A much bigger problem would be people (like politicians e.g.) who don't want people to be able to NOT watch something (like their election ads or propaganda e.g.).
The real problem with Java is that they tried to make to many compromises and failed miserably. Why bother making it look like C when they could have designed a modern language (meaning: no semicolons e.g.) and why creating an object for everything (especially: why for the main-program?) and if everything is an object, why can't the primitive types be used like objects? Why is there no standard way to install different versions in parallel or for Bytecode to tell the user the required version of Java? Why can't they implement containers that return the type of object that was put in instead of relying on casts? Java was a good idea that is implemented in almost the worst possible way. Even though Swing and speed are the main issues for many people there are more problems beyond that. And for all those people telling me now that some of those problems are fixed in the latest version I can only say that a horrible design with some patches isn't the same as a good design.
I agree. Gaming is the only reason why I still have a Windows on the Harddisk of my main computer (the others are Linux only) and even boot it occasionally.
If you hate vi you might want to try emacs.
It can do almost everything any modern GUI can and works with all languages known to mankind. Lots of information about it is available here. Be warned however that it might require some editing of config files to put together the perfect feature-set for your needs.
Game Engines in the same way as e.g. Movie Players or Ebook Readers would be a good thing. The Companies would create the content but not the engine and sell that. I imagine we would see more and better (read: more depth) games that way.
Maybe that means designers of Wordprocessors and things like that (average Joe software) will have to be content with 2 GHz then and only designers of games, render- and similar programs where parallelization is possible can use more than that. Wouldn't be the worst development IMO.
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AFAIK only information about top-level DNS-servers (the ones for.com/.net/.org/.us/.uk/.de/...) is available at the root DNS servers and I don't think the TTL for those is that low.
ActiveX is the same as having a system where websites can execute shell commands, you don't know which one they will execute before giving them permission and one of them runs "rm -Rf/" with you running as root because half of the other shell commands legimitate websites use don't work as normal user.
While I agree with you I think we must think of a new analogy for "voting with..." for the web. Most web sites don't cost money ("wallet" doesn't fit) and the web doesn't require you to walk anywhere ("feet" doesn't fit either).
See it as a way to force people to abandon ActiveX. The easier we make it to stay with ActiveX the more users don't even consider using something else.
Isn't this the whole story of Java all over again? Java could have been so much more (especially so much more compatible and available on other platforms) if only they would release it as uncontrolled open source but they seem to be afraid of losing control.
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As if the typical open source zealot had a girlfriend to shoot pictures off with that camera anyway ;)
Maybe because mpg and mov are not streaming formats?
btw I never even heard of NSV before I read your post but I hate wmv, asf and real for their poor quality and high error ratio
A much bigger problem would be people (like politicians e.g.) who don't want people to be able to NOT watch something (like their election ads or propaganda e.g.).
The real problem with Java is that they tried to make to many compromises and failed miserably. Why bother making it look like C when they could have designed a modern language (meaning: no semicolons e.g.) and why creating an object for everything (especially: why for the main-program?) and if everything is an object, why can't the primitive types be used like objects? Why is there no standard way to install different versions in parallel or for Bytecode to tell the user the required version of Java? Why can't they implement containers that return the type of object that was put in instead of relying on casts? Java was a good idea that is implemented in almost the worst possible way. Even though Swing and speed are the main issues for many people there are more problems beyond that. And for all those people telling me now that some of those problems are fixed in the latest version I can only say that a horrible design with some patches isn't the same as a good design.
I agree. Gaming is the only reason why I still have a Windows on the Harddisk of my main computer (the others are Linux only) and even boot it occasionally.
If you hate vi you might want to try emacs. It can do almost everything any modern GUI can and works with all languages known to mankind. Lots of information about it is available here. Be warned however that it might require some editing of config files to put together the perfect feature-set for your needs.
Game Engines in the same way as e.g. Movie Players or Ebook Readers would be a good thing. The Companies would create the content but not the engine and sell that. I imagine we would see more and better (read: more depth) games that way.
If you have problems with different version of documents in your organization perhaps you should use a version control system like CVS or Subversion
What are "very binaries"?
Maybe that means designers of Wordprocessors and things like that (average Joe software) will have to be content with 2 GHz then and only designers of games, render- and similar programs where parallelization is possible can use more than that. Wouldn't be the worst development IMO.
The slow part of KDE is the compile time...
A ten year old app would be a Windows 3.11 one. Most of those don't run properly in Windows XP.
On Linux you can run 10 year old apps provided you have the source code which is true for most Open Source apps.
If that is all you need you should try ratpoison or ion as WM.
I believe that one is called Oceania
AFAIK only information about top-level DNS-servers (the ones for .com/.net/.org/.us/.uk/.de/...) is available at the root DNS servers and I don't think the TTL for those is that low.
ActiveX is the same as having a system where websites can execute shell commands, you don't know which one they will execute before giving them permission and one of them runs "rm -Rf /" with you running as root because half of the other shell commands legimitate websites use don't work as normal user.
While I agree with you I think we must think of a new analogy for "voting with..." for the web. Most web sites don't cost money ("wallet" doesn't fit) and the web doesn't require you to walk anywhere ("feet" doesn't fit either).
See it as a way to force people to abandon ActiveX. The easier we make it to stay with ActiveX the more users don't even consider using something else.
It is a feature but since it is a standard it doesn't have to be documented completely by Mozilla.
Sadly, sane web developers are a minority.
I would guess nuclear reactors, airplane control systems and similar software isn't allowed to come with a disclaimer like that.
Isn't this the whole story of Java all over again? Java could have been so much more (especially so much more compatible and available on other platforms) if only they would release it as uncontrolled open source but they seem to be afraid of losing control.
I don't think Solaris x86 has more and better drivers than Linux x86.
Dual Licensing isn't "half of it is GPL and the other half is not", it is "you can use either GPL or another license for all of it".