I was led to believe spaceships are before launch sterilised and sanitised so as to limit the chances of infecting remote habitats, how come this one slipped by?
In a representative democracy referenda don't have a place.
Every four yours or so you elect your representatives into a parliament where they can control the government till the next elections come about.
I see no reason to suddenly have a referendum on a single issue, at the level of national and international politics nothing stands on it's own and you need to trust your representatives to make the choice considering all facts, not just the issues of the day.
I haven't even tried KDE. I didn't like KDE all that much before everyone hated it.
I can see you didn't try KDE.
Yes KDE 3.5 was great but further development was limited due to choices made many years ago.
KDE4.0 and 4.1 were test releases that should never have ended up in desktop releases but that's not a valid reason to dismiss the present KDE 4.7 etc, it has grown to a really nice suite of desktop and applications that's in functions and integration miles ahead of any other major desktops.
As a very happy long time KDE user I can't understand the sentiments against it, especially in the light of the ever increasing complaints against Gnome being dumbed down too much and Unity not being ready.
When working in Windows I always miss those little solutions KDE has had since years like resizing a window differently depending on which mouse button you use.
For home and word processor use LibreOffice is quite sufficient.
When you need it professionally there's little that beats MS Excel and $99.- is a good investment.
A full licence for private use would be silly, both from the point of options never used and the price point.
I ran KDE on a 3 y/o Toshiba Tecra and run it on a new Thinkpad W520 and have, compared to Gnome, not noticed any sluggishness. neither on the Intel or the nVidia card so I must wonder what kind of mods you have installed...
I can't remember having had problems with FF or TB restarting after an update, the difference might be I use KDE and I didn't run incomplete systems like KDE4.0 - 4.1 or Gnome.
As a matter of fact the UK has so many exemptions to the otherwise general rules of the EU that it's even a bit of a stretch to call them a full member right now.
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I was led to believe spaceships are before launch sterilised and sanitised so as to limit the chances of infecting remote habitats, how come this one slipped by?
You mean earth's evil has finally found an equal?
The could have voted yesterday but today was more fun.
And by consequence the voters that elected them.
The EC (unelected and largely unaccountable)/quote> Come on, quit that old bullshit.
The European Commission is appointed and controlled by the governments of the member states, all of them democratically elected.
As far as I know and history proves it's only the French and the Brits that are consistently vetoing full power for the EU parliament.
Every four yours or so you elect your representatives into a parliament where they can control the government till the next elections come about.
I see no reason to suddenly have a referendum on a single issue, at the level of national and international politics nothing stands on it's own and you need to trust your representatives to make the choice considering all facts, not just the issues of the day.
The fault must lie with Europe, Europe bad!
I haven't even tried KDE. I didn't like KDE all that much before everyone hated it.
I can see you didn't try KDE.
Yes KDE 3.5 was great but further development was limited due to choices made many years ago.
KDE4.0 and 4.1 were test releases that should never have ended up in desktop releases but that's not a valid reason to dismiss the present KDE 4.7 etc, it has grown to a really nice suite of desktop and applications that's in functions and integration miles ahead of any other major desktops.
As a very happy long time KDE user I can't understand the sentiments against it, especially in the light of the ever increasing complaints against Gnome being dumbed down too much and Unity not being ready.
When working in Windows I always miss those little solutions KDE has had since years like resizing a window differently depending on which mouse button you use.
I don't expect my audience or client to edit my documents.
For home and word processor use LibreOffice is quite sufficient.
When you need it professionally there's little that beats MS Excel and $99.- is a good investment.
A full licence for private use would be silly, both from the point of options never used and the price point.
I'm the last to suggest I know more than you about some of the subjects you rant about.
Woosh!
The fact this AC has a lot of knowledge does not make him less of a troll.
He's the Anonymous Coward with most negative karma.
Just as well that computer of yours is off line.
Please get to the core of the problem, that's your legislature and it's voters.
Though I must admit Razor-QT does feel different.
I can't remember having had problems with FF or TB restarting after an update, the difference might be I use KDE and I didn't run incomplete systems like KDE4.0 - 4.1 or Gnome.
I assume as long as he is the only one skilled in the art it stands...
What floats is a ship.
But why in the world when your only possible/ legal customer is the US Navy?
Next time you'll get your chance.
And then you come out with such a statement about behaviour you would otherwise have attributed to evil lefties...
Last time I checked the UK was a founder of the EU and in Europe ;-)
I see the smiley but am intrigued by your claim the UK was a founder of the EU...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_European_Union
As a matter of fact the UK has so many exemptions to the otherwise general rules of the EU that it's even a bit of a stretch to call them a full member right now.