Pages is a Cocoa application, so it supports Services. You can use the EquationService to generate PDF's of equations on-the-fly and put them into your pages document. So you get the best of both worlds. LaTeX's gorgeous equations with Apple's kick-ass word processor.
It's not about who first says they're going to do it; it's about who has it first. Microsoft beat Apple to fast user-switching; now Apple is going to beat Microsoft to smart folders.
Bullshit. Some guy illegally acquired the seed and distributed it to other people who did not have proper authorization to have it either. What part of that is "off"?
Thank you. I'm a member of Apple's OS X Update Seed program, so I get seeded with updates to 10.3 to test and report back on before released. Most recently, I was testing 10.3.7. But I was invited to that seed by Mike Bombich because of my work with ActiveDirectory in my school's environment. Do I run around leaking information about those seeds or the actual seeds themselves? No. I was cordially invited by Mike Bombich into the program and signed an NDA. If I leaked information on the updates or the software itself, it would reflect badly on Mike. And what would I gain from such a leak? Nothing. I'd have a little closet prestige. Whoop-die-do.
This guy took advantage of a favor that a friend did for him and distributed the Tiger beta to other people. Whoever he got the beta from probably didn't want him giving it to five or six other people. That's a breach of trust between him and the company a well as him and his friend. Now his buddy could potentially get in trouble for it. He's caused a huge fucking mess because he figured he'd play Robin Hood. Well, now he's getting what came to him. Maybe now he'll take implied trusts and legal documents with his signature on them more seriously.
If he wanted his family to see what was in his account, he'd have given them his password.
Of course, I don't give my passwords out to anyone, even family. I wonder if one could set up a "Dead Man's" switch that automatically changed your account passwords to pre-defined ones you've given to your family to use in the event of your death.
I am not familiar with that game, but I can comment about the whole on-line thing. What Illinois can do is regulate Illinois ISP's. They can tell ISP's to block mature content unless a customer asks for it.
I'd prefer it if Illinois told parents to take responsibility for raising their own kids. If parents don't want their kids exposed to this material, they can educate themselves about how violent what videogames are. If they can't be bothered, tough shit. It's not the government's job to raise their kids.
And tell ISP's to block mature content unless a customer asks for it? That kind of filtering means some major iron, which means money. If parents don't want their kids exposed to "mature" content on the Internet, they can look into client-side filtering solutions. If they can't be bothered because "computers are too confusing," tough shit. It's not the government's job. I'm getting sick of these fucking whiny, incompetent parents who are too lazy to keep tabs on their kids' activities, so they try and get legislation passed that would force the government to.
If Blagojavic can get the ISP's to voluntarily go along, that would be much better. I don't see how this is that much different than a V chip in a tv set. It gives more power to parents.
A V-chip is a client-side solution, not something imposed on everyone by default at the server end.
Use an e-mail alias. If your e-mail address is, for example foobar@someserver.com, create an alias for that mail account called, say, foo.bar@someserver.com, and use that e-mail address on public forums, registrations and web pages. When the spam gets to be too much, just cancel the alias and create another one.
I seriously hope that it's not the pile of poorly-written trash that Legend of the Rangers was. That's the most recent B5 movie in my memory, and dear lord was it awful.
See, it's not that the separation is politically motivated - i.e. that scientists want to believe in what they want to believe - but that different methods often lead to different conclusions, and scientists who follow a particular methodology have more to profit in debating with others who share it.
Journals are categorized by field, not by conclusion. And even if this assertion of yours was true, how does that change the fact that there is no evidence at all of tampering with the sample?
Many many issues in science are just controversial for scientific reasons.
That is true, but this is not one of them. Scientists apparently agree that human activity has caused an increase in the average global temperature.
It's not at all unreasonable to consider that maybe the peer-reviewed journals surveyed by the article have reviewers of such skewed political alignment as to prevent any contrary viewpoint from ever making it into the journal.
No, not unreasonable at all, until you consider that you have zero evidence for such a claim, reducing it to the level on simple tin-foil hattery. Honestly, do you think science got as far as it has by habitually censoring contrary conclusions?
This is a rebuttal to right-wing politicians' common claim that there is controvery in the scientific community about global warming. This is a lie, and it's the same tactic that creationists use to drive evolution from public schools. They claim that biologists are split on evolution, so it shouldn't be taught in schools. (In reality, there is only debate about certain details, like whether natural selection is the exclusive mechanism driving the observed process of evolution. No biologist worth his salt is going to dispute that evolution occurs.)
I was unaware that there existed separate journals for each conclusion on politically controversial topics. Maybe you should learn more about how the peer review and journal submission processes work. Oh, and by the way, the article never said that "crank" journals were singled out and rejected. It said that any journal in the ISI was searched for relevant articles, and one would assume that the ISI does not include crank publications in its listings, and it certainly doesn't include non-peer-reviewed publications.
"Crank journals" were never mentioned in the article. Any journal listed in the ISI was up for inclusion in the search. One would assume that crank publications and publications not subject to peer review are not in that database. But regardless, your accusations of manipulating the sample are unwarranted.
And it's not like journals are little political diatribes. They often contain contrary conclusions; physicists have been known to spar on paper in journals about various topics. Cosmology journals are a big source of controversy, mostly because everything changes every other month with new data.
Actually, voice recognition would make perfect sense. Think about it. You aren't going to store a whole lot of songs on this thing, so you'll know pretty much what you've got on there. So why would you need to browse anything?
And it's a pain to stop your workout just to change songs. If you're jogging, you'd rather be able to just say, "Play [this]" if you want to hear a certain song or "Shuffle playback" if you want to shuffle.
And twisting what it says so that it can conform to physical reality is dishonest. The Bible was written by primitive people ignorant of science; why should we assume that what they wrote about the beginning of the universe is, in any way, compatible with modern science? Because old men in funny hats say that the writers were "divinely inspired"? Color my skeptic.
In any case, the Bible's creation story is grossly incompatible with physical reality. It states that the stars were created after the planets, which is simply impossible. Stars had to have formed, lived and died over the course of billions of years in order to create the elements that make up planets. You can't create heavier elements than helium without huge amounts of pressure to slam protons together forcefully enough to overcome Coulomb repulsion and into the effective radius of the nuclear strong force. That kind of pressure was only available in stars. So the idea that the planets came before the stars is simply ludicrous, and cannot be rationalized with reality in any way.
As far as I know, public universities are required to keep and make public a directory of their students and faculty. At least, that's what I was told when I asked why my school's LDAP server is wide open for spammers to harvest e-mail addresses.
Eclipse has some nice features, but dear God, I hate the way it handles projects and filesystems, and the UI can just be a confusing mess. What is it with Java apps and putting every god damn thing in the same window? Are multiple windows really that bad?
I can easily manage my Xcode projects in Subversion, but I haven't been able to figure out what the hell Eclipse is doing with its "workspaces" or whatever. I couldn't figure out the debugger either. Xcode was extremely easy to get used to; I don't think you give it enough credit. It's clean, simple and does what it does well. Sure, there are some nuances I'd like to see cleaned up, but it's definitely my IDE of choice.
That's because Firefly, unlike Star Trek, actually focuses on character development and fleshing out interesting plots instead of positing a problem and then injecting technobabble buzzwords as a solution.
Now now, Fox is letting 24 stay very healthy, and all three seasons have been nothing short of outstandinly addicting and intense. Then again, Keifer Sutherland is producing it.
Apple already benefits largely from open source technology that powers about 80% of their new Mac OS X (including their new web browser). I am not the one talking about "good karma" and the new iTMS being a revolutionary way to obtain music; Apple is.
Maybe they should spread that "fuzzy feeling" around and provide Linux users (who are statistically significant, unlike Plan 9 users, har har) with a legal way to download music.
And they do. They contribute back their changes to the open source community, as required by the licenses they use. I wasn't aware that they were bound ethically or legally to port their software to Linux. I was similarly unaware that Mac OS X made use of the Linux kernel. It uses Mach, and Apple themselves have open sourced it under their own license. Any work done on the kernel by Linux developers is done of their own accord, not because of some implied promise that Apple will port iTunes to Linux.
If they owe anyone anything, it might be the BSD community, not the Linux community.
If there actually was one, predominant Linux distro or window manager, I'm sure that there'd be a better chance of Apple porting iTunes to Linux. But as it stands, if Apple supports only KDE, the Gnome people will piss and whine, and if Apple supports only Gnome, the KDE people will piss and whine. If Apple supports them both, then Apple has to devote more resources to a project for a very small set of people who basically have an aversion to actually paying for anything, hate DRM, think the iPod is overpriced and would never buy it and would be unlikely to use the music store because its DRM doesn't work on whatever portable player they use.
So what does Apple get in exchange for porting iTunes to Linux again?
These days, the term "Enterprise Software" seems to be synonymous with "Horrible User Interface." I've got half a mind to try coding my own front-end to it in Java, so it can run on all platforms.
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Pages is a Cocoa application, so it supports Services. You can use the EquationService to generate PDF's of equations on-the-fly and put them into your pages document. So you get the best of both worlds. LaTeX's gorgeous equations with Apple's kick-ass word processor.
No one develops Cocoa with Java. :)
It's not about who first says they're going to do it; it's about who has it first. Microsoft beat Apple to fast user-switching; now Apple is going to beat Microsoft to smart folders.
Bullshit. Some guy illegally acquired the seed and distributed it to other people who did not have proper authorization to have it either. What part of that is "off"?
Thank you. I'm a member of Apple's OS X Update Seed program, so I get seeded with updates to 10.3 to test and report back on before released. Most recently, I was testing 10.3.7. But I was invited to that seed by Mike Bombich because of my work with ActiveDirectory in my school's environment. Do I run around leaking information about those seeds or the actual seeds themselves? No. I was cordially invited by Mike Bombich into the program and signed an NDA. If I leaked information on the updates or the software itself, it would reflect badly on Mike. And what would I gain from such a leak? Nothing. I'd have a little closet prestige. Whoop-die-do.
This guy took advantage of a favor that a friend did for him and distributed the Tiger beta to other people. Whoever he got the beta from probably didn't want him giving it to five or six other people. That's a breach of trust between him and the company a well as him and his friend. Now his buddy could potentially get in trouble for it. He's caused a huge fucking mess because he figured he'd play Robin Hood. Well, now he's getting what came to him. Maybe now he'll take implied trusts and legal documents with his signature on them more seriously.
If he wanted his family to see what was in his account, he'd have given them his password.
Of course, I don't give my passwords out to anyone, even family. I wonder if one could set up a "Dead Man's" switch that automatically changed your account passwords to pre-defined ones you've given to your family to use in the event of your death.
And tell ISP's to block mature content unless a customer asks for it? That kind of filtering means some major iron, which means money. If parents don't want their kids exposed to "mature" content on the Internet, they can look into client-side filtering solutions. If they can't be bothered because "computers are too confusing," tough shit. It's not the government's job. I'm getting sick of these fucking whiny, incompetent parents who are too lazy to keep tabs on their kids' activities, so they try and get legislation passed that would force the government to. A V-chip is a client-side solution, not something imposed on everyone by default at the server end.
Use an e-mail alias. If your e-mail address is, for example foobar@someserver.com, create an alias for that mail account called, say, foo.bar@someserver.com, and use that e-mail address on public forums, registrations and web pages. When the spam gets to be too much, just cancel the alias and create another one.
I seriously hope that it's not the pile of poorly-written trash that Legend of the Rangers was. That's the most recent B5 movie in my memory, and dear lord was it awful.
This is a rebuttal to right-wing politicians' common claim that there is controvery in the scientific community about global warming. This is a lie, and it's the same tactic that creationists use to drive evolution from public schools. They claim that biologists are split on evolution, so it shouldn't be taught in schools. (In reality, there is only debate about certain details, like whether natural selection is the exclusive mechanism driving the observed process of evolution. No biologist worth his salt is going to dispute that evolution occurs.)
I was unaware that there existed separate journals for each conclusion on politically controversial topics. Maybe you should learn more about how the peer review and journal submission processes work. Oh, and by the way, the article never said that "crank" journals were singled out and rejected. It said that any journal in the ISI was searched for relevant articles, and one would assume that the ISI does not include crank publications in its listings, and it certainly doesn't include non-peer-reviewed publications.
"Crank journals" were never mentioned in the article. Any journal listed in the ISI was up for inclusion in the search. One would assume that crank publications and publications not subject to peer review are not in that database. But regardless, your accusations of manipulating the sample are unwarranted.
And it's not like journals are little political diatribes. They often contain contrary conclusions; physicists have been known to spar on paper in journals about various topics. Cosmology journals are a big source of controversy, mostly because everything changes every other month with new data.
Actually, voice recognition would make perfect sense. Think about it. You aren't going to store a whole lot of songs on this thing, so you'll know pretty much what you've got on there. So why would you need to browse anything?
And it's a pain to stop your workout just to change songs. If you're jogging, you'd rather be able to just say, "Play [this]" if you want to hear a certain song or "Shuffle playback" if you want to shuffle.
And twisting what it says so that it can conform to physical reality is dishonest. The Bible was written by primitive people ignorant of science; why should we assume that what they wrote about the beginning of the universe is, in any way, compatible with modern science? Because old men in funny hats say that the writers were "divinely inspired"? Color my skeptic.
In any case, the Bible's creation story is grossly incompatible with physical reality. It states that the stars were created after the planets, which is simply impossible. Stars had to have formed, lived and died over the course of billions of years in order to create the elements that make up planets. You can't create heavier elements than helium without huge amounts of pressure to slam protons together forcefully enough to overcome Coulomb repulsion and into the effective radius of the nuclear strong force. That kind of pressure was only available in stars. So the idea that the planets came before the stars is simply ludicrous, and cannot be rationalized with reality in any way.
As far as I know, public universities are required to keep and make public a directory of their students and faculty. At least, that's what I was told when I asked why my school's LDAP server is wide open for spammers to harvest e-mail addresses.
Eclipse has some nice features, but dear God, I hate the way it handles projects and filesystems, and the UI can just be a confusing mess. What is it with Java apps and putting every god damn thing in the same window? Are multiple windows really that bad?
I can easily manage my Xcode projects in Subversion, but I haven't been able to figure out what the hell Eclipse is doing with its "workspaces" or whatever. I couldn't figure out the debugger either. Xcode was extremely easy to get used to; I don't think you give it enough credit. It's clean, simple and does what it does well. Sure, there are some nuances I'd like to see cleaned up, but it's definitely my IDE of choice.
That's because Firefly, unlike Star Trek, actually focuses on character development and fleshing out interesting plots instead of positing a problem and then injecting technobabble buzzwords as a solution.
Now now, Fox is letting 24 stay very healthy, and all three seasons have been nothing short of outstandinly addicting and intense. Then again, Keifer Sutherland is producing it.
Actually, it'll be something along the lines of "Creative posts record losses for quarter."
If they owe anyone anything, it might be the BSD community, not the Linux community.
They forgot "P.S.: Please don't become insurgents either."
If there actually was one, predominant Linux distro or window manager, I'm sure that there'd be a better chance of Apple porting iTunes to Linux. But as it stands, if Apple supports only KDE, the Gnome people will piss and whine, and if Apple supports only Gnome, the KDE people will piss and whine. If Apple supports them both, then Apple has to devote more resources to a project for a very small set of people who basically have an aversion to actually paying for anything, hate DRM, think the iPod is overpriced and would never buy it and would be unlikely to use the music store because its DRM doesn't work on whatever portable player they use.
So what does Apple get in exchange for porting iTunes to Linux again?
These days, the term "Enterprise Software" seems to be synonymous with "Horrible User Interface." I've got half a mind to try coding my own front-end to it in Java, so it can run on all platforms.