I used to find KDE far less annoying than GNOME. Unfortunately that's no longer true with KDE4, at least on Kubuntu.
I'm not even sure I should be submitting bug reports for KDE, because it seems like the devs are heading a totally different direction from where I'd like to go.
I'd probably get a reply 6+ years later, "KDE4 is unmaintained, please go bother someone else";).
quote: "Plants of different genera are less successfully grafted, although there are some cases where this is possible. For example, quince, genus Cydonia, may be used as a dwarfing rootstock for pear, genus Pyrus."
If you buy it online then the price would be about the same + shipping, duties and taxes.
If you buy it from a store, then you have to consider the costs of property/rental, staffing etc, boss's cut etc.
That's why Big Macs have different prices in different countries. A fast food cashier in Australia earns more than an experienced programmer in some random 3rd world country.
Prices for a lot of stuff can't be the same everywhere because it takes a finite amount of time for things to converge. And I doubt they'll ever converge.
Users don't really care whether it's KDE3 or KDE4 or whatever, what they see is "still not fixed after 6.5 years".
If the problem is still present in version 4.x, saying "version 3.x is unmaintained you can look to your distro for help" years later just says:
"WORKSFORME, go bother someone else."
If that's not what they want to say, then they should be doing things differently.
As for innovation, I found KDE4 (on kubuntu) far worse than KDE3 - bad enough that I installed GNOME on a system because I didn't want to inflict KDE4 on someone else (who would end up calling me for help anyway). I guess KDE4 is trying to be the Vista of Desktop Linux or worse (vista seems to require a lot more clicking to do stuff that was simple in XP - and I'm not talking about the "UAC" stuff ).
> No, the product seemed pleasant looking and very usable from my standpoint.
Yeah that's the problem, many OSS developers will just say "WORKSFORME", or not even bother marking it as "WORKSFORME", just go off and do something else "more important".
Yes, what they do decide to work on is more important in some ways. But I daresay adding that little extra can be just as important if not more so in other ways.
Apple understands very well how the perception of "insanely great" can cover a multitude of problems under the hood.
There's a vast difference between the users perceiving your product as "oh well it works", "this is nice" and "hey this is sooooo coool! (must have ASAP!)".
Whereas KDE says:
"Kicker is currently unmaintained, you can look to your distribution for help, however."
Look to your distribution for help? A lot of people might just look to (or stay with) OSX/Windows for help instead. And tell the Linux Desktop Zealots who try to "convert them" that OSX "WORKSFORME", or Windows "WORKSFORME", and who the fuck cares that it's not OSS and it's an "evil proprietary OS".
As for innovate too much, a lot of what they do is not innovating at all. For example: "wobbly windows"?! How the heck does that help? If I want to play with stuff that wobbles, I load up World of Goo or something.
Without a good Human Interface Engineer or someone who understands that stuff with a lot of say, they'll end up producing tons of "innovations" are not actual innovations in UI. Stuff like initially attractive cutscenes in a game, that the users eventually try to skip because they end up being annoying or getting in the way.
For some stuff, there's also a level of polish where the user "loves it". It's the difference between an Android phone scrolling and iphone scrolling.
One is it works (but you can see it jerking and tearing). One is "Wow, cool must buy now" to millions of people. FWIW I don't have either phones but I've seen both sorts of phones and with the iphone scrolling people can easily forget that there's something drawing all those pixels, and have the illusion that something is moving in sync with their finger (and thus it becomes an extension of their bodies).
OK so you don't die of prostate cancer. But eventually you're going to die of something, and it could be a difference cancer (but very similar ending unfortunately) - in fact if your body is more prone to cancer, the odds are high you will get another cancer even if it's not related to the first one.
You can dodge bullets. But you can't dodge all of them.
The people who smoke are not necessarily bat shit insane. They may figure the pleasure is worth the final pain. I don't think it's worth it so I don't smoke.
We all are building sand castles that will eventually be washed away. Learning to accept that is a good way to have more fun.
FWIW, I think having a massive heart attack isn't such a bad way to go. Sure it's excruciatingly painful. But it's only excruciatingly painful for 20 minutes or so. Not like needing pain killers for 6 months to put up with cancer chewing up your body and still it's not enough... Unfortunately, the same risk factors for heart attacks tend to raise the risk of getting a stroke which is unpleasant as well especially if it doesn't kill you...
Well that's because Baconnaise, choc chip pancakes and sausage have anti-cancer properties. Really!
Eat enough of that and the odds of you getting cancer go way down.
You'd just die of heart disease or something else first;).
Some people choose certain diets because they want to live longer. Others choose their diets based on how they want to die;).
You're eventually going to die of something. Imagine a pie chart where the slices represent the odds of you dying of a particular problem. Whatever you do, the pie is there and it doesn't go away. You can change the sizes of the slices, but it's unlikely you'll ever get to a slice that says "ran out of resources due to Heat Death of the Universe".
So don't pick a diet or lifestyle that you can't grow to like. It's no point suffering your entire life just to die of cancer in the end. But it's probably not a good idea to die too early either, so find a decent balance and try to figure it out early enough so you can get on with more important stuff;).
If the human immune system was really the weakest in the whole animal kingdom we wouldn't be living to 70+ years.
Even if you take real good care of mice, they tend to fall apart by 3 years - cancer etc.
Just see what happens to a patient with AIDS - all sorts of rare cancers appearing, dying from common cold etc.
The trouble with some of these tweaks is you could end up with an autoimmune response. Sure you might be able to get the immune system to blow away the cancer. But it might start to attack the normal cells as well.
When you get old, the "normal" cells after years of abuse and damage aren't quite as normal as they were when you were 20. It could be like pouring some new fangled super rust remover on an old car to find that most of the old car is made of rust...;).
That's why there's reproduction - it's a bit like a reset. Start over from scratch with a sperm and egg.
With unicellular creatures like bacteria and protozoa it's not as vital for huge colonies of them to mutually cooperate - they can drift genetically on every generation as long as they can keep reproducing successfully. That's not true for complex multicellular organisms like humans. A bunch of cells striking out on their own = cancer.
Creative lives in a nightmare of their own making.
They produced lots of expensive crap that's worse than "integrated crap".
A friend of mine had an Audigy that caused crashes very often. When I saw what happened to him, I did some searches on the web and the results convinced me to not bother considering Creative for audio, even "consumer grade audio". FWIW I didn't have complaints about my SB Pro, but the industry has moved on since then.
On one computer we have onboard realtek sound and a creative labs "Live!" plugged into it, and guess what, the onboard sound has better sensitivity and lower noise when recording than the piece of shit Creative hardware that costs about the third of the price of the entire motherboard with the onboard sound. And the output latency is crap, ASIO is hard with it.
a) With socialized medicine the doctor tends to get paid about the same anyway, so it's more likely he'd try to do his best for the patient given the limits of the hospital and the health care budget.
b) With private health care where the patient is paying most of the bills (and the boss), the doctor will do his best for the patient given the limits of the hospital and the patient's budget.
c) With private health care where Insurance Companies are the paymasters, the doctor may encounter some conflicts between what's best for the patient and what's best for the Insurance Company.
So: With b) even though it's about profit, it the patient tends to get the best the patient can afford. With a) the patient gets the best the Government can afford to give to the average person (or more if the country goes into debt;) ). With c) the patient gets the best of what the Insurance Company is willing to pay, which not surprisingly can often be worse than a) or even b).
I don't know what you (and the others saying the same thing) have been smoking but in the UK (and everywhere else I know of) if you have the means you can get the procedure.
What the NHS provides for the people is a certain level of health care. If you want to use private health care for whatever reason, you can.
But are they _fighting_against_ the stuff you want? So far all I see is they say they're not going to fight for a few of the things you want.
Aren't they already fighting for some other things you want?
If they are and they aren't even fighting against stuff you want, what's the big problem? Sure they have a political position, but does that position really cause a problem? So far they appear to be doing many magnitudes more good than harm, which is more than I can say for many organisations supposedly fighting for people's rights (even the NRA).
What next, people are going to grumble that the ACLU aren't fighting for the liberty to eat transfat laden food?
> A lot of what makes America economically appealing and strong is its openness and flexibility.
Way before the 9/11, my uncle was travelling to Canada, unfortunately for him the plane had some problems, and had to detour and land in the USA. The passengers had to get out of the plane etc.
The US immigration gave him a lot of hassle because he didn't have a visa to enter the USA. My uncle told them to the effect that he didn't even want to be in their bloody country in the first place! Fortunately he didn't get in big trouble for that;).
Yeah you need more judges like the dissenting judge.
Sure he flew one way. But if one way is cheaper, he's expecting to be driving a truck back right? And why should he tell potentially crooked cops that he has 124 kilobux in the car?
In fact his fear was justified- he has lost 124,000 because of the cops and a bunch of judges.
The fucked up system might have created more criminals as a result.
After all that is a lot of money to the average guy. Worse - much of it was borrowed money from personal individuals.
If shit really happens, he might have to use a fair bit of gold to buy bread from a baker. The baker has very little use for gold except maybe for jewelry. So how likely is he to accept 0.1 grams of gold for a loaf of bread - it won't even make an earring - but that's USD3 at current prices (USD30 per gram).
So how much gold will really be worth then?
Eggs might be far more valuable to the baker.
Heck, people might continue to use some form of paper currency because it's easier than using gold for transactions.
Yeah, and it's amazing how many US people keep waving their Constitution about but don't actually read it.
It's like lot of people spouting just a few verses from the their favourite religious text but not reading the rest of it (or realizing it's not as simple as that - understanding the spirit of the document and it's implications today, takes a fair bit of effort and time).
The US constitution isn't just the amendments. Yes the amendments are pretty important, but the fact that there are a fair number of amendments should tell you the Founders didn't come up with such a well written document as so many appear to think.
You'll find there's so much interpretation required. So the Judges are extremely important since they interpret the Constitution and Laws. If you have crappy courts and judges you can get very bad interpretations.
There's plenty of room for interpretation see:
No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
So what is "consent of the Congress", "Office of Profit/Trust" or present? Do they have to vote on it whenever a foreign King or Queen wants to give a US Senator/President a signed picture frame? Or can Congress put "anything less than $$$/month is automatically OK" in some law and be done with it?
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Once you end up with Ninja birds, they're going to crap wherever they like.
And the Ninja birds may be the ones teaching you how to crap, rather than the other way round...
Maybe if you had some Pirate Parrots...
I used to find KDE far less annoying than GNOME. Unfortunately that's no longer true with KDE4, at least on Kubuntu.
;).
I'm not even sure I should be submitting bug reports for KDE, because it seems like the devs are heading a totally different direction from where I'd like to go.
I'd probably get a reply 6+ years later, "KDE4 is unmaintained, please go bother someone else"
Within the genera, a fair number are doing tomato, potato, eggplant, tobacco combinations:
http://www.ozpolitic.com/gardening/grafting-tomatoes-wild-tobacco.html
Different genera:
http://extension.missouri.edu/publications/DisplayPub.aspx?P=G6971
quote: "Plants of different genera are less successfully grafted, although there are some cases where this is possible. For example, quince, genus Cydonia, may be used as a dwarfing rootstock for pear, genus Pyrus."
If you buy it online then the price would be about the same + shipping, duties and taxes.
If you buy it from a store, then you have to consider the costs of property/rental, staffing etc, boss's cut etc.
That's why Big Macs have different prices in different countries. A fast food cashier in Australia earns more than an experienced programmer in some random 3rd world country.
Prices for a lot of stuff can't be the same everywhere because it takes a finite amount of time for things to converge. And I doubt they'll ever converge.
You can graft a branch from a different tree to another tree and have it work fine. You can even graft different species of plants together :).
Doesn't seem as easy to do that sort of stuff on animals that have a long lifespan.
But are the issues resolved in KDE4? I doubt it judging from: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167488
Users don't really care whether it's KDE3 or KDE4 or whatever, what they see is "still not fixed after 6.5 years".
If the problem is still present in version 4.x, saying "version 3.x is unmaintained you can look to your distro for help" years later just says:
"WORKSFORME, go bother someone else."
If that's not what they want to say, then they should be doing things differently.
As for innovation, I found KDE4 (on kubuntu) far worse than KDE3 - bad enough that I installed GNOME on a system because I didn't want to inflict KDE4 on someone else (who would end up calling me for help anyway). I guess KDE4 is trying to be the Vista of Desktop Linux or worse (vista seems to require a lot more clicking to do stuff that was simple in XP - and I'm not talking about the "UAC" stuff ).
Maybe someone should post a bug report and suggest renaming NetworkManager to NetworkPHB. ;)
> No, the product seemed pleasant looking and very usable from my standpoint.
Yeah that's the problem, many OSS developers will just say "WORKSFORME", or not even bother marking it as "WORKSFORME", just go off and do something else "more important".
See: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50457
Or: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99905
Yes, what they do decide to work on is more important in some ways. But I daresay adding that little extra can be just as important if not more so in other ways.
Apple understands very well how the perception of "insanely great" can cover a multitude of problems under the hood.
There's a vast difference between the users perceiving your product as "oh well it works", "this is nice" and "hey this is sooooo coool! (must have ASAP!)".
Whereas KDE says:
"Kicker is currently unmaintained, you can look to your distribution for help, however."
Look to your distribution for help? A lot of people might just look to (or stay with) OSX/Windows for help instead. And tell the Linux Desktop Zealots who try to "convert them" that OSX "WORKSFORME", or Windows "WORKSFORME", and who the fuck cares that it's not OSS and it's an "evil proprietary OS".
As for innovate too much, a lot of what they do is not innovating at all. For example: "wobbly windows"?! How the heck does that help? If I want to play with stuff that wobbles, I load up World of Goo or something.
Without a good Human Interface Engineer or someone who understands that stuff with a lot of say, they'll end up producing tons of "innovations" are not actual innovations in UI. Stuff like initially attractive cutscenes in a game, that the users eventually try to skip because they end up being annoying or getting in the way.
For some stuff, there's also a level of polish where the user "loves it". It's the difference between an Android phone scrolling and iphone scrolling.
One is it works (but you can see it jerking and tearing). One is "Wow, cool must buy now" to millions of people. FWIW I don't have either phones but I've seen both sorts of phones and with the iphone scrolling people can easily forget that there's something drawing all those pixels, and have the illusion that something is moving in sync with their finger (and thus it becomes an extension of their bodies).
OK so you don't die of prostate cancer. But eventually you're going to die of something, and it could be a difference cancer (but very similar ending unfortunately) - in fact if your body is more prone to cancer, the odds are high you will get another cancer even if it's not related to the first one.
You can dodge bullets. But you can't dodge all of them.
See: http://www.cdc.gov/men/lcod/index.htm
Eventually you lose the die roll.
The people who smoke are not necessarily bat shit insane. They may figure the pleasure is worth the final pain. I don't think it's worth it so I don't smoke.
We all are building sand castles that will eventually be washed away. Learning to accept that is a good way to have more fun.
FWIW, I think having a massive heart attack isn't such a bad way to go. Sure it's excruciatingly painful. But it's only excruciatingly painful for 20 minutes or so. Not like needing pain killers for 6 months to put up with cancer chewing up your body and still it's not enough... Unfortunately, the same risk factors for heart attacks tend to raise the risk of getting a stroke which is unpleasant as well especially if it doesn't kill you...
Well that's because Baconnaise, choc chip pancakes and sausage have anti-cancer properties. Really!
;).
;).
;).
Eat enough of that and the odds of you getting cancer go way down.
You'd just die of heart disease or something else first
Some people choose certain diets because they want to live longer. Others choose their diets based on how they want to die
You're eventually going to die of something. Imagine a pie chart where the slices represent the odds of you dying of a particular problem. Whatever you do, the pie is there and it doesn't go away. You can change the sizes of the slices, but it's unlikely you'll ever get to a slice that says "ran out of resources due to Heat Death of the Universe".
So don't pick a diet or lifestyle that you can't grow to like. It's no point suffering your entire life just to die of cancer in the end. But it's probably not a good idea to die too early either, so find a decent balance and try to figure it out early enough so you can get on with more important stuff
If the human immune system was really the weakest in the whole animal kingdom we wouldn't be living to 70+ years.
;).
Even if you take real good care of mice, they tend to fall apart by 3 years - cancer etc.
Just see what happens to a patient with AIDS - all sorts of rare cancers appearing, dying from common cold etc.
The trouble with some of these tweaks is you could end up with an autoimmune response. Sure you might be able to get the immune system to blow away the cancer. But it might start to attack the normal cells as well.
When you get old, the "normal" cells after years of abuse and damage aren't quite as normal as they were when you were 20. It could be like pouring some new fangled super rust remover on an old car to find that most of the old car is made of rust...
That's why there's reproduction - it's a bit like a reset. Start over from scratch with a sperm and egg.
With unicellular creatures like bacteria and protozoa it's not as vital for huge colonies of them to mutually cooperate - they can drift genetically on every generation as long as they can keep reproducing successfully. That's not true for complex multicellular organisms like humans. A bunch of cells striking out on their own = cancer.
Creative lives in a nightmare of their own making.
They produced lots of expensive crap that's worse than "integrated crap".
A friend of mine had an Audigy that caused crashes very often. When I saw what happened to him, I did some searches on the web and the results convinced me to not bother considering Creative for audio, even "consumer grade audio". FWIW I didn't have complaints about my SB Pro, but the industry has moved on since then.
On one computer we have onboard realtek sound and a creative labs "Live!" plugged into it, and guess what, the onboard sound has better sensitivity and lower noise when recording than the piece of shit Creative hardware that costs about the third of the price of the entire motherboard with the onboard sound. And the output latency is crap, ASIO is hard with it.
Do professional audio guys actually use Creative?
Why not?
;).
In many cases offtopic stuff is more interesting, informative or insightful than the actual Slashdot summary or the article
Some versions of VLC do hardware acceleration.
How do I know? Because on some systems the video doesn't show when VLC is on the second display in a dual monitor config.
So I have to turn off hardware acceleration e.g. Tools, Preferences, Video, Accelerated video output -> unchecked.
a) With socialized medicine the doctor tends to get paid about the same anyway, so it's more likely he'd try to do his best for the patient given the limits of the hospital and the health care budget.
;) ).
b) With private health care where the patient is paying most of the bills (and the boss), the doctor will do his best for the patient given the limits of the hospital and the patient's budget.
c) With private health care where Insurance Companies are the paymasters, the doctor may encounter some conflicts between what's best for the patient and what's best for the Insurance Company.
So:
With b) even though it's about profit, it the patient tends to get the best the patient can afford.
With a) the patient gets the best the Government can afford to give to the average person (or more if the country goes into debt
With c) the patient gets the best of what the Insurance Company is willing to pay, which not surprisingly can often be worse than a) or even b).
> I had a roommate once who lost a leg when his insurance company dropped him after he got sick.
Wow these insurance companies are worse than I thought. What height did they drop him from?
I don't know what you (and the others saying the same thing) have been smoking but in the UK (and everywhere else I know of) if you have the means you can get the procedure.
What the NHS provides for the people is a certain level of health care. If you want to use private health care for whatever reason, you can.
Does the new model liver come with free Chianti and fava beans?
But are they _fighting_against_ the stuff you want? So far all I see is they say they're not going to fight for a few of the things you want.
Aren't they already fighting for some other things you want?
If they are and they aren't even fighting against stuff you want, what's the big problem? Sure they have a political position, but does that position really cause a problem? So far they appear to be doing many magnitudes more good than harm, which is more than I can say for many organisations supposedly fighting for people's rights (even the NRA).
What next, people are going to grumble that the ACLU aren't fighting for the liberty to eat transfat laden food?
> A lot of what makes America economically appealing and strong is its openness and flexibility.
;).
Way before the 9/11, my uncle was travelling to Canada, unfortunately for him the plane had some problems, and had to detour and land in the USA. The passengers had to get out of the plane etc.
The US immigration gave him a lot of hassle because he didn't have a visa to enter the USA. My uncle told them to the effect that he didn't even want to be in their bloody country in the first place! Fortunately he didn't get in big trouble for that
Now after "9/11", I guess it's even worse.
Yeah you need more judges like the dissenting judge.
Sure he flew one way. But if one way is cheaper, he's expecting to be driving a truck back right?
And why should he tell potentially crooked cops that he has 124 kilobux in the car?
In fact his fear was justified- he has lost 124,000 because of the cops and a bunch of judges.
The fucked up system might have created more criminals as a result.
After all that is a lot of money to the average guy. Worse - much of it was borrowed money from personal individuals.
If shit really happens, he might have to use a fair bit of gold to buy bread from a baker. The baker has very little use for gold except maybe for jewelry. So how likely is he to accept 0.1 grams of gold for a loaf of bread - it won't even make an earring - but that's USD3 at current prices (USD30 per gram).
So how much gold will really be worth then?
Eggs might be far more valuable to the baker.
Heck, people might continue to use some form of paper currency because it's easier than using gold for transactions.
Judges can interpret and apply the laws in many ways. There are so many laws - they can pick the laws they want to apply.
:).
Same goes for the prosecution in criminal cases.
AFAIK nobody has ever been sentenced to life imprisonment for adultery in Michigan. Even though that is how the law is written. Go check it out
If 1.9 million for copying a song is not cruel and unusual punishment, then maybe life imprisonment for adultery is fine too.
Some may say adultery is not a serious offense, but a lot of spouses may argue otherwise.
Yeah, and it's amazing how many US people keep waving their Constitution about but don't actually read it.
It's like lot of people spouting just a few verses from the their favourite religious text but not reading the rest of it (or realizing it's not as simple as that - understanding the spirit of the document and it's implications today, takes a fair bit of effort and time).
The US constitution isn't just the amendments. Yes the amendments are pretty important, but the fact that there are a fair number of amendments should tell you the Founders didn't come up with such a well written document as so many appear to think.
See:
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html
And compare with the annotated version (with cases etc)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/anncon/
You'll find there's so much interpretation required. So the Judges are extremely important since they interpret the Constitution and Laws. If you have crappy courts and judges you can get very bad interpretations.
There's plenty of room for interpretation see:
No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
So what is "consent of the Congress", "Office of Profit/Trust" or present? Do they have to vote on it whenever a foreign King or Queen wants to give a US Senator/President a signed picture frame? Or can Congress put "anything less than $$$/month is automatically OK" in some law and be done with it?