> Isn't it more important to get _user_ documentation out the door?
No. A new project of mine requires me to learn GUI programming, which I'm really a rank newbie at. I picked up gtk+, didn't like what was involved with subclassing, and went to Gtk--. And there simply isn't enough documentation to learn it.
Thus I use the excellently documented Qt. It's not a matter of politics, I just cannot learn without documentation. Gnome has lost this developer because of the state of its documentation, and I can't imagine I'm the only one.
> (exceptions for hardware failures, upgrades at al).
Accidentally trying to render a 100 meg image in X...
Well yes, I could have waited ages while it thrashed and thrashed and thrashed. Meanwhile, my pointer barely moved, clicks didnt respond, and it couldnt even switch vc's. sysrq-S-U-B time...
'cept Echelon exists. The NSA admits as much. Which of course has the conspiracy theorists incoherently screeching about what they're REALLY covering up;)
Then your high school physics course was truly pathetic. My regular non-AP physics course in HS, using a standard textbook, had extensive coverage of basic particle physics and subatomic theory.
Mind you I flunked it. Happens when you sleep through every class.
> According to standard physics a jet engine is thermodynamically IMPOSSIBLE.
According to yon scroll of wisdom, thou shalt surely fall off the edge of the earth and be devoured by the serpent shouldst thou undertake this folly to sail beyond the west ocean.
I heard from an obscure source that jet engines are reproducable. I eagerly await the same for cold fusion.
Did it ever cross your mind that the atomic structure of the palladium might somehow contain and recycle your neutrons with such effencicy that none are ever detected? Quantum fusion through superstring exchange?:P We dont know what it is, and good scientific research into it will do nothing worse then advance our knoweldge
Personally I think the evidence for the existence of Fusion Faeries is being suppressed.
2. Fusion as an energy source is better by far than anything we've got. Tremendous amounts of energy for what you put in, and it doesn't pollute like fossil fuels or fission reactions.
> Why is it every movie portrays NSA, CIA, FBI -- whatever -- as mind-numbed robots that will kill every American baby if it remotely threatens national security?
I have no problem depicting them as a bunch of soulless spooks with no regard for the basic rights to privacy that are enshrined in the constitution. I have no problem painting them as the eyes and ears of a regime bent on reacting to and crushing any actions that run counter to some perceived notion of the american way -- take a look at the war on drugs sometime, ask someone who's run a hobby greenhouse about police searches.
I'm sure the kgb had families too, and that they put their pants on one leg at a time.
> Not everyone needs, or even wants, anti-aliased text. For example, at very small point size, anti-aliasing tends to make things worse, not better.
My car stalls when I start it in fourth gear. That's why I have three gears under that.
You don't antialias small fonts. Windows doesn't antialias fonts under 8pt (you can make it, but it is awful). And has been said over and over and over and over and over again, it will require a new API.
Or we could all use Berlin and get rid of the X monstrosity completely. Someone has to start.
Of course if it's as functional as the perl or python bindings, both of which result in immediate core dumps even when both qt and the bindings are compiled from scratch, then I don't have a lot of hope.
bash bindings could really be the nail in the coffin for CDE, which has dtksh, a graphical korn shell that uses motif
Not necessarily. Gtk-- seems to be gaining in popularity. Still horridly documented, like the rest of gtk, but it's certainly gtk and certainly C++. The way it does signals and slots is far nicer than Qt.
Unfortunately, what I *don't* see is a C++ wrapper around gdk. QPainter is a very nice very powerful class, and I just don't see it represented in gtk.
Anyhow, E's look is nice and all, but gnome's outright refusal to adopt a window manager has annoyed me to no end. I change gtk, I have to change gnome separately. Gtk and gnome never look quite like they match up, and of course there's a whole new drawing layer on it.
As for Kwm (Raster does talk about E in KDE after all), it uses Qt as its toolkit. Same idea as mwm using motif. The window menus and root menus and such, they're KDE menu objects (derived from Qt). No wheels reinvented here.
In the gnome app list, I see a gtkwm that aspires to do the same, but it appears to be forever vaporware. Could some enterprising soul who knows window managers perhaps take up this project? It's ridiculous to have a window manager represent a code fork from a desktop environment.
As for reply links... I simply have no link to reply to this article, and the moderator dropdowns show up inlined. kfm seems to be awful funny with forms... So anyhow I'll piggyback my reply to someone famous, hopefully it won't be moderated down:)
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C:\> cd program files C:\Program Files>
This is nothing more than a hack to the "cd" command. Many commands do indeed require quoting the filename. Linux could hack its cd command in the same way, as it takes only one argument, but it would create some inconsistency were it to be expected in all commands.
> Apache's configuration/setup totally blows. Who in thier right mind would want to use some external program ( nasty text editor ) to configure a webserver with? IIS is way much easier to setup and maintane.
Profesionals. Who are literate and can actually read and understand a textfile.
This is called sendfile() (or HRESULT FAR* _std zpqvBrgvzplz0SendFile32Ex4 on windows). Most OS's have it now, and it's readily admitted on the kernel-dev list that Linux's implementation is BROKEN, and will probably remain so until sometime in 2.3
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> Isn't it more important to get _user_ documentation out the door?
No. A new project of mine requires me to learn GUI programming, which I'm really a rank newbie at. I picked up gtk+, didn't like what was involved with subclassing, and went to Gtk--. And there simply isn't enough documentation to learn it.
Thus I use the excellently documented Qt. It's not a matter of politics, I just cannot learn without documentation. Gnome has lost this developer because of the state of its documentation, and I can't imagine I'm the only one.
Or ... A non-profit foundation seeks a volunteer project and will pay a modest stipend for it.
Troll.
> (exceptions for hardware failures, upgrades at al).
Accidentally trying to render a 100 meg image in X...
Well yes, I could have waited ages while it thrashed and thrashed and thrashed. Meanwhile, my pointer barely moved, clicks didnt respond, and it couldnt even switch vc's. sysrq-S-U-B time...
> Where is system level color matching???
Built into the X window system. Pull up a man page on it sometime.
Do you have one iota of evidence for the claim that it'll go IE only?
One shred?
Even a smidgen?
Click here for the proof
'cept Echelon exists. The NSA admits as much. Which of course has the conspiracy theorists incoherently screeching about what they're REALLY covering up ;)
Then your high school physics course was truly pathetic. My regular non-AP physics course in HS, using a standard textbook, had extensive coverage of basic particle physics and subatomic theory.
Mind you I flunked it. Happens when you sleep through every class.
> According to standard physics a jet engine is thermodynamically IMPOSSIBLE.
According to yon scroll of wisdom, thou shalt surely fall off the edge of the earth and be devoured by the serpent shouldst thou undertake this folly to sail beyond the west ocean.
I heard from an obscure source that jet engines are reproducable. I eagerly await the same for cold fusion.
Personally I think the evidence for the existence of Fusion Faeries is being suppressed.
Pesky lethal levels of radiation aside.
Sure, Redhat put the distribution together. When the FSF puts together their own distribution they can call it GNU Linux or GNU/Linux or whatever.
> Why is it every movie portrays NSA, CIA, FBI -- whatever -- as mind-numbed robots that will kill every American baby if it remotely threatens national security?
I have no problem depicting them as a bunch of soulless spooks with no regard for the basic rights to privacy that are enshrined in the constitution. I have no problem painting them as the eyes and ears of a regime bent on reacting to and crushing any actions that run counter to some perceived notion of the american way -- take a look at the war on drugs sometime, ask someone who's run a hobby greenhouse about police searches.
I'm sure the kgb had families too, and that they put their pants on one leg at a time.
> Point is, what do you care if you have nothing to hide?
That's pretty funny coming from an anonymous coward
> and that we all need many years of extremely expensive Scientological "treatments" to get ourselves "clean".
You mean "clear"
ye gad, netscape seems to take <ul> to mean <blockquote>
weird. ah well the title deserves emphasis anyhow
- The Emperor's New Mind
for a reasonably plain-english explanation of how this is possible.> Not everyone needs, or even wants, anti-aliased text. For example, at very small point size, anti-aliasing tends to make things worse, not better.
My car stalls when I start it in fourth gear. That's why I have three gears under that.
You don't antialias small fonts. Windows doesn't antialias fonts under 8pt (you can make it, but it is awful). And has been said over and over and over and over and over again, it will require a new API.
Or we could all use Berlin and get rid of the X monstrosity completely. Someone has to start.
bash bindings? this i have to see. URL?
Of course if it's as functional as the perl or python bindings, both of which result in immediate core dumps even when both qt and the bindings are compiled from scratch, then I don't have a lot of hope.
bash bindings could really be the nail in the coffin for CDE, which has dtksh, a graphical korn shell that uses motif
Not necessarily. Gtk-- seems to be gaining in popularity. Still horridly documented, like the rest of gtk, but it's certainly gtk and certainly C++. The way it does signals and slots is far nicer than Qt.
Unfortunately, what I *don't* see is a C++ wrapper around gdk. QPainter is a very nice very powerful class, and I just don't see it represented in gtk.
Anyhow, E's look is nice and all, but gnome's outright refusal to adopt a window manager has annoyed me to no end. I change gtk, I have to change gnome separately. Gtk and gnome never look quite like they match up, and of course there's a whole new drawing layer on it.
... I simply have no link to reply to this article, and the moderator dropdowns show up inlined. kfm seems to be awful funny with forms... So anyhow I'll piggyback my reply to someone famous, hopefully it won't be moderated down :)
As for Kwm (Raster does talk about E in KDE after all), it uses Qt as its toolkit. Same idea as mwm using motif. The window menus and root menus and such, they're KDE menu objects (derived from Qt). No wheels reinvented here.
In the gnome app list, I see a gtkwm that aspires to do the same, but it appears to be forever vaporware. Could some enterprising soul who knows window managers perhaps take up this project? It's ridiculous to have a window manager represent a code fork from a desktop environment.
As for reply links
C:\> cd program files
C:\Program Files>
This is nothing more than a hack to the "cd" command. Many commands do indeed require quoting the filename. Linux could hack its cd command in the same way, as it takes only one argument, but it would create some inconsistency were it to be expected in all commands.
right, that macos menubar on the top is too much like that other interface. that pin widget, obviously ripped off from something I've never seen.
so kde does not satisfy the knee-jerk factor. glad not to have you then.
> Apache's configuration/setup totally blows. Who in thier right mind would want to use some external program ( nasty text editor ) to configure a webserver with? IIS is way much easier to setup and maintane.
Profesionals. Who are literate and can actually read and understand a textfile.
This is called sendfile() (or HRESULT FAR* _std zpqvBrgvzplz0SendFile32Ex4 on windows). Most OS's have it now, and it's readily admitted on the kernel-dev list that Linux's implementation is BROKEN, and will probably remain so until sometime in 2.3