They're using Java, in part, because it makes it easier to write the code.
Well, that's a good reason. But, in other hand, if you look the communities of developers in the FLOSS world, you would see that very few really accept the terms in Java licence. So, by using it, they make easier to write the application, but turn some developers around.
Easier to write or more developers: pick one.
(Note: I'm not saying that FLOSS developers hate easier to write languages, they are more interested in the licence of their works).
The GPL says that, if you release your program, the source must come with it. If you release a document, that is something not compiled, you are, actually, releasing the source of it.
Also, nothing says that, once you put something under the GPL you must release it over the internet. If you write a program to one company, you can still release it under the GPL, and that means that you must send the company the program and its sources. I DO NOT need to release it also in the internet, to everyone.
If I got the article correctly, the free version will be terminated, some time. So, this would mean that every free version would become ilegal if not purchased.
Im not a coder my self, altough I hahe programmed in Java and in python, but I fail to see Python's advantages comparing to Java in an enterprise environment.
and
Python is fantastic for quickly building small apps, or even much larger ones.
And there you have your answer. Python is awesome to build small apps. Then you build a small app over another small app. And then another small one over the last.
Basically, we are seeing the come back of Unix practices: build one small app that does one thing but does it right and then allow it to talk to another applications.
And, before you point that you could do the same with functions, just answer me that: how many programmers do you see spliting their code over several functions (that do just one thing but do it right)? There are a lot of people around there call themselves "programmers" (in any language) that don't know a bit about keeping the code clean for reuse or for maintance.
if others want to use modern technology and features to enhance their visual impact of their communication, now they can with GMail.
I would really appreciate if those "others" choose to put content in their "communcation" instead of replying an email just putting a "Me too" in red letters with yellow background, with fonts in italics.
Because Slackware, as any other distro, tries to fill some niche. I was a Slackware user a long time ago, 'till I could see that everything I wanted to do with GNOME worked perfectly on Ubuntu.
If I got a server, I would install Slackware. As my desktop, I'll keep Ubuntu.
BTW: As it is an Arch article, problaby they have their niche too.
Eliza Dusku is also shot. Catherine Zeta-Jones, on other hand, looks quite perfect for the job. Except that she may be a little bit old for it (but she still hot, before you go bashing me).
Some KDE developers said (IIRC) that porting applications to Windows actually hurts open source operating systems. So, they (at least, the few that mentioned it) don't want to port their applications to non-free systems.
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But in their fields, they're significantly better equipped than most of the men they graduated with.
* Inability to edit or affect the panel menus in an intuitive way (somewhat addressed through the addition of applications:/// which was hard to find)
Well, applications:/// has gone again. But, as I'm using, I don't see the need to edit the menus. I never edited the menus on Windows too (and you can do it since ever).
* Inability to hold down the mouse button (drag through) while navigating the menus. The thinking was accessibility related. A click event occurs after some arbitrary criteria has been met that convinces Gnome that the user really wanted to click and just didn't know to let go of the mouse button and then click again. Very annoying.
Why would someone click on a menu item and hold?
* No window snapping
No automatic window snapping, right? If you press Shift while dragging windows (with Metacity), you get a "really strong window snapping". I use it from time to time, but this is nothing I could live without (even enabling it on every other window manager that crosses my way:) )
* Non-existance of KIO-slaves equivalent (ability to open and work with files on arbitrary network resources) -- very useful
Actually, there is. Gnome-VFS does that.
* Gnome terminal lacking ability to rename tabs by interacting with the tab (can be done through menu option somewhere)
It is nice, but I really never needed it (even using almost three tabs at the same time).
* Gedit lacking features as compared with KEdit
Like what? I mean, Gedit should be a simple editor, not having gazillions of features. Actually, I think even syntax highlight is a little too much for a simple editor.
* Epiphany / Galeon (which is it now?) not as feature complete as Firefox
That's something both try to archive: don't have all the features Mozilla/Firefox has, just what people usually use.
* Until recently, the Gnome file open dialog box was a nightmare. It still has some problems, though. Many of its features are hidden in shortcut keys that one would only know existed if one scoured the Gnome manuals.
The point ot the new file open (and everything about GNOME) is to put just the features people really use. I don't need to walk throught thousands of dirs to save my files, as every application tries to remember where you saved last. And there is the bookmark thing that helps when I'm a little bit lost.
So, when thinking about GNOME (and applications), think about "what I use the most". It will be there.
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I think this is there. Reading throught the NEWS in Metacity (the default window manager) and in the panel, it looks like both support the URGENT atom (defined somewhere in freedesktop.org).
All we really need now is that the IM program you are using really sets this atom on the window (or else Metacity and the panel will never know what happened).
Well, since US television tends not to make it to Britain for a long time after it airs here, it makes a bit of sense. A lot of shows have a one- or two-season lag time.
Lucky bastard. I live in Brazil and we still didnt get the final episode of "Deep Space 9". I won't even mention "Voyager"...
Once, about three years ago, I noticed one of these images on my ISP's web page with a file name something like XXXLESBIANPORNROMGAYWAREZMP3NAPSTERDOWNLOADZ.gif. I didn't assume that SBC was going to get into the internet porn or fileswapping business, I assumed that an ad agency used a few key words for one reason or another.
Well, this was there probably as a bait for search engines. So people who google por "LESBIANPORN" would get your ISP page.
Maybe that was the tactic: add an image with "powerbook_g5" and wait for referrers to get an idea of how much people are waiting for a powerbook g5.
IANASES (I Am Not A Search Engineer Specialist), but I'm a dreamer:)
It's complex and nuanced and, in a way, hair-tearingly frustrating, because there are no answers.
My God, BSG is the new X-Files!
I can say I'm a Star Trek fan, but I didn't follow any series as some people follow (like it was a religion or something).
What I like in any of the series is that the episodes are self-contained and things are, usually, explained. But there is some things that you carry after like "what whould I do if this happend to me?". Not like "what the hell they want to say with that? Why this or that?".
It looks like BSG leave people wondering what the show wanted to tell and ST leave people wondering about themselves [this is my feeling about all that. I know ST, but BSG doesn't even have a premier date here in Brazil -- maybe I have to review my believes when it appears here].
Right. Do you give your costumers the source code of the software you just wrote? Then you can licence it under GPL.
Being 'free software' doesn't mean 'Here everyone! Get this software!', it means, 'So, you paid for a house. Here is the house and here are the plants of it'.
The only reason that they make this movie is that they need some money, and i guess that hordes of fan of the old movies will flock to the cinemas when it arrives... And then their objective will be fullfilled!
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They're using Java, in part, because it makes it easier to write the code.
Well, that's a good reason. But, in other hand, if you look the communities of developers in the FLOSS world, you would see that very few really accept the terms in Java licence. So, by using it, they make easier to write the application, but turn some developers around.
Easier to write or more developers: pick one.
(Note: I'm not saying that FLOSS developers hate easier to write languages, they are more interested in the licence of their works).
... and then, in the background, you can hear the real danger coming...
"Developers! Developers! Developers!"
The GPL says that, if you release your program, the source must come with it. If you release a document, that is something not compiled, you are, actually, releasing the source of it.
Also, nothing says that, once you put something under the GPL you must release it over the internet. If you write a program to one company, you can still release it under the GPL, and that means that you must send the company the program and its sources. I DO NOT need to release it also in the internet, to everyone.
If I got the article correctly, the free version will be terminated, some time. So, this would mean that every free version would become ilegal if not purchased.
Just let me put this two together:
Im not a coder my self, altough I hahe programmed in Java and in python, but I fail to see Python's advantages comparing to Java in an enterprise environment.
and
Python is fantastic for quickly building small apps, or even much larger ones.
And there you have your answer. Python is awesome to build small apps. Then you build a small app over another small app. And then another small one over the last.
Basically, we are seeing the come back of Unix practices: build one small app that does one thing but does it right and then allow it to talk to another applications.
And, before you point that you could do the same with functions, just answer me that: how many programmers do you see spliting their code over several functions (that do just one thing but do it right)? There are a lot of people around there call themselves "programmers" (in any language) that don't know a bit about keeping the code clean for reuse or for maintance.
if others want to use modern technology and features to enhance their visual impact of their communication, now they can with GMail.
I would really appreciate if those "others" choose to put content in their "communcation" instead of replying an email just putting a "Me too" in red letters with yellow background, with fonts in italics.
and asks that PSP owners use theirs for at least a week or two, to see if it still bothers them.
Oh, the "don't call us if you get used to it" maneuver.
Why doesn't people just stick with Slackware?.
Because Slackware, as any other distro, tries to fill some niche. I was a Slackware user a long time ago, 'till I could see that everything I wanted to do with GNOME worked perfectly on Ubuntu.
If I got a server, I would install Slackware. As my desktop, I'll keep Ubuntu.
BTW: As it is an Arch article, problaby they have their niche too.
Eliza Dusku is also shot. Catherine Zeta-Jones, on other hand, looks quite perfect for the job. Except that she may be a little bit old for it (but she still hot, before you go bashing me).
Some KDE developers said (IIRC) that porting applications to Windows actually hurts open source operating systems. So, they (at least, the few that mentioned it) don't want to port their applications to non-free systems.
But in their fields, they're significantly better equipped than most of the men they graduated with.
Sure, they have boobs.
* Inability to edit or affect the panel menus in an intuitive way (somewhat addressed through the addition of applications:/// which was hard to find)
:) )
Well, applications:/// has gone again. But, as I'm using, I don't see the need to edit the menus. I never edited the menus on Windows too (and you can do it since ever).
* Inability to hold down the mouse button (drag through) while navigating the menus. The thinking was accessibility related. A click event occurs after some arbitrary criteria has been met that convinces Gnome that the user really wanted to click and just didn't know to let go of the mouse button and then click again. Very annoying.
Why would someone click on a menu item and hold?
* No window snapping
No automatic window snapping, right? If you press Shift while dragging windows (with Metacity), you get a "really strong window snapping". I use it from time to time, but this is nothing I could live without (even enabling it on every other window manager that crosses my way
* Non-existance of KIO-slaves equivalent (ability to open and work with files on arbitrary network resources) -- very useful
Actually, there is. Gnome-VFS does that.
* Gnome terminal lacking ability to rename tabs by interacting with the tab (can be done through menu option somewhere)
It is nice, but I really never needed it (even using almost three tabs at the same time).
* Gedit lacking features as compared with KEdit
Like what? I mean, Gedit should be a simple editor, not having gazillions of features. Actually, I think even syntax highlight is a little too much for a simple editor.
* Epiphany / Galeon (which is it now?) not as feature complete as Firefox
That's something both try to archive: don't have all the features Mozilla/Firefox has, just what people usually use.
* Until recently, the Gnome file open dialog box was a nightmare. It still has some problems, though. Many of its features are hidden in shortcut keys that one would only know existed if one scoured the Gnome manuals.
The point ot the new file open (and everything about GNOME) is to put just the features people really use. I don't need to walk throught thousands of dirs to save my files, as every application tries to remember where you saved last. And there is the bookmark thing that helps when I'm a little bit lost.
So, when thinking about GNOME (and applications), think about "what I use the most". It will be there.
I think this is there. Reading throught the NEWS in Metacity (the default window manager) and in the panel, it looks like both support the URGENT atom (defined somewhere in freedesktop.org).
All we really need now is that the IM program you are using really sets this atom on the window (or else Metacity and the panel will never know what happened).
Slashdot has one. The only problem is that it dies of recursion when someone attempt to slashdot it...
Well, since US television tends not to make it to Britain for a long time after it airs here, it makes a bit of sense. A lot of shows have a one- or two-season lag time.
Lucky bastard. I live in Brazil and we still didnt get the final episode of "Deep Space 9". I won't even mention "Voyager"...
Once, about three years ago, I noticed one of these images on my ISP's web page with a file name something like XXXLESBIANPORNROMGAYWAREZMP3NAPSTERDOWNLOADZ.gif. I didn't assume that SBC was going to get into the internet porn or fileswapping business, I assumed that an ad agency used a few key words for one reason or another.
:)
Well, this was there probably as a bait for search engines. So people who google por "LESBIANPORN" would get your ISP page.
Maybe that was the tactic: add an image with "powerbook_g5" and wait for referrers to get an idea of how much people are waiting for a powerbook g5.
IANASES (I Am Not A Search Engineer Specialist), but I'm a dreamer
It's complex and nuanced and, in a way, hair-tearingly frustrating, because there are no answers.
My God, BSG is the new X-Files!
I can say I'm a Star Trek fan, but I didn't follow any series as some people follow (like it was a religion or something).
What I like in any of the series is that the episodes are self-contained and things are, usually, explained. But there is some things that you carry after like "what whould I do if this happend to me?". Not like "what the hell they want to say with that? Why this or that?".
It looks like BSG leave people wondering what the show wanted to tell and ST leave people wondering about themselves [this is my feeling about all that. I know ST, but BSG doesn't even have a premier date here in Brazil -- maybe I have to review my believes when it appears here].
That would lead to more than 20% of work time devoted to outside projects, don't it?
We'll see a new meme araise...
I develop software for a living. People pay me.
Right. Do you give your costumers the source code of the software you just wrote? Then you can licence it under GPL.
Being 'free software' doesn't mean 'Here everyone! Get this software!', it means, 'So, you paid for a house. Here is the house and here are the plants of it'.
[Free as in speech, remember?]
I don't have time to learn a new villian.
:)
We still have Microsoft, don't we?
Interesting, the GNOME folks are also rethinking changing the old eSound to something else.
:)
Can I be the first one to say that "this will be the year of audio on Linux Desktop?"
The only reason that they make this movie is that they need some money, and i guess that hordes of fan of the old movies will flock to the cinemas when it arrives... And then their objective will be fullfilled!
Oh, the "George Lucas Maneuver"!
Because the large base of users with CD readers that still work and don't plan to change?
Complex systems are difficult to debug.
That's why you should *always* do simpler systems that do one small thing, but do it *right*.
That's the first rule you learn with Unix.