Apparently many of them get something I have heard called a "cross-street" directory; basically the list of numbers along a street, organized by address. We often got marketing calls in which the operator would read the wrong name from the list, and start talking to us as if we were our across-the-street neighbor (with address one number lower). Then we'd tell them it was the wrong number, and hang up. Then the phone would ring several seconds later, same person, same spiel, but getting the right name. Used to happen all the time.
Someone buying an SUV wants, among other things, ground clearance.
Around here, people apparently buy SUVs basically because it's the cool thing to do; it's Texas, so you need a truck, and why not buy one of those way-too-big, leather upholstered monstrosities, just because you can afford it. Reminds me of the Subaru commercial where the guy's "SUV" is actually a school bus - "yeah, BIG. <rolls eyes>" I would hazard that at least 75% of the SUVs around Houston never see offroad or snow, or spend any time hauling anything around, other than the self-important driver's spotty ass and bratty kids. So basically they should be called a 'V' - no Sport and very little Utility, really just a Vehicle.
There's not going to be a case where the trailer slams its brakes suddenly, causing the driver of the car behind to be unable to stop in time, unless said driver isn't paying attention.
I think you're giving most drivers WAY too much credit. This kind of stuff happens all the time here. A lot of drivers I've seen, definitely a majority, couldn't be much less involved in the driving process. They eat, drink, put on makeup, shave, talk on the phone, read the paper, fiddle with the radio, change out CDs, and the list goes on. How do you pay attention to what's going on around you on the road, when you have all these distractions? Answer: you don't, and you're an absolute danger to everyone around you. I can understand why many professional race drivers don't have civilian operators' licenses - they don't want to have to be on the same roads as those people. I know I sure don't. The SUV blight just exacerbates this problem - you've got somebody who's driving a vehicle which would probably snap your neck off if it hit you (I drive a BMW 3-series, so I'm in this group), at a speed that's dangerously high for the truck's design, and is more involved with their phone conversation than in operating the truck properly. And on top of all that, they're driving it like it's a sedan. What do you think is going to happen?
There used to be (like back in the 3.x days, and maybe into 4.x) a setting in the Netscape X11 app-defaults file which allowed you to turn off the blink tag. Now of course Moz uses a widget set which doesn't have the app-defaults file, so we're all just sucking wind.
Hey wait, the Moz developers (developers developers...) gave us a setting to turn off popups, but they didn't give us one to turn off blink? What gives?
If demon is using apache, and if they have mod_asis set up (it's in the default apache module set, IIRC), you can use as-is files. Check this page for docs on the module. Looks like it'll probably work for what you want.
That's exactly why this would be a good question to ask: "hey buddy, the organization of which you are in charge has been accused by everybody as being a bunch of scumbags. How do you respond?" Except not in such, uh, direct language. I'd like to hear his answer to that one.
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Aliases like that are a good way to screw yourself. If you depend on that -i alias, what happens when you move to a system (or su to a user) which doesn't have that same alias? Pain, most likely.
For some reason, Redhat systems do just the opposite of what you describe - root gets -i (on rm, cp, and mv), and everybody else doesn't. One of the first things I do on those systems is remove those aliases from root's bashrc, just to forestall any trouble.
When all the pizza places started using phone numbers to key customers' information, I was expecting stuff like this to happen. Just dial up the place, and since they already have your info on the screen, they greet you with "Good evening Mr. Wilhelm, what can I get for you?" But it hasn't happened; they still have to ask your phone number. Surely CID isn't too hard for a computer to understand...?
Either score a video card that will feed multiple monitors (G400, some of the Radeons, surely others), or find some old PCI video cards and slot 'em in addition to your normal AGP card (or other PCI card, if you're back in the dark ages like me:). I've been running a pair of #9 I128s for years now (using XI Graphics' multihead server), and it works like a mofo; both heads have different bit depth and resolution. Now that XFree86 supports multihead (I'm on 4.2, IIRC), I'm back to the free servers, and it's about dead simple to setup.
You missed it too. It's not where or what format or how do they render, all those problems have been solved. My XFree86 installation will use all font types that most people have: TT, TypeI, Speedo, and all those funky bitmapped fonts that have come with X for years. And I didn't have to add any software to do it; it just works. If you don't like how they render, work on the renderer - it belongs in the X core, not some damn other program.
The problem is configuring X to use new fonts. If you hit the manpages a little, it's possible to tweak the fonts.dir and fonts.scale files to include new fonts. But how many people around here actually know how to do that? Probably not a whole bunch. What we actually need is something that can figure out all the XLFD fields from information in the font file, and tweak the files for us. There wasn't much info on the program in the article, so no telling if they've solved this problem or not.
Oh jeez. Last I heard (a couple years ago, so it may have changed), the NBA minimum salary was like $50K, and those guys work a hell of a lot harder than the baseballers. And apparently, there are a whole lotta players who make that salary. They do have a "veteran" minimum of like a mil or something, but I'm not too sure what constitutes a veteran.
Salary caps (and sane ones, at that) are the answer.
Conversely WP has NO limit on the number of different fonts used in a single document.
As I recall, from back in the 6.0 days, WP even came with a small wp-script program (what was that called?) that would generate a document with an example of every single configured font. Of course I had half a zillion fonts installed, so it took a while to generate and print, but it worked great.
I've always liked WP; I even bought a copy for Linux, probably about version 7, many years ago. It worked just fine, and had no trouble reading my DOS-created documents.
You're missing the point. Sure, flames and projectiles are prohibited by BB rules, but it would probably be more exciting if they weren't. Imagine a gas-powered 'bot getting hit with a flamethrower - BLAM!!! Talk about spectacular! It's all about the highlight reel, man.
Acid sprays and tasers might be interesting too, from a pure destruction standpoint, but they're surely too dangerous to be allowed. And as other posters have mentioned, EMP weapons would be boring, and a little too destructive.
X does support pretty much all the commonly-available font file formats, but it's a bitch to install new ones. I was talking about this the other week with a friend of mine; he's a Linux user, but not terribly technical, and I was trying to find an easy way to describe how to install fonts to him. I just couldn't do it without writing half a book about it. And there is no decent, simple font installer for X. Mac has one, Windows has one, but any X-based environment hasn't quite gotten to that one yet. And forget about trying to explain XLFD; that's even a little hard for somebody who does understand it.
These pie menus are really irritating... [snip] On the other hand, mouse gestures could be really useful
The bonus of pie menus, which nobody seems to have picked up on yet in this discussion, is that once you learn the pie menus, they become a gestural interface. Read some of Don Hopkins' descriptions, and you'll note that the menu is supposed to not pop up immediately, but have a little lag. There is also the ability to "mark ahead", which will allow you to goto a menu selection and activate it before it even shows up. With nested menus, you should be able to mark ahead more than one step, and make the selection you want, without having to even see any of the menus. Voila, a gestural interface.
It might be interesting to see some of the similarities in a person's various mailboxes. I am thinking that some of your legitimate mail (hey, why not keep the spam-filtering stuff in there too?) might need some hierarchy of "mailbox foo is more likely than mailbox bar, for a similarly-likely input"; distinct mailboxes could start developing similar signatures. It also might help a person consolidate mail groups that "match", content-wise.
Shit, now I'm going to have to try this out. There goes my copious spare time...:)
He did a show on grillin' (which was quite good), and answered your question: charcoal. And preferrably not the mass-produced briquet stuff either, lump charcoal all the way.
Well, have a look at the Electoral College, and the goofy way the US elects its president. You know why that was put in place? Because the founding fathers didn't trust the populace to make an informed decision (not that it ever has or will ever matter). So they rounded up a bunch of people who were part of the parties, and surely they know more about the candidates and issues than Farmer Brown.
How about a system that has huge numbers of options- but customizing the system in powerful ways is a trivial matter?
I think you've just described the UI Holy Grail.:) And yeah, I'd go to some decent lengths to get that too.
That said, it seems to me that this would be a really difficult balance to achieve. Having huge numbers of options is the other edge of the sword to trivial customization. To manage those huge options, you're generally going to need a huge manager thingie, but to do things powerfully (read: few steps to affect big changes), you will probably want a simple manager thingie. There's no easy solution that I can think of. <shrug>
It seems like a good way to scare new users to me. I've used my g/f's Windon't box a few times, and the thing that I'm looking for is almost never available in the stripped-down start menu. I spend my days working on Unix systems, so having to look for something doesn't bother me a whole lot. However, consider the proverbial "Aunt Bertha", and what she might do if her program, which she hasn't used in a little while, suddenly "disappeared" from the start menu. She'd freak! She'd figure her computer was broken somehow, and another needless support call has just been generated. And why? Because the start menu in Windon't wasn't well-designed to begin with, and becomes much too complex, much too quickly.
Also, the fact that the interface is trying to be smarter than the user, well, that seems like a futile goal to me. The computer "knows" what you want to do? No it doesn't. It doesn't know a damn thing. All it knows how to do is move data to and from memory, and execute instructions, and not a thing more.
Tailoring a computer experience should be left to the user who needs the tailoring, not to some dude who doesn't even know the user. When I used that Windon't machine, I found my "tailored" experience quite distasteful, because it wasn't what I expected to see. I wanted to see all the available options, and instead only saw those options which the interface designer decided I should see.
GPL doesn't have anything to do with the input and output of GLP'ed programs, only with the code.
Absolutely. There used to be an exception: GNU Bison used to require that the yyparse() output files, and thus the libraries/programs which included them, were licensed with the GPL, since most of the contents of the output files are actually distributed with the Bison source. However, this is no longer the case. Check out the licensing.
The manpages can help you here, as well. Figure out a keyword that's likely to be in the one-line summary of the manpage, and do 'man -k '. If that doesn't give you what you want, try a different keyword. Barring that, hit your favorite web search engine.
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Apparently many of them get something I have heard called a "cross-street" directory; basically the list of numbers along a street, organized by address. We often got marketing calls in which the operator would read the wrong name from the list, and start talking to us as if we were our across-the-street neighbor (with address one number lower). Then we'd tell them it was the wrong number, and hang up. Then the phone would ring several seconds later, same person, same spiel, but getting the right name. Used to happen all the time.
Someone buying an SUV wants, among other things, ground clearance.
Around here, people apparently buy SUVs basically because it's the cool thing to do; it's Texas, so you need a truck, and why not buy one of those way-too-big, leather upholstered monstrosities, just because you can afford it. Reminds me of the Subaru commercial where the guy's "SUV" is actually a school bus - "yeah, BIG. <rolls eyes>" I would hazard that at least 75% of the SUVs around Houston never see offroad or snow, or spend any time hauling anything around, other than the self-important driver's spotty ass and bratty kids. So basically they should be called a 'V' - no Sport and very little Utility, really just a Vehicle.
There's not going to be a case where the trailer slams its brakes suddenly, causing the driver of the car behind to be unable to stop in time, unless said driver isn't paying attention.
I think you're giving most drivers WAY too much credit. This kind of stuff happens all the time here. A lot of drivers I've seen, definitely a majority, couldn't be much less involved in the driving process. They eat, drink, put on makeup, shave, talk on the phone, read the paper, fiddle with the radio, change out CDs, and the list goes on. How do you pay attention to what's going on around you on the road, when you have all these distractions? Answer: you don't, and you're an absolute danger to everyone around you. I can understand why many professional race drivers don't have civilian operators' licenses - they don't want to have to be on the same roads as those people. I know I sure don't. The SUV blight just exacerbates this problem - you've got somebody who's driving a vehicle which would probably snap your neck off if it hit you (I drive a BMW 3-series, so I'm in this group), at a speed that's dangerously high for the truck's design, and is more involved with their phone conversation than in operating the truck properly. And on top of all that, they're driving it like it's a sedan. What do you think is going to happen?
There used to be (like back in the 3.x days, and maybe into 4.x) a setting in the Netscape X11 app-defaults file which allowed you to turn off the blink tag. Now of course Moz uses a widget set which doesn't have the app-defaults file, so we're all just sucking wind.
Hey wait, the Moz developers (developers developers...) gave us a setting to turn off popups, but they didn't give us one to turn off blink? What gives?
If demon is using apache, and if they have mod_asis set up (it's in the default apache module set, IIRC), you can use as-is files. Check this page for docs on the module. Looks like it'll probably work for what you want.
Well said; have a virtual mod point on me. Let's see it, mods.
That's exactly why this would be a good question to ask: "hey buddy, the organization of which you are in charge has been accused by everybody as being a bunch of scumbags. How do you respond?" Except not in such, uh, direct language. I'd like to hear his answer to that one.
Aliases like that are a good way to screw yourself. If you depend on that -i alias, what happens when you move to a system (or su to a user) which doesn't have that same alias? Pain, most likely.
For some reason, Redhat systems do just the opposite of what you describe - root gets -i (on rm, cp, and mv), and everybody else doesn't. One of the first things I do on those systems is remove those aliases from root's bashrc, just to forestall any trouble.
When all the pizza places started using phone numbers to key customers' information, I was expecting stuff like this to happen. Just dial up the place, and since they already have your info on the screen, they greet you with "Good evening Mr. Wilhelm, what can I get for you?" But it hasn't happened; they still have to ask your phone number. Surely CID isn't too hard for a computer to understand...?
Either score a video card that will feed multiple monitors (G400, some of the Radeons, surely others), or find some old PCI video cards and slot 'em in addition to your normal AGP card (or other PCI card, if you're back in the dark ages like me :). I've been running a pair of #9 I128s for years now (using XI Graphics' multihead server), and it works like a mofo; both heads have different bit depth and resolution. Now that XFree86 supports multihead (I'm on 4.2, IIRC), I'm back to the free servers, and it's about dead simple to setup.
There was the "Cool Spot" game, for what platform I can't remember, but you were the 7UP red spot. No idea if it was any good, never played it.
You missed it too. It's not where or what format or how do they render, all those problems have been solved. My XFree86 installation will use all font types that most people have: TT, TypeI, Speedo, and all those funky bitmapped fonts that have come with X for years. And I didn't have to add any software to do it; it just works. If you don't like how they render, work on the renderer - it belongs in the X core, not some damn other program.
The problem is configuring X to use new fonts. If you hit the manpages a little, it's possible to tweak the fonts.dir and fonts.scale files to include new fonts. But how many people around here actually know how to do that? Probably not a whole bunch. What we actually need is something that can figure out all the XLFD fields from information in the font file, and tweak the files for us. There wasn't much info on the program in the article, so no telling if they've solved this problem or not.
Oh jeez. Last I heard (a couple years ago, so it may have changed), the NBA minimum salary was like $50K, and those guys work a hell of a lot harder than the baseballers. And apparently, there are a whole lotta players who make that salary. They do have a "veteran" minimum of like a mil or something, but I'm not too sure what constitutes a veteran.
Salary caps (and sane ones, at that) are the answer.
Conversely WP has NO limit on the number of different fonts used in a single document.
As I recall, from back in the 6.0 days, WP even came with a small wp-script program (what was that called?) that would generate a document with an example of every single configured font. Of course I had half a zillion fonts installed, so it took a while to generate and print, but it worked great.
I've always liked WP; I even bought a copy for Linux, probably about version 7, many years ago. It worked just fine, and had no trouble reading my DOS-created documents.
You're missing the point. Sure, flames and projectiles are prohibited by BB rules, but it would probably be more exciting if they weren't. Imagine a gas-powered 'bot getting hit with a flamethrower - BLAM!!! Talk about spectacular! It's all about the highlight reel, man.
Acid sprays and tasers might be interesting too, from a pure destruction standpoint, but they're surely too dangerous to be allowed. And as other posters have mentioned, EMP weapons would be boring, and a little too destructive.
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X does support pretty much all the commonly-available font file formats, but it's a bitch to install new ones. I was talking about this the other week with a friend of mine; he's a Linux user, but not terribly technical, and I was trying to find an easy way to describe how to install fonts to him. I just couldn't do it without writing half a book about it. And there is no decent, simple font installer for X. Mac has one, Windows has one, but any X-based environment hasn't quite gotten to that one yet. And forget about trying to explain XLFD; that's even a little hard for somebody who does understand it.
These pie menus are really irritating... [snip] On the other hand, mouse gestures could be really useful
The bonus of pie menus, which nobody seems to have picked up on yet in this discussion, is that once you learn the pie menus, they become a gestural interface. Read some of Don Hopkins' descriptions, and you'll note that the menu is supposed to not pop up immediately, but have a little lag. There is also the ability to "mark ahead", which will allow you to goto a menu selection and activate it before it even shows up. With nested menus, you should be able to mark ahead more than one step, and make the selection you want, without having to even see any of the menus. Voila, a gestural interface.
* And last but not least: What is the airspeed velocity of an unlaiden swallow? (I actually had someone ask me that once)
Dude, so did I! It was hilarious! And of course, I gave the correct answer... :)
Unfortunately that particular gig didn't materialize, but they said it was because of them not having enough new work. Oh well.
Stylus - not relevant.
It says on the graphic that a stylus is actually "furnished on spacecraft", so yeah, it really is irrelevant. :)
It might be interesting to see some of the similarities in a person's various mailboxes. I am thinking that some of your legitimate mail (hey, why not keep the spam-filtering stuff in there too?) might need some hierarchy of "mailbox foo is more likely than mailbox bar, for a similarly-likely input"; distinct mailboxes could start developing similar signatures. It also might help a person consolidate mail groups that "match", content-wise.
:)
Shit, now I'm going to have to try this out. There goes my copious spare time...
He did a show on grillin' (which was quite good), and answered your question: charcoal. And preferrably not the mass-produced briquet stuff either, lump charcoal all the way.
Well, have a look at the Electoral College, and the goofy way the US elects its president. You know why that was put in place? Because the founding fathers didn't trust the populace to make an informed decision (not that it ever has or will ever matter). So they rounded up a bunch of people who were part of the parties, and surely they know more about the candidates and issues than Farmer Brown.
It's the same shit, just a different century.
How about a system that has huge numbers of options- but customizing the system in powerful ways is a trivial matter?
I think you've just described the UI Holy Grail. :) And yeah, I'd go to some decent lengths to get that too.
That said, it seems to me that this would be a really difficult balance to achieve. Having huge numbers of options is the other edge of the sword to trivial customization. To manage those huge options, you're generally going to need a huge manager thingie, but to do things powerfully (read: few steps to affect big changes), you will probably want a simple manager thingie. There's no easy solution that I can think of. <shrug>
It seems like a good way to scare new users to me. I've used my g/f's Windon't box a few times, and the thing that I'm looking for is almost never available in the stripped-down start menu. I spend my days working on Unix systems, so having to look for something doesn't bother me a whole lot. However, consider the proverbial "Aunt Bertha", and what she might do if her program, which she hasn't used in a little while, suddenly "disappeared" from the start menu. She'd freak! She'd figure her computer was broken somehow, and another needless support call has just been generated. And why? Because the start menu in Windon't wasn't well-designed to begin with, and becomes much too complex, much too quickly.
Also, the fact that the interface is trying to be smarter than the user, well, that seems like a futile goal to me. The computer "knows" what you want to do? No it doesn't. It doesn't know a damn thing. All it knows how to do is move data to and from memory, and execute instructions, and not a thing more.
Tailoring a computer experience should be left to the user who needs the tailoring, not to some dude who doesn't even know the user. When I used that Windon't machine, I found my "tailored" experience quite distasteful, because it wasn't what I expected to see. I wanted to see all the available options, and instead only saw those options which the interface designer decided I should see.
GPL doesn't have anything to do with the input and output of GLP'ed programs, only with the code.
Absolutely. There used to be an exception: GNU Bison used to require that the yyparse() output files, and thus the libraries/programs which included them, were licensed with the GPL, since most of the contents of the output files are actually distributed with the Bison source. However, this is no longer the case. Check out the licensing.
The manpages can help you here, as well. Figure out a keyword that's likely to be in the one-line summary of the manpage, and do 'man -k '. If that doesn't give you what you want, try a different keyword. Barring that, hit your favorite web search engine.