Shure - Evolution is GNOME based and GNOME programms are generally unstable.
Well the GNOME comunity might not like it but C is a programming language for low level (speak kernel) programming and unsuited for complex deskop applications. Hence GNOME applications crash a lot.
The KDE offerings is a lot better in that respect. More features and more stable then GNOME.
GNOME tries to sell you now that simpler and less features is better - but that is because they can't do any better.
Example:
The first Nautilus (GNOME filemanger) version had the coolest features available at the time. A lot cooler than the Konqueror at the time. If only Nautilus would not have crashed faster then you can start it up again. And now: They have slimmed down Nautilus to a what Konqueror could do 2 years ago and giving "We don't want to many features to overwelm the user" - Year, right - I belive that.
At the same time Konqueror increased there feature set and can do all the cool stuff from the original Natilus and more.
Water under the bride: Well I have a large harddrive and so I have installed both the GNOME and the KDE packages. I wanted the rip some of my CD's:
Grip (GNOME) - looks nicer, good feature set, crashed every other CD.
KAudioCreater - looks not quite as nice, rips the next track while encoding the previous one at the same time, and still never crashed. Not even when rippen 2 CD at the same time.
But then: KDE is qt based and qt is european product - we can't have that on our computer, can we.
The Opera toolbars are fully configurable you can drag and drop any Toolbar button wherever you like.
Right klick in the toolbar and choose "Customize". Then you can activate more Toolbars - choose where they should appear and then drag and drop the buttons where you like them.
You are aware that you have just insulted my Gods and Goddesses? How dare you call my Gods FALSE! I on the other would never call your God false.
Christians have only stopped killing others because they are "infidels" for about 200 years.
I find it interesting that the Muslims are in there 16th century. When christianity where in there 16th century the Spanish inquisition was killing anyone with an own opinion and Germany was right in the protestant vs. catholic war. If Charles Darwin had been born in the 16th century he would have been burned on the stake right away.
Prehaps you should replace all "Christians" in your text with "modern Christians". And
But in one thing I agree with out: One has the right to defend oneself and I like your definition of "Turn the other cheek".
I think you are mistaken here. Read the first commandment again. Jehova nevers claims to be the only god in existence. He only demands that you (as a one of his followers) shall not follow any other gods at the same time.
There is nothing about burning you neighbor on the stake because he believes in dozend other Gods and Godesses.
Still Christans did just that! Never heard of Jews (same God, same 10 commandmends) doing that. Shure they went to war for other reasons - like getting more land.
The real problem is that Christans really have a funny way of interpreting there holy book and then forcing anybody else the believe in the same crap.
But Christianity is loosing support - how that heretics, pagans and other non-christians can now openly opose Christianity without fear of beeing burned on the stake.
And yes: Even the US with there so called "free choice of religion" in there constituition burned people on the stake for religious reasons.
So lets see how long Christianity will survive without bloodshed.
I fear that when the US wrote down there contsitution and spoke of "Free choice of religion" they actualy meant "Free to choose beween beein Catholic or Protestant".
At that time other religions never featured in there mind. And not much changed in that respect.
Note:
Bertelmann is a german company hence the.de links - but still feel free to tell them how you feel about the DRM issue - shure somebody there can read english.
Well, this is actualy driving honest customers to become pirates as well. I don't mind buying music - but I do mind companies to install software on my computer without my consent.
But then I have a Linux Box handy and prefer OggVorbis to mp3 anyway.
Microsofts Media Playe regulaly looked up my computer and I would consider that a serious perfomance problem.
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Or not available for the legacy OS you have to work with.
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I understand you point. But for real hard core coders there are more priorities then the GUI. I don't say I don't want a GUI - I want one. I won't use an editor without. But I also want:
- A GUI which I can configure. - A script language (vim has 5: vim-script, perl python, ruby and tcl). - Character, line and rectangle cut/copy/paste. - A parser for compiler output - even when the compiler output is split over more then one line. - fully configuable syntax higlight. - Multi-OS Support.
But we are talking vim here - which has a lot more features then plain vi.
Martin
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Both emacs and vim have a GUI as well now. I almost never start vim on a command line. But if I do it is helpfull to have the same key command available.
Martin
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Why I love vim myself I think you are right. There need to be something easier - like mcedit - as default editor for Linux.
When I did my first Linux installation X did not work out of the box and it had vi only. When I accidentily started vi I had to Ctrl-Alt-F2 and do a kill 1234 to get out of it again.
vim is a lot better here. vim has a help function. Actualy: the help function was the killer function which finally converted me love vim - long after years of deep honest hate for vi.
But then: now X almost allways works "out of the box" the problem is not that bad anymore - almost always a newbie can edit using X editor.
On the first point I am with you - but on the 2nd I differ. Windows NT and it's successors are a multitasking OS which can handle more then a thouthand applications (not all GUI of corse). Adding a restriction to 3 applications is removin features.
But that is not new: Windows NT and it's successors was build to support hundreds of connections - yes Windows XP (Home and Pro) are restricted to 10. It's the peer to peer network connections we are talking about.
Also NT was build for use with multiple CPU's yet XP Home is crippeld to just 1 and XP Pro to 2.
I am not talking about a Media Player more or less I am talking about core OS functionalty beeing crippled.
I would say "almost the same product for significantly different prices". And that makes is the same. Remember: you need something to bar the upper price customers from buying the lower price product. They have not added features for the higher price versions but removed features for the lower price segment.
Home:= Ulimate - Pro Pro:= Ulimate - Home Home_Basic:= Home - Feature_List_X Starter:= Home Basix - Multi_Tasking
only in the corporate world - where software gets evaluated - things are a little bit different:
Business:= Pro - Games + Feature_List_Y Enterprise:= Business + Feature_List_Z
Actually I like the "all-too-German SuSE" for it's better I18N support. In fact the main problem with the "all-too-US Novel" taking over SuSE is a certain degradition of in the I18N support.
i.E. defaut for printer-paper is now "Letter" - yuck!! - with SuSE (before Novel) a German installation would default to "A4" - as it should do.
But that is just USA stamping all over - no matter that more users worldwide use A4 and that you can't even buy "Letter" paper in Europe (basicly because no one wants to buy it).
OK the opera stats are disorted because I use opera to test the site. However the FireFox stats are for real. Yes I have more firefox users on ada.krischik.com then IE.
> I ordered a card reader off of eBay to find out, > but it looks like they're RS232 devices.
Indeed often they are. Sometimes they are daisy chained into the keyboard. Which reminds me: The ATM's I have seen from the inside are dual display / dual keyboard. If you open them from the back there is a full pc monitor, keyboard and a mouse for maintanance. Any yes they where all OS/2 as well.
> With the OSS model one might get a hundred guys working on it.
In a cash-money project the test team tends to be as large as the developer team - and they have a test plan - and special toy money to test the dispensor. Actualy: The banks won't trust anybody apart from there own staff (or in house freelancers) on testing that stuff.
Shure the hardware vendor must have a test plan as weöö - but then is it's double checked.
> what makes this development special
Well indeed it is normal software engeneering - which could partialy done with python - but not code hacking. The main difference is in the culture: non disclosure contracts, test plans, code review.
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Shure - Evolution is GNOME based and GNOME programms are generally unstable.
Well the GNOME comunity might not like it but C is a programming language for low level (speak kernel) programming and unsuited for complex deskop applications. Hence GNOME applications crash a lot.
The KDE offerings is a lot better in that respect. More features and more stable then GNOME.
GNOME tries to sell you now that simpler and less features is better - but that is because they can't do any better.
Example:
The first Nautilus (GNOME filemanger) version had the coolest features available at the time. A lot cooler than the Konqueror at the time. If only Nautilus would not have crashed faster then you can start it up again. And now: They have slimmed down Nautilus to a what Konqueror could do 2 years ago and giving "We don't want to many features to overwelm the user" - Year, right - I belive that.
At the same time Konqueror increased there feature set and can do all the cool stuff from the original Natilus and more.
Water under the bride: Well I have a large harddrive and so I have installed both the GNOME and the KDE packages. I wanted the rip some of my CD's:
Grip (GNOME) - looks nicer, good feature set, crashed every other CD.
KAudioCreater - looks not quite as nice, rips the next track while encoding the previous one at the same time, and still never crashed. Not even when rippen 2 CD at the same time.
But then: KDE is qt based and qt is european product - we can't have that on our computer, can we.
Martin
The Opera toolbars are fully configurable you can drag and drop any Toolbar button wherever you like.
Right klick in the toolbar and choose "Customize". Then you can activate more Toolbars - choose where they should appear and then drag and drop the buttons where you like them.
Martin
Well true, but why should it be any faster then:
loop
Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line ("hello");
end loop;
Martin
Hi,
s /access
3 -11.html
Have you ever heard of Ada? No, then read:
Easy (at wikibooks):
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Type
Detailed (ISO/IEC 8652:1995(E)):
http://www.adaic.com/standards/rm-amend/html/RM-1
All you wanted - especially the savety part. Still you can also use an "access all" if you need more flexibility.
The thing I like about Ada it that it comes with of lot of savety features which I can all switch off if I need to.
Martin
Hi,
You are aware that you have just insulted my Gods and Goddesses? How dare you call my Gods FALSE! I on the other would never call your God false.
Christians have only stopped killing others because they are "infidels" for about 200 years.
I find it interesting that the Muslims are in there 16th century. When christianity where in there 16th century the Spanish inquisition was killing anyone with an own opinion and Germany was right in the protestant vs. catholic war. If Charles Darwin had been born in the 16th century he would have been burned on the stake right away.
Prehaps you should replace all "Christians" in your text with "modern Christians". And
But in one thing I agree with out: One has the right to defend oneself and I like your definition of "Turn the other cheek".
Martin
Hello,
I think you are mistaken here. Read the first commandment again. Jehova nevers claims to be the only god in existence. He only demands that you (as a one of his followers) shall not follow any other gods at the same time.
There is nothing about burning you neighbor on the stake because he believes in dozend other Gods and Godesses.
Still Christans did just that! Never heard of Jews (same God, same 10 commandmends) doing that. Shure they went to war for other reasons - like getting more land.
The real problem is that Christans really have a funny way of interpreting there holy book and then forcing anybody else the believe in the same crap.
Martin
But Christianity is loosing support - how that heretics, pagans and other non-christians can now openly opose Christianity without fear of beeing burned on the stake.
And yes: Even the US with there so called "free choice of religion" in there constituition burned people on the stake for religious reasons.
So lets see how long Christianity will survive without bloodshed.
Martin
I fear that when the US wrote down there contsitution and spoke of "Free choice of religion" they actualy meant "Free to choose beween beein Catholic or Protestant".
At that time other religions never featured in there mind. And not much changed in that respect.
Indeed true! Almost forgot about that.
.de links - but still feel free to tell them how you feel about the DRM issue - shure somebody there can read english.
So I guess it is time to cancel Bertelmann club memberships as well and stop buying Bertelmann printed media as well.
Martin
Links:
http://www.derclub.de/
http://www.bertelsmann.de/
Note:
Bertelmann is a german company hence the
Shure I won't buy another sony CD as well.
ever tried:
dir "c:/windows"
on a commandline. supprise, suprise.
The "'\' vs. '/' - well have both!" idea comes from OS/2 and NT has inherited it.
Well, this is actualy driving honest customers to become pirates as well. I don't mind buying music - but I do mind companies to install software on my computer without my consent.
But then I have a Linux Box handy and prefer OggVorbis to mp3 anyway.
Microsofts Media Playe regulaly looked up my computer and I would consider that a serious perfomance problem.
Or not available for the legacy OS you have to work with.
I understand you point. But for real hard core coders there are more priorities then the GUI. I don't say I don't want a GUI - I want one. I won't use an editor without. But I also want:
- A GUI which I can configure.
- A script language (vim has 5: vim-script, perl python, ruby and tcl).
- Character, line and rectangle cut/copy/paste.
- A parser for compiler output - even when the compiler output is split over more then one line.
- fully configuable syntax higlight.
- Multi-OS Support.
Just what I remember out of the top of my head.
Martin
But this post is about vim - vi improved. Improved - as in "better as".
Martin
But we are talking vim here - which has a lot more features then plain vi.
Martin
Both emacs and vim have a GUI as well now. I almost never start vim on a command line. But if I do it is helpfull to have the same key command available.
Martin
Why I love vim myself I think you are right. There need to be something easier - like mcedit - as default editor for Linux.
When I did my first Linux installation X did not work out of the box and it had vi only. When I accidentily started vi I had to Ctrl-Alt-F2 and do a kill 1234 to get out of it again.
vim is a lot better here. vim has a help function. Actualy: the help function was the killer function which finally converted me love vim - long after years of deep honest hate for vi.
But then: now X almost allways works "out of the box" the problem is not that bad anymore - almost always a newbie can edit using X editor.
Martin
On the first point I am with you - but on the 2nd I differ. Windows NT and it's successors are a multitasking OS which can handle more then a thouthand applications (not all GUI of corse). Adding a restriction to 3 applications is removin features.
But that is not new: Windows NT and it's successors was build to support hundreds of connections - yes Windows XP (Home and Pro) are restricted to 10. It's the peer to peer network connections we are talking about.
Also NT was build for use with multiple CPU's yet XP Home is crippeld to just 1 and XP Pro to 2.
I am not talking about a Media Player more or less I am talking about core OS functionalty beeing crippled.
Martin
I would say "almost the same product for significantly different prices". And that makes is the same. Remember: you need something to bar the upper price customers from buying the lower price product. They have not added features for the higher price versions but removed features for the lower price segment.
:= Ulimate - Pro := Ulimate - Home := Home - Feature_List_X := Home Basix - Multi_Tasking
:= Pro - Games + Feature_List_Y := Business + Feature_List_Z
Home
Pro
Home_Basic
Starter
only in the corporate world - where software gets evaluated - things are a little bit different:
Business
Enterprise
But note the "- Games" here!!
Martin
Well, you are a bit late. For in-depth information there is WikiBooks (http://www.wikibooks.org./
And a few WikiPedia articles already have links to the relevant WikiBook where the reader can find out more about the topic.
Martin
Actually I like the "all-too-German SuSE" for it's better I18N support. In fact the main problem with the "all-too-US Novel" taking over SuSE is a certain degradition of in the I18N support.
i.E. defaut for printer-paper is now "Letter" - yuck!! - with SuSE (before Novel) a German installation would default to "A4" - as it should do.
But that is just USA stamping all over - no matter that more users worldwide use A4 and that you can't even buy "Letter" paper in Europe (basicly because no one wants to buy it).
Martin
It all depends on what your page has to offer:
Opera Nein 1752 32 %
Firefox Nein 1592 29.1 %
Unbekannt ? 962 17.6 %
MS Internet Explorer Nein 756 13.8 %
Konqueror Nein 154 2.8 %
Mozilla Nein 135 2.4 %
Safari Nein 44 0.8 %
Firebird (Old Firefox) Nein 34 0.6 %
Netscape Nein 15 0.2 %
Galeon Nein 12 0.2 %
Sonstige 3 0 %
OK the opera stats are disorted because I use opera to test the site. However the FireFox stats are for real. Yes I have more firefox users on ada.krischik.com then IE.
If you don't belive it then see for yourself http://www.krischik.com/statistik
Martin
> I ordered a card reader off of eBay to find out,
> but it looks like they're RS232 devices.
Indeed often they are. Sometimes they are daisy chained into the keyboard. Which reminds me: The ATM's I have seen from the inside are dual display / dual keyboard. If you open them from the back there is a full pc monitor, keyboard and a mouse for maintanance. Any yes they where all OS/2 as well.
> With the OSS model one might get a hundred guys working on it.
In a cash-money project the test team tends to be as large as the developer team - and they have a test plan - and special toy money to test the dispensor. Actualy: The banks won't trust anybody apart from there own staff (or in house freelancers) on testing that stuff.
Shure the hardware vendor must have a test plan as weöö - but then is it's double checked.
> what makes this development special
Well indeed it is normal software engeneering - which could partialy done with python - but not code hacking. The main difference is in the culture: non disclosure contracts, test plans, code review.