Qt is triple licensed: Commercial, QPL and GPL. GPL is for GPL-software, QPL is compatible with ALL OTHER OSS LICENSES and commercial is for everything else.
BTW, Adobe is a Trolltech customer and they use Qt for some of their products. Nice troll, though.
Calling frame-based page layout a nifty/hackerish feature built on top of a word-processor is a bit like calling 3d modelling a nifty/hackerish feature built on top of an image manipulation program. E.g.:
"I think that the GIMP people have right approach in getting the basic photo processing done first before adding the nifty 3d modelling capability of Autocad. I mean, Autocad is useless for touching up my photo album."
Frame-based layout and text-based word processing are different paradigms and they are design decisions made at the beginning of a project and not tacked on in the middle of it.
There is an Aqua port (if you count running on native Qt/Mac), and the Dot reported on it. There is an article about it in eWeek. You can even get the binaries on the kde.opendarwin.org page.
Sure, it's a bit rough around the edges, but it is certainly coming along nicely!
Actually, Apple is giving back all their improvements to the KHTML team. Safari is really nothing but a thin container for the KHTML engine. So Linux certainly has an Apple-quality browser and that doesn't seem to concern Apple. Why wouldn't they allow Linux to have an Apple-quality office suite, especially when KOffice is better than AppleWorks?
Of course you need to buy a license for MS application development. You need to buy Visual Studio and a copy of Windows. Whether it's commercial development or not.
KOffice runs natively on OSX (without the X server), so that's not a problem.
On the other hand, to run it on Windows, you do need an X server. I've read recently on a Qt-KDE compatibility layer which translates KDE apps to pure Qt apps, and people are using it to port KDE applications to Windows. Maybe something like this will happen for KOffice too?
I prefer OO's Impress to Powerpoint. Surely, it doesn't have as many gimmicks, but when I sat in front of it, I was capable of putting out a decent presentation in quite a short time. With Powerpoint, it's always been a struggle for me.
Well, since KWord has been using XML for word processor file format since forever, I don't think that they can claim ownership over all XML-based format, only their own.
Well, the OO.o and KOffice people are working toward a single file format, which will be shared between them, and hopefully become the next standard, cross-office-suite format. The KOffice people are currently working on adopting this format as their native format.
The result of this will be that all open source office suites (and all office suites who wish so) will be able to seamlessly open each others' documents. This is a step in the right direction: You standardise on the file format and choose the tools freely. More information at the OpenOffice XML page.
This will also bring all the OpenOffice import filters to KOffice, which has so far been its biggest problem. For most light office work, I find KOffice to be much more enjoyable than OO.
The q3 level designer (GTKRadiant) is not terribly easy to learn, but not very difficult either. If you have a good understanding of 3d space concepts, and don't mind reading through the manual, you can get going in a couple of days.
Something I would suggest to an aspiring mapper is to map something your friends will want to test (like a dorm building or similar). I managed to throw together a q3 map of our dorm (in about a week of blood and tears) and the thing was an instant hit:). You get loads of feedback on where the bugs are an where to put weapons/powerups and similar.
Then, once you have the basic skills down, start thinking about gameplay, layout and similar.
I think that if you are looking for a very balanced mod, you should check out CPMA for Quake3. These guys have been tweaking the gameplay for absolutely years and the demos from the competitions are absolutely mindblowing as far as speed, tactics and pure skill are concerned. The downside is that it has a scarily steep learning curve.
Of particular interest for an aspiring mapper is their mapping forum where they playtest and discuss the latest maps. Some extremely talented mappers there, who aren't only interested in looks, but carefully consider every aspect of gameplay for a map. If you're interested in level design, you should certainly read through that forum and test the maps discussed there to get a feel for what is important and how to improve your mapping!
You know what I would like to see... is that Microsoft just pull all copies out of all of Europe and then let Europe experience the horror of trying to use Linux. Sure Linux is good for us nerds, but lets see how much of an uprise there is when the internet market in Europe takes a dive because the mom and pop shops can no longer use the ineternet to place orders and mom and dad can no longer buy their goods off line because they can't figure out how to launch the internet browser.
I think that would be the best thing for Europe. Many tech companies in Europe have more than enough Linux expertise to make that happen. The online retailers whose websites are braindead enough not to work in a proper browser would go bankrupt and those who know their business (i.e. HTML) would prosper. The computer companies who cannot preinstall Linux on a computer would die, and those who know how to do it would prosper. It would weed out the crap quasi-tech companies and leave us with the good ones.
One 'conventional wisdom' that I like is that you should always put team sports as hobbies in your resumes. The rationale is that if you like team sports, you are a good team-player, and if you like individual sports, you don't play well with others.
I always wonder if I should be honest and put 'Taekwondo' down as my hobby. I mean, not only am I not a team-player, but I also enjoy beating my teammates up. Oh my.
OMG, that FAQ looks like it was written by someone who failed English in first grade. It is truly embarrassing for Open Source projects to have such blatant disregard for even the basic spelling and grammar proudly displayed on their webpages. I thought I'd seen it all, but 'compatablity'? 'Stablity'? 'There are are alot'??? Please guys, at least you could ask a 13-year old to proofread it.
Yout taught them how to use VS6, then switched them over to KDevelop (which version, BTW?) and you wonder that they were confused?
How about teaching them how to program using KDevelop, switching them to Visual Studio and noticing the problems they encounter. You truly are objective here.
Well, if you need to flash your bios in order to experiment with Linux, I think nobody but some hardcore geeks will use it. You could also kiss dual-booting goodbye.
Besides, MS did a pilot, and learned from it. Don't underestimate their EVIL!:)
yes, but what you might get is that the PCs with normal BIOS get branded as 'Professional' and cost an arm and a leg. Imagine if you couldn't run Linux on an Athlon64, but had to buy an Opteron.
Not really surprising. Microsoft will need some support from the BIOS to implement their DRM 'features'. I wonder how much this will impact Linux and other free systems. After all, MS now have enough XBox experience to ensure that only their operating system can be run.
I have a bad feeling that one day we might have 'consumer-oriented' windows computers which will be cheaper and will only run Windows...
Once again, I ask why was it such an offense to KDE to modify KDE?
Because the 'modified' version of Gnome worked great, whereas the modified version of KDE was crap. RedHat gave their users an option of using the Gnome default (where everything worked great), or the KDE alternative (where everything took three times longer to start because the proper libraries weren't being loaded, where the most important parts of KDE were not present...)
The point is that the RedHat version of KDE was inferior in every way to the vanilla version and KDE developers didn't like that kind of 'support'. It's not about desktop themes, you know.
Japan (especially Tokyo) has a very lively hardcore/speedcore scene, if you're into that sort of stuff. I've recently seen a band called 'Melt Banana' and they were bloody mental. Also, if you're into minimalism, check out 'The Ruins'. Others have already recommended 'Shonen Knife', might want to look into 'The Boredoms' as well.
If all you've heard was J-Pop, this stuff will come as a bit of a surprise:) Hardcore shit:)
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Lies.
Qt is triple licensed: Commercial, QPL and GPL. GPL is for GPL-software, QPL is compatible with ALL OTHER OSS LICENSES and commercial is for everything else.
BTW, Adobe is a Trolltech customer and they use Qt for some of their products. Nice troll, though.
Several people have posted about this already. It's possible, but not yet a walk in the park. Head over to dot.kde.org for some useful links.
Bingo. That's the reason that the KOffice people have stated repeatedly on their mailing lists.
To add to that, though, libwv2 is being used by KWord and Abiword and developed jointly, which is another great example of Open Source cooperation.
Calling frame-based page layout a nifty/hackerish feature built on top of a word-processor is a bit like calling 3d modelling a nifty/hackerish feature built on top of an image manipulation program. E.g.:
"I think that the GIMP people have right approach in getting the basic photo processing done first before adding the nifty 3d modelling capability of Autocad. I mean, Autocad is useless for touching up my photo album."
Frame-based layout and text-based word processing are different paradigms and they are design decisions made at the beginning of a project and not tacked on in the middle of it.
There is an Aqua port (if you count running on native Qt/Mac), and the Dot reported on it. There is an article about it in eWeek. You can even get the binaries on the kde.opendarwin.org page.
Sure, it's a bit rough around the edges, but it is certainly coming along nicely!
Actually, Apple is giving back all their improvements to the KHTML team. Safari is really nothing but a thin container for the KHTML engine. So Linux certainly has an Apple-quality browser and that doesn't seem to concern Apple. Why wouldn't they allow Linux to have an Apple-quality office suite, especially when KOffice is better than AppleWorks?
Of course you need to buy a license for MS application development. You need to buy Visual Studio and a copy of Windows. Whether it's commercial development or not.
KOffice runs natively on OSX (without the X server), so that's not a problem.
On the other hand, to run it on Windows, you do need an X server. I've read recently on a Qt-KDE compatibility layer which translates KDE apps to pure Qt apps, and people are using it to port KDE applications to Windows. Maybe something like this will happen for KOffice too?
I prefer OO's Impress to Powerpoint. Surely, it doesn't have as many gimmicks, but when I sat in front of it, I was capable of putting out a decent presentation in quite a short time. With Powerpoint, it's always been a struggle for me.
Well, since KWord has been using XML for word processor file format since forever, I don't think that they can claim ownership over all XML-based format, only their own.
Well, the OO.o and KOffice people are working toward a single file format, which will be shared between them, and hopefully become the next standard, cross-office-suite format. The KOffice people are currently working on adopting this format as their native format.
The result of this will be that all open source office suites (and all office suites who wish so) will be able to seamlessly open each others' documents. This is a step in the right direction: You standardise on the file format and choose the tools freely. More information at the OpenOffice XML page.
This will also bring all the OpenOffice import filters to KOffice, which has so far been its biggest problem. For most light office work, I find KOffice to be much more enjoyable than OO.
The q3 level designer (GTKRadiant) is not terribly easy to learn, but not very difficult either. If you have a good understanding of 3d space concepts, and don't mind reading through the manual, you can get going in a couple of days.
:). You get loads of feedback on where the bugs are an where to put weapons/powerups and similar.
Something I would suggest to an aspiring mapper is to map something your friends will want to test (like a dorm building or similar). I managed to throw together a q3 map of our dorm (in about a week of blood and tears) and the thing was an instant hit
Then, once you have the basic skills down, start thinking about gameplay, layout and similar.
I think that if you are looking for a very balanced mod, you should check out CPMA for Quake3. These guys have been tweaking the gameplay for absolutely years and the demos from the competitions are absolutely mindblowing as far as speed, tactics and pure skill are concerned. The downside is that it has a scarily steep learning curve.
Of particular interest for an aspiring mapper is their mapping forum where they playtest and discuss the latest maps. Some extremely talented mappers there, who aren't only interested in looks, but carefully consider every aspect of gameplay for a map. If you're interested in level design, you should certainly read through that forum and test the maps discussed there to get a feel for what is important and how to improve your mapping!
I'm not sure that would fly. I think that would certainly go against international law.
You know what I would like to see ... is that Microsoft just pull all copies out of all of Europe and then let Europe experience the horror of trying to use Linux. Sure Linux is good for us nerds, but lets see how much of an uprise there is when the internet market in Europe takes a dive because the mom and pop shops can no longer use the ineternet to place orders and mom and dad can no longer buy their goods off line because they can't figure out how to launch the internet browser.
I think that would be the best thing for Europe. Many tech companies in Europe have more than enough Linux expertise to make that happen. The online retailers whose websites are braindead enough not to work in a proper browser would go bankrupt and those who know their business (i.e. HTML) would prosper. The computer companies who cannot preinstall Linux on a computer would die, and those who know how to do it would prosper. It would weed out the crap quasi-tech companies and leave us with the good ones.
One 'conventional wisdom' that I like is that you should always put team sports as hobbies in your resumes. The rationale is that if you like team sports, you are a good team-player, and if you like individual sports, you don't play well with others.
I always wonder if I should be honest and put 'Taekwondo' down as my hobby. I mean, not only am I not a team-player, but I also enjoy beating my teammates up. Oh my.
OMG, that FAQ looks like it was written by someone who failed English in first grade. It is truly embarrassing for Open Source projects to have such blatant disregard for even the basic spelling and grammar proudly displayed on their webpages. I thought I'd seen it all, but 'compatablity'? 'Stablity'? 'There are are alot'??? Please guys, at least you could ask a 13-year old to proofread it.
Yout taught them how to use VS6, then switched them over to KDevelop (which version, BTW?) and you wonder that they were confused?
How about teaching them how to program using KDevelop, switching them to Visual Studio and noticing the problems they encounter. You truly are objective here.
Bet you couldn't buy one for 200 EUR, though.
Well, if you need to flash your bios in order to experiment with Linux, I think nobody but some hardcore geeks will use it. You could also kiss dual-booting goodbye.
:)
Besides, MS did a pilot, and learned from it. Don't underestimate their EVIL!
Yeah, these new times are not as exciting as before... Why, I remember when I first got my 386, that was a revolution, 32 bits.........;-)
As for me, I'm very excited about x86-64. Actually, with these new Athlon64 3000+ babies, I will probably buy one.
yes, but what you might get is that the PCs with normal BIOS get branded as 'Professional' and cost an arm and a leg. Imagine if you couldn't run Linux on an Athlon64, but had to buy an Opteron.
Not really surprising. Microsoft will need some support from the BIOS to implement their DRM 'features'. I wonder how much this will impact Linux and other free systems. After all, MS now have enough XBox experience to ensure that only their operating system can be run.
I have a bad feeling that one day we might have 'consumer-oriented' windows computers which will be cheaper and will only run Windows...
Let's see...
AMD vs Intel: check
Who needs 64bits?: check
Knock on Itanium: check
Quantum computing: check
Computers not as exciting as they used to be: check
Dude, that's like the archetypical Slashdot post, all in three lines. Respect!
Once again, I ask why was it such an offense to KDE to modify KDE?
Because the 'modified' version of Gnome worked great, whereas the modified version of KDE was crap. RedHat gave their users an option of using the Gnome default (where everything worked great), or the KDE alternative (where everything took three times longer to start because the proper libraries weren't being loaded, where the most important parts of KDE were not present...)
The point is that the RedHat version of KDE was inferior in every way to the vanilla version and KDE developers didn't like that kind of 'support'. It's not about desktop themes, you know.
Japan (especially Tokyo) has a very lively hardcore/speedcore scene, if you're into that sort of stuff. I've recently seen a band called 'Melt Banana' and they were bloody mental. Also, if you're into minimalism, check out 'The Ruins'. Others have already recommended 'Shonen Knife', might want to look into 'The Boredoms' as well.
:) Hardcore shit :)
If all you've heard was J-Pop, this stuff will come as a bit of a surprise