That's so true, especially that Firefox isn't even the best browser choice on anything but Windows. There's a plethora of Gecko-based browsers available for Linux: such as Galeon or Epiphany for Gnome, or actually Konqueror for KDE, which I hear can use Gecko as a rendering engine. All these use native toolkits for displaying their user interfaces, thusly they're much faster and more look-and-feel-comformant than Firefox can ever hope to be.
(As a personal opinion: honestly, I can't see why one would want to use Firefox under Linux at all.)
Hamsters actually generate lots and lots of excess heat - they have to maintain their metabolism, body temperature and all. The amount of energy they transfer to motion (what you can exploit) is miniscule compared to the amount theoretically contained in the food they eat. And of course, you'd need at least two hamsters to power an AMD laptop; and you can't cut a hamster in half for a Transmeta box (perhaps you might be able to utilize infants).
Offering cheaper hardware in third-world countries (and of course eventually here) will make copying software (music, books, information) harder to do - as long as Microsoft has a part in the design process (and thus can include all the DRM we love).
It has been done - even we did this kind of thing at home... And the difference is obvious, even for amateurs. Tube amplifiers are just much better than their modern counterparts, and that's about it.
Eight electrons.. If we have eight possible voltage levels, that's 3 bits of data, not 4 (although more accurately with eight electrons you would have nine levels)
This is something that we who grew up in audiophile families knew all along. I doubt that a technical explanation is even necessary; good tube amplifiers just sound better than their transistor counterparts (although the difference might not be as obvious as with CD vs. LP).
Imho NO censorship of any form and amount, of any medium whatsoever is justified, should the information in question be discussion of the government, independent news or child pornography. Information should be absolutely free to circulate - it's just bits, 0 and 1.
The other method would be to drop that altogether and realize that the keys like ctrl+c, ctrl+v work well. It could even be a totally different method soas not to confuse ctrl+c with break (although, really, terminal is the only place this is affected, and terminals should implement a totally non-standard method - highlight to copy, middle click to paste - because they're non-standard compared to a GUI).
the highlight/middle click thing IS the standard. has ever been. sidenote: i never really used ctrl-c and ctrl-v, because i'm left-handed. i use ctrl-ins to copy, and shift-ins to paste (i think those work everywhere where ctrl-c and ctrl-v do).
Of course, the vim people will argue that you can do something similar in vi -- but only lines, or multiple commands (delete to end of line, from beginning, etc) and you still have to count lines to do it. (btw, I love vim.. but editing in a GUI is more productive).
when you're familiar enough with vim, learned all those keystrokes and techniques, it is way more productive than a GUI. and faster, a lot faster to work with.. oh, and you can select/delete/etc any arbitrary region with 'v' (visual mode).
my real problem with the X clipboard isn't the highlight/middle-click mechanism; it's that while i'm going over with the mouse to the other app to paste, the terminal might get some output to display, killing my selection.. for example, if you want to paste a URL to your browser from an active irc channel, you'll almost certainly have to CTRL-S the terminal with the irc client first.
idea: if we rewrite everything everywhere just for the purpose of better copy-paste, why not implement vim-like features in the widgets? (such as multiple clipboards with ", regex search&replace and so on.. it wouldn't need to be a feature turned on by default, because i'm sure the modeful paradigm would piss off (and possibly scare) the windows newbies HARD.)
I always thought that if God is anywhere to be found, it'll surely have to do something with prime numbers.. these are truly mysterious aspects of our reality.
Patents are one of the few ways new, little companies and inventors can get into the market. Without them the only entities that would ever make money are the established players. Patent abuse and a broken patent system, by themselves, don't make patents in general a bad thing.
The question is then, what makes them a bad thing; because they are a bad thing, as it would seem these days.
In my experience, artists aren't like programmers; they seem to be much less willing to 'waste' their talents on something that will be given away for free.
..because your hearing doesn't work like that. the sound quality perceived can't be easily told from frequency graphs and so on (ever heard of the PWB effect?)
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That's so true, especially that Firefox isn't even the best browser choice on anything but Windows. There's a plethora of Gecko-based browsers available for Linux: such as Galeon or Epiphany for Gnome, or actually Konqueror for KDE, which I hear can use Gecko as a rendering engine. All these use native toolkits for displaying their user interfaces, thusly they're much faster and more look-and-feel-comformant than Firefox can ever hope to be.
(As a personal opinion: honestly, I can't see why one would want to use Firefox under Linux at all.)
The government does what they feel is in the best interest of their people.
...except it doesn't. In fact these days I'm not even sure it should. Anyway, revolutions need to remove/reform the people first, not the government..
Real programmers can (and do) write FORTRAN in any language. (And they aren't afraid of goto)
On another note, I'd like to see other distros do what Red Hat is doing to Fedora's boot screen: Using X resolutions for the startup.
How about doing what god intended and starting the damn operating system in text mode?? The user might as well startx if he wants...
Hamsters actually generate lots and lots of excess heat - they have to maintain their metabolism, body temperature and all. The amount of energy they transfer to motion (what you can exploit) is miniscule compared to the amount theoretically contained in the food they eat. And of course, you'd need at least two hamsters to power an AMD laptop; and you can't cut a hamster in half for a Transmeta box (perhaps you might be able to utilize infants).
This is all about controlling consumer base in the "land of the free".
:)
It's still the land of the free, I guess; just some people are more free than others
as if .info in itself wasn't stupid enough... (but .asia and especially .eu are reasonable in my opinion)
Offering cheaper hardware in third-world countries (and of course eventually here) will make copying software (music, books, information) harder to do - as long as Microsoft has a part in the design process (and thus can include all the DRM we love).
In my opinion, valid takedown notices on really shared movies constitute spam. MPAA: go away
Some of us have been programming for 5 years in that age.
It has been done - even we did this kind of thing at home... And the difference is obvious, even for amateurs. Tube amplifiers are just much better than their modern counterparts, and that's about it.
Bad attitude. Let's make the software powerful and educate (force to learn) the users. (And forget the managers :))
Eight electrons.. If we have eight possible voltage levels, that's 3 bits of data, not 4 (although more accurately with eight electrons you would have nine levels)
This is something that we who grew up in audiophile families knew all along. I doubt that a technical explanation is even necessary; good tube amplifiers just sound better than their transistor counterparts (although the difference might not be as obvious as with CD vs. LP).
I would guess the microphone (-analogue) recorded the vibrations of the spacecraft body caused by the particles.
You should try learning the Game of Go.
Imho NO censorship of any form and amount, of any medium whatsoever is justified, should the information in question be discussion of the government, independent news or child pornography. Information should be absolutely free to circulate - it's just bits, 0 and 1.
The other method would be to drop that altogether and realize that the keys like ctrl+c, ctrl+v work well. It could even be a totally different method soas not to confuse ctrl+c with break (although, really, terminal is the only place this is affected, and terminals should implement a totally non-standard method - highlight to copy, middle click to paste - because they're non-standard compared to a GUI).
the highlight/middle click thing IS the standard. has ever been.
sidenote: i never really used ctrl-c and ctrl-v, because i'm left-handed. i use ctrl-ins to copy, and shift-ins to paste (i think those work everywhere where ctrl-c and ctrl-v do).
Of course, the vim people will argue that you can do something similar in vi -- but only lines, or multiple commands (delete to end of line, from beginning, etc) and you still have to count lines to do it. (btw, I love vim.. but editing in a GUI is more productive).
when you're familiar enough with vim, learned all those keystrokes and techniques, it is way more productive than a GUI. and faster, a lot faster to work with.. oh, and you can select/delete/etc any arbitrary region with 'v' (visual mode).
my real problem with the X clipboard isn't the highlight/middle-click mechanism; it's that while i'm going over with the mouse to the other app to paste, the terminal might get some output to display, killing my selection.. for example, if you want to paste a URL to your browser from an active irc channel, you'll almost certainly have to CTRL-S the terminal with the irc client first.
idea: if we rewrite everything everywhere just for the purpose of better copy-paste, why not implement vim-like features in the widgets? (such as multiple clipboards with ", regex search&replace and so on.. it wouldn't need to be a feature turned on by default, because i'm sure the modeful paradigm would piss off (and possibly scare) the windows newbies HARD.)
well the obvious and easiest choice...
:)
PERL of course
*evil laughter*
(well, perl was the first thing to come to mind, but there are lots of things one could say here... java.. brainf*ck.. or even the shakespeare thing
one word: pr0n
indeed, it might be interesting to experiment with additional pheromone tanks. w3c would need to extend css with olfactory properties..
is an inverse peripheral (scent detector) in development somewhere?
I always thought that if God is anywhere to be found, it'll surely have to do something with prime numbers.. these are truly mysterious aspects of our reality.
Patents are one of the few ways new, little companies and inventors can get into the market. Without them the only entities that would ever make money are the established players. Patent abuse and a broken patent system, by themselves, don't make patents in general a bad thing.
The question is then, what makes them a bad thing; because they are a bad thing, as it would seem these days.
In my experience, artists aren't like programmers; they seem to be much less willing to 'waste' their talents on something that will be given away for free.
..because your hearing doesn't work like that. the sound quality perceived can't be easily told from frequency graphs and so on (ever heard of the PWB effect?)
...its non-standard UI compared to other Mac apps..
it's the mac apps that have the nonstandard UI, not gimp.