No, I expected a photo of an Australian Outback town!
More seriously, no I don't expect this sort of stuff when surfing carelessly to slashdot.org and I believe the only way I could've expected it is if I was deranged and expecting to see spiders all the time, everywhere:-)
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be trolling. It's just that, unlike everybody else here (I'm sure), I've installed uTorrent not to download the latest OpenBSD iso, but to illegaly download movies and music that I wouldn't purchase, because my opinion is that there's nothing morally wrong with that.
So that move makes mininova useless for me (and presumably a lot of their users), because they plan to start removing the very content that I'm looking for. I realise they might still have their place, but I wanted to point out that when a torrent site starts filtering and removing, it doesn't slow down piracy, it just makes people use other sites instead...
I couldn't agree more. Part of what I loved when I first tried linux about ten years ago was the diversity of window managers and how each provided a very different feel, different paradigms. WMaker was my favorite for its looks, because it was very fast, because it had a convenient mount/unmount tool, because of the detachable menus... Just the general behavior of it was awesome.
KDE, Gnome and Xfce are too much alike in many ways (even though there are lots of differences, the approach to the desktop & windows metaphor is too similar). It would be really nice if wmaker could be updated (a bit of eye candy, better configuration tools...) while keeping what makes it so unique.
I'm not conviced a ribbon would be inadequate for a browser. I only have a few add-ons but they still clutter the interface a bit. And I go to the options or wander in the menus quite a bit as well.
You can listen to the last Metallica album in whole, on their website (http://www.metallica.com/index.asp?item=601231). They also sell all their live shows as drm-free mp3...
When they released Death Magnetic, they put a flash player on their website so you can listen to the whole album to see if it's worth buying. You can still listen to it now : http://www.metallica.com/index.asp?item=601231
I was very surprised at the time that nobody seemed to give a flying fuck, I thought it was a very interesting move, especially coming from Metallica... It was not even mentioned in online reviews ffs! I hardly saw any mention of that anywhere, and had to add it myself to the Wikipedia page (it was deleted instead of being expanded, natch).
Really, I've no idea why, but nobody cared. At all. (Not even fans, before you say noone cares about Metallica period)
There might not be a specific explanation of how DNA came to be, but I'm not sure it's that misterious ; emergent systems have been studied for a while, and I believe it's well established that complex systems can emerge from a few simple rules.
You're absolutely right of course. This kid's not interested in "anything electronic", he's interested in anything that goes "ping" or flashes pretty lights.
A toy laptop with only a spelling game on it is not limited if the kid is unable to spell, is it?
Wait until he can hold a pencil and write his name with it. Then consider getting him a computer.
There are a lot of advantages to DSL/Cable over dial-up besides speed (always on for instance).
So maybe a lot of people are using "broadband" as a more convenient replacement for dial-up, or as part of a "triple play" package, but actually don't download much and therefore don't care.
If all you use is e-mails, youtube, facebook, and the occasional iTunes download you have no reason to care about speed.
I mean, 8Mbit/s still means a whole album will download in a couple of minutes, I think it's sufficiently fast for Joe Average...
It would be interesting to know how much of this broadband is actually comprised of basic low speed offerings.
That's an interesting question, and a difficult one.
I'd suggest putting instructions in a letter, including necessary passwords and so on, and protect it with a password that should be easy to guess for someone close to you.
Or leave a file with the passwords on your computer or on a usb key, and put the password to access it in your will. Sure that's rather low security theoretically, but if you make it clear in your will that the password releases only contact information, who would bother trying to access that?
That's pretty close to trolling. He was only suggesting that given the historical significance of the place in the history of computing, it would be a nice gesture for people who have made millions or billions of dollars in computing to make gesture. That it would not hurt them, that it would be nice and probably good publicity as well. He didn't sound agressive or demeaning (you, on the other hand, did).
You see, if I made a donation of about one percent of my monthly income (that's about 20), it would help. Not much. If they did, it could save the place once and for all.
...screw these elections of yours, I want to be able to watch the next episode of House MD, dammit!
;)
More seriously, I am watching this election closely and dearly hoping that USians will not be as disappointing as in the last two. It's looking good, but I'm wary... Last minute disappointments are not unheard of.
I hope Obama wins, because I'd like to see the US become a good example again, instead of the very bad exemple they've become.
...
Still, I'm a bit upset to have to wait one more week to know what happens between House and Cuddy.
Ok, I'll bite. I installed 2007 recently out of curiosity but haven't tried it much yet. Paste special is a feature I use a lot in older versions of Excel, but since I haven't had a chance to fiddle with the new version I didn't know where to find it, so I launched Excel 2007 to find out.
What's the leftmost icon on the "Home" ribbon, which appears by default at launch? Paste. Ok, let's see if maybe it could be in that vicinity, shall we?
Ah, when I hover on the icon, it divides itself in two buttons, the big icon on top, and the word "Paste" with a little arrow pointing down under it. When hovering over the two buttons, tooltips make it quite clear that the top button just pastes and is equivalent to Ctrl+V, whereas the bottom one give acces to more options.
Let's hit that one, just to see what happens, ok? I'm just trying things out intuitively and naively here.
Well, guess what I found, paste special, it's right there. I had no idea where to find it, and it took me less than a second, and exactly two clicks, just as before. Admittedly, it would have taken an unreasonable _three_ clicks if I had been busy with another ribbon initially.
I'm sorry, there are probably potential issues with this UI, but the "I can't find stuff" argument just doesn't work.
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you can find quite literally anything you want in them
Quite true, and there's even a nice little tool to help you do that : http://www.subidiom.com/pi/
No, I expected a photo of an Australian Outback town!
:-)
More seriously, no I don't expect this sort of stuff when surfing carelessly to slashdot.org and I believe the only way I could've expected it is if I was deranged and expecting to see spiders all the time, everywhere
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be trolling. It's just that, unlike everybody else here (I'm sure), I've installed uTorrent not to download the latest OpenBSD iso, but to illegaly download movies and music that I wouldn't purchase, because my opinion is that there's nothing morally wrong with that.
So that move makes mininova useless for me (and presumably a lot of their users), because they plan to start removing the very content that I'm looking for. I realise they might still have their place, but I wanted to point out that when a torrent site starts filtering and removing, it doesn't slow down piracy, it just makes people use other sites instead...
I saw the headline, and just immediately deleted my bookmark. I hardly ever used it anyway, but that makes them completely irrelevant to me.
Agreed. Could the interwebs please, please stop showing me pictures of gross disgusting huge spiders when I least expect it? Please?
[citation needed]
I couldn't agree more. Part of what I loved when I first tried linux about ten years ago was the diversity of window managers and how each provided a very different feel, different paradigms. WMaker was my favorite for its looks, because it was very fast, because it had a convenient mount/unmount tool, because of the detachable menus... Just the general behavior of it was awesome.
KDE, Gnome and Xfce are too much alike in many ways (even though there are lots of differences, the approach to the desktop & windows metaphor is too similar). It would be really nice if wmaker could be updated (a bit of eye candy, better configuration tools...) while keeping what makes it so unique.
I'm not conviced a ribbon would be inadequate for a browser. I only have a few add-ons but they still clutter the interface a bit. And I go to the options or wander in the menus quite a bit as well.
You can listen to the last Metallica album in whole, on their website (http://www.metallica.com/index.asp?item=601231). They also sell all their live shows as drm-free mp3...
When they released Death Magnetic, they put a flash player on their website so you can listen to the whole album to see if it's worth buying. You can still listen to it now : http://www.metallica.com/index.asp?item=601231
I was very surprised at the time that nobody seemed to give a flying fuck, I thought it was a very interesting move, especially coming from Metallica... It was not even mentioned in online reviews ffs! I hardly saw any mention of that anywhere, and had to add it myself to the Wikipedia page (it was deleted instead of being expanded, natch).
Really, I've no idea why, but nobody cared. At all. (Not even fans, before you say noone cares about Metallica period)
This album sells extremely well, btw.
eom
There might not be a specific explanation of how DNA came to be, but I'm not sure it's that misterious ; emergent systems have been studied for a while, and I believe it's well established that complex systems can emerge from a few simple rules.
You're absolutely right of course. This kid's not interested in "anything electronic", he's interested in anything that goes "ping" or flashes pretty lights.
A toy laptop with only a spelling game on it is not limited if the kid is unable to spell, is it?
Wait until he can hold a pencil and write his name with it. Then consider getting him a computer.
There are a lot of advantages to DSL/Cable over dial-up besides speed (always on for instance).
So maybe a lot of people are using "broadband" as a more convenient replacement for dial-up, or as part of a "triple play" package, but actually don't download much and therefore don't care.
If all you use is e-mails, youtube, facebook, and the occasional iTunes download you have no reason to care about speed.
I mean, 8Mbit/s still means a whole album will download in a couple of minutes, I think it's sufficiently fast for Joe Average...
It would be interesting to know how much of this broadband is actually comprised of basic low speed offerings.
That's an interesting question, and a difficult one.
I'd suggest putting instructions in a letter, including necessary passwords and so on, and protect it with a password that should be easy to guess for someone close to you.
Or leave a file with the passwords on your computer or on a usb key, and put the password to access it in your will. Sure that's rather low security theoretically, but if you make it clear in your will that the password releases only contact information, who would bother trying to access that?
what would be really nice is doing this sort of "drawing in a spreadsheet" thing with a bunch of formulas. Fractals or something.
So you're saying he asks about CD-R durability because he hasn't heard of hard drives?
;)
Oh gosh, not again. This is the same as suggesting to install Ubuntu when someone has a windows-related issue.
Once and for all : the answer to "how to make FOO work better for me" is not "you should use BAR instead"!
That's pretty close to trolling. He was only suggesting that given the historical significance of the place in the history of computing, it would be a nice gesture for people who have made millions or billions of dollars in computing to make gesture. That it would not hurt them, that it would be nice and probably good publicity as well. He didn't sound agressive or demeaning (you, on the other hand, did).
You see, if I made a donation of about one percent of my monthly income (that's about 20), it would help. Not much.
If they did, it could save the place once and for all.
Maybe the reason people spent so much time coding and hacking and exploring their computers back then is the fact they couldn't download pr0n...
...screw these elections of yours, I want to be able to watch the next episode of House MD, dammit!
...
;)
More seriously, I am watching this election closely and dearly hoping that USians will not be as disappointing as in the last two. It's looking good, but I'm wary... Last minute disappointments are not unheard of.
I hope Obama wins, because I'd like to see the US become a good example again, instead of the very bad exemple they've become.
Still, I'm a bit upset to have to wait one more week to know what happens between House and Cuddy.
A fantastic little device, and a very nice move.
Thanks, Mr Altman.
I mean, try and explain to someone that your work is covered by the GNU Free Documentation License 1.3! That just souns silly and verbose.
;-)
Much simpler to just say "oh, you know, it's under a plain old Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license 3.0".
(I'm kidding, I actually consider this important, it's just that catchy names isn't FOSS' people strongest point
I have two links :-)
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/a442/
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/8e18/
Ridiculous toys of course. You're much better off with a video player that is _not_ stuck on your wrist. But the kid in me still thinks "awesome!"...
Ok, I'll bite. I installed 2007 recently out of curiosity but haven't tried it much yet. Paste special is a feature I use a lot in older versions of Excel, but since I haven't had a chance to fiddle with the new version I didn't know where to find it, so I launched Excel 2007 to find out.
What's the leftmost icon on the "Home" ribbon, which appears by default at launch? Paste. Ok, let's see if maybe it could be in that vicinity, shall we?
Ah, when I hover on the icon, it divides itself in two buttons, the big icon on top, and the word "Paste" with a little arrow pointing down under it. When hovering over the two buttons, tooltips make it quite clear that the top button just pastes and is equivalent to Ctrl+V, whereas the bottom one give acces to more options.
Let's hit that one, just to see what happens, ok? I'm just trying things out intuitively and naively here.
Well, guess what I found, paste special, it's right there. I had no idea where to find it, and it took me less than a second, and exactly two clicks, just as before. Admittedly, it would have taken an unreasonable _three_ clicks if I had been busy with another ribbon initially.
I'm sorry, there are probably potential issues with this UI, but the "I can't find stuff" argument just doesn't work.