I'm red-green colorblind, and it has always been a *huge* problem with games.
Also with graphs and slides. When people use color coding in graphs I often can't tell which line or bar is which. Likewise when people plot data on maps by coloring the regions - annoys the heck out of me when I'm reading something interesting and can't process the graphical data display. For slides, same problem as graphs but worse - sometimes I literally don't see one or more of the lines on a graph projected as a slide.
As for camoflage, folklore has it that during WWII a bomber was flying over the Pacific and one of the crew, colorblind, spotted an enemy ship that none of the others could see even when he pointed it out. But he convinced them to fly down for a closer look, and then they saw it.
Possibly colorblind people are more attuned to value (lightness/darkness), since that's information we can reliably process. Very often I can only spot food stains on shirts if they are darker or lighter than the material.
GNOME was a good thing until version 3. It changed everything. The warning signs were there for years before. The attitude of a few dictating what was 'best' for the users, even when the users were screaming NO! NO! NO! started with the GNOME2 rewrite.
First thing I do when I install a new system is try to get my desktop working like I had it under GNOME-1. (Usually gets harder every time, too.)
I mostly use the old applications, though I finally abandoned Galeon when Firefox finally got add-ons that let me put the tabs on the side. Still use Sawfish for my WM, too.
I think the only visible thing I'm using GNOME for these days is the panel.
Plus if you want to use grep, sed, pipes, etc., you have to install software that turns your Windows box into a host for a Linux environment. Why bother?
And I actually use that stuff, frequently. Here's an example of what's in one terminal right now, slightly censored:
Some of it won't make sense (such as sequential commits), because you can't see what I did in other windows or the editor. (The ampersand means it pops up and operates independently of the terminal that I launched it from.)
You also can't see command-line recalls and tab completions (much of the example didn't actually have to be typed), command-line edits with ^a, ^e, ^w etc., and the stuff I did in the other terminals.
Comments added for this post. Many occurences of the "something" censoring are different but not distinguished here.
(Started by clicking the panel for a terminal, then did this in it:)
4581 pushd controlled/something/something/something/
4582 ~/make-xterms-1600 ### Shell script creates three more windows on the same desktop, with distinct names and the same present working directory.
4583 emacs to-do.txt &
4584 svn commit -m "More updates to something."
4585 svn commit -m "More updates to something and something."
4586 grep itemsep *.tex
4587 grep -B5 -A5 itemsep *.tex
4588 ~/bin/something --something something.tex|more
4589 svn commit -m "Polish-up on something."
4590 ~/bin/something --something something1.tex
4591 ~/bin/something --something something2.tex
4592 ~/bin/something --something something3.tex
4593 ~/bin/something --something something4.tex
4594 ~/bin/something --something something5.tex
4595 more something.tex
4596 A ### fatfinger
4597 ~/bin/something --something something5.tex
4598 emacs something.tex &
4599 make something ### I use makefiles to build my LaTeX documents.
4600 ~/bin/something --something something.tex
4601 make something
4602 emacs something.tex &
4603 make something
4604 ls -1 *.tex
4605 make something
4606 emacs something.tex &
4607 svn commit -m "More tweaks to various parts."
4608 ~/bin/something --something something.tex
4609 history|grep pdftk ### looking for a command that I can't remember the syntax for, but used earlier
4610 pdftk something.pdf cat 16-17 output something1.pdf
4611 evince something1.pdf
4612 evince something2.pdf
4613 pdftk something.pdf cat 1-15 output something2.pdf
4614 svn commit -m "Final tweaks to something."
4615 ls ~/*something
4616 ls ~/
4617 ls/home
4618 mv ~/something something.pdf
4619 eog something.pdf ### oops
4620 evince something.pdf ### that's better!
4621 svn commit -m "Added the something of the entire something."
4622 dirs
4623 pushd../something/
4624 emacs something.tex &
4625 make something
4626 svn commit -m "Updated notes w.r.t. new something."
4627 ls..
4628 pushd../someth ### pressed return without intended tab completion
4629 pushd../something/ ### that's better!
4630 ls ~/Desktop/
4631 ls
4632 make something
4633 evince ~/Desktop/something ### web app stored a PDF on my desktop, without.pdf extension
4634 ls../something1/ ### looking for what I renamed it to on another project...
4635 ls../something2/ ### or was it this project...
4636 mv ~/Desktop/something som
I read that a lot here. What exactly does "getting stuff done" entail? I get stuff done all day long on my Windows 7 notebook.
I suspect that there are tools for Windows, but I don't know what they are, and I don't care to pay for them.
I've got 16 desktops (only 8 in use right now) with 1-4 terminals open on each, plus other software for those tasks that need graphics or sound. 301 active processes (ps uax|wc -l), machine using 2% CPU.
Unfortunately I can't keep everything open on the various desktops like want it for six months at a time anymore, due to the frequent kernel updates.
Windows has a lot of annoyances for someone who has been using Linux for a long time. No swipe-to-select, click to paste. GUIs require you to click on the text rather than on the button or line that the text is on. Applications serve as their own window managers, so you can't do anything with the window if the application is misbehaving. Everything you do requires confirmation. If you want to work with something in another directory, you have to click around in an explorer rather than just use a relative path with tab completion. Mouse wheel has to be explicitly told what to scroll. (On Linux I often use it to scroll things in windows that aren't even active.) Etc. etc. etc.
Plus if you want to use grep, sed, pipes, etc., you have to install software that turns your Windows box into a host for a Linux environment. Why bother?
I'm sure Windows developers have their own work habits, but these suit mine.
I realize we've all been lulled into believing that inflation is somehow inevitable but in a correctly functioning capitalist society, prices for just about everything should actually go down as production becomes ever more efficient.
Internet ads: infinite supply, zero demand. Small wonder they aren't paying off.
Where are you going to get any advancement in technology without advancement and more understanding in Science?
Technology advanced by trial and error for millennia before science AWKI existed. Maybe you could say that trial and error is a form of science, but I wouldn't. Trial and error doesn't require understanding *why* the new idea works better.
Even today technology isn't entirely science-driven. We have rigorous mathematical approaches to engineering, but we still get sent beck to the drawing board whenever a bridge collapses or an airplane falls out of the sky.
The "market" consisting of the cable company oligopoly, right?
Good point, but the market I was thinking about is the mass people who decide whether to tune in to educational programs about astronomy or a puerile drama about a couple of retards building shitty motorcycles and constantly arguing with each other.
Presumably the latter is winning on this one, unless the execs just happen to like motodrama more than they like money.
You know, in the Eastern Europe, once you high enough up the social ladder you do not write dissertations, you let your henchmen hire people to do that.
And plagiarism is just a special case of having someone else write it for you, right?
Yep, why bother showing educational programs about astronomy when you can instead show a puerile drama about a couple of retards building shitty motorcycles and constantly arguing with each other?
so long as their reports indicate that "more study" (= more money) is required
You're implying that there is a scientist worth a salt out there who would actually say "That's it, we've learned all there is to learn about the universe (or any specific topic)!"
That's a very naive idea.
People who feel a strong need to deny facts that scientists discover develop a lot of funny ideas about scientists.
But in the world of "fair & balanced", fact and fantasy get equal standing, as do experts and morons, statesmen and assholes, reality and propaganda.
The way to see if the program was successful (from the "deterring copyright infringement" point of view) would be increased sales on legitimate channels.
Only if infringement is actually cutting into sales to begin with.
As a critical thinker, I speak for everyone when I say:
"Never believe effectiveness reports made by industry groups who lobbied for the change in question, without actually reviewing the report methodology (which, BTW, is hardly ever disclosed in these so-called "reports")."
Also, even if the drop is real it will almost certainly fade away with time.
Slashdot Mirror
Real programmers keep their code on punch cards.
Or toggle patterns written on a napkin.
I'm red-green colorblind, and it has always been a *huge* problem with games.
Also with graphs and slides. When people use color coding in graphs I often can't tell which line or bar is which. Likewise when people plot data on maps by coloring the regions - annoys the heck out of me when I'm reading something interesting and can't process the graphical data display. For slides, same problem as graphs but worse - sometimes I literally don't see one or more of the lines on a graph projected as a slide.
As for camoflage, folklore has it that during WWII a bomber was flying over the Pacific and one of the crew, colorblind, spotted an enemy ship that none of the others could see even when he pointed it out. But he convinced them to fly down for a closer look, and then they saw it.
Possibly colorblind people are more attuned to value (lightness/darkness), since that's information we can reliably process. Very often I can only spot food stains on shirts if they are darker or lighter than the material.
GNOME was a good thing until version 3. It changed everything. The warning signs were there for years before. The attitude of a few dictating what was 'best' for the users, even when the users were screaming NO! NO! NO! started with the GNOME2 rewrite.
First thing I do when I install a new system is try to get my desktop working like I had it under GNOME-1. (Usually gets harder every time, too.)
I mostly use the old applications, though I finally abandoned Galeon when Firefox finally got add-ons that let me put the tabs on the side. Still use Sawfish for my WM, too.
I think the only visible thing I'm using GNOME for these days is the panel.
{digital, secure} : choose one.
Why create an iris when the movies showed you can just pull someone's eye out and hold it in front of the scanner?
Yeah, Loki can leave his fancy gadget home next time.
(But I like the palm scanner scene on Red Dwarf better.)
Plus if you want to use grep, sed, pipes, etc., you have to install software that turns your Windows box into a host for a Linux environment. Why bother?
And I actually use that stuff, frequently. Here's an example of what's in one terminal right now, slightly censored:
Some of it won't make sense (such as sequential commits), because you can't see what I did in other windows or the editor. (The ampersand means it pops up and operates independently of the terminal that I launched it from.)
You also can't see command-line recalls and tab completions (much of the example didn't actually have to be typed), command-line edits with ^a, ^e, ^w etc., and the stuff I did in the other terminals.
Comments added for this post. Many occurences of the "something" censoring are different but not distinguished here.
(Started by clicking the panel for a terminal, then did this in it:)
4581 pushd controlled/something/something/something/ /home ../something/ .. ../someth ### pressed return without intended tab completion ../something/ ### that's better! .pdf extension ../something1/ ### looking for what I renamed it to on another project... ../something2/ ### or was it this project...
4582 ~/make-xterms-1600 ### Shell script creates three more windows on the same desktop, with distinct names and the same present working directory.
4583 emacs to-do.txt &
4584 svn commit -m "More updates to something."
4585 svn commit -m "More updates to something and something."
4586 grep itemsep *.tex
4587 grep -B5 -A5 itemsep *.tex
4588 ~/bin/something --something something.tex|more
4589 svn commit -m "Polish-up on something."
4590 ~/bin/something --something something1.tex
4591 ~/bin/something --something something2.tex
4592 ~/bin/something --something something3.tex
4593 ~/bin/something --something something4.tex
4594 ~/bin/something --something something5.tex
4595 more something.tex
4596 A ### fatfinger
4597 ~/bin/something --something something5.tex
4598 emacs something.tex &
4599 make something ### I use makefiles to build my LaTeX documents.
4600 ~/bin/something --something something.tex
4601 make something
4602 emacs something.tex &
4603 make something
4604 ls -1 *.tex
4605 make something
4606 emacs something.tex &
4607 svn commit -m "More tweaks to various parts."
4608 ~/bin/something --something something.tex
4609 history|grep pdftk ### looking for a command that I can't remember the syntax for, but used earlier
4610 pdftk something.pdf cat 16-17 output something1.pdf
4611 evince something1.pdf
4612 evince something2.pdf
4613 pdftk something.pdf cat 1-15 output something2.pdf
4614 svn commit -m "Final tweaks to something."
4615 ls ~/*something
4616 ls ~/
4617 ls
4618 mv ~/something something.pdf
4619 eog something.pdf ### oops
4620 evince something.pdf ### that's better!
4621 svn commit -m "Added the something of the entire something."
4622 dirs
4623 pushd
4624 emacs something.tex &
4625 make something
4626 svn commit -m "Updated notes w.r.t. new something."
4627 ls
4628 pushd
4629 pushd
4630 ls ~/Desktop/
4631 ls
4632 make something
4633 evince ~/Desktop/something ### web app stored a PDF on my desktop, without
4634 ls
4635 ls
4636 mv ~/Desktop/something som
I read that a lot here. What exactly does "getting stuff done" entail? I get stuff done all day long on my Windows 7 notebook.
I suspect that there are tools for Windows, but I don't know what they are, and I don't care to pay for them.
I've got 16 desktops (only 8 in use right now) with 1-4 terminals open on each, plus other software for those tasks that need graphics or sound. 301 active processes (ps uax|wc -l), machine using 2% CPU.
Unfortunately I can't keep everything open on the various desktops like want it for six months at a time anymore, due to the frequent kernel updates.
Windows has a lot of annoyances for someone who has been using Linux for a long time. No swipe-to-select, click to paste. GUIs require you to click on the text rather than on the button or line that the text is on. Applications serve as their own window managers, so you can't do anything with the window if the application is misbehaving. Everything you do requires confirmation. If you want to work with something in another directory, you have to click around in an explorer rather than just use a relative path with tab completion. Mouse wheel has to be explicitly told what to scroll. (On Linux I often use it to scroll things in windows that aren't even active.) Etc. etc. etc.
Plus if you want to use grep, sed, pipes, etc., you have to install software that turns your Windows box into a host for a Linux environment. Why bother?
I'm sure Windows developers have their own work habits, but these suit mine.
osx for estheticity
linux for diversity
windows for jobsecurity
For me it's -
Windows for games
Linux for getting stuff done
It's impossible to make a good movie from a video game.
The studios aren't interested in good; they're interested in how many people will pay to see it.
or has that been done before?
Once.
...is on another reboot.
God forbid they come up with new material.
Or super(hotchick)heroes : batgirl, supergirl, irongirl, thorgirl, ...
Hulkgirl might not be in the works.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Cinematic_Universe
And I'm not even a comic fan. Who was this article written for?
I realize we've all been lulled into believing that inflation is somehow inevitable but in a correctly functioning capitalist society, prices for just about everything should actually go down as production becomes ever more efficient.
Internet ads: infinite supply, zero demand. Small wonder they aren't paying off.
Adblock: Tragedy of the Commons.
It's amusing to see the commercialized internet compared to "the commons".
Not science, technology. Learn the difference.
Since you want to split hair -
Where are you going to get any advancement in technology without advancement and more understanding in Science?
Technology advanced by trial and error for millennia before science AWKI existed. Maybe you could say that trial and error is a form of science, but I wouldn't. Trial and error doesn't require understanding *why* the new idea works better.
Even today technology isn't entirely science-driven. We have rigorous mathematical approaches to engineering, but we still get sent beck to the drawing board whenever a bridge collapses or an airplane falls out of the sky.
The "market" consisting of the cable company oligopoly, right?
Good point, but the market I was thinking about is the mass people who decide whether to tune in to educational programs about astronomy or a puerile drama about a couple of retards building shitty motorcycles and constantly arguing with each other.
Presumably the latter is winning on this one, unless the execs just happen to like motodrama more than they like money.
You know, in the Eastern Europe, once you high enough up the social ladder you do not write dissertations, you let your henchmen hire people to do that.
And plagiarism is just a special case of having someone else write it for you, right?
Romania?
Yep, why bother showing educational programs about astronomy when you can instead show a puerile drama about a couple of retards building shitty motorcycles and constantly arguing with each other?
Let the market decide?
You're implying that there is a scientist worth a salt out there who would actually say "That's it, we've learned all there is to learn about the universe (or any specific topic)!"
That's a very naive idea.
People who feel a strong need to deny facts that scientists discover develop a lot of funny ideas about scientists.
But in the world of "fair & balanced", fact and fantasy get equal standing, as do experts and morons, statesmen and assholes, reality and propaganda.
How is this happening?
Their goal is to earn money, not to generate quality content.
I'm sorry to hear that their telescope snapped. Maybe they can glue it back together and add a reinforcing rod down the middle.
It also means that you've only got a 0.0000000143% chance of getting that coveted first post.
The way to see if the program was successful (from the "deterring copyright infringement" point of view) would be increased sales on legitimate channels.
Only if infringement is actually cutting into sales to begin with.
As a critical thinker, I speak for everyone when I say:
"Never believe effectiveness reports made by industry groups who lobbied for the change in question, without actually reviewing the report methodology (which, BTW, is hardly ever disclosed in these so-called "reports")."
Also, even if the drop is real it will almost certainly fade away with time.