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Twas more of a port than that
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From what I understand, they didn't just port it as if to another *nix but also reimplemented the Swing UI classes and Java2d to use Quartz/Aqua more efficiently/directly and that instances of JVMs are supposed to share more common resources (classes and such). There's more at Apple's Web Site. It'd be interesting to benchmark these improvements vs. Windows/Linux/Solaris/etc Java implementations.
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For the GAS payloads, the NASA interfaces we had to design around were in Imperial Units so we went with that. The satellite was to be a secondary payload on a Delta. I can't remember if metric would have been more appropriate there. I noticed there wasnt much on the satellite part of the project on that old site. I been meaning to pull out my drawing archive and put em up on my site one of these days (for years:).
Cool! Its good to see other schools working on these projects. Our project is mentioned (though mispelled) on that page. We never did get much beyond the preliminary design and prototyping stage of our satellite project, but we did design, build, and fly 3 Getaway Special Shuttle experiment payloads.
As a bit of self-aggrandizement, some of the drawings in this analysis are my handiwork:)
The Macs I've used don't get it right either
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On the Macs I've used both the Apple menu in the upper left and the app menu in the upper right are a couple of pixels from the corner. They do still have the advantage of being along the top edge of the screen, but I wonder why they didn't just go all the way to the corners?
It appears you can turn individual buttons on and off in your ~/.opera/opera.ini file. You can also make your own button graphics (I did see this option in the preferences dialog before). I don't know if you can change the order of the buttons you do want to display though (like changing back-reload-forward to back-forward-reload).
The one thing that keeps me from wanting to use Opera on any platform for more than a few minutes is the non-standard toolbar layout. There is too much collective muscle memory in the world for them to be screwing with the placement of the back button.
How many average users regularly (if ever) 'save' web pages or 'open' them on their local drive? And what is 'new' supposed to mean when there isn't an HTML editor and there is already a 'URL' button (the opening of a new MDI window could be a option in that URL dialog)?
I say put the back button where $DEITY intended it to be; the far left side of the toolbar. Even better would be the ability to re-order and add/subtract buttons on the toolbar.
PS: The toolbar in full mode with text labels on does not fit within an 800x600 screen on my machine:(
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It may be "just another *nix", but it is not just another X.
I've tried one of those, but I started to fixate on the repeating pattern of the waves crashing and the like. They need a longer sound sample loop.
BSA
What's wrong with monkeys?
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From what I understand, they didn't just port it as if to another *nix but also reimplemented the Swing UI classes and Java2d to use Quartz/Aqua more efficiently/directly and that instances of JVMs are supposed to share more common resources (classes and such). There's more at Apple's Web Site. It'd be interesting to benchmark these improvements vs. Windows/Linux/Solaris/etc Java implementations.
/etc = Eclectic and Terse Configuration files?
http://www.arthes.com/community/research/scole.htm
For the GAS payloads, the NASA interfaces we had to design around were in Imperial Units so we went with that. The satellite was to be a secondary payload on a Delta. I can't remember if metric would have been more appropriate there. I noticed there wasnt much on the satellite part of the project on that old site. I been meaning to pull out my drawing archive and put em up on my site one of these days (for years :).
Cool! Its good to see other schools working on these projects. Our project is mentioned (though mispelled) on that page. We never did get much beyond the preliminary design and prototyping stage of our satellite project, but we did design, build, and fly 3 Getaway Special Shuttle experiment payloads. As a bit of self-aggrandizement, some of the drawings in this analysis are my handiwork :)
"To ask is to seek denial" as a teacher of mine often said.
Yeah, I saw that on their page and wondered if they are compressing the video less to give a boost to the encoding performance.
How is the Mac Cube's convection cooling going to work in zero-g?
^0^
... Nevermind.
On the Macs I've used both the Apple menu in the upper left and the app menu in the upper right are a couple of pixels from the corner. They do still have the advantage of being along the top edge of the screen, but I wonder why they didn't just go all the way to the corners?
Well, someone had to say it.
Does this count as prior art?
Ugh, beta software. I think I'll just shut up now and go back to netscape. Blergh.
Opera User Definable Buttons
The one thing that keeps me from wanting to use Opera on any platform for more than a few minutes is the non-standard toolbar layout. There is too much collective muscle memory in the world for them to be screwing with the placement of the back button.
:(
How many average users regularly (if ever) 'save' web pages or 'open' them on their local drive? And what is 'new' supposed to mean when there isn't an HTML editor and there is already a 'URL' button (the opening of a new MDI window could be a option in that URL dialog)?
I say put the back button where $DEITY intended it to be; the far left side of the toolbar. Even better would be the ability to re-order and add/subtract buttons on the toolbar.
PS: The toolbar in full mode with text labels on does not fit within an 800x600 screen on my machine
The X Server doesn't magically Aquify your X apps.
You will still get plain old X apps running in an
Aqua window manager.
Now, they could Aquify the GUI toolkits (ie: GTK+ or Qt) and allow you to port apps to MacOSX (as opposed to just using an Aqua theme XClient-side).
They could Aquify the Athena widgets too.
Could they capture Xlib calls and output PDF based on that?
Could they provide optional Anti-Aliasing of text and line-art on a per-program basis (in case its screws up some programs)?
And when Lars Ulrich came out later in the show to do the same, there was alot of what sounded like booing
... or was it mooing?
Am I the only one who thought of the sport of Curling when I saw this story?
I thought Lifestreams sounded familiar