A beginner also doesn't know what to do when setup.exe pops up a dialog box saying 'Installshield Error: -51'. Actually, most advanced users don't either, come to think of it.
Google it!
This is where the zealots show their side though. If you have to go outside the OS to find out what's wrong, people usually give up blaming the system. Since Linux usually comes in a package of other applications, they tend to blame the whole OS instead of some lame program they downloaded that doesn't work with their OS.
I'm not confused when I can see her name tag on her shirt or her face, but if I had to type out her name to send her a message, I'd likely send the wrong message to the wrong Meghan. She'd likely get really pissed off at me and/or destroy my entire CD collection.
When people can identify something without having to type it out it makes learning the process easier. You learn to talk before you learn to spell. You learn to talk by associating visual objects with sounds and actions. You learn how to spell those actions later. By jumping right to spelling out every action, you jump to the last level of learning when you touch the command line.
Command lines lack language intuitiveness. (If there is such a thing...) I deal with this with my designers when I write up an API for their work. If I want them to add content to the screen, do I have them type Screen.Load('mycontent.file') or Screen.Add(new File('myContent.file')? There are so many different ways to "say" something to a computer to make it do what you want. If it's in the GUI, the user can visually determine what button to click because the button is given to them. They don't have to guess to type "Yes", "Okay", "Continue", "Cancel", "Stop", "Abort" or several other verbs to describe how the program should proceed. They only have the choices available on the screen.
when I go to the command line and I want to add a user, do I type: ADDUSER nschubach ADD USER nschubach ADD ID nschubach ADD LOGIN nschubach LOGIN ADD nschubach LOGINID ADD nschubach USER ADD nschubach USERADD nschubach
If it was in the GUI, there would simply be a text field and a button. They likely wouldn't have to guess if it was called a Login ID, User ID, Active Directory ID, or any other. They would know that it was the field you enter the user id into. With a GUI you can group content to make it more intuitive as well. If you have a field called Client, is it the client ID or the client name? If you group that with Address, you can figure out that it's the client's name. If you had that in a command line, you'd have to first know to use "client" instead of "customer" or "user" and you'd have to use it in a way that the executable understands it.
Would the empty vacuum of space really be a good way to dissipate heat? I thought everything in space was cold on the dark side and hot on the sun side. Without a medium to transfer heat into it wouldn't be a good thermal conductor... or am I totally incorrect in this?
I'm sorry, a button to do a 180 turn is so counterintuitive to playing, especially when your turning is done with a joystick. I love my console, for console like games, but FPS is the domain of the PC for controls alone. What's missing in the console business are more third person "RPG" overhead games like Diablo, Baldur's Gate (hey, I liked it!), Dark Kingdom (yeah, again... I thought it was fun), and some other similar non-fantasy games. Maybe even a Fallout 2 redux with updated graphics, sounds and character enhancements.
Has anyone heard when or if Tamarin is going into FF at any point in time? I checked the site quite vigorously the other day and could find no estimates, time-lines, or even projected version.
My experience with Moonlight on Debian Lenny under Iceweasel:
I play a game called Conquer Club (online Risk). There are greasemonkey scripts for getting data and one of them uses Silverlight to draw graphs. I figured I'd try it. I get linked to the MS site, which routes me to the Moonlight home. I click the install and the plugin is dropped into my browser. Easy enough. I go back to the page that required Silverlight... doesn't detect it. I click on the Silverlight "get it now" picture and my browser crashes because the Silverlight site tries to push some codecs onto my machine.
I'm still waiting to be impressed by Silverlight in some way on Linux. On the other hand, my 64-bit beta Flash plug-in works great even though I had to manually place it in a plug in folder on my machine.
I don't know if I'd call it genius or underhanded (people jumped all over Sony for doing something similar with that one import company...) but use the legal system and costs associated with it to drive your competition out of business.
I've been curious why all the sudden there are several servers that announced regular routine maintenance cycles where they would be unavailable... They used to be available 24/7.
That's why you train kids to use the computer in generic ideas instead of specific operations. One could argue that if you trained all the kids on XP/2K and Windows 7 was the OS they would be faced with in the workforce, there's just as much of a learning curve.
I would almost bet that you could find any newsprint from the WW2 era and replace Nazi with RIAA/MPAA, bomber/tank/troops with DRM and Jews with "hackers" and it would sort of make sense.
There's quite a bit less contact with the radio though (considering I use a lanyard to balance the radio)... and I get the added side benefit of sunlight and movement.;)
My right hand always gets those blisters from sitting on a mouse most of the day. If I let them go (or pick at it... bad, I know) they open on their own exposing the nice fresh soft under skin. I just attributed it to a hazard of gaming at home and working in the computer industry during the day. I've taken up R/C Helicopters as a hobby to try to get away from gaming too much at home.
I hate when people assume that all those black males under 30 are perfectly innocent or that what they did was somehow justified by their imagined oppression...
No No... they pay to get a bunch of people Microsoft certified... make everyone in America certified. This way the jobs have so much competition that you could make more working at McDonalds and Microsoft can claim the lowest TCO of all the operating systems in the world.
Yeah, and let the artists decide when and how long people listen to their songs? I love last.fm because I can listen to my own radio stations without someone cramming their idea of what "good" music is down my throat like FM radio or how many times a day I can listen to a song before having to buy it. If last.fm didn't require you to give up control of that copy of your song, artists would be suing last.fm for content control and play list pushing. If you don't like your songs being listened to, then don't upload to last.fm. It's that simple. People decide what services meet their needs in listening and if you don't agree to those terms, don't upload to the service and you won't get listeners.
I'm saying that even if a government has consent from the governed it does not automatically make the government just.
True. That's where the ultimate arbiter part comes in. It's inevitably up to the citizens to make sure the government is just. through serving on a jury. If you dodge the jury process or don't rule on hearings then you are not upholding your part of the deal. Jury-less hearings are a whole other matter that I won't get into.
Are you saying local governments are not subject to the constitution but Federal governments are?
They are both subject to it. In fact, local gun bans could be tried in court and be presented to the Judicial branch of the Federal Government and ruled upon... if someone was ballsy enough to walk through town with a mini-gun and possibly spend a few days in prison to try it. (Carrying laws that is. I don't condone anyone actually using it...) Put in front of the right judge, local gun bans could be ruled a violation of The Constitution. It's all up to how hard the citizens are willing to argue for their rights.
Maybe a Government cannot restrict your rights, but AFAIK a Government can and does restrict what you can do, and can also force you to do stuff.
For instance the 16th amendment to the Constitution gives the Government power to take part of your income. So I guess you don't have a right to keep all of your income, at least not from the Congress.
The amendments have been widely disputed over the years. In fact the Bill of rights was (and is in some cases) disputed because it enumerates rights that cannot be ruled against and some argue that all rights are granted under freedom. Some would say the Bill of Rights is redundant to natural human rights.
The Constitution grants the Legislation the right to collect funds... well, here's the text:
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
Which tells me that the 16th amendment was a direct affront to the words in the original document. Originally taxation was to be uniform and consistent and the 16th sort of throws that out the window.
As with anything US law is considered "living law" meant to adjust to the times. IMHO, it's been bastardized from it's original intent though. We are free people who grant the government the accordance to protect our rights as human beings, not grant them. Protection of our rights includes confiscating weapons in some locations to protect the individual from others. This does not include public spaces as I read it, but to some it does. As a citizen, I would expect to have my weapon temporarily confiscated upon entering a public building protected by officials, but not a public park (unless the local laws account for a park guard to protect my right to defense.)
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A beginner also doesn't know what to do when setup.exe pops up a dialog box saying 'Installshield Error: -51'. Actually, most advanced users don't either, come to think of it.
Google it!
This is where the zealots show their side though. If you have to go outside the OS to find out what's wrong, people usually give up blaming the system. Since Linux usually comes in a package of other applications, they tend to blame the whole OS instead of some lame program they downloaded that doesn't work with their OS.
I'm not confused when I can see her name tag on her shirt or her face, but if I had to type out her name to send her a message, I'd likely send the wrong message to the wrong Meghan. She'd likely get really pissed off at me and/or destroy my entire CD collection.
When people can identify something without having to type it out it makes learning the process easier. You learn to talk before you learn to spell. You learn to talk by associating visual objects with sounds and actions. You learn how to spell those actions later. By jumping right to spelling out every action, you jump to the last level of learning when you touch the command line.
I'm negating my moderation to reply to this...
Command lines lack language intuitiveness. (If there is such a thing...) I deal with this with my designers when I write up an API for their work. If I want them to add content to the screen, do I have them type Screen.Load('mycontent.file') or Screen.Add(new File('myContent.file')? There are so many different ways to "say" something to a computer to make it do what you want. If it's in the GUI, the user can visually determine what button to click because the button is given to them. They don't have to guess to type "Yes", "Okay", "Continue", "Cancel", "Stop", "Abort" or several other verbs to describe how the program should proceed. They only have the choices available on the screen.
when I go to the command line and I want to add a user, do I type:
ADDUSER nschubach
ADD USER nschubach
ADD ID nschubach
ADD LOGIN nschubach
LOGIN ADD nschubach
LOGINID ADD nschubach
USER ADD nschubach
USERADD nschubach
If it was in the GUI, there would simply be a text field and a button. They likely wouldn't have to guess if it was called a Login ID, User ID, Active Directory ID, or any other. They would know that it was the field you enter the user id into. With a GUI you can group content to make it more intuitive as well. If you have a field called Client, is it the client ID or the client name? If you group that with Address, you can figure out that it's the client's name. If you had that in a command line, you'd have to first know to use "client" instead of "customer" or "user" and you'd have to use it in a way that the executable understands it.
Would the empty vacuum of space really be a good way to dissipate heat? I thought everything in space was cold on the dark side and hot on the sun side. Without a medium to transfer heat into it wouldn't be a good thermal conductor... or am I totally incorrect in this?
I'm sorry, a button to do a 180 turn is so counterintuitive to playing, especially when your turning is done with a joystick. I love my console, for console like games, but FPS is the domain of the PC for controls alone. What's missing in the console business are more third person "RPG" overhead games like Diablo, Baldur's Gate (hey, I liked it!), Dark Kingdom (yeah, again... I thought it was fun), and some other similar non-fantasy games. Maybe even a Fallout 2 redux with updated graphics, sounds and character enhancements.
Excuse my last post... here is the thread dedicated to that script:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=263581#263581
I suggest anyone interested in this grab the script form the forums: http://dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=202542#202542
(It doesn't add in domain names for links if you have them enabled)
Has anyone heard when or if Tamarin is going into FF at any point in time? I checked the site quite vigorously the other day and could find no estimates, time-lines, or even projected version.
Perhaps you'd like to fix the issue where Moonlight crashes Iceweasel (Firefox) on my Linux laptop.
I'd hardly call crashing the browser, "getting better."
My experience with Moonlight on Debian Lenny under Iceweasel:
I play a game called Conquer Club (online Risk). There are greasemonkey scripts for getting data and one of them uses Silverlight to draw graphs. I figured I'd try it. I get linked to the MS site, which routes me to the Moonlight home. I click the install and the plugin is dropped into my browser. Easy enough. I go back to the page that required Silverlight... doesn't detect it. I click on the Silverlight "get it now" picture and my browser crashes because the Silverlight site tries to push some codecs onto my machine.
I'm still waiting to be impressed by Silverlight in some way on Linux. On the other hand, my 64-bit beta Flash plug-in works great even though I had to manually place it in a plug in folder on my machine.
Amazingly enough, I still have no idea what Twitter even looks like...
Somehow I've managed to avoid it for some reason that I cannot explain.
I don't know if I'd call it genius or underhanded (people jumped all over Sony for doing something similar with that one import company...) but use the legal system and costs associated with it to drive your competition out of business.
That blue 'e' thingie is the Internet... If you're machine doesn't have it you won't be able to play the Yahoo games.
I've been curious why all the sudden there are several servers that announced regular routine maintenance cycles where they would be unavailable... They used to be available 24/7.
That's why you train kids to use the computer in generic ideas instead of specific operations. One could argue that if you trained all the kids on XP/2K and Windows 7 was the OS they would be faced with in the workforce, there's just as much of a learning curve.
Not just internet discussions...
I would almost bet that you could find any newsprint from the WW2 era and replace Nazi with RIAA/MPAA, bomber/tank/troops with DRM and Jews with "hackers" and it would sort of make sense.
There's quite a bit less contact with the radio though (considering I use a lanyard to balance the radio)... and I get the added side benefit of sunlight and movement. ;)
My right hand always gets those blisters from sitting on a mouse most of the day. If I let them go (or pick at it... bad, I know) they open on their own exposing the nice fresh soft under skin. I just attributed it to a hazard of gaming at home and working in the computer industry during the day. I've taken up R/C Helicopters as a hobby to try to get away from gaming too much at home.
I hate when people assume that all those black males under 30 are perfectly innocent or that what they did was somehow justified by their imagined oppression...
...who killed a squirrel with a bucket.
No No... they pay to get a bunch of people Microsoft certified... make everyone in America certified. This way the jobs have so much competition that you could make more working at McDonalds and Microsoft can claim the lowest TCO of all the operating systems in the world.
Yeah, and let the artists decide when and how long people listen to their songs? I love last.fm because I can listen to my own radio stations without someone cramming their idea of what "good" music is down my throat like FM radio or how many times a day I can listen to a song before having to buy it. If last.fm didn't require you to give up control of that copy of your song, artists would be suing last.fm for content control and play list pushing. If you don't like your songs being listened to, then don't upload to last.fm. It's that simple. People decide what services meet their needs in listening and if you don't agree to those terms, don't upload to the service and you won't get listeners.
I'm saying that even if a government has consent from the governed it does not automatically make the government just.
True. That's where the ultimate arbiter part comes in. It's inevitably up to the citizens to make sure the government is just. through serving on a jury. If you dodge the jury process or don't rule on hearings then you are not upholding your part of the deal. Jury-less hearings are a whole other matter that I won't get into.
Are you saying local governments are not subject to the constitution but Federal governments are?
They are both subject to it. In fact, local gun bans could be tried in court and be presented to the Judicial branch of the Federal Government and ruled upon... if someone was ballsy enough to walk through town with a mini-gun and possibly spend a few days in prison to try it. (Carrying laws that is. I don't condone anyone actually using it...) Put in front of the right judge, local gun bans could be ruled a violation of The Constitution. It's all up to how hard the citizens are willing to argue for their rights.
Maybe a Government cannot restrict your rights, but AFAIK a Government can and does restrict what you can do, and can also force you to do stuff.
For instance the 16th amendment to the Constitution gives the Government power to take part of your income. So I guess you don't have a right to keep all of your income, at least not from the Congress.
The amendments have been widely disputed over the years. In fact the Bill of rights was (and is in some cases) disputed because it enumerates rights that cannot be ruled against and some argue that all rights are granted under freedom. Some would say the Bill of Rights is redundant to natural human rights.
The Constitution grants the Legislation the right to collect funds... well, here's the text:
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
Which tells me that the 16th amendment was a direct affront to the words in the original document. Originally taxation was to be uniform and consistent and the 16th sort of throws that out the window.
As with anything US law is considered "living law" meant to adjust to the times. IMHO, it's been bastardized from it's original intent though. We are free people who grant the government the accordance to protect our rights as human beings, not grant them. Protection of our rights includes confiscating weapons in some locations to protect the individual from others. This does not include public spaces as I read it, but to some it does. As a citizen, I would expect to have my weapon temporarily confiscated upon entering a public building protected by officials, but not a public park (unless the local laws account for a park guard to protect my right to defense.)
My Boss has a WinMo6 phone that locks up when he answers calls from his wife. He calls this a feature.
Maybe you should try to Google that search string. I'll bet you get a few more results. ;)