You forget that Louis Braille invented his encoding of the alphabet as dots at the age of 12. His was a true invention, there was no prior art whatsoever.
... with any of the BASICs. They are all Satanic!!
I have a friend who came within an ace of total mental collapse when programming a complex data-base application with a web front end using VB. I would not wish that on my worst enemy, let alone my own Mother.
Ruby ( but the site is down in expectation of the/.ing to come:-) is a mature language which does it in such a way that it's free of all those silly surprises so beloved by so many language designers. In essence it's Smalltalk done so that the rest of us can work with it. O yes, nearly forgot: She'll also need to be able to understand this sort of thing too:-
SELECT CHILD AS 'My Favorite Son' FROM FAMILY WHERE SEX='Male' AND YOB BETWEEN 1975 AND 1985; -- Put the right years in.
Perhaps start of with a recipe database using Ruby and PostgreSQL
Alternatively she could always learn to design knitting patterns -- It's virtually the same act anyway!
Daniel H. H. Ingalls XEROX Palo Alto Research Center Palo Alto, California
Conference Record of the FIFTH ANNUAL ACM SYMPOSIUM ON PRINCIPLES OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES Tucson, Arizona January 23-25, 1978
Quoting the paper:-
Figure 1 shows a typical display screen from a Smalltalk system. Each of the rectangular areas is an instance of class Window which provides a basic protocol for user interaction:
if the stylus is depressed within the window, the content is redisplayed, thus showing it "in front of" the other windows;
once active, the window becomes the recipient of all user actions, such as depressing the stylus, typing on the keyboard, or entering sensitive areas around the window;
if the stylus is depressed outside the window, control is given up so that another window may be awakened.
Here is positive proof of the use of the word "window" in a generic computer context long before Our Young Bill stole it for use by his Windows.
It's actually a very interesting paper and well worth a read. Thanks be to Google.
I can vouch for this approach. Our city has been wired this way. It's really good. Down time has been about 4 1/2 hours over two years. There is Internet, 'phone and Cable TV ( Which I don't take ). Commercially, from the point of view of the Telco, it's been a flop, but for us users it's just great. The Telco thought they would get far more TV users than have actually signed up.
Just a suggestion: might it not be wise to create a topic and icon for matters pertaining to EU law, in parallel to the Stars and Stripes icon often seen on YRO stories pertaining to US law?
Besides McDonalds and many other retailers, they provide extensive database facilities to the British Army and the Royal Navy. While I agree they don't churn out AK-47s or M-16s etc., they are most definitely active in the 'killing fields'. Tainted? Yes, most definitely; bloodied hands, possibly.
You are stuck in rpm hell. To leave all that nonsense behind, install Gentoo. To install a package you just type:-
emerge package
and Gentoo looks after it all. You say you are "pretty technically proficient" so you will be able to cope with the installation which is somewhat more of a challenge than Mandrake's point and click system. The Gentoo QA is infinitely superior. Helpful and polite irc channel too. I promise you that you'll not regret the change.
It's a hobby and pastime. People do it for fun, and share their work out of pure altruism. You have no more right to rubbish somebody's design of a program UI than you have to haul apart somebody's design and creation of a water-colour painting, cross-stich table mat, knitted jersey, or whatever.
The source code to the progam is always available for you to express your desire for changes with a set of patches. Alternatively you can always 'fork' the project. This is just Darwinian Evolution. Sometimes the mutation is a roaring success, othertimes it isn't. Positively helpful actions speak far louder than mere words.
The UI one finds the 'best' is nearly always the one you started out using. Most of these word jockeys will have started out their use of computers using one or other of the proprietory systems, usually a MS one, so they think the MS way of doing is the 'best'. Apart from the 16 switches and a press switch UI. My first use of a GUI system was OS/2 and I still miss it's convenience. I Then converted to Linux, and had FVWM for a while, hankering after OS/2 all the time. Then KDE arrived and had provided me with more or less everything I needed. I still grieve for OS/2 occasionally, but time heals. I have had occasional forays into other GUIs both commercial and FLOSS. For me, not one of the current crop of desktop environments bears any comparison to KDE.
Commercial GUIs tend to go to extreme lengths to hide any user feature which is more complex than the use of a vacuum cleaner. If you have a bit more intellectual ability than a person who uses one of said cleaners to earn a crust, then this design idea makes using a computer an exercise of superb frustration. Thanks, but no thanks.
The appeal of a particular UI is often determined by fundamental cultural notions of aesthetics. The aesthetic design of KDE appeals to me, so I put up with the fact that it's sometimes slightly slower than other GUIs. Vive la Differance!
Both are reasonably well paid jobs, and the latter will be in demand in 10 to 20 years as the 'baby boomers' depart this mortal coil. Only half in jest.
While I can understand that one does not necessarily want every Tom, Dick, and Henrietta checking changes into the current CVS branch, software which is created to reliably serve the General Public's need on a 24/7 basis, should be available for the said General Public to at least examine and critique. This would create not only the much needed conduit between Industry and Academia, but also the background 'body of literature' which is so essential to all learning. It would also vastly improve the code quality as the coders would know that they were doing their job in the public gaze.
Ntop is the way to go for fast analysis. It has a http daemon built in which presents an overall view of your network's activity. You can then examine in detail with tools others have mentioned. Take care about running ethernet wiring alongside the mains wiring.
"Thou shall not tempt" is a direct corollary (meaning 2) of "... and lead us not into temptation... "
It's about time that 'Corporate America' learnt it's ethics and morals. Instead of buying lawmakers to write laws with which to criminalize ordinary people, it should be working with those ordinary people ( it's customers ) to create business methods which actually benefit both it and its customers.
IOW, & Addressing said 'Corporate America': If you don't want people trading and trafficking in digital media files, don't make them available to the public in the first place, or set up socially acceptable distribution chains for your products. What you are doing at the moment only brings disrepute on your nation.
there have been some very near misses in the West as well. The classic one was 25 years ago at Thee Mile Island near Middletown, Pennsylvania. Interesting government style paper, but no sex appeal. Sorry.
The EU has missed the point entirely. $X Billion is just a peanut for MS
What is actually needed is a EU-wide statute to forbid MS making contracts with hardware manufactures which result in their OS being installed on every computer made. I.E. One should be able to buy the hardware without the O/S and get it at a lower price.
Slashdot Mirror
The Reincarnation of UUCP and Fidonet is now not far away.
You forget that Louis Braille invented his encoding of the alphabet as dots at the age of 12.
His was a true invention, there was no prior art whatsoever.
I have a friend who came within an ace of total mental collapse when programming a complex data-base application with a web front end using VB. I would not wish that on my worst enemy, let alone my own Mother.
Ruby ( but the site is down in expectation of the
SELECT CHILD AS 'My Favorite Son' FROM FAMILY WHERE SEX='Male' AND YOB BETWEEN 1975 AND 1985; -- Put the right years in.
Perhaps start of with a recipe database using Ruby and PostgreSQL
Alternatively she could always learn to design knitting patterns -- It's virtually the same act anyway!
the first mechanical digital computer ever made.
The whole book, The Life and Work of Konrad Zuse is well worth a read.
It's actually a very interesting paper and well worth a read.
Thanks be to Google.
Somebody, please tell Lindows about this.
that by opening the Internet to the likes of one Scott Richter, it is Al Gore who is responsible for the e-mail spam avalanche.
I can vouch for this approach. Our city has been wired this way.
It's really good. Down time has been about 4 1/2 hours over two years.
There is Internet, 'phone and Cable TV ( Which I don't take ).
Commercially, from the point of view of the Telco, it's been a flop, but for us users it's just great. The Telco thought they would get far more TV users than have actually signed up.
... wouldn't it be easier and a lot simpler to just turn off the cells in question while the 'target' is passing by?
Yes indeed, Here are the details about the flag, and here's the Icon
What are the other nuclear powers doing?
To the powers that be in: China; France; India; Israel; Pakistan; Russia; The United Kingdom; and the United States.
What else are you doing to prevent the unthinkable happening?
A serious question to which the rest of the world expects a serious answer.
Oh?
Besides McDonalds and many other retailers, they provide extensive database facilities to the British Army and the Royal Navy. While I agree they don't churn out AK-47s or M-16s etc., they are most definitely active in the 'killing fields'. Tainted? Yes, most definitely; bloodied hands, possibly.
Undertaker
Both are reasonably well paid jobs, and the latter will be in demand in 10 to 20 years as the 'baby boomers' depart this mortal coil. Only half in jest.
While I can understand that one does not necessarily want every Tom, Dick, and Henrietta checking changes into the current CVS branch, software which is created to reliably serve the General Public's need on a 24/7 basis, should be available for the said General Public to at least examine and critique. This would create not only the much needed conduit between Industry and Academia, but also the background 'body of literature' which is so essential to all learning. It would also vastly improve the code quality as the coders would know that they were doing their job in the public gaze.
Ntop is the way to go for fast analysis. It has a http daemon built in which presents an overall view of your network's activity. You can then examine in detail with tools others have mentioned. Take care about running ethernet wiring alongside the mains wiring.
Lindoms, because it's a topsy-turvy world.
Whent he world is put right, the M can go back to W.
I'd really like to see the end of goatse and tubgirl.
Both are revolting and offensive.
http://f.scarywater.net/
Unfortunately they haven't been keeping it up to date.
... that jobs are going to India etc.
I'm staggered that there is any software development going on at all in the US at all after reading these stories.
It's about time that 'Corporate America' learnt it's ethics and morals. Instead of buying lawmakers to write laws with which to criminalize ordinary people, it should be working with those ordinary people ( it's customers ) to create business methods which actually benefit both it and its customers.
IOW, & Addressing said 'Corporate America': If you don't want people trading and trafficking in digital media files, don't make them available to the public in the first place, or set up socially acceptable distribution chains for your products. What you are doing at the moment only brings disrepute on your nation.
I've never understood why a lot of authors pepper their articles with redundant links.
Simple:- To enhance the Google page-rank of the target, and to render the object of interest in a different colour.
there have been some very near misses in the West as well. The classic one was 25 years ago at Thee Mile Island near Middletown, Pennsylvania. Interesting government style paper, but no sex appeal. Sorry.
These are the ones I used to use.
Lovely simple machine. The ALGOL compiler was really good.
What is actually needed is a EU-wide statute to forbid MS making contracts with hardware manufactures which result in their OS being installed on every computer made. I.E. One should be able to buy the hardware without the O/S and get it at a lower price.