You could get a Palm or PocketPC and record webcasts from various University colloquim presentations and watch them on the go. You need some special software to capture the video, but it's damn cool when you get it to work. And the small PDA screen are perfect for the crappy video resolutions.
This simply isn't true. Perl and Python (and other scripting languages) don't come close to the power that Applescript can provide.
Applescript's power is in its ability to control other, already running applications. Hell, to do this under Linux, the program needs to support it in some strange manner (ala MPlayer's "slave mode," which requires a wrapper written in another language (like Perl))
And now with GUI scripting, Applescript is incredibly useful for a huge number of things, enabling you to script literally everything on your computer.
It's a shame that Apple crippled this ability with an awkward interface (odd, since interfaces are usually what they're known for), but you take what you can get. I, for one, am looking forward to reading this book because it's damn hard to find good AS resources online.
Seriously.
Remember when iTunes was cool, and we could connect to other machine via IP and listen to music on any machine in the world? And then some moron made a website to let anyone connect to any other computer? And then Apple took that feature away?
Look forward to harsher DRM measures in the future thanks to this.
thaen
It's important to realize that concession prices and ticket price and DVD prices are TOTALLY unrelated in most situations.
Most movie theatres, even the huge multiplexes at malls and the like, receive little to no cash from ticket sales -- that money goes to finance the parent corporation's CEO's new hot tub. Almost all the money that individual theatre's make is from the sale of concessions.
Now you understand why popcorn is $5/tub when you go see a movie at your local mall. Smaller theatres yield cheaper tickets, cheaper concessions (well, typically. Exceptions to every rule and all that.).
thaen
Last summer, my girlfriend and I noticed that our previously diminuitive appearances were growing a little large for our tastes in mirror appearance. As such, we decided to go on the Plan.
What 'the Plan' was, we had no idea at the time. We figured it would be good the exercise, so we joined a fitness club. We figured it would be good to eat better, so we cut fat out of our diet almost entirely.
We worked out about every day, ate two to four large meals a day, nearly devoid of fat and very high in protein and simple carbs (read: sugar), and generally did everything we could to get healthy. It was a disaster. After about 2 months of zero results, we figured we needed to ask for help.
Fortunately, a friend of mine worked at the club we'd joined and gave us both discounts on training plans. We learned how to exercise (actually, we learned _how_ to learn: the advice that the trainers gave was mediocre, at best, but they did point us toward the best magazines and books and other resources to teach ourselves.). More importantly, however, we learned how to eat.
Easily 80% of being a healthier person is what goes in your mouth. Over the last 14 months or so, I've learned quite a bit about what to eat and how to eat it. Alton's advice is damn good, ("There are no bad foods"), but his execution is a bit off (I'm sure he knows more than he's saying, just pressed for time to answer the question).
Some advice:
Don't eat what you watch. Take control over your eating habits. Don't be drawn in by colourful pictures or the golden arches. Don't grab a bag of Cheetos just because you're hungry. Impulse eating is easily prevented by a little willpower and forsight, and will prevent that 'Geek Girdle' from forming about your waste.
Don't wait to eat. Don't let yourself get hungry. Hungry is bad. It means your body's metabolism is slowing down, and when you finally get around to feeding it again, you won't digest your food as effectively. Admitted, this effect is often negligable (evolution has seen to it that our bodies respond rather quickly to New Food), but staying up all night and not eating from dinner to breakfast can be damaging.
Plan ahead. Eat breakfast, then grab a bagel and put some low-fat cream cheese (it's not really that low in fat, trust me, and don't bother with that crappy tasting fat-free junk) on it for later. That way when Bob brings in donuts, or Fred offers to go to McDonald's to get everyone a Super-Size French Fry at 11:00 am, you won't be tempted, because you won't be hungry (see #1--don't eat what you watch!).
Plan ahead for meals as well as snacks. On Monday night, make yourself a huge batch of some of Alton's quality chicken (whatever kind you like) and just freeze it. When you feel like grabbing a bad of Doritos, go dump the chicken in a skillet for 10 minutes instead. More protein, more long-chain carbs, less fat: Better balance. Which of course leads to...
Balance, balance, balance! The hot item these days is 30-30-40: You should get 30% of you CALORIES from fat, 30% from protein, and 40% from carbohydrates. Note that a gram of fat has about 9 calories, while a gram of protein only has about 4. Watch your fat intake--it's easy to eat 1000 calories from fat in a plates of poorly-fried fish and chips! (Unless they're Alton's fish and chips, in which case eat up!)
If you're trying to gain muscle through a program of weight lifting, eat more protein and more fat, fewer carbs. If your just trying to lose weight, 30-30-40 and a decrease in total calories should do the trick.
One more thing, which goes right along with what Alton says: Exercise. There are no bad foods, but if you eat anything, you need to give your body a way to burn off extra calories. Now, there are a million more reasons to exercise, but shedding extra pounds is a pretty good reason, IMHO.
There are a million online resources for the this stuff, and the #1 magazine (for guys) is Men's Health. For women, it's Shape. Hands down, these are quality magazines, and I've had a subscription to both (Shape for my g/f) for about a year.
No doubt, taking cooking and shopping tips from Alton is a step toward health--he's a Seriously Intelligent Man!
Someone on the inside needs to send that code to WINE developers so that the rest of the world can actually DO something with it.
Honestly, though, why would M$ be opposed to giving their code to the JD? Are they afraid that their lies will be found out?
thaen
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They already use it for this. thaen
I don't know what planet you're from, but where I'm from, video games withhold sex all the time, not just when I'm five minutes late.
thaen
No, they don't.
Movies are only displayed at 24fps. If they were splicing frames of porn, you'd notice.
thaen
Who cares if it's advertising? What I want to know is simpl: Is it real?
thaen
You "pwn" in international... except when we (the UW) beat you this last year.
thaen
Why would MS buy Sun? Sun has virtually Zero technologies that MS would care about.
thaen
if I steal the game, will they come after me?
thaen
You could get a Palm or PocketPC and record webcasts from various University colloquim presentations and watch them on the go. You need some special software to capture the video, but it's damn cool when you get it to work. And the small PDA screen are perfect for the crappy video resolutions.
thaen
Why by the entire "Queen: Greatest Hits" when I can't stand "Another one bites the dust", and just want "Bohemian Rhapsody"?
Maybe because "Bohemian Rhadsody" isn't on Queen: Greatest Hits?
thaen
This simply isn't true. Perl and Python (and other scripting languages) don't come close to the power that Applescript can provide.
Applescript's power is in its ability to control other, already running applications. Hell, to do this under Linux, the program needs to support it in some strange manner (ala MPlayer's "slave mode," which requires a wrapper written in another language (like Perl))
And now with GUI scripting, Applescript is incredibly useful for a huge number of things, enabling you to script literally everything on your computer.
It's a shame that Apple crippled this ability with an awkward interface (odd, since interfaces are usually what they're known for), but you take what you can get. I, for one, am looking forward to reading this book because it's damn hard to find good AS resources online.
thaen
Seriously. Remember when iTunes was cool, and we could connect to other machine via IP and listen to music on any machine in the world? And then some moron made a website to let anyone connect to any other computer? And then Apple took that feature away? Look forward to harsher DRM measures in the future thanks to this. thaen
It's important to realize that concession prices and ticket price and DVD prices are TOTALLY unrelated in most situations. Most movie theatres, even the huge multiplexes at malls and the like, receive little to no cash from ticket sales -- that money goes to finance the parent corporation's CEO's new hot tub. Almost all the money that individual theatre's make is from the sale of concessions. Now you understand why popcorn is $5/tub when you go see a movie at your local mall. Smaller theatres yield cheaper tickets, cheaper concessions (well, typically. Exceptions to every rule and all that.). thaen
Last summer, my girlfriend and I noticed that our previously diminuitive appearances were growing a little large for our tastes in mirror appearance. As such, we decided to go on the Plan.
What 'the Plan' was, we had no idea at the time. We figured it would be good the exercise, so we joined a fitness club. We figured it would be good to eat better, so we cut fat out of our diet almost entirely.
We worked out about every day, ate two to four large meals a day, nearly devoid of fat and very high in protein and simple carbs (read: sugar), and generally did everything we could to get healthy. It was a disaster. After about 2 months of zero results, we figured we needed to ask for help.
Fortunately, a friend of mine worked at the club we'd joined and gave us both discounts on training plans. We learned how to exercise (actually, we learned _how_ to learn: the advice that the trainers gave was mediocre, at best, but they did point us toward the best magazines and books and other resources to teach ourselves.). More importantly, however, we learned how to eat.
Easily 80% of being a healthier person is what goes in your mouth. Over the last 14 months or so, I've learned quite a bit about what to eat and how to eat it. Alton's advice is damn good, ("There are no bad foods"), but his execution is a bit off (I'm sure he knows more than he's saying, just pressed for time to answer the question).
Some advice:
-
Don't eat what you watch. Take control over your eating habits. Don't be drawn in by colourful pictures or the golden arches. Don't grab a bag of Cheetos just because you're hungry. Impulse eating is easily prevented by a little willpower and forsight, and will prevent that 'Geek Girdle' from forming about your waste.
-
Don't wait to eat. Don't let yourself get hungry. Hungry is bad. It means your body's metabolism is slowing down, and when you finally get around to feeding it again, you won't digest your food as effectively. Admitted, this effect is often negligable (evolution has seen to it that our bodies respond rather quickly to New Food), but staying up all night and not eating from dinner to breakfast can be damaging.
-
Plan ahead. Eat breakfast, then grab a bagel and put some low-fat cream cheese (it's not really that low in fat, trust me, and don't bother with that crappy tasting fat-free junk) on it for later. That way when Bob brings in donuts, or Fred offers to go to McDonald's to get everyone a Super-Size French Fry at 11:00 am, you won't be tempted, because you won't be hungry (see #1--don't eat what you watch!).
-
Balance, balance, balance! The hot item these days is 30-30-40: You should get 30% of you CALORIES from fat, 30% from protein, and 40% from carbohydrates. Note that a gram of fat has about 9 calories, while a gram of protein only has about 4. Watch your fat intake--it's easy to eat 1000 calories from fat in a plates of poorly-fried fish and chips! (Unless they're Alton's fish and chips, in which case eat up!)
-
One more thing, which goes right along with what Alton says: Exercise. There are no bad foods, but if you eat anything, you need to give your body a way to burn off extra calories. Now, there are a million more reasons to exercise, but shedding extra pounds is a pretty good reason, IMHO.
There are a million online resources for the this stuff, and the #1 magazine (for guys) is Men's Health. For women, it's Shape. Hands down, these are quality magazines, and I've had a subscription to both (Shape for my g/f) for about a year.Plan ahead for meals as well as snacks. On Monday night, make yourself a huge batch of some of Alton's quality chicken (whatever kind you like) and just freeze it. When you feel like grabbing a bad of Doritos, go dump the chicken in a skillet for 10 minutes instead. More protein, more long-chain carbs, less fat: Better balance. Which of course leads to...
If you're trying to gain muscle through a program of weight lifting, eat more protein and more fat, fewer carbs. If your just trying to lose weight, 30-30-40 and a decrease in total calories should do the trick.
No doubt, taking cooking and shopping tips from Alton is a step toward health--he's a Seriously Intelligent Man!
thaen
Someone on the inside needs to send that code to WINE developers so that the rest of the world can actually DO something with it. Honestly, though, why would M$ be opposed to giving their code to the JD? Are they afraid that their lies will be found out? thaen