Your point stands, but I believe grandparent's point is actually more important. If there is a deep tie into the operating system, let it better be an Open Source operating system. BTW, which license is KHTML and how is it they get away not opening MacOS X? I'd like to know the details.
That may be a valid point for libraries or server-related packages, but for anything that has to do with a windows manager, you're just wrong about your concept of stable. You're looking at "unstable" or "testing", or Ubuntu which isn't any more stable than any of those two BTW.
It's just that their choice of names is a tad misleading.
I second rainman_bc. It isn't stable enough, and their customer support is lacking. I ran into multiple issues to get the Perl debugger to work properly due to undocumented conflicts. Even after getting it running with the debugger and all, it was slow and unstable (the debugging mostly).
I ended up buying a license of Komodo Personal for 30 bucks, and been happy ever since.
It covers all my installations for just 30 bucks, 3 versions included: Linux, Mac and Windows. I'm happy to pimp it.
Got it hung under windows a couple of times, and it takes quite a bit of memory - that are my only complaints. I'd recommend 512MB at least.
Yet it's happening every day. People are charging higher rents due to ADSL/cable being included. This is reselling and this is happening. Sure, once there is a big target, it will be shot - but if you RTFriendlyA they're in talks with ISPs. The difference is there.
There are chances Open Source crushes this, by the way. Implement some Open Source (just to reinsure no spyware is included), securely encripted software that setup this, and voilà. Why paying any commission at all to these people? you can keep 100% of the price you decide to set. Amusingly, they might want to resort to software patents to avoid this.
What nwbvt said. Obviously the headline is appropriate, and to me it is newsworthy if only because of the perceived cruelty in the attack.
It's also undeniably amazing that they get to control roaches like that. For me that is the most interesting part, not the goal they have but the means they're able to perform.
All languages I know are a combination of many others as well. Doesn't mean we keep in English anywhere near a complete vocabulary from any of those. I've studied Latin - the amount of latin words we don't have a good translation for is amazing. There are heaps of common latin words we have lost completely not only in English but also in romance languages like Italian or Spanish. It's not even a safe bet to say English is richer than Latin. From the richness in their expression, it most probably isn't, and they didn't have good ways to compile dictionaries... they didn't even have printing tech.
Japanese borrows most of it's vocab from just a few, most importantly Chinese and prehistoric languages from the Japanese islands. It doesn't matter. I've seen vocabs listing millions, but of course most of them are either obsolete or unused. Oxford claims there are 171,476 words in use and preserves some 50000 obsolete ones for historical reasons. Any run-of-the-mill Japanese thesaurus includes at least 200,000. I can sell you some if you wish. My Thesaurus from Shogakukan has some 230000 IIRC. I'm sure there are compilations in the millions of entries, but it doesn't matter for the issue at hand. The issue at hand is how many words does an average Japanese speaker know, and they do know and use a lot more than us; not just English speakers, but westerners in general. The guy said "sugoi sugoi sugoi sugoi sugoi" instead of spouting a lot of different words because of style. It actually fits their mentality; just because you have the most advanced architecture tech, it doesn't mean your room doesn't have to be minimalistic. They use accurate terms where needed, and mostly in written Japanese.
It's a matter of structure. Japanese lends itself to derive more words for their syllabic structure and use of chinese ideograms. I use a pocket dictionary with over 60000 entries, and it's still not enough for even reading newspapers. You have to guess many words.
In the English language most of the ethimology is obscured thus making more difficult for the speaker to learn each word. There's also a multiplicity of roots meaning the exact same thing, even for basic concepts. This patching of the language doesn't make the language richer, but quite the opposite. The japanese use a lot more words than us westerners, especially in written media. Any bilingual speaker with an education knows that.
Japanese (and also Chinese) have a steep learning curve because of their writing systems, but once you get past a point, you just memorize new words more effectively since they're combinations of units with a known meaning. Us westerners don't know the roots of our words for the most part, which is mostly because of the extensive borrowing you mention, which I might add is common to every other european language I know of. They've also borrowed happily, and where they didn't, they're just borrowing back from English now (actually for things they don't even lack, too - pisses me off sometimes).
The typical American college student knows between 20000 and 30000 words on graduation. With 1000 words you cover >99% of the English spoken in the streets. I'd say you need a lot less than that. An average high-school japanese student knows more than 20000 words, if only because for the characters they're forced to memorize to get through high-school.
English may have many words on paper. Other european languages have officially less words than English just because they take out of the dictionary more easily. Some claim English has over half a million non-technical words, which is utter bullshit. They must have been adding in the words in Beowulf. I'd bet there are no more than 100000 non-slang words in all English modern literature put together. I even have a half-finished perl script somewhere just stripping words out of text and deconjugating verbs and taking out proper nouns just to check how many English words do people actually use. I have to retake it some day.
A language doesn't have as many words as it's most stupidly big dictionary, but rather as many as a significant portion of their speakers get to know. I'm afraid American English - the most influential dialect of English - is very poor. But it's not only that; the structure of the language is such that we have more grammar and they have more words to express the same things. The opposite happens when comparing with French for instance; I believe they have less words but way more grammar. Human communication is not more or less complex in other cultures. If they lack something, they compensate with something else.
Now that was a waste of my time... who's going to read all that?:D
Actually both are mistaken. Though there are lots of words for any of those English terms - actually Japanese has more vocabulary than English by far - it's simply not common Japanese style to speak out paronyms like that. Makes you look like a smartass. In Japanese, accurate words are used where necessary.
The only thing iBookish about this is the color. Parent just pointed out the obvious, but nevertheless obligatory. Apple didn't patent the color white yet. Oh, and I own a G4 whitey iBook. Every time someone releases something white, they come in waves to say it's "apple-ish" or "iBookish" and I just can't stand it.
The news here's the poor choice of words this Gordon Haff has made. I'm guessing this analyst doesn't own any Intel stock.
Basically, no one ever used hardware-based IA-32 execution, so better to use the silicon for something else.
Of course, basically no one uses software-based emulation either, but at least that doesn't cost chip real estate.
In other words, no one cares. Sounds like it's a worthless feature just so they can include it in the list. I'm not sure what's the market for this chip, having Xenons for so cheap.
Why not choose AVG, which has free updates, on it's personal version, forever?
You're answering your own question. Because AVG is free for its personal version only. Google pack is not only for home users, it's for business PCs too. So Google went with something free for everybody for 6 months (Norton).
Your argument doesn't hold a drop of water, because Adaware PERSONAL is also free for personal use only, and that didn't stop them from adding it.
I don't think I see your point. I like GTK, and I think giving it a look it's almost a must for any programmer lookin into cross-platform GUIs, but comparison is totally needed when you write a "Why use XYZ?" article.
By just enumerating features, you are tricking the reader into thinking those features are somewhat exclusive, while actually NONE are. I'd concede "It's free software with a liberal open source license" as relatively exclusive compared to most of the competition, but how would the reader know? the article doesn't say shit about it. In fact, it doesn't say shit about anything. It's an ad that could be summarized in three parragraphs at most.
I'm always game to discuss the state of the art in cross-platform GUIs, as it's always changing and usually for the better... but this is not an article. My first grade homework was twice as deep. This article reeks of GTK+ advocacy for the sake of it... "why GTK?" and no mention of the alternatives? It doesn't say more than gtk.org's main page, for heaven's sake. It's more like "why should you read my next article"!
Maybe if the following parts say something interesting, it would be worthy of making it to the developers section, if that.
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Actually I was wishing for the 12'' (or less). I have my 21'' screen already for home usage, thanks.
Your point stands, but I believe grandparent's point is actually more important. If there is a deep tie into the operating system, let it better be an Open Source operating system. BTW, which license is KHTML and how is it they get away not opening MacOS X? I'd like to know the details.
Indeed. I'd love to see one in my next Zaurus. With 4GB HD + 4GB CF I'm loving this thing, but it's a bit laggy at times.
Was that sarcasm? or are you just being a smartass?
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That may be a valid point for libraries or server-related packages, but for anything that has to do with a windows manager, you're just wrong about your concept of stable. You're looking at "unstable" or "testing", or Ubuntu which isn't any more stable than any of those two BTW.
It's just that their choice of names is a tad misleading.
I second rainman_bc. It isn't stable enough, and their customer support is lacking. I ran into multiple issues to get the Perl debugger to work properly due to undocumented conflicts. Even after getting it running with the debugger and all, it was slow and unstable (the debugging mostly).
I ended up buying a license of Komodo Personal for 30 bucks, and been happy ever since.
It covers all my installations for just 30 bucks, 3 versions included: Linux, Mac and Windows. I'm happy to pimp it.
Got it hung under windows a couple of times, and it takes quite a bit of memory - that are my only complaints. I'd recommend 512MB at least.
Yet it's happening every day. People are charging higher rents due to ADSL/cable being included. This is reselling and this is happening. Sure, once there is a big target, it will be shot - but if you RTFriendlyA they're in talks with ISPs. The difference is there.
There are chances Open Source crushes this, by the way. Implement some Open Source (just to reinsure no spyware is included), securely encripted software that setup this, and voilà. Why paying any commission at all to these people? you can keep 100% of the price you decide to set. Amusingly, they might want to resort to software patents to avoid this.
What nwbvt said. Obviously the headline is appropriate, and to me it is newsworthy if only because of the perceived cruelty in the attack.
It's also undeniably amazing that they get to control roaches like that. For me that is the most interesting part, not the goal they have but the means they're able to perform.
I think you mean you'd pay a dollar (0.8 ~ 0.9 Euro) for that.
All languages I know are a combination of many others as well. Doesn't mean we keep in English anywhere near a complete vocabulary from any of those. I've studied Latin - the amount of latin words we don't have a good translation for is amazing. There are heaps of common latin words we have lost completely not only in English but also in romance languages like Italian or Spanish. It's not even a safe bet to say English is richer than Latin. From the richness in their expression, it most probably isn't, and they didn't have good ways to compile dictionaries... they didn't even have printing tech. Japanese borrows most of it's vocab from just a few, most importantly Chinese and prehistoric languages from the Japanese islands. It doesn't matter. I've seen vocabs listing millions, but of course most of them are either obsolete or unused. Oxford claims there are 171,476 words in use and preserves some 50000 obsolete ones for historical reasons. Any run-of-the-mill Japanese thesaurus includes at least 200,000. I can sell you some if you wish. My Thesaurus from Shogakukan has some 230000 IIRC. I'm sure there are compilations in the millions of entries, but it doesn't matter for the issue at hand. The issue at hand is how many words does an average Japanese speaker know, and they do know and use a lot more than us; not just English speakers, but westerners in general. The guy said "sugoi sugoi sugoi sugoi sugoi" instead of spouting a lot of different words because of style. It actually fits their mentality; just because you have the most advanced architecture tech, it doesn't mean your room doesn't have to be minimalistic. They use accurate terms where needed, and mostly in written Japanese.
It's a matter of structure. Japanese lends itself to derive more words for their syllabic structure and use of chinese ideograms. I use a pocket dictionary with over 60000 entries, and it's still not enough for even reading newspapers. You have to guess many words.
:D
In the English language most of the ethimology is obscured thus making more difficult for the speaker to learn each word. There's also a multiplicity of roots meaning the exact same thing, even for basic concepts. This patching of the language doesn't make the language richer, but quite the opposite. The japanese use a lot more words than us westerners, especially in written media. Any bilingual speaker with an education knows that.
Japanese (and also Chinese) have a steep learning curve because of their writing systems, but once you get past a point, you just memorize new words more effectively since they're combinations of units with a known meaning. Us westerners don't know the roots of our words for the most part, which is mostly because of the extensive borrowing you mention, which I might add is common to every other european language I know of. They've also borrowed happily, and where they didn't, they're just borrowing back from English now (actually for things they don't even lack, too - pisses me off sometimes).
The typical American college student knows between 20000 and 30000 words on graduation. With 1000 words you cover >99% of the English spoken in the streets. I'd say you need a lot less than that. An average high-school japanese student knows more than 20000 words, if only because for the characters they're forced to memorize to get through high-school.
English may have many words on paper. Other european languages have officially less words than English just because they take out of the dictionary more easily. Some claim English has over half a million non-technical words, which is utter bullshit. They must have been adding in the words in Beowulf. I'd bet there are no more than 100000 non-slang words in all English modern literature put together. I even have a half-finished perl script somewhere just stripping words out of text and deconjugating verbs and taking out proper nouns just to check how many English words do people actually use. I have to retake it some day.
A language doesn't have as many words as it's most stupidly big dictionary, but rather as many as a significant portion of their speakers get to know. I'm afraid American English - the most influential dialect of English - is very poor. But it's not only that; the structure of the language is such that we have more grammar and they have more words to express the same things. The opposite happens when comparing with French for instance; I believe they have less words but way more grammar. Human communication is not more or less complex in other cultures. If they lack something, they compensate with something else.
Now that was a waste of my time... who's going to read all that?
Actually both are mistaken. Though there are lots of words for any of those English terms - actually Japanese has more vocabulary than English by far - it's simply not common Japanese style to speak out paronyms like that. Makes you look like a smartass. In Japanese, accurate words are used where necessary.
$64.0 billion ought to be enough for anybody.
The only thing iBookish about this is the color. Parent just pointed out the obvious, but nevertheless obligatory. Apple didn't patent the color white yet. Oh, and I own a G4 whitey iBook. Every time someone releases something white, they come in waves to say it's "apple-ish" or "iBookish" and I just can't stand it.
Yeah, but you won't have that for 150 measly bucks.
Sure isn't circular. I'm sure he meant SPHERICAL.
Sorry for being Captain Nitpick, but this one was a bit too much.
They could also do some research on HTTP proxies.
Dude, that sounds to me like "all our previous benchmarks were bogus"!
Next time you know they will say "now with twice the mouse buttons and productivity!"
I don't think I see your point. I like GTK, and I think giving it a look it's almost a must for any programmer lookin into cross-platform GUIs, but comparison is totally needed when you write a "Why use XYZ?" article.
By just enumerating features, you are tricking the reader into thinking those features are somewhat exclusive, while actually NONE are. I'd concede "It's free software with a liberal open source license" as relatively exclusive compared to most of the competition, but how would the reader know? the article doesn't say shit about it. In fact, it doesn't say shit about anything. It's an ad that could be summarized in three parragraphs at most.
You have a point, but give this a try: http://www.fckeditor.net/demo/default.html
I'm always game to discuss the state of the art in cross-platform GUIs, as it's always changing and usually for the better... but this is not an article. My first grade homework was twice as deep. This article reeks of GTK+ advocacy for the sake of it... "why GTK?" and no mention of the alternatives? It doesn't say more than gtk.org's main page, for heaven's sake. It's more like "why should you read my next article"!
Maybe if the following parts say something interesting, it would be worthy of making it to the developers section, if that.
Kudos man, I spit tea out of my nose reading this post.
Instead, you need a more complicated sentence: "where can I buy an adapter so I can plug my system."
Notice that this is an issue even between Japan, China and Korea alone. Different plugs, different frequencies, different voltages. Good thing the PSP takes 100V to 240V and 50/60Hz, but that won't help you with plugs.