In fact, before I bought my iPod, that's just what I used to do. However, I have found that carrying my iPod to work is easier than carrying my PowerBook to work. Or jogging.
Completely. I've actually never heard of ESR before, but I definitely don't rank him up there with Linus and RMS (Well, closer to RMS... I find him a bit pretentious at times), and I haven't elevated him since reading his posting.
Why is it that the people with talent often are the least equipped to deal with it? It sounds like ESR is quite a talented fellow, but he's got the social skills of a hungry racoon.
It seems everyone's in agreeance that this is some pretty lame feature output... I wonder if Logitech *has* come to the last of it's ideas.
If so, I'd love to propose one for them. The one thing I'd love is to have a keyboard that takes a flash card, or even a USB flash drive for input, and keeps all your keybindings.
Back when I was in IT, I'd have all sorts of shortcuts on my computer, and I'd go to a new computer and I'd have to fall back on defaults again, or make do where no other one existed.
Wouldn't it be nice if you could slam your USB flash drive, or smart media card, or something, into a keyboard, and voila! Mouse sensitivity settings are retained, keyboard shortcuts, etc?
To be honest, the HTML isn't so much tough as it is unexpected. The majority of posting that I do uses some sort of format that tries to make what you input into the textarea box into what actually gets represented on screen.
It's especially surprising considering the HTML items that Slashdot *does* support could easily be done using some other notation (BBCode, DokuWiki) that's more analogous to the way one would write a normal letter.
Also, I believe what I meant by 'hate the format' was the wacky <URL:...> stuff.
Anyhow, just my opinion: your mileage will *definitely* vary on how useful you find it.:)
Competitive programming is a great way in the way that sex for sport is good.
If you're nervous, scared of your skills, etc: nothing's better then just straight immersion. You can't get too anxious if you're just *doing* it. You have to jump in with both your feet and start, or else you'll never get anywhere.
It's really great for those of us who are scared of a particular domain, of not understanding problems, and all in all it really does help in solidifying domain ideas and promoting learning.
A good example is something like the [url="http://www.unearthedgames.com/main/devdiary/ rapid-prototyping-boot-camp"]
"Game in a Day" [/url] type ideas, as you can learn an immense amount by just 'doing', and even better, just 'doing' it with someone else to see where you go wrong.
Yes, I used programming and sex in the same sentence; it's one of those things I've always wanted to do.
So, you're telling me that having quality in an industry undermines it?
I suppose it depends on who you're "helping" or "hurting".
Is WoW hurting other game developer's pocket book? I'm certain.
Is this a bad thing? I don't know: all I can say is the only person my heart bleeds for is the indie developer who's trying to break into this market. But for the EA's of the world? Heaven's no!
Now, I admit to not knowing a lot about, well, anything, really.
But I have played with a few mail servers (mostly hating it the whole way: setting up a non out-of-the-box install of Exim is like asking the University of Cambridge to kick me in the face repeatedly, every time), and there is such a setting as a smart host... Which I believe is to route your mail through their relay.
Any reason why they couldn't allow port 25 traffic, so long as it's destination is their mailserver? Then they can deal with spam on an individual basis, and even catch their own people doing it?
Once again, I'm not certain how well it works, but just a thought.
A revolution in input devices.
Graphics cards, RAM, storage, etc, have all been making leaps and bounds in technology, but we're still hammering away at the same(-ish) keyboard.
While I don't know what I'd do without my carpal-tunnel, I'm curious what the replacement for the keyboard will be. I'm not sure if it will be a voice recognition system, or something middle-of-the-road, but I definitely think something like that is a limiting factor for me and PDA's, or the organizer you mention.
I just can't separate myself from a keyboard, where I can type ~100 wpm, versus a rickety little Graffiti-esque POS, where I'm doomed to five letters a minute on.
Anyhow, rather tangential, but jus' what I'm thinking.:D
Everyone has already pointed out the organisation/organization, centre/center dealy (American vs. England (as well as Australia, Canada, well, hell, anyone, not American).
But it reminds me of one of my bosses... Who also said there was a typo with 'organisation':
We had hired this nitwit from Seattle, to come work in Vancouver (Canada), and I had asked for time off to go to my girlfriend's family back in Regina (Saskatchewan, Canada).
He goes, "COOL! I've always wanted to go to Iceland!"
...
(I'm assuming he thought I meant Reykjavik. I could see how the first two letters could confuse you, if you're a complete half-breed)
Sure, the numbers make sense.
But Microsoft DOES capitalize in making an 'easy to use' operating system. I don't know how many times I've spent wasting a weekend fiddling with X and getting the system up and running in order to get something even *remotely* useable. And then I'm not even all that interoperable with other products that I'd love to use anyways.
And besides, if you're a school, your job is to teach students to use something relevant towards the rest of their life. Lets face it, it's an MS world out in business -- do you want to hurt your students ability to cope in industry by teaching them the Linux desktop and it's apps?
Don't get me wrong, I love Linux and all, but it has always been used for it's console and it's services in my house, as I can't stand using X.
*shrugs* But to each their own.
I've become a recent fan of Martin Pool, and I've been keeping tabs on his work with Bazaar-NG, his next generation version of Bazaar, as a distributed free source code control system, for Ubuntu.
It's early in development yet, but if there's one thing I've learned from Martin Pool, is he does great work! Keep tabs on him.:)
Friend of mine made a wooden PC case as well. Super cooling (tonnes of fans), and some pretty neat stuff on it. Detailed pictures, showing how it was done too.
I agree with you somewhat, but in true Slashdot fashion, none of us monkeys can agree with each other completely... What fun would that be? One comment max, on every post!
Anyhow, ideally a wiki should have every contributor be both contributing AND editting.
But in theory, nobody will, they'll just throw their points together like the Portland Pattern Repository (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki) and have everything looking like crap.
Sigh, too bad. Although I'd love to be proved wrong!
"We see some of the same things occurring that did to Unix -- it could splinter into many different types of languages. " (Unix splintered into many different languages?)
Sure, remember, the bible talks about the tower of Unix that was an affront to god so (s)he splintered the Unixes into many languages?
I couldn't believe the parent post, so I read the article (I know, shock and horror! Having to go to the source!:)), and saw this:
"From a corporate perspective, we are not confident where Linux is right now today. A large enterprise needs to be sure because it relates to securifying [sic] the environment. We see some of the same things occurring that did to Unix -- it could splinter into many different types of languages. We are quite cautious about Linux and its deployment," said Rasmussen.
That's AWESOME.
"We're not confident where Linux is right now today" (Is there ever a chance that RIGHT NOW isn't today?).
"A large enterprise needs to be sure because it relates to securifying [sic] the environment. " (Securifying? Is that like Misunderestimating?)
"We see some of the same things occurring that did to Unix -- it could splinter into many different types of languages. " (Unix splintered into many different languages?)
""We are quite cautious about Linux and its deployment," said Rasmussen." (You should be more cautious about deploying public statements that have so many issues in them!)
That said, I'm probably being a little too anal: he probably doesn't speak English as a first language: but then again, should he be the spokesperson?
Interesting.:)
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Jogging sucks.
You might want to be careful: bursting ESR's ego is likely to kill a few million innocent civilians in it's wake.
The man disgusts me.
Completely. I've actually never heard of ESR before, but I definitely don't rank him up there with Linus and RMS (Well, closer to RMS... I find him a bit pretentious at times), and I haven't elevated him since reading his posting.
Why is it that the people with talent often are the least equipped to deal with it? It sounds like ESR is quite a talented fellow, but he's got the social skills of a hungry racoon.
It seems everyone's in agreeance that this is some pretty lame feature output... I wonder if Logitech *has* come to the last of it's ideas.
:)
If so, I'd love to propose one for them. The one thing I'd love is to have a keyboard that takes a flash card, or even a USB flash drive for input, and keeps all your keybindings.
Back when I was in IT, I'd have all sorts of shortcuts on my computer, and I'd go to a new computer and I'd have to fall back on defaults again, or make do where no other one existed.
Wouldn't it be nice if you could slam your USB flash drive, or smart media card, or something, into a keyboard, and voila! Mouse sensitivity settings are retained, keyboard shortcuts, etc?
Anyways, just a thought of mine.
To be honest, the HTML isn't so much tough as it is unexpected. The majority of posting that I do uses some sort of format that tries to make what you input into the textarea box into what actually gets represented on screen.
:)
It's especially surprising considering the HTML items that Slashdot *does* support could easily be done using some other notation (BBCode, DokuWiki) that's more analogous to the way one would write a normal letter.
Also, I believe what I meant by 'hate the format' was the wacky <URL:...> stuff.
Anyhow, just my opinion: your mileage will *definitely* vary on how useful you find it.
Sigh. I hate Slashdot's stupid markup. Here's the link, in a clickable form:
- prototyping-boot-camp
http://www.unearthedgames.com/main/devdiary/rapid
Competitive programming is a great way in the way that sex for sport is good.
/ rapid-prototyping-boot-camp"]
"Game in a Day" [/url] type ideas, as you can learn an immense amount by just 'doing', and even better, just 'doing' it with someone else to see where you go wrong.
If you're nervous, scared of your skills, etc: nothing's better then just straight immersion. You can't get too anxious if you're just *doing* it. You have to jump in with both your feet and start, or else you'll never get anywhere.
It's really great for those of us who are scared of a particular domain, of not understanding problems, and all in all it really does help in solidifying domain ideas and promoting learning.
A good example is something like the [url="http://www.unearthedgames.com/main/devdiary
Yes, I used programming and sex in the same sentence; it's one of those things I've always wanted to do.
So, you're telling me that having quality in an industry undermines it?
I suppose it depends on who you're "helping" or "hurting".
Is WoW hurting other game developer's pocket book? I'm certain.
Is this a bad thing? I don't know: all I can say is the only person my heart bleeds for is the indie developer who's trying to break into this market. But for the EA's of the world? Heaven's no!
Sorry, maybe I'm missing something:
But why is it a big deal that they're upgrading?
I thought this was a news site: not freshmeat or version tracker.
Is there some other item of importance here that I'm missing?
Ugh. GridRunner: not for those with epilepsy... Oh the pain!
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The reason that noone's hacked the Perl equivs. is that not even the hackers want to code in Perl.
(Jus' trolling. I'd write in BrainFuck over Perl.)
"To this end (again, I work 99% of the time in text, I fully understand my observations are irrelevant for more graphical professions)"
Not surprisingly, this is a text hacker that's writing this, so that's why he thinks these things.
What's surprising, is I'm finding myself agreeing with someone who uses Emacs.
VI FOREVER! :)
But I have played with a few mail servers (mostly hating it the whole way: setting up a non out-of-the-box install of Exim is like asking the University of Cambridge to kick me in the face repeatedly, every time), and there is such a setting as a smart host... Which I believe is to route your mail through their relay.
Any reason why they couldn't allow port 25 traffic, so long as it's destination is their mailserver? Then they can deal with spam on an individual basis, and even catch their own people doing it?
Once again, I'm not certain how well it works, but just a thought.
A revolution in input devices. Graphics cards, RAM, storage, etc, have all been making leaps and bounds in technology, but we're still hammering away at the same(-ish) keyboard. While I don't know what I'd do without my carpal-tunnel, I'm curious what the replacement for the keyboard will be. I'm not sure if it will be a voice recognition system, or something middle-of-the-road, but I definitely think something like that is a limiting factor for me and PDA's, or the organizer you mention. I just can't separate myself from a keyboard, where I can type ~100 wpm, versus a rickety little Graffiti-esque POS, where I'm doomed to five letters a minute on. Anyhow, rather tangential, but jus' what I'm thinking. :D
But it reminds me of one of my bosses... Who also said there was a typo with 'organisation':
We had hired this nitwit from Seattle, to come work in Vancouver (Canada), and I had asked for time off to go to my girlfriend's family back in Regina (Saskatchewan, Canada).
He goes, "COOL! I've always wanted to go to Iceland!"
(I'm assuming he thought I meant Reykjavik. I could see how the first two letters could confuse you, if you're a complete half-breed)
Anyways, completely off-topic. Mod me down!
Sure, the numbers make sense. But Microsoft DOES capitalize in making an 'easy to use' operating system. I don't know how many times I've spent wasting a weekend fiddling with X and getting the system up and running in order to get something even *remotely* useable. And then I'm not even all that interoperable with other products that I'd love to use anyways. And besides, if you're a school, your job is to teach students to use something relevant towards the rest of their life. Lets face it, it's an MS world out in business -- do you want to hurt your students ability to cope in industry by teaching them the Linux desktop and it's apps? Don't get me wrong, I love Linux and all, but it has always been used for it's console and it's services in my house, as I can't stand using X. *shrugs* But to each their own.
I've become a recent fan of Martin Pool, and I've been keeping tabs on his work with Bazaar-NG, his next generation version of Bazaar, as a distributed free source code control system, for Ubuntu. It's early in development yet, but if there's one thing I've learned from Martin Pool, is he does great work! Keep tabs on him. :)
Friend of mine made a wooden PC case as well. Super cooling (tonnes of fans), and some pretty neat stuff on it. Detailed pictures, showing how it was done too.
Nice post. Now what's the point of RTFA? :) :D
...harnessing the raw power of the sun between your legs?
...could then be re-charged from a mini hydrogen creator, the size of a shoebox.")
Eep.
(From the article: "a bike
(Granted, not fusion, but still. Hinden-nads... Eep!)
I agree with you somewhat, but in true Slashdot fashion, none of us monkeys can agree with each other completely... What fun would that be? One comment max, on every post!
Anyhow, ideally a wiki should have every contributor be both contributing AND editting.
But in theory, nobody will, they'll just throw their points together like the Portland Pattern Repository (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki) and have everything looking like crap.
Sigh, too bad. Although I'd love to be proved wrong!
"We see some of the same things occurring that did to Unix -- it could splinter into many different types of languages. "
:)
(Unix splintered into many different languages?)
Sure, remember, the bible talks about the tower of Unix that was an affront to god so (s)he splintered the Unixes into many languages?
Oh, stop Babel-ling.
(For those not in the know, a reference to a good online comic: Sluggy Freelance (www.sluggy.com)).
(Offtopic Bias: Sluggy's gotten too wordy lately.)
That's AWESOME.
"We're not confident where Linux is right now today"
(Is there ever a chance that RIGHT NOW isn't today?).
"A large enterprise needs to be sure because it relates to securifying [sic] the environment. "
(Securifying? Is that like Misunderestimating?)
"We see some of the same things occurring that did to Unix -- it could splinter into many different types of languages. "
(Unix splintered into many different languages?)
""We are quite cautious about Linux and its deployment," said Rasmussen."
:)
(You should be more cautious about deploying public statements that have so many issues in them!)
That said, I'm probably being a little too anal: he probably doesn't speak English as a first language: but then again, should he be the spokesperson?
Interesting.
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