On slashdot? Obviously. We see Qwerty or local equivalents every day. When was the last time you needed your ABC? Lists don't count, your computer will sort them for you.
They might as well start teaching QWERTY instead of ABC in school and then do a study on how that affected average nationwide typing speeds:)
Never mind carpal tunnel, that constant flashing of content popping on and off as you try to make your way to the menu you actually want to access is enough to give anyone epileptic fits.
The click is a way of showing an intent to view the content available under that menu/button/whatever. Just showing it anyway with the implicit assumption that it will be hidden again anyway if it isn't what the user wanted to see is a bad design decision.
Because it's late at night and I've been in the pub;)
But yeah, of course when I say Linux I mean all the *nixes and I guess that group thing under MacOs counts too. I'm pretty sure I've seen 3rd party software that adds virtual desktops to Windows too...
I find it more interesting to ask how many virtual desktops people have (but of course that only applies to Linux) and how they use them. Window counts may vary, but virtual desktop usage is informative.
For me, the answer is 5, organised as follows: 1: Playground, this has browser, music player, the odd game and so on it. 2: Mail. Yes, an entire desktop dedicated just to the mail client, I don't know why, but I got used to it. 3. Documents. This is where Lyx, Kile, Jabref, OpenOffice, Acroread and so on will open up. 4 + 5: Development. Specifically, 4 has the Editor, several consoles and the Matlab command window. 5 has the odd help browser and the Matlab Workspace on it.
So in terms of Windows, not counting random consoles, that's about 2 + 1 + 3 + 5 + 2 = 13 on a normal day.
Perhaps the author doesn't know about porn? So his statement is based on the 0.1% of internet content he is aware of... evidence: 90% of 0.1% does sound about right for discussions of software patents:)
Step 1: Sell a WoW card game where each pack gives people 100 points. Step 2: Promise the points can be traded in WoW for something shiny but useless, eventually. Step 3: Eventually require up to 50,000 points for those shiny things, equalling the purchase of 2,100$ worth of cards. Step 4: PROFIT!!! Actually, strike that, get an angry mob... for about 20 Minutes until they go raiding again.
No, they weren't. Indeed, the take-up of Windows 98 could only be described - generously - as "sluggish".
Can't speak for anyone else, of course, but personally, that was due to my Windows installation at the time being Windows 95c, whose only major difference to 98, as far as I could tell at the time, was that 98 had integrated Internet Explorer into itself. So I wasn't desperate at all to get rid of 95c. In fact, I don't think I ever had a 98 installation... I just went to 2k as soon as that was out.
Nowadays of course, it's just Ubuntu... until the doctor says it safe for me to start playing games again;)
The fans response? Retroactively invoice Universal for their services."
Wrong. From TFA:
In other words, this site should not be taken as an attempt to actually bill Universal Pictures for all of our time, energy, and effort, nor encouragement for any fan do try to do so. We just believe that there is a point to be made.
I don't want to be cynical, but aside from the tiny fraction of people people with philosophical interests in space or who like pictures of nebulae on their desktop, nobody benefits from hubble. It doesn't pay your bills, it doesn't get you laid, it doesn't stop war, it can do zilch against hunger on earth, it basically doesn't solve any practical, every day problems at all.
Give yourself and insanely unrealistic task and then force yourself to follow through on it.
Amen. Reminds me of that list of "nightmare exam questions" too... can't be bothered to look for it, but the Computer Science exam went something like this:
And for the record, the first insane task I set myself, if I remember correctly, was to write a system for adding a proper pulldown menu system for the games I wrote in Logo (yes, I was young, but I only knew Logo and Basic and commanding the turtle around was more fun). I had animated menus and some rudimentary fading at the end... even if it wasn't the fastest system in the world;)
All scientific works ever written. This is work done by scientists for the betterment of mankind and to have it locked away from the public behind electronic library access fees is absurd. The public has a right to academic works, not just academics.
And what makes you think that Universities don't pay for the journals? If you wanna read scientific works, pay like everybody else, you're not being excluded - in fact you'll probably pay a lot less for your journal of choice than a University library - but journals are not a charity.
That aside, some journals are free. PNAS makes papers available online for free after 6 months, or immediately if the authors pay a fee (1000$), PLOS journals are freely available... and then there's all the prerpints that authors make available...
Aw, give us a break, we do want to access some flash content. Yes, professor advisor, sir, I am working hard on the research. I am currently investigating the effects of flash games on research progress and intend to submit a paper to the International Journal of Failed PhDs within the timeframe of the project.
We just don't want to be attacked by stupid flash ads.
I prefer to communicate globally in my First Life, so to speak... it's amazing!;)
Yeah, agreed, I'm a big fan of First Life myself... the graphics are mindblowing, the resolution retinal and the only lag is a deliberate feature to simulate 'drunkeness'.... wish they'd implement a quicksave and quickload though...
You obviously have a point, but I think this (and all previous instances you refer to) is just a spin to keep funding bodies and marketing droids happy. Use your research to answer some fundamental philosophical questions on life, the universe and everything or whatever and you'll get a big yawn. Say that you're using nanotech, use the words "faster memory", "ipod" and "could replace flash" in one sentence, basically make dollar signs appear in the marketing droids' eyes, and you get to be in the news everywhere, people notice you and the next grant application should go a lot smoother.
Sorry for the late reply... I didn't know that. It's interesting though, because it is different from sudo su... sudo su specifically logs you in as root, sudo -s doesn't seem to do that... you can tell because the.bashrc in the root home folder is not executed if you do sudo -s... need to read up on the difference:)
But it did, you see, it did. Come on, you must remember the flame wars between the supporters of the de-facto distribution debian and those who went for this new distro that liked to compile everything on install and loved its flags, what's it called again... gentoo, that's right, on this very site. I used to be a debian fanboy, I loved sid, but I finally switched to Ubuntu because under debian, only about half the hardware in my laptop worked out-of-the-box. Under Ubuntu, everything worked first time around. And that was it. Sure, I don't like the Ubuntu way of not having a root account, I still 'sudo su' because frankly, when I need root, it's not just for one command and all that, but debian had it all and it lost it all... Ubuntu just came along and did everything better.
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On slashdot? Obviously. We see Qwerty or local equivalents every day. When was the last time you needed your ABC? Lists don't count, your computer will sort them for you.
:)
They might as well start teaching QWERTY instead of ABC in school and then do a study on how that affected average nationwide typing speeds
I'd have thought the obvious solution would be recalibrating the screen, not rewriting the software...
Never mind carpal tunnel, that constant flashing of content popping on and off as you try to make your way to the menu you actually want to access is enough to give anyone epileptic fits.
The click is a way of showing an intent to view the content available under that menu/button/whatever. Just showing it anyway with the implicit assumption that it will be hidden again anyway if it isn't what the user wanted to see is a bad design decision.
Because it's late at night and I've been in the pub ;)
But yeah, of course when I say Linux I mean all the *nixes and I guess that group thing under MacOs counts too. I'm pretty sure I've seen 3rd party software that adds virtual desktops to Windows too...
I find it more interesting to ask how many virtual desktops people have (but of course that only applies to Linux) and how they use them. Window counts may vary, but virtual desktop usage is informative.
For me, the answer is 5, organised as follows:
1: Playground, this has browser, music player, the odd game and so on it.
2: Mail. Yes, an entire desktop dedicated just to the mail client, I don't know why, but I got used to it.
3. Documents. This is where Lyx, Kile, Jabref, OpenOffice, Acroread and so on will open up.
4 + 5: Development. Specifically, 4 has the Editor, several consoles and the Matlab command window. 5 has the odd help browser and the Matlab Workspace on it.
So in terms of Windows, not counting random consoles, that's about 2 + 1 + 3 + 5 + 2 = 13 on a normal day.
I think they agreed on Halo Forever :)
Perhaps the author doesn't know about porn? So his statement is based on the 0.1% of internet content he is aware of... evidence: 90% of 0.1% does sound about right for discussions of software patents :)
Step 1: Sell a WoW card game where each pack gives people 100 points.
Step 2: Promise the points can be traded in WoW for something shiny but useless, eventually.
Step 3: Eventually require up to 50,000 points for those shiny things, equalling the purchase of 2,100$ worth of cards.
Step 4: PROFIT!!! Actually, strike that, get an angry mob... for about 20 Minutes until they go raiding again.
I don't want to be cynical, but aside from the tiny fraction of people people with philosophical interests in space or who like pictures of nebulae on their desktop, nobody benefits from hubble. It doesn't pay your bills, it doesn't get you laid, it doesn't stop war, it can do zilch against hunger on earth, it basically doesn't solve any practical, every day problems at all.
I wouldn't call
/etc/apt/sources.list
;)
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
after an
sudo sed -e 's/\sdapper/ edgy/g' -i
more involved, just more to type... but for those of us who like their consoles, it's easier
Question 1:
Develop a Fith Generation Programming Language. Use this language to answer all other questions in this exam.
And for the record, the first insane task I set myself, if I remember correctly, was to write a system for adding a proper pulldown menu system for the games I wrote in Logo (yes, I was young, but I only knew Logo and Basic and commanding the turtle around was more fun). I had animated menus and some rudimentary fading at the end... even if it wasn't the fastest system in the world
That aside, some journals are free. PNAS makes papers available online for free after 6 months, or immediately if the authors pay a fee (1000$), PLOS journals are freely available... and then there's all the prerpints that authors make available...
Aw, give us a break, we do want to access some flash content. Yes, professor advisor, sir, I am working hard on the research. I am currently investigating the effects of flash games on research progress and intend to submit a paper to the International Journal of Failed PhDs within the timeframe of the project.
We just don't want to be attacked by stupid flash ads.
Yeah, agreed, I'm a big fan of First Life myself... the graphics are mindblowing, the resolution retinal and the only lag is a deliberate feature to simulate 'drunkeness'.... wish they'd implement a quicksave and quickload though...
You got it
"Yeah... that went well..."
6. Use profit to pay part of the bandwith bill caused by slashdotting? ;)
You obviously have a point, but I think this (and all previous instances you refer to) is just a spin to keep funding bodies and marketing droids happy. Use your research to answer some fundamental philosophical questions on life, the universe and everything or whatever and you'll get a big yawn. Say that you're using nanotech, use the words "faster memory", "ipod" and "could replace flash" in one sentence, basically make dollar signs appear in the marketing droids' eyes, and you get to be in the news everywhere, people notice you and the next grant application should go a lot smoother.
Sorry for the late reply... I didn't know that. It's interesting though, because it is different from sudo su... sudo su specifically logs you in as root, sudo -s doesn't seem to do that... you can tell because the .bashrc in the root home folder is not executed if you do sudo -s... need to read up on the difference :)