Not a bad review per se, but a review which revealed the ending of one of my wife's books. We don't enjoy bad reviews, of course, but they are a fact of being an author. But when when we saw a review of The Illusionist which gave away the ending, I contacted amazon and they took out the offending sentance within 24 hours.
Now this was about 4 years ago, maybe they've changed since then, but we've found amazon to be pro-author.
Um, am I the only one wondering what the point of sending a CD is? Apart from the "prestiege" for the people on said CD, if any intelligent life picks it up, they're not exactly going to be able to read it are they?
The point of this is to get kids interested in science. Some will become scientists, most will become taxpaers.
It has also come to light more recently that IBM was in the dark on Apple's switch,
I can believe this. An unnamed company that I used to work for found out our long standing talks with Apple were for naught when we saw our competitor on stage with Steve Jobs at a MacWorld in SF.
I've been a Dvorak user since the early 90s, all on a Macintosh. Funny thing is, I keep the "admin" accounts on my Macs in QWERTY mode. You see, when I'm in Terminal I want to make certain I'm typing exactly correctly, that's when I'm looking at the keys.
As for RSI? Yeah, that's why I switched. My hands have not gotten worse but curiously, I find my hands feeling better. I call it "happy hands" and that alone was worth the price of admission.
Oh, one more thing, I'm not a 100% touch typist. Looking at the keys doesn't help me you see...
So yes - openning databases are known quite deeply by the best players - a computer using a database is only fair.
I had a friend who played chess competively. He eventually stopped and I asked him why. He couldn't afford it, he said. Huh? Airfare to tournaments? I wondered.
"No," he replied, "I can afford to maintain my library."
Yes, his chess library of opening moves. He couldn't keep it at the level he needed it. That certainly brought a new perspective to the game.
Isn't what's really of value here the data stored on the computer rather than the box itself? Having just bought a new computer and spent 2 nights transferring all of my data from the old one to the new one, the thing that came to mind is that this new fancy 500.00 machine I just picked up is an empty shell without MY data on it, and is pretty much valueles
I don't mean to be a troll, but Apple makes this easy. I'm a professional Macintosh programmer and I have mac's all over house. I just replaced the kids eMac with another eMac and was happy to see the "transfer files" option. I just booted my old computer in firewire disk mode, plugged it into the new one, and pressed go. All user accounts, all printer settings, all network settings etc just came over. It turned a real PITA job into a "drink beer and watch the Red Sox" job.
I'm pretty sure that Apple will do this for you at their stores, and for all I know, they'll do it for your Windows machine either.
Care to tell us whence you shamelessly lifted this?
Oh come on, we're all smart here. Use google. That's how I found it. I had read about "nixon being liberal" years ago. I wanted the facts about what organizations he founded or funded. I used google, found the quote. First page also.
I didn't even have to paraphrase.
And besides, I actually attributed the author in the quote itself.
Now, I can give you a list of a half-dozen things that Nixon did that were terrible, but this knee-jerk impulse to liken All Things Bush to Dick Nixon is misguided. Nixon was actually a decent president by a number of reasonably measures.
Some might say Nixon was one of the great liberal presidents of the last century! Odd you say? Read on:
"When Nixon was elected, the political passion was mobilized on the left - the anti-war, civil rights, feminist, environmental, consumer, gay rights movements were on the march. Congress was dominated by liberal initiative, if not a liberal majority. Nixon had little but contempt for the Great Society or such liberalism, but ended up, in many ways, the last liberal president.
He signed off on major extensions of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. Poverty programs rose by 50% during his administration. He created the Environmental Protection Agency and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, extended the Voting Rights Act, increased spending on the National Endowment for the Arts. By executive order, he mandated affirmative action in employment. He proposed a comprehensive national health care plan. To replace welfare, he proposed a guaranteed annual income for all Americans, working or not working. As Vietnam wound down, he accepted deep cuts in the military budget to help pay for domestic programs. Even in foreign policy, Nixon, the unregenerate Cold Warrior, infuriated conservatives by pushing détente and arms control, and recognition of China. He was, concluded Gary Wills in his brilliant study, Nixon Agonistes, "the authentic voice of surviving American liberalism.""
I've been using a Dvorak keyboard for almost 15 years now. I just the standard Apple keyboard, switch the keymap, and I never look at the keys, they're all wrong!
It was brutal switching over but now I'm a 100% touch typist and my hands are "happy."
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Yes, I certainly am the same person. (I changed my name several years ago, stop by and I'll show you both passports...)
And I certainly did mean it to be unwanted crap, including selling stuff, flooding the net. The original post, about being a local net admin, refers to people in Australia not caring about a dinnette set for sale. The implication is clear, bandwidth can be flooded.
Did I envision commercial use of spam? Certainly not. If I had, I certainly would have at least bought up some fine domain names.
As with any historical event, there are footnotes upon footnotes. Brad Templeton doesn't think my claim is valid. Obviously I disagree but I see his point. I certainly don't make the best claim for the word spam, but I certainly make the provably first claim.
Note, I also quite humorously claim, along with Al Gore, to have started the Internet, since I did take a call from BBN right after a lightning storm and they needed the MIT IMP restarted. (circa 1979). That one is certainly tounge in cheek and really only means I'm an old fart.
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I have the dubious honor of first using the word "spam" on the interent to describe unwanted electronic communication. I certainly didn't intend anything at the time, indeed, my mention went largely unnoticed, the MUDers really deserve the credit, but I was first...
AppleScript is more than scripting. You really can comare a csh or.bat script to AppleScript. You see, AppleScript relies on the program being scripted to have and API for its object model. You implement this via a dictionary.
This lets you at the internals of the applicationas data, not the just output. This is tremendously powerful.
A sample AppleScrip might be:
Set the PlayCount of the Selected Song to 0
or
Get the second word of the fifth paragraph.
Now this are off the top examples, but notice how the dictionary has defined terms with meaning, like playcount or word or paragraph.
A traditional scripting language is a toy compared to AppleScript.
And please don't flame my AppleScript syntax, it has been years...
The attacks on the WTC towers were not designed to kill people. Yes, they did do that, and an awful lot of people were killed.
The attacks on the WTC were an economic attack, and as such, were exceptionally successful. Witness how much has been spent in Afghanistan and Iraq since then. The attacks on the WTC towers were a liberty attack, and as such, were exceptionally successful.
If Osam bin Laden wanted to kill a lot of people, he could have found far better ways to do it, but that wasn't his goal.
Sadly, the present administration has played right into his hands. And that is sad.
Don't get me wrong, it is a tragedy that those people died. But that wasn't his goal.
So yes, one of the real jobs of the DHS is to protect the economy. Very odd that, but true nonetheless.
(and yes, I did lose a friend on the plane that went down in PA..., not that that would change my viewpoint.)
My wife is an author. Her latest book has a cover price of $26. You can buy it from Amazon for $17.16. We see $2.60 of that sale. Once sales go beyond a certain point, we'll start seeing $3.90 per sale.
Since we are amazon affiliates, if you buy from amazon from our website, we'll get about an additional $1.15 or so.
Now printing a book cost considerably more than printing a CD and there is no RIAA for authors, but you can see that the "artist" doesn't get all that much per book. The last statistic I saw said that there are about 400 people in the United States who make a living writing books.
I was attend a lecture by Karels and McKusick and they told a funny little story. I'm going on memory from a long ago, so excuse any errors, especially if this is published elsewhere.
One, or both, of them was in a small hick town somewhere eating at a diner and they book was out in the open. They kept on getting stared at by the locals.
Eventually one of the local came up them and asked something like, "Are you boys Satanist?"
They were stunned of course, but eventually figured out that the book cover was, well, rather open to interpretation. They tried to explain about UNIX daemons but it was going nowwhere. "Demons?"
I have met a blind man who at a party drove a car some 10 meters on a dare.
I heard this YEARS ago, probably in some car magazine somewhere...
Anyway, some car manufacturer was releazing a new convertible, Renault I think, and had an ad campaign which essentially said that the new car was so fun that even Ray Charles liked it.
So they wanted to film him driving it and singing.
They flew him and the cars and cameras out to Bonneville Salt Flats and discovered something odd.
Ray knew how to drive. He liked driving. Turns out he had an E-Type that he would drive, with his chauffer in the passenger seat giving advice.
CRTs have a bias current. Their black is often not "black" also.
The graphics artist want to be able to distinguish DAC 0 from DAC 1 and so on, while having a decent low black point. If I turn down my LCD so its luminance matches my CRT (say about 100 candelas/m2), then their black points are close. Not the same of course, but close. I can easily get 0.15 or lower on the CRT and it difficult to get below 0.2 on the LCD. On the other hand, I can drive the LCD far brighter than the CRT.
Different markets have different needs. Some client want really dark blacks, some want it as bright as possible, some want native gamma, some want to maximize the contrast ratio.
The point is, with a good sensor and good software you can make your LCD look pretty good with neutral whites and greys across the entire range, and for those markets that need brightness or high contrast ratios, the LCD is the way to go. Additionally, you can make your LCD and your CRT match each other, certainly for color, and very likely for luminance if you turn the LCD down.
Slashdot Mirror
Now this was about 4 years ago, maybe they've changed since then, but we've found amazon to be pro-author.
Yes, I think many will have. CNN even obliquely covered it this morning. See http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/11/10/sony.h ack.reut/index.html/. This was on cnn.com's front page this morning.
The point of this is to get kids interested in science. Some will become scientists, most will become taxpaers.
Think "big picture" here.
I can believe this. An unnamed company that I used to work for found out our long standing talks with Apple were for naught when we saw our competitor on stage with Steve Jobs at a MacWorld in SF.
Oh well...
As for RSI? Yeah, that's why I switched. My hands have not gotten worse but curiously, I find my hands feeling better. I call it "happy hands" and that alone was worth the price of admission.
Oh, one more thing, I'm not a 100% touch typist. Looking at the keys doesn't help me you see...
I had a friend who played chess competively. He eventually stopped and I asked him why. He couldn't afford it, he said. Huh? Airfare to tournaments? I wondered.
"No," he replied, "I can afford to maintain my library."
Yes, his chess library of opening moves. He couldn't keep it at the level he needed it. That certainly brought a new perspective to the game.
I don't mean to be a troll, but Apple makes this easy. I'm a professional Macintosh programmer and I have mac's all over house. I just replaced the kids eMac with another eMac and was happy to see the "transfer files" option. I just booted my old computer in firewire disk mode, plugged it into the new one, and pressed go. All user accounts, all printer settings, all network settings etc just came over. It turned a real PITA job into a "drink beer and watch the Red Sox" job.
I'm pretty sure that Apple will do this for you at their stores, and for all I know, they'll do it for your Windows machine either.
And besides, I actually attributed the author in the quote itself.
Some might say Nixon was one of the great liberal presidents of the last century! Odd you say? Read on:
Microsoft Sets Value Of Pi
Well I thought it was funny...
It was brutal switching over but now I'm a 100% touch typist and my hands are "happy."
And I certainly did mean it to be unwanted crap, including selling stuff, flooding the net. The original post, about being a local net admin, refers to people in Australia not caring about a dinnette set for sale. The implication is clear, bandwidth can be flooded.
Did I envision commercial use of spam? Certainly not. If I had, I certainly would have at least bought up some fine domain names.
As with any historical event, there are footnotes upon footnotes. Brad Templeton doesn't think my claim is valid. Obviously I disagree but I see his point. I certainly don't make the best claim for the word spam, but I certainly make the provably first claim.
Note, I also quite humorously claim, along with Al Gore, to have started the Internet, since I did take a call from BBN right after a lightning storm and they needed the MIT IMP restarted. (circa 1979). That one is certainly tounge in cheek and really only means I'm an old fart.
See http://groups-beta.google.com/group/news.admin.net -abuse.email/msg/b7ce97a77276e16f?q=ken+weaverling +spam+usenet+first&hl=en&rnum=1
This lets you at the internals of the applicationas data, not the just output. This is tremendously powerful.
A sample AppleScrip might be:
Set the PlayCount of the Selected Song to 0
or
Get the second word of the fifth paragraph.
Now this are off the top examples, but notice how the dictionary has defined terms with meaning, like playcount or word or paragraph.
A traditional scripting language is a toy compared to AppleScript.
And please don't flame my AppleScript syntax, it has been years...
The attacks on the WTC were an economic attack, and as such, were exceptionally successful. Witness how much has been spent in Afghanistan and Iraq since then. The attacks on the WTC towers were a liberty attack, and as such, were exceptionally successful.
If Osam bin Laden wanted to kill a lot of people, he could have found far better ways to do it, but that wasn't his goal.
Sadly, the present administration has played right into his hands. And that is sad.
Don't get me wrong, it is a tragedy that those people died. But that wasn't his goal.
So yes, one of the real jobs of the DHS is to protect the economy. Very odd that, but true nonetheless.
(and yes, I did lose a friend on the plane that went down in PA..., not that that would change my viewpoint.)
I'm so thinking of the recent iTMS DRM hack...
I used to. I used it a lot. I got rid of it and life is simpler now. I'm not sure I'd want one again, even if it was free.
Since we are amazon affiliates, if you buy from amazon from our website, we'll get about an additional $1.15 or so.
Now printing a book cost considerably more than printing a CD and there is no RIAA for authors, but you can see that the "artist" doesn't get all that much per book. The last statistic I saw said that there are about 400 people in the United States who make a living writing books.
It will OCR the documents and then read it outloud, giving you help along the way. I gather it was designed with Special Ed teachers' advice.
Windows and Mac
I certainly clicked that link.
One, or both, of them was in a small hick town somewhere eating at a diner and they book was out in the open. They kept on getting stared at by the locals.
Eventually one of the local came up them and asked something like, "Are you boys Satanist?"
They were stunned of course, but eventually figured out that the book cover was, well, rather open to interpretation. They tried to explain about UNIX daemons but it was going nowwhere. "Demons?"
I believe they paid up and left quickly.
Boring, I know. But I live here so I get to have at least one pet peeve.
Anyway, some car manufacturer was releazing a new convertible, Renault I think, and had an ad campaign which essentially said that the new car was so fun that even Ray Charles liked it.
So they wanted to film him driving it and singing.
They flew him and the cars and cameras out to Bonneville Salt Flats and discovered something odd.
Ray knew how to drive. He liked driving. Turns out he had an E-Type that he would drive, with his chauffer in the passenger seat giving advice.
But I do need to correct one statement. My iPod crashes at least once a week. It reboots and it is fine. Very annoying.
CRTs have a bias current. Their black is often not "black" also.
The graphics artist want to be able to distinguish DAC 0 from DAC 1 and so on, while having a decent low black point. If I turn down my LCD so its luminance matches my CRT (say about 100 candelas/m2), then their black points are close. Not the same of course, but close. I can easily get 0.15 or lower on the CRT and it difficult to get below 0.2 on the LCD. On the other hand, I can drive the LCD far brighter than the CRT.
Different markets have different needs. Some client want really dark blacks, some want it as bright as possible, some want native gamma, some want to maximize the contrast ratio.
The point is, with a good sensor and good software you can make your LCD look pretty good with neutral whites and greys across the entire range, and for those markets that need brightness or high contrast ratios, the LCD is the way to go. Additionally, you can make your LCD and your CRT match each other, certainly for color, and very likely for luminance if you turn the LCD down.