I use Gentoo, you insensitive clod! I do too, and I'm still wondering half a year on why Perl 5.10 is still MIA, and where the hell compiz 0.7 went. Maybe Gentoo's not as immune to bueraucratic bullshit as we'd like to think it is...
Oh, and does PHP support structs? What about function pointers? It can't really do structs (unless you count nested arrayhashobjslop as structured data), but you can do soft references of functions with $string(). Or you can assign an actual function to a variable with create_function() and call it the same way, but it's best to avoid going down that path if you want to keep what's left of your sanity.
The line from TFA that concerns me is "Much improved for PHP V6 is support for Unicode strings in many of the core functions" Maybe they're hinting that something's going to be done about this particular disaster. How many different naming conventions can you count in that list?
If you want the development to go faster, dump MySQL and use Postgres. If you want the webserver to go faster, keep MySQL and use the mysqlnd php driver. If you're paid by the hour, use XML.
The Linux one comes with Skype, OOo, the Mozilla apps, ClamAV and a bunch of other stuff (most notable being an almost complete hidden KDE install). Oh... and 8GB more SSD space. The windows one has MS Works and something else I wasn't paying attention to.
I had to waste a whole day at work today manually diagnosing someone's trashed, 0wned vista install that wouldn't boot in safe mode. This is _with_ a working AV/AS installed and UAC active.
I'm not sure what a hardcore GTK purist is... is that someone who refuses to install Gnome because it requires about 50 different toolkits and frameworks? Someone who refuses to use Firefox because it uses XUL?
Honestly I used to run Gnome a long, long time ago, and avoided installing anything Qt-related because of how big it looked. Then I looked at the hundred or so separate libraries needed to run the bland windows 3.1 clone on my screen and I realised I had it completely backwards.
Please, don't give them any ideas! We don't want drives measured in terms of how many binary-coded-decimal digits they can store... it's bad enough with POSIX.
Except, as has been pointed out here in the past by people who actually went through and read it, the OOXML "documented" standard is full of references to microsoft office internals, which _aren't_ documented in it.
They've made it look nice but that's about as far as it goes. Most of the things I care about don't work this time around, and among other things I was a bit annoyed to find out that its opengl desktop stuff runs slower than compiz while doing less. They're trying too hard to copy vista when they should really be concentrating on making a good desktop.
Linux offers people a _choice_ between a dumbed down desktop and one built for power users. Other OSes only give you one option unless you jump through hoops, and it's rarely the second.
They could just use the empty space at the side of a 5:4 screen to put some decent speakers in. (instead of doing what ASUS does and wasting it on cellphone-quality beepers)
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You go first, we'll follow your example.
Market saturation?
Depends what you mean by "making things faster".
If you want the development to go faster, dump MySQL and use Postgres.
If you want the webserver to go faster, keep MySQL and use the mysqlnd php driver.
If you're paid by the hour, use XML.
If Wine - after fifteen years of being in beta - has an unstable 1.0 release, I'll go out and buy Vista. Seriously.
It's also proof that hiding your source code only delays the inevitable...
The sony one doesn't really fit in there, since they intentionally did it...
Ask yourself this: is the time and effort to get a windows refund really worth the $30 or so you'll get back for the OEM licence?
The Linux one comes with Skype, OOo, the Mozilla apps, ClamAV and a bunch of other stuff (most notable being an almost complete hidden KDE install). Oh... and 8GB more SSD space. The windows one has MS Works and something else I wasn't paying attention to.
I do, for one.
I had to waste a whole day at work today manually diagnosing someone's trashed, 0wned vista install that wouldn't boot in safe mode. This is _with_ a working AV/AS installed and UAC active.
Interesting claims you make there. I had no idea Microsoft were licencing out the Win32 API on Linux and OS X for a flat-rate fee...
I'm not sure what a hardcore GTK purist is... is that someone who refuses to install Gnome because it requires about 50 different toolkits and frameworks? Someone who refuses to use Firefox because it uses XUL?
Honestly I used to run Gnome a long, long time ago, and avoided installing anything Qt-related because of how big it looked. Then I looked at the hundred or so separate libraries needed to run the bland windows 3.1 clone on my screen and I realised I had it completely backwards.
You kids and your multithreading operating systems... back in my day we used RISC OS and we liked it! And we had antialiased fonts too!
Please, don't give them any ideas! We don't want drives measured in terms of how many binary-coded-decimal digits they can store... it's bad enough with POSIX.
Except, as has been pointed out here in the past by people who actually went through and read it, the OOXML "documented" standard is full of references to microsoft office internals, which _aren't_ documented in it.
Good luck convincing the people who made the thousands of icons in Gnome/KDE that they need to remake them in SWF format.
They've made it look nice but that's about as far as it goes. Most of the things I care about don't work this time around, and among other things I was a bit annoyed to find out that its opengl desktop stuff runs slower than compiz while doing less.
They're trying too hard to copy vista when they should really be concentrating on making a good desktop.
You have it all wrong.
Linux offers people a _choice_ between a dumbed down desktop and one built for power users. Other OSes only give you one option unless you jump through hoops, and it's rarely the second.
That kind of evil is nothing compared to... telling people to use FAT32!
It's good at losing entire partitions, true, but I prefer that kind of obviousness to the way ext4 silently loses a few bytes here and there.
The guy who's been single-handedly maintaining Reiser4 for the past few months sounds pretty well-mannered from what I've seen.
They could just use the empty space at the side of a 5:4 screen to put some decent speakers in. (instead of doing what ASUS does and wasting it on cellphone-quality beepers)