By teaching them point-and-click software, you're creating the next generation of computer-inept people who *think* they can "develop" by dumbly clicking the buttons.
Teach from the basics. Notepad is free last I checked. Code in HTML. Look at "good" and "bad" interfaces. Without a solid concept of the basics, your money is wasted on the software anyways.
Concepts will stick with the students no matter where they go. The web design or graphical concepts that they learn is far more valuable than any amount of "drag from X to Y" instruction that you try to force into them.
Mencoder will do DVD ripping and any type of encoding imaginable, and you can just unextract the binaries instead of installing. All you need is some command-line know-how.
Just thought I'd let you know.
Awesome news: KDE-based apps should work on Mac & Windows (properly ported)
Properly ported, I hope. GTK libraries in Windows meant GTK apps could be ported to Windows. Awesome, right?
Well look at the mess we have now. Every GTK app brings its own libraries to Windows, and the libraries may or may not be compatible with other GTK apps (Gaim/Gimp conflicts). Other programs like Radiant and Inkscape just dumps them all in its own folder. None of them integrate well with Windows, and they suffer from poor performance and odd GUI bugs.
Since KDE is built on Qt, I'm hoping that these problems can be avoided. Also, some kind of collaboration needs to be there, so we don't get twenty different copies of the KDE libs all over our computer. It doesn't matter how good the apps are if they don't integrate well.
Your sibling post pretty much sums it up. While TrueCrypt doesn't have to re-encrypt the whole volume, it's still one giant file you'd have to download and reupload if you wanted to make changes.
God forbid you would have a non-WYSIWYG word processor. And then macros and more macros and codes and stuff. I typeset some reports and other "formal" papers in LaTeX, but it's still a hassle. Can you drag and drop clip art in LaTeX? Can you make pink bold curvy WordArt in LaTeX? How easy is it to make an org-chart in LaTeX? This is what people do with Word.
A WYSIWYG editor saves people the trouble of thinking, at the expense of making poor formatting decisions. I tend to think of plain HTML as being similar to LaTeX; you make semantic decisions, and let the browser produce the final version. Look at how many people fail at HTML. LaTeX is great for people who care, but who cares? If I want to quickly make an outline, I'm not going to open up Notepad, code the document structure, \begin{enumerate}, and hope I did things right and that the compiler will work.
My math professors use LaTeX for math typesetting. My other teachers wouldn't have a clue.
Will there be full hardware-acceleration of the graphical effects, like Compiz provides, or will KDE 4 continue to have ugly faux transparency? The screenshots of Plasma look nice, but if there's no good graphics engine behind it, like OS X does, then it's merely a gimmick.
No, this is moving across filesystems, in which case the OS has to copy every byte of the file to another physical device. GP is saying that Linux's mv command will not cause you to lose data if the destination does not receive it completely and your original is also naively deleted.
That's why, in the scheme discussed by Slate (see 1st post), the absentee ballots would be double-checked for faithfulness and then the proceeds split.
Cabextract the installer, but don't cabextract the.cab inside the installer because the files you get are unreadable. If you can, cabextract the installer and then use Windows Explorer to open up the.cab and extract the fonts (.ttf,.ttc).
You'd have to pick between (didi - younger brother) or (gege - older brother), so it's not that awkward of a redundancy. If you really wanted to, you could say (big age-neutral-brother) but that sounds painfully inefficient.
Dude, they'll get tired of constantly voting, and then just vote on an entity to automatically vote a certain way for them in all the decisions. It'll be like their representative...
Wait, that sounds vaguely familiar.
MSWord formatting is largely a joke. That's what you get with an "all-purpose" word processor. When you have so many people hitting the spacebar to center text and using inane tricks to do basic formatting tasks, combined with a closed binary format, discrepancies crop up.
I don't have this problem with LaTeX, but you can't *truly* care about precise formatting when you're using Microsoft Office.
1. Use the One-click Ruby installer from rubyforge (not Cygwin ruby) 2. Make sure to `gem install net-ssh` 3. Change "require 'glut'" to "require 'glut_prev'" to enable legacy GLUT ruby bindings
The article's data is from Net Applications, which measures actual OS usage based on website visitors. They are not counting purchases, OEM installs, etc. They are counting the client info sent by the browsers.
Your criticism is irrelevant. Market share is not counted by money.
For example, hitting Ctrl-I is much quicker -- once you know how to do it -- than highlighting the text (an operation requiring leaving the keyboard, getting hold of the mouse... There, fixed that for ya
They can't show 3D models in a PDF document! How can I ever switch to a FOSS reader when I can't enjoy interactive 3D demonstrations inside my PDF document?
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By teaching them point-and-click software, you're creating the next generation of computer-inept people who *think* they can "develop" by dumbly clicking the buttons.
Teach from the basics. Notepad is free last I checked. Code in HTML. Look at "good" and "bad" interfaces. Without a solid concept of the basics, your money is wasted on the software anyways.
Concepts will stick with the students no matter where they go. The web design or graphical concepts that they learn is far more valuable than any amount of "drag from X to Y" instruction that you try to force into them.
Mencoder will do DVD ripping and any type of encoding imaginable, and you can just unextract the binaries instead of installing. All you need is some command-line know-how. Just thought I'd let you know.
Properly ported, I hope. GTK libraries in Windows meant GTK apps could be ported to Windows. Awesome, right? Well look at the mess we have now. Every GTK app brings its own libraries to Windows, and the libraries may or may not be compatible with other GTK apps (Gaim/Gimp conflicts). Other programs like Radiant and Inkscape just dumps them all in its own folder. None of them integrate well with Windows, and they suffer from poor performance and odd GUI bugs.
Since KDE is built on Qt, I'm hoping that these problems can be avoided. Also, some kind of collaboration needs to be there, so we don't get twenty different copies of the KDE libs all over our computer. It doesn't matter how good the apps are if they don't integrate well.
Your sibling post pretty much sums it up. While TrueCrypt doesn't have to re-encrypt the whole volume, it's still one giant file you'd have to download and reupload if you wanted to make changes.
You'd have to create a local encrypted "container" (which is a filesystem in itself), fill it with data, and then put it on your gDiskDriveSpaceBox.
It's like storing a safe at the rental storage unit.
Undermining, datamining, strip mining, shaft mining, drift mining, it's really all semantics.
Speaking of which, I hear Tim Berners-Lee has some lofty ideas for Google...
Count - The bestseller list has:
4 Zune products
13 Apple products
I'll leave the calculus as an exercise for the reader.
Here goes...
It's not idiot friendly.
God forbid you would have a non-WYSIWYG word processor. And then macros and more macros and codes and stuff. I typeset some reports and other "formal" papers in LaTeX, but it's still a hassle. Can you drag and drop clip art in LaTeX? Can you make pink bold curvy WordArt in LaTeX? How easy is it to make an org-chart in LaTeX? This is what people do with Word.
A WYSIWYG editor saves people the trouble of thinking, at the expense of making poor formatting decisions. I tend to think of plain HTML as being similar to LaTeX; you make semantic decisions, and let the browser produce the final version. Look at how many people fail at HTML. LaTeX is great for people who care, but who cares? If I want to quickly make an outline, I'm not going to open up Notepad, code the document structure, \begin{enumerate}, and hope I did things right and that the compiler will work.
My math professors use LaTeX for math typesetting. My other teachers wouldn't have a clue.
Will there be full hardware-acceleration of the graphical effects, like Compiz provides, or will KDE 4 continue to have ugly faux transparency? The screenshots of Plasma look nice, but if there's no good graphics engine behind it, like OS X does, then it's merely a gimmick.
Netcraft confirms it!
No, this is moving across filesystems, in which case the OS has to copy every byte of the file to another physical device. GP is saying that Linux's mv command will not cause you to lose data if the destination does not receive it completely and your original is also naively deleted.
Apple Inc. produces Mighty Mouse
There, fixed that outdated headline for you.
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That's why, in the scheme discussed by Slate (see 1st post), the absentee ballots would be double-checked for faithfulness and then the proceeds split.
Cabextract the installer, but don't cabextract the .cab inside the installer because the files you get are unreadable. If you can, cabextract the installer and then use Windows Explorer to open up the .cab and extract the fonts (.ttf, .ttc).
And Unicode characters died in transit. Sorry.
You'd have to pick between (didi - younger brother) or (gege - older brother), so it's not that awkward of a redundancy. If you really wanted to, you could say (big age-neutral-brother) but that sounds painfully inefficient.
Dude, they'll get tired of constantly voting, and then just vote on an entity to automatically vote a certain way for them in all the decisions. It'll be like their representative... Wait, that sounds vaguely familiar.
MSWord formatting is largely a joke. That's what you get with an "all-purpose" word processor. When you have so many people hitting the spacebar to center text and using inane tricks to do basic formatting tasks, combined with a closed binary format, discrepancies crop up.
I don't have this problem with LaTeX, but you can't *truly* care about precise formatting when you're using Microsoft Office.
If you want to run glTail on Windows:
1. Use the One-click Ruby installer from rubyforge (not Cygwin ruby)
2. Make sure to `gem install net-ssh`
3. Change "require 'glut'" to "require 'glut_prev'" to enable legacy GLUT ruby bindings
Took me a while to figure this out.
The article's data is from Net Applications, which measures actual OS usage based on website visitors. They are not counting purchases, OEM installs, etc. They are counting the client info sent by the browsers.
Your criticism is irrelevant. Market share is not counted by money.
They can't show 3D models in a PDF document!
How can I ever switch to a FOSS reader when I can't enjoy interactive 3D demonstrations inside my PDF document?
Want to know a way to get double +5 funny? See the parent post!
There, fixed that for you.