Ditto, the deletionists are why I have such mixed feelings about wikipedia. I don't see any good reason a legit article shouldn't be deleted based on some persons definition of fame.
The problem with non-"deletionists" is that they've never come up with a way to distinguish garbage from non-garbage.
Ubuntu was working towards a so-called "10 second" boot. What happened to that? They give up? *MAYBE*, if I'm in a generous mood, they quickened boot by 30'ish percent during their efforts. But it still takes like 40'ish second or more until a usable desktop. That's a long way off from their stated goal.
People seem to have forgotten about this.
This just isn't true. I used KDE since 1.0. That's right, the first version. I love configuring tech stuff. It's just that the new KDE desktop is so inefficient that real work cannot be done on it. The whole "KDE is configurable" thing vs GNOME is WAY overblown. GNOME is quite configurable too.
After loathing 4.0, and 4.1, and 4.2... I finally gave the newest release a shot. It was worse than ever! KDE seems to be going backwards. In the end, KDE will do nothing except being about to rotate an analog clock.
I just trying starting up and shutting down vim a few times on an old machine. There was absolutely no noticeable startup time. This is on an older machine that was running *simulations* in the background. Just exaclty how much faster do you want it to load?
This is the classic Ship of Theseus problem applied to source code.
What I still don't understand is how it can be verified that the code has been "re-implemented" by scratch if it is closed source. My guess is that's a very liberal interpretation of "by scratch".
Imagine if Firefox was perfect and the web environment was stable: in other words there was no need to change it anymore until the environment changed. Would the Mozilla folks let it be? No because people are now employed by the Mozilla Foundation and jobs are at stake. Firefox is effectively a commercial product now. As happens to nearly every commercial software product that meets its users needs and original design goals, the software will come to experience feature bloat as the developers try to keep the attention of its userbase. (For the record, I think the claims that it is already bloatware are premature.) Feature bloat and change for the sake of change are the future of Firefox and it will all come in the name of "innovation".
PS In any case, the Linux version of Firefox could use some attention devs!
One of the guys that designed the ribbon has a lecture in 10 parts on youtube about its design. The purpose of the ribbon was to solve the problem of a menu system that had more options than it could handle. It was a matter of scalability. Firefox's menu does not have this problem. Nobody, not even MS would claim that ribbons are better than menus. The real lesson is to use the right one in the right situation. Traditional menus are perfectly fine in most situations.And yes MS did a lot of research to design the ribbon.
They floppies were stored in an old protection box. There were however in a room with other computers. The storage was so-so by data preservation standards. I would have expected them to work though.
I just acquired an old 8088 computer that I am trying to bring back to life. It has no hard drive and only two 5-1/4 inch floppy drives. I had access to a set of floppy disks and 4 of them, according to the labels, were various versions of DOS boot disks. However, most of them, the computer rejected as "not a system disk" and one of them just said "bad or invalid command interpreter". So either all the disks have gone bad over the years they were unused or my floppy drive is bad. I think it's the disks. These disks were lasted used about 15 years ago. What is the normal storage life of a 5-1/4 inch floppy disks, that is, the time before the data is compromised?
I absolutely hate how many US airports don't provide free Wifi for travelers (free Wifi seems to be more common abroad). For a minuscule fraction of their budget, airports could provide an invaluable service. It must change.
I have started to realize that Firefox, on Linux at least, is jumping the shark.
There are now several persistent known bugs that have existed for far too long (some since version 2).
The worst offenders are major:
Firefox frequently leaves a ghost process without an open window that has to be manually killed.
Right mouse clicks frequently perform a random action from the context menu.
The latest release (a point!) will kill the sound on my system if left running too long.
The latest release (a point!) will quickly blog down and become so slow that it can't be used and forces a (machine!) restart to fix.
Yes. Firefox's days are numbered. I blame it all on the Mozilla Foundation and there increasing focas on pandering to the masses Window's addiction and the "must have new features for new features sake" attitude that comes with paid positions.
Explain to me how Firefox is bloated. Compared to what? Its former self? Other browsers? The executable size of Firefox has been remarkable stable since version 1.0 --- it hovers around the 10MB mark. Just what is the bloat then? Nearly everything in Firefox has a direct browsing application. It is justified to call those features not bloat. The whole "SQLite database is bloat" argument goes out the window about 5 minutes after you start using the awesome bar.
Bloat is one of those words that's easy to fling around. What would you get rid of? The plugin system? Look at the other replies to your comment. The crash manager? The tabbed browsing??? Firefox currently has its problems, but bloat is not one of them.
This is totally bogus revisionism. This whole "4.0" was not intended for actual work developed AFTER the 4.0 release. Prior to the release there are only minor murmurs from some developers that it was not going to be a workable platform
The KDE dev-team clearly communicated to the world that 4.0 and the next few releases would not be a full alternative to the 3.5-series. They specifically reminded people that 4.0 would be a release for early adopters and developers, with tons of features missing, limited configuration/customization options and stability bugs.
That's bogus. They only really did this after the 4.0 debacle. Sure you could find some newsgroup posting here or there to support your view but the hype was that 4.0 was going to be amazing and it wasn't.
What a lie! Freedom so long as it is granted by the state is more like it. I should be able to have a domain name regardless of what it says. And on internet gambling in general, my money is my money, so I should be allowed to gamble with it if I so choose. If the government did its job and was there to protect the people rather to limit them, they would investigate online casinos for fairness and punish those that aren't playing square or if they are offshores, warn consumers about their practices.
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Ditto, the deletionists are why I have such mixed feelings about wikipedia. I don't see any good reason a legit article shouldn't be deleted based on some persons definition of fame.
The problem with non-"deletionists" is that they've never come up with a way to distinguish garbage from non-garbage.
Ubuntu was working towards a so-called "10 second" boot. What happened to that? They give up? *MAYBE*, if I'm in a generous mood, they quickened boot by 30'ish percent during their efforts. But it still takes like 40'ish second or more until a usable desktop. That's a long way off from their stated goal. People seem to have forgotten about this.
Another dimension do it
Never before have I wanted a product so much but will not buy do to Apple's draconian policies.
This just isn't true. I used KDE since 1.0. That's right, the first version. I love configuring tech stuff. It's just that the new KDE desktop is so inefficient that real work cannot be done on it. The whole "KDE is configurable" thing vs GNOME is WAY overblown. GNOME is quite configurable too.
After loathing 4.0, and 4.1, and 4.2... I finally gave the newest release a shot. It was worse than ever! KDE seems to be going backwards. In the end, KDE will do nothing except being about to rotate an analog clock.
I just trying starting up and shutting down vim a few times on an old machine. There was absolutely no noticeable startup time. This is on an older machine that was running *simulations* in the background. Just exaclty how much faster do you want it to load?
This is the classic Ship of Theseus problem applied to source code. What I still don't understand is how it can be verified that the code has been "re-implemented" by scratch if it is closed source. My guess is that's a very liberal interpretation of "by scratch".
People complaining *is* a form of data. I wish Shuttleworth would acknowledge that.
Only as good as current machine learning algorithms. So not very.
I don't think this is indicative of the power of neural networks.
Imagine if Firefox was perfect and the web environment was stable: in other words there was no need to change it anymore until the environment changed. Would the Mozilla folks let it be? No because people are now employed by the Mozilla Foundation and jobs are at stake. Firefox is effectively a commercial product now. As happens to nearly every commercial software product that meets its users needs and original design goals, the software will come to experience feature bloat as the developers try to keep the attention of its userbase. (For the record, I think the claims that it is already bloatware are premature.) Feature bloat and change for the sake of change are the future of Firefox and it will all come in the name of "innovation". PS In any case, the Linux version of Firefox could use some attention devs!
One of the guys that designed the ribbon has a lecture in 10 parts on youtube about its design. The purpose of the ribbon was to solve the problem of a menu system that had more options than it could handle. It was a matter of scalability. Firefox's menu does not have this problem. Nobody, not even MS would claim that ribbons are better than menus. The real lesson is to use the right one in the right situation. Traditional menus are perfectly fine in most situations.And yes MS did a lot of research to design the ribbon.
I can't believe I just read that. Tampons are in Aisle 3.
They floppies were stored in an old protection box. There were however in a room with other computers. The storage was so-so by data preservation standards. I would have expected them to work though.
I just acquired an old 8088 computer that I am trying to bring back to life. It has no hard drive and only two 5-1/4 inch floppy drives. I had access to a set of floppy disks and 4 of them, according to the labels, were various versions of DOS boot disks. However, most of them, the computer rejected as "not a system disk" and one of them just said "bad or invalid command interpreter". So either all the disks have gone bad over the years they were unused or my floppy drive is bad. I think it's the disks. These disks were lasted used about 15 years ago. What is the normal storage life of a 5-1/4 inch floppy disks, that is, the time before the data is compromised?
I absolutely hate how many US airports don't provide free Wifi for travelers (free Wifi seems to be more common abroad). For a minuscule fraction of their budget, airports could provide an invaluable service. It must change.
I have started to realize that Firefox, on Linux at least, is jumping the shark. There are now several persistent known bugs that have existed for far too long (some since version 2). The worst offenders are major: Firefox frequently leaves a ghost process without an open window that has to be manually killed. Right mouse clicks frequently perform a random action from the context menu. The latest release (a point!) will kill the sound on my system if left running too long. The latest release (a point!) will quickly blog down and become so slow that it can't be used and forces a (machine!) restart to fix. Yes. Firefox's days are numbered. I blame it all on the Mozilla Foundation and there increasing focas on pandering to the masses Window's addiction and the "must have new features for new features sake" attitude that comes with paid positions.
Explain to me how Firefox is bloated. Compared to what? Its former self? Other browsers? The executable size of Firefox has been remarkable stable since version 1.0 --- it hovers around the 10MB mark. Just what is the bloat then? Nearly everything in Firefox has a direct browsing application. It is justified to call those features not bloat. The whole "SQLite database is bloat" argument goes out the window about 5 minutes after you start using the awesome bar. Bloat is one of those words that's easy to fling around. What would you get rid of? The plugin system? Look at the other replies to your comment. The crash manager? The tabbed browsing??? Firefox currently has its problems, but bloat is not one of them.
This is totally bogus revisionism. This whole "4.0" was not intended for actual work developed AFTER the 4.0 release. Prior to the release there are only minor murmurs from some developers that it was not going to be a workable platform
The KDE dev-team clearly communicated to the world that 4.0 and the next few releases would not be a full alternative to the 3.5-series. They specifically reminded people that 4.0 would be a release for early adopters and developers, with tons of features missing, limited configuration/customization options and stability bugs.
That's bogus. They only really did this after the 4.0 debacle. Sure you could find some newsgroup posting here or there to support your view but the hype was that 4.0 was going to be amazing and it wasn't.
New TVs are not that expensive. Even pensioners could buy a new one. I don't think the government should be paying for any of this.
It's worth pointing out that the Tunguska event left no crater. Lack of a crater is not a major problem with this hypothesis.
Dear citizens: Please inform us if you have the talents necessary to be suspects in criminal cyber-cracking cases. That is all. Love, The FBI
What a lie! Freedom so long as it is granted by the state is more like it. I should be able to have a domain name regardless of what it says. And on internet gambling in general, my money is my money, so I should be allowed to gamble with it if I so choose. If the government did its job and was there to protect the people rather to limit them, they would investigate online casinos for fairness and punish those that aren't playing square or if they are offshores, warn consumers about their practices.
Bingo. And what's worse is that attitudes take generations to change. The negative math nerd image ain't going nowhere for quite some time.