oh, I can label contacts with a group name, but the only functionality that gives me a custom ringtones for the group. there appears to be no way to view just contacts of one group apart from the screen where you add/remove contacts from the group which has no options for making calls or sending messages. the phone is an nokia 6230 i think
my phone is pretty ancient so perhaps it's a common feature now, but multiple address books sounds like something that would be useful everywhere, not just Uganda. being able to separate work contacts, from social contacts and from old school contacts would be great.
$ ssh localhost
Last login: Thu Jun 19 09:35:17 2008
lucas@Hackintosh ~
$ osascript -e 'tell app "ARDAgent" to do shell script "whoami"'
23:47: execution error: ARDAgent got an error: "whoami" doesn't understand the do shell script message. (-1708)
what am I doing wrong? is this fixed in 10.5.3 or something?
McGrattan boasts that 70% to 80% of the time, she can look at a chunk of computer code and tell if it was written by a man or a woman.
...at Ingres because only about 20% of the engineers are women, McGrattan says. (Most of them are in jobs involving quality assurance or adapting the product to a new locale, she says, and not the "heavy lifting" of writing code.)
So, basically, she'd get a higher score if she guessed "man" every time than if she tries to be clever. Clearly, then, she does think some men's code looks like it's been written by a woman, which invalidates to point of the article.
I have mod points but you're already at 5 so I'm just going to reiterate your comment as it's the most insightful thing in this discussion yet. reading between the lines on that second quote, it appears she wouldn't get just a slightly higher score by always guessing it was a man who wrote the code, but a much higher score since only 20% of the engineers are women and most are not writing code. I think all this article really tells us is that Ingres churns out shitty code and (like most software dev companies) has a larger percentage of men working there than women
Now the GameCube controller, that was damn near perfection. Never before had I held a controller that fit my hands as if it were custom-made for them. you have got to be joking! that controller felt like it moulded for the hands of someone who'd been in a nasty accident that had broken every bone in their hands and had them mend in the wrong places... say, you weren't in a nasty hand-deforming accident by any chance?
are you aware of the linux and osx ports of xbmc that are underway? while they're not quite to the standard of xbmc on the xbox just yet, they've come a long way in the year they've been working on it. I think I'll be swapping my xbox for a much quieter linux pc with specs actually capable of playing back HD videos, just as soon as they get the tv and movie library modes working the way they do on the xbox.
Of course, they don't/have/ to read it, but that's their own damn fault. but even without making them wait, it's still their own damn fault. there's a saying about leading a horse to water but not being able to make it drink, which i think is quite fitting for the problem.
having just read the blog you linked to, it sounds like "making users read" isnt even the primary reason they implemented the feature, but instead to fix a security problem.
Mind you, I think I'd find that behaviour infuriating in most apps. I think that nails it. as a trial user, the developers of winzip have an interest in frustrating you so you might consider purchasing the full version so you dont have to deal with the window. trying that shit for general purpose message dialogs is only going to piss off the power users who really do know what the dialog says, and were already anticipating it before it was on the screen.
Mac OS, OTOH, encourages the developer puts sensible text on all the buttons, so the buttons themselves say "Reformat hard drive and kill everyone I've ever cared for/Blowjob". Amongst other things, this effectively stops the end user from being immunised to actually reading the dialogue box because the buttons aren't always the same. While I agree that it's better design, and for users who actual read it makes the dialogs much less ambiguous, the clueless folk will still get by without reading anything as the "affirmative" button is always on the right, so their habit would be to click whatever is on the right, as opposed to clicking the yes button. the problem is a human one, and no amount of good design can fix it
So obviously the solution is to teach users to click on Accept every time a box comes up. Because that's all that the Vista UAC has done, is train hundreds of thousands of users that when a box pops up, you hit accept to do what you were trying to do. 95% (a figured pulled from my butt) of computer users DO NOT READ the messages that pop up in front of them. I'm completely amazed by the number of people I've encountered studying computer science that could have a dialog box pop up that says "click yes to reformat your hard drive and kill everyone you've ever cared about, or click no for a blow job" who would not read the fucking thing and click yes to get it out of their way.
personally, I dont think it's really microsofts fault, and that's coming from a mostly happy apple user. MS are an easy target because they have the most clueless users but if you moved all those users to another platform they would not suddenly start caring what the computer says. people in general seem to try and be as completely ignorant as to how things work as possible. it's almost like they think that by being ignorant to how it works, they can then pass off the blame when the computer does what they told it to do.
"do you want to delete the file 'final report.doc'? doing so is a permanent operation and can not be undone." "ok, whatever! just hurry up and stop asking me stuff... hey, where'd my file go? fucking worthless computer! always doing the wrong thing!"
$1/gigabyte is all kinds of reasonable when you see the prices that telco's in other countries get away with charging. take telstra bigpong cable in australia. you can pay AU$40 (about US$38) and receive a "massive" 200Mb each month (with line speeds of up to 30000 kbps down / 1000 kbps up) and then if you go over that (in around 53 seconds) you can pay the wonderfully low rate of AU$150 / gigabyte (about US$142 / gigabyte). you'd have to be a sucker to sign up, but it's heart breaking to hear about old folk who didn't know any better being ripped off by such a bunch of greedy pricks
Marketer: Wow, what a jerk. I was going to put in a request to get a line out there, but forget that. I hope he never gets DSL. yeah, because people working cold calling telemarketing jobs are obviously an incredibly powerful bunch. I'm sure there's a checkbox in their script monkey flowchart application with the label "Provision DLSAM" and now they're not going to check it
10.5.3 hosed my system. clicked "restart" from the update window before I went to lunch, came back an hour later to find the machine endlessly attempting to start the window server, showing me some nice blue wallpaper for 30 seconds and then crashing and attempting to start the window server again.
rather than try and work out what was wrong I decided to try out a full restore from time machine, only to find that the on installer dvd when you get to the screen where you pick the drive to restore from the friggin "choose a remote drive" button is greyed out. So I'm allowed to back up to another mac, but they left out the ability to restore from one? pulling the drive out of the other mac and putting it in an external enclosure has got things going, but it's not really something that should have to be done.
I've been using time machine over the network to another mac for a while now, I learnt something interesting today though.
I installed 10.5.3 and it messed up and wouldnt boot. kept crashing shortly after loading the window server, getting into an endless loop of loading the window server, crashing and attempting to load the window server again.
"never mind" I though, "I'll try out the time machine complete restore". so I boot off the leopard dvd and pick restore from backup. I get to the screen where you pick the drive to restore from. there's a greyed out button that says something along the lines of "choose a remote drive" which you obviously cant click, and the window itself only shows locally connected drives. fantastic, they've left out network restores from the installer disk. luckily I had an external hdd case I could put the backup drive into, but I'm rather pissed that they left out a very important feature.
Cheers, I'll take a look because I would really like a way to stream high def content that the original xbox just cant decode fast enough. but for regular downloaded videos xbmc still wins because of it's library mode. it'll scan your shares for tvshow.s01e08.avi, then scrape one of the only tv database to get episode names, synopsis (or movie details for movies) and thumbnails for folders, and even track what you have and havent watched yet.
I was thinking the same thing. The way the 360 integrates with an internal Windows network to deliver high quality video and audio is pretty darn slick.
I fixed that for you. Microsoft's failure to allow the 360 to stream over widely supported protocols is pathetic. you can't even use SMB, which they developed themselves. even using the one windows pc in the house with WMP11 I've had endless troubles with getting the 360 to see the damn pc. uPNP seems pretty half baked if you ask me.
maybe I've had my expectations set too high after using xbox media centre for so long, but after being able to watch pretty much any video format over nearly any protocol the 360's media "integration" just seems like a polished turd
if i had to guess, the sort of person buying a mac pro is also going to have a monitor capable of 1920x1200, and the low end graphics cards in a mac pro probably wont cope with 3d games in the screens native res very well at all
three points. 1) it's AU$, so it's slightly less in the US$ you're used to thinking in. 2) prices in australia include sales tax, it's the law. none of this "before tax price" funny buggers you guys do in the states. and 3) we pretty much always get ripped off in australia, sorta like britian but not as bad. normally we pay (US price)*(Exchange rate)*(ripoff factor)+tax.
the price in america will almost certianly be closer to the $400 you got charged for the original eeepc
Regardless of how nice the reader is, its worthless to me as long as I can only get something from "their online store of X number of books". Until I can find any random book (yes, including all the zillion tech books we all collect) in eBook form, the device serves no purpose to me.
I do not follow your logic. because a ebook reader cant do $EVERYTHING, you're unable to find any use for it? what wrong with using it for the books that are available for it, and using deadtree books for those that arent?
dont get me wrong, I dont own an ebook reader so I cant say if they're useful or not, but your reasoning is complete crap.
do you own a cd player? how do you cope with the fact that some stuff that came out on record never came out on cd? until the cd player has the same content as records, the device serves no purpose to you... right? or does it sound as dumb to you as it does to me
more importantly, the suggested script stops working correctly as soon as you start using wildcards.
rm-script *.jpg
that script will only delete the first file matching the wildcard because the shell does the wildcard expansion, while arguments $2 onwards are not affected. you could write a more complex script, but it still wont solve the other problems you pointed out
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oh, I can label contacts with a group name, but the only functionality that gives me a custom ringtones for the group. there appears to be no way to view just contacts of one group apart from the screen where you add/remove contacts from the group which has no options for making calls or sending messages. the phone is an nokia 6230 i think
my phone is pretty ancient so perhaps it's a common feature now, but multiple address books sounds like something that would be useful everywhere, not just Uganda. being able to separate work contacts, from social contacts and from old school contacts would be great.
I had assumed he meant someone should kill bush, but perhaps he meant foreign leaders
$ ssh localhost
Last login: Thu Jun 19 09:35:17 2008
lucas@Hackintosh ~
$ osascript -e 'tell app "ARDAgent" to do shell script "whoami"'
23:47: execution error: ARDAgent got an error: "whoami" doesn't understand the do shell script message. (-1708)
what am I doing wrong? is this fixed in 10.5.3 or something?
...at Ingres because only about 20% of the engineers are women, McGrattan says. (Most of them are in jobs involving quality assurance or adapting the product to a new locale, she says, and not the "heavy lifting" of writing code.)So, basically, she'd get a higher score if she guessed "man" every time than if she tries to be clever. Clearly, then, she does think some men's code looks like it's been written by a woman, which invalidates to point of the article.
I have mod points but you're already at 5 so I'm just going to reiterate your comment as it's the most insightful thing in this discussion yet. reading between the lines on that second quote, it appears she wouldn't get just a slightly higher score by always guessing it was a man who wrote the code, but a much higher score since only 20% of the engineers are women and most are not writing code. I think all this article really tells us is that Ingres churns out shitty code and (like most software dev companies) has a larger percentage of men working there than womenhave you logged a bug on bugzilla?
are you aware of the linux and osx ports of xbmc that are underway? while they're not quite to the standard of xbmc on the xbox just yet, they've come a long way in the year they've been working on it. I think I'll be swapping my xbox for a much quieter linux pc with specs actually capable of playing back HD videos, just as soon as they get the tv and movie library modes working the way they do on the xbox.
having just read the blog you linked to, it sounds like "making users read" isnt even the primary reason they implemented the feature, but instead to fix a security problem.
personally, I dont think it's really microsofts fault, and that's coming from a mostly happy apple user. MS are an easy target because they have the most clueless users but if you moved all those users to another platform they would not suddenly start caring what the computer says. people in general seem to try and be as completely ignorant as to how things work as possible. it's almost like they think that by being ignorant to how it works, they can then pass off the blame when the computer does what they told it to do.
"do you want to delete the file 'final report.doc'? doing so is a permanent operation and can not be undone."
"ok, whatever! just hurry up and stop asking me stuff... hey, where'd my file go? fucking worthless computer! always doing the wrong thing!"
overrated maybe (it's appears at to be 1 to me), but troll? what the hell are you smoking? did JT get mod points ./ or something?
woohoo! surely the end of his reign of terror must be here!
$1/gigabyte is all kinds of reasonable when you see the prices that telco's in other countries get away with charging. take telstra bigpong cable in australia. you can pay AU$40 (about US$38) and receive a "massive" 200Mb each month (with line speeds of up to 30000 kbps down / 1000 kbps up) and then if you go over that (in around 53 seconds) you can pay the wonderfully low rate of AU$150 / gigabyte (about US$142 / gigabyte). you'd have to be a sucker to sign up, but it's heart breaking to hear about old folk who didn't know any better being ripped off by such a bunch of greedy pricks
10.5.3 hosed my system. clicked "restart" from the update window before I went to lunch, came back an hour later to find the machine endlessly attempting to start the window server, showing me some nice blue wallpaper for 30 seconds and then crashing and attempting to start the window server again.
rather than try and work out what was wrong I decided to try out a full restore from time machine, only to find that the on installer dvd when you get to the screen where you pick the drive to restore from the friggin "choose a remote drive" button is greyed out. So I'm allowed to back up to another mac, but they left out the ability to restore from one? pulling the drive out of the other mac and putting it in an external enclosure has got things going, but it's not really something that should have to be done.
far from happy with Apple today.
I've been using time machine over the network to another mac for a while now, I learnt something interesting today though.
I installed 10.5.3 and it messed up and wouldnt boot. kept crashing shortly after loading the window server, getting into an endless loop of loading the window server, crashing and attempting to load the window server again.
"never mind" I though, "I'll try out the time machine complete restore". so I boot off the leopard dvd and pick restore from backup. I get to the screen where you pick the drive to restore from. there's a greyed out button that says something along the lines of "choose a remote drive" which you obviously cant click, and the window itself only shows locally connected drives. fantastic, they've left out network restores from the installer disk. luckily I had an external hdd case I could put the backup drive into, but I'm rather pissed that they left out a very important feature.
Cheers, I'll take a look because I would really like a way to stream high def content that the original xbox just cant decode fast enough. but for regular downloaded videos xbmc still wins because of it's library mode. it'll scan your shares for tvshow.s01e08.avi, then scrape one of the only tv database to get episode names, synopsis (or movie details for movies) and thumbnails for folders, and even track what you have and havent watched yet.
maybe I've had my expectations set too high after using xbox media centre for so long, but after being able to watch pretty much any video format over nearly any protocol the 360's media "integration" just seems like a polished turd
and that's a completely different complaint (and a much more understandable one) than your original post.
if i had to guess, the sort of person buying a mac pro is also going to have a monitor capable of 1920x1200, and the low end graphics cards in a mac pro probably wont cope with 3d games in the screens native res very well at all
three points.
1) it's AU$, so it's slightly less in the US$ you're used to thinking in.
2) prices in australia include sales tax, it's the law. none of this "before tax price" funny buggers you guys do in the states.
and 3) we pretty much always get ripped off in australia, sorta like britian but not as bad. normally we pay (US price)*(Exchange rate)*(ripoff factor)+tax.
the price in america will almost certianly be closer to the $400 you got charged for the original eeepc
dont get me wrong, I dont own an ebook reader so I cant say if they're useful or not, but your reasoning is complete crap.
do you own a cd player? how do you cope with the fact that some stuff that came out on record never came out on cd? until the cd player has the same content as records, the device serves no purpose to you... right? or does it sound as dumb to you as it does to me
that script will only delete the first file matching the wildcard because the shell does the wildcard expansion, while arguments $2 onwards are not affected. you could write a more complex script, but it still wont solve the other problems you pointed out