While initially dismissing GNOME as "You can't do anything productive with it", I came to understand that from a usability point of view it was far better than KDE
Saying Gnome is more "usable" is just wrong. It's a limitation of the word usability to mean discoverability and simplicity.
This means that Gnome's usability for joe random user may indeed be better than KDE's but it apparently isn't for you and neither is it for me (I prefer to battle KDE's myriad of options once and then have the DE stay out of my way instead of the constant little things that annoy me about GNOME apart from the fact that KDE's basis - Konqueror, Kparts and KIO - is simply more powerful and/or better integrated than GNOME equivalents while GNOME's strength *for me* are some apps - XChat, Gimp - that I can use with KDE).
Usability is subjective and dependent on the specific user. KDE is feature-rich but sometimes overwhelmingly so while GNOME offers simplicity but sometimes too much it. Which one is more usable depends on you.
That said, Kubuntu has shown that you can tone down KDE to some degree and the goal for KDE 4 seems to be to improve discoverability by reducing the in-your-face nature of many of the more obscure parts.
Regardless of their success Gnome has the big advantage of being LGPLed while Qt is GPL which makes it a lot more palatable to big business.
the alsa module "snd_intel8x0" supports the nforce4 sound chip (I think, it could be something slightly different I can't check it atm but I know that alsa worked here and I don't use the nforce drivers)
Suse had some propietary tools which mucked up the display.
OTOH SuSE is the only distro who's ever managed to give me more than 60Hz on my monitor without editing the config files by hand. Ubuntu seems to detect the correct vsync/hsync values but completely screws up the config file.
She was the virgin moon goddess of the hunt, wild animals, healing, wilderness, chastity, and childbirth.
Like saints in later times Greek gods had lots and lots of different fields of activity/meanings tacked on based on supposed deeds and myths.
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But they cancel each other out (well there's a miniscule amount of athmospheric drag and a few other even smaller forces but they're negligible unless we're talking about weeks and months)
Looking at that page it seems like most of the actual edutainment software is from kdeedu or uses its own toolkit.
Considering that PCs still running Win95 probably don't have that much RAM wouldn't it make more sense to use Kubuntu? KOffice should be enough for kids that age and isn't as dog slow as OOo, Konqueror needs less ressources than Firefox and Kiosk would allow to lock down the PCs for different classes and age groups.
What I'd like to see is the European Commission slap a huge fine on Microsoft for publishing these documents, as well as drag a couple of European Microsoft Executives to courts for breach of confidentiality. Add a couple of cotempt of court proceedings against the lawyers who handled the documents, and we are all set for a big legal fight.
Just because they took some random stuff and put it on the net when they had no right to do so? Who would have a problem with that?
You're absolutely right =) -- although it's not clear whether the coins were part of the structure (i.e. lost or otherwise put there during construction work) or hidden later on (i.e. someone dug a hole in an 800 year old wall to hide his money)
Seems like/.'s sloppiness regarding AD/BC was actually a good decision =P
blah, blah, I can remember all the analysts predicting the PSP would cost $350, $400, $500 I don't think I've seen any analyst getting even close to reality. I predict that there will be at least one version of the PS3 at less than $450 I wouldn't be surprised if it was even lower at $399 or $299.
SuSE had KDE as standard, Redhat used Gnome. On both the other DE sucked so bad that their users were convinced it was a POS. Over time it went beyond logical arguments (like nationalism or vi vs. emacs) and became a holy war and as those long-time Linux users are the people that convert new users to Linux it took on a life of its own.
Personally I used KDE as DE (more consistent, better integrated, better file manager) but apart from that mostly Gnome apps (let's face it in the 1.4 days most KDE apps sucked while Gnome apps got the work done). Aah the blessings of enough RAM. Unfortunately the KDE apps became much better while too many Gnome apps got crippled in the name of "usability" leaving me with KDE only and a bit of enlightenment now and then for old times' sake =)
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Hey I don't want to insult you but to me you're the most fucked gay fucker that ever porked his mom. IOW the next time if you don't want a flamewar don't post flames.
And in my experience most KDE dialogs automatically resize themselves if the text is to large for the window and if that's not possible at least they show scrollbars unlike Firefox (1.07, don't know about 1.5).
But what is focus strictly follows mouse? What is focus under mouse? There is no description of any kind, and it seems rather superfluous. Perhaps I'm missing something.
You're missing Shift+F1 the universal way to get context sensitive help in KDE. At least in 3.5 the resulting tooltip should answer all your questions =)
The patent is from 1999; if they wanted to use it they would have used it for the PS2 so this whole discussion is FUD (helped by Sony's rootkit fiasco, great work guys)
This probably means that the PS3 will either actually make its "spring" release or that it is hampered by problems with the Blu-Ray drives/disks instead of a Cell shortage because otherwise I couldn't imagine that Sony would allow IBM to use even one Cell for something that's not a PS3 for the first 3 months.
What the EU wanted was MS's API specifications at a license that allows OSS to use those APIs. If instead MS voluntarily offers to license their whole source code you can bet there's a catch. Most likely something to prevent GPLed software from using it.
You can't honestly believe that having any one corporate entity hold the keys to a market as vital as IT is a good thing?
IMHO if you put it that way most people would agree, however
You can't honestly believe that having any one American corporate entity hold the keys to a market in Europe is a good thing?
that way many people won't. Just because a lot of locals on/. would have approved if the DoJ had made a lot of Babysofts doesn't mean they like it when the EU does something long overdue and very sensible for a change.
My current plan is to vote Democrat for every office unless there is a viable libertarian in the running. I feel very strongly that a Republican majority in control is seriously detrimental to America's future...
...at the moment.
W is a disaster and Congress needs a change of majorities but that doesn't mean that it won't be the other way around in a few years. IMHO in Europe much more is controlled by career bureaucrats, a system which is less efficient but also less affected if one party is in power for more than 8 years. America needs shifting majorities (still imho) which makes all that gerrymandering (enthusiastically implemented by both parties where they are in power and opposed where they aren't) very, very dangerous.
Anything which dilutes the iTMS/iPod coupling is bad for Apple, hence they will never license FairPlay. Don't kid yourself that Apple are keeping FairPlay locked up for your benefit, they're a corporation just like any other - their only driver is the bottom line.
iTMS/iPod is Apple's Office/Windows. The perfect Lock-in. I don't see them giving that up without license fees so high that the offer would be meaningless. Or a court order, but that's highly unlikely (at least the next few years, never say never =).
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Saying Gnome is more "usable" is just wrong. It's a limitation of the word usability to mean discoverability and simplicity.
This means that Gnome's usability for joe random user may indeed be better than KDE's but it apparently isn't for you and neither is it for me (I prefer to battle KDE's myriad of options once and then have the DE stay out of my way instead of the constant little things that annoy me about GNOME apart from the fact that KDE's basis - Konqueror, Kparts and KIO - is simply more powerful and/or better integrated than GNOME equivalents while GNOME's strength *for me* are some apps - XChat, Gimp - that I can use with KDE).
Usability is subjective and dependent on the specific user. KDE is feature-rich but sometimes overwhelmingly so while GNOME offers simplicity but sometimes too much it. Which one is more usable depends on you.
That said, Kubuntu has shown that you can tone down KDE to some degree and the goal for KDE 4 seems to be to improve discoverability by reducing the in-your-face nature of many of the more obscure parts.
Regardless of their success Gnome has the big advantage of being LGPLed while Qt is GPL which makes it a lot more palatable to big business.
the alsa module "snd_intel8x0" supports the nforce4 sound chip (I think, it could be something slightly different I can't check it atm but I know that alsa worked here and I don't use the nforce drivers)
I'd be happy if the Konqueror guys continued to "fail" that part of the test. (does it test any other "features" of that kind?)
OTOH SuSE is the only distro who's ever managed to give me more than 60Hz on my monitor without editing the config files by hand. Ubuntu seems to detect the correct vsync/hsync values but completely screws up the config file.
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She was the virgin moon goddess of the hunt, wild animals, healing, wilderness, chastity, and childbirth.
Like saints in later times Greek gods had lots and lots of different fields of activity/meanings tacked on based on supposed deeds and myths.
But they cancel each other out (well there's a miniscule amount of athmospheric drag and a few other even smaller forces but they're negligible unless we're talking about weeks and months)
Considering that PCs still running Win95 probably don't have that much RAM wouldn't it make more sense to use Kubuntu? KOffice should be enough for kids that age and isn't as dog slow as OOo, Konqueror needs less ressources than Firefox and Kiosk would allow to lock down the PCs for different classes and age groups.
Just because they took some random stuff and put it on the net when they had no right to do so? Who would have a problem with that?
Information wants to be free, yo!
Seems like /.'s sloppiness regarding AD/BC was actually a good decision =P
There *is* a difference, you know.
blah, blah, I can remember all the analysts predicting the PSP would cost $350, $400, $500 I don't think I've seen any analyst getting even close to reality. I predict that there will be at least one version of the PS3 at less than $450 I wouldn't be surprised if it was even lower at $399 or $299.
Personally I used KDE as DE (more consistent, better integrated, better file manager) but apart from that mostly Gnome apps (let's face it in the 1.4 days most KDE apps sucked while Gnome apps got the work done). Aah the blessings of enough RAM. Unfortunately the KDE apps became much better while too many Gnome apps got crippled in the name of "usability" leaving me with KDE only and a bit of enlightenment now and then for old times' sake =)
And in my experience most KDE dialogs automatically resize themselves if the text is to large for the window and if that's not possible at least they show scrollbars unlike Firefox (1.07, don't know about 1.5).
You're missing Shift+F1 the universal way to get context sensitive help in KDE. At least in 3.5 the resulting tooltip should answer all your questions =)
Accelerating at 1g you will never ever hit light speed you'll just get closer and closer to it.
The patent is from 1999; if they wanted to use it they would have used it for the PS2 so this whole discussion is FUD (helped by Sony's rootkit fiasco, great work guys)
I wonder what that means in absolut numbers and whether they're thinking about using Cells with all 8 SPUs activated for the PS3.
This probably means that the PS3 will either actually make its "spring" release or that it is hampered by problems with the Blu-Ray drives/disks instead of a Cell shortage because otherwise I couldn't imagine that Sony would allow IBM to use even one Cell for something that's not a PS3 for the first 3 months.
Yeah and we all know that SuSE never did anything useful whatsoever
Koennte mir irgendwer erklaeren, was zum Henker ein "Bannkontrolleur" sein soll?
What the EU wanted was MS's API specifications at a license that allows OSS to use those APIs. If instead MS voluntarily offers to license their whole source code you can bet there's a catch. Most likely something to prevent GPLed software from using it.
IMHO if you put it that way most people would agree, however
You can't honestly believe that having any one American corporate entity hold the keys to a market in Europe is a good thing?
that way many people won't. Just because a lot of locals on /. would have approved if the DoJ had made a lot of Babysofts doesn't mean they like it when the EU does something long overdue and very sensible for a change.
W is a disaster and Congress needs a change of majorities but that doesn't mean that it won't be the other way around in a few years. IMHO in Europe much more is controlled by career bureaucrats, a system which is less efficient but also less affected if one party is in power for more than 8 years. America needs shifting majorities (still imho) which makes all that gerrymandering (enthusiastically implemented by both parties where they are in power and opposed where they aren't) very, very dangerous.
iTMS/iPod is Apple's Office/Windows. The perfect Lock-in. I don't see them giving that up without license fees so high that the offer would be meaningless. Or a court order, but that's highly unlikely (at least the next few years, never say never =).