I was thinking about that and yeah, that would be cool if they gave up on developping it and released the sources as they are, I'm sure lots of people would like to help with this project and get the work done. Actually I'm sure the result would be better by far if the open source community completed it than if 3D Realms did.
If she wiped the entire hard drive, there would be absolutely no way to tell what was on it before
Oh yes there is. That's actually quite a concern for intelligence agencies. There are stories about it sometimes on Slashdot, like this one or this one. Anyways in that case what you need to read the data is a gauss meter iirc.
Actually the best solution according to me is to have 3 displayed lines of tabs, if you have more tabs then you can scroll vertically with either your mouse wheel or by clicking arrows. Works good for me, I'm using Tab Mix Plus + Session Saver so no matter what happens I always have my 80 tabs opened. Well ok right now I only have 39 but it's because the last time I massively closed tabs was just a few days ago.
However, you seem to talk about it as if it was an idea of something to implement, but as I said, it's there (you might like to use SessionSaver as well so you don't lose all of your opened tabs once you close/crash) and with it you can pretty much experiment all the different possible ways to do you mentioned.
They just called it a planet because they lacked the information we have.
Actually they called it a planet because they were looking for one. Unfortunatly for them, it wasn't the giant Planet X they were expecting from their calculations.
When will people understand that sounds can be annoying?
Sounds on web-pages are annoying, sounds when you start your computer or just use it normally are annoying, even in games sounds can be annoying, most of the time you just don't want to hear a sound, either because you don't want to make any noises or because you're listening to music.
When is the last time that you were listening to music and some awefull piece of music emanating from your speakers 3 times louder than the music you were listening to all of this because someone on myspace tought it was cool to put music on their main page?
My point is, make this a commandement : Thou shalt not make any sounds unless necessary. I mean really necessary, what's the point of having your computer make some pseudo-zen chime when it gets started up?
Oh well, it gives you a couple of coolness points if your start up sound sounds like "SEGAAA!!!"
Thanks for this link, here have a virtual Informative point;-). Eric Schmidt to be the CEO of a merged Apple-Sun? heheh, Dvorak will never cease from making me laugh. However, that one article wasn't quite as laughable as the one about Elvis having predicted the dot-com crash.
Awesome, by the time they reach Firefox 4, in barely a couple of years, it will have so many 'functions' that it will be like an OS inside the OS, à la emacs
Good news I guess, but what does it really mean? I wish the article would go into further details and speculated on the implications of this..
Well if anyone who knows what they are talking about wants to explain what it means for Google, for Apple, for the market/industy and also if someone can explain what Al Gore is in that thing for and what he does, well feel free to explain..
Lots of people want to be game developers -- but it's not as simple as it sounds
In other news, lots of people want to be top models, famous singers and actors - but it's not as simple as it sounds
Nothing to see here, move along.
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A New Kind of OS
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This article sounds like articles from 1990 about the house of 2015, you know, the ones talking about how saying "light" will turn light on, how you will check and reply to your video e-mails from your living room big screen TV well you know.. just like Back To the Future II.
My point is, I don't think you'll really see or even want a self deciding or modifying OS, even if the idea sounds cool. Mod me down for this if you want, but I think this whole article is just some nearly-worthless futuristic rambling, even if it's got some interesting ideas, don't pay attention.
Feed them, clothe them, and give them the means to do so themselves.
No! NO!! Don't you have any sense of priorities? What they need the most is a $100 laptop and WiFi hotspots so they can edit Wikipedia in their language! Not food or water, electricity or peace! Knowledge, dude!;-)
My native language is not English and yet I mainly use English Wikipedia because it has more materials, better quality articles and is updated more frequently.
Same for me (I'm french). Reminds me that we should point out that a huge number of people (the majority maybe? I have no idea) in Africa speaks either english or french, along with their local language. So a Wikipedia in Swaheli or Wolof is fairly less necessary than some people may think.
I hate to sound like a troll, but who cares? No, seriously, if there's a language which too few of its speakers can possibly care about Wikipedia (since too few of them can access it) then who cares?
Too few people. The number of articles on a language 'partition' of Wikipedia reveals how many people really care about it, and when you have 1,000 articles for a language, it means that very few people can possibly care about it, and so we shouldn't care about that whole issue.
And if such a language partition of the Wikipedia gets written mostly by non-native speakers, it shows that there are even fewer native speakers who can possibly care.
alright but heh, to me it's only geek sillyness to think about that kind of stuff when you have to face such events. I'd rather wonder whether I buy a Mossberg 500 or a Mac-10;-). What do you need your mail account on a thumbdrive for anyways if you can't access internet?
If there's one thing Katrina taught me, it's that losing your entire life would completely suck. Why not take a few minutes now so that you can get back to normal ASAP?
If all you need to rebuild your life can hold on a thumbdrive, I wonder what kind of life you live;-)
Anyways, why carry it with you? Zip your stuff, encrypt it if you want, and put it on a couple of servers that are in two different cities. If you're gonna get in a Katrina-type situation, rather have your data in some server in Germany than in your pocket.
I agree with the other poster, HTML isn't a good idea, it's not a programming language, but most of all, it's not fun. I remember back when I was 13, programming a simple text game (the one where you have to guess a value by dichotomy) in BASIC on my V-Tech Genius 2000, now that was fun, because that was real game programming, I mean you could actually play with it.
You can't play with HTML, it's pretty static, and then it has actually nothing to do with programming, so it's off-topic.
Maybe she wiped a hard drive from a different computer
wiped? from a different computer? Is it me or does it neither makes sense nor have anything to do with what I said before? Or did you mean swapped instead of wiped? That'd make more sense. Anyways, I don't see what your concerns about privacy or your needs have to do with it;-) remember, you're not doing anything wrong, so you have nothing to hide, mostly not the naked pictures of your wife
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In April of 1997, Google, eBay, and the term "weblog" didn't exist.
eBay was founded in 1995.
Mac OS switched to UNIX...
Actually I guess we can say Mac OS had switched to Unix earlier with A/UX
I swear, I really don't have anything better to do at 8:47am than to check your facts ;-)
I was thinking about that and yeah, that would be cool if they gave up on developping it and released the sources as they are, I'm sure lots of people would like to help with this project and get the work done. Actually I'm sure the result would be better by far if the open source community completed it than if 3D Realms did.
If she wiped the entire hard drive, there would be absolutely no way to tell what was on it before
Oh yes there is. That's actually quite a concern for intelligence agencies. There are stories about it sometimes on Slashdot, like this one or this one. Anyways in that case what you need to read the data is a gauss meter iirc.
Actually the best solution according to me is to have 3 displayed lines of tabs, if you have more tabs then you can scroll vertically with either your mouse wheel or by clicking arrows. Works good for me, I'm using Tab Mix Plus + Session Saver so no matter what happens I always have my 80 tabs opened. Well ok right now I only have 39 but it's because the last time I massively closed tabs was just a few days ago.
However, you seem to talk about it as if it was an idea of something to implement, but as I said, it's there (you might like to use SessionSaver as well so you don't lose all of your opened tabs once you close/crash) and with it you can pretty much experiment all the different possible ways to do you mentioned.
How can you turn that off? And how can it possibly make tabbed browsing impossible?
They just called it a planet because they lacked the information we have.
Actually they called it a planet because they were looking for one. Unfortunatly for them, it wasn't the giant Planet X they were expecting from their calculations.
When will people understand that sounds can be annoying?
Sounds on web-pages are annoying, sounds when you start your computer or just use it normally are annoying, even in games sounds can be annoying, most of the time you just don't want to hear a sound, either because you don't want to make any noises or because you're listening to music.
When is the last time that you were listening to music and some awefull piece of music emanating from your speakers 3 times louder than the music you were listening to all of this because someone on myspace tought it was cool to put music on their main page?
My point is, make this a commandement : Thou shalt not make any sounds unless necessary. I mean really necessary, what's the point of having your computer make some pseudo-zen chime when it gets started up?
Oh well, it gives you a couple of coolness points if your start up sound sounds like "SEGAAA!!!"
This decision was handed down in response to a campaign waged by a grieving mother who lost her daughter to someone obsessed with violent pornography.
Does it mean that if someone gets killed by someone obsessed with Christina Aguilera, we could ban her music and videos? Now that would be awesome!
Thanks for this link, here have a virtual Informative point ;-). Eric Schmidt to be the CEO of a merged Apple-Sun? heheh, Dvorak will never cease from making me laugh. However, that one article wasn't quite as laughable as the one about Elvis having predicted the dot-com crash.
Awesome, by the time they reach Firefox 4, in barely a couple of years, it will have so many 'functions' that it will be like an OS inside the OS, à la emacs
OK, done trolling for today :-)
Awesome! An off-topic Mac fanboy troll.
Keep it real, cuz I can tell you're not a poseur, yo!
lol.
Good news I guess, but what does it really mean? I wish the article would go into further details and speculated on the implications of this..
Well if anyone who knows what they are talking about wants to explain what it means for Google, for Apple, for the market/industy and also if someone can explain what Al Gore is in that thing for and what he does, well feel free to explain..
The mouse in its current form is about to be rendered obsolete
Two points :
-You rather have your hand laid on a table than in the air waving some 3D device
-Nobody needs a 3D environment
It's not because something new becomes possible that we must move on. Newer != Better
Lots of people want to be game developers -- but it's not as simple as it sounds
In other news, lots of people want to be top models, famous singers and actors - but it's not as simple as it sounds
This article sounds like articles from 1990 about the house of 2015, you know, the ones talking about how saying "light" will turn light on, how you will check and reply to your video e-mails from your living room big screen TV well you know.. just like Back To the Future II.
My point is, I don't think you'll really see or even want a self deciding or modifying OS, even if the idea sounds cool. Mod me down for this if you want, but I think this whole article is just some nearly-worthless futuristic rambling, even if it's got some interesting ideas, don't pay attention.
Very well said! I'd give you an Insightful point if I could ;-)
Feed them, clothe them, and give them the means to do so themselves.
No! NO!! Don't you have any sense of priorities? What they need the most is a $100 laptop and WiFi hotspots so they can edit Wikipedia in their language! Not food or water, electricity or peace! Knowledge, dude! ;-)
My native language is not English and yet I mainly use English Wikipedia because it has more materials, better quality articles and is updated more frequently.
Same for me (I'm french). Reminds me that we should point out that a huge number of people (the majority maybe? I have no idea) in Africa speaks either english or french, along with their local language. So a Wikipedia in Swaheli or Wolof is fairly less necessary than some people may think.
What about a large-scale terrorist attack, or some sort of war?
hahaha, you left out the possibility of comets falling right on each server.
Or even two natural disasters at the same time (or just a really big one)?
Oh no, disregard what I just said, you didn't leave out that possibility.
lol.
I hate to sound like a troll, but who cares? No, seriously, if there's a language which too few of its speakers can possibly care about Wikipedia (since too few of them can access it) then who cares?
Too few people. The number of articles on a language 'partition' of Wikipedia reveals how many people really care about it, and when you have 1,000 articles for a language, it means that very few people can possibly care about it, and so we shouldn't care about that whole issue.
And if such a language partition of the Wikipedia gets written mostly by non-native speakers, it shows that there are even fewer native speakers who can possibly care.
I claim that this whole thing is a non-issue
alright but heh, to me it's only geek sillyness to think about that kind of stuff when you have to face such events. I'd rather wonder whether I buy a Mossberg 500 or a Mac-10 ;-). What do you need your mail account on a thumbdrive for anyways if you can't access internet?
If there's one thing Katrina taught me, it's that losing your entire life would completely suck. Why not take a few minutes now so that you can get back to normal ASAP?
If all you need to rebuild your life can hold on a thumbdrive, I wonder what kind of life you live ;-)
Anyways, why carry it with you? Zip your stuff, encrypt it if you want, and put it on a couple of servers that are in two different cities. If you're gonna get in a Katrina-type situation, rather have your data in some server in Germany than in your pocket.
I agree with the other poster, HTML isn't a good idea, it's not a programming language, but most of all, it's not fun. I remember back when I was 13, programming a simple text game (the one where you have to guess a value by dichotomy) in BASIC on my V-Tech Genius 2000, now that was fun, because that was real game programming, I mean you could actually play with it.
You can't play with HTML, it's pretty static, and then it has actually nothing to do with programming, so it's off-topic.
Maybe she did?
No she didn't, RTFA :-)
Maybe she wiped a hard drive from a different computer
wiped? from a different computer? Is it me or does it neither makes sense nor have anything to do with what I said before? Or did you mean swapped instead of wiped? That'd make more sense. Anyways, I don't see what your concerns about privacy or your needs have to do with it ;-) remember, you're not doing anything wrong, so you have nothing to hide, mostly not the naked pictures of your wife
What a small small world. I get this video thanks of the link you post in this comment and a few hours later you revive me in Urban Dead.
So thanks for the revive!
-Papa Schultz
PS : Thanks to your revive I'm now holding alone a NT building right in the middle of the Big Bash at [93,40].