I'm from the countryside and I didn't really noticed how beautiful my night sky was. I began missing darkness and silence after moving to the city. You can't see any stars at all, and often the sky is purple with orange clouds. This just doesn't look real to me; I feel like if I'm inside a weird videogame.
By the way, if you want to help our children to see all those beautiful stars, take a look at darksky.org!
I'm a third-year Computer Science student. Although my English is still far from perfect, it's good enough to read documentation, mailing lists and academic books.
And I learned it from videogames, mostly SNES/PlayStation RPGs.
Possibly because all the families that had enough money to buy these toys were generally better off families...
Not here. I studied in a lot of (poor) public Brazilian schools, and most "smart" kids were in the lowest social classes (including me).
It's true that most of them played videogames (well, the boys, at least), but around here we generally play older systems wich are cheap; for example, the first Playstation is still the most popular console.
It's a gritty and disturbing world, where royal families can marry brother to sister to keep bloodlines pure, Mongolian horde empires have their own brand of laws and morals, and a joust is as celebrated as a professional wrestling match - and far more dangerous.
And that's exactly the way our own world was (is).
From the LaTeX-like quotes I guessed the article was written by an Emacs fanatic (hey, I'm an Emacs fanatic myself). I examined the source and bingo!, two spaces after each dot.
More interesting was the lack of closing paragraph tags and weird attribute style. Examining the headers I found the doctype:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
(Actually, LTDA is "limitada", a limited liability company).
0 - Nao tente isso em casa ok? Como fazer um sorvete em 5 minutos.
Don't try this at home, ok? How to make ice cream in 5 minutes.
1 - "Marco, quero sorvete".
"Marco, I want ice cream".
2 - Lucas indo comprar ingredientes.
Lucas going to buy ingredients.
3 - O ingrediente X (hohohoh, nitrogenio)
The ingredient X (hohohoh, nitrogen)
4 - "Completa ai, tio!"
"Fill it up, man!"
5 - Equipamento de seguranca.
Safety gear.
6 - Fazendo a massa...
Making the mass. I'm not sure if English "mass" have the same meaning as Portuguese "massa", but you can look at the picture and guess what it is.
7 - Pronto, agora sà falta congelar hohoho..
Done, now we only have to freeze it hohoho...
8 - "heheheh"
9 - Mais nitrogenio...
More nitrogen...
10 - "Vai mechendo, Dili."
"Keep moving it, Dili." (btw, it should be "mexendo" not "mechendo")
The name is a tribute to the 1958 movie that has passed into legend as âoethe worst ever madeâ, Plan 9 from Outer Space. The legend is, unfortunately, incorrect, as the few who have seen an even worse stinkeroo from 1966 called Manos: the Hands of Fate can attest.
I'm a fan of the IBM Blue Logo keyboard. We have some of them here at my university and the heavier keys are great, kinda like a typewriter. Looking for something similar on the Web I found this one, with swapped Control and Caps Lock. I tried to swap'em via xmodmap and it's great for Emacs.
I'd add two points:a large amount of useful libraries, and good "non-programmer tutorials" - including a free book.
I learned to program with Python in a Windows environment. Three years later I'm a CS student and I use GNU/Linux and BSD exclusively. Advocate Python to your newbies!
They're not running Linux on top of NetBSD (that would be Linux emulation, and BTW, it's already done by NetBSD people). They're porting Debian (the operating system, not Linux wich is a kernel) to the NetBSD kernel. The benefits? 8000+ packages.
I agree with you, but did you RTFA? Deliver a Mozilla 1.4 milestone that can replace the 1.0 branch as the stable development path, then move on to make riskier changes during 1.5 and 1.6. (...)
the reasons for this new plan are:
1. Phoenix is simply smaller, faster, and better -- especially better not because it has every conflicting feature wanted by each segment of the Mozilla community, but because it has a strong "add-on" extension mechanism. (emphasis mine).
The idea is not to "drop" the suite, but to make it modular instead of hardwired.
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I hoped to start apps by giving voice commands to my PC. I also expected voice authentication.
Does any slashdotter knows if there are GNU/Linux programs/libraries for that?
I'm from the countryside and I didn't really noticed how beautiful my night sky was. I began missing darkness and silence after moving to the city. You can't see any stars at all, and often the sky is purple with orange clouds. This just doesn't look real to me; I feel like if I'm inside a weird videogame.
By the way, if you want to help our children to see all those beautiful stars, take a look at darksky.org!
Lisp. See "Succinctness is Power".
Environmental and durability isssues aside, this thing is darn cool! I could even make a Japanese mod with it...
I hope this is cheap enough, I want one.
How does it compare against everyone's favorite, XFS?
I hate those G-something names from Gnome and K-something from KDE. I think I'll remove these "glibc" and "kernel" thingies, I never used them anyway.
(Ok, that's an old joke, but someone had to say it).
...and thus we have zombie spammers.
Like I always said.
I'm a third-year Computer Science student. Although my English is still far from perfect, it's good enough to read documentation, mailing lists and academic books.
And I learned it from videogames, mostly SNES/PlayStation RPGs.
Possibly because all the families that had enough money to buy these toys were generally better off families...
Not here. I studied in a lot of (poor) public Brazilian schools, and most "smart" kids were in the lowest social classes (including me).
It's true that most of them played videogames (well, the boys, at least), but around here we generally play older systems wich are cheap; for example, the first Playstation is still the most popular console.
It's a gritty and disturbing world, where royal families can marry brother to sister to keep bloodlines pure, Mongolian horde empires have their own brand of laws and morals, and a joust is as celebrated as a professional wrestling match - and far more dangerous.
And that's exactly the way our own world was (is).
Here.
:(
My university has a few Model M's around. My teacher won't trade, sell or give any of them to me though
From the LaTeX-like quotes I guessed the article was written by an Emacs fanatic (hey, I'm an Emacs fanatic myself). I examined the source and bingo!, two spaces after each dot.
More interesting was the lack of closing paragraph tags and weird attribute style. Examining the headers I found the doctype:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
Man, someone's still writing HTML 2.0!
I am a keyboard addict, mouse hater and hardcore screen/ratpoison/emacs user, but two single-press Control shortcuts are "too many freakin' keys"??
I guess you can never please everyone...
Er...
Control-L <keywords> -> Google "I'm Feeling Lucky" for keywords
Control-K <keywords> (or Control-L <tab> <keywords>) -> Google search for keywords
I don't think I understand what's your problem...
A translation of the "sorveteria" guys. I guess when I finish it their server will have melted down with /. .
Title: Sorveteria -196C LTDA
Ice Cream Shop -320F Inc
(Actually, LTDA is "limitada", a limited liability company).
0 - Nao tente isso em casa ok? Como fazer um sorvete em 5 minutos.
Don't try this at home, ok? How to make ice cream in 5 minutes.
1 - "Marco, quero sorvete".
"Marco, I want ice cream".
2 - Lucas indo comprar ingredientes.
Lucas going to buy ingredients.
3 - O ingrediente X (hohohoh, nitrogenio)
The ingredient X (hohohoh, nitrogen)
4 - "Completa ai, tio!"
"Fill it up, man!"
5 - Equipamento de seguranca.
Safety gear.
6 - Fazendo a massa...
Making the mass.
I'm not sure if English "mass" have the same meaning as Portuguese "massa", but you can look at the picture and guess what it is.
7 - Pronto, agora sà falta congelar hohoho..
Done, now we only have to freeze it hohoho...
8 - "heheheh"
9 - Mais nitrogenio...
More nitrogen...
10 - "Vai mechendo, Dili."
"Keep moving it, Dili."
(btw, it should be "mexendo" not "mechendo")
11 - Sai fumaÃa. Ã gelado.
Smoke goes out. It's cold.
12 - Pronto. 1 minuto depois ta pronto.
Done. 1 minute later it's done.
(This is a pun with a famous Brazilian lamen jingle).
13 - Vamos provar...
Let's try it...
14 - "Hummmm"
"Hmmmmm"
15 - "Pronto, tà bom, podem comer!"
"It's done, it's good, you may eat!"
16 - Repito: nao tente isso em casa.
I repeat: don't try this at home.
These news are funny when Slashdot's poll is "Worst Sci-Fi Movie Ever".
ESR has some info on Plan9 OS, wich include this footnote:
I'm a fan of the IBM Blue Logo keyboard. We have some of them here at my university and the heavier keys are great, kinda like a typewriter. Looking for something similar on the Web I found this one, with swapped Control and Caps Lock. I tried to swap'em via xmodmap and it's great for Emacs.
If you're an Emacs user, try swapping these two.
I'd add two points:a large amount of useful libraries, and good "non-programmer tutorials" - including a free book.
I learned to program with Python in a Windows environment. Three years later I'm a CS student and I use GNU/Linux and BSD exclusively. Advocate Python to your newbies!
I cannot but wonder what ESReality.com looks like... is it a place full of geeks bearing guns and where free market economic theory works?
You can find interesting articles about The Matrix's philosophic and religious background right on the official site. Enjoy.
They're not running Linux on top of NetBSD (that would be Linux emulation, and BTW, it's already done by NetBSD people). They're porting Debian (the operating system, not Linux wich is a kernel) to the NetBSD kernel. The benefits? 8000+ packages.
Don't forget the samurai daemon!
:)
Who needs a fat penguin or a yellow fish? This is the best mascot ever
I agree with you, but did you RTFA?
Deliver a Mozilla 1.4 milestone that can replace the 1.0 branch as the stable development path, then move on to make riskier changes during 1.5 and 1.6.
(...)
the reasons for this new plan are:
1. Phoenix is simply smaller, faster, and better -- especially better not because it has every conflicting feature wanted by each segment of the Mozilla community, but because it has a strong "add-on" extension mechanism. (emphasis mine).
The idea is not to "drop" the suite, but to make it modular instead of hardwired.
Enlightenment 1.0? An April's Fool joke, right?
This is what they want you to believe.
But the shocking truth is... Enlightenment was sold to Microsoft! The joke is just a cover. And I have the proof!
I like the idea. You could write easter eggs programs in a tutorial, for example, or in the end of a C file.