I've seen some pretty unusual Windows desktops at Customize.org which use third party applications to replace everything from the Windows shell to system fonts. There's a handy little utility called Resource Hacker which lets you edit Windows executable files, allowing almost infinite customization. Some of the finer results of using Resource Hacker can be seen in the tutorials here.
As for the UNIX desktop front, everything these days seems to want to copy the better points of the MacOS and Windows. A notable exception is XFCE which is a Gtk2/Gnomed clone of CDE. If you wanna see some odd attempts at user interfaces, I urge you to check out some of the others at http://www.plig.org/xwinman/ (yes the site still exists and is actually fairly recent). I honestly believe this site is a MUST READ for anyone that is going to use UNIX on the desktop).
Programming is a dangerous skill and should only be used by people mature enough to use it responsibly. The best way to make sure they are mature enough is to make learning hard enough that all of those script kiddies will run off to download pr0n instead of learning to program.
Driving a car is a dangerous skill and should only be used by people mature enough to use it responsibly. The best way to make sure they are mature enough is to make learning hard enough that all of those people who drive automatics and can't perform a basic engine swap will turn to public transportation instead of learning how to use a car.
Define "friendly." FreeBSD has some of the best documentation I've seen anywhere, a more than supportive community and has the same GUIs that Linux does. Once you've set it up (the installer is curses based, but makes a LOT more sense than most point&click Linux installers), it's no more difficult to use than any Linux distribution. Come on, you've got more sense than to say this.
The most important characteristics learned in the military are leadership and teamwork. The leadership required to maintain troop welfare and the teamwork required to achieve tremendous goals are gradually learned throughout the course of one's career. I'm not sure that this game will depict that. Tactics and a nice array of (more) weapons are great, but until a game accurately portrays the importance of the aforementioned traits, it's just going to be a more sophisticated Doom clone.
I'm totally speculating here (and someone correct me if I'm wrong), but I think that in a vaccum, without the interference of any other bodies, you *and* the object, no matter how big it is, would be pulled towards each other. The distance you travel vs. the distance the other object travels is proportional to your mass vs. the mass of the object. I don't think an object has to be *any* size to hold you there; eventually, you will be attracted to each other.
The timeline states that in 2014, Rosetta will orbit the comet for six months before it lands, mapping the comet to find a suitable landing spot. Then it goes on to say: Immediately after touchdown, the lander will fire a harpoon into the ground to avoid bouncing off the surface back into space, since the comet's extremely weak gravity alone would not hold onto the lander..
My question is, if the comet's gravity is so weak, how is the Rosetta supposed to orbit this thing for six months?
Virus making is actually a good way to make profits. Hire one guy to write the virus, a few hundred thousand dollars spent on writing an antivirus program, and then sell millions of copies of said program at $50 apiece to people whose PCs were infected when they opened a program called Happy99.exe from Grandma.
Maybe, this one relies on the color of the person's aurora, something psychics have used for years to determine whether or not to trust a person. Don't worry, we have good old fashioned pseudoscience to back it up.
So here are some pictures I leeched before it was Slashdotted:
Picture 1 Pretty Self Explanitory Picture 2 Photo from the Viking missions Picture 3 Color corrected photo from the Pathfinder lander Picture 4 Original image from the Pathfinder
The two biggest obstacles I can see are name recognition and the Microsoft tax. If someone were selling a computer with similar specs to a Dell machine, most people are going to go with the Dell just because it's a company they've heard of before (and therefore one they can "trust"). The other problem is Microsoft: if you are going to install Windows on the computer (and possibily Office), you will have to sell your machines at a loss to compete. This is to compensate for the fact that Microsoft gives big name vendors like Dell and HP discounts on their software.
I think the best way to overcome these two obstacles is to invent a product truly unique, so that people actually WANT to pay more for your system. Look at Apple. Innovation is what helped Apple rise from their own ashes, first with the iMac and now with the iPod and OS X. Jump a feature that you think will be big in the next few years, and then have the guts to use it as the cornerstone for your business.
Around 1997 or so, one of the biggest catchphrases was "push," the ability for companies to put whatever information they wanted (News, stocks, weather) on your computer. Microsoft even went as far as to develop an "Active Desktop" so that the content could be placed directly on the user's desktop. Too bad push just turned out to be a constantly refreshing webpage ("fetch" would have been a better term) which took forever to load on the day's 33.6 modems.
Maybe the computer systems were set up to call a certain IP address in the event that they were stolen. There's software like this for laptops already. If this is the case, all the FBI had to do was contact AOL to find out who was accessing the site, and from where.
This type of language would only be useful in a desolate environment. The reason the article states that whistling was used, was to communicate over long distances (up to two miles). How many people live within two miles of you? There's a reason this language died in the first place.
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I've seen some pretty unusual Windows desktops at Customize.org which use third party applications to replace everything from the Windows shell to system fonts. There's a handy little utility called Resource Hacker which lets you edit Windows executable files, allowing almost infinite customization. Some of the finer results of using Resource Hacker can be seen in the tutorials here.
As for the UNIX desktop front, everything these days seems to want to copy the better points of the MacOS and Windows. A notable exception is XFCE which is a Gtk2/Gnomed clone of CDE. If you wanna see some odd attempts at user interfaces, I urge you to check out some of the others at http://www.plig.org/xwinman/ (yes the site still exists and is actually fairly recent). I honestly believe this site is a MUST READ for anyone that is going to use UNIX on the desktop).
Mandarin and Cantonese are so dissimilar that one might as well consider them different languages.
Programming is a dangerous skill and should only be used by people mature enough to use it responsibly. The best way to make sure they are mature enough is to make learning hard enough that all of those script kiddies will run off to download pr0n instead of learning to program.
Driving a car is a dangerous skill and should only be used by people mature enough to use it responsibly. The best way to make sure they are mature enough is to make learning hard enough that all of those people who drive automatics and can't perform a basic engine swap will turn to public transportation instead of learning how to use a car.
Yeah, the full version costs a full $5 at Panthip Plaza in Krung Thep.
Define "friendly." FreeBSD has some of the best documentation I've seen anywhere, a more than supportive community and has the same GUIs that Linux does. Once you've set it up (the installer is curses based, but makes a LOT more sense than most point&click Linux installers), it's no more difficult to use than any Linux distribution. Come on, you've got more sense than to say this.
The most important characteristics learned in the military are leadership and teamwork. The leadership required to maintain troop welfare and the teamwork required to achieve tremendous goals are gradually learned throughout the course of one's career. I'm not sure that this game will depict that. Tactics and a nice array of (more) weapons are great, but until a game accurately portrays the importance of the aforementioned traits, it's just going to be a more sophisticated Doom clone.
I'm totally speculating here (and someone correct me if I'm wrong), but I think that in a vaccum, without the interference of any other bodies, you *and* the object, no matter how big it is, would be pulled towards each other. The distance you travel vs. the distance the other object travels is proportional to your mass vs. the mass of the object. I don't think an object has to be *any* size to hold you there; eventually, you will be attracted to each other.
The timeline states that in 2014, Rosetta will orbit the comet for six months before it lands, mapping the comet to find a suitable landing spot. Then it goes on to say:
Immediately after touchdown, the lander will fire a harpoon into the ground to avoid bouncing off the surface back into space, since the comet's extremely weak gravity alone would not hold onto the lander..
My question is, if the comet's gravity is so weak, how is the Rosetta supposed to orbit this thing for six months?
The card reader connects to a computer USB port (only Windows 2000/XP compatible at the moment).
Suddenly, this throws out the validity of anyone who owned a Mac or was using FreeBSD as their primary desktop operating system.
Virus making is actually a good way to make profits. Hire one guy to write the virus, a few hundred thousand dollars spent on writing an antivirus program, and then sell millions of copies of said program at $50 apiece to people whose PCs were infected when they opened a program called Happy99.exe from Grandma.
Linux can't even read my FreeBSD partition.
Right Click > Run > xchat.
Hysterical. I shit my pants laughing. No, really.
How about MY desktop?
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http://www.mindspring.com/~joekiser/Screenshot.
Bill Gates would be envious.
Maybe, this one relies on the color of the person's aurora, something psychics have used for years to determine whether or not to trust a person. Don't worry, we have good old fashioned pseudoscience to back it up.
So here are some pictures I leeched before it was Slashdotted:
Picture 1 Pretty Self Explanitory
Picture 2 Photo from the Viking missions
Picture 3 Color corrected photo from the Pathfinder lander
Picture 4 Original image from the Pathfinder
I mean, seriously, haven't you seen Mission to Mars?
The two biggest obstacles I can see are name recognition and the Microsoft tax. If someone were selling a computer with similar specs to a Dell machine, most people are going to go with the Dell just because it's a company they've heard of before (and therefore one they can "trust"). The other problem is Microsoft: if you are going to install Windows on the computer (and possibily Office), you will have to sell your machines at a loss to compete. This is to compensate for the fact that Microsoft gives big name vendors like Dell and HP discounts on their software. I think the best way to overcome these two obstacles is to invent a product truly unique, so that people actually WANT to pay more for your system. Look at Apple. Innovation is what helped Apple rise from their own ashes, first with the iMac and now with the iPod and OS X. Jump a feature that you think will be big in the next few years, and then have the guts to use it as the cornerstone for your business.
One would think that spam and email worms constitutes a significant portion of that 75%.
Around 1997 or so, one of the biggest catchphrases was "push," the ability for companies to put whatever information they wanted (News, stocks, weather) on your computer. Microsoft even went as far as to develop an "Active Desktop" so that the content could be placed directly on the user's desktop. Too bad push just turned out to be a constantly refreshing webpage ("fetch" would have been a better term) which took forever to load on the day's 33.6 modems.
Actually, Microsoft has made donations to Howard Dean.
There's also one about drilling to the center of the earth with molten iron.
Maybe the computer systems were set up to call a certain IP address in the event that they were stolen. There's software like this for laptops already. If this is the case, all the FBI had to do was contact AOL to find out who was accessing the site, and from where.
I don't see why they didn't just keep the name "RedHat Linux."
This type of language would only be useful in a desolate environment. The reason the article states that whistling was used, was to communicate over long distances (up to two miles). How many people live within two miles of you? There's a reason this language died in the first place.