This can help us eat foul tasting stuff, which is nice but after all this you have to ask:
"What are we eating?!" Because our tastebuds son't seem to be that reliable anymore.
---partially offtopic hereafter---
I say this because after getting ill once and having doctors orders to eat good food (I bled otherwise) I noticed that the food I wanted was no where to be seen (in England anyway).
Working in my local supermarket I've noticed that over 2/3 of the food in there is what I consider to be sweet stuff. Once you've developed a taste for real foods (which takes at least a couple of months) you can't go back.
Furthermore while I can find stuff that tastes healthy at first I can then notice how it's been artifically enhanced.
pps Anyone else find E-numbers in jelly sweets can give you a headache and cough?
There's one scientific observation conveyed by this site:-
"Wohaaa that looks fun"
Point to raise #1)
Has anyone got any infomation for any budding amatuer scientists on a budget? Any links? Where can I find info to do the stuff like they do at Powerlabs?
When reading NewScienctist recently there seems to be There is an air of concern over professional science, many instances of results being fixed and even an acusations of the viagra/sex medication industry trying to invent/create a market for female impotency (not frigid; can't get wet). All this gives the idea that sites like this produce better science -
"Amatuer science is better quality due to motive".
Point raised #2)
How are the anti-terror laws affecting amatuer scientists?
- The issue of grants overhere for anyone trying to do what you do - are courses like this available here? any good? cost? where to find more info? - entry requirements
- Interference from monitor (this is worst so I turn monitor off) - interference from power outlet it's plugged into - lights (both types, dimmer switches make worse) - TV - Radio - X10 based intercom
Can I eliminate all the sources of interference?
Yes; go outside with my acoustic and minidisc.
But that makes a gap between Guitar + Computer.
My questions to Slashdotters:-
- Would a PowerSupply filter do the job? I'm going to need a least 5 outlets aren't I?
- If recording from a Mic how do I listen to what I have already recorded over headphones, whilst recording from the Mic with the recorded sound effected in real time with output back to headphones?
Linux and Windows available, cheapo SB Live soundcard but hacked ASIO low latency drivers = nightmare and ALSA = complex.
The drummer won't keep pace, the bassist has nothing to pong to and the singer has a virus. Groupies:/
Course, got to try it.
I don't feel most people really appreciate what analogue is about in terms of it's life and in terms of sound.
For me I prefer analogue sometimes because when an error is introduced it can be beneficial.
For me, analogue is Art and Digital is Reason. Analogue = life and digital = man made.
Science and Slashdotters have to understand that in Art inaccuracy and error, -can- be a good thing.
When interferance is introduced from Guitar -> LP -> analogue cable -> listener, that error is coming from the real world + it isn't fatal to the sound. In fact, I like it.
The unfortunate thing about analogue is that it takes so long to get to know it.
* Analogue error is more useful than digital error * ?
I intend to go digital though because it's condusive to the rest of my setup, specifically my computer. Can't wait to try this stuff out!
- just a reminder to question/disregard screenshots
- interesting PR idea lock-n-loaders, as a non-american what am I meant to think of this?
- excellent work on the conversion, I and all appreciate, thanks:)
- but it's a shame we always have to do this conversion stuff ourselves? (re: Tactical-ops fiasco etc; legal agreements on linux support and biting off too much than can chew) (Sirex has just sent Ravage a little bug report on the free version installer script I believe: http://www.icculus.org/~ravage/tacops/)
- remember to stop all running service (/etc/init.d/) and possibly restart X with no window manager. Test GL too
Off topic:
Try MutantStorm - http://www.pompom.org.uk/ Good linux game, not free but worth a look, especially with twin analogue joypads.
It's a wonderful story because it grabs the imagination so well, unlike other geek stories we picture the sense of adventure, curiosity, opportunity and pressure of rumaging though some skip for sensitive data. Then there's the element of luck in the stories. Interest in luck makes so many things popular.
There's no limit to what you _might_ find. You could base a film on it. It's a revelation in Keano Reeves' life when he discovers a letter from the Queen of England to Hitler during the 2nd world war, then realises that governments all over the world are controlled not by people but stratigically planted by aliens in a bid to mine our lives as a model to learn from. Desperate he kills himself. It's a short film.
Harddrives aren't the best thing to buy 2nd hand of course.
- rescuing really old HardDrives:
remember the ones that didn't have pins but rather the type that doesn't break so easily? the ones where the connection was protruding PCB with metal on both sides? same type of connector as 5 & 1/4" floppy drives.
- how do we identify a filesystem? Partition flags?
pps Partly Offtopic but a wierd coinsidance of sensitive data:
- was working at a Junk Mail distro warehouse sending out magasines too. I'd ordered a new computer setup, I forget what. My order was a balls-up and it had been delayed etc; all the usual crap you get every now and then. On one of the many thousands of address labels I stuck onto the envelopes I
FOUND THE HOME ADDRESS of the managing director for the company I'd ordered it from. Although I didn't act on it in the end what are the chances of that?
- he lived the otherside of England
- I knew and actually remembered his name from a circular
- I rarely look at the labels on those address labels I came to hate
- I only ordered it a month beforehand
I can't say that the Radio stations described in the article are similar to British radio. It sounds like just day-time radio; money making capatalist greed fuelled sheep tripe. Is all US FM radio bad even at night?
There's a feedback circle with Day-time commercial radio at the moment - everyone expects it to be bad so it is, only the BBC is worth considering imho.
BBC Radio 4 (talk, very, very popular) , Radio2 (anything proven to be popular, and stuff everyone's parent seems 2 listen 2) and BBC1 (new) also very popular, all without any from of ads at all. In my area there's also one called Wave that uses local based ads and sponsers, Classic FM, Jazz FM, a Sports and commetry Only Radio and Dance/Trance too, 2CR=new, too many commercials and losing 2 Wave. There's even a seasonal radio that operates to our small town.
Although `The Radio Still Sucks` it seems to be better here than elsewhere I've stayed.
Radio is impossible, you can't please everyone. for example, I don't even know what I want when I turn on radio in terms of artists, i'm often hoping for inspiration - or localised info.
- Effectively this makes ISPs *extremely* powerful (as if they aren't already?)
- Security tends to be an inconvenience, I expect this will amount to little more when attempting to crack it and use it.
- Specialised hardware isn't actually required to do this? In thoery could do it by examining the way hardware reacts to various things, no 2 computers being the same. Far fetched or inefficient?
- on the idea of protecting music:
We can still copy things, I can re-route my speakers into my minidisc. I the worst I can try to learn the song on my guitar and re-record:p But, how do you stop that? And how do you justify it...? The record industry was a special situation like newspapers and cotton industry were in a long time before. The Luddites would be proud of the RIAA.
I actually daydreamed of a whole school where things are taught via visuals/creatives rather than via the word.
I've found there's a lot on the subject, that is, a lot of infomation out there about the psychology of learning difficulties, why education is taking so long to adapt to the change from word to visual thinking.
Can we all swap emails so we can continue to discuss this as time goes on, possibly via a website or similar?
For me I hate education. In fact I still do; I'm at University. They just don't seem to want to teach anything than any other method than by the Word so I have to do 10 time the work of all my peers.
Before I started Uni` I tried out quite a few short run courses - JuJitsu, PositiveThinking, Canoeing, Rock Climbing. From this I've seen a good new method of teaching; one that works best by encouraging and inspiring the pupil to teching themselves BY DOING.
Then, when I go to Uni' they simply tell me to READ!! What do I pay them for!? They don't seem to be doing their job. I expected an intense and enjoyable environment where I would be surrounded by intelligent people relaxed with the subject and happy to chat about it. I expected lectures to be one part of a teaching strategy.
Instead I'm surrounded by skater tree huggers and expected to supplement 3 hours a day lectures with 5 hours reading. The highlight of the lecture series is to be shown a video! This is an internationally recognised university!
I admit I was ignorant before choosing University. But I was sucked in - sucked in my a school wanting to get up a league table (points guarenteed if straight to Uni), sucked in by the allure of Uni culture (ok, it has been a laugh worth 4 years of my life and £14,000), and suckered by a society that offers no alternative to study by books, aka study by literature rather than doing.
Uou can't run from it - you may be brilliant but nearly all education is done via books and wordy courses; modern apprenticeships are left for only the more common jobs like electrition or plumber. I can't get an apprentership as a Geophysist or Chartered Surveyor so want do I do?
and Programming isn't about writing essays!
Anger. I can't let this continue, I have to change this for the kids going through exactly the same thing I did. And the number of people with `learning difficulties` is increasing. The education system is just a bit static. I want to show them how it's done.
I'd just like to say thanks for giving us such a nice piece of software. It's needed!
Why it causes a stir / borderline controversial:
Well,
- goes against HFS, or rather doesn't use it. hierarchies are a bit of a `paradyme` for a lot of people.
We don't want to have to choose between "Shall I index this document by HFS" or "Shall i index this document by newdocms" or "damn I've got to do both anyway"
- it's useability over dymanics (can't change fields and stuff quite so much)
I'm not too bothered about these 2 things at the moment because, well it's nice software simply to have.
But I must admit I would have liked it to store it's database via HFS. This would have been complex to envision? Easier said than done perhaps....perhaps.
A system that works with HFS would have to be really dynamic and thus, a LOT of work.
I feel it's a system I could design and a programmer could write, but it's a rare person who is both a designer and programmer.
I'm sure in the future they'll be newdocmshfs convertors and for similar programs if newdocms doesn't grow to be comparable in importance to HFS.
OK, bear with me, lots to explain. You'll see where I'm going with this by the end.
Some people do well with words, others do well with visuals.
Visual Thinker Word Thinker
I expect that as a slashdotter you'll be slightly over to the left.
Visual thinking is most useful for computing to understand the abstract ideas.
Silicon Valley has a much higher rate of Autism and Dyslexia, both traits from visual thinkers who thus have trouble with words.
Computing is a doing thing. When I was at school computers were such a way out because unlike anything else it was about pictures and visuals. When I used the computer it was a doing thing; it wasn't about words and rote crap that school was --->
It was a part of school that actually favored visual thinkers. It wasn't like the rest of school that was about remembering and recalling stuff but not actually drawing lateral thinks and actually being creative with what was learnt.
People are becoming more and more visual thinkers, more dyslexic because the stuff we have to understand everyday requires it. We're bombarded with Advertising, the arts are on the up and this sort of thinking is useful if you try to program your video recorder;
The child fliddles with the recorder while thier parent reads the the manual.
See the difference?
Now, school is a rusty institution. The people coming into school don't think the same as thier parents did when they when to school. We're the do'er generation; we skate, we play on our computers. We don't read books so much any more, we may not in fact be quite so good with the word so socialising is different.
When we communicate we have a higher tendancy to draw associatative memories rather than stick to the literary rules that enslave us. We don't say "Well done Sir" we say "x 1337 mate, total ownage on last night". We are the creative generation.
School is designed to teach those who are good with words, this is why girls do so well. It's not designed with the visual thinker in mind.
'The teacher teaches the child' The child does not use the teacher to aid his learning.
Traditional subjects like science, maths, english should have the option of being taught like the way poetry and creative disaplines are done; the student creates, the student does, learning by doing.
Of course word thinkers shouldn't be left out but please remember that there are to ways to learn something:-
Indirect: Passed on knowledge (WORD) Direct: Directly learnt knowledge (VISUAL/CREATIVE)
I don't expect you to understand this fully straight of because recogising the WORD/CREATIVE viewpoints is a real skill.
But maybe the next time you're confused while reading an O'Reilly you'll remember my post.
Whatever is remembered is important so make sure you give your kids the same.
I can't remember >3 years old, not in the state of mind I am now. But a year ago I might have @21 years old.
Once knew a guy who was convinced that he could remember being in the womb. Said he couldn't describe it because it couldn't be broken down and a there wasn't a single word that was holistic enough.
I think the definition of a memory when we're an adult is so specific that sure, pre 3 years is approximately when the definition fits. At our age it has to be a specific event often. It might be thoughts that were more important but those are harder to remember.
Before we're adults memory could be seen as a wider experience, not just remembering an image or word. Because I'm adult now all I can start to recall is images such as a complicated tree pattern wallpaper my parents had that perplexed me for ages.
But if I was still childlike I would proberly be recalling things that are easier to remember from that viewpoint such as when I went for a walking holiday with my dad and after said
"My feet are singing".
Yes, I agree lanaguage helps memory. I see language as a compression of images or thought; easier to transmit to other people via shared assumptions but also easier to remember, unless you're dyslexic or similar visular thinker.
So, I think I've moved from a Visual Thinker to a Word thinker as I've got older and thus I can't remember lots of stuff.
A few of my memories:-
- running round the house with a trolley with letter blocks in it `A` `B` and `C`. Shouting ABC, ABC, ABC! Because it sounded like a police siren.
- wheelie'ing my brothers pram. Had to jump to reach it - it was 3 & 1/2 feet high.
- one of those scary photographers that uses a combination of turkey photos, sweets and references to my mothers knobley knees (3 & 1/2 years)
- school field, lying in the sun with my head on a tuft of grass thinking philosophical stuff
Yet I don't remember running into a gate with a bubble blower thing in my mouth. Thank goodness for that.
What are the price differences though? If PPC for example is more, why bother if I'd be running the same operating system & GNU software base as I would with x86?
1) I have a friend who works for a POSTAL SORTING OFFICE.
I might consider buying him a pair for Chrismas but he doesn't touch type, more of a 2/3 finger affair. What's the likelyhood he'll never wear them?
2) Dvorak: Could I just move the keys on an older keyboard and carry that around? I've found somewhere selling ps/2 keyboards for £1 anyway.
If not, what about custom keys?
well, had a quick flick through a few posts and can't see it mentioned...
What about the implications for the "free access points" that we've been hearing about?
Terror abuses the freedom so I don't think companies, governments and individuals will be able to live with free access points if they want protect themselves against the unknown; to be distrustful towards everyone [Firefighters anyone?].
A compromise may be possible with some sort of distributed key system but I think that's a fudge. It would be better to toss a coin and allow or disallow?
I'd still like to try this for same reasons as Applixware.
- do I have to purchase the full Office suite?
Often Word compatibility is seen as a big plus in terms of import/export, but,
- can it work the other way, using Word to export/import, possibly using VBS or something? Can Word export a document to an OpenSource format or is that against company policy (competitive nature)?
If not we could do with a drag+drop/similarily easy program that converts and makes the market a bit less anti-competitive. I could see me use this program at work with permission.
Also:-
- isn't it annoyance when proprietory companies go bust and all thier knowledge etc dies with them?
This is why I chose a Zaurus - I know that when the company abandon it I can keep it useful. I can't say the same for my Amiga, how easy is it to still find software for that since most of it wasn't actually free?
It's important to note that there are many types of useability including:-
1) Speed of use 2) Power available. Ease of doing more advanced things. 3) Accessibility
Remember this: **There are levels of accessibility.**
A knowledgable user often finds simple programs unwieldy! I for one find MPLAYER's VO option easier than working with WindowsMediaPlayer for example. Especially if I want to do something complex.
Please understand this when people throw thier arms up at KDE. We can feel like the the higher accessibility levels are being neglected for the Windows simplicity levels..
I'm happy to see projects like KDE take thier time to get things right. I don't mind if OSS doesn't cater for new computer users too much, I'm kinda happy for Windows to do that, with Linux as an option if you want more useability at the higher end of the scale for example.
Took me about a year to get to the stage of being able to either do anything or if I can't , how to find out with Linux.
Sometimes it can be easier when you know how with OSS.
But I have the time for it.
I wouldn't say that OSS is always less usable; try comparing apt-get verses Windows and it's various methods of software management for example.
Of course OSS is likely to be less useable because it often starts out as a coder making it for themselves. This will remain the source of the strengths and weeknesses.
- How might I `favor` this domain rather than simply excluding all others with say, google?
- Who controls it? (country: US?)
- what are the rules?
- how is it checked?
- dns poisoning bait?
- who gets access? (again, countries?)
But I think I mostly like the idea. It's nice to see the domain suffix doing something (since.com is the good example of the system not being followed?).
Slashdot Mirror
Can't we use a shell replacement, or if good enough just use your copy of explorer from NT4.
This can help us eat foul tasting stuff, which is nice but after all this you have to ask:
"What are we eating?!"
Because our tastebuds son't seem to be that reliable anymore.
---partially offtopic hereafter---
I say this because after getting ill once and having doctors orders to eat good food (I bled otherwise) I noticed that the food I wanted was no where to be seen (in England anyway).
Working in my local supermarket I've noticed that over 2/3 of the food in there is what I consider to be sweet stuff. Once you've developed a taste for real foods (which takes at least a couple of months) you can't go back.
Furthermore while I can find stuff that tastes healthy at first I can then notice how it's been artifically enhanced.
pps Anyone else find E-numbers in jelly sweets can give you a headache and cough?
There's one scientific observation conveyed by this site:-
"Wohaaa that looks fun"
Point to raise #1)
Has anyone got any infomation for any budding amatuer scientists on a budget? Any links? Where can I find info to do the stuff like they do at Powerlabs?
When reading NewScienctist recently there seems to be There is an air of concern over professional science, many instances of results being fixed and even an acusations of the viagra/sex medication industry trying to invent/create a market for female impotency (not frigid; can't get wet). All this gives the idea that sites like this produce better science -
"Amatuer science is better quality due to motive".
Point raised #2)
How are the anti-terror laws affecting amatuer scientists?
What about this in Britian (UK/England):
- The issue of grants overhere for anyone trying to do what you do
- are courses like this available here? any good? cost? where to find more info?
- entry requirements
I plug my guitar in. It hums like hell due to:-
- Interference from monitor (this is worst so I turn monitor off)
- interference from power outlet it's plugged into
- lights (both types, dimmer switches make worse)
- TV
- Radio
- X10 based intercom
Can I eliminate all the sources of interference?
Yes; go outside with my acoustic and minidisc.
But that makes a gap between
Guitar + Computer.
My questions to Slashdotters:-
- Would a PowerSupply filter do the job? I'm going to need a least 5 outlets aren't I?
- If recording from a Mic how do I listen to what I have already recorded over headphones, whilst recording from the Mic with the recorded sound effected in real time with output back to headphones?
Linux and Windows available, cheapo SB Live soundcard but hacked ASIO low latency drivers = nightmare and ALSA = complex.
I can see latency remaining an issue. A musician can detect something like 10ms delays.
Will equipment be rated by delay to process the sound signal?
The drummer won't keep pace, the bassist has nothing to pong to and the singer has a virus. Groupies :/
Course, got to try it.
I don't feel most people really appreciate what analogue is about in terms of it's life and in terms of sound.
For me I prefer analogue sometimes because when an error is introduced it can be beneficial.
For me, analogue is Art and Digital is Reason. Analogue = life and digital = man made.
Science and Slashdotters have to understand that in Art inaccuracy and error, -can- be a good thing.
When interferance is introduced from Guitar -> LP -> analogue cable -> listener, that error is coming from the real world + it isn't fatal to the sound. In fact, I like it.
The unfortunate thing about analogue is that it takes so long to get to know it.
* Analogue error is more useful than digital error * ?
I intend to go digital though because it's condusive to the rest of my setup, specifically my computer. Can't wait to try this stuff out!
- just a reminder to question/disregard screenshots
- interesting PR idea lock-n-loaders, as a non-american what am I meant to think of this?
- excellent work on the conversion, I and all appreciate, thanks
- but it's a shame we always have to do this conversion stuff ourselves? (re: Tactical-ops fiasco etc; legal agreements on linux support and biting off too much than can chew) (Sirex has just sent Ravage a little bug report on the free version installer script I believe: http://www.icculus.org/~ravage/tacops/)
- remember to stop all running service (/etc/init.d/) and possibly restart X with no window manager. Test GL too
Off topic:
Try MutantStorm - http://www.pompom.org.uk/
Good linux game, not free but worth a look, especially with twin analogue joypads.
Nice bit of news though
Had an opportunity to go to Nepal.
:)
We decided not to trek to Everest Base camp due to the tourist stampede. Now I learn even they got a better pipe than me?
jeez
It's a wonderful story because it grabs the imagination so well, unlike other geek stories we picture the sense of adventure, curiosity, opportunity and pressure of rumaging though some skip for sensitive data. Then there's the element of luck in the stories. Interest in luck makes so many things popular.
There's no limit to what you _might_ find. You could base a film on it. It's a revelation in Keano Reeves' life when he discovers a letter from the Queen of England to Hitler during the 2nd world war, then realises that governments all over the world are controlled not by people but stratigically planted by aliens in a bid to mine our lives as a model to learn from. Desperate he kills himself. It's a short film.
Harddrives aren't the best thing to buy 2nd hand of course.
- rescuing really old HardDrives:
remember the ones that didn't have pins but rather the type that doesn't break so easily? the ones where the connection was protruding PCB with metal on both sides? same type of connector as 5 & 1/4" floppy drives.
- how do we identify a filesystem? Partition flags?
pps Partly Offtopic but a wierd coinsidance of sensitive data:
- was working at a Junk Mail distro warehouse sending out magasines too. I'd ordered a new computer setup, I forget what. My order was a balls-up and it had been delayed etc; all the usual crap you get every now and then. On one of the many thousands of address labels I stuck onto the envelopes I
FOUND THE HOME ADDRESS of the managing director for the company I'd ordered it from. Although I didn't act on it in the end what are the chances of that?
- he lived the otherside of England
- I knew and actually remembered his name from a circular
- I rarely look at the labels on those address labels I came to hate
- I only ordered it a month beforehand
odd.
I can't say that the Radio stations described in the article are similar to British radio. It sounds like just day-time radio; money making capatalist greed fuelled sheep tripe. Is all US FM radio bad even at night?
There's a feedback circle with Day-time commercial radio at the moment - everyone expects it to be bad so it is, only the BBC is worth considering imho.
BBC Radio 4 (talk, very, very popular) , Radio2 (anything proven to be popular, and stuff everyone's parent seems 2 listen 2) and BBC1 (new) also very popular, all without any from of ads at all. In my area there's also one called Wave that uses local based ads and sponsers, Classic FM, Jazz FM, a Sports and commetry Only Radio and Dance/Trance too, 2CR=new, too many commercials and losing 2 Wave. There's even a seasonal radio that operates to our small town.
Although `The Radio Still Sucks` it seems to be better here than elsewhere I've stayed.
Radio is impossible, you can't please everyone. for example, I don't even know what I want when I turn on radio in terms of artists, i'm often hoping for inspiration - or localised info.
Source -> Middle Computer 1 -> Middle Computer 2 -> Destination
:p But, how do you stop that? And how do you justify it...? The record industry was a special situation like newspapers and cotton industry were in a long time before. The Luddites would be proud of the RIAA.
All 4 sections of the chain are a liability.
So, LAN Topography = ?
and Internet = ??
Please remember the issue of the chain effect!
- Effectively this makes ISPs *extremely* powerful (as if they aren't already?)
- Security tends to be an inconvenience, I expect this will amount to little more when attempting to crack it and use it.
- Specialised hardware isn't actually required to do this? In thoery could do it by examining the way hardware reacts to various things, no 2 computers being the same. Far fetched or inefficient?
- on the idea of protecting music:
We can still copy things, I can re-route my speakers into my minidisc. I the worst I can try to learn the song on my guitar and re-record
I'd like to place an order via the usual route
Yours,
Hussien
I actually daydreamed of a whole school where things are taught via visuals/creatives rather than via the word.
I've found there's a lot on the subject, that is, a lot of infomation out there about the psychology of learning difficulties, why education is taking so long to adapt to the change from word to visual thinking.
Can we all swap emails so we can continue to discuss this as time goes on, possibly via a website or similar?
For me I hate education. In fact I still do; I'm at University. They just don't seem to want to teach anything than any other method than by the Word so I have to do 10 time the work of all my peers.
Before I started Uni` I tried out quite a few short run courses - JuJitsu, PositiveThinking, Canoeing, Rock Climbing. From this I've seen a good new method of teaching; one that works best by encouraging and inspiring the pupil to teching themselves BY DOING.
Then, when I go to Uni' they simply tell me to READ!! What do I pay them for!? They don't seem to be doing their job. I expected an intense and enjoyable environment where I would be surrounded by intelligent people relaxed with the subject and happy to chat about it. I expected lectures to be one part of a teaching strategy.
Instead I'm surrounded by skater tree huggers and expected to supplement 3 hours a day lectures with 5 hours reading. The highlight of the lecture series is to be shown a video! This is an internationally recognised university!
I admit I was ignorant before choosing University. But I was sucked in - sucked in my a school wanting to get up a league table (points guarenteed if straight to Uni), sucked in by the allure of Uni culture (ok, it has been a laugh worth 4 years of my life and £14,000), and suckered by a society that offers no alternative to study by books, aka study by literature rather than doing.
Uou can't run from it - you may be brilliant but nearly all education is done via books and wordy courses; modern apprenticeships are left for only the more common jobs like electrition or plumber. I can't get an apprentership as a Geophysist or Chartered Surveyor so want do I do?
and Programming isn't about writing essays!
Anger. I can't let this continue, I have to change this for the kids going through exactly the same thing I did. And the number of people with `learning difficulties` is increasing. The education system is just a bit static. I want to show them how it's done.
If you do too, get in touch.
(jago25_98@hotmail.com) (yup, spammail account)
I'd just like to say thanks for giving us such a nice piece of software. It's needed!
...perhaps.
Why it causes a stir / borderline controversial:
Well,
- goes against HFS, or rather doesn't use it. hierarchies are a bit of a `paradyme` for a lot of people.
We don't want to have to choose between "Shall I index this document by HFS" or "Shall i index this document by newdocms" or "damn I've got to do both anyway"
- it's useability over dymanics (can't change fields and stuff quite so much)
I'm not too bothered about these 2 things at the moment because, well it's nice software simply to have.
But I must admit I would have liked it to store it's database via HFS. This would have been complex to envision? Easier said than done perhaps.
A system that works with HFS would have to be really dynamic and thus, a LOT of work.
I feel it's a system I could design and a programmer could write, but it's a rare person who is both a designer and programmer.
I'm sure in the future they'll be newdocmshfs convertors and for similar programs if newdocms doesn't grow to be comparable in importance to HFS.
But, I'll still be using this software for sure.
woohoo, we get Elvis, Berry and Vera Lynn for free.
:-P
ya-boo socks to you
aren't these laws ridiculous?
OK, bear with me, lots to explain. You'll see where I'm going with this by the end.
Some people do well with words, others do well with visuals.
Visual Thinker Word Thinker
I expect that as a slashdotter you'll be slightly over to the left.
Visual thinking is most useful for computing to understand the abstract ideas.
Silicon Valley has a much higher rate of Autism and Dyslexia, both traits from visual thinkers who thus have trouble with words.
Computing is a doing thing. When I was at school computers were such a way out because unlike anything else it was about pictures and visuals. When I used the computer it was a doing thing; it wasn't about words and rote crap that school was --->
It was a part of school that actually favored visual thinkers. It wasn't like the rest of school that was about remembering and recalling stuff but not actually drawing lateral thinks and actually being creative with what was learnt.
People are becoming more and more visual thinkers, more dyslexic because the stuff we have to understand everyday requires it. We're bombarded with Advertising, the arts are on the up and this sort of thinking is useful if you try to program your video recorder;
The child fliddles with the recorder while thier parent reads the the manual.
See the difference?
Now, school is a rusty institution. The people coming into school don't think the same as thier parents did when they when to school. We're the do'er generation; we skate, we play on our computers. We don't read books so much any more, we may not in fact be quite so good with the word so socialising is different.
When we communicate we have a higher tendancy to draw associatative memories rather than stick to the literary rules that enslave us. We don't say "Well done Sir" we say "x 1337 mate, total ownage on last night". We are the creative generation.
School is designed to teach those who are good with words, this is why girls do so well. It's not designed with the visual thinker in mind.
'The teacher teaches the child' The child does not use the teacher to aid his learning.
Traditional subjects like science, maths, english should have the option of being taught like the way poetry and creative disaplines are done; the student creates, the student does, learning by doing.
Of course word thinkers shouldn't be left out but please remember that there are to ways to learn something:-
Indirect: Passed on knowledge (WORD)
Direct: Directly learnt knowledge (VISUAL/CREATIVE)
I don't expect you to understand this fully straight of because recogising the WORD/CREATIVE viewpoints is a real skill.
But maybe the next time you're confused while reading an O'Reilly you'll remember my post.
So long, good stead.
Whatever is remembered is important so make sure you give your kids the same.
I can't remember >3 years old, not in the state of mind I am now. But a year ago I might have @21 years old.
Once knew a guy who was convinced that he could remember being in the womb. Said he couldn't describe it because it couldn't be broken down and a there wasn't a single word that was holistic enough.
I think the definition of a memory when we're an adult is so specific that sure, pre 3 years is approximately when the definition fits. At our age it has to be a specific event often. It might be thoughts that were more important but those are harder to remember.
Before we're adults memory could be seen as a wider experience, not just remembering an image or word. Because I'm adult now all I can start to recall is images such as a complicated tree pattern wallpaper my parents had that perplexed me for ages.
But if I was still childlike I would proberly be recalling things that are easier to remember from that viewpoint such as when I went for a walking holiday with my dad and after said
"My feet are singing".
Yes, I agree lanaguage helps memory. I see language as a compression of images or thought; easier to transmit to other people via shared assumptions but also easier to remember, unless you're dyslexic or similar visular thinker.
So, I think I've moved from a Visual Thinker to a Word thinker as I've got older and thus I can't remember lots of stuff.
A few of my memories:-
- running round the house with a trolley with letter blocks in it `A` `B` and `C`. Shouting ABC, ABC, ABC! Because it sounded like a police siren.
- wheelie'ing my brothers pram. Had to jump to reach it - it was 3 & 1/2 feet high.
- one of those scary photographers that uses a combination of turkey photos, sweets and references to my mothers knobley knees (3 & 1/2 years)
- school field, lying in the sun with my head on a tuft of grass thinking philosophical stuff
Yet I don't remember running into a gate with a bubble blower thing in my mouth. Thank goodness for that.
I'd like to run something non-x86 based.
What are the price differences though? If PPC for example is more, why bother if I'd be running the same operating system & GNU software base as I would with x86?
- temperature
- durability
- price now
- devaluation
1) I have a friend who works for a POSTAL SORTING OFFICE.
I might consider buying him a pair for Chrismas but he doesn't touch type, more of a 2/3 finger affair. What's the likelyhood he'll never wear them?
2) Dvorak: Could I just move the keys on an older keyboard and carry that around? I've found somewhere selling ps/2 keyboards for £1 anyway.
If not, what about custom keys?
-thanks
well, had a quick flick through a few posts and can't see it mentioned...
What about the implications for the "free access points" that we've been hearing about?
Terror abuses the freedom so I don't think companies, governments and individuals will be able to live with free access points if they want protect themselves against the unknown; to be distrustful towards everyone [Firefighters anyone?].
A compromise may be possible with some sort of distributed key system but I think that's a fudge. It would be better to toss a coin and allow or disallow?
I'd still like to try this for same reasons as Applixware.
- do I have to purchase the full Office suite?
Often Word compatibility is seen as a big plus in terms of import/export, but,
- can it work the other way, using Word to export/import, possibly using VBS or something? Can Word export a document to an OpenSource format or is that against company policy (competitive nature)?
If not we could do with a drag+drop/similarily easy program that converts and makes the market a bit less anti-competitive. I could see me use this program at work with permission.
Also:-
- isn't it annoyance when proprietory companies go bust and all thier knowledge etc dies with them?
This is why I chose a Zaurus - I know that when the company abandon it I can keep it useful. I can't say the same for my Amiga, how easy is it to still find software for that since most of it wasn't actually free?
what are the alternatives in terms of cpu these days?
It's important to note that there are many types of useability including:-
1) Speed of use
2) Power available. Ease of doing more advanced things.
3) Accessibility
Remember this:
**There are levels of accessibility.**
A knowledgable user often finds simple programs unwieldy! I for one find MPLAYER's VO option easier than working with WindowsMediaPlayer for example. Especially if I want to do something complex.
Please understand this when people throw thier arms up at KDE. We can feel like the the higher accessibility levels are being neglected for the Windows simplicity levels..
I'm happy to see projects like KDE take thier time to get things right. I don't mind if OSS doesn't cater for new computer users too much, I'm kinda happy for Windows to do that, with Linux as an option if you want more useability at the higher end of the scale for example.
Took me about a year to get to the stage of being able to either do anything or if I can't , how to find out with Linux.
Sometimes it can be easier when you know how with OSS.
But I have the time for it.
I wouldn't say that OSS is always less usable; try comparing apt-get verses Windows and it's various methods of software management for example.
Of course OSS is likely to be less useable because it often starts out as a coder making it for themselves. This will remain the source of the strengths and weeknesses.
- How might I `favor` this domain rather than simply excluding all others with say, google?
.com is the good example of the system not being followed?).
- Who controls it? (country: US?)
- what are the rules?
- how is it checked?
- dns poisoning bait?
- who gets access? (again, countries?)
But I think I mostly like the idea. It's nice to see the domain suffix doing something (since