I nearly gave up at that point too. However I persisted for a little while longer and found that the missing "beware of the leopard" line was a device used throughout the entire stretch of the movie I could bear to watch i.e build up to a very funny joke that was in the book and then miss out the funny bit.
I kept looking forward to the punchlines I knew were coming only to find they didnt.
Presumably, when you say "try using GNU tools on other OSes" you are acknowledging that the OS is separate from the GNU tools. It would therefore make more sense to err on calling the OS Linux.
IÂve been reading his nonsense for ages on and off. I read a lot of photography stuff.
He reviewed the Nikon D200 when it was not actually available even to established Nikon sponsored photographers. His review of the Nikon D70 was enthusiastic way beyond anything reasonable purely because it could sync flash at 1/500 (nice camera though when it came out). From there after any camera that could not sync at that speed was awful until it became apparent that very few, if any, professional cameras can sync over 1/250 (and still canÂt) and now he cares little for sync speed.
His review of the SB600 flash was hilarious. It was cheaper than the SB800 and this made it the much better flash in his eyes because nobody needed the extra features of the SB800. Umm well, as the SB800 can flash at nearly 1/50000 of a second (enough to freeze a bullet) I think he rather missed out an entire genre of photography there. Not to mention the modelling light (invaluable to check what your lighting looks like before you shoot) and the faster recharge times (invaluable at weddings and parties) he kind of misleads a lot of people making a decision.
As I say, if he does not need a feature he tells his audience they dont either.
He may be very clever at some things but reviewing photographic equipment is not one of them
What you say is true. However, he is an idiot. He reviews stuff he has never seen. He gets things wrong and he assumes that anything that doesnÂt suit his style of photography is something you donÂt need.
What this article and many other people seem not to understand is that most people donÂt care too much about picture quality. If itÂs good enough thatÂs fine. Most people get enjoyment out of the plot of a movie, the story, the acting or maybe humour. Very few people get enjoyment out of how clear and colourful it is.
DVD didnÂt replace VHS because of the quality. It replaced it because you didnÂt have to rewind it, you could easily skip to any bit you wanted to, you didnÂt need to worry about tracking, it was smaller and it seemed to last longer.
Blue-Ray gives you no more convenience than DVD and therefore it is destined for the bin unless it is forced on us.
Yes, I know all this but if you went to kde.org, clicked on the "Download" link and then clicked on "Current Stable" you got KDE 4.0
If you did this the day before KDE 4.0 was released you got err... the stable 3.5.X release with no caveats about its intended audience.
It may sound trivial but I think this was a significant reason why 4.0 got such bad press. It got everything a stable KDE has always got apart from the stability. I think it a bit churlish to start saying it was never meant to be for general users.
Indeed. This annoys me. Everyone saying 4.0 was only for developers completely ignores the fact that the KDE home page had 4.0 as the "Current Stable" version and 3.5.X as "Legacy" or something like that.
Fly somewhere where a product is cheap. Buy a great big box of them and then come and then either declare it in customs (and then find it all worked out more expensive anyway) or try not to get caught. If you choose the latter keep doing it until you do get caught. Let me know how it goes with the judge.
YouÂre right, it doesnÂt feel right but never the less, it is the way it is.
You have a very limited amount of things you can bring into a country without paying import duty. A couple of bottles of wine, maybe 200 cigarettes and the rest is subject to import tax.
Of course, most people do buy a few things whilst abroad and mostly they donÂt get asked any questions at customs.
However, you try and do what the corporations do, i.e. make some money out of the cost of living imbalance in different countries and youÂre going to prison.
IÂve got one. Bought it Saturday. It comes with a replacement battery cover that has two contacts for an external charger and a rechargeable battery. Slip the wiimote in and wait.
IÂm an end user and have always got my KDE from kde.org.
kde.org attempts to introduce people to KDE in the manner of talking to end users, not developers. Presumably this is the reason for having a different site for KDE developers. If your statement was correct, presumably kde.org would just link to distribution download sites.
To your second point. It is probably true that "power" users of KDE use the start menu infrequently but use it they do never the less. If you forget what the binary is called for frozen bubble, youÂll look for it in the start menu.
My mother, who is a grandmother too, is a great example of an end user of KDE. She has no clue about how everything works. She hates Windows but only because she has only ever used Linux. She can not bear the new KDE start menu or, indeed, much of the new interface at all.
Your last sentence is an indication of where KDE development has got lost.
IÂm afraid you are wrong. The value of someone with twenty years experience in a technical field, say, networking is impossible to present to a management who, quite rightly, have no idea of the difference between a good network admin and a bad one. For many reasons, the offshore worker usually has much less experience in your networking infrastructure than the guy you just got rid of. High quality, experienced Indian workers are nearly as expensive as American ones.
The only measure management have of the quality of work is how long the network is down. When the network does go down, your in-experienced worker will get it back up in two days. The manager will think the inexperienced guy did a great job getting it all working again. However, the experienced guy might have if back up in ten minutes but heÂs no longer there so nobody would know. If this sounds fanciful, I,have lost count of the number of times I have seen systems down for hours or days with the offshored companies banging their heads against a wall, only for the problem be fixed in a few minutes when the person who used to do the job was called back in (even years after the project was off-shored).
The point, therefore, is that by offshoring, you are not just asking people to change, you are forever losing the ability to make your own corporations be as competitive and cost effective as they once were. IT is still the potential of competitive advantage it always was. Lose it at your peril.
Actually, it is mostly because the experienced staff are very expensive, even in India. Experience is very difficult to keep in your offshored project.
The offshore companies are trying to do a job cheaper. They often get the cheapest and least experienced staff they can get away with.
Also, in India, if you stay in one place too long, it does not look good on your CV so most people move on when they can. Again you lose experience on your project.
Lastly, techy people in the West tend not to want management positions, they tend to stick with the technology. In India the reverse is true.
I think you miss the point. The problem is that it isnÂt a level playing field. The cost of living in the US is higher (for now) than the cost of living in India and China. As a result, your average Indian employee needs far less money to just equal the living standard of his or her American counterpart. Given that it is extremely difficult for an American citizen to pack up and move to where the work is, i.e India or China (work visas are almost impossible to get) the American worker find themselves unable to compete. Globalization is only for corporations, not for individuals. staff who are able to unders
Agree too. Currently typing this on OS/X. KDE 3.5 is much better than OS/X. I can only believe the people who hold the Apple GUI up as a role model have only ever seen the zooming icons on the stupid dock and never used it for more than an hour.
Personally use OS/X now because KDE 4 is even worse (it adopts all the worst features of OS/X without the stability) and KDE 3 is end of life.
Non of the other Linux interfaces make it worth dumping the rather nice Apple hardware though.
If you went to kde.org after KDE 4.0 was released, looked in the "download" section and selected the current stable release, you got KDE 4.0. The old 3.5.* was called legacy or something. If the developers didnÂt expect distributions to start pushing it out, they shouldnÂt have said it was the current stable release.
In the past it was not possible to upgrade the hard drives for Apple laptops, nowadays the cases are designed so the hard disk is easy to remove.
My macbook pro certainly didnÂt make it easy to upgrade the hard drive. About fifteen billion screws, removing the keyboard and prising the hard disk cable off with a knife.
This is oft quoted reason but has no basis in fact. Hitler didnÂt get to power on a ticket of revenge. There were a thousand parties who were screaming for revenge but the National Socialists were not too stupid to try and put too much energy down that route.
National Socialism had much broader scope than just a politics as Hitler said hmself. It was a way of life and a way of life much of Europe found attractive. I suspect much of it would be popular today too, sadly.
Well, it still happens now in the UK and elsewhere in Europe, mostly with Eastern European women. However, it isn't legal and if anybody gets caught they get in deep trouble.
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Yep, My favourite too.
Saw it on SCO Xenix I think.
I nearly gave up at that point too. However I persisted for a little while longer and found that the missing "beware of the leopard" line was a device used throughout the entire stretch of the movie I could bear to watch i.e build up to a very funny joke that was in the book and then miss out the funny bit.
I kept looking forward to the punchlines I knew were coming only to find they didnt.
Presumably, when you say "try using GNU tools on other OSes" you are acknowledging that the OS is separate from the GNU tools. It would therefore make more sense to err on calling the OS Linux.
IÂve been reading his nonsense for ages on and off. I read a lot of photography stuff.
He reviewed the Nikon D200 when it was not actually available even to established Nikon sponsored photographers. His review of the Nikon D70 was enthusiastic way beyond anything reasonable purely because it could sync flash at 1/500 (nice camera though when it came out). From there after any camera that could not sync at that speed was awful until it became apparent that very few, if any, professional cameras can sync over 1/250 (and still canÂt) and now he cares little for sync speed.
His review of the SB600 flash was hilarious. It was cheaper than the SB800 and this made it the much better flash in his eyes because nobody needed the extra features of the SB800. Umm well, as the SB800 can flash at nearly 1/50000 of a second (enough to freeze a bullet) I think he rather missed out an entire genre of photography there. Not to mention the modelling light (invaluable to check what your lighting looks like before you shoot) and the faster recharge times (invaluable at weddings and parties) he kind of misleads a lot of people making a decision.
As I say, if he does not need a feature he tells his audience they dont either.
He may be very clever at some things but reviewing photographic equipment is not one of them
What you say is true. However, he is an idiot. He reviews stuff he has never seen. He gets things wrong and he assumes that anything that doesnÂt suit his style of photography is something you donÂt need.
Ken Rockwell is an idiot though.
What this article and many other people seem not to understand is that most people donÂt care too much about picture quality. If itÂs good enough thatÂs fine. Most people get enjoyment out of the plot of a movie, the story, the acting or maybe humour. Very few people get enjoyment out of how clear and colourful it is.
DVD didnÂt replace VHS because of the quality. It replaced it because you didnÂt have to rewind it, you could easily skip to any bit you wanted to, you didnÂt need to worry about tracking, it was smaller and it seemed to last longer.
Blue-Ray gives you no more convenience than DVD and therefore it is destined for the bin unless it is forced on us.
Yes, I know all this but if you went to kde.org, clicked on the "Download" link and then clicked on "Current Stable" you got KDE 4.0
If you did this the day before KDE 4.0 was released you got err... the stable 3.5.X release with no caveats about its intended audience.
It may sound trivial but I think this was a significant reason why 4.0 got such bad press. It got everything a stable KDE has always got apart from the stability. I think it a bit churlish to start saying it was never meant to be for general users.
That is not the point. The point is that it was labeled "Current Stable", not "Developers" or "Beta" or "Release Canditate" but "Current Stable".
I presume most would agree that this suggests it was the current stable release. Particularly given the 3.5 release was labeled "Legacy".
This is fine by me but I hate history being re-written quite so soon after the event. Why not just admit it was a mistake.
Indeed. This annoys me. Everyone saying 4.0 was only for developers completely ignores the fact that the KDE home page had 4.0 as the "Current Stable" version and 3.5.X as "Legacy" or something like that.
Go on then, try it.
Fly somewhere where a product is cheap. Buy a great big box of them and then come and then either declare it in customs (and then find it all worked out more expensive anyway) or try not to get caught. If you choose the latter keep doing it until you do get caught. Let me know how it goes with the judge.
YouÂre right, it doesnÂt feel right but never the less, it is the way it is.
You have a very limited amount of things you can bring into a country without paying import duty. A couple of bottles of wine, maybe 200 cigarettes and the rest is subject to import tax.
Of course, most people do buy a few things whilst abroad and mostly they donÂt get asked any questions at customs.
However, you try and do what the corporations do, i.e. make some money out of the cost of living imbalance in different countries and youÂre going to prison.
Because what you propose is illegal. It is called smuggling.
Lots of things your theory doesn't need but one thing it does need is an explanation for red shift.
IÂve got one. Bought it Saturday. It comes with a replacement battery cover that has two contacts for an external charger and a rechargeable battery. Slip the wiimote in and wait.
Seems to work fine.
IÂm an end user and have always got my KDE from kde.org.
kde.org attempts to introduce people to KDE in the manner of talking to end users, not developers. Presumably this is the reason for having a different site for KDE developers. If your statement was correct, presumably kde.org would just link to distribution download sites.
To your second point. It is probably true that "power" users of KDE use the start menu infrequently but use it they do never the less. If you forget what the binary is called for frozen bubble, youÂll look for it in the start menu.
My mother, who is a grandmother too, is a great example of an end user of KDE. She has no clue about how everything works. She hates Windows but only because she has only ever used Linux. She can not bear the new KDE start menu or, indeed, much of the new interface at all.
Your last sentence is an indication of where KDE development has got lost.
IÂm afraid you are wrong. The value of someone with twenty years experience in a technical field, say, networking is impossible to present to a management who, quite rightly, have no idea of the difference between a good network admin and a bad one. For many reasons, the offshore worker usually has much less experience in your networking infrastructure than the guy you just got rid of. High quality, experienced Indian workers are nearly as expensive as American ones.
The only measure management have of the quality of work is how long the network is down. When the network does go down, your in-experienced worker will get it back up in two days. The manager will think the inexperienced guy did a great job getting it all working again. However, the experienced guy might have if back up in ten minutes but heÂs no longer there so nobody would know. If this sounds fanciful, I,have lost count of the number of times I have seen systems down for hours or days with the offshored companies banging their heads against a wall, only for the problem be fixed in a few minutes when the person who used to do the job was called back in (even years after the project was off-shored).
The point, therefore, is that by offshoring, you are not just asking people to change, you are forever losing the ability to make your own corporations be as competitive and cost effective as they once were. IT is still the potential of competitive advantage it always was. Lose it at your peril.
Actually, it is mostly because the experienced staff are very expensive, even in India. Experience is very difficult to keep in your offshored project.
The offshore companies are trying to do a job cheaper. They often get the cheapest and least experienced staff they can get away with.
Also, in India, if you stay in one place too long, it does not look good on your CV so most people move on when they can. Again you lose experience on your project.
Lastly, techy people in the West tend not to want management positions, they tend to stick with the technology. In India the reverse is true.
Unfortunately you canÂt. You are not allowed to own property, you, as an individual wonÂt get a work permit and you wonÂt get hired either.
I think you miss the point. The problem is that it isnÂt a level playing field. The cost of living in the US is higher (for now) than the cost of living in India and China. As a result, your average Indian employee needs far less money to just equal the living standard of his or her American counterpart. Given that it is extremely difficult for an American citizen to pack up and move to where the work is, i.e India or China (work visas are almost impossible to get) the American worker find themselves unable to compete. Globalization is only for corporations, not for individuals.
staff who are able to unders
Agree too. Currently typing this on OS/X. KDE 3.5 is much better than OS/X. I can only believe the people who hold the Apple GUI up as a role model have only ever seen the zooming icons on the stupid dock and never used it for more than an hour.
Personally use OS/X now because KDE 4 is even worse (it adopts all the worst features of OS/X without the stability) and KDE 3 is end of life.
Non of the other Linux interfaces make it worth dumping the rather nice Apple hardware though.
This isnÂt true.
If you went to kde.org after KDE 4.0 was released, looked in the "download" section and selected the current stable release, you got KDE 4.0. The old 3.5.* was called legacy or something. If the developers didnÂt expect distributions to start pushing it out, they shouldnÂt have said it was the current stable release.
I notice its changed now.
In the past it was not possible to upgrade the hard drives for Apple laptops, nowadays the cases are designed so the hard disk is easy to remove.
My macbook pro certainly didnÂt make it easy to upgrade the hard drive. About fifteen billion screws, removing the keyboard and prising the hard disk cable off with a knife.
This is oft quoted reason but has no basis in fact. Hitler didnÂt get to power on a ticket of revenge. There were a thousand parties who were screaming for revenge but the National Socialists were not too stupid to try and put too much energy down that route.
National Socialism had much broader scope than just a politics as Hitler said hmself. It was a way of life and a way of life much of Europe found attractive. I suspect much of it would be popular today too, sadly.
Well, it still happens now in the UK and elsewhere in Europe, mostly with Eastern European women. However, it isn't legal and if anybody gets caught they get in deep trouble.