The Unix philosophy for ripping and burning is to have separate apps to handle those tasks, distinct from jukebox software. But, for 99% of the computer-using populace (ie, those who don't need a burner to be able to burn an ISO image to a CD), All three tasks are related: one would want to rip a few CDs, make a play list, and then burn it-- all in one app.
One app... you mean like K3B? I find this much easier to use than its closest Windows counterpart (Nero), due to its lack of clutter in the burning screens.
The problem with UI guidelines is that they only help if the developer reads them. In a world where the majority of the software is not made by the company which made the OS, this is simply impossible. So you end up with all the core applications made by the same company, which all look consistent, and then every other app doesn't.
What if it's on the top level? Won't be getting dripped on up there. Maybe you could charge sensible people $5 to park, and people who own Mercedes could pay $50 to be on the top level because hey, they care, and you know they can afford it.
Still, sounds like a great idea for a practical joke. Set up some device to drip paint and/or acid onto whatever is below the car. Then send it into the park. Mmmmmmm...
Definitely. Though I don't see how this is necessarily any worse than having your car sitting in a car park with nothing locking it off at all. In either case you still have to get into the car, and then start the engine, so hope there isn't an immobiliser.
As soon as Java WebStart can embed itself in the page like any other plugin, I'll give it a look. Until then, applets have no real competitor.
It would be naive to claim that no improvements have occurred in the Java Plug-In area in the past while, when Mozilla was adding useful features to this only a year ago.
And as for Microsoft not wanting their OS to be needed, well, behold, my machine doesn't need it already!
Darl just doesn't want to believe that Unix is dead while Linux is still alive... he wants GNU to change its name to GIU and pretend nothing ever happened.
I'm sure the heatstroke is more a result from being on E and dancing excessive, than a result of the E itself. It's relatively easy not to dehydrate if you take it easy.
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Well the odds are if you drank 25 litres of coffee, some of it would be left by the end, but surely not 50%.:-)
Our timezone isn't even April 1 anymore, and GMT is about to tick over as well. Not to mention it's a common belief that people who play April Fools pranks after midday are considered to be fools themselves.
MSN doesn't use SIP just yet does it? I heard they were working on it, but what I see when I sniff the network for MSN traffic doesn't look like SIP traffic.
The guys who made Alan (A-I) supposedly did come up with the concept of developing bots incrementally, and effectively slapping them if they did something wrong. So who knows, maybe with enough of that it would be possible to train a bot into behaving like a human. How much manual training would be equivalent to, say, 10 human years?
Non sequiturs are great for making it look like something intelligent or humourous is going on even if it isn't. That random fact about hedgehogs is absolutely brilliant.
AliceBot would have been able to do it. It was designed for integration with information bases and you could put scripts in as part of your customisation. One of these scripts could easily fetch from Yahoo, parse the page, reword it in English and speak it out.
Umm, the article posted right before this one was an April Fools article. But it's still only one April Fools article from an entire page full of April 1 posts.
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The Unix philosophy for ripping and burning is to have separate apps to handle those tasks, distinct from jukebox software. But, for 99% of the computer-using populace (ie, those who don't need a burner to be able to burn an ISO image to a CD), All three tasks are related: one would want to rip a few CDs, make a play list, and then burn it-- all in one app.
One app... you mean like K3B? I find this much easier to use than its closest Windows counterpart (Nero), due to its lack of clutter in the burning screens.
The problem with UI guidelines is that they only help if the developer reads them. In a world where the majority of the software is not made by the company which made the OS, this is simply impossible. So you end up with all the core applications made by the same company, which all look consistent, and then every other app doesn't.
So the existing process is 95nm? But the article said 38nm was an "order of magnitude higher", which would imply the existing process is 380nm.
Yeah, I actually knew the existing process was under 100nm already, I just had to point out an obvious problem with the article text. :-)
What if it's on the top level? Won't be getting dripped on up there. Maybe you could charge sensible people $5 to park, and people who own Mercedes could pay $50 to be on the top level because hey, they care, and you know they can afford it.
Still, sounds like a great idea for a practical joke. Set up some device to drip paint and/or acid onto whatever is below the car. Then send it into the park. Mmmmmmm...
Definitely. Though I don't see how this is necessarily any worse than having your car sitting in a car park with nothing locking it off at all. In either case you still have to get into the car, and then start the engine, so hope there isn't an immobiliser.
As soon as Java WebStart can embed itself in the page like any other plugin, I'll give it a look. Until then, applets have no real competitor.
It would be naive to claim that no improvements have occurred in the Java Plug-In area in the past while, when Mozilla was adding useful features to this only a year ago.
And as for Microsoft not wanting their OS to be needed, well, behold, my machine doesn't need it already!
You get the same dialog with any similarly-functional applet. The difference is the applet isn't telling you it's 1.7MB.
Yeah, that would be cool, Or, you could use IKVM and get the same effect, today. It can already run Eclipse on .NET or Mono, your choice. :-)
Darl just doesn't want to believe that Unix is dead while Linux is still alive... he wants GNU to change its name to GIU and pretend nothing ever happened.
I'm sure if you called the company Orange, the other Orange would have something to say about the matter.
Yet it's still about 20 times more convincing and believable than what we've seen for the Phantom game console.
Google's April Fools joke was brilliant in that it was posted on March 31st. Oh wait...
* Every user on Gmail sues Microsoft for breaking the privacy agreement.
Well gee, I did, but now there are all these jokes coming through on April 2nd...
I'm sure the heatstroke is more a result from being on E and dancing excessive, than a result of the E itself. It's relatively easy not to dehydrate if you take it easy.
Well the odds are if you drank 25 litres of coffee, some of it would be left by the end, but surely not 50%. :-)
Our timezone isn't even April 1 anymore, and GMT is about to tick over as well. Not to mention it's a common belief that people who play April Fools pranks after midday are considered to be fools themselves.
Well it certainly didn't end on April 1, that's for sure.
MSN doesn't use SIP just yet does it? I heard they were working on it, but what I see when I sniff the network for MSN traffic doesn't look like SIP traffic.
The guys who made Alan (A-I) supposedly did come up with the concept of developing bots incrementally, and effectively slapping them if they did something wrong. So who knows, maybe with enough of that it would be possible to train a bot into behaving like a human. How much manual training would be equivalent to, say, 10 human years?
Non sequiturs are great for making it look like something intelligent or humourous is going on even if it isn't. That random fact about hedgehogs is absolutely brilliant.
I think you forgot to put in the death of BSD. Was that in 1985 or 1995?
AliceBot would have been able to do it. It was designed for integration with information bases and you could put scripts in as part of your customisation. One of these scripts could easily fetch from Yahoo, parse the page, reword it in English and speak it out.
for(;;) { printf("Neigh."); }
Umm, the article posted right before this one was an April Fools article. But it's still only one April Fools article from an entire page full of April 1 posts.