No way! I'm not getting a phone to run emacs. OTOH, give me a phone that runs vi and I'll buy it.
Ah, but Nokia recognises the One True Text Editor, and the N900 runs vi out of the box. (It's the minimal BusyBox implementation, but vim is available as an optional package too.)
The thing that made choose-your-own-adventure books interesting was essentially hacking a limited notion of interactivity into a non-interactive medium
And the iPhone is all about hacking a limited notion of interactivity into a fundamentally completely interactive medium...
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Re:Why do I need KDE?
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Can someone explain to me why I need a huge resource hungry window manager, sorry - desktop enviroment - like KDE running as my machine?
First of all, if you really aren't trolling, you should know the difference between a window manager and a DE. It's about as irritating as saying "Ubuntu is a terrible window manager, sorry - distribution".
As to why you need a DE? You don't. Some people like using them, others don't. A few examples of things I use KDE for:
most importantly, a well-integrated suite of applications with a consistent look at feel (and not just in terms of appearance: for example, the dialogue for configuring keyboard shortcuts is always in the same place in the menu structure in a KDE application). This includes an office suite, web browser, basic utilities and so on. Example of integration: dragging a link from a web page to a directory (both open in konqueror) saves the file there rather than creating a shortcut or something.
if you don't care about disk space and do a full KDE SC install, you have a matching set of utilities such as a calculator, basic text editor, magnifier, volume control, clipboard manager (very useful), etc.
you get some integration between the WM and the rest of the system: applications will not have keyboard shortcuts that conflict with your WM, for example.
various user daemons: reminders of calendar events, graphical display of messages sent with wall(1), etc.
an easy way to mount and unmount removable media
KDE also has some very nice features for application developers, such as the kparts system, which further improves consistency. For example, kate (an advanced text editor), kwrite (a notepad-style editor), Kile (a LaTeX IDE) and kdevelop (a software development IDE) all use katepart for text editing, which gives their text editing widgets the same appearance, keyboard shortcuts, indenting options and so on.
I've only scratched the surface here, but it's still perfectly reasonable to use a simple WM with some kind of launcher instead, or to switch between them.
This is a rather flawed argument: it's in the "Computer Administration" section, which is obviously not for playing with randomly as one might with "Look & Feel". If you go there without knowing what you're doing and break things, you were going to break your computer anyway.
In general, I would rather that developers keep obscure options available, (with sane defaults, and under an "Advanced" tab or similar) than remove them in case idiots play with them. If you don't agree with me, you're welcome to use Gnome, which has a tendency towards removing potentially confusing things, or indeed to buy a Mac, but it's not really fair to criticise KDE for allowing power users to mess with stuff if that's what they want to do, since an awful lot of KDE users like the configurability, and the rest just avoid clicking "Advanced >>".
Also, the Phonon KCM provides useful features other than backend selection, such as specifying priority of audio devices ("use my USB headset if it's plugged in, otherwise use my sound card").
I gave the example of MS Windows especially so that people would realise that different types of computer require audio to be output using different systems. I can't tell whether you're implying that KDE developers getting to use a unified audio API across different operating systems complicates the user experience in some way, or that you are somebody who pointedly doesn't care how things work internally, in which case I'm not sure why you bothered replying.
Seriously though, phonon has pluggable backends, and this does not mean the PulseAudio is going to be compulsory for KDE users, any more than its DirectShow integration makes MS Windows compulsory for KDE users.
He's lucky he wasn't murdered while the cops were messing about.
As for "how easily might this trick have succeeded if Weiner had been a little more intelligent about it?", I'd bet it has succeeded in the past, repeatedly.
WWII produced quite a lot of UFO stories, and the event in the article sound pretty much like a foo fighter, which are a pretty well-documented, if unexplained, phenomenon. In other words, there are dozens of similar stories which nobody has made any effort to cover up.
Also, the article annoys me greatly be implicitly equating UFOs with extraterrestrial spacecraft throughout:
Another person at the meeting raised the possibility of a UFO
Really? During a meeting discussing an unidentified flying object?
The comment about the Church implies that the object was assumed to be extraterrestrial, which is perhaps the least plausible bit: why would a group of military experts assume such a thing?
Because, while it's awesome, it's not really on-topic. Idle is, presumably, supposed to be a general section that covers the sorts of things blogs without a definite direction cover, rather than the mostly tech/open source stuff Slashdot traditionally covers.
I'll agree that this is the best thing by a very long way that I've seen in Idle so far.
Judging art by technical proficiency? You sound like one of those snobs who entirely dismisses almost all music for using boring time signatures or something.
I recognise a few of the places in the photos, and would really like to know where the others are. If there isn't a page identifying them somewhere, shall we make a list here?
I'll start: sergeylarenkov12.jpg shows Soviet soldiers in front of the Reichstag building, Berlin.
This becomes considerably less impressive when you realize that this image is done with sponsorship from major partners, whereas images like the Dubai picture, or the 50 Gigapixel image in Vienna were both done by individuals.
Was one of those sponsors Microsoft, by any chance?
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Ah, but Nokia recognises the One True Text Editor, and the N900 runs vi out of the box. (It's the minimal BusyBox implementation, but vim is available as an optional package too.)
Nah, it seems to be more along the lines of "it sucks that I can't do stuff because I am in some way forced to use an iPad".
I don't care if Apple's adverts do it; you still look stupid using "iPad" without an article, as if it were the name of a person.
And the iPhone is all about hacking a limited notion of interactivity into a fundamentally completely interactive medium...
No it isn't. The difference is in whether x is a real thing or not.
Clearly, the franchise is bricked.
PROTIP: Paragraphs and appropriate capitalisation can help you look less like Gene Ray.
First of all, if you really aren't trolling, you should know the difference between a window manager and a DE. It's about as irritating as saying "Ubuntu is a terrible window manager, sorry - distribution".
As to why you need a DE? You don't. Some people like using them, others don't. A few examples of things I use KDE for:
KDE also has some very nice features for application developers, such as the kparts system, which further improves consistency. For example, kate (an advanced text editor), kwrite (a notepad-style editor), Kile (a LaTeX IDE) and kdevelop (a software development IDE) all use katepart for text editing, which gives their text editing widgets the same appearance, keyboard shortcuts, indenting options and so on.
I've only scratched the surface here, but it's still perfectly reasonable to use a simple WM with some kind of launcher instead, or to switch between them.
This is a rather flawed argument: it's in the "Computer Administration" section, which is obviously not for playing with randomly as one might with "Look & Feel". If you go there without knowing what you're doing and break things, you were going to break your computer anyway.
In general, I would rather that developers keep obscure options available, (with sane defaults, and under an "Advanced" tab or similar) than remove them in case idiots play with them. If you don't agree with me, you're welcome to use Gnome, which has a tendency towards removing potentially confusing things, or indeed to buy a Mac, but it's not really fair to criticise KDE for allowing power users to mess with stuff if that's what they want to do, since an awful lot of KDE users like the configurability, and the rest just avoid clicking "Advanced >>".
Also, the Phonon KCM provides useful features other than backend selection, such as specifying priority of audio devices ("use my USB headset if it's plugged in, otherwise use my sound card").
I gave the example of MS Windows especially so that people would realise that different types of computer require audio to be output using different systems. I can't tell whether you're implying that KDE developers getting to use a unified audio API across different operating systems complicates the user experience in some way, or that you are somebody who pointedly doesn't care how things work internally, in which case I'm not sure why you bothered replying.
Seriously though, phonon has pluggable backends, and this does not mean the PulseAudio is going to be compulsory for KDE users, any more than its DirectShow integration makes MS Windows compulsory for KDE users.
Now we can have a thread with KDE haters AND PA haters in it!
The DHC-3T isn't a flying boat. A flying boat uses a combined hull/fuselage. It's a seaplane (or floatplane, in the US).
It's an article title, which are always capitalised apart from words like "and".
This is important: there is no global shortage of food. People are hungry due to political and especially economic reasons.
Uh... Where do you think the existing servers are?
He's lucky he wasn't murdered while the cops were messing about.
As for "how easily might this trick have succeeded if Weiner had been a little more intelligent about it?", I'd bet it has succeeded in the past, repeatedly.
Obvious technical errors in summaries bother me more than spelling/grammar errors.
A Firefox extension is not the same thing as a plugin.
Also, the article annoys me greatly be implicitly equating UFOs with extraterrestrial spacecraft throughout:
Really? During a meeting discussing an unidentified flying object?
The comment about the Church implies that the object was assumed to be extraterrestrial, which is perhaps the least plausible bit: why would a group of military experts assume such a thing?
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quite#Adverb
Has usage 1. gone out of use in North America or something? It's quite normal here, if slightly old-fashioned.
Because, while it's awesome, it's not really on-topic. Idle is, presumably, supposed to be a general section that covers the sorts of things blogs without a definite direction cover, rather than the mostly tech/open source stuff Slashdot traditionally covers.
I'll agree that this is the best thing by a very long way that I've seen in Idle so far.
Judging art by technical proficiency? You sound like one of those snobs who entirely dismisses almost all music for using boring time signatures or something.
The first two are the Reichstag too.
I recognise a few of the places in the photos, and would really like to know where the others are. If there isn't a page identifying them somewhere, shall we make a list here?
I'll start: sergeylarenkov12.jpg shows Soviet soldiers in front of the Reichstag building, Berlin.
Was one of those sponsors Microsoft, by any chance?