"a new documentation plugin showing you the API docs for Qt and KDE APIs"
"QMake support and Qt Designer integration"
Oh joy! Such an achievement. Now I'm going to code an IDE too, it'll have a text editor, and it will be able to invoke a compiler. Is that a news ? *sigh*
Eclipse is the best open source free IDE I have ever used (for all languages).
Other than that... Nothing can match Visual Studio. Period.
I agree on the remark that Visual Studio is really good (and so far, better than any Open Source alternative). Now, talking specifically about KDevelop, I lost love for it during Kdevelop 3 because when I used it was very very really unstable and the workflow didn't feel right (I was fighting the IDE while trying to program).
I have been using QTCreator for the C++ work I do (I really like the QT library) and Code::Blocks for the odd C utility (I *really* detest wxWidgets). Oh, and I also agree about Eclipse. It is a really good piece of software (have you seen Xmind?) I use it for Java which is the language of choice for the main programming languages...
shovelware doesn't mean "games I don't like." Wii fit is not shovelware, nintendo put effort in there and it paid off. I don't like a lot of what nintendo puts out as of late, but it's not crap they're shoveling out for cheap
I completely agree on this. I followed the E3 press conference via gamespot, and the general comments where negative in there (see end of message). While I agreed with several of the comments, I also understood that the people following the conference at gamespot are not Nintendo's main target audience, but the grandmas, grandpas, pops and moms who do not play (the Japanese guy mentioned something like that during his never-ending speech).
For me, the existence of the new Metroid, The Conduit, Resident Evil and Red Steel is sufficient to fill my "hardcore gamer" needs. On the other hand, the new Super Mario Bros for Wii seems like a nice game to play with my wife...
The pulse measuring gimmick has some potential, however it depends a lot on the software they produce to make use of it. I got the Wii Fit with the Wii balance board... however, after playing for about one month it really loses novelty. In comparison, I have been playing Yourself!Fitness (My Fitness Coach for the PC) for quite a long time and it is still challenging and interesting.
Calling mario a gimmick is just flamebait.
You let the fanboy in you shown there. One of the points of GP is that nowadays more than half of games in the Wii are Mario or the like. There are now real new and interesting game using the new and interesting capabilities of the Wii mote... just yesterday I was playing NBA JAM for the SNES and I also Blackthorne. Just because there are very few interesting games available... The fact that Nintendo has been milking the Mario franchise for so long makes the next great Mario game a gimmick. From wikipedia:
In marketing language, a gimmick is a unique or quirky special feature that makes something "stand out" from its contemporaries. However, the special feature is typically thought to be of little relevance or use. Thus, a gimmick is a special feature for the sake of having a special feature.
So, as someone put it in the gamespot comments: wow, multiple player mario bros... color me impressed.
Appendix, selected comments from gamespot:
this simultaneously sucks and blows
I think Nintendo is going after girls and homos only these days
man i hope nintendo sales plumet so they can learn a lesson
throw some tomatoes LAMEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
am a huge Nintendo Fan but this is Super crappy
Nintendo = Fisher-Price, Oprah Fan Club, Nursing Homes Real gamers just need to give up on them.
I don't want everyones game.....i can't play games for 3 year old....we are gonna go dumb....omg....why why.....why are you so dumb.....
So now the wii is a diabetes reader??????
This is the best they come up with? The Wii fingerer.
Is that all!?!?!?!?!?1
I shouldn't have to sit through an hour of s--- to see the only thing worth seeing.
nintendo.. not ONE new IP shown today.. ALL sequels
No zelda??? WOW FAIL..
lol why dont they just release all old n64 games and get em out the way save next 4 years of crap remakes
I agree with others about GetDataBack... it indeed is a good app.
Sometimes however, people have come to me with a hard drive with a FOUND.000 directory full (sometimes about 10GB) of CHK files... for that I recommend:
It is free and does a good job recognizing the supported files
Also, it is worth getting something like mplayer or VLC and try to manually open the biggest CHK files to see if they are some kind of media file.
Additionally, a Hex editor like xvi32 can be helpful to give a fast glance at the header of the file and see what is it... maybe reading the folder with a Linux distribution (which gets the description of the file based on the content rather than the extension) could also help... but for other more obscure things, a hex editor is good (of course you need to be familiar with several headers... yay I feel 1337!)
So, does this means that even Geeks (/. population) consider art people "weirdos". Now, that is something new... I wonder how a "news for artist, concepts that matter" forum might look like =oP
[Th3No0b] Im going to be the next hitler [Th3No0b] Im going to kill all the jews and 1 clown [RageAgainsttheAmish] why the clown [Th3No0b] See? no one cares about the jews [RageAgainsttheAmish] lmao
You make a sim, you lvl up your skills, you progress in your job, you get quests, you group with others. In the end you die and make a new character. Repeat.
It's an RPG. You do understand why people like RPGs right?
Not only that but, other RPGs are made for geeks (dungeons? orks? dragons? spaceships? magic swords?, spells? 100% geeks). Therefore, The Sims is an RPG which non-geeks are not ashame of playing and sharing their experience about... and one that girls also enjoy playing.
No I'm serious. It's a very catchy name. I'm[sic], it certianly[sic] isn't worse then[sic] google. Who caught a bit of crap for there [sic]name, back in the day.
The problem with such kind of names is that they *already* mean something, thus to attach them the new meaning will be more difficult.
Google on the other side, didn't mean anything on the first place (just the name of a new company) and its "verbness" has evolved after the service provided by the company.
p.s. Yes, I am a Mexican grammar Nazi. If I can write English correctly why can't you?
It's simple: KDE fucked up. Big time. And KOffice seems to be doing the exact same god damned thing. Thanks a lot KDE. Thank you very much. Way to ensure that no user will be able to tell if a given version of a product is actually a version they can trust.
Not that KDE are the only one to do that... I remember when I used to use RedHat (around versions 5 to 7) and as a rule of thumb you would have to wait to.1 or.2 to actually have a not so broken, usable version.
Our goal for now is to release a first preview of what we have accomplished. This release is mainly aimed at developers, testers and early adopters. It is not aimed at end users, and we do not recommend Linux distributions to package it as the default office suite yet.
Why don't they release this version as KOffice 2.0 BETA? Funny that they put the 0.0 number to kind of "inform" that it is the very very first version...
It seems to me that it is official, Open Source.0 versions = beta
Don't get me wrong, I like my EEE but Asus completely screwed up. The interface was poor, the updates were rubbish and in fact some of the updates would break it. It's quite possibly the worst Linux distro I've seen. I
The solution to that was to install the Windows XP operating system so that you do not have to deal with all those problem on the Linux side:)
Maybe this new kind of offer (promoted in this web page) is aimed at you?
My sig is a joke. This thread was too good an opportunity to waste. Hopefully someone will be clued up enough to mod me funny.
I would be funny if your nickname was something like "microsoftShill" or "whineyMSFanboy"... anyone can change his signature trying to be funny on the next slashdot story...
- I like the gnome interface (not so hot on K), and its cool how customizable it is- but if it does not do anything useful for me- I don't care!
I installed Ubuntu in my laptop about 6 months ago. Besides the typical problems (camera didn't work, sound was a bitch to get to work [pulseaudio and whatnot], suspend to ram didn't work, hibernate worked sometimes, wifi was a bitch to setup, etc],
I returned to Windows XP because I could not do something as simple as putting a "window list" bar on the side of the desktop (instead of on the top or bottom) in GNOME.
It seems there was a bug (which was already been filed and about 3 years old) which made the toolbar leak memory and grab a lot of CPU resources (indeed the desktop did not respond) when you chose vertical window list toolbar and opened more than 3 or four windows WTF?
The worst thing is the response on the bug I read while browsing through the bug report... developers didn't care about the bug because... you guessed "only very few people use toolbars on the side.."
Right now I am In Windows XP, with Firefox, I have the windows taskbar on the right side and Firefox Tabs at the left side (Tree Style Tab extension) and I could not be happier! Vertical Screen space FTW!
For me, the "tabs on the side" idea is not bad, specially given the current "feature" of monitors to be of landscape form factor.
I personally have the Windows start menu at the right side, this gives me more screen space to read documents (PDFs, word, web) which are vertical in nature.
I know - to see what a bad idea it would be, just look at the screenshot of the proof of concept. Notice how you have to scroll to the side in gmail just to see you mail subject lines. Hardly a good use of screen real-estate.
To be honest, the sidebar is very Windows Explorer Active Desktop-ish. And the first thing many people do is turn off the sidebar.
but it is broke. I have 4 firefox windows each with over 20 tabs, and I have 2 IE8 windows also with 0ver 20 tabs each. Last, I have 5 bookmark folders of tab windows so I did not have to keep more windows open. I need to find a new way to deal with this.
Close something.
I'm not being sarcastic. You're telling us your productivity flow involves 120+ simultaneous web views. Your workflow is what's broken, not the browser.
This is a very very insightful comment. Having 80 different *web pages* (e.g. interfaces presenting some data) open at one time is only a waste of [screen space, memory, cpu] resources.
Either GP should simply bookmark his 20+ tabs and open them when she really needs them, or she could use something like Tab Mix Plus to save [Ctrl+F1] a window with all the tabs (and restore it when that "view" is needed) or use Virtual Desktops (VirtuaWin in Windows XP...) to move all the opened windows to different work spaces...
The fact is that of those 60 opened Tabs. GP poster will be focusing at most on 4 of them at one time...
BTW, if you are doing some kind of product comparison, there is no need to have a new tab for each review page, read one and then Scrap (using scrapbook or just copy/paste to Word/Writer) the important information into a new document.
The book is from 1999, what do you expect, that you still have hot sales? This is not LOTR. Next to that, the book is $52 on Amazon and it has barely 190 pages, at least 10 being a listing of patents.
Just last week I avoided buying a book because it was too expensive from my POV. Added to that, your book's digital version costs USD$41, if you think that it takes NO effort to get the pirated version for $0... the legal version should be about $10 per download...
It is a no brainer, your book is *ancient* (in terms of the Computer Science field), the price is high and the price of the digital version is completely nuts.
but if I write a book, the only thing it "cost" to produce is my time, and you can't quantify that as a $ amount.
Actually, it is something every one has a price on its time... although a lot of the typical slashdot mom-basement living guys do not value their time, in general experts and professionals (of any type) have an established price per our.
If you are in this position for some reason, it may be possible to [relatively cheaply] recover some of your stuff.
I used a program called GetDataBack successfully several times (and I charged for that hoho!). The progrma is NOT free, however it is not expensive (about USD$80).
I know also it is not the only of its kind, therefore, some people here may know about other alternatives.
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"a new documentation plugin showing you the API docs for Qt and KDE APIs"
"QMake support and Qt Designer integration"
Oh joy! Such an achievement. Now I'm going to code an IDE too, it'll have a text editor, and it will be able to invoke a compiler. Is that a news ? *sigh*
Eclipse is the best open source free IDE I have ever used (for all languages).
Other than that... Nothing can match Visual Studio. Period.
I agree on the remark that Visual Studio is really good (and so far, better than any Open Source alternative).
Now, talking specifically about KDevelop, I lost love for it during Kdevelop 3 because when I used it was very very really unstable and the workflow didn't feel right (I was fighting the IDE while trying to program).
I have been using QTCreator for the C++ work I do (I really like the QT library) and Code::Blocks for the odd C utility (I *really* detest wxWidgets).
Oh, and I also agree about Eclipse. It is a really good piece of software (have you seen Xmind?) I use it for Java which is the language of choice for the main programming languages...
shovelware doesn't mean "games I don't like." Wii fit is not shovelware, nintendo put effort in there and it paid off. I don't like a lot of what nintendo puts out as of late, but it's not crap they're shoveling out for cheap
I completely agree on this. I followed the E3 press conference via gamespot, and the general comments where negative in there (see end of message). While I agreed with several of the comments, I also understood that the people following the conference at gamespot are not Nintendo's main target audience, but the grandmas, grandpas, pops and moms who do not play (the Japanese guy mentioned something like that during his never-ending speech).
For me, the existence of the new Metroid, The Conduit, Resident Evil and Red Steel is sufficient to fill my "hardcore gamer" needs. On the other hand, the new Super Mario Bros for Wii seems like a nice game to play with my wife...
The pulse measuring gimmick has some potential, however it depends a lot on the software they produce to make use of it. I got the Wii Fit with the Wii balance board... however, after playing for about one month it really loses novelty. In comparison, I have been playing Yourself!Fitness (My Fitness Coach for the PC) for quite a long time and it is still challenging and interesting.
Calling mario a gimmick is just flamebait.
You let the fanboy in you shown there. One of the points of GP is that nowadays more than half of games in the Wii are Mario or the like. There are now real new and interesting game using the new and interesting capabilities of the Wii mote... just yesterday I was playing NBA JAM for the SNES and I also Blackthorne. Just because there are very few interesting games available... The fact that Nintendo has been milking the Mario franchise for so long makes the next great Mario game a gimmick.
From wikipedia:
In marketing language, a gimmick is a unique or quirky special feature that makes something "stand out" from its contemporaries. However, the special feature is typically thought to be of little relevance or use. Thus, a gimmick is a special feature for the sake of having a special feature.
So, as someone put it in the gamespot comments: wow, multiple player mario bros ... color me impressed.
Appendix, selected comments from gamespot:
I agree with others about GetDataBack... it indeed is a good app.
Sometimes however, people have come to me with a hard drive with a FOUND.000 directory full (sometimes about 10GB) of CHK files... for that I recommend:
http://www.ericphelps.com/uncheck/
It is free and does a good job recognizing the supported files
Also, it is worth getting something like mplayer or VLC and try to manually open the biggest CHK files to see if they are some kind of media file.
Additionally, a Hex editor like xvi32 can be helpful to give a fast glance at the header of the file and see what is it... maybe reading the folder with a Linux distribution (which gets the description of the file based on the content rather than the extension) could also help... but for other more obscure things, a hex editor is good (of course you need to be familiar with several headers... yay I feel 1337!)
Remember, this is an _art_ school...
So, does this means that even Geeks (/. population) consider art people "weirdos". Now, that is something new... I wonder how a "news for artist, concepts that matter" forum might look like =oP
What I do: dvorak keyboard + xmonad. They scare everyone away!
That, plus a "Das Keyboard" type letter labels (alcohol may do the trick)...nobody will dare to touch your PC :)
I supposed it depends on the people in question.
that reminds me of the joke about the guy who wanted to kill every single jew and a clown
http://www.bash.org/?171987
[Th3No0b] Im going to be the next hitler
[Th3No0b] Im going to kill all the jews and 1 clown
[RageAgainsttheAmish] why the clown
[Th3No0b] See? no one cares about the jews
[RageAgainsttheAmish] lmao
You make a sim, you lvl up your skills, you progress in your job, you get quests, you group with others. In the end you die and make a new character. Repeat.
It's an RPG. You do understand why people like RPGs right?
Not only that but, other RPGs are made for geeks (dungeons? orks? dragons? spaceships? magic swords?, spells? 100% geeks). Therefore, The Sims is an RPG which non-geeks are not ashame of playing and sharing their experience about... and one that girls also enjoy playing.
Actualy it's:
They're still in step 3.
-dZ.
I think it is more like that...
Oh shit... whoever wrote this should really get those mod points (in a non-anon account).
This is one of the most funny comments I have read in a long time :)
I hope you don't mind using this as my new sig :)
No I'm serious.
It's a very catchy name. I'm[sic], it certianly[sic] isn't worse then[sic] google. Who caught a bit of crap for there [sic]name, back in the day.
The problem with such kind of names is that they *already* mean something, thus to attach them the new meaning will be more difficult.
Google on the other side, didn't mean anything on the first place (just the name of a new company) and its "verbness" has evolved after the service provided by the company.
p.s. Yes, I am a Mexican grammar Nazi. If I can write English correctly why can't you?
It's simple: KDE fucked up. Big time. And KOffice seems to be doing the exact same god damned thing. Thanks a lot KDE. Thank you very much. Way to ensure that no user will be able to tell if a given version of a product is actually a version they can trust.
Not that KDE are the only one to do that... I remember when I used to use RedHat (around versions 5 to 7) and as a rule of thumb you would have to wait to .1 or .2 to actually have a not so broken, usable version.
Ha!
For me the most important extension will be the FTP and IRC ones, or what about the one to spoof sender or receiver of the document (krespoof?)
From TFA:
Our goal for now is to release a first preview of what we have accomplished. This release is mainly aimed at developers, testers and early adopters. It is not aimed at end users, and we do not recommend Linux distributions to package it as the default office suite yet.
Why don't they release this version as KOffice 2.0 BETA? Funny that they put the 0.0 number to kind of "inform" that it is the very very first version...
It seems to me that it is official, Open Source .0 versions = beta
Don't get me wrong, I like my EEE but Asus completely screwed up. The interface was poor, the updates were rubbish and in fact some of the updates would break it. It's quite possibly the worst Linux distro I've seen. I
The solution to that was to install the Windows XP operating system so that you do not have to deal with all those problem on the Linux side :)
Maybe this new kind of offer (promoted in this web page) is aimed at you?
My sig is a joke. This thread was too good an opportunity to waste. Hopefully someone will be clued up enough to mod me funny.
I would be funny if your nickname was something like "microsoftShill" or "whineyMSFanboy"... anyone can change his signature trying to be funny on the next slashdot story...
Specifically, the homogeneous file system (no c:\ d:\ e:\ monkey business),
Yeah, I specially like the homogeneous Linux file system, in which you can put the installed apps in /bin, /usr/bin, usr/lib, /sbin, /opt , /usr/sbin, /lib!
- I like the gnome interface (not so hot on K), and its cool how customizable it is- but if it does not do anything useful for me- I don't care!
I installed Ubuntu in my laptop about 6 months ago. Besides the typical problems (camera didn't work, sound was a bitch to get to work [pulseaudio and whatnot], suspend to ram didn't work, hibernate worked sometimes, wifi was a bitch to setup, etc],
I returned to Windows XP because I could not do something as simple as putting a "window list" bar on the side of the desktop (instead of on the top or bottom) in GNOME.
It seems there was a bug (which was already been filed and about 3 years old) which made the toolbar leak memory and grab a lot of CPU resources (indeed the desktop did not respond) when you chose vertical window list toolbar and opened more than 3 or four windows WTF?
The worst thing is the response on the bug I read while browsing through the bug report... developers didn't care about the bug because... you guessed "only very few people use toolbars on the side.."
Right now I am In Windows XP, with Firefox, I have the windows taskbar on the right side and Firefox Tabs at the left side (Tree Style Tab extension) and I could not be happier! Vertical Screen space FTW!
Does it have AdBlock Plus?
As soon as it does, I'm ditching Firefox.
I agree... but in addition to AdBlock Plus, I will wait also to have an equivalent to:
- CHM Reader ;-)
- Diccionario Español Mexico
- DOM Inspector
- DownThemAll
- EasyGestures
- fireFTP
- GREASEMONKEY
- REFSPOOF
- Repagination
- SCRAPBOOK
- TinyMenu (for eeePC size screens)
- unMHT
About two months ago I installed the Chrome web browser and it felt very similar to Internet Explorer 6 "+tabs" in that it was very barebones.
A lot of the extensions I use in firefox do small things, however when summed up, they provide a completely different working experience.
Still, I love Google online applications, I am a fan and avid user of Google Notebooks, Google Docs, Google Calendar and of coruse Google mail!
THAT was funny, Thank You! :(
Oh god... you own me a new keyboard
Have a nice day :)
bah,
no torrent
warez
keygens..
useless!
For me, the "tabs on the side" idea is not bad, specially given the current "feature" of monitors to be of landscape form factor.
I personally have the Windows start menu at the right side, this gives me more screen space to read documents (PDFs, word, web) which are vertical in nature.
I know - to see what a bad idea it would be, just look at the screenshot of the proof of concept. Notice how you have to scroll to the side in gmail just to see you mail subject lines. Hardly a good use of screen real-estate.
To be honest, the sidebar is very Windows Explorer Active Desktop-ish. And the first thing many people do is turn off the sidebar.
but it is broke. I have 4 firefox windows each with over 20 tabs, and I have 2 IE8 windows also with 0ver 20 tabs each. Last, I have 5 bookmark folders of tab windows so I did not have to keep more windows open. I need to find a new way to deal with this.
Close something.
I'm not being sarcastic. You're telling us your productivity flow involves 120+ simultaneous web views. Your workflow is what's broken, not the browser.
This is a very very insightful comment. Having 80 different *web pages* (e.g. interfaces presenting some data) open at one time is only a waste of [screen space, memory, cpu] resources.
Either GP should simply bookmark his 20+ tabs and open them when she really needs them, or she could use something like Tab Mix Plus to save [Ctrl+F1] a window with all the tabs (and restore it when that "view" is needed) or use Virtual Desktops (VirtuaWin in Windows XP...) to move all the opened windows to different work spaces...
The fact is that of those 60 opened Tabs. GP poster will be focusing at most on 4 of them at one time...
BTW, if you are doing some kind of product comparison, there is no need to have a new tab for each review page, read one and then Scrap (using scrapbook or just copy/paste to Word/Writer) the important information into a new document.
Guruevi had it right,
The book is from 1999, what do you expect, that you still have hot sales? This is not LOTR. Next to that, the book is $52 on Amazon and it has barely 190 pages, at least 10 being a listing of patents.
Just last week I avoided buying a book because it was too expensive from my POV. Added to that, your book's digital version costs USD$41, if you think that it takes NO effort to get the pirated version for $0... the legal version should be about $10 per download...
It is a no brainer, your book is *ancient* (in terms of the Computer Science field), the price is high and the price of the digital version is completely nuts.
but if I write a book, the only thing it "cost" to produce is my time, and you can't quantify that as a $ amount.
Actually, it is something every one has a price on its time... although a lot of the typical slashdot mom-basement living guys do not value their time, in general experts and professionals (of any type) have an established price per our.
If you are in this position for some reason, it may be possible to [relatively cheaply] recover some of your stuff.
I used a program called GetDataBack successfully several times (and I charged for that hoho!). The progrma is NOT free, however it is not expensive (about USD$80).
I know also it is not the only of its kind, therefore, some people here may know about other alternatives.