Interesting... not that I agree or disagree, but do you really want to give people the freedom to deny themselves freedom? Is that really freedom? -ponder-
I think that this is cool news, as the reason for OS is to keep options open and to promote open standards... To deny windows this app would be as bad as the 'enemy'.
It was to slow down the typist, not bring them to a dead halt!:P
But to slow them down (even so slightly) nonetheless.
I tried Dvorak for a bit once, and found it to be quite easy to learn (easier than Qwerty), but had the problem that not all OSes had the ability to switch to Dvorak effeciently... thus I would be lost if I had to work in a team (read: pair programming) (Although I *could* carry around my own USB keyboard... and plug it in as addition to the current one if needed...)
But alas, this will go the route of:
VHS vs Betamax
IBM vs Amiga
USB vs Firewire
Bush vs Kerry *duck*
Hehe... people like something they can spell (short words?)... and Dvorak is not easy to type on a Dvorak keyboard...
Dito for this new fangled invention. (Besides, aren't the vi movement keys (hjkl) hard-coded?) -grin-
Firstly, I wrote a 3D cad program on my Amiga in 1986... I loved the machine.
The stuff you list here is not what I would say defines the usefulness of an Amiga.
Amiga is good as a curiosity in that it was remarkably well-designed for it's time.
It has no niece market left apart from hobbyists.
Amiga IS dead... and as such it should be remembered as a GOOD machine.
I still have a working A1200 at home which I sometime tinker on, but I cannot get a network card working for it... I cannot buy one locally in my country. Thus it's impracticle even for an e-mail machine as the hardware support is also niche.
-sigh-
But I for one still want to read about AmigaOS on Slashdot, so keep on posting!
If there is 5%-10% then it must have a HUGE impact on university math which accounts for basically a small percentage of top students.
My best friend is a girl who is smarter than me and basically just as good at math (She did Pure Math, and I did Applied Math)
I judge other women to her standard, and thus am unable to meet anyone who comes close to 'someone I can have an intelligent math conversation with'.
They do exist, but are far an few between.
But is this really REALLY biological? I still think it's a conception by women that men do not like intelligent women. (And rightly so, since most men (and women for that matter) are idiots.
It was a new AMD Athlon desktop with an NVidia 6xxx card.
I needed to format an external USB drive as FAT, and could not do it under XP (long story... read about it on MS's site: FAT cannot do > 32Gb by default...)
So I decided to give Ubuntu Live a test... and it cored.
Mandrake Move worked.
-shrug-
Ubuntu has a friendly cover... should do well regardless then.;)
1) Atari 2600 game console. This is where I first saw there was something like programming, when I saw a cartridge to do programming.
2) Learnt how to program on my school's Apple IIe and ZX Spectrum (BASIC)
3) New school, learnt how to work a Genie and Genie Colour, as well as a BBC B, and a BBC master. (First saw Elite here... hehe)
4) Vic 20 with 8K expansion card - my First computer!
5) Then upgraded to C64 - games games and demos
6) Then Amiga 500 - My first 3D Cad program written (15 years old - 1985) (Learnt LOGO, Amigados and Pascal)
7) At university worked on PCs, and AIX boxen (Learnt MSDOS, LPC, C, C++, awk, sed, perl) Bought my first PC - installed Linux, OS4 and later NeXT and NT3.5)
Now I own:
1) Laptop DELL Inspiron 9100 running XP
VMWare: Running Win 2000 and Mandrake 2) Sun Sparctation 5 3) Apple iBook 900 MHz G3 4) PC Running Windows 2000 5) Amiga 1200 6) PC Running RedHat.
I would say LOGO was a good start... better than Pascal.
I had them in 1980... dunno since when they were made tough. Never saw them anywhere (in my country) after that. Even on the internet it's scarce to buy and expensive... that link is the cheapest I could find with the best shipping rates.
The graphing calculator under discussion is available for the Mac *and* Windows... I was pointing out that Windows already had (a similar) product available for free.
From the site: Description: Max Out comes with 108 interlocking parts to construct over 100 land and water projects inicluding a tug boat, water pump, crane, cable lift, generator, steam roller, tricycle, vacuum cleaner and as many simple machines as your imagination can conceive. Includes a full color Science Discovery Design Manual with easy to follow assembly instructions, as well as an illustrated basic Science Booklet to explore 18 physical science principles. Children of all abilities from age 7 and up will be fascinated with tangible demonstrations of electric circuits, motion energy, friction and traction, buoyancy, vacuums, and other real-life concepts as they discover the fun of science in motion with Capsela!
Most other games are released for Windows Only, WoW is both Mac and PC.
IMHO Doom 3 was a failure and a step back from other ID software releases since it did not support Mac, and HL 2 is a miserable game to try and get running.
Blizzard has had a good track-record with supporting people who actually buy the games...
Even though Google is big, they will have to do a lot to better this product (which is already quite a mature one used by many many large corporations).
Slashdot Mirror
eek!
strcasecmp() ? not quite... (the 'n' still missing... what now?)
Interesting... not that I agree or disagree, but do you really want to give people the freedom to deny themselves freedom? Is that really freedom? -ponder-
I think that this is cool news, as the reason for OS is to keep options open and to promote open standards... To deny windows this app would be as bad as the 'enemy'.
It would have the same value as paintings of dogs playing poker. :P
Everything and nothing is art... this doubly so!
A better question would be:
Is it inspirational art?
Is it decorative art?
Is it bad art?
And then those who subjectively think it's art can discuss this...
-shrug-
It was to slow down the typist, not bring them to a dead halt! :P
But to slow them down (even so slightly) nonetheless.
I tried Dvorak for a bit once, and found it to be quite easy to learn (easier than Qwerty), but had the problem that not all OSes had the ability to switch to Dvorak effeciently... thus I would be lost if I had to work in a team (read: pair programming) (Although I *could* carry around my own USB keyboard... and plug it in as addition to the current one if needed...)
But alas, this will go the route of:
VHS vs Betamax
IBM vs Amiga
USB vs Firewire
Bush vs Kerry *duck*
Hehe... people like something they can spell (short words?)... and Dvorak is not easy to type on a Dvorak keyboard...
Dito for this new fangled invention. (Besides, aren't the vi movement keys (hjkl) hard-coded?) -grin-
This sounds a lot like my phone...
Firstly, I wrote a 3D cad program on my Amiga in 1986... I loved the machine.
The stuff you list here is not what I would say defines the usefulness of an Amiga.
Amiga is good as a curiosity in that it was remarkably well-designed for it's time.
It has no niece market left apart from hobbyists.
Amiga IS dead... and as such it should be remembered as a GOOD machine.
I still have a working A1200 at home which I sometime tinker on, but I cannot get a network card working for it... I cannot buy one locally in my country. Thus it's impracticle even for an e-mail machine as the hardware support is also niche.
-sigh-
But I for one still want to read about AmigaOS on Slashdot, so keep on posting!
AEton,
- And times being what they are...
- What are they?
- Indifferent!
If there is 5%-10% then it must have a HUGE impact on university math which accounts for basically a small percentage of top students.
My best friend is a girl who is smarter than me and basically just as good at math (She did Pure Math, and I did Applied Math)
I judge other women to her standard, and thus am unable to meet anyone who comes close to 'someone I can have an intelligent math conversation with'.
They do exist, but are far an few between.
But is this really REALLY biological? I still think it's a conception by women that men do not like intelligent women. (And rightly so, since most men (and women for that matter) are idiots.
Same happened to me!
;)
It was a new AMD Athlon desktop with an NVidia 6xxx card.
I needed to format an external USB drive as FAT, and could not do it under XP (long story... read about it on MS's site: FAT cannot do > 32Gb by default...)
So I decided to give Ubuntu Live a test... and it cored.
Mandrake Move worked.
-shrug-
Ubuntu has a friendly cover... should do well regardless then.
They'll never do it!
It won't sell!
Woop-di-doo!
Old news guys!
Is better than any of these apps....
.
Check it out
I've used Google Desktop Search and Copernic, and Quicksilver is lust way ahead...
It's got plugins of practically any type of data and customised actions attached to those data types.
Progression:
1) Atari 2600 game console. This is where I first saw there was something like programming, when I saw a cartridge to do programming.
2) Learnt how to program on my school's Apple IIe and ZX Spectrum (BASIC)
3) New school, learnt how to work a Genie and Genie Colour, as well as a BBC B, and a BBC master. (First saw Elite here... hehe)
4) Vic 20 with 8K expansion card - my First computer!
5) Then upgraded to C64 - games games and demos
6) Then Amiga 500 - My first 3D Cad program written (15 years old - 1985) (Learnt LOGO, Amigados and Pascal)
7) At university worked on PCs, and AIX boxen (Learnt MSDOS, LPC, C, C++, awk, sed, perl) Bought my first PC - installed Linux, OS4 and later NeXT and NT3.5)
Now I own:
1) Laptop DELL Inspiron 9100 running XP
VMWare: Running Win 2000 and Mandrake
2) Sun Sparctation 5
3) Apple iBook 900 MHz G3
4) PC Running Windows 2000
5) Amiga 1200
6) PC Running RedHat.
I would say LOGO was a good start... better than Pascal.
Or is that MoviX^2?
Perhaps also run it on this ASUS motherboard and casing combo.
Should be a snap.
My problem as well... it all just *vanished*! ;)
I'm buying this for my young nephew now... (a birthday gift)
I had them in 1980... dunno since when they were made tough. Never saw them anywhere (in my country) after that. Even on the internet it's scarce to buy and expensive... that link is the cheapest I could find with the best shipping rates.
The graphing calculator under discussion is available for the Mac *and* Windows... I was pointing out that Windows already had (a similar) product available for free.
;)
-geesh- Oversensitive Mac users... *cough*
It's like Mecano, just cleaner... I really wanted this as a child, and was surprised to find it again.
Check out Capsela
From the site:
Description: Max Out comes with 108 interlocking parts to construct over 100 land and water projects inicluding a tug boat, water pump, crane, cable lift, generator, steam roller, tricycle, vacuum cleaner and as many simple machines as your imagination can conceive. Includes a full color Science Discovery Design Manual with easy to follow assembly instructions, as well as an illustrated basic Science Booklet to explore 18 physical science principles. Children of all abilities from age 7 and up will be fascinated with tangible demonstrations of electric circuits, motion energy, friction and traction, buoyancy, vacuums, and other real-life concepts as they discover the fun of science in motion with Capsela!
No, It's more like comparing Windows Paint with Pokémon Project Studio.
If I wanted to bring packages like Corel, Xara or Photoshop into the picture, then we're talking Mathematica here.
They are totally similar in that both don't do scalar calculations and can graph. The one is limited to 2D graphs, and the other to 4D.
-shrug-
Both are mere toys.
On a side note, something similar and free already exists for windows:
You can download Powercalc.exe from Microsoft's XP PowerToy page.
Quoted from The Register:
"The differential pricing is also a result of this licensing mess, and from differing tax regimes between EU member states."
'licensing mess' something created to protect agains people like cyber squatters.
So the reason iTunes is ripping off the UK public is something perhaps not entirely of their making.
The UK cannot have it both ways... eitehr adopt the Euro, or don't.
Cybersquatting.
Since it's a form of intimidation as well.
I rate it right up there with SPAM.
I'm sure Apple informally asked 'nicely' before embarking on this course of action.
Going to the site itunes.co.uk you will see no mention of the iTunes used in the domain in the page heading or title.
Most other games are released for Windows Only, WoW is both Mac and PC.
IMHO Doom 3 was a failure and a step back from other ID software releases since it did not support Mac, and HL 2 is a miserable game to try and get running.
Blizzard has had a good track-record with supporting people who actually buy the games...
BOFH
... rather see it as a quide.
But don't look at it as humour...
A product called Retrievalware from a company called Convera does this nicely already.
Even though Google is big, they will have to do a lot to better this product (which is already quite a mature one used by many many large corporations).
I've used it long ago, and it is sweet!