I suppose MS's reasoning is, that all computers in a company should have windows 7 and use this compatibility feature to run XP only programs, instead of having some real windows XP computers, adding this feature helps remove an excuse for not installing Win 7 (in the eyes of Microsoft, not my own opinion).
I still don't see the reason for the complaint though, I mean, what do you want them to do? NOT include this feature? Make the feature work on crappy computers? In the future all CPU's will have hardware virtualization anyway, we're talking about a future OS on future computers here, non power users of the near future will have a CPU that is more powerful than a CPU of today and with hardware virtualization.
And also, don't power users use "Professional" versions of Windows anyway, instead of "Home" versions? The "Home" versions are the versions for the users that just browse internet and put photo's on their HD (and then losing them because they don't back them up and don't put them on a separate partition of their disk and will let someone format their HD to install a new windows after a virus infection anyway).
I have a cheap 4GB SDHC card. I've used it only a few times to take photos.
Sometimes if it's in my camera, the camera gives an error that there's no card in it. After removing it and putting it back, it works again.
And if I put it in the card reader in my PC, same thing: Sometimes mounting it in Linux works, sometimes it doesn't and it's as if nothing is in it. Removing it from the reader and inserting it back may make it work again.
Could this be due to bad copper contacts on the SD card?
If I can choose between a Flash player that WORKS PERFECTLY and can play ANY movie and game on Newgrounds in Linux, and for which I can design games using Flex 3 in Linux completely FREE, or, an unsupported project lagging behind some official player from Microsoft that will never be useful because people will design Silverlight things for the newest official player, not the lagger-behind, then I know what to choose. Thanks Adobe!
At least this idea doesn't do any harm... No weird deformed looking frontpage or so for this one. Though I wish they'd improve the Tag system a LOT instead of working on this.
There are a lot of questions I have about slashdot, can anyone answer them?
The tags: in the past if you clicked on one, you got a list of articles with that tag. Now it appears that if you click on one, you tag that article with that tag! Is this the intention?
On one computer, slashdot takes a long time to load a certain script, making the whole browser hang for 10 seconds. It doesn't happen on any other computer I know. What script is this?
On some computers there is, and on some other computers there is not, a flashy green thing on the top right that has the text "green" in it. What is this?
Articles get tags. What decides which of the *many* tags that people probably give to it, appear on the front page below the article? Sometimes there are tags that are so strange that I can't imagine multiple people would by chance pick that same tag, how comes it that those get picked by so many people anyway?
If I have Gimp open, then there are different windows. Each toolbar is a window, each open painting is a window.
Say I'm working in Gimp, then check some post on slashdot. Then I want to continue working in Gimp. I open the browser window to open the slashdot post. The browser window goes in front of all Gimp's windows, which is normal. Then I want to paint again. I click on the painting. Only that painting goes in front of the browser, not the toolbars, none of them. So I need to click multiple times to have all gimp windows back.
I want to have the whole thing back if I want to continue painting.
Second disadvantage is the clutter in the taskbar if every single toolbar of gimp makes its own button there.
I want ONE button in my taskbar of the gimp window and if I click it I want EVERYTHING to pop up.
Now, the Gimp designers claim this is fixed by using desktop hints. But my desktop, KDE 3.5, doesn't listen to those hints. They consider that to be a bug of my desktop, but I think that is a stubborn reasoning of them. They have to create their program so that it works on a desktop, it doesn't work the opposite way.
Do the makers of photoshop make their program behave stupid and claim it's Windows' fault that it behaves stupid? No, they make sure their program WORKS in the desktop that people use.
The makers of Gimp should also make it work properly.
Yes, indeed I have considered that it is that decision. That is exactly the philosophy I don't like that I mentioned. That is the problem: the lacking features of GTK aren't due to lack of developers and time, but due to these decisions.
I'm not convinced of the advantage of these decisions. Also you say OSX doesn't use it, but OSX is conceptually a totally different type of dektop. In Linux, how something like Gimp looks, sucks.
Also, whether or not MDI is useful might differ from person to person, but I'm sure a lot of people, including me, like it, and there's no reason to leave it out from a proper GUI and desktop.
Reason I don't like Gnome, is because GTK simply isn't good. I mean, it can't even show a window inside a window to get MDI or floating toolbars. There are almost no complex programs with a good GUI in Linux (programs like photoshop, paint shop pro, 3ds max, ms office 2007,...), because GTK doesn't support doing floating and dockable toolbars or multiple open files in a good way. Blender is one of the few programs with a complex well done interface in Linux, but they did the entire GUI in OpenGL I think, not using a library like GTK.
I don't know why, but this is related to the philosophy of Gnome and GTK and since I don't like that philosophy, I don't like Gnome either.
Because it really is something to hate. That's why. I worked 2 months with KDE 4.1 and then had to install KDE 3.5 again simply because it allows me to work much better and faster. I'm normally not the guy who goes around changing his linux all the time, but the fact that I actually took the time to go back to 3.5 and that I was incredibly happy when it booted back up and I was immediatly more productive, does that prove that something is wrong with KDE 4.X, at least for some people? Yes, I hate it.
C has built in operators to add, subtract, multiply and divide numbers. You can use the CPU and the RAM memory. You don't need a library for that. I think the ability to do computations on the different cores and using multiple threads is just as basic as the computation and memory and should be part of the core language.
There's not even a way in the C or C++ core language to start a new thread. And with many different third party libraries, there'll never be a reliable standard way to do it. Multithreading is great and everything, but if even such a popular programming language doesn't allow it, how am I supposed to produce programs for 8-core CPU's?
It says in the article it "borrows" from the Nyko Classic Controller. But to me it looks like EXACTLY the Nyko Classic Controller except for the Nyko label and a slightly different look of the grips! I suppose Nyko and Nintendo are related to each other then?
Everyone who uses MS office, produces the exact same layout of slides. And now someone from the creators of MS Office creates a slide, and, it looks totally different and much better! What software do MS people themselves use to make slides then?
Isn't Rambus old technology, that only lived for a short time on a few architectures, while everyone uses DDR memory today and even while rambus existed? If so, why even bother.
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I suppose MS's reasoning is, that all computers in a company should have windows 7 and use this compatibility feature to run XP only programs, instead of having some real windows XP computers, adding this feature helps remove an excuse for not installing Win 7 (in the eyes of Microsoft, not my own opinion).
I still don't see the reason for the complaint though, I mean, what do you want them to do? NOT include this feature? Make the feature work on crappy computers? In the future all CPU's will have hardware virtualization anyway, we're talking about a future OS on future computers here, non power users of the near future will have a CPU that is more powerful than a CPU of today and with hardware virtualization.
And also, don't power users use "Professional" versions of Windows anyway, instead of "Home" versions? The "Home" versions are the versions for the users that just browse internet and put photo's on their HD (and then losing them because they don't back them up and don't put them on a separate partition of their disk and will let someone format their HD to install a new windows after a virus infection anyway).
I think companies are more likely to depend on old software that runs only on XP. So they target the correct users indeed.
Most non-corporate users only use programs to browse the tubes, print documents, send email and view photo's, nothing that depends on XP :)
What, money is measured in iPods now? Maybe its output should also be measured in iPods it can power instead of megawatts?
I have a cheap 4GB SDHC card. I've used it only a few times to take photos. Sometimes if it's in my camera, the camera gives an error that there's no card in it. After removing it and putting it back, it works again. And if I put it in the card reader in my PC, same thing: Sometimes mounting it in Linux works, sometimes it doesn't and it's as if nothing is in it. Removing it from the reader and inserting it back may make it work again. Could this be due to bad copper contacts on the SD card?
Yes, you're the only one. You're all alone.
If I can choose between a Flash player that WORKS PERFECTLY and can play ANY movie and game on Newgrounds in Linux, and for which I can design games using Flex 3 in Linux completely FREE, or, an unsupported project lagging behind some official player from Microsoft that will never be useful because people will design Silverlight things for the newest official player, not the lagger-behind, then I know what to choose. Thanks Adobe!
Well, it doesn't show the aprilfools tag now, does it?
I've only seen remarkably few such sites so far...
At least this idea doesn't do any harm... No weird deformed looking frontpage or so for this one. Though I wish they'd improve the Tag system a LOT instead of working on this.
I forgot a question! Why does EVERY article have the tag "story"? What's the point if everything has it?
Hi,
There are a lot of questions I have about slashdot, can anyone answer them?
The tags: in the past if you clicked on one, you got a list of articles with that tag. Now it appears that if you click on one, you tag that article with that tag! Is this the intention?
On one computer, slashdot takes a long time to load a certain script, making the whole browser hang for 10 seconds. It doesn't happen on any other computer I know. What script is this?
On some computers there is, and on some other computers there is not, a flashy green thing on the top right that has the text "green" in it. What is this?
Articles get tags. What decides which of the *many* tags that people probably give to it, appear on the front page below the article? Sometimes there are tags that are so strange that I can't imagine multiple people would by chance pick that same tag, how comes it that those get picked by so many people anyway?
Thanks :)
If I have Gimp open, then there are different windows. Each toolbar is a window, each open painting is a window.
Say I'm working in Gimp, then check some post on slashdot. Then I want to continue working in Gimp. I open the browser window to open the slashdot post. The browser window goes in front of all Gimp's windows, which is normal. Then I want to paint again. I click on the painting. Only that painting goes in front of the browser, not the toolbars, none of them. So I need to click multiple times to have all gimp windows back.
I want to have the whole thing back if I want to continue painting.
Second disadvantage is the clutter in the taskbar if every single toolbar of gimp makes its own button there.
I want ONE button in my taskbar of the gimp window and if I click it I want EVERYTHING to pop up.
Now, the Gimp designers claim this is fixed by using desktop hints. But my desktop, KDE 3.5, doesn't listen to those hints. They consider that to be a bug of my desktop, but I think that is a stubborn reasoning of them. They have to create their program so that it works on a desktop, it doesn't work the opposite way.
Do the makers of photoshop make their program behave stupid and claim it's Windows' fault that it behaves stupid? No, they make sure their program WORKS in the desktop that people use.
The makers of Gimp should also make it work properly.
Yes, indeed I have considered that it is that decision. That is exactly the philosophy I don't like that I mentioned. That is the problem: the lacking features of GTK aren't due to lack of developers and time, but due to these decisions.
I'm not convinced of the advantage of these decisions. Also you say OSX doesn't use it, but OSX is conceptually a totally different type of dektop. In Linux, how something like Gimp looks, sucks.
Also, whether or not MDI is useful might differ from person to person, but I'm sure a lot of people, including me, like it, and there's no reason to leave it out from a proper GUI and desktop.
Reason I don't like Gnome, is because GTK simply isn't good. I mean, it can't even show a window inside a window to get MDI or floating toolbars. There are almost no complex programs with a good GUI in Linux (programs like photoshop, paint shop pro, 3ds max, ms office 2007, ...), because GTK doesn't support doing floating and dockable toolbars or multiple open files in a good way. Blender is one of the few programs with a complex well done interface in Linux, but they did the entire GUI in OpenGL I think, not using a library like GTK.
I don't know why, but this is related to the philosophy of Gnome and GTK and since I don't like that philosophy, I don't like Gnome either.
This is NOT a troll. What he says is a valid point. Can't you see what happened to KDE.
Because it really is something to hate. That's why. I worked 2 months with KDE 4.1 and then had to install KDE 3.5 again simply because it allows me to work much better and faster. I'm normally not the guy who goes around changing his linux all the time, but the fact that I actually took the time to go back to 3.5 and that I was incredibly happy when it booted back up and I was immediatly more productive, does that prove that something is wrong with KDE 4.X, at least for some people? Yes, I hate it.
Your mom will.
C has built in operators to add, subtract, multiply and divide numbers. You can use the CPU and the RAM memory. You don't need a library for that. I think the ability to do computations on the different cores and using multiple threads is just as basic as the computation and memory and should be part of the core language.
There's not even a way in the C or C++ core language to start a new thread. And with many different third party libraries, there'll never be a reliable standard way to do it. Multithreading is great and everything, but if even such a popular programming language doesn't allow it, how am I supposed to produce programs for 8-core CPU's?
Is this new?? I've seen this movie here the first time in 2005 or something!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSIWpFPkYrk
First of all, I play LOTS of games on Linux thanks to Wine, including LAN games together with other people who are using Windows themselves.
Second: police could play games: simulation games in group, combat training, etc...
I don't see the crack in the video, where is it?
It says in the article it "borrows" from the Nyko Classic Controller. But to me it looks like EXACTLY the Nyko Classic Controller except for the Nyko label and a slightly different look of the grips! I suppose Nyko and Nintendo are related to each other then?
Everyone who uses MS office, produces the exact same layout of slides. And now someone from the creators of MS Office creates a slide, and, it looks totally different and much better! What software do MS people themselves use to make slides then?
Isn't Rambus old technology, that only lived for a short time on a few architectures, while everyone uses DDR memory today and even while rambus existed? If so, why even bother.