There shouldn't be bug report for this category of obvious flaws. If you had one look on the desktop you would have seen it.
Fallacy. If we had one look at the OP's desktop then we would have seen it. Unfortunately, the users who test KDE cannot possibly test every permutation of hardware that exists that supports KDE. It's simply impossible. However, I'm willing to bet that the machines they did test on did not exhibit this problem. Hence, they never knew a problem existed.
You and your cabal are what's wrong with KDE development. You.
He asked only that the OP tell him where the bug report was, nothing else, and then he would help fix it. Instead, you criticized him, implying that all KDE developers should magically know about every bug before the users find it, regardless of the users' hardware.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not a KDE zealot. Actually, I'm a much bigger fan of GNOME for completely separate reasons. However, going around arguing that KDE developers are a "cabal" and implying that they should have some superhuman (unpaid) testing team is ridiculous.
Are you serious? It doesn't matter if a child's life goes to waste, as long as he believes in your god before he dies? What an arrogant prick your god must be.
Every child is going to make choices that they regret later in life. It is an absolute inevitability that children will make mistakes, because that is how humans learn. We don't learn from other people's mistakes until we've had made some of our own, even if we pretend that we do; rather, we learn from experiencing the consequences of our actions and understanding what consequences are.
I would not be happy if my 15 year old daughter told me she was sleeping around. I wouldn't be happy if she told me that she had sex with guys she barely knew, or that she thought it was normal to give sexual favors to guys she likes in hopes of gaining their attention, or anything like that. I would, however, be happy knowing that she has learned something useful from making those mistakes, and I know she won't make those mistakes when she's 19 and away from home in college where I can't do anything about it (and she probably won't tell me).
The key is to not take it to the extreme in either direction. Don't let your children run around in the wild with no guidance, and don't lock them up in a glass prison. They need to be free to make mistakes, but then they need your support and guidance to keep them from making too many BAD mistakes, and to help them recover when they do. I will steer my children in the right direction by providing guidance; more importantly, I will accept, with love, when they fall off the beaten path, and I will not respond by locking them up.
There has been this feeling propagating that locking your children away from society will protect them, when it only makes them vulnerable later in life. You cannot prevent mistakes; they will come, either now or later in life when you aren't around to help. You can only help mitigate mistakes when they arise, and help your child to learn from them.
Ok, I can respect your opinion. Let me ask you this: would you consider it abnormal if a 15-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy had sex (and therefore saw each other naked)? If not, then why is taking pictures naked any different? The only reason we're hearing about naked picture-taking with children these days is that it wasn't feasible twenty years ago. All children these days have cell phones and can easily take pictures of themselves, and I contend (without evidence) that they would have done so for hundreds of years if the technology was easily reachable for them.
However, I do not believe that this is the kind of experience that children need.
Why not? They need to learn about sex eventually. Why do they need to wait until they 18 or some other arbitrary number to figure it out? Teens, both boys and girls, are completely sexually developed (biologically speaking) by the time they are 15. I'm not suggesting that older adults should be sleeping with children, because that's another arena altogether. However, children need to be able to be able to experiment if they want to actually understand how things work.
would you vote for someone who shared nude pictures of themselves and sent them around?
Most people won't deliberately put their professional futures at risk just to take a short-cut.
Apparently you don't know any doctors or nurses. Doctors and nurses take "short-cuts" every day, because if they didn't they would never get to see all of their patients.
You don't believe me? Tell me that you honestly believe that doctors read every word of a legal document that they put their signature on, or that nurses always ask every procedural check-up question of every patient that comes into a hospital. Believe me, they are putting their professional futures on the lines every time they ignore one trivial piece of a trivial process, yet if they actually followed those precesses to the letter, no one would ever see a doctor in a hospital.
Their lives are ruined maybe because they have decided to take pictures of themselves and send them.
No, their lives are ruined because society is punishing them for following basic human instincts: exploring and trying to understand their sexuality.
I think the sad part of this, is that they are willing to do this. Lets correct this type of behavior now before they do worst later in live, then maybe we can better their lives.
"correct this type of behavior"? Trying to understand their own bodies is something that needs to be "corrected"? That might be the single most simple-minded thing I've ever heard on Slashdot, and that's counting every anonymous coward troll post I've ever read. If you truly believe that children need to be sheltered inside an iron cage until society arbitrarily deems them as "adults", then I pray you never hold any kind of office.
If children aren't allowed to experience the world, then as adults they will walk blindly into it and wither.
UberNote isn't half bad. It doesn't maintain separate "notebooks" like gNotebook and Evernote do, but it does support tagging. It also does some cool importing from all kinds of services (including gNotebook), and you can send updates to it from AIM, an iPhone, and possibly others.
I was so confused by your post's title. I kept waiting for the part where you explained why you wanted to file a lawsuit against a state of computer sleep.
Oh, don't get me wrong, I agree with you. I'm just pointing out that exclaiming the truth is often flamebait. For example, I can start up a discussion about Scientology, but we all know what a steep hill that would be...
And Gustafson's Law tells us that as the problem size increases the non-parallelizable portion of the program will shrink relative to the entire program itself.
The purest algorithms never touch a keyboard; only pencil, paper, and thought.
The purest algorithms wouldn't be constrained to any language that is composed of a finite set of symbols -- therefore, no pencil or paper. Probably no thought, either (at least, not limited human thoughts).
Actually, from a psychology angle, it's substantially different. It has been shown many times that humans are psychologically capable of stretching their moral limits further when they can distance themselves from the action (If you want me to get a citation, I'll go get one -- I'm just too lazy to get it right now).
This is easy to see even without evidence. If you were forced to choose, would you rather push a button that drops a bomb on a village full of children 1000 miles away, or be in a plane and drop the bomb yourself? The two actions have identical results, yet distancing yourself from the action makes it easier to justify the moral consequences.
This is why military leaders are able to stay sane. It's possible (though not easy) to give orders that will directly result in the death of thousands of people. However, if a war general had to shoot thousands of people himself, I suspect it would start to wear down on his psychological health.
Now consider that you're a military general who simply has to push a button, and this button tells your robot to take over a village. It's very, very easy to rationalize that any casualties are not your fault, since all you were doing was pushing that button.
Gah, I am a fool. Sorry, I didn't realize that post was a response to a hidden -1 post. Sometimes I am happy I browse as 0+, sometimes I end up confused for no reason.
I'm confused. What about the thinkgeek links are NSFW? The fact that they have stuff to buy on them? I'm not seeing any kind of inappropriate material on them. Maybe you got an unlucky ad?
Sort of. The problem is that it also means if you're texting a buddy of yours or writing a memo, and you just happen to type "reboot" and press enter in your message, then your phone restarts. You probably didn't want that to happen.
Why do you care how we look to the rest of the world? Let's worry about the problems in our country. I really don't give two shits about how some snoppy European views our country.
Yeah, I mean, it's not like foreign policy really has any effect at all on the way our country is run or anything.
Suppose you tell us all how solving this knotty problem will help anyone or anything.
Let's pretend we're in the early 1700s. Leonhard Euler is writing the first ever paper on a field of study called Graph Theory. Simply put, he's figuring out answers to questions about how to arrange circles and lines. Meanwhile, there's fucking WARS going on (Polish succession is going on concurrent to writing this paper; Seven Years' war happens a couple decades later). There are goddamn wars on Euler's front door, and he's writing papers about lines and circles?! What a prick.
Oh, by the way, without Euler's work we wouldn't have computers, organized roads, efficient data models, efficient sorting algorithms, or countless other instruments that are critical to today's society.
Would you steal a car if it instantly cloned itself when asked and the original car is completely unharmed?
Would cars continue to be made ever again if a single car could clone itself indefinitely? Would the auto industry subsequently come to a complete halt, destroying the jobs of MILLIONS of people in this country, let alone the rest of the world? (Hint: yes)
Try to take the story even farther on your own before you answer. Would innovation on automobiles slow down dramatically due to consumers no longer buying new vehicles? The full repercussions of having this self-copying car are literally disastrous.
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Fallacy. If we had one look at the OP's desktop then we would have seen it. Unfortunately, the users who test KDE cannot possibly test every permutation of hardware that exists that supports KDE. It's simply impossible. However, I'm willing to bet that the machines they did test on did not exhibit this problem. Hence, they never knew a problem existed.
He asked only that the OP tell him where the bug report was, nothing else, and then he would help fix it. Instead, you criticized him, implying that all KDE developers should magically know about every bug before the users find it, regardless of the users' hardware.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not a KDE zealot. Actually, I'm a much bigger fan of GNOME for completely separate reasons. However, going around arguing that KDE developers are a "cabal" and implying that they should have some superhuman (unpaid) testing team is ridiculous.
Are you serious? It doesn't matter if a child's life goes to waste, as long as he believes in your god before he dies? What an arrogant prick your god must be.
Every child is going to make choices that they regret later in life. It is an absolute inevitability that children will make mistakes, because that is how humans learn. We don't learn from other people's mistakes until we've had made some of our own, even if we pretend that we do; rather, we learn from experiencing the consequences of our actions and understanding what consequences are.
I would not be happy if my 15 year old daughter told me she was sleeping around. I wouldn't be happy if she told me that she had sex with guys she barely knew, or that she thought it was normal to give sexual favors to guys she likes in hopes of gaining their attention, or anything like that. I would, however, be happy knowing that she has learned something useful from making those mistakes, and I know she won't make those mistakes when she's 19 and away from home in college where I can't do anything about it (and she probably won't tell me).
The key is to not take it to the extreme in either direction. Don't let your children run around in the wild with no guidance, and don't lock them up in a glass prison. They need to be free to make mistakes, but then they need your support and guidance to keep them from making too many BAD mistakes, and to help them recover when they do. I will steer my children in the right direction by providing guidance; more importantly, I will accept, with love, when they fall off the beaten path, and I will not respond by locking them up.
There has been this feeling propagating that locking your children away from society will protect them, when it only makes them vulnerable later in life. You cannot prevent mistakes; they will come, either now or later in life when you aren't around to help. You can only help mitigate mistakes when they arise, and help your child to learn from them.
Ok, I can respect your opinion. Let me ask you this: would you consider it abnormal if a 15-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy had sex (and therefore saw each other naked)? If not, then why is taking pictures naked any different? The only reason we're hearing about naked picture-taking with children these days is that it wasn't feasible twenty years ago. All children these days have cell phones and can easily take pictures of themselves, and I contend (without evidence) that they would have done so for hundreds of years if the technology was easily reachable for them.
Why not? They need to learn about sex eventually. Why do they need to wait until they 18 or some other arbitrary number to figure it out? Teens, both boys and girls, are completely sexually developed (biologically speaking) by the time they are 15. I'm not suggesting that older adults should be sleeping with children, because that's another arena altogether. However, children need to be able to be able to experiment if they want to actually understand how things work.
Yes.
Apparently you don't know any doctors or nurses. Doctors and nurses take "short-cuts" every day, because if they didn't they would never get to see all of their patients.
You don't believe me? Tell me that you honestly believe that doctors read every word of a legal document that they put their signature on, or that nurses always ask every procedural check-up question of every patient that comes into a hospital. Believe me, they are putting their professional futures on the lines every time they ignore one trivial piece of a trivial process, yet if they actually followed those precesses to the letter, no one would ever see a doctor in a hospital.
No, their lives are ruined because society is punishing them for following basic human instincts: exploring and trying to understand their sexuality.
"correct this type of behavior"? Trying to understand their own bodies is something that needs to be "corrected"? That might be the single most simple-minded thing I've ever heard on Slashdot, and that's counting every anonymous coward troll post I've ever read. If you truly believe that children need to be sheltered inside an iron cage until society arbitrarily deems them as "adults", then I pray you never hold any kind of office.
If children aren't allowed to experience the world, then as adults they will walk blindly into it and wither.
UberNote isn't half bad. It doesn't maintain separate "notebooks" like gNotebook and Evernote do, but it does support tagging. It also does some cool importing from all kinds of services (including gNotebook), and you can send updates to it from AIM, an iPhone, and possibly others.
It was $399/$299 (for the high-end/low-end models respectively) in Australian. That meant it was ~$250/$190 in U.S. dollars.
Please inform us if you are serious or joking so you can be modded appropriately. I hope it's the latter.
And do you even have a bluray reader in your Linux machine? If not get a dedicated player and stop making excuses.
What wonderfully snarky answer would you have said if his answer was, "Yes, I do have a bluray reader in my machine."?
I was so confused by your post's title. I kept waiting for the part where you explained why you wanted to file a lawsuit against a state of computer sleep.
Oh, don't get me wrong, I agree with you. I'm just pointing out that exclaiming the truth is often flamebait. For example, I can start up a discussion about Scientology, but we all know what a steep hill that would be...
(Score:0, Troll)
To be fair, you shouldn't have been modded troll -- you should have been modded flamebait.
And Gustafson's Law tells us that as the problem size increases the non-parallelizable portion of the program will shrink relative to the entire program itself .
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The purest algorithms never touch a keyboard; only pencil, paper, and thought.
The purest algorithms wouldn't be constrained to any language that is composed of a finite set of symbols -- therefore, no pencil or paper. Probably no thought, either (at least, not limited human thoughts).
AHA! So! How is this any different than humans?
Actually, from a psychology angle, it's substantially different. It has been shown many times that humans are psychologically capable of stretching their moral limits further when they can distance themselves from the action (If you want me to get a citation, I'll go get one -- I'm just too lazy to get it right now).
This is easy to see even without evidence. If you were forced to choose, would you rather push a button that drops a bomb on a village full of children 1000 miles away, or be in a plane and drop the bomb yourself? The two actions have identical results, yet distancing yourself from the action makes it easier to justify the moral consequences.
This is why military leaders are able to stay sane. It's possible (though not easy) to give orders that will directly result in the death of thousands of people. However, if a war general had to shoot thousands of people himself, I suspect it would start to wear down on his psychological health.
Now consider that you're a military general who simply has to push a button, and this button tells your robot to take over a village. It's very, very easy to rationalize that any casualties are not your fault, since all you were doing was pushing that button.
Gah, I am a fool. Sorry, I didn't realize that post was a response to a hidden -1 post. Sometimes I am happy I browse as 0+, sometimes I end up confused for no reason.
I'm confused. What about the thinkgeek links are NSFW? The fact that they have stuff to buy on them? I'm not seeing any kind of inappropriate material on them. Maybe you got an unlucky ad?
Whoosh!
Sort of. The problem is that it also means if you're texting a buddy of yours or writing a memo, and you just happen to type "reboot" and press enter in your message, then your phone restarts. You probably didn't want that to happen.
Why do you care how we look to the rest of the world? Let's worry about the problems in our country. I really don't give two shits about how some snoppy European views our country.
Yeah, I mean, it's not like foreign policy really has any effect at all on the way our country is run or anything.
Ogg/Theora IS porn to the FOSS zealots. Anything at all encoded in said formats gives them a chubby.
DON'T JUDGE ME
Suppose you tell us all how solving this knotty problem will help anyone or anything.
Let's pretend we're in the early 1700s. Leonhard Euler is writing the first ever paper on a field of study called Graph Theory. Simply put, he's figuring out answers to questions about how to arrange circles and lines. Meanwhile, there's fucking WARS going on (Polish succession is going on concurrent to writing this paper; Seven Years' war happens a couple decades later). There are goddamn wars on Euler's front door, and he's writing papers about lines and circles?! What a prick.
Oh, by the way, without Euler's work we wouldn't have computers, organized roads, efficient data models, efficient sorting algorithms, or countless other instruments that are critical to today's society.
Don't trivialize work that you don't understand.
Don't potentially block a call that may be to (or from) the emergency services or another life or death communication.
Your emergency services comment is somewhere between stale and a clichéd.
So wait, your response to his concern is that it's "stale and cliche"? And you think that somehow means his concerns aren't valid?
Would you steal a car if it instantly cloned itself when asked and the original car is completely unharmed?
Would cars continue to be made ever again if a single car could clone itself indefinitely? Would the auto industry subsequently come to a complete halt, destroying the jobs of MILLIONS of people in this country, let alone the rest of the world? (Hint: yes)
Try to take the story even farther on your own before you answer. Would innovation on automobiles slow down dramatically due to consumers no longer buying new vehicles? The full repercussions of having this self-copying car are literally disastrous.