Hmm. I really don't think so. I mean, KDE does not use its own fonts && is not tied to its default fonts. You may use the MS-fonts or any other font(s) of your liking. Except, you haven't found the configuration. It would be under System Settings -> Application Appearance -> Fonts.
Let's take one last run at this: Do you believe context ever matters in language or word choice?
Yep. But in our language and our age it has become a mostly artificial context and semantics. And it is transient. 2 generations ago, calling someone 'gay' was a totally non-sexual term of appreciation. And yes, I have met physically handicapped people who preferred to be called 'cripple' because they hated the smoothing-over of their state as they perceived, it by softening up reality.
Absolutely. I remember, in German, there's a word considered pejorative: "Kanacke" and likewise. Then I visited the island of New Caledonia (east of Australia), and then everyone was proud to declare that they were "le peuple kanak". That's at least confusing. And there is much more of this "corruption of language to change thinking". Back to German: What used to be gypsies in the old days have now become "mobile ethnic minority". I mean, what an utter BS for an enlightened society of 2012. Where are we going if we continue to disallow all sorts of descriptors? Leave out the N-word. Why is it unacceptable to call a black man black? Why "coloured", when actually (s)he is black? The people of the Malayan Archipelago are seriously brown. Is brown not a colour? And the yellowish people? Do we mean them when we say "coloured"? No, we don't. How confusing must that be for a child growing up. How much does this corrupt thinking? I myself am white, and tend to say so. Because the politically correct term "Caucasian" is totally wrong. I am not in any way a descendant of some tribe from the Caucasus, a mountain range somewhere in eastern Europe. And I could go on and on and on. Therefore thumbs up to your post. Mod me OT if you think so, because I haven't argued on why there is nothing wrong with the brand name of GIMP. It is unfortunate, I agree, in sales terms. But in FOSS, we don't have to sell and we don't need to bend over backward neither. Now I am not longer mod-able as OT.
I for one wonder, how this thread has gone through - at least until here and know - without anyone demanding political correctness. Or a livid counter-statement by our Asian friends in academia. I could not believe that this is read by Caucasians only. Should I surmise agreement?
Peer review is supposed to happen before the article gets published.
I need to disappoint you here: PeerReview is not on the correctness of the results, even less on the non-fiddling of the data. PeerReview is on the proper grammar, spelling, but mostly on the proper write-up, references, inherent logic, hypothesis, etc.; followed by an estimate if the article is a contribution to science. When the reviewer finds the structure of the publication without fault, it is published. Nobody pays a reviewer for a trip in order to evaluate the correctness in the original location, with the original data. If that is possible after all; think about any evaluation done by human testers. Who guarantees that the data have not been "brushed up" ever since? To suit the expectations? A former colleague of mine did so for his PhD work. Since the data would not have proven his approach, he had to suitably "correct" them in order to obtain his PhD. So he had thought. And him being in the 95% of the mediocre researchers, nobody ever bothered to dig deeper into the matter. Even his PhD evaluators failed to notice this fact.
Unfortunately, allow me to add this, there are two independent effects here: Firstly, the pressure to publish increases fraud; if not even necessitates it. Secondly, if one checked the average (not to say mediocre) results, I guess that half would be difficult to reproduce. If the author of the original article had done the job correctly, (s)he would have had to prove in the first place how retraction numbers and occurrences of fraud are correlated.
Patronizing, are you? What makes you think you may prescribe the type of internal addressing (size of RAM, internationalisation, etc.) to anyone and everyone? I for one do care. Be it to work with IPv6 islands in an IPv4 shop, or student and research work. Maybe someone wants the same IP address wherever she goes?
It can be understood from your post that you say "as long as the Apple box allows a connection; by whichever means and difficulties including eventual downgrades and encumbrances, I will defend its weaknesses to the very end". Though you could have said so.
...ro [Limited amount of chars in the title, thank you so much,/.!]
And how we have all had our regular switching-your-distro-experiences over the last 10 to 15 years! And how we were proud to have found the latest and greatest - multiple times!
Does anyone of you waste a second of thought on us; us who try to actually make it the "year of the Linux desktop" by rolling a distro and a DE out to a multitude of users? Users who give a toss about new distros and yet new DE? Users who would love to stick to their distro and DE for the rest of their lives? No wonder about this bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 It is mostly self-inflicted.
While this is insightful, to say the least, I doubt if it can be generalised for 'engineering'. I doubt this very much. Whenever I was involved in employing electrical engineers, I'd surely look very closely at the formal qualification. If I were in civil engineering, I would use a microscope before I allowed anyone to 'deliver' - as you put it - at building a bridge for my company, for example. And the submitter states he is a mechanical engineer.
Sorry, I forgot the second part of my request of sparement: I usually add 'chroot-nonsense'. Because I don't want to load some loop-mounted image. I want to insert any (u)SD with *nix on it and go through the installer. I don't understand. I could install, and have been using Ubuntu on my OMAP4-pandaboard off (u)SD for one year now. Why not on a similar tablet?
Make that paragraph 19, I'd suggest: "no person shall, unless he is a Registered Computing Professional (a) practice, carry on business or take up employment which requires him to carry out or perform the services of a Registered Computing Professional" is sufficient to get the gist.
and yet, I say it up and down, everywhere: I'll buy the first tablet that runs Debian natively (make that Ubuntu, or anything like that). I buy a tablet, price doesn't matter too much, the day I can install some Linux-Distro on it (please, spare all of the us the 'Android-is-Linux' nonsense comments). I don't need coolness, I am cool. I need OpenOffice on my tablet, no Google-Docs, and I need printing. Not a single Cent for some app, no new printer. CUPS is on any reasonable Linux-Distro, and that's what I am waiting for. Thanks to the original submitter. I was almost tempted to buy a tablet today, despite of all my good intentions as above. I didn't even consider I would not be able to print. Now I know that I am not going to buy a tablet for the time being.
You see, this is nice reading. And nice thinking. Unfortunately, it is totally unscientific. You propagate the idea that theories that sound warm and fuzzy should be accepted as truth, while theories that result in harshness and coldness should be discarded. That is your good right. However, you overstep your perimeter by calling us, who have a different opinion of yours,.... names.
I, too, will pitch my hat in the ring to provide a Muslim perspective.
I am from Pakistan, which is about as conservative and Muslim as you can get (okay, so KSA is even more so...but you get the gist)
You fail it, alas. Because you narrate anecdotal evidence on how Darwinism was introduced in Pakistan. Maybe interesting, but anyone could have narrated that. And I cannot make out any 'Muslim perspective' in your words.
The very first thing I thought upon reading the summary was, "What about all the other muslim med students who don't have a problem at all with studying evolution? Why are they focusing on a tiny minority of fundos rather than the vast majority of regular mos?"
Indeed. Why should I worry about the tiny minority of suicide bombers rather than the vast majority of the nice co-travelers? So, in your opinion it is okay when some medical students boycott and refuse learning that goes against their personal conviction?
Trouble is, they don't go there and complain to make someone say what they like to hear. They go there and complain to make the whole situation change and dictate what can be taught and what not. In order to go to heaven, their religious duty is to convert the whole world to Islam. And they try step by step, small step by small step, but as of now, another few centuries of 'us' giving in by tiny tiny steps, and they will go to heaven (in case they are correct).
Dear AC, don't worry.The mod who modded you down can hardly be blamed. He doesn't know about Dr. M, and he probably doesn't speak Bahasa Malaysia neither. So something was whooshing over her head.
Oh dear! Had you not written the sequence about compiling the kernel, we might have considered you a philosopher... . But you fail it. Compiling a BSD kernel is actually most simple, and much more simple than compiling a Linux kernel. That doesn't mean I wanted to defend FreeBSD. But surely truth needs to be defended.
Firstly, the article is on desktop, not on server and neither on development. So your argument is moot. Secondly, the only stable API I ever experienced was and is on Solaris. Exactly on the contrary: In BSD userland goes pretty much together with a kernel.
Tongue in cheek? You know what a PC is, don't you? IBM 1980 et al. Not Commodore, not Sinclair, not Amiga and neither Acorn. Here we have been discussing the replacement of Windows by some other means, e.g. GNU/Linux, on PCs. Your Acorn is not a PC and has never been. Though I am sure you know this.
I'm really curious about this one. I also fail to understand what you mean, except that the sentences are constructed in a readable manner, that I might simply be unable to grasp. Could you be more specific, or offer an example?
Posting without reading TFA is very much appreciated in Slashdot. People might, however, construct snide remarks when a post lacks insight. Like the fact, that CE and Windows Phone 7 only run on ARM. Show me any old(er) PC with an ARM-Processor, and I'll show you a pig that can fly.
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With all respect to your 5-digit user-ID; this does not make much sense to me. Were you as developer not able to mold the first releases of KDE?
Hmm. I really don't think so. I mean, KDE does not use its own fonts && is not tied to its default fonts. You may use the MS-fonts or any other font(s) of your liking.
Except, you haven't found the configuration. It would be under System Settings -> Application Appearance -> Fonts.
Let's take one last run at this: Do you believe context ever matters in language or word choice?
Yep. But in our language and our age it has become a mostly artificial context and semantics. And it is transient. 2 generations ago, calling someone 'gay' was a totally non-sexual term of appreciation.
And yes, I have met physically handicapped people who preferred to be called 'cripple' because they hated the smoothing-over of their state as they perceived, it by softening up reality.
Absolutely.
I remember, in German, there's a word considered pejorative: "Kanacke" and likewise. Then I visited the island of New Caledonia (east of Australia), and then everyone was proud to declare that they were "le peuple kanak". That's at least confusing. And there is much more of this "corruption of language to change thinking".
Back to German: What used to be gypsies in the old days have now become "mobile ethnic minority". I mean, what an utter BS for an enlightened society of 2012. Where are we going if we continue to disallow all sorts of descriptors? Leave out the N-word. Why is it unacceptable to call a black man black? Why "coloured", when actually (s)he is black? The people of the Malayan Archipelago are seriously brown. Is brown not a colour? And the yellowish people? Do we mean them when we say "coloured"? No, we don't. How confusing must that be for a child growing up. How much does this corrupt thinking? I myself am white, and tend to say so. Because the politically correct term "Caucasian" is totally wrong. I am not in any way a descendant of some tribe from the Caucasus, a mountain range somewhere in eastern Europe.
And I could go on and on and on. Therefore thumbs up to your post.
Mod me OT if you think so, because I haven't argued on why there is nothing wrong with the brand name of GIMP. It is unfortunate, I agree, in sales terms. But in FOSS, we don't have to sell and we don't need to bend over backward neither. Now I am not longer mod-able as OT.
I for one wonder, how this thread has gone through - at least until here and know - without anyone demanding political correctness. Or a livid counter-statement by our Asian friends in academia.
I could not believe that this is read by Caucasians only. Should I surmise agreement?
Peer review is supposed to happen before the article gets published.
I need to disappoint you here:
PeerReview is not on the correctness of the results, even less on the non-fiddling of the data. PeerReview is on the proper grammar, spelling, but mostly on the proper write-up, references, inherent logic, hypothesis, etc.; followed by an estimate if the article is a contribution to science.
When the reviewer finds the structure of the publication without fault, it is published. Nobody pays a reviewer for a trip in order to evaluate the correctness in the original location, with the original data. If that is possible after all; think about any evaluation done by human testers. Who guarantees that the data have not been "brushed up" ever since? To suit the expectations?
A former colleague of mine did so for his PhD work. Since the data would not have proven his approach, he had to suitably "correct" them in order to obtain his PhD. So he had thought. And him being in the 95% of the mediocre researchers, nobody ever bothered to dig deeper into the matter. Even his PhD evaluators failed to notice this fact.
Unfortunately, allow me to add this, there are two independent effects here: Firstly, the pressure to publish increases fraud; if not even necessitates it. Secondly, if one checked the average (not to say mediocre) results, I guess that half would be difficult to reproduce.
If the author of the original article had done the job correctly, (s)he would have had to prove in the first place how retraction numbers and occurrences of fraud are correlated.
Inside the facility, who cares?
Patronizing, are you? What makes you think you may prescribe the type of internal addressing (size of RAM, internationalisation, etc.) to anyone and everyone?
I for one do care. Be it to work with IPv6 islands in an IPv4 shop, or student and research work. Maybe someone wants the same IP address wherever she goes?
It can be understood from your post that you say "as long as the Apple box allows a connection; by whichever means and difficulties including eventual downgrades and encumbrances, I will defend its weaknesses to the very end".
Though you could have said so.
... of an article of 2009 on April 11, 2012?
I mean, technically.
...ro [Limited amount of chars in the title, thank you so much, /.!]
And how we have all had our regular switching-your-distro-experiences over the last 10 to 15 years!
And how we were proud to have found the latest and greatest - multiple times!
Does anyone of you waste a second of thought on us; us who try to actually make it the "year of the Linux desktop" by rolling a distro and a DE out to a multitude of users?
Users who give a toss about new distros and yet new DE? Users who would love to stick to their distro and DE for the rest of their lives?
No wonder about this bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 It is mostly self-inflicted.
I think the arrogant GNOME developers are the only ones to blame here. ... gnome hell.
If Canonical hadn't developed unity then the choice would be
While this is insightful, to say the least, I doubt if it can be generalised for 'engineering'. I doubt this very much.
Whenever I was involved in employing electrical engineers, I'd surely look very closely at the formal qualification. If I were in civil engineering, I would use a microscope before I allowed anyone to 'deliver' - as you put it - at building a bridge for my company, for example.
And the submitter states he is a mechanical engineer.
Sorry, I forgot the second part of my request of sparement: I usually add 'chroot-nonsense'. Because I don't want to load some loop-mounted image. I want to insert any (u)SD with *nix on it and go through the installer. I don't understand. I could install, and have been using Ubuntu on my OMAP4-pandaboard off (u)SD for one year now. Why not on a similar tablet?
Mark S., what do you say?
Make that paragraph 19, I'd suggest:
"no person shall, unless he is a Registered Computing Professional
(a) practice, carry on business or take up employment which requires him to carry out or perform the services of a Registered Computing Professional"
is sufficient to get the gist.
Thumbs up!!
100% agree.
+5 Insightful
Tell this to my wife or my employer.
and yet, I say it up and down, everywhere: I'll buy the first tablet that runs Debian natively (make that Ubuntu, or anything like that). I buy a tablet, price doesn't matter too much, the day I can install some Linux-Distro on it (please, spare all of the us the 'Android-is-Linux' nonsense comments). I don't need coolness, I am cool. I need OpenOffice on my tablet, no Google-Docs, and I need printing. Not a single Cent for some app, no new printer. CUPS is on any reasonable Linux-Distro, and that's what I am waiting for.
Thanks to the original submitter. I was almost tempted to buy a tablet today, despite of all my good intentions as above. I didn't even consider I would not be able to print. Now I know that I am not going to buy a tablet for the time being.
You see, this is nice reading. And nice thinking. Unfortunately, it is totally unscientific. You propagate the idea that theories that sound warm and fuzzy should be accepted as truth, while theories that result in harshness and coldness should be discarded. .... names.
That is your good right.
However, you overstep your perimeter by calling us, who have a different opinion of yours,
I, too, will pitch my hat in the ring to provide a Muslim perspective.
I am from Pakistan, which is about as conservative and Muslim as you can get (okay, so KSA is even more so...but you get the gist)
You fail it, alas. Because you narrate anecdotal evidence on how Darwinism was introduced in Pakistan. Maybe interesting, but anyone could have narrated that. And I cannot make out any 'Muslim perspective' in your words.
The very first thing I thought upon reading the summary was, "What about all the other muslim med students who don't have a problem at all with studying evolution? Why are they focusing on a tiny minority of fundos rather than the vast majority of regular mos?"
Indeed. Why should I worry about the tiny minority of suicide bombers rather than the vast majority of the nice co-travelers?
So, in your opinion it is okay when some medical students boycott and refuse learning that goes against their personal conviction?
Trouble is, they don't go there and complain to make someone say what they like to hear. They go there and complain to make the whole situation change and dictate what can be taught and what not. In order to go to heaven, their religious duty is to convert the whole world to Islam. And they try step by step, small step by small step, but as of now, another few centuries of 'us' giving in by tiny tiny steps, and they will go to heaven (in case they are correct).
Dear AC, don't worry.The mod who modded you down can hardly be blamed. He doesn't know about Dr. M, and he probably doesn't speak Bahasa Malaysia neither. So something was whooshing over her head.
Oh dear! Had you not written the sequence about compiling the kernel, we might have considered you a philosopher ... .
But you fail it. Compiling a BSD kernel is actually most simple, and much more simple than compiling a Linux kernel. That doesn't mean I wanted to defend FreeBSD. But surely truth needs to be defended.
Firstly, the article is on desktop, not on server and neither on development. So your argument is moot.
Secondly, the only stable API I ever experienced was and is on Solaris. Exactly on the contrary: In BSD userland goes pretty much together with a kernel.
What was your argument again?
Tongue in cheek?
You know what a PC is, don't you? IBM 1980 et al. Not Commodore, not Sinclair, not Amiga and neither Acorn. Here we have been discussing the replacement of Windows by some other means, e.g. GNU/Linux, on PCs. Your Acorn is not a PC and has never been. Though I am sure you know this.
I'm really curious about this one.
I also fail to understand what you mean, except that the sentences are constructed in a readable manner, that I might simply be unable to grasp.
Could you be more specific, or offer an example?
Posting without reading TFA is very much appreciated in Slashdot.
People might, however, construct snide remarks when a post lacks insight.
Like the fact, that CE and Windows Phone 7 only run on ARM. Show me any old(er) PC with an ARM-Processor, and I'll show you a pig that can fly.