Why is SVG the future of desktop icons and NOT the future of the DESKTOP. For God's sake, why aren't all window managers/windowing systems vector based? It only seems logical.
I use my Ericsson T60-D cell phone for most of the stuff people use PDA's for. Its got a simple calendar that alerts me when it's time for an appointment (good for classes, since it has a reoccuring appointment option), not to mention a fairly robust phone book that handles e-mail addys as well as multiple phone numbers. It's also got games, timer/stopwatch/alarm, wap browser, different modes (profiles), and quite a few other things useful things. But most of all, T-9 Predictive, so you don't have to use multi-tap to send SMS, e-mails, etc. (Though it lacks a color screen and an OS that I could hack...)
Cell phones seem to be making pretty nice PDAs now-a-days.
The reason I don't currently use Linux is due in large part to the lack of GOOD graphic design tools. As Gimp states, it is no Photoshop killer. I agree 100%. Gimp is a hell of a lot harder to use than Photoshop, and I KNOW Photoshop, so switching is something that will take time that I don't have as a college student. Further, there is no Flash program for web design, and the Apache implementation of ASP (good for my purposes due to the JScript language that is similar to JavaScript/EMCAScript), isn't all that (I hear...). If these and some other corperations would support Linux, I'd never touch M$ again. And, sadly, I don't have the cash to get a Mac (But I will as soon as I get it, thus putting me under a *nix).
After this semester (and my need for graphic design tools subsides for a while), it's *nix from here on out... I hope.
Disclaimer: I can't back this up with any scientific testing. This is simply the way I see things based on intelligent deduction.
We've reach a point in medicine that genetic diseases that would normally render a human dead "before his time" now allow that person to live a normal life. Humans help humans live, even when they should, by nature's standards, die. We have effectively shallowed out the gene pool to such a degree that it would take several generations to work out the errors.
If a deer mutates so that it can hear better, and, therefore, avoid predators better, it will survive longer and spread it's mutated gene more, and his offspring will do the same. If a deer mutates so that it doesn't hear as well, it will get killed sooner and procreate far less. It's called natural selection. Survival of the fittest, if you will.
Humans don't follow this anymore. If we have a gene that should render us dead, we are able to live either through the spirit of humanitarianism, or by modern medicine. We can't evolve because good mutations aren't rewarded and bad mutations aren't weeded out.
As for humans being the most perfect beings we can be, I somehow don't see that this is the best we can be.
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Why is SVG the future of desktop icons and NOT the future of the DESKTOP. For God's sake, why aren't all window managers/windowing systems vector based? It only seems logical.
I use my Ericsson T60-D cell phone for most of the stuff people use PDA's for. Its got a simple calendar that alerts me when it's time for an appointment (good for classes, since it has a reoccuring appointment option), not to mention a fairly robust phone book that handles e-mail addys as well as multiple phone numbers. It's also got games, timer/stopwatch/alarm, wap browser, different modes (profiles), and quite a few other things useful things. But most of all, T-9 Predictive, so you don't have to use multi-tap to send SMS, e-mails, etc. (Though it lacks a color screen and an OS that I could hack...) Cell phones seem to be making pretty nice PDAs now-a-days.
The reason I don't currently use Linux is due in large part to the lack of GOOD graphic design tools. As Gimp states, it is no Photoshop killer. I agree 100%. Gimp is a hell of a lot harder to use than Photoshop, and I KNOW Photoshop, so switching is something that will take time that I don't have as a college student. Further, there is no Flash program for web design, and the Apache implementation of ASP (good for my purposes due to the JScript language that is similar to JavaScript/EMCAScript), isn't all that (I hear...). If these and some other corperations would support Linux, I'd never touch M$ again. And, sadly, I don't have the cash to get a Mac (But I will as soon as I get it, thus putting me under a *nix). After this semester (and my need for graphic design tools subsides for a while), it's *nix from here on out... I hope.
The new Unreal Tourny uses/will use Ogg...
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Disclaimer: I can't back this up with any scientific testing. This is simply the way I see things based on intelligent deduction.
We've reach a point in medicine that genetic diseases that would normally render a human dead "before his time" now allow that person to live a normal life. Humans help humans live, even when they should, by nature's standards, die. We have effectively shallowed out the gene pool to such a degree that it would take several generations to work out the errors.
If a deer mutates so that it can hear better, and, therefore, avoid predators better, it will survive longer and spread it's mutated gene more, and his offspring will do the same. If a deer mutates so that it doesn't hear as well, it will get killed sooner and procreate far less. It's called natural selection. Survival of the fittest, if you will.
Humans don't follow this anymore. If we have a gene that should render us dead, we are able to live either through the spirit of humanitarianism, or by modern medicine. We can't evolve because good mutations aren't rewarded and bad mutations aren't weeded out.
As for humans being the most perfect beings we can be, I somehow don't see that this is the best we can be.
He speaks the truth. New wireless standards are super fast, and easily replaceable later on, and minus one pesky wire from the lot.