Yea, but my question is whether the KDE implementation going to be 'run' anywhere, or are the folks over at Gnome going to have to rewrite the program to display Mac OSX widgets for Gnome, and then will someone else have to rewrite it again to display them on things such as WindowMaker, Fluxbox, FVWM?
By following the simple advice I heard on the Dr. Phil show, I have finally found inner peace.
Dr. Phil proclaimed, "The way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you've started and never finished."
So, I looked around my house to see all the things I started and hadn't finished, and before leaving the house this morning. I finished off a bottle of Merlot, a bottle of White Zinfandel, a bottle of Bailey's Bristol Cream, a bottle of Kahlua, a package of Oreos, the remainder of my old Prozac prescription, the rest of the cheesecake, some saltines and a box of chocolates with the rest of my Smirnoff and Xanax.....
I generally use Thunderbird, however I think any of them would work just as well as the next. All I use e-mail for is reading e-mail (and sometimes newsgroups) and I think any of them will do that pretty good. The only thing I would like to see is better integration with outlook. While this really shouldn't be needed there are unfortunately some people that expect you to use obscure outlook features such as calender checking. Maybe if something come out of the Mozilla Lightning project that will help.
It all depends on the size of the object. 100mph and not much of a crater seems about right for it, (although I would have expected it to be more around 200mph). The real question is whether it would slow to 100mph before hitting the ground. Large meteorites leave craters and go faster because they are more massive and thus have more momentum.
Personally I would like to know two languages really well. To me it seems like there's two types of programs that I would write, big programs and small programs. For the big ones I would want to use common mature language like C/C++ (or Java if you prefer) that way the program will run faster and pretty much everyone can run C executable or Java bytecode. Then for the smaller ones I would like to know some sort of 'scripting' language such as Perl/Python/Ruby/php/etc where I can quickly write things down and have not have to worry about the troubles of datatypes, compilations, and other such hairy problems I run into when writing in other languages.
You may also want to consider what you will be doing most. For example php is pretty much designed for use on web pages. I don't how how true it but judging from programs I've seen python seems to be good for large projects if you still want to use a scripting language, and I don't think I've ever seen perl used for anything that included more than a few files. There's also portability to consider, C/C++ may be nice but it is still harder to make cross-platform than something like Java or any of the scripting languages. If you write code in Visual Studio you may run into problems using it on anything other than Windows (although there's Mono, most users don't have it installed). The same goes for Java if your uses are among the 'faithful' and refuse to use the sun java implementations.
As for GUI toolkits most of them have bindings in whatever language you choose, and for choosing a toolkit it's really up to you. As far as I'm concerned they all do the same thing so it's just a matter of which programing style you like best. Again you may want to consider what your users will already have installed.
For IDE's i think it mostly depends on what language your using. I prefer a text editor for a lot of things, however Eclipse is great for Java and there's some that tailor to the likes Qt and GTK such as Kdevelop and Glade, however I have never used any of them. (oh, and if you're really hardcore you could just skip out those overrated editors all together and just use '# cat - >')
Simply saying that men have a higher IQ doesn't really seem that controversial to me.
Since IQ's are based off of many things that are learned it is possible that living situations and social stigmas could effect this as well just as much as genetics. I'm sure if you compared the IQ's of two twins, one who went through school and got a degree and the other who was never given the chance to go to school. The college graduate would have a higher IQ simply because of a greater knowledge. This does not mean that the college student was born any smarter than the other. It just means that he was given more opportunity to learn and develop.
Likewise I would bet that before women's rights movements when most women didn't even attend school there would have been an even greater difference in IQ simply because men were given more opportunity's.
There seems to be plenty of reason that a book is better and plenty of reasons that a electronic copy is better. I think the best thing would be to have both available. If every book had a CD in the back cover containing an electronic copy of it I think that would be great.
You could still sit down and read the book in a nice comfy chair, but you could also take the CD with you when you go somewhere. You would also have the advantage of using the CD as a reference once you're done reading. You could also do searches instead of having to look through indexes and page through chapters and then once you've found what you're looking for you could go back to the book and read it from there if you really wanted to.
I don't mind doing research on a computer with the Internet. In fact I would rather do research on the Internet. However when I get back to school one of the first things I'm doing is going to see if the library has a copy of O'Reillys Ruby book.
If I'm looking for quick facts the Internet is great, but when I want to study something a book is usually better. Especially for computer programing since then you can have the book in you're lap and be typing at the same time. You don't have to worry about switching windows back and forth and so on.
"It's amazing how many day-to-day operations require the inadvertent use of Windows in our daily lives."
Maybe this is true at first, however after several months of using Linux I began to see the FOSS alternatives to using windows and now I haven't had windows installed for about 9 months.
It seems like switching to Linux should be more gradual. Linux has a steep learning curve. If you try to jump in all at once your more likely to get a bad impression when you can't figure out how to play a dvd, or even 'mount' the cdrom drive.
Sad, but Linux just like video games is fast losing its "nerdy" qualities.
That's okay with me. Hardware companies don't provide support for nerdy things. Professors don't send out documents in nerdy text formats. Software companies don't pay nerdy developers.
Linux on PS3's all over the place might just be what is needed to get non-nerdy people to start paying attention. If more people are paying attention I think that will certainly help the FOSS movement more than it will harm it.
I don't know what it's called, but my High School used all macs (running os 9) and we learned word processing and everything on whatever the apple version of office is. It made me really mad that we were learning something and that we would never be able to use it because not very many people have macs. If we had used OpenOffice I probably would have been much happier because that would have been something that I could have used at home on my computer because it will run on Windows as well.
As a side note, as I look back on it there's really not that much difference between OpenOffice and any other. Sure all the buttons are in different places, but in high school most of the time was spent on learning basic concepts such as what 'margins' are and what a 'table cell' in a 'spreadsheet' is. Those are all universal and most of my classes didn't really teach anything beyond that.
If you're going to be having classes on things like VBA macros or advanced stuff like that it might be beneficial to the students to use MS Office (as well?), but if you're just going to be doing word processing I'd say go for OpenOffice. Perhaps you could have OpenOffice on everything and then just have 1 or 2 labs where you do advanced stuff with MS Office.
There was one question where it had the same answer twice, and unless I'm mistaken studio max is used for more 3d stuff than flash. Those are just a couple things I noticed.
For perspective, just make sure you have the camera in the same position when the monitors aren't there and then after you have set the backgrounds. If you can set it on a table or something, and mark off exactly where it was the first time so that you can put it back the same way after transfering the picture to youre computer and setting your backgrounds it should turn out almost perfect.
I wouldn't be surprised neither google or Microsoft still exist in 2215. If they are around they probably won't be that important anymore. If we take an example from the past, what were the most important companys 200 years ago? Probably some farm equipment company, or a ship builder. As much as we think that computers are the thing of future, by 2215 their will probably be some totally different technology that's even more important. There's always some new technology such as 'steam trains' or 'automobiles' or 'computers' or 'the printing press' but it's always changing, It seems a little vain to say that computers will be any different. They'll still be around but they wont be the 'new thing' anymore.
The only time that something getting slashdoted will help me..
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For everyone without real player just change the *.splash.rm to *.splash.avi on the video link since even the 'AVI format' link points to a real media file.
The movie seems to me much more effective than the jpg image, I was supprised by them skipping head so far between the 3rd and 4th frame, seems leaves out some of the important parts..
I haven't been able to test the new sign up system but I was thinking they wanted to get a good one that wouldnt allow spammers to just flood the google servers with a gig of spam for hundreds of different accounts.
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Yea, but my question is whether the KDE implementation going to be 'run' anywhere, or are the folks over at Gnome going to have to rewrite the program to display Mac OSX widgets for Gnome, and then will someone else have to rewrite it again to display them on things such as WindowMaker, Fluxbox, FVWM?
By following the simple advice I heard on the Dr. Phil show, I have finally found inner peace.
Dr. Phil proclaimed, "The way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you've started and never finished."
So, I looked around my house to see all the things I started and hadn't finished, and before leaving the house this morning. I finished off a bottle of Merlot, a bottle of White Zinfandel, a bottle of Bailey's Bristol Cream, a bottle of Kahlua, a package of Oreos, the remainder of my old Prozac prescription, the rest of the cheesecake, some saltines and a box of chocolates with the rest of my Smirnoff and Xanax.....
You have no idea how freaking good I feel.
I haven't used the internet in years...
I generally use Thunderbird, however I think any of them would work just as well as the next. All I use e-mail for is reading e-mail (and sometimes newsgroups) and I think any of them will do that pretty good. The only thing I would like to see is better integration with outlook. While this really shouldn't be needed there are unfortunately some people that expect you to use obscure outlook features such as calender checking. Maybe if something come out of the Mozilla Lightning project that will help.
It all depends on the size of the object. 100mph and not much of a crater seems about right for it, (although I would have expected it to be more around 200mph). The real question is whether it would slow to 100mph before hitting the ground. Large meteorites leave craters and go faster because they are more massive and thus have more momentum.
please mod parent 'dumb' he forgot to use the 'preview' button.
Personally I would like to know two languages really well. To me it seems like there's two types of programs that I would write, big programs and small programs. For the big ones I would want to use common mature language like C/C++ (or Java if you prefer) that way the program will run faster and pretty much everyone can run C executable or Java bytecode. Then for the smaller ones I would like to know some sort of 'scripting' language such as Perl/Python/Ruby/php/etc where I can quickly write things down and have not have to worry about the troubles of datatypes, compilations, and other such hairy problems I run into when writing in other languages. You may also want to consider what you will be doing most. For example php is pretty much designed for use on web pages. I don't how how true it but judging from programs I've seen python seems to be good for large projects if you still want to use a scripting language, and I don't think I've ever seen perl used for anything that included more than a few files. There's also portability to consider, C/C++ may be nice but it is still harder to make cross-platform than something like Java or any of the scripting languages. If you write code in Visual Studio you may run into problems using it on anything other than Windows (although there's Mono, most users don't have it installed). The same goes for Java if your uses are among the 'faithful' and refuse to use the sun java implementations. As for GUI toolkits most of them have bindings in whatever language you choose, and for choosing a toolkit it's really up to you. As far as I'm concerned they all do the same thing so it's just a matter of which programing style you like best. Again you may want to consider what your users will already have installed. For IDE's i think it mostly depends on what language your using. I prefer a text editor for a lot of things, however Eclipse is great for Java and there's some that tailor to the likes Qt and GTK such as Kdevelop and Glade, however I have never used any of them. (oh, and if you're really hardcore you could just skip out those overrated editors all together and just use '# cat - >')
Wasn't this the plot to a bad movie?
oops, should have done more searching, sorry about that. At least it's a different story.
Simply saying that men have a higher IQ doesn't really seem that controversial to me.
Since IQ's are based off of many things that are learned it is possible that living situations and social stigmas could effect this as well just as much as genetics. I'm sure if you compared the IQ's of two twins, one who went through school and got a degree and the other who was never given the chance to go to school. The college graduate would have a higher IQ simply because of a greater knowledge. This does not mean that the college student was born any smarter than the other. It just means that he was given more opportunity to learn and develop.
Likewise I would bet that before women's rights movements when most women didn't even attend school there would have been an even greater difference in IQ simply because men were given more opportunity's.
There seems to be plenty of reason that a book is better and plenty of reasons that a electronic copy is better. I think the best thing would be to have both available. If every book had a CD in the back cover containing an electronic copy of it I think that would be great.
You could still sit down and read the book in a nice comfy chair, but you could also take the CD with you when you go somewhere. You would also have the advantage of using the CD as a reference once you're done reading. You could also do searches instead of having to look through indexes and page through chapters and then once you've found what you're looking for you could go back to the book and read it from there if you really wanted to.
I don't mind doing research on a computer with the Internet. In fact I would rather do research on the Internet. However when I get back to school one of the first things I'm doing is going to see if the library has a copy of O'Reillys Ruby book. If I'm looking for quick facts the Internet is great, but when I want to study something a book is usually better. Especially for computer programing since then you can have the book in you're lap and be typing at the same time. You don't have to worry about switching windows back and forth and so on.
"It's amazing how many day-to-day operations require the inadvertent use of Windows in our daily lives."
Maybe this is true at first, however after several months of using Linux I began to see the FOSS alternatives to using windows and now I haven't had windows installed for about 9 months.
It seems like switching to Linux should be more gradual. Linux has a steep learning curve. If you try to jump in all at once your more likely to get a bad impression when you can't figure out how to play a dvd, or even 'mount' the cdrom drive.
Sad, but Linux just like video games is fast losing its "nerdy" qualities.
That's okay with me. Hardware companies don't provide support for nerdy things. Professors don't send out documents in nerdy text formats. Software companies don't pay nerdy developers.
Linux on PS3's all over the place might just be what is needed to get non-nerdy people to start paying attention. If more people are paying attention I think that will certainly help the FOSS movement more than it will harm it.
All day huh? De Beers must have a subscription to see that far into the future...
oh wait, so is saying that...
Anyway, does anyone know of a book like LFS except aimed at making you're own bootscripts?
I don't know what it's called, but my High School used all macs (running os 9) and we learned word processing and everything on whatever the apple version of office is. It made me really mad that we were learning something and that we would never be able to use it because not very many people have macs. If we had used OpenOffice I probably would have been much happier because that would have been something that I could have used at home on my computer because it will run on Windows as well. As a side note, as I look back on it there's really not that much difference between OpenOffice and any other. Sure all the buttons are in different places, but in high school most of the time was spent on learning basic concepts such as what 'margins' are and what a 'table cell' in a 'spreadsheet' is. Those are all universal and most of my classes didn't really teach anything beyond that. If you're going to be having classes on things like VBA macros or advanced stuff like that it might be beneficial to the students to use MS Office (as well?), but if you're just going to be doing word processing I'd say go for OpenOffice. Perhaps you could have OpenOffice on everything and then just have 1 or 2 labs where you do advanced stuff with MS Office.
There was one question where it had the same answer twice, and unless I'm mistaken studio max is used for more 3d stuff than flash. Those are just a couple things I noticed.
That's where a dremel... err.. creativity, comes in.
For perspective, just make sure you have the camera in the same position when the monitors aren't there and then after you have set the backgrounds. If you can set it on a table or something, and mark off exactly where it was the first time so that you can put it back the same way after transfering the picture to youre computer and setting your backgrounds it should turn out almost perfect.
I wouldn't be surprised neither google or Microsoft still exist in 2215. If they are around they probably won't be that important anymore. If we take an example from the past, what were the most important companys 200 years ago? Probably some farm equipment company, or a ship builder. As much as we think that computers are the thing of future, by 2215 their will probably be some totally different technology that's even more important. There's always some new technology such as 'steam trains' or 'automobiles' or 'computers' or 'the printing press' but it's always changing, It seems a little vain to say that computers will be any different. They'll still be around but they wont be the 'new thing' anymore.
The only time that something getting slashdoted will help me..
For everyone without real player just change the *.splash.rm to *.splash.avi on the video link since even the 'AVI format' link points to a real media file.
The movie seems to me much more effective than the jpg image, I was supprised by them skipping head so far between the 3rd and 4th frame, seems leaves out some of the important parts..
try the google cache speaking of google maybe they could get some 'best work-place' competitions going between the two
I haven't been able to test the new sign up system but I was thinking they wanted to get a good one that wouldnt allow spammers to just flood the google servers with a gig of spam for hundreds of different accounts.