I absolutely agree! Until linux has something like "/Program Files" (universal place for user programs), "Start->Settings->Control Panel" (universal place for drivers/configs - linuxconf is getting there for config stuff), and a good, easy, standard way to install *and remove* software, it can't be considered a user OS.
My partner (non-techie) will run Linux because she has an admin onhand to config the machine. My folks won't because they don't. It's that simple.
Folks, we've gotten to the point where we have someone driving the OS - and we've arrived. We have a good OS now. We need someone to drive the user experience. I hope that RedHat will be able to do that for us.
Not having read the article - what if it was an embeded vid card? A laptop? Oh, look, the cable on the monitor goes to the motherboard - I'm FUCKED.
They should not have to know what kind of video card they have. At least the system should come up with a VGA driver and let the user try to find better.
The problem is that installs should detect the card, not that users are dumb. Come on, that's what computers are for, doing things automatically for users!
When you're at work it's even more free than at home - you don't have to pay for it! Face it, you buy a computer these days, and you get a printer with it; to print letters or have a medium you can take with you. Once you have it, you might as well use it.
I would LOVE to see an expose' on how much money is actually wasted on paper, and then to see companies take it seriously - but all the printing products just get cheaper anyway, so I doubt it will happen.
I'm looking forward to EPaper. I'd love to store many pages on something flimsy that I could take with me... I think EPaper will finally help solve the printing crisis.
ipv6 transitioning is a nightmare, no matter how you stack it.
I dunno - SUN (who I happen to work for) looks like it will have some nice transitioning tools. Stuff like automatic and configured IPv4 tunneling - see also the SUN IPv6 website.
But if I am going to read a 700 page novel, I think doing so on a Palm-sized screen would rapidly turn me insane.
I've been reading stuff from Guttenberg on my palm, and it's not at all bad... Granted, the first 2 works were just plays (Shakespeare), but I'm now reading Plato's republic - dunno how long that is on paper, but it sure is dull;-/
Re:Don't need a palm, why do people get them?
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My boss said "We'll be doing work on those - expense it."
I would never have bought one myself.
I'm not an organized person, but I am a pretty hardcore geek. I usually carry it with me and I find I use it for the things I WOULD use a paper/pen for IF I didn't abhor paper. Notes, phone numbers, etc. My life is a little more organized than it was before...
In addition, I commute (via train) to work. I sync my email and read it en route. I used to sync/. and read it, but it's too big and I hit/. at work anyway. I've also downloaded and read 2 of Shakespeares plays and read them. I have Plato's "Republic" installed and will read that, as well as a play by Sophocles (forget the name). Unlike the author of the article, I could not have dug those up in a Library in the time it took to download and install (but, like I said, I'm a geek).
It's not hard for me to imagine I'll read 40 literary (or not so literary - I have to check out more of Guttenberg) works on my palm - making it worth the $200 it cost (for work) to buy it...
Please, more flamebait.
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"Nightmarish high school massacres like the one in Littleton are now an almost ritualistic part of American life."
No. Prom is a high school ritual. Something virtually all HS Students do (though I didn't - how many/.'ers went to theirs?). HS Massacres still fall into the "random acts of violence" category.
"And increasingly when they occur, journalists and educators blame new media like the Internet, computer games like Doom or violent movies."
This hasn't changed in a long time. Media has always done this - at least since I noticed media (graduated HS in 1986 - then it was D&D and Ozzy).
"Why kids kill this way is an urgent and complicated question."
Well, complicated anyway.
"But teenaged crime isn't rising, it's falling. And there's no evidence that the Net or other new media are the reason for massacres."
Nice to hear, could you site references?
And this is just the first paragraph...
Kurt Werle p.s. I can't spell - could we have a "Spell" button with "Submit" and "Preview"?
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I absolutely agree! Until linux has something like "/Program Files" (universal place for user programs), "Start->Settings->Control Panel" (universal place for drivers/configs - linuxconf is getting there for config stuff), and a good, easy, standard way to install *and remove* software, it can't be considered a user OS.
My partner (non-techie) will run Linux because she has an admin onhand to config the machine. My folks won't because they don't. It's that simple.
Folks, we've gotten to the point where we have someone driving the OS - and we've arrived. We have a good OS now. We need someone to drive the user experience. I hope that RedHat will be able to do that for us.
The various libraries gnome uses?
The CPAN PERL modules.
MiscKit. gnustep.
To name a few off the top of my head.
Not having read the article - what if it was an embeded vid card? A laptop? Oh, look, the cable on the monitor goes to the motherboard - I'm FUCKED.
They should not have to know what kind of video card they have. At least the system should come up with a VGA driver and let the user try to find better.
The problem is that installs should detect the card, not that users are dumb. Come on, that's what computers are for, doing things automatically for users!
When you're at work it's even more free than at home - you don't have to pay for it! Face it, you buy a computer these days, and you get a printer with it; to print letters or have a medium you can take with you. Once you have it, you might as well use it.
I would LOVE to see an expose' on how much money is actually wasted on paper, and then to see companies take it seriously - but all the printing products just get cheaper anyway, so I doubt it will happen.
I'm looking forward to EPaper. I'd love to store many pages on something flimsy that I could take with me... I think EPaper will finally help solve the printing crisis.
ipv6 transitioning is a nightmare, no matter how you stack it.
I dunno - SUN (who I happen to work for) looks like it will have some nice transitioning tools. Stuff like automatic and configured IPv4 tunneling - see also the SUN IPv6 website.
But if I am going to read a 700 page novel, I think doing so on a Palm-sized screen would rapidly turn me insane.
;-/
I've been reading stuff from Guttenberg on my palm, and it's not at all bad... Granted, the first 2 works were just plays (Shakespeare), but I'm now reading Plato's republic - dunno how long that is on paper, but it sure is dull
My boss said "We'll be doing work on those - expense it."
/. and read it, but it's too big and I hit /. at work anyway. I've also downloaded and read 2 of Shakespeares plays and read them. I have Plato's "Republic" installed and will read that, as well as a play by Sophocles (forget the name). Unlike the author of the article, I could not have dug those up in a Library in the time it took to download and install (but, like I said, I'm a geek).
I would never have bought one myself.
I'm not an organized person, but I am a pretty hardcore geek. I usually carry it with me and I find I use it for the things I WOULD use a paper/pen for IF I didn't abhor paper. Notes, phone numbers, etc. My life is a little more organized than it was before...
In addition, I commute (via train) to work. I sync my email and read it en route. I used to sync
It's not hard for me to imagine I'll read 40 literary (or not so literary - I have to check out more of Guttenberg) works on my palm - making it worth the $200 it cost (for work) to buy it...
> grab anymail in /var/spool/nmarshall
I have imap running on my server (FreeBSD box...)
And an imap client on my palm (MultiMail - it's not with me?)
p.s. Leave your email address - you'll never see this.
Could we have link[s] to the winning design[s]?
"Nightmarish high school massacres like the one in Littleton are now an almost ritualistic part of American life."
/.'ers went to theirs?). HS Massacres still fall into the "random acts of violence" category.
No. Prom is a high school ritual. Something virtually all HS Students do (though I didn't - how many
"And increasingly when they occur, journalists and educators blame new media like the Internet, computer games like Doom or violent movies."
This hasn't changed in a long time. Media has always done this - at least since I noticed media (graduated HS in 1986 - then it was D&D and Ozzy).
"Why kids kill this way is an urgent and complicated question."
Well, complicated anyway.
"But teenaged crime isn't rising, it's falling. And there's no evidence that the Net or other new media are the reason for massacres."
Nice to hear, could you site references?
And this is just the first paragraph...
Kurt Werle
p.s. I can't spell - could we have a "Spell" button with "Submit" and "Preview"?