Though it never used to be the case, with the last couple of releases you have to redo all of your extensions and with the last couple of releases redoing the extensions has never gone smoothly.
Is to make ordinary people who aren't involved with IT care about the issues.
RMS started the free(dom) software movement because he was losing a lifestyle he cherished.
Big money corporate players are starting to use their influence on the goverment to curb open source. The only way the free(dom) and open source people can stop this is to get strengt in numbers......ordinary people.
Ordinary people are not acquainted with all of this stuff and if they were they don't have a non-abstract reason to care. It is just not part of their world.
The best way to get them to care..........enough to yell at their representatives if the government pulls a fast one..........is to give them software that they love.
That means easy to use.........not what a geek considers to be "easy enought"....and user support communities without an attitude about people who have no desire to make computers their avocation.
That is cool stuff, but I never felt deprived by not having it.
I miss very few things from windows since I switched back to the KDE.
One of them is the ability to rename and create directories from a file dialog box. Yes, I know I can get if I use Konqueror as my web browser, but I am stuck on Mozilla.
1. So far American IT companies are charging the same prices for software despite outsourcing.
2. Outsourcing means the software will be made overseas. If it generates IT jobs it will not be high quality jobs like programming/development. It means getting paid $9 an hour by AOL to tell someone how to find google with their browser.
1. C programmers can't be as reckless as they would like to be.
2. C, C++ programmers would have to learn something new to use Java.
3. VB programmers find Java more complicated then VB and more demanding of their programming skills
4. OSS/*nix types do not like it because the OSS community did not make it.
5. OSS/*nix types do not like Java because they can't feel like they have made it more their own as sun does not allow every freedom in altering and redistributing the code.
Maybe there are fewer women computer science students because there are fewer comptuer science students overall.
I have seen articles about this.
It makes sense, who would want to spend 4 years of college majoring in a field that is being outsourced?
I'm glad the dude from microsoft in the article is appalled, but if he wants more American women in computer science perhaps he should convince his company to stop exporting quality computer sciences jobs overseas.
Hopefully this review will have something nice to say so the Gnome team doesn't get embarrassed again by one of their developers whining like a spurned junior highschool diva and complaining about how the users just don't get it.
This is a tremendous opportunity for the publishing industry.
They can save boffo $$$ on printing, shipping, warehousing, and other costs. There will be no shipping and they will only print what they sell.
( good for the environment too )
The customer will be happy in being able to get any book s/he wants at any bookstore that has one of these machines.
It will be interesting to see if the publishing industry will be as short sighted as the RIAA in whether or not they will run with this new technology.
" One Roman writer said that the imperial government kept the Romans contented by "bread and circuses." Other societies have relied on the same strategy, but never to the same degree. The Roman emperors provided free food to hundreds of thousands and sponsored an endless series of games. For two centuries the government managed to avoid food shortages or the discontent that would endanger the rule of the emperors."
--- From: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_stor y.asp?category=1104&slug=Bobby%20Fischer ---
ASIA
Friday, July 16, 2004 Last updated 10:40 a.m. PT
Checkmate: Fischer detained in Tokyo
By ERIC TALMADGE ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Former world chess champion, America's Bobby Fischer is pictured in this August 10, 1971 file photo at an unknown location in the USA. Fischer has been detained in Japan by immigration authorities, officials said Friday, July 16, 2004, capping a more than decade-long hunt by U.S. authorities for the elusive chess legend. (AP Photo)
TOKYO -- In a bizarre end game, Bobby Fischer - the chess world's most eccentric star - was taken into custody after trying to fly out of Japan with an invalid passport. Checkmate.
Wanted at home for attending a 1992 match in Yugoslavia despite international sanctions, the American former world champion had managed to stay one move ahead of the law by living abroad and being sheltered by chess devotees.
It was not immediately clear if Fischer would be handed over to the United States under its extradition treaty with Japan. But his detention gives Japan a chance to show its cooperation with the United States just days before officials plan to bring an accused U.S. Army deserter, Charles Robert Jenkins, to Tokyo for urgent medical treatment - a case Japanese officials want Washington to overlook.
Jenkins, whose Japanese wife was kidnapped by North Korea in 1978 and returned home in 2002, is wanted by Washington on desertion charges for allegedly defecting to North Korea in 1965. He is suffering from complications after abdominal surgery in North Korea.
Fischer was detained at Narita Airport outside Tokyo after trying to board a Japan Airlines flight to the Philippines on Tuesday, according to friends and airport officials. The U.S. Embassy on Friday confirmed Fischer was in custody but refused to comment further.
Fischer "didn't know that his passport had been revoked," said Japan Chess Association member Miyoko Watai. "He had been traveling frequently over the past 10 years, and there was never a problem. I don't understand why his passport was revoked."
Watai told The Associated Press she had talked to Fischer in custody. She said he was told he would be deported and was planning to appeal.
Considered by many the best chess player ever, Fischer, now 61, became grandmaster at age 15. In 1972, he became the first American world champion and a Cold War hero for his defeat of Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union in a series of matches in Reykjavik, Iceland.
The event was given tremendous symbolic importance, pitting the intensely individualistic young American against a product of the grim and soulless Soviet Union.
It also was marked by Fischer's odd behavior - possibly calculated psychological warfare against Spassky - that ranged from arriving two days late to complaining about the lighting, TV cameras, the spectators, even the shine on the table.
Fischer was world champion until 1975, when he forfeited the title and withdrew from competition because conditions he demanded proved unacceptable to the International Chess Federation.
After that, he lived in secret outside the United States. He emerged in 1992 to confront Spassky again, in a highly publicized match in Yugoslavia. Fischer beat Spassky 10-5 to win $3.35 million.
The U.S. government said Fischer's playing the match violated U.N. sanctions against Yugoslavia, imposed for Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic's role in fomenting war in the Balkans.
Over the years, Fischer gave occasional interviews with a radio station in the Philippines, often digressing into anti-Semitic rants and accusing American officials of hounding him.
He praised the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, saying America should be "wiped out," and described Jews as "thieving, lying bastards." His mother was Jewish.
Which is great, I can now go weeks at a time before emptying out the email account I use for google groups( the networking people at my job don't even know what usenet is, let alone how to set up a usenet server ).
Steve
And in case other people want to write yahoo
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here is a well hidden but useful feedback link:
http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/my/cgi_feedback Yahoo does listen to suggestions, it just takes many iterations and time.
Slashdot Mirror
I'll wait for 1.0
Though it never used to be the case, with the last couple of releases you have to redo all of your extensions and with the last couple of releases redoing the extensions has never gone smoothly.
Is to make ordinary people who aren't involved with IT care about the issues.
RMS started the free(dom) software movement because he was losing a lifestyle he cherished.
Big money corporate players are starting to use their influence on the goverment to curb open source. The only way the free(dom) and open source people can stop this is to get strengt in numbers......ordinary people.
Ordinary people are not acquainted with all of this stuff and if they were they don't have a non-abstract reason to care. It is just not part of their world.
The best way to get them to care..........enough to yell at their representatives if the government pulls a fast one..........is to give them software that they love.
That means easy to use.........not what a geek considers to be "easy enought"....and user support communities without an attitude about people who have no desire to make computers their avocation.
What is the attraction from a user land perspective?
What will the mozilla rendering engine give the konquer user that s/he doesn't already have?
I use mozilla on the kde because I am used to mozilla and like the interface.
If the browser shared anything I wish mozilla would use the local KDE file dialog box so I could create directories before I save a file
I don't mean this as a rant, but CVS wouldn't even aire a moveon.org antibush commerical when they did aire a pro bush commercial.
Linda Rondstadt got booed and then escorted out of a Las Vegas hotel for dedicating a song to Michael Moore.
A folk singer got banned from a Borders Books for making jokes about Bush's legs.
All of these things make me wonder if F-911 on television is even possible.
If F-911 made it on broadcast television it would have to be considered Moore's biggest accomplishment in today's political climate.
Many (not all ) right wing people do not subscribe to the spirit of free speach.
That is cool stuff, but I never felt deprived by not having it.
I miss very few things from windows since I switched back to the KDE.
One of them is the ability to rename and create directories from a file dialog box. Yes, I know I can get if I use Konqueror as my web browser, but I am stuck on Mozilla.
Yes, I know this has nothing to do with x.org
1. So far American IT companies are charging the same prices for software despite outsourcing.
2. Outsourcing means the software will be made overseas. If it generates IT jobs it will not be high quality jobs like programming/development. It means getting paid $9 an hour by AOL to tell someone how to find google with their browser.
Win those youth votes! Impeccable timing!
1. C programmers can't be as reckless as they would like to be.
2. C, C++ programmers would have to learn something new to use Java.
3. VB programmers find Java more complicated then VB and more demanding of their programming skills
4. OSS/*nix types do not like it because the OSS community did not make it.
5. OSS/*nix types do not like Java because they can't feel like they have made it more their own as sun does not allow every freedom in altering and redistributing the code.
Maybe there are fewer women computer science students because there are fewer comptuer science students overall. I have seen articles about this. It makes sense, who would want to spend 4 years of college majoring in a field that is being outsourced? I'm glad the dude from microsoft in the article is appalled, but if he wants more American women in computer science perhaps he should convince his company to stop exporting quality computer sciences jobs overseas.
I guess those soilders' military careers are "finnished". Ahem! ;)
I hate defending AOL, but their funds got the mozilla project started and those programmers involved with it in the first place.
Hopefully this review will have something nice to say so the Gnome team doesn't get embarrassed again by one of their developers whining like a spurned junior highschool diva and complaining about how the users just don't get it.
This is a tremendous opportunity for the publishing industry. They can save boffo $$$ on printing, shipping, warehousing, and other costs. There will be no shipping and they will only print what they sell. ( good for the environment too ) The customer will be happy in being able to get any book s/he wants at any bookstore that has one of these machines. It will be interesting to see if the publishing industry will be as short sighted as the RIAA in whether or not they will run with this new technology.
For the historically challenged such as myself:
http://www.crystalinks.com/romeculture.html
" One Roman writer said that the imperial government kept the Romans contented by "bread and circuses." Other societies have relied on the same strategy, but never to the same degree. The Roman emperors provided free food to hundreds of thousands and sponsored an endless series of games. For two centuries the government managed to avoid food shortages or the discontent that would endanger the rule of the emperors."
I am really going to register and give the North Koreans my contact information!
--- /apasia_stor y.asp?category=1104&slug=Bobby%20Fischer
From:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national
---
ASIA
Friday, July 16, 2004 Last updated 10:40 a.m. PT
Checkmate: Fischer detained in Tokyo
By ERIC TALMADGE
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Former world chess champion, America's Bobby Fischer is pictured in this August 10, 1971 file photo at an unknown location in the USA. Fischer has been detained in Japan by immigration authorities, officials said Friday, July 16, 2004, capping a more than decade-long hunt by U.S. authorities for the elusive chess legend. (AP Photo)
TOKYO -- In a bizarre end game, Bobby Fischer - the chess world's most eccentric star - was taken into custody after trying to fly out of Japan with an invalid passport. Checkmate.
Wanted at home for attending a 1992 match in Yugoslavia despite international sanctions, the American former world champion had managed to stay one move ahead of the law by living abroad and being sheltered by chess devotees.
It was not immediately clear if Fischer would be handed over to the United States under its extradition treaty with Japan. But his detention gives Japan a chance to show its cooperation with the United States just days before officials plan to bring an accused U.S. Army deserter, Charles Robert Jenkins, to Tokyo for urgent medical treatment - a case Japanese officials want Washington to overlook.
Jenkins, whose Japanese wife was kidnapped by North Korea in 1978 and returned home in 2002, is wanted by Washington on desertion charges for allegedly defecting to North Korea in 1965. He is suffering from complications after abdominal surgery in North Korea.
Fischer was detained at Narita Airport outside Tokyo after trying to board a Japan Airlines flight to the Philippines on Tuesday, according to friends and airport officials. The U.S. Embassy on Friday confirmed Fischer was in custody but refused to comment further.
Fischer "didn't know that his passport had been revoked," said Japan Chess Association member Miyoko Watai. "He had been traveling frequently over the past 10 years, and there was never a problem. I don't understand why his passport was revoked."
Watai told The Associated Press she had talked to Fischer in custody. She said he was told he would be deported and was planning to appeal.
Considered by many the best chess player ever, Fischer, now 61, became grandmaster at age 15. In 1972, he became the first American world champion and a Cold War hero for his defeat of Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union in a series of matches in Reykjavik, Iceland.
The event was given tremendous symbolic importance, pitting the intensely individualistic young American against a product of the grim and soulless Soviet Union.
It also was marked by Fischer's odd behavior - possibly calculated psychological warfare against Spassky - that ranged from arriving two days late to complaining about the lighting, TV cameras, the spectators, even the shine on the table.
Fischer was world champion until 1975, when he forfeited the title and withdrew from competition because conditions he demanded proved unacceptable to the International Chess Federation.
After that, he lived in secret outside the United States. He emerged in 1992 to confront Spassky again, in a highly publicized match in Yugoslavia. Fischer beat Spassky 10-5 to win $3.35 million.
The U.S. government said Fischer's playing the match violated U.N. sanctions against Yugoslavia, imposed for Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic's role in fomenting war in the Balkans.
Over the years, Fischer gave occasional interviews with a radio station in the Philippines, often digressing into anti-Semitic rants and accusing American officials of hounding him.
He praised the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, saying America should be "wiped out," and described Jews as "thieving, lying bastards." His mother was Jewish.
He also announced he had aba
Maybe he can tell us where Osama Bin Laden is
Ah, I have one of their $20 a year accounts
Can I have that with a side of fava beans ?
Is also now available on yahoo.
Which is great, I can now go weeks at a time before emptying out the email account I use for google groups( the networking people at my job don't even know what usenet is, let alone how to set up a usenet server ).
Steve
here is a well hidden but useful feedback link:
http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/my/cgi_feedback
Yahoo does listen to suggestions, it just takes many iterations and time.
Does Dragonfly offer any visible differences to the casual end user?
I think you are jumping the gun on titling your post
"KDE FUD, not insightful".
I meant what I wrote as an honest question.
Thanks for the clarification