the EEE has KDE sure, but the launcher it has sitting on top of it is what is shipped and used by default, so I imagine it wouldn't matter to most if it wasn't KDE. Of course eeebuntu is my preferred choice for the EEE, with the sexy netbook remix:)
that's pretty profound, thanks for the quotes. The only sad part is that if anyone without the conventional wisdom to be able to handle such civilization destruction level weapons we're totally screwed, which is why its all the more import to also employ technological countermeasures.
Its probably extremely important to know where life came from to understand where it can go. After all unless you can see the future, you only have the past and the now to go off of.
i think the idea is that as more people are lured by Netflix with a major reason being the online streaming service, this will increase their moneys, make them improve their network infrastructure, and settle anything they need to with the movie studios.
As things go digital the concept of ownership begins to slip away because it requires something to be physical in representation and not easily duplicated (DVDs are easily ripped, so they truly are not just a physical representation), so maybe replacing your at home DVD collection is precisely what may occur at some point in the future.
plasmoids are supposed to be like the widgets in OSX or the widgets in Vista. As far as I'm concerned they're all pretty, but worthless no matter which you're talking about for any OS.
I think drivers were only one piece of the problem, and a fairly small piece at that. The generally viewed performance and requirements are what really caused Vista to tank in the eyes of consumers. Good as it may be for some, not everyone has a new computer or a desire to buy a new one. Couple that with bad performance on budget laptops and there's your whole case right there.
while thats true, from looking at the screenshot it is aiming to show you all those settings graphically on the same screen, rather than each having their own tab or buried inside an "advanced" or "custom" button that pops open another window with more tabs. Personally I think its a good idea, but what would really be helpful is one that can easily preview and download themes from the net and easily allowing you to mix and match them. I know there's Art.Gnome app but its not exactly very integrated out of the box.
the wifi sharing is pretty useless on the zune, you're better off with one of the ipod touches since they can browse the web and with some unlocking can probably share without limitations
I agree, on a personal basis that money is worth it for me, because I'm a PC enthusiast
my friends who pull in half or less than what I do per year however can not rationalize spending one or two hundred bucks since they only use their PC for internet, communications, and music
as far as work goes, how many companies will be willing to shell out the extra few hundred to upgrade all the hardware for all the workstations in addition to the price of upgrading the software? That's a lot of money and a lot of new IT headaches.
actually the company I work for pulled out the option to use Vista earlier this year unless you provided a valid business reason for actually needing it. Oh and I have no choice but to use Lotus Notes, because I work for IBM.
At work I use a 3 Ghz intel machine with 1 GB of RAM, one of the last IBM made workstation desktops. While I've never tried to run Vista on it I'm pretty certain that without an extra 1 GB of RAM and a newer Nvidia Quadro card, there's not a chance it would run it with the amount of speed I prefer while I'm coding with multiple windows open at the same time including but not limited to my browser, IM client, Lotus Notes, Rational Software Architect. Assuming what I've read is true, win 7 is just Vista with slightly better performance. But is it really going to be enough to justify getting the upgrade on my PC without substantial hardware upgrades? forget it.
I would highly doubt the performance benefits of the microsoft office are worth the extra hundred dollars entry fee.
The startup time in an application really is not that relevant these days, as once its open what really matters is how it is during usage. Now if OO.o is slow even while typing, making it difficult to type at normal speeds on your computer then I would say you have a valid concern. Otherwise taking a few to several extra seconds to startup is nothing when you consider it probably already takes you a few minutes just to boot into windows on that same slow machine.
Heck even my quad core machine takes at least 3 minutes just to get to the point where i can start doing stuff on it, compared with just over 1 minute for Ubuntu on the same machine.
no restrictions, use supervision alongside education (and a dose of trust) is what comes to my mind. The thing is that every restriction will almost definitely always have a way around it. And when that happens there will be no one around to know its being bypassed because of the supposed restrictions ability to not be overcome.
The idea that the basic usage of Linux programs is somehow so estrangely different from using basic window programs is laughable. OpenOffice may not be exactly the same as MS Office, but to most people those differences mean jack because most people are only going to be using the tool to its minimal extent and that is to write a document.
Besides most people who have "experience" in basic usage of Linux probably also don't live under a rock and also use Windows from time to time as well. I don't think anyone has suggested you forget everything you know about windows to use Linux.
what happens if we need to shoot through our own defences to destroy the aliens though? Oh wait, this is more like missile command not space invaders, my mistake.
but really none of this is news, its all part of how DRM is designed to make sure customers use their hardware exactly how they want them to and no other way. At the expense of sounding like a broken record, DRM simply is defective by design in that they expect people to buy these devices yet never truly own them.
even if you could post a picture representing a library, there seems to be little point. After all the idea of this picture repository is to give people a sense of what a program will look like before they decide to install it. In this case, installing a library by itself does nothing until a program is installed which actually uses it.
actually its a problem with ATI hardware, they have really bad linux support in general, at least mine have (both the standard tuner and the all-in-wonder)
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the EEE has KDE sure, but the launcher it has sitting on top of it is what is shipped and used by default, so I imagine it wouldn't matter to most if it wasn't KDE. Of course eeebuntu is my preferred choice for the EEE, with the sexy netbook remix :)
that's pretty profound, thanks for the quotes. The only sad part is that if anyone without the conventional wisdom to be able to handle such civilization destruction level weapons we're totally screwed, which is why its all the more import to also employ technological countermeasures.
Its probably extremely important to know where life came from to understand where it can go. After all unless you can see the future, you only have the past and the now to go off of.
it's not butter.
bandwidth/money/lawsuits
i think the idea is that as more people are lured by Netflix with a major reason being the online streaming service, this will increase their moneys, make them improve their network infrastructure, and settle anything they need to with the movie studios.
As things go digital the concept of ownership begins to slip away because it requires something to be physical in representation and not easily duplicated (DVDs are easily ripped, so they truly are not just a physical representation), so maybe replacing your at home DVD collection is precisely what may occur at some point in the future.
plasmoids are supposed to be like the widgets in OSX or the widgets in Vista. As far as I'm concerned they're all pretty, but worthless no matter which you're talking about for any OS.
I think drivers were only one piece of the problem, and a fairly small piece at that. The generally viewed performance and requirements are what really caused Vista to tank in the eyes of consumers. Good as it may be for some, not everyone has a new computer or a desire to buy a new one. Couple that with bad performance on budget laptops and there's your whole case right there.
all seafaring ships are sinkproof until they get holes in them
the best source of free use artists are probably those that are still building up their portfolio, most likely are still in school.
while thats true, from looking at the screenshot it is aiming to show you all those settings graphically on the same screen, rather than each having their own tab or buried inside an "advanced" or "custom" button that pops open another window with more tabs. Personally I think its a good idea, but what would really be helpful is one that can easily preview and download themes from the net and easily allowing you to mix and match them. I know there's Art.Gnome app but its not exactly very integrated out of the box.
I guess some things have the same answer as "what would you do with a million dollars?"
no doubt because money would be worth nothing at such a time since you wouldnt be around much longer to actually enjoy any newfound wealth
the wifi sharing is pretty useless on the zune, you're better off with one of the ipod touches since they can browse the web and with some unlocking can probably share without limitations
I agree, on a personal basis that money is worth it for me, because I'm a PC enthusiast
my friends who pull in half or less than what I do per year however can not rationalize spending one or two hundred bucks since they only use their PC for internet, communications, and music
as far as work goes, how many companies will be willing to shell out the extra few hundred to upgrade all the hardware for all the workstations in addition to the price of upgrading the software? That's a lot of money and a lot of new IT headaches.
actually the company I work for pulled out the option to use Vista earlier this year unless you provided a valid business reason for actually needing it. Oh and I have no choice but to use Lotus Notes, because I work for IBM.
At work I use a 3 Ghz intel machine with 1 GB of RAM, one of the last IBM made workstation desktops. While I've never tried to run Vista on it I'm pretty certain that without an extra 1 GB of RAM and a newer Nvidia Quadro card, there's not a chance it would run it with the amount of speed I prefer while I'm coding with multiple windows open at the same time including but not limited to my browser, IM client, Lotus Notes, Rational Software Architect. Assuming what I've read is true, win 7 is just Vista with slightly better performance. But is it really going to be enough to justify getting the upgrade on my PC without substantial hardware upgrades? forget it.
I would highly doubt the performance benefits of the microsoft office are worth the extra hundred dollars entry fee.
The startup time in an application really is not that relevant these days, as once its open what really matters is how it is during usage. Now if OO.o is slow even while typing, making it difficult to type at normal speeds on your computer then I would say you have a valid concern. Otherwise taking a few to several extra seconds to startup is nothing when you consider it probably already takes you a few minutes just to boot into windows on that same slow machine.
Heck even my quad core machine takes at least 3 minutes just to get to the point where i can start doing stuff on it, compared with just over 1 minute for Ubuntu on the same machine.
no restrictions, use supervision alongside education (and a dose of trust) is what comes to my mind. The thing is that every restriction will almost definitely always have a way around it. And when that happens there will be no one around to know its being bypassed because of the supposed restrictions ability to not be overcome.
here's a clue: he believed it was illegal
The idea that the basic usage of Linux programs is somehow so estrangely different from using basic window programs is laughable. OpenOffice may not be exactly the same as MS Office, but to most people those differences mean jack because most people are only going to be using the tool to its minimal extent and that is to write a document. Besides most people who have "experience" in basic usage of Linux probably also don't live under a rock and also use Windows from time to time as well. I don't think anyone has suggested you forget everything you know about windows to use Linux.
what happens if we need to shoot through our own defences to destroy the aliens though? Oh wait, this is more like missile command not space invaders, my mistake.
its called control, and an obsession to keep it
but really none of this is news, its all part of how DRM is designed to make sure customers use their hardware exactly how they want them to and no other way. At the expense of sounding like a broken record, DRM simply is defective by design in that they expect people to buy these devices yet never truly own them.
even if you could post a picture representing a library, there seems to be little point. After all the idea of this picture repository is to give people a sense of what a program will look like before they decide to install it. In this case, installing a library by itself does nothing until a program is installed which actually uses it.
actually its a problem with ATI hardware, they have really bad linux support in general, at least mine have (both the standard tuner and the all-in-wonder)