KDE is too complicated for almost everyone who doesn't already use it. Even if you can use it simply out-of-the-box, within a few days, they'll run into a situation where they find themselves trying to fix something non-simple, and then they're falling into the time-pit digging around for the solution.
Believe it or not, the fact that Gnome "doesn't do that" is a feature. It means that users won't get frustrated finding that out. And they'll still be able to do what they need to do. And the ones who want "more" will be able to find and install KDE...
Linus is making the biggest mistake all geeks make (myself included, but I learn, he might).
People don't want you to give them lots of features that get in their way.
They want you to give them something intuitive that does the basic things they need done first.
I've used Gnome. It's a very satisfactory system. It'll sell, if you let it. Anything that makes the user think, won't. Because it's just the user-interface model. It's not what they want to think about. They want it to disappear, like a steering wheel or an automatic door.
Roughly 1990 I had the opportunity to see Intel's IA roadmap.
At the time, having the floating-point and integer cores integrated into a single uP was pretty heady stuff, and counted as integrated multiprocessing.
They showed the beginnings of their plan to put multiple parallel cores on the same die.
The roadmap showed CPU chips going to 3 cores, then 4, and so on. Up to 7, iirc.
It never quite happened that way. VLIW and then 64-bit seem to have replaced that path. But no doubt someone will resurrect it as the need to amplify the power curve will never go away.
I had an account, and was attacked by admins because I wouldn't kowtow. Now I edit only anonymously. The fact that I can't add new articles sharply curtails my ability to improve the site.
They're failing in their charter, and will soon become what they hated.
There's nothing more flammable than an untreated sail.
Unless it's a sail treated by oiling it.
The inability to tile the plane is one of MythBusters' greatest faults. They consistently miss things that any cagy science student would see immediately. You'd think they'd keep at least one truly anal technical advisor on staff. Or maybe they're just doing so much they can't get enough runway to reach analytical flight.
Address translation has multiplied the effective address space way beyond the 4 billion unique values. The limitation for active connections under IPv4 is 2^32 IP addresses * 2^16 port numbers * number of protocols. The limitation for clients connected and sharing an address and port and protocol is infinity.
IPv6 will, therefore, vastly increase the number of active connections possible, but security will still demand address translation (really? maybe; anyone want to kibbitz on that?), so the number of unique IP addresses you'll need won't get too big too fast.
I'd use it to download a copy of Ubuntu Linux and burn it to a CD so I could install it over the ad-Supported Windows installation that came on the discount computer I just bought.
And then, having a CD and a machine with a working download capability, I'd never have to do that again.
So what did Microsoft pay for the 1 or two visits its advertisers got to the back of my eyeballs? $4? $8 billion?
Who cares about digital perfection? I listen mostly to roots-era blues, which was recorded on ~78 rpm wax discs, and popularized over low-wattage AM radio stations with an audio bandwidth of less than 6 kHz and all the dynamic range of a baseball bat, fer chrissakes.
Give me one $1.49 song, and a really nice D-to-A-to-D re-recorder to strip out the DRM horseshit, and I'll be the RIAA's daddy.
Just hand out a blessed indent(1) configuration and get on with making sure people design and implement understandable software instead of spazzing about indents and brackets.
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"Advanced button"???
Sheesh.
Call it "MP3 Export Options".
Please.
Thousands?
Think Millions.
KDE is too complicated for almost everyone who doesn't already use it. Even if you can use it simply out-of-the-box, within a few days, they'll run into a situation where they find themselves trying to fix something non-simple, and then they're falling into the time-pit digging around for the solution.
Believe it or not, the fact that Gnome "doesn't do that" is a feature. It means that users won't get frustrated finding that out. And they'll still be able to do what they need to do. And the ones who want "more" will be able to find and install KDE...
Linus is leading many people to being disgusted.
Linus is making the biggest mistake all geeks make (myself included, but I learn, he might).
People don't want you to give them lots of features that get in their way.
They want you to give them something intuitive that does the basic things they need done first.
I've used Gnome. It's a very satisfactory system. It'll sell, if you let it. Anything that makes the user think, won't. Because it's just the user-interface model. It's not what they want to think about. They want it to disappear, like a steering wheel or an automatic door.
Why should you be able to threaten someone anonymously from a public place 1000 miles away when you can't do it from 10 feet away in the same place?
It's already censored. Just try to point out the lack of controls on its admin corps.
Roughly 1990 I had the opportunity to see Intel's IA roadmap.
At the time, having the floating-point and integer cores integrated into a single uP was pretty heady stuff, and counted as integrated multiprocessing.
They showed the beginnings of their plan to put multiple parallel cores on the same die.
The roadmap showed CPU chips going to 3 cores, then 4, and so on. Up to 7, iirc.
It never quite happened that way. VLIW and then 64-bit seem to have replaced that path. But no doubt someone will resurrect it as the need to amplify the power curve will never go away.
I had an account, and was attacked by admins because I wouldn't kowtow. Now I edit only anonymously. The fact that I can't add new articles sharply curtails my ability to improve the site.
They're failing in their charter, and will soon become what they hated.
That's no fun.
It's totally predictable.
If wages haven't gone up yet, then they're lying about how hard it is to recruit.
Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be outsourced.
What if it's a Tsunami and you need to figure out which cities to send into a panic and which not?
Look up insolation, and lose the insolence.
Nobody loves an ignorant troll.
They're not cagy. They rushed to cognitive closure.
If I wanted to set a sail on fire, I'd furl it, too.
Then it would present a stable surface and be in a bundle that would maintain a flame better.
Prove it for yourself.
Say, "THERE ARE NO ALLIGATORS IN MY PANTS".
Then check, if you must.
Was Greece known for its fog?
Is San Francisco known for year-round nudity?
Wait...
Don't aim at the hull.
Aim at the sail.
There's nothing more flammable than an untreated sail.
Unless it's a sail treated by oiling it.
The inability to tile the plane is one of MythBusters' greatest faults. They consistently miss things that any cagy science student would see immediately. You'd think they'd keep at least one truly anal technical advisor on staff. Or maybe they're just doing so much they can't get enough runway to reach analytical flight.
> Its said to be impossible to prove a negative
It's not true.
Asking for the sun to do anything valuable in the Bay Area is not a valid question.
Try it in Phoenix during the summer high-pressure atmospheric lensing season.
You'll set schist on fire.
2 cents? That'd get me 8 outsourced souls in Bangalore...
Address translation has multiplied the effective address space way beyond the 4 billion unique values. The limitation for active connections under IPv4 is 2^32 IP addresses * 2^16 port numbers * number of protocols. The limitation for clients connected and sharing an address and port and protocol is infinity.
IPv6 will, therefore, vastly increase the number of active connections possible, but security will still demand address translation (really? maybe; anyone want to kibbitz on that?), so the number of unique IP addresses you'll need won't get too big too fast.
Found your problem:
shower^0.5 + shave + brushteeth*32 + get(own(apartment)) + not(clothes^2) ==> P(woman|low standards) > 0
and its corollary
hot(face AND body) OR $*1.0e+06 ==> P(hotness(woman) > 8) > 0
I'd use it to download a copy of Ubuntu Linux and burn it to a CD so I could install it over the ad-Supported Windows installation that came on the discount computer I just bought.
And then, having a CD and a machine with a working download capability, I'd never have to do that again.
So what did Microsoft pay for the 1 or two visits its advertisers got to the back of my eyeballs? $4? $8 billion?
Some business models are fat and ugly.
Then nobody can do proper work when the central-host link is down.
Which does happen.
Today, in fact.
I for one welcome our analog-copy overdubs.
Who cares about digital perfection? I listen mostly to roots-era blues, which was recorded on ~78 rpm wax discs, and popularized over low-wattage AM radio stations with an audio bandwidth of less than 6 kHz and all the dynamic range of a baseball bat, fer chrissakes.
Give me one $1.49 song, and a really nice D-to-A-to-D re-recorder to strip out the DRM horseshit, and I'll be the RIAA's daddy.
Oh, darn.
Microsoft just issued prior art claiming the rights to air encased in transparent film, under the nomenclature Shrink-wrapping...
Coding standards won't help.
DESIGN standards are what you need.
Just hand out a blessed indent(1) configuration and get on with making sure people design and implement understandable software instead of spazzing about indents and brackets.