Haiku != Linux. Amarok is very deeply connected to KDE/Qt APIs which are, of course, not implemented in Haiku. Although ports can be considered (Firefox is a must), maybe a player designed for Haiku's APIs would be best for Haiku at this stage, even as a showcase.
Do you know what I'm talking about? Did you see the Wave demo video? It's *real time typing* - not just a notification like "dude is typing...", it's ACTUAL typing showing on your screen as it happens.
Pardon me for not believing it will scale across federated servers or even Google's own ones.
... but Visual Studio Express is actually quite good. I'm a Linux guy, and I use Komodo Edit (I do mostly "dynamic language" development now) and before that I used Eclipse for C/C++ and Java, and although Eclipse gets a lot of things right, it can't beat Visual Studio's breadth of features and simplified work-flow. Of all the things MS has done over the years, VS is hands down (IMHO) the best. They don't give it away with all the features so as to not kill the 3rd party market, but it's clear nothing out there in Win[32/64] land comes close (especially for C++ and C#).
Adobe Reader's flaws are more visible than Foxit's. Or do you think Foxit is perfect? It's not considered an attack vector due to its smaller user base, but rest assured it is flawed as well (MAYBE not as much).
Innovation in the computer world has a timing - and that timing has been lost for the desktop. It's just too big now to change.
Real innovation now may come from smaller devices, newer concepts that are being explored right now like Ultra Mobile PCs coupled with WiMax. You can't expect something like Linux to revolutionize the industry again - it's already here. I can see a future where Linux catches up in terms of polish to Windows, and Windows dies to be replaced by it and THEN something else comes. Something that defies the way we interact with computer systems. But not another OS with a compatibility layer to Win/Lin - what would be the point? Better architecture? Users don't give a crap.
... lighten up, will 'ya? We all know you're a genius that wrote his own OS at age 19, can't work with Gnome because you're such a power user that Gnome is "for idiots" and NOW you shoot yourself in the foot with arguments not fully covered in all angles and using harsh language towards developers that have crafted something over the years, *democratically* (asbestos suit on), that is stable and with a very altruistic licensing policy (1. don't claim it's yours ; 2. don't blame us if it breaks something... basically).
Maybe some redmeat-reduction on your diet will help keep your agression levels down a notch.:)
Come on, BeOS' (geek-) appeal will not go away because it's so old. Good stuff is on the way for release 2 of Haiku - we now need a solid base of development (Haiku will replace all Be-owned code with MIT licensed one) and ideas on overcoming BeOS' hurdles like single-user, poor hardware support, etc. Give me an updated and live BeOS clone and I'll take it, really! Every one who has ever coded something for the BeOS will tell you that it's API is God's gift to coders... Release 1 will come out and, with it's MIT like license, vendors WILL take it and expand it. It reminds me of kernel 2.6 - people only started using it after the 2.6.0 release and even after that, Linux stated that 2.6.0 was just another RC release. People react strangely to contents, but per-determinedly to release numbers. Also, we need a few good coders, so if you have some spare time, let us know!
This was the whole reason Intel created the AGP port - to prevent the GPU from becoming the center of the the computer (it was a huge threat to their business).
Conspiracy theories about Intel aside, GPU aren't good CPUs if I may use such loose terms. GPUs are good at doing strict calculations and presenting the results. Stuff like branching, jumping and the like, useful in general-purpose programming, isn't their strong suit.
This could have gone way bad if Intel came up with another instruction set, totally incompatible. Thank God for that.. or actually M$ for announcing only ONE 64-bit Windows version.
But if it wasn't for AMD, Intel would be milking the 32-bit cow DRY for 2 or 3 more years. This is why I always buy AMD - competition. And you should buy too!:)
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Haiku != Linux. Amarok is very deeply connected to KDE/Qt APIs which are, of course, not implemented in Haiku. Although ports can be considered (Firefox is a must), maybe a player designed for Haiku's APIs would be best for Haiku at this stage, even as a showcase.
The file size limit in FAT32 volumes is 4GB (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#FAT32) and not 6GB.
Totally inaccurate: depends on the hookers and blow SO MUCH.
Mea culpa, I thought you knew what I meant. Hey, this happens to me a lot here... :D
Do you know what I'm talking about? Did you see the Wave demo video? It's *real time typing* - not just a notification like "dude is typing...", it's ACTUAL typing showing on your screen as it happens. Pardon me for not believing it will scale across federated servers or even Google's own ones.
I wouldn't believe Google's ability to have real time typing notification in federated servers, or even in their own...
... which OS it ships with?
... but Visual Studio Express is actually quite good. I'm a Linux guy, and I use Komodo Edit (I do mostly "dynamic language" development now) and before that I used Eclipse for C/C++ and Java, and although Eclipse gets a lot of things right, it can't beat Visual Studio's breadth of features and simplified work-flow. Of all the things MS has done over the years, VS is hands down (IMHO) the best. They don't give it away with all the features so as to not kill the 3rd party market, but it's clear nothing out there in Win[32/64] land comes close (especially for C++ and C#).
... running the site on the laptop - with this much load now, it's a fire hazard.
Adobe Reader's flaws are more visible than Foxit's. Or do you think Foxit is perfect? It's not considered an attack vector due to its smaller user base, but rest assured it is flawed as well (MAYBE not as much).
Wait for the next generation? You're telling that to this crowd? :D
... Infrant ReadyNAS! Expensive but oh so cool... :D
Innovation in the computer world has a timing - and that timing has been lost for the desktop. It's just too big now to change. Real innovation now may come from smaller devices, newer concepts that are being explored right now like Ultra Mobile PCs coupled with WiMax. You can't expect something like Linux to revolutionize the industry again - it's already here. I can see a future where Linux catches up in terms of polish to Windows, and Windows dies to be replaced by it and THEN something else comes. Something that defies the way we interact with computer systems. But not another OS with a compatibility layer to Win/Lin - what would be the point? Better architecture? Users don't give a crap.
Man, I salute you. You're part of the solution...
is the words "pending doom".
... lighten up, will 'ya? We all know you're a genius that wrote his own OS at age 19, can't work with Gnome because you're such a power user that Gnome is "for idiots" and NOW you shoot yourself in the foot with arguments not fully covered in all angles and using harsh language towards developers that have crafted something over the years, *democratically* (asbestos suit on), that is stable and with a very altruistic licensing policy (1. don't claim it's yours ; 2. don't blame us if it breaks something ... basically).
:)
Maybe some redmeat-reduction on your diet will help keep your agression levels down a notch.
...it's for some serious HL2 lan-partying!
Come on, BeOS' (geek-) appeal will not go away because it's so old. Good stuff is on the way for release 2 of Haiku - we now need a solid base of development (Haiku will replace all Be-owned code with MIT licensed one) and ideas on overcoming BeOS' hurdles like single-user, poor hardware support, etc. Give me an updated and live BeOS clone and I'll take it, really! Every one who has ever coded something for the BeOS will tell you that it's API is God's gift to coders... Release 1 will come out and, with it's MIT like license, vendors WILL take it and expand it. It reminds me of kernel 2.6 - people only started using it after the 2.6.0 release and even after that, Linux stated that 2.6.0 was just another RC release. People react strangely to contents, but per-determinedly to release numbers. Also, we need a few good coders, so if you have some spare time, let us know!
It's easy to say that about a platform that has 10 or 20 models. In the PC *world* it's not that easy.
This was the whole reason Intel created the AGP port - to prevent the GPU from becoming the center of the the computer (it was a huge threat to their business).
Conspiracy theories about Intel aside, GPU aren't good CPUs if I may use such loose terms. GPUs are good at doing strict calculations and presenting the results. Stuff like branching, jumping and the like, useful in general-purpose programming, isn't their strong suit.
PXE is a standard for network booting capability. What you probably meant was PAE.
Thanks, man. This has to be one of the funniest comments I have EVER seen on /.
This could have gone way bad if Intel came up with another instruction set, totally incompatible. Thank God for that.. or actually M$ for announcing only ONE 64-bit Windows version. But if it wasn't for AMD, Intel would be milking the 32-bit cow DRY for 2 or 3 more years. This is why I always buy AMD - competition. And you should buy too! :)
Oh my God, it's SO obvious you have a Pentium 133. :)