May 2012
27 posts
An Analysis of Blaster Fire in Star Wars →
wired.com
by Rhett Alain, Wired
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Using the Amazon S3 Enhanced Uploader on OS X Lion →
forums.aws.amazon.com
From Sid@AWS:
With OS X Lion, Java applet plugins need to be explicitly enabled in order for them to work in browsers, and this may be the issue being encountered with the enhanced uploader. Please try the following steps:
1. Go to Safari -> Preferences -> Security, and ensure that both Java as well as Javascript are enabled.
2. Go to Applications -> Utilities -> Java Preferences and the check/tick the “Enable applet plug-in and Web Start Applications” option under the General tab.
Once these have been set, please restart your browser and try running the enhanced uploader again. You should get a prompt asking you for permission to run the applet.
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“The theory of machinery is that it saves time, but Stanford himself noted of such machinery that “if you could limit man’s wants it might be called ‘labor saving,’ but as there are no limits to his wants, the machinery really increases the power of production.” That is, the industrialized world wants more goods, not more time, and so the machinery doesn’t increase freedom and leisure, it increases production and consumption.”
—From Rebecca Solnit’s River of Shadows (via viafrank)
Dieter Rams On Good Design As A Key Business Advantage →
fastcodesign.com
In this transcript of a speech he delivered in New York in 1976, Rams articulates the role of design in differentiating a business and the importance of sustainability — decades before the popularity of green design.
“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ruby: Open A File, Write To It, And Close It In One Line →
dzone.com
File.open(local_filename, 'w') {|f| f.write(doc) }
