Why? If you use Qt you can just make GTK use the Qt engine (there's a special GTK engine which uses Qt, I don't remember what it was called), if you prefer to have them look the same way.
Perhaps 5 or 6 years ago. Now I usually only see such complaints on Slashdot where there seems to be a puzzling reluctance to accept that technologies can change in half a decade!
Cut the crap. My computer has 512MB DDR RAM, and each time I use a Java application it starts swapping LOADS. The computer is nearly UNUSABLE due to all swap usage.
I'll start Eclipse, to tell you how much RAM the JVM will use (it might be a shock for you!).
While trying to start Eclipse, it takes 5 minutes with lots of CPU and HDD activity until it is finally loaded. I can feel how switching windows, opening menus etc is slow due to all the swap usage.
Nice numbers, eh? It's horrible to use the computer when it's using that amount of swap. While other applications, not being written in Java, start in less than a second, feel much faster, close much faster.
Saying Java is performing nearly as fast or even faster than C++ is BULLSHIT.
My Java version:
$ java -showversion
java version "1.5.0_03"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_03-b07)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_03-b07, mixed mode)
In fact, iexplore.exe is only a very small part of it, it's just a GUI for an ActiveX control, and that ActiveX control is very tightly tied into Windows... I miss the good old days of Windows 95 and NT4 where you didn't have it integrated to the shell.
The PNG support is not complete in IE7, if you hover a transparent PNG it will stop being transparent.
Sure, but IE is a *required* part of Windows, while on *BSDs, Linux, etc you are not forced to run a certain browser.
Comparing Konqueror/KDE with IE/Windows just isn't fair, on Windows you only have one choice, on *nix you can choose whatever desktop environment you want.
And the improved CSS support.. there's no changelog, and some sites stopped working.
1) Sure it is integrated in the way Konqueror is in KDE, but you have no choice in Windows. You don't have to use KDE - you can use GNOME or any other desktop environment if you don't like it.
2) It's not a good rendering engine, it's filled with proprietary stuff, can't render alpha-transparent PNG's, no good CSS support... I could go on.
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Yeah, although then I suppose Microsoft would provide "MSN Office"!
What causes Slashdot to say that?
Why do you spell it fanboi?
Why? If you use Qt you can just make GTK use the Qt engine (there's a special GTK engine which uses Qt, I don't remember what it was called), if you prefer to have them look the same way.
and that Slashdot doesn't support
I'll start Eclipse, to tell you how much RAM the JVM will use (it might be a shock for you!).
While trying to start Eclipse, it takes 5 minutes with lots of CPU and HDD activity until it is finally loaded. I can feel how switching windows, opening menus etc is slow due to all the swap usage. Nice numbers, eh? It's horrible to use the computer when it's using that amount of swap. While other applications, not being written in Java, start in less than a second, feel much faster, close much faster.
Saying Java is performing nearly as fast or even faster than C++ is BULLSHIT.
My Java version:
3. ??? 4. Profit!
You still need strong passwords for real security. With a weak password, there is no real security...
Getting "name." instead of "name.com" would just be like getting ".com"...
In fact, iexplore.exe is only a very small part of it, it's just a GUI for an ActiveX control, and that ActiveX control is very tightly tied into Windows... I miss the good old days of Windows 95 and NT4 where you didn't have it integrated to the shell.
Stop the dupes!
Windows isn't free when you get it with your computer.. It does bump up the price.
What semicolon? ;)
...DOS on this CPU, press one key, get 2 million other keys for free.
Yes, AMD's Pacifica and Intel's Vanderpool. I wonder if they will ship in laptops..
Xen requires the guest OS to be ported though. So Xen can't run XP, and other OS's because they are never going to be ported..
Actually, it's much easier to boycott IE when you have boycotted Windows, because IE integrates tightly with Windows and can't be removed.
Although I do have IE6 installed in Linux (using Crossover office) so I can test if my web stuf fworks or not...
Debian does supply Firefox, but not the branded art.
I say: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q306819/relnotes.h tm, read the copyright section
No, IE is just a GUI for the IE rendering engine (Trident), so things will most certainly not break up.
..but wasn't it an ICMP flaw rather than a TCP/IP flaw?
The PNG support is not complete in IE7, if you hover a transparent PNG it will stop being transparent.
Sure, but IE is a *required* part of Windows, while on *BSDs, Linux, etc you are not forced to run a certain browser.
Comparing Konqueror/KDE with IE/Windows just isn't fair, on Windows you only have one choice, on *nix you can choose whatever desktop environment you want.
And the improved CSS support.. there's no changelog, and some sites stopped working.
1) Sure it is integrated in the way Konqueror is in KDE, but you have no choice in Windows. You don't have to use KDE - you can use GNOME or any other desktop environment if you don't like it. 2) It's not a good rendering engine, it's filled with proprietary stuff, can't render alpha-transparent PNG's, no good CSS support... I could go on.
It's not stealing. It's copying.
What apps does the Linux desktops/clusters run for rendering?