I want to patent the concept of mispelling and making up words. This patent will include both deliberate mispellings and makeups such as "coopertition" and confabulations which arise from the deep subconscious.
While some are aware of the term "Spoonerism", Spooner is long dead and not around to patent this. Since many of these are also associated with Trademarks, we could call it TMization.
Robert Capa died on May 25, 1954, in Thai-Binh, Indochina(Vietnam). He stepped on a land mine while working for Life Magazine. This was before the U.S. Viet Nam war began.
Color images are expected at the earliest late Sunday afternoon. There will be color. B&W was chosen for the initial images to conserve bandwidth for the initial pictures in order to make some quick early assessments of the vehicles health and condition.
There is no reason to choose one book over the other. These are both "must reads". Meyer's "Eric Meyer On CSS" and Zelderman's "designing with web standards" can not be missed.These two guys are the very best at espousing the theory of why web standards are important and expositing on how these standards can be achieved.
Eric's book gives some basic practical examples that have been taken to heart by many of the newly reborn "standards based designers". Eric has his examples available online at his website at meyerweb.com . Other discussion is there also, and his text examples yearn for the code - which you will not want to type in but will want to download.
Zelderman's book discusses the history, background, of web standards and reviews the vital role of browsers in this. One can not understand standards or the presentation of a page in the many browsers that are in use without reviewing the recent history of browsers and the current status of what part of CSS 2 works in which browsers. Zelderman also provides many examples of browser problems and solutions. The book is complimented by his sites at www.zelderman.com and alistapart.com.
One can not in this day isolate books such as either of these from the Internet. One must keep up with the latest in CSS by checking out the web everyday. Zelderman's site is worth a daily read - he points out other sites and resources that are at the cutting edge of CSS and xhtml/standards design.
Read chapter one in the Meyer book, then read the Zelderman book and return to Meyer. Also don't forget Eric's earlier text "Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide". It was published in 2000 and is starting to show it's age, but there are few worthy texts in this area. I doubt many would share the opinion that Zelderman is annoying. Zelderman is readable, entertaining, and a joy. His text has the potential to be life changing for a web designer.
While we may debate whether using a compiler optimized for a 64 bit computer is fair when comparing it to a 32 bit computer (but hey - isn't the 64 bits part of the attraction of this computer?) there was another section of the demonstration that used application testing to demonstrate the speed of the G5.
The applications included:
Adobe Photoshop - rendering a poster of Looking For Nemo - out did the Double Xenon 3 (not a single xenon ) by 2X
Adobe Acrobat - individual page rendering in a long document. Outdid the Dell by about 2
Mathematica - which relies heavily on FP calculations. Fractal or pattern creation. Outdid the Dell.
Music Playing/Rendering - Score by the composer of the music to the Matrix. The Dell hiccuped and then choked totally. I was quite surprised to see this happen and don't exactly know how or why it happenned.
Studio Quality Video - codec made for Quicktime. This will be beyond what most of us need or use. Microsoft has gone far with the new media player. This is for a niche audience.
There is much that Geeky people do that requires FP calculation. There is much that arty people do that requires graphics, music, video While one would expect application benchmarks to favor the platform - these were all very impressive. And reality is usually more important than just looking at a set of numbers that does not represent what use you will be making of the machine.
A combination of the numerical benchmarks and the application benchmarks are what is needed. There will be more on the way.
And - I think most of us/.'ers will like the appearance of the new machine. Now, we just need a MacLinux if we don't want to live in BSD:-)- and the new Panther will include XWindows.
Aside: There was a funny scene in the keynote with a video of a stealthy looking black panther slinking through the jungle - then a comparison to the competitor - a Long Horn chewing its cud in a grassy field with Home on The Range playing.
Conclusion: Don't rule this computer out. The architecture is interesting. We've been waiting for a 64 bit machine. This one has a choice of impressive graphics cards. The limiting areas seem to be the memory and disk speed. Next, we need to see how it plays games.
While the per tune price is 99 cents - the usual per album price ( which might have 15 tunes or more - tusk, etc.) is $9.99. A few albums cost more, a few cost less.
The quality seems to be adequate - not audiophile but on a par with denser MP3 cuts. It is a quick and easy way to get decent quality music, no download drops, no cutouts, no madonna nonsense, etc.
And don't forget to add album art by visiting Amazon.com and drag and dropping the album image to iTunes.
Portable, burnable, minimal interference with your rights. But yes, your username is branded into the ACC file - that is probably easily removed or changed with minimal hassle and would disappear when ported into a burned CD.
I don't recall if Iggy Pop is there, but the Clash is certainly available, and they should count as Punk. I recall seeing Combat Rock, and a few other albums. I already have the CDs (and transferred to the iPOD) so it wasn't an issue.
First: Put a terminal window up on your task bar. Then it is no longer hidden and all the man pages, perl, vi, whatever you want is right there.
Next check out the following books
Learning Unix for Mac OS X by Dave Taylor, Jerry Peek
Mac OS X in a Nutshell (already mentioned) by Jason McIntosh, Chuck Toporek (Contributor), Chris Stone (Contributor)
and certainly the already mentioned
Mac OSX for Unix Geeks - with no picures - just like a terminal window:-)
That said - as a 2 week newbie on OSX - I found the OSX Missing Manual helpful to getting started. I have previous experience on WinBlow$, BSD Unix, and Linux. The transition was not hard - and part of the big sell is certainly the BSD Unix - and access to being able to install XWindows, and creating a similar environment to what is there on the other systems with KDE, Gnome and all the goodies that go with that.
Mac OS X for Unix Geeks by Brian Jepson, Ernest E. Rothman
Kasparov did not request the sourcecode. What Kasparov was interested in was the ratings of moves to see if the moves considered by the computer were consistent and consistently rated by the computer.
The computer will over time continue to evaluate a sequence of moves and will raise certain sequences to higher values then others.
Evaluating the sequence of considerations and ratings for Kasparov meant that he might have been able to see if human intervention had occurred wherein a highly rated move by the computer was replaced "out of the blue" by one of the human grandmasters observing (Joel Benjamin among others, I think) and monitoring the operations (and passing on the moves) of Deep Blue.
Many do think, however, that Gary:
1) Did not play his best against Deep Blue in several games (the last was a complete disaster and others he missed excellent opportunities). 2) That Gary did appear a bit out of sorts, petulent, and angry at losing (to put it as politely as possible). 3) But, there are valid reasons to request the computer evaluations of the moves (not the Source Code!)
Yes, I've had the same thing happen with porn spam, other spam and even viruses sent from a defunct account at an old domain of clark.net which forwards email to me but does not allow any sending of email.
When a virus or sound or other attachment is sent from a forged header and missing recipient to AOL they kindly let me know that they can not find the recepient and send the whole huge attachment to me. What a waste of bandwidth!
No amount of complaining to AOL at a variety of addresses has resulted in either an end to this or even a reply.
It creates a problem when I'm away and my email starts overflowing from the forward from the account I can't close start resulting in bounced email that is legitimate.
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I want to patent the concept of mispelling and making up words. This patent will include both deliberate mispellings and makeups such as "coopertition" and confabulations which arise from the deep subconscious.
While some are aware of the term "Spoonerism", Spooner is long dead and not around to patent this. Since many of these are also associated with Trademarks, we could call it TMization.
Robert Capa died on May 25, 1954, in Thai-Binh, Indochina(Vietnam). He stepped on a land mine while working for Life Magazine. This was before the U.S. Viet Nam war began.
Color images are expected at the earliest late Sunday afternoon. There will be color. B&W was chosen for the initial images to conserve bandwidth for the initial pictures in order to make some quick early assessments of the vehicles health and condition.
There is no reason to choose one book over the other. These are both "must reads". Meyer's "Eric Meyer On CSS" and Zelderman's "designing with web standards" can not be missed.These two guys are the very best at espousing the theory of why web standards are important and expositing on how these standards can be achieved.
Eric's book gives some basic practical examples that have been taken to heart by many of the newly reborn "standards based designers". Eric has his examples available online at his website at meyerweb.com . Other discussion is there also, and his text examples yearn for the code - which you will not want to type in but will want to download.
Zelderman's book discusses the history, background, of web standards and reviews the vital role of browsers in this. One can not understand standards or the presentation of a page in the many browsers that are in use without reviewing the recent history of browsers and the current status of what part of CSS 2 works in which browsers. Zelderman also provides many examples of browser problems and solutions. The book is complimented by his sites at www.zelderman.com and alistapart.com.
One can not in this day isolate books such as either of these from the Internet. One must keep up with the latest in CSS by checking out the web everyday. Zelderman's site is worth a daily read - he points out other sites and resources that are at the cutting edge of CSS and xhtml/standards design.
Read chapter one in the Meyer book, then read the Zelderman book and return to Meyer. Also don't forget Eric's earlier text "Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide". It was published in 2000 and is starting to show it's age, but there are few worthy texts in this area. I doubt many would share the opinion that Zelderman is annoying. Zelderman is readable, entertaining, and a joy. His text has the potential to be life changing for a web designer.
While we may debate whether using a compiler optimized for a 64 bit computer is fair when comparing it to a 32 bit computer (but hey - isn't the 64 bits part of the attraction of this computer?) there was another section of the demonstration that used application testing to demonstrate the speed of the G5.
/.'ers will like the appearance of the new machine. Now, we just need a MacLinux if we don't want to live in BSD :-)- and the new Panther will include XWindows.
The applications included:
Adobe Photoshop - rendering a poster of Looking For Nemo - out did the Double Xenon 3 (not a single xenon ) by 2X
Adobe Acrobat - individual page rendering in a long document. Outdid the Dell by about 2
Mathematica - which relies heavily on FP calculations. Fractal or pattern creation. Outdid the Dell.
Music Playing/Rendering - Score by the composer of the music to the Matrix. The Dell hiccuped and then choked totally. I was quite surprised to see this happen and don't exactly know how or why it happenned.
Studio Quality Video - codec made for Quicktime. This will be beyond what most of us need or use. Microsoft has gone far with the new media player. This is for a niche audience.
There is much that Geeky people do that requires FP calculation. There is much that arty people do that requires graphics, music, video
While one would expect application benchmarks to favor the platform - these were all very impressive. And reality is usually more important than just looking at a set of numbers that does not represent what use you will be making of the machine.
A combination of the numerical benchmarks and the application benchmarks are what is needed. There will be more on the way.
And - I think most of us
Aside: There was a funny scene in the keynote with a video of a stealthy looking black panther slinking through the jungle - then a comparison to the competitor - a Long Horn chewing its cud in a grassy field with Home on The Range playing.
Conclusion: Don't rule this computer out. The architecture is interesting. We've been waiting for a 64 bit machine. This one has a choice of impressive graphics cards. The limiting areas seem to be the memory and disk speed. Next, we need to see how it plays games.
While the per tune price is 99 cents - the usual per album price ( which might have 15 tunes or more - tusk, etc.) is $9.99. A few albums cost more, a few cost less.
The quality seems to be adequate - not audiophile but on a par with denser MP3 cuts. It is a quick and easy way to get decent quality music, no download drops, no cutouts, no madonna nonsense, etc.
And don't forget to add album art by visiting Amazon.com and drag and dropping the album image to iTunes.
Portable, burnable, minimal interference with your rights. But yes, your username is branded into the ACC file - that is probably easily removed or changed with minimal hassle and would disappear when ported into a burned CD.
I don't recall if Iggy Pop is there, but the Clash is certainly available, and they should count as Punk. I recall seeing Combat Rock, and a few other albums. I already have the CDs (and transferred to the iPOD) so it wasn't an issue.
First: Put a terminal window up on your task bar. Then it is no longer hidden and all the man pages, perl, vi, whatever you want is right there.
:-)
Next check out the following books
Learning Unix for Mac OS X
by Dave Taylor, Jerry Peek
Mac OS X in a Nutshell (already mentioned)
by Jason McIntosh, Chuck Toporek (Contributor), Chris Stone (Contributor)
and certainly the already mentioned
Mac OSX for Unix Geeks - with no picures - just like a terminal window
That said - as a 2 week newbie on OSX - I found the OSX Missing Manual helpful to getting started. I have previous experience on WinBlow$, BSD Unix, and Linux. The transition was not hard - and part of the big sell is certainly the BSD Unix - and access to being able to install XWindows, and creating a similar environment to what is there on the other systems with KDE, Gnome and all the goodies that go with that.
Mac OS X for Unix Geeks
by Brian Jepson, Ernest E. Rothman
Kasparov did not request the sourcecode. What Kasparov was interested in was the ratings of moves to see if the moves considered by the computer were consistent and consistently rated by the computer.
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The computer will over time continue to evaluate a sequence of moves and will raise certain sequences to higher values then others.
Evaluating the sequence of considerations and ratings for Kasparov meant that he might have been able to see if human intervention had occurred wherein a highly rated move by the computer was replaced "out of the blue" by one of the human grandmasters observing (Joel Benjamin among others, I think) and monitoring the operations (and passing on the moves) of Deep Blue.
Many do think, however, that Gary:
1) Did not play his best against Deep Blue in several games (the last was a complete disaster and others he missed excellent opportunities)
2) That Gary did appear a bit out of sorts, petulent, and angry at losing (to put it as politely as possible).
3) But, there are valid reasons to request the computer evaluations of the moves (not the Source Code!)
Yes, I've had the same thing happen with porn spam, other spam and even viruses sent from a defunct account at an old domain of clark.net which forwards email to me but does not allow any sending of email.
When a virus or sound or other attachment is sent from a forged header and missing recipient to AOL they kindly let me know that they can not find the recepient and send the whole huge attachment to me. What a waste of bandwidth!
No amount of complaining to AOL at a variety of addresses has resulted in either an end to this or even a reply.
It creates a problem when I'm away and my email starts overflowing from the forward from the account I can't close start resulting in bounced email that is legitimate.
Sux....