Ahem:
When was the last time you looked at Swing. Swing is very good performancewise nowdays.
As for look and feels. In Windows and OSX, the skinning data is used from the underlying os, so nowadays in XP and Vista you will get excellent look and feel coverage (JDK6 that is)
Same goes for the mac.
the main problem is still Linux/Unix and the GTK2 themes.
As for other skins than the default one, Swing has been skinnable from day 1, there are several different look and feels out there in the wild, I guess google is your friend.
Besides that the current default L&F does not look too shabby anymore, it looks quite nice.
The main problem here is different, Apple, Acer, Gateway, Dell, HP, they are all brands, thats it, the manufacturing itself is done by some third party OEMs like Asus in asia, and the machines are just manufactured according to the specs of the respective company, so even if Acer has bought gateway, it wont make too much of a difference, the only one probably being a shift in the OEM supplier of the Laptop.
Actually I am not sure about Britain, but here in central Europe you get emergency surgery basically instantly as soon as you hit the hospital,they make no difference, the main difference between private insurance and a public one here is that you either end up with 5 other people in a room or alone or one guy/woman.
Problem with the arm stuff is, you cannot get it from retail for a decent price, the via boards at least are available. I agree arm is an excellent solution, and used probably more widely than x86 in sheer numbers, but the problem is it is almost non existent on the pc side of things, the few boards you can get cost a fortune compared to their via counterparts, and while via even is somewhat slower than arm you still have full x86 compatibility and board and processor availability.
This is somewhat the same problem powerpc nowadays have, you still can get the boards but they cost way more than their x86 counterparts in retail!
I cannot really say it is funny, a friend of mine has this disease, I must say it is one of the most terrible things I have ever seen. What happens is that your physical condition goes gradually down (so does your mental condition to some degrees in the later stages) this is endless suffering for decades.
I am not sure which disease is the worst, but MS is definitely a candidate for worst disease!
With all due respect, but if C++ would not have been invented we all would be using
objective C and be way happier, the language is the classical example of ignoring any sanity in language design.
As for commercial developers, without C++ all C++ gurus now would be ObjectiveC gurus.;-)
This is a common symbol used by the crusaders, btw... I rather doubt that any templar will jump into a courtcase, the templars are a thing of the past, lost in time.
Ahem functional programming is programming rolled back into the sixties, every sense of modern system architecture (aka namespaces, procedures as void functions, objects etc...) being killed and the systems designed with the possibilities you had in the sixties but with 10 times the hype behind it.
Btw. did it ever come to your senses why so many functional languages once they moved out of the ivory tower have added all those constructs and then basically ended up as yet another oo language?
Actually speaking of swizerland where one of the companies is located. I live in Austria, and I recently read that that in an area in swizerland they had an earthquake shortly after they did some testing on geothermal energy production.
Coincidence?
printers are safe from testing, due to the fact that their replaceable material probably is so expensive that the researchers couldnt afford it to test. Either that or they have been sued upfront into the ground
by infringing on a patent for testing a device which is able to put something on paper.
The printers probably were cheap though;-)
Just so you know, there is an ability to run nautilus with the old interface "nautilus --no-desktop --browser" from the command line. So, you can update the Nautilus entry in a menu to reflect that line. Just wanted to clarify on that.
Actually that does not really solve the issues which I had with the trimming down of nautilus, nautilus lost its splitting and tabbing capabilities between version 1 and 2, which is basically the most useful feature I think a filemanager who has to do serious work can do. I havent had a look at it in a long time, but I think it had bookmarking as well and it also was removed.
The main problem I have with this is, that those three functions are the main reasons why I use windows commander and why I use konqueror (well add to that the easy protocol handling into ssh, ftp, etc... you name it as vfs)
Sorry for the formatting, I forgot to change from html to text formatting.
Anyway, to what I wanted to say. Gnome between 1 and 2 took a steep dive to the worse. The main problem I have with gnome is simply twofold.
The project started as a Win32 wannabe (typical Icszaza Project) and you still can see that left and right. The apis are 10 times harder to utilize and feel more like hodge podge as Windows does. The concepts in 1.0 were windows alike, in 2.0 they started to move towards MacOS8 usabilitywise, but didnt make it, it actually felt way worse.
The approach the gnome project follows, if a user cannot understand something, then lets remove it without any possibility to get it back is simply wrong. Torvalds called this approach User Interface nazis.
Ok the mileage may vary, but I personally feel locked in if I use gnome, and many people, whom I know do the same, solution kick gnome switch to kde. While KDE is not perfect, they are in a way better direction from a long term usability standpoint. They are somewhat hodge podge in the user interface, but, they are in the long term process of cleaning everything up without reducing the functionalities loved by so many users.
Here is an example: The old configuration view was a mess, they moved to a layered system which gave sane macro settings and then once you klicked onto the macro settings you got into the micro areas (which also were cleaned up) web like. Everthing was cleaned up but yet no functionality was cut down, they even left the option to switch to the old system.
The same happens now with Dolphin and konqueror, Konqueror still is there, but it is not the sane default anymore. I personally would miss konqueror to a huge degree, no other file manager on any system has its flexibility, its own fault simply was you had to learn to use it, because its user interface was not slick. But on the other hand, compared to Finder or Nautilus, Explorer or whatever you name it, the thing really deserved the title file manager. On the other hand Nautilus while becoming faster took a huge nosedive in its usefulness when being moved from the old 1.0 naultilus (which was not more usable than the windows explorer and dreadfully slow) to the spatial 2.0, without any possibility to fall back at least on the 1.0 user interface!
Btw. besides konqueror I only know one filemanager which comes close to its usefulness, Total Commander on windows, all others fall flat on their faces. But both have the problem, you really have to learn to use them:-)
The same goes down on the API level, the KDE api is one of the cleanest I have ever seen, second to none, everything purely oo, everything purely component oriented highly flexible. Gnome on the other hand started as an approach to build a system on a win32 lookalike which is broken in itself, then they started to clone ole with bonobo, while ole never really was working bonobo also wasnt and it inherited the problems of ole, being way too complicated being not adopted out of exactly those reasons, trying to push corba down as a transport layer. 2-3 years before KDE kicked corba out of usability and performance reasons, well gnome repeated history, they than finally took the concepts kde implemented pushed it down on freedesktop and let kde reimplement them again so that both communication object layers become somewhat compatible, see the entire problem.
Anyway kudos to the KDE people for their hard work, they really push technology forward!
I have yet to meet a single person who really likes the user interface of Gnome, sorry, but it is like that, everyone I know switches to kde as soon as ubuntu is installed.
Anyway, as for lean, kde has done a lot of improvement in the past, compare both desktops and kde feels snappy why gnome, while not being the useless bloated pig it used to be feels still sluggish compared to it.
As for the rest, the kparts, kobject infrastructure is consistent, well defined one of the cleanest apis I have seen. Gnome started as a Win32 wannabe project, and it still suffers from that syndrome, it has become better, but still.
As for the usability, kde is improving, it still has some areas to catch up, but fortunately it does not follow gnomes approach of taking everything away, but trying to get to saner defaults, and then let the users decide what to add.
Even the move to a new file manager in kde4 is not the ultimat we shove it down the users throat thing, lots of users are very happy with the flexibility of konquerer, and it still will be there.
The sony umd movie recording format
on
The DRM Scorecard
·
· Score: 2, Funny
has not been cracked, but the only reason for this is, that there is no real incentive to do so, because all the movies are on DVD anyway, which is by now an "open" format.
New player? Sheesh, if anything Linux is the new kid on the block...
Anyway, this is good news for solaris, there are two problems with solaris currently,
it is missing a debian like approach to packaging, and it is missing a lot of drivers
(which is mostly a desktop issue)
seems like Sun is tackeling at least one of the holes in Solaris, I just expected
that when the announcement came, that they hired Murdock.
As for the drivers, this issue will be resolved over time.
Problem is that the average houshold income has to be counted after the enforced taxation, I rather doubt that the average british houshold gets 55.000 USD per year after taxes, it is more likely half of that or 2/3rd and then if you count in the sony price of 820USD for the cheap model you suddenly are at 2.5% of the average income.
I am sure the numbers are also in the US a little bit more but due to less average taxation you run into probably something like 1.4 or so.
2.5 of your average spending budget after tax is a lot!
sales boost was less caused by the price cut but more along the lines of finally having an "open" firmware again...
It was funny that a certain game jumped within one week from #53 to #1 in the sales charts.
Actually memory issues are not really that much in java, but catching them once being done is hard,
you basically have to compare time snapshots of the heap to find out the affecting memory leak area, and this is something which is rather nasty.
Of course such errors do not occur very often, but lousy programmers even manage to produce mem leaks in an enviroment which has weak and soft references and well working garbage collectors.
Well the biological aspects aside (which are obvious to anyone in the northern hemisphere),
sex with a relative used to be quite a common phenomenon and still is in certain societies.
The classical example for this in our societies history is the classical inbreeding
of the so called blue blood, which in the end resulted in a degenaration and inherited siknesses among
our "beloved" former overlords.
Moral values probably is one of the most diversive things on this planet.
Enforce the broken US patent system in the rest of the world;-)
I just wonder how long it will take until the USA has to pay a lot for foreign patents.
I personally give it 10 years!
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Ahem: When was the last time you looked at Swing. Swing is very good performancewise nowdays. As for look and feels. In Windows and OSX, the skinning data is used from the underlying os, so nowadays in XP and Vista you will get excellent look and feel coverage (JDK6 that is) Same goes for the mac.
the main problem is still Linux/Unix and the GTK2 themes. As for other skins than the default one, Swing has been skinnable from day 1, there are several different look and feels out there in the wild, I guess google is your friend.
Besides that the current default L&F does not look too shabby anymore, it looks quite nice.
The main problem here is different, Apple, Acer, Gateway, Dell, HP, they are all brands, thats it, the manufacturing itself is done by some third party OEMs like Asus in asia, and the machines are just manufactured according to the specs of the respective company, so even if Acer has bought gateway, it wont make too much of a difference, the only one probably being a shift in the OEM supplier of the Laptop.
Actually I am not sure about Britain, but here in central Europe you get emergency surgery basically instantly as soon as you hit the hospital,they make no difference, the main difference between private insurance and a public one here is that you either end up with 5 other people in a room or alone or one guy/woman.
We europeans pay around 700-900 USD for the PS3
Problem with the arm stuff is, you cannot get it from retail for a decent price, the via boards at least are available. I agree arm is an excellent solution, and used probably more widely than x86 in sheer numbers, but the problem is it is almost non existent on the pc side of things, the few boards you can get cost a fortune compared to their via counterparts, and while via even is somewhat slower than arm you still have full x86 compatibility and board and processor availability. This is somewhat the same problem powerpc nowadays have, you still can get the boards but they cost way more than their x86 counterparts in retail!
I cannot really say it is funny, a friend of mine has this disease, I must say it is one of the most terrible things I have ever seen. What happens is that your physical condition goes gradually down (so does your mental condition to some degrees in the later stages)
this is endless suffering for decades.
I am not sure which disease is the worst, but MS is definitely a candidate for worst disease!
With all due respect, but if C++ would not have been invented we all would be using objective C and be way happier, the language is the classical example of ignoring any sanity in language design. As for commercial developers, without C++ all C++ gurus now would be ObjectiveC gurus. ;-)
This is a common symbol used by the crusaders, btw... I rather doubt that any templar will jump into a courtcase, the templars are a thing of the past, lost in time.
J&J sued the vatican and the city of Rome for its usage of the cross symbol :-)
Ahem functional programming is programming rolled back into the sixties, every sense of modern system architecture (aka namespaces, procedures as void functions, objects etc...) being killed and the systems designed with the possibilities you had in the sixties but with 10 times the hype behind it.
Btw. did it ever come to your senses why so many functional languages once they moved out of the ivory tower have added all those constructs and then basically ended up as yet another oo language?
Actually speaking of swizerland where one of the companies is located. I live in Austria, and I recently read that that in an area in swizerland they had an earthquake shortly after they did some testing on geothermal energy production. Coincidence?
printers are safe from testing, due to the fact that their replaceable material probably is so expensive that the researchers couldnt afford it to test. Either that or they have been sued upfront into the ground by infringing on a patent for testing a device which is able to put something on paper. The printers probably were cheap though ;-)
Just so you know, there is an ability to run nautilus with the old interface "nautilus --no-desktop --browser" from the command line. So, you can update the Nautilus entry in a menu to reflect that line. Just wanted to clarify on that. Actually that does not really solve the issues which I had with the trimming down of nautilus, nautilus lost its splitting and tabbing capabilities between version 1 and 2, which is basically the most useful feature I think a filemanager who has to do serious work can do. I havent had a look at it in a long time, but I think it had bookmarking as well and it also was removed.
The main problem I have with this is, that those three functions are the main reasons why I use windows commander and why I use konqueror (well add to that the easy protocol handling into ssh, ftp, etc... you name it as vfs)
Sorry for the formatting, I forgot to change from html to text formatting.
:-)
Anyway, to what I wanted to say. Gnome between 1 and 2 took a steep dive to the worse.
The main problem I have with gnome is simply twofold.
The project started as a Win32 wannabe (typical Icszaza Project) and you still can see that left and right. The apis are 10 times harder to utilize and feel more like hodge podge as Windows does.
The concepts in 1.0 were windows alike, in 2.0 they started to move towards MacOS8 usabilitywise, but didnt make it, it actually felt way worse.
The approach the gnome project follows, if a user cannot understand something, then lets remove it without any possibility to get it back is simply wrong. Torvalds called this approach User Interface nazis.
Ok the mileage may vary, but I personally feel locked in if I use gnome, and many people, whom I know do the same, solution kick gnome switch to kde. While KDE is not perfect, they are in a way better direction from a long term usability standpoint. They are somewhat hodge podge in the user interface, but, they are in the long term process of cleaning everything up without reducing the functionalities loved by so many users.
Here is an example:
The old configuration view was a mess, they moved to a layered system which gave sane macro settings and then once you klicked onto the macro settings you got into the micro areas (which also were cleaned up) web like. Everthing was cleaned up but yet no functionality was cut down, they even left the option to switch to the old system.
The same happens now with Dolphin and konqueror, Konqueror still is there, but it is not the sane default anymore. I personally would miss konqueror to a huge degree, no other file manager on any system has its flexibility, its own fault simply was you had to learn to use it, because its user interface was not slick. But on the other hand, compared to Finder or Nautilus, Explorer or whatever you name it, the thing really deserved the title file manager.
On the other hand Nautilus while becoming faster took a huge nosedive in its usefulness when being moved from the old 1.0 naultilus (which was not more usable than the windows explorer and dreadfully slow) to the spatial 2.0, without any possibility to fall back at least on the 1.0 user interface!
Btw. besides konqueror I only know one filemanager which comes close to its usefulness, Total Commander on windows, all others fall flat on their faces. But both have the problem, you really have to learn to use them
The same goes down on the API level, the KDE api is one of the cleanest I have ever seen, second to none, everything purely oo, everything purely component oriented highly flexible. Gnome on the other hand started as an approach to build a system on a win32 lookalike which is broken in itself, then they started to clone ole with bonobo, while ole never really was working bonobo also wasnt and it inherited the problems of ole, being way too complicated being not adopted out of exactly those reasons, trying to push corba down as a transport layer. 2-3 years before KDE kicked corba out of usability and performance reasons, well gnome repeated history, they than finally took the concepts kde implemented pushed it down on freedesktop and let kde reimplement them again so that both communication object layers become somewhat compatible, see the entire problem.
Anyway kudos to the KDE people for their hard work, they really push technology forward!
I have yet to meet a single person who really likes the user interface of Gnome, sorry, but it is like that, everyone I know switches to kde as soon as ubuntu is installed. Anyway, as for lean, kde has done a lot of improvement in the past, compare both desktops and kde feels snappy why gnome, while not being the useless bloated pig it used to be feels still sluggish compared to it. As for the rest, the kparts, kobject infrastructure is consistent, well defined one of the cleanest apis I have seen. Gnome started as a Win32 wannabe project, and it still suffers from that syndrome, it has become better, but still. As for the usability, kde is improving, it still has some areas to catch up, but fortunately it does not follow gnomes approach of taking everything away, but trying to get to saner defaults, and then let the users decide what to add. Even the move to a new file manager in kde4 is not the ultimat we shove it down the users throat thing, lots of users are very happy with the flexibility of konquerer, and it still will be there.
has not been cracked, but the only reason for this is, that there is no real incentive to do so, because all the movies are on DVD anyway, which is by now an "open" format.
Did THEY rename Duke Nukem Forever?
New player? Sheesh, if anything Linux is the new kid on the block... Anyway, this is good news for solaris, there are two problems with solaris currently, it is missing a debian like approach to packaging, and it is missing a lot of drivers (which is mostly a desktop issue) seems like Sun is tackeling at least one of the holes in Solaris, I just expected that when the announcement came, that they hired Murdock. As for the drivers, this issue will be resolved over time.
Problem is that the average houshold income has to be counted after the enforced taxation, I rather doubt that the average british houshold gets 55.000 USD per year after taxes, it is more likely half of that or 2/3rd and then if you count in the sony price of 820USD for the cheap model you suddenly are at 2.5% of the average income. I am sure the numbers are also in the US a little bit more but due to less average taxation you run into probably something like 1.4 or so. 2.5 of your average spending budget after tax is a lot!
Atari... Killed by.... ET not really but funny enough ;-)
Decent music... oh well... it existed until the early 70s...
sales boost was less caused by the price cut but more along the lines of finally having an "open" firmware again... It was funny that a certain game jumped within one week from #53 to #1 in the sales charts.
Actually memory issues are not really that much in java, but catching them once being done is hard, you basically have to compare time snapshots of the heap to find out the affecting memory leak area, and this is something which is rather nasty. Of course such errors do not occur very often, but lousy programmers even manage to produce mem leaks in an enviroment which has weak and soft references and well working garbage collectors.
Well the biological aspects aside (which are obvious to anyone in the northern hemisphere), sex with a relative used to be quite a common phenomenon and still is in certain societies. The classical example for this in our societies history is the classical inbreeding of the so called blue blood, which in the end resulted in a degenaration and inherited siknesses among our "beloved" former overlords. Moral values probably is one of the most diversive things on this planet.
Enforce the broken US patent system in the rest of the world ;-)
I just wonder how long it will take until the USA has to pay a lot for foreign patents.
I personally give it 10 years!