Win2K SP4 lives on an old laptop of mine, and works just great. So I guess it's a viable desktop option for some of us. It feels snappier than XP to me, but who knows.
I'm not an OS X troll. I have a Gentoo desktop, a MacBook, a RHEL install, and the Windows laptop I mentioned, and they all get regular use right now for the big project I'm working on. For the average consumer, OS X is the killer, hands down.
Actually, both Windows and Linux suck on the desktop (although Windows 2000 is okay, and KDE 4 should go a long way towards rectifying the situation on Linux). The only option for this editor is OS X, the world's best consumer desktop operating system.
No. You have a very poor understanding of quantum physics. There is no way, even theoretically, that nuclear decay can be traced back to any external cause. It is true randomness, and to look for "cause" is not possible. Very likely, the whole question of causality is meaningless in such a case.
Agreed, the last Windows development I did was some years ago, but even then VC++ and later Visual Studio got kind of annoying. But their debugger really is good, and very fast too even on crappy hardware.
I think it's probably hard to design an IDE that appeals to everyone. Clearly VS appeals to some wide developer demographic, or else it wouldn't be the success that it is. But there will always be those who write and compile everything manually, and if they hop into an IDE at all, it's to use the debugger (for Java development, I debug in IDEA, and it's pretty sweet. I'd never actually edit code in it, though).
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Okay, so your assertion of fact was really just an enormous assumption. Thanks for the clarification.
Lots of proprietary software runs just fine on Linux, including drivers, without violating the GPL. VMWare's ESX Server is sort of a special case as people seem to think a part of the product is itself derived from Linux. "Derived from Linux" is not the same as "running on Linux".
Their social safety net has lasted more than a generation already, and it hasn't broken the bank. Something tells me the central bankers and finance ministers of the Netherlands are smarter than you are, "pal".
In all fairness, it's not really socialism - none of the countries mentioned (Netherlands, Canada, Scandinavian countries, etc.) have command economies, state ownership of property, and so forth. A lot of Americans seem to think that a national health care system automatically equals gray concrete walls and red stars, but it's not so.
On the other hand, the U.S. is still the best place to go and start a business, thanks in no small part to their labour mobility (easier to hire and fire).
Not the Netherlands - they have a +$45 billion trade balance and a budget surplus. Financially, they are golden. The only G7 country that is in similarly great financial shape is Canada.
?? Superphoenix dates from the '60s and was the target of a terrorist attack. Other than that, it worked. I don't understand your argument - technology in many areas of life has improved markedly since then, in case you haven't noticed.
The "slashdot audience" is mostly non-programmers who have convinced themselves they belong to an open source "community" and students who have never written a single line of production code in their lives. So it's no surprise that they are a tough sell, since they generally have no idea what you're talking about.
Absolutely correct. And if you hate the whole business side of things, like bidding on contracts and stuff like that, join a contracting company and become a subcontractor. They find the work and contract you out, and take a cut of what they charge the client. You'll still make more - a lot more - than a salaried position. And you have the option of taking a lot more time off too.
Actually, even Canada's rural areas far from the border get good broadband. Your argument doesn't hold. It's really only the truly remote, hard to reach places that are still on dial-up or slow dsl.
For those of us that actually have to, you know, do work and be productive, konsole is a godsend. Feel free to sit at home with an xterm open and be cool, though.
Yeah, it would be cool to have, but to transfer files you seem to need a modem or RS-232 port, and the MacBooks don't have those. Plus the transfer software seems to be Windows (actually DOS) only. A bit sad, since it would be a handy thing to have sometimes when traveling, but only if I could upload my text somehow at internet cafes or whatever. I really wish a similar form-factor machine - full-sized keyboard made for typing, text-oriented display, tons of uptime on just a few AA batteries, USB ports for plugging a memory key into - would hit the market.
Anyway, thanks for the offer! And I would say it is worth something - check out that club100 site for used Model 100 prices.
To be perfectly honest, the keyboard on those old Model 100s is nearly unbeatable. They just don't build 'em like they used to - my MacBook has chiclets!
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So, is it my fault or M$'s fault your system is hosed if I flip the switch while you try to power up your mighty NT box?
I don't have an NT box that I use regularly. I was simply correcting an erroneous remark.NTFS is a journaling file system, and it has been since the early Windows NT days.
Win2K SP4 lives on an old laptop of mine, and works just great. So I guess it's a viable desktop option for some of us. It feels snappier than XP to me, but who knows.
I'm not an OS X troll. I have a Gentoo desktop, a MacBook, a RHEL install, and the Windows laptop I mentioned, and they all get regular use right now for the big project I'm working on. For the average consumer, OS X is the killer, hands down.
Actually, both Windows and Linux suck on the desktop (although Windows 2000 is okay, and KDE 4 should go a long way towards rectifying the situation on Linux). The only option for this editor is OS X, the world's best consumer desktop operating system.
(Unless you're into games).
No. You have a very poor understanding of quantum physics. There is no way, even theoretically, that nuclear decay can be traced back to any external cause. It is true randomness, and to look for "cause" is not possible. Very likely, the whole question of causality is meaningless in such a case.
I asked ESR about it, but he started shooting at me.
Nuclear decay is objective proof of randomness. So is quantum electrodynamics.
It's a Flash web app, so I think that's a safe call.
Agreed, the last Windows development I did was some years ago, but even then VC++ and later Visual Studio got kind of annoying. But their debugger really is good, and very fast too even on crappy hardware.
I think it's probably hard to design an IDE that appeals to everyone. Clearly VS appeals to some wide developer demographic, or else it wouldn't be the success that it is. But there will always be those who write and compile everything manually, and if they hop into an IDE at all, it's to use the debugger (for Java development, I debug in IDEA, and it's pretty sweet. I'd never actually edit code in it, though).
Okay, so your assertion of fact was really just an enormous assumption. Thanks for the clarification.
"...but the M$ campus gets hacked all the time."
Do you have evidence for this? Particularly for the "all the time" part.
Lots of proprietary software runs just fine on Linux, including drivers, without violating the GPL. VMWare's ESX Server is sort of a special case as people seem to think a part of the product is itself derived from Linux. "Derived from Linux" is not the same as "running on Linux".
Their social safety net has lasted more than a generation already, and it hasn't broken the bank. Something tells me the central bankers and finance ministers of the Netherlands are smarter than you are, "pal".
In all fairness, it's not really socialism - none of the countries mentioned (Netherlands, Canada, Scandinavian countries, etc.) have command economies, state ownership of property, and so forth. A lot of Americans seem to think that a national health care system automatically equals gray concrete walls and red stars, but it's not so.
On the other hand, the U.S. is still the best place to go and start a business, thanks in no small part to their labour mobility (easier to hire and fire).
Not the Netherlands - they have a +$45 billion trade balance and a budget surplus. Financially, they are golden. The only G7 country that is in similarly great financial shape is Canada.
?? Superphoenix dates from the '60s and was the target of a terrorist attack. Other than that, it worked. I don't understand your argument - technology in many areas of life has improved markedly since then, in case you haven't noticed.
The "slashdot audience" is mostly non-programmers who have convinced themselves they belong to an open source "community" and students who have never written a single line of production code in their lives. So it's no surprise that they are a tough sell, since they generally have no idea what you're talking about.
Someone mod parent up. And before anyone mods it down, please go read up on fast breeder reactors.
"Become a contractor."
Absolutely correct. And if you hate the whole business side of things, like bidding on contracts and stuff like that, join a contracting company and become a subcontractor. They find the work and contract you out, and take a cut of what they charge the client. You'll still make more - a lot more - than a salaried position. And you have the option of taking a lot more time off too.
Your comment is utterly, absolutely, batshit crazy. Disconnected from reality doesn't even begin to cover it.
Actually, even Canada's rural areas far from the border get good broadband. Your argument doesn't hold. It's really only the truly remote, hard to reach places that are still on dial-up or slow dsl.
For those of us that actually have to, you know, do work and be productive, konsole is a godsend. Feel free to sit at home with an xterm open and be cool, though.
Yeah, it would be cool to have, but to transfer files you seem to need a modem or RS-232 port, and the MacBooks don't have those. Plus the transfer software seems to be Windows (actually DOS) only. A bit sad, since it would be a handy thing to have sometimes when traveling, but only if I could upload my text somehow at internet cafes or whatever. I really wish a similar form-factor machine - full-sized keyboard made for typing, text-oriented display, tons of uptime on just a few AA batteries, USB ports for plugging a memory key into - would hit the market.
Anyway, thanks for the offer! And I would say it is worth something - check out that club100 site for used Model 100 prices.
Well, that is very tempting offer, but I'm kind of unsure how I'd hook it up to my MacBook to move text off of it. Also, I hear it has a Y2K bug?
To be perfectly honest, the keyboard on those old Model 100s is nearly unbeatable. They just don't build 'em like they used to - my MacBook has chiclets!