Sorry if anyone feels that I hijacked something, but it's certainly not the way I think about it.
For me newsgroups, mailing lists and some forums (those that allow threading) can have conversations that fork into multiple topics and I believe that's a Good Thing (tm). If that happens I prefer to rename the branch in which it happened, which does not imply that the original topic should be stopped at all, it is just meant to provide a cleaner separation of the different branches. If that annoys people here I'll stop. Maybe it's too Usenet for Web 2.0 :-) Somehow people seem to be used to a flat world view nowadays, which I believe is sad but I'm willing to accept that. Peter On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 05:15 -0800, Jason Waring wrote: > Peter, why did you change the subject of this discussion? Dianne has > raised an important issue, and we should respect her right to not have > it be hijacked! > > On Feb 20, 6:25 pm, Peter Becker <[email protected]> wrote: > > [was Re: [The Java Posse] Re: An open letter to women Java Posse > > listeners (and their coworkers) ...] > > > > > > > > On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 23:09 +0000, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > > > On 19 Feb 2009, at 11:09, Peter Becker wrote: > > > > I'd be very happy for my daughter to pick up some scientific or IT- > > > > type > > > > work, but so far I haven't been too successful. Maybe it is because > > > > she's not even 3 yet :-) But she got her first computer around her > > > > second birthday -- not a Barbie one but an old Pentium II with KDE on > > > > it, icons scaled up until they are really big and all mouse buttons > > > > mapped to button 1. She likes watching me use it, but she doesn't want > > > > to interact with it herself. > > > > > Check out tuxpaint. My young daughter found that quite entertaining > > > for 10 minutes or so (which is a pretty good stretch for her). Plus, > > > the stencil library comes with back-back (or "ducks" to you and me). > > > > > http://www.tuxpaint.org/ > > > > Comes integrated in GCompris, which is quite nice, too. And we've been > > using Childsplay -- she likes the memory game and the jigsaw puzzles. > > > > GCompris:http://gcompris.net/ > > Childsplay:http://www.schoolsplay.org/ > > > > One nice hack is to map .flv to a script running VLC in full-screen mode > > and close on finish. That allows dumping lots of Youtube videos onto the > > desktop with some Sesame Street, Wiggles or whatever else she currently > > likes. FLV playback pushes the poor old box to its limits, though -- it > > works, but not that well. > > > > > Sorry, it's not Java, but it is good, free software > > > > To bring it back on topic: I sometimes wonder what I could do with > > JavaFX for this type of application. I'm imagining something that's > > constantly in fullscreen (Tuxpaint can be annoying with that since it > > doesn't even allow maximizing). Menu screens should be nothing but a big > > grid of buttons, some leading to games, some to media playback. And they > > should be easy to operate with the keyboard, e.g. by using letters of > > the alphabet, displayed in some big font on each of the buttons and to > > be used without modifier keys. > > > > But not on that machine. :-) > > > > Peter > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
