1. Split the packages
Yeah it's more of a distro maintainers problem, but it reflects badly on KDE. It's so annoying to have to big packages of stuff i mostly don't use. E.g. I like the dirfilter konqueror extension, but it's part of kdeaddons which depends on kdegames and kdepim (which i don't want)
2. Better file association management If you can't split the packages the least you can do is provide better file association management. It should be easier to edit a group of file types. E.g. I want everything in the image group to open with gwenview with krita second and nothing else. I had to go through every one and edit it.
3. Separate Konqueror and kfmclient
Konqueror the Web Browser and Konqueror the File Manager should be separate. Completely separate toolbars, menus, settings and file associations (konqueror the web browser's file associations should be much simpler, something like Firefox's). At the moment i can't get konq web browser to work the way i want it without messing up konq file manager.
I used to use Slackware, and I learnt a lot about how a Linux system works. But I've moved to Kubuntu now. I don't regret the time I spent using Slack, but the fact is these days I just don't want to look through man pages and web sites to find out how to configure my system. I'm still using Linux, I still want some control over my system and I'm still willing to spend a bit of time to do it. But there's a certain point where it's just too much effort for the result.
Now if you want to spend time learning how the system works and configuring it to your exact tastes, that's fine. But I think you need accept that most other people don't. Some people have less time spare, some people just don't understand computers as quickly. You need to understand that people are different, not worse, just different.
Technology should supplement your life, it should make your life easier. People shouldn't have to understand how the system works just to browse the net or play games. Don't think your better just because you choose to. Yes it's important to learn new things but there's a lot more to the world than Linux.
Note: This rant isn't directed at you personally, it's aimed at all the pretentious geeks across the internet. Actually, not just geeks, everyone. It's OK to have extensive knowledge on a subject, but don't look down on people that are different to you.
LCD picture quality comes no where near plasma. On a plasma the colours are better and brighter, and the blacks are blacker.
Colour fades aren't really a big problem, I don't see where it's mentioned in the article, but from memory a plasma will loose about half it's brightness after about three years of constant use. I've had a plasma for about two years, using it for a few hours a day and haven't noticed any colour fading.
Burn-in can be a problem, so don't let any image stay on the screen for too long.
To my knowledge: plasma screens are bigger and have better picture quality, LCDs don't burn-in as easily and use less power (and generate less heat).
On the flicr site every page states that it's not a photoshop trick. And if you don't believe that look at the images closely, you can see that the colour is slightly off because of the LCDs.
I've used broadband over powerlines. My grandmother's apartment complex in Hong Kong has it. I thought it was vapourware untill I was over there a year ago, my auntie took out a modem and low and behold, it's broadband over powerline. Aparently everyone in the complex was given one.
In my limited experience it was a little slow and unreliable (But that could just be the set up they had, I think the capacity of the network was being stretched.) But it does work.
I agree, I don't like cube cases at all, and especially not for a home entertainment setup. Stand alone devices look great and work well, but there aren't any that do everything in one box (DVD, hard disk, DTV card) and they don't give you full control over how you use it.
I'm using an Antec Overture for my HTPC. It's takes a full size motherboard and PCI cards, but still looks really good. It matches perfectly with my reciever (it's black and silver too).
As for a workstation, I think the small, thin PCs look the best (like this,) but they're usually brand name and have poor expandability and upgradability.
indistinguishable physically from a "real" diamond
Under normal light they're indistinguishable, but under UV light they have a yellow colour where a naturally made diamond will have a clear colour. I don't think that diamond industry is really scared of synthetic diamonds since, like you said, the main reason people like diamonds is the percieved rariety.
This reminds me of something that happened here in Australia. The Australian government ordered ARIA to instigate a rating system for all music CDs sold in Australia. Similar to the movie rating system, any R rated CD would have to be sold behind the counter to 18+ only. The government said they recieved hundreds of complaint letters, Triple J (a very cool, independant, government funded radio station (I'm not linking their website, it'd waste the ABC's measly budget)) did some investigating and found that almost every complaint was sent by a group of about 5 women in Queensland (I think you know the kind of group, religious, mothers, thinking of the children etc.) Nonetheless, ARIA still had to rate their CDs.
So they did. They went through the hundreds of thousands of CDs and gave an R rating to... two CDs. Triple J interviewed the leader of the complaint group, man was she pissed.
It's a good point you make, as most of the good KDE video players (Kaffeine, KMPlayer, Codiene) are just front ends for Xine and MPlayer, which don't support KIO Slaves. So you can browse the smb:/ protocol from the application's file dialog, but when you open the file it tries to download the whole thing.
But you can add an smb entry to fstab and it'll appear in devices:/. Click on it in konqueror and it will be mounted normally under/mnt.
I don't think it's right to be blaming KDE because you can't access kio slaves from non-KDE apps. If an application developer wants to use them they can (I'd assume it's possible even from non Qt apps, considering GTK-Qt and other strange cross-toolkit things that are possible).
They're easy to implement and well documented, what more can KDE developers do?
I would guess that the rest of the world does not just automatically call Dell/HP when they need new computers.
Unfortunately, I think they do. I'm in Australia, and pretty much every company here buys brand name PCs. It's the same in other countries I've been to aswell. Good to see AMD doing well though.
Aaahhhhh!!! /realises that I'm typing this on a Dell Laptop with Intel processor:-/
Sucks to be you indeed. A normal, recent (made in the last few years) plasma should have a life of about 30,000 hours if I remember correctly. About three years of continuous use, at which time the brightness will be about half.
I've had a Fujitsu Plasma for about a year, on for a several hours a day. Still looks the same. Perhaps you had yours set in "Exibition mode", with the brighness upped to extreme levels, and you've worn it out too soon. If not, maybe something's wrong with it and you can get it fixed under warranty.
So let me see if I get this right, they take some guy's crappy lo-rez VHS tape off his 1985 video camera and broadcast it in HD?
Yup.
Now I can see broadcasting those hot chicks they have host the show in HD.
Yeah Toni Pearen is hot, but what your really looking for is Mecleods Daughters. Every now and then you get a random pillow fight. I'm pretty sure that's the reason it's Australia's highest rated locally produced TV show.
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Ha I tried that too a couple days ago, didn't work. Now it did just then!!! Thanks so much!
1. Split the packages
:)
Yeah it's more of a distro maintainers problem, but it reflects badly on KDE. It's so annoying to have to big packages of stuff i mostly don't use. E.g. I like the dirfilter konqueror extension, but it's part of kdeaddons which depends on kdegames and kdepim (which i don't want)
2. Better file association management
If you can't split the packages the least you can do is provide better file association management. It should be easier to edit a group of file types. E.g. I want everything in the image group to open with gwenview with krita second and nothing else. I had to go through every one and edit it.
3. Separate Konqueror and kfmclient
Konqueror the Web Browser and Konqueror the File Manager should be separate. Completely separate toolbars, menus, settings and file associations (konqueror the web browser's file associations should be much simpler, something like Firefox's). At the moment i can't get konq web browser to work the way i want it without messing up konq file manager.
For the most part I like KDE
I used to use Slackware, and I learnt a lot about how a Linux system works. But I've moved to Kubuntu now. I don't regret the time I spent using Slack, but the fact is these days I just don't want to look through man pages and web sites to find out how to configure my system. I'm still using Linux, I still want some control over my system and I'm still willing to spend a bit of time to do it. But there's a certain point where it's just too much effort for the result.
Now if you want to spend time learning how the system works and configuring it to your exact tastes, that's fine. But I think you need accept that most other people don't. Some people have less time spare, some people just don't understand computers as quickly. You need to understand that people are different, not worse, just different.
Technology should supplement your life, it should make your life easier. People shouldn't have to understand how the system works just to browse the net or play games. Don't think your better just because you choose to. Yes it's important to learn new things but there's a lot more to the world than Linux.
Note: This rant isn't directed at you personally, it's aimed at all the pretentious geeks across the internet. Actually, not just geeks, everyone. It's OK to have extensive knowledge on a subject, but don't look down on people that are different to you.
LCD picture quality comes no where near plasma. On a plasma the colours are better and brighter, and the blacks are blacker.
Colour fades aren't really a big problem, I don't see where it's mentioned in the article, but from memory a plasma will loose about half it's brightness after about three years of constant use. I've had a plasma for about two years, using it for a few hours a day and haven't noticed any colour fading.
Burn-in can be a problem, so don't let any image stay on the screen for too long.
To my knowledge: plasma screens are bigger and have better picture quality, LCDs don't burn-in as easily and use less power (and generate less heat).
On the flicr site every page states that it's not a photoshop trick. And if you don't believe that look at the images closely, you can see that the colour is slightly off because of the LCDs.
I've used broadband over powerlines. My grandmother's apartment complex in Hong Kong has it. I thought it was vapourware untill I was over there a year ago, my auntie took out a modem and low and behold, it's broadband over powerline. Aparently everyone in the complex was given one.
In my limited experience it was a little slow and unreliable (But that could just be the set up they had, I think the capacity of the network was being stretched.) But it does work.
RTFA, Alchemy is a chip for protable media device manufacturers. Why would they market it to the consumer?
I agree, I don't like cube cases at all, and especially not for a home entertainment setup. Stand alone devices look great and work well, but there aren't any that do everything in one box (DVD, hard disk, DTV card) and they don't give you full control over how you use it.
I'm using an Antec Overture for my HTPC. It's takes a full size motherboard and PCI cards, but still looks really good. It matches perfectly with my reciever (it's black and silver too).
As for a workstation, I think the small, thin PCs look the best (like this,) but they're usually brand name and have poor expandability and upgradability.
indistinguishable physically from a "real" diamond
Under normal light they're indistinguishable, but under UV light they have a yellow colour where a naturally made diamond will have a clear colour. I don't think that diamond industry is really scared of synthetic diamonds since, like you said, the main reason people like diamonds is the percieved rariety.
This reminds me of something that happened here in Australia. The Australian government ordered ARIA to instigate a rating system for all music CDs sold in Australia. Similar to the movie rating system, any R rated CD would have to be sold behind the counter to 18+ only. The government said they recieved hundreds of complaint letters, Triple J (a very cool, independant, government funded radio station (I'm not linking their website, it'd waste the ABC's measly budget)) did some investigating and found that almost every complaint was sent by a group of about 5 women in Queensland (I think you know the kind of group, religious, mothers, thinking of the children etc.) Nonetheless, ARIA still had to rate their CDs.
So they did. They went through the hundreds of thousands of CDs and gave an R rating to... two CDs. Triple J interviewed the leader of the complaint group, man was she pissed.
They (or somebody) sold a cordless handset.
VPT1000
You still have to plug it into a computer, but you can make (and recieve) calls with the handset. There's more skype realted stuff on pcphoneline.com.
It's a good point you make, as most of the good KDE video players (Kaffeine, KMPlayer, Codiene) are just front ends for Xine and MPlayer, which don't support KIO Slaves. So you can browse the smb:/ protocol from the application's file dialog, but when you open the file it tries to download the whole thing.
/mnt.
But you can add an smb entry to fstab and it'll appear in devices:/. Click on it in konqueror and it will be mounted normally under
I don't think it's right to be blaming KDE because you can't access kio slaves from non-KDE apps. If an application developer wants to use them they can (I'd assume it's possible even from non Qt apps, considering GTK-Qt and other strange cross-toolkit things that are possible).
They're easy to implement and well documented, what more can KDE developers do?
I would guess that the rest of the world does not just automatically call Dell/HP when they need new computers.
/realises that I'm typing this on a Dell Laptop with Intel processor :-/
Unfortunately, I think they do. I'm in Australia, and pretty much every company here buys brand name PCs. It's the same in other countries I've been to aswell. Good to see AMD doing well though.
Aaahhhhh!!!
We're not strong enough to be able to stare down America.
Again, by "we", you mean our govenment. And by "our government", you mean the Liberal party. And by the "Liberal party", you mean John Howard.
Mark Latham put it more concisely.
Sucks to be you indeed. A normal, recent (made in the last few years) plasma should have a life of about 30,000 hours if I remember correctly. About three years of continuous use, at which time the brightness will be about half.
I've had a Fujitsu Plasma for about a year, on for a several hours a day. Still looks the same. Perhaps you had yours set in "Exibition mode", with the brighness upped to extreme levels, and you've worn it out too soon. If not, maybe something's wrong with it and you can get it fixed under warranty.
So let me see if I get this right, they take some guy's crappy lo-rez VHS tape off his 1985 video camera and broadcast it in HD?
Yup.Now I can see broadcasting those hot chicks they have host the show in HD.
Yeah Toni Pearen is hot, but what your really looking for is Mecleods Daughters. Every now and then you get a random pillow fight. I'm pretty sure that's the reason it's Australia's highest rated locally produced TV show.Any idea if it's being filmed in HDTV
Probably. I mean, Channel Nine do Funniest Home Videos in HD, I'm sure they can do it for Farscape.