In a way, only in that case the files (.ogg,.wav, etc) are virtual as well (until you open or copy them, at which point they're created on the fly, AFAIK).
A better way to imagine them is the windows-search in XP, which already displays the results as if they were in one folder (you can mark, copy, etc. them exactly the same, only you can't paste into it, naturally). Now think if you had a "folder" (which is really a file containing your search terms) that upon opening would automatically execute the search and display the result. Depending on the criteria implemented you could have a virtual folder containing all *.mp3 files ony your system, all files over 100Mb, any file that contains the string "copyright" or whatever search terms and combination you can come up with.
I think symlinks are grafted onto the existing system as an afterthought, probably because some coders and admins at MS requested them (TFA mentions them being in Vista server). I would certainly prefer a more low-level approach to virtual folders as well, but WFS is cancelled for Vista:-P
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Nope, those virtual folders are actually search-parameters saved in a xml-format, which is known already. Paul gets them wrong or at least gives a shitty explanation (he says these xml files store the results, but that wouldn't be dynamic as he claims as well), instead you click 'em and the search is fired up using the stored parameters, e.g. *.mp3
There's one shipwreck which can be targeted from the elevator and probably right at the beginning, if you climb over the rocks behind you (?), that features a comment node which talks about it being a puzzle they had to leave out because they thought people would prefer the rappeling soldiers (hint: I don't, but then I enjoy playing Myst:-P ). Also Gabe specifically asks for feedback and gives his email in one of the last nodes.
The comment nodes are fun BTW, but I would have prefered the whole game to pause (they can get difficult to hear well if a certain machine is close). Additionally you go into god-mode when activating the comments, which is bad IMHO, since I started it with comments on, because I wasn't sure I wanted to run through a second time...
That is indeed what I usually do, as my 9800 Pro isn't quite top of the line anymore. I still want 1xAA and I need to use 1280x1024 (LCD), which is a big performance killer, apparently. I could just run lower and use the resolution "adaption" as AA, I guess:-P
Because it offers a general "speed" value (that seems contrived at best, My system is amongst the top 3%, yet I still experience quite a lot of low frames situations in modern FPSs) instead of evaluating for specific games...
...do some of the more modern games still go steady below 15 fps if "Your system is among the top 3% of all systems scanned by the Game Advisor."? Crap:-P
Would you still be willing to support that stance if said friend's last name was Hanson, his girlfriend's Marylin and he was playing a female character? Matter of fact, we don't know those details and it looks like none of those involved cared to find out either, which is quite wrong from my personal moral POV...
Thank you, maybe I should give it a try then:-) Kuickshow is a real loss, I agree. Have you (or anybody else) tried running Inkscape? That was difficult on the 9.x series as well...
I'd say hand them a Knoppix or similar LiveCD (doesn't really matter which) to fool around with and get over the initial shock.
Then, if they are Win PowerUsers (aka don't sweat poking.lnks and the occasional cmd), hand them any Distro you like (I personally have a sweet spot for SuSE though it has some horrible decisions in directory structure, etc. and I openly hate Ubuntu, which I consider an absolute interface-nightmare in the default, LiveCD configuration. Debian, Gentoo, etc. are probably too arcane, let them discover the fun of that later on their own). Let them do installation, etc. on their own, but babysit them.
If they are simple users (no experience in unix or DOS doesn't make that so, but if they've never used a cmdline it gets tough) the first thing to ask is, honestly, do THEY want to learn Linux or do YOU want them too (I've myself been guilty of that)? If it's actually them you should probably install the LiveCD they had to play with, so they're not confused by another change so soon. And make damn sure they come to you before trying to install some software (people get nervous breakdowns when first encountering the "Linux way")
Jeesh, yes we understood you learned a new phrase, now get over it:-P
One real question though: Up to and including SuSE 9.1 I have always had one major complaint (That does not stop me from using SuSE, but is an absolute showstopper when thinking about recommending it to friends). Everything is fine as long as you only install the default packages and a few select ones, but very often packages (which are distributed with SuSE, I'm not talking about external rpms) would install just fine, but never show up in KDEs menu. For someone used to that there's no big deal to add a link manually, but it's hardly something I can tolerate in a commercial distro... So, my question, is that problem still there in 10.0? What happens if I add LyX for example?
I'd suggest changing the Gs from 1 to.38 earth to mars and vice versa on the way back, that way you'd have a nice acclimatisation to the respective gravities.
The energy problem however remains and cannot to my knowledge be solved currently. If we could make ion engines or the hydrogen & electric arc systems more efficient and get a small fission or, better, fusion reactor onboard that might stop sounding utterly ridiculous though. On the other hand, using a tether-based rotation as proposed in "mars direct" is way cheaper and obtainable today...
Noone feels left out and if they've lived together for years before on earth there's no reason to assume they're going to break down during flight either.
I'm completely serious btw.
Using these games for teaching is very difficult, simply because they're sometimes os convincing. The same problem with movies...
Take "Gladiator", where the Archers light their Arrows on a fire trench in the ground. There is absolutely no evidence this is historically correct (and the makers were aware of that, check the commentary)
Or, for a game, take "Age of Empires", which features moving catapults (even having a damage area). Simply put, these didn't exist! I have an interview with Bruce Shelley where he claims he did it, because people "expect" that in a game and he usually uses children's book's illustrations as base for his ideas...
So, they're not bad, for entertainment, but should be taken with some barrels of salt when used in actual education.
Cobine that with the prism foil used to achieve cheap 3D effects and the holodeck is coming!:-) Seriously, I'd love wallpaper from this stuff, Imagine displaying a realtime view from someplace outside, placing a screen "window" anywhere you need it to watch the news (Other projection technologies I've come across had their display following you around, so you could always continue watching a movie) or, combined with touch sensitivity, having virtual post-it's, posters, etc. just like a typical desktop UI. *sigh*
Wow, you know how long I've waited for somebody on slashdot to say that? Thank you for being the first poster who ever did the sensible thing and simply agreed to disagree:-) (Most other people I've met here cannot accept different views/tastes/whatever to exist *shrug*)
I enjoy bashing stupid american ideas as much as the next european, but in my experience a) we copy an awfull lot, especially when it comes "political correctness" (we usually don't even translate that term. Says a lot, huh?) and, more importantly, b) our dumbasses are on equal footing with you dumbasses:-)
"Der Schwarze" will be the most "correct" you get from the first post-WW2 generation ("68er" based on this generation forming student-rebellions against the establishment in '68) and is generally not impolite. Still many current students I know prefer "Afro-deutsch" if it is necessary to make a distinction. It makes sense from an inclusive national pride point of view. The first part being the ethnic group or origin of the same and the latter assuming citizenship. Thus "afro-deutsch" for someone living in Germany, but clearly in strong genetic chain to the african ethnic group(s). Works for "european-american" as well:-)
Racism is an extremely difficult problem (most young germans have been instructed to tolerance time after time, which is probably the reason we have neo-nazis again, they just couldn't stand it any longer...) and I have no idea how to approach it. Myself and most students I know don't particularly care about ancestry and genetics, because there are far more intersting attributes people display. On the other hand I know that, as soon as you leave the diverse environment of university life, this simply-don't-care-attitude quickly vanishes. I'm still struggling with my own parents (68er's!) strongly disliking anybody of middle-eastern, especially turkish origin or ancestry. And that as doctorate at university (but not part of the student culture, of course) and principal of an elementary school.
*shrugs* If somebody ever finds a solution to such xenophobia he's bound to get the Nobel Prize.
Add "we don't trust the US (based on its breaking multiple international contracts in recent time) and would prefer the UN to handle it (which we see as the only way of maintaining a status quo, where noone has actual 'control')" to the EU statement and you've got it... On the other hand, from what I've read so far, you should probably strike the "you guys will use the control to censor" from the US side....
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In a way, only in that case the files (.ogg, .wav, etc) are virtual as well (until you open or copy them, at which point they're created on the fly, AFAIK).
A better way to imagine them is the windows-search in XP, which already displays the results as if they were in one folder (you can mark, copy, etc. them exactly the same, only you can't paste into it, naturally). Now think if you had a "folder" (which is really a file containing your search terms) that upon opening would automatically execute the search and display the result. Depending on the criteria implemented you could have a virtual folder containing all *.mp3 files ony your system, all files over 100Mb, any file that contains the string "copyright" or whatever search terms and combination you can come up with.
I think symlinks are grafted onto the existing system as an afterthought, probably because some coders and admins at MS requested them (TFA mentions them being in Vista server). I would certainly prefer a more low-level approach to virtual folders as well, but WFS is cancelled for Vista :-P
Nope, those virtual folders are actually search-parameters saved in a xml-format, which is known already. Paul gets them wrong or at least gives a shitty explanation (he says these xml files store the results, but that wouldn't be dynamic as he claims as well), instead you click 'em and the search is fired up using the stored parameters, e.g. *.mp3
There's one shipwreck which can be targeted from the elevator and probably right at the beginning, if you climb over the rocks behind you (?), that features a comment node which talks about it being a puzzle they had to leave out because they thought people would prefer the rappeling soldiers (hint: I don't, but then I enjoy playing Myst :-P ). Also Gabe specifically asks for feedback and gives his email in one of the last nodes.
The comment nodes are fun BTW, but I would have prefered the whole game to pause (they can get difficult to hear well if a certain machine is close). Additionally you go into god-mode when activating the comments, which is bad IMHO, since I started it with comments on, because I wasn't sure I wanted to run through a second time...
That is indeed what I usually do, as my 9800 Pro isn't quite top of the line anymore. I still want 1xAA and I need to use 1280x1024 (LCD), which is a big performance killer, apparently. I could just run lower and use the resolution "adaption" as AA, I guess :-P
Because it offers a general "speed" value (that seems contrived at best, My system is amongst the top 3%, yet I still experience quite a lot of low frames situations in modern FPSs) instead of evaluating for specific games...
...do some of the more modern games still go steady below 15 fps if "Your system is among the top 3% of all systems scanned by the Game Advisor."? Crap :-P
Would you still be willing to support that stance if said friend's last name was Hanson, his girlfriend's Marylin and he was playing a female character? Matter of fact, we don't know those details and it looks like none of those involved cared to find out either, which is quite wrong from my personal moral POV...
Thank you, maybe I should give it a try then :-) Kuickshow is a real loss, I agree. Have you (or anybody else) tried running Inkscape? That was difficult on the 9.x series as well...
I'd say hand them a Knoppix or similar LiveCD (doesn't really matter which) to fool around with and get over the initial shock.
.lnks and the occasional cmd), hand them any Distro you like (I personally have a sweet spot for SuSE though it has some horrible decisions in directory structure, etc. and I openly hate Ubuntu, which I consider an absolute interface-nightmare in the default, LiveCD configuration. Debian, Gentoo, etc. are probably too arcane, let them discover the fun of that later on their own). Let them do installation, etc. on their own, but babysit them.
Then, if they are Win PowerUsers (aka don't sweat poking
If they are simple users (no experience in unix or DOS doesn't make that so, but if they've never used a cmdline it gets tough) the first thing to ask is, honestly, do THEY want to learn Linux or do YOU want them too (I've myself been guilty of that)? If it's actually them you should probably install the LiveCD they had to play with, so they're not confused by another change so soon. And make damn sure they come to you before trying to install some software (people get nervous breakdowns when first encountering the "Linux way")
Jeesh, yes we understood you learned a new phrase, now get over it :-P
One real question though: Up to and including SuSE 9.1 I have always had one major complaint (That does not stop me from using SuSE, but is an absolute showstopper when thinking about recommending it to friends). Everything is fine as long as you only install the default packages and a few select ones, but very often packages (which are distributed with SuSE, I'm not talking about external rpms) would install just fine, but never show up in KDEs menu. For someone used to that there's no big deal to add a link manually, but it's hardly something I can tolerate in a commercial distro... So, my question, is that problem still there in 10.0? What happens if I add LyX for example?
I'd suggest changing the Gs from 1 to .38 earth to mars and vice versa on the way back, that way you'd have a nice acclimatisation to the respective gravities.
The energy problem however remains and cannot to my knowledge be solved currently. If we could make ion engines or the hydrogen & electric arc systems more efficient and get a small fission or, better, fusion reactor onboard that might stop sounding utterly ridiculous though. On the other hand, using a tether-based rotation as proposed in "mars direct" is way cheaper and obtainable today...
Noone feels left out and if they've lived together for years before on earth there's no reason to assume they're going to break down during flight either.
I'm completely serious btw.
Using these games for teaching is very difficult, simply because they're sometimes os convincing. The same problem with movies...
Take "Gladiator", where the Archers light their Arrows on a fire trench in the ground. There is absolutely no evidence this is historically correct (and the makers were aware of that, check the commentary)
Or, for a game, take "Age of Empires", which features moving catapults (even having a damage area). Simply put, these didn't exist! I have an interview with Bruce Shelley where he claims he did it, because people "expect" that in a game and he usually uses children's book's illustrations as base for his ideas...
So, they're not bad, for entertainment, but should be taken with some barrels of salt when used in actual education.
Cobine that with the prism foil used to achieve cheap 3D effects and the holodeck is coming! :-) Seriously, I'd love wallpaper from this stuff, Imagine displaying a realtime view from someplace outside, placing a screen "window" anywhere you need it to watch the news (Other projection technologies I've come across had their display following you around, so you could always continue watching a movie) or, combined with touch sensitivity, having virtual post-it's, posters, etc. just like a typical desktop UI. *sigh*
It's 'c' instead of 't', make that "[...] the potential of cruely changing the way we read [...]" :-)
I enjoy doing that :-P
:-D
Wow, you know how long I've waited for somebody on slashdot to say that? Thank you for being the first poster who ever did the sensible thing and simply agreed to disagree :-) (Most other people I've met here cannot accept different views/tastes/whatever to exist *shrug*)
Matter of fact: I have, which is why I'm willing to grant an "interesting", but "geeky"? Nope.
Gah... THAT is one disturbing image... Just like a naked RMS, covered in bittersweet chocolate :-P
...that stuff is sooo ugly. Seriously: Knitting may be interesting, but I have real issues categorizing it as "geeky"...
under point b) make that "your dumbasses". I didn't want to imply all amercians were such :-P
I enjoy bashing stupid american ideas as much as the next european, but in my experience :-)
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a) we copy an awfull lot, especially when it comes "political correctness" (we usually don't even translate that term. Says a lot, huh?) and, more importantly,
b) our dumbasses are on equal footing with you dumbasses
"Der Schwarze" will be the most "correct" you get from the first post-WW2 generation ("68er" based on this generation forming student-rebellions against the establishment in '68) and is generally not impolite. Still many current students I know prefer "Afro-deutsch" if it is necessary to make a distinction. It makes sense from an inclusive national pride point of view. The first part being the ethnic group or origin of the same and the latter assuming citizenship. Thus "afro-deutsch" for someone living in Germany, but clearly in strong genetic chain to the african ethnic group(s). Works for "european-american" as well
Racism is an extremely difficult problem (most young germans have been instructed to tolerance time after time, which is probably the reason we have neo-nazis again, they just couldn't stand it any longer...) and I have no idea how to approach it. Myself and most students I know don't particularly care about ancestry and genetics, because there are far more intersting attributes people display. On the other hand I know that, as soon as you leave the diverse environment of university life, this simply-don't-care-attitude quickly vanishes. I'm still struggling with my own parents (68er's!) strongly disliking anybody of middle-eastern, especially turkish origin or ancestry. And that as doctorate at university (but not part of the student culture, of course) and principal of an elementary school.
*shrugs* If somebody ever finds a solution to such xenophobia he's bound to get the Nobel Prize.
Add "we don't trust the US (based on its breaking multiple international contracts in recent time) and would prefer the UN to handle it (which we see as the only way of maintaining a status quo, where noone has actual 'control')" to the EU statement and you've got it... On the other hand, from what I've read so far, you should probably strike the "you guys will use the control to censor" from the US side....