Comment Re:Good thing nobody hates the French (Score 1) 561
actually, it was started by a french whore, and the cheeks were not on someone's face
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actually, it was started by a french whore, and the cheeks were not on someone's face
(Score:3, Informative)... only on Slashdot...
Einstein's House, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab, Princeton, New Jersey
Einstein's House in Princeton is nothing special, really. It's just a regular house in dowtown Princeton (Mercer Street) and last I checked, it wasn't open to visits. Besides, it's got absolutely nothing to do with PPPL (Plasma physics lab you mention) which is outside the city center, although a visit to the fusion and other experiments conducted there is also interesting (I used to work there).
I like to build things. I am good at building things. I have no desire and no particular talent for soliciting customers and investors or managing people, infrastructure and money. If I were to start my own business, guess what I would have to spend most of my time doing?
Amen to that. It took me some time to accept it ("What ? Engineer ? Build stuff ? You really don't want to have a career ?"), but I feel exactly the same as you do. Wish I had mod points...
Actually if you want to see a planet you should really be looking down, not up.
Or behind: Uranus is not very far.
Did he even take a glance though? A lot of university folk (esp the PhDs) are so full of themselves they dismiss anything that doesn't match their worldview. I know the kind of people you're talking about, and while many truly are insane, there are a few with good ideas. Heck, Marconi, Tesla, Bell, Wright; at some point they were all considered "insane" by their peers, yet look at us today,
Right, except that usually, nutjobs come with awfully intricate schemes and it takes a lot of time to debunk them by finding where the contradiction(s) with thermodynamics lies. Really, it's not easy, it takes much time and researchers in universities haven't been hired to do this all day long. Actually, those willing tend to do it during their spare time.
I am still waiting for Gnome or KDE to catch up with the efficiency and usability of these older environments.
KDE is getting closer now that it's possible for the desktop menu to present a list of applications rather than a handful of useless wallpaper-changing commands, but both major environments seem to be stuck on the stupid Windows 95-derived taskbar paradigm. Give me spatial management of running applications dammit! I want to develop muscle memory, not scan slowly across a list of tiny icons that are never in the same place twice.
Jesus, man, give me fvwm, olvmw or even mwm any day... But forget about CDE. Even years later, I don't have any fond memories of CDE: it was ugly, it was slow and inconvenient...
CDE will always mean Common Desktop Environment to me.
I only used CDE briefly, but I remember that it was like a combination of the sheer visual elegance of Tk's widgets with lush the color scheme of a bordello.
Yeah, not to mention the sluggishness of Motif.
I thought there were 6 - up, down, strange, charm, top and bottom?
Try to build an electron with that...
Saliva causes cancer, but only if swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time. -- George Carlin
