XPs interface is horrible
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KDE Wins 3 awards
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Windows98 has a better interface than XP as does Windows2000. Turn all the new features off and what you have IS windows2000.
I prefer the interface of KDE by far, I mean WinXP copied KDEs ideas, the taskbar grouping, they stole that, As far as the Icon goes, thats KDEs main weakness.
Gnomes Icons totally destroy KDEs, as does MacOSX and WindowsXP.
KDE needs to copy gnome and go for SVG based Icons.
Good icons is very important when it comes to having a nice looking desktop, good fonts is also important, XP has better fonts. KDE already has the best functionality of any interface i know of besides perhaps OSX. What KDE needs right now, is to improve certain things, the icons in KDE are crap and i hear they are planning to copy Xps icon style, thats fine for windows users who go to linux, but XPs icons are horrible compared to Gnome, Nautilus, MacOSX etc, SVG is definately the way to go for Icons.
Fonts will take time to improve but they are getting to be at XP quality, I think we will see high quality fonts before the end of the year, The Icons in KDE hopefully will be fixed sometime in 2002 if they switch to SVG but if not, then their icons will be as crappy as Windows icons, which is fine for Windows users who havent seen anything better but not for me.
KDR looks very nice however it still looks very plain, it needs a theme, KDE has Luna, Mac has Aqua, even Nautilus has its look, KDE however looks too plain, as if it was just thrown together, i mean theres no theme, its bland, like windows2000, while this is fine for most users, its not going to give KDE the impression that its on the level of XP because XP will have a taskbar which is beveled, has a nice color and shadows, while KDE just has plain style.
Nautilus and Gnome have figured this out and currently looks way better than XP, but KDE and this isnt in terms of functionality, but in terms of how pretty it looks, it doesnt look as fancy as it could look.
I also dont like the fact they took out the little icon effect where you click on it and it swirled,why? these little unique effects were what made kde KDE!
Put it back, the highlighting is nice, windows doesnt do it but still this isnt unique to kde.
If you get what I'm saying, KDE needs more unique features and looks to seperate itself from being too generic.
"Lindows- It's like Linux, but you use it to run Windows apps. Here's a novel idea: Run your Windows apps... IN WINDOWS. This is one of the dumbest ideas I've yet heard of."
Your msg is biased, you refuse to accept any linux thats like windows, However the only linux to actually be useable by the average user must be like windows. DUH!
Lindows will do just fine, its better than windows, yet it runs windows files, this is what people want, people dont care about GNU or linux, they just want something better than what they have yet still runs their files.
Are you crazy? Ximian doesnt even have 1 billion dollars in the bank. They are a very small company, millions sure, but Microsoft has more like 100 billion.
Lindows http://www.lindows.com is an alternative.
Beos http://www.beos.com is an alternative
Linux Mandrake(Well in the future it may be an alternative)
Lets see, Linux has has all the office apps, Linux lets you on the internet, Linux lets you play games.
90 percent of all users only use their computer to surf the web and to play games. Guess what, Linux does both.
Sure linux is more complicated, but thats why there will be hybrids and dumb downed linux's for people who dont want to learn commandline.
Use Linux Mandrake or Lindows then tell me theres no desktop alternative.
http://wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,48119,00.htm l
WASHINGTON -- Alternatives to the Windows operating system will get a boost under the proposed settlement agreement between Microsoft and the Justice Department.
The 60-KB deal , which must be approved by a federal judge, says Microsoft may not "retaliate" against a computer maker for cozying up to software firms that compete with the world's most-famous antitrust defendant.
In particular, computer makers such as Dell (DELL), Compaq (CPQ) and IBM (IBM ) will be allowed to ship boxes that include "both a Windows operating system product and a non-Microsoft operating system, or will boot with more than one operating system."
If there is sufficient market demand -- and such demand may never emerge for desktop machines -- computer makers will be free to ship computers with, for instance, Windows and Linux installed.
Any aggrieved computer manufacturer can take its complaint to a three-person oversight committee, which can hear anonymous complaints.
Software developers also will have more freedom to experiment with non-Windows operating systems. The agreement says that Microsoft (MSFT ) may not take action against a developer for creating, promoting or supporting "any software that competes with Microsoft platform software or any software that runs on any software that competes with Microsoft platform software."
Even Jamie Love, who works for the Ralph Nader-founded Consumer Project on Technology and uses Linux, found something nice to say: "There is lots to like about the proposed agreement." Love added, however, that he reserves final judgment until he can examine the agreement for possible loopholes.
More Microsoft: Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) wants Microsoft to know that Washington isn't done with it yet.
In a statement on Friday, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman pledged multiple hearings to explore whether the proposed settlement met with his approval.
Leahy said: "We will want to examine whether competitors have adequate opportunities to provide those products, and computer manufacturers have the freedom to configure their machines as they think best and whether the remedies are sufficiently adaptable to the constantly changing competitive environment of the Internet and computer industries."
An aide to Leahy said that Microsoft lobbyists briefed the committee staff Friday about the details of the settlement.
A spokesman for the House Judiciary committee, which shares oversight responsibility for the Justice Department, would not comment on its plans.
Taxman: Not many Washingtonians are paying attention right about now, but a federal ban on some Internet taxes quietly expired a week ago.
The Senate never voted for a two-year extension -- as clouds of anthrax spores wafted through the Hart office building, legislators may have had other things on their minds -- even though the House of Representatives did.
The biggest obstacle in the Senate was Bryon Dorgan (D-North Dakota), who placed a "hold" on the bill. That prompted one group opposed to Internet taxes, the Center for Individual Freedom, to run a newspaper ad blaming Dorgan for the delay.
This week, the Senate inched closer to approving an extension of the moratorium.
Proponents of collecting additional taxes, such as Dorgan, had hoped for a broader bill that would move in that direction. But since the moratorium expired, the Senate appears more likely to vote on a straightforward two-year extension.
What a difference: Two years ago, Free Republic founder Jim Robinson was busy writing a screed linking then-candidate George W. Bush with drug-running and the CIA.
Now he's become the president's top cheerleader -- and is busy deleting posts to the conservative community's message boards that apparently are too critical of Dubya and the war effort.
"Lots of grumbling lately about deleted posts. Well, my friends, the simple truth is the game has changed. We are now at war," Robinson wrote this week.
To Robinson, "This is not the time to raise doubts about our leaders. This is not the time to raise conspiracy theories. This is not the time to second-guess our intelligence agencies. This is war."
By what? I dont have a clue. But i dont believe we of all the creatures on this planet just for no reason at all evolved to the state we did.
Which means, even if the meteor never hit the dinosours we still may have evolved to the state we are at, simply because we dont know WHY we are so much more evolved than everything else, or why things evolve to begin with, it could be pre programmed, like a self upgrading computer.
If we dont build weapons
the technology to build weapons wont exsist, thus someone will have to spend huge amounts of money and start from scratch.
If you never built the gun
people wouldnt have even thought about atomic bombs, they'd still be figuring out where to go next from spears and knives and arrows.
If not, we will just build a bigger and bigger gun until someone be it freak accident or on purpose, pulls the trigger and destroys the world, solar system, whatever.
Telepathy will be possible soon with brain to computer interface, and this connected to some nanites could do EXACTLY what you are talking about.
Programming would be as simple as THINKING it, the whole art of programming would accellorate so fast that millions of programs would be written by one person in a day.
imagine if programs were created via the speed of thought and these programs could materialize via nanites.
Danger can be controlled better than it is now
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The Dangers of Nanotech
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Most people who are evil arent intelligent enough to create a nuclear bomb or use genetic technology
but in the information age, this all changes, evil people become genius's.
Nano technology will be as simple as writing a computer virus,
The best way to control this is to write anti virus, create nano bots which have no purpose at all but to destroy other nano bots
When a nano virus hapens, release the destroy bots which simple using say magnets attach themselves to nano bots and in the same way that a virus attacks human cells, this can attack nano bots which are bad, attach to them, and either reprogram them, or make them cease to function somehow.
Nano Technology should first be used in hospitals
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The Dangers of Nanotech
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· Score: 2, Interesting
The first use for nano technology will set the tone for the type of technology it is.
We have laser technology but i dont see people using laser guns which burn through bullet proof vests. WHy? Because lasers arent usually USED for that.
Nano Technology should be used for hospitals, to heal people, to ACT as the bullet proof vest meaning, realtime cell repairing, this may make it so people are harder to kill, but isnt that the point of all technologies? To extend and improve the quality of life?
If you have Nano cell repair and Nano technology in hospitals, Nano structures, then making a nano virus or weapon is going to be hard as hell, your best bet would be to exploit bugs in the current nano defensive structures such as turning a persons cell repairing nano bots against them.
Then it will come down to, repairing bugs, instead of a virus problem where we are caught off guard.
In this way, yes people will still die, but it will be freak accidents instead of millions of people dying over a nano plague
Nano technology is dangerous, the way to stop something dangerous is to build defenses for the problems before they actually become problems.
If we had defenses for terroism we wouldnt be in this situation now.
So, what we should do is defend against grey goo problem by
Creating nano technology which only works when shined under a special light, or via solar energy.
Creating defensive technologies BEFORE offensive ones, meaning creating nano repairing technology to repair your DNA and your cells, then if someone does release a nano virus you'll have a nano cure ready and years before the nano virus is even a problem.
Impossible if you dont have an unlimited energy source. This is why the energy source for nano technology should be RESTRICTED to say solar energy, or special laser based energy so it only works in certain lighting.
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Windows98 has a better interface than XP as does Windows2000. Turn all the new features off and what you have IS windows2000.
I prefer the interface of KDE by far, I mean WinXP copied KDEs ideas, the taskbar grouping, they stole that, As far as the Icon goes, thats KDEs main weakness.
Gnomes Icons totally destroy KDEs, as does MacOSX and WindowsXP.
KDE needs to copy gnome and go for SVG based Icons.
Good icons is very important when it comes to having a nice looking desktop, good fonts is also important, XP has better fonts. KDE already has the best functionality of any interface i know of besides perhaps OSX. What KDE needs right now, is to improve certain things, the icons in KDE are crap and i hear they are planning to copy Xps icon style, thats fine for windows users who go to linux, but XPs icons are horrible compared to Gnome, Nautilus, MacOSX etc, SVG is definately the way to go for Icons.
Fonts will take time to improve but they are getting to be at XP quality, I think we will see high quality fonts before the end of the year, The Icons in KDE hopefully will be fixed sometime in 2002 if they switch to SVG but if not, then their icons will be as crappy as Windows icons, which is fine for Windows users who havent seen anything better but not for me.
KDR looks very nice however it still looks very plain, it needs a theme, KDE has Luna, Mac has Aqua, even Nautilus has its look, KDE however looks too plain, as if it was just thrown together, i mean theres no theme, its bland, like windows2000, while this is fine for most users, its not going to give KDE the impression that its on the level of XP because XP will have a taskbar which is beveled, has a nice color and shadows, while KDE just has plain style.
Nautilus and Gnome have figured this out and currently looks way better than XP, but KDE and this isnt in terms of functionality, but in terms of how pretty it looks, it doesnt look as fancy as it could look.
I also dont like the fact they took out the little icon effect where you click on it and it swirled,why? these little unique effects were what made kde KDE!
Put it back, the highlighting is nice, windows doesnt do it but still this isnt unique to kde.
If you get what I'm saying, KDE needs more unique features and looks to seperate itself from being too generic.
What stops Lindows or another linux from being commandline free? completely gui?
"Lindows- It's like Linux, but you use it to run Windows apps. Here's a novel idea: Run your Windows apps... IN WINDOWS. This is one of the dumbest ideas I've yet heard of."
Your msg is biased, you refuse to accept any linux thats like windows, However the only linux to actually be useable by the average user must be like windows. DUH!
Lindows will do just fine, its better than windows, yet it runs windows files, this is what people want, people dont care about GNU or linux, they just want something better than what they have yet still runs their files.
Why are you getting a 2 and me a 1 when i posted this a long time ago?
Did they return windowsXP because XP was new?
Are you crazy? Ximian doesnt even have 1 billion dollars in the bank. They are a very small company, millions sure, but Microsoft has more like 100 billion.
Lindows http://www.lindows.com is an alternative.
Beos http://www.beos.com is an alternative
Linux Mandrake(Well in the future it may be an alternative)
Lets see, Linux has has all the office apps, Linux lets you on the internet, Linux lets you play games.
90 percent of all users only use their computer to surf the web and to play games. Guess what, Linux does both.
Sure linux is more complicated, but thats why there will be hybrids and dumb downed linux's for people who dont want to learn commandline.
Use Linux Mandrake or Lindows then tell me theres no desktop alternative.
http://wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,48119,00.htm l
WASHINGTON -- Alternatives to the Windows operating system will get a boost under the proposed settlement agreement between Microsoft and the Justice Department.
The 60-KB deal , which must be approved by a federal judge, says Microsoft may not "retaliate" against a computer maker for cozying up to software firms that compete with the world's most-famous antitrust defendant.
In particular, computer makers such as Dell (DELL), Compaq (CPQ) and IBM (IBM ) will be allowed to ship boxes that include "both a Windows operating system product and a non-Microsoft operating system, or will boot with more than one operating system."
If there is sufficient market demand -- and such demand may never emerge for desktop machines -- computer makers will be free to ship computers with, for instance, Windows and Linux installed.
Any aggrieved computer manufacturer can take its complaint to a three-person oversight committee, which can hear anonymous complaints.
Software developers also will have more freedom to experiment with non-Windows operating systems. The agreement says that Microsoft (MSFT ) may not take action against a developer for creating, promoting or supporting "any software that competes with Microsoft platform software or any software that runs on any software that competes with Microsoft platform software."
Even Jamie Love, who works for the Ralph Nader-founded Consumer Project on Technology and uses Linux, found something nice to say: "There is lots to like about the proposed agreement." Love added, however, that he reserves final judgment until he can examine the agreement for possible loopholes.
More Microsoft: Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) wants Microsoft to know that Washington isn't done with it yet.
In a statement on Friday, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman pledged multiple hearings to explore whether the proposed settlement met with his approval.
Leahy said: "We will want to examine whether competitors have adequate opportunities to provide those products, and computer manufacturers have the freedom to configure their machines as they think best and whether the remedies are sufficiently adaptable to the constantly changing competitive environment of the Internet and computer industries."
An aide to Leahy said that Microsoft lobbyists briefed the committee staff Friday about the details of the settlement.
A spokesman for the House Judiciary committee, which shares oversight responsibility for the Justice Department, would not comment on its plans.
Taxman: Not many Washingtonians are paying attention right about now, but a federal ban on some Internet taxes quietly expired a week ago.
The Senate never voted for a two-year extension -- as clouds of anthrax spores wafted through the Hart office building, legislators may have had other things on their minds -- even though the House of Representatives did.
The biggest obstacle in the Senate was Bryon Dorgan (D-North Dakota), who placed a "hold" on the bill. That prompted one group opposed to Internet taxes, the Center for Individual Freedom, to run a newspaper ad blaming Dorgan for the delay.
This week, the Senate inched closer to approving an extension of the moratorium.
Proponents of collecting additional taxes, such as Dorgan, had hoped for a broader bill that would move in that direction. But since the moratorium expired, the Senate appears more likely to vote on a straightforward two-year extension.
What a difference: Two years ago, Free Republic founder Jim Robinson was busy writing a screed linking then-candidate George W. Bush with drug-running and the CIA.
Now he's become the president's top cheerleader -- and is busy deleting posts to the conservative community's message boards that apparently are too critical of Dubya and the war effort.
"Lots of grumbling lately about deleted posts. Well, my friends, the simple truth is the game has changed. We are now at war," Robinson wrote this week.
To Robinson, "This is not the time to raise doubts about our leaders. This is not the time to raise conspiracy theories. This is not the time to second-guess our intelligence agencies. This is war."
Pack in Linux instead of windows with every PC sold and users will be using Linux.
Here is why. If we keep pushing for a stronger settlement, we may end up with a weaker one.
I want to know what ideas you all can come up with for a stronger one.
Then see if Microsoft actually would accept it.
Well at least the part saying multiple OS's can be installed on one machine, and Microsoft can do nothing.
You are right though, we have to make sure theres absolutely nothing Microsoft can do to get back at these companies.
Once this happens then will we see Linux, Lindows and other OS's installed by default on computers or installed with Windows.
We were choosen to evolve to the state we are at.
By what? I dont have a clue. But i dont believe we of all the creatures on this planet just for no reason at all evolved to the state we did.
Which means, even if the meteor never hit the dinosours we still may have evolved to the state we are at, simply because we dont know WHY we are so much more evolved than everything else, or why things evolve to begin with, it could be pre programmed, like a self upgrading computer.
People arent really diffrent, Races arent real, its just a matter of cultures.
Cultures are real, as far as races go, people of diffrent races get along if they have the same culture.
Bin Laden hates american culture, not races, not people in gerneral but what they represent.
If we dont build weapons
the technology to build weapons wont exsist, thus someone will have to spend huge amounts of money and start from scratch.
If you never built the gun
people wouldnt have even thought about atomic bombs, they'd still be figuring out where to go next from spears and knives and arrows.
If not, we will just build a bigger and bigger gun until someone be it freak accident or on purpose, pulls the trigger and destroys the world, solar system, whatever.
Building something on the scale of even a human hair would require so much energy it would be insane,
Storage is the only thing which is possible, we have infinite storage via holographic storage.
Telepathy will be possible soon with brain to computer interface, and this connected to some nanites could do EXACTLY what you are talking about.
Programming would be as simple as THINKING it, the whole art of programming would accellorate so fast that millions of programs would be written by one person in a day.
imagine if programs were created via the speed of thought and these programs could materialize via nanites.
Most people who are evil arent intelligent enough to create a nuclear bomb or use genetic technology
but in the information age, this all changes, evil people become genius's.
Nano technology will be as simple as writing a computer virus,
The best way to control this is to write anti virus, create nano bots which have no purpose at all but to destroy other nano bots
When a nano virus hapens, release the destroy bots which simple using say magnets attach themselves to nano bots and in the same way that a virus attacks human cells, this can attack nano bots which are bad, attach to them, and either reprogram them, or make them cease to function somehow.
The first use for nano technology will set the tone for the type of technology it is.
We have laser technology but i dont see people using laser guns which burn through bullet proof vests. WHy? Because lasers arent usually USED for that.
Nano Technology should be used for hospitals, to heal people, to ACT as the bullet proof vest meaning, realtime cell repairing, this may make it so people are harder to kill, but isnt that the point of all technologies? To extend and improve the quality of life?
If you have Nano cell repair and Nano technology in hospitals, Nano structures, then making a nano virus or weapon is going to be hard as hell, your best bet would be to exploit bugs in the current nano defensive structures such as turning a persons cell repairing nano bots against them.
Then it will come down to, repairing bugs, instead of a virus problem where we are caught off guard.
In this way, yes people will still die, but it will be freak accidents instead of millions of people dying over a nano plague
Nano technology is dangerous, the way to stop something dangerous is to build defenses for the problems before they actually become problems.
If we had defenses for terroism we wouldnt be in this situation now.
So, what we should do is defend against grey goo problem by
Creating nano technology which only works when shined under a special light, or via solar energy.
Creating defensive technologies BEFORE offensive ones, meaning creating nano repairing technology to repair your DNA and your cells, then if someone does release a nano virus you'll have a nano cure ready and years before the nano virus is even a problem.
Impossible if you dont have an unlimited energy source. This is why the energy source for nano technology should be RESTRICTED to say solar energy, or special laser based energy so it only works in certain lighting.
Go ahead and further push the Linux user = Communist stereotype.
USE WINEX, if you want this game Subscribe to transgaming and tell them!
The best way to make money in open source is not to even try to sell software, but to use the transgaming or redhat models.
This is selling services.
When typing a URL, its slow as hell, when changing menus in mozilla its slow as hell, I guess XUL is to blame.
What stops you from taking the core and using a non xul version though? Nothing.