KDE has KParts, which offer some nice possibilities. Also, you can have an OS X-style menu (ie. it does not appear in the application window but in a Kicker panel) - although those only wirk with Qt applications. Someone should put compatibility for this in GTK, as it is very nice to have (it saves valuable screen real estate).
Also you can have GTK use Qt as the rendering engine via gtk-qt, which makes running Gnome apps under KDE a bit more pleasant; I dont know if it also works vice versa.
As was pointed out in previous posts, this code comes from the ECMA reference implementation and there are valid reasons for variable names like "uuuuu" and "vvvv": The length of the string indicates the number of bits stored in the variable and the letter indicates where the contents of the variable go when two variables are concatenated.
Worse, when there is a legitimate reasons for a superuser to log in, he is logging into an Explorer shell.
By the way, what about alternative shells like the Aston Shell? Do they completely replace explorer.exe or is the Explorer still running in the background? If they do replace the Explorer, installing an alternative shell might improve security on a Windows box.
Surely if your heart is stopped and your brain dead then your soul leaves your body and you go to heaven (or hell) depending on how good you lived your life.
Somebody else in the thread mentioned Anime versions, but I think that would be too bland. The animation would need a distinct visual style, like his writing style.
Note that Anime has several sub-styles with varying levels of character abstraction; a distinct visual style would be no problem at all. I agree, however, that anime would be the wrong genre.
But the distinct style does need to be everywhere. If they release a Pratchett movie that feels as if it was filmed in Hollywood they'd destroy something. The bbooks have a certain quirkiness to them that would need to be in the movie as well - maybe Terry Gilliam should be involved; Brazil was an excellent movie with a nice, strange feeling.
You forgot "3. The wrong tool for the job". The Cell is not quite the best architecture for your usual application with just one or two threads and it's highly unlikely that everyone will rewrite their software to make use of a half dozen threads (thus killing performnce on systems not running a Cell or SMP).
Except for the mobile processor market where Intel's processors currntly outperform AMD's, especially in terms of MHZ per watt. But yes, in the desktop and server markets AMD's where it's at, especially with the Athlon 64 line, which is almost cool enough to run with passive cooling.
I admit that while we are generally less sue-happy than you, we also have our fair share of idiots. After all, we have the "BILD", Europe's biggest tabloid, which has a blog (German; Coral Cache) dedicated to nothing but the horrible journalism they do (and which gets about ten reprimends per year from the German Press Counci).
We're not telling anyone anything. Our jurisdiction covers the wikipedia.de domain (as it's registered with the DENIC, which is, you know, German), everything past that is outside the reach of Germany's courts. Don't think that our judges aren't smart enough to know that. Theoretically they could try to make a move against Wikimedia, but they are amart enough to know that this case doesn't warrant an international lawsuit, too. Besides, the injunction does not go against Wikimedia as a whole but against the German chapter. Which happens to sit in Germany.
Trust me, we won't attack Poland because someone posted the name of a dead hacker on Wikipedia. Really.
Oh, and we tell other countries what to do all the time. Like that one time when we told you to stay the fuck out of Iraq if you don't have to defend yourselves from them (I don't want to comment on that war now, but it's a good example of us telling you what to do). We're quite good at bossing around people bigger than us - good thing that it's not the bossing around that always got us into trouble but the bad habit of causing epic world wars to occur... And we're clean of that now.
The answer is simple: Germany is not the USA. We don't sue over everything just because we can - if a German goes to court (s)he does it for very good reasons, for example because less radical (and expensive, as lawsuits tend to be) methods didn't work. I would have found it quite strange if they would have sued the publisher as the first reaction.
A lawsuit is a logical step, but it's still a bit away.
Right after "C++ is usable", "C# is a viable alternative to Java", "PHP is elegant", "there actually exists someone who can read Perl", "Python is popular", "Objective-C is used by anyone besides Apple" and "Fortran is not completely obsolete". (I was going to mention Smalltalk and Lisp, but seriously, no one uses them. Well, except for EMACS users who need therapy anyway.;)
Ahh, no better way to start the day than insulting all major programming languages (and one operating system with built-in text editor).
Tab Mix Plus gives you several option to deal with too many tabs. I currently prefer the one where extraneous tabs are hidden and you scroll with the mouse wheel to determine which ones get shown. I'd also prefer that over a menu (zero clutter and lower perceived overhead, as there are no clicks necessary to go through all tabs).
the ability to remeber all web pages when you close and then reopen the browser. (Also works if you kill opera with task manager so Id assume it works in a crash.)
Tab Mix Plus also does that. If you don't like TMP you can use the traditional one, Session Saver.
I'm quite happy with Download Statusbar, which keeps all downloads in your sight without much clutter. If you prefer external download managers, FlashGot provides tie-ins for most popular ones. If you want to transfer something from your computer, Firefox also has an FTP client.
While Firefox might not be the most versatile browser out of the box it's extremely easy to install extensions and/or plugins which greatly increase its usefulness.
Besides, the stability and memory usage has much improved with version 1.5.
But Ruby on Rails is so Web 2.0. All hip people use it to deliver their AJAXified XHTML websites. Is Web 2.0 about TurboGears? Do people socially organize their tagged bookmarks on Spring-powered websites? No, Web 2.0 is not only too hip to be used in conjunction with a "the", it's also powered by Ruby. Because Ruby is the big thing, which it is because it's part of the Web 2.0 hype, which it is because it's the big thing. Ruby is so incredibly more en vogue than Python that I want to make a glorified link list with rounded corners whenever I think about it. You better stay away from me or you might infect me with your 1.0ness.
Apart from the Foxy Tunes extension (which doesn't like it when iTunes is started after Fx) 1.5 is quite stable under OS X. 1.0.x was unstable, slow and badly integrated, but so far 1.5 hasn't given me much trouble at all.
Mozilla goes Qt? Really? That would be great. Currently I use a self-compiled Firefox on my Gentoo box as a) the Noia Light theme is 1.5-incompatible and b) the precompiled Firefox doesn't follow the GTK style (compiled for GTK 1?), which means that it loks like a Win95 app. Unfortunately I haven't been able to get Flash to work with a non-precompiled Firefox, which means that I'm flashless. I still have Fx on the iBook if I really need to access a flash animation, but it does suck to switch computers just to look at one website/funny game/whatever.
In December I had 56% "Netscape" (the stupid software doesn't differentiate between Netscape, Mozilla and Firefox), 36 % "Micro$oft Internet Exploder"[sic] (yay for professionalism), followed by 27% Firefox users that mysteriously didn't get lumped with "Netscape". Opera has about 4%, excluding those users who spoof as IE.
By the way, can anyone recommend a decent log analyzer? My current statistics are generated by Webalizer 2.01 (and definitively lacking) and I'm moving my stuff over to a shared root server, which of course gives my a lot of options. Decent logs would be a great thing to have.
The council's "compromise" involved a clause stating that alll software patents already granted were to be considered valid. It could also work the other way around, with the law requiring re-evaluation of all granted patents that might involve unpatentable things (as defined in it) and subsequent nullification of all patents found to be incompatible.
If we keep the pressure up we can't lose (as the parliamnt can ultimately reject all patent legislation), maybe we might even win.
Note that most software patents come from? The USA, Japan and Germany, in that order. About 1/3 of all software patents come from the USA, if Japan is added you get about 70% (source: FFII). The FFII has already made the point that software patents yre detrimental to the European IT industry. Pointing this out to people is a good idea, though. Many people have never heard of the FFII at all.
By the way, the database there is quite interesting. I never bothered to find out that Kapersky Labs was a German company, for example (and that they even care about legal malware).
We currently have software patents! What we rejected was software patent legislation; currently the EPO can hand out software patents (although there are a few restrictions in place).
What what you're thinking of is that the European Commission drafted a really bad piece of legislation essentially allowing software patents. The European Parliament rejected it and answered with a set of changes that would have made the law acceptable. The thing went to the Council of Europe, which was to make a compromise*. They came out with a "compromise" that went even further than the original draft. The Parliament rejected it again, ending the lawmaking process. It was not a great victory (as software patents still aren't stopped), but it was the best the parliament could do and I'm quite glad that the MEPs listened to the FFII et al.
Note: My knowledge stems from the fact that I gave a presentation on exactly this a couple weeks ago (even got a nice grade, heh). Also, I'm registered with the FFII as a supporter.
* The process of the draft bouncing back and forth between the council and the parliament is the normal EU lawmaking process. After the second rejection by the parliament the council could have attempted to settle things in a discussion, after that the draft would have been dead anyway. They decided not to - unsurprising, after the parliament rejected the "compromise" with a 95% majority!
But... but... ThinkGeek is selling a/. t-shirt... that doesn't... make... sense... *head explodes*
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We clearly need 2.0 2.0. It's just like 2.0 1.0, but it's totally interactive ans dynamic and socially collaborative with Ruby tags all over the place. It also has rounded corners.
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KDE has KParts, which offer some nice possibilities. Also, you can have an OS X-style menu (ie. it does not appear in the application window but in a Kicker panel) - although those only wirk with Qt applications. Someone should put compatibility for this in GTK, as it is very nice to have (it saves valuable screen real estate).
Also you can have GTK use Qt as the rendering engine via gtk-qt, which makes running Gnome apps under KDE a bit more pleasant; I dont know if it also works vice versa.
As was pointed out in previous posts, this code comes from the ECMA reference implementation and there are valid reasons for variable names like "uuuuu" and "vvvv": The length of the string indicates the number of bits stored in the variable and the letter indicates where the contents of the variable go when two variables are concatenated.
Worse, when there is a legitimate reasons for a superuser to log in, he is logging into an Explorer shell.
By the way, what about alternative shells like the Aston Shell? Do they completely replace explorer.exe or is the Explorer still running in the background? If they do replace the Explorer, installing an alternative shell might improve security on a Windows box.
Surely if your heart is stopped and your brain dead then your soul leaves your body and you go to heaven (or hell) depending on how good you lived your life.
Mine doesn't. And don't call me Shirley.
I just noticed that, according to IMDb Gilliam even was slated to direct a Good Omens film that never happened.
Somebody else in the thread mentioned Anime versions, but I think that would be too bland. The animation would need a distinct visual style, like his writing style.
Note that Anime has several sub-styles with varying levels of character abstraction; a distinct visual style would be no problem at all. I agree, however, that anime would be the wrong genre.
But the distinct style does need to be everywhere. If they release a Pratchett movie that feels as if it was filmed in Hollywood they'd destroy something. The bbooks have a certain quirkiness to them that would need to be in the movie as well - maybe Terry Gilliam should be involved; Brazil was an excellent movie with a nice, strange feeling.
You forgot "3. The wrong tool for the job". The Cell is not quite the best architecture for your usual application with just one or two threads and it's highly unlikely that everyone will rewrite their software to make use of a half dozen threads (thus killing performnce on systems not running a Cell or SMP).
Except for the mobile processor market where Intel's processors currntly outperform AMD's, especially in terms of MHZ per watt. But yes, in the desktop and server markets AMD's where it's at, especially with the Athlon 64 line, which is almost cool enough to run with passive cooling.
Umm, because they're not smart like us?
I admit that while we are generally less sue-happy than you, we also have our fair share of idiots. After all, we have the "BILD", Europe's biggest tabloid, which has a blog (German; Coral Cache) dedicated to nothing but the horrible journalism they do (and which gets about ten reprimends per year from the German Press Counci).
We're not telling anyone anything. Our jurisdiction covers the wikipedia.de domain (as it's registered with the DENIC, which is, you know, German), everything past that is outside the reach of Germany's courts. Don't think that our judges aren't smart enough to know that. Theoretically they could try to make a move against Wikimedia, but they are amart enough to know that this case doesn't warrant an international lawsuit, too. Besides, the injunction does not go against Wikimedia as a whole but against the German chapter. Which happens to sit in Germany.
Trust me, we won't attack Poland because someone posted the name of a dead hacker on Wikipedia. Really.
Oh, and we tell other countries what to do all the time. Like that one time when we told you to stay the fuck out of Iraq if you don't have to defend yourselves from them (I don't want to comment on that war now, but it's a good example of us telling you what to do). We're quite good at bossing around people bigger than us - good thing that it's not the bossing around that always got us into trouble but the bad habit of causing epic world wars to occur... And we're clean of that now.
The answer is simple: Germany is not the USA. We don't sue over everything just because we can - if a German goes to court (s)he does it for very good reasons, for example because less radical (and expensive, as lawsuits tend to be) methods didn't work. I would have found it quite strange if they would have sued the publisher as the first reaction.
A lawsuit is a logical step, but it's still a bit away.
Right after "C++ is usable", "C# is a viable alternative to Java", "PHP is elegant", "there actually exists someone who can read Perl", "Python is popular", "Objective-C is used by anyone besides Apple" and "Fortran is not completely obsolete". (I was going to mention Smalltalk and Lisp, but seriously, no one uses them. Well, except for EMACS users who need therapy anyway. ;)
Ahh, no better way to start the day than insulting all major programming languages (and one operating system with built-in text editor).
The menu for tabs when you have too many open,
...ChatZilla...
Tab Mix Plus gives you several option to deal with too many tabs. I currently prefer the one where extraneous tabs are hidden and you scroll with the mouse wheel to determine which ones get shown. I'd also prefer that over a menu (zero clutter and lower perceived overhead, as there are no clicks necessary to go through all tabs).
the ability to remeber all web pages when you close and then reopen the browser. (Also works if you kill opera with task manager so Id assume it works in a crash.)
Tab Mix Plus also does that. If you don't like TMP you can use the traditional one, Session Saver.
the notes side bar,
I had one but removed it as it saw no use.
the IRC option,
a better transfer manager.
I'm quite happy with Download Statusbar, which keeps all downloads in your sight without much clutter. If you prefer external download managers, FlashGot provides tie-ins for most popular ones. If you want to transfer something from your computer, Firefox also has an FTP client.
While Firefox might not be the most versatile browser out of the box it's extremely easy to install extensions and/or plugins which greatly increase its usefulness.
Besides, the stability and memory usage has much improved with version 1.5.
But Ruby on Rails is so Web 2.0. All hip people use it to deliver their AJAXified XHTML websites. Is Web 2.0 about TurboGears? Do people socially organize their tagged bookmarks on Spring-powered websites? No, Web 2.0 is not only too hip to be used in conjunction with a "the", it's also powered by Ruby. Because Ruby is the big thing, which it is because it's part of the Web 2.0 hype, which it is because it's the big thing. Ruby is so incredibly more en vogue than Python that I want to make a glorified link list with rounded corners whenever I think about it. You better stay away from me or you might infect me with your 1.0ness.
I mean, look at my coffee. This isn't just ergular coffee. It's French or something. You probably don't even know what France is.
My name is Jesus_666 and I'm an elitist asshole.
Apart from the Foxy Tunes extension (which doesn't like it when iTunes is started after Fx) 1.5 is quite stable under OS X. 1.0.x was unstable, slow and badly integrated, but so far 1.5 hasn't given me much trouble at all.
Mozilla goes Qt? Really? That would be great. Currently I use a self-compiled Firefox on my Gentoo box as a) the Noia Light theme is 1.5-incompatible and b) the precompiled Firefox doesn't follow the GTK style (compiled for GTK 1?), which means that it loks like a Win95 app. Unfortunately I haven't been able to get Flash to work with a non-precompiled Firefox, which means that I'm flashless. I still have Fx on the iBook if I really need to access a flash animation, but it does suck to switch computers just to look at one website/funny game/whatever.
In December I had 56% "Netscape" (the stupid software doesn't differentiate between Netscape, Mozilla and Firefox), 36 % "Micro$oft Internet Exploder"[sic] (yay for professionalism), followed by 27% Firefox users that mysteriously didn't get lumped with "Netscape". Opera has about 4%, excluding those users who spoof as IE.
By the way, can anyone recommend a decent log analyzer? My current statistics are generated by Webalizer 2.01 (and definitively lacking) and I'm moving my stuff over to a shared root server, which of course gives my a lot of options. Decent logs would be a great thing to have.
Do you really think so. Does substituting a period for a question mark make the poster look stupid.
The council's "compromise" involved a clause stating that alll software patents already granted were to be considered valid. It could also work the other way around, with the law requiring re-evaluation of all granted patents that might involve unpatentable things (as defined in it) and subsequent nullification of all patents found to be incompatible.
If we keep the pressure up we can't lose (as the parliamnt can ultimately reject all patent legislation), maybe we might even win.
Note that most software patents come from? The USA, Japan and Germany, in that order. About 1/3 of all software patents come from the USA, if Japan is added you get about 70% (source: FFII). The FFII has already made the point that software patents yre detrimental to the European IT industry. Pointing this out to people is a good idea, though. Many people have never heard of the FFII at all.
Yes, let's do this by numbers. One vote per company. In the blue corner we have almost two thousand companies (Coral Cache)...
By the way, the database there is quite interesting. I never bothered to find out that Kapersky Labs was a German company, for example (and that they even care about legal malware).
We currently have software patents! What we rejected was software patent legislation; currently the EPO can hand out software patents (although there are a few restrictions in place).
What what you're thinking of is that the European Commission drafted a really bad piece of legislation essentially allowing software patents. The European Parliament rejected it and answered with a set of changes that would have made the law acceptable. The thing went to the Council of Europe, which was to make a compromise*. They came out with a "compromise" that went even further than the original draft. The Parliament rejected it again, ending the lawmaking process. It was not a great victory (as software patents still aren't stopped), but it was the best the parliament could do and I'm quite glad that the MEPs listened to the FFII et al.
Note: My knowledge stems from the fact that I gave a presentation on exactly this a couple weeks ago (even got a nice grade, heh). Also, I'm registered with the FFII as a supporter.
* The process of the draft bouncing back and forth between the council and the parliament is the normal EU lawmaking process. After the second rejection by the parliament the council could have attempted to settle things in a discussion, after that the draft would have been dead anyway. They decided not to - unsurprising, after the parliament rejected the "compromise" with a 95% majority!
But... but... ThinkGeek is selling a /. t-shirt... that doesn't... make... sense... *head explodes*
We clearly need 2.0 2.0. It's just like 2.0 1.0, but it's totally interactive ans dynamic and socially collaborative with Ruby tags all over the place. It also has rounded corners.