Because of this highly porous quality they are characterized by extremely high surface area, high thermal and acoustical resistivity, low dielectric constant, and low refractive index. There are other materials that exhibit each of these properties, however, only aerogel exhibits all of these properties at the same time.
Once I've asked my girlfriend what was the most frustrating thing about computers. She said: "every time i wanna save my new document it asks me 'where do you wanna save the file?' why must i care? i've typed in the document, you've made a file of it and i ask you to save it, you decede. When i need it back i'll ask for it."
my point is: if the goal of desktop environment is to make computer and software more usable - make all these files and directories invisible. people who cares about files will use filemanagers or xterm to see them, the rest should care about the content rather then how it is represented in a filesystem...
i wonder, do GTK or Qt or any other toolkit feature readline based or readline emulating text input fields? many of us can type much faster then do wrist wrecking mouse gestures, i'm especially trying to avoid double clicks as inherently evil and I KNOW MY FILESYSTEM, i don't care how beautiful and selfexplanatory the icons are - they do not enpower me, i still prefer to ls /u <TAB>/p <TAB>/med <TAB> s <TAB> to see what's in my/usr/portage/media-sound directory.
i don't mean point-and-click and drag-and-drop interfaces suck, i just mean: why the mainstream open source desktop environments try to mock the mainstream commercial desktops? why command line and desktop are kept two separate worlds? why <TAB> serves absolutelly different functions in command line and GUI?
i dream about the day when using desktop applications will be as intuitive for a command line user as for somebody whose right hand seldom leaves the mouse. as for now i often feel trapped when i have to use another GUI application [for example using mozilla at the moment. why can't i maximize this text field? because i can't do that in IE?]
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The fact that different cultures have different morals and taboos doesn't meen that one culture is right and the other is wrong. It just displays that truth and false have nothing to do with it. Morals belong to the domain of ethics, they are about good and bad, which are, unlike truth and false, subjective. "What's good for a russian is death for a german" says a proverb [guess whose;)].
Challenging the morals is useful because the context changes while morals tend to be rigid and conservative and not good anymore.
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my point is: if the goal of desktop environment is to make computer and software more usable - make all these files and directories invisible. people who cares about files will use filemanagers or xterm to see them, the rest should care about the content rather then how it is represented in a filesystem...
i don't mean point-and-click and drag-and-drop interfaces suck, i just mean: why the mainstream open source desktop environments try to mock the mainstream commercial desktops? why command line and desktop are kept two separate worlds? why <TAB> serves absolutelly different functions in command line and GUI?
i dream about the day when using desktop applications will be as intuitive for a command line user as for somebody whose right hand seldom leaves the mouse. as for now i often feel trapped when i have to use another GUI application [for example using mozilla at the moment. why can't i maximize this text field? because i can't do that in IE?]
The fact that different cultures have different morals and taboos doesn't meen that one culture is right and the other is wrong. It just displays that truth and false have nothing to do with it. Morals belong to the domain of ethics, they are about good and bad, which are, unlike truth and false, subjective. "What's good for a russian is death for a german" says a proverb [guess whose ;)].
Challenging the morals is useful because the context changes while morals tend to be rigid and conservative and not good anymore.
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