1) The file dialog.
KDE 0.x ALPHAs had a better file dialog than gnome! Today, the KDE one is the best file dialgog in existance, with influence from all desktops.
And about the KDE file selector: horizontal scrolling is a bug, not a feature. Even if it is configurable, it's still a bug.
2) More apps!
KDE comes with over 150 Apps in the full install, with applications for all fields, plus its sleak integration with non kde apps (eg gimp, openoffice) make things more consistant.
Remember, it's a d-e-s-k-t-o-p. And a standard desktop must be shipped with a minimum of apps (one for every task), just to keep it simple. A whole application suite is something different, something that scares off most people. GNOME's got Epiphany for web-browsing, and if you're a power user you can install Galeon. It's got Gedit because you'll use Vim or Emacs or some IDE anyway if you're serious about editing.
3) Configureable as hell.
The KDE control center has loads of knobs/dials/sliders and boxes to fiddle with, yet keeps things elegent. In gnome, half the options don't exisit and you are rudley told "use gconf-editor n00b by gnome zealots" (not joking about this, telling the truth gets you a -1, troll and footnotes).
Or: Not enough knowledge to know what's good? GNOME doesn't have all these options, but I don't need them because the default is just usable. In return I get menu's that are clean and easy to read, speeding up my experience with the desktop. Even if I had taken the time to fully configure KDE, that wouldn't take the overload of options away.
4) I-kandy!
The Kde eye candy is really powerful, with styles such as dotNEt, mosfet liquid, kermamik, Crystal and more. Looking at art.gnome.org [gnome.org] reveals the same old theme in different colours. Since gnome dosen't provide a colour changing dialog for its widgets most "themes" are just colour changes. The Crystal from CVS is an Aqua killer, your eyes will want to love it.
My eyes hate crystal-like themes with too many colours, but that's personal. Like I implied before, I like a desktop to be really on the background, not overwhelming me with options and colors and styles and configurabilities. I install a desktop to run applications, not to run the desktop itself. And btw, when I tried KDE 3.2 last week, I saw the same old icons as KDE 1.x for the control-center, and I could still choose between two old KDE1 themes (but that didn't work anymore afaik)
I wonder how much Dutch *is* a 'throat disease'. It should be calculatable by counting the percentage of people who stutter, people who don't master the language (from common spelling mistakes to dyslexia), and so on. Personally, I think Dutch could get a bad score on most of the items.
I'm Dutch, I stutter (but I master the grammar and spelling), and I often wonder how it was when I grew up with a more fluently spoken language.
'Verdiend' ((they have) deserved) in this context is with a 'D' and not with a 'T' at the end.
It should be with a 'T' if it was 'Hij verdient' ((he) deserves). The pronunctation is exactly the same and there are many exceptions to this rule, so (i guess) >40% of the Dutch people don't master this. (even higher educated people!)
...is why the implementation of Windows Server 2003 and Samba aren't more similar in performance.
Even *if* Microsoft had any respect for GPL'd code, they could have had a team to look at the Samba sources and make notes of it and give the notes to the developers, and let the developers legally figure out how Samba implements the protocols (without ever seeing the source).
The fact that most of the students (and teachers) don't use styles, templates, headers and stuff, doesn't mean that they don't *need* it. If I see the papers my classmates and teachers write, I start to puke. Different fonts, no headers, hand-made indexes because there aren't headers (with wrong pagenumbers of course), images that overlap text, indexpages with header/footer and more stuff like that. People just don't know the tools they use!!
Just spend a couple of hours reading a tutorial about writing *real* documents in the wordprocessor of your choice, spend another hour by making templates for common documents, and in the next years you can focus on the content instead of the lay-out, and your papers look much more professional!
Oh, and the direct fontselector should be forbidden for writing large texts. It's added because 'everybody' uses it, but it makes a mess of any text, and it's better to let the user only select fonts by defining paragraph/header styles (and thus forcing them to actually use styles)
How many companies donate money to OSS projects when they use it as replacement for proprietary products? With as little as 15% of the license-costs you'll normally pay for the commercial product (MS Office in this case), you can give most OSS projects a significant boost in their development.
He states that an MP3 with 128kbit (inferior) quality is just an ad for their music, and that real fans will buy the cd if they love it, because of the better quality.
Too bad that 99% of the audience don't hear the difference between an 128 kbit mp3 and a cd, and that the same 99% don't understand that it costs money to create/promote/distribute a cd, and that at least a couple of thousands of people must buy a cd to enable the band to make another album.
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And how many apps for 64 bit exist in the market?
And how many 32-bit OSses and apps were there back in 1985, when the 80386 was released? At the time it was released, it was treated by most users as an even faster 8086. It took ten years before a semi-32bit OS was accepted mainstream, and on top of that another 7 years before every sold PC had a full 32-bits OS. The success of the 386 was in its backward compatibility, and so will the success of x86-64 and the failure of the Itanium as mainstream-cpu be.
with a three (or more) button mouse, tabbed links opened in the background, and a fairly slow connection (115k2 here).
When I do my daily slashdot (and other sites), I skim through the headlines, middle-click links that seem interesting (so they open in the background in a new tab), read on, click on the next interesting link, until the end of the page, and by the time I've read the frontpage, the first article is completely loaded.
At the moment, I just can't work with a browser without tabs (rightclick -> open in new window -> click new window away -> read on)
They suck with a rather slow system (TNT2 / Celeron dual 333 / 512 MB). Once every while the cpu-load becomes 100% and X hangs for a couple of seconds.
...when KDE's own one has horizontal scrolling enabled *by default*! I mean, how blind can you be to copy one of the most irritating parts of the Windows UI into your desktop?
(but, okay, the Gnome file selector, ehm, needs some improvement too.)
Track 0, sector 0 is the boot sector. The partition table is stored in this sector. The rest of track 0 (sectors 1 through 63) is not officially used, so some DRM systems like to stash data there.
What makes this annoying is when you try to install another DRM-enabled product that also wants to write in the same place
To prevent this problem on a large scale, they invented filesystems.
If I were Google I'd use the results the user already clicked on, and narrow the search with this information in mind.
Like when I'm searching for 'E-Smith Server', Google shows me lots of sites from E.Smith who has a server. If it turns out that the links I'm interested in also contain the keywords 'SME' and 'Linux', the number of results in the next pages could be lowered by adding these keywords automagically (and in the background, 'cause people will be upset if Google adds keywords by itself).
What I see around me is that people think that their social environment gets bigger and bigger because they know people from all over the world, but in fact they just stick to people of their kind. By now it's easier to log on to the internet and have a chat with someone far away who's just like you, then to go to your neigbour and complain about issues that are more important in daily life.
More and more people can't stand each other while living in the same street or town, and that's a bad thing. If you have an opinion about something like politics, you'll always find people on the internet who think just like you. And that's far easier than to complain about it with people in your town.
An artist is 20-40 years old when he makes his music and the copyright expires after 50 years. So when the last copyright expires he's 90 years old, and most of the people are dead by then. So this article tells me that the recording industry doesn't give a f#ck about artist-rights, because most of the artists of these works are already dead by now.
They had 50 years to make money of this music, and now they have to donate it to the public domain, so artists can study it, change it, use riffs, and so on, without being sued. If Europe enforces this law, there are chances that creativity is led to a new height by bands that make music as a collage of old music, without being sued
On the other hand, there will always be some jerks who make dance- and r&b- remixes of those old songs and make lots of money with it, or sell samplers with *very* bad vinyl-rips. And in that case, if I were the copyright-holder, I shouldn't want to release the music for free.
(And again, this is something the American RIAA forces upon the European Union, and as Citizen of the EU, I've never had the chance to vote for the creation of the EU, nor for its government, or whatever. Our own governments are giving away more and more control to Brussels. Please give us Europeans a democracy. But it's already too late. Most people should have voted against the EU and against the Euro.)
I don't think it differs much from other languages, because as in every language, common words are short, uncommon words are longer. Guessable words are left away completely, mostly it's just a set of keywords, and the reader has to make a sentence of it. Also, parts of words are replaced by numbers that pronounce the same (like writing 'w8' for 'wait'). And, of course, much use of smileys.
It's quite funny to see a language evolve so quickly without any interference from official institutions.
If you make a very slick interface for one language, it can be completely fsck'd up in another language. Buttons need to be bigger, menubars don't fit anymore, and so on.
Especially in cheaper software, they use very strange constructs to make words fit well when translated to non-english, like removing the middle part en replacing it by a '.
Denmark, whose main exports include those silly little wooden shoes and tulips
How F#$^%#@g long till you stupid americans know the difference between The Netherlands and Denmark? Denmark is the country of Lego, The Netherlands (which you all call Holland, but Holland is just two of the twelve provinces) is the country of wooden shoes and tulips and drugs.
...in the market for graphics-suites. Buy JASC, maintain, enhance and market Paint Shop Pro and sell it for discount-prices to get Adobe on their knees to finally buy them or kill them (and buy them anyway afterwards). And, as a nice side-effect, finally have a chance to fully control Apple.
Who will stop them? No authority complains about the billions and billions they invest into the Xbox, just to push Nintendo and Sega out of the console-business. What that lawsuits of the past years good for? While we are complaining about things they did in the past, they take over the whole consumer-software-business and no one complains. Is that what's "good for competition?"
Alexander Tchirkov of Windows Backup Wizard: "I got a letter from the lawyers of Microsoft with the recommendation to change the name of my program to 'Backup Wizard for Windows(R)'."
So 'For Windows' is okay, as long as it has a (R) with it
I don't think that they can sue people for using 'Win', simply because it's not the whole word 'Windows'
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1) The file dialog. KDE 0.x ALPHAs had a better file dialog than gnome! Today, the KDE one is the best file dialgog in existance, with influence from all desktops.
See this screenshot for the fileselector for GNOME 2.6.
And about the KDE file selector: horizontal scrolling is a bug, not a feature. Even if it is configurable, it's still a bug.
2) More apps! KDE comes with over 150 Apps in the full install, with applications for all fields, plus its sleak integration with non kde apps (eg gimp, openoffice) make things more consistant.
Remember, it's a d-e-s-k-t-o-p. And a standard desktop must be shipped with a minimum of apps (one for every task), just to keep it simple. A whole application suite is something different, something that scares off most people. GNOME's got Epiphany for web-browsing, and if you're a power user you can install Galeon. It's got Gedit because you'll use Vim or Emacs or some IDE anyway if you're serious about editing.
3) Configureable as hell. The KDE control center has loads of knobs/dials/sliders and boxes to fiddle with, yet keeps things elegent. In gnome, half the options don't exisit and you are rudley told "use gconf-editor n00b by gnome zealots" (not joking about this, telling the truth gets you a -1, troll and footnotes).
Or: Not enough knowledge to know what's good? GNOME doesn't have all these options, but I don't need them because the default is just usable. In return I get menu's that are clean and easy to read, speeding up my experience with the desktop. Even if I had taken the time to fully configure KDE, that wouldn't take the overload of options away.
4) I-kandy! The Kde eye candy is really powerful, with styles such as dotNEt, mosfet liquid, kermamik, Crystal and more. Looking at art.gnome.org [gnome.org] reveals the same old theme in different colours. Since gnome dosen't provide a colour changing dialog for its widgets most "themes" are just colour changes. The Crystal from CVS is an Aqua killer, your eyes will want to love it.
My eyes hate crystal-like themes with too many colours, but that's personal. Like I implied before, I like a desktop to be really on the background, not overwhelming me with options and colors and styles and configurabilities. I install a desktop to run applications, not to run the desktop itself. And btw, when I tried KDE 3.2 last week, I saw the same old icons as KDE 1.x for the control-center, and I could still choose between two old KDE1 themes (but that didn't work anymore afaik)
I wonder how much Dutch *is* a 'throat disease'. It should be calculatable by counting the percentage of people who stutter, people who don't master the language (from common spelling mistakes to dyslexia), and so on. Personally, I think Dutch could get a bad score on most of the items.
I'm Dutch, I stutter (but I master the grammar and spelling), and I often wonder how it was when I grew up with a more fluently spoken language.
'Verdiend' ((they have) deserved) in this context is with a 'D' and not with a 'T' at the end.
It should be with a 'T' if it was 'Hij verdient' ((he) deserves). The pronunctation is exactly the same and there are many exceptions to this rule, so (i guess) >40% of the Dutch people don't master this. (even higher educated people!)
...is why the implementation of Windows Server 2003 and Samba aren't more similar in performance.
Even *if* Microsoft had any respect for GPL'd code, they could have had a team to look at the Samba sources and make notes of it and give the notes to the developers, and let the developers legally figure out how Samba implements the protocols (without ever seeing the source).
The fact that most of the students (and teachers) don't use styles, templates, headers and stuff, doesn't mean that they don't *need* it. If I see the papers my classmates and teachers write, I start to puke. Different fonts, no headers, hand-made indexes because there aren't headers (with wrong pagenumbers of course), images that overlap text, indexpages with header/footer and more stuff like that. People just don't know the tools they use!!
Just spend a couple of hours reading a tutorial about writing *real* documents in the wordprocessor of your choice, spend another hour by making templates for common documents, and in the next years you can focus on the content instead of the lay-out, and your papers look much more professional!
Oh, and the direct fontselector should be forbidden for writing large texts. It's added because 'everybody' uses it, but it makes a mess of any text, and it's better to let the user only select fonts by defining paragraph/header styles (and thus forcing them to actually use styles)
Makes me wonder...
How many companies donate money to OSS projects when they use it as replacement for proprietary products? With as little as 15% of the license-costs you'll normally pay for the commercial product (MS Office in this case), you can give most OSS projects a significant boost in their development.
He states that an MP3 with 128kbit (inferior) quality is just an ad for their music, and that real fans will buy the cd if they love it, because of the better quality.
Too bad that 99% of the audience don't hear the difference between an 128 kbit mp3 and a cd, and that the same 99% don't understand that it costs money to create/promote/distribute a cd, and that at least a couple of thousands of people must buy a cd to enable the band to make another album.
And how many apps for 64 bit exist in the market?
And how many 32-bit OSses and apps were there back in 1985, when the 80386 was released? At the time it was released, it was treated by most users as an even faster 8086. It took ten years before a semi-32bit OS was accepted mainstream, and on top of that another 7 years before every sold PC had a full 32-bits OS. The success of the 386 was in its backward compatibility, and so will the success of x86-64 and the failure of the Itanium as mainstream-cpu be.
incredibly expensive and backwards-incompatible Itanic 2 chips are the result of engineers developing for themselves
Not for themselves, but for a market without serious competitors, like when they started with IA64.
640 kb blah blah
so we can /. them in less than 5 minutes! w00t!
with a three (or more) button mouse, tabbed links opened in the background, and a fairly slow connection (115k2 here).
When I do my daily slashdot (and other sites), I skim through the headlines, middle-click links that seem interesting (so they open in the background in a new tab), read on, click on the next interesting link, until the end of the page, and by the time I've read the frontpage, the first article is completely loaded.
At the moment, I just can't work with a browser without tabs (rightclick -> open in new window -> click new window away -> read on)
Since they invented authentication :P
They suck with a rather slow system (TNT2 / Celeron dual 333 / 512 MB). Once every while the cpu-load becomes 100% and X hangs for a couple of seconds.
:))
(but Tux-racer runs fine
...when KDE's own one has horizontal scrolling enabled *by default*! I mean, how blind can you be to copy one of the most irritating parts of the Windows UI into your desktop?
(but, okay, the Gnome file selector, ehm, needs some improvement too.)
Track 0, sector 0 is the boot sector. The partition table is stored in this sector. The rest of track 0 (sectors 1 through 63) is not officially used, so some DRM systems like to stash data there.
What makes this annoying is when you try to install another DRM-enabled product that also wants to write in the same place
To prevent this problem on a large scale, they invented filesystems.
If I were Google I'd use the results the user already clicked on, and narrow the search with this information in mind.
Like when I'm searching for 'E-Smith Server', Google shows me lots of sites from E.Smith who has a server. If it turns out that the links I'm interested in also contain the keywords 'SME' and 'Linux', the number of results in the next pages could be lowered by adding these keywords automagically (and in the background, 'cause people will be upset if Google adds keywords by itself).
What I see around me is that people think that their social environment gets bigger and bigger because they know people from all over the world, but in fact they just stick to people of their kind. By now it's easier to log on to the internet and have a chat with someone far away who's just like you, then to go to your neigbour and complain about issues that are more important in daily life.
More and more people can't stand each other while living in the same street or town, and that's a bad thing. If you have an opinion about something like politics, you'll always find people on the internet who think just like you. And that's far easier than to complain about it with people in your town.
gravity sucks!
An artist is 20-40 years old when he makes his music and the copyright expires after 50 years. So when the last copyright expires he's 90 years old, and most of the people are dead by then. So this article tells me that the recording industry doesn't give a f#ck about artist-rights, because most of the artists of these works are already dead by now.
They had 50 years to make money of this music, and now they have to donate it to the public domain, so artists can study it, change it, use riffs, and so on, without being sued. If Europe enforces this law, there are chances that creativity is led to a new height by bands that make music as a collage of old music, without being sued
On the other hand, there will always be some jerks who make dance- and r&b- remixes of those old songs and make lots of money with it, or sell samplers with *very* bad vinyl-rips. And in that case, if I were the copyright-holder, I shouldn't want to release the music for free.
(And again, this is something the American RIAA forces upon the European Union, and as Citizen of the EU, I've never had the chance to vote for the creation of the EU, nor for its government, or whatever. Our own governments are giving away more and more control to Brussels. Please give us Europeans a democracy. But it's already too late. Most people should have voted against the EU and against the Euro.)
Also, I wonder how Dutch is used in SMS :)
I don't think it differs much from other languages, because as in every language, common words are short, uncommon words are longer. Guessable words are left away completely, mostly it's just a set of keywords, and the reader has to make a sentence of it. Also, parts of words are replaced by numbers that pronounce the same (like writing 'w8' for 'wait'). And, of course, much use of smileys.
It's quite funny to see a language evolve so quickly without any interference from official institutions.
And what about the difference in lenght of words between languages?. Some examples between English and Dutch:
File - Bestand
Edit - Bewerken
Tools - Gereedschappen
Cancel - Annuleren
If you make a very slick interface for one language, it can be completely fsck'd up in another language. Buttons need to be bigger, menubars don't fit anymore, and so on.
Especially in cheaper software, they use very strange constructs to make words fit well when translated to non-english, like removing the middle part en replacing it by a '.
Denmark, whose main exports include those silly little wooden shoes and tulips
How F#$^%#@g long till you stupid americans know the difference between The Netherlands and Denmark? Denmark is the country of Lego, The Netherlands (which you all call Holland, but Holland is just two of the twelve provinces) is the country of wooden shoes and tulips and drugs.
...in the market for graphics-suites. Buy JASC, maintain, enhance and market Paint Shop Pro and sell it for discount-prices to get Adobe on their knees to finally buy them or kill them (and buy them anyway afterwards). And, as a nice side-effect, finally have a chance to fully control Apple.
Who will stop them? No authority complains about the billions and billions they invest into the Xbox, just to push Nintendo and Sega out of the console-business. What that lawsuits of the past years good for? While we are complaining about things they did in the past, they take over the whole consumer-software-business and no one complains. Is that what's "good for competition?"
As stated in the WebWereld Article:
Alexander Tchirkov of Windows Backup Wizard: "I got a letter from the lawyers of Microsoft with the recommendation to change the name of my program to 'Backup Wizard for Windows(R)'."
So 'For Windows' is okay, as long as it has a (R) with it
I don't think that they can sue people for using 'Win', simply because it's not the whole word 'Windows'