Better materials such as copper, if you look at the electrical properties. Silver is a better conductor than copper, but only marginally so, and rarely worth the improvement. AFAIK, gold (plating) is used in electronics because it is inert. Silver contacts would be electrically nice, but they tarnish eventually.
Same here. I also use symlinks to organize music based on genre, even though all artist directories are under the music dir. This way it is also possible to file one band under multiple genres.
Actually, pathnames are also metadata. Or at least they can be used to provide a lot of metadata, when properly used. Fancy metadata/tagging systems also need some discipline to work, and sloppy people can lose track of their data despite the fancy tools. I choose the old-fashioned way as it works for me, and is readily accessible with a variety of programs.
I also have a simple filing system for music burned to DVDs. Basically, after burning a new disc I do "find > disc#". To find a filename, I simply grep for it in a directory with all these files. Usually it is enough to find just the disc number.
Is it wrong or simply different? AFAIK, the first DOS did not have directories, so they were free to choose / as the option prefix. Of course, they later added fancy things like directories and multiuser capabilities, but Windows users still suffer from having to be backwards compatible with a directoryless OS.
Nokia already had a decent Linux platform, Maemo. Of course having a regular Linux distro (Debian-based, with Xorg, Gtk, glibc, root access etc.) is such a simple and powerful idea that it must be scrapped by suits. Formally this was done by turning it into the Meego project, which does not appear to be going anywhere. I guess I should buy an N900 now while I can still get an open, regular Linux on a phone.
Hey, it also ignores settings like "low bandwidth" and "simple". All I can see is a bright light, with occasional letters scattered around, and my mouse wheel is on fire from trying to read text at a normal speed.
The entire annual gross revenue of movies from the MPAA member studios (about $10 billion) is only a little bigger than Google's annual profit (about $7 billion).
I'll say that again: Google's PROFIT is almost as big as Hollywood's REVENUE.
The word "broadband" has been abused to the point where it doesn't have anything to do with the original meaning of the word. What's worse is that the FCC went along with it and gave the word a definition of a specific speed.
You might imagine the FCC deals with the physical concept of bandwidth that is measured in Hertz. Apparently, electromagnetic waves are now digital.
The default layout on Slashdot has been completely unbearable for the past few years, but with the simple/low-bandwidth option it has been somewhat tolerable. I guess now the only option is to use w3m or some other textmode browser.
What is it with all the white space? As display resolutions increase, do we need to add white space to keep the amount of text in the screen constant? Or could we actually make some use of the resolution?
While they might not have put OSX into the background they do seem to be putting the environment & UI there. They seem to be trying to shift the usage from a few apps that do a lot to dozens of small apps that each do a few specific tasks.
Which is the UNIX approach to dong things, which has worked out very well for a long time.
So how do you pipe iApps together to perform more complex tasks?
Where is my ARM/MIPS/PowerPC motherboard so I could build a proper workstation? I cannot imagine doing my work on a tablet. I also see no reason why technological innovation, power saving etc. should be limited to portable toys.
I have used Linux on non-x86 hardware for a few years, and it is no different from Linux on x86. I currently do all my work on a Powerbook. It is actually nice to know that there are no proprietary, binary blobs available for this system.
Recently I had to buy a new motherboard, since I needed a PCIe slot for some GPU computing. (My only "desktop" system then was a Mini-ITX.) Ironically, I was forced to buy an x86-64 system, even though most of the computation was going to run on a different architecture. Of course, GPU computing at the moment requires closed drivers, which of course are only available for x86.
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Better materials such as copper, if you look at the electrical properties. Silver is a better conductor than copper, but only marginally so, and rarely worth the improvement. AFAIK, gold (plating) is used in electronics because it is inert. Silver contacts would be electrically nice, but they tarnish eventually.
That's what she sed.
Same here. I also use symlinks to organize music based on genre, even though all artist directories are under the music dir. This way it is also possible to file one band under multiple genres.
Actually, pathnames are also metadata. Or at least they can be used to provide a lot of metadata, when properly used. Fancy metadata/tagging systems also need some discipline to work, and sloppy people can lose track of their data despite the fancy tools. I choose the old-fashioned way as it works for me, and is readily accessible with a variety of programs.
I also have a simple filing system for music burned to DVDs. Basically, after burning a new disc I do "find > disc#". To find a filename, I simply grep for it in a directory with all these files. Usually it is enough to find just the disc number.
Is it wrong or simply different? AFAIK, the first DOS did not have directories, so they were free to choose / as the option prefix. Of course, they later added fancy things like directories and multiuser capabilities, but Windows users still suffer from having to be backwards compatible with a directoryless OS.
I think Maemo was a fine platform for about five years, until it was merged into Meego.
Nokia already had a decent Linux platform, Maemo. Of course having a regular Linux distro (Debian-based, with Xorg, Gtk, glibc, root access etc.) is such a simple and powerful idea that it must be scrapped by suits. Formally this was done by turning it into the Meego project, which does not appear to be going anywhere. I guess I should buy an N900 now while I can still get an open, regular Linux on a phone.
Actually, a common Finnish pun on the company is "Mokia", meaning screw-ups.
Hey, it also ignores settings like "low bandwidth" and "simple". All I can see is a bright light, with occasional letters scattered around, and my mouse wheel is on fire from trying to read text at a normal speed.
The entire annual gross revenue of movies from the MPAA member studios (about $10 billion) is only a little bigger than Google's annual profit (about $7 billion).
I'll say that again: Google's PROFIT is almost as big as Hollywood's REVENUE.
It's obvious, the pirates are to blame.
+1 for explaining my joke
These are no curses. I'm just writing a text-mode user interface.
The word "broadband" has been abused to the point where it doesn't have anything to do with the original meaning of the word. What's worse is that the FCC went along with it and gave the word a definition of a specific speed.
You might imagine the FCC deals with the physical concept of bandwidth that is measured in Hertz. Apparently, electromagnetic waves are now digital.
The default layout on Slashdot has been completely unbearable for the past few years, but with the simple/low-bandwidth option it has been somewhat tolerable. I guess now the only option is to use w3m or some other textmode browser.
What is it with all the white space? As display resolutions increase, do we need to add white space to keep the amount of text in the screen constant? Or could we actually make some use of the resolution?
"Gravity as curvature" is a neat model, but you can always go a little deeper and as why/how it _really_ happens.
While they might not have put OSX into the background they do seem to be putting the environment & UI there. They seem to be trying to shift the usage from a few apps that do a lot to dozens of small apps that each do a few specific tasks.
Which is the UNIX approach to dong things, which has worked out very well for a long time.
So how do you pipe iApps together to perform more complex tasks?
*sigh* *whoosh* Why do you think I intentionally misspelled "plebeian"?
Also, somebody who is not a plebiean.
Unfortunately, Firewire is dying. It is becoming harder to find FW on computers, though for storage there is eSATA which is arguably better.
That figure seems a bit low. Unless an animal runs across the road or similar, other problems are all IMO human error.
IMHO, building a road in animal territory and not installing safety fences etc. is a human error.
Mine goes down to my niece.
Fixed that for you.
My organ goes down to 11.
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Where is my ARM/MIPS/PowerPC motherboard so I could build a proper workstation? I cannot imagine doing my work on a tablet. I also see no reason why technological innovation, power saving etc. should be limited to portable toys.
I have used Linux on non-x86 hardware for a few years, and it is no different from Linux on x86. I currently do all my work on a Powerbook. It is actually nice to know that there are no proprietary, binary blobs available for this system.
Recently I had to buy a new motherboard, since I needed a PCIe slot for some GPU computing. (My only "desktop" system then was a Mini-ITX.) Ironically, I was forced to buy an x86-64 system, even though most of the computation was going to run on a different architecture. Of course, GPU computing at the moment requires closed drivers, which of course are only available for x86.
Just like Microsoft invented the GUI and Apple invented the tablet, we Finns invented the parabolic trajectory.
It's just a PowerPC processor. You can find those on ebay.
*sigh* I already have a few G3 and G4 machines. For some weird reason, they are not quite the same as a Cell.