I'm really curious to know how many users still use pine? I remember when I first got in college, it was the "easiest" mail application for an UNIX-newbie, so I used it for about a week (I didn't like it, so I found out about Emacs VM and never used pine again:-), but now I think things have changed a bit, no?
I mean, very new users tend to use graphical interfaces for almost everything... And there are plenty graphical MUAs ou there. And old, more "advanced" users tend to use more sofisticated or powerful MUAs (graphical or non-graphical), like Emacs' VM, Mutt, etc.
So.... does Pine really still maintain a user-base? If so, what would be the reasons for these users sticking with Pine? (As you can see, I'm not a Pine fan;), but anyways, I'd like to hear from those who are...).
In a lot of third world or developing countries these kind of work conditions are very common. In Brazil, for example, a lot of our economically active people are not in a "legally" contracted.
This is just recently hitting America and Europe and people there are starting to loose jobs and/or work for low salaries... but that's just the way capitalism and globalization works... the lowest price always gets the deal.
The tendency to remove economic barriers between countries is becoming stronger, and these are the consequences... just be glad you weren't unlucky to be born in one America's/Europe's economic "colonies".
Nothing left fot the imagination?
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3D TV For The Masses?
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Although 3D TV is just a step forward in multimedia we see in our day to day lives, which apparently started with the regular 2D TV in the 60's, it seems that soon futuristic technologies will be right around the corner. I remember watching Star Treck about 10 years ago and seeing the "Holadeck", where the crew could enter a "hologram-like" world, and interact with this world.
Now it seems that this is not very far away! It maked me wonder what will happen to the human mind. It is common knowledge that reading books stimulates one's imagination a lot more than watching today's TVs or movies, for example. What will happen when we leave our children to enter "holodeck-fairy-tale-land".
It seems man will start to become distant from nature. Is this a good or a bad thing? What are the consequences for a kid growing up in this new virtual "environment"?
I definately the advantages to a hologram world, like visiting places you could not otherwise visit, and experience new things, but maybe this process has to be carefully thought out.
I guess the a Matrix world is closer then I imagined...
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... And then fire all of you the minute the project is finshed :-)
Very stable, performs really, really well on old machines we have here, makes my admin live plenty easy, and never had any security problems with it.
Enough said ;-)
I mean, very new users tend to use graphical interfaces for almost everything... And there are plenty graphical MUAs ou there. And old, more "advanced" users tend to use more sofisticated or powerful MUAs (graphical or non-graphical), like Emacs' VM, Mutt, etc.
So.... does Pine really still maintain a user-base? If so, what would be the reasons for these users sticking with Pine? (As you can see, I'm not a Pine fan ;), but anyways, I'd like to hear from those who are...).
In a lot of third world or developing countries these kind of work conditions are very common. In Brazil, for example, a lot of our economically active people are not in a "legally" contracted.
This is just recently hitting America and Europe and people there are starting to loose jobs and/or work for low salaries... but that's just the way capitalism and globalization works... the lowest price always gets the deal.
The tendency to remove economic barriers between countries is becoming stronger, and these are the consequences... just be glad you weren't unlucky to be born in one America's/Europe's economic "colonies".
Now it seems that this is not very far away! It maked me wonder what will happen to the human mind. It is common knowledge that reading books stimulates one's imagination a lot more than watching today's TVs or movies, for example. What will happen when we leave our children to enter "holodeck-fairy-tale-land".
It seems man will start to become distant from nature. Is this a good or a bad thing? What are the consequences for a kid growing up in this new virtual "environment"?
I definately the advantages to a hologram world, like visiting places you could not otherwise visit, and experience new things, but maybe this process has to be carefully thought out.
I guess the a Matrix world is closer then I imagined...