This has been mentioned by a few other people, but I think it deserves more attention.
JUST USE GOOGLE. Chances are that's how you found the website in the first place anyway. Personally, I've only bookmarked websites that I visit every single day. For neato things, I just google for it if I want it again. This conveniently takes care of the problem of URLs changing with your bookmarks not being updated, as well.
So while Caltech is traveling across the country to put up balloons, MIT students are building a kickass USB-controlled disco floor?
I think we all know which school knows where it's at.
I think Slashdot signatures are actually an *exceptional* way to advertise geek-related things. What other way can you get advertising INLINE with the comments people are already reading? Additionally, people subconsciously trust "real humans" (as much as a Slashdotter can be considered a real human) more than faceless ads on webpages.
I know I myself signed up with my current hosting provider because I saw a link in someone's sig that looked like a great deal. Turned out to be a fantastic deal, I signed up, and that guy assuredly got a kickback.
I got sick of explaining the "Run As" capabilities to my users, so what I did is replace the QuickBooks shortcut with a short batch script that runs QuickBoox through the command-line "runas" tool, with the administrator username passed on the command line. When they double-click the icon, it pops up a command line window asking for a password, which I have conveniently placed in the name of the shortcut itself:) Since QuickBooks has its own security, I didn't feel this was too horrible a compromise.
This is generally not correct. Not only is it faster to recognize a distinctive icon, but placing the icons in the menubar also reinforces the meaning of the toolbar button that shares the same icon.
Judging by the number of spam emails I get with "SEXUALLY-EXPLICIT:" voluntarily prepended to the subject line, I'd say the number of porn sites that would use.sex is actually fairly substantial.
The parent is on the right track, but is missing the real reason. The reason it's okay for Apple and not okay for Microsoft is that Microsoft is a monopoly, and Apple is not. There are things that non-monopolies can do that monopolies can't. If I'm not a monopoly, I can sell Bob a copy of my software for $49 and sell the same software to Steve for $4,999 -- but Steve doesn't have to buy it from me. Monopolies, on the other hand, have restrictions which prevent them from abusing the fact that the consumer *has* to buy it from me.
Oh, and every API that Apple uses in all their applications is documented.
This is not correct. There have actually been a number of cases where Apple designs an API, uses it in their applications, and doesn't publicize it until the next OSX revision, or the one after. For instance, Apple only recently gave developers access to the "chasing arrows" (well, chasing radial lines now) APIs, even though they had been using it themselves in Mail.app and Finder for quite some time. There are other APIs, such as WebCore, which were in similar situations: Apple took advantage of them for several releases before letting mere mortals use them.
The user knows how to write an address that will end up at their doorstep. You don't need to hold their hands (or step on them) with City, State, Zip, etc. fields.
There is a HUGE difference between what Apple does and what AllOfMP3 does. Apple uses Akamai to essentially mirror the raw data files. There's no computation here. Zero. AllOfMP3 has huge server farms devoted to encoding music on-the-fly. While it is conceivable that Apple would be able to do a similar thing with adding the DRM (which assuredly would be a lot less work than encoding), they'd have to invest a great deal of money in processing servers. I don't know how this would interact with Akamai's services -- it's conceivable that they would need processing servers at each Akamai border point, which could add up to expensive pretty quickly.
Is it just me, or are we seeing an awful lot of Slashdot stories with technology/science discussed on the How to Destroy the Earth page? It's happening more frequency, for sure.
If so, I claim Electroly's Law: All technology progresses until it can be used to destroy the earth.
You're right, of course. I need to get some sleep... I was just showing the generic array example which is what I assumed he was talking about, which applies in pretty much any situation. Your image example was totally correct.
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This has been mentioned by a few other people, but I think it deserves more attention.
JUST USE GOOGLE. Chances are that's how you found the website in the first place anyway. Personally, I've only bookmarked websites that I visit every single day. For neato things, I just google for it if I want it again. This conveniently takes care of the problem of URLs changing with your bookmarks not being updated, as well.
Anyone else getting sick of seeing all these stories with pictures of people assembling hundreds of Xserves into massive clusters?
Yeah, me neither.
So while Caltech is traveling across the country to put up balloons, MIT students are building a kickass USB-controlled disco floor? I think we all know which school knows where it's at.
Why don't you ask her yourself? :-)
They don't have girls at Caltech. (T-shirt picture.)
I think Slashdot signatures are actually an *exceptional* way to advertise geek-related things. What other way can you get advertising INLINE with the comments people are already reading? Additionally, people subconsciously trust "real humans" (as much as a Slashdotter can be considered a real human) more than faceless ads on webpages.
I know I myself signed up with my current hosting provider because I saw a link in someone's sig that looked like a great deal. Turned out to be a fantastic deal, I signed up, and that guy assuredly got a kickback.
1. Yes, I'm pretty sure you're the only one.
2. What shows are you watching that girlie product advertisers would target? Don't lie now.
I got sick of explaining the "Run As" capabilities to my users, so what I did is replace the QuickBooks shortcut with a short batch script that runs QuickBoox through the command-line "runas" tool, with the administrator username passed on the command line. When they double-click the icon, it pops up a command line window asking for a password, which I have conveniently placed in the name of the shortcut itself :) Since QuickBooks has its own security, I didn't feel this was too horrible a compromise.
This is generally not correct. Not only is it faster to recognize a distinctive icon, but placing the icons in the menubar also reinforces the meaning of the toolbar button that shares the same icon.
Uhh, did you miss the part where you can actually download it and run it? That'd be some April Fools joke.
Judging by the number of spam emails I get with "SEXUALLY-EXPLICIT:" voluntarily prepended to the subject line, I'd say the number of porn sites that would use .sex is actually fairly substantial.
Correction: VeriSign directed NXDOMAIN ("domain does not exist") DNS errors to their own search engines.
The parent is on the right track, but is missing the real reason. The reason it's okay for Apple and not okay for Microsoft is that Microsoft is a monopoly, and Apple is not. There are things that non-monopolies can do that monopolies can't. If I'm not a monopoly, I can sell Bob a copy of my software for $49 and sell the same software to Steve for $4,999 -- but Steve doesn't have to buy it from me. Monopolies, on the other hand, have restrictions which prevent them from abusing the fact that the consumer *has* to buy it from me.
Oh, and every API that Apple uses in all their applications is documented.
This is not correct. There have actually been a number of cases where Apple designs an API, uses it in their applications, and doesn't publicize it until the next OSX revision, or the one after. For instance, Apple only recently gave developers access to the "chasing arrows" (well, chasing radial lines now) APIs, even though they had been using it themselves in Mail.app and Finder for quite some time. There are other APIs, such as WebCore, which were in similar situations: Apple took advantage of them for several releases before letting mere mortals use them.
It's up to five computers now, not three.
Obfuscated Perl? Contests are supposed to be hard. :-)
That's pretty much the worst idea I've ever heard. You're telling me I should to poll the RSS feeds of *everyone I know* ten times an hour?
Yeah, yeah, there aren't any Mac viruses NOW... but don't even think we aren't writing some as we speak!!
Free-form text entry box.
The user knows how to write an address that will end up at their doorstep. You don't need to hold their hands (or step on them) with City, State, Zip, etc. fields.
There is a HUGE difference between what Apple does and what AllOfMP3 does. Apple uses Akamai to essentially mirror the raw data files. There's no computation here. Zero. AllOfMP3 has huge server farms devoted to encoding music on-the-fly. While it is conceivable that Apple would be able to do a similar thing with adding the DRM (which assuredly would be a lot less work than encoding), they'd have to invest a great deal of money in processing servers. I don't know how this would interact with Akamai's services -- it's conceivable that they would need processing servers at each Akamai border point, which could add up to expensive pretty quickly.
Is it just me, or are we seeing an awful lot of Slashdot stories with technology/science discussed on the How to Destroy the Earth page? It's happening more frequency, for sure.
If so, I claim Electroly's Law: All technology progresses until it can be used to destroy the earth.
Visual Studio itself has command-line switches that will build a .vsproj, so you don't even have to maintain your own Makefile or anything.
No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
BeOS doesn't *need* any attacks. Let it sit for a few hours and net_server will crash itself. :-)
You're right, of course. I need to get some sleep... I was just showing the generic array example which is what I assumed he was talking about, which applies in pretty much any situation. Your image example was totally correct.