Did the people who voted for or signed the law ever take an oath to protect, preserve, or defend a Constitution including freedom of speech?
Sure they did. As did all members of congress, the executive, and the judiciary. You'll note how well *that* worked.
An oath without enforcement and punishment is utterly worthless unless the oath-giver has profoundly well established ethics that include the concept of personal honor in their foundation.
We're so buried here in the US in our own preconceptions about how much earning is appropriate, what copying means, etc., it's really illuminating to see it actually done differently (lots of ideas floating around, not so many actual working implementations.)
It's not an IOS issue as much as it is an ipad / ipod issue. They have very little fast ram and no high speed input channels, so that puts some serious limits on what you can do with them. They make rather fabulous control surfaces and beatbox-thingees, though.:^)
Most CPU-based signal processing that is of the [mixing / EQ / level shifting / routing / delay] class requires very little from the CPU if the code is written properly; so it's really a matter of getting the audio in and out of the hardware, but unfortunately, that's where the i-whatevers fall flat on their faces. CPU and display wise, they're all good; RAM wise, they really need more; IO wise... they're outright screwed.
Ol' Steve has decreed that we will not have general purpose USB, Firewire, nor any other high speed audio-capable connection to our iP[a|o]ds. Unless you're happy with the mono microphone it comes with. Though I should mention that there are a few proprietary interfaces out there that do indeed bring in one or two channels of decent audio. Mics, a guitar amp interface or two. Nothing to get a recording engineer excited, I'm afraid. Not like Logic on a Mac Pro, for instance, or the simple wealth of free AU plugins available for the Mac.
Interesting. The question that comes to my mind is, how much was the artist paid? An hour's living wage for an hour's performance? A week's? A month's? A year's wages? Speaking as a musician, I think I'd feel ok about earning a year's wage for a rare performance/concert; seems fair. Otherwise... things get imbalanced. You don't want to have to produce 8 new songs per day, for instance, in order to end up with a weeks wages at the end of your week.
When was the last time that you actually used the scrollbar to scroll a web page?
About two seconds ago.
Who still uses the scrollbar to scroll?
I do. A scrollbar gives you linear control and whole-document access (grab the knob), plus page up and down (click in the container), plus precision per-line control (click the arrows) and that's not even getting into informational issues (truly proportional scrollbar behaviors tell you how much of the document you're looking at, and where you are in it, for instance.)
IOS scrollbars are retarded, and the mouse wheel cannot possibly replace the functionality of a true scrollbar. It's a huge mistake to abandon them.
studio quality (96 bit, 192 khz stereo at the minimum
Um, no.
That's ridiculous overkill. 24 bit, 44 or 48 KHz per channel is more than enough, unless (a) you're making recordings for dogs (and destined for audio systems designed for dogs) or (b) you're making recordings of bats and plan to play them back with an SDR. There are no, repeat zero, audio sources that provide legitimate 24-bit resolution, that is, 8 million nonlinear levels +/-, and the number of listeners who can perceive anything at all over 20 KHz are mostly not old enough yet to buy high end media. The only even slightly valid argument for recording over 20 KHz is to allow for down-mixing of additional products that occur in extremely "hard" playback environments into the normally perceptible audio range but (a) the results of this process are completely unpredictable and (b) therefore undesirable, and (c) such an environment means the listener has a seriously crappy audio setup anyway so why would you take the care to propagate super-audible content into their space anyway?
If you're making recordings at 96 bit / 192 Khz, then you have well and truly overdosed on the koolaid. Speaking as an engineer (EE), a signal processing fella, a musician, and a studio owner.
Want to make awesome recordings? The first thing to do is learn to slap the hands of almost anyone who even reaches for a compressor. Compression should only be used to limit rare non-musically critical peaks so as to gain space for the vast majority of the dynamics, not as a tool to crowbar the entire recording against the rails. Learn to manage microphones and microphone technique. Of course, this means you can't make recordings for pop markets, as they all have to be against the rails or "they're not loud enough" (LOL) but if you've been working at 192 khz/96bit, surely you weren't doing that anyway, right?
The second thing to do is learn to isolate a tonal space for instruments and voices so you don't end up with mush.
The last thing to do is bring up the whole mix so that it rests against the top rail -- without compressing it. Once it's there, stretch any true silence down, taking the noise with it if practical to do so.
Master those three steps, and given that you have decent performance captures, you can make great recordings. No need to record many bits of irrelevant, non-musical information, or to sample at rates required for 96khz playback.
If only there were an already-maintained cheap (or free) OS that was capable of high-end development. It would be significantly easier to port Cocoa / XCode to Linux, use that as a development platform, and test against an emulator.
I do extensive OSX development without XCode -- I still write in OBJC, have full use of windows, controls, threads and/or anything else in the OS, have debugging facilities, etc.
XCode / IDE isn't required by any means. A text editor, the frameworks and libs, and GCC will do the job.
No. Altair, IMSAI and SWTPC birthed the PC market. Apple came later.
crappy PCs with crappy Windows software were spreading through the 1990's like E.Coli on a warm turd, Jobs stepped in again and completely re-invented the PC paradigm
You mean, he copied all of the features of the Amiga he could. Multitasking, *nix like underpinnings, color... yeah.
and continues to push the industry into new realms of usability and ubiquity that makes everyone else look like a copycat.
...you mean, continues to copy features from android, linux, windows.... yeah.
Look, I'm a huge Mac user - I have mac pro, macbook pro, we have an air, two minis, ipods and ipads... but JFC, Steve Jobs has hardly done anything original. Apple is a terriffic marketing organization with good hardware and a decent OS at the desktop level; and they have some *really* nice compact hardware (i-pod, pad, phone.) It's best of class, even. But it isn't magical, a "re-invention", or even all that wondrous. And, I might add, Apple appears to be in the process of screwing up the desktop stuff profoundly, so again, not exactly the perfect subject for corporate worship.
Apple has VERY rarely been first at anything. Don't take the buzz for reality. Look at the times and dates for the machines that *actually* came first. What Apple did that was notable was survive. That's about it.
iOS isn't going to "replace" OS X, because they share the same codebase. I know some people here will balk at this description, but iOS is nothing but OS X optimized for mobile touchscreen devices. They're basically the same operating system.
No. They're similar (not the same) programmer APIs. They are *not* the same operating system facing the user. Nor do they typically have the same classes or even ranges of hardware devices available at either the programmer-API or the user-facing OS level. Want to use that 4800 DPI scanner on your IOS device? Not happening. Want to utilize the tilt sensor in the mac mini? Doesn't have one. Want to open your app's tool palette on a second monitor on IOS? Nope.
They're not the same. They're not used the same way, either. IMHO, this whole "make OSX look like IOS" thing comprises the worst misstep Apple has taken in some years now. IOS devices are very cool for what they are; but they aren't desktop replacements and until they've got 4 or more gb of ram, real multitasking, reliable high speed keyboard and/or voice input, they aren't going to be, either. Likewise a desktop doesn't give you the *useful* part of what IOS devices do: portable functionality. Laptops don't quite make it either, or at least, not until you can fold one up and put it in your pocket and use it in any sub-folded configuration. Which might be a while yet (and which might be bypassed by technological change anyway... like implanted bio-connected computing or some such thing.)
Well, we will see. Me, I'm really pretty happy with Leopard. The worst problem it had for me was the loss of the console to the cron-related Mach Error 9 messages, and I finally went ahead and fixed that, so I think Leopard is a nice stable place for me to sit if Apple is going to be screwing up the OS.
I still think that short patents can be a positive force.
Patents are fundamentally theft. Party A works for X years on idea G. Party B works for X years on idea G. Both achieve success (in patent terms, a working implementation.) The patent system will arbitrarily completely zero out the worth of time and investment of the last party in the door at the patent office. This is theft, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar coat it.
The only fair thing to do is let both these innovations be brought to market without prejudice towards either one. But the system isn't designed to be fair (again, like the rest of the legal system.) It's designed to favor moneyed interests, who can apply $$$ to a process to make it go faster.
Another example: It is entirely possible that Joe Inventor, working in his garage in his spare time, has put in less hours on the same idea as BigCorpInc, but because Joe Inventor has to split his time with a Real Job, his idea actually makes it to the patent office later, given that they both start at the same time. Joe was faster by any sane measuring system, he's clearly the better inventor, but the system rewards the *moneyed* inventor and utterly screws Joe. It's bloody well completely broken.
What we need here is a truly free market. No more patents. No more lawsuits. What we're going to get is screwed.
What we need, for patents, is abolition. What we need, for patents, is abolition.
That's exactly right. The US patent system -- and most of the US legal system -- is utterly broken as far as being anything that is intended to serve the needs of the citizens in general.
However, as the citizens in general are no longer in any semblance of control, nor is there a mechanism remaining in place by which they can restore control, nothing is going to change.
Speaking as an early adopter iPad and iPod user, [Windows 8 / tablet] looks pretty good to me. It seems quite fast (though that'll depend on the hardware that hits the streets), it runs regular windows apps if I understand it right, which is a *huge* plus over the iPad, which does *not* run OSX apps; and it looks, dare I say it, intuitive (at the OS level.. individual programs vary, just as they do under OSX.) Part of the win formula -- for me -- will be backwards compatibility. I have a whole suite of windows apps that were written to perform well in smaller, slower environments; if they still run under Windows 8, that'll be terrific. If not... well, that would be a killer.
At this point, I'd be willing to give Windows 8 a shot, based on what I saw in the video. It'd be lovely to have a tablet with a filesystem, the ability to talk to USB devices, generally more up to the standards of what a laptop/nettop can do. I'm hoping the hardware will have more RAM than the iPad; that's another key to performance Apple hasn't gotten right yet... I still have to restart the iPad from time to time just to get some apps to work, and the "multitasking" (cough) is pitiful.
It'll be interesting to see what Apple puts on the table with IOS 5, too... next week?
...to move to Montana. No sales taxes. Low land costs. Lots of people looking for work. Plenty of inexpensive flat space for shipping and warehousing operations, also direct railroad and highway access in many candidate areas. Also, Montana operates with a balanced budget, so it doesn't get into the type of fiscal trouble that California repeatedly does and then try to "fix" it by continuously increasing the tax burden on the citizens.
At first I was just two cells, one of which won an informal swimming competition. Then, a blastula. Then an embryo, a fetus, a baby, a really, really annoying child with a guitar, a totally out of control teenager with several guitars and amplifiers, a reformed young adult, an engineer, then finally, I matured into the sexual tyrannosaurus that I am today. Tomorrow, however, I may be senile, not to mention that whole sexual thing depending on drugs. Possibly there will be drugging to avoid depends, too. If you need more information, you're advised to ask me soon, before I forget entirely who I am. Wait, what was the question?
Occupation
Pondering
Employment
I ponder conundrums
Previous employers
Many
Education
University of Life
Ph.D in Hard Knocks
Masters of Reality
Bachelors in Dating
Associates in Matters of Degree
Honorary "Get off my Lawn" with "Or I'll Shoot" cluster
With a URL like "my.tv/fjdhj454jhj45/", you have NO idea where you're being sent. If you click on it, as far as I'm concerned, you deserve what you get. The whole idea of URL shorteners has always been a (further) invitation to trouble. So is allowing redirection. So is hiding the URL bar. These are ideas that offer utility if used responsibly, but open the gates of doom as soon as anyone with evil intent takes advantage of them. And the fact is, the web is rife with folk of evil intent.
Firefox 4 broke the ability to display a table as it is being generated line-by-line, leaving the user staring at a blank browser for as long as it takes to emit the </TABLE> tag. That's REALLY annoying, especially for reports that take a while.
It took me a little while to figure out how to put the tabs back on top of the page, instead of on top of the URL bar; I'd add that to your list of things for sane people.
Yes, that's right. I manage the servers by SSH. I'm an old command line junkie, and the linux machines are all LAPP stacks - linux, apache, postresql, python, with a smattering of C code, so admin and development is convenient from the command line. If you look at the top left monitor, you can see midnite commander running; I use that a lot to zip around the remote filesystems. I even use it for a fair bit of mac development, I'm pretty handy with gcc/C or a python script under OSX. I also do Mac development in XCode/OBJC and the (sadly buggy) Qt/C++ environment.
I use VNC for the other non-servers in the house, of which there are quite a few - the SO has a couple machines and a laptop (she uses a macbook air), and when she needs a hand I just VNC in; then I have machines in my ham shack and our music studio, and VNC works really well for them too. We're mostly a mac household, but there are a few windows machines in the mix.
I have a system; a laptop and a desktop box, keyboard and mouse is shared via Synergy as well as a headless server for storage and services.
Actually, similar here; there are three servers, all headless -- I just SSH into them from my desktop and otherwise monitor them via various CGI/web services I've set up. Works great. I used to use a KVM switcher for the main web server and its backup, but after a few years of really not needing it at all, I finally pulled it out. If those machines ever have a sever problem, I may have to wire them back up, but barring hardware failure, it isn't likely.
The 6 monitors thing sounds cool. How do you have it arranged?
Here's a photo taken from the best angle I could manage; there's not much space behind me where I could shoot straight on.
...the end of the walled-gardens of traditional app stores and Linux distributions and the beginning of a true 'Web of Software'?"
No. It's not even going to be a blip on the radar. The walled garden approach, particularly as implemented by Apple, provides a (so far) safe and comfortable buying and operating environment for users; opening your system (any system - phone, computer, heck, even your watch) to what amounts to an anonymous and potentially shifting web of software repositories isn't going to fly without being weighed down by almost instant malware problems.
Like it or not, Apple's found one of the significant inflection points for getting software to its customers; make it safe, apply strict limits (sometimes limits that really aren't very compatible with the ideas of liberty we're supposed to revere), and encourage low cost.
Sadly, things now look like they're heading in exactly the opposite direction.
That's exactly right: things are heading in the opposite direction. When it comes to consumer devices, you're going to be dealing with what makes the masses comfortable; and that will very rarely be technically or socially optimum solution(s).
Since this post will attract cosmologically inclined folks:
The popular press keeps saying that some emissive DSO is, for instance, 11m light years away, and that means that its light took 11m years to get to us.
Various cosmological theories, however, tell us that the universe is, and has been, expanding, even faster than light at some points, by virtue of the space expanding.
But... If space was smaller previous to now (which proposition seems like it would always be true if space is constantly expanding), then arriving light that appears to be from a source that is now 11m light years away didn't have to cross 11m light years, because, for instance, 5.5m years ago, it had traveled more than half way here, because at that time, the distance was less than 11m light years.
And consequently, said DSO's light hasn't been under way for 11m light years, but instead, less.
No? Yes? Help me out here, I'm drowning. Relatively speaking.
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Sure they did. As did all members of congress, the executive, and the judiciary. You'll note how well *that* worked.
An oath without enforcement and punishment is utterly worthless unless the oath-giver has profoundly well established ethics that include the concept of personal honor in their foundation.
You know, there are females out there with good asses.
Thanks. Fascinating.
We're so buried here in the US in our own preconceptions about how much earning is appropriate, what copying means, etc., it's really illuminating to see it actually done differently (lots of ideas floating around, not so many actual working implementations.)
It's not an IOS issue as much as it is an ipad / ipod issue. They have very little fast ram and no high speed input channels, so that puts some serious limits on what you can do with them. They make rather fabulous control surfaces and beatbox-thingees, though. :^)
Most CPU-based signal processing that is of the [mixing / EQ / level shifting / routing / delay] class requires very little from the CPU if the code is written properly; so it's really a matter of getting the audio in and out of the hardware, but unfortunately, that's where the i-whatevers fall flat on their faces. CPU and display wise, they're all good; RAM wise, they really need more; IO wise... they're outright screwed.
Ol' Steve has decreed that we will not have general purpose USB, Firewire, nor any other high speed audio-capable connection to our iP[a|o]ds. Unless you're happy with the mono microphone it comes with. Though I should mention that there are a few proprietary interfaces out there that do indeed bring in one or two channels of decent audio. Mics, a guitar amp interface or two. Nothing to get a recording engineer excited, I'm afraid. Not like Logic on a Mac Pro, for instance, or the simple wealth of free AU plugins available for the Mac.
Interesting. The question that comes to my mind is, how much was the artist paid? An hour's living wage for an hour's performance? A week's? A month's? A year's wages? Speaking as a musician, I think I'd feel ok about earning a year's wage for a rare performance/concert; seems fair. Otherwise... things get imbalanced. You don't want to have to produce 8 new songs per day, for instance, in order to end up with a weeks wages at the end of your week.
I believe it was the sling.
About two seconds ago.
I do. A scrollbar gives you linear control and whole-document access (grab the knob), plus page up and down (click in the container), plus precision per-line control (click the arrows) and that's not even getting into informational issues (truly proportional scrollbar behaviors tell you how much of the document you're looking at, and where you are in it, for instance.)
IOS scrollbars are retarded, and the mouse wheel cannot possibly replace the functionality of a true scrollbar. It's a huge mistake to abandon them.
Um, no.
That's ridiculous overkill. 24 bit, 44 or 48 KHz per channel is more than enough, unless (a) you're making recordings for dogs (and destined for audio systems designed for dogs) or (b) you're making recordings of bats and plan to play them back with an SDR. There are no, repeat zero, audio sources that provide legitimate 24-bit resolution, that is, 8 million nonlinear levels +/-, and the number of listeners who can perceive anything at all over 20 KHz are mostly not old enough yet to buy high end media. The only even slightly valid argument for recording over 20 KHz is to allow for down-mixing of additional products that occur in extremely "hard" playback environments into the normally perceptible audio range but (a) the results of this process are completely unpredictable and (b) therefore undesirable, and (c) such an environment means the listener has a seriously crappy audio setup anyway so why would you take the care to propagate super-audible content into their space anyway?
If you're making recordings at 96 bit / 192 Khz, then you have well and truly overdosed on the koolaid. Speaking as an engineer (EE), a signal processing fella, a musician, and a studio owner.
Want to make awesome recordings? The first thing to do is learn to slap the hands of almost anyone who even reaches for a compressor. Compression should only be used to limit rare non-musically critical peaks so as to gain space for the vast majority of the dynamics, not as a tool to crowbar the entire recording against the rails. Learn to manage microphones and microphone technique. Of course, this means you can't make recordings for pop markets, as they all have to be against the rails or "they're not loud enough" (LOL) but if you've been working at 192 khz/96bit, surely you weren't doing that anyway, right?
The second thing to do is learn to isolate a tonal space for instruments and voices so you don't end up with mush.
The last thing to do is bring up the whole mix so that it rests against the top rail -- without compressing it. Once it's there, stretch any true silence down, taking the noise with it if practical to do so.
Master those three steps, and given that you have decent performance captures, you can make great recordings. No need to record many bits of irrelevant, non-musical information, or to sample at rates required for 96khz playback.
I do extensive OSX development without XCode -- I still write in OBJC, have full use of windows, controls, threads and/or anything else in the OS, have debugging facilities, etc.
XCode / IDE isn't required by any means. A text editor, the frameworks and libs, and GCC will do the job.
No. Altair, IMSAI and SWTPC birthed the PC market. Apple came later.
You mean, he copied all of the features of the Amiga he could. Multitasking, *nix like underpinnings, color... yeah.
Look, I'm a huge Mac user - I have mac pro, macbook pro, we have an air, two minis, ipods and ipads... but JFC, Steve Jobs has hardly done anything original. Apple is a terriffic marketing organization with good hardware and a decent OS at the desktop level; and they have some *really* nice compact hardware (i-pod, pad, phone.) It's best of class, even. But it isn't magical, a "re-invention", or even all that wondrous. And, I might add, Apple appears to be in the process of screwing up the desktop stuff profoundly, so again, not exactly the perfect subject for corporate worship.
Apple has VERY rarely been first at anything. Don't take the buzz for reality. Look at the times and dates for the machines that *actually* came first. What Apple did that was notable was survive. That's about it.
No. They're similar (not the same) programmer APIs. They are *not* the same operating system facing the user. Nor do they typically have the same classes or even ranges of hardware devices available at either the programmer-API or the user-facing OS level. Want to use that 4800 DPI scanner on your IOS device? Not happening. Want to utilize the tilt sensor in the mac mini? Doesn't have one. Want to open your app's tool palette on a second monitor on IOS? Nope.
They're not the same. They're not used the same way, either. IMHO, this whole "make OSX look like IOS" thing comprises the worst misstep Apple has taken in some years now. IOS devices are very cool for what they are; but they aren't desktop replacements and until they've got 4 or more gb of ram, real multitasking, reliable high speed keyboard and/or voice input, they aren't going to be, either. Likewise a desktop doesn't give you the *useful* part of what IOS devices do: portable functionality. Laptops don't quite make it either, or at least, not until you can fold one up and put it in your pocket and use it in any sub-folded configuration. Which might be a while yet (and which might be bypassed by technological change anyway... like implanted bio-connected computing or some such thing.)
Well, we will see. Me, I'm really pretty happy with Leopard. The worst problem it had for me was the loss of the console to the cron-related Mach Error 9 messages, and I finally went ahead and fixed that, so I think Leopard is a nice stable place for me to sit if Apple is going to be screwing up the OS.
Patents are fundamentally theft. Party A works for X years on idea G. Party B works for X years on idea G. Both achieve success (in patent terms, a working implementation.) The patent system will arbitrarily completely zero out the worth of time and investment of the last party in the door at the patent office. This is theft, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar coat it.
The only fair thing to do is let both these innovations be brought to market without prejudice towards either one. But the system isn't designed to be fair (again, like the rest of the legal system.) It's designed to favor moneyed interests, who can apply $$$ to a process to make it go faster.
Another example: It is entirely possible that Joe Inventor, working in his garage in his spare time, has put in less hours on the same idea as BigCorpInc, but because Joe Inventor has to split his time with a Real Job, his idea actually makes it to the patent office later, given that they both start at the same time. Joe was faster by any sane measuring system, he's clearly the better inventor, but the system rewards the *moneyed* inventor and utterly screws Joe. It's bloody well completely broken.
What we need here is a truly free market. No more patents. No more lawsuits. What we're going to get is screwed.
That's exactly right. The US patent system -- and most of the US legal system -- is utterly broken as far as being anything that is intended to serve the needs of the citizens in general.
However, as the citizens in general are no longer in any semblance of control, nor is there a mechanism remaining in place by which they can restore control, nothing is going to change.
Speaking as an early adopter iPad and iPod user, [Windows 8 / tablet] looks pretty good to me. It seems quite fast (though that'll depend on the hardware that hits the streets), it runs regular windows apps if I understand it right, which is a *huge* plus over the iPad, which does *not* run OSX apps; and it looks, dare I say it, intuitive (at the OS level.. individual programs vary, just as they do under OSX.) Part of the win formula -- for me -- will be backwards compatibility. I have a whole suite of windows apps that were written to perform well in smaller, slower environments; if they still run under Windows 8, that'll be terrific. If not... well, that would be a killer.
At this point, I'd be willing to give Windows 8 a shot, based on what I saw in the video. It'd be lovely to have a tablet with a filesystem, the ability to talk to USB devices, generally more up to the standards of what a laptop/nettop can do. I'm hoping the hardware will have more RAM than the iPad; that's another key to performance Apple hasn't gotten right yet... I still have to restart the iPad from time to time just to get some apps to work, and the "multitasking" (cough) is pitiful.
It'll be interesting to see what Apple puts on the table with IOS 5, too... next week?
"use taxes" -- read up on 'em.
Did anyone think to ask the flies if they wanted to drive these wheels? Well, did they? Of course not. Down with flywheels!
LOL... you depend on a google profile to get you a job? Oh, brother. :)
This is my google profile:
Introduction
At first I was just two cells, one of which won an informal swimming competition. Then, a blastula. Then an embryo, a fetus, a baby, a really, really annoying child with a guitar, a totally out of control teenager with several guitars and amplifiers, a reformed young adult, an engineer, then finally, I matured into the sexual tyrannosaurus that I am today. Tomorrow, however, I may be senile, not to mention that whole sexual thing depending on drugs. Possibly there will be drugging to avoid depends, too. If you need more information, you're advised to ask me soon, before I forget entirely who I am. Wait, what was the question?
Occupation
Pondering
Employment
I ponder conundrums
Previous employers
Many
Education
University of Life
Ph.D in Hard Knocks
Masters of Reality
Bachelors in Dating
Associates in Matters of Degree
Honorary "Get off my Lawn" with "Or I'll Shoot" cluster
With a URL like "my.tv/fjdhj454jhj45/", you have NO idea where you're being sent. If you click on it, as far as I'm concerned, you deserve what you get. The whole idea of URL shorteners has always been a (further) invitation to trouble. So is allowing redirection. So is hiding the URL bar. These are ideas that offer utility if used responsibly, but open the gates of doom as soon as anyone with evil intent takes advantage of them. And the fact is, the web is rife with folk of evil intent.
When I see a shortened URL, I just skip it.
Firefox 4 broke the ability to display a table as it is being generated line-by-line, leaving the user staring at a blank browser for as long as it takes to emit the </TABLE> tag. That's REALLY annoying, especially for reports that take a while.
It took me a little while to figure out how to put the tabs back on top of the page, instead of on top of the URL bar; I'd add that to your list of things for sane people.
Yes, that's right. I manage the servers by SSH. I'm an old command line junkie, and the linux machines are all LAPP stacks - linux, apache, postresql, python, with a smattering of C code, so admin and development is convenient from the command line. If you look at the top left monitor, you can see midnite commander running; I use that a lot to zip around the remote filesystems. I even use it for a fair bit of mac development, I'm pretty handy with gcc/C or a python script under OSX. I also do Mac development in XCode/OBJC and the (sadly buggy) Qt/C++ environment.
I use VNC for the other non-servers in the house, of which there are quite a few - the SO has a couple machines and a laptop (she uses a macbook air), and when she needs a hand I just VNC in; then I have machines in my ham shack and our music studio, and VNC works really well for them too. We're mostly a mac household, but there are a few windows machines in the mix.
Actually, similar here; there are three servers, all headless -- I just SSH into them from my desktop and otherwise monitor them via various CGI/web services I've set up. Works great. I used to use a KVM switcher for the main web server and its backup, but after a few years of really not needing it at all, I finally pulled it out. If those machines ever have a sever problem, I may have to wire them back up, but barring hardware failure, it isn't likely.
Here's a photo taken from the best angle I could manage; there's not much space behind me where I could shoot straight on.
No. It's not even going to be a blip on the radar. The walled garden approach, particularly as implemented by Apple, provides a (so far) safe and comfortable buying and operating environment for users; opening your system (any system - phone, computer, heck, even your watch) to what amounts to an anonymous and potentially shifting web of software repositories isn't going to fly without being weighed down by almost instant malware problems.
Like it or not, Apple's found one of the significant inflection points for getting software to its customers; make it safe, apply strict limits (sometimes limits that really aren't very compatible with the ideas of liberty we're supposed to revere), and encourage low cost.
That's exactly right: things are heading in the opposite direction. When it comes to consumer devices, you're going to be dealing with what makes the masses comfortable; and that will very rarely be technically or socially optimum solution(s).
Since this post will attract cosmologically inclined folks:
The popular press keeps saying that some emissive DSO is, for instance, 11m light years away, and that means that its light took 11m years to get to us.
Various cosmological theories, however, tell us that the universe is, and has been, expanding, even faster than light at some points, by virtue of the space expanding.
But... If space was smaller previous to now (which proposition seems like it would always be true if space is constantly expanding), then arriving light that appears to be from a source that is now 11m light years away didn't have to cross 11m light years, because, for instance, 5.5m years ago, it had traveled more than half way here, because at that time, the distance was less than 11m light years.
And consequently, said DSO's light hasn't been under way for 11m light years, but instead, less.
No? Yes? Help me out here, I'm drowning. Relatively speaking.