Actually, both projects are on Freedesktop.org. One's called Xorg, the other Xserver. And Xorg appears to be under the standard X license.
Kind of strange, but not really. Just one project (freedesktop.org) providing excellent free CVS hosting for free desktop projects, and two very similar projects with very different leadership joining.
I am glad to see them choose X.org over freedesktop.org. I do not want to see X be replaced with an LGPL fork.
X is not just a Linux thing. A major free version of X should be designed to work on BSD as well. BSD users do not want to have to put their codebase closer to the GPL than it already is.
Plus, I like the idea of standardizing on MAS. In some ways inferior to Jack, but anything that gets a lower-latency sound daemon to be a standard i'm for.
Not fast enough, in my experience, for power users. Java takes too long to start up. It also isn't very Unix-like, in that only files ending in.class can be executed.
Plus, I consider Java to be a real pain in the butt, Pre-1.5. I have a compilers class in Java now. I am having to do way too much casting.
But I also think that Ada would be an excellent language to code a toolkit in. It has good support for OOP, Generics, and Tasking. Plus it's not case-sensitive. I actually like its verbosity. But most people hate it.
Yeah, GTK/Gnome really does suck. I think someone should write a paper, "GTK/Gnome considered harmful for GUI building". I found a Tetris program written in Ada (a language which provides excellent software engineering facilities), and found that upon entering my name, pressing the Enter key did nothing. So I figured, I'll just go into the docs and figure out how to make it the default.
Thirty minutes of searching around for it and expirementing with it, with no success, and I put the project on hold. I couldn't believe how confusing it was! And in the sample code, it was broken.
I intentionally limit my time with GTK apps, because it encourages me to forget useful keyboard combinations. "Esc" doesn't close a dialog box.
Not to mention it's slow and bloated, and full of crashes and potential for buffer overruns, since it uses a C object system, with type-unsafe macros, rather than a real object system, where type-checking is done completely at compiler time.
You could use a binding to keep yourself from creating new bugs, but I don't recommend it. What we need is a new GUI toolkit for 'nix, made in a better suited programming language (such as Java or Ada).
Hmm, i shake out my keyboard every once and a while, which is pretty gross, and vaccum out the dust bunnies from my case, but the only time i ever even wipe off the toilet seat is when its down and my aim is off, even then, urine is sanitary, toilet bowl gets cleaned with the really nice smelling (wtf is that, anybody know, mint?) blue stuff every two weeks or so...
I assume you're single. Welcome to the club.
Interesting, though. This discussion is shaping up to be more like one after a poll.
No, seriously, I run Linux and I have a lot of friends who run Linux, and we all boot into Windows for anything but the simplest of games. I tried UT on linux, but I found it to be disappointing.
In fact, there really is no reason to mention Bush here. This kind of thing has been going on since the Clinton era. Who the hell came up with the terms in the DMCA? Not a champion of the people, that's for damn sure. Special interests whores were behind that. The only reason I would mention both this guy and Bush in the same sentence is that they're both special interest whores.
I'm with that. I read the book, liked it, but there's more literary examples of political corruption than 1984. 1984 is just the most popular example, so it gets used all the time.
Not sure what book I would relate to this one. But not 1984.
I'm not so sure about non-profit agencies (though I think the status given to them is wrong). I had a "non-profit agency" interrupt a peaceful afternoon at home with a pre-recorded call about their debt consolidation service. The call only served to remind me that my finances sucked (I am a student who is about to graduate, can't find much time to work). I wanted to shove the phone up the throat of whoever was behind it.
That cuts to the heart of the constitution, when you can't talk or write about the law of the land. It is really pathetic how only one judge would think of the moral issue, that a law was being enforced that he couldn't even read about. All of the other appeals court judges, in their writing for the judgement, cited the reason for being able to copyright law as convenience.
I agree with that. We do not need to hide the numbers because there are people who don't understand the numbers. Engineers and technicians desire some kind of real specifications to base their purchasing decisions around. To sell a car with a 6000+ engine volume, rather than "5.7 liter" would just be absurd.
Not thinking in terms of engineering and architecture, when integrating computer hardware and software, introduces bugs and instability. Computer professionals need to be precise. Any of this dumbing down of hardware and software specs hurts the profession.
Most of those are fine. They don't encourage you to pronounce them in an unnatural way. You just say the preceding letter and the following word. Gnibbles and Gnome, and the ones you mention, guikachu and gchch, which are just too many letters to read, are the stupid ones.
How can you draw the comparison of any of those things, to things like Gnibbles or Kallery? But then again you're just a gay ass troll so I'll let it be.
For him to call it 3.0GHz is absolutely preposterous. Any engineer or scientist can see that. There is a such thing as clock speed. It's a very real thing that has to be accounted for in many hardware design situations.
no, seriously, if you're going to go with a cola, Pepsi sucks. it is sugary. Sierra Mist is good. I've only bought one since the promotion and it was a winner, but I accidentally threw the cap away. Oh well, I was going to give it away anyway. And I don't believe I would have owned the song in a useful and perpetual way anyway, without breaking the encryption code. I want to be able to listen to my music on whatever device I want, no matter what OS it's running.
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But I think that other poster might be right about fdox not being LGPL'ed.
Kind of strange, but not really. Just one project (freedesktop.org) providing excellent free CVS hosting for free desktop projects, and two very similar projects with very different leadership joining.
X is not just a Linux thing. A major free version of X should be designed to work on BSD as well. BSD users do not want to have to put their codebase closer to the GPL than it already is.
Plus, I like the idea of standardizing on MAS. In some ways inferior to Jack, but anything that gets a lower-latency sound daemon to be a standard i'm for.
Plus, I consider Java to be a real pain in the butt, Pre-1.5. I have a compilers class in Java now. I am having to do way too much casting.
But I also think that Ada would be an excellent language to code a toolkit in. It has good support for OOP, Generics, and Tasking. Plus it's not case-sensitive. I actually like its verbosity. But most people hate it.
Looks like it is going to deal with technology.
But yeah, those don't take a whole lot of foresight. Looks like filler to me.
Thirty minutes of searching around for it and expirementing with it, with no success, and I put the project on hold. I couldn't believe how confusing it was! And in the sample code, it was broken.
I intentionally limit my time with GTK apps, because it encourages me to forget useful keyboard combinations. "Esc" doesn't close a dialog box.
Not to mention it's slow and bloated, and full of crashes and potential for buffer overruns, since it uses a C object system, with type-unsafe macros, rather than a real object system, where type-checking is done completely at compiler time.
You could use a binding to keep yourself from creating new bugs, but I don't recommend it. What we need is a new GUI toolkit for 'nix, made in a better suited programming language (such as Java or Ada).
I assume you're single. Welcome to the club.
Interesting, though. This discussion is shaping up to be more like one after a poll.
Then you must be one of what, 5 people?
No, seriously, I run Linux and I have a lot of friends who run Linux, and we all boot into Windows for anything but the simplest of games. I tried UT on linux, but I found it to be disappointing.
In fact, there really is no reason to mention Bush here. This kind of thing has been going on since the Clinton era. Who the hell came up with the terms in the DMCA? Not a champion of the people, that's for damn sure. Special interests whores were behind that. The only reason I would mention both this guy and Bush in the same sentence is that they're both special interest whores.
Not sure what book I would relate to this one. But not 1984.
I'm not so sure about non-profit agencies (though I think the status given to them is wrong). I had a "non-profit agency" interrupt a peaceful afternoon at home with a pre-recorded call about their debt consolidation service. The call only served to remind me that my finances sucked (I am a student who is about to graduate, can't find much time to work). I wanted to shove the phone up the throat of whoever was behind it.
That cuts to the heart of the constitution, when you can't talk or write about the law of the land. It is really pathetic how only one judge would think of the moral issue, that a law was being enforced that he couldn't even read about. All of the other appeals court judges, in their writing for the judgement, cited the reason for being able to copyright law as convenience.
That is pure ignorance.
Not thinking in terms of engineering and architecture, when integrating computer hardware and software, introduces bugs and instability. Computer professionals need to be precise. Any of this dumbing down of hardware and software specs hurts the profession.
Man, nothing to nitpick about in your post. And you're an AC.
-1 Funny but it hurts. Exactly what I would have rated it.
No, I intend to interpret her.
You can't spell. What are your odds of having sex?
Most of those are fine. They don't encourage you to pronounce them in an unnatural way. You just say the preceding letter and the following word. Gnibbles and Gnome, and the ones you mention, guikachu and gchch, which are just too many letters to read, are the stupid ones.
How can you draw the comparison of any of those things, to things like Gnibbles or Kallery? But then again you're just a gay ass troll so I'll let it be.
For him to call it 3.0GHz is absolutely preposterous. Any engineer or scientist can see that. There is a such thing as clock speed. It's a very real thing that has to be accounted for in many hardware design situations.
no, seriously, if you're going to go with a cola, Pepsi sucks. it is sugary. Sierra Mist is good. I've only bought one since the promotion and it was a winner, but I accidentally threw the cap away. Oh well, I was going to give it away anyway. And I don't believe I would have owned the song in a useful and perpetual way anyway, without breaking the encryption code. I want to be able to listen to my music on whatever device I want, no matter what OS it's running.
She had no manager, she could call to deal with it?
Don't see any reason why DOSBOX or doseum shouldn't work :)
AMD has 3GHz processors? Where the hell was I when this was announced? -- Intel fanboy