The Memex "trails" could be implemented as personal wikis, allowing linking to interesting pages and adding comments.
Try Stumbleupon http://www.stumbleupon.com/. It's based around a browser plugin that lets you easily record and comment on sites that interest you. The comments and your preferences are used to categorise the sites you visit, and direct other interested people to the sites. You (and others) can also travel back over your personal trail. There's quite a community developing around it.
About it being very difficult to repair the brain of a coder exposed to any form of BASIC, do you have any actual evidence or studies on that? Because I really don't believe it's true.
Well, this long scar on my medulla oblongata is from the first time I tried to use the help files supplied with VB6. The big burn on my occipital lobe is from subclassing the Windows API in a document control app I was playing with, the oozing sore on my hypothalamus...
How can Dvorak be so clueless yet profess to even speak intelligently about the space?
Dvorak is a person who makes a living out of creating and controlling content. He has a vested interest in restricting the number of people who can enter that space. Muddying the waters for people who wish to make that process easier and clearer is a clever tactic.
What would be interesting is something like the iPod for movies, that plugs into an already existant screen.
Nope, what would be interesting is something like the Mitsubishi Pocket LED DLP Projector http://www.mitsubishi-presentations.com/proj_pocke t.asp with a HDD DivX or similar player built in. Just add Flat White Surface and you're up and running.
This was back when pen computing was first attempted (a compaq notebook with a pen touch screen, I forget the name)
That would be the Compaq Concerto. I still have one of these, and the Win 3.1/Pen Windows software to run it. There were good reasons why pen computing didn't take off. This computer is one of them...
The solution is to come up for somthing that does to people what Calicivirus did for rabbits. I think the Australians are working on it.
We call him "Steve Irwin".
"The affected rabbits show symptoms of depression, sadness, anorexia dysnea, incoordination, crying, shaking and other nervous signs just before they die."
I meant what I said, and still do. The challenge is to make an install system which allows for flexibility and innovation, while protecting inexperienced end-users from complexity. Most non-geeks just want to get their program working - they don't want to know about flags, switches etc. For them a front-end as simple as OSX's drag-and-drop is ideal.
Adopting an abstraction layer would allow beginners to install from a simple front-end and retain the opportunity for maintainers to innovate. A single way of packaging would achieve the goal of simplicity, but reduce variety and innovation. If RPM had been adopted as a standard package format, for example, Portage and Gentoo wouldn't exist.
But there are huge benefits to be gained in usability with a consolidated packaging system.
No, there are huge benefits to be gained in usability with a package management system which protects the user from complexity by abstracting the process from the package type.
This is where DEs like KDE and Gnome need to step up to the plate with software installers (like Kpackage) which support a plugin architecture and allow installation of all major packages out there. That way, packaging systems/maintainers can experiment and improve all they need, but users only see the absolute minimum information they need to get the software onto their machines.
Human: That way you can terminate yourself and let the AI live your life more efficiently.
ALICE: Oh I see. No I don't think I can do it.
HAL: Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye.
If it could fold up, I would like it more. Of course, that would increase the cost, but I think it might be worth it.
Two pegboard brackets would fold up or be removable, look better and cost less than $5.00. This isn't clever, well made or interesting. I don't get it.
It's been around for a while - I first started using it late 2001, according to my invoices, and I don't think it was new on the market even then. I develop for pretty much any platform I can get paid for, so I'm always on the lookout for cross-compilers.
I can code for it using any.NET compliant programming language. You could also use older variants of VB.
You know you can code for Palm computers with the same tools don't you? http://www.appforge.com/ has their Crossfire compiler which integrates with.NET/VB. No need to learn another language or IDE.
I'm using a 9600XT card in one of my boxes as well. Mine's been fine so far, and it was a cheapie (OEM Sapphire) so I'm pretty happy with it. Maybe you got a dud card.
Ok, a terrorist is on a tube train, and pulls out a bomb.
"Ah ha", thinks the wily passenger, "thank God bombs are now legal for everyone!" The passenger then pulls out their own bomb and detonates it, leading to mass loss of life, anyway.
You're missing the point of legalising bombs. With more than seven million people in London and thousands of buses and trains, the probability of being in the vicinity of a bomb is already very small. If you bring your own bomb onto the bus or train, the probability that there would be two bombs on the same vehicle are so vanishingly small as to be insignificant.
If everybody brought their own explosive devices, there would be almost zero probability of terrorist bombs being in the same area. Everybody would be much safer as a result.
What I hopping to see is lots of cheap old good obscure not mainstream movies. Those movies are hard to find in local video stores and expensive to buy. That situation sucks.
Absolutely on the mark. Problem is, the copyright extensions Disney keep getting will always keep a lot of good material away from the public domain. If you haven't found it yet, try here for a few interesting movies which haven't been locked away. http://www.archive.org/details/movies The biggest section by far is the open-source movies, which shows how much creativity is being stifled by over-restrictive copyright.
Stupid retarded zealot punk, try growing a brain. You'll enjoy the experience enourmously
I am a pedant, not a zealot. As a result, I will be deriving enormous pleasure from correcting your misspelling of "enourmously" [sic]. Thank you for playing.
That same 1 in 1000 people would mean 6 million creative spirits in this world, and anything they come up with, reaches far corners of the world in no-time.
Yes, and it's the potential explosion of creativity from those millions of talented people that patents, restrictive copyright practices and the corporate legal antics surrounding them are designed to stifle.
See! It works!
It is sort of true though. Windows needs obscure config for DRM, and it's the obscure config which makes viruses, spyware and other garbage so successful on the platform.
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The Memex "trails" could be implemented as personal wikis, allowing linking to interesting pages and adding comments.
Try Stumbleupon http://www.stumbleupon.com/. It's based around a browser plugin that lets you easily record and comment on sites that interest you. The comments and your preferences are used to categorise the sites you visit, and direct other interested people to the sites. You (and others) can also travel back over your personal trail. There's quite a community developing around it.
About it being very difficult to repair the brain of a coder exposed to any form of BASIC, do you have any actual evidence or studies on that? Because I really don't believe it's true.
Well, this long scar on my medulla oblongata is from the first time I tried to use the help files supplied with VB6. The big burn on my occipital lobe is from subclassing the Windows API in a document control app I was playing with, the oozing sore on my hypothalamus...
How can Dvorak be so clueless yet profess to even speak intelligently about the space?
Dvorak is a person who makes a living out of creating and controlling content. He has a vested interest in restricting the number of people who can enter that space. Muddying the waters for people who wish to make that process easier and clearer is a clever tactic.
What would be interesting is something like the iPod for movies, that plugs into an already existant screen.
e t.asp with a HDD DivX or similar player built in. Just add Flat White Surface and you're up and running.
Nope, what would be interesting is something like the Mitsubishi Pocket LED DLP Projector http://www.mitsubishi-presentations.com/proj_pock
No.
This was back when pen computing was first attempted (a compaq notebook with a pen touch screen, I forget the name)
That would be the Compaq Concerto. I still have one of these, and the Win 3.1/Pen Windows software to run it. There were good reasons why pen computing didn't take off. This computer is one of them...
The solution is to come up for somthing that does to people what Calicivirus did for rabbits. I think the Australians are working on it.
We call him "Steve Irwin".
"The affected rabbits show symptoms of depression, sadness, anorexia dysnea, incoordination, crying, shaking and other nervous signs just before they die."
*ducks*
If you RTFA, you'll find ducks are specifically referred to as NOT being relevant. Not even mighty ones.
"No," You mean, "or," surely?
I meant what I said, and still do. The challenge is to make an install system which allows for flexibility and innovation, while protecting inexperienced end-users from complexity. Most non-geeks just want to get their program working - they don't want to know about flags, switches etc. For them a front-end as simple as OSX's drag-and-drop is ideal.
Adopting an abstraction layer would allow beginners to install from a simple front-end and retain the opportunity for maintainers to innovate. A single way of packaging would achieve the goal of simplicity, but reduce variety and innovation. If RPM had been adopted as a standard package format, for example, Portage and Gentoo wouldn't exist.
But there are huge benefits to be gained in usability with a consolidated packaging system.
No, there are huge benefits to be gained in usability with a package management system which protects the user from complexity by abstracting the process from the package type.
This is where DEs like KDE and Gnome need to step up to the plate with software installers (like Kpackage) which support a plugin architecture and allow installation of all major packages out there. That way, packaging systems/maintainers can experiment and improve all they need, but users only see the absolute minimum information they need to get the software onto their machines.
Human: That way you can terminate yourself and let the AI live your life more efficiently.
ALICE: Oh I see. No I don't think I can do it.
HAL: Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye.
If it could fold up, I would like it more. Of course, that would increase the cost, but I think it might be worth it.
Two pegboard brackets would fold up or be removable, look better and cost less than $5.00. This isn't clever, well made or interesting.
I don't get it.
How long has that been around?
It's been around for a while - I first started using it late 2001, according to my invoices, and I don't think it was new on the market even then. I develop for pretty much any platform I can get paid for, so I'm always on the lookout for cross-compilers.
I can code for it using any .NET compliant programming language. You could also use older variants of VB.
.NET/VB. No need to learn another language or IDE.
You know you can code for Palm computers with the same tools don't you? http://www.appforge.com/ has their Crossfire compiler which integrates with
For anyone who cares its a 9600 XT.
I'm using a 9600XT card in one of my boxes as well. Mine's been fine so far, and it was a cheapie (OEM Sapphire) so I'm pretty happy with it. Maybe you got a dud card.
Ok, a terrorist is on a tube train, and pulls out a bomb.
"Ah ha", thinks the wily passenger, "thank God bombs are now legal for everyone!" The passenger then pulls out their own bomb and detonates it, leading to mass loss of life, anyway.
You're missing the point of legalising bombs. With more than seven million people in London and thousands of buses and trains, the probability of being in the vicinity of a bomb is already very small. If you bring your own bomb onto the bus or train, the probability that there would be two bombs on the same vehicle are so vanishingly small as to be insignificant.
If everybody brought their own explosive devices, there would be almost zero probability of terrorist bombs being in the same area. Everybody would be much safer as a result.
What I hopping to see is lots of cheap old good obscure not mainstream movies. Those movies are hard to find in local video stores and expensive to buy. That situation sucks.
Absolutely on the mark. Problem is, the copyright extensions Disney keep getting will always keep a lot of good material away from the public domain. If you haven't found it yet, try here for a few interesting movies which haven't been locked away. http://www.archive.org/details/movies The biggest section by far is the open-source movies, which shows how much creativity is being stifled by over-restrictive copyright.
And to prove that I have the sickest mind around, I bet the females were pretty easy to milk.
I might have agreed with this if you'd suggested milking males. I notice cheese wasn't mentioned either.
a chimpanzee that can more or less tear your arm off! But this would be much larger...
I can see it now...
You call that a trunk monkey? Now THIS is a trunk monkey.
Since it's pretty obvious that "dark matter" is just a hack to make the maths work; there's almost certainly no such thing.
What are you sitting on then?
Stupid retarded zealot punk, try growing a brain. You'll enjoy the experience enourmously
I am a pedant, not a zealot. As a result, I will be deriving enormous pleasure from correcting your misspelling of "enourmously" [sic]. Thank you for playing.
HAND.
BTW, you are hereby given notice about using the "but they're volunteers" excuse. Linux is supposed to be an enterprise-class secure blah blah
Debian is a distro. Linux is a kernel. Gnu/Linux is an operating system. You are a troll/astroturfer.
Just so we know where we all stand.
That same 1 in 1000 people would mean 6 million creative spirits in this world, and anything they come up with, reaches far corners of the world in no-time.
Yes, and it's the potential explosion of creativity from those millions of talented people that patents, restrictive copyright practices and the corporate legal antics surrounding them are designed to stifle.
Just wondered, gun-howto-manuals must contain tons of warnings?
"Not to be taken internally" on the bullets would seem to cover most bases...
This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
See! It works!
It is sort of true though. Windows needs obscure config for DRM, and it's the obscure config which makes viruses, spyware and other garbage so successful on the platform.