My sentiments exactly. I also grew up with guns, and as far back as I can remeber, I knew how to handle them safely. I have family that didn't, and although they are all still living, it is scary to be around when they have access to guns.
Sure they will, any one who sells mp3's or aac's can sell to iPod owners. They just can't sell Apple's DRM protected aac's.
Apple has never stopped anyone from putting mp3's or unprotected aac's on the iPod, or even really made any motions to. For some reason people seem to have forgotten that DRM encoded aac is not the only format that the iPod supports.
While I agree with your stance on Manuals vs. Autos (my father made a point of teaching me on a manual first, with the express point being that if you can drive a manual, you can drive an auto with no problems), many of the newer euro cars are coming with electronically shifted manuals, or automatics that can be manually shifted. While the former is more rare than the latter, either can be a great deal of fun while allowing your significant other, who does not like manuals, to drive the car as well.
As an example, I just recently got a VW Beetle TDI with the Audi DSG trans in it. This is a manual (with two multi-plate clutches, allowing it to have two gears selected at the same time to make more efficent shifts) that normally is driven as an auto, but also includes a manual shift gate. It allows me to play around in manual mode, but when my wife drives, she can just put it in D and go.
So with that tangent completed, back to the discussion of a one-handed keyboard!
It should be interesting at the types of files Apple will have it recognize out of the box. MP3, AAC, MP4, and mov files seem to be the most obvious.
According to this page the file types it supports out of the box are:
Plain text
RTF
PDF
Mail
Address Book contacts
Microsoft Office Word documents
Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheets
Keynote presentations
Photoshop images
Applications
Folders/directories
Video and audio files:
MP3
AAC
MOV
Images:
JPEG
GIF
TIFF
PNG
EXIF
Now I would have thought they would include MPEG4 files on that list, but I suspect they will be supported anyway. It's a pretty impressive list of files out of the box I think, and since from all indications, spotlight will be very extensible, I would expect this list to grow very fast as the community starts adding support for favored file types.
Yeah. The bunkers work wonders against a zerg rush. I typically like to go with a 3/2 mix of marines/firebats which really rocks them since the marines can start hitting them a ways off and if any get close enough, the firebats toast 'em. Ah fun times...
I would think editing on the class of device he is looking for (sub-PDA) would be a real pain; regardless, there is nothing stopping him from editing on paper when he is idle, though you do have a point about being able to just download the notes to the computer to compile them into a story rather than typing them by hand.
My biggest question is if the benefits are worth the cost. Is the abillity to download the notes and edit (in a possibly easier fashion) them on the fly really worth the cost difference between a pad of paper and a sub-PDA device? The story poster seems to think it is, but I have grave doubts. Since he does want an electronic device I would say he should spring for a PDA, since in the long run it will provide him with more features and the gadget aspect he is looking for.
How will the note taking device being electronic solve the problem that you don't have time to write up the story when you get back? Won't it just be a more expensive way of not writing the story for a while after your return?
My advice would be to just stay with the pad and pen. You will save the money on the device and batteries with out loosing any functionality as I see it.
If this new device doesn't support MP3 at all, that's a new move for Sony,
Not really. Their MP3 discman's also convert MP3 to ATRAC before you burn the CD if you use their software (I belive some of them can actually play an MP3 file with out converting if you burn it with out using their software), and their NetMD players convert MP3 to ATRAC before downloading it to the MD disc. Its good to hear that the Clie PDA's don't have this limitation but Sony seems to be hell bent on forcing the use of ATRAC for their portable audio systems. Wouldn't bother me so much if it wasn't a conversion from one lossy format to another.
I've been looking at buying a development book (any suggestions?)
I would suggest Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegass. Its not the newest book out there on OS X development using Cocoa, but Aaron knows his stuff and wrote one hell of a good book.
The advantage to the expecsive analogs is what exactly?
They look nice? Seriously, the expensive analogs are as much a piece of jewelry as a ring or something similar. They often are of higher build and design quality than watches produced by Timex or whom ever, but the main concern, I would think, of someone having a Movado or Citizen is what it looks like and what it is made of.
Windows ttf's work just fine on OS X, so they can be used on a mac very easily; just drop them in your font folder.
As for how they look, the main problem I noticed is that the letter spacing is sometimes wonky, as you pointed out. Still they are better than nothing.
The way I read it, it was more about that elusive quality of imortality that had to be decided. From what I read it seemed that Elros remained an Elf, its just that he chose to become mortal and live with the humans; similar to how Arwen becomes mortal by staying behind after her father leaves (which was part of the deal with the Valar, once he decides to leave, his children must leave or become mortal), she is still an Elf and has Elf features and traits, but she is now mortal and will eventually die.
So it seems to me that Tolkien wasn't trying to have the Valar enforce some sort of racial purity rules, but more of working out the imortality sticking point. Of course I could have read that wrong, but thats who I interpreted what he wrote.
Although they might have been better off labeled as an epilog, they were a great way of wrapping up the story and rounding out the character developement of the hobits. It did a good deal to show that after his experiences, Frodo just didn't belong with the rest of the hobbit community anymore, and that Sam had become a man, as well as a leader.
Oh, and it was Merry and Pippin that pranced around as world-conquering bastards, as you put it.
I don't know how well it would play out in the movie, but they should atleast show Frodo sailing off with Bilbo and company at the end.
Well the obsession with Monty Python humor is valid, but the orgy experiance never happend in my marching band, except for some reported debachery that happend in the (mostly male) drum line.
Now drama, that was where the orgys were happening at my school, atleast according to many independantly verified reports.
As I read the documentation about WASTE it seems it has a Network Name/ID function that is intended to keep networks seperate; which I took to mean exactly what you are asking for. One WASTE network is setup for my 10 friends using one name and then they can use a different name for the WASTE network they use with their 10 friends that I don't want to talk to.
Sounds like it would work pretty well, assuming you don't all want to use the same name.
Problem is, American McGee isn't making a Strawberry Shortcake game. The comic was just making fun of American McGee's style when he makes his own version of culturally significant works, in this case his current project, Oz.
It has been a few days since this commic, and the related front page posts on PA, but if I recall correctly they were making fun of his tendancy to make things dark and "moody" by making the lead female a sexpot and somewhat of a goth girl. In that, I believe they succeed very well, while simultaneously providing a great satire of Strawbery Shortcake. It doesn't appear that American Greatings felt the same way.
Well, It tends to make things much easier when you have to come back later and try to decipher something written in one of these "old, decrepit" languages. Of cource, many of these languages probably don't have a written form and so their preservation would not be quite as useful. Still why is it a bad thing to try to remember the past?
Wow, I thought I was the only one that thought this article didn't have any meat. I kept wondering the whole time I read it when there would me some specific discussion on browser innovation. Instead we got a comparison of Safari to Camino and a great deal of text about how Safari isn't bad, but Camino is better.
I haven't tried Camino yet, but I did use Chimera for a while and although KeyChain integration was cool and marginally innovative, I didn't see much there that was, in reality, any more innovative than Safari. Chimera/Camino render more pages correctly, due to Gecko, but that can hardly be called innovation. Completeness maybe, but not innovation.
I don't know if it's still around on OS X but there used to be an Apple Help topic back in the day that addressed common keyboard shortcuts. So you might try searching the help files for it.
That said, I would be nice if there was a more visible place to put this info for newbies, but I can't really think of one.
As I remember it from my Comp Arch and Org class, RISC takes up more room for instructions, but makes up for it with the number of things you can do in one clock cycle via pipe-lining. You also get the added benefit that all of your instructions are of a fixed size. So your fetch and decode hardware is much simpler.
There is no free lunch; you can have a much simpler arch that is easier to produce (or should be), or you can have a more complex arch that has a smaller code footprint, but its complexity makes it bigger, hotter, and harder to produce.
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Quite a few personalities you have there. Six billion? You must be a fun date.
My sentiments exactly. I also grew up with guns, and as far back as I can remeber, I knew how to handle them safely. I have family that didn't, and although they are all still living, it is scary to be around when they have access to guns.
Sure they will, any one who sells mp3's or aac's can sell to iPod owners. They just can't sell Apple's DRM protected aac's.
Apple has never stopped anyone from putting mp3's or unprotected aac's on the iPod, or even really made any motions to. For some reason people seem to have forgotten that DRM encoded aac is not the only format that the iPod supports.
While I agree with your stance on Manuals vs. Autos (my father made a point of teaching me on a manual first, with the express point being that if you can drive a manual, you can drive an auto with no problems), many of the newer euro cars are coming with electronically shifted manuals, or automatics that can be manually shifted. While the former is more rare than the latter, either can be a great deal of fun while allowing your significant other, who does not like manuals, to drive the car as well.
As an example, I just recently got a VW Beetle TDI with the Audi DSG trans in it. This is a manual (with two multi-plate clutches, allowing it to have two gears selected at the same time to make more efficent shifts) that normally is driven as an auto, but also includes a manual shift gate. It allows me to play around in manual mode, but when my wife drives, she can just put it in D and go.
So with that tangent completed, back to the discussion of a one-handed keyboard!
Probably because of good ol' Avie. That is not saying Mach is bad or that Avie isn't a brilliant man; just that Mach seems to follow him.
According to this page the file types it supports out of the box are:
Now I would have thought they would include MPEG4 files on that list, but I suspect they will be supported anyway. It's a pretty impressive list of files out of the box I think, and since from all indications, spotlight will be very extensible, I would expect this list to grow very fast as the community starts adding support for favored file types.
Yeah. The bunkers work wonders against a zerg rush. I typically like to go with a 3/2 mix of marines/firebats which really rocks them since the marines can start hitting them a ways off and if any get close enough, the firebats toast 'em. Ah fun times...
I would think editing on the class of device he is looking for (sub-PDA) would be a real pain; regardless, there is nothing stopping him from editing on paper when he is idle, though you do have a point about being able to just download the notes to the computer to compile them into a story rather than typing them by hand.
My biggest question is if the benefits are worth the cost. Is the abillity to download the notes and edit (in a possibly easier fashion) them on the fly really worth the cost difference between a pad of paper and a sub-PDA device? The story poster seems to think it is, but I have grave doubts. Since he does want an electronic device I would say he should spring for a PDA, since in the long run it will provide him with more features and the gadget aspect he is looking for.
How will the note taking device being electronic solve the problem that you don't have time to write up the story when you get back? Won't it just be a more expensive way of not writing the story for a while after your return?
My advice would be to just stay with the pad and pen. You will save the money on the device and batteries with out loosing any functionality as I see it.
Not really. Their MP3 discman's also convert MP3 to ATRAC before you burn the CD if you use their software (I belive some of them can actually play an MP3 file with out converting if you burn it with out using their software), and their NetMD players convert MP3 to ATRAC before downloading it to the MD disc. Its good to hear that the Clie PDA's don't have this limitation but Sony seems to be hell bent on forcing the use of ATRAC for their portable audio systems. Wouldn't bother me so much if it wasn't a conversion from one lossy format to another.
I would suggest Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegass. Its not the newest book out there on OS X development using Cocoa, but Aaron knows his stuff and wrote one hell of a good book.
Don't forget the:
That is an old favorite of mine...
They look nice? Seriously, the expensive analogs are as much a piece of jewelry as a ring or something similar. They often are of higher build and design quality than watches produced by Timex or whom ever, but the main concern, I would think, of someone having a Movado or Citizen is what it looks like and what it is made of.
Um, we are geeks, we are in no position to dictate the kind of S.O. we get... We just want to get one period. ;)
Windows ttf's work just fine on OS X, so they can be used on a mac very easily; just drop them in your font folder.
As for how they look, the main problem I noticed is that the letter spacing is sometimes wonky, as you pointed out. Still they are better than nothing.
The way I read it, it was more about that elusive quality of imortality that had to be decided. From what I read it seemed that Elros remained an Elf, its just that he chose to become mortal and live with the humans; similar to how Arwen becomes mortal by staying behind after her father leaves (which was part of the deal with the Valar, once he decides to leave, his children must leave or become mortal), she is still an Elf and has Elf features and traits, but she is now mortal and will eventually die.
So it seems to me that Tolkien wasn't trying to have the Valar enforce some sort of racial purity rules, but more of working out the imortality sticking point. Of course I could have read that wrong, but thats who I interpreted what he wrote.
Although they might have been better off labeled as an epilog, they were a great way of wrapping up the story and rounding out the character developement of the hobits. It did a good deal to show that after his experiences, Frodo just didn't belong with the rest of the hobbit community anymore, and that Sam had become a man, as well as a leader.
Oh, and it was Merry and Pippin that pranced around as world-conquering bastards, as you put it.
I don't know how well it would play out in the movie, but they should atleast show Frodo sailing off with Bilbo and company at the end.
Well the obsession with Monty Python humor is valid, but the orgy experiance never happend in my marching band, except for some reported debachery that happend in the (mostly male) drum line.
Now drama, that was where the orgys were happening at my school, atleast according to many independantly verified reports.
As I read the documentation about WASTE it seems it has a Network Name/ID function that is intended to keep networks seperate; which I took to mean exactly what you are asking for. One WASTE network is setup for my 10 friends using one name and then they can use a different name for the WASTE network they use with their 10 friends that I don't want to talk to.
Sounds like it would work pretty well, assuming you don't all want to use the same name.
Problem is, American McGee isn't making a Strawberry Shortcake game. The comic was just making fun of American McGee's style when he makes his own version of culturally significant works, in this case his current project, Oz.
It has been a few days since this commic, and the related front page posts on PA, but if I recall correctly they were making fun of his tendancy to make things dark and "moody" by making the lead female a sexpot and somewhat of a goth girl. In that, I believe they succeed very well, while simultaneously providing a great satire of Strawbery Shortcake. It doesn't appear that American Greatings felt the same way.
I mean, good god, look at the layout of the tabs in that dialog for Kommander. Most of the other shots don't get much better.
Is it too much to ask these guys to put down the source code for 5 minutes and skim a chapter or two in an HCI book?
Well, It tends to make things much easier when you have to come back later and try to decipher something written in one of these "old, decrepit" languages. Of cource, many of these languages probably don't have a written form and so their preservation would not be quite as useful. Still why is it a bad thing to try to remember the past?
Wow, I thought I was the only one that thought this article didn't have any meat. I kept wondering the whole time I read it when there would me some specific discussion on browser innovation. Instead we got a comparison of Safari to Camino and a great deal of text about how Safari isn't bad, but Camino is better.
I haven't tried Camino yet, but I did use Chimera for a while and although KeyChain integration was cool and marginally innovative, I didn't see much there that was, in reality, any more innovative than Safari. Chimera/Camino render more pages correctly, due to Gecko, but that can hardly be called innovation. Completeness maybe, but not innovation.
I don't know if it's still around on OS X but there used to be an Apple Help topic back in the day that addressed common keyboard shortcuts. So you might try searching the help files for it.
That said, I would be nice if there was a more visible place to put this info for newbies, but I can't really think of one.
As he said, there is no free lunch.
As I remember it from my Comp Arch and Org class, RISC takes up more room for instructions, but makes up for it with the number of things you can do in one clock cycle via pipe-lining. You also get the added benefit that all of your instructions are of a fixed size. So your fetch and decode hardware is much simpler.
There is no free lunch; you can have a much simpler arch that is easier to produce (or should be), or you can have a more complex arch that has a smaller code footprint, but its complexity makes it bigger, hotter, and harder to produce.