Even worse than that: the properly typeset text may have used ligatures ('fi', 'Ro', 'li' etc). The typesetter could have changed kerning or tracking of the text. What if hyphen was used in the middle of the word? Or em-dash? What if different language was used (we all use Unicode these days, right?). The typesetting can change the total length of blacked-out word. The choice of "Egyptian" instead of "Ukrainian" may mean millions in fuel expenditurosees for long-range bombers and serious embarrassment in the future. These 2 countries are very far apart.
Somebody complained earlier in this thread that/.'ers are not constructive in their posts... This is sad but true. This is why I think that Squid's post should be moderated all the way up and forwarded to Gnome/Eazel team. Possibly the/. should have "Post your ideas for Linux GUI" as well as "Ask Slashdot" (It would not be as big as "Ask...":-)) Personally I would not hesitate a second to choose the desktop/fm with file permissions management and pipe redirection as in post above over background and theme management. The same goes to the desktop: I have 280k in 13 (!) gnome-related hidden directories and I only logged in there couple of times for 10-15 minutes total. Is there really a difference between binary database of Win32 Registry and 280k of plain text? (I know I can use "my favourite text editor" to edit text, but I can use my favourite registry editor too...) and btw, in *NIX "everything is a file" so we need only good file manager to manage it.
For those who can read _Russian_ here is another link:
http://ixbt.stack.net/cpu/e2k-spec.html
Anybody to translate in details? i'm a bit busy at the moment:-/
The most interesting things are: 1. It is not in silicon yet 2. "... Planned production - 4th qrt. 2001". 3. One of the former Elbrus designers V.Pentkovsky is working for Intel since 1990-1. (follow the link from the article for details. Funny name, isn't it?)
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Even worse than that: the properly typeset text may have used ligatures ('fi', 'Ro', 'li' etc). The typesetter could have changed kerning or tracking of the text. What if hyphen was used in the middle of the word? Or em-dash? What if different language was used (we all use Unicode these days, right?). The typesetting can change the total length of blacked-out word.
The choice of "Egyptian" instead of "Ukrainian" may mean millions in fuel expenditurosees for long-range bombers and serious embarrassment in the future. These 2 countries are very far apart.
Somebody complained earlier in this thread that /.'ers are not constructive in their posts... This is sad but true. This is why I think that Squid's post should be moderated all the way up and forwarded to Gnome/Eazel team. Possibly the /. should have "Post your ideas for Linux GUI" as well as "Ask Slashdot" (It would not be as big as "Ask..." :-)) Personally I would not hesitate a second to choose the desktop/fm with file permissions management and pipe redirection as in post above over background and theme management. The same goes to the desktop: I have 280k in 13 (!) gnome-related hidden directories and I only logged in there couple of times for 10-15 minutes total. Is there really a difference between binary database of Win32 Registry and 280k of plain text? (I know I can use "my favourite text editor" to edit text, but I can use my favourite registry editor too...)
and btw, in *NIX "everything is a file" so we need only good file manager to manage it.
For those who can read _Russian_ here is another link:
:-/
http://ixbt.stack.net/cpu/e2k-spec.html
Anybody to translate in details? i'm a bit busy at the moment
The most interesting things are:
1. It is not in silicon yet
2. "... Planned production - 4th qrt. 2001".
3. One of the former Elbrus designers V.Pentkovsky is working for Intel since 1990-1. (follow the link from the article for details. Funny name, isn't it?)