The only constant is change. KDE 4 anybody? Open source projects enjoy to completely throw away what they have, and instead start again from scratch. Writing completely new code is so much more fun than maintaining old code somebody else wrote.
KDE4 is not new code. A huge chunk of it comes from KDE3, certain bits were rewritten due to the fact it needed to be rewritten. Certain pieces were torn out as they were incompatible with Qt4's methodology, which is understandable.
KDE3.5 is still maintained and believe it or not, if you want a stable system, it's still recommended for stability reasons as KDE4 has not reached feature parity or stability parity with KDE3.5.
There are Linux distrubtions that name GNU's make as gmake out there? I have only this behaviour on the extremely difficult to use BSDs (which often have documentation, but it's so dated) and unix systems like Solaris (where you get some of the weirdest documentation known to man).
Besides the general suckage of most accounting programs, I've yet to find an one that has some sort of API to allow integration with other systems (for example, to generate invoice from entries in a ticketing system) or that allows multiple simultaneous users.
Sage 50 Accounts 2009 has some limited ability for APIs, multi-user support and invoicing support.
I dumped openoffice (which I used for years on linux and windows) for Apple's iWork on my mac. Faster, cleaner, and produced cleaner documents... I have since purchased 2 versions... 08 and 09...
I bought Staroffice, was more polished and had better font support, dictionaries than openoffice.org, faster and produced cleaner documents.
hitslink.com is extremely inaccurate, it gathers statistics from sites like Roche, Forbes, Vodafone US, Nokia US, CNN, Alexa, New York Times etc.
If you don't see a problem with this, these are mostly websites that are really only visited by US people. For it to be a accurate international representation, it would need to have some popular sites from every country. Such as in Poland it's o2.pl, wp.pl, kuszotv.pl etc.
For one thing, I used to manage a extremely heavily used website in Poland, and the OS X statistics were far smaller (in fact, it was so small, it was displayed at 0%). While Linux was reaching something around 16-18% in statistics. These are really significant differences which is why I don't think that site is even close to being accurate if it doesn't have some popular sites which are generally popular to certain countries.
You know what Apple should announce? Proper support for multi-button mice. What year is this? 1988? You would think that I could go pick up any mouse from $LOCAL_ELECTRONICS_PLEX$ and all of the buttons would work.
However, the fact that this confusion exists (this is not the first time I have seen it) is cause for pause.
Not really. I find plenty of people who think the only way to turn a computer on and off is by pushing the monitor power button. I've tried to find where they learned this behaviour, even enquired into it and they don't know themselves (No, they are not Mac users). The fact people end up randomly assuming stuff does not cause me to pause.
It appears to me that the slashdot community, for better or for worse, does form a good portion of the the public face of the linux community.
I don't think so, majority of Linux users I know don't even know of Slashdot and the majority of Windows users I know don't know of Slashdot either. I don't see how the average user comes into contact with Slashdot, even when Linux is involved. I'm sure there are instances of the odd individual, but as a whole, I don't see Slashdot as comming close as where people go to for the source of Linux community stuff.
The US is huge, and in some spots, very sparsely populated. It would not be economical to cover all of (or even 80% of) let's say, northwest Montana. Or MT in general, or WY, or AK, or...
I don't see how that equals a superior mobile phone network in the past - Including having the latest technologies accessible.
Oh, for goodness sake, if you're that paranoid over $10 in Wii points... just sell them to a friend.
I'd give it away to a friend, I'm too kind that way (Note: I am not the OP). But I don't think I'd see that money again, people I don't trust would be the only ones left and I don't believe the character of most people I meet can even be trusted with money.
Yes, I used to travel a lot between the Berlin area and Szczecin. Very rarely had mobile network issues, only that short connectivity issue between switching from Polish to German networks and vice versa.
I live in a town small enough you can drive from any one point to any other point in under 15 minutes. I still see approximately 25-50% of the drivers I meet on the road on the cell phone.
I can say I've seen the same thing in the UK. Hell, I've seen it in Germany, Poland, Sweden (in Sweden you get fined to death if caught on top of that) etc. while living there.
Here in the USA some people have that damn thing stuck to their head 24/7 I have followed people on the highway for 60 miles and they NEVER took the phone away from their ear. I see people walking around markets with it up to their head for hours on end. It's so bad that the cops are pulling cellphone records when you are in an accident. I've had 5 friends hurt by some ditsy chick that was on her phone and ran into them.
I can say I've seen the exact same things occuring in the UK.
Also, what is it with the guys that have their phone to their ear and dont talk? I see that a LOT with the ethnic crowd, dude had it up to his ear for 40 minutes and never said a word.
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I would recommend using the current version of KDE which is for production, regular usage, KDE3.5
I'm curious, what exactly?
I do so enjoy how people complained so much about VLC's interface when it wasn't even a version 1 yet.
KDE4 is not new code. A huge chunk of it comes from KDE3, certain bits were rewritten due to the fact it needed to be rewritten. Certain pieces were torn out as they were incompatible with Qt4's methodology, which is understandable.
KDE3.5 is still maintained and believe it or not, if you want a stable system, it's still recommended for stability reasons as KDE4 has not reached feature parity or stability parity with KDE3.5.
There are Linux distrubtions that name GNU's make as gmake out there? I have only this behaviour on the extremely difficult to use BSDs (which often have documentation, but it's so dated) and unix systems like Solaris (where you get some of the weirdest documentation known to man).
Sage 50 Accounts 2009 has some limited ability for APIs, multi-user support and invoicing support.
I don't see how the PS3 is too ahead of this generation. It's expensive, the development kit is difficult in general and has a steep learning curve.
Firefox crashes? This is news to me.
*Glances at several windows with a god awful amount of tabs which have been open for.. days? weeks?*
You sure you've not got a foobared installation or messed up profile?
I think a problem is that good technical writers don't have a tendency to donate work in their 'hobby time'.
I bought Staroffice, was more polished and had better font support, dictionaries than openoffice.org, faster and produced cleaner documents.
Am I the only person who found those quite bad too?
Eh? Why?
hitslink.com is extremely inaccurate, it gathers statistics from sites like Roche, Forbes, Vodafone US, Nokia US, CNN, Alexa, New York Times etc.
If you don't see a problem with this, these are mostly websites that are really only visited by US people. For it to be a accurate international representation, it would need to have some popular sites from every country. Such as in Poland it's o2.pl, wp.pl, kuszotv.pl etc.
For one thing, I used to manage a extremely heavily used website in Poland, and the OS X statistics were far smaller (in fact, it was so small, it was displayed at 0%). While Linux was reaching something around 16-18% in statistics. These are really significant differences which is why I don't think that site is even close to being accurate if it doesn't have some popular sites which are generally popular to certain countries.
They don't?
Orange exists in Poland, so I assume they're invading that way.
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Not really. I find plenty of people who think the only way to turn a computer on and off is by pushing the monitor power button. I've tried to find where they learned this behaviour, even enquired into it and they don't know themselves (No, they are not Mac users). The fact people end up randomly assuming stuff does not cause me to pause.
I don't think so, majority of Linux users I know don't even know of Slashdot and the majority of Windows users I know don't know of Slashdot either. I don't see how the average user comes into contact with Slashdot, even when Linux is involved. I'm sure there are instances of the odd individual, but as a whole, I don't see Slashdot as comming close as where people go to for the source of Linux community stuff.
But none of those vehicles are self crashing.
I don't and I am apart of Slashdot. Stop putting words in my mouth.
I hate people who are liars and since you claim I am something I am not, I hate you.
I'm sorry, Sir. This is not the Linux community, this is the Slashdot community.
If you want the Linux community, go to http://www.kernel.org/
If you look on kernel.org, there is none of this garbage. You are mistaken.
I don't see how that equals a superior mobile phone network in the past - Including having the latest technologies accessible.
Nope, I don't see how that equals a superior mobile phone network in the past. Try again.
I'd give it away to a friend, I'm too kind that way (Note: I am not the OP). But I don't think I'd see that money again, people I don't trust would be the only ones left and I don't believe the character of most people I meet can even be trusted with money.
Yes, I used to travel a lot between the Berlin area and Szczecin. Very rarely had mobile network issues, only that short connectivity issue between switching from Polish to German networks and vice versa.
I can say I've seen the same thing in the UK. Hell, I've seen it in Germany, Poland, Sweden (in Sweden you get fined to death if caught on top of that) etc. while living there.
I can say I've seen the exact same things occuring in the UK.
That I haven't seen.