A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -- Lazarus Long (Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, 1973)
Usually your window manager keybindings can be extensively customized. As I'm using gnome, gnome-keybinding-properties is the key. KDE has equivalebt functionality somewhere in the control panel.
But then again, I'm old-school, having started by customizing mwm and.Xresources...
ctrl-windows-arrowLeft/Right moves current window to next/prev viewport (and moves the current viewport)
Add to that the standard shortcuts to open browser, file manager, terminal, I'm using the mouse much less often, and it'also much faster with the keyboard. Tab switching? ditto.
I'm using the mouse only to arange windows anymore, and I don't need to think about which button to press, much less find it.
Your first point doesn't really contradict mine, it extends it - and I agree with you on that.
Regarding your second point, it's a matter of I/O channels and bandwidth. Typing a series of commands is usually faster than the corresponding action with the mouse. Not to mention that in one case you are using language and in the other one is reduced to pointing and grunting.
Au contraire, Google can (and will, I presume) collate all information going thru gmail.com, simply because if somebody has a @gmail.com jabber address he will need to connecto gmails servers, regardless of the connectivity to other servers.
Having an open Jabber server would simply make the Google one more attractive, hence increasing its mind/marketshare, bringing more users to it.
Build a modular kernel, then remove the module and re-insert it. A hassle, yes, but you won't need to reboot - unless it's a hardware bug, of course:-)
For better or worse. Java will never have direct memory control, period. It's the very antithesis of everything that Java stands for. You will have to do with JNI calls to C/C++ code.
That gives us a very interesting insight on the computational infrastructure of the universe: Information is the first-order concept, particles and fields (arguably, the same thing) are higher-order constructs.
I'd say that it's due to the *fact* that most slashdoters have first-havd experience of the nastier sides of the web. Oh, and the fact that the web has become nastier..
Never mind the fact that the human eye has a hard time detecting changes above 30 frames per second
Bzzzt. You perceive fluid frame motion at 30 fps. However, the human eye has no concept of "framerate", it operates in a semi-continuous manner, with individual neurons able to fire at 1000Hz. Go play some fast-action FPS at 80 fps, then get back down to 30. Tell me then which is easier on the eyes.
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Looks like you havent' used the cli tools of the two DBs. Please, do have a look....
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -- Lazarus Long (Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, 1973)
Both of the specs you mention are not first generation specs.
For the actual usage of money, substitute goods with services. Any kind that needs brainpower and time.
Nope. It just says that you are not entitled to you own little private monopoly on the idea.
Or, more realistically, it will simply burn up in the atmosphere...
I'm sure that if you google for 'Windows Shell Replacement' you'll find that equivalent functionality exists for Windows too.
Usually your window manager keybindings can be extensively customized. As I'm using gnome, gnome-keybinding-properties is the key. KDE has equivalebt functionality somewhere in the control panel.
.Xresources ...
But then again, I'm old-school, having started by customizing mwm and
The closest I've come to a Mac is having a remote account on a Mac-based server, so yes, I'd like to know how you know :-)
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To be honest, I did use the windows key for window-management functions purely for consistency - it is after all the *windows* key
Add to that the standard shortcuts to open browser, file manager, terminal, I'm using the mouse much less often, and it'also much faster with the keyboard. Tab switching? ditto.
I'm using the mouse only to arange windows anymore, and I don't need to think about which button to press, much less find it.
Yes, they are. There's just billions of tons of plant life...
It depends on you usage. PostgreSQL is way better handling multiple concurrent writes, while MySQL is (usually) better on read-mostly data.
I find it strange that no-one has quoted Larry Wall:
The three virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience and hybris.
Your first point doesn't really contradict mine, it extends it - and I agree with you on that.
Regarding your second point, it's a matter of I/O channels and bandwidth. Typing a series of commands is usually faster than the corresponding action with the mouse. Not to mention that in one case you are using language and in the other one is reduced to pointing and grunting.
The thing with the underscores is that in a CLI you don't need to quote them, whereas a space needs at least an extra character to quote it.
Some of us have grown up, and still prefer the CLI. What can you, as a person, improve easier? CLI typing speed or GUI mouse accurracy?
The GUI's strangth is providing you with information. The CLI's strength is in receiving commands.
Now if I could only merge gnome-terminal with nautilus...
Au contraire, Google can (and will, I presume) collate all information going thru gmail.com, simply because if somebody has a @gmail.com jabber address he will need to connecto gmails servers, regardless of the connectivity to other servers.
Having an open Jabber server would simply make the Google one more attractive, hence increasing its mind/marketshare, bringing more users to it.
Build a modular kernel, then remove the module and re-insert it. A hassle, yes, but you won't need to reboot - unless it's a hardware bug, of course :-)
For better or worse. Java will never have direct memory control, period. It's the very antithesis of everything that Java stands for. You will have to do with JNI calls to C/C++ code.
Yes, but how easy is it for you to determine if a lump of gold is impure?
You really want to take a look into Cellular Automata, your description sould a lot like one.
That gives us a very interesting insight on the computational infrastructure of the universe: Information is the first-order concept, particles and fields (arguably, the same thing) are higher-order constructs.
Interesting, very interesting....
Dude, I think you used the wrong analogy. Better s/think/smell/ or something like that...
I'd say that it's due to the *fact* that most slashdoters have first-havd experience of the nastier sides of the web. Oh, and the fact that the web has become nastier..
No, the black hole eats the antiparticles, and it looks like it's emitting real particles.
Bzzzt. You perceive fluid frame motion at 30 fps. However, the human eye has no concept of "framerate", it operates in a semi-continuous manner, with individual neurons able to fire at 1000Hz. Go play some fast-action FPS at 80 fps, then get back down to 30. Tell me then which is easier on the eyes.