I don't suppose you have benchmarks to back up your claim that Opera "thrashes" Chrome? Because that hasn't been my experience. Also, I'm not familiar with the term "thrashes", what percent of improvement does that denote?
Droids always come off as half finished to me, with no polish and poor craftsmanship in the hardware.
Then clearly you haven't spent significant time with one. I've never handled an Android phone that wasn't an impressive machine, although the early ones on t-mobile were a big premature. But my Moto Droid is simply fantastic.
Crappy programmers are crappy whether they lean on the STL or not. Their implementation of pre-existing STL containers and algorithms is bound to be terrible.
Unfortunately, YOUR point of view is wrong. It's all part of their master plan to stat count everything that we do. Dammit, at the end of the week, if I'm the one who's had the most beers, I want an achievement! If all the massive paranoia (which you are now parroting) has convinced you otherwise, sorry.
That depends on your idea of "last". If you consider "last" to be the position with the fastest growth in market share, then yes, Chrome is in last and IE is in a comfortable first.
Other than a somewhat sluggish startup time (I'll grant you that much), I have never noticed any performance problems with Banshee--once it's up, it responds snappily to whatever I ask it to do. That's why it's my music player of choice on Linux. This is in contrast to Songbird, which (like all XUL applications, in my experience) is slow to start up, slow to respond, slow to render/play, freezes at random, etc.
The fact of the matter is that, at least in the case of WoW, private servers are downright terrible. They are so incredibly bad that, after spending a few weeks trying some different ones, I was actually driven to spend money on the real deal to have a decent gameplay experience.
Besides obvious problems like population shortage, all the servers I tried had two things in common; the first was XP scaling. In every server I tried, without fail, the exp scaling was always either too low, making it impossible to level properly through normal questing, or far, FAR too high, to the point that you'd finish a quest and have to walk a few miles to find another one you could get XP for.
The second problem common to all of these servers is really stupid glitches, especially terrain glitches. They come in all shapes and sizes. On every private server I tried, it is basically impossible to do any quest around small houses or in a mine (unless you are part of a party or already too high of a level), because as soon as a mob notices you, ten or so mobs in other rooms notice you and charge you through the walls. On servers that already have trouble with not dealing out enough XP this is pretty damn frustrating.
How could they do that given their public, legally binding commitments not to do this?
Would somebody out there PLEASE explain to me how the community promise is even SLIGHTLY legally binding? I keep asking and nobody can adequately explain it to me.
Touch-typing is useless as a skill in and of itself; what students actually need is a general Computer Literacy standard.
I don't know about anyone else, but I always found touch typing to be a painful and completely arbitrary way to type. After years of use I developed my own method for typing quickly, which doesn't restrict me to keeping half of my fingers on the same handful of keys and stretching my other fingers uncomfortable distances, and I was by far the fastest typist in my high school class.
You're hardly a software developer - you aren't willing to find solutions yourself
You know, I used to have this kind of attitude. Then I grew up.
Hyuck hyuck!
Did you know Dennis Ritchie uses Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Outlook to read email and post to Usenet? Have you every thought about why?
No, but I'm sure you'll tell us.
The thing is this: everything works out of the box in Windows XP (well, except for the sound card, but the workaround is posted online and it about 15 minutes of bother to get going).
Unless you happen to be one of the few people who use SATA.
I, at this point in my life, have better things to do with my time than to get things to work in Linux when they already work in Windows. Such as actually develop software.
Part of developing software is learning to set up your environment. Period. If you can't do that much without someone holding your hand, you have no chance of wrapping your head around the internals of a project. You may as well switch to teaching.
This is the problem with the Linux community at Slashdot. It's a very immature and insecure community; when people mention they have problems and are using Windows instead because of those problems, people react with denial and attack the messenger instead of being mature and acknowledging the problems.
Oh, there are problems, to be sure. Some small, some huge. That's why most average users never consider Linux distros. But developers are not average users.
Excuse me, but I tried compiling various ALPS drivers in CentOS. I spent, oh, about 2 hours on it and, to make a long story short, it didn't work. If the Linux community wants to flame me instead of trying to help me (or, at least being civil), that's fine. Your message is clear: You don't want people using Linux. You want people using Windows XP. You do not want to make Linux a viable desktop operating system.
It's viable for me. It's viable for lots of people. Anyone who doesn't mind understanding their platform is usually ok.
And, oh, about Ubuntu: It was very unstable for me, with constant crashes. I blogged all about it.
That seems to be a typical Ubuntu experience for a lot of people.
wxWidgets lets developers create applications for Win32, Mac OS X, GTK+, X11, Motif, WinCE, and more using one codebase. It can be used from languages such as C++, Python, Perl, and C#/.NET. Unlike other cross-platform toolkits, wxWidgets applications look and feel native. This is because wxWidgets uses the platform's own native controls rather than emulating them.
Constantly having to use second rate programs because the the GPL is so restrictive and viral that no software vendor wants to deal with it. As much as people spout 'open source' it isn't. It places as hard or harder restrictions on its use as any proprietary software, they are just different restrictions.
Am I understanding this correctly? You are complaining about having to use 'second-rate' GPL programs because the GPL prevents software vendors from using their code? What?
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I don't suppose you have benchmarks to back up your claim that Opera "thrashes" Chrome? Because that hasn't been my experience. Also, I'm not familiar with the term "thrashes", what percent of improvement does that denote?
So you're used to your iPhone and inflexible enough that you are unable to abstract UI concepts to different implementations on the fly.
Unfortunately, that's probably more typical than I'd like to admit.
I'm reasonably certain, however, that had you bought a Droid instead of an iPhone, you'd be making this exact same complaint in reverse.
Droids always come off as half finished to me, with no polish and poor craftsmanship in the hardware.
Then clearly you haven't spent significant time with one. I've never handled an Android phone that wasn't an impressive machine, although the early ones on t-mobile were a big premature. But my Moto Droid is simply fantastic.
Crappy programmers are crappy whether they lean on the STL or not. Their implementation of pre-existing STL containers and algorithms is bound to be terrible.
Unfortunately, YOUR point of view is wrong. It's all part of their master plan to stat count everything that we do. Dammit, at the end of the week, if I'm the one who's had the most beers, I want an achievement! If all the massive paranoia (which you are now parroting) has convinced you otherwise, sorry.
See? I can do that too.
Actually, I think Epiphany has made the switch to Webkit. Wikipedia agrees.
That depends on your idea of "last". If you consider "last" to be the position with the fastest growth in market share, then yes, Chrome is in last and IE is in a comfortable first.
Sorry, all the 2007 jobs were done in 2007.
I do have one and I did get the upgrade. It came a little later then planned, but it's quite out by now.
I'm with the GP; I hear people say this a lot, but I've never seen any indication that it's even slightly true, on any machine.
Other than a somewhat sluggish startup time (I'll grant you that much), I have never noticed any performance problems with Banshee--once it's up, it responds snappily to whatever I ask it to do. That's why it's my music player of choice on Linux. This is in contrast to Songbird, which (like all XUL applications, in my experience) is slow to start up, slow to respond, slow to render/play, freezes at random, etc.
You've killed me with wisdom, sir.
Or he was, you know, joking. Like he said. Just sayin'.
The fact of the matter is that, at least in the case of WoW, private servers are downright terrible. They are so incredibly bad that, after spending a few weeks trying some different ones, I was actually driven to spend money on the real deal to have a decent gameplay experience.
Besides obvious problems like population shortage, all the servers I tried had two things in common; the first was XP scaling. In every server I tried, without fail, the exp scaling was always either too low, making it impossible to level properly through normal questing, or far, FAR too high, to the point that you'd finish a quest and have to walk a few miles to find another one you could get XP for.
The second problem common to all of these servers is really stupid glitches, especially terrain glitches. They come in all shapes and sizes. On every private server I tried, it is basically impossible to do any quest around small houses or in a mine (unless you are part of a party or already too high of a level), because as soon as a mob notices you, ten or so mobs in other rooms notice you and charge you through the walls. On servers that already have trouble with not dealing out enough XP this is pretty damn frustrating.
How could they do that given their public, legally binding commitments not to do this?
Would somebody out there PLEASE explain to me how the community promise is even SLIGHTLY legally binding? I keep asking and nobody can adequately explain it to me.
Touch-typing is useless as a skill in and of itself; what students actually need is a general Computer Literacy standard. I don't know about anyone else, but I always found touch typing to be a painful and completely arbitrary way to type. After years of use I developed my own method for typing quickly, which doesn't restrict me to keeping half of my fingers on the same handful of keys and stretching my other fingers uncomfortable distances, and I was by far the fastest typist in my high school class.
Making one of your products look better than another of your products doesn't really make any of your products look worse...
Seriously, are you people completely braindead?
A guy in charge of the website and donations disappears for a while, and the project developers write an "open letter" to get his ass back in line.
There is absolutely no change in the development of the distro itself, which is the part you supposedly use.
Yet for some reason, you're pissed off? To the point of considering migration to other distros?
Who the fuck are you? This was a completely internal problem. Any consequences were, as well, completely internal.
The only reason you even heard about it was because the members used the power of the internet to get to a webmaster who wasn't paying attention.
So please, explain to me: How is your reaction even remotely rational?
I love you guys.
You're hardly a software developer - you aren't willing to find solutions yourself
You know, I used to have this kind of attitude. Then I grew up.
Hyuck hyuck!
Did you know Dennis Ritchie uses Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Outlook to read email and post to Usenet? Have you every thought about why?
No, but I'm sure you'll tell us.
The thing is this: everything works out of the box in Windows XP (well, except for the sound card, but the workaround is posted online and it about 15 minutes of bother to get going).
Unless you happen to be one of the few people who use SATA.
I, at this point in my life, have better things to do with my time than to get things to work in Linux when they already work in Windows. Such as actually develop software.
Part of developing software is learning to set up your environment. Period. If you can't do that much without someone holding your hand, you have no chance of wrapping your head around the internals of a project. You may as well switch to teaching.
This is the problem with the Linux community at Slashdot. It's a very immature and insecure community; when people mention they have problems and are using Windows instead because of those problems, people react with denial and attack the messenger instead of being mature and acknowledging the problems.
Oh, there are problems, to be sure. Some small, some huge. That's why most average users never consider Linux distros. But developers are not average users.
Excuse me, but I tried compiling various ALPS drivers in CentOS. I spent, oh, about 2 hours on it and, to make a long story short, it didn't work. If the Linux community wants to flame me instead of trying to help me (or, at least being civil), that's fine. Your message is clear: You don't want people using Linux. You want people using Windows XP. You do not want to make Linux a viable desktop operating system.
It's viable for me. It's viable for lots of people. Anyone who doesn't mind understanding their platform is usually ok.
And, oh, about Ubuntu: It was very unstable for me, with constant crashes. I blogged all about it.
That seems to be a typical Ubuntu experience for a lot of people.
Thanks for playing.
Linux zealots piss me off.
Well, garsh! Hyuck hyuck!
Are you retarded?
I've lost files on lots of different systems, including NTFS and ext3 and the kitchen sink. It's rarely the fault of the filesystem itself.
Exactly the thing making people not use open source.
What do GUI toolkits, audio subsystems, and graphic subsystems have to do with source code licensing?
It is when used on GTK systems.
From wxwidgets.org:
Constantly having to use second rate programs because the the GPL is so restrictive and viral that no software vendor wants to deal with it. As much as people spout 'open source' it isn't. It places as hard or harder restrictions on its use as any proprietary software, they are just different restrictions.
Am I understanding this correctly? You are complaining about having to use 'second-rate' GPL programs because the GPL prevents software vendors from using their code? What?
Sure, you can run Creative Suite on a PC, but I don't know a single graphic designer who does it. They all run it on OSX.
You could have saved yourself a lot of time and said the same thing by saying
I don't know a single graphic designer.