No help with archives that far back, but if you want to see what your elected representation is up to, I suggest rollcall.com's key votes record". The site in general has a great deal of useful information.
I think that there's two levels of complexity being discussed in this example. You wanted to turn left, so you flicked down the doohickey on the left of the steering wheel. Similarly in Gnome, Windows, Mac, BeOS, etc., if you want to open something you mouse over it and double click. Headlights on the car? Well, it'll be a switch, usually to the left of the driver, either on the dash, or on the turn signal stick. Context menus? Usually on top, either of the window or the screen. The interface to driving is as intuitive as the WIMP interface on a computer. It's the subcontext where the differences start to appear. In X, I can highlight a block of text, and then use Mouse2 to paste it anywhere, in Windows, I have to copy/paste explictly to/from the clipboard. I like focus-follows-mouse, Windows/Mac doesn't. If you know how to drive with a manual transmission, you can do it in any car. You just have to learn how the shift pattern is laid out, and get used to the clutch. The concept of what gear to be in when is still familiar to you.
Interfaces can be (re)learned anyway. When NT came out, you had to learn that CTRL-ALT-DEL was what got you INTO the OS, and that the START menu was what you used to get you OUT of it.;)
I work for an online company
that
produces
a
branded
Internet
network,
a
print
publication,
a computer
product
database
and
television
and
radio
programming
for
both
consumers
and businesses (straight from their blurb. I don't represent them here, so I'll let them remain nameless, but they get referenced in/. articles regularly).
The statistics mentioned in the reply above got me interested, so I went through our logs of activity by user-agent for 2001 and found that the weekly average of MSIE traffic is 86.13% as opposed to the weekly average of Netscape traffic is 10.39%, with the trend towards divergance with MSIE share increasing as Netscape share decreases. I don't know why AOL bought Netscape, but I hope it wasn't to access the Netscape's share of web users. I don't have figures on who uses what ISP, but I'd think that the popularity of AOL combined with the above percentages would indicate that the market comprised of Netscape users who don't already use AOL would be very small, indeed.
Get a job at some behemoth software company then conciously use some GPL'd code in a project that gets released. In a fit of guilt, blow the whistle on yourself and testify at the hearing. You lose your job (all part of the plan, we'll make sure you get more work afterwards) meanwhile the FSF wins $98,000,000 in damages and finally has the bankroll to pursue future infringement cases on its own.
I don't think I'd want to be stuck on the ISS with something a dog let pass because it smelled like "Sparky's Butt".
FWIW, companies who make personal care products like Gillette and Procter & Gamble have people who do all kinds of weird crap to make sure the stuff does what it's supposed to. I remember a Nat'l Geographic article a while back about the sense of smell in general. It featured "armpit sniffers" at a company that did research for P&G in Ohio.
Oh please.
Just in CASE someone's still tracking this damn thread, here's some more information about Charlotte Blackwood and her stint at Miramar.
And I can't believe nobody caught it.
Obvious variable names (count, i, args, etc) can cause a problem with this. I find that using gcc -O2 -S on the source code, and comparing the resulting.s files generally helps to identify unique work.
Further, his vision would result in the deterioration of modern culture because artists would refuse to work at all should their work be given wholesale to the public.
This is the most ridiculous thing I've read in a good long while. The implication that ALL artists, be they authors, musicians, poets, coders, etc. are singularly motivated by profit, is just so patenly absurd that, if it wasn't for the rest of the post, I'd consider it a blatant troll.
How much did you get paid for that little essay you just wrote, that was "given wholesale to the public"? Then again, if it DID happen, the crap I lay down on my 4-track and would be MORE than happy to distribute for exactly jack-squat would constitute the entirety of "modern culture". Heh. Cool.
Somehow I get the feeling that I wouldn't be alone.
Slashdot Mirror
The above list, K&R included, as well as the addtion of Abelson and Sussman's Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. and Harbison and Steele's C: A Reference Manual.
No help with archives that far back, but if you want to see what your elected representation is up to, I suggest rollcall.com's key votes record". The site in general has a great deal of useful information.
Interfaces can be (re)learned anyway. When NT came out, you had to learn that CTRL-ALT-DEL was what got you INTO the OS, and that the START menu was what you used to get you OUT of it. ;)
I hope GAIM pursues the case and wins, but if not, I'd think the switch could be made to GINA with a minimum of confusion and misdirection.
Altho, technically, it'd be "GINA is not AIM".
Does anybody REALLY think they're going to implement P3P as it's defined by the W3C?
Truly, Brahmagupta is the father of modern computing. I don't see him mentioned at all.
Duh.
The statistics mentioned in the reply above got me interested, so I went through our logs of activity by user-agent for 2001 and found that the weekly average of MSIE traffic is 86.13% as opposed to the weekly average of Netscape traffic is 10.39%, with the trend towards divergance with MSIE share increasing as Netscape share decreases. I don't know why AOL bought Netscape, but I hope it wasn't to access the Netscape's share of web users. I don't have figures on who uses what ISP, but I'd think that the popularity of AOL combined with the above percentages would indicate that the market comprised of Netscape users who don't already use AOL would be very small, indeed.
This does not assume base 10.
Get a job at some behemoth software company then conciously use some GPL'd code in a project that gets released. In a fit of guilt, blow the whistle on yourself and testify at the hearing. You lose your job (all part of the plan, we'll make sure you get more work afterwards) meanwhile the FSF wins $98,000,000 in damages and finally has the bankroll to pursue future infringement cases on its own.
FWIW, companies who make personal care products like Gillette and Procter & Gamble have people who do all kinds of weird crap to make sure the stuff does what it's supposed to. I remember a Nat'l Geographic article a while back about the sense of smell in general. It featured "armpit sniffers" at a company that did research for P&G in Ohio.
Oh please.
Just in CASE someone's still tracking this damn thread, here's some more information about Charlotte Blackwood and her stint at Miramar.
And I can't believe nobody caught it.
For data like this it'd be pretty damn simple to use octave/gnuplot to whip out a nice graph using Linux.
Xerox' GUI? it's bloody goddamn well EVERYWHERE. There's not a GUI out there today that's not descended from it. See HERE, for a bit more edification.
This is the most ridiculous thing I've read in a good long while. The implication that ALL artists, be they authors, musicians, poets, coders, etc. are singularly motivated by profit, is just so patenly absurd that, if it wasn't for the rest of the post, I'd consider it a blatant troll.
How much did you get paid for that little essay you just wrote, that was "given wholesale to the public"?
Then again, if it DID happen, the crap I lay down on my 4-track and would be MORE than happy to distribute for exactly jack-squat would constitute the entirety of "modern culture". Heh. Cool.
Somehow I get the feeling that I wouldn't be alone.
We could just call it LiGNUX and get it over with.
"osh" is already the "Orchestrate Shell", owned by Torrent Systems.
I kinda like ONS myself.