Probably because next to nothing in KDE works unless the whole bloody thing is installed (at least in my experience) while Gnome is far more modular.
Try Debian. They managed to get it in nice small packages. The different source packages (base, network, pim, etc) make it imho easier to compile by hand. With Gnome you have to hunt down hundreds of packages and that's not fun. OTOH, if your distribution only offers these packages they're doing something wrong because you can break them down, it's just more work.
So I can't use Linux on my PC because the offer said "includes Microsoft Windows XP etc?" Of course they'll ship SonicStage with their player, it's also the software you need to use their online shop (afaik); they'd be stupid if they didn't
I fear you are right and you'll *have* to use SonicStage but you don't show the slightest proof, not even a strong hint that it'll be required.
Try Winamp5 (use the non-3d interface and it's as fast as good old Winamp 2 again) or even better amaroK for KDE. Both allow you to do both. You can use your folder structure and a playlist for most of your needs and have a collection sorted by artist etc. for the cases where you absolutely need it.
with KDE you can set KDEHOME to the config dir you want to use.
Simply put a
export KDEHOME=~/.kde
in your.xinitrc (or wherever) and a
export KDEHOME=~/.kde-vnc;
in your vnc settings before you launch startkde.
Alternatively you could create a copy your startkde and replace the default dir in the copy (it's around line 50). AFAIK kde doesn't care what the script's called
I think every man is entitled to one very, very expensive hobby. Yes GW is overpriced but you still get an respectable army for the price of a good graphics card or a semi-competitive Magic collection. You can spend ridiculous amounts of money on stamps, pets or Everquest characters so spending a few hundred $s on tin soldiers isn't all that strange
A game I could strongly recommend is Shogun if you still can find it. It's an *extremly* improved Risk which solves most of the worse problems of that game. Imho of course =)
The thing is not everyone needs the best of everything. Many people need/want a device really good at one thing (be that taking notes, playing music or ringing during a movie) and are happy if it's "good enough" at many other things.
Now I assume you're at home or at work. Take a look around. Unless you're very rich and have a very sophisticated taste chances are that you have one or two things in your view that are what you'd call excellent. Could be your computer, your display, the hifi-280.1-80MW-Armageddon-stereo or perhaps the $800 armchair you're sitting on. But most things probably fit in the "good enough" category. You're desk is probably nothing special, but it's good enough. The $20 speakers? Good enough. The Ikea lamp? Good enough.
People always wonder why Apple is at 5% market share. And while there's a myriad of reasons and I don't want to oversimplify it, imho the most important reason is that Steve Jobs is one of those quality freaks I mentioned above who have the money, the time, the inner drive and a good enough (no pun intended =) taste to strive for excellence in everything they own and everything they do. Most of us don't.
Well seems like I got a bit off topic here. But to make the connection: Sony, Nokia, etc. realized that the iPod is an excellent player and it has a strong entry barrier (its market share and the ITMS) for other players that makes it hard for competitors even if they were superior and even more so if they're just good enough. So they do the next best thing. They take other devices where they have the network effects on their side (phones as in the article, handhelds, see the PSP or PDAs) and add a music player that is good enough. If it's really good enough many people won't bother to cough up another $300 with the exception of about 5%.
The only major difference is that Windows doesn't automatically copy selected text, which is sometimes a good thing. Personally, I hate applications that do this -- like mIRC. I select text for a lot of other reasons than to just copy it and I don't want anything in my clipboard unless I explicity put it there. It just depends on what you're used to.
X has seperate clipboards for selected text and text copied to the clipboard with ctrl+c
(I usually only focus a window when I need to click on a button or something, and by doing that it naturally gets focus)
It's useful for coding and most X window managers allow you to raise only windows if you click the window decorations, not anywhere. That said I also prefer click-to-focus most of the time but KDE offers a nice window-button "keep above others" which can replace point-to-focus in the cases I need it. (I assume other WMs can have similar buttons but I've never seen one)
does Firefox really make a difference? The download is still 8MB and the browser neither seems faster nor less memory-hungry than plain Mozilla (never compared installed size but Knoppix ships the packages iirc).
To me the additional features of Mozilla for 4 MB more seem like a good deal. Well Opera provides most of that in a quarter the size but unfortunately their cookie management is so shitty I can't stand it =/
Most recently, he said that the current high school system should be scrapped because it is a complete waste of time. I don't know any Linux fans that would disagree with that.
He is also putting his money where his mouth is. I know that we are looking at getting some of his money to implement his plans in our own district
So you're scrapping the high school in your district? How did you get that past the PTA?
OTOH Apple fanboys will gossip no matter what. Chances are they'll often be correct about a few facts but if you don't have "official information",i.e. leaks, to keep the speculation in check I'll wager that Jobs often won't meet expectations because the fanboys were over-optimistic.
Also it's not like the stock doesn't rise before Macworld, etc. if there are some juicy rumors floating around =)
3) A restricted beta of a product Apple intends to make hundreds of millions of $$$ from is released into the wild for free. Entirely predictable
And it doesn't affect their bottomline a bit. Come on it's a *beta* for a reason and as soon as they start shipping Tiger, shipping millions of *rippable* CDs I might add, you're gonna find ISOs of the release version on every p2p net. I really don't see why they're making such a fuss about a leaked beta
(Note: the second is from a gamespy.com grudge (poll) but apparently gamespy's scrapped the archive; at least there were only links for the last few grudges and I didn't see a way to access older ones
Looks like pretty solid evidence to me. If the quotes or the conclusions are wrong for some reason I'd really like to know where.
*But* I don't think any of the lies go beyond what you could still call "political truth" i.e. selective memory etc. I wouldn't fire/put her on trial for that more for incompetence in letting 9/11 happen (doesn't mean a Gore administration would have prevented it but the Bush guys certainly didn't help)
And the reason for the ghost effect with transparent menues (i.e. the previous menu is still visible below the current) is that the transparency is fake like all transparency in X without the composite extension. (It don't remember whether it's gonna be supported in 3.4. I think so but I'm not sure)
Because for the same price as the Mac, you'll get a shuttle PC without a motherboard, CPU, memory, disk, or drives. An actual working Shuttle PC, built, to similar specifications will be about $950
You're completely out of your mind. I thought about buying a Mini as a server/router (it's where people can see it so looks and noise is an issue) but I scrapped that plan when I looked up the price of a comparable Shuttle PC and ended up with around 50EUR less and 512MB DDR included - no software though.
If you can live with a standard mini tower PC, today I've seen an offer: EUR399 for a Sempron 3000, 512MB, 80GB HD, 16x DVD-burner software included
But while you're using the service the value for iTMS is 15$*number-of-months while Napster has a value of a few hundred thousand dollars if you calculate the value by utility
He wrote that the platform may "signal the company's intention to move upscale from current game consoles, cutting a wider swath through the living room," with its abilities to function like a stand-alone DVD player and Internet set-top box.
Well one reason the PS2 sold like hot cakes was that it was one of the cheapest DVD players at that time (at least in Japan). There is media player software available and it's quite popular the reason it isn't a internet set-top box is that noone wants internet set-top boxes they died a painful death. Now there's no EE desktop PC because it's too slow but the difference between Cell and PS2 in this regard are
(a) Cell was co-designed by IBM which has an interest in selling workstations etc with that chip, Sony didn't it's not their business (b) Cell is designed for multiprocessor environments so if it becomes too slow for a task you can simply throw more processors at it (c) 2000 the clockspeeds still doubled every 18 months that stopped. x86 goes the way of multiple cores too so the programmers will have to get used to parallel design anyway
That doesn't mean it will replace x86 or even make a dent but it means that contrary to the EE it's designed for such stuff and one of the companies behind it sells specialized workstations so it's at least a possibility.
And this time you can find more credible sources than CNET (CNET's part of the yellow press of computer news sites. Almost as bad as yahoo news) who'll tell you that.
Slashdot Mirror
Well; E17 is almost usable now so they could fool us all by releasing E17 on April 1st =)
Try Debian. They managed to get it in nice small packages. The different source packages (base, network, pim, etc) make it imho easier to compile by hand. With Gnome you have to hunt down hundreds of packages and that's not fun. OTOH, if your distribution only offers these packages they're doing something wrong because you can break them down, it's just more work.
Then you're doing something wrong. If you open the playlists tab in amarok and move the player buttons to the top it looks just like juk.
I fear you are right and you'll *have* to use SonicStage but you don't show the slightest proof, not even a strong hint that it'll be required.
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Try Winamp5 (use the non-3d interface and it's as fast as good old Winamp 2 again) or even better amaroK for KDE. Both allow you to do both. You can use your folder structure and a playlist for most of your needs and have a collection sorted by artist etc. for the cases where you absolutely need it.
Simply put a
in yourAlternatively you could create a copy your startkde and replace the default dir in the copy (it's around line 50). AFAIK kde doesn't care what the script's called
A game I could strongly recommend is Shogun if you still can find it. It's an *extremly* improved Risk which solves most of the worse problems of that game. Imho of course =)
So -in business-speak- you just pulled a SCO?
Now I assume you're at home or at work. Take a look around. Unless you're very rich and have a very sophisticated taste chances are that you have one or two things in your view that are what you'd call excellent. Could be your computer, your display, the hifi-280.1-80MW-Armageddon-stereo or perhaps the $800 armchair you're sitting on. But most things probably fit in the "good enough" category. You're desk is probably nothing special, but it's good enough. The $20 speakers? Good enough. The Ikea lamp? Good enough.
People always wonder why Apple is at 5% market share. And while there's a myriad of reasons and I don't want to oversimplify it, imho the most important reason is that Steve Jobs is one of those quality freaks I mentioned above who have the money, the time, the inner drive and a good enough (no pun intended =) taste to strive for excellence in everything they own and everything they do. Most of us don't.
Well seems like I got a bit off topic here. But to make the connection: Sony, Nokia, etc. realized that the iPod is an excellent player and it has a strong entry barrier (its market share and the ITMS) for other players that makes it hard for competitors even if they were superior and even more so if they're just good enough. So they do the next best thing. They take other devices where they have the network effects on their side (phones as in the article, handhelds, see the PSP or PDAs) and add a music player that is good enough. If it's really good enough many people won't bother to cough up another $300 with the exception of about 5%.
jm2 =)
X has seperate clipboards for selected text and text copied to the clipboard with ctrl+c
(I usually only focus a window when I need to click on a button or something, and by doing that it naturally gets focus)
It's useful for coding and most X window managers allow you to raise only windows if you click the window decorations, not anywhere. That said I also prefer click-to-focus most of the time but KDE offers a nice window-button "keep above others" which can replace point-to-focus in the cases I need it. (I assume other WMs can have similar buttons but I've never seen one)
To me the additional features of Mozilla for 4 MB more seem like a good deal. Well Opera provides most of that in a quarter the size but unfortunately their cookie management is so shitty I can't stand it =/
So you're scrapping the high school in your district? How did you get that past the PTA?
And I was wrong, the dozen mirrors I talked about were the local mirrors. Seems more like a hundred
If you'd bothered to follow the link you'd noticed that there are at least a dozen .edu-class mirrors around. I doubt even /. could kill them all
Also it's not like the stock doesn't rise before Macworld, etc. if there are some juicy rumors floating around =)
Listening to the English rambling about the Hundred-Years War you could almost forget that they lost it =)
And it doesn't affect their bottomline a bit. Come on it's a *beta* for a reason and as soon as they start shipping Tiger, shipping millions of *rippable* CDs I might add, you're gonna find ISOs of the release version on every p2p net. I really don't see why they're making such a fuss about a leaked beta
this and this
(Note: the second is from a gamespy.com grudge (poll) but apparently gamespy's scrapped the archive; at least there were only links for the last few grudges and I didn't see a way to access older ones
n/t
Looks like pretty solid evidence to me. If the quotes or the conclusions are wrong for some reason I'd really like to know where.
*But* I don't think any of the lies go beyond what you could still call "political truth" i.e. selective memory etc. I wouldn't fire/put her on trial for that more for incompetence in letting 9/11 happen (doesn't mean a Gore administration would have prevented it but the Bush guys certainly didn't help)
And the reason for the ghost effect with transparent menues (i.e. the previous menu is still visible below the current) is that the transparency is fake like all transparency in X without the composite extension. (It don't remember whether it's gonna be supported in 3.4. I think so but I'm not sure)
You're completely out of your mind. I thought about buying a Mini as a server/router (it's where people can see it so looks and noise is an issue) but I scrapped that plan when I looked up the price of a comparable Shuttle PC and ended up with around 50EUR less and 512MB DDR included - no software though.
If you can live with a standard mini tower PC, today I've seen an offer: EUR399 for a Sempron 3000, 512MB, 80GB HD, 16x DVD-burner software included
But while you're using the service the value for iTMS is 15$*number-of-months while Napster has a value of a few hundred thousand dollars if you calculate the value by utility
Well one reason the PS2 sold like hot cakes was that it was one of the cheapest DVD players at that time (at least in Japan). There is media player software available and it's quite popular the reason it isn't a internet set-top box is that noone wants internet set-top boxes they died a painful death. Now there's no EE desktop PC because it's too slow but the difference between Cell and PS2 in this regard are
(a) Cell was co-designed by IBM which has an interest in selling workstations etc with that chip, Sony didn't it's not their business
(b) Cell is designed for multiprocessor environments so if it becomes too slow for a task you can simply throw more processors at it
(c) 2000 the clockspeeds still doubled every 18 months that stopped. x86 goes the way of multiple cores too so the programmers will have to get used to parallel design anyway
That doesn't mean it will replace x86 or even make a dent but it means that contrary to the EE it's designed for such stuff and one of the companies behind it sells specialized workstations so it's at least a possibility.
And this time you can find more credible sources than CNET (CNET's part of the yellow press of computer news sites. Almost as bad as yahoo news) who'll tell you that.