IMHO, C++ is a simple, flexible, intuitive, and powerful language... IF (and only if) you know how to use it.
So what you're saying is that it actually isn't simple, flexible and intuitive? Because if it was simple, flexible and intutive you wouldn't have to say "IF (and only if) you know how to use it." That's kind of a big contradiction.
You don't think the 737 sitting in front of you with engines roaring might tip you off that you are in the wrong place?
What 737? Its Fairbanks Alaska. The airport is less than a couple of buildings and a runway with hardly any signs or fences around. Not every fucking airport on Earth is JFK or Heathrow. Get over yourself.
Honestly not trying to start a flame war here, but what's the best Linux distro for running KDE? Which ones do a really decent implementation of it (and which distros get it really wrong and should be avoided)?
Probably OpenSUSE or Chakra. Chakra aims to be 100% KDE/Qt and GNOME/Gtk free. Chakra was originally based on Arch but has since branched off in their own direction.
KDE does so many interesting things. I love modular, general purpose, and cross-platform tools that combine into a greater whole. This news item and also their work on a common desktop framework for mobile and desktop fall into that category. QT also has so much going for it.
Agreed. The technology behind KDE is fantastic
But why then is the KDE user experience so awful?? I just can't use it. Coming from Windows for Office, web, and gaming, and GNOME2 on my servers and workstations, trying KDE is like a huge regression. It looks bad, it feels clunky, it is always broken somehow. I just don't understand why they can't get it together. Does anyone actually use it?
You said it yourself, "it looks bad". The KDE team are aesthetically challenged, always have been. They need good designers to compliment their great work. KDE can look like anything but the default is so bad that every time I boot into it I want to log back off without configuring anything.
You shouldn't have to spend a week tweaking the DE to make it look somewhat decent. GNOME for all its functional impairment at least gets the aesthetics right.
I've been hoping KDE would get it together for years but they just dont seem to have a clue. If it's ugly, no one wants to touch it.
Because it still rewards group think and creates a popularity contest rather than a forum for actual discussion. I can say this as one of the first people to ever post on slashdot back when it was hosted in Cmdr Taco's dorm room in college. I even contributed some of the code once upon a time.
That said most comment systems have this issue. In reality, all they need to do is allow you to block anyone you wish. No points, no popularity contest. Just block the people you dislike and move on. You dont see them, they dont see you, everyones happy in their bubble.
Yes, but if something groundbreaking comes about that shakes the foundations of evolutionary theory, it's going to be published in Popular Science, not posted in its comments section.
And now it wont even be discussed in their comment system.............. dissent effectively silenced
For some reason The Register also seems to have good quality comments. As does The Guardian, so it can be possible to build a commenting community that works. Maybe it's a British thing?
Good comments or comments you agree with? I ask because they aren't necessarily the same thing.
Yes and no. On one hand there is no point arguing when an opponent comes with absolute knowledge.
In this case its the Mag coming with "absolute knowledge"
When someone is saying that evolution is wrong because the bible says so
That's not their argument. The bible makes no mention of evolution. A small number of fundamentalists might say this but it's not founded in the actual religion.
or that climate change is wrong because the bible says so
No one has ever made that argument. You're just making things up now and trying to disparage people you disagree with. You're literally no better than the people who made the decision to disable the comments at this point. While they are silencing dissent by killing the venue you're trying to silence it through shaming them.
You need to seriously think about how you debate/discuss the sciences.
"Everything, from evolution to the origins of climate change, is mistakenly up for grabs again"
And here I was under the impression that everything in science was always up for grabs. This is just the mag trying to silence dissent. I happen to agree with evolution but I have no problem debating it with people who do not. Nor do I believe evolution is settled science, we continue to learn a great deal and there is always a possibility of some groundbreaking new development to come along and rock the whole foundation.
Encrypting the connection between Google and the users isn't going to accomplish anything when the NSA already has full access to Google's servers.
Too little, too late. Way too late.
Google has been very adamant that the NSA does not have access to their servers. I don't know if I believe them or not but that is the premise Google is working off of.
It also means nothing when they cowtow to the national security letters like they do.
I was going to leave this alone but I just can't. McCarthy had nothing to do with any fucking internment camps. He wasn't even elected until AFTER WW2. But of course, why let facts get in the way of your astounding edumacation.
So you want an app that's controlling an IV pump to be written to the same standards as your average fart app?
Why the fuck would you use a mobile app to control an IV pump? That's like running a production database for a fortune 500 company off of Arch Linux.
You don't use something that isn't stable to run something as important and life critical as an IV pump. Nor would any hospital do so and any individual that tried would simply be a victim of natural selection.
Well.. this and the U.S. still has this puritan crap going on in the background that makes general violence and minimal amount of gore FINE but that showing too much of a boob (or anything slightly sexual) will TOTALLY CORRUPT MY BABY!
Seriously... killing people is fine but something that makes you feel good and is a gift to mankind.. NO WAY. OMG!!
Please explain where you get that puritans are ok with violence because the above just makes you sound like a radical loon with a penchant for hating anything even remotely religious.
Exactly. The article almost lays blame on "parents" here, assuming all parents do this. I'd say 10% is pretty good considering how fucked up society is right now. There are some places where greater than 50% of the kids drop out of school due to a real life version of GTA because their parents don't care or even actively encourage them. I'll take 10% on a make believe GTA any day.
I have no intention of letting my son play games like this. I'd rather he went outside and played sports instead. But regardless, even if the rate was 1%, that 1% will still interact with the other 99% and the 99% will be exposed to it on one level or another. Bottom line is simple, be a parent, and look after your kids. You can't protect them from life.
"The Surface pro is fucking terrible." Your opinion "The entire device lacks focus." Your opinion "If the Surface disappeared today no one would care." Again your opinion.
If your weren't just posting empty hyperbole instead of meaningful points, this could actually be a discussion.
The only thing that matters is opinion. If my opinion of it was positive I would buy one. Since it isn't I'm not. And since MS had to eat shit on almost a billion dollars worth of these boat anchors I'd say the public's opinion matters quite a bit too.
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Yeah, that was a mistake, how many times have I accidentally rebooted Linux because I was trying to login to my windows vm.
Comedy fucking gold. Bravo to you sir
Is the power button located on your keyboard?
Right above the Delete key on my laptop............... yes
Snowden told us about this already. Google's been sending them to the NSA for years.
A single button that, if hit, would reboot the system???? That's is the stupidest shit I've ever heard.
Press the power button on your computer while it's running. Hey, look at that, a single button that shutdown the system.
Simple answer is because no one uses Perl anymore, so it's going to have less WTF due to less usage.
IMHO, C++ is a simple, flexible, intuitive, and powerful language... IF (and only if) you know how to use it.
So what you're saying is that it actually isn't simple, flexible and intuitive? Because if it was simple, flexible and intutive you wouldn't have to say "IF (and only if) you know how to use it." That's kind of a big contradiction.
I always know when Soulskill is posting articles because they are nothing more than inflamatory bullshit.
You don't think the 737 sitting in front of you with engines roaring might tip you off that you are in the wrong place?
What 737? Its Fairbanks Alaska. The airport is less than a couple of buildings and a runway with hardly any signs or fences around. Not every fucking airport on Earth is JFK or Heathrow. Get over yourself.
Honestly not trying to start a flame war here, but what's the best Linux distro for running KDE? Which ones do a really decent implementation of it (and which distros get it really wrong and should be avoided)?
Probably OpenSUSE or Chakra. Chakra aims to be 100% KDE/Qt and GNOME/Gtk free. Chakra was originally based on Arch but has since branched off in their own direction.
KDE does so many interesting things. I love modular, general purpose, and cross-platform tools that combine into a greater whole. This news item and also their work on a common desktop framework for mobile and desktop fall into that category. QT also has so much going for it.
Agreed. The technology behind KDE is fantastic
But why then is the KDE user experience so awful?? I just can't use it. Coming from Windows for Office, web, and gaming, and GNOME2 on my servers and workstations, trying KDE is like a huge regression. It looks bad, it feels clunky, it is always broken somehow. I just don't understand why they can't get it together. Does anyone actually use it?
You said it yourself, "it looks bad". The KDE team are aesthetically challenged, always have been. They need good designers to compliment their great work. KDE can look like anything but the default is so bad that every time I boot into it I want to log back off without configuring anything.
You shouldn't have to spend a week tweaking the DE to make it look somewhat decent. GNOME for all its functional impairment at least gets the aesthetics right.
I've been hoping KDE would get it together for years but they just dont seem to have a clue. If it's ugly, no one wants to touch it.
I too wonder why more sites don't adopt it.
Because it still rewards group think and creates a popularity contest rather than a forum for actual discussion. I can say this as one of the first people to ever post on slashdot back when it was hosted in Cmdr Taco's dorm room in college. I even contributed some of the code once upon a time.
That said most comment systems have this issue. In reality, all they need to do is allow you to block anyone you wish. No points, no popularity contest. Just block the people you dislike and move on. You dont see them, they dont see you, everyones happy in their bubble.
Yes, but if something groundbreaking comes about that shakes the foundations of evolutionary theory, it's going to be published in Popular Science, not posted in its comments section.
And now it wont even be discussed in their comment system.............. dissent effectively silenced
For some reason The Register also seems to have good quality comments. As does The Guardian, so it can be possible to build a commenting community that works. Maybe it's a British thing?
Good comments or comments you agree with? I ask because they aren't necessarily the same thing.
Yes and no. On one hand there is no point arguing when an opponent comes with absolute knowledge.
In this case its the Mag coming with "absolute knowledge"
When someone is saying that evolution is wrong because the bible says so
That's not their argument. The bible makes no mention of evolution. A small number of fundamentalists might say this but it's not founded in the actual religion.
or that climate change is wrong because the bible says so
No one has ever made that argument. You're just making things up now and trying to disparage people you disagree with. You're literally no better than the people who made the decision to disable the comments at this point. While they are silencing dissent by killing the venue you're trying to silence it through shaming them.
You need to seriously think about how you debate/discuss the sciences.
"Everything, from evolution to the origins of climate change, is mistakenly up for grabs again"
And here I was under the impression that everything in science was always up for grabs. This is just the mag trying to silence dissent. I happen to agree with evolution but I have no problem debating it with people who do not. Nor do I believe evolution is settled science, we continue to learn a great deal and there is always a possibility of some groundbreaking new development to come along and rock the whole foundation.
You're young and apparently stupid. There is a name for people like you, "Organ donors"
Encrypting the connection between Google and the users isn't going to accomplish anything when the NSA already has full access to Google's servers.
Too little, too late. Way too late.
Google has been very adamant that the NSA does not have access to their servers. I don't know if I believe them or not but that is the premise Google is working off of.
It also means nothing when they cowtow to the national security letters like they do.
You think McCarthy era internment camps were bad?
I was going to leave this alone but I just can't. McCarthy had nothing to do with any fucking internment camps. He wasn't even elected until AFTER WW2. But of course, why let facts get in the way of your astounding edumacation.
But no shit, Sherlock.
They even wrote a letter expressing their outrage. In strongly worded but politically correct terms. Surely the US spy agency will take heed!
So you want an app that's controlling an IV pump to be written to the same standards as your average fart app?
Why the fuck would you use a mobile app to control an IV pump? That's like running a production database for a fortune 500 company off of Arch Linux.
You don't use something that isn't stable to run something as important and life critical as an IV pump. Nor would any hospital do so and any individual that tried would simply be a victim of natural selection.
Nanny State to the rescue! Did someone appoint Bloomberg to the FDA?
Anyone else think this is a result of Valve's announcement of focus on Linux-based Steam?
Why would it be? SteamOS will be using the proprietary drivers. This article is about the open source drivers.
Well.. this and the U.S. still has this puritan crap going on in the background that makes general violence and minimal amount of gore FINE but that showing too much of a boob (or anything slightly sexual) will TOTALLY CORRUPT MY BABY!
Seriously... killing people is fine but something that makes you feel good and is a gift to mankind.. NO WAY. OMG!!
Please explain where you get that puritans are ok with violence because the above just makes you sound like a radical loon with a penchant for hating anything even remotely religious.
parents aren't a hive mind.
Sheesh.
Exactly. The article almost lays blame on "parents" here, assuming all parents do this. I'd say 10% is pretty good considering how fucked up society is right now. There are some places where greater than 50% of the kids drop out of school due to a real life version of GTA because their parents don't care or even actively encourage them. I'll take 10% on a make believe GTA any day.
I have no intention of letting my son play games like this. I'd rather he went outside and played sports instead. But regardless, even if the rate was 1%, that 1% will still interact with the other 99% and the 99% will be exposed to it on one level or another. Bottom line is simple, be a parent, and look after your kids. You can't protect them from life.
"The Surface pro is fucking terrible." Your opinion
"The entire device lacks focus." Your opinion
"If the Surface disappeared today no one would care." Again your opinion.
If your weren't just posting empty hyperbole instead of meaningful points, this could actually be a discussion.
The only thing that matters is opinion. If my opinion of it was positive I would buy one. Since it isn't I'm not. And since MS had to eat shit on almost a billion dollars worth of these boat anchors I'd say the public's opinion matters quite a bit too.