The only remotely coherent explanation that it is the intent of the process, not the process itself that produces the effect. That's four parts spirituality and one part Observer Effect and one part placebo.
Fountainhead was the most godawful movie I'd ever seen... then the second feature, The Razor's Edge, came on. About halfway through we woke our ride up and left.
Follow Mr. Link above, note that the NIPRCC is part of Immigration & Customs Enforcement, also note the Homeland Security seal in the top left of the page.
Well, the.3 release also had a lot of optimizations under the hood. It runs noticeably faster on the same hardware. Another speed boost came from Quartz Extreme - offloading lots of the UI to the GPU. And a total rewrite of Mail.app, it was dog slow in 10.2 but was downright snappy with just shy of 6000 emails indexed. And, brushed-metal considerations aside, the 10.3 Finder is much nicer than 10.2 and the Sidebar is extremely useful. They also slipped in the ability to edit keyboard shortcuts on a system-wide basis, OS X handles very well from the keyboard. An email client isn't worth nearly $129 (I have paid for Eudora in the past) but a faster OS in general and a better file manager is worth some money.
Previously, the 10.2 point release was a major upgrade over the not-really-ready-for-the-desktop 10.1 series.
And btw Expose rocks. Expose with virtual desktops rules. I can't believe the ad campaign isn't (ahem) spotlighting Expose.
An "OEM" iPod Shuffle, that's one thing. But ripping off the design aesthetics from the iPod advertising campaign is just stupid. Put the two together and they're in serious legal trouble. Anyone who's red-green colorblind won't be able to tell the two campaigns apart. And I think that's the same font - hard to tell in the photo.
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery then these guys are begging to have Steve Jobs' love child.
"Michelle Malkin -- half a dozen different kinds of pretty, and smarter than a four-dollar hammer -- weighs in, voicing an opinion that differs significantly from mine. She riddles her commentary with the sort of facts that I find such a pain in the rear to look up. She rocks."
He never even implies that he agrees with her on this, it's just "another take". He praises her for for being smart - she does ask some good questions - and doing research for her blog. Stalin loved his mother and his country. It's not an endorsement.
In fact, reading Malkin's article, I find it to be one of the least opinionated pieces I have ever read. She raises questions and states facts. Not a hint of philosophy, although adherents of her particular philosophy may have different answers to some of them than others do.
And what's so bad a bout a little fascism now and then, the Classical democracies also elected the occasional dictator
I've never heard of her before right now btw, and if she is does advocate fascism, then I don't see a hint of it here. She does appear to be an absolutist neo-con though. She makes an ok point about military tribunals in the Padilla case, but the civvy courts have the right of it: he's a US citizen, if you want to interrogate him then make the case that he's a terorist.
Rational-but-wrong I like to call 'em. It's a free country, she can have a website and hawk (pun intended) t-shirts and articles if she wants to.
Excellent points. However, revealing the name of a CIA agent isn't treason in the eyes of the law, but it is a federal crime carrying a ten-year sentence.
Morally, yeah... it is treason. If any of Plame's contacts get killed I'd fully support their survivors filing a wrongful death suit against whoever did out her as being CIA.
mmmm.... Well, Think Secret is somewhat of an accessory-after-the-fact. If an NDA was violated - and Apple did show that the leaked information was both very detailed and clearly marked confidential - then a crime has been committed. If a crime has been committed then the (alleged) victim has a right to pursue the criminal through the courts. Even a New York Times or Washington Post reporter would have been required to turn over their source if this fact pattern had applied.
Some people are offended at any restriction on the individual's right to say absolutely anything they want to [1]. That's fine. I just want to hear them make the case for a mandate of a totally transparent society, it's usually pretty funny. An absolute freedom of speach means a total lack of privacy. My usual argument is the classic 'give me your Social Security number', and follow any good defence of a refusal with 'if someone stole your info, should he be allowed to tell me ?'
Yes, that was a strawman - and they always need a brain - but it's locally scoped. And I wanted an excuse to make a point. And a reuctio ad absurdum, not that ther's anything wrong with that one.
Another argumaent in favor of this ruling is the fact that an NDA is a contract. 'If you promise not to tell anyone,w e'll tell you something' plus a signature make a contract. Courts exist to enforce contracts. If the court didn't demand the production of the offender then the public should have be outraged.
Most people complaining are ignoring a LOT of details, the others can't support the implications of their whole position.
[1] Any free society desperately needs this vocal minority, however annoyon gthey sometimes are.
You might want to take a look at Apple then, they hired the guy who designed the BeOS filesystem to work on Spotlight. It's a pervasive search interface that indexes everything on your drive(s). The demo video is pretty impressive.
Scientists use Kelvin so comparisons work. Celsius is pegged to 0 at water's freezing point, Kelvin is pegged at absolute zero - below the freezing points of hydrogen and helium. That way you can compare ratios of temperature: 10 deg. C sounds twice as warm as 5 degrees (and feels that way), but to a scientist the ratio isn't 2:1, it's 283:278 - a much smaller ratio. This comes in play in things like gas pressure, which is proportional to absolute temperature.
"Seriously, what's your usage paradigm where you're frequently having to check the target of a shortcut? It might be an interesting behavioral difference..."
It's usally when I have to tweak something in a game's folder. I have a folder on my desktop with launch shortcuts for the games I have installed. If I want to go add a new camo scheme for a plane in IL-2 I'll go to the Games folder, follow the shortcut to the actual location of the game and dig in to the right folder to drop the new file into.
That's the sort of thing I'm doing when I want to follow a shortcut to the target.
That's a reasonable take on the Dock, it does combine Start Menu functionality with some Taskbar stuff. But I consider it to be: where I keep my stuff. Stuff I use a lot and stuff I need to get at in a hurry when I need it. It's all right there. Use it as a dock and it'll make more sense than trying to mix metaphors from a different environment.
If you right-click (or control-click) on any running application's Dock icon you get a list of the windows it has open. You also geta few basic commands: Show in Finder, Hide (similar to minimize), Quit. Some apps put more functions in there. iTunes shows the current song, lets you rate it, change Repeat mode, toggle Shuffle, Pause, next Song and Previous Song. Terminal has New Shell, New Command and Connect to Server available. Since Dock icons can be also be animated by the app, the Dock can be used for CPU activity meters, stock tickers and the like. You can also quit an application from the Dock without it stealing focus like many Windows apps do.
Also, Expose makes it easy enough to find the Window you're looking for. Admittedly, you have to switch to the application or use F9 and see every window. And use the DOck context menu to find a window isn't as fast either, but you do still have two methods of doing going straight to a window you can't see (not counting the Window menu in the browser and using. I note that Both Safari and Firefox show only the active tab in the menu, but doing otherwise would mean submenus which often suck.
Question for people who prefer Windows: how do you live without a one-step comand to show the target of a shortcut ? A contextual menu option would suffice, ctrl-r would be better. Maybe it's just my organizational scheme, coming from the Mac, but I think that having to open Properties and click a button makes Windows suck all by itself.
1. Go into System Preferences and turn off the hotcorners for Expose. Somebody set it that way, that isn't the default in Panther. The default F9-F11 are very handy and quite unobstrusive.
2. There is at least one good desktop manager for Panther, try a search at Versiontracker.com. I used one for a while but decided Expose met my window management needs better.
Ahh, the Lynx. I was in software retail at the time, and we did video games as well as stuff on disks. People would come in and ask for Gameboy and Game Gear specifically - looking to play specific games usually. But whenever we had the opportunity, we'd turn people on to the Lynx. Why ? We got to spend a lot of time with it... plugged into an AC adaptor. Good games, lovely hardware. Todd's Adventure in Slimeworld is a great platformer. It had Xenophobe and Xybots. We were up front about battery life though, and that turned a lot of people off. As it should.
If only Atari could have gotten another hour out of the batteries. The price was ok given the hardware it had, it'd have lasted longer and had even more games - link cables might have become much more popular.
That's actually handled in World of Warcraft. Mobs will stop chasing you. And as a bonus, they recently took steps against an exploit involving aggroing a boss into other players. I'm not sure how that last exploit worked, something about stealthy rogues being teleported to safety. Further confusing the issue, most mobs will ignore other players while they run back to where they're supposed to be. And the toughest bosses are in instances where they belong anyway. Still, Blizzard does seem to be trying to control this kind of griefing.
Suggestion: figure out who *should* be able to make decisions. Since that person obviously does not exist, find out who their boss *would* be. Ask the boss to make the decision. Repeat until you find an actual person, they can make the decision.
But when this procedure becomes necessary, the corpus corporatum is at best twitching, if not already smelling. I think Parkinson would consider that a case of ingelititis has set in.
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And it's Col. Mustard for the win !
Only person to get it right, have a no-prize !
The only remotely coherent explanation that it is the intent of the process, not the process itself that produces the effect. That's four parts spirituality and one part Observer Effect and one part placebo.
And I honestly have no idea how she ended up on mine.
Why not bring it up to date, with Don Rumsfeld and Jeff Gannon?
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I'm abandoning this article. That's one more image I *really* didn't need.
Fountainhead was the most godawful movie I'd ever seen... then the second feature, The Razor's Edge, came on. About halfway through we woke our ride up and left.
IP rights are not a Homeland Security issue. However, having infringing items seized by Customs is, because the Customs Department is now part of HS.
Follow Mr. Link above, note that the NIPRCC is part of Immigration & Customs Enforcement, also note the Homeland Security seal in the top left of the page.
Linus is a US resident, has been for a few years now. He's eligible, and he is running Linux on a dual G5.
Well, the .3 release also had a lot of optimizations under the hood. It runs noticeably faster on the same hardware. Another speed boost came from Quartz Extreme - offloading lots of the UI to the GPU. And a total rewrite of Mail.app, it was dog slow in 10.2 but was downright snappy with just shy of 6000 emails indexed. And, brushed-metal considerations aside, the 10.3 Finder is much nicer than 10.2 and the Sidebar is extremely useful. They also slipped in the ability to edit keyboard shortcuts on a system-wide basis, OS X handles very well from the keyboard. An email client isn't worth nearly $129 (I have paid for Eudora in the past) but a faster OS in general and a better file manager is worth some money.
Previously, the 10.2 point release was a major upgrade over the not-really-ready-for-the-desktop 10.1 series.
And btw Expose rocks. Expose with virtual desktops rules. I can't believe the ad campaign isn't (ahem) spotlighting Expose.
An "OEM" iPod Shuffle, that's one thing. But ripping off the design aesthetics from the iPod advertising campaign is just stupid. Put the two together and they're in serious legal trouble. Anyone who's red-green colorblind won't be able to tell the two campaigns apart. And I think that's the same font - hard to tell in the photo.
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery then these guys are begging to have Steve Jobs' love child.
"Michelle Malkin -- half a dozen different kinds of pretty, and smarter than a four-dollar hammer -- weighs in, voicing an opinion that differs significantly from mine. She riddles her commentary with the sort of facts that I find such a pain in the rear to look up. She rocks."
He never even implies that he agrees with her on this, it's just "another take". He praises her for for being smart - she does ask some good questions - and doing research for her blog. Stalin loved his mother and his country. It's not an endorsement.
In fact, reading Malkin's article, I find it to be one of the least opinionated pieces I have ever read. She raises questions and states facts. Not a hint of philosophy, although adherents of her particular philosophy may have different answers to some of them than others do.
And what's so bad a bout a little fascism now and then, the Classical democracies also elected the occasional dictator
I've never heard of her before right now btw, and if she is does advocate fascism, then I don't see a hint of it here. She does appear to be an absolutist neo-con though. She makes an ok point about military tribunals in the Padilla case, but the civvy courts have the right of it: he's a US citizen, if you want to interrogate him then make the case that he's a terorist.
Rational-but-wrong I like to call 'em. It's a free country, she can have a website and hawk (pun intended) t-shirts and articles if she wants to.
Excellent points. However, revealing the name of a CIA agent isn't treason in the eyes of the law, but it is a federal crime carrying a ten-year sentence.
Morally, yeah... it is treason. If any of Plame's contacts get killed I'd fully support their survivors filing a wrongful death suit against whoever did out her as being CIA.
"...who has broken no laws, I might add"
mmmm.... Well, Think Secret is somewhat of an accessory-after-the-fact. If an NDA was violated - and Apple did show that the leaked information was both very detailed and clearly marked confidential - then a crime has been committed. If a crime has been committed then the (alleged) victim has a right to pursue the criminal through the courts. Even a New York Times or Washington Post reporter would have been required to turn over their source if this fact pattern had applied.
Some people are offended at any restriction on the individual's right to say absolutely anything they want to [1]. That's fine. I just want to hear them make the case for a mandate of a totally transparent society, it's usually pretty funny. An absolute freedom of speach means a total lack of privacy. My usual argument is the classic 'give me your Social Security number', and follow any good defence of a refusal with 'if someone stole your info, should he be allowed to tell me ?'
Yes, that was a strawman - and they always need a brain - but it's locally scoped. And I wanted an excuse to make a point. And a reuctio ad absurdum, not that ther's anything wrong with that one.
Another argumaent in favor of this ruling is the fact that an NDA is a contract. 'If you promise not to tell anyone,w e'll tell you something' plus a signature make a contract. Courts exist to enforce contracts. If the court didn't demand the production of the offender then the public should have be outraged.
Most people complaining are ignoring a LOT of details, the others can't support the implications of their whole position.
[1] Any free society desperately needs this vocal minority, however annoyon gthey sometimes are.
That's it, I'm calling the pun police. In fact, I'm Dylan' them now.
Hey you ! Get off my lawn !
You might want to take a look at Apple then, they hired the guy who designed the BeOS filesystem to work on Spotlight. It's a pervasive search interface that indexes everything on your drive(s). The demo video is pretty impressive.
Scientists use Kelvin so comparisons work. Celsius is pegged to 0 at water's freezing point, Kelvin is pegged at absolute zero - below the freezing points of hydrogen and helium. That way you can compare ratios of temperature: 10 deg. C sounds twice as warm as 5 degrees (and feels that way), but to a scientist the ratio isn't 2:1, it's 283:278 - a much smaller ratio. This comes in play in things like gas pressure, which is proportional to absolute temperature.
"Seriously, what's your usage paradigm where you're frequently having to check the target of a shortcut? It might be an interesting behavioral difference..."
It's usally when I have to tweak something in a game's folder. I have a folder on my desktop with launch shortcuts for the games I have installed. If I want to go add a new camo scheme for a plane in IL-2 I'll go to the Games folder, follow the shortcut to the actual location of the game and dig in to the right folder to drop the new file into.
That's the sort of thing I'm doing when I want to follow a shortcut to the target.
That's a reasonable take on the Dock, it does combine Start Menu functionality with some Taskbar stuff. But I consider it to be: where I keep my stuff. Stuff I use a lot and stuff I need to get at in a hurry when I need it. It's all right there. Use it as a dock and it'll make more sense than trying to mix metaphors from a different environment.
If you right-click (or control-click) on any running application's Dock icon you get a list of the windows it has open. You also geta few basic commands: Show in Finder, Hide (similar to minimize), Quit. Some apps put more functions in there. iTunes shows the current song, lets you rate it, change Repeat mode, toggle Shuffle, Pause, next Song and Previous Song. Terminal has New Shell, New Command and Connect to Server available. Since Dock icons can be also be animated by the app, the Dock can be used for CPU activity meters, stock tickers and the like. You can also quit an application from the Dock without it stealing focus like many Windows apps do.
Also, Expose makes it easy enough to find the Window you're looking for. Admittedly, you have to switch to the application or use F9 and see every window. And use the DOck context menu to find a window isn't as fast either, but you do still have two methods of doing going straight to a window you can't see (not counting the Window menu in the browser and using. I note that Both Safari and Firefox show only the active tab in the menu, but doing otherwise would mean submenus which often suck.
Question for people who prefer Windows: how do you live without a one-step comand to show the target of a shortcut ? A contextual menu option would suffice, ctrl-r would be better. Maybe it's just my organizational scheme, coming from the Mac, but I think that having to open Properties and click a button makes Windows suck all by itself.
It's worse than that, in San Francisco we assume anyone from the US will recognize San Francisco as "the city".
Actually, Australia has only just started getting the series. They started a few weeks after the US broadcasts.
Reason: the pay is the same and the days are just as long
... and you occasionally get to shoot at people who piss you off.
1. Go into System Preferences and turn off the hotcorners for Expose. Somebody set it that way, that isn't the default in Panther. The default F9-F11 are very handy and quite unobstrusive.
2. There is at least one good desktop manager for Panther, try a search at Versiontracker.com. I used one for a while but decided Expose met my window management needs better.
Ahh, the Lynx. I was in software retail at the time, and we did video games as well as stuff on disks. People would come in and ask for Gameboy and Game Gear specifically - looking to play specific games usually. But whenever we had the opportunity, we'd turn people on to the Lynx. Why ? We got to spend a lot of time with it... plugged into an AC adaptor. Good games, lovely hardware. Todd's Adventure in Slimeworld is a great platformer. It had Xenophobe and Xybots. We were up front about battery life though, and that turned a lot of people off. As it should.
If only Atari could have gotten another hour out of the batteries. The price was ok given the hardware it had, it'd have lasted longer and had even more games - link cables might have become much more popular.
That's actually handled in World of Warcraft. Mobs will stop chasing you. And as a bonus, they recently took steps against an exploit involving aggroing a boss into other players. I'm not sure how that last exploit worked, something about stealthy rogues being teleported to safety. Further confusing the issue, most mobs will ignore other players while they run back to where they're supposed to be. And the toughest bosses are in instances where they belong anyway. Still, Blizzard does seem to be trying to control this kind of griefing.
Suggestion: figure out who *should* be able to make decisions. Since that person obviously does not exist, find out who their boss *would* be. Ask the boss to make the decision. Repeat until you find an actual person, they can make the decision.
But when this procedure becomes necessary, the corpus corporatum is at best twitching, if not already smelling. I think Parkinson would consider that a case of ingelititis has set in.