Actually I would love if every application behaved this way. I fail to see any intuitive reason why you should mix canvs and the tools to modify it.
The whole concept of "applications" is flawed. Wouldn't it be better if the DE (or WM) provieded the canvas and a standadized api/protocoll to modify its contents. Then you would just fire up the toolbox you would need for the task at hand.
could you, or anyone, please explain the motivation behind a post like this? Or other -1 posts for that matter... I do not understand. Allmost all posts you have are -1 too.
I just have to tell this, rather eberassing, story. Once I needed to know what hardware was supported by an old 486 compaq computer. So I found this online support chat on their site and spent the better part of an hour trying to explain what information I needed. After a while the answers became very repetetive and I realized, I was chatting with an expert sytem, an AI... I must admit that keeping me fooled for an hour was a feat, but they could have saved me the embarrasment by actually telling me the truth. The whole site was set up to make me believe I was chatting to a real person, called Laura or something...
Quit smoking my self recently. 7 years 20 cigarettes a day. I have tried before, usually I would have a little ritual where I enjoyed the a cigarette as much as I could while telling my self that it was the last. This method work great for about the hour it took for when I would need nicotine again. If I managed to don't smoke for an entire day or two I would take one just as a reward and I was stuck again.
Now the last time I did the complete opposite. I skipped some cigarettes just to study the reaction of my mind and body. Studying addiction to know what all traps that could be thrown at me. Then I just made up my mind: "I do not want to smoke".
I did not make a ritual this time, I just didn't take the next cigarette, I would never smoke again.
The first three days was a total pain, I used some other means of nicotine while defeating the habit, careful not to get a new habit. Forcing myself to enjoy feelings I hadn't felt in years, letting the taste from a good meal just melt away, the smell of fresh air against uncontaminated lungs, all situations I would normally have a smoke was new experiences worth enjoying. After three days the habits was sufficiently gone so that I could concentrate on the chemical addiction. Knowing how my body and mind would respond to this. I could always counter: "Sorry this discussion is over, the decision has been made, I do not want to smoke, tell your lies to some one else". And I can tell you my body and mind has bee trying all the dirty tricks, some very surprising actually, to try to get me smoking again but... the decision has been made.
Now some 4 or 5 months later (I actually cant remember), I actually do not want to smoke, the thought just seems strange to me. Even when I am drunk.
Note: A good understanding the concept "never", and "life long addiction" is a must to be able to make such a final decision.
For our society of devices to operate seamlessly, a mechanism will be required to (a) transport data between devices and (b) have it appear at each workstation, or tool, in the appropriate representation.
a: Internet b: X
Why transport data all over the place, have it in one place and access it where you need it.
I know it is a RISC processor but so are every processor. Todays "x86" are just an IA32 translator around a RISC core. IA64 is the logical next step: drop IA32 and x86, use the die for real calculations and leave the scheduling to the compiler. It doesnt get more RISC than that does it?
The rest of the system has no legacy shit either as I can see. Well BIOS might be a bit stoneage.
Just a related thing. Anyone noticed the change in explosion effect of the deathstar in the Starwars remake? Why do they insist on having this 2D wave in every space explosion now a days? I must say that the original exploding of the deathstar must bee the most beautiful explosion I've ever seen. I think it is the replacement of the deathstar with a ball of fire within a frame or two before "growin". The new explosion just gives me an impression of dissolving...
Relativity Time: Star Trek dates things with "Star Dates". The Star Dates take relevatistic effects in effect so that everything evens out.
The whole point of relativity is that you can't even it out. There simply does not exist a meaningful way to describe concurrent events between diffrent observers.
So, eh... could it be done? Could you trigger a bug in the phone electronics disabling overcurrent controll? Then do something to drain a lot of poer fast? And could you do this via some of the communication protocols availible to phones (sms, mms, ems)?
#define Linux Sourcecode_distribution_of_a_kernel_named_Linux # define Windows WindowsXP_End-User-OS_by_Microsoft #define OSX Latest_Firmware_for_Macintosh_computers
Why should the "average user" even have to use an installer? The only interface to computer configuration he should have to learn is the power button, "On" and "Off". Using a computer is producing work. Not installing/configuring. Hence Apple is the only company that seems to have a product aimed at End-Users.
Linux is very usable for "the average user", you just have to understand that the average Linux user is an OS developer (that is the target audience for "Linux"). "Click next" is just called "make && make install", or "apt-get" or "emerge".
Windows isnt actually usable. As it is neither aimed at End-Users nor at developers. It kind a stays in some gray area between.
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Actually I would love if every application behaved this way. I fail to see any intuitive reason why you should mix canvs and the tools to modify it.
The whole concept of "applications" is flawed. Wouldn't it be better if the DE (or WM) provieded the canvas and a standadized api/protocoll to modify its contents.
Then you would just fire up the toolbox you would need for the task at hand.
Why on earth would a player be concerned with programmers?
An actor gets famous for the following reasons,
1. Sufficient skill
2. Good/Uniqe apparance
3. Charming charateristics
4. Exposure in good films
none of these should be apparent in a game.
A good programmer produces bug free code.
Bug free code is not noticed by the player.
Thus: Good programmers are note noticed by players.
could you, or anyone, please explain the motivation behind a post like this? Or other -1 posts for that matter... I do not understand. Allmost all posts you have are -1 too.
I just have to tell this, rather eberassing, story.
Once I needed to know what hardware was supported by an old 486 compaq computer. So I found this online support chat on their site and spent the better part of an hour trying to explain what information I needed. After a while the answers became very repetetive and I realized, I was chatting with an expert sytem, an AI...
I must admit that keeping me fooled for an hour was a feat, but they could have saved me the embarrasment by actually telling me the truth. The whole site was set up to make me believe I was chatting to a real person, called Laura or something...
Quit smoking my self recently. 7 years 20 cigarettes a day.
I have tried before, usually I would have a little ritual where I enjoyed the a cigarette as much as I could while telling my self that it was the last.
This method work great for about the hour it took for when I would need nicotine again. If I managed to don't smoke for an entire day or two I would take one just as a reward and I was stuck again.
Now the last time I did the complete opposite. I skipped some cigarettes just to study the reaction of my mind and body. Studying addiction to know what all traps that could be thrown at me. Then I just made up my mind: "I do not want to smoke".
I did not make a ritual this time, I just didn't take the next cigarette, I would never smoke again.
The first three days was a total pain, I used some other means of nicotine while defeating the habit, careful not to get a new habit. Forcing myself to enjoy feelings I hadn't felt in years, letting the taste from a good meal just melt away, the smell of fresh air against uncontaminated lungs, all situations I would normally have a smoke was new experiences worth enjoying. After three days the habits was sufficiently gone so that I could concentrate on the chemical addiction. Knowing how my body and mind would respond to this. I could always counter: "Sorry this discussion is over, the decision has been made, I do not want to smoke, tell your lies to some one else". And I can tell you my body and mind has bee trying all the dirty tricks, some very surprising actually, to try to get me smoking again but... the decision has been made.
Now some 4 or 5 months later (I actually cant remember), I actually do not want to smoke, the thought just seems strange to me. Even when I am drunk.
Note: A good understanding the concept "never", and "life long addiction" is a must to be able to make such a final decision.
a: Internet
b: X
Why transport data all over the place, have it in one place and access it where you need it.
What is needed it to stop viewing "Linux"(not the kernel) as a product and start seeing what it is, A COLLECTION OF FRIGGIN SOURCECODE!
What they have done is simply to pick the source code they need to develop THEIR PRODUCT.
No one will live to invent it.
All content you download will add it self to your ISP-bill, with an option to pay.
That is: Instead of the hassel to leagaly pay for digital content, how about making it a hassel not to do it.
Dont fight so har trying to destroy options. Better to invest that money in making the other option more attractive.
If all mail where required to be pgp encrypted, spam would take a hit.
Consider the cpu power needed to encrypt 10.000.000 mail... costs money.
They do,
1 & 2 is realized through gpg.
and 3 by smtp.
About 1: 10 000 000 encrypted mails is not cheap on cpu...
Why not just call it Virus and be done with it?
If you are happy with the product you are using. Why spend time/energy beeing unhappy about a product you don't use?
Pornography is not in it self moraly wrong, but in general...
Which, if applied as the only source of sex education, leads to bad lovers.
This, IMHO, is moraly wrong. =)
Don't just complain, do something!
Can it be done? Would it be good? If you'd license your software open source, but request a license fee for running the compiled version?
The market her would be to tune each system to the customers exact needs. Why have a browser if you ain't gonna surf?
Sell the system somwhat more expensive than the windows system, spend the money on configuration. Guaranteed higherquality system.
# Ms Office Standard (Win: 347 / Mac: 357)
# Photoshop (Win: 580 / Mac: 590)
# Illustrator (Win: 390 / Mac: 403)
# Premiere 6.5 (Win: 540 / Mac: 533)
OpenOffice.org
The Gimp
Dia
Cinelerra
Sum: $0
What is this hype about PPC?
I know it is a RISC processor but so are every processor. Todays "x86" are just an IA32 translator around a RISC core. IA64 is the logical next step: drop IA32 and x86, use the die for real calculations and leave the scheduling to the compiler. It doesnt get more RISC than that does it?
The rest of the system has no legacy shit either as I can see. Well BIOS might be a bit stoneage.
So what is this fuss about x86 beeing bad?
Just a related thing. Anyone noticed the change in explosion effect of the deathstar in the Starwars remake?
Why do they insist on having this 2D wave in every space explosion now a days?
I must say that the original exploding of the deathstar must bee the most beautiful explosion I've ever seen. I think it is the replacement of the deathstar with a ball of fire within a frame or two before "growin".
The new explosion just gives me an impression of dissolving...
Relativity Time:
Star Trek dates things with "Star Dates". The Star Dates take relevatistic effects in effect so that everything evens out.
The whole point of relativity is that you can't even it out. There simply does not exist a meaningful way to describe concurrent events between diffrent observers.
Has anyone tried to create a P2P backup solution? Like a gigantik P2P-RAID with cryptated data.
So, eh... could it be done? Could you trigger a bug in the phone electronics disabling overcurrent controll? Then do something to drain a lot of poer fast?
And could you do this via some of the communication protocols availible to phones (sms, mms, ems)?
This is not entirely correct. Total Commander supports plugins for ext2 and reiserfs in windows.
#define Linux Sourcecode_distribution_of_a_kernel_named_Linux
# define Windows WindowsXP_End-User-OS_by_Microsoft
#define OSX Latest_Firmware_for_Macintosh_computers
Why should the "average user" even have to use an installer? The only interface to computer configuration he should have to learn is the power button, "On" and "Off".
Using a computer is producing work. Not installing/configuring. Hence Apple is the only company that seems to have a product aimed at End-Users.
Linux is very usable for "the average user", you just have to understand that the average Linux user is an OS developer (that is the target audience for "Linux"). "Click next" is just called "make && make install", or "apt-get" or "emerge".
Windows isnt actually usable. As it is neither aimed at End-Users nor at developers. It kind a stays in some gray area between.