Much as I like BeOS I have to say I prefer full titlebars to tabs - it's just nice to have the position of everything predictable. Other than that, there aren't dramatic differences between the beos gui and that of windows or kde.
Anyway, if beos-style behaviour is what you prefer you can configure kde like that. Most people are coming from windows and want windows-like behaviour. Maybe beos should be an option on the introductory wizard though.
I suspect its because the Europeans have just as much of a bias in the opposing direction. Most Europeans I know just love to eat up whatever the media decides to feed them
This statement should be preserved somewhere. Anyway, it's not just Europeans, it's anywhere outside the US.
if you know anything about its history then you'd know we are still coming out of an ice age and dramatic weather changes are going to happen.
"We know we're in a thunderstorm, lightning strikes will happen, so we might as well all wander around holding long metal poles above our heads"
The earth is unusually cold, so much so that both poles have ice which is rare.
For the earth it's unusual. For humanity as a species it's the way it's always been.
And before anyone mentions the ozone hole... it has nothing to do with global warming, even if it did, it has already stopped growing larger.
No, but it's proof that humanity impacts things on a global scale. It appears and grows when we use CFCs for everything and starts shrinking once we've finally eliminated them.
Stop being so damn pessimistic, we aren't changing the climate.
I'm sure there were pacific islanders saying that as they cut down the last of their trees.
Sorry, I was trying to pick one more relevant to the OP and my knowledge of American ecosystems isn't that good. I could have said something like "look at how much of Europe is covered by forest".
Yeah, I'm sure the next pseudo-habitable planet we encounter would love to have millions of ugly bags of mostly water infest it. Even if we had the technology to colonize other planets, would we have the "right"?
By whose standard? By ours, almost certainly. By the native inhabitants of the planet, probably not.
Also if we actually had the technology to stop the retreat of an ice age, what gives us the "right" to do that either?
Self-preservation. If we don't do it, we'll die. No-one blames any animal for doing whatever it has to to save itself and its kin.
I always surprises me how people self-loathe the science that got us in to this mess, but somehow have blind faith in "new" science to get us out of this mess. Who is to say the "new" science will be any better than the last round (e.g. we are living in the result of the science of the industrial revolution).
Scientific progress is real progress. Believe it or not we are better off than we were before the industrial revolution, and aren't living in any less "harmony with the planet" than we were then. Science makes us better.
Actually, P2P doesn't really *encourage* illegal downloads. It only *facilitates* them. Which is very different.
No, these companies are encouraging it, via their marketing etc. Or so the RIAA thinks they can prove. If they are just producing the technology in a use-neutral way, the Grokster ruling says there's nothing you can do about them.
Think of how many Indie bands have files out there and are trying to make a name for themselves. Think of how many home-made car (aka: rice) videos are on there for us to see. Think of how many interviews are on P2P networks. think of how much freeware and shareware is available on these same networks.
There isn't much. It's sad but true. Try searching just for a filetype, and see what proportion of the results you get look like they are being distributed legally. From my own very unscientific looks I'd say less than 1% of the mp3s out there aren't up in violation of copyright, though there's a greater proportion for other media.
This is obviously the wrong approach. If person X doesn't get their movie from P2P, they'll join a group and get it from some private FTP site. They'll find it on the Web. They'll spread it out through direct file transfers. They'll pass it around class on CDs and DVD-Rs. They'll get it around. Hell they'll even print it off frame-by-frame and make a damn-flip-book for all I care.This is obviously the wrong approach. If person X doesn't get their movie from P2P, they'll join a group and get it from some private FTP site. They'll find it on the Web. They'll spread it out through direct file transfers. They'll pass it around class on CDs and DVD-Rs. They'll get it around. Hell they'll even print it off frame-by-frame and make a damn-flip-book for all I care.
True. There are much better ways for the RIAA to go about things. However, all the law cares about is whether crimes have been committed against them under current legislation - and they have.
You cannot refuse service based on certain other reasons that are protected, like race, sex, religion, etc.
Am I the only one who thinks this is a bit odd? You can refuse service for any reason you want, even if you just don't like the person, but there are certain reasons that aren't allowed. I have this image of being on the stand saying "no, it wasn't because he was black, it was because he's an idiot".
The first is, yes the earth is getting hotter, it's getting closer to the sun. Each year we move just a bit closer to the sun due to it's gravitational pull. Does anyone not realize that we aren't orbiting on a perfect path???
Looks like someone needs to brush up on their basic calculus. Even if you were right, why are you so sure we're spiraling in rather than spiraling away from the sun like the Moon is from us?
The biggest problem by far is, who cares!!! It'll be thousands of years before it happens, and by then we'll all have our brains digitized and installed into servers. The smartest into Linux servers, the most artistic into Macs, and the dumbest into windows!!!!!
It's happening right now, just ask anyone outside the US. Most predictions are for about a 2 degree temperature rise throughout the world. That's going to be enough to make a huge difference. Do you know how many people live less than 10m above sea level? And do you know how big an ice cap is?
The politically oriented ones are by and large on the far right. Notice there is no-one denying global warming outside america? That's because the US is the only place you get that kind of ultra-right-wing every-man-for-himself politics.
The fact is that humans, even with all our pollution, can't put a dent in our planets ecosystem compared to the power of one rhylothetic (sp?) volcanic eruption.
That's a complete lie. If you disagree, find me your nearest buffalo.
On top of this, many geologists believe that we are currently in an Ice Age and we're on the cooling side of it!
Not so long ago there was a wooly mammoth saying the same thing. Newsflash: we've been living in an ice age for our entire evolutionary history. We're not adapted to live in other circumstances. The fact that the Earth hasn't always been like this means nothing because it's always been like this when we were living on it. When ice ages end species go extinct, and we could well be one of them. Sure it's going to end eventually, but we could have the technology to stop it, or colonise other planets, by then.
I suspect it's that some of the moderators are Americans while others come from the rest of the world. For some reason the US seems to have a huge blind spot where they just rabidly insist global warming is not happening. It's like telling a mac zealot that you can build an equal performance PC cheaper, they'll just deny it without even bothering to look at your numbers.
Believe it or not the rest of the world doesn't just pretend to believe in global warming to try and destroy america's economic prosperity or something, as you all seem to assume
I don't get it, why does it seem so many alt-os projects are forever trying to emulate the look and feel of a Windows environment?
They're not. They're trying to get the best look and feel for the task in hand. And, believe it or not, so is windows. And, surprise surprise, the answers come up similar.
Linspire, KDE, GIMP, and others, if you spent the time improving, not cloning, your application, perhaps you'd get more users.
KDE is an improvement over windows - it looks 10x nicer, windows is only beginning to catch up with its customisability, drag-and-drop works better, network resources are very transparent. I could go on. Choosing to be different from windows for the sake of being different simply makes the application less usable - and the gimp is the prime example of this.
I mean really, if your app is going to look, feel, and function, like a Windows one, why should I use yours??
Why should you use the windows one if it functions the same? You choose the one that's better, and that's similar in many ways to others - believe it or not photoshop does a lot of things right. Making your UI different so as not to be the same as photoshop is like making a car that uses a joystick to steer so that it's different from your competitors'.
Does gtk have an equivalent for kparts, and if so, does the gimp use it? You could have an alternative "shell", with different toolbars etc. but the same "canvas" areas, like kedit/kwrite/kate, all using the same code.
2.6 seems to work fine in the more popular distros
In the case of redhat/fedora and many of the "big" distros it's because they have their own kernel team who maintains a heavily patched and often significantly stabilised kernel.
I can see that not everyone is having the problems I'm having, but that doesn't do anything about mine. Presumably these are problems that only show up in some configurations.
Your original post didn't mention anything more than it being vanilla, so who knows what configuration you were running.
I used a vanilla version because some people were blaming instabilities on distro patched kernels, compiled myself with the kernel.org source. I have tried many 2.6 versions, patched or otherwise. I used gcc 3.3.6 for this particular kernel, earlier ones were 3.3.5. If you're referring to the kernel config, it just has drivers for the hardware and filesystems I use built in, everything else left out, and in an effort to achieve stability I've even begun leaving out drivers for hardware I have but don't use much e.g. parallel port. Hardware wise this is a pretty normal desktop system, 800mhz duron, 384mb ram, FIC AZ11EA mobo, all of it fine under windows, linux-2.4*, and linux-2.6.11.
I find it curious that this didn't happen in 2.4.x -- why would the kernel I use affect how glibc operates and detects potentially fatal memory errors? Wouldn't glibc recognize it regardless of kernel?
2.6 introduced a new and improved threading library, which presumably allows glibc to trace things better. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of nice features with 2.6 that I would like to use - but features mean nothing when you can't run the damn thing for more than half an hour.
Nintendo's already done that for some games, particularly on the N64 to let you use two analogue sticks (see goldeneye or star wars episode 1 racer), so I see it as a possibility.
The nintendo 64 controller was wonderful. I almost bought a third-party GC one to get that wonderful asymmetry in the hold. I wish someone else would produce something like it.
My first pertinent reaction was something to the effect of "how odd. It'll never work."
People said that about the triple-pronged N64 controller too. It's still the best controller I've ever used. I trust Nintendo when they innovate. Sometimes they're wrong, but much more often they're right. They're a game company first and foremost, and will do what it takes to give you the best games.
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The dinosaurs lived all over the world.
If you have to fly out to an island to find one that's a pretty dramatically different ecosystem you're living in to what it once was.
Anyway, if beos-style behaviour is what you prefer you can configure kde like that. Most people are coming from windows and want windows-like behaviour. Maybe beos should be an option on the introductory wizard though.
This statement should be preserved somewhere. Anyway, it's not just Europeans, it's anywhere outside the US.
if you know anything about its history then you'd know we are still coming out of an ice age and dramatic weather changes are going to happen.
"We know we're in a thunderstorm, lightning strikes will happen, so we might as well all wander around holding long metal poles above our heads"
The earth is unusually cold, so much so that both poles have ice which is rare.
For the earth it's unusual. For humanity as a species it's the way it's always been.
And before anyone mentions the ozone hole... it has nothing to do with global warming, even if it did, it has already stopped growing larger.
No, but it's proof that humanity impacts things on a global scale. It appears and grows when we use CFCs for everything and starts shrinking once we've finally eliminated them.
Stop being so damn pessimistic, we aren't changing the climate.
I'm sure there were pacific islanders saying that as they cut down the last of their trees.
Sorry, I was trying to pick one more relevant to the OP and my knowledge of American ecosystems isn't that good. I could have said something like "look at how much of Europe is covered by forest".
By whose standard? By ours, almost certainly. By the native inhabitants of the planet, probably not.
Also if we actually had the technology to stop the retreat of an ice age, what gives us the "right" to do that either?
Self-preservation. If we don't do it, we'll die. No-one blames any animal for doing whatever it has to to save itself and its kin.
I always surprises me how people self-loathe the science that got us in to this mess, but somehow have blind faith in "new" science to get us out of this mess. Who is to say the "new" science will be any better than the last round (e.g. we are living in the result of the science of the industrial revolution).
Scientific progress is real progress. Believe it or not we are better off than we were before the industrial revolution, and aren't living in any less "harmony with the planet" than we were then. Science makes us better.
Ummm, that is the P2P protocol. All of them (ignoring useless ones like freenet) have searching built in at the protocol level.
Don't blame the protocol for what people do with it. There are a ton of good uses for the technology.
They're not, they're blaming the company who makes the protocol and encourages its use for breaking the law. Difference.
No, these companies are encouraging it, via their marketing etc. Or so the RIAA thinks they can prove. If they are just producing the technology in a use-neutral way, the Grokster ruling says there's nothing you can do about them.
As for the pirate groups, they're directly infringing themselves.
There isn't much. It's sad but true. Try searching just for a filetype, and see what proportion of the results you get look like they are being distributed legally. From my own very unscientific looks I'd say less than 1% of the mp3s out there aren't up in violation of copyright, though there's a greater proportion for other media.
This is obviously the wrong approach. If person X doesn't get their movie from P2P, they'll join a group and get it from some private FTP site. They'll find it on the Web. They'll spread it out through direct file transfers. They'll pass it around class on CDs and DVD-Rs. They'll get it around. Hell they'll even print it off frame-by-frame and make a damn-flip-book for all I care.This is obviously the wrong approach. If person X doesn't get their movie from P2P, they'll join a group and get it from some private FTP site. They'll find it on the Web. They'll spread it out through direct file transfers. They'll pass it around class on CDs and DVD-Rs. They'll get it around. Hell they'll even print it off frame-by-frame and make a damn-flip-book for all I care.
True. There are much better ways for the RIAA to go about things. However, all the law cares about is whether crimes have been committed against them under current legislation - and they have.
Am I the only one who thinks this is a bit odd? You can refuse service for any reason you want, even if you just don't like the person, but there are certain reasons that aren't allowed. I have this image of being on the stand saying "no, it wasn't because he was black, it was because he's an idiot".
Looks like someone needs to brush up on their basic calculus. Even if you were right, why are you so sure we're spiraling in rather than spiraling away from the sun like the Moon is from us?
The biggest problem by far is, who cares!!! It'll be thousands of years before it happens, and by then we'll all have our brains digitized and installed into servers. The smartest into Linux servers, the most artistic into Macs, and the dumbest into windows!!!!!
It's happening right now, just ask anyone outside the US. Most predictions are for about a 2 degree temperature rise throughout the world. That's going to be enough to make a huge difference. Do you know how many people live less than 10m above sea level? And do you know how big an ice cap is?
The politically oriented ones are by and large on the far right. Notice there is no-one denying global warming outside america? That's because the US is the only place you get that kind of ultra-right-wing every-man-for-himself politics.
That's a complete lie. If you disagree, find me your nearest buffalo.
On top of this, many geologists believe that we are currently in an Ice Age and we're on the cooling side of it!
Not so long ago there was a wooly mammoth saying the same thing. Newsflash: we've been living in an ice age for our entire evolutionary history. We're not adapted to live in other circumstances. The fact that the Earth hasn't always been like this means nothing because it's always been like this when we were living on it. When ice ages end species go extinct, and we could well be one of them. Sure it's going to end eventually, but we could have the technology to stop it, or colonise other planets, by then.
I suspect it's that some of the moderators are Americans while others come from the rest of the world. For some reason the US seems to have a huge blind spot where they just rabidly insist global warming is not happening. It's like telling a mac zealot that you can build an equal performance PC cheaper, they'll just deny it without even bothering to look at your numbers.
Believe it or not the rest of the world doesn't just pretend to believe in global warming to try and destroy america's economic prosperity or something, as you all seem to assume
They're not. They're trying to get the best look and feel for the task in hand. And, believe it or not, so is windows. And, surprise surprise, the answers come up similar.
Linspire, KDE, GIMP, and others, if you spent the time improving, not cloning, your application, perhaps you'd get more users.
KDE is an improvement over windows - it looks 10x nicer, windows is only beginning to catch up with its customisability, drag-and-drop works better, network resources are very transparent. I could go on. Choosing to be different from windows for the sake of being different simply makes the application less usable - and the gimp is the prime example of this.
I mean really, if your app is going to look, feel, and function, like a Windows one, why should I use yours??
Why should you use the windows one if it functions the same? You choose the one that's better, and that's similar in many ways to others - believe it or not photoshop does a lot of things right. Making your UI different so as not to be the same as photoshop is like making a car that uses a joystick to steer so that it's different from your competitors'.
Does gtk have an equivalent for kparts, and if so, does the gimp use it? You could have an alternative "shell", with different toolbars etc. but the same "canvas" areas, like kedit/kwrite/kate, all using the same code.
Goldeneye and Perfect Dark certainly had such a mode, four of them in fact.
In the case of redhat/fedora and many of the "big" distros it's because they have their own kernel team who maintains a heavily patched and often significantly stabilised kernel.
I can see that not everyone is having the problems I'm having, but that doesn't do anything about mine. Presumably these are problems that only show up in some configurations.
Your original post didn't mention anything more than it being vanilla, so who knows what configuration you were running.
I used a vanilla version because some people were blaming instabilities on distro patched kernels, compiled myself with the kernel.org source. I have tried many 2.6 versions, patched or otherwise. I used gcc 3.3.6 for this particular kernel, earlier ones were 3.3.5. If you're referring to the kernel config, it just has drivers for the hardware and filesystems I use built in, everything else left out, and in an effort to achieve stability I've even begun leaving out drivers for hardware I have but don't use much e.g. parallel port. Hardware wise this is a pretty normal desktop system, 800mhz duron, 384mb ram, FIC AZ11EA mobo, all of it fine under windows, linux-2.4*, and linux-2.6.11.
2.6 introduced a new and improved threading library, which presumably allows glibc to trace things better. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of nice features with 2.6 that I would like to use - but features mean nothing when you can't run the damn thing for more than half an hour.
Nintendo's already done that for some games, particularly on the N64 to let you use two analogue sticks (see goldeneye or star wars episode 1 racer), so I see it as a possibility.
The nintendo 64 controller was wonderful. I almost bought a third-party GC one to get that wonderful asymmetry in the hold. I wish someone else would produce something like it.
People said that about the triple-pronged N64 controller too. It's still the best controller I've ever used. I trust Nintendo when they innovate. Sometimes they're wrong, but much more often they're right. They're a game company first and foremost, and will do what it takes to give you the best games.
802.11b is still there and supported, just like 10gb ethernet is not obseleting your gigabit. It's slower, but it's not noticable (to me).