Isn't Clojure basically Scheme or Lisp for the JVM?
Yeah, but IIRC they had to put special syntax in it to generate trampolines and loops because they couldn't make proper tail call elimination automatically.
Not OP but, for one, it mostly removes the need for a split view and tabs. You just place the few windows you'll use on the screen and drag and drop whatever files you want to move or copy. But I can see how a true split view could be nicer sometimes.
As it remembers the last position of your windows (screen and scrollbar), it makes navigating your most frequently used folders real easy, as you can just memorize their positions without noticing.
Regarding the window management points, there are menu actions (with associated hotkeys) to close entire hierarchies of folders or all the windows. To go 'up' you can use the parent folders list in the bottom corner of the window, or press either backspace or Alt-up. That is still less convenient than the back button, though, but the parent folder's window should still be at the top of the window stack after the child's.
As for long jumps, the spatial mode still has the tree view, at least here on Ubuntu (but I doubt they just patched something so big themselves). Also, there is Ctrl-l to get an address bar with auto-completion. Though I'd wish it showed you a list with the possible completions...
But I guess this is all a matter of workflow. I got used to it and now it is all in my fingers.
Infuriate all sorts of fanboys, providing... how do they call them? Ah, yes! Drama and lulz on teh internetz, and thus more visits to the sites that host discussions on the subject, and thus more ad-revenue, bolstering the economy.
That's the problem with marketing. A mass of soulless ghouls chasing little bits of paper and completely incapable of imagining a universe where every tangible object and intangible concept isn't stamped with a little yellow price tag.
Hold on right there mister!
We are not just talking about bean-counting here, we are talking about the workings of society. The fact that you mistake the study of enterprise and economy for advertising and accounting only speaks of you.
The very fact that you produce stuff independently that serves other people's needs makes you an entrepreneur by definition, even if you don't seek to maximize profits, or profits at all.
Perhaps you should look a bit more into it before flamin' away in teh intertubes, for right now you are in the unenviable position of being corrected by a lame CS undergrad.
Oh, yes, indeed the differing participation in Computer Science of women may be of a mostly biological origin. The point is, that we don't know if it actually is. We know that there are very good (and obvious) reasons why a job involving heavy lifting might be dominated by men.
Claiming to know that physiological differences are the origin of the vastly different enrollment rates in CS schools of men and women is an ass pull.
And why aren't they interested? What you're saying is like decrying the study of gravity because you already know that things fall.
We know the what: that girls aren't interested in studying CS today in the US. In fact, their interest in pursuing a CS carer in contrast to men has sharply decreased over time since the nineties. What we don't really know is the why. And finding out the 'why' is, ahem, SCIENCE!
You could somehow hack Firefox to eliminate the nag screen if it is critical to have Firefox 2 and there is no option to disable it permanently.
After December Mozilla will drop support for Firefox 2, and thus offer no patches from thereon, so you will be able to keep your hacked binaries (and your bugs, ha!) forever.
DISCLAIMER: I know jack about quantum physics, and I absolutely suck about physics in general, so I will just stick to what TFA says.
They didn't say that determinism is false, just that if it is true then we don't have free will, for the specific definition of free will that they're using (is that free as in freedom or is it free as in beer?;).
And they don't say it is false because they don't suppose that we actually have free will (as they defined, though).
In other words, the bit about free will was a corollary to the hypothesis of the universe being deterministic, not a lemma in an argument against it.
So what you are saying is that the ideal way to handle this situation is to let all the cool kids go around wooing users with their awsum proprietary technologies, and that when they, the makers, are sufficiently entrenched in their monopolistic positions and we, the consumers and the users, are sufficiently screwed and without any real choice of products and vendors, we should rely on the ability of big supranational bodies to coerce the big boys into opening their standards?
You are saying that that is preferable over consensus and understanding, over standards composed by all the relevant actors (and some more;)?
Nah, besides, how are we supposed to say then that Firefox has better rendering than IE, how will Safari fans slash their Opera and Firefox counterparts:)
Not-so-minor-correction: killing somebody across the table with your steak knife in a fit of rage. You could have still planned that *perfect* (not really...) murder for years before that dinner, after all.
Not taking into consideration the circumstances? Which legal system works like that?
Tell me, how do you get more years in prison? By killing somebody across the dinning table with your steak knife, or by killing someone after going to the hardware store and buying a machete for that purpose?
The subject's intent and the circumstances are both important factors in a trial. And that is how it should be.
Ubuntu has taken a route that is no more 'free' than Xandros or, for that matter, TiVo
And RedHat?
I think that this is more akin to what RedHat does than to TiVo's infamous model.
Canonical is giving you both the source and the compiled binaries, for free, but they are not going to give you the bundle; that they reserve for the OEMs, with whom they'll strike deals to distribute (in theory) customized versions of the 'Remix' on their certified hardware and make some cash.
You'll still be able to turn a vanilla installation of Ubuntu into the 'Netbook Remix'; whether there will be TiVo-ization remains to be seen. No evil in my eyes yet.
By the way, what is the deal with Xandros? The only thing I know is that it's some asian commercial Linux distro installed in some portables like the EeePC
What? Is it 1998 or something? There are these things called 'Cascading Style Sheets' which allow you to apply a style to an (X)HTML document.
They actually save bandwith, because everything is written only once (instead of putting font tags everywhere in the HTML, like in the Old Days) and you can use a single file (and thus, download) for all the documents in a domain.
If 'good looking' sites are slow for you, it is probably because of poor browser choice. It should both render fast and reliably on your hardware AND let you set a style to be used on all web pages, if their 'bullshit' degrades your browsing experience.
Now, of course, there are asshats who make their entire websites in Flash. I personally think they should all die in a well, but that's just me:)
(BTW, Firefox has this nifty extension called Flashblock, it blocks Flash! don't know about Java, I never see that any more)
Instead of being a Windows port of the Linux kernel (yeah... weird) like and/coLinux is, it is a Windows based Linux installer, which stuffs the whole distro's file system into a single file in your Windows' partition.
Well, certified hardware is tested by Canonical at the request of the hardware vendor. If the machine is certified, Canonical will make sure that it will work with the release for which it was certified and the next.
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Isn't Clojure basically Scheme or Lisp for the JVM?
Yeah, but IIRC they had to put special syntax in it to generate trampolines and loops because they couldn't make proper tail call elimination automatically.
Not OP but, for one, it mostly removes the need for a split view and tabs. You just place the few windows you'll use on the screen and drag and drop whatever files you want to move or copy. But I can see how a true split view could be nicer sometimes.
As it remembers the last position of your windows (screen and scrollbar), it makes navigating your most frequently used folders real easy, as you can just memorize their positions without noticing.
Regarding the window management points, there are menu actions (with associated hotkeys) to close entire hierarchies of folders or all the windows. To go 'up' you can use the parent folders list in the bottom corner of the window, or press either backspace or Alt-up. That is still less convenient than the back button, though, but the parent folder's window should still be at the top of the window stack after the child's.
As for long jumps, the spatial mode still has the tree view, at least here on Ubuntu (but I doubt they just patched something so big themselves). Also, there is Ctrl-l to get an address bar with auto-completion. Though I'd wish it showed you a list with the possible completions...
But I guess this is all a matter of workflow. I got used to it and now it is all in my fingers.
Mastering yes.
Infuriate all sorts of fanboys, providing... how do they call them? Ah, yes! Drama and lulz on teh internetz, and thus more visits to the sites that host discussions on the subject, and thus more ad-revenue, bolstering the economy.
You see? The GPL provides a great public service.
If you don't put a {} pair after \LaTeX there won't be any spaces between it and the next word :-)
That's the problem with marketing. A mass of soulless ghouls chasing little bits of paper and completely incapable of imagining a universe where every tangible object and intangible concept isn't stamped with a little yellow price tag.
Hold on right there mister!
We are not just talking about bean-counting here, we are talking about the workings of society. The fact that you mistake the study of enterprise and economy for advertising and accounting only speaks of you.
The very fact that you produce stuff independently that serves other people's needs makes you an entrepreneur by definition, even if you don't seek to maximize profits, or profits at all.
Perhaps you should look a bit more into it before flamin' away in teh intertubes, for right now you are in the unenviable position of being corrected by a lame CS undergrad.
They are impurifying our precious bodily fluids!
Oh, yes, indeed the differing participation in Computer Science of women may be of a mostly biological origin. The point is, that we don't know if it actually is. We know that there are very good (and obvious) reasons why a job involving heavy lifting might be dominated by men.
Claiming to know that physiological differences are the origin of the vastly different enrollment rates in CS schools of men and women is an ass pull.
And why aren't they interested? What you're saying is like decrying the study of gravity because you already know that things fall.
We know the what: that girls aren't interested in studying CS today in the US. In fact, their interest in pursuing a CS carer in contrast to men has sharply decreased over time since the nineties. What we don't really know is the why. And finding out the 'why' is, ahem, SCIENCE!
Yeah, attempting to find an explanation to a phenomenon, truly moronic.
Like those guys wondering whether the earth is round when I can plainly see that it is flat.
And you actually know why are the different sexes attracted to different professions? PROTIP: elementary school biology doesn't cut it.
We don't know to what extent this is a product of culture or a product of biology.
how?
./
Alright, the good (!?) folks at Redmond have a nifty --if limited-- solution to this problem, but we're talking about Linux here.
Also, that 'pirated music' bit wasn't a rant, it was a use case. It would be good if read more carefully TFS before trolling on teh
And stay on the chans.
There, fixed that for you.
You could somehow hack Firefox to eliminate the nag screen if it is critical to have Firefox 2 and there is no option to disable it permanently.
After December Mozilla will drop support for Firefox 2, and thus offer no patches from thereon, so you will be able to keep your hacked binaries (and your bugs, ha!) forever.
DISCLAIMER: I know jack about quantum physics, and I absolutely suck about physics in general, so I will just stick to what TFA says.
They didn't say that determinism is false, just that if it is true then we don't have free will, for the specific definition of free will that they're using (is that free as in freedom or is it free as in beer? ;).
And they don't say it is false because they don't suppose that we actually have free will (as they defined, though).
In other words, the bit about free will was a corollary to the hypothesis of the universe being deterministic, not a lemma in an argument against it.
That changes your relationship with the cook, not the food.
I kinda like the so called awesome bar. What's wrong with it?
The oldies want their URL bars to match URLs and those pesky kids to GET OFF THEIR LAWNS!
Boca a boca, duh!
Estos gringos...
So what you are saying is that the ideal way to handle this situation is to let all the cool kids go around wooing users with their awsum proprietary technologies, and that when they, the makers, are sufficiently entrenched in their monopolistic positions and we, the consumers and the users, are sufficiently screwed and without any real choice of products and vendors, we should rely on the ability of big supranational bodies to coerce the big boys into opening their standards?
You are saying that that is preferable over consensus and understanding, over standards composed by all the relevant actors (and some more ;)?
Nah, besides, how are we supposed to say then that Firefox has better rendering than IE, how will Safari fans slash their Opera and Firefox counterparts :)
Not-so-minor-correction: killing somebody across the table with your steak knife in a fit of rage. You could have still planned that *perfect* (not really...) murder for years before that dinner, after all.
Not taking into consideration the circumstances? Which legal system works like that?
Tell me, how do you get more years in prison? By killing somebody across the dinning table with your steak knife, or by killing someone after going to the hardware store and buying a machete for that purpose?
The subject's intent and the circumstances are both important factors in a trial. And that is how it should be.
And RedHat?
I think that this is more akin to what RedHat does than to TiVo's infamous model.
Canonical is giving you both the source and the compiled binaries, for free, but they are not going to give you the bundle; that they reserve for the OEMs, with whom they'll strike deals to distribute (in theory) customized versions of the 'Remix' on their certified hardware and make some cash.
You'll still be able to turn a vanilla installation of Ubuntu into the 'Netbook Remix'; whether there will be TiVo-ization remains to be seen. No evil in my eyes yet.
By the way, what is the deal with Xandros? The only thing I know is that it's some asian commercial Linux distro installed in some portables like the EeePC
What? Is it 1998 or something? There are these things called 'Cascading Style Sheets' which allow you to apply a style to an (X)HTML document.
They actually save bandwith, because everything is written only once (instead of putting font tags everywhere in the HTML, like in the Old Days) and you can use a single file (and thus, download) for all the documents in a domain.
If 'good looking' sites are slow for you, it is probably because of poor browser choice. It should both render fast and reliably on your hardware AND let you set a style to be used on all web pages, if their 'bullshit' degrades your browsing experience.
Now, of course, there are asshats who make their entire websites in Flash. I personally think they should all die in a well, but that's just me :)
(BTW, Firefox has this nifty extension called Flashblock, it blocks Flash! don't know about Java, I never see that any more)
But isn't that project you linked more like Wubi?
Instead of being a Windows port of the Linux kernel (yeah... weird) like and/coLinux is, it is a Windows based Linux installer, which stuffs the whole distro's file system into a single file in your Windows' partition.
Well, certified hardware is tested by Canonical at the request of the hardware vendor. If the machine is certified, Canonical will make sure that it will work with the release for which it was certified and the next.
Source: Ubuntu hardware programme.
BTW, what do you mean by 'supported by vendor'? Do these companies make servers built specifically for a certain RHEL version? (honest question).