You're really not making sense. GPL'ed Qt isn't paying anybody's legal bills, nor are GPL'ed K-apps that use GPL'ed Qt. There is something to this whole "free" concept that you're just not wrapping your head around. Think things through before you post, would you?
It is nice to see that something useful is coming out of KDE, god knows it's not doing too well as a Linux desktop, with all the standardization initiatives favouring GNOME because of it's close ties to the FSF (that's purely my conjecture but I think there's some truth to it... who am I to complain, I prefer GNOME too). Anyway, this should keep the K developers busy. And maybe, JUST MAYBE, they'll be getting some money thrown at them by Apple.
Yeah, but OS X ports are generally more easily accomplished, I'd think (porting from one Unix to another). Firebird for Windows is great, Gaim and Win-Gimp have a loooong way to come though.
Celeron - As in. Piece of garbage. Low-end-as-they-come.
G4 - high quality, RISC.
This has been covered elsewhere, but firewire, USB 2.0, a highly durable aluminum casing (you'll probably need to buy another one sooner than college if it gets any real on-the-road use), lightweight, long battery life (I'll bet you get maybe 2 hours max out of that celery laptop, probably more like 1.5 if using wireless) vs. 5 hours+ from the Powerbook.
Like you say, you'll probably grab another PC laptop in 4 years, The Powerbook will probably outlast that and keep doing it's job for a good while longer.
News-worthy event? It's a forum post, get over yourself. If you paid any attention to the parent thread it would be obvious that the software could've included it since Unicode is already in OSX, they just chose to ignore Hebrew.
While I tend to agree with your opinion of Israel (not because I'm anti-Semetic but because I'm pro-secularism and pro-human rights), Middle-East politics and Israeli history is non-sequitur in this topic, not to mention you're just begging to be called a racist or something silly like that. Whether or not you choose to acknowledge it, Hebrew is a widely spoken language , there's no reason that an office suite shouldn't include support for it.
That doesn't make it right to discriminate against part of their user base. And your post serves only to illustrate the advantages of free software - developers tend to cater to what people want/need rather than what is economical to include.
a) There are quality of workmanship issues, especially in the laptop department b) You're a troll of the worst kind to be throwing about insults about "ignorant Mac user" and "lime green 'puter". Who says 'puter anyway? Did you just watch Hackers or something?
I guess there really is something to the title assigned you. Anonymous Coward.
Well, no, he isn't. KOffice is free as in beer (just download it) and free as in speech. Though he is wrong, I'll give you that, for many many reasons.
I'm a student. Apple offers something that a lot of PC vendors haven't heard of, it's called a student discount, you know, where you give students a bit of a break on the price in order to build customer loyalty. Dell's idea of a student discount (in partnership with my university) is "offer them cheaper shit".
In this respect, your "anyone who can afford a Mac" argument is null. It turns out that a G4 iBook is more affordable to me than a Celeron notebook.
EXACTLY! My first impressions (and all impressions since) of KOffice, even aside from my general detest for KDE, has been "what the hell is this garbage, and what good is it if I can't swap docs with other [non-KOffice] users?" Perhaps porting KOffice to native QT/Mac will prove useful as an academic exercise, but honestly, until KOffice can import/export in useful formats I don't see KOffice itself gaining any wide acceptance.
In contrast, AbiWord and Gnumeric should get their acts together for OSX.
Did the original post not qualify intellectual property as being void? I think tangible goods are pretty much necessarily outside of that scope. Likewise with services, but... copyright is a different story.
This is actually the first time I've seen Christian non-sequitur crap on/. - I'm impressed at the reach those little bastards have. Actually, I'm just really wired and doing monkey work at 5am.
Who builds a space probe that needs to be TOLD when it needs to recharge? I mean, isn't that something that you'd really, really want to automate? Considering we're, you know, a few billion kilometres away...
Here here. Though it'd be nice to see everyone do this, including Apple, which claims to market a UNIX-like OS. What other UNIX-like OS that you know of utterly ignores/etc?
Wrong. Mozilla Firebird rendered that survey just fine. I didn't notice any strange Flash, Java, or whatever else, but both Macromedia and Sun have done a relatively decent job documenting their data formats as compared with Microsoft.
I feel likewise. I hadn't even HEARD about Fallout 3. There are only so many times you can replay 1 & 2 before they cease to be all that interesting (mind you, there is replay value, just not infinite...)
I loved the first two Fallout games. Fallout Tactics didn't really live up but I have been looking forward to Fallout 3 since I played Fallout 2 for the first time (quite a while ago now). Damnit damnit damnit!
I did this all summer, and still do it evenings and weekends (attending university at the moment), and I found that perhaps the best advice I can give anyone is to get out of the house at least once a day. I cannot stress this enough. If I let one day go by where I don't get out of the house I tend to start really feeling sick, unmotivated, like I'm going to crack. Also, specifically allocate times to start/end work. Crunching code late into the evening works every once in a while but one should not make a habit of it if you're going to have to get up in the morning and crunch more code.
And just why the hell not? It seems blatantly obvious that you DON'T seem to want your jewelry anymore.
What's more to the point is that this isn't like taking jewelry, it isn't an exclusive resource. Finite, maybe, in terms of bandwidth, but let's face it guys, through several layers of brick your signal strength isn't going to be great anyways. You aren't going to be hogging too much of your neighbour's bandwidth, and he'll probably be able to stream his anime porn without incident and be none the wiser that you're "sharing".
I think the topic has been flogged to death above, but yes, Canada autonomously entered the war. William Lyon Mackenzie King (our prime minister at the time) chose to step into it. He also talked to his dog for political advice and was convinced he was being contacted by the spirit of his long-dead mother.... I am Canadian, by the way.
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You're really not making sense. GPL'ed Qt isn't paying anybody's legal bills, nor are GPL'ed K-apps that use GPL'ed Qt. There is something to this whole "free" concept that you're just not wrapping your head around. Think things through before you post, would you?
Ease of use, maybe. Power? Pfft.
It is nice to see that something useful is coming out of KDE, god knows it's not doing too well as a Linux desktop, with all the standardization initiatives favouring GNOME because of it's close ties to the FSF (that's purely my conjecture but I think there's some truth to it... who am I to complain, I prefer GNOME too). Anyway, this should keep the K developers busy. And maybe, JUST MAYBE, they'll be getting some money thrown at them by Apple.
Do you changes clothes while making the "chee-chee-cha-cha-choh" transformation sound?
Yes, but more when I turn into a truck.
Anyway the worst is the really descriptive buttons, like in GNOME.
... snip snip...
"Do you want to save this document"
All that text is really inside GNOME buttons these days. It's hard.
That is one hell of an exaggeration my friend, I've notice no such thing. Are you sure you haven't been using, like, BeOS or something?
Yeah, but OS X ports are generally more easily accomplished, I'd think (porting from one Unix to another). Firebird for Windows is great, Gaim and Win-Gimp have a loooong way to come though.
Give me Access damn it!
Just go to Redmond and yell this repeatedly outside some company building. You'll confuse the hell out of the security guards! "Access to what?!!?"
Celeron - As in. Piece of garbage. Low-end-as-they-come.
G4 - high quality, RISC.
This has been covered elsewhere, but firewire, USB 2.0, a highly durable aluminum casing (you'll probably need to buy another one sooner than college if it gets any real on-the-road use), lightweight, long battery life (I'll bet you get maybe 2 hours max out of that celery laptop, probably more like 1.5 if using wireless) vs. 5 hours+ from the Powerbook.
Like you say, you'll probably grab another PC laptop in 4 years, The Powerbook will probably outlast that and keep doing it's job for a good while longer.
News-worthy event? It's a forum post, get over yourself. If you paid any attention to the parent thread it would be obvious that the software could've included it since Unicode is already in OSX, they just chose to ignore Hebrew.
While I tend to agree with your opinion of Israel (not because I'm anti-Semetic but because I'm pro-secularism and pro-human rights), Middle-East politics and Israeli history is non-sequitur in this topic, not to mention you're just begging to be called a racist or something silly like that. Whether or not you choose to acknowledge it, Hebrew is a widely spoken language , there's no reason that an office suite shouldn't include support for it.
That doesn't make it right to discriminate against part of their user base. And your post serves only to illustrate the advantages of free software - developers tend to cater to what people want/need rather than what is economical to include.
a) There are quality of workmanship issues, especially in the laptop department
b) You're a troll of the worst kind to be throwing about insults about "ignorant Mac user" and "lime green 'puter". Who says 'puter anyway? Did you just watch Hackers or something?
I guess there really is something to the title assigned you. Anonymous Coward.
Well, no, he isn't. KOffice is free as in beer (just download it) and free as in speech. Though he is wrong, I'll give you that, for many many reasons.
I'm a student. Apple offers something that a lot of PC vendors haven't heard of, it's called a student discount, you know, where you give students a bit of a break on the price in order to build customer loyalty. Dell's idea of a student discount (in partnership with my university) is "offer them cheaper shit".
In this respect, your "anyone who can afford a Mac" argument is null. It turns out that a G4 iBook is more affordable to me than a Celeron notebook.
EXACTLY! My first impressions (and all impressions since) of KOffice, even aside from my general detest for KDE, has been "what the hell is this garbage, and what good is it if I can't swap docs with other [non-KOffice] users?" Perhaps porting KOffice to native QT/Mac will prove useful as an academic exercise, but honestly, until KOffice can import/export in useful formats I don't see KOffice itself gaining any wide acceptance.
In contrast, AbiWord and Gnumeric should get their acts together for OSX.
Did the original post not qualify intellectual property as being void? I think tangible goods are pretty much necessarily outside of that scope. Likewise with services, but... copyright is a different story.
This is actually the first time I've seen Christian non-sequitur crap on /. - I'm impressed at the reach those little bastards have. Actually, I'm just really wired and doing monkey work at 5am.
Bite me.
Who builds a space probe that needs to be TOLD when it needs to recharge? I mean, isn't that something that you'd really, really want to automate? Considering we're, you know, a few billion kilometres away...
A copy of 2 Fast 2 Furious (ugh, what the hell) ... ... on VHS.
Wait, it was weird gifts, not crappy gifts. D'oh.
God you people are thick... it was a joke. What are you, android? Vulcan?
Here here. Though it'd be nice to see everyone do this, including Apple, which claims to market a UNIX-like OS. What other UNIX-like OS that you know of utterly ignores /etc?
Wrong. Mozilla Firebird rendered that survey just fine. I didn't notice any strange Flash, Java, or whatever else, but both Macromedia and Sun have done a relatively decent job documenting their data formats as compared with Microsoft.
I feel likewise. I hadn't even HEARD about Fallout 3. There are only so many times you can replay 1 & 2 before they cease to be all that interesting (mind you, there is replay value, just not infinite...)
I loved the first two Fallout games. Fallout Tactics didn't really live up but I have been looking forward to Fallout 3 since I played Fallout 2 for the first time (quite a while ago now). Damnit damnit damnit!
WoTC? care to enlighten the rest of us not so familiar with these acronyms?
I did this all summer, and still do it evenings and weekends (attending university at the moment), and I found that perhaps the best advice I can give anyone is to get out of the house at least once a day. I cannot stress this enough. If I let one day go by where I don't get out of the house I tend to start really feeling sick, unmotivated, like I'm going to crack. Also, specifically allocate times to start/end work. Crunching code late into the evening works every once in a while but one should not make a habit of it if you're going to have to get up in the morning and crunch more code.
$0.02.
And just why the hell not? It seems blatantly obvious that you DON'T seem to want your jewelry anymore.
What's more to the point is that this isn't like taking jewelry, it isn't an exclusive resource. Finite, maybe, in terms of bandwidth, but let's face it guys, through several layers of brick your signal strength isn't going to be great anyways. You aren't going to be hogging too much of your neighbour's bandwidth, and he'll probably be able to stream his anime porn without incident and be none the wiser that you're "sharing".
I think the topic has been flogged to death above, but yes, Canada autonomously entered the war. William Lyon Mackenzie King (our prime minister at the time) chose to step into it. He also talked to his dog for political advice and was convinced he was being contacted by the spirit of his long-dead mother. ... I am Canadian, by the way.