Yes, but a larger group of people might pool their resources and get one. I've heard of urban poor (note: not villagers) buying TV's/with Cable in India this way.
> My experience of India was that batteries are readily available and at much cheaper prices than in the West - though maybe only in tourist areas.
Actually, batteries are usually carried by pretty much every street snack/"pan" shop in India, and there are a lot of them (sometimes multiple ones per block), especially in cities.
Or more likely, they lost interest. It's not too hard to manage a project where you (and maybe a friend) are the sole contributor, as many SF projects are.
I don't know what version of WINE you are using, but it's quite fast here. The only thing slow seems to be the initial loading of apps. Games also run at a reasonable speed. RTCW runs at 50fps in winex while it runs in 61 fps in the native port (but I use winex because the native port is more unstable (it's also completely unsupported))
Alright, but why didn't they just release binaries for KDE 3.0 when it came out eight months ago (april 3rd). Sure, a month or two is fine wait, but eight months isn't, especially for unstable. All it has gotten a number of people disgruntled with Debian.
Just because this is true between you and your friends doesn't mean it's true for everyone.
Kazaa is reaching new popularity heights every day now. It is *way* more popular than Napster was in it's peak.
Anyways, spyware free stuff like Kazaa lite and WinMX exist. I currently use WinMX most because it has tons of 320kbps Mp3's, mostly from former AudioGalaxy users.
I'm not exactly well versed in this subject, but GNOME2 has the ATK (Accessible Toolkit), as well as the GAP (Gnome Accessiblity Project). I'm not sure if screenreader's exist, but the accessiblity project would be a good place to start looking.
Sun won the Helen Keller Achievement Award in Technology this year from American Foundation for the Blind for their work in GNOME, so I'm sure they are doing something right:-)
In KDE, unfortunatly, doesn't have that involved accessiblity support (yet). There probably won't be much without a real accessiblity toolkit support (either in Qt or in top of it). Check the kde-accessiblity mailing list if anyone is working on it, but last time I checked, nobody was. The accessiblity.kde.org page seems to be down:(
> They claim to observe details that just aren't their while claiming superiority of their particular technology.
It's been well proven in competitive (fps) gaming. For example, at the recent WCG qualifiers, accuracy in quake3 was quite a bit less in the qualifier in California (where the sponsor put LCD's), than the qualifiers in Texas or Georgia (where CRT's were used). Download demos at cached.net, if you have a recent version of q3 and osp.
Very few good FPS gamers use either LCD's or things like wireless mice.
> I've also noticed this trend in colleges, not only in students but also in campus computers. The campus I'm on (CMU) just removed ~100 old Dell's with 15" (maybe 17") CRT's from some CS labs and replaced them with the new iMacs [eeep... Macs!]. In the Windows clusters, they replaced the old machines with brand-spanking-new Dell's with 17" LCD's.
Yup, they did the _exact_ same thing (new imacs+dells/lcds) in my college (gatech).
> but I guarantee a gamer won't notice a degradation in his gameplay due to a good LCD screen nowadays.
Well, hardcore gamers will, and they have. Casual gaming and gaming in tourneys are quite different things. Hardcore gaming with LCD's just puts you in an disadvantage.
> Of course, what I mostly do with them is play Unreal Tournament:D And they're fine. If you get a computer that can run them at the max resolution, then you won't have any problems with the "native" resolutions.
They aren't fine in hardcore gaming in tourneys for money. In the WorldChampionshipGames (WCG) US qualifier games, the sponsors put in LCD's, and as a result, people's accuracies went sour in Quake3.
LCD's and Wireless kbd/mice don't mix well with hardcore gaming (yet).
> BTW I go to Boviyan University in Chalmers, VA.
And as an aside, the question that we answered is, are YOU the sniper? Playing FPS games and living in VA and all.;-)
Yes, but you also forget that Microsoft pays taxes too. In fact, they likely pay more per quarter, and thus funding public research, than you and your entire household will have ever in their whole lifetimes.
> The KDE people, being clueless command-line nerds (they still can't understand why the need to use the word "folder" instead of "directory" in their file dialog) who thought they could do GUI stuff, blindly and stupidly copied microsoft.
Well, folders definatly sound better than directories, but the trouble is that Microsoft (through DOS, copied from UNIX), set a precident about the usage of "directory". It's a bit too late to change it now, imho, especially when the primary platform KDE and GNOME run on is Linux, which is a UNIX-like OS. UNIX uses the directory terminology.
But KDE and GNOME are open sourced, you are welcome to change all instances of "directory" to "folder".
press control-c (copy), and then goto the directory, and hit control-v (paste).
You may substitute control-x (cut) to move a file.
It works fine, takes little work, and is arguably more usable than D&D.
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> but things like the kernel are supposed to be available aren't they?
The GPL doesn't stipulate this at all.
If I made a GNU tar derivation called faulTAR, I could sell the binary for $4,000. I wouldn't have to give anyone the source except for people who bought the binary. Even then, I don't have to make it available online (in fact, this is the secondary method), but only available by post mail on request.
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things like the two crossover packages, which by the way, cost together near 99$. Xandros is a pretty good deal like that, especially if you are a new linux user (who they are targetting).
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> KDE3's got a better version of Konqueror, but that's not so important given that most Linux desktops use Mozilla. KDE3 has... an improved file manager,
Uh, last time I checked, Konqueror _was_ KDE's file manager. It's a comprehensive file manager, that can also handle network protocols, which lets it act like a web browser, and ftp browser, as well as local file management.
How is it an loophole? Do you remember FSF tapes full of manuals/info-pages/software that cost around $300? Hmm.. I wonder if the FSF still sell those, I still have an old tape drive sitting in my closet.
Anyways, go and buy Xandros for $99. Then, you can request Xandros for the sources. Remember that Free Software (in terms of speech), isn't free software (in terms of beer).
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> You're a fucking moron.
And you're a moron for not seeing tbe last line of grandparent post, dumbass.
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Yeah, this is incorrect.
Yes, but a larger group of people might pool their resources and get one. I've heard of urban poor (note: not villagers) buying TV's/with Cable in India this way.
> My experience of India was that batteries are readily available and at much cheaper prices than in the West - though maybe only in tourist areas.
Actually, batteries are usually carried by pretty much every street snack/"pan" shop in India, and there are a lot of them (sometimes multiple ones per block), especially in cities.
Or more likely, they lost interest. It's not too hard to manage a project where you (and maybe a friend) are the sole contributor, as many SF projects are.
I don't know what version of WINE you are using, but it's quite fast here. The only thing slow seems to be the initial loading of apps. Games also run at a reasonable speed. RTCW runs at 50fps in winex while it runs in 61 fps in the native port (but I use winex because the native port is more unstable (it's also completely unsupported))
Alright, but why didn't they just release binaries for KDE 3.0 when it came out eight months ago (april 3rd). Sure, a month or two is fine wait, but eight months isn't, especially for unstable. All it has gotten a number of people disgruntled with Debian.
I used to use unstable, but now I'm running LFS.
Just because this is true between you and your friends doesn't mean it's true for everyone.
Kazaa is reaching new popularity heights every day now. It is *way* more popular than Napster was in it's peak.
Anyways, spyware free stuff like Kazaa lite and WinMX exist. I currently use WinMX most because it has tons of 320kbps Mp3's, mostly from former AudioGalaxy users.
I'm not exactly well versed in this subject, but GNOME2 has the ATK (Accessible Toolkit), as well as the GAP (Gnome Accessiblity Project). I'm not sure if screenreader's exist, but the accessiblity project would be a good place to start looking.
:-)
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Sun won the Helen Keller Achievement Award in Technology this year from American Foundation for the Blind for their work in GNOME, so I'm sure they are doing something right
In KDE, unfortunatly, doesn't have that involved accessiblity support (yet). There probably won't be much without a real accessiblity toolkit support (either in Qt or in top of it). Check the kde-accessiblity mailing list if anyone is working on it, but last time I checked, nobody was. The accessiblity.kde.org page seems to be down
> They claim to observe details that just aren't their while claiming superiority of their particular technology.
It's been well proven in competitive (fps) gaming. For example, at the recent WCG qualifiers, accuracy in quake3 was quite a bit less in the qualifier in California (where the sponsor put LCD's), than the qualifiers in Texas or Georgia (where CRT's were used). Download demos at cached.net, if you have a recent version of q3 and osp.
Very few good FPS gamers use either LCD's or things like wireless mice.
> I've also noticed this trend in colleges, not only in students but also in campus computers. The campus I'm on (CMU) just removed ~100 old Dell's with 15" (maybe 17") CRT's from some CS labs and replaced them with the new iMacs [eeep... Macs!]. In the Windows clusters, they replaced the old machines with brand-spanking-new Dell's with 17" LCD's.
Yup, they did the _exact_ same thing (new imacs+dells/lcds) in my college (gatech).
> but I guarantee a gamer won't notice a degradation in his gameplay due to a good LCD screen nowadays.
Well, hardcore gamers will, and they have. Casual gaming and gaming in tourneys are quite different things. Hardcore gaming with LCD's just puts you in an disadvantage.
> Of course, what I mostly do with them is play Unreal Tournament :D And they're fine. If you get a computer that can run them at the max resolution, then you won't have any problems with the "native" resolutions.
;-)
They aren't fine in hardcore gaming in tourneys for money. In the WorldChampionshipGames (WCG) US qualifier games, the sponsors put in LCD's, and as a result, people's accuracies went sour in Quake3.
LCD's and Wireless kbd/mice don't mix well with hardcore gaming (yet).
> BTW I go to Boviyan University in Chalmers, VA.
And as an aside, the question that we answered is, are YOU the sniper? Playing FPS games and living in VA and all.
Yes, but you also forget that Microsoft pays taxes too. In fact, they likely pay more per quarter, and thus funding public research, than you and your entire household will have ever in their whole lifetimes.
Yes, but public domaining would forfeit your own rights to have explicit permission for non US-citizens.
er, sorry, I was on crack, I meant the amateur radio club :-p
great, the author of the book is the president of my LUG (lug@gt)
:-) :-d
ty overcode
can you sign the printed version of the pdf
> The KDE people, being clueless command-line nerds (they still can't understand why the need to use the word "folder" instead of "directory" in their file dialog) who thought they could do GUI stuff, blindly and stupidly copied microsoft.
Well, folders definatly sound better than directories, but the trouble is that Microsoft (through DOS, copied from UNIX), set a precident about the usage of "directory". It's a bit too late to change it now, imho, especially when the primary platform KDE and GNOME run on is Linux, which is a UNIX-like OS. UNIX uses the directory terminology.
But KDE and GNOME are open sourced, you are welcome to change all instances of "directory" to "folder".
I think he has better grammer/spelling than Ali. :d
I'm not sure if it's authentic or not, but it sounds more authentic than Ali's ("no I was a developer of GNOME but....", or anything about KDE).
> Red Hat's KDE is a heavily modified version of KDE
Acually, Mandrake and SuSE (especially mdk) modify KDE almost as much as RH did in rh8.
press control-c (copy), and then goto the directory, and hit control-v (paste).
You may substitute control-x (cut) to move a file.
It works fine, takes little work, and is arguably more usable than D&D.
> but things like the kernel are supposed to be available aren't they?
The GPL doesn't stipulate this at all.
If I made a GNU tar derivation called faulTAR, I could sell the binary for $4,000. I wouldn't have to give anyone the source except for people who bought the binary. Even then, I don't have to make it available online (in fact, this is the secondary method), but only available by post mail on request.
things like the two crossover packages, which by the way, cost together near 99$. Xandros is a pretty good deal like that, especially if you are a new linux user (who they are targetting).
> KDE3's got a better version of Konqueror, but that's not so important given that most Linux desktops use Mozilla. KDE3 has ... an improved file manager,
Uh, last time I checked, Konqueror _was_ KDE's file manager. It's a comprehensive file manager, that can also handle network protocols, which lets it act like a web browser, and ftp browser, as well as local file management.
How is it an loophole? Do you remember FSF tapes full of manuals/info-pages/software that cost around $300? Hmm.. I wonder if the FSF still sell those, I still have an old tape drive sitting in my closet.
Anyways, go and buy Xandros for $99. Then, you can request Xandros for the sources. Remember that Free Software (in terms of speech), isn't free software (in terms of beer).