It is. On my Samsung phone atleast, if you have a data cable (serial / USB), it's just a matter of dragging programs between folders. With Bluetooth or IrDA, you don't even have to plug it.
Interesting. I hate fantasy themes in games with passion, so it's something i would love to check. Haven't seen one since the days of Fallout I/II.
Even more, the MMORPG market is awfully saturated as it is, but if they turn it it into one it could work well on cellphones (Pocket Kingdoms, anyone?) - if done right, of course.
From the changelog: "Please do not incorrectly interpret any of this as a slight against GNOME itself, which (although it does usually need to be fixed and polished beyond the way it ships from upstream more so than, say, KDE or XFce) is a decent desktop choice."
So, to usually need to be fixed and polished beyond the way it ships from upstream more so than the competence doesn't make it worse than the competence. Or is it one of those semantic things?
I don't see it as such. After all, slackware does not provide support for the hurd kernel or the bsd kernel either. I doubt Patrick has any big beef with any of the packages he doesn't support, but its not worth the extra layer of complexity to provide something as 2 monolithic desktop environments that are both in active development for each release of slackware. Its simply an executive decision, and I don't know why other distributions are still wasting their time supporting both.
Well, he mantains a Linux distro. But anyway, GNOME is nowadays one of the two most widely used DE's in *NIX. He dropped official support for it not because it wasn't needed, but because it's hell to mantain. Slackware. One of the most reliable (and conservative?) "old school" distros.
Thing is, this comes at a time when GNOME is taking a lot of flak because of performance issues and poor design decisions. Slackware dropping Gnome support is a bit like Debian dropping it off the stable branch.
KDE was always more like Windows and GNOME more like Mac OS 8the old ones), even though the lines are blurring with every new release.
But still, of those two, i have to agree with Pat: at this point in time, KDE is just a better desktop. The only reason i dislike it is the damn bloat (which GNOME also suffers). I moved from GNOME to XFCE 4 and i'm not looking back.
I think this happened a while ago (months?), but that Slackware, which is still a major, well thought out distribution, decides to drop GNOME support just like that is major news. Dropline GNOME and other community support projects for Slack exists, so it's not Slackware users will need to part with GNOME. But still, a slap in the face to the GNOME crew. I wonder what they have to say about it.
Anway, i found interesting that Pat mentions XFCE as a "fixed an polished" desktop. It's great, and while i'd hate to see GNOME loose popularity, at this time XFCE 4.2 is a better GNOME than GNOME itself.
I bet it will look pretty much the same as it does now.
Don't mean to be a dick...
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... because i usually love this stuff, but how exactly does a 91MB video file on an CD counts as "easter egg"? And how came no one noticed it before - sheeze, it cant't be that easy to miss.
PS, the video is cool, and the recompressed version is most welcome!
Actually, i'm in the hunt for a portable player and i ruled out the iPod because of this. Not that much because it's a lock-in attempt to iTunes, but because it's a bitch to use without it (or so i'm told).
I just want something i can plug/mount, download some songs and be done with it.
"I, robot" (the movie) was as related to the book as "Starship troopers" was. Both Asimov and Heinlein are spinning in their graves so fast that they're time travelling.
PS: Both books ("I, Robot" & "S.T.") are excellent, i agree.
Because, honestly, they aren't very good at it. I don't mind bands trying new things - hell, i love the STP, and they made a point of changing the style of the band with every album.
But Radiohead... it just feels overdone to me. Of their post-computer albums, the only one i (marginally) liked was "Hail to the thief" - they just tried too hard on the others to sound "different" and "artistic". Too self indulgent.
Of course, this is just my opinion. Hold your flames.
I remember liking "Lurgee" and "Ripcord" from that album. OTOH, you had attrocities like "Anyone can play guitar" aswell.
Radiohead got much better with "The bends" and "OK computer"... after all, it seemed to me that they just wanted to prove they could do any other style of music they wanted. They succeded - now get back to the old stuff, please?:)
Ditto. Said it a millon times before, but the only artists hurt by P2P downloads are the ones with the hot-must-have-single-of-the-week. Why would you shell $X for a CD when you can get the new Britney Spears song off the net and delete it when you grow tired of it?
I bougth 12 CDs so far this year. 10 of them i listened first as P2P/BT downloads, and it's music i wouldn't have given a chance otherwise.
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I had this warm, fuzzy feeling all day. I now know why!
Sorry; it's Siemens, not Samsung. My brain farted.
It is. On my Samsung phone atleast, if you have a data cable (serial / USB), it's just a matter of dragging programs between folders. With Bluetooth or IrDA, you don't even have to plug it.
Interesting. I hate fantasy themes in games with passion, so it's something i would love to check. Haven't seen one since the days of Fallout I/II.
Even more, the MMORPG market is awfully saturated as it is, but if they turn it it into one it could work well on cellphones (Pocket Kingdoms, anyone?) - if done right, of course.
I would certainly give it a try.
What's easier to remember, Your dogs name or z*4jhDm28&:1~. Now I will wait for someone to reply with "but my dogs name is z*4jhDm28&:1~"
*snif* You... you insensitive clod! *weep*
(runs to hug his puppy).
Well, they have all this free time to think, since they don't have to worry if their pencils work or not in space.
Yes, blame my poor English for it. "Competencia" is the Spanish for "Competition", it just came out like that...
From the changelog: "Please do not incorrectly interpret any of this as a slight against GNOME itself, which (although it does usually need to be fixed and polished beyond the way it ships from upstream more so than, say, KDE or XFce) is a decent desktop choice."
So, to usually need to be fixed and polished beyond the way it ships from upstream more so than the competence doesn't make it worse than the competence. Or is it one of those semantic things?
Lighten up.
I don't see it as such. After all, slackware does not provide support for the hurd kernel or the bsd kernel either. I doubt Patrick has any big beef with any of the packages he doesn't support, but its not worth the extra layer of complexity to provide something as 2 monolithic desktop environments that are both in active development for each release of slackware. Its simply an executive decision, and I don't know why other distributions are still wasting their time supporting both.
Well, he mantains a Linux distro. But anyway, GNOME is nowadays one of the two most widely used DE's in *NIX. He dropped official support for it not because it wasn't needed, but because it's hell to mantain. Slackware. One of the most reliable (and conservative?) "old school" distros.
Thing is, this comes at a time when GNOME is taking a lot of flak because of performance issues and poor design decisions. Slackware dropping Gnome support is a bit like Debian dropping it off the stable branch.
KDE was always more like Windows and GNOME more like Mac OS 8the old ones), even though the lines are blurring with every new release.
But still, of those two, i have to agree with Pat: at this point in time, KDE is just a better desktop. The only reason i dislike it is the damn bloat (which GNOME also suffers). I moved from GNOME to XFCE 4 and i'm not looking back.
I think this happened a while ago (months?), but that Slackware, which is still a major, well thought out distribution, decides to drop GNOME support just like that is major news. Dropline GNOME and other community support projects for Slack exists, so it's not Slackware users will need to part with GNOME. But still, a slap in the face to the GNOME crew. I wonder what they have to say about it.
Anway, i found interesting that Pat mentions XFCE as a "fixed an polished" desktop. It's great, and while i'd hate to see GNOME loose popularity, at this time XFCE 4.2 is a better GNOME than GNOME itself.
And since 2010, the answer will be "play Duke Nukem Forever".
I bet it will look pretty much the same as it does now.
PS, the video is cool, and the recompressed version is most welcome!
I understood your idea; i was just pointing out how someone could get arround the restriction. Ultimately, programs are realizations of concepts.
Damn, too bad you couldn't patent software anymore if you had to send a physical invention eh?
Wouldn't a working program using the patent concept do? I bet a sourcecode or pseudocode would occupy less than an image...
Heh, but imagine a Beowulf cluster of those! All your base would belong to us!
(Ok, someone shoot me please.)
Damn you. That joke will stick, and you know it!
Actually, i'm in the hunt for a portable player and i ruled out the iPod because of this. Not that much because it's a lock-in attempt to iTunes, but because it's a bitch to use without it (or so i'm told).
I just want something i can plug/mount, download some songs and be done with it.
Microsoft has been waving the "Buy American" banner for too long. Red Hat is an American company too!
Shh. I hear the people that works at RedHat are communists. I mean, REDHat... doh!
I wouldn't rule out they being terrorists either.
"I, robot" (the movie) was as related to the book as "Starship troopers" was. Both Asimov and Heinlein are spinning in their graves so fast that they're time travelling.
PS: Both books ("I, Robot" & "S.T.") are excellent, i agree.
I love Douglas Adams writing as well, but i picture him more as a satirist/comedian than a Sci-fi writter. That might have something to do with it.
Phillp Dick, OTOH, was long overdue.
Because, honestly, they aren't very good at it. I don't mind bands trying new things - hell, i love the STP, and they made a point of changing the style of the band with every album.
But Radiohead... it just feels overdone to me. Of their post-computer albums, the only one i (marginally) liked was "Hail to the thief" - they just tried too hard on the others to sound "different" and "artistic". Too self indulgent.
Of course, this is just my opinion. Hold your flames.
I remember liking "Lurgee" and "Ripcord" from that album. OTOH, you had attrocities like "Anyone can play guitar" aswell.
:)
Radiohead got much better with "The bends" and "OK computer"... after all, it seemed to me that they just wanted to prove they could do any other style of music they wanted. They succeded - now get back to the old stuff, please?
Ditto. Said it a millon times before, but the only artists hurt by P2P downloads are the ones with the hot-must-have-single-of-the-week. Why would you shell $X for a CD when you can get the new Britney Spears song off the net and delete it when you grow tired of it?
I bougth 12 CDs so far this year. 10 of them i listened first as P2P/BT downloads, and it's music i wouldn't have given a chance otherwise.