Why, thanks. The currency source feeds look usable.
If at all possible I don't want to bother with screenscraping, I'd rather use a bunch of different freely available feeds. I was planning on building in a few different sources that I can fallback onto if necessary. As this is my first such application: How bad is it, how often can I expect a source to go south?
I'll use this opportunity to ask if anybody has a good source for daily exchange rates. I'm building an open source app (geek cred?) that needs to pull daily exchange rates. I have only found a tab delimited file from the International Monetary Fund so far. That works okay, but does anybody know of other/better APIs/feeds for exchange rates?
"One surprising finding was that messages often took meandering routes between people who knew each other, often through as many as 100 intermediaries."
That means that after 100 steps the mail came back to somebody who knew the original sender? After, you know, having been sent to everybody in one's address book?
NO SH!T SHERLOCK!
I thought everybody was connected to everybody via at most 6 links or so.
Thanks, but unfortunately the same incompetent cameramen as in posts video. Could they possibly show any less of what's going on, next to pointing the camera straight at the ceiling?
A MacBook might not be perfect for what you're looking for, but in these points they're actually excellent. Apple Service is available in most countries one way or another. They're using the exact same hardware all over the world, meaning you can get a replacement rather easily. That's not true for too many manufacturers, models often vary from region to region. Apple warranty is also world-wide. And the OS is international, no separate editions for different languages, switchable on the fly. The power-adapter works world-wide as well.
Not meaning to troll or anything, but I started browsing through Wikipedia to find out more about New Voyages. And guess what, even the original entry from June 2nd already included these "news"...
OMG! You just made me realise that I have been reading/. for way over 4 years now. I remembered the story immediately, but seeing that it's over 2 years old really shocked me. I've changed countries and jobs twice since, but I'm still reading here and I'm actually remembering most of the stuff...
No, I find most of Linux' WMs that try to clone Windows are not that much more usable. I for one hate KDE. But I like Enlightenment and the like. And for now I'm on OS X anyway, which also seems to go the Windows way in the sense that more and more inconsistencies are introduced into the system, but most of them actually do make me more productive. And IMHO they had the better design to begin with, so it's hard to mess it up completely (drag and drop install anyone?).
True. Has Microsoft done anything big to actually improve the usability since '95? The Start menu still has the same usability issues it had a decade ago (i.e. inconsistency with the apps it actually points to and general clutter) and the Taskbar is a usability horror if you've got a couple of dozen windows open. I think they had a bad start with the general UI and only made it worse and more inconsistent over the years. I mean, right next to the fancy glass effect (and yes, it looks rather neat), there are some buttons and elements that seem to have been copied straight out of '95 or '98. I wonder if systray tooltips still tend to appear behind the taskbar occasionally?
Why don't they give the whole thing a once-over and just do it right? Oh, yeah, sorry, it's Microsoft...
I guess some languages are harder to translate than others, and until they some up with a really good AI, they won't make it. Languages like Japanese simply lack a lot of concepts that are in English, German, French and the like. No plural or future tense for example. "Neko no mimi" could mean cat ears in general, the ears of a bunch of cats, a specific cat's ears, one specific ear of cat and so on. Stuff like this is usually clarified by the context. But depending on the text, the context might be considered as understood and therefore not be specified in a sentence. If Googlefish learns only on a sentence pattern basis, this will not really help anymore in translating Japanese texts than current technology does. To adequately grasp the contents of a text and correctly translate it, a lot of AI work will need to be done for these languages...
Though I usually ain't no grammar nazi, I wonder whether they know the difference between their, there and they're where you come from. Just because it makes reading so much easier.
that some frequently used internal IBM applications only run (so far) on IE.
What I want to know here is, whether they're using some ActiveX stuff, or if they simply coded their websites bad enough to only make them work in IE. That's a problem I have where I work: I prefer using Firefox, but some Intranet code is so messed up it simply does not render correctly, because it was developed for IE...
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But point out that Macs are a poor price-performance competitor and some Mac user will itemize bundled software they don't really use, vacuous claims about the superiority of the manufactured parts, or introduce vague notions regarding aesthetics.
The main question is: what do you want to do with your computer? Personally, I use it for web browsing, email, listening to and, to a limited extend, producing music, watching movies/DVDs/TV on it, some programming, mainly script languages w/o compilation involved and finally some graphics editing. I can do all of that perfectly fine even on my fairly old 933 MHz iBook. And most of it Just Works out of the box, w/o the need to set anything up, worrying about incompatibilities or buying additional software packs. And for all of that I gladly wait two seconds longer for my apps to load.
Just my 0.02 EUR regarding price/performance.
And yes, I do find Macs aesthetically more pleasing than your average beige/white/black ATX box.
If I'd badly need one of these 3+ GHz monsters to crunch some numbers I'd probably go for some Intel box as well, but the same as you don't need the bundled and well-working software, I don't need the additional MHz.
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>> So because all your appliances are getting smaller they are easier to rip off?
Yes. If it's at home and someone busts in to your house, they want to take small, easily portable items. Cash and small electronics. The mini-mac is now in the "small electronics" category.
So, you would not buy a mini because it's... mini? Because it's one of the first things the burglars that are regularely visiting you will steal? Uhm, you do have strange priorities then.;) But anyway, there's even a Kensington hole in that thing.
>> The mini has more style.
Style is in the eye of the beholder.
Yes, true. But I'd still not consider colourful == style.
Systems administraton. Reading and answering mail. Browsing the web. Writing documents and spreadsheets. Shell scripting. Works fine for me.
Guess you could do the same as easily in OSX, if not even more productive. I for one wouldn't want to live without Expose anymore, or Launchbar . But I guess it's just a matter of getting used to a certain system.
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My niece(-in-law) is named Soa, guess how confusing that was...
Zen of Soa ... an original view to the challenging world of Soa ... Soa practitioners ... building a successful Soa ... undertake adoption of Soa
Point being that "casualty" refers to a person, which makes a "minor casualty" a "minor (dead or wounded) person".
The correct term should be "casualty with minor injuries".
That is one of the sanest postings I've come across on slashdot. So why is it marked as a troll?
+1 Sane?DieElektronischeGooglePost
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I really do. =_=
Why, thanks. The currency source feeds look usable.
If at all possible I don't want to bother with screenscraping, I'd rather use a bunch of different freely available feeds. I was planning on building in a few different sources that I can fallback onto if necessary. As this is my first such application: How bad is it, how often can I expect a source to go south?
I'll use this opportunity to ask if anybody has a good source for daily exchange rates. I'm building an open source app (geek cred?) that needs to pull daily exchange rates. I have only found a tab delimited file from the International Monetary Fund so far. That works okay, but does anybody know of other/better APIs/feeds for exchange rates?
It's in France after all!
(Came from the RSS feed, where there are no links.
"One surprising finding was that messages often took meandering routes between people who knew each other, often through as many as 100 intermediaries."
That means that after 100 steps the mail came back to somebody who knew the original sender? After, you know, having been sent to everybody in one's address book?
NO SH!T SHERLOCK!
I thought everybody was connected to everybody via at most 6 links or so.
Thanks, but unfortunately the same incompetent cameramen as in posts video. Could they possibly show any less of what's going on, next to pointing the camera straight at the ceiling?
A MacBook might not be perfect for what you're looking for, but in these points they're actually excellent.
Apple Service is available in most countries one way or another. They're using the exact same hardware all over the world, meaning you can get a replacement rather easily. That's not true for too many manufacturers, models often vary from region to region. Apple warranty is also world-wide. And the OS is international, no separate editions for different languages, switchable on the fly. The power-adapter works world-wide as well.
My 2¥.
That's why it's spelled "visual voice-mail," not "visual-voice mail."
Although the latter one might be awesome, thinking about it.
Apparently GoLive was though.
Not meaning to troll or anything, but I started browsing through Wikipedia to find out more about New Voyages. And guess what, even the original entry from June 2nd already included these "news"...
OMG! You just made me realise that I have been reading /. for way over 4 years now. I remembered the story immediately, but seeing that it's over 2 years old really shocked me. I've changed countries and jobs twice since, but I'm still reading here and I'm actually remembering most of the stuff...
/. Dupes - The WayBackMachine for your head.
I'm using a Mac, you insensitive clod.
No, I find most of Linux' WMs that try to clone Windows are not that much more usable. I for one hate KDE. But I like Enlightenment and the like. And for now I'm on OS X anyway, which also seems to go the Windows way in the sense that more and more inconsistencies are introduced into the system, but most of them actually do make me more productive. And IMHO they had the better design to begin with, so it's hard to mess it up completely (drag and drop install anyone?).
True. Has Microsoft done anything big to actually improve the usability since '95? The Start menu still has the same usability issues it had a decade ago (i.e. inconsistency with the apps it actually points to and general clutter) and the Taskbar is a usability horror if you've got a couple of dozen windows open. I think they had a bad start with the general UI and only made it worse and more inconsistent over the years. I mean, right next to the fancy glass effect (and yes, it looks rather neat), there are some buttons and elements that seem to have been copied straight out of '95 or '98. I wonder if systray tooltips still tend to appear behind the taskbar occasionally?
Why don't they give the whole thing a once-over and just do it right?
Oh, yeah, sorry, it's Microsoft...
I guess some languages are harder to translate than others, and until they some up with a really good AI, they won't make it. Languages like Japanese simply lack a lot of concepts that are in English, German, French and the like. No plural or future tense for example. "Neko no mimi" could mean cat ears in general, the ears of a bunch of cats, a specific cat's ears, one specific ear of cat and so on. Stuff like this is usually clarified by the context. But depending on the text, the context might be considered as understood and therefore not be specified in a sentence.
If Googlefish learns only on a sentence pattern basis, this will not really help anymore in translating Japanese texts than current technology does. To adequately grasp the contents of a text and correctly translate it, a lot of AI work will need to be done for these languages...
It indeed is a good week for us Mac fanboys. Updated PowerMac line, OS X Tiger, Microsoft hitting themselves in the face big time...
;)
Feels like Christmas.
Though I usually ain't no grammar nazi, I wonder whether they know the difference between their, there and they're where you come from. Just because it makes reading so much easier.
I can't believe you're posting on /. and forgot the most important step:
- ???
that some frequently used internal IBM applications only run (so far) on IE.
What I want to know here is, whether they're using some ActiveX stuff, or if they simply coded their websites bad enough to only make them work in IE. That's a problem I have where I work: I prefer using Firefox, but some Intranet code is so messed up it simply does not render correctly, because it was developed for IE...
But point out that Macs are a poor price-performance competitor and some Mac user will itemize bundled software they don't really use, vacuous claims about the superiority of the manufactured parts, or introduce vague notions regarding aesthetics.
The main question is: what do you want to do with your computer? Personally, I use it for web browsing, email, listening to and, to a limited extend, producing music, watching movies/DVDs/TV on it, some programming, mainly script languages w/o compilation involved and finally some graphics editing. I can do all of that perfectly fine even on my fairly old 933 MHz iBook. And most of it Just Works out of the box, w/o the need to set anything up, worrying about incompatibilities or buying additional software packs. And for all of that I gladly wait two seconds longer for my apps to load.
Just my 0.02 EUR regarding price/performance.
And yes, I do find Macs aesthetically more pleasing than your average beige/white/black ATX box.
If I'd badly need one of these 3+ GHz monsters to crunch some numbers I'd probably go for some Intel box as well, but the same as you don't need the bundled and well-working software, I don't need the additional MHz.
>> So because all your appliances are getting smaller they are easier to rip off?
;)
Yes. If it's at home and someone busts in to your house, they want to take small, easily portable items. Cash and small electronics. The mini-mac is now in the "small electronics" category.
So, you would not buy a mini because it's... mini? Because it's one of the first things the burglars that are regularely visiting you will steal? Uhm, you do have strange priorities then.
But anyway, there's even a Kensington hole in that thing.
>> The mini has more style.
Style is in the eye of the beholder.
Yes, true. But I'd still not consider colourful == style.
Systems administraton. Reading and answering mail. Browsing the web. Writing documents and spreadsheets. Shell scripting. Works fine for me.
Guess you could do the same as easily in OSX, if not even more productive. I for one wouldn't want to live without Expose anymore, or Launchbar . But I guess it's just a matter of getting used to a certain system.