and towards that end nothing beats a working demonstration that smells like fresh progress.
Funny, but I think that a working demonstration will not be displayed for the next 50 years as this thing will probably be wrapped up tight with topsecret classifications from now on. I can't imagine how happy the USAF is too see this thing. (As well as fans of Ghost in the Machine, heh)
I got off the bus and she did as well and punched me from behind. I punched her straight back and made her head bleed.
Too bad you didn't call the cops at this point or at least make an effort to do so. Then you would have put the fear of cops into the girl instead of letting her and her friends vent their frustation. You're lucky you didn't get arrested.
No, but it certainly gives a good framework for a balance of power between three branches of government, something I find sorely lacking in Britian's Parlimentary system. Just look at the imbalance of power that Tony Blair seems to have. It's almost like he has the power of a dictator from here because who in his party is going to oppose him.
I will admit that Bush is trying to expand the US presidency as much as possible. I suspect there will be a major cuttage of executive power (aka congress stopping the war in Iraq through budgetary means) because of his abuse.
Not when you need to transfer files from a firewalled server using fish:// through a tunneled ssh connection to an embedded machine using ftp:// all done using a single drag and drop and a hortizontal split screen in konqueror.
Then you sing the true praises of Konqueror as a file manager.
(It is true that its really the kioslaves doing all of the work and that dolphin will seamlessly emulate this behavior but I still jumped for joy to see this work.)
Cheers Ben
PS. I use ff for a bowser nowadays. The extensions are too good to pass up. Which konqueror still doesn't have:(
Lucas should be shot, hung, drawn and quartered for messing with our favorite fantasy world like that. Why couldn't he leave it dirty, nasty, gritty and fun like Empire was?
I'll give him a small thumbs up for making SW 3 actually work with the rest of the SW universe.
I eventually solved it by using vim to comment out lines 543 and 544 (not lines 541 and 542, like it said in the Ubuntu Forums) of/usr/bin/pycentral. This is not something I want to have to explain to my mom, my girlfriend, or my neighbor -- nor do I want to do it for them.
Sigh, this has everything to do with paying for a good QA department and having an thickheaded boss willing to make tough choices. Fortunately, for Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth is willing to both invest in a QA and make those choices (base the software stack on gnome instead of KDE)
This is also why its worthwhile PAYING money for a distribution. You're guaranteed a certain QA level. M$ has the advantage that all of the ISVs do QA on the software for them so they only need to concentrate on the kernel and services and WM levels.
Linux has a long way to catch up but will always be available as a counter to M$'s monopoly position.
In scientific code FORTRAN tends to be 20% faster than the best possible C++ implementation because the grammar is so simple that compilers tend to understand better the code and can vectorize or optimize it much farther than C;
Apparently, this is not true anymore. Most scientists are writing their codes in C++ nowadays because expression templates remove the performance penalty associated with the abstraction of manipulating N dimensional matrices. (And I'm guessing that expression templates are making up for the optimization deficitances of modern compilers...) See http://osl.iu.edu/~tveldhui/papers/techniques/ for a good explaination. See http://www.oonumerics.org/blitz/benchmarks/ for some benchmarks for blitz++ vs. F77. Blitz is actually not so cutting edge anymore. There maybe better packages out there now too. Also, with the new autovectorization technologies, these comparsions might be wrong too.
* As an end-user why can't I extend applications by simply dragging and dropping features from one application to another? i.e. Dragging a search box from one app to another.
What does it mean to share the search dialog between a textediting application and a image editing app? They work on different mediums and searching search box between them doesn't make much sense IMHO.
I have 1000s of photographs. How can these images be automatically categorized and displayed most effectively without having to manually add meta-data. It should be sorting images by looking at similarities between pictures, date taken and other automatically generated information
Sounds like one heck of a research project. Not only do you need to come up with algorithms which can do this kind of catergorization sanely, you'd also have to build a clean infrastructure to support it and not destabilize the current instructure. Actually, now that I think about it, this would probably be an easy plugin for digikam IF you can come up with a sane algorithm. (AFAIK it already supports grouping via date)
I have 1000s of mp3s. How can these songs be automatically categorized by mood, tempo, etc without manually entering in meta-data? Think of it as Pandora with your own music collection.
Again, this strikes me as better implemented as a plugin for a current audio player (amarok).
Are open source desktop developers so focused on trying to make it "easy" for Windows user to convert they get Microsoft tunnel vision and can't innovate?
The problem here is that big companies tend to spend major money on usability studies and focus major resources on finding good UI solutions to difficult problems. Money that OSS projects don't have and will never have. So it's easier+safer to copy the features and designs that the major players have already built then to go on a limb and come up with half baked UIs with no usability studies behind them.
There are cases of innovative UIs coming from OSS (amarok, digikam) but IMHO they are few and far between because of the distributed+cooperative nature of OSS. I think digikam is an amazing example of photo management software but Adobe has really, really raised the standard with their lightroom software. I think OSS developers on major projects should ask themselves if a radical UI redesign is a good idea if the old method worked was reasonably usable. Of course, project forks work miracles in this situation...
As an example, I work on krita and there's a question if the filter preview dialog should/could be redesigned to be modaless in krita2. The standard photoshop method (AFAIK) and current krita method is to preview filters in a modal dialog. Unfortunately, its hard to tell how this should be implemented so it's sematically easier for the user to use filters. How does he tell when only the preview is being shown or when the filter has actually be applied?
Since 90% of the people active in OSS projects are programmers, we don't know how to do/don't want to do good usability studies. Personally, I'm satisfied when my bit works sensibly and corresponds to my mental model. If someone can come up with a usability study proving my feature wrong, then maybe me or someone else will change it. In business, money does the talking so if a UI is shown in a study to be more usable and will attact more clients, then thats the one implemented.
The interesting thing will be when for-profit companies start implementing innovative UIs in OSS systems. Then, maybe we'll see major UI changes. But since UI testing costs money and time, why mess with what works?
If they ever finish BART and actually circulled the bay area with high-speed rail service. But considering the price of real estate now, I doubt that any of the super-rich "I don't believe in giving a single cent to the common good" types that live in 50% of the bay area will go for it. I mean, Richmond opposed letting BART run over the top of the Bay and now it's very difficult+expensive to drive there and back. I got shit of the driving (even carpooling sucked) from SF to Cupertino and back each day. I maynot move back until there's a couple of funding bills for decent rail service in Bay Area.
It's too bad that Linus decided to try to treat the GNOME people with patches and code fixes instead of just helping out with the KDE project where his energy and enthusiasm would have been well recieved.
It's either Sometimes a people can deserve to be clamped down on or the Islamists in the OP.
The ladder is even worst then because it's a generalization. Maybe he meant "the Islamic radicals" or "Radical Islamists" but without a key word, the post is rather dramatic and scary. Im just glad the US doesn't have these kind of additute problems.
No the exact quote is
Sometimes a people can deserve to be clamped down on . This kind of rhetoric is exactly the type that hitler used to "encourage" the germans to clean out the jews. If there is more of this appearing in Europe, expect the same to happen to the Muslims because of false generalizations.
On a side note, I'm still amazed that people use "terrorism" as a scaremongering tactic instead of considering to be a criminal act. It makes me wonder about the motives of ANYONE who uses the word nowadays.
You've been watching too much TV. The FAA would BUY a APP SERVER from google and use thin clients to access the data+services. The FAA is not storing documents on google web server. That would be insane and probably illegal.
It is not simple to plan and deploy a wireless network. You need to secure broadcast sites, do frequency planning, power planning (too much power and a neighboring cell will see too much interference), and cell planning (which includes specifying sectors and antenna directions), and this is typically done with specialized and often proprietary topological modeling tools.
Sounds exactly like power transmission to me and for a hundred years, there have been state-regulated monopolies maintaining these "complex networks" using "proprietary tools". Either you're going to have a state-regulated wireless monolopy or you're going to have a nonstate-regulated wireless monolopy which will screw you out as much money as possible before running off to Mexico. The compedence of the engineers does not matter one single bit, especially as this technology matures. I seriously doubt that deploying a wireless network is as difficult as power esp. considering the safety issues. (none) And then you pay taxes to make sure the system stays up and running -> ensuring that good engineers will continue to work and improve the network.
Yeah, thats a good idea. And kiss $50 billion away for hurican relief.
Jeez, Haven't you noticed that the recent trend is towards larger national systems, not smaller? Think of the EU, LatinAmerica, the arab league, the african union, china, etc... The US was just the first superstate, now the rest are being formed too.
Slashdot Mirror
Because NY Times sucks, as it makes old articles 'pay for view'
Maybe you should take responsibility and archive old NY Times articles for them. Then it would be free for you.
Except then you would have to be organized and responsible... oh wait, that's the business model of the 21st century.
Ben
and towards that end nothing beats a working demonstration that smells like fresh progress.
Funny, but I think that a working demonstration will not be displayed for the next 50 years as this thing will probably be wrapped up tight with topsecret classifications from now on. I can't imagine how happy the USAF is too see this thing. (As well as fans of Ghost in the Machine, heh)
Ben
I got off the bus and she did as well and punched me from behind. I punched her straight back and made her head bleed.
Too bad you didn't call the cops at this point or at least make an effort to do so. Then you would have put the fear of cops into the girl instead of letting her and her friends vent their frustation. You're lucky you didn't get arrested.
Ben
No, but it certainly gives a good framework for a balance of power between three branches of government,
something I find sorely lacking in Britian's Parlimentary system. Just look at the imbalance of power that Tony Blair seems to have. It's almost like he has the power of a dictator from here because who in his party is going to oppose him.
I will admit that Bush is trying to expand the US presidency as much as possible. I suspect there will be a major cuttage of executive power (aka congress stopping the war in Iraq through budgetary means) because of his abuse.
Cheers
Ben
According to this http://linux.wordpress.com/2007/03/19/official-kde -4-roadmap/ kde4 will be initially based on Qt4.3.
So Dolphin will be based on Qt4.3, not 4.0....
Ben
Not when you need to transfer files from a firewalled server using fish:// through a tunneled ssh connection to an embedded machine using ftp:// all done using a single drag and drop and a hortizontal split screen in konqueror.
:(
Then you sing the true praises of Konqueror as a file manager.
(It is true that its really the kioslaves doing all of the work and that dolphin will seamlessly emulate this behavior but I still jumped for joy to see this work.)
Cheers
Ben
PS. I use ff for a bowser nowadays. The extensions are too good to pass up. Which konqueror still doesn't have
Maybe in Chile, April 1st comes two days early. :)
Ben
Have you considered the benefits of adding some wine...
Ben
Try slickedit. It's got 98% of the power of emacs with alot more GUI goodness and excellent tagging support.
Highly recommended but its not free.
Cheers
Ben
One mans junk is another man's treasure.
Besides, that company was storing the stuff since the 1960s. It's no wonder they want to be compensated.
Stupid f**king movie!!!
Lucas should be shot, hung, drawn and quartered for messing with our favorite fantasy world like that.
Why couldn't he leave it dirty, nasty, gritty and fun like Empire was?
I'll give him a small thumbs up for making SW 3 actually work with the rest of the SW universe.
Ben
I eventually solved it by using vim to comment out lines 543 and 544 (not lines 541 and 542, like it said in the Ubuntu Forums) of /usr/bin/pycentral. This is not something I want to have to explain to my mom, my girlfriend, or my neighbor -- nor do I want to do it for them.
Sigh, this has everything to do with paying for a good QA department and having an thickheaded boss willing to make tough choices.
Fortunately, for Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth is willing to both invest in a QA and make those choices (base the software stack on gnome instead of KDE)
This is also why its worthwhile PAYING money for a distribution. You're guaranteed a certain QA level. M$ has the advantage that all of the ISVs do QA on the software for them so they only need to concentrate on the kernel and services and WM levels.
Linux has a long way to catch up but will always be available as a counter to M$'s monopoly position.
Cheers
Ben
A much better benchmark is:
http://tvmet.sourceforge.net/benchmark.html
tvmet looks like a good library for small scale matrix operations and altas looks amazing at huge stuff...
In scientific code FORTRAN tends to be 20% faster than the best possible C++ implementation because the grammar is so simple that compilers tend to understand better the code and can vectorize or optimize it much farther than C ;
Apparently, this is not true anymore. Most scientists are writing their codes in C++ nowadays because expression templates remove the performance penalty associated with the abstraction of manipulating N dimensional matrices. (And I'm guessing that expression templates are making up for the optimization deficitances of modern compilers...) See http://osl.iu.edu/~tveldhui/papers/techniques/ for a good explaination. See http://www.oonumerics.org/blitz/benchmarks/ for some benchmarks for blitz++ vs. F77. Blitz is actually not so cutting edge anymore. There maybe better packages out there now too. Also, with the new autovectorization technologies, these comparsions might be wrong too.
Cheers
Ben
* As an end-user why can't I extend applications by simply dragging and dropping features from one application to another? i.e. Dragging a search box from one app to another.
What does it mean to share the search dialog between a textediting application and a image editing app? They work on different mediums and searching search box between them doesn't make much sense IMHO.
I have 1000s of photographs. How can these images be automatically categorized and displayed most effectively without having to manually add meta-data. It should be sorting images by looking at similarities between pictures, date taken and other automatically generated information
Sounds like one heck of a research project. Not only do you need to come up with algorithms which can do this kind of catergorization sanely, you'd also have to build a clean infrastructure to support it and not destabilize the current instructure. Actually, now that I think about it, this would probably be an easy plugin for digikam IF you can come up with a sane algorithm. (AFAIK it already supports grouping via date)
I have 1000s of mp3s. How can these songs be automatically categorized by mood, tempo, etc without manually entering in meta-data? Think of it as Pandora with your own music collection.
Again, this strikes me as better implemented as a plugin for a current audio player (amarok).
Are open source desktop developers so focused on trying to make it "easy" for Windows user to convert they get Microsoft tunnel vision and can't innovate?
The problem here is that big companies tend to spend major money on usability studies and focus major resources on finding good UI solutions to difficult problems. Money that OSS projects don't have and will never have. So it's easier+safer to copy the features and designs that the major players have already built then to go on a limb and come up with half baked UIs with no usability studies behind them.
There are cases of innovative UIs coming from OSS (amarok, digikam) but IMHO they are few and far between because of the distributed+cooperative nature of OSS. I think digikam is an amazing example of photo management software but Adobe has really, really raised the standard with their lightroom software. I think OSS developers on major projects should ask themselves if a radical UI redesign is a good idea if the old method worked was reasonably usable. Of course, project forks work miracles in this situation...
As an example, I work on krita and there's a question if the filter preview dialog should/could be redesigned to be modaless in krita2. The standard photoshop method (AFAIK) and current krita method is to preview filters in a modal dialog. Unfortunately, its hard to tell how this should be implemented so it's sematically easier for the user to use filters. How does he tell when only the preview is being shown or when the filter has actually be applied?
Since 90% of the people active in OSS projects are programmers, we don't know how to do/don't want to do good usability studies. Personally, I'm satisfied when my bit works sensibly and corresponds to my mental model. If someone can come up with a usability study proving my feature wrong, then maybe me or someone else will change it. In business, money does the talking so if a UI is shown in a study to be more usable and will attact more clients, then thats the one implemented.
The interesting thing will be when for-profit companies start implementing innovative UIs in OSS systems. Then, maybe we'll see major UI changes. But since UI testing costs money and time, why mess with what works?
Cheers
Ben
If they ever finish BART and actually circulled the bay area with high-speed rail service.
But considering the price of real estate now, I doubt that any of the super-rich
"I don't believe in giving a single cent to the common good" types that live in 50% of the bay area will go for it.
I mean, Richmond opposed letting BART run over the top of the Bay and now it's very difficult+expensive to drive there and back.
I got shit of the driving (even carpooling sucked) from SF to Cupertino and back each day. I maynot move back until there's a couple of funding bills for decent rail service in Bay Area.
Ben
I just bzr my $HOME and /etc :).
:)
It was easy as "bzr init && bzr add && bzr commit"
Not sure what the right way for backing up is but I suppose it doesn't really matter
Cheers
Ben
It's too bad that Linus decided to try to treat the GNOME people with patches and code fixes instead of just helping out with the KDE project where his energy and enthusiasm would have been well recieved.
Too bad,
Ben
It's either Sometimes a people can deserve to be clamped down on or the Islamists in the OP.
The ladder is even worst then because it's a generalization. Maybe he meant "the Islamic radicals" or "Radical Islamists" but without a key word, the post is rather dramatic and scary. Im just glad the US doesn't have these kind of additute problems.
Ben
Use flags && emerge -aU world && revdep-rebuild && multiplatform support are the reasons people use gentoo. Not so much for the compilation flags.
/etc/ and ~/ directories and it would be perfect! :)
Now they should standardize on bzr or darcs backing up the
Cheers
Ben
On a side note, I'm still amazed that people use "terrorism" as a scaremongering tactic instead of considering to be a criminal act.
It makes me wonder about the motives of ANYONE who uses the word nowadays.
Ben
You've been watching too much TV. The FAA would BUY a APP SERVER from google and use thin clients to access the data+services.
The FAA is not storing documents on google web server. That would be insane and probably illegal.
Please, get a grip.
Ben
It is not simple to plan and deploy a wireless network. You need to secure broadcast sites, do frequency planning, power planning (too much power and a neighboring cell will see too much interference), and cell planning (which includes specifying sectors and antenna directions), and this is typically done with specialized and often proprietary topological modeling tools.
Sounds exactly like power transmission to me and for a hundred years, there have been state-regulated monopolies maintaining these "complex networks" using "proprietary tools". Either you're going to have a state-regulated wireless monolopy or you're going to have a nonstate-regulated wireless monolopy which will screw you out as much money as possible before running off to Mexico. The compedence of the engineers does not matter one single bit, especially as this technology matures. I seriously doubt that deploying a wireless network is as difficult as power esp. considering the safety issues. (none) And then you pay taxes to make sure the system stays up and running -> ensuring that good engineers will continue to work and improve the network.
So I call B****hit on you,
Ben
Any honest congressman, when asked to vote on a bill they have not read for any reason, should vote no.
r t-D-Cooter/dp/0691058644 for a pretty good review of economic based policy making.
No, they should abstain in order not to skew the vote for the people who actually have read the bill and can vote correctly.
Read http://www.amazon.com/Strategic-Constitution-Robe
Ben
Yeah, thats a good idea. And kiss $50 billion away for hurican relief.
Jeez, Haven't you noticed that the recent trend is towards larger national systems, not smaller? Think of the EU, LatinAmerica, the arab league, the african union, china, etc... The US was just the first superstate, now the rest are being formed too.
Good luck with the seceding...
Ben