I'm truly saddened to learn of Steve Jobs' death. Melinda and I extend our sincere condolences to his family and friends, and to everyone Steve has touched through his work.
Steve and I first met nearly 30 years ago, and have been colleagues, competitors and friends over the course of more than half our lives.
The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come.
For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it's been an insanely great honor. I will miss Steve immensely.
And if you want to use Visual Studio then visit the main download page http://www.vim.org/download.php and get: ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/pc/gvim72ole.zip (OLE GUI executable, A GUI version with OLE support. This offers a few extra features, such as integration with Visual Developer Studio. But it uses quite a bit more memory.)
And you can safely disregard the more memory part, if you are already using visual studio:D
The was an article on him a few years ago which seemed to suggest that he was being a patent troll and his 'inventions' just a cover (though to be fair he is a real super genius... worked with Stephen Hawking, publications in Nature and Science and even a paper on paleontology !!! ):
(Who's afraid of Nathan Myhrvold? The giants of tech, that's who. And they have a nasty name for the former Microsoft honcho: "patent troll." FORTUNE Magazine By Nicholas Varchaver, FORTUNE senior writer June 26 2006: 1:20 PM EDT)
Patent troll or not, I have to admit that kitchen would have any tech savy cook drooling:):)
The newer versions of Windows have a "Change the size of text and other items on the screen" that scales fonts and (most) icons up nicely. KDE has a font scaling option too (and I'm sure other window managers will have that as well).
I think using scaling is a much better option than buying a low dpi screen (for example anti-aliasing looks waaaay better)
Check out windows live mesh ( http://www.mesh.com/ ) . It works with Macs and windows mobile phones (no linux support:( ) and you get 5GB of cloud storage too.
Well, you can just write them a polite email informing that you use the domain and it is not up for sale. However if they really need the domain, and are willing to recompensate you for the hassle of moving to another domain, you would be willing to help them out.
That way they can make an offer, are you get into no legal trouble (You clearly show that you do not wish to sell the domain, unless it is to help them out).
The most important part of a marriage is the vows and the witnesses. The "in love" feelings will come and go. When they go, you need a determination to see it through regardless. For people who honor their word, solemn vows before a crowd of witnesses accomplishes that. Maybe you've made a promise to yourself to stick it out. Why not make it public? Maybe you have some private conditions under which you would give yourself permission to bail out?
I think the parent was saying that its useless to force yourself to live together. If you and ur spouse like each other then be happy together and if not then what is the pointing of sticking around for some stupid vows ? Why make such vows in the first place ? (unless you are religious, then it makes sense)
The expense of a wedding can be a symbol of the degree to which the bride is "cherished". Some Christian pro-family speaker (whose name I've forgotten) tells an insightful (though likely legendary) story of an African girl who was considered the ugly duckling and despised. While most girls fetched a bride price of 4 or 5 cows, her father set hers at 1 cow in the hopes of at least getting rid of her. A man came courting (with much gossip), and ultimately paid a bride price of 10 cows.
Exactly. Not all people want to be 'cherished'/protected/bought/sold. There are people (yes, even women) who would prefer that they are recognized for what they do and not what their spouse pays for the wedding.
Why should I let a illiterate imbecile (snip) vote about my future?
On similar lines:
Why should I let a uncouth non-college-graduate vote about my future ?
If you aren't smart enough to get a PhD, how can you decide what good for the entire country ? We should allow only PhD's to vote.
The simple answer to that is because its not just your future they are voting for, its their own future too. If you live in city, should the president you elect not have any powers to make any changes in the rural areas ? Why should an urbanite decide a farmers future. etc. etc.
One of the reasons why the browersync was popular is that people trusted Google with their setting and passwords and bookmarks( I mean they already have my email, my calender, my photos, my IM history, my cc number).
Now its not easy for someone to convert this into a generic extension, unless everyone trusts that person already. What the source could be useful for, is syncing it to your own server (or say a university server). The extension can be modified so that the sync server could be made customizable.. that way your data remains with you.
When I'm driving my car and I turn the steering wheel right, I expect the car to run right, without having to think about exactly how all the rods and pinions and bearings and whatever are making the car turn right. Sure, I need to know that the more I turn the steering wheel, the tighter I turn, but that should be it. Why should a programming language force me to think about low level implementation details that are nothing to do with the algorithm I'm trying to write? It is nice to know when you are driving the car that if there is snow or an oil slick or a flat your turning response would be different. You don't have to know how the steering works, but know a few things more than just rotate the wheel right are useful when you want to do anything non-trivial. And just like programming you will learn these things by experience (if u don't get into any serious crashes).
Not really. He did not claim he refused the knighthood to live the life of a recluse. He just doesn't like titles (and I suspect especially titles related to monarchy). Lenon did the same. If more people follow his example, the value of a knighthood will be diminished (and that's not hypocritical, cos he does not believe the knighthood should have a value)
'34,000 travellers passing through every hour could power 6,500 lightbulbs' - for how long? Probably for one minute, although they seem to be trying to imply a day. Well, an hour is what they are implying.
You know, I've actually made up this shit. Whoever even looked at about:config, saw that there is no such key. And even when you add it, it doesn't work.
The person who modded me informative... Has done something stupid. It only shows how stupid people are to not think for themselves... Tell them something that sounds remotely reasonable, something that they might agree with, and they'll believe, they'll follow. Well, trusting is not stupid (as long the number of je^H^H people like you is small). This is like writing an online review claiming that a crappy book was fantastic just to teach other people to think for themselves. Progress is much easier when people are honest.
Sure, no one would be stupid enough to design a life support system based on your Slashdot post, but I think its quite alright for a moderator to assume that a person is not intentionally lying when he mods.
RAID is not a 'backup' solution. Just get a huge hardisk and set up automated backups. RAID is nice to get a performance boost/have a high uptime. For example RAID can be useless if ur RAID controller fails (I know you can theoretically replace that, its much more difficult than it sounds)
And I do backups:). (though not all my family does, and the harddisks werent mine)
And the results are not too different. In the earthquakes question(when did earthquakes hit tokyo), where powerset seems to work like magic, google shows the same answer on the first page (though as the sixth link) ("Tokyo was hit by powerful earthquakes in 1703, 1782, 1812, 1855 and 1923").
So even for the tailor made, best-case examples, google seems to be quite on par.
That's actually not to far away from a working solution. You can normally make a failing/failed harddisk work for around 5 minutes by freezing it and then immediately using it. Don't try to boot off it, just connect it as an external drive and you can probably get that code you were working on before the drive failed. Its worked for me all 3 times I've tried.
I'm assuming that you weren't trolling.
(sadly, the more I thought about it, the more sense it made):Solution: why not test all kids at age 13 or so and offer those in the bottom decile some cash to have a vasectomy or tubal ligation? Anywhere between $1,000 and $5,000 should do. Individual choice is preserved, crime drops, productivity increases, and Leno's Jaywalking segment goes away So, you want to test someone on an arbitrary test open to interpretation and make decisions which could have a huge impact based on that ? Do you really think IQ tests are accurate ? I'm quite sure they are not (based on my anecdotal evidence), I always get ridiculously high scores on these tests and one of my friends who is very obviously more intelligent than me (in the conventional academic/rational thinking/mathematical intuition sense) consistently scores 30 points lower. Do you really think it makes even the slightest sense to make any social decisions based on these tests ?
There is an updated version of Google Talk at http://www.google.com/talk/labsedition/ - the new features shown on that page are: emoticons, group chat and notifications from Gmail, Google Calendar and Orkut. Not really. Its just the desktop version of the talk gadget (which uses flash/html). It doesn't support voice chat/ voice mails. So its more of a parallel version rather than an updated version.
One thing I really would like to see in Docs would be... offline support. And you have it. Download google gears and you will be all set (currently English users only, I think). I wouldn't mind offline gmail. Like a backup of the last 100 emails and all the starred emails offline for reference.
Another problem is ethical... there is no reason to give animals growth hormone but to increase the profits of the farmers. We don't go around giving our kids growth hormones, do we? Well.... I agree that we need to be aware of the dangers of growth hormones in food products, but the kid analogy doesn't really help. Esp since I don't frequently eat my kids. (unless by kids u mean a goat youngling:) ). Its sort of stupid to compare kids to domesticated farming.
I personally, don't like to consume animal products unless I'm sure the animals animals are raised in a natural 'humane' environment (free range chickens).. but that's just a personal viewpoint,. Doesn't make sense to talk about cruelty when you are going to kill and eat a living animal anyway.
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And if you want to use Visual Studio then visit the main download page
http://www.vim.org/download.php and get:
ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/pc/gvim72ole.zip
(OLE GUI executable, A GUI version with OLE support. This offers a few extra features, such as integration with Visual Developer Studio. But it uses quite a bit more memory.)
And you can safely disregard the more memory part, if you are already using visual studio :D
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Integrate_gvim_with_Visual_Studio for tips if you need help setting it up.
The was an article on him a few years ago which seemed to suggest that he was being a patent troll and his 'inventions' just a cover (though to be fair he is a real super genius... worked with Stephen Hawking, publications in Nature and Science and even a paper on paleontology !!! ):
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/07/10/8380798/
(Who's afraid of Nathan Myhrvold?
The giants of tech, that's who. And they have a nasty name for the former Microsoft honcho: "patent troll."
FORTUNE Magazine
By Nicholas Varchaver, FORTUNE senior writer
June 26 2006: 1:20 PM EDT)
Patent troll or not, I have to admit that kitchen would have any tech savy cook drooling :) :)
on Windows 7 (and vista) Win key and '+' together does exactly that.
The newer versions of Windows have a "Change the size of text and other items on the screen" that scales fonts and (most) icons up nicely. KDE has a font scaling option too (and I'm sure other window managers will have that as well).
I think using scaling is a much better option than buying a low dpi screen (for example anti-aliasing looks waaaay better)
Windows Storage Server 2003 (yes, yes I know its from Microsoft) shipped with this feature (that is called Single Instance Storage)
http://blogs.technet.com/josebda/archive/2008/01/02/the-basics-of-single-instance-storage-sis-in-wss-2003-r2-and-wudss-2003.a
Check out windows live mesh ( http://www.mesh.com/ ) . It works with Macs and windows mobile phones (no linux support :( ) and you get 5GB of cloud storage too.
Well, you can just write them a polite email informing that you use the domain and it is not up for sale. However if they really need the domain, and are willing to recompensate you for the hassle of moving to another domain, you would be willing to help them out.
That way they can make an offer, are you get into no legal trouble (You clearly show that you do not wish to sell the domain, unless it is to help them out).
The most important part of a marriage is the vows and the witnesses. The "in love" feelings will come and go. When they go, you need a determination to see it through regardless. For people who honor their word, solemn vows before a crowd of witnesses accomplishes that. Maybe you've made a promise to yourself to stick it out. Why not make it public? Maybe you have some private conditions under which you would give yourself permission to bail out?
I think the parent was saying that its useless to force yourself to live together. If you and ur spouse like each other then be happy together and if not then what is the pointing of sticking around for some stupid vows ? Why make such vows in the first place ? (unless you are religious, then it makes sense)
The expense of a wedding can be a symbol of the degree to which the bride is "cherished". Some Christian pro-family speaker (whose name I've forgotten) tells an insightful (though likely legendary) story of an African girl who was considered the ugly duckling and despised. While most girls fetched a bride price of 4 or 5 cows, her father set hers at 1 cow in the hopes of at least getting rid of her. A man came courting (with much gossip), and ultimately paid a bride price of 10 cows.
Exactly. Not all people want to be 'cherished'/protected/bought/sold. There are people (yes, even women) who would prefer that they are recognized for what they do and not what their spouse pays for the wedding.
there is no question that the worst part of that show is the theme song.
There is :) . I absolutely love the theme song. I guess its subjective. Though I agree, you are better off skipping Dr. Horrible.
netflix streaming has Dr. Who online streaming (its not free, but just in case you are ready to pay/already have netflix)
Why should I let a illiterate imbecile (snip) vote about my future?
On similar lines:
Why should I let a uncouth non-college-graduate vote about my future ?
If you aren't smart enough to get a PhD, how can you decide what good for the entire country ? We should allow only PhD's to vote.
The simple answer to that is because its not just your future they are voting for, its their own future too. If you live in city, should the president you elect not have any powers to make any changes in the rural areas ? Why should an urbanite decide a farmers future. etc. etc.
One of the reasons why the browersync was popular is that people trusted Google with their setting and passwords and bookmarks( I mean they already have my email, my calender, my photos, my IM history, my cc number).
Now its not easy for someone to convert this into a generic extension, unless everyone trusts that person already. What the source could be useful for, is syncing it to your own server (or say a university server). The extension can be modified so that the sync server could be made customizable.. that way your data remains with you.
Not really. He did not claim he refused the knighthood to live the life of a recluse. He just doesn't like titles (and I suspect especially titles related to monarchy). Lenon did the same. If more people follow his example, the value of a knighthood will be diminished (and that's not hypocritical, cos he does not believe the knighthood should have a value)
The person who modded me informative... Has done something stupid. It only shows how stupid people are to not think for themselves... Tell them something that sounds remotely reasonable, something that they might agree with, and they'll believe, they'll follow. Well, trusting is not stupid (as long the number of je^H^H people like you is small). This is like writing an online review claiming that a crappy book was fantastic just to teach other people to think for themselves. Progress is much easier when people are honest.
Sure, no one would be stupid enough to design a life support system based on your Slashdot post, but I think its quite alright for a moderator to assume that a person is not intentionally lying when he mods.
Here is the link to the comic
http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/1999/19990305h.jpg
RAID is not a 'backup' solution. Just get a huge hardisk and set up automated backups. RAID is nice to get a performance boost/have a high uptime. For example RAID can be useless if ur RAID controller fails (I know you can theoretically replace that, its much more difficult than it sounds)
:). (though not all my family does, and the harddisks werent mine)
And I do backups
And the results are not too different. In the earthquakes question(when did earthquakes hit tokyo), where powerset seems to work like magic, google shows the same answer on the first page (though as the sixth link) ("Tokyo was hit by powerful earthquakes in 1703, 1782, 1812, 1855 and 1923").
So even for the tailor made, best-case examples, google seems to be quite on par.
That's actually not to far away from a working solution. You can normally make a failing/failed harddisk work for around 5 minutes by freezing it and then immediately using it. Don't try to boot off it, just connect it as an external drive and you can probably get that code you were working on before the drive failed. Its worked for me all 3 times I've tried.
Orhan Pahmuk's "My Name is Red" is in the second person. (though the first person keeps changing in every chapter of the book).
I personally, don't like to consume animal products unless I'm sure the animals animals are raised in a natural 'humane' environment (free range chickens)