KDE has some good inovations in it, kioslaves , so that any [kde] application can access any uri without any extra work.
KDE is becoming a nice intergrated desktop, sure kparts are playing catch up with com(activex), but the KDE team are intergrating things far better and far more consistantly than windows. That is inovation in a piece meal, badly taken over and clobbered together windows world.
in the UK we have the elected politicians and non-elected peer representitive.
It's the job of the politicians to persuade the masses that they are right. it's the job of the non-elected house to prove that they are right or wrong.
unfortunatly the current UK government want's to turn the house of review into a house of appoities, and just another old boys club.
OO is about encapsulation and modularisation, you should never write code that isn't encapsualted or modular(well maybe extream protoryping) other wise I will call you monkey boy.
If you want to write buggy, hard to maintain, poorly designed code then sure, ignore OO.
e.g.
piss poor code
myfunction (larlar){ static int imAFool; }
better code
struct thisisanobject{ int imnotafool; }
myfunction (thisisanobject* , larlar){
}
hey, and the better code has no threading problems.
or ignorance is bliss... not knowing about 'science' is a good thing, just look how screwed people are when the logging companies and schools come along.
You can still get your apps to look like windows 3.1 because the 3d look of windows 95 upwards is just provided by a different toolkit overriding the standard windows (3.1) look.
Windows has a less standardised UI then a KDE/Gnome mix. some toolbars are drag able, some are docable, sometimes ctrl+insert works for copy, sometimes ctrl+tab changes windows and sometimes alt+f6 changes windows.
At the moment I have IE 5.5 word 97 and outlook 2000 open.
IE and Outlook have single lines to the right of the menu bars, word has double lines.
The menus in outlook and word can be un-docked, IE's menues can only be draged about a bit.
Alt+tab changes element focus in outlook and IE, but inserts a tab in word.
IE has a 'handle' in the bottom right of the window border, word has a simila (but different) handle, Outlook doesn't.
I have to deal with dozens of oddities in windows.
Company X patents something in the US that happens (in say India) but isn't patentable. They then get the WIPO to enforce the patent in India forcing the Indian company to pay royalties for something stolen by a US company.
Manufactured crap band 1. Manufactured crap band 2. Manufactured crap band 3. Manufactured crap band 4 (with one arm a pritty face a cup of coco but can't play for shit)
and mozilla. I've audited eciadsl adsl modem driver.
Sure, OSS isn't great at audit tracking or planning anything in particular( cathedral and bazaar springs to mind)
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Well, everything's compiled from source and personally I've looked through and fixed All of the USB core in the kernel, the ADSL driver for my modem, povray. I've partly gone through Arson and looked at lots of other source (including postgres)
So, I'm sure the ADSL software is spyware free the USB core looks ok too(if a bit badly documented and buggy) and I've never found anything bad in povray.
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Well, I think it should either be:
Random,
academic,
or hereditary.
random is a bad idea, 50% of the population has a below average IQ. (probably including me!) etc... you don't get the best.
academic would probably be my choice, since you get smart, knowlagable people, who arn't that interested in self promotion.
hereditary's also good, it gets rid of the old boys club problem (how much are you like you grandfather?)
KDE has some good inovations in it, kioslaves , so that any [kde] application can access any uri without any extra work.
KDE is becoming a nice intergrated desktop, sure kparts are playing catch up with com(activex), but the KDE team are intergrating things far better and far more consistantly than windows. That is inovation in a piece meal, badly taken over and clobbered together windows world.
in the UK we have the elected politicians and non-elected peer representitive.
It's the job of the politicians to persuade the masses that they are right. it's the job of the non-elected house to prove that they are right or wrong.
unfortunatly the current UK government want's to turn the house of review into a house of appoities, and just another old boys club.
Probably the same way that it isn't in windows.
'Nothing the Mac doesn't do already'
Not yet I suppose, but that doesn't mean the project won't turn into something the Mac doesn't do.
It would be nice to see the active window more opaque than the in-active windows. (maybe even blue/grey tint based on z)
I used to have a tracker ball thing,
4 buttons, and a ball you could move around with you thumb (like an upside down mouse).
only in the US I'm ?afraid?
In Europe, the US is seen as a cultural monster that trys to impose it's ideals upon everyone else.
Europe was anti-american before the whole Iraq thing.
OO is about encapsulation and modularisation, you should never write code that isn't encapsualted or modular(well maybe extream protoryping) other wise I will call you monkey boy.
If you want to write buggy, hard to maintain, poorly designed code then sure, ignore OO.
e.g.
piss poor code
myfunction (larlar){
static int imAFool;
}
better code
struct thisisanobject{
int imnotafool;
}
myfunction (thisisanobject* , larlar){
}
hey, and the better code has no threading problems.
Trusted Computing, says that
Microsoft, Intel, creative labs etc... all trust each other not to leave an unlocked path.
It's just a cartell.
don't forget slavery, easter, child abuse, prostitutes, the idea of dumb blondes (prostitutes died their hair blonde), and sparticus.
or ignorance is bliss... not knowing about 'science' is a good thing, just look how screwed people are when the logging companies and schools come along.
WIPO, now it's the school boys club that is government that's doing it, any you pay for them to do it....
You could give me a hand with this if you want. (a C++ library for reading access databases).
The projects been dormant for a while, (work makes my head hurt too much for real development)
you can use this little library to get direct platform-indepentant access for all you access data.
There are multiple toolkits in windows.
You can still get your apps to look like windows 3.1 because the 3d look of windows 95 upwards is just provided by a different toolkit overriding the standard windows (3.1) look.
Windows has a less standardised UI then a KDE/Gnome mix. some toolbars are drag able, some are docable, sometimes ctrl+insert works for copy, sometimes ctrl+tab changes windows and sometimes alt+f6 changes windows.
At the moment I have IE 5.5 word 97 and outlook 2000 open.
IE and Outlook have single lines to the right of the menu bars, word has double lines.
The menus in outlook and word can be un-docked, IE's menues can only be draged about a bit.
Alt+tab changes element focus in outlook and IE, but inserts a tab in word.
IE has a 'handle' in the bottom right of the window border, word has a simila (but different) handle, Outlook doesn't.
I have to deal with dozens of oddities in windows.
I use it because my server PC is quietly hidden in the cupboard under the stares and sometimes telnet/RSH/SSH &co just aren't good enough.
all data has meta-data describing it's type.
e.g.
Functions operate on data types e.g.
function jpegtobitmap(input , output )
function openuristream(input , output )
This allows objects to be built out of functions that operate on the type of data provided.
If jpegtobitmap was installed then any application that could work with bitmap data can now also work with jpeg data.
Company X patents something in the US that happens (in say India) but isn't patentable.
They then get the WIPO to enforce the patent in India forcing the Indian company to pay royalties for something stolen by a US company.
Maybe apple thought that the it was easier to learn to play the drums with one hand. UI genius thats what I say.
free indipentant music
make your own copy of someone elses music
etc.....
who's on Universal?
Manufactured crap band 1.
Manufactured crap band 2.
Manufactured crap band 3.
Manufactured crap band 4 (with one arm a pritty face a cup of coco but can't play for shit)
ME. thats one.
What GFX card is in the XBox?
EA have just taken a stiff 5 1/4 inches from bill gates.
and mozilla.
I've audited eciadsl adsl modem driver.
Sure, OSS isn't great at audit tracking or planning anything in particular( cathedral and bazaar springs to mind)
Well, everything's compiled from source
and personally I've looked through and fixed
All of the USB core in the kernel, the ADSL driver for my modem, povray.
I've partly gone through Arson
and looked at lots of other source (including postgres)
So, I'm sure the ADSL software is spyware free the USB core looks ok too(if a bit badly documented and buggy)
and I've never found anything bad in povray.