I don't think so: - it has no support for an application top menu bar. Either you do MacOS or you don't, the top menu as is makes no sense. - it is extremely difficult to make Gnome look good with a blue theme, the default colors are always "soil" - it eats memory - it ships a zoo of incoherent technologies underneath the skin including mono. - applications like Beagle are suboptimal mono infection - I don't see any clear vision. - The project lacks community governance, it is more industrial library infection.
It is a matter of taste. For me and many other Debian users LXDE does exactly what I ever wanted it to do. And the speed goes like....whooosh!
I don't think so, I don't want three slow, sluggish and unstable applications which try to do everything. I want three applications which do what they are supposed to do.
The whole integration paradigm is obsolete. A file manager today does much less than Norton Commander did. If I want to edit files in a hex mode I fire up a hex editor. Or think of Netscape/Mozilla, then came Firefox, Chrome is even more simple.
The task is of course to find out what matters. LXDE does all you want it to do, all bugs are known. With Gnome and KDE they reintroduce bugs, applications never become stable. Take KDE4, I prefer KDE over Gnome but it takes so much time, you discover bugs within 15 minutes of use, some background processes eat your memory, and you can't simply go, fix a bug and recompile because the whole environment became overly complex.
I think simple Desktop environment projects as LXDE show how do it right: focus on speed and responsiveness.
Don't try to be artificially different, don't confuse, do what users want but don't do more; keep dependencies as few as possible, if it doesn't work as intended throw the component away. Do one thing with one application. And most important of all: The Desktop Environment is not the application. It should be like a professional servant, you won't notice him and you don't need to waste your time to command him.
I am pretty sure they will tell us that Win8 is the next big thing and it will fix all the security problems of Win7. For a business it is wait and see for now.
It is somehow funny that Vista took so long and still we are fine with XP or 98. Your brand new PC with Win7 is not much faster than the old one with Win98. Maybe the secret is that we don't like innovation.
There is no smoking gun, there is a way the business is operated by Taiwanese hardware manufacturers. Asus credibly demonstrates that they don't depend on Microsoft.
It is a bit like the nuke done right. Americans don't get that you don't have to actually destroy two cities as an act of atrocity.
Exactly, basically he did a stupid thing which harmed his cause. But still it is no coincidence that Tauss was taken out just before the internet filtering bill passes the parliament. You would usually delay it but child porn is an very emotional and sensitive issue, cmp. Belgium, and they wanted to get rid off Tauss anyway.
Possession of videos of just about every other crime on the books is legal, yet that hasn't sent the message that those crimes are acceptable.
No, this was about of "possession of content" by an discraced MP from a government party who deals as the regulatory specialist in the area of internet censorship just before a fullscale attack is launched to filter content on the internet for child porn reasons.
I find it even unacceptable that a MP is raided at all because he under immunity.
"You're lauding the Germans for their Democracy in response to an article about how most of the government there just voted to put in place internet censorship and a framework for DNS redirection to enforce it?"
It happens all over Europe and the UK is most extreme. It wasn't invented in Berlin but developed for 3-4 years in international backroom negotiations, highly parallised efforts. It is just that the Germans make much noise now about their civil liberties beeing cut... and we have a vibrant civil society in Germany that defend internet freedom. In the other nations the proposals just pass.
Regardless what passes, they will troll the implementation to death by public scrutiny.
JÃrg Tauss was a specialist in his party, the SPD for internet. He is from the left wing, former trade union secretary, was mostly isolated in his party and had to play according to the rules.
Just before a bill is passed in the German Parliament about child porn and content fuiltering on the internet the most vocal person in the relevant committee, JÃrg Tauss an MP is searched in his Berlin office. Even the press communicates about the search before the police does. He is taken before the committee meeting which dealt with - oh surprise - child porn. They find a package with child porn images on CD. Surprise, surprise.
I personally don't care if Tauss viewed child porn images, whatever "child porn" means. What I care about is that it is very fishy when the specialist of the party is taken out. MPs should be sacrosanct from prosecution, in particular when it overlaps with a political agenda.
How can you professionally deal with say "nazi hate literature" when you don't have tried yourself to get access to it or are in possession of the works, so you know what you are talking about. What Tauss did was a bit stupid. That is all.
No, the manufacturers understand now how to make Microsoft freak and it is so much fun. So you have to do a bit Linux and when the Microsoft guys come you show them what you are working on for your Linux strategy....
Linux has a fantastic return on investment for a hardware manufacturer.
No, it is more that Linux points at their cash cow and they pay ASUS to continue with Windows. Of course Asus invests in Linux, because they are not stupid.
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I don't think so:
- it has no support for an application top menu bar. Either you do MacOS or you don't, the top menu as is makes no sense.
- it is extremely difficult to make Gnome look good with a blue theme, the default colors are always "soil"
- it eats memory
- it ships a zoo of incoherent technologies underneath the skin including mono.
- applications like Beagle are suboptimal mono infection
- I don't see any clear vision.
- The project lacks community governance, it is more industrial library infection.
It is a matter of taste. For me and many other Debian users LXDE does exactly what I ever wanted it to do. And the speed goes like ....whooosh!
I don't think so, I don't want three slow, sluggish and unstable applications which try to do everything. I want three applications which do what they are supposed to do.
The whole integration paradigm is obsolete. A file manager today does much less than Norton Commander did. If I want to edit files in a hex mode I fire up a hex editor. Or think of Netscape/Mozilla, then came Firefox, Chrome is even more simple.
The task is of course to find out what matters. LXDE does all you want it to do, all bugs are known. With Gnome and KDE they reintroduce bugs, applications never become stable. Take KDE4, I prefer KDE over Gnome but it takes so much time, you discover bugs within 15 minutes of use, some background processes eat your memory, and you can't simply go, fix a bug and recompile because the whole environment became overly complex.
Your forget the open source development ecosystem which is so much more efficient.
I think simple Desktop environment projects as LXDE show how do it right: focus on speed and responsiveness.
Don't try to be artificially different, don't confuse, do what users want but don't do more; keep dependencies as few as possible, if it doesn't work as intended throw the component away. Do one thing with one application. And most important of all: The Desktop Environment is not the application. It should be like a professional servant, you won't notice him and you don't need to waste your time to command him.
And better ebay snipers...
I am pretty sure they will tell us that Win8 is the next big thing and it will fix all the security problems of Win7. For a business it is wait and see for now.
It is somehow funny that Vista took so long and still we are fine with XP or 98. Your brand new PC with Win7 is not much faster than the old one with Win98. Maybe the secret is that we don't like innovation.
DG Trade, it is a conspiracy of trade policitians.
See bilaterals.org for more.
There is no smoking gun, there is a way the business is operated by Taiwanese hardware manufacturers. Asus credibly demonstrates that they don't depend on Microsoft.
It is a bit like the nuke done right. Americans don't get that you don't have to actually destroy two cities as an act of atrocity.
It is enough to blackmail Microsoft...
Exactly, basically he did a stupid thing which harmed his cause. But still it is no coincidence that Tauss was taken out just before the internet filtering bill passes the parliament. You would usually delay it but child porn is an very emotional and sensitive issue, cmp. Belgium, and they wanted to get rid off Tauss anyway.
Possession of videos of just about every other crime on the books is legal, yet that hasn't sent the message that those crimes are acceptable.
No, this was about of "possession of content" by an discraced MP from a government party who deals as the regulatory specialist in the area of internet censorship just before a fullscale attack is launched to filter content on the internet for child porn reasons.
I find it even unacceptable that a MP is raided at all because he under immunity.
"You're lauding the Germans for their Democracy in response to an article about how most of the government there just voted to put in place internet censorship and a framework for DNS redirection to enforce it?"
It happens all over Europe and the UK is most extreme. It wasn't invented in Berlin but developed for 3-4 years in international backroom negotiations, highly parallised efforts. It is just that the Germans make much noise now about their civil liberties beeing cut... and we have a vibrant civil society in Germany that defend internet freedom. In the other nations the proposals just pass.
Regardless what passes, they will troll the implementation to death by public scrutiny.
"We fought a bloody civil war over the question of human rights"
Great! And the genocide...
JÃrg Tauss was a specialist in his party, the SPD for internet. He is from the left wing, former trade union secretary, was mostly isolated in his party and had to play according to the rules.
Just before a bill is passed in the German Parliament about child porn and content fuiltering on the internet the most vocal person in the relevant committee, JÃrg Tauss an MP is searched in his Berlin office. Even the press communicates about the search before the police does. He is taken before the committee meeting which dealt with - oh surprise - child porn. They find a package with child porn images on CD. Surprise, surprise.
I personally don't care if Tauss viewed child porn images, whatever "child porn" means. What I care about is that it is very fishy when the specialist of the party is taken out. MPs should be sacrosanct from prosecution, in particular when it overlaps with a political agenda.
How can you professionally deal with say "nazi hate literature" when you don't have tried yourself to get access to it or are in possession of the works, so you know what you are talking about. What Tauss did was a bit stupid. That is all.
Not in the EU and the UK. This is the main problem, that we talk about different things.
And what is a "child"? Is a 17yro a child? You know, you come to the point where teenagers take pictures and are charged of childporn.
Where is the good old German nudism gone?
There is still a way to get the document, the EU Public Access to documents reform.
I wonder if the Swedish Presidency will move forward with this.
No, the manufacturers understand now how to make Microsoft freak and it is so much fun. So you have to do a bit Linux and when the Microsoft guys come you show them what you are working on for your Linux strategy....
Linux has a fantastic return on investment for a hardware manufacturer.
Cars are faster than horses. Goodbye horses.
No, it is more that Linux points at their cash cow and they pay ASUS to continue with Windows. Of course Asus invests in Linux, because they are not stupid.
Dunkirk 40
Or the smaller brain?
*duck*
Windows Mobile? Is that a competitor to the iphone?
It is just a new label. Microsoft is a the master of the astroturf.
Vista is just faster and you know what you get.
A current debate is the trade with used software. E.g. can I legally buy an unused dbase license from another browser manufacturer.
If we can resell XP licenses, our netbook manufacturers can basically distribute them with XP forever.