Re:Making it just as heavy as Gnome and KDE now?
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No, KDE4 is still unstable compared to KDE3. I have all the desktop effects turned off, so it's not that. KDE4 was all about eye candy and new APIs and doing things the right way, but with absolutely no plan with respect to how to USE it until it actually stabilized.
I'm a KDE fan (I am running Kubuntu and have since 9.x, and was a Slackware user with KDE before that) but I'm really, really disappointed in KDE4. I like Gnome even less, which is why I stick with KDE. It's not because I love it. The printing subsystem still has not regained all the functionality that 3.x had, Amarok is ass now (I am using Amarok for 3.x), Konqueror took a big nosedive, the networking system tray icon still can't set up a VPN or use a cellular modem properly, Kontact is a steaming pile of instability... Kopete's notifications don't always fire... The only thing that *IS* stable on KDE4 is the goddamned terminal app. This instability has been like this since KDE4.x came out. Every new release introduces new features but bugs never seem to get addressed.
So no, KDE 4.2 is *not* fine. It's improving, sure, but if they really want to make a usable desktop they have to do a full-out feature freeze and fix some of these incredibly bad bugs!
If you're a 50 year old factory worker in the US, who was laid off 6 months ago, you absolutely cannot move to Canada and get a job.
If you haven't been paying into the socialist coffers for 30 years of your work life and expect to move here and take advantage of them, I'd say that's a mite unfair to those who are here, wouldn't you?
I know I'm in the minority here but I could not stand any of Pratchett's books. Not a single one. His writing style makes me want to try and cut my jugular with the pages of whatever crap he's published.
I always suggested the Beverly Cleary books for kids getting to the double digits and just entering them. Aside from her, there was also Hardy Boys. My brother devoured that entire collection. I liked The Indian in the Cupboard series and also a book called My Side of the Mountain. It's a very cool book about a city boy who gets sick of city life and runs away to live in the wild. He learns a lot of survival stuff and eventually trains his own Peregrine Falcon.
Instead of just spewing your opinion, why not back it up? While I agree that the CRTC has done some good in the past, the recent string of decisions coming out of the commission is making me wonder what the hell good they're for, because they sure as hell aren't looking out for the consumer, which is their mandate. Ok, they recently required cell carriers to unlock your devices once the contract's up, but that just allows you to use your 3yo phone on someone else's network. We have some of the highest costing cellular plans on the globe, but hey we can carry our old devices over. Yay, CRTC.
So how about it? Why do you feel that dissolving the CRTC's a bad idea? What have they done in the area of the internet or cellular telephony that have actually really done GOOD for the consumer? Or are you just someone who wants to call people morons on the internet (like we're running out of those kinds of people)?
That all sounds fine and good, but if you can't observe a quantum system without altering it how the hell do you read the answer? I don't understand how you can entangle two photons and get anything useful out of them because you can't observe one without altering the other. How do you read out anything useful in a quantum system?
Possibly because the time and effort required to do that (i.e. very little) is not worth doing so? I've registered a handful of fake addresses to read things behind registered sites (ESPECIALLY the NY Times) and I've come to the conclusion that it's just not worth it. I don't bitch about it though, I just skip on to the comments or the next article.
It'd be pretty straightforward to circumvent a compiler's idea that the length of s is invariant for each loop pass. Some pointer math could probably do it rather handily.
I'm not saying that that's *right*, but relying on the compiler to optimize away your indiscretions is a rather poor way to write code.
Today we have garbage collectiors in Java and that is why the C64 is completely outdated.
Everyone who still writes code on the C64 instead of Java won't get a job.
You probably don't even know the latest words.
Oh, I don't know about that. There are thousands of embedded systems that need programming and require the kind of thorough knowledge of the hardware that you got from the old C64 days. There are more 8-, 16- and 32-bit systems without enough memory to run something like Java than there are PCs and higher class systems.
Don't pooh-pooh the old ways. They're what's running your world.
It's "for all intents and purposes" not "for all intensive purposes." When you say it you can get away with it wrong, but when you write it you just look dumb.
Totally agreed, and this is one of the main reasons why I am so against special "electronic" versions of already-existing laws.
If I am recording content from my legitimate cable TV connection and consuming it in my own home, with my friends and family, it should not matter if I am using the cable company's hardware or my own. The second I take that data and publish it (torrent, for example) nail my ass to the wall with existing copyright and/or distribution laws. There's no need for a special "digital" version of copyright infringement.
You're absolutely right; the man's a criminal, and should be prosecuted as any other thief.
Although not with any of the solutions others have offered.
Two DSL links from different providers (would have worked with cable or satellite or GPRS/HSPA) -- the router uses iproute2 to set up multiple default gateways and use them in a round-robin fashion. Now I was going one step further; they wanted a single IP, so I extruded a multihomed IP from a colocated server and routed traffic for it over these multiple links (over L2TP tunnels, IIRC).
It worked really well, and you could aggregate more bandwidth simply by adding more connections. The colocated server had next to zero load. As links fell and came back, the ip-up scripts automatically adjusted and the overall bandwidth grew and shrank as they should.
If I were to do it again, I'd be a little smarter on the choosing of the link to use for a particular packet; i.e. have a management daemon that kept track of the average/burst traffic through each link and select the "best one" based on available bandwidth at that instant and expected return packet size.
As long as I can get a full-size notebook keyboard (yes that does seem like an oxymoron) in 10" width I'm a happy camper. What drives me nuts about netbooks is 1024x600. I would *love* to try out a 1920x1080 10" display. I *want* 300ish DPI. I want the additional battery drain. Nokia hit a 200ish DPI screen with their N800 and that was how many years ago... where are the 1080p netbook displays??
I disagree. I think a hobbyiest can take a look at the simpler, smaller, cheaper devices and have lots of fun without jumping to the top-end parts. Hell, they could have a ton of fun with CPLDs too, although they'd become pretty limiting in a hurry.
Yes, Spartan6 is a lightweight compared to the Virtex line, but again... we're talking about getting started in FPGAs. I think throwing a ton of money at a dev board that will be severely underutilized for months, if not years, is a fast way to turn people off of learning about FPGAs.
Spartan 6 is anaemic? What are you trying to build? I am working with a Raggedstone Spartan IIIe card (the mini-can); it's US$150 and I'm developing PCI hardware with it. That's hardly anaemic. There's lots of fun to be had with smaller devices as well.
NX Free edition is non-trivial to install? There are three packages to download and install off of nomachine's website. It just works once they're installed. What are you talking about?
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No, KDE4 is still unstable compared to KDE3. I have all the desktop effects turned off, so it's not that. KDE4 was all about eye candy and new APIs and doing things the right way, but with absolutely no plan with respect to how to USE it until it actually stabilized.
I'm a KDE fan (I am running Kubuntu and have since 9.x, and was a Slackware user with KDE before that) but I'm really, really disappointed in KDE4. I like Gnome even less, which is why I stick with KDE. It's not because I love it. The printing subsystem still has not regained all the functionality that 3.x had, Amarok is ass now (I am using Amarok for 3.x), Konqueror took a big nosedive, the networking system tray icon still can't set up a VPN or use a cellular modem properly, Kontact is a steaming pile of instability... Kopete's notifications don't always fire... The only thing that *IS* stable on KDE4 is the goddamned terminal app. This instability has been like this since KDE4.x came out. Every new release introduces new features but bugs never seem to get addressed.
So no, KDE 4.2 is *not* fine. It's improving, sure, but if they really want to make a usable desktop they have to do a full-out feature freeze and fix some of these incredibly bad bugs!
If you're a 50 year old factory worker in the US, who was laid off 6 months ago, you absolutely cannot move to Canada and get a job.
If you haven't been paying into the socialist coffers for 30 years of your work life and expect to move here and take advantage of them, I'd say that's a mite unfair to those who are here, wouldn't you?
I know I'm in the minority here but I could not stand any of Pratchett's books. Not a single one. His writing style makes me want to try and cut my jugular with the pages of whatever crap he's published.
I always suggested the Beverly Cleary books for kids getting to the double digits and just entering them. Aside from her, there was also Hardy Boys. My brother devoured that entire collection. I liked The Indian in the Cupboard series and also a book called My Side of the Mountain. It's a very cool book about a city boy who gets sick of city life and runs away to live in the wild. He learns a lot of survival stuff and eventually trains his own Peregrine Falcon.
Instead of just spewing your opinion, why not back it up? While I agree that the CRTC has done some good in the past, the recent string of decisions coming out of the commission is making me wonder what the hell good they're for, because they sure as hell aren't looking out for the consumer, which is their mandate. Ok, they recently required cell carriers to unlock your devices once the contract's up, but that just allows you to use your 3yo phone on someone else's network. We have some of the highest costing cellular plans on the globe, but hey we can carry our old devices over. Yay, CRTC.
So how about it? Why do you feel that dissolving the CRTC's a bad idea? What have they done in the area of the internet or cellular telephony that have actually really done GOOD for the consumer? Or are you just someone who wants to call people morons on the internet (like we're running out of those kinds of people)?
That all sounds fine and good, but if you can't observe a quantum system without altering it how the hell do you read the answer? I don't understand how you can entangle two photons and get anything useful out of them because you can't observe one without altering the other. How do you read out anything useful in a quantum system?
My LG tv oes the same thing. It's awesome. I only wish that DLNA supported the idea of cutlists for commercial skipping.
No, there was nothing *illegal* about modifying your XBOX. It's against Microsoft's plans for the intended use of said box, but no, it's not illegal.
Possibly because the time and effort required to do that (i.e. very little) is not worth doing so? I've registered a handful of fake addresses to read things behind registered sites (ESPECIALLY the NY Times) and I've come to the conclusion that it's just not worth it. I don't bitch about it though, I just skip on to the comments or the next article.
Hahaha, it's been a while since I saw someone with such a superiority complex. You must be an amazingly insecure individual. Enjoy.
Funny, but both Microsoft Office and Xbox 360 seem to be pretty popular.
If you're going to do it at least do it right: :(){ :|:& };:
Any technology which is distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
Just because they created OpenSSH doesn't mean the OS is the most important open source project on the planet.
It'd be pretty straightforward to circumvent a compiler's idea that the length of s is invariant for each loop pass. Some pointer math could probably do it rather handily.
I'm not saying that that's *right*, but relying on the compiler to optimize away your indiscretions is a rather poor way to write code.
Today we have garbage collectiors in Java and that is why the C64 is completely outdated.
Everyone who still writes code on the C64 instead of Java won't get a job.
You probably don't even know the latest words.
Oh, I don't know about that. There are thousands of embedded systems that need programming and require the kind of thorough knowledge of the hardware that you got from the old C64 days. There are more 8-, 16- and 32-bit systems without enough memory to run something like Java than there are PCs and higher class systems.
Don't pooh-pooh the old ways. They're what's running your world.
It's "for all intents and purposes" not "for all intensive purposes." When you say it you can get away with it wrong, but when you write it you just look dumb.
I too would love to find a sub-13.3" notebook/netbook with 1080p. I *want* high DPI. An ARM processor wouldn't hurt either.
Totally agreed, and this is one of the main reasons why I am so against special "electronic" versions of already-existing laws.
If I am recording content from my legitimate cable TV connection and consuming it in my own home, with my friends and family, it should not matter if I am using the cable company's hardware or my own. The second I take that data and publish it (torrent, for example) nail my ass to the wall with existing copyright and/or distribution laws. There's no need for a special "digital" version of copyright infringement.
You're absolutely right; the man's a criminal, and should be prosecuted as any other thief.
Flip phones are not a superior technology; halving the length at the cost of doubling the thickness? No thanks.
Some of us prefer a thin phone. You can keep your flip; I'll keep my bars.
Although not with any of the solutions others have offered.
Two DSL links from different providers (would have worked with cable or satellite or GPRS/HSPA) -- the router uses iproute2 to set up multiple default gateways and use them in a round-robin fashion. Now I was going one step further; they wanted a single IP, so I extruded a multihomed IP from a colocated server and routed traffic for it over these multiple links (over L2TP tunnels, IIRC).
It worked really well, and you could aggregate more bandwidth simply by adding more connections. The colocated server had next to zero load. As links fell and came back, the ip-up scripts automatically adjusted and the overall bandwidth grew and shrank as they should.
If I were to do it again, I'd be a little smarter on the choosing of the link to use for a particular packet; i.e. have a management daemon that kept track of the average/burst traffic through each link and select the "best one" based on available bandwidth at that instant and expected return packet size.
As long as I can get a full-size notebook keyboard (yes that does seem like an oxymoron) in 10" width I'm a happy camper. What drives me nuts about netbooks is 1024x600. I would *love* to try out a 1920x1080 10" display. I *want* 300ish DPI. I want the additional battery drain. Nokia hit a 200ish DPI screen with their N800 and that was how many years ago... where are the 1080p netbook displays??
I disagree. I think a hobbyiest can take a look at the simpler, smaller, cheaper devices and have lots of fun without jumping to the top-end parts. Hell, they could have a ton of fun with CPLDs too, although they'd become pretty limiting in a hurry.
Yes, Spartan6 is a lightweight compared to the Virtex line, but again... we're talking about getting started in FPGAs. I think throwing a ton of money at a dev board that will be severely underutilized for months, if not years, is a fast way to turn people off of learning about FPGAs.
Spartan 6 is anaemic? What are you trying to build? I am working with a Raggedstone Spartan IIIe card (the mini-can); it's US$150 and I'm developing PCI hardware with it. That's hardly anaemic. There's lots of fun to be had with smaller devices as well.
NX Free edition is non-trivial to install? There are three packages to download and install off of nomachine's website. It just works once they're installed. What are you talking about?