Yeah! Rock on! Red Yellow Blue, there! In your face, group-think! I did it! Used 'em all! Owwwww! Am I a radical art guy now? No group-think chainin' me down, no way!
Semi-seriously, though, primary colors used together are somewhat jarring (to the majority) and not soothing or calming. This is why McFood has all primary colors inside, to encourage diners to get the hell out o' there. Graphic arts classes probably mention this because their focus is somewhat commercial. Of course the true "artist" is not confined by commercial appeal, but driven.
Oh yeah, on topic! What is it with people and skins? I'm reminded of an old article describing the fun one could have with win98's active desktop. One sentence said something like, "If you run a lot of programs and don't see your desktop often, of course it's not all that useful." Great fun, though.
I say Sundog (on the ST) was one of the most amazing games of all time, given it fit on a 720k disk. It even had RPG! Loved those little stick figures closing in on you in the streets! I got good enough to go looking for them, I swear it's true. Always been curious, did anyone find a better way of making money than just running guns?
Chiming in here with praise for Jeff, geez, can he still be so alive? I also humbly adored the motorola 68000; after learning to write assembly on it back in the 80's, it was so sad and painful to move to the intel world, even though I held out till '96. No general purpose 32 bit registers? No movem d0-d7,a0-a7? What a lame chip!
But back to Jeff, and the old 1040 ST games he wrote; it was so cool to see little mandelbrots flying around on the screen, then the Dr. Who phone booth (sad, I forget what it's called), and the llamas, of course. Was that game called llamatron, too? No, seems like it was "Revenge of the mutant llamas." No, that doesn't sound right, either. Anyway, what a great creative programmer, today's games look so great, but don't pull me in like the old ones.
I still also can't give up my old ST's either, got a couple in the attic, one at school, still running great.
While it is reasonable to think "that the truth, as usual, lies somewhere in the middle," therein lies the danger of bad science. If enough bad science is pushed on the public, reasonable people who of course can't do their own actual research on global warming, for example, can be induced to believe that the truth must be "somewhere in the middle." That's the way propaganda works.
The vast majority of computers used are intel based boxes running MS operating systems, and this goes back to the ibm pc. Not macs, or amigas, or atari st's, which when the pc was introduced were arguably more powerful machines. Not terminals or simple workstations either, which most computers probably should be.
Of course just my opinion, which I am eminently qualified to give.
I tried Firefox right away on OS X, and yep, the scroll buttons are gone even if you switch back to the default theme. Surprisingly annoying to have no vertical scroll feedback. Plus, clicking on and going to another link didn't update the address in the toolbar.
On the other hand, Camino.7 + is imo a great browser, I've had no problems with the Nov. 4, 2003 build.
I don't remember them as being thought of as evil at all, they were just ubiquitous, and there was always that quote "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM." Maybe they built proprietary systems, but they used an open published architecture that pretty much led to their own fall through the add-on cards and peripherals. IBM is why we (mostly) still have these big ol' ugly boxes for computers instead of a computer built into the keyboard.
gnu - pronounced "new" or "nu" with a straight line over the u. See? Not so bad after all.
Hearty agreement on the KDE-kprograms, but at least you know which of the dozens of menu items on a default kde desktop probably aren't worth trying out.
Well. I think alien math would be quite like ours, actually, and further that given the right perl regular expression could translate a lot of ours to theirs and vice/versa. I also think science is neither intuitive nor counter-intuitive, but romance very often is. I humbly consider also that alien math might be much more advanced than ours, give or take a couple hundred thousand years. Unfortunately that 100K years is a drop in the universal time bucket, meaning most of us aliens will probably never inhabit the universe at the same time because we always just either blow up the damn planet or eat/drill/burn/plow under/kill with pesticides/kill with acid rain every last bit of greenery, and then each other. So we'll probably never know.
But, hey, in what sense did the Chinese not build a scientific system?
Intuition is not a powerful sense or skill; it is often wrong in mathematics, and those occasions are often very enjoyable for some reason. Science is never intuitive really, it's based on experimental results. The geniuses of the millenia always claim to have had intuitive insights, but I think they just remember the good ideas as opposed to the bad.
I feel your pain. Phi is such a cool constant, and the discussion has kind of strayed.
However, in the field of education the idea of invention or discovery is pretty hot and heavy, I'm not up on the jargon, perhaps someone else could share the points/counterpoints.
Also, it is true that much of mathematics is "made up" in the sense that there can be exploration within a system of axioms. But fields like planar and spherical trigonometry, the inverse-square relationship, number theory, probability, these things just are not human invention, divorced from the universe we inhabit.
No, I have to say that it is simply not reasonable to assume that other intelligent species would not construct symbolic systems of dealing with quantities, which is mathematics. They'd have to count, you see. Their suns would (at first) be circles, then spheres, and to me it seems a statistical impossibility that other species would not know of pi. And after a while, phi (the golden ratio) as well. And e pretty soon after that, or maybe before if they hit on capitalism sooner.
The fact that pursuit of knowledge within symbolic systems leads to more complex systems, that in turn come to be applicable to real world phenomena (as technology advances) has always made mathematics more of a zone of human discovery than invention.
Numbers like the golden ratio are built into reality just like pi is built into a circle, it's impressive us clever monkeys figured it out, is all.
And geez, I sure hope those gas-filled jellyfish from Jupiter have some poetry in their culture as well as a solid mathematics department.
Oh yes, and physics? Umm, there is no such thing as physics without mathematics.
Well, you know, the radio show came before the books, so maybe the only true experience of the guide was to happen upon it one looooonnnngggg night back in the 70's on some public radio station, and get hooked. The books were never as good, I thought.
I can not imagine what it would be like if I hadn't heard the radio show first and based everything off the books...
But hey, maybe it's a GOOD THING to appreciate quality works of art, however one is led to them, perhaps? Maybe elitism is kind of tiresome? I thought it was great that (the late great) Douglas Adams made a career out of hitchhiker, what a hoot. And I get a kick out of all the fans he picked up along the way, and don't think they missed out all that much, and I did love the books, too.
I think most interested people will pursue the source of these types of movies, and come to realize the original format was usually a more powerful work of art.
Of course I'm referring to the original radio show.
I agree with the above post as far as the system librairies, but must just mention that msconfig is certainly in xp, and is certainly always installed with 98 or xp, somewhere down in the windows folder. Just run-->msconfig, it's there.
The fact that any student of mathematics could look at that equation and not immediately know the solutions shows how completely useless these tools are for learning mathematics. Any of my peers, those of us who learned advanced mathematics in the years before calcs existed in any form can easily use these tools now. The reverse, that learning to use calcs can aid in easily learning mathematics, has clearly been shown to be a bust. Can any college prof out there who's been teaching since the 70's or 80's say that their students show GREATER aptitude in math since they've been allowed to use calculators? At all? Any improvements in their students' understanding at all? Ever since these tools came along the studies have consistently shown that students do no worse when allowed to use them in class and on tests. No worse. High praise, that.
Long aside: Don't get me wrong, these tools are great fun to use, and are indeed excellent for applications. That is, for approximate solutions for the day-to-day world of time and money, or even arbitrarily difficult mathematic calculations. But mathematics is about Proof, dear friends, not solutions.
I'll fess up here, I'm a high school math teacher of 25+ years in the classroom, and I have advanced algebra students who can not reduce 4/8. That is, they don't "see" 1/2 when they look at 4/8. Do you think they understand what 5.9% unemployment means at all? It could be 59%, or any other of those fine digits they see when they punch the buttons on their calculators. But for a lot of these kids, numbers and operations are just appropriate buttons to punch.
And don't get me started on those worthless games that can be played on the TI's, has anybody ever sat down in their room and played games on them? Of course not. Geez, just skip class if that's the best thing you can do with your time.
What should happen is that on seeing that equation your mind should see the unit circle and the line y=x intersecting it, done. Or just know it already from memory. Oh wait, I forgot, memorization is an outdated learning method. Too bad.
Exactly, just look at what happened to the Neanderthals. I have no doubt we probably killed them off. Yeah, they had a good 120,000 years or so, but come homo sapiens sapiens, they're history!
I meant to jump in with some information about how statistics work, but the above posting is much more clear and well-said. The arguments posted to the validity of the results are the same old same old; they've all been dealt with already. Discuss the results.
Funny thing, I've been using ATM's for decades and never had one fail to print out a receipt, so my experience has definitely been different then others.
And, I think it should be stated, punch cards are a not too bad and actually pretty good voting method, and undeserving of their current evil status. The fiasco in florida was just that, what was a virtual tie by statistical standards required a recount by hand (which is the law in most states), and that recount was basically cut short by the state and the supreme court. Punch-card ballots somehow ended up as the scapegoat.
Voting without a physical record of the vote is a really bad idea, let's hope sanity returns.
Man, exactly. This "supported apps" page looks very suspiciously like an attempt to mislead the too-casual shopper: there's six pages of lists of apps, and every page begins with "The following applications are supported by CrossOver Office. Click Here to read about how our medal system works." Of course the casual viewer doesn't care about medals, and the first page has all gold and silver medals. But by the 4th page, all but one of the apps, and of course all of the remaining 2 pages, have received the coveted "Known not to run" medal, or worse! (Cool award, I say.) Interesting how blurred the text on those medals is, at my normal font size!
If you do check the medal description, basically only the gold apps really run well enough to use regularly, at least as I understand it. Silver means "significant bugs", bronze means not dependable. There is, though, the promise to raise any bronze and silver medals up, though.
Codeweavers sound like good guys and all, with a cool product, and even if they are ultimately very up-front with the status of "supported apps", these pages are a little misleading.
Exactly. It takes one dialog box to change shells in os X 10.2, another if you want to change the default shell for all users, and bash was already there as well.
In my ideal system, a computer would watch the QWERTY keys, and pressing a key would ALWAYS do something.
I agree wholeheartedly with your keyboard ideas, absolutely! Though I think every key should do something obvious (hopefully) unless text-entry was expected. That is, q would always quit, h would always give help, with of course language adaptations as needed. All keys could be mapped. Not ctl-alt-key, but... key. I've always liked one letter batch files myself. x.
Ow! No need to curse. My post shows none of my concerns or what I've "learned to see through," just an admittedly simple observation. Sorry, no shame here.
Yes, the docs are all there, the how-to's are exhaustive, you've got man pages and the wonderfully intuitive info pages. What's tiresome in the 'nix community is to ask a simple question (yeah, I've RTFM, yeah, I've RTFInfo pages, blah, blah) and get a lengthy insulting response when the answer would have taken all of "edit fstab" or "read isapnptools", some simple phrase that would take no time at all to type. But no, all the 'nix b*#t#$ds have to go on and on about reading the usually badly written manual. Geez, msdos help was better, at least it always had "examples" as opposed to "syntax", whereas man pages typically list all generic options possible. Just answer the newbies question, or shove your FM you know where.
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Semi-seriously, though, primary colors used together are somewhat jarring (to the majority) and not soothing or calming. This is why McFood has all primary colors inside, to encourage diners to get the hell out o' there. Graphic arts classes probably mention this because their focus is somewhat commercial. Of course the true "artist" is not confined by commercial appeal, but driven.
Oh yeah, on topic! What is it with people and skins? I'm reminded of an old article describing the fun one could have with win98's active desktop. One sentence said something like, "If you run a lot of programs and don't see your desktop often, of course it's not all that useful." Great fun, though.
"We went from little guys made of 27 pixels to photo-realistic 3-D animation. It's a hell of a quarter century."
I say Sundog (on the ST) was one of the most amazing games of all time, given it fit on a 720k disk. It even had RPG! Loved those little stick figures closing in on you in the streets! I got good enough to go looking for them, I swear it's true. Always been curious, did anyone find a better way of making money than just running guns?
But back to Jeff, and the old 1040 ST games he wrote; it was so cool to see little mandelbrots flying around on the screen, then the Dr. Who phone booth (sad, I forget what it's called), and the llamas, of course. Was that game called llamatron, too? No, seems like it was "Revenge of the mutant llamas." No, that doesn't sound right, either. Anyway, what a great creative programmer, today's games look so great, but don't pull me in like the old ones.
I still also can't give up my old ST's either, got a couple in the attic, one at school, still running great.
While it is reasonable to think "that the truth, as usual, lies somewhere in the middle," therein lies the danger of bad science. If enough bad science is pushed on the public, reasonable people who of course can't do their own actual research on global warming, for example, can be induced to believe that the truth must be "somewhere in the middle." That's the way propaganda works.
Eh? Qualified? For what?
The vast majority of computers used are intel based boxes running MS operating systems, and this goes back to the ibm pc. Not macs, or amigas, or atari st's, which when the pc was introduced were arguably more powerful machines. Not terminals or simple workstations either, which most computers probably should be.
Of course just my opinion, which I am eminently qualified to give.
On the other hand, Camino .7 + is imo a great browser, I've had no problems with the Nov. 4, 2003 build.
No. Probably lived on the same readily-accessible-to-media planet as you.
>The real money is and was on servers.
Ah! So the reason M$ is so successful is servers!
Expandible? Altair? Whaaa?? I just don't remember seeing any "boxen" until the pc clones starting appearing.
And no, I wasn't thinking expansibility(?) or inefficiency, just clutter of wires and wasted desk or floor space.
I don't remember them as being thought of as evil at all, they were just ubiquitous, and there was always that quote "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM." Maybe they built proprietary systems, but they used an open published architecture that pretty much led to their own fall through the add-on cards and peripherals. IBM is why we (mostly) still have these big ol' ugly boxes for computers instead of a computer built into the keyboard.
gnu - pronounced "new" or "nu" with a straight line over the u. See? Not so bad after all. Hearty agreement on the KDE-kprograms, but at least you know which of the dozens of menu items on a default kde desktop probably aren't worth trying out.
But, hey, in what sense did the Chinese not build a scientific system?
Intuition is not a powerful sense or skill; it is often wrong in mathematics, and those occasions are often very enjoyable for some reason. Science is never intuitive really, it's based on experimental results. The geniuses of the millenia always claim to have had intuitive insights, but I think they just remember the good ideas as opposed to the bad.
Maybe a little irritable to be posting? Sorry.
However, in the field of education the idea of invention or discovery is pretty hot and heavy, I'm not up on the jargon, perhaps someone else could share the points/counterpoints.
Also, it is true that much of mathematics is "made up" in the sense that there can be exploration within a system of axioms. But fields like planar and spherical trigonometry, the inverse-square relationship, number theory, probability, these things just are not human invention, divorced from the universe we inhabit.
The fact that pursuit of knowledge within symbolic systems leads to more complex systems, that in turn come to be applicable to real world phenomena (as technology advances) has always made mathematics more of a zone of human discovery than invention.
Numbers like the golden ratio are built into reality just like pi is built into a circle, it's impressive us clever monkeys figured it out, is all.
And geez, I sure hope those gas-filled jellyfish from Jupiter have some poetry in their culture as well as a solid mathematics department.
Oh yes, and physics? Umm, there is no such thing as physics without mathematics.
I can not imagine what it would be like if I hadn't heard the radio show first and based everything off the books...
But hey, maybe it's a GOOD THING to appreciate quality works of art, however one is led to them, perhaps? Maybe elitism is kind of tiresome? I thought it was great that (the late great) Douglas Adams made a career out of hitchhiker, what a hoot. And I get a kick out of all the fans he picked up along the way, and don't think they missed out all that much, and I did love the books, too.
I think most interested people will pursue the source of these types of movies, and come to realize the original format was usually a more powerful work of art.
Of course I'm referring to the original radio show.
I agree with the above post as far as the system librairies, but must just mention that msconfig is certainly in xp, and is certainly always installed with 98 or xp, somewhere down in the windows folder. Just run-->msconfig, it's there.
Long aside: Don't get me wrong, these tools are great fun to use, and are indeed excellent for applications. That is, for approximate solutions for the day-to-day world of time and money, or even arbitrarily difficult mathematic calculations. But mathematics is about Proof, dear friends, not solutions.
I'll fess up here, I'm a high school math teacher of 25+ years in the classroom, and I have advanced algebra students who can not reduce 4/8. That is, they don't "see" 1/2 when they look at 4/8. Do you think they understand what 5.9% unemployment means at all? It could be 59%, or any other of those fine digits they see when they punch the buttons on their calculators. But for a lot of these kids, numbers and operations are just appropriate buttons to punch.
And don't get me started on those worthless games that can be played on the TI's, has anybody ever sat down in their room and played games on them? Of course not. Geez, just skip class if that's the best thing you can do with your time.
What should happen is that on seeing that equation your mind should see the unit circle and the line y=x intersecting it, done. Or just know it already from memory. Oh wait, I forgot, memorization is an outdated learning method. Too bad.
Exactly, just look at what happened to the Neanderthals. I have no doubt we probably killed them off. Yeah, they had a good 120,000 years or so, but come homo sapiens sapiens, they're history!
I meant to jump in with some information about how statistics work, but the above posting is much more clear and well-said. The arguments posted to the validity of the results are the same old same old; they've all been dealt with already. Discuss the results.
And, I think it should be stated, punch cards are a not too bad and actually pretty good voting method, and undeserving of their current evil status. The fiasco in florida was just that, what was a virtual tie by statistical standards required a recount by hand (which is the law in most states), and that recount was basically cut short by the state and the supreme court. Punch-card ballots somehow ended up as the scapegoat.
Voting without a physical record of the vote is a really bad idea, let's hope sanity returns.
Fat chance, though, eh, california?
If you do check the medal description, basically only the gold apps really run well enough to use regularly, at least as I understand it. Silver means "significant bugs", bronze means not dependable. There is, though, the promise to raise any bronze and silver medals up, though.
Codeweavers sound like good guys and all, with a cool product, and even if they are ultimately very up-front with the status of "supported apps", these pages are a little misleading.
Exactly. It takes one dialog box to change shells in os X 10.2, another if you want to change the default shell for all users, and bash was already there as well.
I agree wholeheartedly with your keyboard ideas, absolutely! Though I think every key should do something obvious (hopefully) unless text-entry was expected. That is, q would always quit, h would always give help, with of course language adaptations as needed. All keys could be mapped. Not ctl-alt-key, but ... key. I've always liked one letter batch files myself. x.
I'm going out on a limb here, but I'm betting there will always be a division between using a command line and a GUI. Sort of by definition, eh?
Ow! No need to curse. My post shows none of my concerns or what I've "learned to see through," just an admittedly simple observation. Sorry, no shame here.
Yes, the docs are all there, the how-to's are exhaustive, you've got man pages and the wonderfully intuitive info pages. What's tiresome in the 'nix community is to ask a simple question (yeah, I've RTFM, yeah, I've RTFInfo pages, blah, blah) and get a lengthy insulting response when the answer would have taken all of "edit fstab" or "read isapnptools", some simple phrase that would take no time at all to type. But no, all the 'nix b*#t#$ds have to go on and on about reading the usually badly written manual. Geez, msdos help was better, at least it always had "examples" as opposed to "syntax", whereas man pages typically list all generic options possible. Just answer the newbies question, or shove your FM you know where.