I wonder why folks at Google do not first help us with the Linux desktop. They could do so by enabling ODF document search, pushing open media formats (video and audio), and publicity. Right now, QT4 does not look bad or incapable at all.
It was also reported that about 23% of mature Americans cannot read a schedule! Further still, from one study, America's adults made no progress in their ability to read a newspaper, a book or any other prose arranged in sentences and paragraphs!
This is amazing because this nation has had "free" education for a long time - education that would have prevented these appalling figures.
With figures like these, why should anyone expect a different outcome when it comes to internet access? Populations like these cannot generate effective demand for services similar to those found on the internet.
My humble suggestion is to have a project to make KDE and its whole environment a pleasure to look at especially in the font front by default.
I find this Kdevelop screenshot very beautiful and always try to achieve this on KDE.
Fonts are small, clear, sharp and crisp. I wonder whether such a screenshot is possible without MS fonts. If it is, then my request is to have steps involved to achieve this done away with. That's why I emphasize "default" in this submission.
I hear UK residents pay for phone service by the minute. If this is indeed the case, this deal is not so good. It is good for us in the US and Canada who pay a flat monthly fee that enables us to make as many call as we wish and to talk for as long as we want.
When one hears [US] politicians praise the American system, touting its advantages over other systems of government, you might think there is no corruption in the country. So they tell the "Third World."
Nothing could be further from the truth. To make matters worse, most politicians including the Commander in Chief appear to be incompetent!
Those scientists could be looking for the wrong clues, and here's why I think so:
Who tells them that life on Mars is similar to life on earth? You could find that "life" on Mars is based on an entirely different system not similar to that on earth.
I'd like them to modify their finding to some thing like..."Scientists develop tools to detect life similar to Earth's life on Mars."
I have not been able to access my Yahoo! mail account for 7 hours now. Can someone confirm that Yahoo Canada's mail system is also not ready for the change over?
I think Apple could have some limited success. At my doctor's office, they run an "all Apple environment." I wanted to know what applications they were using but the secretary had no idea! All she knew was to click and type into the application.
I for one though, do not like Apple and its OSX as a platform and wonder why people say it's very good as a platform.
My suggestion to Google is to take multimedia its next "home work." Why not find a way to popularize open video and audio formats like ogg? As an example, the popular Google summer of code would have a project specifically geared to creating plug-ins that enable windows based multimedia players play ogg based formats.
Next, it then becomes our burden to make sure we wean ourselves off Microsoft's formats an to popularize this move.
I am not putting down the developers of this "superbot", I applaud them...I cannot get even close to making anything similar. But I thought I'd see it walk on the ground like a human being, find a hanging rope, sense what it is and go ahead and climb it...or at least see it [automatically] transform itself into different forms in order to traverse different terrain.
Question though: What language might have been used to program this thing?
...Drop objects on a form and define pieces of code that connects the objects. There wasn't any real programming being done....
There was no "real programming?" Why don't you first define what "real programming" is? If in your case, you were defining pieces of code to connect the objects, you were behaving like a newbie - no offense to you.
On the other hand, I have developed more than 22 serious projects using VB and the forms you might have used. I agree VB was not a "wise" platform in many cases, but that was due to my employer's environment.
These projects/systems included cargo handling, hospital management, roster/scheduling in the hospitality world, schools and traffic management environments.
Let me tell you this: To a Joe User VB kicks ass big time as compared to anything in the Linux world. You can decide to be very simple and do forms as you might have done, or you can do some serious work like some of us have done.
There are many ways software is packaged in the Linux world, I agree 100% on this issue. But I also know that until software becomes portable *across* distributions, chances of Linux gaining a foothold in Joe User's mind and on hid desktop will be continue to be illusive at best. This is not good enough.
I have always wondered why bright minds, working for "free" and able to produce an OS that is giving corporations with big budgets a run for their money, cannot agree on how best to package software. To many users, we in the Linux world are still a bunch of jokes.
Sadly, it appears that because of bigotry, selfishness and ego, it will be a few more years before those that command authority in the Linux world wake up. I hope we'll still be relevant by then.
This reminds me to digress a bit...Joe User asks for an improvement in GNOME's file dialog, which is still very wanting and is instead met with the poisonous "I know it all" attitude.
"...Will we finally be seeing high current recharge stations in the next decade?..."
Personally, I doubt that will ever happen in USA and here's why:
Huge influential oil companies like EXXON-MOBIL made profits of close to US$90 million per day in profits last year. Racking in almost US$33 Billion for the year. Now, who in their right mind can allow such a revenue stream to get suffocated by so called new technology?
I am of the opinion that we'll begin seeing this in "more pragmatic" Europe than here in these United States.
I thought the internet is not that reliable. Even Google has been "offline" at times. For Yahoo, it's even worse at least from Canada. How would a serious business decide to go online for serious business? Are folks at those companies really competent? I am beginning to doubt!
To me, this is one of the very good pieces of news this year. As the introduction mentions Massachusetts is one of the bluest of blue states and Texas is on the "other" side.
Question: How will each of these states' approach to this `open formats' "problem" be similar and how will it be different if one dares to compare and of course speculate?
With the release of this Kernel...does this event help us on the desktop front? If so, how?
From what I see, we [on the Linux bandwagon], have a long way to go. We're still playing catch up on in many areas critical to common desktop computer users. I hope some one is listening.
For those who may be wondering how I play my part, I'm very active on the documentation and help systems on Linux distros...all that are still very very wanting compared to the competition.
Now with this development, I hope the role of GTK+ will slowly diminish or even simply disappear. I would rather have QT replace GTK in all [future] incarnations of Adobe's PDF reader on Linux platform.
Main reason for my view: GTK on Linux platforms is slow, hard to improve on, and plain ugly.
I hope I will get a meaningful answer from the Slashdot crowd over here. Porn to me, replicates what happens in real life...in the real world. What's wrong with letting those who want to have it, have it?
Some will mention morals...my question will be: Morals according to who? Why should one want all of us to live according to "their morals?"
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I wonder why folks at Google do not first help us with the Linux desktop. They could do so by enabling ODF document search, pushing open media formats (video and audio), and publicity. Right now, QT4 does not look bad or incapable at all.
It was also reported that about 23% of mature Americans cannot read a schedule! Further still, from one study, America's adults made no progress in their ability to read a newspaper, a book or any other prose arranged in sentences and paragraphs!
This is amazing because this nation has had "free" education for a long time - education that would have prevented these appalling figures.
With figures like these, why should anyone expect a different outcome when it comes to internet access? Populations like these cannot generate effective demand for services similar to those found on the internet.
Fonts are small, clear, sharp and crisp. I wonder whether such a screenshot is possible without MS fonts. If it is, then my request is to have steps involved to achieve this done away with. That's why I emphasize "default" in this submission.
Have a look at http://www.kdevelop.org/graphics/screenshots/3.0/s ubclassing2.png
I hear UK residents pay for phone service by the minute. If this is indeed the case, this deal is not so good. It is good for us in the US and Canada who pay a flat monthly fee that enables us to make as many call as we wish and to talk for as long as we want.
...(W)e free software fans are a fussy crowd, and very hard to please...Indeed. We are so hard to please, but at the same time, getting OEMs to pre-load Linux would not hurt at all.
Attitudes like these are surely regrettable. No wonder the USA, once the champion of innovation and skill is way behind Asian countries.
If I were this man's boss, I'd simply ask him to withdraw that statement. I even wonder whether he's on Microsoft's payroll.
Nothing could be further from the truth. To make matters worse, most politicians including the Commander in Chief appear to be incompetent!
Who tells them that life on Mars is similar to life on earth? You could find that "life" on Mars is based on an entirely different system not similar to that on earth.
I'd like them to modify their finding to some thing like..."Scientists develop tools to detect life similar to Earth's life on Mars."
I have not been able to access my Yahoo! mail account for 7 hours now. Can someone confirm that Yahoo Canada's mail system is also not ready for the change over?
I for one though, do not like Apple and its OSX as a platform and wonder why people say it's very good as a platform.
Next, it then becomes our burden to make sure we wean ourselves off Microsoft's formats an to popularize this move.
In fact let that team wait for a lawsuit...if this lawsuit does not materialize, then we can celebrate.
Question though: What language might have been used to program this thing?
My 33 man company uses those very Google services...so far, so good. I believe we are not alone.
So how many companies *might* have switched according to you, your "majesty?" Why should we believe you anyway?
...Drop objects on a form and define pieces of code that connects the objects. There wasn't any real programming being done....There was no "real programming?" Why don't you first define what "real programming" is? If in your case, you were defining pieces of code to connect the objects, you were behaving like a newbie - no offense to you.
On the other hand, I have developed more than 22 serious projects using VB and the forms you might have used. I agree VB was not a "wise" platform in many cases, but that was due to my employer's environment.
These projects/systems included cargo handling, hospital management, roster/scheduling in the hospitality world, schools and traffic management environments.
Let me tell you this: To a Joe User VB kicks ass big time as compared to anything in the Linux world. You can decide to be very simple and do forms as you might have done, or you can do some serious work like some of us have done.
Does anybody know whether he (Ballmer) threw any chair around?
I have always wondered why bright minds, working for "free" and able to produce an OS that is giving corporations with big budgets a run for their money, cannot agree on how best to package software. To many users, we in the Linux world are still a bunch of jokes.
Sadly, it appears that because of bigotry, selfishness and ego, it will be a few more years before those that command authority in the Linux world wake up. I hope we'll still be relevant by then.
This reminds me to digress a bit...Joe User asks for an improvement in GNOME's file dialog, which is still very wanting and is instead met with the poisonous "I know it all" attitude.
Personally, I doubt that will ever happen in USA and here's why:
Huge influential oil companies like EXXON-MOBIL made profits of close to US$90 million per day in profits last year. Racking in almost US$33 Billion for the year. Now, who in their right mind can allow such a revenue stream to get suffocated by so called new technology?
I am of the opinion that we'll begin seeing this in "more pragmatic" Europe than here in these United States.
Need I mention more?
I thought the internet is not that reliable. Even Google has been "offline" at times. For Yahoo, it's even worse at least from Canada. How would a serious business decide to go online for serious business? Are folks at those companies really competent? I am beginning to doubt!
Question: How will each of these states' approach to this `open formats' "problem" be similar and how will it be different if one dares to compare and of course speculate?
From what I see, we [on the Linux bandwagon], have a long way to go. We're still playing catch up on in many areas critical to common desktop computer users. I hope some one is listening.
For those who may be wondering how I play my part, I'm very active on the documentation and help systems on Linux distros...all that are still very very wanting compared to the competition.
Main reason for my view: GTK on Linux platforms is slow, hard to improve on, and plain ugly.
Some will mention morals...my question will be: Morals according to who? Why should one want all of us to live according to "their morals?"