Tabbed browsing makes sense. You have one application, a web browser, with multiple pages, taking up less screen space. It's tabbed so you don't have to click on a bunch of minimized windows or use Expose or whatever shiny workalike the Gnome / KDE bunch has now to find what you want, and so you aren't cluttering up the desktop with a hundred web browser windows.
However, there is something to be said for separating out the different applications and simply clicking the icon or what have you, to switch between them. In fact, isn't that what Windows has had for about 15 years now? Sure, the application tab bar goes on the bottom the screen by default, and is called the "Start Menu" but it is essentially, exactly what is proposed here.
The problem is that you end up filling up the bar, and then having to collapse the bar in one of several ways, all of which are annoying.
Expose, or whatever the Gnome / KDE equivalent is, is so much handier.
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Well every Afghan knows that the recent election in Afghanistan was rigged, but the election authorities have constantly said, "It is important that the election be seen as being legitimate."
Note, this is not the same as the election being actually legitimate. The same is true in Iran.
"There was a highly effective FUD campaign against Vista. A very small part may have been people who were actually maliciously trying to spread misinformation. A larger part were people who simply didn't know what the fuck they were talking about."
You left out the largest number, who were simply telling the truth about a shitty OS.
Nobody wants to use it in their web sites, that's what.
After all, there are mature VRML plugins for almost every browser. Browser support means nothing if web coders aren't willing to give up their precious Flash.
At least with the Olympics and the inauguration, it was MS who was basically subsidizing the use of Silverlight, to the point where they had MS guys coding the apps for these third parties.
People are fine with using Silverlight if MS will come in and build your entire codebase for you. It's just that MS can't afford to do this for everybody!
The main problem is databases. Why the hell does MythTV use a database? Why not keep information in flat text files and read them when they are needed?
Nowadays every open source app wants to use a database. I read the other day here on slashdot about an instant messenger that uses a "new" database. Why the fuck? What the hell does it even need one for?
Something that should be forced on developers is the idea of using an abstraction layer instead of a database. That way I can use whatever the hell database I want, and only one instance of it, to service all the database "needs" of a hundred apps, instead of running 3 or 4 or 5 different DBs just so some jackass can put "database programming" on his resume.
My buddy has a netbook running Ubuntu and I shit you not, 4 databases running all at once. He never installed a database, they were all dependencies for apps that make you wonder, like MythTV, why the FUCK is this app even using a DB?
Databases are fucking evil and need to be destroyed. They are, except in a very few situations, a layer of unnecessary cruft that exists for no specific reason other than oohhhh, lookie, my app hooks into a DB!
The Mac (OS X) is great with this. If the developer follows the proper instructions when making their package, it will file the libraries and such into the/Library directory, into a folder for that package. But that package can include a hundred different versions of the library, and the system knows which version of the library goes with each application.
Sure you end up with maybe having 3 or 4 versions of OpenCV or whatever installed at once, which costs space, but the upside is that a package that depends on a certain lib can always know that once it's filed away, it will not be overwritten.
I have done this a lot of times. Some software disappears. Things happen on the internet. Sometimes the only way to get a package that has been disappeared is to copy it out of the/Applications folder of one machine onto another.
Another option is to throw it all onto a networked drive somewhere and be able to run the programs from a PPC or Intel mac without fucking around with scripts and.tar.bz files and whatnot.
"and all of which would be perfectly capable of including multiple binaries and a script to select the correct one"
Have you ever seen this in real life? Even once? I haven't.
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Tabbed browsing makes sense. You have one application, a web browser, with multiple pages, taking up less screen space. It's tabbed so you don't have to click on a bunch of minimized windows or use Expose or whatever shiny workalike the Gnome / KDE bunch has now to find what you want, and so you aren't cluttering up the desktop with a hundred web browser windows.
However, there is something to be said for separating out the different applications and simply clicking the icon or what have you, to switch between them. In fact, isn't that what Windows has had for about 15 years now? Sure, the application tab bar goes on the bottom the screen by default, and is called the "Start Menu" but it is essentially, exactly what is proposed here.
The problem is that you end up filling up the bar, and then having to collapse the bar in one of several ways, all of which are annoying.
Expose, or whatever the Gnome / KDE equivalent is, is so much handier.
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Advertising is not information. It's programming.
Version a default installation of any free Unix clone, and you will see that many, many apps are at less than 0.7.
Version numbers are totally meaningless.
Well every Afghan knows that the recent election in Afghanistan was rigged, but the election authorities have constantly said, "It is important that the election be seen as being legitimate."
Note, this is not the same as the election being actually legitimate. The same is true in Iran.
"There was a highly effective FUD campaign against Vista. A very small part may have been people who were actually maliciously trying to spread misinformation. A larger part were people who simply didn't know what the fuck they were talking about."
You left out the largest number, who were simply telling the truth about a shitty OS.
You and the four other people using OpenDNS must really be sitting pretty.
I can't believe anybody is even thinking that CO2 matters after the CRU leak.
Get a grip, man! Read the emails, crunch the numbers. CO2 is just a trojan horse for a world takeover.
Actually that's some pretty neat stuff there.
Cloudbook is already a trademark.
Nobody wants to use it in their web sites, that's what.
After all, there are mature VRML plugins for almost every browser. Browser support means nothing if web coders aren't willing to give up their precious Flash.
You should think about what you wrote.
Silverlight for Linux? Why not IE9 for Linux too?
This is MS we are talking about here. They will not do a thing to help Linux.
You will have to wait forever. HTML 5 is deader than VRML.
At least with the Olympics and the inauguration, it was MS who was basically subsidizing the use of Silverlight, to the point where they had MS guys coding the apps for these third parties.
People are fine with using Silverlight if MS will come in and build your entire codebase for you. It's just that MS can't afford to do this for everybody!
That sounds like a pain in the ass. I remember my passwords. That way I don't need some damn usb key.
See, being open source, the idea is to _port_ it to your system or something clever like that.
When Linux came out it was i386 only.
Roundabouts suck. They are terrible for pedestrians and terrible for cyclists, and really terrible in heavy use areas.
Look kids, Big Ben. Parliament.
The main problem is databases. Why the hell does MythTV use a database? Why not keep information in flat text files and read them when they are needed?
Nowadays every open source app wants to use a database. I read the other day here on slashdot about an instant messenger that uses a "new" database. Why the fuck? What the hell does it even need one for?
Something that should be forced on developers is the idea of using an abstraction layer instead of a database. That way I can use whatever the hell database I want, and only one instance of it, to service all the database "needs" of a hundred apps, instead of running 3 or 4 or 5 different DBs just so some jackass can put "database programming" on his resume.
My buddy has a netbook running Ubuntu and I shit you not, 4 databases running all at once. He never installed a database, they were all dependencies for apps that make you wonder, like MythTV, why the FUCK is this app even using a DB?
Databases are fucking evil and need to be destroyed. They are, except in a very few situations, a layer of unnecessary cruft that exists for no specific reason other than oohhhh, lookie, my app hooks into a DB!
bastards.
The Mac (OS X) is great with this. If the developer follows the proper instructions when making their package, it will file the libraries and such into the /Library directory, into a folder for that package. But that package can include a hundred different versions of the library, and the system knows which version of the library goes with each application.
Sure you end up with maybe having 3 or 4 versions of OpenCV or whatever installed at once, which costs space, but the upside is that a package that depends on a certain lib can always know that once it's filed away, it will not be overwritten.
I have done this a lot of times. Some software disappears. Things happen on the internet. Sometimes the only way to get a package that has been disappeared is to copy it out of the /Applications folder of one machine onto another.
Another option is to throw it all onto a networked drive somewhere and be able to run the programs from a PPC or Intel mac without fucking around with scripts and .tar.bz files and whatnot.
"and all of which would be perfectly capable of including multiple binaries and a script to select the correct one"
Have you ever seen this in real life? Even once? I haven't.
Windows now uses demand paged virtual memory if I'm not mistaken, so this number means nothing really.
You ought to read up on cloaked rootkits.
Interesting stuff there.
Look maw, not only do I have to pedal FURIOUSLY to keep a reasonable speed up, but I HAVE NO BRAKES!
This is a huge loss. Clearly you haven't managed a datacenter.
We don't know, grand total, what the biggest game sales are for 2009 yet.
However, counting Wii Sports as a sale is a little weak, as it comes with the system.
And, dominant?
The thing was bought by a lot of grannies, then tucked away with a doily on top. If you look at game sales, it's hardly dominating.