As far as I can tell Sony e-readers do not even support 2 columns in pdf. Am I wrong about this?
Also I wasn't clear regarding search. I meant "search my collection of papers in the device". By title, author, year or any other kind of metadata including my own tags. The point is to conveniently store hundreds of material so of course search is of uttermost importance.
I agree that display is what keeps both apart at the moment, but even with a slow e-ink display, e-readers could do so much more. Personally I want to read scientific papers. So the basic features I'd be looking for are excellent pdf support, and very good search, tagging and annotation capabilities. Give me this and I will buy one. Nice extras would be a very simple, text based access, to some online scientific paper databases. We're not even close though.
Unfortunately don't think it's ever going to happen on the e-readers side, so my hopes lay on the tablet front.
There is no way apple is coming up something very close to the Touchstream LP.
First the device is not particularly trivial to use, there is a learning curve - typing on a flat keyboard, resting hands, changes in key positions (like "return"), tons of gestures, using two trackpads (one for mouse one for text cursor). It's very costumizable, and you can easily define your own gestures. It came with special modes for specific environments, including Emacs and KDE. It came with open source software (for windows) and an open API.
Regarding driver hunts, I'm not so sure you need any. At least it was always plug and play for me, in both windows and linux. Regarding the price. Probably. I have thought about selling mine, but wouldn't do it for less than several hundred euros.
I actually learned karate, but it weren't my fighting skills that ended the bullying. It the way karate practice changed my attitude. I didn't care if someone kicked me or smacked me anymore, my training sessions were way tougher than that. I didn't look bad in physical education either, in fact I came to be really good. Plus socializing with my new friends from the karate club did wonders for my social skills. Bullying just faded away with that.
I've thought of something similar. Come up with a paid membership site that people can use to be matched up specifically to the guys who are flagged on chat roulette.
True, that said it could have an amazing future in academia if they just come up with something good enough. I have hundreds of papers lying around, keep reprinting stuff I can't find, have plenty of notes on some and taking them with me when traveling is a pain. Honestly I am dying to have a nice device where I can easily read my scientific papers, tag them with keywords and bibliographic info for easy searches, add notes and what not.
Exactly! And then when you change your address on your web page, or add pictures, or some funny text or a video or something, all you have to do is to send these emails to all those people to notify them. Unless they don't want to, but just ask them and keep track of your friends preferences. And to avoid forgetting anyone keep them on an address book. And maybe add things like that guestbook but for commenting on pictures. And if you do parties and want to invite people you know just go to your address book, pick who you want, send emails, get reply and maybe take note of the friends that are going and post it on your webpage so your other friends can see which other friends are going. It would also be cool if your web page could have a blog that others could comment on.
This sounds like a bit of trouble but you get the hang of it, besides this WWW is quite powerful so I'm sure there's a way of using it to automate some pieces of this puzzle... and also put them together for people to use so that not everyone has to reinvent the wheel.
What happened was not everybody *moving* from MySpace though. While MySpace had a big user base, that was during a time where most people still didn't use any sort of social networking services. So it was still possible for facebook to grow a lot without having to steal users.
Yes, because I do not have anything too confidential in it.
I use privacy controls, but even if they screw me over and do not follow my settings, while I wouldn't like it I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. So yes, I think they should be hammered over their actions, but they do provide the best social networking services out there, and I find it hard to imagine myself deleting my account or moving to another service any time soon.
I use dolphin on my 5 year old laptop. Works fine.
Important apps still don't share a consistent appearance; Firefox, Chrome, and OpenOffice in particular look good in GNOME but are full of distracting artifacting and other appearance problems in KDE.
openSUSE does a pretty good job with Firefox and OpenOffice.
The graphics still don't work right. A notification balloon is likely to take out half the taskbar, etc. They blame this on the radeon driver and I believe them(...)
Works fine more me. Using ATI.
The wireless connectivity manager seems incapable of working with my simple home WiFi installation without needing constant reconfiguration and tinkering, while in GNOME it "just works."
It just works for me in KDE.
Yes, some of these things could be fixed, but to trudge through each one of them would require rather a lot of time and effort that I just don't have to spare.
It just works for me in KDE.
KDE needs to cut out the innovation for a while and patch roof leaks.
They've been polishing KDE4 for some time now.
I wouldn't be surprised to hear that many other KDE users right up through KDE 3.x switched to GNOME with the KDE4 release.
If they preferred KDE 3.5 to GNOME up to there, why would they switch to GNOME just because KDE 4 came out?
That is ridiculous. Almost all (non text based) applications will use Gtk+, Qt or any other such library. Skype is distributed with both dynamic and static Qt linking, the difference between both being just 8Mb. And need to maintain and update? What distribution do you use? How is Qt is going to make a difference in terms of management of your system?
True, I did not phrase it very well. Of course Java is huge, but you for this purpose you can strip it down to a much smaller language that is not too complicated, although still not as simple as Pascal.
As another example, I'd probably take Scala over Pascal, and would argue you can easily work with a Pascal like restriction of Scala with very very clear syntax and semantics.
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How is it that this answer of yours contradicts the post you're replying to?
As far as I can tell Sony e-readers do not even support 2 columns in pdf. Am I wrong about this?
Also I wasn't clear regarding search. I meant "search my collection of papers in the device". By title, author, year or any other kind of metadata including my own tags. The point is to conveniently store hundreds of material so of course search is of uttermost importance.
I agree that display is what keeps both apart at the moment, but even with a slow e-ink display, e-readers could do so much more. Personally I want to read scientific papers. So the basic features I'd be looking for are excellent pdf support, and very good search, tagging and annotation capabilities. Give me this and I will buy one. Nice extras would be a very simple, text based access, to some online scientific paper databases. We're not even close though.
Unfortunately don't think it's ever going to happen on the e-readers side, so my hopes lay on the tablet front.
Maybe so, but his brother looking at it and saying "damn that's cool!" is certainly no proof of that.
I have never seen him react to anything from Linux in that way: "Damn that's cool... "
I strongly believe that it will be a game changer for Linux desktop UI.
I got that same reaction all the time when showing off the Desktop Cube a couple of years ago. So what...
They wish they had something even remotely close to KDE 4.0. All they have is a new desktop shell.
There is no way apple is coming up something very close to the Touchstream LP.
First the device is not particularly trivial to use, there is a learning curve - typing on a flat keyboard, resting hands, changes in key positions (like "return"), tons of gestures, using two trackpads (one for mouse one for text cursor). It's very costumizable, and you can easily define your own gestures. It came with special modes for specific environments, including Emacs and KDE. It came with open source software (for windows) and an open API.
Regarding driver hunts, I'm not so sure you need any. At least it was always plug and play for me, in both windows and linux.
Regarding the price. Probably. I have thought about selling mine, but wouldn't do it for less than several hundred euros.
Before someone says it, we all know the FAQ and how slashdot is US centric, but this is in the Science section damn it.
I actually learned karate, but it weren't my fighting skills that ended the bullying. It the way karate practice changed my attitude. I didn't care if someone kicked me or smacked me anymore, my training sessions were way tougher than that. I didn't look bad in physical education either, in fact I came to be really good. Plus socializing with my new friends from the karate club did wonders for my social skills. Bullying just faded away with that.
I've thought of something similar. Come up with a paid membership site that people can use to be matched up specifically to the guys who are flagged on chat roulette.
True, that said it could have an amazing future in academia if they just come up with something good enough. I have hundreds of papers lying around, keep reprinting stuff I can't find, have plenty of notes on some and taking them with me when traveling is a pain. Honestly I am dying to have a nice device where I can easily read my scientific papers, tag them with keywords and bibliographic info for easy searches, add notes and what not.
Exactly! And then when you change your address on your web page, or add pictures, or some funny text or a video or something, all you have to do is to send these emails to all those people to notify them. Unless they don't want to, but just ask them and keep track of your friends preferences. And to avoid forgetting anyone keep them on an address book. And maybe add things like that guestbook but for commenting on pictures. And if you do parties and want to invite people you know just go to your address book, pick who you want, send emails, get reply and maybe take note of the friends that are going and post it on your webpage so your other friends can see which other friends are going. It would also be cool if your web page could have a blog that others could comment on.
This sounds like a bit of trouble but you get the hang of it, besides this WWW is quite powerful so I'm sure there's a way of using it to automate some pieces of this puzzle... and also put them together for people to use so that not everyone has to reinvent the wheel.
What happened was not everybody *moving* from MySpace though. While MySpace had a big user base, that was during a time where most people still didn't use any sort of social networking services. So it was still possible for facebook to grow a lot without having to steal users.
Yes, because I do not have anything too confidential in it.
I use privacy controls, but even if they screw me over and do not follow my settings, while I wouldn't like it I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. So yes, I think they should be hammered over their actions, but they do provide the best social networking services out there, and I find it hard to imagine myself deleting my account or moving to another service any time soon.
Adblock keeps that flash away, so it is not a reason to use something else.
After reading your post I thought, yes maybe I should disable adblock for slashdot. So I did. And I got a flash ad. And I enabled adblock again.
Sure, didn't suggest otherwise. That was in reply to "I guess they just like you better". Either that or... see reply.
Either that or the problems you're experiencing are not KDE's fault.
Dolphin is still intolerably slow.
I use dolphin on my 5 year old laptop. Works fine.
Important apps still don't share a consistent appearance; Firefox, Chrome, and OpenOffice in particular look good in GNOME but are full of distracting artifacting and other appearance problems in KDE.
openSUSE does a pretty good job with Firefox and OpenOffice.
The graphics still don't work right. A notification balloon is likely to take out half the taskbar, etc.
They blame this on the radeon driver and I believe them(...)
Works fine more me. Using ATI.
The wireless connectivity manager seems incapable of working with my simple home WiFi installation without needing constant reconfiguration and tinkering, while in GNOME it "just works."
It just works for me in KDE.
Yes, some of these things could be fixed, but to trudge through each one of them would require rather a lot of time and effort that I just don't have to spare.
It just works for me in KDE.
KDE needs to cut out the innovation for a while and patch roof leaks.
They've been polishing KDE4 for some time now.
I wouldn't be surprised to hear that many other KDE users right up through KDE 3.x switched to GNOME with the KDE4 release.
If they preferred KDE 3.5 to GNOME up to there, why would they switch to GNOME just because KDE 4 came out?
I regularly use gnome apps on my XFCE system without having the gnome libs installed. That's unheard of for KDE.
If they don't use gnome libs why should they count as gnome apps?
My reply was to your comment about Qt. You're talking about some 60 to 80 packages.
That is ridiculous. Almost all (non text based) applications will use Gtk+, Qt or any other such library. Skype is distributed with both dynamic and static Qt linking, the difference between both being just 8Mb. And need to maintain and update? What distribution do you use? How is Qt is going to make a difference in terms of management of your system?
He didn't complain about a ton of them though. He just mentioned KDE.
Amarok won't install without KDE
What do you mean by that? It needs kde libs, what's the big deal? It's not like you need to install the desktop environment.
True, I did not phrase it very well. Of course Java is huge, but you for this purpose you can strip it down to a much smaller language that is not too complicated, although still not as simple as Pascal.
As another example, I'd probably take Scala over Pascal, and would argue you can easily work with a Pascal like restriction of Scala with very very clear syntax and semantics.