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I agree that OSX should have these things and make this easier, but you should also be aware of the following:
It was the Mac that first had the Cmd+X, Cmd+C and Cmd+V for cut/copy/paste, before anyone else. They're the ones that came up with those keystrokes. When Windows copied the Mac, they duplicated those, but the IBM keyboard didn't have a Cmd key, nor did it have a Windows key at the time, so Microsoft chose to standardize on the Ctrl key.
The Ctrl key on the Mac was hardly used. Ctrl is key that's holdover from terminal days.
When the Mac and PC, hardware and software started to become more integrated, using common keyboards and mice, VNC, RDP sessions, etc., someone chose to map the now-common win key to Mac's Cmd key. Every other key was already mapped. Only Windows keyboards had the Win key, and only Mac keyboards had the Cmd key, so it made sense to map the two.
At the same time they mapped the PC's Alt key to the Mac's Option key. In my opinion, this was a mistake because of the placement of the keys on the keyboard. It's bad enough that you have to remember to use Win+C to copy on a Mac using a Windows keyboard, now you have to use the Cmd key when using a Mac keyboard with a PC when you want to hit the Win key. The Alt/Win key are swapped, which makes it difficult to use Windows on a Mac if you use both a Windows keyboard and a Mac keyboard.
Someone should fix all this. I say Apple buy Microsoft.
ken@kasajian.com / www.kasajian.com
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And while they're at it, let's see if someone can come up with some consistent mapping of the Home/End/PgUp/PgDn keys between Parallels, VMWare and Remote Desktop. It's a mess, especially when inconsistencies exist within the OSX ecosystem itself.
ken@kasajian.com / www.kasajian.com
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I really do amaze myself sometimes. I'm trying to be super clevererer and well...
Take one application running on multiple threads. Create a request on one thread, reply on another and...
It all falls over because the reply comes back before the request has finished being processed and added to the pending queue.
Clever Vilmos, here stand under this large stick for a while...
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That reminds me of when I was first doing stuff with AJAX and wondered why I didn't get any results. Same situation as yours, although I was thinking of wearing a dunce hat
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Amateur.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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There are actually three levels of threads - host, service and process - and it was a loop around call, a process call to the host, that started things going fubar.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote:
There are actually three levels of stick FTFY - 0) stick, 1) sh!tty stick, 2) one with spikes in it.
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Lack of imagination
I can think of a few more levels, where at least one is involving a cactus (unshaved)
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What is the number of times I've done this?
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!
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Movie Quote Of The Day
Take the biggest guy in the world, shatter his knee and he'll drop like a stone.
Which Movie?
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Friends with stone abilities
if(this.signature != "")
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It is certainly an idea. An idea for whoever thought up that bloody franchise.
:rollsEyesThinkingOfDaughtersWatchingThatCrap:
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Have you watched all the movies you are quoting from ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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more than 90% of them I have seen at least once in my lifetime
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Theater or @ home ?
In my previous life (when I still was a SINK), I used to go about thrice a week at the theater. I have seen all the blockbusters from that time, plus lots of less famous movies that were also very interesting, and most of them in original version ( Once I even went to a movie and did not see it was Vietnamese, so after five minutes, I went out again to watch something else as I realized that they definitely would not speak english ).
My best theater experience was definitely "Lost in translation" : Great movie, and the mood in the theater that night was just perfect.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Rage wrote: Theater or @ home
both
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Watch out, you might give away your age grandad. Especially since Jesse James[^] was released in 1939. And most of the others in 1970s
Must have been fun growing up in the drive in era where colour were a royalty
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Surely if you go off topic you should include why you've gone off topic in the topic header?
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I now can't tell if you just did, or not.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Inconceivable!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous ----- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944 ----- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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