It's a Simpsons reference. The world was taken over by aliens and Kent Brockman, the news reporter makes an apperance on TV saying "I, for one, welcome our new alien overlords.".. he says more, but I can't quote that precisely.
If more people running Windows just started running Mozilla or Opera instead, the percentage of people not running IE could increase to maybe, what, 5%? Even that would mean that owners of some sites will realize (through looking in their logs) that 1 out of 20 people visiting their site can't view their site and they will have an incentive to make their site work with more browsers.
What if a AIDS medicine company stumbled over a
perfect sure for AIDS.. Being commercial they would be faced with a dilemma - release the medicine for free and save the world from AIDS or
continue making money??
Okay, for fetched.. better example: Someone in an
oil company stumbles over the design for an
engine that will run on water.. what does he do?
Bomb Jack ruled! I could stand there for hours. At work, we had a Bomb Jack machine and we had to set it to the highest difficulty level so people wouldn't spend all their lunch break with it. Of course, I did anyway.
and whatever comes after that... just withhold features and sell them a few years later as a XYZ phone, that everyone "obviously" will need.. or the cable operators change from GSM or something, forcing you to buy new phones... just like the Wintel cartel..
> In explorer: Click the first file, hold down
> Ctrl, click the second file, click the third
> file. Right-Click one of them -> SendTo ->
> Floppy.
Argh, okay.. so they thought about the floppy drive.. could have been something else (in wincmd: whatever is in the other window)..
Another good example: The way wincmd handles compressed files (yes,.tgz and.tar.gz files too).. like directories (MC does this too).. great abstraction!
> BUT how do you print a directory listing from
> within Explorer? How about wincmd?
I never needed that, but I would do (in wincmd):
dir > lpt1:
or maybe "dir >x" and then edit the "x" file to make it nice, and print it out.. I dunno.. don't need that..
I often need to convert graphics files.. I use Image Alchemy for that (renamed the ALCHEMY.EXE to "al" for speed).. so I would be on top of a TGA file in wincmd and type "al -t -Xd720 -Yd576 -8 -z4" or something to convert.. it's very fast and a good example of the power you get when combining the prompt with a (usable) principle like the Commander.:)
If forgot about the wonderful prompt in wincmd that you can use all the time and press Ctrl-Enter to transfer the current filename to it, etc.. A brilliant idea.. Midnight Commander has it, nothing else does.. why the h*** not??? (and I'm not talking about some function you can invoke that pops up a dialog where you can enter a command line!)
The good ol' DOS program "Norton Commander" used to assist me for years.. then I was forced to use windows and looked for something similar.. The "My computer" thing and the "Explorer" was good for nothing speed-wise compared with NC. I found some NC clones for windows but they all lacked the features, the speed, and THE KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS. Then finally (after years) I found Windows Commander (at the time version 3.5 I think).. it _ruled_.. finally, I could navigate, copy, rename, view, edit, hex-dump, basically everything file-related as quick as I wanted and as quick as I could think again.. first time since the DOS-days.
For me, it comes down to NOT HAVING TO USE THE MOUSE. The mouse is **SLOW**. A filemanager correctly made (like Windows Commander) will _always_ be faster for the experienced user.
Now I have a job where I use Solaris and Linux. The Midnight Commander goes a long way, but it's not as efficient as WinCmd.:( Try hitting ENTER on a JPG file and quickly viewing it, then hitting ESC to go back, get the focus back and everything.. hitting shift-F6 to rename the file.. hmmm.. a lot faster in wincmd with acdsee32. Better example: Copying three files to the floppy disk:
In wincmd: select them with Insert, press F5, write "A:", press ENTER.
In explorer: Click the first file, hold down Ctrl, click the second file, click the third file. Press Ctrl-C. Scroll the bar up to find the "A:" icon. Click on it. Press Ctrl-V. Might be an easier way, but I had the work done in wincmd probably before the winslows user pressed Ctrl-C!!!
Under Solaris/Linux I use bash/tcsh ALL the time for everything.. which is good and nice.. A GUI interface like Nautilus is good for the newbie user coming from windows. Look-wise, it's obviously a rip-off from explorer. If they don't put in some nice keyboard-shortcuts - in other words: if it can't be operated 100% without the mouse - it's worth next to nothing for an experienced user.
Then again, with Linux we have the choice.. if you don't like it, don't install it, don't use it.. or code what you need yourself! With Windows, you can't just say "don't install explorer - I don't want it!"
Actually part of the reason why I never get much done at home is my wife literally dragging me away from the computer. Who said men are machines anyway?:)
Once I couldn't do homework at home so I would go to the university and sit there to do the homework to enforce the distinction between work/school and home/relaxing.
I have no trouble at work but in my sparetime, I'm working on a project together with a friend. The project has been running for about three years and the focus is a bit hard to keep. When I'm home and have time to work on the project I never get anything done. Same thing happens as with the guy submitting the problem. The only solution I have found so far is to meet with my friend, sit at his place with my laptop and code it there. Then there's a pressure from him (and vice versa - he needs to work too!) and we get incredible amounts of work done in just a couple of hours.
I have now just accepted that I probably can't work on this project in any other way. Three years ago I would rush home and work on it all night but now we "just" need to wrap it up.
So my friend and I meet as often as possible to get it done.
I have spent about three years programming a 2D animation program but we don't give it away for free. It is not intended consumers but rather big professional companies. It costs $1495 a pop.
For all calculations, the metric system rocks. I feel lucky being brought up on it (as I'm from Denmark). I wouldn't like to sit in America realising how illogical non-metric systems are and having to choose between
1) Hating it, disregarding its logic and ease as being of "minor importance"
2) Endorsing it (in vain of course) and being stuck in the middle. Just like Linux advocating was like a few years ago.:)
Windows is also the problem - this virus not only reproduces - it also deletes files, changes startup setting for the computer. Those system changes would not be allowed on any normal UNIX system.
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It's a Simpsons reference. The world was taken over by aliens and Kent Brockman, the news reporter makes an apperance on TV saying "I, for one, welcome our new alien overlords.".. he says more, but I can't quote that precisely.
Can't believe nobody said it yet, but
I for one welcome our new bacteria overlords..
If more people running Windows just started running Mozilla or Opera instead, the percentage of people not running IE could increase to maybe, what, 5%? Even that would mean that owners of some sites will realize (through looking in their logs) that 1 out of 20 people visiting their site can't view their site and they will have an incentive to make their site work with more browsers.
Does anybody know what percentage "we"'re at now?
What if a AIDS medicine company stumbled over a
perfect sure for AIDS.. Being commercial they would be faced with a dilemma - release the medicine for free and save the world from AIDS or
continue making money??
Okay, for fetched.. better example: Someone in an
oil company stumbles over the design for an
engine that will run on water.. what does he do?
Bomb Jack ruled! I could stand there for hours. At work, we had a Bomb Jack machine and we had to set it to the highest difficulty level so people wouldn't spend all their lunch break with it. Of course, I did anyway.
I agree! The classic games were something special
Your roommate understands english, a highly irregular and ambigous language.
You computer understands a different language.
find . -atime +7 -exec rm {} \; rm *purple*
it takes maybe about 5-10 years to learn how to speak english fluently. Shell scripting or even C/C++ is not that difficult.
Don't fight the command line. It is your friend.
and whatever comes after that... just withhold features and sell them a few years later as a XYZ phone, that everyone "obviously" will need.. or the cable operators change from GSM or something, forcing you to buy new phones... just like the Wintel cartel..
> In explorer: Click the first file, hold down
.tgz and .tar.gz files too).. like directories (MC does this too).. great abstraction!
:)
> Ctrl, click the second file, click the third
> file. Right-Click one of them -> SendTo ->
> Floppy.
Argh, okay.. so they thought about the floppy drive.. could have been something else (in wincmd: whatever is in the other window)..
Another good example: The way wincmd handles compressed files (yes,
> BUT how do you print a directory listing from
> within Explorer? How about wincmd?
I never needed that, but I would do (in wincmd):
dir > lpt1:
or maybe "dir >x" and then edit the "x" file to make it nice, and print it out.. I dunno.. don't need that..
I often need to convert graphics files.. I use Image Alchemy for that (renamed the ALCHEMY.EXE to "al" for speed).. so I would be on top of a TGA file in wincmd and type "al -t -Xd720 -Yd576 -8 -z4" or something to convert.. it's very fast and a good example of the power you get when combining the prompt with a (usable) principle like the Commander.
If forgot about the wonderful prompt in wincmd that you can use all the time and press Ctrl-Enter to transfer the current filename to it, etc.. A brilliant idea.. Midnight Commander has it, nothing else does.. why the h*** not??? (and I'm not talking about some function you can invoke that pops up a dialog where you can enter a command line!)
The good ol' DOS program "Norton Commander" used to assist me for years.. then I was forced to use windows and looked for something similar.. The "My computer" thing and the "Explorer" was good for nothing speed-wise compared with NC. I found some NC clones for windows but they all lacked the features, the speed, and THE KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS. Then finally (after years) I found Windows Commander (at the time version 3.5 I think).. it _ruled_.. finally, I could navigate, copy, rename, view, edit, hex-dump, basically everything file-related as quick as I wanted and as quick as I could think again.. first time since the DOS-days.
:( Try hitting ENTER on a JPG file and quickly viewing it, then hitting ESC to go back, get the focus back and everything.. hitting shift-F6 to rename the file.. hmmm.. a lot faster in wincmd with acdsee32. Better example: Copying three files to the floppy disk:
For me, it comes down to NOT HAVING TO USE THE MOUSE. The mouse is **SLOW**. A filemanager correctly made (like Windows Commander) will _always_ be faster for the experienced user.
Now I have a job where I use Solaris and Linux. The Midnight Commander goes a long way, but it's not as efficient as WinCmd.
In wincmd: select them with Insert, press F5, write "A:", press ENTER.
In explorer: Click the first file, hold down Ctrl, click the second file, click the third file. Press Ctrl-C. Scroll the bar up to find the "A:" icon. Click on it. Press Ctrl-V. Might be an easier way, but I had the work done in wincmd probably before the winslows user pressed Ctrl-C!!!
Under Solaris/Linux I use bash/tcsh ALL the time for everything.. which is good and nice.. A GUI interface like Nautilus is good for the newbie user coming from windows. Look-wise, it's obviously a rip-off from explorer. If they don't put in some nice keyboard-shortcuts - in other words: if it can't be operated 100% without the mouse - it's worth next to nothing for an experienced user.
Then again, with Linux we have the choice.. if you don't like it, don't install it, don't use it.. or code what you need yourself! With Windows, you can't just say "don't install explorer - I don't want it!"
> > my wife literally dragging me away from the
:)
> > computer.
> are you complaining?
Not really.
You married?
Actually part of the reason why I never get much done at home is my wife literally dragging me away from the computer. Who said men are machines anyway? :)
Once I couldn't do homework at home so I would go to the university and sit there to do the homework to enforce the distinction between work/school and home/relaxing.
I have no trouble at work but in my sparetime, I'm working on a project together with a friend. The project has been running for about three years and the focus is a bit hard to keep. When I'm home and have time to work on the project I never get anything done. Same thing happens as with the guy submitting the problem. The only solution I have found so far is to meet with my friend, sit at his place with my laptop and code it there. Then there's a pressure from him (and vice versa - he needs to work too!) and we get incredible amounts of work done in just a couple of hours.
I have now just accepted that I probably can't work on this project in any other way. Three years ago I would rush home and work on it all night but now we "just" need to wrap it up.
So my friend and I meet as often as possible to get it done.
alpha is a product release with known bugs/missing features
beta is a product with no known bugs or missing features
The beta is usually sent out when the development team can't find more bugs or can't find bugs fast enough.
I have spent about three years programming a 2D animation program but we don't give it away for free. It is not intended consumers but rather big professional companies. It costs $1495 a pop.
It will be released for Linux also.
http://www.km-animation.dk/pap
Already slashdotted (there's a shocker).
Could someone mirror or post the text or sumthin'?
A ton is 1000kg. :)
Also, it's the weight of a cube with dimensions
1m by 1m by 1m (filled with plain water) (1 million litres). Isn't it beautiful?
For all calculations, the metric system rocks. I feel lucky being brought up on it (as I'm from Denmark). I wouldn't like to sit in America realising how illogical non-metric systems are and having to choose between
:)
1) Hating it, disregarding its logic and ease as being of "minor importance"
2) Endorsing it (in vain of course) and being stuck in the middle. Just like Linux advocating was like a few years ago.
Interesting.. but please fix the spelling error in the heading.
So what if 10 individual users collectively post the whole thing by "citing" only 1/10 of the document each? :)
> today's hard sciene fiction authors, like Kim
> Stanley Robinson, or David Brin are
> building tomorrow, IMHO.
As long as it's not a certain L. Ron. H....
> Windows is not the problem - Outlook is.
Windows is also the problem - this virus not only reproduces - it also deletes files, changes startup setting for the computer. Those system changes would not be allowed on any normal UNIX system.
Maybe in a few weeks, we will have a different worm (a small variation) saying "ILOVEYOUTOO" :)
Our company was just hit by this - one NT server and two workstations down.. it deletes and renames files like there's no tomorrow.
UNIX would not have a problem here..
Maybe in the long run though - but at least a virus would "only" be able to do what the user can do - not nuke the system.
People still have to be dumb enough to open the attachment.
> It's like driving a car, you just get in the
> thing and put your foot down. Do you care what
> makes it work underneath?
But wouldn't you learn how to drive a stick if it would give you a 10% better milage?