In the far future of Moore's law we will not have GPUs at all, merely CPUs with power to burn. So in that sense I agree with you that hardware is/will-be not needed. Now I haven't done any graphics programming since machines hit 1ghz, so that far future may be now.:)
Actually, from what people at SIGGRAPH kept saying, graphics cards are outpacing Moore's law. If that continues we'll have amazing vector processors and rasterizers with a dinky little CPU telling them what to do.
Just for example, bash can reverse-search through the history. Just hit ctrl-R and start typing. This is probably the thing I use most that I havn't seen tcsh do.
...or was it Next Step? Either way, I saw this idea on the Discovery chanel probably 8 years ago. At that point they said the computer hardware wasn't fast enough yet.
This is the first time I can remember one of the inventions on those shows actually coming to light. Cool. Those hours in front of the TV weren't wasted afterall.
I just got my first phone recently. One use I didn't see coming is that I nolonger have to worry about meeting people places. You can go to an amusement park with friends, split up, and then find eachother again without a wory.
Recent versions of the GIMP have a color-blind display filter. This allows you to see what things would look like to a colorblind person. Because it is a display filter, you can turn it on and off as you work on a UI element.
--Ben
First, there are many, many tracks on a disk. Ideally you'd just have one head per track, otherwise you still have to move the heads.
Also, I believe the heads are a particularly expensive part of the drive. If you want twice as many heads, you may as well get twice as many platters to go with them.
The full text appears not to be available online. All of the examples look like simple polar functions. I find it hard to believe that someone discovered a fundamentally new equation for r(\theta).
It is the primary department system including all mail to @cs.hmc.edu. As hairbrained as it sounds, this has worked well for many years. Reliability has been at least as good as the school-wide servers. This has allowed students to fix things if they go wrong at any hour of the day. Also, most upper-level classes have a staffer or two on them so, for example, when the quotas for people in Graphics had to be upped, it could be done during class at 8:00pm.
I totally agree that having emacs-style keybindings is important to my use of GNOME, however I do have it set up that way right now. I beleive all you need to do is run gconf-editor, then go to/desktop/gnome/interface and set the gtk_key_theme to have a value of "Emacs".
Aah. You are right. Cool. With some playing with gnome-terminal, I found an equivalent behavior: Start your selection, selecting at least the first character you want selected, then go to where you want the selection to end, hold shift and left-click. Now it's all selected.
As for gnome-terminal, middle-click has always been X's paste. It works for me with a 2.x gnome-terminal.
As for the window list thing, do file a bug report. They really do get looked at. Also, with 2.x I am able to have two task lists at the same time.
Personally I disagree with you about simplicity. There is gconf-editor to tweek little things, but the result for me has been that the configuration stuff I look at 90% of the time is easy to find.
Again, I really havn't seen anything broken with gnome-terminal.
If your Linux desktop applications crash, please submit a bug report. With GNOME, bug-buddy makes this very easy to do; I'm sure it's not difficult with KDE either.
These are all great. Here's one I havn't seen yet:
Boil a few ounces of water in a tin can so the can is full of steam. Then with tongs, invert the can into a bath of cold water. The can crushes itself instantly.
Having previously owned a Super Tool, I purchaced a Wave recently and would never go back. Just like the advertising says:
The knives are openable with one hand. The locking mechanism is sane. The pliers are comfortable so I can grip as hard as I want, rather than being limited by my threshold of pain. It has scisors.
Unfortunately the Wave doesn't have a ruler, which did come in handy. Although it would be interupted by the plires, it could be put on the (streight) side of the base.
I havn't seen any multi-tool I would rather have. (Though if you see one, let me know.)
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In the far future of Moore's law we will not have GPUs at all, merely CPUs with power to burn. So in that sense I agree with you that hardware is/will-be not needed. Now I haven't done any graphics programming since machines hit 1ghz, so that far future may be now.
Actually, from what people at SIGGRAPH kept saying, graphics cards are outpacing Moore's law. If that continues we'll have amazing vector processors and rasterizers with a dinky little CPU telling them what to do.
It is possible to do with one thread, but if you have a UI thread and a network thread, you get everything redrawing nicely for free.
That sounds like the behavior of a single-threaded application.
I agree. But as for the PowerShot, My G3 seems fully supported. I'd doubt the A70 is very different.
You might want to try duplicity.
I wouldn't copy Gigs of MP3s onto it over bluetooth, but it'd be cool to be able to mount it wirelessly and listen to it or access files from it.
Just for example, bash can reverse-search through the history. Just hit ctrl-R and start typing. This is probably the thing I use most that I havn't seen tcsh do.
--Ben
Just to save everyone the trouble, the third robot the fluids lab appears to be working on is a 3-segment swimmer.
...or was it Next Step? Either way, I saw this idea on the Discovery chanel probably 8 years ago. At that point they said the computer hardware wasn't fast enough yet.
This is the first time I can remember one of the inventions on those shows actually coming to light. Cool. Those hours in front of the TV weren't wasted afterall.
--Ben
I just got my first phone recently. One use I didn't see coming is that I nolonger have to worry about meeting people places. You can go to an amusement park with friends, split up, and then find eachother again without a wory.
--Ben
Recent versions of the GIMP have a color-blind display filter. This allows you to see what things would look like to a colorblind person. Because it is a display filter, you can turn it on and off as you work on a UI element.
--Ben
First, there are many, many tracks on a disk. Ideally you'd just have one head per track, otherwise you still have to move the heads.
Also, I believe the heads are a particularly expensive part of the drive. If you want twice as many heads, you may as well get twice as many platters to go with them.
--Ben
The full text appears not to be available online. All of the examples look like simple polar functions. I find it hard to believe that someone discovered a fundamentally new equation for r(\theta).
--Ben
It is the primary department system including all mail to @cs.hmc.edu. As hairbrained as it sounds, this has worked well for many years. Reliability has been at least as good as the school-wide servers. This has allowed students to fix things if they go wrong at any hour of the day. Also, most upper-level classes have a staffer or two on them so, for example, when the quotas for people in Graphics had to be upped, it could be done during class at 8:00pm.
--Ben
I have to disagree. Here at Mudd, one professor and one admin has the root password, along with about 12 students and things have worked quite well.
--Ben
I totally agree that having emacs-style keybindings is important to my use of GNOME, however I do have it set up that way right now. I beleive all you need to do is run gconf-editor, then go to /desktop/gnome/interface and set the gtk_key_theme to have a value of "Emacs".
I hope that helps.
--Ben
atp-get install gnucash
That's all there is to it. This is why people like Debian. RedHat can do stuff like this too.
Aah. You are right. Cool. With some playing with gnome-terminal, I found an equivalent behavior:
Start your selection, selecting at least the first character you want selected, then go to where you want the selection to end, hold shift and left-click. Now it's all selected.
--Ben
As for gnome-terminal, middle-click has always been X's paste. It works for me with a 2.x gnome-terminal.
As for the window list thing, do file a bug report. They really do get looked at. Also, with 2.x I am able to have two task lists at the same time.
Personally I disagree with you about simplicity. There is gconf-editor to tweek little things, but the result for me has been that the configuration stuff I look at 90% of the time is easy to find.
Again, I really havn't seen anything broken with gnome-terminal.
--Ben
Still human interaction and good music, as well as good drinks. Come over and have a drink sometime.
--Ben (current Baja member)
The combination works pretty well, actually It adds to the challenge ;-)
And no, I was never whirled for unicycling while living at West Dorm.
--Ben
If your Linux desktop applications crash, please submit a bug report. With GNOME, bug-buddy makes this very easy to do; I'm sure it's not difficult with KDE either.
--Ben
This is related, I believe: http://www.aclu.org/Cyber-Liberties/Cyber-Libertie s.cfm?ID=11332&c=58
--Ben
These are all great. Here's one I havn't seen yet:
Boil a few ounces of water in a tin can so the can is full of steam. Then with tongs, invert the can into a bath of cold water. The can crushes itself instantly.
--Ben
Having previously owned a Super Tool, I purchaced a Wave recently and would never go back. Just like the advertising says:
The knives are openable with one hand.
The locking mechanism is sane.
The pliers are comfortable so I can grip as hard as I want, rather than being limited by my threshold of pain.
It has scisors.
Unfortunately the Wave doesn't have a ruler, which did come in handy. Although it would be interupted by the plires, it could be put on the (streight) side of the base.
I havn't seen any multi-tool I would rather have. (Though if you see one, let me know.)
--Ben