I use GNOME, so I have no clue how or even why you'd want to use Gnucash with KDE.
Um, because there isn't a program of comparable functionality and price point available as a native KDE app yet, maybe? As to how, it's not that difficult - it's not like KDE and Gnome disagree on the basics of existence. In the worst case you just have a lot of duplicated libraries around. My Mandrake box came with both KDE and Gnome apps on a KDE desktop; after switching to the Ximian Gnome desktop the KDE apps still work just fine.
I don't understand folks who feel the need to go with one desktop or the other - use the best of both worlds, people! Heck Netscape/Mozilla doesn't look exactly native to either desktop, so you're already going to have to master the awe-inspiring difficulty of two different widget sets, three sets is only marginally worse. Plus, with themes you can make Gnome look like KDE, or vice versa.
On consoles there is no compromising as all the systems are exactly the same.
Not that I don't get your point, but consoles have the same problems sometimes - I went through two used PSXs a couple months ago before finally getting wise and buying a PSOne like I should have in the first place. Supposedly they play the same games, but FFIX (my wife's killer app) was pretty sketchy on the PSX due to heat issues.
That being said, console gaming is looking a lot more attractive to me than it did a few years back. Compared to the pain of setting up PC games, which monopolize the computer, require a much more upright posture, and involve dealing with either Linux 3D issues or Windows games that won't work with Windows '95 any more (maybe not yet, but I imagine W95 compatibility will no longer be a goal for game publishers once XP is out), consoles are a breeze. And there are enough old-but-cheap-and-fun games out there to hold me for quite a while.
I imagine
the folks who invested money in Gnumatic (they had millions in VC money, IIRC) and the employees who were
counting on it to pay their bills are less thrilled about the situation.
Here's a good question: How is the Linux Developer's Group different than Gnumatic? Their web pages have the same sorts of claims, and they seem to be composed of mostly the same people. Is there any reason to think that what happened to gnumatic won't happen to LDG?
...this isn't the kind of app you can partition
into free code and paid-for add-ons."
Looks like he was pretty much on the money.
I think the jury's still out on that one, though - just because Gnumatic or LDG haven't yet hit on the right formula for getting paid for Gnucash doesn't mean that it isn't possible to do so, and just because Kapital is proprietary doesn't automatically mean that they've solved all problems of making a profit (are they at the moment?). For one thing, the existing Gnucash fits all of my needs, so no matter what business model either of them adopts they're not making a whole lot off of me.
I agree that VCs aren't going to foot the bills anymore for anyone (or at least only for the very fortunate), but that doesn't mean that all ideas initially funded with VC money are automatically bad ideas.
OK, maybe you really did get screwed, but I'm still surprised that you could get things fixed after paying for it for a year. You must be a better negotiator over the phone than many:)
Wait a minute, it took you a year to figure out they were billing you, and you're cranky that it took 6 calls to get a refund? I sure wouldn't give you a refund - a year is a long time to be paying for something and then say you never wanted it in the first place! Too bad more companies aren't like that - I'd always be driving a brand-new car:)
This is made worse by an odd
pricing system, under which firms charge a fixed amount, instead of billing their customers by the hour. As a
result, software houses bear all the risk if, as is usual, a project takes longer than planned.
I fail to see how this is a bad thing - this just encourages good software estimation. The number one complaint about EULAs in the U.S. is that you can't really take the software company to task for poor products; here's a case where they actually do pay for their mistakes. Sounds good to me.
It wouldn't be a great leap to sell a list of 'trash producers' with total weights to marketing types since more
trash means a household likely makes more purchases and is a suitable target for 'family' advertising.
Of course, then you've got more ads to throw away, so you look like a bigger consumer, so you get more ads, and so on...
I thought it was weird that the article was specifying sound in bels, rather than decibels. Are you sure you're comparing the right units? Although I assume that 0db == 0 bels anyway.
The stated hearing cutoff of 2.5 bels would be 25 decibels, which is definitely loud enough to hear.
In one sense, it isn't unbridled capitalism, but in another sense it is exactly that. If a monopoly controls the market, then in a sense there is no more capitalism since that monopoly can charge any price it wants. Sometimes to keep the market truly free, you have to have limitations on what individual competitors can do. Until we find an economic system that better resists the effects of monopoly power, I don't see any other alternatives - would you prefer to buy everything from Standard Oil, AT&T, IBM, Microsoft, and ADM? I didn't think so.
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No, no, that's not it. It's "what if Linus was hit by a bus?". "blown off the face of the earth" - hah! You probably don't even know what's supposed to happen to Alan Cox...
:)
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StarOffice isn't too bad - I used it for a presentation this week. Since our IT folk aren't quite bright or motivated enough to make the color laserjet accessible from Solaris, though, I had to load the finished presentation into PowerPoint to print the thing. It mostly imported OK, except that some fonts looked pretty different between the two. I eventually figured out that "Arial Narrow" would look presentable under both.
StarOffice was marginally easier to deal with than PowerPoint+Citrix, not that that's saying a lot...
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That is a good point. However, companies which posses monopoly control of an industry are held to a stricter standard when they take actions that might further their monopoly into new areas. RedHat doesn't have any monopolies on anything, so their bundling of things is fairly harmless. Microsoft has a monopoly on desktop OSes, so any time they bundle Microsoft products in place of a competitor's the effect will be to extend their monopoly into application markets.
I still thing the arm-twisting of the OEMs would have been enough to make the case, though - in itself I don't think bundling is as bad as the DOJ made it out to be, and maybe Microsoft hasn't always intended to extend their control via bundling in the way that they have. But the end result is the same - a loss of competition, which is bad for the marketplace.
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For any potential Mars mission no one who "needs" booze and blow-up dolls would be selected. Luxury items will certianly be included, however, since the crew will have to stay sane, comfortable, and amicable on the 3+ years the mission would take.
I don't know as I'd consider any adult in the prime of their life who could go 3+ years without sexual release to be particularly sane. Or were you just thinking they'd send an equal balance of the sexes so that no one needs any sex toys?
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The post was good, my mood at the time was bad. Sorry to take it out on you.
Actually I like the idea of scaling the punishment based on how much profit was made from the crime, although I think that would be pretty hard for a judge to determine what the percentages should be.
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They are getting gradually whacked - see here. The big question is how he's avoided the 2-minute repost wait. Maybe by posting them all absolutely simultaneously?
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Wow, I stand corrected! Although I don't know how many people would understand what I was trying to get across if I made the distinction between the two terms, I'll try to be more accurate in my usage of them.
See - and people say grammar flames never amount to anything:)
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Um, because there isn't a program of comparable functionality and price point available as a native KDE app yet, maybe? As to how, it's not that difficult - it's not like KDE and Gnome disagree on the basics of existence. In the worst case you just have a lot of duplicated libraries around. My Mandrake box came with both KDE and Gnome apps on a KDE desktop; after switching to the Ximian Gnome desktop the KDE apps still work just fine.
I don't understand folks who feel the need to go with one desktop or the other - use the best of both worlds, people! Heck Netscape/Mozilla doesn't look exactly native to either desktop, so you're already going to have to master the awe-inspiring difficulty of two different widget sets, three sets is only marginally worse. Plus, with themes you can make Gnome look like KDE, or vice versa.
Not that I don't get your point, but consoles have the same problems sometimes - I went through two used PSXs a couple months ago before finally getting wise and buying a PSOne like I should have in the first place. Supposedly they play the same games, but FFIX (my wife's killer app) was pretty sketchy on the PSX due to heat issues.
That being said, console gaming is looking a lot more attractive to me than it did a few years back. Compared to the pain of setting up PC games, which monopolize the computer, require a much more upright posture, and involve dealing with either Linux 3D issues or Windows games that won't work with Windows '95 any more (maybe not yet, but I imagine W95 compatibility will no longer be a goal for game publishers once XP is out), consoles are a breeze. And there are enough old-but-cheap-and-fun games out there to hold me for quite a while.
Not to mention the munitions that say:
"I am an explosive. I will go off in 10...9..."
Enemy Soldier: ...b4k4.
Those weren't keywords; it was just that a huge number of people had "evil empire" linked to Microsoft, and Google picked up on that.
Here's a good question: How is the Linux Developer's Group different than Gnumatic? Their web pages have the same sorts of claims, and they seem to be composed of mostly the same people. Is there any reason to think that what happened to gnumatic won't happen to LDG?
I think the jury's still out on that one, though - just because Gnumatic or LDG haven't yet hit on the right formula for getting paid for Gnucash doesn't mean that it isn't possible to do so, and just because Kapital is proprietary doesn't automatically mean that they've solved all problems of making a profit (are they at the moment?). For one thing, the existing Gnucash fits all of my needs, so no matter what business model either of them adopts they're not making a whole lot off of me.
I agree that VCs aren't going to foot the bills anymore for anyone (or at least only for the very fortunate), but that doesn't mean that all ideas initially funded with VC money are automatically bad ideas.
OK, maybe you really did get screwed, but I'm still surprised that you could get things fixed after paying for it for a year. You must be a better negotiator over the phone than many :)
The truth comes out: anti-virus software companies really are computer virus companies...
IIRC, a past Darwin Award went to someone who crashed into such a sign when trying to get the highest readout possible on it...
Hey, don't be knockin' Dick Cheney - without him, nothing would stand between W and the presidency :)
Wait a minute, it took you a year to figure out they were billing you, and you're cranky that it took 6 calls to get a refund? I sure wouldn't give you a refund - a year is a long time to be paying for something and then say you never wanted it in the first place! Too bad more companies aren't like that - I'd always be driving a brand-new car :)
I fail to see how this is a bad thing - this just encourages good software estimation. The number one complaint about EULAs in the U.S. is that you can't really take the software company to task for poor products; here's a case where they actually do pay for their mistakes. Sounds good to me.
Of course, then you've got more ads to throw away, so you look like a bigger consumer, so you get more ads, and so on...
A lot more than from you - let's see your web site that gets more hits and has more info than yours. Also, I'm pretty sure he's not 12 anymore.
I thought it was weird that the article was specifying sound in bels, rather than decibels. Are you sure you're comparing the right units? Although I assume that 0db == 0 bels anyway.
The stated hearing cutoff of 2.5 bels would be 25 decibels, which is definitely loud enough to hear.
In one sense, it isn't unbridled capitalism, but in another sense it is exactly that. If a monopoly controls the market, then in a sense there is no more capitalism since that monopoly can charge any price it wants. Sometimes to keep the market truly free, you have to have limitations on what individual competitors can do. Until we find an economic system that better resists the effects of monopoly power, I don't see any other alternatives - would you prefer to buy everything from Standard Oil, AT&T, IBM, Microsoft, and ADM? I didn't think so.
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No, no, that's not it. It's "what if Linus was hit by a bus?". "blown off the face of the earth" - hah! You probably don't even know what's supposed to happen to Alan Cox...
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StarOffice isn't too bad - I used it for a presentation this week. Since our IT folk aren't quite bright or motivated enough to make the color laserjet accessible from Solaris, though, I had to load the finished presentation into PowerPoint to print the thing. It mostly imported OK, except that some fonts looked pretty different between the two. I eventually figured out that "Arial Narrow" would look presentable under both.
StarOffice was marginally easier to deal with than PowerPoint+Citrix, not that that's saying a lot...
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That is a good point. However, companies which posses monopoly control of an industry are held to a stricter standard when they take actions that might further their monopoly into new areas. RedHat doesn't have any monopolies on anything, so their bundling of things is fairly harmless. Microsoft has a monopoly on desktop OSes, so any time they bundle Microsoft products in place of a competitor's the effect will be to extend their monopoly into application markets.
I still thing the arm-twisting of the OEMs would have been enough to make the case, though - in itself I don't think bundling is as bad as the DOJ made it out to be, and maybe Microsoft hasn't always intended to extend their control via bundling in the way that they have. But the end result is the same - a loss of competition, which is bad for the marketplace.
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As seen in a post yesterday, although I haven't used them yet: www.pogolinux.com
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I don't know as I'd consider any adult in the prime of their life who could go 3+ years without sexual release to be particularly sane. Or were you just thinking they'd send an equal balance of the sexes so that no one needs any sex toys?
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The post was good, my mood at the time was bad. Sorry to take it out on you.
Actually I like the idea of scaling the punishment based on how much profit was made from the crime, although I think that would be pretty hard for a judge to determine what the percentages should be.
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They are getting gradually whacked - see here. The big question is how he's avoided the 2-minute repost wait. Maybe by posting them all absolutely simultaneously?
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Wow, I stand corrected! Although I don't know how many people would understand what I was trying to get across if I made the distinction between the two terms, I'll try to be more accurate in my usage of them.
See - and people say grammar flames never amount to anything :)
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Thanks, but the sig really should have prepared you for that :)
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