I use emblems to decorate desk-cuts that I need to revisit. It helps me visually locate them in a way that grouping or positioning on the desktop can't.
preferences > behavior > always use text-entry location bar
With this set you'll have a constant reminder of your path, in editable fashion, presented in text mode. With this unset, the path is presented in graphical mode.
In either mode you can (with the right panel having focus) type the leading characters of your target and it will be located; a text entry box opens in the lower right corner of the nautilus window which can be cancelled by ESC.
>>Tabs would provide additional choice
I'm not sure what you would have tabs do exactly. It would surely complicate the tree view. And D&D. You can use the context, file or keyboard operations to open in a new window so you can click on a target and open it separately from the original nautilus window. This allows you to compare and operate on separate directories side-by-side, which a single window with tabs would not.
Yeah, the first comma is misplaced. Maybe atrocious was a little harsh. It read a little rough. I think it masked your sarcasm in the last sentence, which I obviously missed on the first read....
sigh
I'm seeing that spelling of ridiculous a lot lately too. Why is that?
mod parent funny! (but then again, it's possible that you're actually serious...)
I know it's obnoxious to be a spelling Nazi, but when being constantly pounded with spelling that would have embarrassed a fourth grader just a couple generations ago, sometimes I have to be obnoxious.
grammar is atrocious.
It's rediculous enough to make me loose my temper alot of the time... if you know what I mean.
spell it with me...R.I.D.I.C.U.L.O.U.S
spell it with me...A..L.O.T two words
but if your wife calls you to tell you that Senator AzzHat is going to be downtown near where the bus station used to be so you better jack your backside into that old bomb of a car if you want to be able to tear or race through 2nd st cause it will all be blocked off and nothing but a tank will get through... and she needs lots of cash (for the penny ante poker game and you forgot to get coinage yesterday). And asks you to please feed your rocket (the dog) before you go looking for that rifle and armor (some MMORPG you play)....
Perhaps if the conversation were such, and if some Fed took notice, and you found yourself sitting in a little room, you might then care?
Truly an interesting idea and certainly not a scenario your congressperson has ever faced before. Think of it? An organized, um, *group* of people all professing a belief in similar things and the *might* to hold your elected official to account!
And you'll have the millions of dollars to pad the way like the other special interest groups, I'm sure....
EFF: http://www.eff.org/ DownsizeDC: http://www.downsizedc.org/ - Make Congress read every word of every bill they create before they vote on it. Urge your Representative and your Senators to sponsor DownsizeDC.org's "Read the Bills Act" (RTBA).
I'm real happy with my Dell. I bought it about 2 years ago and opted for the a pretty stripped down model of the N series (sans operating system). I price checked online and realized I could get memory and hard drives cheaper, shipped, than by impulse at Dell.
I think you have a great point about instant gratification though. Were I looking at options in a Wal-Mart, I'd be unable to compare option's online pricing, and the "tug" to just go ahead and get that 240G drive instead of the 120G would be pretty strong.
Being in a small town, if my Dell dies after-hours, I'd be sorely tempted to give Wal-Mart a try. And one of the things holding me back from buying from them to upgrade my son's computer is that none of them come with enough memory and all the linux HCC checking I'd expect to have to do.
All in all, I welcome choice. Given Wal-Mart's penetration and distribution expertise, I'd be hard pressed to find a downside here. While Gateway and Dell may *currently* profit more from their business and enterprise dealings, their online customization was a major factor in building both their reputation and their critical mass, IIRC. All those machines weren't customized by geeks only, so folks (not directly to parent) give the average American adult a little more credit, k?
Another factor preventing my buying a pre-boxed offering at a Wal-Mart is that most if not all come with a printer and monitor. These devices are useless to me. I don't actually need even the keyboard nor mouse (I'm no threat to donkeys, but I doubt either of our two optical Logitechs will need replacement in the near future).
One last big consideration. Pack Rat that I am, I really really really need to dump some old gear. It's time. . So, on-site recycling would go a huge distance towards influencing me to purchase at a Wal-Mart.
Sam, you listenin' ??? You got the chops, ole dude, just haunt your son or something, k?;)
ps- the Logitechs? Both purchased at --you guessed it-- Wal-Mart. Go figure...
Having personally experienced the education system of today (sophomore in high school), I'm fairly certain it's because the school system has been seriously degraded from what it was. Gifted students are being dragged down to the level of everyone else, and normal classes are slowed down to accomodate for slower learners due to NCLB. Many schools have eliminated gifted programs completely, in the view that most of the people going through the education system won't amount to anything even if they are educated. This is a heavily biased view, as a smart student surrounded by idiots, but it is more or less true.
No, it was the same in 1975. Observe that by nature a forced-attendance, all-comers school can only target the LCD. That means split off the forever limited into their own group, and the other -middle- percentiles will coalesce towards the mean. The top percentiles will split themselves off (and if they don't have resources to follow up their interests then you have a very bad situation brewing).
Speaking as one who has no real knowledge of the facts, numbers, nor realities (but it's/., so I won't let that hamper me;) I'd say the increasing overhead of government mandates is the core reason gifted programs are shut down. Be careful of the paradox that what you observe is changed by the act, or more specifically that your POV is limited to your own locale. Some schools are increasing thier gifted programs in lock-step of their growth in their locality.
It's distressing that you have such a nonchalant and dismissive attitude towards the vast majority of your peers. Leading a good life, friends, maybe raising a family is amounting to something, even if it's just as a laboror.
You'll get out of your education according to what you put into it. Most of your life's lessons won't be gleaned from the classroom anyway....
I've used Moneydance for nearly two years now - two major revisions. It works extremely well. This was the last piece of the puzzle and, since MD, I've used Linux exlusively at home and never looked back.
But as you say, that's not business accounting. I did install quasar (FC4) but I've upgraded to Fedora Core 5 and have not tried it since. I've never really used it. It does appear to be worth a look though.
Wikipedia has a decent comparison chart you might find interesting. These things always seem to come after the boss has committed, don't they? sigh...
I never get modded up so I don't know how many folks will see this, but still it might save a few people some time.;)
>>The problem is, most of the actual features were ripped out >>and mothballed, while most of the anti-features were left in
I blame it on the bean counters. Just like stock dividends, Microsoft has to 'reset' their feature set. Take out everything that works from Windows 95, add in some cruft that obfuscates the UI... and call it ME. Take out everything really 'good' about Win 2k/XP, add in some cruft that obfuscates the UI... and call it Vista.
This is a rational business choice. It sets the bar low again so they have oh so much room for improvment for the marketing staff to use as fodder for incessant media blitzes.
I can't wait to see the TV commercials for Glass. I bet the actors all think it's just spiffy!;)
No it's not a good thing. It's the complete commercialization of the internet and the death of the internet as we know it. It culminates in your inability to access most sites at any respectable latency or speed unless you belong to this inner group. If your ISP or the site you visit doesn't play along, well dude, yur outta luck.
hmmmm, it might be a dampener on kdpr0n and spam sites tho
For example a sqrt function will require x >= 0, that is the calling function must have checked. Since this is specifically listed in the contract your calling function is expected to be able to indicated how it knows that x >= 0 before computing sqrt(x).
In this situation I prefer to throw an Exception. I've written the method to return a float but I've been asked to evaluate a negative number. This does not evaluate to a float. My 'contract' is the mathematical definition of SQRT, not some arbitrary business requirement that I first test the passed-in value. By writing the method to throw an Exception I'm signaling to the consumer (the *real* business requirement - the Controller in MVC) that I do not know how to do what I've been asked to do so I must ask you to please determine your own next step.
This requires a rational Exception hierarchy and to facilitate I used custom Exceptions that added Item and Severity tracking. The idea for this was push back to the consumer with a label for the processing step that was exceptional, and a relative measure of it's likelihood of recovery. I/O to database, for example, may very well succeed if retried, but a primary key issue would not.
These were used extensively where DTO's (Data Transport Object) provided the data on which the method acted. Yes, there was quite a bit of verification code in the methods to assure the DTO was complete (especially with Weblogic XMLObjects), and that might be simpler to do given a contractual-based language.
So my question is: isn't these the same thing?
In any case, in practice, in *most* cases, handling an incomplete DTO (contractual) or some kind of processing failure (procedural) really meant the same thing to my consumer (eg. we failed to do what you asked). And more often than not it punted back to its own consumer! And it may be noted that my consumer often threw a more generic form of the custom Exception. In cases where the interface design was more mature, though, it was expressively possible to map these against probable actions in my consumer.
You couldn't Flickr in 1994 because the web infrastructure didn't exist. Gopher and NNTP are not the same experience.
>>Demographics and Usability are EVERYTHING (specially since they are key factor to price )
You're basically citing supply/demand here. Demographics being 'the haves' and the demand, Usability being the 'apropriatness' giving the supply. The main thing different about web2 is that it mutates as folks create content linking content linking services.
I think the same effect is evident in audio mashups in that there's an inherent need in us to modify the world around us. Do you remember how long it took to get a gopher site to add something?!
I think that's a magnatude (ok, if I have to; paradigm) shift and worth noting...
It's a price/value proposition. Almost anything is worth a download;)
I used Quicken 2003 professional (or whatever they called the full version) and bought it for about $90 USD. It sucked. Quicken stopped being really useful to me, wrt increased features, back in about 1998. For about a quarter the cost, I bought Moneydance and use it on linux. It does everything I need and stuff I haven't even tried out yet.
Would I use today's Quicken if I could get a download for free? Well, The other main competitor is Money, and the effort to try something new is a major factor, so if not for Moneydance, I'd have to say I'd be sorely tempted.
That wouldn't prevent me from continuing to bitch about Quicken though...
"...and the truth of the matter is, users are making poor choices based upon the fact that they are given poor options. Right now the average user is given the option of "open this file if it is a file or run it if it is a program and let it do anything it wants" or "don't open this file or program."
Since users want to view data and install software, eventually they are bound to make the wrong choice....UI's need to let them know what is data and what is an executable. OS's need to run executables in sandboxes by default"
Spot On dude. You're expression approaches unity;) My dad had a saying about what a person can conceive (they can achieve). This applies to attack writers and they're getting pretty good at the game. Despite using linux and being very careful of what websites I visit, I never know if there's not some hidden *thing* on my computer. Not for certain. Some unknown hole in my hardware firewall, some compromise of a well-trusted website, some Nth-forwarded 'funny' email that my brother sent me.... all these can catch me no matter my own sophistication.
and what is the "guidance" really worth? It's peppered with disclaimers and nuance of forward-looking, unreliable content. Truth is that companines that *have* to give guidance, usually provide only pablam that reassure shareholders, but that has not a lick of influence to their real future. Companies on solid footing are not giving guidance, they give reports. IMO, those speak for themselves. The value of analysts is to catch those situations where past performance is likely to change by a large amount; either up or down. I see very few analysts who can provide this kind of insight.
>> First off, your university doesn't spend squat on Microsoft products. >> Seriously, Microsoft gives them to us. I should know, >> since I'm in IT for a university.
Doesn't the fact of the unequal cost, in comparison to what home and smb/business users pay, directly drive what you in IT can do about choice of tools? By which I mean that executive decision-making based on subsidized price-model must surely belay any expense or change.
I would guess that the only way this could change is in the political arena.
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I use emblems to decorate desk-cuts that I need to revisit. It helps me visually locate them in a way that grouping or positioning on the desktop can't.
>>like an address bar,
preferences > behavior > always use text-entry location bar
With this set you'll have a constant reminder of your path, in editable fashion, presented in text mode. With this unset, the path is presented in graphical mode.
In either mode you can (with the right panel having focus) type the leading characters of your target and it will be located; a text entry box opens in the lower right corner of the nautilus window which can be cancelled by ESC.
>>Tabs would provide additional choice
I'm not sure what you would have tabs do exactly. It would surely complicate the tree view. And D&D. You can use the context, file or keyboard operations to open in a new window so you can click on a target and open it separately from the original nautilus window. This allows you to compare and operate on separate directories side-by-side, which a single window with tabs would not.
But, as they say, YMMV..
Yeah, the first comma is misplaced. Maybe atrocious was a little harsh. It read a little rough. I think it masked your sarcasm in the last sentence, which I obviously missed on the first read....
sigh
I'm seeing that spelling of ridiculous a lot lately too. Why is that?
Loosing one's temper by posting on slashdot, not losing one's temper *then* loosing, by some action, externally...
/. is really all about, now is it?
pot/black
keeping to any particular point isn't what
(but then again, it's possible that you're actually serious...)
grammar is atrocious.
spell it with me...R.I.D.I.C.U.L.O.U.S
spell it with me...A..L.O.T two words
Something about glass houses comes to mind.
Other than that, I dig your point dude...
Like, ewwww. I wanna see it!
cool tip. thanks. Turns out there are 78 members in our local group (county) so I'll definately give it a closer look.
>> WHO CARES?
but if your wife calls you to tell you that Senator AzzHat is going to be downtown near where the bus station used to be so you better jack your backside into that old bomb of a car if you want to be able to tear or race through 2nd st cause it will all be blocked off and nothing but a tank will get through... and she needs lots of cash (for the penny ante poker game and you forgot to get coinage yesterday). And asks you to please feed your rocket (the dog) before you go looking for that rifle and armor (some MMORPG you play)....
Perhaps if the conversation were such, and if some Fed took notice, and you found yourself sitting in a little room, you might then care?
Bravo!
Truly an interesting idea and certainly not a scenario your congressperson has ever faced before. Think of it? An organized, um, *group* of people all professing a belief in similar things and the *might* to hold your elected official to account!
And you'll have the millions of dollars to pad the way like the other special interest groups, I'm sure....
EFF: http://www.eff.org/
DownsizeDC: http://www.downsizedc.org/ - Make Congress read every word of every bill they create before they vote on it.
Urge your Representative and your Senators to sponsor DownsizeDC.org's "Read the Bills Act" (RTBA).
I'm real happy with my Dell. I bought it about 2 years ago and opted for the a pretty stripped down model of the N series (sans operating system). I price checked online and realized I could get memory and hard drives cheaper, shipped, than by impulse at Dell.
;)
I think you have a great point about instant gratification though. Were I looking at options in a Wal-Mart, I'd be unable to compare option's online pricing, and the "tug" to just go ahead and get that 240G drive instead of the 120G would be pretty strong.
Being in a small town, if my Dell dies after-hours, I'd be sorely tempted to give Wal-Mart a try. And one of the things holding me back from buying from them to upgrade my son's computer is that none of them come with enough memory and all the linux HCC checking I'd expect to have to do.
All in all, I welcome choice. Given Wal-Mart's penetration and distribution expertise, I'd be hard pressed to find a downside here. While Gateway and Dell may *currently* profit more from their business and enterprise dealings, their online customization was a major factor in building both their reputation and their critical mass, IIRC. All those machines weren't customized by geeks only, so folks (not directly to parent) give the average American adult a little more credit, k?
Another factor preventing my buying a pre-boxed offering at a Wal-Mart is that most if not all come with a printer and monitor. These devices are useless to me. I don't actually need even the keyboard nor mouse (I'm no threat to donkeys, but I doubt either of our two optical Logitechs will need replacement in the near future).
One last big consideration. Pack Rat that I am, I really really really need to dump some old gear. It's time. . So, on-site recycling would go a huge distance towards influencing me to purchase at a Wal-Mart.
Sam, you listenin' ??? You got the chops, ole dude, just haunt your son or something, k?
ps- the Logitechs? Both purchased at --you guessed it-- Wal-Mart. Go figure...
that's in version 3.0 and will be released before the holidays. promise!
No, it was the same in 1975. Observe that by nature a forced-attendance, all-comers school can only target the LCD. That means split off the forever limited into their own group, and the other -middle- percentiles will coalesce towards the mean. The top percentiles will split themselves off (and if they don't have resources to follow up their interests then you have a very bad situation brewing).
Speaking as one who has no real knowledge of the facts, numbers, nor realities (but it's
It's distressing that you have such a nonchalant and dismissive attitude towards the vast majority of your peers. Leading a good life, friends, maybe raising a family is amounting to something, even if it's just as a laboror.
You'll get out of your education according to what you put into it. Most of your life's lessons won't be gleaned from the classroom anyway....
grade D- for salesmanship....
Troll??? Good Gawd, Man... where's your sense of humor? Not only the funniest thing I've read in this article so far, but possibly prophetic.
I've used Moneydance for nearly two years now - two major revisions. It works extremely well. This was the last piece of the puzzle and, since MD, I've used Linux exlusively at home and never looked back.
;)
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But as you say, that's not business accounting. I did install quasar (FC4) but I've upgraded to Fedora Core 5 and have not tried it since. I've never really used it. It does appear to be worth a look though.
Wikipedia has a decent comparison chart you might find interesting. These things always seem to come after the boss has committed, don't they? sigh...
I never get modded up so I don't know how many folks will see this, but still it might save a few people some time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_accoun
>>The problem is, most of the actual features were ripped out
;)
>>and mothballed, while most of the anti-features were left in
I blame it on the bean counters. Just like stock dividends, Microsoft has to 'reset' their feature set. Take out everything that works from Windows 95, add in some cruft that obfuscates the UI... and call it ME. Take out everything really 'good' about Win 2k/XP, add in some cruft that obfuscates the UI... and call it Vista.
This is a rational business choice. It sets the bar low again so they have oh so much room for improvment for the marketing staff to use as fodder for incessant media blitzes.
I can't wait to see the TV commercials for Glass. I bet the actors all think it's just spiffy!
>>Accounting: Quickbooks? There IS no replacement.
;)
Please look at MoneyDance for personal finance a la Quicken Pro and Quasar for business accounting.
Quasar - http://www.linuxcanada.com/quasar.shtml
Moneydance - http://www.moneydance.com/
by the way, moneydance platform support is Win/Lin/Mac
No it's not a good thing. It's the complete commercialization of the internet and the death of the internet as we know it. It culminates in your inability to access most sites at any respectable latency or speed unless you belong to this inner group. If your ISP or the site you visit doesn't play along, well dude, yur outta luck.
;)
hmmmm, it might be a dampener on kdpr0n and spam sites tho
oh what the 43ll, let'r rip
and yur father chased after missing links :)
In this situation I prefer to throw an Exception. I've written the method to return a float but I've been asked to evaluate a negative number. This does not evaluate to a float. My 'contract' is the mathematical definition of SQRT, not some arbitrary business requirement that I first test the passed-in value. By writing the method to throw an Exception I'm signaling to the consumer (the *real* business requirement - the Controller in MVC) that I do not know how to do what I've been asked to do so I must ask you to please determine your own next step.
This requires a rational Exception hierarchy and to facilitate I used custom Exceptions that added Item and Severity tracking. The idea for this was push back to the consumer with a label for the processing step that was exceptional, and a relative measure of it's likelihood of recovery. I/O to database, for example, may very well succeed if retried, but a primary key issue would not.
These were used extensively where DTO's (Data Transport Object) provided the data on which the method acted. Yes, there was quite a bit of verification code in the methods to assure the DTO was complete (especially with Weblogic XMLObjects), and that might be simpler to do given a contractual-based language.
So my question is: isn't these the same thing?
In any case, in practice, in *most* cases, handling an incomplete DTO (contractual) or some kind of processing failure (procedural) really meant the same thing to my consumer (eg. we failed to do what you asked). And more often than not it punted back to its own consumer! And it may be noted that my consumer often threw a more generic form of the custom Exception. In cases where the interface design was more mature, though, it was expressively possible to map these against probable actions in my consumer.
Is this sort of thing handled well in Eiffel?
a little too subtle, but I agree...
You couldn't Flickr in 1994 because the web infrastructure didn't exist. Gopher and NNTP are not the same experience.
>>Demographics and Usability are EVERYTHING (specially since they are key factor to price )
You're basically citing supply/demand here. Demographics being 'the haves' and the demand, Usability being the 'apropriatness' giving the supply. The main thing different about web2 is that it mutates as folks create content linking content linking services.
I think the same effect is evident in audio mashups in that there's an inherent need in us to modify the world around us. Do you remember how long it took to get a gopher site to add something?!
I think that's a magnatude (ok, if I have to; paradigm) shift and worth noting...
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did somebody say free beer? I'm in!
It's a price/value proposition. Almost anything is worth a download ;)
I used Quicken 2003 professional (or whatever they called the full version) and bought it for about $90 USD. It sucked. Quicken stopped being really useful to me, wrt increased features, back in about 1998. For about a quarter the cost, I bought Moneydance and use it on linux. It does everything I need and stuff I haven't even tried out yet.
Would I use today's Quicken if I could get a download for free? Well, The other main competitor is Money, and the effort to try something new is a major factor, so if not for Moneydance, I'd have to say I'd be sorely tempted.
That wouldn't prevent me from continuing to bitch about Quicken though...
mod parent up....
...UI's need to let them know what is data and what is an executable. OS's need to run executables in sandboxes by default"
;) My dad had a saying about what a person can conceive (they can achieve). This applies to attack writers and they're getting pretty good at the game. Despite using linux and being very careful of what websites I visit, I never know if there's not some hidden *thing* on my computer. Not for certain. Some unknown hole in my hardware firewall, some compromise of a well-trusted website, some Nth-forwarded 'funny' email that my brother sent me.... all these can catch me no matter my own sophistication.
"...and the truth of the matter is, users are making poor choices based upon the fact that they are given poor options. Right now the average user is given the option of "open this file if it is a file or run it if it is a program and let it do anything it wants" or "don't open this file or program."
Since users want to view data and install software, eventually they are bound to make the wrong choice.
Spot On dude. You're expression approaches unity
and what is the "guidance" really worth? It's peppered with disclaimers and nuance of forward-looking, unreliable content. Truth is that companines that *have* to give guidance, usually provide only pablam that reassure shareholders, but that has not a lick of influence to their real future. Companies on solid footing are not giving guidance, they give reports. IMO, those speak for themselves. The value of analysts is to catch those situations where past performance is likely to change by a large amount; either up or down. I see very few analysts who can provide this kind of insight.
IMHO...
>> First off, your university doesn't spend squat on Microsoft products.
>> Seriously, Microsoft gives them to us. I should know,
>> since I'm in IT for a university.
Doesn't the fact of the unequal cost, in comparison to what home and smb/business users pay, directly drive what you in IT can do about choice of tools? By which I mean that executive decision-making based on subsidized price-model must surely belay any expense or change.
I would guess that the only way this could change is in the political arena.