All data is software. An image file is nothing but a program that tells the computer how to order pixels in a defined size. Running a plugin or applet (which I mostly dislike) is no different than loading an image. It's all inline programs. The app loads the webpage inside itself, the webpage loads other apps inside itself, etc. *sighs* It semms to often most people don't recognize that all digitized data that follows a format is software.
I dislike Microsoft but I still don't see that this helps the development community or users at all. Software patents are stupid and a bad idea.. even when being used against that monopoly we love to hate. Anyone with an interest in the freedom of developers to develop what they want and the freedom of users to choose the best product for their needs can't see this as anything but a loss.
Lesbian? That's even more exciting. As all I can do is watch anyway we might as well involve a second woman. Oh no... nobody who EVER runs Windows and IE can be a geek. Damn her for not using Linux on every computer she hapens to be photographed with. Damn it that's what Knoppix CD's are for!
Damn this thing caused me hell fixing my parents XP box tonight. Every time I'd get online to download the patches for it the damn thing would be touched by the worm and would reboot itself. Very annoying when downloading patches over a 56K modem.
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You can use off the shelf model planes (or boats maybe?) if that is all you want to do. Launch them out off the coast line and just let them make their way into Miami or some similar place. With a slight bit of hacking you could do this yourself.
I think a submersible boat would be harder to detect than a plane. It could stick up an antenea to get it's GPS coords and use sonar to look for things it might bump into.. and just land itself on some beach and send out a signal to alert it's collector where to find it.
What would you, as Governor, do to help the economy recover and grow? What would you do to restart California's lead as the technology capital of the world and recreate the jobs that have been lost in recent years?
I think I should feel bad.. my first thought on seeing the story was 'yeh uhh huh, like a geek could get elected.' then 'wow, that used female pronouns.. geek girl?' and finally when I clicked on the site all conscience thought stopped as I mentally drooled at the prospect of a cute geek girl. My first thoughts were not what she was running for but to wonder if she had a web cam. Obviously, that is not proper behavior but it could be useful to her.. all those Natalie Portman fans now have somebody new to drool over and then can insure her continured media coverage by voting her into office. Can she really pull in all the trekkies, geeks, nerds, etc? If all those people voted she might do well.
To bad I live in the wrong state. When she runs for President she has my vote.. especially if she promises a 24/7 webcam of her activities.
Given we're geeks shouldn't we always pick the shortest spelling of a word? Why not just use flvr, clr, cntr, and idt? Vowels are for weenies.. not people that have to type all day. Of course I'm still in favor of simply numbering our words and writing in hex. "Nice to meet you." might become "6C8D A347 6526 B13A.".. simple! Of course it might make more sense to order words in the list by length such that short words get a shorter hex number.. or maybe go by frequency of use. 'the', 'to', 'a', 'or', 'and', etc should definately all get short hex representations.
I still haven't seen the original Zork series for console play. Bummer, IMO they are the best games ever made. I really like playing my lil text adventure games.:)
ThizLinux is absolutely the worst Linux distro I've tried and I've tried a lot of them (over many years). Worse is that these machines seem difficult to get working with other distros unless your really know what you are doing.. making them a poor choice for average Linux users that just want to buy a cheap box and reinstall with their choice distro. However, if you can get them working they aren't bad for $100. They won't be playing any cutting edge games but they really work okay for basics.
ThizLinux ranks along with Lindows in my list of distros that are giving Linux a bad name. Lindows at least is improving though.. so ThizLinux gets my top spot of shitty distro. I don't know why Fry's uses it except for the fact that these machines are probably made in some 3rd world country and the Chinese-lang install is possibly easier for their employees to install.
I wonder if Fry's would let the local lug group (LVLUG in this case) pass out Knoppix cd's and business cards (with the lug's contact info) with each of these machines.:)
I mostly meant because I was suggesting something like a joystick be provided.. so I was suggesting that unlike most scroll mice that make the wheel the middle button that for a joystick like button you would probably want to use your index finger (which for righties usually is on the left mouse button). I guess you could retrain yourself to use a different finger but I'd think the index finger would tend to still be more appropiate for this kind of use. I'd rather see right/left handed models for this kind of thing.. or a way to reconfigure the buttons physically (maybe have both right and left buttons able to act as a joystick num and have a leftie/rightie switch on the bottom of the mouse?).
I guess I wonder how many buttons a mouse really needs. I like three and I like scroll wheels but do we really need five button mice with scrolling/tilting wheels? How long before we are using 101 button mice?
I guess I'd be happy with a three button mouse where the left button (or right button for lefties) is a joystick nub that can also be clicked. That'd do everything I need without going completely crazy on buttons.
I remember the pucks (is that still the proper term?) we used to use for CAD.. That had like a dozen buttons, worked as a mouse, and had a lil sensor that could read the symbols the puck was actually pointing at on your lil mouse-pad type of deal. That'd be a bit overkill for most uses I think.
Of course, I'm interested in replacing my keyboard with a second mouse so that I can use combination mouse movements to stand for keystrokes also.. as well as allowing you to use both mice as mice. Like the keyboard recently feature on/. (the one that looked like boobs) but freestyle and usable with any two mice.:)
Taking away the ability to click the scroll wheel as a middle button though sounds dumb to me. Personally I'd just like a lil joystick nub there that can also be clicked. Then it could still be a middle mouse button, apps that wanted to could use it to scroll either way, some apps could use it as a second mouse cursor, and games would have an easy way to let you move your point of view (head, weapon, whatever) while using the normal mousing function to move your position (body or whatever). If done right that could be nice. It sounds similar to other peoples comments of mice with laptop-like nubs in that spot but evidently (from comments) those were poorly implemented. Or for that matter I guess you could give all three mouse buttons this ability.. to make it something of a combination mouse and awesome joystick. That could be overkill though. I think lil joystick nubs would be easier to use in this way than say trackballs.. as you don't want to need to lift your finger from the surface of the button.
Not true. I know a lot of people (myself included) that have done more opensource programming because of the poor job market. Being laid off or underemployed leaves more time and mental energy to spend on such projects and such projects can be an a good way to keep your skills sharp and boost your resume. When your life sucks you want to spend more time on hobbies that distract you.. such as coding.
As always though the two top motivations are that geeks like to code and that geeks like to show off what they can do.
Seeing those hits is somewhat addicting. Between the various programs I've released I see quite a few total hits (though many individual programs are pretty low) and always get a thrill when I see people actually using my programs. I do really like user feedback especially but that is somewhat rare.
Projects with broader appeal do get more hits and more feedback although I find that projects that are written well (few bugs or missing features) get very little feedback also. People just don't seem to write just to say thanks very often.. they usually only write if they want something.
If you're interested in donations to your project I'll say that you should probably forget it. Before 9/11 I got a small but steady trickle of donations coming in.. since then there has not been a single donation. I guess people are donated out or maybe I've just sucked since that time.;)
Good packaging so that non-technical users can install the PHP/MySQL would no doubt help market penetration.
You could list known hosting services that offer support and could probably get them to kick back a few dollars to your project each time somebody opens an account to use your software with. I've had several hosts make such a deal with me. Many of them would also be willing to post links back to your site which again would drive more eyes to you.
The key to vertical software like this is to fit the niche well and make it easily available to the non-geek people in these fields. Put a link in each site using your code back to your project, send a flyer (or make a phone call) to local real estate offices.. maybe put an ad in a magazine or professional journal for real estate agents.
I already have that covered. My spiders easily dig through Usenet and put together all the bits of binaries they find and save them for me. I don't even have to do anything as painful as trying to read the posts. It's Gnutella for people that have been online long enough to know Usenet exists.;)
Alcohol is no more dangerous than anything else. You could kill people with huge amounts of feathers. Would we blame the feathers and call them a dangerous substance or cry feather abuse?
I'd say alcohol has no blame whatsoever in drunk driving cases.. less than motor vehicles at any rate. It's the humans fault and they solely are to blame.
Not to be mean but it sounds like your brother in law was a raving looney that didn't have the will power to even make an effort to save his own life. You can hardly blame anybody or anything but himself.
Almost anything can be harmful if abused and many things we eat are toxic to some degree. Most plants have some degree of toxicity and ask any born again vegetarian to tell you the loads of nasty crap in meat. Somehow I don't plan on stopping my bad habit of eatting plants and animals though. Likewise, if I felt like it I'd drink an alcoholic beverage. I'd rather have milk or juice though usually.
I used to drink a good sized dose of vodka (or sometimes some hard stuff) before work each day.. just so I could stand to keep going. Not much point in drinking beer.. it takes to many to give you even a slight buzz.. all you end up having to do is pee.
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All data is software. An image file is nothing but a program that tells the computer how to order pixels in a defined size. Running a plugin or applet (which I mostly dislike) is no different than loading an image. It's all inline programs. The app loads the webpage inside itself, the webpage loads other apps inside itself, etc. *sighs* It semms to often most people don't recognize that all digitized data that follows a format is software.
I dislike Microsoft but I still don't see that this helps the development community or users at all. Software patents are stupid and a bad idea.. even when being used against that monopoly we love to hate. Anyone with an interest in the freedom of developers to develop what they want and the freedom of users to choose the best product for their needs can't see this as anything but a loss.
Lesbian? That's even more exciting. As all I can do is watch anyway we might as well involve a second woman. Oh no... nobody who EVER runs Windows and IE can be a geek. Damn her for not using Linux on every computer she hapens to be photographed with. Damn it that's what Knoppix CD's are for!
Damn this thing caused me hell fixing my parents XP box tonight. Every time I'd get online to download the patches for it the damn thing would be touched by the worm and would reboot itself. Very annoying when downloading patches over a 56K modem.
You can use off the shelf model planes (or boats maybe?) if that is all you want to do. Launch them out off the coast line and just let them make their way into Miami or some similar place. With a slight bit of hacking you could do this yourself.
I think a submersible boat would be harder to detect than a plane. It could stick up an antenea to get it's GPS coords and use sonar to look for things it might bump into.. and just land itself on some beach and send out a signal to alert it's collector where to find it.
What would you, as Governor, do to help the economy recover and grow? What would you do to restart California's lead as the technology capital of the world and recreate the jobs that have been lost in recent years?
I think I should feel bad.. my first thought on seeing the story was 'yeh uhh huh, like a geek could get elected.' then 'wow, that used female pronouns.. geek girl?' and finally when I clicked on the site all conscience thought stopped as I mentally drooled at the prospect of a cute geek girl. My first thoughts were not what she was running for but to wonder if she had a web cam. Obviously, that is not proper behavior but it could be useful to her.. all those Natalie Portman fans now have somebody new to drool over and then can insure her continured media coverage by voting her into office. Can she really pull in all the trekkies, geeks, nerds, etc? If all those people voted she might do well.
To bad I live in the wrong state. When she runs for President she has my vote.. especially if she promises a 24/7 webcam of her activities.
No, no, no.. we'll need to communicate with our console via our cellphones text messaging feature. :)
Given we're geeks shouldn't we always pick the shortest spelling of a word? Why not just use flvr, clr, cntr, and idt? Vowels are for weenies.. not people that have to type all day. Of course I'm still in favor of simply numbering our words and writing in hex. "Nice to meet you." might become "6C8D A347 6526 B13A.".. simple! Of course it might make more sense to order words in the list by length such that short words get a shorter hex number.. or maybe go by frequency of use. 'the', 'to', 'a', 'or', 'and', etc should definately all get short hex representations.
I still haven't seen the original Zork series for console play. Bummer, IMO they are the best games ever made. I really like playing my lil text adventure games. :)
ThizLinux is absolutely the worst Linux distro I've tried and I've tried a lot of them (over many years). Worse is that these machines seem difficult to get working with other distros unless your really know what you are doing.. making them a poor choice for average Linux users that just want to buy a cheap box and reinstall with their choice distro. However, if you can get them working they aren't bad for $100. They won't be playing any cutting edge games but they really work okay for basics.
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ThizLinux ranks along with Lindows in my list of distros that are giving Linux a bad name. Lindows at least is improving though.. so ThizLinux gets my top spot of shitty distro. I don't know why Fry's uses it except for the fact that these machines are probably made in some 3rd world country and the Chinese-lang install is possibly easier for their employees to install.
I wonder if Fry's would let the local lug group (LVLUG in this case) pass out Knoppix cd's and business cards (with the lug's contact info) with each of these machines.
I mostly meant because I was suggesting something like a joystick be provided.. so I was suggesting that unlike most scroll mice that make the wheel the middle button that for a joystick like button you would probably want to use your index finger (which for righties usually is on the left mouse button). I guess you could retrain yourself to use a different finger but I'd think the index finger would tend to still be more appropiate for this kind of use. I'd rather see right/left handed models for this kind of thing.. or a way to reconfigure the buttons physically (maybe have both right and left buttons able to act as a joystick num and have a leftie/rightie switch on the bottom of the mouse?).
I guess I wonder how many buttons a mouse really needs. I like three and I like scroll wheels but do we really need five button mice with scrolling/tilting wheels? How long before we are using 101 button mice?
/. (the one that looked like boobs) but freestyle and usable with any two mice. :)
I guess I'd be happy with a three button mouse where the left button (or right button for lefties) is a joystick nub that can also be clicked. That'd do everything I need without going completely crazy on buttons.
I remember the pucks (is that still the proper term?) we used to use for CAD.. That had like a dozen buttons, worked as a mouse, and had a lil sensor that could read the symbols the puck was actually pointing at on your lil mouse-pad type of deal. That'd be a bit overkill for most uses I think.
Of course, I'm interested in replacing my keyboard with a second mouse so that I can use combination mouse movements to stand for keystrokes also.. as well as allowing you to use both mice as mice. Like the keyboard recently feature on
Taking away the ability to click the scroll wheel as a middle button though sounds dumb to me. Personally I'd just like a lil joystick nub there that can also be clicked. Then it could still be a middle mouse button, apps that wanted to could use it to scroll either way, some apps could use it as a second mouse cursor, and games would have an easy way to let you move your point of view (head, weapon, whatever) while using the normal mousing function to move your position (body or whatever). If done right that could be nice. It sounds similar to other peoples comments of mice with laptop-like nubs in that spot but evidently (from comments) those were poorly implemented. Or for that matter I guess you could give all three mouse buttons this ability.. to make it something of a combination mouse and awesome joystick. That could be overkill though. I think lil joystick nubs would be easier to use in this way than say trackballs.. as you don't want to need to lift your finger from the surface of the button.
(Does anyone else thing scroll wheels look lewd?)
Not true. I know a lot of people (myself included) that have done more opensource programming because of the poor job market. Being laid off or underemployed leaves more time and mental energy to spend on such projects and such projects can be an a good way to keep your skills sharp and boost your resume. When your life sucks you want to spend more time on hobbies that distract you.. such as coding.
As always though the two top motivations are that geeks like to code and that geeks like to show off what they can do.
Seeing those hits is somewhat addicting. Between the various programs I've released I see quite a few total hits (though many individual programs are pretty low) and always get a thrill when I see people actually using my programs. I do really like user feedback especially but that is somewhat rare.
;)
Projects with broader appeal do get more hits and more feedback although I find that projects that are written well (few bugs or missing features) get very little feedback also. People just don't seem to write just to say thanks very often.. they usually only write if they want something.
If you're interested in donations to your project I'll say that you should probably forget it. Before 9/11 I got a small but steady trickle of donations coming in.. since then there has not been a single donation. I guess people are donated out or maybe I've just sucked since that time.
Good packaging so that non-technical users can install the PHP/MySQL would no doubt help market penetration.
You could list known hosting services that offer support and could probably get them to kick back a few dollars to your project each time somebody opens an account to use your software with. I've had several hosts make such a deal with me. Many of them would also be willing to post links back to your site which again would drive more eyes to you.
The key to vertical software like this is to fit the niche well and make it easily available to the non-geek people in these fields. Put a link in each site using your code back to your project, send a flyer (or make a phone call) to local real estate offices.. maybe put an ad in a magazine or professional journal for real estate agents.
Better yet /. them.. I suggest something like this lil command so that each of us can do our part..
wget -m -p -l8 --tries=1 "http://www.sco.com"
Most users are still connecting with 56K modems and are lucky to get about a 40K connection.. so I think most could make due with 1Mbps.
I already have that covered. My spiders easily dig through Usenet and put together all the bits of binaries they find and save them for me. I don't even have to do anything as painful as trying to read the posts. It's Gnutella for people that have been online long enough to know Usenet exists. ;)
They took over the market share with shabby products that allow spyware, viruses, cronic crashing, etc. Can't wait to have Usenet work as well!
There is alcohol in American beer? I can drink a 12 pack without getting buzzed. Lousy waste of money. :P
Alcohol is no more dangerous than anything else. You could kill people with huge amounts of feathers. Would we blame the feathers and call them a dangerous substance or cry feather abuse?
I'd say alcohol has no blame whatsoever in drunk driving cases.. less than motor vehicles at any rate. It's the humans fault and they solely are to blame.
Not to be mean but it sounds like your brother in law was a raving looney that didn't have the will power to even make an effort to save his own life. You can hardly blame anybody or anything but himself.
Almost anything can be harmful if abused and many things we eat are toxic to some degree. Most plants have some degree of toxicity and ask any born again vegetarian to tell you the loads of nasty crap in meat. Somehow I don't plan on stopping my bad habit of eatting plants and animals though. Likewise, if I felt like it I'd drink an alcoholic beverage. I'd rather have milk or juice though usually.
I used to drink a good sized dose of vodka (or sometimes some hard stuff) before work each day.. just so I could stand to keep going. Not much point in drinking beer.. it takes to many to give you even a slight buzz.. all you end up having to do is pee.