Hold option while you right-click (or control-click) to bring back the "Download Linked File As..." item. Safari 2 in Tiger has a web archive feature, I believe.
This is absolutely true. One of the interesting ironies of mathematics is that mathematicians generally aren't interested in examining the foundations of math. Most mathematicians are content with a combination of intuition and definition to make sense of the nature of mathematical objects (points and lines in Euclidean geometry e.g., or natural/rational/irrational numbers). It takes a fairly compelling reason to convince mathematicians to sweat the foundational stuff, as the validity of non-Euclidean geometries needed the justification of new physics to really gain validity. But in general it's mainly the philosophers of math who bother themselves with questioning the nature/validity of things like number or proof.
As far as that might relate to this story, mathematicians have certainly done a more than satisfactory job demonstrating the efficacy of computation to solve any given computable problem. (That's why they call them computable, I guess.) The only question is whether the computers have been programmed satisfactorily to perform the computational component of the proof.
VLC plays all.mov files flawlessly. As far as UI goes, I suggest drinking until QTWin develops features like two mismatching sets of min/max/close buttons, or disappearing-reappearing controls.
It's worth noting that, though a 1.25GHz G4 may seem poky by today's standards it is still a very capable processor. Two years ago the fastest Mac in the world wasn't much faster than 1.25GHz (dual 1.4, I believe). Video editing and GarageBand etc. will still be entirely possible on this box. (I'd venture to say that the majority of iMovie use still occurs on
It won't be super, but it will be more than adequate for the Mac experience. Hell, I'm typing this on a 1.5GHz G4 Powerbook, and it's more than fast enough for the Apple suite, Photoshop and Illustrator, and even a little World of Warcraft. So don't write this machine off as suitable only for email and word processing right off the bat.
For serious, who keeps modding this shit up? Is it really still funny? "I, for one, welcome our Soviet grits hot YOU goatse-Beowulf ????? profit run Linux?" Do I get modded up now, too?
Another interesting problem would be some pre/in/suffixive languages (like some of the Yupik family) where single words are constructed in much the same way whole sentences or clauses are formed in "normal" languages, and a single word can act as an entire sentence. (I forget the precise term, something-morphous--been too long since I took that course on Alaska Native languages.) Making a word-level dictionary for this sort language would be impossible.
This has sort of already been said before, but Lessig's focus has always been on the idea of releasing abandoned IP into the public domain. If you started a new company with your old software, you presumably would have recognized that it was still valuable and would have paid the small (suggested values have been anything from $5-$50 to renew after 28 years, I think) fee to retain ownership.
I'd find a way to try it on your machine before you buy it if you haven't yet. WoW beta performance on my PBG4 1.5/15" (with 128 megs of VRAM, nonetheless) is wretched. I can't even quite reach 30fps indoors, at 800x600 (lowest supported resolution), with graphics turned all the way down.
The odd thing: none of the graphics settings (aside from the fog distance, which I have to keep low all the time, making the vistas much less scenic on my machine) even seem to affect the framerate by more than few per second, so I usually play at max graphics at 1280x854. I get 20-25fps inside buildings, 10-15 running around in the world, 5-10 when lots of characters are around. (I was completely useless yesterday when the bastard Alliance raided the undead city of Brill on realm 23. Death to all level 20 gnome mages who take me down in two hits!)
It's definitely playable (and fun, oh God how fun), but just be sure never to look over the shoulder of a PC-using friend or you will be overcome with framerate envy. (Not to mention the nice graphical touches that don't seem to be implemented at all in the Mac version.) Anyway, I am sick to death of game companies and their lazy, underperforming Mac ports. I retain hope that Blizzard will address Mac performance issues by the time the final is released, but not much.
Oh well. Macs just aren't gaming machines. This, combined with Counter-Strike Source and Myst IV not running on portable graphics cards (WTFWTFWTF, Cyan??) are making me consider building a cheap PC gaming rig. I think one of those, a Powerbook 12", and a nice big-ish LCD to share between them would make for just about the ultimate computing setup.
I am sick of people equating iTunes the jukebox with iTunes the music store. iTunes is a great jukebox (whose 'files' may be any of a dozen different, open formats) with an excellent, consistent interface, and (for me, at least) blows any WinAmp release entirely out of the water.
'iTunes files'... don't you feel stupid saying that? iTMS files, please.
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As far as the scrollwheel goes, an indispensible piece of Mac software is SideTrack, which lets you use the sides of your trackpad as scroll areas, as well as assign keystrokes/multiple mouse buttons to the trackpad's corners. I have the top corners of my PB set for Exposé, the bottom-right for right-click and the bottom-left for third click (opens links in new tabs in safari, shows paths when clicking a document/finder window's title bar). And of course, scrolling along the right edge. It's a fabulous little utility. Combined with trackpad tap-drag-lock, I don't think I ever need to use the actual trackpad button--a zero-button mouse!
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Nah, vi is modal, Raskin hates that (THE is pseudo-modal). In addition, THE commands are English words, not (generally) esoteric control-sequences.
I believe Raskin's approach also differs in that once the command pseudo-mode is entered, a list of available operations is presented, a feature I can't say vi would be worse off to implement. (I might be wrong about this, I don't have Classic installed right now to run THE and apparently he isn't offering it for download anymore...?)
I admit that I wish someone like Raskin could get funding from some entity like Apple (or Google?) to develop a truly revolutionary, next-generation operating system. But I've used THE, and it really doesn't seem like that is it. I couldn't get any real work done with it; I found its behavior very esoteric and unpredictable at times (the dual cursors were tricky, as was the behavior of selections).
Monotonous and limited interfaces like THE, it seems, are good for monotnous, mostly single-purpose devices (the Canon Cat, the iPod, to some extent the original Mac). But it seems impossible, to me, to build a system that has the power to do everything that a modern computer does without getting a little unwelcome complexity and inconsistency. Of course, I disagree with Raskin that OSX is just as bad as Windows in this respect--why he would say something like that really is beyond me.
Have you played CS:S? It is an absolutely incredible online multiplayer experience. There is still only one (official) map available but no person of my peer group who has tried it has been able to stop playing. (I believe my house has racked up 60-70 hours on our friend's XFire account in the last week, on CS:S alone.)
I never played the original CS, and am only partway through HL1, but I am hooked as well. I tried to go back to UT2k4 recently, and although my CS experience greatly improved my score it was clear to me that it is not half the online game that CS:S is. I felt like I was watching Dora the Explorer instead of Stanley Kubrick, or eating Egg McMuffins when I could be munching on Eggs Benedict.
Valve has a brilliant and untouchable product on their hands.
...or really just about any well-made Nintendo 64 game (like say Perfect Dark, best SF spy shooter evar). Playing under emulation at 1600x1200 with bilinear filtering on a Radeon 9800 and a 21" screen is just a dream. I can't even play Goldeneye on the TV anymore cause the resolution is so low. Perfect Dark especially looks great even when played at 5x the size it was designed for, the textures and effects hold up very well.
One interesting application of this (which Apple might not even mind) would be to write a little app that just plays randomly selected 30-second clips all day, with a little button on the side to tell iTunes to buy the full song.
I think the point is that machines with very little memory to run/store programs will naturally work well with CISC processors, because you have more instructions to choose from (means fewer lines of machine code) than RISC. Nowadays I suspect it really doesn't matter.
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Hold option while you right-click (or control-click) to bring back the "Download Linked File As..." item. Safari 2 in Tiger has a web archive feature, I believe.
This is absolutely true. One of the interesting ironies of mathematics is that mathematicians generally aren't interested in examining the foundations of math. Most mathematicians are content with a combination of intuition and definition to make sense of the nature of mathematical objects (points and lines in Euclidean geometry e.g., or natural/rational/irrational numbers). It takes a fairly compelling reason to convince mathematicians to sweat the foundational stuff, as the validity of non-Euclidean geometries needed the justification of new physics to really gain validity. But in general it's mainly the philosophers of math who bother themselves with questioning the nature/validity of things like number or proof.
As far as that might relate to this story, mathematicians have certainly done a more than satisfactory job demonstrating the efficacy of computation to solve any given computable problem. (That's why they call them computable, I guess.) The only question is whether the computers have been programmed satisfactorily to perform the computational component of the proof.
VLC plays all .mov files flawlessly. As far as UI goes, I suggest drinking until QTWin develops features like two mismatching sets of min/max/close buttons, or disappearing-reappearing controls.
Save that everyone interested in streaming the keynote would have downloaded QT7 the moment it was up on the Apple site anyway...
It's worth noting that, though a 1.25GHz G4 may seem poky by today's standards it is still a very capable processor. Two years ago the fastest Mac in the world wasn't much faster than 1.25GHz (dual 1.4, I believe). Video editing and GarageBand etc. will still be entirely possible on this box. (I'd venture to say that the majority of iMovie use still occurs on
It won't be super, but it will be more than adequate for the Mac experience. Hell, I'm typing this on a 1.5GHz G4 Powerbook, and it's more than fast enough for the Apple suite, Photoshop and Illustrator, and even a little World of Warcraft. So don't write this machine off as suitable only for email and word processing right off the bat.
SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP
For serious, who keeps modding this shit up? Is it really still funny? "I, for one, welcome our Soviet grits hot YOU goatse-Beowulf ????? profit run Linux?" Do I get modded up now, too?
Fucking idiots.
My favorite Madden-ism: "If they could have just scored a few more points, they might have won the game."
Brilliant, John. Absof'inglutely brilliant.
Another interesting problem would be some pre/in/suffixive languages (like some of the Yupik family) where single words are constructed in much the same way whole sentences or clauses are formed in "normal" languages, and a single word can act as an entire sentence. (I forget the precise term, something-morphous--been too long since I took that course on Alaska Native languages.) Making a word-level dictionary for this sort language would be impossible.
Yeah, the Discovery channel specials have worked really well with that whole Evolution thing, too...
This has sort of already been said before, but Lessig's focus has always been on the idea of releasing abandoned IP into the public domain. If you started a new company with your old software, you presumably would have recognized that it was still valuable and would have paid the small (suggested values have been anything from $5-$50 to renew after 28 years, I think) fee to retain ownership.
I used to think "sic" stood for "Spelling InCluded".
Please resume your discussion.
Martin Sargent is an idiot and an alcoholic.
But you knew that.
Try dragging the .m3u into the playlist pane. It should create a new playlist containing those songs (as well as add them to the library).
I'd find a way to try it on your machine before you buy it if you haven't yet. WoW beta performance on my PBG4 1.5/15" (with 128 megs of VRAM, nonetheless) is wretched. I can't even quite reach 30fps indoors, at 800x600 (lowest supported resolution), with graphics turned all the way down.
The odd thing: none of the graphics settings (aside from the fog distance, which I have to keep low all the time, making the vistas much less scenic on my machine) even seem to affect the framerate by more than few per second, so I usually play at max graphics at 1280x854. I get 20-25fps inside buildings, 10-15 running around in the world, 5-10 when lots of characters are around. (I was completely useless yesterday when the bastard Alliance raided the undead city of Brill on realm 23. Death to all level 20 gnome mages who take me down in two hits!)
It's definitely playable (and fun, oh God how fun), but just be sure never to look over the shoulder of a PC-using friend or you will be overcome with framerate envy. (Not to mention the nice graphical touches that don't seem to be implemented at all in the Mac version.) Anyway, I am sick to death of game companies and their lazy, underperforming Mac ports. I retain hope that Blizzard will address Mac performance issues by the time the final is released, but not much.
Oh well. Macs just aren't gaming machines. This, combined with Counter-Strike Source and Myst IV not running on portable graphics cards (WTFWTFWTF, Cyan??) are making me consider building a cheap PC gaming rig. I think one of those, a Powerbook 12", and a nice big-ish LCD to share between them would make for just about the ultimate computing setup.
I am sick of people equating iTunes the jukebox with iTunes the music store. iTunes is a great jukebox (whose 'files' may be any of a dozen different, open formats) with an excellent, consistent interface, and (for me, at least) blows any WinAmp release entirely out of the water.
'iTunes files'... don't you feel stupid saying that? iTMS files, please.
As far as the scrollwheel goes, an indispensible piece of Mac software is SideTrack, which lets you use the sides of your trackpad as scroll areas, as well as assign keystrokes/multiple mouse buttons to the trackpad's corners. I have the top corners of my PB set for Exposé, the bottom-right for right-click and the bottom-left for third click (opens links in new tabs in safari, shows paths when clicking a document/finder window's title bar). And of course, scrolling along the right edge. It's a fabulous little utility. Combined with trackpad tap-drag-lock, I don't think I ever need to use the actual trackpad button--a zero-button mouse!
Nah, vi is modal, Raskin hates that (THE is pseudo-modal). In addition, THE commands are English words, not (generally) esoteric control-sequences.
I believe Raskin's approach also differs in that once the command pseudo-mode is entered, a list of available operations is presented, a feature I can't say vi would be worse off to implement. (I might be wrong about this, I don't have Classic installed right now to run THE and apparently he isn't offering it for download anymore...?)
I admit that I wish someone like Raskin could get funding from some entity like Apple (or Google?) to develop a truly revolutionary, next-generation operating system. But I've used THE, and it really doesn't seem like that is it. I couldn't get any real work done with it; I found its behavior very esoteric and unpredictable at times (the dual cursors were tricky, as was the behavior of selections).
It also doesn't seem to me that THE would be very amenable to extension to more common modern computer tasks than text-editing and running snippets of Python. Imagine trying to cut a home video or organize 30 gigs of music or build sophisticated bitmap and vector art with shift-space and a small library of universal commands.
Monotonous and limited interfaces like THE, it seems, are good for monotnous, mostly single-purpose devices (the Canon Cat, the iPod, to some extent the original Mac). But it seems impossible, to me, to build a system that has the power to do everything that a modern computer does without getting a little unwelcome complexity and inconsistency. Of course, I disagree with Raskin that OSX is just as bad as Windows in this respect--why he would say something like that really is beyond me.
I think you might be thinking of SpyMac, with their perpetual iWalk hoaxing. ThinkSecret AFAIK has never jumped on that particular rumor bandwagon.
Have you played CS:S? It is an absolutely incredible online multiplayer experience. There is still only one (official) map available but no person of my peer group who has tried it has been able to stop playing. (I believe my house has racked up 60-70 hours on our friend's XFire account in the last week, on CS:S alone.)
I never played the original CS, and am only partway through HL1, but I am hooked as well. I tried to go back to UT2k4 recently, and although my CS experience greatly improved my score it was clear to me that it is not half the online game that CS:S is. I felt like I was watching Dora the Explorer instead of Stanley Kubrick, or eating Egg McMuffins when I could be munching on Eggs Benedict.
Valve has a brilliant and untouchable product on their hands.
Classic. My chemist brother taught me this little ditty as well:
"Charlie was a chemist,
but Charlie is no more...
What Charlie thought was H2O,
was H2SO4."
...or really just about any well-made Nintendo 64 game (like say Perfect Dark, best SF spy shooter evar). Playing under emulation at 1600x1200 with bilinear filtering on a Radeon 9800 and a 21" screen is just a dream. I can't even play Goldeneye on the TV anymore cause the resolution is so low. Perfect Dark especially looks great even when played at 5x the size it was designed for, the textures and effects hold up very well.
Good emulators: SixtyForce (OSX), Project 64 (Win).
...assuming that it doesn't register itself as a login item. Those are pretty easy to spot/kill, though.
Obviously someone hasn't heard of the iTMS RSS generator. It's nift.
One interesting application of this (which Apple might not even mind) would be to write a little app that just plays randomly selected 30-second clips all day, with a little button on the side to tell iTunes to buy the full song.
I think the point is that machines with very little memory to run/store programs will naturally work well with CISC processors, because you have more instructions to choose from (means fewer lines of machine code) than RISC. Nowadays I suspect it really doesn't matter.
What about Jello Biafra?