What does KDE4 have to do with the fact that NVIDIA drivers were crappy when it came to supporting translucency and stuff? With older NVIDIA cards, I have worse performance than on my EeePC (GMA 900). That would mean something.
What they have delivers is addition to hardware is a great closed source driver which have simply been the best in terms of perforamnce, features and quality for anything better than integrated graphics.
Please google for "kde4 nvidia problems" to see how the "great closed source driver" works. A lot of the stuff needed for ARGB visuals wasn't accelerated at all. It took quite a long time for NVIDIA to fix that.
Actually they are fine (I can even run a composited desktop on my EeePC, and that's a GMA 900), but in this case the technology isn't theirs, it was acquired from some third-party.
More than Evangelion (whose story turned to convoluted because of the staff running out of funds around episode 20), an excellent storyline is the one found in Boogiepop Phantom. Screenplay writer Sadayuki Murai (Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, Kino no Tabi...) built upon the very nice groundwork of Kohei Kadono (author of the original novels) creating a rather complex and non linear story.
Like many posters have already said, the syntax of R is terribly outdated, and that's a first problem with me (I started programming with Python, go figure). But the main problem I have with R is the performance. A lot of functions and packages are dead slow or quite memory hungry (compared to a, say, C++ equivalent - for the initiated, check out the performance of rma from Bioconductor with RMAExpress, which is written in C++).
Another issue I have is not with R itself, but with its most popular add-on, the Bioconductor suite, widely used in bioinformatics. The packages' quality varies a great deal, and there's no way to file bug reports (unlike R itself, which has a bug tracker) short of emailing the authors, who, being academics, may not even have the time/will to reply to you.
I'd love to see stuff like Bioconductor in a more recent programming language, but I doubt it - doing this kind of stuff doesn't give you any funding.
We have one of these beasts where I work. It's tremendously expensive to run (~$5K for a single run, although you sequence 40 million bases in 200-400 bp reads), and the most daunting part is the data analysis. So far there are three people that just work on what that sequencer crunches, and it took quite a while, time-wise, to develop efficient workflows.
No (I have autohide working in my trunk install, BTW), it's that complaints about a broken feature that is a result of a backport go to the backporters, and not to the project itself.
Ahem... there is NO panel hiding in 4.1. Your distro must have backported the feature from trunk (4.2 has not been released yet). Put the blame on them if it doesn't work properly, not on KDE.
Alzheimer's Disease is what is being called a "multi-factorial" disease. That means that there isn't a single source of the disease, but rather a combination of them. In this case, the presence of the herpes virus is one of such factors. I've read and researched a bit myself on the subject during the course of my scientific career: there are loads of papers that try to link particular genetic patterns to susceptibility to AD, but aside for APOE (mentioned by another poster) and some familial forms (which are a minorty among AD cases), the findings are often hard to reproduce, or even inconsistent among them.
BTW, regarding the herpes virus: you don't quite eradicate it when you get a cold sore and treat it, because in fact it usually lies in a dormant state after the acute phase (IIRC, I haven't touched virology in a long time and I may be totally incorrect) and factors such as stress or other events can "awaken" it again, causing the recurrences in cold sores and other herpes-related infections.
That was elected by a strong majority. Come on, a little respect for democracy. I'm not saying that regulating the Internet is good, just that people here make Berlusconi as if it was a dictator, while it was democratically elected by the Italian people. And if people say "why him, and not someone else?" I say:go and look at the state of the affairs of the rest of the parties. Part of them was swept out at the last election and doesn't even have seats in Parliament.
What do you try to accomplish by spreading politically meaningless statements(it's still a democratic country, you know)? The government has no say in this. And do you know that Italian law is not common law-like?
A honest question. Given how void of breaking news the last E3 was , is there a point in making it anymore? The same applies to other shows throughout the world, including the latest TGS. All I saw was mostly marketing and hype, hype and marketing. If games shows are headed this way, it would be better not to hold them at all.
In my experience, R (at least the microarray data analysis tools - i.e. Bioconductor) always had terrible performance compared to other software. That's why I always wrap it in RPy, so I use only the absolute minimum required and let other, more optimized tools to do the rest of the job.
I'm expecting that, I'm just annoyed at the (usual) second-rate treatment. I understand that Windows is their primary target platform, but I expected a same-day release for a company that overall is quite FOSS friendly.
And the download is Windows-only, with generic promises of a Linux version soon. That pretty much rules Chrome out for me, now and in the future: there's no guarantee it will get equal treatment.
Wow, how bad can spin get? My country is still a democracy, and besides, the blockade has been done due to a court order. Right or not, law is law.
The post you quote is very biased: I suspect it comes from the political parties that were wiped out of the parliament during the last elections.
There is a NetworkManager plasmoid in development. I don't know if the developers will release it separately or if we'll have to wait till KDE 4.2 for that, though.
Although you can't do that with virtual desktops (yet), activities (look up the definition of Zooming User Interface in the Plasma FAQ link already mentioned in the comments) can have both independent backgrounds and plasmoid layouts.
You have also to think about *mantaining* code, not just releasing it. That is one of the reason why kicker couldn't be just ported, AFAIK: it was way too complex and to add new features others would break.
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What does KDE4 have to do with the fact that NVIDIA drivers were crappy when it came to supporting translucency and stuff? With older NVIDIA cards, I have worse performance than on my EeePC (GMA 900). That would mean something.
Please google for "kde4 nvidia problems" to see how the "great closed source driver" works. A lot of the stuff needed for ARGB visuals wasn't accelerated at all. It took quite a long time for NVIDIA to fix that.
Actually they are fine (I can even run a composited desktop on my EeePC, and that's a GMA 900), but in this case the technology isn't theirs, it was acquired from some third-party.
More than Evangelion (whose story turned to convoluted because of the staff running out of funds around episode 20), an excellent storyline is the one found in Boogiepop Phantom. Screenplay writer Sadayuki Murai (Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, Kino no Tabi...) built upon the very nice groundwork of Kohei Kadono (author of the original novels) creating a rather complex and non linear story.
I think the Sinclair up to the Spectrum 48K were worse. I mean, flat keys first, then *rubber*! I can't even remember how could I *type* on those...
Like many posters have already said, the syntax of R is terribly outdated, and that's a first problem with me (I started programming with Python, go figure). But the main problem I have with R is the performance. A lot of functions and packages are dead slow or quite memory hungry (compared to a, say, C++ equivalent - for the initiated, check out the performance of rma from Bioconductor with RMAExpress, which is written in C++).
Another issue I have is not with R itself, but with its most popular add-on, the Bioconductor suite, widely used in bioinformatics. The packages' quality varies a great deal, and there's no way to file bug reports (unlike R itself, which has a bug tracker) short of emailing the authors, who, being academics, may not even have the time/will to reply to you. I'd love to see stuff like Bioconductor in a more recent programming language, but I doubt it - doing this kind of stuff doesn't give you any funding.
We have one of these beasts where I work. It's tremendously expensive to run (~$5K for a single run, although you sequence 40 million bases in 200-400 bp reads), and the most daunting part is the data analysis. So far there are three people that just work on what that sequencer crunches, and it took quite a while, time-wise, to develop efficient workflows.
No (I have autohide working in my trunk install, BTW), it's that complaints about a broken feature that is a result of a backport go to the backporters, and not to the project itself.
Ahem... there is NO panel hiding in 4.1. Your distro must have backported the feature from trunk (4.2 has not been released yet). Put the blame on them if it doesn't work properly, not on KDE.
Alzheimer's Disease is what is being called a "multi-factorial" disease. That means that there isn't a single source of the disease, but rather a combination of them. In this case, the presence of the herpes virus is one of such factors. I've read and researched a bit myself on the subject during the course of my scientific career: there are loads of papers that try to link particular genetic patterns to susceptibility to AD, but aside for APOE (mentioned by another poster) and some familial forms (which are a minorty among AD cases), the findings are often hard to reproduce, or even inconsistent among them. BTW, regarding the herpes virus: you don't quite eradicate it when you get a cold sore and treat it, because in fact it usually lies in a dormant state after the acute phase (IIRC, I haven't touched virology in a long time and I may be totally incorrect) and factors such as stress or other events can "awaken" it again, causing the recurrences in cold sores and other herpes-related infections.
That was elected by a strong majority. Come on, a little respect for democracy. I'm not saying that regulating the Internet is good, just that people here make Berlusconi as if it was a dictator, while it was democratically elected by the Italian people. And if people say "why him, and not someone else?" I say:go and look at the state of the affairs of the rest of the parties. Part of them was swept out at the last election and doesn't even have seats in Parliament.
What do you try to accomplish by spreading politically meaningless statements(it's still a democratic country, you know)? The government has no say in this. And do you know that Italian law is not common law-like?
Add also Italy to that list. As far as I know, major ISPs offer uncapped bandwidth.
A honest question. Given how void of breaking news the last E3 was , is there a point in making it anymore? The same applies to other shows throughout the world, including the latest TGS. All I saw was mostly marketing and hype, hype and marketing. If games shows are headed this way, it would be better not to hold them at all.
In my experience, R (at least the microarray data analysis tools - i.e. Bioconductor) always had terrible performance compared to other software. That's why I always wrap it in RPy, so I use only the absolute minimum required and let other, more optimized tools to do the rest of the job.
There is also RPy for those who (like me) program in Python.
I'm expecting that, I'm just annoyed at the (usual) second-rate treatment. I understand that Windows is their primary target platform, but I expected a same-day release for a company that overall is quite FOSS friendly.
And the download is Windows-only, with generic promises of a Linux version soon. That pretty much rules Chrome out for me, now and in the future: there's no guarantee it will get equal treatment.
Wow, how bad can spin get? My country is still a democracy, and besides, the blockade has been done due to a court order. Right or not, law is law. The post you quote is very biased: I suspect it comes from the political parties that were wiped out of the parliament during the last elections.
There is a NetworkManager plasmoid in development. I don't know if the developers will release it separately or if we'll have to wait till KDE 4.2 for that, though.
Although you can't do that with virtual desktops (yet), activities (look up the definition of Zooming User Interface in the Plasma FAQ link already mentioned in the comments) can have both independent backgrounds and plasmoid layouts.
You have also to think about *mantaining* code, not just releasing it. That is one of the reason why kicker couldn't be just ported, AFAIK: it was way too complex and to add new features others would break.
Aside from the debatable statements (read: meaningless name calling) of your post, you're also inaccurate. Troy wasn't "removed".
Who ever said that? KHTML is still being actively developed.
Here and here there are some screencasts showing off some Plasma features.