PHP-GTK would be the PHP bindings to the C user interface library. Gnome uses it. Nothing to do with web applications actually.
Why on earth you would use PHP to write actual desktop applications is beyond me. Especially when GTK+ has good quality bindings in a ton of languages (python, ruby, C#, C++).
Um, there isn't a snowballs chance in hell of anyone who uses Photoshop in professional capacity switching to an online version anyway. People on Slashdot are all using pirated versions of Photoshop and aren't using any of its professional features, they could just as easily use The Gimp.
Checkinstall is a useful tool for trying out a piece of software that doesn't have a binary package. It is not a good way to actually create packages for distribution though. If you install a package with checkinstall, it's actual dependencies will not be added to your package database. You essentially have a broken package. If you have a bunch of checkinstall packages on your system, come upgrade time you will run into all sorts of problems because of your busted package db.
Agreed. Apt is a really great way to manage software. But the Debian package format is needlessly complex. Even though the format is essentially just an Ar archive, you are forced to jump through a thousand different hoops to actually create a package.
I use Arch Linux these days which has one of the most sane ways to build packages I've seen yet. To build packages you need to create shell script, called a PKGBUILD, which has a certain number of required variables (pkgname, pkversion, dependencies etc.) and a build function. Once you have a PKGBUILD all you have to do is run makepkg to build a binary package for distribution. This is the way it should be IMO. Arch packages are distributed as gzipped tarballs (with a pkg.tar.gz extension). I only wish the package manager (pacman) were as nice as apt.
The only things that should be added to Firefox are bug/security fixes. Leave all the bells and whistles stuff to the extension authors.
Their bugzilla is so filled with ancient bugs that no one has eve nlooked at, and gecko is falling behind their competitors. They really need to get their priorities straight.
Have you played Biohazard 4? While you're aiming (holding R) Leon can't move and is completely vlunerable to attacks from behind. You can do a quick 180 turn with Down + B, while not in aiming mode.
It would really ruin the sense of claustrophobia if you could spin around while aiming, so I presume the controls in Umbrella Chronicles will be similar to those in Biohazard 4.
The Biohazard Outbreak series is multiplayer. Outbreak 2 for PS2 is playable online and you can move and shoot at the same time (blasphemy). I'm sure Capcom has plans to continue the series.
It sounds like the main difference between this and Biohazard 4 is that you aim with the Wiimote. You'll still have to stop firing to turn around, so zombies will be able to sneak up on you.
They've got exclusive titles on the way from Capcom, SquareEnix, Sega, Namco, and Konami. It doesn't get much better than that, that's all the biggest publishers in Japan. Much better than their last two launches.
The Wii is getting it's own exclusive Biohazard game called Biohazard: Umbrella Chronicles. It spans the first four titles, and you are able to play as many of the series most iconic characters (Leon, Jill, Hunk, Wesker, Ada and more..). The mechanics are supposed to be similar to Biohazard 4's over the shoulder view, but the Wiimote will be used to aim your weapon.
Not a whole lot is known about the game because it was only recently announced. One thing that has been mentioned is that each character will have two weapons each, like the Mercanaries game from Biohazard 4 (which will be returning). Jill has a pistol and rocket launcher, Leon a Pistol (Red 9 I hope) and shotgun, and Ada the TMP and rifle.
There was a post about it on The Magic Box maybe a month ago. No screenshots yet either.
Seriously. I submitted several UI bugs to the Xfce bugzilla site recently and none of them were addressed. People want to develop fun new features, but unfortunately that's not all that software is.
This is a really bad example. Xfce probably has one of the most pitiful developer to project-size ratios of any open source project. Pretty much all the modules are maintained by one person who also happens to have a fulltimejob.
I've been running the svn version of Xfce for quite some time and there haven't been any new features added in ages because they're currently in feature-freeze leading up to the 4.4 release.
Most Starcraft progamers average closer to 300 APM. Obviously, in really long games the players APM drops. Players like Nada, Xellos, and July are know to average closer to 400, as well as several less know gamers.
Yeah, that was a pretty big fuck up on JLG's part. I was an avid BeOS fan at the time and was pretty heart-broken when I heard the news, because BeOS at that point already had one foot in the grave.
In the long run aquirring NeXt was probably better for Apple. Be had a lot of talented people working for them, but NeXt had Steve and their platform was more suitable for a modern OS. The BeOS's micro kernel design and the fact that it lacked support for multiple users meant it would have required a lot of work to create something like Mac OS X. The best part of the BeOS was the file system, which is still un-paralleled.
I have read the RFP's for this program. It is total information awareness. There is no limit to it. The real issue here is the construction of a system that not even the NAZI SS could in their wildest immagination have dreamed of being able to achieve.
*golf clap*
Bravo sir, good work there with the completely baseless comparison between the Bush White House and the Nazis. You'd fit right in at dKos.
I love Opera, but I find this incredibly fustrating.
I'd imagine the Opera file-chooser looks okay in Windows because it's designed to look exactly like the Windows one. But, when you're using KDE, Gnome or Xfce the file-chooser stands out like a sore thumb and is also much less usable than the KDE or Gtk+ choosers.
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The French and French Canadians are worlds apart. Even the language is quite different.
PHP-GTK would be the PHP bindings to the C user interface library. Gnome uses it. Nothing to do with web applications actually.
Why on earth you would use PHP to write actual desktop applications is beyond me. Especially when GTK+ has good quality bindings in a ton of languages (python, ruby, C#, C++).
Um, there isn't a snowballs chance in hell of anyone who uses Photoshop in professional capacity switching to an online version anyway. People on Slashdot are all using pirated versions of Photoshop and aren't using any of its professional features, they could just as easily use The Gimp.
Apt is a great tool. Debian packages are needlessly complex. Apt-for-rpm is actually nicer imo.
Checkinstall is a useful tool for trying out a piece of software that doesn't have a binary package. It is not a good way to actually create packages for distribution though. If you install a package with checkinstall, it's actual dependencies will not be added to your package database. You essentially have a broken package. If you have a bunch of checkinstall packages on your system, come upgrade time you will run into all sorts of problems because of your busted package db.
Agreed. Apt is a really great way to manage software. But the Debian package format is needlessly complex. Even though the format is essentially just an Ar archive, you are forced to jump through a thousand different hoops to actually create a package.
I use Arch Linux these days which has one of the most sane ways to build packages I've seen yet. To build packages you need to create shell script, called a PKGBUILD, which has a certain number of required variables (pkgname, pkversion, dependencies etc.) and a build function. Once you have a PKGBUILD all you have to do is run makepkg to build a binary package for distribution. This is the way it should be IMO. Arch packages are distributed as gzipped tarballs (with a pkg.tar.gz extension). I only wish the package manager (pacman) were as nice as apt.
The only things that should be added to Firefox are bug/security fixes. Leave all the bells and whistles stuff to the extension authors.
Their bugzilla is so filled with ancient bugs that no one has eve nlooked at, and gecko is falling behind their competitors. They really need to get their priorities straight.
Also, why wasn't Ubuntu (which ships an even more patched version of FF) forced to rename?
No kidding,
the Mozilla bugzilla is like some kind of sick joke. If you're not going to listen to users or fix bugs why bother?
checkinstall creates crummy packages within no dependencies. Please don't encourage people to use it.
Have you played Biohazard 4? While you're aiming (holding R) Leon can't move and is completely vlunerable to attacks from behind. You can do a quick 180 turn with Down + B, while not in aiming mode.
It would really ruin the sense of claustrophobia if you could spin around while aiming, so I presume the controls in Umbrella Chronicles will be similar to those in Biohazard 4.
The Biohazard Outbreak series is multiplayer. Outbreak 2 for PS2 is playable online and you can move and shoot at the same time (blasphemy). I'm sure Capcom has plans to continue the series.
It sounds like the main difference between this and Biohazard 4 is that you aim with the Wiimote. You'll still have to stop firing to turn around, so zombies will be able to sneak up on you.
They've got exclusive titles on the way from Capcom, SquareEnix, Sega, Namco, and Konami. It doesn't get much better than that, that's all the biggest publishers in Japan. Much better than their last two launches.
Here's a link. It looks like someone's been working pretty hard on the wiki page.
The Wii is getting it's own exclusive Biohazard game called Biohazard: Umbrella Chronicles. It spans the first four titles, and you are able to play as many of the series most iconic characters (Leon, Jill, Hunk, Wesker, Ada and more..). The mechanics are supposed to be similar to Biohazard 4's over the shoulder view, but the Wiimote will be used to aim your weapon.
Not a whole lot is known about the game because it was only recently announced. One thing that has been mentioned is that each character will have two weapons each, like the Mercanaries game from Biohazard 4 (which will be returning). Jill has a pistol and rocket launcher, Leon a Pistol (Red 9 I hope) and shotgun, and Ada the TMP and rifle.
There was a post about it on The Magic Box maybe a month ago. No screenshots yet either.
oh no.
This is a really bad example. Xfce probably has one of the most pitiful developer to project-size ratios of any open source project. Pretty much all the modules are maintained by one person who also happens to have a fulltimejob.
I've been running the svn version of Xfce for quite some time and there haven't been any new features added in ages because they're currently in feature-freeze leading up to the 4.4 release.
Most Starcraft progamers average closer to 300 APM. Obviously, in really long games the players APM drops. Players like Nada, Xellos, and July are know to average closer to 400, as well as several less know gamers.
Everyone knows that Acid2 is irrelevant. Slashdoters just need some reason to bash IE7.
Amen to that brother.
Yeah, that was a pretty big fuck up on JLG's part. I was an avid BeOS fan at the time and was pretty heart-broken when I heard the news, because BeOS at that point already had one foot in the grave.
In the long run aquirring NeXt was probably better for Apple. Be had a lot of talented people working for them, but NeXt had Steve and their platform was more suitable for a modern OS. The BeOS's micro kernel design and the fact that it lacked support for multiple users meant it would have required a lot of work to create something like Mac OS X. The best part of the BeOS was the file system, which is still un-paralleled.
*golf clap*
Bravo sir, good work there with the completely baseless comparison between the Bush White House and the Nazis. You'd fit right in at dKos.
I love Opera, but I find this incredibly fustrating.
I'd imagine the Opera file-chooser looks okay in Windows because it's designed to look exactly like the Windows one. But, when you're using KDE, Gnome or Xfce the file-chooser stands out like a sore thumb and is also much less usable than the KDE or Gtk+ choosers.
Please, for the love of god.
That game was fun in a retarded way. Pick Guile and spam his sweep, you can cancel it into a flash kick whenever you want. NO WEAK!