For the computer and A/V equipment, I nabbed a 19" rack, some rackmount cases and a few shelves. I got them from Tiger Direct, IIRC... many many years ago when they were a bit more reputable and Computer Shopper was larger than a metro area phone book.
For under the desk, I have a vinyl storm gutter attached with L brackets along the inside back. Push the cables up over the far side (it sags a bit open on that side, so you can loop them up over your desk. I just moved, so I'm in the process of building new desks, with my old one going into the basement as a workbench.
Who cares if you get air time. I think most people here are forgetting that the vast number of guitarists play because they enjoy playing.
If you made a robot that could play video games or sit and watch movies, would you say "gamers and cinephiles, your days are numbered"?
I (and many many others) play because we enjoy playing guitar. After a long day, in between things, waiting for water to come to a boil, you grab the guitar and start picking. There are already people who are better than I will ever be and they are flesh and blood. Who cares if there's a robot that is better - it isn't going to change the fact that people enjoy playing.
Heh. That's true - both the "you can" and the "entirely pointless".
Reminds me of my idea to burn a series of CD ISOs that are images of a RAID 5 system onto a single DVD. The drive would have to seek all over the disc to pull each byte. Hehehehe.
You are angry for something that never happened. They never released a package that was under GPL for Unix but not for Windows. They did, however, release "Qt for X", a software package, under the GPL, and did not release "Qt for Windows", which is a different software package with a different codebase, under GPL.
Qt is an API (and lately, a language extension). The various codebases, because they all implement that same API, share quite a bit of code. They differ quite a bit in other areas. You might as well be pissed that gcc is GPL and MS Visual C++ isn't.
And as a further mistake, I misread that link as being dated 6-23-05. It is 1:06am in my time zone. I am going to bed before I start being completely incorrect. Is there another suite out there that uses OASIS? Did OO.o release 2.0 last week and I missed it? Heh. G'night.
Aye, but that was released after I posted my message.;) From what I had read, there had to be two implementations to progress to approved standard. Mea culpa.
KOffice can do things (and has entire apps) that OO.o does not. OO.o (especially 2.0) can do things that KOffice can't. Syncing those capabilities is key, and will occur when there is more than one released suite supporting OASIS (right now KOffice is the only one by simple luck of having the release coincide with the standard).
OASIS is a standard, but only one office suite uses it. Open Office 2.0 will (unless somebody else sneaks in before them) be the second. Then the fun begins.
Ferrari sports cars use the same infrastructure as any other car: the same roads, the same fuel delivery network, the same vehicle registration laws, etc.
Yes, and computers use the same roads (TCP/IP, usually over Ethernet or PPP), the same fuel delivery network (USB for data and IDE for storage, which wasn't the case in the early days of PCs), the same vehicle registration laws... okay, you don't yet have to register your computer...
Seriously - using KDE, I can log into my bank, view a movie, type up an invoice in KWord and send it via email to a client (as either a PDF, so they can't alter it, or as a RTF.doc which Word can read). The infrastructure works fine - I can get to my bank, see a movie, conduct business and deliver invoices - whether I am using KDE, OSX or Windows. They all just work.
So it's marginal. That doesn't keep me from using it. Not many people drive Ferrari sports cars either... yet you don't hear many people complaining that Ferrari is being prevented from getting to the mass market.
For just about every product there are a wide variety of goods, most of which do not appeal to the buyers of their choice. People who shop for the cheapest processed food cheese slices seldom also shop for aged bleu cheese. And yet both seem to do fine, and most grocers carry both. Is it shocking that there might be people who like Windows and people who like Linux and that they can (*gasp*) coexist? Or even people who like OSX, people who like BSD, people who like Solaris? Some brands will appear and disappear, just like certain brands of cheeses. Others will appear and be too niche for big grocery stores... you'll have to order them from gourmet places.
But you seldom find people who like bleu cheese ranting that bleu cheese should be more like Kraft cheese slices because that "is what prevent[s] it from getting to the mass market". I don't think bleu cheese will ever have the market share of Kraft cheese slices. And I'm okay with that.
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HTML is a standard - but it is not a rendering standard. HTML is supposed to look different on different browsers. In fact, quite a bit of how it is designed is based on the concept that different browsers will have different capabilities and will display the page differently. It is a markup language, which is why tags are named things like address, credit, and em (for emphasized). It does not define how a section is displayed as emphasized, just that it is supposed to be rendered with emphasis.
Standards for layout, like Postscript, tend to do better at the things you want them to. But then, that's like saying a boat takes you across water better than a city bus.
You just described the starting point for just about every company, book, product and project ever created. Actually, everything that is created other than the initial invention.
If somebody didn't look at it and say "I can make something slightly better", we'd be reading Slashdot on clay tablets.
Interestingly, KOffice was hampered a bit by the fact that Oasis doesn't address some of the file types that KOffice uses. When possible, they used them, but until OO.o 2.0 is out, there's no final standard, and even then there will be no standard for some file formats. Hopefully the OASIS format specs will distance themselves a bit from OO.o in order to provide useful specifications for a wider set of applications than ones that line up against OO.o.
However, it's not as if the FLOSS community is hunky-dory about Qt; see the old Harmony project for more on that.
That was before Qt was GPLed. It's now completely Free Software (with caps). When Qt 4.0 is released, rumor has it that the Windows version will be GPLed as well.
I agree totally. I just don't think that being able to use a CLI is a "better" way. Learning to use a boat and a car are both useful... depending on the surface you wish to traverse.
Or to put it another way, a semi and a super sports car can both cost the same. The sports car is pretty crappy for what the semi truck is good at and visa versa. Neither is better - they are suited to different tasks.
I use Kububtu as well. Because I need to get work done. I first started using *nix in the early 80s, and know the commandline quite nicely. I like KDE because it uses the design philosophy of many small parts working together and exposes those parts though dcop so I can access all that power, even though a shell script.
Many people who have extensive experience at a command line happily started using GUIs when decent ones came out. Even the early textmode ones. The concept of partitioning tasks into parts of the screen and seeing your work "all on one screen" is powerful. Not to mention WYSIWYG and font and color cues on webpages.
I still use the command line a good chunk of the day - discarding web browsing or movie watching, I'm on a prompt the majority of the time. It just happens to be a konsole with a screen session on each computer.
Being good on a command line doesn't make you "better" or "more in tune" with a machine. It just means you are good on a command line.
In Konqueror, you can use man:ls style URLs. Or simply a url of the form '#command'. For KDE commands, you can also open a tutorial by using a URL like help:knotes. Like all KDE extended URLs, they can be used virtually everywhere in KDE - try hitting alt-F2, and then type "man:ls". No need to ever use the mouse.
Yes, his departure is what I was referring to - it was just mildly amusing that the two were linked.
My post was never meant to explain the issue, just link to the explanation. Some other people have pointed out that there are currently two writers using the RXC name, so there may be more to it than I linked to or you explained.
When I started to reply to you, I thought Cringely was a nom de plume for a set of columnists. Turns out it's not quite correct, but the story is interesting. He's a computer writer who can't legally write (under that name) for a computer publication. Hunh.
And the reason? Because Dvorak held the position before him.
Is it Yahoo or somebody claiming to be Yahoo? I've seen useragents that claim to be from Big Companies that come from dinky IP addresses that don't seem to make sense.
Among the people I knew when the game was initially popular, it was called B-Run. Is it now (in the homogenizing manner of the web) universally referred to as B-Dash?
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For under the desk, I have a vinyl storm gutter attached with L brackets along the inside back. Push the cables up over the far side (it sags a bit open on that side, so you can loop them up over your desk. I just moved, so I'm in the process of building new desks, with my old one going into the basement as a workbench.
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If you made a robot that could play video games or sit and watch movies, would you say "gamers and cinephiles, your days are numbered"?
I (and many many others) play because we enjoy playing guitar. After a long day, in between things, waiting for water to come to a boil, you grab the guitar and start picking. There are already people who are better than I will ever be and they are flesh and blood. Who cares if there's a robot that is better - it isn't going to change the fact that people enjoy playing.
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Reminds me of my idea to burn a series of CD ISOs that are images of a RAID 5 system onto a single DVD. The drive would have to seek all over the disc to pull each byte. Hehehehe.
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Qt is an API (and lately, a language extension). The various codebases, because they all implement that same API, share quite a bit of code. They differ quite a bit in other areas. You might as well be pissed that gcc is GPL and MS Visual C++ isn't.
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KOffice can do things (and has entire apps) that OO.o does not. OO.o (especially 2.0) can do things that KOffice can't. Syncing those capabilities is key, and will occur when there is more than one released suite supporting OASIS (right now KOffice is the only one by simple luck of having the release coincide with the standard).
OASIS is a standard, but only one office suite uses it. Open Office 2.0 will (unless somebody else sneaks in before them) be the second. Then the fun begins.
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Yes, and computers use the same roads (TCP/IP, usually over Ethernet or PPP), the same fuel delivery network (USB for data and IDE for storage, which wasn't the case in the early days of PCs), the same vehicle registration laws... okay, you don't yet have to register your computer...
Seriously - using KDE, I can log into my bank, view a movie, type up an invoice in KWord and send it via email to a client (as either a PDF, so they can't alter it, or as a RTF .doc which Word can read). The infrastructure works fine - I can get to my bank, see a movie, conduct business and deliver invoices - whether I am using KDE, OSX or Windows. They all just work.
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For just about every product there are a wide variety of goods, most of which do not appeal to the buyers of their choice. People who shop for the cheapest processed food cheese slices seldom also shop for aged bleu cheese. And yet both seem to do fine, and most grocers carry both. Is it shocking that there might be people who like Windows and people who like Linux and that they can (*gasp*) coexist? Or even people who like OSX, people who like BSD, people who like Solaris? Some brands will appear and disappear, just like certain brands of cheeses. Others will appear and be too niche for big grocery stores... you'll have to order them from gourmet places.
But you seldom find people who like bleu cheese ranting that bleu cheese should be more like Kraft cheese slices because that "is what prevent[s] it from getting to the mass market". I don't think bleu cheese will ever have the market share of Kraft cheese slices. And I'm okay with that.
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Standards for layout, like Postscript, tend to do better at the things you want them to. But then, that's like saying a boat takes you across water better than a city bus.
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If somebody didn't look at it and say "I can make something slightly better", we'd be reading Slashdot on clay tablets.
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That was before Qt was GPLed. It's now completely Free Software (with caps). When Qt 4.0 is released, rumor has it that the Windows version will be GPLed as well.
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Or to put it another way, a semi and a super sports car can both cost the same. The sports car is pretty crappy for what the semi truck is good at and visa versa. Neither is better - they are suited to different tasks.
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Many people who have extensive experience at a command line happily started using GUIs when decent ones came out. Even the early textmode ones. The concept of partitioning tasks into parts of the screen and seeing your work "all on one screen" is powerful. Not to mention WYSIWYG and font and color cues on webpages.
I still use the command line a good chunk of the day - discarding web browsing or movie watching, I'm on a prompt the majority of the time. It just happens to be a konsole with a screen session on each computer.
Being good on a command line doesn't make you "better" or "more in tune" with a machine. It just means you are good on a command line.
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My post was never meant to explain the issue, just link to the explanation. Some other people have pointed out that there are currently two writers using the RXC name, so there may be more to it than I linked to or you explained.
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And the reason? Because Dvorak held the position before him.
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Part of that is likely because it is using nuvola, a KDE icon set.
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