Let's see you do it then. Please post pictures and videos of the result!
It's easy to bitch and complain about creative things that other people are doing. It's a whole different thing to actually get around to doing something yourself.
1) The Amiga, though marketed as a gaming machine or play-with-graphics machine, had an operating system so capable and Unix-like
and
2) That business never realized the huge potential of a multitasking, windowing, command-line integrated OS to run spreadsheets and wordprocessors on instead of the clunky program launcher that was MS-DOS.
Luckily the most powerful nation in the world realizes that a few flooded countries matter little when compared to the prospect of losing a Few American Jobs.
Shortsightedness like this makes me think twice about having children (and the US is by no means the only offender).
I bought a Toshiba laptop in Japan a few months ago. It has the ability to view TV, DVD and play music CD's without loading an OS. I've used that feature... let's see... yeah, _once_. To see what the menus looked like.
I'm not sure if I'm representative of all laptop buyers, but this seems, to me, definitely like a gimmick that has no real value. (That said, it is a very nice laptop.)
-I hate Open Source. -But you're using it in your own products! -The best there is! -But you just said you hated it! -But.. the you who.. I... It's... differeee.... (head explodes)
Hey, KDE is meant to be used this way. KDE developers didn't create the nice elaborate framework that KDE is just for fun. KDE provides resources to make programming large apps easier and apps like Quanta+ is the fruit of that labour.
The Zaurus can do this. It's running Qtopia which is based on Qt, which uses unicode for all text. You just have to install a unicode font. I'm reading Japanese (well, trying to) on a non-Japanese Zaurus 5500.
This was stupid. At first, I thought the guy had pretty valid comments; they GUIs do suck. But the fact is, MPlayer's keyboard interface is insanely fast and convenient. I never wanna use a GUI movie player again.
This reminds me of something that I created a couple of years ago. I had an Amiga with a terminal emulator hooked up to the TV, and an IR receiver plugged into the Amigas parallell port. A program in the Amiga read the IR receiver (and sent faked IDCMP keystroke messages to the terminal program). A PC used the Amiga as a terminal through a null-modem cable and output ANSI-"graphics" to the Amiga/TV and received IR keystrokes as regular characters. Finally the sound output from the PC was connected to my hifi system.
Yep, this was before I had a PC with a TV-out connector.:) I was gonna make a fancier graphical program but never got around to it and now all of this is gone...:(
I'm waiting for MPLAB to be able talk to my Picstart Plus. I don't know what's up with MPLAB and hardware ports... strange. Everything else seem to work.
Exceed is actually a very impressing piece of software. It's a lot more usefull than the rootwin-demanding cygwin-xfree. We need an open source Windows X server.
"To decipher that data, forensic experts would use "bandpass filters" and other high-tech devices that look for frequencies that they do not need within a sound."
Wow, "bandpass filters"; that _is_ high-tech! Wonder when they'll be available to consumers.
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Let's see you do it then. Please post pictures and videos of the result!
It's easy to bitch and complain about creative things that other people are doing. It's a whole different thing to actually get around to doing something yourself.
It always amazes me to think that
1) The Amiga, though marketed as a gaming machine or play-with-graphics machine, had an operating system so capable and Unix-like
and
2) That business never realized the huge potential of a multitasking, windowing, command-line integrated OS to run spreadsheets and wordprocessors on instead of the clunky program launcher that was MS-DOS.
Luckily the most powerful nation in the world realizes that a few flooded countries matter little when compared to the prospect of losing a Few American Jobs.
Shortsightedness like this makes me think twice about having children (and the US is by no means the only offender).
I bought a Toshiba laptop in Japan a few months ago. It has the ability to view TV, DVD and play music CD's without loading an OS. I've used that feature... let's see... yeah, _once_. To see what the menus looked like.
I'm not sure if I'm representative of all laptop buyers, but this seems, to me, definitely like a gimmick that has no real value. (That said, it is a very nice laptop.)
But of course! :)
(glad someone spotted it)
-I hate Open Source.
-But you're using it in your own products!
-The best there is!
-But you just said you hated it!
-But.. the you who.. I... It's... differeee.... (head explodes)
Good! This was a stupid name to begin with, and it got even more stupid after Lindows gave up on their ambition to be Windows-compatible.
Hello... a KDE announcement on Slashdot? Cooool!! ;)
Now that we've been politically correct for a little bit, let's go back to Gnome reporting.
Hey, KDE is meant to be used this way. KDE developers didn't create the nice elaborate framework that KDE is just for fun. KDE provides resources to make programming large apps easier and apps like Quanta+ is the fruit of that labour.
The Zaurus can do this. It's running Qtopia which is based on Qt, which uses unicode for all text. You just have to install a unicode font. I'm reading Japanese (well, trying to) on a non-Japanese Zaurus 5500.
Good news - I think it is! No water in this baby, no siree.
Oh yes, this is news for nerds allright. ;)
What's with the Ragnar-Ragnarsson thing?
This was stupid. At first, I thought the guy had pretty valid comments; they GUIs do suck. But the fact is, MPlayer's keyboard interface is insanely fast and convenient. I never wanna use a GUI movie player again.
Of course, most people know that the only scene was the Commodore/Atari one.
Hey, careful with that joke, it's an antique!
This reminds me of something that I created a couple of years ago. I had an Amiga with a terminal emulator hooked up to the TV, and an IR receiver plugged into the Amigas parallell port. A program in the Amiga read the IR receiver (and sent faked IDCMP keystroke messages to the terminal program). A PC used the Amiga as a terminal through a null-modem cable and output ANSI-"graphics" to the Amiga/TV and received IR keystrokes as regular characters. Finally the sound output from the PC was connected to my hifi system.
:) I was gonna make a fancier graphical program but never got around to it and now all of this is gone... :(
Yep, this was before I had a PC with a TV-out connector.
There was a story recently about China developing its own Windows clone. Was that false or a misunderstanding?
Really, if they wanted a free Windows, it'd be stupid not to build upon Wine.
1. X is bloated and should be replaced with something new and spiffy.
2. Why can't I have transparent windows with the background updated in real time? Lazy X developers.
3. Speaking of X, KDE is better than Gnome.
4. Speaking of KDE, Gnome is better.
5. I can't compile X.
There. Can we talk about new stuff this time?
I'm waiting for MPLAB to be able talk to my Picstart Plus. I don't know what's up with MPLAB and hardware ports... strange. Everything else seem to work.
I've learned my lesson. ;)
The insult wasn't really necessary, but yeah I can see why you'd think so. I really wanted to give the books a chance, though.
Having read all the books in the Hitchhiker series, I fail to see what makes Adams the "greates sci-fi writer ever". I find them quite boring.
Exceed is actually a very impressing piece of software. It's a lot more usefull than the rootwin-demanding cygwin-xfree. We need an open source Windows X server.
"To decipher that data, forensic experts would use "bandpass filters" and other high-tech devices that look for frequencies that they do not need within a sound."
Wow, "bandpass filters"; that _is_ high-tech! Wonder when they'll be available to consumers.