No it does not beg the question. Seriously, you'd think that seeing us yell about this every time someone uses that phrase wrong on/. would annoy people enough to just stop using it, but no. ENGLISH IS A LIVING LANGUAGE. Natural languages want to be free! Why must you attempt to throw English into chains and shackles?;_;
Debian makes tons of needless changes to lots of packages. Many times I have looked into bugs only to learn they were introduced by Debian. (I use Kubuntu.) Probably more than half the bugs I've searched for information about were Debian's fault. They just refuse to leave things alone.
It's like not-invented-here syndrome, but instead of building new software, they just make all sorts of random changes to existing software so they can feel like its their own.
it's more convenient to save a screen image to the clipboard or the file system That's what the Print Screen button is used for (at least on Windows, KDE, and Gnome). Mac doesn't have the key to make room for more function keys.
ReactOS and Wine share a lot of code, so development in Wine helps ReactOS, but creating a stable release for Wine is probably not going to impact ReactOS very much.
winegcc can be used if you want to compile a Windows program for Linux while running Linux. If you want to compile a Windows program for Linux while running Windows, you'd probably use MinGW.
In either case, winelib is the library that you'd be compiling against. It's what actually allows Windows programs to be compiled natively for Linux.
There's no way in HELL canvas & javascript together could ever approach the render and execution performance of Flash. You're not very imaginative. Once JavaScript has the same JIT as ActionScript, the language will be just as fast. And once Canvas has a hardware accelerated 3D API, it'll be much faster than Flash. 3D content in Flash is extremely slow and takes up a lot of storage space, because it has to be converted to 2D content beforehand.
Hard disk drive manufacturers were using base ten long before other people came along and started using base two. Why should the HDD people have to change just because others decided storage capacity should have it's own standard?
In any case, the "byte" unit is be replaced with the "octet" unit to undo this mess. Base-10 megabytes (MB) become megaoctets (Mo) and base-2 megabytes (MB), aka mebibytes (MiB), become mebioctets (Mio).
Base-10 was first, even for storage capacity, and the switch from "bytes" to "octets" will make it the standard again.
It looks weird because the red, green, and blue pixels are arranged differently. I guess I should have called it "subpixel rendering" instead of "subpixel antialiasing". I just think it's interesting the effect subpixel rendering has on screenshots. Who would have guessed screenshots would one day have hardware compatibility issues?
(BTW, I'm using a Dell 2001FP LCD monitor. It's has a 20.1" size, a 1600x1200 resolution, a 4:3 aspect ration, and a matte finish.)
Why would anybody be using such archaic operating systems to view Flash content? I could kinda understand if it was running some mission critical program that required it, or if is was part of some complex system that is running fine and would be a bitch to upgrade, but to view Flash? That doesn't make any sense.
IronPython targets the Common Language Infrastructure (e.g. Mono and.NET), not the JVM. Also, nowadays much of PyPy is written in C, so it's not going to run on IronPython (or any other Python implementation).
Anybody seriously wanting to run Python in web browsers should look to IronMonkey.
I can say they really ARE "basically the same thing" now! That's like saying Python and C are basically the same thing, since the CPython interpreter is written in C. Writing an interpreter for language A in language B doesn't mean languages A and B are basically the same thing.
Plus this isn't even the Java programming language we're talking about, it's Java bytecode, which could have been produced from something other than the Java programming language (like Groovy or Scala).
I've seen many comments saying Ubuntu users don't deserve to use Linux because they aren't any better than Windows users. I've seen many comments complaining about Ubuntu users not knowing how their operating system works. I've seen many comments complaining about Ubuntu bringing in people to Linux who know nothing about Linux.
This isn't disdain for fanboys, and it isn't just a preference for a different distro. Some people actually hate Ubuntu and Ubuntu users for spoiling their elitism.
It does seem likely that this may merely be a vocal minority, but it is a real sentiment that I have witnessed multiple times. It's hard to get a sense for what the majority feels.
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I don't know how Debian's actions compare to other distributions.
STB means "Set-top box" according to Wikipedia.
Debian makes tons of needless changes to lots of packages. Many times I have looked into bugs only to learn they were introduced by Debian. (I use Kubuntu.) Probably more than half the bugs I've searched for information about were Debian's fault. They just refuse to leave things alone.
It's like not-invented-here syndrome, but instead of building new software, they just make all sorts of random changes to existing software so they can feel like its their own.
Why not just fix the silent failure? I don't understand this mentality of "There's a bug in the system! Scrap the whole thing!"
Maybe you just have a different definition of "ever".
ReactOS and Wine share a lot of code, so development in Wine helps ReactOS, but creating a stable release for Wine is probably not going to impact ReactOS very much.
winegcc can be used if you want to compile a Windows program for Linux while running Linux. If you want to compile a Windows program for Linux while running Windows, you'd probably use MinGW.
In either case, winelib is the library that you'd be compiling against. It's what actually allows Windows programs to be compiled natively for Linux.
What languages do you use with Eclipse? Just Java? Because everything else I've tried with Eclipse totally sucked.
Hard disk drive manufacturers were using base ten long before other people came along and started using base two. Why should the HDD people have to change just because others decided storage capacity should have it's own standard?
In any case, the "byte" unit is be replaced with the "octet" unit to undo this mess. Base-10 megabytes (MB) become megaoctets (Mo) and base-2 megabytes (MB), aka mebibytes (MiB), become mebioctets (Mio).
Base-10 was first, even for storage capacity, and the switch from "bytes" to "octets" will make it the standard again.
It looks weird because the red, green, and blue pixels are arranged differently. I guess I should have called it "subpixel rendering" instead of "subpixel antialiasing". I just think it's interesting the effect subpixel rendering has on screenshots. Who would have guessed screenshots would one day have hardware compatibility issues?
(BTW, I'm using a Dell 2001FP LCD monitor. It's has a 20.1" size, a 1600x1200 resolution, a 4:3 aspect ration, and a matte finish.)
Why would anybody be using such archaic operating systems to view Flash content? I could kinda understand if it was running some mission critical program that required it, or if is was part of some complex system that is running fine and would be a bitch to upgrade, but to view Flash? That doesn't make any sense.
When did SVG become a document format?
And that doesn't even include the standard libraries. Tamarin is really great, but it's only a small part of Adobe's Flash plugin.
Oh man, your subpixel antialiasing is going berserk on my monitor.
No, children. I thought it was funny.
IronPython targets the Common Language Infrastructure (e.g. Mono and .NET), not the JVM. Also, nowadays much of PyPy is written in C, so it's not going to run on IronPython (or any other Python implementation).
Anybody seriously wanting to run Python in web browsers should look to IronMonkey.
Plus this isn't even the Java programming language we're talking about, it's Java bytecode, which could have been produced from something other than the Java programming language (like Groovy or Scala).
I've seen many comments saying Ubuntu users don't deserve to use Linux because they aren't any better than Windows users. I've seen many comments complaining about Ubuntu users not knowing how their operating system works. I've seen many comments complaining about Ubuntu bringing in people to Linux who know nothing about Linux.
This isn't disdain for fanboys, and it isn't just a preference for a different distro. Some people actually hate Ubuntu and Ubuntu users for spoiling their elitism.
It does seem likely that this may merely be a vocal minority, but it is a real sentiment that I have witnessed multiple times. It's hard to get a sense for what the majority feels.