The Inside Macintosh volumes were incredibly useful. The thoroughly covered all aspects of a topic, and had a really good cross-reference.
But then they stopped putting out Inside Macintosh. Everything started being documented in technotes and hard-to-find articles.
But it looks like Apple's definitely got their act together as far as content goes. Now all they need is a better look-up system in their mailing list archives.
They also have studs that light up behind a vehicle, so following vehicles know about them before they can see them. And, the studs can glow red in case someone ahead is tailgating. Pretty cool.
It wasn't an assumption on Apple's part. They made sure that the screen is 72 dpi. Originally.
When they started supporting third-party monitors, Apple should have added automatic scaling based on your resolution and screen size so that a 12-point font was still a real 12 points, and they should have changed pixel-coordinate drawing to a point-coordinate, and finally, they should have added a system-wide zoom so that the user could compensate for a far or near monitor.
But, since all they had were bitmap fonts, which don't scale, I can see why they didn't do that.
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she with silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Tcl was designed to be an embedded scripting language; it would have made a fine replacement for javascript and/or applescript.
AppleScript (and JavaScript as well, maybe) is more of an external scripting language. It can be used within a single app, but generally AppleScripts run outside of any app.
See, the idea of a patent is not to prevent copying the idea. You have to publish your patent, after all, which makes it publicly available. The idea is keep anyone else from selling your idea while your patent exists. All your competitors will definitely be using your ideas, they just can't sell a product yet.
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How about the bobbled and stasis'd space battles from Marooned in Realtime and the Kzin universe? Those things are extremely fast-paced in one sense.
Unfortunately, you can't take your Keychain with you.
The Inside Macintosh volumes were incredibly useful. The thoroughly covered all aspects of a topic, and had a really good cross-reference.
But then they stopped putting out Inside Macintosh. Everything started being documented in technotes and hard-to-find articles.
But it looks like Apple's definitely got their act together as far as content goes. Now all they need is a better look-up system in their mailing list archives.
Another good source of information is the cocoadev.com wiki. Documentation gaps are filled pretty quickly -- I should know, I'm a regular contributor.
I'll take door #C. And you get a Thin Mint!
on the way back down the hill you will be wasting energy by turning it into heat in the brake system
:)
Only if you brake.
Hm. When did Teal'c replace Spock?
Cool. Mod parent up!
does it also become too tempting to just bomb everything?
...but you need ground troops to hold the territory.
It already is too tempting. We bomb everything we can!
No, slavery is working for free because you are physically threatened with whippings, etc.
Conscription isn't as bad as that. You do get paid, and if you don't accede, you get thrown in jail, not whipped and hung.
Hm. You still didn't explain AVC and ASP. Maybe they are acronyms of some kind?
If you could build really bad software that looks good on the surface, get other people fix it for you for free, and still get paid, would you do it?
Open source, anyone?
Hah! I knew what those words meant without looking it up!
colorable: angering. Similar to cholor, red-faced-ness.
dilatoriness: short attention span. Similar to dilettante or time-dilation.
parsimonious: cheap, everyone knows this one.
Now to check my answers: D'oh! D'oh-ish! Whew!
They also have studs that light up behind a vehicle, so following vehicles know about them before they can see them. And, the studs can glow red in case someone ahead is tailgating. Pretty cool.
Star Wars fans are against the de-mystification. We're like "Midichlorians? WTF? No way, this shit is mystical, man! George, you a-hole!"
Oooh. An MtG movie would be cool. Phyrexians or classic fantasy? Maybe Ice Age...
Those passwords might be in your keychain. If so, OmniWeb should pick them up.
It wasn't an assumption on Apple's part. They made sure that the screen is 72 dpi. Originally.
When they started supporting third-party monitors, Apple should have added automatic scaling based on your resolution and screen size so that a 12-point font was still a real 12 points, and they should have changed pixel-coordinate drawing to a point-coordinate, and finally, they should have added a system-wide zoom so that the user could compensate for a far or near monitor.
But, since all they had were bitmap fonts, which don't scale, I can see why they didn't do that.
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
with silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Oh yeah, they speak English, and many of them have excellent vocabulary and grammar...but they have an ungodly thick accent to American ears.
You're so full of it. The "Eastern World" has committed the same crimes. Slavery was common throughout history. It still goes on in Africa.
Tcl was designed to be an embedded scripting language; it would have made a fine replacement for javascript and/or applescript.
AppleScript (and JavaScript as well, maybe) is more of an external scripting language. It can be used within a single app, but generally AppleScripts run outside of any app.
Americans: Rude and proud of it.
I can't imagine the bosses are that much worse in the US.
Trust us. They are.
See, the idea of a patent is not to prevent copying the idea. You have to publish your patent, after all, which makes it publicly available. The idea is keep anyone else from selling your idea while your patent exists. All your competitors will definitely be using your ideas, they just can't sell a product yet.