... and my current fibre connection is 5Mbps, being upgraded this summer to 10Mbps. I'm quite happy with that so far, but I'm sure 100Mbps would be even nicer.
They should have kept the working relationship with Rasterman for Enlightenment.
The new E desktop project is looking good and moving along -- it would have been nice to have been more integrated with an existing desktop system instead.
It shouldn't be that difficult, however, for the developper to specify what is a scalable item and what isn't.
Nowadays we can drag our toolbars around.
In the future, we could drag the edges to resize them perhaps?
If I told my GUI that I want a calculator window 3" wide by 4" tall with 0.75" wide buttons, it should draw them as such and use appropriately sized fonts, etc.
If the user then resizes the application, I'd expect the buttons to grow or shrink, much like a normal Gtk+ application does. The same applies to mapping software, etc.
If however I'm using gvim (vi, gui mode), I expect to have both options -- scaling the fonts up and down, as well as resizing the window to see more text.
When upgrading with a program like Red Carpet is as easy as running the Windows Update program (and then some), upgrading isn't a chore at all.
I can upgrade versions of Open Office without thinking about it -- I just click upgrade on it from the list and it downloads, upgrades and finishes. Then I use the new version and continue merrily on my way.
If I don't like it, I can *revert* to the old version. Wow. What a concept.
In fact, its worth noting that Microsoft has on several occasions in the past managed to make so little profit on paper as to not have to pay any taxes.
If you read some cryptanalysis papers you'll realize that this is all you need for a good start.
Entire missing paragraphs might give you a serious problem, but for the most part these documents are typeset with fixed-with fonts. That allows for easy guessing at word length at the very least.
Some good statistics will show what would consistently fit based on context as well as grammar rules. The same person's name or codeword detail will be missing throughout the document and so you will have a hard time reconstructing those if you don't know where to start, but that's the point of course.
In a perfect situation (for the censor), the document would be recomposed with "[...]" inserted wherever censorship was done.
The problem seems to be that people don't realize that crypto is hard.
Everyone seems to be aware that they only let an actual heart surgeon do heart surgery.
It doesn't seem that people know they should get only cryptographers to do cryptography.
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They don't have to be experts; they need to be statistically significant to the outcome.
The original pilot went down where other pilots would have gone down.
People on slashdot will end up bidding the price the average person on slashdot would end up paying.
If the person's assumptions are good; that the average bidder on the shares will in the end be statistically comparable to the average slashdotter, then he's got it right.
"Since you forgot to write it down, we're at latitude dd mm ss and longitude dd mm ss, have fun hiking back and thanks for enjoying our trail system today."
I'd love to see an equivalent to all the benchmarking websites out there for telling me what hardware is reliable, and not just fast. I already know what the fastest drives, fastest video card, quietest fans, etc. are, but which ones last longest? Which drives *never* have failures that affect real data? Which cables are properly certified and insulated for high-volume transfer in a confined space rubbing up against other cables? Etc.
I have my doubts that dual-core chips are "needed" to advance the marketplace. For all intents and purposes, we have this featureset with the multi-pipeline chip already; its just hidden from you.
What a dual-core chip is saying is that the OS' ability to schedule tasks on multiple cores is more efficient than the compiler's ability to schedule instructions in multiple pipelines. (simplified)
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That's like taking personal gun ownership to the next level; if I don't carry a weapon, its my fault if I get mugged.
I may be stupid not to be armed in some places (like Iraq), but that doesn't make it my fault. Its always the perp's fault. The perp might not have got the opportunity if it weren't for my lameness, but its the perp's fault.
There are times when I need corporate support of some form, but it is rare. And in those instances, I find who to call and I call and I pay an incident fee and get over it.
I've payed for support for HylaFax for example (excellent faxing solution) and in turn they linked me up with the programmers who handle the firmware for my Multitech modems. They were willing to log into the server by SSH and fix the problems hands-on if necessary.
That said, simply offering support contracts isn't the same as actually providing decent support for a product.
So its us canadians who should be scared? (I was right!)
"Overall, the top suppliers of oil (crude and refined products) to the United States during 2003 were Canada (2.1 MMBD), Saudi Arabia (1.8 MMBD), Mexico (1.6 MMBD), and Venezuela (1.4 MMBD)."
Most people don't realize how much oil comes from Canada; especially the canadians paying OPEC prices.
720MB of bandwidth which is most often limited and expensive in Europe (please stop being too american-centric) and learning curve to figure out what you're doing.
I switched one of my users from Outlook Express to Mozilla Thunderbird and she hates it. "Nothing works" she says. Well of course it works, I use it every day, but she wants it to be *exactly* like Outlook Express. That's the problem with migration.
Your sculptures and mine would fetch different prices based on quality of 'art'.
CDs all sell for $24.95 here (canadian). Plus or minus $5.
A sculpture of the same size and weight might fetch $10 or $1M depending on artist and quality.
Britney Spears and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra both cost the same amount for 40 minutes of music on CD. That's what I mean by the severe commoditization of music versus art.
I hate to point this out, but 'good' music doesn't cost any more on a new CD than 'bad' music. If a CD is popular, it may stay at full price longer than one that isn't selling (standard supply and demand) but the music industry is definately not selling music as 'art' but as a standard 'product'.
On the assumption that an accelerated graphics card can draw in GUI mode just as fast as a CLI can, you're not necessarily correct.
One of the reasons Mac fans love Macs is keyboard shortcuts. Macs have a *huge* number of such shortcuts and its part of what makes the GUI very fast.
Imagine for a moment that you could use your GUI with less keystrokes (and almost no mouse movements) than your CLI. Would your statement still be true?
Its eye-opening for some people that I'll hit Ctrl-Shift-C to open my calculator, punch in my calculations on the number pad and then close it with Ctrl-W without ever touching a mouse.
For others, it shows them they don't need a CLI to be fast on a computer.
Its all in preferences; I use CLIs for everything I can do faster than in a GUI too. I still find it much faster to type in piped Unix commands at my CLIs than to do the same things in a GUI, but I don't expect that will ever change. I'll always need my Eterm, and I'm happy with that.
That said, I don't ever want GUI development to slow down because we still use CLIs for some things.
True; but the first day I used the Network Neighbourhood-like functionality now available in Nautilus to find shares on the network, I didn't miss smbmount at all. What I would give to be able to right-click a directory and set its network permissions, accessibility and kerberos ticket permissions from within the GUI instead of editing four or five different files. I'm assuming, of course, that said functionality would edit those files for me, so that they are still accessible from outside the GUI as well;-)
There are a lot of Unix geeks who realize that GUI use is a good thing in many situations.
Think, for example, mail reading and web browsing. Perhaps photo viewing or editing, faxing, page layout, management of multiple login sessions visually, etc.
I know (and have known for many years) how to use screen, mutt, vim, and change my/proc/sys/* settings, recompile esound or even the kernel, but I still do my day to day computing in a GUI environment if only for the pop-up "you've got 2 new messages" in the bottom-right from Thunderbird.
I *like* seeing my 12 pixel tall xmms title bar showing what song is playing, my GUI web browser (Firefox) and using Eterm for accessing remote sites.
I'd love to be able to simply call up new SSH tunnels as menu options in a terminal window or initiate remote file transfers without launching a new session or reauthenticating, and some of these are generic UI issues and some relate to using GUIs for efficiency and esthetics.
I hate to break it to you, but my GUI renders fonts nicer than the text screen and makes multitasking simpler as well. I rarely if ever use a mouse; I'm addicted to alt-tab, my custom key bindings in Enlightenment and other 'tricks', but I'm definately a GUI user.
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That might be a good thing... somebody convince the North Korean geek kids to move their country toward Windows;-)
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Timing is everything. I only go to movies because I get to see the movie now, and not a year from now.
... and my current fibre connection is 5Mbps, being upgraded this summer to 10Mbps. I'm quite happy with that so far, but I'm sure 100Mbps would be even nicer.
They should have kept the working relationship with Rasterman for Enlightenment.
The new E desktop project is looking good and moving along -- it would have been nice to have been more integrated with an existing desktop system instead.
Nautilus already has WebDAV and FTP support. You should be able to upload files and describe to, for example, a Zope server with ease today.
That said, a few extra features would be welcome.
It shouldn't be that difficult, however, for the developper to specify what is a scalable item and what isn't.
Nowadays we can drag our toolbars around.
In the future, we could drag the edges to resize them perhaps?
If I told my GUI that I want a calculator window 3" wide by 4" tall with 0.75" wide buttons, it should draw them as such and use appropriately sized fonts, etc.
If the user then resizes the application, I'd expect the buttons to grow or shrink, much like a normal Gtk+ application does. The same applies to mapping software, etc.
If however I'm using gvim (vi, gui mode), I expect to have both options -- scaling the fonts up and down, as well as resizing the window to see more text.
When upgrading with a program like Red Carpet is as easy as running the Windows Update program (and then some), upgrading isn't a chore at all.
I can upgrade versions of Open Office without thinking about it -- I just click upgrade on it from the list and it downloads, upgrades and finishes. Then I use the new version and continue merrily on my way.
If I don't like it, I can *revert* to the old version. Wow. What a concept.
In fact, its worth noting that Microsoft has on several occasions in the past managed to make so little profit on paper as to not have to pay any taxes.
An example of Cisco accomplishing the same, since it was easier to find.
If you read some cryptanalysis papers you'll realize that this is all you need for a good start.
Entire missing paragraphs might give you a serious problem, but for the most part these documents are typeset with fixed-with fonts. That allows for easy guessing at word length at the very least.
Some good statistics will show what would consistently fit based on context as well as grammar rules. The same person's name or codeword detail will be missing throughout the document and so you will have a hard time reconstructing those if you don't know where to start, but that's the point of course.
In a perfect situation (for the censor), the document would be recomposed with "[...]" inserted wherever censorship was done.
The problem seems to be that people don't realize that crypto is hard.
Everyone seems to be aware that they only let an actual heart surgeon do heart surgery.
It doesn't seem that people know they should get only cryptographers to do cryptography.
They don't have to be experts; they need to be statistically significant to the outcome.
The original pilot went down where other pilots would have gone down.
People on slashdot will end up bidding the price the average person on slashdot would end up paying.
If the person's assumptions are good; that the average bidder on the shares will in the end be statistically comparable to the average slashdotter, then he's got it right.
"Since you forgot to write it down, we're at latitude dd mm ss and longitude dd mm ss, have fun hiking back and thanks for enjoying our trail system today."
I'd love to see an equivalent to all the benchmarking websites out there for telling me what hardware is reliable, and not just fast. I already know what the fastest drives, fastest video card, quietest fans, etc. are, but which ones last longest? Which drives *never* have failures that affect real data? Which cables are properly certified and insulated for high-volume transfer in a confined space rubbing up against other cables? Etc.
If you know of such a site, tell me.
I have my doubts that dual-core chips are "needed" to advance the marketplace. For all intents and purposes, we have this featureset with the multi-pipeline chip already; its just hidden from you.
What a dual-core chip is saying is that the OS' ability to schedule tasks on multiple cores is more efficient than the compiler's ability to schedule instructions in multiple pipelines. (simplified)
That's like taking personal gun ownership to the next level; if I don't carry a weapon, its my fault if I get mugged.
I may be stupid not to be armed in some places (like Iraq), but that doesn't make it my fault. Its always the perp's fault. The perp might not have got the opportunity if it weren't for my lameness, but its the perp's fault.
There are times when I need corporate support of some form, but it is rare. And in those instances, I find who to call and I call and I pay an incident fee and get over it.
I've payed for support for HylaFax for example (excellent faxing solution) and in turn they linked me up with the programmers who handle the firmware for my Multitech modems. They were willing to log into the server by SSH and fix the problems hands-on if necessary.
That said, simply offering support contracts isn't the same as actually providing decent support for a product.
So its us canadians who should be scared? (I was right!)
"Overall, the top suppliers of oil (crude and refined products) to the United States during 2003 were Canada (2.1 MMBD), Saudi Arabia (1.8 MMBD), Mexico (1.6 MMBD), and Venezuela (1.4 MMBD)."
Most people don't realize how much oil comes from Canada; especially the canadians paying OPEC prices.
720MB of bandwidth which is most often limited and expensive in Europe (please stop being too american-centric) and learning curve to figure out what you're doing.
I switched one of my users from Outlook Express to Mozilla Thunderbird and she hates it. "Nothing works" she says. Well of course it works, I use it every day, but she wants it to be *exactly* like Outlook Express. That's the problem with migration.
Your sculptures and mine would fetch different prices based on quality of 'art'.
CDs all sell for $24.95 here (canadian). Plus or minus $5.
A sculpture of the same size and weight might fetch $10 or $1M depending on artist and quality.
Britney Spears and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra both cost the same amount for 40 minutes of music on CD. That's what I mean by the severe commoditization of music versus art.
I hate to point this out, but 'good' music doesn't cost any more on a new CD than 'bad' music. If a CD is popular, it may stay at full price longer than one that isn't selling (standard supply and demand) but the music industry is definately not selling music as 'art' but as a standard 'product'.
NULL is undefined; so the quote is actually funnier the original way, personally.
Nowhere near California, sorry; proudly canadian here.
On the assumption that an accelerated graphics card can draw in GUI mode just as fast as a CLI can, you're not necessarily correct.
One of the reasons Mac fans love Macs is keyboard shortcuts. Macs have a *huge* number of such shortcuts and its part of what makes the GUI very fast.
Imagine for a moment that you could use your GUI with less keystrokes (and almost no mouse movements) than your CLI. Would your statement still be true?
Its eye-opening for some people that I'll hit Ctrl-Shift-C to open my calculator, punch in my calculations on the number pad and then close it with Ctrl-W without ever touching a mouse.
For others, it shows them they don't need a CLI to be fast on a computer.
Its all in preferences; I use CLIs for everything I can do faster than in a GUI too. I still find it much faster to type in piped Unix commands at my CLIs than to do the same things in a GUI, but I don't expect that will ever change. I'll always need my Eterm, and I'm happy with that.
That said, I don't ever want GUI development to slow down because we still use CLIs for some things.
True; but the first day I used the Network Neighbourhood-like functionality now available in Nautilus to find shares on the network, I didn't miss smbmount at all. What I would give to be able to right-click a directory and set its network permissions, accessibility and kerberos ticket permissions from within the GUI instead of editing four or five different files. I'm assuming, of course, that said functionality would edit those files for me, so that they are still accessible from outside the GUI as well ;-)
There are a lot of Unix geeks who realize that GUI use is a good thing in many situations.
/proc/sys/* settings, recompile esound or even the kernel, but I still do my day to day computing in a GUI environment if only for the pop-up "you've got 2 new messages" in the bottom-right from Thunderbird.
Think, for example, mail reading and web browsing. Perhaps photo viewing or editing, faxing, page layout, management of multiple login sessions visually, etc.
I know (and have known for many years) how to use screen, mutt, vim, and change my
I *like* seeing my 12 pixel tall xmms title bar showing what song is playing, my GUI web browser (Firefox) and using Eterm for accessing remote sites.
I'd love to be able to simply call up new SSH tunnels as menu options in a terminal window or initiate remote file transfers without launching a new session or reauthenticating, and some of these are generic UI issues and some relate to using GUIs for efficiency and esthetics.
I hate to break it to you, but my GUI renders fonts nicer than the text screen and makes multitasking simpler as well. I rarely if ever use a mouse; I'm addicted to alt-tab, my custom key bindings in Enlightenment and other 'tricks', but I'm definately a GUI user.
That might be a good thing ... somebody convince the North Korean geek kids to move their country toward Windows ;-)