Is one of the worst things I've ever seen on the web. And they've been doing it for fucking *years*. Have they ever actually done any usability studies on it?
ObTopic: I always assumed a "real" lightsabre would be something closer to magnetically-bottled plasma, which would explain its ability to deflect other lightsabres.
Applescript is such an asstastic language ...
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Fortunately, you don't have to use it to get the full functionality of the Open Scripting Architecture.
You can use it from python, for instance. You need to generate an interface object from the AppleScript dictionary of anything you want to use, but then it's pretty straightforward.
For iTunes (and using a fink-provided python, but the shipped one will work as well):
Safari is Cocoa. Or at least mostly. (It's possible to use Carbon in Cocoa programs.)
The easiest way to tell? Go to a text field in an app. Type ctrl-a or ctrl-e. If those keystrokes send you to the beginning and end of a line, it's Cocoa. A lot of other EMACS keybindings work. This is the default behavor of NSTextView.
My father is currently using a cast-off K6-200 I build in 1999-ish. NT4 has been rock solid for him, for what he does. I patched it up to all of the latest security patches over Christmas, but it's time to get him a new computer, I think.
That is undoubtedly one of the worst UI disasters I've ever seen. Just looking at it makes my eyes hurt. The horrible choice in colors, the business, the unreadability of text due to gradients and poor color and font choices, and that's just looking at a static image. From the looks of it, I wouldn't be surprised if half the widgets were animated.
It's like... perfect awfulness. If a skilled and pissed-off user interface designer sat down to purposely design something as user-hostile as possible, I don't think he'd come up with something this bad.
Anyone know which one the porn industry is backing
Does it matter? It'll all be mastered from something camcorder-quality anyway. I don't know if I've ever seen a porn DVD that had decent quality, other than Andrew Blake stuff.
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"Just like rabbits in Australia -- but bigger! And carnivorous!"
Is Hillary trying to seek the Presidential nomination from again?
Sure looks like a Republican from here.
The obligatory link: The Rise of Worse is Better
Is what monkeys do poocasting?
Is one of the worst things I've ever seen on the web. And they've been doing it for fucking *years*.
Have they ever actually done any usability studies on it?
ObTopic: I always assumed a "real" lightsabre would be something closer to magnetically-bottled plasma, which would explain its ability to deflect other lightsabres.
I mean, honestly, who would actually want to claim paternity?
*points to Bill Gates* Your kid, not mine.
Thing should have been aborted, or at least shot when pulled mewling and bloody from the womb. World'd be better off.
To do any real work in applescript requires a hideous amount of typing. It's sickeningly verbose.
Look here: http://stompstompstomp.com/weblog/reply.cgi?catago ry=technical&article=2003-09-22
Fortunately, you don't have to use it to get the full functionality of the Open Scripting Architecture.
/sw/lib/python2.3/plat-mac/gensuitemodule.py \ /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/iTunes .rsrc
... trk = library.file_track(i) ... print app.get(trk.name)
You can use it from python, for instance. You need to generate an interface object from the AppleScript dictionary of anything you want to use, but then it's pretty straightforward.
For iTunes (and using a fink-provided python, but the shipped one will work as well):
pythonw
--output iTunes --resource --creator hook \
[Source]
This makes a module called iTunes.
Then you can use it trivially. You have to use the pythonw instead of the python executable (due to some interaction with the OS X window manager):
>>> import iTunes
>>> app = iTunes.iTunes()
>>> library = iTunes.library_playlist(1)
>>> num = app.count(library, each=iTunes.track)
>>> num
9365
>>> for i in range(1, num+1):
The point of MacSTL is it's portable to both PPC and Intel. You can make a portable SIMD-optimized program.
It's likely that spam would have increased anyway.
Safari is Cocoa. Or at least mostly. (It's possible to use Carbon in Cocoa programs.)
The easiest way to tell? Go to a text field in an app. Type ctrl-a or ctrl-e. If those keystrokes send you to the beginning and end of a line, it's Cocoa. A lot of other EMACS keybindings work. This is the default behavor of NSTextView.
My father is currently using a cast-off K6-200 I build in 1999-ish. NT4 has been rock solid for him, for what he does. I patched it up to all of the latest security patches over Christmas, but it's time to get him a new computer, I think.
I think this is it.
It's not like porn needs the quality of DVD anyway.
It's not like anyone but Andrew Blake is shooting with halfway decent equipment.
It doesn't matter if the output format has 10K x 10K pixels if it's shot on crappy camcorders.
One would hope the authors were smart enough to write it so that it pins the memory so that it can not be swapped.
... sometimes nuking from orbit is The Only Way To Be Sure.
The program has to be SUID to do this, but
And you'd be correct there.
... when you're a member of both the NRA and the ACLU.
Seriously. I think my junk mail gets in fights in my mail box.
That we're going to have to listen to that goddamned chirp even more often?
... AND DIE.
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I *was* one of those C64 guys.
Well.
I feel old now.
Keep forgetting where I put my dentures, too.
If it's easy to write extensions, but the rest of the language stinks, like TCL, is that really a win?
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... perfect awfulness. If a skilled and pissed-off user interface designer sat down to purposely design something as user-hostile as possible, I don't think he'd come up with something this bad.
That is undoubtedly one of the worst UI disasters I've ever seen. Just looking at it makes my eyes hurt. The horrible choice in colors, the business, the unreadability of text due to gradients and poor color and font choices, and that's just looking at a static image. From the looks of it, I wouldn't be surprised if half the widgets were animated.
It's like
Ye gods.
Done.
Anyone know which one the porn industry is backing
Does it matter? It'll all be mastered from something camcorder-quality anyway. I don't know if I've ever seen a porn DVD that had decent quality, other than Andrew Blake stuff.
Handles the huge outdoor maps from HL2.
I think this is where the Doom engine completely falls on its face.