This is actually a legit question. Mark Shuttleworth has repeatedly praised Qt. He has forked away from Gnome. The new Ubuntu phone interface is apparently written in Qt, and he is encouraging developers to write Qt/QML apps for his new phone platform.
I bet Ubuntu could recreate their Unity interface in Plasma/Qt easily enough. But the really interesting aspect of that is that they could create one device that could easily change UIs/shells based upon how it was used. A tablet could default a touch interface, but switch to a more traditional interface with paired with a keyboard. A phone interface could change to a desktop interface in a dock.
PBS Frontline Documentaries are some of the most respected in the world. Making silly assumptions without having any knowledge isn't supporting transparency either.
Trying to block someone from free speech (especially truthful speech) out of fear is the exact polar opposite of what Assange and Wikileaks supposedly stand for. But that is exactly what Anonymous was doing in going after PBS.
Terrorizing people into not speaking the truth is not something that should be celebrated or endorsed.
7 times the UN security council has unanimously voted that they have evidence that Iran is enriching uranium for weapons and ordered them to stop. If they're being framed, they're being framed in such a way that every single member of the security council has it confirmed by their own intelligence agencies.
And yet Assange individually knows better than all of these intelligence agencies. If he had actual proof of that, that would be a fantastic thing to leak. I don't believe he does.
I think you're missing my point. If they're willing to build a business model around non-US payment processors, and European customers, then they can do that with their gambling website and don't need a warez site.
But that's the same situation with the gambling website. Antigua can run a gambling website and the entire rest of the world can frequent it.
Antigua is arguing that they should be able to have a business that caters to US customers with no afford to US law.
I have no moral problem with gambling myself, but I don't see how this will help Antigua's case. They still won't get US money and reselling digital goods that you don't own is just going to cost them the support they currently have from the WTO.
The United States can't really stop Antigua from running a gambling website.
They can however forbid US payment processors from processing online gambling payments. If that is how they're stopping Antigua now, I can't imagine this warez site will be different. Do you think US payment processors will handle these payments?
The enemy of your enemy is not necessarily your friend or a good guy. Just because someone like Assange doesn't like the US government, or banks or whoever else you hate, doesn't make him a saint. Just because Anonymous decided to support WikiLeaks didn't make them saints either.
They attacked PBS for crying out loud, just because PBS aired a documentary that tried to present both sides of the Assange debate.
That isn't supporting any ideal of transparency. That is acting childish.
I believe the primary difference in the Mastercard and PayPal DDOS attacks is that they weren't just tryng to take down a website, but rather they attacked the domains that provided APIs to process payments. They were literally trying to disrupt business transactions.
They were not successful in fully bringing down either.
I also object to calling any criminal hacking "hacktivism". A legal protest can be more effective. They didn't advance their beliefs or causes, though they did break the law.
Their Jelly Bean version of TouchWiz moved closer to vanilla Android at the same time that Android was taking a few cues from TouchWiz with the quick settings menu. I wouldn't be shocked to see Samsung's version and vanilla to merge closer together so long as Samsung is selling as much hardware as they are.
With high resolution tablet displays and powerful multi-core ARM processors, true multitasking becomes more viable. Why ignore that?
I love that people are arguing that KDE 4 is missing a "core feature" that was actually a third-party add-on for KDE 3, but at the same time argue that installing a plasmoid means the feature doesn't really exist.
KDE 4 was designed to be extendable, and supports multiple methods of easily installing plasmoids. Installing content from the internet into KDE 4 was a core underlying technology since 2008.
I ran KDE from 4.0 on, running openSUSE and didn't have crashes. I had no problems with Phonon until they started integrating PulseAudio.
Konqueror still existed. Some people were butt-hurt that Dolphin was simpler and the default, but that didn't mean you didn't have the option of running Konqueror.
There were several plasmoids that allowed you to replicate Windows 7 taskbar functionality in KDE, and they've been available for years. I used this one back in 2009.
KDE 4.0 was missing a lot of expected 3.5 features, but a lot of the bad reputation it received were from terrible Kubuntu packages. The Kubuntu maintainers admitted they didn't understand the new build process or what they were doing. Canonical pushed it way too early and pushed crappy packages, but KDE took the blame. Early KDE builds on openSUSE, Arch, Fedora, etc. didn't have the same problems.
And honestly, I think only a year later (KDE 4.2) they had a great desktop for everyone.
The shift from KDE 3 to 4 (and Qt 3 to 4) meant a massive rewrite, and having to reinvent most of their core features.
KDE 5 sounds more like an evolution than revolution, so it should be smoother this time around.
True, but I think most people who run Windows shops have been historically buying Dell or HP servers, where as most shops who run IBM hardware have are Unix shops.
Assuming they sell a single copy at $5, then they've turned a profit.
And even if this venture isn't massively profitable, you're better off converting pirates to customers so you can reach out to them for future products. There are benefits to purchasing digital goods legally (no fear of malware/virus, not waiting for someone to seed old RPG PDFs, being able to re-download from the service, etc) that might encourage future sales.
HP is going in the toilet and keeps talking up the post-PC world, taking a page from Apple's playbook. HP Servers are still a great product, but if HP goes under, the Dell becomes almost the lone supplier of Windows enterprise hardware.
Dell has embraced Linux more and more over the years. And they haven't been pushing Windows 8 tablets as much as other companies. Microsoft needs strong hardware partners to push their ecosystem.
If Dell is suddenly controlled by new investors, you have to wonder what direction they'd take the company. It makes sense for Microsoft to want some say in Dell's future to protect their own interests.
The music industry said the same thing about iTunes. They said no one will ever bother legally paying for digital music when it was freely available to pirate.
iTunes became the number 1 retailer of music. Your argument suddenly seems very flawed.
Right now, these books can already be pirated, but they couldn't be legally purchased before. Putting them up for sale will increase revenue from zero. That's a win for everyone.
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Reboots aren't as necessary in Linux.
And I'm assuming that this only affects KDE cookies, so you'd only see this if you used Konqueror as your browser. I imagine most KDE users are using Firefox, Chome or another browser like that.
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This is actually a legit question. Mark Shuttleworth has repeatedly praised Qt. He has forked away from Gnome. The new Ubuntu phone interface is apparently written in Qt, and he is encouraging developers to write Qt/QML apps for his new phone platform.
I bet Ubuntu could recreate their Unity interface in Plasma/Qt easily enough. But the really interesting aspect of that is that they could create one device that could easily change UIs/shells based upon how it was used. A tablet could default a touch interface, but switch to a more traditional interface with paired with a keyboard. A phone interface could change to a desktop interface in a dock.
Don't work. Jeff Bezos is known as a very understanding, forgiving and easy to work for boss.
Google is your friend.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_program_of_Iran#UN_Security_Council
PBS Frontline Documentaries are some of the most respected in the world. Making silly assumptions without having any knowledge isn't supporting transparency either.
Trying to block someone from free speech (especially truthful speech) out of fear is the exact polar opposite of what Assange and Wikileaks supposedly stand for. But that is exactly what Anonymous was doing in going after PBS.
Terrorizing people into not speaking the truth is not something that should be celebrated or endorsed.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/wikileaks/interviews/julian-assange.html
7 times the UN security council has unanimously voted that they have evidence that Iran is enriching uranium for weapons and ordered them to stop. If they're being framed, they're being framed in such a way that every single member of the security council has it confirmed by their own intelligence agencies.
And yet Assange individually knows better than all of these intelligence agencies. If he had actual proof of that, that would be a fantastic thing to leak. I don't believe he does.
I think you're missing my point. If they're willing to build a business model around non-US payment processors, and European customers, then they can do that with their gambling website and don't need a warez site.
But that's the same situation with the gambling website. Antigua can run a gambling website and the entire rest of the world can frequent it.
Antigua is arguing that they should be able to have a business that caters to US customers with no afford to US law.
I have no moral problem with gambling myself, but I don't see how this will help Antigua's case. They still won't get US money and reselling digital goods that you don't own is just going to cost them the support they currently have from the WTO.
The United States can't really stop Antigua from running a gambling website.
They can however forbid US payment processors from processing online gambling payments. If that is how they're stopping Antigua now, I can't imagine this warez site will be different. Do you think US payment processors will handle these payments?
This is unfortunately flawed thinking.
The enemy of your enemy is not necessarily your friend or a good guy. Just because someone like Assange doesn't like the US government, or banks or whoever else you hate, doesn't make him a saint. Just because Anonymous decided to support WikiLeaks didn't make them saints either.
They attacked PBS for crying out loud, just because PBS aired a documentary that tried to present both sides of the Assange debate.
That isn't supporting any ideal of transparency. That is acting childish.
I believe the primary difference in the Mastercard and PayPal DDOS attacks is that they weren't just tryng to take down a website, but rather they attacked the domains that provided APIs to process payments. They were literally trying to disrupt business transactions.
They were not successful in fully bringing down either.
I also object to calling any criminal hacking "hacktivism". A legal protest can be more effective. They didn't advance their beliefs or causes, though they did break the law.
Most people don't install packages directly from the KDE Looks website I imagine.
My distro has a package for it in their main repository. I assume most do.
http://software.opensuse.org/package/plasmoid-smooth-tasks2
And KDE allows you to browse for an install plasmoids right from your desktop.
Their Jelly Bean version of TouchWiz moved closer to vanilla Android at the same time that Android was taking a few cues from TouchWiz with the quick settings menu. I wouldn't be shocked to see Samsung's version and vanilla to merge closer together so long as Samsung is selling as much hardware as they are.
With high resolution tablet displays and powerful multi-core ARM processors, true multitasking becomes more viable. Why ignore that?
I love that people are arguing that KDE 4 is missing a "core feature" that was actually a third-party add-on for KDE 3, but at the same time argue that installing a plasmoid means the feature doesn't really exist.
KDE 4 was designed to be extendable, and supports multiple methods of easily installing plasmoids. Installing content from the internet into KDE 4 was a core underlying technology since 2008.
http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/Installing_Plasmoids
http://newstuff.kde.org/
I ran KDE from 4.0 on, running openSUSE and didn't have crashes. I had no problems with Phonon until they started integrating PulseAudio.
Konqueror still existed. Some people were butt-hurt that Dolphin was simpler and the default, but that didn't mean you didn't have the option of running Konqueror.
How was Konsole bad?
Kasbar was a third-party app, not officially part of KDE3. And it wasn't maintained.
But Smooth Tasks is pretty nice today.
There were several plasmoids that allowed you to replicate Windows 7 taskbar functionality in KDE, and they've been available for years. I used this one back in 2009.
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/STasks?content=99739
I think the current version is here.
http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/?content=148813
KDE 4.0 was missing a lot of expected 3.5 features, but a lot of the bad reputation it received were from terrible Kubuntu packages. The Kubuntu maintainers admitted they didn't understand the new build process or what they were doing. Canonical pushed it way too early and pushed crappy packages, but KDE took the blame. Early KDE builds on openSUSE, Arch, Fedora, etc. didn't have the same problems.
And honestly, I think only a year later (KDE 4.2) they had a great desktop for everyone.
The shift from KDE 3 to 4 (and Qt 3 to 4) meant a massive rewrite, and having to reinvent most of their core features.
KDE 5 sounds more like an evolution than revolution, so it should be smoother this time around.
KDE compositing can be turned on/off with a single key.
True, but I think most people who run Windows shops have been historically buying Dell or HP servers, where as most shops who run IBM hardware have are Unix shops.
Dell and HP sell blade and VMWare solutions,
There are services that will scan books for $1.
Assuming they sell a single copy at $5, then they've turned a profit.
And even if this venture isn't massively profitable, you're better off converting pirates to customers so you can reach out to them for future products. There are benefits to purchasing digital goods legally (no fear of malware/virus, not waiting for someone to seed old RPG PDFs, being able to re-download from the service, etc) that might encourage future sales.
IBM ships lots of servers, but I'm assuming they're shipping most of those with Red Hat, Oracle Linux, or AIX.
I'm not sure IBM is pushing Windows Server so much.
HP is going in the toilet and keeps talking up the post-PC world, taking a page from Apple's playbook. HP Servers are still a great product, but if HP goes under, the Dell becomes almost the lone supplier of Windows enterprise hardware.
Dell has embraced Linux more and more over the years. And they haven't been pushing Windows 8 tablets as much as other companies. Microsoft needs strong hardware partners to push their ecosystem.
If Dell is suddenly controlled by new investors, you have to wonder what direction they'd take the company. It makes sense for Microsoft to want some say in Dell's future to protect their own interests.
The music industry said the same thing about iTunes. They said no one will ever bother legally paying for digital music when it was freely available to pirate.
iTunes became the number 1 retailer of music. Your argument suddenly seems very flawed.
Right now, these books can already be pirated, but they couldn't be legally purchased before. Putting them up for sale will increase revenue from zero. That's a win for everyone.
http://www.ksplice.com/
You can even swap kernels without a reboot.
Reboots aren't as necessary in Linux.
And I'm assuming that this only affects KDE cookies, so you'd only see this if you used Konqueror as your browser. I imagine most KDE users are using Firefox, Chome or another browser like that.