I agree that clueless or wilfully ignorant users will damage systems. I'm not talking about them when I say that UAC is a step up. I'm talking about technically ept (or "Power Users") when I'm talking about UAC. We get the relative safety of an unprivileged user account, and the convenience of an automatically spawned "Run As..." prompt when we try to do something that requires elevated privs. (Bear in mind that I've used Vista for a total of thirty minutes. My knowledge of what UAC does may be inaccurate. Please correct my misconceptions.)
Frankly, there's nothing that we can do -short of making a stripped and locked down email and internet browsing machine- to protect computer systems from the "average user". (I have a "computing is too damn hard, they just want a fucking appliance" rant that I'm sure you don't care to hear.):)
"Oh, you implemented this feature and provided a patch? No, we're not including it, they are too many checkboxes. BUG CLOSED: FUNCTIONALITY IS TOO CONFUSING."
Open source isn't a toddler any more. It has grown up, and people now depend on it.
Wonderful. Until you start paying someone to manage an OSS project, you can't expect someone to do things your way.:)
Moreover, it's up to the distros to decide whether or not they package KDE 4, or xfce or whatever. The KDE devs should (and are) free to do whatever the hell they (or their corporate overlords) please. I think that your rant would be better directed at the distro maintainers who're calling KDE 4.0/4.1 stable software, rather than the KDE team.
WRT KDE 3.5.x: bug fix releases will still be made. It's not like KDE 3 is going to go away any time soon. And, if KDE 4 never grows be more than the steaming pile that some folks claim it will always be, then one can start again with the KDE 3 codebase.
I might wanna mention that you can easily change your desktop back to the classic "show the contents of ~/Desktop" style. (Not that I know how to do it offhand.;)
Yeah. It seems that 4.0->4.2 are KDE's beta releases. 4.3 might be another one.:/
I'm *really* *really* hoping that the KDE win32 folks will get in sync with the KDE Linux guys. It would *really* rock to have all of the KDE4 apps on Windows, and maybe have a CIFS-mounted ~/.kde directory.:D
Do you have any more bones to pick with the KDE4 project management?
Aye. I didn't mention it 'cause HTML5 isn't yet supported in a stable release of any browser that I know of.
Also, go check the latest W3C doc about the video and audio tags. They have a bit of a mismatch WRT their "hypothetical users" and application support.
Yeah. I've a system with the same CPU. Hulu's fullscreen videos are horribly slow. The same video "regular size" is okay most of the time.
This video is impossible to watch in HD on the Athlon XP system: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pXfHLUlZf4 Though it's just fine on my laptop. (Core Duo L2400 @ 1.66GHz) Straaange.
Pfffttt... who'd ever want to use a image editor where all the dialog boxes were kept in one window? Sorry, if the program doesn't take up half my taskbar, it isn't worth using.
You can tweak a setting in Gimp to hide those windows from most taskbars.
But yeah. MDI REALLY, REALLY sucks for a multi-monitor (and occasionally multi-desktop) setup. I wish that more folks would drink the "eight-skrillion floating windows" kool-aid.:)
Since we deliver the codec pack, that doesn't need to wait for a Moonlight implementation...
Understood. However, when Silverlight is at rev 3, how long will it take Moonlight to catch up? Also, how likely is it that many Silverlight MPEG4 players will be using rev 3 features, rendering them incompatible with Moonlight for a (long?) while?
A patent unencumbered open standard for online video and audio stuff would be huge.
The xiph.org codecs (Theora, Ogg, Speex) fit this bill.:D
Also, I doubt that MPEG2/4 is any more patent encumbered than the codecs packaged with the Silverlight player. My point is that we *already* have myriad out-of-browser methods for streaming video. We *already* have methods to embed those apps in the browser chrome. Why do we need to use Silverlight to deliver video?
Fallout 3 is pretty crashy here, too. Not quite as crashy as the OP (and the patch helped a *little*) but still more crashy than any game I've played in recent memory.
[It's more crashy than Dystopia 1.0, FFS.]
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I agree that clueless or wilfully ignorant users will damage systems. I'm not talking about them when I say that UAC is a step up. I'm talking about technically ept (or "Power Users") when I'm talking about UAC. We get the relative safety of an unprivileged user account, and the convenience of an automatically spawned "Run As..." prompt when we try to do something that requires elevated privs. (Bear in mind that I've used Vista for a total of thirty minutes. My knowledge of what UAC does may be inaccurate. Please correct my misconceptions.)
Frankly, there's nothing that we can do -short of making a stripped and locked down email and internet browsing machine- to protect computer systems from the "average user". (I have a "computing is too damn hard, they just want a fucking appliance" rant that I'm sure you don't care to hear.) :)
"Oh, you implemented this feature and provided a patch? No, we're not including it, they are too many checkboxes. BUG CLOSED: FUNCTIONALITY IS TOO CONFUSING."
Gnome : UI Design :: MSFT : network communications protocols
*is still sore about RFC 3879*
There are still some bugs here and there, but mostly minor things that don't really get in the way for me.
What are the non-minor bugs that you've run into?
I don't think that any of the kernel.org folks recommended that average users use 2.5 just for its new features. ;)
Also, KDE 4.0 had DON'T USE, FOR DEVELOPER ONLY stamped allover its official press release, any distros that marked it as stable were run by morons. :D
And, IDK about kwrite. I've never really used it. Feel like filing a bug? ;)
Hey, mods!
This guy is clued in to the current state of KDE4. You might wanna mod him up.
Open source isn't a toddler any more. It has grown up, and people now depend on it.
Wonderful. Until you start paying someone to manage an OSS project, you can't expect someone to do things your way. :)
Moreover, it's up to the distros to decide whether or not they package KDE 4, or xfce or whatever. The KDE devs should (and are) free to do whatever the hell they (or their corporate overlords) please. I think that your rant would be better directed at the distro maintainers who're calling KDE 4.0/4.1 stable software, rather than the KDE team.
WRT KDE 3.5.x: bug fix releases will still be made. It's not like KDE 3 is going to go away any time soon. And, if KDE 4 never grows be more than the steaming pile that some folks claim it will always be, then one can start again with the KDE 3 codebase.
I might wanna mention that you can easily change your desktop back to the classic "show the contents of ~/Desktop" style. (Not that I know how to do it offhand. ;)
I just mentioned it because it was representative of the kind of philosophy and design decisions that go into GNOME.
What, like this sort of design?
http://jwz.livejournal.com/840992.html?thread=16291104#t16291104
In RE kpilot:
http://movingparts.net/2009/01/19/kde-42-kpilot-coming-how-to-both-be-excited-and-have-realistic-expectations/
KDE4 has many issues right now. They're slowly being fixed. It might be best to think of the current releases as the 2.5 kernel series. :)
Yeah. It seems that 4.0->4.2 are KDE's beta releases. 4.3 might be another one. :/
I'm *really* *really* hoping that the KDE win32 folks will get in sync with the KDE Linux guys. It would *really* rock to have all of the KDE4 apps on Windows, and maybe have a CIFS-mounted ~/.kde directory. :D
Do you have any more bones to pick with the KDE4 project management?
Pretty much all Vista Basic gives you is the annoyance of UAC without any of the pretty.
Folks like you and I know that UAC is a step up from XP in full-on Administrator mode. :)
I'm personally shocked that they aren't selling Vista Basic for less than $50 just to move some product.
Me too.
*has been using Reiser since 2002 and has yet to lose a byte*
(Having said that, I'mma switch my XFS and Reiser partitions to EXT4, just as soon as .28 is marked as stable in the Portage tree.)
BTW: Anecdotal evidence sucks. :(
Or just HTML5 video tag.
Aye. I didn't mention it 'cause HTML5 isn't yet supported in a stable release of any browser that I know of.
Also, go check the latest W3C doc about the video and audio tags. They have a bit of a mismatch WRT their "hypothetical users" and application support.
I'm not talking about SSL. I'm talking about authenticating yourself with GPG or something similar.
And yeah. gmail should use NOTHING BUT SSL :D
Embed the video directly with that object tag
THIS! (For everything but cellphones, I guess.)
Yeah.
I've a system with the same CPU. Hulu's fullscreen videos are horribly slow. The same video "regular size" is okay most of the time.
This video is impossible to watch in HD on the Athlon XP system:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pXfHLUlZf4
Though it's just fine on my laptop. (Core Duo L2400 @ 1.66GHz) Straaange.
because if my Gmail account password is hacked or stolen, I'm screwed.
This sounds like a job for...
DUNNH DUNNH DUNNNN
Public key cryptography!
Sure, you can create such a security policy in Windows, but it is not done by default.
Really? A per-application policy? That's cool! How do you do it?
Pfffttt... who'd ever want to use a image editor where all the dialog boxes were kept in one window? Sorry, if the program doesn't take up half my taskbar, it isn't worth using.
You can tweak a setting in Gimp to hide those windows from most taskbars.
But yeah. MDI REALLY, REALLY sucks for a multi-monitor (and occasionally multi-desktop) setup. I wish that more folks would drink the "eight-skrillion floating windows" kool-aid. :)
Since we deliver the codec pack, that doesn't need to wait for a Moonlight implementation...
Understood.
However, when Silverlight is at rev 3, how long will it take Moonlight to catch up? Also, how likely is it that many Silverlight MPEG4 players will be using rev 3 features, rendering them incompatible with Moonlight for a (long?) while?
A patent unencumbered open standard for online video and audio stuff would be huge.
The xiph.org codecs (Theora, Ogg, Speex) fit this bill. :D
Also, I doubt that MPEG2/4 is any more patent encumbered than the codecs packaged with the Silverlight player. My point is that we *already* have myriad out-of-browser methods for streaming video. We *already* have methods to embed those apps in the browser chrome. Why do we need to use Silverlight to deliver video?
Did you mean that sarcastically? Pidgin doesn't even doesn't even support proper metacontacts last time I checked.
"aliasing" multiple contacts to the same name collapses them into a single group. Is this the same as metacontacts?
Every time I've been stuck using Pidgin, it becomes a game of finding out what they've removed "to make it easier".
Yeah. I kinda hate that. ;)
OTOH, I've just stopped using "advanced" features, so maybe I'm a victim of Stockholm Syndrome?
What's wrong with the Layer palette? What am I missing?
*looks at krita*
I'm not sure that I like it, but I'll give it a try over the next couple of weeks.
Fallout 3 is pretty crashy here, too.
Not quite as crashy as the OP (and the patch helped a *little*) but still more crashy than any game I've played in recent memory.
[It's more crashy than Dystopia 1.0, FFS.]
R420 AGP
Athlon XP @ 2.1Ghz
2 GB of DDR400 RAM
SB Audigy PCI
~4GB of swap space.