I used to make themes for Enlightenment about five years ago, and lately I've been feeling like making themes again. However the WM landscape has changed a lot. Blackbox is awesome but it seems like the themes aren't very flexible - such as moving the close widget around, and such.
Of hand, does anyone know of a WM that's relaly easy to customize, but also very flexible?
So you're suggesting that when book one was being designed the situations in book four were being considered relevant? I don't think that's right on any level.
Funny you should mention Hyperion because that's what I'm reading at the moment (Fall of Hyperion now, actually). My response to the cover was the same; my roommate gave me the book and I thought, "this is going to be good?" Of course it was and I am very happy I read it.
<geek tangent>Also the cover for Hyperion is inaccurate anyways - the Shrike has four arms. Why even bother to put it on the cover with only two?</geek>
As a graphic designer and artist myself I'm really surprised that anyone in my profession would create such poor covers. Where are these self-respecting "artists" creating such trash? I'm betting (hoping) that there is some sort of communication problem between management and the artist and that the person creating the cover hasn't actually read the book.
I think you're right. I just wanted to point out that Apple appears to have learned the same lesson since they give out all the OS X development tools as well, including a nice GUI IDE.
The three-part series dealing with the middle aged men showing up dead in bathtubs of apparent suicide was great. I won't spoil the ending but it was perfect, the twists along the way were truly shocking, and the good guys did not entirely win.
We may debate the validness of some of the science on the show (I take issue with many of their unpossible audio tricks) but story lines and twists like this trump some of the best we've seen on The X-Files.
I was going to say the same thing. I've been using Cocoa and it is very nice. At first I thought that the use of square brackets was ugly but now I've learned to love it - in much the same way I learned to love Python's use of white space.
Also, this question is ridiculous. There is no mention of platform requirements or speed, so I'm assuming that Python might be a real possibility.
You don't happen to remember what country this was? I want to know what other country on earth has both Democratic and Republican parties.
How Are the Changes Being Made?
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AOL vs. Trillian
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· Score: 3, Interesting
Can anyone explain to me how AOL is changing their protocol without breaking their own IM? Is their client just more flexible, or does it have built in support for a dozen protocol revisions?
I would hope that whatever they're doing the clues as to what the next change might be are already there in the client. Perhaps we could build a fake ICQ server and run tests on the AOL client with slightly modified protocols to see what it supports. Then build in the same support into Trillian et al.
For me I'd love to stop using AOL's ICQ since I use OS X. The official client doesn't behave at all like a good OS X app should.
Wouldn't be the end of the entire vegetarian scene. To some people meat tastes bad in the same way some people don't like vegetables. There will always be some desirable health benefits to vegetarianism. Lab-grown meat may also introduce new health issues.
However, your idea of grown meat may have major benefit to people that already eat meat. Prices would likely drop since better cuts would be just as easy to produce and more common ones. Also the health of meat could probably improve (no more artificial hormones).
Forgive me for pointing out the obvious but this is good for several reasons. The one I'm most pleased with is the moral aspect. Assuming this is true we no longer need to farm embryonic humans for stem cells. We can gather them (and possibly in a superior form) from consenting adults.
This may also help compatibility. If there were any problems with a replacement organ for example then this would possibly lessen the chances of rejection.
Of course this still leaves moral controversy over what is done with these stem cells - I mean, that whole human cloning thing.
Obviously once he wins a few cases there will be precedent that should stop suck domains from being taken away. This isn't a workaround at all, unless you have a time machine and can travel back to the 90s and repair the damage there.
If quality matters I just burn it onto a CD. For mixed CDs I nearly always go from the original CD, rip to uncompressed (usually WAVs) then burn the CD with a few of those. Modern CD drives can rip a track in a few seconds, and burners can of course burn the disc nearly as fast.
If I want my PC to play songs then I don't mind high bit rate MP3s. MP3s also have the advantage of working with everything. Especially on my Mac with iTunes.
I'd be really impressed if S. Jobs introduced a better codec as a big new iTunes 3 feature.
I run an online web comic. But it's the sunday funnies type, not the comic book/novel type. My business model (once up and running, sigh) is to sell merchandise.
Thanks to Cafe Press this is really, really easy to do. They are legit to - I've made real money selling merch for my band. Of course with the cut they take, it had better be legit!
You forgot how Winamp creator's Gnutella was crushed by AOL. How much better could the Gnutella network have been if development could have continued with its original authors?
Why sell to an Australian company? Am I totally wrong in assuming that the rampant government censorship of the internet would be a bad thing for this company? I could probably think of a dozen countries that would be a better place to have KaZaA.
Well, at least they didn't move to the US.
Not Yet, not nearly.
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The Drone War
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· Score: 2, Insightful
These wars are as much drone wars as my PC is artificial intelligence. We aren't there yet. We may never be.
But unlike AI I think the benefits of this kind of war are hard to deny. Drones don't hate you. Drones don't rape. They don't kill children or torture civilians.
It won't make defeat much more bearable but it may add decency - if such a thing can be present in war.
Reasoning for Lack of PowerMac Upgrade
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New iMac Announced
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Steve knows that PowerMac sales will be weak. I believe that he has done this in the hopes of boosting iMac sales. Apple really can't afford to have this iMac turn out a flop. By cannibalizing their own products they are trying to guarantee strong iMac sales.
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First, you need three parties to have a middle.
I used to make themes for Enlightenment about five years ago, and lately I've been feeling like making themes again. However the WM landscape has changed a lot. Blackbox is awesome but it seems like the themes aren't very flexible - such as moving the close widget around, and such.
Of hand, does anyone know of a WM that's relaly easy to customize, but also very flexible?
So you're suggesting that when book one was being designed the situations in book four were being considered relevant? I don't think that's right on any level.
Funny you should mention Hyperion because that's what I'm reading at the moment (Fall of Hyperion now, actually). My response to the cover was the same; my roommate gave me the book and I thought, "this is going to be good?" Of course it was and I am very happy I read it.
<geek tangent>Also the cover for Hyperion is inaccurate anyways - the Shrike has four arms. Why even bother to put it on the cover with only two?</geek>
As a graphic designer and artist myself I'm really surprised that anyone in my profession would create such poor covers. Where are these self-respecting "artists" creating such trash? I'm betting (hoping) that there is some sort of communication problem between management and the artist and that the person creating the cover hasn't actually read the book.
I think you're right. I just wanted to point out that Apple appears to have learned the same lesson since they give out all the OS X development tools as well, including a nice GUI IDE.
The three-part series dealing with the middle aged men showing up dead in bathtubs of apparent suicide was great. I won't spoil the ending but it was perfect, the twists along the way were truly shocking, and the good guys did not entirely win.
We may debate the validness of some of the science on the show (I take issue with many of their unpossible audio tricks) but story lines and twists like this trump some of the best we've seen on The X-Files.
I was going to say the same thing. I've been using Cocoa and it is very nice. At first I thought that the use of square brackets was ugly but now I've learned to love it - in much the same way I learned to love Python's use of white space.
Also, this question is ridiculous. There is no mention of platform requirements or speed, so I'm assuming that Python might be a real possibility.
Damn.
"the county was largely Republican"
You don't happen to remember what country this was? I want to know what other country on earth has both Democratic and Republican parties.
Can anyone explain to me how AOL is changing their protocol without breaking their own IM? Is their client just more flexible, or does it have built in support for a dozen protocol revisions?
I would hope that whatever they're doing the clues as to what the next change might be are already there in the client. Perhaps we could build a fake ICQ server and run tests on the AOL client with slightly modified protocols to see what it supports. Then build in the same support into Trillian et al.
For me I'd love to stop using AOL's ICQ since I use OS X. The official client doesn't behave at all like a good OS X app should.
Wouldn't be the end of the entire vegetarian scene. To some people meat tastes bad in the same way some people don't like vegetables. There will always be some desirable health benefits to vegetarianism. Lab-grown meat may also introduce new health issues.
However, your idea of grown meat may have major benefit to people that already eat meat. Prices would likely drop since better cuts would be just as easy to produce and more common ones. Also the health of meat could probably improve (no more artificial hormones).
If what we are seeking is equality/respect..
Obviously, that's isn't at all what he is seeking.
Not only did he scam most news agencies, he drinks Guinness.
Ya damn, thought I would have given it up when I hit 50. Oh well, not like I care.
As long as talentless trolls like you are around there'll always be room for talentless karma whores like me.
And just for that, I'm +1ing myself. Ha-ha.
Forgive me for pointing out the obvious but this is good for several reasons. The one I'm most pleased with is the moral aspect. Assuming this is true we no longer need to farm embryonic humans for stem cells. We can gather them (and possibly in a superior form) from consenting adults.
This may also help compatibility. If there were any problems with a replacement organ for example then this would possibly lessen the chances of rejection.
Of course this still leaves moral controversy over what is done with these stem cells - I mean, that whole human cloning thing.
Obviously once he wins a few cases there will be precedent that should stop suck domains from being taken away. This isn't a workaround at all, unless you have a time machine and can travel back to the 90s and repair the damage there.
If quality matters I just burn it onto a CD. For mixed CDs I nearly always go from the original CD, rip to uncompressed (usually WAVs) then burn the CD with a few of those. Modern CD drives can rip a track in a few seconds, and burners can of course burn the disc nearly as fast.
If I want my PC to play songs then I don't mind high bit rate MP3s. MP3s also have the advantage of working with everything. Especially on my Mac with iTunes.
I'd be really impressed if S. Jobs introduced a better codec as a big new iTunes 3 feature.
I run an online web comic. But it's the sunday funnies type, not the comic book/novel type. My business model (once up and running, sigh) is to sell merchandise.
Thanks to Cafe Press this is really, really easy to do. They are legit to - I've made real money selling merch for my band. Of course with the cut they take, it had better be legit!
You forgot how Winamp creator's Gnutella was crushed by AOL. How much better could the Gnutella network have been if development could have continued with its original authors?
Why sell to an Australian company? Am I totally wrong in assuming that the rampant government censorship of the internet would be a bad thing for this company? I could probably think of a dozen countries that would be a better place to have KaZaA.
Well, at least they didn't move to the US.
These wars are as much drone wars as my PC is artificial intelligence. We aren't there yet. We may never be.
But unlike AI I think the benefits of this kind of war are hard to deny. Drones don't hate you. Drones don't rape. They don't kill children or torture civilians.
It won't make defeat much more bearable but it may add decency - if such a thing can be present in war.
Steve knows that PowerMac sales will be weak. I believe that he has done this in the hopes of boosting iMac sales. Apple really can't afford to have this iMac turn out a flop. By cannibalizing their own products they are trying to guarantee strong iMac sales.
I keep buying Windows versions, hoping I'll get lucky.
Ya, sounds like most Windows users I know.
No, people understating other people's achievements. That's the human race I know.