Because: - The task bar doesn't scale well to large numbers of tasks. Why have 10 browser windows in my task bar, forcing all the others to squish up or (even worse) group together, when I can give the browser pages their own tab bar, separate from the rest of my work. - Many people don't have a task bar because they don't like to waste the screen estate (I run with one on auto-hide) or are using a WM without one. - Opening a tab in the background doesn't interfere with my view of the current window like opening a new window can - Switching between browser windows on the task bar means two steps - filter out the non-browser tasks, then select the correct browser window using the small amount of information available on the task bar. Switching on the tab bar requires one step - select tab based on title/icon displayed in tab.
The level of slashdot drops again. Imagine the algorithm to choose a random song:
1) Generate random number, X 2) select Xth track and read from disk 3) play track X 4) Repeat
Do you think this could possibly be replaced by:
1) generate N random numbers (where N is the playlist length), as a list X1...XN. We could refer to this as a, erm, playlist maybe. 2) select and read as many songs from the 'random' playlist, just like a normal playlist. 3) play the tracks 4) go back to 2 when the cache runs out.
Building a really good UI requires a lot of time and experimentation.
A little knowledge does go a long way though - I'd suggest reading the Humane Interface(Jef Raskin), About Face 2.0(Alan Cooper) and The Design of Everyday Things(Donald Norman) for a start. They aren't bibles, but they contain a lot of ideas and ways of thinking about UIs that aren't obvious otherwise.
My favourite UI quote (from About Face 2.0) - "However cool your interface is, less of it is always better."
Surely running on shuffle can't use that much more power - all the iPod has to do is preselect the random songs, read them into cache and then spin down. It might need a bit more seeking, but that can't use that much power compared to spinning the disk. It's not like the iPod doesn't know what song it's going to randomly play next.
google is your friend:
From here:
Sound Recordings and broadcast programmes are 50 years from the end of the calendar year in which work was created/released. Everything else, including the copyright of the actual music, is life+70 years, or "an insane length of time" as I like to call it.
I used to do that too in the earlier versions. Why bother with heart beat sensors and reading the intelligence, I'm probably going to have to try the level several times anyway and can learn where the terrorists are that way.
I've always disliked that kind of thing - it's the reason I like the lack of quick save on most console games. If you have to repeat the last five minutes of level just to get to that point again, you're going to be much more careful.
The reviews of his next game, Universal combat didn't look any better. So we have a bad game developer with a huge ego and online-Tourettes syndrome trying to buy the rights to one of my favourite space games of all time. Just great.
I think his point is that to make Word not painfully annoying to use he has to go and disable the autocorrect, because it's on by default, not that the software forces you to do it to start using the software.
Erm, of course it is. Compiling your own software:
- doesn't resolve dependencies - requires dev headers installed - takes forever - results in cryptic error messages on failure - has no uninstall - is confusing for many experienced users, let alone newbies - often requires cryptic options (--enable-foo etc)
I've used linux for years and I still consider installing from source a last resort. It may have more geek-cred, but that doesn't make it a good thing.
Yes, but does anyone do anything serious in standard Prolog? I found even using Eclipse's (www.icparc.ic.ac.uk/eclipse) extended Prolog, with all the extra functional features just too damn fiddly, even for something well suited to solution by Prolog-like techniques (optimal scheduling).
Terrorists communicated over the internet using free computer access open to anyone! How terrible! What next - terrorists found to use public roads to drive car bombs? Won't somebody think of the children? Are terrorists really going to leave "www.bomb-making.com" in the browser history? Are they just going to arrest everyone who visits anonymizer.com or uses SSL?
Those are exactly the questions I'd like to know. I use Debian (Desktop, testing) and OpenNA (server) at the moment. They're both fast and easy to use. Finding any information about the differences not written by a zealot on one side or the other of the BSD/Linux divide is very hard.
It would be nice to have an up to date list comparing actual facts and figures like X11 performance, disk benchmarks, boot and application start up times, hardware support etc. so that users can make an informed decision rather than going with which ever has the loudest zealots.
Maybe I'll have a go at it if I find a spare hard drive.
What an awful idea. The main reason people want to listen to CDs on their computer is so they can have music on while they work. If they have to reboot the machine to play the CD, how do I get any work done?
You don't use shells very often then I guess. Those funny line things are backslashes used to escape the next character - in this case, a space. go read the article.
I think a large BF1942 game (CTF or conquest) would be much more fun to watch than a counterstrike game. You'd need human 'cameramen' to follow the action, but big open firefights with vehicles and aircraft thrown in would be interesting - certainly, skimming round the map during a game in spectator mode is fun. You'd have to limit the number of sniper lamers though. Every game of counterstrike I've played has degenerated into everyone blasting away and bunnyhopping around one corner in a corridor. Boring to play, let alone watch.
How is that any more or less valid than any other religious belief? Should we ignore all Christian people because they believe someone walked on water? Or muslims because they do streching exercises every day as a form of prayer to their god?
Just because a religion sounds silly to you doesn't make it any less valid than any other religion.
Plagarism in academic work is taken very seriously - a threat of writing to the theater guys' supervisors would probably have got you a credit quick enough. Presumably you have enough sketches etc to prove you designed the interface?
Ever considered getting a new job? Of course a customer doesn't care how much something costs to make - it's the value to them that's important, not what it cost you. If somebody is prepared to pay $200 for something, then it's worth $200. The amount it costs to make is irrelevant. It's the same in every industry.
I see OSS as the level of software that the community can acheive by itself. If you want to sell something to people, you have to provide something that they can't or aren't prepared to do themselves.
For example, do professional decorators complain that some people are prepared to wallpaper their own houses? By doing it themselves they're stealing money from the decorating industry! No, decorators make money by being quicker and better at the job than an average person could be.
It's the same with software. If a company can't produce a product significantly better than that which the community can make by itself, then it doesn't deserve to make any money.
But if a company funds the report it's advertising, not a factual report.
None of the articles contain much in the way of evidence or facts, they are just FUD. By showing that they are paid for by the company with most to lose from OSS you prove that they are just paid adverts for commercial software.
Honestly, if a hacker comes on, get the guy kicked, otherwise there's 10,000 other servers to play on
But how do you know they're cheating? Did that person use a wallhack to see you round the corner or did he just hear your footsteps? I'm sure some people can get headshots everytime without a cheat - do we kick them too because they may be cheating?
I agree that good admins are essential for a good server. A non-adminned BF1942 server will soon degenerate into a TKing, base-raping, vehicle stealing mess - with admins, those people get kicked pretty quick. But it's not so easy to admin for cheats.
I use spamassassin on my mail server (procmail pipe |/usr/bin/spamassasin -a) and I see around one spam a week in my inbox, the other 400 go straight to mail/Spam. I haven't had a false positive in the last three months. The trick is to store up spams that get through to your inbox and then occasionally run sa-learn --spam on them.
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Because:
- The task bar doesn't scale well to large numbers of tasks. Why have 10 browser windows in my task bar, forcing all the others to squish up or (even worse) group together, when I can give the browser pages their own tab bar, separate from the rest of my work.
- Many people don't have a task bar because they don't like to waste the screen estate (I run with one on auto-hide) or are using a WM without one.
- Opening a tab in the background doesn't interfere with my view of the current window like opening a new window can
- Switching between browser windows on the task bar means two steps - filter out the non-browser tasks, then select the correct browser window using the small amount of information available on the task bar. Switching on the tab bar requires one step - select tab based on title/icon displayed in tab.
The level of slashdot drops again. Imagine the algorithm to choose a random song:
1) Generate random number, X
2) select Xth track and read from disk
3) play track X
4) Repeat
Do you think this could possibly be replaced by:
1) generate N random numbers (where N is the playlist length), as a list X1...XN. We could refer to this as a, erm, playlist maybe.
2) select and read as many songs from the 'random' playlist, just like a normal playlist.
3) play the tracks
4) go back to 2 when the cache runs out.
Building a really good UI requires a lot of time and experimentation.
A little knowledge does go a long way though - I'd suggest reading the Humane Interface(Jef Raskin), About Face 2.0(Alan Cooper) and The Design of Everyday Things(Donald Norman) for a start. They aren't bibles, but they contain a lot of ideas and ways of thinking about UIs that aren't obvious otherwise.
My favourite UI quote (from About Face 2.0) - "However cool your interface is, less of it is always better."
Surely running on shuffle can't use that much more power - all the iPod has to do is preselect the random songs, read them into cache and then spin down. It might need a bit more seeking, but that can't use that much power compared to spinning the disk.
It's not like the iPod doesn't know what song it's going to randomly play next.
google is your friend: From here: Sound Recordings and broadcast programmes are 50 years from the end of the calendar year in which work was created/released. Everything else, including the copyright of the actual music, is life+70 years, or "an insane length of time" as I like to call it.
I used to do that too in the earlier versions. Why bother with heart beat sensors and reading the intelligence, I'm probably going to have to try the level several times anyway and can learn where the terrorists are that way.
I've always disliked that kind of thing - it's the reason I like the lack of quick save on most console games. If you have to repeat the last five minutes of level just to get to that point again, you're going to be much more careful.
shutdown because I don't piss around when it comes to IP properties'."
I assume he'll be getting the money for the court case from an ATM Machine after entering his PIN Number.
The reviews of his next game, Universal combat didn't look any better.
So we have a bad game developer with a huge ego and online-Tourettes syndrome trying to buy the rights to one of my favourite space games of all time. Just great.
I think his point is that to make Word not painfully annoying to use he has to go and disable the autocorrect, because it's on by default, not that the software forces you to do it to start using the software.
Erm, of course it is. Compiling your own software:
- doesn't resolve dependencies
- requires dev headers installed
- takes forever
- results in cryptic error messages on failure
- has no uninstall
- is confusing for many experienced users, let alone newbies
- often requires cryptic options (--enable-foo etc)
I've used linux for years and I still consider installing from source a last resort. It may have more geek-cred, but that doesn't make it a good thing.
Yes, but does anyone do anything serious in standard Prolog? I found even using Eclipse's (www.icparc.ic.ac.uk/eclipse) extended Prolog, with all the extra functional features just too damn fiddly, even for something well suited to solution by Prolog-like techniques (optimal scheduling).
Terrorists communicated over the internet using free computer access open to anyone! How terrible! What next - terrorists found to use public roads to drive car bombs? Won't somebody think of the children?
Are terrorists really going to leave "www.bomb-making.com" in the browser history? Are they just going to arrest everyone who visits anonymizer.com or uses SSL?
Those are exactly the questions I'd like to know. I use Debian (Desktop, testing) and OpenNA (server) at the moment. They're both fast and easy to use. Finding any information about the differences not written by a zealot on one side or the other of the BSD/Linux divide is very hard.
It would be nice to have an up to date list comparing actual facts and figures like X11 performance, disk benchmarks, boot and application start up times, hardware support etc. so that users can make an informed decision rather than going with which ever has the loudest zealots.
Maybe I'll have a go at it if I find a spare hard drive.
What an awful idea. The main reason people want to listen to CDs on their computer is so they can have music on while they work. If they have to reboot the machine to play the CD, how do I get any work done?
They weren't out to fix the AE-35 unit by any chance I hope.
You don't use shells very often then I guess. Those funny line things are backslashes used to escape the next character - in this case, a space. go read the article.
I think a large BF1942 game (CTF or conquest) would be much more fun to watch than a counterstrike game. You'd need human 'cameramen' to follow the action, but big open firefights with vehicles and aircraft thrown in would be interesting - certainly, skimming round the map during a game in spectator mode is fun. You'd have to limit the number of sniper lamers though.
Every game of counterstrike I've played has degenerated into everyone blasting away and bunnyhopping around one corner in a corridor. Boring to play, let alone watch.
Better make sure you're a Freeman first, otherwise driving cattle is illegal between 10am and 7pm. I kid you not.
Exactly. I just didn't want to sound too rude.
How is that any more or less valid than any other religious belief? Should we ignore all Christian people because they believe someone walked on water? Or muslims because they do streching exercises every day as a form of prayer to their god?
Just because a religion sounds silly to you doesn't make it any less valid than any other religion.
Plagarism in academic work is taken very seriously - a threat of writing to the theater guys' supervisors would probably have got you a credit quick enough. Presumably you have enough sketches etc to prove you designed the interface?
Ever considered getting a new job? Of course a customer doesn't care how much something costs to make - it's the value to them that's important, not what it cost you. If somebody is prepared to pay $200 for something, then it's worth $200. The amount it costs to make is irrelevant. It's the same in every industry.
I see OSS as the level of software that the community can acheive by itself. If you want to sell something to people, you have to provide something that they can't or aren't prepared to do themselves.
For example, do professional decorators complain that some people are prepared to wallpaper their own houses? By doing it themselves they're stealing money from the decorating industry! No, decorators make money by being quicker and better at the job than an average person could be.
It's the same with software. If a company can't produce a product significantly better than that which the community can make by itself, then it doesn't deserve to make any money.
But if a company funds the report it's advertising, not a factual report.
None of the articles contain much in the way of evidence or facts, they are just FUD. By showing that they are paid for by the company with most to lose from OSS you prove that they are just paid adverts for commercial software.
Honestly, if a hacker comes on, get the guy kicked, otherwise there's 10,000 other servers to play on
But how do you know they're cheating? Did that person use a wallhack to see you round the corner or did he just hear your footsteps? I'm sure some people can get headshots everytime without a cheat - do we kick them too because they may be cheating?
I agree that good admins are essential for a good server. A non-adminned BF1942 server will soon degenerate into a TKing, base-raping, vehicle stealing mess - with admins, those people get kicked pretty quick. But it's not so easy to admin for cheats.
I use spamassassin on my mail server (procmail pipe |/usr/bin/spamassasin -a) and I see around one spam a week in my inbox, the other 400 go straight to mail/Spam. I haven't had a false positive in the last three months.
The trick is to store up spams that get through to your inbox and then occasionally run sa-learn --spam on them.