But that's part of the problem. These integrated environments are much more of a hassle to use. They get in my way, with panels and toolbars and menus, wasting precious pixels. They get in my way, by slowing me down.
I like the convenienve and features of emacs; I like the convenience and features of ion. I like the convenience and features of LaTeX. That's good software.
Linux distros are usually slower than windows for desktop use.
No--big, heavy, buggy, mammoth, insane software such as KDE and GNOME is usually slower. A Linux box running fvwm2, rxvt, emacs and firefox screams. I don't know why folks waste their time with top-heavy software instead of just doing the Right Thing.
The article goes on about a supposed 'dream IDE.' Well, when I dream of an IDE I imagine one which can be run across a tty, accessed from around the world; one which doesn't require mondo resources.
I dream of emacs. Actually, I don't dream of it--I just use it. Can KDE's tools perform an interactive diff? Does the text editor integrate with CVS such that check-in/check-out is instantaneous? Do they abstract away remote acess issues such that anything FTPable appears to be on my local machine? Are they dynamically extensible in LISP?
Folks, desktop GUIs are just Way Too Big. And not nearly powerful enough.
Yeah, Lauren was originally a man's name. So, too, I believe Ashley. Also McKenzie (which is really a last name) and Schuyler (pron. sky-ler). For some reason, Americans have a love affair with giving girls boys' names. American women also cut their hair short, like boys, and remove hair from their arms and legs, so as to look like boys. This is possibly so that they may more easily attract the attention of American men, most of whom spend all their time watching sports such as football--in which men wearing spandex touch one another's bottoms--and basketball--in which men run about in stylised underwear.
Arms for Hostages: wasn't this the deal that let American hostages be released?
The Contras were no worse than the Sandinistas. And, as far as '[pyschotics] that rape women and children, mutilate men, women, and children, and just generally turn the country into a bloodbath,' interestingly it's people like you who supported Saddam Hussein, who was every one of those things.
Jail's not good enough. We need to return to the Anglo-Saxon practise of outlawing. Outlawing refers to placing the criminal outside of the law: he is no longer protected thereby, and is at the mercy of anyone who should happen upon him. He can be robbed; he can be beaten; he can be killed--and none of those things are crimes, because he is outside the jurisdiction of the law. We need merely outlaw spammers, then publicise their names, addresses and visages--then let the psychos take care of the problem for us.
Well, there is a really good high level language for application development: the problem is that there are few good programmers. The language, of course, is Lisp. Extensible, powerful and high-performance: what more could one ask for?
In the case of Perl, which is an interpreter, the answer is theoretically yes. But one needs to consider: will one's C code be as fast as that of the fellows who work on the Perl engine?
But in the case of compiled code, the answer is no. The compiler can be written or bootstrapped in whatever language: all that matters is the quality of the generated code. And it happens to be the case that high level code can be very easily optimisable, and thus can run faster than low-level code. Slower, granted than pure, omniscient-programmer assembler, but faster than realistic C code.
Well, that's the whole point of military exercises--to learn lessons. Now, the real question is how often those lessons are learnt. With good officers, always; with piss-poor ones, never. One does hope that over time the ratio of good:poor improves.
Ah--I was assuming that the user had root on one of his systems, and that it's accessible remotely. I can't think of a way to run NFS without root, although as you note there's no inherent reason why it can't be done. Sorry.
If you're using Linux/Unix, you could always NFS-mount your home directory and thus get the same dotfiles everywhere. An rsync or similar could do this job as well.
Ctrl-C is bound to interrupt on any modern terminal; trying to use that for copying would be evil.
And as for dual clipboards--I couldn't live without 'em. Yes, a bit more learning is required, but the power is worth it. Isn't that the lesson of Unix? With great power comes great responsibility, and one of those responsibilities is to learn how to wield that power.
The Mac is very cool (I was a major Mac advocate back in the day), but it traded ease-of-use for ease-of-learning. Unix, X and emacs are easy to use, but a chore to learn. I'm not certain that it's possibe for a single computer tool to be both.
emacs solved this more than a decade ago. Instead of a single copy-paste buffer, there is a 'kill ring,' which is a ring of copy-paste buffers; anything copied or cut goes into the ring; the most recently copied or cut is the default. Say I wish to copy some text, then replace some other text with the copied text (the typical URL-paste). I simply copy it (which places it in the kill ring), then delete the other text (which places it in the kill ring, push the copied text to second place, then paste the second entry in the kill ring.
In emacs, the keys for this would be Alt-W (to copy), Ctrl-W (to cut), Alt-2 Ctrl-Y (for yank second kill ring entry). Sounds complex, but it's second nature after awhile.
emacs is clever, no doubt about it. And to this day no-one has written a better or more capable text editor.
The F/OS project has helped--it has helped every single user, who now has the freedom to hack on the code. Yeah, most of us don't bother, but some of us do: that's how free software improves over time.
Just look for the real puppet masters behind OSS before you contribute your own src code to this plot to take the power of the programmer.
The 'power of the programmer' is the power to enslave the user. As a user, I don't want to be enslaved. As a programmer, I do not wish to enslave.
There is nothing (significant) Darwin could offer that OS X [Server] doesn't already.
Wrong: Darwin offers freedom. For many folks, that is significant. Those folks might like an OS which offers the features of OS X without the proprietary code.
Of course, I'd just use Linux, but that's me. I don't know if Darwin offers any value over *BSD.
The cost of petrol in other countries is not the fair market price--it's the price with a heaping helping of taxes on top (ours is the same, of course, but with far less tax).
And considering that petrol was less than $1/gal only five or six years ago, it wouldn't surprise me to see it that low again. Heck, if the gov't would cut the taxes on it, it'd be that low again (I believe--could be wrong, of course).
Europe's fuel prices are artificially high--$4/gal. is nowhere near the fair price for fuel. Ours are also artificially inflated, but to a lesser extent. How are the prices inflated? Through taxation.
When have we executed children in the last century? Sure, we've executed minors, but minor != child. AFAIK no-one under 13 has been executed. I don't shed a single tear for a 17 year old murderer being sent to his reward. Refusing to hang a 16 year old who has raped & killed his mother, or slain his siblings in their beds, or killed several of his classmates--that's barbaric.
And as for innocent people, every form of punishment is taken out upon the innocent. Freeing a man doesn't give him back his lost years.
And as for 'international law,' it doesn't apply if we don't sign it.
We generally get low marks in human rights rankings because we have the temerity to execute serial killers, murder-rapists and suchlike. Boo-frickin-hoo.
Here in the States many of us carry weapons (not necessarily firearms: I carry a hefty knife, and kubotans and the like are also popular). One can't stop being a target, but one can defend oneself should someone attack. I believe that a stout stick is still legal in the UK, right? There are some very good courses on fighting with a walking-stick.
In the Bad Old Days, folks were forced to carry large amounts of cash; with modern banking we've been able to avoid that. Now with the onset of large amounts of personal technology, we're back to carrying treasure on our persons. The solution now is the same as the solution then:-)
Yeah, and the last time a bunch of folks got together and tried to claim their right of self-determination, they were rewarded with slaughter, rapine and a century of oppression. To this day, there are monuments to the tyrant and his bloodthirsty minions.
Three hundred thousand yankees lie stiff in Southern dust;
we killed three hundred thousand before they conquered us.
They died of southern fever, of southern shell and shot;
I wish we'd killed a million instead of those we got.
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I like the convenienve and features of emacs; I like the convenience and features of ion. I like the convenience and features of LaTeX. That's good software.
I can't believe how I punctuated that. It should have read:
So too, I believe, Ashley
Sigh...
No--big, heavy, buggy, mammoth, insane software such as KDE and GNOME is usually slower. A Linux box running fvwm2, rxvt, emacs and firefox screams. I don't know why folks waste their time with top-heavy software instead of just doing the Right Thing.
I dream of emacs. Actually, I don't dream of it--I just use it. Can KDE's tools perform an interactive diff? Does the text editor integrate with CVS such that check-in/check-out is instantaneous? Do they abstract away remote acess issues such that anything FTPable appears to be on my local machine? Are they dynamically extensible in LISP?
Folks, desktop GUIs are just Way Too Big. And not nearly powerful enough.
Sick, no?
Jail's not good enough. We need to return to the Anglo-Saxon practise of outlawing. Outlawing refers to placing the criminal outside of the law: he is no longer protected thereby, and is at the mercy of anyone who should happen upon him. He can be robbed; he can be beaten; he can be killed--and none of those things are crimes, because he is outside the jurisdiction of the law. We need merely outlaw spammers, then publicise their names, addresses and visages--then let the psychos take care of the problem for us.
Fewer damned parentheses, I suppose:-)
But in the case of compiled code, the answer is no. The compiler can be written or bootstrapped in whatever language: all that matters is the quality of the generated code. And it happens to be the case that high level code can be very easily optimisable, and thus can run faster than low-level code. Slower, granted than pure, omniscient-programmer assembler, but faster than realistic C code.
Worse yet: it'd be riots in the streets, dogs and cats sleeping together--mass hysteria. Apologies to Dr. Venkman...
Well, that's the whole point of military exercises--to learn lessons. Now, the real question is how often those lessons are learnt. With good officers, always; with piss-poor ones, never. One does hope that over time the ratio of good:poor improves.
Ah--I was assuming that the user had root on one of his systems, and that it's accessible remotely. I can't think of a way to run NFS without root, although as you note there's no inherent reason why it can't be done. Sorry.
Corrupt old bitch.
Gosh, how enlightened an woman-respecting you leftists are!
If you're using Linux/Unix, you could always NFS-mount your home directory and thus get the same dotfiles everywhere. An rsync or similar could do this job as well.
And as for dual clipboards--I couldn't live without 'em. Yes, a bit more learning is required, but the power is worth it. Isn't that the lesson of Unix? With great power comes great responsibility, and one of those responsibilities is to learn how to wield that power.
The Mac is very cool (I was a major Mac advocate back in the day), but it traded ease-of-use for ease-of-learning. Unix, X and emacs are easy to use, but a chore to learn. I'm not certain that it's possibe for a single computer tool to be both.
In emacs, the keys for this would be Alt-W (to copy), Ctrl-W (to cut), Alt-2 Ctrl-Y (for yank second kill ring entry). Sounds complex, but it's second nature after awhile.
emacs is clever, no doubt about it. And to this day no-one has written a better or more capable text editor.
Just look for the real puppet masters behind OSS before you contribute your own src code to this plot to take the power of the programmer.
The 'power of the programmer' is the power to enslave the user. As a user, I don't want to be enslaved. As a programmer, I do not wish to enslave.
Wrong: Darwin offers freedom. For many folks, that is significant. Those folks might like an OS which offers the features of OS X without the proprietary code.
Of course, I'd just use Linux, but that's me. I don't know if Darwin offers any value over *BSD.
And considering that petrol was less than $1/gal only five or six years ago, it wouldn't surprise me to see it that low again. Heck, if the gov't would cut the taxes on it, it'd be that low again (I believe--could be wrong, of course).
Europe's fuel prices are artificially high--$4/gal. is nowhere near the fair price for fuel. Ours are also artificially inflated, but to a lesser extent. How are the prices inflated? Through taxation.
Much nicer, no?
And as for innocent people, every form of punishment is taken out upon the innocent. Freeing a man doesn't give him back his lost years.
And as for 'international law,' it doesn't apply if we don't sign it.
We generally get low marks in human rights rankings because we have the temerity to execute serial killers, murder-rapists and suchlike. Boo-frickin-hoo.
In the Bad Old Days, folks were forced to carry large amounts of cash; with modern banking we've been able to avoid that. Now with the onset of large amounts of personal technology, we're back to carrying treasure on our persons. The solution now is the same as the solution then:-)