Leo, the Literate Editor with Outlines, kicks ass once you learn to use it.
It creates self-documenting code through its use of outlining. The use of outlining automagically encapsulates complex algorithms and ideas. One ends up with this bitchin' combination of structural/algorithmical/conceptual outline nodes and actual code.
I so very much wish that IDEs would start using LEO techniques. It would truly provide the best of all worlds.
I'd like to pre-empt the people complaining that longer line-lengths are harder to read by pointing out that there's evidence to suggest that those studies, while perfectly fine for print, don't apply to computer displays
I don't believe this for a moment. I can conceive of no reason why such a statement should be considered even remotely plausible. Please provide a good reference for your statement.
Clue to You: I embarassed the editors into correcting their typo.
As for "refined" Slashdot users, I gotta larf at that. Check my ID# and then understand that I have never found Slashdotters to be the least bit refined. This is an ornery, crass bunch of meglomaniacs and pointyheads clashing in a streetbrawl of language and lies. Pantywaists like you don't want to play this game!
I rather suspect Jon is filthy rich a few times over, regardless. I've met him and he is a very solid sort of guy, well-grounded. I expect he knows fully that his life won't get any better with an gross excess of wealth, and I rather doubt he measures his achievements in dollars. Money is great and all, but it's gotta be kept in perspective to all else that's important in life.
I'm not so sure they would, although perhaps as a publicly-traded company they wouldn't have a whole lot of choice. Maybe they could poison-pill their stock, call in Google as their saviour.
Use the LEO editor instead. It's a bit of a brainfuck, but once you get the hang of it, your productivity will skyrocket. Seriously, you can expect a 20-30% increase in productivity.
IIRC, PriceGrabber was all about showing PriceRitePhoto -- the Brooklyn scamsters who would refund money stolen from customers only if they posted a good review -- as one of the better, trustworthy, lowest-price photo shops around.
Down at the south end of the border between British Columbia and Alberta, Canada, is an area known as the Crowsnest Pass. Over on the Alberta side was the small town of Frank. Frank existed solely because the Crowsnest is choc-a-bloc full of coal.
Anyway, not to get into too much detail: the residents of Frank lived at the bottom of a mountain they named "Turtle Mountain," but which had a much older Indian name of "The Mountain That Moves." Throwing all caution to the wind, the mountain was soon being mined for coal.
Needless to say, thirty million cubic meters of mountain moved -- downhill, rapidly -- during the night of April 29, 1903, burying the town under hundreds of feet of rock. It's a great story, though sad.
It is well worth the effort of visiting the site. Fascinating history throughout the area, lots of superb dayhiking, and if you hump it up Turtle mountain (or even partway up) you get the most astounding view of the destruction. When that mountain moved, it moved a long way. There are house-sized boulders halfway up the opposing slope. It was a massive landslide.
Point of the Story: Listen to the myths, people! The natives weren't just making shit up for the helluvit! It was the bleeding Mountain That Moves! D-oh!
What if, eh? Is the core OS X codebase portable enough that Apple could change horses in mid-stride?
We'd have computers with an open CPU but closed whatever-their-hand-is extension running an open OS with a closed GUI. Only thing left to deliver would be an open Distribution/Payment Channel with a closed DRM; I'm game for that if it's similar to the Mac-side small-apps economy. (A powerful freebie and a right-priced professional version. The freebie is so good you can easily justify the full-package price, especially knowing that it's going to a small team, so you're directly putting supper on their table.)
This could be a damn fine bit of social revolution.
I just read with comments set to level 1. It was alarming: many of the people in the low-ranked comments are in support of this idea. These are your fellow citizens!
If there is some sort of plan to turn Americans into a passive, watched population, it's working. People actively want to be spied upon. It makes them feel "safer."
If you, like me, think this is a step toward the loss of our valuable ideals of freedom, you sure as hell had better start speaking up. These gullible, frightened people are driving our government. We need to stop them and the only way to accomplish that is to become more politically active.
Their operating system is becoming more and more like a modern operating system every day! Maybe they'll catch up to OS X, BSD, and Linux within the decade!
It seems a little absurd to me that VOIP providers should be burdened with this as law. What happened to market forces?
Let the copperline and cell guys promote their product as E911-compatible, with all the life-saving benefits that provides. They'll advertise it so fiercely that none of us will dare be without an E911 device.
VOIPs will either provide a similar functionality or will need to price their services in a manner that allow us to all have both their service and an always-on E911 service. Which, really, would be the best outcome: VOIP just doesn't work when the power fails.
Because I have only so much money to invest in increasing my energy efficiency.
I'm going for the biggest bang for the buck. Replacing the 24 year-old furnace is going to pay for itself within the decade and, if the price of natural gas continues to ride, within the next few years.
Replacing my television, stereo, computer, and a bunch of wall-warts is going to cost me just as much money, but save me only four bucks a year. That would be a thoroughly stupid thing to do. Further, I'd also have a bunch of electronic crap that is not well-recycled, and thus becomes a toxic burden to the landfill.
Hell, I'll wager I'd do more harm throwing out my television, than by keeping it.
There's much the same system in North America, re: energy efficiency. Our's shows a scale, with low-efficiency at one end and high-efficiency at the other, and an arrow pointing to where the appliance sits on the scale.
No shit. Over the past couple years I've replaced a furnace that has dropped my natural gas usage by over 40%, moved to CFLs as lightbulbs burn out, installed a smart thermostat, wrapped my hot water tank, and am making plans to renovate the kitchen, replacing an inefficient refridgerator, stove (goin' gas!), and dishwasher.
I'm hardly going to feel bad because my television, stereo, and a few wall-wart power adapters are the equivalent of leaving a lightbulb on. Good god, let's worry about something that really matters, like why this model year's cars use almost as much gas as they got back in 1965. We've gained only a one mile per gallon in efficiency every five years?! WTF?
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When I purchase a car, I always refer to it as "my new car," not "my car which, while used, is new to me."
Same with Windows. It's not that the ideas are new new, just new to Windows.
Except for that idea about allowing WMF files to execute code. That's an old idea to Windows. Funny they decided to keep it!
Leo, the Literate Editor with Outlines, kicks ass once you learn to use it.
It creates self-documenting code through its use of outlining. The use of outlining automagically encapsulates complex algorithms and ideas. One ends up with this bitchin' combination of structural/algorithmical/conceptual outline nodes and actual code.
I so very much wish that IDEs would start using LEO techniques. It would truly provide the best of all worlds.
http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/4 2/text_length.htm indicates that the preferred line lengths on-screen, measured in characters per line, is about the same as with printed text.
I'd like to pre-empt the people complaining that longer line-lengths are harder to read by pointing out that there's evidence to suggest that those studies, while perfectly fine for print, don't apply to computer displays
I don't believe this for a moment. I can conceive of no reason why such a statement should be considered even remotely plausible. Please provide a good reference for your statement.
Clue to You: I embarassed the editors into correcting their typo.
As for "refined" Slashdot users, I gotta larf at that. Check my ID# and then understand that I have never found Slashdotters to be the least bit refined. This is an ornery, crass bunch of meglomaniacs and pointyheads clashing in a streetbrawl of language and lies. Pantywaists like you don't want to play this game!
Arrrr. Avast, ye scurvy dog!
I rather suspect Jon is filthy rich a few times over, regardless. I've met him and he is a very solid sort of guy, well-grounded. I expect he knows fully that his life won't get any better with an gross excess of wealth, and I rather doubt he measures his achievements in dollars. Money is great and all, but it's gotta be kept in perspective to all else that's important in life.
Dude, it looks lik youve alraedy Learined a Foreign Language.
I'm not so sure they would, although perhaps as a publicly-traded company they wouldn't have a whole lot of choice. Maybe they could poison-pill their stock, call in Google as their saviour.
Hey, it worked.
Use the LEO editor instead. It's a bit of a brainfuck, but once you get the hang of it, your productivity will skyrocket. Seriously, you can expect a 20-30% increase in productivity.
IIRC, PriceGrabber was all about showing PriceRitePhoto -- the Brooklyn scamsters who would refund money stolen from customers only if they posted a good review -- as one of the better, trustworthy, lowest-price photo shops around.
Yup.
I'm gonna trust PriceGrabber. Fersure.
Isn't that kind of like being "anti-goblins" or "anti-flat-earth"?
Please, let us not participate in this reframing of language.
I wouldn't trust a Scientologist as far as I could throw him, let alone trust him with my child's entertainment.
Down at the south end of the border between British Columbia and Alberta, Canada, is an area known as the Crowsnest Pass. Over on the Alberta side was the small town of Frank. Frank existed solely because the Crowsnest is choc-a-bloc full of coal.
Anyway, not to get into too much detail: the residents of Frank lived at the bottom of a mountain they named "Turtle Mountain," but which had a much older Indian name of "The Mountain That Moves." Throwing all caution to the wind, the mountain was soon being mined for coal.
Needless to say, thirty million cubic meters of mountain moved -- downhill, rapidly -- during the night of April 29, 1903, burying the town under hundreds of feet of rock. It's a great story, though sad.
It is well worth the effort of visiting the site. Fascinating history throughout the area, lots of superb dayhiking, and if you hump it up Turtle mountain (or even partway up) you get the most astounding view of the destruction. When that mountain moved, it moved a long way. There are house-sized boulders halfway up the opposing slope. It was a massive landslide.
Point of the Story: Listen to the myths, people! The natives weren't just making shit up for the helluvit! It was the bleeding Mountain That Moves! D-oh!
What if, eh? Is the core OS X codebase portable enough that Apple could change horses in mid-stride?
We'd have computers with an open CPU but closed whatever-their-hand-is extension running an open OS with a closed GUI. Only thing left to deliver would be an open Distribution/Payment Channel with a closed DRM; I'm game for that if it's similar to the Mac-side small-apps economy. (A powerful freebie and a right-priced professional version. The freebie is so good you can easily justify the full-package price, especially knowing that it's going to a small team, so you're directly putting supper on their table.)
This could be a damn fine bit of social revolution.
I just read with comments set to level 1. It was alarming: many of the people in the low-ranked comments are in support of this idea. These are your fellow citizens!
If there is some sort of plan to turn Americans into a passive, watched population, it's working. People actively want to be spied upon. It makes them feel "safer."
If you, like me, think this is a step toward the loss of our valuable ideals of freedom, you sure as hell had better start speaking up. These gullible, frightened people are driving our government. We need to stop them and the only way to accomplish that is to become more politically active.
Their operating system is becoming more and more like a modern operating system every day! Maybe they'll catch up to OS X, BSD, and Linux within the decade!
...what if they are right?
Sure, gaming didn't hurt you. But that's a sample size of one.
Sure, it didn't hurt you or your friends... or did it, in ways that you are not aware of?
Before you fly off the handle, RTFA, check out their arguments, see if you can find any validity in their studies, think about the implications.
And then err on the side of safety. In truth, not allowing your children to play some -- or all -- video games is not harmful to them.
So please, provide a list of alternatives to SveaSoft! Let us n00bs know.
I would imagine an IRS investigation would reveal tax fraud. There's simply no way that crooks this heinous are playing honest with the IRS.
Indeed!
It seems a little absurd to me that VOIP providers should be burdened with this as law. What happened to market forces?
Let the copperline and cell guys promote their product as E911-compatible, with all the life-saving benefits that provides. They'll advertise it so fiercely that none of us will dare be without an E911 device.
VOIPs will either provide a similar functionality or will need to price their services in a manner that allow us to all have both their service and an always-on E911 service. Which, really, would be the best outcome: VOIP just doesn't work when the power fails.
Gosh, I can't see what could go wrong there.
I'm sure glad my government hasn't entrusted its vote-counting to criminals.
Because I have only so much money to invest in increasing my energy efficiency.
I'm going for the biggest bang for the buck. Replacing the 24 year-old furnace is going to pay for itself within the decade and, if the price of natural gas continues to ride, within the next few years.
Replacing my television, stereo, computer, and a bunch of wall-warts is going to cost me just as much money, but save me only four bucks a year. That would be a thoroughly stupid thing to do. Further, I'd also have a bunch of electronic crap that is not well-recycled, and thus becomes a toxic burden to the landfill.
Hell, I'll wager I'd do more harm throwing out my television, than by keeping it.
There's much the same system in North America, re: energy efficiency. Our's shows a scale, with low-efficiency at one end and high-efficiency at the other, and an arrow pointing to where the appliance sits on the scale.
No shit. Over the past couple years I've replaced a furnace that has dropped my natural gas usage by over 40%, moved to CFLs as lightbulbs burn out, installed a smart thermostat, wrapped my hot water tank, and am making plans to renovate the kitchen, replacing an inefficient refridgerator, stove (goin' gas!), and dishwasher.
I'm hardly going to feel bad because my television, stereo, and a few wall-wart power adapters are the equivalent of leaving a lightbulb on. Good god, let's worry about something that really matters, like why this model year's cars use almost as much gas as they got back in 1965. We've gained only a one mile per gallon in efficiency every five years?! WTF?