What you are describing is not the essense of science fiction, IMHO. Good SF extrapolates from today and looks at the social and psycological aspects of the current trends drawn out to the extreme. For example, Harrisons "Make Room, make room" about overpopulation, "The Sheep Lookup" by Brunner about pollution. There are many interesting stories to be written, for example of our more "online-society", where is privacy going, the war agains terrorism and more.
Saying that SF is inventing new tech, is a bit childish. I guess it comes from Star Trek and Star Wars. Star Wars is not SF, it is fantasy, but in a technological setting. Star Trek can be SF in its good moments, but mostly it is just action.
I think the decline in SF, or rather the raise of fantasy is just a fad. These things come and go. SF had its moments in the 40s to the 60s and has declined since. Fantasy seems to have a good moment now. This things will change. Good SF can still be found out there.
I think it is a pain to always have to create a new profile. When switching from Mozilla 1.0 to 1.4, a bug I submitted was "solved" by saying "create a new profile". I counted how much work that was, I filled in over 20 text fields and clicked about 30 boxes before I was back to normal. And still I lost all my collected adresses, saved passwords and local adressbook.
The "create new profile" is Mozillas equivalent to "format C: and reinstall everyting". More work should go to handle profiles so they are backwards compatible. It is really annoying.
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Decipher
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This is probably the worst review I ever read. Just retelling the story and then basically say "I liked this book". Not a word about what was good, bad or why this book is better than others.
Please, try to REVIEW instead of give a synopsis of the story.
Well, he responded to "I see will leak heap memory..." so we are indeed talking of memory only.
Second, releasing memory by exiting a program is magnitudes faster that doing it by running destructors. So when you say it is faster to run destructors, you are plain wrong.
This is utter nonsense. Any decent OS releases all memory used by a program when that program exits.
There is absolutely no point in catching all exceptions in main, it just shows the programmer ignorence of how memory handling in an OS works. Some exceptions are meant to not be catched when they occur, the shall crash the program. It is the exception variant of assert.
Actually the EU country where I live in has never allowed software patents and dont do so now. This is true of most EU countries. If software patents make there way into EU, it is only because USA pushes these issues in GATT negotiations.
The patents you mention does not cover the software alone, it is the combination. You could easily write similar software and put it in another machine and be sure you didn't violated any patents.
Software patents IS an invention from USA, no mistake there.
I wonder what the role of nautilus is? It is not a very good file browser, it can't browse tar-archives like its predecessor midnight commander could. You can not drag images from thumbnail mode into another window to get it displayed. It is not a very good browser either, you can't for instance drag links to another window, no image control, no "open new window on middle mouse click".
The playing of sound files by just pointing at them is neat, but doesn't work in 1.0.5 for me (it did in 1.0.4).
I think it is strange that Gnome replaced MC with something that can't even do all the stuff MC did. And as a web broswer it is not up to galeon or mozilla or konqurer. If one wants to be sarcastic one could say that they took two programs, MC and mozilla, integrated them and in the process removed a lot of useful stuff. The eye-candy is impressive for about two minutes, but then what?
Nautilus seems to be stuck in this not-ok-file-manager-not-ok-browser state.
I'm no big fan of KDE but at least konqurer is an ok filemanager and an ok browser. Nautilus is not really usable in any role.
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One striking similarity is that the editor in MS Visual Studio is next to worthless and the KDevelop editor emulates that nicely:-)
Seriously, the editor is no good compared to emacs. An option to use an external emacs as an editor is what I would put on top of my feature request list. Maybe I should try to hack it in myself, now there is a thought...
I agree. I wonder why there is so many who wants to make text editors? KDE has a couple, GNOME too. I think gIDE also has it's own internal editor. Is it too hard (or too boring:-) to integrate exixting editors (emacs, nvi, vim, and so on).
I would gladly use KDevelop if it could use emacs instead. But since edit text is what one does the most, I use emacs. The class browser and wizards are nice, but I will not use an inferior editor to get those features.
Nice work by the KDevelop team but please, please, don't forget the editor.
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What you are describing is not the essense of science fiction, IMHO. Good SF extrapolates from today and looks at the social and psycological aspects of the current trends drawn out to the extreme. For example, Harrisons "Make Room, make room" about overpopulation, "The Sheep Lookup" by Brunner about pollution. There are many interesting stories to be written, for example of our more "online-society", where is privacy going, the war agains terrorism and more.
Saying that SF is inventing new tech, is a bit childish. I guess it comes from Star Trek and Star Wars. Star Wars is not SF, it is fantasy, but in a technological setting. Star Trek can be SF in its good moments, but mostly it is just action.
I think the decline in SF, or rather the raise of fantasy is just a fad. These things come and go. SF had its moments in the 40s to the 60s and has declined since. Fantasy seems to have a good moment now. This things will change. Good SF can still be found out there.
I think it is a pain to always have to create a new profile. When switching from Mozilla 1.0 to 1.4, a bug I submitted was "solved" by saying "create a new profile". I counted how much work that was, I filled in over 20 text fields and clicked about 30 boxes before I was back to normal. And still I lost all my collected adresses, saved passwords and local adressbook.
The "create new profile" is Mozillas equivalent to "format C: and reinstall everyting". More work should go to handle profiles so they are backwards compatible. It is really annoying.
Read mail, check addressbook, compose HTML?
This is probably the worst review I ever read. Just retelling the story and then basically say "I liked this book". Not a word about what was good, bad or why this book is better than others.
Please, try to REVIEW instead of give a synopsis of the story.
I'm all for open standards, but this sounds a bit strange.
If goverments want open standards, they should just refuse to buy products that don't comply. That is more effective than a "tax".
It would be just as silly to compare WindowsXP to a 1997 version of any *nix out there.
Yes I agree. Now comparing XP to Unix from say 1987 would prehaps be fair to XP.
Well, he responded to "I see will leak heap memory ..." so we are indeed talking of memory only.
Second, releasing memory by exiting a program is magnitudes faster that doing it by running destructors. So when you say it is faster to run destructors, you are plain wrong.
This is utter nonsense. Any decent OS releases all memory used by a program when that program exits.
There is absolutely no point in catching all exceptions in main, it just shows the programmer ignorence of how memory handling in an OS works. Some exceptions are meant to not be catched when they occur, the shall crash the program. It is the exception variant of assert.
Actually the EU country where I live in has never allowed software patents and dont do so now. This is true of most EU countries. If software patents make there way into EU, it is only because USA pushes these issues in GATT negotiations.
The patents you mention does not cover the software alone, it is the combination. You could easily write similar software and put it in another machine and be sure you didn't violated any patents.
Software patents IS an invention from USA, no mistake there.
I wonder what the role of nautilus is? It is not a very good file browser, it can't browse tar-archives like its predecessor midnight commander could. You can not drag images from thumbnail mode into another window to get it displayed. It is not a very good browser either, you can't for instance drag links to another window, no image control, no "open new window on middle mouse click".
The playing of sound files by just pointing at them is neat, but doesn't work in 1.0.5 for me (it did in 1.0.4).
I think it is strange that Gnome replaced MC with something that can't even do all the stuff MC did. And as a web broswer it is not up to galeon or mozilla or konqurer. If one wants to be sarcastic one could say that they took two programs, MC and mozilla, integrated them and in the process removed a lot of useful stuff. The eye-candy is impressive for about two minutes, but then what?
Nautilus seems to be stuck in this not-ok-file-manager-not-ok-browser state.
I'm no big fan of KDE but at least konqurer is an ok filemanager and an ok browser. Nautilus is not really usable in any role.
One striking similarity is that the editor in MS Visual Studio is next to worthless and the KDevelop editor emulates that nicely :-)
Seriously, the editor is no good compared to emacs. An option to use an external emacs as an editor is what I would put on top of my feature request list. Maybe I should try to hack it in myself, now there is a thought...
I agree. I wonder why there is so many who wants to make text editors? KDE has a couple, GNOME too. I think gIDE also has it's own internal editor. Is it too hard (or too boring :-) to integrate exixting editors (emacs, nvi, vim, and so on).
I would gladly use KDevelop if it could use emacs instead. But since edit text is what one does the most, I use emacs. The class browser and wizards are nice, but I will not use an inferior editor to get those features.
Nice work by the KDevelop team but please, please, don't forget the editor.