And they could add some preference options for people who come from normal computing backgrounds -i.e., ones where the Home and End keys actually move to the beginning and end of the current line.
My computing background has taught me that Home and End keys are represented by CTRL-A and CTRL-E, respectively. When I bought my first Mac, I was pleased to discover that what I learned was still valid and Just Worked as promised.;-)
Granted, what you say about some of Finder's behaviour is valid, and similarly valid (but often less annoying) for replacement file managers like Path Finder, but I reckon few really care or notice. And of those that do, they probably have trivial needs. File management is important to me so instead of maintaining A Really Big List of why Finder, Path Finder et al suck, I opted for the CMS route, dropping to a terminal as needed and relying on a mix of AppleScript + Bash for routine chores.
If it helps. Option + Up Arrow can take you to Home where Home is the top of a list.
[Posted at 02:58 PM ET, 12/08/2011] And even though [Verizon Chief Executive Lowell McAdam] insisted that Verizon will rigorously promote its FiOS video and Internet service in areas that compete with cable, the company said it doesn't have plans to expand the expensive fiber network beyond what's already been announced and scheduled for buildout over the next couple years.
Southampton Council is a Unitary Authority; they sit at district level, which is one up from the lowest level, which is Parish Councils.
Ah, but you've neglected to include what's most pertinent. District level councils report directly to the Ministry of Information, yes? That means if you're a cabbie, or a passenger, you'll end up dealing with the folks at Information Retrieval.
Considering one of the focus areas of recent MS endeavours is to provide a richer baked-in shell (powershell), OSX has the same CLI credentials as the rest of the *nix world, it's silly at this point to say CLI is dead or dying
Actually, OS X is a step ahead of both (broadly speaking) in that you can script the GUI as well.
Yes, AppleScript is clumsy, uncessarily verbose (worse than PowerShell), etc, and while it's true that some third-party programs aren't as "scriptable" as advertised, AppleScript is there when you need it and powerful enough to handle whatever you need to do.
My own approach is to use AppleScript sparingly (typically as a wrapper for bog standard shell scripts) and use osacompile(1) to make an "app" out of the result. For everything else, I maintain a library of shell functions that make use of osascript(1). Combined with things like OS X's impressive ability to define system-wide or application-specific hotkeys, the unified clipboard, the text-based default(1) system, customisable desktop/toolbars, scripting of any sort in OS X is the Cat's Meow.
And then, of course, there's iTerm. A pleasure to use, with more features than most users will ever need.
For the kids following along at home, here's the etymology according Wikipedia:
The brigand is supposed to derive his name from the Old French brigan, which is a form of the Italian brigante, an irregular or partisan soldier. There can be no doubt as to the origin of the word bandit, which has the same meaning. In Italy, which is not unjustly considered the home of the most accomplished European brigands, a bandito was a man declared outlaw by proclamation, or bando, [3][4] called in Scotland "a decree of horning" because it was delivered by a blast of a horn at the town cross.
The brigand, therefore, is the outlaw who conducts warfare after the manner of an irregular or partisan soldier by skirmishes and surprises, who makes the war support itself by plunder, by extorting blackmail, by capturing prisoners and holding them to ransom, who enforces his demands by violence, and kills the prisoners who cannot pay.
It's been more than a few years since I've been back, so I'll assume that what you say about Canadian content is still valid. And while I agree with your comment, I'll add that there is nothing you or anyone else can do to give me the years I endured listening to Gordon Lightfoot, Anne Murray and Rush on the radio.
NPR on this side of the border isn't half bad. There's college stations just about everywhere that stream fairly good music (KCRW in Los Angeles, as one example), in addition to news and commentary, etc.. I stopped listening to music when the Pixies broke up, so I really don't care one way or the other.
Now, if all those Anne Murray songs would leave my head... and Celine Dion would stop yelling...
I cannot find an actual server (with redundant power supplies, hotswap drive bays, monitoring hardware) that has a lot of drive bays, but less than 4 CPUs, because the $CPU ones are extremely expensive and I don't need 4 CPUs anyway. The only affordable ones have 4-6 bays max.
I bought this 4U system. If memory serves me right (too lazy to check), it accomodates two power supplies. I opted for just one. The chassis, I think, is this Supermicro chassis. It has 8 hot swap drive bays (plus 2 peripheral).
Worth pointing out that the same applies to vegetables and fruits. Winter tomatoes grown in the sandy soils of Florida can't really be compared nutritionally to what someone can get out of their own garden.
Ultimately, it's all about the "ingredients". That's long been considered a truism for chefs in the kitchen as it is for someone involved in raising animals. That this is routinely overlooked, glossed over or otherwise dismissed in the pursuit of economic interests and efficiencies is both funny and tragic. Funny in the sense of "What the hell did you expect?", and tragic in the sense of engaging in (and wasting time and effort with) tortured discussions of good/bad ideas and practices which, ultimately, are workaround to workarounds.
In our society, non-functional frizz, whether it is the shape of a corner or the wail of a "singer", is given a very high value because the country is run by arts graduates rather than scientists and engineers.
So... it's the art school graduates, is it?
You think they're conspiring with the members of the Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberg Group to achieve world dominance, or do they just want to take over the White House and re-decorate it?
Yeah, there's probably still some mention of it in the FAQ, but seriously, how plausible is it that a few Slashdot readers opting to use their favourite news client to read what's on these pages represents a serious loss of advertising revenue?
Slashdot's gotten "prettier" over the years, but no amount of Web 2.0 is going to offer features (commonplace 20 years ago) that encourage and facilitate proper discussions.
As it is now, I'm inclined to view the words on my screen like grafitti on a bathroom wall. Some of it may be worth reading, but trying to make real sense of it often isn't worth the trouble.
In that case, you'd be better off with the Microsoft model. Providing, of course, you follow the time-honed tradition of postponing things until the release of the first service pack. Will it still fit on a USB stick, I wonder.
Snarky comments aside, it would be interesting to see whether other manufacturers adopt anything similar for their products. If they don't, well, I don't have to get annoyed until 2:00 a.m some time this November.
Words have meaning. The expression "small and mid-sized business" as you intend to mean it are NOT the "small and medium sized business" as defined by the SBA. The SBA gets to set the definition not me, you, or anyone else, except perhaps for the purpose casual discussion between two people who a priori agree on the meanings of the words they use.
I'll help you out here. The point you're trying to make is that the type of businesses without dedicated IT personnel (ranging in size from SOHO up to possibly the lower end of small businesses), will get by with fewer IT personnel. No argument there.
The point the article was making, however similar, concerned itself with business typically much larger than what you're thinking of. Those business are referred to "small businesses" by the SBA, economists, and interested third-parties. And they do not include SOHO operations.
Small & mid-size. You know, the types of businesses that don't have dedicated IT departments, or who have...
If you're using "no dedicated IT department" as a criteria for defining what constitutes a "small business", then I'm afraid your definition is next to useless.
You can check out this link to help you better understand things.
For those following along at home: the term "small business" has a more defined meaning that what's used colloquially, especially when used (disingenuously) by politicians, pundits and, on occasion, unemployed plumbers, attemping to stoke populist rage.
Hell, telex of the 1940s was still five times faster then your claim of half a second.
Too lazy too look it up, but I'd wager that telex in the 1970s was probably faster. More importantly, business of all sorts relied on telex communications well into 1980s which, coincidentally, is the same time frame of this discussion.
Not because it signifies the rise of the machines or anything (well, maybe, but that's not what I'm on about now), but because what it might do to your reading habits. If you only read things you agree with, you never get to see the other side of the coin, you don't get to argue for or against, you just live in your own comfy little pink safe world.
I certainly don't fall into the category of reading only those things with which I agree. I'd even go so far as to say I typically don't read things I enjoy (unless you extend the meaning of "enjoy" to include something that's new, difficult or otherwise challenging).
Nor do I subscribe to the "popularity model". Hardly a day goes by when I don't scratch my head to ask one of two questions, "Are people really interested in this rubbish?" and "If so, why are they bothering with this particular article or news story?"
That said, I do, as an example, keep news.google.com open in my browser. Not because I rely on (even partially) for my "source" of news, but because I can keep abreast of what does interest others (a small, but occasionally informative reward). Serendipitous discoveries are best found elsewhere.
So, given the choice between the Popularity model and the What I Like model, I'll opt for the latter. Fortunately, none of us is forced into making such a choice because we have the additional option of deferring to folks smarter and more educated than ourselves.
So instead of debating the pros and cons of the two extremes, I'd suggest the more important question is where the hell are all the good editors?
Standardized exams are awful measures of intelligence or ability.
I see that written a lot.
What I don't see written about are the problems associated with poor, rural or otherwise backwater high schools graduating students at the top of their class who are not only unprepared for college, but also less educated than their counterparts at "better" schools in a different part of the state of country.
That, incidentally, is what's behind the push for standardised testing.
Say what you want about tests and test-taking abilities, an under-prepared and/or under-educated student graduating with high grades is an indication of failure. Just as importantly, it's a disservice to the student.
If you don't "teach to the exam", what exactly are you teaching to? And if making it up as you go along is the way to go, what is it you're going to measure? How much fun and creativity happened during classtime?
When I was a kid, your commercial for the Commodore VIC-20 convinced me that I had to have one (because Captain Kirk was advertising it!). I used it to learn some programming (both BASIC and assembler) and it was the early foundation for what I do today.
Well, when I was a kid, our entirely family sat around the TV and regularly watched his Loblaw's commercials.
As for Chinese website design, I think it's partly linguistic. Chinese can fit a whole sales pitch on two square inches. So their websites look like lots of little boxes, all crammed together. It's a weird aesthetic.
Not sure whether the Ling's Cars website is representative of the weird aesthetic you refer to, but it's a hoot nevertheless.
A must see for aspiring web designers everywhere.;-)
They serve the Laughing God. There is a definite, divine purpose. You just don't understand it.
God, huh? Let me try...
Lulzsec, peace be upon them.
Hmm. Doesn't work, does it? I'll come in again.
Let us praise God. O Lord... O Lord......Ooh, You are so big......So absolutely huge. Gosh, we're all really impressed down here, I can tell You. Forgive us, O Lord, for this, our dreadful toadying, and... And barefaced flattery. But You are so strong and, well, just so super. Fantastic. Amen.
A bit better, but still doesn't work.
Sorry, mate. If there's greater principle at work here, or a something that's worshipped, I'd suggest it's narcissism. But then, that's a pathology, isn't it? Or more charitably, a character defect common to those not out of adolescence.
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My computing background has taught me that Home and End keys are represented by CTRL-A and CTRL-E, respectively. When I bought my first Mac, I was pleased to discover that what I learned was still valid and Just Worked as promised. ;-)
Granted, what you say about some of Finder's behaviour is valid, and similarly valid (but often less annoying) for replacement file managers like Path Finder, but I reckon few really care or notice. And of those that do, they probably have trivial needs. File management is important to me so instead of maintaining A Really Big List of why Finder, Path Finder et al suck, I opted for the CMS route, dropping to a terminal as needed and relying on a mix of AppleScript + Bash for routine chores.
If it helps. Option + Up Arrow can take you to Home where Home is the top of a list.
Someone is paying attention.
From a randomly selected source
Ah, but you've neglected to include what's most pertinent. District level councils report directly to the Ministry of Information, yes? That means if you're a cabbie, or a passenger, you'll end up dealing with the folks at Information Retrieval.
I don't keep up. Is that Portuguese or Esperanto?
Fair enough. Now explain grafting.
Shiny side in or out?
Actually, OS X is a step ahead of both (broadly speaking) in that you can script the GUI as well.
Yes, AppleScript is clumsy, uncessarily verbose (worse than PowerShell), etc, and while it's true that some third-party programs aren't as "scriptable" as advertised, AppleScript is there when you need it and powerful enough to handle whatever you need to do.
My own approach is to use AppleScript sparingly (typically as a wrapper for bog standard shell scripts) and use osacompile(1) to make an "app" out of the result. For everything else, I maintain a library of shell functions that make use of osascript(1). Combined with things like OS X's impressive ability to define system-wide or application-specific hotkeys, the unified clipboard, the text-based default(1) system, customisable desktop/toolbars, scripting of any sort in OS X is the Cat's Meow.
And then, of course, there's iTerm. A pleasure to use, with more features than most users will ever need.
I've just finished reading the book in its entirety and highly recommend others interested in the subject read it also.
My thanks for pointing it out.
Well done, sir!
For the kids following along at home, here's the etymology according Wikipedia :
Do they really celebrate Running of the Jew in Antarctica?
[Sorry, someone had to slip a Borat joke]
It's been more than a few years since I've been back, so I'll assume that what you say about Canadian content is still valid. And while I agree with your comment, I'll add that there is nothing you or anyone else can do to give me the years I endured listening to Gordon Lightfoot, Anne Murray and Rush on the radio.
NPR on this side of the border isn't half bad. There's college stations just about everywhere that stream fairly good music (KCRW in Los Angeles, as one example), in addition to news and commentary, etc.. I stopped listening to music when the Pixies broke up, so I really don't care one way or the other.
Now, if all those Anne Murray songs would leave my head ... and Celine Dion would stop yelling ...
I bought this 4U system. If memory serves me right (too lazy to check), it accomodates two power supplies. I opted for just one. The chassis, I think, is this Supermicro chassis. It has 8 hot swap drive bays (plus 2 peripheral).
Is that what you're looking for?
Worth pointing out that the same applies to vegetables and fruits. Winter tomatoes grown in the sandy soils of Florida can't really be compared nutritionally to what someone can get out of their own garden.
Ultimately, it's all about the "ingredients". That's long been considered a truism for chefs in the kitchen as it is for someone involved in raising animals. That this is routinely overlooked, glossed over or otherwise dismissed in the pursuit of economic interests and efficiencies is both funny and tragic. Funny in the sense of "What the hell did you expect?", and tragic in the sense of engaging in (and wasting time and effort with) tortured discussions of good/bad ideas and practices which, ultimately, are workaround to workarounds.
So ... it's the art school graduates, is it?
You think they're conspiring with the members of the Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberg Group to achieve world dominance, or do they just want to take over the White House and re-decorate it?
Yeah, there's probably still some mention of it in the FAQ, but seriously, how plausible is it that a few Slashdot readers opting to use their favourite news client to read what's on these pages represents a serious loss of advertising revenue?
Slashdot's gotten "prettier" over the years, but no amount of Web 2.0 is going to offer features (commonplace 20 years ago) that encourage and facilitate proper discussions.
As it is now, I'm inclined to view the words on my screen like grafitti on a bathroom wall. Some of it may be worth reading, but trying to make real sense of it often isn't worth the trouble.
Seems the moderators are asleep today. For those following along at home, the quote
is from a similarly underrated (but apropos and very funny) Monty Python skit.
In that case, you'd be better off with the Microsoft model. Providing, of course, you follow the time-honed tradition of postponing things until the release of the first service pack. Will it still fit on a USB stick, I wonder.
Snarky comments aside, it would be interesting to see whether other manufacturers adopt anything similar for their products. If they don't, well, I don't have to get annoyed until 2:00 a.m some time this November.
Dear Lord. What pedantry?
Words have meaning. The expression "small and mid-sized business" as you intend to mean it are NOT the "small and medium sized business" as defined by the SBA. The SBA gets to set the definition not me, you, or anyone else, except perhaps for the purpose casual discussion between two people who a priori agree on the meanings of the words they use.
I'll help you out here. The point you're trying to make is that the type of businesses without dedicated IT personnel (ranging in size from SOHO up to possibly the lower end of small businesses), will get by with fewer IT personnel. No argument there.
The point the article was making, however similar, concerned itself with business typically much larger than what you're thinking of. Those business are referred to "small businesses" by the SBA, economists, and interested third-parties. And they do not include SOHO operations.
If you're using "no dedicated IT department" as a criteria for defining what constitutes a "small business", then I'm afraid your definition is next to useless.
You can check out this link to help you better understand things.
For those following along at home: the term "small business" has a more defined meaning that what's used colloquially, especially when used (disingenuously) by politicians, pundits and, on occasion, unemployed plumbers, attemping to stoke populist rage.
Too lazy too look it up, but I'd wager that telex in the 1970s was probably faster. More importantly, business of all sorts relied on telex communications well into 1980s which, coincidentally, is the same time frame of this discussion.
CU L8R
I certainly don't fall into the category of reading only those things with which I agree. I'd even go so far as to say I typically don't read things I enjoy (unless you extend the meaning of "enjoy" to include something that's new, difficult or otherwise challenging).
Nor do I subscribe to the "popularity model". Hardly a day goes by when I don't scratch my head to ask one of two questions, "Are people really interested in this rubbish?" and "If so, why are they bothering with this particular article or news story?"
That said, I do, as an example, keep news.google.com open in my browser. Not because I rely on (even partially) for my "source" of news, but because I can keep abreast of what does interest others (a small, but occasionally informative reward). Serendipitous discoveries are best found elsewhere.
So, given the choice between the Popularity model and the What I Like model, I'll opt for the latter. Fortunately, none of us is forced into making such a choice because we have the additional option of deferring to folks smarter and more educated than ourselves.
So instead of debating the pros and cons of the two extremes, I'd suggest the more important question is where the hell are all the good editors?
I see that written a lot.
What I don't see written about are the problems associated with poor, rural or otherwise backwater high schools graduating students at the top of their class who are not only unprepared for college, but also less educated than their counterparts at "better" schools in a different part of the state of country.
That, incidentally, is what's behind the push for standardised testing.
Say what you want about tests and test-taking abilities, an under-prepared and/or under-educated student graduating with high grades is an indication of failure. Just as importantly, it's a disservice to the student.
If you don't "teach to the exam", what exactly are you teaching to? And if making it up as you go along is the way to go, what is it you're going to measure? How much fun and creativity happened during classtime?
Well, when I was a kid, our entirely family sat around the TV and regularly watched his Loblaw's commercials.
Sigh.
Ok, I'm not impressed either.
Not sure whether the Ling's Cars website is representative of the weird aesthetic you refer to, but it's a hoot nevertheless.
A must see for aspiring web designers everywhere. ;-)
God, huh? Let me try ...
Lulzsec, peace be upon them.
Hmm. Doesn't work, does it? I'll come in again.
Let us praise God. O Lord... ...Ooh, You are so big... ...So absolutely huge.
O Lord...
Gosh, we're all really impressed down here, I can tell You.
Forgive us, O Lord, for this, our dreadful toadying, and...
And barefaced flattery.
But You are so strong and, well, just so super.
Fantastic.
Amen.
A bit better, but still doesn't work.
Sorry, mate. If there's greater principle at work here, or a something that's worshipped, I'd suggest it's narcissism. But then, that's a pathology, isn't it? Or more charitably, a character defect common to those not out of adolescence.