Seriously, two things: habit and common sense. I've been using Macs since I was seven, but it was blindingly obvious as early as Win95 that Mac would always be a far superior platform in every category that mattered to me. The endless worm parade of the past five years and the agonies I've seen numerous IT people going through trying to secure Windows networks have only solidified my commitment to Macs. I'm currently socking away at least a third of every paycheck towards a PowerBook come the end of summer. (Here's hoping the G5 PB's are out!)
You're not, you're supposed to play your (airport-equipped) powerbook through it. The idea is you sit on the couch, or in bed, or whatever, and call up a playlist in itunes to be sent to the nearest set of speakers.
This has been in Palms forever (since at least PalmOS 3.5). Press the address book hard button and the palm turns on (if off) and launches the address book. Hold it down, and it automatically starts beaming the address card you've marked as being your business card. Hold down the power button and things to do with the screen lighting happen (backlight on old B/W palms, bright control on IIIc's, etc.).
Also, there's a hack (several years old) from TealPoint called "TealLaunch" that allows you to add the same functionality to all the hard buttons. So I have, for instance, hold down on the ToDo list configured to bring up TealLock (security prog), while hold down on MemoPad brings up TealMaster (hack manager).
BTW, this is not an ad for TealPoint, I just love their apps.
Actually, that's completely wrong. It's entirely possible for the earth to support a population at least into the tens of billions, if not much larger. The current (6 billion) population could fit quite comfortably into the area of Texas alone, with over 1000 ft^2 for each person, and Kansas could grow all the food they'd ever need. The "population problems" we think we see now are distribution problems, not inherent resource limitations.
If there's any chance that 8" still works, you might want to look around for people doing "save old media" projects. I understand 8" floppies are one of the bigger sources of lost data these days, since no one has the drives to read them anymore.
What about graviational lensing? I've read suggestions before that the effects of gravity on light mean that every star (or galaxy, for that matter) can be considered a lens, with a focal point somewhere (relatively) near by. If we could find a suitable star, we could simply park a ship near its focal point and pick up the images there.
I'm not entirely sure, as I only heard rumors about this (and over a year ago at that), but I think X10 may have been in the same situation LLBean is in right now: that those ads were not posted by X10's marketing department, but by that of a reseller of theirs. Furthermore, that the main reason they're gone now is because X10 realized that they were quickly becoming the new most hated company on the net, and made the resellers pull the ads.
If you really don't understand this, you've missed the point of the GPL completely. The issue is not, at heart, that the GPL is a form of copyright, but that it's a form of copy*left*--i.e., a license intended to destroy (software) copyright from within. When people break the GPL, they are (generally) doing so in the interests of restricing the freedom of people like us to do as we see fit with the code in question. By constrast, when people like DVD Jon, etc., "break" DRM schemes, they are doing so with the explicit intent of *increasing* (or rather restoring) our freedom. That's the difference.
Actually, the relation between Atlantis and the Atlantic is the other way around. The Greeks knew no "Atlantic Ocean", they knew only the sea Oceanus, which surrounded the world. Atlantis was located somewhere on the far side of the Pillars of Hercules (Strait of Gibraltar). Once people started realizing that there was more than one ocean, they named the one on the other side of the Strait after the continent that used to be in it. Thus, the Atlantic is called the "Atlantic" because "Atlantis" was located in it.
The point is that quantum computers break ordinary cryptography, at least prime-based RSA-type stuff. So when everyone has a quantum machine on their desktop, we'll all need quantom crypto, because nothing else will be secure anymore.
Have you actually done any research on depleted uranium? It's less radioactive than you are--you contain C-14, DU is almost pure U-238, which has no noticable decay over a period relevant to human lifespans.
If you have access to a Mac, you might consider giving Marathon/Aleph One map-making a try. Marathon uses a "2.5D" engine, somewhat like Doom or Duke Nukem, and is absurdly easy to design for. There's a fairly extensive library of maps available at bungie.org, including some really impressive "total conversion" projects (all maps, graphics, and sounds replaced). The only caveat is that the best tools for Marathon are available only for Macs, and work best on OS 9 at that. There are some projects to get tools going for OS X, and there is a map editor called Obed for Windows, but I have no idea if it's any good.
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Seriously, two things: habit and common sense. I've been using Macs since I was seven, but it was blindingly obvious as early as Win95 that Mac would always be a far superior platform in every category that mattered to me. The endless worm parade of the past five years and the agonies I've seen numerous IT people going through trying to secure Windows networks have only solidified my commitment to Macs. I'm currently socking away at least a third of every paycheck towards a PowerBook come the end of summer. (Here's hoping the G5 PB's are out!)
You're not, you're supposed to play your (airport-equipped) powerbook through it. The idea is you sit on the couch, or in bed, or whatever, and call up a playlist in itunes to be sent to the nearest set of speakers.
> 3067 seems invented
Am I the only person who tried to parse that as invente-d (ie a daemon called "invente")?
This has been in Palms forever (since at least PalmOS 3.5). Press the address book hard button and the palm turns on (if off) and launches the address book. Hold it down, and it automatically starts beaming the address card you've marked as being your business card. Hold down the power button and things to do with the screen lighting happen (backlight on old B/W palms, bright control on IIIc's, etc.).
Also, there's a hack (several years old) from TealPoint called "TealLaunch" that allows you to add the same functionality to all the hard buttons. So I have, for instance, hold down on the ToDo list configured to bring up TealLock (security prog), while hold down on MemoPad brings up TealMaster (hack manager).
BTW, this is not an ad for TealPoint, I just love their apps.
Actually, that's completely wrong. It's entirely possible for the earth to support a population at least into the tens of billions, if not much larger. The current (6 billion) population could fit quite comfortably into the area of Texas alone, with over 1000 ft^2 for each person, and Kansas could grow all the food they'd ever need. The "population problems" we think we see now are distribution problems, not inherent resource limitations.
Put another way, Malthus was a moron.
If there's any chance that 8" still works, you might want to look around for people doing "save old media" projects. I understand 8" floppies are one of the bigger sources of lost data these days, since no one has the drives to read them anymore.
BTW, I've read that the reason he wanted seven colors was that he thought it'd be neat if there were a prime number.
What about graviational lensing? I've read suggestions before that the effects of gravity on light mean that every star (or galaxy, for that matter) can be considered a lens, with a focal point somewhere (relatively) near by. If we could find a suitable star, we could simply park a ship near its focal point and pick up the images there.
I'm not entirely sure, as I only heard rumors about this (and over a year ago at that), but I think X10 may have been in the same situation LLBean is in right now: that those ads were not posted by X10's marketing department, but by that of a reseller of theirs. Furthermore, that the main reason they're gone now is because X10 realized that they were quickly becoming the new most hated company on the net, and made the resellers pull the ads.
Of course, I could be completely wrong on this.
If you really don't understand this, you've missed the point of the GPL completely. The issue is not, at heart, that the GPL is a form of copyright, but that it's a form of copy*left*--i.e., a license intended to destroy (software) copyright from within. When people break the GPL, they are (generally) doing so in the interests of restricing the freedom of people like us to do as we see fit with the code in question. By constrast, when people like DVD Jon, etc., "break" DRM schemes, they are doing so with the explicit intent of *increasing* (or rather restoring) our freedom. That's the difference.
Shows what I know.
Political content best summarized as "War is bad, mkay?"
Actually, the relation between Atlantis and the Atlantic is the other way around. The Greeks knew no "Atlantic Ocean", they knew only the sea Oceanus, which surrounded the world. Atlantis was located somewhere on the far side of the Pillars of Hercules (Strait of Gibraltar). Once people started realizing that there was more than one ocean, they named the one on the other side of the Strait after the continent that used to be in it. Thus, the Atlantic is called the "Atlantic" because "Atlantis" was located in it.
The point is that quantum computers break ordinary cryptography, at least prime-based RSA-type stuff. So when everyone has a quantum machine on their desktop, we'll all need quantom crypto, because nothing else will be secure anymore.
1st^2
My parents have always used Macs, so I've never had to do tech support for them.
The zsh equivalent is "%(0?.:).:()" -- just add it to your PS1. Yet another reason to use zsh!
Have you actually done any research on depleted uranium? It's less radioactive than you are--you contain C-14, DU is almost pure U-238, which has no noticable decay over a period relevant to human lifespans.
If you have access to a Mac, you might consider giving Marathon/Aleph One map-making a try. Marathon uses a "2.5D" engine, somewhat like Doom or Duke Nukem, and is absurdly easy to design for. There's a fairly extensive library of maps available at bungie.org, including some really impressive "total conversion" projects (all maps, graphics, and sounds replaced). The only caveat is that the best tools for Marathon are available only for Macs, and work best on OS 9 at that. There are some projects to get tools going for OS X, and there is a map editor called Obed for Windows, but I have no idea if it's any good.