Have you ever tried it?? Yes, it's not the most shall we say concise language, but it's no worse then say, oh, I don't know, COBOL??!?!?? It's EASY. Just like SQL and Python. Now go and write your little PERL scripts man.
Geeks who make laguages for the "user" are not doing anything of the sort. They are making yet another language that promises to bring the holy grail of computer programming to mere users, but failing miserably. Got news for you...my Mom does not even care about Applescript. She just wants to use the computer. She doesn't even know what a Excel macro is either. Applescript is what I like to call a glue language. You want something that interacts easily with say iTunes or even Finder? Applescript is it. Automator is the best attempt yet at letting Mom and Dad program (and I guarantee you Mom doesn't care about Automator either).
Ok. I will give you that, but the ones driving the innovation (besides apple employees) are the Alpha Geeks. How do you explain volumes of applescript? Applescript in combination with bash scripts that do cool crap? Sure, alot of Mac users may not download a single applescript, but there are just as many that will. Dashboard is getting popular with the people who can write widgets and alot of these are now free. Mom and Pop will download these widgets. There's great non-apple widgets ALREADY and the OS is not even a month old yet. My favorites are:
Many of these will be of interest to your core users and are FREE! NONE of them have spyware unlike some of these types of programs on Windows. Case in point....don't piss of the Alpha Geeks that have bought Mac for technical reasons. You do, and they will leave and the innovation will too.
They guy IS arrogant. Sure, he's just spouting the party line regarding a Video iPod, but how many times have we wanted to carry video with us? On airplanes, our OWN videos in our hotel room, on vacations, to keep the damn kids quite and etc. the MOST popular portable device now adays (other than a iPod or MP3 Player) IS the Portable DVD player. Now would it not be nice to NOT have to carry a stack of DVD's with you all the time? As soon as the price comes down on one of these, I will go for it. The Archos AV400 has a nice format, good core OS (Linux) and lenty of storage in the high end ones plus you can just hook it to AV dock which has the cable atatched and record all of your favorite shows. The screen is decent enough to use on the bus or the airplane. Granted, a laptop IS a better video player, but when most laptops have crap battery life and the cheap seats don't have seat power, a portable media player is a better option for inflight entertainment. PLUS I can recode my iMovies to something it will play (HINT...if Apple made one, I would not have to do this!) and show people the movies in the office. My typical iMovie has been between 5 and 10 minutes and sometimes I have shorter ones....ones where my son was being cute. You know, the AFV type stuff...less than 1 minute. A portable media player is ideal for this.
A $500 dolalr printer is COMPLETELY inadequate to the task. First, how many PPM does it do? Not likely anywhere near as high as a 75 or 92 or even a 135 ppm production printer with a sticher. Go to Kinkos or do it at work if you have access to high speed machines like I do. You will save time, sanity and toner...if your employer allows you.
The IDIOT at Kinkos should have known better in the first place. I would think Kinkos should rework the policy like this:
1. If you have a PDF for some software that you want printed, they will let you copy it ONE time. This would qualify as fair use.
2. If you have a PDF AND it's on the original CD (Stienberg Cubase as an example), print it.
3. If the PDF file doesn't allow you to print it (POSSIBLE if sticking to Adobe Software), then they can't but if their's no restriction, print away.
My point is if it's in electronic format(or even NOT in electronic format), copyright or not, it would be fair use so long as you weren't running say 100 copies! Running 1 or 2 copies should be ok.
I think that's their name now!:D I believe that they can take a PDF file and print it double sided for you and they can even bind it for you.
At work, I try to keep it electronic when possible, but then print out the parts I need. I always have a machine that can read it around and it's not terribly bad to be using the PDF on one machine or window and doing the operation on the other. I DO print some manuals and for that, I use a Xerox x432 ST Document Center or a Xerox Docuprint 75 or a Xerox Docuprint 92c. The last two print documents at 75 ppm for the 75 and 92 ppm for the 92. All three of these have stitchers as do other printers in the Xerox line. They almost all understand Postscript as well as PCL. They are also NOT cheap. Fedex/Kinko's stores all have similar hardware and you may be able to just hand them a floppy or CD with the manual on it and they can spit it out for you.
Let alone that you do not see a SINGLE Gungan or Naboo in 4,5 and 6. I am wondering if the clone army completely obliterates Naboo via a starship bombing? They say we see Death Star 1 being built in the end of RotS.
I did some poking around my laptop and see that for all of the events that were previously, by default, in/etc/crontab now have individual plist files in/System/Library/LaunchDaemons . Makes it kind of difficult to manage your schedule, but now it's less likely for a ham hand to screw up the crontab. I fail to see how having scads of plist files is better then just putting a entry into/etc/crontab for each thing that needs run. One upside is that Apple does provide a plist editor that works pretty well and makes editing the files much easier. At least if you put a entry in your user crontab it still works. In one of my earlier posts I had misunderstood the poster as saying everything was in a single plist file which would be bad, but I am not sure on how this would appear to be better then just the files we have always used.
Really? I do it all of the time. Happens in UNIX shops when the install instructions tell you to add it. Oh sure, you can add t to one of the other scripts it already runs, but/etc/inittab being edited happens all of the time. It's not usual.
One of many. Not all of them are proprietary. Sometimes open source doesn't have the options your looking for. Sometimes you got to buy something. Open source is good, I will agree, but unless some hacker has a itch that needed scratched he's not going to work on a replacement for cron. It's just not something that is as glamourous as say X.org or the Linux Kernel.
And the rest of the stuff launchd is supposed to load doesn't get loaded and you have a broken system. The reason systems DON'T boot when/etc/intttab get's toasted is they SHOULDN'T boot with out the service it kicks off running. When inittab is toasted on one of my AIX servers, I simply boot off of the install CD or a backup tape(yes I can do that). I mount rootvg in maintenance mode, FIX inittab and then reboot. That simple. Sure, you would not want users to have to do this on a desktop system and the fact that most Mac desktop users are likely not to muck with these files is the saving grace. One can simply restore from a default setup.
No I am not a programmer, but I have CONTINUALLY as of late started to see this if you don't play my way it's the highway crap in FOSS projects. Whining because so and so does not do things the way you want them. It has to stop at some point. Obviously Apple Developers have something here. It seems, to me, you should go with the ones who are making the most progress. The guys who manage the KHTML project need to seriously look at the things that Apple has done. May be even go to the point of just examining thier stuffand not workin on your own? I don't know. Time after time I have seen X project complaining about the way X company is submitting patches and diffs. Cooperation is a two way street.
AMEN. His all assuming knowledge is a bit irritating, but he has not proven himself as a Apple employee to me. He says all this stuff, but I have yet to see a post that alludes to his credentials. PLUS he's always saying Apple's way is the best. Well, I personally LIKE all of those other files. What happens if this ONE plist file gets toasted? Scheduled stuff doesn't run, inits don't happen..etc...etc. Spreading the configs out may seem a bit complex, but it might have been done that way for a reason. Not saying I don't like what I have read about launchd, I am just saying that Apple DOESN'T, as much as this guy like to say they do, always know best.
Ye Olde cron is still there and running. My Bashpodder script still runs on Tiger. As for launchd, I am going to have to read up on that. Sounds interesting.
Are there schedulers better then cron? You bet. As a scheduler for home use, cron is fine. We are currently trying to find a ore robust replacement for cron that will attempt to correct things before reattempting a script and with dependency checking. When I used to be a operator on a DOS/VSE based mainframe, our scheduler had a dependcy check that would hold jobs from running at thier assigned time if the previous job did not finish and other things like that. It had very robust logging to. No e-mails to root. I could just run a report. There are schedulers that come close to this on UNIX but cron is a very basic scheduler that is flexible which is a saving grace.
>They are convinced the ratings dropped due to the show competing against other Trek re-runs."
I am SORRY. The problem is not the re-runs. The problem are the people who are there in charge now. Rick Berman and his staff have continued to turn out LAME scripts. NOTHING new. Designing a prequal that looked like it was a century above the next gen series, yet smaller. TERRIBLE casting choice for the Captain. Scott Bakula is not captain material. They'd have bene better off with Michael Ironsides or Someone more captainly. I stood beside the producers when they selected a Woman for the role of the Captain in Voyager. I stood behind alot of the dumb coices made. Deep Space Nine, while not the best of the new stuff (TNG is WAYY better), it did not make sense within the Star Trek ethos. How can you go boldy with no starship?? That's why they added the Defiant. The Defiant and the War with the Dominion is what saved DS9 from sinking into mediocrity. Star Trek was known for thought provoking plot lines and for translating the current events to the show. Where's the terror attacks and idiotic security? If Berman and crew think they can just take a couple years off and come back with the same screenwriters and producers, you got another thing coming. Unless there's MAJOR changes AT THE TOP, you won't see a difference in the new trek series in a couple years.
Being FCC filtered? No. I just think you want to say shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker and tits on the radio. You know what? I DON'T want to here it if that's all you do the whole show. Sure, Adam Curry and The Dawn and Drew show drop fbombs here and there and may discuss things non appropriate for airing on the radio, but there use of any of the seven words are not always central to thier show. Heck the best Dawn and Drew shows are when they discuss what's in the P.O. Box...yeah!
BTW, FCC ISN'T responsible for the creation of Clear Channel and other monopoly like radio. That would be the SEC approving thier purchases.
WiFi operates in the 2.4 GHz band. It likely would not work well in the AM Broadcast band because noone makes equipment for that band yet!;) Even if they did, I personally don't think it would work too well.
The FCC is a necessary evil. If it wasn't for them, your radio would be useless as well as your cell phone, your wifi and anythng else that uses RF. They exist also to help take care of our side of a international agreement. The FCC is WHY RF works so well now. If it was anarchy, noone would be able to use RF for anything useful.
It's called pointless whining. Bitching and bitching about it isn't going to get it accepted more. NICELY emailing KYOU about it will get you more then bitching about it on Slashdot. They other way is to use it yourself. No wait....if you do this noone will listen to you...on the otherhand....
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Have you ever tried it?? Yes, it's not the most shall we say concise language, but it's no worse then say, oh, I don't know, COBOL??!?!?? It's EASY. Just like SQL and Python. Now go and write your little PERL scripts man.
Geeks who make laguages for the "user" are not doing anything of the sort. They are making yet another language that promises to bring the holy grail of computer programming to mere users, but failing miserably. Got news for you...my Mom does not even care about Applescript. She just wants to use the computer. She doesn't even know what a Excel macro is either. Applescript is what I like to call a glue language. You want something that interacts easily with say iTunes or even Finder? Applescript is it. Automator is the best attempt yet at letting Mom and Dad program (and I guarantee you Mom doesn't care about Automator either).
Ok. I will give you that, but the ones driving the innovation (besides apple employees) are the Alpha Geeks. How do you explain volumes of applescript? Applescript in combination with bash scripts that do cool crap? Sure, alot of Mac users may not download a single applescript, but there are just as many that will. Dashboard is getting popular with the people who can write widgets and alot of these are now free. Mom and Pop will download these widgets. There's great non-apple widgets ALREADY and the OS is not even a month old yet. My favorites are:
TV Tracker
DoppleViewer
Air Traffic Control
Many of these will be of interest to your core users and are FREE! NONE of them have spyware unlike some of these types of programs on Windows. Case in point....don't piss of the Alpha Geeks that have bought Mac for technical reasons. You do, and they will leave and the innovation will too.
They guy IS arrogant. Sure, he's just spouting the party line regarding a Video iPod, but how many times have we wanted to carry video with us? On airplanes, our OWN videos in our hotel room, on vacations, to keep the damn kids quite and etc. the MOST popular portable device now adays (other than a iPod or MP3 Player) IS the Portable DVD player. Now would it not be nice to NOT have to carry a stack of DVD's with you all the time? As soon as the price comes down on one of these, I will go for it. The Archos AV400 has a nice format, good core OS (Linux) and lenty of storage in the high end ones plus you can just hook it to AV dock which has the cable atatched and record all of your favorite shows. The screen is decent enough to use on the bus or the airplane. Granted, a laptop IS a better video player, but when most laptops have crap battery life and the cheap seats don't have seat power, a portable media player is a better option for inflight entertainment. PLUS I can recode my iMovies to something it will play (HINT...if Apple made one, I would not have to do this!) and show people the movies in the office. My typical iMovie has been between 5 and 10 minutes and sometimes I have shorter ones....ones where my son was being cute. You know, the AFV type stuff...less than 1 minute. A portable media player is ideal for this.
Nice printer, but I still would not print a 800 page pdf on it. Would take WAYYY too much time.
A $500 dolalr printer is COMPLETELY inadequate to the task. First, how many PPM does it do? Not likely anywhere near as high as a 75 or 92 or even a 135 ppm production printer with a sticher. Go to Kinkos or do it at work if you have access to high speed machines like I do. You will save time, sanity and toner...if your employer allows you.
The IDIOT at Kinkos should have known better in the first place. I would think Kinkos should rework the policy like this:
1. If you have a PDF for some software that you want printed, they will let you copy it ONE time. This would qualify as fair use.
2. If you have a PDF AND it's on the original CD (Stienberg Cubase as an example), print it.
3. If the PDF file doesn't allow you to print it (POSSIBLE if sticking to Adobe Software), then they can't but if their's no restriction, print away.
My point is if it's in electronic format(or even NOT in electronic format), copyright or not, it would be fair use so long as you weren't running say 100 copies! Running 1 or 2 copies should be ok.
I think that's their name now! :D I believe that they can take a PDF file and print it double sided for you and they can even bind it for you.
At work, I try to keep it electronic when possible, but then print out the parts I need. I always have a machine that can read it around and it's not terribly bad to be using the PDF on one machine or window and doing the operation on the other. I DO print some manuals and for that, I use a Xerox x432 ST Document Center or a Xerox Docuprint 75 or a Xerox Docuprint 92c. The last two print documents at 75 ppm for the 75 and 92 ppm for the 92. All three of these have stitchers as do other printers in the Xerox line. They almost all understand Postscript as well as PCL. They are also NOT cheap. Fedex/Kinko's stores all have similar hardware and you may be able to just hand them a floppy or CD with the manual on it and they can spit it out for you.
Hmm....weird. Never had a problem with Tiger or Panther?
I will not count that blasphemous piece of....oh welll...who am I kidding....Lucas has already SPENT my money I used to buy the DVD's.
No no....that would be:
Star Wars 8th Edition Special THX Widescreen 3D DRM'd Hard Disk Collection
It was FULL on the lips....every damn time I watch Empire Strikes Back and it gets to this scene I just start going ew ew ewww!
Let alone that you do not see a SINGLE Gungan or Naboo in 4,5 and 6. I am wondering if the clone army completely obliterates Naboo via a starship bombing? They say we see Death Star 1 being built in the end of RotS.
PG-13 rating was reported a while ago:
3 1&tid=101&tid=214&tid=97&tid=1
:D
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/11/09162
Anyway...I am getting severely GEEKED to go see this movie.
Of course it's going to be a bloodbath....what part of Anakin/Darth Vader falling into lava do you NOT understand??
Amazon has three of them starting at 750.
0 1W17H2/103-0856549-4123802?v=glance
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00
I did some poking around my laptop and see that for all of the events that were previously, by default, in /etc/crontab now have individual plist files in /System/Library/LaunchDaemons . Makes it kind of difficult to manage your schedule, but now it's less likely for a ham hand to screw up the crontab. I fail to see how having scads of plist files is better then just putting a entry into /etc/crontab for each thing that needs run. One upside is that Apple does provide a plist editor that works pretty well and makes editing the files much easier. At least if you put a entry in your user crontab it still works. In one of my earlier posts I had misunderstood the poster as saying everything was in a single plist file which would be bad, but I am not sure on how this would appear to be better then just the files we have always used.
Really? I do it all of the time. Happens in UNIX shops when the install instructions tell you to add it. Oh sure, you can add t to one of the other scripts it already runs, but /etc/inittab being edited happens all of the time. It's not usual.
One of many. Not all of them are proprietary. Sometimes open source doesn't have the options your looking for. Sometimes you got to buy something. Open source is good, I will agree, but unless some hacker has a itch that needed scratched he's not going to work on a replacement for cron. It's just not something that is as glamourous as say X.org or the Linux Kernel.
And the rest of the stuff launchd is supposed to load doesn't get loaded and you have a broken system. The reason systems DON'T boot when /etc/intttab get's toasted is they SHOULDN'T boot with out the service it kicks off running. When inittab is toasted on one of my AIX servers, I simply boot off of the install CD or a backup tape(yes I can do that). I mount rootvg in maintenance mode, FIX inittab and then reboot. That simple. Sure, you would not want users to have to do this on a desktop system and the fact that most Mac desktop users are likely not to muck with these files is the saving grace. One can simply restore from a default setup.
No I am not a programmer, but I have CONTINUALLY as of late started to see this if you don't play my way it's the highway crap in FOSS projects. Whining because so and so does not do things the way you want them. It has to stop at some point. Obviously Apple Developers have something here. It seems, to me, you should go with the ones who are making the most progress. The guys who manage the KHTML project need to seriously look at the things that Apple has done. May be even go to the point of just examining thier stuffand not workin on your own? I don't know. Time after time I have seen X project complaining about the way X company is submitting patches and diffs. Cooperation is a two way street.
AMEN. His all assuming knowledge is a bit irritating, but he has not proven himself as a Apple employee to me. He says all this stuff, but I have yet to see a post that alludes to his credentials. PLUS he's always saying Apple's way is the best. Well, I personally LIKE all of those other files. What happens if this ONE plist file gets toasted? Scheduled stuff doesn't run, inits don't happen..etc...etc. Spreading the configs out may seem a bit complex, but it might have been done that way for a reason. Not saying I don't like what I have read about launchd, I am just saying that Apple DOESN'T, as much as this guy like to say they do, always know best.
Ye Olde cron is still there and running. My Bashpodder script still runs on Tiger. As for launchd, I am going to have to read up on that. Sounds interesting.
Are there schedulers better then cron? You bet. As a scheduler for home use, cron is fine. We are currently trying to find a ore robust replacement for cron that will attempt to correct things before reattempting a script and with dependency checking. When I used to be a operator on a DOS/VSE based mainframe, our scheduler had a dependcy check that would hold jobs from running at thier assigned time if the previous job did not finish and other things like that. It had very robust logging to. No e-mails to root. I could just run a report. There are schedulers that come close to this on UNIX but cron is a very basic scheduler that is flexible which is a saving grace.
>They are convinced the ratings dropped due to the show competing against other Trek re-runs."
I am SORRY. The problem is not the re-runs. The problem are the people who are there in charge now. Rick Berman and his staff have continued to turn out LAME scripts. NOTHING new. Designing a prequal that looked like it was a century above the next gen series, yet smaller. TERRIBLE casting choice for the Captain. Scott Bakula is not captain material. They'd have bene better off with Michael Ironsides or Someone more captainly. I stood beside the producers when they selected a Woman for the role of the Captain in Voyager. I stood behind alot of the dumb coices made. Deep Space Nine, while not the best of the new stuff (TNG is WAYY better), it did not make sense within the Star Trek ethos. How can you go boldy with no starship?? That's why they added the Defiant. The Defiant and the War with the Dominion is what saved DS9 from sinking into mediocrity. Star Trek was known for thought provoking plot lines and for translating the current events to the show. Where's the terror attacks and idiotic security? If Berman and crew think they can just take a couple years off and come back with the same screenwriters and producers, you got another thing coming. Unless there's MAJOR changes AT THE TOP, you won't see a difference in the new trek series in a couple years.
Being FCC filtered? No. I just think you want to say shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker and tits on the radio. You know what? I DON'T want to here it if that's all you do the whole show. Sure, Adam Curry and The Dawn and Drew show drop fbombs here and there and may discuss things non appropriate for airing on the radio, but there use of any of the seven words are not always central to thier show. Heck the best Dawn and Drew shows are when they discuss what's in the P.O. Box...yeah!
BTW, FCC ISN'T responsible for the creation of Clear Channel and other monopoly like radio. That would be the SEC approving thier purchases.
;) Even if they did, I personally don't think it would work too well.
WiFi operates in the 2.4 GHz band. It likely would not work well in the AM Broadcast band because noone makes equipment for that band yet!
The FCC is a necessary evil. If it wasn't for them, your radio would be useless as well as your cell phone, your wifi and anythng else that uses RF. They exist also to help take care of our side of a international agreement. The FCC is WHY RF works so well now. If it was anarchy, noone would be able to use RF for anything useful.
It's called pointless whining. Bitching and bitching about it isn't going to get it accepted more. NICELY emailing KYOU about it will get you more then bitching about it on Slashdot. They other way is to use it yourself. No wait....if you do this noone will listen to you...on the otherhand....