Colours, fonts, and icons are all over the place. Insane and useless borders and gradients cluttering up the interface, and an overall lack of clarity of any kind. It's like a big joke.
I mean, just look at that krunner screenshot again. What is that thing? Black, white, black, white, then suddenly grey and shaded and colourful icons, and fonts right out of a VGA BIOS.
Sounds pretty much like what KDE3 was before the initial release.
I hate, with a passion, the default massive gumby sized icons and toolbars and everything that appear to be the norm in most Linux VMs. I don't run in 1600x1200 so I can waste half my desktop space with huge icons.
So do I, so I spend a entire minute clicking a few GUI options to solve that.
but I've always wondered why it is that KDE and Gnome insist on using large-to-oversized-to-supersized icons for everything, KDE being notable in that it traditionally distinguishes itself with icons of brighter colors, in wilder designs, and offers greater customisability?
It is easier for a user to make things smaller than bigger if they need to. This is due usability reasoning more than anything.
Uh... if you saw the number of bugs currently open in this "release candidate" (and I use the term loosely) you might be a little more realistic and less idealistic.
In KDE dev language, a release candidate is a beta. And what they call a beta, is something they managed to compile.
If you buy music to play it on your Zune (if you even had one, that is), you won't be able to play them anywhere else on that format, right ? Well if this is the case, and given that not all users know how to convert music from format to another, do customers have to buy the same music multiple times ? If so, that sucks. But hey, it's not a big deal, it's Micro$oft !
Is inter-changable with:
If you buy music to play it on your iPod (if you even had one, that is), you won't be able to play them anywhere else on that format, right ? Well if this is the case, and given that not all users know how to convert music from format to another, do customers have to buy the same music multiple times ? If so, that sucks. But hey, it's not a big deal, it's Apple !
Anyhow, the answer is that the DRMed files will only work with the Zune software suite and the Zune. DRMed music from Apple will only work with the iTunes software suite and the iPod.
Says a person posting to Slashdot at 12:38PM on a Wednesday.;)
Let me introduce you to a new concept, time zones.
Slashdot shows the time of the posts in the timezone you set in your settings. It does not mean it was that time for the person posting in his/her location.
Here's why there's still so much "hype": it's because a lot of men actually believe that women aren't as good as men at doing whatever job it is that they're doing.
I believe statistically, the majority of any group isn't that good, previous experience has shown me that as well as observation. The fact there are far less females gives the overall impression they are worse with people's experience as there isn't that many you will come across.
And a lot of these men are working in the videogame industry. As a result, it IS a big deal if a women gets to a position of power in the videogame industry.
For me, I don't care what sex has a position of power, just don't be a idiot like most people who are in power are.
In the meantime, I have to listen to endless stories of groping, stalking, mistaken-for-booth-babe and just general disbelief that a woman could possibly do that job well.
My only experience so far with females in IT has been that they don't know at all what they are doing like most of the males. I'm sure there are some females out there who are good in IT, but the majority in IT aren't, just like the majority in of males in IT aren't.
even subtle instances where male developers overlook me to speak to my male associates. I've noticed that women gamers are viewed and treated differently from (and by) their male counterparts.
I don't know who she is, but she introduces herself as a female gamer. But she finds it strange to be treated differently in comparison to male gamers from developers.
Are the developers male? If so, they maybe able to just get on with males easier. As females get on with females.
The other thing is. There is a far more vast male majority of gamers than females and it may have been in the developer's opinion to listen to the males because they are the ones that actually make them money.
And regarding GameCock's behavior? Well, with any luck, cosmic karma will pay them back for that little stunt of theirs. I'll be sure to boycott any of their products from now on.
I like what they did, I'm going to buy more of their products.
The most important thing here is not about them allowing you to buy points in micro increments. The major problem I have is that 100 points DOES NOT EQUAL $1. That is the stupidest shit ever. Explain that Microsoft! Sersiously, what were you thinking?!
It is a trick to get you to buy more credits/points than you really need. By having credits/points you cannot use in your account, because you can never reach a zero balance without much difficulty, you have given them extra money. Now you know what they were thinking.
It's not that simple. The credit card organizations prohibit the stores from passing their transaction fee on to customers as a condition of having credit cards as an option. Brick & Mortar stores presumably price this into the regular prices for things, or just eat it as accepting credit cards increases the volume of the store.
I think Microsoft should make a round number for a minimum of points, so you can at least buy two things EXACTLY with the minimum number of points you buy. This tactic is often used elsewhere in micro-payment services to always get a little extra money from the user who may not spend it. When it is difficult to get your points down to zero, they are always getting extra money.
I'm pretty sure they're forbidden from having minimum purchases, too. If they accept credit cards at all, they're supposed to accept them for all purchases.
Some local stores here say they only accept credit cards for 5GBP or more. I don't think it is forbidden.
And, to paraphrase, it sounds like the GNOME team is saying "If you told us how to pump up the ball, everyone would know how to play with both of them, and that would be better for everyone".
I agree. I wouldn't be slanted against OOXML if Microsoft had actually properly made it a entirely open specification. Personally, I don't like file formats that don't play well or don't at all between different software.
It doesn't necessary influence which ball you choose: some people are going to stick with OOXML regardless of if it is an ISO standard or not.
Agreed
The argument on the other side suggests if people adopt OOXML, there's no incentive for Microsoft to adopt ODF.
Of course, if governments and businesses are requiring proper open spec formats and Microsoft is unable to actually produce a proper open format, then there is incentive for them to. On the other hand, maybe they don't. Since there are ODF plugins for Microsoft Office.
Personally, I don't see the need for Microsoft to develop ODF support in Microsoft Office, it is already provided with ODF plugins (which need to be refined a little).
You're giving them a baseball and they want to play basketball. Can't blame them for not playing either...
Just push this button and it will become a basketball compatible ball -- The ODF ball was built after all with the input of everyone interested and has the needed features.
True, the ODF ball has a lot fewer corners and edges, but that's not going to stop some people from wanting to play with the Microsoft ball, so sooner or later, we're going to need to know how to deal with it.
I think the issue was not so much about supporting playing with ooxml as much as allowing it to become a standard.
Microsoft want to get a stamp on their ball saying it's a open office standard xml ball, when even the title is miss leading as there is a tonne of a proprietary magic to it.
Microsoft have been unwilling to open it up further by not refining the specification and the specification itself is seen as inferior as it does not address many issues that were addressed in ODF. Microsoft has stated that they are not interested in changing the current version of ooxml to fix the issues to become a standard. Yet, they try to push it as something open, superior and miss-representing it as a almost purely open XML format when there is so much.. binary kludge in it and plenty of undocumented features.
Their ball doesn't quite work in most games I've noticed, it's very badly supported. It's so bad that the official game leagues are now requiring everyone use ODF balls in their official events because the ooxml balls don't work well between different players.
A number of applications and programs (both free and proprietary) already support the OpenDocument format. This includes traditional office suites, web-based office suites and individual applications such as word-processors and spreadsheets. Two of the most prominent office suites supporting OpenDocument are OpenOffice.org and KOffice, both Free Software.
The OpenDocument Fellowship[11] maintains a list of software and services that support the OpenDocument format. The list also provides information on the status of support for the format.[12]
The OpenDocument Foundation, Inc. and other third parties have also announced development of conversion software (including plugins and filters) to support OpenDocument on Microsoft's products.[13][14] Currently there are nine packages of conversion software.[15]
Aside from the OpenDocument Foundation's plug-in, Microsoft Office does not support OpenDocument. Microsoft has created the Open XML translator[16] project to allow the conversion of documents between Office Open XML and OpenDocument. As a result of this project Microsoft finances the ODF add-in for Word project on SourceForge. This project is an effort by several of Microsoft's partners to create a plugin for Microsoft Office that will be freely available under a BSD license. The project has released version 1.0 for Microsoft Word of this software in early 2007 and plans versions later in 2007 for Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint. Sun Microsystems has also created a OpenDocument plugin for Microsoft Office 2000, XP, and 2003 that supports Word, Excel, and Powerpoint documents.[17]
You can also add the games league to that. I don't agree with your statement that there is nobody of any consequence uses that ball, there are certainly some, and they are pretty big.
ODF is just a sore loser.
The ODF ball is getting a lot of attention and seems a lot of people want to play with it, Microsoft is free to play with it too. Microsoft wants others to play with it's ball, but it doesn't even want to pump it up for it work effectively. I don't see the ODF ball as a loser.
The only reason anyone cares is so that goverments and businesses can make noise about buying square balls to get a better deal from M$.
This is being brought up in areas which aren't even connected to government funding, such as the Dutch ball congress which is built up of much smaller parties who have influence over policies which tend to do what they consider, the right thing(tm). So, I don't agree here either.
SuSE was a KDE distribution for a long time, and most of the SuSE GUI tools are still KDE-centric
I know this too well, being someone who uses SuSE (I go against the defaults and use KDE).
AFAIK, Novell/Commercial SuSE (influence of Ximian) trends towards GNOME, but openSuSE trends towards KDE. Both are pretty definitely "dual-desktop"
Sorry about that, I absolutely messed up. Being a SuSE Linux user (although I use Kubuntu on my home desktop) and knowing about OpenSuSE, I believed it copied SuSE's general philosophies including having Gnome by default.
"What is the default desktop of openSUSE - GNOME or KDE? openSUSE supports a number of popular desktop environments, including GNOME and KDE. During installation, the user is asked to choose between GNOME and KDE but no default is given. Both desktop environments are mature and feature-rich, which one a user chooses is a question of personal taste."
I admit I'm wrong here. I am a SuSE Linux user and assumed OpenSuSE was pretty much just a free equivalent to SuSE Linux, but apparently it's different in philosophy too. SuSE Linux by default uses Gnome.
Sorry - Hate to say it, but Mandriva uses KDE by default. You can use Gnome, but it's not as developed and integrated as KDE...
The drak tools are all written using perl and various GTK widgets - I'd say it's more connected to Gnome. The default configuration always sets Gnome as default in setup when you configure a desktop system, despite letting you choose KDE if you prefer.
You also forgot a very popular distro: PCLinuxOS. It is highly ranked at distrowatch. This one also uses KDE by default...
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Is inter-changable with:
If you buy music to play it on your iPod (if you even had one, that is), you won't be able to play them anywhere else on that format, right ? Well if this is the case, and given that not all users know how to convert music from format to another, do customers have to buy the same music multiple times ? If so, that sucks. But hey, it's not a big deal, it's Apple !
Anyhow, the answer is that the DRMed files will only work with the Zune software suite and the Zune. DRMed music from Apple will only work with the iTunes software suite and the iPod.
On the other hand, I haven't seen sources yet that show "The overwhelming majority of Slashdot posters live in the US and Canada" yet.
Personally though, I don't care what sex you are -- don't expect any leeway from me for being male or female (this is in no specific order).
Slashdot shows the time of the posts in the timezone you set in your settings. It does not mean it was that time for the person posting in his/her location.
Are the developers male? If so, they maybe able to just get on with males easier. As females get on with females.
The other thing is. There is a far more vast male majority of gamers than females and it may have been in the developer's opinion to listen to the males because they are the ones that actually make them money.
Just makes sense to me. I don't see any sexism.
Personally, I don't see the need for Microsoft to develop ODF support in Microsoft Office, it is already provided with ODF plugins (which need to be refined a little).
Microsoft want to get a stamp on their ball saying it's a open office standard xml ball, when even the title is miss leading as there is a tonne of a proprietary magic to it.
Microsoft have been unwilling to open it up further by not refining the specification and the specification itself is seen as inferior as it does not address many issues that were addressed in ODF. Microsoft has stated that they are not interested in changing the current version of ooxml to fix the issues to become a standard. Yet, they try to push it as something open, superior and miss-representing it as a almost purely open XML format when there is so much.. binary kludge in it and plenty of undocumented features.
You can also add the games league to that. I don't agree with your statement that there is nobody of any consequence uses that ball, there are certainly some, and they are pretty big.The ODF ball is getting a lot of attention and seems a lot of people want to play with it, Microsoft is free to play with it too. Microsoft wants others to play with it's ball, but it doesn't even want to pump it up for it work effectively. I don't see the ODF ball as a loser.This is being brought up in areas which aren't even connected to government funding, such as the Dutch ball congress which is built up of much smaller parties who have influence over policies which tend to do what they consider, the right thing(tm). So, I don't agree here either.