Being I wrote my application in GridBag, I had to RFTM. I had no choice. The layout manager is needlessly complex. It's a pig to develop and debug. But don't take it from me. Mig was quick and easy, making debugging a trivial affair even for resizing elements. I rewrote my entire UI in less than a day and loved it as it made simple additions to the GUI a trivial affair. But hey, each to their own.
Java's layout managers are pretty atrocious... the gridbag layout managed to achieve a state of sadomasochistic perfection that hasn't been seen since the Middle Ages when plague victims would whip themselves for thinking God was mad at them. But the whole state of UI developing is nightmarish. Whenever I nested layers upon layers of layout managers, I felt like an ancient Incan, setting traps in a tomb for any poor suckers wishing to alter my application UI. Of course, that poor sucker was usually me.
In any case, some dude actually realized the insanity of the process and wrote his own layout manager called Mig Layout which puts an end to nesting and actually makes sense. Dare I say easy? I rewrote my last app in it and never turned back. Give it whirl although keep the retard with the bat around just in case.
Honestly... if my employer starts treating me like a thief during my last two weeks then I'm out of the building then and there. As far as I'm concerned, giving two weeks notice is a courtesy that I am extending. Besides, if I were so unethical as to take company secrets to my next gig then the pilfering would occur well before any notice given.
... but there was a reason it was left on the cutting room floor. Maybe it added too much of a somber tone, or maybe it was deemed redundant when vader later notes that skywalker had created a lightsaber. The real question... how long can this franchise hold out when the last episode of any quality was made twenty years ago? Is anyone else bored by this franchise now? And when will it finally, mercifully, be put down?
OpenOffice.org does not implement the JVM and java compilers and libraries.
That is incorrect. Use of the JVM in OpenOffice.org is entirely optional at this point in time which is why a lot of people recommend disabling it to improve performance. A few years ago, OpenOffice was starting to rely heavily on Java with a lot of new features (such as wizards and templates), threatening to make the JVM a requirement. This is why Stallman suggested that the project be forked so people could strip Java out of the program. This was a brilliant move because it essentially prompted Sun to license Java under the GPL.
What Google has done, they created a coffee cup without lid, small handle and they want to call it Java, but it's not by definition.
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but I believe Droid was marketed as being based on the Java language as opposed to being an implementation of the Java spec. Whereas Microsoft took Java and poisoned the well by making platform specific additions to the language (thus negating, write once, run everywhere), I believe the makers of Droid built a Java like language from the ground up. To my knowledge, there have been no claims that standard Java programs can run on Droid. In fact, I believe a lot of standard classes in Java aren't even present on Droid. Again, I haven't developed on the platform so I don't know.
Reminds me of that old joke... "in communism, man exploits man, but with capitalism, it's just the other way around"
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In your case, it sounds like a solution in search of a problem. You seem quite able to do your own thing and having to do similar things in KDE's framework might prove to be a stumbling block for your workflow.
That said, for a lot of people who might not be so technical inclined, the KDE desktop *becomes* linux. Sure, in reality, it's just a desktop manager, but for those who choose to avoid digging deeper, KDE for all purposes becomes a metaphor for linux itself. For other people like me (mind you, I'm an OSX user), I don't shy from console work, but I do enjoy the benefits of working with a well designed user interface as it makes my life easier (kind of like using an IDE to write code instead of using vim or a barebones text editor).
The funny thing... I used to love KDE back in the day. I rode the KDE wave from version 2 to 3.5 and I grew to love tools like Kate and Quanta. I loved all the different settings and figured once I got around to C++, I'd be making code contributions. A year ago, I tried a couple of live CDs and I found myself really liking GNOME over KDE (this was when KDE 4.1 was just released) which gave me a kick. In my absence, I realized I had grown tired of tinkering with a UI and wanted something that just got out of my way. While I have some issues with GNOME, I found it to be pleasant drive around the Linux block. Each to their own, I guess.
First thing, you need to go back on the meds. I know they make you feel like a slug during the day, but it makes all of us feel safer to be around you. Especially when you are cleaning your guns. God, I almost killed Frank when he mentioned that Fallout3 should have had at least token multiplayer while you were at the target range. I thought we were all dead.
Second thing... instead of paying sixty dollars for a full price game, maybe you should wait until the games are cheaper so you won't feel so ripped from the lack of single player content. Um, don't get up. It was just a simple suggestion. You know... let the early adopters take the hit and then you can get it used and not feel so ripped off.
Thirdly... calm down, I'm almost done... if playing multiplayer makes you so upset, maybe you should avoid it. Or play with only vetted friends.... what's that? you want to play with me? well, i'm busy these days... no, of course I'm your friend. Why would you think otherwise?
And just remember, it's just a video game. okay? you feeling better? There's no reason to load that gun now. Can we please talk? Did I mention I hate multiplayer just as-
As of late, Slashdot seems to be phoning it in at best. I've been following the site for years and I've never seen such an apathetic disregard to both the site and the community from the editors. Lately, stories have either been incredibly sensational or just downright retarded. Or hell, even troll'ish. I'm wondering if Taco and company should just hang it up and try something new. Give people with some fire in their belly a shot. I don't know... when you're citing wikipedia as a breaking news source, you gotta be wondering if what you're scraping is the bottom of the barrel, or the pile of shit underneath it.
And by the way... it's all right to change the Microsoft icon. It was funny twelve years ago. It's kind of retarded now. Especially since the company now looks to be run by the three stooges after a weekend bender.
As someone who has run a dedicated server for seven years, I would never grant any unknown third party access to my server. Even as a guest with almost no permissions. That's just inviting trouble into your house. Give them code samples, answer questions, provide references, but keep the digital doors locked unless you don't value the data on the machine.
I believe they don't like them apples much indeed, but I also believe they have something like forty billion dollars in their "rainy day" fund. Apple has made some pretty dumb moves this past year, but as a business, they run a pretty good ship (no debt). Their policies are another thing.
I've learned to loathe day and night schedules. They were cool at the time when the night facilitated some events, but most of the time, you were forced to find some place to sleep and wait for the day so you could actually do stuff. Some might say that is realistic, but honestly, I don't play video games for realism.
I'm not complaining about slashdot reporting stories... I'm saying that any Apple story - whether it be positive or negative - turns into people screaming their hatred for the company like it were a picture of Emmanuel Goldstein. In the ten years I've been visiting the site, I've seen this only happen to two companies: Microsoft and SCO.
My point: Fuck apple... I don't care about their rep... it's this blind parroting that makes for a shitty discussion. If I wanted that... I'd head over to Digg.
Don't let your panic run away with you. Yes... HTML5 will offer a lot crazy crap that doesn't rely on a plugin to make it work. That doesn't you won't be able to prevent such things from rendering and using your system resources. Just as people made a plugin to strip flash from the dom, people can easily make another plugin to strip the canvas tag from the dom.
When I did a clean install of Snow Leopard, I found the latest Firefox to be incredibly slow so I downgraded to test my results. I later found that the issue wasn't firefox, but rather a proxy issue. I'll probably upgrade in the next month or so.
I'm running a 3.5.10 build on Snow Leopard right now. I'm a web developer so i have the following extensions installed: Firebug, XMarks, and FireQuery. That's it. I stopped installing extensions when I learned that they could also cause crashes or memory leaks. I've stopped watching flash videos with firefox since it would escalate the software degredation so I watch all my vids in Safari as it doesn't spiral out of control. I never have more than six or seven tabs open at one time. In short, Firefox is really a development tool as I find myself using Safari more and more for recreation since it doesn't die. I tend to avoid flash heavy sites. I would say a lot of ajax heavy sites like the Huffington Post really spike my system resources.
Reading my activity monitor, here's what I find right now for Firefox's process - CPU 26.7%, 27 Threads, 530 megs of memory. My current tabs: Safari Books Online, Kotaku, Google Search Results, an html ebook, an energy drink site (current client), and slashdot. Mind you... no video is running. In a few hours, my memory will spike to a gig whereby the browser will falter then fail. This has happened on both XP, Leopard, and Snow Leopard.
I'm not trolling. I've used Mozilla products since the suite back in 2001. I know the prevailing groupthink here is to blame the messenger when reporting firefox problems but this is actually happening under normal conditions.
Looking at the past few releases of Firefox, the developers just simply do not care to address it like the problem has been solved. Yet, they continue to perfect their crash and restart tools so when the browser does become unstable (and it always becomes unstable for me after a few hours of hard use) restarting is at least not too painful. Yet, this reeks of addressing the symptom instead of the cause. Have a problem with the browser? Restart it. Yes -- firefox has become the Windows 95 of browsers.
I'd wish they'd just slow down, take a breath, and get their house in order. I'd rather have a stable browser instead of the latest flavor of the month feature addition.
What are you talking about? I've had the same console since six months post launch and it plays games just fine. I'm guessing you either have a faulty box, or more likely, you like to do a little trolling in your off time.
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Being I wrote my application in GridBag, I had to RFTM. I had no choice. The layout manager is needlessly complex. It's a pig to develop and debug. But don't take it from me. Mig was quick and easy, making debugging a trivial affair even for resizing elements. I rewrote my entire UI in less than a day and loved it as it made simple additions to the GUI a trivial affair. But hey, each to their own.
Java's layout managers are pretty atrocious ... the gridbag layout managed to achieve a state of sadomasochistic perfection that hasn't been seen since the Middle Ages when plague victims would whip themselves for thinking God was mad at them. But the whole state of UI developing is nightmarish. Whenever I nested layers upon layers of layout managers, I felt like an ancient Incan, setting traps in a tomb for any poor suckers wishing to alter my application UI. Of course, that poor sucker was usually me.
In any case, some dude actually realized the insanity of the process and wrote his own layout manager called Mig Layout which puts an end to nesting and actually makes sense. Dare I say easy? I rewrote my last app in it and never turned back. Give it whirl although keep the retard with the bat around just in case.
I didn't realize you could run algorithms on a smart phone ... these guys are brilliant! ;)
Honestly ... if my employer starts treating me like a thief during my last two weeks then I'm out of the building then and there. As far as I'm concerned, giving two weeks notice is a courtesy that I am extending. Besides, if I were so unethical as to take company secrets to my next gig then the pilfering would occur well before any notice given.
... but there was a reason it was left on the cutting room floor. Maybe it added too much of a somber tone, or maybe it was deemed redundant when vader later notes that skywalker had created a lightsaber. The real question ... how long can this franchise hold out when the last episode of any quality was made twenty years ago? Is anyone else bored by this franchise now? And when will it finally, mercifully, be put down?
OpenOffice.org does not implement the JVM and java compilers and libraries.
That is incorrect. Use of the JVM in OpenOffice.org is entirely optional at this point in time which is why a lot of people recommend disabling it to improve performance. A few years ago, OpenOffice was starting to rely heavily on Java with a lot of new features (such as wizards and templates), threatening to make the JVM a requirement. This is why Stallman suggested that the project be forked so people could strip Java out of the program. This was a brilliant move because it essentially prompted Sun to license Java under the GPL.
What Google has done, they created a coffee cup without lid, small handle and they want to call it Java, but it's not by definition.
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but I believe Droid was marketed as being based on the Java language as opposed to being an implementation of the Java spec. Whereas Microsoft took Java and poisoned the well by making platform specific additions to the language (thus negating, write once, run everywhere), I believe the makers of Droid built a Java like language from the ground up. To my knowledge, there have been no claims that standard Java programs can run on Droid. In fact, I believe a lot of standard classes in Java aren't even present on Droid. Again, I haven't developed on the platform so I don't know.
Isn't this exactly what Stallman warned when he suggested that Open Office should be forked because it used Java?
Reminds me of that old joke ... "in communism, man exploits man, but with capitalism, it's just the other way around"
In your case, it sounds like a solution in search of a problem. You seem quite able to do your own thing and having to do similar things in KDE's framework might prove to be a stumbling block for your workflow.
That said, for a lot of people who might not be so technical inclined, the KDE desktop *becomes* linux. Sure, in reality, it's just a desktop manager, but for those who choose to avoid digging deeper, KDE for all purposes becomes a metaphor for linux itself. For other people like me (mind you, I'm an OSX user), I don't shy from console work, but I do enjoy the benefits of working with a well designed user interface as it makes my life easier (kind of like using an IDE to write code instead of using vim or a barebones text editor).
The funny thing ... I used to love KDE back in the day. I rode the KDE wave from version 2 to 3.5 and I grew to love tools like Kate and Quanta. I loved all the different settings and figured once I got around to C++, I'd be making code contributions. A year ago, I tried a couple of live CDs and I found myself really liking GNOME over KDE (this was when KDE 4.1 was just released) which gave me a kick. In my absence, I realized I had grown tired of tinkering with a UI and wanted something that just got out of my way. While I have some issues with GNOME, I found it to be pleasant drive around the Linux block. Each to their own, I guess.
First thing, you need to go back on the meds. I know they make you feel like a slug during the day, but it makes all of us feel safer to be around you. Especially when you are cleaning your guns. God, I almost killed Frank when he mentioned that Fallout3 should have had at least token multiplayer while you were at the target range. I thought we were all dead.
Second thing ... instead of paying sixty dollars for a full price game, maybe you should wait until the games are cheaper so you won't feel so ripped from the lack of single player content. Um, don't get up. It was just a simple suggestion. You know ... let the early adopters take the hit and then you can get it used and not feel so ripped off.
Thirdly ... calm down, I'm almost done ... if playing multiplayer makes you so upset, maybe you should avoid it. Or play with only vetted friends. ... what's that? you want to play with me? well, i'm busy these days ... no, of course I'm your friend. Why would you think otherwise?
And just remember, it's just a video game. okay? you feeling better? There's no reason to load that gun now. Can we please talk? Did I mention I hate multiplayer just as-
google: you're gonna love this new product. it's gonna change your life.
me: what does it do?
google: it's so damn sweet. the way you look at the world will altered for good. you'll never turn back.
me: what does it do?
google: there's email and chat organized in this cool way which is just amazing.
me: what does it do?
google: it streamlines communication in this effective way that will alter the way you work
me: what does it do?
google: you really need to try it to get a full grasp of the mind blowing innovation
me: what the fuck does it do?
google: er, have an invite.
me: sure, fine, whatever.
As of late, Slashdot seems to be phoning it in at best. I've been following the site for years and I've never seen such an apathetic disregard to both the site and the community from the editors. Lately, stories have either been incredibly sensational or just downright retarded. Or hell, even troll'ish. I'm wondering if Taco and company should just hang it up and try something new. Give people with some fire in their belly a shot. I don't know ... when you're citing wikipedia as a breaking news source, you gotta be wondering if what you're scraping is the bottom of the barrel, or the pile of shit underneath it.
... it's all right to change the Microsoft icon. It was funny twelve years ago. It's kind of retarded now. Especially since the company now looks to be run by the three stooges after a weekend bender.
And by the way
Hell, I can live with their app store. It's their hardware that gives me night sweats.
I think Sartre was trying to say, "Hell is other French people" ;)
As someone who has run a dedicated server for seven years, I would never grant any unknown third party access to my server. Even as a guest with almost no permissions. That's just inviting trouble into your house. Give them code samples, answer questions, provide references, but keep the digital doors locked unless you don't value the data on the machine.
I believe they don't like them apples much indeed, but I also believe they have something like forty billion dollars in their "rainy day" fund. Apple has made some pretty dumb moves this past year, but as a business, they run a pretty good ship (no debt). Their policies are another thing.
I've learned to loathe day and night schedules. They were cool at the time when the night facilitated some events, but most of the time, you were forced to find some place to sleep and wait for the day so you could actually do stuff. Some might say that is realistic, but honestly, I don't play video games for realism.
I'm not complaining about slashdot reporting stories ... I'm saying that any Apple story - whether it be positive or negative - turns into people screaming their hatred for the company like it were a picture of Emmanuel Goldstein. In the ten years I've been visiting the site, I've seen this only happen to two companies: Microsoft and SCO.
My point: Fuck apple ... I don't care about their rep ... it's this blind parroting that makes for a shitty discussion. If I wanted that ... I'd head over to Digg.
Problems or not, these apple stories are starting to feel like the slashdot version of Orwell's two minutes of hate.
Don't let your panic run away with you. Yes ... HTML5 will offer a lot crazy crap that doesn't rely on a plugin to make it work. That doesn't you won't be able to prevent such things from rendering and using your system resources. Just as people made a plugin to strip flash from the dom, people can easily make another plugin to strip the canvas tag from the dom.
When I did a clean install of Snow Leopard, I found the latest Firefox to be incredibly slow so I downgraded to test my results. I later found that the issue wasn't firefox, but rather a proxy issue. I'll probably upgrade in the next month or so.
See this post if you are curious ... while you may be having the optimal experience, many of us are not - http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1702398&cid=32733482
I'm running a 3.5.10 build on Snow Leopard right now. I'm a web developer so i have the following extensions installed: Firebug, XMarks, and FireQuery. That's it. I stopped installing extensions when I learned that they could also cause crashes or memory leaks. I've stopped watching flash videos with firefox since it would escalate the software degredation so I watch all my vids in Safari as it doesn't spiral out of control. I never have more than six or seven tabs open at one time. In short, Firefox is really a development tool as I find myself using Safari more and more for recreation since it doesn't die. I tend to avoid flash heavy sites. I would say a lot of ajax heavy sites like the Huffington Post really spike my system resources.
Reading my activity monitor, here's what I find right now for Firefox's process - CPU 26.7%, 27 Threads, 530 megs of memory. My current tabs: Safari Books Online, Kotaku, Google Search Results, an html ebook, an energy drink site (current client), and slashdot. Mind you ... no video is running. In a few hours, my memory will spike to a gig whereby the browser will falter then fail. This has happened on both XP, Leopard, and Snow Leopard.
I'm not trolling. I've used Mozilla products since the suite back in 2001. I know the prevailing groupthink here is to blame the messenger when reporting firefox problems but this is actually happening under normal conditions.
Looking at the past few releases of Firefox, the developers just simply do not care to address it like the problem has been solved. Yet, they continue to perfect their crash and restart tools so when the browser does become unstable (and it always becomes unstable for me after a few hours of hard use) restarting is at least not too painful. Yet, this reeks of addressing the symptom instead of the cause. Have a problem with the browser? Restart it. Yes -- firefox has become the Windows 95 of browsers.
I'd wish they'd just slow down, take a breath, and get their house in order. I'd rather have a stable browser instead of the latest flavor of the month feature addition.
What are you talking about? I've had the same console since six months post launch and it plays games just fine. I'm guessing you either have a faulty box, or more likely, you like to do a little trolling in your off time.