That seems to be one of the advantages of a non-democratic system. I always get the expression our democratic "leaders" are unable to see further than the next election.
Your presence guarantees some diversity, I'd agree; but it does not guarantee "fair and balanced" coverage or editorial viewpoint presentation.
Thinking you are able to get a "fair and balanced" coverage anywhere is simply wrong. If you want different opinions and political diversity you need to read more than one newssource.
As nice as these features are, it is much harder to implement such things if you have to create standards before it works (due to multiple hardware manufacturers in the pc sector) instead of just having to deal with your own hardware-design-department.
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Most people only think smaller is better up to a point. If they can't have a 15" or larger screen and full size keyboard they'll look elsewhere. Apparently the majority of people who purchase notebook computers have big ham-fists and bad vision.
You don't want to write a longer text without a real keyboard one character at a time, do you?
And you don't want to use PS or PDF-Files in Printing-Format on a small screen either.
So you can't be bothered to look through the top 5 search results in Google (which are pretty useful for this question if you use something like "linux dvd burn" as search string) but you can be bothered to search through hundreds of slashdot comments?
Rather sad that freshmeat isn't a good place to search for Free software...
I guess the reason for no mention of k3b on freshmeat is more kde's braindamaged way of packaging applications that anything else.
They have so many apps that might be useful to non-kde-users but they insist on making some arbitary division into category-packages like "kde-network", "kde-pim",...
That is one of the things thats really sad about the kde project. The authors of every single app in the kde project artificially reduce their userbase this way.
it's not because we just like the look of plain old text characters
Actually I use the CLI for exactly this reason.
It's not the look of the text characters but with CLI apps you can focus better on what you are doing and most of them are designed so you can keep your hands on the keyboard instead of having to use the Mouse every few seconds. Not to mention the advantages of using them through SSH.
You should try Docbook http://www.docbook.org/ or Latex. You can concentrate on the text you want to write much better than in Word.
It is IMHO a far superior way of writing Text than Word is. Word always gets in your way and leads to more layout and less content that you originally intended.
With Java on the other hand, any novice can come in and understand what is going on inside the code.
...if he has a Browser with Google handy to lookup all the weird Class- and Method-Names the Developers of Java put in their Libraries.
Readability for Non-Java-Programmers is not exactly one of the strong points of Java. Most other languages invented around the same time as Java are easier to read if you do not know the language (e.g. Ruby).
If you do not unterstand that statement you are exactly the type of programmer the first sentence describes.
There are people out there who, like me e.g., like to learn new programming languages just for fun, not because I can not do something I need to do in the programming languages I already know.
If all people would think like you noone would have ever invented another programming language after Assembler, after all you can do anything in Assembler, or if you want portability, take C if you like. After that all programming languages just did things a better, easier, more intuitive way, they did not add anything you couldn't have done in C as well.
Do you know where to find the people writing these things?
I always wanted to know how to write highly idiot-proof software. It would be extremly useful to use this knowledge for writing software for upper management.
That can be a simple and convenient answer to any of these Posts. IF however you read further and decide for yourself in each case, you might see that some of Microsoft's ideas ARE the BS they are called at/.
This system will either not work at all or kill email. The only reason email is still around is the "everyone can send an email to anyone else anytime". Email is far from technical superiority. But it is the lowest common denominator in the World of Internet Communication. That is it's only strength and if MS (or anyone else for that matter) kills this advantage email will be dead. The only remaining question is wether the old email systems will stay or will be killed in the process as well.
If they published the software under the Terms of the GPL anyone is allowed to distribute the source and the binaries freely. Sveasoft can do nothing about that.
If you had ever compiled the Xfree yourself you would know that - compared to other build systems - Xfree was (is) a mess, the license issue was just the last bit of annoyances needed for most Distros to switch to something better/make something better themselves.
I am certain I am not alone when I would like the manufacturer of a product I use to release patches as soon as possible and not according to a fixed schedule. That would make it possible for me to patch as soon as I want.
Imagine the manufacturer of your car would find a serious error in the engine causing every 100.000th car to explode when the motor is started. Would you like the manufacturer to recall the cars immediately or would it be okay for you if they waited for the beginning of the next month to reduce the overall number of press releases?
Doesn't work? Then perhaps native code has some advantages.
Ok, let's say you have a preinstalled JRE. You upgrade your JRE and half the features in your Java App stop working. Your second Java-App needs the new version? Too bad.
From my experience, you can use Java to build enourmeous applications
It is exactly this type of application that should not be build. If you can not partition your big project in several small parts you should reconsider your design.
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We talk about Religion all the time on Slashdot:
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vi vs. Emacs
Linux vs. Windows
Perl vs. Python
Wrong Section.
Perl vs. Python isn't Politics, its Religion.
As nice as these features are, it is much harder to implement such things if you have to create standards before it works (due to multiple hardware manufacturers in the pc sector) instead of just having to deal with your own hardware-design-department.
So you can't be bothered to look through the top 5 search results in Google (which are pretty useful for this question if you use something like "linux dvd burn" as search string) but you can be bothered to search through hundreds of slashdot comments?
That is one of the things thats really sad about the kde project. The authors of every single app in the kde project artificially reduce their userbase this way.
A possible way would be releasing a game into the Public Domain when the Company has no intention of selling it anymore.
You should try Docbook http://www.docbook.org/ or Latex. You can concentrate on the text you want to write much better than in Word. It is IMHO a far superior way of writing Text than Word is. Word always gets in your way and leads to more layout and less content that you originally intended.
Whenever anyone asks for a fast Java-App with nice memory-footprint we get one of two answers:
-Azureus
-Eclipse
One might come to the conclusion there are only two Programming Teams out there with the Skill to turn Java into a working Programming Language.
Cause we all know the people teaching at big Universities have vast amounts of real world experience.
If you do not unterstand that statement you are exactly the type of programmer the first sentence describes.
There are people out there who, like me e.g., like to learn new programming languages just for fun, not because I can not do something I need to do in the programming languages I already know.
If all people would think like you noone would have ever invented another programming language after Assembler, after all you can do anything in Assembler, or if you want portability, take C if you like. After that all programming languages just did things a better, easier, more intuitive way, they did not add anything you couldn't have done in C as well.
Do you know where to find the people writing these things?
I always wanted to know how to write highly idiot-proof software. It would be extremly useful to use this knowledge for writing software for upper management.
"Napalm. Lots and lots of Napalm"
"Why don't you just nuke 'em while you are at it"
"What about Nukes, General?"
That can be a simple and convenient answer to any of these Posts. IF however you read further and decide for yourself in each case, you might see that some of Microsoft's ideas ARE the BS they are called at /.
This system will either not work at all or kill email. The only reason email is still around is the "everyone can send an email to anyone else anytime". Email is far from technical superiority. But it is the lowest common denominator in the World of Internet Communication. That is it's only strength and if MS (or anyone else for that matter) kills this advantage email will be dead. The only remaining question is wether the old email systems will stay or will be killed in the process as well.
If they published the software under the Terms of the GPL anyone is allowed to distribute the source and the binaries freely. Sveasoft can do nothing about that.
If you had ever compiled the Xfree yourself you would know that - compared to other build systems - Xfree was (is) a mess, the license issue was just the last bit of annoyances needed for most Distros to switch to something better/make something better themselves.
+1000 Insightful
If you know how to use the commandline Linux (or any other Unix for that matter) is far more efficient that Windows will ever be.
And you think of that as an advantage?
I am certain I am not alone when I would like the manufacturer of a product I use to release patches as soon as possible and not according to a fixed schedule. That would make it possible for me to patch as soon as I want.
Imagine the manufacturer of your car would find a serious error in the engine causing every 100.000th car to explode when the motor is started. Would you like the manufacturer to recall the cars immediately or would it be okay for you if they waited for the beginning of the next month to reduce the overall number of press releases?
Now, try this:
-download your 500 kb Java app
-try to run it
Doesn't work? Then perhaps native code has some advantages.
Ok, let's say you have a preinstalled JRE. You upgrade your JRE and half the features in your Java App stop working. Your second Java-App needs the new version? Too bad.
You will have to pay the company that wrote your Java-Apps to debug them on the new platform.
From my experience, you can use Java to build enourmeous applications
It is exactly this type of application that should not be build. If you can not partition your big project in several small parts you should reconsider your design.