Any Mac user will tell you that Command-Period will abort such an unintentional operation.
But that's cancelling a mouse action with a moderately complicated keyboard action. Switching devices like that takes time. (For that specific case, however, there is a stop button on the move progress bar, so the input device switch is not necessary. Also, escape works for that, and is a single, quickly selectable key.)
when you drag a file around on a mac, if you accidentally let go on the desktop, or on any directory on the same disk the file is on, it will simply move it.
If you drag to an app in a folder on another drive and miss, however, it will copy. The Command-Z doesn't work to undo this, nor a move to the desktop, on OS 9.1, maybe it does in OS X. (I have a Mac right here, I can test these things.)
[...]intelligent use of drag-and-drop (which to my mind is a better paradigm).
I don't like drag and drop. Why? Because it's too easy to drop in the wrong place and have something completely different happen than what you intended, and reverting to the old state can be difficult. Dragging a data file onto a program icon? Whoops, your finger slipped and now it's moving the file to the desktop. Gotta wait for the copy to finish before you can even start putting it back, and then dragging it onto the program icon again. Maybe I'm just clumsy, but I'd much prefer a copy/paste-style interface.
Speaking of shells and colors, are there any shells that support displaying user-typed commands in a different color or on a different background than the output?
Consoles just don't work well for group gaming today.
It depends on the group size. I bet far more people have experienced multiplayer console gaming like Mario Kart than have networked PCs for gaming. You don't use multiple machines and displays, consoles have multiple players on a single display.
I'll grant you that the PC experience is better due to higher resolution and having your own dedicated display, but you're comparing thousands of dollars worth of equipment to something costing a fraction of that amount. (You can argue, of course, that the PC can do other stuff; but buying a cheaper computer for your PC stuff and a console for gaming might be a more economical choice for many.)
On Windows, [Mozilla's speed is] just about the same...maybe only slightly slower
I took a game FAQ and added internal hyperlinks, resulting in a 766KB HTML file. Read from the hard drive, it renders significantly slower in Mozilla 1.2a on Windows (98 and XP) than IE. I figure the Mozilla team will get more aggressive on speed in the near future and fix that weakness, though, so I use the Big Mo almost exclusively.
Actually you are wrong. Cutting a work up and making something else out of it, even if you own the copy you cut up, is, in law, creating a derivative work, and may violate copyright as much as making a copy does.
Even a collage is not just cutting something up, it is adding additional material. A straight-out removal of certain portions -- tearing out pages of a book, for example -- does not to my reading of the law constitute a derivative work. (IANAL blah blah)
It's exactly the same deal with software... you are being paid to create ideas.
Yes, but the more fairly I'm paid for them, the more actively I'll work on coming up with new ones. If the company I work for rewards low efforts the same as high, then I'll be much less motivated to innovate.
The OS also ought to also provide an easy way to reassociate/deassociate any extension and the default application.
Moreover, the OS should maintain multiple associations for a given file type, and file managers should provide a way to choose from several alternatives.
The ships' computers create simulated sound to make it easier to tell where your opponents are, of course. TIE fighters make that distinctive noise so you can tell them from your own ships.
My understanding was that the legal force of EULAs came not from the act of installation, but the act of making a copy of the program in RAM, which was held to infringe copyright in the absence of a licence.
From the statute in your subject: "Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106, it is not an infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer program to make or authorize the making of another copy or adaptation of that computer program provided:
(1)
that such a new copy or adaptation is created as an essential step in the utilization of the computer program in conjunction with a machine and that it is used in no other manner[...]"
So no, it does not infringe copyright, and EULAs can get stuffed. I already finished my contract with the buyer. Can I sell you a house, and then as you're moving in, inform you that large chunks of it don't convey after all and if you don't like it, you can simply move back out? Don't think so...
I knew it was going to be the worst 2hours of television I've ever seen, but still I was sucked in.
It wasn't so bad, since they sneaked in a little educational stuff in the process.
I would have liked to have seen some of the graffiti, also; it's like being at a university and finding graffiti done by a student 100 years ago.
How come they didn't take the camera rover out and put the one with the drill in there to drill a hole through the new found door?
They only drilled a small hole through the first door. The drill wouldn't reach through the hole in the first door to drill in the second, and there are also concerns about making sure the material of the second door is appropriate for drilling. They would have to remove or destroy the first door to get to the second.
I thought they had xrayed the door already, did they know that the new door was there?
They were able to measure the approximate thickness of the first door, but I don't think it told them much beyond that.
How many doors and how many specials will it take to reach the secret chamber?
Right now, it still takes more energy to produce [hydrogen] than you get back out of it.
The gods of entropy guarantee that's always going to be true. But absolute efficiency isn't our only goal, or cars wouldn't have catalytic converters. Hydrogen-powered cars don't pollute, so if you can produce the electricity to create hydrogen cleanly (or in some place where the pollution will be less of a problem), they're good for places where pollution is a problem.
We can only attain perfection through variety.
Indeed, I think each distro should rename all the various shell commands. cp could become copy, dup, xerox, canon (I think they outsell xerox copiers now), mimeograph, clone, etc. depending on your distro.
Seriously, differences are useful for exploring what is the best of several alternatives, but often the differences are not useful, they just differ because making things identical would require a fair bit of work. It would be better to get things all using the same system, and then optimizing and extending that system.
In what way is bare clear-cut land different from the result of a natural forest fire?
Most forest fires don't burn every plant down to the roots. Take a google search for "forest fire plant growth", and you'll see a number of articles that are more informative than anything I can write here.
Clear-cutting tends to be followed up with herbicides and single-species planting, also not conducive to animal life.
If I cut down that tree I've made room for a younger faster growing tree that will in turn lock up a bunch more carbon. Assuming I don't burn the tree I've cut down the carbon is still trapped.
It may rot, which will also release carbon, but yes you are generally correct. A landfill is a carbon sink! The reason to recycle paper is not carbon-related; it's that tree farms are generally unsuitable for most wildlife.
So why exactly are environmentalists so fascinated by leaving old trees in the ground?
I can't by any means speak for all environmentalists (nor, for that matter, do they speak with one voice), but I would think that carbon is not the issue. Dead trees provide habitat for a number of creatures. Decomposing trees are natural mulch. And generally when timber companies come in, it's much more economical to clear-cut, which leads to erosion and makes the land unsuitable for the wildlife that was living there.
Now, if forests were thinned in less destructive ways, with a good fraction of the large trees left and fewer roads needed, it wouldn't do such lasting damage to the land.
Old growth forests are also more likely to have out of control fires which leads to more carbon release.
I'm not sure that you're right about that, but after a fire the land is primed for new growth, so the carbon gets recaptured over time.
Why not plant more trees? Hell, any old plant will do.
Most land that isn't paved or built over has plants growing on it, to my eyes. Certainly trees would absorb more CO2 than grass, but grassy areas are generally mowed, and thus planting a tree will result in a mowed-down seedling in a few weeks. So Johnny Appleseed ain't gonna work; you need the owners of the grasslands to do the planting. But most landowners landscape based on their desires, not to have an individually trivial effect on CO2 levels. Are you going to legally require landowners to plant trees?
You could have governments do more tree planting by roads and the like, but then a few years after a planting they'll be widening the road and chop everything down to grass level again.
Now, people are clearing the Amazon rainforest for small short-term gains. One suggestion has been to pay the Brazilians to restrict Amazon clear-cutting, to keep that carbon in the trees. But for some reason, politicians aren't exactly jumping at the prospect.
Now, if they'd just go back to the old "salamander" icons instead of these heinous wagon wheels that are just more rectangular blobs on a screen overly crowded with rectangular blobs.
I'd personally like to see the splash screen and the icons be part of skins/themes. Is there any reason they couldn't be?
(I think it's a ship's wheel, by the way, not a wagon wheel: think Henry the Navigator.)
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Any Mac user will tell you that Command-Period will abort such an unintentional operation.
But that's cancelling a mouse action with a moderately complicated keyboard action. Switching devices like that takes time. (For that specific case, however, there is a stop button on the move progress bar, so the input device switch is not necessary. Also, escape works for that, and is a single, quickly selectable key.)
when you drag a file around on a mac, if you accidentally let go on the desktop, or on any directory on the same disk the file is on, it will simply move it.
If you drag to an app in a folder on another drive and miss, however, it will copy. The Command-Z doesn't work to undo this, nor a move to the desktop, on OS 9.1, maybe it does in OS X. (I have a Mac right here, I can test these things.)
[...]intelligent use of drag-and-drop (which to my mind is a better paradigm).
I don't like drag and drop. Why? Because it's too easy to drop in the wrong place and have something completely different happen than what you intended, and reverting to the old state can be difficult. Dragging a data file onto a program icon? Whoops, your finger slipped and now it's moving the file to the desktop. Gotta wait for the copy to finish before you can even start putting it back, and then dragging it onto the program icon again. Maybe I'm just clumsy, but I'd much prefer a copy/paste-style interface.
Speaking of shells and colors, are there any shells that support displaying user-typed commands in a different color or on a different background than the output?
Time, hell.... this person has waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much money...
Not anymore.
Consoles just don't work well for group gaming today.
It depends on the group size. I bet far more people have experienced multiplayer console gaming like Mario Kart than have networked PCs for gaming. You don't use multiple machines and displays, consoles have multiple players on a single display.
I'll grant you that the PC experience is better due to higher resolution and having your own dedicated display, but you're comparing thousands of dollars worth of equipment to something costing a fraction of that amount. (You can argue, of course, that the PC can do other stuff; but buying a cheaper computer for your PC stuff and a console for gaming might be a more economical choice for many.)
Or the new production run uses a smaller die and thus consumes less power and runs cooler.
Not to mention quieter, which for a device used for entertainment is a significant virtue.
On Windows, [Mozilla's speed is] just about the same...maybe only slightly slower I took a game FAQ and added internal hyperlinks, resulting in a 766KB HTML file. Read from the hard drive, it renders significantly slower in Mozilla 1.2a on Windows (98 and XP) than IE. I figure the Mozilla team will get more aggressive on speed in the near future and fix that weakness, though, so I use the Big Mo almost exclusively.
Actually you are wrong. Cutting a work up and making something else out of it, even if you own the copy you cut up, is, in law, creating a derivative work, and may violate copyright as much as making a copy does.
Even a collage is not just cutting something up, it is adding additional material. A straight-out removal of certain portions -- tearing out pages of a book, for example -- does not to my reading of the law constitute a derivative work. (IANAL blah blah)
How about Prince Albert?
What you describe is exactly what copyright is designed to prevent. Modifieing a copyrighted work for profit.
No, it isn't. Copyright is designed to prevent you from making entirely new copies and selling those, not modifying ones that have already been sold.
It's exactly the same deal with software... you are being paid to create ideas.
Yes, but the more fairly I'm paid for them, the more actively I'll work on coming up with new ones. If the company I work for rewards low efforts the same as high, then I'll be much less motivated to innovate.
Apparently the white noise is supposed to be similar to the sound of the womb.
:-).
I'm not at all sure what this says about you. Perhaps you want to go back...
I have an intense desire to return to the womb. Anybody's.
-- Woody Allen
The OS also ought to also provide an easy way to reassociate/deassociate any extension and the default application.
Moreover, the OS should maintain multiple associations for a given file type, and file managers should provide a way to choose from several alternatives.
- This just in: Today in Portland there are no more pants. A maniacal despot has kept the city in culottes for weeks.
So is that what my boss meant when he talked about security breeches?
The ships' computers create simulated sound to make it easier to tell where your opponents are, of course. TIE fighters make that distinctive noise so you can tell them from your own ships.
Yeah, that's it...
Macromedia's Authorware is an example of an icon-based "programming" language.
My understanding was that the legal force of EULAs came not from the act of installation, but the act of making a copy of the program in RAM, which was held to infringe copyright in the absence of a licence.
From the statute in your subject:
"Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106, it is not an infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer program to make or authorize the making of another copy or adaptation of that computer program provided:
(1)
that such a new copy or adaptation is created as an essential step in the utilization of the computer program in conjunction with a machine and that it is used in no other manner[...]"
So no, it does not infringe copyright, and EULAs can get stuffed. I already finished my contract with the buyer. Can I sell you a house, and then as you're moving in, inform you that large chunks of it don't convey after all and if you don't like it, you can simply move back out? Don't think so...
Who was that British-accent babe commentator?
Her name is Laura Greene, go a google-ing...
I knew it was going to be the worst 2hours of television I've ever seen, but still I was sucked in.
It wasn't so bad, since they sneaked in a little educational stuff in the process.
I would have liked to have seen some of the graffiti, also; it's like being at a university and finding graffiti done by a student 100 years ago.
How come they didn't take the camera rover out and put the one with the drill in there to drill a hole through the new found door?
They only drilled a small hole through the first door. The drill wouldn't reach through the hole in the first door to drill in the second, and there are also concerns about making sure the material of the second door is appropriate for drilling. They would have to remove or destroy the first door to get to the second.
I thought they had xrayed the door already, did they know that the new door was there?
They were able to measure the approximate thickness of the first door, but I don't think it told them much beyond that.
How many doors and how many specials will it take to reach the secret chamber?
It depends how much advertising they can sell.
Right now, it still takes more energy to produce [hydrogen] than you get back out of it.
The gods of entropy guarantee that's always going to be true. But absolute efficiency isn't our only goal, or cars wouldn't have catalytic converters. Hydrogen-powered cars don't pollute, so if you can produce the electricity to create hydrogen cleanly (or in some place where the pollution will be less of a problem), they're good for places where pollution is a problem.
We can only attain perfection through variety. Indeed, I think each distro should rename all the various shell commands. cp could become copy, dup, xerox, canon (I think they outsell xerox copiers now), mimeograph, clone, etc. depending on your distro. Seriously, differences are useful for exploring what is the best of several alternatives, but often the differences are not useful, they just differ because making things identical would require a fair bit of work. It would be better to get things all using the same system, and then optimizing and extending that system.
In what way is bare clear-cut land different from the result of a natural forest fire?
Most forest fires don't burn every plant down to the roots. Take a google search for "forest fire plant growth", and you'll see a number of articles that are more informative than anything I can write here.
Clear-cutting tends to be followed up with herbicides and single-species planting, also not conducive to animal life.
If I cut down that tree I've made room for a younger faster growing tree that will in turn lock up a bunch more carbon. Assuming I don't burn the tree I've cut down the carbon is still trapped.
It may rot, which will also release carbon, but yes you are generally correct. A landfill is a carbon sink! The reason to recycle paper is not carbon-related; it's that tree farms are generally unsuitable for most wildlife.
So why exactly are environmentalists so fascinated by leaving old trees in the ground?
I can't by any means speak for all environmentalists (nor, for that matter, do they speak with one voice), but I would think that carbon is not the issue. Dead trees provide habitat for a number of creatures. Decomposing trees are natural mulch. And generally when timber companies come in, it's much more economical to clear-cut, which leads to erosion and makes the land unsuitable for the wildlife that was living there.
Now, if forests were thinned in less destructive ways, with a good fraction of the large trees left and fewer roads needed, it wouldn't do such lasting damage to the land.
Old growth forests are also more likely to have out of control fires which leads to more carbon release.
I'm not sure that you're right about that, but after a fire the land is primed for new growth, so the carbon gets recaptured over time.
Why not plant more trees? Hell, any old plant will do.
Most land that isn't paved or built over has plants growing on it, to my eyes. Certainly trees would absorb more CO2 than grass, but grassy areas are generally mowed, and thus planting a tree will result in a mowed-down seedling in a few weeks. So Johnny Appleseed ain't gonna work; you need the owners of the grasslands to do the planting. But most landowners landscape based on their desires, not to have an individually trivial effect on CO2 levels. Are you going to legally require landowners to plant trees?
You could have governments do more tree planting by roads and the like, but then a few years after a planting they'll be widening the road and chop everything down to grass level again.
Now, people are clearing the Amazon rainforest for small short-term gains. One suggestion has been to pay the Brazilians to restrict Amazon clear-cutting, to keep that carbon in the trees. But for some reason, politicians aren't exactly jumping at the prospect.
Now, if they'd just go back to the old "salamander" icons instead of these heinous wagon wheels that are just more rectangular blobs on a screen overly crowded with rectangular blobs.
I'd personally like to see the splash screen and the icons be part of skins/themes. Is there any reason they couldn't be?
(I think it's a ship's wheel, by the way, not a wagon wheel: think Henry the Navigator.)