I couldn't use a "music type manager" for a chunk of my collection -- my music is mixed up with lyrics, performance notes and tablature for when I actually play it (as in pull out an instrument and use it). Amarok is great to kick back and listen to music with (Wikipedia and related song links are nifty), but the brutal truth is that 99% of the time I'm just listening it could just be any player that shuffles a playlist. When I'm actually *using* the files, I need more than just a single format app.
Same goes for images and text: I organize by project, and most have real world notebooks and folders associated with them. Even the directories full of source code and purely computer related items usually have a physical logbook associated with them and have a dozen file types in a few to over a hundred directories.
There are two major types of applications that handle multiple types of files and let you organize them by directory. They let you manipulate them with a wide variety of tools and other applications. They are called file managers and shells. I'm partial to Konqueror and bash, but YMMV.
There are much better gaming stores than what your local store sounds like. It sounds like a comic store with a RPG sideline, which is pretty common.
That said, even the best can't compete with the internet vendors; they have to carry actual stock and also earn enough profit to pay rent. That's the reality, and it pretty much means the internet vendors are able to undercut retail prices and beat their inventory. Good if you know what you want, bad if you like flipping through and picking up quirky games or browsing a rack of figs. Froogle beats anybody's inventory.
The internet has made it easy to find any given subculture. It's also homogenized subcultures and made them very shallow. The global culture makes it easy to find someone 2,000 miles away who likes original edition Marvel, but it's hard to find a neighbor with decent gamer/social skills who likes it.
In the end it's a tradeoff: a global culture has made it easy to find 10,000 people who like almost everything I like... and made it harder to find a good neighbor who might be able to show me something new. There are pros and cons on either side, but I don't think there's any question which direction things are going.
You are absolutely correct. That is how business works. It is likely that most if not all local game stores will eventually go out of business because they can't sell at competitive prices with online only businesses.
I just said that there is a loss of the benefits that are inherent in a physical store. Those less tangible benefits are insufficient to most customers, especially ones that grew up with the idea of internet shopping.
I don't say it shouldn't happen or that some sort of goofy movement against the shift should be started, I simply say that there are losses inherent in the move to online specialty bookstores that are a shame.
Comic / Gaming stores have to be diverse to say alive. Getting undercut by online retailers over RPG supplements should not be able to crush a store.
The problem is that the overhead of a physical location seems to confers no direct benefit to the customer... they can get the same books elsewhere cheaper. The problem is that (for good stores) there is a strong indirect benefit to the local rpg/comic/fandom community by providing a place to converge physically and meet each other.
That doesn't matter if you're playing Final Fantasy 23 or whatever on Sony's service, but it makes a hell of a lot of difference when you're looking for people to come over to your home and spend many hours with on a weekly basis.
Yes... the problem is that the quest usually ends (especially for younger 20-something gamers) with them allying with the Spider and slaying the local used bookstore and comic/rpg/fen community that socialized there.
Yes. As I said, that is what Katapult is for. Predictive and it can theoretically access all of your desktop and running apps via dcop, although only a few capabilities are currently configured since it just squeezed in before Kubuntu shipped. As I say, the framework is there, the apps already have the hooks, but there's not much yet in the default config tying the two together. Right now it's a quick predictive launcher, file browser and bookmark access tool, as the only three verbs (that I could find) were "Run Program", "Open" (as in Open Folder) and "Open Bookmark".
It works fine and is similarly pretty like Quicksilver (translucent big icons in the center of the screen), but just like the early revisions of Quicksilver, there aren't many verbs to link into sequences of actions. Presumably it will support more in the next release.
To you, I simply say that other people are certainly within their rights to have radically different priorities. But I have a feeling you already know that.
It's really to everybody attacking you that I will point out that it's well within mattspammail's rights to feel the guy is "a piece of shit", and even to voice that opinion. He's judging the man on his actions... you know, the legitimate and proper way to judge someone? I don't think you'll find some trick of logic to convince him otherwise. It's a fairly strightforward judgement that somebody who turns their back on entire continents worth of infected people has made a terrible decision.
You can judge a person as being horrible due to their actions and still understand that it's their right to be so.
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Katapult is a Kubuntu app, not part of KDE, but rather a part of the Kubuntu desktop. It's brand spanking new with the latest release so it's fairly primitive, but it has the basic framework in place and supports a few basic tools. I know there's a list of planned extentions, but I have no idea what state they are in: I don't really use it that much. It's launched via Alt-Space.
Personally, I just use Alt-F2, which brings up a KDE command field... launch any kind of KDE url (locate:2005 report, imdb:Seven Samurai, sftp://myserver ~/doc), execute unix command lines, evaluate mathematical expressions or a few other nice little tools with a typeahead history. I have one on my menubar as well, right next to the clock, but alt-F2 allows me to keep my hands on the keyboard and launch searches.
Regardless she is obviously well intentioned. I hope she gets some help in this.
"Well intentioned" isn't sufficient if she's breaking the law. I'm not saying she's guilty, but there appears to be a presumption that she isn't... something important in a courtroom, but not outside of it. I could be "well intentioned" when I send a memo to your coworkers explaining that you are subject to fits of rage and beat your wife on a regular basis due to your cocaine addiction, but that does *not* mean that I can't be held responsible.
How about if I accuse you of child molestation on a website? I can probably even get some pictures of you and children together.
Don't worry... it's "well intentioned".
Accusations of crime have to be taken seriously. As part of that, there is a burden upon the accuser to be truthful. That's not a bad thing: it protects everybody from insufficently supported or knowingly false accusations, no matter how "well intentioned" they are.
If you want to count by numbers, I think that the count of hydrogen molecules are a wee bit ahead of Hummers. Also by date, since hydrogen appeared a bit after the Big Bang (although it took a bit to cool enough for molecular form), while the Hummer H2 was released in 2003 C.E..
I'd imagine that hydrogen has less of an advertising budget since 2003, however.
Bitstream released Vera (which is what I use for my Sans Serif fonts... Vera Sans Mono is a great console font), and IBM released/commissioned a few nice fonts as well (Devanagari is a great Serif font). Complete the set with Blue Highway as a header font and you have a nice set of core fonts.
Please read what you just cited and what he wrote. You're not contradicting him... the text you cited refers to completely different products. From what I've seen on German sites (which I can't read and thus have to trust others for translation), KDE is still the primary choice for SUSE desktops other than NLD (i.e., the remaining products that he listed in his post). Servers and NLD will use Gnome as a default (as your cite says).
Literally, manga just means cartoon. Thus X-Men comics, Snoopy in newspapers and the Smurfs television show are all manga. In America, the term generally means "something in a particular style popular in Japan".
Note that there are plenty of examples of Japanese manga that does not look like the "big eyes, small mouth" style that the term in America refers to, and some people outside of Japan (notably some French artists) have been using a similar style since the 60s and 70s.
In summary -- the Japanese word just means "cartoon" of any style (including old Flintstones episodes). The borrowed word used in America refers to a particular style.
Just replace the final make install with checkinstall and you can install your compiled from source app as a package with all the happy modularity and ease of use that comes from a package manager. I'm not telling you not to go to Gentoo, just tossing a seldom considered option.
You are aware that a public school in the UK is a private school in the US and visa versa? A US private school is akin to private property -- i.e., it is invitation only and owned by a private concern (usually a board of trustees).
A private school can teach whatever it wants -- it can demand that all students learn to juggle and teach that people should spin thrice daily upon arising. It doesn't matter, as long as they are accredited (i.e., their students learn the basics of arts and sciences). Many private schools are accredited higher than the simple basics and graduate students with partial college credit (some states have public schools that can do this as well).
They can demand that their students paint their faces blue or that they pray to the goddess of the moon. No family is forced to send their student to a private school; admission is both by their choice and at the discretion of the school. They have to want to go and be accepted by whatever criteria the school decides to enforce.
They are a witches brew of pro, semi-pro, and fans-who-became-pros stories published by the various companies that have had the rights to Trek over the years (from Paramount to Pocket, from FASA to Bantam) in a dozen different media. People like writing stories to account for gaps, whether it be about two minor characters in a play by Shakespeare (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern), or why Klingons looked different. Of *course* the real reason is the reality of a 60s tv show makeup budget, but it's a living plotline and eventually somebody will come along and say "this is why".
Every individual author working on a single novel does the same thing, coming up with various points and rationalizing them using the characters and events, nudging facts around until they form a working whole, and then writing and publishing the result. In the case of Trek, it's a huge universe written by hundreds of authors at this point. Everybody grabs a niche and fits a story in. Of course several of them are intended to "fill the jarring gaps" left by preexisting stories -- that's often where the interesting stories are located.
Sorry, I was taking "known" to mean "knowing who they are"... i.e., known by Starfleet to be an entire society originating many thousands of years ago from Vulcan. You are, of course entirely correct as well. It's a bit like saying that North America was discovered by Vikings when a bunch of people had wandered across the Bering land bridge quite a bit earlier. Both are correct in different contexts.
BTW - as far as minor actions, I was referring to the skirmishes that were going on for thousands of years up to the 23rd century. They aren't canon (most occur in the books), but they fit very nicely into the Trek history and are generally accepted. Mostly confined to raids and intrigue on Vulcan itself.
Actually, my SO just said she'd accept this in leiu of an engagement ring. (She's the Orion Slave Girl in the Sacramento section of Trekkies II... I'm a TOS Klingon in the background).
I envision her, late at night, wearing the dvds on her fingers and cooing "My preciousss" and/or reading from her copy of the Ferengi Rules of Aquisition.
Here are the answers to your questions. Note that they may be spoilers to some people:
Romulans were officially known to Starfleet during TOS "Balance of Terror", although the Vulcans and Romulans had been engaged in minor disputes and actions for a long time before that, some of which were known to other races and Starfleet... the Vulcans hid the existance of Romans by shrugging them off as radical Vulcan splinter factions, although at least some non-Vulcan individuals knew of them.
Klingons look like they do in TNG. During TOS they were Klingon-Human hybrids (well, technically Klingon-Engineered-human hybrids) due to an accident involving theft of military genetic enginering technology left over from the Terran Eugenics Wars. See Enterprise season 4.
Stardates are a way of creating a system of time that accounts for differences in relativity. As a result they vary (and they vary in speed) depending on where you are in the galactic plane. The system was revised between TOS and TNG, at the same time pulsed warp made it necessary to revise the warp factor (to a logarithmic scale with 10 being infinite speed).
There are some much nicer places of contradiction. Those are pretty well established.
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I've often heard it said that Apple has priced itself out of the market. If they want a bigger market share they'll need to take advantage of cheaper prices that come through competition.
Consider if you said that about Ferrari or BMW. They have high priced product, and they certainly sell a lower volume than companies that focus on cheap product that has a large market share. Their business sense is generally not questioned; they have a loyal customer base who is willing to pay for their brand. Even items with the Ferrari and BMW logo like jackets and... well... laptops sell well.
Apple is a brand associated with high quality products. Thus they do not compete on price, but rather on perceived quality.
There really aren't that many places where modifiable code comes into play at all in your "end to end, not for technical users" situation. Basically it's limited to a particular subset of consumer gadgets, and even most of those are pretty much aimed at technical users. They sometimes use open source software, but that's not what you say you're looking for.
Honestly, other than Apple's iTunes/iPod service, there aren't many popular (i.e., non-technical) end to end services at *all*. Microsoft makes code but not computers, Sony makes gadgets and sells music, but most of the gadgets are either non-modifiable hardware or other people's OSes, plus they don't provide a direct line to get the songs onto the gadgets. Nokia makes phones, but doesn't provide phone service.
Honestly, Apple's pretty unique in the end-to-end game, providing the gadget and the music for the gadget. I can think of non-tech examples, but open source hamburgers is just silly.
Interesting point, but I think it has more to do with how the tech business works rather than how software is licensed.
Heh. Yeah - I can clearly tell the difference between 192k and CDs, even on cheap speakers. I assume it's the high pitched "tinkle" sound, almost like running water, that drives you nuts. I just happen to be able to ignore it. I think most people hear it to some extent, but the majority of it is cut out. I have trouble with the visual watermarks on film movies (the "burned braille" dots), but I can ignore most auditory distractions.
In my case, I know it's genetic... my grandfather is the same way, as is my father. There is (or was) a bank chain in North Carolina that had an active alarm system that used a high pitched sound being constantly played. My grandfather took me there just to see if I could hear it after he and my Dad realized they both could hear it. Somebody who worked there said that there had been a couple comments over the years, but most people couldn't hear it.
I never thought about it, but I dimly recall the doctor repeatedly telling me to say stop when the sound cuts out and rerunning it a couple times. I don't recall him making any comments, though.
As far as mundane sensory talents go, I believe this ranks as the most useless. I'd much rather have better night vision or something.
Volunteer and open source don't go hand in hand. There are volunteer groups that are closed source (the demo scene used to have factions that were downright paranoid). There are corporations that are completely devoted to open source, some profit, some non-profit. Most application development consulting companies are open source to their client as a matter of business practice.
Open source isn't some magic new fairy that swung in on RMS's beard... that's Free Software, a different kettle of fish. Open source has come and gone and always existed in both the business and hobbyist world... which have both fed off each other countless times over the years.
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Same goes for images and text: I organize by project, and most have real world notebooks and folders associated with them. Even the directories full of source code and purely computer related items usually have a physical logbook associated with them and have a dozen file types in a few to over a hundred directories.
There are two major types of applications that handle multiple types of files and let you organize them by directory. They let you manipulate them with a wide variety of tools and other applications. They are called file managers and shells. I'm partial to Konqueror and bash, but YMMV.
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That said, even the best can't compete with the internet vendors; they have to carry actual stock and also earn enough profit to pay rent. That's the reality, and it pretty much means the internet vendors are able to undercut retail prices and beat their inventory. Good if you know what you want, bad if you like flipping through and picking up quirky games or browsing a rack of figs. Froogle beats anybody's inventory.
The internet has made it easy to find any given subculture. It's also homogenized subcultures and made them very shallow. The global culture makes it easy to find someone 2,000 miles away who likes original edition Marvel, but it's hard to find a neighbor with decent gamer/social skills who likes it.
In the end it's a tradeoff: a global culture has made it easy to find 10,000 people who like almost everything I like... and made it harder to find a good neighbor who might be able to show me something new. There are pros and cons on either side, but I don't think there's any question which direction things are going.
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I just said that there is a loss of the benefits that are inherent in a physical store. Those less tangible benefits are insufficient to most customers, especially ones that grew up with the idea of internet shopping.
I don't say it shouldn't happen or that some sort of goofy movement against the shift should be started, I simply say that there are losses inherent in the move to online specialty bookstores that are a shame.
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Or anybody using KDE...
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The problem is that the overhead of a physical location seems to confers no direct benefit to the customer... they can get the same books elsewhere cheaper. The problem is that (for good stores) there is a strong indirect benefit to the local rpg/comic/fandom community by providing a place to converge physically and meet each other.
That doesn't matter if you're playing Final Fantasy 23 or whatever on Sony's service, but it makes a hell of a lot of difference when you're looking for people to come over to your home and spend many hours with on a weekly basis.
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Yay! You screwed your neighbors!
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It works fine and is similarly pretty like Quicksilver (translucent big icons in the center of the screen), but just like the early revisions of Quicksilver, there aren't many verbs to link into sequences of actions. Presumably it will support more in the next release.
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It's really to everybody attacking you that I will point out that it's well within mattspammail's rights to feel the guy is "a piece of shit", and even to voice that opinion. He's judging the man on his actions... you know, the legitimate and proper way to judge someone? I don't think you'll find some trick of logic to convince him otherwise. It's a fairly strightforward judgement that somebody who turns their back on entire continents worth of infected people has made a terrible decision.
You can judge a person as being horrible due to their actions and still understand that it's their right to be so.
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Personally, I just use Alt-F2, which brings up a KDE command field... launch any kind of KDE url (locate:2005 report, imdb:Seven Samurai, sftp://myserver ~/doc), execute unix command lines, evaluate mathematical expressions or a few other nice little tools with a typeahead history. I have one on my menubar as well, right next to the clock, but alt-F2 allows me to keep my hands on the keyboard and launch searches.
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"Well intentioned" isn't sufficient if she's breaking the law. I'm not saying she's guilty, but there appears to be a presumption that she isn't... something important in a courtroom, but not outside of it. I could be "well intentioned" when I send a memo to your coworkers explaining that you are subject to fits of rage and beat your wife on a regular basis due to your cocaine addiction, but that does *not* mean that I can't be held responsible.
How about if I accuse you of child molestation on a website? I can probably even get some pictures of you and children together.
Don't worry... it's "well intentioned".
Accusations of crime have to be taken seriously. As part of that, there is a burden upon the accuser to be truthful. That's not a bad thing: it protects everybody from insufficently supported or knowingly false accusations, no matter how "well intentioned" they are.
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If you want to count by numbers, I think that the count of hydrogen molecules are a wee bit ahead of Hummers. Also by date, since hydrogen appeared a bit after the Big Bang (although it took a bit to cool enough for molecular form), while the Hummer H2 was released in 2003 C.E..
I'd imagine that hydrogen has less of an advertising budget since 2003, however.
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Note that there are plenty of examples of Japanese manga that does not look like the "big eyes, small mouth" style that the term in America refers to, and some people outside of Japan (notably some French artists) have been using a similar style since the 60s and 70s.
In summary -- the Japanese word just means "cartoon" of any style (including old Flintstones episodes). The borrowed word used in America refers to a particular style.
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A private school can teach whatever it wants -- it can demand that all students learn to juggle and teach that people should spin thrice daily upon arising. It doesn't matter, as long as they are accredited (i.e., their students learn the basics of arts and sciences). Many private schools are accredited higher than the simple basics and graduate students with partial college credit (some states have public schools that can do this as well).
They can demand that their students paint their faces blue or that they pray to the goddess of the moon. No family is forced to send their student to a private school; admission is both by their choice and at the discretion of the school. They have to want to go and be accepted by whatever criteria the school decides to enforce.
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Every individual author working on a single novel does the same thing, coming up with various points and rationalizing them using the characters and events, nudging facts around until they form a working whole, and then writing and publishing the result. In the case of Trek, it's a huge universe written by hundreds of authors at this point. Everybody grabs a niche and fits a story in. Of course several of them are intended to "fill the jarring gaps" left by preexisting stories -- that's often where the interesting stories are located.
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BTW - as far as minor actions, I was referring to the skirmishes that were going on for thousands of years up to the 23rd century. They aren't canon (most occur in the books), but they fit very nicely into the Trek history and are generally accepted. Mostly confined to raids and intrigue on Vulcan itself.
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I envision her, late at night, wearing the dvds on her fingers and cooing "My preciousss" and/or reading from her copy of the Ferengi Rules of Aquisition.
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Romulans were officially known to Starfleet during TOS "Balance of Terror", although the Vulcans and Romulans had been engaged in minor disputes and actions for a long time before that, some of which were known to other races and Starfleet... the Vulcans hid the existance of Romans by shrugging them off as radical Vulcan splinter factions, although at least some non-Vulcan individuals knew of them.
Klingons look like they do in TNG. During TOS they were Klingon-Human hybrids (well, technically Klingon-Engineered-human hybrids) due to an accident involving theft of military genetic enginering technology left over from the Terran Eugenics Wars. See Enterprise season 4.
Stardates are a way of creating a system of time that accounts for differences in relativity. As a result they vary (and they vary in speed) depending on where you are in the galactic plane. The system was revised between TOS and TNG, at the same time pulsed warp made it necessary to revise the warp factor (to a logarithmic scale with 10 being infinite speed).
There are some much nicer places of contradiction. Those are pretty well established.
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Consider if you said that about Ferrari or BMW. They have high priced product, and they certainly sell a lower volume than companies that focus on cheap product that has a large market share. Their business sense is generally not questioned; they have a loyal customer base who is willing to pay for their brand. Even items with the Ferrari and BMW logo like jackets and... well... laptops sell well.
Apple is a brand associated with high quality products. Thus they do not compete on price, but rather on perceived quality.
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Honestly, other than Apple's iTunes/iPod service, there aren't many popular (i.e., non-technical) end to end services at *all*. Microsoft makes code but not computers, Sony makes gadgets and sells music, but most of the gadgets are either non-modifiable hardware or other people's OSes, plus they don't provide a direct line to get the songs onto the gadgets. Nokia makes phones, but doesn't provide phone service.
Honestly, Apple's pretty unique in the end-to-end game, providing the gadget and the music for the gadget. I can think of non-tech examples, but open source hamburgers is just silly.
Interesting point, but I think it has more to do with how the tech business works rather than how software is licensed.
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In my case, I know it's genetic... my grandfather is the same way, as is my father. There is (or was) a bank chain in North Carolina that had an active alarm system that used a high pitched sound being constantly played. My grandfather took me there just to see if I could hear it after he and my Dad realized they both could hear it. Somebody who worked there said that there had been a couple comments over the years, but most people couldn't hear it.
I never thought about it, but I dimly recall the doctor repeatedly telling me to say stop when the sound cuts out and rerunning it a couple times. I don't recall him making any comments, though.
As far as mundane sensory talents go, I believe this ranks as the most useless. I'd much rather have better night vision or something.
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Open source isn't some magic new fairy that swung in on RMS's beard... that's Free Software, a different kettle of fish. Open source has come and gone and always existed in both the business and hobbyist world... which have both fed off each other countless times over the years.
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