People have been doing research for thousands of years, and most of the research have led to woudnerful discoveries, but.. to be honest, I cant see that this discovery can leed to any major breakthoughs. Not even minor ones.
BSD is faaaaar from dead. I'd say that those who claim BSD to be dead dont know what they are talking about. Ive been using FreeBSD as desktop and server OS for 3 years, while ive never really gotten down and dirty with linux, and i cant say i regret my choice of OS. BSD still lives, and (atleast for me) allways will.
It seems to me like microsoft is willing to soo anybody at any time for anything, as long as it will increase the amount of digits in their bank account, or as long as it sweeps one or more competitors off the market. And they certainly has the funding to do this.
At least not yet. In the past 10ish years, there have been a lack of originality in new games. When did you last see a video game that did not look like another game, or was not based on a concept or gameplay allready used by another game? Video games wont die yet, unless nobody creates something new.
If this turns out to be true (and with few/tolerable side-effects) I might use it. Today i use a 13Gb harddrive, and I dont need anything more other than storing junk which i might need later.
I know that the space gained will not be much from 13Gb harddrive, but it will give those extra few MBs that allows me to store junk in the/usr/pub. I will try it out on one of my spare drives. But to be honest, i very much doubt that the gain is worth the potentioal side-effects, if it works at all.
I used to live in a small town where 4 of Norway's 10 best Starcraft players used to live. To be honest, I find most of the population to be nitwits in other things than CS. Im pretty sure that its mostly based on how your friends play, what they play, which stily of play, and how willing they are to teach you the same skills. I very much doubt that geographical location has anything to do with skills other than what the local population can teach you.
As the topic states... GUI is newbie-friendly for a while. If the user wants to do normal activities, that the GUI programmer expected users to want to do frequently, there would be a function for it.
On the other hand, if you want to program your GUI so that all kinds of people regardless of their wished could use it to their full extent, then there would be hours of extra work just to add those functions in the GUI. If there's a CLI, the programmer didnt have to spend that much extra time to add these features, but the problem with CLIs are that there are many that does not have much documentation.
If the CLI has good documentation for beginners, then there's a pretty big chance that the newbie would find it easy enhough to use (newbies can get pretty far on UNIX-systems, if they start at 'man man'). On the other hand, there are alot of cases with bad GUI programming, for example, where many settings and such are placed far away from eachother, resulting in the user spending hours just looking for the feature, instad of finding them all together under the 'preferences' menu.
If you are moving around alot (like me), and want to run a web-server (like me), this is probably the sollution: Visit a friend, ask to borow one of his/her unused PCs for a day or two, pop it in. The only problem is local storage: Some web-servers, for instance those who run php/cgi/whatever to generate info stored locally need somewhere to store that info. If its not much, you can probably just use a floppy, but if there's more than 1.44Mb, then youve got a problem. Making FreesBIE compatible with those USB-drives would be a great idea.
Thats not the only time USA has fed Russians with bogus information. Detailed plans on the Concorde aircraft leaked to Russia too, and the result was the death of tow highly trained test-pilots.
Microsoft have received alot of flame during the years, some of it deserved, some not. By reading different forums, it wont take long before you find something like "I hate microsoft because they want to control everything and make sure as many as possible run windows". While this is true*, there is alot of flame the other way around. Restricting the geeks to use windows on a maximum of 70% of all the computers, will not do any good.
1. How will they control this?
2. Software is free speech!
If they are so concerned about Microsoft's monopoly, they should enforce the 70%-rule on their own computers only, since (In my humble opinion) users should be allowed to run whatever software they want on their computers.
*Of course, if they didnt, they would not make any money
Because the game industry has come this far, it is hard to make a game that isnt similar to another game. And if you make an original game, would it still be fun to play?
Day of the Tentacle... oh. By far the most funny game i've ever played. What happended to these? Most of the adventure games in the 'point-and-click' genre are educational, so i wish someone will think back and see the potential of these games once again.
"I've been thinking of promoting you from toilet-cleaner to my secretary. You will earn 10 times more than you do now, while working only 30 minutes per day. Reply to this if you are interested. Do not reply if you're not.
-Boss
Well, since I'm not a big fan of Microsoft's multimedia products, I am very sceptical. Well, of cource, if they manage to keep the software small, free of bugs, and reliable, then it would work. The only problem is that my experience with Microsoft's multimedia software is that they add too many features that the average user dont need/want in a player.
A quote that can be compared to this: "Emacs would be a great Operating System, if someone wrote a good text-editor for it"
Well, Windows Media Player would be an awesome operating system, if someone wrote a good app for viewing videos. Dont misunderstand me here, wmp is good, but it would be better without all of the effects and features that does nothing more than slow down the entire program. This makes me think of something: In Windows 3.1/3.11 there was this program called mplayer. It worked perfectly, it didnt have any other features than those you need, and it was stable as hell. It is still included in Windows98, but like notepad: Microsoft does not like keeping simple things simple. I can only hope they do so when injecting their code into my DVD-player..
...in Windows 98. Remember that 'upgrade only-version' ?
You installed windows98 over another windows-installation, such as win95, win3.1 etc etc. Those who are not PC-gurus suffered just as much if something went wrong back then (which it did 30% of the time), as us less tech-skilled will with firmware upgrades.
Of course, DeCSS lets you copy DVDs. But on the other hand, DeCSS lets those with bad support for DVD-playback view them in their favourite OS.
DeCSS can be compared to this:
If you use a lamp to light through the mail, and see the contents.. is that illegal? yes!
But what if it is your own mail? still illegal? No!
Too many focus on the anti-piracy concept of CSS, but it seems to me that nobody (atleast not many enhough) even conciders that CSS locks out some of the potential users of DVD.
If i was in charge of raising funds, then i'd be damn sure that it worked... one gram of Carbon Nanotube costs around 1500$ to produce.
"Oops, we just threw 15.000.000$ out of the window, after 10Kg of it disapeared in the mail..."
On the other hand.. Just because its expencive, it doesnt mean its not worth trying. I assume they keep in mind that a project like this easily can stirr up some anger among the tax-payers, if it fails.
You have those inventions that "everyone would have within y2k", but never made it on the market, since too few wanted to buy them.
These include:
Flying cars
toilets with automatic wiping (ew)
On the other hand, nanotechnology WILL make it through, if not on the private market, then some other place. For those of you who have played Anarchy Online, you can only dream of what nanorobots are able to do after a century of development.
BUT... when/if A.I. is discovered, I am pretty sure that combining AI with nanotechnology will have disasterous results. Imagine an intelligent robot inside your lung, and its really pissed off at you for trying to switch it off...
If it cant fit on a floppy, i dont want it either.
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I very much doubt that MS' search engine can outdo google. My experience with MS is that they use as many effects as possible to make it look good, without caring for those with low bandwidth.
Google = Small, simple, powerfull, and does not require 353495mbit connection to use.
MS = Big, colorful, allways shows MS' own sites as the most irelevant, lots of disco/teletubbies effects, HTML code and images > 1024Mb. Atleast this is what i assume it would be like, after watching MS' other projects.
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People have been doing research for thousands of years, and most of the research have led to woudnerful discoveries, but.. to be honest, I cant see that this discovery can leed to any major breakthoughs. Not even minor ones.
BSD is faaaaar from dead. I'd say that those who claim BSD to be dead dont know what they are talking about. Ive been using FreeBSD as desktop and server OS for 3 years, while ive never really gotten down and dirty with linux, and i cant say i regret my choice of OS. BSD still lives, and (atleast for me) allways will.
It seems to me like microsoft is willing to soo anybody at any time for anything, as long as it will increase the amount of digits in their bank account, or as long as it sweeps one or more competitors off the market. And they certainly has the funding to do this.
At least not yet. In the past 10ish years, there have been a lack of originality in new games. When did you last see a video game that did not look like another game, or was not based on a concept or gameplay allready used by another game? Video games wont die yet, unless nobody creates something new.
If this turns out to be true (and with few/tolerable side-effects) I might use it. Today i use a 13Gb harddrive, and I dont need anything more other than storing junk which i might need later.
/usr/pub. I will try it out on one of my spare drives. But to be honest, i very much doubt that the gain is worth the potentioal side-effects, if it works at all.
I know that the space gained will not be much from 13Gb harddrive, but it will give those extra few MBs that allows me to store junk in the
I used to live in a small town where 4 of Norway's 10 best Starcraft players used to live. To be honest, I find most of the population to be nitwits in other things than CS. Im pretty sure that its mostly based on how your friends play, what they play, which stily of play, and how willing they are to teach you the same skills. I very much doubt that geographical location has anything to do with skills other than what the local population can teach you.
As the topic states... GUI is newbie-friendly for a while. If the user wants to do normal activities, that the GUI programmer expected users to want to do frequently, there would be a function for it.
On the other hand, if you want to program your GUI so that all kinds of people regardless of their wished could use it to their full extent, then there would be hours of extra work just to add those functions in the GUI. If there's a CLI, the programmer didnt have to spend that much extra time to add these features, but the problem with CLIs are that there are many that does not have much documentation.
If the CLI has good documentation for beginners, then there's a pretty big chance that the newbie would find it easy enhough to use (newbies can get pretty far on UNIX-systems, if they start at 'man man'). On the other hand, there are alot of cases with bad GUI programming, for example, where many settings and such are placed far away from eachother, resulting in the user spending hours just looking for the feature, instad of finding them all together under the 'preferences' menu.
Why cant people be nice to eachother?
Latin has been used for many years now, but im sure many are getting tired of it. Perhaps Elvish could take over?
Finally you can fly helicopters over Japan without getting smashed like a bug, and you can drive in the streets of Tokyo without being stepped on.
If you are moving around alot (like me), and want to run a web-server (like me), this is probably the sollution: Visit a friend, ask to borow one of his/her unused PCs for a day or two, pop it in. The only problem is local storage: Some web-servers, for instance those who run php/cgi/whatever to generate info stored locally need somewhere to store that info. If its not much, you can probably just use a floppy, but if there's more than 1.44Mb, then youve got a problem. Making FreesBIE compatible with those USB-drives would be a great idea.
Thats not the only time USA has fed Russians with bogus information. Detailed plans on the Concorde aircraft leaked to Russia too, and the result was the death of tow highly trained test-pilots.
Microsoft have received alot of flame during the years, some of it deserved, some not. By reading different forums, it wont take long before you find something like "I hate microsoft because they want to control everything and make sure as many as possible run windows". While this is true*, there is alot of flame the other way around. Restricting the geeks to use windows on a maximum of 70% of all the computers, will not do any good.
1. How will they control this?
2. Software is free speech!
If they are so concerned about Microsoft's monopoly, they should enforce the 70%-rule on their own computers only, since (In my humble opinion) users should be allowed to run whatever software they want on their computers.
*Of course, if they didnt, they would not make any money
Because the game industry has come this far, it is hard to make a game that isnt similar to another game. And if you make an original game, would it still be fun to play?
Day of the Tentacle... oh. By far the most funny game i've ever played. What happended to these? Most of the adventure games in the 'point-and-click' genre are educational, so i wish someone will think back and see the potential of these games once again.
Job promotion via e-mail?
...blocked by spam-filter.
"I've been thinking of promoting you from toilet-cleaner to my secretary. You will earn 10 times more than you do now, while working only 30 minutes per day. Reply to this if you are interested. Do not reply if you're not.
-Boss
Well, since I'm not a big fan of Microsoft's multimedia products, I am very sceptical. Well, of cource, if they manage to keep the software small, free of bugs, and reliable, then it would work. The only problem is that my experience with Microsoft's multimedia software is that they add too many features that the average user dont need/want in a player.
A quote that can be compared to this:
"Emacs would be a great Operating System, if someone wrote a good text-editor for it"
Well, Windows Media Player would be an awesome operating system, if someone wrote a good app for viewing videos. Dont misunderstand me here, wmp is good, but it would be better without all of the effects and features that does nothing more than slow down the entire program. This makes me think of something: In Windows 3.1/3.11 there was this program called mplayer. It worked perfectly, it didnt have any other features than those you need, and it was stable as hell. It is still included in Windows98, but like notepad: Microsoft does not like keeping simple things simple. I can only hope they do so when injecting their code into my DVD-player..
...in Windows 98. Remember that 'upgrade only-version' ?
You installed windows98 over another windows-installation, such as win95, win3.1 etc etc. Those who are not PC-gurus suffered just as much if something went wrong back then (which it did 30% of the time), as us less tech-skilled will with firmware upgrades.
Of course, DeCSS lets you copy DVDs. But on the other hand, DeCSS lets those with bad support for DVD-playback view them in their favourite OS.
DeCSS can be compared to this:
If you use a lamp to light through the mail, and see the contents.. is that illegal? yes!
But what if it is your own mail? still illegal? No!
Too many focus on the anti-piracy concept of CSS, but it seems to me that nobody (atleast not many enhough) even conciders that CSS locks out some of the potential users of DVD.
If i was in charge of raising funds, then i'd be damn sure that it worked... one gram of Carbon Nanotube costs around 1500$ to produce.
"Oops, we just threw 15.000.000$ out of the window, after 10Kg of it disapeared in the mail..."
On the other hand.. Just because its expencive, it doesnt mean its not worth trying. I assume they keep in mind that a project like this easily can stirr up some anger among the tax-payers, if it fails.
These include:
- Flying cars
- toilets with automatic wiping (ew)
On the other hand, nanotechnology WILL make it through, if not on the private market, then some other place. For those of you who have played Anarchy Online, you can only dream of what nanorobots are able to do after a century of development.BUT... when/if A.I. is discovered, I am pretty sure that combining AI with nanotechnology will have disasterous results. Imagine an intelligent robot inside your lung, and its really pissed off at you for trying to switch it off...
I very much doubt that MS' search engine can outdo google. My experience with MS is that they use as many effects as possible to make it look good, without caring for those with low bandwidth.
Google = Small, simple, powerfull, and does not require 353495mbit connection to use.
MS = Big, colorful, allways shows MS' own sites as the most irelevant, lots of disco/teletubbies effects, HTML code and images > 1024Mb. Atleast this is what i assume it would be like, after watching MS' other projects.