Prestop preadding pre to every verb. Pre- doesn't pre-go with verbs.
I will record a message.
I am recording a message.
I recored a message.
They played a recorded message.
Sometimes things are recorded as they are being delivered, live. Pre-recorded is when you recorded it beforehand, which is the case in this wake-up call. "Pre-recorded" is correct. It is also often the default meaning.
For the home user, who does not want to shell out an extra $500 for OSX Server Edition, if you want to provide consolidated backups for your family, you've got to shell out atleast $240 for a time capsule.
What are these consolidated backups of which you speak? We just tell all our machines to use one of the network disks. I have them hanging off an Airport Extreme, but won't any file server (is it AFP?) work as well? Umm, like designating an external drive on one of the Minis to be the Time Machine file server? I don't think the server does anything - Time Machine runs on the client and just needs a disk drive, and it doesn't even care if it's only intermittently available.
I don't know about Time Machine from remotely outside the home LAN. MobileMe does seem to have those drives available to me, but I have never tried to use them for Time Machine when on the road, because Internet access is so flakey. Time Machine from Starbucks, or some hotel? What are people's experiences with remote backup like that in general? For some reason it just seems a little scary.
The systems that I used starting in 1981 had overlapping windows, but we almost always used full-screen mode. We did not have drag-and-drop for files. There was no desktop at all - you were always in some application. The underlying window system could have accommodated those things, and we were quite aware of them from Xerox, but we just didn't care for them very much. We used a key combination or mouse menu to change apps, just like today. (Well, of course it's generally that today is "just like back then". And although I started using it about 1981, the system actually dates from about 1977. It also cost about $150,000 per seat at the time...)
If you're going to have a desktop, overlapping windows, and drag-and-drop files, then full-screen won't work for you obviously. If you're not, and you like switching between apps in totality, then you're always feeling like things are in the way or distracting, you're resizing your windows to full screen, and bitching about the green button.
Personally, I only drag and drop files between Finder windows -- and having to jiggle and resize them and position them for the correct effect is a pain in the ass. I would prefer some kind of mosaic layout for doing that, without the focus-changing of overlapping windows. For example, splitting up the screen into two columns of Finder windows, would be the most common thing. Being able to switch directly into such a layout would be great. And you should be able to have more than one app in the screen's mosaic layout. A Finder command (View -> Tile Apps) with persistence would be the start - then drag/resize the tiles, Save Layout (somewhere?) etc. And integrate with Spaces. (Hey, does Linux have that? Will someone lead the way?)
1. Displays are huge now: there's no need to occlude things. 2. Drag and drop often has focus and positioning problems for the user. 3. Desktop and layers of apps/windows does not help me organize my activity. 4. Mostly all my time is spent working inside an app; there is no reason to look at anything else. 5. The alt-Tab (especially with the mouse) and Hide commands are how I switch activity, and they are great.
My computer is neither a dump truck nor a messy desktop. What I want are tiles and piles.
I'd rather have the mosaic than only-full-screen-else-overlapped-desktop, and I see no reason why there should not happily be all three modes. But it sounds like Lion is at least adding one more of them, so that's good.
I would be worried about bringing back up who knows what with organisms and bacteria that we have not seen before that could be dangerous
So, drilling a hole in the ground and sucking out millions of barrels of hydrocarbons, which have been isolated for thousands (or millions) of years, as well as any organisms living there is fine. Collecting a sample from a lake that has been isolated for thousands of years for research is the beginning of the apocalypse?
The problem is that the "oil" that lives in that underground water lake is a malevolent alien entity!
I know, you old fogeys like to forget context, and prefer to remember your lovely days entering BASIC source into your trash-80. But that ignores the real context which triggered RMS to begin his work on the GPL and the FSF, and the subsequent work on OSS that followed.
Actually, the context that myself and others are recalling predates the invention of the microprocessor, and it was FORTRAN and stuff on (IBM and other) mainframes. In my case, this was followed by being a hacker at the AI Lab with RMS, so I'm pretty sure I have all the contexts quite correct, and that my memory is intact. Open source has been around for a long, long time.
I've been hacking since 1974, and the concept and practice of open source was not new when I started. (I don't think we had a name for it, way back then. But I also think the tag "open source" is somewhat older than 15 years.)
Not at all, but the poster's point was that certain knowledge is no longer necessary, freeing up our minds for other types.
It is a much more efficient use of learning time learning concepts and how to locate information than it is to memorize random facts.
Is there even any research to back up either of your claims?
Here are some thoughts. Since the result of the spell checker is properly spelled words, the reader's brain must be recognizing them as properly spelled, or else efficient communication (the point of spelling) would not be occurring. Perhaps the process of learning to spell the words improves (directly or indirectly) the understanding of the words, improving your vocabulary. And I seriously doubt anyone claims that spelling "takes up space" from "other types of certain knowledge". This all just sounds like trying to handwave away laziness and sloppiness.
(I just now clicked on "sloppyness" to fix it, because as soon as I wrote it, I knew it was probably "sloppiness".)
The Thing About Sequels
on
Tron: Legacy
·
· Score: 1
/* "The only winning move is not to play the game." */
simple_plot = cluster is entrance, action, quest, finale rep = record [real_part: real, imag_part: cgi ] entrance = proc [ s$put "GREETINGS PROFESSOR PROGRAM" ] quest = pure_code [ AOS LTCYCL MOVE U,3676 TRON U,3732 ] finale = proc [open gate; close gate; run; run; run;] end of line
/* I think Hollywood will start all over again, probably with the bees. */
Maybe they need a "Shopping Science" class. The syllabus would include: purse color, identification of designer labels, and parking. (When they get to college they can take classes in how to use credit and price compare; too advanced for high school.)
After all, math is tough!
Yes, Gov't created TCP/IP and the Internet as a whole. It was private inividuals that made HTML, FTP, SMTP and all the other protocols you use over your IP based network.
"The Government" did not create TCP/IP, it funded private entities (companies and educational institutions) to create it, along with FTP, SMTP, TELNET, and most of the protocols.
They are merely proposing common sense communication safety legislation. Surely we can all get on board with that? Do you have any idea how many injuries and injustices unpoliced thought caused last year?
The Palm Beach Post reports that a police officer convicted of drugging and raping a family member will get a new trial because the jury forewoman brought a Wikipedia article into deliberations.
This is all Julian Assange's fault!
Wikipedia must be shut down!!
The Internet must be brought under control!
Slashdot Mirror
Prestop preadding pre to every verb. Pre- doesn't pre-go with verbs.
I will record a message.
I am recording a message.
I recored a message.
They played a recorded message.
Sometimes things are recorded as they are being delivered, live. Pre-recorded is when you recorded it beforehand, which is the case in this wake-up call. "Pre-recorded" is correct. It is also often the default meaning.
I think he should have been more like, "Hail fellows, well met!"
For the home user, who does not want to shell out an extra $500 for OSX Server Edition, if you want to provide consolidated backups for your family, you've got to shell out atleast $240 for a time capsule.
What are these consolidated backups of which you speak? We just tell all our machines to use one of the network disks. I have them hanging off an Airport Extreme, but won't any file server (is it AFP?) work as well? Umm, like designating an external drive on one of the Minis to be the Time Machine file server? I don't think the server does anything - Time Machine runs on the client and just needs a disk drive, and it doesn't even care if it's only intermittently available.
I don't know about Time Machine from remotely outside the home LAN. MobileMe does seem to have those drives available to me, but I have never tried to use them for Time Machine when on the road, because Internet access is so flakey. Time Machine from Starbucks, or some hotel? What are people's experiences with remote backup like that in general? For some reason it just seems a little scary.
The systems that I used starting in 1981 had overlapping windows, but we almost always used full-screen mode. We did not have drag-and-drop for files. There was no desktop at all - you were always in some application. The underlying window system could have accommodated those things, and we were quite aware of them from Xerox, but we just didn't care for them very much. We used a key combination or mouse menu to change apps, just like today. (Well, of course it's generally that today is "just like back then". And although I started using it about 1981, the system actually dates from about 1977. It also cost about $150,000 per seat at the time...)
If you're going to have a desktop, overlapping windows, and drag-and-drop files, then full-screen won't work for you obviously. If you're not, and you like switching between apps in totality, then you're always feeling like things are in the way or distracting, you're resizing your windows to full screen, and bitching about the green button.
Personally, I only drag and drop files between Finder windows -- and having to jiggle and resize them and position them for the correct effect is a pain in the ass. I would prefer some kind of mosaic layout for doing that, without the focus-changing of overlapping windows. For example, splitting up the screen into two columns of Finder windows, would be the most common thing. Being able to switch directly into such a layout would be great. And you should be able to have more than one app in the screen's mosaic layout. A Finder command (View -> Tile Apps) with persistence would be the start - then drag/resize the tiles, Save Layout (somewhere?) etc. And integrate with Spaces. (Hey, does Linux have that? Will someone lead the way?)
1. Displays are huge now: there's no need to occlude things.
2. Drag and drop often has focus and positioning problems for the user.
3. Desktop and layers of apps/windows does not help me organize my activity.
4. Mostly all my time is spent working inside an app; there is no reason to look at anything else.
5. The alt-Tab (especially with the mouse) and Hide commands are how I switch activity, and they are great.
My computer is neither a dump truck nor a messy desktop. What I want are tiles and piles.
I'd rather have the mosaic than only-full-screen-else-overlapped-desktop, and I see no reason why there should not happily be all three modes. But it sounds like Lion is at least adding one more of them, so that's good.
I just want to know how they got the frikkin "lasers" on the worms' heads!
(Also, what exactly are "remote control worms"?)
I would be worried about bringing back up who knows what with organisms and bacteria that we have not seen before that could be dangerous
So, drilling a hole in the ground and sucking out millions of barrels of hydrocarbons, which have been isolated for thousands (or millions) of years, as well as any organisms living there is fine. Collecting a sample from a lake that has been isolated for thousands of years for research is the beginning of the apocalypse?
The problem is that the "oil" that lives in that underground water lake is a malevolent alien entity!
I know you're just joking, but you might have stumbled onto something.
Most elephant speech is infrasonic. If such frequencies do make people nervous, then why aren't we more nervous around elephants? (Or are we?)
Every time I think I see an unexplained elephant in my room, *I* get nervous!
You just click your Ruby slippers three times to get there.
def canhaz_slippers
headers["Status"] = "301 There's no place like home"
redirect_to "http://www.home.se/"
end
What most people don't realize is that K-9 was actually a zebra!
It always amuses me to think of servers and networking equipment melting whenever I see a slashdotting.
I found out about it from Facebook.
(And since it was an astronomer who posted it there, I bet they didn't originally find it on Slashdot, either.)
I wonder if some sites are being Facebooked ("facepalmed"?) rather than Slashdotted these days.
Sweet Zombie Jesus Satellite!
I predict that only a minority of iPod users will enjoy the UI featured in this report.
Yes but is the simulator written in BASIC?
And you avoid learning GOTO.
What the hell is it with the BASIC detractors just making stuff up? BASICS with full structure have been available since 1982. That's 29 years ago.
I think it's a little longer than that: the BASIC on the HP3000 had structured programming (and other modern features), in the 1970s.
I know, you old fogeys like to forget context, and prefer to remember your lovely days entering BASIC source into your trash-80. But that ignores the real context which triggered RMS to begin his work on the GPL and the FSF, and the subsequent work on OSS that followed.
Actually, the context that myself and others are recalling predates the invention of the microprocessor, and it was FORTRAN and stuff on (IBM and other) mainframes. In my case, this was followed by being a hacker at the AI Lab with RMS, so I'm pretty sure I have all the contexts quite correct, and that my memory is intact. Open source has been around for a long, long time.
TRS-80, heh. Kids today!
NGOML
I've been hacking since 1974, and the concept and practice of open source was not new when I started. (I don't think we had a name for it, way back then. But I also think the tag "open source" is somewhat older than 15 years.)
Not at all, but the poster's point was that certain knowledge is no longer necessary, freeing up our minds for other types.
It is a much more efficient use of learning time learning concepts and how to locate information than it is to memorize random facts.
Is there even any research to back up either of your claims?
Here are some thoughts. Since the result of the spell checker is properly spelled words, the reader's brain must be recognizing them as properly spelled, or else efficient communication (the point of spelling) would not be occurring. Perhaps the process of learning to spell the words improves (directly or indirectly) the understanding of the words, improving your vocabulary. And I seriously doubt anyone claims that spelling "takes up space" from "other types of certain knowledge". This all just sounds like trying to handwave away laziness and sloppiness.
(I just now clicked on "sloppyness" to fix it, because as soon as I wrote it, I knew it was probably "sloppiness".)
/* "The only winning move is not to play the game." */
simple_plot = cluster is entrance, action, quest, finale
rep = record [real_part: real, imag_part: cgi ]
entrance = proc [ s$put "GREETINGS PROFESSOR PROGRAM" ]
quest = pure_code [ AOS LTCYCL
MOVE U,3676
TRON U,3732 ]
finale = proc [open gate; close gate; run; run; run;]
end of line
/* I think Hollywood will start all over again,
probably with the bees.
*/
Maybe they need a "Shopping Science" class. The syllabus would include: purse color, identification of designer labels, and parking. (When they get to college they can take classes in how to use credit and price compare; too advanced for high school.) After all, math is tough!
So this is a kind of home "theatre" system, then?
I'm in the food court at the NSF building a lot, and I never see people working in there.
Yes, Gov't created TCP/IP and the Internet as a whole. It was private inividuals that made HTML, FTP, SMTP and all the other protocols you use over your IP based network.
"The Government" did not create TCP/IP, it funded private entities (companies and educational institutions) to create it, along with FTP, SMTP, TELNET, and most of the protocols.
They are merely proposing common sense communication safety legislation. Surely we can all get on board with that? Do you have any idea how many injuries and injustices unpoliced thought caused last year?
This is all Julian Assange's fault!
Wikipedia must be shut down!!
The Internet must be brought under control!
Because Julian Assange's story didn't hit the right window.