I wasn't even arguing against your point just against that stupid myth that you sprouted.
Konqueror is just an application. It is completely replacable with another application (or set of applications) like Krusader or XFE (both of which run on the libraries that are automatically loaded by KDE). KDE works just fine without konqueror installed.
Why does everyone ask this? YES KDE WORKS WITHOUT KONQUEROR!!!! Konqueror is a file manager and a web browser but it's just an application. A Konqeror-like application is what the grandparent is asking for!
Re:I'm disrespectful to dirt!
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Flash, Meet Sparkle
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If you're going to make fun of the Japanese accent you could at least do it properly and use romanji: "Misutaa Supaakoru"
Much much worse, however, is Firefox's stupid behaviour when it comes to tabs that time out or whatever. If I'm downloading something and middle click to open a few new tabs, every so often one of them might time out. If that happens then if I go to that tab there's no way of getting the page I was actually wanting. Reload is blacked out, there's nothing in the location bar and the tab's title says "Untitled".
I'd also rather having the HTML messages for "page not found" than the dialogue messages but the exact same thing happens - there's a "file not found" message but there's no way of clicking "back" to get to the page I was just at, or "reload" to try the page again! That's just UI stupidity.
Also there are authentic "Please activate your email address" from Yahoo. At least the dns address and ip address seem authentic. Apparently lots of people don't trust Yahoo with their real emails.
Re:No Australian spammers!
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Though this is off topic, whenever I look at a Google Maps map of the world I'm always reminded of how distorted 2D maps actually are. For example, Greenland is actually quite a bit smaller than Australia (in fact, less than a third of the size). The actual country sizes definitely puts things into a better perspective than the 2D google maps.
I see one spam message from "The Middle of the Atlantic". Damn those spam sending cruise ships! On the other hand, it's perhaps the first spam message that I'm disappointed that I can't read the body of the message.
Ha! I admit it I thought that it was you that didn't have the sense of humour. However reading that last post gave me one of the biggest laughs all day so I now have to humbly apoligise for my transgression.
I've always wondered how KStars does on the astronomy scale. People have been raving about it, but I haven't asked any actual astronomers I know. If you haven't tried it, perhaps you should try it before saying there's no "real astronomy software at all".
As for the gimp vs photoshop, I find photoshop horrific to use personally and I'd rather the gimp every time. I'm also aware because I've gotten my head out of the bucket that it's not because the gimp is a better program, it's because I'm used to the gimp and I know exactly how to use it whereas I don't know exactly how to use photoshop. Perhaps you should try gimpshop.
Yes, like Tasmania is the island south of the mainland, the Maoris live on the Australian islands east of the mainland. The only problem is because of the sorrowful state of human rights in Australia we don't give them a vote.
Yep, we don't have hurricanes. We have Cyclones, but not a hurricane in sight.
Re:Why do they have to break their own standards?
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Yes. I use Linux.
It was actually a comparison between Firefox and Konqueror, and most definitely the clincher. Konq can do everything that Firefox can except put everything on one line.
That said, I do use Windows and Office at work (where I don't use any web browsers) and I hope I never use that interface.
Why do they have to break their own standards?
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I'm not talking about the document format this time but visual standards. Every single major Microsoft product seems to look different nowadays. Seems funny that they actually expect people to use the API et al when they don't use it themselves!
Personally I like having applications be consistant. Even Linux with GTK and QT differences are quite consistant. It seems for Microsoft autohiding the menu or turning it a bright shade of blue wasn't enough. Now Microsoft are throwing out the perfectly good menu system for something that takes literally and it seems constantly a fifth of the screen space. For someone who refuses to use any browser other than Firefox simply because with Firefox I can squish every single button and bar and menu onto one small line, that's deeply offensive for me.
Besides this you need to move the mouse from one end of the screen to the other on the larger dimension every single time in this stupid tabbed interface.
Ah well it's Microsoft, the company responsible for some of the worst interfeces known to man.
If it doesn't exist already, it wouldn't be hard to write a streaming module for mplayer. Whether that be streamed to pipe, file or socket. It can already read most codecs and if you have a license for the WMP Win32 DLLs, it'll handle that too.
mplayerplug-in
And no it's not a witch hunt. The only reason why they are doing this is because if Microsoft doesn't release Office anymore, suddenly their files are pretty much useless without expensive reverse engineering. Microsoft can also charge them whatever they like because after all, if the government doesn't like it and the deal's off, they can't read any of their files. Not exactly a good situation.
Huh? There are 7 programs that have implemented OD support in a stable release. Open Office is not one of them. How is this an OOo format?
And no, Microsoft is *not* moving to an open format. It is not documented and other programs can't read it without reverse engineering. That's not very good for data security or stopping vendor lock-in.
No it's not. Open Document is NOT an "Open Office format" like Microsoft says. In fact, OO.Org were/are one of the last free software suites to give support to OD (they still haven't released an official stable version with OD support).
The following support OD:
* Abiword 2.3, through the OpenWriter plugin
* eZ publish 3.6, with OpenOffice extension
* IBM Workplace
* Knomos case management 1.0 [4]
* KOffice 1.4, released on June 21st 2005
* OpenOffice.org 1.1.5 RC and 2.0 BETA 2
* Scribus 1.2.2, imports OpenDocument Text and Graphics
* TextMaker 2005 beta [5]
* Visioo Writer 0.5.2 [6]
Mildly off topic, but complements for your show. It's quite nice to see a cute girl that loves technology, thankfully becoming more and more frequent.
(And no to all else that wasn't a sniggering pickup line rather a note on how there seems to be a stupid social construct that it is more important for girls to be good looking rather than intelligent, and the myth that a girl can't be both. I can't stand girls who bow to this and become a silly whimsical giggly idiot, and no I don't mean [just] sexual partners. Aw shit I'm never going to win with this.)
No I didn't, they're not desktop systems. I presume that there will be seperate Windows Vista Tablet edition and Windows Vista Media Centre edition that aren't in the list given in TFA.
And the Service Packs are upgrades as opposed to distinct versions. You can guarantee that Vista will have them as well.
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The above post is posted as "Funny" to prevent accusations of Karma Whoring.
Possibly Australia.
I wasn't even arguing against your point just against that stupid myth that you sprouted.
Konqueror is just an application. It is completely replacable with another application (or set of applications) like Krusader or XFE (both of which run on the libraries that are automatically loaded by KDE). KDE works just fine without konqueror installed.
Radians
Why? Does KDE work properly without Konqueror?
Why does everyone ask this? YES KDE WORKS WITHOUT KONQUEROR!!!! Konqueror is a file manager and a web browser but it's just an application. A Konqeror-like application is what the grandparent is asking for!
If you're going to make fun of the Japanese accent you could at least do it properly and use romanji: "Misutaa Supaakoru"
Personally I agree with his tab thing.
Much much worse, however, is Firefox's stupid behaviour when it comes to tabs that time out or whatever. If I'm downloading something and middle click to open a few new tabs, every so often one of them might time out. If that happens then if I go to that tab there's no way of getting the page I was actually wanting. Reload is blacked out, there's nothing in the location bar and the tab's title says "Untitled".
I'd also rather having the HTML messages for "page not found" than the dialogue messages but the exact same thing happens - there's a "file not found" message but there's no way of clicking "back" to get to the page I was just at, or "reload" to try the page again! That's just UI stupidity.
Also there are authentic "Please activate your email address" from Yahoo. At least the dns address and ip address seem authentic. Apparently lots of people don't trust Yahoo with their real emails.
Though this is off topic, whenever I look at a Google Maps map of the world I'm always reminded of how distorted 2D maps actually are. For example, Greenland is actually quite a bit smaller than Australia (in fact, less than a third of the size). The actual country sizes definitely puts things into a better perspective than the 2D google maps.
I see one spam message from "The Middle of the Atlantic". Damn those spam sending cruise ships! On the other hand, it's perhaps the first spam message that I'm disappointed that I can't read the body of the message.
Ha! I admit it I thought that it was you that didn't have the sense of humour. However reading that last post gave me one of the biggest laughs all day so I now have to humbly apoligise for my transgression.
Thank you for highlighting his point for him.
I've always wondered how KStars does on the astronomy scale. People have been raving about it, but I haven't asked any actual astronomers I know. If you haven't tried it, perhaps you should try it before saying there's no "real astronomy software at all".
As for the gimp vs photoshop, I find photoshop horrific to use personally and I'd rather the gimp every time. I'm also aware because I've gotten my head out of the bucket that it's not because the gimp is a better program, it's because I'm used to the gimp and I know exactly how to use it whereas I don't know exactly how to use photoshop. Perhaps you should try gimpshop.
Wow! They run Linux on anything nowadays!
Yes, like Tasmania is the island south of the mainland, the Maoris live on the Australian islands east of the mainland. The only problem is because of the sorrowful state of human rights in Australia we don't give them a vote.
Yep, we don't have hurricanes. We have Cyclones, but not a hurricane in sight.
Yes. I use Linux.
It was actually a comparison between Firefox and Konqueror, and most definitely the clincher. Konq can do everything that Firefox can except put everything on one line.
That said, I do use Windows and Office at work (where I don't use any web browsers) and I hope I never use that interface.
I'm not talking about the document format this time but visual standards. Every single major Microsoft product seems to look different nowadays. Seems funny that they actually expect people to use the API et al when they don't use it themselves!
Personally I like having applications be consistant. Even Linux with GTK and QT differences are quite consistant. It seems for Microsoft autohiding the menu or turning it a bright shade of blue wasn't enough. Now Microsoft are throwing out the perfectly good menu system for something that takes literally and it seems constantly a fifth of the screen space. For someone who refuses to use any browser other than Firefox simply because with Firefox I can squish every single button and bar and menu onto one small line, that's deeply offensive for me.
Besides this you need to move the mouse from one end of the screen to the other on the larger dimension every single time in this stupid tabbed interface.
Ah well it's Microsoft, the company responsible for some of the worst interfeces known to man.
Behold! The wonders of Coral Cache!
If it doesn't exist already, it wouldn't be hard to write a streaming module for mplayer. Whether that be streamed to pipe, file or socket. It can already read most codecs and if you have a license for the WMP Win32 DLLs, it'll handle that too.
mplayerplug-in
There are 7 programs that support OD in a stable release. OOo is not one of them.
And no it's not a witch hunt. The only reason why they are doing this is because if Microsoft doesn't release Office anymore, suddenly their files are pretty much useless without expensive reverse engineering. Microsoft can also charge them whatever they like because after all, if the government doesn't like it and the deal's off, they can't read any of their files. Not exactly a good situation.
Huh? There are 7 programs that have implemented OD support in a stable release. Open Office is not one of them. How is this an OOo format?
And no, Microsoft is *not* moving to an open format. It is not documented and other programs can't read it without reverse engineering. That's not very good for data security or stopping vendor lock-in.
No it's not. Open Document is NOT an "Open Office format" like Microsoft says. In fact, OO.Org were/are one of the last free software suites to give support to OD (they still haven't released an official stable version with OD support). The following support OD: * Abiword 2.3, through the OpenWriter plugin * eZ publish 3.6, with OpenOffice extension * IBM Workplace * Knomos case management 1.0 [4] * KOffice 1.4, released on June 21st 2005 * OpenOffice.org 1.1.5 RC and 2.0 BETA 2 * Scribus 1.2.2, imports OpenDocument Text and Graphics * TextMaker 2005 beta [5] * Visioo Writer 0.5.2 [6]
Mildly off topic, but complements for your show. It's quite nice to see a cute girl that loves technology, thankfully becoming more and more frequent.
(And no to all else that wasn't a sniggering pickup line rather a note on how there seems to be a stupid social construct that it is more important for girls to be good looking rather than intelligent, and the myth that a girl can't be both. I can't stand girls who bow to this and become a silly whimsical giggly idiot, and no I don't mean [just] sexual partners. Aw shit I'm never going to win with this.)
No I didn't, they're not desktop systems. I presume that there will be seperate Windows Vista Tablet edition and Windows Vista Media Centre edition that aren't in the list given in TFA.
And the Service Packs are upgrades as opposed to distinct versions. You can guarantee that Vista will have them as well.