The answer is a more responsible society. But the US is heading full speed ahead in the opposite direction to a place where all responsiblity has been abdicated.
I don't think that this proves that negative numbers exist. In fact I'm not really sure numbers exist at all.
I think what happens is that we write down some mathematical axioms and then prove some theorems that we find useful. The theorems are only ever true if the axioms are true. And axioms are just what we choose. Of course we choose ones which lead to theorems which describe our world well.
So I would never say that negative numbers exist, just that they are extremely useful.
It's a development team. They will be wanting to debug things. Cross compiling is a somewhat crippled way of doing things if you want to debug.
My team use Borland Delphi. We have 250,000 lines of code. The entire build takes 15 seconds on my old P3 700. It's much less on our lovely Opteron. Thus code, run, debug, code cycles happen very quickly.
If you want to avoid crippled environments how about getting away from a multi-pass language! The problem being discussed here is actually the problem of exceedingly slow C/C++ compilation and linking.
Anyone know how the.NET languages perform in this respect?
I think you might find that productive Windows developers use build scripts rather than point and click building.
One of the things about open source is that having the source allows you to build things anywhere. Hence all the best open source development tools can be run on Windows.
If you want the usual *nix tools then just use them.
End of story.
NVU could go head-to-head with Drreamweaver.....
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Shift+F10 is great - if the app responds to it. Just discovered that Firefox on Windows doesn't. Anyone know a good reason? Perhaps the Firefox people should be a bit more standards compliant.
Well that's just fine. Use whatever system you feel suits your needs the best. My question is why do so many people here feel the need to whine and complain about Windows?
It's a free world. If you don't like it use something else!
If Linux is so great then why do such acidic stories get posted? I mean, use Linux if that makes you happy. It doesn't bother me. It just makes the Linux community look pathetic when they make such snide comments about users of other systems.
Important: if the account already has messages in the Inbox or other folders, you should copy or move these messages into Local Folders before setting the account to use the Global Inbox. If you don't copy or move the messages into Local Folders and you set the account to use the Global Inbox, the account will no longer be displayed in the folders pane and you will not be able to access those messages unless you go back and undo the Global Inbox setting. Also, if you have set up any filters that filter mail into this account, you should disable/delete them or change the destination folder.
Why doesn't the program do this for you automatically? That's the sort of attention to detail and user experience that would really help.
I know these are pre-release versions so maybe such features will be added for version 1.0.
This may offend some but Scully is certainly not a scientist. Now, as for Bunsen and Beaker they may have been somewhat inept but scientists they were!!
Document history is one thing - but then I can use revision control for that anyway. What I mean is multi-author within document change tracking. I've never seen it anywhere other than in Office which incidentally has had it since Office 97.
Anyone who thinks that there is an open source office suite as good as MS Office is deluded.
Can it match Word's Track Changes / reviewing facility? I had a quick look on their website and it looks like the answer is no. Can OpenOffice do this? I think the answer is also no.
In the business world the collaboration features of MS Office are what set it apart from the open source office suites. So, if the open source office suites want to make real headway then this is certainly one of the most important features to add.
Last Linux was a Red Hat 7 point something a couple of years ago. It found pretty much everything on my laptop apart from the Winmodem (no surprise there then). I had some trouble with XFree but the latest and greatest sorted that out.
One of the great things about Windows XP (and to a lesser extend 2000) is that you can almost always plug a device in and it works straight away. I have found this really useful with friends' digital cameras. It's the same with portable media players - you just plug the thing in and it's another new drive. Also, I just bought a v cheap 7-in-1 memory card reader, plugged it into a USB port and hey presto, a whole host of new drives appeared. Remember also that these devices will have been released long after XP. So I guess there must be a standard somewhere that Microsoft and the hardware vendors are complying to.
I believe that even the latest Linux distros will not be able to match XP in the way it allows hot plug and play of such devices. I'd quite happily be told otherwise though!
I've got nothing against Linux. I imagine that the Linux developers are concentrating on gaining an even stronger foothold in the server market before getting cute on the desktop. This makes a lot of sense but people need to realise that it's horses for courses. I would avoid Windows as a server platform but I wouldn't want to use anything else on the desktop - at the moment. I think that's called the freedom of choice!
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Why do you need a monitor, keyboard and mouse to run Windows? It works perfectly well with no GUI through remote terminal access.
Do you know anything about Windows?
The answer is a more responsible society. But the US is heading full speed ahead in the opposite direction to a place where all responsiblity has been abdicated.
Has anyone seen any?
My favourite story converning rm was in a shared computer lab at university and went as follows:
Person1: I've accidentally made a file called "*", anyone know how to delete it?
Person2: Just type "rm *".
The backup system was not so good in this university at that time. Person1, a visiting lecturer, was not too happy at losing his home directory!
Anyone know why UNIX systems allow wildcards in filenames? Doesn't seem the best design choice to me.
I don't think that this proves that negative numbers exist. In fact I'm not really sure numbers exist at all.
I think what happens is that we write down some mathematical axioms and then prove some theorems that we find useful. The theorems are only ever true if the axioms are true. And axioms are just what we choose. Of course we choose ones which lead to theorems which describe our world well.
So I would never say that negative numbers exist, just that they are extremely useful.
Actually French pronounciation is much easier than English. Apart from historical propert names (e.g. towns etc.) it follows rules. All the time.
I suppose selling nuclear reactors to a country is better than selling them chemical weapons...
It's a development team. They will be wanting to debug things. Cross compiling is a somewhat crippled way of doing things if you want to debug.
.NET languages perform in this respect?
My team use Borland Delphi. We have 250,000 lines of code. The entire build takes 15 seconds on my old P3 700. It's much less on our lovely Opteron. Thus code, run, debug, code cycles happen very quickly.
If you want to avoid crippled environments how about getting away from a multi-pass language! The problem being discussed here is actually the problem of exceedingly slow C/C++ compilation and linking.
Anyone know how the
I think you might find that productive Windows developers use build scripts rather than point and click building.
One of the things about open source is that having the source allows you to build things anywhere. Hence all the best open source development tools can be run on Windows.
If you want the usual *nix tools then just use them.
End of story.
....and lose
The WYSIWYG web development tool Nvu is also included.
That's like getting excited because Windows includes Wordpad! Must be a slow news day today.
Shift+F10 is great - if the app responds to it. Just discovered that Firefox on Windows doesn't. Anyone know a good reason? Perhaps the Firefox people should be a bit more standards compliant.
Well that's just fine. Use whatever system you feel suits your needs the best. My question is why do so many people here feel the need to whine and complain about Windows?
It's a free world. If you don't like it use something else!
If Linux is so great then why do such acidic stories get posted? I mean, use Linux if that makes you happy. It doesn't bother me. It just makes the Linux community look pathetic when they make such snide comments about users of other systems.
Grow up folks!
Maybe they stick with it because it's better than the competition in their eyes. After all freedom of choice is a good thing. Isn't it?
So is it right to assume that you can't install more than one copy of mozilla on a machine?
Quoting from the Thunderbird release notes:
Important: if the account already has messages in the Inbox or other folders, you should copy or move these messages into Local Folders before setting the account to use the Global Inbox. If you don't copy or move the messages into Local Folders and you set the account to use the Global Inbox, the account will no longer be displayed in the folders pane and you will not be able to access those messages unless you go back and undo the Global Inbox setting. Also, if you have set up any filters that filter mail into this account, you should disable/delete them or change the destination folder.Why doesn't the program do this for you automatically? That's the sort of attention to detail and user experience that would really help.
I know these are pre-release versions so maybe such features will be added for version 1.0.
Moderation Troll? It was just a simple question. Anyone out there understand why this is classed as a troll?
Well why are X.org wasting time on it then?
Anyone know how many years ago Windows did translucency?
This may offend some but Scully is certainly not a scientist. Now, as for Bunsen and Beaker they may have been somewhat inept but scientists they were!!
Document history is one thing - but then I can use revision control for that anyway. What I mean is multi-author within document change tracking. I've never seen it anywhere other than in Office which incidentally has had it since Office 97.
Anyone who thinks that there is an open source office suite as good as MS Office is deluded.
Sorry, but that's the way it is at the moment.
Can it match Word's Track Changes / reviewing facility? I had a quick look on their website and it looks like the answer is no. Can OpenOffice do this? I think the answer is also no.
In the business world the collaboration features of MS Office are what set it apart from the open source office suites. So, if the open source office suites want to make real headway then this is certainly one of the most important features to add.
Access is slow? Slower than FileMaker? Hmm...
Last Linux was a Red Hat 7 point something a couple of years ago. It found pretty much everything on my laptop apart from the Winmodem (no surprise there then). I had some trouble with XFree but the latest and greatest sorted that out.
One of the great things about Windows XP (and to a lesser extend 2000) is that you can almost always plug a device in and it works straight away. I have found this really useful with friends' digital cameras. It's the same with portable media players - you just plug the thing in and it's another new drive. Also, I just bought a v cheap 7-in-1 memory card reader, plugged it into a USB port and hey presto, a whole host of new drives appeared. Remember also that these devices will have been released long after XP. So I guess there must be a standard somewhere that Microsoft and the hardware vendors are complying to.
I believe that even the latest Linux distros will not be able to match XP in the way it allows hot plug and play of such devices. I'd quite happily be told otherwise though!
I've got nothing against Linux. I imagine that the Linux developers are concentrating on gaining an even stronger foothold in the server market before getting cute on the desktop. This makes a lot of sense but people need to realise that it's horses for courses. I would avoid Windows as a server platform but I wouldn't want to use anything else on the desktop - at the moment. I think that's called the freedom of choice!