... Amazon S3 mounted on FUSE. USD $0.17 per gigabyte to store offsite, and with FUSE I can browse it like it's local. I am very happy, and saving money too.
Yeah, it sounds like the article is confusing free, online, other-party-hosted applications with non-free, online, self-hosted applications. Both have existed for a long time.
Since Microsoft's main bread and butter is MS Office, why would they offer a "free" version- offline or online, other than trialware, crippleware, or sampleware?
I will tell you why they won't. I was looking forward to the online suite as a foolproof way of viewing MS Office documents on my home computer (Kubuntu). No, Open Office does not render the documents that people send me in an acceptable fashion (though OOo 3.x is much better than 2.x).
But in any case, I still insist that people sent PDF documents instead of Word, and just recently I had to debate whether to request that someone send to me a PDF who sent me an ODT document. I let it slide, instead I thanked him for using ODT and I wonder what the MSO users did with the file!
Maybe some flower-snorting soldier-hating just-give-peace-a-chance idiot with no sense of reality has mod points today. Don't worry about it, you have more important things to worry about than some unrealistic idiot with a dream of "whirled peas" and a grudge against those who protect him.
Except that it's not your property. Amazon _rents_ the kindle and _licenses_ the content. They call it "buying" as a marketing gimmick, but the terms of service are clear that it is a rental and a license. The frustration should be levied at the regulators who should stop them from using terms like "buying" or "purchasing".
Why? Fridgerators work fine, too. Refrigerators are great for frigerating once-friged food, but for the fresh stuff, you really need a full-capacity fridgerator.
Start guarding the park. anyone found inside for any reason without evidence of poaching will be killed on sight. People found poaching will be horribly public tortured for a month and then executed. Put severed heads on stakes around the borders of the park. Anyone found with tiger parts in the country will be immediately executed. Quite simply, they need to make entering the park seem like a automatic death sentence. Until they show a will to go farther than the poachers, they will lose and tigers will die.
I believe that South Africa does this. I had the pleasure of living with a South African who's day job in SA was hunting. He was a poacher hunter. Not a government employee, but paid by the government (something like a contractor). I was sceptical at first, but his stories were convincing.
Have you written to the Creative Suite authors and requested a Linux port? If we don't show interest in a Linux version, of course they will never provide it.
Portable, yes. Power efficient, no. While an Atom does use less power than a C2D, the C2D gives you more performance per watt.
Not only that, but the chipset uses 19 watts alone. Great, now you've got a 19 watt chipset behind an 4 watt (or 8 watt, I don't know if the Z520 is dual core or not) processor.
I am on KDE 4.3 RC2, so things may have been fixed from whatever KDE you were using. Which version have you? Can you test with KDE 4.3?
> Konqueror: (1) Ctrl-C doesn't copy the selected text; I have to use the context menu. > This only seems to affect pages in frames.
I cannot reproduce, and you point to a specific site?
> (2) Websites seem to use the KDE-wide "View Background" colour as the default background: > this can lead to black text on a dark/black background. Decoupling the default website > background colour and the View Background colour would help.
Again I cannot reproduce. What site, and what is your background colour setting?
> Application launcher (classic, not Kickoff), "Computer" submenu: (1) displays storage media > along with Places under "Places", not under "Removable Storage" (which displays the Places > instead). (2) Both types of misplaced entry are dead to mouse clicks.
Is this an English installation, or translated? I do not have that issue in neither my English nor Hebrew interfaces.
> Kate: (1) I don't think the "Open Recent" list is working properly. (2) Sometimes cursor > colour = background colour, especially (exclusively?) after (highlighted?) braces and after > search or replace operations (which may also highlight text... hm).
I don't have this issue, either! And I use Kate a lot.
> KRunner/Quicksand: In the "Task oriented" interface mode, results are displayed in black no > matter the background colour.
Which theme? I cannot reproduce this, either!
> Windows List widget: Right-clicking an entry and picking "Move" or "Resize" just teleports the > pointer over to the respective window without going into move/resize mode. It works fine via the taskbar.
I cannot find that widget, though I have seen it in the past. Again, I am useless!
> PowerDevil: DPMS settings don't seem to take effect. Can use separate Display control, > though. (Haven't tested this on 4.3 RC2 yet.)
I don't use those features, so I don't know. Sorry.
> Kwin cube: With "hovering windows" activated, panels sometimes poke through or overlap windows > on rotate.
I don't use those effects.
> kded4: Sometimes this process jumps to about 50% CPU and stays there until I kill it. (May have > been fixed with the recent upgrade to 4.3 RC2, bit early to tell.)
This sounds serious, please file a bug!
> KNode: It seems the article composer has its own hardwired colour scheme, at least for quoted > text? That green isn't easy to read on a dark background. I can't figure out where (or how) to > change it.
I don't use Knode, sorry.
> Kwin cube/pager widget: Unbug. On switching desktops (but not on manual rotate), the cube > seems to try to adapt its layout to the pager's own 2D world. With a multi-row pager this can > lead to cube folding in on itself (though you're perfectly safe if you don't think about it).
> Switching desktops: This is not a bug, either, but isn't there a way to turn off the huge > you've-just-switched-desktops "OSD" that pops up every time? It tends to blot out part of > the app I want to see instead.
Ask on the KDe list, I use a single desktop (Windows refugee).
> Panels: This is not necessarily a bug, but panels don't always seem to shrink or expand with > the contents (say, a growing task bar).
I have noticed this, too, even in KDE 4.3 RC2. I think it is a bug, I will file.
> Desktop: This is not a bug, but I really wish I could pop up a launcher menu with a middle click > AND a window list with a right click AND use the wheel to switch desktops. All at the same time, > too. As it is I can either have just the window list or just the desktop switching (although the > paste-into-sticky-note thing is spiffy, too, I'll admit that).
You'll have to file that feature request yourself, it
I have disable idiotic plamsaoid and returned to the NORMAL desktop interface.
As much as I hated the new desktop at first, I really like it now. But to each his own, and since you can configure it how you like it, we will concentrate on the other matters.
I have disabled the $!^$!%!^% dolphin and Konqi is now the file manager.... How the ^&%#^&@!%$!@^& I am supposed to see the other drives etc. in my system!????!!!!?
I really don't know! Have you tried asking on the KDE mailing list? Below...
Please don't tell me its under places! ITS IS NOT &*!^#&*@!^#&*!^ THERE!
The ONLY WAY to get Konqi to show these is to access them at least once via that !^&!$%!^&% dolphin and then they show via mount.
I should be able to: media:/ in Konqi and see my drives!
You do realize that this was the plan since the beginning: 13 years of construction and five of operation. Since it's construction began in 1998, the bodies in charge have had the goal of completing the station in 2011 and decommissioning it in 2016. This is nothing new to NASA or anyone else involved.
Of course, you're discounting the fact that they've been able to do experiments and science up there in it for over a decade already. It's not as if those last four years will be more valuable than all of the previous years combined. I'd imagine that a significantly greater quantity of research of greater importance would have been carried out in those first thirteen years, as compared to the last four years, given the newness of the station and the length of time it was in use.
Wrong, almost no manned science has been happening on the ISS so far, only automated experiments (and no manufacturing). This is because the ship needs a three-person crew to run it. Only now, with six astronauts, is there crew available for science.
...roads no longer lead to real places but around and through them.
Living in the Middle East, I am used to the large highways that connect our cities taking us through the city. For historical reasons, that is how the roads were made. However, travelling in the US I was astonished to see that the large roads between cities pass _by_ the cites, not through them, or at least not in the sense that one must slow down to city speed as he goes through. Here, the roads connect our cities, but in North America the roads that were built in an era where one does not need to stop at each possible detour along the way actually go right past the cities.
In short, one does not need to be intimate with the whole path from A to B nowadays, and the technology (both GPS and even the roads themselves) reflect that. I suppose that the beginning of the trend would have been the construction of interstate highways that let the driver bypass the cities that he is not interested in, or the invention of the automobile which reduced the need to stop frequently.
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... Amazon S3 mounted on FUSE. USD $0.17 per gigabyte to store offsite, and with FUSE I can browse it like it's local. I am very happy, and saving money too.
Yeah, it sounds like the article is confusing free, online, other-party-hosted applications with non-free, online, self-hosted applications. Both have existed for a long time.
Since Microsoft's main bread and butter is MS Office, why would they offer a "free" version- offline or online, other than trialware, crippleware, or sampleware?
I will tell you why they won't. I was looking forward to the online suite as a foolproof way of viewing MS Office documents on my home computer (Kubuntu). No, Open Office does not render the documents that people send me in an acceptable fashion (though OOo 3.x is much better than 2.x).
But in any case, I still insist that people sent PDF documents instead of Word, and just recently I had to debate whether to request that someone send to me a PDF who sent me an ODT document. I let it slide, instead I thanked him for using ODT and I wonder what the MSO users did with the file!
Maybe some flower-snorting soldier-hating just-give-peace-a-chance idiot with no sense of reality has mod points today. Don't worry about it, you have more important things to worry about than some unrealistic idiot with a dream of "whirled peas" and a grudge against those who protect him.
As in, "the Chef is concerned, but the Chicken is committed." :-)
Wally: If I promise to work like a dead pig, can I go home early?
Except that it's not your property. Amazon _rents_ the kindle and _licenses_ the content. They call it "buying" as a marketing gimmick, but the terms of service are clear that it is a rental and a license. The frustration should be levied at the regulators who should stop them from using terms like "buying" or "purchasing".
Try looking from the side next time.
umm. i meant refrigerators ..
Why? Fridgerators work fine, too. Refrigerators are great for frigerating once-friged food, but for the fresh stuff, you really need a full-capacity fridgerator.
There is a multimillion dollar demand in Asian countries for, among other pieces of the tigers, the male tiger penis.
As opposed to the female tiger penis? You have a redundant word in there, which is not needed.
Start guarding the park. anyone found inside for any reason without evidence of poaching will be killed on sight. People found poaching will be horribly public tortured for a month and then executed. Put severed heads on stakes around the borders of the park. Anyone found with tiger parts in the country will be immediately executed. Quite simply, they need to make entering the park seem like a automatic death sentence. Until they show a will to go farther than the poachers, they will lose and tigers will die.
I believe that South Africa does this. I had the pleasure of living with a South African who's day job in SA was hunting. He was a poacher hunter. Not a government employee, but paid by the government (something like a contractor). I was sceptical at first, but his stories were convincing.
Have you written to the Creative Suite authors and requested a Linux port? If we don't show interest in a Linux version, of course they will never provide it.
Portable, yes. Power efficient, no. While an Atom does use less power than a C2D, the C2D gives you more performance per watt.
Not only that, but the chipset uses 19 watts alone. Great, now you've got a 19 watt chipset behind an 4 watt (or 8 watt, I don't know if the Z520 is dual core or not) processor.
I am on KDE 4.3 RC2, so things may have been fixed from whatever KDE you were using. Which version have you? Can you test with KDE 4.3?
> Konqueror: (1) Ctrl-C doesn't copy the selected text; I have to use the context menu.
> This only seems to affect pages in frames.
I cannot reproduce, and you point to a specific site?
> (2) Websites seem to use the KDE-wide "View Background" colour as the default background:
> this can lead to black text on a dark/black background. Decoupling the default website
> background colour and the View Background colour would help.
Again I cannot reproduce. What site, and what is your background colour setting?
> Application launcher (classic, not Kickoff), "Computer" submenu: (1) displays storage media
> along with Places under "Places", not under "Removable Storage" (which displays the Places
> instead). (2) Both types of misplaced entry are dead to mouse clicks.
Is this an English installation, or translated? I do not have that issue in neither my English nor Hebrew interfaces.
> Kate: (1) I don't think the "Open Recent" list is working properly. (2) Sometimes cursor
> colour = background colour, especially (exclusively?) after (highlighted?) braces and after
> search or replace operations (which may also highlight text... hm).
I don't have this issue, either! And I use Kate a lot.
> KRunner/Quicksand: In the "Task oriented" interface mode, results are displayed in black no
> matter the background colour.
Which theme? I cannot reproduce this, either!
> Windows List widget: Right-clicking an entry and picking "Move" or "Resize" just teleports the
> pointer over to the respective window without going into move/resize mode. It works fine via the taskbar.
I cannot find that widget, though I have seen it in the past. Again, I am useless!
> PowerDevil: DPMS settings don't seem to take effect. Can use separate Display control,
> though. (Haven't tested this on 4.3 RC2 yet.)
I don't use those features, so I don't know. Sorry.
> Kwin cube: With "hovering windows" activated, panels sometimes poke through or overlap windows
> on rotate.
I don't use those effects.
> kded4: Sometimes this process jumps to about 50% CPU and stays there until I kill it. (May have
> been fixed with the recent upgrade to 4.3 RC2, bit early to tell.)
This sounds serious, please file a bug!
> KNode: It seems the article composer has its own hardwired colour scheme, at least for quoted
> text? That green isn't easy to read on a dark background. I can't figure out where (or how) to
> change it.
I don't use Knode, sorry.
> Kwin cube/pager widget: Unbug. On switching desktops (but not on manual rotate), the cube
> seems to try to adapt its layout to the pager's own 2D world. With a multi-row pager this can
> lead to cube folding in on itself (though you're perfectly safe if you don't think about it).
> Switching desktops: This is not a bug, either, but isn't there a way to turn off the huge
> you've-just-switched-desktops "OSD" that pops up every time? It tends to blot out part of
> the app I want to see instead.
Ask on the KDe list, I use a single desktop (Windows refugee).
> Panels: This is not necessarily a bug, but panels don't always seem to shrink or expand with
> the contents (say, a growing task bar).
I have noticed this, too, even in KDE 4.3 RC2. I think it is a bug, I will file.
> Desktop: This is not a bug, but I really wish I could pop up a launcher menu with a middle click
> AND a window list with a right click AND use the wheel to switch desktops. All at the same time,
> too. As it is I can either have just the window list or just the desktop switching (although the
> paste-into-sticky-note thing is spiffy, too, I'll admit that).
You'll have to file that feature request yourself, it
OK..... heres my first problem.
I have disable idiotic plamsaoid and returned to the NORMAL desktop interface.
As much as I hated the new desktop at first, I really like it now. But to each his own, and since you can configure it how you like it, we will concentrate on the other matters.
I have disabled the $!^$!%!^% dolphin and Konqi is now the file manager.... How the ^&%#^&@!%$!@^& I am supposed to see the other drives etc. in my system!????!!!!?
I really don't know! Have you tried asking on the KDE mailing list? Below...
Please don't tell me its under places! ITS IS NOT &*!^#&*@!^#&*!^ THERE!
The ONLY WAY to get Konqi to show these is to access them at least once via that !^&!$%!^&% dolphin and then they show via mount.
I should be able to: media:/ in Konqi and see my drives!
Please comment (calmly, not cursing like on /.) here:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200221
So how do you do this ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Remember dolphin is out I hate it! Konqi is my browser and file manager, period.
That is fine, Konqueror is still considered an official KDE file manager. Thank you for pointing out this issue, it will be taken care of.
KDE 4.0, Amarok 2.0, and now Koffice 2.0 were all developer releases. KDEHater had a great writeup here:
http://kdehater.blogspot.com/2009/06/koffice-two-point-oh-no.html
This report is an unreadable mess; the poor phraseology and numerous mistakes draw attention from whatever point the little moron is trying to make.
That's "little Moron-Stanley" to you!
You do realize that this was the plan since the beginning: 13 years of construction and five of operation. Since it's construction began in 1998, the bodies in charge have had the goal of completing the station in 2011 and decommissioning it in 2016. This is nothing new to NASA or anyone else involved.
Of course, you're discounting the fact that they've been able to do experiments and science up there in it for over a decade already. It's not as if those last four years will be more valuable than all of the previous years combined. I'd imagine that a significantly greater quantity of research of greater importance would have been carried out in those first thirteen years, as compared to the last four years, given the newness of the station and the length of time it was in use.
Wrong, almost no manned science has been happening on the ISS so far, only automated experiments (and no manufacturing). This is because the ship needs a three-person crew to run it. Only now, with six astronauts, is there crew available for science.
NASA is terrible with arbitrary deadlines.
I agree, but for a different reason. This is a way to get the public involved (read: outraged) and secure funding. I hope it works.
What, specifically, is missing in KDE 4 for you? I'll help you file the bugs, but you need to tell me what is missing.
Only on /. could this comment get modded up to 5, Insightful.
Presumably because other websites don't have the Insightful / Informative / Funny separation, nor do they stop at 5?
Thanks. That flip at the apex looked enough to do me in!
From the NASA site, here is the video of the launch:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/on_demand_video.html?param=http://anon.nasa-global.edgesuite.net/qt.nasa-global/ccvideos/larc/mlas-launch.mov&_id=undefined&_title=undefined&_tnimage=test.gif#
However, I cannot get it to play on my Kubuntu system.
Funny, I got "Outlook not so good". I figured it was just another disgrunted IT worker forced into using a crappy MS Exchange client.
You know what I like about her? See sleeps above the covers... Three feet above the covers.
...roads no longer lead to real places but around and through them.
Living in the Middle East, I am used to the large highways that connect our cities taking us through the city. For historical reasons, that is how the roads were made. However, travelling in the US I was astonished to see that the large roads between cities pass _by_ the cites, not through them, or at least not in the sense that one must slow down to city speed as he goes through. Here, the roads connect our cities, but in North America the roads that were built in an era where one does not need to stop at each possible detour along the way actually go right past the cities.
In short, one does not need to be intimate with the whole path from A to B nowadays, and the technology (both GPS and even the roads themselves) reflect that. I suppose that the beginning of the trend would have been the construction of interstate highways that let the driver bypass the cities that he is not interested in, or the invention of the automobile which reduced the need to stop frequently.