Yep, there is something to be said about marking your shortcuts, and making those marks quite visible on the application. Unfortunately, that technique is gettting out of fashion. We'll have to wait some years, so some usability consulting gives it another name and turns it into a buzzword... Then, sudenly, every manager will care about it.
That doesn't completely solves the problem with KDE. If it marked all its shortcuts, it would get out of room for placing windows. But it could mark some.
Well, I'm a KDE user, thus Windows XP doesn't have enough bells and whistles for me;)
My computers vary from some huge machines to something that was slow even by 6 years ago when I brought it. I want "performance" on all of them, and Linux gives some nice amount if it, but the definition of "performance" varies and on the faster machines the DE doesn't make much difference (yeah I've measured it). On older machines, you are right, KDE is not the way to go.
KDE (the desktop environment) was ready for release, that's why it was released. The problem is that all the services and applications that come with it weren't.
They could have handled it better, but when the software developer says "please, don't put it on anything important yet", you'd better comply.
After you said, I had to check it. I'm using the latest KMail in Debian Stable (1.13.5), my email is stored at the Maildir. Maybe it was about older versons of it, or it was the default that was bad.
But KMail does use some kind of database. It doesn't store the emails there, but it creates all kinds of problems when you have more than one instance of KDE running.
Anyway, number of impressions tels exactly nothing about the benefit of a campaign, people could bill advertizing by the kilogram and it would make as much sense.
Yes, that's one of the greatest benefits of the cloud. You can "spawn" infrastructure on a cost accessible for startups and small companies. But even then, it isn't smart to outsorce more responsibilities than the minimum necessary, or have no backup plan (normaly another service provider that you can hire fast, and data backups).
Linus has come out and said that DRM is not necessarily bad on Linux.
Linus also has come out and said that a proprietary version control system would be good for Linux. Nobody is a genius all the time, and Linux seems to not completely grasp the harmful effects of closed source software.
Android is simply too lasses faire and requires too much learning for your non-geek and simply doesn't "work" yet.
The majority of smartphone owners would disagree...
Android works for Joe Random just like Windows. He has no idea what the system can do, but has some friend that knows how to set it up, and then, he is perfectly capable of using it. By the way, it is funny that you acuse Android of being lasser faire, as that was the single characteristic that made Windows win.
Yeah, I guess the GP was implying exactly that this applied to Python.
If anything, VB's syntax makes it extremely hard to parse it, but Python doesn't share that characteristic. Also, giving meaning to white space isn't that a good idea, and here Python is the worst offender, since every blank space has meaning, not just newlines. Anyway, both are much less problematic than they seem at first. It is just not important enough to choose another language because of it.
You know, insulting something by calling it a "scripting language" reflects worse on the caller than on the called. In fact, it only insults the caller.
VB6 is a bad language, but back on its time, it was what was available. Yeah, plenty of stupid people used it, but it takes an entire new level of stupidity to take the reciprocate of a true proposition and automatically assume it is true.
I personally like C++, but I try to only use the parts which make life easier
Lots of the times, that is just stl, but often that includes custom constructors and destructors. Other times it includes polymorphism and operator overloading, sometimes templates make your life easier, or entire blocks of purely functional code... Once in a while, even macros make your life easier.
There isn't a fixed set of stuff that will make your life easier, and a fixed set of useless constructions. C++ is that gargantuan beast for a reason.
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Yep, there is something to be said about marking your shortcuts, and making those marks quite visible on the application. Unfortunately, that technique is gettting out of fashion. We'll have to wait some years, so some usability consulting gives it another name and turns it into a buzzword... Then, sudenly, every manager will care about it.
That doesn't completely solves the problem with KDE. If it marked all its shortcuts, it would get out of room for placing windows. But it could mark some.
The default combo for the KDE menu is ALT + F1.
Well, I'm a KDE user, thus Windows XP doesn't have enough bells and whistles for me ;)
My computers vary from some huge machines to something that was slow even by 6 years ago when I brought it. I want "performance" on all of them, and Linux gives some nice amount if it, but the definition of "performance" varies and on the faster machines the DE doesn't make much difference (yeah I've measured it). On older machines, you are right, KDE is not the way to go.
KDE (the desktop environment) was ready for release, that's why it was released. The problem is that all the services and applications that come with it weren't.
They could have handled it better, but when the software developer says "please, don't put it on anything important yet", you'd better comply.
After you said, I had to check it. I'm using the latest KMail in Debian Stable (1.13.5), my email is stored at the Maildir. Maybe it was about older versons of it, or it was the default that was bad.
But KMail does use some kind of database. It doesn't store the emails there, but it creates all kinds of problems when you have more than one instance of KDE running.
Quite interesting, since the latin prefix "mili" (the real one that came from that root) means exactly the inverse of that.
A misleading name on marketing?!? I'm impressed.
Anyway, number of impressions tels exactly nothing about the benefit of a campaign, people could bill advertizing by the kilogram and it would make as much sense.
Yes, that's one of the greatest benefits of the cloud. You can "spawn" infrastructure on a cost accessible for startups and small companies. But even then, it isn't smart to outsorce more responsibilities than the minimum necessary, or have no backup plan (normaly another service provider that you can hire fast, and data backups).
Linus also has come out and said that a proprietary version control system would be good for Linux. Nobody is a genius all the time, and Linux seems to not completely grasp the harmful effects of closed source software.
The majority of smartphone owners would disagree...
Android works for Joe Random just like Windows. He has no idea what the system can do, but has some friend that knows how to set it up, and then, he is perfectly capable of using it. By the way, it is funny that you acuse Android of being lasser faire, as that was the single characteristic that made Windows win.
Yes, it is the IO that is the problem. And if you solve all the IO problems of a phone you'll get either a desktop or a neural implant.
Are you sugesting that MS should be researching neural implants?
That's good that you don't allow mammals into your "nature". Those are creepy creatures.
Yeah, I guess the GP was implying exactly that this applied to Python.
If anything, VB's syntax makes it extremely hard to parse it, but Python doesn't share that characteristic. Also, giving meaning to white space isn't that a good idea, and here Python is the worst offender, since every blank space has meaning, not just newlines. Anyway, both are much less problematic than they seem at first. It is just not important enough to choose another language because of it.
You know, insulting something by calling it a "scripting language" reflects worse on the caller than on the called. In fact, it only insults the caller.
VB6 is a bad language, but back on its time, it was what was available. Yeah, plenty of stupid people used it, but it takes an entire new level of stupidity to take the reciprocate of a true proposition and automatically assume it is true.
That may be news for you, but Linux (on x86) offers better compatibility for old Windows software than the new versions of Windows.
Windows is good emulating just one or two older versions of it.
Lots of the times, that is just stl, but often that includes custom constructors and destructors. Other times it includes polymorphism and operator overloading, sometimes templates make your life easier, or entire blocks of purely functional code... Once in a while, even macros make your life easier.
There isn't a fixed set of stuff that will make your life easier, and a fixed set of useless constructions. C++ is that gargantuan beast for a reason.
Yep. As a general case, minstream languages don't die. Lisp is another one that refuses to die, but for good reasons, nobody complains about it.
People do scanning microscopes at their undergrad, but transmission ones are more expensive and harder to make.
Well, untill somebody comes out with a hand held X-ray shield, your victim will not be the one you tthink it is.
Well, that solves the problem of the tought police not being able to watch everybody all the time...
George Orwell meets AI. Is the Big Brother human?
Obviously, it won't be option A. B and C are possibilities.
I've used Windows 7 for a total of, maybe, 10 hours. Maybe less.
Yes, that was enough to hate its "super bar".
They can't simply "design around" those minerals. Well, unless you are ok with heavier, less powerfull devices.
Electromigration doesn't happen in conductors that have only covalent bounds. It is a problem exclusive to metals.
Also, you escape Black's Law by reducing the current.
Hey, you can disable that thing?!? Great. Thank you.
Does it turn into a usefull taskbar after that? Can it stop grouping the windows?
Oh, yes, I forgot. And the "super bar" everybody keep talking about is that?!?