Hello, please do not post to slashdots in realities other than your own. This slashdot exists in a reality other than the one which contains the Gnome and KDE to which you are referring. While your comments regarding these projects, and regarding Millennium's post, may apply to the reality from which you originated, they simply do not apply to this reality, and as such should not be posted on this slashdot.
My experience with KDE and Gnome, and YMMV, has been this. Both almost never crash, even with heavy use. Gnome crashes usually amount to the panel croaking and then starting up again right away. Big deal. At worst, X will quit. KDE crashes tend to cause X to lock up the mouse and keyboard, meaning that I have to drag my ass down the hall and beg someone to give me a telnet window so I can kill X myself. "Why don't you get Windows," they ask. Oh, the shame of it all, the humiliation!
I think the link to the BT article is dead, but apparently the researcher doesn't think healthy people should have this kind of thing. And it isn't any faster than a mouse - yet.
Obviously it's expensive. $3 per miniute for dial-up internet access is pretty extravagant no matter where you're standing. I remember when ISP's operated on per-hour rates. They were extravagant too. Now they don't work anymore, because technology became cheaper.
What's involved in a "tremendous infrastructure upgrade"?
Perhaps more to the point, how many channels are really there? Are they being used? Used efficiently? Does anyone even know?
What about virtual keyboards? I believe the Transmeta guys were demoing something like this at the original announcement. Either you poke at a surface like a touchscreen or wear a glove-like thing that keeps track of your fingers for you.
The really good thing about this would be customizability: use the numpad a lot? Tear it off and drag it over the letter keys. I'd actually kind of like to have something like pedals for ctrl and alt so I don't have to stretch my hand out to put my pinky and index fingers on key combinations in emacs. You could just look at the VKB to see what the keys do in quake or etc, instead of digging out the manual. And it could be redesigned to fit the interface.
The obvious idea is wearable computers. Cell modem and CPU in a small backpack, plus a HMD, pointer device, and voice recognition. Poof, you're a gargoyle.
Virtual tour guides... universal translators... scrambled cellular internet telephony... starcraft on a road trip...
The UCITA isn't law yet. Nothing like this has ever been law before, AFAIK. How can you think about all the good respect for it will do when it's never existed before to respect. Are you actually willing to speculate that something like this would be beneficial to you in some way?
Huh? No, really. For education. I wouldn't suggest that you just learn assembly and then use that for everything, but if you're enthusiastic about programming, then it's best to start out with the simplest situation, as close to the wire as is reasonable, IMHO (and in Don Knuth's NSHO). You'll understand what is really going on, down to the specific instructions being passed to the processor.
It's not as if you'll be doing anything that really calls for OO or even block structured techniques. But when you get to that point, won't it be nice to have C to turn to.
Whitespace, meaning \n, is signifigant in your shell:
echo foo
is different from
echo foo
Specifically, one prints "foo", and the other echoes nothing and then tries to execute the file named foo.
Whitespace characters are characters just like alphanumerics. Is/. "losing" whitespace characters? Or is it censoring them? Stand up for your right to express nothing!
Absolutely not. What it prevents is playing the movie without unscrambling software. I think part of the idea might be to make money on the players, and not worry so much about the data itself. If you have two friends with DVD players and infinite disk space, there's no real way to stop them from sharing everything.
Yeah, that's exactly what Andrew was complaining about. People say "China" and don't specify whether they mean the Chinese government, people, hackers, whores, or some other group.
Imagine if everyone said that Unix was made by "America"...
Nothing confuses me more than when some agency claims that exposure to information is bad.
It's tempting to dismiss the MPAA and Chinese Government as themselves ignorant, but we know the justified (if not just) reasons for their actions. The MPAA wants a monopoly (oligopoly?) on DVD players. Chinese Government wants a controllable populace, and why not, they've had one for 5000 years, right? Ugh.
In every case where a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, a little more knowledge is usually the safest thing of all.
# apt-get install smalleiffel Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: smalleiffel 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 1143kB of archives. After unpacking 5130kB will be used. Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org potato/main smalleiffel 1.8.0.78-3 [1143kB] Fetched 1143kB in 6s (164kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package smalleiffel. (Reading database... 37192 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking smalleiffel (from.../smalleiffel_1.8.0.78-3_i386.deb)... Setting up smalleiffel (1.8.0.78-3)... Building HTML index of the Eiffel class library... ... HTML build completed
Whoops, there goes Debian again, giving out proprietary software.
Isn't Illiad more of a user than a tech anyway? From the User Friendly FAQ: I've worked for game design companies, an internet service provider, and other nifty places. I've also had paying jobs as a writer, editor, art director, project manager, game designer and graphic artist. My principle background is in the creative industry, although I have always worked with computers. It doesn't say he is/was a coder, or tech support - just that he works with computers. Also, I thought the examples he (Kurtz) attached to the rant were at least interesting, because they illustrate the kind of perspective that only those without the burden of understanding can have. Experienced users just don't see the asterisks... who knows what else we're missing?
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Every byte counts when you're loading 150 messages at once. Maybe you could set up some kind of filter that would expand acronyms on a web page for you if they're really annoying.
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Hello, please do not post to slashdots in realities other than your own. This slashdot exists in a reality other than the one which contains the Gnome and KDE to which you are referring. While your comments regarding these projects, and regarding Millennium's post, may apply to the reality from which you originated, they simply do not apply to this reality, and as such should not be posted on this slashdot.
Please excuse my off-topicness.
My experience with KDE and Gnome, and YMMV, has been this. Both almost never crash, even with heavy use. Gnome crashes usually amount to the panel croaking and then starting up again right away. Big deal. At worst, X will quit. KDE crashes tend to cause X to lock up the mouse and keyboard, meaning that I have to drag my ass down the hall and beg someone to give me a telnet window so I can kill X myself. "Why don't you get Windows," they ask. Oh, the shame of it all, the humiliation!
Thank you, Gnome.
I think the link to the BT article is dead, but apparently the researcher doesn't think healthy people should have this kind of thing. And it isn't any faster than a mouse - yet.
Obviously it's expensive. $3 per miniute for dial-up internet access is pretty extravagant no matter where you're standing. I remember when ISP's operated on per-hour rates. They were extravagant too. Now they don't work anymore, because technology became cheaper.
What's involved in a "tremendous infrastructure upgrade"?
Perhaps more to the point, how many channels are really there? Are they being used? Used efficiently? Does anyone even know?
What about virtual keyboards? I believe the Transmeta guys were demoing something like this at the original announcement. Either you poke at a surface like a touchscreen or wear a glove-like thing that keeps track of your fingers for you.
The really good thing about this would be customizability: use the numpad a lot? Tear it off and drag it over the letter keys. I'd actually kind of like to have something like pedals for ctrl and alt so I don't have to stretch my hand out to put my pinky and index fingers on key combinations in emacs. You could just look at the VKB to see what the keys do in quake or etc, instead of digging out the manual. And it could be redesigned to fit the interface.
Sad but true. Are there any cell companies that have flat rates? Is it impossible, or are they just opportunistically greedy?
The obvious idea is wearable computers. Cell modem and CPU in a small backpack, plus a HMD, pointer device, and voice recognition. Poof, you're a gargoyle.
... universal translators ... scrambled cellular internet telephony ... starcraft on a road trip ...
Virtual tour guides
This is a troll, right?
The UCITA isn't law yet. Nothing like this has ever been law before, AFAIK. How can you think about all the good respect for it will do when it's never existed before to respect. Are you actually willing to speculate that something like this would be beneficial to you in some way?
Assembly.
Huh? No, really. For education. I wouldn't suggest that you just learn assembly and then use that for everything, but if you're enthusiastic about programming, then it's best to start out with the simplest situation, as close to the wire as is reasonable, IMHO (and in Don Knuth's NSHO). You'll understand what is really going on, down to the specific instructions being passed to the processor.
It's not as if you'll be doing anything that really calls for OO or even block structured techniques. But when you get to that point, won't it be nice to have C to turn to.
Whitespace, meaning \n, is signifigant in your shell:
/. "losing" whitespace characters? Or is it censoring them? Stand up for your right to express nothing!
echo foo
is different from
echo
foo
Specifically, one prints "foo", and the other echoes nothing and then tries to execute the file named foo.
Whitespace characters are characters just like alphanumerics. Is
Would anyone who's used this like to share some impressions?
I'd try it for myself, but the little plastic phallu^H^H^H^H^H^H microphone that came with my computer was eaten by something.
Absolutely not. What it prevents is playing the movie without unscrambling software. I think part of the idea might be to make money on the players, and not worry so much about the data itself. If you have two friends with DVD players and infinite disk space, there's no real way to stop them from sharing everything.
Yeah, that's exactly what Andrew was complaining about. People say "China" and don't specify whether they mean the Chinese government, people, hackers, whores, or some other group.
...
Imagine if everyone said that Unix was made by "America"
Nothing confuses me more than when some agency claims that exposure to information is bad.
It's tempting to dismiss the MPAA and Chinese Government as themselves ignorant, but we know the justified (if not just) reasons for their actions. The MPAA wants a monopoly (oligopoly?) on DVD players. Chinese Government wants a controllable populace, and why not, they've had one for 5000 years, right? Ugh.
In every case where a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, a little more knowledge is usually the safest thing of all.
# apt-get install smalleiffel ... 37192 files and directories currently installed.) .../smalleiffel_1.8.0.78-3_i386.deb) ... ...
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
smalleiffel
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1143kB of archives. After unpacking 5130kB will be used.
Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org potato/main smalleiffel 1.8.0.78-3 [1143kB]
Fetched 1143kB in 6s (164kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package smalleiffel.
(Reading database
Unpacking smalleiffel (from
Setting up smalleiffel (1.8.0.78-3)
Building HTML index of the Eiffel class library...
... HTML build completed
Whoops, there goes Debian again, giving out proprietary software.
Isn't Illiad more of a user than a tech anyway? ... who knows what else we're missing?
From the User Friendly FAQ:
I've worked for game design companies, an internet service provider, and other nifty places. I've also had paying jobs as a writer, editor, art director, project manager, game designer and graphic artist. My principle background is in the creative industry, although I have always worked with computers.
It doesn't say he is/was a coder, or tech support - just that he works with computers.
Also, I thought the examples he (Kurtz) attached to the rant were at least interesting, because they illustrate the kind of perspective that only those without the burden of understanding can have. Experienced users just don't see the asterisks
Every byte counts when you're loading 150 messages at once. Maybe you could set up some kind of filter that would expand acronyms on a web page for you if they're really annoying.