I used to use Eudora for about eight years with Pop. Once our office moved to an Imap account, well, Eudora just couldn't handle it very well. I had stayed away from Outlook up until then but for some stupid reason, decided to install Outlook 2007. At first, I was amazed by the ribbon interface. I thought it look pretty cool and was thought out well. But a pretty interface isn't the whole story behind usability. After clicking a message, Outlook would take up to eight seconds to display( on a dual core processor with 2 GB or RAM). Deleting a message took a couple seconds. I can't work like that. I like efficient software. I'm not much of an open source guy but I installed Thunderbird. Holy smokes. I can't believe what I've been missing all these years. Thunderbird was able to handle the same Imap account with ease. I was, and still am, astounded by its performance. It does its job well! Hats off.
If you do happen to install IE7 (or it gets installed automatically for you by the updated) beware of the process ctfmon.exe. I believe it is used for clear type font stuff but I'm not sure. What I am sure about, though, is that your system will be on the order of 20-30% slower when this process is loaded.
The Bad Wolf reference has showed up in Episodes 2, 3, 4, and 5.
Episode 2: The face saying this is 'bad wolf scenario'.
Episode 3: Gwyneth seeing a 'big bad wolf!' in Rose's mind
Episode 4/5: 'Bad wolf' painted on the side of the TARDIS.
Hopefully Hotmail Popper will still work. Hotmail Popper is a small application that allows you to check your Hotmail account e-mail from a normal POP mail client (such as Eudora, IncrediMail, Mozilla Thunderbird, Opera, Netscape, etc). Unlike standard mail accounts which allow users to retrieve their e-mail through a POP mail client, Hotmail can normally only be checked on the web. With Hotmail Popper, you can use your favorite POP mail client to retrieve your e-mail from your Hotmail account. In addition, Hotmail Popper allows you to send e-mails through Hotmail's service, as if it was a normal SMTP (outgoing mail) server.
.NET is not about C# vs. Java. You can code in C++ and compile to.NET's IL (byte code) in many different languages. You can also write.NET applications in these languages as well: APL, AsmL, BASIC, Cw (C-omega), COBOL, Eiffel, F#, Forth, Fortran, Java (yes seriously), ML, Mercury, Mondrian, Nemerle, P#, Oberon, Pascal, Perl, Python, RPG, Ruby, Scheme, S#, VB.NET, etc... So please, quit the C# vs. Java or Perl is so much better arguments. Because, pick your language, and there is probably a compiler out there that can spit out IL.
Sometimes they even abuse the physical metaphor of tabbed browsing by opening multiple pages - not subpages of the same web site!
You're kidding, right? I didn't know I wasn't "allowed" to open unrelated web pages in their own tabs. What is he talking about? If he is afraid that the metaphor of bookmarks in a book is broken by doing this then maybe he should think of the Internet as one giant book. Then no "laws" get broken.
It's been so long since I've seen the word Godzilla I was thinking : I know about Mozilla and Bugzilla. So then WTF is Godzilla? What does it do? Um, oh yeah.
Has anyone checked out Audio Galaxy's Rhapsody? I've been using it for quite some time now and am very pleased with it. You can't download MP3s, which may be a factor if you primarily listen on a portable device or in a car, but if you like to listen to music near your computer and want access to thousands of CDs worth of material (even some really obscure stuff and they are constantly adding new stuff) then check it out. It is only ten bucks a month.
We've had traffic cameras in Atlanta for a couple years now. Comes in handy once in a while for deciding the best route from/to work: Traffic Cams. The link was./ed so hopefully this isn't already mentioned, but I would like to see some type of geographic view of the cameras locations. You could zoom in on an area and click on a camera icon and you would get a stream from that camera.
Please correct me if I'm wrong I don't use Fluxbox, but how much different is a menu that is displayed from a mouse-click verses a menu that is displayed from pressing a Start button? What about something like one of those radial menus you see in video games. Now that would be cool.
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George
I was wondering, to determine the distance traveled for a particular mutation doesn't the snake actually have to try this permutation out physically? It seems like it would take quite some time to get through a number of generations if this was the case.
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George
If I wanted to install the most minimal set of the Linux OS (enough to get the system booted and a shell - no other tools) what distro or how would I go about doing this?
The system would include an on-board database of the GPS coordinates of the no-fly zones
I think maybe they meant the system would include an on-board database of geographic boundaries specified as either geo-polygons or geo-ellipses with latitude and longitude pairs. The GPS would be used to detect if the ship was near or inside these bounds.
But hack proof? I'm not sure about that. But still, an excellent (and cheap) way to go. Great idea.
Predator (not the UAV) here we come! This could be used to create a display that could be worn as shirt/pants (as mentioned in the article) along with the technology used in the upcoming Matrix film (Burly Brawl scene) to render the current scene on the clothes, albiet a static scene. Upcoming super accurate GPS technologies such as the military's DAGR could be used for the positioning. Invisibility is around the corner.
The description is in layman's terms. Well, in sub-layman's terms and it is confusing. His description is : "...by reversing and adding their digits". That's it. Hmm, okay. Does this mean for 196: reversed = 691 and adding their digits 6+9+1 = 16? It wasn't until I went to the site he links to until I figured out what was going on. And then I wondered, why did I waste my time?
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I would highly recommend "Herding Cats: A Primer for Programmers Who Lead Programmers" by J. Hank Rainwater.
I used to use Eudora for about eight years with Pop. Once our office moved to an Imap account, well, Eudora just couldn't handle it very well. I had stayed away from Outlook up until then but for some stupid reason, decided to install Outlook 2007. At first, I was amazed by the ribbon interface. I thought it look pretty cool and was thought out well. But a pretty interface isn't the whole story behind usability. After clicking a message, Outlook would take up to eight seconds to display( on a dual core processor with 2 GB or RAM). Deleting a message took a couple seconds. I can't work like that. I like efficient software. I'm not much of an open source guy but I installed Thunderbird. Holy smokes. I can't believe what I've been missing all these years. Thunderbird was able to handle the same Imap account with ease. I was, and still am, astounded by its performance. It does its job well! Hats off.
If you do happen to install IE7 (or it gets installed automatically for you by the updated) beware of the process ctfmon.exe. I believe it is used for clear type font stuff but I'm not sure. What I am sure about, though, is that your system will be on the order of 20-30% slower when this process is loaded.
You mean DOA?
The Bad Wolf reference has showed up in Episodes 2, 3, 4, and 5.
Episode 2: The face saying this is 'bad wolf scenario'.
Episode 3: Gwyneth seeing a 'big bad wolf!' in Rose's mind
Episode 4/5: 'Bad wolf' painted on the side of the TARDIS.
Or maybe $5 windshield wipers would do?
In case it gets bogged down also note that you can go to
http://www.electoral-vote2.com/
http://www.electoral-vote3.com/
http://www.electoral-vote4.com/
http://www.electoral-vote5.com/
http://www.electoral-vote6.com/
http://www.electoral-vote7.com/
Or if they will eventually be used to compute the answer to life, the universe, and everything...
Hopefully Hotmail Popper will still work. Hotmail Popper is a small application that allows you to check your Hotmail account e-mail from a normal POP mail client (such as Eudora, IncrediMail, Mozilla Thunderbird, Opera, Netscape, etc). Unlike standard mail accounts which allow users to retrieve their e-mail through a POP mail client, Hotmail can normally only be checked on the web. With Hotmail Popper, you can use your favorite POP mail client to retrieve your e-mail from your Hotmail account. In addition, Hotmail Popper allows you to send e-mails through Hotmail's service, as if it was a normal SMTP (outgoing mail) server.
http://www.boolean.ca/hotpop/
.NET is not about C# vs. Java. You can code in C++ and compile to .NET's IL (byte code) in many different languages. You can also write .NET applications in these languages as well:
APL, AsmL, BASIC, Cw (C-omega), COBOL, Eiffel, F#, Forth, Fortran, Java (yes seriously), ML, Mercury, Mondrian, Nemerle, P#, Oberon, Pascal, Perl, Python, RPG, Ruby, Scheme, S#, VB.NET, etc... So please, quit the C# vs. Java or Perl is so much better arguments. Because, pick your language, and there is probably a compiler out there that can spit out IL.
Sometimes they even abuse the physical metaphor of tabbed browsing by opening multiple pages - not subpages of the same web site!
You're kidding, right? I didn't know I wasn't "allowed" to open unrelated web pages in their own tabs. What is he talking about? If he is afraid that the metaphor of bookmarks in a book is broken by doing this then maybe he should think of the Internet as one giant book. Then no "laws" get broken.
It's been so long since I've seen the word Godzilla I was thinking : I know about Mozilla and Bugzilla. So then WTF is Godzilla? What does it do? Um, oh yeah.
I always thought this would turn out to be true. But for some reason I'm starting to change my mind:
That that Duke Nukem Forever, in fact, will one day be released.
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George
Has anyone checked out Audio Galaxy's Rhapsody? I've been using it for quite some time now and am very pleased with it. You can't download MP3s, which may be a factor if you primarily listen on a portable device or in a car, but if you like to listen to music near your computer and want access to thousands of CDs worth of material (even some really obscure stuff and they are constantly adding new stuff) then check it out. It is only ten bucks a month.
--
George
We've had traffic cameras in Atlanta for a couple years now. Comes in handy once in a while for deciding the best route from/to work: Traffic Cams. The link was ./ed so hopefully this isn't already mentioned, but I would like to see some type of geographic view of the cameras locations. You could zoom in on an area and click on a camera icon and you would get a stream from that camera.
--
George
There is a small article in the latest Wired (Sept 2003, pg. 34) that states exactly this. "The way to cash in on wireless: give it away".
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George
It's called Balder's Gate dude.
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George
Please correct me if I'm wrong I don't use Fluxbox, but how much different is a menu that is displayed from a mouse-click verses a menu that is displayed from pressing a Start button? What about something like one of those radial menus you see in video games. Now that would be cool.
-- George
I was wondering, to determine the distance traveled for a particular mutation doesn't the snake actually have to try this permutation out physically? It seems like it would take quite some time to get through a number of generations if this was the case. -- George
If I wanted to install the most minimal set of the Linux OS (enough to get the system booted and a shell - no other tools) what distro or how would I go about doing this?
The system would include an on-board database of the GPS coordinates of the no-fly zones I think maybe they meant the system would include an on-board database of geographic boundaries specified as either geo-polygons or geo-ellipses with latitude and longitude pairs. The GPS would be used to detect if the ship was near or inside these bounds. But hack proof? I'm not sure about that. But still, an excellent (and cheap) way to go. Great idea.
Predator (not the UAV) here we come! This could be used to create a display that could be worn as shirt/pants (as mentioned in the article) along with the technology used in the upcoming Matrix film (Burly Brawl scene) to render the current scene on the clothes, albiet a static scene. Upcoming super accurate GPS technologies such as the military's DAGR could be used for the positioning. Invisibility is around the corner.
The description is in layman's terms. Well, in sub-layman's terms and it is confusing. His description is : "...by reversing and adding their digits". That's it. Hmm, okay. Does this mean for 196: reversed = 691 and adding their digits 6+9+1 = 16? It wasn't until I went to the site he links to until I figured out what was going on. And then I wondered, why did I waste my time?