Personally, I've always liked KHTML but have been frustrated by the lack of any real progress in it's use in Konqueror. Now, is this Apples fault? No, they just built a better mouse trap. This whole thing smacks of the same hurt feelings over the Debian vs. Ubuntu tift. The king is dead! Long live the king! and all that..
Also, if anyone has the "capital" to expend on criticizing KDE, it would and should be the people who have made one of the most successful browsers out there to put a dent in IE usage. See, people kind of listen to you when you are successful as opposed to when you sit and whine because your take on things just doesn't seem to be taking off (Debian/Konqueror I'm looking at you).
Yes. I was looking at http://oswd.org/ last night and saw some interesting templates for use with a current client. I also feel weird about it. But time is money and if I can meet both our goals in a fast manner, everyone wins. Not to mention, it's not like I would use the site exactly as is.
Wouldn't this make you more of a Web Facilitator rather than a Web Designer? I have nothing against it, but I was wondering about this as well in relation to clients, etc. I guess the ultimate goal is to provide our clients with what they want, no matter what the means.
Markos is a piss poor example of anything other than an over inflated sense of self-worth and ego. A better example of what he's talking about would be the National Guard story that CBS shat out on the world. That's not to say the example cited isn't news worthy, but holding it up as an example without even discussing the other more worthy ones is a joke. Liken it to holding up the Mexican-American war as an example of how countries fight wars as opposed to WWII. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
I agree, Konq is a *great* browser, but it's lacking a lot of features I've grown use to on FF and development on the browser seems disjointed and slow when compared to FF. If they could speed things up and give it more plugin like functionality, it would be awesome.
I think I know the answer to this. The unavailability of GNOME 2.8 packages in Gentoo for so long caused a lot of Gentoo users to install Ubuntu to at least take a look at 2.8. It's my personal belief that many people liked what they saw and decided to stay with Ubuntu just as I did.
Personally, I've been an avid Gentoo user for the last year or so. I decided to re-install linux on a new machine and tried out Ubuntu first for shits and giggles.
I've decided to stick with it instead of Gentoo now, it's that nice. Ease of use and package availability appeals to everyone, linux n00bs and people use to building their own systems alike. As for the much discused "speed" advantage of Gentoo, my anecdotal observation is that Ubuntu is no slower than Gentoo. I would never have bothered with Debain and the chain of egos that come with it had it not been for this well rounded adaptation of it.
We use lingo and while the quality is decent, it's not great. Worth only paying $20 a month for? Yes. However, we keep having to unplug and replug the equipment they sent us because the phone just stops working. Very annoying.
It wandered too much. I remember getting to the part that had "speckles" recipies and I just groaned and stopped dead in my tracks. Didn't pick it up for another 2 years. Not horrible, just scattered.
That's a good theory and one I never considered. Don't forget one reason the Pak built the ringworld was because it was immune to the radiation from the core explosion and they were from that area originally so had first hand knowledge of it.
I *love* the Ringworld and everything about it. Niven is one of my favorite authors of all time.
Having said that..
This book was simply *horrible* when compared to his first 2 (hell, even the 3d one). The entire thing feels like he was looking for an "out" for the series and pieced together something just to meet a publishing requirement. Talk about Dues Ex Machina. He makes a big deal in the preface about "leaving the garden gate open so others may enjoy it" when ending a series so others can romp and continue to dream about that universe. Hard to do when you first lace the entire garden with SALT on your way out. Some of the things he does go against "canon" from previous books and is explained with such a half-assed effort as to be laughable. I'm all for correcting mistakes when needed (remember the spill mountains, spill pipe and attitude jets?) but this was done with characters and done POORLY.
I was bitterly disappointed, he could have done so much more had he simply put some effort into it.
So help me, if he screws up the "Smoke Ring" series I'll scream.
When looking at the explanation in the article that "the pendulum unexpectedly started moving a bit faster than it should have done" and then seeing them trying to use the same explanation for the *slowing* of both probes, it didn't make sense. If indeed large bodies do block gravitons and lessen the effect of gravity, the probes would surely have passed through the "shadows" of several high mass bodies and actually *accelerated*. No? So the claim that it "it slowed" would fit the profile of what's happening with both probes.
You think it's so black and white?
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As someone who is seperated by only one degree from Todd and his family (one of our best friends is also good friends with his wife) we've been following this for some time now. You can damm well bet that if it were my family or close friend, I wouldn't not hesitate to do the same thing they did. Only a fool would fail to capitalize on whatever assets they have in order to stay alive.
This kind of attitude seems to be typical of those working on GNOME these days. It's almost as is they think adopting a HIG suddenly makes them the OS equivalent of Apple computer. While reading Planet Gnome a few weeks back I was struck by one of the developers attitude on people complaining about the crappy performance of MetaCity. His take on it was people were whining and not thinking about what was important. Just didn't give shit that a good number of people had problems with the way it performed as opposed to others WMs.
I love OS, but I'll tell you one thing that commercial software does right:
It eliminates people who make crappy software that doesn't sell.
Not so here, they can continue to make mistake after mistake after mistake and will only realize years down the line they have shitty market share and should have been declared dead long ago. Contempt for your users is not an effective way to impress anyone.
BTW, middle clicking in Spatial Nautilus will open said folder while closing the parent folder, leaving you with just ONE folder.
Ditch metacity as the windows manager.
Please.
Also, after installing both the latest Gnome and KDE I can say without any doubt (at least on my machine and configuration, etc) that KDE is *much* faster than GNOME as almost everything now. It's now GNOME that feels bloated and out of touch.
What exactly does this mean? Is it an xserver capable of doing flash-like stuff on the desktop? Someone point out what makes this cooler than the existing stuff.
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And yet here you are, reading it and posting just like the rest of us. Asshat.
Personally, I've always liked KHTML but have been frustrated by the lack of any real progress in it's use in Konqueror. Now, is this Apples fault? No, they just built a better mouse trap. This whole thing smacks of the same hurt feelings over the Debian vs. Ubuntu tift. The king is dead! Long live the king! and all that..
Also, if anyone has the "capital" to expend on criticizing KDE, it would and should be the people who have made one of the most successful browsers out there to put a dent in IE usage. See, people kind of listen to you when you are successful as opposed to when you sit and whine because your take on things just doesn't seem to be taking off (Debian/Konqueror I'm looking at you).
Here's a cookie :(
But I did read your story on osnews first.
Heh. I laughed.
What is this "library" thing you speak of?
Yes. I was looking at http://oswd.org/ last night and saw some interesting templates for use with a current client. I also feel weird about it. But time is money and if I can meet both our goals in a fast manner, everyone wins. Not to mention, it's not like I would use the site exactly as is.
Wouldn't this make you more of a Web Facilitator rather than a Web Designer? I have nothing against it, but I was wondering about this as well in relation to clients, etc. I guess the ultimate goal is to provide our clients with what they want, no matter what the means.
Markos is a piss poor example of anything other than an over inflated sense of self-worth and ego. A better example of what he's talking about would be the National Guard story that CBS shat out on the world. That's not to say the example cited isn't news worthy, but holding it up as an example without even discussing the other more worthy ones is a joke. Liken it to holding up the Mexican-American war as an example of how countries fight wars as opposed to WWII. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
I agree, Konq is a *great* browser, but it's lacking a lot of features I've grown use to on FF and development on the browser seems disjointed and slow when compared to FF. If they could speed things up and give it more plugin like functionality, it would be awesome.
I think I know the answer to this. The unavailability of GNOME 2.8 packages in Gentoo for so long caused a lot of Gentoo users to install Ubuntu to at least take a look at 2.8. It's my personal belief that many people liked what they saw and decided to stay with Ubuntu just as I did.
Personally, I've been an avid Gentoo user for the last year or so. I decided to re-install linux on a new machine and tried out Ubuntu first for shits and giggles.
I've decided to stick with it instead of Gentoo now, it's that nice. Ease of use and package availability appeals to everyone, linux n00bs and people use to building their own systems alike. As for the much discused "speed" advantage of Gentoo, my anecdotal observation is that Ubuntu is no slower than Gentoo. I would never have bothered with Debain and the chain of egos that come with it had it not been for this well rounded adaptation of it.
I hear in the French version Master Chief surrenders to the Covenant within the first 10 minutes of the game anyway. Problem solved.
We use lingo and while the quality is decent, it's not great. Worth only paying $20 a month for? Yes. However, we keep having to unplug and replug the equipment they sent us because the phone just stops working. Very annoying.
You should be able to find in on torrent sites like suprnova.org within a few days.
The best news here is that Firefox will also now be able to use the native KDE widgets, etc. Sweet.
It wandered too much. I remember getting to the part that had "speckles" recipies and I just groaned and stopped dead in my tracks. Didn't pick it up for another 2 years. Not horrible, just scattered.
That's a good theory and one I never considered. Don't forget one reason the Pak built the ringworld was because it was immune to the radiation from the core explosion and they were from that area originally so had first hand knowledge of it.
I *love* the Ringworld and everything about it. Niven is one of my favorite authors of all time. Having said that.. This book was simply *horrible* when compared to his first 2 (hell, even the 3d one). The entire thing feels like he was looking for an "out" for the series and pieced together something just to meet a publishing requirement. Talk about Dues Ex Machina. He makes a big deal in the preface about "leaving the garden gate open so others may enjoy it" when ending a series so others can romp and continue to dream about that universe. Hard to do when you first lace the entire garden with SALT on your way out. Some of the things he does go against "canon" from previous books and is explained with such a half-assed effort as to be laughable. I'm all for correcting mistakes when needed (remember the spill mountains, spill pipe and attitude jets?) but this was done with characters and done POORLY. I was bitterly disappointed, he could have done so much more had he simply put some effort into it. So help me, if he screws up the "Smoke Ring" series I'll scream.
Ilium should have won. :(
Easily the best book of the year in IMHO. Fantasy books need their own award, I'm a tad tired of them showing up in the Hugo awards.
When looking at the explanation in the article that "the pendulum unexpectedly started moving a bit faster than it should have done" and then seeing them trying to use the same explanation for the *slowing* of both probes, it didn't make sense. If indeed large bodies do block gravitons and lessen the effect of gravity, the probes would surely have passed through the "shadows" of several high mass bodies and actually *accelerated*. No? So the claim that it "it slowed" would fit the profile of what's happening with both probes.
As someone who is seperated by only one degree from Todd and his family (one of our best friends is also good friends with his wife) we've been following this for some time now. You can damm well bet that if it were my family or close friend, I wouldn't not hesitate to do the same thing they did. Only a fool would fail to capitalize on whatever assets they have in order to stay alive.
This kind of attitude seems to be typical of those working on GNOME these days. It's almost as is they think adopting a HIG suddenly makes them the OS equivalent of Apple computer. While reading Planet Gnome a few weeks back I was struck by one of the developers attitude on people complaining about the crappy performance of MetaCity. His take on it was people were whining and not thinking about what was important. Just didn't give shit that a good number of people had problems with the way it performed as opposed to others WMs.
I love OS, but I'll tell you one thing that commercial software does right:
It eliminates people who make crappy software that doesn't sell.
Not so here, they can continue to make mistake after mistake after mistake and will only realize years down the line they have shitty market share and should have been declared dead long ago. Contempt for your users is not an effective way to impress anyone.
BTW, middle clicking in Spatial Nautilus will open said folder while closing the parent folder, leaving you with just ONE folder.
Care to point the way to them? I love the way knoq does fonts and would love to see it in firefox.
Ditch metacity as the windows manager. Please. Also, after installing both the latest Gnome and KDE I can say without any doubt (at least on my machine and configuration, etc) that KDE is *much* faster than GNOME as almost everything now. It's now GNOME that feels bloated and out of touch.
What exactly does this mean? Is it an xserver capable of doing flash-like stuff on the desktop? Someone point out what makes this cooler than the existing stuff.
Sorry for my ignorance..