It's a bit nitpicky, but it's not the Death of Mice, it's the Death of Rats. When Death decided to quit quite a few books ago, all the little sub-Death's were released to do their job. Near the end of the book, Death comes back, and reabsorbes all the sub-contractors... except Death of Rats who hung onto a beam while the sub-contractor Death's were absorbed. Death let Death of Rats continue being a separate entity.
Well I have to say I'm very glad to see this actually making some inroads to normal applications. What Lionhead did with Black and White is nothing new. Mentor Graphics has been doing this with their EDA packages for a very long time, probably most notably with Design Architect.
Want help? Draw a question mark.
Add a wire? Single stroke down.
Add a bus? Single stroke up.
Undo? Sort of a upside down n
Copy? A C shape
Delete? A D shape
And too many more to count. For years I've wished there were some overlay utility for nearly any OS where I could define macro keys to go with stroke commands (using the middle button). Someone used to the stroke commands can get things done VERY quickly (and it looks pretty cool because if you're looking over their shoulder, they can go through pages and dialog boxes with no easily discernable way).
Hooray for Opera for spotting the use for it.
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This was in Mandrake 7.0 as well. It shows up if you choose the Novice style installation. I used it myself the first time I installed the OS, because I knew I had space for everything in there.
The second time I installed it, I had a MUCH better idea of what packages and support I wanted installed, so I chose the Expert style installation, which gives you control over the packages in excruciating detail (this is a good thing!).
It is an odd feature and if I had to "dial down" the packages to fit a partition size, I'd be real curious to know how it prioritizes the packages.
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It's a bit nitpicky, but it's not the Death of Mice, it's the Death of Rats. When Death decided to quit quite a few books ago, all the little sub-Death's were released to do their job. Near the end of the book, Death comes back, and reabsorbes all the sub-contractors... except Death of Rats who hung onto a beam while the sub-contractor Death's were absorbed. Death let Death of Rats continue being a separate entity.
SQUEAK.
Well I have to say I'm very glad to see this actually making some inroads to normal applications. What Lionhead did with Black and White is nothing new. Mentor Graphics has been doing this with their EDA packages for a very long time, probably most notably with Design Architect.
Want help? Draw a question mark.
Add a wire? Single stroke down.
Add a bus? Single stroke up.
Undo? Sort of a upside down n
Copy? A C shape
Delete? A D shape
And too many more to count. For years I've wished there were some overlay utility for nearly any OS where I could define macro keys to go with stroke commands (using the middle button). Someone used to the stroke commands can get things done VERY quickly (and it looks pretty cool because if you're looking over their shoulder, they can go through pages and dialog boxes with no easily discernable way).
Hooray for Opera for spotting the use for it.
This was in Mandrake 7.0 as well. It shows up if you choose the Novice style installation. I used it myself the first time I installed the OS, because I knew I had space for everything in there.
The second time I installed it, I had a MUCH better idea of what packages and support I wanted installed, so I chose the Expert style installation, which gives you control over the packages in excruciating detail (this is a good thing!).
It is an odd feature and if I had to "dial down" the packages to fit a partition size, I'd be real curious to know how it prioritizes the packages.