I don't think so. Marked-up binary similar to what's in EBML has been around in the telecommunications industry for a while. There's ASN.1 (complete with standardised XML encoding), and also WBXML (oh, and this *is* a W3C standard). Still, their design is at odds with many of the principles behind XML, but they're extensible and contain tag-like metadata.
My brother and sister taught me how to program BASIC on the family C64 when I was four-or-so. Mostly I was just interested in playing games, the best of which were written in assembly, but it was fun to hack the games written in BASIC (once I knew the demand function for lemonade, I was suddenly a great businessman). PEEKs and POKEs would have been the most advanced I ever got in those days.
As for learning now, I'd recommend sticking with something high-level. Something high-level like Java is good, because you can produce applications that look like the other applications you use everyday with very little experience, which can be highly satisfactory. Starting off with assembly and getting "hello world" printed to a console will be novel, but too far from the non-hacker kid's general experience with computers to give the impression that programming can be genuinely useful in practice.
If the kid was a real nerd/hacker, they'd already know some flavour of assembly by the time they're 14. So chances are you're dealing with someone who will benefit most from learning how to use computers and programming more effectively to help them day-to-day; not someone who wants to know the best way to balance a tree on a sequential-access medium.
Perhaps it was disagreement with the premise that a well regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free state. If I were to disagree with that, or maybe fail to understand the rationale, then the subsequent conclusion is moot. Of course, I'm in a dangerous position making presumptions about others' comments in an already off-topic thread.
The article (and the FAQ) don't seem to escape the "user controls computer via clicking with a pointing device" mentality. Icons don't need to be large, they don't even need to be present. I'm happily using Opera with just an address and status bar, using mouse gestures and keyboard controls to navigate the interface. Mozilla supports mouse gestures too.
He also ignores the simpler interfaces that are actually very functional. Take emacs, for example. Arguably, it is a bitch to learn how to use emacs effectively; hence I expect that it would rate low on the "usability" scales. Yet it gets to the very core of point 0 (after removing the menu, tool, and scroll bars), while being inconsistent with Fitt's Law etc. In fact, if you assume the user is capable of using the keyboard (she's intelligent, after all) and a scroll wheel, points 1 and 4 are almost entirely redundant.
As for the problem with the taskbar, using a decent PS1 doesn't solve the problem, but it would be a start.
It doesn't really need to be fast -- in a real book, you don't flip the pages all that often.
At the risk of being told to RTFA: refresh rate matters a lot when you're looking at a static image with a white background. Think constant flickering. It's not as bad on LCDs (but the negative effects aren't non-existent). If you've tried reading an ebook on a CRT running at less than 100hz you'll know what I'm talking about.
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They hit one, then run to the next, hit that, run some more, hit another one.... currently they have a shitload of bees after them, and their legs are getting tired...
Except that some of the people watching this have thought "well, look at all those bee hives Darl's whacking. This kid is setting himself up for some major honey!", which is enough to keep him running and hitting away.
Great, so why not buy in the morning and sell in the afternoon, becoming rich in the process.
Because these are most likely insider, pre-arranged trades. They're not the market prices, and you won't be able to sell at that price. You'd just end up with a whole lot of SCO stock that you can't sell (not at the high price at least).
"with two suits more likely" This is different from "two more suits likely". He's saying that "two suits [is] more likely [than one]". Sure, the wording is ambiguous, but I read it as two and so would most educated people.
I'm 17 and I used GEOS "back in the day" (when I was 4 or so). Just how many sub-17 year olds do you think there are?
I still have my SX-64 next to my bed. I'm tempted to sell it on ebay (I hear they have some antique value) but I don't know if I can bring myself to say goodbye to it.
can only echo what many other have said: for the sake of Linux and OSS in general, do not look at the Windows source!. That's a very conservative and overly-paranoid policy, but it's a invaluable measure for protection.
Then you talk to a friend, not knowing that he's already seen the source. How do you know that any of your subsequent actions aren't influenced by his having seen the source (and more imporantly, can you convince a judge of this?).
I don't suppose you consider 'heavy' the more obvious antonym of 'light' in this context. Or even just 'non-light'.
My box isn't light, but it certainly isn't heavy compared to a car.
Is it too late to do something about this? I'm an Australian citizen, and I'd hate to see an Australian DMC-Act or US-style patents make legislation. What are some of the best things I could do to prevent/soften it? Off-hand I can think of writing to an MP, but: which MP (senate/LA) and where are some ornce arguments that I can use to present my concerns?
So now we're looking for anyone NOT named Andy, because even someone as stupid as a virus-writer wouldn't be so dumb as to put their real name on something this destructive.
He who writes the code, gets to choose the license. If someone chooses GPL, I fail to see how that is YOUR problem.
Then you fail to see that "He who writes the code, gets to choose the license" isn't true when you're writing code that gets *linked* to a GPL'd library? You might be writing your own code, but the library it's getting linked with defines the license.
But don't start whining when someone chooses a lisence you personally don't happen to like!
Is pointing out the relative strengths of a BSD-style license over the GPL whining? And besides, it isn't me who's going to lose out from licensing under the GPL. It's end-users who may not see enhancement X integrated into their product. I have several GPL'd projects. I also have several non-GPL'd projects. In some cases the GPL is more appropriate, but in other cases it's not, especially when you think your code is an enhancement that every user on the planet could benefit from.
When you code a library or infrastructural utility under a BSD license, you are coding it for the good of everyone: if it could be beneficial to someone who is using a commercial vendor's product, then there is no reason why it can't get linked in. When you code under the GPL your are limiting those who can benefit from your library to those people that either can be bothered compiling it and linking it themselves or have a vendor that wants to redistribute the original source & the source of whatever it's being linked with. RMS seems to imply that the evil corporate world will absorb your hard hours work, but he seems to omit/ignore the fact that your work will still be available even more freely under the BSD license than it would ever be under the GPL. Extend your generosity to other people's work shouldn't be mandatory.
Currently I am working with all standard QWERTY keyboards. I had one that had volume buttons and some hot keys, but found that I never used them. My student informed me he switched to DVORAK under MacOSX just by switching the key binding.
Yeah it took me about two weeks as well. Just make sure you don't forget qwerty, it can be a real pain in the arse when you're using shared/public/other people's computers and you have to keep switching layouts (sometimes this isn't even possible on public computers).
I'm using an old Microsoft internet keyboard. It has 10 extra hotkeys and I use every one of them, it tends to be a lot more efficient than reaching for a mouse to go through a menu or panel launcher.
I've got an Intellimouse optical as well, and I'm quite happy with it (except this is the second reincarnation, the first intellimouse optical I had broke..). The side buttons are pretty useless in Linux, but if you're using a browser with gesture support this isn't a problem.
Lastly, those fingerworks keyboards look nice (though I don't think they'd be too special in terms of tactile response). It just depends whether you're willing to pay the premium.
Pity there are no real equivalents of MIT, UCB, stanford et al in Australia. It's good value for an undergrad; but if you're a native citizen of Australia and don't fancy exporting yourself then you've still got a HECS debt to look forward to, which isn't helped by indebted international students leaving the country.
*waves hands around* don't come, I don't want to pay for.. um.. er.. yeah the food really sucks!
I can see the day when you go by RFID ready ad displays in the mall, and will be taylored to your 'interests' as they carefully read what stores you've been to and feed a 'revelevent ad'.
Because none of us would actually want to see advertising material that's actually relevant to us now would we? This might be embarassing in the middle of a mall, but FFS should we erase sales assistants' memories of your face so that they don't remember you the next time you come in to their store?
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I don't think so. Marked-up binary similar to what's in EBML has been around in the telecommunications industry for a while. There's ASN.1 (complete with standardised XML encoding), and also WBXML (oh, and this *is* a W3C standard). Still, their design is at odds with many of the principles behind XML, but they're extensible and contain tag-like metadata.
My brother and sister taught me how to program BASIC on the family C64 when I was four-or-so. Mostly I was just interested in playing games, the best of which were written in assembly, but it was fun to hack the games written in BASIC (once I knew the demand function for lemonade, I was suddenly a great businessman). PEEKs and POKEs would have been the most advanced I ever got in those days.
As for learning now, I'd recommend sticking with something high-level. Something high-level like Java is good, because you can produce applications that look like the other applications you use everyday with very little experience, which can be highly satisfactory. Starting off with assembly and getting "hello world" printed to a console will be novel, but too far from the non-hacker kid's general experience with computers to give the impression that programming can be genuinely useful in practice.
If the kid was a real nerd/hacker, they'd already know some flavour of assembly by the time they're 14. So chances are you're dealing with someone who will benefit most from learning how to use computers and programming more effectively to help them day-to-day; not someone who wants to know the best way to balance a tree on a sequential-access medium.
Perhaps it was disagreement with the premise that a well regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free state. If I were to disagree with that, or maybe fail to understand the rationale, then the subsequent conclusion is moot. Of course, I'm in a dangerous position making presumptions about others' comments in an already off-topic thread.
Are you forgetting how thin Mars' atmosphere is? I can't think of a better explanation, but it might not be as obvious as you think.
The article (and the FAQ) don't seem to escape the "user controls computer via clicking with a pointing device" mentality. Icons don't need to be large, they don't even need to be present. I'm happily using Opera with just an address and status bar, using mouse gestures and keyboard controls to navigate the interface. Mozilla supports mouse gestures too.
He also ignores the simpler interfaces that are actually very functional. Take emacs, for example. Arguably, it is a bitch to learn how to use emacs effectively; hence I expect that it would rate low on the "usability" scales. Yet it gets to the very core of point 0 (after removing the menu, tool, and scroll bars), while being inconsistent with Fitt's Law etc. In fact, if you assume the user is capable of using the keyboard (she's intelligent, after all) and a scroll wheel, points 1 and 4 are almost entirely redundant.
As for the problem with the taskbar, using a decent PS1 doesn't solve the problem, but it would be a start.
...and the best part is that the one result from said link points straight back here ;)
"with two suits more likely"
This is different from "two more suits likely". He's saying that "two suits [is] more likely [than one]". Sure, the wording is ambiguous, but I read it as two and so would most educated people.
Hell, netcraft doesn't even have a history for dotslash.org!
I'm 17 and I used GEOS "back in the day" (when I was 4 or so). Just how many sub-17 year olds do you think there are? I still have my SX-64 next to my bed. I'm tempted to sell it on ebay (I hear they have some antique value) but I don't know if I can bring myself to say goodbye to it.
Then you talk to a friend, not knowing that he's already seen the source. How do you know that any of your subsequent actions aren't influenced by his having seen the source (and more imporantly, can you convince a judge of this?).
"Little Tin" perhaps?
I don't suppose you consider 'heavy' the more obvious antonym of 'light' in this context. Or even just 'non-light'.
My box isn't light, but it certainly isn't heavy compared to a car.
Is it too late to do something about this? I'm an Australian citizen, and I'd hate to see an Australian DMC-Act or US-style patents make legislation. What are some of the best things I could do to prevent/soften it? Off-hand I can think of writing to an MP, but: which MP (senate/LA) and where are some ornce arguments that I can use to present my concerns?
Fool! That's just what he wants you to think!
Then you fail to see that "He who writes the code, gets to choose the license" isn't true when you're writing code that gets *linked* to a GPL'd library? You might be writing your own code, but the library it's getting linked with defines the license.
Is pointing out the relative strengths of a BSD-style license over the GPL whining? And besides, it isn't me who's going to lose out from licensing under the GPL. It's end-users who may not see enhancement X integrated into their product. I have several GPL'd projects. I also have several non-GPL'd projects. In some cases the GPL is more appropriate, but in other cases it's not, especially when you think your code is an enhancement that every user on the planet could benefit from.
When you code a library or infrastructural utility under a BSD license, you are coding it for the good of everyone: if it could be beneficial to someone who is using a commercial vendor's product, then there is no reason why it can't get linked in.
When you code under the GPL your are limiting those who can benefit from your library to those people that either can be bothered compiling it and linking it themselves or have a vendor that wants to redistribute the original source & the source of whatever it's being linked with. RMS seems to imply that the evil corporate world will absorb your hard hours work, but he seems to omit/ignore the fact that your work will still be available even more freely under the BSD license than it would ever be under the GPL.
Extend your generosity to other people's work shouldn't be mandatory.
Yeah it took me about two weeks as well. Just make sure you don't forget qwerty, it can be a real pain in the arse when you're using shared/public/other people's computers and you have to keep switching layouts (sometimes this isn't even possible on public computers).
I'm using an old Microsoft internet keyboard. It has 10 extra hotkeys and I use every one of them, it tends to be a lot more efficient than reaching for a mouse to go through a menu or panel launcher.
I've got an Intellimouse optical as well, and I'm quite happy with it (except this is the second reincarnation, the first intellimouse optical I had broke..). The side buttons are pretty useless in Linux, but if you're using a browser with gesture support this isn't a problem.
Lastly, those fingerworks keyboards look nice (though I don't think they'd be too special in terms of tactile response). It just depends whether you're willing to pay the premium.
Well, if the one in Perth was anything to go by, I count.. well. four?
*waves hands around* don't come, I don't want to pay for.. um.. er.. yeah the food really sucks!