X does have a place on production boxes, in some scenarios. An example would be a web site which has graphics that are rendered on the fly on the server. Depending on what graphics library you are using, it may need a running X server to do it's rendering. In these cases, its also good to have a high end video card in the box, even though the machine will be running headless, hardware acelleration for the graphics is a big help.
My solution to wrist pain has been to use a break reminder program like xwrits to remind me to take a 5 minute break for every hour of computer use. I would use those five minutes to get out of my chair and walk around for a while, so not only was I resting my hands, but my whole body as well.
It's also a good idea to look out the window at something distant while taking your breaks, you can avoid eye strain by not focusing on something 18 inches from your head all the time.
JWZ has some good advice about this stuff on his site which I found very useful.
I don't know about any of the drinks the submitter suggested, but all I can say is: If it weren't for Sobe Adrenaline Rush, I wouldn't have graduated from college.
I was up for about 5 days straigt at the end of my last semester thanks to that drink. I hope I never have to do that again.
Re:Ok, been trying to figure this out for awhile..
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Vi IMproved -- Vim
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D'oh. That second one should have been
20G5<<
Re:Ok, been trying to figure this out for awhile..
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Vi IMproved -- Vim
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I was pretty suprised when I noticed that not only was Phil Shiller not using IE for his Xserve demos durin this introduction, but he was using Chimera instead! This was pretty brave considering that chimera is only at version 0.28;-)
<conspiracy theory>Could this mean that Apple may dump IE in the future in favor of chimera once it's finished?</conspiracy theory>
I've been able to get to my mac.com mail using IMP for a while now, but its nice to see an Apple supported webmail thats part of the iTools site.
In fact, I wouldnt be suprised if Apple based their wemail stuff on IMP, since it was one of the iTools engineers who pointed me to it at last years Mackworld NY in the first place:)
...reminds me of how I learned to use a computer. When i was third grade we got a bunch of C64s installed, one per classroom. I was drawn to it and started learning how to use it without really understanding what I was doing, I had a manual, so I had terminology, but I don't think I really understood how the computer worked until later. very rapidly I knew more about the computers than anyone in the school (teachers included) and was actually given time to play with the computer when the rest of the class was working on subjects where I was way ahead (like reading).
Soon I was on call to fix problems in other classrooms with the computers, and in fourth grade I set up a lab of apple II clones by myself.
My parents bought me a c128 and before long i was programming in basic and a little assembler. I was online with qlink too.
Fast foward a few years and now I'm a year out of college with a comp. sci. degree and earning more than at leat 95% of my peers, and I enjoy my job!
These kids are like me in third grade. They don't understand how it works, but they will explore and learn, they may not all grow up to be coders, but they will be better off from the experience.
I think the researcher is underestimating the adults in this experiment. My mom learned how to use a computer like these kids and I did. I set up a computer for her and cut her loose with the advice that she should explore and not be afraid of breaking the computer. About a year later, she bought me a domain for my birthday! and she has one of her own which she uses for her real estate buisiness.
I think if the adults had some motivation and encouragement, atleast some of them would learn to use the computer like the kids do.
Finally, does this remind anyone else of the screen from the Rama series of books by Clarke?
> As it stands the shuttle is strained to the limit to get to the station. Infact Columbia (the heaviest of the four shuttles) can't reach the station [space.com] where it is. Move it any higher, and you wouldn't be able to get to it. Check your facts.
Actually, the ISS's original planned orbit would have allowed all of the shuttles to reach it, and they would have been able to carry much more cargo than they can now. When russia became involved in ISS's construction, the orbit of the system was changed so that Russia's weaker rockets could barely reach it. The problem is that the final orbit is not an optimal orbit for the shuttle and as a result they can't carry as big of a load, and columbia can barly make it at all.
Take a look at http://www.genebrewer.com/ for more info on the K-PAX trilogy, the movie and the author of the novel.
Sequel soon?
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I was looking around on amazon.com and noticed that Gene Brewer, who wrote the K-PAX novel, already has written a sequel named On a Beam of Light. There's an excerpt there also, but if you havent seen or read K-PAX yet, stay away, since it will spoil the ending.
When I first read the headline for this story I thought it said "RPC for Spammers".
"Great." I thought, "now they can make calls directly to my GUI toolkit to make little annoying windows pop up on my screen with toner supply ads.
This is much better:) --
A year ago I wrote a term paper for an art class where I anylized the artistic elements used in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Included in the paper, were a Bunch of images from the film which I had acquired by taking frames from a DVD of 2001 which I had bought in a store. I would argue, that for the purposes of my paper, or any other artistic discussion of a film, using pictures taken by pointing a camera at a television would not have been good enough to help the reader see what I was discussing.
For example: Some of the things I discussed involved the use of color and texture, which would probably have been degraded beyond recognition if I were forced to use pictures taken by pointing a camera at my TV.
If I can use parts of a copyrighted work in my own scholarly works, I must be able to use it at full quality. Anything less would not be adequate. --
But the boy's mother accused AOL of enforcing its rules so poorly that it became a "home shopping network for pedophiles and child pornographers," she said.
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I'd start with the Richard D. James Album myself... then Come to Daddy and Seleceted Ambient Works 2.
Can anyone explain the difference between parallel and cross eyed stereo vision?
X does have a place on production boxes, in some scenarios. An example would be a web site which has graphics that are rendered on the fly on the server. Depending on what graphics library you are using, it may need a running X server to do it's rendering. In these cases, its also good to have a high end video card in the box, even though the machine will be running headless, hardware acelleration for the graphics is a big help.
My solution to wrist pain has been to use a break reminder program like xwrits to remind me to take a 5 minute break for every hour of computer use. I would use those five minutes to get out of my chair and walk around for a while, so not only was I resting my hands, but my whole body as well.
It's also a good idea to look out the window at something distant while taking your breaks, you can avoid eye strain by not focusing on something 18 inches from your head all the time.
JWZ has some good advice about this stuff on his site which I found very useful.
I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want to spend the rest of my life as a cute little puppy.
I don't know about any of the drinks the submitter suggested, but all I can say is: If it weren't for Sobe Adrenaline Rush, I wouldn't have graduated from college.
I was up for about 5 days straigt at the end of my last semester thanks to that drink. I hope I never have to do that again.
D'oh. That second one should have been
20G5<<
take lines 20-25 and indent 5 tabs:
20G5>>....
take lines 20-25 and remove one tab:
20G5
hope that's what you were looking for
"Are you a virgin?"
I was pretty suprised when I noticed that not only was Phil Shiller not using IE for his Xserve demos durin this introduction, but he was using Chimera instead! This was pretty brave considering that chimera is only at version 0.28 ;-)
<conspiracy theory>Could this mean that Apple may dump IE in the future in favor of chimera once it's finished?</conspiracy theory>
Go Chimera! Go Phil! Go Steve!
LOL... i have links installed too, you young whippersnapper.
Go fink!
...Lynx screams on my TiBook!
I've been able to get to my mac.com mail using IMP for a while now, but its nice to see an Apple supported webmail thats part of the iTools site.
In fact, I wouldnt be suprised if Apple based their wemail stuff on IMP, since it was one of the iTools engineers who pointed me to it at last years Mackworld NY in the first place :)
...reminds me of how I learned to use a computer. When i was third grade we got a bunch of C64s installed, one per classroom. I was drawn to it and started learning how to use it without really understanding what I was doing, I had a manual, so I had terminology, but I don't think I really understood how the computer worked until later. very rapidly I knew more about the computers than anyone in the school (teachers included) and was actually given time to play with the computer when the rest of the class was working on subjects where I was way ahead (like reading).
Soon I was on call to fix problems in other classrooms with the computers, and in fourth grade I set up a lab of apple II clones by myself.
My parents bought me a c128 and before long i was programming in basic and a little assembler. I was online with qlink too.
Fast foward a few years and now I'm a year out of college with a comp. sci. degree and earning more than at leat 95% of my peers, and I enjoy my job!
These kids are like me in third grade. They don't understand how it works, but they will explore and learn, they may not all grow up to be coders, but they will be better off from the experience.
I think the researcher is underestimating the adults in this experiment. My mom learned how to use a computer like these kids and I did. I set up a computer for her and cut her loose with the advice that she should explore and not be afraid of breaking the computer. About a year later, she bought me a domain for my birthday! and she has one of her own which she uses for her real estate buisiness.
I think if the adults had some motivation and encouragement, atleast some of them would learn to use the computer like the kids do.
Finally, does this remind anyone else of the screen from the Rama series of books by Clarke?
> As it stands the shuttle is strained to the limit to get to the station. Infact Columbia (the heaviest of the four shuttles) can't reach the station [space.com] where it is. Move it any higher, and you wouldn't be able to get to it. Check your facts.
Actually, the ISS's original planned orbit would have allowed all of the shuttles to reach it, and they would have been able to carry much more cargo than they can now. When russia became involved in ISS's construction, the orbit of the system was changed so that Russia's weaker rockets could barely reach it. The problem is that the final orbit is not an optimal orbit for the shuttle and as a result they can't carry as big of a load, and columbia can barly make it at all.
Hate to reply to my own post, but...
Take a look at http://www.genebrewer.com/ for more info on the K-PAX trilogy, the movie and the author of the novel.
I was looking around on amazon.com and noticed that Gene Brewer, who wrote the K-PAX novel, already has written a sequel named On a Beam of Light . There's an excerpt there also, but if you havent seen or read K-PAX yet, stay away, since it will spoil the ending.
"Great." I thought, "now they can make calls directly to my GUI toolkit to make little annoying windows pop up on my screen with toner supply ads. This is much better :)
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For example: Some of the things I discussed involved the use of color and texture, which would probably have been degraded beyond recognition if I were forced to use pictures taken by pointing a camera at my TV.
If I can use parts of a copyrighted work in my own scholarly works, I must be able to use it at full quality. Anything less would not be adequate.
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...and it will be posted again.
http://detonate.net/matrixse/?page=18
Bottom two frames.
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Did you start by asking her to eat a sandwich?
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I was able to fetch it at 1.06 MB/s using wget on a t3. Nice.
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From the article:
So easy to use, no wonder its number one!
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Isn't that what Michael Knight turned KITT's engine into in that episode of Knight Rider when they got stuck in the dessert?
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