It seems the feature is already in Gtk2.0.
I just apt-get installed gtweakui from Debian/Ubuntu, and changed GConf settings to use tear-off menus in all Gtk2.0 apps.
(With an exception of Firefox/Thunderbird,
which use their own theming system.)
I'll switch to 2.10 as soon, as I can log to Gnome after KDE and come back to KDE without my ~/Desktop broken. And with drag&drop working between Gnome and KDE apps.
Ehhmm... I'm afraid nothing:-(.
The "brain drain" is a story of many other countries.
And it occurs, that these people simple would not have enough infrastructure and institutional support to fully reach their potential outside U.S.
I'm not saying that U.S. is in any way "superior",
I just regret that so many countries do not know the way to let people fully use their mental abilities.
To invest in people you simply need to be rich and little less corrupt (in a way you spend your money).
You obviously do not know, what communist regime spies were acting like.
They were searching in the country for evidence of any "unlawful thinking" using any means possible. More like Orwell's "1984".
Main modes of operation included blackmail and intimidation. When it didn't work, then suspects went to prison or "disappeared" (a.k.a. were assassinated) like famous priest - Popieluszko.
I chose Debian, because it is usable both on server and workstation (and I wanted to provide help on both).
It is best to have the same distribution in whole institution, so I have unstable on workstations and stable on servers. I can have the same local packages with custom debianized software for both environments.
And automatic package management facilities are most advanced... (Think apt-get 0.6.25 w/crypto package verification, auto-apt or dlocate.)
I do some development in bioinformatics, and it seems to be pretty good case: most applications are divided into different processes (SQL db, WWW server or X server are examples), so you use about 2-4 threads most of the time... when you are short on CPU;-).
(Indeed most applications with more sophisticated user interface can be treated as 2-way.)
Development tools like make or JVM are also to be multithreaded. (But in case of make you need to add an option.)
PS I personally look forward to dual-core laptops! As far as I can tell, they could give twice horsepower for half as much energy... because energy usage grows quadratically with gigahertzs.
The problem is: running one app in the background can deviate test results much more than these few percents.
I wouldn't even try to use it if I were looking for speedup.
What I see here is solution that can behave in a way hard to predict and fails to achieve defensible speed up.
I don't think that "feature accretion" is a good way to develop operating system. It would be hard to reason about it's behaviour.
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It seems the feature is already in Gtk2.0. I just apt-get installed gtweakui from Debian/Ubuntu, and changed GConf settings to use tear-off menus in all Gtk2.0 apps. (With an exception of Firefox/Thunderbird, which use their own theming system.)
Q: How do you do it?
My Thunderbird cannot even do full-text search of my year-old mailbox.I'll switch to 2.10 as soon, as I can log to Gnome after KDE and come back to KDE without my ~/Desktop broken. And with drag&drop working between Gnome and KDE apps.
Ehhmm... I'm afraid nothing :-(.
The "brain drain" is a story of many other countries.
And it occurs, that these people simple would not have enough infrastructure and institutional support to fully reach their potential outside U.S.
I'm not saying that U.S. is in any way "superior", I just regret that so many countries do not know the way to let people fully use their mental abilities.
To invest in people you simply need to be rich and little less corrupt (in a way you spend your money).
You obviously do not know, what communist regime spies were acting like.
They were searching in the country for evidence of any "unlawful thinking" using any means possible. More like Orwell's "1984".
Main modes of operation included blackmail and intimidation. When it didn't work, then suspects went to prison or "disappeared" (a.k.a. were assassinated) like famous priest - Popieluszko.
Disable mplayer plugin also.
In fact most plugins I have are capable of locking up the browser, or at least making extreme slow-down (Flash).
Public interest groups have all these traits also, but feed a more "material" needs.
Religions tend to have mutually-exclusive licenses whereas interest groups do not.
I chose Debian, because it is usable both on server and workstation (and I wanted to provide help on both).
It is best to have the same distribution in whole institution, so I have unstable on workstations and stable on servers. I can have the same local packages with custom debianized software for both environments.
And automatic package management facilities are most advanced... (Think apt-get 0.6.25 w/crypto package verification, auto-apt or dlocate.)
And if debian is not for you - you can always choose debian-based distro.
I'm not sure what kind of programs did you use...
I do some development in bioinformatics, and it seems to be pretty good case: most applications are divided into different processes (SQL db, WWW server or X server are examples), so you use about 2-4 threads most of the time... when you are short on CPU ;-).
(Indeed most applications with more sophisticated user interface can be treated as 2-way.)
Development tools like make or JVM are also to be multithreaded. (But in case of make you need to add an option.)
PS I personally look forward to dual-core laptops! As far as I can tell, they could give twice horsepower for half as much energy... because energy usage grows quadratically with gigahertzs.
...if viruses wouldn't work?
Yes, I agree.
It is exactly what happened in my dept, and it gives security gains more quickly.
...laptop is enough for work, PS2 for games, and Mac Mini is convenient for hardcore unix-fan (and admin) type as I am.
...I would take this idea, develop and sell as "flexible notetaker". It would be easy to integrate such input device with IpodPhoto or PowerMac...
The problem is: running one app in the background can deviate test results much more than these few percents.
I wouldn't even try to use it if I were looking for speedup.
...but I guess they can demonstrate considerable speedup at the very least.
It is not the case here - few percentage points are negligible.
What I see here is solution that can behave in a way hard to predict and fails to achieve defensible speed up.
I don't think that "feature accretion" is a good way to develop operating system. It would be hard to reason about it's behaviour.
1-2% gain is in the borders of statistical error. Definitely not worth the increased complexity of the solution.
Check these three names: Symbian, Palm, PocketPC.
These devices will get 3GB harddisks and 500MHz processors soon...
And what if they build a little quantum computer?
I agree, but it could be hard for vendors to agree on portable API (so that device would be OS-independent).
When we will see readers in common equipment? :-).
It would be nice to have PGP and SSH key stored on my ID card
Censors needed to assure, that there is nothing bad said about Chinese satelite and newspaper wanted to give the news. :-)
So they put a lot of sugar to balance the facts.It may be hard to understand, if you always lived with a right to free-speech.
1. Let most people use The Software (IE) by any (dumping, preinstalling) means.
2. Set the standard by yourself and don't care about others.
Internet Explorer may have created little direct revenue to MS, but it's target was to hurt the competition.
And judicial system doesn't seem to be able to enforce monopoly out of it's unlawful methods....try OQO. Has 20GB hard disk, 1GHz x86-compatible processor, ethernet and USB connectors...
PS When will phones have huge hard disks, screen and docking stations with Athlon64?