"Not to bust your bubble or anything, but the "transparent" terminal hack is old. It is not done with per-window alpha transparency. It just maps the root background to the terminal background with an appropriate offset and darkening."
Correct me if I'm wrong... But to my knowledge, KDE2 does the "transparent" console by mapping the background. But if I remember correctly, QT3 (which is used in KDE3) enables "real" transparent windows. So, transparent console (or other windows) would not only show the background behind it, but also other windows behind it. And that would be true transparency.
Not entirely related to this case, but China gets alot of hi-tech defence-tech from Israel. Technology that USA first sells to Israel, and Israel then sells them to China. That tech is not supposed to be available to China, and USA knows that Israel leaks sensitive information to China. But ending cooperation with Israel is a big no-no
American troops found advanced image-intensifiers on Iraqi tanks during the Gulf War. Those devices were made in USA. USA sold them to Israel, who sold them to China, who sold them to Iraq. And that's just one example. Israel has also sold technology related to the Patriot missile and various air-to-air missile-tech.
What goes around, comes around.
Re:Fantastic!
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Reality check, Win2K is plenty stable for general workstation use, my 2K box crashes maybe once every few months. And even then it's usualy because I did something stupid.
W2K and XP are more stable than earlier Windozes. But it doesn't change the fact that Linux + KDE are still more stable
Perhaps the OS itself has more features...
Thank you for acknowledging Linux'es superior features when compared to Windows. But I was talking about the desktop.
4. It looks better
XP kinda killed that argument
How come? With XP I can choose from ugly-as-hell candyland-look... Or the classic-look that looks just like every other MS-OS there is.
5. It's more customizable
Once again most people just don't care...
Hey, I care! I don't care what OTHER people think, I just care what I think.
"You MUST be kidding if you think any win 2k user is going to swap over to KDE. Please get a clue/life. There is absolutely no reason for the change. Besides, all KDE is doing is trying to emulate the windows desktop"
I can think of several reasons:
1. It runs on Linux;)
2. It's more stable (yes it is)
3. It has more features.
4. It looks better
5. It's more customizable
6. It progresses alot faster than Win-GUI
Emulate the Win-desktop? How come? only similarities I see are... Well, the "start-button" in bottom-left corner. Oh, and I close a windows by clicking "x". That's just about it. Sure there are other more general similarities, but how different can the basic-design of GUI be? they all basically do the same thing: windows in desktop.
If KDE emulates Win-desktop, then so does Gnome, but I never hear anyone say that for some reason.
"the US infrastucture does suck, but I'd like to see you drive 1000 miles in any direction from whereever you are outside the US and still have service. And that's on your "rest of the world" compatible network."
Europe. I could travel from Helsinki to Madrid and my cell-phone would still work. Distance: about 3000 kilometers.
Sorry to rain on your parade, but the phone in Matrix was definitely a 8110 (or it's american cousin) which had a snap-out cover like the 7110 has. It was not a standard 8110 but a modified one. After the Matrix, Nokia Introduced 7110 which did have a snap-out cover as standard.
Re:Why all the stupid features ?
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"And sms ? I don't get it, why don't you call the person?"
Because sometimes SMS is better. Sometimes you can't call someone. Sending a SMS is discreet and quiet.
Sometimes you have to send someone a small piece of information (address, shopping-list etc.). It's easy to send SMS, than to call. And the person receiving the info doesn't need pen&paper because the info is stored on the phone.
Why do people use pagers? SMS does everything a pager does and more.
"the only thing I'm concerned about is the data transfer for the Video Phone. If its going to be a smooth transfer or if its going to be "the good 'ol slide show presentation" full of lag"
I belive you are mistaken. That camera is NOT a video-camera! It does not take real-time full-motion video. It takes individual pictures like a "normal" digital camera.
Negative. I believe that the original poster was referring to Nokian Renkaat. The make the best winter tyres there is. It used to be part of Nokia, but it was spun off several years ago. Nokia does still own part of that company though.
"Maybe it's just me, but KDE sure looks a lot like Windows."
Maybe it's just me but Gnome sure look a lot like Windows.
Yes, KDE (and Gnome, but noboby ever mentions it) share some basic characteristics with Windows. They all use icons (of course, you can get rid of them. I did), they all use taskbar, they all use "start-button", they all use windows. You know, there's only so many ways you can implement a GUI, there are bound to be similarities. unless KDE moved to a radical new direction (3D perhaps), people will always complain that it looks like Windows
To me, that's not a problem. KDE has the best features Windows has to offer. But it also has more feature, more stability, more eye-candy and it's easier to use.
"Speaking of which, whatever happened to Bitboys and their Glaze3D part which was supposed to revolutionize the graphics market by introducing embedded DRAM?"
No it's not. It's anything but close. eDRAM is vastly different to traditional chips. It's basically a memory-chip with core-logic built right in. Slapping the memory-chip to the same chip where the 3D-chip is, is NOT embedded, and it's NOT even close! eDRAM requires different production-lines.
That ain't eDRAM. eDRAM the memory and core logic is located inside the same chip. Key advantage being that you can use ultra-wide memory-buses, giving you loads of bandwidth.
What NVIDIA is doing here is simply to put the memory-chip in to the same die as the core is, but they are not one and the same chip, they seem to be separate. And the memory-bus is your typical 128bit-variety.
I would have liked more results with overclocked FBS. If I got XP, I propably wouldn't bother to connect the L1-bridges just to gain few % of additional performance. I would increase the FSB. Easier, and it gives you more performance.
I think XP is just begging for more FSB. Cranking it up to say 300Mhz (2x150MHz), would increase the actual MHz of the CPU, and it would nicely increase you bandwidth (both memory and FSB).
Of course, I would much rather have the Clawhammer with it's 800MHz FSB...
"The KDE controversy was because he saw massive license violation"
No, there was no license violation. KDE-project followed it's own license to the letter, they also followed QT's license. There was no license-violation.
Unless you mean that they dared to use tools that weren't officially sanctioned by RMS (as in non-GPL:ed QT). But then again, it would have been a violation only if KDE was part of GNU-project. Which it's not.
"And his famously strange behaviour in front of the GNOME hackers at GUADEC2 was all the more insulting because he'd seen GNOME for the first time a few hours before."
How was his behavior strange? What made it famous? I don't know, but I would like to know:)
"LSB is just about making it easier to commercialise free software, so for that reason any distro that supports free software should ignore it."
Why? It would also make things easier for end users. For making sure that distros are compatible between each other is just a good thing. Of course, anyone can make a distro that has different objectives, and thus, are not LSB-compatible. Nobody is forcing anyone to follow LSB.
"They should choose the packaging standard based on technical merit.. if there is no clear cut winner (as is the case) they should NOT specify a standard."
Linus has said that LSB doesn't really set standards, rather they document what has become the de facto standard. And like it or not, rpm is the de facto standard.
"NVIDIA can go to hell"
Well, they give me the best 3D-performance in Linux. True it's bad that the drivers are not open source (for reasons that are beynd NVIDIA's control).
What's the situation with Linux Standards Base? Is any of the distros 100% compatible? Having a single standard would make life whole lot easier for users and for companies. For example: NVIDIA offers Linux-drivers for their cards. In their download-page there are packages for just about every major distro there is. It causes extra hassle for them. And I guess the situation is more or less similar for other companies as well.
How long will it be untill we start to see software that is not offered in several packages (for each distro), but in one package with instructions "this package will install on a LSB-compliant distribution"?
Didn't they use moon-based mass-driver to hurl asteroids on the invading aliens in David Gerrold's "War Against the Chtorr"-books?
Re:I still wouldnt get an Athlon or any AMD chip.
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It still amazes me how un-informed some people are when it comes to AMD...
Intel more stable? I dunno, I have AMD Duron and I have NO stability-problems with it (yes, it's overclocked)! Sure, Intel is stable, and so is AMD
Intel has better engineering? What do you mean? AMD still offers better performance with lesser price, and it doesn't need overpriced RDRAM. If you are referring to the way they behave with no heatsink... Well, normal people use heatsinks with their CPU's, os it's not an issue. And I have never heard of heatsinks falling off
Pentium IV has SSE2? great... Not. No application really uses SSE2, so it's another non-issue. There are few applications that use it, but I don't use any of those apps
Pentium IV has better bandwidth with RDRAM? So what? AMD still offers better performance with lesser price when you use DDR-RAM. and DDR-RAM is so much cheaper than RDRAm, that if you want to spend same amount of money on RAM, you could buy ALOT more DDR-RAM than RDRAM.
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"Not to bust your bubble or anything, but the "transparent" terminal hack is old. It is not done with per-window alpha transparency. It just maps the root background to the terminal background with an appropriate offset and darkening."
Correct me if I'm wrong... But to my knowledge, KDE2 does the "transparent" console by mapping the background. But if I remember correctly, QT3 (which is used in KDE3) enables "real" transparent windows. So, transparent console (or other windows) would not only show the background behind it, but also other windows behind it. And that would be true transparency.
Not entirely related to this case, but China gets alot of hi-tech defence-tech from Israel. Technology that USA first sells to Israel, and Israel then sells them to China. That tech is not supposed to be available to China, and USA knows that Israel leaks sensitive information to China. But ending cooperation with Israel is a big no-no
American troops found advanced image-intensifiers on Iraqi tanks during the Gulf War. Those devices were made in USA. USA sold them to Israel, who sold them to China, who sold them to Iraq. And that's just one example. Israel has also sold technology related to the Patriot missile and various air-to-air missile-tech.
What goes around, comes around.
Reality check, Win2K is plenty stable for general workstation use, my 2K box crashes maybe once every few months. And even then it's usualy because I did something stupid.
W2K and XP are more stable than earlier Windozes. But it doesn't change the fact that Linux + KDE are still more stable
Perhaps the OS itself has more features...
Thank you for acknowledging Linux'es superior features when compared to Windows. But I was talking about the desktop.
4. It looks better
XP kinda killed that argument
How come? With XP I can choose from ugly-as-hell candyland-look... Or the classic-look that looks just like every other MS-OS there is.
5. It's more customizable
Once again most people just don't care...
Hey, I care! I don't care what OTHER people think, I just care what I think.
"Writing DOS for IBM was a stunt too.. Paul Allen didn't think they'd pull it off..."
And they didn't. Microsoft bought DOS from another company.
"You MUST be kidding if you think any win 2k user is going to swap over to KDE. Please get a clue/life. There is absolutely no reason for the change. Besides, all KDE is doing is trying to emulate the windows desktop"
;)
I can think of several reasons:
1. It runs on Linux
2. It's more stable (yes it is)
3. It has more features.
4. It looks better
5. It's more customizable
6. It progresses alot faster than Win-GUI
Emulate the Win-desktop? How come? only similarities I see are... Well, the "start-button" in bottom-left corner. Oh, and I close a windows by clicking "x". That's just about it. Sure there are other more general similarities, but how different can the basic-design of GUI be? they all basically do the same thing: windows in desktop.
If KDE emulates Win-desktop, then so does Gnome, but I never hear anyone say that for some reason.
"the US infrastucture does suck, but I'd like to see you drive 1000 miles in any direction from whereever you are outside the US and still have service. And that's on your "rest of the world" compatible network."
Europe. I could travel from Helsinki to Madrid and my cell-phone would still work. Distance: about 3000 kilometers.
Nah, Nokian are better, Gislaved being second.
Sorry to rain on your parade, but the phone in Matrix was definitely a 8110 (or it's american cousin) which had a snap-out cover like the 7110 has. It was not a standard 8110 but a modified one. After the Matrix, Nokia Introduced 7110 which did have a snap-out cover as standard.
"And sms ? I don't get it, why don't you call the person?"
Because sometimes SMS is better. Sometimes you can't call someone. Sending a SMS is discreet and quiet.
Sometimes you have to send someone a small piece of information (address, shopping-list etc.). It's easy to send SMS, than to call. And the person receiving the info doesn't need pen&paper because the info is stored on the phone.
Why do people use pagers? SMS does everything a pager does and more.
"the only thing I'm concerned about is the data transfer for the Video Phone. If its going to be a smooth transfer or if its going to be "the good 'ol slide show presentation" full of lag"
I belive you are mistaken. That camera is NOT a video-camera! It does not take real-time full-motion video. It takes individual pictures like a "normal" digital camera.
"Nokia also make tyres."
Negative. I believe that the original poster was referring to Nokian Renkaat. The make the best winter tyres there is. It used to be part of Nokia, but it was spun off several years ago. Nokia does still own part of that company though.
As for boots. They were spun off even earlier
"Maybe it's just me, but KDE sure looks a lot like Windows."
Maybe it's just me but Gnome sure look a lot like Windows.
Yes, KDE (and Gnome, but noboby ever mentions it) share some basic characteristics with Windows. They all use icons (of course, you can get rid of them. I did), they all use taskbar, they all use "start-button", they all use windows. You know, there's only so many ways you can implement a GUI, there are bound to be similarities. unless KDE moved to a radical new direction (3D perhaps), people will always complain that it looks like Windows
To me, that's not a problem. KDE has the best features Windows has to offer. But it also has more feature, more stability, more eye-candy and it's easier to use.
"Speaking of which, whatever happened to Bitboys and their Glaze3D part which was supposed to revolutionize the graphics market by introducing embedded DRAM?"
;).
I guess you just have to sit and wait
"This one is soo close.
meaning that it is not embedded, but soo close"
No it's not. It's anything but close. eDRAM is vastly different to traditional chips. It's basically a memory-chip with core-logic built right in. Slapping the memory-chip to the same chip where the 3D-chip is, is NOT embedded, and it's NOT even close! eDRAM requires different production-lines.
That ain't eDRAM. eDRAM the memory and core logic is located inside the same chip. Key advantage being that you can use ultra-wide memory-buses, giving you loads of bandwidth.
What NVIDIA is doing here is simply to put the memory-chip in to the same die as the core is, but they are not one and the same chip, they seem to be separate. And the memory-bus is your typical 128bit-variety.
I would have liked more results with overclocked FBS. If I got XP, I propably wouldn't bother to connect the L1-bridges just to gain few % of additional performance. I would increase the FSB. Easier, and it gives you more performance.
I think XP is just begging for more FSB. Cranking it up to say 300Mhz (2x150MHz), would increase the actual MHz of the CPU, and it would nicely increase you bandwidth (both memory and FSB).
Of course, I would much rather have the Clawhammer with it's 800MHz FSB...
"The KDE controversy was because he saw massive license violation"
No, there was no license violation. KDE-project followed it's own license to the letter, they also followed QT's license. There was no license-violation.
Unless you mean that they dared to use tools that weren't officially sanctioned by RMS (as in non-GPL:ed QT). But then again, it would have been a violation only if KDE was part of GNU-project. Which it's not.
"And his famously strange behaviour in front of the GNOME hackers at GUADEC2 was all the more insulting because he'd seen GNOME for the first time a few hours before."
:)
How was his behavior strange? What made it famous? I don't know, but I would like to know
I think he means that Gnome is the only GNU-Desktop that succeeded. KDE is (thank god!) not part of the GNU-project.
"RMS has never tried to claim "all the credit" for free software for himself"
"Richard M. Stallman
Principal developer of the operating system often mistakenly referred as "Linux""
RMS's sig on a message he sent to The Register.
Yeah, you're right, he's not trying to claim all the credit. Just everything to do with Linux it seems.
"LSB is just about making it easier to commercialise free software, so for that reason any distro that supports free software should ignore it."
Why? It would also make things easier for end users. For making sure that distros are compatible between each other is just a good thing. Of course, anyone can make a distro that has different objectives, and thus, are not LSB-compatible. Nobody is forcing anyone to follow LSB.
"They should choose the packaging standard based on technical merit.. if there is no clear cut winner (as is the case) they should NOT specify a standard."
Linus has said that LSB doesn't really set standards, rather they document what has become the de facto standard. And like it or not, rpm is the de facto standard.
"NVIDIA can go to hell"
Well, they give me the best 3D-performance in Linux. True it's bad that the drivers are not open source (for reasons that are beynd NVIDIA's control).
Partly off-topic I guess but...
What's the situation with Linux Standards Base? Is any of the distros 100% compatible? Having a single standard would make life whole lot easier for users and for companies. For example: NVIDIA offers Linux-drivers for their cards. In their download-page there are packages for just about every major distro there is. It causes extra hassle for them. And I guess the situation is more or less similar for other companies as well.
How long will it be untill we start to see software that is not offered in several packages (for each distro), but in one package with instructions "this package will install on a LSB-compliant distribution"?
OK, help out a newbie-loser: how does one install the patch?
Didn't they use moon-based mass-driver to hurl asteroids on the invading aliens in David Gerrold's "War Against the Chtorr"-books?
It still amazes me how un-informed some people are when it comes to AMD...
Intel more stable? I dunno, I have AMD Duron and I have NO stability-problems with it (yes, it's overclocked)! Sure, Intel is stable, and so is AMD
Intel has better engineering? What do you mean? AMD still offers better performance with lesser price, and it doesn't need overpriced RDRAM. If you are referring to the way they behave with no heatsink... Well, normal people use heatsinks with their CPU's, os it's not an issue. And I have never heard of heatsinks falling off
Pentium IV has SSE2? great... Not. No application really uses SSE2, so it's another non-issue. There are few applications that use it, but I don't use any of those apps
Pentium IV has better bandwidth with RDRAM? So what? AMD still offers better performance with lesser price when you use DDR-RAM. and DDR-RAM is so much cheaper than RDRAm, that if you want to spend same amount of money on RAM, you could buy ALOT more DDR-RAM than RDRAM.