Kile is very nice, I like Kate as well for general programming. Kdevelop is way too much to handle. I still like texshop better, but my personal preference is indicative of no one beyond myself.
The problem is that taking kile and compiling on the mac is going to lead to a program that is very not mac-like. So I *can* run any *nix app, but I end up prefering native apps because they fit in more.... Kinda the dirty secret of OS X
This is also something I hate about matlab on the Mac, it NEEDS to be nativem I still can't believe it isn't.
it shows how proficient the programmer is and how well-rounded the libraries are, but it doesn't show how efficient the code is. Not that it matters much nowadays...
I definitely try to keep an honest opinion on each strength and weakness and I feel, honestly, that the mac is the best (for me)
Column-view is an incredibly efficient way to get from directory to directory: you've got large buttons to hit (the file names) following Fitts law and only a short distance to travel the mouse (from one column to another mostly).
Expose mapped onto the hot corners is the absolute greatest thing ever. I suffer everytime i go to a corner in another OS and nothing happens, a little piece of me dies inside.
On the other hand, I hate the one-button mouse, tho it's not much of a problem, these days. I wish they suported context-menus more, expecially in the main apple apps.
Other arguments, such as the lack of games, don't really apply to me, but they are going to be perfectly valid for other users. OS X is my favorite OS and I feel it's the best for me, but I make no claims that that will be true for everyone, and I think that's the problem with people arguing which OS. Mac users are fine, Macevanglists are not...
As a (hopefully) soon-to-be scientist (ie grad student, ie whipping post) I would argue that anything you can do in excel you can do better and more efficiently in matlab.
In excel you can't see the code so you have no idea what the program/operation is doing so you can't fully trust their fitting algorithms etc. In matlab, if you want to calculate an empircal CDF from a sample of data, its just cdfcalc(vector_of_data). You can open cdfcalc.m at look at what the program is actually doing, both to double-check and (more importantly) to learn the method. It's no longer a black-box.
Does excel have cdfcalc(), cdfplot() or anything? Maybe in the data analysis package, I dunno?
In addition, you haven't been productive as a scientist until you've fired up TexShop on the Mac, IMHO the top LaTeX editor. Plus pdf as a native file format has HUGE implications for science publishing. Papers are almost a joy to write on the Mac!
I'm betting people have already mentioned stuff I'm gonna say in other posts but for me (who hasn't RTFA) I agree wholeheartedly
What I find to have the biggest impact are all the little things. For example, in OS X if you double click a word you select the whole word. If you double-click and drag you select entire words at a time. In windows, if you double click and drag you auto-select the whole first word but then go right back to letter-by-letter selection. The OS X saves so many little mousestrokes and careful movements that it really does add up.
The moral of the story is that small decisions in the UI add up to crucial differences. Apple knows this, M$ doesn't. I would argue (though I'm far from an expert) that linux has the potential to make these decisions correctly but is currently hobbled by a good amount of unix/X11 backward-compatibility issues, which is understandable.
Note that all this hinges on your very first OS X action being to throw away the one-button mouse. Stupidest thing ever (but it's ok because regular mice are fully supported, if they weren't I would never touch the mac). Even Raskin (RIP) regretted the one-button decision.
I have always felt that the education system in the USA (at least) is specifically designed NOT to create well-thought and reasonably intelligent adults. Instead, its goal is to create employable adults.
We are taught enough basic math to do our taxes and pay our bills. A free thinker is dangerous to both the govenment and his employers, regardless of the "American way". "Pay your taxes, and be a cow to our whip", is what they are really telling us.
Henry Ford was very active in setting up schools to get more educated factory workers. And I think his (and others) real motive (even if he didn't realize it) has shown through to today.
"Just-in-time-enterprise-resource-management! People, that's the paradigm"
"Deployment of deliverables on-cycle and on-quota"
I HATE management-ese. It's nothing but BS. "...deployment in the science space," "...focus on vertical particulars, financial services for example..."
If you need to generate obtuse buzzwords to justify your job, I need to generate ways and means of deploying you at the unemployment line. This is worse, because the guy seems to come from academia, not industry.
anybody who mods this anything but FUNNY should be shot...
The problem with WH and 40k
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And Games Workshop even admits it, is that 99% of the audience is between 12 and 16. Why do you think there is a new edition every 4 years?
Realizing that it takes 6 hours to play a game, countless hours to paint armies and make terrain, etc. then only kids who haven't discovered the opposite sex will ever have time to play. Which is quite something considering how well this game must help stunt that discovery...
I played mostly 40k (2nd edition) and the new editions both look exciting, but I'm not going to hang out with a bunch of home-schooled 14 year olds, even if I had the time.
Games workshop is in a tough position, with their demographic so narrow. If I was in their position, I wouldn't know of a quick fix to expand market share
It looks the same to me as well, and by same I mean ugly.
Honestly, gnome looks like something from 1995. I always used KDE just because it looked good. I also hate having everything in a right-click context menu.
After World War II there was a period of time when returning veterans, farmers and a few other favored categories of people could buy jeeps directly from the government for $50 or other very low prices
Take a guess which person involved in said prank was the son of a farmer?
If the parent had read the article, he would see that it debunks the idea of buying a $50 vintage army jeep in a crate today.
I would even be willing to concede that the jeep was delivered through crateless means. In the end, however, what it really means is that my Dad was ripped off. He paid twice as much!
All Ferric Chloride does is eat copper. To make a design, you still need to mask it somehow.
Something as simple as a magic marker can be used, but it will probably look like ass. A better idea is to use a photo-resist kit. With this you spray the metal surface with a chemical that will protect it from the FeCl_3. The kicker is that light will eat away this protection. So you print your design onto an overhead transparency or something, place that atop the metal, and affix it to a window for a while.
Using these kits is a great way to make high quality designs, and it easy to transfer the design to the metal surface. The drawback is a limit in size and perhaps cost
Computer chip manufacturors use essentially the same technique, except their designs are so small that the wavelength of visible light is too wide! So they moved towards UV and now are starting to have a lot of problems trying to shrink farther.
I went to radio shack's site to look up some info on PCB etching kits and, seriously, far too many of the search hits were for HP computers and photo-printers. So sad...
Buy a car, break it down enough to get it into his apartment, and put it back together. That would seriously be awesome, especially if it was his own car
My Dad and his friends actually did this to a guy in college using a surplus WW2 jeep. Back then (early 50s) you could buy these jeeps still in the crate for like $100. I bet that was a fun weekend
Of course, today's cars are a lot more difficult. Though I rate the feasibility of this at about the same level as pointing enough DirectTV dishes at a house full of orville redenbacher.
Maybe fill the place up with thousands of balloons. Only have the occasional balloon full of shaving cream instead of air. When he goes pop-crazy he will get quite the surprise. Rub it in his face and even provide a pin.
Sure it may give good results but that hits count is completely bogus
Plus, with Google never returning more than 1k results, we have no idea how trustworthy that number of results is, not that it's very important compared to what the actual hits are....
I have noticed (when watching the hopefully awesome new Corpse Bride Trailer) that watching a full screen trailer from apple DOES launch itunes on my winxp box.
Maybe he just selected full screen trailer one time, saw itunes, the next time it wasn't full screen and it was quicktime embedded into the browser...
In addition, I do believe that you can no longer download a stand-along quicktime from apple, that it only exists as part of the current release of itunes.
I don't see Microsoft or Apple on the membership list, hmm...
I really think DRM is only going to hurt sales of computer hardware and consumer electronics, and I recall those industries being several orders of magnitude greater than the content makers (Hollywood, software makers, etc.). Who is going to buy a CD Burner that they can't use 2/3rds of the time?
Of course, if they jam DRM down our throats... but that's illegal, right? Right? Uh oh....
I love the complete lack of meaning to the formula. How about some basic dimensional analysis, what units are 1/[weather]? Honestly.
What is W, 0=snow,.5= fog, 1=sun? It should be temperature in kelvin, unless your require a methane atmosphere, in which case your current spatial location, and not temporal, will be the source of your regret-filled terran rotation(s).
How about order of operations people, is it 1/(8W) or is it W/8? Big difference.
The solution here is to formulate the problem consistently. For example, W should be a measure of Misery per kelvin (and it should be a function of latitude). Similar factors should exist for Misery per dollar debt (a function of income and latitude), amount of hair covering subject's head (between 0 and 1), etc.
Once properly realized, transcendental equations can be derived, pinpointing the temporal coordinates of maximum Misery for various limiting cases (wide shallow well, narrow deep well, etc.), excepting the aforementioned methane-atmosphere case, which leads to several divergent summations.
This hokey non-science has no place outside of sociology and other "life sciences". The situation needs to a proper analysis, governing equations should be derived and solved. I dare say the proposed formula is not merely erroneous but is, in truth and deed, incredibly nonsensical.
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The problem is that taking kile and compiling on the mac is going to lead to a program that is very not mac-like. So I *can* run any *nix app, but I end up prefering native apps because they fit in more.... Kinda the dirty secret of OS X
This is also something I hate about matlab on the Mac, it NEEDS to be nativem I still can't believe it isn't.
Yea but have they looked at the impact of having a newly OSS solaris ???
It's certainly no 15 line p2p app!
When I hear towers of nanotubes, I'm thinking of god-damn space elevators
2 microns is not exactly sky-scraping
Column-view is an incredibly efficient way to get from directory to directory: you've got large buttons to hit (the file names) following Fitts law and only a short distance to travel the mouse (from one column to another mostly).
Expose mapped onto the hot corners is the absolute greatest thing ever. I suffer everytime i go to a corner in another OS and nothing happens, a little piece of me dies inside.
On the other hand, I hate the one-button mouse, tho it's not much of a problem, these days. I wish they suported context-menus more, expecially in the main apple apps.
Other arguments, such as the lack of games, don't really apply to me, but they are going to be perfectly valid for other users. OS X is my favorite OS and I feel it's the best for me, but I make no claims that that will be true for everyone, and I think that's the problem with people arguing which OS. Mac users are fine, Macevanglists are not...
In excel you can't see the code so you have no idea what the program/operation is doing so you can't fully trust their fitting algorithms etc. In matlab, if you want to calculate an empircal CDF from a sample of data, its just cdfcalc(vector_of_data). You can open cdfcalc.m at look at what the program is actually doing, both to double-check and (more importantly) to learn the method. It's no longer a black-box.
Does excel have cdfcalc(), cdfplot() or anything? Maybe in the data analysis package, I dunno?
In addition, you haven't been productive as a scientist until you've fired up TexShop on the Mac, IMHO the top LaTeX editor. Plus pdf as a native file format has HUGE implications for science publishing. Papers are almost a joy to write on the Mac!
What I find to have the biggest impact are all the little things. For example, in OS X if you double click a word you select the whole word. If you double-click and drag you select entire words at a time. In windows, if you double click and drag you auto-select the whole first word but then go right back to letter-by-letter selection. The OS X saves so many little mousestrokes and careful movements that it really does add up.
The moral of the story is that small decisions in the UI add up to crucial differences. Apple knows this, M$ doesn't. I would argue (though I'm far from an expert) that linux has the potential to make these decisions correctly but is currently hobbled by a good amount of unix/X11 backward-compatibility issues, which is understandable.
Note that all this hinges on your very first OS X action being to throw away the one-button mouse. Stupidest thing ever (but it's ok because regular mice are fully supported, if they weren't I would never touch the mac). Even Raskin (RIP) regretted the one-button decision.
We are taught enough basic math to do our taxes and pay our bills. A free thinker is dangerous to both the govenment and his employers, regardless of the "American way". "Pay your taxes, and be a cow to our whip", is what they are really telling us.
Henry Ford was very active in setting up schools to get more educated factory workers. And I think his (and others) real motive (even if he didn't realize it) has shown through to today.
That richard gere is turning into quite the thomas dolby !!!!
septical: of, or related to, a large underground container of poo poo
"Deployment of deliverables on-cycle and on-quota"
I HATE management-ese. It's nothing but BS. "...deployment in the science space," "...focus on vertical particulars, financial services for example..."
If you need to generate obtuse buzzwords to justify your job, I need to generate ways and means of deploying you at the unemployment line. This is worse, because the guy seems to come from academia, not industry.
Realizing that it takes 6 hours to play a game, countless hours to paint armies and make terrain, etc. then only kids who haven't discovered the opposite sex will ever have time to play. Which is quite something considering how well this game must help stunt that discovery...
I played mostly 40k (2nd edition) and the new editions both look exciting, but I'm not going to hang out with a bunch of home-schooled 14 year olds, even if I had the time.
Games workshop is in a tough position, with their demographic so narrow. If I was in their position, I wouldn't know of a quick fix to expand market share
Don't ever go to www.dicks.com when you're looking for hockey supplies... they don't have sporting goods...
Honestly, gnome looks like something from 1995. I always used KDE just because it looked good. I also hate having everything in a right-click context menu.
Maybe I've just been spoiled by OS X....
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these....
Let's teach these search gurus some basic set theory.
To be fair, maybe OR works differently in MSN. On the other hand, that blue background is so ugly.
Was it ever true? Well, sort of yes, sort of no
and also:
After World War II there was a period of time when returning veterans, farmers and a few other favored categories of people could buy jeeps directly from the government for $50 or other very low prices
Take a guess which person involved in said prank was the son of a farmer?
If the parent had read the article, he would see that it debunks the idea of buying a $50 vintage army jeep in a crate today.
I would even be willing to concede that the jeep was delivered through crateless means. In the end, however, what it really means is that my Dad was ripped off. He paid twice as much!
Something as simple as a magic marker can be used, but it will probably look like ass. A better idea is to use a photo-resist kit. With this you spray the metal surface with a chemical that will protect it from the FeCl_3. The kicker is that light will eat away this protection. So you print your design onto an overhead transparency or something, place that atop the metal, and affix it to a window for a while.
Using these kits is a great way to make high quality designs, and it easy to transfer the design to the metal surface. The drawback is a limit in size and perhaps cost
Computer chip manufacturors use essentially the same technique, except their designs are so small that the wavelength of visible light is too wide! So they moved towards UV and now are starting to have a lot of problems trying to shrink farther.
I went to radio shack's site to look up some info on PCB etching kits and, seriously, far too many of the search hits were for HP computers and photo-printers. So sad...
My Dad and his friends actually did this to a guy in college using a surplus WW2 jeep. Back then (early 50s) you could buy these jeeps still in the crate for like $100. I bet that was a fun weekend
Of course, today's cars are a lot more difficult. Though I rate the feasibility of this at about the same level as pointing enough DirectTV dishes at a house full of orville redenbacher.
Maybe fill the place up with thousands of balloons. Only have the occasional balloon full of shaving cream instead of air. When he goes pop-crazy he will get quite the surprise. Rub it in his face and even provide a pin.
Sure it may give good results but that hits count is completely bogus
Plus, with Google never returning more than 1k results, we have no idea how trustworthy that number of results is, not that it's very important compared to what the actual hits are....
Maybe he just selected full screen trailer one time, saw itunes, the next time it wasn't full screen and it was quicktime embedded into the browser...
In addition, I do believe that you can no longer download a stand-along quicktime from apple, that it only exists as part of the current release of itunes.
I don't see Microsoft or Apple on the membership list, hmm...
I really think DRM is only going to hurt sales of computer hardware and consumer electronics, and I recall those industries being several orders of magnitude greater than the content makers (Hollywood, software makers, etc.). Who is going to buy a CD Burner that they can't use 2/3rds of the time?
Of course, if they jam DRM down our throats... but that's illegal, right? Right? Uh oh....
What is W, 0=snow, .5= fog, 1=sun? It should be temperature in kelvin, unless your require a methane atmosphere, in which case your current spatial location, and not temporal, will be the source of your regret-filled terran rotation(s).
How about order of operations people, is it 1/(8W) or is it W/8? Big difference.
The solution here is to formulate the problem consistently. For example, W should be a measure of Misery per kelvin (and it should be a function of latitude). Similar factors should exist for Misery per dollar debt (a function of income and latitude), amount of hair covering subject's head (between 0 and 1), etc.
Once properly realized, transcendental equations can be derived, pinpointing the temporal coordinates of maximum Misery for various limiting cases (wide shallow well, narrow deep well, etc.), excepting the aforementioned methane-atmosphere case, which leads to several divergent summations.
This hokey non-science has no place outside of sociology and other "life sciences". The situation needs to a proper analysis, governing equations should be derived and solved. I dare say the proposed formula is not merely erroneous but is, in truth and deed, incredibly nonsensical.
I, for one, welcome the chance to become Galactus, devourer of worlds.