(And obviously if we did muck around in this too much, homo sapiens would eventually be overthrown as the dominant species of this planet. That would kinda suck.)
Why would it suck? If they're smarter and stronger, by the rules we used to get dominance in the first place, it seems to me it'd be a good thing in the long run.
I don't 'think' I had to do anything but run the installer about a year or so ago, and it's still chugging along quite happily on debian unstable right now. I was a bit late to the party on SMAC, but much better late than never!
I started to get back to Java, but as much as I love it at times I also began to recall just how much I....fell down the stairs back then. Much happier with python, wx bindings for the gui, and the 0.4.0 pre-release of Boa.
I'm a little lost as to what your point is in linking to that. Are you suggesting people don't use java, or that people stick to gcj, gnupath, and swingwt? If the latter, isn't it a bit redundant given that gcj is specifically mentioned as being covered in the book?
Now, if only somebody would take their idea and implement it in C++ (or some other language with a goal other than portability).
I don't know if there's really much need to. I gave Looking Glass a shot on my rather old computer, 850mhz and 384mb ram with Java 1.5, and it performed remarkably well.
Your comment on using drugs or genetic modification to change offspring reminded me of something I'd not heard about in a while. Anyone recall a article mentioned here about giving supplemental choline to pregnant rats, and the verification that the neurons in the hipocampus seemed to be greatly improved over what would be expected in normal offspring? Did they ever get around to testing them to see just how their abnormal brain development translated into day to day function?
If I were developing something like exeem, I'd have seen this coming a mile away and taken action from the very beginning of the design phase. Given how likely this neutering was, wouldn't it have made sense to put some obvious spyware in and then write a custom component, less blatant, that'd get shipped along with any 'lite' version once the obvious danger had been removed? In any case, I wouldn't want any program I had to fight with in order to make not attack me on my computer in the first place. Just one more person who's not going to touch this thing.
Because the keyboard is still the main way of inputing information into the computer, people take short cuts
One thing that's always been at the front of my my mind, why aren't these kids learning how to type? Or at least to type with any reasonable amount of skill. The only computer I had as a child was a Commodore 64, and I was still faster than most of todays youth even with their abbreviations. I was somewhat lucky in that our schools somehow foresaw the advent of the home computer and made sure we knew how to type, but I'd certainly hope that held even more true in todays schools!
If I'm going to pay for a movie, I sure as hell am going to see it in the movie theater on a huge screen
Defeat, I think he was reaching on that. But significantly lessen, I think there's a very good chance. I, in fact most people I know , have the exact opposite opinion on theaters. I don't download movies because I don't want to pay for them, I download them to avoid the 'theater experience'. The teenagers with their cellphones, the idiots who keep talking through the movie, the fat people slobbering down noisy food, the sick people hacking their lungs out, the little kids brought into pg13 or r movies running all over the place, and what I find most annoying - the half hours of commercials and trailers(come on, they're commercials too) before the movie begins. A difference in screen size and image quality is nothing in comparison to the aggrivations of a theater.
It might not be relevent to your situation anymore, but for anyone else who's had bad luck with wine, Sidenet might help after wine's installed. It sets up the config file for some of the more tricky installs beforehand, installs some stuff from reactos, manages menus, and some other nice tricks. Though, on the other hand, I've never understood how people can have such different results from wine. I hear about people all the time not being able to run anything but notepad, but I've always had pretty good results from wine, even years back. Heck, my girlfriend, hardly a techy by any means, installed and uses photoshop with a vanilla build of wine. Are some of the major distros severly messing up wine when packaging or something?
I haven't used kdevelop in years, so I hope you'll excuse the fact that I'm 'very' in the dark on its present status. But can one work on designing a form, click on a button placed on the form, and be taken to the appropriate place in the code or have the basic onclick event autogenerated if there's nothing there yet? I know, its somewhat lazy, but its a way of doing things that I find entertaining.
Anyone know of an IDE which allows use of a high level language like python with a well integrated QT3 based form designer? Gamba seems to be the only thing like that out there, but as much as I like their IDE I can't make myself like basics syntax no matter how hard I try.
Now maybe if you had suggested some little known media player that didn't automatically install codecs after you clicked "don't ask me again, just install" then maybe your post would have been worth something.
I'll go for one, mplayer. There's been beta builds on mplayers site for a while now, but I don't usually hear about anyone using it. While a lot of the port isn't as nice as in linux, and it seems to choke on most real player content even with the codec pack, it's still fairly nice. I keep it on a usb drive and it really comes in handy every now and again.
His protagonists are usually cops.
Are you sure about that? I've read all of his novels, most of his short stories, and only recall a small percentage of his protagonists being law enforcement. Mostly I just recall his characters as being more along the lines of Joe Everyman or even people society would call just plain losers. Then again, aside from a recent reread of Valis, it's been a couple years since I've gone through any of his work again.
I'd argue that DVRs promote the opposite. It's rare, but there are a few shows I do enjoy. Before getting a replayTV I'd watch commercials, have shows take priority over reading when they came on, and have to be fairly alert to the media. Now I've escaped that and it fits itself to my scedule and needs.
Besides that though, I think the major cause of being turned into a propaganda receiver is the assurance that it only could happen to other people, such as the unwashed tv watching masses. We're saturated in advertising, you could never see another tv, radio, or computer and still be awash in it simply by taking a short walk.
In my case, yes. I don't usually think of myself as a person to put appearence over functionality, but in the case of Tk that's my rule. I'd rather port an application to use another system than use it with tk.
It will be a long time until non-geek people start using OSS seriously on the desktop.
I think it depends on whether you mean that it'll be a long time until some non-geeks use linux, or until one can quiz people on the street and find a large percentage of linux users. The later I agree with, but not the former. I've found non-geeks in particular sometimes make the easiest transitions to linux. With geeks there's the game problem, and we often seem to have a lot of odd programs sitting around which are tied to one platform. Non-geeks on the other hand, on average don't use their computers for that much out of the ordinary. On her request I installed Debian on my fiancee's computer, not a computer geek by any means, a couple months back. Aside from setting up photoshop under wine the transition was pretty seamless.
The one which really got me was "Mike Tyson does not have a handlebar mustache". I don't think most people old enough to grow one know the proper definition of a handlebar mustache, let alone a 13 year old.
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(And obviously if we did muck around in this too much, homo sapiens would eventually be overthrown as the dominant species of this planet. That would kinda suck.)
Why would it suck? If they're smarter and stronger, by the rules we used to get dominance in the first place, it seems to me it'd be a good thing in the long run.
I don't 'think' I had to do anything but run the installer about a year or so ago, and it's still chugging along quite happily on debian unstable right now. I was a bit late to the party on SMAC, but much better late than never!
I started to get back to Java, but as much as I love it at times I also began to recall just how much I....fell down the stairs back then. Much happier with python, wx bindings for the gui, and the 0.4.0 pre-release of Boa.
Then your program written on linux is stuck on Linux so 99% of the world can't run it.
As far as I know, mingw should be able to compile windows binaries.
I'm a little lost as to what your point is in linking to that. Are you suggesting people don't use java, or that people stick to gcj, gnupath, and swingwt? If the latter, isn't it a bit redundant given that gcj is specifically mentioned as being covered in the book?
The JDS (Java Desktop System) is not written in Java
The JDS is not, but the 3D Desktop written for it is written in Java.
Now, if only somebody would take their idea and implement it in C++ (or some other language with a goal other than portability).
I don't know if there's really much need to. I gave Looking Glass a shot on my rather old computer, 850mhz and 384mb ram with Java 1.5, and it performed remarkably well.
Your comment on using drugs or genetic modification to change offspring reminded me of something I'd not heard about in a while. Anyone recall a article mentioned here about giving supplemental choline to pregnant rats, and the verification that the neurons in the hipocampus seemed to be greatly improved over what would be expected in normal offspring? Did they ever get around to testing them to see just how their abnormal brain development translated into day to day function?
If I were developing something like exeem, I'd have seen this coming a mile away and taken action from the very beginning of the design phase. Given how likely this neutering was, wouldn't it have made sense to put some obvious spyware in and then write a custom component, less blatant, that'd get shipped along with any 'lite' version once the obvious danger had been removed? In any case, I wouldn't want any program I had to fight with in order to make not attack me on my computer in the first place. Just one more person who's not going to touch this thing.
Because the keyboard is still the main way of inputing information into the computer, people take short cuts
One thing that's always been at the front of my my mind, why aren't these kids learning how to type? Or at least to type with any reasonable amount of skill. The only computer I had as a child was a Commodore 64, and I was still faster than most of todays youth even with their abbreviations. I was somewhat lucky in that our schools somehow foresaw the advent of the home computer and made sure we knew how to type, but I'd certainly hope that held even more true in todays schools!
If I'm going to pay for a movie, I sure as hell am going to see it in the movie theater on a huge screen
Defeat, I think he was reaching on that. But significantly lessen, I think there's a very good chance. I, in fact most people I know , have the exact opposite opinion on theaters. I don't download movies because I don't want to pay for them, I download them to avoid the 'theater experience'. The teenagers with their cellphones, the idiots who keep talking through the movie, the fat people slobbering down noisy food, the sick people hacking their lungs out, the little kids brought into pg13 or r movies running all over the place, and what I find most annoying - the half hours of commercials and trailers(come on, they're commercials too) before the movie begins. A difference in screen size and image quality is nothing in comparison to the aggrivations of a theater.
KHTML has been Apple-backed ever since Safari development started.
Still, KHTML was really nice even before Safari development started.
It might not be relevent to your situation anymore, but for anyone else who's had bad luck with wine, Sidenet might help after wine's installed. It sets up the config file for some of the more tricky installs beforehand, installs some stuff from reactos, manages menus, and some other nice tricks. Though, on the other hand, I've never understood how people can have such different results from wine. I hear about people all the time not being able to run anything but notepad, but I've always had pretty good results from wine, even years back. Heck, my girlfriend, hardly a techy by any means, installed and uses photoshop with a vanilla build of wine. Are some of the major distros severly messing up wine when packaging or something?
I haven't used kdevelop in years, so I hope you'll excuse the fact that I'm 'very' in the dark on its present status. But can one work on designing a form, click on a button placed on the form, and be taken to the appropriate place in the code or have the basic onclick event autogenerated if there's nothing there yet? I know, its somewhat lazy, but its a way of doing things that I find entertaining.
Anyone know of an IDE which allows use of a high level language like python with a well integrated QT3 based form designer? Gamba seems to be the only thing like that out there, but as much as I like their IDE I can't make myself like basics syntax no matter how hard I try.
Is that why you use linux???
It was one of the things which initially caught my attention. I like art, and I like having some artistic flair in my surroundings - real or virtual.
And prepubescent acting, porn-addicted, shallow and socially backward wouldn't describe the average guy on the street?
Now maybe if you had suggested some little known media player that didn't automatically install codecs after you clicked "don't ask me again, just install" then maybe your post would have been worth something.
I'll go for one, mplayer. There's been beta builds on mplayers site for a while now, but I don't usually hear about anyone using it. While a lot of the port isn't as nice as in linux, and it seems to choke on most real player content even with the codec pack, it's still fairly nice. I keep it on a usb drive and it really comes in handy every now and again.
His protagonists are usually cops. Are you sure about that? I've read all of his novels, most of his short stories, and only recall a small percentage of his protagonists being law enforcement. Mostly I just recall his characters as being more along the lines of Joe Everyman or even people society would call just plain losers. Then again, aside from a recent reread of Valis, it's been a couple years since I've gone through any of his work again.
I had the exact opposite experience. I've usually found hospital workers to be among the most prone to catching anything out there.
I'd argue that DVRs promote the opposite. It's rare, but there are a few shows I do enjoy. Before getting a replayTV I'd watch commercials, have shows take priority over reading when they came on, and have to be fairly alert to the media. Now I've escaped that and it fits itself to my scedule and needs.
Besides that though, I think the major cause of being turned into a propaganda receiver is the assurance that it only could happen to other people, such as the unwashed tv watching masses. We're saturated in advertising, you could never see another tv, radio, or computer and still be awash in it simply by taking a short walk.
Do you really find them that ugly?
In my case, yes. I don't usually think of myself as a person to put appearence over functionality, but in the case of Tk that's my rule. I'd rather port an application to use another system than use it with tk.
It will be a long time until non-geek people start using OSS seriously on the desktop.
I think it depends on whether you mean that it'll be a long time until some non-geeks use linux, or until one can quiz people on the street and find a large percentage of linux users. The later I agree with, but not the former. I've found non-geeks in particular sometimes make the easiest transitions to linux. With geeks there's the game problem, and we often seem to have a lot of odd programs sitting around which are tied to one platform. Non-geeks on the other hand, on average don't use their computers for that much out of the ordinary. On her request I installed Debian on my fiancee's computer, not a computer geek by any means, a couple months back. Aside from setting up photoshop under wine the transition was pretty seamless.
I'm glad someone mentioned that, I was fighting the urge to as well. I suppose if it detects any methane we shouldn't jump to too many conclusions.
The one which really got me was "Mike Tyson does not have a handlebar mustache". I don't think most people old enough to grow one know the proper definition of a handlebar mustache, let alone a 13 year old.