I completely disagree. I put many frequently used icons on my desktop as it speeds up my access to them. My hand is already on the mouse and it just takes 1 click to lauch/use said application if I am able to put an icon on the desktop.
Now in kde4.1 I have to have a big huge ugly black box around my icons...for no reason. I have used KDE for years over gnome, but this change will make me take a look at gnome again. It's a bad decision forcing users to work in a specific way without being able to configure it....Sounds a lot like M$ to me.
I'm sorry...no desktop icons for you! Desktop icons...bad....big black box...good.
yah I'm glad I'm not the only one that saw this part of the 'distro' and went...huh? Do we really need a new init system? Maybe if they described why they needed a new init system instead of just whining about Gentoo.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080203/ap_on_el_pr/campaign_rdp_31
Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday she might be willing to garnish the wages of workers who refuse to buy health insurance to achieve coverage for all Americans.
Clinton has not always specified the enforcement measures she would embrace, but when pressed on ABC's "This Week," she said: "I think there are a number of mechanisms" that are possible, including "going after people's wages, automatic enrollment." How this country has degraded to these types of people is insane. First we have GW spying on citizens and now Billary wants to steal more of our money is nuts. What happened to the constitution here people? This country was formed to get away from government control of the citizen's lives, now we are allowing it to slowly erode away in the name of "progress". wtf.
There is nothing in the constitution that says the government must be the provider for all. We're all turning from citizens of the state, to wards of the state. It's total government control, fascism or socialism, it's all the same...we have no freedom.
Congrats indeed. I like KDE4, but it's not really ready for prime time yet. I'm running KDE4 on gutsy with an ATI chipset, and I get apps crashing on me left and right for no reason. Xchat bails on me every time I select a menu. I was running Eclipse for a while as well and it just bails without warning at all. Back in Kde3 land...all is stable. I'd say this is a Beta at best if stuff like this is crashing this easily.
Libertarianism is about freedom from 2 insane US political parties. They both want total control over our lives, either by fascist religious views from the Republicans or fascist taxation by the communist/socialist Democrats.
I completely agree. I cannot comprehend why people pay to buy the game, and pay for it every month...again and again when there is Guild Wars out there. It's effectively the same game w/ out the monthly tax. WoW can jump off a bridge
And can be done more efficiently and quicker if done by private enterprise. There is nothing in our consitution that says the only way to futher human understanding is via gigantic sums of money stolen from hard working people and give out by the government.
Because we all know, the only way we can possibly affect change is by passing a law that is is going to be enforced how? Of all the things that these idiot politicians can produce, this is what we get, a law to change light bulbs....nice.
These folks are simply trying to pull the wool over your eyes man. We are already being appropriatly taxed for fuel. The federal govt taxes us for ever gallon as does the state of CA. The more you drive, the more gas you buy, the more taxes you pay. We don't need a GPS system to doulby tax us. this isn't going for JUST the low fuel burn rate vehicles, it will be for everyone. it's insane.
You have to remember that just because there is a recall election, doesn't mean the official in power will be removed. more then 50% of folks, who care enough to show up at the polls, still have to say "Yes I want to recall", and then pick someone else.
So at best, a minority of the voters can get a recall election, but a majority still has to say Yes to recall/remove the politician, before a change actually takes place. This is a good thing. It helps protect citizens from abusive/terrible politicians doing bad things. A la, We don't have to wait out the restof Davis' term and continually hear him and other Democrats claim the only way to solve the overspending problem is to raise taxes.
How can anyone justify raising taxes when the California government is wasting huge amounts of cash on projects like the $801Million IBM deal with California. It's a fricking Database. I can maybe see them spending $20million TOPS. This is a clear case of rampant overspending for a "solution".
As far as Bush is concerned, he is no different then any Democrat. Tax and spend, Tax and spend. The whole prescription drug bill/tax increase proved that, and if that isn't enough evidence, how about the Department of Homeland defense. That is Big government, getting bigger. It's a far cry from "smaller government, and less taxes" that the idiot Republicans like to claim. Republicans = Democrats.
The aspect of this recall that I find most disgustingly unfair is the influence of money in politics. Californians should find it frightening that a wealthy Republican can buy himself another election.
This is just stupid. 1) Last time I checked, the recall was part of the California Constitution, making a recall of an elected official legal.
2) It takes nearly 1 million voters to agree with a recall effort. They have to agree with the assertion that the current administration is doing a terrible job, and take time out of their day to sign the petition to make the recall legal. In no way can you "buy" an election. This is why we have had many recall efforts come and go, and this one being the first one that was successfull.
3) If she thinks this recall effort is such a sham, then why is she a part of it?!
It's only unfair to her, because its her party that might be kicked out of office. Too damn bad. This is the first interesting election we Californians have had in our life time. I actually feel like my 1 vote might make a difference. It's about time that the 2 major parties got a wake up call.
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nice. get rid of them...then bring them back in 'all their glory'. wow...progress.
Yah instead of application icons on the desktop, you get icons in lots of big black boxes, which are 'folders'.
If you call forcing me to have a big black box around my desktop icons "better".
Yah that is a LOT better. wow.
Oh...Like KDE 4.1 removing the ability to have desktop icons is "giving users more options".
awesome.
I completely disagree. I put many frequently used icons on my desktop as it speeds up my access to them. My hand is already on the mouse and it just takes 1 click to lauch/use said application if I am able to put an icon on the desktop.
Now in kde4.1 I have to have a big huge ugly black box around my icons...for no reason. I have used KDE for years over gnome, but this change will make me take a look at gnome again. It's a bad decision forcing users to work in a specific way without being able to configure it....Sounds a lot like M$ to me.
I'm sorry...no desktop icons for you! Desktop icons...bad....big black box...good.
It means yet another linux distro because some user got pissed for no reason.....oh yah and a new init system. yah we really needed a new one.
yah I'm glad I'm not the only one that saw this part of the 'distro' and went...huh? Do we really need a new init system? Maybe if they described why they needed a new init system instead of just whining about Gentoo.
"acknowledge the existence proprietary software" ? eh? Are you really that dense. What do you think Wine is?
There is nothing in the constitution that says the government must be the provider for all. We're all turning from citizens of the state, to wards of the state. It's total government control, fascism or socialism, it's all the same...we have no freedom.
Congrats indeed. I like KDE4, but it's not really ready for prime time yet. I'm running KDE4 on gutsy with an ATI chipset, and I get apps crashing on me left and right for no reason. Xchat bails on me every time I select a menu. I was running Eclipse for a while as well and it just bails without warning at all. Back in Kde3 land...all is stable. I'd say this is a Beta at best if stuff like this is crashing this easily.
Libertarianism is about freedom from 2 insane US political parties. They both want total control over our lives, either by fascist religious views from the Republicans or fascist taxation by the communist/socialist Democrats.
I completely agree. I cannot comprehend why people pay to buy the game, and pay for it every month...again and again when there is Guild Wars out there. It's effectively the same game w/ out the monthly tax. WoW can jump off a bridge
And can be done more efficiently and quicker if done by private enterprise. There is nothing in our consitution that says the only way to futher human understanding is via gigantic sums of money stolen from hard working people and give out by the government.
Frankly this is the way it should be done. Private enterprise can do it faster, better and cheaper every single time then the US government.
Because we all know, the only way we can possibly affect change is by passing a law that is is going to be enforced how? Of all the things that these idiot politicians can produce, this is what we get, a law to change light bulbs....nice.
wtf! I need my tetris!
Clinko = windows only....Bzzzzzt.
These folks are simply trying to pull the wool over your eyes man. We are already being appropriatly taxed for fuel. The federal govt taxes us for ever gallon as does the state of CA. The more you drive, the more gas you buy, the more taxes you pay. We don't need a GPS system to doulby tax us. this isn't going for JUST the low fuel burn rate vehicles, it will be for everyone. it's insane.
The only error was that it was the no fly list. It should have been the no Driving (drunk) list.
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Apple has done this for years people! wake up!
Guess we can all let out a sigh of relief. We can still browse pron when we all get paralyzed.
You have to remember that just because there is a recall election, doesn't mean the official in power will be removed. more then 50% of folks, who care enough to show up at the polls, still have to say "Yes I want to recall", and then pick someone else.
So at best, a minority of the voters can get a recall election, but a majority still has to say Yes to recall/remove the politician, before a change actually takes place. This is a good thing. It helps protect citizens from abusive/terrible politicians doing bad things. A la, We don't have to wait out the restof Davis' term and continually hear him and other Democrats claim the only way to solve the overspending problem is to raise taxes.
How can anyone justify raising taxes when the California government is wasting huge amounts of cash on projects like the
$801Million IBM deal with California. It's a fricking Database. I can maybe see them spending $20million TOPS. This is a clear case of rampant overspending for a "solution".
As far as Bush is concerned, he is no different then any Democrat. Tax and spend, Tax and spend.
The whole prescription drug bill/tax increase proved that, and if that isn't enough evidence, how about the Department of Homeland defense. That is Big government, getting bigger. It's a far cry from "smaller government, and less taxes" that the idiot Republicans like to claim.
Republicans = Democrats.
The aspect of this recall that I find most disgustingly unfair is the influence of money in politics. Californians should find it frightening that a wealthy Republican can buy himself another election.
This is just stupid.
1) Last time I checked, the recall was part of the California Constitution, making a recall of an elected official legal.
2) It takes nearly 1 million voters to agree with a recall effort. They have to agree with the assertion that the current administration is doing a terrible job, and take time out of their day to sign the petition to make the recall legal. In no way can you "buy" an election. This is why we have had many recall efforts come and go, and this one being the first one that was successfull.
3) If she thinks this recall effort is such a sham, then why is she a part of it?!
It's only unfair to her, because its her party that might be kicked out of office. Too damn bad.
This is the first interesting election we Californians have had in our life time. I actually feel like my 1 vote might make a difference. It's about time that the 2 major parties got a wake up call.
This is non-news. Why do the lame moderators here even accept this type of junk post.