Do you work for Apple or something? Just curious. You seem pretty knowledgeable about the innards of OS X, and downright fanatical about defending/promoting the company. Now don't get all defensive; I'm just asking.
I run Debian unstable, upgraded from some old Knoppix install. Here are the disadvantages of Debian:
1. Nothing except the stable branch gets security updates. 2. Apt is no longer the best package tool (portage is). 3. SuSE has dependency resolution. In fact, practically every distro does - even Slackware. So apt is no longer the huge advantage it once was. 4. It takes a long time for stuff to make it into unstable these days. Every KDE release, I have to wait literally months for things to finally be ready. 5. Everything is compiled for 386 binaries. It's a minor beef, but hey. 6. They don't have a desktop focus at all. In fact, every Debian desktop layout kind of sucks. 7. They make strange and unfriendly decisions - like, MPPE isn't built into the kernel by default, so to connect to a Microsoft VPN server using PPTP, you have to patch and rebuild the kernel. It's a minor thing, but still a pain. Practically every real desktop ships with MPPE in the kernel, and VPN works out of the box, as it should.
So, given all this, once I get really and truly fed up with Debian, I'm switching to something else less cumbersome.
Well, it's really one of those issues that will never be settled in any definitive, "hard" way. Western society has dictated that abortion is okay, for the most part, and the same with things like embryonic stem cells used in research. Personally, I'm happy about this, and I anticipate even more forward-looking social policies.
It's like the death penalty. Both sides make their points, and it comes down to the values of society as a whole, and the price its members are willing to pay for the sort of society in which they wish to live.
The consensus of society is that it's okay to delete those "couple of cells", because the needs of the rest of us do indeed outweigh those of the embryo.
Anime has some great storylines, mindblowing ideas, and awesome still artwork. But for North American audiences, the animation just doesn't cut it. The framerates are way too low.
Also, they suffer from goofy, cliched characters, but I guess that's a cultural foible - kind of like the cringe-inducing "humour".
True, true. You can get the multi-machine functionality. But my situation is this: I work at home a lot, and want access to the graphical apps on my work machine from my home machine (both running KDE). I can't do it. TightVNC doesn't cut it, either.
For my particular use case, it's the same thing as connecting with WTS. Your use case (multiple machines on a LAN) is different.
You make a good point about FreeNX. I know it's in KDE somehow; I should look at setting it up. Thanks for the reminder.
Why not compare the two? I want to run an app (say, Kate) at home, to edit some files. I open konsole, type ssh -Y etc., then type kate&. Okay, there it is, but it's slow as hell.
I connect to a Windows XP box at work from my Windows laptop. Bingo, I can do what I want at near-native speed. Sure, it shows the whole desktop and not just individual apps, but I don't care. I just want to get some work done.
Windows Terminal Services is much faster than X over the network. Try running graphical applications from a remote location (i.e. over the internet) and see how horrible it is. On Windows, it's not a problem.
So sure, network transparency is great. But what good is it if it doesn't work very well?
Why not give up the ad hominems, and actually read the question? Since when are cows meat eaters? Or chickens? Yet both are fed feed made from their own species. It's been shown that such forced cannibalism is a vector for mad cow disease, among others.
Or, wait a second...your impossibly stupid reply is just that, impossibly stupid. You're trolling.
I was there for four months once, and I met nothing but good people. Mind you, France is the most heavily touristed country in the world, so it stands to reason some might get sick of people walking up to them and blabbering in English. If you speak French, even a bit, it makes an enormous difference.
Java is huge on the server-side. Visit IBM's WebSphere site sometime to see a list of their clients. It pays off, all right, a lot more than your little desktop apps ever will.
Java never made much of an impact on the desktop. It's too bad, because there are nice KDE bindings for Java.
Well, I meant the ones who want to emigrate because they disagree with war-mongering in the first place...
It's less expensive to us to allow native English speakers to immigrate. And, at least in Vancouver, there is serious balkanization between cultures that refuse to integrate (notably the Chinese).
Actually, the highest-quality immigrants Canada ever had were the Vietnam draft-dodgers and so forth that came here in the '60s and '70s. Their legacy is still being felt, as the town of Nelson, B.C. recently found out (they tried to erect a monument to the U.S. war dissenters who settled there, but were bombarded with huge, angry letter-writing campaigns from the U.S. - and Fox News, of course. So they cancelled the idea).
I mean, honestly, can you imagine a better group of immigrants than young, educated, peaceful, English-speakers? I can't.
For all those who responded to this troll, David Frum (the real one) is a right-wing, ex-Canadian blowhard who went on to write for the National Review, authored the book "An End to Evil", and (I believe) wrote many of George Bush's speeches.
Is your phone number in the phone book? Great! Then you won't mind if I phone you 300 times a day to sell you penis enlargement pills.
You shouldn't have to hide information that is useful for others to legitimately contact you so that it won't be abused by advertisers and sleazy marketers.
First: learn about the carbon cycle, since it appears you don't know what it is.
Second: learn some humility. You have zero training in this stuff. Do you think PhDs in climatic sciences are earned by performing "back of the napkin calculations"? Good lord. It's like saying you've done some quick figuring, and by god that sun up in the sky is due to burn out any minute!
Shut up, and stop bringing your dumb-assed politics into it. Slashdot is visited by people from all over the world, and you are likely being moderated by people who have no idea what your political affiliations are. So stop crying, and accept the fact that most of your posts are nothing but uneducated noise.
You're entirely correct. There's no FPU in these chips, right up to and including the au1550. If you want floating point, you have to do it in software. It's gross and slow, by the way.
You are the one full of shit, actually. No one uses GTK+ for anything except Gnome. Qt is used for lots of stuff.
Qt licenses are a small price for any large corp., next to overall dev costs. Somehow, I don't think you've done much real-life development. If I'm wrong, sorry.
Finally, Qt is GPL'd. That means it's protected from proprietary ravages, unlike, say, ASP.NET. So no, it's not a marketing gimmick; grow up.
1. How many commercial apps are written in Qt? 2. How many in GTK+?
Answers:
1. Many. 2. None.
As for Gnome and KDE being obsolete, well, that's a rather strong way of putting it. Both will continue to evolve, and in the long run, will probably have some sort of managed code core as a development option. But I doubt you'll see the end of native code in those desktops for a very long time to come.
It's good for parsing log files and stuff. But that's about it.
If you're going to write something big, that needs to be developed by a team and maintained by who knows who, then you need something with a clear syntax, proper objects, and so forth.
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Do you work for Apple or something? Just curious. You seem pretty knowledgeable about the innards of OS X, and downright fanatical about defending/promoting the company. Now don't get all defensive; I'm just asking.
No, because society doesn't condone it. That was the point of my post, dummy.
I run Debian unstable, upgraded from some old Knoppix install. Here are the disadvantages of Debian:
1. Nothing except the stable branch gets security updates.
2. Apt is no longer the best package tool (portage is).
3. SuSE has dependency resolution. In fact, practically every distro does - even Slackware. So apt is no longer the huge advantage it once was.
4. It takes a long time for stuff to make it into unstable these days. Every KDE release, I have to wait literally months for things to finally be ready.
5. Everything is compiled for 386 binaries. It's a minor beef, but hey.
6. They don't have a desktop focus at all. In fact, every Debian desktop layout kind of sucks.
7. They make strange and unfriendly decisions - like, MPPE isn't built into the kernel by default, so to connect to a Microsoft VPN server using PPTP, you have to patch and rebuild the kernel. It's a minor thing, but still a pain. Practically every real desktop ships with MPPE in the kernel, and VPN works out of the box, as it should.
So, given all this, once I get really and truly fed up with Debian, I'm switching to something else less cumbersome.
Well, it's really one of those issues that will never be settled in any definitive, "hard" way. Western society has dictated that abortion is okay, for the most part, and the same with things like embryonic stem cells used in research. Personally, I'm happy about this, and I anticipate even more forward-looking social policies.
It's like the death penalty. Both sides make their points, and it comes down to the values of society as a whole, and the price its members are willing to pay for the sort of society in which they wish to live.
The consensus of society is that it's okay to delete those "couple of cells", because the needs of the rest of us do indeed outweigh those of the embryo.
Anime has some great storylines, mindblowing ideas, and awesome still artwork. But for North American audiences, the animation just doesn't cut it. The framerates are way too low.
Also, they suffer from goofy, cliched characters, but I guess that's a cultural foible - kind of like the cringe-inducing "humour".
True, true. You can get the multi-machine functionality. But my situation is this: I work at home a lot, and want access to the graphical apps on my work machine from my home machine (both running KDE). I can't do it. TightVNC doesn't cut it, either.
For my particular use case, it's the same thing as connecting with WTS. Your use case (multiple machines on a LAN) is different.
You make a good point about FreeNX. I know it's in KDE somehow; I should look at setting it up. Thanks for the reminder.
Why not compare the two? I want to run an app (say, Kate) at home, to edit some files. I open konsole, type ssh -Y etc., then type kate&. Okay, there it is, but it's slow as hell.
I connect to a Windows XP box at work from my Windows laptop. Bingo, I can do what I want at near-native speed. Sure, it shows the whole desktop and not just individual apps, but I don't care. I just want to get some work done.
Microsoft's RDP stuff just walks on X.
Windows Terminal Services is much faster than X over the network. Try running graphical applications from a remote location (i.e. over the internet) and see how horrible it is. On Windows, it's not a problem.
So sure, network transparency is great. But what good is it if it doesn't work very well?
Why not give up the ad hominems, and actually read the question? Since when are cows meat eaters? Or chickens? Yet both are fed feed made from their own species. It's been shown that such forced cannibalism is a vector for mad cow disease, among others.
Or, wait a second...your impossibly stupid reply is just that, impossibly stupid. You're trolling.
"Yes, but this is not a turkey-specific process."
That's one phrase I never thought I'd ever see.
I was there for four months once, and I met nothing but good people. Mind you, France is the most heavily touristed country in the world, so it stands to reason some might get sick of people walking up to them and blabbering in English. If you speak French, even a bit, it makes an enormous difference.
Java is huge on the server-side. Visit IBM's WebSphere site sometime to see a list of their clients. It pays off, all right, a lot more than your little desktop apps ever will.
Java never made much of an impact on the desktop. It's too bad, because there are nice KDE bindings for Java.
Well, I meant the ones who want to emigrate because they disagree with war-mongering in the first place...
It's less expensive to us to allow native English speakers to immigrate. And, at least in Vancouver, there is serious balkanization between cultures that refuse to integrate (notably the Chinese).
Actually, the highest-quality immigrants Canada ever had were the Vietnam draft-dodgers and so forth that came here in the '60s and '70s. Their legacy is still being felt, as the town of Nelson, B.C. recently found out (they tried to erect a monument to the U.S. war dissenters who settled there, but were bombarded with huge, angry letter-writing campaigns from the U.S. - and Fox News, of course. So they cancelled the idea).
I mean, honestly, can you imagine a better group of immigrants than young, educated, peaceful, English-speakers? I can't.
Hahaha! Nice job.
For all those who responded to this troll, David Frum (the real one) is a right-wing, ex-Canadian blowhard who went on to write for the National Review, authored the book "An End to Evil", and (I believe) wrote many of George Bush's speeches.
Is your phone number in the phone book? Great! Then you won't mind if I phone you 300 times a day to sell you penis enlargement pills.
You shouldn't have to hide information that is useful for others to legitimately contact you so that it won't be abused by advertisers and sleazy marketers.
Well, you're very, very wrong.
First: learn about the carbon cycle, since it appears you don't know what it is.
Second: learn some humility. You have zero training in this stuff. Do you think PhDs in climatic sciences are earned by performing "back of the napkin calculations"? Good lord. It's like saying you've done some quick figuring, and by god that sun up in the sky is due to burn out any minute!
Third: ideology science.
Shut up, and stop bringing your dumb-assed politics into it. Slashdot is visited by people from all over the world, and you are likely being moderated by people who have no idea what your political affiliations are. So stop crying, and accept the fact that most of your posts are nothing but uneducated noise.
You're entirely correct. There's no FPU in these chips, right up to and including the au1550. If you want floating point, you have to do it in software. It's gross and slow, by the way.
You are the one full of shit, actually. No one uses GTK+ for anything except Gnome. Qt is used for lots of stuff.
Qt licenses are a small price for any large corp., next to overall dev costs. Somehow, I don't think you've done much real-life development. If I'm wrong, sorry.
Finally, Qt is GPL'd. That means it's protected from proprietary ravages, unlike, say, ASP.NET. So no, it's not a marketing gimmick; grow up.
Use the real world as a demonstration.
1. How many commercial apps are written in Qt?
2. How many in GTK+?
Answers:
1. Many.
2. None.
As for Gnome and KDE being obsolete, well, that's a rather strong way of putting it. Both will continue to evolve, and in the long run, will probably have some sort of managed code core as a development option. But I doubt you'll see the end of native code in those desktops for a very long time to come.
Persona non grata, not gratis.
Yes, now all you need is an infinite stack frame...
It's good for parsing log files and stuff. But that's about it.
If you're going to write something big, that needs to be developed by a team and maintained by who knows who, then you need something with a clear syntax, proper objects, and so forth.
In short, you need Python.
Why? It is a perfectly innocuous comment. As another poster remarked, it seems that you would be better served by Yahoo's technology section.
Personally, I like hearing the editor's opinions once in a while.