KDE 4 supported different wallpapers on virtual desktops but so far I've been unable to achieve this in Plasma 5. You can have a different wallpaper for each Activity but that's not the same as having this for a virtual desktop.
AFAICT it's not possible to assign a wallpaper per virtual desktop using activities. What activities give you is a wallpaper per activity. I like virtual desktops.
If your real field is machine learning, it won't matter if the dept. is Biology or CS as long as you publish in machine learning conferences and journals (NIPS, ICML, Neural Computation, JMLR). When you're done, you should be able to get a postdoc/faculty/research lab position strictly based on your machine learning credentials because this is a hot area right now. OTOH, if you didn't actually work in machine learning but instead applied machine learning ideas in biology, then it is possible that you'll only get a job within biology. If this is the case and you want to switch to more standard CS/CE, do a postdoc for a year or two in the field of your choice.
I wouldn't be surprised if Nokia maintains legacy dumbphone support (on Symbian) for a while until the developing nations can be switched to smartphones (or when low end smartphones can run Windows Mobile 7 which should happen in a few years). On the other hand, I think MeeGo on smartphones is cooked since Microsoft is no Amigo (when it comes to linux + Qt). As others have speculated, this is very bad news for the Trolls since they will probably be turned into zombies. I would not be surprised to see Intel buy the Qt division and pursue MeeGo for in vehicle infotainment which is where MeeGo got its first win (via the GenIVI alliance).
I have an Indian background and have long given up trying to argue against astrology with Indian friends and family who are into it. This got me thinking about culture wars and whether or not the modernity versus tradition battle manifests itself as a different culture war in each culture. I wonder if a list could be worked out for different cultures. Came up with three examples so far.
US: science versus ID/creationism Turkey: secular people versus Islamists locked in a battle for power India: science versus astrology/homeopathy/ The rest?
Yes. This is because she's considered a good teacher in everything else and it's very, very difficult to get good school teachers these days.
When I discussed this issue with some of the other teachers, the general sense is that they feel intimidated/threatened. There's a weird combination of victimhood and strident aggression that's very hard to confront. My sense is that most teachers back away and try and defuse the issue. For instance, one school teacher now has every student submit ten arguments for and against evolution.
My wife is a middle/high school teacher and is teaching evolution in 8th grade as we speak. The other day, a student confronted her in class and said, "You may have come from a monkey but I certainly didn't." This is a charter school here in Gainesville, FL (where we also try burning Qurans every once in a while).
You would think that the situation is better in a magnet school. Nope. In one of the magnet schools here, the teacher flat out refused to teach evolution claiming that it went against her beliefs.
Now this is interesting. Currently, on my work PC, linux/X11 seems to be a bit slower (KDE 4 especially, GNOME a bit less and definitely not Enlightenment) than Windows XP. Will this move bring the response *feel* of the linux desktop (in Unity on Ubuntu) to be on par with XP? While there are many anecdotal complaints all over the web regarding the intrinsic slowness of X, this seems to be disproven by my Enlightenment 0.16 experience.
Android is quite likely the biggest winner over the next few years. What I'm personally watching for is what RIM does. While RIM has the corporate market, they've been trying to break out of that. I'd expect the major battles to be between Android, RIM and Windows 7 Phone.
Yes, I'm watching RIM and Android carefully as well. Currently, I get crappy EDGE service at home (in Gainesville, FL) and have to resort to UMA (WiFi-based cell service) on T-Mobile in order to make/receive calls. Since Android should support SIP natively (eventually), there ought to be a Google Voice/SIP combination that replicates my UMA/Blackberry experience. Unfortunately, it looks like things will go backward for a bit before moving forward as T-Mobile plans to deprecate UMA and does not offer it on Android. It also does not look like Google Voice/SIP on Android is ready for prime time at present.
This is nice and all but that's a pretty standard distro release, can anybody tell me why i would want to switch from a similar distro, say ubuntu 9.10 or fedora 12 to openSuse?
I've been running opensuse since 9.3 (when it was just SUSE 9.3). I don't know about switching from fedora, but opensuse 11.2 has a very nice kde 4.3 implementation. And you can run kde 4.3 without using pulseaudio which is a plus in my book since I don't see the need for pulse on my standard desktop. Of course YMMV.
I set up Linspire Five-Oh for my eight year old kid to use. Click-n-Run was a nice, albeit braindead way for him to learn to search (via keywords) and then install software on his PC. Sadly, he got tired of Linspire because he couldn't play his games, so the experiment ended a couple of months ago.
Worse than that, sure if it exists, Windows will implement it. Will linux? doesn't have to, and I suspect it won't. But that won't stop the Intellectual Monopoly holders from making it law... effectively making non-TPM compliant versions of Linux illegal.
Fair enough. But, we only have ourselves to blame if we let that happen and so from this perspective I can definitely see the validity in the pro-active nature of GPL v3. However, it still feels heavy-handed and "socialist" and not very creative. Isn't there a more creative way of solving this problem?
That's the short-sightedness of Linus' argument (the same short-sightedness that let him get trapped by the Bitkeeper fiasco). There are DRM-free machines now, but that doesn't mean there will be in the future.
Perhaps what you see as short-sightedness is actually an even longer sightedness. Perhaps, Linus looking into his crystal ball, sees a future where a subset of freedom loving consumers are forced to become open (non-DRMed) hardware developers and compete with all the closed (via DRM) consumer electronics hardware - just as the earlier case where linux, BSDs, free/open DOS had to rise up to compete with closed source Unix, VMS, DOS/Windows and MacOS.
According to Brian Proffitt on Linux Today, when asked if additions to WINE could help porting Google Earth, DiBona said that Google Earth uses Qt and GL and so additional WINE support would not help.
We ended up choosing SUSE all across the board because we wanted a good, stable, KDE desktop, Our evolution was redhat (until version 9) -> Mandrake (until version 9.2) -> SUSE (from 9.1 onward). Mandrake seemed very buggy (in the 9.2 days) which is why we moved to SUSE.
Really? Well, can you explain this for the rest of us. I have a pretty good understanding of quantum theory for a lay-person -- and smoke comes out of my ears reading the article.
OK, but first take a look at Elitzur-Vaidman's bomb testing experiment which (I think but not sure) is the predecessor of these counterfactual repeated measurement experiments.. . . .
Are we done? So, if you read the bomb testing experiment above, you'll see that you have a pretty good chance of detecting a live bomb without actually having the photon triggering it off. The basic idea of repeated measurements is that you can keep increasing the probability of detecting a potential live bomb without actually having the photon exploding it. Ta da, you have a counterfactual based experiment.
Watson to Holmes: "Holmes, but the dog did nothing at night time." Holmes to Watson: "Precisely Watson, and that is very significant" or somesuch.
"XGL is a different X server. This is a more incremental change which is slated to become part of Xorg. We don't believe that replacing the entire X server is the right path, and that improving it incrementally is a better way to modernize it. After talking to people at xdevconf, it felt like much of the upstream Xorg community shares this view. You can search Adam Jackson's notes for "large work for Xgl" to get the blow-by-blow or NVidia's presentation from XDevConf 2006 on using the existing model.
We've been working on the AIGLX code for a some time with the community, which is in direct contrast with the way that XGL was developed. XGL spent the last few months of its development behind closed doors and was dropped on the community as a finished solution. Unfortunately, it wasn't peer reviewed during its development process, and its architecture doesn't sit well with a lot of people.
The other question is Wait, can I use compiz? The answer there is a theoretical yes, although no one has actually gotten it to work. We love compiz and we think it's great stuff and is well polished, but it's often confused with the underlying architecture of XGL. Much like the code that we've added to metacity, compiz is a composite manager. With a bit of work, it should be possible to get compiz working on this X server. There's an excellent post from Soren on the topic of compiz vs. metacity."
How does what RIM is doing infringe on NTP's patent, but POP3 or IMAP does not?
You don't login to get your email. Email is pushed to you when your cell phone has access to a T-Mobile cell network. For example, I have a T-Mobile Blackberry 7290 and when I switch the phone on and assuming that I have access to a T-Mobile wireless network, the email (that has been sitting on a blackberry server somewhere) is automatically pushed to my phone.
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KDE 4 supported different wallpapers on virtual desktops but so far I've been unable to achieve this in Plasma 5. You can have a different wallpaper for each Activity but that's not the same as having this for a virtual desktop.
Yes, this seems to be problematic. The developers are aware of these (see this as well) but it'll take some time to fix the problems.
AFAICT it's not possible to assign a wallpaper per virtual desktop using activities. What activities give you is a wallpaper per activity. I like virtual desktops.
Still can't (won't?) do this. And as for Activities, "We don't need no stinking Activities."
What kind of results will falsify the standard model Higgs - indicating that different theoretical approaches must be considered.
Here's a good introduction to the Higgs boson and why it matters.
Thought this already happened. In any case, Tomi Ahonen has a long, detailed, analysis. Too long for me to read, sorry.
If your real field is machine learning, it won't matter if the dept. is Biology or CS as long as you publish in machine learning conferences and journals (NIPS, ICML, Neural Computation, JMLR). When you're done, you should be able to get a postdoc/faculty/research lab position strictly based on your machine learning credentials because this is a hot area right now. OTOH, if you didn't actually work in machine learning but instead applied machine learning ideas in biology, then it is possible that you'll only get a job within biology. If this is the case and you want to switch to more standard CS/CE, do a postdoc for a year or two in the field of your choice.
I wouldn't be surprised if Nokia maintains legacy dumbphone support (on Symbian) for a while until the developing nations can be switched to smartphones (or when low end smartphones can run Windows Mobile 7 which should happen in a few years). On the other hand, I think MeeGo on smartphones is cooked since Microsoft is no Amigo (when it comes to linux + Qt). As others have speculated, this is very bad news for the Trolls since they will probably be turned into zombies. I would not be surprised to see Intel buy the Qt division and pursue MeeGo for in vehicle infotainment which is where MeeGo got its first win (via the GenIVI alliance).
This ex-Nokia executive's blog makes for interesting reading.
I have an Indian background and have long given up trying to argue against astrology with Indian friends and family who are into it. This got me thinking about culture wars and whether or not the modernity versus tradition battle manifests itself as a different culture war in each culture. I wonder if a list could be worked out for different cultures. Came up with three examples so far.
US: science versus ID/creationism
Turkey: secular people versus Islamists locked in a battle for power
India: science versus astrology/homeopathy/
The rest?
Western Europe seems to be an exception.
"I'm curious: is that teacher still working?"
Yes. This is because she's considered a good teacher in everything else and it's very, very difficult to get good school teachers these days.
When I discussed this issue with some of the other teachers, the general sense is that they feel intimidated/threatened. There's a weird combination of victimhood and strident aggression that's very hard to confront. My sense is that most teachers back away and try and defuse the issue. For instance, one school teacher now has every student submit ten arguments for and against evolution.
My wife is a middle/high school teacher and is teaching evolution in 8th grade as we speak. The other day, a student confronted her in class and said, "You may have come from a monkey but I certainly didn't." This is a charter school here in Gainesville, FL (where we also try burning Qurans every once in a while).
You would think that the situation is better in a magnet school. Nope. In one of the magnet schools here, the teacher flat out refused to teach evolution claiming that it went against her beliefs.
Now this is interesting. Currently, on my work PC, linux/X11 seems to be a bit slower (KDE 4 especially, GNOME a bit less and definitely not Enlightenment) than Windows XP. Will this move bring the response *feel* of the linux desktop (in Unity on Ubuntu) to be on par with XP? While there are many anecdotal complaints all over the web regarding the intrinsic slowness of X, this seems to be disproven by my Enlightenment 0.16 experience.
Android is quite likely the biggest winner over the next few years. What I'm personally watching for is what RIM does. While RIM has the corporate market, they've been trying to break out of that. I'd expect the major battles to be between Android, RIM and Windows 7 Phone.
Yes, I'm watching RIM and Android carefully as well. Currently, I get crappy EDGE service at home (in Gainesville, FL) and have to resort to UMA (WiFi-based cell service) on T-Mobile in order to make/receive calls. Since Android should support SIP natively (eventually), there ought to be a Google Voice/SIP combination that replicates my UMA/Blackberry experience. Unfortunately, it looks like things will go backward for a bit before moving forward as T-Mobile plans to deprecate UMA and does not offer it on Android. It also does not look like Google Voice/SIP on Android is ready for prime time at present.
This is nice and all but that's a pretty standard distro release, can anybody tell me why i would want to switch from a similar distro, say ubuntu 9.10 or fedora 12 to openSuse?
I've been running opensuse since 9.3 (when it was just SUSE 9.3). I don't know about switching from fedora, but opensuse 11.2 has a very nice kde 4.3 implementation. And you can run kde 4.3 without using pulseaudio which is a plus in my book since I don't see the need for pulse on my standard desktop. Of course YMMV.
I set up Linspire Five-Oh for my eight year old kid to use. Click-n-Run was a nice, albeit braindead way for him to learn to search (via keywords) and then install software on his PC. Sadly, he got tired of Linspire because he couldn't play his games, so the experiment ended a couple of months ago.
Worse than that, sure if it exists, Windows will implement it. Will linux? doesn't have to, and I suspect it won't. But that won't stop the Intellectual Monopoly holders from making it law ... effectively making non-TPM compliant versions of Linux illegal.
Fair enough. But, we only have ourselves to blame if we let that happen and so from this perspective I can definitely see the validity in the pro-active nature of GPL v3. However, it still feels heavy-handed and "socialist" and not very creative. Isn't there a more creative way of solving this problem?
Okay, but why bother when the GPL v.3 could prevent all the hardware from going DRM in the first place?!
:-)
Because I don't want to curtail other people's (read device manufacturers') freedom to try and curtail my freedom
That's the short-sightedness of Linus' argument (the same short-sightedness that let him get trapped by the Bitkeeper fiasco). There are DRM-free machines now, but that doesn't mean there will be in the future.
Perhaps what you see as short-sightedness is actually an even longer sightedness. Perhaps, Linus looking into his crystal ball, sees a future where a subset of freedom loving consumers are forced to become open (non-DRMed) hardware developers and compete with all the closed (via DRM) consumer electronics hardware - just as the earlier case where linux, BSDs, free/open DOS had to rise up to compete with closed source Unix, VMS, DOS/Windows and MacOS.
According to Brian Proffitt on Linux Today, when asked if additions to WINE could help porting Google Earth, DiBona said that Google Earth uses Qt and GL and so additional WINE support would not help.
I use a twonkyvision media server on my linux box and a twonkyvision supported GoVideo 2730 networked DVD player in my living room. Works fine for streaming music and video.
We ended up choosing SUSE all across the board because we wanted a good, stable, KDE desktop, Our evolution was redhat (until version 9) -> Mandrake (until version 9.2) -> SUSE (from 9.1 onward). Mandrake seemed very buggy (in the 9.2 days) which is why we moved to SUSE.
OK, but first take a look at Elitzur-Vaidman's bomb testing experiment which (I think but not sure) is the predecessor of these counterfactual repeated measurement experiments.
Are we done? So, if you read the bomb testing experiment above, you'll see that you have a pretty good chance of detecting a live bomb without actually having the photon triggering it off. The basic idea of repeated measurements is that you can keep increasing the probability of detecting a potential live bomb without actually having the photon exploding it. Ta da, you have a counterfactual based experiment.
Watson to Holmes: "Holmes, but the dog did nothing at night time."
Holmes to Watson: "Precisely Watson, and that is very significant" or somesuch.
"XGL is a different X server. This is a more incremental change which is slated to become part of Xorg. We don't believe that replacing the entire X server is the right path, and that improving it incrementally is a better way to modernize it. After talking to people at xdevconf, it felt like much of the upstream Xorg community shares this view. You can search Adam Jackson's notes for "large work for Xgl" to get the blow-by-blow or NVidia's presentation from XDevConf 2006 on using the existing model.
We've been working on the AIGLX code for a some time with the community, which is in direct contrast with the way that XGL was developed. XGL spent the last few months of its development behind closed doors and was dropped on the community as a finished solution. Unfortunately, it wasn't peer reviewed during its development process, and its architecture doesn't sit well with a lot of people.
The other question is Wait, can I use compiz? The answer there is a theoretical yes, although no one has actually gotten it to work. We love compiz and we think it's great stuff and is well polished, but it's often confused with the underlying architecture of XGL. Much like the code that we've added to metacity, compiz is a composite manager. With a bit of work, it should be possible to get compiz working on this X server. There's an excellent post from Soren on the topic of compiz vs. metacity."
How does what RIM is doing infringe on NTP's patent, but POP3 or IMAP does not?
You don't login to get your email. Email is pushed to you when your cell phone has access to a T-Mobile cell network. For example, I have a T-Mobile Blackberry 7290 and when I switch the phone on and assuming that I have access to a T-Mobile wireless network, the email (that has been sitting on a blackberry server somewhere) is automatically pushed to my phone.