1. You're assuming all 'developers' have the same level of competency and interests. Just because there are 100 contributors doesn't mean that 100 contributors all working on 'window shading' together would make things better, or even be efficient.
2. KDE (and Gnome) are much more than 'Window Managers'. If that's all you want, use something else.
I do agree that it seems that there are some redundant projects, but seeing multiple projects and code can continue to spur development of projects. If Kopete sees something in Gaim, they can add that feature, or vice versa.
Politics comes into it too. Just because someone contributed something to Gaim doesn't mean the Gaim devs would take the contribution. Having multiple projects for people to contribute to could be seen as fostering innovation, not splitting resources, as more people can express themselves, and (hopefully) the best ideas float to the top.
Whether the whole open source community is a true meritocracy or not is another matter, though I tend to think in most cases it's closer to that than other development models.
* Text-to-speech system with support built into Konqueror, Kate, KPDF and the standalone application KSayIt
* Support for text to speech synthesis is integrated with the desktop
* Completely redesigned, more flexible trash system
* Kicker with improved look and feel
* KPDF now enables you to select, copy & paste text and images from PDFs, along with many other improvements
* Kontact supports now various groupware servers, including eGroupware, GroupWise, Kolab, OpenGroupware.org and SLOX
* Kopete supports Novell Groupwise and Lotus Sametime and gets integrated into Kontact
* DBUS/HAL support allows to keep dynamic device icons in media:/ and on the desktop in sync with the state of all devices
* KHTML has improved standard support and now close to full support for CSS 2.1 and the CSS 3 Selectors module
* Better synchronization between 2 PCs
* A new high contrast style and a complete monochrome icon set
* An icon effect to paint all icons in two chosen colors, converting third party application icons into high contrast monochrome icons
* Akregator allows you to read news from your favourite RSS-enabled websites in one application
* Juk has now an album cover management via Google Image Search
* KMail now stores passwords securely with KWallet
* SVG files can now be used as wallpapers
* KHTML plug-ins are now configurable, so the user can selectively disable ones that are not used. This does not include Netscape-style plug-ins. Netscape plug-in in CPU usage can be manually lowered, and plug-ins are more stable.
* more than 6,500 bugs have been fixed
* more than 1,700 wishes have been fullfilled
* more than 80,000 contributions with several million lines of code and documentation added or changed
Not sure if this is ever considered, but are there more job listings for java people because it takes more java developers to get stuff done? Honestly, really, I'm not a.net fan at all. It's goe some good ideas, but you're hobbled to one platform to be productive with MS tools. Dev tools often make people more productive. I've seen relative newbies make.net do moderately impressive stuff in just a few weeks, while twice as many java people were half as productive. I'm only speaking from my obviously limited perspective (there's only one of me!) but is this ever considered a factor when people talk about the relative number of job postings?
"how can you demonstrate it works?" or "how can you demonstrate future changes will impact what you've done?"
Rethinking in those terms has helped me understand the fundamental need for documented testing practices, over and above 'knowing' something works. I've known things work, as have other people I've worked with. We *know* things work at that moment in time. What we lacked was the ability to demonstrate that things would work with future changes applied.
One industry executive who requested not to be named said that IBM's push into PHP and scripting reflects IBM's disillusionment with the Java standardization process and the industry's inability to make Java very easy to use.
"IBM's been so fed up with Java that they've been looking for alternatives for years," the executive said. "They want people to build applications quickly that tap into IBM back-ends...and with Java, it just isn't happening."
the 'trying-to-get-off-the-ground-soon-to-be-classic' 'In South Korea, only old people...' line.
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(why make a numerical keyboard with just subtraction?!),
Think of people doing data entry - you'll probably have dashes between product codes (1105-97) more often than you'd have people doing spreadsheet work. Just a hunch...
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I'm not sure people can *use* them as much as 'regular' notes. I've run into many vending machines that don't accept them, and I've also had a couple cashiers that complain about accepting them because there's no sectioned space in the drawer for them (nevermind that many people put all 10s and 20s and higher *underneath* the drawer anyway to stop grab-n-run thieves from getting away with too much)
The fact that we have a law named "CAN SPAM" is weird. Maybe someone thought "CAN" might be read as "to stop" ("can your mouth, buddy"), but to me and most people it's "can" as in "is able to" or "has permission to". VERY strange name for something - I thought it when it became law, and just right now.
"We comply with the CAN SPAM act".
Sounds perfectly legit, really. "If we do X, we CAN SPAM".
Why couldn't they have come up with some other acronym to call it the STOP SPAM act or something similarly less ambiguous???
He might be meaning the entire 'foot' menu (or 'star' or 'red hat' or whatever the button is in your theme). The primary menu button that would be similar to the 'start' button in windows. Right clicking on that under gnome 2.6 gives me 'lock', 'move' and 'remove from panel'. Oh, and 'help'
The majority of development has moved over to a subproject on the logicampus project on sourceforge. sf.net/projects/logicampus . Feel free to post any questions over there - the main.com site is not being updated much, although that may change in the next few months.
What are some of the pros/cons you saw in LC compared to other projects? Mostly curious here, but it's nice to get that kind of unsolicited plug on/. here.:)
Is this much different than what the results were/would have been comparing spybot vs the product giant had before MS bought them?
Has MS added that much value in a short time to make it head and shoulders above the rest? Or was Giant just that much better anyway (which is probably why MS would have bought them in the first place)?
I think 'coupling' was carried over to the US, but died in the ratings. Why not just show the british version on an american network? British networks show American shows without rewriting them - why can't we do the same here in the US without having to resort to PBS and BBCAmerica?
The Office is damn funny.:) I'm not sure we'll ever see anything like that produced by American TV houses and broadcast on major networks.:(
And having the stores act as mommies is going to make kids feel in control and independent?
In some ways, perhaps. They can 'independantly' verify that it's not just their parents but many other grownups who also feel that certain games/movies/media are inappropriate for children.
Yes, it's mostly complacency. BUT, that means at most there was a 'choice' by most users to not educate themselves. That's hardly a resounding 'choice' explicitly *for* using IE. It may only be semantic to some people, but I think the MS line that the majority of people 'choose' IE is becoming harder to accept for many people, precisely because it's not an active choice in favor of something. Probably a good 70% of the people I know who use IE do so simply because it came with their computer and not because of some educated choice. The others have tried other browsers (moz/opera) and come back to IE for some compatibilty issues, but still try the alternatives once in awhile to see what's changed.
I"m not sure that much has been 'distorted'. If you're to believe the reports from the workers at EA, even something as basic as comp time has been eliminated.
Forget the stock options and hourly wage stuff. If I have to work 70 hours a week for 3 months straight, could I not get a few extra weeks paid time off when the crunch is done? Again, per EA accounts, they get shifted from one extended crunch project to the next with no time off in between. You don't *need* labor laws and hourly wage calculations to know that the right thing to do would be to let people rest up, if only so they perform better on the next spurt of 3 months/70hours a week.
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There are a few basic replies to this.
1. You're assuming all 'developers' have the same level of competency and interests. Just because there are 100 contributors doesn't mean that 100 contributors all working on 'window shading' together would make things better, or even be efficient.
2. KDE (and Gnome) are much more than 'Window Managers'. If that's all you want, use something else.
I do agree that it seems that there are some redundant projects, but seeing multiple projects and code can continue to spur development of projects. If Kopete sees something in Gaim, they can add that feature, or vice versa.
Politics comes into it too. Just because someone contributed something to Gaim doesn't mean the Gaim devs would take the contribution. Having multiple projects for people to contribute to could be seen as fostering innovation, not splitting resources, as more people can express themselves, and (hopefully) the best ideas float to the top.
Whether the whole open source community is a true meritocracy or not is another matter, though I tend to think in most cases it's closer to that than other development models.
http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.4.php
Highlights at a glance
* Text-to-speech system with support built into Konqueror, Kate, KPDF and the standalone application KSayIt
* Support for text to speech synthesis is integrated with the desktop
* Completely redesigned, more flexible trash system
* Kicker with improved look and feel
* KPDF now enables you to select, copy & paste text and images from PDFs, along with many other improvements
* Kontact supports now various groupware servers, including eGroupware, GroupWise, Kolab, OpenGroupware.org and SLOX
* Kopete supports Novell Groupwise and Lotus Sametime and gets integrated into Kontact
* DBUS/HAL support allows to keep dynamic device icons in media:/ and on the desktop in sync with the state of all devices
* KHTML has improved standard support and now close to full support for CSS 2.1 and the CSS 3 Selectors module
* Better synchronization between 2 PCs
* A new high contrast style and a complete monochrome icon set
* An icon effect to paint all icons in two chosen colors, converting third party application icons into high contrast monochrome icons
* Akregator allows you to read news from your favourite RSS-enabled websites in one application
* Juk has now an album cover management via Google Image Search
* KMail now stores passwords securely with KWallet
* SVG files can now be used as wallpapers
* KHTML plug-ins are now configurable, so the user can selectively disable ones that are not used. This does not include Netscape-style plug-ins. Netscape plug-in in CPU usage can be manually lowered, and plug-ins are more stable.
* more than 6,500 bugs have been fixed
* more than 1,700 wishes have been fullfilled
* more than 80,000 contributions with several million lines of code and documentation added or changed
Not sure if this is ever considered, but are there more job listings for java people because it takes more java developers to get stuff done? Honestly, really, I'm not a .net fan at all. It's goe some good ideas, but you're hobbled to one platform to be productive with MS tools. Dev tools often make people more productive. I've seen relative newbies make .net do moderately impressive stuff in just a few weeks, while twice as many java people were half as productive. I'm only speaking from my obviously limited perspective (there's only one of me!) but is this ever considered a factor when people talk about the relative number of job postings?
but without that test, how do you know it works?
I'd rephrase that a bit.
"how can you demonstrate it works?" or "how can you demonstrate future changes will impact what you've done?"
Rethinking in those terms has helped me understand the fundamental need for documented testing practices, over and above 'knowing' something works. I've known things work, as have other people I've worked with. We *know* things work at that moment in time. What we lacked was the ability to demonstrate that things would work with future changes applied.
One industry executive who requested not to be named said that IBM's push into PHP and scripting reflects IBM's disillusionment with the Java standardization process and the industry's inability to make Java very easy to use.
"IBM's been so fed up with Java that they've been looking for alternatives for years," the executive said. "They want people to build applications quickly that tap into IBM back-ends...and with Java, it just isn't happening."
the 'trying-to-get-off-the-ground-soon-to-be-classic' 'In South Korea, only old people...' line.
(why make a numerical keyboard with just subtraction?!),
Think of people doing data entry - you'll probably have dashes between product codes (1105-97) more often than you'd have people doing spreadsheet work. Just a hunch...
http://mlagazine.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=N ews&file=article&sid=137&mode=thread&order=0&thold =0
This one is probably the original that osviews.com is referencing.
I'm not sure people can *use* them as much as 'regular' notes. I've run into many vending machines that don't accept them, and I've also had a couple cashiers that complain about accepting them because there's no sectioned space in the drawer for them (nevermind that many people put all 10s and 20s and higher *underneath* the drawer anyway to stop grab-n-run thieves from getting away with too much)
However, if the major platform moves away from being tool-agnostic, Google will be in trouble.
The fact that we have a law named "CAN SPAM" is weird. Maybe someone thought "CAN" might be read as "to stop" ("can your mouth, buddy"), but to me and most people it's "can" as in "is able to" or "has permission to". VERY strange name for something - I thought it when it became law, and just right now.
"We comply with the CAN SPAM act".
Sounds perfectly legit, really. "If we do X, we CAN SPAM".
Why couldn't they have come up with some other acronym to call it the STOP SPAM act or something similarly less ambiguous???
He might be meaning the entire 'foot' menu (or 'star' or 'red hat' or whatever the button is in your theme). The primary menu button that would be similar to the 'start' button in windows. Right clicking on that under gnome 2.6 gives me 'lock', 'move' and 'remove from panel'. Oh, and 'help'
In your IDE, change the code to be a smaller font - this will use less disk space and ultimately make things run faster...
I'd combined those two some time ago to make pinwheel of death. Hadn't thought about it in terms of a beachball before...
The majority of development has moved over to a subproject on the logicampus project on sourceforge. sf.net/projects/logicampus . Feel free to post any questions over there - the main .com site is not being updated much, although that may change in the next few months.
/. here. :)
What are some of the pros/cons you saw in LC compared to other projects? Mostly curious here, but it's nice to get that kind of unsolicited plug on
Is this much different than what the results were/would have been comparing spybot vs the product giant had before MS bought them?
Has MS added that much value in a short time to make it head and shoulders above the rest? Or was Giant just that much better anyway (which is probably why MS would have bought them in the first place)?
I think 'coupling' was carried over to the US, but died in the ratings. Why not just show the british version on an american network? British networks show American shows without rewriting them - why can't we do the same here in the US without having to resort to PBS and BBCAmerica?
:) I'm not sure we'll ever see anything like that produced by American TV houses and broadcast on major networks. :(
The Office is damn funny.
And having the stores act as mommies is going to make kids feel in control and independent?
In some ways, perhaps. They can 'independantly' verify that it's not just their parents but many other grownups who also feel that certain games/movies/media are inappropriate for children.
Would you care to share your tree code?
It's $799, not $900.
I'm pretty sure I was hitting it Friday night, if not Saturday some time, so it couldn't have been down *that* long...
Yes, it's mostly complacency. BUT, that means at most there was a 'choice' by most users to not educate themselves. That's hardly a resounding 'choice' explicitly *for* using IE. It may only be semantic to some people, but I think the MS line that the majority of people 'choose' IE is becoming harder to accept for many people, precisely because it's not an active choice in favor of something. Probably a good 70% of the people I know who use IE do so simply because it came with their computer and not because of some educated choice. The others have tried other browsers (moz/opera) and come back to IE for some compatibilty issues, but still try the alternatives once in awhile to see what's changed.
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I"m not sure that much has been 'distorted'. If you're to believe the reports from the workers at EA, even something as basic as comp time has been eliminated.
Forget the stock options and hourly wage stuff. If I have to work 70 hours a week for 3 months straight, could I not get a few extra weeks paid time off when the crunch is done? Again, per EA accounts, they get shifted from one extended crunch project to the next with no time off in between. You don't *need* labor laws and hourly wage calculations to know that the right thing to do would be to let people rest up, if only so they perform better on the next spurt of 3 months/70hours a week.
only old people make 'in soviet russia' jokes.