There are only so much that can be done as long as people expect that computes should have "windows" and that they should be hovering over a "desktop" Personally, I think what we really need is just some very, very good speach recognition systems. Just about everything should be able to be done without typing or using a mouse. For things which need to be displayed (layouts and things for documents), maybe some sort of touch-screen for draging images or whatever. maybe displaying text instead of reading it back, but ideally the system should be able to read words back and not sound like a Macintosh still does.
Personally, I think the PC is stupid. Whether I want to admit it or not, wearable is probably the future. I'm still a vintage fanatic and think centralization is the key. Maybe that's why I liked Star Trek so much. One computer, everyone can use it, and no one really/needs/ a "terminal." The computer is around them. it's like a cross between the centralization and the wearable without much of the wearable.
something like half the people's only 'crime' was being Irish. And belonging to secret, patriotic societies. Of course, they couldn't be having any of the freedom stuff. All the Australian's I've known have been of Irish extraction. In addition, they can no longer pronounce their names (Caughlin in particular)).
It depends on the flavour. I am almost 21. I've run FreeBSD and Linux since I was 12 years old. I've had encounters with HP-UX which where wholly unsuccessful. On the other hand, Solaris is reasonable enough. There are a lot of differences above and beyond the API-level which need to be taken into concideration. These days I used Windows 2000 Professional. I honestly have no idea how it works, but it does. I'd be a shitty admin of it, however.
How would I get AOL broadband anyway? WOuldn't I still have to play for like, Cox or Roadrunner or whatever? Then I'd have to pay AOL, too, to use their stupid system on top of the networking I already paid for? That's fucking stupid.
That is true. Prior to then it was all this Necronomicon and Djinn stuff. Honestly, I don't think that ever really went away. Of course, I was raised absolutly belieiving in Leprechauns and Bansidhe's and things... and those were all the old gods put into faerie form. I know nothing about Arabs or Islam that is of any relevence, but I suspect that they kept all that weird-ass devil stuff in some form.
No, that is in fact the case. Theo is usually the butt of many jokes and jabs, at least in my experience. While Linux users tend to focus on crap like 'GNOME V KDE,' we often make it very personal very quickly. 'Your software sucks, and so do you 'cause its your fault'
I had no idea bear came in anything other THAN a pint, except for the 12oz bottles. and whatever the hell it was at the haufrbau (spelling) that i drank 8 of one night when I was 17 on top of 6 shots of something which was apparently made of "fermented mountain flowers" which was not aidelwiese, but the German-Speaking Italians from the South Terolls we were sitting with could not explain further... I was hung over for 2 days.
Starbuck is a character in Melvill's Moby Dick. It'd not be so bad. At least no worse than plant Lord Jim, which is a really crappy book (I really don't like Conrad).
However, I think a more pressing issue is getting better names for hurricanes.
if it weren't a disgusting jackson breast, it would probably have been different. But it's not like the jackson's aren't activly out to corrupt children. If it were D'Arcy from Smashing Pumpkins, it'd have been cool.
Because 'planet' is a greek name meaning 'wanderer.' Thte planets were thought to be the gods. Therefor, they named them with those names. Western civilization is largely inherited from the Greeks and the Romans. We kept the names. Besides, why the hell would we call Jupiter Lugh or Woden? It'd be weird.
yeah, but they failed to take into account the difference in latitude, i believe. The sun kept moving around in a much different way than it would have in the mediteranian.
Rasterman used to work at RHAD getting paid to do Enlightenment as an official part of the GNOME project (their original window manager). Then he left, and he and Mandrake were getting paid to work on it by VA Linux (remember them?). Now they are not being paid to work on Englightenment and it gets done when it gets done.
People already have an impression that Congress "doesn't do anything" -- the repealers would become just as corrupt, or more, and likely never repeal anything. As Adams (I think. It may have been Madison) said, "if Men were Angels, we wouldn't need the Consitution"
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There are only so much that can be done as long as people expect that computes should have "windows" and that they should be hovering over a "desktop" Personally, I think what we really need is just some very, very good speach recognition systems. Just about everything should be able to be done without typing or using a mouse. For things which need to be displayed (layouts and things for documents), maybe some sort of touch-screen for draging images or whatever. maybe displaying text instead of reading it back, but ideally the system should be able to read words back and not sound like a Macintosh still does. Personally, I think the PC is stupid. Whether I want to admit it or not, wearable is probably the future. I'm still a vintage fanatic and think centralization is the key. Maybe that's why I liked Star Trek so much. One computer, everyone can use it, and no one really /needs/ a "terminal." The computer is around them. it's like a cross between the centralization and the wearable without much of the wearable.
something like half the people's only 'crime' was being Irish. And belonging to secret, patriotic societies. Of course, they couldn't be having any of the freedom stuff. All the Australian's I've known have been of Irish extraction. In addition, they can no longer pronounce their names (Caughlin in particular)).
It depends on the flavour. I am almost 21. I've run FreeBSD and Linux since I was 12 years old. I've had encounters with HP-UX which where wholly unsuccessful. On the other hand, Solaris is reasonable enough. There are a lot of differences above and beyond the API-level which need to be taken into concideration. These days I used Windows 2000 Professional. I honestly have no idea how it works, but it does. I'd be a shitty admin of it, however.
How would I get AOL broadband anyway? WOuldn't I still have to play for like, Cox or Roadrunner or whatever? Then I'd have to pay AOL, too, to use their stupid system on top of the networking I already paid for? That's fucking stupid.
The phone. Unless you got that and didn't know what a vibrator is.
That is true. Prior to then it was all this Necronomicon and Djinn stuff. Honestly, I don't think that ever really went away. Of course, I was raised absolutly belieiving in Leprechauns and Bansidhe's and things... and those were all the old gods put into faerie form. I know nothing about Arabs or Islam that is of any relevence, but I suspect that they kept all that weird-ass devil stuff in some form.
no, because it's a subordinate clause.
This says it better.
I don't think that "orbit" and "flight" are the same things.
No, that is in fact the case. Theo is usually the butt of many jokes and jabs, at least in my experience. While Linux users tend to focus on crap like 'GNOME V KDE,' we often make it very personal very quickly. 'Your software sucks, and so do you 'cause its your fault'
I had no idea bear came in anything other THAN a pint, except for the 12oz bottles. and whatever the hell it was at the haufrbau (spelling) that i drank 8 of one night when I was 17 on top of 6 shots of something which was apparently made of "fermented mountain flowers" which was not aidelwiese, but the German-Speaking Italians from the South Terolls we were sitting with could not explain further... I was hung over for 2 days.
Don't you mean GBP 2.20462262?
On one hand: yeah, so? on the other hand, exactly!
Starbuck is a character in Melvill's Moby Dick. It'd not be so bad. At least no worse than plant Lord Jim, which is a really crappy book (I really don't like Conrad).
However, I think a more pressing issue is getting better names for hurricanes.
There's nothing wrong with religion, but the world would be a much better place if it were not organized
I could say the same thing about labour.
if it weren't a disgusting jackson breast, it would probably have been different. But it's not like the jackson's aren't activly out to corrupt children. If it were D'Arcy from Smashing Pumpkins, it'd have been cool.
Because 'planet' is a greek name meaning 'wanderer.' Thte planets were thought to be the gods. Therefor, they named them with those names. Western civilization is largely inherited from the Greeks and the Romans. We kept the names. Besides, why the hell would we call Jupiter Lugh or Woden? It'd be weird.
yeah, but they failed to take into account the difference in latitude, i believe. The sun kept moving around in a much different way than it would have in the mediteranian.
as opposed to all those evil uses for solar power?
it was years ago. i don't bloody remember exactly what happened anymore, not that it was ever any of my business.
Rasterman used to work at RHAD getting paid to do Enlightenment as an official part of the GNOME project (their original window manager). Then he left, and he and Mandrake were getting paid to work on it by VA Linux (remember them?). Now they are not being paid to work on Englightenment and it gets done when it gets done.
Scruffy nerfhearders....
People already have an impression that Congress "doesn't do anything" -- the repealers would become just as corrupt, or more, and likely never repeal anything. As Adams (I think. It may have been Madison) said, "if Men were Angels, we wouldn't need the Consitution"
yeah, ph... English is a weird-ass language.
Maybe Soviet pencils DID contain lead points instead of our good Capitalist pencils and their graffite.