I'm not sure why the web browsers don't do spell checking but most programs that let you input text have an aspell/enchant interface. I just use dict when I'm not sure I spelled something properly, I find spell checkers annoying.
Most countries also have a public elementary school education system.
Maybe he shouldn't need to upgrade. I've never needed to upgrade to open someone elses PostScript, JPEG, MPEG, PDF, tar, TeX, DVI... and hundreds of other formats.
Because everyone know that capitalism is meant so that farmers don't own the things they plant while every other economic system respects the hard work of farmers.
I do have a lot of good new music, 31GB of it. I just don't need more than 2 hours when I'm going out. Storing 8 hours to have a bit of selection during that time is good enough.
Right now it seems too much for music, too little for video and too expensive for anything else.
Does anyone actually need more than 100 songs on a portable music player? Maybe those who fly from LA to Hong Kong every day, but I can't think of anyone else.
I've never even had more than 8 hours of music on my playlist at home.
At least where I live most users are smart enough to something useful with their computers. Ripping mp3s or burning them into audio cds just consists of dragging and dropping.
Most home users share a computer, so it needs to be able to run the kid's 3D games, the son's pirated Photoshop, etc.
These specs seem very excessive but it's wrong to assume people only use computers to run word processors or download email.
Aren't databases meant to be reliable and easy to access with external tools? I'm very happy with maildir because I don't recieve much mail, if I recieved mail from many high traffic lists it would be nice to be able to store it in an SQL database.
Maybe they can include a web browser and a web site design program! It would be so cool because it would take lots of space and nobody would use it.
Most people don't use PIM software, something that stores email addresses is good enough.
Even if most people did want PIM, it would be better to have separate programs that integrate well than one big program that does a whole bunch of things and fails at all of them.
He's running IMAP so email resides on the server. Unless there's a very ugly bug making thunderbird delete emails on the server there's no way they'll be lost.
I think the problem is using too much C for software that could be written in a higher level language. Since C can bind easily with other languages it can be used in cases where speed is a big concern or someone needs to write a device driver while using a higher level language for everything else.
The languages the OP was referring to (except for Lisp) are statically typed. They will find a lot of errors that can make a Python program crash. Of course, you still need error detection for things like bad input or insufficient memory... but there isn't much the compiler can do about someone entering their phone number in the file selection dialogue.
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Good communications benefit everyone, that's why you subsidize the cost of building/maintaining roads and public transportation even if you might not use them.
I imagine service will be offered like any other utility, those who use it pay for it. Assuming people pay for their own utilities in Sweden.
Where are all the Perl forks? TCL? Python? Ruby? Where are the RedHat-only binaries?
If supporting C99 makes gcc a fragmentation of C then you haven't realized Sun has made many changes to Java, making newer code incompatible with older jvm's, and there are already forked versions of java (the JVM included in Windows 98, C#/.Net).
I'm not a new users, but I only use it rarely, maybe once every two or three weeks. I find the interface extremely confusing, it seems there's millions of menus, dialog boxes, plugins as if everything has the same importance. It usually takes me a few minutes to remember where everything was last time I used it.
I understand this is due to the Gimp being a powerful program but the interface feels a bit disorganized. I use vim a lot and it has hundreds of features but the most common ones are the easiest to access, the least common ones requiring using external scripts.
There are many sources other than kazaa for mp3s, and they all offer the chance of having free mp3s without restrictions.
Other than the moral part, there's no advantage in using itunes over anything else and I guess most people don't care about the moral implications of downloading mp3s.
Using -a asks if you want to continue (most of the time you will) avoiding the need to recalculate dependencies.
I'm lazy so I have:
alias up="esync && emerge -uDa world" esync comes with esearch (emerge esearch) It syncs, updates its little database to make searching faster and displays the list of changes after the sync.
This takes a bit longer than a normal rsync/emerge -u world but it's usually going on when i'm having breakfast.
Having a billion dollars would greatly affect my life. The existence of God wouldn't. There are millions of things that could exist but I won't waist my time trying to prove they don't since proving something doesn't exist is impossible. So, since the existence of God is irrelevant to me, I would only believe in him if someone proved to me he actually exists.
The other alternative is randomly choosing to believe in one of the hundreds of Gods in the world.
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I'm not sure why the web browsers don't do spell checking but most programs that let you input text have an aspell/enchant interface. I just use dict when I'm not sure I spelled something properly, I find spell checkers annoying.
Most countries also have a public elementary school education system.
Maybe he shouldn't need to upgrade. I've never needed to upgrade to open someone elses PostScript, JPEG, MPEG, PDF, tar, TeX, DVI... and hundreds of other formats.
Because everyone know that capitalism is meant so that farmers don't own the things they plant while every other economic system respects the hard work of farmers.
I do have a lot of good new music, 31GB of it. I just don't need more than 2 hours when I'm going out. Storing 8 hours to have a bit of selection during that time is good enough.
Right now it seems too much for music, too little for video and too expensive for anything else.
Does anyone actually need more than 100 songs on a portable music player? Maybe those who fly from LA to Hong Kong every day, but I can't think of anyone else.
I've never even had more than 8 hours of music on my playlist at home.
At least where I live most users are smart enough to something useful with their computers. Ripping mp3s or burning them into audio cds just consists of dragging and dropping.
Most home users share a computer, so it needs to be able to run the kid's 3D games, the son's pirated Photoshop, etc.
These specs seem very excessive but it's wrong to assume people only use computers to run word processors or download email.
Aren't databases meant to be reliable and easy to access with external tools? I'm very happy with maildir because I don't recieve much mail, if I recieved mail from many high traffic lists it would be nice to be able to store it in an SQL database.
Maybe they can include a web browser and a web site design program! It would be so cool because it would take lots of space and nobody would use it.
Most people don't use PIM software, something that stores email addresses is good enough.
Even if most people did want PIM, it would be better to have separate programs that integrate well than one big program that does a whole bunch of things and fails at all of them.
He's running IMAP so email resides on the server. Unless there's a very ugly bug making thunderbird delete emails on the server there's no way they'll be lost.
I think the problem is using too much C for software that could be written in a higher level language. Since C can bind easily with other languages it can be used in cases where speed is a big concern or someone needs to write a device driver while using a higher level language for everything else.
The languages the OP was referring to (except for Lisp) are statically typed. They will find a lot of errors that can make a Python program crash. Of course, you still need error detection for things like bad input or insufficient memory... but there isn't much the compiler can do about someone entering their phone number in the file selection dialogue.
Good communications benefit everyone, that's why you subsidize the cost of building/maintaining roads and public transportation even if you might not use them.
I imagine service will be offered like any other utility, those who use it pay for it. Assuming people pay for their own utilities in Sweden.
Where are all the Perl forks? TCL? Python? Ruby? Where are the RedHat-only binaries?
If supporting C99 makes gcc a fragmentation of C then you haven't realized Sun has made many changes to Java, making newer code incompatible with older jvm's, and there are already forked versions of java (the JVM included in Windows 98, C#/.Net).
Nobody _needs_ it, but there's no point in moving to an inferior architecture that also happens to be more expensive.
Inferior depending on the needs of each user of course.
Just like 486 and the letter 'a'.
How many people write articles/documents/whatever on their server?
Most of the time, the updates take no longer than 10 minutes... without requiring a reboot and without making the system slow or unresponsive.
But you can't really compare the two, since windows update only updates 1% of the system, while gentoo updates everything.
You could start using virtual desktops or use a window manager that doesn't suck and raises all the windows of an app when you click on one of them.
It doesn't offer the practical advantage of running it on unsupported platforms.
Also, a lot of people care about Free Software from a non-practical point of view.
I'm not a new users, but I only use it rarely, maybe once every two or three weeks. I find the interface extremely confusing, it seems there's millions of menus, dialog boxes, plugins as if everything has the same importance. It usually takes me a few minutes to remember where everything was last time I used it.
I understand this is due to the Gimp being a powerful program but the interface feels a bit disorganized. I use vim a lot and it has hundreds of features but the most common ones are the easiest to access, the least common ones requiring using external scripts.
I'm guessing that means the PS3 will be the one to take over windows' market share whenever it comes out.
printf("\n");
There are many sources other than kazaa for mp3s, and they all offer the chance of having free mp3s without restrictions.
Other than the moral part, there's no advantage in using itunes over anything else and I guess most people don't care about the moral implications of downloading mp3s.
Using -a asks if you want to continue (most of the time you will) avoiding the need to recalculate dependencies.
I'm lazy so I have:
alias up="esync && emerge -uDa world"
esync comes with esearch (emerge esearch) It syncs, updates its little database to make searching faster and displays the list of changes after the sync.
This takes a bit longer than a normal rsync/emerge -u world but it's usually going on when i'm having breakfast.
Having a billion dollars would greatly affect my life. The existence of God wouldn't. There are millions of things that could exist but I won't waist my time trying to prove they don't since proving something doesn't exist is impossible. So, since the existence of God is irrelevant to me, I would only believe in him if someone proved to me he actually exists.
The other alternative is randomly choosing to believe in one of the hundreds of Gods in the world.