Yeh explorer on Windows is still the god. I notice that he says "While spatial Nautilius is not perfect (why oh why does it need 2 minutes to list 3000 files stored in one folder while Windows NT 4.0 Explorer lists 10000 files in 15 seconds on the same machine...)" Well I have a Pentium M 1.4 and it takes Explorer (Win2K) like 10 seconds to list my Jukebox\Singles network directory, Nautilus still needs > 30 seconds usually. I have no idea what is going on in this time, ls takes about 3-5
OK so my view of a folder is like a draw (even tho it's called a folder). why when i delete something beginning with the letter "D" does everything "E" onwards move around? I take my "Desk Tidy out of draw, my Eraser, Ruler and Pen all move position. its a flawed metaphor unless it works perfectly, This is what the Anandtech web page said which all the work was based on.
It doesn't happen in Windows, Mac OS X or anything else I've come across, all thier "Arrange Items By Name" type options do just that, whereas our "Arrange Items By Name" should really be "Always Arrange Items By Name". Cleanup is good for Manual Layout but I don't want to have to switch every god damn folder to manual layout!
The point is he is still as good as when he passed, sure it'd be difficult for hit to get work now, but he still has the skills.
(going off topic) Schumacher was done for cheating in the Villeneuve (spelling?) incident, when he failed to knock him off the track and Villeneuve hobbled round to get the world championship. It'd be pretty difficult to say that Shumacher isn't the best driver there, fact is that if he didn't have the obvious desire to win he would not have tried to knock people off the road.
ps. I'm British and as such it'd be very normal for me to hate Schumacher, I actually don't infact he's pretty amazing to watch, even tho he wins everything
I would not say he isn't competent to do the job. He simply decided not to do it properly.
In the UK you can for instance be a doctor, and be competent, then if you fuck up badly, your still a doctor, but you get thrown out of the British Medical Association, which means they are no longer allowed to practice.
I wasn't watching then but they were consecutive years, i think they were both driving for McLaren. One ran one of the road, and everyone knew at the time, the the other no one was sure, and i he (pretty sure Prost) said it was deliberate years ago.
WRONG. he was probably widely ambitious, and falsified data to live that ambition.
If publishing a paper the "hey the star trek like replicators can exist" is way more career enhancing than "i thought star treck replicators could work, but i was wrong"
Cheating is not a sign of someones lack of skill. If you took that approach you'd have to Micheal Schumacher, Senna and Prost are a poor racing driver due to trying to knock other racing drivers off the road, infact they have something like 12 F1 world championships between them. If that doesn't prove that cheating comes from the desire to win not the lack of skill nothing does.
... Its a fact of life, but if you compare GNOME 1.X to 2 its amazing and well worth it, and even GNOME 2.2 to GNOME 2.6, the difference is amazing. Sure it may be a little heavy, and also if it was coded with speed as the #1 priority it'd be lighter, but its not, and its quite efficient for what it is. There isn't that much wasted really. and Nautilus (the only thing in GNOME which i've ever felt was slow) is way faster now than it used to be.
I do think that Linux Desktops tend to be heavy on RAM and light on CPU though, as apposed to XP which is more balanced on both, certainly its rare that my laptop (1.4 Ghz Pentium M) goes quicker than 600Mhz, but I never run out of RAM either (512Mb). And i do think that these are the sort of specs which are common (and thus GNOME should aim for).
Once the computer was the console (spectrum etc) then nintendo took the platforms, sony took the arcade racers, xbox has some of the half racing sims, things like colin mcrae, toca race driver 2. I was nuts on Rainbow Six 3 on XBox then i saw it on the PC blew me away totally, much bigger game, much more beautiful and the planning is awsome. In short its a dumbed down game on the XBox. Similarly you aren't ever going to see something like Grand Prix Legends or EF2000 a console for a very long time.
I think PC is where the hardcore ultra-realistic things happen, as well as the ultra innovative (see Gish slashdot article a bit ago) because you don't need a super expensive development kit.
... That looks like my OS (GNOME)! Firefox isn't too bad atm, infact its amazing that they have got as much looking like native, but its still not right, infact its still not anywhere close, my highlighting in the menu bar is a dull blue white text in sinks into the menubar. the items selected are rounded dull blue with white letters in firefox they are square edged. Sure its mostly there, but its not quite, and in UI issues not quite is not a great deal better than nowhere near! That's why i use Epiphany as my browser, but I use Firefox for developing (it really doesn't matter for that coz i use jEdit which is Metal Themed so that is nowhere near either)
Desite being a linux loving zeleot myself, I have to say I do not know of any instance where microsoft has really used any of its patents in a way which I think is really bad. The closest we can get is the FAT one, but I actually don't think they have even enforced that anywhere.
Of course I may be proved wrong over time, but I just think they are doing what all other major US companies are doing.
Most slashdot readers will know that Apple bungle far too many updates, Working with designers who use Mac's I know of a few more!
Yeh I know anti-apple will get me modded down, but you know I actually do have a very valid point. There's someone a few comments up who basically said I'll wait a while for other people to see if its ok, surely that's apples job!
When it comes down to it the only person who can give you stress is yourself. Yes there may be loads to do but that is not where the pressure comes from. If your having trouble cramming the work into a (which is probably where the stress comes from) you maybe need to a) tell them reasonable timescales for work b) start looking for another job. If doing a makes you fear for you job get some savings before hand, if you skills are good it should take no longer than 3 months to get another job (make sure your savings can cover that). Perhaps it's time to move on anyway?
Ok for the company to set this up the company would need to PAY the girl to go on the date, oh im sure it'd be very good, and she'd laugh at all your jokes etc, but do you really want that?
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Yeh explorer on Windows is still the god. I notice that he says "While spatial Nautilius is not perfect (why oh why does it need 2 minutes to list 3000 files stored in one folder while Windows NT 4.0 Explorer lists 10000 files in 15 seconds on the same machine...)" Well I have a Pentium M 1.4 and it takes Explorer (Win2K) like 10 seconds to list my Jukebox\Singles network directory, Nautilus still needs > 30 seconds usually. I have no idea what is going on in this time, ls takes about 3-5
OK so my view of a folder is like a draw (even tho it's called a folder). why when i delete something beginning with the letter "D" does everything "E" onwards move around? I take my "Desk Tidy out of draw, my Eraser, Ruler and Pen all move position. its a flawed metaphor unless it works perfectly, This is what the Anandtech web page said which all the work was based on.
It doesn't happen in Windows, Mac OS X or anything else I've come across, all thier "Arrange Items By Name" type options do just that, whereas our "Arrange Items By Name" should really be "Always Arrange Items By Name". Cleanup is good for Manual Layout but I don't want to have to switch every god damn folder to manual layout!
look at http://www.rawthrills.com/tt3.jpg Is the guy on the left behind the counter drinking beer or dancing?
It's years since i've seen them, jesus how poor. The worrying thing is a saw him saying how polygon people looked bad, he's just warped!
The point is he is still as good as when he passed, sure it'd be difficult for hit to get work now, but he still has the skills.
(going off topic) Schumacher was done for cheating in the Villeneuve (spelling?) incident, when he failed to knock him off the track and Villeneuve hobbled round to get the world championship. It'd be pretty difficult to say that Shumacher isn't the best driver there, fact is that if he didn't have the obvious desire to win he would not have tried to knock people off the road.
ps. I'm British and as such it'd be very normal for me to hate Schumacher, I actually don't infact he's pretty amazing to watch, even tho he wins everything
pps. way off topic sorry,
I would not say he isn't competent to do the job. He simply decided not to do it properly.
In the UK you can for instance be a doctor, and be competent, then if you fuck up badly, your still a doctor, but you get thrown out of the British Medical Association, which means they are no longer allowed to practice.
I wasn't watching then but they were consecutive years, i think they were both driving for McLaren. One ran one of the road, and everyone knew at the time, the the other no one was sure, and i he (pretty sure Prost) said it was deliberate years ago.
WRONG. he was probably widely ambitious, and falsified data to live that ambition.
If publishing a paper the "hey the star trek like replicators can exist" is way more career enhancing than "i thought star treck replicators could work, but i was wrong"
Cheating is not a sign of someones lack of skill. If you took that approach you'd have to Micheal Schumacher, Senna and Prost are a poor racing driver due to trying to knock other racing drivers off the road, infact they have something like 12 F1 world championships between them. If that doesn't prove that cheating comes from the desire to win not the lack of skill nothing does.
Police will be watching video's while driving, kindof stinks doesn't it
So i want to send a file to a friend in say Canada:-
* Pick file up using pen
* Buy stamps and envelope
* Mail pen to friend
* fried puts on screen
What a fucked up system,
... Its a fact of life, but if you compare GNOME 1.X to 2 its amazing and well worth it, and even GNOME 2.2 to GNOME 2.6, the difference is amazing. Sure it may be a little heavy, and also if it was coded with speed as the #1 priority it'd be lighter, but its not, and its quite efficient for what it is. There isn't that much wasted really. and Nautilus (the only thing in GNOME which i've ever felt was slow) is way faster now than it used to be.
I do think that Linux Desktops tend to be heavy on RAM and light on CPU though, as apposed to XP which is more balanced on both, certainly its rare that my laptop (1.4 Ghz Pentium M) goes quicker than 600Mhz, but I never run out of RAM either (512Mb). And i do think that these are the sort of specs which are common (and thus GNOME should aim for).
doesn't that depend on what you broadcast?
Once the computer was the console (spectrum etc) then nintendo took the platforms, sony took the arcade racers, xbox has some of the half racing sims, things like colin mcrae, toca race driver 2. I was nuts on Rainbow Six 3 on XBox then i saw it on the PC blew me away totally, much bigger game, much more beautiful and the planning is awsome. In short its a dumbed down game on the XBox. Similarly you aren't ever going to see something like Grand Prix Legends or EF2000 a console for a very long time.
I think PC is where the hardcore ultra-realistic things happen, as well as the ultra innovative (see Gish slashdot article a bit ago) because you don't need a super expensive development kit.
... That looks like my OS (GNOME)! Firefox isn't too bad atm, infact its amazing that they have got as much looking like native, but its still not right, infact its still not anywhere close, my highlighting in the menu bar is a dull blue white text in sinks into the menubar. the items selected are rounded dull blue with white letters in firefox they are square edged. Sure its mostly there, but its not quite, and in UI issues not quite is not a great deal better than nowhere near! That's why i use Epiphany as my browser, but I use Firefox for developing (it really doesn't matter for that coz i use jEdit which is Metal Themed so that is nowhere near either)
...and ssh rsa authentication in authorized_keys of root's. peice of piss.
M$ it has been shown that they take the patents out to litigiously squash any competeing business and increase their monopoly on technology
This was my original point, I don't think by enlarge MS have behaved in a bad way with regards to patents at all. Please correct me if im wrong.
Desite being a linux loving zeleot myself, I have to say I do not know of any instance where microsoft has really used any of its patents in a way which I think is really bad. The closest we can get is the FAT one, but I actually don't think they have even enforced that anywhere.
Of course I may be proved wrong over time, but I just think they are doing what all other major US companies are doing.
Gnome-Desktop, Mozilla-Firefox, MPlayer, XChat, OpenOffice, Screen, Links, Discover, Hotplug, ssh
Most slashdot readers will know that Apple bungle far too many updates, Working with designers who use Mac's I know of a few more!
Yeh I know anti-apple will get me modded down, but you know I actually do have a very valid point. There's someone a few comments up who basically said I'll wait a while for other people to see if its ok, surely that's apples job!
From the article "If you don't pay for it, you've stolen it". Should be didn't.
or alternatively, steal card, disable card, speak, have mp3 player hooked up to speakers in pocket that squaks like card, perfect.
When it comes down to it the only person who can give you stress is yourself. Yes there may be loads to do but that is not where the pressure comes from. If your having trouble cramming the work into a (which is probably where the stress comes from) you maybe need to a) tell them reasonable timescales for work b) start looking for another job. If doing a makes you fear for you job get some savings before hand, if you skills are good it should take no longer than 3 months to get another job (make sure your savings can cover that). Perhaps it's time to move on anyway?
...It was sponsored by Playstation
Ok for the company to set this up the company would need to PAY the girl to go on the date, oh im sure it'd be very good, and she'd laugh at all your jokes etc, but do you really want that?