I don't know about other people but the only time I can actually see the desktop is when no apps are open. Since I almost always have at least a Browser Window or a console open and maximize all my apps that means practically never. So it is one of the worst places to start programs from when I would have to dig it out under all the running programs each time I need to start one.
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So it will only take as long as the rest of the system combined to compile and not twice that?
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Actually the usability of ratpoison is very good if you already use screen since it uses the same keyboard shortcuts.
- they want to avoid Microsoft at all costs, including MS Office. They've heard great things about OpenOffice, but when they go to try it, it's slow and kludgy. Not a very good impression at all.
If you copy a bloated piece of crap like MS Office basically 1:1 you must end up with something like Open Office.
Funny. I had exactly the same idea a few minutes ago. And why not blacklisting them for Emails as well. After all I know only Europeans that send me personal emails (non-mailinglist, non-spam). Perhaps the US-Government drops some of these insane laws when they are blacklisted by everyone worldwide on every port and lose big in internet business.
You see it from the user's perspective. Thats fine but to create a new way of installing software you have to see the problems with the existing ways. The major problem with OS X Style program installation (and windows installers most of the time) is that they all contain every library they use. This leads to duplicated (in memory, where this is important) libraries and more important to outdated versions of libraries that might contain old security holes. Linux dependency tracking software installation approach is superior to these two forms but it clearly is much more difficult to do dependency resolution without a central repository (basically the lack of a common way of naming things makes decentralized dependencies difficult). The Installation System on Linux needs work but it shouldn't go in the direction of Windows and/or Mac from the Developer Perspective even though the result might feel similar from the Point of View of a User.
The optimizations are not important for lots of gentoo users. What is important is the freedom of choice regarding optional dependencies. With Gentoo you can e.g. remove mysql-support from all packages and ignore (not install) mysql. Since mysql is a popular package most binary distros come with mysql support compiled in their binaries so you have to install it even though you don't use it.
I am neither Gnome nor KDE-User and both groups just get on my nerves with their "our program only runs with three dozen libraries that are bigger than the rest of your system together"-attitude. A recent example is K3b which is a nice CD-Burning App but it would be the only thing on my system needing the KDE-Libraries and doesn't really gain much from using them. The better way would be to make one using plain old GTK or QT and allowing non-kde users to use it too without loading all the libraries. I might not need the KDE Desktop to use them but I have to install and load all the libraries which has almost all the disadvantages of using kde itself. If you use one app from gnome and one from kde you even have to have both library sets loaded as double bloat bonus.
Is it me or do the k-folks have a totally kde-centric world-view? I mean who but them would develop a software installation system that has kde as a dependency and ensure that way that no distribution that doesn't want to lose all non-kde users (not only gnome, but users of all other window-managers and users that don't need X on their machine) can use their system?
In the same way that you killed yourself when someone says "We can either drown you, stab you, shoot you or hang you. Which one do you want?" (only in politics you have even fewer options).
Now if they started writing viruses that encrypted your file in their closed format so you have to upgrade to the next version of their virus to continue using your data...
In discussions Linux/Mac vs. Windows you get told often "The number of critical security holes to exploit has nothing to do with popularity" not "The percentage of security holes exploited has nothing to do with popularity" like you said here.
The parent is modded funny but should be modded insightful. After all not getting things started is the main reason for letting things slip until the deadline is near and finishing them with lots of stress instead of using the whole time.
If you have to worry about that you shouldn't use XML. It is a format for Data Exchange (read: can be interpreted without specification if necessary) not a universal technology applicable for everything.
You wouldn't e.g. send your processor the instructions in XML because it is simply absurd.
XML was hyped to be more than it's original purpose. So Mobile Phone Companies think they can add another well known Buzzword to their Feature-List and distract the user from their absurd pricing schemes a little longer.
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You can do that in ratpoison. You should have a look at it if you use keyboard shortcuts a lot.
I don't know about other people but the only time I can actually see the desktop is when no apps are open. Since I almost always have at least a Browser Window or a console open and maximize all my apps that means practically never. So it is one of the worst places to start programs from when I would have to dig it out under all the running programs each time I need to start one.
So it will only take as long as the rest of the system combined to compile and not twice that?
Actually the usability of ratpoison is very good if you already use screen since it uses the same keyboard shortcuts.
"info" isn't quite the prefix i would use for a show like that.
Perhaps we could stop them if every /. user bought one share of EA and then we all decide together to shut them down.
Funny. I had exactly the same idea a few minutes ago. And why not blacklisting them for Emails as well. After all I know only Europeans that send me personal emails (non-mailinglist, non-spam). Perhaps the US-Government drops some of these insane laws when they are blacklisted by everyone worldwide on every port and lose big in internet business.
You can't upload garbage in Realtime if you have some sort of checksum in the protocol.
You see it from the user's perspective. Thats fine but to create a new way of installing software you have to see the problems with the existing ways. The major problem with OS X Style program installation (and windows installers most of the time) is that they all contain every library they use. This leads to duplicated (in memory, where this is important) libraries and more important to outdated versions of libraries that might contain old security holes. Linux dependency tracking software installation approach is superior to these two forms but it clearly is much more difficult to do dependency resolution without a central repository (basically the lack of a common way of naming things makes decentralized dependencies difficult). The Installation System on Linux needs work but it shouldn't go in the direction of Windows and/or Mac from the Developer Perspective even though the result might feel similar from the Point of View of a User.
The optimizations are not important for lots of gentoo users. What is important is the freedom of choice regarding optional dependencies. With Gentoo you can e.g. remove mysql-support from all packages and ignore (not install) mysql. Since mysql is a popular package most binary distros come with mysql support compiled in their binaries so you have to install it even though you don't use it.
That is because they are KDE people: Mimicing MS's behaviour is their job...
I am neither Gnome nor KDE-User and both groups just get on my nerves with their "our program only runs with three dozen libraries that are bigger than the rest of your system together"-attitude. A recent example is K3b which is a nice CD-Burning App but it would be the only thing on my system needing the KDE-Libraries and doesn't really gain much from using them. The better way would be to make one using plain old GTK or QT and allowing non-kde users to use it too without loading all the libraries. I might not need the KDE Desktop to use them but I have to install and load all the libraries which has almost all the disadvantages of using kde itself. If you use one app from gnome and one from kde you even have to have both library sets loaded as double bloat bonus.
Is it me or do the k-folks have a totally kde-centric world-view? I mean who but them would develop a software installation system that has kde as a dependency and ensure that way that no distribution that doesn't want to lose all non-kde users (not only gnome, but users of all other window-managers and users that don't need X on their machine) can use their system?
If you installed it at your neighbour's ISP you can.
In the same way that you killed yourself when someone says "We can either drown you, stab you, shoot you or hang you. Which one do you want?" (only in politics you have even fewer options).
Now if they started writing viruses that encrypted your file in their closed format so you have to upgrade to the next version of their virus to continue using your data...
You got it that one wrong.
In discussions Linux/Mac vs. Windows you get told often "The number of critical security holes to exploit has nothing to do with popularity" not "The percentage of security holes exploited has nothing to do with popularity" like you said here.
The parent is modded funny but should be modded insightful. After all not getting things started is the main reason for letting things slip until the deadline is near and finishing them with lots of stress instead of using the whole time.
I would bet that compared to parsing XML uncompressing a few KB of text is nothing in cpu utilization.
If you have to worry about that you shouldn't use XML. It is a format for Data Exchange (read: can be interpreted without specification if necessary) not a universal technology applicable for everything.
You wouldn't e.g. send your processor the instructions in XML because it is simply absurd.
How can anyone even consider using security by obscurity for a file format where the specifications are (legally) available on the web?
XML was hyped to be more than it's original purpose. So Mobile Phone Companies think they can add another well known Buzzword to their Feature-List and distract the user from their absurd pricing schemes a little longer.