I've been really happy with http://newsblur.com/ . It has pretty much every feature of reader I cared about, with a better interface and a very dedicated individual working hard behind the scenes.
My father, an early adopter-type, had a Lisa for his office, and it was the Lisa that I first learned how to program on.
One of the most maddening things about programming the Lisa was that you couldn't make programs that integrated well with the Lisa office suite. Why? Because there was no API for the GUI. None. If you wanted a window drawn, you fired up QuickDraw and drew it yourself. Want a scroll bar? Do it yourself. Menus? Right.
I ended up only using the development environment's console for my programs' interfaces. The development environment was also console based, probably for the same reasons. A couple of years later, Apple released the Lisa Toolkit that had all that stuff, after they had announced they were going to discontinue it.
So in my opinion, it was the lack of software that killed the Lisa, not its high price. I mean, people were paying for it, and they wanted more. The ability to use proportional fonts was the killer feature to end all killer features.
It's worth noting that Apple learned its lesson about making developers happy - the developer support program for the Macintosh has been one of the best.
We use slackware as our primary distro for our servers, so I set up a private mirror of slackware with a slackware-mirror-making-tool that syncs with multiple mirrors simultaneously. The tool keeps track of successful transfers and errors. Apparently, some mirrors aren't really pulling their weight (slackware.com is when it couldn't find the file on any host):
Actually... introversion is most simply explained by sensitivity to stimuli. Introverts are much more sensitive to stimuli, so too much of it makes them need to shut it down by retreating into a less stimulating environment.
Extroverts don't have this hypersensitivity, so they enjoy more stimulating environments.
The more muted color tones preferred by introverts is indictative.
If you read his book, the timewave created by the "fractalization" of a differential graph of the King Woo sequence terminates at zero and is undefined thereafter. He set the terminal point at December 21st, 2012 because the Mayas did. He then observed that his graph matched what we knew of the past. Maybe.
In any case, he did not mysteriously come up with the same date.
and that's why all of you should try TempusMUD, the ultimate in hobbyist online gaming!
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When you find an example of general intelligence that is not simultaneously accompanied and interconnected with emotion, you let me know. That will lend at least some credibility to your authoritative claims about what intelligence is and is not.
Linux is designed and written by programmers, for programmers. If what you do most often on a computer is programming (like me), there is no better system, as far as I'm concerned,
Windows is designed by marketroids for a market. If what you do most often on a computer is what most people do, and you don't want to learn something different than what you're using in the office, there is no better system for that (with that second stipulation in mind).
MacOS is designed by a entirely different set of marketroids plus UI experts for a not-entirely understood market. But if you don't care about perfect interoperability with your windows buddies, there is no better system for that.
The point of all this is that I couldn't care less about desktop users not being able to use Linux. Both they and I will be much happier if they use something else.
We need them for the same reasons that most open source projects need standards organizations, graphic artists, and maintainers. Think of WotC as a roleplaying CVS repository.
You're probably wrong on one thing... The Neandrethals didn't die out, they were probably cross-bred out by Cro-Magnons. Hence the prominent brow ridge on our Nordic models of humanity.
Fscked out of existence can't be that bad of a way to go, but it doesn't have much to do with brain adaptability.
It is, in fact, the only effective treatment for malaria that exists. While the theoretical underpinnings are beyond bizarre, they do seem to work. I don't know enough of the homeopathic industry to argue that point.
In part, I agree. I really like Mozilla's email client.
What it lacks is the ability to execute my email client without waiting for a full featured web browser to also load. If it weren't for that, I'd probably use it.
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http://pencilcode.net/ is just that, designed for the web and made so kids can easily share their creations to friends and parents.
I've been really happy with http://newsblur.com/ . It has pretty much every feature of reader I cared about, with a better interface and a very dedicated individual working hard behind the scenes.
The bully was already dead when kicked. He hit his head accidentally on a knob.
Time to read the book again :)
http://advogato.org/ stores their passwords in plaintext, or at least in non-hash form. I think it's more common than you believe.
Uh, sendmail and postfix do to. This is a very common MTA feature (in the *NIX world, anyway :)
There's an online petition to change the name back at http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/wii_sucks that will be sent to nintendo's customer feedback in three days.
I mentioned the Lisa Toolkit. It was announced after the discontinuation of the Lisa.
Sure, Apple had it. Didn't do much good for the rest of the third-party developers.
My father, an early adopter-type, had a Lisa for his office, and it was the Lisa that I first learned how to program on.
One of the most maddening things about programming the Lisa was that you couldn't make programs that integrated well with the Lisa office suite. Why? Because there was no API for the GUI. None. If you wanted a window drawn, you fired up QuickDraw and drew it yourself. Want a scroll bar? Do it yourself. Menus? Right.
I ended up only using the development environment's console for my programs' interfaces. The development environment was also console based, probably for the same reasons. A couple of years later, Apple released the Lisa Toolkit that had all that stuff, after they had announced they were going to discontinue it.
So in my opinion, it was the lack of software that killed the Lisa, not its high price. I mean, people were paying for it, and they wanted more. The ability to use proportional fonts was the killer feature to end all killer features.
It's worth noting that Apple learned its lesson about making developers happy - the developer support program for the Macintosh has been one of the best.
We use slackware as our primary distro for our servers, so I set up a private mirror of slackware with a slackware-mirror-making-tool that syncs with multiple mirrors simultaneously. The tool keeps track of successful transfers and errors. Apparently, some mirrors aren't really pulling their weight (slackware.com is when it couldn't find the file on any host):
Rcvd Err Host
100 0 slackware.mirrors.easynews.com
87 0 slackware.cs.utah.edu
18 7 ftp.slackware.com
8 0 slackware.mirrors.tds.net
7 99 carroll.cac.psu.edu
0 105 ftp.oceighty.net
0 106 mirrors.usc.edu
0 105 ftp.cs.stevens-tech.edu
That's woman-speak for "I don't want to get involved with someone who might be gay."
Actually, there was a operating system called Apple SOS. The initial S stood for Sophisticated, though. It ran on the Apple ///.
Apple "SOS". Cute, eh?
Either the story is apocryphal or the government needs better programmers. I suspect the former. That situation just doesn't happen in real life.
Lisp isn't the same as scheme at all, except for the surface syntax. They're very different languages once you get past the parens.
Any sufficiently large degree of incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Actually... introversion is most simply explained by sensitivity to stimuli. Introverts are much more sensitive to stimuli, so too much of it makes them need to shut it down by retreating into a less stimulating environment.
Extroverts don't have this hypersensitivity, so they enjoy more stimulating environments.
The more muted color tones preferred by introverts is indictative.
Huh. Sounds like 1) yp, 2) xwindows, 3) lack of outlook viruses, 4) linux or bsd, and 5) open source
Good thing to know MS technology is on the forefront of innovation.
Actually, that's not entirely true.
If you read his book, the timewave created by the "fractalization" of a differential graph of the King Woo sequence terminates at zero and is undefined thereafter. He set the terminal point at December 21st, 2012 because the Mayas did. He then observed that his graph matched what we knew of the past. Maybe.
In any case, he did not mysteriously come up with the same date.
and that's why all of you should try TempusMUD, the ultimate in hobbyist online gaming!
When you find an example of general intelligence that is not simultaneously accompanied and interconnected with emotion, you let me know. That will lend at least some credibility to your authoritative claims about what intelligence is and is not.
The invasion has begun!
MUHAHAHAHahhahahahahahahaherk *cough* *cough*
Linux is designed and written by programmers, for programmers. If what you do most often on a computer is programming (like me), there is no better system, as far as I'm concerned,
Windows is designed by marketroids for a market. If what you do most often on a computer is what most people do, and you don't want to learn something different than what you're using in the office, there is no better system for that (with that second stipulation in mind).
MacOS is designed by a entirely different set of marketroids plus UI experts for a not-entirely understood market. But if you don't care about perfect interoperability with your windows buddies, there is no better system for that.
The point of all this is that I couldn't care less about desktop users not being able to use Linux. Both they and I will be much happier if they use something else.
We need them for the same reasons that most open source projects need standards organizations, graphic artists, and maintainers. Think of WotC as a roleplaying CVS repository.
You're probably wrong on one thing... The Neandrethals didn't die out, they were probably cross-bred out by Cro-Magnons. Hence the prominent brow ridge on our Nordic models of humanity.
Fscked out of existence can't be that bad of a way to go, but it doesn't have much to do with brain adaptability.
Quinine is a homeopathic.
It is, in fact, the only effective treatment for malaria that exists. While the theoretical underpinnings are beyond bizarre, they do seem to work. I don't know enough of the homeopathic industry to argue that point.
Basically, what C0vardeAn0nim0 says is:
Katz writes dumb articles.
He doesn't like katz.
Well done.
In part, I agree. I really like Mozilla's email client.
What it lacks is the ability to execute my email client without waiting for a full featured web browser to also load. If it weren't for that, I'd probably use it.