Yeah, it impressed the hell out of movie-Trillian, along with the rest of the kitchen. Funny how her motives changed; book/TV/radio-Trillian hung out with Zaphod because "with a degree in astrophysics, it was that or the dole queue again on Monday."
Apple Swing L&F has always been using native widget rendering for the Swing L&F. Originally it used the AppearanceManager. I don't know what it uses now I've left.
Using the native LnF is not a problem, provided you let the layout manager do its job. The worst thing you can do is hardcode layout values. As for menu items and such, you can specify platform in your resources, and there's a way to make Swing apps put Swing menu items into the real Mac menu - somewhere on Apple there's a tech note that goes into more details on all these things.
You can use the MacMetrics Metal theme I wrote to get an approximation of how things will be laid out under the MacL&F
Yeah, I thought the SG1 Replicators were Lego bots gone bad when they first appeared (I think I even said it on Usenet) - and then they turned out to be an alien kid's toys.
There's also book-reading time. I suspect the real reason ebooks didn't take off was that it's harder to hold an ebook in a position where the cat doesn't block it.
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So every quarter or so, Red Dwarf disappears for two weeks and is replaced by the same stupid concert they showed the last two pledge drive
Is there a Law of Conservation of PBS TV shows? The only time I see Red Dwarf is during the pledge drive. While I like it, I prefer it in small doses - 6 straight hours is too much (though it does leave me with a really good Liverpudlian accent, according to a friend of mine from Liverpool)
I'd bet that the fake prompt trick isn't so much well known as an obvious thing to do, because I did the same thing to an Apple ][ Corvus Constellation network back in 1980, and I didn't get the idea from anyone else.
It backfired, though - it did the usual fake "wrong password" message and then launch a real prompt, but when I tried it on the admin he mistyped it on the real prompt, decided that if he'd screwed up twice he must've forgotten his password, and changed it.
This happened to a friend of mine in a manufacturing plant. They had machines that made plastic cups, and every so often the machine would jam, the operator would hit the little switch that was right next to him, clear the jam, and go on. So they hired a new operator, my friend explained the procedure, left the guy alone. Shortly thereafter, the machine jammed, new guy panicked, ran across the room to the Big Red Switch, hit it, and cut power to every machine in the plant. It took the rest of the day to get the machines all running again.
The female members of my team consistently require special treatment for scheduling due to their children. When I say "consistently" I mean one or more of them require a day off or out of the office, or a late start or early stop every week.
That was true of the head of the QA department at one company I worked for - this person was frequently out dealing with kid-related problems. It got kind of annoying, and affected the schedule.
However, this particular QA department head was male.
Unless an experienced somebody or, more likely, team of sombodies is willing to put their nose to the project 40 hours a week, like it's a full time job, it's not going to happen
It could be one somebody, but yeah, it's a full-time job - I wrote the original Swing MacLookAndFeel from Apple and if I hadn't started when Swing first came out, long before anyone else thought it was important, it wouldn't have been ready when OS X shipped.
(This was the second MacL&F, actually, but the first one was really only a "look". I had nothing to do with it)
Similar story here, except I didn't party and I liked most of my classes, I just didn't have *any* study habits nor any idea how to aquire them - I'd never taken notes in class, and I'd done my HS calculus homework during roll call. You know how girls are supposed to be more willing to ask teachers for help? Not me - it never crossed my mind to do so, maybe because I'd never had to.
And for OS X to really sing, mucho memory is required
My original iBook sang just fine with 192M. Amazingly enough, each new version of OS X ran *faster*. It was almost unusable on 10.0, nice on 10.1, and ran everything I needed all at once on 10.3 (Safari, AppleWorks, Mail, and the odd small app)
I've never had options where that was the case. It's usually been a minimum of 1 year, and more often spread out over several years, and it's contingent on still being employed by that company when it vests.
I'm not sure how a company calculates the value of the expense, though, since the shares are generally given away when they have nil, or practically nil value
Not always. Sun gave stock options with a 1-year vesting period when the options were at $170. One year later they were about $15. I can't believe they were crazy enough to think it was going to go *that* much over $170, so basically it was a way to look like they were rewarding us without actually doing so. If they'd had to expense the options, they might've decided to give actual cash instead.
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It's the "I'm too important to need an editor" effect - other notable victims are Stephen King and Frank Herbert.
Yeah, it impressed the hell out of movie-Trillian, along with the rest of the kitchen. Funny how her motives changed; book/TV/radio-Trillian hung out with Zaphod because "with a degree in astrophysics, it was that or the dole queue again on Monday."
Apple Swing L&F has always been using native widget rendering for the Swing L&F. Originally it used the AppearanceManager. I don't know what it uses now I've left.
You can use the MacMetrics Metal theme I wrote to get an approximation of how things will be laid out under the MacL&F
Thus putting the / in /.
Yeah, I thought the SG1 Replicators were Lego bots gone bad when they first appeared (I think I even said it on Usenet) - and then they turned out to be an alien kid's toys.
If a spoiler is something that makes you *not* want to see the movie, then for me, this is an anti-spoiler - I didn't see Jar Jar, for one thing.
There's also book-reading time. I suspect the real reason ebooks didn't take off was that it's harder to hold an ebook in a position where the cat doesn't block it.
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Yeah. I once tried to see how many Timex-Sinclairs would fit into an Apple ][ - don't remember exactly, but 4-5 seems about right.
Or incur any bandwidth overage charges...
Is there a Law of Conservation of PBS TV shows? The only time I see Red Dwarf is during the pledge drive. While I like it, I prefer it in small doses - 6 straight hours is too much (though it does leave me with a really good Liverpudlian accent, according to a friend of mine from Liverpool)
It backfired, though - it did the usual fake "wrong password" message and then launch a real prompt, but when I tried it on the admin he mistyped it on the real prompt, decided that if he'd screwed up twice he must've forgotten his password, and changed it.
I'm going to kill you!
and a "professional" dub
I'm going to send you to the Shadow Realm!
Yeah, like the list I've got now, it says:
E:\ D:\ My Sla Whe Sla My Mee
How could I live without it?
(OK, poster has a point - living with no windows list on my Solaris box is a pain. Are there any good ones?)
Like in this Kevin and Kell strip: "The Freedom of Ones and Zeros Act"
The new guy's first day was also his last.
That was true of the head of the QA department at one company I worked for - this person was frequently out dealing with kid-related problems. It got kind of annoying, and affected the schedule.
However, this particular QA department head was male.
I worked for Sun, at Apple, with the Apple Java team. Got laid off in 2001.
It could be one somebody, but yeah, it's a full-time job - I wrote the original Swing MacLookAndFeel from Apple and if I hadn't started when Swing first came out, long before anyone else thought it was important, it wouldn't have been ready when OS X shipped.
(This was the second MacL&F, actually, but the first one was really only a "look". I had nothing to do with it)
Similar story here, except I didn't party and I liked most of my classes, I just didn't have *any* study habits nor any idea how to aquire them - I'd never taken notes in class, and I'd done my HS calculus homework during roll call. You know how girls are supposed to be more willing to ask teachers for help? Not me - it never crossed my mind to do so, maybe because I'd never had to.
My original iBook sang just fine with 192M. Amazingly enough, each new version of OS X ran *faster*. It was almost unusable on 10.0, nice on 10.1, and ran everything I needed all at once on 10.3 (Safari, AppleWorks, Mail, and the odd small app)
Not everyone's a power user.
I've never had options where that was the case. It's usually been a minimum of 1 year, and more often spread out over several years, and it's contingent on still being employed by that company when it vests.
Not always. Sun gave stock options with a 1-year vesting period when the options were at $170. One year later they were about $15. I can't believe they were crazy enough to think it was going to go *that* much over $170, so basically it was a way to look like they were rewarding us without actually doing so. If they'd had to expense the options, they might've decided to give actual cash instead.
(Yeah, still bitter)
(Need I mention I'm a straight female?)