unfortunately, all the canonical and non-canon references refer to the vulcan/romulan split happening easily over a millenia before humans ever got into space. The written and spoken languages have diverged greatly, as well as their facial features
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I dont think it's contrived. They explained that the Vulcans have been looking over the Humans' shoulders for a hundred hears or so, and so that the real human-vulcan trust wont be formed until, say, the REAL Federation is formed
while one could just make ~/.bin and ~/.sbin symlinks in and of themselves, or just use the original dirs on the PATH, with you own folder, you can install your own CLI progs in there, without contaminating the originals
same goes for ~/Applications... add symlinks, or real whole applications that you install and dont want to pollute the/Applications dir
I absolutely agree! I think that the.app bundle model is a great way to group all the necessary files into on opaque folder, and.framework bundles for grouping libs. I would also like to see a push to something like this:
/Applications - All progs, GUI and CLI
/bin - All commandline progs for all users (hidden from normal
/sbin - All commandline progs for su only
~/Applications - holds symlinks to GUI apps you like/use
~/.bin - holds symlinks to commandline progs you like/use (hidden in file manager)
~/.sbin - like ~/.bin, but only created in root's (or other su's) home dir (hidden in file manager)
so a normal user would only need ~/.bin on his/her PATH, and root or other su would have ~/.bin AND ~/.sbin in his/her PATH
mix Python, a language that is fast to write with, with time-critical functions as libs written in C (using the Python/C API)... get the best of both... use python as a glue for your C code
I think the problem gets harder when you have hundreds or thousands of files to navigate... ordering them by categories is a very human thing to do. For your Images folder, you have 'Family Pictures', 'Friends', 'Pr0n', etc.
Perhaps more on-the-fly arbitrary ways of grouping the data would be good... by date, file type and so on already exist... good metadata for each file would allow more flexible grouping methods.
really, except for specialized things like CAM and 3D modelling, it already IS communication and entertainment (gaming right now) that are the leaders in use of 3D
perhaps keep 2d for things we use right now, like reading text, viewing images and movies, and to an extent, file management.
For file management, maybe as was mentioned above, using icons/objects that vary in virtual size with the actual size of the file, maybe with a hyperbolic file manager.
3D will really come in useful in more futuristic applications, mostly dealing with non-local entities... talking to people, viewing data on other servers, etc. I think that entertainment and communication will be the two largest areas to be able to exploit 3D interfaces (that means *with* VR glasses and various sensors and such)
although someone needs to beat the engineer that though not using a standard dvd was a good idea over the head with several SNES machines. what moron in engineering or management thought it was a good idea to not have a feature that everyone else has?
It was a management decision. Any engineer(ing team) that could design the GC would want a full DVD player in it. Just wait for the Panasonic GC with full DVD capability, if you dont already have multiple DVD players in your house. They used the miniature size so that the DVD couldnt be duplicated to a standard DVD and still FIT in the GC (that's my guess anyway)
it looks a little clunky, but the CyberGlove with its four levels (prices) has force AND tactile feedback. Immersion also has an SDK for use with it... the demo (RM format) has a great example of how it works
There is an initiative for almost every ancient language that is know (and decipherable). I'm sure digging thru xml.org will turn up a bounty of results =]
I live in sunnyvale, calif, and the toys-r-us (some toys are kinda geeky =P) down the road on El Camino is supposed to be haunted. Some employees and former empoyees swear up and down that they've seen a ghost that wanders around there. Of course, those people work a near-minimum-wage job at a toy store and prolly arent the brightest dimes in the jar;)
http://www.snopes2.com/horrors/ghosts/toysrus.ht m
i use my cube for (school) work as well as for fun and games... its quiet, but the sound of the several fan on my roommates's comp kinda kills the point of it =P thats why im looking for a Titanium Powerbook to replace my cube =]
you just described BeFS, whch can have arbitary new metadata tagged on to any file/directory (like artist name, song name, song length, and stuff that doesnt exist normally on BeFS filesystem entities (node, date stuff, etc., are all the base/required file metadata)
a 3D GUI ala seen in Lain sitting on BeOS, with a fast VM (java, or whatever) would be a good catharsis for the ppl disappointed by this hoax =\
i dont know if its how it is done now, but why isnt there a single-button that you press that would activate the mic to accept voice commands, and maybe a second to input text... its not totally hands free, but if Stephen Hawking could talk, even HE could use it:P
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I want to get one as a pet! I will be getting laid BIG TIME at that point!
I don't think that the thylacine will be interested in you like *that*.
unfortunately, all the canonical and non-canon references refer to the vulcan/romulan split happening easily over a millenia before humans ever got into space. The written and spoken languages have diverged greatly, as well as their facial features
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I dont think it's contrived. They explained that the Vulcans have been looking over the Humans' shoulders for a hundred hears or so, and so that the real human-vulcan trust wont be formed until, say, the REAL Federation is formed
addendum:
/Applications dir
while one could just make ~/.bin and ~/.sbin symlinks in and of themselves, or just use the original dirs on the PATH, with you own folder, you can install your own CLI progs in there, without contaminating the originals
same goes for ~/Applications... add symlinks, or real whole applications that you install and dont want to pollute the
I absolutely agree! I think that the .app bundle model is a great way to group all the necessary files into on opaque folder, and .framework bundles for grouping libs. I would also like to see a push to something like this:
/Applications - All progs, GUI and CLI
/bin - All commandline progs for all users (hidden from normal
/sbin - All commandline progs for su only
~/Applications - holds symlinks to GUI apps you like/use
~/.bin - holds symlinks to commandline progs you like/use (hidden in file manager)
~/.sbin - like ~/.bin, but only created in root's (or other su's) home dir (hidden in file manager)
so a normal user would only need ~/.bin on his/her PATH, and root or other su would have ~/.bin AND ~/.sbin in his/her PATH
But thats just my opinion, I could be wrong =]
obviously you would use some sort of logrithmic scale, not a linear one
mix Python, a language that is fast to write with, with time-critical functions as libs written in C (using the Python/C API)... get the best of both... use python as a glue for your C code
I think the problem gets harder when you have hundreds or thousands of files to navigate... ordering them by categories is a very human thing to do. For your Images folder, you have 'Family Pictures', 'Friends', 'Pr0n', etc.
Perhaps more on-the-fly arbitrary ways of grouping the data would be good... by date, file type and so on already exist... good metadata for each file would allow more flexible grouping methods.
addendum:
really, except for specialized things like CAM and 3D modelling, it already IS communication and entertainment (gaming right now) that are the leaders in use of 3D
perhaps keep 2d for things we use right now, like reading text, viewing images and movies, and to an extent, file management.
For file management, maybe as was mentioned above, using icons/objects that vary in virtual size with the actual size of the file, maybe with a hyperbolic file manager.
3D will really come in useful in more futuristic applications, mostly dealing with non-local entities... talking to people, viewing data on other servers, etc. I think that entertainment and communication will be the two largest areas to be able to exploit 3D interfaces (that means *with* VR glasses and various sensors and such)
733 MHz Celeron? ATA33 cable (and drive I assume)? 10 GB drive? as a friend said, its an eMachines computer in a black box, sold by MS. :-P
yes, but has something being just sold only in japan ever stopped most geeks? =]
although someone needs to beat the engineer that though not using a standard dvd was a good idea over the head with several SNES machines. what moron in engineering or management thought it was a good idea to not have a feature that everyone else has?
It was a management decision. Any engineer(ing team) that could design the GC would want a full DVD player in it. Just wait for the Panasonic GC with full DVD capability, if you dont already have multiple DVD players in your house. They used the miniature size so that the DVD couldnt be duplicated to a standard DVD and still FIT in the GC (that's my guess anyway)
and heres a great pic from the Microsoft area at COMDEX ;-)
it looks a little clunky, but the CyberGlove with its four levels (prices) has force AND tactile feedback. Immersion also has an SDK for use with it... the demo (RM format) has a great example of how it works
the xml.org link for cuneiform encoding initiative is at http://www.jhu.edu/ice/
There is an initiative for almost every ancient language that is know (and decipherable). I'm sure digging thru xml.org will turn up a bounty of results =]
its been faster than every 18 months for a while... Moore's law is better expressed/replaced by The Law of Accelerating Returns
I live in sunnyvale, calif, and the toys-r-us (some toys are kinda geeky =P) down the road on El Camino is supposed to be haunted. Some employees and former empoyees swear up and down that they've seen a ghost that wanders around there. Of course, those people work a near-minimum-wage job at a toy store and prolly arent the brightest dimes in the jar ;)
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http://www.snopes2.com/horrors/ghosts/toysrus.h
i use my cube for (school) work as well as for fun and games... its quiet, but the sound of the several fan on my roommates's comp kinda kills the point of it =P thats why im looking for a Titanium Powerbook to replace my cube =]
actually that was a different (second?) account ... http://www.slant-six.org/display.asp?type=u&id=har vey vs. http://www.slant-six.org/display.asp?type=u&id=Dun kirkH
you just described BeFS, whch can have arbitary new metadata tagged on to any file/directory (like artist name, song name, song length, and stuff that doesnt exist normally on BeFS filesystem entities (node, date stuff, etc., are all the base/required file metadata)
a 3D GUI ala seen in Lain sitting on BeOS, with a fast VM (java, or whatever) would be a good catharsis for the ppl disappointed by this hoax =\
ive done OPENSTEP 4.2 (NeXTStep) *and* WinXP in VPC... too bad there are no video drivers in openstep that jives with the VPC emulated video card =\
beos doesnt have the hard real-time capability, but it actually IS written almost all in C... its the API that is in pure C++
5 GB still is more than my whole mp3 collection
i dont know if its how it is done now, but why isnt there a single-button that you press that would activate the mic to accept voice commands, and maybe a second to input text... its not totally hands free, but if Stephen Hawking could talk, even HE could use it :P