Obviously any evolved civilisation must have a counterpart of the RIAA. Once we catch some alien music, we'll broadcast it on TV, worldwide. Then we only have to wait for their lawyers to make the first contact.
Did you notice the different feel of menus in common GUIs? Without tricks, it would be hard to select submenus. You have to keep the mouse pointer in a narrow 'tunnel'.
MacOS Classic works around that problem by using a V shaped buffer zone. If you move your mouse to the right within a certain angle, the submenu doesn't change. MS used an inferior workaround. Submenus open with a delay, and you have to select them slowly or they won't open at all.
KDE submenus work like the Windows ones. Gnome behaves like the old MacOS. Sadly enough, menus in MacOS X now work like the ones in Windows.
The worst implementation is used by Swing. Submenus open with delay, but close without one. You have to wait for a submenu to open, and when your pointer leaves the tunnel, it vanishes instantly!
Sure. The most accurate definition of intelligence seems to be: That which humans can do better than either animals or computers.
Once upon a time, computer was a job describtion. Human beings working through calculations. Computers were held in high regard because of their intelligence and higher education. Now with digital computers available, being able to work through computations isn't a proof of intelligence anymore.
Later, people said: Now, if we were able to get a computer that is able to match wits against the best Chess players, I would be very impressed. Being able to play chess is a proof of intelligence.
I know several people who play competitive chess intensively. But I can go to a store and for a couple of bucks, I can get a programm that they're unlikely to beat with good settings.
Computers can never be intelligent by definition. If necessary, the definition changes.
> For instance, *no* ammount of time is sufficient to break an OTP without the key.
IANAC (I am not a cryptoanalyst). But AFAIK a one time pad can be 'broken' if the pad is not completely random and the cyphertext is long enough.
Obviously XORing with a pseudo random generator doesn't work. If you flip a coin and its ever so slightly biased, you can attack a long enough text that was XORed with the throws.
Generating randomness is a kind of science of its own.
> For one, all charge coupled devices (CCD and CMOS) > with the exception of one camera (The Sigma SD9) > use a pattern of red, green, and blue sensors, tiled.
I'm not sure what the Sigma uses. But Foveon has developed a three layer CCD. The products using this CCD are hardly affordable at the moment. But Canon is rumored to also work on this. I'd say that those CCDs will be standard in a few years.
> Has an interface for adding and removing browser extensions (this Mozilla lacks)
I wish this was true. Phoenix has an interface for disabling extensions. But the uninstallation button is disabled because Mozilla still doesn't implement the functionality. (And Phoenix is a rewrite of the GUI portions. It doesn't implement anything new in the base.)
The uninstall functions in existing packages have been a pain to implement for the developers of the extensions. It's still several hundred lines of code to provide an uninstall button.
AFAIK you can't use the right mouse button on Linux systems. On Windows, the context menu pops up when you release the button. On Linux the menu appears when you press it.
So the left button is likely the default one for Linux.
Radial menus are not supposed to be faster than mouse gestures. But they are faster than linear menus. They also offer a better learning curve because you can see the available options.
Oh - and RadialContext is actually supposed to be used like a mouse gesture. It's the very reason the menu follows the mouse. Simply try to hold the button down and drag.
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Well - there's more than PCs out there.
Embedded systems are getting powerful
enough to run something like Phoenix.
I'm sure you got this backwards.
Obviously any evolved civilisation must have a
counterpart of the RIAA. Once we catch some alien
music, we'll broadcast it on TV, worldwide. Then we
only have to wait for their lawyers to make the first
contact.
That's the plan, isn't it?
No. 40B is still a lot of money. But the military
budget of the US is simply insane. It now is 40%
of the world total.
Face it. Your economy is partially war socialism.
Are you from Germany?
AFAIK the english billion equals 1E9, which
would translate to Milliarde and not to
Billiarde.
I think you must be talking about the 4400.
Even an Apple manager called it crap.
(Yes, I own one.)
Mozilla is 100% fine as a browser for end users.
I guess this is a kind of disclainmer saying:
Don't expect any official support.
> The thing I don't like so far is that the system
/opt /home or /home/Desktop.
> auto logs into Xwindows as root!!
A friend of mine edited a document with OpenOffice.
When she tried to save it, the save panel gave her
instead of
She didn't have write access, lost her work. And she
wouldn't have done if she were logged in as root.
Stupid but true.
This doesn't take into account the minor
brain which has AFAIK 1x10E11 neurons.
(But far less synapses per neuron.)
Great!
And maybe electrons will flow the other way, too.
> There is a tiny delay before it opens, is that
> what you refer to?
Maybe. I only toyed a bit on a salespoint and was
surprised to find a delay.
Slightly OT:
Did you notice the different feel of menus in
common GUIs? Without tricks, it would be hard
to select submenus. You have to keep the mouse
pointer in a narrow 'tunnel'.
MacOS Classic works around that problem by using
a V shaped buffer zone. If you move your mouse
to the right within a certain angle, the submenu
doesn't change.
MS used an inferior workaround. Submenus open with
a delay, and you have to select them slowly or they
won't open at all.
KDE submenus work like the Windows ones. Gnome
behaves like the old MacOS. Sadly enough, menus
in MacOS X now work like the ones in Windows.
The worst implementation is used by Swing.
Submenus open with delay, but close without one.
You have to wait for a submenu to open, and when
your pointer leaves the tunnel, it vanishes instantly!
Yeah. But it will come in .doc format. ;)
So I can't read it anyway.
Sure. The most accurate definition of intelligence
seems to be: That which humans can do better than
either animals or computers.
Once upon a time, computer was a job describtion.
Human beings working through calculations. Computers
were held in high regard because of their intelligence
and higher education. Now with digital computers
available, being able to work through computations
isn't a proof of intelligence anymore.
Later, people said: Now, if we were able to get a
computer that is able to match wits against the
best Chess players, I would be very impressed.
Being able to play chess is a proof of intelligence.
I know several people who play competitive chess
intensively. But I can go to a store and for a
couple of bucks, I can get a programm that they're
unlikely to beat with good settings.
Computers can never be intelligent by definition.
If necessary, the definition changes.
At that speed, I could use up my server bandwidth in 8 seconds.
> It's still only 10 hours.
Don't put your hopes on nuclear cells.
The environmentalists will be dead against
it. Can you even get a decent pacemaker
anymore?
Have a look at was the US did to Enercon.
This is one of the few english language
articles I found:
> For instance, *no* ammount of time is sufficient to break an OTP without the key.
IANAC (I am not a cryptoanalyst).
But AFAIK a one time pad can be 'broken' if the
pad is not completely random and the cyphertext
is long enough.
Obviously XORing with a pseudo random generator
doesn't work. If you flip a coin and its ever so
slightly biased, you can attack a long enough
text that was XORed with the throws.
Generating randomness is a kind of science of its own.
> The fourth, no schedule, result in more than double the productivity of any of the others.
;-)
Wow - if that's true, Duke Nukem Forever will be truly amazing.
> For one, all charge coupled devices (CCD and CMOS)
> with the exception of one camera (The Sigma SD9)
> use a pattern of red, green, and blue sensors, tiled.
I'm not sure what the Sigma uses. But Foveon has developed
a three layer CCD. The products using this CCD are
hardly affordable at the moment. But Canon is rumored
to also work on this. I'd say that those CCDs will be
standard in a few years.
> Has an interface for adding and removing browser extensions (this Mozilla lacks)
I wish this was true. Phoenix has an interface for disabling extensions. But the uninstallation button is disabled because Mozilla still doesn't implement the functionality. (And Phoenix is a rewrite of the GUI portions. It doesn't implement anything new in the base.)
The uninstall functions in existing packages have been a pain to implement for the developers of the extensions. It's still several hundred lines of code to provide an uninstall button.
On a related sidenote:
I just put a package for RadialContext for
Phoenix on the usual downloads page.
AFAIK you can't use the right mouse button on Linux
systems. On Windows, the context menu pops up when
you release the button. On Linux the menu appears
when you press it.
So the left button is likely the default one for
Linux.
Radial menus are not supposed to be faster than
mouse gestures. But they are faster than linear
menus. They also offer a better learning curve
because you can see the available options.
Oh - and RadialContext is actually supposed to
be used like a mouse gesture. It's the very
reason the menu follows the mouse. Simply try
to hold the button down and drag.
This is also mentioned in the tips section of
the download page. Did you know that you get
extra functions when holding Alt?
A robot is a device that can be programmed
to move in three or more degrees of freedom
(read joints).