you can change this in the sawfish window manger setup. i've got double clicking the titlebar of the window set to toggle maximize/unmaximize on all the computers i use.
well to be fair there is another benefit to the current crop of buggy, slow, and complicated OSs and that's that they are quite useful for most workloads and applications now. and it is hard to see how another os would be immune: as the capabilities the kernel provides increase, so does its size, and the number of bugs introduced. most every os at one time or another has been small, fast, and nearly bug-free; then it got useful.
the job security thing though is another miss too. anyone in a company is basically interchangable, and there is always going to someone able to step in and get up to speed with things. with the free oses there is no job to secure. or perhaps you mean by the users?
os's are complicated because they do complicated things. they're buggy because doing complicated things is hard. on the otherhand you are always free to run a single task at a time, and take care of your own memory management.
i say this not so much for your benefit, as for mine. i have successfully avoided working on stuff for 15 minutes.
what happens when these works go out of copyright? Are there any provisions for allowing free copying of works after that? How do people who advocate such a system plan to deal with this?
Has this ever been thought of as a valid argument against these sorts of copy prevention schemes? The idea is that they are putting The People's property in jeporody by not insuring that there is a way to make such works freely distributable after the term of copyright is finished.
it is kind of that difficult really. There are so many types of assumptions you make all the time as you become more familar with computers that it becomes more and more difficult to drop them, especially when you aren't aware of many of them.
even in doing a cognitive walkthrough (HCI-fancyspeak w00!)you often miss major things and it's all around easier to find a naive user and just sit them down and see what they think.
There was a flash fire aboard the Jarvik-1 which killed all crew members, and the next 5 Jarviks were unmanned tests.
Packing someone's chest with tons of explosives and putting people on top will never become routine. I think we should all remember those who have given there lives so that we could achieve these milestones of the 20th century.
This demonstrates the media's love of championing stories which make for good copy, and then throwing them away with the people who were involved when it suits them. Peter de Jager is just one of the many on whose backs media empires are built.
the first half of dark city was good, but the last half really killed it. It turned into a B movie with lots of who-can-furrow-their-brow-the-most-intense-way battle. The ending of the story felt like 'glad that's over, let's get back to our happy life on our big space platform'.
I think there is a world market for maybe five wearable computers. There is simply no reason anyone would want a computer on their body. In anycase, Palm's with 4 meg ought to be enough for anybody.
These comments brought to you courtesy of TJ Watson, Ken Olsen, and Bill Gates.
just been using the linux version for awhile. speed has improved for scrolling. reflow still does some wacky things, but all in all feels like an imporovement.
fluroinert is a liquid with a viscosity similar to water but 75% greater density. it can be taken down to (pour point) -100 C. this is all information from the 3M data sheet. please read it.
i don't know if it would freeze, the N2 is around -196C, but i imagine the fact that it's being pumped and circulating would keep it from freezing solid.
another thing to consider is that we are already in the dystopian nightmare, and what we fear is it getting just a little more dystopian or maybe just a little more different.
so by the time it becomes horribly unbearable, we'll be dead, and the people left will be ok with it and fear only the descent of their society into a dystopian nightmare.
or maybe some world leaders will get on a trust-busting kick--it's happened before.
maybe a big ole mob will just run around and start ripping the companies assholes out through their noses and handing it to them. i could think of a worse way to spend a saturday evening.
(stupid return button) One thing that should be noticed is that while corporations are largely amoral entities whose only goal is their profitability, people make up those corporations. and while most of those people will be unwilling to bite the hand that feeds them, there will be those that will. and these people will be the ones who will hopefully keep society from devolving into some dystopian nightmare.
How would you feel if you knew that FreeNet had made possible an act that led to better lives for many innocent people? How would you feel if it burnt your popcorn?
thank you for the complements of my ass. but really what do you have against these sorts of stories. it isn't as if they take anything away from other stories being posted. space is not a scarce resource.
I care about being able to make professional quality music under linux (and not just electronic music per se). you should also realize that every story will not be of interest to everyone.
what sort of things do you consider geekworthy btw ?
There is an opensource driver in ALSA for among others, RME's hammerfall (rme-audio.com). It has digital io for i believe 3 adat lightpipes and something like 52 channels. see the page for full details and what not.
there is no inherent reason for this to be true. IRIX does quite well as a audio platform, and linux is becoming much better in the hard and soft RT category.
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you can change this in the sawfish window manger setup. i've got double clicking the titlebar of the window set to toggle maximize/unmaximize on all the computers i use.
actually we can have it both ways.
oh yeah filthy money-grubbing greed!
why didn't i think of that.
i can't tell if this is a troll, but...
well to be fair there is another benefit to the current crop of buggy, slow, and complicated OSs and that's that they are quite useful for most workloads and applications now. and it is hard to see how another os would be immune: as the capabilities the kernel provides increase, so does its size, and the number of bugs introduced. most every os at one time or another has been small, fast, and nearly bug-free; then it got useful.
the job security thing though is another miss too. anyone in a company is basically interchangable, and there is always going to someone able to step in and get up to speed with things. with the free oses there is no job to secure. or perhaps you mean by the users?
os's are complicated because they do complicated things. they're buggy because doing complicated things is hard. on the otherhand you are always free to run a single task at a time, and take care of your own memory management.
i say this not so much for your benefit, as for mine. i have successfully avoided working on stuff for 15 minutes.
anonymous hero indeed!
does this mean it's ok for me to beat the hell out of you if i close my eyes?
sincerely,
me
what happens when these works go out of copyright? Are there any provisions for allowing free copying of works after that? How do people who advocate such a system plan to deal with this?
Has this ever been thought of as a valid argument against these sorts of copy prevention schemes? The idea is that they are putting The People's property in jeporody by not insuring that there is a way to make such works freely distributable after the term of copyright is finished.
that's all i have to say.
it is kind of that difficult really. There are so many types of assumptions you make all the time as you become more familar with computers that it becomes more and more difficult to drop them, especially when you aren't aware of many of them. even in doing a cognitive walkthrough (HCI-fancyspeak w00!)you often miss major things and it's all around easier to find a naive user and just sit them down and see what they think.
Packing someone's chest with tons of explosives and putting people on top will never become routine. I think we should all remember those who have given there lives so that we could achieve these milestones of the 20th century.
that was easy enough now wasn't it?
This demonstrates the media's love of championing stories which make for good copy, and then throwing them away with the people who were involved when it suits them. Peter de Jager is just one of the many on whose backs media empires are built.
the first half of dark city was good, but the last half really killed it. It turned into a B movie with lots of who-can-furrow-their-brow-the-most-intense-way battle. The ending of the story felt like 'glad that's over, let's get back to our happy life on our big space platform'.
These comments brought to you courtesy of TJ Watson, Ken Olsen, and Bill Gates.
just been using the linux version for awhile. speed has improved for scrolling. reflow still does some wacky things, but all in all feels like an imporovement.
if this is not a troll, i believe it is an allusion to mark antony's speech from shakespeare "Julius Ceasar" at the funeral of Ceasar.
fluroinert is a liquid with a viscosity similar to water but 75% greater density. it can be taken
down to (pour point) -100 C. this is all information from the 3M data sheet. please read it.
i don't know if it would freeze, the N2 is around -196C, but i imagine the fact that it's being pumped and circulating would keep it from freezing solid.
another thing to consider is that we are already in the dystopian nightmare, and what we fear is it getting just a little more dystopian or maybe just a little more different.
so by the time it becomes horribly unbearable, we'll be dead, and the people left will be ok with it and fear only the descent of their society into a dystopian nightmare.
or maybe some world leaders will get on a trust-busting kick--it's happened before.
maybe a big ole mob will just run around and start ripping the companies assholes out through their noses and handing it to them. i could think of a worse way to spend a saturday evening.
stupid me, sorry about the bold
(stupid return button) One thing that should be noticed is that while corporations are largely amoral entities whose only goal is their profitability, people make up those corporations. and while most of those people will be unwilling to bite the hand that feeds them, there will be those that will. and these people will be the ones who will hopefully keep society from devolving into some dystopian nightmare.
How would you feel if you knew that FreeNet had made possible an act that led to better lives for many innocent people? How would you feel if it burnt your popcorn?
some decent hardware has support under linux from motu, and rme, as well as sonoros.
thank you for the complements of my ass. but really what do you have against these sorts of stories. it isn't as if they take anything away from other stories being posted. space is not a scarce resource.
I care about being able to make professional quality music under linux (and not just electronic music per se). you should also realize that every story will not be of interest to everyone.
what sort of things do you consider geekworthy btw ?
There is an opensource driver in ALSA for among others, RME's hammerfall (rme-audio.com). It has digital io for i believe 3 adat lightpipes and something like 52 channels. see the page for full details and what not.
there is no inherent reason for this to be true.
IRIX does quite well as a audio platform, and linux is becoming much better in the hard and soft RT category.