The.calcview files are in/Applications/Calculator.app/Contents/Resources (assuming you have the caculator in/Applications). Just make sure you've quit Calculator before you do the copy.
Also, you can 'mine' nuclear warheads. Warheads are 90% enriched uranium, whereas a reactor needs 10% enriched uranium. I figure most people would prefer to beat the nuclear WMD 'swords' into safe energy 'plowshares'...
The thing is, Marines are generally not political scientists. They're not experts on foreign relations, and they don't know the nuances of the different branches of Islam.
I take it you haven't met any Marine Officers?;-) It's amazing just how many Masters and PhDs there are in all of the Armed Forces. Foreign Relations seems to be one of the bigger (quantity-wise) degrees they have. Then again, I live near the US Army War College so I've had some exposure to these people.
Maybe because Dean didn't have large grass-roots support? That he had the support of a bunch of self-focussed cocktail-party people that were happy to talk about him without bothering to go out among their fellow Democrats?
Dean was a bloggers' feel-good candidate with a lot of preaching to a, honestly, very small choir. What the bloggers really needed to do is get up from the computer and go door-to-door or make cold-calls amongst their fellow Democrats. Old fashioned legwork is still more important than all the blogs on the 'net. It is going to stay that way until we all have neural implants.;-)
for conceding gracefully. Love or hate the results, one sine qua non of democracy is the willingness of a group to accept defeat and to peacefully try again later.
No. Brazil, for example, didn't abolish slavery until 1888 and Brazil had even worse conditions than the US. (And, no, I'm not saying this in anyway lessens how wrong we were to allow slavery exist. I'm just pointing out we weren't the last to do the moral right thing.)
[...]as opposed to the ipod which converts everything to.aac.
Hold on there a moment, cowboy.;-)
The iPod does NOT convert everything to.AAC. From the iPod Tech Specs: "Audio formats supported: AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 (32 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible, AIFF, Apple Lossless and WAV".
AAC (protected) is the format used by the iTunes Music Store.
Ok, that's odd. I'm using Safari 1.2.3 (v125.9) on OS X 10.3.5 and the test doesn't work as described for me. I keep getting switched back the the Secunia tab when the dialog box pops up, not staying on the Citibank page as warning suggests. Anyone else seeing this behavior?
I have just three tabs open: This/. article, the Secuna advisory, and the Citibank page. (I opened the Citibank page by right-clicking the link in the Secunia page. I had to open the Secunia page with a command-T and then cut-n-paste-n-fix the Secunia URL.)
I can definitely understand going with the PowerMac for the possible video card/processor upgrade. However, hard drive expandability wouldn't be a differentiator since external Firewire drives give you good performance and you can daisy-chain them.
(If someone says they need, say, 15K RPM SCSI or 10K SATA RAID then a consumer machine wouldn't have been an option in the first place.;-))
You can use a second monitor with both the iBook and the Powerbook. The iBook will mirror the screen and the Powerbook will actually span the displays.
Just set the laptop to the side, use a USB mouse/keyboard and away you go with your bigger display in front of you. Or you could use a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse of you want to get rid of cable clutter.
(I use Microsoft's Bluetooth mouse with my Powerbook. It was fully functional without having to install the Intellimouse drivers. In my case I have the extra buttons bound to Exposé functions.)
Need more hard disk space? Use an external Firewire drive. Makes transferring the hard drive plug-n-play. Given that you are buying the case, motherboard, processor, and RAM when you do an overhaul the only flexibility you are losing is swapping out the video system.:-)
My introduction to OS X (not Apple, I still have my Apple ][ to play games on;-)) was via the original 14" iBook (600 MHz G3). Because I was going the laptop route piecemeal upgrading wasn't a concern. Perhaps a laptop might be an acceptable option? Obviously, YMMV.
What I found was that I spent all my time (except for games) on the iBook because OS X just worked better for me. The portability of the laptop + Airport (wireless) was also a big factor. Being able to work on programs where I wanted to be was great. Great enough that I sold my iBook and used the funds to help buy a 17" Powerbook that I use for my desktop replacement.
This could also be an age thing. I'm just not so interested in building my own computers any more. I've done enough of that that it has lost its interest for me. Now I just want a computer that will work the way I do and stay out of the way unless I want to 'get under the hood'.
I was considering high-end to high-end machines. Definitely the lowest cost computer is a Wintel box if you don't look at software. As you say, when you consider the whole equation of hardware + software Apple is right back in competitive territory.
A bit underwhelmed by the review...
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I was a bit underwhelmed by the review. While there were some fair cops (video card underpowered, not enough RAM, game releases lagging behind, etc.), I was bugged by some of his comments.
A few examples:
It's iCal, not iCalendar. He seemed to have gotten it wrong more often than right. (If you use a program you can see its name in the menu bar.)
He didn't bother to check on how the drag-n-drop installs work. (Not good for a supposed hard core tech site.)
No, Macs aren't overpriced against other name-brand manufacturers. They are price competitive. (I'll grant you that if you build your own and zealously look for bargains you can build a slightly cheaper PC.)
Of course Windows is going to be more stable if you buy specific hardware for Windows servers as (is implied) using any old hardware for Linux.
He's used Unix at university and he still doesn't feel comfortable about the concept of home directories? Or the Unix hierarchy? (The names can be cryptic, but the hierarchy is pretty simple compared to Windows splatter approach.)
Unfortunately it is little glitches in reviews that leave you wondering just how technical the reviewer is in their other reviews. This one could have stood a little more fact-checking. I know I would hesitate before recommending this article to a knowledgeable Windows-using friend. I'd probably point them towards Ars Technica instead.
Funny note: I think he meant he's used Windows since 3.0, not 2.0. Using Win 2.0 would have been the act of a masochist.;-)
I can see the reason why they prefer you not let Windows know. It could be possible for a virus to check on this (through Windows) to see if NAV is running or not. Knowing if NAV is running would be helpful. Not knowing leaves the virus writer guessing.
The total spending on National Defense for 2003 was estimated at 322 billion dollars out of an estimated 2,016 billion (2.016 trillion) dollars. Social Security was estimated at 477 billion, Income Security at 263 billion, Medicare at 230 billion, and Health at 175 billion. (Interest payments on the National Debt was estimated at 188 billion.)
Simply put, we spend at least 3.5 times more on social programs than we do on national defense.
One way of getting rid of nuclear waste is to fuse it glass bricks. (Not encase, infuse it so that the waste is a part of the glass.) Then dump the glass brick into a subduction zone where natural process will carry the glass brick back to the Earth's core. I think the core can handle this negligible addition radiation.;-)
Also, the half-life of the radioactive wastes isn't that long. Soon (decades, IIRC) it is going to be less than the background radiation. After all, the radioactive waste was originally uranium that is present in nature.
Basically, our challenges aren't can we do this, but will we do this. While I don't agree with profligate waste, I don't' agree with the Green's emotional hatred of nuclear power. You can not conserve your way to a better future.
The laywers may say it's a good case, but I always say "Don't hold hot coffee in your lap." I myself spilled scalding coffee on my lap. I did not sue, but I think I learned a valuable lesson in life that I carry with me to this very day.
So the coffee you split on your lap caused 3rd degree burns, hospitalized you, and required skin grafts? That coffee was at 180?F - 190?F. That temperature causes 3rd degree burns in just a couple seconds (and was considered by a manager "unfit for human consumption"). There's an exponential difference between the damage done by normal hot coffee (130?F - 140?F) and 180?F.
Of course it may not be as effective in a theoretical loss-of-life situation (in a country where someone can successfully sue for spilling hot coffee on their own lap, anything can happen).
It is rather ironic that you make a case of being informed and properly prepared when you repeat the common misconception of that coffee case.;-)
I'd like to see a help system that worked like COMND JSYS.
The relevant paragraph is:
"Programs coded with the COMND JSYS had many virtues. They were friendly, helpful, and consistent. All programs written using COMND worked the same way: type "?" to find out what the commands or options are, type ESC to complete the current field (if possible) and receive a prompt for the next field. People could use the "?" and ESC features liberally to learn their way through a new program, and later, could type terse, abbreviated commands for speed. This approach, called "menu on demand," does not favor the novice over the expert (as menu-oriented systems do), nor the expert over the novice (as do the cryptic, terse command sets of APL or UNIX)."
Most all command line apps have a help switch, why not provide *interactive* help? You could even use '--ihelp' as the command line switch to preserve the existing help for those that like that style. Make the interactive help system a library similar to gettext or readline. That would allow people to add the functionality an app at a time.
We've all had to look up the man page for a command. Wouldn't it be nicer to _have the option_ to stay in the command instead of exiting it and loading the man page?
Note: I realize this doesn't help with the problem of figuring out just which command you should use or even if that command exists.
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Check out one of my old replies: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=123955&cid=104 06692
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Moderators, please save your mod points for other comments. I don't think it would be right to get more karma for the same post.
Ah, crap. I posted too fast. (Hey, this is /., at least I tried part of it out. ;-)).
I got the the other views to display correctly *once*. Now they don't work at all. So the poster was correct. Sorry about that.
It did for me in 10.3.6.
.calcview files are in /Applications/Calculator.app/Contents/Resources (assuming you have the caculator in /Applications). Just make sure you've quit Calculator before you do the copy.
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As another poster mentioned, breeder reactors.
Also, you can 'mine' nuclear warheads. Warheads are 90% enriched uranium, whereas a reactor needs 10% enriched uranium. I figure most people would prefer to beat the nuclear WMD 'swords' into safe energy 'plowshares'...
Let's be honest, Bush as a human being is as thick as shit, he couldn't run a branch of blockbuster, much less a country.
;-) Kerry's excuse was that he was drunk.
Let's be honest, it looks like Bush is smarter than Kerry.
The thing is, Marines are generally not political scientists. They're not experts on foreign relations, and they don't know the nuances of the different branches of Islam.
;-) It's amazing just how many Masters and PhDs there are in all of the Armed Forces. Foreign Relations seems to be one of the bigger (quantity-wise) degrees they have. Then again, I live near the US Army War College so I've had some exposure to these people.
I take it you haven't met any Marine Officers?
Maybe because Dean didn't have large grass-roots support? That he had the support of a bunch of self-focussed cocktail-party people that were happy to talk about him without bothering to go out among their fellow Democrats?
;-)
Dean was a bloggers' feel-good candidate with a lot of preaching to a, honestly, very small choir. What the bloggers really needed to do is get up from the computer and go door-to-door or make cold-calls amongst their fellow Democrats. Old fashioned legwork is still more important than all the blogs on the 'net. It is going to stay that way until we all have neural implants.
for conceding gracefully. Love or hate the results, one sine qua non of democracy is the willingness of a group to accept defeat and to peacefully try again later.
We were the last country to give up slavery.
No. Brazil, for example, didn't abolish slavery until 1888 and Brazil had even worse conditions than the US. (And, no, I'm not saying this in anyway lessens how wrong we were to allow slavery exist. I'm just pointing out we weren't the last to do the moral right thing.)
[...]as opposed to the ipod which converts everything to .aac.
;-)
.AAC. From the iPod Tech Specs: "Audio formats supported: AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 (32 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible, AIFF, Apple Lossless and WAV".
Hold on there a moment, cowboy.
The iPod does NOT convert everything to
AAC (protected) is the format used by the iTunes Music Store.
Ok, that's odd. I'm using Safari 1.2.3 (v125.9) on OS X 10.3.5 and the test doesn't work as described for me. I keep getting switched back the the Secunia tab when the dialog box pops up, not staying on the Citibank page as warning suggests. Anyone else seeing this behavior?
/. article, the Secuna advisory, and the Citibank page. (I opened the Citibank page by right-clicking the link in the Secunia page. I had to open the Secunia page with a command-T and then cut-n-paste-n-fix the Secunia URL.)
I have just three tabs open: This
I can definitely understand going with the PowerMac for the possible video card/processor upgrade. However, hard drive expandability wouldn't be a differentiator since external Firewire drives give you good performance and you can daisy-chain them.
;-))
(If someone says they need, say, 15K RPM SCSI or 10K SATA RAID then a consumer machine wouldn't have been an option in the first place.
You can use a second monitor with both the iBook and the Powerbook. The iBook will mirror the screen and the Powerbook will actually span the displays.
:-)
Just set the laptop to the side, use a USB mouse/keyboard and away you go with your bigger display in front of you. Or you could use a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse of you want to get rid of cable clutter.
(I use Microsoft's Bluetooth mouse with my Powerbook. It was fully functional without having to install the Intellimouse drivers. In my case I have the extra buttons bound to Exposé functions.)
Need more hard disk space? Use an external Firewire drive. Makes transferring the hard drive plug-n-play. Given that you are buying the case, motherboard, processor, and RAM when you do an overhaul the only flexibility you are losing is swapping out the video system.
Mac OS X 10.3 Family Pack (*5* users): $199
:-)
For $10 more than the XP Pro upgrade you get five full copies of OS X.
My introduction to OS X (not Apple, I still have my Apple ][ to play games on ;-)) was via the original 14" iBook (600 MHz G3). Because I was going the laptop route piecemeal upgrading wasn't a concern. Perhaps a laptop might be an acceptable option? Obviously, YMMV.
What I found was that I spent all my time (except for games) on the iBook because OS X just worked better for me. The portability of the laptop + Airport (wireless) was also a big factor. Being able to work on programs where I wanted to be was great. Great enough that I sold my iBook and used the funds to help buy a 17" Powerbook that I use for my desktop replacement.
This could also be an age thing. I'm just not so interested in building my own computers any more. I've done enough of that that it has lost its interest for me. Now I just want a computer that will work the way I do and stay out of the way unless I want to 'get under the hood'.
I was considering high-end to high-end machines. Definitely the lowest cost computer is a Wintel box if you don't look at software. As you say, when you consider the whole equation of hardware + software Apple is right back in competitive territory.
Kissing some Karma goodbye...
;-)
I was a bit underwhelmed by the review. While there were some fair cops (video card underpowered, not enough RAM, game releases lagging behind, etc.), I was bugged by some of his comments.
A few examples:
It's iCal, not iCalendar. He seemed to have gotten it wrong more often than right. (If you use a program you can see its name in the menu bar.)
He didn't bother to check on how the drag-n-drop installs work. (Not good for a supposed hard core tech site.)
No, Macs aren't overpriced against other name-brand manufacturers. They are price competitive. (I'll grant you that if you build your own and zealously look for bargains you can build a slightly cheaper PC.)
Of course Windows is going to be more stable if you buy specific hardware for Windows servers as (is implied) using any old hardware for Linux.
He's used Unix at university and he still doesn't feel comfortable about the concept of home directories? Or the Unix hierarchy? (The names can be cryptic, but the hierarchy is pretty simple compared to Windows splatter approach.)
Unfortunately it is little glitches in reviews that leave you wondering just how technical the reviewer is in their other reviews. This one could have stood a little more fact-checking. I know I would hesitate before recommending this article to a knowledgeable Windows-using friend. I'd probably point them towards Ars Technica instead.
Funny note: I think he meant he's used Windows since 3.0, not 2.0. Using Win 2.0 would have been the act of a masochist.
I can see the reason why they prefer you not let Windows know. It could be possible for a virus to check on this (through Windows) to see if NAV is running or not. Knowing if NAV is running would be helpful. Not knowing leaves the virus writer guessing.
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The article gives a nice comparison of the output of the wind turbine and the nearby by nuclear reactor.
Remember, the Greens also advocate cutting the military budget in half (which is currently half of our entire national budget).
No.
The total spending on National Defense for 2003 was estimated at 322 billion dollars out of an estimated 2,016 billion (2.016 trillion) dollars. Social Security was estimated at 477 billion, Income Security at 263 billion, Medicare at 230 billion, and Health at 175 billion. (Interest payments on the National Debt was estimated at 188 billion.)
Simply put, we spend at least 3.5 times more on social programs than we do on national defense.
One way of getting rid of nuclear waste is to fuse it glass bricks. (Not encase, infuse it so that the waste is a part of the glass.) Then dump the glass brick into a subduction zone where natural process will carry the glass brick back to the Earth's core. I think the core can handle this negligible addition radiation. ;-)
Also, the half-life of the radioactive wastes isn't that long. Soon (decades, IIRC) it is going to be less than the background radiation. After all, the radioactive waste was originally uranium that is present in nature.
Basically, our challenges aren't can we do this, but will we do this. While I don't agree with profligate waste, I don't' agree with the Green's emotional hatred of nuclear power. You can not conserve your way to a better future.
If you want coop try Serious Sam, First and Second Encounters. It's a fun shooter in the original Doom mode: lots of enemies and fast paced.
The laywers may say it's a good case, but I always say "Don't hold hot coffee in your lap." I myself spilled scalding coffee on my lap. I did not sue, but I think I learned a valuable lesson in life that I carry with me to this very day.
So the coffee you split on your lap caused 3rd degree burns, hospitalized you, and required skin grafts? That coffee was at 180?F - 190?F. That temperature causes 3rd degree burns in just a couple seconds (and was considered by a manager "unfit for human consumption"). There's an exponential difference between the damage done by normal hot coffee (130?F - 140?F) and 180?F.
Of course it may not be as effective in a theoretical loss-of-life situation (in a country where someone can successfully sue for spilling hot coffee on their own lap, anything can happen).
;-)
It is rather ironic that you make a case of being informed and properly prepared when you repeat the common misconception of that coffee case.
The relevant paragraph is:
"Programs coded with the COMND JSYS had many virtues. They were friendly, helpful, and consistent. All programs written using COMND worked the same way: type "?" to find out what the commands or options are, type ESC to complete the current field (if possible) and receive a prompt for the next field. People could use the "?" and ESC features liberally to learn their way through a new program, and later, could type terse, abbreviated commands for speed. This approach, called "menu on demand," does not favor the novice over the expert (as menu-oriented systems do), nor the expert over the novice (as do the cryptic, terse command sets of APL or UNIX)."
Most all command line apps have a help switch, why not provide *interactive* help? You could even use '--ihelp' as the command line switch to preserve the existing help for those that like that style. Make the interactive help system a library similar to gettext or readline. That would allow people to add the functionality an app at a time.
We've all had to look up the man page for a command. Wouldn't it be nicer to _have the option_ to stay in the command instead of exiting it and loading the man page?
Note: I realize this doesn't help with the problem of figuring out just which command you should use or even if that command exists.