Perhaps this is the problem. Someone else mentioned that in times-gone-by, patents had a certain prestige. Now they don't. Back in the old days, most patents (I know I am generalising) were based on actual inventions, and not just ideas.
Unfortunately, once the (concept patenting) ball is rolling, it will be very hard to stop it, and so we are stuck with this current system, and all we can hope for is its gradual improvement/replacement.
The first computer I used at school (I think it was around 85 or 86) was an Axel AX-25 computer. We used that with a monochrome monitor. I remember learning BASIC on this machine.
When the teacher wanted to teach us about colour, he used to hookup another computer (can't rememeber what) to a TV, and also hook a tape recorder to it to retrieve stored programs from standard cassette tapes.
After we started learning programming, some of my rich friends bought Ataris that hook up to their TV. We used to play heaps of games on them.
Another thing I remember about my computer studies at school, was my computing teacher actually brought in his university thesis to show us what computer paper looks like. I remember ho amazed we were that you could put rolls of paper and then you rip them apart and they look typed!
It was reported in the IT section of The Australian. You can find the article here
Supporting the back isn't everything
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There are two things involved in lifting heavy objects:
1) The actual lifting method, which is the main cause of back problems;
2) The carrying method.
If anyone's carried a heavy object and walked around with it, you'd understand what I mean.
Don't get me wrong. I think this suit will find uses, but mainly in the moving industry.
The Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines
although Mac-centric, is a very good foundation for GUI design. It also gives principles that have been implemented in almost all GUIs.
May be outdated though, I'm not sure if it's been updated
Your're absolutely right. The best way to learn linux is task oriented, however, people like me find books very valuable especially when you are trying to setup you linux pc for dialup so you can get onto the net and go to the LDP.
Besides, what do you do when you go to the..., you know...
Hanson lifted it above his head, and, chuckling at the expression on visitors' faces, flung the laptop onto the floor. It bounced a little; he scooped it up and dropped it once more for good measure. Then he switched it on: Everything sprang back to life, as good as new.
I was going to try this on my compaq M700, but when I was just about to lift it, the CD skipped and there was a read error, so I gave up.
Well said. If I hadn't already posted a reply to somone else, I would have modded your reply up.
It seems that the majority of slashdotters shoot their replies without thinking. Just because there are alternatives to Outlook, doesn't mean that their functionality also covers everything that outlook does. For all it's failings, Outlook is a very powerful and customisable application. Just because Microsoft is the "corporate enemy number 1" does not mean it doesn;t produce good applications. For what it does, Outlook is great.
What other workgroup systems give you email, calendar, and the ability to share your email/calendar with your assistant/colleagues?
If you want to complain about the system, you have to provide alternatives. For corporations, it is very hard to beat Microsoft Outlook.
Yes it does.
The "austomatically delete" items option only works during the action of putting/moving files into the "recycle bin". This is the same process as manually copying the file (in a dos prompt) to the "recycle bin" folder location; the gui would not know about it.
"True, but this is an English website" and this "...but it just struck me as very odd..."
Fortunately, for us, not everything interesting in the world happens in English speaking countries. I'm glad Slashdot does not restrict itself to English stories. The world will be a sad place indeed if different languages are lost because of the "internet" language.
That is why it is legislated in France that French sites must be in French.
This is too much to let go without a reply. There are many misunderstandings about the Microsoft *issue*, and so wrong arguments in the above post:
Listen, it's "bad for consumers" that Adobe charges $500 or $600 or whatever it is these days for Photoshop. It's "bad for consumers" that Mercedes charges $55,000 for an automobile. The NERVE of those companies! It doesn't cost them that much to make the product!
For your information, the arguments about MS products is not price related at all. Afterall, they gave away IE. The problem is how they use their position in the market place. You may know, and everyone else here on/. also knows that there are alternatives. How many normal consumers do you reckon know that?
Also, when you mention Adobe Photoshop and Mercedes, you shoot yourself in the foot. There are altrernatives to Mercedes, and consumers know that. Mercedes is not a monopoly in any market, Same with Photoshop. People actually buy it because it is good, not because it is the only product. Those who buy it know of the alternatives.
So software companies have a right to make money, have a right to do so however they see fit. Consumers be damned: in a free market, if the consumers get fucked, they fuck the company right back. That's the way the market works.
Here again, you are on the wrong track altogether. NO ONE is denying Microsoft the right to make money. As to your argument about the market economy, my personal opinion is that it is morally wrong. The consumer needs to be protected. That is why governemts exist. The Microsoft way (or tools) may be a good way, however, most (yes it is most) people know no other way because Microsoft has strangled all the sales people into towing its line. That is why all court cases have upheld the ruling that it is a MONOPOLY. The similarities with Ma Bell (I'm no expert) are not few.
Unless the corporate Lemmings, as someone already called them, start thinking for themsleves, change will be slow and the Microsoft way will stay with us for a long, long time.
Well, actually, the space station has mainly lables in Russian on the Russian made components (and they are always augmented by English lables). Also, the main language for this space station is English, but US astronauts are taught Russian during their training time in Russia.
At a seminar by one of the US astronauts who was my lecturer when I was at uni, which I attended a few months ago, he (Greg Chamitoff) mentioned the interaction between cultures on the ISS. He said that during training, they (American astronauts) spend time in Star City, Russia training with the Russian cosmonauts and equipment, and practicing Russian as well.
The good thing is, the astronauts know it is still a station in development (appropriate name, alpha:-), and they also know that there will be a lot of interaction problems with other nationalities on this, but they see it as a learning exercise, and a challenge not an obstacle.
The reason for this "pomp and circumstance" is because NASA is portrayed (by the media) and so perceived by the public as a money spender rather than a scientific organisation.
I recently attended a seminar by Greg Chamitoff a former lecturer at my university who is now a NASA astronaut. The main audience of the seminar was intended to be aeronautical engineers. Greg went into the whole process of becoming an astonaut as well as the design and construction of the ISS. The failures, and the steep learning curves involved especially when working with multiple nationalities is astounding, but will bear good fruit. Information about such obstacles is not usually advertised because politicians will pounce on them out of ignorance of the whole process. The media like short soundbites, and so the whole procedure, except mishaps, gets cutout, and people are left with the impression that NASA (and other space agencies) are useless.
People in the know, know better than to trust the media about anything, let alone science
From all those KDE software. Then they may start working on their spelling. It's not German, it's not Esperanto, and it's definitely not English: Konqeuror (wrong spelling), killustrator (is it kill-us-trator? wrong speeling for trator), KWord (may be they meant KiwkiMart) KSpread (a spread made by Kraft).
Ah, well. One can only hope.
The article says that Windows 2000 has 20 million lines, and Linux has 30 million lines; Do these 20 million lines include IE 5 or Office? They definately do not include the "development envirenment for Windows".
But that's bsides the point. The main questions I want to put forward is this:
Why does the linux distribution have to include everything? I mean, a lot of the drivers are not needed, and many applications are duplicated (Emacs/XEmacs anyone?) What we probably need, is a radical review of the installation procedure, where the installer detects the hardware available, and then only installes the needed drivers only.
Why is that people on Slashdot always refer to government regulations as "BAD" and lack of such as "good"? It is really annoying that people apply ideological concepts without thinking them through, or worse, applying them selectively.
This is a site for techheads, so let's stick to the technical correlations; what do you think would happen to the internet if there was no "governing" body to regulate the different standards. By a governing body, I am refering to any sort of organisation or entity that regulates. It could be a volunteer group. The reason is to control something for the good of the majority. Or another example of "government" would be a Linux distribution manager. Someone has to make decisions of what to include or reject.
I don't know about your government, but where I come from (Australia), even if I don't agree with the government, or the prime minister, (and sometime I strongly disagree) I still think that they do mean good for the people. Besides, I'd rather have a government than an anarchy.
In a democracy, the government is accountable to me whereas a company is not.
Slashdot Mirror
Perhaps this is the problem. Someone else mentioned that in times-gone-by, patents had a certain prestige. Now they don't. Back in the old days, most patents (I know I am generalising) were based on actual inventions, and not just ideas.
Unfortunately, once the (concept patenting) ball is rolling, it will be very hard to stop it, and so we are stuck with this current system, and all we can hope for is its gradual improvement/replacement.
The first computer I used at school (I think it was around 85 or 86) was an Axel AX-25 computer. We used that with a monochrome monitor. I remember learning BASIC on this machine.
When the teacher wanted to teach us about colour, he used to hookup another computer (can't rememeber what) to a TV, and also hook a tape recorder to it to retrieve stored programs from standard cassette tapes.
After we started learning programming, some of my rich friends bought Ataris that hook up to their TV. We used to play heaps of games on them.
Another thing I remember about my computer studies at school, was my computing teacher actually brought in his university thesis to show us what computer paper looks like. I remember ho amazed we were that you could put rolls of paper and then you rip them apart and they look typed!
It was reported in the IT section of The Australian. You can find the article here
There are two things involved in lifting heavy objects:
1) The actual lifting method, which is the main cause of back problems;
2) The carrying method.
If anyone's carried a heavy object and walked around with it, you'd understand what I mean.
Don't get me wrong. I think this suit will find uses, but mainly in the moving industry.
The Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines although Mac-centric, is a very good foundation for GUI design. It also gives principles that have been implemented in almost all GUIs.
May be outdated though, I'm not sure if it's been updated
We had a network outage for many ISPs here.
World Solar Challenge is the probably the longest solar car race. It started about 13 years ago. It is scheduled for Nov or Oct this year.
Your're absolutely right. The best way to learn linux is task oriented, however, people like me find books very valuable especially when you are trying to setup you linux pc for dialup so you can get onto the net and go to the LDP. Besides, what do you do when you go to the..., you know...
Is Linux Administration Black Book ISBN: 1576104192
The main resons are that it offers both forms of administration means, via the gui and via the cli. It also covers everything.
Hanson lifted it above his head, and, chuckling at the expression on visitors' faces, flung the laptop onto the floor. It bounced a little; he scooped it up and dropped it once more for good measure. Then he switched it on: Everything sprang back to life, as good as new.
I was going to try this on my compaq M700, but when I was just about to lift it, the CD skipped and there was a read error, so I gave up.
Well said. If I hadn't already posted a reply to somone else, I would have modded your reply up.
It seems that the majority of slashdotters shoot their replies without thinking. Just because there are alternatives to Outlook, doesn't mean that their functionality also covers everything that outlook does. For all it's failings, Outlook is a very powerful and customisable application. Just because Microsoft is the "corporate enemy number 1" does not mean it doesn;t produce good applications. For what it does, Outlook is great.
What other workgroup systems give you email, calendar, and the ability to share your email/calendar with your assistant/colleagues?
If you want to complain about the system, you have to provide alternatives. For corporations, it is very hard to beat Microsoft Outlook.
Yes it does. The "austomatically delete" items option only works during the action of putting/moving files into the "recycle bin". This is the same process as manually copying the file (in a dos prompt) to the "recycle bin" folder location; the gui would not know about it.
"True, but this is an English website" and this "...but it just struck me as very odd..."
Fortunately, for us, not everything interesting in the world happens in English speaking countries. I'm glad Slashdot does not restrict itself to English stories. The world will be a sad place indeed if different languages are lost because of the "internet" language.
That is why it is legislated in France that French sites must be in French.
C'est ci bon
There is a page on the Alstom site (an official sponsor of the project) here.
The world does not all speak English.
Besides, the first link, was a Google translation of the French site.
KIllustrator is now known as 'Kontour' (after Adobe claimed that KIllustrator ...)
We need to ban the letter 'K' from all Linux software. The misspelled words are Killing me.
What's next? kmdrTaco?
This is too much to let go without a reply. There are many misunderstandings about the Microsoft *issue*, and so wrong arguments in the above post:
Listen, it's "bad for consumers" that Adobe charges $500 or $600 or whatever it is these days for Photoshop. It's "bad for consumers" that Mercedes charges $55,000 for an automobile. The NERVE of those companies! It doesn't cost them that much to make the product!
For your information, the arguments about MS products is not price related at all. Afterall, they gave away IE. The problem is how they use their position in the market place. You may know, and everyone else here on /. also knows that there are alternatives. How many normal consumers do you reckon know that?
Also, when you mention Adobe Photoshop and Mercedes, you shoot yourself in the foot. There are altrernatives to Mercedes, and consumers know that. Mercedes is not a monopoly in any market, Same with Photoshop. People actually buy it because it is good, not because it is the only product. Those who buy it know of the alternatives.
So software companies have a right to make money, have a right to do so however they see fit. Consumers be damned: in a free market, if the consumers get fucked, they fuck the company right back. That's the way the market works.
Here again, you are on the wrong track altogether. NO ONE is denying Microsoft the right to make money. As to your argument about the market economy, my personal opinion is that it is morally wrong. The consumer needs to be protected. That is why governemts exist. The Microsoft way (or tools) may be a good way, however, most (yes it is most) people know no other way because Microsoft has strangled all the sales people into towing its line. That is why all court cases have upheld the ruling that it is a MONOPOLY. The similarities with Ma Bell (I'm no expert) are not few.
Unless the corporate Lemmings, as someone already called them, start thinking for themsleves, change will be slow and the Microsoft way will stay with us for a long, long time.
According to Greg Chamitoff during a seminar he had at the , he mentioned that Duct Tape is in ample supply at the ISS Alpha.
Well, actually, the space station has mainly lables in Russian on the Russian made components (and they are always augmented by English lables). Also, the main language for this space station is English, but US astronauts are taught Russian during their training time in Russia.
At a seminar by one of the US astronauts who was my lecturer when I was at uni, which I attended a few months ago, he (Greg Chamitoff) mentioned the interaction between cultures on the ISS. He said that during training, they (American astronauts) spend time in Star City, Russia training with the Russian cosmonauts and equipment, and practicing Russian as well.
The good thing is, the astronauts know it is still a station in development (appropriate name, alpha :-), and they also know that there will be a lot of interaction problems with other nationalities on this, but they see it as a learning exercise, and a challenge not an obstacle.
The reason for this "pomp and circumstance" is because NASA is portrayed (by the media) and so perceived by the public as a money spender rather than a scientific organisation.
I recently attended a seminar by Greg Chamitoff a former lecturer at my university who is now a NASA astronaut. The main audience of the seminar was intended to be aeronautical engineers. Greg went into the whole process of becoming an astonaut as well as the design and construction of the ISS. The failures, and the steep learning curves involved especially when working with multiple nationalities is astounding, but will bear good fruit. Information about such obstacles is not usually advertised because politicians will pounce on them out of ignorance of the whole process. The media like short soundbites, and so the whole procedure, except mishaps, gets cutout, and people are left with the impression that NASA (and other space agencies) are useless.
People in the know, know better than to trust the media about anything, let alone science
From all those KDE software. Then they may start working on their spelling. It's not German, it's not Esperanto, and it's definitely not English: Konqeuror (wrong spelling), killustrator (is it kill-us-trator? wrong speeling for trator), KWord (may be they meant KiwkiMart) KSpread (a spread made by Kraft).
Ah, well. One can only hope.
Gee, nerds need to get a life if it is considered news when someone changes jobs!
Why is it that everytime someone is critical of slashdot stories, they get modded as "Funny"; or is it the truth makes one laugh at one's feebleness?
The article says that Windows 2000 has 20 million lines, and Linux has 30 million lines; Do these 20 million lines include IE 5 or Office? They definately do not include the "development envirenment for Windows".
But that's bsides the point. The main questions I want to put forward is this:
Why does the linux distribution have to include everything? I mean, a lot of the drivers are not needed, and many applications are duplicated (Emacs/XEmacs anyone?) What we probably need, is a radical review of the installation procedure, where the installer detects the hardware available, and then only installes the needed drivers only.
Remember, folks: Liberty, good. Government, bad.
Why is that people on Slashdot always refer to government regulations as "BAD" and lack of such as "good"? It is really annoying that people apply ideological concepts without thinking them through, or worse, applying them selectively.
This is a site for techheads, so let's stick to the technical correlations; what do you think would happen to the internet if there was no "governing" body to regulate the different standards. By a governing body, I am refering to any sort of organisation or entity that regulates. It could be a volunteer group. The reason is to control something for the good of the majority. Or another example of "government" would be a Linux distribution manager. Someone has to make decisions of what to include or reject.
I don't know about your government, but where I come from (Australia), even if I don't agree with the government, or the prime minister, (and sometime I strongly disagree) I still think that they do mean good for the people. Besides, I'd rather have a government than an anarchy.
In a democracy, the government is accountable to me whereas a company is not.
I know where I'd like to be