Actually, this is what kdenlive does: it is a GUI frontend for the CLI MltMelt tool (http://www.mltframework.org/bin/view/MLT/MltMelt). Given, it is one command which does everything instead of multiple small commands, but there is still a separation between the program doing the work and the program providing the GUI.
[...] and yet those small 1-2 man teams are each now probably millionaires.[...]
They are not. Most indie developers have very fluctuating income and usually it is barely enough to make a living. There are some exceptions though; the creators of more popular indie games do have a reasonable income, but when subtracting the costs most will not be millionaires. I expect the number of millionaires from indie games to be 1, and that person is Markus Persson.
In my experience the prices in EUR and in USD are roughly the same. Partly because we do pay more, but mostly because we include VAT in the price. At the current 21% VAT (in the Netherlands), the remaining difference in price is only relatively small (~5%).
The actually acknowledged that they had that problem a few years ago, and since they have been moving back towards generic pieces instead of these specific pieces. It might still be worse than back in the day, but things are certainly improving.
I used to run btrfs roughly a year ago for half a year and had no issues with data integrety etc whatsoever. The downside at that time was that performance for working with loads of small files was noticably worse than with ext4. The result of this was that a dist-upgrade took more than 4 hours instead of the expected 1.5 to 2 hours it takes with ext4. Apart from that I had no issues whatsoever; performance on other loads was decent.
I occasionaly look for benchmarks showing that the small files performance is up to par, but so far I have been unable to find them.
So you say that it is best to solve this problem in each application inidividually instead of, say, running one process on each system which makes sure that the clocks stay in sync for all applications?
The other key advantage that X11 has: if the application is mis-behaving the application's window can still be controlled by the window manager. Ever seen windows on a Windows desktop that cannot be minimized? Wayland is bringing that to Linux.
It is still possible to support server-side window decorations. The Wayland compositor will be the unification of what currently are a separate compositor and window manager and should support all old functionality. For example, KWin will use server-side decorations by default.
Samsung managed to solve the orientation-issue: their connector is assymetric, with the wire not being in the middle but at the right side if the connector is facing up ( http://www.world-of-accessories.co.uk/images/medium/120411130643.jpg ). I have no problem at all with getting it the right way: i just have to see (or feel) the connector.
It is inherentily impossible to build something into an OS which cannot be controller by that OS itself. If you want these really secure firewalls, they should be on a separate appliance and all your traffic should be routed through them.
Most developers seem to be running this from a WeTab, so that would probably the tablet of choice. There is about a dozen devices which are able to run Plasma Active quite decently though; they can be found by a small search through their website.
The whole idea of this system is that it can be slowly phased in. The system looks at other cars with the system nearby and looks at their behavior. If a car somewhat in front of you is breaking, a signal is sent to the driver that something is about to happen. It is not really autonomous right now, but supporting the driver.
Most mobile phones are, as far as i know, IPv6-ready. Symbian supports it, Android supports it (although i'm not sure if it's enabled), iOS supports it. I'm not sure about WinPhone 7 and BlackBerry.
I find that neither emacs nor vi qualifies to be a proper editor; that simplifies discussions very much. More serious contestants for the title include nano and mcedit, but roughly any GUI editor wins from CLI editors if you ask me.
It may not be a complete solution, but have you looked at BibTeX? BibTeX itself is only a format for nicely stating the information you have available (which magazine, article title, which pages in the magazine, authors, etc), but in the entire BibTeX ecosystem a number of indexing systems are built. Quite a lot of them are for desktop use (so you can manage your own BibTeX entries), but I'd imagine there would be some web-based system for this as well.
Here in the Netherlands we have a law (of which i'm not sure if it's a European or just a Dutch law) which allows anyone to receive all data broadcast through the airwaves and listen to/read it, as long as it is all unencrypted or plainly audible. Since the networks were open, i'd say it's just a use of that law and nothing illegal happened. If you put anything into the air unencrypted, it is for anyone to receive. Thinking otherwise is stupid and naive (and hence done by 90% of the population)
I'd say Trolltech has managed to make a open-source technology (Qt) profitable. Be it by first making it not 100% completely free open-source (via QPL and later as a GPL-library), but eventually it is not free and by working with a large open source project (KDE), the momentum for using Qt has increased a lot. Without KDE, Qt wouldn't have been where it is now (and vice versa). It's about taking a large collection of open source code, and selling services/support on at least a part of it. If the added value for paying is high enough, companies will pay.
I have participated in plenty of contests and know enough about the rules to say that you don't have to worry about runtime and memory usage differences between programming language. Depending on the language used, a solution can take longer or use more memory so that the programming language is pretty much moot and the algorithm is the important bit.
Usually, the runtimes are used to filter algorithms to ones that use the correct runtime. If a problem is about sorting, they will want a O(n log n) algorithm. Nearly any O(n log n) algorithm will work and anything higher (usually O(n^2)) will fail.
Now that we've leveled the playing field we can get to the language features. My language of choice for these contests is C++ for two reasons. The first one is personal: i know C/C++ pretty well. The second one is a main advantage: the C++ STL provides a larger number of containers and standard algorithms with runtime guarantees which greatly speed up writing code if you know how to use them. Many of the newer languages do provide these kinds of libraries, but in my limited experience with the other languages i have been unable to like them as much as the STL for this purpose. The fact that you have runtime guarantees in the STL makes it particularly suited for this contests, where runtime is key.
In the end it all depends on what you want to teach tho. I would dare to dive into C++ with new students, as long as they are eager to learn and show a reasonable level of thinking like a programmer. If you know a lot more about python and can explain and use the algorithmic basics of runtime and memory usage well in python, go ahead and use python. Any language which allows you to strictly adhere to runtime instructions will work.
I've actually recently (less than a year ago) started playing D&D and i must say i'm really impressed by the amount of detail you can get into a set of numbers on a few sheets of paper. More people should be doing this; it's MMORPG: Medium-sized Multiplayer Offline RPG
I wouldn't actually say they have a window manager. Chrome itself somehow is a window manager for it's own windows, even when not run in their OS. As you can see when you open the options dialog, there is not really a window manager in place. It just puts the new window fullscreen over the other one. This is nothing more than X itself can do without a window manager.
Oh, and they should loose the Gtk. It's ugly and slow.
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Actually, this is what kdenlive does: it is a GUI frontend for the CLI MltMelt tool (http://www.mltframework.org/bin/view/MLT/MltMelt). Given, it is one command which does everything instead of multiple small commands, but there is still a separation between the program doing the work and the program providing the GUI.
Pity they didn't use the Hackfest to design something innovative to energize their base and make working with Gnome cutting edge.
Like what, vala?
Unless you add chainsaws.
[...] and yet those small 1-2 man teams are each now probably millionaires.[...]
They are not. Most indie developers have very fluctuating income and usually it is barely enough to make a living. There are some exceptions though; the creators of more popular indie games do have a reasonable income, but when subtracting the costs most will not be millionaires. I expect the number of millionaires from indie games to be 1, and that person is Markus Persson.
In my experience the prices in EUR and in USD are roughly the same. Partly because we do pay more, but mostly because we include VAT in the price. At the current 21% VAT (in the Netherlands), the remaining difference in price is only relatively small (~5%).
The actually acknowledged that they had that problem a few years ago, and since they have been moving back towards generic pieces instead of these specific pieces. It might still be worse than back in the day, but things are certainly improving.
I used to run btrfs roughly a year ago for half a year and had no issues with data integrety etc whatsoever. The downside at that time was that performance for working with loads of small files was noticably worse than with ext4. The result of this was that a dist-upgrade took more than 4 hours instead of the expected 1.5 to 2 hours it takes with ext4. Apart from that I had no issues whatsoever; performance on other loads was decent.
I occasionaly look for benchmarks showing that the small files performance is up to par, but so far I have been unable to find them.
So you say that it is best to solve this problem in each application inidividually instead of, say, running one process on each system which makes sure that the clocks stay in sync for all applications?
The other key advantage that X11 has: if the application is mis-behaving the application's window can still be controlled by the window manager. Ever seen windows on a Windows desktop that cannot be minimized? Wayland is bringing that to Linux.
It is still possible to support server-side window decorations. The Wayland compositor will be the unification of what currently are a separate compositor and window manager and should support all old functionality. For example, KWin will use server-side decorations by default.
Samsung managed to solve the orientation-issue: their connector is assymetric, with the wire not being in the middle but at the right side if the connector is facing up ( http://www.world-of-accessories.co.uk/images/medium/120411130643.jpg ). I have no problem at all with getting it the right way: i just have to see (or feel) the connector.
It is inherentily impossible to build something into an OS which cannot be controller by that OS itself. If you want these really secure firewalls, they should be on a separate appliance and all your traffic should be routed through them.
Most developers seem to be running this from a WeTab, so that would probably the tablet of choice. There is about a dozen devices which are able to run Plasma Active quite decently though; they can be found by a small search through their website.
The whole idea of this system is that it can be slowly phased in. The system looks at other cars with the system nearby and looks at their behavior. If a car somewhat in front of you is breaking, a signal is sent to the driver that something is about to happen. It is not really autonomous right now, but supporting the driver.
Most mobile phones are, as far as i know, IPv6-ready. Symbian supports it, Android supports it (although i'm not sure if it's enabled), iOS supports it. I'm not sure about WinPhone 7 and BlackBerry.
I find that neither emacs nor vi qualifies to be a proper editor; that simplifies discussions very much. More serious contestants for the title include nano and mcedit, but roughly any GUI editor wins from CLI editors if you ask me.
Decent people drink beer, not wine. And since all good beer comes from Belgium, there is no need for geolocation of names.
P.S.: I know that good beer also comes from other countries, but accounting for that would require a different argument.
It may not be a complete solution, but have you looked at BibTeX? BibTeX itself is only a format for nicely stating the information you have available (which magazine, article title, which pages in the magazine, authors, etc), but in the entire BibTeX ecosystem a number of indexing systems are built. Quite a lot of them are for desktop use (so you can manage your own BibTeX entries), but I'd imagine there would be some web-based system for this as well.
Here in the Netherlands we have a law (of which i'm not sure if it's a European or just a Dutch law) which allows anyone to receive all data broadcast through the airwaves and listen to/read it, as long as it is all unencrypted or plainly audible. Since the networks were open, i'd say it's just a use of that law and nothing illegal happened. If you put anything into the air unencrypted, it is for anyone to receive. Thinking otherwise is stupid and naive (and hence done by 90% of the population)
I'd say Trolltech has managed to make a open-source technology (Qt) profitable. Be it by first making it not 100% completely free open-source (via QPL and later as a GPL-library), but eventually it is not free and by working with a large open source project (KDE), the momentum for using Qt has increased a lot. Without KDE, Qt wouldn't have been where it is now (and vice versa). It's about taking a large collection of open source code, and selling services/support on at least a part of it. If the added value for paying is high enough, companies will pay.
I have participated in plenty of contests and know enough about the rules to say that you don't have to worry about runtime and memory usage differences between programming language. Depending on the language used, a solution can take longer or use more memory so that the programming language is pretty much moot and the algorithm is the important bit.
Usually, the runtimes are used to filter algorithms to ones that use the correct runtime. If a problem is about sorting, they will want a O(n log n) algorithm. Nearly any O(n log n) algorithm will work and anything higher (usually O(n^2)) will fail.
Now that we've leveled the playing field we can get to the language features. My language of choice for these contests is C++ for two reasons. The first one is personal: i know C/C++ pretty well. The second one is a main advantage: the C++ STL provides a larger number of containers and standard algorithms with runtime guarantees which greatly speed up writing code if you know how to use them. Many of the newer languages do provide these kinds of libraries, but in my limited experience with the other languages i have been unable to like them as much as the STL for this purpose. The fact that you have runtime guarantees in the STL makes it particularly suited for this contests, where runtime is key.
In the end it all depends on what you want to teach tho. I would dare to dive into C++ with new students, as long as they are eager to learn and show a reasonable level of thinking like a programmer. If you know a lot more about python and can explain and use the algorithmic basics of runtime and memory usage well in python, go ahead and use python. Any language which allows you to strictly adhere to runtime instructions will work.
You can see he made the human in his own image...
Make a fortitude save...
I've actually recently (less than a year ago) started playing D&D and i must say i'm really impressed by the amount of detail you can get into a set of numbers on a few sheets of paper. More people should be doing this; it's MMORPG: Medium-sized Multiplayer Offline RPG
I wouldn't actually say they have a window manager. Chrome itself somehow is a window manager for it's own windows, even when not run in their OS. As you can see when you open the options dialog, there is not really a window manager in place. It just puts the new window fullscreen over the other one. This is nothing more than X itself can do without a window manager.
Oh, and they should loose the Gtk. It's ugly and slow.
I agree!