Honestly, at least for my part of the world, the only way to stop people from trading online is to make the "real thing" look like it's worth the price tag. I thought CD's were promised to "someday" cost as much as a cassette tape - over here, cassettes cost something like $8 and CD's average between $23-$35 - makes me feel like margins are always measured in USD.... how much do they cost over there?
I don't know about you guys, but that's one thing I always disable when I sit down at a fresh terminal... it's just too troublesome to have to click through it that way to get to the window I'm looking for - I think the OSX task bar makes so much more sense.... make it real tiny, but make it magnifiy a lot and a lot when my mouse moves over - no idea why the default settings don't present it that way...
anyway, what i do when i have too many things on my task bar is to move it to the right instead of leaving it at the bottom - in that way i can squeeze more buttons in and still read some of the text.
Camcorders account for that much of the stuff going around?? You used to get shadows of people walking across the screen if you happen to watch one of those camcorder-recorded versions... but apparantly that's all history now... somehow the dvd rips get leaked out... and that would certainly be from "inside"...
isn't this a bit like normalising distributions to the gaussian distribution or something? afterall, natural human communication always involves the creation of context so that by communicating with a known nomenclature the idea gets across? if we can get the same results by studying function calls during runtime, should it mean anything?
I think the only reason C translates better is that C grammar is cleaner than English grammer, which could very well be the worst behaving grammer in the world. But once you have to start giving functions names and variables names, I would imagine it to be a very different story - or do your colleagues use english variable names, i wonder?
someone mentioned containing apps in their own directories instead of the traditional/usr/bin stuff... but i thought unix favours having "kernel" and "everything else" so that we have small apps cooperating to get stuff out?
So unless we want to settle for a cocktail, I find it strange to try too hard to "isolate" proggies, afterall, libraries aren't the only thing that gets shared in unix, we have lots of CLI's and shell scripts running stuff and what not... no, I wouldn't like to see "ls" getting its own directory, nor would I like the idea of "primary" and "secondary" applications...
I think the current system does well - mnemonics work well for both English and non-English speakers - afterall, I don't think we want Red Flag Linux to start naming their FS in Chinese and put up an impossible barrier to entry in their market...
Just tried firefox this afternoon - but switched back to Opera. Am I trying the wrong thing, or does firefox not expose as may options as opera? I wanna be able to do stuff like set my default encoding, browser id, source viewer n stuff like that... without recompling of course...
is it just me or i remember that when CD's just came out, someone promised that they'd one day be as cheap as cassettes? never happened. they say it's all going into the publicity and the packaging, but somehow it still isn't working out in my head.
In my part of SE Asia, piracy must be a very powerful ally of M$. People have grown so accustomed to M$ products and proggies running on windows 'cos they know where they can get them - and they've all been so "trained" in them cos of their "availability". And I would think that much of the general comp literacy in the region is due to this ally - I wouldn't be surprised if M$ sees this region as rather "safe" since Linux is kind of a "hardcore" "server" "alternative" solution.
oh yes i must also mention that after all those years of "free education", M$ started "cleaning up" several years back. Talk about traitors.
I thought the Chinese ride a lot of bikes everywhere all the time, but it seems they still drink up a lot of the world's oil....
maybe it's the whole urban culture... all the electricity running into computers while we type replies on slashdot....
If the grounds for dispute for trademark ownership is whether or not a name may be mistaken for a registered trademark, could education make microsoft.com look so different from microsoft.org that disputes may go the way of the pillow case? Then maybe we'd be doing justice to the expansion of TLD namespace?
Over here in Singapore, people like me have have been using A4 all our lives and have never questioned it so much so that it's taken for granted that you can do 2-up printing if you just print each page at half the size... I used to use mpage on unix to do that and wondered why so many Windows printer drivers don't support it - now I know... and yes, it's so irritating to be sending jobs with drivers defaulted to "letter" sized paper when all we have in the whole office is A4 stock.
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Honestly, at least for my part of the world, the only way to stop people from trading online is to make the "real thing" look like it's worth the price tag. I thought CD's were promised to "someday" cost as much as a cassette tape - over here, cassettes cost something like $8 and CD's average between $23-$35 - makes me feel like margins are always measured in USD.... how much do they cost over there?
I don't know about you guys, but that's one thing I always disable when I sit down at a fresh terminal... it's just too troublesome to have to click through it that way to get to the window I'm looking for - I think the OSX task bar makes so much more sense.... make it real tiny, but make it magnifiy a lot and a lot when my mouse moves over - no idea why the default settings don't present it that way...
anyway, what i do when i have too many things on my task bar is to move it to the right instead of leaving it at the bottom - in that way i can squeeze more buttons in and still read some of the text.
Camcorders account for that much of the stuff going around?? You used to get shadows of people walking across the screen if you happen to watch one of those camcorder-recorded versions... but apparantly that's all history now... somehow the dvd rips get leaked out... and that would certainly be from "inside"...
ahhhh that's funny! Like Oxford got overruled or something.
isn't this a bit like normalising distributions to the gaussian distribution or something? afterall, natural human communication always involves the creation of context so that by communicating with a known nomenclature the idea gets across? if we can get the same results by studying function calls during runtime, should it mean anything?
hmm... am i making sense?
I think the only reason C translates better is that C grammar is cleaner than English grammer, which could very well be the worst behaving grammer in the world. But once you have to start giving functions names and variables names, I would imagine it to be a very different story - or do your colleagues use english variable names, i wonder?
had one of these, no?
will their recipes now be open source?
Will Sony also be selling ad-space on the buildings in their 3D maps? No pop-ups please!
hmm..... anyone's got a catalogue of the people available for download?
just because it takes what 4 years to write longhorn doesn't mean....
sharks this is getting crazy - is "able to type in Word" the only qualification you need to be an officer at the patent office or what?
someone mentioned containing apps in their own directories instead of the traditional /usr/bin stuff... but i thought unix favours having "kernel" and "everything else" so that we have small apps cooperating to get stuff out?
So unless we want to settle for a cocktail, I find it strange to try too hard to "isolate" proggies, afterall, libraries aren't the only thing that gets shared in unix, we have lots of CLI's and shell scripts running stuff and what not... no, I wouldn't like to see "ls" getting its own directory, nor would I like the idea of "primary" and "secondary" applications...
I think the current system does well - mnemonics work well for both English and non-English speakers - afterall, I don't think we want Red Flag Linux to start naming their FS in Chinese and put up an impossible barrier to entry in their market...
ah clever. but i kindof got frightened away by the apparant lack of options...
hmm. let's say usa population is Pa... then chinese population Pc is abt 4Pa... then for
0.5 * Pa * Va^2 = 0.5 * 4 * Pa * Vc^2
Va = (4)^(0.5) * (Vc^2)^(0.5)
= 2Vc
which would conclude that usa would have to work twice as hard to stay ahead....
Just tried firefox this afternoon - but switched back to Opera. Am I trying the wrong thing, or does firefox not expose as may options as opera? I wanna be able to do stuff like set my default encoding, browser id, source viewer n stuff like that... without recompling of course...
Wait, has anybody pantented the two-button and three-button mouse yet? Or the one button mouse for that matter?
is it just me or i remember that when CD's just came out, someone promised that they'd one day be as cheap as cassettes? never happened. they say it's all going into the publicity and the packaging, but somehow it still isn't working out in my head.
"We also do some bread-and-butter work with rockets to pay the bills," Gee, these guys do rocket science JUST so that they can pay their bills....
In my part of SE Asia, piracy must be a very powerful ally of M$. People have grown so accustomed to M$ products and proggies running on windows 'cos they know where they can get them - and they've all been so "trained" in them cos of their "availability". And I would think that much of the general comp literacy in the region is due to this ally - I wouldn't be surprised if M$ sees this region as rather "safe" since Linux is kind of a "hardcore" "server" "alternative" solution.
oh yes i must also mention that after all those years of "free education", M$ started "cleaning up" several years back. Talk about traitors.
ah, so in this way he can teach MS to dis"solve" these specific problems....
I thought the Chinese ride a lot of bikes everywhere all the time, but it seems they still drink up a lot of the world's oil.... maybe it's the whole urban culture... all the electricity running into computers while we type replies on slashdot....
If the grounds for dispute for trademark ownership is whether or not a name may be mistaken for a registered trademark, could education make microsoft.com look so different from microsoft.org that disputes may go the way of the pillow case? Then maybe we'd be doing justice to the expansion of TLD namespace?
Over here in Singapore, people like me have have been using A4 all our lives and have never questioned it so much so that it's taken for granted that you can do 2-up printing if you just print each page at half the size... I used to use mpage on unix to do that and wondered why so many Windows printer drivers don't support it - now I know... and yes, it's so irritating to be sending jobs with drivers defaulted to "letter" sized paper when all we have in the whole office is A4 stock.