I think the point is to standardize all the different types of wireless device communications so that PCs and other multi-pupose devices don't have to understand every single device's protocol. Think of it as the DirectX/OpenGL of wireless stuff.
I'm talking out of my ass here (but hey, this is Slashdot;) but I think Windows.Form will be used as a top level interface to any GUI tookit binding. IMO, in an ideal world, Ximian would concentrate their efforts on making it work with GTK# and if C# becomes popular, the KDE team could develop a Qt# binding and a call Windows.Form would automatically detect which desktop the user is running and use the right binding.
Handhelds have been out for a couple of years and have made significant progress technologicaly but the prices of the low-end devices are still expensive. The manufacturers prefer to phase out old models than to have theirs high end handhelds compete with a low end model of yesterday's technology that could be sold for 50$.
Gues what, when you have Mozilla started without the -turbo option, it's as loaded in memory as it is with -turbo. There is no difference in what's in memory between the two modes when both have an open browser window except for the little taskbar applet in -turbo.
I think that, like a lot of people here, you got it backwards. Lucas doesn't betray his vision but *YOURS*. Everyone has their own hopes and ideas about what Star Wars should be but it has nothing to do with Lucas's own vision. I adding comic releif characters like Jar-Jar is part of what he thinks Star Wars should be, then the fanatics be damned because that's what it will be about.
"The license for this source code will be available at the time of first public release. Microsoft intends to provide very liberal non-commercial licensing terms and is interested in gathering community input on the design of the license. In particular, we intend to make it very easy for people to create non-commercial derivatives for exploration and experimentation, and for teaching purposes. We also intend to permit commercial use of this implementation as a guide for people building their own CLI implementations, for personal use, and for debugging purposes.Anyone expecting to use this implementation as the basis for distributing a commercial product would need to negotiate a license for this purpose with Microsoft."
Sounds like they want to allow people to look at the source to be able to see how things are done and use that knowledge to implement their own CLI.
Well since sun has no intention to include KDE on Solaris, I don't see why they'd pay for something they don't need. KDE and GNOME interoperability is only of interest in the Linux world.
There's nothing to read between the lines here so why don't you stick to what's actually said in the anouncement?. To get a clue about what Miguel really meant with his.Net comments:
Ho please get a life! Has it ever occured to you that some people don't give a rat's ass about your precious karma? I was often moderated down to hell for expressing unpopular views here and I never lost sleep over it.
Well I sure hope that for whatever fee you guys are gonna charge, you're gonna provide spell-checked and fact-checked submissions. Otherwise, I doubt a lot of people will pay to be anoyed. Banner-ads are far from the top of anyone's list of "thing that anoy you about Slashdot".
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"Is it reasonably stable or are they rushing it to fight KDE?"
Realeasing a beta can hardly be described as rushing software out. Besides, people who prefer KDE won't switch to GNOME just because some new version of it comes out before a new version of KDE. This is also true for people who prefer GNOME.
" look at the replys to posts demanding regulation. People honestly think its a bad thing"
True. This paradoxal way of thinking can ironically be attributed how little criticism there is in the media of this taken for granted "common sense". It's like that thing about liberalism being associated with socialism. Everyone's confused.
Liberalism may have followed your definition at one point, but by your definition, the Democratic Party is not a liberal party
It's not *his* definition but THE definition. Just look it up in any dictionary.
The political philosophy that you have described is libertarianism, not liberalism.
The term "Libertarianism" was used because the true meaning of Liberalism was bent backwards because of all the cold war anti-communism propaganda that took place in the US and is now entrenched in the culture. In essence, Libertarianism IS liberalism that is using another word to describe itself because everyone if f*cking brainwashed.
There's only one problem to you whole post: the article doesn't say they're gonna put this in the CPU at all. There are all kinds of chips, like the chipset on a motherboard.
Quote:
"CCDi is already developing a cellular communications chip that will be incorporated in future Intel chip sets "
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Windowmaker is a window manager, not a desktop environment and that's why it's faster. You don't gets half of the features and integrations a real desktop provides when you only run a WM.
What you're saying is equivalent to one of the many post on using VI when the discussion's topic is IDEs. fine if it does the job for you but 90% of people out there want the fully integrated DEs like GNOME and KDE.
Kind of seems arogant to call it "The future of Music Conference". Music will always have a bright futur regardless of the *Music Industry's" futur. It's like saying that if it's not published by the music cartel, it's not music.
Yeah sure, it seems expensive for something you can get for free but look at it this way: ximian are putting A LOT of their time developing the GNOME platform and by subscribing to this, you are supporting thier efforts. Personally, I think 119$ a years is a good investment because it allows them to continues to develop GNOME full time. I don't have time to contribute code myself so I see this as my opportunioty to contribute to a project I care about.
You're right about Japn being an easier market because it's small. However, the main reason Nintendo didn't put a DVD in the US GamCube is also because they want it to be cheap to produce so that it can have this 100$ price difference with XBox & PS2. This is giving them a big advantage with everyone that's been hit by the recession. It also makes it likely that people who decide to buy 2 consoles will choose the GameCube as one of them.
Hopefully this will make more people consider philosophy classes. If everyone had a few philosophy classes under their belt when they finish whatever it is they are studying, there would be a lot less dumb sheep in this world.
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I think the point is to standardize all the different types of wireless device communications so that PCs and other multi-pupose devices don't have to understand every single device's protocol. Think of it as the DirectX/OpenGL of wireless stuff.
Erm, troll alert?
Who do you think pays the salaries of about 95% of the developers that made Mozilla? Answer: AOL
Without AOL's sponsorship of the project, Moz would still be at Milestone 0.5
I'm talking out of my ass here (but hey, this is Slashdot ;) but I think Windows.Form will be used as a top level interface to any GUI tookit binding. IMO, in an ideal world, Ximian would concentrate their efforts on making it work with GTK# and if C# becomes popular, the KDE team could develop a Qt# binding and a call Windows.Form would automatically detect which desktop the user is running and use the right binding.
Gnucleus runs perfectly under WINE btw.
Handhelds have been out for a couple of years and have made significant progress technologicaly but the prices of the low-end devices are still expensive. The manufacturers prefer to phase out old models than to have theirs high end handhelds compete with a low end model of yesterday's technology that could be sold for 50$.
Gues what, when you have Mozilla started without the -turbo option, it's as loaded in memory as it is with -turbo. There is no difference in what's in memory between the two modes when both have an open browser window except for the little taskbar applet in -turbo.
You can close tabs by putting the mouse over them and clicking the middle mouse button (if you got one).
I think that, like a lot of people here, you got it backwards. Lucas doesn't betray his vision but *YOURS*. Everyone has their own hopes and ideas about what Star Wars should be but it has nothing to do with Lucas's own vision. I adding comic releif characters like Jar-Jar is part of what he thinks Star Wars should be, then the fanatics be damned because that's what it will be about.
"The license for this source code will be available at the time of first public release. Microsoft intends to provide very liberal non-commercial licensing terms and is interested in gathering community input on the design of the license. In particular, we intend to make it very easy for people to create non-commercial derivatives for exploration and experimentation, and for teaching purposes. We also intend to permit commercial use of this implementation as a guide for people building their own CLI implementations, for personal use, and for debugging purposes.Anyone expecting to use this implementation as the basis for distributing a commercial product would need to negotiate a license for this purpose with Microsoft."
Sounds like they want to allow people to look at the source to be able to see how things are done and use that knowledge to implement their own CLI.
Well anyways, they don't provide the source for the compiler. Only the Common Language Runtime.
Well since sun has no intention to include KDE on Solaris, I don't see why they'd pay for something they don't need. KDE and GNOME interoperability is only of interest in the Linux world.
There's nothing to read between the lines here so why don't you stick to what's actually said in the anouncement?. To get a clue about what Miguel really meant with his .Net comments:
0 2- February/msg00031.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/20
This anouncement has nothing to do with Mono or Java. It's all about finishing-up GNOME 2.0 so that Sun can make it the Default desktop on Solaris.
You're right but the fact that I don't get a salary for posting things here makes it more acceptable.
Ho please get a life! Has it ever occured to you that some people don't give a rat's ass about your precious karma? I was often moderated down to hell for expressing unpopular views here and I never lost sleep over it.
Well I sure hope that for whatever fee you guys are gonna charge, you're gonna provide spell-checked and fact-checked submissions. Otherwise, I doubt a lot of people will pay to be anoyed. Banner-ads are far from the top of anyone's list of "thing that anoy you about Slashdot".
"Is it reasonably stable or are they rushing it to fight KDE?"
Realeasing a beta can hardly be described as rushing software out. Besides, people who prefer KDE won't switch to GNOME just because some new version of it comes out before a new version of KDE. This is also true for people who prefer GNOME.
" look at the replys to posts demanding regulation. People honestly think its a bad thing"
True. This paradoxal way of thinking can ironically be attributed how little criticism there is in the media of this taken for granted "common sense". It's like that thing about liberalism being associated with socialism. Everyone's confused.
It's not *his* definition but THE definition. Just look it up in any dictionary.
The political philosophy that you have described is libertarianism, not liberalism.
The term "Libertarianism" was used because the true meaning of Liberalism was bent backwards because of all the cold war anti-communism propaganda that took place in the US and is now entrenched in the culture. In essence, Libertarianism IS liberalism that is using another word to describe itself because everyone if f*cking brainwashed.
There's only one problem to you whole post: the article doesn't say they're gonna put this in the CPU at all. There are all kinds of chips, like the chipset on a motherboard.
Quote:
"CCDi is already developing a cellular communications chip that will be incorporated in future Intel chip sets
"
Slashdot only links to radio 1 but the site lists all these as being Vorbis:
Currently live streams
This list is regenerated every five minutes, and lists any stream currently being tested (they won't always be listed below).
http://ogg.bbc.co.uk:8001/radio4.ogg
Previous episodes
* BBC News Online - Crossing Continents
* BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read
* BBC Radio 4 - Animals That Changed The World
* BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today This Week
* BBC Radio 4 - Nature
* BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours (2001-11-19 Foot & Mouth special)
* BBC Radio 4 - Gardeners' Question Time (2001-12-23 Christmas special)
* BBC Radio 4 - Moral Maze
* BBC Radio 4 - File On 4
* BBC Radio 4 - On Your Farm
* BBC Radio 4 - Midnight News Bulletin
* BBC Radio 4 - 8am News Bulletin
* BBC Radio 4 - 6pm News Bulletin
Windowmaker is a window manager, not a desktop environment and that's why it's faster. You don't gets half of the features and integrations a real desktop provides when you only run a WM.
What you're saying is equivalent to one of the many post on using VI when the discussion's topic is IDEs. fine if it does the job for you but 90% of people out there want the fully integrated DEs like GNOME and KDE.
Kind of seems arogant to call it "The future of Music Conference". Music will always have a bright futur regardless of the *Music Industry's" futur. It's like saying that if it's not published by the music cartel, it's not music.
Yeah sure, it seems expensive for something you can get for free but look at it this way: ximian are putting A LOT of their time developing the GNOME platform and by subscribing to this, you are supporting thier efforts. Personally, I think 119$ a years is a good investment because it allows them to continues to develop GNOME full time. I don't have time to contribute code myself so I see this as my opportunioty to contribute to a project I care about.
You're right about Japn being an easier market because it's small. However, the main reason Nintendo didn't put a DVD in the US GamCube is also because they want it to be cheap to produce so that it can have this 100$ price difference with XBox & PS2. This is giving them a big advantage with everyone that's been hit by the recession. It also makes it likely that people who decide to buy 2 consoles will choose the GameCube as one of them.
Hopefully this will make more people consider philosophy classes. If everyone had a few philosophy classes under their belt when they finish whatever it is they are studying, there would be a lot less dumb sheep in this world.