Drop the waste into well in a subduction zone. That way it will bediluted into the magma where came form and will have decayed by the time it comes back up
have't played with the new version but both are address books are scriptable so it should not be hard to write an applescript studio app to sync them. Not sure ab out the calenders though might ave a look when I get access to a copy. The applescript on entourage is intprevious verions has been some of the best I have seen
fragmentaton is highly probable on essentially one dimentional datastorage system like a drive. If you had a two dimensional system it would be less likely. How many dimensions, I wonder would you need, to make it extremely unlikely. No I will not post pictures of my 4 dimensional harddrive;-)
The fact that we are having this discussion through a computer, in near enough to real time, seems to contradict your view. You have just interacted with my post in a non passive way. I think this highlights the error of the thesis that computers don't help education the slashdot system is extremely educational, far more so than many of the traditional means and it is only accessable via computer
I am in favour of computers in schools. I write software for non expert users to use in a production system. I spend most of my time increasing the complexity of my code to make the applications simple to use by computer illiterate workers. I look forward to the the day where the computers are taken for granted and are as exciting or intimidating as digital watches are now. The only way you can get there is if children grow up taking them for granted and lose their fear.
My daughter has had computers in her class since she started school. She is now ten. She now Knows how to make Quick time VR's, web pages and edit movies etc. To her these are not exceptional things. These methods are useful additions to her communication tool kit. You have to realise that the old pencil and paper method was not with out faults. To those people with dyslexia or those like my self with handwriting that even i can't read, written expression was very painful experience that closed a lot of doors for me. If I had access to a word processor then at least my teachers would have been able to read what I was trying to say.
With regards to reading, The vast majority of text I read now is of the screen. Computers are the best way to handle the enormous amout of information that resides in electronic format. Books only real advantage is portability and power consumption.
The problem with cut and paste answers in essays, is purely the result of the education system not knowing what questions to ask, in an age where every one has equal access to information. Examiners no longer know what they are trying to measure. Perhaps in the future students will be marked on there abilty to craft google searches
what you need to realise is the average density of macs around mac is very low. I work in an organisation with about 20 macs but 97% of the machines we connect to out side are PC's. It is very difficult for us to receive malicious code from a mac or to send it out to other macs. This is because of sampling error and the small percentage of macs in the world. For us to be infected, the virus would have to be cross platform. Which would mean to infect that mac's first you have to infect the PC's. While it is not inconceivable that this could happen it is pretty difficult and places a significant barrier to Mac pathocode. In other words my mac is being protectd by hordes of PC's that die for me every day. I am thankful.
The cost of malicious code is doubleing every year and will soon make the windows platform untenable. With a few years pathocode will reach a crisis and be of threat to national security. Urgent action is required by government to combat the platform monculture. If some thing is not doen in the next six months I think we will see catastrophic failures. Patches are not the soluton, diversity is the only solution. Consumers must accept the blame
The problem is that the cost of malicious code is double what it was last year 25 billion to 55 billion. If this cost keeps increasing at this rate Windows will soon be no longer tenable as an operating system. Frequency dependent selection will start to work against MS. They are not stupid. MS has only two excuses either their OS is inherently insecure or that are victim of their owns success and platform monoculture. This is their dilemma. And that is why a new OS on a new platform has an appeal for them. They can shed the malicious code and they can if they choose make a new proprietary box if they wish to shed the clones. Can you say "free computer with that copy of Office"
Microsoft buys virtual PC. Microsoft adopts power IBM PC processor for next Xbox. Word for OSX could be adapted to run on power pc hardware uunder another OS. MS feels mounting pressure of malicious code and is aware of platform monoculture dilemma. Windows for many people just somewhere to run office. If MS wanted to build a new machine with backwards compatibility through virtual PC, running office natively, then all the pieces are falling into place. Get ready for the clone wars
I have been coding AS for abot six years after buying the "tao of applescript." I look forward to Matts book.
Applescript is largely about getting a program to do what you want it to. It is like directing characters is a play. The code really is a script. Because the complexity of the program is sequestered in the applications to be controlled, it is amazing what can be achieved in very few lines of code. It is also amazing to see how hard it is to write a few lines of code. You spend a ot of time pulling on strings and seeing what happens.
I peronally love the englixh like syntax. It is so easy to understand what is going on that often it unneccessary to comment. It is to C++ what poetry is to morse code.
Applescript has always faced the chicken and egg problem as applications need to be scriptable for applescript to grow but why make your app scriptable if no one is scripting. However macs are dominant in the pruduction computeing area.i.e those industries that sell their work of the screen like graphics, music,printing,film and to a lessser degree achitecture. In these areas a few core applications rule and the software companies have come to understand the importance of AS in work flow. At last Photoshop is scriptable and so are more Adobe apps. At last Adobe has "got applescript".
I ask developers to make the effort to make their apps scriptable. You may not be able to imagine a use for scripting of your app but your app may contain functioanlity that some one else really needs.
One thing I think is really missing and would help people get into AS much easier and earlier are scriptable games.This would allow folks to write their own AI in AS using other apps to help calulate behaviours lie excel or Filemaker pro
P.S. some of that best implementations of AS I have seen Are by microsoft. Outlook express was very good and excell also is supprisingly good. Conversely some of the worst apps were from apple Applesworks was shocking. The applescrip language is starting to snowball and its usefullness willgrow exponentially as the number scriptable apps grwo linearly
There is no reason, as far as I know, to beleive that micrsoft's developers are less capable than apple's or any others. Microsofts security problems IMHO are purely a reult of its success. This is because of the epidemiology of malicious code. This is by far the biggest threat to MS. Many orgnisations standardised on Windows because of the decrease in administrative load due to the economies of scale achieved through a platform monoculture. This saving is slowly but surely being eroded by infectious code. The effects are two fold. The physical harm done to data and the increasing restrictions on the use of PC's. The cost of keeping PC's clean will eventually out weight the benefits of standardisation.
Microsoft cannot do any thing about this it is purely a matter of frequency dependent selection operating. They have benefitted from this is the past. Eventually it will kill them. They have as much chance of escaping this as they do of running away from their shadow. Infectious code will only get worse for them
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Drop the waste into well in a subduction zone. That way it will bediluted into the magma where came form and will have decayed by the time it comes back up
I wonder if the plussing model of development could/has been applied to software development. Perhaps this is a case of featuristis applied to movies
have't played with the new version but both are address books are scriptable so it should not be hard to write an applescript studio app to sync them. Not sure ab out the calenders though might ave a look when I get access to a copy. The applescript on entourage is intprevious verions has been some of the best I have seen
fragmentaton is highly probable on essentially one dimentional datastorage system like a drive. If you had a two dimensional system it would be less likely. How many dimensions, I wonder would you need, to make it extremely unlikely. No I will not post pictures of my 4 dimensional harddrive ;-)
The fact that we are having this discussion through a computer, in near enough to real time, seems to contradict your view. You have just interacted with my post in a non passive way. I think this highlights the error of the thesis that computers don't help education the slashdot system is extremely educational, far more so than many of the traditional means and it is only accessable via computer
I am in favour of computers in schools. I write software for non expert users to use in a production system. I spend most of my time increasing the complexity of my code to make the applications simple to use by computer illiterate workers. I look forward to the the day where the computers are taken for granted and are as exciting or intimidating as digital watches are now. The only way you can get there is if children grow up taking them for granted and lose their fear. My daughter has had computers in her class since she started school. She is now ten. She now Knows how to make Quick time VR's, web pages and edit movies etc. To her these are not exceptional things. These methods are useful additions to her communication tool kit. You have to realise that the old pencil and paper method was not with out faults. To those people with dyslexia or those like my self with handwriting that even i can't read, written expression was very painful experience that closed a lot of doors for me. If I had access to a word processor then at least my teachers would have been able to read what I was trying to say. With regards to reading, The vast majority of text I read now is of the screen. Computers are the best way to handle the enormous amout of information that resides in electronic format. Books only real advantage is portability and power consumption. The problem with cut and paste answers in essays, is purely the result of the education system not knowing what questions to ask, in an age where every one has equal access to information. Examiners no longer know what they are trying to measure. Perhaps in the future students will be marked on there abilty to craft google searches
what you need to realise is the average density of macs around mac is very low. I work in an organisation with about 20 macs but 97% of the machines we connect to out side are PC's. It is very difficult for us to receive malicious code from a mac or to send it out to other macs. This is because of sampling error and the small percentage of macs in the world. For us to be infected, the virus would have to be cross platform. Which would mean to infect that mac's first you have to infect the PC's. While it is not inconceivable that this could happen it is pretty difficult and places a significant barrier to Mac pathocode. In other words my mac is being protectd by hordes of PC's that die for me every day. I am thankful. The cost of malicious code is doubleing every year and will soon make the windows platform untenable. With a few years pathocode will reach a crisis and be of threat to national security. Urgent action is required by government to combat the platform monculture. If some thing is not doen in the next six months I think we will see catastrophic failures. Patches are not the soluton, diversity is the only solution. Consumers must accept the blame
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all your oscars are belong to us
The problem is that the cost of malicious code is double what it was last year 25 billion to 55 billion. If this cost keeps increasing at this rate Windows will soon be no longer tenable as an operating system. Frequency dependent selection will start to work against MS. They are not stupid. MS has only two excuses either their OS is inherently insecure or that are victim of their owns success and platform monoculture. This is their dilemma. And that is why a new OS on a new platform has an appeal for them. They can shed the malicious code and they can if they choose make a new proprietary box if they wish to shed the clones. Can you say "free computer with that copy of Office"
Microsoft buys virtual PC. Microsoft adopts power IBM PC processor for next Xbox. Word for OSX could be adapted to run on power pc hardware uunder another OS. MS feels mounting pressure of malicious code and is aware of platform monoculture dilemma. Windows for many people just somewhere to run office. If MS wanted to build a new machine with backwards compatibility through virtual PC, running office natively, then all the pieces are falling into place. Get ready for the clone wars
I have been coding AS for abot six years after buying the "tao of applescript." I look forward to Matts book. Applescript is largely about getting a program to do what you want it to. It is like directing characters is a play. The code really is a script. Because the complexity of the program is sequestered in the applications to be controlled, it is amazing what can be achieved in very few lines of code. It is also amazing to see how hard it is to write a few lines of code. You spend a ot of time pulling on strings and seeing what happens. I peronally love the englixh like syntax. It is so easy to understand what is going on that often it unneccessary to comment. It is to C++ what poetry is to morse code. Applescript has always faced the chicken and egg problem as applications need to be scriptable for applescript to grow but why make your app scriptable if no one is scripting. However macs are dominant in the pruduction computeing area.i.e those industries that sell their work of the screen like graphics, music,printing ,film and to a lessser degree achitecture. In these areas a few core applications rule and the software companies have come to understand the importance of AS in work flow. At last Photoshop is scriptable and so are more Adobe apps. At last Adobe has "got applescript".
I ask developers to make the effort to make their apps scriptable. You may not be able to imagine a use for scripting of your app but your app may contain functioanlity that some one else really needs.
One thing I think is really missing and would help people get into AS much easier and earlier are scriptable games.This would allow folks to write their own AI in AS using other apps to help calulate behaviours lie excel or Filemaker pro
P.S. some of that best implementations of AS I have seen Are by microsoft. Outlook express was very good and excell also is supprisingly good. Conversely some of the worst apps were from apple Applesworks was shocking. The applescrip language is starting to snowball and its usefullness willgrow exponentially as the number scriptable apps grwo linearly
There is no reason, as far as I know, to beleive that micrsoft's developers are less capable than apple's or any others. Microsofts security problems IMHO are purely a reult of its success. This is because of the epidemiology of malicious code. This is by far the biggest threat to MS. Many orgnisations standardised on Windows because of the decrease in administrative load due to the economies of scale achieved through a platform monoculture. This saving is slowly but surely being eroded by infectious code. The effects are two fold. The physical harm done to data and the increasing restrictions on the use of PC's. The cost of keeping PC's clean will eventually out weight the benefits of standardisation. Microsoft cannot do any thing about this it is purely a matter of frequency dependent selection operating. They have benefitted from this is the past. Eventually it will kill them. They have as much chance of escaping this as they do of running away from their shadow. Infectious code will only get worse for them