has anyone discussed the possibility of the following two options for the future:
1) The possibility of other people (e.g. small independent record labels) opening their own stores which you can then add to your list of favourite shops? It would just add another shop which appears as another playlist like the Apple shop.
2) The possibility of Apple making an 'iShop' app, which brings all your favourite shops to a single Application. e.g. Amazon, O'Reilly, Ebay etc. could all have their own shop plugins (a la Sherlock) which would appear in your own personal shopping mall which is filled with all your favourite shops.
XML is a text-based system for data storage and retrieval, intended to be *self documenting*. In other words, the details on what fonts are used, what settings The User has set for individual parts of the documents, the parameters for those setting, etc. ARE ALL SUPPOSED TO BE STORED IN READABLE FORMAT WITHIN XML TAGS, CONFORMING TO A KNOWN, PUBLISHED DOCUMENT DESCRIBING THE CONTENT.
No it's not. XML is not supposed to store information such as 'font' and other presentational features. This is the job of the XSL stylesheets or CSS etc. XML is designed to store data in a structured way. So for instance you may have a <chapter> tag, but what font to use for chapter tags is only supposed to be specified in the XSLT.
If I did an XML export of my word document, I would expect (hope for) an XML document, and either an XSLT stylesheet transforming the XML to HTML, or an XSL:FO stylesheet so that I can turn the XML into a pdf or postscript file. However, the stylesheets would be the 'icing on the cake'. The essential item is the XML formatted data, not the presentational information.
there are plenty of situations where legibilty and maintainability are not as important as fast results (i.e. quickly coded). In this area perl SHINES and is not going anywhere. Myself, I would think very carefully before writing anything more than a few hundred lines at most in perl, but for short scripts etc. where the most important thing is getting the thing written ASAP, perl is unbeatable.
To say that perl will disappear is naive at best.
With Mac OS X, the trash can icon changes to an eject icon when you drag a volume over it. So you aren't actually dropping the floppy into the trash. Also, the shortcut for 'send to trash' is not the same as the shortcut for 'eject'. So while this might have been confusing in Mac OS 9 and under, in Mac OS X this confusion is not there.
And even in Pre OS X systems, there was an option to eject floppies in one of the menus (special?), also I think with the shortcut cmd-E.
Just yesterday I was talking digital cameras with a colleague and when he googled for it, I said 'no, froogle for it'.
I'm not sure what my point is. That is all.
yep - since the update I have been getting faint 'white noise' coming out of my speakers, even when nothing is running except for the finder. Is there a way to uninstall the update and downgrade to the previous sound manager?
btw I am on Pismo 500 g3 running 10.2.2 6F21
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Doesn't Google use 'big files' rather than a database for storing all its data?
g hemawat.pdf which describes the Google filesystem.
see http://www.cs.rochester.edu/sosp2003/papers/p125-
yes but she told me it was going to happen. (not that it HAD happened).
My mum told me about this a day or two ago - I can't believe she beat slashdot to a story! WAY TO GO MUM!
I've never registered misspellings of my company's (or companies') domains either. Maybe you should think about it though...
No one likes a smart arse.
has anyone discussed the possibility of the following two options for the future: 1) The possibility of other people (e.g. small independent record labels) opening their own stores which you can then add to your list of favourite shops? It would just add another shop which appears as another playlist like the Apple shop. 2) The possibility of Apple making an 'iShop' app, which brings all your favourite shops to a single Application. e.g. Amazon, O'Reilly, Ebay etc. could all have their own shop plugins (a la Sherlock) which would appear in your own personal shopping mall which is filled with all your favourite shops.
sorry - life long dream
XML is a text-based system for data storage and retrieval, intended to be *self documenting*. In other words, the details on what fonts are used, what settings The User has set for individual parts of the documents, the parameters for those setting, etc. ARE ALL SUPPOSED TO BE STORED IN READABLE FORMAT WITHIN XML TAGS, CONFORMING TO A KNOWN, PUBLISHED DOCUMENT DESCRIBING THE CONTENT.
No it's not. XML is not supposed to store information such as 'font' and other presentational features. This is the job of the XSL stylesheets or CSS etc. XML is designed to store data in a structured way. So for instance you may have a <chapter> tag, but what font to use for chapter tags is only supposed to be specified in the XSLT. If I did an XML export of my word document, I would expect (hope for) an XML document, and either an XSLT stylesheet transforming the XML to HTML, or an XSL:FO stylesheet so that I can turn the XML into a pdf or postscript file. However, the stylesheets would be the 'icing on the cake'. The essential item is the XML formatted data, not the presentational information.
This post was funny until you read it
I literally just downloaded, burned and installed an RC of this yesterday.
there are plenty of situations where legibilty and maintainability are not as important as fast results (i.e. quickly coded). In this area perl SHINES and is not going anywhere. Myself, I would think very carefully before writing anything more than a few hundred lines at most in perl, but for short scripts etc. where the most important thing is getting the thing written ASAP, perl is unbeatable. To say that perl will disappear is naive at best.
With Mac OS X, the trash can icon changes to an eject icon when you drag a volume over it. So you aren't actually dropping the floppy into the trash. Also, the shortcut for 'send to trash' is not the same as the shortcut for 'eject'. So while this might have been confusing in Mac OS 9 and under, in Mac OS X this confusion is not there. And even in Pre OS X systems, there was an option to eject floppies in one of the menus (special?), also I think with the shortcut cmd-E.
Just yesterday I was talking digital cameras with a colleague and when he googled for it, I said 'no, froogle for it'. I'm not sure what my point is. That is all.
I watched someone spend an entire week writing a one line sed script.
yep - since the update I have been getting faint 'white noise' coming out of my speakers, even when nothing is running except for the finder. Is there a way to uninstall the update and downgrade to the previous sound manager? btw I am on Pismo 500 g3 running 10.2.2 6F21