I read Space Vulture a few weeks ago, and it would be *perfect* for that age bracket. It was written to intentionally mimic the stereotype of 1930's sci-fi for young boys. It did a great job. Check out http://spacevulture.com/
I'm surprised no-one has mentioned mToken yet. As an ssh client it totally rocks. It's not free in any way, but I've been using it for a couple months on my i760 and it's been really great.
The post was about what phones are good though. The i760 has a nice keyboard, but has no hardware escape or ctrl key. This is bad for vim, pine, emacs, pico, and nano. I haven't seen a phone that had either of those keys in hardware.:(
mToken has soft keys for it, and it looks like pssh does as well, but having real ones would really do the trick.
That said, I use pine and vim with mine all the time.
Ok, I'm in. I'm loathe to follow the masses, so I usually hold off creating accounts. My ICQ number was 303577, and here you see my high/. number because I avoided the crowds.
Yes, it's a bookmarks button. Firefox DOES have one, even in 1.5. Right click on your toolbar, choose customize, and drag the bookmarks button in there. It opens your bookmarks in a tiny little sidebar, just like IE.
Could it not simply mean that it changes in size? I'd be surprised if it *didn't* change in size, based on all the variable energy in the solar system. The sun changes, the planets change place, etc.
One of the biggest things I see holding back webmail from serious use is encryption. I haven't yet thought of a way pgp would work without exposing your secret key to far too many places, and anytime someone else controls your security, they can open it up at any time.
I use gpg in Pine a LOT, passing passwd's between co-workers, discussing sensitive stuff, etc. It's not currently possible to do that with web based email.
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At a kiosk in the airport?
If you're checking your email at a kiosk at an airport, it doesn't really matter what you use, because putting your passwd into a public kiosk is crazy dumb.
I choose pine because I can ssh to it from anywhere. I've never found anywhere I couldn't ssh from.
Podcasts are simply rss feeds. RSS reading can fit VERY well into an email style format. Making it aware of the extra tag saying "There's an mp3 associated with this post" and offering a link to download makes all the sense in the world.
Having it read RSS and NOT handling the podcast stuff would be very dumb.
I came up with the idea of voting on the Internet all by myself. I really did. It was about 1994, and some new fangled browsers supported things called "forms" where they could accept input data from the end user and do something with with.
I also came up with the idea that internet voting is bad, all my myself. That was in 1994, about 20 minutes after I came up with the idea for internet voting.
But after all these years, "smart" people are still coming up with the idea, over and over again. Voting by email? That's worse than web voting! When will people realize that the internet is not secure? Sure, you can encrypt, you can obfuscate, you can encode, but at the end of the day, data is travelling over a long distance, and in a situation like voting, where the Bad Guys know where, when, and what type of data it is, it's just crying out for a lawsuit. And in that lawsuit, no intelligent technologist is going to day "there's absolutely no way it could have been tampered with".
Even if they don't break it right then and there, what if they snag all the encrypted data, and break it a year later, and come out and say "that other data was bogus, THIS is the real data!".
I love skins. I pick one and use it for years before switching. Skins allow people to pick an interface they like, something that fits into their desktop style, and leave it there.
I don't go with random skins, or frequently changing skins. I just browse the library, pick a good one, and stick with it.
I've used E for a long long time. I don't use gnome or kde because they LOOK heavy. The bars, the widgets, everything feel fat.
As far as I'm concerned, E is perfect the way it is. I couldn't care less if there's never another release. I couldn't care less if no-one else ever uses it.
It's fast, stable, powerful, flexible, and pretty. No, it's not for people who don't like to tweak. I like to tweak. Gnome and KDE are for those who just want to get work done, and not mess around on their computer. I like to mess around with it, make it stand up and talk (I have a COOL computer;) ).
So really, if you don't like it, don't use it. Don't tell anyone else to use it. Tell people other things are better. I really don't mind in the slightest.
I don't use any QT apps. I don't have QT installed. I run E, and I have gnome installed so I can use Galeon. That's really the only gnome app I use. I use the GIMP, and gaim, but they aren't really gnome apps.
So yes, some people do restrict themselves to one or the other. There's nothing written with QT that I need.
I use mine to record shows for my kids, which they then watch on the same TV. Remember the Scooby-Doos with famous people in them? I have all of them. I just set up the scheduler to record them every day for 2 months, and then stripped the dupes. It came with simple but useful video editing software to strip the commercials too. I can put them on my laptop and the kids can watch in the car. I have hundreds of Looney Tune cartoons. I can VNC home to start a show for them if my wife sends me an IM and asks. Then she just sends the kids upstairs and there's a show on.
People have been doing that for years with MS software. Sure, you only have to pay for MS Office 95 once. But then you have to pay for MS Office again a few years later. And again a few years later. And so on.
It's scary to think that people are already being trained to be used to the idea of paying for essentially the same software every few years.
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I bought the first two, and was waiting with dollars clenched in my sweaty fist to throw them at 3 as well. Makes me sad. I've still never played 3.
I read Space Vulture a few weeks ago, and it would be *perfect* for that age bracket. It was written to intentionally mimic the stereotype of 1930's sci-fi for young boys. It did a great job. Check out http://spacevulture.com/
I'm surprised no-one has mentioned mToken yet. As an ssh client it totally rocks. It's not free in any way, but I've been using it for a couple months on my i760 and it's been really great.
:(
The post was about what phones are good though. The i760 has a nice keyboard, but has no hardware escape or ctrl key. This is bad for vim, pine, emacs, pico, and nano. I haven't seen a phone that had either of those keys in hardware.
mToken has soft keys for it, and it looks like pssh does as well, but having real ones would really do the trick.
That said, I use pine and vim with mine all the time.
Ok, I'm in. I'm loathe to follow the masses, so I usually hold off creating accounts. My ICQ number was 303577, and here you see my high /. number because I avoided the crowds.
Um, see subject for pithy comment.
Yes, it's a bookmarks button. Firefox DOES have one, even in 1.5. Right click on your toolbar, choose customize, and drag the bookmarks button in there. It opens your bookmarks in a tiny little sidebar, just like IE.
This comparision made me wonder the most.
Could it not simply mean that it changes in size? I'd be surprised if it *didn't* change in size, based on all the variable energy in the solar system. The sun changes, the planets change place, etc.
Bug Report:
perl -e "print qq|I'd have to be pretty dumb to execute sig code!\n|;"
returns
-bash: !\n: event not found
It should be:
perl -e "print qq|I'd have to be pretty dumb to execute sig code\!\n|;"
Now if I can figure out why my hard drive is thrashing so badly...
One of the biggest things I see holding back webmail from serious use is encryption. I haven't yet thought of a way pgp would work without exposing your secret key to far too many places, and anytime someone else controls your security, they can open it up at any time.
I use gpg in Pine a LOT, passing passwd's between co-workers, discussing sensitive stuff, etc. It's not currently possible to do that with web based email.
At a kiosk in the airport?
If you're checking your email at a kiosk at an airport, it doesn't really matter what you use, because putting your passwd into a public kiosk is crazy dumb.
I choose pine because I can ssh to it from anywhere. I've never found anywhere I couldn't ssh from.
Podcasts are simply rss feeds. RSS reading can fit VERY well into an email style format. Making it aware of the extra tag saying "There's an mp3 associated with this post" and offering a link to download makes all the sense in the world.
Having it read RSS and NOT handling the podcast stuff would be very dumb.
This makes them popular?
The note about VMWare running a Mac is significant, but FAR more important to me is the fact that OS X should run in VMWare soon.
According to aebrahim's head it does some really bad things to tabbed browsing.
A spell cheker would be nice too. Very wroth it.
Their main offices are in the same hanger they filmed the lunar landings and the Super Bowl in, right?
I'll be having some good coverage at wcsg.org in the evening. Our news dept will be on top of it. I'll have rss feeds etc.
I came up with the idea of voting on the Internet all by myself. I really did. It was about 1994, and some new fangled browsers supported things called "forms" where they could accept input data from the end user and do something with with.
I also came up with the idea that internet voting is bad, all my myself. That was in 1994, about 20 minutes after I came up with the idea for internet voting.
But after all these years, "smart" people are still coming up with the idea, over and over again. Voting by email? That's worse than web voting! When will people realize that the internet is not secure? Sure, you can encrypt, you can obfuscate, you can encode, but at the end of the day, data is travelling over a long distance, and in a situation like voting, where the Bad Guys know where, when, and what type of data it is, it's just crying out for a lawsuit. And in that lawsuit, no intelligent technologist is going to day "there's absolutely no way it could have been tampered with".
Even if they don't break it right then and there, what if they snag all the encrypted data, and break it a year later, and come out and say "that other data was bogus, THIS is the real data!".
cross posted here: http://derosia.com/phlog/post.php?post_id=237
If I could buy one for $90 and throw it in my med kit and leave it there for 4 years, you bet. If it expires after 2 months, no way.
I have sterile bandages in there that are years old, and are still good because I take care of them.
I love skins. I pick one and use it for years before switching. Skins allow people to pick an interface they like, something that fits into their desktop style, and leave it there.
I don't go with random skins, or frequently changing skins. I just browse the library, pick a good one, and stick with it.
I've used E for a long long time. I don't use gnome or kde because they LOOK heavy. The bars, the widgets, everything feel fat.
;) ).
As far as I'm concerned, E is perfect the way it is. I couldn't care less if there's never another release. I couldn't care less if no-one else ever uses it.
It's fast, stable, powerful, flexible, and pretty. No, it's not for people who don't like to tweak. I like to tweak. Gnome and KDE are for those who just want to get work done, and not mess around on their computer. I like to mess around with it, make it stand up and talk (I have a COOL computer
So really, if you don't like it, don't use it. Don't tell anyone else to use it. Tell people other things are better. I really don't mind in the slightest.
I don't use any QT apps. I don't have QT installed. I run E, and I have gnome installed so I can use Galeon. That's really the only gnome app I use. I use the GIMP, and gaim, but they aren't really gnome apps.
So yes, some people do restrict themselves to one or the other. There's nothing written with QT that I need.
Some guesses:
1. This is a composite, which means that the picture were taken at different times. Maybe is just wasn't as dark when they took the western picture.
2. There just aren't as many people in the western half of the US as there are in the eastern half.
I use mine to record shows for my kids, which they then watch on the same TV. Remember the Scooby-Doos with famous people in them? I have all of them. I just set up the scheduler to record them every day for 2 months, and then stripped the dupes. It came with simple but useful video editing software to strip the commercials too. I can put them on my laptop and the kids can watch in the car. I have hundreds of Looney Tune cartoons. I can VNC home to start a show for them if my wife sends me an IM and asks. Then she just sends the kids upstairs and there's a show on.
I have an AverTV Studio and I love it.
People have been doing that for years with MS software. Sure, you only have to pay for MS Office 95 once. But then you have to pay for MS Office again a few years later. And again a few years later. And so on.
It's scary to think that people are already being trained to be used to the idea of paying for essentially the same software every few years.