> Europe still builds cars with the upper class in mind since most Europeans use public transit and > don't own cars. Europeans also don't don't mind buying a used one either which is quite different > than the Amercian mentality of a new car for all.
I can understand that you get that idea when looking at the european cars imported into the US. But in europe a big part of the market is hold by small cheap cars manufactured by companies like Peugot, Renault, Fiat and Volkswagen. (Of course japanese manufacturers sell small cars as well.)
> Why do we need a calendaring SERVER? Why doesn't someone make a P2P Calendaring App for collaboration?
Well all people aren't online all the time, so having their calendar data on a server that *is* online all the time is definitely a bonus.
Also, most people have the most need to share calendars with people on their work. This is done more efficiently in client-server model than P2P.
I can also add that the iCal suite of standards as far as I can see would work well in a P2P-framework as well. The iMIP-standard is basicly a P2P calendar standard using mail for transport. And there even are a bunch of implementations of it: Outlook, the ones based on libical: KOrganizer, Evolution, this new Mozilla thingy, and more
No hotkeys to change between desktops, minimized windows' icons hide behind the big ugly bar at the bottom, etc.
Just because you haven't bothered to figure out how to configure CDE doesn't mean it's not possible. Both the things you mention are possible to change. (The second thing you complain about is definitely not the default behaivior of CDE.)
Not that I'm a big fan of CDE (I rarely use it), but you should be fair anyway...
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> Europe still builds cars with the upper class in mind since most Europeans use public transit and
> don't own cars. Europeans also don't don't mind buying a used one either which is quite different
> than the Amercian mentality of a new car for all.
I can understand that you get that idea when looking at the european cars imported into the US. But in europe a big part of the market is hold by small cheap cars manufactured by companies like Peugot, Renault, Fiat and Volkswagen. (Of course japanese manufacturers sell small cars as well.)
> I could NEVER figure out why no one created a VRML browser based on Direct3D or
> OpenGL so it could run in full screen with a decent frame rate.
Well, the VRML-browser I used the most - VRWeb - used OpenGL.
Examples include:
KOrganizer for KDE
Evolution for Gnome
> Why do we need a calendaring SERVER? Why doesn't someone make a P2P Calendaring App for collaboration?
Well all people aren't online all the time, so having their calendar data on a server that *is* online all the time is definitely a bonus.
Also, most people have the most need to share calendars with people on their work. This is done more efficiently in client-server model than P2P.
I can also add that the iCal suite of standards as far as I can see would work well in a P2P-framework as well. The iMIP-standard is basicly a P2P calendar standard using mail for transport. And there even are a bunch of implementations of it: Outlook, the ones based on libical: KOrganizer, Evolution, this new Mozilla thingy, and more
Just because you haven't bothered to figure out how to configure CDE doesn't mean it's not possible. Both the things you mention are possible to change. (The second thing you complain about is definitely not the default behaivior of CDE.)
Not that I'm a big fan of CDE (I rarely use it), but you should be fair anyway...