Of course, if you really want gobs upon gobs of astronomy related pictures, the place to go is the Astronomy Picture of the Day. 'tis a great source of wallpaper images...
I have seen "Crime Stoppers" reports on TV news for years where anonymous tips are solicited. So, doing it all at once seems like a logical extension of that idea...
Changing your "Window" color in Display Properties: Appearance will change the bgcolor of pages that don't specify a color in HTML or CSS.
Yes, I am quite aware of that. But if a page is going to use an image whose background is obviously white, I think it should be their job to change the color. Manual color changes kind of defeat the purpose of web pages having colors...
I've been printing computers and then building them during class for the last few weeks. I get them from the Paper Mac page, and print them out with my laser printer. Then I take them to class and, while the teacher is babbling dumb stuff about what she has done with computers, I build macs. I've got a small army of them collecting here...
What? I was trying to do an FTP install with a little test computer I always use to try out new and breakable stuff, and it yelled at me: "52 meg of memory needed for network install, 40 detected." What's up with that?
I started out as a CE major, thinking I would like the EE part of it. As it turned out, I liked the first semester of EE and hated the rest of it. So, I switched to CS and have done well. The EE stuff probably wouldn't have been to bad, but it was both a) hard and b) uninteresting to me. Had it been only one of those (hard but interesting or easy but boring) I wouldn't have minded, but both at the same time was terrible. So, I would say that, if you really like deep math and such, CE is good, but if not, I would avoid it. I'm getting by perfectly fine with my CS knowledge thus far...
I always feel kinda bad following links in Quickies stories. I mean, what better way is there to bring the 'net down than post a whole lot of stories on Slashdot all at the same time?
Well, I actually managed to beat my head on the corner of a case while leaning over to pick something up once. It only happened once, and I am still alive, but I guess sometimes rounded corners might be good...
Yes, reading over it a few more times makes me decide that he just wrote a terrible sentence. Read one way, it says we are made of the genetic instructions that were previously used to make jellyfish, etc. Read another way, it says there were some genetic instructions in existance at one point that branched off and made all of the above. Rather confusing if you ask me...
Beside the fact that the author seems to have almost no clue what he is talking about, this article is rather uninteresting. As somebody else pointed out, the evolution theory quoted in the article is not the one Darwin proposed. Also, the author seems to think we evolved from a combination of dinosaurs, jellyfish, and monkeys - something I seriously doubt. But the real kicker is his absolutist tone - I usually take that as a sign that a writer doesn't actually have proof, but wants to make up for that fact by making his thoughts sound like they have no proof against them. Rather bad science if you ask me...
My time: 2001-03-15 02:03:22
Woah! This thing didn't let me post, saying I was using too many caps! Maybe if I type a bunch of other stuff down here it will get confused more and think things are alright...
I am an English speaker, and thus don't know a whole lot about the ins and outs of many of the world's languages, let alone ones that are written from right to left. But I have been watching the efforts of the Pango project, which seems to be helping bring more exotic character sets to Gtk. It isn't done yet, but seems to have made great progress thus far. Perhaps you just need to hold out a little longer and things will sway in your direction...
Other companies tried this...
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Think of NeXT and Be in particular. They both started with Motorolla based machines that they built, which cost more than people wanted and nobody buyed. As a last ditch effort they ported everything to Intel hardware, but couldn't compete with the ubiquity/FUD of Microsoft, and nobody buyed. I am going to guess Apple knows this too and isn't going to fall towards the same fate quite yet...
"...and the Internet would be that much closer to control by a few large corporations."
You know, I really dislike it when people use the words "internet" and "web" interchangably. I somehow doubt the whole 'net, being that big pile of computers around the world, will be affected by Yahoo merging with somebody else and changing its links. The web, however, could be changed as people's web pages are walled out. Maybe I am just strange at thinking they are very different (seeing as how one is a subset of the other), but calling them the same thing makes me think of people who think that Netscape == The Internet. Rather foolish if you ask me...
We need a big group with 12 layers of beurocacy to go through before getting a patch into the kernel! I think that kind of group would do more to kill Linux than Linus could ever manage...
The best fan design I have ever seen was on my roommate last year's machine made by the wonderful Packard Bell company. I'm not sure what they were thinking when they did it, but they put 2 differently sized fans, one on top of the other, onto his processor to cool it. It was a socket design processor, so the first fan was the normal size of the processor, and then stacked on top of that fan's lower-left two thirds was a second, smaller fan. It was _really_ odd...
You know, one of the nice things about flat keyboards is the fact that you can lay your hands down on a wrist rest while typing, thereby giving your arms a rest. I don't see that happening with that keyboard...
Also, that keyboard would have to be stuck down pretty well to keep it from moving as you typed something that required only one hand or hit the arrow keys a bunch. I don't think I like the idea of that keyboard too much.
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I actually think the interface is rather impressive. First, a couple corrections: you don't have to right click inside the image to bring up the menu: you can use that little arrow up in the top left corner, where the rulers meet to do the same thing. It may not be obvious, but it works, and I managed to figure it out on my own. Also, you are quite correct about the lack of need of a maximize button on a dialog, but some of that depends on the window manager being used. I myself like having it there...
However, back to what I was saying about liking the interface. I like the ability to right click on the image wherever I am and get the menu. It saves my poor arm some mousing, and involves less thought and aim to hit a menu correctly. It also saves screen real estate: had it not been done that way, each image would have needed a menu bar to hold the menu. That would take up a lot of space when a bunch of windows are open. The only other alternative would be to use a big bounding window like Photoshop, which I personally can't stand - it is much too constraining. Being able to pull windows all over the screen is much nicer.
Also, I am quite happy with the cleaning up of the Gimp's interface. The description bar at the top of the tool options and other dialogs is a simple thing that adds a lot to the look and feel. Overall I think this release is a huge leap over the previous one. Great work everybody!
After such recent spectacular release flops as Netscape 6, Win 2000, Redhat 7, and the Pentium 4, it is great to see that the Gimp people have actually released something worth the upgrade. I have been using the 1.1.x releases for a while now and am rather amazed at the amount of UI cleanup and backend upgrading that went on between the 1.0 and 1.2. I am very excited to grab a copy of this wonderful piece of software. Perhaps other companies should aspire to be more like the Gimp developers.:)
I am also in love with BeOS's file manager: No web browser, file reader, bloatware beast here (you hear me Windows, KDE, and Gnome?), just a program that does what a _file manager_ is supposed to do - manage files.
I actually think BeOS is the coolest desktop OS I have ever used. Just to keep the record straight, I normally use and develop for Linux, and have played with everything Windows, Linux, OpenStep, Be, MacOS, and a couple others, but by no means every single OS out there. But in the end in my mind BeOS wins. It is really snappy, has a greay interface (a little rough around the edges every once and a while, but really cool nonetheless), and keeps things simple on the surface. But if you want, there is also that command line that lets you run all kinds of Unixy stuff a little deeper in the OS. So, basically you have a Unix-like OS (definitely not a flavor of Unix, but modeled after the same idea) that has a wonderful, very fast interface built in - Like OSX, only a lot better! The whole graphical nature of the OS is built in (unlike X on Unixes), meaning things like driver updates, time changes, etc (the normal maintenence stuff) is easy, but behind it is the power of a Unix like system. This is probably about the tenth time I have said it, but I think that is a really great design.
So, why do I use Linux more that Be, even though I like it so much? One real reason - I know more about Linux, have more apps that I use a lot under Linux, and don't have a big enough hard drive to give both a respectable amount of space. So, in the future I may easily swith to Be full time (as long as they don't drop the OS for BeIA) and make use of the X server that has been ported to it for any X stuff I need. But I think Be really has a great product on their hands.
This is perhaps the best news I have heard in a little while. I used to use dejanews all the time, but had shied away from it because of its sudden sell-me/buy-me attempt. This is _very_ cool.
Every once and a while I hear/read somebody saying "Unix is 30 years old! Why would anybody want to use something who's design is so old?!" Well, computers themselves havn't really changed all that much in those 30 years either... They still rely on a central CPU with some memory banks, some secondary storage, etc. - just like they did when Unix was created. Of course, they've changed size and shape and general usage, but the computers themselves are still generally the same. So, what's wrong with using an OS that has stayed the same with them?
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Of course, if you really want gobs upon gobs of astronomy related pictures, the place to go is the Astronomy Picture of the Day. 'tis a great source of wallpaper images...
I have seen "Crime Stoppers" reports on TV news for years where anonymous tips are solicited. So, doing it all at once seems like a logical extension of that idea...
Changing your "Window" color in Display Properties: Appearance will change the bgcolor of pages that don't specify a color in HTML or CSS.
Yes, I am quite aware of that. But if a page is going to use an image whose background is obviously white, I think it should be their job to change the color. Manual color changes kind of defeat the purpose of web pages having colors...
I've been printing computers and then building them during class for the last few weeks. I get them from the Paper Mac page, and print them out with my laser printer. Then I take them to class and, while the teacher is babbling dumb stuff about what she has done with computers, I build macs. I've got a small army of them collecting here...
What? I was trying to do an FTP install with a little test computer I always use to try out new and breakable stuff, and it yelled at me: "52 meg of memory needed for network install, 40 detected." What's up with that?
I started out as a CE major, thinking I would like the EE part of it. As it turned out, I liked the first semester of EE and hated the rest of it. So, I switched to CS and have done well. The EE stuff probably wouldn't have been to bad, but it was both a) hard and b) uninteresting to me. Had it been only one of those (hard but interesting or easy but boring) I wouldn't have minded, but both at the same time was terrible. So, I would say that, if you really like deep math and such, CE is good, but if not, I would avoid it. I'm getting by perfectly fine with my CS knowledge thus far...
I always feel kinda bad following links in Quickies stories. I mean, what better way is there to bring the 'net down than post a whole lot of stories on Slashdot all at the same time?
Well, I actually managed to beat my head on the corner of a case while leaning over to pick something up once. It only happened once, and I am still alive, but I guess sometimes rounded corners might be good...
Yes, reading over it a few more times makes me decide that he just wrote a terrible sentence. Read one way, it says we are made of the genetic instructions that were previously used to make jellyfish, etc. Read another way, it says there were some genetic instructions in existance at one point that branched off and made all of the above. Rather confusing if you ask me...
Beside the fact that the author seems to have almost no clue what he is talking about, this article is rather uninteresting. As somebody else pointed out, the evolution theory quoted in the article is not the one Darwin proposed. Also, the author seems to think we evolved from a combination of dinosaurs, jellyfish, and monkeys - something I seriously doubt. But the real kicker is his absolutist tone - I usually take that as a sign that a writer doesn't actually have proof, but wants to make up for that fact by making his thoughts sound like they have no proof against them. Rather bad science if you ask me...
My time: 2001-03-15 02:03:22
Woah! This thing didn't let me post, saying I was using too many caps! Maybe if I type a bunch of other stuff down here it will get confused more and think things are alright...
If you can't beat it, can't buy it, and can't get rid of it, the only thing to do is either sue it or outlaw it!
I am an English speaker, and thus don't know a whole lot about the ins and outs of many of the world's languages, let alone ones that are written from right to left. But I have been watching the efforts of the Pango project, which seems to be helping bring more exotic character sets to Gtk. It isn't done yet, but seems to have made great progress thus far. Perhaps you just need to hold out a little longer and things will sway in your direction...
Think of NeXT and Be in particular. They both started with Motorolla based machines that they built, which cost more than people wanted and nobody buyed. As a last ditch effort they ported everything to Intel hardware, but couldn't compete with the ubiquity/FUD of Microsoft, and nobody buyed. I am going to guess Apple knows this too and isn't going to fall towards the same fate quite yet...
"...and the Internet would be that much closer to control by a few large corporations."
You know, I really dislike it when people use the words "internet" and "web" interchangably. I somehow doubt the whole 'net, being that big pile of computers around the world, will be affected by Yahoo merging with somebody else and changing its links. The web, however, could be changed as people's web pages are walled out. Maybe I am just strange at thinking they are very different (seeing as how one is a subset of the other), but calling them the same thing makes me think of people who think that Netscape == The Internet. Rather foolish if you ask me...
We need a big group with 12 layers of beurocacy to go through before getting a patch into the kernel! I think that kind of group would do more to kill Linux than Linus could ever manage...
The best fan design I have ever seen was on my roommate last year's machine made by the wonderful Packard Bell company. I'm not sure what they were thinking when they did it, but they put 2 differently sized fans, one on top of the other, onto his processor to cool it. It was a socket design processor, so the first fan was the normal size of the processor, and then stacked on top of that fan's lower-left two thirds was a second, smaller fan. It was _really_ odd...
You know, one of the nice things about flat keyboards is the fact that you can lay your hands down on a wrist rest while typing, thereby giving your arms a rest. I don't see that happening with that keyboard...
Also, that keyboard would have to be stuck down pretty well to keep it from moving as you typed something that required only one hand or hit the arrow keys a bunch. I don't think I like the idea of that keyboard too much.
I can offer mine too...
I actually think the interface is rather impressive. First, a couple corrections: you don't have to right click inside the image to bring up the menu: you can use that little arrow up in the top left corner, where the rulers meet to do the same thing. It may not be obvious, but it works, and I managed to figure it out on my own. Also, you are quite correct about the lack of need of a maximize button on a dialog, but some of that depends on the window manager being used. I myself like having it there...
However, back to what I was saying about liking the interface. I like the ability to right click on the image wherever I am and get the menu. It saves my poor arm some mousing, and involves less thought and aim to hit a menu correctly. It also saves screen real estate: had it not been done that way, each image would have needed a menu bar to hold the menu. That would take up a lot of space when a bunch of windows are open. The only other alternative would be to use a big bounding window like Photoshop, which I personally can't stand - it is much too constraining. Being able to pull windows all over the screen is much nicer.
Also, I am quite happy with the cleaning up of the Gimp's interface. The description bar at the top of the tool options and other dialogs is a simple thing that adds a lot to the look and feel. Overall I think this release is a huge leap over the previous one. Great work everybody!
After such recent spectacular release flops as Netscape 6, Win 2000, Redhat 7, and the Pentium 4, it is great to see that the Gimp people have actually released something worth the upgrade. I have been using the 1.1.x releases for a while now and am rather amazed at the amount of UI cleanup and backend upgrading that went on between the 1.0 and 1.2. I am very excited to grab a copy of this wonderful piece of software. Perhaps other companies should aspire to be more like the Gimp developers. :)
I am also in love with BeOS's file manager: No web browser, file reader, bloatware beast here (you hear me Windows, KDE, and Gnome?), just a program that does what a _file manager_ is supposed to do - manage files.
I actually think BeOS is the coolest desktop OS I have ever used. Just to keep the record straight, I normally use and develop for Linux, and have played with everything Windows, Linux, OpenStep, Be, MacOS, and a couple others, but by no means every single OS out there. But in the end in my mind BeOS wins. It is really snappy, has a greay interface (a little rough around the edges every once and a while, but really cool nonetheless), and keeps things simple on the surface. But if you want, there is also that command line that lets you run all kinds of Unixy stuff a little deeper in the OS. So, basically you have a Unix-like OS (definitely not a flavor of Unix, but modeled after the same idea) that has a wonderful, very fast interface built in - Like OSX, only a lot better! The whole graphical nature of the OS is built in (unlike X on Unixes), meaning things like driver updates, time changes, etc (the normal maintenence stuff) is easy, but behind it is the power of a Unix like system. This is probably about the tenth time I have said it, but I think that is a really great design.
So, why do I use Linux more that Be, even though I like it so much? One real reason - I know more about Linux, have more apps that I use a lot under Linux, and don't have a big enough hard drive to give both a respectable amount of space. So, in the future I may easily swith to Be full time (as long as they don't drop the OS for BeIA) and make use of the X server that has been ported to it for any X stuff I need. But I think Be really has a great product on their hands.
This is perhaps the best news I have heard in a little while. I used to use dejanews all the time, but had shied away from it because of its sudden sell-me/buy-me attempt. This is _very_ cool.
Every once and a while I hear/read somebody saying "Unix is 30 years old! Why would anybody want to use something who's design is so old?!" Well, computers themselves havn't really changed all that much in those 30 years either... They still rely on a central CPU with some memory banks, some secondary storage, etc. - just like they did when Unix was created. Of course, they've changed size and shape and general usage, but the computers themselves are still generally the same. So, what's wrong with using an OS that has stayed the same with them?