The University of Durham (UK) have a research group concentrating on the area of conceptual modelling through visualisation. There's some papers and so on here:
...yet the testers don't like the copy&paste method used by KDE and recommend Windows for the desktops.
Choosing a desktop on the basis of a copy and paste model. I thought people got their priorities wrong but this takes the biscuit. Copy and paste vs free and more stable...
Just out of interest - how easy would it be to port a windows-style copy and paste model to KDE? I thought the KDE UI was relatively customisable in this sort of area so implementing such a feature would be relatively easy. Then again, I could be completely wrong.
Clawhammer supports either single processor or dual processor operation. Sledgehammer supports 4 and 8 way multiprocessing.
I plan to get a 2 processor Clawhammer box myself, it's the only reason I haven't upgraded for the past year. I'm bored of having a mainstream PC (P3 550MHz, don't ask...) after using a StrongARM/NetBSD box for a few years. Time for something novel and exciting - dual processor new fangled chip sounds like just the thing...
I'm starting to use Haskell more - it has dozens of modules to support GUIs, IO etc. and as with most FP languages has the wonderful property of 'if it compiles it's probably right'. IMO the laziness is great, in places it allows for efficient code to be written whilst allowing code to be clearly separated into chunks which are easy to reason about.
For example, say you had a function which performed a series of calculations and returned an list of integers. You then wanted to know what the first of these numbers was. The haskell statement for this is:
head yourFunction
Unlike Java/C++ the whole of 'yourFunction' isn't evaluated, just enough to generate the first element, as that is all that is required. It isn't necessary to write a function which specifically works out just the first element with the minimum amount of work. Well, this example is trivial but you can imagine this has many time saving / code simplifying advantages.
Strangely enough, Haskell is nothing like any of the mentioned programming languages...
Looks good, anything which convinces consumers 'it's not all that different to use' can hardly be a bad thing IMO.
A wise man once said 'People have an irrational like of rubbish'. Hence Windows is very popular. So if Lycoris can get people to transfer onto Linux by making it 'just like Windows' and then gradually point out its other benefits it should make good progress in the Linux desktop market.
In the UK we pay £10 for the phone line and £14.99 a month for an unmetered internet dial-up account with BT. £24.99 is about 58 canadian dollars, more than the cost of DSL in Canada.
ADSL in the UK is currently at 93 Canadian dollars for 512/128 with possible plans to reduce it to the heady low of 70 to improve uptake. Availablity is poor and domestic subscribers don't even get a ADSL modem with a LAN connector on it - the standard issue one is USB. Business users get LAN ADSL modems but also have to pay a good deal more (up to £200, about 460 Canadian dollars, for 2048 downstream).
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Choosing a desktop on the basis of a copy and paste model. I thought people got their priorities wrong but this takes the biscuit. Copy and paste vs free and more stable...
Just out of interest - how easy would it be to port a windows-style copy and paste model to KDE? I thought the KDE UI was relatively customisable in this sort of area so implementing such a feature would be relatively easy. Then again, I could be completely wrong.
I plan to get a 2 processor Clawhammer box myself, it's the only reason I haven't upgraded for the past year. I'm bored of having a mainstream PC (P3 550MHz, don't ask...) after using a StrongARM/NetBSD box for a few years. Time for something novel and exciting - dual processor new fangled chip sounds like just the thing...
For example, say you had a function which performed a series of calculations and returned an list of integers. You then wanted to know what the first of these numbers was. The haskell statement for this is:
head yourFunction
Unlike Java/C++ the whole of 'yourFunction' isn't evaluated, just enough to generate the first element, as that is all that is required. It isn't necessary to write a function which specifically works out just the first element with the minimum amount of work. Well, this example is trivial but you can imagine this has many time saving / code simplifying advantages.
Strangely enough, Haskell is nothing like any of the mentioned programming languages...
A wise man once said 'People have an irrational like of rubbish'. Hence Windows is very popular. So if Lycoris can get people to transfer onto Linux by making it 'just like Windows' and then gradually point out its other benefits it should make good progress in the Linux desktop market.
In the UK we pay £10 for the phone line and £14.99 a month for an unmetered internet dial-up account with BT. £24.99 is about 58 canadian dollars, more than the cost of DSL in Canada. ADSL in the UK is currently at 93 Canadian dollars for 512/128 with possible plans to reduce it to the heady low of 70 to improve uptake. Availablity is poor and domestic subscribers don't even get a ADSL modem with a LAN connector on it - the standard issue one is USB. Business users get LAN ADSL modems but also have to pay a good deal more (up to £200, about 460 Canadian dollars, for 2048 downstream).