The early animated adaptions are excellent - "Soul Music" was very well done, close to the book and I felt captured the spirit. Same people did "Wyrd Sisters", but I haven't seen that.
God yes. I remember when the QuickTimer player changed its volume control from a simple linear slider to a teeny *knob* that you had to rotate with a mouse. It was incredibly painful and easy to get wrong.
I'm still searching for a VOIP app that doesn't try to mimic a cell phone. I guess I should be grateful they don't try and use a rotary dial interface.
I think he made himself pretty unpopular with the establishment, both political and academic in his native Australia - lots of his shorts and some novels are pretty biting in their criticism of Australian policy and culture. As a result he *never* gets mentioned in book reviews here.
Beg to disagree, have been using it as my main client with GMail/IMAP since 4.7.x, working well for that. With 4.9 (have been using the beta) Contacts/Task/Calendar sync with google is working very well too.
Search is still very flaky though, if I have a serious email search to do I drop back to Gmail.
Ditto, except I have the Task bar/launcher on the right, scaled to the size I want - love those SVG icons and Icon-Only Taskbar. And a autohide bottom panel with a activities tab bar.
Its odd, how in your gun toting utopia, the USA, which has regular gun massacres, I'm aware of very few - if *any* instances of one of the concealed carry heroes actually stopping a massacres by shooting the nutter.
Probably because they realise that when push comes to shove - they aren't John Wayne (who was a draft dodging coward anyway), but rather pants pissing blowhards hiding as best as they can.
You mean despite the fact they have *never* said that, in fact quite the reverse - that the use of nuclear weapons is immoral and against the tenets of Isal?
But don't let mere facts get in the way of your knee jerk predjudices.
I've worked with people like that - amazing abilities to take simple concepts/designs and turn them into over engineered buggy pieces of crap. And dev meetings expand from 30 min sprints to 3 hour marathons unless you gag them.
Depends how your windows are setup. I agree that I don't like to read text more than 80 char wide. But I'm also using Eclipse for development and with its tiled window setup its much easer with a widescreen - project view on the left, object/log view on the right, code in the middle.
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The early animated adaptions are excellent - "Soul Music" was very well done, close to the book and I felt captured the spirit. Same people did "Wyrd Sisters", but I haven't seen that.
Like Communism, its an ideology that isn't practiced in reality anywhere. Mainly because the pure forms of both are unworkable and inhumane.
Never heard of it
Or "diaspora" where I belive he had naturally occurring penrose tiles in an alien biology performing turing calculations
Thank god all the IBM Real* stuff died a merciful death. Let us pray it never reincarnates.
God yes. I remember when the QuickTimer player changed its volume control from a simple linear slider to a teeny *knob* that you had to rotate with a mouse. It was incredibly painful and easy to get wrong.
I'm still searching for a VOIP app that doesn't try to mimic a cell phone. I guess I should be grateful they don't try and use a rotary dial interface.
Wordy McWord Word. Loved "Permutation City"
I think he made himself pretty unpopular with the establishment, both political and academic in his native Australia - lots of his shorts and some novels are pretty biting in their criticism of Australian policy and culture. As a result he *never* gets mentioned in book reviews here.
Has anyone dared to install it through a backports PPA on Ubuntu?
Is it something worth doing?
Yes, I've done it - works fine. Backports now has the full 4.9 release.
And Kontact PIM is still a mess.
Beg to disagree, have been using it as my main client with GMail/IMAP since 4.7.x, working well for that. With 4.9 (have been using the beta) Contacts/Task/Calendar sync with google is working very well too.
Search is still very flaky though, if I have a serious email search to do I drop back to Gmail.
Ditto, except I have the Task bar/launcher on the right, scaled to the size I want - love those SVG icons and Icon-Only Taskbar. And a autohide bottom panel with a activities tab bar.
Agrarian lifestyles are very damaging for the environment - fields, irrigation, livestock (especially goats) etc. Hunter/Gather FTW!
The support libraries are great but I had issues with Sherlock, its impressive but there's little quirks here and there. Never quite 100%
Tomatoes and Strawberries have had the taste bred out of them. Heirloom ones taste much better.
damn blurry monitor ...
Well bugger. I stand corrected.
Yes they did, though I haven't tried it yet.
Its odd, how in your gun toting utopia, the USA, which has regular gun massacres, I'm aware of very few - if *any* instances of one of the concealed carry heroes actually stopping a massacres by shooting the nutter.
Probably because they realise that when push comes to shove - they aren't John Wayne (who was a draft dodging coward anyway), but rather pants pissing blowhards hiding as best as they can.
Nope. Smarter.
You mean despite the fact they have *never* said that, in fact quite the reverse - that the use of nuclear weapons is immoral and against the tenets of Isal?
But don't let mere facts get in the way of your knee jerk predjudices.
Keep your used underwear in it. Guaranteed any would be burglar will drop with uncontrollable vomiting withing seconds.
I've worked with people like that - amazing abilities to take simple concepts/designs and turn them into over engineered buggy pieces of crap. And dev meetings expand from 30 min sprints to 3 hour marathons unless you gag them.
Good lord, 30 seconds into that video my brain shut down in self defense. How did he manage to make beer boring?
Depends how your windows are setup. I agree that I don't like to read text more than 80 char wide. But I'm also using Eclipse for development and with its tiled window setup its much easer with a widescreen - project view on the left, object/log view on the right, code in the middle.
Hear that said occasionally, never seen anything to back it up.
If you're on the NBN next year, you will be using Fibre, not Naked DSL.
Do'h! of course you're right ::hangs head in shame::