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Announcing the KDE Quality Team Project
Quique writes "The KDE Community is pleased to announce the launch of the Quality Team Project, a community of contributors who will serve as a gateway between developers and users in the KDE Project, and as a new way for people to begin contributing. KDE is a very attractive project, offering high quality software and is freely available. There is a lot of people who feel the urge to give something back, but stop in the middle of the way, frustrated by the steep learning curve. The aim of the project is to reduce these barriers by welcoming these potential contributors, and by offering documentation, support, and even guidance if requested. The objective is to support the new contributors, (programmers, documenters, testers, artists...). Have you ever wished to help KDE in some way, but never knew how? Keep reading!"
I hear we are going to hit close to $3.00 a gallon by the summer. Want gasoline prices to come down? We need to take some intelligent, united action. Phillip Hollsworth, offered this good idea: This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the "don't buy gas on a certain day" campaign that was going around last April or May! The oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn't continue to "hurt" ourselves by refusing to buy gas.
... and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000)...and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers! If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted! If it goes one level further, you guessed it..... THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!! Again, all You have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all (If you don't understand how we can reach 300 million and all you have to do is send this to 10 people.... Well, let's face it, you just aren't a mathematician. But I am .. so trust me on this one.) How long would all that take? If each of us sends this email out to ten more people within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next 8 days!!! I'll bet you I didn't think you and I had that much potential, did you! Acting together we can make a difference. If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on. PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK.
It was more of an inconvenience to us than it was a problem for them.
BUT,
whoever thought of this idea, has come up with a plan that can really work. Please read it and join with us! By now you're probably thinking gasoline priced at about $1.50 is super cheap. Me too! It is currently $1.97 for regular unleaded in my town. Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the cost of a gallon of gas is CHEAP at
$1.50- $1.75, we need to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the marketplace....not sellers. With the price of gasoline going up more each day, we consumers need to take action The only way we are going to see the price of gas come down is if we hit someone in the pocketbook by not purchasing their gas! And we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves. How? Since we all rely on our cars, we can't just stop buying gas. But we CAN have an impact on gas prices if we all act together to force a price war. Here's the idea: For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY gasoline from the two biggest companies (which now are one), EXXON and MOBIL. If they are not selling any gas, they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit. But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of Exxon and Mobil gas buyers. It's really simple to do!! Now, don't whimp out on me at this point.keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!! I am sending this note to about thirty people. If each of you send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 =
300)
On respirator. Immune.
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i just saw passion of the christ the other day. i must say that this is the best artistic representation of the suffering of christ the world has ever seen! the blood was like splattering and stuff and you could see his ribs! go mel! those serious medieval and renaissance artists don't have anything on you!
In fact, by EVEN RESPONDING to this troll, you are proving that IT HAS CLAIMED ANOTHER VICTIM -- YOU!
Thus: Victimizing yourself, as I have just done
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to the book review that was in the subscriber queue?
and
opec rules, ok?
Think about having to BLINK YOUR EYES MANUALLY! or else they won't BLINK at all!
sucks don't it?
see subject
Yeah, but are you wearing socks?
mod this up you fucking IDIOTS.
Not human. Immune.
to know who SCO is suing today!
Okay, I liked, I think KDE having a Quality team is a
good idea.
You sound like a reasonable and impartial observer. So was Mel Gibson pretty good?
Fix the spelling/grammar mistakes your "Quality" team announcement. ;-)
i am a christian he was great i hope he wins best director and best screenplay!
How much do these positions pay? After all, KDE is an integral part of most Linux desktop systems, therefore there must be tremendous support for this from the commercial Linux providers (Redhat, IBM, etc). After all, IBM claims to have made over a billion dollars off of linux last year. So how much are they kicking in?
Thanks!
I guess I'm going to post this all over until I get modded redundant, but this is not a KDE invention. GNOME has had such a team for two years now and mozilla had one before that.
IAAL,BIANLY
[Scene: Initech. Bob Slydell and Bob Porter are interviewing Tom.]
Bob Slydell: So what you do is you take the specifications from the customers and you bring them down to the software engineers?
Tom: That, that's right.
Bob Porter: Well, then I gotta ask, then why can't the customers just take the specifications directly to the software people, huh?
Tom: Well, uh, uh, uh, because, uh, engineers are not good at dealing with customers.
Bob Slydell: You physically take the specs from the customer?
Tom: Well, no, my, my secretary does that, or, or the fax.
Bob Slydell: Ah.
Bob Porter: Then you must physically bring them to the software people.
Tom: Well...no. Yeah, I mean, sometimes.
Bob Slydell: Well, what would you say you do here?
Tom: Well, look, I already told you. I deal with the goddamn customers so the engineers don't have to!! I have people skills!! I am good at dealing with people!!! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!!!!!!!
ya but who wants a desktop that smells like a foot
How can you draw the comparison of any of those things, to things like Gnibbles or Kallery? But then again you're just a gay ass troll so I'll let it be.