well every kde developer ive talked to flat out says D-BUS will not be used by kde, the best comment ive herd is it might be supported but not used by the base system. They plan on sticking with DCOM
I believe you mean DCOP? Why should KDE-folks use D-BUS? Replacing DCOP with D-BUS would take alot of work and it wouldn't offer any real improvements. Why should the desktops use D-BUS, when we already hace DCOP that kicks ass and was available before D-BUS?
If people didn't complain about Xfree on Slashdot (and elsewhere), would we see these alternative X-implementations? If we were all happy and quiet with Xfree, where's the motivation in creating better alternatives?
I bet the whining and complaining acted as a clear sign that something was seriously wrong with Xfree and it's developement-process. And that's what kickstarted these competing projects.
If your employer is so concerned over security, they should provide their employees suitable phones. And for the record: you employer is a bit paranoid. The voice-recorders are generally used to record phone-calls and make dictations over a short distance. Hardly a tool for spying.
Not really. Phones have been getting smaller and lighter, despite the fact that they have added features to it (camera, Bluetooth, GPRS, WAP, EDGE, color-screen, polyphonic ring-tones etc. etc.). The size is starting to reach it's limits, since the device still needs a keypad, and the screen (color-screen these days) are getting bigger.
2) the more unstable it gets. There's nothing worse or more embarrassing than losing a call because your phone crashes. This happens even with relatively simple WAP phones, and all the time with the old VisorPhone I had.
What does WAP have to do with disconnecting calls? I get disconnected calls VERY RARELY, so I would guess that your mobile-service just sucks. Of course, I'm in Finland, so.... And my phone has NEVER crashed. Not even when I use WAP over GPRS. Or when I make data-calls through Bluetooth and HSCSD. And my phone is on 24x7x365.
We are currently testing Nokia 6600. Not a single hang-up or crash. We have had the phone for few weeks now.
Ballmer: See, here we have two operating systems. One is Windows XP the way you get it after a fresh install(*. And over here we have Linux after a typical install(**. THe Linux-system has had alot more security-holes than this Windows-machine has had!
*) Which means that the system consists of Kernel, GUI, Solitaire, Notepad and handful of other apps
**) Which means that the system consists of Kernel, several GUI's, several editors, several server-tools, developement-tools, games, apps, office-suites, several browsers, several mail-clients. etc. etc.
How is my comment "troll"? I stated facts. USA invaded Iraq with no provocation. No WMD's have been found. There is a concentration-camp in Guantanamo Bay where people are being held without being charged of any crimes.
What exactly is trolling in my message, while the flag-waving jingoist post I was replying to was moderated as "insightful"? Or is it just that some americans simply cannot accept the truth?
Unlike Europe, where "democracy" means a rich, white male as Prime Minster.
You do realize that "Europe" consists of several countries? In Finland, our president is a woman, our previous prime-minister was a woman, our previous speaker of the house was a woman. So, what were you saying?
And yet, still better than Europe.
How can you say that american culture and history is somehow "better" tha European culture and history? How do you define "better" in this context?
Best Medical system too to take care of it, since its not overwhelmed with the non-paying poor.
Any links to proove that the US medical-system is "best"? And since it doesn't take care of all those who need it, can it really be defined as "best"? Besides, there are private hospitals in Finland, where the better-off could go to get treatment. And I dare to say that quality of the care is at least as good as anything you could get at USA.
God Bless America where we have billions to attack foreign countries.
God bless America so they could attack sovereign nations without provocation? And imprison citizens of foreign countries, throw them in to a concentration-camp and hold them there without accusing them of any crime or giving them access to legal aid or consult their embassies? Yeah, God bless America indeed.
BTW, have they found any WMD's in Iraq yet? No? That's what I thought....
No it's not. Hell, there are PDA's that run X (like Yopy), how can it be "bloated"?
It's slow
Not it's not. Xfree might be slow, but X is not slow. If you want to improve performance (I assume you mean the general "snappiness"), talk to Xfree-guys. There are commercial X-servers out there that are fast and snappy.
It's not very good for modern gaming.
Define "modern"? Unreal Tournament 2003? Doom3? Linux-native games run on Linux with comparable framerate when compared to their Windows-brothers. Besides, modern games use DRI, which completely bypasses X.
It doesn't have modern color matching/balancing
I'm not expert on that matter, so I can't comment
Poor scaling (try running X on a very high res LCD and see how tiny everything is).
I haven't run X on ultra-high resolutions, but I have done so on Windows. And on Windows, everything is tiny on 1600x1200 for example, so I fail to see how this is a X-specific fault. Besides, you can change the DPI-values in X.
It's a royal pain in the ass to get set up.
If you know what you are doing, it's not.
It doesn't have a high level of standardization (this is also partly a window manager problem).
Is this the "I want others to tell me what GUI I should run!"-argument? Besides, X is compatible with itself, no mattar what's the implementation (Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, Xfree, Accelerated-X etc. etc.). So it IS standardized!
Who really has any need at all for network transparency on a workstation desktop?
Lots and lots of people. And why shouldn't it have network-transparency? Contrary to popolar myths, it does NOT make local X any more slow or bloated! It does not use TCP/IP or something when you run it locally. It uses standard UNIX-sockets that are REALLY fast!
It doesn't lock on tight enough to the hardware for proper acceleration.
Xfree has the needed framework for good acceleration (RENDER etc.). In order to fix this complaint, talk to the vid-card makers.
What problems do you have with X? Seriously. Please mention at least few. I bet that any problems that you mention are problems with Xfree (implementation of X) and not X itself.
That reminds me of something my boss (a Windows-only guy. Has NEVER used Linux) said during the recent Windows virus-epidemic: "Maybe we should just switch to Linux". Funny thing is that I don't think he was joking.
Games. NWN isn't all that old (I bought it at Zellers, but I'm sure the copy Walmart is selling would play just as well). Hell, Descent3 has NOT crashed on Mandrake9.0/9.1 at all. It did with XP/W2K on the same hardware (yes, all the latest, greatest drivers/patches were installed).
OK, that's two games. How about Combat Mission 1, 2 and 3? Panzer Elite? Silent Storm? Europa Universalis 2? Half-Life 2? Max Payne 2? Il-2 Sturmovik? Jedi Knight 2? etc. etc. All those with decent performance of course.
FYI: I'm a Linux-user and a die-hard Linux-advocate.
Who likes buying a DVD and having a movie that is exactly the same as it when first shown in a theatre? While extra scenes and goodies are fun, there is generally a good reason why scenes end up on the the cutting room floor. LOR has gone way overboard trying maximize revenue by marketing an insane amount of releases to their overloyal fans, but people here seem to eat it up.
How so? If you want the same movie you saw in the theater, you can alway buy the regural edition that was released a while ago. They are just offering the hard-core fans the possibility to buy the extended edition if they want. Regural people can buy the regural edition. I for example never bought any of the regural editions. I bought the extended edition of FoTR and I will buy EE's of TT and RoTK. I REALLY fail to see the problem!
Lucas has said that the "enhanced" version is closer to his original vision of the story. If that's true, then why did Han shoot first in the original version? I might understand some of the alterations (SFX of the time weren't advanced enough etc.) but there was NO reason why Lucas couldn't have made Han shoot first in the original version. It just seems to me that Lucas feels the need to make SW even more PC.
Xmuch as it pains me to say it, is a better director than Lucas (but is still highly overrated).
Why does it "pain" you? Hell, ANYONE would be better director than Lucas! Don't believe me? Just watch the new Star Wars Trilogy. Directing (and acting as a result) is clearly half-assed job. From what I have heard, he goes through the scenes with just handful of shots.. And he doesn't care if the end-results are less than stellar. "Don't worry about it, audience will be listening to John [Williams] music, instead of paying attention to the acting".
If I remember correctly, she's a six-time finnish national champion in Karate. They (Tove and Linus) have a bookcase full of her Karate-trophies. so yes, she would kick our asses.
So? Is the rise in temperature (and the receding glacier) due to human action (CO2-emissions) or due to something else (increased solar-activity, altered wind-patterns etc.)?
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I believe you mean DCOP? Why should KDE-folks use D-BUS? Replacing DCOP with D-BUS would take alot of work and it wouldn't offer any real improvements. Why should the desktops use D-BUS, when we already hace DCOP that kicks ass and was available before D-BUS?
If people didn't complain about Xfree on Slashdot (and elsewhere), would we see these alternative X-implementations? If we were all happy and quiet with Xfree, where's the motivation in creating better alternatives?
I bet the whining and complaining acted as a clear sign that something was seriously wrong with Xfree and it's developement-process. And that's what kickstarted these competing projects.
If your employer is so concerned over security, they should provide their employees suitable phones. And for the record: you employer is a bit paranoid. The voice-recorders are generally used to record phone-calls and make dictations over a short distance. Hardly a tool for spying.
Not really. Phones have been getting smaller and lighter, despite the fact that they have added features to it (camera, Bluetooth, GPRS, WAP, EDGE, color-screen, polyphonic ring-tones etc. etc.). The size is starting to reach it's limits, since the device still needs a keypad, and the screen (color-screen these days) are getting bigger.
What does WAP have to do with disconnecting calls? I get disconnected calls VERY RARELY, so I would guess that your mobile-service just sucks. Of course, I'm in Finland, so.... And my phone has NEVER crashed. Not even when I use WAP over GPRS. Or when I make data-calls through Bluetooth and HSCSD. And my phone is on 24x7x365.
We are currently testing Nokia 6600. Not a single hang-up or crash. We have had the phone for few weeks now.
Yeah, it's awful since you are required to read every single news-story that get's posted on Slashdot, right?
To my knowledge, that quote is not real. It was said in the movie Tora! Tora! Tora! but in real life it seems that Yamamoto never said thosae words.
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What kind of systems are they going to compare?
Ballmer: See, here we have two operating systems. One is Windows XP the way you get it after a fresh install(*. And over here we have Linux after a typical install(**. THe Linux-system has had alot more security-holes than this Windows-machine has had!
*) Which means that the system consists of Kernel, GUI, Solitaire, Notepad and handful of other apps
**) Which means that the system consists of Kernel, several GUI's, several editors, several server-tools, developement-tools, games, apps, office-suites, several browsers, several mail-clients. etc. etc.
Hardly an apples to apples comparison....
How is my comment "troll"? I stated facts. USA invaded Iraq with no provocation. No WMD's have been found. There is a concentration-camp in Guantanamo Bay where people are being held without being charged of any crimes.
What exactly is trolling in my message, while the flag-waving jingoist post I was replying to was moderated as "insightful"? Or is it just that some americans simply cannot accept the truth?
You do realize that "Europe" consists of several countries? In Finland, our president is a woman, our previous prime-minister was a woman, our previous speaker of the house was a woman. So, what were you saying?
How can you say that american culture and history is somehow "better" tha European culture and history? How do you define "better" in this context?
Any links to proove that the US medical-system is "best"? And since it doesn't take care of all those who need it, can it really be defined as "best"? Besides, there are private hospitals in Finland, where the better-off could go to get treatment. And I dare to say that quality of the care is at least as good as anything you could get at USA.
God bless America so they could attack sovereign nations without provocation? And imprison citizens of foreign countries, throw them in to a concentration-camp and hold them there without accusing them of any crime or giving them access to legal aid or consult their embassies? Yeah, God bless America indeed.
BTW, have they found any WMD's in Iraq yet? No? That's what I thought....
Finland for one does not have split houses. Are you suggesting that Finland is not democratic?
then what do you call Camp X-ray at Guantanamo Bay? Shining beacon of "freedom" and "due process"?
No it's not. Hell, there are PDA's that run X (like Yopy), how can it be "bloated"?
Not it's not. Xfree might be slow, but X is not slow. If you want to improve performance (I assume you mean the general "snappiness"), talk to Xfree-guys. There are commercial X-servers out there that are fast and snappy.
Define "modern"? Unreal Tournament 2003? Doom3? Linux-native games run on Linux with comparable framerate when compared to their Windows-brothers. Besides, modern games use DRI, which completely bypasses X.
I'm not expert on that matter, so I can't comment
I haven't run X on ultra-high resolutions, but I have done so on Windows. And on Windows, everything is tiny on 1600x1200 for example, so I fail to see how this is a X-specific fault. Besides, you can change the DPI-values in X.
If you know what you are doing, it's not.
Is this the "I want others to tell me what GUI I should run!"-argument? Besides, X is compatible with itself, no mattar what's the implementation (Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, Xfree, Accelerated-X etc. etc.). So it IS standardized!
Lots and lots of people. And why shouldn't it have network-transparency? Contrary to popolar myths, it does NOT make local X any more slow or bloated! It does not use TCP/IP or something when you run it locally. It uses standard UNIX-sockets that are REALLY fast!
Xfree has the needed framework for good acceleration (RENDER etc.). In order to fix this complaint, talk to the vid-card makers.
What problems do you have with X? Seriously. Please mention at least few. I bet that any problems that you mention are problems with Xfree (implementation of X) and not X itself.
That reminds me of something my boss (a Windows-only guy. Has NEVER used Linux) said during the recent Windows virus-epidemic: "Maybe we should just switch to Linux". Funny thing is that I don't think he was joking.
OK, that's two games. How about Combat Mission 1, 2 and 3? Panzer Elite? Silent Storm? Europa Universalis 2? Half-Life 2? Max Payne 2? Il-2 Sturmovik? Jedi Knight 2? etc. etc. All those with decent performance of course.
FYI: I'm a Linux-user and a die-hard Linux-advocate.
For 3D, the best site (by far) is Beyond3D.
They will pay you with virtual money
Well, English is not my mother-tongue. Let's hear you speak some Finnish, asshat.
How so? If you want the same movie you saw in the theater, you can alway buy the regural edition that was released a while ago. They are just offering the hard-core fans the possibility to buy the extended edition if they want. Regural people can buy the regural edition. I for example never bought any of the regural editions. I bought the extended edition of FoTR and I will buy EE's of TT and RoTK. I REALLY fail to see the problem!
Lucas has said that the "enhanced" version is closer to his original vision of the story. If that's true, then why did Han shoot first in the original version? I might understand some of the alterations (SFX of the time weren't advanced enough etc.) but there was NO reason why Lucas couldn't have made Han shoot first in the original version. It just seems to me that Lucas feels the need to make SW even more PC.
Fuck him
Why does it "pain" you? Hell, ANYONE would be better director than Lucas! Don't believe me? Just watch the new Star Wars Trilogy. Directing (and acting as a result) is clearly half-assed job. From what I have heard, he goes through the scenes with just handful of shots.. And he doesn't care if the end-results are less than stellar. "Don't worry about it, audience will be listening to John [Williams] music, instead of paying attention to the acting".
If I remember correctly, she's a six-time finnish national champion in Karate. They (Tove and Linus) have a bookcase full of her Karate-trophies. so yes, she would kick our asses.
No shit Sherlock!
Has anyone claimed that temperatures are not rising? No. Only thing that people are discussing is WHY they are rising. How about this?
So? Is the rise in temperature (and the receding glacier) due to human action (CO2-emissions) or due to something else (increased solar-activity, altered wind-patterns etc.)?