explorer.exe (the standard Windows shell) is not a window manager but a file manager (plus a few extra bits and pieces). LiteStep is just a replacement shell.
Blackbox for Windows is not a window manager but a replacement shell. There is no proper way to fundamentally change Windows behaviour (ie disable the click-to-front policy).
"predictability. once they've learned how macOS or windows does things, anybody can go up to any mac or windows machine and get right to work"
There's nothing to stop MS or Apple having a default "window manager". Most people would use the defaults and probably never realise that alternative window managers existed. Microsoft currently has a registry setting squirelled away somewhere that makes Windows use a focus follows mouse policy, and I'm sure this would be pretty confusing to most Windows users...
You may well be right (as Linux development happens in the United States despite their software patents law), but this could be useful for us (the anti-SWP crowd). Maybe the law makers in the EU might oppose software patents more strongly if they believed they would have such a negative impact on Linux...
Sorry, but things will never change under the current system - the current system is broken.
How can a system which awards 100% of the representation to a 50.1% majority be fair? An alternative system called "Proportional representation" is much fairer and has been shown to work in one form or another in many countries throughout the world. If 10% of the electorate vote for the Greens or the Libertarians shouldn't that percentage be reflected in the corridors of power?
"The only way to solve this problem is to reduce the size of government."
No, because then unelected corporations take over those areas. The real problem is that the USAs "winner takes all" voting system (which awards 100% of the representation to a 50.1% majority) leads to a political system which does not fairly reflect the wishes of the voters.
Proportional representation is what we should be arguing for, not smaller government (and more unelected corporate power). Compare the US with Scandinavia to see what I mean...
I hate to say it, but that's no longer the case. For a couple of years now MS has had the most standards (ISO/ANSI) compliant compiler. In fact I think Microsoft even hired one of the main STL guys to help on this front...
I'm not sure about advantages, but I was speaking to someone from one of the big mobile phone manufacturers on Saturday and they were saying that when making a phone, it was very important to the network companies that a company was legally responsible for how their equipment dealt with the numerous communication protocols (and so presumably could be sued or whatever if it caused a problem). He went on to say that sadly Linux might have a problem with this as there is no company to take legal responsibility.
I wonder if these network companies have problems with Microsoft which has licences that deny all responsibility for any problems caused by their products...
...on the Amiga which was the first language I really got my teeth into. The original version of Worms and Worms: The Director's Cut were also made using using that language, so don't be put off these languages just because they're forms of Basic.
Cool, I didn't even know that Digital Illusions were still around. I remember them back from the golden age of computing when the Amiga was at its peak. Does anyone else remember Pinball Dreams?
After reading your post I was reminded of Compaq's reverse engineering and reimplementation of IBM's BIOS chip - a necessary feat if anyone was to clone the PC.
Everyone hated the then monopolist IBM at that time and technically the PC was not the nicest of designs. Some time later chip manufacturers would make clones of the Intel x86 processors, completing the commoditisation of the PCs hardware.
If ReactOS lives up to its goals we will have competition at every stage of the "Wintel" hardware/software stack.
Replying to my own post here but I just wanted to add something...
I always thought it would be cool if someone wrote a hack for Windows that let a window manager running on Cygwins X server manage your native Win32 windows. In effect this would be the opposite of "multiwindow" mode.
The "rootless" means that rather than having your root window being a standard Windows window, the root window is the same size as the Windows desktop and where the root window would be shown (not its children) your Windows desktop and applications show through.
IIRC "multiwindow" mode uses a special window manager to reparent your X client windows as Windows windows.
Yes, but if you use a native Windows version you have to use the terrible Windows command prompt. Does anyone know a replacement that remembers its command history prior to the last reboot and (for bonus points) lets you cut, copy and paste using the standard Ctrl x/c/v.
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explorer.exe (the standard Windows shell) is not a window manager but a file manager (plus a few extra bits and pieces). LiteStep is just a replacement shell.
Blackbox for Windows is not a window manager but a replacement shell. There is no proper way to fundamentally change Windows behaviour (ie disable the click-to-front policy).
" predictability. once they've learned how macOS or windows does things, anybody can go up to any mac or windows machine and get right to work"
There's nothing to stop MS or Apple having a default "window manager". Most people would use the defaults and probably never realise that alternative window managers existed. Microsoft currently has a registry setting squirelled away somewhere that makes Windows use a focus follows mouse policy, and I'm sure this would be pretty confusing to most Windows users...
You may well be right (as Linux development happens in the United States despite their software patents law), but this could be useful for us (the anti-SWP crowd). Maybe the law makers in the EU might oppose software patents more strongly if they believed they would have such a negative impact on Linux...
Sorry, but things will never change under the current system - the current system is broken.
How can a system which awards 100% of the representation to a 50.1% majority be fair? An alternative system called "Proportional representation" is much fairer and has been shown to work in one form or another in many countries throughout the world. If 10% of the electorate vote for the Greens or the Libertarians shouldn't that percentage be reflected in the corridors of power?
"The only way to solve this problem is to reduce the size of government."
No, because then unelected corporations take over those areas. The real problem is that the USAs "winner takes all" voting system (which awards 100% of the representation to a 50.1% majority) leads to a political system which does not fairly reflect the wishes of the voters.
Proportional representation is what we should be arguing for, not smaller government (and more unelected corporate power). Compare the US with Scandinavia to see what I mean...
What "we" are you talking about? Sun readers? Please don't misrepresent all of the UK as xenophobic idiots...
"VC++ is sufficiently broken"
I hate to say it, but that's no longer the case. For a couple of years now MS has had the most standards (ISO/ANSI) compliant compiler. In fact I think Microsoft even hired one of the main STL guys to help on this front...
"Maybe part of Microsoft's patent is spelling it with studlyCaps."
I haven't heard that one before. Isn't it normally called camelCase?
"So, they are not necessarily targetting old hardware, but people who want a small, fast distro."
But surely most distros that target old hardware are also small and fast? I don't see any real inconsistancy here...
I'm not sure about advantages, but I was speaking to someone from one of the big mobile phone manufacturers on Saturday and they were saying that when making a phone, it was very important to the network companies that a company was legally responsible for how their equipment dealt with the numerous communication protocols (and so presumably could be sued or whatever if it caused a problem). He went on to say that sadly Linux might have a problem with this as there is no company to take legal responsibility.
I wonder if these network companies have problems with Microsoft which has licences that deny all responsibility for any problems caused by their products...
Don't forget the WMD bit - the US only picks fights it knows it will win. That's why Iraq was attacked but North Korea will be left alone...
Has anyone seen this page: "Our PDFs Don't Suck"?
What a load of bollocks - give me plain text or HTML any day...
"What's the deal with the PDF-format anyway?"
My thoughts exactly. It's a shame because it sounds like an interesting site...
Hey, don't just thank Poland. Denmark deserves some of the praise too!
So then we just have to worry about our friends and colleagues getting viruses which steal the contents of their address books...
"Tell that to Linus Torvalds (he's Swedish)"
No, he's Finnish but part of Finlands Swedish-speaking minority population (Finlandssvenskar). See here
...on the Amiga which was the first language I really got my teeth into. The original version of Worms and Worms: The Director's Cut were also made using using that language, so don't be put off these languages just because they're forms of Basic.
Cool, I didn't even know that Digital Illusions were still around. I remember them back from the golden age of computing when the Amiga was at its peak. Does anyone else remember Pinball Dreams?
After reading your post I was reminded of Compaq's reverse engineering and reimplementation of IBM's BIOS chip - a necessary feat if anyone was to clone the PC.
Everyone hated the then monopolist IBM at that time and technically the PC was not the nicest of designs. Some time later chip manufacturers would make clones of the Intel x86 processors, completing the commoditisation of the PCs hardware.
If ReactOS lives up to its goals we will have competition at every stage of the "Wintel" hardware/software stack.
Replying to my own post here but I just wanted to add something...
I always thought it would be cool if someone wrote a hack for Windows that let a window manager running on Cygwins X server manage your native Win32 windows. In effect this would be the opposite of "multiwindow" mode.
The "rootless" means that rather than having your root window being a standard Windows window, the root window is the same size as the Windows desktop and where the root window would be shown (not its children) your Windows desktop and applications show through.
IIRC "multiwindow" mode uses a special window manager to reparent your X client windows as Windows windows.
Yes, but if you use a native Windows version you have to use the terrible Windows command prompt. Does anyone know a replacement that remembers its command history prior to the last reboot and (for bonus points) lets you cut, copy and paste using the standard Ctrl x/c/v.
Isn't Lookout just a wrapper around Apache's open source Lucene text search engine? See here for details.
"There are no provisions for leaving the EU in the current treaties."
No, but there will be once (or if) we all ratify the new EU constitution.