Question is, why is he republican? Still likes big business or something?
If the government ever became entire right wing, then the right wingers would split off into even more splinter groups (likely with 1 taking dominance and such).
Quite frankly I think that both the hard code democrates and the hard core republicans are absolutly nuts. . . ..
(and at this point in time sections of both parties are pro-censorship, which makes voting for either side seriously difficult. . . .:( )
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Of course it is rather hard to run any sort of an ORGANIZED system off of non-stabilized charities.
Not to mention that your charitable contributions ARE tax deductable anyways, up to some amount after which you are paying for the running of the rest of the government.
Quite frankly relying on only public contributions would result in charities becoming corporate like ad hogs, since only those charities that where most recognized would get contributions.
It would be like having a million little red crosses running around, but even worse, since there would actualy be NEGATIVE incentive to help those cases that are not in the limelight at the time.
There are a lot of government programs making a big difference every day that you do not even know about. If these programs relied on publicity and pure public support to continue running, then they would be doomed.
For a half baked analogy, imagine that if the only political issues that even came UP where just the ones that/. posted about. I'd suck wouldn't it? Heh. Relying on public awareness to run the world would NOT work.
Now I DO agree that a lot of government programs are rather redudent, as two or more people may get the same idea for how to help other people and petition various sections of the government for help and aid in accomplishing their desired goals, and then succeed in getting that aid, but that all calls for better organization and communication, not throwing away the entire system.
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such as all those DESERVING people on welfare.
Yah, I can see how you can have scorn for some lady whose husband just left her and her special needs child running at ~1k a month in treatments is being threatened to taken away to a publicly ran 'institution'.
Sure, deserves lots of scorn. I mean hell, she is just out for your money, evil evil lady, after your cash, can't let that happen now can we?
Those awful conniving poor. . ..
Bleh. Fuck off and / or get a clue. Better yet, get poor and grow up with something besides dreams of getting rich. Many of the poor live and die poor so that their children can hopefully grow up to a better life; damn lot higher of a sacrifice then any amount of mere money that you could ever be taxed.
Re:What does this mean for the industry as a whole
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What do you expect from San Francisco? And by the way, Slashdot seems to be just as anti-Republican as Salon.
You kidding? The libertarians are strong as hell around these parts. . ..
(now I wish that they'd just all go away. . . )
Most of the comments I see posted are by either by Socialists or Communists.
Commies suck. Period.
Mod me flamebait if you will, but you must admit that it is a big sin here to admit that you believe in Capitalism and suppor those who try to make a living selling anything that has to do with intellectual property.
Congrats on connecting two UNRELATED subjects.
The majority of the/. crowd is all for capitalism, they are just NOT for IMPEDING scientific advancement by placing artificial patents on old ass shit and charging an arm and a leg for it.
Oh and God forbid that a company lay off people so they can stay in business.
Massive lay offs only HURT the economy as a whole which then further HURT the company that made the initial lay offs.
That and it is Just Plain Stupid to go after that extra buck after the initial first few million a year. Hell, if a company sees its profits only go up a few percentage points from one year to the next they freak the hell out and start laying people off! I mean come on, that it ludicrous! (Oh no!!! We ONLY MADE an extra 30 million this year versus last year!! The Horror!)
How many times have we seen someone post "Hey, lets open a Pay Pal account to supplement [name of company] so they can continue their [Linux, open source, free stuff] works."
VS how many times I have seen it actually happen?
I mean suggesting good ideas is easy, doing something about them;
ah;
now that would be a/. first.:D Ok maybe a second or even a third, but the/. crowd does not take action nearly often enough (besides/.'ing sites that is)
Telling the average person that they are bad for believing certain things, bad for saying certain things, bad for belonging to the wrong race, bad for being of the wrong gender, bad for simply existing and using up precious global resources while others are starving across the globe, and bad for having values that may result in the automatic judging of others doesn't endear anyone to the leftist cause.
Of course you could say the exact same thing about the right wingers and be equaly true.
(depends, seems to be two sides to the Japanese web, one side is as pop-up mad as the western world is, the other side hasn't seemed to ever heard of them. ^_^ )
Re:Micropayments maybe? - Re:Charging for content.
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I mean how many nickel pages do you have time to read in a day?
I read on the average of between 1.5 and 2 full length novels (~300 pages) worth of data on the Internet a day.
That is on average, and does not include those days that I go about and digest entire medical dictionaries on the net just for the hell of it.
I would go through $20 a day easily.
Then the net would become just as expensive as reading books are (at around nearly $10 a piece!), I can easily go through two books a day (or three if I am really at it), so it would be $20 a day down the tube either way.
It seemed to me that, for the most part, it had very lefty anti-establishment bent.
I think he was more referring to the
"serious social political opinions"
"Fashion news"
"Hollywood insider-style news"
"Tech articles"
"Social Tech Article"
"Deep Science Articles"
"Light reading science articles"
variety that Salon has to offer.
That and there is always the issue of the perception of being able to get serious news from a site called "Salon" even if the word did originally have different implications.
Re:beat a-round the bush
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Round-towards-plus-infinity. (aka. "rounding up", or sometimes just "rounding".) This is the rounding they usually teach you in grade school -- round 0.5 up. (At least, that's what they taught me until I got to high-school.)
I am in college and I can safely say that this is how I am STILL taught to round numbers. In fact my math professors mark students down if they do NOT use that method of rounding.
In fact until today the only other method of rounding I had heard of was straight truincation, (Just drop the excess digits past whatever point) and using iPart (TI8x).
Usage differs based upon the product. You mine as well complain that an OIL WELL drill is not as user friendly as popular MP3 codecs for all the good it will do you.
(can you see the discrepancy there?)
The usability sucks for video compressors because they are MORE COMPLEX. And in order to get good results with a MORE COMPLEX subject matter, a MORE COMPLEX interface is needed.
ALL video encoders suck. Period. I mean have you actually checked out the competition? heh. There ARE 1 step MPEG4 encoders out there (FlaskMPEG comes to mind) with a big red shiny Push Me button, but they generate as crappy results as one step encoders for any other type of video. Ick.
The reason that nobody bothers with those 1 step video encoders is the same reason that you do not see tons of tutorials online about how to use the Xing MP3 encoder;
who wants to write about a shitty product that produces shitty results? Heh.
But beyond that (crap results == crap results) your comparison is completely invalid, you cannot, I repeat cannot make the comparison that you did and draw ANY valid logical conclusions from it.
Now if you had compared it to a Quicktime Encoder or a Real Video encoder, then you MAY have had something, but you cannot compare across subject matters for the purpose of proving of validating an argument. For explaining an argument, sure, but NOT for validating or drawing proofs from.
(I used to get yelled at all the time online for doing that, now I see why, it is indeed annoying, LOL!)
Heh, nice troll. (wait, that WAS a troll right? I mean you aren't that stupid? You do realize that you cannot compare Audio Codecs to Video Codecs any more then you can compare FM radio transmissions to Coax Video Transmissions?)
Heaven forbid one might be *wise* as to learn a subject regarding the social fabric of women in culture, the hundreds of years of books and plays produced by the English language, and the study of how ancient peoples lived. Forgive me for being fed up with those who feel that people with BA's are in dire need of jobs. After all, the skill that has been passed on to me involves deep cultural lessons in Humankind, the kind that will never be forgotten. A shame when O'Reilly prints a new book and if it is not read, then everything one has been taught has been for nought.
When called in for interview;
Boss: Can you fix up our ancient token ring network without needing to replace the entire system?
You: Uh, no, but I can lecture you on the significance of the Germanic Influence on the English Language.
Boss: You are not hired.
Sure History and Human Studies may be entertaining and even worthwhile to learn about in, but getting an actual degree in them? Yeesh.
(and on a second note, I can't believe I am actually sitting here agreeing with the original troll who snagged an AC who looks like he/she is also trolling. Yeesh. )
Why do we need "files" in the first place? Why not replace our file systems with something more like a database and then be able to querey it?
Instead of remember paths to files users could just "store them on their hd" and not even know what happens after you click on the save button.
Yah, lovely idea there bub.
And after the 10 thousanth or so 'file' is stored, then what? How the f*cking HELL is the user supposed to FIND anything? Do a database search?
heh.
Dude, I can REMEMBER where my FILES ARE faster then a bleeming database can SEARCH for them! (I know, tested this, unless you have yourself one VERY fast ass SCSI RAID array, I can beat your butt hands down)
This is because if you are using a flat storage model (no directories and such) you have to search through all of your files (ick) or at least all of your files of that particular type (still ick, and users still have to ID files by extension or at least 'type' )
If you use a non-flat storage model (such as any SANE person would) then the entire system becomes rather pointless.
And quite frankly I perfer to actualy KNOW/WHAT/ files are ON my HD rather then having to f*cking search through the ENTIRE HD just to see if something MAY even exist or not! Yeesh. Being able to say "Oh, hey, that folder has 20GB of files in it, WTF???" Is rather nice, rather then "Err, uhh, 20GB of space is missing, but this damned non-existent file system will not let me figure out what it is."
I guess the Hard Drive manufacturers would just/love/ it though.::rolls eyes::
As somebody who is at times rather anal about keeping his files in their proper place, well heck, it is convienent.
A flat file system is the equivlent of a legal office having all of their papers scattered together and hiring some young'in to go shuffle through them all when ever anybody in the firm wants a particular paper.
It is much easier just to have them organized by that client's Lawyer's name, then client case type, and then client's name.
Intelligent interfaces like you describe wouldn't be incredibly difficult to code, the problem is that they'd be unreliable. What if the interface "thinks" that you're going to attempt to load one program, when in reality you're actually moving for the program next to it? Now computer resources are being used up to preload the long program, slowing the time it takes to load the actual program you want to use.
The solution being for everybody to stop coding bloated crap so that things do not take so darn long to load.:)
Seriously, now and then programmers should take time out from adding/new/ features and start optimizing the ones that they already have. Programmers that DO already do this for small freeware apps consistently turn out insanely small applications that have negligible loading times.
Building a UT map? Give me a GUI with point-and-drool over edlin any day.
Not an unreal map per say, but I do my 3d Modeling in Rhino3D, which has, besides a kick ass GUI, a kick ass CLI integrated into it.
At this point in the game (after, granted, quite a few years of use) I have memorized darn nearly every command that I use and I just type it in. Any day now I am just going to nuke the GUI button bars and just keep the 4 view pans and the CLI command entry bar and history log up.
Much more efficient way to do 3D modeling, want to move something? Type in the word Move. Want to draw a circle? Type Circle. Want to draw a box? Type in box. Sphere? Sphere. Cone? Cone. Lovely system that.
Want to trim something? Type in trim.:) Rotate? Rotate. Scale in 2 dimensions? Scale2d. Scale in one dimension? Scale1d. Scale in 3 dimensions? Just plain old Scale will do, thank you so much.
Sweep a curve along two rails? Sweep2. Sweep a curve along one rail? Sweet. Make a polar array of objects? Arraypolar.
(and much much more!)
And of course you just type in Save when you are done.:)
Naturally a GUI is used to actually place the objects, and an excellent GUI at that. The best as a matter of fact, it feels wholly natural and like a third arm. But without the CLI it just would not be the same. The perfect blending of the two worlds.
Exactly how natural is this system?
After an extended use of Rhino3D today I found myself trying to type commands into Photoshop. . . .::sigh::
Since the US seems dedicated to making the rules of the DMCA apply around the entire world, I say that somebody ROT13's the thing and if anybody tries to break it, they sue for bypassing encryption without autherization!
How do you know that they broke it? Well simple, who ever sues you MUST have broken the encryption in order to know what was in the file!
Yah, that does stink. The feds have also been known to send people/unsolicited/ kiddie porn and then arrest them for, guess what?
Possession of kiddie porn.
::sighs::
Figure there would be enough real perps out there to arrest that they wouldn't have to go and start making up cases, but nooooo. Yeesh. I guess it is easier to frame a person then to actually do some case work and arrest a real crook.:(
I am going to stop bitching about my HS having had an 8088 lab while PIIIs where out.
And I thought public schools had it bad. . . . at least the power functioned and the Internet was up most of the time!
Hey, you know if somebody opened up some small white color secretarial positions down there but paid just 1/2 US rates (say $5 an hour or so) then the economy there would skyrocket and the company would still save a lot of money. . . . as opposed to the pricks that are paying ~$3 a day, grrrr.
That's "Little Lost Robot":) Again I can place it because it appeared in I, Robot [amazon.co.uk] which I only read a couple of months back...Worrying that I can name and place the stories though *gulp*.
Good book, I have both the original paperback run and the first rerun of it.
Just read it a few days ago, I read it a few times a year just to refresh my memory on it.:)
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Right, but it's not that hard to conform to all distros if 'all' means 'one':-)
You kidding?
C:\Windows\Games
C:\DOS\Games
C:\Games
C:\Program Files\Games
C:\Program\Games
C:\\Games
or for shared libraries
C:\Program files\
C:\program files\Common Files
C:\Winnt\System32
C:\Winnt
C:\Windows
C:\Windows\system
C:\Windows\System32
C:\Winnt\System
and likely a few that I have forgotten about.
Heck, IE stores temporary files in something like 3 different locations, and it is a bundled application! Some other applications commit far worse horrors then that (such as using the root directory for temp files. . . .::shivers:: )
The fact that -anything- works at all is a minor miracle, that it works well enough for stuff to get done. . . . amazing. ^_^
The 90s: wireless, laptops and the days of exploration
You saw a working wireless computing product that was of some use?
Besides a universal remote control? (and even those are horribly dodgy, ick).
I've yet to see one. . . . (unless you count x10, but that is hardly a miracle of modern science, more like a wireless transmitter shoved onto the end of a cheapo digicam.:p )
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Question is, why is he republican? Still likes big business or something?
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:( )
If the government ever became entire right wing, then the right wingers would split off into even more splinter groups (likely with 1 taking dominance and such).
Quite frankly I think that both the hard code democrates and the hard core republicans are absolutly nuts. . . .
(and at this point in time sections of both parties are pro-censorship, which makes voting for either side seriously difficult. . . .
Of course it is rather hard to run any sort of an ORGANIZED system off of non-stabilized charities.
/. posted about. I'd suck wouldn't it? Heh. Relying on public awareness to run the world would NOT work.
Not to mention that your charitable contributions ARE tax deductable anyways, up to some amount after which you are paying for the running of the rest of the government.
Quite frankly relying on only public contributions would result in charities becoming corporate like ad hogs, since only those charities that where most recognized would get contributions.
It would be like having a million little red crosses running around, but even worse, since there would actualy be NEGATIVE incentive to help those cases that are not in the limelight at the time.
There are a lot of government programs making a big difference every day that you do not even know about. If these programs relied on publicity and pure public support to continue running, then they would be doomed.
For a half baked analogy, imagine that if the only political issues that even came UP where just the ones that
Now I DO agree that a lot of government programs are rather redudent, as two or more people may get the same idea for how to help other people and petition various sections of the government for help and aid in accomplishing their desired goals, and then succeed in getting that aid, but that all calls for better organization and communication, not throwing away the entire system.
such as all those DESERVING people on welfare.
.
Yah, I can see how you can have scorn for some lady whose husband just left her and her special needs child running at ~1k a month in treatments is being threatened to taken away to a publicly ran 'institution'.
Sure, deserves lots of scorn. I mean hell, she is just out for your money, evil evil lady, after your cash, can't let that happen now can we?
Those awful conniving poor. . .
Bleh. Fuck off and / or get a clue. Better yet, get poor and grow up with something besides dreams of getting rich. Many of the poor live and die poor so that their children can hopefully grow up to a better life; damn lot higher of a sacrifice then any amount of mere money that you could ever be taxed.
What do you expect from San Francisco? And by the way, Slashdot seems to be just as anti-Republican as Salon.
.
/. crowd is all for capitalism, they are just NOT for IMPEDING scientific advancement by placing artificial patents on old ass shit and charging an arm and a leg for it.
/. first. :D Ok maybe a second or even a third, but the /. crowd does not take action nearly often enough (besides /.'ing sites that is)
You kidding? The libertarians are strong as hell around these parts. . .
(now I wish that they'd just all go away. . . )
Most of the comments I see posted are by either by Socialists or Communists.
Commies suck. Period.
Mod me flamebait if you will, but you must admit that it is a big sin here to admit that you believe in Capitalism and suppor those who try to make a living selling anything that has to do with intellectual property.
Congrats on connecting two UNRELATED subjects.
The majority of the
Oh and God forbid that a company lay off people so they can stay in business.
Massive lay offs only HURT the economy as a whole which then further HURT the company that made the initial lay offs.
That and it is Just Plain Stupid to go after that extra buck after the initial first few million a year. Hell, if a company sees its profits only go up a few percentage points from one year to the next they freak the hell out and start laying people off! I mean come on, that it ludicrous! (Oh no!!! We ONLY MADE an extra 30 million this year versus last year!! The Horror!)
How many times have we seen someone post "Hey, lets open a Pay Pal account to supplement [name of company] so they can continue their [Linux, open source, free stuff] works."
VS how many times I have seen it actually happen?
I mean suggesting good ideas is easy, doing something about them;
ah;
now that would be a
Telling the average person that they are bad for believing certain things, bad for saying certain things, bad for belonging to the wrong race, bad for being of the wrong gender, bad for simply existing and using up precious global resources while others are starving across the globe, and bad for having values that may result in the automatic judging of others doesn't endear anyone to the leftist cause.
Of course you could say the exact same thing about the right wingers and be equaly true.
"No Gays!"
"No Abortions!"
"No poor!"
"No Blacks!"
"No Enviroment!"
"Don't Breath!"
"You don't REALLY need to eat today do you?"
Learn to navigate Japanese websites;
pop-ups? What popups? Heh.
(depends, seems to be two sides to the Japanese web, one side is as pop-up mad as the western world is, the other side hasn't seemed to ever heard of them. ^_^ )
I mean how many nickel pages do you have time to read in a day?
I read on the average of between 1.5 and 2 full length novels (~300 pages) worth of data on the Internet a day.
That is on average, and does not include those days that I go about and digest entire medical dictionaries on the net just for the hell of it.
I would go through $20 a day easily.
Then the net would become just as expensive as reading books are (at around nearly $10 a piece!), I can easily go through two books a day (or three if I am really at it), so it would be $20 a day down the tube either way.
It seemed to me that, for the most part, it had very lefty anti-establishment bent.
I think he was more referring to the
"serious social political opinions"
"Fashion news"
"Hollywood insider-style news"
"Tech articles"
"Social Tech Article"
"Deep Science Articles"
"Light reading science articles"
variety that Salon has to offer.
That and there is always the issue of the perception of being able to get serious news from a site called "Salon" even if the word did originally have different implications.
Round-towards-plus-infinity. (aka. "rounding up", or sometimes just "rounding".) This is the rounding they usually teach you in grade school -- round 0.5 up. (At least, that's what they taught me until I got to high-school.)
I am in college and I can safely say that this is how I am STILL taught to round numbers. In fact my math professors mark students down if they do NOT use that method of rounding.
In fact until today the only other method of rounding I had heard of was straight truincation, (Just drop the excess digits past whatever point) and using iPart (TI8x).
AC thus spoke:
This is already obsolete. Terabytes of information on a creditcard sized medium have been announced years ago.
And it was replied:
Along with anti-gravity, ways to earn infinate money, and the secret of eternal youth.
The only difference is that this announcement comes from an actual lab with people who have actual degrees.
3D animators will want a pro video card.
Yah, but us CAD, CAM, and 3d Modelers love Matrox.
:D
::sighs::
The comparison was invalid because:
Usage differs based upon the product. You mine as well complain that an OIL WELL drill is not as user friendly as popular MP3 codecs for all the good it will do you.
(can you see the discrepancy there?)
The usability sucks for video compressors because they are MORE COMPLEX. And in order to get good results with a MORE COMPLEX subject matter, a MORE COMPLEX interface is needed.
ALL video encoders suck. Period. I mean have you actually checked out the competition? heh. There ARE 1 step MPEG4 encoders out there (FlaskMPEG comes to mind) with a big red shiny Push Me button, but they generate as crappy results as one step encoders for any other type of video. Ick.
The reason that nobody bothers with those 1 step video encoders is the same reason that you do not see tons of tutorials online about how to use the Xing MP3 encoder;
who wants to write about a shitty product that produces shitty results? Heh.
But beyond that (crap results == crap results) your comparison is completely invalid, you cannot, I repeat cannot make the comparison that you did and draw ANY valid logical conclusions from it.
Now if you had compared it to a Quicktime Encoder or a Real Video encoder, then you MAY have had something, but you cannot compare across subject matters for the purpose of proving of validating an argument. For explaining an argument, sure, but NOT for validating or drawing proofs from.
(I used to get yelled at all the time online for doing that, now I see why, it is indeed annoying, LOL!)
Heh, nice troll. (wait, that WAS a troll right? I mean you aren't that stupid? You do realize that you cannot compare Audio Codecs to Video Codecs any more then you can compare FM radio transmissions to Coax Video Transmissions?)
My PentiumII 266mhz could decode DivX movies just fine, heh.
(I hear that the K6IIs have serious issues though, poor FPU and all)
Heaven forbid one might be *wise* as to learn a subject regarding the social fabric of women in culture, the hundreds of years of books and plays produced by the English language, and the study of how ancient peoples lived. Forgive me for being fed up with those who feel that people with BA's are in dire need of jobs. After all, the skill that has been passed on to me involves deep cultural lessons in Humankind, the kind that will never be forgotten. A shame when O'Reilly prints a new book and if it is not read, then everything one has been taught has been for nought.
When called in for interview;
Boss: Can you fix up our ancient token ring network without needing to replace the entire system?
You: Uh, no, but I can lecture you on the significance of the Germanic Influence on the English Language.
Boss: You are not hired.
Sure History and Human Studies may be entertaining and even worthwhile to learn about in, but getting an actual degree in them? Yeesh.
(and on a second note, I can't believe I am actually sitting here agreeing with the original troll who snagged an AC who looks like he/she is also trolling. Yeesh. )
Why do we need "files" in the first place? Why not replace our file systems with something more like a database and then be able to querey it?
/WHAT/ files are ON my HD rather then having to f*cking search through the ENTIRE HD just to see if something MAY even exist or not! Yeesh. Being able to say "Oh, hey, that folder has 20GB of files in it, WTF???" Is rather nice, rather then "Err, uhh, 20GB of space is missing, but this damned non-existent file system will not let me figure out what it is."
/love/ it though. ::rolls eyes::
Instead of remember paths to files users could just "store them on their hd" and not even know what happens after you click on the save button.
Yah, lovely idea there bub.
And after the 10 thousanth or so 'file' is stored, then what? How the f*cking HELL is the user supposed to FIND anything? Do a database search?
heh.
Dude, I can REMEMBER where my FILES ARE faster then a bleeming database can SEARCH for them! (I know, tested this, unless you have yourself one VERY fast ass SCSI RAID array, I can beat your butt hands down)
This is because if you are using a flat storage model (no directories and such) you have to search through all of your files (ick) or at least all of your files of that particular type (still ick, and users still have to ID files by extension or at least 'type' )
If you use a non-flat storage model (such as any SANE person would) then the entire system becomes rather pointless.
And quite frankly I perfer to actualy KNOW
I guess the Hard Drive manufacturers would just
As somebody who is at times rather anal about keeping his files in their proper place, well heck, it is convienent.
A flat file system is the equivlent of a legal office having all of their papers scattered together and hiring some young'in to go shuffle through them all when ever anybody in the firm wants a particular paper.
It is much easier just to have them organized by that client's Lawyer's name, then client case type, and then client's name.
Intelligent interfaces like you describe wouldn't be incredibly difficult to code, the problem is that they'd be unreliable. What if the interface "thinks" that you're going to attempt to load one program, when in reality you're actually moving for the program next to it? Now computer resources are being used up to preload the long program, slowing the time it takes to load the actual program you want to use.
:)
/new/ features and start optimizing the ones that they already have. Programmers that DO already do this for small freeware apps consistently turn out insanely small applications that have negligible loading times.
::sighs::
The solution being for everybody to stop coding bloated crap so that things do not take so darn long to load.
Seriously, now and then programmers should take time out from adding
Unfortunately everybody elses applications. . . .
The true wish here should be for applications that do not take so long to load that a preloading feature is neccisary!
Building a UT map? Give me a GUI with point-and-drool over edlin any day.
:) Rotate? Rotate. Scale in 2 dimensions? Scale2d. Scale in one dimension? Scale1d. Scale in 3 dimensions? Just plain old Scale will do, thank you so much.
:)
::sigh::
Not an unreal map per say, but I do my 3d Modeling in Rhino3D, which has, besides a kick ass GUI, a kick ass CLI integrated into it.
At this point in the game (after, granted, quite a few years of use) I have memorized darn nearly every command that I use and I just type it in. Any day now I am just going to nuke the GUI button bars and just keep the 4 view pans and the CLI command entry bar and history log up.
Much more efficient way to do 3D modeling, want to move something? Type in the word Move. Want to draw a circle? Type Circle. Want to draw a box? Type in box. Sphere? Sphere. Cone? Cone. Lovely system that.
Want to trim something? Type in trim.
Sweep a curve along two rails? Sweep2. Sweep a curve along one rail? Sweet. Make a polar array of objects? Arraypolar.
(and much much more!)
And of course you just type in Save when you are done.
Naturally a GUI is used to actually place the objects, and an excellent GUI at that. The best as a matter of fact, it feels wholly natural and like a third arm. But without the CLI it just would not be the same. The perfect blending of the two worlds.
Exactly how natural is this system?
After an extended use of Rhino3D today I found myself trying to type commands into Photoshop. . . .
Since the US seems dedicated to making the rules of the DMCA apply around the entire world, I say that somebody ROT13's the thing and if anybody tries to break it, they sue for bypassing encryption without autherization!
How do you know that they broke it? Well simple, who ever sues you MUST have broken the encryption in order to know what was in the file!
\!_!/
Yah, that does stink. The feds have also been known to send people /unsolicited/ kiddie porn and then arrest them for, guess what?
:(
Possession of kiddie porn.
::sighs::
Figure there would be enough real perps out there to arrest that they wouldn't have to go and start making up cases, but nooooo. Yeesh. I guess it is easier to frame a person then to actually do some case work and arrest a real crook.
I am going to stop bitching about my HS having had an 8088 lab while PIIIs where out.
And I thought public schools had it bad. . . . at least the power functioned and the Internet was up most of the time!
Hey, you know if somebody opened up some small white color secretarial positions down there but paid just 1/2 US rates (say $5 an hour or so) then the economy there would skyrocket and the company would still save a lot of money. . . . as opposed to the pricks that are paying ~$3 a day, grrrr.
That's "Little Lost Robot" :) Again I can place it because it appeared in I, Robot [amazon.co.uk] which I only read a couple of months back...Worrying that I can name and place the stories though *gulp*.
:)
Good book, I have both the original paperback run and the first rerun of it.
Just read it a few days ago, I read it a few times a year just to refresh my memory on it.
Right, but it's not that hard to conform to all distros if 'all' means 'one' :-)
::shivers:: )
You kidding?
C:\Windows\Games
C:\DOS\Games
C:\Games
C:\Program Files\Games
C:\Program\Games
C:\\Games
or for shared libraries
C:\Program files\
C:\program files\Common Files
C:\Winnt\System32
C:\Winnt
C:\Windows
C:\Windows\system
C:\Windows\System32
C:\Winnt\System
and likely a few that I have forgotten about.
Heck, IE stores temporary files in something like 3 different locations, and it is a bundled application! Some other applications commit far worse horrors then that (such as using the root directory for temp files. . . .
The fact that -anything- works at all is a minor miracle, that it works well enough for stuff to get done. . . . amazing. ^_^
The 90s: wireless, laptops and the days of exploration
:p )
You saw a working wireless computing product that was of some use?
Besides a universal remote control? (and even those are horribly dodgy, ick).
I've yet to see one. . . . (unless you count x10, but that is hardly a miracle of modern science, more like a wireless transmitter shoved onto the end of a cheapo digicam.
I dunno, I'm told it feels an awful lot like being drunk.
I said you'd be traveling in bazzilions of pieces, not upchucking.