Based on Total Annihilation, but is way ahead of its originator in many ways (some say it has better features than the upcoming Supreme Commander, eg, deformable terrain).
Open source. Cross platform (doesn't run on Mac yet, though).
Amazing what happens when fanatical open source developers get on top of a cross platform 3d kit.
I guess the 'future of security management' was invented "War Games" era, and for some reason it's really important to have an incredibly busy display, even when nothing is going on. With the 'scrolling' information, you can't even tell anything at a glance, and there's no search. One thing is for sure, these guys seem to know nothing about information display design, although I guess I'd consider them if I needed some Flash done for a video game.
I ran Debian on a Toshiba M200 (1.6ghz Pentium M, 2 GB RAM, 7200rpm HDD, dedicated NVidia video card). Good specs (at the time) for a 4 lb system, plus the tablet features. It was fast enough, and had a high res (but small) display so it was my primary dev system, although like the x60, it's a convertible, not a true tablet (big difference).
I never did focus on word recognition since I consider it awkward, and I didn't end up exploring the MS tablet integration features (some of which sound interesting) much before the XP partition died of a virus. Unfortunately, under Linux it was a challenge keeping the stylus, touchpad, rotation, power management, and video out working (or not). Not to mention the proprietary SD card reader. I'm no expert, but it was an unreasonable amount of very frustrating try-this, scanning outdated bulletin board conversations, etc work, and the implementations kept changing so if one thing is fixed, another breaks. This was 2004 - 2006, btw.
I did use it for some occasional drawing, and it was nice to be able to fold it down for some situations.
Having a vendor supported model would be a tremendous boost for Linux, and people like myself who want full vendor support. The kernel and the environment are of course separate, so it would really just take a 'certified' list of open source friendly hardware.
You must be less clumsy than I. I was repeatedly hitting it, because it's the easier combination to hit (same with delete vs eject). Worse, it takes so long to come up, and it has such a dorky interface (imo). Out of malice, I mapped it to control-shift-command-option-Esc.
I use a mac - a mac book pro, for nine months now. I am not enough of a cultist to believe it's perfect. Before that I used Linux, and I despite multimedia keyboards.
Points 1, 2 - esc and delete work in some mac apps (mail, dialogs), but not in others (finder). There are other examples, but I'll treat your laziness with laziness.
If you don't know what cursor keys are, you must have some kinda mouse. Or maybe you just like avoiding discussions with semantic boondoggles.
Front row key is by default cmd-esc. Have you ever seen a MacBook Pro? It's right beside the commonly used cmd-`. So when trying to switch between application windows. Or maybe you don't know about that shortcut, there are so many secrets. Anyway, it's likely one will press cmd-esc and get the simptastic Front Row.
Yes, Eject is right there - one of the easiest keys to type on the keyboard. I guess you missed my point, read some Raskin and maybe you'll see, or maybe you eject CDs more than you use any other key on your mac? You must be quite a multimedia maven.
Finally, the spinning beachball. How about it fancifully giving us a small readout of Activity Monitor info. I guess it's beyond your imagination because the Mac is perfect as is.
Do you mean the way the delete, esc, cursor and other keys work consistently in all Mac dialogs/apps, including Apple ones? Oh, they don't?
Do you mean the way Apple breaks the great rule of only putting important things on edges (which are easiest to reach) when they meanwhile put the Eject and Front Row buttons in these key positions on the MBP?
Oh, probably there is a boatload of $10 add-ons that will fix these issues.
Actually, what I really think Apple should do is replace the lollipop/beachball "oh, I've run out of system resources *again*" indicator to something that at least has some useful information. It's kind of dumb otherwise.
I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. - Bjarne Stroustrup
We have a highly specialized worker who may have the education, training and connections to do a very effective job in their realm. Using their computer system is a detail in the big picture. Yet you suggest firing them, as if they were dispensible (in case you didn't realize it, other areas have trouble finding dedicated people too) because they balk at a switchover to what is in many ways an inferior system. (I use OO every day. It is sluggish and unrefined compared to experiences with Office, and isn't as well integrated into the overall desktop experience).
Please, stay in the back room away from the real decision makers who have some perspective.
I think it was really that Commodore couldn't decide if the Amiga was a home computer for games/education, a business computer, or a professional multimedia computer. Of course, it could be all three, though least of all the business computer since it didn't do text very well.
You really can't market the Amiga 500, with a picture on the box of a kid in open mouth glee playing games, along with the Amiga 2000, with business/multimedia production, at the same time successfully. But it was when Commodore got distracted by PC clones - I remember their very unremarkable offerings - that things really went downhill.
Yes, I know it was clear. The squirming was his blushing and jokes when asked to restate it, their somewhat creepy pal-sy comments aside (considering how many people they represent)
It may be true that Novell has the best patent portfolio of the Linux companies, but it doesn't mean this isn't the same thing as the deals that were reached with Apple, Corel and others when Microsoft needed to prop someone up for their own gain.
And it doesn't change what's happening. Among other things, this deal doesn't represent Linux in general, it just implies the environment is more uncertain for them when it comes to IP suits. Yet many free/open source oriented companies (and individuals) are actively against patents, so how can the deal in the context of "open source" be about trading patents? Patents are in effect very speculative, is Novell wealthy otherwise? I wonder how their contributors feel about all this.
On the other hand, I think the.net (if it's called that today) vs. java validation swipe is good clean fun, if you ignore all the legal machinations, but the other aspects are by declared nature full of oppressive litigation.
And read people's analysis - just not the mainstream press, who spun this sensationally as "MS validates Linux." It becomes clear quickly that this is a very cold move to:
1. make it clear that Novell has the only authorized Linux, and anyone else is open to lawsuits. This is an attack on one of Microsoft's main challenges, Linux, as well as open source in general. They also make it clear that anyone but Novell who is funding open source development is subject to lawsuits.
2. make it clear.net (and mono) are legitimate options, if you work with MS or Novell. This is an attack on one of Microsoft's main challenges, the cross platform Java.
3. Establish that a normal way of doing business is to exchange patent suites. This is an attack on individuals and small business.
Watching the video, Novell's CEO slips in that he reached out to Microsoft. Missing that, during Q&A, someone asks who reached out to whom. He again has to state he reached out to MS, but with more visible squirming and coverup.
Also during Q&A, someone asks Ballmer if they would work with other vendors such as Red Hat on a similar deal. Ballmer talks for an extended period and does not address the question.
That this is spun as news is incredible, when you consider what they are really claiming here - that they are ready to sue any Novell/Open Source company that is not Novell.
Anyway, I think it's commendable that between the onion and beavis and butthead, we've found ways to shut people up from expressing their thoughts. All the world really needs is a "click to buy" button. Refined opinions aren't important.
I know it's fun to think in stereotypes (certainly makes things simpler), but try reading the book "the wisdom of crowds" for a few good examples of how mixed crowds can be smarter than the smartest people, consistently.
The problem of group think can be a matter of everyone agreeing on principles, so no other courses can seem reasonable, which is just as prevalent in groups of "smart" people; it takes a mixed group to question assumptions (if people dare speak up against all the "experts").
I (ab)use Virtue Desktops, I believe Desktop Manager is dead in the water.
To this point:
# It's not as if changing your virtual desktop changes your icons anyway (at least it hasn't on any system I've used), so it's irrelevant to this discussion.
I wasn't speaking about existing desktop managers, I was referring to a feature that would allow Desktop contents (not application views) to change when moving between contexts (personal, project a, project, b, etc). I believe I've seen a few implementations of this. Maybe it will be in Apple's official desktop manager (which rudely doesn't acknowledge other implementations), but I doubt it.
What I tried doing was mv ~/Desktop ~/D2; mkdir Desktop; touch Desktop/foobar, but nothing happened.
I think the metaphor for the "desktop" is, ahem, a "desktop".. an intermediate place with stuff you haven't put away yet, or are actively working on, resides.
Just putting everything in your home folder/would/ be a disaster.
Of course, it's nice to have multiple desktops, so when you're working on a different task you can just go to a different desk.
Hmm.. doesn't seem like you can change the Mac's desktop on the fly.
Do video cards like this perform any kind of 'gpu throttling' to keep power/heat at a minimum when they're not being taxed? How minimum? What does one look for to investigate this?
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Based on Total Annihilation, but is way ahead of its originator in many ways (some say it has better features than the upcoming Supreme Commander, eg, deformable terrain).
Open source. Cross platform (doesn't run on Mac yet, though).
Amazing what happens when fanatical open source developers get on top of a cross platform 3d kit.
I guess the 'future of security management' was invented "War Games" era, and for some reason it's really important to have an incredibly busy display, even when nothing is going on. With the 'scrolling' information, you can't even tell anything at a glance, and there's no search. One thing is for sure, these guys seem to know nothing about information display design, although I guess I'd consider them if I needed some Flash done for a video game.
This isn't a tablet, it's a convertible. Very different features and audience.
I ran Debian on a Toshiba M200 (1.6ghz Pentium M, 2 GB RAM, 7200rpm HDD, dedicated NVidia video card). Good specs (at the time) for a 4 lb system, plus the tablet features. It was fast enough, and had a high res (but small) display so it was my primary dev system, although like the x60, it's a convertible, not a true tablet (big difference).
I never did focus on word recognition since I consider it awkward, and I didn't end up exploring the MS tablet integration features (some of which sound interesting) much before the XP partition died of a virus. Unfortunately, under Linux it was a challenge keeping the stylus, touchpad, rotation, power management, and video out working (or not). Not to mention the proprietary SD card reader. I'm no expert, but it was an unreasonable amount of very frustrating try-this, scanning outdated bulletin board conversations, etc work, and the implementations kept changing so if one thing is fixed, another breaks. This was 2004 - 2006, btw.
I did use it for some occasional drawing, and it was nice to be able to fold it down for some situations.
Having a vendor supported model would be a tremendous boost for Linux, and people like myself who want full vendor support. The kernel and the environment are of course separate, so it would really just take a 'certified' list of open source friendly hardware.
You must be less clumsy than I. I was repeatedly hitting it, because it's the easier combination to hit (same with delete vs eject). Worse, it takes so long to come up, and it has such a dorky interface (imo). Out of malice, I mapped it to control-shift-command-option-Esc.
cmd-esc. If you use cmd-` a lot, you'll know what I mean.
Well, you certainly make a lot of assumptions.
I use a mac - a mac book pro, for nine months now. I am not enough of a cultist to believe it's perfect. Before that I used Linux, and I despite multimedia keyboards.
Points 1, 2 - esc and delete work in some mac apps (mail, dialogs), but not in others (finder). There are other examples, but I'll treat your laziness with laziness.
If you don't know what cursor keys are, you must have some kinda mouse. Or maybe you just like avoiding discussions with semantic boondoggles.
Front row key is by default cmd-esc. Have you ever seen a MacBook Pro? It's right beside the commonly used cmd-`. So when trying to switch between application windows. Or maybe you don't know about that shortcut, there are so many secrets. Anyway, it's likely one will press cmd-esc and get the simptastic Front Row.
Yes, Eject is right there - one of the easiest keys to type on the keyboard. I guess you missed my point, read some Raskin and maybe you'll see, or maybe you eject CDs more than you use any other key on your mac? You must be quite a multimedia maven.
Finally, the spinning beachball. How about it fancifully giving us a small readout of Activity Monitor info. I guess it's beyond your imagination because the Mac is perfect as is.
Do you mean the way the delete, esc, cursor and other keys work consistently in all Mac dialogs/apps, including Apple ones? Oh, they don't?
Do you mean the way Apple breaks the great rule of only putting important things on edges (which are easiest to reach) when they meanwhile put the Eject and Front Row buttons in these key positions on the MBP?
Oh, probably there is a boatload of $10 add-ons that will fix these issues.
Actually, what I really think Apple should do is replace the lollipop/beachball "oh, I've run out of system resources *again*" indicator to something that at least has some useful information. It's kind of dumb otherwise.
I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone.
- Bjarne Stroustrup
We have a highly specialized worker who may have the education, training and connections to do a very effective job in their realm. Using their computer system is a detail in the big picture. Yet you suggest firing them, as if they were dispensible (in case you didn't realize it, other areas have trouble finding dedicated people too) because they balk at a switchover to what is in many ways an inferior system. (I use OO every day. It is sluggish and unrefined compared to experiences with Office, and isn't as well integrated into the overall desktop experience).
Please, stay in the back room away from the real decision makers who have some perspective.
That doesn't really help with people's basic desire to share music easily, unless they band has explicitly permitted it.
I think it was really that Commodore couldn't decide if the Amiga was a home computer for games/education, a business computer, or a professional multimedia computer. Of course, it could be all three, though least of all the business computer since it didn't do text very well.
You really can't market the Amiga 500, with a picture on the box of a kid in open mouth glee playing games, along with the Amiga 2000, with business/multimedia production, at the same time successfully. But it was when Commodore got distracted by PC clones - I remember their very unremarkable offerings - that things really went downhill.
Yes, I know it was clear. The squirming was his blushing and jokes when asked to restate it, their somewhat creepy pal-sy comments aside (considering how many people they represent)
It may be true that Novell has the best patent portfolio of the Linux companies, but it doesn't mean this isn't the same thing as the deals that were reached with Apple, Corel and others when Microsoft needed to prop someone up for their own gain.
And it doesn't change what's happening. Among other things, this deal doesn't represent Linux in general, it just implies the environment is more uncertain for them when it comes to IP suits. Yet many free/open source oriented companies (and individuals) are actively against patents, so how can the deal in the context of "open source" be about trading patents? Patents are in effect very speculative, is Novell wealthy otherwise? I wonder how their contributors feel about all this.
On the other hand, I think the
And read people's analysis - just not the mainstream press, who spun this sensationally as "MS validates Linux." It becomes clear quickly that this is a very cold move to:
1. make it clear that Novell has the only authorized Linux, and anyone else is open to lawsuits. This is an attack on one of Microsoft's main challenges, Linux, as well as open source in general. They also make it clear that anyone but Novell who is funding open source development is subject to lawsuits.
2. make it clear
3. Establish that a normal way of doing business is to exchange patent suites. This is an attack on individuals and small business.
Watching the video, Novell's CEO slips in that he reached out to Microsoft. Missing that, during Q&A, someone asks who reached out to whom. He again has to state he reached out to MS, but with more visible squirming and coverup.
Also during Q&A, someone asks Ballmer if they would work with other vendors such as Red Hat on a similar deal. Ballmer talks for an extended period and does not address the question.
The press release video has been reorganized so I can't find it here, but the text is here: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/steve/200
That this is spun as news is incredible, when you consider what they are really claiming here - that they are ready to sue any Novell/Open Source company that is not Novell.
Welcome to the new world.
Sorry, I don't read Fark.
Wow, you thought of an Onion article from 2000?
Anyway, I think it's commendable that between the onion and beavis and butthead, we've found ways to shut people up from expressing their thoughts. All the world really needs is a "click to buy" button. Refined opinions aren't important.
That sounds a lot like Air Miles to me.
I guess the obvious question is, is it ok to criticize Stallman posting naked pictures of himself? After all, he's not "a girl."
I know it's fun to think in stereotypes (certainly makes things simpler), but try reading the book "the wisdom of crowds" for a few good examples of how mixed crowds can be smarter than the smartest people, consistently.
The problem of group think can be a matter of everyone agreeing on principles, so no other courses can seem reasonable, which is just as prevalent in groups of "smart" people; it takes a mixed group to question assumptions (if people dare speak up against all the "experts").
Firefox has an option to let you specify where you want to download all, or each, new file. Problem solved!
I (ab)use Virtue Desktops, I believe Desktop Manager is dead in the water.
To this point:
I wasn't speaking about existing desktop managers, I was referring to a feature that would allow Desktop contents (not application views) to change when moving between contexts (personal, project a, project, b, etc). I believe I've seen a few implementations of this. Maybe it will be in Apple's official desktop manager (which rudely doesn't acknowledge other implementations), but I doubt it.
What I tried doing was mv ~/Desktop ~/D2; mkdir Desktop; touch Desktop/foobar, but nothing happened.
I think the metaphor for the "desktop" is, ahem, a "desktop".. an intermediate place with stuff you haven't put away yet, or are actively working on, resides.
/would/ be a disaster.
Just putting everything in your home folder
Of course, it's nice to have multiple desktops, so when you're working on a different task you can just go to a different desk.
Hmm.. doesn't seem like you can change the Mac's desktop on the fly.
Do video cards like this perform any kind of 'gpu throttling' to keep power/heat at a minimum when they're not being taxed? How minimum? What does one look for to investigate this?
I invoke godwin's law.