I put a piece of scotch tape over the lens. It lets the light in, and only shows blurred images. Images that are essentially useless, except to show movement of shapes.
On reading about this subject, I have come to appreciate the evolution that has occurred for GUI applications. I do however, believe that one should not overlook the following about me and my peers, "We baby boomers are not going to give up requiring large fonts, or keyboards for gui applications". A mouse is essential if one intends to do fine drawings such as autocad, or use draw programs or even produce powerpoint types of foils where fine line detail is needed.
I purchasd a keyboard with about 10 extra function keys at the top, beyond what you normally see on a standard keyboard, and with those extra keys programmed as I wish, I can do exactly what scrolling through launchers does for me. Hot keys are the way to go.
With the new layouts containing a list of all GUI applications, I have to constantly scroll them in order to locate an application launcher. Not everything I do fits on the "quick launcher" pad. I want to use my data to drive and start the gui application, and not the reverse. In this regard, there is something wrong with both Ubuntu's natty and Gnome3s paradigm. Both interfaces went away from the data to address application launchers. Wow, how painful it is and time wasting to use these two new interfaces.
You could argue that the next version will allow me to change the sequence of the icons(launchers) on the display. Will it allow me to change the type of data shown? If I want my display to be a folder object, containing a series of documents, will I be able to have that option, the option to not show hundreds of application launchers, but only my important folders.
Heresy, we will return our backs to the current approach and look to using the folder as a desktop-- a desktop that contains my data and my application launchers. My ideal GUI display will have object oriented globs, with each glob containing my data and my methods. That is what I would happily accept.
Last, comment. Eventually, ARM, Intel AMD, Motorolla and the world will all be booting a common virtual machine application. That VM will run a global operating system (Perhaps it will be like java) that will allow "write once", "use anywhere" to take place. There will be no need to purchase multiple versions of the same application. I also believe that eventually chipmakers will provide processors capable of having the majority of their instruction sets read-in after booting from a mini-bios. This to my mind would open the door to the virtual machine I envisage.
Somehow India and China have skipped a generation. I would say that their skills and education far exceed what is the average in the USA, when comparing quantities of graduates and quality of graduates.
The USA exported their knowledge to other countries and as a consequence, they started from that level.
The USA in 15 years will be the poor country, as the others leapfrog in knowledge and output.
In certain parts of Africa, the cell phone is more ubiquitous than banks or credit card machines. So, a system setup by the locals, (not too many details), allows an individual to go to a filling station and fill his phone with some local currency (kind of currency). Everyone uses this currency. Take a taxi, and the driver will accept your payment via cellphone to cellphone. There are essentially no debit cards in circulation.
I am not certain, but I read that there is no transaction fee. A fee is charted to buy this cellphone money, and that's it. The filling station is also charged with converting this money to liquid cash. But, from what I read, the cell phone money is really accepted everywhere, including shopping centers and groceries.
We need this kind of service to eliminate the banks and their stupendous fees.
What is wrong with being able to receive or pay for products and services with cell phone to cell phone transactions, aside from cheating the government out of taxes.
In Canada (Montreal) we have activeelectronics. They are what Radio Scrap used to be, a great distributor of small components. Of course there are other electronic stores for handymen who love to solder.
As an individual holding a master degree, I found that university teaches you to be analytical, and either expressive or introverted. It does not teach you to really be innovative. How can you be innovative when you are deeply analytical.
So, who succeeds in business when you look at the population at large? It is rarely the University grad.
I dual boot systems, and I like my sudo user on Ubuntu to be the same number as my sudo user on Fedora. Before it was a manual procedure to create dummy user at 500, then a sudo user at 1000.
Wonderful decision
Microsoft will move skype to be a hotmail addition. If you want Skype, you will want hotmail, and you will want skype credits, then you must purchase from the Microsoft store, etc. etc. etc.
Go to the system config and find the entry to turn graphics on (It is off by default). Log out and log in again and you will have a gnome2.x desktop style, which you can reconfigure to as many as you require. This option gives you some of the new with some of the legacy.
You may want to ask for an appraisal of your work before you make the above proposal. If the appraisel is positive, then you have a value call. If you are indispensable, then the thing to do is invite the principal(s) to lunch (one at a time), and state your case. You are the Architect, and the Project manager, and the team leader. Your contribution has resulted in revenue increases from zzzz to AAAA, in the months you took over. You believe it is reasonable to receive equity so that you will be encouraged to excel.
Be prepared for a stall, or a Let me check with my partners reply. If that is stated, then say, great, let me know by next week.
Good luck
I love your experiment. We have a living one with what we call the McDonald effect. It is the doubling of the weight of the average American middle aged adult, shortening his life by 10 years, and creating big muscles for the remote control thumb.
If the community sets up a private corp, and there are volunteers to run it, the costs would be very very low. A Verizon type of company, where 34-50 cents of every dollar goes to marketing is the reason for their high costs, but if there is no marketing and there is diligence about expenses, it should be possible to comply with the law and also serve the community.
It will take one or two citizens to open a company to do what the town wants to do. The shareholders may be funded by the town buying shares as an investment, or by guaranteeing the loans of the private company.
Where there is a need and there is a will to do something, there is a way.
With so many schools offering CS degrees, what's the big deal if there is one less. Is there not another school in a 25 mile radius that has a CS department, and can't the schools arrange a cross training deal. (I'll teach x for your students if you teach y for my students).
Saves money for both schools.
Hi,
Let's see, Nokia developed QT, and did it up to QT4. Now they have invested many manhours, salaries, and big dollars. They feel that it is time to turn QT over to the community because it is very worthy and because the community has a wealth of ideas about improvements..
Would you say they invested over a million dollars$ I would say so.
I just feel that one should appreciate companies making good offers, but one could criticize companies taking away functionality (like Sony did)
So, though you don't use Nokia cell phones or devices, you want them out of the goodness of their heart to provide you with a multi-platform GUI interface software. Who are you anyway, and why do you criticize
Would another way be to hide GPS sendors in cargo, so that when stolen, or ransom paid, the GPS device would be with the pirates, and lead the armed forces to their pirates lair.
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I put a piece of scotch tape over the lens. It lets the light in, and only shows blurred images. Images that are essentially useless, except to show movement of shapes.
I purchasd a keyboard with about 10 extra function keys at the top, beyond what you normally see on a standard keyboard, and with those extra keys programmed as I wish, I can do exactly what scrolling through launchers does for me. Hot keys are the way to go.
With the new layouts containing a list of all GUI applications, I have to constantly scroll them in order to locate an application launcher. Not everything I do fits on the "quick launcher" pad. I want to use my data to drive and start the gui application, and not the reverse. In this regard, there is something wrong with both Ubuntu's natty and Gnome3s paradigm. Both interfaces went away from the data to address application launchers. Wow, how painful it is and time wasting to use these two new interfaces.
You could argue that the next version will allow me to change the sequence of the icons(launchers) on the display. Will it allow me to change the type of data shown? If I want my display to be a folder object, containing a series of documents, will I be able to have that option, the option to not show hundreds of application launchers, but only my important folders.
Heresy, we will return our backs to the current approach and look to using the folder as a desktop-- a desktop that contains my data and my application launchers. My ideal GUI display will have object oriented globs, with each glob containing my data and my methods. That is what I would happily accept.
Last, comment. Eventually, ARM, Intel AMD, Motorolla and the world will all be booting a common virtual machine application. That VM will run a global operating system (Perhaps it will be like java) that will allow "write once", "use anywhere" to take place. There will be no need to purchase multiple versions of the same application. I also believe that eventually chipmakers will provide processors capable of having the majority of their instruction sets read-in after booting from a mini-bios. This to my mind would open the door to the virtual machine I envisage.
Somehow India and China have skipped a generation. I would say that their skills and education far exceed what is the average in the USA, when comparing quantities of graduates and quality of graduates. The USA exported their knowledge to other countries and as a consequence, they started from that level. The USA in 15 years will be the poor country, as the others leapfrog in knowledge and output.
Subject line says it all.
The sterility is also killing the honey bees. No pollination and no honey and much much lower crop yields
Ignorance is a bliss. I take exception to stating that the USA only censors MP3 downloads or trivia. It costs a lot of money to censor trivia.
In certain parts of Africa, the cell phone is more ubiquitous than banks or credit card machines. So, a system setup by the locals, (not too many details), allows an individual to go to a filling station and fill his phone with some local currency (kind of currency). Everyone uses this currency. Take a taxi, and the driver will accept your payment via cellphone to cellphone. There are essentially no debit cards in circulation. I am not certain, but I read that there is no transaction fee. A fee is charted to buy this cellphone money, and that's it. The filling station is also charged with converting this money to liquid cash. But, from what I read, the cell phone money is really accepted everywhere, including shopping centers and groceries. We need this kind of service to eliminate the banks and their stupendous fees. What is wrong with being able to receive or pay for products and services with cell phone to cell phone transactions, aside from cheating the government out of taxes.
In Canada (Montreal) we have activeelectronics. They are what Radio Scrap used to be, a great distributor of small components. Of course there are other electronic stores for handymen who love to solder.
As an individual holding a master degree, I found that university teaches you to be analytical, and either expressive or introverted. It does not teach you to really be innovative. How can you be innovative when you are deeply analytical. So, who succeeds in business when you look at the population at large? It is rarely the University grad.
I dual boot systems, and I like my sudo user on Ubuntu to be the same number as my sudo user on Fedora. Before it was a manual procedure to create dummy user at 500, then a sudo user at 1000. Wonderful decision
So is it a superset of jpeg, and can it be enhanced to also support jpeg? Then we have a codec that kills two birds with one stone.
Microsoft will move skype to be a hotmail addition. If you want Skype, you will want hotmail, and you will want skype credits, then you must purchase from the Microsoft store, etc. etc. etc.
Go to the system config and find the entry to turn graphics on (It is off by default). Log out and log in again and you will have a gnome2.x desktop style, which you can reconfigure to as many as you require. This option gives you some of the new with some of the legacy.
You may want to ask for an appraisal of your work before you make the above proposal. If the appraisel is positive, then you have a value call. If you are indispensable, then the thing to do is invite the principal(s) to lunch (one at a time), and state your case. You are the Architect, and the Project manager, and the team leader. Your contribution has resulted in revenue increases from zzzz to AAAA, in the months you took over. You believe it is reasonable to receive equity so that you will be encouraged to excel. Be prepared for a stall, or a Let me check with my partners reply. If that is stated, then say, great, let me know by next week. Good luck
I love your experiment. We have a living one with what we call the McDonald effect. It is the doubling of the weight of the average American middle aged adult, shortening his life by 10 years, and creating big muscles for the remote control thumb.
If the community sets up a private corp, and there are volunteers to run it, the costs would be very very low. A Verizon type of company, where 34-50 cents of every dollar goes to marketing is the reason for their high costs, but if there is no marketing and there is diligence about expenses, it should be possible to comply with the law and also serve the community.
It will take one or two citizens to open a company to do what the town wants to do. The shareholders may be funded by the town buying shares as an investment, or by guaranteeing the loans of the private company. Where there is a need and there is a will to do something, there is a way.
Is it really a question of degree of evilness. Kadhafi is perhaps more evil, or has pissed off more people in his lifetime.
With so many schools offering CS degrees, what's the big deal if there is one less. Is there not another school in a 25 mile radius that has a CS department, and can't the schools arrange a cross training deal. (I'll teach x for your students if you teach y for my students). Saves money for both schools.
Hi, Let's see, Nokia developed QT, and did it up to QT4. Now they have invested many manhours, salaries, and big dollars. They feel that it is time to turn QT over to the community because it is very worthy and because the community has a wealth of ideas about improvements.. Would you say they invested over a million dollars$ I would say so. I just feel that one should appreciate companies making good offers, but one could criticize companies taking away functionality (like Sony did)
Subject line says it all. Rental is the way to go. And everyone will go that way soon. Great loophole.
Subject line says it all.
So, though you don't use Nokia cell phones or devices, you want them out of the goodness of their heart to provide you with a multi-platform GUI interface software. Who are you anyway, and why do you criticize
Would another way be to hide GPS sendors in cargo, so that when stolen, or ransom paid, the GPS device would be with the pirates, and lead the armed forces to their pirates lair.
Just a question. Would 5 foot and a half as mentioned really be 1.5 meters as a width?