Clicking on those thingies in the Menu Extras folder actually launches the menus. now I am a 1337 h4x0r who looks like he is cool and has all kinds of r0x0rz hardware.
The number given by the grandparent poster results in a familiar voice: "We're sorry: the number you have dialed has been disconnected or is nolonger in service..."
My vague understanding of the system is this: basic Dashboard widgets are just webpages, and as such run as the "nobody" user, giving them zero access to the computer on which they're running.
It is possible to write widgets with actual native code in them, and those, I believe, need an admin password to install/run the first time (just like any other app).
I'm with you on the problems with Konfab. I'm not used to programs running so slowly as to make my computer impossible to use, and I'm running an old 1999 iMac.
It would probably be a bad idea for them to give out the actual data, which would be useful for competitors.
Useful how? For reminding competitors how much it sucks when someone else owns 70% of the market?
Though what's weird is how the time of day vs. number of songs kind oscillates like a heartbeat... Kinda as if iTunes were alive and intelligent... You know, maybe that's how all the magicly fast searching in iTunes and Tiger works. Pretty soon, with the aid of self-aware software on everyone's computers, and stealth networking via Rendezvous, Apple will finally execute its plan to TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!! GOD HELP US ALL!!! JOBS WILL TURN US ALL INTO OOMPA LOOMPA CODE SLAVES AND MAKE US WORK IN HIS CANDY FACTORY!!!
Ahem... sorry. Still, if 4.7 has the ability to make musical recomendations, I'm gonna move into a bomb shelter in Nevada.
No one said he didn't commit a crime. The point is that the possible punishment seems grossly out of proportion to the crime committed; hence the query about the Eighth Amendment.
Anyway, it seems like giving the kid a good stint of community service would benefit everyone a whole lot more than throwing him in the slammer for a year, don't you think? After all, what damage was done? The free availability of some crappy recording isn't going to stop too many people from going to the theatre or buying the DVD.
Perhaps BMW doesn't want to clutter-up the instrument panel any more than is necessary?
Besides, I dunno about you, but I'd rather have my $400 toys hidden in the glove compartment rather than sitting front and center. Broken windows are expensive, too.
Since I have nothing better to do, here's a quote:
"...nothing that exists by nature can form a habit contrary to its nature. For instance the stone which by nature moves downwards cannot be habituated to move upwards, not even if one tries to train it by throwing it up ten thousand times; nor can fire be habituated to move downwards, nor can anything else that by nature behaves in one way be trained to behave in another." --Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, 1103a30
The theory here is that things do what they do because it's in their nature to do so. A bit vague, perhaps, but still reasonably acceptable, especially amidst a discussion of human virtues, since there the specific workings of the universe don't really matter.
Anyhow, I'm no physicist, so I'm happy with most of what Aristotle says.
Ancient Greek is a different language to modern Greek: even some of the letters have different pronunciations.
I grant you that this is (mostly) true, though I noticed after studying Attic Greek for just over a year, I was, for example, able to understand a bit of the Greek in My Big Fat Greek Wedding. That's in the same ballpark as Chaucer, I suppose.
But what I meant was more that compared with, say, the unrecorded and mostly lost languages that were spoken on the Iberian peninsula before the Roman Empire spread that way, Greek and Latin are alive and kicking.
More to the point, I think this discussion shows two things in particular:
1. Languages don't make sense. Words have no intrinsic meaning and grammer is just the set of patterns and exceptions to patterns that people have come to follow. Much of the discussion has centered around the fact that there are no consistent examples of word usage in the original latin--what people are seeking is a precedent, not a law of nature. Absent a clear classical precedent, I don't see what's so hard about allowing a new pattern to settle. Eventually, the spelling of the word will standardize (may already have to a scholastic extent, but I'm to lazy to get up and look at my dictionary). This happens. See Shakespeare for examples.
2. (Personal peeve) Latin is not a dead language, nor is Greek. This discussion alone is evidence of their vitality. They have a constant impact on our words and thoughts, there remains a large and important body of literature written in them, and it is not at all hard to find people who speak them. There is (so I have heard, anyhow) a department in the Vatican who's sole purpose is the creation of new Latin words, and there is a small and oft-forgotten place called Greece, the national language of which is still, after all these years, Greek.
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Gentoo Linux Musings
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The flexibility this system provides is well worth the extra few minutes rather than installing *.deb or *.rpm files and entering dependency hell.
Not that I don't love Gentoo or anything, but mind you,
emerge kde
adds more than just an "extra few minutes" to the installation process. In all, the first couple of times I installed Gentoo on my laptop (stage 1 and then stage 2), it took nearly a week before I felt OK about disconnecting it from the Internet to take it with me anywhere.
People who have a dual install of WinXP and Win98 aren't looking for flexibility. They're sick fucks, and they're looking to satisfy their raving masochistic tendencies.
Apple seems benign when you're willing to completely surrender every aspect of your machine (including the choice not to boot;)) over to them.
In a related story, Steve Jobs held a special press conference today, in which he proclaimed
"Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls; for My yoke is easy, and My burden is light."
After a pause, he added
"Oh, and buy My G5s, you little bastards!"
No word yet on the swarm of C&D letters that certain prophetic pundits have predicted...
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HyperCard Gone for Good
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HyperCard was created by Apple wizard Bill Atkinson back in 1987. It was an odd mix of database, multimedia, and presentation software, with a simple but powerful scripting backend that made it possible to do just about anything with the software.
HyperCard documents were formed like stacks of index cards (they were, in fact, called stacks). Each card could contain GUI elements (forms, buttons, text fiends, etc.) and images, and every element could be scripted to interact with the stack as a whole, certain cards, or certain elements. The scripting language gave the programmer control over just about everything that the user was able to see and click on.
Because HyperCard was capable of doing just about everything (IIRC, it was even used to implement a networking stack before TCP/IP existed), Apple didn't know how to market it. They were constrained by a promise to HyperCard's creator to give it away away for free, and it eventually got lost in a mire of company politics.
I personally learned how to program through HyperCard, way back in Jr. High. I had a science teacher who made us all make multimedia presentations with it. In the after-school hours I managed to write a game into my presentation, in which the user had to squish an unflattering representation of one of my classmates as it moved randomly about the screen. Ah, those were the days...
But in short, yes, it's Mac only. Yes, it's outdated (was there ever official support for color graphics?). No, there will never be anything like it ever again, unless Apple decides to go into the unprofitable business of marketing nostalgia. I'm afraid there's nothing for you to do but go and learn Java.
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Clicking on those thingies in the Menu Extras folder actually launches the menus. now I am a 1337 h4x0r who looks like he is cool and has all kinds of r0x0rz hardware.
You rule 1337 dude
Seems likely (why bother looking myself?)
The number given by the grandparent poster results in a familiar voice: "We're sorry: the number you have dialed has been disconnected or is nolonger in service..."
I personally prefer "if it ain't broke, what fun is it?"
Hey, cool... A mainstream journalist with a five-digit /. id. Oh the times, they are a changin'...
RTFBBMJATMWWNAGATBA*!!!
* Read The Fucking Books Before Making Judgements About The Movies, Which Weren't Nearly As Good As The Books Anyway.
My vague understanding of the system is this: basic Dashboard widgets are just webpages, and as such run as the "nobody" user, giving them zero access to the computer on which they're running.
It is possible to write widgets with actual native code in them, and those, I believe, need an admin password to install/run the first time (just like any other app).
For further reading, see Dave Hyatt's webpage. Specifically, his latest post on Dashboard.
I'm with you on the problems with Konfab. I'm not used to programs running so slowly as to make my computer impossible to use, and I'm running an old 1999 iMac.
And yea, the lord spaketh, and he saith with a violent, soul crushing cry of justice: RTFA!!!
It would probably be a bad idea for them to give out the actual data, which would be useful for competitors.
Useful how? For reminding competitors how much it sucks when someone else owns 70% of the market?
Though what's weird is how the time of day vs. number of songs kind oscillates like a heartbeat... Kinda as if iTunes were alive and intelligent... You know, maybe that's how all the magicly fast searching in iTunes and Tiger works. Pretty soon, with the aid of self-aware software on everyone's computers, and stealth networking via Rendezvous, Apple will finally execute its plan to TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!! GOD HELP US ALL!!! JOBS WILL TURN US ALL INTO OOMPA LOOMPA CODE SLAVES AND MAKE US WORK IN HIS CANDY FACTORY!!!
Ahem... sorry. Still, if 4.7 has the ability to make musical recomendations, I'm gonna move into a bomb shelter in Nevada.
No one said he didn't commit a crime. The point is that the possible punishment seems grossly out of proportion to the crime committed; hence the query about the Eighth Amendment.
Anyway, it seems like giving the kid a good stint of community service would benefit everyone a whole lot more than throwing him in the slammer for a year, don't you think? After all, what damage was done? The free availability of some crappy recording isn't going to stop too many people from going to the theatre or buying the DVD.
You may have forgotten one:
- Because Apple already wrote Rendezvous into iTunes for Windows, and has suddenly uttered a collective "what the hell, why not?"
Here's one of many links.
Guess which store has gotten about $5,000 worth of business this year?
The one that's going out of business, right?
Perhaps BMW doesn't want to clutter-up the instrument panel any more than is necessary?
Besides, I dunno about you, but I'd rather have my $400 toys hidden in the glove compartment rather than sitting front and center. Broken windows are expensive, too.
Without a doubt.
--From Lime, happily running OS X since 10.1
The theory here is that things do what they do because it's in their nature to do so. A bit vague, perhaps, but still reasonably acceptable, especially amidst a discussion of human virtues, since there the specific workings of the universe don't really matter.
Anyhow, I'm no physicist, so I'm happy with most of what Aristotle says.
No.
Ancient Greek is a different language to modern Greek: even some of the letters have different pronunciations.
I grant you that this is (mostly) true, though I noticed after studying Attic Greek for just over a year, I was, for example, able to understand a bit of the Greek in My Big Fat Greek Wedding. That's in the same ballpark as Chaucer, I suppose.
But what I meant was more that compared with, say, the unrecorded and mostly lost languages that were spoken on the Iberian peninsula before the Roman Empire spread that way, Greek and Latin are alive and kicking.
More to the point, I think this discussion shows two things in particular:
1. Languages don't make sense. Words have no intrinsic meaning and grammer is just the set of patterns and exceptions to patterns that people have come to follow. Much of the discussion has centered around the fact that there are no consistent examples of word usage in the original latin--what people are seeking is a precedent, not a law of nature. Absent a clear classical precedent, I don't see what's so hard about allowing a new pattern to settle. Eventually, the spelling of the word will standardize (may already have to a scholastic extent, but I'm to lazy to get up and look at my dictionary). This happens. See Shakespeare for examples.
2. (Personal peeve) Latin is not a dead language, nor is Greek. This discussion alone is evidence of their vitality. They have a constant impact on our words and thoughts, there remains a large and important body of literature written in them, and it is not at all hard to find people who speak them. There is (so I have heard, anyhow) a department in the Vatican who's sole purpose is the creation of new Latin words, and there is a small and oft-forgotten place called Greece, the national language of which is still, after all these years, Greek.
Not that I don't love Gentoo or anything, but mind you, adds more than just an "extra few minutes" to the installation process. In all, the first couple of times I installed Gentoo on my laptop (stage 1 and then stage 2), it took nearly a week before I felt OK about disconnecting it from the Internet to take it with me anywhere.
That's just cuz they don't make drivers like the used to!
People who have a dual install of WinXP and Win98 aren't looking for flexibility. They're sick fucks, and they're looking to satisfy their raving masochistic tendencies.
Just thought I'd clear that up.
Apple seems benign when you're willing to completely surrender every aspect of your machine (including the choice not to boot ;)) over to them.
In a related story, Steve Jobs held a special press conference today, in which he proclaimed
"Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls; for My yoke is easy, and My burden is light."
After a pause, he added
"Oh, and buy My G5s, you little bastards!"
No word yet on the swarm of C&D letters that certain prophetic pundits have predicted...
HyperCard was created by Apple wizard Bill Atkinson back in 1987. It was an odd mix of database, multimedia, and presentation software, with a simple but powerful scripting backend that made it possible to do just about anything with the software.
HyperCard documents were formed like stacks of index cards (they were, in fact, called stacks). Each card could contain GUI elements (forms, buttons, text fiends, etc.) and images, and every element could be scripted to interact with the stack as a whole, certain cards, or certain elements. The scripting language gave the programmer control over just about everything that the user was able to see and click on.
Because HyperCard was capable of doing just about everything (IIRC, it was even used to implement a networking stack before TCP/IP existed), Apple didn't know how to market it. They were constrained by a promise to HyperCard's creator to give it away away for free, and it eventually got lost in a mire of company politics.
I personally learned how to program through HyperCard, way back in Jr. High. I had a science teacher who made us all make multimedia presentations with it. In the after-school hours I managed to write a game into my presentation, in which the user had to squish an unflattering representation of one of my classmates as it moved randomly about the screen. Ah, those were the days...
But in short, yes, it's Mac only. Yes, it's outdated (was there ever official support for color graphics?). No, there will never be anything like it ever again, unless Apple decides to go into the unprofitable business of marketing nostalgia. I'm afraid there's nothing for you to do but go and learn Java.
She'll actually be sweet sixteen on 12 October.
Oh man, only two and a half more years and she'll be legal!
Troll.