You comment is 98 character long and I feel very comfortable when I read it as a single line on my screen.
Moreover, most of sites with technical documentation are displayed filling out the whole space on my monitor and I've never had any problem to read it.
Speaking about amount of characters per line, you do realize that it varies at the given display resolution depends on what is the fnt size, don't you? Each time I see the font is too small or too big I correct it by pressing Control_+ or Control_- buttons. Now, that doesn't really help with Pauls site as making it display with a right font size leaves one or two words per line - and that's ugly.
Wow! That's great for that price! I am buying it now! Screw that America-centric maczealot-oriented Apple store - I am buying it from the Free Europe:)
Speaking aout artists, are they still OK with what's going on around their songs? Do they still call themselves "artists" after that?
BTW, when I have explained my daughter why her girlfiends CD player has been broken just from trying to play Britney's so-called "protected" CD, she's lost any interest to any so-called "art" of Britney.
That's what we should do: to publish the list of so-called "artists" who care more about own greed then about any real art.
How about having other recievers in Cc and also one of them hitting "Reply-to-All"?
And what are you going to put into your Return-to configuration parameter of your email-reading program?
I've said it before, I'll repeat it again: all RFC822 header fields are useless to fight the spam as they are not protected by any strong encryption/signing/certifying technology.
Untill all (or at least a majority) of installed SMTP servers will use some PKI to identify senders - all anti-spam wars will be lost.
I'd rather force (and actually i already do) my private friends and business partners to sign their message with the key I certify, than rely on any RFC822 header fields.
PS. If only my bank would use it too to send me my monthly statements...
Dear Paul,
With all my respect to you as a computer scientist, I should say that your web design skills are far from being perfect. Or your marketing skills are not good that they force you to make so bad web design decisions.
Anyway, what did you think when you have designed the site that displays on a third of my monitor width leaving two thirds as an empty blank white space?
Yes, I do have 1280 horisontal resolution. And yes, I do know that there are people with worse resolution of their monitors, like 800.
But don't you know that you can use "%" when you control the width of table elements, filling the whole space of all monitors with actually usefull content of your web site?
Sorry if it looks offensive, but you gotta change just few bytes in your web templates in order to show that you respect people no matter what monitors they have. In other words, please don't punish people who have got good monitors.
The fact of property right violation in case of spamming is so questionable that it took special laws to begin fighting spammers. If it would not be so questional then there should be enough of existing laws to jail the suckers.
As an example: do we need a special law saying that steeling the TV set must be punished? No, we don't. Because we have a law protecting our property in general.
Blacklists is a part of the war which will last forever.
The only way to fight the spam is white lists supported by keys which should be certified either by the user (friends and partners) or by the goverment (white book).
Everything else is an illusion of a fight and like the Cold War with the Soviet Union. But guess what? "Good" users are playing a role of the Soviet Union dreaming about the perfect cyber society, while spammers are capitalistically motivated sharks (means the western world in the cold war). And the history of the Cold War is teaching that capitalism is winning, while dreamers are losing. Do you wanna win? Change the game rules. IMHO whitelisting is the way to do that.
Ha, check out usability, check out fast development for general and specialized apps....etc.
Stop trolling here and put your facts streight.
What specifically more usable with OSX that I cannot get with Windows or Linux? I have asked that question many times to Apple zealots and the only answer was: "it's more usable. period. no comments." Personally, I use all three (Win2k, OSX and Linux/GNOME) and haven't find anything more usable in OSX. Some details are even annoying.
What specifically makes you to think that the developement using OSX is faster than using Windows or Linux? I don't see that development shops (telecom, web, java, databases) have recognized OSX and moved to it. Personally, I develop on all three (Win2k, OSX and Linux) and I face most of problems on OSX (lack of dev tools, slow with Java, lack of database libraries), rather then on Windows and Linux.
So, stop trolling and put you facts here. If have any. In what I doubt.
1. We are talking about Linux and GNOME here. What RealOne? My mozilla doesn't know what is it. Neither Nautilus. And nothing I can do manually on my Linux/PPC box about.
2. I don't belive any marketing video anyway. Untill I can download the source, build it and run it on my box.
3. Eclipse is not that big as the biggest part of it (GUI) is on native codes (it's not java).
4. Both JBuilder and Jboss are slow and crashy.
5. I don't have money to buy the license to run WebLogic or the hardware capable to host it. Too big. My friends who are using it are adding: it's faster then other ONLY when it response TO THE SAME REQUEST to millions of user (means on small workgroup scale it slower than even JBoss).
Because some of old people cannot drive automatic, it doesn't mean that we all have to stick to the old-days stick.
By the way, my first keyboards were on DEC PDP-11 and IBM S-360. I even don't remember how did they look like. When it comes to such unimportant details I remember what I use now, not before. Well, when it comes to more fundamental knowledge I remember those days Prolog and Lisp. Even PL/1. But I don't remember FORTRAN - I've cleaned the memory from that piece of junk:)
It's just a beginning. Now they have a Java desktops, because they used a tiny Java class in the process of installation of GNOME. Next itme they will use a tiny java class just to configure/etc/hosts and we'll all see "Java Linux".
You haven't paid an attention of exactly I've been talking about.
Perhaps Sun has improved the installation of GNOME comparing to GNOME 2.x vanilla. But I was talking that all 2.x Gnomes are broken in usability comparing to the perfect 1.4.
Cannot see the link to download and try. And have seen any GUI application being big enough AND stable AND fast AND written on java. Therefore I have no facts to believe you.
Hmm, giving such link (I man for download that thing) you may prove something that can turn upside down the understanding of the whole industry of how to compare the performance (and stability) of Java GUI vs C-written GUI applications. Becase as for now the only people who think that big Java GUI applications can be as reliable and fast as C-written one are the people who don't see anything else besides Java due to technological blindness or other reasons of having very closed mind.
With Sun, you've got a reputable brick-and-mortar establishment to go to when it breaks.
Ummm... No...
I've never seen any good GUI solution from Sun. Open Office, Netbeans - they all are slow and crashy. No need to mention the great fiasco of SWING.
And the best GNOME I've ever used was 1.4 vanilla (from CVS). Thanks to Sun contributions, GNOME 2 is less usable. Of course, Sun's "proprietary" fork doesn't fix the usability problem either.
Sun is placing Java in the front of the distro just as the last agony of the dying company.
The distro has nothing to do with Java aside it can run JVM. Well, it can run (even often more successfully) other interpreters and compilers too: Python, Perl, Ruby, Lisp, Erlang, Haskell, Schema, ML, Prolog, C, C++, PHP, Ada, and many more.
But Sun doesn't care about other languages. Sun keeps being blind and see ONLY Java everywhere it goes, in everything it touches. Sun thinks that if it will repeat only Java as a magic word then at some point all world around will ignore everything if it is not Java.
So sad to see so good in the past company ending up in such a mental illness decease.
few users remember those old keyboards. For the most of us the symmetry of modern (last two decades) keyboards is not a problem - it is a convinience of well-designed usability.
And as others noticed already - that fraction of procent who remember old keyboards can remap Caps/Control at any time.
... what's so funny to have Left-Control at 3rd raw, while Right-Control at the buttom? What's so good of having such assymetric layout of Control keys when you have a perfect symmetric layout for Alt and Shift keys? And don't tell me any bullshit about any nostalgy.
Sorry for my English, but checking the "patron" word in the dictionary shows:
One that supports, protects, or champions someone or something, such as an institution, event, or cause; a sponsor or benefactor;
The owner or manager of an establishment, especially a restaurant or an inn of France or Spain;
One who possesses the right to grant an ecclesiastical benefice to a member of the clergy
A guardian saint;
(Rom. Antiq.)A master who had freed his slave, but still retained some paternal rights over him. (b) A man of distinction under whose protection another person placed himself;
Wow! It doesn't seems like Vancouver's bars are polite or correct with their patrons!
Isn't Jabber using the H.323 protocol for session initiation?
Where did you get this crazy misunderstanding? Jabber uses XMMP, which is lightweight protocol. Well, jabber uses H.323 - but only for voice over IP extensions/applications, not for regular sessionmanagement.
Who is the idiot that modded up the parent as "informative"? Check the "information" before you rate it!
too bad, the russians already have a contract with the European Space Agency to launch from Kourou, now that Baikonur is located in Khazakhstan
And why exactly it's too bad? IMHO it's good for russians to specialize on a technology, where they have all benefits of the strongest aero-space engineering education all over the world (many people even in North America would be agree with me) while still pretty low prices for labour ($300/month - where else for the same quality?). As for a launchpad? It doesn't bring enough money to Kazakhstan either, so nothing to worry about. The strongest point of russians is not to support a lunchpad infrastructure (they were never efficient in infrastructures), and not in mass-production (they were never efficient in economics), but in single-quantity manual assemblying of super-complicated electro-mechanichal systems. I wish them further good luck to take more business from NASA, where the most typical american business/management rules are failed to work ("it's never simple or easy", "it should work", "ship the prototype anyway").
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Hey, I've got an idea - let's embed to the kernel also: OpenLDAP, PostgreSQL and ... what else? GNOME?
Moreover, most of sites with technical documentation are displayed filling out the whole space on my monitor and I've never had any problem to read it.
Speaking about amount of characters per line, you do realize that it varies at the given display resolution depends on what is the fnt size, don't you? Each time I see the font is too small or too big I correct it by pressing Control_+ or Control_- buttons. Now, that doesn't really help with Pauls site as making it display with a right font size leaves one or two words per line - and that's ugly.
Wow! That's great for that price! I am buying it now! Screw that America-centric maczealot-oriented Apple store - I am buying it from the Free Europe :)
BTW, when I have explained my daughter why her girlfiends CD player has been broken just from trying to play Britney's so-called "protected" CD, she's lost any interest to any so-called "art" of Britney.
That's what we should do: to publish the list of so-called "artists" who care more about own greed then about any real art.
And what are you going to put into your Return-to configuration parameter of your email-reading program?
I've said it before, I'll repeat it again: all RFC822 header fields are useless to fight the spam as they are not protected by any strong encryption/signing/certifying technology.
Untill all (or at least a majority) of installed SMTP servers will use some PKI to identify senders - all anti-spam wars will be lost.
I'd rather force (and actually i already do) my private friends and business partners to sign their message with the key I certify, than rely on any RFC822 header fields.
PS. If only my bank would use it too to send me my monthly statements ...
Anyway, what did you think when you have designed the site that displays on a third of my monitor width leaving two thirds as an empty blank white space?
Yes, I do have 1280 horisontal resolution. And yes, I do know that there are people with worse resolution of their monitors, like 800.
But don't you know that you can use "%" when you control the width of table elements, filling the whole space of all monitors with actually usefull content of your web site?
Sorry if it looks offensive, but you gotta change just few bytes in your web templates in order to show that you respect people no matter what monitors they have. In other words, please don't punish people who have got good monitors.
As an example: do we need a special law saying that steeling the TV set must be punished? No, we don't. Because we have a law protecting our property in general.
The only way to fight the spam is white lists supported by keys which should be certified either by the user (friends and partners) or by the goverment (white book).
Everything else is an illusion of a fight and like the Cold War with the Soviet Union. But guess what? "Good" users are playing a role of the Soviet Union dreaming about the perfect cyber society, while spammers are capitalistically motivated sharks (means the western world in the cold war). And the history of the Cold War is teaching that capitalism is winning, while dreamers are losing. Do you wanna win? Change the game rules. IMHO whitelisting is the way to do that.
Stop trolling here and put your facts streight.
What specifically more usable with OSX that I cannot get with Windows or Linux? I have asked that question many times to Apple zealots and the only answer was: "it's more usable. period. no comments." Personally, I use all three (Win2k, OSX and Linux/GNOME) and haven't find anything more usable in OSX. Some details are even annoying.
What specifically makes you to think that the developement using OSX is faster than using Windows or Linux? I don't see that development shops (telecom, web, java, databases) have recognized OSX and moved to it. Personally, I develop on all three (Win2k, OSX and Linux) and I face most of problems on OSX (lack of dev tools, slow with Java, lack of database libraries), rather then on Windows and Linux.
So, stop trolling and put you facts here. If have any. In what I doubt.
And real users use Emacs. I know for sure.
I've tried it several times. Each time I've ended-up either with Lisp machine, or with Erlang interpreter.
Or use the GNU Java clone, it's GPL'd, so it must be faster.
GPL is fast only if it's not Java.
Open Source != High performance
Here you're trolling.
2. I don't belive any marketing video anyway. Untill I can download the source, build it and run it on my box.
3. Eclipse is not that big as the biggest part of it (GUI) is on native codes (it's not java).
4. Both JBuilder and Jboss are slow and crashy.
5. I don't have money to buy the license to run WebLogic or the hardware capable to host it. Too big. My friends who are using it are adding: it's faster then other ONLY when it response TO THE SAME REQUEST to millions of user (means on small workgroup scale it slower than even JBoss).
By the way, my first keyboards were on DEC PDP-11 and IBM S-360. I even don't remember how did they look like. When it comes to such unimportant details I remember what I use now, not before. Well, when it comes to more fundamental knowledge I remember those days Prolog and Lisp. Even PL/1. But I don't remember FORTRAN - I've cleaned the memory from that piece of junk :)
It's just a beginning. Now they have a Java desktops, because they used a tiny Java class in the process of installation of GNOME. Next itme they will use a tiny java class just to configure /etc/hosts and we'll all see "Java Linux".
Perhaps Sun has improved the installation of GNOME comparing to GNOME 2.x vanilla. But I was talking that all 2.x Gnomes are broken in usability comparing to the perfect 1.4.
Hmm, giving such link (I man for download that thing) you may prove something that can turn upside down the understanding of the whole industry of how to compare the performance (and stability) of Java GUI vs C-written GUI applications. Becase as for now the only people who think that big Java GUI applications can be as reliable and fast as C-written one are the people who don't see anything else besides Java due to technological blindness or other reasons of having very closed mind.
Ummm... No...
I've never seen any good GUI solution from Sun. Open Office, Netbeans - they all are slow and crashy. No need to mention the great fiasco of SWING.
And the best GNOME I've ever used was 1.4 vanilla (from CVS). Thanks to Sun contributions, GNOME 2 is less usable. Of course, Sun's "proprietary" fork doesn't fix the usability problem either.
The distro has nothing to do with Java aside it can run JVM. Well, it can run (even often more successfully) other interpreters and compilers too: Python, Perl, Ruby, Lisp, Erlang, Haskell, Schema, ML, Prolog, C, C++, PHP, Ada, and many more.
But Sun doesn't care about other languages. Sun keeps being blind and see ONLY Java everywhere it goes, in everything it touches. Sun thinks that if it will repeat only Java as a magic word then at some point all world around will ignore everything if it is not Java.
So sad to see so good in the past company ending up in such a mental illness decease.
And as others noticed already - that fraction of procent who remember old keyboards can remap Caps/Control at any time.
... what's so funny to have Left-Control at 3rd raw, while Right-Control at the buttom? What's so good of having such assymetric layout of Control keys when you have a perfect symmetric layout for Alt and Shift keys? And don't tell me any bullshit about any nostalgy.
You forgot another over-blown buzzword: Java.
- One that supports, protects, or champions someone or something, such as an institution, event, or cause; a sponsor or benefactor;
- The owner or manager of an establishment, especially a restaurant or an inn of France or Spain;
- One who possesses the right to grant an ecclesiastical benefice to a member of the clergy
- A guardian saint;
- (Rom. Antiq.)A master who had freed his slave, but still retained some paternal rights over him. (b) A man of distinction under whose protection another person placed himself;
Wow! It doesn't seems like Vancouver's bars are polite or correct with their patrons!Leave me the voice message. If I won't reply within a day - let your boss deal with it.
Where did you get this crazy misunderstanding? Jabber uses XMMP, which is lightweight protocol. Well, jabber uses H.323 - but only for voice over IP extensions/applications, not for regular sessionmanagement.
Who is the idiot that modded up the parent as "informative"? Check the "information" before you rate it!
And why exactly it's too bad? IMHO it's good for russians to specialize on a technology, where they have all benefits of the strongest aero-space engineering education all over the world (many people even in North America would be agree with me) while still pretty low prices for labour ($300/month - where else for the same quality?). As for a launchpad? It doesn't bring enough money to Kazakhstan either, so nothing to worry about. The strongest point of russians is not to support a lunchpad infrastructure (they were never efficient in infrastructures), and not in mass-production (they were never efficient in economics), but in single-quantity manual assemblying of super-complicated electro-mechanichal systems. I wish them further good luck to take more business from NASA, where the most typical american business/management rules are failed to work ("it's never simple or easy", "it should work", "ship the prototype anyway").