I happen to work on graphene (since 2005). The surface area of graphene is about 2600 m^/g. And that's counting both sides. So one side would be about 1300m^2. that's 13m times 100m. Definitely less than a football field -- American Football or soccer.
I totally agree. I tried "rotated" for a while and performance and overall experience was bad. The colors looked slightly different and unbalanced. My guess is that viewing angles are optimized for using the monitor in "normal" (un-rotated) mode, and the average viewing angle may not be normal to the screen surface. So when you rotate the thing it all gets messed up. There are also more subtle issues: how to handle sub-pixel anti-aliasing (like in Windows ClearType) when one monitor is rotated and the other one is not?
That's why they say "temporary". They realize it's important, so they want to get it right and take their time (and possibly even involve some savvy people from the community). So what are you complaining about? OK, this is slashdot, so it's not cool to RTFA. However, not even reading the summary? That's taking it too far, dude (or duderette)...
My first reaction is: Thank God. I didn't have a very good feeling where things were going after the Oracle takeover and some of their later business decisions (OpenSolaris). Of course, it all depends on how the new foundation will steer things, and I don't know anyone who is part of this, so it's hard to make a judgment. So my hope is that they will at least not make things worse, and maybe this is a even chance to re-energize the project and take it to the next level.
Dear Document Foundation:
Please live up to it, and make OOo (or LO) kick some ass. We need you!
Why is everyone behaving so totally conservative? Like we already have invented the desktop in its "final" and "best" version and all that's left is cleaning up some driver bugs? Yes, I suffer from the bugs, too (every day), and I hate clippy as much as everyone here. However, there also needs to be some playing with new, innovative stuff. And the video linked to the article actually looks like quite a bit of fun. I especially like the effect where the relative window positions are slightly moving when the head is moved. It's a bit like a 3D effect where you can look behind the windows by turning your head. Looks pretty cool to me.
Everyone here seems to be about as open to new UI ideas as the Catholic Church to Galileo's ideas. (Yet we are still dreaming about "Minority Report" type interfaces?) Or is it just that the average age on./ is now above 60?
I thought my comment was stupid enough to make it obvious I was joking. Sure enough, this is./ so someone comes along and moderates this "insightful". Priceless.
Yep, that's right! I am still not buying Fords since their disaster model Pinto in the early 1970s. And it'll take them many more decades to regain my trust!
I am not stubborn or anything, but if KDE made a mistake once, they can never be trusted again! Ever! Especially in the software business, where hardly anybody takes any wrong decisions these days.
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OK, I didn't check this rigorously (Why should I? This is slashdot!), but it seems to me that every single one of the past five releases of KDE/Kubuntu and Ubuntu featured a significantly improved/totally reworked notification system. Each time I was expecting some breakthrough experience, and it just always looks like a more or less OK notification system. And this is one of the top 5 highlighted features? Was it so broken to begin with? Did it really get so much better? Am I missing something here?
I definitely appreciate very much the developers fixing bugs and making the system more stable and polished. Thanks! However, if some trivial things get sold in an exaggerating way, this may actually not help the image of KDE (GNOME, Linux, etc.). After all, one of the reasons I am using FOSS is because I am really tired of stupid bullshit advertising crap.
If you don't even know what WINE stands for and you're not aware of the subtleties of this kind of software, it doesn't look like you are qualified to publicly bad-mouth it.
I really think this is a great suggestion. However, keep in mind that there are no truly "untinted" polarized glasses, because every polarizer takes away 50% of light (when the light has random polarization like ambient light usually does).
This does not make sense: if you switch from base-2 to base-10, the number will actually get larger. So 1 kB will then read 1.024 kB and so on. This is why HD manufacturers are using this trick (make it look larger). So this "trick" would make your OS look like it's using more space. Thus it can't be the reason for the switch. Conspiracy, conspiracy! (Or maybe it's just because they finally want to get it right?)
... they burn billions on research money, yet a lot of their products are mocking someone else's creative inventions (MS-DOS, Windows, IE, Zune, Windows CE, Windows Mobile,...) paired with half-assed and often user-annoying implementations.
Instead (or because of that) they have to spend their time spreading FUD and threatening everyone with patent suits. Thank you, Microsoft!
... and when I hit the brakes, it didn't stop! They were trying to tell me that it's only due to the packaging, but they don't want to admit that there is a much more serious underlying problem! I think we should sue the crap out of them!
It's all because of capitalism.
I had used KDE3 for about 1-2 years, when KDE4 appeared. No question, 4.0 was impossible to use, and 4.1 was painful (my experience is with kubuntu). However, the breakeven for me was with KDE 4.2, when I thought this was a product at least as good as KDE3. Yes, there were features in KDE3 that KDE4 was missing, but there were also loads of new features, concepts and functionality in 4.2 that 3.5 couldn't do. I also always found 3.5 quite ugly.
I totally disagree with your notion of "digging the hole deeper". As much as things got better from 4.0 to 4.1 to 4.2 (in my opinion), they just continued on that trajectory to making 4.3 way better than 3.5. Now, I have been using KDE 4.4 betas for at least a month (in a production environment -- call me stupid, but I am just amazed about KDE4), and I am still thrilled how much better and nicer it got! Hell, I am even using the "crappy" kubuntu distro everyone is yelling at. OK, call me a fanboy. But you should know that I also seriously tried GNOME, and LXDE, and Xfce, and even IceWM -- I all didn't like them and went back to KDE4.
Maybe, it is just that you were so used to KDE3 and so good at it and so happy, that there was no way of matching your productivity with something as new and innovative as KDE4? I think KDE4 is going into a new, exciting direction, and that it will pay off that they did everything from scratch at some point. Similarly, Linux sucks for so many people who have been conditioned to using Windows, that they don't get anything accomplished in a different environment. Could that be some of the reason for your disappointment (along with your anger)?
Yep. And the cell phone provider markets are more attactive in many other place of the world, too...
How about internet providers? Cable/satellite TV, anyone?
Somehow this free market thing giving the best products to the consumer doesn't always work out. Too bad.
I found your name in five seconds. Was not so difficult using the information you provided. There are already zillions of other stories about you out there. This stuff is so deeply buried, who would even care? No charges, no criminal record. Being so all scared about it won't give you many credits for courage...
I think he means that the new program (=application) that Samsung created was LGPL-3 licensed (and not Enlightenment itself). Shouldn't that be possible despite Enlightenment being BSD licensed?
Yeah, Apple is going to release a KDE-vs-Mac ad, ".... KDE 5 is not going to have any of the problems KDE 4 had." That's it. Then we're toast. In one category with our friends in Redmond.
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Stuff that matters? Are you kidding? What's next? Filing weather forecasts?
I happen to work on graphene (since 2005). The surface area of graphene is about 2600 m^/g. And that's counting both sides. So one side would be about 1300m^2. that's 13m times 100m. Definitely less than a football field -- American Football or soccer.
I totally agree. I tried "rotated" for a while and performance and overall experience was bad. The colors looked slightly different and unbalanced. My guess is that viewing angles are optimized for using the monitor in "normal" (un-rotated) mode, and the average viewing angle may not be normal to the screen surface. So when you rotate the thing it all gets messed up. There are also more subtle issues: how to handle sub-pixel anti-aliasing (like in Windows ClearType) when one monitor is rotated and the other one is not?
That's why they say "temporary". They realize it's important, so they want to get it right and take their time (and possibly even involve some savvy people from the community). So what are you complaining about? OK, this is slashdot, so it's not cool to RTFA. However, not even reading the summary? That's taking it too far, dude (or duderette)...
My first reaction is: Thank God. I didn't have a very good feeling where things were going after the Oracle takeover and some of their later business decisions (OpenSolaris). Of course, it all depends on how the new foundation will steer things, and I don't know anyone who is part of this, so it's hard to make a judgment. So my hope is that they will at least not make things worse, and maybe this is a even chance to re-energize the project and take it to the next level.
Dear Document Foundation:
Please live up to it, and make OOo (or LO) kick some ass. We need you!
May the force be with them!
Why is everyone behaving so totally conservative? Like we already have invented the desktop in its "final" and "best" version and all that's left is cleaning up some driver bugs? Yes, I suffer from the bugs, too (every day), and I hate clippy as much as everyone here. However, there also needs to be some playing with new, innovative stuff. And the video linked to the article actually looks like quite a bit of fun. I especially like the effect where the relative window positions are slightly moving when the head is moved. It's a bit like a 3D effect where you can look behind the windows by turning your head. Looks pretty cool to me.
./ is now above 60?
Everyone here seems to be about as open to new UI ideas as the Catholic Church to Galileo's ideas. (Yet we are still dreaming about "Minority Report" type interfaces?) Or is it just that the average age on
If you want to tweak it, you'll have to wait until KDE developers start working on it ;)
Why can't you ignorant unconvincibles ever get it right? Why does everyone ignore me? The Hurd would be nothing without us.
I thought my comment was stupid enough to make it obvious I was joking. Sure enough, this is ./ so someone comes along and moderates this "insightful". Priceless.
Yep, that's right! I am still not buying Fords since their disaster model Pinto in the early 1970s. And it'll take them many more decades to regain my trust!
I am not stubborn or anything, but if KDE made a mistake once, they can never be trusted again! Ever! Especially in the software business, where hardly anybody takes any wrong decisions these days.
OK, I didn't check this rigorously (Why should I? This is slashdot!), but it seems to me that every single one of the past five releases of KDE/Kubuntu and Ubuntu featured a significantly improved/totally reworked notification system. Each time I was expecting some breakthrough experience, and it just always looks like a more or less OK notification system. And this is one of the top 5 highlighted features? Was it so broken to begin with? Did it really get so much better? Am I missing something here?
I definitely appreciate very much the developers fixing bugs and making the system more stable and polished. Thanks! However, if some trivial things get sold in an exaggerating way, this may actually not help the image of KDE (GNOME, Linux, etc.). After all, one of the reasons I am using FOSS is because I am really tired of stupid bullshit advertising crap.
If you don't even know what WINE stands for and you're not aware of the subtleties of this kind of software, it doesn't look like you are qualified to publicly bad-mouth it.
I really think this is a great suggestion. However, keep in mind that there are no truly "untinted" polarized glasses, because every polarizer takes away 50% of light (when the light has random polarization like ambient light usually does).
... it's just much more fun. I don't care why. No understanding required.
This does not make sense: if you switch from base-2 to base-10, the number will actually get larger. So 1 kB will then read 1.024 kB and so on. This is why HD manufacturers are using this trick (make it look larger). So this "trick" would make your OS look like it's using more space. Thus it can't be the reason for the switch. Conspiracy, conspiracy! (Or maybe it's just because they finally want to get it right?)
... they burn billions on research money, yet a lot of their products are mocking someone else's creative inventions (MS-DOS, Windows, IE, Zune, Windows CE, Windows Mobile, ...) paired with half-assed and often user-annoying implementations.
Instead (or because of that) they have to spend their time spreading FUD and threatening everyone with patent suits. Thank you, Microsoft!
... because, the alternative link is slashdotted, too!
Yeah, awesome, those Korean programmers! They can make Linux look almost identical to Windows ... by using the almost un-altered default theme of KDE3
... and when I hit the brakes, it didn't stop! They were trying to tell me that it's only due to the packaging, but they don't want to admit that there is a much more serious underlying problem! I think we should sue the crap out of them! It's all because of capitalism.
I had used KDE3 for about 1-2 years, when KDE4 appeared. No question, 4.0 was impossible to use, and 4.1 was painful (my experience is with kubuntu). However, the breakeven for me was with KDE 4.2, when I thought this was a product at least as good as KDE3. Yes, there were features in KDE3 that KDE4 was missing, but there were also loads of new features, concepts and functionality in 4.2 that 3.5 couldn't do. I also always found 3.5 quite ugly.
I totally disagree with your notion of "digging the hole deeper". As much as things got better from 4.0 to 4.1 to 4.2 (in my opinion), they just continued on that trajectory to making 4.3 way better than 3.5. Now, I have been using KDE 4.4 betas for at least a month (in a production environment -- call me stupid, but I am just amazed about KDE4), and I am still thrilled how much better and nicer it got! Hell, I am even using the "crappy" kubuntu distro everyone is yelling at. OK, call me a fanboy. But you should know that I also seriously tried GNOME, and LXDE, and Xfce, and even IceWM -- I all didn't like them and went back to KDE4.
Maybe, it is just that you were so used to KDE3 and so good at it and so happy, that there was no way of matching your productivity with something as new and innovative as KDE4? I think KDE4 is going into a new, exciting direction, and that it will pay off that they did everything from scratch at some point. Similarly, Linux sucks for so many people who have been conditioned to using Windows, that they don't get anything accomplished in a different environment. Could that be some of the reason for your disappointment (along with your anger)?
Yep. And the cell phone provider markets are more attactive in many other place of the world, too...
How about internet providers? Cable/satellite TV, anyone?
Somehow this free market thing giving the best products to the consumer doesn't always work out. Too bad.
I suppose we are seeing the Streisand effect already... this is only getting worse!
I found your name in five seconds. Was not so difficult using the information you provided. There are already zillions of other stories about you out there. This stuff is so deeply buried, who would even care? No charges, no criminal record. Being so all scared about it won't give you many credits for courage...
I think he means that the new program (=application) that Samsung created was LGPL-3 licensed (and not Enlightenment itself). Shouldn't that be possible despite Enlightenment being BSD licensed?
Yeah, Apple is going to release a KDE-vs-Mac ad, ".... KDE 5 is not going to have any of the problems KDE 4 had."
That's it. Then we're toast. In one category with our friends in Redmond.