Socialism is the first step towards communism. pre-communistic socialism is a failure, just like communism is. Communism requires socialism, and since socialism is a failure, so is communism.
Incorrect. Communism has never been attempted by any human civilization.
Incorrect. Communism has been attempted several times. It just happens that every single time the end result has been an oppressive dictatorship. Oh I know that you are going to say that "Yes, but that isn't REALLY communism!". But you know what? I don't care! All I care what communism is like in real-life! I don't care what some whacko theories and books say how it should be, I care about what it's reality is.
And reality is that communism is a monumental failure. If you need proof, take a look at the communistic countries and their actions.
b.) Much of the US gets colder than it does in Europe. The technological innovations to deal with cold weather also came a bit too late...people were tired of always needing to plug their diesel cars in to an electrical socket when they park so that the oil wouldn't freeze. That had a pretty negative effect on diesel for the northeast/great lakes (where large populations of Americans live.)
I bet Finland gets even colder than most parts of USA does, yet diesel-cars are pretty common in here. Yes, we do plug them in to electrical sockets at night, but we do the same for gasoline-cars as well. People use diesel-cars jus t fine in here even when the temperature drops to about -40C.
But in contrast (from what I recall) 4/5 new cars sold in Europe are diesel.
The reason the push developers away is that many of these guys are trying to bloat xfree to hell
Yeah, guys like Keith Packard were just bloating Xfree!
In fact, it seems that KP was just about the only guy who was passionate about Xfree and REALLY worked on it. I didn't know whether I should laugh or cry when I saw KP being flamed by David Wexelblat (one of the founder of Xfree) in Xfree mailinglist. It was sad/funny because while Wexelblat was busy flaming KP, he also mentioned that he does not even use Xfree there days, let alone hack it! He uses Windows these days!
So, Guys like Keith Packard get kicked out, while useless deadbeats like David Wexelblat are members of the core-team. What's wrong with this picture?
By staying private they lose the ability to keep the talent on board by issuing those high-valued employees stock in the company.
How so? Just because the shares are not publicly traded does not mean that the company does not have shareholders. Why couldn't Google give employees shares in the company and give the bonuses through dividends for example? Company does not have to be publicly owned for that.
There wasn't any reason why Word97 shouldn't have worked. I mean, OpenOffice worked perfectly, why didn't MS Word work? To me, it seems that they artificially broke compatibility in order to push sales of the newer version.
And you completely overlooked my comments regarding the filesizes of the two.
I was writing my final thesis with MS Word. At home I used Word 97, at work I used Word 2000. Suddenly I noticed that I could not edit the document at home anymore. If I tried to open it, it would compain that "The document has embedded fonts in it and can't be edited" (or something along those lines). I could read it, but not edit it. At work, it still worked.
Frustrated, I installed OpenOffice 1.1 and tried to open the file. It worked perfectly! Not a single problem! I made some changes to the document and saved it under a new name. Imagine my surprise when I noticed the filesize of the new document: About 65KB! the exact same document saved by MS Word was over 600KB in size! The settings and layout were identical on both, the OO-version had few changes here and there (nothing major, mostly corrected typos and the like), and they difference in filesize was about 1:10!
After that, I can safely say that MS Office is terrible!
Personally, I dislike both IE and Konqueror and hate that they are the medium for interacting with the file system.
Then don't use Konqueror. May I recommend Krusader instead?
In my opinion, if Microsoft has to keep their integrated browser from providing default fundtions in the desktop environment, then every other desktop environment needs to keep their integrated browser from providing similar functionality.
Microsoft is a monopoly. KDE (or any other desktop for that matter) is not.
Otherwise, every person who uses KDE and complains about Microsoft's integration of IE is bordering on being a hypocrite.
Ummmm.... No. Besides, you can change the relevant settings in KDE. And since it's open soirce, you can change the internals of the desktop as well.
TT is a private company, owned primarily by it's employees. If some corporation took them over (highly unlikely) and tried to screw KDE over, last GPL'ed version of Qt would be relicensed under a BSD-license. Also, what's there to stop hackers from forking the last free version of Qt? Nothing.
I find it really hypocritical that some people whine when Canopy/SCO owns about 5% ot Trolltech, but they turn a blind eye when Sun, one of the biggest (if not the biggest) supporters of Gnome bash Linux and provide SCO with money to harass Linux. Sun has damaged and tried to damage Linux. Trolltech has gone the extra mile to promote Linux. And still people whine about Trolltech!
So, it boils down to this: "I want others to works for free so I could profit from their work! I don't want to give anything back to them! Not money or source! I want it all to myself!"
Why don't you write your own damn toolkit or use Gtk+? And don't forget: Stop your whining!
Anyhow, Pikmin has demonstrated that RTS games can be converted to home consoles and if you're after turn-based strategy, the GBA is the way to go
I was thinking more along the lines of Steel Panthers, Civilization III, War in Russia, Europa Universalis, Combat Mission etc. etc.... Those are turn-based (although Combat Mission with a twist) and I don't think they would be playable on a GBA.
You lose pinpoint accuracy and high speed, but you gain analogue controls
You can hae analog controls on PC as well. The reason why they aren't that popular is because people prefer mouse/keyboard.
No Konqueror was patched in the CVS tree in 90 minutes
So anyone willing to patch their sytems were able to do so.
It took one month before they released a distribution with the patch in it that users could upgrade to.
If I remember correctly, KDE-team released a new version of their desktop which had the hole fixed ASAP. I checked some past KDE-releases and they have released patched to their software. Hell, they provided patches to KDE 2.2.2, back when the current version was 3.0.2.
I don't see how this spin benefits your argument.
What "spin"? KDE-team noticed that there was a hole in their software. They fixed it ASAP and provided users with pathces and new versions of their software. End of story. Binaries of those patches are out of KDE's control. But patches (in source-form) were available and anyone wanting to patch their system could have done so. I fail to see the problem.
All new Palm PDA releases except two (Zire 21 and Treo 600) are moving to 320x320x16 or 320x480x16 screens, which will probably be the standard sizes for a while. Phone will be playing catch-up for a while yet.
Nokia 9210 has 640x200 display with 4096 colors. Mind you, that is a pretty old machine and it will get a successor soon. SonyEricsson P900 has a 208x320 resolution.
No, no spin. KDE releases source and source only. Before the actual release, they release the source to the third-party packagers (SuSE, Red Hat etc.) who then create the binary-packages (or not, it's their choice). As new version is released, some of the packagers have binaries ready, and they are released alongside the new version. KDE may provide them with a convenient location for those binaries, but they are NOT made by the KDE-folks.
The binary and source distribution were released on the same day to the public by the KDE team.
Binaries were not made by the KDE-folks, KDE releases source only. It's up to the packagers to create binaries, and that process is beyond KDE's control.
BTW, the point here is that the Linux community resorts to spin to try to view themselves favorably, and you're just falling right in line with that drum beat.
Uh, no. Point is that KDE releases source, not binaries. Source is all they are concerned with. If someone creates binaries from that source, fine. If not, fine. Since their concern is to get the source out the door. As far as KDE is concerned, Konqueror was patched in 90 minutes. How long it took for binaries to be released, is no concern of KDE, since KDE deals with the source, not the binaries.
Have you looked at the KDE.org website lately to see what they release?
Lets get few things straight: KDE releases source ONLY. They do not release binaries. The binaries are created by some third-party, and KDE just offers them a convenient place to download those binaries from. Just because KDE offers you those binaries doesn't mean they are made by them.
The US have greatly helped their "satellite" launch (AKA ballistic missile launch) industry and it's a fallacy, in my view, to talk about this as a "Chinese only venture."
And US space-program was built by Germans, so what's your point?
But when Apple used Apple benchmarks to show off the performance of G5, macheads were extacic at the performance. Why were those benchmarks OK, while these are not? At least these are made by a third-party, and not by Apple (OK OK, Apple didn't make them, but they defined the parametres and sposored the benchmark).
Photoshop - The only relavant and fair app they bothered to test, and the G5 is noticablly faster than any of the Athlon 64 systems, beaten only by the Opteron.
Only relevant because it's just about the only app that showed G5 to have decent performance when compared to the other CPU's? G5 got it's ass handed to it on a platter on the other benchmarks, therefore the benchmarks are crap? Only benchmarks that show G5 performing well are OK benchmarks?
So you're saying that if the code is recompiled and reoptimised for 64 bit processors, there will be a difference?
Yes. For comparison between x86-binary and x86-64-binary on the Athlon64, click here. A64 gets a sizable boost from moving to 64bits. Also, make sure to check out the Lame-encoding results! 34% improvement!
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Socialism is the first step towards communism. pre-communistic socialism is a failure, just like communism is. Communism requires socialism, and since socialism is a failure, so is communism.
Incorrect. Communism has been attempted several times. It just happens that every single time the end result has been an oppressive dictatorship. Oh I know that you are going to say that "Yes, but that isn't REALLY communism!". But you know what? I don't care! All I care what communism is like in real-life! I don't care what some whacko theories and books say how it should be, I care about what it's reality is.
And reality is that communism is a monumental failure. If you need proof, take a look at the communistic countries and their actions.
I bet Finland gets even colder than most parts of USA does, yet diesel-cars are pretty common in here. Yes, we do plug them in to electrical sockets at night, but we do the same for gasoline-cars as well. People use diesel-cars jus t fine in here even when the temperature drops to about -40C.
I think the actualy number is about 30-40%
Yeah, guys like Keith Packard were just bloating Xfree!
In fact, it seems that KP was just about the only guy who was passionate about Xfree and REALLY worked on it. I didn't know whether I should laugh or cry when I saw KP being flamed by David Wexelblat (one of the founder of Xfree) in Xfree mailinglist. It was sad/funny because while Wexelblat was busy flaming KP, he also mentioned that he does not even use Xfree there days, let alone hack it! He uses Windows these days!
So, Guys like Keith Packard get kicked out, while useless deadbeats like David Wexelblat are members of the core-team. What's wrong with this picture?
If you want to see what benefit 64bits gives you when compared to 32bits, then click here. A 34% improvement in a real-life app when using 64bits.
How so? Just because the shares are not publicly traded does not mean that the company does not have shareholders. Why couldn't Google give employees shares in the company and give the bonuses through dividends for example? Company does not have to be publicly owned for that.
There wasn't any reason why Word97 shouldn't have worked. I mean, OpenOffice worked perfectly, why didn't MS Word work? To me, it seems that they artificially broke compatibility in order to push sales of the newer version.
And you completely overlooked my comments regarding the filesizes of the two.
Ha-Ha!
I was writing my final thesis with MS Word. At home I used Word 97, at work I used Word 2000. Suddenly I noticed that I could not edit the document at home anymore. If I tried to open it, it would compain that "The document has embedded fonts in it and can't be edited" (or something along those lines). I could read it, but not edit it. At work, it still worked.
Frustrated, I installed OpenOffice 1.1 and tried to open the file. It worked perfectly! Not a single problem! I made some changes to the document and saved it under a new name. Imagine my surprise when I noticed the filesize of the new document: About 65KB! the exact same document saved by MS Word was over 600KB in size! The settings and layout were identical on both, the OO-version had few changes here and there (nothing major, mostly corrected typos and the like), and they difference in filesize was about 1:10!
After that, I can safely say that MS Office is terrible!
KDE is not a monopoly.
Then don't use Konqueror. May I recommend Krusader instead?
Microsoft is a monopoly. KDE (or any other desktop for that matter) is not.
Ummmm.... No. Besides, you can change the relevant settings in KDE. And since it's open soirce, you can change the internals of the desktop as well.
Seriously, your whining is pointless and moronic.
Sanyo, not Sony
KDE-team could use some more documentators. Have you submitted your application yet? I bet they would love to get some additional help.
What was that? You just sit there moaning and not doing a thing to help them out? That's what I thought...
TT is a private company, owned primarily by it's employees. If some corporation took them over (highly unlikely) and tried to screw KDE over, last GPL'ed version of Qt would be relicensed under a BSD-license. Also, what's there to stop hackers from forking the last free version of Qt? Nothing.
I find it really hypocritical that some people whine when Canopy/SCO owns about 5% ot Trolltech, but they turn a blind eye when Sun, one of the biggest (if not the biggest) supporters of Gnome bash Linux and provide SCO with money to harass Linux. Sun has damaged and tried to damage Linux. Trolltech has gone the extra mile to promote Linux. And still people whine about Trolltech!
Hypocrits.
So, it boils down to this: "I want others to works for free so I could profit from their work! I don't want to give anything back to them! Not money or source! I want it all to myself!"
Why don't you write your own damn toolkit or use Gtk+? And don't forget: Stop your whining!
I was thinking more along the lines of Steel Panthers, Civilization III, War in Russia, Europa Universalis, Combat Mission etc. etc.... Those are turn-based (although Combat Mission with a twist) and I don't think they would be playable on a GBA.
You can hae analog controls on PC as well. The reason why they aren't that popular is because people prefer mouse/keyboard.
because some of us are doing stuff other than "loading Office quicker"?
Are there any flight-sims on consoles? How about strategy-games? FPS with controls that match keyboard/mouse-combo? No? that's what I thought.
Consoles are OK for some types of games, but they absolutely suck for some others. PC's excel at some genres are are at least OK in the rest.
So anyone willing to patch their sytems were able to do so.
If I remember correctly, KDE-team released a new version of their desktop which had the hole fixed ASAP. I checked some past KDE-releases and they have released patched to their software. Hell, they provided patches to KDE 2.2.2, back when the current version was 3.0.2.
What "spin"? KDE-team noticed that there was a hole in their software. They fixed it ASAP and provided users with pathces and new versions of their software. End of story. Binaries of those patches are out of KDE's control. But patches (in source-form) were available and anyone wanting to patch their system could have done so. I fail to see the problem.
Nokia 9210 has 640x200 display with 4096 colors. Mind you, that is a pretty old machine and it will get a successor soon. SonyEricsson P900 has a 208x320 resolution.
No, no spin. KDE releases source and source only. Before the actual release, they release the source to the third-party packagers (SuSE, Red Hat etc.) who then create the binary-packages (or not, it's their choice). As new version is released, some of the packagers have binaries ready, and they are released alongside the new version. KDE may provide them with a convenient location for those binaries, but they are NOT made by the KDE-folks.
Binaries were not made by the KDE-folks, KDE releases source only. It's up to the packagers to create binaries, and that process is beyond KDE's control.
Uh, no. Point is that KDE releases source, not binaries. Source is all they are concerned with. If someone creates binaries from that source, fine. If not, fine. Since their concern is to get the source out the door. As far as KDE is concerned, Konqueror was patched in 90 minutes. How long it took for binaries to be released, is no concern of KDE, since KDE deals with the source, not the binaries.
Lets get few things straight: KDE releases source ONLY. They do not release binaries. The binaries are created by some third-party, and KDE just offers them a convenient place to download those binaries from. Just because KDE offers you those binaries doesn't mean they are made by them.
And US space-program was built by Germans, so what's your point?
But when Apple used Apple benchmarks to show off the performance of G5, macheads were extacic at the performance. Why were those benchmarks OK, while these are not? At least these are made by a third-party, and not by Apple (OK OK, Apple didn't make them, but they defined the parametres and sposored the benchmark).
Only relevant because it's just about the only app that showed G5 to have decent performance when compared to the other CPU's? G5 got it's ass handed to it on a platter on the other benchmarks, therefore the benchmarks are crap? Only benchmarks that show G5 performing well are OK benchmarks?
Yes. For comparison between x86-binary and x86-64-binary on the Athlon64, click here. A64 gets a sizable boost from moving to 64bits. Also, make sure to check out the Lame-encoding results! 34% improvement!