It's one of Apple's magic combined analog/digital 3.5mm jacks. Plug in an optical TOS cable and you've got your digital audio. It's what I do on my iMac.
Windows only unfortunately, but excellent. It'll teach simple variables and loops to start with, with instant results, before leading into more advanced coding as his skills and ambition increase.
Indeed. It's much better in its latest incarnation, but it's still a usability nightmare compared to some of the strong Twitter apps for example. I'd wager it's popular precisely because it's the only Facebook solution in the app store.
You may already be aware, or just be wanting a completely non-Microsoft solution, but just in case, assuming you still have access to Outlook you could always open the pst in Outlook, set up your Google Mail as an IMAP account in the same Outlook instance and drag and drop your old mail.
I, too, dropped Demon earlier this year and was continually harassed for money for service after the cancellation date, and then, once I'd cleared that up, a mysterious £50 for a router they said they sent out to me two weeks after the date I went live with my new ISP. The Indians refused to give me any number at London HQ to talk to them. I had to write a letter, which they never responded to, until the case was finally dropped, a fact I had to find out about by calling the collections agency myself. Brilliant.
So if we're agreed they're super-popular now, can we also agree on a name? USB stick, USB drive, pen drive, thumb drive. Just pick one! Where the hell did pen drive and thumb drive come from anyway?
Agreed. If I were in charge of one of these companies I'd work on a modern version of M.U.L.E. for all platforms. It'd work beautifully in the modern connected world, on the major consoles, on DS, PSP, iPhone. It's a very scalable idea. I'm sure there are many other examples if the gaming companies would think beyond World War II shooters and Wii shovelware.
Good God man... how is 150+ tabs in 10+ windows at once a practical workflow? I'm not being shitty here... I'm genuinely curious as to how you make that work for you? I can't stand to have more than about three tabs open at once before my OCD kicks in.
Oh I see, yep, fair enough. Apple did a pretty reasonable job of massaging their existing user-interface paradigms into a Unix world, but yeah, it did take a while to settle down into something cohesive and useable. The early "release" versions of OS X were definitely more in the realm of beta testing.
There was a night and day architectural difference between Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X though, and it was worth suffering through the transition to get to the end-point of an infinitely better designed core OS. The underpinnings of XP and Vista are still essentially the same and still fundamentally flawed.
If Microsoft is going to make its users go through that sort of transition, it would have been far better to make a completely fresh start on a better foundation with a compatibility layer for older software, just as Apple did.
Skype works pretty well for cross-platform Video and Audio conferencing. Windows, Mac and Linux, and the Mac client feels like a proper Mac app, not just a cheap Windows port.
Yep, that sounds about right. I used Borland C++ (pre C++ Builder) and Delphi on the same box. Both Borland products always ran faster in 8MB. The BC++ IDE wasn't quite as slick as the more modern MS one, but Delphi was easier to use them either of them. Happy days.
Not making any particular point, but just for an interesting bit of perspective here, my first encounter with the Visual C++ IDE was around v4.0 I think. I used it on a 486 DX2-66 in 8MB of RAM (yep, that's MB kids) on the still newborn Windows 95. It was slow as hell, but still worked fine and I developed several applications in that environment.
Given that they only let you watch downloaded programmes on your computer anyway it doesn't make much difference to me whether they're stored locally or streamed. As for watching them later, they self-destruct in a few days anyway, so it's still a moot point as far as I'm concerned.
Obviously the ideal is to have a downloadable version that can be watched anywhere for any length of time, but that's not happening any time soon.
For the purposes of just quickly catching up with a programme you've missed, in my (admittedly brief) testing since it went live, it's much more convenient to use the live streaming than have to go through all the fuss and bother of the proper Windows-based download client.
Even if there were a Mac/Linux version available, I think I'd still lean more towards the Flash service for the odd times I need it since the downloadable version will get torpedoed after seven days anyway.
Open System Preferences / Exposé and Spaces and got to the Spaces tab. In Finder open/System/Library/CoreServices and drag and drop Finder.app into the Application Assignments box in the Spaces preference pane. Change the "Space" drop down next to Finder to "Every Space".
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It's one of Apple's magic combined analog/digital 3.5mm jacks. Plug in an optical TOS cable and you've got your digital audio. It's what I do on my iMac.
I've had great success with my teenager with Game Maker from YoYo Games.
http://www.yoyogames.com/
Windows only unfortunately, but excellent. It'll teach simple variables and loops to start with, with instant results, before leading into more advanced coding as his skills and ambition increase.
If for no other reason than the attendant publicity might finally teach the people of the Internet how to correctly spell "independence".
I would also like to see "You, Your and You're", a romantic comedy starring Jennifer Aniston or Sandra Bullock.
Indeed. It's much better in its latest incarnation, but it's still a usability nightmare compared to some of the strong Twitter apps for example. I'd wager it's popular precisely because it's the only Facebook solution in the app store.
You may already be aware, or just be wanting a completely non-Microsoft solution, but just in case, assuming you still have access to Outlook you could always open the pst in Outlook, set up your Google Mail as an IMAP account in the same Outlook instance and drag and drop your old mail.
I, too, dropped Demon earlier this year and was continually harassed for money for service after the cancellation date, and then, once I'd cleared that up, a mysterious £50 for a router they said they sent out to me two weeks after the date I went live with my new ISP. The Indians refused to give me any number at London HQ to talk to them. I had to write a letter, which they never responded to, until the case was finally dropped, a fact I had to find out about by calling the collections agency myself. Brilliant.
So if we're agreed they're super-popular now, can we also agree on a name? USB stick, USB drive, pen drive, thumb drive. Just pick one! Where the hell did pen drive and thumb drive come from anyway?
Oh no you didn't just link *that* site on Slashdot. All I can say is it's a good job you posted anonymously. :-)
Agreed. If I were in charge of one of these companies I'd work on a modern version of M.U.L.E. for all platforms. It'd work beautifully in the modern connected world, on the major consoles, on DS, PSP, iPhone. It's a very scalable idea. I'm sure there are many other examples if the gaming companies would think beyond World War II shooters and Wii shovelware.
Good God man... how is 150+ tabs in 10+ windows at once a practical workflow? I'm not being shitty here... I'm genuinely curious as to how you make that work for you? I can't stand to have more than about three tabs open at once before my OCD kicks in.
Cuh! College kids are funny.
4 digits FTW baby!
Ugh, sorry, had a temporary Digg moment. As you were.
Oh I see, yep, fair enough. Apple did a pretty reasonable job of massaging their existing user-interface paradigms into a Unix world, but yeah, it did take a while to settle down into something cohesive and useable. The early "release" versions of OS X were definitely more in the realm of beta testing.
There was a night and day architectural difference between Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X though, and it was worth suffering through the transition to get to the end-point of an infinitely better designed core OS. The underpinnings of XP and Vista are still essentially the same and still fundamentally flawed.
If Microsoft is going to make its users go through that sort of transition, it would have been far better to make a completely fresh start on a better foundation with a compatibility layer for older software, just as Apple did.
Never underestimate the power of inertia and familiarity. I present to you exhibit A - Microsoft Windows.
Skype works pretty well for cross-platform Video and Audio conferencing. Windows, Mac and Linux, and the Mac client feels like a proper Mac app, not just a cheap Windows port.
Yep, that sounds about right. I used Borland C++ (pre C++ Builder) and Delphi on the same box. Both Borland products always ran faster in 8MB. The BC++ IDE wasn't quite as slick as the more modern MS one, but Delphi was easier to use them either of them. Happy days.
Not making any particular point, but just for an interesting bit of perspective here, my first encounter with the Visual C++ IDE was around v4.0 I think. I used it on a 486 DX2-66 in 8MB of RAM (yep, that's MB kids) on the still newborn Windows 95. It was slow as hell, but still worked fine and I developed several applications in that environment.
True. In this case both the downloaded and streamed player options are extremely limited.
Given that they only let you watch downloaded programmes on your computer anyway it doesn't make much difference to me whether they're stored locally or streamed. As for watching them later, they self-destruct in a few days anyway, so it's still a moot point as far as I'm concerned.
Obviously the ideal is to have a downloadable version that can be watched anywhere for any length of time, but that's not happening any time soon.
For the purposes of just quickly catching up with a programme you've missed, in my (admittedly brief) testing since it went live, it's much more convenient to use the live streaming than have to go through all the fuss and bother of the proper Windows-based download client.
Even if there were a Mac/Linux version available, I think I'd still lean more towards the Flash service for the odd times I need it since the downloadable version will get torpedoed after seven days anyway.
>It's not like anybody serious about movie or music making would use iMovie or GarageBand, anyway.
No, they would use Final Cut Pro and Soundtrack Pro on, um, a Mac.
Burn the heretic!
Try this:
/System/Library/CoreServices and drag and drop Finder.app into the Application Assignments box in the Spaces preference pane. Change the "Space" drop down next to Finder to "Every Space".
Open System Preferences / Exposé and Spaces and got to the Spaces tab. In Finder open
Your Finder windows should now be on every space.
It's called minimalism, and it's one of the many reasons why gmail is as good as it is.