I would absolutely recommend going with a gaming-grade mouse like the Logitech G9, Creative Fata1ity 2020, or one of the new OCZ mice if you need something less expensive. The ones I mentioned have user-adjustable weights, lots of buttons, and ultra-accurate laser tracking. They are wired (reliability, etc...) but you might be able to find something comparable in wireless trim.
Best of luck - a good mouse is a very valuable computing asset.
To Evolutionists: You have no sense of proportion. I don't vote someone in because he has amazing scientific knowledge. You all say that the good scientific evidence for evolution takes time and effort to present and understand (imagine teaching it to a tribal people somewhere). If a politician has had misinformation or just shoddy argumentation for evolution, is he really to blame for not becoming a scientist instead of a politician and discovering the TRUTH (TM) about the world? Besides, someone who believed that every single species was hand-designed by a loving creator might actually try to preserve the natural habitat they live in. I vote for someone to defend our country, enforce the laws, and try to work with the legislature who makes the laws in the first place. I know I'm being idealistic, but I really don't care if my candidate has some missing bits of knowledge. So what?
Plus, stop responding to the theory/hypothesis/science/philosophy semantics. Nobody cares about your terms but you. The creationists don't care what you call their ideas Your serious responses to an obvious red herring are embarrassing.
While we're at it, you do realize you will never learn from anyone you call delusional. Calling for a belief to be stamped out is a bit too much like a Salem witch trial for someone who supposedly has the truth on their side. You guys are proposing a scientific inquisition for the Republicans. Nobody likes being called a heretic. But the real lesson of the dark ages is that nobody benefits from calling other people heretics either.
To Creationists: Stop making this about evidence. You people have a lot to offer in clarifying the difference between history, science, religion, and philosophy - regardless of whether there is a God. You are one of the few groups that think that those four might offer competing narratives about the world, and even different values. Contribute better. That said, it is hard to have a debate while under attack.
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Sure thing.
X11 is simply a way for programs to draw on the screen. It doesn't have a particular "look" or even applications, except to manage its features. Even though a lot of people are dissatisfied with its features, it works pretty well, and has fancy stuff like running applications remotely, etc..
Windowmaker is a window manager - a program that runs on top of X11 that gives borders to all the windows so you can move them around, make them into icons, close them, and roll them up. It also has a launchpad on the side to make it easy to launch often used apps.
KDE and Gnome are collections of programs all written with the same application framework. They run on top of X11 and provide file managers, viewers, utilities, editors, media players, etc. KDE has its own window manager, while Gnome lets the user run whichever one he wants.
Yes, of course some developers may want to work their darndest to support old or incompatible platforms (like the MS JVM). However, you miss the point. Flash 5 is the most current version of Macromedia's "tool" available, and if you are using a stock install of Win2K or Win98, you will still have to install the Flash5 plugin. What sets this scenario apart from the Java one you described is that this is painless and fast. The Flash plugin installs nearly transparently and works immediately.
Does this mean that Flash 5 is better? Do some people make annoying plugins (the infamous comet cursor)? Obviously the decision to go with Java is often the best one (but not always).
So we, the development community, should not put up with our platform (Java) being made irrelevant by what you describe as nightmarish installs of browser plugins. Even though J2 has yet to crater a machine for me, 5mb is a little ridiculous right now.
Macromedia knows how to make a plugin work right and be seamless - don't bash them. Microsoft unloads painfully out-of-date software from XP (making it less of an embarrassment in the process) - about time. Maybe now someone will actually make really good and transparent Java plugins.
Remember: deprecated software should be allowed to die. Only Slackware includes XView (their choice, not the choice of the industry).
True, Java is getting closer, but I for one am pleased that MS is removing it from XP. Take a look at Java support under 2k: it was outdated and full of MS'isms. It was the MS VM that had all those proprietary extensions that made J++ such a loser from the 100% pure Java community (flamebait: the real Java community is the one concerned with portability. A person who programs in the Java language is not necessarily a member of the Java community)
Finally MS changes to reflect Java reality. Java2 has been around for a while and is vastly superior to Java 1.1. Java2 1.3 is about to be old news as the beta of Java2 1.4 nears completion (finally with non-blocking IO - a boon for scalability on servers). Why saddle an OS with something that a user wanting to run current apps will have to immediately upgrade anyway? We've had to download the new JRE from Sun even on Win2k for a while now. This really changes nothing.
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I would absolutely recommend going with a gaming-grade mouse like the Logitech G9, Creative Fata1ity 2020, or one of the new OCZ mice if you need something less expensive. The ones I mentioned have user-adjustable weights, lots of buttons, and ultra-accurate laser tracking. They are wired (reliability, etc...) but you might be able to find something comparable in wireless trim.
Best of luck - a good mouse is a very valuable computing asset.
You all disappoint me.
To Evolutionists: You have no sense of proportion. I don't vote someone in because he has amazing scientific knowledge. You all say that the good scientific evidence for evolution takes time and effort to present and understand (imagine teaching it to a tribal people somewhere). If a politician has had misinformation or just shoddy argumentation for evolution, is he really to blame for not becoming a scientist instead of a politician and discovering the TRUTH (TM) about the world? Besides, someone who believed that every single species was hand-designed by a loving creator might actually try to preserve the natural habitat they live in. I vote for someone to defend our country, enforce the laws, and try to work with the legislature who makes the laws in the first place. I know I'm being idealistic, but I really don't care if my candidate has some missing bits of knowledge. So what?
Plus, stop responding to the theory/hypothesis/science/philosophy semantics. Nobody cares about your terms but you. The creationists don't care what you call their ideas Your serious responses to an obvious red herring are embarrassing.
While we're at it, you do realize you will never learn from anyone you call delusional. Calling for a belief to be stamped out is a bit too much like a Salem witch trial for someone who supposedly has the truth on their side. You guys are proposing a scientific inquisition for the Republicans. Nobody likes being called a heretic. But the real lesson of the dark ages is that nobody benefits from calling other people heretics either.
To Creationists: Stop making this about evidence. You people have a lot to offer in clarifying the difference between history, science, religion, and philosophy - regardless of whether there is a God. You are one of the few groups that think that those four might offer competing narratives about the world, and even different values. Contribute better. That said, it is hard to have a debate while under attack.
Sure thing.
X11 is simply a way for programs to draw on the screen. It doesn't have a particular "look" or even applications, except to manage its features. Even though a lot of people are dissatisfied with its features, it works pretty well, and has fancy stuff like running applications remotely, etc..
Windowmaker is a window manager - a program that runs on top of X11 that gives borders to all the windows so you can move them around, make them into icons, close them, and roll them up. It also has a launchpad on the side to make it easy to launch often used apps.
KDE and Gnome are collections of programs all written with the same application framework. They run on top of X11 and provide file managers, viewers, utilities, editors, media players, etc.
KDE has its own window manager, while Gnome lets the user run whichever one he wants.
Hope this helps clear the confusion.
Russ
Yes, of course some developers may want to work their darndest to support old or incompatible platforms (like the MS JVM). However, you miss the point. Flash 5 is the most current version of Macromedia's "tool" available, and if you are using a stock install of Win2K or Win98, you will still have to install the Flash5 plugin. What sets this scenario apart from the Java one you described is that this is painless and fast. The Flash plugin installs nearly transparently and works immediately.
Does this mean that Flash 5 is better? Do some people make annoying plugins (the infamous comet cursor)? Obviously the decision to go with Java is often the best one (but not always).
So we, the development community, should not put up with our platform (Java) being made irrelevant by what you describe as nightmarish installs of browser plugins. Even though J2 has yet to crater a machine for me, 5mb is a little ridiculous right now.
Macromedia knows how to make a plugin work right and be seamless - don't bash them. Microsoft unloads painfully out-of-date software from XP (making it less of an embarrassment in the process) - about time. Maybe now someone will actually make really good and transparent Java plugins.
Remember: deprecated software should be allowed to die. Only Slackware includes XView (their choice, not the choice of the industry).
True, Java is getting closer, but I for one am pleased that MS is removing it from XP. Take a look at Java support under 2k: it was outdated and full of MS'isms. It was the MS VM that had all those proprietary extensions that made J++ such a loser from the 100% pure Java community (flamebait: the real Java community is the one concerned with portability. A person who programs in the Java language is not necessarily a member of the Java community)
Finally MS changes to reflect Java reality. Java2 has been around for a while and is vastly superior to Java 1.1. Java2 1.3 is about to be old news as the beta of Java2 1.4 nears completion (finally with non-blocking IO - a boon for scalability on servers). Why saddle an OS with something that a user wanting to run current apps will have to immediately upgrade anyway? We've had to download the new JRE from Sun even on Win2k for a while now. This really changes nothing.
Looks an awful lot to me like PHP-Nuke. (Free/free)