Sure, if you don't know it, you'd have to look it up. But isn't that always true?
Not quite. Not if you can see it right on the desktop, panel, start/foot/kde/desktop menu, or something like that....which is not to say my father would have found out how to switch resolutions in Windows any more than he would have in X, but I would have (would have, not did, because in both systems I knew where to find those things before I wanted to use them.) --
Well, a simple keypress is as fast and easy as it gets, but it's also as obscure as it gets. You don't find that by fiddling around. You can't see that it exists. You generally find out about a key command by reading documentation or being told of its existence.
Easy to learn and easy to use aren't the same, as we've discussed many times in this forum.
Some kind of panel applet that is visible, inviting exploration, and also explains the keypress is a good solution in this case. --
Perhaps a more appropriate example in this case is that if it's just for them to sabotage and sink a whaling vessel, it's just to sink their boat in the same way.
...and if anyone thinks I'm saying it was OK to sink their ship, try interpreting my message the other way. --
Back in the DOS days, there was an assembler (whose name I can't recall) that was available for free for personal or in-house use, but if you distributed commercially any programs assembled by it, you had to buy a license.
The author claimed to be able to spot code generated by his compiler because the compiler left fingerprints of this nature in the code it generated. I thought that was pretty ingenious at the time. --
I chose loadlin too. IMO, anyone who has a linux+win setup is much better off with loadlin. It's simple and it's safe and, until now, it had the advantage that cylinder limits were neatly sidestepped. It does add a couple of seconds to the boot time, I suppose, but does anyone really mind that? --
I wouldn't have imagined voice recognition could cope with the requirements. It's bad enough when you're talking into a headset microphone in a quiet environment. If this is anywhere near usable, I'm impressed. If it's usable without training, I'm very impressed.
I can't reach the site, so I can't tell if it's supposed to respond to commands like "Play Misty for me" (my initial expectation), or if a handful of preselected commands are all it recognises ("Next song", "Playlist 4", "Pause", etc.). That would be a bit less impressive and a lot more plausible, actually.
All that aside, I for one won't shell out $600 for this thing, or even $200, because I'm content with just listening to the radio on my short commute. --
I bet blind people would be happy to have those books accessible online as well. Then again, the blind have always been mindless, lonely, and arrogant. --
I agree. In this particular case, though, there is a reason to be pissed off at nVidia. The reason is that they lead us to believe they were Linux-friendly and that drivers were just around the corner. --
This reminds me of one of johnc's plan updates, only he put it better, I think. Paraphrased and from distant memory: "I'm confident that Direct3D (IM) will continue to suck less with each subsequent release, but why go through that painful process?" --
Hehe, I do the alt-f4 thing too, only I do it under vmware as well. At least, there's an easy solution under vmware: Keep vmware on desktop 4 at all times:-). --
That's not all. Phone users in either Norway or Sweden (can't recall which) have this option right now, but as you may know, local calls are also metered in Europe, so I think this isn't just an option for long distance. In fact, I'm not sure it's even available for long distance. --
Neither I nor the people who wrote the relevant US laws believe(d) that monopolies are in and of themselves wrong. If one company provides the best service and the rest die off, that's ok with us.
Microsoft is not in trouble because they are successful and earned a monopoly position. Microsoft is in trouble because while they held that position, they abused it in ways that I and the US government believe violate the law.
Perhaps whatever happens to Microsoft will be bad for consumers and perhaps it will be good for consumers. Which is it? I don't know and I don't think it should matter. Illegal acts should not go unpunished. --
Another kind of patent reform would be to simply run the patent office the way it was supposed to be run, without changing any laws and international treaties.
Michael Kirk, director of the Arlington, Va.-based American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), was quick to divert the discussion back to a consideration of the financial resources available to the Patent Office. He accused the Clinton administration and Congress of running "a rolling Ponzi game," by diverting fee-income funds from the Patent Office to other programs.
"To the extent that people have identified problems in this area, they go back to the fundamental lack of revenues for the Patent Office to apply to this area to develop prior-art databases and the training and retention of skilled examiners in this field," he said.
I largely agree with Mr. Kirk. While I do think even justly awarded patents may have an overall negative effect (take the wavelet compression issue for example), my main irritation is the large number of patents awarded for things that fail to meet the basic criteria of originality and nonobviousness. --
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Not quite. Not if you can see it right on the desktop, panel, start/foot/kde/desktop menu, or something like that. ...which is not to say my father would have found out how to switch resolutions in Windows any more than he would have in X, but I would have (would have, not did, because in both systems I knew where to find those things before I wanted to use them.)
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Easy to learn and easy to use aren't the same, as we've discussed many times in this forum.
Some kind of panel applet that is visible, inviting exploration, and also explains the keypress is a good solution in this case.
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The author claimed to be able to spot code generated by his compiler because the compiler left fingerprints of this nature in the code it generated. I thought that was pretty ingenious at the time.
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Hehehe, the string "5x86-133pr75" caught my eye and it took me a while to realise it wasn't leet speak!
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I chose loadlin too. IMO, anyone who has a linux+win setup is much better off with loadlin. It's simple and it's safe and, until now, it had the advantage that cylinder limits were neatly sidestepped. It does add a couple of seconds to the boot time, I suppose, but does anyone really mind that?
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I can't reach the site, so I can't tell if it's supposed to respond to commands like "Play Misty for me" (my initial expectation), or if a handful of preselected commands are all it recognises ("Next song", "Playlist 4", "Pause", etc.). That would be a bit less impressive and a lot more plausible, actually.
All that aside, I for one won't shell out $600 for this thing, or even $200, because I'm content with just listening to the radio on my short commute.
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The Debian package diskless looks promising.
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I'm getting flashbacks to my Amstrad 6128 days, when games came on disks, discs, disqs, or even disques!
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I bet blind people would be happy to have those books accessible online as well. Then again, the blind have always been mindless, lonely, and arrogant.
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Quite right. "Your currency's abbreviation is GBP, not UKP" is what I should have said.
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I agree. In this particular case, though, there is a reason to be pissed off at nVidia. The reason is that they lead us to believe they were Linux-friendly and that drivers were just around the corner.
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This reminds me of one of johnc's plan updates, only he put it better, I think. Paraphrased and from distant memory: "I'm confident that Direct3D (IM) will continue to suck less with each subsequent release, but why go through that painful process?"
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Hehe, I do the alt-f4 thing too, only I do it under vmware as well. At least, there's an easy solution under vmware: Keep vmware on desktop 4 at all times :-).
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The 9th decade of this century is [1981,1991>. You mean the 10th decade.
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There's genigma. I haven't tried it myself.
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That's not all. Phone users in either Norway or Sweden (can't recall which) have this option right now, but as you may know, local calls are also metered in Europe, so I think this isn't just an option for long distance. In fact, I'm not sure it's even available for long distance.
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Sorry, couldn't resist.
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"is a quine" is a quine
"is a sentence fragment" is a sentence fragment
If this interests you, check out Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter.
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Microsoft is not in trouble because they are successful and earned a monopoly position. Microsoft is in trouble because while they held that position, they abused it in ways that I and the US government believe violate the law.
Perhaps whatever happens to Microsoft will be bad for consumers and perhaps it will be good for consumers. Which is it? I don't know and I don't think it should matter. Illegal acts should not go unpunished.
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Tori sounds fine at 256kbps.
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Europe is not a state, socialist or otherwise.
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Any ideas? Sure. man xmodmap.
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