Re:You forgot to mention tabs, so I will.
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HOLY SHIT PITH IS GREAT
You've made my day. Thanks, poster.
This is even better than tabs. I always thought tabs were kinda half-ass. You can open new windows in tab, but as soon as you hit a link that has target="new" (fark.com, dailyrotten.com) then you've got another window to deal with. And that option in mozilla to force all new windows into a tab never seemed to work.
Yeah, people like to group tabs together in windows based on context. I never get _that_ into web-browsing though. To me having an all-windows-in-one-list-no-exceptions function is much more usefull.
Are there other such utilities out there?
And does anyone know of quick way to make pith open when safari does? I would write a script or whatever but I'm supposed to be studying.
"Now if it just did not look like a chick's box..."
Man, it's one thing to associate your car with your masculinity, but your computer? It's dorky no matter which color your paint it. No chick is ever going to be impressed. She may make a comment like, "Wow, it's red! That's so cool!" but really she's thinking "Wow. Lots of time on his hands AND a strong sense of asthetics. Conclusion: gay dork." Why did they change it from grey to red? More color = more swishy, I say.
There's was a post about an attempt to do this with XFree86 a few days back. I don't know many of the details. Its a project in very early stages. Windows will definately have a GPU-accelerated interface in the next major rev. I have no evidence for this, but honestly, when has Bill ever let Steve come up with a great idea and not copied it? (DON'T FUCKING START WITH THAT XEROX SHIT!) QE is getting great press coverage. Even if Bill has completely forgotten about Macs, some cronie will bring it up, "Hey chief! What about accelerating the GUI with the graphics card? Then we can make it even uglier!" What Apple should have done is patened the whole idea. The patent office would have given it to em in a heart beat.
He's right, the free dev tools and the Cocoa framework are hot shit. The advantage of NSTask over system() and popen() is that its an object and it fits in seamlessly with the rest of the framework. With almost no code you can have it post notifications when there's data available and call other methods. Its just one example of what the framework is all about. It lets you build no-brainer Java like applications that run like normal applications and can actually do usefull stuff. It's got all of the advantages of Java (minus cross-platform, of course) and it compiles into native machine code. And you can work with whatever existing c/c++ libraries you've got. AND THE WHOLE THING COMES WITH THE OS. Not on a separate cd you have to send away for or anything, but right on the retail cd. Any developer with a Mac owes it to himself to check it out.
That's a pretty good failsafe. Put a big ol' lynch pin at the base. If something goes wrong and it looks like the teather is going to break, pull the pin and WOOOOSH! The biggest most expensive slingshot in the history of mankind. That would be rad to watch from the moon. And if the space elevator industry caught on and more sprung up, we could use them as weapons in interplanetary wars, a la the bugs in Starship Troopers. Just put a big nuke or giant mass on the end of the teather, pull the pin at the right time and off goes your intergalactic slingshot. If we couldn't find any hostile planets to pummel we could just chuck rocks at Mars for kicks. Man, this is gonna be great.
Beacause their value is completely artificial and the brutality that the diamond trade has brought is more vicious and more obvious than any of those examples by a very wide margin. That, and the cartel has completely fooled the American public for much of the last century. I can tolerate my money being missused, but only up to a certain point. DeBeers crossed that point, turned around and shot it in the face. And they've been laughing about it for decades.
No, "Linux" is not a supplier of Unix based systems, but since most people in a position to buy it don't know what linux is, that's a simple way of saying "We sell more unix than Redhat, Suse, Mandrake, etc. COMBINED"
Re:As long as my current batch of machines run...
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Coursey on Palladium
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I think he means, just make sure not to use WMP:)
Why is there not a campaign against this yet?
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Coursey on Palladium
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Or maybe I just haven't seen one yet.
Remeber the Anti-DIVX campaign a few years back? That worked perfectly. DIVX (the DVD player, not the codec) was dead before it ever hit the shelves. Why is there not a www.fuckpalladium.com yet? or maybe www.getoutofmycomputer.com. There's no shortage of MS haters out there. This ball should get itself rolling.
All of this seems the same as DIVX - some company telling you what you can and can't do with shit you've already bought. People won't stand for it as long as someone gives it to them straight. All that you need to tell them is "Palladium won't let you burn CD's" and you'll have a backlash on your hands. Even the least tech-savvy users will understand what that means. If I had the time and resources i'd register www.nopalladium.com, but I don't. If everybody puts a link to www.fuckdrm.com on their website, people will get the idea and this will die on the vine like DIVX and the PSN.
If this ever gets to a judge, I don't see how he/she could distiguish between this phenomenon and rebroadcasting a television show. Eventualy expressed written consent will be required.
There's lots of PCMCIA sound cards. There's also usb sound interfaces. Some are rather small too. The best places to find these things are music stores (as in, guitars, drums, amps). musiciansfriend.com and zzounds.com both have a good selection. The pcmcia cards will run you about 400 (that i've seen) while you can get a small usb interface for under 200.
having students write out code on paper is assinine. I used to lose all kinds of points for forgetting semi colons. Granted, its a stupid mistake and its my fault, but one trip through the compiler and all is well. Is that mistake really worth losing 2 points? I still forget semicolons all the time. Why wrack my brain over it when the compiler will babysit me? Its kind of like spell check. Who really cares what the correct spelling of necessity is? Close enough will do.
I think all CS tests involving algorithms should be in pseudo-code. If you want to test a students knowledge of syntax, make them write a program. If you really have to do it on paper, teach them BNF first and then test them on it.
Before you all start calling me a sloppy programmer, remember i'm just talking about semi colons, here.
If they ever get this lighting off the ground, and it does cause enough interference to muck with your precious wireless networking, then just start throwing rocks at the bulbs. They're going to be hideously expensive. If enough bulbs get broken, facilities considering adopting this lighting technology will think twice because they know the cost of replacing bulbs will be more than the difference in their power bill.
And I don't want to hear any conservation jibberjabber from anyone who has any incandescent bulbs in their house.
It's perfectly legal for these lights the "wreck" havoc all over your WiFi networks because the spectrum was set aside for industrial use long before anyone thought about WiFi. Part of the agreement the 802.11b people made with the FCC was that if some application came up in the future that interfered with 802.11b, they would just have to deal with it. I read all this on some site that was linked to from a/. article a few weeks ago. I forget where. Search in the archive for "fusion lighting" or "microwave lighting" or something. Long story short, WiFi was betting that no one would come up with an interfering device, and they did, so WiFi is screwed.
on a related note, where the hell did this WiFi acronym come from and why does it stand for Wireless Fidelity? My dad mentioned was reading a news paper and he says "Son have you heard of this WiFi or Wireless Fidelety?" and i laughed in his face and made fun of him for getting suckerd by an ignorant news reporter who was just assuming what WiFi stood for (HiFi means High Fidelity, so WiFi must mean Wireless Fidelity) The logic seemed assinine to me at the time, even though I didn't know what the Fi stood for. Turns out _I_ was the rube. Does anyone have any idea what Fidelity has to do with computer networking? Isn't fidelity sort of implied when you're dealing with digital transmission? Am I getting too worked up over a stupid marketing ploy?
Well lets look at who's making the music. On the one hand, we have modest, amiable, mac loving computer nerds making quiet music. On the other hand, we have eminem. Who do you think slashdotters are going to identify with?
I'll take barely audible over a rehashed dre beat any day.
Yeah this would be ideal for a digital distribution scheme. Charge for the song, not the record it comes on. Problem is that no matter how you organize it, alot of money is going to be changing hands at the end of the funnel, which means slime-balls (who probably already work in the record industry) will get involved and try and milk it, and everybody else (artists and listeners) will get screwed. What we need is a not-for-profit (or maybe government run?) agency to do the enforcement of artists rights. But then this has its obvious problems too.
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HOLY SHIT PITH IS GREAT
You've made my day. Thanks, poster.
This is even better than tabs. I always thought tabs were kinda half-ass. You can open new windows in tab, but as soon as you hit a link that has target="new" (fark.com, dailyrotten.com) then you've got another window to deal with. And that option in mozilla to force all new windows into a tab never seemed to work.
Yeah, people like to group tabs together in windows based on context. I never get _that_ into web-browsing though. To me having an all-windows-in-one-list-no-exceptions function is much more usefull.
Are there other such utilities out there?
And does anyone know of quick way to make pith open when safari does? I would write a script or whatever but I'm supposed to be studying.
"Now if it just did not look like a chick's box..."
Man, it's one thing to associate your car with your masculinity, but your computer? It's dorky no matter which color your paint it. No chick is ever going to be impressed. She may make a comment like, "Wow, it's red! That's so cool!" but really she's thinking "Wow. Lots of time on his hands AND a strong sense of asthetics. Conclusion: gay dork." Why did they change it from grey to red? More color = more swishy, I say.
That would be the day.
There's was a post about an attempt to do this with XFree86 a few days back. I don't know many of the details. Its a project in very early stages. Windows will definately have a GPU-accelerated interface in the next major rev. I have no evidence for this, but honestly, when has Bill ever let Steve come up with a great idea and not copied it? (DON'T FUCKING START WITH THAT XEROX SHIT!) QE is getting great press coverage. Even if Bill has completely forgotten about Macs, some cronie will bring it up, "Hey chief! What about accelerating the GUI with the graphics card? Then we can make it even uglier!" What Apple should have done is patened the whole idea. The patent office would have given it to em in a heart beat.
He's right, the free dev tools and the Cocoa framework are hot shit. The advantage of NSTask over system() and popen() is that its an object and it fits in seamlessly with the rest of the framework. With almost no code you can have it post notifications when there's data available and call other methods. Its just one example of what the framework is all about. It lets you build no-brainer Java like applications that run like normal applications and can actually do usefull stuff. It's got all of the advantages of Java (minus cross-platform, of course) and it compiles into native machine code. And you can work with whatever existing c/c++ libraries you've got. AND THE WHOLE THING COMES WITH THE OS. Not on a separate cd you have to send away for or anything, but right on the retail cd. Any developer with a Mac owes it to himself to check it out.
Sure the processors just are not keeping up with the x86 world these days
You'd be surprised. The G3 doesn't need to cut its clockspeed by half when it's actually doing something usefull the way the P4M does.
That's a pretty good failsafe. Put a big ol' lynch pin at the base. If something goes wrong and it looks like the teather is going to break, pull the pin and WOOOOSH! The biggest most expensive slingshot in the history of mankind. That would be rad to watch from the moon. And if the space elevator industry caught on and more sprung up, we could use them as weapons in interplanetary wars, a la the bugs in Starship Troopers. Just put a big nuke or giant mass on the end of the teather, pull the pin at the right time and off goes your intergalactic slingshot. If we couldn't find any hostile planets to pummel we could just chuck rocks at Mars for kicks. Man, this is gonna be great.
Beacause their value is completely artificial and the brutality that the diamond trade has brought is more vicious and more obvious than any of those examples by a very wide margin. That, and the cartel has completely fooled the American public for much of the last century. I can tolerate my money being missused, but only up to a certain point. DeBeers crossed that point, turned around and shot it in the face. And they've been laughing about it for decades.
He must be using some wacky keyboard where the G is right next to the P
I'll bet it exapands and contracts enough with the heat from it's hd or your pocket to invalidate those last 2 digits.
Didn't you know? Everything is cheaper in the states.
No, "Linux" is not a supplier of Unix based systems, but since most people in a position to buy it don't know what linux is, that's a simple way of saying "We sell more unix than Redhat, Suse, Mandrake, etc. COMBINED"
I think he means, just make sure not to use WMP :)
Or maybe I just haven't seen one yet.
Remeber the Anti-DIVX campaign a few years back? That worked perfectly. DIVX (the DVD player, not the codec) was dead before it ever hit the shelves. Why is there not a www.fuckpalladium.com yet? or maybe www.getoutofmycomputer.com. There's no shortage of MS haters out there. This ball should get itself rolling.
All of this seems the same as DIVX - some company telling you what you can and can't do with shit you've already bought. People won't stand for it as long as someone gives it to them straight. All that you need to tell them is "Palladium won't let you burn CD's" and you'll have a backlash on your hands. Even the least tech-savvy users will understand what that means. If I had the time and resources i'd register www.nopalladium.com, but I don't. If everybody puts a link to www.fuckdrm.com on their website, people will get the idea and this will die on the vine like DIVX and the PSN.
If this ever gets to a judge, I don't see how he/she could distiguish between this phenomenon and rebroadcasting a television show. Eventualy expressed written consent will be required.
There's lots of PCMCIA sound cards. There's also usb sound interfaces. Some are rather small too. The best places to find these things are music stores (as in, guitars, drums, amps). musiciansfriend.com and zzounds.com both have a good selection. The pcmcia cards will run you about 400 (that i've seen) while you can get a small usb interface for under 200.
having students write out code on paper is assinine. I used to lose all kinds of points for forgetting semi colons. Granted, its a stupid mistake and its my fault, but one trip through the compiler and all is well. Is that mistake really worth losing 2 points? I still forget semicolons all the time. Why wrack my brain over it when the compiler will babysit me? Its kind of like spell check. Who really cares what the correct spelling of necessity is? Close enough will do.
I think all CS tests involving algorithms should be in pseudo-code. If you want to test a students knowledge of syntax, make them write a program. If you really have to do it on paper, teach them BNF first and then test them on it.
Before you all start calling me a sloppy programmer, remember i'm just talking about semi colons, here.
If they ever get this lighting off the ground, and it does cause enough interference to muck with your precious wireless networking, then just start throwing rocks at the bulbs. They're going to be hideously expensive. If enough bulbs get broken, facilities considering adopting this lighting technology will think twice because they know the cost of replacing bulbs will be more than the difference in their power bill.
And I don't want to hear any conservation jibberjabber from anyone who has any incandescent bulbs in their house.
It's perfectly legal for these lights the "wreck" havoc all over your WiFi networks because the spectrum was set aside for industrial use long before anyone thought about WiFi. Part of the agreement the 802.11b people made with the FCC was that if some application came up in the future that interfered with 802.11b, they would just have to deal with it. I read all this on some site that was linked to from a /. article a few weeks ago. I forget where. Search in the archive for "fusion lighting" or "microwave lighting" or something. Long story short, WiFi was betting that no one would come up with an interfering device, and they did, so WiFi is screwed.
on a related note, where the hell did this WiFi acronym come from and why does it stand for Wireless Fidelity? My dad mentioned was reading a news paper and he says "Son have you heard of this WiFi or Wireless Fidelety?" and i laughed in his face and made fun of him for getting suckerd by an ignorant news reporter who was just assuming what WiFi stood for (HiFi means High Fidelity, so WiFi must mean Wireless Fidelity) The logic seemed assinine to me at the time, even though I didn't know what the Fi stood for. Turns out _I_ was the rube. Does anyone have any idea what Fidelity has to do with computer networking? Isn't fidelity sort of implied when you're dealing with digital transmission? Am I getting too worked up over a stupid marketing ploy?
Of course. Why do you think I read this shit?
Well lets look at who's making the music. On the one hand, we have modest, amiable, mac loving computer nerds making quiet music. On the other hand, we have eminem. Who do you think slashdotters are going to identify with?
I'll take barely audible over a rehashed dre beat any day.
Yeah this would be ideal for a digital distribution scheme. Charge for the song, not the record it comes on. Problem is that no matter how you organize it, alot of money is going to be changing hands at the end of the funnel, which means slime-balls (who probably already work in the record industry) will get involved and try and milk it, and everybody else (artists and listeners) will get screwed. What we need is a not-for-profit (or maybe government run?) agency to do the enforcement of artists rights. But then this has its obvious problems too.
does nobody know what ASCAP is? This is what happens when you cut funding to music programs in public schools.
Thats what the good folks at ASCAP are for.