Doing my best to hold back the spelling fascism...
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Rickford Grant Interview
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· Score: 2, Insightful
...but both you/you're and its/it's errors in the same article? I don't complain about that in/. posts (hell, it's an informal forum), but if you're going to write an article, at least try to appear semi-literate...
Not particularly impressed with the content, either. His "Why Xandros?" paragraph is somewhat insightful, but nothing others haven't been saying for ages...
Is there any evidence that lots of users of Win2k are going to Linux?
For what its worth, I am. I've been on Win2k for years. I've been very happy with it. I installed Debian this summer as my second OS (and I'm trying to move to it as primary) because Win XP doesn't have anything new I want and offers plenty of craptastic features like activation, and because Vista isn't looking so hot either... I'm sure I'm not in the majority, but I'm trying to move to Linux precisely because 2k is being end-of-lifed and all the MS upgrade options are craptastic...
Oh my... I think this is truly the pinnacle of Western literature...
For those too lazy to click, here's an excerpt from the continuous raving monologue of the marine as he kills everything in sight:
Who do you suppose left all that radioactive waste down there? And why? Why?
Now I'm radioactive. That can't be good.
Why can't we find a way to safely dispose of radioactive waste and protect the environment? Even if I personally stop this alien invasion, what kind of planet will we be leaving to our children? And our children's children. And... Oh the humanity!
Since 90% of slashdotters use adblock, does it really matter?
(Not an adblock user for this reason, although I do let Firefox block popups and I've got Flashblock, 'cause, dammit, you've gotta draw the line somewhere...)
Um... just keep a tab open to google (or whatever)? Honestly, I think the minimal search bar hidden away in the corner (one tab away from the address bar, and with ctrl+up and ctrl+down to cycle through the engines) is the perfect integrated tool. I don't want more features taking up more space. I think it's a very sensible default (although I'm all for customization, if others want more bells and whistles).
"All in all, a library with this offering is making more available than a library without it."
Unless they fall in love with this setup, decide to divert resources from physical audiobooks to fund it (the article has one librarian commenting positively on the whole financial aspect of this), and as the old materials are retired--I never understand how on earth people can manage to scratch up library CDs the way they do--the non-Windows folks are marginalized.
But yeah, with a better implementation, this could work.
Not according to the article. It's WMA, and also won't run on iPods. Although this seems to be done through the library essentially outsourcing to another company, so perhaps some Linux-friendly companies will get into this...
"Now they are trying to quash synthetic diamonds by getting trade regulators to force synthetic fabricators [to market their] diamonds as something other than [diamonds]."
I'm guessing that's sort of what you meant, right? That's interesting, because my girlfriend wrote a linguistics term paper last spring about how synthetic diamond manufacturers need to call their product something more appealing than "synthetic" (a word which doesn't exactly have glamorous connotations). It would suck for them if they finally realized they shouldn't call their product "synthetic" but were quickly forbidden to use the word "diamonds" in the first place.
More accurately,/. does not allow <pre>, but gives you <ecode> instead. The <pre> tags preserve spacing and other formatting ('pre' standing for 'pre-formatted'), whereas <ecode> seems to be/.'s version of <code>, which is just a logical character highlighting. Most browsers render this in a fixed-width font.
Yes. If they don't want to overwhelm users, why not just have a nested config menu hierarchy, with an "Advanced..." sub-menu offering a "More Advanced..." sub-menu, which subsequently gives an "Even More Advanced..." option, and so on...
Re:Gamers never know what's good for them
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A Gamer's Manifesto
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Actually, I really like the HL2 approach: allow save-anywhere, but also use automatic save points. This gives me a feel that I don't need to worry about saving every step because it's taken care of for me, but if I feel I just got past something particularly difficult, or I'm in a particularly hairy situation, I can take saving into my own hands. Of course, the rest of the HL2 save system was FUBAR (no ability to rename or organize saves in any way), but that's another matter...
Bah! It almost sounds like you're saying that the fact that films have visuals excuses them from having to have a plot. Is it really too much to ask for both? Or, if not a deep immersive plot, at least competent dialog? Compelling characters? The LotR movies managed it (at least to my satisfaction), why is it too much to expect from Star Wars?
Just because movies deal in a visual medium doesn't mean directors have to create something that focuses on visuals for two hours. Plenty of excellent movies strike a fine balance.
Re:So, you programmers ready to give up your jobs?
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McVoy Strikes Back
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256 main memory plus 256 on the graphics card ought to be enough for anybody?
I may have exaggerated when I said "ten minutes" ... many orders of magnitude slower.
If by 'many' you mean 'more than two', that's an amusing way to correct your exaggeration...
Re:Netbroken. . . but it had webapp debugging!
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Netbeans 4.1 Released
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I think that this is fundamental for OO programming: you search for an object identifier in a piece of code and then you are able to quickly look at all the methods that are called on that object so you get an immediate feeling of what the code is doing to manipulate the object. Ecplise does not have that.
From the search menu...
Java Search:
... blah blah standard search features blah blah...
It was not just simple, but darn simple and made it possible for the genius and the technophobe to achieve the same results: operating a PC.
That's sort of exactly the problem. An ideal OS should allow a genius and a technophobe to achieve different results (even if it does allow the technophobe to operate a PC)...
Slashdot Mirror
...but both you/you're and its/it's errors in the same article? I don't complain about that in /. posts (hell, it's an informal forum), but if you're going to write an article, at least try to appear semi-literate...
Not particularly impressed with the content, either. His "Why Xandros?" paragraph is somewhat insightful, but nothing others haven't been saying for ages...
They've been flying around here too... Meh... Not sure who they're aiming to impress...
For those too lazy to click, here's an excerpt from the continuous raving monologue of the marine as he kills everything in sight:
Since 90% of slashdotters use adblock, does it really matter?
(Not an adblock user for this reason, although I do let Firefox block popups and I've got Flashblock, 'cause, dammit, you've gotta draw the line somewhere...)
For what it's worth, MA is not really asking for open-source software behind the standard--they just want an open standard...
Um... just keep a tab open to google (or whatever)? Honestly, I think the minimal search bar hidden away in the corner (one tab away from the address bar, and with ctrl+up and ctrl+down to cycle through the engines) is the perfect integrated tool. I don't want more features taking up more space. I think it's a very sensible default (although I'm all for customization, if others want more bells and whistles).
No, no. All they need to do is figure out how to spread the worm to the iPod. Then it will be an iPod killer.
"All in all, a library with this offering is making more available than a library without it." Unless they fall in love with this setup, decide to divert resources from physical audiobooks to fund it (the article has one librarian commenting positively on the whole financial aspect of this), and as the old materials are retired--I never understand how on earth people can manage to scratch up library CDs the way they do--the non-Windows folks are marginalized. But yeah, with a better implementation, this could work.
"One question though: Does it run on linux?"
Not according to the article. It's WMA, and also won't run on iPods. Although this seems to be done through the library essentially outsourcing to another company, so perhaps some Linux-friendly companies will get into this...
Super Diamond?
"Now they are trying to quash synthetic diamonds by getting trade regulators to force synthetic fabricators [to market their] diamonds as something other than [diamonds]."
I'm guessing that's sort of what you meant, right? That's interesting, because my girlfriend wrote a linguistics term paper last spring about how synthetic diamond manufacturers need to call their product something more appealing than "synthetic" (a word which doesn't exactly have glamorous connotations). It would suck for them if they finally realized they shouldn't call their product "synthetic" but were quickly forbidden to use the word "diamonds" in the first place.
Three words: GMO.
"Bad Dudes"? Okay, no... Syndicate? I guess that's not that old... Dunno...
Run the school buses on biodiesel?
If they were going for catchy, they should've called the Pentium II the Sexium...
More accurately, /. does not allow <pre>, but gives you <ecode> instead. The <pre> tags preserve spacing and other formatting ('pre' standing for 'pre-formatted'), whereas <ecode> seems to be /.'s version of <code>, which is just a logical character highlighting. Most browsers render this in a fixed-width font.
You don't use their machines, they can't keylog your passwords. It's not worth letting you use their network unless they charge you double.
Yes. If they don't want to overwhelm users, why not just have a nested config menu hierarchy, with an "Advanced..." sub-menu offering a "More Advanced..." sub-menu, which subsequently gives an "Even More Advanced..." option, and so on...
Actually, I really like the HL2 approach: allow save-anywhere, but also use automatic save points. This gives me a feel that I don't need to worry about saving every step because it's taken care of for me, but if I feel I just got past something particularly difficult, or I'm in a particularly hairy situation, I can take saving into my own hands. Of course, the rest of the HL2 save system was FUBAR (no ability to rename or organize saves in any way), but that's another matter...
Bah! It almost sounds like you're saying that the fact that films have visuals excuses them from having to have a plot. Is it really too much to ask for both? Or, if not a deep immersive plot, at least competent dialog? Compelling characters? The LotR movies managed it (at least to my satisfaction), why is it too much to expect from Star Wars?
Just because movies deal in a visual medium doesn't mean directors have to create something that focuses on visuals for two hours. Plenty of excellent movies strike a fine balance.
256 main memory plus 256 on the graphics card ought to be enough for anybody?
I may have exaggerated when I said "ten minutes"
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many orders of magnitude slower.
If by 'many' you mean 'more than two', that's an amusing way to correct your exaggeration...
It was not just simple, but darn simple and made it possible for the genius and the technophobe to achieve the same results: operating a PC. That's sort of exactly the problem. An ideal OS should allow a genius and a technophobe to achieve different results (even if it does allow the technophobe to operate a PC)...