Comment Re: IE 6? (Score 4, Insightful) 63
the difference is: when Linux has a critical bug, its front-page news; when Windows has a critical bug, its just another Tuesday.
the difference is: when Linux has a critical bug, its front-page news; when Windows has a critical bug, its just another Tuesday.
Its not about the flexibility, its about the solidity. I want the keyboard to stay still, even if I knock it sideways or with the palm of my hand accidentally. A heavy keyboard sits there and takes it, a cheapo one bounces around slightly, its annoying.
I do have a build machine at work that sits on some drawers between desks, the keyboard is just too wide to sit nicely on the drawers so one end is always raised. A good keyboard would improve that situation, but its so little used directly that we live with it.
Biggest problem for me is that I'm in the UK and the layout is different from the standard US-style keyboards (and far superior
So Deck, Code and similar new manufacturers just don't cut it.
if they can be taken apart, you can put the mechanical bit in the dishwasher (detergent not really recommended). Do not put the electronics in though, some people say it works if you leave it to dry out, but I think it's probably not as guaranteed as they think.
I did it with the keyboard part of my old compaq, when I spilt beer on it (sticky keys... for sure). Came out squeaky clean.
The thing is, its more than the keys.
A good keyboard must have weight to it, so its solid and won't wriggle or bend. It must have a decent size so its not slightly cramped to save plastic, It must have decent legs to raise the typing angle up, and it should have a little runner to store your pencils without resting them on the top of the function keys.
Cherry keys are a good thing, but there's more to it than just those.
Myself, I use an ancient compaq keyboard that I'm sure will be classed as a deadly weapon if I ever have to beat off burglars with it. Best thing is it doesn't have those 2 crappy Windows keys either!
I recall a quote:
FreeBSD is what you get when you take a unix developer and ask him to write a PC OS. Linux is what you get when you take a PC developer and ask him to write a Unix OS.
I guess this now is shown to be true in ways the original author never thought possible!
I prefer:
When you look back at all your failed relationships, you will find a single common factor in all of them
I recall an article about a aquarium that had a big tank of cuttlefish installed. Then every night one cuttlefish would disappear and no-one could figure out who'd come and steal cuttllefish, so they stuck some night-vision camera in and waited.
An octopus in a tank across the walkway would pop out the top of its tank, shimmy across the floor, up the side of the cuttlefish tank, grab one, eat it and then retreat back to its tank. I figure anything that figure out that its human keepers had put a fresh source of food for it across the hall is intelligent enough to not be eaten. Incidentally octopi are intelligent enough to take the trapped crabs and lobster from traps.
but hey, human eat fucking everything, destroying the environment it lives in as we all know nothing is more important than our bellies, and the profits made from selling it for other people's bellies.
Generally speaking, us in the west eat herbivores only. We don't tend to eat horses (knowingly, you never know what is in that cheap burger you bought) simply because they were more important as assets than food, and we seem to still have that cultural aversion to them.
rabbits are cute as anything, and yet they are a very popular source of meat for many rural peoples (urban ones, tend to eat those cheap burgers already mentioned). Cuteness doesn't factor into it, mainly because the meat in your supermarket is as divorced from the source as the marketing people can make it.
If you think eating thing that aren't cute, then I have some blobfish that you'll tuck into without problem.
so just another chicken burger then?
with extra fatty sauce, of course.
Not all of them, Google only uses its patents when someone sue it.
Microsoft not only sues anyone they see as a competitor, but also is part of several patent-collective companies that sue left, right and centre.
In any case, it seems the company's "IP strategy" is to register as many patents as possible, regardless of validity or ingenuity involved in creating the concepts behind them, and then sue away. Fortunately since the Supreme Court ruled on Alice, these are being taken apart when they get to court.
Hopefully, Samsung and Microsoft will see each other in court and half the patents involved will be struck down as being fucking pointless.
and yes the ABI is a serious thing. I asked Bjarne about it in the recent slashdot Q&A, and he basically said "meh, its not important and the vendors wouldn't like it, next question".
An ABI wouldn't be difficult to implement - all the vendors could add a compatibility switch to emit the bespoke mangling if they liked. But the rest of us (who compile the entire software suite every time anyway, or use C bindings because of C++ mangling incompatibilities between different versions of a vendor's compiler) would love it. I think one of the reasons C# and co do so well is because they have the ability to generate a binary and then it just works in other people's programs.
An ABI might mean more binary objects being released for Linux, so you wouldn't get the source, but that's more an idealogical issue than technical.
I'm not so sure of that, the NT kernel is C. Look at the low-level APIs used in win32, these are all C based, with handles and whatnot.
Microsoft is perfectly happy to put a C++ wrapper around a lot of things, but I think the Windows kernel team are basically C coders.(which is not a bad thing).
One interesting example is Windows Web Services - a kernel equivalent of the shitty
I don't really understand why Britain is still in the EU
The people hate the EU but the business leaders and political elite love it. That's why we're still in it.
No, I don't understand why either, nobody has bothered to tell me. Maybe the aliens who are threatening to destroy the world have demanded a single planetary government and our leaders are trying to slowly bring such a thing about... but that's all I can come up with for the existence of the EU at all.
no, I was just having a go at the poster who appeared to see the world in very divisive and ignorant ways.
Racism isn't just white oppressing blacks, its anyone with a stupid prejudiced view against others not of their preferred racial type. I think its important to remember that, to stop the "politically correct" from hijacking the problem for their own ends (again).
Where there's a will, there's a relative.