I think Book would look better if the Hair was similar to Jane Goodall's Hair in Irregular Webcomic. It's basically a normal Grey Hair Piece with a blob of Blu-tak stuck on the back, as a bun.
I want a Gmail account, but I will not lower myself by begging; I will ask Politely instead. I would like a Gmail account, and would be grateful to anyone who can oblige.
Skeptically is currently in the Top 100 on iTunes (number 3 ATM), 10th on Podcast Pickle and 43rd on Podcast Alley.
The Novel Earthcore is also highly rated, but has just concluded. It may appeal to non-technical geeks. Escape Pod, the Podcast of the author of the above reviewer contains short Science Fiction Storys and the Regular Narrators always inject a large amount of Fun into their readings.
With the exception of one or two episodes, these three podcasts all have high production quality and are a great way to keep your mind amused if you do any commuting or have any free-time to spend.
It is a good novel, but it's just concluded. Podcast Clients (or PodCatchers, if you're a buzzword junkie) download from last to first which disrupts the flow of a serialised story. Individual Short Stories, like those presented in Steve Eleys Escape Pod are better suited than serials. They can be presented both individually, or in a serial.
Getting back to Earthcore; It's exciting, enthralling and free. Would I purchase the Book (which he is selling pre-orders for ATM)? Maybe, but I wouldn't read it again. I would only purchase it to support the Author. His Technical Background is rather flakey at best, a few hours of research could've made is Metallurgical and Geological explanations more consistant.
Earthcore was a good way to pass the time, and non-tech-geek may get a kick out of it, but anyone who knows much about anything specific will be let down time and time again by his Inconsistent Technical explainations.
I'd throw up a warning screen on boot if the OS is running on non-Apple hardware, with a big flashing warning that something is wrong with the hardware and the user should NOT continue, but instead take their machine to the store, blah blah.
This is one of the Major reasons I switched to Mac from BeOS. I fell in love with this concept using BeOS and was one of the reasons I used it for so long as my Primary OS. (4 years) After the Dissolution of BeOS, I decided to go back to a Mainstream OS. (GNOME and KDE had stagnated, and still haven't progressed IMHO). Windows "International Keyboard" Keymap was a Joke at best, so I chose a Mac.
Just pay Athena Starwoman or whoever to state that your Horoscope is determined at the time of your Birth. Then this poor deluded Money-Grabber won't be affected, since she was born prior to the Probe.
What you're saying is if someone wants to build a MIssle Silo or Sewage Treatment Plant next door too your home, They should be allowed, regardless of Zoning Laws.
What about if someone wants to convert the alleyway behind their house to a shed or herb garden, blocking access to anyone else who uses that alley? Is that OK too?
How about if someone wants to build a three-storey Lego-Brick on their property, all the way to the fence, while every other house in the street is a small country-style cottage?
Especially use AppleScript in Functions. I want to have a Function which spits out how many Songs I have in iTunes, which have a Rating of 5 stars. I also want to have a function which can determine the Mean and Median Average Ratings of all the Tracks in This Particular Album, so I can actually calculate which is my favourite CD of all time.
Simply because Most Cocoa Apps are written in Objective C, or Java, and Object-Oriented Programming Languages allow Child Objects to have the same Properties of their Parent Objects, A TextBox in MacOSX has similar Features and Properties to the Text Editing Features of Pages.
GNOME is predominantly written in C, so doesn't natively support Object-Oriented Code, so it has to rely on an externally Managed Object Model (Corba, in GNOMEs case) to manage embedding of Objects. I haven't followed GNOME lately, so I don't know what the status of BONOBO is at, but that technology was supposed to be Comparable to OLE2 in Windows.
AFAIK, MacOSX doesn't have a readily available Application/Object Model in the same sense as OLE2 and BONOBO, but it does have frameworks to handle data natively within an App.
When are you Leeches going to realise that OpenOffice.org is not ever going to be better than MS Office. Gnumeric, AbiWord, KWord and KCalc have fallen by the wayside while Hundreds of Geek Coders have jumped ship to build on an ex-commercial Product, with it's ex-commercial product design. If just one quarter of the Open Source Community's Effort went on true OpenSource Projects, There may already be an Open Source Office Suite comparable to MS Office, rather than just a re-hash of MS Works 3.0.
Re:What app support is missing?
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The BeZilla Team only got Mozilla working after Be Inc. got sold. AbiWord was incomplete at best, and I can't remember OpenOffice ever working. The Good news was that NetPositive still worked with most of the Websites I Visited, GoBe Productive did everything OO or AW did, and I enjoyed playing Corum III, Civilisation CTP and that Bootleg Copy of Worms. Up until I got my iBook, my K6-2/450 did everything I needed to do. When I got my iBook I needed to do more; my requirements expanded to match my Capabilities.
Here in Australia, a Movie Ticket costs AU$15 per head. A DVD costs AU$30. A Bootleg Copy of the Latest Movie costs about AU$5 from the Local Craft Market.
Most Movie Fans will wait until the DVD gets released, simply because it's better Value For Money. If the *really* want to see the New Release Movie, they'll go down to the Local Craft Market and Buy a copy for $5.
A Married Couple, with their own Home Theatre would spend a total of $35 and watch a Cinema Release Movie in the comfort of their own Home, and then buy the Genuine DVD when it is released so the can get the Value-Added Features a Bootleg doesn't have (like Directory Commentaries, Subtitles in a Variety of Languages, and a full 5.1 Surround Sound Experience). If they went to a Cinema, They'd have to spend $30 on Tickets, $10 on Condiments and have to sit in the bottom corner of the cinema, with bad surround sound, Watching a Screen which is non-proportional, sitting on a seat which had had a couple of Pubescent Teenagers fondling only hours ago, with No Toilet Breaks, Mobile Phones going off Willy-Nilly and another couple of Pubescent Teenagers Fondling in the seats behind them.
The announcement that MacOSX will run on Intel machines, meaning WINE may be a development option for Cross-PLatform Development is a Concern. Even if WINE for MacOSX is not Possible, many Software Managers may decide to discontinue MacOSX Native Development because "We can just port it over using WINE".
One way of avoiding the "Win32 Apps on MacOSX" cannibalism, would be to write Cocoa bindings for Win32, making it easier to port MacOSX Programs to Windows.
IANAP, so I don't know the feasibility of this, but a similar Project was started in the dying days of BeOS, allowing simple BeOS programs (were there any other kind) to be quickly ported to Win32. The one or two test apps which were successfully run on Windows were Fully Multi-threaded (like all BeOS Apps) and (if you exclude the time needed to develop the bindings) quicker to develop; just write them in BeOS, compile them using the BeIDE plugin and Voilá, Instant Win32 App.
You're Mixing Cheap with Inexpensive. You can get OverPriced Apple Memory, Inexpensive Crucial or Kingston Memory, or Cheap SaoChingFung Trading Company Memory. Mac's don't work with cheap memory, only with Quality Memory. It doesn't have to be OverPriced quality memory, just Inexpensive Quality Memory.
Women have to compensate for the lack of the Sarcasm Cortex, using Simple Logic.
When she asks "Does My Bum Look Big In These?" and you reply "Oh Yeah, It's Huge! We're going to need a forklift to get you out of the shop!", she doesn't immediately recognise Sarcasm, and has to use Logic to determine that what you said was offensive, but humorous, and probably Sarcastic. She will pause for a few seconds before responding.
In cases of extreme stress, (like shopping in expensive stores) she may not be able to apply simple logic to sarcastic comments, and you'll end up with a Brassiere stand where your head used to be.
This only works if people have high-enough bandwidth limits and speeds. Many of my Clients are on Dial-up (despite my advice) and Background Downloads are quite intrusive. With the combination of Spam, SpyWare Definitions, Virus Definitions, Windows Update Auto-Downloads and Application Auto-Downloads, Checking Email for many clients can turn into a Multi-hour process.
Fantastic, well done. One of my Gripes with All-in-one Works Suites is when the store everything in one document format. This causes problems with Operating System Features such as Indexed Filesystems. One major reason I never liked GoBe Productive is that you couldn't search documents within the BeFS without making sure they had really descriptive filenames. GoBe didn't integrate any OS-Specific Features. The other major reason is that I couldn't integrate different 'Parts' like the whole MS OLE2 COM, I couldn't embed a GoBe Spreadsheet in a StyleEdit document, like how you can embed a Quattro Pro Spreadsheet into an Ami Pro Document (for example). OOo/NeoOffice have yet to address this issue
C'mon! We've all seen the trailers. There are hoards and hoards of Wookies in battle. Considering that Ripping Arms out of sockets wouldn't be PG-13, that must mean the Wookies win, 'cos everyone knows Droids don't Rip peoples arms out of their sockets when they loose. Wookies are known to do that...
Here in Australia, our Two Dollar Coins have a similar surface to 5 cent coins, and are about double the thickness. They have smooth edges while 5 cent coins have serrated edges.
I constantly loose 2 dollar coins out of my wallet due to their smooth edges, I get left with a pile of 5 cent coins which don't slide around the inside of my wallet as much.
We also have One Dollar Coins which are about the same size as a 10 cent coin. We don't have 1 or 2 dollar notes, only 5, 10 20, 50 and 100 (which are all colour coded). We also have 200 dollar coins which are as rare as your 2 dollar notes.
For most of my Support Customers running Windows XP, It's usually Hardware Failure. I tell them to only get Crucial or Kingston RAM, but no!... They seem to think that "Quang-Jun Very-Good-Brand" RAM will do the trick, despite that fact that it is half the price, and they wonder why Windows keeps crashing. Linux doesn't even work with cheap RAM, and it's impossible too buy cheap RAM for an Apple. It's easy to diagnose Faulty Memory on these systems, but with Windows, it just plods along, occasionally forgetting an important setting, and slowly corrupting your data.
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All Broadcast radio is all about listening to what someone else wants you to listen too. Even Public Subscriber Radio is about listening to what the DJ's want to play for you. A Portable Music Player, like an iPod is all about what *you* want to listen to. Playing Broadcast Radio on an iPod defeats the purposed of having *your* music collections with *you*. Most people don't have the Artistic Skill to be a DJ. (Doesn't stop them from being Playlisters on Commercial Radio Though)
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I think Book would look better if the Hair was similar to Jane Goodall's Hair in Irregular Webcomic. It's basically a normal Grey Hair Piece with a blob of Blu-tak stuck on the back, as a bun.
I s'pose my address would be handy too.
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I want a Gmail account, but I will not lower myself by begging; I will ask Politely instead.
I would like a Gmail account, and would be grateful to anyone who can oblige.
Thanks Mate!
Who'd want a UID that has so many digits?
797633 doesn't even mean anything numerically or in LeetSpeak.
I don't think Ebay would be very lucrative.
Skeptically is currently in the Top 100 on iTunes (number 3 ATM), 10th on Podcast Pickle and 43rd on Podcast Alley.
The Novel Earthcore is also highly rated, but has just concluded. It may appeal to non-technical geeks. Escape Pod, the Podcast of the author of the above reviewer contains short Science Fiction Storys and the Regular Narrators always inject a large amount of Fun into their readings.
With the exception of one or two episodes, these three podcasts all have high production quality and are a great way to keep your mind amused if you do any commuting or have any free-time to spend.
It is a good novel, but it's just concluded. Podcast Clients (or PodCatchers, if you're a buzzword junkie) download from last to first which disrupts the flow of a serialised story. Individual Short Stories, like those presented in Steve Eleys Escape Pod are better suited than serials. They can be presented both individually, or in a serial.
Getting back to Earthcore; It's exciting, enthralling and free. Would I purchase the Book (which he is selling pre-orders for ATM)? Maybe, but I wouldn't read it again. I would only purchase it to support the Author. His Technical Background is rather flakey at best, a few hours of research could've made is Metallurgical and Geological explanations more consistant.
Earthcore was a good way to pass the time, and non-tech-geek may get a kick out of it, but anyone who knows much about anything specific will be let down time and time again by his Inconsistent Technical explainations.
Yay! OSX would be nagware!
This is one of the Major reasons I switched to Mac from BeOS.
I fell in love with this concept using BeOS and was one of the reasons I used it for so long as my Primary OS. (4 years)
After the Dissolution of BeOS, I decided to go back to a Mainstream OS. (GNOME and KDE had stagnated, and still haven't progressed IMHO). Windows "International Keyboard" Keymap was a Joke at best, so I chose a Mac.
Just pay Athena Starwoman or whoever to state that your Horoscope is determined at the time of your Birth.
Then this poor deluded Money-Grabber won't be affected, since she was born prior to the Probe.
What you're saying is if someone wants to build a MIssle Silo or Sewage Treatment Plant next door too your home, They should be allowed, regardless of Zoning Laws.
What about if someone wants to convert the alleyway behind their house to a shed or herb garden, blocking access to anyone else who uses that alley? Is that OK too?
How about if someone wants to build a three-storey Lego-Brick on their property, all the way to the fence, while every other house in the street is a small country-style cottage?
That's why it's so reliable.
It doesn't get any of the Tonnes of Low Grade SPAM that originates in the US.
It only gets Quality Nigerian SPAM.
Especially use AppleScript in Functions.
I want to have a Function which spits out how many Songs I have in iTunes, which have a Rating of 5 stars.
I also want to have a function which can determine the Mean and Median Average Ratings of all the Tracks in This Particular Album, so I can actually calculate which is my favourite CD of all time.
Simply because Most Cocoa Apps are written in Objective C, or Java, and Object-Oriented Programming Languages allow Child Objects to have the same Properties of their Parent Objects, A TextBox in MacOSX has similar Features and Properties to the Text Editing Features of Pages.
GNOME is predominantly written in C, so doesn't natively support Object-Oriented Code, so it has to rely on an externally Managed Object Model (Corba, in GNOMEs case) to manage embedding of Objects. I haven't followed GNOME lately, so I don't know what the status of BONOBO is at, but that technology was supposed to be Comparable to OLE2 in Windows.
AFAIK, MacOSX doesn't have a readily available Application/Object Model in the same sense as OLE2 and BONOBO, but it does have frameworks to handle data natively within an App.
When are you Leeches going to realise that OpenOffice.org is not ever going to be better than MS Office. Gnumeric, AbiWord, KWord and KCalc have fallen by the wayside while Hundreds of Geek Coders have jumped ship to build on an ex-commercial Product, with it's ex-commercial product design.
If just one quarter of the Open Source Community's Effort went on true OpenSource Projects, There may already be an Open Source Office Suite comparable to MS Office, rather than just a re-hash of MS Works 3.0.
The BeZilla Team only got Mozilla working after Be Inc. got sold.
AbiWord was incomplete at best, and I can't remember OpenOffice ever working.
The Good news was that NetPositive still worked with most of the Websites I Visited, GoBe Productive did everything OO or AW did, and I enjoyed playing Corum III, Civilisation CTP and that Bootleg Copy of Worms.
Up until I got my iBook, my K6-2/450 did everything I needed to do. When I got my iBook I needed to do more; my requirements expanded to match my Capabilities.
Here in Australia, a Movie Ticket costs AU$15 per head. A DVD costs AU$30. A Bootleg Copy of the Latest Movie costs about AU$5 from the Local Craft Market.
Most Movie Fans will wait until the DVD gets released, simply because it's better Value For Money. If the *really* want to see the New Release Movie, they'll go down to the Local Craft Market and Buy a copy for $5.
A Married Couple, with their own Home Theatre would spend a total of $35 and watch a Cinema Release Movie in the comfort of their own Home, and then buy the Genuine DVD when it is released so the can get the Value-Added Features a Bootleg doesn't have (like Directory Commentaries, Subtitles in a Variety of Languages, and a full 5.1 Surround Sound Experience).
If they went to a Cinema, They'd have to spend $30 on Tickets, $10 on Condiments and have to sit in the bottom corner of the cinema, with bad surround sound, Watching a Screen which is non-proportional, sitting on a seat which had had a couple of Pubescent Teenagers fondling only hours ago, with No Toilet Breaks, Mobile Phones going off Willy-Nilly and another couple of Pubescent Teenagers Fondling in the seats behind them.
The announcement that MacOSX will run on Intel machines, meaning WINE may be a development option for Cross-PLatform Development is a Concern. Even if WINE for MacOSX is not Possible, many Software Managers may decide to discontinue MacOSX Native Development because "We can just port it over using WINE".
One way of avoiding the "Win32 Apps on MacOSX" cannibalism, would be to write Cocoa bindings for Win32, making it easier to port MacOSX Programs to Windows.
IANAP, so I don't know the feasibility of this, but a similar Project was started in the dying days of BeOS, allowing simple BeOS programs (were there any other kind) to be quickly ported to Win32.
The one or two test apps which were successfully run on Windows were Fully Multi-threaded (like all BeOS Apps) and (if you exclude the time needed to develop the bindings) quicker to develop; just write them in BeOS, compile them using the BeIDE plugin and Voilá, Instant Win32 App.
You're Mixing Cheap with Inexpensive. You can get OverPriced Apple Memory, Inexpensive Crucial or Kingston Memory, or Cheap SaoChingFung Trading Company Memory.
Mac's don't work with cheap memory, only with Quality Memory. It doesn't have to be OverPriced quality memory, just Inexpensive Quality Memory.
Women have to compensate for the lack of the Sarcasm Cortex, using Simple Logic.
When she asks "Does My Bum Look Big In These?"
and you reply "Oh Yeah, It's Huge! We're going to need a forklift to get you out of the shop!", she doesn't immediately recognise Sarcasm, and has to use Logic to determine that what you said was offensive, but humorous, and probably Sarcastic. She will pause for a few seconds before responding.
In cases of extreme stress, (like shopping in expensive stores) she may not be able to apply simple logic to sarcastic comments, and you'll end up with a Brassiere stand where your head used to be.
This only works if people have high-enough bandwidth limits and speeds.
Many of my Clients are on Dial-up (despite my advice) and Background Downloads are quite intrusive.
With the combination of Spam, SpyWare Definitions, Virus Definitions, Windows Update Auto-Downloads and Application Auto-Downloads, Checking Email for many clients can turn into a Multi-hour process.
Fantastic, well done.
One of my Gripes with All-in-one Works Suites is when the store everything in one document format. This causes problems with Operating System Features such as Indexed Filesystems.
One major reason I never liked GoBe Productive is that you couldn't search documents within the BeFS without making sure they had really descriptive filenames. GoBe didn't integrate any OS-Specific Features.
The other major reason is that I couldn't integrate different 'Parts' like the whole MS OLE2 COM, I couldn't embed a GoBe Spreadsheet in a StyleEdit document, like how you can embed a Quattro Pro Spreadsheet into an Ami Pro Document (for example). OOo/NeoOffice have yet to address this issue
C'mon! We've all seen the trailers. There are hoards and hoards of Wookies in battle.
Considering that Ripping Arms out of sockets wouldn't be PG-13, that must mean the Wookies win, 'cos everyone knows Droids don't Rip peoples arms out of their sockets when they loose. Wookies are known to do that...
Here in Australia, our Two Dollar Coins have a similar surface to 5 cent coins, and are about double the thickness. They have smooth edges while 5 cent coins have serrated edges.
I constantly loose 2 dollar coins out of my wallet due to their smooth edges, I get left with a pile of 5 cent coins which don't slide around the inside of my wallet as much.
We also have One Dollar Coins which are about the same size as a 10 cent coin. We don't have 1 or 2 dollar notes, only 5, 10 20, 50 and 100 (which are all colour coded). We also have 200 dollar coins which are as rare as your 2 dollar notes.
For most of my Support Customers running Windows XP, It's usually Hardware Failure. I tell them to only get Crucial or Kingston RAM, but no!... They seem to think that "Quang-Jun Very-Good-Brand" RAM will do the trick, despite that fact that it is half the price, and they wonder why Windows keeps crashing.
Linux doesn't even work with cheap RAM, and it's impossible too buy cheap RAM for an Apple. It's easy to diagnose Faulty Memory on these systems, but with Windows, it just plods along, occasionally forgetting an important setting, and slowly corrupting your data.
All Broadcast radio is all about listening to what someone else wants you to listen too. Even Public Subscriber Radio is about listening to what the DJ's want to play for you.
A Portable Music Player, like an iPod is all about what *you* want to listen to. Playing Broadcast Radio on an iPod defeats the purposed of having *your* music collections with *you*.
Most people don't have the Artistic Skill to be a DJ. (Doesn't stop them from being Playlisters on Commercial Radio Though)