You are probably thinking along the lines of Yojimbo and Murotho staring at each other for an interminable minute.. then draw the sword and fight is over in half a second. (I wont say who won the duel.. lest someone bitch about spilers..:) )
Not going to work for lightsabers does it?
From what I have seen, lightsabers are used more as bludgeoning weapons than cutting weapons. And the fights are on par with that.
This guy fails to realize the difference between programmers and users.
Well.. would people need a window repaired in 50 years will all go windowless because.. they are all not carpenters ?
There will always be geeks and programmers. So that other people can have easier life with computers.
He is not really. He would have called it 'chips' if he were an englishman.
chips -> (soggy) French Fries
crips -> chips (potato chips.. like in lay's)
Have you tried LiteStep?
Its a replacement shell/window maanger for windows.
It even has a KDE like theme so your desktop looks like KDE. More or less...
Talking about fastloading..
PocketPC doesnt close the applications either. When you close an application using the close button on the top right, it just closes the window and keeps the app open.
May be that skewed your bench mark?
I dont really want a 14G showers. But faster PCs would be nice.
One of the biggest concentration breakers is waiting for the machine to do something essential. Like waiting 5 minutes for a one line change to compile and link.
Want your programmers to become more productive without even knowing it? Buy them better ecquipment. And make sure they dont spend the new found bandwidth playing games or reading slashdot.
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You are probably thinking along the lines of Yojimbo and Murotho staring at each other for an interminable minute.. then draw the sword and fight is over in half a second. (I wont say who won the duel.. lest someone bitch about spilers.. :) )
Not going to work for lightsabers does it?
From what I have seen, lightsabers are used more as bludgeoning weapons than cutting weapons. And the fights are on par with that.
This guy fails to realize the difference between programmers and users.
Well.. would people need a window repaired in 50 years will all go windowless because.. they are all not carpenters ?
There will always be geeks and programmers. So that other people can have easier life with computers.
He is not really. He would have called it 'chips' if he were an englishman. chips -> (soggy) French Fries crips -> chips (potato chips.. like in lay's)
unison is another excellent file synchronizer, someways better than rsync. It does true two way file synchornization.
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
Have you tried LiteStep?
Its a replacement shell/window maanger for windows.
It even has a KDE like theme so your desktop looks like KDE. More or less...
This is not an email organizer. But for any other kind of hierarchical data.. its pretty good.
http://keynote.prv.pl/
Talking about fastloading..
PocketPC doesnt close the applications either. When you close an application using the close button on the top right, it just closes the window and keeps the app open.
May be that skewed your bench mark?
I dont really want a 14G showers. But faster PCs would be nice. One of the biggest concentration breakers is waiting for the machine to do something essential. Like waiting 5 minutes for a one line change to compile and link. Want your programmers to become more productive without even knowing it? Buy them better ecquipment. And make sure they dont spend the new found bandwidth playing games or reading slashdot.
Here I am using litestep as my windows2000 shell and it looks exactly like KDE. Go figure..