I would have entered a Nissan Micra...ofcourse with my tounge firmly in my cheek because I would only ever drive one for a kinetic sculpture competition!
X has survived for this long because it is a _standard_ platform. You can write an X application anywhere and reasonably expect it to display on any X server. If this changes, say goodby to X as a standard.
I haven't read anywhere that Keith was going to move away from the standard. That would be silly and I think he has more sense than that.
Every language has its strengths. Making of of VB because it doesn't do something another language does is like making fun of cars because they can't fly.
I would take the piss out of a car if it defaulted to a 16 bit integer.
..I like to work in a productive enviroment and so have chosen Fluxbox or Ratpoison as my WM and then usually use Rxvt (Emacs, Gnus...) and Mozilla. This means my enviroment is very stable and productive. Over Christmas I have come home (from Teeside, where I'm at uni) and have been lumbered using XP on my dads box. I find I can't do anything quickly at all. It just feels so clunky and bloated, luckily Emacs runs on it!:)
I can see what these boys are trying to achive but I would like to see other people realise just what an OS should be like. I guess moving them to Linux in the first step though!
Can you emagine if it went off while doing 90 on the M25? Surely you would end up off your bike and by the time you hit the floor it may have deflated!
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I would have entered a Nissan Micra...ofcourse with my tounge firmly in my cheek because I would only ever drive one for a kinetic sculpture competition!
It was about then I started to build it! :)
Lots of other neat hacks on his Webpage as well...
:)
That you'll never get to see because it's Slashdotted already!
Thermonuclear sharks with lasers attatched to their heads
I think you'll find thats frikkin' lazers
X has survived for this long because it is a _standard_ platform. You can write an X application anywhere and reasonably expect it to display on any X server. If this changes, say goodby to X as a standard.
I haven't read anywhere that Keith was going to move away from the standard. That would be silly and I think he has more sense than that.
...someone turns one of these bad boys into a web server? :)
...I have literally /just/ finished building 1.3b. Life is such a bitch and so is builing moz.
...Perl code less readable than that.
Your right im a bit embarrassed about that. God only knows what was going through my mind when i typed it! I'm obviously not a true nerd! :)
They might have had a bigger market in Japan if it did!
...do you think we'll see army guys getting to places really quickly when they discover it? :)
Whens it coming out for Mozilla?
If this happens do you think it would work like English road tax (the older the car the less you pay?) My 1Ghz box should be cheap to tax by then! :)
They should just fill it with coke and shake it then take the lid off sending it into orbit. Sometimes the simple solutions are the best.
Every language has its strengths. Making of of VB because it doesn't do something another language does is like making fun of cars because they can't fly.
I would take the piss out of a car if it defaulted to a 16 bit integer.
...but I think thats because during the build process it caches the entire web, hence the build time!
An OS is supposed to be like whatever you want it to be like. There is no established standard of what it should be.
But the point is they n00bs will never experience that setup if they move from XP to an XP like interface. They should of course have a choise though.
..I like to work in a productive enviroment and so have chosen Fluxbox or Ratpoison as my WM and then usually use Rxvt (Emacs, Gnus...) and Mozilla. This means my enviroment is very stable and productive. Over Christmas I have come home (from Teeside, where I'm at uni) and have been lumbered using XP on my dads box. I find I can't do anything quickly at all. It just feels so clunky and bloated, luckily Emacs runs on it! :)
I can see what these boys are trying to achive but I would like to see other people realise just what an OS should be like. I guess moving them to Linux in the first step though!
...if the standard doesn't invole XML I'm not interested!
I made my own but found I kept dropping the transistors on the carpet and losing them.
No one can hear you blue screen in space!
...does that mean I have half a cd burner?
Can you emagine if it went off while doing 90 on the M25? Surely you would end up off your bike and by the time you hit the floor it may have deflated!
Er.. it's a good idea though!
They would have to make sure that any processed data travelling through the machines was of little importance or encripted.
What are the security implications?