ahh, no fair... I hate playing against an opponent who's using a rail-gun and an aimbot... will it also be opperated by a 13 year-old who can taunt in l33t?
other low-tech counter measures: smoke accompanying volley of pebbles (or nurf balls)
Southwest needs to offer a special service especially for blind people that caters to this demand by dealing with everything audibly and removing the need for visuals all together... ideally this system would not only deliver infomation via voice but also accept vocal requests and queries.
I believe some other companies have experimented with similiar systems, which they've dubbed 'call centres'.
yes, but piggy-backing onto of a 3D engine can save ALOT of work, especially if the scene-graph/manager, objects, etc are well though out and easily extended.
Considering that ARIA will get a cut from *every* CD copied combined with the fact that Australian music accounts for, at most, 10% of CD sales, wouldn't this just make them the largest pirate of them all.
Unless they have some great plan for channelling the money back to the respective artists overseas this is really just lining their own pockets.
I agree its aimed at the Apple/FreeBSD university market --through this they can try to convince developers to write code once for both Mac and Windows and forget about all this silly UNIX stuff.
Plus since they can't get windows to stop crashing this should atleast make OS X apps just as buggy... and for only a slight performance hit too.
Remember you have vertical space to play with as well as horizontal, so with the addition of a few basic rules instead of having an unorganised mass of computer-controlled dodg'em carts criss-crossing every which way we'll probably simply have different directional lanes (northbound, north-northeast, etc) at different altitudes (much like highways) except that these will be thousands of lanes wide. Leave room inbetween these channels for lots of on/off (up/down) ramps and you'll probably end up watching craft circle up to x,000 ft... fly in a straight line to above their destination and circle back down in... play with the lane pattern a bit more and I'm sure you could make clear up/down ramps that they're angled instead of vertical so that you perform a much more natural flight path.
I believe NASAs project works on the principle that you key in your destination and it assigns a flight-path for you that it's calcuated to be clear for you... you then just follow the dotted line.
Well, there is a fixed installer up now. Looks like the following change was made to the "Preflight" file inside the "iTunes.pkg" package:
old version:
#!/bin/sh
# if iTunes application currently exists, delete it
if [ -e $2Applications/iTunes.app ] ; then
rm -rf $2Applications/iTunes.app 2>/dev/null
fi
exit 0
new version:
#!/bin/sh
# if iTunes application currently exists, delete it
if [ -e "$2Applications/iTunes.app" ] ; then
rm -rf "$2Applications/iTunes.app" 2>/dev/null
fi
exit 0
As you can see, they basically placed quotes around the file paths so that any characters such as spaces in path names would not mess up the rm command. So easy, and yet even the best of us forget to do it at times. That's one of the things about the command line - lots of power when used properly, but also many powerful ways to mess everything up.
look at www.dpreview.com it has very good reviews on digital cameras and comparisions. Should mention battery life in there... you may just need to buy a spare battery or two.
This is good news...
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The CLR (Common Language Runtime) is a great idea and is in my opinion the next generation of programming tools. ie. it doesn't matter what language you prefer or what language library X is written in if they go through the CLR you can use it.
The ability to write in your favorite language C#, C++, VB, JScript, etc and now Java is a huge improvement over locking a project into one language only and missing out on all the other shared libraries because your project is in Java or Objective-C or Python etc.
Unfortunately in removing one lock, microsoft has added another (to their OS). What I'd love to see is a Common Runtime for Linux... unfortunately all I see is people dismissing it or complaining because its Microsoft.
Netscape 6.1 vs Internet Explorer 5.5
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Netscape 6.1
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I just performed a few tests and actually had Netscape 6.1 performed quicker that Internet Explorer 5.5 in page rendering.
System: Windows 2000 (PIII 800,256 Mem) Netscape 6.1 - Navigator only (Mail, Composer & Java2 NOT installed) - everthing else standard. IE 5.5 - standard Install/settings (ie. cache set to Automatic) Test site: Slashdot (Clicking from the main page into a comments page)
Results:
Clicked on IE -> Read More
Clicked on NS -> Read More
(clicked both as quickly as possible)
....
IE flips straight away to show the Slashdot header while Netscape hasn't even left the page yet (not looking good).
....
Netscape jumps to the page and displays the header and the initial post - IE still only showing header.
....
Netscape starts displaying posts (about 50 display ) - IE still only showing header.
....
Netscape continues to stream in posts and finishes
IE displays completed page shortly after.
Basically there's not much in the final difference but the streaming effect of the comments table makes a huge difference and the longer the page the bigger the difference in overall speed. It definately seems that Netscape 6.1 is better for a t least long pages... IE is pretty even and may win on smaller pages but either way the main speed limit now is simply download rate.
Note: Initial boot-up time and Memory footprint are still won hands down by IE - can't beat a browser built into the OS and already half loaded. Netscape 6.1 without Java 2 installed is MUCH quicker in boot-up and is quite acceptable.
Do not delude yourselves into believing that people have radically different brains; That is a postmodern perspective with no attachment to fact.
I tend to disagree... many studies have shown that the early years of development are crucial to brain development and that this is when the brain 'wires' itself based on stimulus received.
People with the above, such as CAPD, "usually have a history of childhood illnesses, such as allergies, food intolerance, colic, tonsillitis, asthma, sinusitis or ear infections, that resulted in ear blockages so that they experienced difficulty in hearing during their first years of development.. Since these children have faint and distorted sound input, they use their eyes as a means of compensation and develop high visual spatial abilities. While their hearing is not permanently affected by these blockages, the development of auditory information processing is impaired..." (quote from: I Think in Pictures, You Teach in Words)
Can I point out that asking you to turning the radio down was probably a sensible course of action.
That an interesting point... I know of one study where they played two conversations back at the same time. It was found that in general women were better able to give a general idea of what each conversation was about while men could give a detailed explaination of one and next to nothing on the other.
To a man (ie. me) turning down the radio doesn't make sense because if I need to focus on looking for a street sign I don't need to ignore the radio, its just naturally tuned out. To a woman turning down the radio makes sense because she's paying attention to both and doesn't naturally ignore one over the other, so to concentrate more she needs one input (the radio) removed.
Conversely, if a woman wants to talk to her boyfriend, she doesn't see it as problem to talk to him while he's watching the football, she can quite easily pay attention to both. To the man as soon as he focuses one one the other loses focus, so if he hears the crowd roar he's probably going to miss your next sentence completely while his focus flips to the TV.
So basically women, in general, are better multi-taskers while men are better at focusing on one task at a time.
Both have their advantages and disadvantages and neither are really limiting just require different environments.
Re:but can it fortell assasinations
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heh.. you can try, but it's common knowledge that those messages are really broadcast via TV static every night around 2:32am.
I believe he's referring to the fact that they're using/supporting Linux and have looked over the GPL agreement VERY carefully (and as you know, they have a lot of lawyers) and havn't found any 'traps'.
I do like how you've interpreted the statement though - that they've basically identified the traps and know that their lawyers can get them out of it.
Software-friendly components = hardware that has well supported Linux drivers.
The case, I believe, is a nice extra wide ATX case based off the style of the old black NeXT cubes.
If I remember correctly, Lucas from Spindl3top was originally looking at creating a user-friendly GNUstep Linux distribution to get NeXT fans setup easier (GNUstep had a fairly hard install path at this stage). I didn't follow this but noticed them pop up awhile back with the rather nice hardware collective idea.
The idea is that they basically bulk buy on a small range of parts, thus getting better deals. These parts have all been tested or have a history of working well on Linux. They then put this set of parts together into their pretty black boxes and ship'em out to happy Linux power-users.
those 'two mysterious depressions, each the size of a footprint' aren't even footprint shaped but are irregular as all hell... but I love how down the articles the heading becomes Mysterious 'footprints'.
I have a ditch in my backyard 'the size of a T-Rex footprint'... I should write to CNN about my sighting...
It's been hacked. To find it again just calculate the orbit trajectory that passes directly over Natalie Portmans trailer on Episode 2 and the Playboy mansion.
mightn't topple but could play a key part
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JKH on OS X
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OS X will not be the thing that topples Microsoft.
True, OS X won't topple microsoft, but it could play a key role. The fact is that Apple is a hardware manufacturer filling a niche market for higher priced / higher quality machines aimed at graphic designers and desktop publishing. OS X is a great move by them to get a more powerful OS underneath and form a great path into taking over another niche market - the one SGI once held so well - namely the higher priced / higher quality machines used for 3D and other movie magic.
The iMac is their product for the consumer 'microsoft' market and while doing well it's never going to be a 'killer' threat to the budget PC market where microsoft lives. If Apple ever moves out of being a hardware manufacturer things may change, but I can't see it happening any time soon.
Technical superiority has never been the key factor in dominance - just look at Win3.1 vs. Mac, or indeed Dos vs Mac.
This is an excellent point and one that has been proven time and time again by the console wars, and truely hammered home by microsoft's dominance. It's not the specs of the console, or the smoothness of the OS. It's the software (and games) you can get for it. Now this is a key point because Apple has just brought across some major players into the UNIX world.
We've now got software companies like Adobe porting to UNIX and I've just finished reading that Maya has been announced for Linux (to be release 'about the same time as the Mac OS X version').
Basically this helps to take out one of the major hurdles to any OS, getting the software there, as once you have ported to one flavor of UNIX it's a small step to port to another. There's more to winning the consumer market that just this but it's one of the biggies.
I'm personally interested to see who will take the next step (ie. show an impressive advantage/reason for the average user to switch from what's pre-built on their machine) and am curious to see if it will be Linux or if some other UNIX (QNX , GNU/Hurd, other) will manage to get in.
Java & JavaScript are totally different. Java is a complete language, JavaScript is a simplified scripting language (based on the Java syntax) designed for use in things such as web browsers.
The actual sgi page quotes it as 'Implemented largely in Java,...' which sounds alot closer to the mark.
Just a case of mistaken reporting by someone who doesn't know the difference...
Coral lost the battle for graphics apps on the PC to Adobe (and rightly so). They're now hoping for a fresh start and to jump up their user-base by getting on Linux before the others - only thing is Linux still requires that you to know what your doing (You can't just hit 'ok' whenever a box comes up: Windows is now going to try and detect your hardware [ok] - Windows is now going to restart your computer [ok] - Windows has discovered a conflict and is now going to crash [ok]). So they want Linux onto the desktop of designers,and those that like everything GUI, as soon as possible so they can sell to more people. Therefore it makes perfect sense for them to help improve it in this area and at the same time they get to bundle up all the work already done and create a new distribution - hey, more money and it just happens to work perfectly with their apps... (look at office/ie/outlook/windows integration - you can do alot when you can tweak a system from all sides). Jotham Maybe this is a future trend... Kai's PowerDesktop(tm) with HUGE buttons may be the next one out.
Slashdot Mirror
ahh, no fair... I hate playing against an opponent who's using a rail-gun and an aimbot... will it also be opperated by a 13 year-old who can taunt in l33t?
other low-tech counter measures:
smoke
accompanying volley of pebbles (or nurf balls)
and Assembley would sound like Rainman... constantly muttering and repeating itself. 48 Matches... definately 48...
Southwest needs to offer a special service especially for blind people that caters to this demand by dealing with everything audibly and removing the need for visuals all together... ideally this system would not only deliver infomation via voice but also accept vocal requests and queries.
I believe some other companies have experimented with similiar systems, which they've dubbed 'call centres'.
yes, but piggy-backing onto of a 3D engine can save ALOT of work, especially if the scene-graph/manager, objects, etc are well though out and easily extended.
ah they would get slashdotted during a filler comic. Here's one of my favorites that the slashdot crowd should appreciate
#9 - speak l33t
and what was the human lifespan 7000 years ago - they were lucky if they made 30.
Unless they have some great plan for channelling the money back to the respective artists overseas this is really just lining their own pockets.
I don't know about your other figures but Darwin and OS X fall under your failing *BSD umbrella and their percentages are rising.
Plus since they can't get windows to stop crashing this should atleast make OS X apps just as buggy
It syncs fine with the latest Palm software for OS X
I believe NASAs project works on the principle that you key in your destination and it assigns a flight-path for you that it's calcuated to be clear for you... you then just follow the dotted line.
Apparently it only strikes if you 1) havn't uninstalled iTunes first 2) have multiple partitions and 3) have spaces in the name of your partitions
This from MacSlash (posted by Graff as AC):
Well, there is a fixed installer up now. Looks like the following change was made to the "Preflight" file inside the "iTunes.pkg" package:
old version:
#!/bin/sh
# if iTunes application currently exists, delete it /dev/null
if [ -e $2Applications/iTunes.app ] ; then
rm -rf $2Applications/iTunes.app 2>
fi
exit 0
new version:
#!/bin/sh
# if iTunes application currently exists, delete it /dev/null
if [ -e "$2Applications/iTunes.app" ] ; then
rm -rf "$2Applications/iTunes.app" 2>
fi
exit 0
As you can see, they basically placed quotes around the file paths so that any characters such as spaces in path names would not mess up the rm command. So easy, and yet even the best of us forget to do it at times. That's one of the things about the command line - lots of power when used properly, but also many powerful ways to mess everything up.
- Graff
look at www.dpreview.com it has very good reviews on digital cameras and comparisions. Should mention battery life in there... you may just need to buy a spare battery or two.
The ability to write in your favorite language C#, C++, VB, JScript, etc and now Java is a huge improvement over locking a project into one language only and missing out on all the other shared libraries because your project is in Java or Objective-C or Python etc.
Unfortunately in removing one lock, microsoft has added another (to their OS). What I'd love to see is a Common Runtime for Linux... unfortunately all I see is people dismissing it or complaining because its Microsoft.
System: Windows 2000 (PIII 800,256 Mem)
Netscape 6.1 - Navigator only (Mail, Composer & Java2 NOT installed) - everthing else standard.
IE 5.5 - standard Install/settings (ie. cache set to Automatic)
Test site: Slashdot (Clicking from the main page into a comments page)
Results:
Clicked on IE -> Read More
Clicked on NS -> Read More
(clicked both as quickly as possible)
....
IE flips straight away to show the Slashdot header while Netscape hasn't even left the page yet (not looking good).
....
Netscape jumps to the page and displays the header and the initial post - IE still only showing header.
....
Netscape starts displaying posts (about 50 display ) - IE still only showing header.
....
Netscape continues to stream in posts and finishes
IE displays completed page shortly after.
Basically there's not much in the final difference but the streaming effect of the comments table makes a huge difference and the longer the page the bigger the difference in overall speed. It definately seems that Netscape 6.1 is better for a t least long pages... IE is pretty even and may win on smaller pages but either way the main speed limit now is simply download rate.
Note: Initial boot-up time and Memory footprint are still won hands down by IE - can't beat a browser built into the OS and already half loaded. Netscape 6.1 without Java 2 installed is MUCH quicker in boot-up and is quite acceptable.
Nice to see Mozilla coming along so nicely...
I tend to disagree... many studies have shown that the early years of development are crucial to brain development and that this is when the brain 'wires' itself based on stimulus received.
People with the above, such as CAPD, "usually have a history of childhood illnesses, such as allergies, food intolerance, colic, tonsillitis, asthma, sinusitis or ear infections, that resulted in ear blockages so that they experienced difficulty in hearing during their first years of development.. Since these children have faint and distorted sound input, they use their eyes as a means of compensation and develop high visual spatial abilities. While their hearing is not permanently affected by these blockages, the development of auditory information processing is impaired..." (quote from: I Think in Pictures, You Teach in Words)
That an interesting point... I know of one study where they played two conversations back at the same time. It was found that in general women were better able to give a general idea of what each conversation was about while men could give a detailed explaination of one and next to nothing on the other.
To a man (ie. me) turning down the radio doesn't make sense because if I need to focus on looking for a street sign I don't need to ignore the radio, its just naturally tuned out. To a woman turning down the radio makes sense because she's paying attention to both and doesn't naturally ignore one over the other, so to concentrate more she needs one input (the radio) removed.
Conversely, if a woman wants to talk to her boyfriend, she doesn't see it as problem to talk to him while he's watching the football, she can quite easily pay attention to both. To the man as soon as he focuses one one the other loses focus, so if he hears the crowd roar he's probably going to miss your next sentence completely while his focus flips to the TV.
So basically women, in general, are better multi-taskers while men are better at focusing on one task at a time.
Both have their advantages and disadvantages and neither are really limiting just require different environments.
heh.. you can try, but it's common knowledge that those messages are really broadcast via TV static every night around 2:32am.
I do like how you've interpreted the statement though - that they've basically identified the traps and know that their lawyers can get them out of it.
The case, I believe, is a nice extra wide ATX case based off the style of the old black NeXT cubes.
If I remember correctly, Lucas from Spindl3top was originally looking at creating a user-friendly GNUstep Linux distribution to get NeXT fans setup easier (GNUstep had a fairly hard install path at this stage). I didn't follow this but noticed them pop up awhile back with the rather nice hardware collective idea.
The idea is that they basically bulk buy on a small range of parts, thus getting better deals. These parts have all been tested or have a history of working well on Linux. They then put this set of parts together into their pretty black boxes and ship'em out to happy Linux power-users.
I have a ditch in my backyard 'the size of a T-Rex footprint'... I should write to CNN about my sighting...
It's been hacked. To find it again just calculate the orbit trajectory that passes directly over Natalie Portmans trailer on Episode 2 and the Playboy mansion.
True, OS X won't topple microsoft, but it could play a key role. The fact is that Apple is a hardware manufacturer filling a niche market for higher priced / higher quality machines aimed at graphic designers and desktop publishing. OS X is a great move by them to get a more powerful OS underneath and form a great path into taking over another niche market - the one SGI once held so well - namely the higher priced / higher quality machines used for 3D and other movie magic.
The iMac is their product for the consumer 'microsoft' market and while doing well it's never going to be a 'killer' threat to the budget PC market where microsoft lives. If Apple ever moves out of being a hardware manufacturer things may change, but I can't see it happening any time soon.
Technical superiority has never been the key factor in dominance - just look at Win3.1 vs. Mac, or indeed Dos vs Mac.
This is an excellent point and one that has been proven time and time again by the console wars, and truely hammered home by microsoft's dominance. It's not the specs of the console, or the smoothness of the OS. It's the software (and games) you can get for it. Now this is a key point because Apple has just brought across some major players into the UNIX world.
We've now got software companies like Adobe porting to UNIX and I've just finished reading that Maya has been announced for Linux (to be release 'about the same time as the Mac OS X version').
Basically this helps to take out one of the major hurdles to any OS, getting the software there, as once you have ported to one flavor of UNIX it's a small step to port to another. There's more to winning the consumer market that just this but it's one of the biggies.
I'm personally interested to see who will take the next step (ie. show an impressive advantage/reason for the average user to switch from what's pre-built on their machine) and am curious to see if it will be Linux or if some other UNIX (QNX , GNU/Hurd, other) will manage to get in.
The actual sgi page quotes it as 'Implemented largely in Java,...' which sounds alot closer to the mark.
Just a case of mistaken reporting by someone who doesn't know the difference...
Coral lost the battle for graphics apps on the PC to Adobe (and rightly so). They're now hoping for a fresh start and to jump up their user-base by getting on Linux before the others - only thing is Linux still requires that you to know what your doing (You can't just hit 'ok' whenever a box comes up: Windows is now going to try and detect your hardware [ok] - Windows is now going to restart your computer [ok] - Windows has discovered a conflict and is now going to crash [ok]). So they want Linux onto the desktop of designers ,and those that like everything GUI, as soon as possible so they can sell to more people. Therefore it makes perfect sense for them to help improve it in this area and at the same time they get to bundle up all the work already done and create a new distribution - hey, more money and it just happens to work perfectly with their apps... (look at office/ie/outlook/windows integration - you can do alot when you can tweak a system from all sides). Jotham Maybe this is a future trend... Kai's PowerDesktop(tm) with HUGE buttons may be the next one out.