Anyone who thinks that Linux is an OS developed by some 12-year-old dumbass, does not deserve from the benefit of using Linux.
I wish I was good enough to writer something like Linux, at any age! Hell, I wish I was at least good enough to submit a patch and have Linus be rude to me - if my patch was either totally useless or perfect in all respects, then I would hear nothing back.
Most of the world uses Celsius (for science, Kelvin is okay) - isn't it about time the USA caught up?
I learnt MKSA (metric) units primarily from an American Physics textbook almost 50 years ago when I was at high school. I was brought up using the Imperial system - being in the England until I arrived in NZ when I was 12.
The metric system is so much easier to use, why are Americans so backward???
The server market has expanded rapidly, so Microsoft could have greater numbers, while still have a decreasing percentage - as is the case.
Also the same hardware can generally carry a more diverse and heavier workload using Linux, than with Microsoft. So one needs to spend more money to do the same amount of work, when you go the Microsoft route - corporations are starting to notice this. However, corporations have systems using Microsoft that cannot easily be transferred to Linux in the short term, but for new systems...
Note that Dig, Google, the LHC (Large Hadron Collider), and other large organisations are predominantly Linux based for servers.
So in comparative terms, Microsoft is not doing so well now, and their long term outlook looks even worse.
I started using Microsoft O/S's back in the days of MS-DOS, and regularly used function keys F1 through F4, while most people only used 1 or 2 of them. I also was adept at using Edlin to alter configuration files. Later I had a dual boot box with NT & Debian Linux. So quite possibly I have more experience using Microsoft than you do. I have also used several other Operating Systems and hardware platforms, quite a part from various minicomputers and mainframes. I have used at least 6 very different GUI families over 20 years.
Well I have developed applications using Microsoft O/S's, and customised their desktop environments to the extent they could be.
Had fun helping a colleague to use Visual Basic to construct a screensaver, and explained how to use event handlers, despite that being the first time I'd ever seen VB code (I never told him that!) - way back in the 1980's.
I also solved 3 of 6 problems a friend had with the Microsoft desktop, despite not being particularly fond of M/S O/S's.
My mother uses Microsoft's XP, I'll not attempt to get her to use Linux - basically, the most appropriate O/S depends on a lot of factors.
Perhaps you are the one who is clueless, you apparently have not really used Linux extensively enough to comment authoritatively on what Linux GUI's can do.
When people use personal attacks like you do, then it is indicative that they have no valid arguments to support their position.
And another thing, my Mother who is in her mid 80's finds LibreOffice (http://www.libreoffice.org) far easier to use than Microsoft Word - which she used previously.
One job I had, I was meant to use Office 2000, but I found that OpenOffice (the predecessor to LibreOffice) was much easier to use - and nobody complained about the format of the documents I sent them.
All software has problems! Whenever, I get frustrated using Linux, I think of Microsoft - and am thankful that I use Linux.
My son (15) had a Microsoft laptop & and an Apple desktop last year, now he generally prefers his Linux laptop that he chose.
I have an 11 year old student who I coach in Java, and he is rapt in his new Linux desktop, he previously used Apple & Microsoft laptops.
Me, I use Linux, and love having 16 or more virtual desktops, terminals & directory windows with multiple tabs, highly customisable panels, and lots of other useful goodies not found in any Microsoft O/S. I use the Mate Desktop Environment, I hate the GNOME 3 & Unity Desktop Environments. One of the beauties of Linux is that one has a wide range of Desktop Environments to choose from, most are far more customisable than anything Microsoft has to offer.
Over 90% of super computers use Linux, most of the rest run Unix. Mobile devices are dominated by Linux (Android is a Linux O/S).
On the desktop, as in servers & mobile devices, Linux is very much superior to Microsoft!
Speaking at UN headquarters in New York last Friday, she said that books and pens scared extremists. She also urged education for all, including "for the sons and daughters of the Taliban and all the terrorists". [...]
Militants in Pakistan have bombed a bus carrying female students before attacking the hospital where survivors and relatives of the victims had gathered. [...]
I have responded in the past to someone using a male pronoun - and if you had read what I had said sufficiently carefully, you might realize that you are wrong, because you are definitely wrong in claiming I only reacted because you used the female pronoun.
As I said, the gender was not relevant to the original point being made.
And using 'her' rather than 'he' is definitely sexist, as traditionally 'he' was used for both in the legal sense (something that I long ago objected too).
I was using 'gender appropriate' language long before, the Political Correctness crap started being popular! Probably about 30+ years
From way back when I was active on Usenet, there was a posting about the use of 'their' etc., from memory 'their' used to include singular.
Anyhow it would be better to use 'their' rather 'his, her, or its'. So even if otherwise, it would be better to extend the English language appropriately, with the additional use of 'their' rather than the abomination of 'his or her' or 's/he' etc.
Depending how it is classified, about 0.5% children are born with genitalia that are not 'normal'. In one island, apparently about 10% of children are born apparently female & develop male genitalia at puberty, Physical & psychological aspects of gender are way more complicated than most people realize. So even using 'his or her' does not cover everyone - and that is even before you get into the minefield of sexual orientation!
I was brought up on Imperial units: pounds, feet, etc. - I hated it, I found metric much, much easier to deal with.
12 inches in a foot, 3 feet in a yard, 880 yards in half a mile
16 ounces in a pound, 14 pounds in a stone, 112 pounds in a hundredweight, 20 hundredweight in a ton (if a new born baby is 6 lb 4 oz, and the mother is 10 stone 10 pounds, what fraction of the mother's weight is the baby?)
The metric system is much easier, and is consistent with the numbering system most of us are used too!
If you want truly fundamental units we could adopt those in use by physicists, such as string theorists, see: http://superstringtheory.com/unitsa.html where they describe things in terms of Planck length, Planck time, & Planck mass - but not very useful for everyday life!
The value you access today might be a variable, in the future it might be derived. Accessing variables directly exposes you to implementation details that are 'none of your business'!
For example: a container class could have getters for: height width length baseArea totalArea volume
An obvious implementation might be to derive 'baseArea', 'totalArea', and 'volume'. However there maybe reasons (legal?, performance?,...?) to make 'baseArea' a variable and to derive 'width'.
By using getters, you are shielded from the actual implementation, so external classes are not affected by these types of implementation changes.
I am a grandfather, and I have used punched cards for FORTRAN & COBOL programming on minicomputers & mainframes - I REALLY DON"T want to go back to having to use punched cards!
I've used emacs for editing & debugging multi-module C programs, and at the time, I loved it.
Now I use Java and use Eclipse, on a Linux box. So Visual Studio is not relevant.
I found NetBeans slow & clunky. IntelliJ was the first Java IDE I used, loved it at the time, but now I prefer Eclipse.
Please don't imply that us ancient ones want to use punched cards!
Have you tried giving Eclipse more memory & enabling multiple threads to be used for garbage collection, in the file 'eclipse.ini', the defaults are too small for modern computers...
-Xms40m -Xmx512m
My main development box has a quad core with 16GB of RAM, note that the processor has 8 'virtual' cores that give the performance close to 8 real single threaded cores.
Also set the min and max heap sizes to the same value, this improves performance!
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Rudyard Kipling got it right:
http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/kipling/dane_geld.html
[...]
And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we've proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.
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Microsoft sells the best O/S that money can buy - I use Linux, which is way better!
Anyone who thinks that Linux is an OS developed by some 12-year-old dumbass, does not deserve from the benefit of using Linux.
I wish I was good enough to writer something like Linux, at any age! Hell, I wish I was at least good enough to submit a patch and have Linus be rude to me - if my patch was either totally useless or perfect in all respects, then I would hear nothing back.
Not to mention that Linux runs on more types of hardware than any other O/S kernel.
Linux also dominates the embedded, mobile, & server markets.
If you count actual instances of Linux installed across all devices, then Linux is more more mainstream than all the other O/S's put together!
So how is Linux _NOT_ mainstream?
Most of the world uses Celsius (for science, Kelvin is okay) - isn't it about time the USA caught up?
I learnt MKSA (metric) units primarily from an American Physics textbook almost 50 years ago when I was at high school. I was brought up using the Imperial system - being in the England until I arrived in NZ when I was 12.
The metric system is so much easier to use, why are Americans so backward???
This discussion is far too technetium for my aged brain...
The server market has expanded rapidly, so Microsoft could have greater numbers, while still have a decreasing percentage - as is the case.
Also the same hardware can generally carry a more diverse and heavier workload using Linux, than with Microsoft. So one needs to spend more money to do the same amount of work, when you go the Microsoft route - corporations are starting to notice this. However, corporations have systems using Microsoft that cannot easily be transferred to Linux in the short term, but for new systems...
Note that Dig, Google, the LHC (Large Hadron Collider), and other large organisations are predominantly Linux based for servers.
So in comparative terms, Microsoft is not doing so well now, and their long term outlook looks even worse.
Linux dominates servers, and owns over 90% of the Super Computer market (where Microsoft is barely represented).
Linux dominates mobile devices & embedded systems.
Microsoft is being crushed between Linux at the bottom end moving up the food chain, and Linux at the top end moving down.
Microsoft's future is bleak.
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I was educated using Imperial units, but metric is so much easier to use.
What is 1/2 of 1 5/8"?
What is 1/2 of 35mm?
The second question is far easier to answer!
It is about time the USA adapted metric, and caught up with the rest of the World!
Don't tribble with me!
I started using Microsoft O/S's back in the days of MS-DOS, and regularly used function keys F1 through F4, while most people only used 1 or 2 of them. I also was adept at using Edlin to alter configuration files. Later I had a dual boot box with NT & Debian Linux. So quite possibly I have more experience using Microsoft than you do. I have also used several other Operating Systems and hardware platforms, quite a part from various minicomputers and mainframes. I have used at least 6 very different GUI families over 20 years.
Well I have developed applications using Microsoft O/S's, and customised their desktop environments to the extent they could be.
Had fun helping a colleague to use Visual Basic to construct a screensaver, and explained how to use event handlers, despite that being the first time I'd ever seen VB code (I never told him that!) - way back in the 1980's.
I also solved 3 of 6 problems a friend had with the Microsoft desktop, despite not being particularly fond of M/S O/S's.
My mother uses Microsoft's XP, I'll not attempt to get her to use Linux - basically, the most appropriate O/S depends on a lot of factors.
Perhaps you are the one who is clueless, you apparently have not really used Linux extensively enough to comment authoritatively on what Linux GUI's can do.
When people use personal attacks like you do, then it is indicative that they have no valid arguments to support their position.
Hmm...
The Microsoft GUI sucks, a lot less customisable than Mate or some other Desktop Environments on Linux!
I've never seen multiple virtual desktops on a Microsoft O/S, but it is standard on any Linux distro.
I have multiple tabs on my terminals and directory windows, you can't do that on Microsoft.
With Java, I write stuff using the Eclipse IDE that can run on both Microsoft & Linux boxen, something not possible with .Net.
Remember Linux dominates mobile devices (Android is a Linux) and servers (what O/S does CERN, Google, and Dig, most;y use?).
Albany Senior High School in Auckland, have used Linux extensively for about 4 years. A friend of mine does advanced Linux support for their servers. http://wikieducator.org/Free_Software_at_Albany_Senior_High_School
Many schools around the world already use Linux, and more are starting too.
Microsoft is on the way out...
Hmm...
And another thing, my Mother who is in her mid 80's finds LibreOffice (http://www.libreoffice.org) far easier to use than Microsoft Word - which she used previously.
One job I had, I was meant to use Office 2000, but I found that OpenOffice (the predecessor to LibreOffice) was much easier to use - and nobody complained about the format of the documents I sent them.
All software has problems! Whenever, I get frustrated using Linux, I think of Microsoft - and am thankful that I use Linux.
My son (15) had a Microsoft laptop & and an Apple desktop last year, now he generally prefers his Linux laptop that he chose.
I have an 11 year old student who I coach in Java, and he is rapt in his new Linux desktop, he previously used Apple & Microsoft laptops.
Me, I use Linux, and love having 16 or more virtual desktops, terminals & directory windows with multiple tabs, highly customisable panels, and lots of other useful goodies not found in any Microsoft O/S. I use the Mate Desktop Environment, I hate the GNOME 3 & Unity Desktop Environments. One of the beauties of Linux is that one has a wide range of Desktop Environments to choose from, most are far more customisable than anything Microsoft has to offer.
Over 90% of super computers use Linux, most of the rest run Unix. Mobile devices are dominated by Linux (Android is a Linux O/S).
On the desktop, as in servers & mobile devices, Linux is very much superior to Microsoft!
There are far more serious inequalities for women we can focus our attention on...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23347425
[...]
Malala - who is considered a contender for the Nobel Peace Prize - is credited with bringing the education issue to global attention.
Speaking at UN headquarters in New York last Friday, she said that books and pens scared extremists. She also urged education for all, including "for the sons and daughters of the Taliban and all the terrorists".
[...]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/10122549/Gunmen-in-Pakistan-bomb-female-students-bus-then-attack-hospital.html
[...]
Gunmen in Pakistan bomb female students' bus then attack hospital
Militants in Pakistan have bombed a bus carrying female students before attacking the hospital where survivors and relatives of the victims had gathered.
[...]
I have responded in the past to someone using a male pronoun - and if you had read what I had said sufficiently carefully, you might realize that you are wrong, because you are definitely wrong in claiming I only reacted because you used the female pronoun.
Actually you are the one being sexiest - you replied to a post talking about "A developer..." with a gender specific response "...her IDE..."!
How much do you owe me?
As I said, the gender was not relevant to the original point being made.
And using 'her' rather than 'he' is definitely sexist, as traditionally 'he' was used for both in the legal sense (something that I long ago objected too).
I was using 'gender appropriate' language long before, the Political Correctness crap started being popular! Probably about 30+ years
From way back when I was active on Usenet, there was a posting about the use of 'their' etc., from memory 'their' used to include singular.
Anyhow it would be better to use 'their' rather 'his, her, or its'. So even if otherwise, it would be better to extend the English language appropriately, with the additional use of 'their' rather than the abomination of 'his or her' or 's/he' etc.
Depending how it is classified, about 0.5% children are born with genitalia that are not 'normal'. In one island, apparently about 10% of children are born apparently female & develop male genitalia at puberty, Physical & psychological aspects of gender are way more complicated than most people realize. So even using 'his or her' does not cover everyone - and that is even before you get into the minefield of sexual orientation!
I was brought up on Imperial units: pounds, feet, etc. - I hated it, I found metric much, much easier to deal with.
12 inches in a foot, 3 feet in a yard, 880 yards in half a mile
16 ounces in a pound, 14 pounds in a stone, 112 pounds in a hundredweight, 20 hundredweight in a ton
(if a new born baby is 6 lb 4 oz, and the mother is 10 stone 10 pounds, what fraction of the mother's weight is the baby?)
The metric system is much easier, and is consistent with the numbering system most of us are used too!
If you want truly fundamental units we could adopt those in use by physicists, such as string theorists, see:
http://superstringtheory.com/unitsa.html
where they describe things in terms of Planck length, Planck time, & Planck mass - but not very useful for everyday life!
The value you access today might be a variable, in the future it might be derived. Accessing variables directly exposes you to implementation details that are 'none of your business'!
For example: a container class could have getters for:
height
width
length
baseArea
totalArea
volume
An obvious implementation might be to derive 'baseArea', 'totalArea', and 'volume'. However there maybe reasons (legal?, performance?, ...?) to make 'baseArea' a variable and to derive 'width'.
By using getters, you are shielded from the actual implementation, so external classes are not affected by these types of implementation changes.
I've NEVER had Eclipse pause for 20 seconds!
Be sure to increase the heap memory & enable parallel garbage collection in the 'eclipse.ini' file - see an earlier post by me.
You can resize and reposition all the panels in Eclipse, so I don't have your problems with "2 inch" windows.
Hey wait you must be an American (everyone else uses metric), find a non-American developer to help you & ask them to speak slowly... :-)
Heh!
I am a grandfather, and I have used punched cards for FORTRAN & COBOL programming on minicomputers & mainframes - I REALLY DON"T want to go back to having to use punched cards!
I've used emacs for editing & debugging multi-module C programs, and at the time, I loved it.
Now I use Java and use Eclipse, on a Linux box. So Visual Studio is not relevant.
I found NetBeans slow & clunky. IntelliJ was the first Java IDE I used, loved it at the time, but now I prefer Eclipse.
Please don't imply that us ancient ones want to use punched cards!
Hmm... .
Have you tried giving Eclipse more memory & enabling multiple threads to be used for garbage collection, in the file 'eclipse.ini', the defaults are too small for modern computers...
-Xms40m
-Xmx512m
My main development box has a quad core with 16GB of RAM, note that the processor has 8 'virtual' cores that give the performance close to 8 real single threaded cores.
Also set the min and max heap sizes to the same value, this improves performance!
[...]
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
1g
[...]
-vmargs
-XX:+UseParallelGC
-XX:ParallelGCThreads=7
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.6
-XX:MaxPermSize=1g
-Xms2g
-Xmx2g