And here I am wondering what weird mail client would do such thing. Ever since that IMAP option appeared in my GMail account I rarely go to the web client -- just did the test after finally realizing the problem.
Again: I'm sorry about the confusion, but I blame GMail for not forking the thread as it should have (at least IMO). It just proves that I'm too old school :-) Peter Jason Waring wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
