jezus christ just state the word 'gun' in the presence of a bunch of americans and let the flamewars begin...
methinks that for this kind of topic, moderators should be negative, negative, negative. >95% of the discussion of this topic is not about the topic at all.
that's a high score, even for slashdot. bunch of kids!
PS. i am aware of the fact that this post is off-topic;)
hey don't get me wrong, i think this a pretty cool concept, but isn't it a bit old already? i never used it, but i can remember slackware years ago already had a "live" CDROM.
and there's more distro's (don't know by heart since i only use slack nowadays) that have this feature. what makes knoppix so special? the automatic configuration?
graphical clues for window cycling: like the color of the titlebar changes when it's active? like the alt-tab that switches between windows while showing which window is active?
as for the focus-switching: sloppy focus is default. i couldn't live without it anymore, but hey...
you can change focus policies though, and the keys to switch between windows, and..., and...
i recommend you read documentation, and try out some features, before you start complaining... really, there's not a lot you cannot do with e, windowmanager-wise.
now, have you seen efm? (not maintained since they focus on E17 now). g(*&^mn, that was a fine filemanager. no clutter, a sort of mixture between command-line and graphical shell, simple yet effective windows (a-la mac-os classic), really gorgeous.
personally, i can't wait to see what they do with E17. unfortunately, i will have to wait:(
updated document on website
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[quote] My only main worry about E17 is that it seems to be going desktop-environment-ish, a la GNOME/KDE, which I really can't stand. Hopefully we'll be able to turn all that off. [/quote]
it's going to be a desktop shell. they'll have an icon bar, a filemanager, and a desktop, epplets. now that would be rather okay, because i like their original ideas, and my guess is that it will outperform gnome/kde in that area. probably speedwise, and certainly interface-wise.
i think E16 is the most easy to handle WM i have used (and i've used a lot of them). this is all a matter of personal preferences of course. the deal is, E has a tradition of being able to change those preferences to suit your needs. i think this is one of E's bigest merits (customisability)
this will probably translate into the ability to switch off everything if you want to in E17. and you'll just have a WM again:)
when loading the gimp native xcf format, it's *much* faster than when loading psd format files. i guess it's the photoshop import filter that was the bottleneck.... but i'm stuck with it for my job. can't get my mac-loving boss converted to linux & gimp obviously...
But: i'll test before i post next time/me crawls into a corner and cries softly of embarrasment...
okay i don't have a spiffy new shiny supermachine of a pc, but no f**&ng way that the gimp is faster than photoshop. and there's less functionality.
i love the gimp, it's a very cool & successful OSS project, but don't make people believe this. it's just not true.
i mean, just loading time, and drawing upon moving is extremely slow...
[quote] Personally, I find myself more and more using The GIMP on Linux because it's faster than Photoshop on *any* platform (and it's open source;). [/quote]
such as: being at laest as fast as photoshop in loading files and rendering graphics...
gimp is very nice for smaller (web) graphics, but it isn't nearly as good and fast as photoshop. i'm a big fan though, and would love to see them being at least as good as phototshop, but they're not. at this moment.
so not: Hello Gimp, but "Let's hope they make 2 good enough to compete with Photoshop"
how does this translate into RL applications? i would *love* to be able to caal a friend over the internet. but:
do you need hardware (other than pc)? can you connect to windows computers?
this could seriously reduce my phonecosts, i'd be quite pleased to use it and donate some money if i could get this working with my (not able to run linux because of company policy and low geekness factor) friends abroad.
in the current economical climate, you have to be flexible. a good idea is to have plenty of redundancy among the programmers/functional people and have a mean, very slim sales team and some supportive personell (secretary). the main costs in IT companies are salary costs, so pay the people that do the work.
now in real life, this will never happen. what you see is management that stays and "lower" employees who get fired. therefore, the people who have to do "the real work": functional design, programming, implementation, customer support are getting overworked and are underpayed to support the huge cars and salaries of management.
the only real solution is to cut down the amount of management positions, and have many employees that can do "the real work"...
i know this isn't of much help. all you can *really* do is to sit back, work like mad, and hope economy will be rising soon, and clients will want to invest again.
now, for some basic personal improvement lessons: stop complaining. the amount of energy you put into worrying about things you cannot do anything about is enormous -> think about it. focus on what you can achieve (how little these achievements may be). as Covey says (recommended reading!): enlarge your circle of influence. and be "proactive" (the most annoying buzzword ever;-). if you see a solution, just propose it to your manager casually. if you focus on that kind of strategies,and put energy into discussing improvement, you have at least a higher chance to enlarge your influence on the situation.
do it nicely though, the managers are in huge stress, covering their ass all the time. don't say "i think this is wrong, we better do...", but instead use formulations like: "we thought a bit about the idea you proposed the other day. it was very interesting (blah blah blah), and then slowly introduce your opinion about it. make it seem as if it's his/her idea, with just some minor optimisations. you will fail a dozen times, but the 13th time something might stick. and if a lot of ideas start sticking, you and your co-workers might even be able to really change something.
and don't worry about being acknowledged. what you and your co-workers want is a better environment, and not a management position, right? (at least not for now:)
does the same as IBM's demo page. sounds the same as well. but hey, i'm a layman in linguistic matters, so there's prolly a *huge* improvement i understand crap about
and taken out patents on how they can be cultivated and used.' Oh well."
well, since my comments are often regarded as inflammatory, i guess it's a good time to burn karma.
methinks this story is very inflammatory in character. "oh well" ?!? i'm not a fan of patents, but i do think that/. should try to be at least a bit more neutral in it's way of presenting "the news".
in this way, all the slashfans already have their opinion formed and there is no way you can say something remotely positive about patents without being smothered in a pile of comments stating you are an idiot and you should open your eyes etc (yes i am exaggerating to make my point)
slashdot itself says it tries to promote proper discussion by its moderation system. let them give the right example then i'd say...
i know this is meta discussion and offtopic, but hey, i think the issue should be raised now and then.
so: this will be either score -1 flamebait or score -1 offtopic
One of the major misconceptions about pharmaceuticals is that "To make this pill costs about $0.12, why are they $15 each?" The problem is that this stuff requires years of research.
in principle you are right. it's just that the pharmaceutical industry makes money long after they break even. long long after that.
plus the deals they make with doctors: giving them nice things, paying expenses on conferences, nice hotel, blah blah, just to buy the very expensive branded pharmaceutical they sell.
in my opinion, the system is sick. it's a shame that pharmaceutical companies are keeping things so closed. research at universities (community money, they get better off it after all), and reasonably priced pills & powders for the masses if it works.
this is all just IMHO though, feel free to disagree.
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jezus christ just state the word 'gun' in the presence of a bunch of americans and let the flamewars begin...
;)
methinks that for this kind of topic, moderators should be negative, negative, negative. >95% of the discussion of this topic is not about the topic at all.
that's a high score, even for slashdot. bunch of kids!
PS. i am aware of the fact that this post is off-topic
maybe you will like centericq, as an alternative to gaim.
:)
it's good, fast, console-based, and when you are used to it, you will now want to go back to gui-based messengers.
i didn't anyway
the computer circle jerkers, that is...
;)
(Score: -1, Flamebait)
as you said rightfully, the scrollwheel definetely reduces this problem to virtually zero IMHO.
the next ui was designed in the eighties AFAIK, and hey, the computer-human interface is as dynamic as the changes in the periferals used.
i get a bit tired of people claiming NEXT was the best UI ever, it's not a static situation (BTW i'm not claiming you are saying this!)
hey don't get me wrong, i think this a pretty cool concept, but isn't it a bit old already? i never used it, but i can remember slackware years ago already had a "live" CDROM.
:)
and there's more distro's (don't know by heart since i only use slack nowadays) that have this feature. what makes knoppix so special? the automatic configuration?
enlighten me please
sounds gorgeous... wil check that out
tnx
graphical clues for window cycling: like the color of the titlebar changes when it's active? like the alt-tab that switches between windows while showing which window is active?
:(
as for the focus-switching: sloppy focus is default. i couldn't live without it anymore, but hey...
you can change focus policies though, and the keys to switch between windows, and..., and...
i recommend you read documentation, and try out some features, before you start complaining... really, there's not a lot you cannot do with e, windowmanager-wise.
now, have you seen efm? (not maintained since they focus on E17 now). g(*&^mn, that was a fine filemanager. no clutter, a sort of mixture between command-line and graphical shell, simple yet effective windows (a-la mac-os classic), really gorgeous.
personally, i can't wait to see what they do with E17. unfortunately, i will have to wait
see subject includes some other libs as well
the link
[quote]
:)
My only main worry about E17 is that it seems to be going desktop-environment-ish, a la GNOME/KDE, which I really can't stand. Hopefully we'll be able to turn all that off.
[/quote]
it's going to be a desktop shell. they'll have an icon bar, a filemanager, and a desktop, epplets. now that would be rather okay, because i like their original ideas, and my guess is that it will outperform gnome/kde in that area. probably speedwise, and certainly interface-wise.
i think E16 is the most easy to handle WM i have used (and i've used a lot of them). this is all a matter of personal preferences of course. the deal is, E has a tradition of being able to change those preferences to suit your needs. i think this is one of E's bigest merits (customisability)
this will probably translate into the ability to switch off everything if you want to in E17. and you'll just have a WM again
i am stupid...
/me crawls into a corner and cries softly of embarrasment...
when loading the gimp native xcf format, it's *much* faster than when loading psd format files. i guess it's the photoshop import filter that was the bottleneck.... but i'm stuck with it for my job. can't get my mac-loving boss converted to linux & gimp obviously...
But: i'll test before i post next time
okay i don't have a spiffy new shiny supermachine of a pc, but no f**&ng way that the gimp is faster than photoshop. and there's less functionality.
;).
i love the gimp, it's a very cool & successful OSS project, but don't make people believe this. it's just not true.
i mean, just loading time, and drawing upon moving is extremely slow...
[quote]
Personally, I find myself more and more using The GIMP on Linux because it's faster than Photoshop on *any* platform (and it's open source
[/quote]
such as: being at laest as fast as photoshop in loading files and rendering graphics...
gimp is very nice for smaller (web) graphics, but it isn't nearly as good and fast as photoshop. i'm a big fan though, and would love to see them being at least as good as phototshop, but they're not. at this moment.
so not: Hello Gimp, but "Let's hope they make 2 good enough to compete with Photoshop"
just IM-not-so-HO of course
would be funny if china decided to go with M$'s plans regarding DRM after all, instead of their redflag linux...
btw: love your sig
"There are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Slashdot is NOTHING like Shakespeare..."
[quote]
:->
Statistics are reliable as long as you collect them properly.
[/quote]
oooh the guy collects statistics... and that's supposed to make them more reliable? i would say it only makes them more numerous.
oh, he meant data...
thanx ac
hey /. readers/experts (i hope)
how does this translate into RL applications? i would *love* to be able to caal a friend over the internet. but:
do you need hardware (other than pc)?
can you connect to windows computers?
this could seriously reduce my phonecosts, i'd be quite pleased to use it and donate some money if i could get this working with my (not able to run linux because of company policy and low geekness factor) friends abroad.
can someone point me to some good links for info?
tnx
in the current economical climate, you have to be flexible. a good idea is to have plenty of redundancy among the programmers/functional people and have a mean, very slim sales team and some supportive personell (secretary). the main costs in IT companies are salary costs, so pay the people that do the work.
;-). if you see a solution, just propose it to your manager casually. if you focus on that kind of strategies,and put energy into discussing improvement, you have at least a higher chance to enlarge your influence on the situation.
:)
:) personal experience!
now in real life, this will never happen. what you see is management that stays and "lower" employees who get fired. therefore, the people who have to do "the real work": functional design, programming, implementation, customer support are getting overworked and are underpayed to support the huge cars and salaries of management.
the only real solution is to cut down the amount of management positions, and have many employees that can do "the real work"...
i know this isn't of much help. all you can *really* do is to sit back, work like mad, and hope economy will be rising soon, and clients will want to invest again.
now, for some basic personal improvement lessons: stop complaining. the amount of energy you put into worrying about things you cannot do anything about is enormous -> think about it. focus on what you can achieve (how little these achievements may be). as Covey says (recommended reading!): enlarge your circle of influence. and be "proactive" (the most annoying buzzword ever
do it nicely though, the managers are in huge stress, covering their ass all the time. don't say "i think this is wrong, we better do...", but instead use formulations like: "we thought a bit about the idea you proposed the other day. it was very interesting (blah blah blah), and then slowly introduce your opinion about it. make it seem as if it's his/her idea, with just some minor optimisations. you will fail a dozen times, but the 13th time something might stick. and if a lot of ideas start sticking, you and your co-workers might even be able to really change something.
and don't worry about being acknowledged. what you and your co-workers want is a better environment, and not a management position, right? (at least not for now
trust me it works
i was one minute earlier :-) but you'll prolly get the karma, because of the direct lijnks. i am too lazy to type in a href="etcetcetc.
:-)
o wait, this will cost me karma as well! -1 offtopic
this link:
http://festvox.org/voicedemos.html
does the same as IBM's demo page. sounds the same as well. but hey, i'm a layman in linguistic matters, so there's prolly a *huge* improvement i understand crap about
festival anyone?
cut'n paste:
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
... had i the possibility, i'd surely give you a (+10: Funny Troll)
:-)
you just made my day a bit happier
and taken out patents on how they can be cultivated and used.' Oh well."
well, since my comments are often regarded as inflammatory, i guess it's a good time to burn karma.
methinks this story is very inflammatory in character. "oh well" ?!? i'm not a fan of patents, but i do think that
in this way, all the slashfans already have their opinion formed and there is no way you can say something remotely positive about patents without being smothered in a pile of comments stating you are an idiot and you should open your eyes etc (yes i am exaggerating to make my point)
slashdot itself says it tries to promote proper discussion by its moderation system. let them give the right example then i'd say...
i know this is meta discussion and offtopic, but hey, i think the issue should be raised now and then.
so: this will be either
score -1 flamebait
or
score -1 offtopic
One of the major misconceptions about pharmaceuticals is that "To make this pill costs about $0.12, why are they $15 each?" The problem is that this stuff requires years of research.
in principle you are right. it's just that the pharmaceutical industry makes money long after they break even. long long after that.
plus the deals they make with doctors: giving them nice things, paying expenses on conferences, nice hotel, blah blah, just to buy the very expensive branded pharmaceutical they sell.
in my opinion, the system is sick. it's a shame that pharmaceutical companies are keeping things so closed. research at universities (community money, they get better off it after all), and reasonably priced pills & powders for the masses if it works.
this is all just IMHO though, feel free to disagree.
so in principle we do not disagree at all...
accept for this conclusion at the end of your post:
"Its not a perfect world, but at least its moving in the right direction, thanks to Capitalism."
How do you know? Perhaps it is 'despite Capitalism, due to the hard work of the Chinese people'.
I'm sorry, I'd love to continue this discussion, but I have to get back to the lab to work...
Take care Pharmboy,
Meneer de Koekepeer
well eh i don't want to rain on your parade, but the soviets weren't exactly "liberators", they just replaced one type of inprisonment for another...
i agree that the americans prolly wouldn't have done anything whithout pearl harbour, and that their focus was more on that than on europe anyway.