Yeah, and you should ship your own STL, standard C lib, ODBC libs, GUI toolkit, print drivers, and graphics drivers with your app, too. Who knows whether the system supplied versions of the same will work with your application 5 revision down the road?
Sawfish is still available, but you have to use an environment variable to use it (as opposed to the simple GUI selection mechanism available in gnome 1.x). Wow - that's intuitive. Also, one you're using sawfish, all the window-manager related things under the "Preferences" menu don't actually do anything, because they only set it for metacity. The sawfish settings are under Extra/Preferences. Even though that is the MAIN running window manager. So turn it on with an environment variable, then configure it through the (wrong) menu. And leave the blessed-window-manager configuration gui components on. Brain-damaged
They would have serverd their users much better (IMO) by organizing the configuration options of sawfish rather than writing yet-another windows manager (there are only about 100 to choose from , no let's write our own. And let's leave out features that exist in the other leading wms that people use. because we know best. Yeah, that's it).
I find it sad that sawfish is no longer maintained. It really shone with keybindings. A good desktop should strive to allow you to use your computer 99.99% mouse free. Metacity doesn't do it.
Vertical/Horizontal mazimization is still in Sawfish. The problem is that they threw away Sawfish. As far as remembered positions, those are all well and fine, but I like to be able to maximize a terimal verticall/horizontall/or both and go back with keystrokes. Remembered positions doesn't really help.
Most users expect windows, so I guess the obvious solution is for most users to run windows (tounge firmly in cheek).
GConf looks a lot like the Windows registry, but it isn't fragile and centralized, and at its heart it's actually config files.)
Until you have to look in to those text files because you find out an error in a panel applet is causing a recursive panel crash. Have you looked at those things? Sure, they're text, but the identifiers used for some of the xml tags are like 50 characters long, meaningless, and they don't use any line breaks. Have fun trying to make sense of those when you edit them in your favorite text editor.
Back when I was running GNOME 1.x, I actually hated the excessive number of options. I could actually maximize a window just horizontally, just vertically, or maximize both! Now with GNOME 2, all I can do is maximize both... but that's all I ever wanted in the first place.
I actually use the maximize vertically and maximize horizontally all the time - they are very useful for poeple with big (multi-monitor) desktops or who otherwise like to keep more than one thing visible. I also like the maximize-fit similar options. So when I installed redhat 8 and saw these options were gone (because metacity had replaced sawfish) I was pissed. They actually removed useful functionality! Sure, maybe you hated them, but how hard is it to just not use them? Sheesh. The argument that these "extra" options are burdensome to users and maintainers just doesn't fly with me. I quickly reverted back to sawfish, but am dismayed to see that the nice, tested, functional and powerful sawfish window manager is now replaced in redhat by the new, untested, and IMO crippled metacity.
Configurability has always been a strength of linux workstation/desktop. Gnome2/redhat seem like they'd rather piss off their proven customers, long time linux users, in an attempt to woo windows users who probably aren't going to switch anyway. A bird in the hand and all that shit. Good luck trying to convince anyone that they've gone to far to simplify things, though.
"....NET is the Sun/Java 'write once, run anywhere' concept done right because it's:
...
- Potentially Platform Independant (not yet, maybe not soon....
Hmmm, I think that platform independence is a key characteristic of the "write once, run anywhere" (WORA) concept. In fact, I think it's the key characteristic. Java (to some degree) qualifies as WORA;.NET does not yet qualify as WORA, (mono notwithstanding). Anyone who thinks that.NET is a serious competitor to Java for WORA is either delusional or counting on something that doesn't exist yet. Of course, Microsoft has a long history of convincing people to adbandon working technologies in favor of their promised, cheaper solutions. E.G. see the roll-out of windows NT and industry reaction.
You call that a troll? That is the lamest attempt at a troll I have ever seen. Hang your head in shame - you do not deserve the name you have chosen for this site.
Sure, theft is theft, but theft isn't "copyright violation". That's why they have different terms and laws for the concepts. You might as well claim
theft == trespassing
theft == assault
theft == slander
theft == murder
Copyright violation might be illegal, and even unethical, but it isn't theft. To claim otherwise is disingenuous. That most people can't even discern the difference speaks volumes about how ingrained the publishers have made this supposed equality in the public's mind.
Except, while often touted as one, "military intelligence" isn't really an oxymoron. The only way it could be barely construed as one is by assigning a non-standard and political/emotional definition to "military" and combining that with a definition of "intelligence" that is NOT the one intended in the phrase. HTH.
Is that supposed to be a glob or a regex? If regex, it's broken. If glob, it's redundant. *AA would suffice. ??AA would get you only 4 char strings, which is what you seem to be shooting for. Of course, in either glob case, your pattern will match AA, USAA, FAA, bObIsYoUrUnClEAA, etc. Try this one instead (regex):/^(RI|MP)AA$/.
$199,999 a year? $799,996 for a four year term? $1,599,992 if re-elected? He already has his own jet, so we could scrap Air Force One. When Steve innovates himeelf as king: priceless.
unless the signal noise of the analog format is much greater than the digitization quanta (time and level) of the digital format, like it is for vinyl compared to CD.
You may not be that far off - the decline in music sales is probably related to the increase in Cell phone purchases and usage. The environment once dedicated for many to music enjoyment, the car, has been taken over by the cell phone: people use their daily driving time to chat on the phone instead of cranking up their newly purchased CDs.
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Sparc chips are also for workstations - which usually fit nicely on desktops. Like on mine.
They would have serverd their users much better (IMO) by organizing the configuration options of sawfish rather than writing yet-another windows manager (there are only about 100 to choose from , no let's write our own. And let's leave out features that exist in the other leading wms that people use. because we know best. Yeah, that's it).
I find it sad that sawfish is no longer maintained. It really shone with keybindings. A good desktop should strive to allow you to use your computer 99.99% mouse free. Metacity doesn't do it.
Vertical/Horizontal mazimization is still in Sawfish. The problem is that they threw away Sawfish. As far as remembered positions, those are all well and fine, but I like to be able to maximize a terimal verticall/horizontall/or both and go back with keystrokes. Remembered positions doesn't really help.
Ah, the mythical X == bloat myth. A classic troll, indeed.
If you even care where you mouse spends most of the time, you probably aren't using your computer effectively. Use the keyboard, luke.
Until you have to look in to those text files because you find out an error in a panel applet is causing a recursive panel crash. Have you looked at those things? Sure, they're text, but the identifiers used for some of the xml tags are like 50 characters long, meaningless, and they don't use any line breaks. Have fun trying to make sense of those when you edit them in your favorite text editor.
I actually use the maximize vertically and maximize horizontally all the time - they are very useful for poeple with big (multi-monitor) desktops or who otherwise like to keep more than one thing visible. I also like the maximize-fit similar options. So when I installed redhat 8 and saw these options were gone (because metacity had replaced sawfish) I was pissed. They actually removed useful functionality! Sure, maybe you hated them, but how hard is it to just not use them? Sheesh. The argument that these "extra" options are burdensome to users and maintainers just doesn't fly with me. I quickly reverted back to sawfish, but am dismayed to see that the nice, tested, functional and powerful sawfish window manager is now replaced in redhat by the new, untested, and IMO crippled metacity.
Configurability has always been a strength of linux workstation/desktop. Gnome2/redhat seem like they'd rather piss off their proven customers, long time linux users, in an attempt to woo windows users who probably aren't going to switch anyway. A bird in the hand and all that shit. Good luck trying to convince anyone that they've gone to far to simplify things, though.
A grasshopper walks into a bar.
The bartender says "Hey! We have a drink haved after you"
The grasshopper replies, "You have a drink named Steve?"
Hmmm, I think that platform independence is a key characteristic of the "write once, run anywhere" (WORA) concept. In fact, I think it's the key characteristic. Java (to some degree) qualifies as WORA; .NET does not yet qualify as WORA, (mono notwithstanding). Anyone who thinks that .NET is a serious competitor to Java for WORA is either delusional or counting on something that doesn't exist yet. Of course, Microsoft has a long history of convincing people to adbandon working technologies in favor of their promised, cheaper solutions. E.G. see the roll-out of windows NT and industry reaction.
You call that a troll? That is the lamest attempt at a troll I have ever seen. Hang your head in shame - you do not deserve the name you have chosen for this site.
Sounds like an exciting story!! Please, do tell!
I'm starting to detect a pattern with your posts. Happy Karma Whoring.
Sure, theft is theft, but theft isn't "copyright violation". That's why they have different terms and laws for the concepts. You might as well claim
- theft == trespassing
- theft == assault
- theft == slander
- theft == murder
Copyright violation might be illegal, and even unethical, but it isn't theft. To claim otherwise is disingenuous. That most people can't even discern the difference speaks volumes about how ingrained the publishers have made this supposed equality in the public's mind.How much do you not like Sprint? Please elaborate. Thank you.
Except, while often touted as one, "military intelligence" isn't really an oxymoron. The only way it could be barely construed as one is by assigning a non-standard and political/emotional definition to "military" and combining that with a definition of "intelligence" that is NOT the one intended in the phrase. HTH.
Is that supposed to be a glob or a regex? If regex, it's broken. If glob, it's redundant. *AA would suffice. ??AA would get you only 4 char strings, which is what you seem to be shooting for. Of course, in either glob case, your pattern will match AA, USAA, FAA, bObIsYoUrUnClEAA, etc. Try this one instead (regex): /^(RI|MP)AA$/.
I'm sorry, we're you trying to be a geek?
Ok, kids, go ahead and eat those old simms and dimms.
What does it make you think about?
PS: profit
...is not valid C - maybe you were trying for another language?
I agree with your post.
unless the signal noise of the analog format is much greater than the digitization quanta (time and level) of the digital format, like it is for vinyl compared to CD.
- apologies to someone else
The fact that you and people like you have been convinced otherwise is a huge victory for the RIAA and their ilk.