Re:Carpel tunnel syndrome strikes
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My troll-sense tells me you're making stuff up, but whatever. He doesn't have carpal tunnel syndrome. He has hand problems but does not disclose here wether they are directly related to typing or not:
Just yesterday I was wishing for a feature that 21 would have: syntax highlighting in terminals.
But after looking at these preview screenshots I don't think I mind the GUI look as much as I did with 20.
I hope the menus are a little more useful.
I'm having trouble getting into work at all.
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I suppose I'm a smart person and good programmer. I could give advice to most of my professors about programming and I love helping people out (I think my ideal job would be tutoring). Only I just don't think anybody would hire me. I will only have an associates degree in about 5 months, which I thought would be good when I started out but now I'm not sure. Also, I've just done so badly at every other field I've tried... but that's because programmig is the only thing I know how to do.
Those are some worrying results. I remember reading about Alan Cox doing some profiling on the code and finding lots of room for improvement. I'm just wondering what Nautilus is *doing* in that 11 seconds it takes to load a folder.
Red lights on the front of a car are not legal. And blue lights ANYWHERE on a civilian car are very illegal. (yes, even the stupid inefficient blue headlights everybody has.)
</US centric>
I havn't consumed any MPAA/RIAA media for about a month now (consciously. I didn't really consume that kind of media previously anyway) which to me also means no more radio in the car (no biggie, it's all crap)
I don't expect a majority of people to start boycotting anybody, but I will agree that the people preaching on/. could at least back up their words with some action.
suppose all the software had to do was to find your eyes in relation to your nose or mouth and ears. then moving your head would cause those parameters to change, and the cursor would move.
I really don't think you need to wrap the entire API or anything. So there are two sets of libraries on a system... big deal. One wonders how many versions of the UI exist on a windows XP box...
the problem with adding a new meta-API is that developers no longer have two choices.. they would have three.
Take a tool like Guppi (graphing utility) that can be plugged into a program and is used in Gnumeric/Gnucash.. If a tool like this could be shared between GNOME and KDE applications, it would do a lot to unify the projects. I guess the way to do this would be to wrap just the component architecture, and I'm assuming one of kparts or bonobo is a superset of the other and a wrap would be possible...
But if not, I'm sure there is a lot that can be done in writing of tools like Guppi that would give them more flexibility in the types of programs that can use it.
Take for instance the icon server which is a new part of KDE 3.0. I don't see why this couldn't be generalized and available for any app to use.. even GNOME apps.
Making one toolkit look like another shouldn't be hard. I know GTK has a bitmap engine, QT probably does too... doesn't QT already load GTK themes?
But the fact is that none of this will happen unless the people who actually write the code (not me) or one of the major distros like Red Hat decide to make it happen... at some point in time it might be bad for a distro to have to pick sides, so they'll plunk the two together and get 'em working nice.
"This software is protected by copyright law and international copyright treaty. Therefore, you must treat this software just like a book, except that you may copy it onto a computer to be used and you may make archive copies of teh software for the sole purpose of backing up our software and protecting your investment from loss.
By saying "just like a book," Borland means, for example, that this software may be used by any number of people, and may be freely moved from one computer or location to another, so long as there is no possibility of it being used by more than one person at a time. Just as a book can't be read by two different people in two different places at the same time, neither can the software be available for use by two different people in two different places at the same time without Borland's permission (unless, of course, Borland's copyright has been violated)."
A few years ago I tried going to a bigger university but I couldn't keep up with the classes and the long hikes across campus.
Now I'm 6 months away from getting an associates degree in computer programming from ITT. My GPA there is 3.97 and I'm hoping to graduate at the top of my class but the classes are mostly easier than what you would find in a college.
I think I'm pretty competent with C++ and Java now, but I wonder if anybody will hire a guy like me who only has one two-year degree and hasn't worked at all for years.
What really bugs me is that most of the other students in my class are getting passing grades but really wouldn't be able to handle even a QA position and aren't really looking for programming jobs anyway. I know a lot more than they do, but what's the point when they have far better credentials and work experience than me.
I want to back you up. Seems like a lot of slashdot doesn't see the big picture. When there are stories about movies, nobody says "hey guys, aren't these the people who wanted to assrape each and every one of us just yesterday?"
It's easy to avoid going to the movies because they suck so hard. And it's easy to avoid the "protected" music or media by just clearing out the presets on your stereos and TV. So then when you reach for that dose of media, you'll be forced to stop and think about what you are doing.
I've been doing this for a few months now and I don't see a reason to go back. Only problem is, I need to find a good source for indie happy hardcore...
Who was it that invented the really fast way to propegate a worm?
Anyway, it mostly had to do with getting a huge list of vulnerable IPs before you even unleash the worm, giving each worm "process" a chunk of the list to work with. It looks like you were being probed for vulnerability as some other people stated they were, but nobody was actually infected until recently. Very efficient!
Mozilla's gui responsiveness and load time is slower, but the rendering engine is fast: it's the only browser that renders big tables like Slashdot comments as they load instead of waiting for the entire page to load (on my 28.8). The only browser I havn't compared it to is Konqueror.
I think it's a fair trade-off. It's always in memory on my machine anyway.
And I think most people who program under some kind of unix do too. It's a combination of the GUI and the command line, not choosing between the two.
Windows users can't seem to grasp it for some reason. In my Red Hat class last quarter, whenever the Windows users needed a terminal they hit Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get to a virtual console instead of just opening a terminal emulator. And when they did discover that the terminal emu did everything that the console did, they still didn't grasp the idea that they could have more than one terminal on the screen at once.
The only problem is that no operating system default is set up exactly how I want, so when I get to a new system, it takes me a while to set everything up the way I like... it's especially silly having to carry around a copy of my.emacs and.Xresources files that I can't work without (I can use vi just fine though). At least my preferences aren't in some registry.
...And the way I constantly jerk my mouse around because the third roller's spring is going out because I'm too cheap to buy a new mouse. Anyway, I use the keyboard whenever possible (which web browsers make as hard as possible.. now we know why!).
I'd probably constantly get ads for new mice. Hey, it could be a whole new branch of ad-ware: check to see if any of the hardware is going out, and pop up an ad for a great deal on a replacement.
What about a programming puzzle game? You'd get a task and some constraints and have to write a program that meets the requirements.
from "Output the alphabet without using any character literals." to.. something more complicated. permutations of a string?
It'd just have to parse the source file to see if they followed the rules, see if it compiles (warnings not allowed!), and then run the program with whatever input it needs, and parse the output.
I havn't watched a single movie or listened to any RIAA music for months, and I don't think I ever will again. My mind is less muddled for it. It's easy really: don't go to the theater because it's stupid, and delete all the presets on your car radio (concentrate on.. say.. driving).
Anyway, since I'm no threat to them (unless they make it illigal to avoid consuming their crap), can I be exempt? Or does this have to affect me anyway?
When everything is 3D it makes it hard to start a small (free) game project. I can make a game look about as good as a super nintendo if I take the time, but anything beyond that is out of reach for a single developer who can't spend all of his time on side projects.
I hope that people will think "oh, i get it, it's retro," but I'm afraid people instead just frown at the low res and 2D.
Also, SDL is great to work with, but I always run into performance issues with it.
I've read of somebody using dict to filter out all non-words, stripping out all short words, then sorting and uniqing the results.. and then getting a checksum.
that may be overkill but it'd strip out any randomness that the spammer may have put into the message.
Thank you for that. I always had a distinction in my head between lecturing on something and selling the tool that does it. But what you say here has shown me how illogical the distinction is.
Whenever something new comes around in the GUI arena, that's always what I say. Right now, E16 doesn't really meet my needs.
Right now at home I'm using IceWM because it's very fast and themeable with bitmaps. It's a good style to speed ratio. I don't use any programs that use GTK or any other toolkit other than Mozilla. (all I do with this machine is browse the web and develop Java and C++ which is mostly in emacs)
The only thing I kinda want is a good file manager, but have never found one that didn't suck (for me). Though I find that even when I'm using a file manager it just sits there on my desktop and I never use it because the shell is a lot more useful. dfm was just ugly and I didn't feel like setting up commands for all the file types I used, GNOME's old file manager (what we use at school) has issues with doing anything useful. I havn't tried Nautilis and don't want to. Perhaps E17's "desktop shell" is more what I need.. but I sure hope it has the ability to do transparent backgrounds on the file browser windows (so they match my terminals... seems logical to me!)
If it does, i might even consider buying the hardware to make it fast. (this coming from me.. the guy who refuses to buy a sound card)
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My troll-sense tells me you're making stuff up, but whatever. He doesn't have carpal tunnel syndrome. He has hand problems but does not disclose here wether they are directly related to typing or not:
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/0111stallman.html
"I never had carpal tunnel syndrome. I had hand problems."
I hope the menus are a little more useful.
I suppose I'm a smart person and good programmer. I could give advice to most of my professors about programming and I love helping people out (I think my ideal job would be tutoring). Only I just don't think anybody would hire me. I will only have an associates degree in about 5 months, which I thought would be good when I started out but now I'm not sure. Also, I've just done so badly at every other field I've tried... but that's because programmig is the only thing I know how to do.
Those are some worrying results. I remember reading about Alan Cox doing some profiling on the code and finding lots of room for improvement. I'm just wondering what Nautilus is *doing* in that 11 seconds it takes to load a folder.
Seems like Nautilus is GNOME's club foot.
Red lights on the front of a car are not legal. And blue lights ANYWHERE on a civilian car are very illegal. (yes, even the stupid inefficient blue headlights everybody has.)
</US centric>
I havn't consumed any MPAA/RIAA media for about a month now (consciously. I didn't really consume that kind of media previously anyway) which to me also means no more radio in the car (no biggie, it's all crap)
/. could at least back up their words with some action.
I don't expect a majority of people to start boycotting anybody, but I will agree that the people preaching on
"..rock groups need roadies to hump.."
No. Those are groupies.
You know, that could work..
suppose all the software had to do was to find your eyes in relation to your nose or mouth and ears. then moving your head would cause those parameters to change, and the cursor would move.
I really don't think you need to wrap the entire API or anything. So there are two sets of libraries on a system... big deal. One wonders how many versions of the UI exist on a windows XP box...
the problem with adding a new meta-API is that developers no longer have two choices.. they would have three.
Take a tool like Guppi (graphing utility) that can be plugged into a program and is used in Gnumeric/Gnucash.. If a tool like this could be shared between GNOME and KDE applications, it would do a lot to unify the projects. I guess the way to do this would be to wrap just the component architecture, and I'm assuming one of kparts or bonobo is a superset of the other and a wrap would be possible...
But if not, I'm sure there is a lot that can be done in writing of tools like Guppi that would give them more flexibility in the types of programs that can use it.
Take for instance the icon server which is a new part of KDE 3.0. I don't see why this couldn't be generalized and available for any app to use.. even GNOME apps.
Making one toolkit look like another shouldn't be hard. I know GTK has a bitmap engine, QT probably does too... doesn't QT already load GTK themes?
But the fact is that none of this will happen unless the people who actually write the code (not me) or one of the major distros like Red Hat decide to make it happen... at some point in time it might be bad for a distro to have to pick sides, so they'll plunk the two together and get 'em working nice.
By saying "just like a book," Borland means, for example, that this software may be used by any number of people, and may be freely moved from one computer or location to another, so long as there is no possibility of it being used by more than one person at a time. Just as a book can't be read by two different people in two different places at the same time, neither can the software be available for use by two different people in two different places at the same time without Borland's permission (unless, of course, Borland's copyright has been violated)."
emphasis in original text, typos added by me
A few years ago I tried going to a bigger university but I couldn't keep up with the classes and the long hikes across campus.
Now I'm 6 months away from getting an associates degree in computer programming from ITT. My GPA there is 3.97 and I'm hoping to graduate at the top of my class but the classes are mostly easier than what you would find in a college.
I think I'm pretty competent with C++ and Java now, but I wonder if anybody will hire a guy like me who only has one two-year degree and hasn't worked at all for years.
What really bugs me is that most of the other students in my class are getting passing grades but really wouldn't be able to handle even a QA position and aren't really looking for programming jobs anyway. I know a lot more than they do, but what's the point when they have far better credentials and work experience than me.
I want to back you up. Seems like a lot of slashdot doesn't see the big picture. When there are stories about movies, nobody says "hey guys, aren't these the people who wanted to assrape each and every one of us just yesterday?"
It's easy to avoid going to the movies because they suck so hard. And it's easy to avoid the "protected" music or media by just clearing out the presets on your stereos and TV. So then when you reach for that dose of media, you'll be forced to stop and think about what you are doing.
I've been doing this for a few months now and I don't see a reason to go back. Only problem is, I need to find a good source for indie happy hardcore...
Who was it that invented the really fast way to propegate a worm?
Anyway, it mostly had to do with getting a huge list of vulnerable IPs before you even unleash the worm, giving each worm "process" a chunk of the list to work with. It looks like you were being probed for vulnerability as some other people stated they were, but nobody was actually infected until recently. Very efficient!
Mozilla's gui responsiveness and load time is slower, but the rendering engine is fast: it's the only browser that renders big tables like Slashdot comments as they load instead of waiting for the entire page to load (on my 28.8). The only browser I havn't compared it to is Konqueror.
I think it's a fair trade-off. It's always in memory on my machine anyway.
the class was just part of general computer stuff for a computer programming program. I use debian at home and have done for a few years.
i guess I should say "people who only know the windows paradigm" instead of just "windows users"
And I think most people who program under some kind of unix do too. It's a combination of the GUI and the command line, not choosing between the two.
.emacs and .Xresources files that I can't work without (I can use vi just fine though). At least my preferences aren't in some registry.
Windows users can't seem to grasp it for some reason. In my Red Hat class last quarter, whenever the Windows users needed a terminal they hit Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get to a virtual console instead of just opening a terminal emulator. And when they did discover that the terminal emu did everything that the console did, they still didn't grasp the idea that they could have more than one terminal on the screen at once.
The only problem is that no operating system default is set up exactly how I want, so when I get to a new system, it takes me a while to set everything up the way I like... it's especially silly having to carry around a copy of my
...And the way I constantly jerk my mouse around because the third roller's spring is going out because I'm too cheap to buy a new mouse. Anyway, I use the keyboard whenever possible (which web browsers make as hard as possible.. now we know why!).
I'd probably constantly get ads for new mice. Hey, it could be a whole new branch of ad-ware: check to see if any of the hardware is going out, and pop up an ad for a great deal on a replacement.
Has this been done?
What about a programming puzzle game? You'd get a task and some constraints and have to write a program that meets the requirements.
from "Output the alphabet without using any character literals." to.. something more complicated. permutations of a string?
It'd just have to parse the source file to see if they followed the rules, see if it compiles (warnings not allowed!), and then run the program with whatever input it needs, and parse the output.
Anyway, since I'm no threat to them (unless they make it illigal to avoid consuming their crap), can I be exempt? Or does this have to affect me anyway?
When everything is 3D it makes it hard to start a small (free) game project. I can make a game look about as good as a super nintendo if I take the time, but anything beyond that is out of reach for a single developer who can't spend all of his time on side projects.
I hope that people will think "oh, i get it, it's retro," but I'm afraid people instead just frown at the low res and 2D.
Also, SDL is great to work with, but I always run into performance issues with it.
Why would they want you to spend five bucks on an old game when you're in the demographic that might spend 50 bucks on a new one?
They would probably rather we all destroy our old cartridges so that those games won't destract from their current offerings ever again.
I've read of somebody using dict to filter out all non-words, stripping out all short words, then sorting and uniqing the results.. and then getting a checksum.
that may be overkill but it'd strip out any randomness that the spammer may have put into the message.
Thank you for that. I always had a distinction in my head between lecturing on something and selling the tool that does it. But what you say here has shown me how illogical the distinction is.
Whenever something new comes around in the GUI arena, that's always what I say. Right now, E16 doesn't really meet my needs.
Right now at home I'm using IceWM because it's very fast and themeable with bitmaps. It's a good style to speed ratio. I don't use any programs that use GTK or any other toolkit other than Mozilla. (all I do with this machine is browse the web and develop Java and C++ which is mostly in emacs)
The only thing I kinda want is a good file manager, but have never found one that didn't suck (for me). Though I find that even when I'm using a file manager it just sits there on my desktop and I never use it because the shell is a lot more useful. dfm was just ugly and I didn't feel like setting up commands for all the file types I used, GNOME's old file manager (what we use at school) has issues with doing anything useful. I havn't tried Nautilis and don't want to. Perhaps E17's "desktop shell" is more what I need.. but I sure hope it has the ability to do transparent backgrounds on the file browser windows (so they match my terminals... seems logical to me!)
If it does, i might even consider buying the hardware to make it fast. (this coming from me.. the guy who refuses to buy a sound card)
Good points. One time I used a feature on slashdot in a paper I wrote. I had to guess on the year for the works cited page.
And every time I see the (Updated 9.9!) I think, "oh, i better read that".. I always thought it meant version 9.9, not 9/9/??.