ROTJ has good things in it. I like the way in which the Battle of Endor is edited - several parallel actions on different battlefields, all of them complementary and incrementally advancing the storyline. The rythm at which they're changed is very well paced.
Showing PDF files embedded in a browser window is a pain mainly because of its lack of consistency with the rest of the browser commands. Showing the PDF in its own, dedicated application is usually a better solution.
Uh? I thought we were talking about local government. If you don't like how your town is spending your tax dollars in public wireless networks, you have every freedom to move to another city.
but the truth is that anything you get from government comes only at the expense of other people. And this is different with private businessess exactly how?
What's wrong with the local governments by the people, for the people, deciding how to spend their dollars in a democratic and free way?
For me, this (and any other subject of public services) is not a problem of government vs businesses. It's a matter of small, economically efficient distributed units providing goods required by their clients, versus bloated and highly centralized institutions.
If the efficient providers are managed by a transparent and public process instead of the power of the dollars in a few hands, so better for them.
Nowhere does the GPL require you maintain and distribute CVS logs so everyone can see what changes have been made.
Or it does? GPL requires to release "source code", but this is defined as "the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it". That might include the CVS logs, if they're necessary to make further changes, as it seems to be the case.
The source is intended to be understandable. Not only that, it has to be "the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it". If you release something that is not, you're not fulfilling the terms of the GPL license.
What we expect is for them to contribute back to the community, in the terms previously agreed, so that the community may benefit from the improvements, the same way as the company previously bennefited from the community work.
Shouldn't regression test be also released under the GPL? Under the license, "source code" includes "the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it". If modifications are impossible without the regression test, in my opinion that makes the tests source code and they should be part of the released material.
Relevant GPL extract: The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable.
Spotlight is just a simple UI on a commonly used programming idiom.
You could say that iTunes hasn't anything interesting either, it's just a media player and a database.
Spothlight is mainly an UI, but it's not simple. Proof is that previously there wasn't any interface that got it right until now. Making good interfaces requires research and a lot of work, just like making good backends. The revolution in Spotlight is not in the backend, but you dismissing the value of a GUI doesn't make it suddenly vanish.
Maybe you don't (consciously) value easy of use and no learning curve, but most people recognize it when they find it. Good interfaces *are* revolutionary, and Apple has got several of them
Ha, but fancy interfaces is all what using computers is about! Not for system programmers, but system programmers are not "users". Many system-use enhancements come for very simple technical problems. The hard problem is getting the user mental model right.
Searching on the first few letters is just a waste of processing time, esp when I misspell something. And how is it a waste of time with respect to misspelling the whole word and then having to type the whole thing again? That time is not wasted, it is providing feedback to the user so that she realizes her mistake as soon as possible!
Learn it once for all: thanks to Moore's Law, user mind processing time is far more precious than computer processing time.
Spotlight is not "locate", is a combination of locate, grep and Firefox search-as-you-type.
The main innovation in Spotlight is incremental searching, not waiting until pressing enter. This allows the user to refine the search on-the-fly, which is a big usability improvement. OK, incremental search is not new. But system-wide incremental search? Now this is a new feature.
I expect it to auto-install applications like if they were web pages, thanks to the XAML and SOAP and all the other built-in technologies. Probably the new Office.NET will be web accessible with zero install and only subscription-based.
I think this will be the only characteristic available to Longhorn only. Every other novelty (3D desktop, attribute-based filesystem search, centralized notifications management) will also be possible on Mac OS X and GNU/Linux.
But there's still a difference between lightning-fast search and incremental update, which is the same difference between a batch process and a command line or between a compiler and an interpreter. It's the feedback loop, man.
As you can imagine, playing Bastet can be a very frustrating experience!
Certainly, playing Bastet for the first time was one of those moments in our lives as game players that made us feel strongly about something that, in the grand scheme of things, is probably pretty trivial.
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ROTJ has good things in it. I like the way in which the Battle of Endor is edited - several parallel actions on different battlefields, all of them complementary and incrementally advancing the storyline. The rythm at which they're changed is very well paced.
Tabs integrate well with 'net browsing. PDF documents don't.
Showing PDF files embedded in a browser window is a pain mainly because of its lack of consistency with the rest of the browser commands. Showing the PDF in its own, dedicated application is usually a better solution.
Uh? I thought we were talking about local government. If you don't like how your town is spending your tax dollars in public wireless networks, you have every freedom to move to another city.
but the truth is that anything you get from government comes only at the expense of other people.
And this is different with private businessess exactly how?
What's wrong with the local governments by the people, for the people, deciding how to spend their dollars in a democratic and free way?
For me, this (and any other subject of public services) is not a problem of government vs businesses. It's a matter of small, economically efficient distributed units providing goods required by their clients, versus bloated and highly centralized institutions.
If the efficient providers are managed by a transparent and public process instead of the power of the dollars in a few hands, so better for them.
Uh, and that is because not everything that is possible can happen.
Where in the GPL does it say you have to provide a CVS history?
Here: The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it.
What is "code"? To the GPL its "the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it". Are you sure they've released that?
Nowhere does the GPL require you maintain and distribute CVS logs so everyone can see what changes have been made.
Or it does? GPL requires to release "source code", but this is defined as "the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it". That might include the CVS logs, if they're necessary to make further changes, as it seems to be the case.
The source is intended to be understandable. Not only that, it has to be "the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it". If you release something that is not, you're not fulfilling the terms of the GPL license.
See this previous comment on how the patches released don't allow to understand or modify the changes made by Apple.
What we expect is for them to contribute back to the community, in the terms previously agreed, so that the community may benefit from the improvements, the same way as the company previously bennefited from the community work.
Shouldn't regression test be also released under the GPL? Under the license, "source code" includes "the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it". If modifications are impossible without the regression test, in my opinion that makes the tests source code and they should be part of the released material.
Relevant GPL extract:
The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable.
How is parent insightful?
Fingerprints don't have value on their own, but they do when used as security keys to your property!
I am fearful regarding theft of my fingerprint
Fingerpring? I'm fearful regarding theft of my finger!
Imagine a cluster of bacteria!!!!
What! you bought into that scam of "free will" trading?
You've fallen for their first bait, designed to make you pleased with your purchasing decisions.
Spotlight is just a simple UI on a commonly used programming idiom.
You could say that iTunes hasn't anything interesting either, it's just a media player and a database.
Spothlight is mainly an UI, but it's not simple. Proof is that previously there wasn't any interface that got it right until now. Making good interfaces requires research and a lot of work, just like making good backends. The revolution in Spotlight is not in the backend, but you dismissing the value of a GUI doesn't make it suddenly vanish.
Maybe you don't (consciously) value easy of use and no learning curve, but most people recognize it when they find it. Good interfaces *are* revolutionary, and Apple has got several of them
And for finding content, according to the article "Spotlight even finds words inside Adobe's PDF files" and inside e-mail.
Ha, but fancy interfaces is all what using computers is about! Not for system programmers, but system programmers are not "users". Many system-use enhancements come for very simple technical problems. The hard problem is getting the user mental model right.
Searching on the first few letters is just a waste of processing time, esp when I misspell something.
And how is it a waste of time with respect to misspelling the whole word and then having to type the whole thing again? That time is not wasted, it is providing feedback to the user so that she realizes her mistake as soon as possible!
Learn it once for all: thanks to Moore's Law, user mind processing time is far more precious than computer processing time.
Spotlight is not "locate", is a combination of locate, grep and Firefox search-as-you-type.
The main innovation in Spotlight is incremental searching, not waiting until pressing enter. This allows the user to refine the search on-the-fly, which is a big usability improvement. OK, incremental search is not new. But system-wide incremental search? Now this is a new feature.
But there is a difference between a command-line-only OS and a GUI OS, isnt it? I think that the OS has something to say about your workflow.
I expect it to auto-install applications like if they were web pages, thanks to the XAML and SOAP and all the other built-in technologies. Probably the new Office.NET will be web accessible with zero install and only subscription-based.
I think this will be the only characteristic available to Longhorn only. Every other novelty (3D desktop, attribute-based filesystem search, centralized notifications management) will also be possible on Mac OS X and GNU/Linux.
Does it make the screaming noise for you or something?
Only after you upgrade it with Tiger
Basically, they are both allowing the user to search more things and faster. If this is an innovation, then... I am speechless.
It's sad, but this IS an innovation. The same for user scripting. Both should have been done easier twenty years ago, but they weren't.
But there's still a difference between lightning-fast search and incremental update, which is the same difference between a batch process and a command line or between a compiler and an interpreter. It's the feedback loop, man.
As you can imagine, playing Bastet can be a very frustrating experience!
;-)
Certainly, playing Bastet for the first time was one of those moments in our lives as game players that made us feel strongly about something that, in the grand scheme of things, is probably pretty trivial.
Not necessarily a good feeling, though.