So if it's software for what you do, it's a real application, but if it's software for what I do, it's a hobby?
I'm not trying to say OS "A" has more applications than OS "B". I'm trying to say that the number of applications is a silly and nonsensical argument. It's the kind of application needed that ultimately determines the OS preference.
I've heard this line a lot in the past. You have a legitimate point, but the language used is FUD.
The reason you stick to Win32 isn't "Applications", it's "the specific 3D Graphics applications that are needed for particular tasks I do".
It always aggrivates me when someone says "Windows has more applications". No. It doesn't. Let me repeat:
No. It doesn't.
GNU/Linux probably has more; it definitely comes with more on the CD. Yet, I still wouldn't use the language "I use GNU/Linux because it has more applications", I'd say "...because it comes with powerful, familiar applications for programming and graphics"
I recently saw a TV segment about research showing that he quite likely projected an image onto canvas using a lens, then painted or sketched the projected image.
He probably wasn't the inventor of the technique. I believe it was called a 'camera obscura'.
Too bad the site doesn't work under Galeon. When will these brain-dead web designers realize that they're just creating a bigger problem by trying to block browsers? Most of the time they don't correctly detect browser capabilities, causing users to misreport what kind of browser they're using.
You said strategy game, so hopefully my findings might be handy. Most strategy games are sector-based, like Freeciv or Warcraft. I'm using a pretty good (IMHO) model for my own project, Metagame-Sector, which you might be interested in.
Basically, I've broken it down into 5 objects: Game, Map, Sector, Player and Item. The ownership relationships are as follows: Game owns one or more Maps, and zero or more Players. Map owns one or more Sectors. Player owns zero or more Items.
There are three subclasses of items so far: Trivial (like swords and onions), Units (like tanks and horses), and Charactors [sic] (like Mario or Frodo). There are also interfaces for the items such as Movable and Jumpable.
I'm very surprised by what I read here. With 70% of the threads on Slashdot being related to the creeping loss of our freedoms, everyone is still swept up by Greed Season. Do those of you who have visions of Playstations dancing in your heads know that Sony is a huge player in both the RIAA and the MPAA?
Christmas presents may be gifts, but everything has a cost. We all need to think about the consequences of our actions, direct or indirect. Don't just accept commercial gift giving because it's the status quo. How about spending time with the people you care about, and enjoying the time off, instead of working at being a diligent consumer? Or, better yet, as CmdrTaco hinted at, why not ask for a donation to be made in your name to a worthwhile charity, such as the EFF or the Leauge for Programming Freedom?
Personally, I don't expect to recieve any gifts for Christmas, or my December birthday, save for a plane ticket to visit my parents in Alberta.
No, I've never seen that proposal before. Definetly looks challenging.
I'd say the Escape key (Space-`) is still too far away and too small for the amount of times I'm hitting it. I absolutely LOVE it at CapsLock.
I'm also thinking of switching square brackets with round brackets. No holding of shift, but then again, the pinky isn't the greatest for accuracy. I'm always hitting - when I mean to hit =.
I'd like to jump on the wagon of saying how great Sawmill is for keybindings. As well as mouse-bindings (I've set mine up so that right-clicking on ANY of the window borders brings up the wm menu, and middle-clicking on any border moves the window. All annoyances of inacessable title borders are gone.).
As far as devices go, the mouse was a great, revolutionary technology of it's time. All props to Douglas Englebart, however, I think it's time has passed. It seems that industry has said "ooh! people will buy a mouse" and just gotten stuck in a rut. Roller-wheels, third buttons, and pretty colours are NOT a revolution. I hate to leave the home row, and just wish there was an ergonomic setup that would mean I didn't have to (after last weeks article that taught me how to switch CapsLock and Escape keys, I'm one step closer).
The ideas that I've thought of are: a keyboard split in two, and you roll each around (think of a keyboard and mouse getting married and having two kids), a pressure sensitive wrist pad that translated subtle movements in both wrists into mouse movements, or eyball tracking. I believe I played with an eyeball tracker at the Ontario Science Center when I was a kid, so I don't think it's new technology. But I remember it having real trouble initializing -- figuring out where my eyes were. If this is still the problem, how about really distinct coloured contact lenses ala Marilyn Manson. I'd wear 'em if it would mean more time with my precious home row. Or maybe the other way around -- contact lenses with sensors in them that would work similarly to Nintendo's Duck Hunt. You all remember Duck Hunt don't you? (contact lenses might be overkill here, glasses would probably work, but then you'd have to move your whole head. Carpal Tunnel Neck)
As far as surfing around your (multiple) desktop(s) with solely your keyboard, I've found that the following scheme works well:
Ctrl-Alt - - - - Window Manager and X (focus, shifting desktops, shutting down X)
Alt - - - - Application User Interface (File, Edit -type menus, menu item shortcuts)
Ctrl - - - - Application (Ctrl-x sends mail in pine, Ctrl-Left moves forward a whole word in word processors)
With Alt-Tab being the exception to the rule here. I'm still not comfortable with it switching window focus because it doesn't fit in the pattern. But Ctrl-Alt-Tab is a lotus position for my fingers. Hmm... perhaps Ctrl-Alt-Space...
And this doesn't really leave any room for desktop commands, ie, how to open the Gnome Panel's menu. Maybe Ctrl-Alt fits, but I'm not convinced.
I think there should be some sort of standard, so that when a user downloads some new window manager, it's defaults shouldn't interfere with his/her customary behaviour. Does a standard already exist? Anybody? I think ultimately, it should all be user customizable, though. (again, mad props to Sawmill).
Okay, perhaps I should start my 1500 word essay due at 8:30am now.
I've got a setup at my work where the computer with the tape drive (FreeBSD) FTPs to any machine on our network, downloads files, then tars the downloaded files onto the tape. All done within a couple easy-to-understand shell scripts.
It's probably not the fastest way to do backups, but it's simple, fast to implement, and easy to extend.
Slashdot Mirror
(among others, I'm sure)
Maybe I should have made the subject "Ack! It's not more applications , it's my applications "
You: sssssssss.... "aaah!" zzzip. FLUSH!
I'm not trying to say OS "A" has more applications than OS "B". I'm trying to say that the number of applications is a silly and nonsensical argument. It's the kind of application needed that ultimately determines the OS preference.
The reason you stick to Win32 isn't "Applications", it's "the specific 3D Graphics applications that are needed for particular tasks I do".
It always aggrivates me when someone says "Windows has more applications". No. It doesn't. Let me repeat:
No. It doesn't.
GNU/Linux probably has more; it definitely comes with more on the CD. Yet, I still wouldn't use the language "I use GNU/Linux because it has more applications", I'd say "...because it comes with powerful, familiar applications for programming and graphics"
- RS232:
- Parallel port:
- VGA pin-out:
- keyboard pin-out:
But yes, I acknowledge your point.Three modifications. Most recent in 1991
Does anyone still use this? In the past 6 years, any printing I've done has either been off a network printer or at Kinko's
Here comes DVI!
USB!
...or perhaps first "camera"
I recently saw a TV segment about research showing that he quite likely projected an image onto canvas using a lens, then painted or sketched the projected image.
He probably wasn't the inventor of the technique. I believe it was called a 'camera obscura'.
Just found a link, thanks to Google:
Vermeer's Camera
Too bad the site doesn't work under Galeon. When will these brain-dead web designers realize that they're just creating a bigger problem by trying to block browsers? Most of the time they don't correctly detect browser capabilities, causing users to misreport what kind of browser they're using.
AARGH!
Basically, I've broken it down into 5 objects: Game, Map, Sector, Player and Item. The ownership relationships are as follows: Game owns one or more Maps, and zero or more Players. Map owns one or more Sectors. Player owns zero or more Items.
There are three subclasses of items so far: Trivial (like swords and onions), Units (like tanks and horses), and Charactors [sic] (like Mario or Frodo). There are also interfaces for the items such as Movable and Jumpable.
Check out Metagame-Sector if this model interests you.
I'm very surprised by what I read here. With 70% of the threads on Slashdot being related to the creeping loss of our freedoms, everyone is still swept up by Greed Season. Do those of you who have visions of Playstations dancing in your heads know that Sony is a huge player in both the RIAA and the MPAA?
Christmas presents may be gifts, but everything has a cost. We all need to think about the consequences of our actions, direct or indirect. Don't just accept commercial gift giving because it's the status quo. How about spending time with the people you care about, and enjoying the time off, instead of working at being a diligent consumer? Or, better yet, as CmdrTaco hinted at, why not ask for a donation to be made in your name to a worthwhile charity, such as the EFF or the Leauge for Programming Freedom?
Personally, I don't expect to recieve any gifts for Christmas, or my December birthday, save for a plane ticket to visit my parents in Alberta.
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Sure you can.
At fairtunes.com
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I just realized...
C# can be pronounced "cock-tothorpe".
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PS. Essay is done. 1655 words in under 5 hours.
If only that was LOC instead of words.
- sjbrown
- works at
Wow.
No, I've never seen that proposal before. Definetly looks challenging.
I'd say the Escape key (Space-`) is still too far away and too small for the amount of times I'm hitting it. I absolutely LOVE it at CapsLock.
I'm also thinking of switching square brackets with round brackets. No holding of shift, but then again, the pinky isn't the greatest for accuracy. I'm always hitting - when I mean to hit =.
-spoo
- sjbrown
- works at
I'd like to jump on the wagon of saying how great Sawmill is for keybindings. As well as mouse-bindings (I've set mine up so that right-clicking on ANY of the window borders brings up the wm menu, and middle-clicking on any border moves the window. All annoyances of inacessable title borders are gone.).
As far as devices go, the mouse was a great, revolutionary technology of it's time. All props to Douglas Englebart, however, I think it's time has passed. It seems that industry has said "ooh! people will buy a mouse" and just gotten stuck in a rut. Roller-wheels, third buttons, and pretty colours are NOT a revolution. I hate to leave the home row, and just wish there was an ergonomic setup that would mean I didn't have to (after last weeks article that taught me how to switch CapsLock and Escape keys, I'm one step closer).
The ideas that I've thought of are: a keyboard split in two, and you roll each around (think of a keyboard and mouse getting married and having two kids), a pressure sensitive wrist pad that translated subtle movements in both wrists into mouse movements, or eyball tracking. I believe I played with an eyeball tracker at the Ontario Science Center when I was a kid, so I don't think it's new technology. But I remember it having real trouble initializing -- figuring out where my eyes were. If this is still the problem, how about really distinct coloured contact lenses ala Marilyn Manson. I'd wear 'em if it would mean more time with my precious home row. Or maybe the other way around -- contact lenses with sensors in them that would work similarly to Nintendo's Duck Hunt. You all remember Duck Hunt don't you? (contact lenses might be overkill here, glasses would probably work, but then you'd have to move your whole head. Carpal Tunnel Neck)
As far as surfing around your (multiple) desktop(s) with solely your keyboard, I've found that the following scheme works well:
Ctrl-Alt - - - - Window Manager and X
(focus, shifting desktops, shutting down X)
Alt - - - - Application User Interface
(File, Edit -type menus, menu item shortcuts)
Ctrl - - - - Application
(Ctrl-x sends mail in pine, Ctrl-Left moves forward a whole word in word processors)
Shift - - - - Modifies above commands
(usually reverses the direction)
With Alt-Tab being the exception to the rule here. I'm still not comfortable with it switching window focus because it doesn't fit in the pattern. But Ctrl-Alt-Tab is a lotus position for my fingers. Hmm... perhaps Ctrl-Alt-Space...
And this doesn't really leave any room for desktop commands, ie, how to open the Gnome Panel's menu. Maybe Ctrl-Alt fits, but I'm not convinced.
I think there should be some sort of standard, so that when a user downloads some new window manager, it's defaults shouldn't interfere with his/her customary behaviour. Does a standard already exist? Anybody? I think ultimately, it should all be user customizable, though. (again, mad props to Sawmill).
Okay, perhaps I should start my 1500 word essay due at 8:30am now.
- sjbrown
- works at
6. Which Internet technologies are you interested in on Linux?
Cold Fusion showed up, but iHTML didn't! Damn Marketing!
I've got a setup at my work where the computer with the tape drive (FreeBSD) FTPs to any machine on our network, downloads files, then tars the downloaded files onto the tape. All done within a couple easy-to-understand shell scripts.
It's probably not the fastest way to do backups, but it's simple, fast to implement, and easy to extend.