Re:Comment from a KDE developer.
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KDE Gets The Hat
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Janne: Red Hat has done the same thing to Gnome as it has to KDE, i.e. replaced the default look'n'feel, menu system and so on with their own designs. If you're worried that KDE now looks like Gnome, rest assured that it doesn't. Indeed, the most common complaint among Gnomers is that it makes Gnome look far too much like KDE.:)
I should take my own advice and RTFA.
Re:Comment from a KDE developer.
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Sure, but couldn't they have at least used a theme that is more neutral between the GNOME and KDE camps, and apply them to both desktops?
Re:Sorry, stupid Q: What is an ABI?
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"Calling convention" isn't an accurate enough term since it could describe a number of things in application development. ABI is better since it accurately implies it has something to do with the binaries themselves.
Essentially, the ABI is how a object files and libraries are linked together.
Re:Breaking interoperability... again???
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They did not promise that they will keep the ABI stable. They only promised that they will try very hard to keep it stable.
It is not inconceivable that another bug will creep up unexpectedly and force them to change again.
were the ones responsible for the dotcom bombs. They made promises they could not keeps, and put out products that would not make money, mostly because those products were, for the most part, completely useless.
We need to prove to everyone that IT isn't what was responsible for the dotcom bomb. We need to prove that IT can create useful and money making products, or at the very least, help increase the returns on those products.
Microsoft has no good intentions for the LWCE. I have come to learn that they intend to only do two things: promote their Services For Unix software and promote Windows XP Embedded.
I have been trying to find the original Newsforge article with that information, but I've only been able to find the article at Eweek.com.
They try to make it out as though it's really about talking to customers that need to work in a mixed environment, but I have my doubts. They also try to make it out as being a dialog between them and the rest of the OSS and Free Software communities.
I attribute the gullibility of conspiracy theorists to pure psychology. It's called intermittent (partial) reinforcement. It's the same reason many people are addicted to gambling.
Rewards (in the case of conspiracy theorists, the reward is being right) in intermittant reinforcement are not given every time a particular behavior is performed, but rather once in a while, and for best results, at a variable rate, rather than a fixed rate.
This is the reason you don't feed stray animals on the street, because they will occasionally be rewarded, and so it will stick in their heads that they should visit a particular place to get food. If you feed that stray animal after each visit or at a fixed rate, it will be easier to get off your back once you stop. However, with intermittant reinforcement, it will take a long time to get the animal off your back since it will continue to expect that one day you will feed it.
Conspiracy theorists have been right in the past (mere statistics will prove this, as this article makes note of), and that is enough to get large numbers of people convinced enough that others are worth their time and energy to prove correct.
Gullible they may be, but they have history to blame for that.
I could swear that this has been done before with a very harsh backlash from the videogaming community. Does anyone remember the early 90's where you had five hours worth of cut scenes, and ten minutes worth of real interactivity? I do, and it was horribly stupid. The SegaCD had tons of these, and they all sucked.
That's an interesting idea though, being able to physically move keys around at your own preference, that is. I think it would be neat to be able to buy a keyboard in which you could rip out the keys and place them wherever you want them to be, and have that be reflected in the software.
Yes, and also consider that downloading those applications is using up server time and bandwidth, and the GPL gives a person justification to charge for the trasferrence of GPL'ed apps.
I see a few people complaining that there is "yet another language to learn."
They ask, "Why bother creating another language? There is quite a number of them out there. Any of them should be able to solve almost any problem out there."
Programming languages are an art form, and like any other art form, it deserves respect. Each programming language forces a programmer to think about a problem in a slightly different manner. Prolog forces a programmer to think in terms of goals to be achieved, and OO languages force a programmer to think in terms of self contained parts of the problem. Different programming languages make it easier to solve different types of problems. Haskell is a great language to represent infinite sequences due to its use of lazy evaluation.
Would you tell a musician to not experiment with sounds not created by traditional instruments because there are so many musical instruments out there for him/her to use, and that any musical piece can be performed with any of them? Musicians come up with new sounds all the time because those new sounds allow them to view music from another perspective
I'm ambivalent about this move. Natalie Portman==good. Jar Jar Binks==bad. If he stopped at Natalie Portman, I would have said he's a saint, but Jar Jar Binks! I'm not so sure...
Did NASA verify that? Did they send probes to try to detect hair particles on their facial surfaces? I won't believe it until there are probes that can provide undeniable proof of their beards.
The Aliens TC mod for Doom definitely was awesome. I still occasionally have nightmares about it. Is there anyway to get it to play on modern Doom engines? I know that the original was a mod to the actual binary, and so was very specific to which versions of Doom it played on.
Does anyone have any idea of where to find it or how to get it to run on modern Doom engines?
Re:Best Jon Katz ever!
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Disconnecting
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I would doubt that the idea of God is verboten among/. intelligentsia, just the idea of Creationism. You might wish to look up theisticevolution. I have little doubt many/.ers believe in God, but I highly doubt many of them are Christian fundamentalists.
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I should take my own advice and RTFA.
Sure, but couldn't they have at least used a theme that is more neutral between the GNOME and KDE camps, and apply them to both desktops?
All compilers have to deal with an ABI.
"Calling convention" isn't an accurate enough term since it could describe a number of things in application development. ABI is better since it accurately implies it has something to do with the binaries themselves.
Essentially, the ABI is how a object files and libraries are linked together.
They did not promise that they will keep the ABI stable. They only promised that they will try very hard to keep it stable.
It is not inconceivable that another bug will creep up unexpectedly and force them to change again.
were the ones responsible for the dotcom bombs. They made promises they could not keeps, and put out products that would not make money, mostly because those products were, for the most part, completely useless.
We need to prove to everyone that IT isn't what was responsible for the dotcom bomb. We need to prove that IT can create useful and money making products, or at the very least, help increase the returns on those products.
Microsoft has no good intentions for the LWCE. I have come to learn that they intend to only do two things: promote their Services For Unix software and promote Windows XP Embedded.
I have been trying to find the original Newsforge article with that information, but I've only been able to find the article at Eweek.com.
They try to make it out as though it's really about talking to customers that need to work in a mixed environment, but I have my doubts. They also try to make it out as being a dialog between them and the rest of the OSS and Free Software communities.
I attribute the gullibility of conspiracy theorists to pure psychology. It's called intermittent (partial) reinforcement. It's the same reason many people are addicted to gambling.
Rewards (in the case of conspiracy theorists, the reward is being right) in intermittant reinforcement are not given every time a particular behavior is performed, but rather once in a while, and for best results, at a variable rate, rather than a fixed rate.
This is the reason you don't feed stray animals on the street, because they will occasionally be rewarded, and so it will stick in their heads that they should visit a particular place to get food. If you feed that stray animal after each visit or at a fixed rate, it will be easier to get off your back once you stop. However, with intermittant reinforcement, it will take a long time to get the animal off your back since it will continue to expect that one day you will feed it.
Conspiracy theorists have been right in the past (mere statistics will prove this, as this article makes note of), and that is enough to get large numbers of people convinced enough that others are worth their time and energy to prove correct.
Gullible they may be, but they have history to blame for that.
I could swear that this has been done before with a very harsh backlash from the videogaming community. Does anyone remember the early 90's where you had five hours worth of cut scenes, and ten minutes worth of real interactivity? I do, and it was horribly stupid. The SegaCD had tons of these, and they all sucked.
I'm sorry to ask this question, but my experience with the kernel source is limited.
What's so ugly about modversions that some of the core kernel developers would like to see them dropped?
Any hacker that compiles SELinux first before examining it is an idiot.
That's an interesting idea though, being able to physically move keys around at your own preference, that is. I think it would be neat to be able to buy a keyboard in which you could rip out the keys and place them wherever you want them to be, and have that be reflected in the software.
It's illegal in the US, but since this wasn't in the US, anything goes.
Yes, and also consider that downloading those applications is using up server time and bandwidth, and the GPL gives a person justification to charge for the trasferrence of GPL'ed apps.
Have you looked at Crystal Space? It's under the LGPL, and looks nicer, I think.
The first announcement of this can be found here.
Anyway, there is a related open source project for anyone interested.
Cycorp can be found here.
I see a few people complaining that there is "yet another language to learn."
They ask, "Why bother creating another language? There is quite a number of them out there. Any of them should be able to solve almost any problem out there."
Programming languages are an art form, and like any other art form, it deserves respect. Each programming language forces a programmer to think about a problem in a slightly different manner. Prolog forces a programmer to think in terms of goals to be achieved, and OO languages force a programmer to think in terms of self contained parts of the problem. Different programming languages make it easier to solve different types of problems. Haskell is a great language to represent infinite sequences due to its use of lazy evaluation.
Would you tell a musician to not experiment with sounds not created by traditional instruments because there are so many musical instruments out there for him/her to use, and that any musical piece can be performed with any of them? Musicians come up with new sounds all the time because those new sounds allow them to view music from another perspective
Yeah, my hand-writing is write-only, or so everyone tells me...
Don't you mean MIS majors?
(Sorry, I was feeling mischevious.)
Lots, and lots of Ramen noodles...
I'm ambivalent about this move. Natalie Portman==good. Jar Jar Binks==bad. If he stopped at Natalie Portman, I would have said he's a saint, but Jar Jar Binks! I'm not so sure...
Did NASA verify that? Did they send probes to try to detect hair particles on their facial surfaces? I won't believe it until there are probes that can provide undeniable proof of their beards.
The Aliens TC mod for Doom definitely was awesome. I still occasionally have nightmares about it. Is there anyway to get it to play on modern Doom engines? I know that the original was a mod to the actual binary, and so was very specific to which versions of Doom it played on.
Does anyone have any idea of where to find it or how to get it to run on modern Doom engines?
But it's not Dec. 22, 2012 yet!!!
Yup, and don't forget the flashlight, you'll definitely need one.
I would doubt that the idea of God is verboten among /. intelligentsia, just the idea of Creationism. You might wish to look up theistic evolution. I have little doubt many /.ers believe in God, but I highly doubt many of them are Christian fundamentalists.