You just made my point. Thank you. There is no application on a real desk. You are not using the desktop metaphor at all.
The desktop metaphor deals with files and folders. It is data driven, not application driven. Why should you care about an application? The application is just there to allow you to work with the important stuff, the data.
So if you were to use a desktop metaphor rather than an application launch metaphor, you would have a bunch of folders on your desktop which contained your files and you would go to the folder and file you required and open the file, and whichever application was required would automatically start. You may not know and should not have to care which application it actually is.
Windows doesn't have one, it has been totally subverted. Windows has an "application launching" metaphor.
Nobody uses the desktop metaphor on Windows, they use the start menu to find the application they want then they open a file and find the file they want from within the application.
Or they click on the application icon on the desktop... Now there's a WTF. Then open a file using the application.
I don't know anyone who uses the Windows Desktop as a desktop...
Apple, Gnome, XFCE OTOH all get it right. Last time I looked KDE tended to do the windows thing.
My parents have an old house with large panes of single glazing in two of their front rooms. They'd always been cold. One winter it was -5 outside, not soo cold, but the heating was going full blast and it was *still* below the thermostat setting inside.
I calculated that more than 10kW (closer to 12) was going out through the window glass.
I ordered a few square meters of clear acrylic sheeting which has better optical qualities than glass and spent a weekend installing DIY secondary glazing on the window frames.
Instant improvement to the two rooms. Cost 250GBP for several (8) large windows. The payback period about 3 years.
Putting commercially fitted double or triple glazing in would have cost 20k GBP with a payback period of 20 years to never, which is why they'd never bothered.
Here's the moral of the story.
1. Energy is dirt cheap. 2. Insulation is not.
What I want is something like a cheap spray on aerogel which I can spray onto (anything) the exterior of my house (solid walls). The alternative is internal insulation with all the mould and condensation problems associated.
That is a battle which was lost 20 years ago
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A lot of our problems today would not be here if.
OSI stack instead of TCP/IP. DCE & DFS instead of passwd/whatever + the bastard abomination which is NFS.
Meh. People are lazy and cheap. Free with the network effect always wins. The Lowest Common Denominator. It's going to take another 15 years before we are near where we were 15 years ago. But this time it will be in Java!
I mean, really. What are they being paid for? The author writes a book, presumably in digital form... ebook publisher does exactly what before posting it into the Apple store or Amazon? Sprinkle fairy dust on it?
I can see the need for an editor to proofread and make some quality suggestions, so freelance or editing companies, but then? Advertising? Google Ads...
CFL vs LED vs incandescent is completely irrelevant on an energy conservation or greenhouse gas argument.
HEAT is the problem. We spend 60% of our energy creating or moving heat. Which is ironic because around 70% of the output of our power stations is "waste" heat which is normally dumped.
Space heating. Water heating. Air conditioning.
Cheap, high quality, high performance, easy to use insulators would make the single largest difference to world energy consumption after District Heating and Cooling are installed.
If you have an identified account and an identified choice, you can use various collaborative filtering techniques to suggest the autotags for a site. You have sets of shared bayesian statistics with those who have tagged sites similarly having greater weight than those who didn't.
Google's real problem is anonymity. The reputation of the link spammer is the same as a legitimate linker.
Take a look at.COM for example. DNS is now basically flat, despite the original intent..COM is a great big flat hosts table.
DNS is an attempt to categorise networks, companies, services etc..COM for commercial,.US for American,.ORG for non profit organisations,.PRO for professionals (LOL). The problem is it's hierarchical, and categorising all the people, services, networks companies in the world doesn't work in a hierarchy. I need to be in.DE,.PRO,.NAME,.CO.UK etc. Duplication of information. People have just decided to use.COM instead and include some keywords in the name. It's simpler.
Naming, classification is relational rather than hierarchical. We need a replacement name resolution service. DNS will continue to creak under the inappropriate uses we put it to day.
Their phones are already subsidised everywhere, and the US market isn't unified. It's owned by the carriers who have carved it up into fiefdoms, you can't be exclusive with them all.
They also totally missed the boat with touch screens. Even now, the touch screen phones don't quite match up with the iPhone. That may be a cultural thing, Europeans are less "consumers" than Americans, so keyboards matter.
Let people tag sites they've found as a result of a search. Build a tagging system which will allow people to exclude linkspam for example.
I've set up Bayesian tagging for my email client and it works quite well, all my mails come in pre tagged, pretty much 99% accurately, only an occasional one comes through with an incorrect tag these days.
I'm aware of the processing overhead involved... which is what the Google Toolbar is for. Or should I have patented this idea first? Maybe they could just buy Stumbleupon.
Many humans can't understand the dialect from my native region, the efforts of every speech recognition system I have come across so far has been laughably pitiful.
Note, you can personally improve computers understanding of swearing in many languages at voxforge: http://www.voxforge.org/ my last hope.
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You just made my point. Thank you. There is no application on a real desk. You are not using the desktop metaphor at all.
The desktop metaphor deals with files and folders. It is data driven, not application driven. Why should you care about an application? The application is just there to allow you to work with the important stuff, the data.
So if you were to use a desktop metaphor rather than an application launch metaphor, you would have a bunch of folders on your desktop which contained your files and you would go to the folder and file you required and open the file, and whichever application was required would automatically start. You may not know and should not have to care which application it actually is.
Windows doesn't have one, it has been totally subverted. Windows has an "application launching" metaphor.
Nobody uses the desktop metaphor on Windows, they use the start menu to find the application they want then they open a file and find the file they want from within the application.
Or they click on the application icon on the desktop... Now there's a WTF. Then open a file using the application.
I don't know anyone who uses the Windows Desktop as a desktop...
Apple, Gnome, XFCE OTOH all get it right. Last time I looked KDE tended to do the windows thing.
They just don't want 100,000 fart apps, or the kinds of developers who really can't do anything more than produce fart apps.
I mean, are you just a "fart app developer"?
My parents have an old house with large panes of single glazing in two of their front rooms. They'd always been cold. One winter it was -5 outside, not soo cold, but the heating was going full blast and it was *still* below the thermostat setting inside.
I calculated that more than 10kW (closer to 12) was going out through the window glass.
I ordered a few square meters of clear acrylic sheeting which has better optical qualities than glass and spent a weekend installing DIY secondary glazing on the window frames.
Instant improvement to the two rooms. Cost 250GBP for several (8) large windows. The payback period about 3 years.
Putting commercially fitted double or triple glazing in would have cost 20k GBP with a payback period of 20 years to never, which is why they'd never bothered.
Here's the moral of the story.
1. Energy is dirt cheap.
2. Insulation is not.
What I want is something like a cheap spray on aerogel which I can spray onto (anything) the exterior of my house (solid walls). The alternative is internal insulation with all the mould and condensation problems associated.
A lot of our problems today would not be here if.
OSI stack instead of TCP/IP.
DCE & DFS instead of passwd/whatever + the bastard abomination which is NFS.
Meh. People are lazy and cheap. Free with the network effect always wins. The Lowest Common Denominator. It's going to take another 15 years before we are near where we were 15 years ago. But this time it will be in Java!
I mean, really. What are they being paid for? The author writes a book, presumably in digital form... ebook publisher does exactly what before posting it into the Apple store or Amazon? Sprinkle fairy dust on it?
I can see the need for an editor to proofread and make some quality suggestions, so freelance or editing companies, but then? Advertising? Google Ads...
and?
Buh bye publishing houses.
CFL vs LED vs incandescent is completely irrelevant on an energy conservation or greenhouse gas argument.
HEAT is the problem. We spend 60% of our energy creating or moving heat. Which is ironic because around 70% of the output of our power stations is "waste" heat which is normally dumped.
Space heating.
Water heating.
Air conditioning.
Cheap, high quality, high performance, easy to use insulators would make the single largest difference to world energy consumption after District Heating and Cooling are installed.
Think aerogels, but cheap and easy.
Huge organisation. If they kill that, the bottom line will look *great* for about 2 years.
I'm a Scot living in Germany.
And .DE is broken in exactly the same way as .COM for the same reason. .DE is simply the flat German national hosts file... Everything German.
If you have an identified account and an identified choice, you can use various collaborative filtering techniques to suggest the autotags for a site. You have sets of shared bayesian statistics with those who have tagged sites similarly having greater weight than those who didn't.
Google's real problem is anonymity. The reputation of the link spammer is the same as a legitimate linker.
We outgrew hosts files.
We've outgrown DNS as well.
Take a look at .COM for example. DNS is now basically flat, despite the original intent. .COM is a great big flat hosts table.
DNS is an attempt to categorise networks, companies, services etc. .COM for commercial, .US for American, .ORG for non profit organisations, .PRO for professionals (LOL). The problem is it's hierarchical, and categorising all the people, services, networks companies in the world doesn't work in a hierarchy. I need to be in .DE, .PRO, .NAME, .CO.UK etc. Duplication of information. People have just decided to use .COM instead and include some keywords in the name. It's simpler.
Naming, classification is relational rather than hierarchical. We need a replacement name resolution service. DNS will continue to creak under the inappropriate uses we put it to day.
No? Too simple? Or can OCR software simply not read the serial numbers printed on the notes?
Ah wait. They want to be able to do it clandestinely... I see...
Depends, if the user is identifiable, now, doesn't it.
Come on, this is the 21st century, not the 20th.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_key_certificate#Client_certificates
No. It was a comment meant to be funny. Get a sense of humour installed. I think Debian have one in their repo.
Pretty much constantly.
Their phones are already subsidised everywhere, and the US market isn't unified. It's owned by the carriers who have carved it up into fiefdoms, you can't be exclusive with them all.
They also totally missed the boat with touch screens. Even now, the touch screen phones don't quite match up with the iPhone. That may be a cultural thing, Europeans are less "consumers" than Americans, so keyboards matter.
Let people tag sites they've found as a result of a search. Build a tagging system which will allow people to exclude linkspam for example.
I've set up Bayesian tagging for my email client and it works quite well, all my mails come in pre tagged, pretty much 99% accurately, only an occasional one comes through with an incorrect tag these days.
I'm aware of the processing overhead involved... which is what the Google Toolbar is for. Or should I have patented this idea first? Maybe they could just buy Stumbleupon.
Prostitution?
But without locking or versioning. That'll work a treat. Fastest finger wins.
Sorry, forgot, we get to spend our lives on conference calls now, we can all play distributed lock manager. Like dungeons and dragons but corporate.
Drugs?
Boy, you jumped right into that one.
I don't see what all the fuss is about.
It's not like Australia's defence forces really matter.
China decide they want Australia's coal, gas, uranium and other mineral wealth, they're just going to roll in and take it.
Or exchange it for cheap crap the way the Americans did.
Many humans can't understand the dialect from my native region, the efforts of every speech recognition system I have come across so far has been laughably pitiful.
Note, you can personally improve computers understanding of swearing in many languages at voxforge: http://www.voxforge.org/ my last hope.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio_Gesell
wtf? Same speakers, why would you bother?
"It doesn't have to be expensive to be good enough."
I'd agree with that.
Linn kit is in the $50,000-$150,000 range. Is it worth it? Not to me, but to someone earning a bundle more than I am, it might.