Wow, I can't beleive how *FAST* it is!!! I agree that it misses a few buttons here and there but this is definitely 100x better than Navigator 4 or regular Mozilla. One area I alway thout Linux was lacking was in web high end web browsers but this... is my new browser from now on.
Actually, what CmdrTaco is doing by saying that is standing up for Linux. If he posts a link to some commercial site like ifilm.com, he's providing them with very valuable trafic and and he's giving a hint to people who publish movies on the Internet that it might not be in thier best interest to use formats that are unavailable to most of us here on Slashdot.
Linux may not have taken over the world in yet but you can thank sites like Slashdot for putting it's existance into the mind of people who would normally ignore it.
Hey, I sympathise with you but this guy probably had to deal with 20 dork women before you that yawned or show disgust just because a guy is being technical.
I once had a girl friend who used to complain every time I started to talk abut programming with some friends at parties. (We were all programmers). It's not like I was only talking about programming but just because it wasen't something she liked. And I've seen lots of women act that way. You can see them roll their eyes and say, "here they go again"...
Now, I'm more tolerant to this king of begaviour but I can easily imagine a clerk at a hardware store having this preconceived idea about women.
The big difference is not so much in the Open Source Consortium's OSS definition but in the interpretation of the meaning "open source". Obviously, not everyone who has heard about Open Sourse has read the "official definition".
Today, any company that gives away some source code clams to be an Open source company and, not counting the community's opinion on it, they are. So they release "open source software under a licence which *RESTRICTS YOUR FREEDOM* and some outside developers start to work on the code but the company still profits on his work in an exclusive way because the licence is not a Free(freedom) Software licence.
It's KDE's developpers that the free software community should be pointing fingers at. One of the main thing advocated by the FSF is to value freedom over convenience and the GPL serves as a legal groundhold to that philosophy.
The problem is that I'm pretty sure a lot of the KDE developpers don't grasp the difference between Free software and Open Source. Why would anyone who understand what they're dealing with choose to put oneself in such a (legal) mess?
Unless of course you're one of the KDE developpers that work for TrollTech. Then, you know it't good for you if every developper that wants to code a GUI app to the GUI's native toolkit has to pay you if they want to develop closed source. It's really that simple yo know. You develop a desktop that depends on you proprietary software and try to make it become a standard on Linux; then you sit tight as you watch the money pouring in.
Wait a sec. If KDE's main developper is working for TrollTech, that make them as guilty as anyone. This is just plain parasitic.
Excuse me for being clueless on this but how does a different instruction set make coding more pleasant? Unless you're speaking about assembly, I dont see how this could affect how pleasant coding is.
If you go to Borland's sit, they say Kylix uses both Qt and GTK. They probably would have dropped GTK if the merger with Corel had happened because Corel's distro is KDE only.
My personnal hope is that it may simplify developping CORBA components. Hpefully, the IDE will be extendable so that someone can make a Bonobo wizard or something.
Hey, I don't beleive in god but I have to agree with everything you say. That which you call God, I don't (and won't) have a name for, but it's the same thing for me. There can be spirituality for an atheist too. Higher meaning can be found in anything if your perceptions are "tuned" to sense it.
Lets just hope this game doesn't end up being some other brainless monster killing fest like ID are known to make. It would be quite a change to see them make a shooter with some sense of a purpose beyond killing the end boss. Besides, the maket is not what it was when the other dooms came out. Today, ID are far from the unly company making 3D shooter and the most notable inovations are not from the graphic engine department. Just look at how Half Life was talked about. No one cared about the technology in it because it had other aspects that are way more important to what makes a great game these days.
I -am- capable of joking around you understand! I'm human, not some coding machine robot.
Does this mean that the workstation you supposedly brought in your honeymoon was a joke too? =)
PS:(feel free to answer this one, couldn't resist:-) I bought Q3 for Linux, but I'd like to play it on Win32 too. Can I expect a Win32 patch to come out?
This is not the same thing. They are using the GNU icon in association with the Open Source term. You want to distinguis two things, use two different words... or Slashdot icons.
Geez. I was just about to say the same thing. We should have a different icon for the Open Source mouvement. This is not good because it spreads confusion as to what free software is about. It's like this hacker/cracker fiasco`you want to distinguish to things, use two different words... and two Salshdot icons.
You don't seem to grasp what the free software mouvement is about. I personally am a free software advocate but I'm not a very good hacker. You say that we are elitists but it is only in a world of restrictions that elites can thrive. The free software mouvement is the antithesis of elitism. Indeed, it is only in a system of proprietary software that an elite of "owners" who can afford to pay for it. Providing that you have a PC, you can benefit from what was created by others without sacrificing your freedom. How much more open can a community that shares it's wealth be?
You say that the open source bubble will burst and again, this clearly demonstrate you cluelessness. Most people who write/use free software write it because they value their freedom over monetary gain. It's not about being anti-capitalist, it about choosing what kind of society we live in. One that sees sharing it's advancements with others without resticting their freedom. Free software has NOTHING to do with how much companies like Red Hat, VA, etc and valued in the stock market. It's about a segment of society choosing to live in a better world.
Who cares if we're not in synch with with the majority. We are free and this is all that should matter. Are you gonna jump off a bridge if all your neibours do so? What's wrong with idealising a better system in which to live? This is no bubble to me. I use free software every day and it is very real to me.
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I have to agree that readding from a lightweight portable monitor could be a lot better than reading from a regular monitor. Perhaps if a new generation of PDAs with screens as wide as an e-book would be sold, the free software community could devise an XML application for reading books without the restrictions of regular eBooks. Then it would need a significant number of authors to adopt it for it to become a standard.
Voila! As simple as that. Then the Slashdot community can march on Washington DC!!
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Wow, I can't beleive how *FAST* it is!!! I agree that it misses a few buttons here and there but this is definitely 100x better than Navigator 4 or regular Mozilla. One area I alway thout Linux was lacking was in web high end web browsers but this... is my new browser from now on.
Whoa! Dude! free Linux CD with a can of coke? No way!
Actually, anyone with a minimum of mathematical knowledge should know better than to gamble and play the lottery.
Actually, this was a joke. I'm a Gnome user.
Ha! KDE 2.0 is way ahead of the Genome project. Slashdot is sooo biased toward the Genome project it a crime! :-)
Does that mean that if you make kids with this thing, you hace to have them cary their source with them?
Linux may not have taken over the world in yet but you can thank sites like Slashdot for putting it's existance into the mind of people who would normally ignore it.
I once had a girl friend who used to complain every time I started to talk abut programming with some friends at parties. (We were all programmers). It's not like I was only talking about programming but just because it wasen't something she liked. And I've seen lots of women act that way. You can see them roll their eyes and say, "here they go again"...
Now, I'm more tolerant to this king of begaviour but I can easily imagine a clerk at a hardware store having this preconceived idea about women.
But then again, some guys are just plain dorks :-)
Geez, you'd expect that they would at least read the story before posting such bull chit.
Care to enlighten us on what changes are happening in society? Are you Jon Katz or something?
Today, any company that gives away some source code clams to be an Open source company and, not counting the community's opinion on it, they are. So they release "open source software under a licence which *RESTRICTS YOUR FREEDOM* and some outside developers start to work on the code but the company still profits on his work in an exclusive way because the licence is not a Free(freedom) Software licence.
End o'story.
There is a C++ wrapper (or binding or whatever) for GTK+. But if you mean true OO, there are also wrappers for Python, Eiffel, etc.
It's KDE's developpers that the free software community should be pointing fingers at. One of the main thing advocated by the FSF is to value freedom over convenience and the GPL serves as a legal groundhold to that philosophy.
The problem is that I'm pretty sure a lot of the KDE developpers don't grasp the difference between Free software and Open Source. Why would anyone who understand what they're dealing with choose to put oneself in such a (legal) mess?
Unless of course you're one of the KDE developpers that work for TrollTech. Then, you know it't good for you if every developper that wants to code a GUI app to the GUI's native toolkit has to pay you if they want to develop closed source. It's really that simple yo know. You develop a desktop that depends on you proprietary software and try to make it become a standard on Linux; then you sit tight as you watch the money pouring in.
Wait a sec. If KDE's main developper is working for TrollTech, that make them as guilty as anyone. This is just plain parasitic.
Excuse me for being clueless on this but how does a different instruction set make coding more pleasant? Unless you're speaking about assembly, I dont see how this could affect how pleasant coding is.
Mmm, from what I read, you seem to be a damned good actor!
My personnal hope is that it may simplify developping CORBA components. Hpefully, the IDE will be extendable so that someone can make a Bonobo wizard or something.
Hey, I don't beleive in god but I have to agree with everything you say. That which you call God, I don't (and won't) have a name for, but it's the same thing for me. There can be spirituality for an atheist too. Higher meaning can be found in anything if your perceptions are "tuned" to sense it.
Lets just hope this game doesn't end up being some other brainless monster killing fest like ID are known to make. It would be quite a change to see them make a shooter with some sense of a purpose beyond killing the end boss. Besides, the maket is not what it was when the other dooms came out. Today, ID are far from the unly company making 3D shooter and the most notable inovations are not from the graphic engine department. Just look at how Half Life was talked about. No one cared about the technology in it because it had other aspects that are way more important to what makes a great game these days.
Don't be fooled by non-XML compliant processors!
Does this mean that the workstation you supposedly brought in your honeymoon was a joke too? =)
PS:(feel free to answer this one, couldn't resist :-) I bought Q3 for Linux, but I'd like to play it on Win32 too. Can I expect a Win32 patch to come out?
This is not the same thing. They are using the GNU icon in association with the Open Source term. You want to distinguis two things, use two different words... or Slashdot icons.
Geez. I was just about to say the same thing. We should have a different icon for the Open Source mouvement. This is not good because it spreads confusion as to what free software is about. It's like this hacker/cracker fiasco`you want to distinguish to things, use two different words... and two Salshdot icons.
You say that the open source bubble will burst and again, this clearly demonstrate you cluelessness. Most people who write/use free software write it because they value their freedom over monetary gain. It's not about being anti-capitalist, it about choosing what kind of society we live in. One that sees sharing it's advancements with others without resticting their freedom. Free software has NOTHING to do with how much companies like Red Hat, VA, etc and valued in the stock market. It's about a segment of society choosing to live in a better world.
Who cares if we're not in synch with with the majority. We are free and this is all that should matter. Are you gonna jump off a bridge if all your neibours do so? What's wrong with idealising a better system in which to live? This is no bubble to me. I use free software every day and it is very real to me.
Voila! As simple as that. Then the Slashdot community can march on Washington DC!!