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KDE 3.0 Alpha1 Available for Developers
Dre writes: "Just a few weeks after the release of the rock-solid KDE 2.2.1, the KDE Project today announced the release of KDE 3.0 Alpha1. Targeted at developers who want to get a head start on porting or writing applications to KDE 3, the release is pretty much a straight port of the KDE 2.2 branch to Qt 3. However, for developers this brings an impressive array of new features to KDE, including new database classes, new data-aware widgets, improved RAD development with a much-enhanced Qt Designer, a new powerful regular expression class (with full Unicode support), improved internationalization support (including the ability to mix different character sets in the same text), bi-directional language support (for languages such as Arabic and Hebrew), multi-monitor (Xinerama and multi-screen) support, better integration of pure Qt applications into KDE, and hardware-accelerated alpha blending. With the Qt port out of the way, the KDE developers can now focus on the planned
KDE improvements. Read the full announcement here, or go straight to the source
(alternative
link)."
When is GTK2.0 going to be out already?
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Violators will be prosecuted and prosecutors will be violated.
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All this shouldn't happen, but Linus Torvalds is Gay!
yes and also robert frost
An even bigger shock may be to learn that Miguel de Icaza is gay...
...if it weren't for the fact that Egg Troll is gay!
ALL SERIAL KILLERS, almost without exception, are severely sexually abused as children. The kind of people who hijack a plane with innocent people and drive it into a building with thousands of other innocent people are related to this phenomenon.
When sociopaths rape and kill, they do not see their victims as human beings, but only as objects. This is because the sociopaths were themselves, at one time, used as objects as their bodily integrity was repeatedly violated. The rage that results from sexual abuse is one thing, but when combined with living in a dysfunctional culture of sexual repression and misogyny, where love is reduced to violent domination, it is quite another.
Throughout the Islamic Middle East, men and women are taught to be vehemently opposed to pleasure, especially of the sexual variety. Men are raised not only forbidden to touch women, but to even look at them. Sex before marriage is not just a sin -- but a criminal offence. It is punishable by a severe beating at best, and an execution at worst.
The sexual privileges that are allowed in Islamic cultures are permitted to men. Womens sexuality and social independence represent major threats to male supremacy and are tightly controlled. Thus, as the Moroccan feminist Fitna Sabbah reveals in her book Woman in the Muslim Unconscious, there is a disturbing conflict in the Middle East between sexual libido and repression. A deep-seated fear of, and hostility to, individuality prevails, and its main expression exists in misogyny.
Socially segregated from women, Arab men succumb to homosexual behavior. But, interestingly enough, there is no word for "homosexual" in their culture in the modern Western sense. That is because having sex with boys, or with effeminate men, is seen as a social norm. Males serve as available substitutes for unavailable women. The male who does the penetrating, meanwhile, is not emasculated any more than if he had sex with a wife. The male who is penetrated is emasculated. The boy, however, is not, since it is rationalized that he is not yet a man.
In this culture, males sexually penetrating males becomes a manifestation of male power, conferring a status of hyper-masculinity. It is considered to have nothing to do with homosexuality. An unmarried man who has sex with boys is simply doing what men do. As the scholar Bruce Dunne has demonstrated, sex in Islamic societies is not about mutuality between partners, but about the adult male's achievement of pleasure through violent domination.
There is silence around this issue. It is the silence that legitimizes sexual violence against women, such as honor crimes and female circumcision. It is also the silence that forces victimized Arab boys into invisibility. Even though the society does not see their sexual exploitation as being humiliating, the psychological and emotional scars that result from their subordination, powerlessness and humiliation is a given. Traumatized by the violation of their dignity and manliness, they spend the rest of their lives trying to get it back.
The problem is that trying to recover from sexual abuse, and to recapture ones own shattered masculinity, is quite an ordeal in a culture where women are hated and love is interpreted as hegemonic control.
With women out of touch and out of sight -- until marriage, males experience pre-marital sex only in the confines of being with other males. Their sexual outlet mostly includes victimizing younger males just the way they were victimized.
In all of these circumstances, the idea of love is removed from men's understanding of sexuality. Like the essence of Arab masculinity, it is reduced to hurting others by violence. A gigantic rupture develops between men and women, where no harmony, affection or equality is allowed to exist. In relationships between men, meanwhile, affection, solidarity and empathy are left out of the picture. They threaten the hyper-masculine order.
It is excruciating to imagine the sexual confusion, humiliation, and repression that evolve in the mindsets of males in this culture. But it is no surprise that many of these males find their only avenue for gratification in the act of humiliating the foreign "enemy," whose masculinity must be violated at all costs as theirs once was.
Violating the masculinity of the enemy necessitates the dishing out of severe violence against him. In the recent terrorist strikes, therefore, violence against Americans served as a much-needed release of the terrorists bottled-up sexual rage. Moreover, it served as a desperate and pathological testament of the re-masculinization of their emasculated selves.
Nice to have you back egg troll.
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Mod this up, this hits the spot! Bang on! Couldn't have put it better.
Yeah, we all know all Slashdot editors are gay
this is from the register -
"A visiting Martian would surely conclude that the GNOME Project has served its purpose, and that for the community to continue bifurcated development is simply handing victory to The Beast. Enough, already. ®"
Yeah, they suck. Keep up the good work.
WHY?
It's about KDE. Absolutely ON topic...
I post this using my own nick because I'm stuck at +50 and need someone to mod me down...
Worst first post ever!!!
But not as pretty.
+1 Flamebait
I think you're running the risk of turning from one sort of fanatic to another.
When KDE was in transition from 1.1 to 2.0, a lot of people assumes that there was very little work going on, when in fact (as we now know) they were almost completely rewriting the core libraries. A similar thing is happening with Gnome -- and it's very hard to show people what you are doing until the main libraries are 90% complete. So lets give the Gnome guys a chance and see what they produce.
(the only thing I'm waiting for to make me happy is for Lyx 1.2 to come out so I can finally get rid of that xforms library...)
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Why is the vi v.s. emacs debate stupid? It's a huge difference in the way that you work with your computer (at least if you're using emacs for everything, as you should :-) ). I'd call it as valid as a debate over whatever national policy Bush is churning out right now.
Waste some of your mod points on this! You don't really need 'em anyway!
Good googley moogley, the trolls have found a way around the [hint.com] that we get for links now.
U :w ww.slashdot.org
This is the link:
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:bNohi649ix
And I don't even want to describe what it is a picture of. Worse than goatse.cx...
Napster-to-go says "Fill and refill your compatible MP3 player", which is a lie. It's not MP3. It's WMA with DRM.
I don't care about moderation guidelines, that's why I vote down Anonymous Cowards who are already at 0, instead of promoting interesting posts.
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Only stupid morons will love IIS, this is an excellent proof.
And Only those MS IIS morons whose brains are full of horse manures will believe that any one can just d/l a Linux kernel and expect everything to go smooth sailing.
All the Linux vendors, Red Hat, Mandrake, Caldera, etc., all sell server versions of their distributions. Yes, those Linux servers are not free, but they are still much cheaper than W2K. Also, those distros will never use the newest release. Only morons with horse shit brains will do that.
A moron is a moron is a moron!
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