Yes, please. Perhaps I should file a bug report with Gimp asking for this. So far in the ten or so times I've sat down with the intention of learning to use Gimp, I have failed miserably. The UI may be self-consistent, but it is not too consistent with common practice in WIMP UIs.
I never had that problem with, e.g. CorelPaint when I learned it without a manual or online help files. The self-documenting UI is still a weak point in OSS, and likely always will be.
The fact that, despite an abundance of shoes in this world, people still often wear "hats" instead of putting shoes on their heads, is clearly a failure of marketing on the part of the shoe industry.
One of my first projects in grad school was to work with a black hole general relativity code written in Fortran77. At the time, I was learning F90 and I wanted to modify the code to use F90 features. This was fine on the Suns and DEC Alphas at the University, but I had a Linux machine at home. After spending a LONG time looking for a free F90 for Linux, I came across F.
F can be well described as F90 minus F77. So I went through the original F77 code, about 5000 lines, and as best I could made it more F90-like. Then I ran it through the F compiler and fixed everything it choked on until it compiled.
This process took a few days, and afterward I had a working code. The speed on my 100MHz Pentium was about 60% as fast as the same code compiled with the Sun F90 compiler on a 75MHz SPARC. All in all, I was very pleased with F, even though it was not a top performer, its strictness in breaking old F77 habits and idioms was beneficial to me overall as a programmer. I also could be sure that any code that compiled in F would compile on a genuine F90 compiler, since it was a strict subset. Today, I do really wish there was a version for Mac OS X. It would be great to develop on my Powerbook and trivially port to a big compute engine.
Someone who thinks that Bowling for Columbine made sense makes me paranoid. And I know this is just a conincidence, "daveashcroft," but even our very own Ashcroft that inspires so much paranoia within our borders hasn't proposed some of the measures our more "enlightened" European friends are taking with respect to infringing people's privacy.
It's not about saving keypresses. Lisp fanatics tolerate parentheses-and-long-hyphenated-function-names because the language is beautiful. RPN users who are honest with themselves (like me) will admit that entering calculations in a Forth-like syntax is aesthetically satisfying, and reason enough to prefer that method.
Why base the distro version number on the kernel version number? Why not base it on the emacs version number or the PHP version number? Oh, I know! because it doesn't tell you about the whole distribution!
Isn't being fully multiuser part of the POSIX standard also? As I remember it when I saw a sales presentation on the BeBox circa 1996, it was single user only.
I'm all for trying to use Slashdot to promote your pet project, but don't couch your story in questions about people's use of your admittedly relatively unknown software.
The guy is saying that he found objects that fit the criteria we have for living cells.
Then perhaps we should think carefully about whether we should use a definition of life that admits such phenomena. Aristotle's definition of "man" needed to be revised when a counterexample was pointed out.
Dasher has been profiled on slashdot before. I've played with it a bit by using a full character set arranged appropriately and "teaching" it with existing code snippets. It sometimes guesses entire lines like "for" statements, "#include"s and so on.
Erasing won't just be a slight nuisance, it will be a thermodynamic problem. Simply setting a mole of bits to zero might heat up your hard drive enough to melt it.
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iTunes for Windows, huh? Well pony up, Microsoft, let's see Windows Media Player for Mac!
Yes, please. Perhaps I should file a bug report with Gimp asking for this. So far in the ten or so times I've sat down with the intention of learning to use Gimp, I have failed miserably. The UI may be self-consistent, but it is not too consistent with common practice in WIMP UIs.
I never had that problem with, e.g. CorelPaint when I learned it without a manual or online help files. The self-documenting UI is still a weak point in OSS, and likely always will be.
Only if you type perfectly. If you make a mistake, having that monitor there to show you what to change sure speeds things up.
In case you don't like reading stories and links before posting, remember this is Slashdot.
The fact that, despite an abundance of shoes in this world, people still often wear "hats" instead of putting shoes on their heads, is clearly a failure of marketing on the part of the shoe industry.
Think "welfare."
F can be well described as F90 minus F77. So I went through the original F77 code, about 5000 lines, and as best I could made it more F90-like. Then I ran it through the F compiler and fixed everything it choked on until it compiled.
This process took a few days, and afterward I had a working code. The speed on my 100MHz Pentium was about 60% as fast as the same code compiled with the Sun F90 compiler on a 75MHz SPARC. All in all, I was very pleased with F, even though it was not a top performer, its strictness in breaking old F77 habits and idioms was beneficial to me overall as a programmer. I also could be sure that any code that compiled in F would compile on a genuine F90 compiler, since it was a strict subset. Today, I do really wish there was a version for Mac OS X. It would be great to develop on my Powerbook and trivially port to a big compute engine.
Someone who thinks that Bowling for Columbine made sense makes me paranoid. And I know this is just a conincidence, "daveashcroft," but even our very own Ashcroft that inspires so much paranoia within our borders hasn't proposed some of the measures our more "enlightened" European friends are taking with respect to infringing people's privacy.
It's not about saving keypresses. Lisp fanatics tolerate parentheses-and-long-hyphenated-function-names because the language is beautiful. RPN users who are honest with themselves (like me) will admit that entering calculations in a Forth-like syntax is aesthetically satisfying, and reason enough to prefer that method.
Why base the distro version number on the kernel version number? Why not base it on the emacs version number or the PHP version number? Oh, I know! because it doesn't tell you about the whole distribution!
...and how much money patent lawyers make.
How is it that a user named "DickBreath," responding to a troll post about masturbation, posts one of the more insightful comments in this thread?
No, this is one-way compression.
Isn't being fully multiuser part of the POSIX standard also? As I remember it when I saw a sales presentation on the BeBox circa 1996, it was single user only.
I'm all for trying to use Slashdot to promote your pet project, but don't couch your story in questions about people's use of your admittedly relatively unknown software.
I guess that means no more chewing gum while online.
Then perhaps we should think carefully about whether we should use a definition of life that admits such phenomena. Aristotle's definition of "man" needed to be revised when a counterexample was pointed out.
I used to be a NewPen user, but I've switched to GraffitiAnywhere. I can "tap through" which NewPen won't allow.
Dasher has been profiled on slashdot before. I've played with it a bit by using a full character set arranged appropriately and "teaching" it with existing code snippets. It sometimes guesses entire lines like "for" statements, "#include"s and so on.
Erasing won't just be a slight nuisance, it will be a thermodynamic problem. Simply setting a mole of bits to zero might heat up your hard drive enough to melt it.
I think you just did.
I have an easier solution! They could double or quadruple access times now by just putting some kind of wait statement in the drive firmware.
That a phrase is turned with unusual grammar imparts it no profundity.