SVN does NOT branch cheaply. You end up with duplication of all the branched code. DVCSes like Git do not duplicate, but rather create a new pointer to the same code. Only the changes have to be stored in git.
Barack Obama has made it American policy to not go after medical marijuana dispenserise though George W Bush (and to be fair Clinton) did attach these legal (at a state level) and illegal (at a fed level) dispenseries.
That's bullshit. The Feds are still raiding dispensaries.
Here are three articles on recent raids that come up when I type in "dispensary raid" into Google News:
It isn't impossible, but it does mean holding those who cross the line accountable. I'm not talking about suspension with pay, but investigation, trial and imprisonment of those who break the law. Start doing that and then I think you'll find that the police will be far more palatable to the average citizen.
I hadn't heard of Metisse before, but you are incorrect. From their website:
Metisse is not focused on a particular kind of interaction (e.g. 3D) and should not be seen as a new desktop proposal. It is rather a tool for creating new types of desktop environments.
Furthermore, Metisse is a research environment for HCI and their work over the last several years has dropped any work on concepts of 3D and focused on improving UI, not shoehorning a natural 2D interface into a 3D interface. In fact, their videos demonstrate the futility of a 3D desktop. View their transforms video from 2005 and notice that when they make an out-of-plane transform the text becomes hard, if at all possible, to read. Then a circular transform is demonstrated, which doesn't even try to be useful.
I do not need nor want out-of-plane transformed windows. I do not need nor want spinning or rotated windows. I do need an interface that lets me quickly launch, switch and close applications. I do need to be able to quickly know the status of the computer such as cpu, memory and network utilization.
Note that those two operations have little to nothing to do with 3D, and have (in some incarnation) existed on many desktop environments.
I am yet to see someone actually give a compelling argument for 3D desktops. The surface (monitor) is 2D, the content is 2D and anything that alters the content will only serve to reduce functionality. Sure, the cube desktop thing looks cool at first, but you can't read the content when using that. Heck, I am not certain it even does a good job as a switcher because the content alteration during use.
A monitor is a two dimensional surface and can never hold more information than that. Sure, a higher dimensional figure can be projected to the two dimensional surface, but this is an inherently lossy transform.
I don't need a three dimensional interface to my two dimensional display. My interface should be optimized to showing me information on my display efficiently and effectively, not with a bunch of needless transitions, shading and projections.
I recently graduated and I understand where you are coming from, but I disagree. I would often study at the library, but I also loved to browse around in sections that interested me. Without the ability to do so, I wouldn't have been exposed to topics related of my interests that would have been otherwise unknown to me.
A few days ago there was the posting about how customized searches actually restrict people to information bubbles, rather than exposing them to new information. It seems that now even libraries, a place of literal tomes of knowledge, are now becoming places that confine persons to pillars of information instead of exposing them to a broad spectrum of ideas.
This system caters to the individual who knows exactly which book they want, but what about us who like to have an idea, go to the section and browse around? I have frequently gone to the library with a vague idea of what I'm looking for and leaving with books for that topic, related topics and often just something that caught my eye. This "progress" undermines a lot of the value that a library presents.
Besides, if I know exactly what I want, I can use my computer and Amazon to get most things without being inconvenienced with leaving my home or office.
I don't think that's entirely accurate either. The companies can't lose what they don't have. This is them marketing the idea that the second-hand market should be eliminated.
What do I have in common with some weenie who graduated from school twenty years after me, and has never done anythng but work production?
You're an asshat. You feel you're superior to your coworkers and are denigrating them in an online forum. Maybe they do have things in common with you, but you feel so superior to them you go on about how you don't want to socialize with them.
Many go on and on about the nostalgia, but for me C-Kermit is software I use every damn day! I have yet to see a better serial terminal for embedded Linux development. And though many will speak of Minicom, go ahead try and log data to a file. You'll find that you're missing data, your transfers may fail and it generally cannot compete with the experience that C-Kermit provides.
No, no it does not. I've had 15 minute sessions just getting it to work and other times it just won't work on either phone. Often it would say no network capabilities, even though I have bluetooth up and running. And this isn't just me, the other person's phone has also been to blame frequently.
Unless you have info from other sources than I, Debian decided to update the Sys V init scripts to work with event based kernels instead of reinventing the wheel as Ubuntu has with Upstart. I use Debian on all my embedded systems precisely for this reason. Things that worked well in the past continue to work well.
As far as "minimalist" goes, my embedded Debian systems are frequently under 100 MB and still are fully functional and provide many important services.
Upstart is the biggest error that has affected me greatly in day-to-day work, but Ubuntu has also decided to reinvent the wheel and discard the many years old tested and installed X with something written from scratch. If the video demos promoting Wayland are indicative of anything, I will be avoiding it like the plague and anyone having high expectations from it will be very disappointed. Ubuntu, with its large user base, could easily have thrown its weight behind correcting some of the designs and decisions of X to meet modern expectations, but once again, they believe that they can do better than the many millions of man hours in design, development and use that X already has.
Spoken like someone who has never ported a large C++ application to Android. The NDK app is still a second class citizen on Android with many APIs being Java only. Sure, you can call them, but only after radically altering your program. In the end, it may be easier just to port to Java and hope that ROI will happen (it usually does not).
Programming for the Apple platforms? Keep your code, modify a handful of methods, redesign your UI to meet the guidelines and be touch-centric and you're done.
Read an interview with Austin Meyer: http://techhaze.com/2010/03/interview-with-x-plane-creator-austin-meyer/ It took him 2 weeks to port X-Plane to iPhone and at the time of the interview he had sold over 500,000 copies for $7 each. Quite a return on only two weeks investment. Not gonna happen on Android.
Not really. Since this error has gone through the net I've seen it go from about 85k to your 950k views. No one is paying attention to her, people are paying attention to these news articles.
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Much of your post appears to be business decisions, not necessarily engineering decisions.
Heck, Alonzo Church did it first, roughly six months prior to Alan Turing.
The right thing can never be done. But, they have acknowledged their fuck ups.
SVN does NOT branch cheaply. You end up with duplication of all the branched code. DVCSes like Git do not duplicate, but rather create a new pointer to the same code. Only the changes have to be stored in git.
Barack Obama has made it American policy to not go after medical marijuana dispenserise though George W Bush (and to be fair Clinton) did attach these legal (at a state level) and illegal (at a fed level) dispenseries.
That's bullshit. The Feds are still raiding dispensaries.
Here are three articles on recent raids that come up when I type in "dispensary raid" into Google News:
"Dog Killed in Pot Dispensary Raid " (June 10, 2011)
http://temecula.patch.com/articles/dog-killed-in-pot-dispensary-raid
"Agents raid 5 Fresno Co. marijuana dispensaries " (June 1, 2011)
http://www.fresnobee.com/2011/06/01/2410478/warrants-served-at-2-fresno-co.html
"Feds raid more Spokane marijuana dispensaries" (May 18, 2011)
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2011/may/18/feds-raid-spokane-marijuana-dispensaries/
Neither of which are Nobel prizes, which is the topic of discussion.
It isn't impossible, but it does mean holding those who cross the line accountable. I'm not talking about suspension with pay, but investigation, trial and imprisonment of those who break the law. Start doing that and then I think you'll find that the police will be far more palatable to the average citizen.
I hadn't heard of Metisse before, but you are incorrect. From their website:
Metisse is not focused on a particular kind of interaction (e.g. 3D) and should not be seen as a new desktop proposal. It is rather a tool for creating new types of desktop environments.
Furthermore, Metisse is a research environment for HCI and their work over the last several years has dropped any work on concepts of 3D and focused on improving UI, not shoehorning a natural 2D interface into a 3D interface. In fact, their videos demonstrate the futility of a 3D desktop. View their transforms video from 2005 and notice that when they make an out-of-plane transform the text becomes hard, if at all possible, to read. Then a circular transform is demonstrated, which doesn't even try to be useful.
I do not need nor want out-of-plane transformed windows. I do not need nor want spinning or rotated windows. I do need an interface that lets me quickly launch, switch and close applications. I do need to be able to quickly know the status of the computer such as cpu, memory and network utilization.
Note that those two operations have little to nothing to do with 3D, and have (in some incarnation) existed on many desktop environments.
I am yet to see someone actually give a compelling argument for 3D desktops. The surface (monitor) is 2D, the content is 2D and anything that alters the content will only serve to reduce functionality. Sure, the cube desktop thing looks cool at first, but you can't read the content when using that. Heck, I am not certain it even does a good job as a switcher because the content alteration during use.
A monitor is a two dimensional surface and can never hold more information than that. Sure, a higher dimensional figure can be projected to the two dimensional surface, but this is an inherently lossy transform.
I don't need a three dimensional interface to my two dimensional display. My interface should be optimized to showing me information on my display efficiently and effectively, not with a bunch of needless transitions, shading and projections.
I recently graduated and I understand where you are coming from, but I disagree. I would often study at the library, but I also loved to browse around in sections that interested me. Without the ability to do so, I wouldn't have been exposed to topics related of my interests that would have been otherwise unknown to me.
A few days ago there was the posting about how customized searches actually restrict people to information bubbles, rather than exposing them to new information. It seems that now even libraries, a place of literal tomes of knowledge, are now becoming places that confine persons to pillars of information instead of exposing them to a broad spectrum of ideas.
Not all books are for factual information storage and transfer. Search is great for information retrieval, but doesn't convey a story.
This system caters to the individual who knows exactly which book they want, but what about us who like to have an idea, go to the section and browse around? I have frequently gone to the library with a vague idea of what I'm looking for and leaving with books for that topic, related topics and often just something that caught my eye. This "progress" undermines a lot of the value that a library presents.
Besides, if I know exactly what I want, I can use my computer and Amazon to get most things without being inconvenienced with leaving my home or office.
I don't think that's entirely accurate either. The companies can't lose what they don't have. This is them marketing the idea that the second-hand market should be eliminated.
dicks in feet.
I can't help but think that some time in the future, after the whole world has switched to metric, comments like this will seem truly bizarre.
DICKS IN FEET? Those people in the 2010s had weird fetishes!
shark is 13.10.
Shitty Shark?
What do I have in common with some weenie who graduated from school twenty years after me, and has never done anythng but work production?
You're an asshat. You feel you're superior to your coworkers and are denigrating them in an online forum. Maybe they do have things in common with you, but you feel so superior to them you go on about how you don't want to socialize with them.
Many go on and on about the nostalgia, but for me C-Kermit is software I use every damn day! I have yet to see a better serial terminal for embedded Linux development. And though many will speak of Minicom, go ahead try and log data to a file. You'll find that you're missing data, your transfers may fail and it generally cannot compete with the experience that C-Kermit provides.
Bump works on androids as well
No, no it does not. I've had 15 minute sessions just getting it to work and other times it just won't work on either phone. Often it would say no network capabilities, even though I have bluetooth up and running. And this isn't just me, the other person's phone has also been to blame frequently.
We are currently fighting two actual declared hot wars
The AC is right and you're arguing a non-point.
Unless you have info from other sources than I, Debian decided to update the Sys V init scripts to work with event based kernels instead of reinventing the wheel as Ubuntu has with Upstart. I use Debian on all my embedded systems precisely for this reason. Things that worked well in the past continue to work well.
As far as "minimalist" goes, my embedded Debian systems are frequently under 100 MB and still are fully functional and provide many important services.
Upstart is the biggest error that has affected me greatly in day-to-day work, but Ubuntu has also decided to reinvent the wheel and discard the many years old tested and installed X with something written from scratch. If the video demos promoting Wayland are indicative of anything, I will be avoiding it like the plague and anyone having high expectations from it will be very disappointed. Ubuntu, with its large user base, could easily have thrown its weight behind correcting some of the designs and decisions of X to meet modern expectations, but once again, they believe that they can do better than the many millions of man hours in design, development and use that X already has.
Spoken like someone who has never ported a large C++ application to Android. The NDK app is still a second class citizen on Android with many APIs being Java only. Sure, you can call them, but only after radically altering your program. In the end, it may be easier just to port to Java and hope that ROI will happen (it usually does not).
Programming for the Apple platforms? Keep your code, modify a handful of methods, redesign your UI to meet the guidelines and be touch-centric and you're done.
Read an interview with Austin Meyer: http://techhaze.com/2010/03/interview-with-x-plane-creator-austin-meyer/ It took him 2 weeks to port X-Plane to iPhone and at the time of the interview he had sold over 500,000 copies for $7 each. Quite a return on only two weeks investment. Not gonna happen on Android.
Not really. Since this error has gone through the net I've seen it go from about 85k to your 950k views. No one is paying attention to her, people are paying attention to these news articles.
What do you expect from a group founded by RM$?