Astro in astronaut stands for "star", not american. Cosmo in cosmonaut stands for "cosmos", not russian. Personally, I prefer cosmonaut, but I am Russian so I am biased.
Yeah, I don't think that guy had any business painting that chopper either, unless he had some surface-to-air laser guided munition to accompany it and he fully intended to use it. Otherwise - what's the point? Stupidity, in this case, will be harshly prosecuted as a lesson to all future SAM site operators.
They have BaikalFinanceGroup well in hand, they don't need luck - BaikalFinanceGroup has already sold the shares to a state owned oil company, but thank you for the sentiment.
Here is some useless trivia for you:
Moskal is a derogatory term used by some Ukrainians to call Russians. Another one is kotsap. In turn the Russians call Ukrainians khokhly - (due to the characteristic haircut that some Ukrainian men had in the past).
You play a little black ameba-like creature, crawling through tunnels, squeezing through narrow places, climbing the walls, jumping, swimming, etc... You can make the skin sticky and pick up bricks and toss them at baddies. The ameba feels very squishy, good physics simulation.
My only suggestion to the developers would be to re-link against the OpenAL static libraries, because not everybody has the dynamic libraries installed - I had to go dig out my SuSE 9.1 cds to install them just to try the demo.
You and your parents are real assholes. You could have told the poor woman that she is just wasting the film, instead of laughing at her ignorance. You suck.
Paul.
I disagree completely, you will be hard pressed to find a more animated and intelligent political discussion. I even set up my server to record every episode - they may not be prophets, but they are the next best thing.
Paul.
I agree, but I think it's because it's the cheapest rocket they can ride on. A commercial launch of SS-N-18 from a submarine is a double win for the Russian NAVY - they essentially get paid for a "live" battle drill. It helps them evaluate their battle readiness and get paid in the process. It would make sense for them to make this launch affordable, but with a few strings attached, such as launching from a submerged sub.
Of course, this is what I think is happening, I can't be sure exactly...
You know, I've recently felt nostalgic about the good old days when Linux was harder then necessary, I tried to install RedHat 5.2 on a 486 with 16MB RAM - it worked, but it cost me a day and made me appreciate all the improvements that Linux has gained in the last 6-7 years.
What exactly do you hope to gain by switching to Slackware besides the reduced usability? Doing it just for nostalgia's sake may not be the best reason (unless you really do have time to waste).
I have a Thinkpad 600E with 160MB RAM. It has a mobile P2-400, and I am typing this comment right now from SuSE 8.2 Pro running KDE 3.1 on this laptop. I downgraded to SuSE 8.2 from 9.1 because I did not appreciate the long boot time the latest SuSE has brought. Otherwise, SuSE 9.1 with KDE 3.2 ran fine.
I believe there was a attempt made over a year ago to implement an icons server, but it was droped because it did not improve performance. Anyway, I have not been dissatisfied with KDE performance so far. I used to use AfterStep and WindowMaker before KDE 2.1.1 came out, mostly because I really enjoyed their applets, but since the switch to KDE I do not feel that I am missing out on anything that AfterStep and WindowMaker have to offer.
If a mobile pentium-2 400 is enough to negate the performance pitfalls that you mentined, then what does it matter? In this case I would argue that instantiation of C++ classes without regard to performance is a good thing - optimization is a task that should be reserved for things that need to be optimized. Optimizing too early leads to unreadable buggy code. The fact that you were able to read KDE code and understand it's potential performance problems tells me that KDE code is not badly written (in readability sense), and therefore it can be fixed when need arises.
How would you know anything about KDE being a "badly programmed piece of bloatware"? The fact that it is the most popular desktop environment on Linux would seem to speak highly of KDE. Just because you don't know how to make use of the features that KDE offers does not mean those features are bloat.
Bye,
Paul.
PS. This comment brougth to you with KDE 3.1 running happily on a mobile P2-400 with 160MB RAM. (SuSE 8.2 Pro).
1. Kill your coworkers for being annoyed with your taste in music. 2. Kill yourself for working in a cubicle. 3. Give up, get headphones and live out your meaningless existence in the cubicle.
I am pretty sure MiG-25 (Ye-266M) still holds the record for absolute altitude of 123,492 ft. Here is more info on it: http://aeroweb.lucia.it/~agretch/RAFAQ/MiG-25.html
Anyway, here is a link to a gallery of photos from inside a MiG-25 at close to that altitude: http://www.spaceadventures.it/25.htm
Argoff, would you care to elaborate on your earlier statements?
I can't claim to know anything about GNOME development, but what do you know about KDE development that makes you think that they are "financially accountable to the closed software model of doing business"? They are not the ones being sponsored by SUN, GNOME is. Their annual budget for the year 2002 was a little over $1800, and for 2003 a little over $7600 - http://dot.kde.org/1072276327/
This does not look like "financial accountability to the closed model of doing business" to me. They have competent developers and newbees, both of which work on the code that they are capable of working on. Most newbees start out working on a small application, because nobody in their right mind would trust a newcomer unfamiliar with the KDE architecture to make changes to its core (does not apply to trivial bug fixes).
And what exactly do you mean by "can't keep their focus like gnome"? Where is that focus now - remove advanced desktop features so that the "simple" users can use it? KDE will find a way to meet the needs of simple users without sacrificing the usability to which advanced users became accustomed, that has been their focus since KDE 3.0, and they are following though with it.
Well, the reasons for porting KDE to Mac OS X natively and the reasons why someone would want to use Konqueror on OS X may be different.
Konqueror is not just a browser. It is also a file manager (kind of like Windows Explorer on SuperMan steroids). It suppors io-slaves, which gives Konqueror network transparency that I do not think is paralleled by any other file browser right now. Also, some people dislike the OS X Finder and would prefer to use Konqueror instead.
Konqueror is pretty cool - it has all the latest features such as tabbed browsing, but it also allows to split any view into two (and then again) - you can make it look like Norton Commander if you like.
Konqueror also supports archiving web pages as.war files (I do not know if this is an exclusive Konqueror feature or not, and I don't care - it is extremely useful).
So, there are many reasons someone would want to use Konqueror, and not just on OS X or Linux.
The reason to port to OS X could be so that KDE were less dependent on X11 hacks and used Qt API more thoroughly, I don't know. The thing is - the more portable the code is, the fewer bugs there are (unless of course they start #ifdef-ing everywhere, then it just turns into a mess of duplicated non-portable code).
A poll is an excellent idea to evaluate current desktop environment preference of Linux (*BSD, UNIX) users.
To make my bias clear I will tell you outright that I choose KDE, for over 2 years now. And my affection for KDE is so large that I actually abandoned RedHat in favour of SuSE around the time the whole Bluecurve issue arose.
The reason I disliked Bluecurve is that it really did not solve the underlying issue of gtk/GNOME/Qt/KDE interface integration. At best it tried to hide the problem with some cosmetic makeup (theme + icons). And although the makeup was flattering to GNOME, it was not to KDE. Bluecurve is not an enduring solution.
So, I abandoned RedHat and decided to give my money to the biggest backer of the KDE project - SuSE. And now that Novell is set to purchase SuSE, I am left wondering whether SuSE will continue to promote KDE as before. Novell already owns Ximian, the "improved" GNOME for corporate desktop. Why would Novell want to maintain two competing inhouse projects? It will most likely kill one of them off. The question is - which one?
So, what other KDE friendly distribution is out there?
Fedora is of RedHat descent, and RedHat did not prove to be KDE friendly. SuSE is in a limbo until more is known about Novells intentions. Mandrake is KDE friendly, but frankly I am not sure that they will still be around in the year 2004.
There are Lindows, Licoris, Xandros, or so I've heard, but I've heard very little else good about them.
One thing is certain, if UserLinux will not have KDE, it will not have me as its user.
I've started training in Wing Tsun back in December on 2001. A friend at work was showing a demo video of Emin Boztepe to another coworker. I saw the video and said "I'll do it if you do it". I've been doing it since. Incidentally, my friend has been doing it on-and-off for over 15 years now. He started in Leung Ting organization, currently we are training under EBMAS - started by Emin Bostepe. We also do Latosa Escrima, but that is secondary. Frankly, I can't imagine how one can actually apply Escrima without killing the opponent, or seriousely injuring him - scarry. http://www.ebmas.net/
My other hobby is Planted Aquaria. I am hoping to achieve the same results as Mr. Takashi Amano. Check out his work, but be warned - planted aquaria is a very expensive and time consuming hobby: http://www.vectrapoint.com/main/infocentral.html Paul.
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You are wrong, I would like to:
1. own a slide rule
2. know how to use it
Paul
Get a free cd burner app to burn the image:
http://www.cdburnerxp.se/
Paul.
Astro in astronaut stands for "star", not american.
Cosmo in cosmonaut stands for "cosmos", not russian.
Personally, I prefer cosmonaut, but I am Russian so I am biased.
Paul.
Yeah, I don't think that guy had any business painting that chopper either, unless he had some surface-to-air laser guided munition to accompany it and he fully intended to use it. Otherwise - what's the point? Stupidity, in this case, will be harshly prosecuted as a lesson to all future SAM site operators.
Paul.
> Good luck with BaikalFinanceGroup, Moskal!
They have BaikalFinanceGroup well in hand, they don't need luck - BaikalFinanceGroup has already sold the shares to a state owned oil company, but thank you for the sentiment.
Here is some useless trivia for you:
Moskal is a derogatory term used by some Ukrainians to call Russians. Another one is kotsap. In turn the Russians call Ukrainians khokhly - (due to the characteristic haircut that some Ukrainian men had in the past).
Nice talking to you, jerk.
Paul.
You play a little black ameba-like creature, crawling through tunnels, squeezing through narrow places, climbing the walls, jumping, swimming, etc... You can make the skin sticky and pick up bricks and toss them at baddies. The ameba feels very squishy, good physics simulation.
My only suggestion to the developers would be to re-link against the OpenAL static libraries, because not everybody has the dynamic libraries installed - I had to go dig out my SuSE 9.1 cds to install them just to try the demo.
Paul.
You and your parents are real assholes. You could have told the poor woman that she is just wasting the film, instead of laughing at her ignorance. You suck.
Paul.
I disagree completely, you will be hard pressed to find a more animated and intelligent political discussion. I even set up my server to record every episode - they may not be prophets, but they are the next best thing.
Paul.
I agree, but I think it's because it's the cheapest rocket they can ride on. A commercial launch of SS-N-18 from a submarine is a double win for the Russian NAVY - they essentially get paid for a "live" battle drill. It helps them evaluate their battle readiness and get paid in the process. It would make sense for them to make this launch affordable, but with a few strings attached, such as launching from a submerged sub.
Of course, this is what I think is happening, I can't be sure exactly...
Paul.
Have you learned nothing from Dogbert? People are exactly this easily manipulated.
Paul.
You know, I've recently felt nostalgic about the good old days when Linux was harder then necessary, I tried to install RedHat 5.2 on a 486 with 16MB RAM - it worked, but it cost me a day and made me appreciate all the improvements that Linux has gained in the last 6-7 years.
What exactly do you hope to gain by switching to Slackware besides the reduced usability? Doing it just for nostalgia's sake may not be the best reason (unless you really do have time to waste).
Paul.
RedHat 9 ships with KDE 3.1, not KDE 2.
RedHat 7.2 shipped with KDE 2.2.1,
RedHat 7.3 (the best RedHat ever) shipped with KDE 3.0.
Paul.
Adding things to the start menu is very easy in KDE.
Paul.
Hi,
I have a Thinkpad 600E with 160MB RAM. It has a mobile P2-400, and I am typing this comment right now from SuSE 8.2 Pro running KDE 3.1 on this laptop. I downgraded to SuSE 8.2 from 9.1 because I did not appreciate the long boot time the latest SuSE has brought. Otherwise, SuSE 9.1 with KDE 3.2 ran fine.
Paul.
I believe there was a attempt made over a year ago to implement an icons server, but it was droped because it did not improve performance. Anyway, I have not been dissatisfied with KDE performance so far. I used to use AfterStep and WindowMaker before KDE 2.1.1 came out, mostly because I really enjoyed their applets, but since the switch to KDE I do not feel that I am missing out on anything that AfterStep and WindowMaker have to offer.
If a mobile pentium-2 400 is enough to negate the performance pitfalls that you mentined, then what does it matter? In this case I would argue that instantiation of C++ classes without regard to performance is a good thing - optimization is a task that should be reserved for things that need to be optimized. Optimizing too early leads to unreadable buggy code. The fact that you were able to read KDE code and understand it's potential performance problems tells me that KDE code is not badly written (in readability sense), and therefore it can be fixed when need arises.
Paul.
Thanks for pointing out my logic errors, but I would much rather hear an explanation as to why "KDE is badly prgrammed" and bloated.
Paul
How would you know anything about KDE being a "badly programmed piece of bloatware"? The fact that it is the most popular desktop environment on Linux would seem to speak highly of KDE. Just because you don't know how to make use of the features that KDE offers does not mean those features are bloat.
Bye,
Paul.
PS. This comment brougth to you with KDE 3.1 running happily on a mobile P2-400 with 160MB RAM.
(SuSE 8.2 Pro).
You should cancel and re-order from Amazon.
It's cheaper.
On the other hand, I have preordered SuSE 9.1 Pro directly from SuSE and got it about a week after it was released.
Paul.
You have three choices:
1. Kill your coworkers for being annoyed with your taste in music.
2. Kill yourself for working in a cubicle.
3. Give up, get headphones and live out your meaningless existence in the cubicle.
Hope this helps,
Paul.
I am pretty sure MiG-25 (Ye-266M) still holds the record for absolute altitude of 123,492 ft.l
Here is more info on it: http://aeroweb.lucia.it/~agretch/RAFAQ/MiG-25.htm
Anyway, here is a link to a gallery of photos from inside a MiG-25 at close to that altitude:
http://www.spaceadventures.it/25.htm
Paul.
I don't believe the stock kernel has an up-to-date wacom driver.
Get it here: http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/
I run SuSE 8.2 and have Graphire 3 USB and Intuos serial working great.
Hope this helps,
Paul.
Argoff, would you care to elaborate on your earlier statements?
I can't claim to know anything about GNOME development, but what do you know about KDE development that makes you think that they are "financially accountable to the closed software model of doing business"? They are not the ones being sponsored by SUN, GNOME is. Their annual budget for the year 2002 was a little over $1800, and for 2003 a little over $7600 - http://dot.kde.org/1072276327/
This does not look like "financial accountability to the closed model of doing business" to me. They have competent developers and newbees, both of which work on the code that they are capable of working on. Most newbees start out working on a small application, because nobody in their right mind would trust a newcomer unfamiliar with the KDE architecture to make changes to its core (does not apply to trivial bug fixes).
And what exactly do you mean by "can't keep their focus like gnome"? Where is that focus now - remove advanced desktop features so that the "simple" users can use it? KDE will find a way to meet the needs of simple users without sacrificing the usability to which advanced users became accustomed, that has been their focus since KDE 3.0, and they are following though with it.
Paul.
Well, the reasons for porting KDE to Mac OS X natively and the reasons why someone would want to use Konqueror on OS X may be different.
.war files (I do not know if this is an exclusive Konqueror feature or not, and I don't care - it is extremely useful).
Konqueror is not just a browser. It is also a file manager (kind of like Windows Explorer on SuperMan steroids). It suppors io-slaves, which gives Konqueror network transparency that I do not think is paralleled by any other file browser right now. Also, some people dislike the OS X Finder and would prefer to use Konqueror instead.
Konqueror is pretty cool - it has all the latest features such as tabbed browsing, but it also allows to split any view into two (and then again) - you can make it look like Norton Commander if you like.
Konqueror also supports archiving web pages as
So, there are many reasons someone would want to use Konqueror, and not just on OS X or Linux.
The reason to port to OS X could be so that KDE were less dependent on X11 hacks and used Qt API more thoroughly, I don't know. The thing is - the more portable the code is, the fewer bugs there are (unless of course they start #ifdef-ing everywhere, then it just turns into a mess of duplicated non-portable code).
Paul.
A poll is an excellent idea to evaluate current desktop environment preference of Linux (*BSD, UNIX) users.
To make my bias clear I will tell you outright that I choose KDE, for over 2 years now. And my affection for KDE is so large that I actually abandoned RedHat in favour of SuSE around the time the whole Bluecurve issue arose.
The reason I disliked Bluecurve is that it really did not solve the underlying issue of gtk/GNOME/Qt/KDE interface integration. At best it tried to hide the problem with some cosmetic makeup (theme + icons). And although the makeup was flattering to GNOME, it was not to KDE. Bluecurve is not an enduring solution.
So, I abandoned RedHat and decided to give my money to the biggest backer of the KDE project - SuSE. And now that Novell is set to purchase SuSE, I am left wondering whether SuSE will continue to promote KDE as before. Novell already owns Ximian, the "improved" GNOME for corporate desktop. Why would Novell want to maintain two competing inhouse projects? It will most likely kill one of them off. The question is - which one?
So, what other KDE friendly distribution is out there?
Fedora is of RedHat descent, and RedHat did not prove to be KDE friendly.
SuSE is in a limbo until more is known about Novells intentions.
Mandrake is KDE friendly, but frankly I am not sure that they will still be around in the year 2004.
There are Lindows, Licoris, Xandros, or so I've heard, but I've heard very little else good about them.
One thing is certain, if UserLinux will not have KDE, it will not have me as its user.
Paul.
Hey,
I've started training in Wing Tsun back in December on 2001. A friend at work was showing a demo video of Emin Boztepe to another coworker. I saw the video and said "I'll do it if you do it". I've been doing it since. Incidentally, my friend has been doing it on-and-off for over 15 years now. He started in Leung Ting organization, currently we are training under EBMAS - started by Emin Bostepe. We also do Latosa Escrima, but that is secondary. Frankly, I can't imagine how one can actually apply Escrima without killing the opponent, or seriousely injuring him - scarry.
http://www.ebmas.net/
My other hobby is Planted Aquaria. I am hoping to achieve the same results as Mr. Takashi Amano.
Check out his work, but be warned - planted aquaria is a very expensive and time consuming hobby: http://www.vectrapoint.com/main/infocentral.html
Paul.