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Eyes on Karamba
An anonymous reader writes "dot.kde.org posted an interview with Hans Karlsson, the author of the now pretty popular KDE clone of Samurize, Karamba, which is responsible for the recent craze at kdelook.org. An interesting interview well worth a read which shows that even today most open source programs still start as tiny hobby projects after all."
And there's nothing you can do to stop me.
Kinda offtopic, but does anybody know if there is a KDE theme to approach aqua? I would like to give something like this a try, if possible.
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Although fairly uncommon in the history of financial markets, major speculative bubbles have been known to occur from time to time, often with ruinous effects. Sometimes they are triggered by inexplicable phenomena, such as the spontaneous tulip craze in the Netherlands in the 1630s, or are kindled by the manipulative actions of individuals or corporations, as in the case of the 1720 South Sea Bubble. Here are five examples of historic speculative bubbles: the Dutch Tulipmania (1634-1638); the Mississippi Bubble (1719-1720); the South Sea Bubble (1720); the Bull Market of the Roaring Twenties (1924-1929); and Japan's "Bubble Economy" of the 1980s.
Tulipmania (1634-1638)
Perhaps the most famous example of a speculative bubble is the "tulipmania" that struck 17th century Holland. Known for their passionate love of flowers, the Dutch highly prized the tulip upon its introduction to Western Europe in the mid-16th century. Dutch collectors devised a hierarchy of tulip varieties based upon their species and coloring, assigning values to the various flowers. Because it was impossible to determine which variegation would bloom from a particular bulb, the tulip became an object of speculation. During their earliest years in Europe, the bulbs were primarily of interest to the wealthy, but by the mid-1630s the craze caught on with middle-class and poorer families. The increased demand caused the price of the bulbs to soar.1
The market reached its height in late 1636 and early 1637, after the bulbs had been planted to bloom the following spring. People mortgaged their homes and industries in order to buy the bulbs for resale at higher prices. Charles Mackay, in his definitive history of early financial bubbles, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841), published a list of objects (and their prices) which were exchanged for "one single root of the rare species called the Viceroy":
* Two lasts of wheat (448 florins)
* Four lasts of rye (558 florins)
* Four fat oxen (480 florins)
* Eight fat swine (240 florins)
* Twelve fat sheep (120 florins)
* Two Hogsheads of wine (70 florins)
* Four tuns of beer (32 florins)
* Two tuns of butter (192 florins)
* One thousands lbs. of cheese (120 florins)
* A complete bed (100 florins)
* A suit of clothes (80 florins)
* A silver drinking-cup (60 florins)2
In February 1637, as spring drew near and the bulbs were close to flowering, consumer confidence evaporated and the market suddenly crashed. As the price structure collapsed, Mackay reported that "hundreds who, a few months previously, had begun to doubt that there was such a thing as poverty in the land suddenly found themselves the possessors of a few bulbs, which nobody would buy, even though they offered them at one quarter of the sums they had paid for them."3 Litigation ensued, and a government commission ruled in May 1638 that tulip contracts could be annulled upon the payment of 3.5 percent of the agreed price.
The Mississippi Bubble (1719-1720)
The Mississippi Bubble -- which derives its name from the French Mississippi Company -- grew out of France's dire economic situation in the early 18th century. By the time of Louis XIV's death in 1715, the treasury was in shambles, with the value of metallic currency fluctuating wildly. The following year, the French regent turned to a Scotsman named John Law for help. Law, a gambler who had been forced into exile in France as the result of a duel, suggested the Banque Royale take deposits and issue banknotes payable in the value of the metallic currency at the time the banknotes were issued. Law's strategy helped the French convert from metallic to paper currency, and resulted in a period of financial stability, as well as his own increased fame and power.
In August 1717, Law incorporated the Companie des Indes (commonly known as the Mississippi Company), to which the French regent gave a monopoly on trading ri
Worse yet... what is "a lot of various information"? What kind of interfaces does it have, what makes it so cool, etc?
Sure, the info is available on the various websites, but we all know how well most small time sites hold up under a slashdotting.
Well woopity fucking doodang for waste of effort duplicating someone elses shit.
It's bad enough open source turdburglars have to copy quality commercial software but they even have to copy other open source software.
Woohoo for fucking innovation baby ya!
Could some one moderate this post DOWN, try clicking on the link befopre moderating dammit!