The new Finder layout is also present in open/save dialog
boxes, providing a consistent interface throughout the
system.
I *really* want to see a screenshot of this! (would y'all please stop/.ing the article?:) One pet peeve I've had with Macs is the
disparity between the Finder and the open/save dialogs you get from
regular software. Course this problem exists on Windows and Linux
too, but the Mac finder is much nicer, and so the disparity is more
pungent on a Mac.
I've just had too many stints where a newbie saves a file (using a
save dialog) and then can't find it. Because the finder looks
different. Heck, I've used these things for 20 years and I sometimes
lose files myself (must be getting senile).
I REALLY want better integration with open/save dialogs so my mother
can find any file she happens to save!
The ads are loud specifically to wake you up. You know, in case you dozed during your program, lamo! Just haul your lazy ass to bed! But I digress. The ads also are very loud visually...vivid colors, with alternate dark/light pictures. All carefully designed to jerk you out of your couch-potato stupor.
Y'know, now that I think of it, schoolteachers should watch more TV ads...just as a lesson to see how to keep students from sleeping thru their classes.:, (I'm only half joking...I think.)
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Is it wrong to download your personality into a computer or another body so you can live "forever"?
but there's a right way to sway public opinion and a wrong way.
Dear Seantor:
I am a file sharer and am afraid of getting sued. Please consider this petition from my file-sharing friends as evidence that you should stop the RIAA. You'll definitely lose our votes if we end up in prison.
I realize you are prob trolling here but I'll bite. Section 110 of US Copyright law makes exceptions for certain public performances. That's why you can go to a cabaret and see a 'public display' of Broadway favorites, and not worry about the RIAA sueing your local community theatre troupe.
Unfortunately, Section 110 is extremely hairy and complex...reminds me of uncommented C network code actually. The kind of things that lawyers get rich arguing about. And IANAL.
But if you are a lawyer and understand it better than i, be my guest.
Exactly what kind of programs, and what programs, have a need for more than 2GB of RAM? (I assume that's what you mean by 'data')
Anything written in Java
The usefulness of using E-bay for HOV lanes is that you have a fixed supply of passes. Suppose, for instance, that they sold HOV passes for...oh...$100/month. Only 50 people buy passes this month, next month 500 buy, and the next month 5000. But 5000 passes renders the lane worthless.
So instead of freezing the price of the stickers, you freeze demand (we'll sell 500 to the top bidders) and let supply (i.e. rich drivers) fluctuate.
OK, you can hold off thanking 'em for lima beans:)
You can also thank them for 'inventing' beef jerky. The word 'jerky' actually derives from Quechua 'dzherkhkie'. They would cut their game meat into slabs or sticks, and hang them on mountaintops until they freeze-dried. Useful preservation method, as any camper or hiker will attest.
It's the Aztecs who gave us chocolate (as well as vanilla.) And coffee was first grown in Ethiopia, for that matter...
As for the wheel, both the Incas and Aztecs had the wheel but both saw little use for it. The Incas' terrain was far too mountainous for wheels. And the Aztecs had no draft animals, so they never saw a wheel as useful. See Cecil Adams's column for the lowdown on the wheel...it's useful, but not all-important to ancient civilizations.
Ha! How many characters are there in the Chinese alphabet? Thousands?
Short to say, I've not seen many articles on Chinese cryptography. Hmmm, wonder why...
damn I don't have moderator points, pal...that post needs modded up badly!
I'll add that Mac users don't have a single favorite mail software application. (I suppose Apple's mail app is popular, but doesn't have the market share Outlook has)
Wouldn't this break binary compatability with current Macs? That would mean s/w distributors have to sell two versions of s/w; wouldn't that strangle the 3rd party software for Apple market?
OK think a moment. How long would it take for you to code up a linked list data structure? An hour? For me, prob 1 hr + 3 hrs debugging. It'd be a pretty simple module, right? Right.
Now take a look at the linked list implementation in the STL. Or the JFC. Much more complex, right? I bet those weren't built in 4 hours!
That homebrewed linked list you built may work for you, because you know its limitations and instinctively avoid them, but I don't. So I'd rather build my own linked list.
Oh, I suppose I can use the STL's linked list, but it makes the compiler sooooooo slooooooowwww.
Some people say it's because Windows is much more prevalent than the Linux, but there are a lot of servers running Linux now.
Bullshit. The Slammer worm is your smoking-gun counterexample. It attacks MS SQL server. But MS is not the primary player in the SQL server market. IIRC they control 10% by their own admission. So why doesn't Oracle/Postgres/MySQL get a virus attack with as much notariety?
Amen, brother! I have about 20GB of music and that's only half of my CD collection. But I'd still pay $100 for a 1GB MP3 player rather than $400 for a 20GB iPod!
No doubt being able to store your entire music collection on a portable HD is convenient, but so is not paying an arm and a leg for it!
There are now two ways of looping over an iterator, and you have to be familiar with both if you want to quickly understand other people's code. If you want a good real-world example of what too much syntactical sugar does to a language, take a look at some Perl programs.
Ah, but Java's two for-iterator loops are slightly different. The 'foreach' IIRC provides you with a single variale that points to successive items in your collection...it does not provide you an iterator. This means you can traverse the items in the collection but you can't filter them or change the collection itself.
The old 'for' syntax is still necessary if you want to actually change the collection, eg to filter out objects from the collection, or to insert objects in specific places. The old syntax is more error-prone (since Iterator.next() is usually called in the body of your for loop, are you sure its being called *every* time???)
So both for syntaxes have inherent advantages and disadvantages. So they're both worthwhile to have around.
n another note, although I usually don't think companies are this Machiavellian, does anyone else see this possibility:
AOL faked an illegal release so that tons of people would have copied of illegal source code. Then, if a similar competing Open-Source project is created they can easily claim it used their code and wasn't actually developed independently. After all, they could definitely say that the authors of the other project could have easily stolen their source code. I'd only suspect something like this because WASTE actually isn't that complex of a program. It's not nothing, but its definitely something the community could put out in a month if some people tried.
Doesn't matter. If WASTE is really a simple protocol then it can be reverse-engineered. And therefore built w/o using any 'tainted' NullSoft code.
After all Gnutella's protocol (and code) was reverse-engineered. No current Gnutella s/w uses NullSoft code. AOL pulled Gnutella's release just days after NullSoft released it, yet they've been silent regarding Gnutella's propagation ever since.
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2.5 inch hard drives, the same drives used in notebooks can cost from 100 to 300 bucks. Here's a link. And the ipod is not for the rich. I have one, and I sure as hell am not rich.
I agree. I haven't been rich since I bought the iPod and Apple opened their iTunes store!
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I *really* want to see a screenshot of this! (would y'all please stop /.ing the article? :) One pet peeve I've had with Macs is the
disparity between the Finder and the open/save dialogs you get from
regular software. Course this problem exists on Windows and Linux
too, but the Mac finder is much nicer, and so the disparity is more
pungent on a Mac.
I've just had too many stints where a newbie saves a file (using a save dialog) and then can't find it. Because the finder looks different. Heck, I've used these things for 20 years and I sometimes lose files myself (must be getting senile).
I REALLY want better integration with open/save dialogs so my mother can find any file she happens to save!
You can easily enable/disable the brushed-metal theme on OSX apps, Apple or third-party. See here for details.
Y'know, now that I think of it, schoolteachers should watch more TV ads...just as a lesson to see how to keep students from sleeping thru their classes. :, (I'm only half joking...I think.)
Dear Seantor:
I am a file sharer and am afraid of getting sued. Please consider this petition from my file-sharing friends as evidence that you should stop the RIAA. You'll definitely lose our votes if we end up in prison.
Yours...$signature...$signature...$signature...
Hm. That must be the wrong way.
You've never been stung by a bee, have you?
Unfortunately, Section 110 is extremely hairy and complex...reminds me of uncommented C network code actually. The kind of things that lawyers get rich arguing about. And IANAL.
But if you are a lawyer and understand it better than i, be my guest.
Uuhhhh...errr....(should I mention this....oh ok) Limewire
Java has Gnutella to thank for bringing us Limewire!
buy a Mac if you want to impress people with screenshots.
Exactly what kind of programs, and what programs, have a need for more than 2GB of RAM? (I assume that's what you mean by 'data') Anything written in Java
So instead of freezing the price of the stickers, you freeze demand (we'll sell 500 to the top bidders) and let supply (i.e. rich drivers) fluctuate.
- potatoes
- pineapple
- pumpkins
- lima beans
OK, you can hold off thanking 'em for lima beansYou can also thank them for 'inventing' beef jerky. The word 'jerky' actually derives from Quechua 'dzherkhkie'. They would cut their game meat into slabs or sticks, and hang them on mountaintops until they freeze-dried. Useful preservation method, as any camper or hiker will attest.
It's the Aztecs who gave us chocolate (as well as vanilla.) And coffee was first grown in Ethiopia, for that matter...
As for the wheel, both the Incas and Aztecs had the wheel but both saw little use for it. The Incas' terrain was far too mountainous for wheels. And the Aztecs had no draft animals, so they never saw a wheel as useful. See Cecil Adams's column for the lowdown on the wheel...it's useful, but not all-important to ancient civilizations.
Glad I read that article! Now I have a new quote for my sig!
Ha! How many characters are there in the Chinese alphabet? Thousands? Short to say, I've not seen many articles on Chinese cryptography. Hmmm, wonder why...
I'll add that Mac users don't have a single favorite mail software application. (I suppose Apple's mail app is popular, but doesn't have the market share Outlook has)
Maybe I'm just being perverse, but maybe that is what this kid wants...to be a martyr for the anti-RIAA crowd???
Wouldn't this break binary compatability with current Macs? That would mean s/w distributors have to sell two versions of s/w; wouldn't that strangle the 3rd party software for Apple market?
OK think a moment. How long would it take for you to code up a linked list data structure? An hour? For me, prob 1 hr + 3 hrs debugging. It'd be a pretty simple module, right? Right.
Now take a look at the linked list implementation in the STL. Or the JFC. Much more complex, right? I bet those weren't built in 4 hours!
That homebrewed linked list you built may work for you, because you know its limitations and instinctively avoid them, but I don't. So I'd rather build my own linked list.
Oh, I suppose I can use the STL's linked list, but it makes the compiler sooooooo slooooooowwww.
Here at CMU's engineering department we have a relevant comic about this:
MOM: Glad to see you back home from engineering school, son. By the way, can you fix our toaster?
SON: Er...no. But I could design a new one!!!
SON: (later) I wonder how useful this engineering degree really is.
Some people say it's because Windows is much more prevalent
than the Linux, but there are a lot of servers running Linux now.
Bullshit. The Slammer worm is your smoking-gun counterexample. It attacks MS SQL server. But MS is not the primary player in the SQL server market. IIRC they control 10% by their own admission. So why doesn't Oracle/Postgres/MySQL get a virus attack with as much notariety?
That's my whack-a-troll for today.
No doubt being able to store your entire music collection on a portable HD is convenient, but so is not paying an arm and a leg for it!
Dear Electronic Frontier Foundation:
The RIAA is sueing me for writing BitTorrent, and I don't have enough money for a protracted court case. Help!
-Bran
Ah, but Java's two for-iterator loops are slightly different. The 'foreach' IIRC provides you with a single variale that points to successive items in your collection...it does not provide you an iterator. This means you can traverse the items in the collection but you can't filter them or change the collection itself.
The old 'for' syntax is still necessary if you want to actually change the collection, eg to filter out objects from the collection, or to insert objects in specific places. The old syntax is more error-prone (since Iterator.next() is usually called in the body of your for loop, are you sure its being called *every* time???)
So both for syntaxes have inherent advantages and disadvantages. So they're both worthwhile to have around.
Doesn't matter. If WASTE is really a simple protocol then it can be reverse-engineered. And therefore built w/o using any 'tainted' NullSoft code.
After all Gnutella's protocol (and code) was reverse-engineered. No current Gnutella s/w uses NullSoft code. AOL pulled Gnutella's release just days after NullSoft released it, yet they've been silent regarding Gnutella's propagation ever since.
I agree. I haven't been rich since I bought the iPod and Apple opened their iTunes store!