The feature of CVS I miss dearly is annotate, something that would tell you who made the last change to each line of code in a file. The really nice integration with emacs meant that you could type a few keystrokes and have this annotated buffer appear in seconds. Perforce doesn't do anything like this (at least as quickly and easily), and it doesn't look like they're going to any time soon.
My company recently switced to Perforce. It's OK, we're one of their bigger customers so we uncovered some performance problems which they've since fixed.
One of the best features is the changelist, where you submit all files you're working on en masse, no chance of forgetting to check something in as often happens in CVS. One of the worst things about Perforce is its lack of an analoge to CVS annotate, and this lack makes me cry.
I miss the simplicity of CVS, and the better integration in emacs (though perforce has an emacs minor mode too), and of course, not crying.
I agree, I prefer KDE over GNOME (but I use both) installation is the one thing that GNOME does much better than KDE. I whish they'd make it easier to update, something on the order of RedCarpet.
Hey! Yeah, I love this company. I've been listening to their courses for a long time now. I can't believe how much information I've picked up over the last few years listening to their courses on my walk to work. I haven't listened to much science/math stuff though, its mostly humanities I'm interested in.
Stately? You think our bills are stately? Jeez, here I've been thinking that they're the most boring and unimpressive pieces of paper that exist, outside of my grocery register slip.
We've had interesting and beautiful currency in the past, and most other countries have a lot nicer looking currency than we do. We're just going through a bad period.
C'mon, go along with it. It'll be fun! Besides, all your friends are doing it.
I think they already answerd that, maybe on a FAQ at there website. Anyway I think the answer was biggest bang for the buck, which only makes sense. What I still wonder about though is why not *BSD? Perhaps it's something to do with *BSD's multi-processor support at the time.
Here a few things for you and your dad to consider:
- All customers are pains in the ass. Everyone who deals with customers knows that. Tell your dad to get over it, there's nothing special about his customers.
- Some contractors are good (at least I've been told that, I've never met a good one) but all contractors I've dealt with are semi-literate loosers, often with drinking or drug problems, that can't run their own business to save their ass. I've dealt with many contractors, they've all been indescribably bad.
- Contractors get away with behavior that normal people can't. Nobody else can work the hours and do the quality of work that any contractor I or any of my friends have worked with with and not be fired on the spot.
Right. Let's offer the phone company the choice between loosing their monoploy or maintaining it and dealing with government requirements. I'll bet I know what they choose.
The problem with modern society is that we've fogotten that that our economic system is in place to serve us, and that we are not here to serve it. The capitalist system is meant to foster competition in order to improve the state of all citizens. If we have a condition in which a single company has acheived a monopoly then competition cannot exist and something needs to be done to fix it. In a capitialist system, no company "wins" for good, when competition stops then capitalism can't function.
There's nothing socialist about competition, and there's nothing capitalist about celebrating monopolies.
I agree with you that human nature must include some combination of
these two tendencies. Which is why I don't believe that "pure"
capitalism would be any more successful than "pure" communism.
Though I think it's a sad commentary on the state of man that true the
latter seems to be an impossibility.
I think existence of the Religious Right here in the U.S. is an
astonishing non squitur, a single institution that embodies this
contradiction in human nature. How could a allegedly fundamentally
religious group also be fundamentally behind an economic system
(capitalism) that is based on strife? Shouldn't Christianity, or
any major religion, favor a socialist or communist style government?
Yet religion and socialism/communism in the U.S. are conceived of as
opposite ends of the spectrum (with the exception of small groups
like the Quakers.)
Capitalism is the worst economic system except for all the rest. (With apologies to Churchill)
I do agree with you about the pernicious effects of capitalism, many of its aspects leave a bad taste in my mouth. But it does seem to work well with human nature, better than anything else I know about. There are those of us in the U.S. that work hard to ensure that the term unbridled gets applied to our form of capitalism as infreqently as possible, we're just not doing too well right now.
Ribbit. Hey that's funny. French == frog. I get it. What are you, a writer for the Simpsons or something? You crack me up man, really. Pointless perpetuation of stupid and negative cultural associations is really high class comedy material, really high class. Nice!
Linux may be a monolythic kernel, but it doesn't contain a web browser and file manager. You're equating the Linux kernel with MS's entire OS. Apples and oranges.
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The feature of CVS I miss dearly is annotate, something that would tell you who made the last change to each line of code in a file. The really nice integration with emacs meant that you could type a few keystrokes and have this annotated buffer appear in seconds. Perforce doesn't do anything like this (at least as quickly and easily), and it doesn't look like they're going to any time soon.
Well, pretty much all Linux and *BSD users I'd say, since CVS is usually in the default distribution of these systems.
My company recently switced to Perforce. It's OK, we're one of their bigger customers so we uncovered some performance problems which they've since fixed.
One of the best features is the changelist, where you submit all files you're working on en masse, no chance of forgetting to check something in as often happens in CVS. One of the worst things about Perforce is its lack of an analoge to CVS annotate, and this lack makes me cry.
I miss the simplicity of CVS, and the better integration in emacs (though perforce has an emacs minor mode too), and of course, not crying.
Weird. Maybe you ought to get a name?
I agree, I prefer KDE over GNOME (but I use both) installation is the one thing that GNOME does much better than KDE. I whish they'd make it easier to update, something on the order of RedCarpet.
Hey! Yeah, I love this company. I've been listening to their courses for a long time now. I can't believe how much information I've picked up over the last few years listening to their courses on my walk to work. I haven't listened to much science/math stuff though, its mostly humanities I'm interested in.
Stately? You think our bills are stately? Jeez, here I've been thinking that they're the most boring and unimpressive pieces of paper that exist, outside of my grocery register slip.
We've had interesting and beautiful currency in the past, and most other countries have a lot nicer looking currency than we do. We're just going through a bad period.
C'mon, go along with it. It'll be fun! Besides, all your friends are doing it.
I think they already answerd that, maybe on a FAQ at there website. Anyway I think the answer was biggest bang for the buck, which only makes sense. What I still wonder about though is why not *BSD? Perhaps it's something to do with *BSD's multi-processor support at the time.
Here a few things for you and your dad to consider:
- All customers are pains in the ass. Everyone who deals with customers knows that. Tell your dad to get over it, there's nothing special about his customers.
- Some contractors are good (at least I've been told that, I've never met a good one) but all contractors I've dealt with are semi-literate loosers, often with drinking or drug problems, that can't run their own business to save their ass. I've dealt with many contractors, they've all been indescribably bad.
- Contractors get away with behavior that normal people can't. Nobody else can work the hours and do the quality of work that any contractor I or any of my friends have worked with with and not be fired on the spot.
You'd be more informative if you mentioned how much you spent as well. Saving $100K is fine, but what percentage you saved is more interesting.
Plesae feel free to continue paying for software that you can't control or even view in source form. You deserve it!
I recently enjoyed a first edition of Hemingway's Hills like White Elephants over linguini with marinara sauce. Excellent!
Yes but CmdrTaco, the person who wrote those lines, is a native English speaker. His illiteracy is embarrassing.
Well, since I think they cost an arm and a leg, he should have gotten a torso, head and the other arm and leg as change.
But there was an upside to disco, specificially the associated lasciviousness. There is no upside to Star Wars.
Right. Let's offer the phone company the choice between loosing their monoploy or maintaining it and dealing with government requirements. I'll bet I know what they choose.
There's nothing socialist about competition, and there's nothing capitalist about celebrating monopolies.
Not True!
Especially if they can make one with a mouse body and a tiny human head, preferably resembling Don Knots.
I think existence of the Religious Right here in the U.S. is an astonishing non squitur, a single institution that embodies this contradiction in human nature. How could a allegedly fundamentally religious group also be fundamentally behind an economic system (capitalism) that is based on strife? Shouldn't Christianity, or any major religion, favor a socialist or communist style government? Yet religion and socialism/communism in the U.S. are conceived of as opposite ends of the spectrum (with the exception of small groups like the Quakers.)
Hey, this is off topic!
I do agree with you about the pernicious effects of capitalism, many of its aspects leave a bad taste in my mouth. But it does seem to work well with human nature, better than anything else I know about. There are those of us in the U.S. that work hard to ensure that the term unbridled gets applied to our form of capitalism as infreqently as possible, we're just not doing too well right now.
Ribbit. Hey that's funny. French == frog. I get it. What are you, a writer for the Simpsons or something? You crack me up man, really. Pointless perpetuation of stupid and negative cultural associations is really high class comedy material, really high class. Nice!
Linux may be a monolythic kernel, but it doesn't contain a web browser and file manager. You're equating the Linux kernel with MS's entire OS. Apples and oranges.
Do you even know any europeans? I think you're the one who needs to do some growing up.
Aren't they always being shot at on Star Trek?