I seriously can't know how people can be comfortable with the Win8 Start screen. Here's a picture of my Start menu in Win7. Everything is nicely pinned right there (no moving mouse around the screen), the search functionality works the same and there is direct access to things like Control Panel. It does not steal the attention with a full screen jumbled mess of harshly colored icons.
"Desktop" distros will love this too - I see a simple "wizard" that asks "I see you have an SSD installed - would you like to accelerate access to your HD? Click yes and specify a maximum cache size"
Might not happen. Currently any distro does not even turn on discard for a SSD automatically (due to TRIM implementation being a bit broken in Linux).
There is always the possibility that some application depends on the exact behavior of fopen() related to such cases so it would be too dangerous to go tampering with it.
Well, then there is a recommendation of replacing fopen() with fopen_s() for improved safety. It was previously a Microsoft extension, but now is part of the C11 standard (Annex K).
Interestingly, the guy in the original post also claims that "We do not ship code that someone doesn't maintain and understand, even if it takes a little while for new people to ramp up sometimes."
It is possible that you can make some kind of pretty good hybrid tablet/desktop OS if you thoroughly plan and execute it really well. We cannot fully know. The problem is only that Windows 8 is way too far from such vision. They just released a hacked Windows desktop with this Metro screen thingy taped on it. Everything is all over the place with no good integration and smooth workflow. There is no posh: the graphics are only sharp squares with plain colors. It feels like a tech concept demo thrown together over a weekend.
...does being smart lead to a more stressful life? Realizing how much you still don't understand, grasping the bad state of some things in world, feeling the general existential pain and philosophizing things, and so on.
How is porting Unity to Qt proceeding? Because in its current state Unity is such a horribly slow piece of shit that it won't give a good experience on mobile. Try it on an Atom netbook and experience the pain. On a similar machine, most basic functions of Windows are fluid and just fine.
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int major = round(3);
int minor = round(10);
printf("%d.%d", major, minor);
I seriously can't know how people can be comfortable with the Win8 Start screen. Here's a picture of my Start menu in Win7. Everything is nicely pinned right there (no moving mouse around the screen), the search functionality works the same and there is direct access to things like Control Panel. It does not steal the attention with a full screen jumbled mess of harshly colored icons.
Or an openMosix cluster. :P
Am I the only one who thinks having a version number which is subject to getting rounded off is a terrible terrible idea?
"Oops looks like this release has a trailing 0 on there... *delete*."
Terrible idea? That's how version numbers work. They are not ordinary decimal numbers, so you cannot round them like that.
"Desktop" distros will love this too - I see a simple "wizard" that asks "I see you have an SSD installed - would you like to accelerate access to your HD? Click yes and specify a maximum cache size"
Might not happen. Currently any distro does not even turn on discard for a SSD automatically (due to TRIM implementation being a bit broken in Linux).
One of the big challenges is to make Unity run fast. Currently it has always this slight laggy feel to it, even on C2D hardware.
Like Bill Hicks said it, if anyone is in advertising or marketing, just kill yourself.
There is always the possibility that some application depends on the exact behavior of fopen() related to such cases so it would be too dangerous to go tampering with it.
What next? Null pointers are bad, m'kay...?
Well, then there is a recommendation of replacing fopen() with fopen_s() for improved safety. It was previously a Microsoft extension, but now is part of the C11 standard (Annex K).
the rest are just people who think they are c++ programmers
That's enough for many jobs.
I meant posh. It is a word. :) Although I'm a Sporty fan myself.
You can go hunter2 my hunter2-ing hunter2
It's great how in the original IRC quote the guy is a bit confused but still goes on joking with that. :)
I have them all. Aahhaha, aahhhahhahhhaa! Aahhh... Wait a minute... Now I cannot use them either on this discussion as I posted...
Interestingly, the guy in the original post also claims that "We do not ship code that someone doesn't maintain and understand, even if it takes a little while for new people to ramp up sometimes."
It is possible that you can make some kind of pretty good hybrid tablet/desktop OS if you thoroughly plan and execute it really well. We cannot fully know. The problem is only that Windows 8 is way too far from such vision. They just released a hacked Windows desktop with this Metro screen thingy taped on it. Everything is all over the place with no good integration and smooth workflow. There is no posh: the graphics are only sharp squares with plain colors. It feels like a tech concept demo thrown together over a weekend.
You know what he means.
...does being smart lead to a more stressful life? Realizing how much you still don't understand, grasping the bad state of some things in world, feeling the general existential pain and philosophizing things, and so on.
How is porting Unity to Qt proceeding? Because in its current state Unity is such a horribly slow piece of shit that it won't give a good experience on mobile. Try it on an Atom netbook and experience the pain. On a similar machine, most basic functions of Windows are fluid and just fine.
One of the best Simpsons episodes.
My personal favorite is the Arch Linux forums.
Also LXDE (which Lubuntu uses) is built using Openbox. Gives you a bit more complete desktop environment.
Exactly. Everything seems to be going great, so why not keep on truckin'.
This. The cold fact is that Linux is no more the king in efficiency on the desktop.
In the "Customize Start Menu" dialog in Windows 7, you can uncheck the option "Use large icons" to pin even more programs to Start menu.
Another point is that in Win8 you have to move the mouse much more in the Start screen, which is rather annoying.
I guess some of that could be explained with editing.