In reply to your concern (as well as various other, like the fart-smelling guy), there's nothing about this that makes it so you *can't* sit next to each other. Case in point, I share an office with another guy, and we quite often lean over and help each other out with stuff (our desks are side-by-side, I could reach out and hit him if I wanted to). We've even done some hours+ pair programming sessions. If we could both have been working on the program at the same time, it would *definetly* have sped things up. Of course, in order to do that, we would both need to get Macs:-)
You've probably heard of this, but you didn't mention it. Definetly try out edonkey2k. mldonkey on your linux box, and the windows client to control it (I presume some of the windows clients are decent, don't have a machine to test them), and sharereactor.com to get the list of stuff to download. It seems to be an excellent way to get almost anything, from episodes of 24 or buffy that I missed, to beos software (that I paid for! but lost my original copy), to live dave matthews band.
I pulled the first few years as well, then forgot about it for a while (doing it batch style, rather than daily). I'm sorry to say that ecomics.com has moved to a 'last two weeks free, pay for everything else'-service*. So you, having done it daily, are set, everyone else will have to pay. Of course, targz'ing them up by year and putting up on edonkey would be awfully nice:-)
*You'll note an exception to this is doonesbury, which is hosted on ecomics. He has (almost) every comic from the beginning, only missing a few at first, probably due to having lost them...
Funny you should mention Dave Matthews, as I own a crap-load of DMB music, and share it all the time. Legally. Joyfully. With great pleasure, even:-) And 'my side of the story' is that they are all live tapings, from a band that allows taping live shows and sharing them. See www.etree.org for a list of others, along with how to get started. And if you, as my isp, shut me down for doing that, then you would be *stupid* for not having contacted me first, and getting 'my side of the story'.
And it's very, very, easy for someone to send out warning notices for stuff that's legit. See the recent article about unis getting letters about distributing MS Office, when it was actually Open Office. And previous discussion about how in Germany *anybody* can send cease and desist orders for stuff on behalf of people that *aren't their clients*, and if they get money, they get to keep part of it.
Just stuff to keep in mind, when you start throwing around 'their side of the story is irrelevant'...
If using noatun, make sure artswrapper is suid root, otherwise you don't get the renicing/realtime benefits of you rt/ll kernel (you do have at least the real-time and low-latency patches for your kernel, right?). Using a suid artswrapper and a patched kernel, I *never* experience skips, on a PIII 750. And by never, I mean even when I'm copying massive amounts of data from my ide cd and compiling something, at the same time.
I findly this very funny. Basically, your argument boils down to "I hate the XP ui. But MS paid a lot of money for it so it must be good. So study it! Just don't make me use it". If that doesn't strike *you* as hilarious (esp. when talking about a *free* DE), then, well, the problem isn't on my end:-)
What is this "Kingston" memory of which you speak? AFAIK, Kingston does not make ram, they throw other people's die on their modules (and sometimes they just buy the modules whole). It's pretty much a crap-shoot of whether or not you're getting samsung, hynix, micron (who just signed a deal to start selling to them again), or etc. So saying kingston memory is crap would be akin to saying dell makes crappy hard drives...
At the company that I work, we've been constantly telling our R&D departments that they shouldn't worry about the down-turn because we are here for the long-run, and we aren't going to rob profits tomorrow to make analysts happy today. That is until we had 8 straight losing quarters (about to be 9, with rumors of $7-900 million lost this last quarter running around the plant), dropping from $3 billion in cash to borrowing $500 mil. And cutting 10% of the workforce via layoffs. At this point we simply can't *afford* to think soley long-term, we need to be thinking in terms of "what will keep the lights on for the next year?". It sucks, but sometimes that's the way it has to be.
Read "I can't reconfigure any keybinding in any app, as GNOME lets me do, due to the fact that KDE's approach is less flexible."
KControl->Regional & Accessability->Keyboard Shortcuts. Go to town.
*I* use the keyboard to move around the system. I want good tab completion (including partial). GTK provides this.
Right-click on the input field. Choose from a wide variety of ways to autocomplete, including a keyboard navigatable drop-down.
Umm....gee, you mean *exactly like the GNOME file selector*? Read as "I read KDE developer propaganda, but have *no* idea how GNOME works."
I say many, many Gnome dev's complaining about how crappy the File selector dialogue was in 1.x and even 2.0. As a result, there are many "standard" gnome apps (whatever that means) that coded up their own and thus *don't* get the benefit of any changes. That's what happens when your base infrastructure does not measure up.
One of the nicest things about KParts is how easy it is to use from a programmer's perspective.
*Every* toolkit I can think of has a easy-to-use standard open/save dialog. The Mac had it back in '84, for chrissake. Has this guy ever written a line of software?
The file dialogue box is not a KPart, please try and keep up.
Yeah, *there's* a good way to ensure consistency. Keep changing the fucking file-picker each minor release. It was changed in the last major release. Just because KDE can't keep a single consistent interface doesn't mean that GNOME should fall to the same problems.
To parrot your particluar "style" of argument: "read: stagnant, inflexible, and one of the most complained about parts of earlier gnome releases"
What is this guy, *stupid*? All the higher-level GNOME widgets (see glade) are precisely consistent. That's what they're *there* for.
Glade is a way to *build* an interface, not a way to make sure that the resulting interface is consistent with other Gnome apps. I'm starting to doubt your ability to read and comprehend.
That's funny. I'm using sawfish as we speak. Perhaps that's because *GNOME* doesn't suffer from WM compatibility problems out the ass. The change was made because most users don't code in Lisp. The ones who *do*, like me, install sawfish. Not *that* complicated, except evidently for this guy. Also, if he doesn't like the simpler metacity WM, why the hell does he like the *ass simple* KDE window manager?
It's dead simple to run KDE with kwin, many people prefer windowmaker and kde. The fact that the language it's coded in affects your choice appalls me, but that's neither here nor there. And what, exactly, does KWin lack that makes it "ass simple"? I.e., what can your window manager do in Gnome that kwin + KDE can't do?
I.E. it is not also a web browser. No shit, friend. Some of us don't consider the pinnacle of a desktop to be cloning a dumb decision that was made by Microsoft *completely* for political convenience.
Odd, I didn't see him complaining about Nautilus's lack of web browsing, as much as pumping up konq's ability to have multiple panes with multiple different views, built in previews, customizability, etc. Could you please restrict yourself to attacking what he wrote, not what you are projecting on him?
Of course, KDE did *exactly* the same thing over its major releases, but apparently that doesn't count.
kfm *evolved* into konq, the only point that they even threw out major pieces of the code was during the transition to kparts. kwin is a direct descendant of the original window manager. KMail, the same. Konsole, the same. I could keep going... And his point is that Gnome has a very "oops we screwed up lets start again from scratch" mentality, that is not nearly as prevelant in KDE. The only thing even close that I can think of, is the current discussion on if and how to replace arts for kde4.
Tell me when the *KDE* application base isn't spread out over KDE 1, 2, and 3. I still can't find a newer version of Kcheat, buddy.
This was addressed already in another response, but basically, you can't name a major app that hasn't been ported, because there aren't any.
Read as "KDE sucks to code for in anything but C++ and reasonably supports only *one* file manager, WM, etc"
I use apps and code in PyKDE, it does not suck. There is *nothing* in KDE to keep you from running nautilus or kruiser or endeavor or.... Same with the window manager. As long as the window manager supports the *standard*, they'll work with KDE. On the other hand, there are major benefits to be gained by running the standard ones. Why (or how?) should that be different?
And where the hell did he pull multiple panels from? Just figured that he could toss a couple lies in there to flesh things out?
I'm sorry, you'll have to be more specific. What are you refering to here?
In conclusion, this is a pretty pathetic article. The author was wrong, showed bias, wasn't knowledgeable about what he was critiquing, and occasionally pulled stuff straight from his ass.
He was right in every instance where he made a definitive statement, told his bias upfront (*everyone* has bias, but now you *know* his), was more knowledgeable than you appear to be, and left his ass alone. You, on the other hand....
It wants to install the new libfam0c102 (g++ 3.2.2), which conflicts with your existing libfam, compiled with 2.95.3. Wait a couple more days, and 3.1 will finish being transitioned into sid (kdelibs, kdebase, arts, and qt are all there already). Then they will coexist peacefully.
Btw, this is all assuming that you are using sid, and probably a third-party KDE.
You laugh, but they put dogma on one of the editing cable channels (Comedy Central? Maybe?) As there is almost no violence (the hockey-stick through the woman and the ending are all I can think of), and no sex, all it required was for everyone involved in the movie to come in and have entirely new lines looped over the old ones. Sure, the movie ended up being about Mark's magical summer spent at his Aunt and Uncle's farm, but other than that it stayed true to the original film;-)
1) Why do you think that this will be used (soley?) to let children watch "bad" movies? Specifically, I prefer to watch PG-13 (and less) movies, but would like to see some R-rated movies, minus gratuitous sex scenes*, or gory violence (I don't enjoy gore, and if I want sex, then I romance my wife).
2) What double standards? You didn't elaborate, so I have to guess that you are critical of parents telling their children that they are unable to watch movies that the parents *do* watch. If that is your position, then it's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. If I was into gore/horror films, I certainly wouldn't let my 5 year old watch them. Neither would I want him to watch a Kevin Smith film, as there is no need for him to hear the F-word 5 times a minute. How is that a double-standard? I also wouldn't let him drink, vote, or drive.
*Off-topic note about this, I was listening to an archived interview of Chris Rock and Kevin Smith on the Howard Stern show, from just before Dogma's release. One of the most interesting parts of the interview is how everyone on the show agreed that if they could eliminate one thing from their life, it would be porn. It creates such false, twisted, "high" expectations, that no real person could live up to them, and you end up spending your whole time wanking off rather than having real sex with your partner. And none of those people are exactly what you would call "right-wing":-)
I'll have to disagree with you on that. I thought that Good Omens was a very dissappointing book that dragged, and was too "British". Hrrmm, I don't really know how to explain that better. Too much with the tea, crumpets and dry wit meet weird monsters. Neverwhere, on the other hand, I recall enjoying a lot, though I must confess I don't remember the plot much as all *grin*. Something about London? And fog?
To put this into perspective, I'm a huge Pratchet fan (I get two books of his for my birthday and Christmas, every year, so I'm about 1/2 through collecting the Discworld series). I also like everything Gaiman has ever wrote (excepting Good Omens). It's just their collaboration that left me cold.
Apple didn't use QT in Safari. They used KWQ (Quack). That's a wrapper layer, that passes QT stuff onto the ObjC/Cocoa layer. So while Apple may indeed use other KDE stuff (though I don't know what else they would want), it won't be a boon to Trolltech, as they don't have to pay the trolls a dime.
Well, I've seen nipples in PG-13 movies. For instance, Doc Hollywood. That scene where she's coming out of the lake is precious to my early-teenagerhood memories:-) Also, Logan's Run has some great nipple shots, like the extended drug sequence and the "We much change our clothes so they don't freeze"-sequence. Not that any of that has anything to do with the topic at hand, I'm just bored.
Or, you can work for a somewhat more enlightened company like I do (hint: we are the only memory maker that speaks English natively). Our CEO doesn't take his salary when the company isn't making money. The first people to feel the pinch of several bad quarters are those making more than 70K a year, through 10% pay cuts, which *are* restored after a year or so. Even though we've only had one profitable quarter in the last two years, we haven't had a single layoff, which is always couched in terms of "the last resort", and actually seems to be so. But when we're doing good (and we've had some great years), the stock options, bonuses, PFP's, and raises flow, from the top execs down to the floor sweepers. Do we think that the company "cares" for us? Hell, no. The management is just smart enough to figure out that if you treat your people good, they'll treat you good. It makes good business sense. If your PHB's can't figure that out, well, I'm sorry. But that doesn't mean that's the way it is all over...
After writing all that, I'm not sure this is the right post to append this to, so I'll simply repeat your disclaimer: "This wasn't all aimed at you, but at a general feeling towards Slashdotters complaining about stupid bosses and how all companies suck".:-)
You happen to have picked my very favorite software project to pick on:-) I'm the web/sysadmin around here, and we use solaris/apache/tomcat. If you ever want to see me in a bad mood, come around for the week it takes me to upgrade tomcat. Yes, I said week and I meant it. By the time I get done jerking around with getting a working version of the connector for Solaris 7, and it actually talking to apache, and the configuration changed around to fit whatever they decided to munge it to this time, tested it out on my devel server, and rolled it out into production, I've spent about five days on it. I can install and upgrade apache 'til the cows come home. I've successfully upgraded gcc from 2.9x to 3.2.x (meaning, also recompiling all c++ libs and programs). Basically, I can do whatever it is you want me to do, but don't ask me to mess with tomcat more than once or twice a year, or you'll see my resignation letter on your desk before you're done talking:-)
Now that I've got that off my chest, I must say that Tomcat is by far an exception. Almost all other apps that you go to install will be much more like Apache, where you can just install the rpm/deb/tgz and have a working (maybe not fine-tuned) webserver. So to paint the other OS projects with the same brush as Tomcat is to do every other project a big disservice.
Oh, and if you were using debian instead of Redhat, it would have been a case of 'apt-get install tomcat libapache-mod-jk apache', and you'd have been done. Admittedly, that is a case of your distrobution hiding the complexity (brokeness) of the app, which doesn't fix the app, but does make your life a lot easier. Don't ask me why we're using Solaris instead of debian, tisn't my decision:-(
And of course I just made an ass of myself, by not looking at the ".au" url in your user info. Of course, one could make that argument that Australian english is as bad a perversion as American english, and thus we are talking apples and oranges;-)
But that simply doesn't make sense in English. Let's spell it out completely:
"What he did (in my opinion) is wrong." It isn't proper, or even improper English to associate the IMO with "What he did". If someone said that out loud, 10 out of 10 english speakers would assume that he was talking about the "is wrong". Mainly because "in my opinion" *doesn't* *make* *sense* any other way. Even if the orig. poster was the investigator of the case, and was trying to show presumption of innosense, he would say something along the line of "What he allegedly did", or maybe "What he did (if in fact he did it), was wrong".
By the fact that you said "... from the US. I thought you guys..." in the last paragraph, I'll assume that #1 you are not from the US and #2 english is not your native language. So don't consider this a flame as you are (very obviously) much more fluent in English than I ever will be in your native tongue, whatever it is. But take it from me, there is simply no way that a native english speaker would ever use that phrase in the manner with which you are espousing.
Or maybe, just *maybe*, you should read the article where they INTERVIEW THE GUY WHO WRITES THAT SHOW! Huh! Who'd a thunk... Journalists doing research. Much more common than people RingTFA...
Cableone. And I never had MSN, so I didn't have to feel *too* guilty:-) I was one of the "pioneers" of DSL in the valley, and started out with Cyberhighway (remember them?) over 3 years ago, then went to RMCI, then Micron.NET, which of course was sold to some other company (heck if I can remember their name), then in turn sold to Interland, which sold out to Solution Pro, at which point I moved...
And believe you me, if cable was faster I wouldn't be complaining about it B-)
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In reply to your concern (as well as various other, like the fart-smelling guy), there's nothing about this that makes it so you *can't* sit next to each other. Case in point, I share an office with another guy, and we quite often lean over and help each other out with stuff (our desks are side-by-side, I could reach out and hit him if I wanted to). We've even done some hours+ pair programming sessions. If we could both have been working on the program at the same time, it would *definetly* have sped things up. Of course, in order to do that, we would both need to get Macs :-)
You've probably heard of this, but you didn't mention it. Definetly try out edonkey2k. mldonkey on your linux box, and the windows client to control it (I presume some of the windows clients are decent, don't have a machine to test them), and sharereactor.com to get the list of stuff to download. It seems to be an excellent way to get almost anything, from episodes of 24 or buffy that I missed, to beos software (that I paid for! but lost my original copy), to live dave matthews band.
I pulled the first few years as well, then forgot about it for a while (doing it batch style, rather than daily). I'm sorry to say that ecomics.com has moved to a 'last two weeks free, pay for everything else'-service*. So you, having done it daily, are set, everyone else will have to pay. Of course, targz'ing them up by year and putting up on edonkey would be awfully nice :-)
*You'll note an exception to this is doonesbury, which is hosted on ecomics. He has (almost) every comic from the beginning, only missing a few at first, probably due to having lost them...
Assuming it ever comes out: http://www.bardslegacy.com/main.html
/not/ a Bard's Tale sequel. But um, *cough cough*, it's a bard's tale sequel. ;-)
It is *officially*
Funny you should mention Dave Matthews, as I own a crap-load of DMB music, and share it all the time. Legally. Joyfully. With great pleasure, even :-) And 'my side of the story' is that they are all live tapings, from a band that allows taping live shows and sharing them. See www.etree.org for a list of others, along with how to get started. And if you, as my isp, shut me down for doing that, then you would be *stupid* for not having contacted me first, and getting 'my side of the story'.
And it's very, very, easy for someone to send out warning notices for stuff that's legit. See the recent article about unis getting letters about distributing MS Office, when it was actually Open Office. And previous discussion about how in Germany *anybody* can send cease and desist orders for stuff on behalf of people that *aren't their clients*, and if they get money, they get to keep part of it.
Just stuff to keep in mind, when you start throwing around 'their side of the story is irrelevant'...
If using noatun, make sure artswrapper is suid root, otherwise you don't get the renicing/realtime benefits of you rt/ll kernel (you do have at least the real-time and low-latency patches for your kernel, right?). Using a suid artswrapper and a patched kernel, I *never* experience skips, on a PIII 750. And by never, I mean even when I'm copying massive amounts of data from my ide cd and compiling something, at the same time.
Dunno about recording, sorry.
I findly this very funny. Basically, your argument boils down to "I hate the XP ui. But MS paid a lot of money for it so it must be good. So study it! Just don't make me use it". If that doesn't strike *you* as hilarious (esp. when talking about a *free* DE), then, well, the problem isn't on my end :-)
What is this "Kingston" memory of which you speak? AFAIK, Kingston does not make ram, they throw other people's die on their modules (and sometimes they just buy the modules whole). It's pretty much a crap-shoot of whether or not you're getting samsung, hynix, micron (who just signed a deal to start selling to them again), or etc. So saying kingston memory is crap would be akin to saying dell makes crappy hard drives...
:-)
Not a flame, just a clarification
At the company that I work, we've been constantly telling our R&D departments that they shouldn't worry about the down-turn because we are here for the long-run, and we aren't going to rob profits tomorrow to make analysts happy today. That is until we had 8 straight losing quarters (about to be 9, with rumors of $7-900 million lost this last quarter running around the plant), dropping from $3 billion in cash to borrowing $500 mil. And cutting 10% of the workforce via layoffs. At this point we simply can't *afford* to think soley long-term, we need to be thinking in terms of "what will keep the lights on for the next year?". It sucks, but sometimes that's the way it has to be.
So I imagined this?
Read "I can't reconfigure any keybinding in any app, as GNOME lets me do, due to the fact that KDE's approach is less flexible."
KControl->Regional & Accessability->Keyboard Shortcuts. Go to town.
*I* use the keyboard to move around the system. I want good tab completion (including partial). GTK provides this.
Right-click on the input field. Choose from a wide variety of ways to autocomplete, including a keyboard navigatable drop-down.
Umm....gee, you mean *exactly like the GNOME file selector*? Read as "I read KDE developer propaganda, but have *no* idea how GNOME works."
I say many, many Gnome dev's complaining about how crappy the File selector dialogue was in 1.x and even 2.0. As a result, there are many "standard" gnome apps (whatever that means) that coded up their own and thus *don't* get the benefit of any changes. That's what happens when your base infrastructure does not measure up.
One of the nicest things about KParts is how easy it is to use from a programmer's perspective. *Every* toolkit I can think of has a easy-to-use standard open/save dialog. The Mac had it back in '84, for chrissake. Has this guy ever written a line of software?
The file dialogue box is not a KPart, please try and keep up.
Yeah, *there's* a good way to ensure consistency. Keep changing the fucking file-picker each minor release. It was changed in the last major release. Just because KDE can't keep a single consistent interface doesn't mean that GNOME should fall to the same problems.
To parrot your particluar "style" of argument: "read: stagnant, inflexible, and one of the most complained about parts of earlier gnome releases"
What is this guy, *stupid*? All the higher-level GNOME widgets (see glade) are precisely consistent. That's what they're *there* for.
Glade is a way to *build* an interface, not a way to make sure that the resulting interface is consistent with other Gnome apps. I'm starting to doubt your ability to read and comprehend.
That's funny. I'm using sawfish as we speak. Perhaps that's because *GNOME* doesn't suffer from WM compatibility problems out the ass. The change was made because most users don't code in Lisp. The ones who *do*, like me, install sawfish. Not *that* complicated, except evidently for this guy. Also, if he doesn't like the simpler metacity WM, why the hell does he like the *ass simple* KDE window manager?
It's dead simple to run KDE with kwin, many people prefer windowmaker and kde. The fact that the language it's coded in affects your choice appalls me, but that's neither here nor there. And what, exactly, does KWin lack that makes it "ass simple"? I.e., what can your window manager do in Gnome that kwin + KDE can't do?
I.E. it is not also a web browser. No shit, friend. Some of us don't consider the pinnacle of a desktop to be cloning a dumb decision that was made by Microsoft *completely* for political convenience.
Odd, I didn't see him complaining about Nautilus's lack of web browsing, as much as pumping up konq's ability to have multiple panes with multiple different views, built in previews, customizability, etc. Could you please restrict yourself to attacking what he wrote, not what you are projecting on him?
Of course, KDE did *exactly* the same thing over its major releases, but apparently that doesn't count.
kfm *evolved* into konq, the only point that they even threw out major pieces of the code was during the transition to kparts. kwin is a direct descendant of the original window manager. KMail, the same. Konsole, the same. I could keep going... And his point is that Gnome has a very "oops we screwed up lets start again from scratch" mentality, that is not nearly as prevelant in KDE. The only thing even close that I can think of, is the current discussion on if and how to replace arts for kde4.
Tell me when the *KDE* application base isn't spread out over KDE 1, 2, and 3. I still can't find a newer version of Kcheat, buddy.
This was addressed already in another response, but basically, you can't name a major app that hasn't been ported, because there aren't any.
Read as "KDE sucks to code for in anything but C++ and reasonably supports only *one* file manager, WM, etc"
I use apps and code in PyKDE, it does not suck. There is *nothing* in KDE to keep you from running nautilus or kruiser or endeavor or.... Same with the window manager. As long as the window manager supports the *standard*, they'll work with KDE. On the other hand, there are major benefits to be gained by running the standard ones. Why (or how?) should that be different?
And where the hell did he pull multiple panels from? Just figured that he could toss a couple lies in there to flesh things out?
I'm sorry, you'll have to be more specific. What are you refering to here?
In conclusion, this is a pretty pathetic article. The author was wrong, showed bias, wasn't knowledgeable about what he was critiquing, and occasionally pulled stuff straight from his ass.
He was right in every instance where he made a definitive statement, told his bias upfront (*everyone* has bias, but now you *know* his), was more knowledgeable than you appear to be, and left his ass alone. You, on the other hand....
It wants to install the new libfam0c102 (g++ 3.2.2), which conflicts with your existing libfam, compiled with 2.95.3. Wait a couple more days, and 3.1 will finish being transitioned into sid (kdelibs, kdebase, arts, and qt are all there already). Then they will coexist peacefully.
Btw, this is all assuming that you are using sid, and probably a third-party KDE.
HTH.
You laugh, but they put dogma on one of the editing cable channels (Comedy Central? Maybe?) As there is almost no violence (the hockey-stick through the woman and the ending are all I can think of), and no sex, all it required was for everyone involved in the movie to come in and have entirely new lines looped over the old ones. Sure, the movie ended up being about Mark's magical summer spent at his Aunt and Uncle's farm, but other than that it stayed true to the original film ;-)
1) Why do you think that this will be used (soley?) to let children watch "bad" movies? Specifically, I prefer to watch PG-13 (and less) movies, but would like to see some R-rated movies, minus gratuitous sex scenes*, or gory violence (I don't enjoy gore, and if I want sex, then I romance my wife).
:-)
2) What double standards? You didn't elaborate, so I have to guess that you are critical of parents telling their children that they are unable to watch movies that the parents *do* watch. If that is your position, then it's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. If I was into gore/horror films, I certainly wouldn't let my 5 year old watch them. Neither would I want him to watch a Kevin Smith film, as there is no need for him to hear the F-word 5 times a minute. How is that a double-standard? I also wouldn't let him drink, vote, or drive.
*Off-topic note about this, I was listening to an archived interview of Chris Rock and Kevin Smith on the Howard Stern show, from just before Dogma's release. One of the most interesting parts of the interview is how everyone on the show agreed that if they could eliminate one thing from their life, it would be porn. It creates such false, twisted, "high" expectations, that no real person could live up to them, and you end up spending your whole time wanking off rather than having real sex with your partner. And none of those people are exactly what you would call "right-wing"
5th element. (I'll admit I had to google for it). It was bugging me, too.
I'll have to disagree with you on that. I thought that Good Omens was a very dissappointing book that dragged, and was too "British". Hrrmm, I don't really know how to explain that better. Too much with the tea, crumpets and dry wit meet weird monsters. Neverwhere, on the other hand, I recall enjoying a lot, though I must confess I don't remember the plot much as all *grin*. Something about London? And fog?
To put this into perspective, I'm a huge Pratchet fan (I get two books of his for my birthday and Christmas, every year, so I'm about 1/2 through collecting the Discworld series). I also like everything Gaiman has ever wrote (excepting Good Omens). It's just their collaboration that left me cold.
Apple didn't use QT in Safari. They used KWQ (Quack). That's a wrapper layer, that passes QT stuff onto the ObjC/Cocoa layer. So while Apple may indeed use other KDE stuff (though I don't know what else they would want), it won't be a boon to Trolltech, as they don't have to pay the trolls a dime.
Well, I've seen nipples in PG-13 movies. For instance, Doc Hollywood. That scene where she's coming out of the lake is precious to my early-teenagerhood memories :-) Also, Logan's Run has some great nipple shots, like the extended drug sequence and the "We much change our clothes so they don't freeze"-sequence. Not that any of that has anything to do with the topic at hand, I'm just bored.
Or, you can work for a somewhat more enlightened company like I do (hint: we are the only memory maker that speaks English natively). Our CEO doesn't take his salary when the company isn't making money. The first people to feel the pinch of several bad quarters are those making more than 70K a year, through 10% pay cuts, which *are* restored after a year or so. Even though we've only had one profitable quarter in the last two years, we haven't had a single layoff, which is always couched in terms of "the last resort", and actually seems to be so. But when we're doing good (and we've had some great years), the stock options, bonuses, PFP's, and raises flow, from the top execs down to the floor sweepers. Do we think that the company "cares" for us? Hell, no. The management is just smart enough to figure out that if you treat your people good, they'll treat you good. It makes good business sense. If your PHB's can't figure that out, well, I'm sorry. But that doesn't mean that's the way it is all over...
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After writing all that, I'm not sure this is the right post to append this to, so I'll simply repeat your disclaimer: "This wasn't all aimed at you, but at a general feeling towards Slashdotters complaining about stupid bosses and how all companies suck".
And in a desperate attempt to correllate this poster's comment with the story that it is attached to:
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"I have not checked out those reviews, but they must have been written very quickly!"
Crap, that's not funny to me either
Oh, well, I guess there is no way to make the previous poster's comment make sense in this context. Say lah vee!
The headline will be: "Um, planets may be formed in slightly under a week. Scientists all over shocked and suprised." :-)
You happen to have picked my very favorite software project to pick on :-) I'm the web/sysadmin around here, and we use solaris/apache/tomcat. If you ever want to see me in a bad mood, come around for the week it takes me to upgrade tomcat. Yes, I said week and I meant it. By the time I get done jerking around with getting a working version of the connector for Solaris 7, and it actually talking to apache, and the configuration changed around to fit whatever they decided to munge it to this time, tested it out on my devel server, and rolled it out into production, I've spent about five days on it. I can install and upgrade apache 'til the cows come home. I've successfully upgraded gcc from 2.9x to 3.2.x (meaning, also recompiling all c++ libs and programs). Basically, I can do whatever it is you want me to do, but don't ask me to mess with tomcat more than once or twice a year, or you'll see my resignation letter on your desk before you're done talking :-)
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Now that I've got that off my chest, I must say that Tomcat is by far an exception. Almost all other apps that you go to install will be much more like Apache, where you can just install the rpm/deb/tgz and have a working (maybe not fine-tuned) webserver. So to paint the other OS projects with the same brush as Tomcat is to do every other project a big disservice.
Oh, and if you were using debian instead of Redhat, it would have been a case of 'apt-get install tomcat libapache-mod-jk apache', and you'd have been done. Admittedly, that is a case of your distrobution hiding the complexity (brokeness) of the app, which doesn't fix the app, but does make your life a lot easier. Don't ask me why we're using Solaris instead of debian, tisn't my decision
And of course I just made an ass of myself, by not looking at the ".au" url in your user info. Of course, one could make that argument that Australian english is as bad a perversion as American english, and thus we are talking apples and oranges ;-)
But that simply doesn't make sense in English. Let's spell it out completely:
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"What he did (in my opinion) is wrong." It isn't proper, or even improper English to associate the IMO with "What he did". If someone said that out loud, 10 out of 10 english speakers would assume that he was talking about the "is wrong". Mainly because "in my opinion" *doesn't* *make* *sense* any other way. Even if the orig. poster was the investigator of the case, and was trying to show presumption of innosense, he would say something along the line of "What he allegedly did", or maybe "What he did (if in fact he did it), was wrong".
By the fact that you said "... from the US. I thought you guys..." in the last paragraph, I'll assume that #1 you are not from the US and #2 english is not your native language. So don't consider this a flame as you are (very obviously) much more fluent in English than I ever will be in your native tongue, whatever it is. But take it from me, there is simply no way that a native english speaker would ever use that phrase in the manner with which you are espousing.
Have a great day.
Or maybe, just *maybe*, you should read the article where they INTERVIEW THE GUY WHO WRITES THAT SHOW! Huh! Who'd a thunk... Journalists doing research. Much more common than people RingTFA...
Cableone. And I never had MSN, so I didn't have to feel *too* guilty :-) I was one of the "pioneers" of DSL in the valley, and started out with Cyberhighway (remember them?) over 3 years ago, then went to RMCI, then Micron.NET, which of course was sold to some other company (heck if I can remember their name), then in turn sold to Interland, which sold out to Solution Pro, at which point I moved...
And believe you me, if cable was faster I wouldn't be complaining about it B-)