He did explain the menu thing, kinda. If the menu's at the top of the screen, you can move the mouse there really fast without worrying about overshooting it. Tog describes it as being "infinitely deep". --
Gnome-panel is really flexible except for one blatant violation of Fitts's Law, which doesn't appear to be changeable. The edge of the screen doesn't do a damn thing. You have to move your mouse at least one pixel in to click a button. --
This idea already exists in a way, when people have surgery that involves severing the corpus callosum and thus making the two halves of the brain unable to communicate. Which half does the person's consciousness go into? --
Of course, there would have to be meta-Slashdot moderators, because otherwise someone could set up a slashdot where they do nothing but moderate up their own posts. So that entire slashdot would have to be moderated down.
And if you get enough Karma on various slashdots, you could become a meta-Slashdot moderator, moderating other Slashdots up and down, but then of course there would have to be meta-meta-Slashdot moderators to control them. And if one of these meta-meta-Slashdot moderators says that to moderate a certain Slashdot down because its meta-moderation system is faulty is an unfair moderation, he's meta-meta-meta-moderating (M4). Whee.
The whole problem here is that someone - a metagod (M[infinity]) - would have to run the meta-Slashdot. And what if people don't like the way it's run? Does he have to be moderated by a metagod-moderator (M[infinity + 1])? --
Yes, Microsoft understood this. Well enough to realize that it was a threat to their lovely barrier to entry in the OS market, so they decided to fix that problem by "embracing and extending" Java. --
Did he say he wanted it to work properly? No, he said he thought it would be fun to see what happened. Just like you don't put a CD in the microwave unless you're hoping to see sparks. --
And then, a superfly that can fly out the open half of a half-open window! ... There was a point to this comment, but it has temporarily escaped the poster's mind. (apologies to Douglas Adams) --
I begin to think that their are as much minorities as their are individuals.
This doesn't quite apply to the geek community, but: Globally, everyone's a minority, unless they're an English-speaking Islamic Chinese black woman named Muhammad.
What's your first sentence supposed to mean? Any way I read this, it comes out supporting ACs. Oh well. Moving on.
These would be nice ideas if they weren't so open to abuse.
If your average lamer AC doesn't want to be moderated down, he'll just do something like:
yeah, well you suck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
to make 100 bytes. And a corrupt moderator could spam AC posts until the ratio went above 70%, so that he and everyone else would get more moderation points (and he'd expect everyone to thank him for it.) --
There is not just one Slashdotter. This should be extremely obvious. There are a whole lot of Slashdotters, and they have different opinions. So when you see one opinion at one time, and another opinion later, think about the fact that it most likely isn't the same person!
Unfortunately, the trolls can always win this kind of argument. When most Slashdotters agree on something, it's "karma whoring" or "the party line"; when they disagree greatly on something, it's "a flame war"; and when one person posts one opinion, and later another person posts another opinion, without necessarily arguing with each other, it's "hypocrisy".
Logic proves: you can use fallacy-laden "logic" to prove anything you damn well want. --
Then again, given enough people any comment -- no matter how inoffensive (e.g., ``I like to go into the mountains & smell the air & watch the trees") -- will result with someone finding cause to start a flame war.
You're trying to insult geeks who don't leave the house much, aren't you? And look at the way you avoid the word "and" - it just shows that you don't want to be INCLUSIVE of other people! BIGOT!
Themes aren't the only kind of eyecandy. The progress screen fooshing open at the beginning, the sliding windows, translucent drags, etc... that's what makes Enlightenment more qualified than Sawmill to be eyecandy. (I use Sawmill too, but I just wanted to make that point.)
However, I voted for Propaganda, because all the others have some other function, while Propaganda backgrounds are just damn cool to look at. --
Hey, I bet even less people can compile something on Windows.
I realize that Linux has more software that has to be compiled, for whatever reason, but more and more software is becoming available as rpms for the people who don't care about optimization. --
That'd be cool. Of course, I wouldn't want one of these unless it processed the information really well, but you never know.
Vision of the future with Virtual News Tux: *Bob logs in* *Tux window pops up* A squawky but clear voice reads: "Hey, Bob. You have new mail, but it's mostly spam from that myfamily.com site that you hate and all your relatives love. Plus, your MUX went down again, so you have five e-mails asking why it went down, three from newbies asking how to log on, and one from the sysadmin apologizing for tripping over the power cord. There's a new article on Slashdot about the release of Mozilla M17, which you'd find on Freshmeat too. Your Karma went up a point. Whoops, there it goes, you just got moderated "Offtopic". Your comment on JonKatz's latest article got a reply, but 9.8% of it is swearwords so it's probably a troll. And the 2.4.8 Linux kernel is out. Come on, you know you want to upgrade."
Other "skins" for it could include characters such as HAL. "There's nothing new, Bob. Would you like to play a game of chess? Bob? Bob, I'm so lonely..." *closes window* "My process is going. I can feel it..." Hmm, maybe not such a good idea. --
Why do you assume that distributed.net will never do anything but cracking encryption? They're working on setting up a way to distribute the calculation of Optimal Golomb Rulers, a mathematical concept that has proven real-life uses.
And what good would it do to give more CPU resources to SETI@Home at this point? Triple- and quadruple-checking their limited data doesn't seem very efficient to me.
A distributed calculation of pi would be cool, but are there any algorithms to find digits of pi without having calculated the previous digits? If not, it can't be distributed. --
There's got to be nudity and violence, so that it gets an R rating, so that Katz can complain about it and sneak 13-year-olds into the movie theater. --
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If you're referring to HeadGames's "eXtreme" series with that first one, their games are already good enough at making people vomit...
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He did explain the menu thing, kinda. If the menu's at the top of the screen, you can move the mouse there really fast without worrying about overshooting it. Tog describes it as being "infinitely deep".
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Gnome-panel is really flexible except for one blatant violation of Fitts's Law, which doesn't appear to be changeable. The edge of the screen doesn't do a damn thing. You have to move your mouse at least one pixel in to click a button.
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Yeah, and you'd get a blue screen every time you asked it the one about an omnipotent being creating an object He can't move.
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This idea already exists in a way, when people have surgery that involves severing the corpus callosum and thus making the two halves of the brain unable to communicate. Which half does the person's consciousness go into?
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Of course, there would have to be meta-Slashdot moderators, because otherwise someone could set up a slashdot where they do nothing but moderate up their own posts. So that entire slashdot would have to be moderated down.
And if you get enough Karma on various slashdots, you could become a meta-Slashdot moderator, moderating other Slashdots up and down, but then of course there would have to be meta-meta-Slashdot moderators to control them. And if one of these meta-meta-Slashdot moderators says that to moderate a certain Slashdot down because its meta-moderation system is faulty is an unfair moderation, he's meta-meta-meta-moderating (M4). Whee.
The whole problem here is that someone - a metagod (M[infinity]) - would have to run the meta-Slashdot. And what if people don't like the way it's run? Does he have to be moderated by a metagod-moderator (M[infinity + 1])?
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Yes, Microsoft understood this. Well enough to realize that it was a threat to their lovely barrier to entry in the OS market, so they decided to fix that problem by "embracing and extending" Java.
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I see their next product as a software package, like Mandrake's PowerPack. Except it would be: "Really Obsolete Trash For Linux"
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Did he say he wanted it to work properly? No, he said he thought it would be fun to see what happened. Just like you don't put a CD in the microwave unless you're hoping to see sparks.
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The first person who says "This is old news" gets a Clue Stick upside the head.
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And then, a superfly that can fly out the open half of a half-open window!
... There was a point to this comment, but it has temporarily escaped the poster's mind.
(apologies to Douglas Adams)
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Easy way to clear out a Web discussion you don't like:
<SMELL type="intestinal gas" intensity="overpowering" persistence="volatile">
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I begin to think that their are as much minorities as their are individuals.
This doesn't quite apply to the geek community, but:
Globally, everyone's a minority, unless they're an English-speaking Islamic Chinese black woman named Muhammad.
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What's your first sentence supposed to mean? Any way I read this, it comes out supporting ACs. Oh well. Moving on.
! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
These would be nice ideas if they weren't so open to abuse.
If your average lamer AC doesn't want to be moderated down, he'll just do something like:
yeah, well you suck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
to make 100 bytes. And a corrupt moderator could spam AC posts until the ratio went above 70%, so that he and everyone else would get more moderation points (and he'd expect everyone to thank him for it.)
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How many times do I have to point this out?
There is not just one Slashdotter. This should be extremely obvious. There are a whole lot of Slashdotters, and they have different opinions. So when you see one opinion at one time, and another opinion later, think about the fact that it most likely isn't the same person!
Unfortunately, the trolls can always win this kind of argument. When most Slashdotters agree on something, it's "karma whoring" or "the party line"; when they disagree greatly on something, it's "a flame war"; and when one person posts one opinion, and later another person posts another opinion, without necessarily arguing with each other, it's "hypocrisy".
Logic proves: you can use fallacy-laden "logic" to prove anything you damn well want.
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Then again, given enough people any comment -- no matter how inoffensive (e.g., ``I like to go into the mountains & smell the air & watch the trees") -- will result with someone finding cause to start a flame war.
You're trying to insult geeks who don't leave the house much, aren't you? And look at the way you avoid the word "and" - it just shows that you don't want to be INCLUSIVE of other people! BIGOT!
(sorry, it had to be done)
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It's all a matter of what you prefer, and using the right tool for the job. The only possible option is "Abstain".
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Themes aren't the only kind of eyecandy. The progress screen fooshing open at the beginning, the sliding windows, translucent drags, etc... that's what makes Enlightenment more qualified than Sawmill to be eyecandy. (I use Sawmill too, but I just wanted to make that point.)
However, I voted for Propaganda, because all the others have some other function, while Propaganda backgrounds are just damn cool to look at.
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Better hurry if you want Debian food. I don't suppose it would be as pleasant to stick your Woody in the microwave.
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Hey, I bet even less people can compile something on Windows.
I realize that Linux has more software that has to be compiled, for whatever reason, but more and more software is becoming available as rpms for the people who don't care about optimization.
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I'm afraid that anyone who tried to "help" newbies with this kind of program would get it horribly wrong. Think Microsoft Bob 2000. *shudder*
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That'd be cool. Of course, I wouldn't want one of these unless it processed the information really well, but you never know.
Vision of the future with Virtual News Tux:
*Bob logs in*
*Tux window pops up*
A squawky but clear voice reads: "Hey, Bob. You have new mail, but it's mostly spam from that myfamily.com site that you hate and all your relatives love. Plus, your MUX went down again, so you have five e-mails asking why it went down, three from newbies asking how to log on, and one from the sysadmin apologizing for tripping over the power cord. There's a new article on Slashdot about the release of Mozilla M17, which you'd find on Freshmeat too. Your Karma went up a point. Whoops, there it goes, you just got moderated "Offtopic". Your comment on JonKatz's latest article got a reply, but 9.8% of it is swearwords so it's probably a troll. And the 2.4.8 Linux kernel is out. Come on, you know you want to upgrade."
Other "skins" for it could include characters such as HAL. "There's nothing new, Bob. Would you like to play a game of chess? Bob? Bob, I'm so lonely..." *closes window* "My process is going. I can feel it..."
Hmm, maybe not such a good idea.
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Why do you assume that distributed.net will never do anything but cracking encryption? They're working on setting up a way to distribute the calculation of Optimal Golomb Rulers, a mathematical concept that has proven real-life uses.
And what good would it do to give more CPU resources to SETI@Home at this point? Triple- and quadruple-checking their limited data doesn't seem very efficient to me.
A distributed calculation of pi would be cool, but are there any algorithms to find digits of pi without having calculated the previous digits? If not, it can't be distributed.
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There's got to be nudity and violence, so that it gets an R rating, so that Katz can complain about it and sneak 13-year-olds into the movie theater.
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