It has to do with Windows because Microsoft are the people telling everyone GUIs are better for EVERY application out there than text-based UIs which is simply not true. If you have single-purpose terminal like a POS which should show a list or a table text-based is the way to go. KISS
Bad Design (as in JVM being a bigger CPU and memory hog than any other programming language interpreter I've ever known) is NOT "being ahead of time".
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No you won't. If you are like most people you don't backup your data and the chances of it surviving 50 years without a disk crash are minimal. The other problem will be opening the file format of today in 50 years. Here Tex or Docbook have a big advantage over MS-Office and similar programs since you always get to the content even when the file format is no longer supported (which is also much less likely with open formats)
When it comes to troubleshooting I do it too. But naturally not for every click in my browser. If you know all the layers you can choose the necessary abstraction level for the task at hand. As a user you choose high abstraction, as admin trying to find out why something doesn't work lower abstraction levels are sometimes really useful.
It could do everything the last "real" DOS version could do. However DOS never could do much itself anyway so there was very little code to begin with compared to the size of W9X, so naturally it could not be a big part of that.
If Linux allowed (lots of) binary driver modules they would introduce the same problems Windows gets with badly written 3rd party drivers. It is much easier to tell all the hardware manufacturers to release a specification of their hardware and let kernel developers develop open source drivers themselves. That way they can be sure the driver modules won't misbehave once loaded and crash the entire kernel and they won't have to jump through a lot of loops just to stay backwards-compatible.
Not to mention that with Linux' small programs approach you can be relatively sure that the problem lies with directly connected parts of the system, so if for example DHCP doesn't work it is either a problem with the dhcp.conf or the network interfaces and not with some totally unrelated system.
Someone could hack a (or just open a new) mirror for the file but if you get the md5 from the original site you can check wether you have the same file as the one on the original server without costing them the bandwidth of all downloads of the file itself.
Simpe. Use a Popupblocker (but not an ad-blocker). This removes the most invasive ads and leaves the ones you can ignore with your mind instead of an automated filter
It is really simple, they matter in "GPL source code theft" articles because there they keep information free while in P2P-Discussion Copyrights keep information closed away. It isn't really a contradiction.
So you never told anyone you liked anything?
You never told anyone you liked the location where you spend your holidays?
You never told anyone you liked a certain restaurant?
You did? So you must be "the kind of personality that would hav been a trouble making town gossip a hundred years ago in a small village"!
So your computer should guess all by itself what directories you want to share or how do you implement "Just works" with servers?
Samba config files are really easy to write and the example ones contain all common cases where you just have to put in your paths so yes, it just works after you tell it the info it can't know automagically as long as it doesn't use a mind-reading library.
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Speech Synthesis isn't reading. Reading is much more enjoyable than an artificial voice reading the same text without any regards for the content.
If you write books you really should try Docbook. It is relatively easy to learn (compared to Tex) and allows you to concentrate on the content. Later you can write and tinker with a stylesheet or let your publisher do that for you since it separates content and layout completely.
And what does prevent a closed source software vendor from putting a similar piece of code into their software? Or an employee of this closed-source vendor? With Open Source their is at least a slight chance someone will find it, with closed-source you have no chance at all to know about it.
(I don't say Open Source is much better than closed source in this regard, but it definitely isn't worse)
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It has to do with Windows because Microsoft are the people telling everyone GUIs are better for EVERY application out there than text-based UIs which is simply not true. If you have single-purpose terminal like a POS which should show a list or a table text-based is the way to go. KISS
Bad Design (as in JVM being a bigger CPU and memory hog than any other programming language interpreter I've ever known) is NOT "being ahead of time".
No you won't. If you are like most people you don't backup your data and the chances of it surviving 50 years without a disk crash are minimal. The other problem will be opening the file format of today in 50 years. Here Tex or Docbook have a big advantage over MS-Office and similar programs since you always get to the content even when the file format is no longer supported (which is also much less likely with open formats)
Modern Humans have Adblock (at least for visual ads) integrated. It is called eyelids
When it comes to troubleshooting I do it too. But naturally not for every click in my browser. If you know all the layers you can choose the necessary abstraction level for the task at hand. As a user you choose high abstraction, as admin trying to find out why something doesn't work lower abstraction levels are sometimes really useful.
The Macro Virus Support for MS Office Macro Viruses doesn't work otherwise.
It could do everything the last "real" DOS version could do. However DOS never could do much itself anyway so there was very little code to begin with compared to the size of W9X, so naturally it could not be a big part of that.
If Linux allowed (lots of) binary driver modules they would introduce the same problems Windows gets with badly written 3rd party drivers. It is much easier to tell all the hardware manufacturers to release a specification of their hardware and let kernel developers develop open source drivers themselves. That way they can be sure the driver modules won't misbehave once loaded and crash the entire kernel and they won't have to jump through a lot of loops just to stay backwards-compatible.
Not to mention that with Linux' small programs approach you can be relatively sure that the problem lies with directly connected parts of the system, so if for example DHCP doesn't work it is either a problem with the dhcp.conf or the network interfaces and not with some totally unrelated system.
Someone could hack a (or just open a new) mirror for the file but if you get the md5 from the original site you can check wether you have the same file as the one on the original server without costing them the bandwidth of all downloads of the file itself.
Simpe. Use a Popupblocker (but not an ad-blocker). This removes the most invasive ads and leaves the ones you can ignore with your mind instead of an automated filter
It is really simple, they matter in "GPL source code theft" articles because there they keep information free while in P2P-Discussion Copyrights keep information closed away. It isn't really a contradiction.
So all the 3 modem users left on this planet would dial 911? And that would be comparable to a DDos in what way?
They could if the deadline would be a realistic guess instead of a "we need to be faster than anyone else" management decision.
So you never told anyone you liked anything?
You never told anyone you liked the location where you spend your holidays?
You never told anyone you liked a certain restaurant?
You did? So you must be "the kind of personality that would hav been a trouble making town gossip a hundred years ago in a small village"!
So you want them to delay their international release just because one of the translations isn't finished?
So your computer should guess all by itself what directories you want to share or how do you implement "Just works" with servers?
Samba config files are really easy to write and the example ones contain all common cases where you just have to put in your paths so yes, it just works after you tell it the info it can't know automagically as long as it doesn't use a mind-reading library.
Speech Synthesis isn't reading. Reading is much more enjoyable than an artificial voice reading the same text without any regards for the content.
If you write books you really should try Docbook. It is relatively easy to learn (compared to Tex) and allows you to concentrate on the content. Later you can write and tinker with a stylesheet or let your publisher do that for you since it separates content and layout completely.
I guess you mean "production environment". Most "productive" environments don't use any of the *Word Programs.
A new version of X-Wing with the original missions but better graphics and AI would be nice too.
...chasing Nazis in diapers
It is a bad thing to ruin a good series of movies by making a bad sequel just for money.
Without memory chips your computer would have a hard time trying to go online, wouldn't it?
And what does prevent a closed source software vendor from putting a similar piece of code into their software? Or an employee of this closed-source vendor? With Open Source their is at least a slight chance someone will find it, with closed-source you have no chance at all to know about it. (I don't say Open Source is much better than closed source in this regard, but it definitely isn't worse)