3) it's very fast, especially if I do any searching.
I can't argue there, but we all thought that's what we'd eventually get out of the new KDE with nepomuk
I might be missing something here, but it seems to me that's unrealistic. Google is running their Gmail service on large servers with extremely fast disks, tons of memory, and server CPUs with huge amounts of cache. How many regular users are going to run KDE/nepomuk on a quad Xeon system with a 64-drive SAS RAID6 setup and 128GB of memory? Sure, Gmail users have to share these systems, and they have to contend with network latency, but when searching your entire mail archive of tens of thousands of emails for some text strings, Gmail does it in seconds; I don't think Kmail, or any locally-run email application, would ever be able to match that unless you've set up a very beefy system.
Try peacefully assembling just about anyplace in the USA now. You'll have paramilitary troops (we call them "police") arresting you, tasing you, macing you, and beating you. Youtube is full of videos of such incidents.
Um, yes you do. Where the hell did you ever get the idea that the USA is a "free country", or that there's freedom of assembly here? Did you never hear of "free speech zones"? In case you didn't know, it's now illegal to protest anywhere the Secret Service may be; taking part in a protest against the government will now make you a felon and earn you a 10-year prison sentence.
That's just the way it is in America these days. No one wants to risk themselves, no one wants to stand out. Look back at the civil rights protests and war protests and other protests decades ago: people got out in the streets and fought for change. What do Americans do these days? Nothing but grumble. And for good reason, because most of the population is dead-set against them, and they know that it's futile. Some people tried it with the Occupy protests, and they were brutally shut down. No one wanted to come to their aid against the jackbooted cops. Back in the 60s, something like that would have required the national guard to come out with rifles. Today, some asshole cops with pepper spray can shut it down and arrest everyone and make them part of the prison-industrial complex.
It's largely the same with unions. Except in a few places like Chicago, people know that they'll just get fired if they protest too much, and there probably isn't much the union can do about it thanks to all the rampant corruption in the government at all levels. So everyone's just hunkering down and trying to avoid having their lives ruined by those in power.
The simple fact is that the USA is going down the tubes quickly, and is either going to break apart or turn into a totalitarian fascist regime within 20 years. The best course of action is to escape while you still can.
I dunno, with a year of part-time work and PHP, you could hack out something that manages a lot for a small business. Definitely not enterprise-grade, but it'd be enough to help out a small business significantly and it's unlikely they're going to grow that much for a long time.
I wonder if it's possible that electrons don't really even exist as small, spherical particles that orbit the nucleus, as we're taught in school, but instead are something else entirely, and it's just convenient for us to model them as such.
If your company is doing software development and they're too incompetent to set up a bug tracker, then you need to start looking for a new job ASAP. That's totally inexcusable. Don't tell me they also don't have a revision control system.
Also, I've read somewhere else that some large businesses are slooowly starting to abandon another BS concept that's caused wreak and havoc all around for the last few decades: the notion that their purpose is to move the company into maximizing shareholder benefit by all means no matter what.
I haven't seen any evidence of that; maybe some foreign-owned businesses, where they have "honor" as an important part of their culture, unlike us.
However they seem to be carrying on the retardation by not allowing people to test their sites in advance with IE10 without having to install a whole new OS.
There was a bestselling magazine called Foxfile back in the 70s and 80s that had something to do with Appalachian folklore and traditions. Maybe all the people who know who call it that are older and remember that magazine.
You'd be surprised just how cheap and stupid a lot of companies are. At my last job, I was getting six figures in pay, but for the longest time they kept me stuck with a shitty, old, slow PC running XP (and I had to use tools that only ran in Cygwin! because they wouldn't get Linux) with a tiny 17" monitor. Builds took forever, wasting tons of my time. After about a year of that, they finally got us new computers, but that was a lot of wasted time there.
I think these companies are just poorly run, by bean-counters mainly. They'll pay a lot for an employee because if they don't, the position will just sit vacant and the work won't get done, so they'll pay "market rate" or maybe a little more if they're getting desperate. But then they'll cut costs in other places, especially IT since it's a cost center. They're too stupid to put the two together (we're paying this guy $50-75/hour, but we're trying to save money by not getting him a $200 large-screen monitor and a $600 computer so he doesn't waste his time compiling software. He makes as much in only 2 days as it costs to pay for these things). Penny wise and pound foolish.
Depends on the business. A company with 20,000 to 200,000 employees? Yes, they have their own custom builds. A mom-n-pop retail shop? No, they use whatever comes installed on the machine, or whatever the IT business they've contracted with installs on it.
Seriously, when was the last time you tried KDE? If the last time was an early 4.0 series version, that's like judging Windows by the Vista release. The 4.0 series has been out for years now. It mostly looks the same, but underneath it's gotten a lot better in that time.
Maybe it's all my fault because I want to run my desktop for days at a time; because I want to keep multiple virtual screens open, because I want to keep multiple copies of my browser open.
That's exactly how I use my KDE desktop, and have been since KDE 4.4 or 4.5. It didn't work so great back then when I first switched to the 4.x series (occasional crashing, and dbus-daemon sometimes pegging the CPU at 100%), but in the last year or so, those problems seem to be all gone. The very latest Mint KDE and Kubuntu releases seem really solid. It runs constantly on both my desktop and my Thinkpad; I almost never reboot my laptop. My biggest problem with stability these days is web browsers hogging too much memory, and needing to be restarted after a while. That's not a KDE issue since I don't use any KDE-based web browsers (I use Firefox and Chromium, mostly the latter these days).
What did I just say:) ? Why should I use a webmail service?
This is all personal preference. You can even use Thunderbird if you want; lots of people do. Using KDE doesn't mean you're restricted to KDE applications. Very few KDE users likely use Rekonq for web browsing for instance.
But I use Gmail because 1) I can use it on multiple computers (I switch a lot between my desktop and laptop) without having to worry about synchronizing, 2) its spam filtering is second to none, 3) it's very fast, especially if I do any searching. Yeah, the new UI sucks donkey balls. Setting it to "compact" and enabling text buttons (instead of icons) helps a lot though. Maybe someone will make a "greasemonkey" or chromium extension that fixes it.
Why should I, or you, or anyone, say that KDE is fine as long as I don't use it's built in tool, Kmail (and also Kontact's other pieces as well)?
Because it's only one application. Evolution may be the standard email client for Gnome, but lots of Gnome users surely use Thunderbird, which isn't tied to any DE. The reason people are bitching and complaining about Unity and Gnome3 isn't about email clients, it's the DE itself, and really the way it manages windows more than anything probably. KDE doesn't have those same problems. I'm really not sure how good or bad Kmail is to be honest because I haven't really tried it, but my point is that of the available choices, KDE seems to be the best, though if KMail is unsatisfactory, you can always use Evolution or Thunderbird. None of the choices are likely to be ideal; in fact, no choice is likely to be ideal. Windows isn't ideal since everyone's bitching about Win8/Metro now. MacOS isn't ideal; lots of people complain about various aspects of that. Obviously, Unity and Gnome3 have tons of complaints. KDE isn't going to be perfect either. You just have to choose the best available choice, based on your personal requirements and preferences.
I don't know where you've gotten that from; it sounds like you may have Kmail confused with something else, because Kmail doesn't offer a database method of storing email; it offers an absolutely standard MailDir configuration It works fine.
I might be confused, but I really thought I read a bunch of people bitching about it using a database to store the email and that this made it difficult to move mail to other applications.
From everything I read, Nepomuk really isn't a big problem any more, once it's done its initial indexing. I really don't see a lot of valid complaints about the latest versions (e.g. 4.9) of KDE any more, all the complaints seem to be about things earlier on in the 4.0 series which are all fixed now.
Notice that the TFA is about KDE outperforming Gnome/Unity. It wouldn't be able to claim that if Nepomuk is slowing it down that much.
Finally, the stuff about searching mail or getting typeahead on email addresses is only a factor if you use Kmail. Most people these days seem to use Gmail or some other webmail service out of convenience. Most people use KDE or Gnome because they need a DE for managing all their windows and interacting with their PC, not because they need an integrated email application. But again, from what I've read, this is no longer a problem. There are some people, however, bitching that they can't import their Kmail mail into another application since it uses a database to store it, but I'm not sure if that's fully valid because I thought some other people pointed out that you still have the option to select maildir as the storage backed.
I don't know about these cameras in maryland, but the ones around here in AZ (many of which have been taken down actually) are mounted on big metal poles quite high off the ground, and have sturdy metal casings. A tire iron isn't going to help you with them; you'll need a gas-powered cut-off saw.
>I was simply trying to say that various special effects on Star Trek were actually very expensive effects for the time.
Were they? I thought everything I read about it was that it was a somewhat low-budget show, even for the time (obviously not as low-budget a sitcom of course, but still). For instance, the thing that Dr. McCoy waved over people when using the medical tricorder? It was (IIRC) a chrome salt shaker someone got at a yard sale or thrift shop.
Edit: It turns out I'm wrong, it was actually rather expensive for the time. I guess the salt shaker was just convenient.
I'm no expert, but it seems like the "beaming" effect would be fairly simple to do with the existing film-based FX they used at the time, just some cutting and splicing along with fixed camera locations to show frames with and without the landing party, and then some kind of glitter effect added on top.
Aside: another thing I always found annoying about the holodecks in TNG, was that they'd frequently dress up in period costumes for their historical re-enactment adventures. The holodeck is supposed to be able to use replicator technology to synthesize matter at will, and "beam" it wherever it's needed. So why the costumes? Why not just walk in, wearing your regular uniform, and the holodeck "beams" an appropriate costume onto you? And then replaces it with your uniform when you leave so that when the ship is suddenly attacked or hits a gravitational disturbance or whatever, you don't have to go to the bridge in Shakespearean costume?
It seems to me the problem isn't necessarily the community as much as it is the distro maintainers. Of course, the community make the distros popular or not through their choices.
Mounted machine guns will make it pretty hard for you to dock in most ports, and probably get you in a lot of trouble.
Assuming you're an American, it's easy to buy AR-15 rifles in any gun shop. Find a good place to hide one in your boat (where port inspectors won't be able to find it).
Of course, it should go without saying that you should absolutely avoid the Gulf of Aden in your voyage. But there's other parts of the world where pirates are a problem too.
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3) it's very fast, especially if I do any searching.
I can't argue there, but we all thought that's what we'd eventually get out of the new KDE with nepomuk
I might be missing something here, but it seems to me that's unrealistic. Google is running their Gmail service on large servers with extremely fast disks, tons of memory, and server CPUs with huge amounts of cache. How many regular users are going to run KDE/nepomuk on a quad Xeon system with a 64-drive SAS RAID6 setup and 128GB of memory? Sure, Gmail users have to share these systems, and they have to contend with network latency, but when searching your entire mail archive of tens of thousands of emails for some text strings, Gmail does it in seconds; I don't think Kmail, or any locally-run email application, would ever be able to match that unless you've set up a very beefy system.
Try peacefully assembling just about anyplace in the USA now. You'll have paramilitary troops (we call them "police") arresting you, tasing you, macing you, and beating you. Youtube is full of videos of such incidents.
It's probably largely true of a modern American union. American unions 50+ years ago, or modern European unions, no.
You don't need to move 3 blocks to change jobs within Starbucks; you can easily do it in just one block, frequently less.
How that place manages to stay in business in this crappy economy, selling massively overpriced poor-quality drinks, I have no idea.
Um, yes you do. Where the hell did you ever get the idea that the USA is a "free country", or that there's freedom of assembly here? Did you never hear of "free speech zones"? In case you didn't know, it's now illegal to protest anywhere the Secret Service may be; taking part in a protest against the government will now make you a felon and earn you a 10-year prison sentence.
That's just the way it is in America these days. No one wants to risk themselves, no one wants to stand out. Look back at the civil rights protests and war protests and other protests decades ago: people got out in the streets and fought for change. What do Americans do these days? Nothing but grumble. And for good reason, because most of the population is dead-set against them, and they know that it's futile. Some people tried it with the Occupy protests, and they were brutally shut down. No one wanted to come to their aid against the jackbooted cops. Back in the 60s, something like that would have required the national guard to come out with rifles. Today, some asshole cops with pepper spray can shut it down and arrest everyone and make them part of the prison-industrial complex.
It's largely the same with unions. Except in a few places like Chicago, people know that they'll just get fired if they protest too much, and there probably isn't much the union can do about it thanks to all the rampant corruption in the government at all levels. So everyone's just hunkering down and trying to avoid having their lives ruined by those in power.
The simple fact is that the USA is going down the tubes quickly, and is either going to break apart or turn into a totalitarian fascist regime within 20 years. The best course of action is to escape while you still can.
I dunno, with a year of part-time work and PHP, you could hack out something that manages a lot for a small business. Definitely not enterprise-grade, but it'd be enough to help out a small business significantly and it's unlikely they're going to grow that much for a long time.
I wonder if it's possible that electrons don't really even exist as small, spherical particles that orbit the nucleus, as we're taught in school, but instead are something else entirely, and it's just convenient for us to model them as such.
If your company is doing software development and they're too incompetent to set up a bug tracker, then you need to start looking for a new job ASAP. That's totally inexcusable. Don't tell me they also don't have a revision control system.
Also, I've read somewhere else that some large businesses are slooowly starting to abandon another BS concept that's caused wreak and havoc all around for the last few decades: the notion that their purpose is to move the company into maximizing shareholder benefit by all means no matter what.
I haven't seen any evidence of that; maybe some foreign-owned businesses, where they have "honor" as an important part of their culture, unlike us.
Whoops, that was an odd typo I made there.
However they seem to be carrying on the retardation by not allowing people to test their sites in advance with IE10 without having to install a whole new OS.
Here's one possible workaround:
http://netrenderer.com/
There was a bestselling magazine called Foxfile back in the 70s and 80s that had something to do with Appalachian folklore and traditions. Maybe all the people who know who call it that are older and remember that magazine.
Um, isn't IE8 a free download for XP users? Why would corporations spend millions to upgrade to it?
You'd be surprised just how cheap and stupid a lot of companies are. At my last job, I was getting six figures in pay, but for the longest time they kept me stuck with a shitty, old, slow PC running XP (and I had to use tools that only ran in Cygwin! because they wouldn't get Linux) with a tiny 17" monitor. Builds took forever, wasting tons of my time. After about a year of that, they finally got us new computers, but that was a lot of wasted time there.
I think these companies are just poorly run, by bean-counters mainly. They'll pay a lot for an employee because if they don't, the position will just sit vacant and the work won't get done, so they'll pay "market rate" or maybe a little more if they're getting desperate. But then they'll cut costs in other places, especially IT since it's a cost center. They're too stupid to put the two together (we're paying this guy $50-75/hour, but we're trying to save money by not getting him a $200 large-screen monitor and a $600 computer so he doesn't waste his time compiling software. He makes as much in only 2 days as it costs to pay for these things). Penny wise and pound foolish.
Depends on the business. A company with 20,000 to 200,000 employees? Yes, they have their own custom builds. A mom-n-pop retail shop? No, they use whatever comes installed on the machine, or whatever the IT business they've contracted with installs on it.
I suppose my complaint is invalid, then :)
Seriously, when was the last time you tried KDE? If the last time was an early 4.0 series version, that's like judging Windows by the Vista release. The 4.0 series has been out for years now. It mostly looks the same, but underneath it's gotten a lot better in that time.
Maybe it's all my fault because I want to run my desktop for days at a time; because I want to keep multiple virtual screens open, because I want to keep multiple copies of my browser open.
That's exactly how I use my KDE desktop, and have been since KDE 4.4 or 4.5. It didn't work so great back then when I first switched to the 4.x series (occasional crashing, and dbus-daemon sometimes pegging the CPU at 100%), but in the last year or so, those problems seem to be all gone. The very latest Mint KDE and Kubuntu releases seem really solid. It runs constantly on both my desktop and my Thinkpad; I almost never reboot my laptop. My biggest problem with stability these days is web browsers hogging too much memory, and needing to be restarted after a while. That's not a KDE issue since I don't use any KDE-based web browsers (I use Firefox and Chromium, mostly the latter these days).
What did I just say :) ? Why should I use a webmail service?
This is all personal preference. You can even use Thunderbird if you want; lots of people do. Using KDE doesn't mean you're restricted to KDE applications. Very few KDE users likely use Rekonq for web browsing for instance.
But I use Gmail because 1) I can use it on multiple computers (I switch a lot between my desktop and laptop) without having to worry about synchronizing, 2) its spam filtering is second to none, 3) it's very fast, especially if I do any searching. Yeah, the new UI sucks donkey balls. Setting it to "compact" and enabling text buttons (instead of icons) helps a lot though. Maybe someone will make a "greasemonkey" or chromium extension that fixes it.
Why should I, or you, or anyone, say that KDE is fine as long as I don't use it's built in tool, Kmail (and also Kontact's other pieces as well)?
Because it's only one application. Evolution may be the standard email client for Gnome, but lots of Gnome users surely use Thunderbird, which isn't tied to any DE. The reason people are bitching and complaining about Unity and Gnome3 isn't about email clients, it's the DE itself, and really the way it manages windows more than anything probably. KDE doesn't have those same problems. I'm really not sure how good or bad Kmail is to be honest because I haven't really tried it, but my point is that of the available choices, KDE seems to be the best, though if KMail is unsatisfactory, you can always use Evolution or Thunderbird. None of the choices are likely to be ideal; in fact, no choice is likely to be ideal. Windows isn't ideal since everyone's bitching about Win8/Metro now. MacOS isn't ideal; lots of people complain about various aspects of that. Obviously, Unity and Gnome3 have tons of complaints. KDE isn't going to be perfect either. You just have to choose the best available choice, based on your personal requirements and preferences.
I don't know where you've gotten that from; it sounds like you may have Kmail confused with something else, because Kmail doesn't offer a database method of storing email; it offers an absolutely standard MailDir configuration It works fine.
I might be confused, but I really thought I read a bunch of people bitching about it using a database to store the email and that this made it difficult to move mail to other applications.
From everything I read, Nepomuk really isn't a big problem any more, once it's done its initial indexing. I really don't see a lot of valid complaints about the latest versions (e.g. 4.9) of KDE any more, all the complaints seem to be about things earlier on in the 4.0 series which are all fixed now.
Notice that the TFA is about KDE outperforming Gnome/Unity. It wouldn't be able to claim that if Nepomuk is slowing it down that much.
Finally, the stuff about searching mail or getting typeahead on email addresses is only a factor if you use Kmail. Most people these days seem to use Gmail or some other webmail service out of convenience. Most people use KDE or Gnome because they need a DE for managing all their windows and interacting with their PC, not because they need an integrated email application. But again, from what I've read, this is no longer a problem. There are some people, however, bitching that they can't import their Kmail mail into another application since it uses a database to store it, but I'm not sure if that's fully valid because I thought some other people pointed out that you still have the option to select maildir as the storage backed.
I don't know about these cameras in maryland, but the ones around here in AZ (many of which have been taken down actually) are mounted on big metal poles quite high off the ground, and have sturdy metal casings. A tire iron isn't going to help you with them; you'll need a gas-powered cut-off saw.
>I was simply trying to say that various special effects on Star Trek were actually very expensive effects for the time.
Were they? I thought everything I read about it was that it was a somewhat low-budget show, even for the time (obviously not as low-budget a sitcom of course, but still). For instance, the thing that Dr. McCoy waved over people when using the medical tricorder? It was (IIRC) a chrome salt shaker someone got at a yard sale or thrift shop.
Edit: It turns out I'm wrong, it was actually rather expensive for the time. I guess the salt shaker was just convenient.
I'm no expert, but it seems like the "beaming" effect would be fairly simple to do with the existing film-based FX they used at the time, just some cutting and splicing along with fixed camera locations to show frames with and without the landing party, and then some kind of glitter effect added on top.
Good point on the video screen scenes.
Aside: another thing I always found annoying about the holodecks in TNG, was that they'd frequently dress up in period costumes for their historical re-enactment adventures. The holodeck is supposed to be able to use replicator technology to synthesize matter at will, and "beam" it wherever it's needed. So why the costumes? Why not just walk in, wearing your regular uniform, and the holodeck "beams" an appropriate costume onto you? And then replaces it with your uniform when you leave so that when the ship is suddenly attacked or hits a gravitational disturbance or whatever, you don't have to go to the bridge in Shakespearean costume?
"Cheap" is usually a relative term.
It seems to me the problem isn't necessarily the community as much as it is the distro maintainers. Of course, the community make the distros popular or not through their choices.
Mounted machine guns will make it pretty hard for you to dock in most ports, and probably get you in a lot of trouble.
Assuming you're an American, it's easy to buy AR-15 rifles in any gun shop. Find a good place to hide one in your boat (where port inspectors won't be able to find it).
Of course, it should go without saying that you should absolutely avoid the Gulf of Aden in your voyage. But there's other parts of the world where pirates are a problem too.
Wow, what a total waste of money. $3-5k just to watch fucking TV, so you can see crap like Jersey Shore and Maury Povitch?