The Mars rover is solar powered. Titan is too far from the Sun to make that practical. So while a rover could be sent, it would have to be significantly different from the current designs.
Wow 4000 bucks for a junior high kid! Money to burn! And there I was (roughly the same time frame) using a hole punch to turn single sided disks into double sided disks.
If the metric used for evaluating correctness is that the screen rendering matches the printed rendering, then the Microsoft method is incorrect. If it was found that slightly red-tinged text was more readable than pure black, would it be OK if Windows rendered all black text as reddish-black?
You know if you want "high contrast" text on a Mac, you can just choose a font that was designed for on-screen readability, right?
Get your fucking cables off my private property, you no longer have a right-of-way. And I don't care how far you have to go to route around me to get to my neighbors.
(playing devil's advocate here, for the sarcasm impaired)
Which competitors are we talking about? Where I live, I have one choice: the cable company. Not only are they a licensed monopoly, but they also sued and lobbied my state to prevent my municipality from setting up a community internet service.
Not only is there also Mac OS, there is also OpenSolaris, the BSDs, plus a number of niche operating system projects. There is more diversity in personal computing right now than even back in the heyday of 8-bit computing.
We're definitely not in a duopoly OS world.
Re:You can hardly manage the Mac from there
on
Mac Systems Management
·
· Score: 4, Insightful
Um, no. What are you even talking about? When you connect to that computer you have to authenticate with a username and password. You will only be able to access data remotely that you could access if you were logged in as that user locally.
And I don't get what your second problem is. If you had personal file sharing turned on, then your Linux box must've been connecting to your Mac via afp.
Your bulk mailing list of 50,000 anonymous subscribers (unless you assert that you have a direct personal relationship with all 50,000 people?) is qualitatively different from a private, personal communication between me and my doctor.
Email is never a good system for anonymous bulk communication. You should set up an authenticated website, RSS feed, or whatever for your 'important news'. This is vastly more efficient and less wasteful of your, mine, and all intermediaries' computing resources than email.
20 years of first participating in, then avoiding in disgust, and finally observing with amusement the platform flame-wars tells you (at least) one thing: all sides have their share of zealots, who are the minority of their respective herds.
So you've decided that there isn't enough evidence to support anthropogenic climate change. Fine. I'm not going to try to change your mind. But what's the solution being presented by most GW proponents? Reduce carbon emissions. How? By reducing our consumption of fossil fuels.
Can you think of *any* other benefits to reducing consumption of fossil fuels?
- conservation is cheaper than consumption - reduce energy imports as a component of our trade imbalance - reduce money going to states known to support terrorism either officially or unofficially - provide incentives for alternative energy technology and production by American companies - reduce air pollution
Is any (or all of them together) of those goals worth pursuing in its own right? Is there really any reason at all to be against reduction of dependence on fossil fuel energy *if you aren't in the fossil fuel industry*?
There are no 'revolutionary business ideas'. For a century people have been conditioned to expect electronic media to be free, while print media has always been for-pay. The 'revolution' will be in changing those expectations. That just takes time.
I'd also add that electronic media hasn't caught up to paper media in the area of convenience. I can roll up a copy of the Economist and stick it in my back pocket and read it while I'm waiting in the doctor's office. To read the Economist.com I have to take a laptop (or at the very least a PDA) and I have to somehow get the articles downloaded onto it first or rely on wi-fi service wherever I'm going.
Actually it's very thoughtfully designed. The enter key is easier to hit accidentally, so it's appropriate that it do the least intrusive/easiest to undo action. If you hit enter, you start a rename of a file. Hitting enter again, or hitting escape, will end the rename. And if you somehow change the name, you can undo (command-Z). Launching an app is much more disruptive: it's a context switch, there will likely be a delay as you wait for the app to load itself and become ready to accept the first even (likely a quit keyboard command -- command-Q or alt-F4, oh yeah that's intuitive)
On the Mac at least, no app or window outside of a modal dialog has a single 'primary action'. So that's kind of a red herring.
And I would strongly argue that hitting enter in a VT100 interface always 'does the primary action'. I've seen terminal interfaces where enter navigates among the fields of a form, and the 'primary action' was a function key. In fact that's very common.
There are the same number of ways to rename a file on the mac as there are on windows, they just happen to be different:
select and then hit 'enter' or click-pause-click in the name or select then get info (command-i, or right click and select get info in the context menu) and type the name into the name field
vs.
select then hit F2 or click-pause-click in the name or select then get properties (don't know the key equiv, I use the context menu) and type the name into the name field
The differences seem trivial to me. And the Mac way has been the way it is for 22 years, several of which were years where there was no Windows way at all.
Slashdot Mirror
The Mars rover is solar powered. Titan is too far from the Sun to make that practical. So while a rover could be sent, it would have to be significantly different from the current designs.
Actually, DEC was founded in 1957, a year after Shockley Semiconductor, which was already the second generation of Valley startups.
And biotech is already the next big thing, and it's happening in the SF Bay Area. Maybe Boston can catch the next, next big thing.
Thinking that a president might be violating the law is treasonous? That's perhaps the most unamerican thing I've ever heard uttered.
Do you honestly believe they aren't already doing exactly that?
http://www.mediatransparency.org/story.php?storyID=159
Yeah, it's only *those people*, the criminals, the other, that we want to deny their rights. If you are innocent then you have nothing to fear.
Wow 4000 bucks for a junior high kid! Money to burn! And there I was (roughly the same time frame) using a hole punch to turn single sided disks into double sided disks.
If the metric used for evaluating correctness is that the screen rendering matches the printed rendering, then the Microsoft method is incorrect. If it was found that slightly red-tinged text was more readable than pure black, would it be OK if Windows rendered all black text as reddish-black?
You know if you want "high contrast" text on a Mac, you can just choose a font that was designed for on-screen readability, right?
That's fine.
Get your fucking cables off my private property, you no longer have a right-of-way. And I don't care how far you have to go to route around me to get to my neighbors.
(playing devil's advocate here, for the sarcasm impaired)
Making a backup copy of a DVD that *I own* is very much Fair Use.
Being able to use the music that *I bought* on whatever playback device I choose is also very much Fair Use.
Which competitors are we talking about? Where I live, I have one choice: the cable company. Not only are they a licensed monopoly, but they also sued and lobbied my state to prevent my municipality from setting up a community internet service.
If we're already as taxed as those "socialists" in Europe, why don't we have the level of services that they do?
My opinion:
competent government > free market > corporate monopolies > incompetent government
We have a combination of the worst two, corporate monopolies and incompetent government. Sucks to be us.
Not only is there also Mac OS, there is also OpenSolaris, the BSDs, plus a number of niche operating system projects. There is more diversity in personal computing right now than even back in the heyday of 8-bit computing.
We're definitely not in a duopoly OS world.
Um, no. What are you even talking about? When you connect to that computer you have to authenticate with a username and password. You will only be able to access data remotely that you could access if you were logged in as that user locally.
And I don't get what your second problem is. If you had personal file sharing turned on, then your Linux box must've been connecting to your Mac via afp.
I think you're just very confused.
Your bulk mailing list of 50,000 anonymous subscribers (unless you assert that you have a direct personal relationship with all 50,000 people?) is qualitatively different from a private, personal communication between me and my doctor.
Email is never a good system for anonymous bulk communication. You should set up an authenticated website, RSS feed, or whatever for your 'important news'. This is vastly more efficient and less wasteful of your, mine, and all intermediaries' computing resources than email.
20 years of first participating in, then avoiding in disgust, and finally observing with amusement the platform flame-wars tells you (at least) one thing: all sides have their share of zealots, who are the minority of their respective herds.
It's a waste of time using a general purpose compressor on data that's already been compressed by domain specific audio or video compressors.
Um, what the hell are you talking about? Not only is she not a lesbian, she's married for fuck's sake.
So you've decided that there isn't enough evidence to support anthropogenic climate change. Fine. I'm not going to try to change your mind. But what's the solution being presented by most GW proponents? Reduce carbon emissions. How? By reducing our consumption of fossil fuels.
Can you think of *any* other benefits to reducing consumption of fossil fuels?
- conservation is cheaper than consumption
- reduce energy imports as a component of our trade imbalance
- reduce money going to states known to support terrorism either officially or unofficially
- provide incentives for alternative energy technology and production by American companies
- reduce air pollution
Is any (or all of them together) of those goals worth pursuing in its own right? Is there really any reason at all to be against reduction of dependence on fossil fuel energy *if you aren't in the fossil fuel industry*?
There are no 'revolutionary business ideas'. For a century people have been conditioned to expect electronic media to be free, while print media has always been for-pay. The 'revolution' will be in changing those expectations. That just takes time.
I'd also add that electronic media hasn't caught up to paper media in the area of convenience. I can roll up a copy of the Economist and stick it in my back pocket and read it while I'm waiting in the doctor's office. To read the Economist.com I have to take a laptop (or at the very least a PDA) and I have to somehow get the articles downloaded onto it first or rely on wi-fi service wherever I'm going.
The reddish brown liquid that you see before cooking the meat is interstitial fluid. And possibly dye if the meat came from a disreputable butcher.
After what he and his writers did to Two Towers and Return of the King, I think the material might be better served by someone else.
(Not that I'm holding out hopes of a Hollywood studio being able to find that person)
Errors of omission are to be expected with such a long work, but completely altering some of the major themes of the two works is unforgivable.
Rest two fingers on the track pad, and then click the button, that's equivalent to a right click.
Actually it's very thoughtfully designed. The enter key is easier to hit accidentally, so it's appropriate that it do the least intrusive/easiest to undo action. If you hit enter, you start a rename of a file. Hitting enter again, or hitting escape, will end the rename. And if you somehow change the name, you can undo (command-Z). Launching an app is much more disruptive: it's a context switch, there will likely be a delay as you wait for the app to load itself and become ready to accept the first even (likely a quit keyboard command -- command-Q or alt-F4, oh yeah that's intuitive)
On the Mac at least, no app or window outside of a modal dialog has a single 'primary action'. So that's kind of a red herring.
And I would strongly argue that hitting enter in a VT100 interface always 'does the primary action'. I've seen terminal interfaces where enter navigates among the fields of a form, and the 'primary action' was a function key. In fact that's very common.
There are the same number of ways to rename a file on the mac as there are on windows, they just happen to be different:
select and then hit 'enter'
or click-pause-click in the name
or select then get info (command-i, or right click and select get info in the context menu) and type the name into the name field
vs.
select then hit F2
or click-pause-click in the name
or select then get properties (don't know the key equiv, I use the context menu) and type the name into the name field
The differences seem trivial to me. And the Mac way has been the way it is for 22 years, several of which were years where there was no Windows way at all.
For Preview.app's fullscreen mode.