appalled? No. Grateful, YES. Apple realized there is no excuse for keeping such a crappy techology alive. There are too many things that are: A) Smaller, B) Easier to interface with, C) Much more reliable, D) Faster.
If you really need small portable storage grab a 64M USB keychain drive. Or even a USB Compact Flash/Smart Media/Memory Stick/Secure Digital reader and some media. Whatever you get will be faster, more reliable, and big enough to do something useful with.
The fact that my iBook did NOT even have the option of a floppy drive was a selling point. Death to the evil floppies!
Ever heard of a little thing called The Internet? Or hell, even Meat Space(tm)? Those are the roads. The software everybody seems to be so worried about is mearly an accessory to your "car". Try as you might a BMW part isn't going to fit a GM engine, but they'll both get you around.
Similarly, once you know how to drive, it takes no effort to switch from IE to Mozilla to IE/Mac to Konqueror/embeded. Whatever the shape of the volume knob you can still print stuff. Whatever color the title bar you can still find your favorite station.
It really isn't as dire as those who are afraid to try it claim.
WTF would care about Microsoft, they blow hard. If you want to talk about playing catch-up go look at quartz exteme, though you'll probably want a new G4 first.
Currently the only thing preventing Linux from taking the desktop market, is the fact that the currently Linux interface doesnt look polished enough,
You have at least seen screenshots for KDE3 havn't you? It looks much better than XP, and tends to behave more consistantly. Again you're barking up the wrong tree.
Why buy a Linux dell laptop for college when you can get an Ibook thats just as powerful but better?
I can't think of a reason. iBooks kick ass as a Linux laptop. Next to OSX E+Gnome or KDE seem lightning fast, I still run fluxbox though. You get WORKING sleep support too. I have to laugh every time I a a PC user with a Dell, etc, shutdown his laptop before he leaves, or boot it up before he can use it. My iBook stays up for weeks at a time, mostly sleeping, and is ready to use in a few seconds(
X is now one of Linux's biggest bottlenecks, along with the fact that they have no music apps
What is a "music app" I must ask? I'd imagine it to be something that plays music. I'm sure I have half a dozen installed, though I usually only use XMMS.
and not enough file sharing apps.
Well of course, because no computer could posibly be useful unless you're committing a felony with it. Uh-huh.
For the recond, ghostscript isn't in the same class when it comes to PDF creation as distiller. It tends to produce larger files and have font anomolies and other cosmetic blemishes. For most things it's more than enough though. I have a "PDF" printer setup on my (Samba, exim, imap, ldap,......) server which just drops the PDF on a shared drive with the users name. I havn't gotten around to force-feeding the Adobe PS drivers into Samba so installing the printer on a system takes a few more clicks, but for most uses it's good enough.
Actually, most of our "You will use Acrobat with these and ONLY these settings" situations have resolved themselves thanks to server-side Word.doc handling at the recievers. So I probably don't have to worry about upgrading Acrobat, or buying any more licences.
Oh, is that all it is? For the love of $DIETY use a domain and save yourself all sorts of pain, this included. Samba or NT/2k hosted it doesn't matter, ut get those systems domained.
Find somebody who knows how to use AutoCAD and be educated on how GUI & command-line are not mutually exclusive concepts. AutoCAD has the GUI for all gui bits, but still has a command line for when it's easier and saner (think typing in desired dimensions instead of trying to fake it with a mouse) to type things in. As most people can type faster than they can take their eyes off what their working on, move the mouse to the top of the screen and guess at which icon is which it also seems to be great for switching tools & modes quickly.
More programs really should allow that sort of functionallity. Now I have to see if anybody is working on it for The Gimp.:)
So how exactly do you "govern" ([wordnet] govern v 1: impose regulations on) "without a "creeping hand of government intrusion"?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Or did you mean "the government needs to go hold down the populace so we can take their money?"
do you have to reveal the algorithms you come up with or is a working prototype sufficient ?
how detailed do those feasability reports you have to submit back to them have to be ?
Well, we deal with materials so it's more along the lines of "uh, yeah, we think we might be able to actually produce a little bit of material with these properties, if you give us more money (Phase II)." I'm not sure big the monthly reports are, but the finals are generally 30-60 pages with lots of pictures.
I work for a small research company that does a lot of stuff for the DoD.(Ok, I work when I'm not trolling slashdot, really.) Every so often, it varies by the branch, they throw out a big list(think 3" book) technologies they want. It's very public . I assure you very little, if anything from those solicitations works. Most of the work we do is evaluating if some methods of attacking a problem are even remotely plasable. Once some small fry like us proves it do-able, and reasonable then they'll usually throw it to one of the "Big Boys", Raytheon etc, to turn into something they can directly use.
Bottom line, the miliary wants lots of things, most of them would make a Sci-Fi author giggle.
You must type very slowly and havn't realized that you can type abreviations just as well as you can write them, and get the same time savings. More than that, if you really want you can setup the software on the computer to take your abreviations to spell them out completely so when you're done you have a message readable by anybody without any effort. With handwritten abreviations the reader will have to slow down and figure out what you meant by that incomplete chicken scratch unless they're familiar with your shorthand.
All well and good but it doesn't get you anything beyond a big table. You could probably do it much easier with simple perl array of array references and whatever the native dump nethod is called.
I looked into it at one point but there was no way to throw out chart definitions so all it would get me is a conversion from one list of numbers to another. Again, with more complex code than a CSV dump.
Yes, I have looked at AvtiveState Perl and their Excel binding but couldn't find the free version on their site. I figure if they don't want me to find it I don't really need to bother looking.
Unless I'm mistaken the new console layer handles that too. Each console will get an input stream with keyboard, mouse, etc mixed together. Even if it doesn't do that, or X doesn't use it you should be able to set something up with the hotplug scripts to laydown appropriate symlinks based on bus topology.
Now that I think of it, I havn't been getting linux-console messages for a while. I guess that one was subscribed with the old email too.
Because Hydrogen is a bitch to store in any useful quantities. Now Methanol, or ethanol are much easier to handle and it isn't that hard to run a fuel cell on them anymore.
We're going to bomb Iraq next. Well, unless another Palesinian suicide bomber beats us to the punch. I'd hope their leadership would know better though.
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appalled? No. Grateful, YES. Apple realized there is no excuse for keeping such a crappy techology alive. There are too many things that are: A) Smaller, B) Easier to interface with, C) Much more reliable, D) Faster.
If you really need small portable storage grab a 64M USB keychain drive. Or even a USB Compact Flash/Smart Media/Memory Stick/Secure Digital reader and some media. Whatever you get will be faster, more reliable, and big enough to do something useful with.
The fact that my iBook did NOT even have the option of a floppy drive was a selling point. Death to the evil floppies!
- RustyTaco
Ever heard of a little thing called The Internet? Or hell, even Meat Space(tm)? Those are the roads. The software everybody seems to be so worried about is mearly an accessory to your "car". Try as you might a BMW part isn't going to fit a GM engine, but they'll both get you around.
Similarly, once you know how to drive, it takes no effort to switch from IE to Mozilla to IE/Mac to Konqueror/embeded. Whatever the shape of the volume knob you can still print stuff. Whatever color the title bar you can still find your favorite station.
It really isn't as dire as those who are afraid to try it claim.
- RustyTaco
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- RustyTaco
- RustyTaco
You have at least seen screenshots for KDE3 havn't you? It looks much better than XP, and tends to behave more consistantly. Again you're barking up the wrong tree.
I can't think of a reason. iBooks kick ass as a Linux laptop. Next to OSX E+Gnome or KDE seem lightning fast, I still run fluxbox though. You get WORKING sleep support too. I have to laugh every time I a a PC user with a Dell, etc, shutdown his laptop before he leaves, or boot it up before he can use it. My iBook stays up for weeks at a time, mostly sleeping, and is ready to use in a few seconds(
What is a "music app" I must ask? I'd imagine it to be something that plays music. I'm sure I have half a dozen installed, though I usually only use XMMS.
Well of course, because no computer could posibly be useful unless you're committing a felony with it. Uh-huh.
- RustyTaco
For the recond, ghostscript isn't in the same class when it comes to PDF creation as distiller. It tends to produce larger files and have font anomolies and other cosmetic blemishes. For most things it's more than enough though. I have a "PDF" printer setup on my (Samba, exim, imap, ldap,......) server which just drops the PDF on a shared drive with the users name. I havn't gotten around to force-feeding the Adobe PS drivers into Samba so installing the printer on a system takes a few more clicks, but for most uses it's good enough.
Actually, most of our "You will use Acrobat with these and ONLY these settings" situations have resolved themselves thanks to server-side Word.doc handling at the recievers. So I probably don't have to worry about upgrading Acrobat, or buying any more licences.
- RustyTaco
Oh, is that all it is? For the love of $DIETY use a domain and save yourself all sorts of pain, this included. Samba or NT/2k hosted it doesn't matter, ut get those systems domained.
- RustyTaco
But neither RedHat, nor Mandrake have 10,000+ packages on 12+ architectures. SuSE comes closest, but I think loses out on package quality.
It's not apt that's all that impressive. It's the massive worldwide network of mirrors serving up more software than you'd care to comprehend.
- RustyTaco
Find somebody who knows how to use AutoCAD and be educated on how GUI & command-line are not mutually exclusive concepts. AutoCAD has the GUI for all gui bits, but still has a command line for when it's easier and saner (think typing in desired dimensions instead of trying to fake it with a mouse) to type things in. As most people can type faster than they can take their eyes off what their working on, move the mouse to the top of the screen and guess at which icon is which it also seems to be great for switching tools & modes quickly. :)
More programs really should allow that sort of functionallity. Now I have to see if anybody is working on it for The Gimp.
- RustyTaco
So how exactly do you "govern" ([wordnet] govern v 1: impose regulations on) "without a "creeping hand of government intrusion"?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Or did you mean "the government needs to go hold down the populace so we can take their money?"
- RustyTaco
Run any of the above mentioned filters from your .procmailrc.
- RustyTaco
- RustyTaco
I work for a small research company that does a lot of stuff for the DoD.(Ok, I work when I'm not trolling slashdot, really.) Every so often, it varies by the branch, they throw out a big list(think 3" book) technologies they want. It's very public . I assure you very little, if anything from those solicitations works. Most of the work we do is evaluating if some methods of attacking a problem are even remotely plasable. Once some small fry like us proves it do-able, and reasonable then they'll usually throw it to one of the "Big Boys", Raytheon etc, to turn into something they can directly use.
Bottom line, the miliary wants lots of things, most of them would make a Sci-Fi author giggle.
- RustyTaco
I was thinking the exact same thing. I kept having to stop and think to myself: "PaInts, not pants"
Digital Pants(tm) activate!
Hmm, must be an IRQ conflict.
- RustyTaco
- RustyTaco
You must type very slowly and havn't realized that you can type abreviations just as well as you can write them, and get the same time savings. More than that, if you really want you can setup the software on the computer to take your abreviations to spell them out completely so when you're done you have a message readable by anybody without any effort. With handwritten abreviations the reader will have to slow down and figure out what you meant by that incomplete chicken scratch unless they're familiar with your shorthand.
- RustyTaco
All well and good but it doesn't get you anything beyond a big table. You could probably do it much easier with simple perl array of array references and whatever the native dump nethod is called.
I looked into it at one point but there was no way to throw out chart definitions so all it would get me is a conversion from one list of numbers to another. Again, with more complex code than a CSV dump.
Yes, I have looked at AvtiveState Perl and their Excel binding but couldn't find the free version on their site. I figure if they don't want me to find it I don't really need to bother looking.
- Rusty Taco
Damn, I missed some.
- RustyTaco
It wasn't "FFS! FOAD!", you should be thrilled.
- RustyTaco
Unless I'm mistaken the new console layer handles that too. Each console will get an input stream with keyboard, mouse, etc mixed together. Even if it doesn't do that, or X doesn't use it you should be able to set something up with the hotplug scripts to laydown appropriate symlinks based on bus topology.
Now that I think of it, I havn't been getting linux-console messages for a while. I guess that one was subscribed with the old email too.
- RustyTaco
Well, they have too. Those "better news sites" don't allow you the freedom to troll.
- RustyTaco
Because Hydrogen is a bitch to store in any useful quantities. Now Methanol, or ethanol are much easier to handle and it isn't that hard to run a fuel cell on them anymore.
- RustyTaco
Yes, they had some good ideas there were going to let rot so Jobs et al ran with them and made something better.
Now, can you find an example after that? Say, maybe in the last 15 YEARS?
- RustyTaco
We're going to bomb Iraq next. Well, unless another Palesinian suicide bomber beats us to the punch. I'd hope their leadership would know better though.
- RustyTaco