While the age of the floppy disk is still with us (no matter what Steve Jobs would have you believe), it's certainly on the slide.
If students want to use a temporary transport medium, how about something like X-Drive that works with any platform that can support a Netscape browser? Or IE or iCab or whatever else. Free email services are everywhere but free, small sized, temporary file storage isn't on the radar. Weird.
If it's small enough to fit on a floppy, it's small enough to shunt around even on a 28.8k modem.
Wordperfect contains a bunch of proprietary third party libraries and code. So GPLing it would require either release of that code or realeasing just WP and supplying the libs as binaries.
I've interviewed Corel a couple of times about their products and and an open source Office suite, in its current state, cannot happen.
Corel, like a lot of other companies, relies in 3rd party libraries to do the things they have no expertese in. By using this method of development, they can often lessen the development time of a product.
Think of it like using a binary X server (such as the Intel i740) -- as a user, you don't care, as a developer, it pisses you off!
While MST3k is a great show, Python 3000 refers to the projected release date for the next version. Guido's thinking is that with a date like that, it might be released before the marketing deadline. This was announced at the last Python conference (which was probably the best conference I've ever attended).
While reading your post, I couldn't help think of the Perl's mantra there's more than one way to do it. Skilled Perl types can look at code and, quick as a flash, code up something that does the same thing but looks vastly different.
Python on the other hand positively begs for everybody to do things in a similar way, if not the same way. This makes six or 12 month old code very readable and developers can continue to develop instead of helping maintainers maintain. But does it make small chunks of copyrighted Python code the building blocks for copyrighting the whole language? It's as dumb as copyrighting a sentence but we live in dumb times when it comes to technology.
I know that's an extreme thought but who would have thought that Sun -- of all companies! -- would stick it to a seemingly non-threatening entity?
...isn't me and you. It's big corporations with big money to spend on licenses. And big corporations want end to end solutions. So, if necessary, they can point the finger at something that's wrong and get it fixed. How many times have you sat on the phone with company A's tech support to be told it's company B's problem? Corel WordPerfect running on top of Corel Linux would give the impression of eliminating potential incompatibilities.
It's a smart business move on their part. What they'll do to the OS will be unknown until you actually install it and see for yourself!
The homunculous inside my head likes the idea of open source -- especially when crypto's involved. However, Strip wasn't around when I needed to put all of my passwords in one place and of what was available, CryptInfo was the way to go. It was either this, weak passwords or -- shudder -- PostIt notes.
<just kidding>And what are you doing using a Pilot anyway? The OS isn't GPL'd!</just kidding>
Before you pick up any book on how to build GUIs, you really ought to have a look at Alan Cooper's The Inmates are Running the Asylum. In fact, it ought to be compulsory reading for anybody building any kind of software. It explores concepts such as -- gasp! -- thinking about what the user is likely to need before design and coding, sticking to the original design, and treating prototypes as prototypes and not version 0.5.
Its theories on why all software is crap are refreshing and while it's simplistic in places, it's a book that both PHB's and those who actually do the work can comprehend.
I've got an original GoType and the only gripe I had with it was that I couldn't use a modem at the same time.
This looks like it'll solve both problems in one stroke. Get a Happy Hacking Lite to go with it and then you've got that tactile feedback you're after.
The GoType isn't bad and you get used to the rubbery feel quite quickly.
I got the dual legends but I've yet to find time for the week off to re-learn. Bummer!
I would advise getting the Savant keypad rather than the footswitch. If you key a lot of numbers (IP's included), this will save you a lot of wear and tear on your keypad button.
I dropped down from 90wpm to a about 70wpm and got a pair of Kinesis Classic keyboards (one for home and one for work). It took about a week to get to grips with it but all numbness and soreness went away. They're a few hundred bucks a pop but that's much cheaper than surgery!
Sure, screwing little girls is not right but he's clearly in need of some help, not death.
While this is an unsavory act, what frightens me more is the sicko 'beauty pagents' that involve 8 year olds waving their rears in the air while sporting full adult make up (ever catch bits of documentaries on the JonBenet Ramsey fiasco? Yeah, those kind of pagents.).
If I could get a secure shell client for this and a wireless hook inside my house, I'd save myself the $2k-ish I need for an iBook and the Airport. I'm a bigger Psion fan than I am an Apple fan but what the heck, I'll use what works and is cheaper. If I wasn't so lazy, I'd pull ethernet through my house but obviously, I'm really lazy.
I've got a RIM 950 Inter@ctive pager that uses the same network as the Palm VII will. Coverage is sometimes spotty in "non-business areas" (as classifed by BellSouth). That means it won't work at my house which kind of sucks. And incentive to get out more?
When it's doing its thing, it's awesome. I've had some problems with the net-bound mail taking anywhere up to 1/2 an hour to leave their network but unit to unit communication is almost instant.
Slashdot Mirror
If students want to use a temporary transport medium, how about something like X-Drive that works with any platform that can support a Netscape browser? Or IE or iCab or whatever else. Free email services are everywhere but free, small sized, temporary file storage isn't on the radar. Weird.
If it's small enough to fit on a floppy, it's small enough to shunt around even on a 28.8k modem.
Wordperfect contains a bunch of proprietary third party libraries and code. So GPLing it would require either release of that code or realeasing just WP and supplying the libs as binaries.
Neither sounds very attractive does it?
Corel, like a lot of other companies, relies in 3rd party libraries to do the things they have no expertese in. By using this method of development, they can often lessen the development time of a product.
Think of it like using a binary X server (such as the Intel i740) -- as a user, you don't care, as a developer, it pisses you off!
While MST3k is a great show, Python 3000 refers to the projected release date for the next version. Guido's thinking is that with a date like that, it might be released before the marketing deadline. This was announced at the last Python conference (which was probably the best conference I've ever attended).
Phone bashing.
...and more! In addition to the excellent official Python Web site, there's Tim M's brilliant resource called Parnassus.
While reading your post, I couldn't help think of the Perl's mantra there's more than one way to do it. Skilled Perl types can look at code and, quick as a flash, code up something that does the same thing but looks vastly different.
Python on the other hand positively begs for everybody to do things in a similar way, if not the same way. This makes six or 12 month old code very readable and developers can continue to develop instead of helping maintainers maintain. But does it make small chunks of copyrighted Python code the building blocks for copyrighting the whole language? It's as dumb as copyrighting a sentence but we live in dumb times when it comes to technology.
I know that's an extreme thought but who would have thought that Sun -- of all companies! -- would stick it to a seemingly non-threatening entity?
Perl and Python, of course! The former is of course more widespread but the latter is much more elegant (in my humble opinion).
...isn't me and you. It's big corporations with big money to spend on licenses. And big corporations want end to end solutions. So, if necessary, they can point the finger at something that's wrong and get it fixed. How many times have you sat on the phone with company A's tech support to be told it's company B's problem? Corel WordPerfect running on top of Corel Linux would give the impression of eliminating potential incompatibilities.
It's a smart business move on their part. What they'll do to the OS will be unknown until you actually install it and see for yourself!
The homunculous inside my head likes the idea of open source -- especially when crypto's involved. However, Strip wasn't around when I needed to put all of my passwords in one place and of what was available, CryptInfo was the way to go. It was either this, weak passwords or -- shudder -- PostIt notes.
<just kidding>And what are you doing using a Pilot anyway? The OS isn't GPL'd!</just kidding>
www.normsoft.com. The author is responsive to new feature requests and fixes bugs like a demon. Well worth the US$13!
It would be a cold day in hell if TOR won. RMS has let fly against the company on more than one occasion.
Before you pick up any book on how to build GUIs, you really ought to have a look at Alan Cooper's The Inmates are Running the Asylum. In fact, it ought to be compulsory reading for anybody building any kind of software. It explores concepts such as -- gasp! -- thinking about what the user is likely to need before design and coding, sticking to the original design, and treating prototypes as prototypes and not version 0.5.
Its theories on why all software is crap are refreshing and while it's simplistic in places, it's a book that both PHB's and those who actually do the work can comprehend.
...and very well too!
Pop over to www.gotype.com. They've even got a Hackmaster compatible version of the driver.
The best bit about the GoType is it doesn't need any batteries and hardly impacts those in the Pilot.
This looks like it'll solve both problems in one stroke. Get a Happy Hacking Lite to go with it and then you've got that tactile feedback you're after.
The GoType isn't bad and you get used to the rubbery feel quite quickly.
If it's read from one of those $99 CDROMs they've been flogging, no worries :-)
I got the dual legends but I've yet to find time for the week off to re-learn. Bummer!
I would advise getting the Savant keypad rather than the footswitch. If you key a lot of numbers (IP's included), this will save you a lot of wear and tear on your keypad button.
I dropped down from 90wpm to a about 70wpm and got a pair of Kinesis Classic keyboards (one for home and one for work). It took about a week to get to grips with it but all numbness and soreness went away. They're a few hundred bucks a pop but that's much cheaper than surgery!
Good luck.
Sure, screwing little girls is not right but he's clearly in need of some help, not death.
While this is an unsavory act, what frightens me more is the sicko 'beauty pagents' that involve 8 year olds waving their rears in the air while sporting full adult make up (ever catch bits of documentaries on the JonBenet Ramsey fiasco? Yeah, those kind of pagents.).
Just let kids be kids for chrissakes.
I sold my Newton to the CEO of our company three weeks before they stoped making them. Thankfully it's a good job market and I didn't get canned :-)
If I could get a secure shell client for this and a wireless hook inside my house, I'd save myself the $2k-ish I need for an iBook and the Airport. I'm a bigger Psion fan than I am an Apple fan but what the heck, I'll use what works and is cheaper. If I wasn't so lazy, I'd pull ethernet through my house but obviously, I'm really lazy.
In my never ending quest to try all the distros I can, I've made one partition for /home and regularly blown away everything else, including swap.
The largest I've had my swap file is a 128Mb partition and with WindowMaker, I've never seen it use more swap than with 32Mb.
You could well be right but in julesLand, it doesn't seem to be working that way!
Forgive me for I cannot help myself...
My swap partition on a box with 128Mb RAM is a mere 32Mb and I've yet to see more than 2Mb swapped. So why waste the disk space?
Yet with KDE, I regularly swapped up to 48Mb and beyond.
Ok, so it's not NT (which bloody swaps even when no apps are loaded!) but why the huge differences? Is WindowMaker really that light?
When it's doing its thing, it's awesome. I've had some problems with the net-bound mail taking anywhere up to 1/2 an hour to leave their network but unit to unit communication is almost instant.