It really bothers me that people that are SO good at math cannot figure that 4.1 and 4.10 are exactly the same thing.
No, they are not. The dot in a version number is not a decimal point, it is a separator. We are talking about KDE "four dot ten" here, which is nine point releases after KDE version "four dot one".
It's wonderful that you love Windows 7 so much - perhaps you should stick with it and leave Linux to those of us who enjoy using it?
Come come, OP wasn't being critical of Linux, just noting that Windows has a better onscreen keyboard. For all I know, that may be right. If so it may be something to learn from.
As for KDE being permanently a desktop environment and not for mobile... I actually have more confidence in the KDE project to get the details right than Apple or Google. The QT/C++ foundation is really powerful in that regard, for introducing the necessary new abstractions. Recall that Nokia's prime interest in QT was for mobile. See, the big difference between the KDE foundation and Google/Apple is, the corps are primarly interested in getting you to use your device in the way that is most profitable for them, while KDE tries to make the device most useful to you. Case in point: Google pushing hard for browser-only cloud-centric usage model while any damm fool can see that local, native applications are superior in many contexts.
Actually, that amounts to high praise considering that it is coming from an XFCE user. No aspersions there, just noting that XFCE users tend to be highly loyal, and they have their reasons.
Gamers care too much about their favorite obsession to let the likes of EA, Sony and Microsoft pull the strings with their fat grubby corporate hands any more.
Incidentally, OpenOffice was originally developed in Germany. It was called Staroffice at the time, before Sun bought it and GPLed it just to bother Microsoft.
its too bad the only excuse apparent from the summary is the "divergence of the development community", which seems like a piss poor excuse for switching from free software to paid.
Indeed. It smacks of dirty tricks by Microsoft, coated in a thin veneer of quasi plausible spin.
In the short term, Apple has nothing to fear, they have plenty of money in the bank, but they need to keep coming out with innovative, game changing devices...
Tim Cook can't do it. He wears the black turtleneck, but he doesn't fill it.
...Let little Chinese companies make non-Android phones and MP3 players with derivative versions. Who cares? Without the Android brand, it's small-fry...
That sounds a lot like what Sun thought about Java...
It doesn't matter who it's targetting, this moves Google firmly out of the "open source" category into "merely visible source". It gives the impression that Google, sensing an opportunity to go far beyond the original goal of just ensuring that the mobile market remains open to advertising by Google, now has its eyes set on exerting monopoly control of the mobile market. With this, it would seem that Google has declared war on open source.
Microsoft can keep trying and failing to be Apple in the consumer sphere because they just have enormous revenue streams from their business and server divisions
It used to be "enormous revenue from their server and windows client divisions, then the latter went south. Nowadays, it's mainly Microsoft's Exchange lock-in fueling the cash cornucopia. That's starting to look distinctly vulnerable to cloud email.
Ultimately, Apple's biggest threats are Samsung and Google/Nexus.
Apple's biggest threat is itself. Rather than paying as much attention as possible to the care and feeding of its millions of fanatically loyal groupies, they decided to see just how many they could drive away by developing a new corporate image as a profiteering, arrogant bully that regards environmental programs as a nuisance.
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It really bothers me that people that are SO good at math cannot figure that 4.1 and 4.10 are exactly the same thing.
No, they are not. The dot in a version number is not a decimal point, it is a separator. We are talking about KDE "four dot ten" here, which is nine point releases after KDE version "four dot one".
It's wonderful that you love Windows 7 so much - perhaps you should stick with it and leave Linux to those of us who enjoy using it?
Come come, OP wasn't being critical of Linux, just noting that Windows has a better onscreen keyboard. For all I know, that may be right. If so it may be something to learn from.
As for KDE being permanently a desktop environment and not for mobile... I actually have more confidence in the KDE project to get the details right than Apple or Google. The QT/C++ foundation is really powerful in that regard, for introducing the necessary new abstractions. Recall that Nokia's prime interest in QT was for mobile. See, the big difference between the KDE foundation and Google/Apple is, the corps are primarly interested in getting you to use your device in the way that is most profitable for them, while KDE tries to make the device most useful to you. Case in point: Google pushing hard for browser-only cloud-centric usage model while any damm fool can see that local, native applications are superior in many contexts.
Actually, that amounts to high praise considering that it is coming from an XFCE user. No aspersions there, just noting that XFCE users tend to be highly loyal, and they have their reasons.
f your last words are anything other than "thank you", you're a punk
Did the illegal trust-making activity happen on Otellini's watch?
the situation in mobile sucks
No actually, it doesn't, we're finally ridding ourselves of the suffocating domination of Wintel.
That is awesome.
Gamers care too much about their favorite obsession to let the likes of EA, Sony and Microsoft pull the strings with their fat grubby corporate hands any more.
Give Apple a break. They wanted to test IOS 6, they really did, but they didn't have time because they were too busy launching patent thug lawsuits.
Whoa, looks like Apple sent some of its thugmods around. Sensitive about that thug thing much?
Indeed, Apple thugs are definitely senstive about being called thugs. Here's a novel idea: don't be thugs and people might not call you thugs thugs.
I present People's Exhibit A showing why everyone thinks open-source zealots are completely nanners.
Sure you do. Only Microsoft shills use the term "open source zealot".
Incidentally, OpenOffice was originally developed in Germany. It was called Staroffice at the time, before Sun bought it and GPLed it just to bother Microsoft.
its too bad the only excuse apparent from the summary is the "divergence of the development community", which seems like a piss poor excuse for switching from free software to paid.
Indeed. It smacks of dirty tricks by Microsoft, coated in a thin veneer of quasi plausible spin.
Give Apple a break. They wanted to test IOS 6, they really did, but they didn't have time because they were too busy launching patent thug lawsuits.
Whoa, looks like Apple sent some of its thugmods around. Sensitive about that thug thing much?
In the short term, Apple has nothing to fear, they have plenty of money in the bank, but they need to keep coming out with innovative, game changing devices...
Tim Cook can't do it. He wears the black turtleneck, but he doesn't fill it.
That sounds a lot like what Sun thought about Java...
Sun didn't own an advertising empire.
$22.5 million is just "being bad" not "being evil".
Give Apple a break. They wanted to test IOS 6, they really did, but they didn't have time because they were too busy launching patent thug lawsuits.
It doesn't matter who it's targetting, this moves Google firmly out of the "open source" category into "merely visible source". It gives the impression that Google, sensing an opportunity to go far beyond the original goal of just ensuring that the mobile market remains open to advertising by Google, now has its eyes set on exerting monopoly control of the mobile market. With this, it would seem that Google has declared war on open source.
This gives Microsoft something that few others have: time to correct its screwups.
You mean, enough time to screw up even worse.
Microsoft can keep trying and failing to be Apple in the consumer sphere because they just have enormous revenue streams from their business and server divisions
It used to be "enormous revenue from their server and windows client divisions, then the latter went south. Nowadays, it's mainly Microsoft's Exchange lock-in fueling the cash cornucopia. That's starting to look distinctly vulnerable to cloud email.
AMD and ATI should have never merged. The companies were doing well independently, but together they're like oil and water.
No they weren't. AMD was already for a mugging victim of Wintel for many years and ATI was desperately in need of better process technology.
IBM, so they can definitely revenge themselves for their humiliation at the hands of Wintel.
iPhone 5 was twice as fast as its predecessor, and is faster than any leading Android phone on the market.
Lying Apple shill.
Ultimately, Apple's biggest threats are Samsung and Google/Nexus.
Apple's biggest threat is itself. Rather than paying as much attention as possible to the care and feeding of its millions of fanatically loyal groupies, they decided to see just how many they could drive away by developing a new corporate image as a profiteering, arrogant bully that regards environmental programs as a nuisance.
Maybe Tim Cook will innovate the iPhone again and make it another half inch longer.
Apple's flagship product is thug lawsuits. Apple will continue business as usual.