OS X is certainly more useful than either, if you can put up with its UI quirks (I personally can't).
And a large part of the usability of Windows comes from having non-crippled software. I use Photoshop, and Krita and the GIMP don't cut it (Krita, I think, has a chance to be awesome; the GIMP, not so much, though I'm hoping the new graphics engine can be used by people who actually know what a decent UI is) and I'm not going to waste time fighting with WINE.
Yes, and according to the ACs who follow me around, I'm apparently a Microsoft troll because I enjoy using.NET (because it's Java, minus the brain damages) and contributed to Mono.
And that is why you are ethically bankrupt people and why I refuse to use GPLed libraries or other code: because I have no interest in furthering what really is an agenda.:) At least TrollTech, as noted upthread by another poster, makes exceptions for non-cretinous open-source licenses, and so I just might go buy a Qt book.
Flash is a tool. (Not one I like or even use, but that's because the abuses of Flash are generally worse than the benefits.) You don't have an inherent right to demand that everyone use shit you yourself have vetted as being oh-so-FREE-SOFTWAAAAAAAAAAAAAARE. If you want to view that developer's Flash, then you must descend from your holier-than-thou cloud and use Flash. It's not "losing freedoms," it's playing nice with others. Because you're free not to use their sites, as I do.
You can have it both ways. That's why the CDDL and MPL exist. "Return your changes to our code, but you can use it with anything you like under any license.
They are, as far as I'm concerned, the best OSS licenses out there.
"Mostly works" under KDE 3.5, or "works" under XP.
I wonder which I'm going to choose. And saying that really torques me off, because I like Linux (hate the Linux community as a whole, but that's a whole 'nother kettle of fish). But it's just not as usable, in any configuration, as a Windows or OS X system.
Sorry, but if you're saying that Eclipse beats out Visual Studio, I'm going to guess that you don't use Visual Studio. NetBeans is slightly better, but wasn't worth the time when I evaluated it. Just a few things off the top of my head about Eclipse, which I've spent way too much time fighting:
-IntelliSense is generally less responsive, less cognizant of recent changes, and with Compiz on under Linux actually causes slowdown (wtf?) -The workspace paradigm is clumsy for small projects, but doesn't scale to big ones (the VS Solution Explorer doesn't really scale either, but at least it's got better categorization) -Honking ugly widgetry that doesn't really fit any DE, Windows or Linux -Crap JSP support (yeah, VS doesn't support JSP at all--but it's got excellent support for the ASP.NET equivalent) -Annoying extension framework, making extensibility a pain in the ass (people like Zend extend Eclipse because it's free to do so more than because it's a good platform for it)
About the only thing I can really say about Eclipse that's markedly positive is that the code refactoring is great--if you use it. (I don't.)
Oh, and before some idiot comes in with "hurf durf we don't want your PROPRIETAAAAAAAARY code!!!111", note that I release code under the MPL and/or BSD licenses as the situation calls for--but not the rights-restrictive GPL. Developers deserve freedom too, not just downstream users.
Yes, and that essentially blocks all non-GPL activity on KDE. It's the primary reason why I stick to Windows as a platform (because I won't write code under the GPL, certainly won't pay for a Qt license, and I don't like GNOME or GTK+).
When your stuff isn't worth mentioning in the same breath as its proprietary competition (KDE4--how did it go so wrong? is the theme here, with Firefox and Google Chrome good counterpoints to this), you aren't "victorious," you're sucking wind.
Baker is awesome, of course, but personally I think Eccleston was hands-down the best doctor of anything I've seen. He gave the character an edge that they went for with Sylvester McCoy, but didn't quite reach in the same way. Good stuff, I thought.
You do realize that the "many" are currently 2/2.5G phone users? Users locked into a contract that means you can't upgrade (without paying a pretty nasty chunk of change)?
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OS X is certainly more useful than either, if you can put up with its UI quirks (I personally can't).
And a large part of the usability of Windows comes from having non-crippled software. I use Photoshop, and Krita and the GIMP don't cut it (Krita, I think, has a chance to be awesome; the GIMP, not so much, though I'm hoping the new graphics engine can be used by people who actually know what a decent UI is) and I'm not going to waste time fighting with WINE.
Yes, and according to the ACs who follow me around, I'm apparently a Microsoft troll because I enjoy using .NET (because it's Java, minus the brain damages) and contributed to Mono.
And that is why you are ethically bankrupt people and why I refuse to use GPLed libraries or other code: because I have no interest in furthering what really is an agenda. :) At least TrollTech, as noted upthread by another poster, makes exceptions for non-cretinous open-source licenses, and so I just might go buy a Qt book.
Huh, nice. Didn't realize that. I may have to track down a Qt book, then.
Thanks!
Too bad you can't eat postcards or deposit them in your bank account.
Do you realize how preposterous this is?
Flash is a tool. (Not one I like or even use, but that's because the abuses of Flash are generally worse than the benefits.) You don't have an inherent right to demand that everyone use shit you yourself have vetted as being oh-so-FREE-SOFTWAAAAAAAAAAAAAARE. If you want to view that developer's Flash, then you must descend from your holier-than-thou cloud and use Flash. It's not "losing freedoms," it's playing nice with others. Because you're free not to use their sites, as I do.
And what exactly does the GPL do for users that the MPL or CDDL does not in a more elegant and developer-respecting way?
You can have it both ways. That's why the CDDL and MPL exist. "Return your changes to our code, but you can use it with anything you like under any license.
They are, as far as I'm concerned, the best OSS licenses out there.
"Mostly works" under KDE 3.5, or "works" under XP.
I wonder which I'm going to choose. And saying that really torques me off, because I like Linux (hate the Linux community as a whole, but that's a whole 'nother kettle of fish). But it's just not as usable, in any configuration, as a Windows or OS X system.
Sorry, but if you're saying that Eclipse beats out Visual Studio, I'm going to guess that you don't use Visual Studio. NetBeans is slightly better, but wasn't worth the time when I evaluated it. Just a few things off the top of my head about Eclipse, which I've spent way too much time fighting:
-IntelliSense is generally less responsive, less cognizant of recent changes, and with Compiz on under Linux actually causes slowdown (wtf?)
-The workspace paradigm is clumsy for small projects, but doesn't scale to big ones (the VS Solution Explorer doesn't really scale either, but at least it's got better categorization)
-Honking ugly widgetry that doesn't really fit any DE, Windows or Linux
-Crap JSP support (yeah, VS doesn't support JSP at all--but it's got excellent support for the ASP.NET equivalent)
-Annoying extension framework, making extensibility a pain in the ass (people like Zend extend Eclipse because it's free to do so more than because it's a good platform for it)
About the only thing I can really say about Eclipse that's markedly positive is that the code refactoring is great--if you use it. (I don't.)
If MySQL didn't suck, yes, it would be.
MySQL is a very fast database because it takes out the parts of a database that make it a database. Data validation? Pfft! Who needs that?!
Oh, and before some idiot comes in with "hurf durf we don't want your PROPRIETAAAAAAAARY code!!!111", note that I release code under the MPL and/or BSD licenses as the situation calls for--but not the rights-restrictive GPL. Developers deserve freedom too, not just downstream users.
Yes, and that essentially blocks all non-GPL activity on KDE. It's the primary reason why I stick to Windows as a platform (because I won't write code under the GPL, certainly won't pay for a Qt license, and I don't like GNOME or GTK+).
What's your point?
The Radeon 48xx cards kick the snot out of comparatively priced nVidia cards.
When you learn what estoppel means, you will know why that is extremely unlikely to happen.
You...do know that Chrome is open source, right? Chromium is Chrome with the Google trademarks and indicia removed.
Not open source? Wrong.
I hate how the awesome bar looks. It's big and clunky. Hence, OldBar.
I love how the awesome bar works, though. Big plus to Mozilla for it.
When your stuff isn't worth mentioning in the same breath as its proprietary competition (KDE4--how did it go so wrong? is the theme here, with Firefox and Google Chrome good counterpoints to this), you aren't "victorious," you're sucking wind.
Development on KDE 3.5 has stopped and outstanding bugs, as the poster you replied to said, are marked WONTFIX.
Baker is awesome, of course, but personally I think Eccleston was hands-down the best doctor of anything I've seen. He gave the character an edge that they went for with Sylvester McCoy, but didn't quite reach in the same way. Good stuff, I thought.
You do realize that the "many" are currently 2/2.5G phone users? Users locked into a contract that means you can't upgrade (without paying a pretty nasty chunk of change)?
How'd this get up here? This was supposed to be a reply to this one.
Rent-a-coder is a joke. Crap developers writing crap code for clients who think $200 for a full CRM is a reasonable price. Hell no.
Well, nobody ever said the .gov was particularly bright. Either for using Notes in the first place or Rails now.