Fair enough. Perhaps I should rephrase myself. I meant that to say that *I* felt it was hijacked. I came back to the list and couldn't find the topic. The name had changed.
On Feb 21, 11:36 am, Dianne Marsh <[email protected]> wrote: > No worries from me, Peter. See the other thread I started (Computers for > Toddlers) to avoid confusion, but I didn't "feel hijacked". Nor did I care. > Dianne > Peter Becker wrote: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 softwareTo 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
