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Imagine you own a house. One day you leave the door unlocked, thieves enter and steal your television. If the thieves are caught they will be arrested only once. This is because you are only a citizen, and are not afforded any special privileges.
Now imagine that your door was locked. Thieves break your lock and enter and steal your television. Under the current laws they would still only be arrested once. This is because there are no special laws applying to the lock on your door, and so the theft is not a special case.
Now imagine you are a big media conglomerate with lobbyists in Washington. You get the government to pass a special law covering the locks on your doors, so that if a thief actually breaks the lock on your door they can be arrested and charged extra-heavily and go to jail for even longer.
Isn't that excellent? See, in the first case you didn't have a lock on your door, so it could be argued that you were inviting anyone to take your television. Once you put locks on your door, it tells people you don't want them entering your house and stealing your television. But this is still not enough, because there is nothing in the law that says "by having this lock on my door I'm not kidding, I really don't want you to take my television."
The DMCA is that new special law that says, "locks on doors are extra-specially-explicitly things meant to keep others out."
Without the DMCA there would be all kinds of confusion and no one would know what locks are for, or what's legal and what's not.
Aren't you glad we have people in government to clear these things up for us?
AppleScript itself is being constantly updated, as you would know had you read the release notes for the latest OS upgrade. Meanwhile, perl is included with the operating system and there are two different perl-Aqua bridging technologies currently under development, one by Apple and another by an independent effort. And if you look further you will discover that you can call perl / shell scripts from AppleScript, and you can invoke AppleScript from perl / shell scripts. Thus you have the best of all worlds with Mac OS X.
As a general guideline, when you aren't aware of what's going on you should post questions, not statements.
Man, I'd really like to see the evidence you have that "most guns are brandished in defense." As far as I know, in the US it is illegal to carry concealed weapons without a difficult-to-obtain permit, and so you must mean that people are using them to defend their homes. Last I heard more people end up getting shot by their own handguns in the home. Frankly I'd really like to know who all these attackers and defenders are that you refer to, because I never hear such stories reported in the media here in Oregon, nor in Massachusetts where I used to live.
Of course if you're running Mac OS X (or unix) on your home and work boxen you can just "scp" your files back and forth. iDisk is cute, but for the most part I find it fairly useless.
Remember that at the end of "Road Warrior" it is revealed that the feral kid grows up to be the leader of the tribe that escapes to the coast, and he narrates the last part of the movie. So it wouldn't be out of the question for Max to run into the feral kid again, except as the grown up leader of the group that so cleverly used him to make their escape.
When it came time to pick an API to develop our new game my project team picked SDL + OpenGL hands-down. We never even considered DirectX. Now that there's a company offering a DirectX-compatible library our answer is the same: No thanks, DirectX! We like SDL. We love OpenGL. We like sharing our work.
But for existing games that were written to the DirectX APIs this should be a great boon. I'd definitely like to see Mac OS X versions of all those games that would otherwise never appear on the Mac.
Incidentally, there's an SDL version of Abuse out there. Has anyone been able to get it to compile and run on Mac OS X yet??
I like OmniWeb's solution to the popup problem. You can simply set it to never open a window via Javascript unless it's in direct response to a click. Just as it should be. I used to avoid sites that had popups. OmniWeb gives me back my freedom to surf without obtrusive "marketing" being constantly thrown at me.
For web development my tools are BBEdit, MacCVS Pro 2.7b2, and Transmit 1.7b2. It goes without saying that BBEdit is by far the best editor in any class for making dynamic web sites involving PHP, perl, shell scripts, and SQL. The way I usually work is to maintain my local repository with MacCVS, edit with BBEdit, and use Transmit to FTP files to the remote development servers for testing.
I've been using BBEdit 7 for about a day, especially testing out the CVS integration. It's really good, but there are some things I miss about MacCVS Pro.
- BBEdit lacks tag, edit, and watch commands.
- Although you can do some CVS operations in the BBEdit File Browser (and File Groups) you can't do certain operations when multiple files are selected (including "commit file" oddly).
- BBEdit doesn't show the status of files in the file browser, file groups, or in window headers. The only way to get revision information is to "Get CVS Status" and read a modal dialog....And then dismiss the modal dialog.
- BBEdit's CVS operations tend to be slower than MacCVS, or seem so, because MacCVS is robustly threaded. BBEdit puts up modal "wait" dialogs every single time it has to contact the remote CVS server.
- If you're going to do secure CVS BBEdit requires you to set up one of SSH's auto-authentication methods (The whole "ssh-keygen -t dsa" rigamarole). Once the authentication is set up BBEdit's CVS integration is compatible with MacCVS, and the combination is much better than either one by itself.
- On the positive side, BBEdit's diff function was meant to be integrated with CVS. (BBEdit does the diff itself without using CVS's diff command.)
The geeks at BareBones have done a great job so far. They're doing the right thing by adding new features gradually, releasing just what works. Obviously they don't want to turn their editor into bloatware. Being able to checkin or diff without leaving BBEdit is a great bonus. If they are able to make BBEdit more threaded and add CVS features to the File Browser (and make it hierarchical for goodness sake!) I might finally be able to give up MacCVS Pro.
Since I have very tiny arms and can't reach my keyboard to perform such complex feats of preference mastery I used my relatively normal-sized legs to kick my office chair away from the desk and got the same result.
Windows support is coming...
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...but not Linux. There was an interview with a guy from El Gato on the "Your Mac Life" radio show a week or two ago, and they said they were working on the Windows software.
Yes, I regret throwing away my copy of that book. It was my constant companion during the Atari years. The best way to get it online would be to get out those copies from your mom's basement and put them online yourself. I'm certain it would be very popular on the Atari Emulator sites.
Gosh, I've lost so much of my Atari programming stuff it's sickening. Some of the best programming I ever did was using 6502 Assembler on the old Atari 400.
The site is totally SlashDotted, so I can't check, but does this site have any old SoftSide magazines posted? That was my personal favorite, especially the nifty games written by Sheldon Leemon.
Control-click does the right mouse button thing on Mac OS X. Of course if you have your own 2-button USB mouse you can hook it up to any USB Mac and use it with Mac OS X. Wheels work too.
Of course Apple only includes a 1-button mouse with their systems, but 2-button optical mice are so cheap that it's just not worth complaining about.
Odd that Apple doesn't sell their own 2-button mouse, though. It's almost as if Apple is trying to help hardware manufacturers get business from Mac users. What could be the advantage of that?
... although when I have the "Helios" screensaver running as the desktop wallpaper on my 1600x1024 Cinema Display and then I open two overlapping transparent Terminals my G4 Dual 867 does lose its responsiveness a little.
But seriously, Apple is forward-thinking all the time. Jaguar may be decidedly slow on older hardware (still quite usable, however), but the latest G4 machines make Jaguar scream. The next generation of processors will be faster still, and the OS is poised to make full use of it.
Today, drop shadows. Tomorrow, ray-traced shadows!
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Imagine you own a house. One day you leave the door unlocked, thieves enter and steal your television. If the thieves are caught they will be arrested only once. This is because you are only a citizen, and are not afforded any special privileges.
Now imagine that your door was locked. Thieves break your lock and enter and steal your television. Under the current laws they would still only be arrested once. This is because there are no special laws applying to the lock on your door, and so the theft is not a special case.
Now imagine you are a big media conglomerate with lobbyists in Washington. You get the government to pass a special law covering the locks on your doors, so that if a thief actually breaks the lock on your door they can be arrested and charged extra-heavily and go to jail for even longer.
Isn't that excellent? See, in the first case you didn't have a lock on your door, so it could be argued that you were inviting anyone to take your television. Once you put locks on your door, it tells people you don't want them entering your house and stealing your television. But this is still not enough, because there is nothing in the law that says "by having this lock on my door I'm not kidding, I really don't want you to take my television."
The DMCA is that new special law that says, "locks on doors are extra-specially-explicitly things meant to keep others out."
Without the DMCA there would be all kinds of confusion and no one would know what locks are for, or what's legal and what's not.
Aren't you glad we have people in government to clear these things up for us?
ar, ar.
Wow, now that you mention it I seem to remember Michael J. Fox saying "Let's just keep *** to ourselves" in almost everything he's been in!
AppleScript itself is being constantly updated, as you would know had you read the release notes for the latest OS upgrade. Meanwhile, perl is included with the operating system and there are two different perl-Aqua bridging technologies currently under development, one by Apple and another by an independent effort. And if you look further you will discover that you can call perl / shell scripts from AppleScript, and you can invoke AppleScript from perl / shell scripts. Thus you have the best of all worlds with Mac OS X.
As a general guideline, when you aren't aware of what's going on you should post questions, not statements.
I have a Dual 867 machine. It works beautifully.
Man, I'd really like to see the evidence you have that "most guns are brandished in defense." As far as I know, in the US it is illegal to carry concealed weapons without a difficult-to-obtain permit, and so you must mean that people are using them to defend their homes. Last I heard more people end up getting shot by their own handguns in the home. Frankly I'd really like to know who all these attackers and defenders are that you refer to, because I never hear such stories reported in the media here in Oregon, nor in Massachusetts where I used to live.
Hmm, you might try downloading the new Developer Tools, which adds some really nice enhancements to ProjectBuilder (including better CVS integration).
Of course if you're running Mac OS X (or unix) on your home and work boxen you can just "scp" your files back and forth. iDisk is cute, but for the most part I find it fairly useless.
And in the new Raiders of the Lost Ark movie Harrison Ford plays his own grandfather.
Heh, is it like living tissue over a metal endoskeleton?
Remember that at the end of "Road Warrior" it is revealed that the feral kid grows up to be the leader of the tribe that escapes to the coast, and he narrates the last part of the movie. So it wouldn't be out of the question for Max to run into the feral kid again, except as the grown up leader of the group that so cleverly used him to make their escape.
LimeWire is written in Java. InstallAnywhere is a Java installer for Java apps. Expect more to crop up here and there as VMs get better.
When it came time to pick an API to develop our new game my project team picked SDL + OpenGL hands-down. We never even considered DirectX. Now that there's a company offering a DirectX-compatible library our answer is the same: No thanks, DirectX! We like SDL. We love OpenGL. We like sharing our work.
But for existing games that were written to the DirectX APIs this should be a great boon. I'd definitely like to see Mac OS X versions of all those games that would otherwise never appear on the Mac.
Incidentally, there's an SDL version of Abuse out there. Has anyone been able to get it to compile and run on Mac OS X yet??
I like OmniWeb's solution to the popup problem. You can simply set it to never open a window via Javascript unless it's in direct response to a click. Just as it should be. I used to avoid sites that had popups. OmniWeb gives me back my freedom to surf without obtrusive "marketing" being constantly thrown at me.
Hey, why not? He can test kernels under VirtualPC and still have the benefit of using a decent GUI for a change.
n/t
My only hope is that the committee will be savvy enough to know when M$ (or is it M¥?) is being disingenuous.
Of course here in the US we can easily discern whether this is the case: Just check to see if their lips are moving.
For web development my tools are BBEdit, MacCVS Pro 2.7b2, and Transmit 1.7b2. It goes without saying that BBEdit is by far the best editor in any class for making dynamic web sites involving PHP, perl, shell scripts, and SQL. The way I usually work is to maintain my local repository with MacCVS, edit with BBEdit, and use Transmit to FTP files to the remote development servers for testing.
...And then dismiss the modal dialog.
I've been using BBEdit 7 for about a day, especially testing out the CVS integration. It's really good, but there are some things I miss about MacCVS Pro.
- BBEdit lacks tag, edit, and watch commands.
- Although you can do some CVS operations in the BBEdit File Browser (and File Groups) you can't do certain operations when multiple files are selected (including "commit file" oddly).
- BBEdit doesn't show the status of files in the file browser, file groups, or in window headers. The only way to get revision information is to "Get CVS Status" and read a modal dialog.
- BBEdit's CVS operations tend to be slower than MacCVS, or seem so, because MacCVS is robustly threaded. BBEdit puts up modal "wait" dialogs every single time it has to contact the remote CVS server.
- If you're going to do secure CVS BBEdit requires you to set up one of SSH's auto-authentication methods (The whole "ssh-keygen -t dsa" rigamarole). Once the authentication is set up BBEdit's CVS integration is compatible with MacCVS, and the combination is much better than either one by itself.
- On the positive side, BBEdit's diff function was meant to be integrated with CVS. (BBEdit does the diff itself without using CVS's diff command.)
The geeks at BareBones have done a great job so far. They're doing the right thing by adding new features gradually, releasing just what works. Obviously they don't want to turn their editor into bloatware. Being able to checkin or diff without leaving BBEdit is a great bonus. If they are able to make BBEdit more threaded and add CVS features to the File Browser (and make it hierarchical for goodness sake!) I might finally be able to give up MacCVS Pro.
But not yet.
Since I have very tiny arms and can't reach my keyboard to perform such complex feats of preference mastery I used my relatively normal-sized legs to kick my office chair away from the desk and got the same result.
...but not Linux. There was an interview with a guy from El Gato on the "Your Mac Life" radio show a week or two ago, and they said they were working on the Windows software.
Yes, I regret throwing away my copy of that book. It was my constant companion during the Atari years. The best way to get it online would be to get out those copies from your mom's basement and put them online yourself. I'm certain it would be very popular on the Atari Emulator sites.
Gosh, I've lost so much of my Atari programming stuff it's sickening. Some of the best programming I ever did was using 6502 Assembler on the old Atari 400.
The site is totally SlashDotted, so I can't check, but does this site have any old SoftSide magazines posted? That was my personal favorite, especially the nifty games written by Sheldon Leemon.
Control-click does the right mouse button thing on Mac OS X. Of course if you have your own 2-button USB mouse you can hook it up to any USB Mac and use it with Mac OS X. Wheels work too.
Of course Apple only includes a 1-button mouse with their systems, but 2-button optical mice are so cheap that it's just not worth complaining about.
Odd that Apple doesn't sell their own 2-button mouse, though. It's almost as if Apple is trying to help hardware manufacturers get business from Mac users. What could be the advantage of that?
... although when I have the "Helios" screensaver running as the desktop wallpaper on my 1600x1024 Cinema Display and then I open two overlapping transparent Terminals my G4 Dual 867 does lose its responsiveness a little.
But seriously, Apple is forward-thinking all the time. Jaguar may be decidedly slow on older hardware (still quite usable, however), but the latest G4 machines make Jaguar scream. The next generation of processors will be faster still, and the OS is poised to make full use of it.
Today, drop shadows. Tomorrow, ray-traced shadows!
Something.