Gaming requires that the mouse can track accurately when being moved very fast. Optical mice can have problems with this (why I use my Logitech Gaming Mouse (the old wedge-shaped version, slightly updated)).
Also, as other posters have noted, most people are comfortable with thier mouse on an angle, which can vary over time (as well, I tend to readjust myself during a game, which would throw the mousepad out of whack). This makes strict horizontal/vertical alignment difficult. Again, for desk work this isn't an issue, but for the mouse not to behave as you think it should in the middle of a firefight...
No shit! Here's another example : a post I made earlier today to the Evolution thread. It brings up a mildly interesting, but boring (and not earth shattering) point. Yet I got a fucking +5 because of it. Why? That might be worth getting +3, but sure as hell not +5...
If you have moderator access, you should have no choice but to browse at -1.
Blah, I think that the same reasoning is applying here as to the 'waste your vote' argument. People don't want to be the only ones moderating up a post, because they'll worry that they wasted it, or no one agrees with them. Fucking herd mentality.
Still - both the X wire protocol and the VNC protocol are much higher bandwidth and latency dependant than a terminal session. Considering our office's s***ty network, I doubt VNC would be very usable.
I did not know that. But the key question now, is how can I get this working on windows, trying to run a remote Linux application =) Is there an X server app that supports this?
First off, you can setup remote X sessions so you can have your X server running at work, and use Evolution at home, from work.
Seriously? Good luck getting an X session through your corporate firewall (you have to be able to access the IP of your workstation from your home machine - not only does this imply that your workstation actually has to have a public IP address (and not just a 192.168 internal IP), but you also have to convince your sysadmin to open up the firewall just so you can use thier bandwidth to run a remote X session from home.).
There doesn't seem to be much mention about how this stores mail. One of the (very few) things that was nice about Balsa was that it used libmutt to store mail. So, I could access my email from either Balsa or Mutt, without worrying about one even subtly messing it up for the other, and it working seamlessly from both. Which is nice when I had to ssh to my box from work (and I send most email from xterm -e mutt in X anyway...).
Is there any hope of accessing Evolution's data files from a console-based program with any grace at all? Or, once I start using it, do I always have to have an X session available to use it?
Nah, they'll just pass a law stating that it's illegal to circumvent the 'casing mechanism' on thier locks, as that would violate the contained intellecutal property encoded in the tumblers.
1. It's discovered that Brand X locks suck ass. This makes the front page of the paper for some reason. You now have the information to get better locks (if you choose to).
2. It's discovered that Brand X locks suck ass. No one says a word about it, but those doing B&E's soon discover this, and go around caseing all the houses with Brand X locks."
(disregarding for the moment that what kind of lock you have doesn't matter with respect to if your house is going to get broken into or not...)
That's more analogous to the situation here. The 'obscurity' doesn't refer to specific information (passwords, etc - in the lock's case, the specific makeup of your key), but to the information pertaining to the general workings of the security system (i.e. in the lock, how the tumblers work - how easy it would be to pick, etc).
Bullshit. 3dfx was just as tight lipped with specs (closed glide, binary-only drivers, etc) when they were #1. Now that they're not, they're trying to be 'nice' to earn a better reputation, so they might be #1 again, at which point, they'll be behaving just as they were, and just as nVidia is now.
Corporations don't 'care'. People within those corps may care, and may have the power to do something nice, but the organization itself cares about market share and profit.
I can't get at the KDE site, which might mean that some ticked-off "GTK advocate" may have gotten irritated and decided to DOS them, or that many, many people are interested in this development.
This is called "the slashdot effect". It's what happens on "the internet" (or rather "the net", as it's afficiandos call it) when slashdot.org (a site where linux and open source issues are discussed) posts a "hyperlink" to a certain world wide web "address". The "server" (the physical machine to which the "link" (as hyperlinks are commonly referred to) is pointing to) then becomes overwhelmed by the resulting traffic.
Don't know if you remember the Obscene Dilbert Cartoons - diblert cartoons with the text ballons replaced. There was a disclaimer on the page that said 'Please, don't post this to slashdot or anything'... and, of course, it gets posted to/., and they get taken down...
Slashdot Mirror
Don't forget xpdf.
ahh, the "argument from popular computer simulation" =)
Hey, wait a minute - that's where I learned that "Human behaviour is economic behaviour".
Gaming requires that the mouse can track accurately when being moved very fast. Optical mice can have problems with this (why I use my Logitech Gaming Mouse (the old wedge-shaped version, slightly updated)).
Also, as other posters have noted, most people are comfortable with thier mouse on an angle, which can vary over time (as well, I tend to readjust myself during a game, which would throw the mousepad out of whack). This makes strict horizontal/vertical alignment difficult. Again, for desk work this isn't an issue, but for the mouse not to behave as you think it should in the middle of a firefight...
Sorry, but Daikatana failed because of a massive, legendary example of mismanagement, clashing egos, fleeing developers, and various other reasons.
It did *not* fail because of feature creep, which is obvious from it being 1997 technology released in 2000.
Umm, heads up, but Russian rocket technology is way ahead of Uncle Sam's.
No shit! Here's another example : a post I made earlier today to the Evolution thread. It brings up a mildly interesting, but boring (and not earth shattering) point. Yet I got a fucking +5 because of it. Why? That might be worth getting +3, but sure as hell not +5...
If you have moderator access, you should have no choice but to browse at -1.
Blah, I think that the same reasoning is applying here as to the 'waste your vote' argument. People don't want to be the only ones moderating up a post, because they'll worry that they wasted it, or no one agrees with them. Fucking herd mentality.
You know someone is going to ask what kind of underwear he wears...
You do it the hard way and complain about it being hard?
I'll try that out, thanks.
Still - both the X wire protocol and the VNC protocol are much higher bandwidth and latency dependant than a terminal session. Considering our office's s***ty network, I doubt VNC would be very usable.
I did not know that. But the key question now, is how can I get this working on windows, trying to run a remote Linux application =) Is there an X server app that supports this?
(Forced into using Word and Scrotus Notes...)
We like the Linux clones of MS products though.
Not sure why. They're generally an imitation of a half-assed interface, rather than just the original half-assed interface...
It probably has to do with the fact that up until now, Netscape Mail has been the premier X Email client.
I think you can understand why people are looking forward to this.
First off, you can setup remote X sessions so you can have your X server running at work, and use Evolution at home, from work.
Seriously? Good luck getting an X session through your corporate firewall (you have to be able to access the IP of your workstation from your home machine - not only does this imply that your workstation actually has to have a public IP address (and not just a 192.168 internal IP), but you also have to convince your sysadmin to open up the firewall just so you can use thier bandwidth to run a remote X session from home.).
Just ssh there and use mutt/pine/elm...
There doesn't seem to be much mention about how this stores mail. One of the (very few) things that was nice about Balsa was that it used libmutt to store mail. So, I could access my email from either Balsa or Mutt, without worrying about one even subtly messing it up for the other, and it working seamlessly from both. Which is nice when I had to ssh to my box from work (and I send most email from xterm -e mutt in X anyway...).
Is there any hope of accessing Evolution's data files from a console-based program with any grace at all? Or, once I start using it, do I always have to have an X session available to use it?
This is stretching, but while we're on the topic of domain disputes, on that news page, note the one story on the left column : eToys posting a net loss of $45.36 million in Q1.
Kinda makes you all warm and fuzzy inside, eh? =)
You know, I have Wings of H., and I can lend it to you.
:-P
Nah, they'll just pass a law stating that it's illegal to circumvent the 'casing mechanism' on thier locks, as that would violate the contained intellecutal property encoded in the tumblers.
Wow, that was a bad analogy.
The point is more like this -
"How is my house more likely to get broken into?
I have a door with Brand X lock.
1. It's discovered that Brand X locks suck ass. This makes the front page of the paper for some reason. You now have the information to get better locks (if you choose to).
2. It's discovered that Brand X locks suck ass. No one says a word about it, but those doing B&E's soon discover this, and go around caseing all the houses with Brand X locks."
(disregarding for the moment that what kind of lock you have doesn't matter with respect to if your house is going to get broken into or not...)
That's more analogous to the situation here. The 'obscurity' doesn't refer to specific information (passwords, etc - in the lock's case, the specific makeup of your key), but to the information pertaining to the general workings of the security system (i.e. in the lock, how the tumblers work - how easy it would be to pick, etc).
Blah.
Bullshit. 3dfx was just as tight lipped with specs (closed glide, binary-only drivers, etc) when they were #1. Now that they're not, they're trying to be 'nice' to earn a better reputation, so they might be #1 again, at which point, they'll be behaving just as they were, and just as nVidia is now.
Corporations don't 'care'. People within those corps may care, and may have the power to do something nice, but the organization itself cares about market share and profit.
I can't get at the KDE site, which might mean that some ticked-off "GTK advocate" may have gotten irritated and decided to DOS them, or that many, many people are interested in this development.
This is called "the slashdot effect". It's what happens on "the internet" (or rather "the net", as it's afficiandos call it) when slashdot.org (a site where linux and open source issues are discussed) posts a "hyperlink" to a certain world wide web "address". The "server" (the physical machine to which the "link" (as hyperlinks are commonly referred to) is pointing to) then becomes overwhelmed by the resulting traffic.
The mac port of Diablo II has already shipped.
Linux? Probably not. IRIX, I would assume can.
Don't know if you remember the Obscene Dilbert Cartoons - diblert cartoons with the text ballons replaced. There was a disclaimer on the page that said 'Please, don't post this to slashdot or anything'... and, of course, it gets posted to
Blah, furging HTML.
You mean M-< C-[space] M-> M-w C-y, don't you?
You mean M- M-w C-y, don't you?
The point he was making is, what would the differnece be between forwarding a non-sexual joke that someone sent him, and forwarding a sexual joke?
There *is* a difference in how it would be treated, but there's zero difference in terms of productivity.