Skydivers are lucky that some manufacturers have a "tougher spin" or maybe it is because Cypress are in Germany? Anyway *any* skydiving safety device have exactly the same (unsolvable) problem..
Well taking too small extract is a good way to troll also, he explains why he thinks that Solaris/x86 is a joke: too few drivers.
So it isn't name calling, it is a comment backed by a (true) assertion.
I disagree with Linus here: many enterprise will buy complete configuration so they won't care too much about the lack of drivers, still I don't think that Linus's comment (if not very good) is name calling.
I disagree: IMHO most of the kernel programers are also quite open. For example, many use BitKeeper without problems other keep using CVS but without making a fuss that Linus is using BitKeeper only a very few have a problem with this.
If by followers, you mean lurkers not contributing, you're probably right but who cares about noisy non-contributors?
No, I don't think it is a problem with the CD drive which is capable of overburning, but a problem with old CDRW which apparently do not support this size: they are rated for 650MB, will do 680MB alright but not 700MB..
Depends, along with the meter, French revolution did try to use 'metric time' and failed..
Amusing one of my (French) colleague say that while he like power of ten metric system, he dislikes meter's length as for boat navigation, it is easier to use nautical miles than kilometers!
I don't know why myself because I'm not a sailor..
But when you're on Windows and you want to try the new version of KDE you hear about, and that you have old CDs not able to support the very big ISO image, you're stuck..
I hope like too that the live CD ISO will be 650MB.
Have you any information on why the Tera processor didn't succeed (my gut feeling: a lack of thread available to use the CPU successfully)
On an unrelated topic, I disagree with your sig: I live in France where we are very strict about separating private matters such as religion with public matters such as school or governement (the idea of having a president swearing on the bible seems stupid for us), and AFAIK except for the veil problem, there is not too much problem for religious people to live their religion.
>I also believe in Jesus Christ because of what you may call the scientific method: many repeated experiences of the power of God.
You have a weird view of the scientific method, the experiments you rely on for your belief are quite non-obvious because agnostic like myself do not see them as a result of "the power of God".. Also people from other religions interpret the same thing as proof for their own god(s). So saying that 'power of God' experiments are proof for 'Jesus Christ' is quite funny or depressing I don't know but very much non-scientific methode like!
You know some people have their PC next to the bedroom, and they'd like to sleep without being disturbed by fan noise so who care how big the uptime can be.
And? You're lucky, that's all, many people cannot use this feature, yes ACPI is quite often bad.
Also, Unix station has moved from 'server room' to bedroom, so if you want to sleep you'd better stop it at night. "Yes but I've a fanless station/room for putting it where I can't hear it, etc", lucky you, now maybe you could have a little consideration for those who have not? Fast boot is important.
Yes, but now Unix is installed on laptops. So it'd better boot *fast*.
As an aside, those 'fast boot time' makes me laugh: with a Celeron333, on BeOS I was able to boot from BIOS (when the BIOS "starts" the OS) to a usable graphical desktop within less than 20s (14s if memory serves)!
XP boot time while smaller than Linux's one is not especially great as the desktop is not usable at the beginning..
I'd really like to have Linux kernel + KDE (or Gnome) boot under 20s, but I'm not dreaming:-(:-(
Agreed, I haden't thought about the GIMP with its "multiple window" setup, still it would be much better if the splash screen used would be configured to have a border: you clicked on GIMP by mistake? Just close the window, it will stop immediately, and if you want to hide it, you just iconify it..
Thanks for the information, but if the splash screen is closed and a new window is popped when the app is closed, this is still a little bit annoying IMHO: this means that the user will see two windows opening.
Whereas the "splashwindow" would contain first the splashscreen (with a progress indication if possible) and then the application when it is ready to be used. Of course the change of state from the splashwindow must be easy to see by the user: flashing two times and then changing the color of both the window and the icon would be a good visual cue IMHO.
> Splash screens are irritating, but in most cases a long delay with no splash screen is worse.
Agreed, but why not use a window to "contain the splash screen" instead?
I call this a 'splash window': it comes up immediately like a splash screen because it contains nearly nothing: a cute image like a splash screen and if possible a progress indicator. Unlike a splash screen, it isn't always on top: as any window, you can minimize,maximize,resize or even close it if you opened the wrong app.
The only part which is a little difficult (depending of the toolkit) would be to replace the content of the window when the app is ready. Also the app must indicate when it is ready, possibly by changing the color of the icon and the color of the window for example.
Disagree for the 200% better part, currently there is no functionnality which can gives a 200% improvement in language design.
But having a language which integrates many small improvements inside something coherent (unlike C++ which is clearly a mess) would still be valuable IMHO. Some claims that Java/C# are the answer, I'm not so sure, D or Nice seems more interesting..
No, more like Pascal or Ada.. I remember thinking 'why the hell did they get inspired from Pascal? Nobody use Pascal..'
If they had tried to imitate C, I think it would have been better (except for the variable definition in C which is a mess, but this is not a problem in Ocaml): many more people know C/C++, the transition would have been less awkward.
Anyway I don't think, I'll try again to learn OCaml: each time there is a problem, it feels like doing math, Ruby is much more simpler to learn IMHO (but it runs also much more slower unfortunately).
Library is not the only problem of Ocaml IMHO: I tried once to learn it but I disliked its syntax which is "weird" (not bad like Perl, just weird) and the book I used to learn (French book) kept pushing the functionnal style even in situations where it makes the code more difficult to read than imperative style.
Which is a shame IMHO, in some case functionnal style is easier to use, in other it is not: if a language supports both style, why not use the style which suits the problem?
>So the ISO date format seems to have been developed as a workaround to the deficiencies of computer software.
I disagree that it is a deficiency of the computer: unless the computer is able to read your mind, there are so many ways to write dates, that no computer will ever be capable to recognize dates in a filename with making error..
And if you have an inventory number which is recognize as a date, the order would be quite strange..
So while I agree that computers should try to sort better numbers, I don't think it is possible/interesting to do it for dates, maybe adding a "user date" attribute to a file would be an interesting possibility..
Except that noone cares about 'idea war' but only about which implementation is better.
Maybe doing the composition and layout separately is better in theory, but I won't use it because IMHO Latex suck!
In Latex, the layout is bad (I can recognize article made with Latex: usually the figures are put at strange location such as at the end of a chapter which makes thing less readable) but even worse the language itself is bad too: I tried to learn it once and rejected it: the language is far *too ugly* for my taste.
I've heard about Skribe http://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/fp/Skribe/doc/user. html The language seems good (Scheme) but I've not really looked at it yet.
PS: Word suck too but Framemaker is great for the other idea of WYSISWYG.
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While I agree with most of your points, a message passing IPC is complicated also: is this message passing synchronous or asynchronous?
Synchronous is complicated to manage because your process may stall, asynchronous means you must be ready to manage the overflow of the buffer used.
Skydivers are lucky that some manufacturers have a "tougher spin" or maybe it is because Cypress are in Germany?
Anyway *any* skydiving safety device have exactly the same (unsolvable) problem..
Well taking too small extract is a good way to troll also, he explains why he thinks that Solaris/x86 is a joke: too few drivers.
So it isn't name calling, it is a comment backed by a (true) assertion.
I disagree with Linus here: many enterprise will buy complete configuration so they won't care too much about the lack of drivers, still I don't think that Linus's comment (if not very good) is name calling.
I disagree: IMHO most of the kernel programers are also quite open. For example, many use BitKeeper without problems other keep using CVS but without making a fuss that Linus is using BitKeeper only a very few have a problem with this.
If by followers, you mean lurkers not contributing, you're probably right but who cares about noisy non-contributors?
No, I don't think it is a problem with the CD drive which is capable of overburning, but a problem with old CDRW which apparently do not support this size: they are rated for 650MB, will do 680MB alright but not 700MB..
Depends, along with the meter, French revolution did try to use 'metric time' and failed..
Amusing one of my (French) colleague say that while he like power of ten metric system, he dislikes meter's length as for boat navigation, it is easier to use nautical miles than kilometers!
I don't know why myself because I'm not a sailor..
But when you're on Windows and you want to try the new version of KDE you hear about, and that you have old CDs not able to support the very big ISO image, you're stuck..
I hope like too that the live CD ISO will be 650MB.
Mmmm, if I'm not mistaken, this "hour of work" (for me it would be more, I have no idea how to do this), must be done on Linux, no?
Which is a bit cyclic as you need Linux to create a CD to use Linux!
Have you any information on why the Tera processor didn't succeed (my gut feeling: a lack of thread available to use the CPU successfully)
On an unrelated topic, I disagree with your sig: I live in France where we are very strict about separating private matters such as religion with public matters such as school or governement (the idea of having a president swearing on the bible seems stupid for us), and AFAIK except for the veil problem, there is not too much problem for religious people to live their religion.
>I also believe in Jesus Christ because of what you may call the scientific method: many repeated experiences of the power of God.
You have a weird view of the scientific method, the experiments you rely on for your belief are quite non-obvious because agnostic like myself do not see them as a result of "the power of God"..
Also people from other religions interpret the same thing as proof for their own god(s).
So saying that 'power of God' experiments are proof for 'Jesus Christ' is quite funny or depressing I don't know but very much non-scientific methode like!
If you want 'real good SF', consider reading Lois Mac Master Bujold: her 'Miles Vorkosigan' serie is very good.
You know some people have their PC next to the bedroom, and they'd like to sleep without being disturbed by fan noise so who care how big the uptime can be.
Don't only think about your situation..
And? You're lucky, that's all, many people cannot use this feature, yes ACPI is quite often bad.
Also, Unix station has moved from 'server room' to bedroom, so if you want to sleep you'd better stop it at night. "Yes but I've a fanless station/room for putting it where I can't hear it, etc", lucky you, now maybe you could have a little consideration for those who have not?
Fast boot is important.
Yes, but now Unix is installed on laptops.
:-( :-(
So it'd better boot *fast*.
As an aside, those 'fast boot time' makes me laugh: with a Celeron333, on BeOS I was able to boot from BIOS (when the BIOS "starts" the OS) to a usable graphical desktop within less than 20s (14s if memory serves)!
XP boot time while smaller than Linux's one is not especially great as the desktop is not usable at the beginning..
I'd really like to have Linux kernel + KDE (or Gnome) boot under 20s, but I'm not dreaming
Agreed, I haden't thought about the GIMP with its "multiple window" setup, still it would be much better if the splash screen used would be configured to have a border: you clicked on GIMP by mistake?
Just close the window, it will stop immediately, and if you want to hide it, you just iconify it..
Thanks for the information, but if the splash screen is closed and a new window is popped when the app is closed, this is still a little bit annoying IMHO: this means that the user will see two windows opening.
Whereas the "splashwindow" would contain first the splashscreen (with a progress indication if possible) and then the application when it is ready to be used.
Of course the change of state from the splashwindow must be easy to see by the user: flashing two times and then changing the color of both the window and the icon would be a good visual cue IMHO.
> Splash screens are irritating, but in most cases a long delay with no splash screen is worse.
Agreed, but why not use a window to "contain the splash screen" instead?
I call this a 'splash window': it comes up immediately like a splash screen because it contains nearly nothing: a cute image like a splash screen and if possible a progress indicator.
Unlike a splash screen, it isn't always on top: as any window, you can minimize,maximize,resize or even close it if you opened the wrong app.
The only part which is a little difficult (depending of the toolkit) would be to replace the content of the window when the app is ready.
Also the app must indicate when it is ready, possibly by changing the color of the icon and the color of the window for example.
Agreed for the GC part.
Disagree for the 200% better part, currently there is no functionnality which can gives a 200% improvement in language design.
But having a language which integrates many small improvements inside something coherent (unlike C++ which is clearly a mess) would still be valuable IMHO. Some claims that Java/C# are the answer, I'm not so sure, D or Nice seems more interesting..
>OE is a singuarly bad newsgroup program.
And for the parent, T-Bird is an even worse as he doesn't have the feature needed..
Also I disagree that OE is a bad newsgroup program, knode and Mozilla are really bad newsgroup programs, OE is just average.
"as idiosyncratic as C"
No, more like Pascal or Ada..
I remember thinking 'why the hell did they get inspired from Pascal? Nobody use Pascal..'
If they had tried to imitate C, I think it would have been better (except for the variable definition in C which is a mess, but this is not a problem in Ocaml): many more people know C/C++, the transition would have been less awkward.
Anyway I don't think, I'll try again to learn OCaml: each time there is a problem, it feels like doing math, Ruby is much more simpler to learn IMHO (but it runs also much more slower unfortunately).
Library is not the only problem of Ocaml IMHO: I tried once to learn it but I disliked its syntax which is "weird" (not bad like Perl, just weird) and the book I used to learn (French book) kept pushing the functionnal style even in situations where it makes the code more difficult to read than imperative style.
Which is a shame IMHO, in some case functionnal style is easier to use, in other it is not: if a language supports both style, why not use the style which suits the problem?
>So the ISO date format seems to have been developed as a workaround to the deficiencies of computer software.
I disagree that it is a deficiency of the computer: unless the computer is able to read your mind, there are so many ways to write dates, that no computer will ever be capable to recognize dates in a filename with making error..
And if you have an inventory number which is recognize as a date, the order would be quite strange..
So while I agree that computers should try to sort better numbers, I don't think it is possible/interesting to do it for dates, maybe adding a "user date" attribute to a file would be an interesting possibility..
Well except that Turkish is not currently a part of EU, so I'm not sure that the EU court of human rights will/can do anything..
Except that noone cares about 'idea war' but only about which implementation is better.
. html
Maybe doing the composition and layout separately is better in theory, but I won't use it because IMHO Latex suck!
In Latex, the layout is bad (I can recognize article made with Latex: usually the figures are put at strange location such as at the end of a chapter which makes thing less readable) but even worse the language itself is bad too: I tried to learn it once and rejected it: the language is far *too ugly* for my taste.
I've heard about Skribe http://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/fp/Skribe/doc/user
The language seems good (Scheme) but I've not really looked at it yet.
PS:
Word suck too but Framemaker is great for the other idea of WYSISWYG.
Agreed, splash screen should be removed, "splash window" like you described are much, much better!