KDE 2 eh? Well Kde 3 and 2 are fairly source compatable to my knowledge so I imagine the problems would be with Qt. I'm not sure how much exactly. If you can compromise the configure script so that it doesn't suspect you haven't got Qt 3.1, you can try to compile it. To be honest the configure script is hardly necessary, it's a generic KDE one and if you can somehow generate the makefiles without it then you'll be fine. Perhaps just cut out mose of the beginning of it. I dunno how automake and friends work very well so I don't know what exactly to suggest.
http://doc.trolltech.com/3.0/porting.html
that link describes the changes from 2 to 3, I looked through it. I think Filelight should be mostly ok.
If you do try, do contact me, if it looks hopeful I'll lend a hand.
Currently, clicking a segment "recenters" the view on that segment, you can also use the segment context menu to open Konsole or Konqi at that location, or if it's a file, by mimetype.
I've written a small program for KDE that exhibits what I feel is a fairly novel method for representating hierarchical data graphically.
Currently it only shows information related to your filesystem, but with the next version it will begin accepting any kind of hierarchical data piped from the cli, via a text file, etc. (method of input as yet unfinalised).
I apologise for the plug; usually I'm quite good and wait for at least on-topic opportunities! I'm sure I'll still get the usual ac death threats etc. nothertheless I hope to have interested some people.
This would be a good thing - if it was discovered after we'd moved the majority of burning-oil uses onto alternative fuel sources. If we start discovering new ways to produce oil our streets will forever be smoggy, our skies full of acid rain and our world in general polluted and (possibly) ruined.
Otherwise oil is great, plastics are fantastically useful, oil derivatives are unmatched portable power sources. We just burn them too much, we need alternatives forced on us. Leave the synthetic oil solutions alone for ~20 years.
This may work on small time scales since people will browse and see the game, notice there's no demo, and buy to see what it's like because it's cheap anyway, etc. There's lots of reasons they may buy it.
However if they hate the game and they've spent money, it'll feel like wasted money and they probably won't come back for more. Thus on a longer time scale you may lose more money since you could have less repeat customers.
There are two solutions to this as far as I can see. Produce 100% excellent games that appeal to 100% of customers. Or have a good money-back policy.
In my experience money-back policies are hard to implement when the customer made a copy of your product during purchase, so I'm not sure how great this "no-demo" system would be in the longterm.
I have a private address that about 20 people have too. But I'm just waiting for they day that one of them using outlook express gets a virus that leads to a recursive series of viruses coming to my door. Inevitable really.
When fighting phantom ganon in the most recent of zelda's incarnations the music reacts to the swinging of your sword against ganon's projectile. He fires a ball of magic at you and you both proceed to fire it back and forth at each other, the ball getting faster until one of you can't react quick enough (classic Zelda). The music rises and rises with each hit until you succeed or fail where it bursts into an appropriate tune of congratulation of consolation.
Oh well, apologies, I thought I'd read somewhere that it did work. You know a lot better than me since you use it:) It must be on the cards as KHTML has supported it for some time now.
It has always been mostly pointless to support features that most users can't use. Especially when you could easily use another feature that ALL browsers support (href).
Well apparently Internet Explorer does support ACRONYM tags. But if that wasn't true I'd still say it's a good idea to implement this idea because it's a web standard and the way to push browser support of standards is to start using them. I acknowledge your point that it's hardly motivation to do work that nobody will see though.
But anyway slashcode doesn't support ABBR tags so I couldn't expand it. I should have used "Internet Explorer" instead though as it made me look stupid.
It does work on safari. KHTML supports it and thus so does Safari. Did you click the link for examples? There weren't any examples in my post because slashcode doesn't support ABBR tags.
Also 40% of browsers on Slashdot are Mozilla based IIRC from the last IRC Slashdot thingy. And anyway since when is it pointless to support an easy to implement feature just because some browsers haven't caught up with the standards?
The motivation is it's a good idea, it's easy to do and the Slashdot audience consists of a great many people who have browsers that support it. To make it even easier a database could be built to automatically fill in the acronyms for you. That's what I've done for my site anyway.
Ok, so I could probably find out what a PVR was easily by googling, but instead I'm going to make a suggestion and see what people say.
Why don't Slashdot stories have abbreviations surrounded by ABBR or ACRONYM tags? This way you can insert a title="Expanded form of Acronynm" inside the ABBR/ACRONYM tag and when you hover your mouse over the acronym (in browsers other than MSIE) a little tooltip will pop with the fully expanded acronym displayed!
In Mozilla ABBR/ACRONYMs are even highlighted with a special dashed underline to alert the user that this particular acronym can be decoded without the use of ones imagination.
They are not the same, and if you can't see the difference then you are not thinking about this carefully.
You are not taking anything from the copyright owner when you copy a song. All that is happening is you are depriving them of potential income.
At no point have you stolen anything, apart from something they might have had. There is no definition of stealing which includes potential loss under its banner.
Yes you are right in that you are not meant to own the media without having paid for it, but personally all I see is a load of insanely greedy people in an age when the cost to them of a copy being made is zero.
Cool, so I can just download from you directly then, right? What's your IP? Thanks dude.
Don't quite get what you mean, but I do have plenty of Red Dwarf and other media that the owners have made public domain available for sharing through OpenFT. Download the gift daemon, the openft plugin and a gift client and look up this username.
EVERY BBC programme is now rpeceded by 5 minutes of incredibly annoying cross-promotional waffle for its own programmes, and more annoyingly, for books and other tie ins, including digital content that many viewers cannot receive
Yeah this is true, but at least programs do not have breaks in the middle. Films are ruined by ad breaks, and boy is the Simpsons better without 10 minutes of car-ads interspersed.
Also while it's true they advertise their own products, I would be rather miffed if they didn't advertise their own programs as I'd never find out about anything. Anyway they've just demonstrated that they are more concerned with people enjoying their content than making money so I forgive them advertising their paid for content, they obviously need some extra income.
Advertising the digital content is annoying, but bear in mind analog TV will cease completely in a few years. I wouldn't be surprised if the Government is forcing the beeb to advertise digital TV to encourage adoption. If not they still need to encourage adoption, so I forgive them again.
Hmmm.. can the beeb do anything wrong in my eyes? Perhaps not.
Just wanted to point out to the world that TV License paying Brits like myself pay for the BBC. Just something to keep in mind when you're downloading Red Dwarf season 3.
But don't get me wrong, I'd like to add how happy I am with the BBC; they offer fantastic services and I'm proud that they're available to everyone in the world. Without much doubt the quality of radio and TV in the UK is far better because of the BBC. Not to mention Brits won't put up with frequent or long advert breaks because the BBC channels have none!
Also, it's refreshing to see a company be happier to let people enjoy it's IP than to be obsessed with milking the consumer for every penny it can.
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Actually, the majority of their income is from people buying licences to develop for Windows who then keep the application in house. So of course you won't have heard of the apps.
It's naiive to assume that people always publicly release their software.
Of course if robots do all the jobs then there will be no need for money to live. A robot would build your house, a robot make your bread, a robot harvest the wheat. As long as the sun exists, we can have mechanical slaves, and as long as we have mechanical slaves, nobody would need an economy.
I doubt humanity would let it get there though. The greedy would stiffle the wants of the majority.
They have to make SOME money!
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What's your problem with letting them stay in business? To my knowledge, the majority of their income is from Windows licences. Qt gets purchased to develop Windows progs, the mutli-platform nature helps persuade the Boss, but mostly people like it because it's a fabulous set of classes.
They know what they have to do to keep the money rolling in so that they can continue to release new versions of Qt. I can only assume you have your attitude because you don't trust them, you feel they are swindling you.
I trust them, so I supose we must agree to differ:)
I hope you're not trying to suggest that as soon as you graduate from scientist-school you're automatically compelled to always work on curing cancer, 100% of your working time.
Of course I could be missing your point. Which is entirely possible since I've been working on the hypothesis that London air is murkier than pea-soup all morning and am feeling a little worn down at the moment.
Oh come on, the interface is everything to an instrument. Instruments vary in only two ways, firstly the sound they produce, and secondly the way they have to be manipulated to produce those sounds.
This instrument may be similar to the device you reference, however its novel and easy to manipulate interface will allow completely new sounds to be woven into compositions. I'd wager that an experienced artist could make music with this device that he couldn't do with any other instrument - but I'd need to read more about it first.
So to argue more directly with your point: The user interface would be the whole point if it actually helped the user achieve something in a more efficient fashion... but it doesn't do anything that doesn't already exist. The interface is the whole point and it does help the user either make music more efficiently, or to make completely new types of composition. I'd say both, but I expect you'd have to ask someone who's made music with it.
Yes this new layout is excellent. I can see many people popping to the site and being sufficiently wowed by the pretty screenshots and well placed recommendations to try one of the many Moz browsers out. Real good work, nice one!:)
Actually I recently followed your advice and released my app with a name more related to what it does. It began with f. As a result if you browse the listings for filesystem tools on apps.kde.com my app is one of the first listed because f comes before k! A neat way to get ahead of the competition.
If you want to find it, it begins with File and is fairly new (released end of June). I won't demean my post by linking and blatantly plugging it, although if you are actually interested I've made life harder for you. Oh well, you can't win them all.
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KDE 2 eh? Well Kde 3 and 2 are fairly source compatable to my knowledge so I imagine the problems would be with Qt. I'm not sure how much exactly. If you can compromise the configure script so that it doesn't suspect you haven't got Qt 3.1, you can try to compile it. To be honest the configure script is hardly necessary, it's a generic KDE one and if you can somehow generate the makefiles without it then you'll be fine. Perhaps just cut out mose of the beginning of it. I dunno how automake and friends work very well so I don't know what exactly to suggest.
http://doc.trolltech.com/3.0/porting.html
that link describes the changes from 2 to 3, I looked through it. I think Filelight should be mostly ok.
If you do try, do contact me, if it looks hopeful I'll lend a hand.
Currently, clicking a segment "recenters" the view on that segment, you can also use the segment context menu to open Konsole or Konqi at that location, or if it's a file, by mimetype.
I've written a small program for KDE that exhibits what I feel is a fairly novel method for representating hierarchical data graphically.
Currently it only shows information related to your filesystem, but with the next version it will begin accepting any kind of hierarchical data piped from the cli, via a text file, etc. (method of input as yet unfinalised).
If anyone's interested, here's a screenshot, and here's the homepage
I apologise for the plug; usually I'm quite good and wait for at least on-topic opportunities! I'm sure I'll still get the usual ac death threats etc. nothertheless I hope to have interested some people.
This would be a good thing - if it was discovered after we'd moved the majority of burning-oil uses onto alternative fuel sources. If we start discovering new ways to produce oil our streets will forever be smoggy, our skies full of acid rain and our world in general polluted and (possibly) ruined.
Otherwise oil is great, plastics are fantastically useful, oil derivatives are unmatched portable power sources. We just burn them too much, we need alternatives forced on us. Leave the synthetic oil solutions alone for ~20 years.
This may work on small time scales since people will browse and see the game, notice there's no demo, and buy to see what it's like because it's cheap anyway, etc. There's lots of reasons they may buy it.
However if they hate the game and they've spent money, it'll feel like wasted money and they probably won't come back for more. Thus on a longer time scale you may lose more money since you could have less repeat customers.
There are two solutions to this as far as I can see. Produce 100% excellent games that appeal to 100% of customers. Or have a good money-back policy.
In my experience money-back policies are hard to implement when the customer made a copy of your product during purchase, so I'm not sure how great this "no-demo" system would be in the longterm.
I have a private address that about 20 people have too. But I'm just waiting for they day that one of them using outlook express gets a virus that leads to a recursive series of viruses coming to my door. Inevitable really.
When fighting phantom ganon in the most recent of zelda's incarnations the music reacts to the swinging of your sword against ganon's projectile. He fires a ball of magic at you and you both proceed to fire it back and forth at each other, the ball getting faster until one of you can't react quick enough (classic Zelda). The music rises and rises with each hit until you succeed or fail where it bursts into an appropriate tune of congratulation of consolation.
:)
Absolutely loved it
Well apparently Internet Explorer does support ACRONYM tags. But if that wasn't true I'd still say it's a good idea to implement this idea because it's a web standard and the way to push browser support of standards is to start using them. I acknowledge your point that it's hardly motivation to do work that nobody will see though.
I think you just proved my point ;)
:)
But anyway slashcode doesn't support ABBR tags so I couldn't expand it. I should have used "Internet Explorer" instead though as it made me look stupid.
Silly me
It does work on safari. KHTML supports it and thus so does Safari. Did you click the link for examples? There weren't any examples in my post because slashcode doesn't support ABBR tags.
Also 40% of browsers on Slashdot are Mozilla based IIRC from the last IRC Slashdot thingy. And anyway since when is it pointless to support an easy to implement feature just because some browsers haven't caught up with the standards?
The motivation is it's a good idea, it's easy to do and the Slashdot audience consists of a great many people who have browsers that support it. To make it even easier a database could be built to automatically fill in the acronyms for you. That's what I've done for my site anyway.
Ok, so I could probably find out what a PVR was easily by googling, but instead I'm going to make a suggestion and see what people say.
Why don't Slashdot stories have abbreviations surrounded by ABBR or ACRONYM tags? This way you can insert a title="Expanded form of Acronynm" inside the ABBR/ACRONYM tag and when you hover your mouse over the acronym (in browsers other than MSIE) a little tooltip will pop with the fully expanded acronym displayed!
In Mozilla ABBR/ACRONYMs are even highlighted with a special dashed underline to alert the user that this particular acronym can be decoded without the use of ones imagination.
Here's an example or two.
They are not the same, and if you can't see the difference then you are not thinking about this carefully.
You are not taking anything from the copyright owner when you copy a song. All that is happening is you are depriving them of potential income.
At no point have you stolen anything, apart from something they might have had. There is no definition of stealing which includes potential loss under its banner.
Yes you are right in that you are not meant to own the media without having paid for it, but personally all I see is a load of insanely greedy people in an age when the cost to them of a copy being made is zero.
I haven't heard of this money, and don't expect it to be significant - unless you can provide some evidence to the contrary..
Anyway it wasn't my point to imply anyone should be grateful, I just wanted to be informative.
I expect it's because Channel 4 shows the show with less advert-breaks than they do on BBC America.
Some avenues of BBC do have ads then. I spose they didn't want the license payers to pay for everything. What is BBC America anyway?
Don't quite get what you mean, but I do have plenty of Red Dwarf and other media that the owners have made public domain available for sharing through OpenFT. Download the gift daemon, the openft plugin and a gift client and look up this username.
Yeah this is true, but at least programs do not have breaks in the middle. Films are ruined by ad breaks, and boy is the Simpsons better without 10 minutes of car-ads interspersed.
Also while it's true they advertise their own products, I would be rather miffed if they didn't advertise their own programs as I'd never find out about anything. Anyway they've just demonstrated that they are more concerned with people enjoying their content than making money so I forgive them advertising their paid for content, they obviously need some extra income.
Advertising the digital content is annoying, but bear in mind analog TV will cease completely in a few years. I wouldn't be surprised if the Government is forcing the beeb to advertise digital TV to encourage adoption. If not they still need to encourage adoption, so I forgive them again.
Hmmm.. can the beeb do anything wrong in my eyes? Perhaps not.
Just wanted to point out to the world that TV License paying Brits like myself pay for the BBC. Just something to keep in mind when you're downloading Red Dwarf season 3.
But don't get me wrong, I'd like to add how happy I am with the BBC; they offer fantastic services and I'm proud that they're available to everyone in the world. Without much doubt the quality of radio and TV in the UK is far better because of the BBC. Not to mention Brits won't put up with frequent or long advert breaks because the BBC channels have none!
Also, it's refreshing to see a company be happier to let people enjoy it's IP than to be obsessed with milking the consumer for every penny it can.
Actually, the majority of their income is from people buying licences to develop for Windows who then keep the application in house. So of course you won't have heard of the apps.
It's naiive to assume that people always publicly release their software.
Of course if robots do all the jobs then there will be no need for money to live. A robot would build your house, a robot make your bread, a robot harvest the wheat. As long as the sun exists, we can have mechanical slaves, and as long as we have mechanical slaves, nobody would need an economy.
I doubt humanity would let it get there though. The greedy would stiffle the wants of the majority.
What's your problem with letting them stay in business? To my knowledge, the majority of their income is from Windows licences. Qt gets purchased to develop Windows progs, the mutli-platform nature helps persuade the Boss, but mostly people like it because it's a fabulous set of classes.
:)
They know what they have to do to keep the money rolling in so that they can continue to release new versions of Qt. I can only assume you have your attitude because you don't trust them, you feel they are swindling you.
I trust them, so I supose we must agree to differ
And Still No Cure for Cancer.
I hope you're not trying to suggest that as soon as you graduate from scientist-school you're automatically compelled to always work on curing cancer, 100% of your working time.
Of course I could be missing your point. Which is entirely possible since I've been working on the hypothesis that London air is murkier than pea-soup all morning and am feeling a little worn down at the moment.
Oh come on, the interface is everything to an instrument. Instruments vary in only two ways, firstly the sound they produce, and secondly the way they have to be manipulated to produce those sounds.
This instrument may be similar to the device you reference, however its novel and easy to manipulate interface will allow completely new sounds to be woven into compositions. I'd wager that an experienced artist could make music with this device that he couldn't do with any other instrument - but I'd need to read more about it first.
So to argue more directly with your point: The user interface would be the whole point if it actually helped the user achieve something in a more efficient fashion... but it doesn't do anything that doesn't already exist. The interface is the whole point and it does help the user either make music more efficiently, or to make completely new types of composition. I'd say both, but I expect you'd have to ask someone who's made music with it.
Yes this new layout is excellent. I can see many people popping to the site and being sufficiently wowed by the pretty screenshots and well placed recommendations to try one of the many Moz browsers out. Real good work, nice one! :)
Thank you friend :) It's people like you who make the web worth browsing.
Actually I recently followed your advice and released my app with a name more related to what it does. It began with f. As a result if you browse the listings for filesystem tools on apps.kde.com my app is one of the first listed because f comes before k! A neat way to get ahead of the competition.
If you want to find it, it begins with File and is fairly new (released end of June). I won't demean my post by linking and blatantly plugging it, although if you are actually interested I've made life harder for you. Oh well, you can't win them all.