The style is something that you get used to, that you have to give yourself time to adapt to. Rather like trying to read Ian Bank's Scottish dialogue. It's not too tough once you get into the rhythm of the text.
I suspect actually that many Linux users' favorite game is tinkering with Linux. And I don't mean that in an inflammatory way. Tinkering is an interesting, stimulating pastime,
Actually, if you are 1 person company, I suspect you will have to pay nothing at all, assuming you don't want to sell the app. Download the free SDK, develop, install. There you go.
So what is to stop the development of a site where people can upload their SDK-developed code for other people who have the SDK to download and install on their iPods.
The install might be a bit fiddly for non-developers, but nothing that a bit of Automator and Applescript couldn't make simple, I'd wager.
Talking of your.sig, I wonder if Apple would authorise a MAME port that included the ability to download ROMs?
That would be a special case of a virtual machine that could run 3rd party apps without reference to the Apple App Store... I don't see that one getting past the censor.
That would be true, if the Air was the only or the cheapest laptop to come with OS X. But it isn't. From which we can conclude than Air purchases are actually from people who like the software but are willing to put up with additional hardware deficiencies for extreme portability.
It's not my cup of tea, but if I spent most of my time in airports, shuttling between offices, I might look at it rather seriously
The colour change one is actually much more interesting if carried out right. Around 1980 when I was doing my A level chemistry, I found a Scientific American article about these reversible reactions, and took it in for the chemistry teacher to see.
More interesting that stirring a beaker, is to mix the ingredients in a shallow glass tray. The reaction starts spontaneously at several point and then concentric waves of colour radiate out from these points, interacting with each other. It's rather like watching a Conway's Life-style cellular automaton.
As a bit of Mac Fanboy, I have ti say that these do work just fine. And yet, and yet... it seems somehow inelegant that the only inbuilt way to tell the system not to use application Z is to launch application Z and change a setting. I would find a Prefpane approach much more desireable.
You can use a setting in a preference file, which is functionally identical. WebKit cannot use a setting in a preference file because the apps that embed Webkit would not pick it up.
Actually Hyatt makes the reason explicit. Firefox can look at preference files to get the setting. But lots of applications with Webkit embedded will not look at that preference file, so they have to use a rather nasty hack to set the preference internally within WebKit.
As I understand it, the "it" part is a hack that allows the functionality to be set without reference to a preference file - this hack is needed because Webkit can be embedded in apps that don't look at that preference file.
Exactly the same functionality is available to Firefox though a publicly available preference setting.
Let me have a stab at that. Could it be that 'management' involves, in part being able to communicate effectively with both colleagues and and people external to the company. The latter in particular is helped by conforming to societal norms in terms of dress.
Clothes convey a message - you might not like it, but they do.
So you ask: "why is it that if an artist dresses like a tramp and snarls at anyone who tries to distract him (or her) while working, that's just how talent operates, but when it's engineers or programmers, that just shows how dysfunctional they are?"
The answer is - society thinks, of artists as idiosyncratic individuals who can defy social norms as part of their 'work'. It doesn't matter if an artist paints herself green and snarls like a dog, because they don't have to work as a team or manage anyone. The artist is sending a message: 'I don't conform', but that's part of the job description.
Now imagine an engineer or programmer giving exactly the same message: 'I don't conform'. That may not be a hinderance in any way while they are bashing out Perl in a cubicle somewhere. But management requires the manager to conform - to buy into the company's and societies norms - at least to an extent.
So that's why both the artist and the geek will be accepted as artist and geek while dressed as a tramp, but will find it more difficult to become a C*O
Darwinian management would suggest that if that were the case, then those businesses would have been outcompeted financially long ago by the businesses run by geeks.
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Not really - it is known as "Aunty' or 'The Beeb'.
The style is something that you get used to, that you have to give yourself time to adapt to. Rather like trying to read Ian Bank's Scottish dialogue. It's not too tough once you get into the rhythm of the text.
I suspect actually that many Linux users' favorite game is tinkering with Linux. And I don't mean that in an inflammatory way. Tinkering is an interesting, stimulating pastime,
Actually the comments on that video appear to be the most informative guide to what happened.
Because I want the sites that I enjoy visiting to survive?
Actually, if you are 1 person company, I suspect you will have to pay nothing at all, assuming you don't want to sell the app. Download the free SDK, develop, install. There you go.
Not really. The success will come with the successful cooperation between Google, handset manufacturers and carriers.
D'Oh.
Thanks for the info.
Hang on, hang on.
The SDK is free right?
So what is to stop the development of a site where people can upload their SDK-developed code for other people who have the SDK to download and install on their iPods.
The install might be a bit fiddly for non-developers, but nothing that a bit of Automator and Applescript couldn't make simple, I'd wager.
Talking of your .sig, I wonder if Apple would authorise a MAME port that included the ability to download ROMs?
That would be a special case of a virtual machine that could run 3rd party apps without reference to the Apple App Store... I don't see that one getting past the censor.
If only OS X software update could be extended to 3rd party software in this way.
Judging from the URL in the picture, it is from http://xiti.com/
Interesting assertion, but I would like to see your working. In which commodity is the artificial scarcity?
That would be true, if the Air was the only or the cheapest laptop to come with OS X. But it isn't. From which we can conclude than Air purchases are actually from people who like the software but are willing to put up with additional hardware deficiencies for extreme portability.
It's not my cup of tea, but if I spent most of my time in airports, shuttling between offices, I might look at it rather seriously
The colour change one is actually much more interesting if carried out right. Around 1980 when I was doing my A level chemistry, I found a Scientific American article about these reversible reactions, and took it in for the chemistry teacher to see.
More interesting that stirring a beaker, is to mix the ingredients in a shallow glass tray. The reaction starts spontaneously at several point and then concentric waves of colour radiate out from these points, interacting with each other. It's rather like watching a Conway's Life-style cellular automaton.
As a bit of Mac Fanboy, I have ti say that these do work just fine. And yet, and yet... it seems somehow inelegant that the only inbuilt way to tell the system not to use application Z is to launch application Z and change a setting. I would find a Prefpane approach much more desireable.
Not a big issue, just a niggle.
You can use a setting in a preference file, which is functionally identical. WebKit cannot use a setting in a preference file because the apps that embed Webkit would not pick it up.
Actually Hyatt makes the reason explicit. Firefox can look at preference files to get the setting. But lots of applications with Webkit embedded will not look at that preference file, so they have to use a rather nasty hack to set the preference internally within WebKit.
As I understand it, the "it" part is a hack that allows the functionality to be set without reference to a preference file - this hack is needed because Webkit can be embedded in apps that don't look at that preference file.
Exactly the same functionality is available to Firefox though a publicly available preference setting.
Sorry, are you saying that there is no such thing as 'talented engineers'?
Poor old Brunel.
Hmmm, you say that as if it were a good thing.
Three replies and no-one has posted 'I thought OS X was "just supposed to work"' yet.
Let me have a stab at that. Could it be that 'management' involves, in part being able to communicate effectively with both colleagues and and people external to the company. The latter in particular is helped by conforming to societal norms in terms of dress.
Clothes convey a message - you might not like it, but they do.
So you ask: "why is it that if an artist dresses like a tramp and snarls at anyone who tries to distract him (or her) while working, that's just how talent operates, but when it's engineers or programmers, that just shows how dysfunctional they are?"
The answer is - society thinks, of artists as idiosyncratic individuals who can defy social norms as part of their 'work'. It doesn't matter if an artist paints herself green and snarls like a dog, because they don't have to work as a team or manage anyone. The artist is sending a message: 'I don't conform', but that's part of the job description.
Now imagine an engineer or programmer giving exactly the same message: 'I don't conform'. That may not be a hinderance in any way while they are bashing out Perl in a cubicle somewhere. But management requires the manager to conform - to buy into the company's and societies norms - at least to an extent.
So that's why both the artist and the geek will be accepted as artist and geek while dressed as a tramp, but will find it more difficult to become a C*O
Darwinian management would suggest that if that were the case, then those businesses would have been outcompeted financially long ago by the businesses run by geeks.
That's right. Why adjust the dress code slightly when you can install expensive refrigeration and hike up the energy bills.