What I find most amusing about these "Floppy/Dot Matrix/Dial up/Paul is dead" articles is that they seem to picture the process of becoming actually obsolete as in not used anymore -or being replaced by a double- as an industry decision, and not consumers'.
There is more at becoming obsolete that not being profittable anymore at all for the companies producing the product; not even having been outpaced in capabilities and the price/mb ratio by optical drives a long, long time ago -in a store near, near your place- or even since the beggining, floppies will last.
But I'm talking obvious for the./ crowd here, perhaps.
This has been heralded since the dawn of time... OK, maybe not exactly since the dawn of time, but al least since my cdrom was a hefty 1x and it didn't even eject the cd, it just puked the tray!
What does it take to make some kind of API that makes GPU programming easier?
And, please enlighten me if you can: Wouldn't it be possible to use this kind of power for everyday use and applications, with the right API? Perhaps I'm missing something here.
The fact that the brain's neural net adds up the weighted lexicographic, syntactic, semantic (and even pragmatic) information available to it in order to interpret language should be familiar to anyone who's read Goedel, Escher, Bach. And that was published in 1979...
Tyler & Marslen-Wilson also point to the fact that words themselves are recognized sequentially in a subset defined on-the-fly within the lexicon.
That is, the stimulus/gardener/ is processed from left to right (duh); when in/ga/, the individual still considers words as/gates/ and/gauntlet/; when in/gard/, it is most likely to think of garden because of the greater ocurrence rate, but only at/gardene/ it'll fully recognize the target word.
Most of this is originally meant for the spoken word, but I'd say it also partially applies to reading comprehension.
And in the case you're wondering why I "sound" weird, perhaps it is because english isn't my primary language.
This article is Ewoks, Jar-Jar, Kes, and Haley Joel Osment getting stabbed at the end all rolled together.
...but that would be just... FINE! Unless you were commenting about the delay in the horrible but wholly deserved deaths.
Virtual Terminal + links2 all the way to my system
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Additionally, installing Gentoo more or less dictates that you have two computers - the one your installing Gentoo on and the system you use to browse the Gentoo forums and Install instructions to deal with gotchas and unexpected behavior.
Well, as you most certainly noted, this is only 'more or less' - I'd say actually less, in my particular account.
Actually, please correct me if I'm wrong, but the only problem I can think about that would keep you from being able to google or go to the gentoo forums is the DSL/cable/whatsoever configuration, and that is diagramed just at the beginning of the instalation for a reason.
From then onwards it's all a VT with links2, even (and in the first place, at least for me) for the instalation instructions.
The exception, of course, would be a PC without broadband. But in that particular setting I think gentoo would not be one's first option, because of its design.
...for pointing this out. I wouldn't have read the article by myself as I'm not that interested in it, so your comment saved me from this endless googleing I was into after upgrading my rh9 box to 2.6.6
I use firefox and I can't remember the last time some pop-up bypassed its blocker.
From time to time a 'legitimate' (but still unnecesary from a design's point of view, IMHO) popup link gets blocked, but that is easily recognizable and just clicking on the bottom left attention sign allows you to unblock that site.
Given the proportion of uses vs. abuses of popups, isn't it just logical to block them all then allow for exceptions?
Of course, the article seems to refer to IE-based-toolbars/blockers.
You need passport for MSN Messenger, and where I live msn-mess is the only way to go.
IM market share is distributed quite distinctly in different countries and regions, as far as I can tell. No one here here wants to get into exotic things like IRC or Jabber. Or even AOL, you know - only 1 in 10 people I know is aware there's IM apart from MSN.
Gaim obscures dif. protocols enough to make it less painful. But why do I bother talking to all that people anyway? Beats me. Must have something to do with pineapples.
I know this is perhaps slightly off-topic and I certainly don't want to start another WM or M$ vs. Linux flamewar, but I was wondering about the actual usability improvements planned for the Longhorn UI.
I am sometimes yet amazed of the sheer amount of great options fluxbox 0.9 gives me (only speaking for myself - which is pretty obvious as I am the one typing, but perhaps not quite), and it only 'weighs' 1MB or so. When I have to use a Windows Box, the lack of simple things like virtual desktops, 'remember' and layers (or at least always on top?) is a great burden to me.
I know VD are on the way in Microsoft's product, but it is for these things that sometimes it's just hard for me not to think the big players are holding obvious improvements from consumers, so they can be marketed as features when it is absolutely neccesary.
And I do remember that fluxbox -and the like- runs on top of a monumental, complex, cumbersome X server and only provides basic functionality.
Functionality is what it's all about.
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What I find most amusing about these "Floppy/Dot Matrix/Dial up/Paul is dead" articles is that they seem to picture the process of becoming actually obsolete as in not used anymore -or being replaced by a double- as an industry decision, and not consumers'. There is more at becoming obsolete that not being profittable anymore at all for the companies producing the product; not even having been outpaced in capabilities and the price/mb ratio by optical drives a long, long time ago -in a store near, near your place- or even since the beggining, floppies will last. But I'm talking obvious for the ./ crowd here, perhaps.
This has been heralded since the dawn of time... OK, maybe not exactly since the dawn of time, but al least since my cdrom was a hefty 1x and it didn't even eject the cd, it just puked the tray!
What does it take to make some kind of API that makes GPU programming easier? And, please enlighten me if you can: Wouldn't it be possible to use this kind of power for everyday use and applications, with the right API? Perhaps I'm missing something here.
Tyler & Marslen-Wilson also point to the fact that words themselves are recognized sequentially in a subset defined on-the-fly within the lexicon.
That is, the stimulus
Most of this is originally meant for the spoken word, but I'd say it also partially applies to reading comprehension.
And in the case you're wondering why I "sound" weird, perhaps it is because english isn't my primary language.
Unless you were commenting about the delay in the horrible but wholly deserved deaths.
Well, as you most certainly noted, this is only 'more or less' - I'd say actually less, in my particular account.
Actually, please correct me if I'm wrong, but the only problem I can think about that would keep you from being able to google or go to the gentoo forums is the DSL/cable/whatsoever configuration, and that is diagramed just at the beginning of the instalation for a reason.
From then onwards it's all a VT with links2, even (and in the first place, at least for me) for the instalation instructions.
The exception, of course, would be a PC without broadband. But in that particular setting I think gentoo would not be one's first option, because of its design.
...for pointing this out. I wouldn't have read the article by myself as I'm not that interested in it, so your comment saved me from this endless googleing I was into after upgrading my rh9 box to 2.6.6
Funny.
Next time I'm going to start about this priest that enters this bar and...
And just wait for the +5 Interesting to come.
I use firefox and I can't remember the last time some pop-up bypassed its blocker.
From time to time a 'legitimate' (but still unnecesary from a design's point of view, IMHO) popup link gets blocked, but that is easily recognizable and just clicking on the bottom left attention sign allows you to unblock that site.
Given the proportion of uses vs. abuses of popups, isn't it just logical to block them all then allow for exceptions?
Of course, the article seems to refer to IE-based-toolbars/blockers.
kidnap ritchie's core beat it with our C lock it up for fifteen years see what makes it tick.
(could also go as)
President Bush: Get IN the computer!
Marshall: But sir...
Bush (draws gun): GET IN.
I couldn't say, but at least we can rule out the Totalitarian-Socialist-Dictatorship-Of-A-Pig sense.
You need passport for MSN Messenger, and where I live msn-mess is the only way to go. IM market share is distributed quite distinctly in different countries and regions, as far as I can tell. No one here here wants to get into exotic things like IRC or Jabber. Or even AOL, you know - only 1 in 10 people I know is aware there's IM apart from MSN. Gaim obscures dif. protocols enough to make it less painful. But why do I bother talking to all that people anyway? Beats me. Must have something to do with pineapples.
I know this is perhaps slightly off-topic and I certainly don't want to start another WM or M$ vs. Linux flamewar, but I was wondering about the actual usability improvements planned for the Longhorn UI. I am sometimes yet amazed of the sheer amount of great options fluxbox 0.9 gives me (only speaking for myself - which is pretty obvious as I am the one typing, but perhaps not quite), and it only 'weighs' 1MB or so. When I have to use a Windows Box, the lack of simple things like virtual desktops, 'remember' and layers (or at least always on top?) is a great burden to me. I know VD are on the way in Microsoft's product, but it is for these things that sometimes it's just hard for me not to think the big players are holding obvious improvements from consumers, so they can be marketed as features when it is absolutely neccesary. And I do remember that fluxbox -and the like- runs on top of a monumental, complex, cumbersome X server and only provides basic functionality. Functionality is what it's all about.