The GNOME Roadmap 455
glockenspieler writes "Recently on the the Gnome Foundation mailing list, Dave Camp posted a draft Gnome Roadmap for versions 2.8 and Beyond. Issues up for discussion are Mozilla/Epiphany, incorportation of peer to peer filesharing, blogging, addition of more media widgets, and many others. Time for Gnome users to weigh in on what improvements that you would like to see. If that's not enough, then there's always the the C# versus Java versus ? discussion."
language (Score:4, Funny)
Real men use Assembly. They should code it in assembly.
Java vs C# vs ? (Score:5, Funny)
For example the familiar Hello, World! application is written in ? as follows:
what is the procedure the OS calls first?
{
what is the output of the most common small example program?
}
John.
Please don't... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:language (Score:2, Funny)
real men write directly in machine code. assemblers are for wusses.
Re:language (Score:2, Funny)
Re:language (Score:1, Funny)
Re:language (Score:5, Funny)
Back in MY day we had to rewire the ENIAC and replace blown out vacuum tubes just to calculate 2+2!
(To which someone responds:)
Well, back in MY day, we had to rotate the proper component on our differential engine to calculate 2+2! And we LIKED IT that way!
(Which begets the response:)
OH YEAH?! Back in MY day, we had to slide beads on an Abacus to calculate 2+2! We liked it so much that we STILL do it! And WE could even calculate while walking uphill through the snow! Both ways!
(ad infinitum)
Re:They should stick with C (Score:4, Funny)
Slashdot: Hello, Tim
Tim: I used to use KDE. I've been sober for 6 months now.
Slashdot Leader: When did you realize that KDE wasn't healthy for you?
Tim: I just always... I got angry and irritable. My wife started getting concerned. I tried doing less KDE, but... then, some lonely night when my wife was at a meeting, I'd see that KAtomic icon staring back at me. It made feel less lonely. Then one day I was trying to edit a menu -- I wanted KAtomic to be in the K menu -- and I just couldn't figure it out. There must have been 30,000 icons on the screen, but none of them made it work. And then my little girl tries to show me how, and I slapped her hand off my mouse. She started crying and said, "Daddy I wish KDE was never invented!"
Slashdot-AOL-Me-Too-Person: A lot of people cope with loneliness by getting angry or acting out.
Tim: No, it's more like I'd turn to KDE to take away my inner loneliness, but then it would just make me angry with the people who really should make me happy.
Alternate-Slashdot-AOL-Me-Too-Person: I think you're really angry with yourself.
Slashdot Leader: Mr. Alternate-Slashdot-AOL-Me-Too-Person has a lot of experience with anger. Maybe you two can help each other.
Tim: Well, I mean, I don't want to share everything with the group. Some things are just private.
Alternate-Slashdot-AOL-Me-Too-Person: You should really be more honest and open. When more people are looking at your personal life, it's easier to find the flaws. Many eyeballs, you know.
Slashdot-AOL-Me-Too-Person: You should really GPL your life.
Teenage-Slashdot-AOL-Me-Too-Person: Yeah, I'd like to see how your wife works on the inside.
Tim: No, really, some things are personal.
Alternate-Slashdot-AOL-Me-Too-Person: Don't you like open source?
Tim: I guess not.
Slashdot-AOL-Me-Too-Person: Kill him!
Teenage-Slashdot-AOL-Me-Too-Person: Kill him! His widow will date geeks!
Alternate-Slashdot-AOL-Me-Too-Person: Mod him down! Troll! Troll!
[*Tim's karma becomes negative*]
Slashdot-AOL-Me-Too-Person: Now I need something else to do.