It's because PalmSource announced a few months ago that some of the Cobalt (Palm OS 6) devices would be based on the Linux kernel instead of the traditional Palm OS one. Idiots assumed this meant that all Cobalt devices would be based on Linux, and then assumed all future devices (like this one) would be Cobalt. Except so far as I can tell, this is (yawn) just another Palm OS 5 "Garnet" device from PalmOne.
Actually, Mail 2.0.1 belatedly incremented the protocol version. It should have been done in Mail 2.0. Anyway, it is up to the author to update his bundle, and the workaround that is being passed around -- forcing Mail to think it is compatible with older plugins -- is all but criminal in stupidity.
I used to use a 660AV on a regular basis. Beautiful system. It was thought that the PowerPC replaced the need for a DSP, but this wasn't really true until the G4.
The developers I talked to(and ultimately ended up working with) thought the same.
Um. Okay, I guess that's an alternative. But seriously -- why spend $199 to cause an explosion when you can just buy a lithium battery and stab it with a fork? Isn't all that music player wrapped around it overkill?
Actually, the Mac does not behave the way you describe. Applications can pick between click-to-focus and click-to-act. In System 7, this was a flag in the resource fork, but I'm not sure how it is done in Mac OS X. Applications are supposed to disable their controls visually if they use click-to-focus. A quick survey of my hard drive showed most applications seem to be using click-to-act, although there were a few exceptions -- mostly, but not entirely, applications ported from Mac OS 9.
So, basically, iTunes does it wrong on both platforms. Assuming I understood you correctly that iTunes on Windows uses click-to-focus. The PC is upstairs where it is hot, so I'm not going to go check.:)
Eh, I'd like to think I'm beyond taking sides in that particular war by now. I've got Microsoft Office and OpenOffice all installed on Windows XP, Linux and Mac OS X systems. About the only thing I haven't tried is Be. $() syntax has been around a while.:)
Well, I would hope they would answer "No, but I've got experience with blah, blah and blah." To which a reasonable employer would say "Hey, that's good general computing experience." If the job involved a lot of Microsoft Office, he might add "Can you take an evening course over at $(LOCALCOLLEGE)?
Yes, I know it's a little naive.:) Still, I got my job without spending a minute in Microsoft Office before.
Skip this if you haven't read all the books yet. I mean it.
I think that you are coming down a little hard on CS Lewis over Susan. If the idea, after all, was to exclude one of the characters, which would make more sense? Pick only from the first four, since they'll have the biggest emotional impact. Lucy, who was the first one in? Edmund, who already fell and was redeemed? I think the only character that would make any sense is Peter, and he was also the oldest and most level-headed. It happened, he remembers it, and he isn't in self-denial.
It's also not accurate to say she was excluded. Rather, she was not included yet. Keep in mind: Everyone else in The Last Battle is dead. Susan is still alive.
Why is Susan not dead? Because she didn't come to Narnia's aid because she has convinced itself it doesn't exist. Susan's exclusion is based on her vanity and a mistaken belief that she has to put aside real events in the name of maturity, rather than her sexuality. Had it been Susan who had needed redemption in LWW, Edmund would have been the best choice to not be included. But then, no doubt, people would attribute Susan's failings in LWW and sexist.
I won't comment on the other posts. Not because I agree, but because this was the one I thought the most intresting to argue.:)
Which book did you start with? I've been thinking with my kids I'll save The Magician's Nephew for just before The Last Battle. It just seemed to reveal too much.
I think "hard line against" comes across a little more strongly than I meant. My point was only that if you banned every little thing that someone could disagree with, you'd end up with only some sludge from the middle of the political and economic spectrum (that I would disagree with just on the grounds of it being dreck that says nothing).
Oh, I'd forgotten that! But it's probably a bit less likely than them seeing the 2005 big-budget (persumably) blockbuster. This is probably going to be a movie that people will use to babysit kids.:)
No, not really. I don't believe in censoring those willing to bear the social and monetary cost of bringing a story to life. (Piggybacking on someone else's infrastructure and budget is another matter entirely.)
For example, were I offended by the passionately atheist, I might view Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as atheist propaganda. Although I'm not sure the movie maintains the book's stance, the book was very hard line against religion.
There's certainly room enough in my philosophy for both stories, and room enough on the video store shelves for both movies.
I actually feel cheated by this. I really looked forward to reading the Chronicles to my own children one day. I guess I'll still be able to, but they'll probably see the movie somewhere first and the magic will be gone from the words.
Well, I don't suggest putting down SMB just yet, much as I'd like to. But isn't WebDAV client support nearly as ubiquitous as SMB now? Yeah, I know the personal server stuff isn't there, but I hope in a few years...
I wouldn't say tabbed preference screens fit in better with the Mac. Ideally, To be fully Mac-like, an icon bar should be used like Camino, System Preferences or the Finder. However, the current implementation is Mac-like enough -- icon lists like this have a long history on the Mac -- and arguably easier to use. I would rate tabs at a distant, distant third. Tabs on dialogs on the Mac are a sign that the designer didn't think things through enough (this from a programmer working on a producvt that uses tabs everywhere).
A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
... or are they still living in a world where they refuse to acknowledge that Macs do throw up the occasional message to the user?
I think this is the case. Ultimately, they'll be right -- there are only a few places where the Mac shows obscure error codes. Actually, file sharing is aobut it now. Prior to Tiger, you could also get obscure error messages for dropped connections, but Tiger introduces a pretty neat Network Diagnostic tool that it offers instead.
Considering that SMB file sharing has been a problem since 10.1, it seems to be time for a SMB troubleshooter as well.
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It reminded me of one of Grandpa Simpson's rants. Including that I fell asleep in the middle of reading it.
It's because PalmSource announced a few months ago that some of the Cobalt (Palm OS 6) devices would be based on the Linux kernel instead of the traditional Palm OS one. Idiots assumed this meant that all Cobalt devices would be based on Linux, and then assumed all future devices (like this one) would be Cobalt. Except so far as I can tell, this is (yawn) just another Palm OS 5 "Garnet" device from PalmOne.
In short, it is entirely un-Linux related.
Actually, Mail 2.0.1 belatedly incremented the protocol version. It should have been done in Mail 2.0. Anyway, it is up to the author to update his bundle, and the workaround that is being passed around -- forcing Mail to think it is compatible with older plugins -- is all but criminal in stupidity.
I used to use a 660AV on a regular basis. Beautiful system. It was thought that the PowerPC replaced the need for a DSP, but this wasn't really true until the G4.
The developers I talked to(and ultimately ended up working with) thought the same.
For those of you who are curious, the build number after updating is 8B15. I didn't see this mentioned anywhere yet.
Well, he started it!!
Seriously, the occasional blow-up like this is probably good in the long run. If a little embarassing to watch now.
Um. Okay, I guess that's an alternative. But seriously -- why spend $199 to cause an explosion when you can just buy a lithium battery and stab it with a fork? Isn't all that music player wrapped around it overkill?
Actually, the Mac does not behave the way you describe. Applications can pick between click-to-focus and click-to-act. In System 7, this was a flag in the resource fork, but I'm not sure how it is done in Mac OS X. Applications are supposed to disable their controls visually if they use click-to-focus. A quick survey of my hard drive showed most applications seem to be using click-to-act, although there were a few exceptions -- mostly, but not entirely, applications ported from Mac OS 9.
So, basically, iTunes does it wrong on both platforms. Assuming I understood you correctly that iTunes on Windows uses click-to-focus. The PC is upstairs where it is hot, so I'm not going to go check. :)
Real geeks grok 802.11g.
Downloads initiated through update don't count.
Eh, I'd like to think I'm beyond taking sides in that particular war by now. I've got Microsoft Office and OpenOffice all installed on Windows XP, Linux and Mac OS X systems. About the only thing I haven't tried is Be. $() syntax has been around a while. :)
Well, I would hope they would answer "No, but I've got experience with blah, blah and blah." To which a reasonable employer would say "Hey, that's good general computing experience." If the job involved a lot of Microsoft Office, he might add "Can you take an evening course over at $(LOCALCOLLEGE)?
Yes, I know it's a little naive. :) Still, I got my job without spending a minute in Microsoft Office before.
Major spoilers for all of the Chronicles below...
Skip this if you haven't read all the books yet. I mean it.
I think that you are coming down a little hard on CS Lewis over Susan. If the idea, after all, was to exclude one of the characters, which would make more sense? Pick only from the first four, since they'll have the biggest emotional impact. Lucy, who was the first one in? Edmund, who already fell and was redeemed? I think the only character that would make any sense is Peter, and he was also the oldest and most level-headed. It happened, he remembers it, and he isn't in self-denial.
It's also not accurate to say she was excluded. Rather, she was not included yet. Keep in mind: Everyone else in The Last Battle is dead. Susan is still alive.
Why is Susan not dead? Because she didn't come to Narnia's aid because she has convinced itself it doesn't exist. Susan's exclusion is based on her vanity and a mistaken belief that she has to put aside real events in the name of maturity, rather than her sexuality. Had it been Susan who had needed redemption in LWW, Edmund would have been the best choice to not be included. But then, no doubt, people would attribute Susan's failings in LWW and sexist.
I won't comment on the other posts. Not because I agree, but because this was the one I thought the most intresting to argue. :)
Oops. I guess I should have realized that from "original ordering." Thanks for being patient. :)
Which book did you start with? I've been thinking with my kids I'll save The Magician's Nephew for just before The Last Battle. It just seemed to reveal too much.
I think "hard line against" comes across a little more strongly than I meant. My point was only that if you banned every little thing that someone could disagree with, you'd end up with only some sludge from the middle of the political and economic spectrum (that I would disagree with just on the grounds of it being dreck that says nothing).
Are you saying The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe suggests executing disbelievers, or am I reading this wrong? :)
Oh, I'd forgotten that! But it's probably a bit less likely than them seeing the 2005 big-budget (persumably) blockbuster. This is probably going to be a movie that people will use to babysit kids. :)
No, not really. I don't believe in censoring those willing to bear the social and monetary cost of bringing a story to life. (Piggybacking on someone else's infrastructure and budget is another matter entirely.)
For example, were I offended by the passionately atheist, I might view Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as atheist propaganda. Although I'm not sure the movie maintains the book's stance, the book was very hard line against religion.
There's certainly room enough in my philosophy for both stories, and room enough on the video store shelves for both movies.
I actually feel cheated by this. I really looked forward to reading the Chronicles to my own children one day. I guess I'll still be able to, but they'll probably see the movie somewhere first and the magic will be gone from the words.
Well, I don't suggest putting down SMB just yet, much as I'd like to. But isn't WebDAV client support nearly as ubiquitous as SMB now? Yeah, I know the personal server stuff isn't there, but I hope in a few years...
I wouldn't say tabbed preference screens fit in better with the Mac. Ideally, To be fully Mac-like, an icon bar should be used like Camino, System Preferences or the Finder. However, the current implementation is Mac-like enough -- icon lists like this have a long history on the Mac -- and arguably easier to use. I would rate tabs at a distant, distant third. Tabs on dialogs on the Mac are a sign that the designer didn't think things through enough (this from a programmer working on a producvt that uses tabs everywhere).
It's a quote from Fight Club. :)
A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
Sorry, couldn't resist. :)
I think this is the case. Ultimately, they'll be right -- there are only a few places where the Mac shows obscure error codes. Actually, file sharing is aobut it now. Prior to Tiger, you could also get obscure error messages for dropped connections, but Tiger introduces a pretty neat Network Diagnostic tool that it offers instead.
Considering that SMB file sharing has been a problem since 10.1, it seems to be time for a SMB troubleshooter as well.