A windows user. And while there are lots of windows users, the vast majority of the people in the world are not ormer windows users. So, that majority, plus the people who are not accustomed to windows anymore (like me) will not judge a programs interface as "unfamiliar" or "unusual". It will be a good or a bad interface, aside for it's "windowness". The whole reasoning that everything must look like windows, because you know windows is flawed and innecesary. The gimp is good, if you learn how to use it. In fact, it is very easily related to the task it performs. You take a canvas, select a tool, and doo your job. If you want something done on the canvas, you use a context menu on itself. It's very direct.
Young people gather on 24dec and 31dec at the "Mercado del Puerto", next to the docks, by noon, eating roasted meat and drinking (and "sharing" in the F1 style) fizzling wine (medio y medio). By 2pm everybody is drunk, in the summer sun (even more drunk). Here, we wouldn't have a problem getting drunk a little earlier. It would even help recovering for the night dinner. We have the holidays in the summer, but have the european tradition of eating pork and lamb, and hipercaloric foods.
I'm sorry, I just lifted that off Google, It sounds the same for a spanish speaker anyway. Anyway, if I were you, I wouldn't use a T-shirt as an authority when talking about the one whose name should not be called.
There are people obsessed with Edgard Allan Poe, even with the Lord of the Rings. Lovecraft is great literature. I liked it very much, I don't read it anymore, because it scared the shit out of me, and I have my limits. I am reading now Lautreamont , "Les Chants de Maldoror", it's has some extreme horror, but it's more beautiful. There is a society of people in my country (Uruguay) "obsessed" with Lautreamont and his character, Maldoror. Good books and characters make that happen, even if people only know them through games. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh Wgah nagl fhtan
It's a wrapper. An emulator works at a lower level. It's not a matter of dictionaries and definitions, it's a matter of knowing what you are talking about. Either you get it, or you don't. You don't seem to.
The idea in general is that emulators intercept and emulate hardware calls, or at least, low level kernel calls. So you run your software into a virtual box. With wine, you have an actual implementation of the system, so there is no interception of calls, it's an implementation of the functions that conform the API. The idea to keep the word "emulator" for what we call emulators is useful, because it helps us know what we are talking about. In this field, there are lots of things that could be called the same (a router, a bridge, a switch, could all be called "routers", but they aren't) but just shouldn't, so we can better understand each other
That is what brought me out of windows!! first, it was the fact that the command line was not useful, then, that there was no _easy_ way to connect remotely. VNC sucks for dial up links, and terminal services doesn't run or at least I don't know how to make it run in a non-server computer. User interface is outdated, old, and ugly. Gnome 2.6, at least, provides much more beautifl widgets and themes. Nautilus has lots of UI imporvements over explorer.exe. Windows doesn't handle workspaces. I can't believe you are supposed to deal with 20 open windows with just a taskbar!!. Windows doesn't bring a pre-installed office system. You need to go and buy it, if you didn't think about it the first time. Buying software is a big usability issue. You need to drive to a software store, find the box, pay it, then come home and install it. In any modern distribution, you just install it, or wait for a download. Windows is a pain to maintain, you need to know about antivirus software! The last time I cared about that was in DOS with the stoned virus, and I ran the McAfee Scan. You need to download antivirus software, go through the hassle of paying for it, and care about its configuration. If you need to do any productive thing with windows, you need to go and buy the software, or download off a non-standard distribution system, very different stores with lots of different licenses and end user license agreements hostile to the user. I don't know how you see it, but as I see people actually have to deal with all that stuff to use windows, I see it as part of the user experience, and I don't understand why it doesn't bother most people. Of course, I would like to hear from someone that doesn't care about all that stuff, so they explain it to me.
Gillette seems to be failing to generate good revenue on razor sales for Q4 2004. They claim to be making money off the blades, but that sounds as nonsense!
Splash screens perform the job of making you think that the app takes less time to load than it does. It doesn matter how much it actually takes, because a couple more seconds doesn hurt productivity, but perceived delays are important, they are demotivational (is that a word?). Splash screens are good at that, and that is one of the reason why they are so common, they add to a more pleasant user experience. Of course, eclipse and gnome sttyle splashes are nicer than others, noone likes always-on-top splash screens, but that's no reason to get rid of all of them.
Satanists are people just like Catholics, only they like to wear their crosses the other way around. I, being atheist, respect ones as much as I respect the others. Following your line of reasoning, I believe you are talking about your enemies deserving shooting. If you are, as you seem, a christian from the US, you forgot to mention other people worth shooting: vietcong, communists, arabs (all kinds), french. If you were not talking about enemies deserving shooting, but about mass murderers who kill your people deserving shooting, you would have various options, if you were jew, nazis, if you were palestinian, israelis, if you were chinese, japs, is you were japanese/iraqi/afghan/vietanmese/colombian/*, people like you.
You could have continuous saving, plus a filesystem with write-ahead-logging , that doesn't get corrupted, like ReiserFS. Things have changed. Writing to disk all the time shouldn't slow the application down, that would be just bad design.
The guy is saying that the intricacies of the computer should not be exposed to the user. The whole act of saving your files, so you don't lose your work is stupid in essence, and in practive, because we do have the resources and the technology to avoid it. Many computer systems have existed that respected the work of the user. There çshould be no such thing as a "save" button. If I type it, I want it, if I didn't want to save, I can always undo (unlimited undo), or work on a copy of the original document.
The same thing happens with RAM, you can always save the state to some other device. There are many non volatile RAM-like technologies. They are expensive, so people have to put up with losing their work on power failure. You could always have a small device that recorded state, and let software do the rest, and you could have a device with a persistent state, resilient to power failure. It's just that regular users are accustomed to the way things are. That doesn't make it sensible. Consumer computers shouldn't have those stupid limitations. It's ok for an engineer, or a programmer, but not for a regular guy. It's not a failure of the user, it's a failure of the product.
I was talking about EDS management. In my country, IBM runs many critical government IT contracts, they sign the contract, and then start hiring junior java developers for that. You don't always get what you pay for.
But also: management, that hires inderqualified admins.
Plus, Microsoft, that openly promotes that you don't need a real admin for your network. Of course the guy who built the app is not responsible for that, but the guy who sold you this app so you didn't need a real sysadmin is!
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A windows user.
And while there are lots of windows users, the vast majority of the people in the world are not ormer windows users. So, that majority, plus the people who are not accustomed to windows anymore (like me) will not judge a programs interface as "unfamiliar" or "unusual". It will be a good or a bad interface, aside for it's "windowness".
The whole reasoning that everything must look like windows, because you know windows is flawed and innecesary.
The gimp is good, if you learn how to use it. In fact, it is very easily related to the task it performs. You take a canvas, select a tool, and doo your job. If you want something done on the canvas, you use a context menu on itself. It's very direct.
Any Apache2 nuts wants to keep.
Young people gather on 24dec and 31dec at the "Mercado del Puerto", next to the docks, by noon, eating roasted meat and drinking (and "sharing" in the F1 style) fizzling wine (medio y medio). By 2pm everybody is drunk, in the summer sun (even more drunk). Here, we wouldn't have a problem getting drunk a little earlier.
It would even help recovering for the night dinner. We have the holidays in the summer, but have the european tradition of eating pork and lamb, and hipercaloric foods.
I'm sorry, I just lifted that off Google, It sounds the same for a spanish speaker anyway.
Anyway, if I were you, I wouldn't use a T-shirt as an authority when talking about the one whose name should not be called.
There are people obsessed with Edgard Allan Poe, even with the Lord of the Rings.
Lovecraft is great literature. I liked it very much, I don't read it anymore, because it scared the shit out of me, and I have my limits.
I am reading now Lautreamont , "Les Chants de Maldoror", it's has some extreme horror, but it's more beautiful. There is a society of people in my country (Uruguay) "obsessed" with Lautreamont and his character, Maldoror.
Good books and characters make that happen, even if people only know them through games.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh Wgah nagl fhtan
It's a wrapper. An emulator works at a lower level. It's not a matter of dictionaries and definitions, it's a matter of knowing what you are talking about. Either you get it, or you don't. You don't seem to.
No, they shouldn't
The idea in general is that emulators intercept and emulate hardware calls, or at least, low level kernel calls. So you run your software into a virtual box.
With wine, you have an actual implementation of the system, so there is no interception of calls, it's an implementation of the functions that conform the API.
The idea to keep the word "emulator" for what we call emulators is useful, because it helps us know what we are talking about. In this field, there are lots of things that could be called the same (a router, a bridge, a switch, could all be called "routers", but they aren't) but just shouldn't, so we can better understand each other
That is what brought me out of windows!!
first, it was the fact that the command line was not useful, then, that there was no _easy_ way to connect remotely. VNC sucks for dial up links, and terminal services doesn't run or at least I don't know how to make it run in a non-server computer.
User interface is outdated, old, and ugly.
Gnome 2.6, at least, provides much more beautifl widgets and themes. Nautilus has lots of UI imporvements over explorer.exe.
Windows doesn't handle workspaces. I can't believe you are supposed to deal with 20 open windows with just a taskbar!!.
Windows doesn't bring a pre-installed office system. You need to go and buy it, if you didn't think about it the first time. Buying software is a big usability issue. You need to drive to a software store, find the box, pay it, then come home and install it. In any modern distribution, you just install it, or wait for a download.
Windows is a pain to maintain, you need to know about antivirus software!
The last time I cared about that was in DOS with the stoned virus, and I ran the McAfee Scan.
You need to download antivirus software, go through the hassle of paying for it, and care about its configuration.
If you need to do any productive thing with windows, you need to go and buy the software, or download off a non-standard distribution system, very different stores with lots of different licenses and end user license agreements hostile to the user.
I don't know how you see it, but as I see people actually have to deal with all that stuff to use windows, I see it as part of the user experience, and I don't understand why it doesn't bother most people. Of course, I would like to hear from someone that doesn't care about all that stuff, so they explain it to me.
It was 1994 for me when I thought that, then win95 came, I liked it. After a while I tried Enlightenment, and never looked back.
Gillette seems to be failing to generate good revenue on razor sales for Q4 2004.
They claim to be making money off the blades, but that sounds as nonsense!
Splash screens perform the job of making you think that the app takes less time to load than it does. It doesn matter how much it actually takes, because a couple more seconds doesn hurt productivity, but perceived delays are important, they are demotivational (is that a word?).
Splash screens are good at that, and that is one of the reason why they are so common, they add to a more pleasant user experience. Of course, eclipse and gnome sttyle splashes are nicer than others, noone likes always-on-top splash screens, but that's no reason to get rid of all of them.
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8. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
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10. Profit!
RTFL
The girl ratted them out.
They didn't teach her that you whould not rat your parents, it seems.
Maybe for swahili-speaking people, startup times are not a problem.
Dumbass.
Modular design
1) no, it doesn't
2) ok
3) no way, it's math
Satanists are people just like Catholics, only they like to wear their crosses the other way around.
I, being atheist, respect ones as much as I respect the others.
Following your line of reasoning, I believe you are talking about your enemies deserving shooting.
If you are, as you seem, a christian from the US, you forgot to mention other people worth shooting: vietcong, communists, arabs (all kinds), french.
If you were not talking about enemies deserving shooting, but about mass murderers who kill your people deserving shooting, you would have various options, if you were jew, nazis, if you were palestinian, israelis, if you were chinese, japs, is you were japanese/iraqi/afghan/vietanmese/colombian/*, people like you.
They are Space-mountain certified!!
What is that taskbar thing that you talk about??
You could have continuous saving, plus a filesystem with write-ahead-logging , that doesn't get corrupted, like ReiserFS.
Things have changed.
Writing to disk all the time shouldn't slow the application down, that would be just bad design.
The guy is saying that the intricacies of the computer should not be exposed to the user.
The whole act of saving your files, so you don't lose your work is stupid in essence, and in practive, because we do have the resources and the technology to avoid it. Many computer systems have existed that respected the work of the user. There çshould be no such thing as a "save" button. If I type it, I want it, if I didn't want to save, I can always undo (unlimited undo), or work on a copy of the original document.
The same thing happens with RAM, you can always save the state to some other device. There are many non volatile RAM-like technologies.
They are expensive, so people have to put up with losing their work on power failure.
You could always have a small device that recorded state, and let software do the rest, and you could have a device with a persistent state, resilient to power failure.
It's just that regular users are accustomed to the way things are. That doesn't make it sensible.
Consumer computers shouldn't have those stupid limitations. It's ok for an engineer, or a programmer, but not for a regular guy. It's not a failure of the user, it's a failure of the product.
I was talking about EDS management.
In my country, IBM runs many critical government IT contracts, they sign the contract, and then start hiring junior java developers for that.
You don't always get what you pay for.
This is the fault of the admins, of course.
But also: management, that hires inderqualified admins.
Plus, Microsoft, that openly promotes that you don't need a real admin for your network.
Of course the guy who built the app is not responsible for that, but the guy who sold you this app so you didn't need a real sysadmin is!
Attach it to a 3D scanner and make a 3D copier.
Attach such device to a phaser set on "vaporize", and you have a teletransporter:))