Yeah, that was the first thing I disabled on my laptop. I kept accidentally clicking on things while moving my mouse pointer around. At least on my Gateway laptop, the touchpad is very bad at distinguishing between movement and "clicking".
Using tags/metadata/whatever is an interesting idea, but so far it looks like the only implementations are for GUI. Imagine now you have this working with your favorite shell:
instead of cd to a directory, you would restrict files you can access by default by selecting tags. Could be pretty cool, and incredibly powerful.
Problem: how would you address a specific file that, under the current system, you know is in some specific directory? Specifying some tags and then a filename may not result in a unique file. Anyway, how will the OS deal with filenames? Would you still have filenames? Could you have two files with different filenames? After all, filename is just one particular piece of metadata. Could you have two files with exactly the same metadata? How would the OS distinguish them? Would it still use some sort of hierarchy, only hidden from users? Would that be really irritating for power users to have to switch between two different ways of looking at their files? Would the underlying structure lurk under the search/metadata/tag based method like some scary skeleton, poking out at unexpected places and ruining user experience?
It has nothing to do with license. Even if the code is GPLed, they won't use the code, they just use the ideas. And if you think there is something wrong about that, I trust that you never use OpenOffice, Gnumeric, Firefox or Galeon or any other browser with tabs except Opera, and so on, it would be a long list.
It is still an issue. You have to install cygwin on every computer you use. Then you have to configure.bashrc so it works well with the rest of the system. Last month the harddisk in my office laptop died, and I got a new fresh install of windows. I spent almost two days getting everything installed and configured: cygwin, vim, tex, VirtuaWin, TXmouse,..., before I could get any work done. Everything that works out of the box on my linux desktop at home.
You are right, almost everything has been ported to windows. Five years ago I put together top 10 reasons for not using windows on the desktop, and one of the top reasons was the lack of available software. Now I cannot say that any more, but it gets replaced by lack of integration. All different programs that work nicely together on linux don't integrate well with windows, and don't even integrate well with each other.
If microsoft provides good CLI that works right out of the box, if they either include TeX or make hooks for it so that it integrates nicely into the system, if they include a postscript viewer, and if they fix their user interface, they can take a lot of wind out of linux and OS X sail in academia and research institutions.
No, you didn't understand. When teaching about sodium, she told us the similar same story you are refering to. Then she demonstrated it on smaller and safer scale.
I have heard the same story 25 years ago in a different country on a different continent.
It was from my 7th grade chemistry teacher. She demonstrated the effect by droping a tiny piece of sodium in a glass of water. She also showed us some marks on her desk and floor, and explained that in her class in the previous year, she accidentally droped the piece of sodium on a wet desk, where it started burning and whizzing around.
Actually, it was discovered by some Brit, who first called it alumium. Later rhe same Brit changed the name to aluminum, and finally, for the stated reasons, to aluminium.
I wish I had moderator points. Just look who is on your local community board or committee or whatever you call it. Would you be a member? I wouldn't, I don't have the time. Most people don't. You will probably find bunch of bored housewifes, few morons who are members because it makes them feel important, and bunch of nuts with nutty agendas of their own.
By the way, the comparism with fascism was not so far fetched. In most communist countries, "street committees" or whatever they called them were the backbone of the party rule.
Cannot agree more. In addition to that, most of the new subdivision houses are so incredibly ugly that covering them with aluminium can only count as an improvement.
In addition, children are not allowed to switch a movie in the middle. Our movies are designed to be viewed completely, to receive the proper dose of indoctrination, and switching in the middle infringes on our copyright and violates our license. If your children switch movies without finishing them, we will sue the hell out of them.
The bill sponsors would have to make sure that it clearly does, otherwise their bill would be open to an attack. It would be in their interest to make things as clear as possible.
As I wrote, "everyone does it" does not make anything legal, so it will not get you off the hook with the law.
But it does work in the sense that nobody will call the cops when they see you, nobody will try to apprehend you, nobody will go out of their way to provide information about you to cops.
For example: if you go and mug somebody on a street, most people around will yell and call the cops, some may try to catch you, and when the cops arrive, everybody will be teling them things like "he was wearing a pink shirt with green polka dots and bright yellow tie...", and "he ran that way..."
When you smoke pot on the street, or jaywalk, nobody will give a hoot.
I don't know about UK, I never drove there (you have a nice train system and I like trains, besides, you are driving on the wrong side of the road:)), but try driving on any US highway and count people who follow the speed limit when there are no cops in sight. You may see one or two such cars in an hour. I don't mean driving like maniac, what I mean is driving 80 when the limit is 70. Most people in this country will tell you that's ok.
It doesn't make it legal, but it does make it accepted by public. There is whole bunch of laws like this. Driving too fast is illegal, yet everybody does it, and nobody cares. Smoking pot is illegal, but lot of people do it, and nobody cares. In some places, jaywalking is illegal, but nobody cares.
Yes, it may be illegal to "steal" from RIAA, but who cares? People are fed up with RIAA, and when they claim that p2p networks will drive them out of business, most people will just say "good riddance!"
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Yeah, that was the first thing I disabled on my laptop. I kept accidentally clicking on things while moving my mouse pointer around. At least on my Gateway laptop, the touchpad is very bad at distinguishing between movement and "clicking".
I would love it if my students submitted thir files in oo format, rather than .doc.
Using tags/metadata/whatever is an interesting idea, but so far it looks like the only implementations are for GUI. Imagine now you have this working with your favorite shell:
instead of cd to a directory, you would restrict files you can access by default by selecting tags. Could be pretty cool, and incredibly powerful.
Problem: how would you address a specific file that, under the current system, you know is in some specific directory? Specifying some tags and then a filename may not result in a unique file. Anyway, how will the OS deal with filenames? Would you still have filenames? Could you have two files with different filenames? After all, filename is just one particular piece of metadata. Could you have two files with exactly the same metadata? How would the OS distinguish them? Would it still use some sort of hierarchy, only hidden from users? Would that be really irritating for power users to have to switch between two different ways of looking at their files? Would the underlying structure lurk under the search/metadata/tag based method like some scary skeleton, poking out at unexpected places and ruining user experience?
but you forgot to add "comrade" at the end:
You don't support terrorists, do you, comrade?
That's exactly because they are copying Windows and Mac OS X's gui. If you clone shit, all you get is shit.
It has nothing to do with license. Even if the code is GPLed, they won't use the code, they just use the ideas. And if you think there is something wrong about that, I trust that you never use OpenOffice, Gnumeric, Firefox or Galeon or any other browser with tabs except Opera, and so on, it would be a long list.
It is still an issue. You have to install cygwin on every computer you use. Then you have to configure .bashrc so it works well with the rest of the system. Last month the harddisk in my office laptop died, and I got a new fresh install of windows. I spent almost two days getting everything installed and configured: cygwin, vim, tex, VirtuaWin, TXmouse, ..., before I could get any work done. Everything that works out of the box on my linux desktop at home.
You are right, almost everything has been ported to windows. Five years ago I put together top 10 reasons for not using windows on the desktop, and one of the top reasons was the lack of available software. Now I cannot say that any more, but it gets replaced by lack of integration. All different programs that work nicely together on linux don't integrate well with windows, and don't even integrate well with each other.
If microsoft provides good CLI that works right out of the box, if they either include TeX or make hooks for it so that it integrates nicely into the system, if they include a postscript viewer, and if they fix their user interface, they can take a lot of wind out of linux and OS X sail in academia and research institutions.
Doesn't everybody know that "it was Julie"?
I know of some people who use windows to pursue their hobby. They reverse-engineer it and write samba or wine.
No, you didn't understand. When teaching about sodium, she told us the similar same story you are refering to. Then she demonstrated it on smaller and safer scale.
I have heard the same story 25 years ago in a different country on a different continent.
It was from my 7th grade chemistry teacher. She demonstrated the effect by droping a tiny piece of sodium in a glass of water. She also showed us some marks on her desk and floor, and explained that in her class in the previous year, she accidentally droped the piece of sodium on a wet desk, where it started burning and whizzing around.
it used to irritate me that the British would say the "-ium" ending
Ehmm, not just British, but pretty much the whole world with the exceptions of USA and Canada.
Actually, it was discovered by some Brit, who first called it alumium. Later rhe same Brit changed the name to aluminum, and finally, for the stated reasons, to aluminium.
I wish I had moderator points. Just look who is on your local community board or committee or whatever you call it. Would you be a member? I wouldn't, I don't have the time. Most people don't. You will probably find bunch of bored housewifes, few morons who are members because it makes them feel important, and bunch of nuts with nutty agendas of their own.
By the way, the comparism with fascism was not so far fetched. In most communist countries, "street committees" or whatever they called them were the backbone of the party rule.
Cannot agree more. In addition to that, most of the new subdivision houses are so incredibly ugly that covering them with aluminium can only count as an improvement.
No, you will just have to check out the librarian's finger with the dvd.
In addition, children are not allowed to switch a movie in the middle. Our movies are designed to be viewed completely, to receive the proper dose of indoctrination, and switching in the middle infringes on our copyright and violates our license. If your children switch movies without finishing them, we will sue the hell out of them.
The House already had overwhelming support for the standalone bill, and there is no reason to believe it would not have passed in the Senate as well.
I heard that president has already signed it. He said "It's gonna pass anyway, why wait!"
The bill sponsors would have to make sure that it clearly does, otherwise their bill would be open to an attack. It would be in their interest to make things as clear as possible.
Depends on what you mean by "work".
As I wrote, "everyone does it" does not make anything legal, so it will not get you off the hook with the law.
But it does work in the sense that nobody will call the cops when they see you, nobody will try to apprehend you, nobody will go out of their way to provide information about you to cops.
For example: if you go and mug somebody on a street, most people around will yell and call the cops, some may try to catch you, and when the cops arrive, everybody will be teling them things like "he was wearing a pink shirt with green polka dots and bright yellow tie...", and "he ran that way..."
When you smoke pot on the street, or jaywalk, nobody will give a hoot.
I don't know about UK, I never drove there (you have a nice train system and I like trains, besides, you are driving on the wrong side of the road :)), but try driving on any US highway and count people who follow the speed limit when there are no cops in sight. You may see one or two such cars in an hour. I don't mean driving like maniac, what I mean is driving 80 when the limit is 70. Most people in this country will tell you that's ok.
It doesn't make it legal, but it does make it accepted by public. There is whole bunch of laws like this. Driving too fast is illegal, yet everybody does it, and nobody cares. Smoking pot is illegal, but lot of people do it, and nobody cares. In some places, jaywalking is illegal, but nobody cares.
Yes, it may be illegal to "steal" from RIAA, but who cares? People are fed up with RIAA, and when they claim that p2p networks will drive them out of business, most people will just say "good riddance!"
It's "Noble piece prize"
No he doesn't. He thinks it is a "Noble piece prize".
when communism becomes evil is when it is compulsory
There is nothing wrong with that. Except that it is like saying "when fire becomes dangerous is when it is hot".