[MDI] should be built in... or at least an install time option.
It should be a run-time user option. Almost all windows should be able to be floating (independent) windows, child windows of an MDI window, docked panels within a paned window, or notebook panes in a tabbed notebook. This should apply to toolbars, image (editing) windows, tear-off menus, and some (non-modal) dialogs. It should be possible to "mix'n'match" windows, so that some windows are MDI, others are floating, etc.
The mechanics for implementing this are "outside" of the logic for what goes on within the windows themselves, and could be accomplished without too much difficulty by subclassing a few GTK container classes to allow them to change their parents (assuming that GTK allows reparenting of existing widgets, which it should).
In addition to what the other two responders wrote, the requirements for present-day software are higher than those of 20 years ago:
Applications are expected to interact with other applications.
Tax laws and regulations are more numerous and Byzantine than they used to be.
The people who use the software tend to get less training than they used to, making it more likely that they will do something stupid.
Management is less in awe of and respects less the people who run the machines, and, with rapidly decreasing profit margins (and even without them), are likely to under-allocate the resources needed to do a project well.
All of the home pages have some graphics on them, so, to avoid slashdotting an innocent site, please don't visit a home page unless the corresponding Forbes page gets you interested.
No, he reversed the polarity of his plasma relays and reconfigured the main deflector dish to emit a tachyon pulse.
No, wait, that was to fix some other problem.
Oh, I remember now. He shrunk a team of specialists and a submarine and injected them into his bloodstream. They roamed through his body, zapping the bad bacteria with a laser. It was touch and go for a while, especially when anitbodies started wrapping themselves around Raquel Welch's shapely body, but they managed to escape through his eye before they returned to normal size. (I wonder whatever happened to the submarine?)
twm-gl is binary-only, no source (that I could find, anyway.). I am reluctant to trust binary-only code from someone that I don't know.
The lack of any reasonable documentation on the website (three bullet points, one of which claims that the writer was on LSD when he/she wrote it), plus the broken screenshot pics, do not give me great confidence in the project.
I mentioned the LEM ascent stage in my reply. (where I called it the LEM "upper stage"). However, the GP wrote "Apollo 11 stage 2", which I assumed to mean the second stage of the entire Apollo mission, i.e., the second stage of the Saturn V. If he meant the "LM ascent stage", then he should have written the "LEM ascent stage", or "stage 2 of the LEM", etc.
BTW, the LEM was more commonly called the "LEM" (for "Lunar Excursion Module"). Even Neil Armstrong called it the LEM. (Just before his "That's one small step" comment, he said "Stepping off the LEM now.")
Also, I know about the abandonment of the LEM upper stage after its redocking with the command module. In fact, I know about the entire general Apollo mission process from liftoff to splashdown (not details like who flipped what switch when, but general things like what part was jettisoned when, what part docked with what part when, etc.). I saw it all live on TV when I was a kid. I had scrapbooks about the space program. I still have models of the Saturn V, command/service modules, and the LEM somewhere in my basement.
Apollo 11 stage 2 was crashed into the moon by venting fuel - the impact was measured by seisometers left by previous missions and used to map the internal state of the moon
Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to the Moon. (There were a few umanned missions that made soft landings prior to that (mostly Soviet), but I don't know whether they contained seismometers.)
Also, I doubt that stage 2 of anu Apollo mission ever left Earth orbit. You may be thinking of the service module, but that was needed to get the command module back to Earth. The only thing that I can think of from any Apollo mission that may have crashed into the Moon is the upper stage of the LEM, and it would not surprise me if all LEM upper stages eventually crashed into the Moon.
There were six successful manned missions to the Moon (Apollos 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17). They probably all carried seismometers. Impacts from LEMs of the later missions, plus unmanned probes and the occasional meteorite, would generate plenty of seismic events. It would be a combination of events that would be used to map the internal structure of the Moon, as a single event measured at one location is generally not enough to gain more than an inkling of the internal structure of anything.
Take a look at the top of your browser: you probably have pictures for the most common operations.
No, in fact, I have turned the icons off for the toolbar that contains buttons for Back, Forward, Reload, and Stop (the most common toolbar operations). (This is in Mozilla; for some reason, I can't figure out how to turn icons off in Firefox, which is very annoying to me.) Some people prefer icons; others prefer text; still others prefer both. I am one of those people who prefers text to icons. For example, I would prefer that the Gimp's main toolbar display text only instead of icons only. I don't know whether I'm the only person who feels this way.
I just paid Microsoft for an operating system that I am going to wipe out as soon as I open the shipping box. [...] It's not so much about the money as who ends up with it. The company from which I purchased my new system is Gateway, BTW.
It's your own fault for buying a major name brand. People should not buy Gateway, or Dell, or HP, or whatever. I bought my logo-chiseled-off-with-a-blunt-screwdriver laptop from Fell-Off-a-Truck, Inc. (their Back-of-a-Van-in-the-Safeway-Parking-Lot branch), and I'm pretty sure that Microsoft didn't get a penny of my money, even though the laptop came with MS-Windows XP (Ukranian version) pre-installed (along with a file containing thousands of credit card numbers, a directory named "CIA Dirty Tricks", and lots and lots of porn).
who really went out to "download" IE it self (not update)
I did, back in 1996 or 1998 or somewhere around then. My MS-Windows 3.1 to MS-Windows 95 upgrade either didn't come with IE at all, or it came with a really crappy version that I never used. Instead, I used a proprietary browser that Netcom distributed to its customers (called "Netcruiser"??). I eventually downloaded and installed Netscape Navigator, which also didn't work too wel, then IE 5.something, which worked a lot better. I was still using it until about couple of years ago. (At one time, I was actually an MS fan, although not any more.) I'm still running MS-Windows 95 (dual-booting with Slackware), but am now using Mozilla as my browser (for the next few months, anyway).
I'm running Mozilla under MS-Windows 95, and it doesn't work for me, either. Of course, I have all scripting disabled, as should anybody who is concerned with security. I can't think of any recent exploit that will work if scripting is disabled, with the exception of the JPEG vulnerability and the usual "Click on the attachment to see Laura Bush nude!"-type emails.
The great thing about MIDI is that I can examine another artist's work at the instrument level to get ideas for my own music. The bad thing about MIDI is that, most of the time, it just doesn't sound as good as audio files. I think that MIDI as a music distribution format is on its way out.
How in the world does someone have polio these days?
Some people are old enough that they contracted polio before the vaccine was generally available (around 1955-1960 for the Salk vaccine, and the early 1960s for the Sabin vaccine). Note that according to this site, "In 1955 there were 28,985 cases of polio; in 1956, 14,647; in 1957, 5,894". I am 49 years old (50 next week), and am still working, so I could very well have been one of those unfortunate persons (though, thankfully, I wasn't).
The site referenced above also reports that there are about a quarter million cases of polio per year worldwide even today, and occasionally even in the U.S. (usually due to problems with the Sabin vaccine itself, which is a live, but weakened, polio virus).
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It's a program for the manipulation of images of GNUs.
Almost all windows should be able to be floating (independent) windows, child windows of an MDI window, docked panels within a paned window, or notebook panes in a tabbed notebook.
This should apply to toolbars, image (editing) windows, tear-off menus, and some (non-modal) dialogs.
It should be possible to "mix'n'match" windows, so that some windows are MDI, others are floating, etc.
The mechanics for implementing this are "outside" of the logic for what goes on within the windows themselves, and could be accomplished without too much difficulty by subclassing a few GTK container classes to allow them to change their parents (assuming that GTK allows reparenting of existing widgets, which it should).
- First item and its Home page.
- Second item and its Home page.
- Third item and its Home page.
- Fourth item and its Home page.
- Fifth item and its Home page.
All of the home pages have some graphics on them, so, to avoid slashdotting an innocent site, please don't visit a home page unless the corresponding Forbes page gets you interested.(I remember reading about this one on Slashdot before.)
(Byte magazine had anarticle about using an Etch-A-Sketch as a plotter back around 1980 or so.)
No, he reversed the polarity of his plasma relays and reconfigured the main deflector dish to emit a tachyon pulse.
No, wait, that was to fix some other problem.
Oh, I remember now.
He shrunk a team of specialists and a submarine and injected them into his bloodstream.
They roamed through his body, zapping the bad bacteria with a laser.
It was touch and go for a while, especially when anitbodies started wrapping themselves around Raquel Welch's shapely body, but they managed to escape through his eye before they returned to normal size.
(I wonder whatever happened to the submarine?)
I am reluctant to trust binary-only code from someone that I don't know.
However, the GP wrote "Apollo 11 stage 2", which I assumed to mean the second stage of the entire Apollo mission, i.e., the second stage of the Saturn V.
If he meant the "LM ascent stage", then he should have written the "LEM ascent stage", or "stage 2 of the LEM", etc.
BTW, the LEM was more commonly called the "LEM" (for "Lunar Excursion Module").
Even Neil Armstrong called it the LEM.
(Just before his "That's one small step" comment, he said "Stepping off the LEM now.")
Also, I know about the abandonment of the LEM upper stage after its redocking with the command module.
In fact, I know about the entire general Apollo mission process from liftoff to splashdown (not details like who flipped what switch when, but general things like what part was jettisoned when, what part docked with what part when, etc.).
I saw it all live on TV when I was a kid.
I had scrapbooks about the space program.
I still have models of the Saturn V, command/service modules, and the LEM somewhere in my basement.
(There were a few umanned missions that made soft landings prior to that (mostly Soviet), but I don't know whether they contained seismometers.)
Also, I doubt that stage 2 of anu Apollo mission ever left Earth orbit.
You may be thinking of the service module, but that was needed to get the command module back to Earth.
The only thing that I can think of from any Apollo mission that may have crashed into the Moon is the upper stage of the LEM, and it would not surprise me if all LEM upper stages eventually crashed into the Moon.
There were six successful manned missions to the Moon (Apollos 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17).
They probably all carried seismometers.
Impacts from LEMs of the later missions, plus unmanned probes and the occasional meteorite, would generate plenty of seismic events.
It would be a combination of events that would be used to map the internal structure of the Moon, as a single event measured at one location is generally not enough to gain more than an inkling of the internal structure of anything.
Kind of like blogs, really.
Thanks for the info.
It would be nice if it worked the same way as Mozilla, though.
(This is in Mozilla; for some reason, I can't figure out how to turn icons off in Firefox, which is very annoying to me.)
Some people prefer icons; others prefer text; still others prefer both.
I am one of those people who prefers text to icons.
For example, I would prefer that the Gimp's main toolbar display text only instead of icons only.
I don't know whether I'm the only person who feels this way.
People should not buy Gateway, or Dell, or HP, or whatever.
I bought my logo-chiseled-off-with-a-blunt-screwdriver laptop from Fell-Off-a-Truck, Inc. (their Back-of-a-Van-in-the-Safeway-Parking-Lot branch), and I'm pretty sure that Microsoft didn't get a penny of my money, even though the laptop came with MS-Windows XP (Ukranian version) pre-installed (along with a file containing thousands of credit card numbers, a directory named "CIA Dirty Tricks", and lots and lots of porn).
"wel" should be "well".
I did use "Preview", dammit!
My MS-Windows 3.1 to MS-Windows 95 upgrade either didn't come with IE at all, or it came with a really crappy version that I never used.
Instead, I used a proprietary browser that Netcom distributed to its customers (called "Netcruiser"??).
I eventually downloaded and installed Netscape Navigator, which also didn't work too wel, then IE 5.something, which worked a lot better.
I was still using it until about couple of years ago.
(At one time, I was actually an MS fan, although not any more.)
I'm still running MS-Windows 95 (dual-booting with Slackware), but am now using Mozilla as my browser (for the next few months, anyway).
When I was at RIT, we were still using DECWriters.
Does the movable type license extend to alumni?
'Twas a joke.
I'm running Mozilla under MS-Windows 95, and it doesn't work for me, either.
Of course, I have all scripting disabled, as should anybody who is concerned with security.
I can't think of any recent exploit that will work if scripting is disabled, with the exception of the JPEG vulnerability and the usual "Click on the attachment to see Laura Bush nude!"-type emails.
The bad thing about MIDI is that, most of the time, it just doesn't sound as good as audio files.
I think that MIDI as a music distribution format is on its way out.
Note that according to this site, "In 1955 there were 28,985 cases of polio; in 1956, 14,647; in 1957, 5,894".
I am 49 years old (50 next week), and am still working, so I could very well have been one of those unfortunate persons (though, thankfully, I wasn't).
The site referenced above also reports that there are about a quarter million cases of polio per year worldwide even today, and occasionally even in the U.S. (usually due to problems with the Sabin vaccine itself, which is a live, but weakened, polio virus).