Epiphany may be snappier, but it's "innovative" bookmarks make it useless for me. I have lots of bookmarks, arranged in hierarchical folders, with order set by hand, that roughly reflects my preferences and frequency of visits (say, a most frequently visited source of information for Python would be at the top of the Python folder in a Programming folder). Epiphany authors think they know better and do not allow me to create nested folders or arrange bookmarks in other than alphabetical order.
Support is still buggy in Firefox 1.5. I just experienced a complete xorg lock when I tried to look at the tiger logo at http://svg.codebot.org/. This happened under Ubuntu Breezy (5.10).
Or they could have released it as an Eclipse RCP application. This way third parties could add additional functionality, or even alternative views. For example, a graphical view showing the tree of all bugs/features blocked by a given bug. Or a diff view of patches that fix a bug.
NPR had an interesting interview about Deadwood. Turns out that at the time people were using words such as "damn", "bloody", "goddam", etc., which are no longer strong curse words. Thus the producer of Deadwood decided to convey the reality of times by "upgrading" curses.
Another interesting observation was made by George Carlin. He was essentially guessing that teaching somebody not to use certain "bad" words is the first step in teaching them to be complacent. If you can teach them not to make certain sounds, you can teach them not to yell at authorities. Often, people who play the "word police" are very controlling. Of course, cursing is not a sign of an educated person, but when you hit your shin on a corner of a desk, "fuck!" is a more appropriate response than "I think I experienced pain"...
Maybe they changed the name to avoid jokers calling tech support and complaining about "My longhorn"? Which reminds me of Pete's Coffee. They have coffee brand called "Major Dickanson". According to a friend of mine who worked in a Pete's store, more than one male customer referred to it as "Major Dick"
I second that. At the moment SCO is still as arrogant and deceitful as it was before. For example, on their front page they boast the following:
SCO Ranked #1 Corporate Query Site by Google. Based on billions of searches conducted by Google users around the world, the 2004 Year-End Zeitgeist ranks SCO's corporate Website as the most searched site for the year
Never mind that people were looking at, who were those lying SOBs. SCO is still trying to make a positive spin out of it. My guess is that even if you put them in jail you'll see the following on their web site
Utah correctional facilities show considerable interests in SCO product line by inviting Darl McBride to its facilities
While the above is true, all it means is that engineers from the bought company had a chance to look at Windows code and see what other exploits may exists. I am guessing that if SpyBot people were given the same chance, we'd see both program performing about even.
It always strikes me as odd that many articles that talk about extending our lives, enhancing our intelligence, etc., have one section devoted to appeasing religious groups. At the end of his article Dr Aubrey de Grey includes the "Playing God?" section. Isn't it strange that a betterment of human kind must be safeguarded against religious arguments? Why isn't James Watson's argument "if we could build a better human, why shouldn't we" sufficient. Is this god really so jealous of us living longer, knowing more, having fewer diseases?
Claiming that god-less society was responsible for the ills of the communist block is like filling a bathtub with acid for aunt Jane, and then blaming the bathtub for her death. The problem was blind following of ideology. Be it the one party ideology or "don't you dare to question the president" ideology or god "instructed me to strike at Saddam" ideology. Nobody really speaks directly to god, yet in a religious society there are always people who claim that "god said this and god condemns that". This is not a problem if spoken by a peasant in a remote village, but if spoken by a person who has the proverbial finger on a nuclear strike button, it is very troublesome.
Actually, good point. Assuming that Google IPO is worth $10 billion, and if they were to price their shares at $20 this gives 500 million shares. Thus 2 million shares is not that imporant, making it a 0.4% stake.
I guess I would trust Bush'es administration a tad more if they were not using the excuse of 9/11 to prosecute organizations such as Green Peace. A more or less complete story can be found in The Miami Herald. If they are capable of using such antiquated law as ''sailor-mongering,'' (intended to deal with people would board a ship and use liquor and prostitutes to lure away the crew) to prosecute organization that is trying to stop illegal logging, how can you trust them they won't use Patriot act in some insidious way?
Google's Zeitgeist still has Linux at 1% and Mac at 3%. I also find it not very encouraging that even with Longhorn delayed by 3 or so years predicted Linux desktop share gains are 3-4%. Maybe our New Years resolution should be to install Linux on at least one computer that was monopolised by Windows. I did just that:-)
Another car that did not make it on the list is Fiat 126p. It was made in Poland, based on an Italian design. The car was very noisy. However it was so small that people used joke that the engine noise is not an issue since when one sits in the car your knees block your ears and thus you can't hear it.
My overall impression is that GIMP has been designed by highly qualified geeks, but geeks nevertheless. I think it would benefit immensly from a usability expert input. A number of solutions chosen is far from intuitive. While the overall capabilities of GIMP are excellent, it takes some getting-used-to time. Once the initial "who the hell thought that right click plus Ctrl is a natural solution for this operation" types of experiences are over, you might be pleasantly surprised by the power of GIMP. Overall, this is one software that I woulde definitely recomment reading books or tutorials before using it. Ah, and yes, I find that 1.3 series and now 2.0 release candidates have some improvements in usability over 1.2 version. Dockable dialogs and a much better menu systems just to name a few...
All this militarization of space ...
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Actually, if the current administration was serious about making space more accessible, while not build a space elevator. According to one study the cost is $10 billion and it takes 15 years to build it. More economical than a traditional trip to the moon, which cost was estimated to be closer to $400 billion by the previous Bush'es administration.
It might be a rhetorical, but what the heck. No, I did not mean student assignments. Instead things like research into intelligent or self-modifying systems, theory of algorithms and such. Last time I checked with my co-workers those who understand hash tables thinks that they are right on the edge of cutting research, which actually dates back to 60s and 70s.
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I've worked both in academia and in industry. From my perspective the industry is very slow to use the cutting edge research. The stuff I treated as pretty routine in academia is considered a cutting edge in industry. The industry is much more interested in massive projects involving well tested technologies than in, what is the domain of universities, small projects with both high risk and high intellectual value. And while some companies, such as IBM, have a significant research budget, this does not apply to many other high tech leaders.
From the bio of Hu Jintao president, China (the emphasis is mine):
The Chinese government is looking to develop its own 3G standard, while its support for the development of an open source alternative to Windows has already had Microsoft, somewhat ironically, complaining of anti-competitive practices.
I know most people on slashdot saw that as irony, but until PHB reads it, chances are he/she will not. So I am glad that at least silicone.com wrote it. It would be better if Wall Street Journal published similar assessment, but for now, I take this as a positive sign.
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Epiphany may be snappier, but it's "innovative" bookmarks make it useless for me. I have lots of bookmarks, arranged in hierarchical folders, with order set by hand, that roughly reflects my preferences and frequency of visits (say, a most frequently visited source of information for Python would be at the top of the Python folder in a Programming folder). Epiphany authors think they know better and do not allow me to create nested folders or arrange bookmarks in other than alphabetical order.
Support is still buggy in Firefox 1.5. I just experienced a complete xorg lock when I tried to look at the tiger logo at http://svg.codebot.org/. This happened under Ubuntu Breezy (5.10).
Or they could have released it as an Eclipse RCP application. This way third parties could add additional functionality, or even alternative views. For example, a graphical view showing the tree of all bugs/features blocked by a given bug. Or a diff view of patches that fix a bug.
I'm sorry, I have to say it: "fuck!". I need to correct my own post. I mean "conformist" not "complacent" ... Argh!
Another interesting observation was made by George Carlin. He was essentially guessing that teaching somebody not to use certain "bad" words is the first step in teaching them to be complacent. If you can teach them not to make certain sounds, you can teach them not to yell at authorities. Often, people who play the "word police" are very controlling. Of course, cursing is not a sign of an educated person, but when you hit your shin on a corner of a desk, "fuck!" is a more appropriate response than "I think I experienced pain" ...
They've got nothing on iPod Flea!
Maybe they changed the name to avoid jokers calling tech support and complaining about "My longhorn"? Which reminds me of Pete's Coffee. They have coffee brand called "Major Dickanson". According to a friend of mine who worked in a Pete's store, more than one male customer referred to it as "Major Dick"
Did she look something like this?
To see what Hula is about go to Hula Server site. You can also view a few screen shots
While the above is true, all it means is that engineers from the bought company had a chance to look at Windows code and see what other exploits may exists. I am guessing that if SpyBot people were given the same chance, we'd see both program performing about even.
It always strikes me as odd that many articles that talk about extending our lives, enhancing our intelligence, etc., have one section devoted to appeasing religious groups. At the end of his article Dr Aubrey de Grey includes the "Playing God?" section. Isn't it strange that a betterment of human kind must be safeguarded against religious arguments? Why isn't James Watson's argument "if we could build a better human, why shouldn't we" sufficient. Is this god really so jealous of us living longer, knowing more, having fewer diseases?
Claiming that god-less society was responsible for the ills of the communist block is like filling a bathtub with acid for aunt Jane, and then blaming the bathtub for her death. The problem was blind following of ideology. Be it the one party ideology or "don't you dare to question the president" ideology or god "instructed me to strike at Saddam" ideology. Nobody really speaks directly to god, yet in a religious society there are always people who claim that "god said this and god condemns that". This is not a problem if spoken by a peasant in a remote village, but if spoken by a person who has the proverbial finger on a nuclear strike button, it is very troublesome.
Actually, good point. Assuming that Google IPO is worth $10 billion, and if they were to price their shares at $20 this gives 500 million shares. Thus 2 million shares is not that imporant, making it a 0.4% stake.
A while ago Microsoft was considering purchasing Google. On the other hand AOL has right to buy nearly 2 million Google shares. If MS buys AOL then, by implication, MS has the same right ...
I guess I would trust Bush'es administration a tad more if they were not using the excuse of 9/11 to prosecute organizations such as Green Peace. A more or less complete story can be found in The Miami Herald. If they are capable of using such antiquated law as ''sailor-mongering,'' (intended to deal with people would board a ship and use liquor and prostitutes to lure away the crew) to prosecute organization that is trying to stop illegal logging, how can you trust them they won't use Patriot act in some insidious way?
Google's Zeitgeist still has Linux at 1% and Mac at 3%. I also find it not very encouraging that even with Longhorn delayed by 3 or so years predicted Linux desktop share gains are 3-4%. Maybe our New Years resolution should be to install Linux on at least one computer that was monopolised by Windows. I did just that :-)
Another car that did not make it on the list is Fiat 126p. It was made in Poland, based on an Italian design. The car was very noisy. However it was so small that people used joke that the engine noise is not an issue since when one sits in the car your knees block your ears and thus you can't hear it.
My overall impression is that GIMP has been designed by highly qualified geeks, but geeks nevertheless. I think it would benefit immensly from a usability expert input. A number of solutions chosen is far from intuitive. While the overall capabilities of GIMP are excellent, it takes some getting-used-to time. Once the initial "who the hell thought that right click plus Ctrl is a natural solution for this operation" types of experiences are over, you might be pleasantly surprised by the power of GIMP. Overall, this is one software that I woulde definitely recomment reading books or tutorials before using it. Ah, and yes, I find that 1.3 series and now 2.0 release candidates have some improvements in usability over 1.2 version. Dockable dialogs and a much better menu systems just to name a few ...
Actually, if the current administration was serious about making space more accessible, while not build a space elevator. According to one study the cost is $10 billion and it takes 15 years to build it. More economical than a traditional trip to the moon, which cost was estimated to be closer to $400 billion by the previous Bush'es administration.
Hey, according to Pensoft some organisms are way ahead of you: Adaptations of organisms to a deep-dea way of life
It might be a rhetorical, but what the heck. No, I did not mean student assignments. Instead things like research into intelligent or self-modifying systems, theory of algorithms and such. Last time I checked with my co-workers those who understand hash tables thinks that they are right on the edge of cutting research, which actually dates back to 60s and 70s.
I've worked both in academia and in industry. From my perspective the industry is very slow to use the cutting edge research. The stuff I treated as pretty routine in academia is considered a cutting edge in industry. The industry is much more interested in massive projects involving well tested technologies than in, what is the domain of universities, small projects with both high risk and high intellectual value. And while some companies, such as IBM, have a significant research budget, this does not apply to many other high tech leaders.
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The Chinese government is looking to develop its own 3G standard, while its support for the development of an open source alternative to Windows has already had Microsoft, somewhat ironically, complaining of anti-competitive practices.
I know most people on slashdot saw that as irony, but until PHB reads it, chances are he/she will not. So I am glad that at least silicone.com wrote it. It would be better if Wall Street Journal published similar assessment, but for now, I take this as a positive sign.