Most text documents use.txt. Formatted text is unfortunately mostly in.doc nowadays. Our University tried at one stage to use.rtf, but flagged it away after MS scrambled it too often so different versions of Word couldn't read each others' "interchange format" documents...
I have yet to chew thru those pdfs, but the NYT description of how they recruited respondents IMHO makes the sample biassed from the start. Of course it would have been too much hard work going thru bouncers and management heavies to get to real musos at club gigs & concerts...
This was my first reaction too. I downloaded the s/w to analyse it, the MacOS-X version is not a standard bundle, just a carbonised ppc executable. strings reveals some blowfish setups, in a screensaver? some filecopywithcompression, which might be just sloppy compilation... chmod 777 hmmm,/Users/john/Library/SWF Desktop/SWF Desktop.app ?? and buried in one section of binary Shakespeare's monkeys have inserted amongst the other bits & bytes.biz.ezybrzy africa bigger lonely & buyherb
Anybody with a sandpit network like to see what comes out of a machine running this thing?
I'm glad that after wasting most of the article talking about how we need to find better ways of growing crops in order to feed all the hungry people out there, the BBC article does make an off-hand mention towards the end that there is enough food to feed everyone, it's just a matter of distribution due to politics.
The map on the BBC page showed 20 - 34% "undernourished" in the dust bowl countries of the Sahel. But note the dark brown color on the map, meaning >35% of population undernourished. This great swathe of countries thru equatorial Africa have admittedly somewhat tired soils, but a perfect climate for food growing, and immediately post-colonial, a well developed distribution system. Those countries could feed the entire continent. I know, I have lived there. So, ask yourself what went wrong...
not recycle, which is all very well for dudes who collect AOL CDs. For myself I collect Windows (TM) OEM CDs. Our site licence doesn't require the CD in every hardware carton, and the dealers don't want them back. The house is now fully fitted with reflective fly curtains, and I don't need a throne, yet...
So what's the "Recycle" bin for on a Windows (TM) desktop? Recycling old data? 'cos it certainly doesn't recycle disk space on the 90% of machines where it never gets emptied....
On a b/w limited server? Nitpick: at gnomefiles it says "aims to be a professional..." Also warns this is a beta, and offers the Sourceforge forum as help. For a "pro-level" digital audio app I would expect to be able to pay money for help, GPL or no. Having run thru a mini zoo of daw apps in the past 15 years, we always come back to Digidesign. As an earlier post said, the tight coupling of h/w + s/w means it always works as advertised.
The list of dependencies for Wired is also a bit worrying, but with supreme confidence the ToDo file is empty. The source is available at Sourceforge so I'll try to buld it, and report back if there's anything interesting...
I'll buy it;-) I've got a 512k Mac here, last time I booted it (~5 yrs ago) MacOS 3.2 and MSWorks 1.1 on a single sided 400k floppy, had a working spreadsheet open 11 seconds from cold power on. Any way you look, 72dpi 1 bit graphics has gotta be faster on any processor than 32bit 1200dpi plus ray tracing 3D eye candy...
Seems a bit anomalous, Slashdotters discussing whether a GUI is any good for noobies. I'll also buy the claims that a) the existing 20pp book in the box is prob'ly good enough to get Granma going, and b) kids are coming thru that have never known life before 'puters. What about us in the middle? Does this mean it will always take a human generation for technological innovation to be accepted?
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Most text documents use .txt. Formatted text is unfortunately mostly in .doc nowadays. Our University tried at one stage to use .rtf, but flagged it away after MS scrambled it too often so different versions of Word couldn't read each others' "interchange format" documents...
Which direction was Cassiopia?
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Where do the souls of street lamps go when they die?
I have yet to chew thru those pdfs, but the NYT description of how they recruited respondents IMHO makes the sample biassed from the start. Of course it would have been too much hard work going thru bouncers and management heavies to get to real musos at club gigs & concerts...
Did anybody mention handguns in the Betamax defense?
Nah, they just haven't bothered to advertise:
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This was my first reaction too. I downloaded the s/w to analyse it, the MacOS-X version is not a standard bundle, just a carbonised ppc executable. /Users/john/Library/SWF Desktop/SWF Desktop.app ?? .biz .ezybrzy africa bigger lonely & buyherb
strings reveals some blowfish setups, in a screensaver?
some filecopywithcompression, which might be just sloppy compilation...
chmod 777 hmmm,
and buried in one section of binary Shakespeare's monkeys have inserted amongst the other bits & bytes
Anybody with a sandpit network like to see what comes out of a machine running this thing?
not recycle, which is all very well for dudes who collect AOL CDs. For myself I collect Windows (TM) OEM CDs. Our site licence doesn't require the CD in every hardware carton, and the dealers don't want them back. The house is now fully fitted with reflective fly curtains, and I don't need a throne, yet...
So what's the "Recycle" bin for on a Windows (TM) desktop? Recycling old data? 'cos it certainly doesn't recycle disk space on the 90% of machines where it never gets emptied....
If you want to use OSS you will learn to love pain. If it's interface you want, remember real men still use TeX at a terminal...
The Incredibles, or prior art? Weren't they using these things in Total Recall ? The TV series at least, I never saw the movie.
On a b/w limited server? Nitpick: at gnomefiles it says "aims to be a professional ..." Also warns this is a beta, and offers the Sourceforge forum as help. For a "pro-level" digital audio app I would expect to be able to pay money for help, GPL or no. Having run thru a mini zoo of daw apps in the past 15 years, we always come back to Digidesign. As an earlier post said, the tight coupling of h/w + s/w means it always works as advertised.
The list of dependencies for Wired is also a bit worrying, but with supreme confidence the ToDo file is empty. The source is available at Sourceforge so I'll try to buld it, and report back if there's anything interesting...
for giving us the Keystone Kops
I'll buy it ;-) I've got a 512k Mac here, last time I booted it (~5 yrs ago) MacOS 3.2 and MSWorks 1.1 on a single sided 400k floppy, had a working spreadsheet open 11 seconds from cold power on. Any way you look, 72dpi 1 bit graphics has gotta be faster on any processor than 32bit 1200dpi plus ray tracing 3D eye candy...
Seems a bit anomalous, Slashdotters discussing whether a GUI is any good for noobies. I'll also buy the claims that a) the existing 20pp book in the box is prob'ly good enough to get Granma going, and b) kids are coming thru that have never known life before 'puters. What about us in the middle? Does this mean it will always take a human generation for technological innovation to be accepted?
while Googling refs from posts here I came across an Asian view on the reliance of modern warfare on ancient experience...