This is especially interesting in light of recent advances in fuel cell technology. (Sorry about the source.) I'd love it if my next car ran on a hydrogen fuel cell.
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In orther word, there is a significant difference between low brain activity and useless brain activity.
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Just don't let a Field Service Engineer monkey with the machine while you're playing.
Sounds like a bunch of folks with some decent professional GUI experience. Hopefully, they'll focus more on usability than widgetry.
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I tend to think it simply gives people with less confidence a chance to speak and be heard.
This is one of the main reasons I started a weblog. I've never been very social, and have always have had difficulty expressing myself. One of my main motivations for weblogging is to get into the habit of writing something for an audience (probably very small; I don't collect hit data) every day.
Hey, Jon! Nice to see you down here in the trenches with the rest of us! Hopefully, getting more involved in the discussion forums will help your image problems here.
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Me Too! I live about 10-12 hours from my parents. I usually call them about once a week, but IM with my Dad two or three times in between. It's also easy for him to e-mail me pictures (although I need to teach him about JPG compression), so I can actually see the new quilt my Mom has been working on. Mom got on IM for the first time last night, and seemed to enjoy it.
Other folks have mentioned Thinking in Java, so I won't link it. While it's a damn good book, I liked Ivor Horton's Beginning Java a little better for newbies, since it doesn't focus quite as much on object orientation. I don't have the new edition, though I would expect the same high quality. Of course, Fatbrain has it. Wrox is my second favorite tech publisher after O'Reilly. Still, you can't beat a free book, so I'd at least check out the online version of Thinking.
You're right. My link to the old WinAqua page is defunct, and a search can't find it. Wish Skinz had a news archive; I'd like to know what happened. I was fairly sure that Apple had laid off once the designer removed the logo.
There was a big stink at skinz.org over the WinAqua skin for WindowBlinds; Apple seemed to drop their objections to that skin as soon as the author removed the logo.
You know, I've never understood why advocates of a language whose motto is, "There's more than one way to do it" take such exception to those who choose to do it in another way.
I've always thought of "pop culture" as the opposite of "high culture" rather than "counterculture". "High culture" is what people experience because someone says it's good for them; "pop culture" is what people experience because it has personal meaning to them.
I saw one once that, IIRC, consisted of a string declaration and a printf statement which used said string as the formatting string and the argument to be substituted for the %s. Maybe 30-40 characters.
You should at least take a look at Bruce Eckel's Thinking in Java. The PDF version is free (gratis, not libre), so you have nothing to lose by checking it out.
It ain't just Linux. If you read his column regularly, you'll see him flip-flop on every issue of contoversy in the industry: MP3, net appliances, Chipzilla, etc. Either the guy has a serious case of Multiple Personality Disorder, or "Jesse Berst" is a pen name being used by a pool of writers. I suspect the latter.
Almost as simple to use as Windows? Yeah. That's the problem. The Windows GUI isn't that great, and hasn't seen any real improvement in usability (as opposed to cosmetic changes) for years. Looks like the new MacOS might have some significant improvements in usability under the eye candy. A lot of people have learned to use the Windows and Mac GUI's; people assume that means they're easy, and that they're the best possible interfaces. I don't buy it. I feel like there's got to be a better way; unfortunately, I don't know enough about UI design to know what that better way could be.
Maybe they were just so rushed to put out the new release under the new license that they didn't update that line of the page. At any rate, it's a request now instead of a requirement. Next whine, please.
Somebody submitted a GNOME article, and the editors posted it, because a specific event happened involving the GNOME project within the last day or two. In particular, the release of a new development version, and a feature freeze in preparation for the next full release. This is new information.
Do you have any new information on KDE? Did some event of interest happen in the KDE world? If so, then submit a KDE article and hopefully the editors will post it. If not, there are lots of places where interested readers can look at old information on KDE.
Slashdot is biased towards new information; in other words, news. This is the way it should be.
...working on a special material to coat DVD discs...
Well, I guess I can get money to buy these out of an ATM machine. And I'm sure they'll also use this coating on Compact Read-Only CD-ROM Memory Discs too. "DVD discs" -- you mean Digital Video Disc Discs, right? Do writers have any idea what these acronyms mean?
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And remember, don't take hypercards from large Aleutians with tattoos on their foreheads.
ZDNet has already picked up the story. I just wonder how much your activism contributed to the victory.
This is especially interesting in light of recent advances in fuel cell technology. (Sorry about the source.) I'd love it if my next car ran on a hydrogen fuel cell.
In orther word, there is a significant difference between low brain activity and useless brain activity.
Just don't let a Field Service Engineer monkey with the machine while you're playing.
Sounds like a bunch of folks with some decent professional GUI experience. Hopefully, they'll focus more on usability than widgetry.
Hey, Jon! Nice to see you down here in the trenches with the rest of us! Hopefully, getting more involved in the discussion forums will help your image problems here.
Me Too!
I live about 10-12 hours from my parents. I usually call them about once a week, but IM with my Dad two or three times in between. It's also easy for him to e-mail me pictures (although I need to teach him about JPG compression), so I can actually see the new quilt my Mom has been working on. Mom got on IM for the first time last night, and seemed to enjoy it.
Other folks have mentioned Thinking in Java, so I won't link it. While it's a damn good book, I liked Ivor Horton's Beginning Java a little better for newbies, since it doesn't focus quite as much on object orientation. I don't have the new edition, though I would expect the same high quality. Of course, Fatbrain has it. Wrox is my second favorite tech publisher after O'Reilly. Still, you can't beat a free book, so I'd at least check out the online version of Thinking.
You're right. My link to the old WinAqua page is defunct, and a search can't find it. Wish Skinz had a news archive; I'd like to know what happened. I was fairly sure that Apple had laid off once the designer removed the logo.
There was a big stink at skinz.org over the WinAqua skin for WindowBlinds; Apple seemed to drop their objections to that skin as soon as the author removed the logo.
You know, I've never understood why advocates of a language whose motto is, "There's more than one way to do it" take such exception to those who choose to do it in another way.
...which is why he said "probably".
Ah. An automatic Rush Limbaugh generator. What's the URL?
I've always thought of "pop culture" as the opposite of "high culture" rather than "counterculture". "High culture" is what people experience because someone says it's good for them; "pop culture" is what people experience because it has personal meaning to them.
I guess the next step is to program it with the Dewey Decimal System and teach it how to climb shelves.
I saw one once that, IIRC, consisted of a string declaration and a printf statement which used said string as the formatting string and the argument to be substituted for the %s. Maybe 30-40 characters.
You should at least take a look at Bruce Eckel's Thinking in Java. The PDF version is free (gratis, not libre), so you have nothing to lose by checking it out.
It ain't just Linux. If you read his column regularly, you'll see him flip-flop on every issue of contoversy in the industry: MP3, net appliances, Chipzilla, etc. Either the guy has a serious case of Multiple Personality Disorder, or "Jesse Berst" is a pen name being used by a pool of writers. I suspect the latter.
Almost as simple to use as Windows? Yeah. That's the problem. The Windows GUI isn't that great, and hasn't seen any real improvement in usability (as opposed to cosmetic changes) for years. Looks like the new MacOS might have some significant improvements in usability under the eye candy. A lot of people have learned to use the Windows and Mac GUI's; people assume that means they're easy, and that they're the best possible interfaces. I don't buy it. I feel like there's got to be a better way; unfortunately, I don't know enough about UI design to know what that better way could be.
Maybe they were just so rushed to put out the new release under the new license that they didn't update that line of the page. At any rate, it's a request now instead of a requirement. Next whine, please.
Somebody submitted a GNOME article, and the editors posted it, because a specific event happened involving the GNOME project within the last day or two. In particular, the release of a new development version, and a feature freeze in preparation for the next full release. This is new information.
Do you have any new information on KDE? Did some event of interest happen in the KDE world? If so, then submit a KDE article and hopefully the editors will post it. If not, there are lots of places where interested readers can look at old information on KDE.
Slashdot is biased towards new information; in other words, news. This is the way it should be.
Well, I guess I can get money to buy these out of an ATM machine. And I'm sure they'll also use this coating on Compact Read-Only CD-ROM Memory Discs too. "DVD discs" -- you mean Digital Video Disc Discs, right? Do writers have any idea what these acronyms mean?