It may well be there, but there's also a marginalization of Qt/KDE by some of the largest distros (perhaps with that canard). If you look at the companies backing them, you'll see many @bigco addresses on the GNOME-related software teams and many, many fewer working on KDE. So I think some of it is simply NIH, but perhaps with a business strategy aspect of, "Who is Digia and why should BigCo be dependent on them when we have an alternative we control, even if it's not as good?" That question may have even had more merit under Nokia, especially when it was taken over by Microsoft (oh, did I say that out loud?).
Even if it's a false dilemma, it probably keeps many people working on the projects they like inside their comfort zone. Big choices can be made on merit, but there are sometimes humans involved who apply criteria without pure impartiality. Sometimes these bigco's pick a technology horse, and boy do they stick with it until it needs to be brought out back and shot. Qt/KDE is definitely not alone in that regard!
They should really read up on the US media, which knows that most stories aren't worth following after a week and no story, no matter how important, is worth more than two weeks' attention, unless, and only unless it involves a court trial, violence (preferably interracial) and systematically-reinforced emotion.
Our leaders, the smartest of the smart, have judged this formula to be good for society.
Of course that would probably result in considerable unpleasantness.
The unpleasantness goes back decades. Look, here's a Slashdot story about the EU investigating it from 1998.
This time around they learned that NSA/CIA is spying on their governments, not just their citizens. That's what they're really tweaked about. They've been complicit in spying on their citizens all along - that's what the 'data sharing' agreements are for.
This is just self-appointed elites getting mad at other self-appointed elites for doing to each other what they do to everybody else. You can put the US or the EU in either the subject or the object there and it still works just fine.
What Snowden did is get the elites' press talking about the extant unpleasantness - fifteen years after the alternate press.
Re:And it's still not as good as Ubuntu or Debian.
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There is several how to because everybody has a different view on what to use
There doesn't need to be a single solution for any of these, but having all the setup be manual doesn't help most users. That's why we went with deb/rpm in the first place.
As far as the choices - all of my clients just tell me "make me a mailserver". They don't choose the specs, they tell me the requirements and I choose the specs. Frankly most people don't care why underlies their tools, for better or worse. Of the hundreds or thousands of packages I use, I can say I've only studied the.specs of dozens of them, so at a certain level apparently I don't care either.
When did you last time see a pretty woman doing great things like that?
My goodness, did you go to college? Work anywhere that had employees? I've been in classes with, studied under, and worked with numerous gorgeous women. From that subset of classmates, many are doing great things today.
If you need an example from the famous super-genius echelon, the one that comes to mind most immediately would be Lisa Randall, though frankly it's the sapiosexual qualities that do it for me.
than a handful of irrelevant people who made a pretty website and metioned the Raspberry Pi
Hey, when I read this I thought, "oh, look, something useful to do with those buggy-as-shit RPi's I got conned into buying," and then I went and read their site:
Optional: USB sound card for better quality (the integrated sound card on the Raspberry Pi has an annoying crackle bug)
Dude, in a few years she'll be doing great things and you'll still be living in your parents' basement wishing you had an organic girlfriend.
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They're both fine. What's more surprising to me is that both of them have completely missed the functionality that puppet, cfengine, et. al. provide.
It used to be that distros would adopt and integrate such functionality. So many of the Fedora 'spins' could simply be expressed as a puppet script. Having a well-supported "make me a mailserver" etc. would be great too.
they're stopping him travelling full stop by revoking his passport
Let's be perfectly clear - it's the other countries who are stopping him from traveling without a passport. Why can't he leave Russia for Cuba or Venezuela? They're just as complicit in the UDHR violations.
yeah, the conventional wisdom is that NSA improved the S-boxes in Lucifer, and at the time nobody quite understood why. Academic cryptographers later understood why and this sort of led to a ghetto legend that NSA people were mentats who were far advanced from academia. The more likely explanation is that in the mid-70's, when crypto CS was relatively new, that the people who held such interests gravitated to the NSA because that's where the opportunities were. NSA likely had somebody on staff who had studied substitution ciphers, perhaps done a PhD paper on it.
Now there are commercial and academic opportunities for cryptographers, and while still courted by the NSA, Will Hunting has had his influence.
You can also do smart things you can't do with ICE, like putting the motors right in the wheels. IIRC Goodyear's patent on that, which has been holding back the industry for at least a decade, is due to expire next year.
There are transmission losses in electrics, transport losses in fuels, and transfer losses in transmissions. Certainly many trade-offs that need to be weighed and it's all going to depend on the specific implementations.
This has got be the third dumbest idea Microsoft has had in the last decade
Hey, as someone who competes against proprietary solutions (including Microsoft) with Free Software solutions, I wholeheartedly endorse this change!
What I frequently see is businesses that hire a developer to code a solution, and that developer has Technet, so he chooses whatever technology he thinks is best on there, and then when the customer gets ready to deploy it, they find a chain of Microsoft dependencies that all need licensing and CAL's, and often get roped into a software maintenance agreement for 5+digits over their initial cost estimate. Often it gets big enough to require new hardware and a virtualization solution too.
I get "second-opinion" work from them, but it's often too late to do anything else. I've heard of some (that I don't work with) who 'just get Technet' too.
If there's a silver lining, it's that I often get first-crack at the next project. But either way, this is a great decision on Microsoft's part as far as I'm concerned!
It's called money management. You don't go and burn it all as soon as you get paid.
The current statistic is that 70% of the people in the US do. Wages are flat, taxes continue to increase, and prices are skyrocketing (despite the phoney numbers from BLS).
The check cashing services are also closely allied with the pay day loan services that charge interests that work out to something like 240% on annualized basis.
Except they're not intended to be used on an annualized basis. If a loan of $100 is made for 30 days, what is the proper fee to charge? 240% would be $20.
It costs money to process these transactions.
Correct. What is the proper fee on a $100 30-day loan? Count teller time, paperwork processing costs, non-repayment losses, and a profit that can keep the business open.
It is not as much as the banks charge as fees and the fees can be unreasonably high.
A bounced check can easily be $30 overdraft + $40 returned check fee at a bank.
But still that is not as bad as what these check cashing services charge.
oh?
Please educate yourself about the plight of the poor at the hands of check cashing services on one hand, checking account with fees on the other hand
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the paranoia is unwarranted, but it still exists.
It may well be there, but there's also a marginalization of Qt/KDE by some of the largest distros (perhaps with that canard). If you look at the companies backing them, you'll see many @bigco addresses on the GNOME-related software teams and many, many fewer working on KDE. So I think some of it is simply NIH, but perhaps with a business strategy aspect of, "Who is Digia and why should BigCo be dependent on them when we have an alternative we control, even if it's not as good?" That question may have even had more merit under Nokia, especially when it was taken over by Microsoft (oh, did I say that out loud?).
Even if it's a false dilemma, it probably keeps many people working on the projects they like inside their comfort zone. Big choices can be made on merit, but there are sometimes humans involved who apply criteria without pure impartiality. Sometimes these bigco's pick a technology horse, and boy do they stick with it until it needs to be brought out back and shot. Qt/KDE is definitely not alone in that regard!
Who used LessTif?
Everybody who didn't want to pay for Motif, for whatever reason
Sadly, by time it get really compatible it was mostly obsolete.
GTK was invented by the GIMP guys (early versions used Motif)
I bet most linux GIMP users were *not* linking against commercial Motif.
"Who's the more fool - the fool or the fool who follows him?" - Ben Kenobi
They should really read up on the US media, which knows that most stories aren't worth following after a week and no story, no matter how important, is worth more than two weeks' attention, unless, and only unless it involves a court trial, violence (preferably interracial) and systematically-reinforced emotion.
Our leaders, the smartest of the smart, have judged this formula to be good for society.
If this thing works, it's going to be a new Turing Test, judging by the number of posts here that simply state: "Whoosh!"
At least the chicken chain is probably less likely to lawyer up than the fiction author.
they've mainly demonstrated that they AREN'T a popular choice
Yet 99.995% of the population will never read this article or hear about this.
It's hard for me to understand why the state department even cares if people visit their page or not.
Propaganda always sells itself as the popular choice.
Of course that would probably result in considerable unpleasantness.
The unpleasantness goes back decades. Look, here's a Slashdot story about the EU investigating it from 1998.
This time around they learned that NSA/CIA is spying on their governments, not just their citizens. That's what they're really tweaked about. They've been complicit in spying on their citizens all along - that's what the 'data sharing' agreements are for.
This is just self-appointed elites getting mad at other self-appointed elites for doing to each other what they do to everybody else. You can put the US or the EU in either the subject or the object there and it still works just fine.
What Snowden did is get the elites' press talking about the extant unpleasantness - fifteen years after the alternate press.
There is several how to because everybody has a different view on what to use
There doesn't need to be a single solution for any of these, but having all the setup be manual doesn't help most users. That's why we went with deb/rpm in the first place.
As far as the choices - all of my clients just tell me "make me a mailserver". They don't choose the specs, they tell me the requirements and I choose the specs. Frankly most people don't care why underlies their tools, for better or worse. Of the hundreds or thousands of packages I use, I can say I've only studied the .specs of dozens of them, so at a certain level apparently I don't care either.
When did you last time see a pretty woman doing great things like that?
My goodness, did you go to college? Work anywhere that had employees? I've been in classes with, studied under, and worked with numerous gorgeous women. From that subset of classmates, many are doing great things today.
If you need an example from the famous super-genius echelon, the one that comes to mind most immediately would be Lisa Randall, though frankly it's the sapiosexual qualities that do it for me.
Management has reached the conclusion that there isn't a management problem.
than a handful of irrelevant people who made a pretty website and metioned the Raspberry Pi
Hey, when I read this I thought, "oh, look, something useful to do with those buggy-as-shit RPi's I got conned into buying," and then I went and read their site:
<cartman>Goddammit!</cartman>
Dude, in a few years she'll be doing great things and you'll still be living in your parents' basement wishing you had an organic girlfriend.
They're both fine. What's more surprising to me is that both of them have completely missed the functionality that puppet, cfengine, et. al. provide.
It used to be that distros would adopt and integrate such functionality. So many of the Fedora 'spins' could simply be expressed as a puppet script. Having a well-supported "make me a mailserver" etc. would be great too.
Your brain no longer functioning properly is not going to be solved by getting a new body, that will happen with age. Go read a science book!
When you replace the neurons one at a time with electronic substitutes (say, as an Alzheimer's treatment), at what point is Grandma no longer Grandma?
The rocket came apart, notably the cargo section, before it crashed. Do you think this was merely due to flight stresses?
If this is hydrazine, I'd guess you'd want to burn as much of it as possible before crashing.
It doesn't matter how much Firefox devs work on "UI sluggishness" if it's a single thing can lock up all input to the browser.
The Gods have smiled and sent the clue-bat flying through MoFo last month, so Electrolysis is back on.
they're stopping him travelling full stop by revoking his passport
Let's be perfectly clear - it's the other countries who are stopping him from traveling without a passport. Why can't he leave Russia for Cuba or Venezuela? They're just as complicit in the UDHR violations.
yeah, the conventional wisdom is that NSA improved the S-boxes in Lucifer, and at the time nobody quite understood why. Academic cryptographers later understood why and this sort of led to a ghetto legend that NSA people were mentats who were far advanced from academia. The more likely explanation is that in the mid-70's, when crypto CS was relatively new, that the people who held such interests gravitated to the NSA because that's where the opportunities were. NSA likely had somebody on staff who had studied substitution ciphers, perhaps done a PhD paper on it.
Now there are commercial and academic opportunities for cryptographers, and while still courted by the NSA, Will Hunting has had his influence.
You can also do smart things you can't do with ICE, like putting the motors right in the wheels. IIRC Goodyear's patent on that, which has been holding back the industry for at least a decade, is due to expire next year.
There are transmission losses in electrics, transport losses in fuels, and transfer losses in transmissions. Certainly many trade-offs that need to be weighed and it's all going to depend on the specific implementations.
This has got be the third dumbest idea Microsoft has had in the last decade
Hey, as someone who competes against proprietary solutions (including Microsoft) with Free Software solutions, I wholeheartedly endorse this change!
What I frequently see is businesses that hire a developer to code a solution, and that developer has Technet, so he chooses whatever technology he thinks is best on there, and then when the customer gets ready to deploy it, they find a chain of Microsoft dependencies that all need licensing and CAL's, and often get roped into a software maintenance agreement for 5+digits over their initial cost estimate. Often it gets big enough to require new hardware and a virtualization solution too.
I get "second-opinion" work from them, but it's often too late to do anything else. I've heard of some (that I don't work with) who 'just get Technet' too.
If there's a silver lining, it's that I often get first-crack at the next project. But either way, this is a great decision on Microsoft's part as far as I'm concerned!
And, here we have yet another example why FLOSS falls behind. People want software with specific features but they want it for free.
I was going to say he could probably pay xTuple to add the feature, but it appears somebody else already did.
It's called money management. You don't go and burn it all as soon as you get paid.
The current statistic is that 70% of the people in the US do. Wages are flat, taxes continue to increase, and prices are skyrocketing (despite the phoney numbers from BLS).
The check cashing services are also closely allied with the pay day loan services that charge interests that work out to something like 240% on annualized basis.
Except they're not intended to be used on an annualized basis. If a loan of $100 is made for 30 days, what is the proper fee to charge? 240% would be $20.
It costs money to process these transactions.
Correct. What is the proper fee on a $100 30-day loan? Count teller time, paperwork processing costs, non-repayment losses, and a profit that can keep the business open.
It is not as much as the banks charge as fees and the fees can be unreasonably high.
A bounced check can easily be $30 overdraft + $40 returned check fee at a bank.
But still that is not as bad as what these check cashing services charge.
oh?
Please educate yourself about the plight of the poor at the hands of check cashing services on one hand, checking account with fees on the other hand
Agreed. See your wise subject line.