But Microsoft (and our co-sponsors, Intel and Hewlett-Packard) went further and have agreed that our patents essential to implementing C# and CLI will be available on a "royalty-free and otherwise RAND" basis for this purpose.
This was in 2003, years before sun made java 'open'.
I'm going without session management for about 6 month now and I really didn't notice. Gnome session 'management' has always been broken, at least for some years imho.
Isn't that how it goes? Some things break, more get better. Next ubuntu release is just around the corner anyways.
Do you remember pulse audio, upgrading to 64bit, how long it took for utf8 to actually work out of the box, or this one issue with redhat and kgcc? There is no easy way, progress always creates problems.
A clean X session might give more accurate results.
Sure, trackerd, deskbar-applet and pulseaudio are memory-/cpu intensive, but they do provide a richer desktop experience and can be turned off easily. Kernel and gcc changes on the other hand have nothing to do with the desktop environment and are more difficult to change.
And here's the funny thing: Windows feels a lot more Linuxlike to me than Mac OS. In many ways it seems as if it's a slightly clumsy knockoff of KDE. Yeah, you think WINDOWS is ripping off KDE? I'm not going to argue that windows is the king of originality, but I think it came about the other way around... That might be true, but a users perspective will always be led by their experience: Someone who uses KDE a lot will, after briefly using Windows, feel like Windows is just a cheap ripoff.
I myself am often astonished when people tell me something is just like in 'outlook', 'spotlight' or whatever. Actually it is pretty impossible to find out who started it. Maybe Windows is just a GEOS ripoff.
"Hardy Heron", "Gutsy", etc. are distribution names, much like "Cheetah", "Puma", "Leopard" and "Tiger".
"Pidgin" has just been renamed from "gaim" and in the menus you can find it under "Pidgin Internet Messenger".
Looking at the menu entries, I'd say all applications have their name followed by their type: "web browser", "image editor".
"Amarok", as far as I know is the name of a music band or a song by Mike Oldfield.
So these 'experts'... they work for free?
Come on, if you had to decide between writing your next article for a well known scientific magazine or writing a wikipedia article...
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But Microsoft (and our co-sponsors, Intel and Hewlett-Packard) went
further and have agreed that our patents essential to implementing C#
and CLI will be available on a "royalty-free and otherwise RAND" basis
for this purpose.
This was in 2003, years before sun made java 'open'.
I submit:
In the above quoted statement, substitute KDE 4.x for Windows 7 and KDE 3.5 for Windows XP. It still makes sense.
Ironic to say the least.
He,
Windows always looked a lot like KDE.
XP doesn't show bluescreens by default. It reboots.
Go check somewhere under "System/Start Up and Recovery".
I've seen quite a lot of BSOD in the last years, mostly AV software, drivers, hardware problems and messed up installs.
Btw, got a bsod while trying to install my emu10k1 on win7...
I'm going without session management for about 6 month now and I really didn't notice. Gnome session 'management' has always been broken, at least for some years imho.
Isn't that how it goes? Some things break, more get better. Next ubuntu release is just around the corner anyways.
Do you remember pulse audio, upgrading to 64bit, how long it took for utf8 to actually work out of the box, or this one issue with redhat and kgcc?
There is no easy way, progress always creates problems.
The importance of search engines as gatekeepers is mostly exaggerated.
A clean X session might give more accurate results.
Sure, trackerd, deskbar-applet and pulseaudio are memory-/cpu intensive, but they do provide a richer desktop experience and can be turned off easily. Kernel and gcc changes on the other hand have nothing to do with the desktop environment and are more difficult to change.
But then, who needs this math symbols anyways. Well, besides $\Rightarrow$?
Oh, don't forget the nameless BibTEX stack functional programming language and the 5000+ lines .bst files written in it.
Doctype XML is my last hope.
Improvements, how about "the install CD knows about SATA drives"? Or "USB support finally fixed"? Don't you know? XP has to die.
I myself am often astonished when people tell me something is just like in 'outlook', 'spotlight' or whatever. Actually it is pretty impossible to find out who started it. Maybe Windows is just a GEOS ripoff.
"Hardy Heron", "Gutsy", etc. are distribution names, much like "Cheetah", "Puma", "Leopard" and "Tiger".
"Pidgin" has just been renamed from "gaim" and in the menus you can find it under "Pidgin Internet Messenger".
Looking at the menu entries, I'd say all applications have their name followed by their type: "web browser", "image editor".
"Amarok", as far as I know is the name of a music band or a song by Mike Oldfield.
So these 'experts'... they work for free? Come on, if you had to decide between writing your next article for a well known scientific magazine or writing a wikipedia article...