If it suits you, you can scan the barcode on the back of your id as well. It's actually more convenient to use your thumbprint if you don't already have your id out of your wallet, e.g., you followed someone else into the lounge.
I'd been informed (I believe I read it in an interview with Hertzfeld) that the whole point was the learnability of the interface. If you're looking at the screen to see what someone's pointing at, you can't also be looking at their hand to see which mouse button they're clicking.
Of course, that all falls apart once you get into that whole command-click business.
Maybe not in all situations, but the fact that I move twice yearly means I need an LCD, and large LCDs can be quite expensive. Also, what about people doing serious work on ultraportables?
As a developer I do have that many tabs on the taskbar, usually 3 rows.
Which kills your ability to throw the pointer to the bottom of the screen and select a window, or which, because you have so many windows open on a single desktop, causes some very painful alt-tabbing.
(Btw, not that it matters much, but as a serious developer I also have a suitable monitor (22 inch), people with screens in the 17 inch area are not serious computer users/developers and don't have as many windows open.)
...or they are serious users/developers on a budget or living in cramped apartments/dorm rooms. I work in a Big Fancy Lab surrounded by 21" monitors and I still don't like having more than five windows max on each screen before I start feeling claustrophobic.
Indeed, much of the better writing in the blogs I read comes from people in engineering or other technical fields. The ones I usually happen upon from people who studied English or, better yet, communications, have usually been fairly poorly written. This is just an observation and certainly not a basis for generalizations--I'm just saying that the two skillsets are not at all mutually exclusive.
If I had an ASCII gedit or notepad (spellpad) with spell check I wouldn't even need an office suite on my home desktop.
gedit, assuming you're referring to the GNOME app, has a spellcheck plugin (Edit -> Preferences -> Plugins; F7 to check, also see the Tools menu for autocheck).
The origins of the hypothesis date back to 1859, when mathematician Bernhard Riemann came up with a theory about how prime numbers were distributed, but he died in 1866, before he could conclusively prove it.
You need to read this a bit more carefully. It does not say "died before he proved it." It says "died before he could conclusively prove it," as in before he was able to do so.
I'm not so sure about this. C may be easy to pick up the basics of, but for someone who's never programmed before, whose interest in programming is strictly casual, I think it's a bad choice. Writing a basic app won't take a lot of learning, but doing anything remotely complicated will take a lot of learning and time she might not be willing to invest in such a hobby. A higher-level language like Python, some form of BASIC, PHP, LISP (well, if your mom is of a certain bent), whatever you want, will allow her to be productive without having to dump too much time into learning the idiosyncrasies of the language.
From this little blurb, I'm not quite sure how this is supposed to work. So the sender's ISP sends a notification to the recipient's ISP that a message is available instead of sending the whole message. How does this combat spam? All I can think of is that it forces the spammers to host their own spam and pay for their own bandwidth, which is, I suppose, a large deterrent.
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Uh... what?
If it suits you, you can scan the barcode on the back of your id as well. It's actually more convenient to use your thumbprint if you don't already have your id out of your wallet, e.g., you followed someone else into the lounge.
Crap, does anyone know Welsh?
You might be interested in Inferno: http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/
You got a lion and a tin dude to go with that strawman?
It's the add-on to Windows K.
"The astronaut extended his gloved hand and quickly removed the first fiber strip, which was sticking up from Discovery's smooth, tiled underside."
Man, I didn't know spaceship repair could be so HOT... I need a moment alone...
I'd been informed (I believe I read it in an interview with Hertzfeld) that the whole point was the learnability of the interface. If you're looking at the screen to see what someone's pointing at, you can't also be looking at their hand to see which mouse button they're clicking.
Of course, that all falls apart once you get into that whole command-click business.
Maybe not in all situations, but the fact that I move twice yearly means I need an LCD, and large LCDs can be quite expensive. Also, what about people doing serious work on ultraportables?
Which kills your ability to throw the pointer to the bottom of the screen and select a window, or which, because you have so many windows open on a single desktop, causes some very painful alt-tabbing.
...or they are serious users/developers on a budget or living in cramped apartments/dorm rooms. I work in a Big Fancy Lab surrounded by 21" monitors and I still don't like having more than five windows max on each screen before I start feeling claustrophobic.
Isn't that more like "planets capable of hosting the kind of life we're used to?"
I hear it used to be called My Merges.
I'd be astonished by any evidence that disproves that the best trilogies have three parts.
He's been on a major label for at least 12 years. I wouldn't worry too much.
I worry less when there are more sponsors.
"My father was a toilet seat."
Firefox has been on the lab computers for a rather long time.
If I'm not mistaken about SRAM prices, that processor could cost you as much as several computers. I'm not sure that's a good trade.
Indeed, much of the better writing in the blogs I read comes from people in engineering or other technical fields. The ones I usually happen upon from people who studied English or, better yet, communications, have usually been fairly poorly written. This is just an observation and certainly not a basis for generalizations--I'm just saying that the two skillsets are not at all mutually exclusive.
gedit, assuming you're referring to the GNOME app, has a spellcheck plugin (Edit -> Preferences -> Plugins; F7 to check, also see the Tools menu for autocheck).
But... but... they said I could... I could listen to the radio... at a reasonable volume... between 9 and 11 AM...
Ok, but I'm going to burn the building down...
You need to read this a bit more carefully. It does not say "died before he proved it." It says "died before he could conclusively prove it," as in before he was able to do so.
I'm not so sure about this.
C may be easy to pick up the basics of, but for someone who's never programmed before, whose interest in programming is strictly casual, I think it's a bad choice. Writing a basic app won't take a lot of learning, but doing anything remotely complicated will take a lot of learning and time she might not be willing to invest in such a hobby. A higher-level language like Python, some form of BASIC, PHP, LISP (well, if your mom is of a certain bent), whatever you want, will allow her to be productive without having to dump too much time into learning the idiosyncrasies of the language.
Doesn't pixel stand for "picture element?" Sounds like he just skipped the intermediate step.
From this little blurb, I'm not quite sure how this is supposed to work. So the sender's ISP sends a notification to the recipient's ISP that a message is available instead of sending the whole message. How does this combat spam? All I can think of is that it forces the spammers to host their own spam and pay for their own bandwidth, which is, I suppose, a large deterrent.