Okay, I can type (quite well) without looking at the keyboard, but I'll be damned if I can remember which key is "scroll lock", which is "print screen", and which is "pause/break".
wow, do you actually use those keys? I looked far and wide for a keyboard without them. Those 104 key keyboards are way too big for me. Happy Hacker Lite 2 to the rescue. works well on my mac and puts the control key in the proper unixy position.
I find the shuffle is good enough to play the lists of what I really want to have on it for a coupld of days and the podcasts that I listen to.
This is true. I'm not equally likely to listen to any song in my collection at any given time. I can't plug my iPod into my car stereo and yet I'm fine with burned CDs (for now). I tend to listen to the same few short playlists over and over for a while. And I don't now and never have liked shuffle.
One feature I would like and I think I heard about it on slashdot long ago but I am to lazy now to find it but the mouse gave resistance when you move over hot spots or moved over windows.
I can see where you're coming from but OMFG that would drive me insane. After so many years of mouse use, I could probably never stop lifting up the mouse to find what kind of crap is underneath it.
In my family it is said that gramma ran over herself. Parked in neutral thinking it was park, got out, went around behind as the car started rolling backwards...
LPs. Give me a break. Ok so we can debate all you want if a $50,000 audio setup with a good truntable, awesome stylus and tube amps sounds better than a digital setup with transistor amps. Whatever, point is LPs at consumer pricepoints blow, are fragile, and aren't portable. For $150 you can get a digital system that will fit in your pocket and give you nice distortion free (relitively speaking) music. For $150 you can get a marginally acceptable LP player, and none of the supporting hardware required to make it useful.
And yet many people still miss them. There is more to LPs than the tech, btw. For instance, 24/7 portable access to a bazillion tracks of superduper quality sound has... wait for it... devalued music. Recording did that, in general, but as you have pointed out, digital tech has fundamentally taken it to a whole new level.
Quality issues aside, digital media is not clearly better. analog noise is much preferrable to digital dropouts for instance. My 20 year old VHS-C tapes (noisy, crappy color) look way better than a smudged DVD (unplayable, or blocky with dropouts) that I burned yesterday. high density digital storage media are so very fragile.
I think this is just Apple's already-known plans to prevent the OS from not running on anything they haven't sold as a Mac.
Very likely. But one wonders whether it will be able to be emulated in 20 years. Apple ][s will still be working then, and probably the mac classics, but not much else.
yes, alexander is the originator. he is a berkeley professor of architecture. he was honored at OOPSLA in.. 1998? 1997? for his work. richard p gabriel has a good overview of alexandrian patterns wrt software in his book patterns of software (which Alexander intro'd).
However, in my view - and at least a few others - the pattern concept as understood by software people is generally neutered. alexander focuses on the process; patterns are nearly worthless without the generative way in which one employs a pattern language. It's how, not what, which is why the first volume of the one you mentioned is called the timelesswayof building. But I will say that it is not obvious how his concepts translate to software at all. for instance, there is no software architecture/design that moves us like, say, the Notre Dame cathedral does; it just doesn't make sense. I'm not moved by anything in the GoF book the way I am by A Pattern Language, despite being a severe programming geek. And I mean not even remotely. The GoF book, while full of fun and useful knowledge, leaves one cold. Perhaps this notion of pattern is all we can do thus far, without the software equivalent of the way.
Finally, Just a few years ago Alexander published his massive 4-volume book, The Nature of Order that he'd been working on for 15 years or so. Required reading.
Teenagers are obssessed with IMing each other. I've seen two teenagers sitting right next to each other sending each other IMs. I just file it under "teenagers do dumb things."
Back in the day it was talk(1), of course. I recall more than once doing the simultaneous phone and talk thing. In college. useful for homework.
But I remember once walking into a somewhat crowded terminal room - I logged in, did whatever.. and began to wonder about the curious snickering and outbursts that were going on from the terminal room population. I soon realized that they were - almost all of them - 15 or so - in a chat room (can't remember what they were called back then). I think that was 1990. hanging out in the terminal room, typing at each other, for hours on end.
Proposing serious consideration of the consequences of one's actions is not idealism, it is realistic responsiblity.
I agree it is, except he proposed quitting because the military does bad stuff, not because of anything having to do with the person's own personal situation. That's laying down in front of the tank. That is 100% idealistic, for good or for ill.
So... if all the ethical people quit, would it be better or worse?
Consider quitting your job. Take a serious look at what the military that your industry supports is doing to people all over the world. This post may be flame bait, but as an American, I think we all need to take a look at the ethical implications of our economic actions.
I admire your idealism. I propose that you go dig up landmines in Vietnam.
One of the core differences that makes it so hard to compare software engineering with other engineering disciplines (particularly bridge building and building building) is that software is fundamentally more malleable....
The layman asks, "Why, if it only took two weeks to build the entire building, will it take another three weeks to add six feet to the first floor?" It is difficult then to explain to the customer that in your rush to get the first release out, you only used half the required number of studs, and they won't take the load of an additional six feet.
This is primary difference: software is intangible. Non programmers do not, or shall I say, cannot understand it. The non-engineer may not know what goes into building a bridge, but at least everyone can see it, and watch the construction vehicles, can sense its physical scale in comparison to other things that, in general, take about the same relative time and effort to create. Software.. it just doesn't exist in a similar way.
I thought I'd enjoy the dictionary/thesaurus widget, but I was wrong. It's unusable.
Try the Look up in dictionary contextual menu item. It's available in all cocoa apps. In the Dictionary app, set the "open dictionary panel" pref. then you get a little window right around the word you've hilighted. way cool.
What's funny to me is that the time and money spent trying to make the audio more "real" could be spent going to see actual (live) music. Or learning an instrument. Recorded music is just that: music that has been recorded. The highest quality is the original source... if the artists are capable of performing live what they've staged and overproduced to unnatural perfection in the studio.
I don't think children are actually shielded much. Children need explanations for what they see, otherwise they may draw harmful conclusions. It is better for the kids to watch something with parents who explain things than for them to encounter them on their own without the context a parent can give that experience. Let them watch the movie, but talk about it with the kids. That's the most important part. Ask them what they think, listen to their questions, and answer them honestly.
Umm ok, I drive my car while sending text messages to my friend's on AIM. I memorized the lettering on my cell phone's number pad, and it has predictive text. So to say hi I just hit 44. Or to say lol I'm busy driving I hit 565#*416#2879.
Voice is more efficient for OMG HOLY FUCKING SHIT I'M GONNA DIE!!1!!!:-O AAAIAIAIAIAGHGHGHH!!!!
plus, machines don't have the sense feedback that way we do, and they don't get upset and need to be held, changed, etc. while their data set is still small.
Seriously, if your tool gives you that serious problems it's time to use another one.
Yes, clearly by the age of 19 or so, it's far too late to start using a tool like emacs. The body has already developed relatively naturally, whereas deeply unnatural tools like emacs and the violin demand more.
We should therefore start emacs training at age two.
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Okay, I can type (quite well) without looking at the keyboard, but I'll be damned if I can remember which key is "scroll lock", which is "print screen", and which is "pause/break".
wow, do you actually use those keys? I looked far and wide for a keyboard without them. Those 104 key keyboards are way too big for me. Happy Hacker Lite 2 to the rescue. works well on my mac and puts the control key in the proper unixy position.
I find the shuffle is good enough to play the lists of what I really want to have on it for a coupld of days and the podcasts that I listen to.
This is true. I'm not equally likely to listen to any song in my collection at any given time. I can't plug my iPod into my car stereo and yet I'm fine with burned CDs (for now). I tend to listen to the same few short playlists over and over for a while. And I don't now and never have liked shuffle.
One feature I would like and I think I heard about it on slashdot long ago but I am to lazy now to find it but the mouse gave resistance when you move over hot spots or moved over windows.
I can see where you're coming from but OMFG that would drive me insane. After so many years of mouse use, I could probably never stop lifting up the mouse to find what kind of crap is underneath it.
In my family it is said that gramma ran over herself. Parked in neutral thinking it was park, got out, went around behind as the car started rolling backwards...
LPs. Give me a break. Ok so we can debate all you want if a $50,000 audio setup with a good truntable, awesome stylus and tube amps sounds better than a digital setup with transistor amps. Whatever, point is LPs at consumer pricepoints blow, are fragile, and aren't portable. For $150 you can get a digital system that will fit in your pocket and give you nice distortion free (relitively speaking) music. For $150 you can get a marginally acceptable LP player, and none of the supporting hardware required to make it useful.
And yet many people still miss them. There is more to LPs than the tech, btw. For instance, 24/7 portable access to a bazillion tracks of superduper quality sound has... wait for it... devalued music. Recording did that, in general, but as you have pointed out, digital tech has fundamentally taken it to a whole new level.
Quality issues aside, digital media is not clearly better. analog noise is much preferrable to digital dropouts for instance. My 20 year old VHS-C tapes (noisy, crappy color) look way better than a smudged DVD (unplayable, or blocky with dropouts) that I burned yesterday. high density digital storage media are so very fragile.
Yeah. Those Japanese. Importing the classic Napoletana pizza. Crazy!
I think this is just Apple's already-known plans to prevent the OS from not running on anything they haven't sold as a Mac.
Very likely. But one wonders whether it will be able to be emulated in 20 years. Apple ][s will still be working then, and probably the mac classics, but not much else.
yes, alexander is the originator. he is a berkeley professor of architecture. he was honored at OOPSLA in.. 1998? 1997? for his work. richard p gabriel has a good overview of alexandrian patterns wrt software in his book patterns of software (which Alexander intro'd).
However, in my view - and at least a few others - the pattern concept as understood by software people is generally neutered. alexander focuses on the process; patterns are nearly worthless without the generative way in which one employs a pattern language. It's how, not what, which is why the first volume of the one you mentioned is called the timeless way of building. But I will say that it is not obvious how his concepts translate to software at all. for instance, there is no software architecture/design that moves us like, say, the Notre Dame cathedral does; it just doesn't make sense. I'm not moved by anything in the GoF book the way I am by A Pattern Language, despite being a severe programming geek. And I mean not even remotely. The GoF book, while full of fun and useful knowledge, leaves one cold. Perhaps this notion of pattern is all we can do thus far, without the software equivalent of the way.
Finally, Just a few years ago Alexander published his massive 4-volume book, The Nature of Order that he'd been working on for 15 years or so. Required reading.
Teenagers are obssessed with IMing each other. I've seen two teenagers sitting right next to each other sending each other IMs. I just file it under "teenagers do dumb things."
Back in the day it was talk(1), of course. I recall more than once doing the simultaneous phone and talk thing. In college. useful for homework.
But I remember once walking into a somewhat crowded terminal room - I logged in, did whatever.. and began to wonder about the curious snickering and outbursts that were going on from the terminal room population. I soon realized that they were - almost all of them - 15 or so - in a chat room (can't remember what they were called back then). I think that was 1990. hanging out in the terminal room, typing at each other, for hours on end.
Where's the little face and stuff at the bottom of the screen? I need to know how much ammo The Rock has left.
yes, also the picture should be about 40% of the screen, the rest filled with a marble pattern.
Proposing serious consideration of the consequences of one's actions is not idealism, it is realistic responsiblity.
I agree it is, except he proposed quitting because the military does bad stuff, not because of anything having to do with the person's own personal situation. That's laying down in front of the tank. That is 100% idealistic, for good or for ill.
So... if all the ethical people quit, would it be better or worse?
Consider quitting your job. Take a serious look at what the military that your industry supports is doing to people all over the world. This post may be flame bait, but as an American, I think we all need to take a look at the ethical implications of our economic actions.
I admire your idealism. I propose that you go dig up landmines in Vietnam.
reviews of isolated components are probably not so bad. it's just that here we may have an example of the whole being less than the sum of its parts.
One of the core differences that makes it so hard to compare software engineering with other engineering disciplines (particularly bridge building and building building) is that software is fundamentally more malleable. ...
The layman asks, "Why, if it only took two weeks to build the entire building, will it take another three weeks to add six feet to the first floor?" It is difficult then to explain to the customer that in your rush to get the first release out, you only used half the required number of studs, and they won't take the load of an additional six feet.
This is primary difference: software is intangible. Non programmers do not, or shall I say, cannot understand it. The non-engineer may not know what goes into building a bridge, but at least everyone can see it, and watch the construction vehicles, can sense its physical scale in comparison to other things that, in general, take about the same relative time and effort to create. Software.. it just doesn't exist in a similar way.
I thought I'd enjoy the dictionary/thesaurus widget, but I was wrong. It's unusable. Try the Look up in dictionary contextual menu item. It's available in all cocoa apps. In the Dictionary app, set the "open dictionary panel" pref. then you get a little window right around the word you've hilighted. way cool.
What's funny to me is that the time and money spent trying to make the audio more "real" could be spent going to see actual (live) music. Or learning an instrument. Recorded music is just that: music that has been recorded. The highest quality is the original source... if the artists are capable of performing live what they've staged and overproduced to unnatural perfection in the studio.
Really? I don't really understand it and I seem to be able to grasp objects just fine.
wow, quite a skill to grasp melting objects.
uh, you mean ie was hurredly created from the source they purchased from spry. or was it spyglass? I can't remember.
Ahh, moral absolutism. Great.
I don't think children are actually shielded much. Children need explanations for what they see, otherwise they may draw harmful conclusions. It is better for the kids to watch something with parents who explain things than for them to encounter them on their own without the context a parent can give that experience. Let them watch the movie, but talk about it with the kids. That's the most important part. Ask them what they think, listen to their questions, and answer them honestly.
Umm ok, I drive my car while sending text messages to my friend's on AIM. I memorized the lettering on my cell phone's number pad, and it has predictive text. So to say hi I just hit 44. Or to say lol I'm busy driving I hit 565#*416#2879.
:-O AAAIAIAIAIAGHGHGHH!!!!
Voice is more efficient for OMG HOLY FUCKING SHIT I'M GONNA DIE!!1!!!
plus, machines don't have the sense feedback that way we do, and they don't get upset and need to be held, changed, etc. while their data set is still small.
Seriously, if your tool gives you that serious problems it's time to use another one.
Yes, clearly by the age of 19 or so, it's far too late to start using a tool like emacs. The body has already developed relatively naturally, whereas deeply unnatural tools like emacs and the violin demand more.
We should therefore start emacs training at age two.
Gah! No-strong-typing is *NOT* a feature!
Technically I think that may be true.
but please... it simply means identifiers are just names to which objects are bound.
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