Illustrator?! It's a vector drawing program. If you want to fiddle about with your equation layout, go right ahead, but I can type much faster than I can muck about in menus, and the results from LaTeX are much more consistent than you'll ever get with Illustrator.
It may be that the videos are not faked. Still, if they were not, I would like to replace my workstation (Core 2 Duo with 3GB RAM) with an OLPC laptop, since it seems to run so much faster.
It gives scary warnings if you yank out the drive without going to "safely remove hardware". Of course, in GNOME or on OS X it's a lot quicker and easier to unmount a drive, as I recall, so the scary warnings are far more reasonable.
So you could view printers and email messages as files in Midnight Commander or Ztree?
Besides which, the patent doesn't cover tree views; it would work just as well if you had a list view or a collection of icons in one pane and a detailed view in another.
If you're using svn with Visual Studio, there's also AnkhSVN, which is free but slooooooow.
The main utility of Visual Studio integration is deleting files that are no longer referenced by any project. It's trivial to add new files and commit changes with tortoise, but orphaned files crop up unless you have some sort of integration.
This is for a teenager. Starlogo TNG looks like it's for eight-year-olds. Even if it's appropriate for an older audience, it doesn't look like it at first glance, so it's not appropriate.
I'd start off with something that gives a GUI designer. Get a GUI, then make it react in simple ways. It's pretty easy to get something that looks good using Gtk#, though maybe a dynamic language will be easier to work with at first.
The FBI won't intervene for less than $5000 worth of stolen goods, generally.
Work for the NSA and get a computer with top secret (but not especially sensitive) data on it. When that gets stolen, you'll have a black ops team using the thieves' home as a training facility for an evening. That happened to my friend, once. (He had an NSA-style briefcase with builtin microphone, cell phone, radio transmitter, and GPS unit that was stolen. He himself did not steal such an item.)
Metamoderation. You pretty much just read one post when metamoderating, so 'Redundant' looks valid, even when it isn't. It's like a free -1, I Don't Like You.
Seconded. He also taught my honors programming course; I admire his artwork more than his teaching abilities. I'm considering commissioning a small piece from him.
The terminal emulator that comes with it is crap, but sufficiently responsive on my XP machine. According to the marketing sheet, it comes with 120 commandlets, which doesn't compare to the stuff available with a typical UNIX system. And some of the commands are "ignore output of this command" and so forth, which are accomplished in other manners with UNIX shells.
Basically, if you use bash, you've got 40 years of people writing programs for it and compatible shells. If you use powershell, you've only got 1 year. And a lot of people have used the Bourne shell and its derivatives as their primary interface with their computers.
I read it more as Shuttleworth saying "My release schedule is good, coordinated releases are good, all popular Linuxes should follow my release schedule."
There would be a number of benefits to that, but requiring that it be Ubuntu's schedule is a bit puerile.
If you have pop3 access to your email, or some equivalent, you can download all messages and have them deleted from the server. Set up a cronjob; if you don't log in after three days, do that, then 'rm -rf/home'.
Doesn't stop any new email from getting in, of course; you'll have to rig up a script to send 'unsubscribe' to listserv@yiffyfurryporn.net.
Developers should prioritize common operations. If your example is obscure, then I'm not terribly surprised if the mechanism for doing it is obscure.
In point of fact, now that I looked it up, changing a hostname in Linux is pretty damn easy. There's no GUI for it because nobody in the GNOME project or the KDE project thinks it's an important enough feature to maintain -- I'm sure I could come up with something for it in half a day, and I'm sure the average maintainer in either of those projects could come up with something in a couple hours, that would suffice.
For nvidia video cards, Ubuntu pops up a nice message saying that it found hardware that it has drivers for, and would I like to install them? I dunno why it failed with your card, but it's probably a bug, and you'd be doing us a favor if you would report it.
How often do you have to change your computer's hostname? As a desktop user, I've never had to. If you have to, you're probably a sysadmin or at least tech support, which means that a certain amount of expert knowledge is expected.
The problems used to be significant enough to prevent a reasonably technical person unfamiliar with Linux from being able to install it. In many cases, they prevented someone reasonably familiar with Linux from being able to install it.
Now, you can just pop in the disk and get a dual boot installation with a dozen mouse clicks. And then you're left with a system that takes a couple days to learn basic usage rather than a few hours. Now, the complaint is that you have to use an SD card rather than syncing directly with some cameras.
The complaints are still there, but as time passes, they come from less technically proficient users. And that is win.
(Well, to be precise, as current time approaches infinity, this approaches win; and there is possibly some earlier point at which it will be win.)
Microsoft can't adequately document previous Office formats for a.NET port to be feasible, I'm thinking. It's far easier to include substantial portions of the previous version than to rewrite the document parsers and so forth.
As for MS Office kicking ass, I have access to Office 2007 here at work, but I still use OpenOffice most of the time. It's quicker, leaves more screen space for the documents, and has a UI that I don't really have to think to use.
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Illustrator?! It's a vector drawing program. If you want to fiddle about with your equation layout, go right ahead, but I can type much faster than I can muck about in menus, and the results from LaTeX are much more consistent than you'll ever get with Illustrator.
It may be that the videos are not faked. Still, if they were not, I would like to replace my workstation (Core 2 Duo with 3GB RAM) with an OLPC laptop, since it seems to run so much faster.
It gives scary warnings if you yank out the drive without going to "safely remove hardware". Of course, in GNOME or on OS X it's a lot quicker and easier to unmount a drive, as I recall, so the scary warnings are far more reasonable.
Terminal, nano.
Or if you prefer a gui, x11 + (nedit || gedit || kate || ....)
If you need an office suite, OpenOffice works as well. And there's always LaTeX....
So you could view printers and email messages as files in Midnight Commander or Ztree?
Besides which, the patent doesn't cover tree views; it would work just as well if you had a list view or a collection of icons in one pane and a detailed view in another.
You can turn off CSS and get answers at Experts Exchange, I've found. Provided someone chose to answer your question there earlier, of course.
If you're using svn with Visual Studio, there's also AnkhSVN, which is free but slooooooow.
The main utility of Visual Studio integration is deleting files that are no longer referenced by any project. It's trivial to add new files and commit changes with tortoise, but orphaned files crop up unless you have some sort of integration.
For me, 1 / 0 is error CS0020: Division by constant zero
On the other hand, 1.0 / 0.0 is Infinity.
(The precise output might change slightly if you're using csc rather than mcs.)
This is for a teenager. Starlogo TNG looks like it's for eight-year-olds. Even if it's appropriate for an older audience, it doesn't look like it at first glance, so it's not appropriate.
I'd start off with something that gives a GUI designer. Get a GUI, then make it react in simple ways. It's pretty easy to get something that looks good using Gtk#, though maybe a dynamic language will be easier to work with at first.
The FBI won't intervene for less than $5000 worth of stolen goods, generally.
Work for the NSA and get a computer with top secret (but not especially sensitive) data on it. When that gets stolen, you'll have a black ops team using the thieves' home as a training facility for an evening. That happened to my friend, once. (He had an NSA-style briefcase with builtin microphone, cell phone, radio transmitter, and GPS unit that was stolen. He himself did not steal such an item.)
Metamoderation. You pretty much just read one post when metamoderating, so 'Redundant' looks valid, even when it isn't. It's like a free -1, I Don't Like You.
Seconded. He also taught my honors programming course; I admire his artwork more than his teaching abilities. I'm considering commissioning a small piece from him.
If I load a lot of data in an application, it'll use a lot of RAM? Why????
The terminal emulator that comes with it is crap, but sufficiently responsive on my XP machine. According to the marketing sheet, it comes with 120 commandlets, which doesn't compare to the stuff available with a typical UNIX system. And some of the commands are "ignore output of this command" and so forth, which are accomplished in other manners with UNIX shells.
Basically, if you use bash, you've got 40 years of people writing programs for it and compatible shells. If you use powershell, you've only got 1 year. And a lot of people have used the Bourne shell and its derivatives as their primary interface with their computers.
I read it more as Shuttleworth saying "My release schedule is good, coordinated releases are good, all popular Linuxes should follow my release schedule."
There would be a number of benefits to that, but requiring that it be Ubuntu's schedule is a bit puerile.
You could do some of this...
/home'.
If you have pop3 access to your email, or some equivalent, you can download all messages and have them deleted from the server. Set up a cronjob; if you don't log in after three days, do that, then 'rm -rf
Doesn't stop any new email from getting in, of course; you'll have to rig up a script to send 'unsubscribe' to listserv@yiffyfurryporn.net.
Developers should prioritize common operations. If your example is obscure, then I'm not terribly surprised if the mechanism for doing it is obscure.
In point of fact, now that I looked it up, changing a hostname in Linux is pretty damn easy. There's no GUI for it because nobody in the GNOME project or the KDE project thinks it's an important enough feature to maintain -- I'm sure I could come up with something for it in half a day, and I'm sure the average maintainer in either of those projects could come up with something in a couple hours, that would suffice.
For nvidia video cards, Ubuntu pops up a nice message saying that it found hardware that it has drivers for, and would I like to install them? I dunno why it failed with your card, but it's probably a bug, and you'd be doing us a favor if you would report it.
$ apt-get search girlfriend
psad - The Port Scan Attack Detector
$ wtf is this
Gee, I don't know what this is...
How often do you have to change your computer's hostname? As a desktop user, I've never had to. If you have to, you're probably a sysadmin or at least tech support, which means that a certain amount of expert knowledge is expected.
The problems used to be significant enough to prevent a reasonably technical person unfamiliar with Linux from being able to install it. In many cases, they prevented someone reasonably familiar with Linux from being able to install it.
Now, you can just pop in the disk and get a dual boot installation with a dozen mouse clicks. And then you're left with a system that takes a couple days to learn basic usage rather than a few hours. Now, the complaint is that you have to use an SD card rather than syncing directly with some cameras.
The complaints are still there, but as time passes, they come from less technically proficient users. And that is win.
(Well, to be precise, as current time approaches infinity, this approaches win; and there is possibly some earlier point at which it will be win.)
It keeps honest people informed so that they can make correct decisions.
Conjecture. That is what makes it conjecture. A hypothesis must be testable, but need not have been tested.
Well, that *is* how they killed OS/2.
Microsoft can't adequately document previous Office formats for a .NET port to be feasible, I'm thinking. It's far easier to include substantial portions of the previous version than to rewrite the document parsers and so forth.
As for MS Office kicking ass, I have access to Office 2007 here at work, but I still use OpenOffice most of the time. It's quicker, leaves more screen space for the documents, and has a UI that I don't really have to think to use.