A related tool is to record a sequence of commands in the registers and then execute them. The following records some commands in register 1. (Start with q1 and end with q)
q1 "do some actions" q
@1 will then execute contents of register 1. 10@1 will execute them 10 times and so on
Now, notice something: we're talking about a "warming trend" over the last 400 years. That would be the interval from roughly the beginning of the "Little Ice Age" to now. So, in other words, we're now substantially warmer than the low point of a historically unprecedented low temperature interval.
I think "historically unprecedented low temperature interval" is stretching it a bit far. There is still a lot of discussion on whether the Little Ice Age was of a regional or a global nature, see this link.
How many people who use iTunes ever dive down into their music folder to queue up songs? That's right, zero.
Whats the point? Why should they? If they did, it wouldn't do much good, since they need to update the database as well. And what makes the file-queueing method better than what itunes does? Don't make the mistake of thinking that if a person chooses the most convenient method, he must be a computer illiterate. Someone told me that computers would take care of boring, tedious tasks, some time in the future...
Why in the hell would anyone want a media player that looks like that, and has so much bloat?
My guess is that it's because the average person does not understand the basic metaphors used in the modern computer. Personally, I like to have my music tagged and named correctly so that it makes sense in my file tree. For example: ~/music/$artist/$album/$song .
Which happens to be exactly how itunes store your music. Maybe this "average person" you refer to understands very well...
I agree with you. I've worked with MS Office for several years as a "tech guy" and have had very few problems with Office itself. Though I've had several of those errors that take place between the back of the chair and the keyboard.
Most program-related errors occur because of the user, right? This holds for OOo and MSOffice. Stupid, stupid users.
On that note, remind me why my_organization(tm) should upgrade to another expensive MSOffice version, rather than going with OOo?
This is an "alternative to Skype" in the same way that Google Talk is - it's an alternative if you happen to be running Windows 2000/XP. I have too much to do during the day to mess with running Windows, so it looks like I'm sticking with Skype or GizmoProject. No affiliation with either, aside from liking the fact that they work on more than one OS.
Seems to be available to several platforms, or did I miss something?
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Operating System: MacOS X, Windows, Linux
Naah, I think all OS-aficionados can agree on a fair, objective discussion on which is the best OS here.. We will all learn from each other, thus making the world a better place. As long as *insert favourite OS here* is deemed the best, ofcourse, otherwise you are a bunch of asshats.
So get a three-button mouse. It works well with OSX
How do you replace the built-in one-button mouse in iBook or PB with a decent mouse? No, "buy an external mouse!" is not the answer I'm looking for.
Fair enough. But in my opinion a built-in laptop mouse can never be a ''decent'' mouse...
I've been using a Mac for a year or so, and I keep finding that nearly everything that I do is possible, but much slower than on any X-Windows box. It's partly that dumb 1-button "mouse", but there are other problems, too.
So get a three-button mouse. It works well with OSX
'The simplest example is copy-and-paste. You can always do this. But the X-Windows scheme is quick and simple (and doesn't involve the keyboard at all); just three quick clicks or a click-swipe-release-click. OSX is materially slower, though slightly faster sometimes than Windows.
This actually works (somewhat) in terminal.app, but if you really feel you need this, install the X11 under OSX.
Similarly, linux and other X-Windows systems implements focus-follows-pointer, and doesn't insist on raising a window when it gets focus.
You can do this using third party software for all windows under OSX. For terminal.app it is achieved by setting "defaults write com.apple.Terminal FocusFollowsMouse -string YES", under X11 for OSX it is achieved by setting "defaults write com.apple.x11 wm_ffm -bool true". Both in a terminal window...
Maybe I should give up and install an X server on my PB.
If you like X11 I see no reason why you shouldn't. It works well and is quite well integrated with OSX. I dont see how this could be ''giving up''...
I love this idea. Let's try to make the transition as smooth as possible! Here's an excellent example of how to do it:
Sweden's relationship with the Gregorian Calendar had a difficult birth. Sweden started to make the change from the OS calendar and towards the NS calendar in 1700, but it was decided to make the now 11-day adjustment gradually, by excluding the leap days (29 February) from each of 11 successive leap years, 1700 to 1740. In the meantime, not only would the Swedish calendar be out of step with both the Julian calendar and the Gregorian calendar for 40 years, but also the difference would not be static but would change every 4 years. This strange system clearly had great potential for endless confusion when working out on what dates events in Sweden actually occurred in this period. To make matters worse, the system was poorly administered and the leap days that should have been excluded from 1704 and 1708 were still for some reason included. The Swedish calendar should by now have been 8 days behind the Gregorian, but it was still in fact 10 days behind. King Charles XII wisely recognised that the gradual change to the new system was not working and he abandoned it. However, rather than now proceeding directly to the Gregorian calendar (as in hindsight seems to have been the sensible and obvious thing to do), it was decided to revert to the Julian calendar. This was achieved by introducing the unique date February 30 in the year 1712, adjusting the discrepancy in the calendars from 10 back to 11 days. Sweden finally adopted the Gregorian calendar, in an immediate fashion, in 1753, when February 17 was followed by March 1.
Frankly, I feel the best way to learn math is the old way with pen and paper. The people who advocate computers as a necessity for learning math seem to be the ones who don't really know math...
In Norway we had this major restructuring of the high schools, they are now allowed to use advanced calculators (which are almost like computers for that purpose). It has gone so far that if you answer math questions (really simple stuff, no actual need for a calculator) by explaining the key combinations you used on your calculator, the answer is as good as one solved by hand. No one seems to stop and think about what way proves that you really know this stuff.
Perhaps this is also the reason why knowledge in math is on a steady downward trend in Norway, when compared to many other countries. The problem is that authorities do not want to go back to the old way of teaching math, because ''computers are the way of the future blah blah''....
I stopped running linux on my macs at work for one simple reason. Make a list of the activities you plan to do under linux, that you couldn't do under OS X. Now, make a list of things you can do under OS X and can't do under linux. Chances are, you'll end up sacrificing a bunch of features so you can simply say "I'm running linux". There's no motive.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I guess that linux/X11 would run faster on a mac than OSX/Aqua, for some that is important enough.... For many people linux does whats needed, for the rest there is always Mac on Linux
Even the most complicated computer models for weather systems can only approach less than 5% of the actual variability and density of the atmosphere. Consider that most forecasts are less than 50% accurate at 48hrs+. I am not dismissing the research, far from it, I just don't think the models are there yet.
And they never will be. Period. This is the result of imperfect models and imperfect initial conditions. Even though your model was "perfect", uncertainty in your initial conditions will cause large error growths by some time. This is one aspect of chaotic systems....
That being said, one should keep in mind that climate models do not forecast the wather into the future. They do not attempt to forecast the weather on Jan. 26th 2043. What we call weather forecast is an attempt to model the weather systems (low pressures, high pressures) on short time scales. At best, the position and intensities of these systems can be modeled with some accuracy. For climate simulations the positions and intensities of weather systems are of less value, it is the statistics of these weather systems which can be described.
To me it seems natural that the intensities of hurricanes will change as a result of any global warming, since the intensity of hurricanes are closely linked to ocean surface temperature (evaporation is the primary energy source for tropical hurricanes).
I don't think gaim qualifies as mac compatible till someone bothers putting a mac binary on their site.
A port of gaim to osx needs a port of gtk first, which is some time into the future, the GTK+OSX project aimed at this but with gtk1.x, not gtk2. Anyway, that project seems far from finished... You can ofcourse install it under X11, or you could try out adiumX, which uses the core library of gaim anyway.
The numbers of unsupported hardware are huge. I just tried to add my digital camera (Kodak DX4530) but kept receiving an error that someone else was making a change at the same time.
The DX4530 is supported, I own one and use it a lot under linux. Works like a charm with KDE's "digikam" application...
Mac users are telemark skiers. They aren't as adventurous as the snowboarders, and they have more in common with the skiers, but they also have this smooth, sophisticated sheen of coolness about them that neither of the other two groups have. Barbara Streisand is probably a telemarker.
On the other hand, Tele skiers get more sophisticated knee injuries...
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A related tool is to record a sequence of commands in the registers and then execute them. The following records some commands in register 1. (Start with q1 and end with q)
q1
"do some actions"
q
@1 will then execute contents of register 1. 10@1 will execute them 10 times and so on
See also "complex-repeat" in vim help
Now, notice something: we're talking about a "warming trend" over the last 400 years. That would be the interval from roughly the beginning of the "Little Ice Age" to now. So, in other words, we're now substantially warmer than the low point of a historically unprecedented low temperature interval.
I think "historically unprecedented low temperature interval" is stretching it a bit far. There is still a lot of discussion on whether the Little Ice Age was of a regional or a global nature, see this link.
Which happens to be exactly how itunes store your music. Maybe this "average person" you refer to understands very well...
I agree with you. I've worked with MS Office for several years as a "tech guy" and have had very few problems with Office itself. Though I've had several of those errors that take place between the back of the chair and the keyboard.
Most program-related errors occur because of the user, right? This holds for OOo and MSOffice. Stupid, stupid users.
On that note, remind me why my_organization(tm) should upgrade to another expensive MSOffice version, rather than going with OOo?
This is an "alternative to Skype" in the same way that Google Talk is - it's an alternative if you happen to be running Windows 2000/XP. I have too much to do during the day to mess with running Windows, so it looks like I'm sticking with Skype or GizmoProject. No affiliation with either, aside from liking the fact that they work on more than one OS.
Seems to be available to several platforms, or did I miss something?
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Operating System: MacOS X, Windows, Linux
Naah, I think all OS-aficionados can agree on a fair, objective discussion on which is the best OS here.. We will all learn from each other, thus making the world a better place. As long as *insert favourite OS here* is deemed the best, ofcourse, otherwise you are a bunch of asshats.
So get a three-button mouse. It works well with OSX How do you replace the built-in one-button mouse in iBook or PB with a decent mouse? No, "buy an external mouse!" is not the answer I'm looking for.
Fair enough. But in my opinion a built-in laptop mouse can never be a ''decent'' mouse...
I've been using a Mac for a year or so, and I keep finding that nearly everything that I do is possible, but much slower than on any X-Windows box. It's partly that dumb 1-button "mouse", but there are other problems, too.
So get a three-button mouse. It works well with OSX
'The simplest example is copy-and-paste. You can always do this. But the X-Windows scheme is quick and simple (and doesn't involve the keyboard at all); just three quick clicks or a click-swipe-release-click. OSX is materially slower, though slightly faster sometimes than Windows.
This actually works (somewhat) in terminal.app, but if you really feel you need this, install the X11 under OSX.
Similarly, linux and other X-Windows systems implements focus-follows-pointer, and doesn't insist on raising a window when it gets focus.
You can do this using third party software for all windows under OSX. For terminal.app it is achieved by setting "defaults write com.apple.Terminal FocusFollowsMouse -string YES", under X11 for OSX it is achieved by setting "defaults write com.apple.x11 wm_ffm -bool true". Both in a terminal window...
Maybe I should give up and install an X server on my PB.
If you like X11 I see no reason why you shouldn't. It works well and is quite well integrated with OSX. I dont see how this could be ''giving up''...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar
Frankly, I feel the best way to learn math is the old way with pen and paper. The people who advocate computers as a necessity for learning math seem to be the ones who don't really know math...
In Norway we had this major restructuring of the high schools, they are now allowed to use advanced calculators (which are almost like computers for that purpose). It has gone so far that if you answer math questions (really simple stuff, no actual need for a calculator) by explaining the key combinations you used on your calculator, the answer is as good as one solved by hand. No one seems to stop and think about what way proves that you really know this stuff.
Perhaps this is also the reason why knowledge in math is on a steady downward trend in Norway, when compared to many other countries. The problem is that authorities do not want to go back to the old way of teaching math, because ''computers are the way of the future blah blah''....
I stopped running linux on my macs at work for one simple reason. Make a list of the activities you plan to do under linux, that you couldn't do under OS X. Now, make a list of things you can do under OS X and can't do under linux. Chances are, you'll end up sacrificing a bunch of features so you can simply say "I'm running linux". There's no motive.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I guess that linux/X11 would run faster on a mac than OSX/Aqua, for some that is important enough.... For many people linux does whats needed, for the rest there is always Mac on Linux
Even the most complicated computer models for weather systems can only approach less than 5% of the actual variability and density of the atmosphere. Consider that most forecasts are less than 50% accurate at 48hrs+. I am not dismissing the research, far from it, I just don't think the models are there yet.
And they never will be. Period. This is the result of imperfect models and imperfect initial conditions. Even though your model was "perfect", uncertainty in your initial conditions will cause large error growths by some time. This is one aspect of chaotic systems....
That being said, one should keep in mind that climate models do not forecast the wather into the future. They do not attempt to forecast the weather on Jan. 26th 2043. What we call weather forecast is an attempt to model the weather systems (low pressures, high pressures) on short time scales. At best, the position and intensities of these systems can be modeled with some accuracy. For climate simulations the positions and intensities of weather systems are of less value, it is the statistics of these weather systems which can be described.
To me it seems natural that the intensities of hurricanes will change as a result of any global warming, since the intensity of hurricanes are closely linked to ocean surface temperature (evaporation is the primary energy source for tropical hurricanes).
something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
Danish geek brethren: This is NOT the right way to get geek credit from your geek compadres ;-)
I don't think gaim qualifies as mac compatible till someone bothers putting a mac binary on their site.
A port of gaim to osx needs a port of gtk first, which is some time into the future, the GTK+OSX project aimed at this but with gtk1.x, not gtk2. Anyway, that project seems far from finished... You can ofcourse install it under X11, or you could try out adiumX, which uses the core library of gaim anyway.
The numbers of unsupported hardware are huge. I just tried to add my digital camera (Kodak DX4530) but kept receiving an error that someone else was making a change at the same time.
The DX4530 is supported, I own one and use it a lot under linux. Works like a charm with KDE's "digikam" application...
At least they didn't go for Newspeak...
On the other hand, Tele skiers get more sophisticated knee injuries...
D'oh!