You realize that 32-bit RISC CPUs don't have 2^32 instructions in it, right? Most of the bits are used for addressing. A 64-bit instruction size would be useful to help out with direct and indexed addressing since it'd reduce the number of add/shift/etc. instructions necessary to build up the address, though of course it's pretty unlikely that it'd ever actually be used anyway (since 64-bit addresses would be used for stuff computed on the fly and not, say, hardcoded into the program).
On OSX you do multi-list selections with cmd-click. Because, unlike on Windows, the 'meta'-equivalent key actually does something useful aside from switch your app focus to the start menu.
Also, in the radio show, it's strongly implied that Zaphod gets a fourth arm somewhere along the line, probably after Zaphod escapes the Total Perspective Vortex.
Of course, every form of h2g2 has always had purposeful canonicity violations; each one was supposed to be a version of its own and not a strict retelling of the others.
I tried switching to Dvorak a few years ago to help with my carpal tunnel. It just gave me headaches to have to keep on remapping my brain (particularly when using other peoples' keyboards), and as soon as I got up to 35WPM or so my wrist pains just came back anyway.
Hey, thanks! A quick Google search led me right to it. Nice to hear it's being ported to OSX, even if it's only going to support Cocoa apps like one of the other responses said (though I don't think I even run any non-Cocoa apps regularly aside from iTunes and Photoshop, neither of which are really suited to remote display anyway).
OpenStep had a network-transparent layer, and in theory Cocoa (which is basically OpenStep with a few extensions) could be similarly made network-transparent fairly easily, since ObjC already has a pretty nice distributed object model. Apparently OpenStep even came with a built-in way of doing network-transparent app management (which could even seamlessly migrate windows between systems, which even X11 can't do easily) though I don't know any details of it (this is just according to some formerly NeXT-using people I've known who have since moved to OSX).
The main reason I can see for Apple not doing such a thing is that it might make things seem a bit weird to people who are accustomed to thinking of each computer as a separate device, and not a big cloud of computation/storage/etc., and would rather do the "cloud" functionality via more traditional (to Windows/Mac users, anyway) file-sharing conduits such as AFP, WebDAV, etc.
Incidentally, Cocoa is the API, while Aqua is the equivalent of the window manager. Cocoa is to X11 as Aqua is to, say, fvwm, twm, pwm, etc.; it's not Aqua which would be made network-transparent.
Doesn't even have to be public. One time an lying, scumbag asshole I worked for one time threatened to sue me for libel because when he demanded I work for him again, I told him he was a lying, scumbag asshole in a private email.
When I was 15, it was the school which would call me to do the tech support! The administrative offices were still running old XTs and (occasionally) PS/2s, and word got around that I was "good with computer" so I was always being called into the principal's office to fix their computers.
Eventually my teachers got fed up with it, and got the school to hire a technician. Of course, the technician didn't know how things were set up, and so he started calling me out of class...
I recently got an HP L2335. 23", 1920x1200, has DVI, SVGA, s-video, composite, and component inputs (so it doubles as an HDTV and then some), and costs $1600. They also have (relatively) smaller displays for much less (I think their 21" 1600x1200 is $800ish).
Look at their business/pro line rather than their consumer crap. (The nearly-identical monitor in their home line costs like $2300, has fewer inputs and has some atrocious built-in speakers.)
If you still have OSX installed on that Powerbook and have a bluetooth-enabled phone, look into Salling Clicker. It's a great little program which just might convert you stinky opensource nerds back to the fruity way.:D
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You realize that 32-bit RISC CPUs don't have 2^32 instructions in it, right? Most of the bits are used for addressing. A 64-bit instruction size would be useful to help out with direct and indexed addressing since it'd reduce the number of add/shift/etc. instructions necessary to build up the address, though of course it's pretty unlikely that it'd ever actually be used anyway (since 64-bit addresses would be used for stuff computed on the fly and not, say, hardcoded into the program).
On OSX you do multi-list selections with cmd-click. Because, unlike on Windows, the 'meta'-equivalent key actually does something useful aside from switch your app focus to the start menu.
Or on MacOS one can develop/use GNUstep on top of X11 on top of Cocoa!
Of course, every form of h2g2 has always had purposeful canonicity violations; each one was supposed to be a version of its own and not a strict retelling of the others.
Or you could just do wget -A wmv -r -l 1 'http://www.bezoar.org/?poop=2' --span-hosts -nd -c except they're past their bandwidth cap now.
Even if they could keep it clean during construction, how would they keep it from getting contaminated with lighter-than-mercury space dust over time?
I tried switching to Dvorak a few years ago to help with my carpal tunnel. It just gave me headaches to have to keep on remapping my brain (particularly when using other peoples' keyboards), and as soon as I got up to 35WPM or so my wrist pains just came back anyway.
Hey, thanks! A quick Google search led me right to it. Nice to hear it's being ported to OSX, even if it's only going to support Cocoa apps like one of the other responses said (though I don't think I even run any non-Cocoa apps regularly aside from iTunes and Photoshop, neither of which are really suited to remote display anyway).
The main reason I can see for Apple not doing such a thing is that it might make things seem a bit weird to people who are accustomed to thinking of each computer as a separate device, and not a big cloud of computation/storage/etc., and would rather do the "cloud" functionality via more traditional (to Windows/Mac users, anyway) file-sharing conduits such as AFP, WebDAV, etc.
Incidentally, Cocoa is the API, while Aqua is the equivalent of the window manager. Cocoa is to X11 as Aqua is to, say, fvwm, twm, pwm, etc.; it's not Aqua which would be made network-transparent.
Alex Chiu? Is that you?
And Final Cut Express is $300, and provides everything that the prosumer would need and then some.
But iMovie DV comes with every new Mac, and already supports 1080i and 16:9 and so on.
I'm well aware of that, but he had a lawyer, and I did not, nor did I have enough money to hire one. Fortunately nothing ever came of it anyway.
Doesn't even have to be public. One time an lying, scumbag asshole I worked for one time threatened to sue me for libel because when he demanded I work for him again, I told him he was a lying, scumbag asshole in a private email.
They may have been thinking of Real Genius. Which also didn't involve sonic fusion.
Sorry, it's on my system at home, and it's not nearly as extensive as what you have. And I just use :after for everything too. :)
It's a standard part of CSS. Just add this to your user stylesheet:
a[rel="nofollow"] { (insert styling here) }
My own user stylesheet does stuff like this already, like indicating whether a link is a popup or a mailto: or whatever.
Yay for resource forks!
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Eventually my teachers got fed up with it, and got the school to hire a technician. Of course, the technician didn't know how things were set up, and so he started calling me out of class...
Meh.
They've already said that spare batteries will be like $45, though no word on whether they're hot-swappable or not.
I recently got an HP L2335. 23", 1920x1200, has DVI, SVGA, s-video, composite, and component inputs (so it doubles as an HDTV and then some), and costs $1600. They also have (relatively) smaller displays for much less (I think their 21" 1600x1200 is $800ish).
Look at their business/pro line rather than their consumer crap. (The nearly-identical monitor in their home line costs like $2300, has fewer inputs and has some atrocious built-in speakers.)
What does the register size of the SNES's CPU have to do with its audio quality?
If you still have OSX installed on that Powerbook and have a bluetooth-enabled phone, look into Salling Clicker. It's a great little program which just might convert you stinky opensource nerds back to the fruity way. :D