Okay so they say in TFA that the crater has most likely eroded away, but they could have at least shown a map of the region with a yellow circle to indicate where they think it is.
Randomizing names seems like a good idea if you have a small number of candidates. But present a randomized list of fifty candidates to a person of average-or-lower intelligence and they may well give up in frustration and pick one, well, randomly.
I think sticking with alphabetical lists would be better in that case.
Sorry, I'm on KDE 4.4.5 and still see random DE crashes and options that don't make sense. Widgets on the Dashboard lookalike randomly disappear altogether, that is if I can get them to launch properly at all. Compositing works fine, but I have to leave it turned off since other OpenGL programs don't work with it enabled so it may as well not work at all. Occasionally clicking on the "desktop" background is interpreted as a drag, and the entire "desktop" moves partway off the screen, requiring me to put it back with pixel-precision tracking - no snapping to edges or anything. Why the hell would I want that?
I know there was a lot of negativity about the KDE 4.0 release but I've moved on and judge the current release on its own merits. I just want a DE that works as well as KDE 3.3 did, dammit, and we still haven't seen anything from the KDE 4 line coming close to that.
You're right, so far as default desktop management goes, but:
From Windows XP SP3, I can navigate my file system [1] in exactly the same manner as I did with Windows 95. Explorer really hasn't changed all that much in the past 15 years. The Folder View (ie Tree view) is pretty good, IMO. That may be bias since I cut my teeth on XTGold.
[1] Well, other people's file systems. I don't use Windows on my own computers.
The problem with the radical left wing is that it is measured in distance from the right. Which keeps moving to the right. In the 1960's you had to be a hippie in a minivan or a communist or a black panther to be called radical left wing. These days all it takes is for you to say "gee blowing up children might not be a good thing."
No, all that proves is that you're not Hezbollah.
(though I suspect you weren't really serious about that - I'm going to further guess that you have no real interest in what ordinary folk considered "right wing" today actually think)
If that were true then we're not really looking back in time at all when we observe far away phenomena.
Which is bollocks. Of course there's a delay - it takes light real time to get from there to here. Imagine, if you will, a wormhole between here and that galaxy, making the total transit distance negligible (say a few light days to keep a safe distance from us). If you were able to travel (or even just peer) through that hole at will, what would you see?
That is the "now" that people refer to when asking about somethings current status.
Just because we currently have no way of observing what is happening there now (and there really is a "now", even taking into account relativity) doesn't mean the construct doesn't exist.
Yes, the Star Wars prequels had a tonne of CGI, but a very large amount of scenery, sets, etc were built or sculpted as models, photographed and composited into the scene. Most (not all) of the space stuff is obviously CGI, but most of the rest was practical elements, even if the actors were shot on greenscreen.
As an aside, both lead Mythbusters and 2/3 of the build team worked on practical effects for the prequels.
1. We'll never find labour in our own countries as cheap as in China. Slavery (which Chinese labour conditions are very, very close to) is illegal here. We have all those pesky human rights obligations. 2. Being able to outsource our pollution is a major convenience.
Face it, we (the western world) are just one big NIMBY.
He has in the past stated that he would ideally like to see people deprived of the option to run proprietary software. This is justified by claiming they should not have the freedom to deprive themselves of freedom. IOW, he seeks to protect people from themselves.
As others have mentioned, LibreOffice (formerly OOo) has "Impress", which is its presentation application. It's really just the "Draw" program called with a different parameter, but it does the job.
Although for presenting scientific content, PDF is now the much preferred option. This is more often than not generated from LaTeX (with the Beamer or Prosper classes), but plenty still use a conventional word processor or drawing package.
Indeed. In fact, some people in my organization are quite happy using Squirrelmail. You can do that when using standard IMAP on your server.
Unfortunately I haven't seen anything that will seriously compete with Outlook's calendaring functionality, which is where I'm betting its value lies for most businesses that use it. Sunbird (or Thunderbird + Lightning), Evolution and Korganizer all have their quirks and come across as rather under-developed. Until all of the above can work with the same WebDAV calendar without screwing it up Outlook has the edge. CalDAV is an option, but is a pain to set up (again due to lack of development).
Who, Eisenhower? I would have picked Korolev over him as the big instigator of space travel although he, while government funded, was never a president. Kennedy did alright too.
Actually, I like the idea of these USB-powered ultra-portable monitors. Now just give them a VGA input instead of their own USB-driven graphics chip and they'll be viable.
Funny thing is, since Slashdots message storage system is broken, your latest sig appears in every message you've ever posted. I never knew there was a problem with your prior posts until someone mentioned it.
Thanks to RMS for all his (often colourful) advocacy. But has it done him any good - has he managed to get access to the driver for his labs Xerox 9700 yet?
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Okay so they say in TFA that the crater has most likely eroded away, but they could have at least shown a map of the region with a yellow circle to indicate where they think it is.
Randomizing names seems like a good idea if you have a small number of candidates. But present a randomized list of fifty candidates to a person of average-or-lower intelligence and they may well give up in frustration and pick one, well, randomly.
I think sticking with alphabetical lists would be better in that case.
Sorry, I'm on KDE 4.4.5 and still see random DE crashes and options that don't make sense. Widgets on the Dashboard lookalike randomly disappear altogether, that is if I can get them to launch properly at all. Compositing works fine, but I have to leave it turned off since other OpenGL programs don't work with it enabled so it may as well not work at all. Occasionally clicking on the "desktop" background is interpreted as a drag, and the entire "desktop" moves partway off the screen, requiring me to put it back with pixel-precision tracking - no snapping to edges or anything. Why the hell would I want that?
I know there was a lot of negativity about the KDE 4.0 release but I've moved on and judge the current release on its own merits. I just want a DE that works as well as KDE 3.3 did, dammit, and we still haven't seen anything from the KDE 4 line coming close to that.
You're right, so far as default desktop management goes, but:
From Windows XP SP3, I can navigate my file system [1] in exactly the same manner as I did with Windows 95. Explorer really hasn't changed all that much in the past 15 years. The Folder View (ie Tree view) is pretty good, IMO. That may be bias since I cut my teeth on XTGold.
[1] Well, other people's file systems. I don't use Windows on my own computers.
The problem with the radical left wing is that it is measured in distance from the right. Which keeps moving to the right. In the 1960's you had to be a hippie in a minivan or a communist or a black panther to be called radical left wing. These days all it takes is for you to say "gee blowing up children might not be a good thing."
No, all that proves is that you're not Hezbollah.
(though I suspect you weren't really serious about that - I'm going to further guess that you have no real interest in what ordinary folk considered "right wing" today actually think)
Well they were German, after all.
If that were true then we're not really looking back in time at all when we observe far away phenomena.
Which is bollocks. Of course there's a delay - it takes light real time to get from there to here. Imagine, if you will, a wormhole between here and that galaxy, making the total transit distance negligible (say a few light days to keep a safe distance from us). If you were able to travel (or even just peer) through that hole at will, what would you see?
That is the "now" that people refer to when asking about somethings current status.
Just because we currently have no way of observing what is happening there now (and there really is a "now", even taking into account relativity) doesn't mean the construct doesn't exist.
Not necessarily the best comparison.
Yes, the Star Wars prequels had a tonne of CGI, but a very large amount of scenery, sets, etc were built or sculpted as models, photographed and composited into the scene. Most (not all) of the space stuff is obviously CGI, but most of the rest was practical elements, even if the actors were shot on greenscreen.
As an aside, both lead Mythbusters and 2/3 of the build team worked on practical effects for the prequels.
Well given that the latest /. report had the end of the Mayan calendar re-calculated to 2220 I don't know what to believe any more.
Now perhaps the local "rare" earth mines will be economically viable again, and we can start bringing our manufacturing back home.
(I'm not actually an American, but if you are, you should agree with the above)
I miss /. tags. This article would have been tagged 'flamebait' in record time.
The tap phenomenon has been known for some time as a useful analogue to a termination shock at the edge of our solar system.
But that would do away with two things:
1. We'll never find labour in our own countries as cheap as in China. Slavery (which Chinese labour conditions are very, very close to) is illegal here. We have all those pesky human rights obligations.
2. Being able to outsource our pollution is a major convenience.
Face it, we (the western world) are just one big NIMBY.
That is part of RMS' philosophy that concerns me.
He has in the past stated that he would ideally like to see people deprived of the option to run proprietary software. This is justified by claiming they should not have the freedom to deprive themselves of freedom. IOW, he seeks to protect people from themselves.
As others have mentioned, LibreOffice (formerly OOo) has "Impress", which is its presentation application. It's really just the "Draw" program called with a different parameter, but it does the job.
Although for presenting scientific content, PDF is now the much preferred option. This is more often than not generated from LaTeX (with the Beamer or Prosper classes), but plenty still use a conventional word processor or drawing package.
Indeed. In fact, some people in my organization are quite happy using Squirrelmail. You can do that when using standard IMAP on your server.
Unfortunately I haven't seen anything that will seriously compete with Outlook's calendaring functionality, which is where I'm betting its value lies for most businesses that use it. Sunbird (or Thunderbird + Lightning), Evolution and Korganizer all have their quirks and come across as rather under-developed. Until all of the above can work with the same WebDAV calendar without screwing it up Outlook has the edge. CalDAV is an option, but is a pain to set up (again due to lack of development).
Dammit, I'm going to have to go re-watch Second Reality now.
This is why all Intellectual Property laws, with the possible exception of Trademarks, need to be systematically dismantled.
Starting now.
Who, Eisenhower? I would have picked Korolev over him as the big instigator of space travel although he, while government funded, was never a president. Kennedy did alright too.
And I agree that the story is terrible
I'm guessing you've never seen Elephants Dream. :p
Actually, I like the idea of these USB-powered ultra-portable monitors. Now just give them a VGA input instead of their own USB-driven graphics chip and they'll be viable.
Does anyone know where I can get one?
You made yourself perfectly clear, right up to "capisce".
Ooh, if only I had mod points.
+1, Insightful
Funny thing is, since Slashdots message storage system is broken, your latest sig appears in every message you've ever posted. I never knew there was a problem with your prior posts until someone mentioned it.
Thanks to RMS for all his (often colourful) advocacy. But has it done him any good - has he managed to get access to the driver for his labs Xerox 9700 yet?