I have. And it's only since I started figuring things out for myself that I've thought that souls don't exist. If there is something you think is evidence, show me and I can judge for myself. If not, I'll go on assuming there is none, since two thousand years of theological attempts have to the best of my knowledge not uncovered any.
Nonsense. That should have happened when they DCMA'd someone for offering RSS feeds of google news. Google is like Apple, whatever they do slashdot will love them.
Yep. But in that case you need to make sure your employees have access to the source and know they do (I think), and it's within their rights to take a copy and sell it to a competitor.
The problem is none of those are intuitive. Why do you have to click on an item in the category to add an item to the entire category? Why can't you right click on the actual button?
When coding in befunge it's pretty essential, so a few minutes ago, though that is only a bit of fun. I don't have any concrete examples, but I don't do any low level programming. But just look at how programming took off as soon as it was realised you could store code in the same way you store data. Yes I have heard of the Harvard architecture, and it reminds me of hurd - lots of papers and theoretical arguments saying why it should be a superior design, no working machines that show big improvements, and a lack of software.
Thing is you can theme KDE to look like windowmaker in a few seconds, just change the window decorations to KStep and the colours to what you want. But that's true of everything. Real hackers will probably not be happy with any theme you can give them, but that's not a problem as they'll figure out how to change it very quickly. So what DEs should do, and I think KDE does this very well, is have a default theme that's glitzy for the non-technical users, since that's what they will want.
I've used fvwm95 and various Xaw apps on a 386 running slackware 4. Really, I know what ugly is, and that was uglier than win3.1, but the look of windowmaker gives it a run for its money. No, it's not quite as ugly as Motif, but it's in the same division.
Of course, GEM can knock them all into a cocked hat.
Bah, Intercal is easy to write. Reading and maintaining it is another matter, but you can write it no problem. Try Malbooge (sp?) for something hard to write.
It's integration that's the difference. And to my mind.NET comes off much better. Because like it or not, you will need to use raw C at some stage, and if you can put it directly into your application, you're less likely to make a mistake passing things than with JNI. It feels strange to be rooting for MS, but in this case they really are the better option.
1. He's semi-endorsing the dropline people, who have always done a good job of packaging it. He doesn't want to lose control by turning over part of the actual distro to other people
2. Yes. He's asked them repeatedly, but they don't seem to care. If they could just get make install DESTDIR=/tmp/root work like it works for everything else then he could keep it in no problem.
3. Because Pat maintains Slackware *by himself*. Most distros can just devote a few people to managing the Gnome build, Slackware can't.
I use it. It is actually good at what it does, if you want an answer to an actual question like "how do I..." then it's better than google (where I usually end up just searching for... HOWTO)
What it orbits makes it easier to have a hierarchy and classify things. Using your definition we'd have to call Io and Titan planets, and they rank higher up than Mercury even though that orbits a star in its own right.
I think you may well be the only one. To me it makes much more sense to just assume we don't have souls. Occam's razor and the lack of evidence for their existence.
Thing is you actually need more delta-v to go to the Moon than to Mars (because you can aerobrake on Mars). So using the Moon as a refuelling station makes no sense.
Yeah, political strife. Probably something like when you bunch of colonists chucked away some perfectly good tea and started a war. But as then, I suspect things will work out, and we will probably end up better off as a species in the end.
Species have been going extinct all the time, new ones also arise, that's part of Earth's equilibrium. The pandas were in too small an ecological niche anyway, they were bound to become extinct sooner or later.
It's right though. It's a disjunctive license, like that of Perl (iirc). If you want, you can relicense Qt under pure GPL. You can even make your own fork that is only GPL and has features the propriety version doesn't have, although if they're good trolltech will simply reimplement them, and they probably have more developers than your fork will have.
Nope, it's completely obvious. "If you are using Qt commercially - that is, for creating proprietary software for sale or use in a commercial setting". If you are releasing under GPL you can charge as much as you want.
Pango is what causes all of the problems with GTK apps being slow. It renders text very nicely - rich text support is all there, i18n support is right in, it can render antialiased bold multibyte kanji as easily as anything else. But the price of that is that it's very slow. I think Qt does some ascii optimisation so you only have the i18n stuff slowing you down if you need it.
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I read that they sent a DMCA takedown notice for content that was infringing copyright.
I have. And it's only since I started figuring things out for myself that I've thought that souls don't exist. If there is something you think is evidence, show me and I can judge for myself. If not, I'll go on assuming there is none, since two thousand years of theological attempts have to the best of my knowledge not uncovered any.
Nonsense. That should have happened when they DCMA'd someone for offering RSS feeds of google news. Google is like Apple, whatever they do slashdot will love them.
Go on then, what's the evidence?
Yep. But in that case you need to make sure your employees have access to the source and know they do (I think), and it's within their rights to take a copy and sell it to a competitor.
The problem is none of those are intuitive. Why do you have to click on an item in the category to add an item to the entire category? Why can't you right click on the actual button?
When coding in befunge it's pretty essential, so a few minutes ago, though that is only a bit of fun. I don't have any concrete examples, but I don't do any low level programming. But just look at how programming took off as soon as it was realised you could store code in the same way you store data. Yes I have heard of the Harvard architecture, and it reminds me of hurd - lots of papers and theoretical arguments saying why it should be a superior design, no working machines that show big improvements, and a lack of software.
Thing is you can theme KDE to look like windowmaker in a few seconds, just change the window decorations to KStep and the colours to what you want. But that's true of everything. Real hackers will probably not be happy with any theme you can give them, but that's not a problem as they'll figure out how to change it very quickly. So what DEs should do, and I think KDE does this very well, is have a default theme that's glitzy for the non-technical users, since that's what they will want.
Of course, GEM can knock them all into a cocked hat.
Bah, Intercal is easy to write. Reading and maintaining it is another matter, but you can write it no problem. Try Malbooge (sp?) for something hard to write.
It's integration that's the difference. And to my mind .NET comes off much better. Because like it or not, you will need to use raw C at some stage, and if you can put it directly into your application, you're less likely to make a mistake passing things than with JNI. It feels strange to be rooting for MS, but in this case they really are the better option.
2. Yes. He's asked them repeatedly, but they don't seem to care. If they could just get make install DESTDIR=/tmp/root work like it works for everything else then he could keep it in no problem.
3. Because Pat maintains Slackware *by himself*. Most distros can just devote a few people to managing the Gnome build, Slackware can't.
I use it. It is actually good at what it does, if you want an answer to an actual question like "how do I..." then it's better than google (where I usually end up just searching for ... HOWTO)
And are you sure your ISP wasn't firewalling you to a certain extent? Or maybe some of the worms are actually starting to be got rid of.
What it orbits makes it easier to have a hierarchy and classify things. Using your definition we'd have to call Io and Titan planets, and they rank higher up than Mercury even though that orbits a star in its own right.
I think asteroid no. 4 can be argued to be a planet, since it is spherical under its own gravity.
I think you may well be the only one. To me it makes much more sense to just assume we don't have souls. Occam's razor and the lack of evidence for their existence.
Thing is you actually need more delta-v to go to the Moon than to Mars (because you can aerobrake on Mars). So using the Moon as a refuelling station makes no sense.
Yeah, political strife. Probably something like when you bunch of colonists chucked away some perfectly good tea and started a war. But as then, I suspect things will work out, and we will probably end up better off as a species in the end.
Species have been going extinct all the time, new ones also arise, that's part of Earth's equilibrium. The pandas were in too small an ecological niche anyway, they were bound to become extinct sooner or later.
It's right though. It's a disjunctive license, like that of Perl (iirc). If you want, you can relicense Qt under pure GPL. You can even make your own fork that is only GPL and has features the propriety version doesn't have, although if they're good trolltech will simply reimplement them, and they probably have more developers than your fork will have.
Seriously, Konqueror is the best browser I've ever used, and Kmail is the best email client I've ever used. I don't see why this is funny
Nope, it's completely obvious. "If you are using Qt commercially - that is, for creating proprietary software for sale or use in a commercial setting". If you are releasing under GPL you can charge as much as you want.
Pango is what causes all of the problems with GTK apps being slow. It renders text very nicely - rich text support is all there, i18n support is right in, it can render antialiased bold multibyte kanji as easily as anything else. But the price of that is that it's very slow. I think Qt does some ascii optimisation so you only have the i18n stuff slowing you down if you need it.
The main complaint I've seen is about menu editing, which is a real problem for people who really use the DE.