the only place it seriously lacks is in video gaming
I have to take issue with that. There are other issues that keep me of Linux as my primary OS.
1. Most graphical applications seem half done, mainly with respect to the interface but sometimes functionality as well. Commercial applications have an added incentive to achieve more because if they aren't seperated from the others, no one will buy them.
2. That leads me to my second point. When I get something with a complex interface or setup (DVD playing apps come to mind) my first instinct is to click the help menu. There is rarely any information there. Usually its a message that it will be implimented in the future or to write your own. This is usually not the case for windows, even with free software.
Doesn't that 79p include the VAT as well? The 99cents price in the US does not include sales tax.
I don't get taxed on my iTMS purchases. I know with the traditional online store model, they only have to charge you tax if they have a physical presence in the state where you live. So, since Apple doesn't have an Apple Store in the state of Kentucky, I don't pay taxes on the purchases directly from Apple. I assume the same thing applies with iTMS.
I, personally have given up on making my own webpages work with IE, it's not worth the effort...
A lot of sites have the 'Optimized for IE' or whatever on their front page. Web developers should start doing the same thing for Firefox, even if it is still completely compliant with IE. If the masses start to see things like that on different sites, it can only help the movement.
I also like how if you open a bunch of tabs it reports all the dead tabs one after the other instead of having to go to each dead tab to OK the error message. And it is very nice to have the "Open in Tabs" in each bookmark folder instead of as a toggle in the bookmarks manager.
Speaking of dead tabs.... One thing that keeps safari in there for me is the fact that it doesn't clear the address bar for dead tabs. If I do a search and open a bunch of tabs in Firefox and several don't load for one reason or another, I can't go back and see what the addresses are.
It's interesting because it only reflects 6% of the suns light received. According to the article I linked, the darkness could be attributed to carbon and scientists are fairly certain that frozen water is there -- two of the main ingredients for life as we know it, not that they are expecting to find any life there.
Yes, for this to become widespread, it needs to be compatable with EVERYTHING. which means no high royalty fees for supporting it.
Yes but that also means no profit. They are not going to throw away all that R&D money spent on it to give it away for free. What could they possible gain from this?
Newsflash. Companies are interested in profit. No profit, no deal.
The original Viking missions went 7 years before petering out. The Voyagers which were launched in the early 70's finally died 30 years after they were launched. But now, JPL is happy if they get a few extra months over their initial 3 month plan. A billion bucks for 3 months of science...only Dr. Pangloss could be happy with that.
In all fairness, I don't know much about the viking and voyager missions. I would assume however that they require much less power than rovers do. You put a space craft on a course and it will continue that way without a power source. Every inch that a rover moves requires power.
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Smalltalk is fast has a superb set of built in functionality and very flexible, and great OO support.
Common Lisp is fast has a superb set of built in functionality and very flexible, and great OO support.
I am going to have to take issue with this. Neither smalltalk or Lisp are fast. Smalltalk has issues with it's implimentation and lisp suffers from the fact that it requires recursion to do almost anything. I also wouldn't say that either has "superb set of built in functionality," especially when compared to PHP. On top of that, lisp has no OO support whatsoever. Lisp is a purely functional language.
I don't know enough about python or ruby to comment on those but it seems to me that you just took common scripted languages and cut and pasted the arguemnt about php without even thinking about it. This is by no means "insightful."
I believe the term "solar disc" refers to the Sun as seen from the earth. An object cannot pass in front of another object without a reference point to determine where the front is. I guess it's just a little more percise to say it that way.
I agree. I doubt he would have wanted to become a martyr to the "Gay Cause", rather than be remembered for the work he did, and the impact it had on the world today
I was going to post something very similar to this. I think this is very unfortunate and perhaps speaks that our society has still not progressed as much as we profess.
Anyways my point is that dependancy checking is handled automatically now.
Well that's not what I got out of it.
Even if that's the case, it is extreemly annoying for those of us that do not have broadband. For the vast majority of downloadable Windows applications, you just download it and install.
This is not always the case in the *nix world. If you download something that you believe is 20 MB on dial-up, it takes some time. It is very frustrating when you try to install it and find out that it has two dependencies which are also 20 MB. So what do you do here? Spend time downloading the two files and hope they don't require anything else?
I don't. I boot back into windows, download one file, install it and I am ready to go.
"A new virus is on the prowl that can infect your Windows XP/2K system and record every key you hit on your keyboard. The keys are then sent back to the virus creator where he/she can steal your passwords and credit card information.
If it is sent back to the creator, wouldn't that make it easy to find the creator? It doesn't sound like the brightest idea.
Download an RPM, double-click on it, voila, it is installing!
That is assuming that you have all the dependencies satisfied. It's not the double clicking that's the problem, it's the tree of dependancies and sub-dependancies that is the problem.
No, in competitive markets there's different, competing products. The kind of fragmentation Linux has only works against it. How does anyone expect to focus their efforts when everyone's attention is split 1,000 different ways? Why should Linux compete with itself? Duh?
Exactly. Everyone keeps falling back to that point. It's like a country that has been involved in a civil war for the majority of its existance trying to get immigration.
You can also get an Atari 2600 for around 10$. Whats your point?
Well I'm wondering what your point is... The parent is comparing the top of the line computer with a top of the line console, not a 20 year old console.
Honestly, I still find that notation a bit cryptic as well. I use wget many times but I don't have a clie what --page-requisites or --no-clobber do.
One problem with CLIs is that everything has to be shortened to some extent. In a graphical environment, this would be done with checkboxes having more then a two word description then possibly further descriptions with mouse-overs.
Ah, but most people did grow up on computers nowadays even if those were windows machines
I am going to have to disagree here. Personal computers didn't really become mainstream until the 1990s. Unless you consider "most people" to be people under 25 or so, I don't see how you can make that statement.
I think the main issue with your original analogy with the car engine is that as you take apart an engine, you can see how it works and why problems are occuring. Computers are very much black boxes with most people, both the physical machine and the OS and software.
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And what's sexier then file tabbing?
And what's sexy about file tabbing may I ask?
the only place it seriously lacks is in video gaming
I have to take issue with that. There are other issues that keep me of Linux as my primary OS.
1. Most graphical applications seem half done, mainly with respect to the interface but sometimes functionality as well. Commercial applications have an added incentive to achieve more because if they aren't seperated from the others, no one will buy them.
2. That leads me to my second point. When I get something with a complex interface or setup (DVD playing apps come to mind) my first instinct is to click the help menu. There is rarely any information there. Usually its a message that it will be implimented in the future or to write your own. This is usually not the case for windows, even with free software.
The response was overwhelmingly negative
Like slashdot and the rest of the net, the response is almost always overwhelmingly negative to change.
Are you all begging for the US to invade Canada? I'm sure we could arrange something.
Doesn't that 79p include the VAT as well? The 99cents price in the US does not include sales tax.
I don't get taxed on my iTMS purchases. I know with the traditional online store model, they only have to charge you tax if they have a physical presence in the state where you live. So, since Apple doesn't have an Apple Store in the state of Kentucky, I don't pay taxes on the purchases directly from Apple. I assume the same thing applies with iTMS.
I, personally have given up on making my own webpages work with IE, it's not worth the effort...
A lot of sites have the 'Optimized for IE' or whatever on their front page. Web developers should start doing the same thing for Firefox, even if it is still completely compliant with IE. If the masses start to see things like that on different sites, it can only help the movement.
I also like how if you open a bunch of tabs it reports all the dead tabs one after the other instead of having to go to each dead tab to OK the error message. And it is very nice to have the "Open in Tabs" in each bookmark folder instead of as a toggle in the bookmarks manager.
Speaking of dead tabs.... One thing that keeps safari in there for me is the fact that it doesn't clear the address bar for dead tabs. If I do a search and open a bunch of tabs in Firefox and several don't load for one reason or another, I can't go back and see what the addresses are.
I'd modded him funny.
Well either you are lying or you just wasted your mod points.
It isn't. It's just more accessable.
Actually it is.
It's interesting because it only reflects 6% of the suns light received. According to the article I linked, the darkness could be attributed to carbon and scientists are fairly certain that frozen water is there -- two of the main ingredients for life as we know it, not that they are expecting to find any life there.
Yes, for this to become widespread, it needs to be compatable with EVERYTHING. which means no high royalty fees for supporting it.
Yes but that also means no profit. They are not going to throw away all that R&D money spent on it to give it away for free. What could they possible gain from this?
Newsflash. Companies are interested in profit. No profit, no deal.
Just because it's sponsored by its label, doen't make it good music.
And by the same token..
Just because it's sponsored by its label, doen't make it not good music.
Just because it's not sponsored by a label, doen't make it good music.
There is good and bad music on both sides of the RIAA line.
...accidental FUD in my previous comment...
And how exactly can you have accidental FUD?
The original Viking missions went 7 years before petering out. The Voyagers which were launched in the early 70's finally died 30 years after they were launched. But now, JPL is happy if they get a few extra months over their initial 3 month plan. A billion bucks for 3 months of science...only Dr. Pangloss could be happy with that.
In all fairness, I don't know much about the viking and voyager missions. I would assume however that they require much less power than rovers do. You put a space craft on a course and it will continue that way without a power source. Every inch that a rover moves requires power.
Smalltalk is fast has a superb set of built in functionality and very flexible, and great OO support.
Common Lisp is fast has a superb set of built in functionality and very flexible, and great OO support.
I am going to have to take issue with this. Neither smalltalk or Lisp are fast. Smalltalk has issues with it's implimentation and lisp suffers from the fact that it requires recursion to do almost anything. I also wouldn't say that either has "superb set of built in functionality," especially when compared to PHP. On top of that, lisp has no OO support whatsoever. Lisp is a purely functional language.
I don't know enough about python or ruby to comment on those but it seems to me that you just took common scripted languages and cut and pasted the arguemnt about php without even thinking about it. This is by no means "insightful."
I believe the term "solar disc" refers to the Sun as seen from the earth. An object cannot pass in front of another object without a reference point to determine where the front is. I guess it's just a little more percise to say it that way.
I agree. I doubt he would have wanted to become a martyr to the "Gay Cause", rather than be remembered for the work he did, and the impact it had on the world today
I was going to post something very similar to this. I think this is very unfortunate and perhaps speaks that our society has still not progressed as much as we profess.
Anyways my point is that dependancy checking is handled automatically now.
Well that's not what I got out of it.
Even if that's the case, it is extreemly annoying for those of us that do not have broadband. For the vast majority of downloadable Windows applications, you just download it and install.
This is not always the case in the *nix world. If you download something that you believe is 20 MB on dial-up, it takes some time. It is very frustrating when you try to install it and find out that it has two dependencies which are also 20 MB. So what do you do here? Spend time downloading the two files and hope they don't require anything else?
I don't. I boot back into windows, download one file, install it and I am ready to go.
"A new virus is on the prowl that can infect your Windows XP/2K system and record every key you hit on your keyboard. The keys are then sent back to the virus creator where he/she can steal your passwords and credit card information.
If it is sent back to the creator, wouldn't that make it easy to find the creator? It doesn't sound like the brightest idea.
Download an RPM, double-click on it, voila, it is installing!
That is assuming that you have all the dependencies satisfied. It's not the double clicking that's the problem, it's the tree of dependancies and sub-dependancies that is the problem.
No, in competitive markets there's different, competing products. The kind of fragmentation Linux has only works against it. How does anyone expect to focus their efforts when everyone's attention is split 1,000 different ways? Why should Linux compete with itself? Duh?
Exactly. Everyone keeps falling back to that point. It's like a country that has been involved in a civil war for the majority of its existance trying to get immigration.
Fair enough.
You can also get an Atari 2600 for around 10$. Whats your point?
Well I'm wondering what your point is... The parent is comparing the top of the line computer with a top of the line console, not a 20 year old console.
wget --no-clobber --force-directories --html-extension --recursive --level=5 --convert-links --page-requisites
Honestly, I still find that notation a bit cryptic as well. I use wget many times but I don't have a clie what --page-requisites or --no-clobber do.
One problem with CLIs is that everything has to be shortened to some extent. In a graphical environment, this would be done with checkboxes having more then a two word description then possibly further descriptions with mouse-overs.
Ah, but most people did grow up on computers nowadays even if those were windows machines
I am going to have to disagree here. Personal computers didn't really become mainstream until the 1990s. Unless you consider "most people" to be people under 25 or so, I don't see how you can make that statement.
I think the main issue with your original analogy with the car engine is that as you take apart an engine, you can see how it works and why problems are occuring. Computers are very much black boxes with most people, both the physical machine and the OS and software.
Could not agree more on all points.