but, since the anti-spam systems that use NXDOMAIN to tell that a message is not valid only perform a DNS lookup, and don't visit the website, does that mean that you haven't agreed to any TOS, which happens to be only visible through their website anyway?
Verisign Has Its Hands Up the Internet's Ass Sysops jump when thumbs begin twiddling.
In other news...
Vital Oxygen Produced By Selfishly Dying-Out Biomass Plant reluctance to fend for self may reduce your ability to take breaths, needed every two or three seconds.
har har,
not to toot the old whoop-de-doo horn, but: HOLY FUCKING SHIT, we all know verisign is the John Holmes to our Goatse.
I think that the government will probably have to regulate on their asses, but perhaps (late as it may come) we are learning a vital lesson about the global internet: you can trust everyone once, but you can't trust one person all the time (or something). DNS is a bug truster-fuck, and when the truster gets fucked, the fucked stop trusting.
alright, enough with the yuk yuk
I mean that alternate roots may have found their time to rise, or maybe somebody needs to come up with something better. The ROBUST internet would have multiple diverse systems, not prone to the old carpet-pulled-out-from-under-us trick. I'm sure China, and the rest of the Non-USA is thrilled by this stuff. How soon until we need an Inter-Domain-Name-System protocol?
Sometimes at night, I close my eyes and wish that DNS would just collapse, so the good fairies might build it back up afresh.
It will be boring until the NASA funds dry out and no one wants to pay the price to repair the aging Space Elevator Mir, then we'll have that scene from Green Mars (by Kim Stanley Robinson) where the space elevator cable wraps around the planet crashing down like a string of atomic bombs.
Lessee, Earth's Circumference approx 40,000 Km, this things going to be 100,000 Km long, so it'd rate about a 2.5!
I was listening to some NPR thing about Martin Luther King Jr. this morning, and I remember that quote. I don't know who said it, but it's true.
It's one thing to be "sick of this crap", but unless you vote, and/or give money to a political candidate, it doesn't matter.
Money right now, while the candidates are trying to get the nomination is especially important. More people who can hear your candidate's message are more people who will vote for him. In that sense, money translates to many many more votes than your 1 vote.
Bush, et al know this, and they are milking all those wealthy supports who can fork out $2000 a plate.
Personally, I am supporting Howard Dean for president.
Make your own opinions about the candidates, but again
DON'T JUST SIT THERE, VOTE AND GIVE MONEY
(Not to say the poster isn't being active about his opinion, I'm just reminding others who may not be)
i didn't say there's no room for improvement, in fact I said that i'm sure there will be improvement, in little, incremental ways. what i said was that the innovative new ideas are happening elsewhere on the web, meaning at the server side, and in web-aware apps that borrow functionality from web browsers, or even client-side apps that use your web browser as a tool (e.g. see zoe, freenet, privoxy, etc). HTTP 1.1 right now is good enough to be ubiquitous, and entrenched enough to be hard to change anyway.
I would love to see some innovative new version of HTTP, but the large steps have been made, and I don't see any others happening for a while. this is exactly why web browsers haven't really changed. I pointed out that p2p web stuff would be a huge innovation, I think, it's just not happening. I also think that RDF-aware web browsers could make good innovations, such as embedding RDF descriptions of websites (via the LINK tag), which would let your browser know of related sites, the syndication URL, specific ways of donating money to the site, ways of rating the site or discovering it's "whuffie", what the copyright on the content is... I can keep going if you want.
Show me a web application that takes the full power of a web browser (NS 6.1+ IE 5+) and uses it.
That still really makes me laugh, because the point is that "the full power" of a web browser is very basic, and it's there in every web browser, and it has nothing to do with CSS/DHTML or any flashy shit. This is WHY web apps don't use that flashy shit, because they don't need to, they can harness the "full power" very simply. You can't see that? sorry.
I guess we're arguing over what's "innovative". New buttons on the toolbar for searching google, new ways of managing bookmarks, etc. these are all improvements, sure, but not innovative. New tags in HTML, new layout methods, new CSS attributes, these are all improvements, but not innovative (HTML/CSS is just making the web more and more like print/page layout in the way it looks). Marc Andreessen laments the browser's lack of "innovation", but that's just being ignorant to all of the other "innovation" out there. Wikis, Blogs, syndication, trackbacks, moderation...
Here's an innovation: invent the Metaverse. Not VRML, which requires a stupid plugin, but a whole new browser-like application. The components are already there, the bandwidth is there (if you're on broadband) and the graphics cabability is there.
Have fun with your HTTP 1.2 gzip stuff, and your NS6+ and IE6 features!
Show me a web application that takes the full power of a web browser (NS 6.1+ IE 5+) and uses it.
You make me laugh. What, like with the BLINK tag and MARQUEEs? I want to point out that DHTML, Javascript, Flash, etc, are all eye candy, and are not technical improvements to web browsing. The basic technical innovations that give you a web browser are already done, that's why web applications are taking off now, they have a (mostly) stable platform: HTML, CSS, frames, forms, cookies, HTTP, XML. All of the design/display "improvements" that have been made merely make the end application look prettier, they are not functional improvements. Those "improvements" only matter to web designers.
Just look at slashdot. It is html with tables. Not very compilcated. When you look at the power of HTML 4, where you could actually have multiple windows in the browser using div's, and rarely do you see this in place of frames, its kinda of a shame.
This is exactly my point. Slashdot is an application. It's not going to improve with fancier HTML, it would just look better. Consequently there's no need to improve either HTML, HTTP, or the web browser you view Slashdot on.
Like the wheel, web browsers and operating systems are mere platforms for other things. Once you've invented the wheel you spawn a whole bunch of innovative uses of the wheel. The innovation doesn't happen to the wheel itself. Maybe you start off with an octagonal wheel and eventually refine it to be circular, eventually you come up with a tire, then treads, etc., but that's all refinement, not innovation. So in this sense Marc is right, innovation is dead on the web browser, but only because it's unnecessary to radically change anything. I can check my email over the web via lynx. The simple building blocks don't need to radically improve. I'm sure that over time, though, they will probably improve a lot.
HTTP has not improved because there's no need. What would you do to change it? Sure there's little things you could ask for, but it works fine. Like I said, perhaps p2p web stuff would cause some changes, but firewalls/ISPs make that difficult.
Marc seems to be tunnel-vision focused on the web browser as the point where innovation occurs, and I say he's just blind to major innovations elsewhere on the web--which is where everything is now at. Of course, the browser manufacturer would view it that way.
Well I think that perhaps a great innovation in the web and web browsing in general is the use of the web browser as a platform for remote applications.. i.e. email over the web, blogs, ebay, blah blah, etc. The web browser has reached the highest level of 'fitness' (though small improvements are being made constantly) that it needs to basically disappear and let innovation happen in server-side applications. Think of it like DNA. The process that DNA goes through to produce proteins has no need to change...all of the "innovation" is happening at a higher level.
But, I think there is also reams of innovation happening on the web, and based on HTTP and XML (the simple building blocks that someone else said stifled innovation because they weren't improving).
Big E.G.: The Apple Music Store. All of the guts are web based, and iTunes just renders stuff (using Apple's WebKit renderer (Safari) i believe) based on XML it receives from Apple's servers. I have no idea how they handle the downloading, but there's no reason why they don't just use HTTP(S) as well.
Think of RSS (and consequently news aggregators), XML-RPC/SOAP (REST, MIME-RPC). Not all of these show up in the web browser, but things like RSS have great potential for it (and if it weren't for firewalls, i think peer-to-peer web stuff would also be blossoming). I think that "semantic" improvements to the web based on RDF are going to start happening a lot, and web browsers will improve because of it. Well, maybe just Google. But like I said, web apps like Google are the innovation.
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On the Panther page look at the right side column on the bottom under "System-wide enhancements".
Unix-lover Heaven. Panther will include a final X11 client for Unix-based applications, improved NFS/UFS, FreeBSD 5 innovations as well as support for popular Linux APIs, IPv6 and
other important acronyms.
sounds interesting...i'll check it out. Eclipse and Netbeans seem to have most of the features you listed there (except "folding away code" which would be nice). The one feature netbeans has that eclipse doesn't that i wish it does is the "abbreviations" feature...if you type "pu " (p-u-space) it expands it to "public ". There are many predefined abbreviations like that that are incredbly useful, and you can define your own. The other editor feature I miss is Alt-K and Alt-L, which will try to complete the word you're currently typing by searching backwards or forwards in your source! This is great for typing long java identifier names which don't show up in the autocomplete search. just a handy shortcut that i miss.. The other winning feature that Eclipse has that Netbeans doesn't, is simple: lines in comments that contain "TODO" show up in a list of Tasks that you can easily go through. (you can change or add more tags than "TODO"..e.g. I have "audit"..)
anyway, thanks, I'll check it out! (I would also recommend trying out one of Eclipse or Netbeans, just to see what they're like).
Oh yeah, there's also a wiki plugin for Eclipse, so you can have a local wiki for documentation/notes what have you..
It seems weird that so much functionality (refactoring, smart java source editting, even syntax hiliting) is re-invented with all of these editors. I used to use VisualCafe back in the day. so much repeated effort!
I've just started to moved to Eclipse from NetBeans, since Eclipse has good refactoring stuff, plus I can also work on my Perl code in the same IDE.
What's the difference between those and IntelliJ? Anything compellingly different? I've nearly decided to commit to eclipse, so if there's something better out there I want to know before I get settled!
Is IntelliJ free? (I saw something about a "trial key") Open source?
Creative Commons
This isn't a "victory" in the fight, but it is a new weapon. Be pro-active about giving people the ability (limited or not) to use and copy your copyrighted material. Check out the snifty informative video here, featuring none other than the White "No computers were used in the making of this album" Stripes.
Also check out Lawrence Lessig's weblog for up-to-the-minute happenings in the good fight. (and for the extremely lazy, here's his RDF feed.
Oh...and get a cadre of black turtleneck wearing, angst filled, coffee-house frequenting zealots to crow about it for no other reason than to just crow about it.
Hmm...making butt loads of money seems like a good reason to crow about it
yeah, I was kinda thinking of a separate interface for minimized windows, so that any dock menu-items which are specific to the app don't get in the way. It's the same problem as having the minimized icons in the dock as having the windows in the dock menu: confusing clutter.
compare to MSWindows (shudder) or gnome/kde. each window has a seperate presence on the "dock" which never changes. os X's dock emphasizes the static app-launching feature, and so there's no room for minimized windows. really the two features just shouldn't be combined.
since I really dislike the dock, my current setup is this: launchbar for launching apps and switching between apps (command-space-space...), or command-tab for switching. and I have the Dock pinned to the *top* and hidden, which effectively disables it unless you really need it, since it's hard to accidentally bring it down.
for last x-mas i bought a dvd player for my parents, and amazon had a printable $20 rebate coupon. I sent in the coupon with the UPC symbol from the box after it arrived. that was a couple months ago. I promptly forgot about it.
yesterday I got a check in the mail. literally, it was a check in the form of a postcard, sans envelope.
So I guess they just sometimes take a while. If I had remembered about the rebate I probably would have been peeved that I hadn't received it yet!
I hope it brings innovation. It looks like the first step in bringing Quartz/Aqua to linux. congratulations linux guys, you will soon have something as pretty and useless as Aqua. (Actuallly I take back pretty, recalling most of the X themes I've seen. *rimshot* )
Apple I think really has not picked up the ball on the capabilities of Quartz/Aqua to make a useful as well as pretty interface. For example, when you have an Aqua (not brushed-metal) window in the background, the titlebar becomes translucent. This is really not very useful, merely eye-candy. How does it help me to be able to see a slight bit of color through the window's titlebar? It just obscures the piece of useful information I might want to see when I'm hunting for a particular window. And if there are lots of windows in the bg, now I'm looking at a bunch of confusing information. It would be much more useful if most of the content of the window became translucent, and the titlebar stayed opaque. Then you could gain some sense of what's really behind the window and still be able to identify and drag it easily.
Yes, I know you can get WindowShadeX and make that happen, but it's obvious that Apple didn't really flush out the possibilities of making the interface useful. Apple could surely have implemented it with an additional 5-lines of code and perhaps another widget in a nib file to make it a customizable option in the preferences.
(i'm gonna rant for another paragraph or so. I'm just in a ranting old mood.)
Another example of the waste of Quartz/Aqua is minimizing windows. This is more of a problem with the Dock, but when I minimize a window I just want get it out of the way temporarily so I can get to a window that's behind it. often it's to interact with two different windows (drag and drop). Usually I then want to go back to the minimized window. Sometimes I want the window to stay hidden for a while.
Sending the window to be an icon in the dock is really useless, as it just blends into the other items in the dock, and now it's lost. The little thumbnail icon it receives is not useful for discerning between, for example, two different Safari windows. Now I have to look at the title of the window which pops up, and if you have a bunch of tabs (thank the Hyatt for adding those) that's useless too. (I'll stop listing problems since I could rant for days about minimizing alone...)
There are a couple better ways:
The old OS 9 windowshade functionality was pretty good. This is how numerous X window managers work, and I've found that when I'm using Apple's X11 I get quite frustrated by the lack of the simple window shade functionality, since I do it out of habit from using the same X apps on linux. It's extremely useful, because the titlebar stays where the original window's titlebar was, so you can know what window it was purely through spatial memory.
The Minimize In Place hack for Os X is also pretty good ( my system seemed a little wiggy with it installed though). There was talk of adding it to WindowShadeX but I don't know if they did that or not.
But a useful and innovative way of dealing with minimized windows needs to be forthcoming from apple.
A simple suggestion: how about some kind of slide-out drawer showing all minimized windows for an app when you click it's icon in the dock? Or maybe, by the power of Quartz and Aqua, when you hover over the icon of a minimized window in the dock, the actual window pops onto the screen translucently so you can see which one it is before you click on it. They need to work on this though. (and we mac-addicts are holding our breath for Panther)
Basically what I'm saying is, for all you linux peeps who crave the Aqua thing: concentrate on making a useful interface and not on the alpha-blended, animated, and vector graphiced mating display we've seen with Aqua. (ok maybe vector graphics are pretty useful.)
I'm sure you've heard that said before, but I'm just sa
My gf works at a bio research lab. she was recently asked if she wanted to "beta test" a new contraceptive pill. instead of 1 pill a day, you take less, but you don't get a period for 3 months (!). how do you know if you could be pregnant? well, they will pay for the pregnancy tests!
Uhh... that device doesn't use the higher-quality progressive scan output from the GameCube, it merely uses the normal output. The point is that I want to get the HD quality progressive scan which the GameCube is capable of (yes only with certain games) viewable on a monitor, not a HDTV.
I've been trying to find a cheap way of using my 19-inch samsung monitor as an HD display so I can make use of the progressive scan output from my GameCube without buying a HDTV. (plus then my gf could watch tv while I play games). One of my friends had a Dreamcast a few years back and he had an adapter for VGA output straight from the dreamcast, the quality on a monitor was so much better...I wish the gamecube could do that.
Unfortunately there's nothing out there that's both cheap and does what I want. The device mentioned in the article seems like it does what I want (disclaimer: IHNRTA - I have not read the article) but that's even more expensive that the other things I've seen which might work. Somewhere I saw a $99-200 device for turning component video into VGA output, but that's stilll more $$ that I want to spend.
Does anyone know of a solution that would cost less than $99 for this? VGA or BNC input actually, as my monitor has both.
Red Dwarf Season 3, Episode 3 "Polymorph"
http://www.reddwarf-central.com/files/polymorph.tx t
RIMMER: Erm, I think we're all beginning to lose sight of the real issue
here, which is: what are we going to call ourselves? Erm, and I think
it comes down to a choice between "The League Against Salivating
Monsters" or, my own personal preference, which is "The Committee for
the Liberation and Integration of Terrifying Organisms and their
Rehabilitation Into Society."
Erm, one drawback with that -- the
abbreviation is "CLITORIS."
in school my friend and I teamed up on a Neural Networks project that the prof really liked. We wrote it in java, and he kept pestering us to set him up with the code so he could use it as a demo on his web site (it had an applet that interfaced the back end).
Finally at the end of the year (senior year) we just sent him everything we had and we never heard about it again.
A couple years later I went back over our code to see if it still worked just for fun, and noticed a number of things:
Weights fuck1 =...; NN fuck2 = new NN(...);
no wonder we never heard about him putting it up on the web site..:)
I just selected your article contents in my web browser (happens to be Safari, but this works in any browser) Then I chose the menu item Safari->Services->Speech->Start Speaking Text
Even better, you can enable os X to speak the selected text via a user-defined keystroke, or even all the text underneath the cursor. (in the Speech Preference Panel)
Slashdot Mirror
(admit: i haven't read the TOS)
but, since the anti-spam systems that use NXDOMAIN to tell that a message is not valid only perform a DNS lookup, and don't visit the website, does that mean that you haven't agreed to any TOS, which happens to be only visible through their website anyway?
Verisign Has Its Hands Up the Internet's Ass
Sysops jump when thumbs begin twiddling.
In other news...
Vital Oxygen Produced By Selfishly Dying-Out Biomass
Plant reluctance to fend for self may reduce your ability to take breaths, needed every two or three seconds.
har har,
not to toot the old whoop-de-doo horn, but: HOLY FUCKING SHIT, we all know verisign is the John Holmes to our Goatse.
I think that the government will probably have to regulate on their asses, but perhaps (late as it may come) we are learning a vital lesson about the global internet: you can trust everyone once, but you can't trust one person all the time (or something). DNS is a bug truster-fuck, and when the truster gets fucked, the fucked stop trusting.
alright, enough with the yuk yuk
I mean that alternate roots may have found their time to rise, or maybe somebody needs to come up with something better. The ROBUST internet would have multiple diverse systems, not prone to the old carpet-pulled-out-from-under-us trick. I'm sure China, and the rest of the Non-USA is thrilled by this stuff. How soon until we need an Inter-Domain-Name-System protocol?
Sometimes at night, I close my eyes and wish that DNS would just collapse, so the good fairies might build it back up afresh.
Love,
Your Mom
It will be boring until the NASA funds dry out and no one wants to pay the price to repair the aging Space Elevator Mir, then we'll have that scene from Green Mars (by Kim Stanley Robinson) where the space elevator cable wraps around the planet crashing down like a string of atomic bombs.
Lessee, Earth's Circumference approx 40,000 Km, this things going to be 100,000 Km long, so it'd rate about a 2.5!
"An opinion without action is useless."
I was listening to some NPR thing about Martin Luther King Jr. this morning, and I remember that quote. I don't know who said it, but it's true.
It's one thing to be "sick of this crap", but unless you vote, and/or give money to a political candidate, it doesn't matter.
Money right now, while the candidates are trying to get the nomination is especially important. More people who can hear your candidate's message are more people who will vote for him. In that sense, money translates to many many more votes than your 1 vote.
Bush, et al know this, and they are milking all those wealthy supports who can fork out $2000 a plate.
Personally, I am supporting Howard Dean for president.
Make your own opinions about the candidates, but again
DON'T JUST SIT THERE, VOTE AND GIVE MONEY
(Not to say the poster isn't being active about his opinion, I'm just reminding others who may not be)
i didn't say there's no room for improvement, in fact I said that i'm sure there will be improvement, in little, incremental ways. what i said was that the innovative new ideas are happening elsewhere on the web, meaning at the server side, and in web-aware apps that borrow functionality from web browsers, or even client-side apps that use your web browser as a tool (e.g. see zoe, freenet, privoxy, etc). HTTP 1.1 right now is good enough to be ubiquitous, and entrenched enough to be hard to change anyway.
... I can keep going if you want.
I would love to see some innovative new version of HTTP, but the large steps have been made, and I don't see any others happening for a while. this is exactly why web browsers haven't really changed. I pointed out that p2p web stuff would be a huge innovation, I think, it's just not happening. I also think that RDF-aware web browsers could make good innovations, such as embedding RDF descriptions of websites (via the LINK tag), which would let your browser know of related sites, the syndication URL, specific ways of donating money to the site, ways of rating the site or discovering it's "whuffie", what the copyright on the content is
Show me a web application that takes the full power of a web browser (NS 6.1+ IE 5+) and uses it.
That still really makes me laugh, because the point is that "the full power" of a web browser is very basic, and it's there in every web browser, and it has nothing to do with CSS/DHTML or any flashy shit. This is WHY web apps don't use that flashy shit, because they don't need to, they can harness the "full power" very simply. You can't see that? sorry.
I guess we're arguing over what's "innovative". New buttons on the toolbar for searching google, new ways of managing bookmarks, etc. these are all improvements, sure, but not innovative. New tags in HTML, new layout methods, new CSS attributes, these are all improvements, but not innovative (HTML/CSS is just making the web more and more like print/page layout in the way it looks). Marc Andreessen laments the browser's lack of "innovation", but that's just being ignorant to all of the other "innovation" out there. Wikis, Blogs, syndication, trackbacks, moderation...
Here's an innovation: invent the Metaverse. Not VRML, which requires a stupid plugin, but a whole new browser-like application. The components are already there, the bandwidth is there (if you're on broadband) and the graphics cabability is there.
Have fun with your HTTP 1.2 gzip stuff, and your NS6+ and IE6 features!
You make me laugh. What, like with the BLINK tag and MARQUEEs? I want to point out that DHTML, Javascript, Flash, etc, are all eye candy, and are not technical improvements to web browsing. The basic technical innovations that give you a web browser are already done, that's why web applications are taking off now, they have a (mostly) stable platform: HTML, CSS, frames, forms, cookies, HTTP, XML. All of the design/display "improvements" that have been made merely make the end application look prettier, they are not functional improvements. Those "improvements" only matter to web designers.
This is exactly my point. Slashdot is an application. It's not going to improve with fancier HTML, it would just look better. Consequently there's no need to improve either HTML, HTTP, or the web browser you view Slashdot on.
Like the wheel, web browsers and operating systems are mere platforms for other things. Once you've invented the wheel you spawn a whole bunch of innovative uses of the wheel. The innovation doesn't happen to the wheel itself. Maybe you start off with an octagonal wheel and eventually refine it to be circular, eventually you come up with a tire, then treads, etc., but that's all refinement, not innovation. So in this sense Marc is right, innovation is dead on the web browser, but only because it's unnecessary to radically change anything. I can check my email over the web via lynx. The simple building blocks don't need to radically improve. I'm sure that over time, though, they will probably improve a lot.
HTTP has not improved because there's no need. What would you do to change it? Sure there's little things you could ask for, but it works fine. Like I said, perhaps p2p web stuff would cause some changes, but firewalls/ISPs make that difficult.
Marc seems to be tunnel-vision focused on the web browser as the point where innovation occurs, and I say he's just blind to major innovations elsewhere on the web--which is where everything is now at. Of course, the browser manufacturer would view it that way.
Well I think that perhaps a great innovation in the web and web browsing in general is the use of the web browser as a platform for remote applications.. i.e. email over the web, blogs, ebay, blah blah, etc. The web browser has reached the highest level of 'fitness' (though small improvements are being made constantly) that it needs to basically disappear and let innovation happen in server-side applications. Think of it like DNA. The process that DNA goes through to produce proteins has no need to change...all of the "innovation" is happening at a higher level.
But, I think there is also reams of innovation happening on the web, and based on HTTP and XML (the simple building blocks that someone else said stifled innovation because they weren't improving).
Big E.G.: The Apple Music Store. All of the guts are web based, and iTunes just renders stuff (using Apple's WebKit renderer (Safari) i believe) based on XML it receives from Apple's servers. I have no idea how they handle the downloading, but there's no reason why they don't just use HTTP(S) as well.
Think of RSS (and consequently news aggregators), XML-RPC/SOAP (REST, MIME-RPC). Not all of these show up in the web browser, but things like RSS have great potential for it (and if it weren't for firewalls, i think peer-to-peer web stuff would also be blossoming). I think that "semantic" improvements to the web based on RDF are going to start happening a lot, and web browsers will improve because of it. Well, maybe just Google. But like I said, web apps like Google are the innovation.
Well, that belted a laugh out of me.
Do you mean like North Korea?
Of course, SCO has nothing near the equivalent of the nukes that North Korea has.
It would be more like if North Korea threatened the US with a light peppering.
sounds interesting...i'll check it out. Eclipse and Netbeans seem to have most of the features you listed there (except "folding away code" which would be nice). The one feature netbeans has that eclipse doesn't that i wish it does is the "abbreviations" feature...if you type "pu " (p-u-space) it expands it to "public ". There are many predefined abbreviations like that that are incredbly useful, and you can define your own. The other editor feature I miss is Alt-K and Alt-L, which will try to complete the word you're currently typing by searching backwards or forwards in your source! This is great for typing long java identifier names which don't show up in the autocomplete search. just a handy shortcut that i miss..
The other winning feature that Eclipse has that Netbeans doesn't, is simple: lines in comments that contain "TODO" show up in a list of Tasks that you can easily go through. (you can change or add more tags than "TODO"..e.g. I have "audit"..)
anyway, thanks, I'll check it out! (I would also recommend trying out one of Eclipse or Netbeans, just to see what they're like).
Oh yeah, there's also a wiki plugin for Eclipse, so you can have a local wiki for documentation/notes what have you..
It seems weird that so much functionality (refactoring, smart java source editting, even syntax hiliting) is re-invented with all of these editors. I used to use VisualCafe back in the day. so much repeated effort!
What's the difference between those and IntelliJ? Anything compellingly different? I've nearly decided to commit to eclipse, so if there's something better out there I want to know before I get settled!
Is IntelliJ free? (I saw something about a "trial key") Open source?
Also check out Lawrence Lessig's weblog for up-to-the-minute happenings in the good fight. (and for the extremely lazy, here's his RDF feed.
And ( if that weren't links enough) you should go and sign the petition to Reclaim the Public Domain.
yrs trly, linky karma whore
Oh...and get a cadre of black turtleneck wearing, angst filled, coffee-house frequenting zealots to crow about it for no other reason than to just crow about it.
Hmm...making butt loads of money seems like a good reason to crow about it
yeah, I was kinda thinking of a separate interface for minimized windows, so that any dock menu-items which are specific to the app don't get in the way. It's the same problem as having the minimized icons in the dock as having the windows in the dock menu: confusing clutter.
compare to MSWindows (shudder) or gnome/kde. each window has a seperate presence on the "dock" which never changes. os X's dock emphasizes the static app-launching feature, and so there's no room for minimized windows. really the two features just shouldn't be combined.
since I really dislike the dock, my current setup is this:
launchbar for launching apps and switching between apps (command-space-space...), or command-tab for switching. and I have the Dock pinned to the *top* and hidden, which effectively disables it unless you really need it, since it's hard to accidentally bring it down.
for last x-mas i bought a dvd player for my parents, and amazon had a printable $20 rebate coupon.
I sent in the coupon with the UPC symbol from the box after it arrived. that was a couple months ago. I promptly forgot about it.
yesterday I got a check in the mail. literally, it was a check in the form of a postcard, sans envelope.
So I guess they just sometimes take a while. If I had remembered about the rebate I probably would have been peeved that I hadn't received it yet!
Apple I think really has not picked up the ball on the capabilities of Quartz/Aqua to make a useful as well as pretty interface. For example, when you have an Aqua (not brushed-metal) window in the background, the titlebar becomes translucent. This is really not very useful, merely eye-candy. How does it help me to be able to see a slight bit of color through the window's titlebar? It just obscures the piece of useful information I might want to see when I'm hunting for a particular window. And if there are lots of windows in the bg, now I'm looking at a bunch of confusing information. It would be much more useful if most of the content of the window became translucent, and the titlebar stayed opaque. Then you could gain some sense of what's really behind the window and still be able to identify and drag it easily. Yes, I know you can get WindowShadeX and make that happen, but it's obvious that Apple didn't really flush out the possibilities of making the interface useful. Apple could surely have implemented it with an additional 5-lines of code and perhaps another widget in a nib file to make it a customizable option in the preferences.
(i'm gonna rant for another paragraph or so. I'm just in a ranting old mood.)
Another example of the waste of Quartz/Aqua is minimizing windows. This is more of a problem with the Dock, but when I minimize a window I just want get it out of the way temporarily so I can get to a window that's behind it. often it's to interact with two different windows (drag and drop). Usually I then want to go back to the minimized window. Sometimes I want the window to stay hidden for a while.
Sending the window to be an icon in the dock is really useless, as it just blends into the other items in the dock, and now it's lost. The little thumbnail icon it receives is not useful for discerning between, for example, two different Safari windows. Now I have to look at the title of the window which pops up, and if you have a bunch of tabs (thank the Hyatt for adding those) that's useless too. (I'll stop listing problems since I could rant for days about minimizing alone...)
There are a couple better ways:
The old OS 9 windowshade functionality was pretty good. This is how numerous X window managers work, and I've found that when I'm using Apple's X11 I get quite frustrated by the lack of the simple window shade functionality, since I do it out of habit from using the same X apps on linux. It's extremely useful, because the titlebar stays where the original window's titlebar was, so you can know what window it was purely through spatial memory.
The Minimize In Place hack for Os X is also pretty good ( my system seemed a little wiggy with it installed though). There was talk of adding it to WindowShadeX but I don't know if they did that or not.
But a useful and innovative way of dealing with minimized windows needs to be forthcoming from apple.
A simple suggestion: how about some kind of slide-out drawer showing all minimized windows for an app when you click it's icon in the dock? Or maybe, by the power of Quartz and Aqua, when you hover over the icon of a minimized window in the dock, the actual window pops onto the screen translucently so you can see which one it is before you click on it. They need to work on this though. (and we mac-addicts are holding our breath for Panther)
Basically what I'm saying is, for all you linux peeps who crave the Aqua thing: concentrate on making a useful interface and not on the alpha-blended, animated, and vector graphiced mating display we've seen with Aqua. (ok maybe vector graphics are pretty useful.)
I'm sure you've heard that said before, but I'm just sa
Add to that (or make that): any contraceptives
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My gf works at a bio research lab. she was recently asked if she wanted to "beta test" a new contraceptive pill. instead of 1 pill a day, you take less, but you don't get a period for 3 months (!). how do you know if you could be pregnant? well, they will pay for the pregnancy tests!
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click the link 5 hours ago !
nice, that's perfect.
how shady is that site though?
Uhh... that device doesn't use the higher-quality progressive scan output from the GameCube, it merely uses the normal output. The point is that I want to get the HD quality progressive scan which the GameCube is capable of (yes only with certain games) viewable on a monitor, not a HDTV.
I've been trying to find a cheap way of using my 19-inch samsung monitor as an HD display so I can make use of the progressive scan output from my GameCube without buying a HDTV. (plus then my gf could watch tv while I play games). One of my friends had a Dreamcast a few years back and he had an adapter for VGA output straight from the dreamcast, the quality on a monitor was so much better...I wish the gamecube could do that.
Unfortunately there's nothing out there that's both cheap and does what I want. The device mentioned in the article seems like it does what I want (disclaimer: IHNRTA - I have not read the article) but that's even more expensive that the other things I've seen which might work. Somewhere I saw a $99-200 device for turning component video into VGA output, but that's stilll more $$ that I want to spend.
Does anyone know of a solution that would cost less than $99 for this? VGA or BNC input actually, as my monitor has both.
Since you never would have received if it were not due to the EFF, perhaps you should send it to the EFF ? (or part of it)
That's what I'm doing. $12.60 seems kinda petty to keep.
http://www.reddwarf-central.com/files/polymorph.t
Finally at the end of the year (senior year) we just sent him everything we had and we never heard about it again. A couple years later I went back over our code to see if it still worked just for fun, and noticed a number of things:
no wonder we never heard about him putting it up on the web site..
I just selected your article contents in my web browser (happens to be Safari, but this works in any browser) Then I chose the menu item Safari->Services->Speech->Start Speaking Text
Even better, you can enable os X to speak the selected text via a user-defined keystroke, or even all the text underneath the cursor. (in the Speech Preference Panel)
If you're using windows though, I dunno..