimize' your badly-written Perl code, just use Python in the first place.
okay Mr. Tough Guy. I won't.
Please continue to enjoy spanking me, in your mind, all night long...