I seriously think Google should intergrate there services in to an IM that runs atop jabber. That would truly challenge Microsoft's whole Hotmail/Messenger service which so many people rely on, and what better company than Google to promote Jabber?
Maybe they should modify the GConf editor to be more graphical like a control panel to suit those "expert" users. That way you have the best of both worlds without modfying GNOME hugely.
I like to compare all this pointless debating about which is better to my philosophy concerning the opposite sex, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. You like something because you do, no one should force you to like something and you shouldn't force someone else, you have the choice here, choose what suits you.
You do realise you're contradicting yourself, GNOME shows both leadership in inviduals (Havoc Pennington by your example, who also by your example seems to be leading in the same way as Steve Jobs) as well as a republican structure in the same way as KDE; come up with something good that everyone likes in the community and it'll be taken aboard. I don't think you've brought any true insight upon the matter but just show your personal preference and coloured it with broad statements.
From what I understand, this is the point of the virtual machine, you'll still have the information to continue it on another CPU from the point of failure. Feel free to correct me.
Yes but in bothe KDE and Windows XP you're presented with a clutter of options. It isn't simple and clean. In nautilus it's obviously presented when you click on the computer icon, no having to crawl through some strange sidebar with it's cryptic icons or go through some hierarchy of My Crap and random other garbage they decided to throw in (Control Panel in the explorer tree?).
The article was
considsending. The Gnome group seems to think they're smarter than me, and that if their system doesn't work with me, then I should look elsewhere, and so I have.
What an outrage? Why would they ever think they're smarter than you? Considsending indeed!
You can't see your music organised in a library, you can't easily synchronise with an iPod, you can't create multiple playlists and switch between them easily, etc. I haven't seen any terminal based program able to do that. I use mpg123/ogg123/mplayer when I need to quickly preview something, I didn't say they don't have their uses, I'm saying that everything has its place, you're not simple for going one way or another.
Ease of use can be quite, well, useful. A good example I read (can't quote it exactly), was about choosing an X output driver. You shouldn't have to decided which one is right for the job, the application should be intelligent enough to decide to use one when your running locally for maximum performance or one when you're running remotely for low network usage, etc. It's not about taking options away, it's more about the application being intelligent enough to make the right choice and not swamping the user with every possible branch it could take.
That kind of elitism denies the progress that both projects have made. I use my computer primarily for programming in C++ but enjoy the simplicity and convenience that both environments bring to mundane tasks such as moving files across ssh or samba. I'd hate to play music or use an instant messenger in a terminal. You don't get the depth that these graphical tools in these environments offer. Don't put them down just because you prefer one way and feel that others who don't are simple users.
So what is happening with Keith Packard's X server? I was really hoping that'd end up taking over the lot and X.org was only there to smooth migration. I've been told great things about Keith's X server, that it runs faster and takes up less memory, it just needs drivers support. I hope they're not just going to tack it on to the monolithic X server package.
About vfork from the man page in Fedora Core 1:
It is rather unfortunate that Linux revived this spectre from the past.
The BSD manpage states: "This system call will be eliminated when
proper system sharing mechanisms are implemented. Users should not
depend on the memory sharing semantics of vfork as it will, in that
case, be made synonymous to fork."
Hmmm, that's really strange, I _only_ use SMTP (no POP/IMAP) in Kmail and it works perfectly for me. In all the versions I've tried I've never had a problem.
We have OpenAL to address audio, we just need a good cross platform input library (SDL has a lot of problems in that way), but I guess that ties in heavily with window binding and creation that should also be abstracted in to a library. I guess GLUT fills this description but not many people seem to take it seriously. Everything else is basically standard interfaces that you can easily create a wrapper for.
Well I use my 20gb iPod to transfer files between friends and to grab photos and stuff from university. So far I've only got 5gb of music on it, but the extra room allows me to back up my programming on it and work on it wherever I am as well general portable hard drive use. Easier than 100's of megs over the net and nicer to carry around than CDRW's.
It would catch that if foo was on the heap. That's one thing I never knew, I thought it did catch things on the stack, but a quick check proved me wrong.
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You can always use a garbage collector in C/C++, or use smart pointers in C++. I guess that still doesn't solve misuse of allocated data. I don't know Java but I'm guessing it's possible to over run an array in it as well, correct me if I'm wrong.
That's why I absolutely love valgrind, it does all the memory and thread debugging needed to figure out these bugs that'd otherwise confuse the hell out of you.
When I did work experience at SGI, I really liked the way 4dwm worked, so I asked some engineers there how I could get this running at home, and they actually told me to try 5dwm. I know that's no endorsement by them, but it shows that they do know about the project.
Maybe you should check the stats on the freedesktop X server. It's smaller in file size and memory footprint. It will be faster when hardware acceleration is supported.
Since you left your 20s? Am I prematurely aging? I haven't even hit my 20s, and I lost interest about 3 years ago (last game I really liked was Sacrifice). Maybe it's just when you find you can do something truly productive on your computer that you enjoy, you tend to gravitate towards that.
What I find is I think I'd like to play a game, but then I think I could spend the time fixing the render queue batching, upgrading the message system to use signal/slot paradigm, etc. You just find that in the end you could get so much more done, I don't think it's a question of age, I think it's just when you find greater meaning in something else.
It doesn't have to be computer related either, I love going to the beach or heading out and catching up on the night life with friends, and I'd rather play around on the beach than play on a game on a computer. How much more of a thrill is riding that wave in on a bodyboard (can't surf for crap) than killing that virtual person?
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I seriously think Google should intergrate there services in to an IM that runs atop jabber. That would truly challenge Microsoft's whole Hotmail/Messenger service which so many people rely on, and what better company than Google to promote Jabber?
Maybe they should modify the GConf editor to be more graphical like a control panel to suit those "expert" users. That way you have the best of both worlds without modfying GNOME hugely.
I like to compare all this pointless debating about which is better to my philosophy concerning the opposite sex, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. You like something because you do, no one should force you to like something and you shouldn't force someone else, you have the choice here, choose what suits you.
You do realise you're contradicting yourself, GNOME shows both leadership in inviduals (Havoc Pennington by your example, who also by your example seems to be leading in the same way as Steve Jobs) as well as a republican structure in the same way as KDE; come up with something good that everyone likes in the community and it'll be taken aboard. I don't think you've brought any true insight upon the matter but just show your personal preference and coloured it with broad statements.
They also had the MP3s on their website until the website disappeared off the face of the earth.
From what I understand, this is the point of the virtual machine, you'll still have the information to continue it on another CPU from the point of failure. Feel free to correct me.
Yes but in bothe KDE and Windows XP you're presented with a clutter of options. It isn't simple and clean. In nautilus it's obviously presented when you click on the computer icon, no having to crawl through some strange sidebar with it's cryptic icons or go through some hierarchy of My Crap and random other garbage they decided to throw in (Control Panel in the explorer tree?).
Simply put, find a balance - teach good structure and organisation so when you need to micro-optimise, it's localised and easy to maintain.
You can't see your music organised in a library, you can't easily synchronise with an iPod, you can't create multiple playlists and switch between them easily, etc. I haven't seen any terminal based program able to do that. I use mpg123/ogg123/mplayer when I need to quickly preview something, I didn't say they don't have their uses, I'm saying that everything has its place, you're not simple for going one way or another.
Ease of use can be quite, well, useful. A good example I read (can't quote it exactly), was about choosing an X output driver. You shouldn't have to decided which one is right for the job, the application should be intelligent enough to decide to use one when your running locally for maximum performance or one when you're running remotely for low network usage, etc. It's not about taking options away, it's more about the application being intelligent enough to make the right choice and not swamping the user with every possible branch it could take.
That kind of elitism denies the progress that both projects have made. I use my computer primarily for programming in C++ but enjoy the simplicity and convenience that both environments bring to mundane tasks such as moving files across ssh or samba. I'd hate to play music or use an instant messenger in a terminal. You don't get the depth that these graphical tools in these environments offer. Don't put them down just because you prefer one way and feel that others who don't are simple users.
So what is happening with Keith Packard's X server? I was really hoping that'd end up taking over the lot and X.org was only there to smooth migration. I've been told great things about Keith's X server, that it runs faster and takes up less memory, it just needs drivers support. I hope they're not just going to tack it on to the monolithic X server package.
About vfork from the man page in Fedora Core 1:
It is rather unfortunate that Linux revived this spectre from the past.
The BSD manpage states: "This system call will be eliminated when
proper system sharing mechanisms are implemented. Users should not
depend on the memory sharing semantics of vfork as it will, in that
case, be made synonymous to fork."
OpenSSL has a license that's been made specifically incompatible with the GPL from what I've heard, that's why GAIM can't use it.
Hmmm, that's really strange, I _only_ use SMTP (no POP/IMAP) in Kmail and it works perfectly for me. In all the versions I've tried I've never had a problem.
We have OpenAL to address audio, we just need a good cross platform input library (SDL has a lot of problems in that way), but I guess that ties in heavily with window binding and creation that should also be abstracted in to a library. I guess GLUT fills this description but not many people seem to take it seriously. Everything else is basically standard interfaces that you can easily create a wrapper for.
Well I use my 20gb iPod to transfer files between friends and to grab photos and stuff from university. So far I've only got 5gb of music on it, but the extra room allows me to back up my programming on it and work on it wherever I am as well general portable hard drive use. Easier than 100's of megs over the net and nicer to carry around than CDRW's.
Nope, I'm in Melbourne and the boys take a slash on the fence when we're on holiday, it's a wonderful tradition of marking our territory.
It would catch that if foo was on the heap. That's one thing I never knew, I thought it did catch things on the stack, but a quick check proved me wrong.
You can always use a garbage collector in C/C++, or use smart pointers in C++. I guess that still doesn't solve misuse of allocated data. I don't know Java but I'm guessing it's possible to over run an array in it as well, correct me if I'm wrong.
That's why I absolutely love valgrind, it does all the memory and thread debugging needed to figure out these bugs that'd otherwise confuse the hell out of you.
When I did work experience at SGI, I really liked the way 4dwm worked, so I asked some engineers there how I could get this running at home, and they actually told me to try 5dwm. I know that's no endorsement by them, but it shows that they do know about the project.
Maybe you should check the stats on the freedesktop X server. It's smaller in file size and memory footprint. It will be faster when hardware acceleration is supported.
Since you left your 20s? Am I prematurely aging? I haven't even hit my 20s, and I lost interest about 3 years ago (last game I really liked was Sacrifice). Maybe it's just when you find you can do something truly productive on your computer that you enjoy, you tend to gravitate towards that.
What I find is I think I'd like to play a game, but then I think I could spend the time fixing the render queue batching, upgrading the message system to use signal/slot paradigm, etc. You just find that in the end you could get so much more done, I don't think it's a question of age, I think it's just when you find greater meaning in something else.
It doesn't have to be computer related either, I love going to the beach or heading out and catching up on the night life with friends, and I'd rather play around on the beach than play on a game on a computer. How much more of a thrill is riding that wave in on a bodyboard (can't surf for crap) than killing that virtual person?