The solution is to allow stringing together existing components, as well as a good API for creating additional components. This way, you could tell your 'real' programmers "I need a module that calculates FFT, but changes some parameters depending on this other output", and they would write in in a 'real' language and export the interface to your 'toy' language.
Many great programming languages are great because they're simple and it's easy to create new modules for them. A stellar example is Python with modules such as NumPy and SciPy. The declarative QML/QtQuick is also very simple to extend, and is a joy to program in, although it's not used for data transformations AFAIK. Yes, there are currently still languages where you have to write code instead of dragging and dropping. However, I could see a system using a similar interface for custom modules which would be connected with a graphical interface.
In such cases, I always find it strange that there are so many movies where "revealing the truth" is the final success. Off the top of my head, there's Soylent Green, Serenity, Pelican report. The thing is, people generally don't care unless they see the same thing repeated over and over in the news. Remember how many times the Fukushima nuclear disaster was shown in the news? Compare it to the appearances of the actual tsunami, and of NSA spying.
You can't stop the signal, but you can usually prevent people from caring about it.
One episode was entirely set in the tardis where the tardis seemed jammed and was trying to tell them something and they had to figure out what it was. And the hand to hand combat fighting was absolutely awful. And the Dalek's spaceship wobbled on the string it was suspended on. Awesome stuff:)
Don't forget the time they filmed a gecko and claimed it was a crocodile.
Let's say I send a letter to a friend, and he shows it to his wife. Where is my knowledge and consent? There isn't, but there should be an expectation that the recipient has the authority to show this letter to others. In GMail, the recipient has decided that he wants to show all his incoming mail to Google.
Arch. The main point is that add almost no modifications of their own, and always have the newest version. And with KDE4 you always want the newest versions, because since the 4.0 fiasco, they've been very busy improving, and still are.
Chakra is probably good as well, I never tried because I heard it's very much like Arch, but with a user-friendly installer.
hiding the cursor when it's over a text field that's being typed in
I just opened Dolphin, clicked on the location control to edit, leaving the mouse cursor over the control, and when I type the mouse cursor disappears. In Kate the mouse cursor vanishes when over the edit area while typing. Same behavior with the search control in the main menu.
Oh my god, this is so cool! I've been using KDE exclusively for the past 6 years, and never noticed this:)
To be honest, realistic gravity and inertia are severely lacking in movies as well. You know how sometimes a person gets shot, and the bullet throws him away? Conservation of momentum would require that the same thing happens to the shooter, but it never does.
The Americans, living in a constitutional democracy, have almost total control over the government. It's just very difficult to exercise this control, and most people just don't care.
You all tend to forget that people receiving social aid have faster computers in their pockets than the whole world had during that "pinnacle of technology" time. The transition was from super government projects (flight to the moon, Concorde) to commercial developments, and from "cool stuff" to "convenience".
One would think there is even more groundwork done now than there was in the 60s. The main difference is that between a president making a commitment and a committee making a presentation.
It appears that Microsoft are responding to the needs of their customers. This is a good start.
Not always, no. There are famous quotes by people from Henry Ford to Gene Roddenberry that all come down to "people don't know what they want". And it's true, if MS asked what people wanted, 90% would say XP, solely because they're used to it.
Part of the reason Apple is so successful is that they followed a vision despite all naysayers. As seen in both Windows 8 and X-Box One, Microsoft tends to backpedal on their vision. Not being sure about your own products can hardly lead to market success.
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I can't imagine anything less interesting to me that playing those games on my television.
Have you imagined sitting in front of your TV with it turned off?
With your kids, and hitting them?
So they didn't just debunk the Lorentz-Lorenz law?
The solution is to allow stringing together existing components, as well as a good API for creating additional components. This way, you could tell your 'real' programmers "I need a module that calculates FFT, but changes some parameters depending on this other output", and they would write in in a 'real' language and export the interface to your 'toy' language.
Many great programming languages are great because they're simple and it's easy to create new modules for them. A stellar example is Python with modules such as NumPy and SciPy. The declarative QML/QtQuick is also very simple to extend, and is a joy to program in, although it's not used for data transformations AFAIK. Yes, there are currently still languages where you have to write code instead of dragging and dropping. However, I could see a system using a similar interface for custom modules which would be connected with a graphical interface.
Most attacks will not come through the router
Erm, explain?
Attacks that aren't coming from the router could only be on the local network by implication
They could also be between keyboard and chair.
In such cases, I always find it strange that there are so many movies where "revealing the truth" is the final success. Off the top of my head, there's Soylent Green, Serenity, Pelican report. The thing is, people generally don't care unless they see the same thing repeated over and over in the news. Remember how many times the Fukushima nuclear disaster was shown in the news? Compare it to the appearances of the actual tsunami, and of NSA spying.
You can't stop the signal, but you can usually prevent people from caring about it.
One episode was entirely set in the tardis where the tardis seemed jammed and was trying to tell them something and they had to figure out what it was. And the hand to hand combat fighting was absolutely awful. And the Dalek's spaceship wobbled on the string it was suspended on. Awesome stuff :)
Don't forget the time they filmed a gecko and claimed it was a crocodile.
Canonical! Now we know why the movie sucked, Mark Shuttleworth has something to do with it!
Let's say I send a letter to a friend, and he shows it to his wife. Where is my knowledge and consent? There isn't, but there should be an expectation that the recipient has the authority to show this letter to others. In GMail, the recipient has decided that he wants to show all his incoming mail to Google.
Qt 5.1 comes with Qt Quick Controls. These are widgets. Why they didn't hold the 5.0 release to add QML widgets beats me, but it's true.
See here: Qt Quick Controls
Arch. The main point is that add almost no modifications of their own, and always have the newest version. And with KDE4 you always want the newest versions, because since the 4.0 fiasco, they've been very busy improving, and still are.
Chakra is probably good as well, I never tried because I heard it's very much like Arch, but with a user-friendly installer.
hiding the cursor when it's over a text field that's being typed in
I just opened Dolphin, clicked on the location control to edit, leaving the mouse cursor over the control, and when I type the mouse cursor disappears. In Kate the mouse cursor vanishes when over the edit area while typing. Same behavior with the search control in the main menu.
Oh my god, this is so cool! I've been using KDE exclusively for the past 6 years, and never noticed this :)
Ender's game isn't.
He spent the last few years building up an immunity to ricin.
To be honest, realistic gravity and inertia are severely lacking in movies as well. You know how sometimes a person gets shot, and the bullet throws him away? Conservation of momentum would require that the same thing happens to the shooter, but it never does.
It's not like we weren't warned...
Humans. So predictable.
Of course not, now that gay marriage is legalized, you can't even think about people of the opposite sex. Don't you watch Fox News?
I don't know, how much time does it take for Captain Kirk to talk it into exploding?
Another windows 8 tablet. Quad core 1.8GHz, 1366x768 resolution. Lame.
FTFY
Vendor lock-in. Using a standard language means you can easily take your scripts to a competing product.
The Americans, living in a constitutional democracy, have almost total control over the government. It's just very difficult to exercise this control, and most people just don't care.
You all tend to forget that people receiving social aid have faster computers in their pockets than the whole world had during that "pinnacle of technology" time. The transition was from super government projects (flight to the moon, Concorde) to commercial developments, and from "cool stuff" to "convenience".
One would think there is even more groundwork done now than there was in the 60s. The main difference is that between a president making a commitment and a committee making a presentation.
It appears that Microsoft are responding to the needs of their customers. This is a good start.
Not always, no. There are famous quotes by people from Henry Ford to Gene Roddenberry that all come down to "people don't know what they want". And it's true, if MS asked what people wanted, 90% would say XP, solely because they're used to it.
Part of the reason Apple is so successful is that they followed a vision despite all naysayers. As seen in both Windows 8 and X-Box One, Microsoft tends to backpedal on their vision. Not being sure about your own products can hardly lead to market success.
If you use google.fr, that's insensitive Claude for you!