You have just described KPersonalizer, the little wizard-type program which pops up the first time you use KDE. It's been there since KDE 2 days, IIRC.
Take a typical install program for Windows: you have three options:
- minimal - typical - custom
Minimal and Typical can configure many features of the product with a simple click. If you want total control, choose Custom. Or, have your installer let the user choose Minimal or Typical, then customize from there.
Why can't this same type of system be used to configure a desktop UI? Your options could be:
- Simple, lightweight - Middle of the road - Lots of eye candy, bloated - Masochist
I use only Google and once in awhile Yahoo for searching the web. That said, Altavista's "babelfish" translation service is a #1 with me for translating text from one language to another. FWIW, InfoSeek used to be my #1 search service because of their search syntax.
No kidding. Remember the size of computers of the 70's? And those were friggen calculators. Adding anything really useful to our brains would probably be a comparable size.
Here's another news flash: It has now been determined that every possible thought has already been thought of. The human race has now relegated itself to coming up with new ways for villains to kill their victims and new outfits Britney Spears lookalikes to wear.
Just my thought, but creativity almost seems to be the ability to seat yourself on what you know, yet venture through the mind to the unknown, dangerous, crazy, impossible. The ability to bring a creative thought from the mind to real life is an amazing gift.
I wonder how many inventions will never see the light of day because patenting one's idea is out of the reach of the average person. Corporations rule. I'd love for someone to prove me wrong so I can get _my_ inventions out there and make a reasonable profit for myself.
Very interesting, thank you. I'll have to do some more reading on the subject. I have to say, though, I wouldn't be any more surprised if humans used those huts or weapons 5,000 years ago versus 2,000,000 years ago. There are still tribes today in the middle of the jungle who know nothing of computers, etc... so why is it that the rest of humanity does? It must be possible for some to jump ahead in capability.
Anyway, I'll reserve further comment till I read some more on the subject. I have more questions than answers right now.:)
Not to mention, if humans were so creative 50,000 years ago, why do we only have ~5,000 years of recorded history? Did it really take another 45,000 _years_ for us to write something down, or carve something, etc...? Come on. I've never heard of anything man-made that's 50,000 years old. Doesn't that really throw a monkey-wrench into the theory of evolution (which, like so many other theories, is so often stated as fact by those blinded to other possibilities).
- Plant trees, make a long recreational park with walking trail. - Inline skates - Amateur drag racing - Park the world's longest mobile home on it. - Race remote control cars, airplanes, helicopters. - Build a house at the end and call it a driveway.
Anyone know where to get a laptop with "easy" financing options? ie. no credit, but no bad credit either. No luck with the big names (Dell, HP). Would be nice to pay over 6 months or 12 months or something.
Actually, I was thinking more of a mail _client_, not a server, but I'll bite anyway.:)
Java could easily handle 100+ emails a minute on a decent PC. Java is not dogslow. If you think it is, you haven't tried it in a looong time. The JIT compiler makes it run extremely fast, actually. What's slow is the startup time which is unimportant unless you're writing Java CGI's which nobody would do anyway for a high load app. Classification - that's just filters. Cross-referencing sources on the 'net - Java's networking support is great. Now memory - you got me there. Java does use a lot of memory compared to a native app, but these days with RAM prices so low I'm not too concerned about memory.
So there should be levels of "friendship" in the whitelist, so that some senders can be considered dubious (their mail shouldn't be deleted like spam, but perhaps placed in a different "Uninteresting" folder).
I, for one, would love to see a feature like this in a mail program! Actually, I'd like to participate in the development of an existing open source email app if someone could recommend one. Java based would be nice.
Neat. I used to just pop them off, though, until I finally got the hang of not hitting them every time I went for Alt or Ctrl! Now _that_ was frustrating. Weird round keyboards - doubly so. But if they were more... ubiquitous... I could see myself taking the plunge and getting used to a big change.
Hmmm.. +5 funny. So at least 5 people have read and laughed at your Simpsons comment... 50 cents a piece... click click click... hmm, looks like you owe the TV network some DOH!
How about you pay a fee for every email you send beyond the twentieth one.
This is such a short-sighted argument (not just you) that it's making me ill.
Do you really think email would remain free if all the infrastructure to support paying for it were in place? ("to reduce spam") No friggen way. Some smartass would shout "hey, maintaining our Internet infrastructure is costly, so we NEED the revenue generated by email to keep it going". Or the gov't would institute an email tax, etc.. etc... there are a million ways for such a system to be abused. It should be resisted at all costs, including receiving junk mail. There are other ways to reduce spam - we just need to discover them. Hell, they may already exist - somebody just needs to put theories to practice.
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You have just described KPersonalizer, the little wizard-type program which pops up the first time you use KDE. It's been there since KDE 2 days, IIRC.
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Exactly. So what's all the fuss about, anyway?
Take a typical install program for Windows: you have three options:
- minimal
- typical
- custom
Minimal and Typical can configure many features of the product with a simple click. If you want total control, choose Custom.
Or, have your installer let the user choose Minimal or Typical, then customize from there.
Why can't this same type of system be used to configure a desktop UI?
Your options could be:
- Simple, lightweight
- Middle of the road
- Lots of eye candy, bloated
- Masochist
I once voted to ban dog shit in oatmeal cookies.
It was voted down because they said that might lead to removing chocolate chips, raisins, nuts, and other good things.
So we still eat our dog shit cookies.
Jeez, is Commander Taco THAT backlogged?
Wait till he hits the Y2K stories....
In an interview for German weekly magazine FOCUS (nr.43, October 23,1995, pages 206-212), Microsoft`s Mr. Bill Gates has made some statements
Jeez, is Commander Taco THAT backlogged?
For a few seconds I was trying to wrap my brain around the "Battle Over Online Texas". Till I read the title again.
Well at least they didn't say Webinar.
"Generally people found that they experienced more in depth versions of the emotions they were feeling before the infrasound began."
Surgeon General's Warning: Do not take Viagra while listening to infrasound.
I use only Google and once in awhile Yahoo for searching the web.
That said, Altavista's "babelfish" translation service is a #1 with me for translating text from one language to another.
FWIW, InfoSeek used to be my #1 search service because of their search syntax.
No kidding. Remember the size of computers of the 70's? And those were friggen calculators. Adding anything really useful to our brains would probably be a comparable size.
"Nice Hat!"
Here's another news flash: It has now been determined that every possible thought has already been thought of. The human race has now relegated itself to coming up with new ways for villains to kill their victims and new outfits Britney Spears lookalikes to wear.
Just my thought, but creativity almost seems to be the ability to seat yourself on what you know, yet venture through the mind to the unknown, dangerous, crazy, impossible. The ability to bring a creative thought from the mind to real life is an amazing gift.
I wonder how many inventions will never see the light of day because patenting one's idea is out of the reach of the average person.
Corporations rule. I'd love for someone to prove me wrong so I can get _my_ inventions out there and make a reasonable profit for myself.
Very interesting, thank you. I'll have to do some more reading on the subject. I have to say, though, I wouldn't be any more surprised if humans used those huts or weapons 5,000 years ago versus 2,000,000 years ago. There are still tribes today in the middle of the jungle who know nothing of computers, etc... so why is it that the rest of humanity does? It must be possible for some to jump ahead in capability.
:)
Anyway, I'll reserve further comment till I read some more on the subject. I have more questions than answers right now.
Not to mention, if humans were so creative 50,000 years ago, why do we only have ~5,000 years of recorded history? Did it really take another 45,000 _years_ for us to write something down, or carve something, etc...? Come on. I've never heard of anything man-made that's 50,000 years old. Doesn't that really throw a monkey-wrench into the theory of evolution (which, like so many other theories, is so often stated as fact by those blinded to other possibilities).
Something to consider.
- Plant trees, make a long recreational park with walking trail.
- Inline skates
- Amateur drag racing
- Park the world's longest mobile home on it.
- Race remote control cars, airplanes, helicopters. - Build a house at the end and call it a driveway.
Anyone know where to get a laptop with "easy" financing options? ie. no credit, but no bad credit either. No luck with the big names (Dell, HP). Would be nice to pay over 6 months or 12 months or something.
Disk space is cheap.
Disk space is cheap.
Disk space is cheap.
Save everything.
Checkout the polarbar mailer (www.polarbar.org). Opensource, written in Java.
Sweet! Just what I wanted. Thank you very much.
Actually, I was thinking more of a mail _client_, not a server, but I'll bite anyway. :)
Java could easily handle 100+ emails a minute on a decent PC. Java is not dogslow. If you think it is, you haven't tried it in a looong time. The JIT compiler makes it run extremely fast, actually. What's slow is the startup time which is unimportant unless you're writing Java CGI's which nobody would do anyway for a high load app.
Classification - that's just filters. Cross-referencing sources on the 'net - Java's networking support is great.
Now memory - you got me there. Java does use a lot of memory compared to a native app, but these days with RAM prices so low I'm not too concerned about memory.
So there should be levels of "friendship" in the whitelist, so that some senders can be considered dubious (their mail shouldn't be deleted like spam, but perhaps placed in a different "Uninteresting" folder).
I, for one, would love to see a feature like this in a mail program!
Actually, I'd like to participate in the development of an existing open source email app if someone could recommend one. Java based would be nice.
Neat. I used to just pop them off, though, until I finally got the hang of not hitting them every time I went for Alt or Ctrl! Now _that_ was frustrating.
Weird round keyboards - doubly so. But if they were more... ubiquitous... I could see myself taking the plunge and getting used to a big change.
Nothing, not even encryption, beats physical security.
It's safe to say most people's home computers are easy to physically access, wouldn't you say?
Hmmm.. +5 funny. So at least 5 people have read and laughed at your Simpsons comment... 50 cents a piece... click click click... hmm, looks like you owe the TV network some DOH!
How about you pay a fee for every email you send beyond the twentieth one.
This is such a short-sighted argument (not just you) that it's making me ill.
Do you really think email would remain free if all the infrastructure to support paying for it were in place? ("to reduce spam") No friggen way. Some smartass would shout "hey, maintaining our Internet infrastructure is costly, so we NEED the revenue generated by email to keep it going". Or the gov't would institute an email tax, etc.. etc... there are a million ways for such a system to be abused. It should be resisted at all costs, including receiving junk mail. There are other ways to reduce spam - we just need to discover them. Hell, they may already exist - somebody just needs to put theories to practice.
I mean, the guy's never wrong! Take this article for example:
"If You Can't Beat Him, Join Him
How Microsoft Plans to Drive Linus Torvalds Insane by Introducing MS-Linux"