It could still be better arranged. Remember, you're competing with drool-proof apples and Microsoft's sugar-coated control center. I actually think something like XP's control center would be a good thing for KDE. You get a "context view" which takes novices straight to the 7 most useful things (Administer Printers, Personalise Desktop, Automagic Network Sorter-Outer etc.) and a small, unassuming link saying "Further Options" (a suitably boring name that won't encourage the insufficiently-skilled to click on it) which brings up the full configurable glory. That way it's easier for newbies to make little changes quickly without ploughing through acres of submenus, and everyone else still has access to the whole thing.
The idea isn't to take anything away, just to arrange it better.
However, if you look at the screenshots she provides it's pretty obvious that she's carping with good reason. The extra spacing between gnome's menus, the soft lines between its toolbars DO make it easier to use. Now it's not a big thing but if it were fixed KDE would be better. Complexity of the configurator I don't care so much about, but again it does present a real problem for some users and ought to be improved. There's very little point in a reviewer not mentioning flaws they find, unless they're being offered backhanders. Whether you think she's nitpicking or not, Loli does mention the good points too and seems pretty impartial. I'm sure at least the KDE developers will take her criticisms maturely and work towards making KDE3.3 even better. Long live KDE!
For you and me that's a dealbreaker but not for some people.
Think of it like this: you get a free computer with a free, preinstalled program to make you take RSI breaks every hour. If the ads were for Mountain Dew and pizza, I can see even geeks going for this:-) Except, of course, that I suspect you have to use Windows:-(
Interesting idea. He's quite far from my idea of Bombadil, but the man's so talented he could probably make it work. More important, who would play Goldberry, the river-daughter?:-)
I imagine that this end battle is what Lucas shaped his Endor battle after, to a degree - at least in concept. Little 'cute' guys kicking the asses of much bigger, more agressive baddies in a humorous manner.
If you're right, Peter Jackson can never be thanked enough for keeping Middle Earth Ewok free.
Interesting. My father (a professional historian who takes interest in such matters) reckons that the oldest administrative region (in terms of borders) in the world is the county of Kent, whose borders are the same as the ancient borders of the kingdom of the Cantii. Its rival used to be certain provinces in China, but those borders got altered under the Maoists.
Sorry for being off-topic but I couldn't find a contact email at sammcgees.com and the FAQs didn't help me. Do you ship overseas (specifically, to the UK)?
Your raytracing example appears to be using a point light source and not modelling any atmospheric effects, so naturally it looks rather basic. If you use a proper extended light source and set up your raytracer to model the atmosphere properly then it will look much better. If your raytracing program can't do that it's a limitation of that particular program, not raytracing in general. Of course, proper accurate raytracing as I've described will take a/lot/ more CPU time...
It would be hubristic if they referred to themselves as hackers. When others refer to them as hackers it is a mark of respect for their ability / code / alpha geek status. Or, just possibly, an acknowledgement that gnome feels like it was hacked together with a chainsaw, a hammer and a tin of rusty wood screws;-P
It sounds more like he'd like to have the option [of using less resources]. Which, given gnome cares so much about accessibility, seems only right. After all, should an extension of that principle not be that gnome should be accessible to those with older computers?
I bet if you examine the full image closely there are some horrid artefacts. For one thing, the 196 separate images were taken over something like 19 minutes so the shadows won't be consistent. For another, the stitching program will have introduced some distortion into the final image. It's quite an impressive achievement but needs quite a bit of work to perfect the technique. It would help if the camera were mounted on a rigid frame and moved rapidly between images by accurate motors. You could probably get the time down to a couple of minutes though having a solid enough frame to overcome lens shake as the camera is jerked around between imaging points would be hard (also wear and tear on the camera would be huge). I suspect you could also minimise time-related issues by moving the camera between imaging points along a Hilbert curve, though perhaps this would depend on the circumstances. In any case, to get something like this working would be a massive undertaking well beyond most amateurs.
I think it's too late. By using a reliable technique akin to Bible Code Reading I have discovered that Darth McBride is already secretly cloning obermensch!
You still duck the point that it's not for one person or group to dictate morality for another group. If the president were a Jehovah's Witness (unlikely, given their mistrust of all government, but for the sake of argument...) and believed blood transfusions were wrong, do you not think there would be an outrage if he tried to ban all surgery requiring blood transfusions, for everyone?
If you don't believe stem cell research is good, feel free to refuse treatments based on it.
Your point 4 makes no sense to me. Religion the hand that drives science? When has that ever been true? Moreover, on the occasions that religious bodies have tried to guide science, when has it ever done any good?
Oh for Pete's sake. To seek to ban this kind of thing, which could conceivably lead to significant medical breakthroughs, is wrong. It is bad enough that certain groups in the US try to inflict their idea of morality on other groups in the US, but to try to inflict that on the rest of the world as well is outrageous. This isn't an issue like the GM food debate where the consequences of something going wrong might affect everyone - if a stem cell experiment goes wrong it's just a failed experiment, confined to a laboratory incinerator; whether or not to do that experiment should be up to the conscience of the individual researcher, and attempts to ban other people from pursuing such research are mere moral busybodying. The embryos in question are goners anyway...
Gah, mod parent down (by me...) I replied to the article, not the post to which it would have been a (vaguely) witty riposte.... (Something about the release of Solaris 8/9).
I suspect the actual act is probably a little more specific, saying something like "unsolicited commercial emails or text messages" rather than just "emails or text messages". But that's journalists for you, they rarely give a fig about accuracy.
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Can you guarantee that your judge and jury can tell the difference and pass an appropriate sentence? I suspect the answer is, and will remain for some time, "no".
Depends on what you have to serve, and to how many users. For a departmental print server, or for hosting the intranet for a small company it may well be plenty. Whereas for something that's exposed to a slashdotting... um...:-)
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It could still be better arranged. Remember, you're competing with drool-proof apples and Microsoft's sugar-coated control center.
I actually think something like XP's control center would be a good thing for KDE. You get a "context view" which takes novices straight to the 7 most useful things (Administer Printers, Personalise Desktop, Automagic Network Sorter-Outer etc.) and a small, unassuming link saying "Further Options" (a suitably boring name that won't encourage the insufficiently-skilled to click on it) which brings up the full configurable glory.
That way it's easier for newbies to make little changes quickly without ploughing through acres of submenus, and everyone else still has access to the whole thing.
The idea isn't to take anything away, just to arrange it better.
I guess it klarifies the gnamespace a bit. After all, you know danmned well that gnipple isn't going to be a porn app for KDE! :-)
However, if you look at the screenshots she provides it's pretty obvious that she's carping with good reason. The extra spacing between gnome's menus, the soft lines between its toolbars DO make it easier to use. Now it's not a big thing but if it were fixed KDE would be better. Complexity of the configurator I don't care so much about, but again it does present a real problem for some users and ought to be improved.
There's very little point in a reviewer not mentioning flaws they find, unless they're being offered backhanders. Whether you think she's nitpicking or not, Loli does mention the good points too and seems pretty impartial. I'm sure at least the KDE developers will take her criticisms maturely and work towards making KDE3.3 even better.
Long live KDE!
For you and me that's a dealbreaker but not for some people.
:-) :-(
Think of it like this: you get a free computer with a free, preinstalled program to make you take RSI breaks every hour. If the ads were for Mountain Dew and pizza, I can see even geeks going for this
Except, of course, that I suspect you have to use Windows
and post the text of the C&D, which contains the link.
Dammit, where are the pictures? This presentation stinks :-)
vi just makes you look dumb (when you can't even figure out how to quit :-)
I love vi.
Interesting idea. He's quite far from my idea of Bombadil, but the man's so talented he could probably make it work. :-)
More important, who would play Goldberry, the river-daughter?
I imagine that this end battle is what Lucas shaped his Endor battle after, to a degree - at least in concept. Little 'cute' guys kicking the asses of much bigger, more agressive baddies in a humorous manner.
If you're right, Peter Jackson can never be thanked enough for keeping Middle Earth Ewok free.
Interesting. My father (a professional historian who takes interest in such matters) reckons that the oldest administrative region (in terms of borders) in the world is the county of Kent, whose borders are the same as the ancient borders of the kingdom of the Cantii. Its rival used to be certain provinces in China, but those borders got altered under the Maoists.
Sorry for being off-topic but I couldn't find a contact email at sammcgees.com and the FAQs didn't help me. Do you ship overseas (specifically, to the UK)?
Your raytracing example appears to be using a point light source and not modelling any atmospheric effects, so naturally it looks rather basic. If you use a proper extended light source and set up your raytracer to model the atmosphere properly then it will look much better. If your raytracing program can't do that it's a limitation of that particular program, not raytracing in general. /lot/ more CPU time...
Of course, proper accurate raytracing as I've described will take a
It would be hubristic if they referred to themselves as hackers. When others refer to them as hackers it is a mark of respect for their ability / code / alpha geek status. Or, just possibly, an acknowledgement that gnome feels like it was hacked together with a chainsaw, a hammer and a tin of rusty wood screws ;-P
It sounds more like he'd like to have the option [of using less resources]. Which, given gnome cares so much about accessibility, seems only right. After all, should an extension of that principle not be that gnome should be accessible to those with older computers?
I bet if you examine the full image closely there are some horrid artefacts. For one thing, the 196 separate images were taken over something like 19 minutes so the shadows won't be consistent. For another, the stitching program will have introduced some distortion into the final image. It's quite an impressive achievement but needs quite a bit of work to perfect the technique.
It would help if the camera were mounted on a rigid frame and moved rapidly between images by accurate motors. You could probably get the time down to a couple of minutes though having a solid enough frame to overcome lens shake as the camera is jerked around between imaging points would be hard (also wear and tear on the camera would be huge). I suspect you could also minimise time-related issues by moving the camera between imaging points along a Hilbert curve, though perhaps this would depend on the circumstances. In any case, to get something like this working would be a massive undertaking well beyond most amateurs.
I think it's too late. By using a reliable technique akin to Bible Code Reading I have discovered that Darth McBride is already secretly cloning obermensch!
He's just trying to bog the Senate down in endless legal debate while he builds a clone army and takes over the galaxy :-)
You still duck the point that it's not for one person or group to dictate morality for another group. If the president were a Jehovah's Witness (unlikely, given their mistrust of all government, but for the sake of argument...) and believed blood transfusions were wrong, do you not think there would be an outrage if he tried to ban all surgery requiring blood transfusions, for everyone?
If you don't believe stem cell research is good, feel free to refuse treatments based on it.
Your point 4 makes no sense to me. Religion the hand that drives science? When has that ever been true? Moreover, on the occasions that religious bodies have tried to guide science, when has it ever done any good?
Oh for Pete's sake. To seek to ban this kind of thing, which could conceivably lead to significant medical breakthroughs, is wrong. It is bad enough that certain groups in the US try to inflict their idea of morality on other groups in the US, but to try to inflict that on the rest of the world as well is outrageous.
This isn't an issue like the GM food debate where the consequences of something going wrong might affect everyone - if a stem cell experiment goes wrong it's just a failed experiment, confined to a laboratory incinerator; whether or not to do that experiment should be up to the conscience of the individual researcher, and attempts to ban other people from pursuing such research are mere moral busybodying.
The embryos in question are goners anyway...
I wondered (for about 5 seconds, once) about writing a doctype for english, similar to those for HTML.
Gah, mod parent down (by me...) I replied to the article, not the post to which it would have been a (vaguely) witty riposte.... (Something about the release of Solaris 8/9).
DOH!
Not only do they seem to be releasing a pre-1 version, but who the hell uses fractional version numbering, especially in ninths?
I suspect the actual act is probably a little more specific, saying something like "unsolicited commercial emails or text messages" rather than just "emails or text messages". But that's journalists for you, they rarely give a fig about accuracy.
Can you guarantee that your judge and jury can tell the difference and pass an appropriate sentence? I suspect the answer is, and will remain for some time, "no".
That's what lawyers are for...
Depends on what you have to serve, and to how many users. For a departmental print server, or for hosting the intranet for a small company it may well be plenty. :-)
Whereas for something that's exposed to a slashdotting... um...