You've come a long way baby.... just make a nice console like app, maybe something influenced by Lawnmower man, Hackers, any Keanu Reeeves starring future movie or Swordfish and you'll blow them away! Use all flash and actionscript!!!!
If you want to get fancy, write the whole thing as an openGl app with hooks into the system and just use bash or tch as your CLI;-p but make the text have volume so it's 3D and put it on a touch screen display with a virtual keyboard.... if you want to be cool that is.
Rather than putting up ads on the pages like google adwords or worse yet, banners, etc. Provide sponsorship options for companies for certain entries... and be discreet about whom you let sponsor what.
The form of sponsorship would go something like this... "This entry supported by the good people at " Where the name is a link to a special page that company can create which would highlight their interest in the given topic and allow them to wax poetic about the virtues of the topic and how important it is for all people to understand given topic. More of a PSA than an advertisement.
The company would get a great PR campaign regarding their involvement in the development, study or support of said topic and the rest of us could find out more about the company. Each topic could have as many PSA ads as companies that are legitimately involved in the topic.
Wikipedia would get content control of the PSAs to keep out conflicts of interest... ie only truthful PSA info would be allowed though highlighting good deeds and ignoring bad would be acceptable.
Cause kids play games and adults watch movies... unless they're animated... hmm strike that... kids mostly play video games now and only want to watch a movie if it is a feature length film about their favorite video game star....
Is it possible without too much effort to get a working VM of the hardware spec going? It would be momentous to release an OS that is targeted at a virtual machine only.... running on the latest commodity hardware around for hobbyists and only on dedicated hardware for those with a real business interest in using it commercially.
you missed the point or corrupted for your own rant...
What he's saying is that the Chinese vendor knows that all you want to do is play the stupid media on your screen. Why does anyone want to use a Personal (general purpose) Computer to play HD content or games or whatever when a dedicated device can do it better, cheaper and easier... the fact that he references a Chinese vendor is simply a matter of liklihood that the manfacturer of the device would be in China (pretty good odds) not a commentary on anything else.
PCs should go back to being devices for people who need to do computing...
Could I apply for and get a patent on door-knobs or maybe lightbulbs that only applies to items within my home? I own the home which is the same as owning an OS then patenting software that runs within that OS?
Then I could sue all the manufacturers of door-knobs and lightbulbs that I use in my home.... how could they dispute my claims? They don't have a patent for door-knobs "in my home" do they? I could even manufacture a door-knob and install it in my home as proof of concept.... they'd be infringing on my design.
One of the more calculated interpretations of this rumor is that an embedded OS X would not have full functionality ie: overkill but would include software and supporting libraries for such things as iSync, iCal, Mail, iPhoto, iTunes and not much more. This would allow it to have a full PDA capability and sync up with a Mac seamlessly over Bluetooth, USB or via.Mac service over WiFi connections.
Other optional libraries may include hand-writing recognition for stylus based note taking, voice recognition for voice control and voice note taking... all things is OS X now which would work in a small form factor device.
The interface to these tools wouldn't have to look like a desktop system... it could be more iPod like or like FrontRow, ie: vastly simplified and tuned to the job.
Your argument is valid if and only if you assume Apple would be dumb enough to simply drop OS X as is into a device and only address hardware requirements (CPU, Battery, Resolution).
As you state there is a good reason they didn't do so for the iPod, why would they go and forget everything they learned? This doesn't mean they wouldn't want to create a more interoperable and easier to customize embedded spec and default version of OS X that could work on a variety of devices.... rather than creating a dedicated 'OS' for each new device that comes out....
Surely we can speed up this process by simply asking the publishers to make available the original digital Latex or SGML files for all books printed since the late 70s right?
Why invest hundreds of hours on scan/ocr/qa for texts which already exist in a digital format?
Hmmm i would interpret that example the same as giving an broker agent access to my credit history for the sole purpose of purchasing a home. I've given them permission. Without that permission they can't access my personal records, legally. Neither does it mean I have given access to those records to any other agent or the public.
Same is true for my emails and virus scanning. It just so happens that to get an account with an ISP it is most likely that I will be required to give them permission... as part of the contract, not by fed or state law, but by no means does that mean I have given the public or any other agency permission to do the same scanning.... in theory.
How about Dreamweaver? Have you ever looked at it's WYSIWYG code? All Javascript. In fact the entire UI is 90% Javascript.... you can customize the whole app by editing, you guessed it Javascript.
I just want to tell the engine that keyword 1 is 5 times as important as keyword 2
Give me a slider control that instantly filters the results... ie: have the first 100 results waiting for me with 20 showing, then let me adjust the weight of my keywords until I get the list I am looking for with individual items falling off or being added to the list as I adjust the controls.
Use Delicious and search your bookmarks... easy-peasy and you can do it now.
But you're right. Search Engines should be keeping a list of sites you visit and associating them with your user account and IP address... so you can get a list of previously visited sites that meet your keywords at the top of the page or in a sidebar... OR SHOULD THEY?
There's an application called Terminal... I know it sounds unhealthy to use but it is really useful... it lets you do things like this:
Ozark:~ jamesbb$ ps -aux USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND jamesbb 3450 0.7 -0.9 369664 19516 ?? R 7:32AM 0:00.75/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/MacO S/Terminal -psn_0_44171265
(shortened to get past junk limit on/.)
Which pretty much tells an experienced user what is going on behind the scenes.
There is a website http://developer.apple.com/ which lets you search on specific information about what programs are doing what on your system at any given time... and how to interoperate with them in useful ways... such as writing shell scripts, automator scripts, etc.
Another great tool from the Terminal is this
Ozark:~ jamesbb$ man perl
PERL(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERL(1)
NAME
perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language
SYNOPSIS
If you're new to Perl, you should start with perlintro, which is a gen-
eral intro for beginners and provides some background to help you navi-
gate the rest of Perl's extensive documentation.
For ease of access, the Perl manual has been split up into several sec-
tions.
(shortened to get past junk limit on/.)
Which gives you access to manual pages for various binary applications that are on your system
You can find most of these 'hidden' binaries here:
Ozark:~ jamesbb$ ls -la/usr/bin/ total 253440 -r-xr-xr-x 15 root wheel 147 Jan 13 2006 alias (shortened to get past junk limit on/.)
which AFAIK is the exact same place you'd find them in Linux
Additionally you can use alias to create shortcuts to your favorite CLI apps
grep, find and slocate are also good tools for finding things on your system that you think should be there but you're not sure where they are;-p
If you don't want to use your experience using CLI then go to this website: http://www.versiontracker.com/ and type in your favorite CLI app name and you're 90% likely to find a free GUI tool for accessing it (people have been writing and releasing them free for many years now)
This post should get you started on the track to appreciating the UNIXness of your OS X machine....
Not enough living individuals to maintain the species. If there are still baji out there, their breeding intervals aren't frequent enough to ensure survival of the species... assuming that not finding any when you go looking for them is evidence of extremely low numbers of individuals.
yep, you're fucked. Not for the reasons you cited but just in general because you are relying on your laptop, which could go down at any minute.... destroying your hard work forever. It may not happen tomorrow but laptop hard drives get abused and have fail ratios much higher than server drives... and are not backed up as regularly.
The one situation that you may want to do work where you don't have network access is on a plane to a "big meeting". You should already have the work completed for one... if not, well yes a local application would be nice to have. Luckily local scripting exists and you CAN have that.
We're talking about business applications that are important right? Not someones personal calculation that they share with other people and gets reused by default without a QA process to ensure that it is accurate?
Sure business people can write apps that do basic stuff but as soon as more than one person is using it in the business it should have to go through QA regardless, just to ensure that the math is right, etc.
The article referenced is talking about important stuff not personal widgets you use to simply your work... so I don't see a problem. If it's important enough to be a problem, then there should be a team assigned to do it 'right'.
Just tell your CIO "Hey we can reimplement this as a web based form application that will do the same thing but in a centralized and easily maintained location that all employees regardless of OS can utilize... AND we can generate stats, reports from those stats AND ensure that all employees are using the latest most up to date calculations."
4 years is nothing. It used to be that when you went in to a highly disciplined career that required a high level of education you still had to work as a flunky to learn the business and cut your teeth... this could take 8 even 12 years before you were considered seasoned enough to be given serious responsibility.
So you can either stick with your current gig and wait for your big break or go back to school to get your Masters or a PhD even... either way it will be 4 - 8 years before you do challenging work in the real world... if you need to illusion, go back to school (you'll be doing challenging work but all academic and you won't get paid).
If you want to get paid to learn, stick with it and ask to sit in on as many meetings as possible, talk with your managers about your need for challenging work... they may just have something for you eventually.
3rd option: take a pay cut and go looking for a crazy startup to join (preferably one that has been around for 2+ years, yes it's still a startup even at 4+ years).
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You've come a long way baby.... just make a nice console like app, maybe something influenced by Lawnmower man, Hackers, any Keanu Reeeves starring future movie or Swordfish and you'll blow them away! Use all flash and actionscript!!!!
;-p but make the text have volume so it's 3D and put it on a touch screen display with a virtual keyboard.... if you want to be cool that is.
If you want to get fancy, write the whole thing as an openGl app with hooks into the system and just use bash or tch as your CLI
Rather than putting up ads on the pages like google adwords or worse yet, banners, etc. Provide sponsorship options for companies for certain entries... and be discreet about whom you let sponsor what.
The form of sponsorship would go something like this... "This entry supported by the good people at " Where the name is a link to a special page that company can create which would highlight their interest in the given topic and allow them to wax poetic about the virtues of the topic and how important it is for all people to understand given topic. More of a PSA than an advertisement.
The company would get a great PR campaign regarding their involvement in the development, study or support of said topic and the rest of us could find out more about the company. Each topic could have as many PSA ads as companies that are legitimately involved in the topic.
Wikipedia would get content control of the PSAs to keep out conflicts of interest... ie only truthful PSA info would be allowed though highlighting good deeds and ignoring bad would be acceptable.
Then your wishes have been granted.... A Girl's Guide to Geek Guys
Late 2007... It's called "The SIMS, S&M Showdown" use your controller to whip, paddle and smack your partner into submission ;-p
seriously I read about it somewhere
Cause kids play games and adults watch movies... unless they're animated... hmm strike that... kids mostly play video games now and only want to watch a movie if it is a feature length film about their favorite video game star....
Is it possible without too much effort to get a working VM of the hardware spec going? It would be momentous to release an OS that is targeted at a virtual machine only.... running on the latest commodity hardware around for hobbyists and only on dedicated hardware for those with a real business interest in using it commercially.
"propaedeutic" - nice word
you missed the point or corrupted for your own rant...
What he's saying is that the Chinese vendor knows that all you want to do is play the stupid media on your screen. Why does anyone want to use a Personal (general purpose) Computer to play HD content or games or whatever when a dedicated device can do it better, cheaper and easier... the fact that he references a Chinese vendor is simply a matter of liklihood that the manfacturer of the device would be in China (pretty good odds) not a commentary on anything else.
PCs should go back to being devices for people who need to do computing...
Could I apply for and get a patent on door-knobs or maybe lightbulbs that only applies to items within my home? I own the home which is the same as owning an OS then patenting software that runs within that OS?
Then I could sue all the manufacturers of door-knobs and lightbulbs that I use in my home.... how could they dispute my claims? They don't have a patent for door-knobs "in my home" do they? I could even manufacture a door-knob and install it in my home as proof of concept.... they'd be infringing on my design.
One of the more calculated interpretations of this rumor is that an embedded OS X would not have full functionality ie: overkill but would include software and supporting libraries for such things as iSync, iCal, Mail, iPhoto, iTunes and not much more. This would allow it to have a full PDA capability and sync up with a Mac seamlessly over Bluetooth, USB or via .Mac service over WiFi connections.
Other optional libraries may include hand-writing recognition for stylus based note taking, voice recognition for voice control and voice note taking... all things is OS X now which would work in a small form factor device.
The interface to these tools wouldn't have to look like a desktop system... it could be more iPod like or like FrontRow, ie: vastly simplified and tuned to the job.
Your argument is valid if and only if you assume Apple would be dumb enough to simply drop OS X as is into a device and only address hardware requirements (CPU, Battery, Resolution).
As you state there is a good reason they didn't do so for the iPod, why would they go and forget everything they learned? This doesn't mean they wouldn't want to create a more interoperable and easier to customize embedded spec and default version of OS X that could work on a variety of devices.... rather than creating a dedicated 'OS' for each new device that comes out....
Surely we can speed up this process by simply asking the publishers to make available the original digital Latex or SGML files for all books printed since the late 70s right?
Why invest hundreds of hours on scan/ocr/qa for texts which already exist in a digital format?
Hmmm i would interpret that example the same as giving an broker agent access to my credit history for the sole purpose of purchasing a home. I've given them permission. Without that permission they can't access my personal records, legally. Neither does it mean I have given access to those records to any other agent or the public.
Same is true for my emails and virus scanning. It just so happens that to get an account with an ISP it is most likely that I will be required to give them permission... as part of the contract, not by fed or state law, but by no means does that mean I have given the public or any other agency permission to do the same scanning.... in theory.
Is that 90nm should be enough for anyone....
How about Dreamweaver? Have you ever looked at it's WYSIWYG code? All Javascript. In fact the entire UI is 90% Javascript.... you can customize the whole app by editing, you guessed it Javascript.
Too true, now when MS rolls out their new ZFS filesystem in Vista we can all point and laugh, saying "They just copied Apple again!"
I just want to tell the engine that keyword 1 is 5 times as important as keyword 2
Give me a slider control that instantly filters the results... ie: have the first 100 results waiting for me with 20 showing, then let me adjust the weight of my keywords until I get the list I am looking for with individual items falling off or being added to the list as I adjust the controls.
Use Delicious and search your bookmarks... easy-peasy and you can do it now.
But you're right. Search Engines should be keeping a list of sites you visit and associating them with your user account and IP address... so you can get a list of previously visited sites that meet your keywords at the top of the page or in a sidebar... OR SHOULD THEY?
There's an application called Terminal... I know it sounds unhealthy to use but it is really useful... it lets you do things like this:
/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/MacO S/Terminal -psn_0_44171265
/.)
/.)
/usr/bin/ /.)
;-p
Ozark:~ jamesbb$ ps -aux
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
jamesbb 3450 0.7 -0.9 369664 19516 ?? R 7:32AM 0:00.75
(shortened to get past junk limit on
Which pretty much tells an experienced user what is going on behind the scenes.
There is a website http://developer.apple.com/ which lets you search on specific information about what programs are doing what on your system at any given time... and how to interoperate with them in useful ways... such as writing shell scripts, automator scripts, etc.
Another great tool from the Terminal is this
Ozark:~ jamesbb$ man perl
PERL(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERL(1)
NAME
perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language
SYNOPSIS
If you're new to Perl, you should start with perlintro, which is a gen-
eral intro for beginners and provides some background to help you navi-
gate the rest of Perl's extensive documentation.
For ease of access, the Perl manual has been split up into several sec-
tions.
(shortened to get past junk limit on
Which gives you access to manual pages for various binary applications that are on your system
You can find most of these 'hidden' binaries here:
Ozark:~ jamesbb$ ls -la
total 253440
-r-xr-xr-x 15 root wheel 147 Jan 13 2006 alias
(shortened to get past junk limit on
which AFAIK is the exact same place you'd find them in Linux
Additionally you can use alias to create shortcuts to your favorite CLI apps
grep, find and slocate are also good tools for finding things on your system that you think should be there but you're not sure where they are
If you don't want to use your experience using CLI then go to this website: http://www.versiontracker.com/ and type in your favorite CLI app name and you're 90% likely to find a free GUI tool for accessing it (people have been writing and releasing them free for many years now)
This post should get you started on the track to appreciating the UNIXness of your OS X machine....
Not enough living individuals to maintain the species. If there are still baji out there, their breeding intervals aren't frequent enough to ensure survival of the species... assuming that not finding any when you go looking for them is evidence of extremely low numbers of individuals.
yep, you're fucked. Not for the reasons you cited but just in general because you are relying on your laptop, which could go down at any minute.... destroying your hard work forever. It may not happen tomorrow but laptop hard drives get abused and have fail ratios much higher than server drives... and are not backed up as regularly.
The one situation that you may want to do work where you don't have network access is on a plane to a "big meeting". You should already have the work completed for one... if not, well yes a local application would be nice to have. Luckily local scripting exists and you CAN have that.
you could just use a command line interface instead and memorize all the commands ;-p
;-p
the other options are (in a convenient menu format, that is easy to read and available without extra training):
a) get rid of options
b) use a programmable input device, like a keyboard
c) use voice command
d) add other options here
We're talking about business applications that are important right? Not someones personal calculation that they share with other people and gets reused by default without a QA process to ensure that it is accurate?
Sure business people can write apps that do basic stuff but as soon as more than one person is using it in the business it should have to go through QA regardless, just to ensure that the math is right, etc.
The article referenced is talking about important stuff not personal widgets you use to simply your work... so I don't see a problem. If it's important enough to be a problem, then there should be a team assigned to do it 'right'.
Just tell your CIO "Hey we can reimplement this as a web based form application that will do the same thing but in a centralized and easily maintained location that all employees regardless of OS can utilize... AND we can generate stats, reports from those stats AND ensure that all employees are using the latest most up to date calculations."
Problem solved. Long live the Intranet.
In the army you don't need to capture anyone to experiment on... you have 'volunteers' who sign up for the privilege!
4 years is nothing. It used to be that when you went in to a highly disciplined career that required a high level of education you still had to work as a flunky to learn the business and cut your teeth... this could take 8 even 12 years before you were considered seasoned enough to be given serious responsibility.
So you can either stick with your current gig and wait for your big break or go back to school to get your Masters or a PhD even... either way it will be 4 - 8 years before you do challenging work in the real world... if you need to illusion, go back to school (you'll be doing challenging work but all academic and you won't get paid).
If you want to get paid to learn, stick with it and ask to sit in on as many meetings as possible, talk with your managers about your need for challenging work... they may just have something for you eventually.
3rd option: take a pay cut and go looking for a crazy startup to join (preferably one that has been around for 2+ years, yes it's still a startup even at 4+ years).