Hearing all the time about how MIT supports things like this just makes me all the more pissed off about my interview for admissions. I'm one of the poor unfortunate souls who had to defend the merits of open source, Wikipedia, email, and pacifism to my interviewer who had problems with all these things. He also probably hadn't been on campus in at least a decade since he didn't know the correct size of the student body (he wasn't even in the ballpark). I passed a guy in the elevator with a bluetooth headset on on the way out of the building (a hospital, my interviewer is a surgeon) who complimented me on my GNU hoody, and I thought, "Now that's the image MIT's been portraying to me, not that... back there." So either MIT is actually lame and they put on a cool presentation, or (and I think this is the more likely option) I got really screwed by my misfortune to have this interviewer.
That's easy. All you need is a blinking light and a burnt-out one. You have all the women stand in a line and tell them to go into the crazy line if the blinking one comes on and the sane line if the burnt-out one comes on.
According to the Klingon Dictionary (the only official source, which I of course own), hello does not have a direct translation. The closest thing to a greeting that Klingons use is nuqneH, which actually means "What do you want?". The word "lonely" has no direct translation either, though considering the Klingon culture and psyche, this does not surprising. It is also worth noting that as an adjective, (of which Klingon has none), "lonely" would be expressed as a verb meaning "to be lonely".
MIT has this to apparently. The difference is it was designed by students. It's one of their recruiting points. I didn't get into MIT but the Computer Science House @ RIT (my college) has online drink machines. Its debatable which is more useful. Atleast until CSH finally gets in the robot they've been talking about, then they pwn.
My stereo is controllable online. (through phpMPD) I'd put my other stuff on if I had the time.
Bundle Fx with Windows! Oh, wait Bill would never go for that. Oooh what about the manufacturers and ISPs though, they might go for it. IBM would love the chance to give M$ a kick in the balls, and with their focus on security and stability they could use it as a selling point. The ISPs could use it as a selling point as well - I don't know how many pointless TV commercials I've seen about ISPs providing security features. And a lot of users have come to think of their browser as tied to their ISP, because of that old hack "Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by _________" and AOL's long term association with Netscape. It's so perfect, why didn't I think of this before?
This could be the thing that finally convinces me to get an iPod. I've been resisting, but that would just be too cool. Especially if they used semitransparent casing and made the indiglo spread the whole way 'round. They could call it the iSaber
dpkg has APT. APT can use CDs as repositories. This may not seem like a big deal until you try to install stuff for an RPM based system without a direct net connection. Mandrake used to handle this somehow with its package manager, but then it did a bunch of other cool stuff too. Yum is terrible without an internet connection. Yes, you can copy all the.rpms onto your harddrive, but the same people without a good net connection are the people without a lot of harddrive space. Not to mention that apt-get has Super Cow Powers!
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I was going to post, but then I saw yours and realized that you're my creepy long lost twin or something. My situation is almost exactly like yours, except right clicking on the desktop (or anywhere) doesn't work at all. Life sucks when you have to use the file menu for everything.
The problem with turtle graphics is that Logo is almost dead. It went with the Apple IIes that I learned BASIC on. I was going to try to revive Logo for a school project I was working on but it was a big hassle and it turned out I didn't have time. Its still out there but Nobody uses it. Especially teachers. Kids are learning how to use Microsoft Word instead. I think they want more too; my little brother (4th grade) came to me and asked me to teach him HTML. Its the education system that's not doing its job teaching technology. There are rumors at my school that a BASIC class used to exist but now all we have is "Honors Programming" which we're eligible for after two semesters of Computer Applications. Its pretty much limited to nerds and people who got stuck there because of scheduling. How sad.
>(At least out of the box.)
Out of the box upgrades for ME to XP (which is the most popular installation type I've seen in my experience) still use FAT32 by default. FAT32 has no file permissions. 'nough said.
I really hope you were joking, but just in case and for anyone else out there wondering who RMS is, see here
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Well you're right on one account, I wouldn't let Windows handle my certificates if I didn't absolutely have to. And its not that IE integrates with windows bookmarks, IE is Windows bookmarks.
Anything that is occasionally used is most likely pretty specific in function, and thus fairly easy to get a decent UI for. You can usually make on app lock in fullscreen and disable access to the rest of the system. I think this study is more about long-term usability since it is studying desktops. For a kiosk or such you wouldn't want the user to have a full desktop anyway because it'd just be extra holes to patch and things for the user to mess up.
They keep doing more studies and whaddaya know... everything causes cancer. Except those things which prevent it of course. Its enough to make a man skeptical.
Umm.. ctrl+click link for email. Not to mention the cool little "put this in a new window" buttons for all of the compose/quick-reply boxes. It even keeps the text you were working on.
Btw ctrl+anything works for about any tab related thing. Ctrl+Tab switches, ctrl+enter in googlebar does new tab, etc. Shift usually modifies whether the tab focuses right away or not as well. Just in case anyone didn't know.
More useful!?!? don't know how many hours i've spent looking for a decent browser based jabber client even. The fact that it does AIM and Yahoo as well makes this one of the coolest sites I've found all month. Thanks for the link, g.p.
Thats a good point and I don't disagree with you, but it makes me think, couldn't they just link to a referer page instead of their home so they can record the IPs as well?
For what its worth, sourceforge was blocked @ my school for a few days. That ticked me off. Not to mention any member sites as "freepages01". Yeah thats like 1/4 of all opensource stuff out there.
This'd probably be good for older people who lack the mouse skills to get interested in computers. I've watched older folks be frustrated with not being able to click something and just give up without experiencing the functionality of a computer. Young kids as well, although they learn new skills easier so this isn't as much of a barrier. (yes, lack of motor skills plays a role but there isn't too much a kid that age can do on a computer except play the newest edition of Blue's Clues). I'm not sure how much it would catch on in the mainstream, because mice tend to be more accurate, but I can see this as good for those who can't use mice yet. Of course as soon as Linux does it Microsoft will too and claim they had it first, but whatever so long as it enables more people to enhance their lives using computers. Now, how much of an enhancement using Windows is is debatable....
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Hearing all the time about how MIT supports things like this just makes me all the more pissed off about my interview for admissions. I'm one of the poor unfortunate souls who had to defend the merits of open source, Wikipedia, email, and pacifism to my interviewer who had problems with all these things. He also probably hadn't been on campus in at least a decade since he didn't know the correct size of the student body (he wasn't even in the ballpark). I passed a guy in the elevator with a bluetooth headset on on the way out of the building (a hospital, my interviewer is a surgeon) who complimented me on my GNU hoody, and I thought, "Now that's the image MIT's been portraying to me, not that... back there." So either MIT is actually lame and they put on a cool presentation, or (and I think this is the more likely option) I got really screwed by my misfortune to have this interviewer.
That's easy. All you need is a blinking light and a burnt-out one. You have all the women stand in a line and tell them to go into the crazy line if the blinking one comes on and the sane line if the burnt-out one comes on.
According to the Klingon Dictionary (the only official source, which I of course own), hello does not have a direct translation. The closest thing to a greeting that Klingons use is nuqneH, which actually means "What do you want?". The word "lonely" has no direct translation either, though considering the Klingon culture and psyche, this does not surprising. It is also worth noting that as an adjective, (of which Klingon has none), "lonely" would be expressed as a verb meaning "to be lonely".
MIT has this to apparently. The difference is it was designed by students. It's one of their recruiting points. I didn't get into MIT but the Computer Science House @ RIT (my college) has online drink machines. Its debatable which is more useful. Atleast until CSH finally gets in the robot they've been talking about, then they pwn. My stereo is controllable online. (through phpMPD) I'd put my other stuff on if I had the time.
Bundle Fx with Windows! Oh, wait Bill would never go for that. Oooh what about the manufacturers and ISPs though, they might go for it. IBM would love the chance to give M$ a kick in the balls, and with their focus on security and stability they could use it as a selling point. The ISPs could use it as a selling point as well - I don't know how many pointless TV commercials I've seen about ISPs providing security features. And a lot of users have come to think of their browser as tied to their ISP, because of that old hack "Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by _________" and AOL's long term association with Netscape. It's so perfect, why didn't I think of this before?
This could be the thing that finally convinces me to get an iPod. I've been resisting, but that would just be too cool. Especially if they used semitransparent casing and made the indiglo spread the whole way 'round. They could call it the iSaber
dpkg has APT. APT can use CDs as repositories. This may not seem like a big deal until you try to install stuff for an RPM based system without a direct net connection. Mandrake used to handle this somehow with its package manager, but then it did a bunch of other cool stuff too. Yum is terrible without an internet connection. Yes, you can copy all the .rpms onto your harddrive, but the same people without a good net connection are the people without a lot of harddrive space. Not to mention that apt-get has Super Cow Powers!
Sell themselves? Most of them are paying for it!
I was going to post, but then I saw yours and realized that you're my creepy long lost twin or something. My situation is almost exactly like yours, except right clicking on the desktop (or anywhere) doesn't work at all. Life sucks when you have to use the file menu for everything.
gah, i was beginning to think my sense of good/bad site layout was skewed. really, it hurts to look at even my page, and i've tried to make it pretty.
The problem with turtle graphics is that Logo is almost dead. It went with the Apple IIes that I learned BASIC on. I was going to try to revive Logo for a school project I was working on but it was a big hassle and it turned out I didn't have time. Its still out there but Nobody uses it. Especially teachers. Kids are learning how to use Microsoft Word instead. I think they want more too; my little brother (4th grade) came to me and asked me to teach him HTML. Its the education system that's not doing its job teaching technology. There are rumors at my school that a BASIC class used to exist but now all we have is "Honors Programming" which we're eligible for after two semesters of Computer Applications. Its pretty much limited to nerds and people who got stuck there because of scheduling. How sad.
Not to mention the processing speed of your Ferrari =P
>(At least out of the box.) Out of the box upgrades for ME to XP (which is the most popular installation type I've seen in my experience) still use FAT32 by default. FAT32 has no file permissions. 'nough said.
I really hope you were joking, but just in case and for anyone else out there wondering who RMS is, see here
Well you're right on one account, I wouldn't let Windows handle my certificates if I didn't absolutely have to. And its not that IE integrates with windows bookmarks, IE is Windows bookmarks.
RMS for President!
Linux has had windows as a screensaver for years. Its called the BSOD screensaver.
In communist Russia, the mammoths clone you.
Anything that is occasionally used is most likely pretty specific in function, and thus fairly easy to get a decent UI for. You can usually make on app lock in fullscreen and disable access to the rest of the system. I think this study is more about long-term usability since it is studying desktops. For a kiosk or such you wouldn't want the user to have a full desktop anyway because it'd just be extra holes to patch and things for the user to mess up.
They keep doing more studies and whaddaya know... everything causes cancer. Except those things which prevent it of course. Its enough to make a man skeptical.
Umm.. ctrl+click link for email. Not to mention the cool little "put this in a new window" buttons for all of the compose/quick-reply boxes. It even keeps the text you were working on.
Btw ctrl+anything works for about any tab related thing. Ctrl+Tab switches, ctrl+enter in googlebar does new tab, etc. Shift usually modifies whether the tab focuses right away or not as well. Just in case anyone didn't know.
More useful!?!? don't know how many hours i've spent looking for a decent browser based jabber client even. The fact that it does AIM and Yahoo as well makes this one of the coolest sites I've found all month. Thanks for the link, g.p.
Thats a good point and I don't disagree with you, but it makes me think, couldn't they just link to a referer page instead of their home so they can record the IPs as well?
For what its worth, sourceforge was blocked @ my school for a few days. That ticked me off. Not to mention any member sites as "freepages01". Yeah thats like 1/4 of all opensource stuff out there.
This'd probably be good for older people who lack the mouse skills to get interested in computers. I've watched older folks be frustrated with not being able to click something and just give up without experiencing the functionality of a computer. Young kids as well, although they learn new skills easier so this isn't as much of a barrier. (yes, lack of motor skills plays a role but there isn't too much a kid that age can do on a computer except play the newest edition of Blue's Clues). I'm not sure how much it would catch on in the mainstream, because mice tend to be more accurate, but I can see this as good for those who can't use mice yet. Of course as soon as Linux does it Microsoft will too and claim they had it first, but whatever so long as it enables more people to enhance their lives using computers. Now, how much of an enhancement using Windows is is debatable....