Agreed. i also really liked bluephone elite's display of incoming text messages... very nice (and the one thing i've missed since moving to the iphone.)
Agreed. I wasn't paying attention when I installed Leopard at first, and it was installed as an upgrade, and I had a buggy, machine-freezing mess. Graphics glitches, everything. I imagine it also had to do with the fact that the update didn't disable Parallels (which was, judging by their track record, probably wholly incompatible with Leopard upon launch.)
Removed that, reinstalled as "Archive and Install," and the experience has been much better. And since 10.5.3 the appearance of the beachball has been much, much less frequent.
Oh, and this is completely off topic: to anyone wondering whether to ditch Parallels in favor of VMWare Fusion. Yes. Go for it. Especially if you're using it with Boot Camp. Like night and day.
MrHanky is a fairly old-fashioned troll. While not being something you'd read on its own, it's very suitable for a Slashdot post. Consider "Motley Crue Single Does Better on Rock Band," filled with extremely gay comments. Very few people with any self respect will read that kind of crap, but within the context of the thread, it fits perfectly. "Why not?", an RSS reader, and mod points...perfect. Actually reading it? Not so.
I would imagine they would simply advocate JavaScript for this sort of thing (not that I agree, necessarily). I could also see CSS to some degree controlling this; it's not necessarily presentational, but I could see different stylesheets making use of different target attributes for links.
Huh ? I think you're mixing up scrivener and writeroom . Scrivener has full screen mode but much much more . Everyone in this discussion suggesting vim or something else as an alternative to scrivener clearly has no idea what it does . It is an awesome program for novelists , writers, screenwriters... Even bloggers with entries longer than a few paragraphs..
Gotta give credit where credit is due. This is pretty funny:
Notice how it took me a few seconds to reply. This one single statement basically means that we all got duped. The main Rails application that DHH created required restarting ~400 times/day. That's a production application that can't stay up for more than 4 minutes on average.
Let me put this into perspective for you: I've ran servers that needed to be restarted once in a year. They were written in PHP, Python, Java, C, C++, you name it. Hell, I've got this blog on a server I've restarted maybe 10-20 times the whole year.
Now, DHH tells me that he's got 400 restarts a mother fucking day. That's 1 restart about ever 4 minutes bitches. These restarts went away after I exposed bugs in the GC and Threads which Mentalguy fixed with fastthread (like a Ninja, Mentalguy is awesome).
If anyone had known Rails was that unstable they would have laughed in his face. Think about it further, this means that the creator of Rails in his flagship products could not keep them running for longer than 4 minutes on average.
Repeat that to yourself. "He couldn't keep his own servers running for longer than 4 minutes on average."
Assuming his statements are true (which we may never know) he basically duped us all.
I don't know - I was skeptical about Facebook's API when I learned that our company would be developing apps for its platform. But it's actually pretty impressive. You have several different views and footprints at your application's disposal, a number of different ways to promote your app, an easy route to making your application interactive (FBML) as well as more advanced methods (FQL, the web service API).
Contrast that with OpenSocial. I recently wrote a white paper on it, which I wouldn't mind getting feedback on. It should make OpenSocial's strengths (and its significant weaknesses) pretty apparent:
A First Look at OpenSocial
Answering Questions About Google's Effort at Standardizing Social Network Widgets, and the Creation of Your First OpenSocial Widget .
"Drive-in is an innovative application that allows you to store your personal DVD movie library on your Mac. It is now available as a public beta.
Using Drive-in you can create an image of a DVD disc on your laptop or home entertainment system. The image preserves the quality, navigation and special features of the original DVD and can be played using Apple's DVD Player or Front Row."
I think you're approaching the concept of "Folders" and "Files" within them from a more advanced position than the (typical? probably not..."target" maybe?) Mac user: Folders are not "collections of files and folders within them"; Folders are things. Like physical things. If I take a folder out of my filing cabinet and replace it with a folder from a different filing cabinet, the contents of the entire first folder are gone. Folders are things. They are not the sum of their parts.
(Like a previous poster said, this is definitely a behavior of the classic Mac, if I remember correctly, as its notion of Finder as a spatial file management tool.)
If I replace one "thing" with another "thing", the first "thing" is gone. That's logical. You may not agree with it, you may actually find it inconvenient, and, if you don't take the time to learn it or gloss over the warnings the system provides you, it might actually make your life difficult.
Umm...not entirely. I really like the power OS X and am quite enthusiastic about the Intel switch. And yet, as an Apple fan from the mid 90s, I can completely recognize that 10.0 was pretty rough when moving from OS 9. Do you remember how slow that felt? OS 9 still feels faster to me than OS X, although I'd never, ever want to use it again.
I mean really...you think the people who even know about the term "preemptive multitasking" wasn't outnumbered by those who groused about how the new Mac upgrade ran at glacial speeds and lacked spring-loaded folders? OS X is great...and I'm excited about Leopard...but there was a reason that the classic Mac OS inspired diehard fans.
I'm afraid I'd have to agree. The first thing I thought was: "Hmm..how about trying to make logfiles more readable/understandable instead?" I'm impressed by the technical acuity though.
Thanks for staking your journalistic integrity on such important stories as one lambasting the hockey puck mouse. Coming up next on PC World: "What's the deal with laundromats?!" "Have you ever noticed that..."
This seems like a profoundly bad idea for all concerned. I like Yahoo. I don't use them for search, but they seem, at least marginally, to "get it": they've purchased a number of promising web startups like Flickr and Upcoming, and seem to mostly let them do their own thing (contrasted with that other web company). They allow their developers to be pretty transparent. They've created the Yahoo User Interface Library (which is quite helpful), etc...
If Microsoft were running the show, I'm worried that would change. Plus, I think there would be other problems. For Microsoft, what would be the easiest and quickest way for them to completely demoralize the employees who work in their Internet divisions? Buy Yahoo. For Yahoo, what would be the easiest and quickest way to confuse and worry their employees? Sell to Microsoft (although many might not be that confused while they're swimming in their huge piles of money.)
Finally, I'm concerned about Yahoo's services, were Microsoft to purchase them. It sounds like Microsoft has a large number of middle managers and policy makers who like nothing more than to assert their authority with arbitrary decisions. Yahoo seems to value a fair amount of development and language agnosticism (with sites written in PHP, custom languages, etc...) What happens to these sites when Microsoft comes in? "I'm sorry - we're rebuilding that in.NET now."
I don't know - my responses aren't typically those of the knee-jerk Slashdot mentality, but this makes me even me wince.
Slashdot Mirror
Umm, Gates is the product being pitched.
I clicked it. Who else did? Don't be shy!
Bah. Real artists ship.
2004 called. It wants its talking points back.
Agreed. i also really liked bluephone elite's display of incoming text messages... very nice (and the one thing i've missed since moving to the iphone.)
Agreed. I wasn't paying attention when I installed Leopard at first, and it was installed as an upgrade, and I had a buggy, machine-freezing mess. Graphics glitches, everything. I imagine it also had to do with the fact that the update didn't disable Parallels (which was, judging by their track record, probably wholly incompatible with Leopard upon launch.)
Removed that, reinstalled as "Archive and Install," and the experience has been much better. And since 10.5.3 the appearance of the beachball has been much, much less frequent. Oh, and this is completely off topic: to anyone wondering whether to ditch Parallels in favor of VMWare Fusion. Yes. Go for it. Especially if you're using it with Boot Camp. Like night and day.
MrHanky is a fairly old-fashioned troll. While not being something you'd read on its own, it's very suitable for a Slashdot post. Consider "Motley Crue Single Does Better on Rock Band," filled with extremely gay comments. Very few people with any self respect will read that kind of crap, but within the context of the thread, it fits perfectly. "Why not?", an RSS reader, and mod points...perfect. Actually reading it? Not so.
He's talking about submitting a form to a new tab.
Of course...the imac of today actually starts at $100 less than the original iMac
Maybe she should have her hair plugs removed? Were she to do that, she'd be completely healed.
I would imagine they would simply advocate JavaScript for this sort of thing (not that I agree, necessarily). I could also see CSS to some degree controlling this; it's not necessarily presentational, but I could see different stylesheets making use of different target attributes for links.
Huh ? I think you're mixing up scrivener and writeroom . Scrivener has full screen mode but much much more . Everyone in this discussion suggesting vim or something else as an alternative to scrivener clearly has no idea what it does . It is an awesome program for novelists , writers, screenwriters... Even bloggers with entries longer than a few paragraphs..
But for the absolute opposite reason: any community that would have this guy as a prominent member and/or mouthpiece is immature indeed.
I don't know - I was skeptical about Facebook's API when I learned that our company would be developing apps for its platform. But it's actually pretty impressive. You have several different views and footprints at your application's disposal, a number of different ways to promote your app, an easy route to making your application interactive (FBML) as well as more advanced methods (FQL, the web service API).
Contrast that with OpenSocial. I recently wrote a white paper on it, which I wouldn't mind getting feedback on. It should make OpenSocial's strengths (and its significant weaknesses) pretty apparent:
A First Look at OpenSocial
Answering Questions About Google's Effort at Standardizing Social Network Widgets, and the Creation of Your First OpenSocial Widget .
Why wouldn't they license something like this, and include it in iTunes?
Flip4Mac DriveIn
"Drive-in is an innovative application that allows you to store your personal DVD movie library on your Mac. It is now available as a public beta.
Using Drive-in you can create an image of a DVD disc on your laptop or home entertainment system. The image preserves the quality, navigation and special features of the original DVD and can be played using Apple's DVD Player or Front Row."
I think you're approaching the concept of "Folders" and "Files" within them from a more advanced position than the (typical? probably not..."target" maybe?) Mac user: Folders are not "collections of files and folders within them"; Folders are things. Like physical things. If I take a folder out of my filing cabinet and replace it with a folder from a different filing cabinet, the contents of the entire first folder are gone. Folders are things. They are not the sum of their parts.
(Like a previous poster said, this is definitely a behavior of the classic Mac, if I remember correctly, as its notion of Finder as a spatial file management tool.)
If I replace one "thing" with another "thing", the first "thing" is gone. That's logical. You may not agree with it, you may actually find it inconvenient, and, if you don't take the time to learn it or gloss over the warnings the system provides you, it might actually make your life difficult.
Umm...not entirely. I really like the power OS X and am quite enthusiastic about the Intel switch. And yet, as an Apple fan from the mid 90s, I can completely recognize that 10.0 was pretty rough when moving from OS 9. Do you remember how slow that felt? OS 9 still feels faster to me than OS X, although I'd never, ever want to use it again.
I mean really...you think the people who even know about the term "preemptive multitasking" wasn't outnumbered by those who groused about how the new Mac upgrade ran at glacial speeds and lacked spring-loaded folders? OS X is great...and I'm excited about Leopard...but there was a reason that the classic Mac OS inspired diehard fans.
I'm afraid I'd have to agree. The first thing I thought was: "Hmm..how about trying to make logfiles more readable/understandable instead?" I'm impressed by the technical acuity though.
It actually won't work with Edge (hence the WiFi Music Store); I imagine this limitation is to keep AT&T's network from slowing to a crawl.
Ummm... Linkedin? It's been pretty important for a number of people I know..
First off, screen sharing appears to still be supported in the OS:
Image here
Additionally, the button for screen sharing is still present in the ichat screenshots:
Image here
(bottom right in the buddy list window)
Me neither, but I have gotten a kick out of all the various responses to it.
Open the floodgates for more crappy non-stories!
Thanks for staking your journalistic integrity on such important stories as one lambasting the hockey puck mouse. Coming up next on PC World: "What's the deal with laundromats?!" "Have you ever noticed that..."
This seems like a profoundly bad idea for all concerned. I like Yahoo. I don't use them for search, but they seem, at least marginally, to "get it": they've purchased a number of promising web startups like Flickr and Upcoming, and seem to mostly let them do their own thing (contrasted with that other web company). They allow their developers to be pretty transparent. They've created the Yahoo User Interface Library (which is quite helpful), etc...
.NET now."
If Microsoft were running the show, I'm worried that would change. Plus, I think there would be other problems. For Microsoft, what would be the easiest and quickest way for them to completely demoralize the employees who work in their Internet divisions? Buy Yahoo. For Yahoo, what would be the easiest and quickest way to confuse and worry their employees? Sell to Microsoft (although many might not be that confused while they're swimming in their huge piles of money.)
Finally, I'm concerned about Yahoo's services, were Microsoft to purchase them. It sounds like Microsoft has a large number of middle managers and policy makers who like nothing more than to assert their authority with arbitrary decisions. Yahoo seems to value a fair amount of development and language agnosticism (with sites written in PHP, custom languages, etc...) What happens to these sites when Microsoft comes in? "I'm sorry - we're rebuilding that in
I don't know - my responses aren't typically those of the knee-jerk Slashdot mentality, but this makes me even me wince.