This Grub seems to be a human-edited system not unlike Wikipedia. I'm much more interested in algorithmic search, which is why your YaCy link was most welcome:) Another distributed search I've come across is Majestic-12.
Good point. I've found that I don't have a problem with windowing systems per se, but with all the extraneous crap that goes with Windows-style GUIs. I think plain window managers like Fluxbox, with virtual desktops, are great for organizing work and managing multitasking. (I also use screen, the equivalent of VDs for the command line.)
On the other hand, desktop icons, menus and panels are in the way of focusing on the actual work. I like to manage my files in the unix style, instead of thinking they are stored inside the monitor. I also find many graphical, windowed applications necessary, and while working with them, I don't want to see anything else on the screen but the relevant application windows. Depending on the work, I may want to use a few applications at once, so the basic idea of windowing is useful.
The great thing with computers is that they help you manage enormous amounts of data, much more than you can visualize otherwise. The Windows way seems to be that, in order to be easy to use, all the data and applications must be visible all the time. It either becomes very messy, or very limited in function. Good user interfaces let you hide other things and focus on a few things at a time, and virtual desktops are one thing that helps.
Actually, more precisely, I don't like staring into light bulbs much, and similarly, I don't like staring at screens that are outputting a similar quantity of lumens at me.
I agree completely with the lightbulb argument. I believe one important reason behind black-on-white is the desire to mimick print media, which makes particular sense with the whole WYSIWYG desktop publishing hype. However, paper is much more tolerable because the white is a diffuse reflector, not a full frontal light source. White-on-black on paper looks terrible, if only for the glare of most black inks.
This has lead me to the conclusion that the best background may be be the 'passive' color of the medium, e.g. white for paper, and black for a CRT. LCDs are harder to judge this way, since white is arguably less active than the white-with-shutters black, but the white is still an active light source.
How else can you have a mouse with 105 buttons ?? Brilliant design I say !
Judging by the current average number of buttons on a mouse, and the tendency for Windows users to do absolutely everything with a mouse (because, obviously, a modern GUI must be easier than using a 1960s text terminal style keyboard), I'd say we're not so far from the mouse you can type with.
You'd think that the noun pertaining to the verb "contain" would be "containment". But that would just be too easy. Since the software is running inside a container, then obviously the buzzword must include the whole of "container".
Real geeks do not have gfs. You never supposed to walk away from the computer period. Of course I was thinking if she is drunk enough he might get lucky if she is not totally passed out...
Real geeks don't mind if she is totally passed out.
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I knew people liked to reinvent the wheel all the time, but what's with this new thing of "writing" on each other's "wall" instead of just sending emails?
The article ends with the problem of lots of separate communities: "It's a problem for teens--you're like losing out on some of your friends if you choose just one. To have all your buddy lists in one place, that's where this is going." So they are working on finally getting to a point where we've been with email for decades.
Also, it's quite sad that sometimes you hear kids talking like "What's your Hotmail address?", as if electronic communication requires a closed web-based system. I imagine it would be a scalability and administration nightmare to have all of email replaced by web communities, and I'm glad we have a relatively light and crossplatform standard, despite the many shortcomings of email.
When your heart wears out, you're more or less done. I'm already doing enough bad things to my heart (vis diet and exercise) - I don't want to make it work any harder.
A little extra exercise hardly hurts. Or do you think top athletes die young due to their heart wearing out?
So why is it not spelled 'senterr'? Why do we have these 'c's anyway, why not use 's' or 'k' according to pronunciation? Why don't we design our language from scratch with easier phonetic spelling?
unfortunately, 1 square foot of sunlight contains no where near that kind of energy even at 100% efficiency That's easy - just make the TV and computer more efficient. The market is already going down that path. True. On a sunny day, you get roughly 100 W of sunlight per square foot. Enough to power either my desktop (including the display) or my laptop, with a TV tuner -- if you could get that 100% efficiency.
The only thing I ever successfully used openMosix for was a compile cluster, and for that it was nice, but even for regularly compiling KDE, it wasn't much worth the effort to get the cluster running for the time it saved in compiling.
I agree with the general idea that the mouse is often used where keyboard would be better. However, the mouse is great for certain things, so it's good to make maximum use of both input devices at the same time. A part of the solution for me is to mouse with my 'wrong' hand.
The right hand is more dexterous (pun intended), so it might as well stay on the keyboard all the time. Incidentally, the left hand is more spatially oriented, since it's connected to the right hemisphere -- every guitarist can witness this. Left mousing will feel weird at first, but you get used to it in a few minutes.
As a neat side effect, a mouse on the left is now closer to the active typing area of the keyboard. It's less of a reach overall, and easier to move your left hand back to the keyb (e.g. for touch typing).
We've gone through this over and over. Previous devel branches went too far, taking forever to stabilize in the end, so Linus & co. figured it's better to do more incremental development within the single metastable branch. Really stable releases are up to distro maintainers.
A few weeks ago I came across Project Euler. Most of the exercises are good examples why math is good for coding; they have brute-force solutions that take a lot of time, but clever solutions should always take less than a minute to run.
The original book was good, but the later ones were stupid. "Angels did it", is pretty lame for a Science Fiction author.
I disagree, if only for the fact that the ultimate explanation was left open. There was the religious impression given to the one deeply religious guy, and other characters did their own interpretations.
"Angels did it" sounds more like the two Rama novels written by Gentry Lee alone, after the proper Rama series. They were IMHO surprisingly bad, considering how much Lee seemed to have improved Clarke's writing in their collaboration novels.
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This Grub seems to be a human-edited system not unlike Wikipedia. I'm much more interested in algorithmic search, which is why your YaCy link was most welcome :) Another distributed search I've come across is Majestic-12.
That should be "en" or "en ole" for the first person, so I guess you're not really Finnish ;)
Good point. I've found that I don't have a problem with windowing systems per se, but with all the extraneous crap that goes with Windows-style GUIs. I think plain window managers like Fluxbox, with virtual desktops, are great for organizing work and managing multitasking. (I also use screen, the equivalent of VDs for the command line.)
On the other hand, desktop icons, menus and panels are in the way of focusing on the actual work. I like to manage my files in the unix style, instead of thinking they are stored inside the monitor. I also find many graphical, windowed applications necessary, and while working with them, I don't want to see anything else on the screen but the relevant application windows. Depending on the work, I may want to use a few applications at once, so the basic idea of windowing is useful.
The great thing with computers is that they help you manage enormous amounts of data, much more than you can visualize otherwise. The Windows way seems to be that, in order to be easy to use, all the data and applications must be visible all the time. It either becomes very messy, or very limited in function. Good user interfaces let you hide other things and focus on a few things at a time, and virtual desktops are one thing that helps.
ATM is not a truck. It's a series of pneumatic tubes carrying cans of information (53 bytes each).
I agree completely with the lightbulb argument. I believe one important reason behind black-on-white is the desire to mimick print media, which makes particular sense with the whole WYSIWYG desktop publishing hype. However, paper is much more tolerable because the white is a diffuse reflector, not a full frontal light source. White-on-black on paper looks terrible, if only for the glare of most black inks.
This has lead me to the conclusion that the best background may be be the 'passive' color of the medium, e.g. white for paper, and black for a CRT. LCDs are harder to judge this way, since white is arguably less active than the white-with-shutters black, but the white is still an active light source.
Actually, the 'aluminum' spelling predates 'aluminium', and neither is arguably more correct than the other.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#Spelling
Judging by the current average number of buttons on a mouse, and the tendency for Windows users to do absolutely everything with a mouse (because, obviously, a modern GUI must be easier than using a 1960s text terminal style keyboard), I'd say we're not so far from the mouse you can type with.
You'd think that the noun pertaining to the verb "contain" would be "containment". But that would just be too easy. Since the software is running inside a container, then obviously the buzzword must include the whole of "container".
Real geeks don't mind if she is totally passed out.
The article ends with the problem of lots of separate communities: "It's a problem for teens--you're like losing out on some of your friends if you choose just one. To have all your buddy lists in one place, that's where this is going." So they are working on finally getting to a point where we've been with email for decades.
Also, it's quite sad that sometimes you hear kids talking like "What's your Hotmail address?", as if electronic communication requires a closed web-based system. I imagine it would be a scalability and administration nightmare to have all of email replaced by web communities, and I'm glad we have a relatively light and crossplatform standard, despite the many shortcomings of email.
A little extra exercise hardly hurts. Or do you think top athletes die young due to their heart wearing out?
And the group of computer wizards planning to crush The Browser That Shall Not Be Named was called the Order of the Phoenix.
Or as a Trojan unfolds upon my, you know.
Yes, the number has indeed everything to do with quantity. But perhaps you meant quality instead?-)
So why is it not spelled 'senterr'? Why do we have these 'c's anyway, why not use 's' or 'k' according to pronunciation? Why don't we design our language from scratch with easier phonetic spelling?
So, the big distros eat the little ones, who in turn feed themselves on the rotting remains from Redmond?
Especially when you can use distcc.
So this is why most of music releases are being overcompressed to the hilt. Producers are trying to match the Canadian records' gains!
I agree with the general idea that the mouse is often used where keyboard would be better. However, the mouse is great for certain things, so it's good to make maximum use of both input devices at the same time. A part of the solution for me is to mouse with my 'wrong' hand.
The right hand is more dexterous (pun intended), so it might as well stay on the keyboard all the time. Incidentally, the left hand is more spatially oriented, since it's connected to the right hemisphere -- every guitarist can witness this. Left mousing will feel weird at first, but you get used to it in a few minutes.
As a neat side effect, a mouse on the left is now closer to the active typing area of the keyboard. It's less of a reach overall, and easier to move your left hand back to the keyb (e.g. for touch typing).
We've gone through this over and over. Previous devel branches went too far, taking forever to stabilize in the end, so Linus & co. figured it's better to do more incremental development within the single metastable branch. Really stable releases are up to distro maintainers.
The purchasing part is hard to do when the same model comes with a different chipset each day, depending on constellations and sunspot activity.
A few weeks ago I came across Project Euler. Most of the exercises are good examples why math is good for coding; they have brute-force solutions that take a lot of time, but clever solutions should always take less than a minute to run.
I disagree, if only for the fact that the ultimate explanation was left open. There was the religious impression given to the one deeply religious guy, and other characters did their own interpretations.
"Angels did it" sounds more like the two Rama novels written by Gentry Lee alone, after the proper Rama series. They were IMHO surprisingly bad, considering how much Lee seemed to have improved Clarke's writing in their collaboration novels.