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Desktops should be so easy an 8 year old should be able to set up.
This is why I think that some Debian projects like Debian Jr. ("Debian for children from 1 to 99") are particularly interesting. I don't care about kids programs, but I think they will face some UI design issues that will help make Debian easier for all (non-guru) users.
but were those C and Perl implementations optimized for speed or program length? Perhaps the Perl implementation could be faster with a few extra lines of code.
However, I mostly agree with you. I think less code is always better because there is less to read and "hold in your head".
I've tried using a proportional font for C++ before, but it didn't work out. How do you deal with tab/space alignment? I do Win32 coding, so I often have to use those Win32 APIs that have 17 parameters and must be spread across multiple lines.;-)
I thought it was just the opposite. For example, id software has released their old game engines as GPL, but the artwork is still property of id software.
only in the USA would people not be alarmed when the son of the previous king, an oil baron, is whisked into office through suspicious elections in the state controlled by the previous king's other son.
MTV had a recent news show about high school sex education. They focused on Lubbock county in Texas, where their schools had strict abstinence-only sex ed. And their county's STD and pregnancy rate was TRIPLE the national average (where most students receive "regular" sex ed). This seems to imply that after receiving abstinence-only sex ed, Lubbock teenagers are either THREE TIMES more sexually active or that their average (or below average) sex rate is highly ineffective at preventing STDs and pregnancy.
remembering that circumcision has been going alot longer than anaesthesia.
Even today, I believe that circumcisions are performed without anaesthesia. I remember seeing a news story a few years ago about a circumcision conference. The doctors there had previously thought that babies could not feel pain (?!) but they were beginning to reconsider this claim..
and I have a bridge on Mars I would like to sell you too! Of course, we're not sure yet whether there is water on Mars, but with this bridge you will be prepared.
The Debian Desktop's project wiki has more details about the project's goals and proposals. It sounds like they are following some of the Red Hat 8.0 lead and trying to create a more unified, task-based system. Their proposals are more than just a new GUI.
of course the Windows source code will end up in the next NT kernel release.
If I have to hear one more thing about Slashdot...
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SLASHDOT WAS NEITHER UNIQUE, NOR THE FIRST TRUE "ONLINE COMMUNITY". They were no more "visionaries" than the people who frequented countless other large BBS'es that were common in the late 70's and early 80's. Its just that these people tend to be a little more vocal and persistant in their whining for some reason, somehow feeling that they deserve to be repeatedly acknowledged for their vastly overhyped, overrated, earth-shattering contribution to society. And even if they actually HAD been the golly-gee pioneers they want desparately to be acknowledged as, guess what --- there were still communities before them. So get over it. Im sure they're nice people and all, but, sorry gang....there wasn't anything unique, profound, or ground-breaking about Slashdot. Period.
I think what you are talking about is Microsoft's "Lego" optimized linker. Using runtime data of the most common code paths, Lego can rearrange the EXE binary to consolidate common code onto the same pages and move rarely used code (like error handling) to distant pages. This reduces the program's working set size and load time.
Just how difficult is it to port a Mac OS 9 app to Mac OS X's Carbon APIs? It's not that hard. Carbon apps are native Mac OS X apps and still binary compatible with Mac OS 9.
If Quark had not wasted YEARS rewriting Xpress from scratch (ala Mozilla), then Adobe InDesign would not have made the inroads it has (ala IE). Imagine a world a few years ago where designers had to choose between upgrading their huge library existing Quark files to a Quark XPress 5.1 Carbon app for Mac OS X or starting over with the incompatible, untested Adobe InDesign 1.0? Adobe wouldn't have had a chance..
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Desktops should be so easy an 8 year old should be able to set up.
This is why I think that some Debian projects like Debian Jr. ("Debian for children from 1 to 99") are particularly interesting. I don't care about kids programs, but I think they will face some UI design issues that will help make Debian easier for all (non-guru) users.
and why exactly did you bother playing this MUD to begin with??
but were those C and Perl implementations optimized for speed or program length? Perhaps the Perl implementation could be faster with a few extra lines of code.
However, I mostly agree with you. I think less code is always better because there is less to read and "hold in your head".
I've tried using a proportional font for C++ before, but it didn't work out. How do you deal with tab/space alignment? I do Win32 coding, so I often have to use those Win32 APIs that have 17 parameters and must be spread across multiple lines.
You mean like Scheme or Lisp? You can't get much simpler for a core language.
I thought it was just the opposite. For example, id software has released their old game engines as GPL, but the artwork is still property of id software.
Don't forget the (defunct) Dave Cutler Fan Club .
and are these guilty executives going to a pound-me-in-the-ass prison? I think not.
only in the USA would people not be alarmed when the son of the previous king, an oil baron, is whisked into office through suspicious elections in the state controlled by the previous king's other son.
MTV had a recent news show about high school sex education. They focused on Lubbock county in Texas, where their schools had strict abstinence-only sex ed. And their county's STD and pregnancy rate was TRIPLE the national average (where most students receive "regular" sex ed). This seems to imply that after receiving abstinence-only sex ed, Lubbock teenagers are either THREE TIMES more sexually active or that their average (or below average) sex rate is highly ineffective at preventing STDs and pregnancy.
The following (biased) article mentions some of the facts, but then concludes that Lubbock needs MORE abstincence-only sex ed: High teen pregnancy rates spark interest in True Love Waits events
and in the 1970s, scientists feared we were entering a cataclysmic ice age due to global cooling. Now which is it?
If there is a global warming trend I'd be inclined to think that it's the sun causing it as there is evidence that Mars is warming, also.
what? we're now polluting Mars with our CO2 gas??! Evil Big Bidness is going crazy!
remembering that circumcision has been going alot longer than anaesthesia.
Even today, I believe that circumcisions are performed without anaesthesia. I remember seeing a news story a few years ago about a circumcision conference. The doctors there had previously thought that babies could not feel pain (?!) but they were beginning to reconsider this claim..
and I have a bridge on Mars I would like to sell you too! Of course, we're not sure yet whether there is water on Mars, but with this bridge you will be prepared.
I thought that the number of CS majors was consistently DECREASING over the past two decades..?
Why do you think the White House is cracking down on the Internet?
a 'standard' that's best known for making web sites more annoying and slower to load
you're talking about PDF, right?
Don't forget that CNN and NPR have allowed US military "psy-ops" officers to be "interns" in their news offices.
I SO-8859-1&q=cnn+army+psyops
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=
"Pro-child, pro-family, pro-wrestling."
The Debian Desktop's project wiki has more details about the project's goals and proposals. It sounds like they are following some of the Red Hat 8.0 lead and trying to create a more unified, task-based system. Their proposals are more than just a new GUI.
of course the Windows source code will end up in the next NT kernel release.
SLASHDOT WAS NEITHER UNIQUE, NOR THE FIRST TRUE "ONLINE COMMUNITY". They were no more "visionaries" than the people who frequented countless other large BBS'es that were common in the late 70's and early 80's. Its just that these people tend to be a little more vocal and persistant in their whining for some reason, somehow feeling that they deserve to be repeatedly acknowledged for their vastly overhyped, overrated, earth-shattering contribution to society. And even if they actually HAD been the golly-gee pioneers they want desparately to be acknowledged as, guess what --- there were still communities before them. So get over it. Im sure they're nice people and all, but, sorry gang....there wasn't anything unique, profound, or ground-breaking about Slashdot. Period.
Perhaps we could write code to optimize code, then run that code through the code optimizer?
:)
What happens when you first run the code for the optimizer through the optimizer? FAST!!
I think what you are talking about is Microsoft's "Lego" optimized linker. Using runtime data of the most common code paths, Lego can rearrange the EXE binary to consolidate common code onto the same pages and move rarely used code (like error handling) to distant pages. This reduces the program's working set size and load time.
Just how difficult is it to port a Mac OS 9 app to Mac OS X's Carbon APIs? It's not that hard. Carbon apps are native Mac OS X apps and still binary compatible with Mac OS 9.
If Quark had not wasted YEARS rewriting Xpress from scratch (ala Mozilla), then Adobe InDesign would not have made the inroads it has (ala IE). Imagine a world a few years ago where designers had to choose between upgrading their huge library existing Quark files to a Quark XPress 5.1 Carbon app for Mac OS X or starting over with the incompatible, untested Adobe InDesign 1.0? Adobe wouldn't have had a chance..
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