Is there GPL software comparable to MathCAD? Due to the pioneering work of Martin King (http://www.quarter-wave.com/) the latter has become popular among DIY builders for modeling transmission lines speakers. Most though can't justify the ~$1000 for hobby software and use MathCAD's crippled demo, Explorer 8.
Personally, I'd rather have a ridiculous false dichotomy which demonstrates no knowledge of the article blurb, much less the linked articles, not moderated to +5 on Slashdot for once, but have been here long enough to expect it. They passed the resolution in 2002.
An interesting perspective: it's the general population's fault the legal system is being distorted to support an outdated business model, and if they keep it up corporations will send more armies of lawyers and lobbyists to attack the very core of a nation's right to exchange information, effectively legislating federal regulation of all information transactions. So stop it because you want to play CDs in your car? And use the internet the way corporations tell you to use it? That low, omnipresent thrumming you hear is the millions who died for your nation's freedoms roto-tilling their graves.
"Copyright law is there for a reason..."
That reason is solely corporate lobbying. There was no public interest in or demand for changes like a 70 year extension.
He didn't think learning to recognize rigid logic and coherent reasoning had useful life benefits? Certainly explains why elections have become so entertaining.
Why does someone always applaud when a way is found to abuse a system? There's nothing clever about it, nothing honest, it's a blatant attempt to misrepresent the will of a general populace they consider degenerate. People like this should be deported, not admired.
You're absolutely correct. Why then are the Dem's refered to as tax-and-spend while the Rep's aren't when the main difference is Dem's spend on people and Rep's on the military?
I wish! As I get older I discover more and more things chewing up my free time. Relaxing means playing with Spice simulations of the tube amp on the work bench behind me, MathCAD sims targeting speaker alignments, Day of Defeat, etc., all possible because of broadband and the collaborative nature of the Internet. Any TV watched is usually a downloaded movie.
I'm not so convinced. I work in an industry which deals primarily with audio, as did my brother. We both find the science, being established, doesn't have the flash or 'sale-ability' of, say, downloadable games and consequently the accountants, marketing shills, Psychology major project leaders and other MBA riff-raff tend to treat it as monkey designable. Hence, we get audio products with audio designed by monkeys and the money goes into customizable backdrops and the like.
..for the same reason I like Usenet. Files are pre-sorted by genre and by fans, making it easy to discover new music and film of the kind that interest you. Kazaa is only good for getting copies of what you already know.
Valve continues to screw up the once impeccable HL multiplayer experience. I don't know what they're doing to Steam, and apparently neither do they, but games such as Day of Defeat get more and more lag with each release. Minus 56K modem performance from a plus 2.5 Meg DSL and an AMD64 3500. A perfect case of a navel gazing company taking dead aim at their own feet.
issue two IDs to all users, one their publicly visible 'normal' ID and a hidden second 'moderator' ID
identify all acts of moderation with the hidden ID
allow all users to see a moderation ID's history
provide an avenue to report abuse, or alternately auto-disable mod points for a period if they consistently exceed a set up/down ratio
Moderation still occurs anonymously, but now with a trackable history. This identifies moderators who target individuals, people using multiple accounts to self-moderate, or those who tag on-topic first posts redundant.
Hi. The lappie I use, an AMD64, bombed repeatedly on Debian and Ubuntu 64-bit versions. Gentoo provided the flexibility and documentation I needed to get this 1200x800 beast running.
"...partially because for some reason the gentoo CD I got from one of the other guys here wouldn't boot..."
A major and uncharacteristic gaff on that release, the installer didn't pre-load the ide modules and hence users couldn't see their hard drives without first issuing a 'modprobe ide-somethingorother' command.
I started my Linux experience with RedHat 5.1. It took me three weeks to figure out how to mount a CD. It's a difficult call to make in hindsight, but I'ld guess Gentoo's much superior install documentation and forum support would have made it easier.
For the first or second time a user encounters a greyed menu item. After they "get it" it becomes unnecessary screen clutter. The experience a user brings to the desktop determines what's most effective.
Assuming you have a choice. When I took delivery of my AMD64 3000 Compaq notebook pre-loaded with XP Home, I was stunned to discover it wasn't that much faster in normal use than the P2 366 Gentoo notebook it replaced. Digging into I discovered the OS came pre-loaded with so much useless crap from HP that it spent most its time attending to their tasks and not mine. Once all that junk was uninstalled and unrequired Windows services disabled it ran much faster.
"The advert revenue on cable allows the cable company to reduces the cost to the subscriber..."
How are cable companies making money from TV advertising? TV sales reps work for individual stations, advertisers pay TV stations directly. Cable companies pay TV stations for the right to carry them per household. By which route does advertising money paid to TV stations find its way into cable company coffers?
Not my experience. A developer designed interface usually has an internal and well developed logic to it born from spending inordinate time at the keyboard. Though different from each other I can make sense of the intent and adapt. That includes the 'way-oyt-there's' like Ion. I don't always agree with the choices (for example rox-filer's 'send-to' dialogue for file associations) but can see that another person might and find it effecient.
But bar none no desktop has me swearing at the monitor more than Windows XP. The marketing/test wonks who 'designed' the taskbar dynamics when run in hidden mode deserve to spend the remainder of their miserable existences before an amber DOS prompt. Nothing matches it for intrusive, force-the-focus-from-what-I'm-doing hectoring annoyance. Do I really need to know my wireless is still working? And face a 10x10 pixel box surrounded by 20x the equivalent area in 'properties start' to acknowledge the obvious. I can't conceive of a developer who spends his day before a screen devising this UI horror.
"The trick is to present the functionality the user needs, in a logical grouping as the users expect it."
Unfortunately the two aren't logically tied. To my mind there's no justification for wasting such a powerful 'UI slot' like right-clicking the desktop on changing screen resolution for example. It's just not something done with sufficient frequency to warrant this position. Yet suggestions to change it will result in howls of protest from those only familiar with the Windows desktop.
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Is there GPL software comparable to MathCAD? Due to the pioneering work of Martin King (http://www.quarter-wave.com/) the latter has become popular among DIY builders for modeling transmission lines speakers. Most though can't justify the ~$1000 for hobby software and use MathCAD's crippled demo, Explorer 8.
Personally, I'd rather have a ridiculous false dichotomy which demonstrates no knowledge of the article blurb, much less the linked articles, not moderated to +5 on Slashdot for once, but have been here long enough to expect it. They passed the resolution in 2002.
"Copyright law is there for a reason..."
That reason is solely corporate lobbying. There was no public interest in or demand for changes like a 70 year extension.
He didn't think learning to recognize rigid logic and coherent reasoning had useful life benefits? Certainly explains why elections have become so entertaining.
Maybe they should change the voting forms to bingo cards?
Yes, and look where it's led! 'Nordic' has become almost synonymous world-wide with violence and agression! Oh, waitaminute....
Why does someone always applaud when a way is found to abuse a system? There's nothing clever about it, nothing honest, it's a blatant attempt to misrepresent the will of a general populace they consider degenerate. People like this should be deported, not admired.
You're absolutely correct. Why then are the Dem's refered to as tax-and-spend while the Rep's aren't when the main difference is Dem's spend on people and Rep's on the military?
Out and out capitalist beliefs don't colour an analysis?
I wish! As I get older I discover more and more things chewing up my free time. Relaxing means playing with Spice simulations of the tube amp on the work bench behind me, MathCAD sims targeting speaker alignments, Day of Defeat, etc., all possible because of broadband and the collaborative nature of the Internet. Any TV watched is usually a downloaded movie.
I'm not so convinced. I work in an industry which deals primarily with audio, as did my brother. We both find the science, being established, doesn't have the flash or 'sale-ability' of, say, downloadable games and consequently the accountants, marketing shills, Psychology major project leaders and other MBA riff-raff tend to treat it as monkey designable. Hence, we get audio products with audio designed by monkeys and the money goes into customizable backdrops and the like.
SCO = company
There's a reason for that distinction, and for the latter's never-ending battle to blur it.
Valve continues to screw up the once impeccable HL multiplayer experience. I don't know what they're doing to Steam, and apparently neither do they, but games such as Day of Defeat get more and more lag with each release. Minus 56K modem performance from a plus 2.5 Meg DSL and an AMD64 3500. A perfect case of a navel gazing company taking dead aim at their own feet.
issue two IDs to all users, one their publicly visible 'normal' ID and a hidden second 'moderator' ID
identify all acts of moderation with the hidden ID
allow all users to see a moderation ID's history
provide an avenue to report abuse, or alternately auto-disable mod points for a period if they consistently exceed a set up/down ratio
Moderation still occurs anonymously, but now with a trackable history. This identifies moderators who target individuals, people using multiple accounts to self-moderate, or those who tag on-topic first posts redundant.
Typing this from on Debian 64-bit desktop. :)
A major and uncharacteristic gaff on that release, the installer didn't pre-load the ide modules and hence users couldn't see their hard drives without first issuing a 'modprobe ide-somethingorother' command.
Look up genkernel. What you say isn't correct.
I started my Linux experience with RedHat 5.1. It took me three weeks to figure out how to mount a CD. It's a difficult call to make in hindsight, but I'ld guess Gentoo's much superior install documentation and forum support would have made it easier.
For the first or second time a user encounters a greyed menu item. After they "get it" it becomes unnecessary screen clutter. The experience a user brings to the desktop determines what's most effective.
Assuming you have a choice. When I took delivery of my AMD64 3000 Compaq notebook pre-loaded with XP Home, I was stunned to discover it wasn't that much faster in normal use than the P2 366 Gentoo notebook it replaced. Digging into I discovered the OS came pre-loaded with so much useless crap from HP that it spent most its time attending to their tasks and not mine. Once all that junk was uninstalled and unrequired Windows services disabled it ran much faster.
When did the Slashdot editors buy into content distributor terminology?
How are cable companies making money from TV advertising? TV sales reps work for individual stations, advertisers pay TV stations directly. Cable companies pay TV stations for the right to carry them per household. By which route does advertising money paid to TV stations find its way into cable company coffers?
But bar none no desktop has me swearing at the monitor more than Windows XP. The marketing/test wonks who 'designed' the taskbar dynamics when run in hidden mode deserve to spend the remainder of their miserable existences before an amber DOS prompt. Nothing matches it for intrusive, force-the-focus-from-what-I'm-doing hectoring annoyance. Do I really need to know my wireless is still working? And face a 10x10 pixel box surrounded by 20x the equivalent area in 'properties start' to acknowledge the obvious. I can't conceive of a developer who spends his day before a screen devising this UI horror.
Unfortunately the two aren't logically tied. To my mind there's no justification for wasting such a powerful 'UI slot' like right-clicking the desktop on changing screen resolution for example. It's just not something done with sufficient frequency to warrant this position. Yet suggestions to change it will result in howls of protest from those only familiar with the Windows desktop.