...how do you implement it? Browsers currently have absolutely no support for implementing anything like this. I'm not sure whether it can be done in Flash. Java is so heavyweight that it would probably scare off most people. ActiveX is a no-go. You can't make people install client software either - 99% will never bother to do that. Unless you can make it work out-of-the-box on browsers, it'll not become popular.
And how do you implement P2P streaming? All P2P protocols until now allow peers to send file pieces in non-streamable order.
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I know Slashdotters have been complaining about the name for years. But really, how much effort would you be willing to put into pressuring the authors to change the name?
I talked to them once. They think that you guys are lunatics and that they have absolutely no reason to listen to you. I even got banned for asking the question. So would you really be willing to do something about it, instead of just complaining on Slashdot?
I have written a commercial application in Delphi (Object Pascal) that's still being sold today. Yeah, original Pascal is 80s. Modern Pascal (read: Object Pascal) is not, although it is 90s - it has good support for OO, but Delphi only recently added support for generics/templates.
USB? These days I pop in a USB stick and it shows up on the desktop in seconds. I don't know what you're talking about.
Video? Granted, I had to install some extra codecs via Applications->Add/Remove Software, but that's not more difficult than telling someone to download DivX or a codec pack. I've been playing video almost every day on my Linux box (I download a lot of anime fansubs) and it has worked fine since 2002/2003. Today I can setup the codecs in 10 seconds. Just what are you talking about?
It really surprises me that nobody has sued them yet! Here in the Netherlands I pay 30 euros per month ($41) for 6 mbit downstream and 1.5 mbit upstream cable connection. Without Bittorrent throttling or anything like that. My ISP even removed their bandwidth limit a few years ago. I heard from an American friend that Americans would have to pay $50 for a connection like that. I'm developing a BitTorrent-based installer, and Comcast would kill a lot of my potential users since they have 60% market share in the US (or so I've heard). You guys are being scammed! Seriously, why hasn't anybody sued yet or even tried to complain en masse? I've been following the Comcast stories for a while now, and every time I see a lot of discussion but no action at all!
So then what exactly is it that makes NJStar better? Can you provide screenshots and exact descriptions? I just can't notice any difference between the Windows IME and SCIM, and last time I tried NJStar was 1998 and I don't remember anything significantly better than SCIM.
I hate to spoil your fun, but SCIM does exactly what you describe. As proof, look at the following screenshots. First I type "ni". It brings up this list: screenshot The most likely word that I want is the word that means "you", which is indeed the first character shown on the list.
Suppose that I don't want any of the characters on the first page, so I go to the second page by pressing 'Page Down': screenshot If I select the first character on page 2, and I type "ni" again, then it will show up on the first page: screenshot
Now, are what more 'criticisms' against SCIM do you still have?
Eh? SCIM works perfectly on Firefox here. It works in Thunderbird as well. In fact, it works in all GTK, Qt, Mozilla-based apps and in OpenOffice (which is pretty much 99.9% of all apps on a modern Linux desktop). Not sure what you mean by "input is terrible" or "predictive text". If you "predictive text" you mean a dropdown box in which all possible characters are shown, then I can assure you: it is there.
My did *is* typing Chinese because we *are* Chinese. My dad is typing Chinese *all the time*. I have used the standard Chinese input method in Windows as well, and I notice no difference in functionality. We aren't "suffering". If you don't believe me, look at these screenshots in which I'm typing Chinese in Skype and Firefox: Skype Firefox OpenOffice
Which version of SCIM and Fedora are you using? This is SCIM 1.4.4. Actually I haven't had problems with SCIM since version 0.6.
"Anyway, the bottom line is that if you want to cut something from gnumeric and past it into OOo writer, it's not going to work."
I hate to disturb your fun, but it *does* work. I just tried it, and even font weight and color are preserved. Gnumeric 1.7.8 and OpenOffice 2.2.0. They agreed on a common clipboard format a long time ago.
What's wrong with SCIM? I'm using Ubuntu Feisty, and SCIM is installed with a few mouse clicks. My dad has been using SCIM for a year now to type Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Japanese, and it works great.
But yes, the fonts need some work. For some reason Chinese fonts looked better on Fedora than on Ubuntu.
"And steal some decent fonts for Linux and make sure your favorite distro has 'em." You can copy them from your Windows partition easily. Just copy everything in C:\Windows\fonts to/home/[your username]/.fonts
"The GPL is permissive the same way the 13th amendment is permissive. Both prevent you from taking away the rights of others."
No, because under copyright law, you never had that right in the first place. The GPL gives you *more* rights than you had, it just doesn't give you the right to not give the same rights to others.
"because the car goes 20 times faster, is way more comfortable, has lots of extra features, and doesn't require you to wear a helmet?"
I already said the bike *fulfills all my needs*. I don't need 20 times faster, the supermarket is only 3 minutes away by bike. Riding the car is not more comfortable, that's totally subjective. I don't care about the car radio, I have an MP3 player. Since when do I have to wear a helmet to ride a bike? I'd even dare to say that the bike is better. Riding a bike is better for one's health and better for the environment.
Since the bike already fulfills all my needs, the car doesn't add any value. Given all this, why in the world should I use a car? "Everybody else does it" is not a reason.
Java uses a lot of memory, on that I agree. Back in 1998, the JVM made the machine constantly swap, which makes it slow. Java GUIs also load slowly. Why that is I do not know, maybe because JIT compilation takes a bit of time.
But slow as in raw CPU speed? Is that really so? The Sun JVM has supported JIT compilation for 10+ years now. Also, are the possible overheads introduced by Java significant compared to the time needed for the GPU to render the graphics?
This statement means nothing to me. If OpenGL fulfills your need then why should one use DirectX? Just because it is "the standard"? If a bike fulfills all my traveling needs, then why should I use a car instead of a bike even if the car is "the standard"?
Why is it arrogance? Suppose your grandmother bakes bread for people for free (for whatever reason). Hundreds of people call her to tell her that her bread sucks, and demand better bread. Your grandmother doesn't want to and says that she isn't getting paid. Is your grandmother being arrogant?
I just tried 2.3.18. Pressure sensitivity appears to be entirely broken, unfortunately. If the pressure is less than x (where x is some value that I don't know) then nothing happens, just as if I'm using a mouse.
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...how do you implement it? Browsers currently have absolutely no support for implementing anything like this. I'm not sure whether it can be done in Flash. Java is so heavyweight that it would probably scare off most people. ActiveX is a no-go. You can't make people install client software either - 99% will never bother to do that. Unless you can make it work out-of-the-box on browsers, it'll not become popular.
And how do you implement P2P streaming? All P2P protocols until now allow peers to send file pieces in non-streamable order.
Complaining here is nice and all, but how much effort are you willing to put into making them change the name?
I know Slashdotters have been complaining about the name for years. But really, how much effort would you be willing to put into pressuring the authors to change the name?
I talked to them once. They think that you guys are lunatics and that they have absolutely no reason to listen to you. I even got banned for asking the question. So would you really be willing to do something about it, instead of just complaining on Slashdot?
I have written a commercial application in Delphi (Object Pascal) that's still being sold today.
Yeah, original Pascal is 80s. Modern Pascal (read: Object Pascal) is not, although it is 90s - it has good support for OO, but Delphi only recently added support for generics/templates.
USB? These days I pop in a USB stick and it shows up on the desktop in seconds. I don't know what you're talking about.
Video? Granted, I had to install some extra codecs via Applications->Add/Remove Software, but that's not more difficult than telling someone to download DivX or a codec pack. I've been playing video almost every day on my Linux box (I download a lot of anime fansubs) and it has worked fine since 2002/2003. Today I can setup the codecs in 10 seconds. Just what are you talking about?
It really surprises me that nobody has sued them yet! Here in the Netherlands I pay 30 euros per month ($41) for 6 mbit downstream and 1.5 mbit upstream cable connection. Without Bittorrent throttling or anything like that. My ISP even removed their bandwidth limit a few years ago.
I heard from an American friend that Americans would have to pay $50 for a connection like that. I'm developing a BitTorrent-based installer, and Comcast would kill a lot of my potential users since they have 60% market share in the US (or so I've heard). You guys are being scammed! Seriously, why hasn't anybody sued yet or even tried to complain en masse? I've been following the Comcast stories for a while now, and every time I see a lot of discussion but no action at all!
I don't understand. How would two parties destroy each other if one of them starts apologizing?
"Why would it need to? Skype has its own accounts, if it wants to refer to me by name it can use whatever I entered in my account info."
So that it can fill in sensible defaults in the 'register account' dialog. Having sensible defaults is good usability.
I know my grandmother can't use Windows (or OS X) even if she did call me every 5 minutes.
They can't. And I mean technically.
BitTorrent 5.0 is written in Python. uTorrent is written in C++.
That's no excuse. It's even cheaper to spent 10 minutes reading the GPL FAQ than to fork over X thousand dollars for comparable software.
News at eleven! You can use any of KDE's media players inside GNOME! Ain't Linux great?
What? Writing Chinese is illegal in Indonesia? When did that happen, why, how do they enforce it, and where can I find more information about this?
So then what exactly is it that makes NJStar better? Can you provide screenshots and exact descriptions? I just can't notice any difference between the Windows IME and SCIM, and last time I tried NJStar was 1998 and I don't remember anything significantly better than SCIM.
I hate to spoil your fun, but SCIM does exactly what you describe. As proof, look at the following screenshots. First I type "ni". It brings up this list: screenshot
The most likely word that I want is the word that means "you", which is indeed the first character shown on the list.
Suppose that I don't want any of the characters on the first page, so I go to the second page by pressing 'Page Down': screenshot
If I select the first character on page 2, and I type "ni" again, then it will show up on the first page: screenshot
Now, are what more 'criticisms' against SCIM do you still have?
Eh? SCIM works perfectly on Firefox here. It works in Thunderbird as well. In fact, it works in all GTK, Qt, Mozilla-based apps and in OpenOffice (which is pretty much 99.9% of all apps on a modern Linux desktop). Not sure what you mean by "input is terrible" or "predictive text". If you "predictive text" you mean a dropdown box in which all possible characters are shown, then I can assure you: it is there.
My did *is* typing Chinese because we *are* Chinese. My dad is typing Chinese *all the time*. I have used the standard Chinese input method in Windows as well, and I notice no difference in functionality. We aren't "suffering". If you don't believe me, look at these screenshots in which I'm typing Chinese in Skype and Firefox:
Skype
Firefox
OpenOffice
Which version of SCIM and Fedora are you using? This is SCIM 1.4.4. Actually I haven't had problems with SCIM since version 0.6.
"Anyway, the bottom line is that if you want to cut something from gnumeric and past it into OOo writer, it's not going to work."
I hate to disturb your fun, but it *does* work. I just tried it, and even font weight and color are preserved. Gnumeric 1.7.8 and OpenOffice 2.2.0. They agreed on a common clipboard format a long time ago.
What's wrong with SCIM? I'm using Ubuntu Feisty, and SCIM is installed with a few mouse clicks. My dad has been using SCIM for a year now to type Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Japanese, and it works great.
/home/[your username]/.fonts
But yes, the fonts need some work. For some reason Chinese fonts looked better on Fedora than on Ubuntu.
"And steal some decent fonts for Linux and make sure your favorite distro has 'em."
You can copy them from your Windows partition easily. Just copy everything in C:\Windows\fonts to
Even $3 is expensive for Chinese. $3 is 20.68 yuan. One can probably get a pirated copy for 5 yuan.
"The GPL is permissive the same way the 13th amendment is permissive. Both prevent you from taking away the rights of others."
No, because under copyright law, you never had that right in the first place. The GPL gives you *more* rights than you had, it just doesn't give you the right to not give the same rights to others.
"because the car goes 20 times faster, is way more comfortable, has lots of extra features, and doesn't require you to wear a helmet?"
I already said the bike *fulfills all my needs*. I don't need 20 times faster, the supermarket is only 3 minutes away by bike. Riding the car is not more comfortable, that's totally subjective. I don't care about the car radio, I have an MP3 player. Since when do I have to wear a helmet to ride a bike?
I'd even dare to say that the bike is better. Riding a bike is better for one's health and better for the environment.
Since the bike already fulfills all my needs, the car doesn't add any value. Given all this, why in the world should I use a car? "Everybody else does it" is not a reason.
Java uses a lot of memory, on that I agree. Back in 1998, the JVM made the machine constantly swap, which makes it slow. Java GUIs also load slowly. Why that is I do not know, maybe because JIT compilation takes a bit of time.
But slow as in raw CPU speed? Is that really so? The Sun JVM has supported JIT compilation for 10+ years now. Also, are the possible overheads introduced by Java significant compared to the time needed for the GPU to render the graphics?
"But DirectX is the standard now"
This statement means nothing to me. If OpenGL fulfills your need then why should one use DirectX? Just because it is "the standard"? If a bike fulfills all my traveling needs, then why should I use a car instead of a bike even if the car is "the standard"?
Why is it arrogance? Suppose your grandmother bakes bread for people for free (for whatever reason). Hundreds of people call her to tell her that her bread sucks, and demand better bread. Your grandmother doesn't want to and says that she isn't getting paid. Is your grandmother being arrogant?
I just tried 2.3.18. Pressure sensitivity appears to be entirely broken, unfortunately. If the pressure is less than x (where x is some value that I don't know) then nothing happens, just as if I'm using a mouse.