Akonadi makes a lot of sense by allowing all applications on a platform share data as a resource.
It is strigi's indexing as part of nepomuk that causes the hard drive thrashing. KDE harasses you if you try to completely disable akonadi or nepomuk, but you can disable strigi's indexing simple enough without getting harassed. It is the first thing I do in a fresh KDE environment.
You have to click within the menu area even before you can scroll with the mouse wheel. Then you click to expand a menu entry and then scroll again. This is still a regression from hovering and quickly navigating.
Again, the addition of search is a win, but that doesn't mean the removal of an exploding menu is.
KDE 4.8 still provides a fantastic desktop experience. I think perhaps they are the only sane approach to this supposed post-PC world.
Your Plasma shell can be switched on the fly. You can have a network shell on a netbook, a standard desktop shell, a tablet shell, etc. And you're not forced into any of them as a singular environment to rule them all.
They have access to my photos, videos, calendar and contacts that I know of. I consider that a lot of personal data. But I don't know which apps have access to what on iOS, where as I can see that per app with Android.
Android doesn't do this. Certain carriers push out custom versions of Android where a small handful of the shovel-ware apps can't be deleted. But Facebook and Twitter can be deleted on all the major carriers (Sprint, AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon).
However, you can always root your phone if you really want to delete these shovel-ware apps.
With iOS, apps just simply have access to this data by default. With Android, for each app you have to specifically grant access to these things while installing the app.
FWIW, we've discovered ancient ruins of cities based upon clues in the Bible where those ruins would be. That certainly doesn't prove the entire content of the Bible to be fact, but it isn't fair to say that the Bible hasn't led to any discoveries.
In science you accept postulates which can neither be proven nor disproven.
Furthermore, specific beliefs such as atheism operate on same level as believing in God. If God can't be proven or disproven, and it is a cardinal violation of science to believe in anything that can't be tested, then why is it acceptable to believe definitive in the inverse?
You can argue the only people who hold true to scientific tenets are agnostics.
I was clearing up a common misconception that religion and science have to be at odds. The faith in a creator is not diametrically opposed to accepting science.
FWIW, I'm a Christian who believes in both creation and evolution.
The Bible says that one day God created x, and on one day God created y. It doesn't say how much time elapsed between those events, or how he did it. God could have created the cosmos with a "big bang".
And I believe that evolution occurs, but evolution doesn't explain what happened before the beginning of time, or where all the mass in the universe came from in the first place.
Firefox auto-configures settings such as how much memory it can use for caching fully rendered pages. Couldn't Apache in theory look at what mods you have installed, and how much system memory you have and then auto-tune default settings?
Tables and phones supplement PCs, not replace them.
HP was foolish to suggest their PC business had no value publicly while at the same time trying to sell it off. They bungled the Palm/WebOS purchase. They dropped billions simply to show up late to market with nothing new to offer. If they used it as a base but came up with a clever innovation, they might have made an in road into the market.
They've been poorly run basically since the Compaq merger, which is a shame because I prefer HP over Dell, especially for servers.
Many automation tools that push software out to hundreds/thousands of desktops at once only work with.msi files because you can do automated/silent installs. So yes, having a.msi installer is important in the enterprise world.
That's assuming everyone I know has identical taste. I'm exposed to far more music via people posting YouTube clips that I ever would through listening to a format radio station with a 40 song playlist.
My favorite are high-end digital cables. I get that you want a high quality analog cable (to an extent) but spending a fortune for digital cables is just plain stupid.
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Akonadi makes a lot of sense by allowing all applications on a platform share data as a resource.
It is strigi's indexing as part of nepomuk that causes the hard drive thrashing. KDE harasses you if you try to completely disable akonadi or nepomuk, but you can disable strigi's indexing simple enough without getting harassed. It is the first thing I do in a fresh KDE environment.
You have to click within the menu area even before you can scroll with the mouse wheel. Then you click to expand a menu entry and then scroll again. This is still a regression from hovering and quickly navigating.
Again, the addition of search is a win, but that doesn't mean the removal of an exploding menu is.
KDE 4.8 still provides a fantastic desktop experience. I think perhaps they are the only sane approach to this supposed post-PC world.
Your Plasma shell can be switched on the fly. You can have a network shell on a netbook, a standard desktop shell, a tablet shell, etc. And you're not forced into any of them as a singular environment to rule them all.
Exploding menus are quick. Stopping to click on a scroll bar while navigating the start menu is a clear regression.
People are quick to point out that having a search feature is a win, which I agree with. That doesn't mean menu navigation is better in 7.
openSUSE's KDE 3.5 menu exploded like a classic Start menu, but also included integrated search. It was fantastic.
They have access to my photos, videos, calendar and contacts that I know of. I consider that a lot of personal data. But I don't know which apps have access to what on iOS, where as I can see that per app with Android.
You can however decide not to install the app if you don't want it to have access to whatever it is requesting.
Android doesn't do this. Certain carriers push out custom versions of Android where a small handful of the shovel-ware apps can't be deleted. But Facebook and Twitter can be deleted on all the major carriers (Sprint, AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon).
However, you can always root your phone if you really want to delete these shovel-ware apps.
With iOS, apps just simply have access to this data by default. With Android, for each app you have to specifically grant access to these things while installing the app.
Actually there is a documented correlation between prayer and recovery times in hospitals, which is why every hospital has a chapel.
And I wasn't aware that science has definitively proven there is no afterlife. Perhaps you can link me to that study.
I believe your confusing blind belief in the inverse of religion with science.
How so?
FWIW, we've discovered ancient ruins of cities based upon clues in the Bible where those ruins would be. That certainly doesn't prove the entire content of the Bible to be fact, but it isn't fair to say that the Bible hasn't led to any discoveries.
In science you accept postulates which can neither be proven nor disproven.
Furthermore, specific beliefs such as atheism operate on same level as believing in God. If God can't be proven or disproven, and it is a cardinal violation of science to believe in anything that can't be tested, then why is it acceptable to believe definitive in the inverse?
You can argue the only people who hold true to scientific tenets are agnostics.
I was clearing up a common misconception that religion and science have to be at odds. The faith in a creator is not diametrically opposed to accepting science.
FWIW, I'm a Christian who believes in both creation and evolution.
The Bible says that one day God created x, and on one day God created y. It doesn't say how much time elapsed between those events, or how he did it. God could have created the cosmos with a "big bang".
And I believe that evolution occurs, but evolution doesn't explain what happened before the beginning of time, or where all the mass in the universe came from in the first place.
Firefox auto-configures settings such as how much memory it can use for caching fully rendered pages. Couldn't Apache in theory look at what mods you have installed, and how much system memory you have and then auto-tune default settings?
Tables and phones supplement PCs, not replace them.
HP was foolish to suggest their PC business had no value publicly while at the same time trying to sell it off. They bungled the Palm/WebOS purchase. They dropped billions simply to show up late to market with nothing new to offer. If they used it as a base but came up with a clever innovation, they might have made an in road into the market.
They've been poorly run basically since the Compaq merger, which is a shame because I prefer HP over Dell, especially for servers.
A developer has already stepped up to implement one of these. This is why I love open source.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46070
I will vote for these.
http://www.kde.org/applications/office/kplato/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/openproj/
Open bugs with that feedback.
Many automation tools that push software out to hundreds/thousands of desktops at once only work with .msi files because you can do automated/silent installs. So yes, having a .msi installer is important in the enterprise world.
I purchase physical CDs from Amazon, rip them, and then upload them to Google Music. Then I have DRM-free MP3s, and a physical copy as well.
That's assuming everyone I know has identical taste. I'm exposed to far more music via people posting YouTube clips that I ever would through listening to a format radio station with a 40 song playlist.
My favorite are high-end digital cables. I get that you want a high quality analog cable (to an extent) but spending a fortune for digital cables is just plain stupid.
I don't listen to the radio. My friends post YouTube suggestions of artists they like. I check them out, and if I like them, I buy their music.
Music sales are up in the digital age and some point don't seem to understand that.