I doubt that the palm claim factors in wireless access. The programming literature says to keep the IR port turned off when not in use otherwise it drains the batteries too much. Browsing is bound to be worse than that.
I don't think he meant a poor understanding of XUL. I think he meant that the people who wrote XUL had a poor understanding of how the interface should appear.
The PCMCIA stuff with 8.0 really sucked. My ethernet card refused to work with it, even though it was supposed to work. My problem was straightened out by 8.1. You might want to give the new version a try (or wait for the full 9.0 and not just the beta).
You aren't missing much since the servers will likely be crippled by the slashdot effect anyway. Wait a little while, and the download should be a lot less painful.
I rememer hearing about some crazy guys imersing a motherboard in something made by 3M (fluorinert or something similiar to that). The trouble was the stuff was like $500 a gallon, oh... and it tended to gel up when they cooled it with liquid nitrogen.
Yeah, it kind of reminds me of the talk about AMD chips and heat sinks falling off. If you do it right, no problem, but if you're an idiot, any system is going to fail.
Out of date != dead I was merely commenting that there tends to be on long time between Slackware releases, and after a while, you either have to get third party packages, or deal with having old versions of stuff. Gentoo isn't an idiot distro. It makes it convenient to install and keep things up to date, but you still need to know how to play with config files.
Slackware 8.1 may be very up to date, but you won't be able to say that a year from now, and I doubt there will be a Slackware 8.2 within that time frame. If you want up to date software and have a good net connection, Gentoo is the way to go.
I think it is more a matter that some software that compiled fine with older versions of gcc doesn't compile properly with the more standards compliant 3.1. So if they just develop their software so that it compiles properly, I don't think there are any problems (3.0 was supposed to be buggy though).
A larger screen may make a laptop a bit more cumbersome, but it is still much more portable than a desktop machine. If you don't like a machine because it is bigger, don't buy it, but there isn't any sense in calling a bigger laptop pointless.
Well, you just can't please everybody. If you copy windows, people complain that you are not innovating. If you do something original, then people say it is non-intuitive and hold it against you.
Of course, then there are those of us who didn't read it and didn't see the trailer, but found out from your post. Not that I am all that surprised. Everybody talks about how great he was, but from what I saw in the first movie, I wasn't impressed.
Although bad C can be as bad as bad vm programs, good C is better than good vm programs. Sure native compilation helps, but that is moving away from a true vm. As far as languages that force careful programming, that isn't relevant to since there is nothing stopping you from making a such a language that gets compiled to native code. That said, I think that vm's are becoming more and more viable now that computers are becoming so blazing fast. It is getting so the overhead doesn't matter so much for things like office apps or simpler games (of course the games will likely always lag behind the cutting edge of the time). There was a time when many things were written in assembler since it was faster than C, but as machines grew more powerful, and compilers improved, the added speed just wasn't worth the effort any more.
I never could understand the obsession with cell-phones. After all, it is basicly a high-tech device that requires social interaction to be useful. If I could get social interaction, I wouldn't need so many gizmos to keep me entertained.
So let me get this straight, giving choice is a disservice to the customers? Anybody who tosses down several hundred dollars on a device which they don't understand, and doesn't bother to ask anybody or do some research is a fool. Stop assuming that everybody is an idiot. These things are clearly marked as different. If they see that these things are different, and don't want to find out about them, they will simply choose the windows machine instead.
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Actually, I think that Gentoo is quite useful for older machines. Sure, the compiles take forever, but you can just let it run overnight. Compare to other distros, you spend much more time on installation of stuff, but all of your stuff runs faster, so a slow machine isn't quite so painful. After running Gentoo on my old laptop, I couldn't possibly put up with the sluggishness of my old distro (Mandrake).
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I doubt that the palm claim factors in wireless access. The programming literature says to keep the IR port turned off when not in use otherwise it drains the batteries too much. Browsing is bound to be worse than that.
I don't think he meant a poor understanding of XUL. I think he meant that the people who wrote XUL had a poor understanding of how the interface should appear.
It's not *that* crazy. Mr. Wizard did it on his tv show (the forks, not the heat gun).
The PCMCIA stuff with 8.0 really sucked. My ethernet card refused to work with it, even though it was supposed to work. My problem was straightened out by 8.1. You might want to give the new version a try (or wait for the full 9.0 and not just the beta).
You aren't missing much since the servers will likely be crippled by the slashdot effect anyway. Wait a little while, and the download should be a lot less painful.
I rememer hearing about some crazy guys imersing a motherboard in something made by 3M (fluorinert or something similiar to that). The trouble was the stuff was like $500 a gallon, oh... and it tended to gel up when they cooled it with liquid nitrogen.
Yeah, it kind of reminds me of the talk about AMD chips and heat sinks falling off. If you do it right, no problem, but if you're an idiot, any system is going to fail.
Yeah, but you still have the ability ot fast forward, so you just need good reflexes (a carry-over skill from watching stuff on a VCR).
Out of date != dead
I was merely commenting that there tends to be on long time between Slackware releases, and after a while, you either have to get third party packages, or deal with having old versions of stuff.
Gentoo isn't an idiot distro. It makes it convenient to install and keep things up to date, but you still need to know how to play with config files.
Slackware 8.1 may be very up to date, but you won't be able to say that a year from now, and I doubt there will be a Slackware 8.2 within that time frame. If you want up to date software and have a good net connection, Gentoo is the way to go.
I think it is more a matter that some software that compiled fine with older versions of gcc doesn't compile properly with the more standards compliant 3.1. So if they just develop their software so that it compiles properly, I don't think there are any problems (3.0 was supposed to be buggy though).
This is the funniest post I have read in a long time.
Just the comments read with a lower filter. There are a couple copies of the text, but nobody seems to be modding them up.
A larger screen may make a laptop a bit more cumbersome, but it is still much more portable than a desktop machine. If you don't like a machine because it is bigger, don't buy it, but there isn't any sense in calling a bigger laptop pointless.
Yup, Gentoo all the way.
Better yet, buy a zaurus and avoid the Microsoft tax.
Well, you just can't please everybody. If you copy windows, people complain that you are not innovating. If you do something original, then people say it is non-intuitive and hold it against you.
More like 1200 mm^9
since x^3 * x^3 * x^3 = x^9
Umm... you can use different window managers with KDE also. I know, because at one point, I accidently ran KDE with twm for a window manager.
Of course, then there are those of us who didn't read it and didn't see the trailer, but found out from your post. Not that I am all that surprised. Everybody talks about how great he was, but from what I saw in the first movie, I wasn't impressed.
Although bad C can be as bad as bad vm programs, good C is better than good vm programs. Sure native compilation helps, but that is moving away from a true vm. As far as languages that force careful programming, that isn't relevant to since there is nothing stopping you from making a such a language that gets compiled to native code.
That said, I think that vm's are becoming more and more viable now that computers are becoming so blazing fast. It is getting so the overhead doesn't matter so much for things like office apps or simpler games (of course the games will likely always lag behind the cutting edge of the time). There was a time when many things were written in assembler since it was faster than C, but as machines grew more powerful, and compilers improved, the added speed just wasn't worth the effort any more.
I never could understand the obsession with cell-phones. After all, it is basicly a high-tech device that requires social interaction to be useful. If I could get social interaction, I wouldn't need so many gizmos to keep me entertained.
So let me get this straight, giving choice is a disservice to the customers? Anybody who tosses down several hundred dollars on a device which they don't understand, and doesn't bother to ask anybody or do some research is a fool. Stop assuming that everybody is an idiot. These things are clearly marked as different. If they see that these things are different, and don't want to find out about them, they will simply choose the windows machine instead.
Actually, I think that Gentoo is quite useful for older machines. Sure, the compiles take forever, but you can just let it run overnight. Compare to other distros, you spend much more time on installation of stuff, but all of your stuff runs faster, so a slow machine isn't quite so painful. After running Gentoo on my old laptop, I couldn't possibly put up with the sluggishness of my old distro (Mandrake).
Funny you should mention a resurgence. I just found this manifesto of people wanting to revive gopher.e sto
http://www.scn.org/~bkarger/gopher-manif