From what I understand, everyone needs to wait till the analog transmitters are powered down, and the DTV transmitters are at full power and -in some cases- their proper frequencies.
For mousers, the up button is pretty nice. Having a single mousing target for the "go up a level" task is far better than having the moving target that is the end of the breadcrumb list. (The backspace keyboard shortcut is even better at this task.)
Posting AC due to mod points -- just wanted to let you know that gadgets are OPTIONAL just as they are in Vista.
On a related note, all that fancy-pants Plasma stuff that many folks don't like in KDE 4.x? You can easily disable it and get back to an old-school desktop. Right click on yer desktop, click on the entry that says something to the effect of "configure the desktop", then select the other option in the topmost pulldown menu (combo box? whatevz) in the screen that pops up.
I'd love to see the capability of Windows 7's taskbar added (as an option of course) to the taskbars in Gnome, KDE, etc.
I think that KDE 4.x does this already. If it doesn't, it's certainly capable of doing so.
but it also introduces some really nice usability changes. The Win-arrow key shortcuts, for example, are great (win-up to maximize, win-down to minimize, win-left to dock to left half of screen, win-right to dock to right half of screen).
*boggles* These have been *configurable* shortcuts in KDE for a coon's age.
1) Big name contractors are very close-hold with their code for business reasons
This boggles my mind. Isn't most everything developed under government contract property of the government? This is to say, "Doesn't the government own pretty much all of the source code that its contractors produce for it?"
Here's the problem, boss. The PP lives in a video-game-playing world. You and I live in a desktop-effects and xrender-acceleration world. Our world gets the short end of the stick 'cause it's not very sexy.
[XP] really isn't a very good modern OS. It's very, very insecure.
Cite? It's pretty much the same as Server 2K3. (Which I've been using for years as my gaming OS. I've run into no security issues.) Having said that, I prefer KDE4.2 (or greater) [1] to WinXP most any day.
[1] Yes, "or greater" currently means the SVN development versions.
But, think for a minute... How fast are the particles in the LHC gonna be going? I've a fiver that says that they'll be going just as fast as those cosmic rays.
The gold-standard for imaging is historically CRT technology which shares similar glossy properties.
All but one of the CRTs that I own (I have about a dozen now) has a screen that's *significantly* less glossy than most (all?) of these glossy laptop screens. The rather reflective CRT is in storage, for when *all* of the other ones fail. (I don't want to see *ME* in the screen, I want to see the video behind my reflection!)
Wait... what's this? Instead of having an address bar they've moved to a bread crumb system?
The first time that I saw the breadcrumb address bar system was when I used the FLTK User Interface Designer (FLUID) v1.1.6, back in 2004. I bet that the FLTK guys stole that interface from someone else, too.;)
(It'd be really cool if we both thought that "theft" of good UI design enriches the world of computing.)
*grins* I know people who *have* quit and never looked back. I also know people who haven't quit, say... cheap-ass Red Baron pepperoni pizzas, or say... Pepsi Cola.
If we're gonna take an extremely literal reading of (A) [and only (A)], alcohol is covered. Tobacco cigarettes are covered. Caffeinated beverages are covered. Hell, Ibuprofen is covered. (That shit will fuck your liver up nine ways to Sunday, and who doesn't like living w/out pain?)
No. Not true. When you take Marijuana over and over repeatedly, every day, for an extended period of time, you end up needing more and more to get the high you had "the first time."
Aye. You speak truth. I've known a long-time smoker. OTOH, when they were forced to quit for a period of time, their tolerance diminished.
You don't have to drink 12 sodas to get the pleasure of 1 soda if you've been binging,
Are we talking about caffeinated sodas? Those motherfuckers are *addictive*. You *will* develop a tolerance and you *will* eventually *REQUIRE* a soda (or coffee or tea) in the morning to fend off the withdrawal symptoms. Caffeine withdrawal is *NOT* fun. Not at all. Moreover, caffeine is generally harder to get off of than nicotine or booze!:D
*requests a show of hands for those who have the following* 1) An alcohol vending machine (or bar) in their workplace. 2) A tobacco vending machine (or similar) in their workplace. 3) A soda vending machine in their workplace. 4) A "bottomless" coffee pot (with or without nearby teabags) in their workplace.
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From what I understand, everyone needs to wait till the analog transmitters are powered down, and the DTV transmitters are at full power and -in some cases- their proper frequencies.
15GB is fucking crazy. OTOH, 15GB costs -what- $1.50 USD?
The argument, it cuts both ways!
Wait... A Vista (or Win 7) install is 25GB?
Whoa. We're to R7 now? Did the xrandr stuff push the version up? :D
For mousers, the up button is pretty nice. Having a single mousing target for the "go up a level" task is far better than having the moving target that is the end of the breadcrumb list. (The backspace keyboard shortcut is even better at this task.)
Posting AC due to mod points -- just wanted to let you know that gadgets are OPTIONAL just as they are in Vista.
On a related note, all that fancy-pants Plasma stuff that many folks don't like in KDE 4.x? You can easily disable it and get back to an old-school desktop. Right click on yer desktop, click on the entry that says something to the effect of "configure the desktop", then select the other option in the topmost pulldown menu (combo box? whatevz) in the screen that pops up.
I'd love to see the capability of Windows 7's taskbar added (as an option of course) to the taskbars in Gnome, KDE, etc.
I think that KDE 4.x does this already. If it doesn't, it's certainly capable of doing so.
but it also introduces some really nice usability changes. The Win-arrow key shortcuts, for example, are great (win-up to maximize, win-down to minimize, win-left to dock to left half of screen, win-right to dock to right half of screen).
*boggles*
These have been *configurable* shortcuts in KDE for a coon's age.
1) Big name contractors are very close-hold with their code for business reasons
This boggles my mind. Isn't most everything developed under government contract property of the government? This is to say, "Doesn't the government own pretty much all of the source code that its contractors produce for it?"
*sigh*
You can pick up the DTV signal on the same antenna that you use for the current TV signal.
From what I can see, KDE 4.2 *is* the end-user launch of KDE4. Have you given it a shot? If not, you really should.
Here's the problem, boss.
The PP lives in a video-game-playing world. You and I live in a desktop-effects and xrender-acceleration world. Our world gets the short end of the stick 'cause it's not very sexy.
All of those complaints that you have are resolved with the version of OWA that my employer uses. They've been using it since at least 2005.
FYI: I use Firefox with OWA, so I get the "Light" client. IDK what the IE client looks like... it's probably even nicer.
+1 Made of Awsome!
We've seen what the USSR could accomplish as a go-it-alone economy...
Heh. I'm sure that the various TLA agencies in the US had absolutely *nothing* to do with the decline of the USSR. No sir. ;)
[XP] really isn't a very good modern OS. It's very, very insecure.
Cite? It's pretty much the same as Server 2K3. (Which I've been using for years as my gaming OS. I've run into no security issues.)
Having said that, I prefer KDE4.2 (or greater) [1] to WinXP most any day.
[1] Yes, "or greater" currently means the SVN development versions.
It sure sounds cool.
But, think for a minute... How fast are the particles in the LHC gonna be going? I've a fiver that says that they'll be going just as fast as those cosmic rays.
Part deux:
You say that glossy screens are a crutch for displays that can't reproduce color correctly. I'm not gonna argue with that.
I earnestly wish that we had our 32bpp, 1200dpi, 30" screens already. Aren't we supposed to be living in the future?!
The gold-standard for imaging is historically CRT technology which shares similar glossy properties.
All but one of the CRTs that I own (I have about a dozen now) has a screen that's *significantly* less glossy than most (all?) of these glossy laptop screens. The rather reflective CRT is in storage, for when *all* of the other ones fail. (I don't want to see *ME* in the screen, I want to see the video behind my reflection!)
"If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research."
"All the more reason to shut it down!", the dumb-ass redneck opponent would say.
Wait... what's this? Instead of having an address bar they've moved to a bread crumb system?
The first time that I saw the breadcrumb address bar system was when I used the FLTK User Interface Designer (FLUID) v1.1.6, back in 2004. I bet that the FLTK guys stole that interface from someone else, too. ;)
(It'd be really cool if we both thought that "theft" of good UI design enriches the world of computing.)
I think it really needs the KDE people to say "yes, we made a mistake and accept that".
Elsewhere in the discussion attached to this article a KDE dev says just that.
Bah @ the persistent long pause. Thanks for checking it out, though.
One of these weekends, I'll look under the hood to figure out WTF is going on down there. (That's what *she* said!)
*grins* I know people who *have* quit and never looked back.
I also know people who haven't quit, say... cheap-ass Red Baron pepperoni pizzas, or say... Pepsi Cola.
If we're gonna take an extremely literal reading of (A) [and only (A)], alcohol is covered. Tobacco cigarettes are covered. Caffeinated beverages are covered. Hell, Ibuprofen is covered. (That shit will fuck your liver up nine ways to Sunday, and who doesn't like living w/out pain?)
No. Not true. When you take Marijuana over and over repeatedly, every day, for an extended period of time, you end up needing more and more to get the high you had "the first time."
Aye. You speak truth. I've known a long-time smoker. OTOH, when they were forced to quit for a period of time, their tolerance diminished.
You don't have to drink 12 sodas to get the pleasure of 1 soda if you've been binging,
Are we talking about caffeinated sodas? Those motherfuckers are *addictive*. :D
You *will* develop a tolerance and you *will* eventually *REQUIRE* a soda (or coffee or tea) in the morning to fend off the withdrawal symptoms. Caffeine withdrawal is *NOT* fun. Not at all. Moreover, caffeine is generally harder to get off of than nicotine or booze!
*requests a show of hands for those who have the following*
1) An alcohol vending machine (or bar) in their workplace.
2) A tobacco vending machine (or similar) in their workplace.
3) A soda vending machine in their workplace.
4) A "bottomless" coffee pot (with or without nearby teabags) in their workplace.