Opera Mobile has exactly the same feature of displaying a thumbnail of a bookmarked page, however it *reloads* the page to generate the thumbnail immediately after it is bookmarked.
The first time this happened I was puzzled about why it didnt just resize the existing on-screen rendering. The privacy advantages are significant, if not obvious.
Which satnav system doesnt support an optional 2D map?
The problem with a 3D display is that perspective means that proportionally more pixels are used for the features next to you, and behind you. The features on the road ahead are shrunken. That's the opposite of how I would want the pixels used.
A donkey kong clone on - if I remember right - the zx81, allowed you to climb up the stack of ramps then jump over the damsel in distress that was supposed to be your target. Jump onto donkey kong's arm, over his head onto the other arm, then make an adrenaline-filled slow-motion fall down the full height of the screen back to where you started.
I think it is a healthy sign that lastfm have such a broad community of third party developers, but some of these add-ons really should be core features of their service by now. They seem to have been focused on trying to be social networking, neglecting their users that just want to find music.
I think thats the point. Having the opportunity to angrily smash at the keyboard is a release of the tension from the moments before your death. It would be much less fun if you respawned instantly, and were deprived of that release.
Last.fm has seriously pushed up my purchases of used CDs from Ebay. There is alot of good older music which I previously would never have found. Wtf was I doing in the 90s to miss out on Aphex Twin, for example. Im sure this doesnt help today's record company's sales. More so than the old days of napster, which was still mostly filled with more of the same crap I didnt want to hear.
Any last.fm users who want an easier way of finding interesting music on eBay may be interested in this mashup I put together at http://www.exitahead.co.uk/, for trawling eBay for last.fm recent and recommended artists. At least 90% less crap than the standard eBay search.
Ive been using shure E3Cs for nearly a year now, on a train, and to block out a noisy office. Wearing the headphones I will usually not hear any train noise - not even the 'ding' for the PA - unless I lean my head back onto the train seat headrest and enough sound will conduct through the back of my skull.
In the office environment there is really no doubt that they block *everything*. (Even telephones..... why do they put alarm bells on those things?). They score highly for comfort too, which is important if you are wearing them for a full working day. I can turn down the volume to the level I want for the music, rather than the level I need to block out the chatter. One disadvantage is that you need to remove them to have any conversation, or even to get up and walk around in safety. And then you need somewhere hygienic to store them when they are not inserted.
The E3Cs come with a range of different ear inserts, in different sizes. I recommend you take your time in trialling the different options. I was nearly ready to give up on them before finally trying the *small* soft inserts. I think that is the first time I have needed the 'small' in anything.
Ignoring whether the old history will be useful to anyone outside your organisation, it is more useful to you if it is all stored in one place. 'svn blame' works, and it is one less thing to explain to new engineers who join your organisation.
I went through this with my current company a few years ago, and we decided to publish only the current revision. I wish we hadnt.
I discovered dvorak a few years ago after a hand injury. I noticed that typing qwerty with an injured hand was very uncomfortable, but playing Quake 2 was not. The obvious (at the time) difference was that my Q2 keyboard layout was designed with all the useful keys grouped together, and the qwerty layout was the opposite.
For the last two years Ive been very happy with the dvorak layout. I strongly recommend it to anyone who spends their day behind a keyboard and can be bothered to spend a few minutes daily for a few weeks learning a new skill. There is no doubt that all my previous pains have stopped, typing speeds do not seem any different, and there is no problem switching back to qwerty for occasional tasks.
Earlier this year I was curious about whether the reduction in wrist pain is a coincidence, and I was disappointed that I didnt have the opportunity to measure typing speed before and after the switch. So, in the interest of science, I decided to switch back.
I have been measuring typing speeds since the beginning of June, and on June 24 I switched I switched to qwerty exclusively and plan to stick with it for a whole month. So far there is no significant change to typing speed, and nothing has started hurting.
I am definitely looking forward to the end of this month. My only use of the dvorak layout since the switch has been for speed measurements, and for those brief moments it just feels so good.
A typical unix shell such as bash covers a huge territory. Using the same language for init scripts and interactive command prompts? What a crazy idea!
It will be interesting to see how monad stacks up against projects such as ironpython which seem more suitable for 'programming', but less interesting for interactive work.
Works fine here.... Control-C copy from openoffice 1.1.3, Control-V paste into KView 3.3 (KDE's image viewer). An identical bitmap to that shown on-screen, just like you describe.
The mechanisms at work here are remarkably similar across Windows and X, so it is a suprising area to focus on if you want to highlight a difference between the two. They both rely on the source application providing the clipboard with the data in a variety of formats, so that the receiving application can find a format that it can handle. Both operating systems support deferred rendering of these formats, so that there are no performance problems from an application providing many different formats. Both systems are extensible in allowing applications to register arbitrary new formats.
Programming using the standard Dvorak layout can be a pain, but its easy to fix that problem by tweaking the layout. Right now Im using a custom Dvorak layout in both XFree86 and Windows 2000, which uses the standard Dvorak positions for letters, and the standard UK layout positions for punctuation.
The Qt Commercial license isnt quite that restrictive. It says that any application developed by the licensee of Qt-Commerial using the Free edition must be licensed under the GPL. That license has problems in other cases, but I dont see any restrictions relevant here.
So the Word team was only able to figure out what went wrong thanks to Word's portability to OS X, where they could use different debugging tools.
Thats a good example to remember next time anyone questions whether cross-platform portability is worthwhile, particularly on projects where there isnt an immediate customer demand for more than one platform..... Does a single-platform approach cost you anything? yes - it locks you out of all the development, debugging, and testing options that are native to other platforms.
I am typing this using a customised dvorak xfree86 layout that leaves those 'lesser used keys' in the standard positions from the uk qwerty layout. This leaves all the punctuation used in programming either in better places (comma and dot are on w and e spaces) or unchanged (brackets).
Also, since I havent relabelled the key caps, it means I dont need to learn the locations of all the exotic punctuation that I will never need to touch type.
If only there was an easy way to customise layouts on windows.... The best alternative I have found so far leaves me using vnc, using this custom-layout keyboad connected to the linux box to type on windows:-(
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Opera Mobile has exactly the same feature of displaying a thumbnail of a bookmarked page, however it *reloads* the page to generate the thumbnail immediately after it is bookmarked.
The first time this happened I was puzzled about why it didnt just resize the existing on-screen rendering. The privacy advantages are significant, if not obvious.
Which satnav system doesnt support an optional 2D map?
The problem with a 3D display is that perspective means that proportionally more pixels are used for the features next to you, and behind you. The features on the road ahead are shrunken. That's the opposite of how I would want the pixels used.
A donkey kong clone on - if I remember right - the zx81, allowed you to climb up the stack of ramps then jump over the damsel in distress that was supposed to be your target. Jump onto donkey kong's arm, over his head onto the other arm, then make an adrenaline-filled slow-motion fall down the full height of the screen back to where you started.
Well, you had to be there.
Prototypes? Only if you expect to get everything right first time. Rework would be impossible with the conductors and components inaccessible.
.... also exitahead has a rss feed of music on ebay matching a lastfm profile so it has new music as well as older, hard to find, releases.
I think it is a healthy sign that lastfm have such a broad community of third party developers, but some of these add-ons really should be core features of their service by now. They seem to have been focused on trying to be social networking, neglecting their users that just want to find music.
I think thats the point. Having the opportunity to angrily smash at the keyboard is a release of the tension from the moments before your death. It would be much less fun if you respawned instantly, and were deprived of that release.
Which environment would the botnet writer target if he had a free hand?
No doubt, linux.
Written in python.
Source in git.
If you need to ask why, you'll never understand.
Microsoft's problem here is that the new feature this time round is the same new feature that led the promotion of the last release.
From tfa, "Security is the message".
Heh, yeah. mine too.
Actually, localization of the GNU tools is pretty good compared to some proprietary software projects I've seen.
Last.fm has seriously pushed up my purchases of used CDs from Ebay. There is alot of good older music which I previously would never have found. Wtf was I doing in the 90s to miss out on Aphex Twin, for example. Im sure this doesnt help today's record company's sales. More so than the old days of napster, which was still mostly filled with more of the same crap I didnt want to hear.
Any last.fm users who want an easier way of finding interesting music on eBay may be interested in this mashup I put together at http://www.exitahead.co.uk/, for trawling eBay for last.fm recent and recommended artists. At least 90% less crap than the standard eBay search.
Your watch keeps good time because it is kept at constant temperature by your body.
Ive been using shure E3Cs for nearly a year now, on a train, and to block out a noisy office. Wearing the headphones I will usually not hear any train noise - not even the 'ding' for the PA - unless I lean my head back onto the train seat headrest and enough sound will conduct through the back of my skull.
In the office environment there is really no doubt that they block *everything*. (Even telephones..... why do they put alarm bells on those things?). They score highly for comfort too, which is important if you are wearing them for a full working day. I can turn down the volume to the level I want for the music, rather than the level I need to block out the chatter. One disadvantage is that you need to remove them to have any conversation, or even to get up and walk around in safety. And then you need somewhere hygienic to store them when they are not inserted.
The E3Cs come with a range of different ear inserts, in different sizes. I recommend you take your time in trialling the different options. I was nearly ready to give up on them before finally trying the *small* soft inserts. I think that is the first time I have needed the 'small' in anything.
I went through this with my current company a few years ago, and we decided to publish only the current revision. I wish we hadnt.
The main problem here is the exclusivity.
(The second problem is listening to zealots)
I discovered dvorak a few years ago after a hand injury. I noticed that typing qwerty with an injured hand was very uncomfortable, but playing Quake 2 was not. The obvious (at the time) difference was that my Q2 keyboard layout was designed with all the useful keys grouped together, and the qwerty layout was the opposite.
More details at http://www.tarind.com/dvorak.html
For the last two years Ive been very happy with the dvorak layout. I strongly recommend it to anyone who spends their day behind a keyboard and can be bothered to spend a few minutes daily for a few weeks learning a new skill. There is no doubt that all my previous pains have stopped, typing speeds do not seem any different, and there is no problem switching back to qwerty for occasional tasks.
Earlier this year I was curious about whether the reduction in wrist pain is a coincidence, and I was disappointed that I didnt have the opportunity to measure typing speed before and after the switch. So, in the interest of science, I decided to switch back.
I have been measuring typing speeds since the beginning of June, and on June 24 I switched I switched to qwerty exclusively and plan to stick with it for a whole month. So far there is no significant change to typing speed, and nothing has started hurting.
I am definitely looking forward to the end of this month. My only use of the dvorak layout since the switch has been for speed measurements, and for those brief moments it just feels so good.
I will definitely update http://www.tarind.com/dvorak.html when this experiment is complete.
A typical unix shell such as bash covers a huge territory. Using the same language for init scripts and interactive command prompts? What a crazy idea! It will be interesting to see how monad stacks up against projects such as ironpython which seem more suitable for 'programming', but less interesting for interactive work.
Works fine here.... Control-C copy from openoffice 1.1.3, Control-V paste into KView 3.3 (KDE's image viewer). An identical bitmap to that shown on-screen, just like you describe. The mechanisms at work here are remarkably similar across Windows and X, so it is a suprising area to focus on if you want to highlight a difference between the two. They both rely on the source application providing the clipboard with the data in a variety of formats, so that the receiving application can find a format that it can handle. Both operating systems support deferred rendering of these formats, so that there are no performance problems from an application providing many different formats. Both systems are extensible in allowing applications to register arbitrary new formats.
Programming using the standard Dvorak layout can be a pain, but its easy to fix that problem by tweaking the layout. Right now Im using a custom Dvorak layout in both XFree86 and Windows 2000, which uses the standard Dvorak positions for letters, and the standard UK layout positions for punctuation.
For windows you will need this free tool.
...dip it in holy water, then put it inside your bag of holding inside an ordinary bag.
The Qt Commercial license isnt quite that restrictive. It says that any application developed by the licensee of Qt-Commerial using the Free edition must be licensed under the GPL. That license has problems in other cases, but I dont see any restrictions relevant here.
The fish:/ ioslave is great as a last resort. If your ssh server has sftp enabled then the sftp:/ ioslave will do the same thing in a more robust way.
So the Word team was only able to figure out what went wrong thanks to Word's portability to OS X, where they could use different debugging tools.
Thats a good example to remember next time anyone questions whether cross-platform portability is worthwhile, particularly on projects where there isnt an immediate customer demand for more than one platform..... Does a single-platform approach cost you anything? yes - it locks you out of all the development, debugging, and testing options that are native to other platforms.
Ive had 200MHz machines with 64M ram running single user Zope applications plus a browser. Scaling down is no problem.
I am typing this using a customised dvorak xfree86 layout that leaves those 'lesser used keys' in the standard positions from the uk qwerty layout. This leaves all the punctuation used in programming either in better places (comma and dot are on w and e spaces) or unchanged (brackets).
:-(
Also, since I havent relabelled the key caps, it means I dont need to learn the locations of all the exotic punctuation that I will never need to touch type.
If only there was an easy way to customise layouts on windows.... The best alternative I have found so far leaves me using vnc, using this custom-layout keyboad connected to the linux box to type on windows