No, switch back to C/C++. Like Linux these languages aren't controlled by any one company. Java and C# are just easier languages for all of the idiots that our industry got lumbered with during the dot com boom. (I'm not flaming - this is true, and I realise that there are of course some very good coders out there using Java and C#).
Ahh, but you forgot about speed. Unlike a plane, this thing isn't going to be travelling very fast, so it's hardly going to speed into a flock of birds approaching from the opposite direction. They might sit on it and enjoy the ride for a bit though.
Interestingly, the director of 28 Days Later, Danny Boyle also directed Trainspotting, which had a character (Tommy) who gets AIDS and dies of toxoplasmosis from cat shit.
My PC is not exactly modern, but what exactly are Qt apps doing that makes them so slow? I mean, it's only a toolkit/widget set. Why does a simple text editor for example take so long to load? (and don't blame C++ - previous versions of Qt/KDE were significantly faster)
Sorry mate but that's not quite right. KDE is not a window manager but a desktop environment (the DE part of KDE). KDE by default uses a window manager called KWin.
For alternatives to the bloat of KDE and GNOME, look here
...now GNOME applications can run as slowly as KDE ones.
Now I'm not deliberately trolling here, but I just upgraded from SuSE 6.2 to SuSE 8.1 the other week, and KDE is so much slower, I've gone from using mostly Qt apps to GTK ones. At this rate I'll be using all Xaw programs soon.
Thanks for that. I'd already used that Bill Gates quote in my original email, but I think I'll use it again in my reply. God knows if the MEPs themselves actually read these things, or whether their secretaries just send out the relevant form letter reply. So far the Green have been the most prompt and supportive of our views. I'm still waiting for a number of MEPs to reply, the Labour ones being most notable by their absence...
Thank you for your email referring to the result of the recent Legal Affairs and Internal Market Committee vote on the Patentability of Computer Implemented Inventions. I have been in contact with my colleague Malcolm Harbour, who is the Conservative Spokesman on the Internal Market and a member of the Committee, to discuss this matter.
Conservatives in the European Parliament have supported the objectives of the Directive to set out and defend the status quo in Europe following changes to the patent system in the USA and also planned for Japan. There is a clear intention across the EU Member States to see that Europe does not follow the USA and Japan in allowing widespread patent availability for software and business methods. Copyright will remain the principal method of protecting intellectual property in these cases. Conservative MEPs support the general line that the Commission has taken which builds on and clarifies the existing patent law across the European Union and makes it clear that only software which forms part of a technological process will be patentable. This will allow patents to be provided for genuine technical inventions and stimulate European economic development in areas of economic strength like mobile telephony, digital television and computer controlled machine tools to name just a few possibilities.
The amendments agreed by the Legal Affairs and Internal Market Committee last week, and supported by Conservative MEPs, have clarified the test conditions for software (deciding whether it has a technical effect) before authorising a patent. The Parliament amendments improve the text while ensuring that its principles are supported. Codification of the existing position will also avoid raising complicated issues of the validity of existing patents across Europe or allowing current unpatentable technologies to claim new patents. This will allow European businesses the chance to develop ideas with certainty as to their legal position. It will also reduce the pressure from companies holding permissive American software patents who wish to gain an extension of their patent rights in Europe.
Finally, I must point out that the Directive contains detailed provisions for review of its operation and for early revision should its provisions not work as intended. If it is clear, from the type of inventions being patented or from ongoing legal cases, that the goals of outlawing generic software patents are not being met, then a process of revision can be implemented quickly.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if I can be of any further assistance
How do my fellow slashdotters think I should respond?
Sounds like they are sprites - hardware ones, that is (sometimes called 'BOBs').
That's not right - Sprites are overlayed over the background bitmap as opposed to Blitter OBjects which use a blitter (BLock Image TransfER) to change the background bitmap. Sprites are by definition a hardware feature and there are a limited amount of them on most systems (they are sometime called hardware cursors on PCs). With BOBs on the other hand, you can have as many as you like (gfx processor speed permitting). Systems like the Amiga could have sprites of different resolutions on the screen at once and multiplex them using the copper to create loads of cool effects.
"What would really be cool is if some of the GUI concepts made it over to Linux..."
They already have. Have a look at these: 9wm - a window manger that acts like 8 1/2 from Plan 9 Wily - a clone of Plan 9s programmers editor, Acme (v cool) There's also WindowLab, another window manager which uses the same window resizing system as Plan 9.
...but why is getting Mozilla on the Amiga the one that people put up the cash prizes for?
Because the Amiga community, despite everything they've gone through still has a passion for their platform. If (not likely admittedly) Microsoft went bust tommorrow, do you think there would be die hard users doing this sort of thing for the Windows platform 10 years later?
This passion speaks volumes about the qualities inherent in the Amiga archiecture and OS.
"Since when did capitalism decide the concept of right and wrong? I guess some peoples religion is capitalism, and I suppose this government is run by capitalism and not democracy."
Since the American courts afforded corporate entities the same rights as those guaranteed to people in the US Bill of Rights. It's been downhill ever since.
That's probably what Jon Johansen (DVD Jon) thought. As a Norwegian, he is not under US jurisdiction and therefore not subject to the DMCA. And Norway isn't part of the EU (and hence subject to EU Directive 2001/29/EU). The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) just had a quiet word with the authorities, and Jon was in trouble.
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No, switch back to C/C++. Like Linux these languages aren't controlled by any one company. Java and C# are just easier languages for all of the idiots that our industry got lumbered with during the dot com boom. (I'm not flaming - this is true, and I realise that there are of course some very good coders out there using Java and C#).
An Arch Angel Is Forever, Not Just Christmas.
Oops - travelling horizontally obviously.
Ahh, but you forgot about speed. Unlike a plane, this thing isn't going to be travelling very fast, so it's hardly going to speed into a flock of birds approaching from the opposite direction. They might sit on it and enjoy the ride for a bit though.
You're wrong I'm afraid, there's new working Amigas out there now. Have a look at the AmigaOne and the Pegasos (which is almost an Amiga).
Interestingly, the director of 28 Days Later, Danny Boyle also directed Trainspotting, which had a character (Tommy) who gets AIDS and dies of toxoplasmosis from cat shit.
A Cyrix 233. It's probably the equivalent of a Pentium 150. Classy!
My PC is not exactly modern, but what exactly are Qt apps doing that makes them so slow? I mean, it's only a toolkit/widget set. Why does a simple text editor for example take so long to load? (and don't blame C++ - previous versions of Qt/KDE were significantly faster)
Sorry mate but that's not quite right. KDE is not a window manager but a desktop environment (the DE part of KDE). KDE by default uses a window manager called KWin.
For alternatives to the bloat of KDE and GNOME, look here
...now GNOME applications can run as slowly as KDE ones.
Now I'm not deliberately trolling here, but I just upgraded from SuSE 6.2 to SuSE 8.1 the other week, and KDE is so much slower, I've gone from using mostly Qt apps to GTK ones. At this rate I'll be using all Xaw programs soon.
Sigh.
Of course, is the U.S. move to full democracy "complete" yet? Not by a longshot.
You;re absolutely right, they'd have to have democratic elections first.
Thanks for that. I'd already used that Bill Gates quote in my original email, but I think I'll use it again in my reply. God knows if the MEPs themselves actually read these things, or whether their secretaries just send out the relevant form letter reply. So far the Green have been the most prompt and supportive of our views. I'm still waiting for a number of MEPs to reply, the Labour ones being most notable by their absence...
I just got this back from my local Tory MEP:
Thank you for your email referring to the result of the recent Legal Affairs and Internal Market Committee vote on the Patentability of Computer Implemented Inventions. I have been in contact with my colleague Malcolm Harbour, who is the Conservative Spokesman on the Internal Market and a member of the Committee, to discuss this matter.
Conservatives in the European Parliament have supported the objectives of the Directive to set out and defend the status quo in Europe following changes to the patent system in the USA and also planned for Japan. There is a clear intention across the EU Member States to see that Europe does not follow the USA and Japan in allowing widespread patent availability for software and business methods. Copyright will remain the principal method of protecting intellectual property in these cases. Conservative MEPs support the general line that the Commission has taken which builds on and clarifies the existing patent law across the European Union and makes it clear that only software which forms part of a technological process will be patentable. This will allow patents to be provided for genuine technical inventions and stimulate European economic development in areas of economic strength like mobile telephony, digital television and computer controlled machine tools to name just a few possibilities.
The amendments agreed by the Legal Affairs and Internal Market Committee last week, and supported by Conservative MEPs, have clarified the test conditions for software (deciding whether it has a technical effect) before authorising a patent. The Parliament amendments improve the text while ensuring that its principles are supported. Codification of the existing position will also avoid raising complicated issues of the validity of existing patents across Europe or allowing current unpatentable technologies to claim new patents. This will allow European businesses the chance to develop ideas with certainty as to their legal position. It will also reduce the pressure from companies holding permissive American software patents who wish to gain an extension of their patent rights in Europe.
Finally, I must point out that the Directive contains detailed provisions for review of its operation and for early revision should its provisions not work as intended. If it is clear, from the type of inventions being patented or from ongoing legal cases, that the goals of outlawing generic software patents are not being met, then a process of revision can be implemented quickly.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if I can be of any further assistance
How do my fellow slashdotters think I should respond?
Sounds like they are sprites - hardware ones, that is (sometimes called 'BOBs').
That's not right - Sprites are overlayed over the background bitmap as opposed to Blitter OBjects which use a blitter (BLock Image TransfER) to change the background bitmap. Sprites are by definition a hardware feature and there are a limited amount of them on most systems (they are sometime called hardware cursors on PCs). With BOBs on the other hand, you can have as many as you like (gfx processor speed permitting). Systems like the Amiga could have sprites of different resolutions on the screen at once and multiplex them using the copper to create loads of cool effects.
MOD DOWN please, this is RMSs comment on Plan 9s previous licence. The article says they have a new and open/free one.
"What would really be cool is if some of the GUI concepts made it over to Linux..."
They already have. Have a look at these:
9wm - a window manger that acts like 8 1/2 from Plan 9
Wily - a clone of Plan 9s programmers editor, Acme (v cool)
There's also WindowLab, another window manager which uses the same window resizing system as Plan 9.
I'm sure there's more that I don't know of...
MOD UP please.
There is no Bavarian Illuminati.
THE MGT.
But not at all like Nicaragua or El Salvedor.
If I connect my Spectrum up I can bring the entire Internet to a standstill!
...but why is getting Mozilla on the Amiga the one that people put up the cash prizes for?
Because the Amiga community, despite everything they've gone through still has a passion for their platform. If (not likely admittedly) Microsoft went bust tommorrow, do you think there would be die hard users doing this sort of thing for the Windows platform 10 years later?
This passion speaks volumes about the qualities inherent in the Amiga archiecture and OS.
"Since when did capitalism decide the concept of right and wrong? I guess some peoples religion is capitalism, and I suppose this government is run by capitalism and not democracy."
Since the American courts afforded corporate entities the same rights as those guaranteed to people in the US Bill of Rights. It's been downhill ever since.
Exactly. As the quote goes "That which cannot be enforced should not be prohibited".
That's probably what Jon Johansen (DVD Jon) thought. As a Norwegian, he is not under US jurisdiction and therefore not subject to the DMCA. And Norway isn't part of the EU (and hence subject to EU Directive 2001/29/EU). The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) just had a quiet word with the authorities, and Jon was in trouble.
[insert comment about American Imperialism here]
When the Linux community finds out which lines are alleged to have been copied. Then we can use source control to find out who added them.
Look - lines 2022 to 2102 were added by... Caldera!?!