I'm not smart enough to go to MIT, but I did have the pleasure of using Sipser's Theory of Computation book. It's great: conversational and understandable, but also as concise as it could possibly be, and it shows a profound respect for the student in the way it gets things across, which is often something educators overlook.
"Now, I'm warning you, some of the features on Mars have peculiar names."... "So you're saying it's composition..." "No, 'it's' is on the other hemisphere.":: ducks::
I've always thought it was weird that AKO was just "us.army.mil". You'd think it'd be "ako.army.mil" or "ako.mil". One thing that is nice, though, is that they let you forward all the mail. I have my AKO account forward all mail to my USACE/ERDC account, which is kind of nice.
Anyone ever seen Apollo 13? I wasn't alive during the period that the movie is set in, but, apparently, when they were stuck, it was like a big emotional national thing that was on the news 24/7.
But this thing -- it could be like that. It'd be like "Ohh, we're praying for those brave astronauts", followed by people making emotional arguments that we need to spend more money on space stuff and science, which would ultimately be good, right? Hmm.
One time, the administrator of WrongPlanet.net that I co-founded it with (I'm no longer running the place) put up a "mirror" of one autism site that went down. It was actually the Archive.org mirror displayed in a frame. The owner of the site was irate and rude about the whole thing, and wanted to sue for "copyright infringement". My friend changed it to a text link in a forums post to the archive.org link, and they still persisted, talking about how horrible it was, and how much pain it caused them, how we were "exploiting" them.
A lot of people really don't understand the internet, it's crazy.
Replace your hyperlinks with DHTML code that dynamically generates them as, like, Flash animations or something -- except said flahses would be hosted on some different, arbitrary server.:-D
I don't understand the comments saying how it's a worse value and stuff. You can go download WiMP for free. How is it less valuable to have a freely available program not included? If you want it, you go freaking download it. Maaaan.
It's not a matter of just native widgets to make stuff work well on a Mac. I'd rather have something in a custom/Windows/motif-like appearance than its bastardized aqua equivilant. Aqua isn't just a "skin", there's a whole set of conventions and usability standards that make up a good Mac application. But not only would they fail to follow those with native WINE widgets, but they would just look awful with the wrong button sizes, positioning, etc.
Not sure if that's the same as "Potato Guy", but my little brother and I love that. It's fun to give the potato noses for eyes (complete with eyeglasses and brows) etc, and give the nearby bush a face and a hat. It can be quite silly.:)
Well, except those other things are ficticious and no real people were harmed in the making (see the argument about consumption/demand). But your basic point is valid. I don't think the guy should be arrested for accessing some stuff. Perhaps if he had an extensive collection maybe, but who should get in trouble is the people who make the stuff.
It's odd how journalists often refer to peer to peer networks as "sites", because normal people don't know that the internet != the web. But it's more than a semantic distinction, of course. Now people who see the term "p2p sites" will think that you go on to some website owned by someone, and you download all this copyrighted material from a single centralized source, which is completely wrong in most cases (allofmp3 aside).
I wish journalists were more informated about stuff they wrote about.
Wow, I sounded really fanboyish. Not the intention. I use all the major platforms, I'm only lamenting the lack of consistancy and usability on Mac ports. Usually the linux or even windows ports of open source apps run wonderfully by comparison.
look horrible. Either use completely custom, ugly UI elements, or a bastardized Aqua.
Run incredibly, unusably slow. "What's it doing, and will it ever finish?"
have tons of bugs, even if written by perfectly competant programmers.
Freeze or become unusable randomly. Eclipse is the worst at this -- sometimes it'll freeze and be totally unresponsive, but when I quit it from the dock, it will act all passive agressive and show a dialog box saying it's saving my work, then quit gracefully. The bastard.
It's weird, because Java seems to be a decent language, even for real application development, just the implementations of the platform can be horrible, especially on the Mac. I don't understand enough of the mechanics to make more specific statements regarding the JVM and bytecode and such, but geez, it can't be that hard.
As for open source apps, for many mac users, it's not enough for an application to just run. I've complained about custom interfaces before to a PC friend, and he said "Oh, it must be horrible that apps run without an Aqua skin." (missing the point obviously) But it's more than that -- many OS X ports of open source apps are not consistant with themselves, let alone the OS, sometimes handle file operations completely wrong, and, in short, aren't up to the level of quality Mac users expect. I'm not saying the ports shouldn't be made, it's great that it's being done, but it leads to confusion when someone says that something is able to run/work/whatever, and it does it so horribly that it effectively is of no use at all, in the case of some apps.
I don't mean to sound snotty, but it's like the old joke "how many legs does a dog have if you count the tail as a leg?" / "four. calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."
It's funny, I read a web book ('The Unusually Useful Web Book') that said precisely that. Traffic trends on the whole web go down during summer, possibly due to people going outside. It also said that traffic trends go up in January after Xmas (maybe people getting their nwe computers).
Slashdot Mirror
I'm not smart enough to go to MIT, but I did have the pleasure of using Sipser's Theory of Computation book. It's great: conversational and understandable, but also as concise as it could possibly be, and it shows a profound respect for the student in the way it gets things across, which is often something educators overlook.
http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2005/07/02/spanish -american-war-tax-on-telephone-service-continues-t oday/
Spanish-American war, actually.
Be my guest: http://www.dotgov.gov/
:-)
It's a bit expensive though, at $125/year.
"Now, I'm warning you, some of the features on Mars have peculiar names." ... :: ducks ::
"So you're saying it's composition..."
"No, 'it's' is on the other hemisphere."
I've always thought it was weird that AKO was just "us.army.mil". You'd think it'd be "ako.army.mil" or "ako.mil". One thing that is nice, though, is that they let you forward all the mail. I have my AKO account forward all mail to my USACE/ERDC account, which is kind of nice.
Anyone ever seen Apollo 13? I wasn't alive during the period that the movie is set in, but, apparently, when they were stuck, it was like a big emotional national thing that was on the news 24/7.
But this thing -- it could be like that. It'd be like "Ohh, we're praying for those brave astronauts", followed by people making emotional arguments that we need to spend more money on space stuff and science, which would ultimately be good, right? Hmm.
One time, the administrator of WrongPlanet.net that I co-founded it with (I'm no longer running the place) put up a "mirror" of one autism site that went down. It was actually the Archive.org mirror displayed in a frame. The owner of the site was irate and rude about the whole thing, and wanted to sue for "copyright infringement". My friend changed it to a text link in a forums post to the archive.org link, and they still persisted, talking about how horrible it was, and how much pain it caused them, how we were "exploiting" them.
A lot of people really don't understand the internet, it's crazy.
Transparency with multiple levels on IE is possible with PNGs if it's just an 8 bit png, but that kinda sucks.
Replace your hyperlinks with DHTML code that dynamically generates them as, like, Flash animations or something -- except said flahses would be hosted on some different, arbitrary server. :-D
what about Poland? :)
I don't understand the comments saying how it's a worse value and stuff. You can go download WiMP for free. How is it less valuable to have a freely available program not included? If you want it, you go freaking download it. Maaaan.
"A new Microsoft security hole threatens to kill you and your family. Film at 11!"
It's not a matter of just native widgets to make stuff work well on a Mac. I'd rather have something in a custom/Windows/motif-like appearance than its bastardized aqua equivilant. Aqua isn't just a "skin", there's a whole set of conventions and usability standards that make up a good Mac application. But not only would they fail to follow those with native WINE widgets, but they would just look awful with the wrong button sizes, positioning, etc.
Not sure if that's the same as "Potato Guy", but my little brother and I love that. It's fun to give the potato noses for eyes (complete with eyeglasses and brows) etc, and give the nearby bush a face and a hat. It can be quite silly. :)
Well, except those other things are ficticious and no real people were harmed in the making (see the argument about consumption/demand). But your basic point is valid. I don't think the guy should be arrested for accessing some stuff. Perhaps if he had an extensive collection maybe, but who should get in trouble is the people who make the stuff.
Naw, it's easy.
./configure
./run-moonbase
make
It's odd how journalists often refer to peer to peer networks as "sites", because normal people don't know that the internet != the web. But it's more than a semantic distinction, of course. Now people who see the term "p2p sites" will think that you go on to some website owned by someone, and you download all this copyrighted material from a single centralized source, which is completely wrong in most cases (allofmp3 aside).
I wish journalists were more informated about stuff they wrote about.
Professor Lindenbrock, I presume ;)
Yes, but will it do Klingon?
/ducks
Or what about other weird languages? Darmok on the water at Tanagra! Tanagra, his arms wide! Darmok and Tanagra on the ocean!
Wow, I sounded really fanboyish. Not the intention. I use all the major platforms, I'm only lamenting the lack of consistancy and usability on Mac ports. Usually the linux or even windows ports of open source apps run wonderfully by comparison.
I've never used a Java app that doesn't:
It's weird, because Java seems to be a decent language, even for real application development, just the implementations of the platform can be horrible, especially on the Mac. I don't understand enough of the mechanics to make more specific statements regarding the JVM and bytecode and such, but geez, it can't be that hard.
As for open source apps, for many mac users, it's not enough for an application to just run. I've complained about custom interfaces before to a PC friend, and he said "Oh, it must be horrible that apps run without an Aqua skin." (missing the point obviously) But it's more than that -- many OS X ports of open source apps are not consistant with themselves, let alone the OS, sometimes handle file operations completely wrong, and, in short, aren't up to the level of quality Mac users expect. I'm not saying the ports shouldn't be made, it's great that it's being done, but it leads to confusion when someone says that something is able to run/work/whatever, and it does it so horribly that it effectively is of no use at all, in the case of some apps.
I don't mean to sound snotty, but it's like the old joke "how many legs does a dog have if you count the tail as a leg?" / "four. calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."
Or they could make an OS that isn't, you know, horribly insecure.
It's funny, I read a web book ('The Unusually Useful Web Book') that said precisely that. Traffic trends on the whole web go down during summer, possibly due to people going outside. It also said that traffic trends go up in January after Xmas (maybe people getting their nwe computers).