'I don't think that (good) hackers have any special, hardwired mental abilities or specific personality traits, and I do believe you can easily learn to think like a hacker, even when you come from a different background.'
Next up on tonight's news, a golf pro weighs in on sports physiology.
Have you tried Qt 4? I'm finding it fairly straightforward and quick, and I just started learning C++ a month ago. The docs aren't great, or more precisely, the really useful information can be hard to put your finger on, even if it's there. But once you get the hang of how components tend to fit together, it's impressively powerful. IMHO. IANAP.
I agree that it's mostly a good thing. It had only just occurred to me that the behaviors you describe support the metaphor of iTunes as a music "environment."
I also find the behavior where it copies mp3s that you play to the music folder automatically strange. But I guess some people would get confused that deleting a file from their desktop makes it not playable in itunes anymore.
This suggests that people are thinking of iTunes as a place "where" music files exist.
If that's the case, I would install an electrical outlet on my chest and evertime I needed to use a small appliance I wouldn't have to search for a wall outlet.
Yes, and the moment you plugged in anything that uses that current, your CNS would shut down.
This has already been covered by Stephen R. Donaldson in The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. Short answer: bad idea, since it actually strengthens the Blight upon the Land, instead of mitigating its effects or weakening Lord Foul. Better that Berek Halfhand should learn to rebuild the Staff of Law and wield the white gold.
This technology is a cruel bane upon the Land and must be given no quarter.
The other mistake is the one they made in Safari 0.9 that they haven't yet fixed, and that is to let Safari "open safe files" automatically.
Let Safari? How about letting me do this? I happen to prefer having PDFs, disk images and a few other things open automatically, without my having to: 1) locate the tiny download window, 2) scroll down in it to the file I just downloaded, 3) click on the tiny "Show in Finder" button, and 4) double click on the file in the Finder.
As someone who reads Greek, I have a special reaction to words made up of in-themselves-meaningless fragments of Greek words: I cringe.
Is it too late to stop the proliferation of "-tron" words? "-tron" means nothing; "electrons" are so called because of the Greek word for amber, which the Greeks knew to be capable of producing a static charge. What if people abstracted part of that word out and started calling every new technology "something-ber"?
I think the technical name for the combining from "-tron" is a "cranberry morpheme," from "*cran," which apparently has no independent meaning.
It's a German present participle, which means "to make fresh or cause to be in a state of freshness." In other words, "das freshende iMac" means "iMac: the freshmaker!"
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Sit up straight, trim your nails, and fold your underwear before putting it in the drawer. There! That was easy!
Actually, the spelling with two g's is more correct. "Grogg" is just a wrapper. The full name, of course, is "Grogg Vorbis."
The Greeks called it irony.
Maybe they thought it was some obscure acronym.
Unless the mechanic has botched the first installation. Perhaps not an unfair analogy to these benchmarks.
Next up on tonight's news, a golf pro weighs in on sports physiology.
Have you tried Qt 4? I'm finding it fairly straightforward and quick, and I just started learning C++ a month ago. The docs aren't great, or more precisely, the really useful information can be hard to put your finger on, even if it's there. But once you get the hang of how components tend to fit together, it's impressively powerful. IMHO. IANAP.
P.S. This is a serious question... I did some googling around but no joy.
The fact that no one can say where this phrase came from is the elephant in the living room.
Does $200 billion+ spent by the U.S. to invade and occupy Iraq count as a subsidy of the oil industry?
I agree that it's mostly a good thing. It had only just occurred to me that the behaviors you describe support the metaphor of iTunes as a music "environment."
This suggests that people are thinking of iTunes as a place "where" music files exist.
Yes, and the moment you plugged in anything that uses that current, your CNS would shut down.
This technology is a cruel bane upon the Land and must be given no quarter.
Let Safari? How about letting me do this? I happen to prefer having PDFs, disk images and a few other things open automatically, without my having to: 1) locate the tiny download window, 2) scroll down in it to the file I just downloaded, 3) click on the tiny "Show in Finder" button, and 4) double click on the file in the Finder.
Aristotle says we should always begin our reasoning from what is familiar to us.
I call do-over!
What is this? PaulGrahamFilter?
Now that's a big iPod!
Too bad it's so crash-prone.
Does the "fruity and a little tart" bit explain why you prefer to remain "cranonymous"?
Is it too late to stop the proliferation of "-tron" words? "-tron" means nothing; "electrons" are so called because of the Greek word for amber, which the Greeks knew to be capable of producing a static charge. What if people abstracted part of that word out and started calling every new technology "something-ber"?
I think the technical name for the combining from "-tron" is a "cranberry morpheme," from "*cran," which apparently has no independent meaning.
Wow. You must be efficient.
Unless, for example, you're on PPC: it's x86 only.
I thought the issue would be how many are pleonasms.
It's a German present participle, which means "to make fresh or cause to be in a state of freshness." In other words, "das freshende iMac" means "iMac: the freshmaker!"
Good start...
I like computer golf the best
...bad finish.