Sung to the tune: Camptown Racetrack Five Mile Long (do-dah do-dah)
Its extra funny because he's clearly unsheathed a joke he's been keeping to himself for 20 years. Which we LISPers can appreciate. Everything in computing was better 20 years ago. Everything!
Not only that, but the gnu system was originally to be written with multiple language front ends, one LISP, the other C, not unlike the.NET hype of a few years ago. Can you imagine if Lisp had won and Linux as a result was a system written in Lisp? Whoa.
I'm in the market for a "car" that can't even accellerate fast enough to get on the express-way. I just don't need express-way travel 99% of the time, and the other 1% I'll figure something else out. One would think that a "car" that only can go 30mph would cost significantly less, but so far I haven't found one. : (
The problem is the attempt to match today's cars. Lets face it, from a good-for-the-earth standpoint there's nothing worse than a sports car. Okay, it goes 0-60 in so many seconds, but that's never needed if the driver is compotent and not running for their life.
Either GM or Ford, I forget which, is making minivans in China that get 60 miles per gallon. 60! They're not hybrids. Their 0-60 is pathetic, but who cares? 60 mpg in a VAN. This is "good enough" for most people, but there's social pressure to drive a Caddie.
I think Firefox's special position at the head of the FOSS movement has made them focused too much on runing their own tight ship and not enough about letting their users do the same.
There's a case for firefox exceptionalism. Firefox bugs aren't the same as bugs in gnuplot or clisp. The latter are great systems, true, but they're not out there on the front lines of the end-user experience, serving as the thin orange line between almost every FOSS users' private information and crackers.
Startup times for text editors on my system: vi = 1 second emacs = 2.5 seconds gedit = 5 seconds kedit = 7 seconds
Those were for starting the first of each program. Additional ones were faster, _especially_ kedit, which got screwed by me not running kde by default.
What? Spirited Away had a unifying theme?! Great! What is it?
When I went to see SA, I'd successfully decoded the central allegories of Nausicaa and Mononoke. I especially liked the latter's mapping to survival-of-the-fittest darwinism versus the mercy and excesses of science and "progress".
So when I went to see SA I was constantly trying to lock-on to the allegory, and came up blank. The parents turning into pigs looked like a big clue, especially as it was mirrored by the all-consuming black demonic eater. But in the end I just threw up my hands and declared it "The Japanese 'The Wizard of Oz'" (without the silver-standard allegory, obviously!). So please, do explain!
Five ways to save video games 1. File>Save As... 2. put the CDs in your gun vault 3. cd/dev/cdrom warcraft3.iso 4. wait till the game's in the $5 bin and buy an extra copy 5. just pirate the game from your buddy, and let him worry about it!
Nice try, but weren't CD-ROM bays orginally 5.5" floppy bays?
If you are right (and I'm too lazy to get a ruler and fact-check you), one could always manufacture a floppy drive that took the disk in on the diaganol.
Yah, the dude's on total crack. In TeX you often stuck getting DEBUGGING YOUR DOCUMENT, for chris' sake! WYSIWYG may puck with you when you wanna insert here or there, but on the other hand you don't have to go add extra words to get it to shut up about "overfull hbox".
I know a bunch of programming langauges. I've done some crap in TeX. When I need to get shit done, I sure as hell do not used TeX!
When he complains about "lack of storage space", is he complaining that his bike can't hold enough crappe? Or that he has to store the bike inside at work?
Many workplaces pay building fees for a security person, and also parking fees per employee. If you explain to your boss that the cost of installing a bike rack is smaller than what they're paying in parking fees for just one month, and that a bike rack could be placed either right by the security kiosk, or right under the nose of a security camera, you might convince them to go to bat for you.
And that is a requirement if it ever can be a Photoshop replacement for Linux.
Last time I checked, Photoshop was in its own way as inscrutable as Gimp.
I find the entire "usability" talk about the Gimp to have a strong undercurrent of whining: "People who take the time to educate themselves on how to use Gimp can do useful things. I want to be able to do useful things, but I'm not willing to educate myself. Therefore I blame the Gimp for not being "usable" enough, rather than my own lack of comittment to self-education."
Its like a luser I know, who wants to be able to author web pages, but hasn't ever learned the concept of "heirarchical file system", and so can't grok how to lay out or even give names to her web pages saved on disk. She accuses "web authoring" of being too hard. Well, get yourself a shovel...
I see the same thing in the Gimp. Layers are hard. Understanding alpha transparency is hard. Understanding color mappings is hard. Understanding color index versus RGB is hard. Understanding the benefits and drawbacks of jpg or gif or png are hard. Before people grit their teeth and teach themselves these concepts, no amount of "usability" is going to help them accomplish their goals.
Gimp is perfectly usable. I know. I use it. The question here is one of "easy to learn". Gimp is not easy to learn. Gimp is extremely powerful and fast to use for an experienced user. "Easy to learn" and "good for the pro" are not mutually exclusive, but they're almost so. I don't think Gimp will ever be the application grandma fires up to rotate her digital photos 90 degrees. That's fine.
Grandma also doesn't edit the Linux kernel source code in emacs and recompile it to support her digital camera. Emacs is extremely powerful and efficient for an experienced user, but totally unscrutable to the uninitiated. For the uninitiatied there's gedit or notepad. For the initiated there's emacs. This is as it should be. So should it be with Gimp.
Almost any processor in any device can make a really small server. Heck, with enough time, I can probably convert my vacuum's embedded chip into a small server.
Slashdot misses the point, as usual. Nobody wants or needs a small server. The entire point of a server is you stick it in some remote location, where it SERVES. You don't care how big it is AT ALL.
eventually ice sheets would melt, grass would grow here, and temperatures would hit 50 degrees along the equator of the planet.
So... how did you get to mars again?!? Lemme guess, your submission about how you got to mars using a trebuchet and an old diving bell running linux got rejected by the editors because of a too-large number of grammatical errors!
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Winner of Python versus Alligator advances to take on Giant Squid!
That's the spirit! Remember when they canned their internet portapotty, the iLoo? Yeah, sure, that's a hoax. There's one born every minute.
Sung to the tune:
Camptown Racetrack Five Mile Long (do-dah do-dah)
Its extra funny because he's clearly unsheathed a joke he's been keeping to himself for 20 years. Which we LISPers can appreciate. Everything in computing was better 20 years ago. Everything!
So, uh, how often do you get to tell that joke?
Not only that, but the gnu system was originally to be written with multiple language front ends, one LISP, the other C, not unlike the .NET hype of a few years ago. Can you imagine if Lisp had won and Linux as a result was a system written in Lisp? Whoa.
I'm in the market for a "car" that can't even accellerate fast enough to get on the express-way. I just don't need express-way travel 99% of the time, and the other 1% I'll figure something else out. One would think that a "car" that only can go 30mph would cost significantly less, but so far I haven't found one. : (
That's a different critter, obviously. I hope they do catch on. But at $25k, they're going to have to catch on without moi!
Ooops, 43 mpg city. But hey, $5000.1 0F16F93C5A0C7A8CDDA10894DD404482
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F
This article was free when I read it, but since has gone up in price. You already have the salient details. I remember them saying they lacked creature comforts of american cars, namely cooshie seats.
The problem is the attempt to match today's cars. Lets face it, from a good-for-the-earth standpoint there's nothing worse than a sports car. Okay, it goes 0-60 in so many seconds, but that's never needed if the driver is compotent and not running for their life.
Either GM or Ford, I forget which, is making minivans in China that get 60 miles per gallon. 60! They're not hybrids. Their 0-60 is pathetic, but who cares? 60 mpg in a VAN. This is "good enough" for most people, but there's social pressure to drive a Caddie.
ls -t | head
This is nice for listing the 10 most recently modified files. Usually the one you want is the first or second one.
For the uninformed (like me) what does 'SAP' stand for?
Startup times for text editors on my system:
vi = 1 second
emacs = 2.5 seconds
gedit = 5 seconds
kedit = 7 seconds
Those were for starting the first of each program. Additional ones were faster, _especially_ kedit, which got screwed by me not running kde by default.
What? Spirited Away had a unifying theme?! Great! What is it?
When I went to see SA, I'd successfully decoded the central allegories of Nausicaa and Mononoke. I especially liked the latter's mapping to survival-of-the-fittest darwinism versus the mercy and excesses of science and "progress".
So when I went to see SA I was constantly trying to lock-on to the allegory, and came up blank. The parents turning into pigs looked like a big clue, especially as it was mirrored by the all-consuming black demonic eater. But in the end I just threw up my hands and declared it "The Japanese 'The Wizard of Oz'" (without the silver-standard allegory, obviously!). So please, do explain!
Similarly, I couldn't grasp Howl's Moving Castle.
Five ways to save video games /dev/cdrom warcraft3.iso
1. File>Save As...
2. put the CDs in your gun vault
3. cd
4. wait till the game's in the $5 bin and buy an extra copy
5. just pirate the game from your buddy, and let him worry about it!
touce'!
Nice try, but weren't CD-ROM bays orginally 5.5" floppy bays?
If you are right (and I'm too lazy to get a ruler and fact-check you), one could always manufacture a floppy drive that took the disk in on the diaganol.
Yah, the dude's on total crack. In TeX you often stuck getting DEBUGGING YOUR DOCUMENT, for chris' sake! WYSIWYG may puck with you when you wanna insert here or there, but on the other hand you don't have to go add extra words to get it to shut up about "overfull hbox".
I know a bunch of programming langauges. I've done some crap in TeX. When I need to get shit done, I sure as hell do not used TeX!
There is only one way to be true, but LOTS of ways to be wrong. If 10% of papers turned out to be true I'd be gobsmacked.
When he complains about "lack of storage space", is he complaining that his bike can't hold enough crappe? Or that he has to store the bike inside at work?
Many workplaces pay building fees for a security person, and also parking fees per employee. If you explain to your boss that the cost of installing a bike rack is smaller than what they're paying in parking fees for just one month, and that a bike rack could be placed either right by the security kiosk, or right under the nose of a security camera, you might convince them to go to bat for you.
Last time I checked, Photoshop was in its own way as inscrutable as Gimp.
I find the entire "usability" talk about the Gimp to have a strong undercurrent of whining: "People who take the time to educate themselves on how to use Gimp can do useful things. I want to be able to do useful things, but I'm not willing to educate myself. Therefore I blame the Gimp for not being "usable" enough, rather than my own lack of comittment to self-education."
Its like a luser I know, who wants to be able to author web pages, but hasn't ever learned the concept of "heirarchical file system", and so can't grok how to lay out or even give names to her web pages saved on disk. She accuses "web authoring" of being too hard. Well, get yourself a shovel...
I see the same thing in the Gimp. Layers are hard. Understanding alpha transparency is hard. Understanding color mappings is hard. Understanding color index versus RGB is hard. Understanding the benefits and drawbacks of jpg or gif or png are hard. Before people grit their teeth and teach themselves these concepts, no amount of "usability" is going to help them accomplish their goals.
Gimp is perfectly usable. I know. I use it. The question here is one of "easy to learn". Gimp is not easy to learn. Gimp is extremely powerful and fast to use for an experienced user. "Easy to learn" and "good for the pro" are not mutually exclusive, but they're almost so. I don't think Gimp will ever be the application grandma fires up to rotate her digital photos 90 degrees. That's fine.
Grandma also doesn't edit the Linux kernel source code in emacs and recompile it to support her digital camera. Emacs is extremely powerful and efficient for an experienced user, but totally unscrutable to the uninitiated. For the uninitiatied there's gedit or notepad. For the initiated there's emacs. This is as it should be. So should it be with Gimp.
Almost any processor in any device can make a really small server. Heck, with enough time, I can probably convert my vacuum's embedded chip into a small server.
Slashdot misses the point, as usual. Nobody wants or needs a small server. The entire point of a server is you stick it in some remote location, where it SERVES. You don't care how big it is AT ALL.
A small 'desktop' computer? Now that's news.
There is a new advance wars scheduled? Do you have a link or something?
I bought a GBA for AW2, and its really the only game I've liked for the durn thing... : (
So