Okay, I just downloaded and installed Ion. While I appreciate its many keyboard shortcuts, I think the real power it possesses is the ability to all but eliminate unneccessary window-resizings.
Think about it. There are only two reasons people resize windows: (1) To focus on one particular task (window), or (2) to focus on more than one task/window, without eliminating the first focus. (The case where the user wants to switch between focuses or close the current focus in most windowing systems are handled by mechanisms like taskbars and close buttons. ). Most of the time users spend in 'focus adjustment' is simply futzing with the window borders in an attempt to maximize screen coverage while preventing overlap. Even 'timesaving' options like 'tile windows vertically' are usually wasteful, because, while they speed up the initial operation, the minute you attempt to make a small alteration to your focus (say, by making one window a little larger) you actually have to perform two or more tasks: Resizing the window under consideration and resizing its neighbours to concur with the new arrangement.
Since a framed-window system allows adjustment in a single motion, it saves time. (Although there are other window-management paradigms that acheive the same trick).
Personally, I really really like Ion -- I'm running it right now, and I have no intention of switching back to Oroborus any time soon (another very good window manager, IMO....)
I would augment our current debugging techniques by installing some rather special logic in libc that'd use RPC to erase, say, five randomly-chosen sectors from the hard disk of one of the application's developers (either chosen at random or based on the last contributor to the offending region of code, or random but weighted by % of source contributed) every time a production build segfaulted. With Bluetooth, we can even extend this to embedded devices. Although not all bugs are segfaults, I imagine the resultant attention to detail would help a lot:)
Then again, there'd be an Infocalypse in Redmond...
Since linus is obviously more open to sudden changes in codebases divisible by two than he used to be, I think the obvious next step is to rewrite the kernel in C# as a.NET component.
I mean, I know IE has some sort of swapping system... my disk grinds every time it starts up....
Melkor had a similar situation on his hands in _The_Silmarillion_. I find his solution practical and elegant: Simply enthrall one of your mortal enemies and afix them to the top of your building, where her unblinking eyes will see all.
If the ACLU gives you heck, simply get your lawyers to amend the DMCA and/or the constitution as necessary. Better still, give 'em some rings of power. It's the american way.
Why not XEmacs?
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I'm sorry, but why isn't there more interest in XEmacs? Not to be jealous or anything, but apparently when that OTHER OS-Editor (and here we aren't even going to mention that *other* other editor... you know, the one that gives you colon-key cancer) gets a version upgrade, you post it, but when Xemacs does, people have to truck on over to freshmeat? For shame!
I refuse to use GNU Emacs until it has a built-in package manager with automated downloads and dependency checks. Repeat this argument for any other feature N which is in the set Xemacs_Features-Emacs_features.;)
It's called 'gnuserv'
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...under Xemacs. If a client wants editing functions, it simply system("gnuclient");
and then, presto! instantaneous XEmacs console.
I've recently switched from Vim to Xemacs for a rather perverse reason -- XEmacs now loads faster;)
Jesus Christ... How many times does this point need to be made?
stealing copyright violation
* procure good * procure good
illegally illegally
* deprive previous
holder of good of
their 'copy'
Now, this is *not* to condone copyright violation.
Ultimately, it does deprive the copyright holder
of revenue; how much is an open question (IMO certainly not what the SPA estimates indicate --- they assume that you'd buy the original if you couldn't copy it, which is frequently an invalid
assumption.) However, calling piracy 'theft' is like calling assault 'murder': Both are bad, but it's a matter of degree. Would you send someone to the chair for punching you in the nose?
Weaving exaggerations into a moral assertion is a classic Sophist's maneuver. So I guess my point is, 'if you can't post like the big boys, don't fall back on irritating rhyming maxims'.;)
Member of the chattering class needs sensationalistic story to cover ass! Ex-employee of Red Hat disses linux! Software commentator straw-mans linux' `war' with Microsoft! Pictures at eleven!
Seriously, though. The reason why integrated development environments aren't being coded is because they aren't very useful (at least, with xemacs around;) and outlook clones (as much as I hate to admit it) are. We are not 'targetting' a market, we are performing a sort of terraforming. We have to live here -- we have to develop here -- we have to admin here -- and so, we'll build what we deem necessary and useful on a case-by-case basis.
Focus groups, target markets, etc, are part of the problem, not the solution. Anyone here familiar with Marx? I'm talking about the (economic! financial!) risks of developer alienation... who will develop for free when they're building something that they cannot, in some sense, be an owner of? The whole *reason* we sacrifice a certain amount of compensation is because we're having too much fun. Like it or lump it, being unfocused follows immediately from the key secret of our success to date. You cannot (significantly) focus OSS without destroying it.
So.... Apple's main OS du jour has an OSS core, HP and Apple openly combat Free Software's foes, and IBM (despite helping pen the recent W3 recommendation) dances around waving our flag like a teenybopper at a cheerleading competition.
Is anyone else feeling a certain sense of vertigo, here?:) I mean, this is *Apple* we're talking about. Christ, remember the boycott? And IB-smegging-M. Have I stumbled into +Better Than Life or something? This reality's state has surely become inconsistent. I expect the whole thing to segfault at any moment.
...are thousands of enslaved human minds. Anyone else out there a Vernor Vinge fan? Ever read 'A deepness in the sky'? Something like that Focus virus --- something that would convert, say, the guy I don't like in my Linear class into a damn fine airplane-ticket-booking, SETI@Home-running Fuzzy-logic-running engine. Moreover, make sure that the virus keeps said engine happy, as a happy enslaved mind is a productive enslaved mind!
You want security? I'll give you security!
I have an attack cat. She's infallible! She likes saucers of milk! And boy cats! But we're getting that fixed! So just make sure your attackers don't bring boy cats!
I have a DSL link!!
x2 inbound bandwidth! Great for those sites that, er, you know, have lots of uploads and comments and stuff!
...Like Slashdot. CmdrTaco, bring me the servers. I'll set up IP_MASQ and we'll be up and running in no time. We'll show those bastards how to do hosting!
What? You'd leave their impressionable minds open to Go!?!
That game is Satan's tool. Have you ever seen 'The Princess Bride'? Remember that 'Life-sucking machine?' That's Go! What other game can completely absorb your attention for, like, *sixteen* *hours*? Sixteen hours of your life, boom, gone, sucked right out. Plus, the gameplay is insanely violent: Suffocating the enemy, conquering territory, poking eyes out, closing off breathing spaces.... God I love it. I have to, uh, do homework now... yeah heheh that's it...
No, no no nooo. This is just another piece of pseudo-physics. In business, smaller does *not* mean 'quicker' -- in either the 'ability-to-change-focus-suddenly' or the 'ability-to-fully-exploit-an-opportunity-before-an yone-else' senses. *Bigger* is faster. *Bigger* has less inertia.
Small companies necessarily have homogenous portfolios -- they focus on one wee lil corner of the market, because they lack the resources to cover more. Any change of direction (or market) jeopardizes the company; hence, alterations in course are 'expensive', probablistically speaking. OTOH big companies can follow a zillion different speculative trails to their logical conclusions *simultaneously*. Think of quantum computing. Now, if 99% of those trails end in failure, so be it; the company naturally 'collapses' its waveform onto the remaining one percent and be extremely successful.
The reason why small companies appear to be quick is the same reason that dust motes seem to be 'everywhere' when you wave a flashlight around in a darkened room: The sheer number of small businesses make it very probable that a handful will be at the right place at the right time for any given opportunity, never mind the hundreds of unlucky failures, floating in the dark!
So they sell videoconferencing, but had to relocate from the UK to Richardson 'in order to be near other high-tech companies'. Ummmm.... is there a message in there somewhere?
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Okay, I just downloaded and installed Ion. While I appreciate its many keyboard shortcuts, I think the real power it possesses is the ability to all but eliminate unneccessary window-resizings.
Think about it. There are only two reasons people resize windows: (1) To focus on one particular task (window), or (2) to focus on more than one task/window, without eliminating the first focus. (The case where the user wants to switch between focuses or close the current focus in most windowing systems are handled by mechanisms like taskbars and close buttons. ). Most of the time users spend in 'focus adjustment' is simply futzing with the window borders in an attempt to maximize screen coverage while preventing overlap. Even 'timesaving' options like 'tile windows vertically' are usually wasteful, because, while they speed up the initial operation, the minute you attempt to make a small alteration to your focus (say, by making one window a little larger) you actually have to perform two or more tasks: Resizing the window under consideration and resizing its neighbours to concur with the new arrangement.
Since a framed-window system allows adjustment in a single motion, it saves time. (Although there are other window-management paradigms that acheive the same trick).
Personally, I really really like Ion -- I'm running it right now, and I have no intention of switching back to Oroborus any time soon (another very good window manager, IMO....)
I would augment our current debugging techniques by installing some rather special logic in libc that'd use RPC to erase, say, five randomly-chosen sectors from the hard disk of one of the application's developers (either chosen at random or based on the last contributor to the offending region of code, or random but weighted by % of source contributed) every time a production build segfaulted. With Bluetooth, we can even extend this to embedded devices. Although not all bugs are segfaults, I imagine the resultant attention to detail would help a lot :)
Then again, there'd be an Infocalypse in Redmond...
Since linus is obviously more open to sudden changes in codebases divisible by two than he used to be, I think the obvious next step is to rewrite the kernel in C# as a
I mean, I know IE has some sort of swapping system... my disk grinds every time it starts up....
Who swaps these days, anyway? :)
'A method for procuring the services of electrical engineers and other professionals inexpensively during an economic downturn or recession.'
Melkor had a similar situation on his hands in _The_Silmarillion_. I find his solution practical and elegant: Simply enthrall one of your mortal enemies and afix them to the top of your building, where her unblinking eyes will see all.
If the ACLU gives you heck, simply get your lawyers to amend the DMCA and/or the constitution as necessary. Better still, give 'em some rings of power. It's the american way.
I'm sorry, but why isn't there more interest in XEmacs? Not to be jealous or anything, but apparently when that OTHER OS-Editor (and here we aren't even going to mention that *other* other editor... you know, the one that gives you colon-key cancer) gets a version upgrade, you post it, but when Xemacs does, people have to truck on over to freshmeat? For shame!
;)
I refuse to use GNU Emacs until it has a built-in package manager with automated downloads and dependency checks. Repeat this argument for any other feature N which is in the set Xemacs_Features-Emacs_features.
...under Xemacs. If a client wants editing functions, it simply system("gnuclient");
and then, presto! instantaneous XEmacs console.
I've recently switched from Vim to Xemacs for a rather perverse reason -- XEmacs now loads faster
For the last time, boys and girls:
Stealing != Copyright Violation
Jesus Christ... How many times does this point need to be made?
stealing copyright violation
* procure good * procure good
illegally illegally
* deprive previous
holder of good of
their 'copy'
Now, this is *not* to condone copyright violation.
Ultimately, it does deprive the copyright holder
of revenue; how much is an open question (IMO certainly not what the SPA estimates indicate --- they assume that you'd buy the original if you couldn't copy it, which is frequently an invalid
assumption.) However, calling piracy 'theft' is like calling assault 'murder': Both are bad, but it's a matter of degree. Would you send someone to the chair for punching you in the nose?
Weaving exaggerations into a moral assertion is a classic Sophist's maneuver. So I guess my point is, 'if you can't post like the big boys, don't fall back on irritating rhyming maxims'.
Member of the chattering class needs sensationalistic story to cover ass! Ex-employee of Red Hat disses linux! Software commentator straw-mans linux' `war' with Microsoft! Pictures at eleven!
;) and outlook clones (as much as I hate to admit it) are. We are not 'targetting' a market, we are performing a sort of terraforming. We have to live here -- we have to develop here -- we have to admin here -- and so, we'll build what we deem necessary and useful on a case-by-case basis.
Seriously, though. The reason why integrated development environments aren't being coded is because they aren't very useful (at least, with xemacs around
Focus groups, target markets, etc, are part of the problem, not the solution. Anyone here familiar with Marx? I'm talking about the (economic! financial!) risks of developer alienation... who will develop for free when they're building something that they cannot, in some sense, be an owner of? The whole *reason* we sacrifice a certain amount of compensation is because we're having too much fun. Like it or lump it, being unfocused follows immediately from the key secret of our success to date. You cannot (significantly) focus OSS without destroying it.
So.... Apple's main OS du jour has an OSS core, HP and Apple openly combat Free Software's foes, and IBM (despite helping pen the recent W3 recommendation) dances around waving our flag like a teenybopper at a cheerleading competition.
:) I mean, this is *Apple* we're talking about. Christ, remember the boycott? And IB-smegging-M. Have I stumbled into +Better Than Life or something? This reality's state has surely become inconsistent. I expect the whole thing to segfault at any moment.
Is anyone else feeling a certain sense of vertigo, here?
...are thousands of enslaved human minds. Anyone else out there a Vernor Vinge fan? Ever read 'A deepness in the sky'? Something like that Focus virus --- something that would convert, say, the guy I don't like in my Linear class into a damn fine airplane-ticket-booking, SETI@Home-running Fuzzy-logic-running engine. Moreover, make sure that the virus keeps said engine happy, as a happy enslaved mind is a productive enslaved mind!
Obviously, if it's 'confusingly similar'. :)
I'm planning on buying 1-87-SUCKS, don't know about you....
You want security? I'll give you security!
I have an attack cat. She's infallible! She likes saucers of milk! And boy cats! But we're getting that fixed! So just make sure your attackers don't bring boy cats!
In my attractive one-bedroom flat.
I have a DSL link!!
x2 inbound bandwidth! Great for those sites that, er, you know, have lots of uploads and comments and stuff!
...Like Slashdot. CmdrTaco, bring me the servers. I'll set up IP_MASQ and we'll be up and running in no time. We'll show those bastards how to do hosting!
What? You'd leave their impressionable minds open to Go!?!
That game is Satan's tool. Have you ever seen 'The Princess Bride'? Remember that 'Life-sucking machine?' That's Go! What other game can completely absorb your attention for, like, *sixteen* *hours*? Sixteen hours of your life, boom, gone, sucked right out. Plus, the gameplay is insanely violent: Suffocating the enemy, conquering territory, poking eyes out, closing off breathing spaces.... God I love it. I have to, uh, do homework now... yeah heheh that's it...
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these! No one could sleep through *that* :)
Read Chomky's 'The New Military Humanism', instead. Prolly a lot more relevant stuff in there.... ;)
You've never done any overclocking, have you? :)
. o O (Sorry, can't go out tonight. Defrosting the CPU.)
Okay, Bill, maybe you can answer this one for me:
Do you see your minions as monsters in bedsheets, or as ghosts?
And stop blocking the banana, dammit!
Jeez, those high school kids write pretty good
compilers and kernels and stuff, don't they?
So which is it, Bill:
Are your minions monsters w/ bedsheets, or ghosts?
This is a burning issue. And, dammit, stop blocking the banana!
Smaller means quicker?
n yone-else' senses. *Bigger* is faster. *Bigger* has less inertia.
:)
No, no no nooo. This is just another piece of pseudo-physics. In business, smaller does *not* mean 'quicker' -- in either the 'ability-to-change-focus-suddenly' or the 'ability-to-fully-exploit-an-opportunity-before-a
Small companies necessarily have homogenous portfolios -- they focus on one wee lil corner of the market, because they lack the resources to cover more. Any change of direction (or market) jeopardizes the company; hence, alterations in course are 'expensive', probablistically speaking. OTOH big companies can follow a zillion different speculative trails to their logical conclusions *simultaneously*. Think of quantum computing. Now, if 99% of those trails end in failure, so be it; the company naturally 'collapses' its waveform onto the remaining one percent and be extremely successful.
The reason why small companies appear to be quick is the same reason that dust motes seem to be 'everywhere' when you wave a flashlight around in a darkened room: The sheer number of small businesses make it very probable that a handful will be at the right place at the right time for any given opportunity, never mind the hundreds of unlucky failures, floating in the dark!
Now how's that for pseudo-physics?
Where else did you think laissez-faire capitalism would lead? What, the persuit of happiness?
And now we're all fucked. Thanks.
So they sell videoconferencing, but had to relocate from the UK to Richardson 'in order to be near other high-tech companies'. Ummmm.... is there a message in there somewhere?