What was that deal that the telecoms got in the 90's called. I tried to bring it up in conversation, and when I was asked for a citation, I couldn't find it.
Are there any browsers under Linux that track the current (nightly) Webkit libraries? I've seen a couple of them online, but a lot just seem like real basic wrappers and aren't updated.
I wanna give it a try, I've more and more begun to not enjoy running firefox under my older hardware.
Looking back on the google finance blog, they apparently went to the SEC and asked to get a feed straight from the source. I think it's gonna be as real time as possible
This might sound dumb, but I wish the new address bar would go away. My laptop gets passed around the house, and I don't want my browsing history pop up to all my family members.
They don't care, so they're not snooping around (I don't live with them normally, there was a death in the family so I've come back home for a bit) but they don't appreciate my youporn stuff popping up in their face because of that silly autocomplete stuff. How can I got back to the old way?
This is kind of a variation on the Twin Paradox. Basically, in your scenario, the rich people would be the twins that accelerated really quickly, and the way the math works out, their clocks run really quickly so that 60 years in their inertial frame appears like 1 year to humanity. Humanity would see them aging really quickly.
But, if we could somehow build a spaceship full of computers, we programmed those computers to 'solve all of humanities probblems' and accelerated them really quickly, then they would run much more quickly than would be physically possible. I think they put the computers in Star Trek in a 'relatavity field' to warp time around them and make them appear to be quicker. Same idea.
I don't think you got what the parent was trying to say. Not only does wine allow you to "emulate" (wine insists it's not an emulator) the windows system calls and run binaries compiled against native windows libraries, they strive for source-level compatibility with the windows libraries. They could build against wine by just changing their buildchain to point to the wine headers and libraries.
Does the sun's solar output counteract the changes in the atmosphere? I thought 'global dimming' was a problem due to all the crap we throw up in the air.
Anything that's not exciting just takes forever to get done. For instance, I'm working a temp job in an HR department. I've got a stack of papers about 4 inches thick with sickness records, contracts, etc... and I've spend the past 3 days just shuffling them around my desk. Or, I'll start to sort them and then hop on fark or here. I can't spend more than 30 seconds on it without just spacing out and doing something else.
I'm like that with everything though. I've been trying to program for a bit now, and it's not been working out at all. I've got pages of really pretty notes and diagrams about how I want to write this guy, but I can't..even though if I get it done, I'll make enough money to be able to take a decent vacation this summer.
I'll look into ADHD. Right now, I'm not even living in my home country, so I can't get it taken care of, but when I get back home I'll schedule an appointment to take a look at it.
I'm most scared of getting medicated and having it not go over well. I've got friends on things like adderol, and that stuff's like crack it's so scary.
Thanks for your reply. I want to go to a doctor once I get back home to try and straighten things out. The thing that I'm worried about though is if the doctor reccomends that I get on medication, what sort of negative effects it would have.
Clearly, the internet isn't the best place for medical advice, but I read often that doctors are quick to perscribe medicine and they can "flatten people out". I'm trying to find information on that side of things, but I'm having trouble.
For the past 4 years or so, it's been impossible for me to focus on anything. I've had a couple pretty simple programming projects I've been wanting to do and all I have to show for it are some mockups on how I'd do it and some makefiles. I was talking with a friend who suggested that I might be depressed. Outside of being really happy, a lot of the symptoms I see online for depression I have.
I guess I'm posting because even if I did have it I wouldn't want to take medicine for it, I'd much rather not be pumping my brain with chemicals for the rest of my life. Is anyone else ridiculously easy to get distracted (damnit, I'm on/. again)? What did you do to change it?
It's not sexist. Part of the reason I enjoy speaking English more than, say, Portuguese or German (languages I'm also fluent in) is because there's no gender. Declining nouns/articles all the time in those other languages is a bitch, don't bring it here.
My mailman happens to be a woman. Mailman does't have gender, so that works out fine.
Thanks, I'm not a dumbass, I've actually looked into this before. I used one of those techniques on another webpage. The problem is that they are kludgy and you have to be careful about what data you put into the divs, otherwise the float tags get wonky.
If there was a way to do a 3 column layout without having it be a gigantic kludge/be brittle, I'd do it. I avoid tables for everything else, but I can't get a consistent way to make 3 columns.
Universities typically throw in a gigantic pile of money for mega-projects so their researchers will have access to it. I've got a friend that goes to UA and they paid a significant portion of the neutrino detector in Japan. In exchange, they have staff constantly over there, which means they can get grants to do neutrino research.
It's a bit of a stretch to stay that implementing that functionality would be rewriting the OS. Calling toolbarWindow.setZValue( Z_FRONT ); isn't a bloat-enhancing idea.
GIMP is a graphics editor, not a window manager; and it sticks to what it knows, which is editing graphics. If you want your windows managed differently, use a different window manager.
Why should I have to change my window manager because of one program that behaves backwards? I like metacity, and like you said, GIMP is a graphics editor, not a window manager. Dictating that users should change their entire workflow/window manager because of a graphics editor is silly to me.
Check out GIMP's brainstorm site for the UI redesign every other suggestion people make is for a more sensible window handling. I don't think think should throw out the baby with the bathwater and go to MDI, but they could at least make an attempt to resolve what's been the largest complaint about the program.
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Why would there be an outline on the screen if you couldn't drag to move it? Clicking and dragging does nothing now.
I don't care about CMYK and 1,000 bit color, I don't do print. But I work with a lot of photographers and people who do know these sorts of things and apparently it's a gigantic deal for them. Additionally, someone mentioned that 8 bit color is limiting if you start compositing effects on each other because you quickly start losing significant figures to the point that you might only have 5 or 6 significant bits.
I didn't say the GIMP sucked, despite your vitriolic rant. I'm not a moron, I can handle interfaces that handle more than one window. It could be better though, and I don't see a problem in posting things that I think should be done.
I agree with you, I think it's just a problem of semantics. There are legitimate uses of QOS. If we lump "QOS" into the NN debate, then ISPs will just retort, "Well, what about [legitimate QOS use]? If NN is enforced, we won't be able to do it anymore" We need some way to differentiate legitimate QOS from underhanded QOS.
Why would I want to change my accelerator keys for one program, when it could just as easily just bring its own windows to the front intelligently? Not to mention, there's plenty of people under windows that don't have the option for virtual desktops. What's the workaround for them?
If people like the old behavior, fine, make it user-configurable, but for tons of people, the current way it's handled is awkward. A while back, the dev team took suggestions for what a new interface should look like. Tons of them suggested exactly what I said. Some of them even drew mockups and made it a point to get rid of the taskbar clutter/infinite window problem.
Guys, if we want to win the argument on Net Neutrality, we can't keep confusing QOS with NN. If they want to indescriminantly block bittorrent, that's QOS. Saying that QOS runs afoul of NN means that later Comcast can say, "Look, if you enforce net neutrality, we won't be able to do QOS on our networks which means that internet tv will be bogged down"
NN is preferential shaping based on the source of the data. QOS is preferential shaping based on the type of data.
Well, you see, actually, it's not that weird. It's quite sensible -- if you're coming from the idea that multiple virtual desktops are normal and the way everybody does things. I understand that, but that's a gigantic caveat. The point I was trying to make is that every time there's a discussion of GIMP here (or anywhere for that matter), there's always a chorus of people who don't think that multiple virtual desktops are normal (or hell, use windows/mac where it's not possible AFAIK) and wish that there was a way to do what I mentioned earlier. Instead of the developers trying to force the users into new paradigms, they could add a configuration option and knock off one of the largest (or at least most vocal) complaints about the program. More users means that a percentage of the users who can code will jump in on the project and they could eventually get more manpower behind the project. Instead, the developers stick their fingers in their ears and insist that their way is The One True Way, end of discussion.
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What was that deal that the telecoms got in the 90's called. I tried to bring it up in conversation, and when I was asked for a citation, I couldn't find it.
thanks.
Are there any browsers under Linux that track the current (nightly) Webkit libraries? I've seen a couple of them online, but a lot just seem like real basic wrappers and aren't updated.
I wanna give it a try, I've more and more begun to not enjoy running firefox under my older hardware.
Looking back on the google finance blog, they apparently went to the SEC and asked to get a feed straight from the source. I think it's gonna be as real time as possible
This might sound dumb, but I wish the new address bar would go away. My laptop gets passed around the house, and I don't want my browsing history pop up to all my family members.
They don't care, so they're not snooping around (I don't live with them normally, there was a death in the family so I've come back home for a bit) but they don't appreciate my youporn stuff popping up in their face because of that silly autocomplete stuff. How can I got back to the old way?
The magnetic field is 725 Mega Joules? What does that mean?
This is kind of a variation on the Twin Paradox. Basically, in your scenario, the rich people would be the twins that accelerated really quickly, and the way the math works out, their clocks run really quickly so that 60 years in their inertial frame appears like 1 year to humanity. Humanity would see them aging really quickly.
But, if we could somehow build a spaceship full of computers, we programmed those computers to 'solve all of humanities probblems' and accelerated them really quickly, then they would run much more quickly than would be physically possible. I think they put the computers in Star Trek in a 'relatavity field' to warp time around them and make them appear to be quicker. Same idea.
I don't think you got what the parent was trying to say. Not only does wine allow you to "emulate" (wine insists it's not an emulator) the windows system calls and run binaries compiled against native windows libraries, they strive for source-level compatibility with the windows libraries. They could build against wine by just changing their buildchain to point to the wine headers and libraries.
Does the sun's solar output counteract the changes in the atmosphere? I thought 'global dimming' was a problem due to all the crap we throw up in the air.
Anything that's not exciting just takes forever to get done. For instance, I'm working a temp job in an HR department. I've got a stack of papers about 4 inches thick with sickness records, contracts, etc... and I've spend the past 3 days just shuffling them around my desk. Or, I'll start to sort them and then hop on fark or here. I can't spend more than 30 seconds on it without just spacing out and doing something else.
I'm like that with everything though. I've been trying to program for a bit now, and it's not been working out at all. I've got pages of really pretty notes and diagrams about how I want to write this guy, but I can't..even though if I get it done, I'll make enough money to be able to take a decent vacation this summer.
I'll look into ADHD. Right now, I'm not even living in my home country, so I can't get it taken care of, but when I get back home I'll schedule an appointment to take a look at it.
I'm most scared of getting medicated and having it not go over well. I've got friends on things like adderol, and that stuff's like crack it's so scary.
Thanks for your reply. I want to go to a doctor once I get back home to try and straighten things out. The thing that I'm worried about though is if the doctor reccomends that I get on medication, what sort of negative effects it would have.
Clearly, the internet isn't the best place for medical advice, but I read often that doctors are quick to perscribe medicine and they can "flatten people out". I'm trying to find information on that side of things, but I'm having trouble.
For the past 4 years or so, it's been impossible for me to focus on anything. I've had a couple pretty simple programming projects I've been wanting to do and all I have to show for it are some mockups on how I'd do it and some makefiles. I was talking with a friend who suggested that I might be depressed. Outside of being really happy, a lot of the symptoms I see online for depression I have.
/. again)? What did you do to change it?
I guess I'm posting because even if I did have it I wouldn't want to take medicine for it, I'd much rather not be pumping my brain with chemicals for the rest of my life. Is anyone else ridiculously easy to get distracted (damnit, I'm on
It's not sexist. Part of the reason I enjoy speaking English more than, say, Portuguese or German (languages I'm also fluent in) is because there's no gender. Declining nouns/articles all the time in those other languages is a bitch, don't bring it here.
My mailman happens to be a woman. Mailman does't have gender, so that works out fine.
IIRC, There's some weird laws in Quebec about contests with prizes. Most contests aren't applicable there because of that.
Thanks, I'm not a dumbass, I've actually looked into this before. I used one of those techniques on another webpage. The problem is that they are kludgy and you have to be careful about what data you put into the divs, otherwise the float tags get wonky.
If there was a way to do a 3 column layout without having it be a gigantic kludge/be brittle, I'd do it. I avoid tables for everything else, but I can't get a consistent way to make 3 columns.
I don't see the problem. As it turns out, most documentation is a pile of shit.
Good point, I didn't realise that's where the funding came from.
Universities typically throw in a gigantic pile of money for mega-projects so their researchers will have access to it. I've got a friend that goes to UA and they paid a significant portion of the neutrino detector in Japan. In exchange, they have staff constantly over there, which means they can get grants to do neutrino research.
I got a job with Wu Tang Financial Services talking like that, so ymmv
It's a bit of a stretch to stay that implementing that functionality would be rewriting the OS. Calling toolbarWindow.setZValue( Z_FRONT ); isn't a bloat-enhancing idea.
GIMP is a graphics editor, not a window manager; and it sticks to what it knows, which is editing graphics. If you want your windows managed differently, use a different window manager.
Why should I have to change my window manager because of one program that behaves backwards? I like metacity, and like you said, GIMP is a graphics editor, not a window manager. Dictating that users should change their entire workflow/window manager because of a graphics editor is silly to me.
Check out GIMP's brainstorm site for the UI redesign every other suggestion people make is for a more sensible window handling. I don't think think should throw out the baby with the bathwater and go to MDI, but they could at least make an attempt to resolve what's been the largest complaint about the program.
Why would there be an outline on the screen if you couldn't drag to move it? Clicking and dragging does nothing now.
I don't care about CMYK and 1,000 bit color, I don't do print. But I work with a lot of photographers and people who do know these sorts of things and apparently it's a gigantic deal for them. Additionally, someone mentioned that 8 bit color is limiting if you start compositing effects on each other because you quickly start losing significant figures to the point that you might only have 5 or 6 significant bits.
I didn't say the GIMP sucked, despite your vitriolic rant. I'm not a moron, I can handle interfaces that handle more than one window. It could be better though, and I don't see a problem in posting things that I think should be done.
I agree with you, I think it's just a problem of semantics. There are legitimate uses of QOS. If we lump "QOS" into the NN debate, then ISPs will just retort, "Well, what about [legitimate QOS use]? If NN is enforced, we won't be able to do it anymore" We need some way to differentiate legitimate QOS from underhanded QOS.
Why would I want to change my accelerator keys for one program, when it could just as easily just bring its own windows to the front intelligently? Not to mention, there's plenty of people under windows that don't have the option for virtual desktops. What's the workaround for them?
If people like the old behavior, fine, make it user-configurable, but for tons of people, the current way it's handled is awkward. A while back, the dev team took suggestions for what a new interface should look like. Tons of them suggested exactly what I said. Some of them even drew mockups and made it a point to get rid of the taskbar clutter/infinite window problem.
Guys, if we want to win the argument on Net Neutrality, we can't keep confusing QOS with NN. If they want to indescriminantly block bittorrent, that's QOS. Saying that QOS runs afoul of NN means that later Comcast can say, "Look, if you enforce net neutrality, we won't be able to do QOS on our networks which means that internet tv will be bogged down"
NN is preferential shaping based on the source of the data. QOS is preferential shaping based on the type of data.