With Suns working to create a brand image with their Java desktop, I'd have thought if anything they'd be putting an effort into keeping this as close to Suns OS as possible. Wouldn't seem that hard to intentionally tie down a lot of features to unix with direct system calls. At least on linux it still had a bit of mystique as running on some "weird thing that's not windows!". But, then again, it seems to not have wound up being hyped as much as a lure, or even related to, Java desktop as I'd have thought it was going to be. So in that context I suppose it is logical.
That was my thinking as well, but so far it seems to be chugging along pretty well. My video card's three years old, my processor only 850mhz, and just 320mb ram. The thing still worked fine, even though I seem below what's listed as the minimum requirements.
Not on the CD, but checking up on how the development was going I was somewhat surprised to find out people have gotten looking glass running on windows. Weird.
It actually worked on me. I'd always found myself in the "java is slow" camp. Despite that, I put some work into getting looking glass set up shortly after they released the source. And even if I wasn't blown away by the features of the, admittingly fairly young, project - I was surprised at how fast it ran. My computers not the top of the line by any means, and I'd assumed anything with both Java and 3D in it would be far too slow to be usable. While I'm still not too fond of swing, my opinioin of Java has improved quite a bit since seeing looking glass.
They're claiming this is "Java-based". Never heard of this kind of stuff running any way except as native code. A breakthrough in VM technology, or more abuse of the Java "brand"?
I set this up a while back, and yep, it's all java as far as I could tell. I think Java gets a lot of bad press for speed simply due to swing. Once that's taken out of the equasion I usually expect pretty good performance out of it. Or at least with Suns VM.
I'm not sure of what the term for this is, but I know of one big problem in particular. A while back I needed to fill out some forms online, print them out, and then send them in through the postal system. What the online form was supposed to do was take the information, and send the data along with a pdf of the form over to acrobat reader. What happened in Linux was that the pdf would be loaded without the overlayed data. Kghostview didn't have any luck with it either, and the windows version of reader crashed wine running IE when I gave that a shot.
Lets face it Windows has flaws but its interface is easy to use.
So easy that, to many, it crosses right back over into the difficult catagory. Most of the settings and methods I'm accustomed to using in KDE, if available at all, are buried in the configuration menus of the windows file explorer. There's no mulitple desktops without installing extra programs. It doesn't even show file extensions by default! Easy's a very subjective term.
Good ol' Windows ME. I suspect my fiancee's quick conversion to linux had something to do with ME being the original operating system on her computer as well.
I find all these arguments in reply to your message, stating that there's no predisposition for geek interests betwean men and women, amusing in that it's being posted on a geek site with 9x% male readers.
Could you clarify what you mean by 'people like you'? I'm an American getting married to a Canadian, and we've both been working on getting dual citizenship for the others country. It's not been easy by any means, time consuming as hell, and I imagine there's many circumstances that would make it more so, but it's certainly possible for most people. It's even more possible if you're willing to throw some money at a lawyer to work for you.
The best reason for me is, in potential at least, ease of development and porting. I was using opie on my ipaq for a while, and loved some parts of it. The only reason I removed it was that I could never find a SDL package that was fully compatible nor get SDL to compile for it. Aside from that, it was pretty easy to take applications I'd quickly thrown together for my linux desktop, and put them on my pda. For the average user, not so useful. For a programmer using linux at home it can be pretty nice.
I'm surprised more people aren't pissed off about this.
I think most people have been beaten down by commercials from TV to the point where they'll passivly let it sink in from any medium at this point. Theaters are one example. I usually come in 15 minutes late to avoid comercials, or just step outside for a bit if the people I'm going with are insistant about arriving on time. While I've seen others do the same, it's still fairly rare. Personally, the blocked skipping is what motivated me to buy a DVD burner. I keep copies of mine with the restrictions removed in the actual DVD cases, and threw the originals in a case over by the side in case of damage.
The monthly charge is what turns me off cellphones. I 'hate' the idea of being contacted by phone when I'm away from home, and wouldn't want one for anything but emergencies. Paying a monthly fee for something I never use just seems a little too annoying for me to be able to justify, especially while I'm still in school. The huge downside to only having a landline though, is that the huge amount of cellphones out there seem to have pretty much killed payphones. On the rare chance that I've needed one, I've had a pretty hard time tracking one down.
There's some basic things I'd like to see improved in realplayer 10 for linux. Firstly, a deb would be nice. This issue might come from having to use alien on the rpm to install it on debian, but if not, it'd be nice to have the player show up in KDEs menu. Or, at the very least, to install or put a link somewhere in the standard path by default.
While I love python, I don't think this would really qualify as being in the VB catagory yet. I do find python to be a far more enjoyable language to work with, but the beauty of VB is as much the IDE as the language. Eric isn't even close the last time I looked at it, with the GUI editing and code editing pretty far removed from each other. BlackAdder seemed to have the same limitation last I saw it as well. Admitingly it's been a while since I last saw either.
Depends what you mean by superior. I'd agree that they're often more on target to the audience in general, but that often comes at the cost of what the more geeky crowd wants. The windows interface is well suited to, say, my non-technically inclined boss. Personally though, it seems at times that it was created by studying what I like to do and then putting in an active effort to make it difficult to accomplish. KDE fits my style well, and if it comes at the cost of it arriving on the average Joe, than so be it.
Weird, I keep Azureus going for pretty long stretchs, I'm sure at least five days at a time, in KDE with no crashes. The only time I used to get them with azureus was a version or two back with the unified gtk-qt theme engine. This is on debian unstable with sun's java 5.
Apparently from the other reply, I am not the only one. Have you had a different experience?
I don't think I've ever received anything that fast with ground shipping. It's usually about five days, possibly longer. Then again, I live in Montana. The roads here are terrible, their care even worse, and there's vast stretchs of land betwean any of the towns.
When it comes to books, only if you're lucky enough to be in a town which places a heavy value on reading. If not, and you want it quick, online ordering is the only option.
Where are the fucking smart tv producers and network directors, they all quit?
I'd say a better question to ask is where have the smart viewers gone. The writers and producers are doing the intelligent thing, they're creating the product that the majority of viewers want. Most people just want to come home, turn on the tv, and "veg out". Thinking is the last thing they're looking for at that point in the day.
That was my first reaction as well. My second reaction was to realise that none of the things you listed would have much chance of making even a minor change in the life of the person doing it. Participating in something like the situation described in this story has a significantly higher chance of doing so.
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With Suns working to create a brand image with their Java desktop, I'd have thought if anything they'd be putting an effort into keeping this as close to Suns OS as possible. Wouldn't seem that hard to intentionally tie down a lot of features to unix with direct system calls. At least on linux it still had a bit of mystique as running on some "weird thing that's not windows!". But, then again, it seems to not have wound up being hyped as much as a lure, or even related to, Java desktop as I'd have thought it was going to be. So in that context I suppose it is logical.
Do a search for lg3d and the source should be one of the first that comes up.
That was my thinking as well, but so far it seems to be chugging along pretty well. My video card's three years old, my processor only 850mhz, and just 320mb ram. The thing still worked fine, even though I seem below what's listed as the minimum requirements.
Not on the CD, but checking up on how the development was going I was somewhat surprised to find out people have gotten looking glass running on windows. Weird.
It actually worked on me. I'd always found myself in the "java is slow" camp. Despite that, I put some work into getting looking glass set up shortly after they released the source. And even if I wasn't blown away by the features of the, admittingly fairly young, project - I was surprised at how fast it ran. My computers not the top of the line by any means, and I'd assumed anything with both Java and 3D in it would be far too slow to be usable. While I'm still not too fond of swing, my opinioin of Java has improved quite a bit since seeing looking glass.
They're claiming this is "Java-based". Never heard of this kind of stuff running any way except as native code. A breakthrough in VM technology, or more abuse of the Java "brand"?
I set this up a while back, and yep, it's all java as far as I could tell. I think Java gets a lot of bad press for speed simply due to swing. Once that's taken out of the equasion I usually expect pretty good performance out of it. Or at least with Suns VM.
I'm not sure of what the term for this is, but I know of one big problem in particular. A while back I needed to fill out some forms online, print them out, and then send them in through the postal system. What the online form was supposed to do was take the information, and send the data along with a pdf of the form over to acrobat reader. What happened in Linux was that the pdf would be loaded without the overlayed data. Kghostview didn't have any luck with it either, and the windows version of reader crashed wine running IE when I gave that a shot.
Lets face it Windows has flaws but its interface is easy to use.
So easy that, to many, it crosses right back over into the difficult catagory. Most of the settings and methods I'm accustomed to using in KDE, if available at all, are buried in the configuration menus of the windows file explorer. There's no mulitple desktops without installing extra programs. It doesn't even show file extensions by default! Easy's a very subjective term.
Good ol' Windows ME. I suspect my fiancee's quick conversion to linux had something to do with ME being the original operating system on her computer as well.
I find all these arguments in reply to your message, stating that there's no predisposition for geek interests betwean men and women, amusing in that it's being posted on a geek site with 9x% male readers.
You're lucky, I'm unlucky, or a combination of both. I usually see it about 40% of my page loads.
Could you clarify what you mean by 'people like you'? I'm an American getting married to a Canadian, and we've both been working on getting dual citizenship for the others country. It's not been easy by any means, time consuming as hell, and I imagine there's many circumstances that would make it more so, but it's certainly possible for most people. It's even more possible if you're willing to throw some money at a lawyer to work for you.
The best reason for me is, in potential at least, ease of development and porting. I was using opie on my ipaq for a while, and loved some parts of it. The only reason I removed it was that I could never find a SDL package that was fully compatible nor get SDL to compile for it. Aside from that, it was pretty easy to take applications I'd quickly thrown together for my linux desktop, and put them on my pda. For the average user, not so useful. For a programmer using linux at home it can be pretty nice.
Wow. That's about all I can say in the shock of realising not only that Clamdigger is real, but that it's... Well, that it is what it is!
I'm surprised more people aren't pissed off about this.
I think most people have been beaten down by commercials from TV to the point where they'll passivly let it sink in from any medium at this point. Theaters are one example. I usually come in 15 minutes late to avoid comercials, or just step outside for a bit if the people I'm going with are insistant about arriving on time. While I've seen others do the same, it's still fairly rare. Personally, the blocked skipping is what motivated me to buy a DVD burner. I keep copies of mine with the restrictions removed in the actual DVD cases, and threw the originals in a case over by the side in case of damage.
The monthly charge is what turns me off cellphones. I 'hate' the idea of being contacted by phone when I'm away from home, and wouldn't want one for anything but emergencies. Paying a monthly fee for something I never use just seems a little too annoying for me to be able to justify, especially while I'm still in school. The huge downside to only having a landline though, is that the huge amount of cellphones out there seem to have pretty much killed payphones. On the rare chance that I've needed one, I've had a pretty hard time tracking one down.
Luckily Sir Isaac Newton invented the catflap.
Sounds a bit like a regional dialect thing. I took your earlier mention of housecat to mean a cat who never leaves the house.
There's some basic things I'd like to see improved in realplayer 10 for linux. Firstly, a deb would be nice. This issue might come from having to use alien on the rpm to install it on debian, but if not, it'd be nice to have the player show up in KDEs menu. Or, at the very least, to install or put a link somewhere in the standard path by default.
While I love python, I don't think this would really qualify as being in the VB catagory yet. I do find python to be a far more enjoyable language to work with, but the beauty of VB is as much the IDE as the language. Eric isn't even close the last time I looked at it, with the GUI editing and code editing pretty far removed from each other. BlackAdder seemed to have the same limitation last I saw it as well. Admitingly it's been a while since I last saw either.
Depends what you mean by superior. I'd agree that they're often more on target to the audience in general, but that often comes at the cost of what the more geeky crowd wants. The windows interface is well suited to, say, my non-technically inclined boss. Personally though, it seems at times that it was created by studying what I like to do and then putting in an active effort to make it difficult to accomplish. KDE fits my style well, and if it comes at the cost of it arriving on the average Joe, than so be it.
Weird, I keep Azureus going for pretty long stretchs, I'm sure at least five days at a time, in KDE with no crashes. The only time I used to get them with azureus was a version or two back with the unified gtk-qt theme engine. This is on debian unstable with sun's java 5.
Apparently from the other reply, I am not the only one. Have you had a different experience?
I don't think I've ever received anything that fast with ground shipping. It's usually about five days, possibly longer. Then again, I live in Montana. The roads here are terrible, their care even worse, and there's vast stretchs of land betwean any of the towns.
When it comes to books, only if you're lucky enough to be in a town which places a heavy value on reading. If not, and you want it quick, online ordering is the only option.
Where are the fucking smart tv producers and network directors, they all quit?
I'd say a better question to ask is where have the smart viewers gone. The writers and producers are doing the intelligent thing, they're creating the product that the majority of viewers want. Most people just want to come home, turn on the tv, and "veg out". Thinking is the last thing they're looking for at that point in the day.
That was my first reaction as well. My second reaction was to realise that none of the things you listed would have much chance of making even a minor change in the life of the person doing it. Participating in something like the situation described in this story has a significantly higher chance of doing so.