A rendőrök nem kívántak semmit
Újra május elseje, újra teljesítjük a felvonulók kívánságait. Rózsi, techno, Markos-Nádas, csak a Kádár-korszakot nem tudtuk visszahozni.
In your life, you’ve probably had a setback or two. When you stumble, it’s tempting the throw in the towel and accept defeat. There’s always an attractive excuse waiting eagerly, hoping you’ll take the easy way out. But the most successful people forge ahead. They realize that mistakes are simply data, providing new information to adjust your approach going forward.
The ubiquitous WD-40 lubricant got its name because the first 39 experiments failed. WD-40 literally stands for “Water Displacement—40th Attempt.” If they gave up early on like most of us do, we’d sure have a lot more squeaky hinges in the world.
„…És itt a plágium a kisebbik baj, azt ebben az országban, ahol virtus az adócsalás, talán még megbocsátották volna neki. Az igazi gond az, hogy a mindinkább saját nagyszerűsége téveszméjének rabjává váló Schmitt már az ügy kipattanásának legelején nem a szembenézést választotta, hanem hazudozni kezdett, a vasárnapi rádióinterjúja alapján pedig úgy tűnik, kezdi elveszíteni a kapcsolatot a valósággal…”
Szegény sícipőm nem bírta a versenyt. De azért végigmentem a pályán.
Ma van a síklubunk szokásos versenye, és ilyenkor mindenki indul, a mi családunkból is.
Hétfő óta tartogatom, most végre elmondom: az új iPad képernyője egészen elképesztő, és lenyűgöz, valahányszor csak ránézek. Mintha elektromossághoz, számítástechnikához köze sem lenne, mintha villámgyors, láthatatlan kezek festenék ezeket a csodaszép betűket és gyönyörű képeket a legfinomabb tintákkal. Minőségi ugrásként éli át az ember.
(Gyönyörű a 27 colos Thunderbolt Display is, és az iPhone 4/4S még nagyobb sűrűséget pakol egy kisebb területre, mégis soha nem láttam még egyetlen eszközben ehhez fogható felbontást, méretet és minőséget. Pláne nem ilyen kedvező áron.)
Ez a lenyűgöző képernyő abba a készülékbe került, amelyet a maga negyedekkora felbontásával is már életem legkedvesebb kütyüjének neveztem, mert ezt használtam a szabadidőmben könyvek, cikkek, hirek, weboldalak, tweetek, egyebek olvasásra, videókra és játékokra. Ezzel a képernyővel pedig végképp az lett.
Kicsit olyan ez, mint amikor felteszem a jó fejhallgatómat, és hirtelen eláraszt az új hangzás, és újabb, meg újabb részleteket veszek észre, holott a régin is “ugyanez” a zene szólt. Ami a fejhallgatónak a hang, az az iPadnek a tartalom: hétfő óta minden szebb lett, és olyan részleteket veszek észre, amelyeket eddig nem. És a legjobb, hogy akárcsak egy jó fejhallgatónál, maga a közvetítőeszköz egyre inkább eltűnik, és egyre közvetlenebbé válik a kapcsolat.
(És ez a jövőben nyilván egyre inkább így lesz. A képernyő minőségére most már nem lehet panasz, de napfényben azért még csillog és nehezen olvasható. Jól működik a kézzel manipulálás is, de azért jó lenne, ha az ujjammal nem pusztán egy merev, lapos üveglapot éreznék. És lehetne az eszköz még könnyebb és strapabíróbb, valamint töltse magát fény, mozgás, (test)meleg segítségével. És használhassam póniként is.)
Az én esetemben az eredeti iPadhez képest persze még döbbenetesebb a különbség, mert hihetetlen gyors lett a készülék, és a RAM negyed gigabájtról (vagy iPad 2 esetén fél gigabájtról) 1 GB-ra emelkedett, így messze több alkalmazás elfér: négy ujjal simán lapozgatok a legutóbbi négy-öt, sőt, néha 7-8 app között, és mind a memóriában van még, nem kell újratöltődniük. Emiatt még több dologra tudom használni, és még ritkábban kell berogynom a számítógép elé. (De ezen a téren is telhetetlen vagyok, és egy jövőbeli iOS-verzióban szeretnék majd egyszerre több alkalmazást látni egy képernyőn, legalább kettőt.)
Örömteli, hogy végre megoldották, hogy az iPhone appok retina-változatát jelenítse meg. Sosem értettem, hogy ez miért nem természetes (lehet, hogy eddig ezzel is ösztökélni akarták a fejlesztőket egy iPad-változat elkészítésére?). Én kényszerűségből használok pár ilyet (pl. The Hit List, plusz ezt a bejegyzést is a tumblr app segítségével teszem ki), és értékelem, hogy ha nem is használják ki a képernyőméretet, most végre normálisan néznek ki.
Még egy dolgot említenék: fehéret vettem, mert igazat adtam Fazekas Dánielnek abban, hogy jobban passzol az én elsődleges használati módomhoz, az olvasáshoz, amely szinte kizárólag fehér háttéren zajlik. (Ha főleg filmekre és játékokra használnám, akkor nyilván feketét választottam volna.) A fehér nemcsak remekül illik az olvasáshoz, de karakteresebb is, mint a fekete. Ráadásul van még egy apró előnye a feketével szemben — amely engem is meglepett —, mégpedig az, hogy nem látszanak rajta az ujjlenyomatok. A feketén is csak bizonyos fényben látni, és csak ott, ahol nem világít a képernyő, de a fehér kereten soha.
SOLITUDE is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place. Most of us now work in teams, in offices without walls, for managers who prize people skills above all. Lone geniuses are out. Collaboration is in.
But there’s a problem with this view. Research strongly suggests that people are more creative when they enjoy privacy and freedom from interruption. And the most spectacularly creative people in many fields are often introverted, according to studies by the psychologists Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Gregory Feist. They’re extroverted enough to exchange and advance ideas, but see themselves as independent and individualistic. They’re not joiners by nature.
(via Instapaper)
Brainstorming seems like an ideal technique, a feel-good way to boost productivity. But there is a problem with brainstorming. It doesn’t work.
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How then to prepare our kids for a world that is unpredictable, unknown? By teaching them to adapt, to deal with change, to be prepared for anything by not preparing them for anything specific.
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Sokáig MobileMe-előfizető voltam évi 100 eurórért, mielőtt az ingyenes iCloud leváltotta. Ma már az iCloud segítségével mindenki ingyen szinkronizálhatja a naptárait és címtárát, és 5 gigáig ingyen tárolhat dokumentumokat. Az iCloud emellett arra is alkalmas, hogy a telefonunkkal készített képeinket ideiglenesen tárolja, és ezáltal a számítógépünkön és a többi eszközön is kényelmesen elérhessük.
A MobileMe azonban véglegesen megszűnik 2012. június 30-án, és vele együtt a csodálatos Gallery szolgáltatás is, amelyet nagy megelégedéssel használtam az elmúlt években, mert mindezeket tudja:
Létezik hasonló szolgáltatás, amely legalább a fontosabbakat tudná a fentiek közül? Mert az elég reménytelennek tűnik, hogy Apple ingyen odaadja mindezt a jelenleg több mint százmillió és egyre növekvő iCloud-előfizetői tábornak, és abban sem hiszek, hogy fizetős szolgáltatásként megtartanák. :(
Some years ago, I had an interesting experience in delegation with one of my sons. We were having a family meeting, and we had our mission statement up on the wall to make sure our plans were in harmony with our values. Everybody was there.
I set up a big blackboard and we wrote down our goals — the key things we wanted to do — and the jobs that flowed out of those goals. Then I asked for volunteers to do the job.
“Who wants to pay the mortgage?” I asked. I noticed I was the only one with my hand up.
“Who wants to pay for the insurance? The food? The cars?” I seemed to have a real monopoly on the opportunities. As we went down the list, job by job, it was soon evident that Mom and Dad had more than sixty-hour work weeks. With that paradigm in mind, some of the other jobs took on a more proper perspective.
My seven-year-old son, Stephen, volunteered to take care of the yard. Before I actually gave him a job, I began a thorough training process. I wanted him to have a clear picture in his mind of what a well-cared-for yard was like, so I took him next door to our neighbor’s.
“Look, son,” I said. “See how our neighbor’s yard is green and clean? That’s what we’re after: green and clean. Now come look at our yard. See the mixed colors? That’s not it; that’s not green. Green and clean is what we want. Now how you get it green is up to you. You’re free to do it any way you want, except paint it. But I’ll tell you how I’d do it if it were up to me.”
“How would you do it, Dad?”
“I’d turn on the sprinklers. But you may want to use buckets or a hose. It makes no difference to me. All we care about is that the color is green. Okay?”
“Okay.”
“Now let’s talk about ‘clean,’ Son. Clean means no messes around — no paper, strings, bones, sticks, or anything that messes up the place. I’ll tell you what let’s do. Let’s just clean up half of the yard right now and look at the difference.”
So we got out two paper sacks and picked up one side of the yard. “Now look at this side. Look at the other side. See the difference? That’s called clean.”
“Wait!” he called. “I see some paper behind that bush!”
“Oh, good! I didn’t notice that newspaper back there. You have good eyes, son.”
“Now before you decide whether or not you’re going to take the job, let me tell you a few more things. Because when you take the job, I don’t do it anymore. It’s your job. It’s called a stewardship. Stewardship means ‘a job with a trust.’ I trust you to do the job, to get it done. Now who’s going to be your boss?”
“You, Dad?”
“No, not me. You’re the boss. You boss yourself. How do you like Mom and Dad nagging you all the time?”
“I don’t.”
“We don’t like doing it either. It sometimes causes a bad feeling doesn’t it? So you boss yourself…Now, guess who your helper is.”
“Who?”
“I am,” I said. “You boss me.”
“I do?”
“That’s right. But my time to help is limited. Sometimes I’m away. But when I’m here, you tell me how I can help. I’ll do anything you want me to do.”
“Okay!”
“Now guess who judges you.”
“Who?”
“You judge yourself.”
“I do?”
“That’s right. Twice a week the two of us will walk around the yard and you can show me how it’s coming. How are you going to judge?”
“Green and clean.”
“Right!”
I trained him with those two words for two weeks before I felt he was ready to take the job. Finally, the big day came…
“Is it a deal, Son?”
“It’s a deal.”
“What’s the job?”
“Green and clean.”
“What’s green?”
He looked at our yard, which was beginning to look better. Then he pointed next door. “That’s the color of his yard.”
“What’s clean?”
“No messes.”
“Who’s the boss?”
“I am.”
“Who’s your helper?”
“You are, when you have time.”
“Who’s the judge?”
“I am. We’ll walk around two times a week and I can show you how it’s coming.”
“And what will we look for?”
“Green and clean.”
At that time I didn’t mention an allowance. But I wouldn’t hesitate to attach an allowance to such a stewardship.
Two weeks and two words. I thought he was ready.
It was Saturday. And he did nothing. Sunday…nothing. Monday…nothing. As I pulled out of the driveway on my way to work on Tuesday, I looked at the yellow, cluttered yard and the hot July sun on its way up. “Surely he’ll do it today,” I thought. I could rationalize Saturday because that was the day we made the agreement. I could rationalize Sunday; Sunday was for other things. But I couldn’t rationalize Monday. And now it was Tuesday. Certainly he’d do it today. It was summertime. What else did he have to do?
All day I could hardly wait to return home to see what happened. As I rounded the corner, I was met with the same picture I left that morning. And there was my son at the park across the street playing.
This was not acceptable. I was upset and disillusioned by his performance after two weeks of training and all those commitments. We had a lot of effort, pride, and money invested in the yard and I could see it going down the drain. Besides, my neighbor’s yard was manicured and beautiful, and the situation was beginning to get embarrassing.
I was ready to go back to gofer delegation. Son, you get over here and pick up this garbage right now or else! I knew I could get the golden egg that way. But what about the goose? What would happen to his internal commitment? So I faked a smile and yelled across the street, “Hi, son. How’s it going?”
“Fine!” he returned.
“How’s the yard coming?” I knew the minute I said it I had broken our agreement. That’s not the way we had set up an accounting. That’s not what we had agreed. So he felt justified in breaking it, too.
“Fine, Dad.”
I bit my tongue and waited until after dinner. Then I said, “Son, let’s do as we agreed. Let’s walk around the yard together and you can show me how it’s going in your stewardship.”
As we started out the door, his chin began to quiver. Tears welled up in his eyes and, by the time we got out to the middle of the yard, he was whimpering.
“It’s so hard, Dad!”
What’s so hard? I thought to myself. You haven’t done a single thing! But I knew what was hard: self-management, self-supervision. So I said, “Is there anything I can do to help?”
“Would you, Dad?” he sniffed.
“What was our agreement?”
“You said you’d help me if you had time.”
“I have time.”
So he ran into the house and came back with two sacks. He handed me one. “Will you pick that stuff up?” He pointed to the garbage from Saturday night’s barbecue. “It makes me sick!”
So I did. I did exactly what he asked me to do. And that was when he signed the agreement in his heart. It became his yard, his stewardship. He only asked for help two or three more times that entire summer. He took care of that yard. He kept it greener and cleaner than it had ever been under my stewardship. He even scolded his brothers and sisters if they left so much as a gum wrapper on the lawn.
Amikor megjelent, rögtön szóvá tettem, hogy nem értem, mire jó az iTunes Match. Hiszen a teljes zenegyűjteményem már most is tökéletes szinkronban van a számítógépem, a 64 GB-os iPhone és a 64 GB-os iPad között.
Abba a hibába estem, mint sokan: annyira elvakít, ha megszoktam egy probléma megoldásának egyfajta módját, hogy nehezen fogadok be egy másfajta megoldást, hiába járna számos előnnyel.
Az iTunes Match név ráadásul megtévesztő, mert csupán egyetlen szempontot emel ki a szolgáltatásból: hogy az innen-onnan összeszedett zenéinket felismeri, és megfelelteti az iTunes zeneboltban található tartalommal, amelyre aztán ingyen le is cserélhetjük a régi fájljainkat. Ez a megfeleltetés persze igen fontos jellemzője, hiszen emiatt tud a szolgáltatás ennyire olcsó lenni (két ebéd ára a munkahelyem kedvezményes menzáján). Még belegondolni is félelmetes, mennyivel több tárhely és sávszélesség kellene az Apple adatközpontjaiban, ha szinte ugyanazokat a zenéket sok milliószór újra és újra feltöltögetnék az egyes felhasználók, a szerverek meg mindet külön letárolnának. Ügyes húzás az Apple részéről, és a felhasználók is igen jól járnak, hiszen az Apple érdeke is, hogy jogi ellenőrzés nélkül végezze el ezt az egyeztetést. Sokan kizárólag erre a “zene-amnesztiára” koncentrálnak, mikor az iTunes Matchről írnak.
Az iTunes Match igazi lényege valójában az, amit Steve Jobs mondott júniusban: a számitógép “lefokozódik”, közönséges eszköz lesz belőle; az új digitális központ mostantól az iCloud. Évente két ebéd áráért online hostolják a zenéinket, amelyeket azután kényelmesen letöltögethetünk az egyes eszközeinkre, amikor éppen kedvünk támad.
Milyen előnyei vannak, ha a számítógép helyett az iTunes Match szolgáltatásra bízzuk a zenegyűjteményünket?
Be is kapcsoltam a szolgáltatást. Sajnos sok mindent nem ismert fel, de a feltöltés megvolt így is pár óra alatt. Aztán engedélyeztem a szolgáltatást a telefonon és az iPaden is. A meglévő fájlok ettől nem változtak sehol: ehhez előbb le kellett törölnöm valamit, majd újra letöltenem. Kipróbáltam ezt is: 128-as, 192-es, 320-as MP3-fájlokat cseréltem le 256-os AAC-re.
A 64 GB-os iPhone-on továbbra is megtartok szinte mindent, mert az a fő zeneforrásom, de a számitógép SSD-jén végre sok helyet felszabadíthatok, és az iPad tárhelyét is tudom inkább könyvekre, videókra, játékokra használni. Mégis, amikor csak akarom, akármit elérhetek a zenegyűjteményemből.
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GoogleAppEngineLauncher can display the local log file of my app while it is running on my Mac during development. However, I can't change the font size there so I would like to use the tail command to watch the log file myself.
It's a shame but I can't find the log files. They are not under /var/log/, ~/Library/Logs or /Library/Logs. Do you know where they are?
(Maybe there are no physical files, just the stdout of the python development environment and so the log is only available in the launcher application.)
I am learning Google App Engine / Python and I love it. Unfortunately I am not allowed to use my own computer in the office and not allowed to install anything on the corporate machine.
It would be so great to have an online IDE for Google App Engine where I could play with my Python code using any browser, including the one on my iPad.
Maybe http://www.devunity.com/ will be an online IDE for GAE some day. Do you know any existing way to program GAE in a browser?
A new post today with title What's Next on MacroMates official blog states (bold emphasis by me):
There has been a lot of speculation and trepidation about the future of TextMate recently, mostly about whether there will be another major release. Work on 2.0 began and while we wish it could have been completed faster we are very pleased with how it is turning out. Development has reached a point finally where we can make an announcement:
There will be a public alpha release this year, before Christmas, for registered users.
This is just an extension to Nick Johnson's excellent code to address the problems highlighted by Amir in the comments:
auto_now and/or auto_now_add flag.Here's the updated code:
def clone_entity(e, skip_auto_now=False, skip_auto_now_add=False, **extra_args):
"""Clones an entity, adding or overriding constructor attributes.
The cloned entity will have exactly the same property values as the original
entity, except where overridden. By default it will have no parent entity or
key name, unless supplied.
Args:
e: The entity to clone
skip_auto_now: If True then all DateTimeProperty propertes will be skipped which have the 'auto_now' flag set to True
skip_auto_now_add: If True then all DateTimeProperty propertes will be skipped which have the 'auto_now_add' flag set to True
extra_args: Keyword arguments to override from the cloned entity and pass
to the constructor.
Returns:
A cloned, possibly modified, copy of entity e.
"""
klass = e.__class__
props = {}
for k, v in klass.properties().iteritems():
if not (type(v) == db.DateTimeProperty and ((skip_auto_now and getattr(v, 'auto_now')) or (skip_auto_now_add and getattr(v, 'auto_now_add')))):
if type(v) == db.ReferenceProperty:
value = getattr(klass, k).get_value_for_datastore(self)
else:
value = v.__get__(self, klass)
props[k] = value
props.update(extra_args)
return klass(**props)
The first if expression is not very elegant so I appreciate if you can share a better way to write it.
webapp2.uri_for() assumes that you are in a web request context and it fails because it cannot find the request object.
Instead of working around this you could think of your application as a black box and call it using literal URIs, like '/' as you mention it. After all, you want to simulate a normal web request, and a web browser will also use URIs and not internal routing shortcuts.
Using webapp2 I create unit tests for a form where there are checkboxes for votes so multiple values can be posted for the vote field and they are retrieved via request.POST.getall('vote'):
<input type="checkbox" name="vote" value="Better">
<input type="checkbox" name="vote" value="Faster">
<input type="checkbox" name="vote" value="Stronger">
In the unit test I tried passing a list:
response = app.get_response('/vote',
POST={'vote': [u'Better', u'Faster', u'Stronger']},
headers=[('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8')]
)
But looks like it's simply converted to a string:
votes = self.request.POST.getall('vote')
# => [u"[u'Better', u'Faster', u'Stronger']"]
How can I pass multiple values for vote that will be retrieved as a list via request.POST.getall()?
I am learning the webapp2 framework with its powerful Route mechanism.
My application is supposed to accept URIs like these:
/poll/abc-123
/poll/abc-123/
/poll/abc-123/vote/ # post new vote
/poll/abc-123/vote/456 # view/update a vote
Polls may optionally be organized into categories, so all the above should work also like this:
/mycategory/poll/abc-123
/mycategory/poll/abc-123/
/mycategory/poll/abc-123/vote/
/mycategory/poll/abc-123/vote/456
My incorrect configuration:
app = webapp2.WSGIApplication([
webapp2.Route('/<category>/poll/<poll_id><:/?>', PollHandler),
webapp2.Route('/<category>/poll/<poll_id>/vote/<vote_id>', VoteHandler),
], debug=True)
Question: How could I fix my configuration?
If possible it should be optimized for GAE CPU-time/hosting fee. For example, it may be faster if I add two lines for each entry: one line with category and another one without category...
There is an old, unmaintained but working code that extends django.template.defaultfilters.slugify() by adding support for all characters you can imagine. If you need to support all kinds of languages then this may be a good solution. It's called slughifi.
I am a systems analyst focusing on interaction design and usability, normally working on web applications (using my Mac). However, currently I am in a project team working on a legacy application which has a Windows Forms-based front-end.
I try to simplify and clean up the interface but given my web background it's quite frustrating to work within the strict constraints of WinForms and DevExpress 8.3 controls. (WPF would be great but it is not an option: the company has lots of off-shore users logged in remotely to virtual machines. WPF was tested several times and it failed. Windows XP and IE6 are still on all workstations.)
It would be great to see some good examples for elegant UI design for complex forms with lots of input fields in different categories and groups, including read-only sections with meta-data. It should not be fancy, just simple, slick and clean. Do you happen to have some good examples?
I still couldn't find real good ones, only sporadically. The best WinForms examples I found are in Windows XP itself and in other Microsoft products, like IE, Office.
Looks like there's no real online solution at the moment. I still think that it would be great to share simple examples and test out bugs without having to register a new application yourself.
However, it turns out to be quite comfortable to access my home computer via my 3G iPad using the Screens VNC app through an SSH tunnel. I set the computer's screen resolution to 1024×768 and I can quite comfortably use it to try out things when I have some free time. Not perfect because full keyboard support is missing but very powerful and usable.
I would like to use a string that was input by the user in a web form as part of a key name:
user_input = self.request.POST.get('foo')
if user_input:
foo = db.get_or_insert(db.Key('Foo', user_input[:100], parent=my_parent))
Is this safe? Or should I do some inexpensive encoding or hash? If yes, which one?
It is possible to configure the individual handlers to require HTTPS in the app.yaml file in the WEB-INF folder as described here: Java Application Configuration Using app.yaml - Google App Engine.
You just have to add these words:
secure: always
Then if a user tries to access the URL with HTTP she will be automatically redirected to HTTPS. Pretty cool.
However, as Yuval writes, this works only if you use the *.appspot.com domain provided by Google.
I think I had the same question, and got an answer: Where does GoogleAppEngineLauncher keep the local log files? (It's a Mac, not Ubuntu, but otherwise the question seems to be similar.)
In short: it turns out that these logs are not saved to a physical file but you can modify the source code to get this result. Details are described at the above link.
Did you try this already?
{{ a.name_is_x('www') }}
The very entity cities is missing as stated by the error message.
Thank you, I will look into it!
Thank you, that works indeed.
Thanks a lot, Rodrigo!
Thank you very much for the detailed answer! I will consider all the above.
I wanted to keep the example short. Of course I do it differently in real code, including encoding, length check and other verification. The question is focused on using the incoming string as key.
Thanks! I read it before I posted my question. The problem is this is about control libraries. But we are limited to WinForms and DevExpress.
Thank you very much, I'll look into it.
Maybe it's still the best editor.
(If you are interested on a refined regular expression that matches many real-life URLs, in the code above you can use the one from here: daringfireball.net/2010/07/improved_regex_for_matching_urls)
Thanks for the answer and adding the python tag. I've also found Py I/O, looks very good. But I am still looking for a solution for the full GAE. It would be quite natural from Google to provide us with a web IDE, wouldn't it? :)
SOLITUDE is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place. Most of us now work in teams, in offices without walls, for managers who prize people skills above all. Lone geniuses are out. Collaboration is in. But there’s a problem with this view. Research strongly suggests that people are more creative when they enjoy privacy and freedom from interruption. And the most spectacularly creative people in many fields are often introverted, according to studies by the psychologists Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Gregory Feist. They’re extroverted enough to exchange and advance ideas, but see themselves as independent and individualistic. They’re not joiners by nature.
Egyébként se bírom ezt a szarrágást, amit jellegzetesen a Kozsó, meg Kasza Tibi jellegű művészek űznek, hogy a tizenmilliós, menő autó az köll nekik, de a kétmilliós regadóba belepusztulnának. Így lehetőség szerint a Mars valamelyik holdjának rendszámát rakják az autójukra, vagy ha az nem jött be, hát kibuliznak maguknak egy P rendszámot. Mert náluk a párhuzamosan futtatott felvágás és szarrágás életforma, egyfajta executive lifestyle.
With an entire body at your command, do you seriously think the Future Of Interaction should be a single finger?
Talán nem teljesen fair végleges korrektúra előtti könyvfordításba belerúgni, de nem tudok elmenni mellette. A HVG gondozásában megjelenő Steve Jobs életrajzból ízelítőként közzétett első hat oldalon akkora fájdalmas tévedések, félrefordítások és simán esetlenül letükörfordított mondatok vannak, hogy hacsak a második kör korrektúra nem jelent egyben teljes újraírást is, a kész könyvet maximum humorforrásként szabad megvenni. Bár biztosan szórakoztató lenne egyenként belekötni minden apróságba, most csak azt a bekezdést idézem, aminél szó szerint felordítottam:
„Emberként mindig úgy gondoltam magamra, mint egy gyerekre, aki szereti az elektronikát – mondta. – Aztán olvastam valamit, amit egyik hősöm, Edwin Land a Polaroidtól, mondott. Arról, hogy milyen fontosak azok az emberek, akik az emberség és a tudomány kereszteződésében állnak, és úgy határoztam, ez az, amit csinálni akarok”. Olyan volt, mintha az életrajzához akart volna témákat ajánlani.
Izgalmas a kreativitás, ami akkor bújik elő, amikor egy erős egyéniségben az emberség és a tudomány egymással találkozik. Ez érdekelt a leginkább akkor is, amikor Franklin és Einstein életrajzait megírtam, és meggyőződésem, hogy ez lesz a XXI. század innovációs gazdaságának is a kulcseleme.
Na de mi is ez az emberség amiről beszél? Vegyük elő az eredeti szöveget és találjuk meg a képen elrejtett tíz apró különbséget:
“I always thought of myself as a humanities person as a kid, but I liked electronics,” he said. “Then I read something that one of my heroes, Edwin Land of Polaroid, said about the importance of people who could stand at the intersection of humanities and sciences, and I decided that’s what I wanted to do.” It was as if he were suggesting themes for his biography (and in this instance, at least, the theme turned out to be valid). The creativity that can occur when a feel for both the humanities and the sciences combine in one strong personality was the topic that most interested me in my biographies of Franklin and Einstein, and I believe that it will be a key to creating innovative economies in the twenty-first century.
Nem látok bele a könyvfordító-ipar működésébe, szóval persze, a kibicnek semmi se drága, de emberségszakos egyetemistaként azért fáj, hogy egy, a jelek szerint fontosnak tartott életrajzot egy se magyarul, se angolul nem tudó fordítóra bíztak. Igazán kár érte.
(Zárójel: ezt a ‘szellemtudományok és a természettudományok/technológia határán‘ című dumát ugyanúgy nagy kanállal nyaltam be és vettem át hitvallásomként, ahogy annó a Think Differentet is, pedig valójában ugyanolyan bullshit duma mindkettő. De olyan szép!)
Fürkészőn nézett egész este. A keddi társaság vidámabbnál is vidámabb volt, de ő csak néha kapcsolódott a beszélgetésbe. Nem dohányzott, nem ivott, bár szomorú sem volt. Csendesen, kedélyesen figyelt minket, sőt, amikor végre jó zenét kezdtek játszani, ő volt az első, akit táncba lehetett vinni. Igaz, közben sem beszélt sokat, viszont a fürkészése felejthetetlen volt. Nem tudtam eldönteni, mit kutakodik a szemével, hiába firtattam, csak mosolygott szépen.
Ugye, van az a fajta tekintet, amelyből oly sok van. Tudod. Aztán van a másik: az üveges. Ebből még több. De van ez a fürkésző, amit nehezen lehet megfejteni, hiszen ő fürkészik, nem én. Illetve ha én fürkészek, az olyan, mintha a tükörbe néznék (majdnem). Azonban kedd este még nem látott tekintettel lettem gazdagabb.
Nem arról faggatott hang nélkül, tetszik-e nekem, nem arról, hogy mit csinálok másnap. Nem, ennél sokkal komolyabb gondolatot láttam a szemében, és félelmet: egyszerűen nem meri megkérdezni. Nos, nem hagytam szegényt. Addig rohamoztam, mire kimondta. Elmesélte, hogy az ő vonatkoztatási rendszerében ez az alappont, innen indul ki és ide fut be minden. Sőt, még azt is tudja, kevesen vannak akik így gondolkoznak, és hogy szinte senki nem érti meg őt. Fülig érő szájjal ígértem, hogy ha valaki, akkor én biztosan nem botránkozom meg, csak bátran, bátran! Ünnepi pillanat következett, hirtelen eltűnt minden fürkészés a szeméből. Kicsit fátyolos lett, mondhatnám, tündérien csillogó. Megfogta a kezemet, és megkérdezte: "Te kire szavaztál?"
Apple:
The Apple Lossless Audio Codec project contains the sources for the ALAC encoder and decoder. Also included is an example command line utility, called alacconvert, to read and write audio data to/from Core Audio Format (CAF) and WAVE files. A description of a ‘magic cookie’ for use with files based on the ISO base media file format (e.g. MP4 and M4A) is included as well.
Apache-licensed.
IT managers’ thinking is influenced by a myriad of business factors, including research studies advising them not to adopt Apple’s computers. But their attitude is changing as Forrester Research, one of the most outspoken proponents of the Mac-free business environment, now backpedals on their 2008 report which called for a total banishment of Macs in the workplace – even for the most mundane tasks such as handling email.
According to the Fortune’s Philip Elmer-DeWitt, a new Forrester survey (available for sale on the corporate card here) of 590 IT managers, Mac users comprise “the 17 percent of information workers who use new technologies and find innovative ways to be more productive and serve customers more effectively”. Wow, talk about change in stance. But wait, there’s more. “Mac users are your HEROes and you should enable them not hinder them”, the report concludes, HEROes being a Forrester acronym for Highly Empowered and Resourceful Operatives.
Just like with iPhone, “Macs are being freewheeled into the office” by corporate higher-ups – typically executives, sales reps and other workaholics – who rely on MacBook Pro machines rather than Windows notebooks which “are slowing them down”:
Employees want their PCs to boot in 10 seconds, not 10 minutes, and they don’t want to have to get a cup of coffee while opening a 20 MB spreadsheet in Excel. They’re drawn to uncluttered Macs — especially those with solid-state drives, which are more responsive and boot in seconds.
That, and the looks…
As you could imagine, this is also a question of pride and ego for those well-paid suits who spare no cost shying away from cheapo Windows PCs in favor of Apple’s aluminum-clad machines that look business and ooze class:
These power brokers don’t want to show up to a meeting with a plastic laptop that sends the subliminal message that they aren’t prosperous enough to afford something nicer.
Steve Jobs vividly explained his annoyance with corporate IT managers who make purchasing decisions in a fireside chat with the Wall Street Journal columnist Walt Mossberg at the D8 conference:
What I love about the consumer market and I always hated about the enterprise market is we come up with a product, we try to tell everybody about it and every person votes for it themselves. They vote yes or no,” Jobs said. The enterprise market, it’s not so simple – the people that use the product don’t decide for themselves. The people that make those decisions sometimes are confused.
The last line earned Apple’s then CEO a loud belly-rumbling laughter of approval from the audience.
Image credit: Asa Mathat | AllThingsDigital
I'm not totally sure what the occasion is, but there sure does seem to be a ton of sales going on this week. Perhaps it's some pre-Halloween celebrating, or maybe developers have seen the number of new iPhones sold this month and want to capitalize on all of the potential new iOS gamers. Whatever the reason though, I don't think anyone will argue with getting some great deals on some new games. Without further ado, here's a list of some recent price drops and freebies from the past 24 hours:
A couple of things about the list above. First of all, all the versions of the original Puzzle Quest games have been updated with iOS 5 support and visual enhancements (including Retina Display support), as well as have been tuned up in the way of bug fixes. Second, Tactical Soldier: Undead Rising is due to get a humongous update with a brand new campaign available via IAP, and we'll be giving that a spin and will report back on it soon. But, the sale is supposed to only last until the update hits, so if you have any interest then you should definitely jump on it quickly.
In fact, that pretty much goes for every sale, as the prices can fluctuate on a whim. Make sure to jump at the chance to grab what interests you before these sales run out, and always keep a copy of the AppShopper [Free] app on your device to stay on top of the constantly changing App Store.
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TechCrunch is reporting that Nintendo's exclusivity with the Professor Layton series is ending and one of the first things developer Level-5 will be doing is releasing a new iOS game called Layton Brothers: Mystery Room. Unfortunately, details further than that are non-existent at this point. We'll just have to wait and see on pricing and availability, as well as how the content of Mystery Room will compare to previous installments in the Layton franchise.
What has me leaning back in my chair and contemplatively puffing my proverbial pipe with this news is the fact that the Professor Layton games are by far the DS's most successful series– Both critically and commercially. If you follow TouchArcade, you no doubt remember the various pieces we've done on Nintendo such as "Nintendo Facing Investor Pressure to Bring Games to iPhone" analyzing the puzzling future of the gaming giant.
I don't think it's much of a stretch to say that the Professor Layton series brought a bunch of players to the Nintendo DS, and while I'm sure the DS still would have been a successful platform without it, it's definitely not a good sign to see developers anxious to jump off the exclusivity ship with the big N.
These are interesting times, indeed. *puffs pipe*
Update: Here's the (non-English) trailer-
Camera+’s founder Lisa Bettany has posted (via Gizmodo) photos showing the huge improvement the iPhone’s camera has seen over the years. While we didn’t realize it at the time, the original iPhone looks very blurry (especially in macro). Now the iPhone 4S has point-and-shoot quality with awesome lighting. Another after the break:
"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain."
Setting aside the claim of analysts that Apple "missed" earnings last quarter, Apple sold record numbers of Macs (4.9 million) and iPads (11.1 million). During a conference call with analysts earlier this week, Apple CEO Tim Cook was asked about "cannibalization" -- the thought that increased sales of one type of product will impact sales of another. In this case, will iPad sales negatively affect Macintosh sales?
I do believe that we're seeing cannibalization. I think that it's showing up in 2 ways. I think that some people are electing to buy an iPad rather than a Mac. However, I believe a materially larger number of people are electing to buy an iPad instead of a Windows-based PC. And so I think we are overwhelmingly coming out very, very well in that cannibalization question. And I would point out that despite that, the Mac had its best quarter by far ever last quarter. And so even with having the best quarter on iPad with some cannibalizations in Mac, the Mac has its best quarter ever, which is almost unbelievable. And so with cannibalization like this, I hope it continues.*Cook believes that the iPad is cannibalizing the PC market, and to a limited extent, the Macintosh as well. However, with both iPad and Mac breaking sales records, things are good so far as Apple is concerned.
There are some customers which we chose not to serve. We don’t know how to make a $500 computer that’s not a piece of junk, and our DNA will not let us ship that. But we can continue to deliver greater and greater value to those customers that we choose to serve. And there’s a lot of them. We’ve seen great success by focusing on certain segments of the market and not trying to be everything to everybody. So I think you can expect us to stick with that winning strategy and continue to try to add more and more value to those products in those customer bases we choose to serve.
Sometimes Google seems to do some extraordinary acrobatics just to prove it isn’t Apple.
Speaking at the All Things Digital conference in Asia yesterday, Andy Rubin made it a point out their difference in philosophy.
1. He doesn’t believe in tablet-specific apps. All apps should work on a phone and scale up.
2. He doesn’t believe the phone should be an assistant. “You shouldn’t be communicating with the phone — you should be communicating with somebody on the other side of the phone,” he said.
Statements like these diminish Google, mostly because they fly in the face of common sense. Rubin makes it sound like it’s more important to dismiss Apple’s advances than it is to move forward.
His view on tablet-specific apps appears to be a defense for the Android Marketplace having so few of them. That number has been cited as anywhere from 300 to 3,000 — whatever, it’s way less than Apple’s 140,000.
Obviously, many apps can scale perfectly well from a phone to a tablet if they’re written to do so. Just as obviously, there’s a big difference between a 4-inch screen and a 10-inch screen. Though many apps can successfully scale, common sense says that a bigger screen opens up new possibilities. Otherwise, we’d all be running phone apps on our 27-inch screens too.
To be dismissive of Siri is to appear almost Luddite-ish. Even in its beta form, Siri is shaping up to be a monster hit. Again, common sense. It’s infinitely easier to say “Set alarm for 8am” than it is to go through the normal routine. Controlling the phone’s more advanced capabilities the same way feels nothing less than miraculous. And phones are just the start.
Apple didn’t denigrate Android’s superior voice recognition capability, they pushed it to a much higher level — the ability to intelligently interpret words to initiate actions. You’re a smart guy, Andy, but to dismiss this kind of leap with comments like “you shouldn’t be communicating with the phone” is pretty embarrassing.
Common sense says one other thing, too. Not too far in the future, Android will feature a built-in intelligent assistant. It may even help you explore Android’s library of made-for-tablet apps.
Shawn Blanc:
Two little-known fields in iPhone contact cards are the Phonetic First and Last Names. Fill them in to help Siri understand your requests better and to keep Siri from mispronouncing the names of your friends and family.
The fields aren’t new, but their usefulness for Siri is.
A Canon bejelentette az új csúcsmodelljét, ami az EOS-1D Mark IV-et váltja, ez lesz a Canon EOS-1D X:
Rövid specifikációk:
Ár: 1,5m – 2m HUF között.
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nagyon durva hogy a sony és a fuji mennyire jól mozdul most. canon látszólag a tökét vakargatja, nem veszi komolyan az új piacokat, a nikon pedig teljesen vakvágányon van. nem tudom a fuji most min pörög, de én már egy olyan x100-zal is beértem volna ami nem 35mm-es hanem 50-es fix obival készül. :)
I couldn’t believe my eyes when I first read this! Fuji announced a new mirrorless system with interchangeable lens system that will use a very large sensor. Exact size of the sensor has not been unveiled but Fuji said it is the highest resolution and lowest noise sensor ever used and it will beat any current full frame sensor! That’s probably the first real competitor for the NEX system and probably also of the future full frame NEX camera! Amazing Fuji. You did what Nikon and Canon where not able to do for now!
Press release and pictures at: DC.watch.
Apple has built significant antenna upgrades into the iPhone 4S, saying in the press release announcing the phone that it is the first phone to intelligently switch between two antennas to send and receive. We spoke to Spencer Webb, owner of AntennaSys, about the antenna history of the iPhones. He wrote extensively about the AntennaGate issues with the original iPhone 4 last year.
"With the iPhone 4," Webb explained, around the steel band "we had one cell antenna at the bottom. On the top, we had another antenna for GPS and Wi-Fi." This turned into Antennagate.
With the Verizon/CDMA iPhone, Webb believes Apple's designers "moved the GPS and Wi-Fi antennas beneath the back glass and turned the top antenna into a second antenna for the cell phone." This brought spatial diversity to the iPhone. This design helps solve the Antennagate problem, because the phone can switch between the antennas depending on signal conditions.
"If you cover up an antenna, you're probably not covering up both antennas," Webb explains. "Spatial diversity on the receiving side is required for use with the Verizon network."
The Verizon iPhone had 'receive diversity' -- it used two antennas for receiving data, but may have only transmitted on the bottom antenna. With the iPhone 4S, Apple claims to have both 'send and receive diversity' for GSM and CDMA. They're using this diversity as the solution to the antenna problem.
"The iPhone 4S may indeed be the first phone to have diversity on both the send and receive sides, and that is a decently big deal. They still have the antenna around the rim, though, so it's evolutionary, not revolutionary."
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It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things in to what you’re doing. Picasso had a saying: good artists copy, great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas, and I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.
—Triumph of the Nerds, PBS, June 1996