That's both +5 funny and +5 insightful. If only more people would understand how clueless their "if you don't like it the source code is right there" attitude can be.
Not really, but since the first part of the word also exists in french (inter) most people don't seem to think about it.
Almost all languages still alive today keep taking things from other languages. Sometimes it makes sense (courriel, pourriel, disque dur, etc) and sometimes it doesn't (hambourgeois au fromage... didn't take though, people kept calling them cheeseburgers because hambourgeois au fromage sounds too stupid).:p
But sometimes they (OLF) try to steal words directly. The worst I can remember right now is "webmestre"... Yep, that's supposed to be the french word for "webmaster"... What idiot thought that up? WTF is a "mestre" anyway?
Actually the name is "Office de la langue française", so me saying "stupid Office de la langue française" is right.
I know you were trying to be funny, but you changed their name ("office" is in french so you can't translate it to "bureau"), so it doesn't work like you intended.:p
I have to agree with you, I've never seen anything worst then red on blue/blue on red. It just looks so horrible that I get the impression that it "vibrates".
Don't waste your time. He takes the time to talk about printing, laser DPI, Photoshop and even say he's using a Mac Pro, but he also thinks that Mac OS X "applies a Gaussian blur and smudge" fonts, when in fact Mac OS X also has sub-pixel font rendering.
I know a lot of you will try to mod me down for my fourth point, but the fact is, code is text and there's more factors into play when display text vs a simple JPEG:
- If you don't already use a good LCD display, buy one. Your eyes will thank you soon enough.
- Use a color scheme that you think is easy on the eyes. You'll get a lot of suggestions about this from other replies since it was your question to begin with, so I'll pass on this one.
- Use a font that is easy to read and makes it easy to distinguish all punctuation symbols. I know there's not a lot of choice in monospaced fonts, but who wants to read code in copperplate anyway?
- Use an OS that displays text with proper anti-aliasing. Since I switched to Mac, I no longer have headaches from looking at code all day long. Microsoft's anti-aliasing makes the text too sharp, and Mac OS X makes the text softer and easier to read.
Now, I already know that I'm going to get "text on Mac OS X looks blurry, not soft" replies, but here's the thing: pick up a printed book. Does the text look more like something displayed by Mac OS X or by Windows?
No matter which font you use on Windows, it looks like a "computer font" because the letters are hammered into the sub-pixels. It doesn't look right and that makes it harder to read.
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What Apple needs to sell is a NAS with iTunes server built-in and room for at least four 3.5" SATA drives.
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Can you use a USB hub at the Airport Extreme to connect more than one drive? What would also be cool is built-in RAID support in the Airport Extreme, but I'm probably asking for too much.
I must not be the only one with too many media files, why isn't Apple selling a media server of some sort? Or maybe something the size of the Airport Express with a 3.5" drive in it, stackable, in addition with a firmware update for the APE?
[...] 300 megabytes a month [...] is very high for browsing and the occasional iTunes purchase [...]
I don't know which websites you visit, but most web pages in 2008 are from 100 to 500 KB (which is sad, considering that (X)HTML/CSS pages should be much smaller).
As for "the occasional iTunes purchase", a single tune will be around 3MB. So, let's remove 12MB for the four "single of the week" which are free, and you're already down to 288MB.
It also means you can only view from 19 to 100 web pages every day even if you only use your 300MB for web usage. And that's without any YouTube, internet radio, etc.
I'd take a guess and say that most people probably use 300MB every day with their desktop/laptop, so 300MB for the whole month, even if it's only on the iPhone, is way too low IMHO. Google Maps alone is probably going to eat a lot of that 300MB.
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That's both +5 funny and +5 insightful. If only more people would understand how clueless their "if you don't like it the source code is right there" attitude can be.
Not really, but since the first part of the word also exists in french (inter) most people don't seem to think about it.
Almost all languages still alive today keep taking things from other languages. Sometimes it makes sense (courriel, pourriel, disque dur, etc) and sometimes it doesn't (hambourgeois au fromage... didn't take though, people kept calling them cheeseburgers because hambourgeois au fromage sounds too stupid). :p
But sometimes they (OLF) try to steal words directly. The worst I can remember right now is "webmestre"... Yep, that's supposed to be the french word for "webmaster"... What idiot thought that up? WTF is a "mestre" anyway?
Yes, we do pronounce the "T", I don't know where you heard that we didn't.
Actually the name is "Office de la langue française", so me saying "stupid Office de la langue française" is right.
I know you were trying to be funny, but you changed their name ("office" is in french so you can't translate it to "bureau"), so it doesn't work like you intended. :p
I would've liked to see stats per operating system too.
The worst part is, here in Québec people keep calling them "Site internet" because they seem to fear the english word "Web" in "Site Web".
Stupid Office de la langue française,
I have to agree with you, I've never seen anything worst then red on blue/blue on red. It just looks so horrible that I get the impression that it "vibrates".
And I don't even wear glasses/lens.
Don't waste your time. He takes the time to talk about printing, laser DPI, Photoshop and even say he's using a Mac Pro, but he also thinks that Mac OS X "applies a Gaussian blur and smudge" fonts, when in fact Mac OS X also has sub-pixel font rendering.
I know a lot of you will try to mod me down for my fourth point, but the fact is, code is text and there's more factors into play when display text vs a simple JPEG:
- If you don't already use a good LCD display, buy one. Your eyes will thank you soon enough.
- Use a color scheme that you think is easy on the eyes. You'll get a lot of suggestions about this from other replies since it was your question to begin with, so I'll pass on this one.
- Use a font that is easy to read and makes it easy to distinguish all punctuation symbols. I know there's not a lot of choice in monospaced fonts, but who wants to read code in copperplate anyway?
- Use an OS that displays text with proper anti-aliasing. Since I switched to Mac, I no longer have headaches from looking at code all day long. Microsoft's anti-aliasing makes the text too sharp, and Mac OS X makes the text softer and easier to read.
Now, I already know that I'm going to get "text on Mac OS X looks blurry, not soft" replies, but here's the thing: pick up a printed book. Does the text look more like something displayed by Mac OS X or by Windows?
No matter which font you use on Windows, it looks like a "computer font" because the letters are hammered into the sub-pixels. It doesn't look right and that makes it harder to read.
http://www.xerratus.com/content/binary/head-up-ass.jpg
Stop talking like that, you should.
But... that's impossible!
See next week's episode for the 2-seconds reply.
Let's increase the price of our books to compensate!
Safari on Mac OS X can display PDFs as easily as Mac OS X itself (via Preview or Quick Look).
Sure it's not mandatory to have a browser display PDFs, but still, it's a nice touch if your OS supports it anyway.
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http://images.fok.nl/upload/050701_30560_howtodrawboobsfok.jpg
What Apple needs to sell is a NAS with iTunes server built-in and room for at least four 3.5" SATA drives.
Can you use a USB hub at the Airport Extreme to connect more than one drive? What would also be cool is built-in RAID support in the Airport Extreme, but I'm probably asking for too much.
I must not be the only one with too many media files, why isn't Apple selling a media server of some sort? Or maybe something the size of the Airport Express with a 3.5" drive in it, stackable, in addition with a firmware update for the APE?
You'd better bolt your chairs down, in case a certain someone ever boards your plane.
VMWare Fusion is better than Parallels. :P
I don't know which websites you visit, but most web pages in 2008 are from 100 to 500 KB (which is sad, considering that (X)HTML/CSS pages should be much smaller).
As for "the occasional iTunes purchase", a single tune will be around 3MB. So, let's remove 12MB for the four "single of the week" which are free, and you're already down to 288MB.
It also means you can only view from 19 to 100 web pages every day even if you only use your 300MB for web usage. And that's without any YouTube, internet radio, etc.
I'd take a guess and say that most people probably use 300MB every day with their desktop/laptop, so 300MB for the whole month, even if it's only on the iPhone, is way too low IMHO. Google Maps alone is probably going to eat a lot of that 300MB.
He was busy searching for a no-CD hack and/or his torrent wasn't finished downloading. ;)
That, or he had to drive to five different towns before being able to find a copy in a retail store?
I dunno. :p
If a cellphone company ever tracks the cellphones of slashdotters they'll think we're dead.
"Hey Jim, that guy has been sitting in the basement for the last 48 hours!"
"Nah, he's still alive. Starcraft II came out three days ago."
As long as you didn't eat at Monolith Burger you should be fine.
Not trying to start a flamewar either, but why are you even using PowerPoint on a Mac when Keynote is so much better anyway?
Good question. In fact, have they even kept the secret cow level or did they change it for something else or simply dropped it completely?