I was originally thinking of appying this only to Google, but it might have merits outside of google.
Make a "Research only" and/or a "shopping only" button/option.
I would give my first born if I could do a google search and not wade through a thousand web-sites that are trying to sell me the widget that I am searching for. (eg. I want to read reviews and tech info on a new video card, the number of sites that are tring to sell me the card overwhelms the pure "review" sites.) Yes I know that most review sites also sell the stuff too.
(I didn't say it would be easy, but I would like it.) Like I said, this could apply to the whole web and not just google.
hehe It might not have been supieror engineering that kept that Vax working for so long.
When I started my current job, they had a Nevell v4.10 server that was running as a file & print server inside of a TV stand-cabinet!!!
They didn't know where it was, they just knew it was working.
This box had never had any work done on it. It was just installed and setup one day and left inside the cabinet all those years.
The only reason it died: the power supply croaked on it.
When I opened it up, there was a good 3-4cm of dust and crap covering all the boards, CPU and vents.
So the moral of the story: Maybe the folks running the 6-year-uptime VAX's were just lazy llamas' too! =)
[the preceeding message was just a joke, I am sure all the honourable VAX's operators are very diligent at thier jobs, and should not be compared to lazy llamas.]
[[The preceeding preceeding message was in no way ment to insult the noble Llama.]]
Thanks for your reply. This has provided me with alot of information that I never had before. The only "Macross" that I have watched was the US tv-show that was on the air approx. 20 years ago.
I used to play the "Robotech" RPG (I actually still have most of the books around here somewhere).
I want to thank everybody who replied to my message. You have now given me enough movie titles to keep me busy for awhile, I think my wife will enjoy the Vampire one too. (she like Ranma 1/2 a lot)
I guess I am what you would call: "A Lazy Fat-Bastard"
I have enjoyed a lot of the Anime that I have watched, but I still don't know enough of it to reccommend to anybody as a good beginner/intro movie/show.
My Favorites:
Ninja Scroll (#1 in my book) Ranma 1/2 Robotech (not the sanitized US version)
I guess I am still an Anime vigrin (although Ninja Scroll was a brutal introduction), what movies/series would you suggest a person who wants to watch more Anime view?
#1) natural lighting (or full spectrum) PLUS high quality polorized screens that go over the monitor's to reduce glare.
#2) Give each area a different "feel" (eg. creative, lots of abstract arts, bright-flashy colours. Eng. Use a lot of DaVinici style 'art'. Include famous buildings and cut-aways. etc...)
#3) do NOT put up those stupid inspiration posters, unless you swap them around every week.
#4) Chalk-board in the restrooms. Call it the suggestion box and let them vent!!!
#5) Whiteboards, as many as you can fit in the "meeting-rooms"
#6) A relaxed dress-code on 2 days per week. (jeans & tee's if they want)
It just occured to me why I dislike the "spatial" nature of the new Gnome.
#1) It is just like DOS. You can only be 'active' in one directory at a time. Deep dir's were hell, but shallow ones were kinda quick and easy to copy/move files around and open them.
#2) The entire "browser" style has lasted only because Suzie Soccermom has never learned that by using a "Tree-view + detailed list" is easier, (damn Windows default settings).
#3) IIRC Xtree, Norton Commander and Dosshell were all designed to quickly & easily allow of folder/file manipulation at the deep level. This is a huge improvment over the existing DOS CLI.
Is this really just a case of: "What is old is new again"?
Like a previous poster stated. Spatial systems would work very good for large numbers of files, if the OS did all the sorting for you. (Didn't MS try this with "My Documents, My Pictures, My P0rn..." and we all hated them dearly for it?)
Here's a novel idea, let's make the choices EASILY switchable. Include 999999999 different choices and let the end-user decide.
Damnit that's the mess that we have with any linux distro installer.
Ok, how about the Model-T Ford method: "You can have any colour you want as long as it's black."
Apple beat us to that one too.
ok I give up. Maybe I just go "roll my own". And no I am not talking about linny.
** Mac users please ignore as you might consider this a bash/insult/flame **
Why is it that most of the skins/themes that I find on sites like www.kde-look.org all try to emulate MacOS ?
I understand that a lot of people like and enjoy cutesy and "fluffy" in their icon sets and skins, but for crying out loud those people are our girlfriends and/or Wives. We know that they only play Sims or Lemmings, and they looove clicking on everything they get in their emails.
MS catered to these types with the default look of XP, big blue & fluffy. Please name me one true geek who didn't turn that crap of the first time that they saw it.
We all know that MS is always chasing Apple's tail when it comes to innovative design choices.
I am very glad that Linux gives us the choice of using whatever theme/icon-pack that we choose.
What ever happened to all those unemployed ergonomic specialists after the dot.crash ?
Why can't some study be done to determine how tedious all that cutesy stuff is and concentrate on function and less on form? Take Windows 2000 for example. It wasn't ugly, it was functional and worked.
I have tried all the themes that I could find at kde-look that looked halfway utilitarian, hell I even tried the Redmond Theme, (but for some reason it didn't quite work right. Allergic reaction I think.)
This all brings me back to the start. One of my biggest complaints about Linux is the lack of GOOD choices. No CEO will ever be impressed with icons and button that are 2cmx2cm in size and use all 16bits of colour. Lets all try standard toolbars & buttons templates. We all hated the icons from Win3.11 but they did have 1 thing going for them; They were simple and unobtrusive.
I agree completely with what you said, I have tried (and hated) the default behaviour of Gnome.
I do have a question that has been bugging me for a while now that you might be able to shed light on.
Why is MS and everybody else going to a Db version of a file-system?
I understand the need to help Suzie Soccermom & Joe Six-pack be able to find the files that they want, because they are idiots, but wouldn't simple organization on the users part do a much better job?
Howdy all,
Reading this article got me thinking about how often we hear about these 'near-misses' well odds are we had just as many 'near-misses' for the last 100 years.
Well I witnessed a very unusual event about 21 years ago.
I was "camping" in our back yard with a school-chum (we were about 10 years old at the time) and late in the night (11pm - 1am Eastern) We saw in the south-west sky (Southern Ontario near Detroit, MI) a bright orange object. (Bright orange because it was obviously in the semi-shadow of the Earth, bent light thing)
It was about the size of a soccer-ball (held 4' away) and very high in the sky. We saw it BOUNCE twice and disappear over the western horizon.
No flames from the atmosphere, but it was covered with impact craters. (It looked like a mini version of the moon) Very cool stuff that I will never forget.
Who/Where/How can I bring this to (vague information and all) to find out exactly what it was? I don't remember hearing anything about it in the news the next day, but I was probably more interested in GI Joe.
I wonder if this is some evil Genius way to Screw MS & give the linux community WMA & Legit DVD's.
IIRC the terms of the deal are that Turbo pay MS and the other companies for each copy that they SELL?
While sticking to the GPL they still give the stuff away for free!
Perhaps somebody could even give me a correct answer, but the number of pixels matter when you are dealing with the size (L x W) of an image.
A camera that can only do 640 x 480 pixels gives you 307k pixels. As we all know, an image of this size will look very crappy if it is blown up eg, to use as desktop background.
What I have been wondering about, is how many Mega Pixels (at what resolution!) is needed to shoot an equivelent 11"x17" image?
(I work with very high-end printers, and I want to start making myself some 11x17 posters.)
I have watched all of ToS, TNG, DS9, and Voyager. EVEN though, I hated 60% of DS9 (the first 60%) and 99% of Voyager.
The point is, the quality of the episode obviously went down-hill. All Series had fantastic episodes and crappy ones too.
TNG (if you go back & watch it) had a very bad 1st season. It got much better very quickly after that. BUT it was still good at that time.
I have watched the first season and half of the second season of Enterprise; IMHO I felt that it stayed sucky and second rate. Enterprise never felt like it filled it's own shoes.
In the years that I started watching ST, I have grown up a lot. TNG was a must-watch during my teen-age years. I have been open to watching other Sci-Fi shows, and completely impressed with how-good they have been. Going back, it now feels like I have been stuck with a Two Dollar hooker all these years. ST: Just Stop
I wish they would let this once noble francise just die.
A Prequel. Egads! Could that mean Scott Bakula meets Kirk? Lots of CGI will be needed to remove 200lbs from the now-flabby Shatner. They might even waste the whole CGI budget on keeping Kirk trim. Let's just pray that Data is dead for good. Ohh look I'm an ass now that I have emotions.
I never got a chance to watch Farscape, and honestly I don't think much will ever match Babylon 5 for depth and quality.
Windows greatest benefit: "1 click = complete install" Windows greatest flaw: "1 click = complete install"
There is no reason to assume that making GNU/Linux _more_ user-friendly will mean that it will be more insecure.
Most linux distros (with default installs) look like an evil half breed of XP & Mac OS, large `cutesy` icons do not make an OS easier to use. (Just ask anybody that is skilled with MacOS).
What is wrong with the old DOS days & Win3.1 from a useabily standpoint? Not much. (8bit & 16bit code notwithstanding) When configured correctly it worked.
Here is a novel concept: Aim that that level OS knowledge in your users. The "power-users" could easily find & tweak the.ini files as well as config.sys & autoexec.bat to squeaze every inch of preformance out of a box that we needed. The dumb office-sheep had there 5-6 iconc that launched the few programs that they needed on a day-to-day basis. They didn't need or care about all the settings because it did what they needed to.
I have been trying to use Linux since the RedHat5.2 days. I know my way around a dos prompt but the simple things like being able to tell the difference between a txt file and an executable file were beyond me at that time. (I now know that file extensions are not necessary, but imagine how much easier it would have made life.)
If Linux were easier to add apps to (1 click = install) BUT more strict in what it allowed to go through the NIC, that might make for a decent compromise.
* I know everyone here used to curse at win3.1 but try to seperate the shitty 8-16 bit code issues that plagued it.
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I was originally thinking of appying this only to Google, but it might have merits outside of google.
Make a "Research only" and/or a "shopping only" button/option.
I would give my first born if I could do a google search and not wade through a thousand web-sites that are trying to sell me the widget that I am searching for. (eg. I want to read reviews and tech info on a new video card, the number of sites that are tring to sell me the card overwhelms the pure "review" sites.) Yes I know that most review sites also sell the stuff too.
(I didn't say it would be easy, but I would like it.)
Like I said, this could apply to the whole web and not just google.
hehe It might not have been supieror engineering that kept that Vax working for so long.
When I started my current job, they had a Nevell v4.10 server that was running as a file & print server inside of a TV stand-cabinet!!!
They didn't know where it was, they just knew it was working.
This box had never had any work done on it. It was just installed and setup one day and left inside the cabinet all those years.
The only reason it died: the power supply croaked on it.
When I opened it up, there was a good 3-4cm of dust and crap covering all the boards, CPU and vents.
So the moral of the story: Maybe the folks running the 6-year-uptime VAX's were just lazy llamas' too! =)
[the preceeding message was just a joke, I am sure all the honourable VAX's operators are very diligent at thier jobs, and should not be compared to lazy llamas.]
[[The preceeding preceeding message was in no way ment to insult the noble Llama.]]
Why is this needed? How much spam do most of you actually get?
My hotmail account: I get maybe 3 spam's per month.
My "regular" account (at work with no spam filters in place) that I use 99% of the time: I have gotten about 10 Spam's in the last 3 years.
Are the majority of the people actually getting spam posting your email addys in public message boards for the spam-bots to harvest?
I have been using the internet since '96 and spam has never really had an impact or effect on my usage.
Thanks for your reply. This has provided me with alot of information that I never had before. The only "Macross" that I have watched was the US tv-show that was on the air approx. 20 years ago.
I used to play the "Robotech" RPG (I actually still have most of the books around here somewhere).
Thanks again.
I assumed that by simple stating "Robotech" would be close enough to inform all the readers that "Yes I have watched most of the Macross Saga"
Semantics aside there is no need to be rude about it.
I want to thank everybody who replied to my message. You have now given me enough movie titles to keep me busy for awhile, I think my wife will enjoy the Vampire one too. (she like Ranma 1/2 a lot)
Thanks folks.
I think I have seen Akira.
Is that the one with the super-motorcycle?
I guess I am what you would call: "A Lazy Fat-Bastard"
I have enjoyed a lot of the Anime that I have watched, but I still don't know enough of it to reccommend to anybody as a good beginner/intro movie/show.
My Favorites:
Ninja Scroll (#1 in my book)
Ranma 1/2
Robotech (not the sanitized US version)
I guess I am still an Anime vigrin (although Ninja Scroll was a brutal introduction), what movies/series would you suggest a person who wants to watch more Anime view?
#1) natural lighting (or full spectrum) PLUS high quality polorized screens that go over the monitor's to reduce glare.
#2) Give each area a different "feel"
(eg. creative, lots of abstract arts, bright-flashy colours. Eng. Use a lot of DaVinici style 'art'. Include famous buildings and cut-aways. etc...)
#3) do NOT put up those stupid inspiration posters, unless you swap them around every week.
#4) Chalk-board in the restrooms. Call it the suggestion box and let them vent!!!
#5) Whiteboards, as many as you can fit in the "meeting-rooms"
#6) A relaxed dress-code on 2 days per week. (jeans & tee's if they want)
It just occured to me why I dislike the "spatial" nature of the new Gnome.
#1) It is just like DOS. You can only be 'active' in one directory at a time. Deep dir's were hell, but shallow ones were kinda quick and easy to copy/move files around and open them.
#2) The entire "browser" style has lasted only because Suzie Soccermom has never learned that by using a "Tree-view + detailed list" is easier, (damn Windows default settings).
#3) IIRC Xtree, Norton Commander and Dosshell were all designed to quickly & easily allow of folder/file manipulation at the deep level. This is a huge improvment over the existing DOS CLI.
Is this really just a case of: "What is old is new again"?
Like a previous poster stated. Spatial systems would work very good for large numbers of files, if the OS did all the sorting for you. (Didn't MS try this with "My Documents, My Pictures, My P0rn..." and we all hated them dearly for it?)
Here's a novel idea, let's make the choices EASILY switchable. Include 999999999 different choices and let the end-user decide.
Damnit that's the mess that we have with any linux distro installer.
Ok, how about the Model-T Ford method: "You can have any colour you want as long as it's black."
Apple beat us to that one too.
ok I give up. Maybe I just go "roll my own". And no I am not talking about linny.
=) I love Mondays
Yes. That does make a lot of sense. Considering these were all systems that I had setup before (and I usually do the same config for all my systems.
/me crosses fingers & toes that I stay lucky.
2GB boot
10GB OS/Apps
xxxxGB storage and variable data
No.
I have installed Drake v10 Official on 4 different PC's (3 laptop's and a desktop) and XP (NTFS & FAT32) and all dual-boot ok.
Hello foot, allow me to introduce Mouth. You two will be together a lot in the near future.. (sigh)
Sorry.
#1) Not all women are technophobic.
#2) Not all men are technophyllic. (sp?)
#3) I am often an idiot.
I am just making a generalized comment in an attempt to illustrate a point.
If you were offended I am sorry, and I hope you accept my apology. (refer to item #3)
** Mac users please ignore as you might consider this a bash/insult/flame **
Why is it that most of the skins/themes that I find on sites like www.kde-look.org all try to emulate MacOS ?
I understand that a lot of people like and enjoy cutesy and "fluffy" in their icon sets and skins, but for crying out loud those people are our girlfriends and/or Wives. We know that they only play Sims or Lemmings, and they looove clicking on everything they get in their emails.
MS catered to these types with the default look of XP, big blue & fluffy. Please name me one true geek who didn't turn that crap of the first time that they saw it.
We all know that MS is always chasing Apple's tail when it comes to innovative design choices.
I am very glad that Linux gives us the choice of using whatever theme/icon-pack that we choose.
What ever happened to all those unemployed ergonomic specialists after the dot.crash ?
Why can't some study be done to determine how tedious all that cutesy stuff is and concentrate on function and less on form?
Take Windows 2000 for example. It wasn't ugly, it was functional and worked.
I have tried all the themes that I could find at kde-look that looked halfway utilitarian, hell I even tried the Redmond Theme, (but for some reason it didn't quite work right. Allergic reaction I think.)
This all brings me back to the start. One of my biggest complaints about Linux is the lack of GOOD choices. No CEO will ever be impressed with icons and button that are 2cmx2cm in size and use all 16bits of colour. Lets all try standard toolbars & buttons templates. We all hated the icons from Win3.11 but they did have 1 thing going for them; They were simple and unobtrusive.
ok, I think I feel better now.
That is why I stick to drinking 4L of Coca-Cola a day, and Jolt Cola during those late-night coding sessions.
Come to think of it, that is why I stopped writing things and just use a keyboard for all my notes.
I couldn't read the chicken-scratch notes that Jolt gave me.
I agree completely with what you said, I have tried (and hated) the default behaviour of Gnome.
I do have a question that has been bugging me for a while now that you might be able to shed light on.
Why is MS and everybody else going to a Db version of a file-system?
I understand the need to help Suzie Soccermom & Joe Six-pack be able to find the files that they want, because they are idiots, but wouldn't simple organization on the users part do a much better job?
c:\
c:\downloads
c:\downloads\music
c:\downl
Why does this need to be "fixxed"?
Some days I just want to yell at people: GO BUY WINDOWS FOR DUMMIES!!!!!!!!!!!
sorry,
Howdy all,
Reading this article got me thinking about how often we hear about these 'near-misses' well odds are we had just as many 'near-misses' for the last 100 years.
Well I witnessed a very unusual event about 21 years ago.
I was "camping" in our back yard with a school-chum (we were about 10 years old at the time) and late in the night (11pm - 1am Eastern) We saw in the south-west sky (Southern Ontario near Detroit, MI) a bright orange object. (Bright orange because it was obviously in the semi-shadow of the Earth, bent light thing)
It was about the size of a soccer-ball (held 4' away) and very high in the sky. We saw it BOUNCE twice and disappear over the western horizon.
No flames from the atmosphere, but it was covered with impact craters. (It looked like a mini version of the moon) Very cool stuff that I will never forget.
Who/Where/How can I bring this to (vague information and all) to find out exactly what it was? I don't remember hearing anything about it in the news the next day, but I was probably more interested in GI Joe.
I have 1.5Gb of ram in my main box, and I set my swap sixe to 2Gb on all my drives. (hard limit so it won't grow)
I then run a defrag program that moves the swap file to the inner tracks of the HD's.
I wonder if this is some evil Genius way to Screw MS & give the linux community WMA & Legit DVD's.
IIRC the terms of the deal are that Turbo pay MS and the other companies for each copy that they SELL ?
While sticking to the GPL they still give the stuff away for free!
Next step mounting those "lasers" on the sharks.
Perhaps somebody could even give me a correct answer, but the number of pixels matter when you are dealing with the size (L x W) of an image.
A camera that can only do 640 x 480 pixels gives you 307k pixels. As we all know, an image of this size will look very crappy if it is blown up eg, to use as desktop background.
What I have been wondering about, is how many Mega Pixels (at what resolution!) is needed to shoot an equivelent 11"x17" image?
(I work with very high-end printers, and I want to start making myself some 11x17 posters.)
I'm away from my linny box right now so I can't test this out myself, but What is the Difference between Gaim & Kopete?
I recell trying Gaim a few months back, but couldn't connect correctly to all the IM services that I needed. So, I have been using Kopete since then.
Yes, yes, and yes.
I have watched all of ToS, TNG, DS9, and Voyager. EVEN though, I hated 60% of DS9 (the first 60%) and 99% of Voyager.
The point is, the quality of the episode obviously went down-hill. All Series had fantastic episodes and crappy ones too.
TNG (if you go back & watch it) had a very bad 1st season. It got much better very quickly after that. BUT it was still good at that time.
I have watched the first season and half of the second season of Enterprise; IMHO I felt that it stayed sucky and second rate. Enterprise never felt like it filled it's own shoes.
In the years that I started watching ST, I have grown up a lot. TNG was a must-watch during my teen-age years. I have been open to watching other Sci-Fi shows, and completely impressed with how-good they have been. Going back, it now feels like I have been stuck with a Two Dollar hooker all these years. ST: Just Stop
I wish they would let this once noble francise just die.
A Prequel. Egads! Could that mean Scott Bakula meets Kirk? Lots of CGI will be needed to remove 200lbs from the now-flabby Shatner.
They might even waste the whole CGI budget on keeping Kirk trim. Let's just pray that Data is dead for good. Ohh look I'm an ass now that I have emotions.
I never got a chance to watch Farscape, and honestly I don't think much will ever match Babylon 5 for depth and quality.
I would like to offer one artist that has not fallen into this definition.
Enigma. Each CD/Album is a complete listening experience BUT all 5 combined (listened in sequential order) provides a wonderfull audio journey.
Windows greatest benefit: "1 click = complete install"
.ini files as well as config.sys & autoexec.bat to squeaze every inch of preformance out of a box that we needed. The dumb office-sheep had there 5-6 iconc that launched the few programs that they needed on a day-to-day basis. They didn't need or care about all the settings because it did what they needed to.
Windows greatest flaw: "1 click = complete install"
There is no reason to assume that making GNU/Linux _more_ user-friendly will mean that it will be more insecure.
Most linux distros (with default installs) look like an evil half breed of XP & Mac OS, large `cutesy` icons do not make an OS easier to use. (Just ask anybody that is skilled with MacOS).
What is wrong with the old DOS days & Win3.1 from a useabily standpoint? Not much. (8bit & 16bit code notwithstanding) When configured correctly it worked.
Here is a novel concept: Aim that that level OS knowledge in your users. The "power-users" could easily find & tweak the
I have been trying to use Linux since the RedHat5.2 days. I know my way around a dos prompt but the simple things like being able to tell the difference between a txt file and an executable file were beyond me at that time. (I now know that file extensions are not necessary, but imagine how much easier it would have made life.)
If Linux were easier to add apps to (1 click = install) BUT more strict in what it allowed to go through the NIC, that might make for a decent compromise.
* I know everyone here used to curse at win3.1 but try to seperate the shitty 8-16 bit code issues that plagued it.