Apple is fairly friendly to open source, and the fact that it's based OSX on Darwin and shared cool technologies like launchd, not to mention collaborated reasonably well on KHTML especially lately, means good things.
Here's another interesting thing to consider: when Mac comes to Intel, hardware makers will be much more likely to release good drivers that Darwin will be able to make use of, and thouggh it can't be guaranteed that all of them will be open, they'll still be a plus for breaking away from Windows.
I'm quite hopeful that this will be all a very good thing.
There's too many license agreements involved for this to ever work.
A wiser tack would be to ask if the Workplace shell itself, and the system object model, couldn't be open sourced. Neither of those technologies appear in Windows, and I think they were some of the greatest features of OS/2. If they are Microsoft-free, maybe IBM can help those technologies come back to life.
There are a few major keys I've found to getting a nimble KDE desktop that should be posted in big letters, but often are not.
First and foremost: prelinking. The way gcc3 compiles C++ source code greatly increases the load times of KDE. Gentoo's got good documentation here, though I think they should reference it more. "emerge prelink" and go for it. (PS - Ubuntu users, that goes for you too: "apt-get install prelink" and "man prelink" for you).
Obviously, you want not only the best video, but sound drivers. I've taken special care to use the Nvidia drivers for my X.org desktop, and the NForce drivers for in-hardware sound mixing. You need hardware sound mixing for any multimedia or gaming, period.
Finally, I would suggest setting Konqueror to pre-load two instances if you aren't cramped for RAM.
Having done these things, I find KDE to be a very responsive and yes, memory-efficient desktop, because its shared infrastructure means applications don't need to load multiple redundant libraries for similar tasks. Paying up front once is smart.
I think you're quite right. For a group idealogically opposed to excessive software patents, we ought to be making better use of each other's innovations in a consistent way; better share a bigger pie than try to keep little bits to yourself.
I do think, though, that Gentoo has the rc scripts down better than any other distro I've tried. For now, though, I'm running (k)Ubuntu.
How much can we model to show what an environment like this is like? That planet's magnetosphere must be fierce. There must be a lot of side effects from that, both for it and any moons it may have.
As it is, amaroK comes by default with a tag to pull up lyrics for songs. It's very nicely integrated, and convenient. Given my preference for obscure indie bands, I've been doing a lot of submitting - again through that same interface. Point is, the developer(s) of amaroK have certainly noticed the KDE project's emphasis on integration, and they've got their thinking caps on.
Now what I'd like to see is blog/journal integration with contacts. KDE's use of the standard address book for mail and IM is a good start; let's get to the point where the contacts themselves are the focus, and any given way to communicate a few clicks from the contact. KMail and Kopete parts can make it happen.
Whatever happened to launching from lighter-than-air platforms? With conventional rockets, so much weight goes into fuel to move the fuel you'll burn later to move the fuel that comes even later. Surely someone's doing something with a straightforward idea like this?
You're partially correct, but I think it's a classic case of the government's worse being done to foreigners, rather than their own citizens. A government like this will try to keep the base content and push the embarrassing details out of sight. I don't think very many US citizens will see the inside of Guatanamo Bay or the Afghan prisons as inmates.
What parts of a reactor have bacteria been found in? I suspect not in the core.
Quite right, not in the core, though some people mistakenly claim so. Deinococcus radiodurans can live quite comfortably in the water cooling systems, however, and withstand about 30 times the radiation exposure a human can.
The secret is that it keeps backup copies of its DNA coiled together in a configuration that, should molecular bonds be disrupted by radioactive particles, fall back into place. Very interesting, if you want to consider space as a habitat.
There's nothing wrong with your philosophy for what you appear to be doing. On the other hand, when I load KDE, I'm firing up Kopete, Konqueror, and Kontact right away, so you have IM, PIM, and file/web browsing. Now, what if it wasn't for that KDE backend? What if they each had their own redundant widgets, or I/O libraries? Let's keep going and add office software, CD burning, media players, so forth.
Sometimes it's a lot smarter to just pay up front and keep applications using those libraries. I personally prefer a Konqueror window that snaps right into action to a pause while Firefox loads. A solid, shared base that you've already loaded into memory makes that happen, and it lends itself to applications with a consistent and integrated feel.
It depends on your habits, but for me, KDE with proper prelinking and preloading is my environment of choice.
I would add to that this: consider what the most common elements are in the universe, and out of them, what are capable of forming the chemical bonds. It's not impossible that some life out there is based on something other than carbon and water, but I would doubt that they share environments. Chances favor the common elements with notably favorable chemical properties, and once a successful organism occupies an ecological niche, you aren't going to displace it starting from scratch.
There's a good chance that said lifeforms will resemble what we know given a similar environment. We see a lot of similarity between very distantly related species when they've been sharing space for a while - consider dolphins, plesiosaurs, and fish.
If we get out there, I think we'll find that microbial life is common in the universe. We find bacteria living in nuclear reactors, after all.
In my mind, your argument shows that artificial release of CO2 through fuel consumption or destruction of natural CO2 sinks will be amplified by a corresponding release due to natural processes.
It is where we are, anyway. Our solar system exists in a cavity, roughly 300 light years in diameter, in the intergalactic medium known as the "Local Bubble" which is about a million times less dense than its surroundings; within this medium you have very widely dispersed plasma particles that are still extremely hot. The most ready explanation for this is, of course, a major supernova.
Tens of thousands of years from now the solar system will be passing from inside this bubble into a fairly dense cloud, and this could push the heliopause that Voyager 1 is crossing far closer to the sun, possibly closer than Earth's orbit. While it is likely to have happened before, it's unclear what this entails - most likely less ultraviolet radiation, and more cosmic rays.
We already have our hands full managing the debris cloud in low earth orbit from the operations we've got on-going. If we ever get stupid enough to blow things to bits en masse on *purpose*, getting into space will become very, very risky.
Well, that'd be one way to keep the rest of the universe safe from manifest destiny. ET can just listen to our broadcasts safely knowing we'll be blowing things up on the ground, as God intended.
Some of us like to avail ourselves of more than the most minimal tools on the desktop.
Your comments seem influenced by the needs of the system administrator, and sysadmins need to be able to work with minimal tools to set up and troubleshoot their systems, not to mention administer them remotely. It's just not useful to put everyone in those constraints!
KDE, on the other hand, has the desktop down. I can use scripts with DCOP calls to fire up Amarok in random mode from a cron job, or I can just lightly browse with Konqueror and handle IM's with Kopete. Having my software well integrated and built on a common framework means that actual memory use is less than if you loaded a bunch of standalone tools that have redundant library calls. KDE is the closest thing to having the Unix philosophy in a GUI desktop: parts that work together well.
In short, I have the option of choosing the quickest, most convenient way to get the job done.
Your comparison of KDE to barebones window managers and labelling of the former as bloated is much like making snide remarks about a sports car while perched atop a unicycle.
Apple's Webcore is a major revision of KHTML to support OS-X features and Objective C to work with Apple's standalone browser.
Firefox is a cross-platform standalone browser.
KDE is a complete desktop environment and programming framework that builds its components to integrate well with each other; KHTML and underlies the working of a great many programs, and Konqueror is not just a web browser.
KHTML programmers, pay no attention to this mindless brouhaha. The overall integration and design sense of KDE is a bigger strength than any minor perk of either Safari or Firefox. When you get there, you will have more than the sum of your features.
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Now let's hear an updated version of "Music of the Spheres"!
Apple is fairly friendly to open source, and the fact that it's based OSX on Darwin and shared cool technologies like launchd, not to mention collaborated reasonably well on KHTML especially lately, means good things.
Here's another interesting thing to consider: when Mac comes to Intel, hardware makers will be much more likely to release good drivers that Darwin will be able to make use of, and thouggh it can't be guaranteed that all of them will be open, they'll still be a plus for breaking away from Windows.
I'm quite hopeful that this will be all a very good thing.
There's too many license agreements involved for this to ever work.
A wiser tack would be to ask if the Workplace shell itself, and the system object model, couldn't be open sourced. Neither of those technologies appear in Windows, and I think they were some of the greatest features of OS/2. If they are Microsoft-free, maybe IBM can help those technologies come back to life.
There are a few major keys I've found to getting a nimble KDE desktop that should be posted in big letters, but often are not.
First and foremost: prelinking. The way gcc3 compiles C++ source code greatly increases the load times of KDE. Gentoo's got good documentation here, though I think they should reference it more. "emerge prelink" and go for it. (PS - Ubuntu users, that goes for you too: "apt-get install prelink" and "man prelink" for you).
Obviously, you want not only the best video, but sound drivers. I've taken special care to use the Nvidia drivers for my X.org desktop, and the NForce drivers for in-hardware sound mixing. You need hardware sound mixing for any multimedia or gaming, period.
Finally, I would suggest setting Konqueror to pre-load two instances if you aren't cramped for RAM.
Having done these things, I find KDE to be a very responsive and yes, memory-efficient desktop, because its shared infrastructure means applications don't need to load multiple redundant libraries for similar tasks. Paying up front once is smart.
Problem is, we're in an investment-driven capitalist economy. It must grow, or it goes to hell.
I think you're quite right. For a group idealogically opposed to excessive software patents, we ought to be making better use of each other's innovations in a consistent way; better share a bigger pie than try to keep little bits to yourself.
I do think, though, that Gentoo has the rc scripts down better than any other distro I've tried. For now, though, I'm running (k)Ubuntu.
NASA has totally earned their funding.
Now all the video needs is a slammin' Prodigy soundtrack!
How much can we model to show what an environment like this is like? That planet's magnetosphere must be fierce. There must be a lot of side effects from that, both for it and any moons it may have.
As it is, amaroK comes by default with a tag to pull up lyrics for songs. It's very nicely integrated, and convenient. Given my preference for obscure indie bands, I've been doing a lot of submitting - again through that same interface. Point is, the developer(s) of amaroK have certainly noticed the KDE project's emphasis on integration, and they've got their thinking caps on.
Now what I'd like to see is blog/journal integration with contacts. KDE's use of the standard address book for mail and IM is a good start; let's get to the point where the contacts themselves are the focus, and any given way to communicate a few clicks from the contact. KMail and Kopete parts can make it happen.
And this is a troll because?... Someone got careless with the mod stick, I think.
Oh, I'm with you on this one. It's just that many of the Dems have failed liberal/progressives by going along with other major interests.
We should care about it the same way we should care about about our country: enough to kick its butt if it's not being all it's supposed to be.
Dude. Don't jinx it!
Whatever happened to launching from lighter-than-air platforms? With conventional rockets, so much weight goes into fuel to move the fuel you'll burn later to move the fuel that comes even later. Surely someone's doing something with a straightforward idea like this?
You're partially correct, but I think it's a classic case of the government's worse being done to foreigners, rather than their own citizens. A government like this will try to keep the base content and push the embarrassing details out of sight. I don't think very many US citizens will see the inside of Guatanamo Bay or the Afghan prisons as inmates.
It feeds that apathy so very well, too.
What parts of a reactor have bacteria been found in? I suspect not in the core.
Quite right, not in the core, though some people mistakenly claim so. Deinococcus radiodurans can live quite comfortably in the water cooling systems, however, and withstand about 30 times the radiation exposure a human can.
The secret is that it keeps backup copies of its DNA coiled together in a configuration that, should molecular bonds be disrupted by radioactive particles, fall back into place. Very interesting, if you want to consider space as a habitat.
There's nothing wrong with your philosophy for what you appear to be doing. On the other hand, when I load KDE, I'm firing up Kopete, Konqueror, and Kontact right away, so you have IM, PIM, and file/web browsing. Now, what if it wasn't for that KDE backend? What if they each had their own redundant widgets, or I/O libraries? Let's keep going and add office software, CD burning, media players, so forth.
Sometimes it's a lot smarter to just pay up front and keep applications using those libraries. I personally prefer a Konqueror window that snaps right into action to a pause while Firefox loads. A solid, shared base that you've already loaded into memory makes that happen, and it lends itself to applications with a consistent and integrated feel.
It depends on your habits, but for me, KDE with proper prelinking and preloading is my environment of choice.
I would add to that this: consider what the most common elements are in the universe, and out of them, what are capable of forming the chemical bonds. It's not impossible that some life out there is based on something other than carbon and water, but I would doubt that they share environments. Chances favor the common elements with notably favorable chemical properties, and once a successful organism occupies an ecological niche, you aren't going to displace it starting from scratch.
There's a good chance that said lifeforms will resemble what we know given a similar environment. We see a lot of similarity between very distantly related species when they've been sharing space for a while - consider dolphins, plesiosaurs, and fish.
If we get out there, I think we'll find that microbial life is common in the universe. We find bacteria living in nuclear reactors, after all.
In my mind, your argument shows that artificial release of CO2 through fuel consumption or destruction of natural CO2 sinks will be amplified by a corresponding release due to natural processes.
It is where we are, anyway. Our solar system exists in a cavity, roughly 300 light years in diameter, in the intergalactic medium known as the "Local Bubble" which is about a million times less dense than its surroundings; within this medium you have very widely dispersed plasma particles that are still extremely hot. The most ready explanation for this is, of course, a major supernova.
Tens of thousands of years from now the solar system will be passing from inside this bubble into a fairly dense cloud, and this could push the heliopause that Voyager 1 is crossing far closer to the sun, possibly closer than Earth's orbit. While it is likely to have happened before, it's unclear what this entails - most likely less ultraviolet radiation, and more cosmic rays.
Looks like you stepped out of line and didn't wave your flag enough, and compounded it when you posted something someone considered flamebait.
Terr'rist.
We already have our hands full managing the debris cloud in low earth orbit from the operations we've got on-going. If we ever get stupid enough to blow things to bits en masse on *purpose*, getting into space will become very, very risky.
Well, that'd be one way to keep the rest of the universe safe from manifest destiny. ET can just listen to our broadcasts safely knowing we'll be blowing things up on the ground, as God intended.
If I ever hear someone's laptop saying "Feed me Seymour!", I am so running.
Some of us like to avail ourselves of more than the most minimal tools on the desktop.
Your comments seem influenced by the needs of the system administrator, and sysadmins need to be able to work with minimal tools to set up and troubleshoot their systems, not to mention administer them remotely. It's just not useful to put everyone in those constraints!
KDE, on the other hand, has the desktop down. I can use scripts with DCOP calls to fire up Amarok in random mode from a cron job, or I can just lightly browse with Konqueror and handle IM's with Kopete. Having my software well integrated and built on a common framework means that actual memory use is less than if you loaded a bunch of standalone tools that have redundant library calls. KDE is the closest thing to having the Unix philosophy in a GUI desktop: parts that work together well.
In short, I have the option of choosing the quickest, most convenient way to get the job done.
Your comparison of KDE to barebones window managers and labelling of the former as bloated is much like making snide remarks about a sports car while perched atop a unicycle.
Apple's Webcore is a major revision of KHTML to support OS-X features and Objective C to work with Apple's standalone browser.
Firefox is a cross-platform standalone browser.
KDE is a complete desktop environment and programming framework that builds its components to integrate well with each other; KHTML and underlies the working of a great many programs, and Konqueror is not just a web browser.
KHTML programmers, pay no attention to this mindless brouhaha. The overall integration and design sense of KDE is a bigger strength than any minor perk of either Safari or Firefox. When you get there, you will have more than the sum of your features.
- A very satisfied user of KDE
I think I can field this list of primary characters, though my memory is stretching back a ways:
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: Peter, Susan, Edmund, Lucy
Prince Caspian: Same as above
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: Edmund, Lucy, Eustace
The Silver Chair: Eustace, Jill
The Horse and His Boy: Shasta, and I forget the others. None of them are from the other books that I recall.
The Magician's Nephew: Digory, Polly
The Last Battle: Eustace, Jill
So there. My big question here is how they're going to find that many child actors of developed talent for these films.