I am coming to realize that Java has very little over C++.
What about a true dynamic runtime? In C++, you can't call a method when you don't have a pointer to it inside the vtable (some folks even confuse them with functions because of that fact). That gets you a speedy app, but many things (like EOF) are just not possible.
I can buy a leased line in California, and my traffic to Australia costs no more than my traffic going across town. It just doesn't seem like a sustainable model.
At least here in Austria, national traffic costs nearly to nothing, while international traffic is pretty expensive.
Most ISPs can't tell the difference between national and international data and just let you pay the international fee. But it's improving.
Well, you could install XFree on Mac OS X and replace the loginpanel with KDE's (a small hack in/etc/ttys). The result would be a KDE system with a great hardware support and optional Mac OS-compatibility (when you launch the window server).
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If I wanted windows, I'd use Windows.
WindowMaker is the best
Well, if you want NeXTSTEP, you should use NeXTSTEP.
Maybe somebody actually chooses his/her OS for another reason than it's GUI.
It remindes me of parents not wanting there children to swear, because they are too young. As if I use fuck in a more advanced way then when I was eleven.
I agree with you on viewing porn, but I can't agree with you on that. When somebody never learnt to talk without using "shit" and "fuck" and others, he/she won't be able to talk in a regular way later.
I know a guy who is only able to speak the local slang. He got bad marks at school because of that (on presentations etc), it just didn't fit there.
You drag a document to the trash to delete it, but dragging a disk doesn't format it?
You're thinking too computer-like. Putting a file into the trash is like "putting it away". Putting a disk into the trash is like that, too. Disks that are no longer in the Mac have to go somewhere.
or clicking the 'close' button on some program closes them, but clicking the 'close' button on others (like a web browser) just minimizes it?
I don't know which Mac OS you used, but mine closes windows when you click the close button. Maybe you're too stuck into your SDI-interface paradigm, which doesn't exist on the Mac.
Not to mention that having only one mouse button severely limits the usefulness of the device.
X11 was designed for three buttons, you can't use it without all of them (you could emulate the third by pressing the available two). Windows was designed for two buttons, you'd never use the third one, except for the simulation of a scroll wheel.
The Mac interface was designed for one button. You never need two buttons.
I personally use a five-button mouse (4 buttons+wheel by Kensignton) for Mac OS X, which is quite useful. However, nobody else than me can use that machine, because they never hit the correct button (even when I told them three times which one to use). That problem just doesn't exist on a regular Mac.
I find it hard to believe that an incredibly useful not-yet-invented technology would only be available in PC card form and not in a little breakout box that'll let you hook it up to anything with a USB port.
Well: USB 2.0, FireWire 2, faster 802.11, gigibit ethernet etc
Those are just too fast for USB/Firewire
btw, the iBook does have a PCMCIA-slot, the Airport socket. It's internal, so you wouldn't be able to connect something to it like a network cable.
The movie industry and DVD CCA argued that DeCSS could be used to illegally copy DVDs...
That sentence is really amazing, since you can copy DVDs without DeCSS, just by byte-copying. You only need DeCSS if you want to view the data on your computer or convert it into some other format.
So it's very obvious that they don't have a clue.
Good programmers have to learn new things all the time. From my experience, esp. old people can't or refuse to learn.
Programmers that use the same tools (e.g. COBOL, DOS) for 10 years are bad programmers.
Example from the real world: Mac OS X is out. But there are still some companies that produce Mac OS 9 software (which doesn't work on Mac OS X). Result: They won't sell anything.
But they don't mention whether or no these mounted shares are available to Classic apps
Guess not, since NFS and UFS-mounts (single forked file systems) aren't available to Classic either.
But Classic is going away anyways, I hope pretty soon.
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Yes, but how you do you read/write to it if it uses HFS plus as its file system?
You just wrote my new mail sig - thanks! :-)
What about a true dynamic runtime? In C++, you can't call a method when you don't have a pointer to it inside the vtable (some folks even confuse them with functions because of that fact). That gets you a speedy app, but many things (like EOF) are just not possible.
At least here in Austria, national traffic costs nearly to nothing, while international traffic is pretty expensive.
Most ISPs can't tell the difference between national and international data and just let you pay the international fee. But it's improving.
Well, you could install XFree on Mac OS X and replace the loginpanel with KDE's (a small hack in /etc/ttys). The result would be a KDE system with a great hardware support and optional Mac OS-compatibility (when you launch the window server).
WindowMaker is the best
Well, if you want NeXTSTEP, you should use NeXTSTEP.
Maybe somebody actually chooses his/her OS for another reason than it's GUI.
Kensington has some great mice that work for both lefties and righties.
- gaming
- software development
- web surfing
- email
- web design
Admitted, both have more than 128 megs of RAM, but Mac OS X is definitely usable on a G3.and lets not even talk about MacOS X's requirements
Erm... A G3 (which starts at 233Mhz) and 128MB?
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
Am I right?
and when Slashdot-posters abuse the term "nazi"...
Mercalli-Sieberg (at least that's what we learnt at school)
I know a guy who is only able to speak the local slang. He got bad marks at school because of that (on presentations etc), it just didn't fit there.
The Mac interface was designed for one button. You never need two buttons.
I personally use a five-button mouse (4 buttons+wheel by Kensignton) for Mac OS X, which is quite useful. However, nobody else than me can use that machine, because they never hit the correct button (even when I told them three times which one to use). That problem just doesn't exist on a regular Mac.
Well: USB 2.0, FireWire 2, faster 802.11, gigibit ethernet etc
Those are just too fast for USB/Firewire
btw, the iBook does have a PCMCIA-slot, the Airport socket. It's internal, so you wouldn't be able to connect something to it like a network cable.
(I own one of those dual USB iBooks)
That sentence is really amazing, since you can copy DVDs without DeCSS, just by byte-copying. You only need DeCSS if you want to view the data on your computer or convert it into some other format.
So it's very obvious that they don't have a clue.
yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss
which even looks fine in list views. A character sort algorithm works fine, too.
But I don't think I'll find "-" in pi...
German notation. It's ddmmyyyy-format.
Forgot a digit, it should be 17111981.
My birth date (1711981) doesn't appear in the first 100,000,000 digits in pi. I think I don't belong to this universe...
Programmers that use the same tools (e.g. COBOL, DOS) for 10 years are bad programmers.
Example from the real world: Mac OS X is out. But there are still some companies that produce Mac OS 9 software (which doesn't work on Mac OS X).
Result: They won't sell anything.
We learnt at school that "who" is for people, "which" is for objects and "that" can be used for both.
Maybe it's different in American English.
Guess not, since NFS and UFS-mounts (single forked file systems) aren't available to Classic either.
But Classic is going away anyways, I hope pretty soon.