For you who were born here, perhaps the Gettysburg address has lost its thrill...
Lost its thrill? If you asked a random person on the street about the Gettysburg address they'd likely give you a blank look. If you then said, "You know, fourscore--" they would finish "and seven years ago!" and maybe give a you a great big sloppy grin, but 99 out of a hundred wouldn't be able to tell you anything beyond "our forefathers".
I just used it for some 'real world' work with a friend of mine. We've been collaborating on a game for a while now, using Project Builder and CVS.
He was making a struct that overloaded a lot of operators. He would write the declare in the struct and then move down to the actual function. I was basically just following along (I'm still learning; he's teaching) at first, but then I started writing the declarations as he did the functions. So he got to really stick to what was actually the 'important' bits without any break in workflow, trusting that I'd get the 'clean-up' done.
This all happened in the same file--the wrong file, even ignoring the fact that it should have been done in a header and a.cpp file--because we were just testing everything out.
After that we went on to doing some design changes in two other files, a header and a.cpp. He modified my structs in the header while I changed all the code to reflect what he was doing.
So, yeah, it works in the real world. Obviously not for everyone, but it, for me, brought a new level of fun to coding, and also allowed me to watch someone better than me at work. And it was less work and less time for both of us. I can easily see this going places if you'd give it a nice thorough try.
Or Snitch, which expands the Get Info window and puts type and creator in there. I use OS 9 maybe twice a year for old games that I don't want to play in Classic, and I still have Snitch installed.
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Another puzzle game you might check out is Magical Drop 3. The single player is fun in and of itself, but multiplayer... wow. There's no time to breath, so all you can hear is the rapid-fire clatter of the keyboard.
Yeah, neither was I. My brother and I eventually just said 'fuck it' and did it anyway.
It definitely handled our problem with CDs not reading, though. As long as you follow the instructions, you should be fine.
We ended up using a regular metal screwdriver, btw. (It suggest against that in the FAQ.) We, uh, touched metal to 'ground ourselves' before we did anything with the PS2, though. I have no idea if this has any basis in fact or if we were just kidding ourselves, but in the end we hadn't hurt anything so who knows. Can't hurt. =P
I would strongly suggest you both check out this. I was having huge problems with my PS2 where DVDs and DVD games would work fine, but PS1 and regular CD games (those with a black/purple background are regular CDs) would come up with a Disk Read Error almost every time. Adjusting the voltage (do it with a friend like it says--would have been next to impossible otherwise) solved it and I've never looked back.
Do try just cleaning the lens before adjusting the voltage, though.
All i know is ydl 2.3 is faster running most apps then osX 10.2 on my tibook.
Really? How fast does MS Office start up on it?
I've found Warcraft III to run somewhat slowly on my computer. Is it faster on Yellow Dog?
Escape Velocity Nova seems pretty zippy already. Is it really faster? Maybe it loads faster. I have to wait 5 or 6 seconds at the loading screen...
What about CarbonCopyCloner? I've had to back up some stuff and it seems really damn fast.
How about... oh, gosh, what to choose... oh, iLife! The iMovie integration with iTunes seems like it could be sped up a little. Will 'switching' achieve this?
Obviously it was an... extreme example. But there are many others (Tom Bombadil from LotR being a decent one).
And until we can really get some decent way of showing characters' thoughts (Dune's way is bad), there are going to be a lot more movies that get butchered, because too much depends on you knowing what they're thinking.
My theory is that directors, producers, and screenwriters just cannot help messing with the story.
Have you ever tried?
I've read a lot and every now and then I think "That would make a great movie" after I set the book down. One time I actually started thinking about it, how I would do it, and I realized it would be impossible to really capture it.
The book was Raptor, by Gary Jennings (I think that was his name). The book was a historical fiction about... a hermaphrodite. It's a great story about how a young hermaphrodite gets kicked out of a monastery once its 'status' is found and goes on to meet and join with a future king of Rome. Thorn (the hermaphrodite) acts mostly male but dresses up as female (and has sex) for some parts of the book. It spans 40 years or so. He meets and sleeps with another hermaphrodite. Do you think that would translate well to screen?
You could take some bits from the beginning, a lot from the middle, and then hack the ending on there some how. You'd have to make Thorn male. I can think of at least one fairly central character that would have to be removed...
Or you could keep everything. The movie would be roughly 8 hours long and maybe half the people who'd read the book would see it. Almost everyone else wouldn't watch it, or would leave the theatre. Likely around the time Thorn gets kicked out of a nunnery (one of the other nuns thought his penis was a clitoris and she was defecient while Thorn wasn't--they're caught having sex). This is, or course, after a monk at the first monastery tried to bugger Thorn and discovers it's female. Confused yet?
While I imagine there are some books that can make the translation to screen without adaptation, it's nearly impossible for the majority of books out there. If I'd seen anything approaching the things found in Raptor (or in some of Heinlein's book--incest, for instance, wouldn't go down well), I would be pretty surprised. I imagine a lot of people would be wanting to burn the producers at the stake, as well.
I used to code on an LPC MUD. There were Abominations there that used to indent 3 spaces. (No one used tabs because they showed up as [TAB][TAB][TAB][TAB] in the in-game editors.)
But 3 spaces! THREE! How many times do you have to be dropped on your head as a child to think 3 space indent is good?
They may be sending a lot more information that they wish to by using.doc
Some friends of mine have sent me.doc files. Since I don't have Office and the files have always been just text files with a little formatting, I generally just open them in BBEdit and pick through all the extraneous stuff. I've found things like the full names of other users on the computer, paths to the file itself and other stuff, etc. And these are just files that were written, saved, and sent in the space of a couple of minutes... dunno what I'd find in a file that used a lot of the options in Office.
As far as I know, OWC insinuated that Apple had waved the DMCA around something like two weeks after the orginal brouhaha; and this was after the original press release/whatever that talked about it, where no mention of the DMCA was made.
Tabs don't even really belong in preference dialogs, though that's where they got their start and that's where they mostly remain entrenched.
Where do you think they belong, then? (I hate tabbed browsing, for the record [though I can't live without them when it comes to iChat vs. Adium], I'm just curious.)
We are not mature enough as a species to come into contact with other species capable of understanding abstract symbol systems, including our very own selves.
Both of these features (assuming the guy you quoted is talking about the Dock) can be turned off with a simple click of a checkbox.
But changing things from the defaults (which are obviously very rarely perfect for anyone) would prevent you from mindlessly bitching, which of course is a bad thing. -_-;;;
I, for one, loathe contextual menus. Have never used them.
Yeah, I grew up on a Mac (well, on an Amiga, then a Mac) and Macs have never been big on context menus. I get the feeling that Windows makes you do a lot of stuff with a contextual menu with no alternative, which would really piss me off. But I wouldn't hold it as a failing of Windows, I would know I just grew up on something different. Bitching about a lack of contextual menus, and especially viewing it as something 'unintuitive' is just plain silly: there is nothing intuitive about _anything_ to do with computers because we simply made it all up.
I say again, I loathe contextual menus and use them only when I have to. I feel I can work faster without them. This doesn't make them bad. It's just a matter of how I learned to use computers.
As for mice being intuitive... not really. Touch-screens are fairly intuitive, I would guess. But, guess what! They don't really work well and almost no one uses them.
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Lost its thrill? If you asked a random person on the street about the Gettysburg address they'd likely give you a blank look. If you then said, "You know, fourscore--" they would finish "and seven years ago!" and maybe give a you a great big sloppy grin, but 99 out of a hundred wouldn't be able to tell you anything beyond "our forefathers".
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He was making a struct that overloaded a lot of operators. He would write the declare in the struct and then move down to the actual function. I was basically just following along (I'm still learning; he's teaching) at first, but then I started writing the declarations as he did the functions. So he got to really stick to what was actually the 'important' bits without any break in workflow, trusting that I'd get the 'clean-up' done. .cpp file--because we were just testing everything out.
This all happened in the same file--the wrong file, even ignoring the fact that it should have been done in a header and a
After that we went on to doing some design changes in two other files, a header and a .cpp. He modified my structs in the header while I changed all the code to reflect what he was doing.
So, yeah, it works in the real world. Obviously not for everyone, but it, for me, brought a new level of fun to coding, and also allowed me to watch someone better than me at work. And it was less work and less time for both of us. I can easily see this going places if you'd give it a nice thorough try.
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Yeah, neither was I. My brother and I eventually just said 'fuck it' and did it anyway.
It definitely handled our problem with CDs not reading, though. As long as you follow the instructions, you should be fine.
We ended up using a regular metal screwdriver, btw. (It suggest against that in the FAQ.) We, uh, touched metal to 'ground ourselves' before we did anything with the PS2, though. I have no idea if this has any basis in fact or if we were just kidding ourselves, but in the end we hadn't hurt anything so who knows. Can't hurt. =P
dalamcd
Do try just cleaning the lens before adjusting the voltage, though.
dalamcd
Really? How fast does MS Office start up on it?
I've found Warcraft III to run somewhat slowly on my computer. Is it faster on Yellow Dog?
Escape Velocity Nova seems pretty zippy already. Is it really faster? Maybe it loads faster. I have to wait 5 or 6 seconds at the loading screen...
What about CarbonCopyCloner? I've had to back up some stuff and it seems really damn fast.
How about... oh, gosh, what to choose... oh, iLife! The iMovie integration with iTunes seems like it could be sped up a little. Will 'switching' achieve this?
</sarcasm>
dalamcd
And until we can really get some decent way of showing characters' thoughts (Dune's way is bad), there are going to be a lot more movies that get butchered, because too much depends on you knowing what they're thinking.
dalamcd
Have you ever tried?
I've read a lot and every now and then I think "That would make a great movie" after I set the book down. One time I actually started thinking about it, how I would do it, and I realized it would be impossible to really capture it.
The book was Raptor, by Gary Jennings (I think that was his name). The book was a historical fiction about... a hermaphrodite. It's a great story about how a young hermaphrodite gets kicked out of a monastery once its 'status' is found and goes on to meet and join with a future king of Rome. Thorn (the hermaphrodite) acts mostly male but dresses up as female (and has sex) for some parts of the book. It spans 40 years or so. He meets and sleeps with another hermaphrodite. Do you think that would translate well to screen?
You could take some bits from the beginning, a lot from the middle, and then hack the ending on there some how. You'd have to make Thorn male. I can think of at least one fairly central character that would have to be removed...
Or you could keep everything. The movie would be roughly 8 hours long and maybe half the people who'd read the book would see it. Almost everyone else wouldn't watch it, or would leave the theatre. Likely around the time Thorn gets kicked out of a nunnery (one of the other nuns thought his penis was a clitoris and she was defecient while Thorn wasn't--they're caught having sex). This is, or course, after a monk at the first monastery tried to bugger Thorn and discovers it's female. Confused yet?
While I imagine there are some books that can make the translation to screen without adaptation, it's nearly impossible for the majority of books out there. If I'd seen anything approaching the things found in Raptor (or in some of Heinlein's book--incest, for instance, wouldn't go down well), I would be pretty surprised. I imagine a lot of people would be wanting to burn the producers at the stake, as well.
dalamcd
But 3 spaces! THREE! How many times do you have to be dropped on your head as a child to think 3 space indent is good?
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On second thought, I'm not even going to touch this.
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I spent something like 2 years in a primarily British MUD--believe me, grammar like that is not US-centric.
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Some friends of mine have sent me .doc files. Since I don't have Office and the files have always been just text files with a little formatting, I generally just open them in BBEdit and pick through all the extraneous stuff. I've found things like the full names of other users on the computer, paths to the file itself and other stuff, etc. And these are just files that were written, saved, and sent in the space of a couple of minutes... dunno what I'd find in a file that used a lot of the options in Office.
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Where do you think they belong, then? (I hate tabbed browsing, for the record [though I can't live without them when it comes to iChat vs. Adium], I'm just curious.)
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How do you know any other species or race is?
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But changing things from the defaults (which are obviously very rarely perfect for anyone) would prevent you from mindlessly bitching, which of course is a bad thing. -_-;;;
dalamcd
Yeah, I grew up on a Mac (well, on an Amiga, then a Mac) and Macs have never been big on context menus. I get the feeling that Windows makes you do a lot of stuff with a contextual menu with no alternative, which would really piss me off. But I wouldn't hold it as a failing of Windows, I would know I just grew up on something different. Bitching about a lack of contextual menus, and especially viewing it as something 'unintuitive' is just plain silly: there is nothing intuitive about _anything_ to do with computers because we simply made it all up.
I say again, I loathe contextual menus and use them only when I have to. I feel I can work faster without them. This doesn't make them bad. It's just a matter of how I learned to use computers.
As for mice being intuitive... not really. Touch-screens are fairly intuitive, I would guess. But, guess what! They don't really work well and almost no one uses them.
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The human race is assured.
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Take that how you want!
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