"How does your planet move around your star?" [...] Then again, if they have no concept of "time" or "movement", then I would argue that they don't exist in the universe in the same way we do.
It is precisely as mathematically accurate that the universe rotates around the planet. Or that there is no difference between the star and the system (since the solar wind pushes out creating a region of relaively dense matter throughout the system, the planets can been seen as lumpy bits inside a less dense medium).
Then again, if they have no concept of "time" or "movement"
A species used to near light speed, relativistic interactions may well have a totally different concept of time and movement. And that's using physics that we are pretty comfortable with. If they have integrated physics far beyond ours into their everyday technology, they may well have no concept of "time" or "movement" any more than early man understood gravity. Heck, most people today still think things "fall" "down"... a useful but totally fictional concept.
Okay, this is the third time you've posted this to this article. Can I point out that if you're going to slam a program, you should get the name right? It's Juk, as in "Jukebox", not KJux.
And I don't really see that it looks so much like iTunes... to me it looks more like Outlook with mp3s instead of emails.
(I'm not sure that that's a canon link. Ruby bindings are now in official KDE CVS, I've noticed. This may be a project predating that).
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if you want OO, use Objective-C. It's based on Smalltalk, and that's the only viable paradigm we've ever had
And there are Qt bindings for it. Plus you can code for OSX.
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KDE in SuSE (using the official 3.2 packages for 8.2) has the flag. As you've been told by other posters, it appears that it is only Red Hat that removes the flag.
I would love to see how they air this. I want to see the opening graphics and theme, plus the lines and play by play overgraphics they drop in. I can see all these X's, circles and arrows with slowmotion playback as the announcer intones in a quiet, excited voice: "Now he's drawing a... well, the audiance liked that. Let's see that again. See, you can see his hand start to feint towards a tap here (graphics on screen)".
Televison means flashing lights. A television is nothing but a big square flashing a picture 30/60 times per second. This is what a television is.
Yes, but we're talking about flashes on the order of 5 times a second with distinct changes in brightness. Your argument is specious, as you are saying "it's inherently dangerous because of foo" where foo is not dangerous, even if it can be defined using the same words as the thing that is dangerous.
Flashing is not dangerous, it's a specific type of flashing.
It's a bit like saying that a cat and a blowtorch can both burn you because a blowtorch generates heat and a cat generates heat. One of the levels is fine, and as for the other, well, I'm not going to put a blowtorch in my lap.
Also, going back to Mark, he can't be around strobes, but he alo can't get a driver's license and is on SSI, so he sits around at home pretty much every day... watching television. He's got a huge DVD collection of series. Television itself is not the problem, no matter what word games you use to try and make it the issue.
A video game contains flashing lights. That's a given. It's the nature of something displayed on a television. Therefore, warnings are superfluous.
I will fully admit that I am not the biggest video gamer, but almost all the video games I've played have not had any flashing whatsoever. Age of Empires, Command and Conquer, Tetris. In fact, the fact that I can recall the ones that did have flashing (FF VII, Batman for the NES, the powerup cutscenes from MegaMan III) would indicate that there are fewer that have significant flashing.
Some movies have flashing, usually action adventure with lots of guns. It's not hard to avoid.
Again, nobody is saying that such warnings should be made mandatory. Just that it would be a nice thing. Kinda like mentioning that the chili you brought to the potluck contains peanut butter.
I was talking about six years ago, but Google brings nothing up, so it may well have been a local urban legend among the gamers I hung out with. I'll have to ask my SO when she gets home from the lab. She was big into Magic and worked for WotC during the height of the craze.
WHOA! When did I imply that there should be government regulations? I have a nice list on my PDA and a camera full of the stupid "The State of California has determined that..." signs all over the place. I'm *highly* against mandating labeling of this nature or seeking damages against a company due to not labeling. If you don't know that coffee is hot and knives are sharp, you should not be venturing out into public.
There is an ethical issue, and despite the common Dilbertesque view of corporations, many manufacturers do care about their customer base and product. Some of those decisions pay off big time, finding strong niches of customers that appreciate the efforts. I know that if someone came to me and said my product was causing problems to a small community and a simple label would help, I would seriously investigate.
I got the impression that he was looking for an organized group that could put pressure on companies to consider labeling. Government intervention is like duct tape repairs. It holds together for about 10 minutes, and then makes everything near it sticky and gums up the works. Plus it's hard to fix correctly later. Toss the "maybe I'll win the lottery" jackass legislative attempts of late, and government labeling is a horribly counter-productive exercise.
It would have been nice if AccUser would've told us why he is asking those questions and given a bit more background information on his son's problems, rather than leave us all to speculate.
That's something we can agree on, but I sort of like the way he phrased it. Rather than thinking about "is this guy doing the right thing", I thought along the lines of "given this situation, what *is* the right thing?" I would imagine that the latter is a more productive question to ask in a public forum.
Does a fork set imply that it's safe to stick one of its forks into a light socket if it does not include a warning?
No, but it's a nice thing to mention if it contains nickle in the alloy... so nickle sensitive individuals can avoid it. In the same vein, it would be nice if videogames mentioned if there was significant strobe lighting.
I have a feeling that you're wanting to sue somebody in this situation.
Many people here seem to think he's looking to sue. Maybe, maybe not. In the group I hang out with, there's a fellow who is very prone to seizures, and we'll occasionally change our plans to avoid things that might give him a problem. Really simple. I have *zero* problem with it, as I had a friend who died having a seizure. I'd rather skip a movie or ride and retain Mark as a living friend.
A BETTER question might be - are there any websites that list video games that are safe or unsafe for photosensitive individuals. That makes it much easier for a concerned parent to make purchacing decisions. Two minutes on Google didn't find anything... maybe this is a open opportunity. (Lots of medical studies of the effects of video games, though... appears that only 5% of epileptic adults have problems with strobes, but the rate is much higher in children).
Instead, you should accept the fact that you made an error in your parental judgement. You shouldn't have let him play the game without consulting his doctor, whether or not the game had a warning, because you knew that video games could potentially cause a problem before you let your son play the game.
He may not have known. Everybody with a risk of seizure has to have a first episode to learn that they have a problem. Now that the parent knows, he'll be looking around for resources.
Didn't ESPN air a M:tG tourney against the SuperBowl? I seem to recall it was about five or six years ago.
I'm a big role player, and while I can see the LARP crossover, I've never understood why people confuse this with RPGs. Ditto for computer games. Sure there's plenty of general geek crossover, but they are very different. I've watched the past decade as 'gamer' went from someone who can wield d4s as caltrops to somebody who is up on the latest PS2 release.
Don't misinterpret me - card games are a legitimate game; just not one I'm into and I am eternally mystified as to why people assume I want to play the latest Doom/Quake whatever or the latest card game when I tell them I am into role playing games. FWIW, although I've never really gotten into Magic, I did like NetRunner when I gave that a go.
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To give you a reference point, I enjoy two different styles of coffee: dark french roasts and classic diner coffee (a la Dunkin Donuts). You can count three, as I also drink iced coffee, which is entirely different. The latter I have a taste for from picking up DD in the mornings when I lived on the east coast, and late nights at pre-Millstone Dennys. When Dennys went Millstone, I stopped drinking coffee there.
At home and at the office, I use a french press, which gives enough coffee for myself. I got mine from Starbucks (but would not buy coffee there - I hate that "Seattle taste", somewhat shared by Peets). I grind at home, dump in four spoonfuls of pretty fine grind (I don't mind a bit of dust in the last cup), and dump in four cups of microwaved water. Nice and simple... but you need a sink to wash it out.
When the building I was working in was being rebuilt, I lacked a sink. I tried a few instant coffees, and noted that the spanish Nescafe is different (not great, just different. Folger's dark roast was my best preference, but I really can't say it was great. I wound up getting two large cups of the drip from the local gas station on the way in and putting half a vanilla creamer into each. (When I grind my own, I will occasionally toss a chunk of a roasted vanilla bean in. A little goes a long way).
If you like coffee, I'd say that you should find a method to make your own at the office.
Incidently, at times I will drink upwards of 128 to 192 ounces of coffee a day. Every few months, I stop cold turkey for two weeks and verify that there are no side effects. As far as I can tell, there is zero effect. When I am not drinking coffee, I will easily go through 128 ounces of water or other liquid. I got into the habit of drinking quite a bit of water long ago, and I just happen to like coffee, so it (and iced coffee) is my drink of choice. Until a couple years ago, it was iced tea. Either I have no addiction tendencies, or caffene just has very little effect on me. I'm somewhat paranoid about having a problem, but I've never seen any kind of symptoms when I stop.
As for the kernel, you do the same thing as if WinCE crashes - hit the reset. Hit the hard reset and your system goes back to default. Windows is not some sort of magic system; Linux on these systems works pretty much the same way.
I doubt anyone would like to use linux on their PDA.. at least from the quality of the PIM apps i see on the desktop.
I installed Linux to upgrade the PIM apps from the very limited ones on my iPaq. Opie provides a much nicer environment for standard ToDo, Calendar, Contacts and Notes. WinCE provides nicer voice recording and some interesting input methods. I'd rather have the better apps that I'll use regularly. DateBk5 on my Palm III still blows them out of the water... but I can emulate Palm on Linux.
The nicest thing is that I can use PyQt on it. I can create a form with QtDesigner, do the typical GUI dev cycle of clicking on the widgets and writing Python code for what it should do when it is clicked, scrolled, loaded, etc. The whole thing is converted into two.py files (one for the UI, one for the main code), and I can copy it over to my iPaq... really fast and easy custom app creation. Custom databases, little useful apps... the kind of uses that make PDAs really shine.
if you cant take down a meeting time or a note and sync it with your PC.
Between DrawPad and Kate, I can take notes much easier than on any PDA. I use Palm Grafitti for input when doing lots of text, or DrawPad to made quick scribbles. As for meeting times, you hit the Calendar button, pick the date and go... the same as every other PDA. Syncing is quick, easy and works fine.
I use unison to sync, but that's because my entire home LAN uses unison to backup all systems to a file server. Everything that appears on the network (and is configured as one of "my" systems) gets automatically synced if it hasn't in the past 24 hours. With my iPaq, that's right after it hits the cradle and is automatically assigned an IP address.
That's a bit more difficult to set up than the default sync (which has a nice GUI interface on the PDA), but I mention it because that's the kind of thing that admins in large office networks would give their eyeteeth to be able to do. As soon as an employee's PDA goes in a cradle, it is backed up to the server... the entire thing. If they run over it with their car, they simply go to the Help Desk, fill out a loss form, and get a new PDA... configured precisely as their old one was, every app, every note, every setting, identical.
There seems to be a great deal of confusion regarding what the fellow is looking for. He's not looking for a easy to use interface, a good GUI, a way to learn SQL, or a simple key/value database (although the latter is closest).
Back before SQL was available, mainframes had lots of data accessable via TTY terminals. It was an entirely different method that is rarely in use today. Most existing systems have had a thick client or web interface slapped on the front. When databases moved to those new fangled PCs with loads of RAM - 64k of memory - and loads of storage - 100k discs - they reflected the mainframe way of doing things.
dBase ][ and III were great apps for their time, totally tied to a character terminal, and often the stucture of the database was tied into that character terminal. If you gave a field two characters, there were two character cells on the screen devoted to it. Each screen was a record. Configuration was done with a simple interpreter. Gads - the dot commands... I can't remember a single command, but I remember the periods. Everything else was a field.
Basically, you made a UI. The UI *was* the database, and each time you filled it out, that was a record (keyed by a field in the form? It's been too many years). It's easily doable with SQL (which is why SQL is considered more powerful), but a really really simple front end, a la dBase, I haven't seen.
If you haven't done it, you're likely to not see much of a big deal. It's a shift in thinking more than anything programmatic. Kinda the way unix has "everything is a file", the dBase way might be "the form is the database". Both are gross oversimplifications of how it actually works in practice, however.
There's a more modern db (circa early 90s) that runs in DOS that is dBase like. I can't recall the name, but it was a diehard app with users persisting (probably until today).
Konqueror does this... well, it actually hides the password only, so you still have the form:
http://username@domain.ext/path/
If you use username:password, the password goes away when the URL is parsed and stored and used for future hits to the same username/domain pair (for that session).
As long a we're looking for ancedotal evidence, I'll toss in that I credit my not having any wrist problems whatsoever (despite regular long hours typing) with the fact that I very regularly play guitar as well. Or, to any musicians out there, I have no wrist problems from playing guitar because I spend many hours typing.
They are both horribly prone to problems, but they are so vastly different in how you hold your hands and what muscles you use, I'm thinking that they provide a nice balance.
I agree... I'd like a tool like KWord, however, to load the final product for press layout and preview. An interactive GUI to view the intermediate step of the source document to a print format (like PDF). Or to combine several complicated articles... think a magazine publishing papers. LaTeX to write them, and then a DTP app to lay them out alongside advertisements. Right where Quark and Framemaker fits right now.
I use Kate/vi for most of my content. Right now I'm putting together a small press book in KWord, almost as a test run (since there's no deadline on it, and it is a fairly complicated work with many fonts and graphics). It tells the story via press releases and official documents, so it's a pretty ornate work and precisely where DTP features come in handy rather than word processing or raw text input.
I'll admit that I'm half doing it to test the limits of KWord (and to test the binder because I can specify different types of paper for various pages).
KSpread is fast. Far faster than OOC. It's also smaller. It's a spreadsheet, and there's not much other difference. You can embed KSpread sheets into other KDE apps and view them directly in Konqueror, but you can do that with OO documents as well (there's a kpart plugin for OO.o, although I'm noy 100% certain it's in the main distribution tree or 3rd party).
KWord is fast. WAY faster than OOW. It's also smaller. It is also a completely and totally different type of word processor. OO Writer is more of a MS Word style processor with similar limitations. It is page oriented. KWord is frame oriented, a la Quark and Framemaker. That means it does DTP much more naturally. At the same time it can just give you a repeating frame at the margins and be a pretty typical word processor. Each frame can contain various types of data. The "text" data, aka word processing type stuff, is nicely structured with styles and a style manager. Chapters can be autogenerated, spell check on the fly, and other typical features can be found.
When it comes to a comparison between the two big suites (MS Office, OpenOffice) there are some omissions of features in 1.3 that you might want to be aware of if you do them (stuff like mail merge). Niche office specific tasks. Of course, some of the items like that are missing from OpenOffice as well, and only Word will do. The one that I hear the most complaints about is the lack of a automatic bibliography feature, a la EndNotes. You can, of course, still type them in manually.
KOffice is younger, leaner, and depends on KDElibs for lots of stuff. That means it runs on *nix only... which does include OSX.
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It is precisely as mathematically accurate that the universe rotates around the planet. Or that there is no difference between the star and the system (since the solar wind pushes out creating a region of relaively dense matter throughout the system, the planets can been seen as lumpy bits inside a less dense medium).
Then again, if they have no concept of "time" or "movement"
A species used to near light speed, relativistic interactions may well have a totally different concept of time and movement. And that's using physics that we are pretty comfortable with. If they have integrated physics far beyond ours into their everyday technology, they may well have no concept of "time" or "movement" any more than early man understood gravity. Heck, most people today still think things "fall" "down"... a useful but totally fictional concept.
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There's a general rule of rebuttal here, but I can't quite see it.
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The lag during tab completion is very very odd and points to something outside of KDE, potentially.
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And I don't really see that it looks so much like iTunes... to me it looks more like Outlook with mp3s instead of emails.
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Yes it is.
(I'm not sure that that's a canon link. Ruby bindings are now in official KDE CVS, I've noticed. This may be a project predating that).
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And there are Qt bindings for it. Plus you can code for OSX.
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Yes, but we're talking about flashes on the order of 5 times a second with distinct changes in brightness. Your argument is specious, as you are saying "it's inherently dangerous because of foo" where foo is not dangerous, even if it can be defined using the same words as the thing that is dangerous.
Flashing is not dangerous, it's a specific type of flashing.
It's a bit like saying that a cat and a blowtorch can both burn you because a blowtorch generates heat and a cat generates heat. One of the levels is fine, and as for the other, well, I'm not going to put a blowtorch in my lap.
Also, going back to Mark, he can't be around strobes, but he alo can't get a driver's license and is on SSI, so he sits around at home pretty much every day... watching television. He's got a huge DVD collection of series. Television itself is not the problem, no matter what word games you use to try and make it the issue.
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I will fully admit that I am not the biggest video gamer, but almost all the video games I've played have not had any flashing whatsoever. Age of Empires, Command and Conquer, Tetris. In fact, the fact that I can recall the ones that did have flashing (FF VII, Batman for the NES, the powerup cutscenes from MegaMan III) would indicate that there are fewer that have significant flashing.
Some movies have flashing, usually action adventure with lots of guns. It's not hard to avoid.
Again, nobody is saying that such warnings should be made mandatory. Just that it would be a nice thing. Kinda like mentioning that the chili you brought to the potluck contains peanut butter.
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There is an ethical issue, and despite the common Dilbertesque view of corporations, many manufacturers do care about their customer base and product. Some of those decisions pay off big time, finding strong niches of customers that appreciate the efforts. I know that if someone came to me and said my product was causing problems to a small community and a simple label would help, I would seriously investigate.
I got the impression that he was looking for an organized group that could put pressure on companies to consider labeling. Government intervention is like duct tape repairs. It holds together for about 10 minutes, and then makes everything near it sticky and gums up the works. Plus it's hard to fix correctly later. Toss the "maybe I'll win the lottery" jackass legislative attempts of late, and government labeling is a horribly counter-productive exercise.
It would have been nice if AccUser would've told us why he is asking those questions and given a bit more background information on his son's problems, rather than leave us all to speculate. That's something we can agree on, but I sort of like the way he phrased it. Rather than thinking about "is this guy doing the right thing", I thought along the lines of "given this situation, what *is* the right thing?" I would imagine that the latter is a more productive question to ask in a public forum.
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No, but it's a nice thing to mention if it contains nickle in the alloy... so nickle sensitive individuals can avoid it. In the same vein, it would be nice if videogames mentioned if there was significant strobe lighting.
I have a feeling that you're wanting to sue somebody in this situation.
Many people here seem to think he's looking to sue. Maybe, maybe not. In the group I hang out with, there's a fellow who is very prone to seizures, and we'll occasionally change our plans to avoid things that might give him a problem. Really simple. I have *zero* problem with it, as I had a friend who died having a seizure. I'd rather skip a movie or ride and retain Mark as a living friend.
A BETTER question might be - are there any websites that list video games that are safe or unsafe for photosensitive individuals. That makes it much easier for a concerned parent to make purchacing decisions. Two minutes on Google didn't find anything... maybe this is a open opportunity. (Lots of medical studies of the effects of video games, though... appears that only 5% of epileptic adults have problems with strobes, but the rate is much higher in children).
Instead, you should accept the fact that you made an error in your parental judgement. You shouldn't have let him play the game without consulting his doctor, whether or not the game had a warning, because you knew that video games could potentially cause a problem before you let your son play the game.
He may not have known. Everybody with a risk of seizure has to have a first episode to learn that they have a problem. Now that the parent knows, he'll be looking around for resources.
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I'm a big role player, and while I can see the LARP crossover, I've never understood why people confuse this with RPGs. Ditto for computer games. Sure there's plenty of general geek crossover, but they are very different. I've watched the past decade as 'gamer' went from someone who can wield d4s as caltrops to somebody who is up on the latest PS2 release.
Don't misinterpret me - card games are a legitimate game; just not one I'm into and I am eternally mystified as to why people assume I want to play the latest Doom/Quake whatever or the latest card game when I tell them I am into role playing games. FWIW, although I've never really gotten into Magic, I did like NetRunner when I gave that a go.
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At home and at the office, I use a french press, which gives enough coffee for myself. I got mine from Starbucks (but would not buy coffee there - I hate that "Seattle taste", somewhat shared by Peets). I grind at home, dump in four spoonfuls of pretty fine grind (I don't mind a bit of dust in the last cup), and dump in four cups of microwaved water. Nice and simple... but you need a sink to wash it out.
When the building I was working in was being rebuilt, I lacked a sink. I tried a few instant coffees, and noted that the spanish Nescafe is different (not great, just different. Folger's dark roast was my best preference, but I really can't say it was great. I wound up getting two large cups of the drip from the local gas station on the way in and putting half a vanilla creamer into each. (When I grind my own, I will occasionally toss a chunk of a roasted vanilla bean in. A little goes a long way).
If you like coffee, I'd say that you should find a method to make your own at the office.
Incidently, at times I will drink upwards of 128 to 192 ounces of coffee a day. Every few months, I stop cold turkey for two weeks and verify that there are no side effects. As far as I can tell, there is zero effect. When I am not drinking coffee, I will easily go through 128 ounces of water or other liquid. I got into the habit of drinking quite a bit of water long ago, and I just happen to like coffee, so it (and iced coffee) is my drink of choice. Until a couple years ago, it was iced tea. Either I have no addiction tendencies, or caffene just has very little effect on me. I'm somewhat paranoid about having a problem, but I've never seen any kind of symptoms when I stop.
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I doubt anyone would like to use linux on their PDA.. at least from the quality of the PIM apps i see on the desktop.
I installed Linux to upgrade the PIM apps from the very limited ones on my iPaq. Opie provides a much nicer environment for standard ToDo, Calendar, Contacts and Notes. WinCE provides nicer voice recording and some interesting input methods. I'd rather have the better apps that I'll use regularly. DateBk5 on my Palm III still blows them out of the water... but I can emulate Palm on Linux.
The nicest thing is that I can use PyQt on it. I can create a form with QtDesigner, do the typical GUI dev cycle of clicking on the widgets and writing Python code for what it should do when it is clicked, scrolled, loaded, etc. The whole thing is converted into two .py files (one for the UI, one for the main code), and I can copy it over to my iPaq... really fast and easy custom app creation. Custom databases, little useful apps... the kind of uses that make PDAs really shine.
if you cant take down a meeting time or a note and sync it with your PC.
Between DrawPad and Kate, I can take notes much easier than on any PDA. I use Palm Grafitti for input when doing lots of text, or DrawPad to made quick scribbles. As for meeting times, you hit the Calendar button, pick the date and go... the same as every other PDA. Syncing is quick, easy and works fine.
I use unison to sync, but that's because my entire home LAN uses unison to backup all systems to a file server. Everything that appears on the network (and is configured as one of "my" systems) gets automatically synced if it hasn't in the past 24 hours. With my iPaq, that's right after it hits the cradle and is automatically assigned an IP address.
That's a bit more difficult to set up than the default sync (which has a nice GUI interface on the PDA), but I mention it because that's the kind of thing that admins in large office networks would give their eyeteeth to be able to do. As soon as an employee's PDA goes in a cradle, it is backed up to the server... the entire thing. If they run over it with their car, they simply go to the Help Desk, fill out a loss form, and get a new PDA... configured precisely as their old one was, every app, every note, every setting, identical.
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Excellent. Now we just need a volunteer...
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Back before SQL was available, mainframes had lots of data accessable via TTY terminals. It was an entirely different method that is rarely in use today. Most existing systems have had a thick client or web interface slapped on the front. When databases moved to those new fangled PCs with loads of RAM - 64k of memory - and loads of storage - 100k discs - they reflected the mainframe way of doing things.
dBase ][ and III were great apps for their time, totally tied to a character terminal, and often the stucture of the database was tied into that character terminal. If you gave a field two characters, there were two character cells on the screen devoted to it. Each screen was a record. Configuration was done with a simple interpreter. Gads - the dot commands... I can't remember a single command, but I remember the periods. Everything else was a field.
Basically, you made a UI. The UI *was* the database, and each time you filled it out, that was a record (keyed by a field in the form? It's been too many years). It's easily doable with SQL (which is why SQL is considered more powerful), but a really really simple front end, a la dBase, I haven't seen.
If you haven't done it, you're likely to not see much of a big deal. It's a shift in thinking more than anything programmatic. Kinda the way unix has "everything is a file", the dBase way might be "the form is the database". Both are gross oversimplifications of how it actually works in practice, however.
There's a more modern db (circa early 90s) that runs in DOS that is dBase like. I can't recall the name, but it was a diehard app with users persisting (probably until today).
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http://username@domain.ext/path/
If you use username:password, the password goes away when the URL is parsed and stored and used for future hits to the same username/domain pair (for that session).
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They are both horribly prone to problems, but they are so vastly different in how you hold your hands and what muscles you use, I'm thinking that they provide a nice balance.
Either that or next week my arms will explode.
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I use Kate/vi for most of my content. Right now I'm putting together a small press book in KWord, almost as a test run (since there's no deadline on it, and it is a fairly complicated work with many fonts and graphics). It tells the story via press releases and official documents, so it's a pretty ornate work and precisely where DTP features come in handy rather than word processing or raw text input.
I'll admit that I'm half doing it to test the limits of KWord (and to test the binder because I can specify different types of paper for various pages).
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KWord is fast. WAY faster than OOW. It's also smaller. It is also a completely and totally different type of word processor. OO Writer is more of a MS Word style processor with similar limitations. It is page oriented. KWord is frame oriented, a la Quark and Framemaker. That means it does DTP much more naturally. At the same time it can just give you a repeating frame at the margins and be a pretty typical word processor. Each frame can contain various types of data. The "text" data, aka word processing type stuff, is nicely structured with styles and a style manager. Chapters can be autogenerated, spell check on the fly, and other typical features can be found.
When it comes to a comparison between the two big suites (MS Office, OpenOffice) there are some omissions of features in 1.3 that you might want to be aware of if you do them (stuff like mail merge). Niche office specific tasks. Of course, some of the items like that are missing from OpenOffice as well, and only Word will do. The one that I hear the most complaints about is the lack of a automatic bibliography feature, a la EndNotes. You can, of course, still type them in manually.
KOffice is younger, leaner, and depends on KDElibs for lots of stuff. That means it runs on *nix only... which does include OSX.
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