Anything that allows you to access your files over NFS or SMB will integrate quite nicely, as OS X can mount both those file systems as read/write. SMB is how I get my Mac to share files with my Windows machine, and it works flawlessly. Unfortunately, I have't actually found any such services on the web yet. Note that I haven't really looked much either.
I'm not TigerNut, but I'll throw out a guess. They too probably considered the computer navigation system to be a no-brainer and assumed that, because it worked on the last x number of planes they designed, it should work on this one too, so they didn't even test it. Unfortunately, it turns out unexpected stuff happens, which in this case included some bug being inserted when the date changed. They never knew since they never tested.
I don't have any insider info, so I'm just guessing, but it seems to me the only way a bug that severe could make it through testing is by never testing the scenario that causes it in the first place.
I've never seen it done before, but I don't imagine it would be particularly diffucult to pull off. I'd say just add another parameter that tells the function how deep in the call stack it is. If it's less than x layers deep, fork with the child process going on to the other processor. The parent process sorts the first half of the list, and the child process sorts the second half. When the parent process finishes, it waits for the child process to finish (if it hasn't already), then collects the child's sorted list and merges as usual. The reason you'd want to track how deep you are is so that you don't wind up forking when there aren't any more processors available. For instance, if you were running on a two processor machine, you'd only want to fork once, since forking again would only add overhead without any gain. You could probably generate x on the fly based on the number of processors in the user's computer, too.
The only problem I forsee is the case where the added overhead exceeds the gain. However, I imagine this would only be the case when you are sorting very small lists. Perhaps one could check the size of the list first and then decide whether or not forking is worth it.
I tried Verified by Visa for a couple months. I finally got so sick of my transactions being denied because the stupid pin entry window never appeared that I just had my bank take it off.
Where I live (Plano, TX), the city web site actually has a form for reporting junk like that and requesting a few weeks of extra patrols. Being as driving on the wrong side of the road and reckless driving are both offenses, she'd get cited if she got caught pulling that stunt.
Wow. Just, wow. That video sure gives some insight on just how concered Sega is with releasing a good product. I mean, how in the world can anyone release something that bad?!? I think I'd want to crawl in a hole and die if I released a prodcut that bad.
Add another claim to Exchange being a nightmare! I did IT for a company of 3-5 (depending on where we were in our project cycle) and all of them would telecommute from time to time. Keeping Exchange happy was quite a nightmare indeed. If I still worked there, I'd recommend this to the owner in a heartbeat, who would probably approve in about as long. I'm rather surprised and disapointed that they aren't offering a Google Mail appliance, though, in the vein of the Google Search Appliance. There's no way the company I'm working for now will ever consider an email service that stores the email outside the network, but many of us would gladly push for a Google Mail server inside our network (especially those of use who use Macs. There's just no good way to get to Exchange on a Mac. *shudders thinking about Entourage*)
Obviously, you need another computer with a CD drive to do that. It turns out, though, that OS X's Disk Utility will happily copy the OS X install DVD on to a large enough thumb drive. Or iPod, or any other writable media for that matter. More than once, I have used this to install my DVD copy of Tiger on to my old iBook that doesn't have a DVD drive.
I'm saying that 19 bucks is just over the retail cost of a DVD. Obviously, the material cost of the 2 gigs of flash is less than 19 bucks, since both the manufacturer and Newegg have to make a profit off that price. I figure it's a safe bet that, by two years from now, you'll be able to get (retail) 8 gigs of flash for 19 dollars. If you can get 8 gigs of flash at retail for 19 dollars, then the studio manufacturers can get it for (significantly) less than that. Flash the movie on it, sell it for profit. My point was that it will soon be feasible to sell movies on Flash memory rather than optical disks.
How about next time, you try to understand my point before flaming me.
But, the price of Flash memory is dropping. Fast. Already you can get a 2 GB memory key for 19 bucks from NewEgg, which is just over the price of a DVD. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82 E16820211226 By next year, you'll probably be able to get a 4 GB one for the same price, and 8 GB by the year after. At that point, you'll be able to fit a full DVD on a retail memory key for about the same price, and you know we pay more for those retail than the studios would pay for them bulk.
vs. at my high school in Texas, the TI-89 is specifically forbidden by most (possibly all) teachers. While working on my CS degree in college, the only class I took that allowed graphing calculators at all was statistics, and apparantly my professor was the exception in allowing them.
That's not quite how it works at my university. If you drop out of school, then yes, your license is no longer valid and you must uninstall the software. However, the contract explicitly states that if you graduate, the license becomes yours forever. I forget the exact wording, but it's along the lines of "If you graduate, congratulations! As our gift to you, you may keep the software indefinately."
By what mechanism do these accidents magically always get reported? If there are no cops or cameras around, and all affected drivers (which may only be one) decide to not report it, then they drive off without reporting it. The accident never goes on the record. Sure, they're breaking the law, but the existence of law doesn't necessarily mean that it will be followed in every instance. After all, how many traffic accidents are caused because one of the drivers was breaking the law? (Read: Over half, DUI).
You missed one! My personal favorite is tapping two fingers simultaneously. Now that my MacBook has gotten me in the habbit of doing so, I find myself trying to do it on Windows laptops constantly. It annoys me to no end having to use the physical button to right click on Windows laptops.
I launch apps by double clicking files all the time. I'm one of those folks who, when I want to view/edit a file, I do so by opening ~/Documents or My Documents in Finder/Explorer and double clicking the file itself rather than opening the app and using its own UI for opening. That being said, I'm perfectly fine with both using enter to open files on Windows and command-down on the Mac. Both seem intuitive to me, so it's just an issue of switching back and forth. Use both OSes estensively and you get used to switching pretty quickly.
It doesn't work. Dragging two fingers scrolls, even if you just tapped. If I tap-drag two fingers in this here Camino window, the tap will bring up the context menu and the drag will attempts to scroll the context menu (which will result in nothing happening since the context menu isn't big enough to require scrolling.)
Do you have any idea at all how peer-to-peer networks work? Every downloader is an uploader as well.
That's not true. If your P2P network allows you to download to a folder that you aren't sharing, then you can download files without sharing any. Just don't set any folders are shared, or if your P2P network requires you to have a shared folder, leave it empty. This practice is often frowned upon, and may result in your getting lower priority on downloads, but it's certainly possible to download without uploading.
But where do you draw the line? People who go through six tollbooths a day on their commute (which are quite a few people) rack up tons of failed reads. You don't want actual violators to be able to accumulate anywhere near as many violations as you would have to allow for under your system. Plus, what do you do when someone with a tag crosses the line? It's not their fault they accumulated so many misreads, it's yours, so you can't very well expect to hit them with a hundred dollar fine.
The thing with tying a particular tag to a particular car is that, should the reader fail to read the tag (and, in my experience, that's about 5% of the time or so), they can still charge your account by looking up your license plate number. Times when I set off the alarm show up exactly the same as times when my tag was read properly on my bill. Taking pictures of your license plate every time also allows them to nail someone who stole your tag, or least helps you prove it wasn't you going through the toll gates. With the North Texas Tollroad Authority, at least, using your tag in another car won't throw any flags by itself, though you're technically not supposed to do that. If it fails to read, however, the owner of the car can expect a 25 dollar ticket in the mail.
I can beat that. I had an old Toshiba Tx000 laptop (2000? I forget exactly what model). It had a 486 at a blazing 20 MHz, and one of the previous owners had trippled the RAM to 12 MB. What color was it? Beige, of course.
If you don't know the account number it makes a bit of sense, but in what other situation?
Except not knowing the payee's account number is the norm, not the exception, and by a wide margin. I don't know the account numbers of anyone in my family except my father, and the only reason I have my father's is because he lives in Japan, so the added step of mailing a physical check is actually significant. Plus, it's much easier to keep track of someone's address than it is to keep track of their account number, because address changes are usually actually announced to the world, while bank account changes are often a private matter. Add to that the fact that many people have several bank accounts and where exactly they want my payment to get this month may or may not be the same as last month, and it's just not worth the hassle. I'll send a check, they can do with it whatever they want.
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Anything that allows you to access your files over NFS or SMB will integrate quite nicely, as OS X can mount both those file systems as read/write. SMB is how I get my Mac to share files with my Windows machine, and it works flawlessly. Unfortunately, I have't actually found any such services on the web yet. Note that I haven't really looked much either.
You can mount FTP drives as writable with jumping through hoops? Better than my current state of not being able to do it at all. Care to elaborate?
I'm not TigerNut, but I'll throw out a guess. They too probably considered the computer navigation system to be a no-brainer and assumed that, because it worked on the last x number of planes they designed, it should work on this one too, so they didn't even test it. Unfortunately, it turns out unexpected stuff happens, which in this case included some bug being inserted when the date changed. They never knew since they never tested.
I don't have any insider info, so I'm just guessing, but it seems to me the only way a bug that severe could make it through testing is by never testing the scenario that causes it in the first place.
I've never seen it done before, but I don't imagine it would be particularly diffucult to pull off. I'd say just add another parameter that tells the function how deep in the call stack it is. If it's less than x layers deep, fork with the child process going on to the other processor. The parent process sorts the first half of the list, and the child process sorts the second half. When the parent process finishes, it waits for the child process to finish (if it hasn't already), then collects the child's sorted list and merges as usual. The reason you'd want to track how deep you are is so that you don't wind up forking when there aren't any more processors available. For instance, if you were running on a two processor machine, you'd only want to fork once, since forking again would only add overhead without any gain. You could probably generate x on the fly based on the number of processors in the user's computer, too.
The only problem I forsee is the case where the added overhead exceeds the gain. However, I imagine this would only be the case when you are sorting very small lists. Perhaps one could check the size of the list first and then decide whether or not forking is worth it.
I tried Verified by Visa for a couple months. I finally got so sick of my transactions being denied because the stupid pin entry window never appeared that I just had my bank take it off.
Where I live (Plano, TX), the city web site actually has a form for reporting junk like that and requesting a few weeks of extra patrols. Being as driving on the wrong side of the road and reckless driving are both offenses, she'd get cited if she got caught pulling that stunt.
Wow. Just, wow. That video sure gives some insight on just how concered Sega is with releasing a good product. I mean, how in the world can anyone release something that bad?!? I think I'd want to crawl in a hole and die if I released a prodcut that bad.
Add another claim to Exchange being a nightmare! I did IT for a company of 3-5 (depending on where we were in our project cycle) and all of them would telecommute from time to time. Keeping Exchange happy was quite a nightmare indeed. If I still worked there, I'd recommend this to the owner in a heartbeat, who would probably approve in about as long. I'm rather surprised and disapointed that they aren't offering a Google Mail appliance, though, in the vein of the Google Search Appliance. There's no way the company I'm working for now will ever consider an email service that stores the email outside the network, but many of us would gladly push for a Google Mail server inside our network (especially those of use who use Macs. There's just no good way to get to Exchange on a Mac. *shudders thinking about Entourage*)
Obviously, you need another computer with a CD drive to do that. It turns out, though, that OS X's Disk Utility will happily copy the OS X install DVD on to a large enough thumb drive. Or iPod, or any other writable media for that matter. More than once, I have used this to install my DVD copy of Tiger on to my old iBook that doesn't have a DVD drive.
I'm saying that 19 bucks is just over the retail cost of a DVD. Obviously, the material cost of the 2 gigs of flash is less than 19 bucks, since both the manufacturer and Newegg have to make a profit off that price. I figure it's a safe bet that, by two years from now, you'll be able to get (retail) 8 gigs of flash for 19 dollars. If you can get 8 gigs of flash at retail for 19 dollars, then the studio manufacturers can get it for (significantly) less than that. Flash the movie on it, sell it for profit. My point was that it will soon be feasible to sell movies on Flash memory rather than optical disks.
How about next time, you try to understand my point before flaming me.
But, the price of Flash memory is dropping. Fast. Already you can get a 2 GB memory key for 19 bucks from NewEgg, which is just over the price of a DVD. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82 E16820211226 By next year, you'll probably be able to get a 4 GB one for the same price, and 8 GB by the year after. At that point, you'll be able to fit a full DVD on a retail memory key for about the same price, and you know we pay more for those retail than the studios would pay for them bulk.
vs. at my high school in Texas, the TI-89 is specifically forbidden by most (possibly all) teachers. While working on my CS degree in college, the only class I took that allowed graphing calculators at all was statistics, and apparantly my professor was the exception in allowing them.
That's not quite how it works at my university. If you drop out of school, then yes, your license is no longer valid and you must uninstall the software. However, the contract explicitly states that if you graduate, the license becomes yours forever. I forget the exact wording, but it's along the lines of "If you graduate, congratulations! As our gift to you, you may keep the software indefinately."
By what mechanism do these accidents magically always get reported? If there are no cops or cameras around, and all affected drivers (which may only be one) decide to not report it, then they drive off without reporting it. The accident never goes on the record. Sure, they're breaking the law, but the existence of law doesn't necessarily mean that it will be followed in every instance. After all, how many traffic accidents are caused because one of the drivers was breaking the law? (Read: Over half, DUI).
You missed one! My personal favorite is tapping two fingers simultaneously. Now that my MacBook has gotten me in the habbit of doing so, I find myself trying to do it on Windows laptops constantly. It annoys me to no end having to use the physical button to right click on Windows laptops.
I launch apps by double clicking files all the time. I'm one of those folks who, when I want to view/edit a file, I do so by opening ~/Documents or My Documents in Finder/Explorer and double clicking the file itself rather than opening the app and using its own UI for opening. That being said, I'm perfectly fine with both using enter to open files on Windows and command-down on the Mac. Both seem intuitive to me, so it's just an issue of switching back and forth. Use both OSes estensively and you get used to switching pretty quickly.
It doesn't work. Dragging two fingers scrolls, even if you just tapped. If I tap-drag two fingers in this here Camino window, the tap will bring up the context menu and the drag will attempts to scroll the context menu (which will result in nothing happening since the context menu isn't big enough to require scrolling.)
I'm pretty sure Dragon Quest VIII is the only one with a subtitle. That being said, you're right in that they have had mainline games with subtitles.
But where do you draw the line? People who go through six tollbooths a day on their commute (which are quite a few people) rack up tons of failed reads. You don't want actual violators to be able to accumulate anywhere near as many violations as you would have to allow for under your system. Plus, what do you do when someone with a tag crosses the line? It's not their fault they accumulated so many misreads, it's yours, so you can't very well expect to hit them with a hundred dollar fine.
The thing with tying a particular tag to a particular car is that, should the reader fail to read the tag (and, in my experience, that's about 5% of the time or so), they can still charge your account by looking up your license plate number. Times when I set off the alarm show up exactly the same as times when my tag was read properly on my bill. Taking pictures of your license plate every time also allows them to nail someone who stole your tag, or least helps you prove it wasn't you going through the toll gates. With the North Texas Tollroad Authority, at least, using your tag in another car won't throw any flags by itself, though you're technically not supposed to do that. If it fails to read, however, the owner of the car can expect a 25 dollar ticket in the mail.
I can beat that. I had an old Toshiba Tx000 laptop (2000? I forget exactly what model). It had a 486 at a blazing 20 MHz, and one of the previous owners had trippled the RAM to 12 MB. What color was it? Beige, of course.
Then why is Windows still around?
That assumes they know which are the zeros and which are the ones. And that in turn assumes they know there are zeros and ones in the first place.
If you don't know the account number it makes a bit of sense, but in what other situation?
Except not knowing the payee's account number is the norm, not the exception, and by a wide margin. I don't know the account numbers of anyone in my family except my father, and the only reason I have my father's is because he lives in Japan, so the added step of mailing a physical check is actually significant. Plus, it's much easier to keep track of someone's address than it is to keep track of their account number, because address changes are usually actually announced to the world, while bank account changes are often a private matter. Add to that the fact that many people have several bank accounts and where exactly they want my payment to get this month may or may not be the same as last month, and it's just not worth the hassle. I'll send a check, they can do with it whatever they want.