I thought 'why on earth is this article themed with the US flag - are north korean WMD only of interest to usa citizens?' then I realised that was the theme for politics.slashdot.org.
Then I thought 'why on earth is this category themed with the US flag - are politics of interest to usa citizens?'
Well, a hurd livecd would mean you could try out hurd without committing a partition to it. Or do you mean, what possible use could Hurd serve? Perhaps you're replying to the wrong post.
I'm looking forward to a Hurd LiveCD - I understand this is technically pretty complex but when it happens, trying out hurd will be simplified massively.
Good for the perl 6 guys: but I still find it weird how PHP grew from Perl and yet used the dollar sign for vectors. I certainly found it an odd 'transition' when I started to pick up PHP. Still, having something works better than nothing, I suppose.
He wants a source navigator to look at existing code - how many quality open source apps are written in java? Ok, now how many of them are they likely to have experienced, using Linux/KDE/kdeedu?
The image once displayed isn't compressed. So a GIF filesize is irrelevant. You also have to add decompressing the GIF, drawing the X window, the progress bar (on a side note: I wonder how much thought goes into those progress bars anyway?)
Nonsense - are safari even back-propagating patches to KDE any more? Last I heard the 'mega patch' that apple released to KDE at safari's launch still wasn't dealt with.
So a corporation allows the boardmembers to escape ethical responsibility for their group actions, and when the brown stuff hits the fan the company goes bust and nobody is left responsible.
I think governments should be responsible for the actions of companies that belong to them - which implies companies must belong to a government. After all, the government(s) will be profiting from illegal acts via taxation.
If you've got X amount of RAM, then you're getting value for money if you are using it all! What is important is that the right app has it at the right time.
The explanation I see implied from your condescending post is that you're afraid you won't look "1337" if too many people start using your distro of choice.
Gentoo has a 1337 reputation? Am I living on a different planet?
I'm pretty sure that the developers are using the 3d gubbins only because the card has a really fast 3D GPU on there whereas 2d development is pretty stagnant. I can't see a reason why a 2D card couldn't be developed to do all the things that flat environments like window systems are using (abusing?) GL et al. for.
True -- but it's less time spent fetching and installing dependencies
I'm not sure if you mean manually doing this, in which case your complaint is about your package management system, or the multiple files overhead. If the latter, you have a point where a distinct connection needs to be opened for each file. However, FTP and HTTP 1.1 can transfer multiple files in one connection.
less time spent finding libraries on disk and loading them
Thats true. With lots of libraries and lots of calls this can be a significant chunk of time, at least we're told. I've never really noticed a performance improvement through prelinking.
and quite a bit less possibility for those nasty library version conflicts, which tend to increase exponentially in the number of libraries.
I've never really experienced these.. most of these sort-of bugs are ironed out, again by the package management system my OS employs. However I do know they aren't all ironed out, as I've read reports of problems etc. Especially with C++ programs with unstable ABI's.
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This was in the linux journal months ago :P
I thought 'why on earth is this article themed with the US flag - are north korean WMD only of interest to usa citizens?' then I realised that was the theme for politics.slashdot.org.
Then I thought 'why on earth is this category themed with the US flag - are politics of interest to usa citizens?'
Can't say I'm jealous, good luck admining something like that :P
What if he had invaded Britian earlier in the war?
Do you mean: what if, earlier in the war, he invaded Britain? I read that and thought "Hitler never invaded Britain!"
On the face of it I prefer Kaufman's previous work to Linklater's; but I'd still have to read both scripts before I could make a judgement.
Well, a hurd livecd would mean you could try out hurd without committing a partition to it. Or do you mean, what possible use could Hurd serve? Perhaps you're replying to the wrong post.
I'm looking forward to a Hurd LiveCD - I understand this is technically pretty complex but when it happens, trying out hurd will be simplified massively.
Good for the perl 6 guys: but I still find it weird how PHP grew from Perl and yet used the dollar sign for vectors. I certainly found it an odd 'transition' when I started to pick up PHP. Still, having something works better than nothing, I suppose.
Yes but using the $calar delimiter for scalars and vectors is wishy-washy.
He wants a source navigator to look at existing code - how many quality open source apps are written in java? Ok, now how many of them are they likely to have experienced, using Linux/KDE/kdeedu?
I just got 563.2KB/s :) I supposed it's cached somewhere.
The future is bright, the future is orange.
Surely that depends on what background you have underneath your transparent window - it could be a murky brown colour.
The image once displayed isn't compressed. So a GIF filesize is irrelevant. You also have to add decompressing the GIF, drawing the X window, the progress bar (on a side note: I wonder how much thought goes into those progress bars anyway?)
Maybe the app would start more quickly if so many cycles weren't wasted on the damn splashscreen! :P
Nonsense - are safari even back-propagating patches to KDE any more? Last I heard the 'mega patch' that apple released to KDE at safari's launch still wasn't dealt with.
So a corporation allows the boardmembers to escape ethical responsibility for their group actions, and when the brown stuff hits the fan the company goes bust and nobody is left responsible.
I think governments should be responsible for the actions of companies that belong to them - which implies companies must belong to a government. After all, the government(s) will be profiting from illegal acts via taxation.
If you've got X amount of RAM, then you're getting value for money if you are using it all! What is important is that the right app has it at the right time.
The explanation I see implied from your condescending post is that you're afraid you won't look "1337" if too many people start using your distro of choice.
Gentoo has a 1337 reputation? Am I living on a different planet?
Nope, Debian/sarge. The installer really is that efficient. Give it a go! http://www.nl.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
Not only the install, but honestly having to compile your own kernel, just makes things work better. Everything about Gentoo is right
funny that. I'd say being able to recompile the kernel is good, rather than being forced to.
But what is it? An installer or a command line tutorial? I like my installers to be good at their primary focus, as is the UNIX way.
When I last installed my operating system it was over so quickly I didn't have time to do anything else, except maybe make a cup of coffee.
Is this installation thing going to make you rebuild all the packages then, is that why doing something productive at the same time is so important?
I'm pretty sure that the developers are using the 3d gubbins only because the card has a really fast 3D GPU on there whereas 2d development is pretty stagnant. I can't see a reason why a 2D card couldn't be developed to do all the things that flat environments like window systems are using (abusing?) GL et al. for.
MSO is prelinked too - all of the MS libs are, to favour MSO.
True -- but it's less time spent fetching and installing dependencies
I'm not sure if you mean manually doing this, in which case your complaint is about your package management system, or the multiple files overhead. If the latter, you have a point where a distinct connection needs to be opened for each file. However, FTP and HTTP 1.1 can transfer multiple files in one connection.
less time spent finding libraries on disk and loading them
Thats true. With lots of libraries and lots of calls this can be a significant chunk of time, at least we're told. I've never really noticed a performance improvement through prelinking.
and quite a bit less possibility for those nasty library version conflicts, which tend to increase exponentially in the number of libraries.
I've never really experienced these.. most of these sort-of bugs are ironed out, again by the package management system my OS employs. However I do know they aren't all ironed out, as I've read reports of problems etc. Especially with C++ programs with unstable ABI's.