We celebrate both all hallows eve and November the 5th, though for me personally, Guy Fawkes night is a rememberance of poor old Guy and the good he could have done.
It is believed that the tradition of Halloween reached America with the Irish immigrants of the 19th century who, according to Barkin and James, retained the belief that ghosts and spirits roamed the earth on Halloween. It is even possible that it was the Irish that developed the idea of trick or treating when villagers would go begging for food for a feast or perhaps the festival of St. Columb Kill.
Though to be fair, Haloween as it is celibrated today is Americanised
The main apps used on my desktop are either based on the KDE libraries or on the GTK libraries.
What Rehat have done is to make running a gnome program on Kde look native and vice versa.
and more here.
I wonder if they could poke the genius bit on but leave the learning difficulty out, or perhaps the different way of learning that dyslexics have makes a far better connected brain than us normal saps have
>>>> It doesn't matter which browser you use - you'll use a different one in the future.
>>Not if you use IE, and avoid taking stupid pills.
Perhaps you're not aware of that microsoft has stopped creating new versions of IE. To get the next browser upgrade you'll need to buy a new operating system - top marks MS!
Happy with your current browser now?
Of course, perhaps you like stealing software unlike the majority here...
Beware of statistics...
This google graph is very good and someone else has quoted 5% of world wide web viewers are not IE
The internet statistics site
estimates 605.60 million online so a litte itsy bitsy (statistically) 5% of that works out at 30.28 million NOT USING IE!
Anyway - besides the point really - it's an enterprise application - how many people (not percent) in the OP's organisation are using IE vs others - if that number is high enough, then go for IE, but make sure you generate standards compliant markup so the enterprises choice of browser is not down to bad coding, but down to features, ease of use, familiarity and other good reasons like that.
dumb is the wrong disability - blind (having no vision) is probably a better.
The thing about WEB STANDARDS is that the latest MS browser is really rather compliant - after all Microsoft are a major player in the creation of these standards.
Coding web pages for standards compliance INCLUDES Internet Explorer which will render reliably and faster when in standard compliant mode.
Quirks mode is used for junk HTML markup to make sure that badly written web pages will still work, but this mode may well be dropped some future Microsoft World Wide Web Reader Application.
The point of the standards is nothing to do with market share, linux, mac or anything else, it's about making sure that the pages produced will work today with the minimum of effort on the part of the author AND that these pages will continue to work into the future WITHOUT changes.
Do you get it?? It doesn't matter which browser you use - you'll use a different one in the future.
I don't think so!
Jakob's site already gets tonnes of traffic - go and have a read - you might learn something.
You might not agree with everything he says, I don't, but counterpoints are essential for forming arguments.
Read the OP, he wanted things you did when you weren't sitting at your computer...
My hobbies are wide and varied, but I reckon gardening is one of the best things I do - once you get past the having dirty hands, I find it rewarding and it provides good exercise
Even if life didn't start on *THIS* planet, it had to start somewhere, Seven Clues to the Origin of Life by A.G Cairns-Smith is an excellent overview of all of the current theories about how life started.
Very good read, though can be a little dry in places - it will expand your mind man!
which is reinforced by the fact that no-one's really putting much effort into creating a VB like tool for Linux (albeit there are several dead projects that have tried). WRONG!
Take last year's Syberia as a prime example - won a lot of awards (was a bit easy if you ask me) - just walk into your local Game (UK) and pick up a copy.
The problem with the point&click adventures growing into 3D is that no is that one has managed to pull it off quite right yet they are all a bit samey - they fear text on the screen I think and the walk/talk/use type interfaces that are ideally suited to this game type.
Lets hope the up and coming offerings from LucasArts can reignite the *real* games.
failing that I might be forced to write one myself!
ArgoUML is a Java based (and biased) UML development toolkit - well worth investigating
Tigris itself contains many other open source software engineering tools for design, construction, testing, deployment and more
Synopsis:
Tigris.org Community Scope
Tigris.org is a mid-sized open source community focused on building better tools for collaborative software development.
You will not find thousands of unrelated projects here: every project fits into the Tigris vision.
You will not find dead projects here: every project is welcomed into the community with a commitment to see it through and active developers cycle among related projects.
Tigris.org is hosted by CollabNet, but the Tigris vision is one for the entire open source movement and one that has attracted senior open source developers from many organizations.
The Sinclair QL - the worlds first 32bit home computer
QL = Quantum Leap
According to his book Just for fun Linus Torvalds cut his teeth on this old classic
I don't remember superbasic having any qubits or quantum registers or quantum operators though, perhaps someone can backport the quantum programming language to it's rightful home
I had Gem on my 8088 (512K, 30Mb HDD) and had a funky graphics card that would do CGA hi-res in 16 colours. So Gem was nice and colourful (though fixed windows, unlike atari Gem).
With first Word Plus and Timeworks DTP, the machine was excellent for doing schoolwork and stuff.
Now this PC I got also came with 2 operating systems, MS-DOS 3.2 and DOS Plus - Due to software compatibility, I tended to use MS-DOS, dos plus was slightly more memory hungry. I made the choice to use MS-DOS because it *was* a better operating system.
I remember windows 2 coming out and being quite excited - I remember starting it up - waiting ages - running in monochrome (it didn't support my weird graphics card) and played othello for about 30 minutes and then uninstalled it. My opinion: windows is a flop. (DOS is still good though!)
I used Windows 3.0 on some machine or other (not mine) and thought that it was a big improvement on 2.0.
I then got my 486 (33MHz w/ 8mb ram) with windows 3.1 installed! Oh-My-God it was *so* good, people talk about the shortcomings, but they either didn't use win3.1 or didn't have powerful enough machines to appreciate it properly.
There were 1 million hacks available for win3.1 to do whatever you wanted (icons on the desktop etc.) and it was skinnable too.
The underlying technology didn't really matter to me, I still played my DOS games in DOS and ran windows when I wanted to do something like use Word - remember word 2 folks? It's almost the same as the current word that we use today - all the elements were in place and it took first place on my machine.
I played with a couple of linux distros around that time or just after (Slackware and a thing called mini-linux that I've never found any references to again). But they just couldn't compete for a desktop experience for me and they didn't run doom!
Nowadays I run mandrake linux on my pc and debian (knoppix) on my laptop because I feel it's time has come.
Look on those old windows shots with the pleasant nostalgia they are intended to invoke. Suppress the anti-M$ urge on this one!
Slashdot Mirror
It's actually quite a good read but not enough to make me want to register...
Just click on the link after the text
If the URL is valid, try visiting that web page by clicking on the following link:
Was Guy Fawkes Framed? find out here!
Since it may be my namesake's festival, I have to correct you on the "American Import" bit...
Though to be fair, Haloween as it is celibrated today is Americanised
Not it's an AWWWWWWWWWWW battery
;-)
As in Awwwww, what a cute ikkle battery
The main apps used on my desktop are either based on the KDE libraries or on the GTK libraries. What Rehat have done is to make running a gnome program on Kde look native and vice versa.
A remarkable number of people that are rated as geniuses have/had dyslexia
examples are:
Leonardo DaVinci
Michael Faraday
Thomas Edison
and more here.
I wonder if they could poke the genius bit on but leave the learning difficulty out, or perhaps the different way of learning that dyslexics have makes a far better connected brain than us normal saps have
Info about the GIFT of dyslexia
And on one last note, remember that not all versions of Internet Explorer were made equal.
You cannot use IE5 and IE6 side by side and assume that they are equal - they are far from it.
And as for IE4... don't even go there!
>>>> It doesn't matter which browser you use - you'll use a different one in the future.
>>Not if you use IE, and avoid taking stupid pills.
Perhaps you're not aware of that microsoft has stopped creating new versions of IE. To get the next browser upgrade you'll need to buy a new operating system - top marks MS!
Happy with your current browser now?
Of course, perhaps you like stealing software unlike the majority here...
Beware of statistics... This google graph is very good and someone else has quoted 5% of world wide web viewers are not IE
The internet statistics site estimates 605.60 million online so a litte itsy bitsy (statistically) 5% of that works out at 30.28 million NOT USING IE!
Anyway - besides the point really - it's an enterprise application - how many people (not percent) in the OP's organisation are using IE vs others - if that number is high enough, then go for IE, but make sure you generate standards compliant markup so the enterprises choice of browser is not down to bad coding, but down to features, ease of use, familiarity and other good reasons like that.
dumb is the wrong disability - blind (having no vision) is probably a better.
The thing about WEB STANDARDS is that the latest MS browser is really rather compliant - after all Microsoft are a major player in the creation of these standards.
Coding web pages for standards compliance INCLUDES Internet Explorer which will render reliably and faster when in standard compliant mode.
Quirks mode is used for junk HTML markup to make sure that badly written web pages will still work, but this mode may well be dropped some future Microsoft World Wide Web Reader Application.
The point of the standards is nothing to do with market share, linux, mac or anything else, it's about making sure that the pages produced will work today with the minimum of effort on the part of the author AND that these pages will continue to work into the future WITHOUT changes.
Do you get it?? It doesn't matter which browser you use - you'll use a different one in the future.
As this website shows,
Google is not affiliated with the authors of this page nor responsible for its content.
I don't think so!
Jakob's site already gets tonnes of traffic - go and have a read - you might learn something.
You might not agree with everything he says, I don't, but counterpoints are essential for forming arguments.
Read the OP, he wanted things you did when you weren't sitting at your computer...
My hobbies are wide and varied, but I reckon gardening is one of the best things I do - once you get past the having dirty hands, I find it rewarding and it provides good exercise
Fair point I suppose, but you missed the point completely.
The point was - do it yourself to some basic level to make it look good enough that an artist will be happy to help you along.
My game looked like complete shit until an artist added a few touches - especially the logo
Okay it still needs some work, but it's getting there.
If the game didn't exist with my primitive attempts, the artist wouldn't have been motivated to help.
On re-reading my intended helpful post does look a little cold - wasn't meant that way...
And as for sound, same thing goes - there are many ways to produce great tunes with little skill.
Don't give me "I can't draw" like you're proud of it or something.
The last new programming language or algorythm you worked on took studying, right?
visit Learn To Draw and surprise yourself!
you might not end up with the mona lisa, but you'll finish up with something better than the nothing you have right now.
When your game looks reasonable, there will be a better chance of attracting an "artist" to help you.
Of course blender has an undo function
Press U to undo changes made in edit mode
pretty simple really
(not saying it's a terribly GOOD undo, but it DOES HAVE a Undo)
THEY DON'T DO A? SHIT DURING THEIR ENTIRE WORK DAY
Perhaps their toilet facilities are better at home so they prefer to wait until then...
I personally love spending part of my working day laying meters of brown cable and getting paid my normal hourly rate.
Contractors - SHIT at work, make your brown-time their down-time.
:-)
Even if life didn't start on *THIS* planet, it had to start somewhere, Seven Clues to the Origin of Life by A.G Cairns-Smith is an excellent overview of all of the current theories about how life started.
Very good read, though can be a little dry in places - it will expand your mind man!
which is reinforced by the fact that no-one's really putting much effort into creating a VB like tool for Linux (albeit there are several dead projects that have tried). WRONG!
There is an excellent VB like tool for linux
It's called GAMBAS
or GB for short
Perhaps I'm the virually no-one, but I like VB - and I agree it's an excellent day to day language.
When it stops paying the rent, I'll switch to another language. Simple as that...
Big download coming up for my sad old 56k but well worth it - well worth it!
Then on to kill some allied scum (does anyone actually enjoy playing the allies - they are far better as fodder!)
They both have a place.
Comparing point&click adventures to MMORPG's is not like for like - MMORPG's replace RPG's - Point and Clicks are a different beast
Crosswords are fun because you pit your wits against the setter.
Well written point and click adventures are the same
Take last year's Syberia as a prime example - won a lot of awards (was a bit easy if you ask me) - just walk into your local Game (UK) and pick up a copy.
The problem with the point&click adventures growing into 3D is that no is that one has managed to pull it off quite right yet they are all a bit samey - they fear text on the screen I think and the walk/talk/use type interfaces that are ideally suited to this game type.
Lets hope the up and coming offerings from LucasArts can reignite the *real* games.
failing that I might be forced to write one myself!
ArgoUML is a Java based (and biased) UML development toolkit - well worth investigating
Tigris itself contains many other open source software engineering tools for design, construction, testing, deployment and more
Synopsis:
Tigris.org Community Scope
Tigris.org is a mid-sized open source community focused on building better tools for collaborative software development.
You will not find thousands of unrelated projects here: every project fits into the Tigris vision.
You will not find dead projects here: every project is welcomed into the community with a commitment to see it through and active developers cycle among related projects.
Tigris.org is hosted by CollabNet, but the Tigris vision is one for the entire open source movement and one that has attracted senior open source developers from many organizations.
somewhere...
:-)
I like the concept that the multiverse is a big catalogue of all possible mathematical structures.
Someone has mentioned hitchhikers already, but I can really see those white mice sitting in their cages controlling it all!
The Sinclair QL - the worlds first 32bit home computer
QL = Quantum Leap
According to his book Just for fun Linus Torvalds cut his teeth on this old classic
I don't remember superbasic having any qubits or quantum registers or quantum operators though, perhaps someone can backport the quantum programming language to it's rightful home
It must not be taken out of context
I had Gem on my 8088 (512K, 30Mb HDD) and had a funky graphics card that would do CGA hi-res in 16 colours. So Gem was nice and colourful (though fixed windows, unlike atari Gem).
With first Word Plus and Timeworks DTP, the machine was excellent for doing schoolwork and stuff.
Now this PC I got also came with 2 operating systems, MS-DOS 3.2 and DOS Plus - Due to software compatibility, I tended to use MS-DOS, dos plus was slightly more memory hungry. I made the choice to use MS-DOS because it *was* a better operating system.
I remember windows 2 coming out and being quite excited - I remember starting it up - waiting ages - running in monochrome (it didn't support my weird graphics card) and played othello for about 30 minutes and then uninstalled it. My opinion: windows is a flop. (DOS is still good though!)
I used Windows 3.0 on some machine or other (not mine) and thought that it was a big improvement on 2.0.
I then got my 486 (33MHz w/ 8mb ram) with windows 3.1 installed! Oh-My-God it was *so* good, people talk about the shortcomings, but they either didn't use win3.1 or didn't have powerful enough machines to appreciate it properly.
There were 1 million hacks available for win3.1 to do whatever you wanted (icons on the desktop etc.) and it was skinnable too.
The underlying technology didn't really matter to me, I still played my DOS games in DOS and ran windows when I wanted to do something like use Word - remember word 2 folks? It's almost the same as the current word that we use today - all the elements were in place and it took first place on my machine.
I played with a couple of linux distros around that time or just after (Slackware and a thing called mini-linux that I've never found any references to again). But they just couldn't compete for a desktop experience for me and they didn't run doom!
Nowadays I run mandrake linux on my pc and debian (knoppix) on my laptop because I feel it's time has come.
Look on those old windows shots with the pleasant nostalgia they are intended to invoke. Suppress the anti-M$ urge on this one!