I don't think firefox should follow that trend. My Documents has enough crap automatically created in there already (the My* folders, etc).
It saves to the desktop so users that don't know where files go automatically can find them easily. Hiding it in an automatically created folder, whether it is My Documents\downloads or c:\program files\Mozilla\Firefox\Users\Default.asdfk23o4u\dow nloads... is just arbitrary, confusing, and dumb.
Place the files where users can see them, or ask the user where to put it.
Ok, I did just finish re-reading Ender's Game, but it's quite amazing that the book was copyrighted in 1977, and it basically describes what we now consider RTS games (among other things we now think commonplace like "the nets", the children's "desk", etc). Anyway:
As a commander, Ender has a level of control from individual ships up through the entire fleet. He has trained his toon leaders to follow guidance and think on their own. He can give quick verbal commands. I think if it were pulled off (as hard as it would be), that would be the ultimate RTS. It's not about who can click fastest and group units properly, it's about STRATEGY, right? Anything that gets in the way of that should be taken out of the game or streamlined.
One month ago today (Valentines day), I had a double match with my girlfriend, and we've spent almost every day since then together, or at least talking. It was pretty random, but it worked, and we're a pretty good match.
I've also built some very close friendships with people I've never met or even talked on the phone with, on chatrooms.
Could this be expanded to create a mini-bittorrent type network where if the browser can't contact the server, it checks its peers to see if a cached copy exists, and download it from them?
I love how you include "us" (the/. community) in the have-nots group. You know, cuz we obviously aren't in the 1% that can afford food, shelter, health service, electricity, and internet access.
Using T9 predictive text, it is WAY easier to just use full normal spellings than to bother trying to come up with these deformed retardations of words.
I am a developer/support engineer type person at Terra Soft, and the general opinion here (of both higher ups and engineers) is that Apple leaving the arena will be nothing but good for us.
Literally 50% of our development time is spent re-supporting machines after Apple changes them. Things like track pads on power books, northbridge chipsets on towers and XServes, video, sound, thermal control.... they change all these things regularly without a rev bump in model number, or a warning, or providing specs.
With the hardware support side of things going smoother (with our new hardware suppliers), we will have much more time to truly innovate and make a stronger product.
OK, If GIMP is on par with photoshop, how do you apply a beveled edge to a selection? That's a very simple effect, and I couldn't find anywhere in gimp to use it.
I'm no graphic design expert, I don't even own photoshop actually, and any graphics I do, I do in gimp, but I used to use photoshop, and I cringe every time I open gimp. It's clunky and un-intuative.
The only reason we ever made it into space was competition with the Russians. Technology has never been the limitation, only social interest and drive.
It is hard to justify the cost of "the future" when there is still so much turmoil and suffering on the surface of our own planet.
I usually try to avoid politics and social debates, and I'm all for space exploration, but can you really tell me people in the USA or the world should go hungry or go without health care while we spend billions on sending people to space?
I would like to know what happens when you plug it into a Windows or Linux box.
A USB mouse should be a USB mouse... but since Apple changed their powerbook trackpads and they no longer work in Linux, I'd be surprised if the mighty mouse works outside of OSX.
There may have been some areas where work was required (and yours probably was one of them, it sounds like)...
But in my town, in the month or so prior to Y2k, people were charging insane ammounts to make house calls to check people's desktops for compatibility. Of course, all they did was set the date ahead, play with it, and set it back.
Also, we had a town meeting where people asked such rediculous questions as: - Will my car still run? - Will my gasoline generator still run? - Will I still have fresh water?
So you see, to those of us who were exposed to the over-hyped portion of Y2K, it was rediculous. To those of you who worked with code that DID need fixing, well, good job.
As one of the few Terra Soft / slashdotters, it is my pleasure to represent the company on this situation:
I guess you're wrong.
This is a change, and a big change at that, but our business has changed before, and we're fighters. Apple isn't the only company producing PPC hardware, and we already have established business connections with several other PPC-based manufaturers.
OK, what if this isn't the end of innovation, but actually the end of clone games?
One of the things mentioned in the article a couple days ago about all the things wrong with video games these days, was clone games.
How many freaking World War 2 games must there be? How many first person shooters in general? GTA clones? Golf, football, hockey clones?
If people were legally blogged from using other people's ideas to create a clone game, sure a lot of the fluff would drop out of the industry, but maybe the few companies still going would be pumping out really innovative ideas - so they could pattent them and make more money!
I'm sure the other comments to this, which were below my karma threshold, said pretty much the same thing...
But it's common knowledge that other things support the iPod. So what. Anapod isn't free, gtkPod is kind of a POS and runs on Linux (but I use it), PodUtils is for OSX
this one is significant because its FREE (as in beer and speech), and its for Winamp, another free (as in beer) tool, for windows.
previously, there wasn't a good non-itunes tool for windows, outside of paying for anapod.
Prosthetics to help deaf people hear Prosthetics to help blind people see Software to automate language translations Software (and hardware) to automate flight and driving. Did you know roughly 50% of all airline landings are done by the airplane alone while the pilot sips his coffee? Software to generate art and music, which humans have a hard time distinguishing from Human works..... not bad, considering the book is only 5 or 6 years old.
One of the core theories in his book is the acceleration/deceleration of events. Some things, like the expansion of the universe, happen quickly at first and slow down (yes, this can be debated due to somewhat recent findings). Another one would be cell division in life forms. Fast at the beginning (childhood), and slower later.
Other things, like technology, start slow and progress accelerates.
Anyway, you don't have to like him or his theories, and I'm not sure I believe it all either, but it's still interesting stuff to think about.
Even though they are stored in a directory structure on the iPod's drive, their layout is obfuscated.
Rather than being organized as they would be in your iTunes music folder, they are in folders something like this (this is off the top of my head):
001\01-Feel Good Inc.mp3 002\04-Run Away.mp3 003\02-Clint Eastwood.mp3... While you can simply do a search in there for the song name, there is no way to copy off an entire album without having to get each song individually.
Of course, all this is also stored in the iTunesDB stored in the iPod, so all these apps coming out to manage your iPod and copy things off of it simply read that DB, and extract the files.
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Wow... there is only one thing I can say to that:
TL;DR
(too long, didn't read)
Seriously, does your keyboard have an enter key?
I don't think firefox should follow that trend. My Documents has enough crap automatically created in there already (the My* folders, etc).
w nloads ... is just arbitrary, confusing, and dumb.
It saves to the desktop so users that don't know where files go automatically can find them easily. Hiding it in an automatically created folder, whether it is My Documents\downloads or c:\program files\Mozilla\Firefox\Users\Default.asdfk23o4u\do
Place the files where users can see them, or ask the user where to put it.
Ok, I did just finish re-reading Ender's Game, but it's quite amazing that the book was copyrighted in 1977, and it basically describes what we now consider RTS games (among other things we now think commonplace like "the nets", the children's "desk", etc). Anyway:
As a commander, Ender has a level of control from individual ships up through the entire fleet. He has trained his toon leaders to follow guidance and think on their own. He can give quick verbal commands. I think if it were pulled off (as hard as it would be), that would be the ultimate RTS. It's not about who can click fastest and group units properly, it's about STRATEGY, right? Anything that gets in the way of that should be taken out of the game or streamlined.
Didn't Diablo (released in 1996) dynamically generate dungeons? Was that "procedural"?
One month ago today (Valentines day), I had a double match with my girlfriend, and we've spent almost every day since then together, or at least talking. It was pretty random, but it worked, and we're a pretty good match.
I've also built some very close friendships with people I've never met or even talked on the phone with, on chatrooms.
Agreed... sadly, I think most of the /. community doesn't get the joke.
Mons Veneris, AKA Mons Venis is the pubic mound.
"In females this fleshy area above the vulva is also called the mons veneris (Latin, mound of Venus)."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mons_veneris
You've read The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect, haven't you? If not, you should.
Could this be expanded to create a mini-bittorrent type network where if the browser can't contact the server, it checks its peers to see if a cached copy exists, and download it from them?
the rest of us
/. community) in the have-nots group. You know, cuz we obviously aren't in the 1% that can afford food, shelter, health service, electricity, and internet access.
I love how you include "us" (the
I gotta put my rant in on this one.
Using T9 predictive text, it is WAY easier to just use full normal spellings than to bother trying to come up with these deformed retardations of words.
I am a developer/support engineer type person at Terra Soft, and the general opinion here (of both higher ups and engineers) is that Apple leaving the arena will be nothing but good for us.
Literally 50% of our development time is spent re-supporting machines after Apple changes them. Things like track pads on power books, northbridge chipsets on towers and XServes, video, sound, thermal control.... they change all these things regularly without a rev bump in model number, or a warning, or providing specs.
With the hardware support side of things going smoother (with our new hardware suppliers), we will have much more time to truly innovate and make a stronger product.
OK, If GIMP is on par with photoshop, how do you apply a beveled edge to a selection? That's a very simple effect, and I couldn't find anywhere in gimp to use it.
I'm no graphic design expert, I don't even own photoshop actually, and any graphics I do, I do in gimp, but I used to use photoshop, and I cringe every time I open gimp. It's clunky and un-intuative.
Wow. Paranoid much?
The only reason we ever made it into space was competition with the Russians. Technology has never been the limitation, only social interest and drive.
It is hard to justify the cost of "the future" when there is still so much turmoil and suffering on the surface of our own planet.
I usually try to avoid politics and social debates, and I'm all for space exploration, but can you really tell me people in the USA or the world should go hungry or go without health care while we spend billions on sending people to space?
I would like to know what happens when you plug it into a Windows or Linux box.
A USB mouse should be a USB mouse... but since Apple changed their powerbook trackpads and they no longer work in Linux, I'd be surprised if the mighty mouse works outside of OSX.
Maybe I missed something, but how does a small, hidden 'thumbs.db' file "burn" you?
Not to nitpick, but BS is Batchelor of Science
;)
You mean a BA (Batchelor of Arts)..
unless of course, you mean bullshit degree
There may have been some areas where work was required (and yours probably was one of them, it sounds like)...
But in my town, in the month or so prior to Y2k, people were charging insane ammounts to make house calls to check people's desktops for compatibility. Of course, all they did was set the date ahead, play with it, and set it back.
Also, we had a town meeting where people asked such rediculous questions as:
- Will my car still run?
- Will my gasoline generator still run?
- Will I still have fresh water?
So you see, to those of us who were exposed to the over-hyped portion of Y2K, it was rediculous. To those of you who worked with code that DID need fixing, well, good job.
As one of the few Terra Soft / slashdotters, it is my pleasure to represent the company on this situation:
I guess you're wrong.
This is a change, and a big change at that, but our business has changed before, and we're fighters. Apple isn't the only company producing PPC hardware, and we already have established business connections with several other PPC-based manufaturers.
-AJ
OK, what if this isn't the end of innovation, but actually the end of clone games?
One of the things mentioned in the article a couple days ago about all the things wrong with video games these days, was clone games.
How many freaking World War 2 games must there be? How many first person shooters in general? GTA clones? Golf, football, hockey clones?
If people were legally blogged from using other people's ideas to create a clone game, sure a lot of the fluff would drop out of the industry, but maybe the few companies still going would be pumping out really innovative ideas - so they could pattent them and make more money!
... during the wookie battle scene?
I'm sorry, but that was simply stupid, and an insult to the whole series.
The thing that has kept me off dvorak for so long (despite trying to pick it up a couple times), is that I do more with my keyboard than just type.
I am a keyboard-shortcut fiend, and changing the layout destroys that. Normal shortcuts for one, but ever try using Vi or Vim with dvorak?
Do you have any sort of solution to this that maybe I've missed?
I'm sure the other comments to this, which were below my karma threshold, said pretty much the same thing...
But it's common knowledge that other things support the iPod. So what. Anapod isn't free, gtkPod is kind of a POS and runs on Linux (but I use it), PodUtils is for OSX
this one is significant because its FREE (as in beer and speech), and its for Winamp, another free (as in beer) tool, for windows.
previously, there wasn't a good non-itunes tool for windows, outside of paying for anapod.
Prosthetics to help deaf people hear ....
Prosthetics to help blind people see
Software to automate language translations
Software (and hardware) to automate flight and driving. Did you know roughly 50% of all airline landings are done by the airplane alone while the pilot sips his coffee?
Software to generate art and music, which humans have a hard time distinguishing from Human works.
not bad, considering the book is only 5 or 6 years old.
One of the core theories in his book is the acceleration/deceleration of events. Some things, like the expansion of the universe, happen quickly at first and slow down (yes, this can be debated due to somewhat recent findings). Another one would be cell division in life forms. Fast at the beginning (childhood), and slower later.
Other things, like technology, start slow and progress accelerates.
Anyway, you don't have to like him or his theories, and I'm not sure I believe it all either, but it's still interesting stuff to think about.
Even though they are stored in a directory structure on the iPod's drive, their layout is obfuscated.
...
Rather than being organized as they would be in your iTunes music folder, they are in folders something like this (this is off the top of my head):
001\01-Feel Good Inc.mp3
002\04-Run Away.mp3
003\02-Clint Eastwood.mp3
While you can simply do a search in there for the song name, there is no way to copy off an entire album without having to get each song individually.
Of course, all this is also stored in the iTunesDB stored in the iPod, so all these apps coming out to manage your iPod and copy things off of it simply read that DB, and extract the files.