Anybody who has ever really been part of more than one real-life community, will agree that every community has it's own way of life, with a very different way of doing "things".
A lot of online community systems, such as slashdot are now beeing used for a variety of different communities. Some of these I would say, are less fit than others. Slashdot for example was designed as a system to cultivate a nerd community, as such it would probably not do very well as a superficial-teenage-pop-culture community.
Do you think that it is actually possible to create a community system, which will work with almost any type of community or would that just lead to a web dialect of PL1?
Is Ars Digita working on expanding it's community system, so it can be used for any type of community, or have you decided on a specific type of communities that the system should be capable of supporting?
It seems that a lot of people are missing the fact that brazil is actually based on the view of the future presented in george orwells great novel "1984", the novel that actually defined the concept of big brother..
And on a side note, anybody who enjoyed watching brazil, ought to watch Terry Gilliam presented the same vision once again 10 years later in 12 monkeys. Both movies are really great at giving us that true orwell like big-brother-paranoia!
The handwriting recognizer in the last version of the newton OS (2.1), is called rosetta and is just about perfect!! Before you have tried rosetta, you haven't tried real handwriting recognition!
Unfortunatly, rosetta is part of the technology from the newton which apple is keeping to them selfes..
a better solution, would probably be to create subdomains from the street names... So that you could be : Hans.Krautz@wurststrasse.hamburg.de This offcourse would not create entirely unique id's, but a lot better...
hmm.. i have a chameleon as a pet, and all of my litterature states that it's a myth...??
Its most likely that people have thought this was true, because the chameleon actually changes it's colors when changing habitat, ie. crawling from a tree down to sand, but this just temporary, and due to the fact that it is a very sensitive animal which gets stressed (and thus changes colors) with even the slightes changes in it's enviroment...
hope that's not really their thoughts... because that's actually not how the chameleon uses its colors:) A chameleon uses it colors to show it's mood, or to darken itself to collect more heat... Different species of chameleons have different color schemes based on the surroundings they live in.. these will not change if you change the habitat...
I agree, that it is insane to cram a full windows/gnome like interface on to such a small screen, but there is nothing wrong with a solid OS underneath... I personally use a Newton as my main PDA, and while it's interface is beautifully simple, the OS underneath is in fact very advanced. It is fully object oriented (based on a self like language), and has all the needed features like a good device driver architechture, multi threading etc etc....
Hopefully we will be able to use their hardware, and provide our own gui... would be nice to finally get a worthy replacement of the newton:)
While I am truly excited about getting my hands on one of these, I would really have wished for a bit bigger screen.. I am a trusty Newton user, simply because it is the ultimate tool for handwritten notes, not just because of it's recognition engine, but simply because, it has the perfect size for taking digital notes...
back to reality, and a device with a future:)
what are the possibilities for a handwriting recognizer to run under Linux? Does such an app exist... and if so is it free?
Is it at all feasable to waste space and time with such an engine for such a small screen size...
I have previously had a PalmPilot, and while i was very satisfied with it, I never really used it for taking notes... does anybody have some good or bad experiences with taking notes on a screen of this size??
I haven't used netscape much lately, whats the status on Java in this new version? straight by plugin, or still including their own version?
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Personally what i really enjoy in these types of books are the personal historical bits, like old emails letters and such, the give a better firsthand view of what happened... and even better what people "thought" was happening... looking very much forward to reading it...
HA... not a chance.... Evolution : DIY -> Slackware -> RedHat -> ??? well.. could be debian... i haven't actually given that a try yet.. perhaps I should before closing the circle with slackware again:)
It seems like every distribution these days are aiming at making everything VERY easy for new users... sure hope they mean it, when they say power users.. RedHat used to be ok, but since redhat 6.1 you don't even get the option of using fdisk, but are instead presented with a vastly inferior partition manager...
We actually just lost a domain name... and for no apperant reason (in other words, we are still trying to figure out why)... We ordered our company name... 14 days later we discover that someone else has registerd it in the mean time...:(
What we need is some VERY big fat flat guy with a baseball bat representing one of the sides in the cave... whenever you need the "real" sense of touching or hitting an obstacle.. WHAM!.. he swings the bat..
hmm.. he would be pretty hard to project from the back??.. perhaps if we cover him with a thin layer of glycerin.,. that has a very nasty refraction index:)
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Anybody who has ever really been part of more than one real-life community, will agree that every community has it's own way of life, with a very different way of doing "things".
A lot of online community systems, such as slashdot are now beeing used for a variety of different communities. Some of these I would say, are less fit than others. Slashdot for example was designed as a system to cultivate a nerd community, as such it would probably not do very well as a superficial-teenage-pop-culture community.
Do you think that it is actually possible to create a community system, which will work with almost any type of community or would that just lead to a web dialect of PL1?
Is Ars Digita working on expanding it's community system, so it can be used for any type of community, or have you decided on a specific type of communities that the system should be capable of supporting?
It seems that a lot of people are missing the fact that brazil is actually based on the view of the future presented in george orwells great novel "1984", the novel that actually defined the concept of big brother..
And on a side note, anybody who enjoyed watching brazil, ought to watch Terry Gilliam presented the same vision once again 10 years later in 12 monkeys. Both movies are really great at giving us that true orwell like big-brother-paranoia!
I totally agree... nothing is more pleasant for coding than a Sun keyboard... keeps your from over stretching your left pinkie :)
wouldn't it be a lot more usefull if we had special keys like "public" "void" "else" "while" and so forth.. :)
The handwriting recognizer in the last version of the newton OS (2.1), is called rosetta and is just about perfect!! Before you have tried rosetta, you haven't tried real handwriting recognition!
Unfortunatly, rosetta is part of the technology from the newton which apple is keeping to them selfes..
a better solution, would probably be to create subdomains from the street names ...
So that you could be : Hans.Krautz@wurststrasse.hamburg.de
This offcourse would not create entirely unique id's, but a lot better...
hmm.. i have a chameleon as a pet, and all of my litterature states that it's a myth...??
Its most likely that people have thought this was true, because the chameleon actually changes it's colors when changing habitat, ie. crawling from a tree down to sand, but this just temporary, and due to the fact that it is a very sensitive animal which gets stressed (and thus changes colors) with even the slightes changes in it's enviroment...
hope that's not really their thoughts... because that's actually not how the chameleon uses its colors :)
A chameleon uses it colors to show it's mood, or to darken itself to collect more heat...
Different species of chameleons have different color schemes based on the surroundings they live in.. these will not change if you change the habitat...
reminds me of "newt", the unofficial short for the newton messagepad...
:)
What does however constitute a good mascot name for a piece of software??
should it be cool, simple or cute??
seems like the opensource/linux comunity is collecting cute mascots (with tux offcourse being my favourite...)
One positive side of cute mascots, are that it makes it so much easier to get your girlfriend agree to have nerd merchendise laying around
I quite like using grafitti too, but on a newton, you can draw illustrations in you text, and it will recognize it as vectors...
Taking notes in a pure text based enviroment, is not really that great for everything....
I agree, that it is insane to cram a full windows/gnome like interface on to such a small screen, but there is nothing wrong with a solid OS underneath...
:)
I personally use a Newton as my main PDA, and while it's interface is beautifully simple, the OS underneath is in fact very advanced. It is fully object oriented (based on a self like language), and has all the needed features like a good device driver architechture, multi threading etc etc....
Hopefully we will be able to use their hardware, and provide our own gui... would be nice to finally get a worthy replacement of the newton
While I am truly excited about getting my hands on one of these, I would really have wished for a bit bigger screen.. I am a trusty Newton user, simply because it is the ultimate tool for handwritten notes, not just because of it's recognition engine, but simply because, it has the perfect size for taking digital notes...
:)
back to reality, and a device with a future
what are the possibilities for a handwriting recognizer to run under Linux?
Does such an app exist... and if so is it free?
Is it at all feasable to waste space and time with such an engine for such a small screen size...
I have previously had a PalmPilot, and while i was very satisfied with it, I never really used it for taking notes... does anybody have some good or bad experiences with taking notes on a screen of this size??
I haven't used netscape much lately, whats the status on Java in this new version? straight by plugin, or still including their own version?
Personally what i really enjoy in these types of books are the personal historical bits, like old emails letters and such, the give a better firsthand view of what happened... and even better what people "thought" was happening... looking very much forward to reading it...
HA... not a chance.... Evolution : DIY -> Slackware -> RedHat -> ??? well.. could be debian... i haven't actually given that a try yet.. perhaps I should before closing the circle with slackware again :)
It seems like every distribution these days are aiming at making everything VERY easy for new users... sure hope they mean it, when they say power users.. RedHat used to be ok, but since redhat 6.1 you don't even get the option of using fdisk, but are instead presented with a vastly inferior partition manager...
We actually just lost a domain name... and for no apperant reason (in other words, we are still trying to figure out why)... We ordered our company name... 14 days later we discover that someone else has registerd it in the mean time... :(
What we need is some VERY big fat flat guy with a baseball bat representing one of the sides in the cave... whenever you need the "real" sense of touching or hitting an obstacle.. WHAM!.. he swings the bat..
:)
hmm.. he would be pretty hard to project from the back??.. perhaps if we cover him with a thin layer of glycerin.,. that has a very nasty refraction index