- the redhouse effect (red is complementary to green)
- the burnthouse effect (frost will "burn" plants in a greenhouse)
- the evergreenhouse effect (it is so cold that the plants are actually frozen green forever)
- the exgirlfriend effect (it's cold, and will never get warm; shameless plagiarizing another comment)
Like most people, you miss the point about Emacs. It is *not* a text editor. It's a Lisp environment. Close to "an entire operating system", yes, depending on your definition of OS --- but absolutely not "just for editing text". It's for running Lisp applications. It's the closest thing youngsters like me have to a Lisp machine.
Currently most of my applications are Lisp programs running under the Emacs environment, including my mail client, IRC client, IM clients, my *set* of text editors (including my favourite vi), IDE, psychiatrist, etc, and I love it. Linux is my bootloader.
It looks pretty interesting. Can you enlighten me on its Unicode support (or lack thereof)? Does it get confused when running in UTF-8, or when using CJK characters? Can it count columns properly when there are "wide" characters on the line or in the prompt?
Dunno, but console gamers like me --- if Lode Runner makes you think about "Hudson Soft" and not about "Broderbund", that's you --- may be very surprised to learn about the relationship between Bomberman and Lode Runner (this and this). I discovered that a few days ago at the insertcredit.com forums and still haven't wrapped my mind around it.
Right here. Haven't you read the whole discussion?
Then a person that claims that it's usable for something else is a FUCKING IDIOT.
And in that FUCKING IDIOT vein: (...) And the technical term for somebody who claims to do user interface design and not understand this fact is a "FUCKING IDIOT".
That insn't exactly my idea of a "down-to-earth guy who makes fun of himself".
So true. I was actually convinced that these e-mails were not from Linus himself, but from some impersonating troll. Call me outdated, but in my mind he was a pragmatic guy who gathered a lot of help around Linux thanks to his humble, friendly manners. I don't remember him calling prof. Tanenbaum a "FUCKING IDIOT". What happened? Is that guy really Linus?
Do it. There's a lot of interesting answers. Most interestingly, it seems that the problems which Linus (and popular opinion) ascribes to Gnome user interface design decisons are actually considered bugs by Gnome developers. It seems that, when giving the choice of working on sensible defaults or in advanced configuration options, Gnome devels prefer the first, so that sometimes applications misses the advanced configuration; but they're not actually opposed to them (provided that they have a nice UI, separated from the basic options). It's a matter of priorities.
So Gnome is not about "dumb users", it's about focusing on an usable system out-of-the-box. If you like customizing your WM, you'll probably hate Gnome, because it's not their focus. I hate WM customization, so I like Gnome better than KDE (and ratpoison better than Gnome). OTOH, I love customizing my programming environment, so I like Emacs better tham vim or gedit. Differente things for different people, really.
If you want to run X programs but hate managing so-called "windows", try ratpoison, the mouse-less, window-less window manager. It's screen(1) for X. No more space lost with decorations, no more time lost resizing and moving windows.
Actually it's "pirate-stimulating late-night conversations". You try to convince other people to become pirates. You want to do that to reduce global warming, of cource.
I don't think I'd call it "genius", it's not so smart a move. I'd call it dareful, however. And the reason why a small evil company that nobody cares about has the balls to come with absurd clauses on their EULA is that well-known, large and renowned evil companies rotinely do so. Kinda like those weak bullies who bullied you in high school only when the bigger bully was around.
The local anime convention was once held at a traditional Catholic school. The completely insane organizers decided to show Angel Sanctuary. I had the opportunity of watching it in a big screen between a giant statue of Mother Mary and another of a saint. The school never allowed another anime convention on its grounds. I think it was worth it:)
Nonono, you don't get it. Giant squids are villains we like. They're cool villains. You shall not confuse them with the uncool villains we hate, such as Microsoft, Bush or Eric Raymond.
Most of the dedicate nethack players I've met seem to have dreamt with ascii at least once. From my experience, nethack and tetris are the most dream-prone games.
In my nightmares, I was once chased by a giant yellow lowercase 'c'...
The overarching theme of the first set of Ubuntu releases is "Humanity". This drives our choice of artwork as much as our selection of packages and decisions around the installer. Our default theme in the first four releases of Ubuntu is called "Human", and it emphasises warm, human colours - brown.
I agree completely and love Ubuntu's theme. However, I'm a sid guy myself and, though I recommend Ubuntu to all my non-tech friends, I don't want to switch.
Anyone knows if the Human theme is available for Debian, or at least independently available somewhere else?
It's been a long while since I stopped playing tabletop RPGs, and I'm uninpressed with the d20 system and mostly everything new in the scene. A pleasant surprise was The Riddle Of Steel, with a truly innovative combat and evolution system which I'd like to try. Unfortunately the core book is a bit difficult to import around here.
Anyone who has been to GenCon got any news about TROS?
Nowhere in the official page NetBSD is compared to Linux.
Also, NetBSD people don't claim it is more ported than Linux, they claim it's more portable, and that's true. If you want to port NetBSD to a new system, it's much simpler than porting Linux (due to the carefully engineered, well-documented kernel source and porting procedures).
I submitted this back at the slashdot.jp announcement, but it was rejected here, and now I hate slashdot.
NEC is working on a 180g NetBSD-based server. The Univerge WNX is targeted at low noise, space economy, wereable computing, and on-the-fly multimedia processing. They claim a single person can use it with a mini-camera to brocadcast real-time video and audio (through wireless LAN/FOMA) and record the data at the same time, with two CF slots. Cool gadget. Japanese press release (with pictures).
First, Rails is in Ruby. If you never used Ruby, you may think it's not a big deal. If you did, you're probably interested in Rails now, because you love Ruby.
But even if you don't care about Ruby, Rails is amazing because... well, instead of bogging you down with boring hype, I'll point to the videos on the official page (they're much cooler hype). Seriously, watch them.
Which is why I like to serve XHTML 1.1, and use a xslt script (good for Sablotron, btw) to generate fallback.html versions. Tie with Apache content negotiation and that bad browser will get his plain HTML 4.01 files, while browsers which are cool will ask for nice, valid application/xhtml+xml XHTML 1.1.
XHTML 1.0 is bogus. If you're going to serve text/html tag soup, you might as well serve plain HTML.
The GC clearly still holds rank with gameplay innovation, but interestingly they sit 3rd overall in the worldwide console battle.
The GC is waay above Xbox in Japan (even the original GBA still sells more than Xbox). The Nintendo DS has been the top seller for some time. Playstation 2 and PSP are second and third, and although the Gamecube is not selling well, it is far from the disaster that is Xbox. Of the 2004 top 100 console games, 54 were for Sony consoles, 46 Nintendo, and 0 MS. Source.
Wordwide console battle != Western console battle.
Is subversion natively supported yet? Last time I saw using it with Eclipse required you to manually recompile subversion with some java binding thing and then installing an plugin...
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More catchphrases:
- the redhouse effect (red is complementary to green)
- the burnthouse effect (frost will "burn" plants in a greenhouse)
- the evergreenhouse effect (it is so cold that the plants are actually frozen green forever)
- the exgirlfriend effect (it's cold, and will never get warm; shameless plagiarizing another comment)
Ok, I suck.
Like most people, you miss the point about Emacs. It is *not* a text editor. It's a Lisp environment. Close to "an entire operating system", yes, depending on your definition of OS --- but absolutely not "just for editing text". It's for running Lisp applications. It's the closest thing youngsters like me have to a Lisp machine.
Currently most of my applications are Lisp programs running under the Emacs environment, including my mail client, IRC client, IM clients, my *set* of text editors (including my favourite vi), IDE, psychiatrist, etc, and I love it. Linux is my bootloader.
It looks pretty interesting. Can you enlighten me on its Unicode support (or lack thereof)? Does it get confused when running in UTF-8, or when using CJK characters? Can it count columns properly when there are "wide" characters on the line or in the prompt?
Dunno, but console gamers like me --- if Lode Runner makes you think about "Hudson Soft" and not about "Broderbund", that's you --- may be very surprised to learn about the relationship between Bomberman and Lode Runner (this and this). I discovered that a few days ago at the insertcredit.com forums and still haven't wrapped my mind around it.
That insn't exactly my idea of a "down-to-earth guy who makes fun of himself".
So true. I was actually convinced that these e-mails were not from Linus himself, but from some impersonating troll. Call me outdated, but in my mind he was a pragmatic guy who gathered a lot of help around Linux thanks to his humble, friendly manners. I don't remember him calling prof. Tanenbaum a "FUCKING IDIOT". What happened? Is that guy really Linus?
Do it. There's a lot of interesting answers. Most interestingly, it seems that the problems which Linus (and popular opinion) ascribes to Gnome user interface design decisons are actually considered bugs by Gnome developers. It seems that, when giving the choice of working on sensible defaults or in advanced configuration options, Gnome devels prefer the first, so that sometimes applications misses the advanced configuration; but they're not actually opposed to them (provided that they have a nice UI, separated from the basic options). It's a matter of priorities.
So Gnome is not about "dumb users", it's about focusing on an usable system out-of-the-box. If you like customizing your WM, you'll probably hate Gnome, because it's not their focus. I hate WM customization, so I like Gnome better than KDE (and ratpoison better than Gnome). OTOH, I love customizing my programming environment, so I like Emacs better tham vim or gedit. Differente things for different people, really.
...hamsters help depressed researchers? :(
If you want to run X programs but hate managing so-called "windows", try ratpoison, the mouse-less, window-less window manager. It's screen(1) for X. No more space lost with decorations, no more time lost resizing and moving windows.
Actually it's "pirate-stimulating late-night conversations". You try to convince other people to become pirates. You want to do that to reduce global warming, of cource.
I don't think I'd call it "genius", it's not so smart a move. I'd call it dareful, however. And the reason why a small evil company that nobody cares about has the balls to come with absurd clauses on their EULA is that well-known, large and renowned evil companies rotinely do so. Kinda like those weak bullies who bullied you in high school only when the bigger bully was around.
Love Hina? FAKE? I think you want Angel Sanctuary.
:)
The local anime convention was once held at a traditional Catholic school. The completely insane organizers decided to show Angel Sanctuary. I had the opportunity of watching it in a big screen between a giant statue of Mother Mary and another of a saint. The school never allowed another anime convention on its grounds. I think it was worth it
Nonono, you don't get it. Giant squids are villains we like. They're cool villains. You shall not confuse them with the uncool villains we hate, such as Microsoft, Bush or Eric Raymond.
Most of the dedicate nethack players I've met seem to have dreamt with ascii at least once. From my experience, nethack and tetris are the most dream-prone games.
In my nightmares, I was once chased by a giant yellow lowercase 'c'...
I once asked on slashdot about why people use MySQL and how does it compares to PostGreSQL. Got a bunch of interesting responses.
It's been a long while since I stopped playing tabletop RPGs, and I'm uninpressed with the d20 system and mostly everything new in the scene. A pleasant surprise was The Riddle Of Steel, with a truly innovative combat and evolution system which I'd like to try. Unfortunately the core book is a bit difficult to import around here.
Anyone who has been to GenCon got any news about TROS?
Nowhere in the official page NetBSD is compared to Linux.
Also, NetBSD people don't claim it is more ported than Linux, they claim it's more portable, and that's true. If you want to port NetBSD to a new system, it's much simpler than porting Linux (due to the carefully engineered, well-documented kernel source and porting procedures).
I submitted this back at the slashdot.jp announcement, but it was rejected here, and now I hate slashdot.
NEC is working on a 180g NetBSD-based server. The Univerge WNX is targeted at low noise, space economy, wereable computing, and on-the-fly multimedia processing. They claim a single person can use it with a mini-camera to brocadcast real-time video and audio (through wireless LAN/FOMA) and record the data at the same time, with two CF slots. Cool gadget. Japanese press release (with pictures).
First, Rails is in Ruby. If you never used Ruby, you may think it's not a big deal. If you did, you're probably interested in Rails now, because you love Ruby.
But even if you don't care about Ruby, Rails is amazing because... well, instead of bogging you down with boring hype, I'll point to the videos on the official page (they're much cooler hype). Seriously, watch them.
Which is why I like to serve XHTML 1.1, and use a xslt script (good for Sablotron, btw) to generate fallback .html versions. Tie with Apache content negotiation and that bad browser will get his plain HTML 4.01 files, while browsers which are cool will ask for nice, valid application/xhtml+xml XHTML 1.1.
XHTML 1.0 is bogus. If you're going to serve text/html tag soup, you might as well serve plain HTML.
The GC clearly still holds rank with gameplay innovation, but interestingly they sit 3rd overall in the worldwide console battle.
The GC is waay above Xbox in Japan (even the original GBA still sells more than Xbox). The Nintendo DS has been the top seller for some time. Playstation 2 and PSP are second and third, and although the Gamecube is not selling well, it is far from the disaster that is Xbox. Of the 2004 top 100 console games, 54 were for Sony consoles, 46 Nintendo, and 0 MS. Source.
Wordwide console battle != Western console battle.
source
Is subversion natively supported yet? Last time I saw using it with Eclipse required you to manually recompile subversion with some java binding thing and then installing an plugin...
For those too lazy to RTFA, his hall of shame is interesting -- especially the AOL bit *insert generic AOL hate*