But in my opinion, KDE is a bit more usable for two reasons: the file manager is great, and there is a nice usable feel to it. GNOME is cool too, though.
This law sounds very hard to enforce. Are they going to go around looking for cracking tools, virus code, things that could potentially be used as either, etc.? People will just encrypt things when the Computer Patrol comes to visit.
There is alsoi the small matter of the many crackers outside Australia.
But what is truly heinous is that the new Napster will almost certainly not let you burn the music to a cd.
There _must_ be some way of redirecting sound that would normally go to your speakers to, say, a great big mp3 file. I tried hooking up my speaker port to my microphone port, playing a MIDI file and recording simultaniously, but it sounded awful. Can anyone else tell me how to do something like that better?
Take your hefty code, wrap it up in an ActiveX control, and you're done.
I also used to use ActiveX for Visual Basic code, which has a bit of a nicer syntax than vanilla BASIC, because it has functions and a crippled, but still present, OOP syntax. I don't use VB much any more, though.
All jokes about being able to get many megs of pr0n very quickly aside, this does sound like in will be cool in a few years. OTOH, I don't really want to operate on people in guatamala from my basement, or watch streaming opera, or send video recordings of myself in lieu of email. My face is ugly; my email is not.
I would probably just use it for downloading big files and speeding up ordinary web pages.
Why do you use the Qt/KDE API rather than Gtk, Tk (a much easier toolkit under Python, IMHO) or some other toolkit? Other than your cool name, that is.
* It isn't cluttered up with pictures, banner ads, and fancy web design that takes a whole minute to load
* It gets good results by looking at people's links.
I just wish that it had a "Strict Boolean" mode, where it wouldn't try to second guess what you typed in. And that it wouldn't omit common words in quotation marks.
Like anyone else, I think they should start out with simple things like opening programs, typing something, then move on to dialing on to the Internet, sending email, then finally the Internet. "There is a lot of junk out there, but if you are resolute in your searching, you will probably find what you are looking for," you can explain.
I think that they probably will. They're smart enough not to be eaten by Grues, at least.;-)
How about a keyboard where every key had two letters, one push for an A, two for a B, and a special button to move to the next letter? If I can learn the keyboard, certainly I can learn to use that fairly well.
If that were to happen, the US would never go for it. Generally, people in the US would never enforce China's communist laws; that would mean giving up our freedom. So instead we take away our freedom ourselves. CIPA. CDA. Drug laws. Euthanasia laws. [Insert name of stupid law here] law.
Network everyone's computers in to a giant beowulf cluster via cellular phones. The cellular phone company could give the people whose computers are networked free internet access in return for the use of some spare CPU cycles. They could sell those cycles. 900-player game of Quake, anyone? (or protein, I don't care.)
I can hook up a projector to a computer with a higher screen resolution than that. The only problems would be lighting (the room would have to be dark, so keep this away from the cube farm) and focus.
Projectors are a much cheaper way to run Quake. Now if they could get the same kind of resolution in dots per inch with that thing that normal CRTs do, and computers get so fast that you can run quake at a great frame rate, that would be cool.
And have you seen how many billions of dollars the government is spending to throw people who use drugs in jail?
As you said, I think that the drug laws do more harm to society in general than drugs themselves do. (I won't argue this on an individual basis because someone will probable come up with someone who got high and jumped off a cliff.) I think that if we want to be protected from ourselves, we should do the protecting.
Are there actually 4 justices who don't realize that this is just a high-tech extension of searching your home? It's just that the police don't actually come in to your home to do it.
This raises my opinion of those 5 justices in the majority.
It shouldn't be too hard to conceal learning with fun. For example, counting in binary.
In my school, I made up a riddle that stumped everyone I told it to. The riddle was: "I can count to 1024 on my fingers. Any finger can be either up or down. How?"
This stumped the much loathed math teacher (she assigned criminal amounts of homework), and the funny thing about it was, she had just taught about probability, including the relavant part of it, year after year!
Yes, learning about computers can be quite fun.:?)
I can't speak for anyone else, but in my school, those things were done to death! Not that it was extremely drawn out, but the mandatory computer classes were Boring. We already knew how to use a word processor. We had been using them for a while.
If anything could have turned me off computers, it was that. Boredom reighned supreme in that class. I shudder to imagine how much worse it would be if they had tried to teach me how to run a program. I learned to do that years ago! I just typed "pacman".
You should do something fun! Try doing something that gets nice results fairly quickly, like LOGO (scroll up for more in that vein).
Furthermore, do not try to cram things down their throats. Attempts to do that typically fail. If someone wants to keep on happily drawing lines, let them do that. They may make something great. If someone wants to know how to do program flow, tell them.
Copyright is mainly a good thing. After all, If we didn't have copyright, everything we write would be in the public domain. Books would not be sellable, so not as many would get written and published. You couldn't release Linux under GPL. So copyright has good aspects.
But it can easily be overapplied, as is the case with latitude and longitude. I want to copyright the number 42!
There was a book involving this situation, Killobyte, by Piers Anthony. I recommend reading it if you like science fiction and want a nice book to read.
Why is green?
From a review in Time magazine, who actually rated CD's containing the game, I concluded that the pictures are up to par and that it has 360 degree rotating landscapes.
In a dream a while ago, I dreamed that I was playing a future version of Myst where the graphics were good and things could rotate.
However, My dream was snazzier, and eventually it became a bang-bang-don't-shoot-just-survive 3D game. It was pretty cool, and that would IMHO be a good way to go, as long as the graphics are cool and it is still a puzzle.
You can accomplish this by replacing rm with a shell script that places deleted files in a special folder and tell cron to delete the contents of this folder every day.
An amazing number of things can be implemented without help from the filesystem. If you want undo functionality, that should be seperate from the filesystem. You can accomplish that with other tools, and it is very stable.
We should be thinking more about how to modularize than how to homogenize.
I suppose you could make "zipmagic for linux" (letting you treat.tar.gz files as directories). What else could you do?
You could add support for other compressed file formats, you could have gzipped files in a tarball so you wouldn't have to decompress the whole directory, you could add RCS and CVS support, changelogs, all sorts of things.
If the plugins were open source, until they were stable, the only people who would use them would be the adventurous ones and people who can fix the bugs, so I don't think they would have a stability problem. Apache doesn't. Sendmail doesn't. Ext2fs doesn't.
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But in my opinion, KDE is a bit more usable for two reasons: the file manager is great, and there is a nice usable feel to it. GNOME is cool too, though.
There is alsoi the small matter of the many crackers outside Australia.
Can this really be enforced?
There _must_ be some way of redirecting sound that would normally go to your speakers to, say, a great big mp3 file. I tried hooking up my speaker port to my microphone port, playing a MIDI file and recording simultaniously, but it sounded awful. Can anyone else tell me how to do something like that better?
I also used to use ActiveX for Visual Basic code, which has a bit of a nicer syntax than vanilla BASIC, because it has functions and a crippled, but still present, OOP syntax. I don't use VB much any more, though.
I would probably just use it for downloading big files and speeding up ordinary web pages.
Why do you use the Qt/KDE API rather than Gtk, Tk (a much easier toolkit under Python, IMHO) or some other toolkit? Other than your cool name, that is.
* It isn't cluttered up with pictures, banner ads, and fancy web design that takes a whole minute to load * It gets good results by looking at people's links. I just wish that it had a "Strict Boolean" mode, where it wouldn't try to second guess what you typed in. And that it wouldn't omit common words in quotation marks.
I think that they probably will. They're smart enough not to be eaten by Grues, at least. ;-)
How about a keyboard where every key had two letters, one push for an A, two for a B, and a special button to move to the next letter? If I can learn the keyboard, certainly I can learn to use that fairly well.
This just shows how cool the Simpsons is, IMHO. It will be good to be able to use `Doh!' in front of English teachers. Bwahahaha!
Hmm. Perhaps you do have a point...
This is actually quite funny...
Network everyone's computers in to a giant beowulf cluster via cellular phones. The cellular phone company could give the people whose computers are networked free internet access in return for the use of some spare CPU cycles. They could sell those cycles. 900-player game of Quake, anyone? (or protein, I don't care.)
Projectors are a much cheaper way to run Quake. Now if they could get the same kind of resolution in dots per inch with that thing that normal CRTs do, and computers get so fast that you can run quake at a great frame rate, that would be cool.
As you said, I think that the drug laws do more harm to society in general than drugs themselves do. (I won't argue this on an individual basis because someone will probable come up with someone who got high and jumped off a cliff.) I think that if we want to be protected from ourselves, we should do the protecting.
This raises my opinion of those 5 justices in the majority.
In my school, I made up a riddle that stumped everyone I told it to. The riddle was: "I can count to 1024 on my fingers. Any finger can be either up or down. How?"
This stumped the much loathed math teacher (she assigned criminal amounts of homework), and the funny thing about it was, she had just taught about probability, including the relavant part of it, year after year!
Yes, learning about computers can be quite fun. :?)
If anything could have turned me off computers, it was that. Boredom reighned supreme in that class. I shudder to imagine how much worse it would be if they had tried to teach me how to run a program. I learned to do that years ago! I just typed "pacman".
You should do something fun! Try doing something that gets nice results fairly quickly, like LOGO (scroll up for more in that vein).
Furthermore, do not try to cram things down their throats. Attempts to do that typically fail. If someone wants to keep on happily drawing lines, let them do that. They may make something great. If someone wants to know how to do program flow, tell them.
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But it can easily be overapplied, as is the case with latitude and longitude. I want to copyright the number 42!
There was a book involving this situation, Killobyte, by Piers Anthony. I recommend reading it if you like science fiction and want a nice book to read. Why is green?
In a dream a while ago, I dreamed that I was playing a future version of Myst where the graphics were good and things could rotate.
However, My dream was snazzier, and eventually it became a bang-bang-don't-shoot-just-survive 3D game. It was pretty cool, and that would IMHO be a good way to go, as long as the graphics are cool and it is still a puzzle.
An amazing number of things can be implemented without help from the filesystem. If you want undo functionality, that should be seperate from the filesystem. You can accomplish that with other tools, and it is very stable.
We should be thinking more about how to modularize than how to homogenize.
I suppose you could make "zipmagic for linux" (letting you treat .tar.gz files as directories). What else could you do?
You could add support for other compressed file formats, you could have gzipped files in a tarball so you wouldn't have to decompress the whole directory, you could add RCS and CVS support, changelogs, all sorts of things. If the plugins were open source, until they were stable, the only people who would use them would be the adventurous ones and people who can fix the bugs, so I don't think they would have a stability problem. Apache doesn't. Sendmail doesn't. Ext2fs doesn't.