Why on earth do command line interfaces prevent you from converting? If GUIs have progressed to the point where they aren't needed, then don't use the command line!
I personally love the command line, and use it pretty much exclusively.
> A lot of Linux distributions can't even play mp3's out of the box, or certain other mpegs and avis.
Doesn't linux come with a lot more codecs than windows does? I don't know if it has changed for Vista, but from what I remember you can't even play DVDs on Windows. Very few of my movie files worked until I downloaded random codec packs from the internet.
Did you even read the summary? The majority of the summary gave very valid points against the methodology. You can't base a conclusion on a survey with a 10% return rate with such bias.
As a kde developer, I can tell you that we received no such survey (at least as a whole, and not me personally)
You're missing the point of a standard. There can be multiple implementations of a single standard. There is a standard for a webserver (which, funnily enough, MS also break). It should speak the standard HTTP, and mostly likely that's layered on the standard TCP, and so on.
Same with the OS. The OS should follow the standard POSIX calls (which Windows sorta manages to do), and so on.
As for programming languages.. well that's too broad. For particular languages, there are standards. There is a standard for C, there is a standard for C++, and so on.
Considering that you have already decided to use MS products, knowing full well that they aren't cross platform, open and so on, it's hardly suprising that you don't understand why slashdotters don't like this.
> Mass-market CPUs are single data/single instruction.
Not at all. Ever since the pentiums we've had vectorization which are single instruction multiple data. A lot of math work in particular will be hopefully vectorized by the compiler.
You need the high resolution to make it 3D. You need to be able to manipulate the direction of light. You are basically displaying a picture of a hologram. And so it is a hologram.
If you had enough money, you could make a true holographic screen. But for a high resolution (1280x1024) 1 square inch screen it costs about $1200. Times 3 of them to do RGB. Plus a computer to drive it. And that's just for 1 square inch.
But totally doable, if you had the money.
[ My PhD is in holography, and I work for a that prints digital holograms ]
Occasionally people complain about linux irc channels or mailing lists, saying that people didn't help them, told them to rtfm, or were rude. When you actually see the conversations they are talking about, it was 99% of the time them that were rude first.
> Shame it's at least a 40 year round trip - I can't imagine anybody volunteering to spend most of their life travelling to visit a planet covered in bacterial gloop.
Not at all. The faster you go, the less time it will take you. If you went to close enough to the speed of light the whole way, then it could take only a few minutes to get there and back again. However everybody on earth would have aged 40 years. But to the spaceman it would have only been a few minutes.
> Does the open source community do anything to change it's fractured ways since the last time this was mentioned?
Take a look at freedesktop.org.
* Sharing of sound system - both Gnome and KDE 4 will work with gstreamer * Joining of messaging system. It was dcop (kde) and corba (Gnome). Now both will use DBus * Common themes that make kde and gnome apps look the same.
Plus lots of 'small' points. Both follow the.desktop standard for menu items, actions etc. Both use the freedesktop.org icon naming system, and mimetype system, and so on.
Not really, in the end it comes down to semantics.
Do you believe in unicorns? probably not. Can you say with 100% certainty that there are no unicorns? of course not
So does that make you unicorn-agnostic or atheist? If you believe something with a 99.9999999% certainty, does that make you agnostic rather than atheist to that view?
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Why on earth do command line interfaces prevent you from converting? If GUIs have progressed to the point where they aren't needed, then don't use the command line!
I personally love the command line, and use it pretty much exclusively.
> A lot of Linux distributions can't even play mp3's out of the box, or certain other mpegs and avis.
Doesn't linux come with a lot more codecs than windows does? I don't know if it has changed for Vista, but from what I remember you can't even play DVDs on Windows. Very few of my movie files worked until I downloaded random codec packs from the internet.
Did you even read the summary? The majority of the summary gave very valid points against the methodology. You can't base a conclusion on a survey with a 10% return rate with such bias.
As a kde developer, I can tell you that we received no such survey (at least as a whole, and not me personally)
You're allowed to sell of a rental car??
You rent a TV. That's a physical thing, and you keep it in your house. But you just have a license to rent it - you can't sell it on etc.
> who can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh
The catholics say it's not symbolic, but that you are actually eating his flesh. It turns into his flesh and blood literally.
You're missing the point of a standard. There can be multiple implementations of a single standard. There is a standard for a webserver (which, funnily enough, MS also break). It should speak the standard HTTP, and mostly likely that's layered on the standard TCP, and so on.
Same with the OS. The OS should follow the standard POSIX calls (which Windows sorta manages to do), and so on.
As for programming languages.. well that's too broad. For particular languages, there are standards. There is a standard for C, there is a standard for C++, and so on.
Speak for yourself. I'm sure most developers more than welcome someone to do the writing for them, myself included.
Considering that you have already decided to use MS products, knowing full well that they aren't cross platform, open and so on, it's hardly suprising that you don't understand why slashdotters don't like this.
Why don't you use svn?
Oh neat, how do you do that? I've been doing it by hand all this time!
:-)
I love maxima and octave btw
> Mass-market CPUs are single data/single instruction.
Not at all. Ever since the pentiums we've had vectorization which are single instruction multiple data. A lot of math work in particular will be hopefully vectorized by the compiler.
The core is, but the libraries aren't. There's not that much you can do with the open standard c# other than a hello world.
Thanks for the bobo doll comment. Just read the wikipedia link on it - very interesting!
Do you work for this company? It's very impressive indeed. I just watched the videos.
You need the high resolution to make it 3D. You need to be able to manipulate the direction of light. You are basically displaying a picture of a hologram. And so it is a hologram.
If you had enough money, you could make a true holographic screen. But for a high resolution (1280x1024) 1 square inch screen it costs about $1200. Times 3 of them to do RGB. Plus a computer to drive it. And that's just for 1 square inch.
But totally doable, if you had the money.
[ My PhD is in holography, and I work for a that prints digital holograms ]
Heh, same applies everywhere.
Occasionally people complain about linux irc channels or mailing lists, saying that people didn't help them, told them to rtfm, or were rude. When you actually see the conversations they are talking about, it was 99% of the time them that were rude first.
Does this mean things like sleep(5) will sleep for 5ms for real now, without needing to change the scheduler etc?
Can you explain this a bit more please for those of us who don't know what tickless means?
konnichiwa!
> Shame it's at least a 40 year round trip - I can't imagine anybody volunteering to spend most of their life travelling to visit a planet covered in bacterial gloop.
Not at all. The faster you go, the less time it will take you. If you went to close enough to the speed of light the whole way, then it could take only a few minutes to get there and back again. However everybody on earth would have aged 40 years. But to the spaceman it would have only been a few minutes.
> Does the open source community do anything to change it's fractured ways since the last time this was mentioned?
.desktop standard for menu items, actions etc. Both use the freedesktop.org icon naming system, and mimetype system, and so on.
Take a look at freedesktop.org.
* Sharing of sound system - both Gnome and KDE 4 will work with gstreamer
* Joining of messaging system. It was dcop (kde) and corba (Gnome). Now both will use DBus
* Common themes that make kde and gnome apps look the same.
Plus lots of 'small' points. Both follow the
Not really, in the end it comes down to semantics.
Do you believe in unicorns? probably not. Can you say with 100% certainty that there are no unicorns? of course not
So does that make you unicorn-agnostic or atheist? If you believe something with a 99.9999999% certainty, does that make you agnostic rather than atheist to that view?
What do you think about the other poster's suggestion on doing it how ionice does it? Would that still be fairly meaningless / misleading?