Didn't anyone remember that text processing was bulky and expensive?
The tradeoffs don't outweigh the benefits. When you go with a binary format you immediately run into limitations. If you've ever looked at a binary format that has been around for 10 years, you see tons of hacks made over time.
I'm talking about files running out of header room, and adding offsets to "extended headers". Strange numeric representations to represent data that is larger than previously anticipated.
XML benefits from having none of these limitations. Numeric fields can be as large as you want them to be. There is no "header". You don't have the problem of "This field is reserved in Version 1.0 and must be 0, in Version 1.1 it will have an offset".
Plus storing binary data in a database is the biggest pain in the ass ever.
That, combined with a history TREE instead of a linear, self-overwriting history (go back 3 pages and click another link -- those 3 pages will drop out of the history). That's what I wish for.
That's what tabs are for. Hit the Back Dropdown, and middle click on a page 3 pages ago, and it'll open in a new tab, and your current tab will still have it's history intact.
Oh, that is good then. The Apple Pro keyboard that I bought 2 years ago was $80. Obviously they've come down in price since they switched to the extra lite version (the one without all that extra clear plastic on the edges).
Load Shuffle before bed, take a whole day's music (and much more) out the door in the morning. Always different. Freakin' genius. Once again, Apple changes how we manage our music.
Give me a break. Even Nike has a flash mp3 player that does shuffle. It even has an arm band, designed specifically for runners.
The iPod Shuffle is not innovative, or revolutionary. In fact, it's identical to the players already available by *shoe* companies.
Given that both TextEdit (Apple's Notepad equivalent) and AppleWorks were as compatible as they could be (without MS revealing file specs), I would strongly guess it would be.
Nonsense. OOo is more compatible than TextEdit, so is Abiword. So it's not "as compatible as they could be".
I'm suprised that Apple didn't use Abiword as a basis, it's very lightweight and has really good compatibility.
From what I've read, there's no playlists on the iPod Shuffle. It just randomly plays songs. Knowing Apple, there's probably going to be just one button.. Play/Pause.
There are several different parts of playing back MPEG video, including: decompressing, deinterlacing (optional), scaling, color space conversion, etc. The hardware only provides the last one, and sometimes the next-to-last, IIRC
Depends on which card you're talking about, the old mpeg2 decoder cards that we used to play DVDs on Pentium 90s did everything. You fed it an mpeg2 stream and it did everything. You had to route your video out into its input, then hooked your monitor up to the dvd card so it could do the hardware overlay.
Hell, TiVo only works because of hardware mpeg2 encoding/decoding. TiVo is a 54 mhz (yes, fifty-four mhz) PPC. It wouldn't be able to encode a show to mpeg2 using the CPU even if you gave it a week and half to do it.
Show me a 60" CRT -- and if you can even find one, find a rec-room it would fit in, and try and lift it!
Any room in my house that has enough empty wallspace for a 60" TV has at least 3 feet of room in front of it on the floor.
I'd really like to see these houses that have that much empty wall space at eye level and don't have any room below them. Does everyone have a bunch of extremely low couches against every wall or something?
I own all 3 consoles. I have 4 games for the xbox, 5 for the PS2, and over 40 for the gamecube.
Whenever there is a game available for all 3 consoles (like Tony Hawk games) I get the gamecube version because I like the controller better than the xbox controller, and because the PS2 version always looks like shit (and the PS2 controller is the worst of the 3).
3rd party games are almost always available for all 3 consoles, and the king of first-party games is Nintendo.
So honestly, I have no idea why anyone *wouldn't* want to get a gamecube.
Yeah, but Apple uses open standards in a way very similar to the way MS does.
Case in point, the Address Book. It can use an LDAP directory, but it refuses to display 90% of the LDAP records. Just the name, work phone, and email address. No home phone, no comments, etc. You also can't browse the directory.
Also, for some reason, mail.app will use the local Address Book for completion, but it won't use the ldap server. Mail.app has it's *own* ldap configuration.
The only people who seem to notice how half-assed a lot of apple's stuff is, are the people who try and do more than just run photoshop.
If I remember right, the rumor sites were saying the mac side of it was a problem not because apple wasn't cooperative, but because the OS doesn't have the DRM built in as deeply
That's why they're rumor sites. TiVo2go transfers mpeg2. The problem is most likely the fact that playing mpeg2 files on OSX is a pain in the ass.
Yes, but how do you justify paying $13/month for just a program guide which is free on tv.yahoo.com or your cable provider's site? Or keeping a landline for TiVo to use when you probably already have broadband and a cell phone?
I'm also paying $13/month for product updates. But tv.yahoo.com doesn't provide the program guide for free.. they pay for it with ads. It's not like they provide an XML feed of tv listings for you to use.
I also don't keep a landline for TiVo. TiVo gets updates over my wireless network.
As far as VCD's go.. TiVo2go will now provide me with an mpeg2 of my shows. Converting that into mpeg1 and making it a VCD is trivial now.
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In that situation, you are using an emulator. How does this differ when you're trying to run a Windows application?
Because when you're running console apps, you are emulating the instruction set. Wine isn't emulating anything. It's an implementation of the Windows API for Linux.
Wine is as much a Windows emulator as Lesstif is a Motif emulator (it's not, it's a drop-in replacement.. just like Wine is a drop-in replacement for the actual Windows API).
Personally I find the older MacOS GUI dramatically less usable than the old windows GUI, but maybe I just like being able to resize windows when I can't see the lower right hand corner.
Funny thing is that problem still exists today. Can't grab the top of a window and stretch it down in OSX. You have to grab the lower right hand corner.
Unless the application was installed with the installer. Then it's "hunt for all files related to it". Try to uninstall Xcode. It took me a while just to *find* Xcode to run it after I "installed" it. This is why we have application menus.
Use Expose after you get to the document
I'm astonished by how much people here claim to like expose, it's not very mac-like at all. It's not user friendly. Not a single mac user here at work can tell me which F-key to hit to show all the windows of the current app without trying a bunch of them. F11? F10? F9? Tiger will just make it worse. Go to show desktop, and accidentally bring up Dashboard (which is another damn F-key). For the most part, after the novelty of expose wears off, the only thing anyone seems to use it for is to show the desktop. Too bad they couldn't just put a Show Desktop icon in the menubar.
It can be turned of very simply. Apple Logo->Dock->Dock Preferences
No it can't. You can choose between Scale, and Genie.. you can't say "None".
How is this not better than the current Unix way of doing things?
One, you lose the benefit of shared libraries. Two, you don't get the app categorized in your program menus. (Throwing every app imaginable into an application folder is horrible management) Three, not every app does it this way, they also use the installer, for which I have yet to find a way to uninstall apps installed with the installer.
Finally, the apps will still walk all over your Library directory when you run them, and they won't clean up after themselves after you drag them to the trash.
We don't love them because they're silent. We love them because they're good.
I'm 27, which may or may not be considered "young" here.
I remember a buster keaton movie, I don't remember what it was about, but he had the front of a house fall on him, and he positioned himself right where the window was, so he wasn't killed. That was amazing. Even today.
It's a very dangerous stunt and you'd never see anything like it today.. ever. If you see something similar, you know it was CGI, or edited in a way to make it obvious to the viewer that the actor was really in a booth hundreds of miles away, with a scotch and soda.
The point is, there's something in silent movies that was truly amazing, and something modern movies can't reproduce.
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I don't know what your experience with programming is, but Rockstar BUILT IN these cheats, they didn't just materialize.
"Bob, one of our playtesters just discovered that if you hit Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right A B Start, you'll get 30 lives"
"Woah, that's strange. I'll classify it as a showstopper bug. I mean that's just eerie.. what are the odds?"
Didn't anyone remember that text processing was bulky and expensive?
The tradeoffs don't outweigh the benefits. When you go with a binary format you immediately run into limitations. If you've ever looked at a binary format that has been around for 10 years, you see tons of hacks made over time.
I'm talking about files running out of header room, and adding offsets to "extended headers". Strange numeric representations to represent data that is larger than previously anticipated.
XML benefits from having none of these limitations. Numeric fields can be as large as you want them to be. There is no "header". You don't have the problem of "This field is reserved in Version 1.0 and must be 0, in Version 1.1 it will have an offset".
Plus storing binary data in a database is the biggest pain in the ass ever.
They only fixed the resultant HTML, not the underlyng slashcode, which is what the OP is talking about.
I would offer than slashcode is horribly miswritten if you cannot easily change its output.
Sounds like the people who make slashcode should scrap the entire system and come up with a new one.
I would be fired if I developed a CMS for my company that couldn't easily change its output format.
That, combined with a history TREE instead of a linear, self-overwriting history (go back 3 pages and click another link -- those 3 pages will drop out of the history). That's what I wish for.
That's what tabs are for. Hit the Back Dropdown, and middle click on a page 3 pages ago, and it'll open in a new tab, and your current tab will still have it's history intact.
Nope. Apple Keyboard is now $29.
Oh, that is good then. The Apple Pro keyboard that I bought 2 years ago was $80. Obviously they've come down in price since they switched to the extra lite version (the one without all that extra clear plastic on the edges).
Load Shuffle before bed, take a whole day's music (and much more) out the door in the morning. Always different. Freakin' genius. Once again, Apple changes how we manage our music.
Give me a break. Even Nike has a flash mp3 player that does shuffle. It even has an arm band, designed specifically for runners.
The iPod Shuffle is not innovative, or revolutionary. In fact, it's identical to the players already available by *shoe* companies.
Given that both TextEdit (Apple's Notepad equivalent) and AppleWorks were as compatible as they could be (without MS revealing file specs), I would strongly guess it would be.
Nonsense. OOo is more compatible than TextEdit, so is Abiword. So it's not "as compatible as they could be".
I'm suprised that Apple didn't use Abiword as a basis, it's very lightweight and has really good compatibility.
Buy a Mac keyboard to go with it, and you get two more USB connectors right there.
But it's not powered. So you can use the keyboard to plug in a mouse and a thumbdrive, but not much else.
Plus, Apple keyboards are $80.
But no display on the iPod Shuffle? WTF?
From what I've read, there's no playlists on the iPod Shuffle. It just randomly plays songs. Knowing Apple, there's probably going to be just one button.. Play/Pause.
I've been playing a lot of burnout 3 lately, and whenever someone tries to pass me, I have a strange urge to slam them into the guardrails.
Racing games like NFSUG, Burnout, etc are definitely bad for when you're half asleep and driving to work.
There are several different parts of playing back MPEG video, including: decompressing, deinterlacing (optional), scaling, color space conversion, etc. The hardware only provides the last one, and sometimes the next-to-last, IIRC
Depends on which card you're talking about, the old mpeg2 decoder cards that we used to play DVDs on Pentium 90s did everything. You fed it an mpeg2 stream and it did everything. You had to route your video out into its input, then hooked your monitor up to the dvd card so it could do the hardware overlay.
Hell, TiVo only works because of hardware mpeg2 encoding/decoding. TiVo is a 54 mhz (yes, fifty-four mhz) PPC. It wouldn't be able to encode a show to mpeg2 using the CPU even if you gave it a week and half to do it.
Show me a 60" CRT -- and if you can even find one, find a rec-room it would fit in, and try and lift it!
Any room in my house that has enough empty wallspace for a 60" TV has at least 3 feet of room in front of it on the floor.
I'd really like to see these houses that have that much empty wall space at eye level and don't have any room below them. Does everyone have a bunch of extremely low couches against every wall or something?
And I'm just the opposite.
I own all 3 consoles. I have 4 games for the xbox, 5 for the PS2, and over 40 for the gamecube.
Whenever there is a game available for all 3 consoles (like Tony Hawk games) I get the gamecube version because I like the controller better than the xbox controller, and because the PS2 version always looks like shit (and the PS2 controller is the worst of the 3).
3rd party games are almost always available for all 3 consoles, and the king of first-party games is Nintendo.
So honestly, I have no idea why anyone *wouldn't* want to get a gamecube.
Apple uses open standards to store their data
Yeah, but Apple uses open standards in a way very similar to the way MS does.
Case in point, the Address Book. It can use an LDAP directory, but it refuses to display 90% of the LDAP records. Just the name, work phone, and email address. No home phone, no comments, etc. You also can't browse the directory.
Also, for some reason, mail.app will use the local Address Book for completion, but it won't use the ldap server. Mail.app has it's *own* ldap configuration.
The only people who seem to notice how half-assed a lot of apple's stuff is, are the people who try and do more than just run photoshop.
If I remember right, the rumor sites were saying the mac side of it was a problem not because apple wasn't cooperative, but because the OS doesn't have the DRM built in as deeply
That's why they're rumor sites. TiVo2go transfers mpeg2. The problem is most likely the fact that playing mpeg2 files on OSX is a pain in the ass.
Yes, but how do you justify paying $13/month for just a program guide which is free on tv.yahoo.com or your cable provider's site? Or keeping a landline for TiVo to use when you probably already have broadband and a cell phone?
I'm also paying $13/month for product updates. But tv.yahoo.com doesn't provide the program guide for free.. they pay for it with ads. It's not like they provide an XML feed of tv listings for you to use.
I also don't keep a landline for TiVo. TiVo gets updates over my wireless network.
As far as VCD's go.. TiVo2go will now provide me with an mpeg2 of my shows. Converting that into mpeg1 and making it a VCD is trivial now.
In that situation, you are using an emulator. How does this differ when you're trying to run a Windows application?
Because when you're running console apps, you are emulating the instruction set. Wine isn't emulating anything. It's an implementation of the Windows API for Linux.
Wine is as much a Windows emulator as Lesstif is a Motif emulator (it's not, it's a drop-in replacement.. just like Wine is a drop-in replacement for the actual Windows API).
You wouldn't call Mono a
There was almost vehicles in every level.
Maybe you should get Burnout 3.. it has vehicles in every level!
Personally I find the older MacOS GUI dramatically less usable than the old windows GUI, but maybe I just like being able to resize windows when I can't see the lower right hand corner.
Funny thing is that problem still exists today. Can't grab the top of a window and stretch it down in OSX. You have to grab the lower right hand corner.
Drag the application to the Trash can. Done
Unless the application was installed with the installer. Then it's "hunt for all files related to it". Try to uninstall Xcode. It took me a while just to *find* Xcode to run it after I "installed" it. This is why we have application menus.
Use Expose after you get to the document
I'm astonished by how much people here claim to like expose, it's not very mac-like at all. It's not user friendly. Not a single mac user here at work can tell me which F-key to hit to show all the windows of the current app without trying a bunch of them. F11? F10? F9? Tiger will just make it worse. Go to show desktop, and accidentally bring up Dashboard (which is another damn F-key). For the most part, after the novelty of expose wears off, the only thing anyone seems to use it for is to show the desktop. Too bad they couldn't just put a Show Desktop icon in the menubar.
It can be turned of very simply. Apple Logo->Dock->Dock Preferences
No it can't. You can choose between Scale, and Genie.. you can't say "None".
How is this not better than the current Unix way of doing things?
One, you lose the benefit of shared libraries.
Two, you don't get the app categorized in your program menus. (Throwing every app imaginable into an application folder is horrible management)
Three, not every app does it this way, they also use the installer, for which I have yet to find a way to uninstall apps installed with the installer.
Finally, the apps will still walk all over your Library directory when you run them, and they won't clean up after themselves after you drag them to the trash.
We don't love them because they're silent. We love them because they're good.
I'm 27, which may or may not be considered "young" here.
I remember a buster keaton movie, I don't remember what it was about, but he had the front of a house fall on him, and he positioned himself right where the window was, so he wasn't killed. That was amazing. Even today.
It's a very dangerous stunt and you'd never see anything like it today.. ever. If you see something similar, you know it was CGI, or edited in a way to make it obvious to the viewer that the actor was really in a booth hundreds of miles away, with a scotch and soda.
The point is, there's something in silent movies that was truly amazing, and something modern movies can't reproduce.
But you still haven't been able to find the shift key on your keyboard?
i don't know about him, but i drive an automatic keyboard.. i don't need to shift.
Stealing murdering and cheating, slandering backstabbing and insulting; these are the bread and butter of any good story.
Yeah, but there should be consequences for doing that. PvP is fine as long as there are real consequences for killing someone.
If you're caught you definitely should lose anything you looted, and maybe you've got a bounty on your head.
Make being a criminal have some real drawbacks, like constant fear of being caught or lynched.
They're suing someone who violated the terms of the NDA. End of story.
Really? Is that the end of the story? Considering they don't even know *who* the informer is, how do they know he/she signed an NDA?
For all we know, it was leaked by a janitor who saw a design document thrown in the trash.