Let's see, we need one in GTK, one in Qt, one in Athena, one for the native Mac look, one for Windows that won't work with anything else... that's at least five already.
Windows and Linux don't have fall back mechanism for file systems which don't support extended attributes natively. That might be the reason they don't use them.
Linux could just use magic(5) which although slower would be fairly reliable.
So no, if he doesn't have the drive to learn and problem solve he's better off outside playing with a ball... or girls since he's a teen.
In that case just lock him in behind a card locked door with a blank card and a card writer. Leave the ball and girls outside and he'll learn eventually (you might want to prepare some flat food in case he doesn't figure stuff out fast enough).
Beyond that a lot of plankton has a shell and stands at the root of the foot chain (or is the larvae of other animals). Animals with shells don't like acidic environments as a rule.
Oceans with a low pH could be a major problem at numerous levels.
What's a track-stick? I googled it and came up with a GPS device.
Presumably a trackpoint, originally mostly used by IBM (now Lenovo) and Sony. It's that little nub in the middle of the keyboard. It's great for general desktop navigation although it tends to fail a bit for very delicate work (and it's not very good at all for gaming). It's getting more rare nowadays that trackpads have gotten much better. At one time it was considerably superior though. Now with all the gestures, possibility of scrolling, etc. the trackpad does have advantages. I've seen it called a nipplemouse and a number of other strange names. A few desktop keyboards can be found with one every now and then.
Then I noticed the size in inches: 18.4! Base weight: 10lbs.
I don't have a problem with large computers you carry from room to room with a built-in UPS. But at some point it's a desktop all-in-one or something else.
Actually it can hover on the exhaust of its built-in fan when you need to move it. (requires large battery sold separately, may reduce computer run time, depending on applications used)
None of them are all that great. Do Google Apps do everything Office does? No, clearly not. But frankly, I think Office is overrated.
The point of Microsoft Office isn't that it's the greatest Office suite ever, it's that in a Microsoft setting, it's easy to integrate with a lot of other things so that everything ends up as Word documents or Excel sheets (or starts that way and ends up being something else).
As a standalone suite, pretty much anything will do the job unless you're always locked into Microsoft land (especially with huge Excel macros).
I too kind of wonder how "boots quickly" could be the sole criterion. Aren't those machines supposed to be used for something or are they just there to show off how fast they start ? Maybe they'll participate in the regional fast booting contest, in preparation for the national tournament ?
And shouldn't the availability of the application, of the drivers, of the hardware, the familiarity of the users with the environment be the first thing to consider ?
It's a bit like going to a computer shop and asking for a computer with a blue LED.
In that case, can't get much faster than Grub. People will tell you it's a bootloader, but it has cat, so it must be an OS!
Well it *can* do pretty much everything DOS can (load stuff that actually does something), except it comes with a nicer editor and the bundled games are better.
Note however that quite a few broken sites mistakenly believe that the plus (+) sign isn't allowed in email addresses. Bit of a shame since it makes for a convenient sorting method, but a recurring problem.
Now, we have Second Life, which COULD be a totally awesome tool for learning OO... except the scripting language is like a crippled version of Basic.
You might want to look into Croquet then. It's based on Squeak, "worlds" can be distributed easily among various hosts, and it's open source. It's mostly designed as a collaborative / teaching tool. I'm always surprised that it never seemed to really take off.
Possibly not visually as slick (although...) as 2nd life but has *much* more potential.
Maybe one day I'll see a camera with a bog standard USB connector that doesn't need a specific driver just to see the camera's contents as a drive?
Why would you want to do that anyway when you'll get a much higher transfer rate with a proper card reader than with the crappy USB controller that's on board the camera ?
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Let's see, we need one in GTK, one in Qt, one in Athena, one for the native Mac look, one for Windows that won't work with anything else... that's at least five already.
Windows and Linux don't have fall back mechanism for file systems which don't support extended attributes natively. That might be the reason they don't use them.
Linux could just use magic(5) which although slower would be fairly reliable.
Mostly because no one's really gotten it right yet
Presumably, everybody is waiting for Web 2.1 or 2.2.
So no, if he doesn't have the drive to learn and problem solve he's better off outside playing with a ball ... or girls since he's a teen.
In that case just lock him in behind a card locked door with a blank card and a card writer. Leave the ball and girls outside and he'll learn eventually (you might want to prepare some flat food in case he doesn't figure stuff out fast enough).
Beyond that a lot of plankton has a shell and stands at the root of the foot chain (or is the larvae of other animals). Animals with shells don't like acidic environments as a rule.
Oceans with a low pH could be a major problem at numerous levels.
Wasn't the module API supposed to be stabilised / standardised at one point (with 6.x or 7.x maybe) ?
This has been a long standing problem and was supposed to be addressed.
There already are "air mice" that work on desktops. Logitech makes one.
What's a track-stick? I googled it and came up with a GPS device.
Presumably a trackpoint, originally mostly used by IBM (now Lenovo) and Sony. It's that little nub in the middle of the keyboard. It's great for general desktop navigation although it tends to fail a bit for very delicate work (and it's not very good at all for gaming). It's getting more rare nowadays that trackpads have gotten much better. At one time it was considerably superior though. Now with all the gestures, possibility of scrolling, etc. the trackpad does have advantages.
I've seen it called a nipplemouse and a number of other strange names. A few desktop keyboards can be found with one every now and then.
And who cares if they spend $20 on a full-length mirror?
I doubt that mirrors supplied to the military in this context are going to cost $20. Some zeroes are missing there IMO.
Update on this - I'm told the European price "is expected to be _less_ than 400 euros".
Oh, cool, it should be 399 € then. :)
Then I noticed the size in inches: 18.4! Base weight: 10lbs.
I don't have a problem with large computers you carry from room to room with a built-in UPS. But at some point it's a desktop all-in-one or something else.
Actually it can hover on the exhaust of its built-in fan when you need to move it.
(requires large battery sold separately, may reduce computer run time, depending on applications used)
then after the Stopped message type "killall -9 emacs"....
And then you remember you were running Solaris (damn !)
I'm not willing to trust a third party with my stuff, and neither should any self respecting company.
Like Microsoft ?
MS Word could be FTP-ing your docs to Redmond every night for all you know.
None of them are all that great. Do Google Apps do everything Office does? No, clearly not. But frankly, I think Office is overrated.
The point of Microsoft Office isn't that it's the greatest Office suite ever, it's that in a Microsoft setting, it's easy to integrate with a lot of other things so that everything ends up as Word documents or Excel sheets (or starts that way and ends up being something else).
As a standalone suite, pretty much anything will do the job unless you're always locked into Microsoft land (especially with huge Excel macros).
What is their purpose?
I too kind of wonder how "boots quickly" could be the sole criterion. Aren't those machines supposed to be used for something or are they just there to show off how fast they start ? Maybe they'll participate in the regional fast booting contest, in preparation for the national tournament ?
And shouldn't the availability of the application, of the drivers, of the hardware, the familiarity of the users with the environment be the first thing to consider ?
It's a bit like going to a computer shop and asking for a computer with a blue LED.
In that case, can't get much faster than Grub. People will tell you it's a bootloader, but it has cat, so it must be an OS!
Well it *can* do pretty much everything DOS can (load stuff that actually does something), except it comes with a nicer editor and the bundled games are better.
Bah... Me think you sucky sucky
Why bother with Linux?, get a proper OS.
But Netcraft said BSD was dead !
Well, yes, but what he (Linus) is really talking about is the development model. Do they need a debug tree, or not?
It's a bit silly for us care so much, though.
Everybody know you can't debug it properly unless it's in deployed in production !
Um, wait...
Woohoo! Free coasters !
Heat up the microwave !
Note however that quite a few broken sites mistakenly believe that the plus (+) sign isn't allowed in email addresses. Bit of a shame since it makes for a convenient sorting method, but a recurring problem.
That search page of yours looks mighty combustible... with all them dry links lying around...
Like just a match in the wrong place and it could go up like nothing. We wouldn't want that now would we ?
Similar thing it does in games...
W = Up
S = Down
A = Out Of Thread and/or Last
D = Into Thread and/or Next
But how do you fire and cycle weapons ? Mouse wheel screws up the display and clicking mostly does nothing.
It's still very buggy IMO.
Now, we have Second Life, which COULD be a totally awesome tool for learning OO... except the scripting language is like a crippled version of Basic.
You might want to look into Croquet then. It's based on Squeak, "worlds" can be distributed easily among various hosts, and it's open source. It's mostly designed as a collaborative / teaching tool. I'm always surprised that it never seemed to really take off.
Possibly not visually as slick (although...) as 2nd life but has *much* more potential.
Maybe one day I'll see a camera with a bog standard USB connector that doesn't need a specific driver just to see the camera's contents as a drive?
Why would you want to do that anyway when you'll get a much higher transfer rate with a proper card reader than with the crappy USB controller that's on board the camera ?