Though skipping higher education for a great job is the right thing for some people, I think the trend in the technology field is disturbing. Here at Harvey Mudd they have the saying ``technology without humanity is worse than no technology at all.'' (or something like that) I worry that if too many highly intelligent people skip school to join the workforce they will not have sufficient breadth of education to fully understand the impacts of what they are doing. This school was founded just after WWII so the reason for that mantra is clear. Brilliant people are great but if they can't consider the broader implications of their work they can be very dangerous*.
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*This is not to say that nuclear weapons were the wrong thing at the time but too many of the scientists involved weren't considering the outcome of their work.
What does release frequency have to do with Enlightenment being obsolete? There is a lot of work being done on it. It progresses slowly because it is very ambitious.
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No. ``Network Object Model'' means that the object model is network transparent.
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Not to give Windows a chance or anything but, like in GNOME, you can click on the taskbar item and iconify a window. You can also hit [windows]+R to get a run dialog.
You might want to take a look at EFM (Enlightenment File Manager). EFM will become intigrated into the Enlightenment window manager, turning E into a ``desktop shell''. One UI feature EFM has is the ``typebuffer'' which is a text box that pops up when you start typing into a file manager window. You can run bash commands, etc.
It's a combination of bash and sexy graphics which is what you seem to want.
Not too bad an idea... (kinda) I just recently saw a Timex that had a ``screensaver''. The watch had a pixel-based screen rather than 7 segment display... I'm sure people would pay for a watch that did that cool Xclock morphing numbers thing:-)
If you actually take apart a TI calculator (My TI-85 at least), the screen is glass, it's just padded and protected so that there's no real way to break it. The palm screen is much larger and being a toutch screen the outer surface is milimeters from the glass, not a quarter of an inch.
Neither PNG nor MNG are vector graphics. If you make 'em bigger they pixelize. With vector graphics a circle is a circle, a line is a line rather than a collection of pixels.
It's not a final release. All of those libraries will be a part of Gnome soon enough. Once Evolution is in a final release you'll just have to run helix updater and click on Evolution.
I see, I really love it how Unix has 10000 text editors. But I'd prefer one that works, and is easy to use. Does XEmacs support intellisense? No, I didn't think so. What's XEmac's goal? To demonstrate bad HCI by having the most deeply nested menus ever seen on the face of the earth.
There is easy to use and easy to learn. MSVC++ is easy to learn. Emacs is easy to use. Seriously. There is a bit of a learning curve but once you understand the basics it becomes much more clear.
Another poster in this discussion mentioned that yes, you can get ``intellisense'' in Emacs. Finally, if you are using the menus in Emacs then you clearly havn't tried to use it. IMHO you shouldn't have to use Emacs' menus. (M-x is your friend;-)
Finally, the best reason to use Emacs (which I use in windows too, btw) is that when coding, hiting tab, instead of inserting the tab character at the cursor, properly indents the current line. It's great:-)
I've always wondered, shouldn't it be a simple function to convert RGBCMYK? Is there anything I'm missing or is this a simple conversion?
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But it is a good idea. If you are a new user and don't have the space for everything then you can install as much as you have space for and not need to know what you need. It's a tradeoff but it could be very useful.
The difference I see is that 007 movies don't apologize for being an action movie. They just are. This movie pretended to have a meaningful plot and character development. That's what made this movie harder to swallow than 007 movies for me.
Overall I liked the movie after I suspended my disbeleaf of things like the motorcycle chase. The masks I didn't mind so much, though. There are some things that are over the top but I don't have a problem with allowing the masks to be part of the Mission Impossible world. If you look at it that way then it's not so bad. I just wish they had the same laws of physics in their world.
This would be a great feature. Think about it, If you bumped it, you could have only a few inches left on the table but because it wouldn't want to flip over, it'd stay on the table...
It is legal to do things that would otherwise be copyright infringement if you are satiring something. I'd think that this would fall under that catagory. Right?
There was an Inspector Gadget episode with this sort of plot. I believe that Dr. Claw was trying to replace the man in the moon with the Mad symbol. Inspector Gadget was then sent to stop him. I guess it wasn't such an origional plot after all.
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*This is not to say that nuclear weapons were the wrong thing at the time but too many of the scientists involved weren't considering the outcome of their work.
Gnome went beta ages ago. You need not be sarcastic. If you've tried GNOME recently you already know this.
In what way is KParts especally superior to Bonobo?
What does release frequency have to do with Enlightenment being obsolete? There is a lot of work being done on it. It progresses slowly because it is very ambitious.
No. ``Network Object Model'' means that the object model is network transparent.
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It's a combination of bash and sexy graphics which is what you seem to want.
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Um, the gtk lists? Gtk.org?
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There is easy to use and easy to learn. MSVC++ is easy to learn. Emacs is easy to use. Seriously. There is a bit of a learning curve but once you understand the basics it becomes much more clear.
Another poster in this discussion mentioned that yes, you can get ``intellisense'' in Emacs. Finally, if you are using the menus in Emacs then you clearly havn't tried to use it. IMHO you shouldn't have to use Emacs' menus. (M-x is your friend ;-)
Finally, the best reason to use Emacs (which I use in windows too, btw) is that when coding, hiting tab, instead of inserting the tab character at the cursor, properly indents the current line. It's great
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This would be a great feature. Think about it, If you bumped it, you could have only a few inches left on the table but because it wouldn't want to flip over, it'd stay on the table...
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