Last I checked KDE was a very small-scale project struggling just to stay alive. I don't see anyone promoting them as harbringers of innovation, making your attack on them really something of a straw man.
I don't mean to start an off-topic flame war or anything, but I am a little confused by your sideline on KDE. It isn't a small-scale project at all (and is in fact known for the effectiveness of its development style in handling a large number of developers, from what I hear). Beyond that, it also is the most popular linux DE -- don't get me wrong, I'm not a KDE zealot; every poll I've ever seen on the subject ranks KDE #1.
Anyway, I half-agree on the innovation front. KDE takes a number of ideas and influences from a range of environments. At the same time, it also has things like kgpg and (*especially*) kwallet that integrate with practically anything KDE pretty nicely. KDE is well-known for the quality of its framework and integration between apps..... I don't know if that qualifies as "innovation", but its nice nonetheless.
Firefox and Konqueror should have a button for "Open the clipboard in a new tab".
There already is a solution for Konqueror. Simply middle-click on an empty area of the tab bar, and a new tab will be created with the highlight-clipboard contents used as the URL. I just tested Firefox, and while it doesn't work quite as simply/quickly, you can acheive almost the same effect by double-clicking on an empty area in the tab bar, then middle-clicking to paste/load URL.
Along with technology, Americans (or, the American public) also seem to see democracy as the solution to every problem.
Interestingly, Diebold now has the perfect position -- a survey of people has endorsed a technological solution! Who needs facts when you've got computers to calculate the results of the average of the general public's opinion! Time for some policy-making!
I personally agree with you in the light department -- a lot of people stuff LEDs and lights into their case and think it looks cool. I personally find those mods to be gaudy and ugly, as I much prefer subtle aesthetics. Which is why I found it amusing that you denounced the "well-lit" variety of mod and pointed to the Eugene Sargent case as an example of a tasteful case -- IMHO it is ugly too, sort of like a misshapen blob of metal. But to each his own.
Anyway, I also distinguish between two kinds of good case mods -- the nice, subtle, aesthetic cases, and the crazy stuff where joe-with-too-much-time-on-his-hands turns his lunchbox into an Opteron. Either way, I like originality, and lights just don't cut it:)
Indeed, Mandrake is just as easy. I have a printer on a windows machine shared over windows networking, I added it to my linux machine simply by opening up Mandrake's control center (drakconf or whatever it's called) and using the printer wizard to add it. This new printer was automatically shared via samba, so on my laptop (which runs Windows, and is on a different network also connected to my linux box), I was able to add the printer quite easily. Now, I can print on my laptop, which prints to the samba share on my linux box, which prints to the printer on my windows box -- all using simple *GUI* configuration. I will admit, I'm surprised it worked so easily, but on the other hand I'm used to setting up printing by hand (uggggh).
Maybe ESR was just using the wrong distro/version ?:)
I would also like them to settle on one sound architecture. However, it is fortunate that things seem to be heading in the direction of Gstreamer at the moment, because esound has always been buggy and arts is barely maintained and besides, isn't the fastest kid on the block. I mean, come on -- it only runs well if running setuid so it can have higher priority than other processes. Besides security issues, the thing has the potential to bring your whole system down! Magic sysrq keys have saved me a few times when arts has sucked up so much of my system I can't even ssh or telnet in to kill it. More arts? No thanks.
I await the day linux has good userland sound mixing to complement its now-beautiful ALSA sound drivers. For now, I'm stuck with arts because amarok's gstreamer support isn't there yet (and xmms doesn't compare to amarok).
but I've also noticed that IE users are only interested in some file named cmd.exe or root.exe, and I've never offered either of those files from this box. It must be a Microsoft thing...
IIRC, those are boxes looking for an IIS hole in your system. Whoever wrote the exploits must have decided to use an IE user agent string. Hehe...
The "flip" over to 80% IE may just be a lull in traffic where the percent of requests from infected boxes is "amplified" by a smaller total number of requests.
Personally, I like their new "lying scheme" better than the old one. AMD has been making *good* processors for awhile, even though they had lower clock speeds. It seems Intel has realized that they won't be able to push clock speeds up forever, and will have to go back to making the CPU actually do something with its cycles:). Intel's designs will no longer be dictated by a *marketing* need for higher clock rate, so they will make better processors.
Whoah, cool down cowboy. My bad, my memory is obviously a little hazy, but I remember the main point behind it -- the Senators don't have to have any particular allegiance to their party, its not like in the House where the party oftens makes voting decisions that are only reluctantly and rarely broken by MPs. Senators have more freedom in their voting decisions.
If the Senate is likely to rebel on anything, it's by killing some bill which the Prime Minister and the House of Commons supports but for which they think there is considerable public discontent. Public support for the Senate on that issue would then keep the Prime Minister from rendering it powerless.
This is pretty much what I meant, and is why the Senate isn't useless (IMHO) as long as it isn't an elected House.
Important to note that the Senate is also completely useless.
Completely useless? I would tend to disagree. From what I remember of high school history, the Senate is meant primarily as a "check" on what the House of Commons passes. The idea is that Senators are *not* elected, do not have an expiring term, and are not part of a party so that their decisions are not influenced by politics -- they are supposed to be appointed, respected members of society (which is not always the case, unfortunately). In any case, this seems to me to be much better than an elected Senate, which would simply be another House of Commons. The States seem to have a problem in that their Senate is subject to similar political wrangling as their Congress is. People don't seem to realize that you cannot simply throw democracy/elections at something and make it better (which is why I disagree with the sentiment some politicians are floating around that the Senate should be elected).
And of course, if the Senate ever did stomp on a bill that the public really wanted passed, the wave of public opinion and the media would probably result in a reform of how the Senate works.
Wow, it's a good thing THAT got moderated informative, as it sure was chock-full of accurate, unbiased information (especially considering that the Progressive Conservatives *no longer exist*). The new Conservative Party (merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservatives) is a more right-wing party, that definitely has some basis of social conservatism (via the Alliance) as well as your usual fiscal conservatism and other generally right-wing-associated policy. They are probably comparable to the Republicans.
The Liberals are more like the Democrats, though probably a little more to the left. More progressive socially, though recently they have a streak of fiscal conservatism (which is likely the reason for the parent's comparison to the Republicans, as this has not always been their hallmark and moves them little more to the right than Canadians are used to). Traditionally a "central" party, though more "a little right-of-center with the occasional spattering of the left". Whatever that means.
As for the NDP, they are a much more left-leaning party, and there is no real comparison to an American party (IMHO they would likely be lynched -- figuratively:) -- in some parts of the States, unfortunately, due to ingrained fears of anything remotely "communist"). Anyway, they aren't a "communist party", they are simply more toward the left than Americans have in a mainstream party.
This is (I hope) a slightly less biased outlook on the three major Canadian parties than that presented by the parent, who I expect is a fervent NDP supporter;).
No, actually "old-windows-style parent-child-whatchamacallit MDI" is called SDI. I quote from the Wikipedia definition (and the definition as I have always understood it): Single Document Interface (sometimes called SDI) is a way to organize graphical applications into individual windows that are handled separately by the operating system's window manager... Applications that can edit more than one document at a time (like word processors) will therefore give the user the impression that more than one program is running. GIMP is definitely SDI; each image runs under its own window handled by the window manager event hough it is only one application.
Secondly, though I do occasionally use GIMP on windows, I primarily use it on Linux and my main reason for preferring MDI is independent of the platform. Put simply, MDI organizes toolboxes and windows much more effectively, because it is "aware" of them. With MDI, there is no need to position image windows manually to be able to access all the tools and the entire image simultaneously; hitting "maximize" does that for you. On linux this is somewhat alleviate (at least in KDE) with "always-on-top" window managet options, but manual positioning is still necessary as maximizing the image window would cause it to be partially obscured by the toolboxes.
Ummm.... the right click menu and floating toolbars are still there. You can dock if you like, but it isn't required, and turning the menu off in image windows is quite simple (I did, I find it wastes space).
Besides, the new text tool isn't a vast change, functionality-wise, from 1.2's "dynamic text" plugin or whatever it was called (sorry, I haven't used 1.2 in awhile).
and many people will like the fact that the menu is in the window now (you do not have to right-click)
Hah! I spit on your menu! That was the first thing I turned off, in fact -- I find the right-clicking to be the best part of the gimp's interface; it provides convenient, quick, and easy access to basically everything. It's probably my number-one wish when using Photoshop that it had a similar right-click menu.
Indeed, I've been using a 2.0 pre-release for awhile, and the improvement is cosmetic mostly. The dockable tool windows are great, but a functional MDI would be much more useful. Why? Window management is fine on linux with virtual desktops (one of mine is dedicated to gimp), but (a) it doesn't really work if you need GIMP on windows, which even with virtual desktops added has clumsy window management, and (b) more importantly, it is impossible to have windows automatically and intelligently resize themselves "around" the toolbars. MDI can do this easily and well, I and see no reason for this constant MDI-phobia (or is it SDI elitism?). Apps like Kdevelop have already proven that MDI can be done well, and the GIMP's SDI is the first complaint I get from people who might consider switching from Photoshop.
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You're bad at geography.
Last I checked KDE was a very small-scale project struggling just to stay alive. I don't see anyone promoting them as harbringers of innovation, making your attack on them really something of a straw man.
I don't mean to start an off-topic flame war or anything, but I am a little confused by your sideline on KDE. It isn't a small-scale project at all (and is in fact known for the effectiveness of its development style in handling a large number of developers, from what I hear). Beyond that, it also is the most popular linux DE -- don't get me wrong, I'm not a KDE zealot; every poll I've ever seen on the subject ranks KDE #1.
Anyway, I half-agree on the innovation front. KDE takes a number of ideas and influences from a range of environments. At the same time, it also has things like kgpg and (*especially*) kwallet that integrate with practically anything KDE pretty nicely. KDE is well-known for the quality of its framework and integration between apps..... I don't know if that qualifies as "innovation", but its nice nonetheless.
Firefox and Konqueror should have a button for "Open the clipboard in a new tab".
There already is a solution for Konqueror. Simply middle-click on an empty area of the tab bar, and a new tab will be created with the highlight-clipboard contents used as the URL. I just tested Firefox, and while it doesn't work quite as simply/quickly, you can acheive almost the same effect by double-clicking on an empty area in the tab bar, then middle-clicking to paste/load URL.
At least he didn't shorten it to XP. ;)
Might I suggest XML Programming? Yarrrrrrr.
(I am also not an American, but here goes :) )
Along with technology, Americans (or, the American public) also seem to see democracy as the solution to every problem.
Interestingly, Diebold now has the perfect position -- a survey of people has endorsed a technological solution! Who needs facts when you've got computers to calculate the results of the average of the general public's opinion! Time for some policy-making!
Yay!
I personally agree with you in the light department -- a lot of people stuff LEDs and lights into their case and think it looks cool. I personally find those mods to be gaudy and ugly, as I much prefer subtle aesthetics. Which is why I found it amusing that you denounced the "well-lit" variety of mod and pointed to the Eugene Sargent case as an example of a tasteful case -- IMHO it is ugly too, sort of like a misshapen blob of metal. But to each his own.
:)
Anyway, I also distinguish between two kinds of good case mods -- the nice, subtle, aesthetic cases, and the crazy stuff where joe-with-too-much-time-on-his-hands turns his lunchbox into an Opteron. Either way, I like originality, and lights just don't cut it
Quoth the grammar nazi.
Nope, I'm guessing a bust.
It all hinges on one thing........
Are they still side-talkin'?
Indeed, Mandrake is just as easy. I have a printer on a windows machine shared over windows networking, I added it to my linux machine simply by opening up Mandrake's control center (drakconf or whatever it's called) and using the printer wizard to add it. This new printer was automatically shared via samba, so on my laptop (which runs Windows, and is on a different network also connected to my linux box), I was able to add the printer quite easily. Now, I can print on my laptop, which prints to the samba share on my linux box, which prints to the printer on my windows box -- all using simple *GUI* configuration. I will admit, I'm surprised it worked so easily, but on the other hand I'm used to setting up printing by hand (uggggh).
:)
Maybe ESR was just using the wrong distro/version ?
In fact, IIRC, we produce the vast majority of the States' imported refined (not crude oil).
For user simplicity, all search engines should now become Google.
(Except in Soviet Russia, Google becomes all search engines.
Oh dear.)
at least here at google.de, which I cannot evade unless I abuse some open proxies)
Really? Google.ca has a handy link at the bottom that says "go to google.com". I imagine google.de has the same link.
Oh god no!!!!!!!!!!!
I would also like them to settle on one sound architecture. However, it is fortunate that things seem to be heading in the direction of Gstreamer at the moment, because esound has always been buggy and arts is barely maintained and besides, isn't the fastest kid on the block. I mean, come on -- it only runs well if running setuid so it can have higher priority than other processes. Besides security issues, the thing has the potential to bring your whole system down! Magic sysrq keys have saved me a few times when arts has sucked up so much of my system I can't even ssh or telnet in to kill it. More arts? No thanks.
I await the day linux has good userland sound mixing to complement its now-beautiful ALSA sound drivers. For now, I'm stuck with arts because amarok's gstreamer support isn't there yet (and xmms doesn't compare to amarok).
but I've also noticed that IE users are only interested in some file named cmd.exe or root.exe, and I've never offered either of those files from this box. It must be a Microsoft thing...
IIRC, those are boxes looking for an IIS hole in your system. Whoever wrote the exploits must have decided to use an IE user agent string. Hehe...
The "flip" over to 80% IE may just be a lull in traffic where the percent of requests from infected boxes is "amplified" by a smaller total number of requests.
Still, when I heard "new installer" I was thinking "GUI". Sucks to be disappointed.
Indeed. Although I would like to congratulate them on their innovative new user-friendly alternative. Debian, welcome to 1997!
Personally, I like their new "lying scheme" better than the old one. AMD has been making *good* processors for awhile, even though they had lower clock speeds. It seems Intel has realized that they won't be able to push clock speeds up forever, and will have to go back to making the CPU actually do something with its cycles :). Intel's designs will no longer be dictated by a *marketing* need for higher clock rate, so they will make better processors.
Whoah, cool down cowboy. My bad, my memory is obviously a little hazy, but I remember the main point behind it -- the Senators don't have to have any particular allegiance to their party, its not like in the House where the party oftens makes voting decisions that are only reluctantly and rarely broken by MPs. Senators have more freedom in their voting decisions.
If the Senate is likely to rebel on anything, it's by killing some bill which the Prime Minister and the House of Commons supports but for which they think there is considerable public discontent. Public support for the Senate on that issue would then keep the Prime Minister from rendering it powerless.
This is pretty much what I meant, and is why the Senate isn't useless (IMHO) as long as it isn't an elected House.
Important to note that the Senate is also completely useless.
Completely useless? I would tend to disagree. From what I remember of high school history, the Senate is meant primarily as a "check" on what the House of Commons passes. The idea is that Senators are *not* elected, do not have an expiring term, and are not part of a party so that their decisions are not influenced by politics -- they are supposed to be appointed, respected members of society (which is not always the case, unfortunately). In any case, this seems to me to be much better than an elected Senate, which would simply be another House of Commons. The States seem to have a problem in that their Senate is subject to similar political wrangling as their Congress is. People don't seem to realize that you cannot simply throw democracy/elections at something and make it better (which is why I disagree with the sentiment some politicians are floating around that the Senate should be elected).
And of course, if the Senate ever did stomp on a bill that the public really wanted passed, the wave of public opinion and the media would probably result in a reform of how the Senate works.
Wow, it's a good thing THAT got moderated informative, as it sure was chock-full of accurate, unbiased information (especially considering that the Progressive Conservatives *no longer exist*). The new Conservative Party (merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservatives) is a more right-wing party, that definitely has some basis of social conservatism (via the Alliance) as well as your usual fiscal conservatism and other generally right-wing-associated policy. They are probably comparable to the Republicans.
:) -- in some parts of the States, unfortunately, due to ingrained fears of anything remotely "communist"). Anyway, they aren't a "communist party", they are simply more toward the left than Americans have in a mainstream party.
;).
The Liberals are more like the Democrats, though probably a little more to the left. More progressive socially, though recently they have a streak of fiscal conservatism (which is likely the reason for the parent's comparison to the Republicans, as this has not always been their hallmark and moves them little more to the right than Canadians are used to). Traditionally a "central" party, though more "a little right-of-center with the occasional spattering of the left". Whatever that means.
As for the NDP, they are a much more left-leaning party, and there is no real comparison to an American party (IMHO they would likely be lynched -- figuratively
This is (I hope) a slightly less biased outlook on the three major Canadian parties than that presented by the parent, who I expect is a fervent NDP supporter
Whoops that "Submit" button sure looked an awful lot like "Preview".
s/alleviate/alleviated/
s/managet/manager/
That should do it.
No, actually "old-windows-style parent-child-whatchamacallit MDI" is called SDI. I quote from the Wikipedia definition (and the definition as I have always understood it): Single Document Interface (sometimes called SDI) is a way to organize graphical applications into individual windows that are handled separately by the operating system's window manager... Applications that can edit more than one document at a time (like word processors) will therefore give the user the impression that more than one program is running. GIMP is definitely SDI; each image runs under its own window handled by the window manager event hough it is only one application.
Secondly, though I do occasionally use GIMP on windows, I primarily use it on Linux and my main reason for preferring MDI is independent of the platform. Put simply, MDI organizes toolboxes and windows much more effectively, because it is "aware" of them. With MDI, there is no need to position image windows manually to be able to access all the tools and the entire image simultaneously; hitting "maximize" does that for you. On linux this is somewhat alleviate (at least in KDE) with "always-on-top" window managet options, but manual positioning is still necessary as maximizing the image window would cause it to be partially obscured by the toolboxes.
Ummm.... the right click menu and floating toolbars are still there. You can dock if you like, but it isn't required, and turning the menu off in image windows is quite simple (I did, I find it wastes space).
Besides, the new text tool isn't a vast change, functionality-wise, from 1.2's "dynamic text" plugin or whatever it was called (sorry, I haven't used 1.2 in awhile).
and many people will like the fact that the menu is in the window now (you do not have to right-click)
Hah! I spit on your menu! That was the first thing I turned off, in fact -- I find the right-clicking to be the best part of the gimp's interface; it provides convenient, quick, and easy access to basically everything. It's probably my number-one wish when using Photoshop that it had a similar right-click menu.
Indeed, I've been using a 2.0 pre-release for awhile, and the improvement is cosmetic mostly. The dockable tool windows are great, but a functional MDI would be much more useful. Why? Window management is fine on linux with virtual desktops (one of mine is dedicated to gimp), but (a) it doesn't really work if you need GIMP on windows, which even with virtual desktops added has clumsy window management, and (b) more importantly, it is impossible to have windows automatically and intelligently resize themselves "around" the toolbars. MDI can do this easily and well, I and see no reason for this constant MDI-phobia (or is it SDI elitism?). Apps like Kdevelop have already proven that MDI can be done well, and the GIMP's SDI is the first complaint I get from people who might consider switching from Photoshop.