You say "the whole reason computers exist is because so many real objects suck".
Think again.
The first reason computers exist is because they can calculate exact formula's much faster.
Today, the reason computers exist is that you can play music, send messages very fast over the world and play very good games, for example.
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You say spatial navigation clutters your computer-desktop as folders and files would clutter you desk.
I say spatial browsing has many advantages. When you have used it for some time (weeks?) your folders will have gotten 'identities'. They have their own trusted appearance you gave them at the position youd like it to be. Then you know you dont need the window you are in you use the middle mouse button to double-click and the current window will close and a new one will appear the way it should. This prevents cluttering of your desktop.
For many 'beginning' computer-users the windows will _become_ the directorie. With 'normal' browsing the beginning user will understand it as following a serie of hyperlinks.
Anyway, if you don't like it, you could place a link that defaults to the 'browsing' method if you like to 'browse' (like browsing physical files). You can set it as global default also.
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The back and forward options like we know it are a mistake. They should rather represent it as a 'history'. When you type a new adres you could aswel open it in a new screen because the two windows are not related. A window is only related to it's parent and children. The children are present in the window and you can go 'up' with backspace or the 'parent-directories' button that is new.
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It's not blindly copying the real world as you say. It's merely showing directories for what they are.
I more than once tried totally switching to galeon and (let not forget) epiphany because I use many gtk applications and it might save some memory usage... But tabbed navigating just isn't as smooth as with firefox.
Here is a beautiful image.
http://www10.ksc.nasa.gov/mirrors/stsci/hubbledev/ newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2004/07/image/m.html
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Yep, they forget relativity.
It's all physics.
The faster something goes relatively to you, the slower the object's time will go in your dimension.
Duhhh...
It is in no way a clone of the hubble.
Or do I mis some sense of imagination?
You are new here aren't you?
... to try the new LDE with Lmail, Lword, Lonqueror and Lxmms. Not to forget Lozilla-Lirelox.
Lat least lhey lon't lave lo lange lilo's lame!
Solly, lounge got louse.
Stealing what? The algorithms?
The end-(Windows)-user benefits from it.
That's the price of freedom.
And any additions MS makes to the code must be made public.
So then everybody benefits.
I really like the comparisation of open developers with farmers and propritary developers with wild dogs.
They, each, are analogous right.
But when put together it just doesn't make sense.
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However you could say that the chickens are the people that might use your software.
This would mean that when the wild dogs have eaten the chickens the farmers could never get those chickens back. It works only one way then.
This is, ofcourse, wrong.
I'm sorry but I can't agree with you.
Sorry for replying to my own message.
This is somewhat offtopic.
But I also like to note that some parots, when they know the taste of chocolate, rather die than eat anything but chocolate.
Chocolate kills dogs because of the theobromine.
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Theobromine is similar to caffeine.
Check at:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/question348.ht
You say "the whole reason computers exist is because so many real objects suck".
Think again.
The first reason computers exist is because they can calculate exact formula's much faster.
Today, the reason computers exist is that you can play music, send messages very fast over the world and play very good games, for example.
-
You say spatial navigation clutters your computer-desktop as folders and files would clutter you desk.
I say spatial browsing has many advantages. When you have used it for some time (weeks?) your folders will have gotten 'identities'. They have their own trusted appearance you gave them at the position youd like it to be. Then you know you dont need the window you are in you use the middle mouse button to double-click and the current window will close and a new one will appear the way it should. This prevents cluttering of your desktop.
For many 'beginning' computer-users the windows will _become_ the directorie. With 'normal' browsing the beginning user will understand it as following a serie of hyperlinks.
Anyway, if you don't like it, you could place a link that defaults to the 'browsing' method if you like to 'browse' (like browsing physical files). You can set it as global default also.
-
The back and forward options like we know it are a mistake. They should rather represent it as a 'history'. When you type a new adres you could aswel open it in a new screen because the two windows are not related. A window is only related to it's parent and children. The children are present in the window and you can go 'up' with backspace or the 'parent-directories' button that is new.
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It's not blindly copying the real world as you say. It's merely showing directories for what they are.
You don't understand what I'm saying.
Read again...
I only say the analogy is wrong.
Open software will probably beat propritary software but it is not comparable with the relation wild dogs and farmers have.
Wild dogs chase animals to eat. Farmers make food to sell. Why would the dogs and the farmers fight? They are on a completely different market.
I more than once tried totally switching to galeon and (let not forget) epiphany because I use many gtk applications and it might save some memory usage... But tabbed navigating just isn't as smooth as with firefox.
Mozilla for windows has a very good keep-in-memory option.
It will then start about as fast as IE every next time you open it.
You make me realize how weird it is that I can just be too excited to see the newest CPU in too high resolution.
That already has been said by the man himself:
http://www.linuxworld.com/story/32801.htm
"... as each movie sample was encoded with 500KB and 1MB bitrates."
You do not get the same quality at 500kb/s or 1mb/s
I have noticed that linux-distribution torrents and other open-source torrents give much higher download-speeds that warez-torrents.
> there was a noticable bump in speed
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I don't like speedbumps
From WordNet (r) 2.0
speed bump
n : a hindrance to speeding created by a crosswise ridge in the
surface of a roadway
Let the 2.6.3 kernel compilation complete, and start the new compilation running on that kernel. You'll be finished in no-time!
Linus is from Finland.
;)
> not even real swedish programmers begin
> counting at 0, like their programs do
Here is a beautiful image./ newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2004/07/image /m.html
http://www10.ksc.nasa.gov/mirrors/stsci/hubbledev
Couldn't find your one...
Nature has it's natural selection...
Mouse-users will be less succesful in life because of RSI.
The female would find the male less attractive because it has less to offer.
In the end there will only be keyboard-users.
Like the 'apropos foobar' command?