Nokia has this image as "king of the wireless" but in fact this has been slipping in the last couple of years as their primary product (handset) has been under threat of commoditisation by many other vendors primarily Far-Eastern.
few years ago everyone said that Samsung and the like would destroy Nokia. Well, here we are today. While Samsung is doing more or less OK, it's far from "destroying" Nokia. In fact, Nokia is a lot better at selling low-end phones than those far-eastern companies are! And Nokia makes lots of phones in China, and they are soon going to start making phones in India.
Nokia just announced that they have managed to increase their market-share. And their market-share is bigger than the next two companies (Motorola and Samsung) combined. I don't see their imminent downfall in the horizon.
I contest that at lower than 256MB of ram, both current desktop environments become almost unusable
maybe, so what? What is it with this "This computer ran Windows95 just fine, and it must run KDE4/Gnome 2.12 just fine as well!". Instead of trying to run today's software on yesterdays machine, why not invest few bucks and buy more RAM? 128MB is ancient by now. 256MB is very low-end these days. And from what I have seen, at least KDE works just fine on 256MB.
5) Most people do not have emmense hard drives (you may have a 250GB hd, but my mom's computer has a 40GB, and my sister's laptop, only a 20GB. Hell, my work desktop machine's hard drive is only 6GB
my personal laptop has 6.4GB HD. And it has KDE, with free space to spare. I fail to see the problem here. Even the smallest HD's that are available today are downright huge for regural work. No, P2P is not "regural work".
plus it doesn't look like Windows
How does KDE look like Windows? And is it automatically a bad thing to look vaguely like Windows? Do you think that things should look different from Windows for the sole reason of lookind different than Windows? Hmmm, Gnome does have taskbar in the bottom of the screen, so it looks like Windows as well...
Maybe if KDE moved K-menu to top right corner and taskbar to left side of the screen, then you would be happy, since it would look "different than Windows"?
And elsewhere CIA said that Hussein had no such weapons nor did he have such research. If USA found WMD's in Iraq, I would say that they would be shouting it from the rooftops, since it would give their invasion at least some justification. As it happens, they haven't been making any noise about it.
No, you couldn't. There is no proof whatsoever that the School of Americas provided training to murder innocent civilians
Uh-huh. USA has a long and bloody history when it comes to terrorism and other underhanded tactics. School of the Americas is just one example. How about removing democratically elected president of Chile and replacing him with General Pinochet? Or how about removing the democratically elected government of Iran, and putting Shah in his place? no wonder Iran hates the USA.
Are you under the mistaken impression that the only WMD we should have been concerned about was the 20 year old, halfway potent remnant chemical stockpiles from the Iran/Iraq war that were never accounted for?
No, and did I say so? USA should have been worried about those large caches of potend chemical weapons, and research-programs with aim to obtain even more such weapons. But, as CIA quite clearly said, Iraq had no such weapons, nor did they have any programs to obtain those weapons. You keep on saying how large amounts of WMD's were found. Well, where are they? CIA says that there are none. I even gave you links.
So lets hear it. I haven't heard of any announcements about WMD's being found. CIA says that there are no WMD's. Where are the WMD's?
Saddam was doing a very good job of hiding his WMD research and production plans from the US and the UN inspectors
I'm sorry, but CIA disagrees with you. According to them, there was no such research.
and his main goal was to resume full scale research and production as soon as the sanctions were lifted.
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I don't know why you would be so concerned about some non-existent 20 year old mustard shells when the reality of what we found was much more destructive and much more frightening.
Where exactly did I say that I was "worried" about those shells? I wasn't and I'm not. I merely mentioned them as an example of those "vast quantities of WMD's" Iraq allegedly had. And I haven't heard of any large WMD-discoveries in Iraq.
Blah, blah, blah. Blame the US for everything. We've never heard this before.....
I'm not blaming "everything" on USA. But I will complain when they start a war under false pretenses and try to act noble about it.
Now, let's look at Sony and Microsoft's numbers (linked article last paragraph). Microsoft lost more money than Nintendo made in profit. Sony lost about a third as much as Microsoft, but they're still in the red! Where's the front page "Sony's losing money! So's Microsoft!" articles?!
Irrelevant. What we are talking about here are the total-profits of the company. Nintendo's profits dropped 80%. And while both MS and Sony are having losses in their console-business, both are making lots of money overall. Hell, I bet MS's profits are bigger than Nintendo's _revenue_! And with those profits, they can pour more money in to their platform.
I don't care if MS made 1 billion losses with the Xbox. What matters is the overall profits of the company. And MS made humungous amount of money, and some of that money will be used on the Xbox. And that means (to me and to others) that the long-term evolution of the Xbox looks more bright that Nintendo's future does. So Nintendo made money. I bet MS made as much money in one day.
Why didn't they report on Sony or Microsoft's losse
Quarterly results from both companies are closely studied. And both companies made money (MS made huge amounts of money). How each individual division did is next to irrelevant. And even though Both MS and Sony lost money on the consoles, they STILL seem to whipping Nintendo. Xbox and Playstation have momentum, and Gamecube/Revolution seems to have very little.
Only difference is thayt both MS and Sony can compensate those losses with the money from their other businesses. Nintendo can not. Even if Sony Computer Enterntainment made losses and Nintendo made small profit, Sony could still pour more R&D in to their consoles and games than Nintendo could, since Sony as a whole would propably be making a lot more profit than Nintendo would make.
Or what about MS? They are making a metric assload of money on Windows and Office. And some of that money will get funneled to Xbox-developement. Even though Xbox itself made a loss, it doesn't matter much in the greater whole.
So what if if SCE had a loss, whereas Nintendo had a small profit. Does that mean that Nintendo is annihilating Sony in console-business? Doesn't look like it from where I'm standing.
Fact is that Nintendo used to be #1 in console-business. And in a short time, they were pushed to third spot. If I were a Nintendo-fanboy, I would be worried.
Are you ignorantly claiming that Iraq wasn't on the State Sponsors of Terrorism list for the last, say, 30 years?
AFAIK they supported the families of Palestinian "martyrs", but that's about it. You could also say that USA sponsors terrorism. School of the Americas anyone?
Iraq's offensive capabilities have been extensively demonstrated and documented for over 2 decades
Iraq's "offensive capabilites" were largely destroyed in the first Gulf War and during the blockade that followed.
The WMD's have been found and have been extensively documented.
Really?. If you don't want to link, allow me bo shorten the article to you: "Saddam Hussein did not possess stockpiles of illicit weapons at the time of the U.S. invasion in March 2003 and had not begun any program to produce them, a CIA report concludes.". AFAIK, the troops discovered few abandoned Iran-war era artillery-munitions in a distant warehouse, but that's it.
Our leaders should only act when our security or our interests are threatened,
And I assume that in this case "interests" mean "steady supply of oil"? But anyway, they should then stop their bullshit about spreading freedom and democracy, since clearly that is not on their agenda. And looking at past actions of USA, it never really has been.
For another, kids in the US, as a whole, are far from "all right" these days. If you don't see that, you're not taking an honest look at the state of today's younger generation.
Ancient Greek complained that their children "wasted their time" and were "no good". Roman senator complained that the youth of Rome were more interested in having fun and taking part in orgies, than being decent upright citizens of Rome.
The elderly have complained about the younger generations since the dawn of civilisation. You are merely continuing this age-old tradition. And every time the young generation turned out OK.
It was? I remember that when the war was "over", Bush gave his "Mission accomplished"-speech. In it he said that "USA has removed major supporter to Al-Qaida". Well, the fact was that Hussein hated Bin Laden, and there was no connection between the two. Bin Laden did contact Hussein and proposed an alliance between the two. Husseins reply was "Not interested. Fuck off". Now, thanks to the invasion, Iraq is excellent breeding-ground for terrorism. And since the invasion, the amount of terrorism in the world has skyrocketed. So if the plan was to reduce terrorism by invading Iraq because they were "supporting terrorism", I think it can be safely said that the plan failed.
Iraq posed a threat to our national security
how exactly? Iraq had no links to the 9/11 it has no offensive capabilities to threaten USA (hell, they had no capabilities to threaten their neighours!) So how was Iraq "threatening"? In a sense that they could in theory do SOMETHING to USA? Well, Finland could in theory do something bad to USA/Americans, are we to be invaded as well?
But, all this is besides the point. The reason Iraq was invaded was that they had WMD's, remember? Well, I'm still waiting for those WMD's to be discovered. And when it started to become obvious that there were no WMD's to be found, the reason for the war switched from WMD's to "bringing freedom and democracy to the people of Iraq".
I for one find this whole thing to be weird. Apparently USA has the need to spread democracy. Then why is USA being buddies with Pakistan, which is ruled by a military dictator who overthrew a democratically elected government just few years ago? if WMD's are so bad, why is USA friends with Pakistan who has openly admitted that they have nukes? USA says one thing, but they act completely different. If WMD's and dictatorships are bad, then surely Pakistan should be occupied by now?
Seriously, this talk of "spreading democracy" and "WMD's" is pure bullshit and karma-whoring. Looking at the comments of US Administration before the invasion, it seems that there are three possibilites:
a) They lied
b) Current US Administration is filled with morons who are simply incapable of handling the job they are required to do. Inconsistent foreign-policy ("Dictatorships are bad! But not all dictatorships. WMD's in the hands of dictators are a bad thing! But not always!"), illegal invasions of sovereign nations based on flimsy evidence etc. etc.
KDE's nice, though, if you have lightening-fast hardware.
My main machine is A64 3200+ witn 1GB of RAM. And KDE runs VERY well on that machine. I also tried it on my 1GHz P3-laptop with 512MB of RAM. Worked like a charm. My 800Mhz Duron with 384MB of RAM? Works just fine. My ancient laptop with 300Mhz P2 and 320MB of RAM? The slow HD on that machine is holding the entire system (not just KDE) back a bit, but KDE runs fine.
Is my Duron-machine "lightening-fast" (sic)? Or how about the old laptop? What qualifies as slow hardware these days? 100MHz Pentium? I'd dare to say that KDE runs just fine on just about all semi-modern hardware.
Re:I think KDE needs a new default icon set
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That horribly bright WinXP-clone icon theme needs to go if KDE wants to gain any credibility.
"Gain credibility"? KDE seems pretty credible already, and it has been gaining credibility for a long time already. Even with those "horrible" icons. And the icons don't look like XP. I'm on XP right now, and the icons look different.
I liked the subdued tones of the old welcome pages, and the new ones clash horrifically with my colour scheme.
I'm sure that once you tell the developers that the new welcome-pages clash with your personal color-scheme, they will change it ASAP. Seriously, you can't please everyone. Some people like the icons, other hate them. Some people like the welcome-pages, others hate them. Luckily KDE is pretty configurable.
If the KDE group wants KDE to be usable by the majority of people, little changes like this have to be made.
Doesn't Windows have those Yes/No-dialogs as well? If dialogs like that are not usable for majority of people, then how did Windows manage to get 95% market-share? Most people don't seem to have any problems with those dialogs in Windows, why would they have those problems in KDE?
Firefox is not an KDE-application. I do have it installed, but I prefer Konqueror instead.
KOffice - use OO.org instead
OO.org is a lumbering beast, whereas koffice is lean and mean. And OO.org is not a KDE-application.
Kmail - use Thunderbird instead
Thunderbird is not a KDE-application. And it doesn't integrate with Kontact.
Seriously: why should I use the apps you listed, instead of their KDE-equivalents? Couldn't it be said just as well "Don't use Thunderbird, use Kmail instead". Whyv should we drop Kmail in favour of Thunderbird and not vice versa?
Re:Well, it's about time for Debian...
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They did the same thing with KDE 2.2.2. ===> 3.0 migration. How long did it take for 3.0 to arrive to Debian? 10 months (all that time it was about to be inclided "really soon")? I got sick of the waiting and moved away from Debian.
I think the "bloat" he's referring to is the fact that running a KDE application results in a wait while a bunch of seemingly (to a non-programmer) inane stuff is loaded, complete with some stupid message about ksyscoa or whatever it's called.
I don't see that. KDE-apps load in about second or two here, with no errors about "ksyscoa". And besides, programmers are in the minority in the end;).
My message to the KDE guys is cut the BLOAT! Focus on usability and speed.
What "bloat" are you referring to? Could you give some real examples? As to speed.... I find KDE to be fast enough.
Make KDE as configurable as Windows, there are WAY TOO MANY configuration options in KDE now.
Here's a news-flash for you: you are not required to go through all the settings. But if you want to change something, they are there. But you could use KDE just fine without ever touching the settings at all.
I am looking at Windowmaker more and more these days.
Windowmaker is a windowmanager, not a desktop environment. So you are comparing apples to oranges. It's like comparing Microsoft Edit to a full-blown office-suite. But hey, if Windowmaker has the features you need, whereas KDE does not, then by all means use Windowmaker. KDE-developers are not required to satisfy your whims. Instead of making demands, why not thank them for spending their time to give you this kick-ass piece of software for free?
Sure, spammers cost billions in damage. Get over it! They're no different from any other class of criminal (or purveyor of immoral acts). Are we to rejoice in the slaying of every single immoral person?
Maybe we should. Seriously: this person demonstrated that he doesn't give a flying fuck about other people. His life was dedicated to harassing others. If he treats me (and others) like a dogshit he stepped on, why exactly should I weep when he meets his not-so-nice fate? If he wants to have (well, too late for that now!) my respect and sympathy, he must earn it. But if he spends his time harassing me through my inbox, don't be surprised if I don't have any sympathy for him.
He's dead. And good riddance. His positive contributions to the society and others were overshadowed by his selfish and harmful acts. The world is a better place now that he's gone. Yes, there are people on this planet who are nothing but waste of space and oxygen. And this man was one of them.
You should all be ashamed of yourselves.
I'm not, and I'm proud of it. And if you can't live with that fact, maybe you should take your holier-than-thou attitude and stick it up your ass.
Pretty much anyone who wants fast 32Bit code uses the Intel Compilers, even on AMD
yes, ICC generates faster code even on AMD-CPU's than GCC (for example) does. But that's not the point AMD is making. AMD claims that ICC detects whether the CPU is an AMD-CPU. If it is, it generates slower executables, even though there's no real technical reason to do so. It does so merely to put AMD at a disadvantage. Yes, the code might still be faster than GCC-generated code (you could say that it tells quite a bit about GCC as well....), but it's still crippled when compared to Intel-code.
a) Koffice was there before Open Office was b) Koffice offers wider selection of apps c) Koffice is a native KDE-app d) Koffice is lightweight
So why exactly should Koffice-developers (who are also KDE-developers) start hacking on Open Office (a non-KDE app, that is a huge, lumbering mass, and offer less apps with it)? And looking at Point A, shouldn't Open Office coders hack on Koffice instead? I mean, it was there before Open Office was, OO is just splintering the marketplace.
And looking at what the Koffice-team has managed to accomplish, with only fraction of the resources the OO-team has, I'm not sure about your claim of OO having the best coders...
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Well, I'm merely a casual listener. And to me CDs sound perfect, whereas LP's hiss and pop.
few years ago everyone said that Samsung and the like would destroy Nokia. Well, here we are today. While Samsung is doing more or less OK, it's far from "destroying" Nokia. In fact, Nokia is a lot better at selling low-end phones than those far-eastern companies are! And Nokia makes lots of phones in China, and they are soon going to start making phones in India.
Nokia just announced that they have managed to increase their market-share. And their market-share is bigger than the next two companies (Motorola and Samsung) combined. I don't see their imminent downfall in the horizon.
maybe, so what? What is it with this "This computer ran Windows95 just fine, and it must run KDE4/Gnome 2.12 just fine as well!". Instead of trying to run today's software on yesterdays machine, why not invest few bucks and buy more RAM? 128MB is ancient by now. 256MB is very low-end these days. And from what I have seen, at least KDE works just fine on 256MB.
my personal laptop has 6.4GB HD. And it has KDE, with free space to spare. I fail to see the problem here. Even the smallest HD's that are available today are downright huge for regural work. No, P2P is not "regural work".
How does KDE look like Windows? And is it automatically a bad thing to look vaguely like Windows? Do you think that things should look different from Windows for the sole reason of lookind different than Windows? Hmmm, Gnome does have taskbar in the bottom of the screen, so it looks like Windows as well...
Maybe if KDE moved K-menu to top right corner and taskbar to left side of the screen, then you would be happy, since it would look "different than Windows"?
And elsewhere CIA said that Hussein had no such weapons nor did he have such research. If USA found WMD's in Iraq, I would say that they would be shouting it from the rooftops, since it would give their invasion at least some justification. As it happens, they haven't been making any noise about it.
Uh-huh. USA has a long and bloody history when it comes to terrorism and other underhanded tactics. School of the Americas is just one example. How about removing democratically elected president of Chile and replacing him with General Pinochet? Or how about removing the democratically elected government of Iran, and putting Shah in his place? no wonder Iran hates the USA.
No, and did I say so? USA should have been worried about those large caches of potend chemical weapons, and research-programs with aim to obtain even more such weapons. But, as CIA quite clearly said, Iraq had no such weapons, nor did they have any programs to obtain those weapons. You keep on saying how large amounts of WMD's were found. Well, where are they? CIA says that there are none. I even gave you links.
So lets hear it. I haven't heard of any announcements about WMD's being found. CIA says that there are no WMD's. Where are the WMD's?
I'm sorry, but CIA disagrees with you. According to them, there was no such research.
Propably
Where exactly did I say that I was "worried" about those shells? I wasn't and I'm not. I merely mentioned them as an example of those "vast quantities of WMD's" Iraq allegedly had. And I haven't heard of any large WMD-discoveries in Iraq.
I'm not blaming "everything" on USA. But I will complain when they start a war under false pretenses and try to act noble about it.
Irrelevant. What we are talking about here are the total-profits of the company. Nintendo's profits dropped 80%. And while both MS and Sony are having losses in their console-business, both are making lots of money overall. Hell, I bet MS's profits are bigger than Nintendo's _revenue_! And with those profits, they can pour more money in to their platform.
I don't care if MS made 1 billion losses with the Xbox. What matters is the overall profits of the company. And MS made humungous amount of money, and some of that money will be used on the Xbox. And that means (to me and to others) that the long-term evolution of the Xbox looks more bright that Nintendo's future does. So Nintendo made money. I bet MS made as much money in one day.
Quarterly results from both companies are closely studied. And both companies made money (MS made huge amounts of money). How each individual division did is next to irrelevant. And even though Both MS and Sony lost money on the consoles, they STILL seem to whipping Nintendo. Xbox and Playstation have momentum, and Gamecube/Revolution seems to have very little.
Only difference is thayt both MS and Sony can compensate those losses with the money from their other businesses. Nintendo can not. Even if Sony Computer Enterntainment made losses and Nintendo made small profit, Sony could still pour more R&D in to their consoles and games than Nintendo could, since Sony as a whole would propably be making a lot more profit than Nintendo would make.
Or what about MS? They are making a metric assload of money on Windows and Office. And some of that money will get funneled to Xbox-developement. Even though Xbox itself made a loss, it doesn't matter much in the greater whole.
So what if if SCE had a loss, whereas Nintendo had a small profit. Does that mean that Nintendo is annihilating Sony in console-business? Doesn't look like it from where I'm standing.
Fact is that Nintendo used to be #1 in console-business. And in a short time, they were pushed to third spot. If I were a Nintendo-fanboy, I would be worried.
AFAIK they supported the families of Palestinian "martyrs", but that's about it. You could also say that USA sponsors terrorism. School of the Americas anyone?
Iraq's "offensive capabilites" were largely destroyed in the first Gulf War and during the blockade that followed.
Really?. If you don't want to link, allow me bo shorten the article to you: "Saddam Hussein did not possess stockpiles of illicit weapons at the time of the U.S. invasion in March 2003 and had not begun any program to produce them, a CIA report concludes.". AFAIK, the troops discovered few abandoned Iran-war era artillery-munitions in a distant warehouse, but that's it.
And I assume that in this case "interests" mean "steady supply of oil"? But anyway, they should then stop their bullshit about spreading freedom and democracy, since clearly that is not on their agenda. And looking at past actions of USA, it never really has been.
Ancient Greek complained that their children "wasted their time" and were "no good". Roman senator complained that the youth of Rome were more interested in having fun and taking part in orgies, than being decent upright citizens of Rome.
The elderly have complained about the younger generations since the dawn of civilisation. You are merely continuing this age-old tradition. And every time the young generation turned out OK.
With USA's backing. USA supported Iraq openly in it's war against Iran. And USA didn't care one bit when Iraq gassed the Kurds.
It was? I remember that when the war was "over", Bush gave his "Mission accomplished"-speech. In it he said that "USA has removed major supporter to Al-Qaida". Well, the fact was that Hussein hated Bin Laden, and there was no connection between the two. Bin Laden did contact Hussein and proposed an alliance between the two. Husseins reply was "Not interested. Fuck off". Now, thanks to the invasion, Iraq is excellent breeding-ground for terrorism. And since the invasion, the amount of terrorism in the world has skyrocketed. So if the plan was to reduce terrorism by invading Iraq because they were "supporting terrorism", I think it can be safely said that the plan failed.
how exactly? Iraq had no links to the 9/11 it has no offensive capabilities to threaten USA (hell, they had no capabilities to threaten their neighours!) So how was Iraq "threatening"? In a sense that they could in theory do SOMETHING to USA? Well, Finland could in theory do something bad to USA/Americans, are we to be invaded as well?
But, all this is besides the point. The reason Iraq was invaded was that they had WMD's, remember? Well, I'm still waiting for those WMD's to be discovered. And when it started to become obvious that there were no WMD's to be found, the reason for the war switched from WMD's to "bringing freedom and democracy to the people of Iraq".
I for one find this whole thing to be weird. Apparently USA has the need to spread democracy. Then why is USA being buddies with Pakistan, which is ruled by a military dictator who overthrew a democratically elected government just few years ago? if WMD's are so bad, why is USA friends with Pakistan who has openly admitted that they have nukes? USA says one thing, but they act completely different. If WMD's and dictatorships are bad, then surely Pakistan should be occupied by now?
Seriously, this talk of "spreading democracy" and "WMD's" is pure bullshit and karma-whoring. Looking at the comments of US Administration before the invasion, it seems that there are three possibilites:
a) They lied
b) Current US Administration is filled with morons who are simply incapable of handling the job they are required to do. Inconsistent foreign-policy ("Dictatorships are bad! But not all dictatorships. WMD's in the hands of dictators are a bad thing! But not always!"), illegal invasions of sovereign nations based on flimsy evidence etc. etc.
c) Both
So, what is it?
My main machine is A64 3200+ witn 1GB of RAM. And KDE runs VERY well on that machine. I also tried it on my 1GHz P3-laptop with 512MB of RAM. Worked like a charm. My 800Mhz Duron with 384MB of RAM? Works just fine. My ancient laptop with 300Mhz P2 and 320MB of RAM? The slow HD on that machine is holding the entire system (not just KDE) back a bit, but KDE runs fine.
Is my Duron-machine "lightening-fast" (sic)? Or how about the old laptop? What qualifies as slow hardware these days? 100MHz Pentium? I'd dare to say that KDE runs just fine on just about all semi-modern hardware.
"Gain credibility"? KDE seems pretty credible already, and it has been gaining credibility for a long time already. Even with those "horrible" icons. And the icons don't look like XP. I'm on XP right now, and the icons look different.
I'm sure that once you tell the developers that the new welcome-pages clash with your personal color-scheme, they will change it ASAP. Seriously, you can't please everyone. Some people like the icons, other hate them. Some people like the welcome-pages, others hate them. Luckily KDE is pretty configurable.
Doesn't Windows have those Yes/No-dialogs as well? If dialogs like that are not usable for majority of people, then how did Windows manage to get 95% market-share? Most people don't seem to have any problems with those dialogs in Windows, why would they have those problems in KDE?
Firefox is not an KDE-application. I do have it installed, but I prefer Konqueror instead.
OO.org is a lumbering beast, whereas koffice is lean and mean. And OO.org is not a KDE-application.
Thunderbird is not a KDE-application. And it doesn't integrate with Kontact.
Seriously: why should I use the apps you listed, instead of their KDE-equivalents? Couldn't it be said just as well "Don't use Thunderbird, use Kmail instead". Whyv should we drop Kmail in favour of Thunderbird and not vice versa?
They did the same thing with KDE 2.2.2. ===> 3.0 migration. How long did it take for 3.0 to arrive to Debian? 10 months (all that time it was about to be inclided "really soon")? I got sick of the waiting and moved away from Debian.
I don't see that. KDE-apps load in about second or two here, with no errors about "ksyscoa". And besides, programmers are in the minority in the end
Isn't Debian desktop-agnostic as well?
What "bloat" are you referring to? Could you give some real examples? As to speed.... I find KDE to be fast enough.
Here's a news-flash for you: you are not required to go through all the settings. But if you want to change something, they are there. But you could use KDE just fine without ever touching the settings at all.
Windowmaker is a windowmanager, not a desktop environment. So you are comparing apples to oranges. It's like comparing Microsoft Edit to a full-blown office-suite. But hey, if Windowmaker has the features you need, whereas KDE does not, then by all means use Windowmaker. KDE-developers are not required to satisfy your whims. Instead of making demands, why not thank them for spending their time to give you this kick-ass piece of software for free?
Such as? Care to point any tangible examples? If you are referring to the number of apps, then the solution is simple: don't install them.
Maybe we should. Seriously: this person demonstrated that he doesn't give a flying fuck about other people. His life was dedicated to harassing others. If he treats me (and others) like a dogshit he stepped on, why exactly should I weep when he meets his not-so-nice fate? If he wants to have (well, too late for that now!) my respect and sympathy, he must earn it. But if he spends his time harassing me through my inbox, don't be surprised if I don't have any sympathy for him.
He's dead. And good riddance. His positive contributions to the society and others were overshadowed by his selfish and harmful acts. The world is a better place now that he's gone. Yes, there are people on this planet who are nothing but waste of space and oxygen. And this man was one of them.
I'm not, and I'm proud of it. And if you can't live with that fact, maybe you should take your holier-than-thou attitude and stick it up your ass.
yes, ICC generates faster code even on AMD-CPU's than GCC (for example) does. But that's not the point AMD is making. AMD claims that ICC detects whether the CPU is an AMD-CPU. If it is, it generates slower executables, even though there's no real technical reason to do so. It does so merely to put AMD at a disadvantage. Yes, the code might still be faster than GCC-generated code (you could say that it tells quite a bit about GCC as well....), but it's still crippled when compared to Intel-code.
Uh, 360 does NOT use G5! It uses a PowerPC-CPU, yes, but not G5. G5 is a PowerPC-CPU, but not all PowerPC-CPU's are G5's.
OO is huge and bloated, and it doesn't integrate well with KDE. So for me OO's capabilities are lacking when compared to Koffice.
Well, considering that
a) Koffice was there before Open Office was
b) Koffice offers wider selection of apps
c) Koffice is a native KDE-app
d) Koffice is lightweight
So why exactly should Koffice-developers (who are also KDE-developers) start hacking on Open Office (a non-KDE app, that is a huge, lumbering mass, and offer less apps with it)? And looking at Point A, shouldn't Open Office coders hack on Koffice instead? I mean, it was there before Open Office was, OO is just splintering the marketplace.
And looking at what the Koffice-team has managed to accomplish, with only fraction of the resources the OO-team has, I'm not sure about your claim of OO having the best coders...