The thing about color schemeing, and desktop themeing, is that a lot of this really isn't quite good nor necessarilly permanant in GNOME, and probably not KDE either. One thing we've dreamed about in the librsvg camp is utilizing CSS in SVG-equipped desktop themes, and generating that CSS in an app similar to Window's "Appearance" dialog. It would be enough of a nightmare trying to get this work in GNOME alone, and of course, it may indeed never ever happen. However, harder than getting this to work in GNOME would be the task of making some sort of standard for it and getting it supported in KDE as well.
Not saying it is impossible, but rather, that it is hard, and things are very likely change from one revision to another on each desktop regarding these issues. Keeping them in sync would also be a huge task.
I've got plenty of experience with vector graphics released for gnome-games, and quite a bit of professional graphics work under my belt. I currently use Illustrator for most of my vector-based art, and it's a joy to the point that even with modern Inkscape, I just find so many features either lacking or missing... In relative terms, it even feels like a fight just drawing and manipulating simple paths. There's still no decent support for layers, right? A lot of the things I didn't like about Sodipodi that seem to still be around, like their SVG generation... Then again, I'm one of those fools who reads SVG files and tweaks them for maximum impact.
I've used konsole, and can't say if I remember it being faster than gnome-terminal, but I do think a lot of the complaints about the latter may be overblown. Sadly, CD burning is something I do a lot of with my professional work, and my software needs include a burning software that controls a robotic arm and 50-cd trays.:)
Maybe it makes sense for Novell to support an ISV platform that doesn't force developers to either (a) release their apps under GPL or (b) pay a TrollTech tax? Perhaps, maybe, Miguel de Icaza was justified in fighing for the GNOME desktop, and it is perfectly fine for Novell to lessen their support of KDE?
"The major problem I can see is that the user should not even have to care whether a given app is GNOME, KDE or whatever. You set your fonts and colours in the GNOME control panel, then you start a KDE app and it looks like weird-arse shit. WTF?"
And nobody should have to pay for health insurance, and refrigerators should grow on trees. It's called utopia... I've never understood the people and culture behind KDE, never liked the KDE desktop. I prefer to use and contribute to GNOME. A lot of other contributors are just like me... They really don't have the time nor care about the way a KDE app looks on GNOME or vice versa. It simply is not that important.
"No serious open-source desktop these days can be all-GNOME or all-KDE; you need to make the mixture not affect the end user at all. They desperately need a unified look-and-feel control panel that will set this stuff consistently without the user having to care."
Yes, they can be. There's not a single KDE app that I can think of that I would want to use. I hear occasional complaints about gimp and inkscape under KDE, but personally, I don't use them much (or inkscape) at all since my professional media work really forces me into Windows and Illustrator CS or other apps. I accept this. By analogy, if I need to carpool a ton of kids, I'll drive my van, otherwise I'll go where I need to in a car. I'm not going to dedicate my time to build a van that gets the city mpg of a car unless I really, really cared about it.
Windows + Illustrator, for me, is fine in certain situations, but for most of my work, GNOME accomodates me fine. And I'm happy... So, don't expect me to fret about the KDE users.
By the way, there's absolutely nothing preventing you from stepping up to the plate, getting the necessary skills, and fixing the issues you cite... That how change happens in these desktops.
"...applies for entrance to MIT and prays to remain sleeping until the acceptance letter comes, which doesn't happen for another 30 years"
Okay, we all know McJobs suck, and people do sleep through them for 30 years while waiting for something better to come along... but this patent had better cite prior art involving wannabe actors who spend their entire adult lives as waitstaff. If not, I'll be first in line to march on the patent office and demand examiners that aren't brain dead.
"Except as any intelligent person knows, Iraq was not a threat to America. That was well-known before hand, and proven completely true afterwards."
1) Iraq under Saddam was a threat to Shiites. 2) Iraq under Saddam was a threat to Kurds. 3) No-fly-zones were set up and run for a decade to prevent slaughter because of (1) and (2). 4) Considering #3, in hindsight, every intelligent person obviously had no idea whatsoever know how much of a threat Iraq was or was not. If it was obvious, then surely you could point me to somebody, somewhere that came forward prior to the war with evidence arguing that point.
Using Bill Maher's talking points does not make one Bill Maher.
"There was no threat to be eliminated, and as such it was not an act of protection."
4) If the Iraq War never began, and if the US and UK ended the no fly patrols, then the "International Community" would instantly blame the US and UK for the slaughter of thousands or millions.
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How is voting Democrat going to convince anybody pay $60k to $70k IT for an "IT administrator/help desk specialist"? I can completely understand staying with a profession for 8 years when you've got a wife and kid, but you don't see a huge pay gap between entry-level and 8-year sweatshop workers or secretaries, so why should there be one for your job?
I've seen a survey that points that average MCSA salary at $47k in 2003. If you don't like the market forces that play into that salary, feel free to move to your favorite communist or socialist nation.
I'd probably question your experience, anyway... a/. uid of 925786? Pathetic!:)
I've got a bundle of these from the last Blue Marble at this page.
I do work for Mud Springs Geographers, which have an app called AWhere that support loading this sort of image as a map layer. I'm not into crass commercialism, but unfortunately, Slashdot won't let me post just that TFW because of the lameness filter. You'd think they would make excpetions for anciend user ids or excellent karma, but no.....:)
(Okay, I've removed the whitespace from the snippet above, but keep in mind that most TFW files have the decimal point positioned 20 spaces from the left edge.)
The link states: "PIPA found that 48 percent of the public believe US troops found evidence of close pre-war links between Iraq and the al-Qaeda terrorist group; 22 percent thought troops found weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq; and 25 percent believed that world public opinion favored Washington's going to war with Iraq"
Seriously... Not only are those questions are horibbly biased, but the results are actually quite good, all things considered. I'd say at least, oh, 25% of people they questioned probably wouldn't be able to find Iraq on a globe in under 5 seconds.
Notice that they didn't ask questions like: - Were you aware that over half of Iraq was patrolled by American, British, and (for a time) French forces under a No-Fly Zone? - Did you know that this policy not only prevented Saddam from further attacks on Kurds in the North and Shiites in the South, and it allowed those people far more independence than they had prior to the first gulf war? - Given these conditions, would you personally have believed intelligence reports from the area, or would you have withdrawn your patrols and sent your army men back home?
Okay, maybe they wouldn't ask the last question, but certainly you would find well over half of the people asked wouldn't know anything about the NFZs, if not more....
"VeriSign is responsible for the collapse of the last company I worked for. We spent 2 years and hundreds of thousands of dollars designing and developing a retail solution based around a particular domain name. Unfortunately, the CEO fell victim of identity theft before we launched and some a-hole was able to acquire our domain names though ****ing VeriSign."
I don't think Verisign could be responsible for the downfall of a company if such a place couldn't survive a domain name change.
"With ad blocking becoming ever more popular among users, why do you block ads?"
Pop-ups blocked? Yes, of course. IE's been doing most of this.
Ad blocking getting more popular? Number of users blocking ads is definitely growing slower than the number of internet users overall. Anyone who thinks otherwise is fooling themselves.
The article is moving is moving so fast that that while it appears to be in at the bottom of the page one second, then at the top of the page by the next second. However, the article has taken what would feel like days in our time to make the trip, and observes that we haven't moved at all.
Did Jerry Garcia say "I want to build a musician fan community that will follow me wherever I go."...?
Did Bungie set out to create a community of people that are so dedicated to their games that they are willing to subject themselves to bizzare alternative reality role playing games about a game?
Did Kos say "I want to rally the teeming masses of ignorant college kids and soccer moms against the unjust white male bourgeois pigs!"...? (Okay, maybe he did.)
My point is really this: Community forms where they will, and trying to get gamers to build a community around your product is a stupid and condescending idea. How about this: If you build it, they will come. That'll work a whole lot better than corporate-sponsored video game fan club #232131.
You completely missed my point though... I'm certainly not fond of ASCAP, but bars (and hotels and airport terminals and dentist offices) have been paying those fees for year, and yes it was illegal to play music in public without it.
"Just look at the current spike in oil prices! Yes, I know that we are approaching peak production and such and that the days of cheap oil are over, but the current spike in gasoline prices is just a matter of pure greed..."
The problem with that statement is that worldwide oil production continues to grow... Global growth in demand has far outstripped growth in supply, and scarcity leads to higher prices. Oil companies may be greedy, but you don't HAVE to pay $3 / gallon. Just don't drive.
The music companies are NOT SQUEEZING ANYBODY. If they raise their prices to, say, $40 per CD, then (almost) nobody will buy them. They make the product, so they set the price, but there's always a choice. Either you pay that price, or you walk away.
The only ones with no conscience are pirates that illegally download copyrighted music from the web.
I don't know, but seeing as how Mark Shuttleworth and Dennis Tito have been labeled Cosmonauts after completing their training, the same may apply here. One definition of Cosmonaut out there is "A crew member of a space mission launched by the former Soviet Union"
1) Buy a seat on Russian Spacecraft 2) Charge your citizens to vote on who gets to fly. Bonus points for call-in votes during a TV show: Cosmonaut Idol. 3) Profit!!!!
Especially since Super Mario Brothers is a sequal to the Mario Brothers arcade game, I must say... I think Nintendo is doing this because their marketing people were not quite on the ball back in 2003. You know, dealing with Gamecube troubles, the shallow feed trough of recycled mascots....
Probably because the FCC doesn't allow buisness lines to sign up for the list, probably under threat of a penalty fine.
Call this an observation from a trusted source, but I'm fairly certain that businessess who sign up on that list get transfered back on to the "do call" telemarketer lists when they compare it to the phone numbers for buisness lines bought from the telephone companies.
Looking at recent events, such as the Tsunami and New Orleans flooding, it's an eye-catching number... but do the math. The Tsunami triggered by an 9.6-ish-on-the-richter-scale earthquake only managed to snuff out 0.0025% of the earth's population. Looking at New Orleans alone, since estimates are in the thousands, if 10,000 people died, that's about 2% of the population. If nature really doesn't want us around, either it's not trying very hard, or it's just a work in progress while Yellowstone prepares to blow its top again....
There's a lot of people who would even say that Nature's fury can't compare that to the fury of our fellow man. I'd have to wonder about that: Lung Cancer deaths related to smoking kill off about 440 people per day in the United States alone. Compare that to the rougly 2 and a half US soldiers per day killed in Iraq.... I'd say we are far better at intentionally killing our own selves than we are at killing others, and natural disaster takes a distant 3rd... or at least, disasters can't compare to other natural causes such as disease.
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The thing about color schemeing, and desktop themeing, is that a lot of this really isn't quite good nor necessarilly permanant in GNOME, and probably not KDE either. One thing we've dreamed about in the librsvg camp is utilizing CSS in SVG-equipped desktop themes, and generating that CSS in an app similar to Window's "Appearance" dialog. It would be enough of a nightmare trying to get this work in GNOME alone, and of course, it may indeed never ever happen. However, harder than getting this to work in GNOME would be the task of making some sort of standard for it and getting it supported in KDE as well.
Not saying it is impossible, but rather, that it is hard, and things are very likely change from one revision to another on each desktop regarding these issues. Keeping them in sync would also be a huge task.
I've got plenty of experience with vector graphics released for gnome-games, and quite a bit of professional graphics work under my belt. I currently use Illustrator for most of my vector-based art, and it's a joy to the point that even with modern Inkscape, I just find so many features either lacking or missing... In relative terms, it even feels like a fight just drawing and manipulating simple paths. There's still no decent support for layers, right? A lot of the things I didn't like about Sodipodi that seem to still be around, like their SVG generation... Then again, I'm one of those fools who reads SVG files and tweaks them for maximum impact.
:)
I've used konsole, and can't say if I remember it being faster than gnome-terminal, but I do think a lot of the complaints about the latter may be overblown. Sadly, CD burning is something I do a lot of with my professional work, and my software needs include a burning software that controls a robotic arm and 50-cd trays.
Maybe it makes sense for Novell to support an ISV platform that doesn't force developers to either (a) release their apps under GPL or (b) pay a TrollTech tax? Perhaps, maybe, Miguel de Icaza was justified in fighing for the GNOME desktop, and it is perfectly fine for Novell to lessen their support of KDE?
"The major problem I can see is that the user should not even have to care whether a given app is GNOME, KDE or whatever. You set your fonts and colours in the GNOME control panel, then you start a KDE app and it looks like weird-arse shit. WTF?"
And nobody should have to pay for health insurance, and refrigerators should grow on trees. It's called utopia... I've never understood the people and culture behind KDE, never liked the KDE desktop. I prefer to use and contribute to GNOME. A lot of other contributors are just like me... They really don't have the time nor care about the way a KDE app looks on GNOME or vice versa. It simply is not that important.
"No serious open-source desktop these days can be all-GNOME or all-KDE; you need to make the mixture not affect the end user at all. They desperately need a unified look-and-feel control panel that will set this stuff consistently without the user having to care."
Yes, they can be. There's not a single KDE app that I can think of that I would want to use. I hear occasional complaints about gimp and inkscape under KDE, but personally, I don't use them much (or inkscape) at all since my professional media work really forces me into Windows and Illustrator CS or other apps. I accept this. By analogy, if I need to carpool a ton of kids, I'll drive my van, otherwise I'll go where I need to in a car. I'm not going to dedicate my time to build a van that gets the city mpg of a car unless I really, really cared about it.
Windows + Illustrator, for me, is fine in certain situations, but for most of my work, GNOME accomodates me fine. And I'm happy... So, don't expect me to fret about the KDE users.
By the way, there's absolutely nothing preventing you from stepping up to the plate, getting the necessary skills, and fixing the issues you cite... That how change happens in these desktops.
"...applies for entrance to MIT and prays to remain sleeping until the acceptance letter comes, which doesn't happen for another 30 years"
Okay, we all know McJobs suck, and people do sleep through them for 30 years while waiting for something better to come along... but this patent had better cite prior art involving wannabe actors who spend their entire adult lives as waitstaff. If not, I'll be first in line to march on the patent office and demand examiners that aren't brain dead.
"Except as any intelligent person knows, Iraq was not a threat to America. That was well-known before hand, and proven completely true afterwards."
1) Iraq under Saddam was a threat to Shiites.
2) Iraq under Saddam was a threat to Kurds.
3) No-fly-zones were set up and run for a decade to prevent slaughter because of (1) and (2).
4) Considering #3, in hindsight, every intelligent person obviously had no idea whatsoever know how much of a threat Iraq was or was not. If it was obvious, then surely you could point me to somebody, somewhere that came forward prior to the war with evidence arguing that point.
Using Bill Maher's talking points does not make one Bill Maher.
"There was no threat to be eliminated, and as such it was not an act of protection."
4) If the Iraq War never began, and if the US and UK ended the no fly patrols, then the "International Community" would instantly blame the US and UK for the slaughter of thousands or millions.
How is voting Democrat going to convince anybody pay $60k to $70k IT for an "IT administrator/help desk specialist"? I can completely understand staying with a profession for 8 years when you've got a wife and kid, but you don't see a huge pay gap between entry-level and 8-year sweatshop workers or secretaries, so why should there be one for your job?
/. uid of 925786? Pathetic! :)
I've seen a survey that points that average MCSA salary at $47k in 2003. If you don't like the market forces that play into that salary, feel free to move to your favorite communist or socialist nation.
I'd probably question your experience, anyway... a
I imagine there's a great big hottub somewhere out there...
[sun] Schwartz: Weez be so much betta than youse, man.
[rhat] Young: First they mock you, then they tease you, then they flirt with you, then I win. Or something.
[msft] Balmer: Dude, has anyone seen my shaving cream?
Young: Tell you what... I bet you ain't got the cahones to walk away and let your company do its thing. Sun would fall apart at the seams.
Schwartz: Booyshaykaya. Youse first.
Young: Okie Dokie.
Balmer: Google must die.
It all went downhill from there.
Assuming there is or will be a 86400x43200 TIF of JPEG file, you can use a TFW of JFW file that reads like this in your favorite GIS app:
:)
0.00416666666666
0.00000000000000
0.00000000000000
-0.00416666666666
-180.00000000000000
90.00000000000000
I've got a bundle of these from the last Blue Marble at this page.
I do work for Mud Springs Geographers, which have an app called AWhere that support loading this sort of image as a map layer. I'm not into crass commercialism, but unfortunately, Slashdot won't let me post just that TFW because of the lameness filter. You'd think they would make excpetions for anciend user ids or excellent karma, but no.....
(Okay, I've removed the whitespace from the snippet above, but keep in mind that most TFW files have the decimal point positioned 20 spaces from the left edge.)
The link states:
"PIPA found that 48 percent of the public believe US troops found evidence of close pre-war links between Iraq and the al-Qaeda terrorist group; 22 percent thought troops found weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq; and 25 percent believed that world public opinion favored Washington's going to war with Iraq"
Seriously... Not only are those questions are horibbly biased, but the results are actually quite good, all things considered. I'd say at least, oh, 25% of people they questioned probably wouldn't be able to find Iraq on a globe in under 5 seconds.
Notice that they didn't ask questions like:
- Were you aware that over half of Iraq was patrolled by American, British, and (for a time) French forces under a No-Fly Zone?
- Did you know that this policy not only prevented Saddam from further attacks on Kurds in the North and Shiites in the South, and it allowed those people far more independence than they had prior to the first gulf war?
- Given these conditions, would you personally have believed intelligence reports from the area, or would you have withdrawn your patrols and sent your army men back home?
Okay, maybe they wouldn't ask the last question, but certainly you would find well over half of the people asked wouldn't know anything about the NFZs, if not more....
"VeriSign is responsible for the collapse of the last company I worked for. We spent 2 years and hundreds of thousands of dollars designing and developing a retail solution based around a particular domain name. Unfortunately, the CEO fell victim of identity theft before we launched and some a-hole was able to acquire our domain names though ****ing VeriSign."
I don't think Verisign could be responsible for the downfall of a company if such a place couldn't survive a domain name change.
"With ad blocking becoming ever more popular among users, why do you block ads?"
Pop-ups blocked? Yes, of course. IE's been doing most of this.
Ad blocking getting more popular? Number of users blocking ads is definitely growing slower than the number of internet users overall. Anyone who thinks otherwise is fooling themselves.
Physics can explain this...
The article is moving is moving so fast that that while it appears to be in at the bottom of the page one second, then at the top of the page by the next second. However, the article has taken what would feel like days in our time to make the trip, and observes that we haven't moved at all.
Did Jerry Garcia say "I want to build a musician fan community that will follow me wherever I go." ...?
...? (Okay, maybe he did.)
Did Bungie set out to create a community of people that are so dedicated to their games that they are willing to subject themselves to bizzare alternative reality role playing games about a game?
Did Kos say "I want to rally the teeming masses of ignorant college kids and soccer moms against the unjust white male bourgeois pigs!"
My point is really this: Community forms where they will, and trying to get gamers to build a community around your product is a stupid and condescending idea. How about this: If you build it, they will come. That'll work a whole lot better than corporate-sponsored video game fan club #232131.
No... The customer, in this case, the bars bar are the ones that need a license.
You completely missed my point though... I'm certainly not fond of ASCAP, but bars (and hotels and airport terminals and dentist offices) have been paying those fees for year, and yes it was illegal to play music in public without it.
" I remember when it didn't used to be a crime to listen to music."
Just because you didn't hear about ASCAP prior to the internet, it doesn't mean that they didn't exist.
"Just look at the current spike in oil prices! Yes, I know that we are approaching peak production and such and that the days of cheap oil are over, but the current spike in gasoline prices is just a matter of pure greed..."
The problem with that statement is that worldwide oil production continues to grow... Global growth in demand has far outstripped growth in supply, and scarcity leads to higher prices. Oil companies may be greedy, but you don't HAVE to pay $3 / gallon. Just don't drive.
The music companies are NOT SQUEEZING ANYBODY. If they raise their prices to, say, $40 per CD, then (almost) nobody will buy them. They make the product, so they set the price, but there's always a choice. Either you pay that price, or you walk away.
The only ones with no conscience are pirates that illegally download copyrighted music from the web.
"Maybe because Malaysians aren't 300 pound reality TV watching idiots?"
You insensitive clod!
I don't know, but seeing as how Mark Shuttleworth and Dennis Tito have been labeled Cosmonauts after completing their training, the same may apply here. One definition of Cosmonaut out there is "A crew member of a space mission launched by the former Soviet Union"
1) Buy a seat on Russian Spacecraft
2) Charge your citizens to vote on who gets to fly. Bonus points for call-in votes during a TV show: Cosmonaut Idol.
3) Profit!!!!
Oh Holy Cow Un Believable!!!!!
I can't wait to buy this thing!
In 2009... When the price has dropped to $150 and the games have been separated to wheat and chaff in the bargain bins.
Especially since Super Mario Brothers is a sequal to the Mario Brothers arcade game, I must say... I think Nintendo is doing this because their marketing people were not quite on the ball back in 2003. You know, dealing with Gamecube troubles, the shallow feed trough of recycled mascots....
Probably because the FCC doesn't allow buisness lines to sign up for the list, probably under threat of a penalty fine.
Call this an observation from a trusted source, but I'm fairly certain that businessess who sign up on that list get transfered back on to the "do call" telemarketer lists when they compare it to the phone numbers for buisness lines bought from the telephone companies.
Looking at recent events, such as the Tsunami and New Orleans flooding, it's an eye-catching number... but do the math. The Tsunami triggered by an 9.6-ish-on-the-richter-scale earthquake only managed to snuff out 0.0025% of the earth's population. Looking at New Orleans alone, since estimates are in the thousands, if 10,000 people died, that's about 2% of the population. If nature really doesn't want us around, either it's not trying very hard, or it's just a work in progress while Yellowstone prepares to blow its top again....
There's a lot of people who would even say that Nature's fury can't compare that to the fury of our fellow man. I'd have to wonder about that: Lung Cancer deaths related to smoking kill off about 440 people per day in the United States alone. Compare that to the rougly 2 and a half US soldiers per day killed in Iraq.... I'd say we are far better at intentionally killing our own selves than we are at killing others, and natural disaster takes a distant 3rd... or at least, disasters can't compare to other natural causes such as disease.
"Mmmmmh - Giant chicks "
Even that movie has been updated to reflect contemporary observations of the species.