Mandrake/Mandriva has been by far, the best KDE oriented linux distro, amd one the most user friendly. I hope Mageia keeps the good things on! Go Mageia!
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KDE 4.5 Released
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False, bloat IS a problem.
I do video processing, KDE 3.5 worked fine (90% under load, two streams doing real-time processing). KDE 4 is unable to do a single stream without losing frames.
Why do I have to buy a more powerful machine to run KDE 4 and do the sane task I am alraedy doing in KDE 3.5?. That's BLOAT
Re:Does it still require you to install a RDBMS?
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KDE 4.5 Released
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Insane. And it looks like the KDE devs are not even considering making the whole Akonadi and associated daemons mess optional. What happened to good old Kmail?
I just hope someone in the KDE project hears users and backtrack to KDE 3.5.
Just port-it (and desktop applications) to QT. 4 and star anew KDE 3.6.
Many people stays with KDE 3.5, they/we deserve an alternative; otherwise GNOME people will get a lot of new users, and KDE (and maybe even worse, QT) will fade into oblivion as of 'what once was a great DE'.
AFAIK Mandriva provides the best KDE oriented linux desktop. That's a problem for the linux desktop. Ubuntu is great, but monocuture is not acceptable, we need a good KDE linux desktop too.
msgs modded at 5 = 11: 10 are blatantly pro-Google, the other one = 5 Funny
The moderation system is geing vandalized by Google fan boys.
Re:One person's myth is another person's fact.
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Myths About Code Comments
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The best technique I've learned is to first write out in English a comment describing what you are about to write in code, then write the code after the comment. If you can't explain what you are going to do in English to begin with, you probably aren't ready to write the code.
I fully agree with the basis of your position. After more than 30 years programming, the way I like to comment my code, is attaching a comment for every instruction. The intention is to explain in plain words what code is doing at every step, and larger and broader ideas on the heads of functions and/or definitions/classes.
The result is verbose of course, but it can be read linearly, and the underlying algorithm is fully explained. The reader have a plain explanation of the why's and the how's of the code.
The sooner we start using AGPL for every piece of FOSS code, the better. IMO it's the only way to avoid FOSS being marginalized by big companies like MS or Google.
USA has a monopoly on IT (MS has the PC section, Google the Internet search market), and those companies are both killing FOSS. MS fights openly (the viral factor anyone?), while Google is fagoziting FOSS, (Android vs Linux kernel), (Chrome vs Safari).
He's been promoting MS interests (eee) with-in the FOSS movement for too many years. The only open question IMO, is how long it will take to the GNOME people to get rid of his 'works'.
Why is it so odd to just be generous? Why must generosity have some hidden motive? Can't a person (or a company) just be nice once in a while? If this were Microsoft announcing a free public DNS service, sure, I'd be wary, but Google hasn't given me reason to mistrust them.
How much they pay you, to say such a naive and blatant Google apology?
Monoculture is bad. Google is trying to bypass/replace internet and open source. Free/open source coders should be start using Affero GPLv3 license in every piece of software (starting by gcc, and the linux kernel) to stop this madness.
Plain and simple, a cheap marketing strategy. Wake me up when some project in SoC targets any sensible Google technology (search/ocr/translation/gis/etc/etc).
Slashdot moderation system is being vandalized by Google fanboys. The same happened some years ago in other public forums, we called them astroturfers.
Just correlate moderation points of pro-Google posts versus anti-Google ones.
In fact Google is one of the larger contributors to the OSS movement that I personally know of
Then you dont know much
Or maybe could you please indicate some efficient massive text search technology released by Google under some open/free license?
Or maybe some decent OCR program (ocropus+tesseract are years behind what you get for free in windows with any HP multifunction scanner/printer) so that we could convert those millions of tiff's based pdfs to an editable format?
Perhaps you know of some GIS technology from Google, to allow open/free implementations of world modeling?
And please, let's not forget to mention the little support and even smaller cooperation of Google towards key pieces of the open source world, like the kernel, or java.
Google keeps perfectly closed his cashcow technologies, but those very same technologies are build UPON open/free software. That's the taking and not giving the parent poster was talking about.
The telecom spanish situation it's a de facto monopoly (telefonica), with some other minor players to mascarade the industry as on oligopoly. The point is that spanish telecom prices/quality are one of the worst in the EU, with the explicit consent of goverments (left & right spanish parties does not give a f* s* for the people's right to access information).
Sometime they need to wash his face, that's the 'new regulation' comes in... minimal requirements, undefined prices, and of course, not now, tomorow. I am sorry, but I've heard the same lies, repeated too many times..
Google is using extensively open source, but is not giving back any significant technology to the open source world.
No efficient search technology.
No decent OCR software (ocropus + tesseract are still years behind what you get for free with any multifunction HP printer on the windows world)
No GIS technology
No JSP cooperation, Minimal kernel patches, etc, etc
Google could be a major open/free source contributor, they have the money and the skills, but they have no will to do-it. In fact, Google is behaving like any other big greedy corporation, they only do what they see fit for his own interest. The bleeding point is that Google exist THANKS TO open/free programming.
Yes, there's more than back-prop for succesfull neural processing. One of the most instereseting approaches IMO were done by Liaw and Berger on adaptable sinaptic training models, but that was more than ten years ago!
Your comment and his moderation are an exact copy of what astroturfers has been doing for MS for years on public forums (paid marketing spin). Unfourtunately slashdotters seems to be easily deceived by the G word.:(
Linus should put the Linux kernek under the Afero GPL v3 license ASAP, otherwise Linux risk to be bypassed by Google.
There's no excuse to not to user the internet enabled version of the GPL license for any program that could be run on a server, starting by the kernel.
Google takes from open/free source, but does not return any significant portion of his technology. No state of the art ocr processing, no decent image indexing, nor textual search technology, etc,etc. They are releasing only the portions that does not represents any thread to his bussines (ie: tesserac & ocropus for OCR).
The next target is the kernel, let's at least protect-it under the AGPL.
Good to see that developers are starting to realize that those lasts years big companies are using open sorurce but not giving back any substantial part of his owns developments.
That's why i encourage to use the AGPL v3 license for any piece of code that could be executed on a server related to internet. Starting by the Linux kernel ASAP!
You did not read my post. It's not only about programing computers, it's all about building new machines. Can we simulate those machines? Yes, sure, but the computational cost it's prohibitive, that's why neuronal simulations are so scarce.
Read the link about Turing papers, you'll find a very interesting bunch of ideas about 'thinking machines', not 'computers'.
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Mandrake/Mandriva has been by far, the best KDE oriented linux distro, amd one the most user friendly. I hope Mageia keeps the good things on! Go Mageia!
False, bloat IS a problem.
I do video processing, KDE 3.5 worked fine (90% under load, two streams doing real-time processing). KDE 4 is unable to do a single stream without losing frames.
Why do I have to buy a more powerful machine to run KDE 4 and do the sane task I am alraedy doing in KDE 3.5?. That's BLOAT
Insane. And it looks like the KDE devs are not even considering making the whole Akonadi and associated daemons mess optional. What happened to good old Kmail?
INSANE.
Amen!
I just hope someone in the KDE project hears users and backtrack to KDE 3.5.
Just port-it (and desktop applications) to QT. 4 and star anew KDE 3.6.
Many people stays with KDE 3.5, they/we deserve an alternative; otherwise GNOME people will get a lot of new users, and KDE (and maybe even worse, QT) will fade into oblivion as of 'what once was a great DE'.
AFAIK Mandriva provides the best KDE oriented linux desktop. That's a problem for the linux desktop. Ubuntu is great, but monocuture is not acceptable, we need a good KDE linux desktop too.
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msgs modded at 5 = 11: 10 are blatantly pro-Google, the other one = 5 Funny
The moderation system is geing vandalized by Google fan boys.
I fully agree with the basis of your position. After more than 30 years programming, the way I like to comment my code, is attaching a comment for every instruction. The intention is to explain in plain words what code is doing at every step, and larger and broader ideas on the heads of functions and/or definitions/classes.
The result is verbose of course, but it can be read linearly, and the underlying algorithm is fully explained. The reader have a plain explanation of the why's and the how's of the code.
Oops.. s/Safari/Firefox
The sooner we start using AGPL for every piece of FOSS code, the better. IMO it's the only way to avoid FOSS being marginalized by big companies like MS or Google.
USA has a monopoly on IT (MS has the PC section, Google the Internet search market), and those companies are both killing FOSS. MS fights openly (the viral factor anyone?), while Google is fagoziting FOSS, (Android vs Linux kernel), (Chrome vs Safari).
He's been promoting MS interests (eee) with-in the FOSS movement for too many years. The only open question IMO, is how long it will take to the GNOME people to get rid of his 'works'.
So, if plain old 'server' is being called 'cloud' Let me get it scathologically: The 'cloud' is full of s***, you better beware of the rain
Google fanboys lemma: 'In Gog we trust'
How much they pay you, to say such a naive and blatant Google apology?
I have to say: Thanks, but NO thanks.
Monoculture is bad. Google is trying to bypass/replace internet and open source. Free/open source coders should be start using Affero GPLv3 license in every piece of software (starting by gcc, and the linux kernel) to stop this madness.
SoC = Marketing.
Plain and simple, a cheap marketing strategy. Wake me up when some project in SoC targets any sensible Google technology (search/ocr/translation/gis/etc/etc).
I am sorry, but I have to say it.
Slashdot moderation system is being vandalized by Google fanboys. The same happened some years ago in other public forums, we called them astroturfers.
Just correlate moderation points of pro-Google posts versus anti-Google ones.
Then you dont know much
Or maybe could you please indicate some efficient massive text search technology released by Google under some open/free license?
Or maybe some decent OCR program (ocropus+tesseract are years behind what you get for free in windows with any HP multifunction scanner/printer) so that we could convert those millions of tiff's based pdfs to an editable format?
Perhaps you know of some GIS technology from Google, to allow open/free implementations of world modeling?
And please, let's not forget to mention the little support and even smaller cooperation of Google towards key pieces of the open source world, like the kernel, or java.
Google keeps perfectly closed his cashcow technologies, but those very same technologies are build UPON open/free software. That's the taking and not giving the parent poster was talking about.
The telecom spanish situation it's a de facto monopoly (telefonica), with some other minor players to mascarade the industry as on oligopoly. The point is that spanish telecom prices/quality are one of the worst in the EU, with the explicit consent of goverments (left & right spanish parties does not give a f* s* for the people's right to access information).
Sometime they need to wash his face, that's the 'new regulation' comes in... minimal requirements, undefined prices, and of course, not now, tomorow. I am sorry, but I've heard the same lies, repeated too many times..
Google is using extensively open source, but is not giving back any significant technology to the open source world.
No efficient search technology.
No decent OCR software (ocropus + tesseract are still years behind what you get for free with any multifunction HP printer on the windows world) No GIS technology No JSP cooperation, Minimal kernel patches, etc, etc
Google could be a major open/free source contributor, they have the money and the skills, but they have no will to do-it. In fact, Google is behaving like any other big greedy corporation, they only do what they see fit for his own interest. The bleeding point is that Google exist THANKS TO open/free programming.
Yes, there's more than back-prop for succesfull neural processing. One of the most instereseting approaches IMO were done by Liaw and Berger on adaptable sinaptic training models, but that was more than ten years ago!
Contact the Rosetta foundation, and use his physical format to give your data a lifespan of ten millenia.
Your comment and his moderation are an exact copy of what astroturfers has been doing for MS for years on public forums (paid marketing spin). Unfourtunately slashdotters seems to be easily deceived by the G word. :(
Linus should put the Linux kernek under the Afero GPL v3 license ASAP, otherwise Linux risk to be bypassed by Google.
There's no excuse to not to user the internet enabled version of the GPL license for any program that could be run on a server, starting by the kernel.
Google takes from open/free source, but does not return any significant portion of his technology. No state of the art ocr processing, no decent image indexing, nor textual search technology, etc ,etc. They are releasing only the portions that does not represents any thread to his bussines (ie: tesserac & ocropus for OCR).
The next target is the kernel, let's at least protect-it under the AGPL.
Good to see that developers are starting to realize that those lasts years big companies are using open sorurce but not giving back any substantial part of his owns developments.
That's why i encourage to use the AGPL v3 license for any piece of code that could be executed on a server related to internet. Starting by the Linux kernel ASAP!
Algothims are great, really, but I am sorry, I don't believe in magic flowcharts. :)
You did not read my post. It's not only about programing computers, it's all about building new machines. Can we simulate those machines? Yes, sure, but the computational cost it's prohibitive, that's why neuronal simulations are so scarce.
Read the link about Turing papers, you'll find a very interesting bunch of ideas about 'thinking machines', not 'computers'.