unless you're interested in fresh air, starry nights, and that absolute quiet
Every time I visit Wisconsin, I'm amazed at how clear the sky is at night. In Chicago, I don't even notice the fact that the sky is ALWAYS a hazy, night gray. To see it black and dotted with stars is a breath-taking sight. Let's see now... there's Orion, the Dippers...
As I said, it's only *part* of GUI design. There's also document interface and visualizations as well as sensory access to computer functions (i.e. I can "see" how to make a computer do something). Pretty abstract concepts, but three of them do cover pretty much all GUIs.:-)
The difference? You can follow your job to Indiana. Even better is that rural areas have lower costs of living, thus making $50,000/yr a very good wage to have.
Honestly, this isn't anything new. In Wisconsin, we had several big companies move (American Family Insurance, Lands End, etc.) because they could run their operations far cheaper while still being within driving distance of Chicago. It's really a win-win situation for everyone.
"Sun was founded on the principle of open source."
This seems patently false. I could be wrong about this, but his claims that Solaris contains huge amounts of open source seems like a purposefully misleading comment.
Maybe he was referring to the fact that SunOS was BSD based? The key developers when Sun was founded, also did a lot of work on the original BSD codebase.
NeXTSTEP/OpenSTEP is not obsolete. It just so happens that it's powering the computer I'm using at the moment. No, it's not a NeXTStation. It's a Mac running OSX.
There are 100+ keys on a keyboard as opposed to 2(3) buttons on a mouse. If you do enought clicking on any desktop environment, you can figure out how to get at least somthing done.
To be precise, part of GUI design is to be a virtual keyboard extension. All those buttons you see in toolbars are very much like if you had that button on your keyboard. (Some specialized forms of equipment, especially medical, do have such buttons.) The GUI just saves you from buying a new keyboard for every program you want to run.:-)
Not to mention the Fink project, which adds tons of great apps to the command line.
Fink is nice, but it tends to make something of a mess. Even worse, that mess is mixed in with your current files, making it difficult to clean up later. I've found that http://packages.opendarwin.org works better. Don't access it through your web browser. just select finder, then click on the "Go" menu, then "Connect to Server...". Place that URL in the textfield and click "OK". You should now have a WebDAV archive of opensource binaries mounted on your desktop.
I built all of the ships when I was a kid, but I don't think I EVER had enough pieces to build a Starbase of that magnitude. Besides, mine would have been rainbow colored.;-)
Do you still get those catalogs every year that showed off the new model selections? I loved getting those in the mail. As soon as it showed up, I'd flip straight to the "Space" section, and look for the latest base or 10 guy moon rover. (The Lego characters never build anything small!;-))
It was a sad day the year they switched from building with flat plates and blocks to the large "hull" pieces for ships, castles, and bases. They canceled the $100 monorail at the same time, so I missed my chance at ever getting a Lego train set.
Odd as it may sound, I did most of my mechanical engineering with Constructs. Glow in the dark vehicles cars. anphibous assult vehicles, tie fighters, and a (very practical) lighted book reading station were all Construct creations. Legos turned out to be much more fun for detailed (ha ha) models. For example, I tried creating the starship Enterprise with Constructs, but it just didn't work right. With Legos, I was able to produce reasonable facsimiles of Enterprise A, Enterprise D, and the Excelsior. (The later benefitting greatly from the upside-down 45 degree angle blocks. It was the only way to get a smooth "bulge" at the bottom.)
I still have a few metric tons of both sets that I plan to pass on to my kids. Right now they're scattering their Duplos among the winds, so I don't think they're quite ready.;-)
They don't care now, but they're starting to. To continue my story from yesterday, one of my coworkers who had asked me about Firefox got a virus. She didn't actually realize it until the IT people came by and told her that the antivirus program had just removed a virus from her machine.
All she'd known is that her machine had been running slow. She did some thinking and came to the conclusion that it had come from some lyrics site that had nailed her with popup windows. As I floated the word "Firefox" across the office, the coworker who had installed Firefox happily piped up, "I haven't seen a popup all day!"
Actually, the hydrogren DID explode. It just wasn't the ignition or the cause of the continuing fires. If you watch the video, you can see it start to catch fire, followed by a massive blowout. The blowout was most likely the hydrogen. As the Hindenburg sank, however, it continued to burn furiously. Since there was no hydrogen left, it couldn't be the hydrogen that's continued burning. Rather the SKIN of the ship (which also shouldn't burn) was on fire. That was most likely caused by the sealant.
When nuclear energy first came on to the scene, many people were afraid that contamination could happen from one person to another. Anyone who'd handled nuclear materials or was exposed to such materials, was treat as a lepor.
Now we have people worried about Hydrogen (which floats UP while it explodes) instead of the far more energy dense gasoline that will continue burning everything after it explodes. Ah, progress.:-)
, do you have any opinions on any of these other players?
Myself? Not really. I use iTunes most of the time.:-) Both jlGUI and JamP are execellent options, though. Before iTunes came along, I was just waiting for a few simple features to get added (they were in pre-release form). I expect that both of those should pretty well replicate WinAMP's functionality.
So let me get this straight. You left the states, where it is illegal to work an employee excessive hours without compensation but is done anyway, for a country where it is illegal to work an employee excessive hours without compensation but it is done anyway. Am I missing something here?
If you look at the links I provided, most of the players feature WinAMP-compatible(TM) skinning. Plugins are a bit more of a problem, but only in so far as they are demanded. If users began demanding WinAMP plugins out of, say JamP, I imagine that the feature would be added immediately.
WinAMP is not that hard to replicate. That's why XMMS exists, and that's why many other players exist. There just hasn't been much push to replace WinAMP on Windows.
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unless you're interested in fresh air, starry nights, and that absolute quiet
Every time I visit Wisconsin, I'm amazed at how clear the sky is at night. In Chicago, I don't even notice the fact that the sky is ALWAYS a hazy, night gray. To see it black and dotted with stars is a breath-taking sight. Let's see now... there's Orion, the Dippers...
As I said, it's only *part* of GUI design. There's also document interface and visualizations as well as sensory access to computer functions (i.e. I can "see" how to make a computer do something). Pretty abstract concepts, but three of them do cover pretty much all GUIs. :-)
The difference? You can follow your job to Indiana. Even better is that rural areas have lower costs of living, thus making $50,000/yr a very good wage to have.
Honestly, this isn't anything new. In Wisconsin, we had several big companies move (American Family Insurance, Lands End, etc.) because they could run their operations far cheaper while still being within driving distance of Chicago. It's really a win-win situation for everyone.
The darwin packages install into /opt, so I guess they're even on that exact point. :-)
"Sun was founded on the principle of open source."
This seems patently false. I could be wrong about this, but his claims that Solaris contains huge amounts of open source seems like a purposefully misleading comment.
Maybe he was referring to the fact that SunOS was BSD based? The key developers when Sun was founded, also did a lot of work on the original BSD codebase.
NeXTSTEP/OpenSTEP is not obsolete. It just so happens that it's powering the computer I'm using at the moment. No, it's not a NeXTStation. It's a Mac running OSX.
There are 100+ keys on a keyboard as opposed to 2(3) buttons on a mouse. If you do enought clicking on any desktop environment, you can figure out how to get at least somthing done.
:-)
To be precise, part of GUI design is to be a virtual keyboard extension. All those buttons you see in toolbars are very much like if you had that button on your keyboard. (Some specialized forms of equipment, especially medical, do have such buttons.) The GUI just saves you from buying a new keyboard for every program you want to run.
Seems you're right. The installer must have been showing me relative paths. *whew* At least now I can clean up that junk. :-)
1. Ken Thompson created and named it after he felt that the MULTICS project was too complex. Ritchie came later and did the C compiler.
2. Have a link? Here's mine: http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/usail/concepts/unixhx.html
Don't get me wrong. I use 'wc' all the time. I just think the poster's comparison to Word is a bit silly.
Not to mention the Fink project, which adds tons of great apps to the command line.
Fink is nice, but it tends to make something of a mess. Even worse, that mess is mixed in with your current files, making it difficult to clean up later. I've found that http://packages.opendarwin.org works better. Don't access it through your web browser. just select finder, then click on the "Go" menu, then "Connect to Server...". Place that URL in the textfield and click "OK". You should now have a WebDAV archive of opensource binaries mounted on your desktop.
Have fun!
Think: do you know how to count the words in a Word file?
Tools -> Word Count
Why is that so hard? It's File -> Properties -> Statistics in OpenOffice.
I built all of the ships when I was a kid, but I don't think I EVER had enough pieces to build a Starbase of that magnitude. Besides, mine would have been rainbow colored. ;-)
3000 pieces?! 1 meter long?! (That's three feet y'all.) Why can't they make a Star Trek Starbase like that?!
*sigh*
Do you still get those catalogs every year that showed off the new model selections? I loved getting those in the mail. As soon as it showed up, I'd flip straight to the "Space" section, and look for the latest base or 10 guy moon rover. (The Lego characters never build anything small! ;-))
It was a sad day the year they switched from building with flat plates and blocks to the large "hull" pieces for ships, castles, and bases. They canceled the $100 monorail at the same time, so I missed my chance at ever getting a Lego train set.
Odd as it may sound, I did most of my mechanical engineering with Constructs. Glow in the dark vehicles cars. anphibous assult vehicles, tie fighters, and a (very practical) lighted book reading station were all Construct creations. Legos turned out to be much more fun for detailed (ha ha) models. For example, I tried creating the starship Enterprise with Constructs, but it just didn't work right. With Legos, I was able to produce reasonable facsimiles of Enterprise A, Enterprise D, and the Excelsior. (The later benefitting greatly from the upside-down 45 degree angle blocks. It was the only way to get a smooth "bulge" at the bottom.)
;-)
I still have a few metric tons of both sets that I plan to pass on to my kids. Right now they're scattering their Duplos among the winds, so I don't think they're quite ready.
...classic toys are better! That's why I asked Santa for an FPGA System-On-a-Chip for Christmas! :-D
They don't care now, but they're starting to. To continue my story from yesterday, one of my coworkers who had asked me about Firefox got a virus. She didn't actually realize it until the IT people came by and told her that the antivirus program had just removed a virus from her machine.
:-)
All she'd known is that her machine had been running slow. She did some thinking and came to the conclusion that it had come from some lyrics site that had nailed her with popup windows. As I floated the word "Firefox" across the office, the coworker who had installed Firefox happily piped up, "I haven't seen a popup all day!"
Peer pressure, that's where it's at.
Hydrogen isn't an "energy source," it's a (somewhat inefficient) way of storing energy.
:-)
The technical term is "fuel".
Actually, the hydrogren DID explode. It just wasn't the ignition or the cause of the continuing fires. If you watch the video, you can see it start to catch fire, followed by a massive blowout. The blowout was most likely the hydrogen. As the Hindenburg sank, however, it continued to burn furiously. Since there was no hydrogen left, it couldn't be the hydrogen that's continued burning. Rather the SKIN of the ship (which also shouldn't burn) was on fire. That was most likely caused by the sealant.
When nuclear energy first came on to the scene, many people were afraid that contamination could happen from one person to another. Anyone who'd handled nuclear materials or was exposed to such materials, was treat as a lepor.
:-)
Now we have people worried about Hydrogen (which floats UP while it explodes) instead of the far more energy dense gasoline that will continue burning everything after it explodes. Ah, progress.
, do you have any opinions on any of these other players?
:-) Both jlGUI and JamP are execellent options, though. Before iTunes came along, I was just waiting for a few simple features to get added (they were in pre-release form). I expect that both of those should pretty well replicate WinAMP's functionality.
Myself? Not really. I use iTunes most of the time.
Except that the EA employees don't fall into the exemption category.
So let me get this straight. You left the states, where it is illegal to work an employee excessive hours without compensation but is done anyway, for a country where it is illegal to work an employee excessive hours without compensation but it is done anyway. Am I missing something here?
If you look at the links I provided, most of the players feature WinAMP-compatible(TM) skinning. Plugins are a bit more of a problem, but only in so far as they are demanded. If users began demanding WinAMP plugins out of, say JamP, I imagine that the feature would be added immediately.
WinAMP is not that hard to replicate. That's why XMMS exists, and that's why many other players exist. There just hasn't been much push to replace WinAMP on Windows.