The number of children per woman in Pakistan has decreased rapidly in the last decades to now around 3 children per woman (2.3 is required for population to just be static in the long run). The only reason the population still grows is many children growing up and having (on average 2-3) kids of their own. There is no statistic link between religion and population growth.
Actually, some people seem to come from Germany for health treatments with its universal health care, e.g. the Russian oligarchs, the Saudi and Kuwaitis and all these poor people. As non-citizens, they generally do pay for their treatment, but they can't be that unhappy or they would not come here. I can assure you, I have more trust in the German universal health-care system than I have in the US system.
As far as I can tell with a quick google search, no vascular plant grows below 0C. And biomass growth below 5C is minimal. So this is not correct, unless you mean algae or something like it.
libreoffice is written in C++. There are some JAVA plugins, but they do not relate to the GUI. I find libreoffice quit snappy, but format conversion to word is lossy and some features (e.g. track changes) are not as mature as in MS word. MS Word on the other hand is a nightmare that everyone has gotten accustomed to.
Kimpanel: another try to workaround kimpanel window not getting updated issue.
This was really the most annoying and persisiten bug that I can recall - panel would not get updated if using nvidia binaries and there was a full-screen app (i.e. game) in the background. I hope it is fixed!
Not just use the same recent file method as firefox and gnome and I will donate 100 EUR to the developer who does it, that is the last thing that really annoys me.
PII is an American legal term - in the US there is hardly any privacy on the internet. US companies are free to collect IP addresses for US citizens
In the EU and relating to EU citizens, "personal data" is any data that relates to an identified or identifiable individual. An IP address does constitute "personal data" under EU law, if there is a legal means to find out who the IP address belongs to. See http://www.whitecase.com/publi... for details.
Interesting how many people can write but not read.
There is no contradiction with 690 people checking in and 800 people's work - I consider myself a contributor, because I test, report back make bug reports and triage bugs reported by other. But I did not check in any code into KDE since 1999....
So you are forgetting the work of translators, UI testers, bug reporters and other contributors, who contribute but do not check in.
The main problem seems to be the Radon gas, which as radioactive gas can not be filtered out. Radiation levels near coal plants are higher than near atomic plants.
Some links: http://www.stormingmedia.us/76/7636/A76360 3.html http://www.lenntech.com/Periodic-chart-ele ments/Rn -en.htm
Especially http://greenwood.cr.usgs.gov/energy/factshts/163-9 7/FS-163-97.html looks good.
> There may be an element of truth in this since Americans need good teeth to consume the amount > of food they do but I haven't actually studied this correlation.
Really? I think most American food can easily be consumed without feet. Ground meat, soft bread, slimy cheese without taste (often not made from milk, too), fruits ground to pulp, everything overcooked and laced with cream, guacomole and most important extra cheese.
One serving for an American is enough for two Europeans or probably three Africans.
The teeth are only there to show your wealth. Look at all teh hollywood stars with their ceramic blended smiles... Spooky...
kdeinit takes more time the FIRST time after KDE is installed (or updated) because it (re)builds the ksycocache (the binary configuration database that lets gregistry=gconf look awkward). After that kdeinit takes no more than 3 or 4 seconds max on my Athlon-600MHz.
I don't know rox very well, it is not in Debian. Isn't rox done in gtk? And is rox not a FILEMANAGER? Probably the session management of your WM reloaded all the gnome processes in the background.
> However KDE is cluttered and there is no central document that KDE developers can refer to > in order to achieve proper usability.
KDE usability is comparable to (if not IMNSHO better than) GNOME usability for several reasons.
The technical framework of KDE is a lot more advanced than the GNOME stuff. Many things in the GNOME HIG are simply coded into the basic libraries of kdelibs and qt. Therefore ALL KDE apps follow the same look and feel automatically. In GNOME, a developer has to follow the HIG manually.
Also the GNOME team has at times been arrogant and has ignored normal users' requests. Spatial browser mode, crippling configuration options.
Some GNOME app developers (Ximian) just love Microsoft apps and copy them down to the last mistake. (Evolution)
Finally there is and has been for over 5 years the KDE style guide, which has always been the central reference for all usability questions in KDE. It predates the praised GNOME HIG by two or more years.
If you are interested look here: http://developer.kde.org/documentation/stan dards/k de/style/basics/
>... complaining about Gnome's slowness, I'm gonna be confused. Wait, I'm confused already.
You are confused. Evidence:
> EVERYTHING about KDE and Qt is slow. One of > Gnome's plusses is that Gtk is very snappy- and > so therefore is Gnome.
Well at least gnome terminal sucks donkey balls. I have started it in icewm (neither KDE nor GNOME preloaded) and it took 25 sec to start! For a terminal! konsole took 5 seconds. (This is an old Athlon 600 MHz)
The best thing about gtk apps is that you can use the gtk-qt theme, which gives those apps the refined KDE look. See here http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/gtk-qt
konqueror is not integrated into the desktop in the way Internet Explorer is integrated into the Windows OS. It makes use of the KDE infrastructure, but even if you use KDE, you can easily deinstall konqueror.
E.g. in Debian I type "apt-get remove konqueror" and I won't see konqueror ever again. I can still use all of KDE and enjoy the web with mozilla, opera, whatever. [I prefer konqueror to opera and mozilla-firefox, though. ATM I prefer mozilla-thunderbird to kmail due to easier IMAP spam filtering]
There are no similarities to the IE/Windows chimera, where upgrading the OS requires the browser and where there is no clear separation between apps and OS infrastructure and data.
Interestingly enough, the version of OO I have on windows does do a much better job opening MS than my Linux box does. Same version too. So I imagine it may take some configuring.
Many people do not install the MS Fonts from Office on their Linux machines and then wonder why their documents look different....
If you install the MS fonts in Linux, OOo will work as good for 95 % of all text documents as any version of MSO.
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I just add the acpi-DSDT-initrd patch, because my IBM Thinkpad R31 has a BROKEN BIOS. And IBM won't do a fscking thing about it. So I have to fix it myself.
Unfortunately the linux-2.6.1 kernel is still broken, the mousepointer is having fits, whenever the temperature or battery are monitored via ACPI. Still waiting.....
Well, that makes sense. Once you decide to make a free product, you can not go back to commercial. Just like you can't seriously switch linux back to a "commercial" mode from GPL. I admit that a dual license is not possible.
The pisser with the Qt license is that a project must decide before writing the first line of code which license they plan to release under and you can't change your mind later. You can't dual license either. And if you opt for free you can never port to an unfree system.
Why? YOu can always use a commercial qt license and release your code under any license you wish. It's your code after all. You can even modify the commercial qt and ship the modfified qt with your closed source product. Also you can use GPL code on MacOSX, EMbedded, all Unix/Linux and Windows using X+Cygwin. Which is pretty much 100 % of all relevant OS.
The KDE camp still refuse to admit they made an unholy alliance with the devil and will forever be damned for it. The GNOME camp saved the Free Software world by realizing the danger and running balls to the wall to quickly organize themselves and catch up close enough to KDE/Qt to prevent it from ever becoming a defacto standard.
The Gnome camp should be thanked for making TrollTech give us qt under the linux license GPL. Mission accomplished, I'd say. Of course, if Miguel de Icaza had worked on Harmony, the free qt replacement instead of using the gimp motif ripoff toolkit in C with OO latched on top to code a crappy second Desktop environment, we would also have just KDE today, using Qt under GPL as well.
GNOME has produced some nice software, but without dotcom money, it probably won't be able to keep up with the technically superior QT/KDE system. Basing the so-called "user"-linux on Redhat's and Ximian's GNOME and excluding Qt/KDE is a waste of everyone's time.
GNOME is a great motivator for KDE. By insulting the efforts of KDE, people who love KDE get motivated.
GNOME made Trolltech release the QT under the best of all free software licences: the Great Public Licence (GPL).
GNOME provides a lower initial cost, lower quality alternative to companies
not wanting to code their GUI apps as open source
not being profitable enough to afford an initial investment in better tools.
This keeps the costs of Qt for commercial closed source companies reasonable.
GNOME provides a way to code GUI applications in the older C language for developers unwilling to adapt newer languages.
Did I forget something? Anyways, good that it exists, but KDE/Qt is a lot better. Thanks for chasing KDE to perfection and providing a backup in case KDE moves in the wrong direction.
Hmm, just a few things I miss in GNOME, whenever I try it.
Is written in an OO-language. Fewer developers achieve more. Consistency is much easier to achieve in KDE than in GNOME.
kwin is much more powerful than metacity.
kioslaves are used everywhere.
All relevant apps are scriptable using DCOP. You can control KDE from a bash prompt.
Toolkit is faster and available commercially but natively for MacOsX and Win32.
Much better integration of all applications.
Has a scanning framework for all apps (kooka).
Has an extremely powerful and helpful printing system on top of CUPS (and also lpr,...) kdeprint rules. It is easier to add (network, usb, parallel, port) printers in KDE than in Windows.
Has a desktop wide encryption scheme used by all KDE apps.
Has a desktop wide addressbook used consistently by all KDE apps.
Has a GUI to configure all details of the desktop.
Every single feature can be locked, overridden and set centrally for users using the incredible KIOSK system. Don't want users to change the background? Lock the settings. It's easier than changing the bash prompt.
Uh, I hate stupidty: Here is my translation to English:
"I downloaded OpenOffice 1.0.2, which is a year old by now. I used it for a couple of months. It "worked great".
Then, after 3-4 months without problems, I switched back to MS Office. The problems began. I noticed that MS Office has weird errors with excel files produced by other software. Then I noticed that MS Word has a problem with bullet points in OpenOffice-1.0 documents saved as word file. I did then not use OpenOffice-1.1, where all these bugs of MSOffice have been worked around, but I decided to STAY with Microsoft Office. In fact I won't use anything else in the future.
No I've got work to do and don't have time for nonsense. BTW, I still have time to post to slashdot.
For the record, I don't know how to use Macros, just Excel and formatting. This is all on Windows98."
GNOME/Sun simplifies it's offering - one size fits all - a lot of configuration is not even possible by GUI anymore. Let's hope the users never discover gconf though. We had this in MS Windows-3.11.
KDE on the other hand gives the administrator the Kiosk mode. You can simply lock down any user setting. Thus removing administration hassles by user changes, while at the same time keeping all the great flexibilty differnt user (groups) nees. If Sun had been smart, they would have offered a KDE desktop with a locked down default user profile.
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My original source is this highly recommended and entertaining Ted Talk youtube video from Hans Gosling - "Religions and Babies".
https://www.google.com/url?sa=...
The number of children per woman in Pakistan has decreased rapidly in the last decades to now around 3 children per woman (2.3 is required for population to just be static in the long run). The only reason the population still grows is many children growing up and having (on average 2-3) kids of their own. There is no statistic link between religion and population growth.
See here: https://www.google.com/publicd...
Or if you do only trust the US, check the CIA:
https://www.cia.gov/library/pu...
Actually, some people seem to come from Germany for health treatments with its universal health care, e.g. the Russian oligarchs, the Saudi and Kuwaitis and all these poor people. As non-citizens, they generally do pay for their treatment, but they can't be that unhappy or they would not come here. I can assure you, I have more trust in the German universal health-care system than I have in the US system.
I recommend bitwarden - works like Lastpass, only free and even free software and you can run your own servers if you want.
As far as I can tell with a quick google search, no vascular plant grows below 0C. And biomass growth below 5C is minimal. So this is not correct, unless you mean algae or something like it.
You are not correct:
libreoffice is written in C++. There are some JAVA plugins, but they do not relate to the GUI. I find libreoffice quit snappy, but format conversion to word is lossy and some features (e.g. track changes) are not as mature as in MS word. MS Word on the other hand is a nightmare that everyone has gotten accustomed to.
Kimpanel: another try to workaround kimpanel window not getting updated issue.
This was really the most annoying and persisiten bug that I can recall - panel would not get updated if using nvidia binaries and there was a full-screen app (i.e. game) in the background. I hope it is fixed!
Not just use the same recent file method as firefox and gnome and I will donate 100 EUR to the developer who does it, that is the last thing that really annoys me.
PII is an American legal term - in the US there is hardly any privacy on the internet. US companies are free to collect IP addresses for US citizens
In the EU and relating to EU citizens, "personal data" is any data that relates to an identified or identifiable individual. An IP address does constitute "personal data" under EU law, if there is a legal means to find out who the IP address belongs to. See
http://www.whitecase.com/publi... for details.
Interesting how many people can write but not read.
There is no contradiction with 690 people checking in and 800 people's work - I consider myself a contributor, because I test, report back make bug reports and triage bugs reported by other. But I did not check in any code into KDE since 1999....
So you are forgetting the work of translators, UI testers, bug reporters and other contributors, who contribute but do not check in.
The main problem seems to be the Radon gas, which as radioactive gas can not be filtered out. Radiation levels near coal plants are higher than near atomic plants.
0 3.htmle ments/Rn -en.htm
9 7/FS-163-97.html looks good.
Some links:
http://www.stormingmedia.us/76/7636/A7636
http://www.lenntech.com/Periodic-chart-el
Especially http://greenwood.cr.usgs.gov/energy/factshts/163-
> There may be an element of truth in this since Americans need good teeth to consume the amount
> of food they do but I haven't actually studied this correlation.
Really? I think most American food can easily be consumed without feet. Ground meat, soft bread, slimy cheese without taste (often not made from milk, too), fruits ground to pulp, everything overcooked and laced with cream, guacomole and most important extra cheese.
One serving for an American is enough for two Europeans or probably three Africans.
The teeth are only there to show your wealth. Look at all teh hollywood stars with their ceramic blended smiles... Spooky...
kdeinit takes more time the FIRST time after KDE is installed (or updated) because it (re)builds the ksycocache (the binary configuration database that lets gregistry=gconf look awkward). After that kdeinit takes no more than 3 or 4 seconds max on my Athlon-600MHz.
I don't know rox very well, it is not in Debian. Isn't rox done in gtk? And is rox not a FILEMANAGER? Probably the session management of your WM reloaded all the gnome processes in the background.
> However KDE is cluttered and there is no central document that KDE developers can refer to
n dards/k de/style/basics/
> in order to achieve proper usability.
KDE usability is comparable to (if not IMNSHO better than) GNOME usability for several reasons.
The technical framework of KDE is a lot more advanced than the GNOME stuff. Many things in the GNOME HIG are simply coded into the basic libraries of kdelibs and qt. Therefore ALL KDE apps follow the same look and feel automatically. In GNOME, a developer has to follow the HIG manually.
Also the GNOME team has at times been arrogant and has ignored normal users' requests. Spatial browser mode, crippling configuration options.
Some GNOME app developers (Ximian) just love Microsoft apps and copy them down to the last mistake. (Evolution)
Finally there is and has been for over 5 years the KDE style guide, which has always been the central reference for all usability questions in KDE. It predates the praised GNOME HIG by two or more years.
If you are interested look here:
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/sta
> ... complaining about Gnome's slowness, I'm gonna be confused. Wait, I'm confused already.
You are confused. Evidence:
> EVERYTHING about KDE and Qt is slow. One of
> Gnome's plusses is that Gtk is very snappy- and > so therefore is Gnome.
Well at least gnome terminal sucks donkey balls. I have started it in icewm (neither KDE nor GNOME preloaded) and it took 25 sec to start! For a terminal! konsole took 5 seconds. (This is an old Athlon 600 MHz)
The best thing about gtk apps is that you can use
the gtk-qt theme, which gives those apps the refined KDE look.
See here http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/gtk-qt
Sorry...
Many people writing bad things about KDE or raising doubt about it are following an agenda.
konqueror is not integrated into the desktop in the way Internet Explorer is integrated into the Windows OS. It makes use of the KDE infrastructure, but even if you use KDE, you can easily deinstall konqueror.
E.g. in Debian I type "apt-get remove konqueror" and I won't see konqueror ever again. I can still use all of KDE and enjoy the web with mozilla, opera, whatever. [I prefer konqueror to opera and mozilla-firefox, though. ATM I prefer mozilla-thunderbird to kmail due to easier IMAP spam filtering]
There are no similarities to the IE/Windows chimera, where upgrading the OS requires the browser and where there is no clear separation between apps and OS infrastructure and data.
I have stopped playing computer games and my life is better and fuller now. Really.
And I have played games excessively for more than 20 years. Until it cost me a woman which I loved very much.
The games we can play with the other sex are more fun and more meaningful in the end. Don't try to convince your girl to play, stop playing yourself.
Many people do not install the MS Fonts from Office on their Linux machines and then wonder why their documents look different....
If you install the MS fonts in Linux, OOo will work as good for 95 % of all text documents as any version of MSO.
Unfortunately the linux-2.6.1 kernel is still broken, the mousepointer is having fits, whenever the temperature or battery are monitored via ACPI. Still waiting.....
Well, that makes sense. Once you decide to make a free product, you can not go back to commercial. Just like you can't seriously switch linux back to a "commercial" mode from GPL. I admit that a dual license is not possible.
Why? YOu can always use a commercial qt license and release your code under any license you wish. It's your code after all. You can even modify the commercial qt and ship the modfified qt with your closed source product. Also you can use GPL code on MacOSX, EMbedded, all Unix/Linux and Windows using X+Cygwin. Which is pretty much 100 % of all relevant OS.
The KDE camp still refuse to admit they made an unholy alliance with the devil and will forever be damned for it. The GNOME camp saved the Free Software world by realizing the danger and running balls to the wall to quickly organize themselves and catch up close enough to KDE/Qt to prevent it from ever becoming a defacto standard.
The Gnome camp should be thanked for making TrollTech give us qt under the linux license GPL. Mission accomplished, I'd say. Of course, if Miguel de Icaza had worked on Harmony, the free qt replacement instead of using the gimp motif ripoff toolkit in C with OO latched on top to code a crappy second Desktop environment, we would also have just KDE today, using Qt under GPL as well.
GNOME has produced some nice software, but without dotcom money, it probably won't be able to keep up with the technically superior QT/KDE system. Basing the so-called "user"-linux on Redhat's and Ximian's GNOME and excluding Qt/KDE is a waste of everyone's time.
GNOME made Trolltech release the QT under the best of all free software licences: the Great Public Licence (GPL).
GNOME provides a lower initial cost, lower quality alternative to companies
- not wanting to code their GUI apps as open source
- not being profitable enough to afford an initial investment in better tools.
This keeps the costs of Qt for commercial closed source companies reasonable.GNOME provides a way to code GUI applications in the older C language for developers unwilling to adapt newer languages. Did I forget something? Anyways, good that it exists, but KDE/Qt is a lot better. Thanks for chasing KDE to perfection and providing a backup in case KDE moves in the wrong direction.
Hmm, just a few things I miss in GNOME, whenever I try it.
Is written in an OO-language. Fewer developers achieve more. Consistency is much easier to achieve in KDE than in GNOME.
kwin is much more powerful than metacity.
kioslaves are used everywhere.
All relevant apps are scriptable using DCOP. You can control KDE from a bash prompt.
Toolkit is faster and available commercially but natively for MacOsX and Win32.
Much better integration of all applications.
Has a scanning framework for all apps (kooka).
Has an extremely powerful and helpful printing system on top of CUPS (and also lpr,...) kdeprint rules. It is easier to add (network, usb, parallel, port) printers in KDE than in Windows.
Has a desktop wide encryption scheme used by all KDE apps.
Has a desktop wide addressbook used consistently by all KDE apps.
Has a GUI to configure all details of the desktop.
Every single feature can be locked, overridden and set centrally for users using the incredible KIOSK system. Don't want users to change the background? Lock the settings. It's easier than changing the bash prompt.
Uh, I hate stupidty: Here is my translation to English:
"I downloaded OpenOffice 1.0.2, which is a year old by now. I used it for a couple of months. It "worked great".
Then, after 3-4 months without problems, I switched back to MS Office. The problems began. I noticed that MS Office has weird errors with excel files produced by other software. Then I noticed that MS Word has a problem with bullet points in OpenOffice-1.0 documents saved as word file. I did then not use OpenOffice-1.1, where all these bugs of MSOffice have been worked around, but I decided to STAY with Microsoft Office. In fact I won't use anything else in the future.
No I've got work to do and don't have time for nonsense. BTW, I still have time to post to slashdot.
For the record, I don't know how to use Macros, just Excel and formatting. This is all on Windows98."
KDE on the other hand gives the administrator the Kiosk mode. You can simply lock down any user setting. Thus removing administration hassles by user changes, while at the same time keeping all the great flexibilty differnt user (groups) nees. If Sun had been smart, they would have offered a KDE desktop with a locked down default user profile.
For an explanation and tutorial of Kiosk look here.