1) and 2) can and have already been easily addressed even though they could be answered by a simple google search. 3) is a non-sequitur, but has been answered anyway. 4) I know several renters who own electric cars, they trickle-charge them from a standard outlet while they sleep, it makes very little impact on their monthly electric bill and their landlords don't even notice. Do you have any actual information or are you just making stuff up?
5) Your sig. You are an electric car bigot. Please rm -rf yourself.
Wrong. Definitions of terms can change over time. What were once considered high-level languages may now be termed as low-level languages, with the introduction of even higher-level languages. It's not the GP's fault that you failed to pay attention while you got old.
"The Virginias incorporate several innovations. Instead of periscopes, the subs have a pair of extendable "photonics masts" outside the pressure hull. Each contains several high-resolution cameras with light-intensification and infrared sensors, an infrared laser rangefinder, and an integrated Electronic Support Measures (ESM) array. Signals from the masts' sensors are transmitted through fiber optic data lines through signal processors to the control center. "
Interesting. Why was this not done for the version 3-4 transition? Were the version 3 and 4 libraries unable to coexist?
Essentially, yes.
For instance, I've perused many of the development docs on the Trinity Project's wiki when I was interested in building myself a modern KDE3 desktop. The amount of effort that project's members have put into maintaining QT3/KDE3 apps and porting them to QT4 is impressive, and it's not hard to imagine that the level of effort required would have easily doubled the amount of effort it would have taken the KDE team to release KDE4.
I can second Gitorious. A few years ago I set up gitorious on a spare server we had in the organization I was working for at the time. Worked great, and the interface was great especially for people who were new to git coming from other version control systems. Since it was open source it was also pretty easy for me to hook into our existing LDAP authentication.
That said, my current company uses gitolite and that works pretty well for us.
Finally didn't the Pythons come to the conclusion that: 'Reg has the right to have children, even though he doesn't have a womb, which is nobodies fault, not even the Romans.'
It was Stan who has the right to have babies, not Reg. And he (Stan) now prefers 'Loretta'.
One thing I didn't see how to do is to open a link in a new tab without right-click => open in new tab. In Mozilla, you can middle click to open in a new tab. Is there anyway to do this in Konq?
The default action for middle-click is to open in a new window, but it's pretty simple to change it to open in a new tab. Go to Settings->Configure Konqueror->Web Behavior and just check the box.
There's enough contrast that it's not a problem. My QA (colorblind bro-in-law) said he could read it just fine.
QA from one colorblind person is hardly enough to call your game colorblind friendly. Every person I have ever met who is red-green colorblind still has a varying degree of colors that they can and cannot differentiate between. Just because it looks fine to your brother-in-law does not mean that it will be easy to read by someone else who is also red-green colorblind. I took a look at your screenshots, and although they looked okay to me, I don't think that my uncle, who has a much harder time with his colorblindness than I do, would be able to see it.
Try using colors that are independent of colorblindness. You can use oranges, purples, and yellows to make an image look uniform to most eyeballs.
There are hardly any colors that are really independent of colorblindness. I shouldn't have to remind you about RGB color. The only color that would be independent would be pure blue. Orange and purple are definately not independent, I cannot see an orange golf ball on green grass, and there is only a small range of purple I can see, usually I mistake lighter, lavender colors for pink, and I can't differentiate darker purples from dark blues. I quite often mistake lighter greens for yellow as well. But I am still considered to be only red-green colorblind. It's not a description of the colors you can't see, it's the defective cones (the things that sense color) in your eyes, of which there are only red/green/blue.
Wireless is the way to go. I have a Logitech wireless optical mouse, and I change the batteries maybe once every 6-8 months. I also really like the added weight the batteries give, it makes for smoother turning (especially when you have to whip-around and 180 real fast) in shooters once you get used to it. Besides, wires are for suckers:)
I see what you're saying, I just think there must have been better ways to fix the problem. If I select a menu item, and the system's performance is so fast that I can't see the GUI feedback, presumably, the system's performance is also fast enough for me to see the desired effect almost instantaneously (ala copy&paste).
But that was really just one critique out of many. What about disk space warnings and the ability to kill transfers? That doesn't really sound like ground-breaking GUI work to me either.
I can't believe anyone actually went to that site. Anyway, it's just some crappy javascript that used to work circa Netscape 4.0, I know it doesn't do anything now, I just don't care enough to update it.
But even if I did, I still wouldn't be impressed. I'm not criticizing the program because it is an FTP program. It doesn't matter how big the web was back in 1994. I'm criticizing a few simple little features that Quinn (and you, apparently) are claiming were groundbreaking, like crippling performance just so they can see the menu blink.
It looks like this guy just made a page to make himself feel better. Half of the "GUI subtleties" are from some app that he helped design. It's just a friggin' ftp program (and one I've never heard of, at that), and it's not exactly ground breaking.
If you look hard enough you will most likely find that your home is probably like most other 21st century homes and comes with telephone wires that COME RIGHT INTO YOUR HOUSE!!! These so-called "land-lines" don't suffer from the same reception problems as cell-phones because the signal is not blocked by walls, it actually goes right through them using the highly-advanced space-age technology of copper wires. Best of all, compatible receivers can be found for a fraction of the cost of cellular phones!
And do you think you could compose a masterpiece playing a piano with your fists?
I for one like to put all my fingers to good use (except my pinky, but everyone knows that's the most useless finger anyway). I have a 4-button Logitech mouse (3+wheel) and I'd beat you to death with it if you ever tried to make me go back to even a 2-button, let alone 1-button mouse. Even though it was a bitch to set up under X, I love being able to scroll up or down without having to click on those tiny arrows.
And everytime I show a windows or mac user my middle-button-pasting power, they are always amazed. Every UNIX user here probably uses that all the time, I know I use it on a daily basis.
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1) and 2) can and have already been easily addressed even though they could be answered by a simple google search. 3) is a non-sequitur, but has been answered anyway. 4) I know several renters who own electric cars, they trickle-charge them from a standard outlet while they sleep, it makes very little impact on their monthly electric bill and their landlords don't even notice. Do you have any actual information or are you just making stuff up?
5) Your sig. You are an electric car bigot. Please rm -rf yourself.
"why's (poignant) guide to Ruby" is still the best manual for a programming language that I have ever read.
The best part about this post is the disclaimer at the end, followed up by your sig.
Wrong. Definitions of terms can change over time. What were once considered high-level languages may now be termed as low-level languages, with the introduction of even higher-level languages. It's not the GP's fault that you failed to pay attention while you got old.
Dude, this machine doesn't even have 2.2GB of memory available (2GB total) and I've got like 50 tabs open. WTF are those 4 sites you are looking at?!
I wish that this is sarcasm, but in my heart know that it is truth.
Yes, they have. At least in the new Virginia-class.
From http://www.public.navy.mil/sub...
"The Virginias incorporate several innovations. Instead of periscopes, the subs have a pair of extendable "photonics masts" outside the pressure hull. Each contains several high-resolution cameras with light-intensification and infrared sensors, an infrared laser rangefinder, and an integrated Electronic Support Measures (ESM) array. Signals from the masts' sensors are transmitted through fiber optic data lines through signal processors to the control center. "
Interesting. Why was this not done for the version 3-4 transition? Were the version 3 and 4 libraries unable to coexist?
Essentially, yes. For instance, I've perused many of the development docs on the Trinity Project's wiki when I was interested in building myself a modern KDE3 desktop. The amount of effort that project's members have put into maintaining QT3/KDE3 apps and porting them to QT4 is impressive, and it's not hard to imagine that the level of effort required would have easily doubled the amount of effort it would have taken the KDE team to release KDE4.
scroll content in interesting ways
What ways are there except for uppy-downy and lefty-righty? ;)
Wibbly-wobbly?
Well, I thought it was funny. No mod points for me today though...
I can second Gitorious. A few years ago I set up gitorious on a spare server we had in the organization I was working for at the time. Worked great, and the interface was great especially for people who were new to git coming from other version control systems. Since it was open source it was also pretty easy for me to hook into our existing LDAP authentication.
That said, my current company uses gitolite and that works pretty well for us.
But, but, but.... He organized the Olympics!
God dammit you're an idiot. A mind-blowingly hude idiot. Wow. I'm seriously impressed by your idiocy.
^this
Finally didn't the Pythons come to the conclusion that: 'Reg has the right to have children, even though he doesn't have a womb, which is nobodies fault, not even the Romans.'
It was Stan who has the right to have babies, not Reg. And he (Stan) now prefers 'Loretta'.
One thing I didn't see how to do is to open a link in a new tab without right-click => open in new tab. In Mozilla, you can middle click to open in a new tab. Is there anyway to do this in Konq?
The default action for middle-click is to open in a new window, but it's pretty simple to change it to open in a new tab. Go to Settings->Configure Konqueror->Web Behavior and just check the box.
What other kinds of war are there?
There's enough contrast that it's not a problem. My QA (colorblind bro-in-law) said he could read it just fine.
QA from one colorblind person is hardly enough to call your game colorblind friendly. Every person I have ever met who is red-green colorblind still has a varying degree of colors that they can and cannot differentiate between. Just because it looks fine to your brother-in-law does not mean that it will be easy to read by someone else who is also red-green colorblind. I took a look at your screenshots, and although they looked okay to me, I don't think that my uncle, who has a much harder time with his colorblindness than I do, would be able to see it.
Try using colors that are independent of colorblindness. You can use oranges, purples, and yellows to make an image look uniform to most eyeballs.
There are hardly any colors that are really independent of colorblindness. I shouldn't have to remind you about RGB color. The only color that would be independent would be pure blue. Orange and purple are definately not independent, I cannot see an orange golf ball on green grass, and there is only a small range of purple I can see, usually I mistake lighter, lavender colors for pink, and I can't differentiate darker purples from dark blues. I quite often mistake lighter greens for yellow as well. But I am still considered to be only red-green colorblind. It's not a description of the colors you can't see, it's the defective cones (the things that sense color) in your eyes, of which there are only red/green/blue.
Wireless is the way to go. I have a Logitech wireless optical mouse, and I change the batteries maybe once every 6-8 months. I also really like the added weight the batteries give, it makes for smoother turning (especially when you have to whip-around and 180 real fast) in shooters once you get used to it. Besides, wires are for suckers :)
I see what you're saying, I just think there must have been better ways to fix the problem. If I select a menu item, and the system's performance is so fast that I can't see the GUI feedback, presumably, the system's performance is also fast enough for me to see the desired effect almost instantaneously (ala copy&paste).
But that was really just one critique out of many. What about disk space warnings and the ability to kill transfers? That doesn't really sound like ground-breaking GUI work to me either.
I don't know what to say...
I can't believe anyone actually went to that site. Anyway, it's just some crappy javascript that used to work circa Netscape 4.0, I know it doesn't do anything now, I just don't care enough to update it.
I never heard of it because I don't use Macs.
But even if I did, I still wouldn't be impressed. I'm not criticizing the program because it is an FTP program. It doesn't matter how big the web was back in 1994. I'm criticizing a few simple little features that Quinn (and you, apparently) are claiming were groundbreaking, like crippling performance just so they can see the menu blink.
It looks like this guy just made a page to make himself feel better. Half of the "GUI subtleties" are from some app that he helped design. It's just a friggin' ftp program (and one I've never heard of, at that), and it's not exactly ground breaking.
If you look hard enough you will most likely find that your home is probably like most other 21st century homes and comes with telephone wires that COME RIGHT INTO YOUR HOUSE!!! These so-called "land-lines" don't suffer from the same reception problems as cell-phones because the signal is not blocked by walls, it actually goes right through them using the highly-advanced space-age technology of copper wires. Best of all, compatible receivers can be found for a fraction of the cost of cellular phones!
I for one like to put all my fingers to good use (except my pinky, but everyone knows that's the most useless finger anyway). I have a 4-button Logitech mouse (3+wheel) and I'd beat you to death with it if you ever tried to make me go back to even a 2-button, let alone 1-button mouse. Even though it was a bitch to set up under X, I love being able to scroll up or down without having to click on those tiny arrows. And everytime I show a windows or mac user my middle-button-pasting power, they are always amazed. Every UNIX user here probably uses that all the time, I know I use it on a daily basis.