This is not fully on topic, but I'm worried about the minimalist trend going on in GUIs these days, such as the disappearing of the URL bar in browsers, hiding things behind clicks instead of immediately visible, removing the minimize and maximize buttons from windows, etc...
I like having status bars, lots of indicators, toolbar buttons, menus with many options and customizations, having as much mouse buttons with a useful feature as possible, etc...
Do you think the minimalist trend is temporary? Or should I really be worried?
So it's a programmable calculator, but users are not allowed to actually programmed it?
I think calculators started to such around the point where the target audience was students doing exams that impose certain restrictions on calculators, instead of engineers.
The floppy disks probably didn't work anymore anyway. Almost none of my old floppy disks is currently readable. I think floppy disks die after 10 years, even if in a dark cabinet.
I still put a floppy drive in the latest PC I built, but haven't needed it a single time. I don't think I'll include one in my next PC.
It's awesome to see a full x86 implementation in so little JS. This is a brilliant piece of work. I'm only saddened by the usage of a type of JavaScript that only works in FF4 and Chrome 11. It doesn't work in FF 3.6 or Chrome 12. Are these fragile JS features that only work in so few browsers really required to get this to work?
"You can't help but think that this is the way all programming will be done in the future."
No, I am very sure it will not be.
I once had to use a graphical system to create a build script for something. All the time during the time I used it, I was wishing it would be a normal, plain text, programming language instead. Working with the mouse does not allow those text operations you need like easily duplicating, search and replacing, etc...
Plain text will always be more powerful than mouse. Try doing a regexp on your graphical programming language...
I can see the script already. First a speech. Then a spacecraft launches. A moon base gets built. Miners start working. Spacecraft filled up with He-3 returns to Earth. Cheers from the crowd. The End.
Hmm, or maybe there should be some moon monsters added in there to make it more interesting.
I don't really think the battery itself is important, but the power stored in it is. You pay for X amount of power, you get X amount of power, it's the responsability of the provider to ensure the batter is good enough to still contain that amount of power, so older ones will be thrown away.
I didn't read the article, only saw the video, but the video shows the machine punching only one hole through the disk? That leaves all the other data intact. Or does the machine keep repeating this step for the whole area of the disk and did the video show only one of the punches?
Anyway, why does the force even matter? If it punches only one hole. Whether that hole was made with one gram or one teraton of force, it's still just one hole...
Well, the thing is, when KDE4 was released, I liked various changes they did to the desktop manager, but hated many things they did to the applications, they completely destroyed all usefulness and productivity that Kate had for programming by destroying the search function, its dialogs, and making it per-file. It's stupid that changing your window manager also requires changing to crippled versions of applications. Plus it also makes me wonder what the KDE developer's focus is. I care about the window manager part of KDE. But they appear to care more about the applications, when looking in the changelists. And I didn't like a single change they did to the applications ever since after the latest KDE 3.5 was released.
My opinion about KDE is: it could use a good fork of KDE 3.5, which is converted to use Qt 4, and with some of the new composite features added on top of it.
The application suite should be a separate project rather than considered part of KDE, so that for example changes to mail or text editor programs are something independent than changes to the actual desktop and windowing system.
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This is not fully on topic, but I'm worried about the minimalist trend going on in GUIs these days, such as the disappearing of the URL bar in browsers, hiding things behind clicks instead of immediately visible, removing the minimize and maximize buttons from windows, etc...
I like having status bars, lots of indicators, toolbar buttons, menus with many options and customizations, having as much mouse buttons with a useful feature as possible, etc...
Do you think the minimalist trend is temporary? Or should I really be worried?
Thanks!
I was working with 1600x1200 in the year 2001!
34FPS on average. The only problem is the sound quality is really bad. Like, really, really bad.
How comes everytime ./ reports something on new NVidia cards, it's about crappy mobile versions? I'm interested in true computing power!
Towel Boy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mzCyaojVWs
Oh man, I've got no idea what's going on!
I thought they said aristocrats.
Aristocrat zombies, that could be interesting...
Isn't there more profit in not despising customers? I mean, if the product is better people are more likely to want it and such...
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So it's a programmable calculator, but users are not allowed to actually programmed it?
I think calculators started to such around the point where the target audience was students doing exams that impose certain restrictions on calculators, instead of engineers.
The floppy disks probably didn't work anymore anyway. Almost none of my old floppy disks is currently readable. I think floppy disks die after 10 years, even if in a dark cabinet.
I still put a floppy drive in the latest PC I built, but haven't needed it a single time. I don't think I'll include one in my next PC.
Isn't that pretty much the kind of stuff people do when grinding in MMORPGs these days?
So should I be blowing glass bulbs and putting metal wires in it to receive them myself then?
It's 480x800 pixels. Does it use 3 LEDs per pixel for colors? That'll be 1152000 IPv6 addresses please. Thank you.
It's awesome to see a full x86 implementation in so little JS. This is a brilliant piece of work. I'm only saddened by the usage of a type of JavaScript that only works in FF4 and Chrome 11. It doesn't work in FF 3.6 or Chrome 12. Are these fragile JS features that only work in so few browsers really required to get this to work?
They should have said "milk bottle" though, it would have fit better.
"You can't help but think that this is the way all programming will be done in the future."
No, I am very sure it will not be.
I once had to use a graphical system to create a build script for something. All the time during the time I used it, I was wishing it would be a normal, plain text, programming language instead. Working with the mouse does not allow those text operations you need like easily duplicating, search and replacing, etc...
Plain text will always be more powerful than mouse. Try doing a regexp on your graphical programming language...
So, nope.
I can see the script already. First a speech. Then a spacecraft launches. A moon base gets built. Miners start working. Spacecraft filled up with He-3 returns to Earth. Cheers from the crowd. The End.
Hmm, or maybe there should be some moon monsters added in there to make it more interesting.
The article says a qwerty keyboard in the living room is a bad idea, without explaining why. So, why?
Thanks.
I don't really think the battery itself is important, but the power stored in it is. You pay for X amount of power, you get X amount of power, it's the responsability of the provider to ensure the batter is good enough to still contain that amount of power, so older ones will be thrown away.
Oh so the expensive machine is not intended to prevent forensics from reading the contents of the disk then?
I didn't read the article, only saw the video, but the video shows the machine punching only one hole through the disk? That leaves all the other data intact. Or does the machine keep repeating this step for the whole area of the disk and did the video show only one of the punches?
Anyway, why does the force even matter? If it punches only one hole. Whether that hole was made with one gram or one teraton of force, it's still just one hole...
Well, the thing is, when KDE4 was released, I liked various changes they did to the desktop manager, but hated many things they did to the applications, they completely destroyed all usefulness and productivity that Kate had for programming by destroying the search function, its dialogs, and making it per-file. It's stupid that changing your window manager also requires changing to crippled versions of applications. Plus it also makes me wonder what the KDE developer's focus is. I care about the window manager part of KDE. But they appear to care more about the applications, when looking in the changelists. And I didn't like a single change they did to the applications ever since after the latest KDE 3.5 was released.
Did I read this article correctly or did it say "they" will be using your FarmVille credits as a measure of your worth? What if you don't play FV?
My opinion about KDE is: it could use a good fork of KDE 3.5, which is converted to use Qt 4, and with some of the new composite features added on top of it.
The application suite should be a separate project rather than considered part of KDE, so that for example changes to mail or text editor programs are something independent than changes to the actual desktop and windowing system.
And all this for desktop computers of course.
My $0.02.