Although KDE was free software, it relied on the then non-free Qt widget toolkit. Members of the GNU project became concerned with the use of such a toolkit for building a free software desktop environment.
I think the original point of GNOME is already moot. Just let it die, with all its braindead file selection dialogs and reversed OK and Cancel buttons too.
You might as well vote for Mickey Mouse for all fucking the good it does.
I'd vote for Mickey Mouse, but he's caught up in lobbying too.
We need
The Ruler of the Universe is a man living in a small shack on a world that can only be reached with a key to an improbability field or use of an Infinite Improbability Drive. He does not want to rule the universe and tries not to whenever possible, and therefore is by far the ideal candidate for the job.
The problem with BSD is that they can get away with it. As long as they put in some about box the sting that used to be required by the old BSD back then, they are OK. You won't get the source.
At least they had one part in their OS that wasn't a bug-ridden pile of crap.
This is the unseen beauty of BSD: you may not get the sources back, but the users still benefit.
1. Slashdot might as well think that you should be able to use anything interchangeable enough not to make a difference in the long run. Emacs vs. vi comes to mind.
2. The people who sign the paychecks hired you because you know what you're doing, not to be an interchangeable code monkey in need for micromanagement. (Right? If not, RUN!)
3. If you don't "force" the devs to use tools they hate, this is not an issue. If you do, there is no "time saved" to speak of, and management can do nothing about it.
I should add "hitting my boss because he had complaints about my smoking habits and some nasty phrases about my mom" then.
But seriously, if I do some work, I make sure I do it for the best of my abilities, and noone can say anything about that. Personal differences are another matter, and they usually arise when my would-be boss doesn't like what I do when I'm done with my work at that time.
For some reason, my bosses seem to think that if I don't appear as working at a particular point in time, I'm not working at all.
Back to your comment, I really do care about productivity, it's just that I don't define it as "appears as though he has something to do, always".
WTF is this crap of "any team member to move from one workstation/area of work to another"?
If someone is good at something, ferchrissake KEEP THEM THERE!
There's nothing more devastating for a developer than to be ripped out of context and forced to learn something entirely different, but just as difficult, just because some braindead accountant thinks all developers are alike.
Please stop that. I think it has a more than measurable impact on productivity, not to mention staff morale.
Translation: everyone who thinks programmers are interchangeable should go fsck themselves with a chainsaw.
First of all, the E70 has a full keyboard, not some shitty stripped down, tap-and-pray smudgy piece of shit. Nokia uses a technology that's even more advanced than the iPhone's tap screen, allowing you to actually feel the keys you press as you're pressing them! The technology is called "tactile response," and it allows you to do things like dial a phone number without staring at your screen like a shit-chucking ape. In fact, every other cellphone ever made has this technology, sometimes called "buttons."
No, that's a culturally influenced point of view. In other cultures, where it's normal that software performs "hidden" functions, the package would not need to make the user aware of that fact prior to the purchase, or afterwards. It would just be software that does what software does.
Yes, it's culturally influenced, but in my case, it's that of Free Software. It's one where you don't take over someone's computer in order to prevent them from cheating in a game. It's one, where if a package does "hidden" things and I gain knowledge of it, I won't trust it not doing anything else "hidden", thus I nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
Let me repeat that to be clear: a package that does something "hidden" can not be trusted to play nice. Period.
AVG took a serious wrong turn somewhere. It used to be a no-questions-asked-use-me-please virus scanner of the highest quality. I used to recommend it to everyone. I used to start fixing my friends' computers by uninstalling the bloated virus scanners they had and installing AVG.
Now they've gone corporate (for lack of a better term).
a theory called Constructionism, which posits that young children learn best by doing rather than by being lectured to.
Thank you. This is the way I think most of us learned everything we're good at. I did with reading as a 3 year old, English, programming, computers in general including Linux-*BSD-whatever, and basically everything I know about the world.
The stuff they tried to teach me was either useless, boring, and/or just plain stupid. Including religion.
Finding stuff someone put up on the tubes about themselves is not "harassing and invading privacy". Also, buying stolen goods is not exactly "innocent", either.
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From your link:
Although KDE was free software, it relied on the then non-free Qt widget toolkit. Members of the GNU project became concerned with the use of such a toolkit for building a free software desktop environment.
I think the original point of GNOME is already moot. Just let it die, with all its braindead file selection dialogs and reversed OK and Cancel buttons too.
Yes, I have. It sucks.
I'm still waiting for Total Commander for Linux. And don't get me started on the horrible clones, either.
For now, it's konsole + mc + bash for me.
Yes, but we love good ol' C.
More's the pity. This attitude has been holding CS back for years...
Please enlighten me. What language is your sig in again?
But don't just take my word for it; there are published papers from the Singularity guys.
Sure, they're going to publish a paper that says C is more efficient than their garbage-collecting crap, right?
but I don't think you can a priori declare that e.g. Singularity would be worse than Windows or Linux.
Sure they're not. But they also don't claim to be, nor do they claim to be 'memory safe'.
Furthermore, the occurrence of such events is so rare,
If you didn't see that one happen, you need to use computers more. Sorry.
You might as well vote for Mickey Mouse for all fucking the good it does.
I'd vote for Mickey Mouse, but he's caught up in lobbying too.
We need
The Ruler of the Universe is a man living in a small shack on a world that can only be reached with a key to an improbability field or use of an Infinite Improbability Drive. He does not want to rule the universe and tries not to whenever possible, and therefore is by far the ideal candidate for the job.
(I prefer to call it preventative maintenance myself)
At my old job, that was the phrase they used for "cleaning".
Also, I use it as "the act of tapping the box with a hammer before a Windows or Gentoo install, just so it knows what to expect upon failure".
Apache IS in fact successful because of the licence.
It needs some porn references. Oh, and I vi vs. emacs.
The problem with BSD is that they can get away with it.
As long as they put in some about box the sting that used to be required by the old BSD back then, they are OK.
You won't get the source.
At least they had one part in their OS that wasn't a bug-ridden pile of crap.
This is the unseen beauty of BSD: you may not get the sources back, but the users still benefit.
Sure. Break malloc even worse to allow for backwards compatibility.
See "Windows 95".
1. Slashdot might as well think that you should be able to use anything interchangeable enough not to make a difference in the long run. Emacs vs. vi comes to mind.
2. The people who sign the paychecks hired you because you know what you're doing, not to be an interchangeable code monkey in need for micromanagement. (Right? If not, RUN!)
3. If you don't "force" the devs to use tools they hate, this is not an issue. If you do, there is no "time saved" to speak of, and management can do nothing about it.
You really work for lines in your CV?
I should add "hitting my boss because he had complaints about my smoking habits and some nasty phrases about my mom" then.
But seriously, if I do some work, I make sure I do it for the best of my abilities, and noone can say anything about that. Personal differences are another matter, and they usually arise when my would-be boss doesn't like what I do when I'm done with my work at that time.
For some reason, my bosses seem to think that if I don't appear as working at a particular point in time, I'm not working at all.
Back to your comment, I really do care about productivity, it's just that I don't define it as "appears as though he has something to do, always".
WTF is this crap of "any team member to move from one workstation/area of work to another"?
If someone is good at something, ferchrissake KEEP THEM THERE!
There's nothing more devastating for a developer than to be ripped out of context and forced to learn something entirely different, but just as difficult, just because some braindead accountant thinks all developers are alike.
Please stop that. I think it has a more than measurable impact on productivity, not to mention staff morale.
Translation: everyone who thinks programmers are interchangeable should go fsck themselves with a chainsaw.
Oblig.
First of all, the E70 has a full keyboard, not some shitty stripped down, tap-and-pray smudgy piece of shit. Nokia uses a technology that's even more advanced than the iPhone's tap screen, allowing you to actually feel the keys you press as you're pressing them! The technology is called "tactile response," and it allows you to do things like dial a phone number without staring at your screen like a shit-chucking ape. In fact, every other cellphone ever made has this technology, sometimes called "buttons."
No, thank you, I use Gentoo.
However, are you willing to take the flak for me when my friends' latest games won't work because I got rid of their OS?
Yeah, we need another Google, with the same resources and the same or better search algorithms.
Like that's going to happen anytime soon...
No, that's a culturally influenced point of view. In other cultures, where it's normal that software performs "hidden" functions, the package would not need to make the user aware of that fact prior to the purchase, or afterwards. It would just be software that does what software does.
Yes, it's culturally influenced, but in my case, it's that of Free Software. It's one where you don't take over someone's computer in order to prevent them from cheating in a game. It's one, where if a package does "hidden" things and I gain knowledge of it, I won't trust it not doing anything else "hidden", thus I nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
Let me repeat that to be clear: a package that does something "hidden" can not be trusted to play nice. Period.
AVG took a serious wrong turn somewhere. It used to be a no-questions-asked-use-me-please virus scanner of the highest quality. I used to recommend it to everyone. I used to start fixing my friends' computers by uninstalling the bloated virus scanners they had and installing AVG.
Now they've gone corporate (for lack of a better term).
Anyone know of an alternative to fill the role?
900G a month should be enough for everyone.
90% of the taxes in the USA are paid by people making over $250,000
[citation needed]
In every society, there are people who shouldn't be let back into the public. Seriously, would you rather see this guy live?
With life imprisonment, there's the issue of escape, and that of feeding him from your taxes.
a theory called Constructionism, which posits that young children learn best by doing rather than by being lectured to.
Thank you. This is the way I think most of us learned everything we're good at. I did with reading as a 3 year old, English, programming, computers in general including Linux-*BSD-whatever, and basically everything I know about the world.
The stuff they tried to teach me was either useless, boring, and/or just plain stupid. Including religion.
Finding stuff someone put up on the tubes about themselves is not "harassing and invading privacy". Also, buying stolen goods is not exactly "innocent", either.
Bonus points if they can lead to the real thief.
Inflation is not a global problem, so why should countries not having inflation problems make it a primary matter on the agenda?
Double-digit price rises are about to afflict two-thirds of the world's population. Sounds global enough to me.
Yes, but we love good ol' C.
Besides, is the overhead of using memory-safe languages smaller than the same done in hardware? And what if something gets corrupted?