So there's zooming, which doesn't work. Then moving things on the panel, which worked fine in 3.5.x anyhow. Err, anything else?
This is a serious question. I've just really felt I must be missing something as 4.0.x is a huge productivity leap backwards for me - incidentally on 3.5.9 (on Ubuntu) I've turned off all the flashy alt-tab switching and what have you as (for me) it just gets in the way of working.
I like the new splashscreen though! I'd definitely use that...
I just wish, this was more obvious — such as from the release name: "4.0-prealpha" or something...
IMHO 4.0 should have been given as a alpha at most. To simply call it 4.0 was silly. I'm tracking it in the releases (but not svn) and to be honest it's nearly usable for the internet only box I've got it on, but not quite. The promised speed improvements haven't materialised for me either, but I do get quite a few crashes on it.
Looks like 4.1 might be about beta stage. Why did the developers break the version numbering system like this.
I've loved using KDE (for about 8 years so far), but it looks like I'll have to stick with KDE3 for quite a while yet.
And the reason why a website needs to have complex animations or applications is...
Er, because it can?
Because people want to use applications that connect across multiple global locations. Because applications can be delivered quickly with shorter development cycles. Because it's easier to understand an animation of a process than a description of it - and not all processes can be easily filmed. Because people like to play games that are otherwise not commercially viable or for which the best way to connect users is via the www.
I'm pretty sure that I could go on with a couple of hundred other reasons...
Now animation is misused I'll grant you that but to claim it, or web apps, are useless is a bit of a leap.
As for flash apps in separate windows. I'd rather not have separate windows. Your argument with "back" can be levelled against pure html pages (referrer redirection for example) or those with Javascript too. Perhaps browsers should instead provide an indication that an embedded application is being used, a warning on use of the back button? I bet everyone would switch them off... it's not that hard to realise when you're using a flash application and a little web experience teaches you about the slight change in procedure of use for these. Other problems with Flash seem to be programming or UI design and not the medium itself.
I suspect the type of designer who would happily use Flash for navigation is the type of designer who is unaware blind people use computers at all.
In the UK (and I think the US has similar legislation) companies are required by law to take reasonable steps to ensure that their services are accessible to those with disabilites. This includes website design but it does take account of the nature and size of the company.
I look forward to the day some website design company (hopefully not mine!) gets sued by their client following prosecution under the DDA.
Wonder when we are going to get "web police" that ensure this, and other company laws, are followed.
doing it for your research isn't a good reason, unless you're interested in doing a research stint abroad
Doesn't it rather depend what field you're in.
I was a patent examiner (UK) and we had to learn enough German/French to read patents in those languages. Their were some electronics fields with a lot of Japanese stuff - I can see you'd benefit from reading Japanese research matter if you worked in these fields.
Mathematician: There is one sheep in a field in Scotland that is black on at least one side.
I thought he was going to say all sheep in Scotland are grey?
Anyhow, what's with there's no inductive proof in Mathematics? There are many many inductive proofs, even at high-school you write "proof by induction" quite a lot. Google it, all the top hits are mathematical.
Are you sure you got AVG from Grisoft? Doesn't sound like my experience of it at all (I'm using it on Vista but have used it fro '98 and XP, but not Linux IIRC)
To get the free version - go to free.grisoft.com (google "AVG free" it's the first link) which redirects now to free.avg.com - that seems pretty clear about where the free version is. Now they are giving you a fully functioning product so the 2 extra links to get the download I think are justified:
Click "get it now" button under "Free basic protection". Scroll to bottom of page of features click "Download", choose the one that says "free for private use" in the left column marked "AVG free".
That's hardly "hidden in 6pt". I didn't install, I'm on ubuntu here, but I say: it exists, it's easy to find for anyone who's not trying to be obtuse.
It's not a proper survey but I don't get any popups except when a new version comes along, then you're offered the chance to upgrade to a pay version - perhaps they can somehow tell you're using it on a business machine, are you on a LAN?
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The article.
As for the "editor" of this article - I think some journalistic pride in making it clear it's a separate product (to AVG anti-virus) which is for malware detection. A product you can choose to use to pre-check internet links. How the heck is it supposed to work if not by, y'know like, following links and checking them for malware?
I'm not saying it's a good thing, just that the article and the summary somewhat misrepresent the situation. Sheesh, I must be new here!
Now, lastly, several publicly held companies only care about the NEXT QUARTERLY REPORT. They are shortsighted.
Publically held companies care about the amalgamation of what their shareholders care about - shareholders generally care about only making money. If they can wring out an extra 50Million USD with cheaper screens, then ditch the company for the competition they will.
With your iPod example I think you'll find that the items become obsolete due to fashion considerations so build quality is a tertiary issue.
Like I said - it shouldn't be this way, it will change as resources becomes scarcer but companies won't change until the economics push them that way, that's capitalism. It'll probably be too late then.
You have to use advertising and marketing to communicate the truth, which is that your product is indeed the best and has the most value for the price.
Only one product is the best (generally or for a customer). You may well know that your product isn't best. What do you do - go to the investors and say "our product sucks compared to ACME's, we're folding, sorry"? No, companies still try and sell as much of their product as possible. You don't even have to convince people it's the best, just that it's good value or that it makes them part of a group that are well regarded (celeb endorsement).
On the other hand if your product/is/ the best then you can still have an epic fail - a competitor convinces people there product is best OR you fail to demonstrate the benefits.
I wish it were different.
Aside: If you can generalise your trick where you fool someone into thinking that you gave them icecream when in fact you blew their balls off then you have the potential to be the richest person who ever lived. Bill Gates I think did a modified version of this.
No that would be my whois email address whois@example.com the admin email address is on another domain (in case there are problems with getting emails and I can't get in to my account then I can still get a new password or whatever). It could have been a random guess by the hackers but the domains are not otherwise associated and no other names received the spam.
Go figure? If you've another suggestion? Perhaps a rogue admin, or a leak (which I asked them about, email was ignored)?
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Moreover don't MS have click-wrap / shrink-wrap wording that specifically disclaims liability if the software is used in _any_ life critical system?
Or is that anti-MS FUD?
I've never actually read any of that for myself.
So there's zooming, which doesn't work. Then moving things on the panel, which worked fine in 3.5.x anyhow. Err, anything else?
This is a serious question. I've just really felt I must be missing something as 4.0.x is a huge productivity leap backwards for me - incidentally on 3.5.9 (on Ubuntu) I've turned off all the flashy alt-tab switching and what have you as (for me) it just gets in the way of working.
I like the new splashscreen though! I'd definitely use that ...
lolz
For me, it's already possible to do more than what I used to do with 3.5.x desktops.
Example?
You could, you know, wait for them to finish KDE4.
Will they release it as 4.0 then? How will we ever know it's considered stable enough to use?
I just wish, this was more obvious — such as from the release name: "4.0-prealpha" or something...
IMHO 4.0 should have been given as a alpha at most. To simply call it 4.0 was silly. I'm tracking it in the releases (but not svn) and to be honest it's nearly usable for the internet only box I've got it on, but not quite. The promised speed improvements haven't materialised for me either, but I do get quite a few crashes on it.
Looks like 4.1 might be about beta stage. Why did the developers break the version numbering system like this.
I've loved using KDE (for about 8 years so far), but it looks like I'll have to stick with KDE3 for quite a while yet.
And the reason why a website needs to have complex animations or applications is...
Er, because it can?
Because people want to use applications that connect across multiple global locations. Because applications can be delivered quickly with shorter development cycles. Because it's easier to understand an animation of a process than a description of it - and not all processes can be easily filmed. Because people like to play games that are otherwise not commercially viable or for which the best way to connect users is via the www.
I'm pretty sure that I could go on with a couple of hundred other reasons ...
Now animation is misused I'll grant you that but to claim it, or web apps, are useless is a bit of a leap.
As for flash apps in separate windows. I'd rather not have separate windows. Your argument with "back" can be levelled against pure html pages (referrer redirection for example) or those with Javascript too. Perhaps browsers should instead provide an indication that an embedded application is being used, a warning on use of the back button? I bet everyone would switch them off ... it's not that hard to realise when you're using a flash application and a little web experience teaches you about the slight change in procedure of use for these. Other problems with Flash seem to be programming or UI design and not the medium itself.
I suspect the type of designer who would happily use Flash for navigation is the type of designer who is unaware blind people use computers at all.
In the UK (and I think the US has similar legislation) companies are required by law to take reasonable steps to ensure that their services are accessible to those with disabilites. This includes website design but it does take account of the nature and size of the company.
I look forward to the day some website design company (hopefully not mine!) gets sued by their client following prosecution under the DDA.
Wonder when we are going to get "web police" that ensure this, and other company laws, are followed.
I've just realised (I'm getting slow!) that my lad "wrote" his first words yesterday.
He typed his name (with help finding a couple of keys) then he wrote "Dad" and "Mum" (I pressed shift but didn't otherwise interfere).
He's nowhere near producing tight/defined letter forms yet as he's only just 3 this month.
Perhaps I should switch him to Dvorak before it's too late?
Don't just learn the language, study a broad
There fixed that for ya!
Learning German at the age of about 24 taught me a lot of English grammar that noone bothered to teach me and I hadn't sought out for myself.
So you looked at that list and chose "Chinese"? Wu, Mandarin, Cantonese, ...?
There are it seems 7 main Chinese languages, the most spoken language in the world appears to be Mandarin.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language
doing it for your research isn't a good reason, unless you're interested in doing a research stint abroad
Doesn't it rather depend what field you're in.
I was a patent examiner (UK) and we had to learn enough German/French to read patents in those languages. Their were some electronics fields with a lot of Japanese stuff - I can see you'd benefit from reading Japanese research matter if you worked in these fields.
Urdu might be good for a programmer?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers
I think ICANN are probably do anti-SEO because they are running out of places to store all the money.
Mathematician: There is one sheep in a field in Scotland that is black on at least one side.
I thought he was going to say all sheep in Scotland are grey?
Anyhow, what's with there's no inductive proof in Mathematics? There are many many inductive proofs, even at high-school you write "proof by induction" quite a lot. Google it, all the top hits are mathematical.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_induction
see http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=603913&cid=24058329 below
In which case you should be looking at the KDE install for windows, sorry it's via an easy-as-falling-over installer too.
http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_on_Windows/Installation
Kwrite IIRC is part of the default installation - it's on my Vista install (I'm not rebooting to check).
More info at http://windows.kde.org/ too.
HTH
What do you share with your spouse?
You forgot to mention a few bodily fluids in your list ... or are you not going to touch your spouse?
[S]he'll probably just get a similar strain of flu from her work colleagues anyway.
Do you mean 24/7/52? Or perhaps 60/24/365? But 24/7/365 seems a bit redundant?!?
I bet I made a mistake in this post, tis the law of slashdot!
Almost exactly what I was thinking, but for me it was "put 3 of these computers against each other and they'll devalue the currency?".
Are you sure you got AVG from Grisoft? Doesn't sound like my experience of it at all (I'm using it on Vista but have used it fro '98 and XP, but not Linux IIRC)
To get the free version - go to free.grisoft.com (google "AVG free" it's the first link) which redirects now to free.avg.com - that seems pretty clear about where the free version is. Now they are giving you a fully functioning product so the 2 extra links to get the download I think are justified:
Click "get it now" button under "Free basic protection". Scroll to bottom of page of features click "Download", choose the one that says "free for private use" in the left column marked "AVG free".
That's hardly "hidden in 6pt". I didn't install, I'm on ubuntu here, but I say: it exists, it's easy to find for anyone who's not trying to be obtuse.
It's not a proper survey but I don't get any popups except when a new version comes along, then you're offered the chance to upgrade to a pay version - perhaps they can somehow tell you're using it on a business machine, are you on a LAN?
-
The article.
As for the "editor" of this article - I think some journalistic pride in making it clear it's a separate product (to AVG anti-virus) which is for malware detection. A product you can choose to use to pre-check internet links. How the heck is it supposed to work if not by, y'know like, following links and checking them for malware?
I'm not saying it's a good thing, just that the article and the summary somewhat misrepresent the situation. Sheesh, I must be new here!
Shouldn't it be avg_free_stfu_xxxx.exe ??
Now, lastly, several publicly held companies only care about the NEXT QUARTERLY REPORT. They are shortsighted.
Publically held companies care about the amalgamation of what their shareholders care about - shareholders generally care about only making money. If they can wring out an extra 50Million USD with cheaper screens, then ditch the company for the competition they will.
With your iPod example I think you'll find that the items become obsolete due to fashion considerations so build quality is a tertiary issue.
Like I said - it shouldn't be this way, it will change as resources becomes scarcer but companies won't change until the economics push them that way, that's capitalism. It'll probably be too late then.
You have to use advertising and marketing to communicate the truth, which is that your product is indeed the best and has the most value for the price.
Only one product is the best (generally or for a customer). You may well know that your product isn't best. What do you do - go to the investors and say "our product sucks compared to ACME's, we're folding, sorry"? No, companies still try and sell as much of their product as possible. You don't even have to convince people it's the best, just that it's good value or that it makes them part of a group that are well regarded (celeb endorsement).
On the other hand if your product /is/ the best then you can still have an epic fail - a competitor convinces people there product is best OR you fail to demonstrate the benefits.
I wish it were different.
Aside: If you can generalise your trick where you fool someone into thinking that you gave them icecream when in fact you blew their balls off then you have the potential to be the richest person who ever lived. Bill Gates I think did a modified version of this.
No that would be my whois email address whois@example.com the admin email address is on another domain (in case there are problems with getting emails and I can't get in to my account then I can still get a new password or whatever). It could have been a random guess by the hackers but the domains are not otherwise associated and no other names received the spam.
Go figure? If you've another suggestion? Perhaps a rogue admin, or a leak (which I asked them about, email was ignored)?