Pie menus are one of those things that get a lot of attention in academic circles because they have some obvious advantages (menu choices are always the same distance away), but in the real word they always run into problems. The first and biggest problem is scaling. How many items do you have on your start menu right now? How big would the pie get to accommodate all of them? Other problems include what do do when someone clicks on the edge of the screen and how to make it so the user can browse through submenus if they have to (a common operation when you're not sure where something is and you have to hunt for it).
None of these problems are impossible to deal with, but I've yet to see a pie menu system that even attempted to. I would be surprised if Windows 7 ships with pie menus, at least for the start menu.
There are cases where pie menus make a lot of sense, but those tend to be cases where the number of options are relatively small and never change, like in drawing programs.
How is this like Superman 3? I thought the point in that movie was to shave off the remainders in interest calculations. This is just a simple case of seeing someone transfer a few cents to your account when you open it and trying to abuse the system. The problem of course is that it's extremely obvious and you'll get caught, just like this guy did.
Personally, I've not felt that 10.5 is that big of a change from 10.4, which has always made it extra strange that it is that buggy. The main reason I upgraded (Time Machine) has always been solid as well. I still like the 10.4 dock better, it's not quite as featurefull but it is easier to see.
At least the Mac version of Myst was still pretty much based on Hypercard. They had a lot of extensions and whatnot working behind the scenes, but from what I saw it was largely still a Hypercard stack.
In fact it was far from unusual to find commercial software (especially games) written for the Mac back in the day that used Hypercard. The best thing was that you could open up the stack in a text editor and read the source (Myst was compiled sadly, so this wasn't an option) despite everything the author tried to do. I remember seeing all sorts of comments like "You shouldn't be reading this." at the top of the stacks.
Of course I thought I was pretty hot stuff in Junior High, writing stacks and uploading them to AOL (Uploads didn't count against your 5 hours/month back then, which was nice). I even had some that got pretty popular by AOL standards. These days the number of downloads I got would be dwarfed by just about anything on Sourceforge that you can actually download, but back then it felt pretty awesome.
I think the worst thing Apple ever did was stop distributing the full version of Hypercard with the OS. As a gateway drug it was phenomenal and they just shut it down before it had a chance to really get critical mass. One other interesting feature about it was that it came with a sound editor (in the resource management part) that was better than anything else that came with the OS.
Yeah, but try being the senator that brings that up in committee. It's going to look great for your re-election campaign when your opponent plasters ads all over the place about how you're pro-kiddy porn and perverts.
Standing up for something only works if you can inconvenience the other guy somehow. Border agents aren't paid by how many people they pass through the border, they're more than happy to let you rot out in the waiting room for hours if you try to make their job difficult. They're not even under any obligation to let you in the country unless you're a citizen returning from a trip. If you give them too much hassle they can (and will) just turn you away.
I hope you enjoy sitting in the tiny cold waiting room at the border, because you're going to be there a good long while. And don't think you'll be able to play games on your computer to pass the time either.
The problem is when your site is "email.whitehouse.gov" and the other guy is "conglomerated-ironworks.com". One of which is going to be a much bigger target no matter how much extra security you have.
Where did you find a Windows Gold Disk that doesn't make a complete mess of the OS? I'd really like to get that because I've never gone through that process and still have the application the box is designed for work. In fact it's typically worse with Windows because when something gets a permission denied (especially on something like a Registry key), it won't be like Unix and spit out a message like "Error: File/foo/bar: Permission denied", instead your application will crash and spit out a message like "Error: failure" to the system log (and only if you're lucky will it put something in the system error log)". Since locking down windows means changing the ACL on just about everything on the system, it's almost impossible to track down what broke your application.
On the other hand, denying logins because the security log is full is a great way to open up your box to DOS attacks, especially if you are judiciously logging everything.
2kBps would be 172.8 mB per day. If everybody spread their usage out evenly over the course of the day it might work, but since usage is not uniform it probably would not work. This box would be in the ballpark though, especially if it was effective at shutting down all of the P2P users on your network. Install three or four of them and it might actually work.
You might be surprised to learn that Old English is a brand name of a supposedly nasty Malt Liquor. It has also won a bunch of awards, which seems to be a good sign that there are far too many awards available for alcoholic beverages.
You don't have to subscribe to the $30/month plan. I have a $5/250 messages plan on my phone. I use maybe 20 or 30 of them (typically in short bursts), but compared to $0.25/message it still works out usually. It's a tremendous ripoff regardless, but sometimes it's all you have. You can't set up a phone call in a noisy environment because the other person won't understand what you're saying anyway, and you don't want to make calls on train or plane or whatnot because it's rude.
The scary thing is that it's entirely possible that they've had to replace components in that Tandem over the years. It's one of the few systems I've ever seen where you can replace a CPU in a running system with zero interruption to the user processes on the system.
That's how international diplomacy works. If you can't threaten another country you don't have any real leverage over them. In the same way nobody ever really intended to fire their strategic nuclear weapons back in the cold war, it does not seem likely that China would want to start a war with the US. This does give them some extra leverage in case some American president starts saber rattling in their direction however.
It's not on youtube, it was a blog post from one of the higher ups at Google. The short version is that he used to be a higher up at Microsoft, when he went to tell Ballmer that he was leaving the company, Ballmer said something like "Tell me it's not fucking Google.", then the guy told Ballmer that "yep, it's Google", at which point Ballmer goes into a fit of rage and starts yelling about how they're going to "fucking crush Google", and throws a chair across the room.
West Virginia experimented with this some time ago (20 years now?). This is exactly what happened. Eventually they were forced to change it back to 21 by the federal government (who held their highway funds hostage until they changed it).
$435 each, and that's not horribly expensive when you consider where they're coming from. In fact for a first gen device like this from a startup it's downright inexpensive.
That's the point though. When the drinking age is reduced to 18 what you see is more 15-17 year olds drinking. The limit of 21 is really a limit of 18 with harsher penalties for doing stupid things while drinking before you turn 21. It's dumb, but it does seem to work, mostly. The only people who really lose out are the ones that are good and follow the law and have to wait an additional three years to drink just because their peers can't follow the rules.
I wouldn't say they were abandoned by the founder, I'd say that they took over the organization after it had already penetrated the schools and civic organizations to promote their message instead. The messages they're promoting are the ones that they couldn't get into the schools/government in the first place because they're too crazy or have been shown to be poor policy in the past.
He may not even need help from them. Resetting the passwords on his laptop should be trivial (unless he was paranoid and encrypted everything), after that there's a decent chance his passwords are still cached in Firefox (just hope he didn't encrypt the password store--fortunately most people don't), you might be able to use that to log in and check his stuff.
Well, the fact that it accesses optical devices (CD/DVD) over the Wifi is a start. Not coming with any sort of wired ethernet connection is another (you'd be hard pressed to find a PC laptop without an ethernet port these days). I'm not saying these are necessarily good things, but they do reflect Apple's mindset about the Air.
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I couldn't play the video, I had to go off of the fuzzy screenshots and text description.
Pie menus are one of those things that get a lot of attention in academic circles because they have some obvious advantages (menu choices are always the same distance away), but in the real word they always run into problems. The first and biggest problem is scaling. How many items do you have on your start menu right now? How big would the pie get to accommodate all of them? Other problems include what do do when someone clicks on the edge of the screen and how to make it so the user can browse through submenus if they have to (a common operation when you're not sure where something is and you have to hunt for it).
None of these problems are impossible to deal with, but I've yet to see a pie menu system that even attempted to. I would be surprised if Windows 7 ships with pie menus, at least for the start menu.
There are cases where pie menus make a lot of sense, but those tend to be cases where the number of options are relatively small and never change, like in drawing programs.
I know Paypal lets you keep the money, I'm guessing the guy chose it and similar services.
How is this like Superman 3? I thought the point in that movie was to shave off the remainders in interest calculations. This is just a simple case of seeing someone transfer a few cents to your account when you open it and trying to abuse the system. The problem of course is that it's extremely obvious and you'll get caught, just like this guy did.
Studio Ghibli is the Pixar of Japan, through a careful combination of skill, budget, and enthusiasm they pop out one hit after another.
Personally, I've not felt that 10.5 is that big of a change from 10.4, which has always made it extra strange that it is that buggy. The main reason I upgraded (Time Machine) has always been solid as well. I still like the 10.4 dock better, it's not quite as featurefull but it is easier to see.
At least the Mac version of Myst was still pretty much based on Hypercard. They had a lot of extensions and whatnot working behind the scenes, but from what I saw it was largely still a Hypercard stack.
In fact it was far from unusual to find commercial software (especially games) written for the Mac back in the day that used Hypercard. The best thing was that you could open up the stack in a text editor and read the source (Myst was compiled sadly, so this wasn't an option) despite everything the author tried to do. I remember seeing all sorts of comments like "You shouldn't be reading this." at the top of the stacks.
Of course I thought I was pretty hot stuff in Junior High, writing stacks and uploading them to AOL (Uploads didn't count against your 5 hours/month back then, which was nice). I even had some that got pretty popular by AOL standards. These days the number of downloads I got would be dwarfed by just about anything on Sourceforge that you can actually download, but back then it felt pretty awesome.
I think the worst thing Apple ever did was stop distributing the full version of Hypercard with the OS. As a gateway drug it was phenomenal and they just shut it down before it had a chance to really get critical mass. One other interesting feature about it was that it came with a sound editor (in the resource management part) that was better than anything else that came with the OS.
Yeah, but try being the senator that brings that up in committee. It's going to look great for your re-election campaign when your opponent plasters ads all over the place about how you're pro-kiddy porn and perverts.
Standing up for something only works if you can inconvenience the other guy somehow. Border agents aren't paid by how many people they pass through the border, they're more than happy to let you rot out in the waiting room for hours if you try to make their job difficult. They're not even under any obligation to let you in the country unless you're a citizen returning from a trip. If you give them too much hassle they can (and will) just turn you away.
I hope you enjoy sitting in the tiny cold waiting room at the border, because you're going to be there a good long while. And don't think you'll be able to play games on your computer to pass the time either.
The problem is when your site is "email.whitehouse.gov" and the other guy is "conglomerated-ironworks.com". One of which is going to be a much bigger target no matter how much extra security you have.
Where did you find a Windows Gold Disk that doesn't make a complete mess of the OS? I'd really like to get that because I've never gone through that process and still have the application the box is designed for work. In fact it's typically worse with Windows because when something gets a permission denied (especially on something like a Registry key), it won't be like Unix and spit out a message like "Error: File /foo/bar: Permission denied", instead your application will crash and spit out a message like "Error: failure" to the system log (and only if you're lucky will it put something in the system error log)". Since locking down windows means changing the ACL on just about everything on the system, it's almost impossible to track down what broke your application.
On the other hand, denying logins because the security log is full is a great way to open up your box to DOS attacks, especially if you are judiciously logging everything.
2kBps would be 172.8 mB per day. If everybody spread their usage out evenly over the course of the day it might work, but since usage is not uniform it probably would not work. This box would be in the ballpark though, especially if it was effective at shutting down all of the P2P users on your network. Install three or four of them and it might actually work.
You might be surprised to learn that Old English is a brand name of a supposedly nasty Malt Liquor. It has also won a bunch of awards, which seems to be a good sign that there are far too many awards available for alcoholic beverages.
You don't have to subscribe to the $30/month plan. I have a $5/250 messages plan on my phone. I use maybe 20 or 30 of them (typically in short bursts), but compared to $0.25/message it still works out usually. It's a tremendous ripoff regardless, but sometimes it's all you have. You can't set up a phone call in a noisy environment because the other person won't understand what you're saying anyway, and you don't want to make calls on train or plane or whatnot because it's rude.
The scary thing is that it's entirely possible that they've had to replace components in that Tandem over the years. It's one of the few systems I've ever seen where you can replace a CPU in a running system with zero interruption to the user processes on the system.
That's how international diplomacy works. If you can't threaten another country you don't have any real leverage over them. In the same way nobody ever really intended to fire their strategic nuclear weapons back in the cold war, it does not seem likely that China would want to start a war with the US. This does give them some extra leverage in case some American president starts saber rattling in their direction however.
It's not on youtube, it was a blog post from one of the higher ups at Google. The short version is that he used to be a higher up at Microsoft, when he went to tell Ballmer that he was leaving the company, Ballmer said something like "Tell me it's not fucking Google.", then the guy told Ballmer that "yep, it's Google", at which point Ballmer goes into a fit of rage and starts yelling about how they're going to "fucking crush Google", and throws a chair across the room.
West Virginia experimented with this some time ago (20 years now?). This is exactly what happened. Eventually they were forced to change it back to 21 by the federal government (who held their highway funds hostage until they changed it).
$435 each, and that's not horribly expensive when you consider where they're coming from. In fact for a first gen device like this from a startup it's downright inexpensive.
That's the point though. When the drinking age is reduced to 18 what you see is more 15-17 year olds drinking. The limit of 21 is really a limit of 18 with harsher penalties for doing stupid things while drinking before you turn 21. It's dumb, but it does seem to work, mostly. The only people who really lose out are the ones that are good and follow the law and have to wait an additional three years to drink just because their peers can't follow the rules.
I wouldn't say they were abandoned by the founder, I'd say that they took over the organization after it had already penetrated the schools and civic organizations to promote their message instead. The messages they're promoting are the ones that they couldn't get into the schools/government in the first place because they're too crazy or have been shown to be poor policy in the past.
He may not even need help from them. Resetting the passwords on his laptop should be trivial (unless he was paranoid and encrypted everything), after that there's a decent chance his passwords are still cached in Firefox (just hope he didn't encrypt the password store--fortunately most people don't), you might be able to use that to log in and check his stuff.
Well, the fact that it accesses optical devices (CD/DVD) over the Wifi is a start. Not coming with any sort of wired ethernet connection is another (you'd be hard pressed to find a PC laptop without an ethernet port these days). I'm not saying these are necessarily good things, but they do reflect Apple's mindset about the Air.