Hrm, I don't tend to have these problems that you seem to be having, if only because KDE isn't duplicating the functions of other running daemons.
I hate to say it, but Linux distributions that include more than one window manager are what really causes the slowdown on boot/WM start. I just finished compiling KDE3.2 on my LFS box (okay, I'm never doing that again...life's too short for source packages =P) but it goes from cold to logged in ready to go in about 45-60sec on a 733Mhz P3, precisely because the only sound&video drivers/daemons I'm loading are associated with KDE.
It also helps if you use standalone drivers/libraries rather than letting KDE fill in the blanks in your driver toolkit.
I have a USB microsoft natural keyboard on my desk right now. =) It's acutally got a usb cable and a ps/2 cable, so I'm not sure if the usb cord drives the keyboard or if it's just for the integrated usb hub (but that'd be stupid).
Athlon Bartons do something similar now, IIRC--that test involved an early Thuderbird-core? (thunderbird? OR is it thouroughbred? I can't keep track anymore)
Threat deterrent doesn't involve killing (if it did, it'd be self-defense. =P)
Entertaining sport doesn't involve killing, either, unless you're aware of some new species of living paper targets and clay pigeons, which is what I mostly shoot at.
Completely opposite experience here...my fiancee saw me using OpenOffice and Firebird and asked to try them out...(we have two computers side by side on a very large desk--incidentally, a great working arrangement, especially if she has a good attitude towards porn. =P)
Three months later, her machine was set up with a dual boot identical to mine--boot to Linux for work and web and e-mail, boot to XP for games and nothing else.
So I guess it just depends on whatever your gf/fiancee is willing to put up with, and how much you're willing to accept "it's not Word" vs actually trying to explain what the differences are. It helps to have a gf/fiancee who's intelligent enough to realize that, even though she might not care about the differences, you (probably) know a hell of a lot more than she does about the situation and can sum it up. Also it helps if she's willing to try new things. (Again, my fiancee (english major) edits anything I write before I send it out, and she tries anything I (comp eng major) recommend on the computer side of things)
Well, I reiterate--if your software is good, and you're talented, the people who care about such things will know you were involved, with or without a copyright clause in the license.
You remember the advertising-clause BSD stuff? It was ridiculous--it got to the point, with added clauses as people contributed, that you couldn't talk about BSD without 70+ lines of attributions. It's painful, it's pointless, and in the long run who cares?
If you're writing software for recognition, well, if it's good everyone will know you wrote it. Seriously. Imagine someone else trying to claim authorship of EMACS. Or vi. Or even fetchmail.
If you're writing software to increase the pool of usable software, why the fuck do you care if you're properly attributed?
I just wanted to say that I played PainKeep for the first time last week, because one of the guys in my LAN party group was a coder for the project back in the day.
Of course your former president had the moral right not to talk or even to lie to keep his sexual activities private - a few years ago people even would have considered this a gentleman's duty (a concept that is apparently foregin to you)
A gentleman's duty aside (and I quite agree with you, there), it is ALSO the duty of an upstanding moral citizen to NOT LIE when he was UNDER OATH. I don't give a rat's ass what he said in public, or even if he lied in public. In a courtroom, under oath, you tell the fucking truth or say "no comment". Period.
There is a supreme court ruling to the effect that the "militia" as defined in the 2nd amendment is all males age 15-45 who are not already in the armed forces.
System admin at a tannery. Job involved two offices at opposite ends of the plant, and consequently having to walk through tanning vat areas in shirt and tie where everyone else is wearing a gas mask, goggles, and protective aprons.
Sure, for consumer connections. Businesses and folks buying rackmount space and "real" connections generally get these things called SLAs or Service Level Agreements, which specify exactly what service IS guaranteed. For example, my workplace has a line from AT&T and our SLA says we have 99.9% uptime, and if we don't they compensate us for lost business.
*snore* Windows isn't even close to intuitive. It's LEARNED, and you think it's intuitive because it's all you've ever used.
Not a flame, but seriously. I can sit someone who's never used a computer (got a few old relatives for whom this is the case), and both Windows and Linux are equally hard for them.
To quote someone (whom I can't remember): "The only intuitive interface is the nipple. Everything else is learned behavior."
Name a route from one of France's enemies to France that an army can take that does not have US troops on it. France could afford to posture during the cold war because Germany and Austria with their huge US garrisons were in the way....credit where credit is due.
CS 1.6/Steam has fake gun names, the last I played it. It really took a lot away from the feel for me, because they were still real guns, just with dumb fake names.
If that large bank is coding software that handles money movement, it might well be a core competency.
I'm personally more worried about software companies who outsource--Microsoft being a big one. Also, although it doesn't directly affect as many of us, companies like Dell (primarily service companies) who outsource phone support--customer service is more of a core business activity than selling computers for Dell, IMHO.
You're an idiot, mostly because RMS charged for EMACS back in the day. He chose not to charge for more than the cost of making a tape and sending it, but he charged despite it being open source.
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Radio won't become extinct for the simple reason it works--it's a relatively low-power, low-bandwidth transmission mechanism that is long-range and reliable.
For that matter, all unwired comm systems are technically the same, since they vary only in frequency, really. =P
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Hrm, I don't tend to have these problems that you seem to be having, if only because KDE isn't duplicating the functions of other running daemons.
I hate to say it, but Linux distributions that include more than one window manager are what really causes the slowdown on boot/WM start. I just finished compiling KDE3.2 on my LFS box (okay, I'm never doing that again...life's too short for source packages =P) but it goes from cold to logged in ready to go in about 45-60sec on a 733Mhz P3, precisely because the only sound&video drivers/daemons I'm loading are associated with KDE.
It also helps if you use standalone drivers/libraries rather than letting KDE fill in the blanks in your driver toolkit.
I have a USB microsoft natural keyboard on my desk right now. =)
It's acutally got a usb cable and a ps/2 cable, so I'm not sure if the usb cord drives the keyboard or if it's just for the integrated usb hub (but that'd be stupid).
It's a Natural Keyboard Pro, model # RT9401.
Athlon Bartons do something similar now, IIRC--that test involved an early Thuderbird-core? (thunderbird? OR is it thouroughbred? I can't keep track anymore)
All of those plastic risers and clamps are there to fit heatsinks, especially P4 and Xeon heatsinks.
They include them because I'm sure somewhere, somehow, there's an idiot who stuck a Xeon mobo in a cheap generic case.
Well, hell, if you spit with the wind, you must trust 'em a few miles at least, then.
Threat deterrent doesn't involve killing (if it did, it'd be self-defense. =P)
Entertaining sport doesn't involve killing, either, unless you're aware of some new species of living paper targets and clay pigeons, which is what I mostly shoot at.
Completely opposite experience here...my fiancee saw me using OpenOffice and Firebird and asked to try them out...(we have two computers side by side on a very large desk--incidentally, a great working arrangement, especially if she has a good attitude towards porn. =P)
Three months later, her machine was set up with a dual boot identical to mine--boot to Linux for work and web and e-mail, boot to XP for games and nothing else.
So I guess it just depends on whatever your gf/fiancee is willing to put up with, and how much you're willing to accept "it's not Word" vs actually trying to explain what the differences are. It helps to have a gf/fiancee who's intelligent enough to realize that, even though she might not care about the differences, you (probably) know a hell of a lot more than she does about the situation and can sum it up. Also it helps if she's willing to try new things. (Again, my fiancee (english major) edits anything I write before I send it out, and she tries anything I (comp eng major) recommend on the computer side of things)
Well, I reiterate--if your software is good, and you're talented, the people who care about such things will know you were involved, with or without a copyright clause in the license.
You remember the advertising-clause BSD stuff? It was ridiculous--it got to the point, with added clauses as people contributed, that you couldn't talk about BSD without 70+ lines of attributions. It's painful, it's pointless, and in the long run who cares?
If you're writing software for recognition, well, if it's good everyone will know you wrote it. Seriously. Imagine someone else trying to claim authorship of EMACS. Or vi. Or even fetchmail.
If you're writing software to increase the pool of usable software, why the fuck do you care if you're properly attributed?
I just wanted to say that I played PainKeep for the first time last week, because one of the guys in my LAN party group was a coder for the project back in the day.
I've said it before, but it bears repeating:
You are an idiot. Complete and total.
YOU MUST MANUALLY BREATH! If you don't you will DIE.
Actually, you'll just pass out. Not die.
Since when is "Alien" anime?
Stupid troll. =P
Of course your former president had the moral right not to talk or even to lie to keep his sexual activities private - a few years ago people even would have considered this a gentleman's duty (a concept that is apparently foregin to you)
A gentleman's duty aside (and I quite agree with you, there), it is ALSO the duty of an upstanding moral citizen to NOT LIE when he was UNDER OATH.
I don't give a rat's ass what he said in public, or even if he lied in public. In a courtroom, under oath, you tell the fucking truth or say "no comment". Period.
There is a supreme court ruling to the effect that the "militia" as defined in the 2nd amendment is all males age 15-45 who are not already in the armed forces.
System admin at a tannery. Job involved two offices at opposite ends of the plant, and consequently having to walk through tanning vat areas in shirt and tie where everyone else is wearing a gas mask, goggles, and protective aprons.
Sure, for consumer connections. Businesses and folks buying rackmount space and "real" connections generally get these things called SLAs or Service Level Agreements, which specify exactly what service IS guaranteed.
For example, my workplace has a line from AT&T and our SLA says we have 99.9% uptime, and if we don't they compensate us for lost business.
*snore* Windows isn't even close to intuitive. It's LEARNED, and you think it's intuitive because it's all you've ever used.
Not a flame, but seriously. I can sit someone who's never used a computer (got a few old relatives for whom this is the case), and both Windows and Linux are equally hard for them.
To quote someone (whom I can't remember): "The only intuitive interface is the nipple. Everything else is learned behavior."
Speaking as a soon-to-be-married slashdotter, my chance of getting laid on any given day is closer to 107% (accounting for some days it's twice.)
I love ACs who think they're SO clever by posting stupid stuff.
"Hey! Slashdotters is all geeks, so they never get any sex. LOL kekekekeke ^_^"
Do I get troll cred now?
Name a route from one of France's enemies to France that an army can take that does not have US troops on it. France could afford to posture during the cold war because Germany and Austria with their huge US garrisons were in the way. ...credit where credit is due.
CS 1.6/Steam has fake gun names, the last I played it. It really took a lot away from the feel for me, because they were still real guns, just with dumb fake names.
I've never been quite sure if that was product placement, a subtle satire about the ad-festooned jerseys of modern athletes, or both. =P
But...
If that large bank is coding software that handles money movement, it might well be a core competency.
I'm personally more worried about software companies who outsource--Microsoft being a big one. Also, although it doesn't directly affect as many of us, companies like Dell (primarily service companies) who outsource phone support--customer service is more of a core business activity than selling computers for Dell, IMHO.
You're an idiot, mostly because RMS charged for EMACS back in the day. He chose not to charge for more than the cost of making a tape and sending it, but he charged despite it being open source.
Radio won't become extinct for the simple reason it works--it's a relatively low-power, low-bandwidth transmission mechanism that is long-range and reliable.
For that matter, all unwired comm systems are technically the same, since they vary only in frequency, really. =P