I have to agree on the idea of working on medical software. Some of the stuff being used is pretty out of date in terms of usability, especially for the software which provides the support for the non MDs. It might have been more extreame where I worked, but even so, I'd guess the situation isn't that abnormal.
Yep, that's the way the gui layout looked last time I tried helix, a couple weeks ago. My favorite feature is in the options though, the ability to choose betwean sound systems.
I know this is a joke, but I've actually had the opposite results. I was going on very little sleep while at the same time giving up caffeine. The end result was that every day around noon I'd get even more tired than I allready was. The worst part was that this coincided a few days a week with a very power point heavy class. More often than not I'd fall assleap for a few seconds to a minute during the presentations - but amazingly enough I actually wound up recalling them better than I had before all that went down. I don't know if it was the much needed rest, or the constant need to fight for alertness by paying rapt attention to every word on those slides, but the end result turned out pretty good.
I can think of one factor which might work in favor of keeping spyware off linux. It's just that, in my experience at least, closed source programs seem to never work well in Linux for very long. They tend to be restrictive about letting distros package them, and that's just the distros that even allow closed source programs in. And eventually library changes seem to render closed source programs difficult to even run on up-to-date systems, because the writers don't seem to grasp how quickly many users upgrade their systems when there's no cost and little risk involved. And if it is open source, it's just a matter of forking the project.
Though even aside from that, given that coders make up a significant or even a majority of Linux users, I don't think any bothersome program which nonetheless provided a useful service would last long without having a clone of it put together by someone out there. So, while I agree that there's no technical reason that spyware couldn't exist in Linux, I think the social factors will keep it out untill Linux reachs a state where it has a similar market share to Windows - which frankly I don't have much hope of ever happening.
AFAIK they're not really. They're piggy-backing on quicktime.
I'm not sure about the Windows or OSX players, but a linux build of real's helix player is showing an aac plugin. So there at least the support seems to be native. Never tried playing any aac files though, so I can't say how complete that support is.
But Linux needs to steer away from being "the nerd OS" to being something my grandma can use.
Why, isn't there allready a very popular non-nerd OS out there? It seems easier to just fit the square peg into the square hole, than to try whittling away the star to get a square.
While I don't agree that it's too hard for the average user, I have to say, so what if it is? Is it so terrible to have an operating system that's not dumbed down to the lowest common denominator?
Hey, now when I feel like the walls of my tiny apartment are closing in on me, I can recreate the experience 'virtually' instead of going outside into the hot, hot, sun! Hooray!
Mine sits in the next room over, and lets out these loud howling meows untill I get out of bed. What's really annoying is that he's been continuing to do this at 6am, all through the holiday vacation. He dosn't even want any food, just the satisfaction of the schedule not having any changes.
The press release clearly states that there is also a benefit from decaffeinated coffee, although it seems to be less beneficial than caffeinated coffee.
That actually might suggest that caffeine is the active agent. As I understand it, decafinated (as opposed to caffeine free) coffee still has an active amount of caffeine in it - just less than normal coffee.
Maybe I'm just jealous because I quit caffeine for New Years after 25 years hooked on the stuff. That headache will be fading any day now. At least I sure hope it will.
I gave it up on the 27th, and the headache at least is mostly gone. I'm still amazingly tired though. I actually fell assleap reading last night about 7pm, and that's after getting eight hours sleep that night before.
No, QT is hard on your eyes. As shocking as it might be, different people have different artistic tastes. Personally I've never seen a GTK theme I didn't think was painful to look at, excluding those based on QT themes, but I'd never say they're hard on the eyes - just because it's obvious many people do like them. Having an opinion on matter which by its very nature is nonobjective does not make it fact.
I'd think that often they don't. A friend of mine actually got hit with a virus minutes after reinstalling WindowsXP, before she had a chance to download updates from Microsoft.
So really, if you drank nothing but fresh and clean, pure water from day one, you'd have awful and horrible teeth.
I think it might be useful, but I think it's not quite as huge a potential problem. I'm twenty six, and have been drinking nothing but purified water since I was about seventeen, and have yet to get even a single cavity. I know one sample is pretty worthless in scientific terms, but ah well, that's been my experience in a non-fluoridized world.
It took a few trips like that before I realized I couldn't touch the stuff AT ALL for a LONG time after I'd quit.
I just made that mistake myself. After two weeks I figured I was in the clear, and that a little caffeine to help me concentrate during finals would be fine. Wrong, the headache came back just as strong as the first time I'd tried to go off it, right after a day with a couple bottles of mountain dew.
Most problems like that come from too high standards - or even just having standards. Just stop saying "no" to that nice 400lb borderline retarded girl. JUST STOP IT!
Otherwise, I found this interesting: Scientists cast doubt on caffeine addiction.
I have two big issues with the article. The first is the "reasonable quantities". The story label suggests that caffeine addiction dosn't exist, and is worded to present that view, but the actual facts presented just say that 'small amounts' of caffeine may not be addictive. "reasonable quantities" is pretty subjective. Personally I don't consider one to three cups very reasonable - most people I know who drink coffee go through that before noon. Plus, the acctual amount of caffeine in different brands varies, as does actual cup size unless by cup they mean it as measurement instead of actual 'hold in your hand' cup. I'm not sure if it's just a flawed study, or if the article is just presenting it that way. But I'd much prefer tighter controlls, such as simply using caffeine pills to get an exact measurement of how much actual caffeine is being taken.
I've seen a huge varience. Which I find really annoying as I'm on the outer time limit of suffering. Personally I get hit bad on day two through four, and only feel back to normal after about three weeks. After I foolishly fell beck into the habit during finals, I'm on day three right now, and not looking foreward to how much longer I have.
Thank you, I feel much the same way. As important as yet another SCO topic, or "is blah ready for the desktop" article may be, I'm getting bored with them. Even if there is no imediate pratical application for some stories, I welcome them just because they're new, a nice breath of fresh air. I want a story that might inspire me, rather than one which just leaves me depressed at the end as I watch more lawyers march into battle.
For what it's worth, I agree with you about the tabs. It seems illogical to me that a program which has tabs as one of its defining features would not only default to behavor which negates that benifit, but which dosn't even allow you to make proper use of it without installing a plugin.
As I understand it though, the term metrosexual specifficaly says the person isn't gay, which none of the others do. Both fop and dandy have strong gay implications, at least in their common usage. It's less about specifics of dress and more about fitting the sterotype of being gay presented by the general media while actually being straight.
At the risk of being acused of baiting the old flames
No, I accuse you of ignoring others viewpoints in order to justify your own opinions. I used to do the hacking part of a few translations, and I can tell you that there's a huge amount of people out there who simply love the style of the old 2D consoles. I spent an entire year working on one of them in particular, and either I or the translator could have used the time we spent on that to earn enough money to buy every single rpg produced for the current batch of consoles at that time. We didn't because we felt that game offered something that you couldn't find these days. Right now I'm playing through the first Star Ocean game - and it's not because the game is free. The reason is that I simply am having a better time with it than the newer rpgs I have around right now. Just because a game has become old dosn't mean the gameplay or story has just disapeared, no more than being new and shiney automatically means that either is going to be there!
After all, it's not that hard to find a working Sega Genesis, Master System, NES, SNES, etc. (go to the video games section at eBay if you need proof).
None of which are going to be able to play translated games without a huge investment in a copier. I own one, but they're getting rare and expensive enough that I don't expect people to just rush out and get one. But to get back to your first point about the money, yes, I'm sure that 'some' people are in it for the free games. But I don't think it's anywhere near the overwhelming majority that it'd have to be to justify blanket statements that everyone is in it for the same reason.
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I have to agree on the idea of working on medical software. Some of the stuff being used is pretty out of date in terms of usability, especially for the software which provides the support for the non MDs. It might have been more extreame where I worked, but even so, I'd guess the situation isn't that abnormal.
Microsoft is already dead and they just don't know it.
So they've become something like a lich or vampire? I think that's even scarier than before!
Yep, that's the way the gui layout looked last time I tried helix, a couple weeks ago. My favorite feature is in the options though, the ability to choose betwean sound systems.
Not to mention mothers buying gifts for their kids.
I know this is a joke, but I've actually had the opposite results. I was going on very little sleep while at the same time giving up caffeine. The end result was that every day around noon I'd get even more tired than I allready was. The worst part was that this coincided a few days a week with a very power point heavy class. More often than not I'd fall assleap for a few seconds to a minute during the presentations - but amazingly enough I actually wound up recalling them better than I had before all that went down. I don't know if it was the much needed rest, or the constant need to fight for alertness by paying rapt attention to every word on those slides, but the end result turned out pretty good.
I can think of one factor which might work in favor of keeping spyware off linux. It's just that, in my experience at least, closed source programs seem to never work well in Linux for very long. They tend to be restrictive about letting distros package them, and that's just the distros that even allow closed source programs in. And eventually library changes seem to render closed source programs difficult to even run on up-to-date systems, because the writers don't seem to grasp how quickly many users upgrade their systems when there's no cost and little risk involved. And if it is open source, it's just a matter of forking the project.
Though even aside from that, given that coders make up a significant or even a majority of Linux users, I don't think any bothersome program which nonetheless provided a useful service would last long without having a clone of it put together by someone out there. So, while I agree that there's no technical reason that spyware couldn't exist in Linux, I think the social factors will keep it out untill Linux reachs a state where it has a similar market share to Windows - which frankly I don't have much hope of ever happening.
On the bright side, at least amazon.co.uk does ship out of the country.
AFAIK they're not really. They're piggy-backing on quicktime.
I'm not sure about the Windows or OSX players, but a linux build of real's helix player is showing an aac plugin. So there at least the support seems to be native. Never tried playing any aac files though, so I can't say how complete that support is.
But Linux needs to steer away from being "the nerd OS" to being something my grandma can use.
Why, isn't there allready a very popular non-nerd OS out there? It seems easier to just fit the square peg into the square hole, than to try whittling away the star to get a square.
It's too hard for the average user.
While I don't agree that it's too hard for the average user, I have to say, so what if it is? Is it so terrible to have an operating system that's not dumbed down to the lowest common denominator?
The recent cooker snapshots for Mandrake have a choice to use 2.4 or 2.6, and with the KDE 3.2 beta the system really moves fast.
Hey, now when I feel like the walls of my tiny apartment are closing in on me, I can recreate the experience 'virtually' instead of going outside into the hot, hot, sun! Hooray!
Mine sits in the next room over, and lets out these loud howling meows untill I get out of bed. What's really annoying is that he's been continuing to do this at 6am, all through the holiday vacation. He dosn't even want any food, just the satisfaction of the schedule not having any changes.
The press release clearly states that there is also a benefit from decaffeinated coffee, although it seems to be less beneficial than caffeinated coffee.
That actually might suggest that caffeine is the active agent. As I understand it, decafinated (as opposed to caffeine free) coffee still has an active amount of caffeine in it - just less than normal coffee.
Maybe I'm just jealous because I quit caffeine for New Years after 25 years hooked on the stuff. That headache will be fading any day now. At least I sure hope it will.
I gave it up on the 27th, and the headache at least is mostly gone. I'm still amazingly tired though. I actually fell assleap reading last night about 7pm, and that's after getting eight hours sleep that night before.
QT is hard on the eyes.
No, QT is hard on your eyes. As shocking as it might be, different people have different artistic tastes. Personally I've never seen a GTK theme I didn't think was painful to look at, excluding those based on QT themes, but I'd never say they're hard on the eyes - just because it's obvious many people do like them. Having an opinion on matter which by its very nature is nonobjective does not make it fact.
I'd think that often they don't. A friend of mine actually got hit with a virus minutes after reinstalling WindowsXP, before she had a chance to download updates from Microsoft.
So really, if you drank nothing but fresh and clean, pure water from day one, you'd have awful and horrible teeth.
I think it might be useful, but I think it's not quite as huge a potential problem. I'm twenty six, and have been drinking nothing but purified water since I was about seventeen, and have yet to get even a single cavity. I know one sample is pretty worthless in scientific terms, but ah well, that's been my experience in a non-fluoridized world.
It took a few trips like that before I realized I couldn't touch the stuff AT ALL for a LONG time after I'd quit.
I just made that mistake myself. After two weeks I figured I was in the clear, and that a little caffeine to help me concentrate during finals would be fine. Wrong, the headache came back just as strong as the first time I'd tried to go off it, right after a day with a couple bottles of mountain dew.
Most problems like that come from too high standards - or even just having standards. Just stop saying "no" to that nice 400lb borderline retarded girl. JUST STOP IT!
Otherwise, I found this interesting: Scientists cast doubt on caffeine addiction.
I have two big issues with the article. The first is the "reasonable quantities". The story label suggests that caffeine addiction dosn't exist, and is worded to present that view, but the actual facts presented just say that 'small amounts' of caffeine may not be addictive. "reasonable quantities" is pretty subjective. Personally I don't consider one to three cups very reasonable - most people I know who drink coffee go through that before noon. Plus, the acctual amount of caffeine in different brands varies, as does actual cup size unless by cup they mean it as measurement instead of actual 'hold in your hand' cup. I'm not sure if it's just a flawed study, or if the article is just presenting it that way. But I'd much prefer tighter controlls, such as simply using caffeine pills to get an exact measurement of how much actual caffeine is being taken.
I've seen a huge varience. Which I find really annoying as I'm on the outer time limit of suffering. Personally I get hit bad on day two through four, and only feel back to normal after about three weeks. After I foolishly fell beck into the habit during finals, I'm on day three right now, and not looking foreward to how much longer I have.
Thank you, I feel much the same way. As important as yet another SCO topic, or "is blah ready for the desktop" article may be, I'm getting bored with them. Even if there is no imediate pratical application for some stories, I welcome them just because they're new, a nice breath of fresh air. I want a story that might inspire me, rather than one which just leaves me depressed at the end as I watch more lawyers march into battle.
For what it's worth, I agree with you about the tabs. It seems illogical to me that a program which has tabs as one of its defining features would not only default to behavor which negates that benifit, but which dosn't even allow you to make proper use of it without installing a plugin.
As I understand it though, the term metrosexual specifficaly says the person isn't gay, which none of the others do. Both fop and dandy have strong gay implications, at least in their common usage. It's less about specifics of dress and more about fitting the sterotype of being gay presented by the general media while actually being straight.
At the risk of being acused of baiting the old flames
No, I accuse you of ignoring others viewpoints in order to justify your own opinions. I used to do the hacking part of a few translations, and I can tell you that there's a huge amount of people out there who simply love the style of the old 2D consoles. I spent an entire year working on one of them in particular, and either I or the translator could have used the time we spent on that to earn enough money to buy every single rpg produced for the current batch of consoles at that time. We didn't because we felt that game offered something that you couldn't find these days. Right now I'm playing through the first Star Ocean game - and it's not because the game is free. The reason is that I simply am having a better time with it than the newer rpgs I have around right now. Just because a game has become old dosn't mean the gameplay or story has just disapeared, no more than being new and shiney automatically means that either is going to be there!
After all, it's not that hard to find a working Sega Genesis, Master System, NES, SNES, etc. (go to the video games section at eBay if you need proof).
None of which are going to be able to play translated games without a huge investment in a copier. I own one, but they're getting rare and expensive enough that I don't expect people to just rush out and get one. But to get back to your first point about the money, yes, I'm sure that 'some' people are in it for the free games. But I don't think it's anywhere near the overwhelming majority that it'd have to be to justify blanket statements that everyone is in it for the same reason.