Well, I've tried IMAP in a few email clients: Mac OS X Mail, Entourage, PowerMail, Thunderbird. All of them seemed to cache the email on a local drive. I'm not sure how much this would help you, though, as when you connect to an empty server they likely flush out that cache with varying degrees of thoroughness.
While Paranoid Android 1.1 is better than nothing, it allows some exploits to slip through. Basically, it allows ftp links to mount in the Finder. Once this is done, the Finder will register any URL handlers present. That can include URL handlers that Paranoid Android trusts.
All of this is even after the 5-24 security update is installed, of course.
Apple really need to do something about Launch Services. I think the best bet would be to mark newly discovered URL schemes as untrusted. When the user tries to run an untrusted scheme for the first time, warn them about it.
Archer has been to the 29th century, why not Kirk's time? Go back in time to before the Enterprise B and hang out with him a bit. Just be sure to return him if you take him away.
TealScript is better than either, giving a lot of what you want, but unfortunately it isn't well integrated. It contains most of both sets of strokes, and has much better accuracy. I would like to see PalmSource add the hooks for it.
Ah, but I doubt you'd be carrying around seven devices. There are, perhaps, two or three ideal form factors:
Palm: Comfortable to hold flat in the hand and operate with a pen or finger. Large screen. Examples: PDA, GPS, a calculator. By all means, merge them all into one and have a super PDA.
Ear: Comfortable to hold up to your ear for an extended period of time, which requires a smaller (or at least less wide) screen. The only thing I can really think of that fits into this category is a cell phone, which is good, because a cell phone is the only device here that can really issue an "interrupt," and the only one that you need immediate access to without losing your place in one of the other devices.
Pocket: Small enough to put in a pocket, but doesn't need to fit in the hand. Over the long run, this could become the same thing as the Palm sized device, but it doesn't have the same constraints.
Once you have these, you've got pretty much the ideal. And the devices should communicate with each other, I just am not sure I really want one that does everything, especially one where I need to lose my place in a memo to place a phone call.
Obviously, the Palm-sized device will need a better interface than either Palm or PocketPC currently offer.
I don't know about you, but I kind of expect the functionality of my iPod, my Palm, and my cell phone to converge by then.
Convergence is over-rated. Each of these devices serves a different purpose and requires a different form factor. Look at your current gadgets, they're probably more or less ideal in terms of form factor. How comfortable would it be to write on your cell phone's screen? How would you like to hold your Palm up to your ear for an extended period of time? And once you have a single device, how do you turn up your music player a bit while talking on the phone, and then quickly jot down a number?
But integration between the devices would certainly be nice. A cell phone sending a signal to turn down an iPod might be nice. A Palm that can shunt little-used programs off to an iPod would be handy.
The comments? The real problem in many cases is the spin the editors put on the stories. I'm really sick of reading how wonderful the PlayFair developers are, how terrible it is that some OSS project got blocked for spamming or hosting their web site with a spammer to save a buck, etc, etc. Slashdot has become a nest of black hats lately.
(To be fair, though, I got four BSODs with Windows XP Pro yesterday. Possible hardware failure, I suppose, since it was stable the day before.)
I agree, but it is not what we usually see. Over the years, we've hired maybe two people who actually belong. The rest took the courses and managed to get high grades, but aren't suited for work in the industry.
It is absolutely astonishing how few people can make the jump to programming on any platform, language and API. It is not that difficult if you understand what you're doing and are willing to -- and I guess this is the kicker -- learn new things, even once leaving school. How did we manage to get an education system that outputs only half-trained monkeys?
Not really. If they don't tell the end user that the patch is critical, the end user doesn't install it as quickly as if they had been informed.
Apple's security updates are labelled as such. They do not go deeply into individual issues, true, as they're usually bundled together.
When software update pops up and says there's 50 megs of crap to download and a reboot or two will be required, I definately think twice about it.
Well, security updates are about monthly from Apple, and weigh in at less than 16MB. Each security update also includes all the previous security updates; the new one obsolete the old one, it does not append.
I don't think people on dial up ever patch.. because downloading the 100 megs of updates that both Jaguar, Panther, and XP require has got to be hell.
I thought it would be bad, but it hasn't been. A couple hours at most for really big updates.
Hrm. It might have been 109/110 MPH, now that I think of it. It isn't a limit I test a lot.:) It was around 185 km/H, I know that much for certain.
But yeah, it's just the chip. There's surely better and cheaper ways to get to 125 than putting in a different engine. I went looking for a replacement chip at one point (not because I hit the limit more than once, but just because I knew it was there and it annoyed me) but couldn't find any for a V6. Apparently they're easy to find for a V8, though.
...before it hits the chip that cuts the engine. The engine is working, sure, but without the chip I'm sure it could do a lot faster than that. (The engine is at only about 20,000 RPM... I forget what it red lines at, and I'm in a different country at the moment.) I'm sure it could beat 125 MPH without any trouble.
Well, that would shorten the song, sure... but if it makes a mistake (which is probably will about half the time) would also cause a significant tick in playback. I guess I should have specified "correctly merge" rather than just "merge.":)
I'm not sure it's a question of computing power. I believe that the MP3 run lengths are actually rounded to some block size. So you can't really algorithmically merge two MP3s together like that...
iTunes supports many media players, and the SDK is available. It may not be a free download anymore, because it was abused by one of the music sharing apps.
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Well, I've tried IMAP in a few email clients: Mac OS X Mail, Entourage, PowerMail, Thunderbird. All of them seemed to cache the email on a local drive. I'm not sure how much this would help you, though, as when you connect to an empty server they likely flush out that cache with varying degrees of thoroughness.
...patented.
It's a nice theory, but I think the difference might be that one is a dispoable consumer device and the other is an XBOX.
...gosh, now I'm confused too.
CD prices are much cheaper here in Canada, so it's not surprising that online services are charging less.
Well, you can't do anything about the trackpoint, but SideTrack will add multiple mouse buttons for you.
While Paranoid Android 1.1 is better than nothing, it allows some exploits to slip through. Basically, it allows ftp links to mount in the Finder. Once this is done, the Finder will register any URL handlers present. That can include URL handlers that Paranoid Android trusts.
All of this is even after the 5-24 security update is installed, of course.
Apple really need to do something about Launch Services. I think the best bet would be to mark newly discovered URL schemes as untrusted. When the user tries to run an untrusted scheme for the first time, warn them about it.
Archer has been to the 29th century, why not Kirk's time? Go back in time to before the Enterprise B and hang out with him a bit. Just be sure to return him if you take him away.
That's a talented cat you've got there. :)
TealScript is better than either, giving a lot of what you want, but unfortunately it isn't well integrated. It contains most of both sets of strokes, and has much better accuracy. I would like to see PalmSource add the hooks for it.
Ever been on hold for an hour? :)
But yeah, I could have picked a better example.
Ah, but I doubt you'd be carrying around seven devices. There are, perhaps, two or three ideal form factors:
Palm: Comfortable to hold flat in the hand and operate with a pen or finger. Large screen. Examples: PDA, GPS, a calculator. By all means, merge them all into one and have a super PDA.
Ear: Comfortable to hold up to your ear for an extended period of time, which requires a smaller (or at least less wide) screen. The only thing I can really think of that fits into this category is a cell phone, which is good, because a cell phone is the only device here that can really issue an "interrupt," and the only one that you need immediate access to without losing your place in one of the other devices.
Pocket: Small enough to put in a pocket, but doesn't need to fit in the hand. Over the long run, this could become the same thing as the Palm sized device, but it doesn't have the same constraints.
Once you have these, you've got pretty much the ideal. And the devices should communicate with each other, I just am not sure I really want one that does everything, especially one where I need to lose my place in a memo to place a phone call.
Obviously, the Palm-sized device will need a better interface than either Palm or PocketPC currently offer.
I don't know about you, but I kind of expect the functionality of my iPod, my Palm, and my cell phone to converge by then.
Convergence is over-rated. Each of these devices serves a different purpose and requires a different form factor. Look at your current gadgets, they're probably more or less ideal in terms of form factor. How comfortable would it be to write on your cell phone's screen? How would you like to hold your Palm up to your ear for an extended period of time? And once you have a single device, how do you turn up your music player a bit while talking on the phone, and then quickly jot down a number?
But integration between the devices would certainly be nice. A cell phone sending a signal to turn down an iPod might be nice. A Palm that can shunt little-used programs off to an iPod would be handy.
Beg pardon, I meant 18% fragmentation. My question remains.
My NTFS drive is at 8% after 6 months. When do you think it becomes a problem?
The comments? The real problem in many cases is the spin the editors put on the stories. I'm really sick of reading how wonderful the PlayFair developers are, how terrible it is that some OSS project got blocked for spamming or hosting their web site with a spammer to save a buck, etc, etc. Slashdot has become a nest of black hats lately.
(To be fair, though, I got four BSODs with Windows XP Pro yesterday. Possible hardware failure, I suppose, since it was stable the day before.)
I agree, but it is not what we usually see. Over the years, we've hired maybe two people who actually belong. The rest took the courses and managed to get high grades, but aren't suited for work in the industry.
It is absolutely astonishing how few people can make the jump to programming on any platform, language and API. It is not that difficult if you understand what you're doing and are willing to -- and I guess this is the kicker -- learn new things, even once leaving school. How did we manage to get an education system that outputs only half-trained monkeys?
Not really. If they don't tell the end user that the patch is critical, the end user doesn't install it as quickly as if they had been informed.
Apple's security updates are labelled as such. They do not go deeply into individual issues, true, as they're usually bundled together.
When software update pops up and says there's 50 megs of crap to download and a reboot or two will be required, I definately think twice about it.
Well, security updates are about monthly from Apple, and weigh in at less than 16MB. Each security update also includes all the previous security updates; the new one obsolete the old one, it does not append.
I don't think people on dial up ever patch.. because downloading the 100 megs of updates that both Jaguar, Panther, and XP require has got to be hell.
I thought it would be bad, but it hasn't been. A couple hours at most for really big updates.
Hrm. It might have been 109/110 MPH, now that I think of it. It isn't a limit I test a lot. :) It was around 185 km/H, I know that much for certain.
But yeah, it's just the chip. There's surely better and cheaper ways to get to 125 than putting in a different engine. I went looking for a replacement chip at one point (not because I hit the limit more than once, but just because I knew it was there and it annoyed me) but couldn't find any for a V6. Apparently they're easy to find for a V8, though.
Oops. Take away a zero. Heh. :)
...before it hits the chip that cuts the engine. The engine is working, sure, but without the chip I'm sure it could do a lot faster than that. (The engine is at only about 20,000 RPM... I forget what it red lines at, and I'm in a different country at the moment.) I'm sure it could beat 125 MPH without any trouble.
It's only a 3.8L. The V8 can spank it.
If he's following CAN SPAM exactly, he's legally able to spam.
But nobody says we need to accept it. All CAN SPAM did twas make some spam illegal. It didn't force us to swallow the rest.
Well, that would shorten the song, sure... but if it makes a mistake (which is probably will about half the time) would also cause a significant tick in playback. I guess I should have specified "correctly merge" rather than just "merge." :)
I'm not sure it's a question of computing power. I believe that the MP3 run lengths are actually rounded to some block size. So you can't really algorithmically merge two MP3s together like that...
iTunes supports many media players, and the SDK is available. It may not be a free download anymore, because it was abused by one of the music sharing apps.