The last time I created a new profile, kde opened with a folder view plasmoid on my desktop -- so it's not full screen files like Windows, but the icons are still there. I can even navigate to other folders from that folder view without opening Dolphin (or another file manager), which I find wonderful. But if I actually did want the old behavior, all I have to do is right click on the desktop, select desktop settings, and choose "Folder View" in the layout dropdown.
KDE has a reputation for being customizable (someone described GNOME as being customizable in these comments and I about snorted laughing), and the default desktop they give you (with the plasmoid) gives the user the idea that "hey, I can put these little things on my desktop, and a silly folder view doesn't take up the whole thing." Just giving a desktop-hogging folder view wouldn't well represent the customization KDE4 is capable of.
But yeah, if you don't like new features, things that change or a desktop that actually looks nice, use IceWM.
Ageist much? Do you really think that a CEO like Zuckerberg wrote, demanded or even approved something as simple as a "spice up the login error page" project?
Anyway, the guy is 26. He can buy booze, fight for his country and successfully run a multi-million dollar company. Most of slashdot, even adult slashdot, cannot claim all three.
Finally, I really don't know what all the commotion is about, I just logged out of Facebook and tried logging back in with my email address and a bad password; I got the standard "bad email or password" error.
“It’s different from phone to phone and operator to operator,” says Keith Nowak, spokesman for HTC. “But in general, the apps are put there to meet the operator’s business and revenue needs.”
So in essence, carriers are doing with Android phones what they've been doing with other phones for ages, installing stuff that makes them money with minimal added utility for the user. Color me surprised.
Consequently, the solutions are what they've always been: modify the phone in some non-supported way, or buy a non-carrier-branded, non-contract phone for loads more than what you'd pay otherwise. And like most of everything else on/., this becomes non-news.
This horribly wrong use of technical terms really should not be showing up on the site that proclaims itself as "news for nerds, stuff that matters".
Have you been living under a rock? Fodder like this has been the vast majority of slashdot for years, it feels. Being about an Apple product just means it got to the front page even quicker.
Ok, so we suddenly now have a way to make really reliable online polls? I don't know about you, but I wouldn't trust a party with no real platform and outsourcing all policy decisions to whoever has the best poll-spamming software.
This is worse than the current system, in which only the richest people are able to influence policy? At least this lowers the bar, anyone with a $300 computer and a $20 internet connection can spam votes.
A 2006 investigation by the Discover America Partnership found that tourism to America had sunk due to “a climate of fear and frustration that is turning away foreign business and leisure travelers from visiting the United States and damaging America’s image abroad.”
No less than a third of tourists vowed never to return to America after experiencing the treatment of Homeland Security officials at ports of entry.
Indeed, it's bad enough as a citizen; I can't begin to imagine how it is as a foreigner. On returning from vacation from Montreal (flew as I live in the midwest), I couldn't believe the amount of grief the woman at border patrol was giving me. I'm an American citizen, I'm innocent until proven guilty and I certainly can't be compelled to incriminate myself, so stop treating me like a criminal. Of course, if I were to mention any of that, I'd immediately be further probed, so I was polite and answered her questions. Some beacon-of-freedom country this is, and electing the so-called man and party of change to power hasn't seemed to help.
Anyway, it was bad for me, as an American citizen. I completely understand when friends abroad hesitate to come to the US.
They can't just do it the way, say, PayPal, does it and make a very small debit (or deposit) with a unique authentication key in the memo line? I've done this with a couple of different companies, and I really can't imagine doing it the way you describe, it just seems silly. Just accounting for all the different ways a bank could do an HTML login process (mine will ask you a series of personal questions if you haven't authenticated with the same computer recently and told it to remember the computer) would be a nightmare.
Granted, they way PayPal now does the above process reeks of dung, as they process a small debit with the key and when you authenticate they credit that amount to your PayPal account instead of sending it back to your bank, but that's just an implementation detail.
Unfortunately, the Battlefield and Call Of Duty series are fairly different shooters. The loss of Call Of Duty would be noticed, as much as I do like Battlefield.
This pretty well sums up the entire program. It looks like more of an Obama government PR stunt, being able to claim "hey, we paid $4,500 of your new ride!". Of course it will have little real benefit in the long term, just as Bush's stimulus check to every house didn't make an ounce of difference. And hell, I voted for the man (although buyer's remorse has long ago kicked in).
And honestly, the fact you can even buy an SUV or light truck with this money is insane. A 2 mpg increase is nearly statistically insignificant, and one or two extra MPG on a 30 gallon tank is 30 or 60 miles. You're still using a lot more gas (and petroleum) to get you, your spouse and your 2.2 kids around town than you would with a nice Camry. Hey Obama government, if you want to use tax dollars to fund our automobile addiction, at least try to legislate some morality into it. The soccer mom SUV is a pinnacle of the self-centered, sedentary American lifestyle.
Microsoft's Zune is nearly impossible to control without looking at it. About all the touchpad is good for is games and library searching, and those both require looking.
Even then, clicking often works better. It's lazy, but if you've got a long way to go, you don't want to have to keep flicking your thumb.
As an undergrad working in IT as a student job, I can confirm that it is, in fact, boring. Infinitely more boring and less enjoyable than the other part-time jobs I've worked including apartment cleaning, table waiting, bussing and food delivery. At least I didn't have to deal with 5 30 ton A/C units constantly whirring in the background at the restaurant. Oh, and my coworkers had more depth in both jobs than comic book movies and WoW.
Those of us really interested in little more than a jewel-cased CD without the RIAA flavoring? I don't really want to pay $80 for the premiums of the box set (a lack of a turntable explains the majority of this), but also really like the whole CD, jewel case and booklet combo and am willing to pay for it -- name a base price for the cost of creating the physical package and let me tack on dollars as is done with the digital download.
Are those of us in the middle of the road left out in the rain?
only for the young and fit It's not even nearly impossible for the old and fit, and the young and not-fit have an even better reason to be on a bike than the rest of us.
The BSA and other such agents look out for these tiny missing features, so they know when and where to release the hounds.
A mom and pop shop with a few extra installs than licenses is small potatoes.
I hope you aren't suggesting the hounds wouldn't be released on the mom and pop shop regardless -- easy money is easy money in the eyes of the BSA.
120 hours? I can throw away hundreds of letters per minute; do they insist on giving them a proper burial or what?
I'm guessing what really happened was they jerked off for 119 hours and 58 minutes, and when it came time for evaluations they reported the jacking-off hours as dealing-with-RIAA-letters hours.
I hope my dislike for university IT departments isn't showing.
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KDE decided that icons are unnecessary
The last time I created a new profile, kde opened with a folder view plasmoid on my desktop -- so it's not full screen files like Windows, but the icons are still there. I can even navigate to other folders from that folder view without opening Dolphin (or another file manager), which I find wonderful. But if I actually did want the old behavior, all I have to do is right click on the desktop, select desktop settings, and choose "Folder View" in the layout dropdown.
KDE has a reputation for being customizable (someone described GNOME as being customizable in these comments and I about snorted laughing), and the default desktop they give you (with the plasmoid) gives the user the idea that "hey, I can put these little things on my desktop, and a silly folder view doesn't take up the whole thing." Just giving a desktop-hogging folder view wouldn't well represent the customization KDE4 is capable of.
But yeah, if you don't like new features, things that change or a desktop that actually looks nice, use IceWM.
Ageist much? Do you really think that a CEO like Zuckerberg wrote, demanded or even approved something as simple as a "spice up the login error page" project?
Anyway, the guy is 26. He can buy booze, fight for his country and successfully run a multi-million dollar company. Most of slashdot, even adult slashdot, cannot claim all three.
Finally, I really don't know what all the commotion is about, I just logged out of Facebook and tried logging back in with my email address and a bad password; I got the standard "bad email or password" error.
“It’s different from phone to phone and operator to operator,” says Keith Nowak, spokesman for HTC. “But in general, the apps are put there to meet the operator’s business and revenue needs.”
So in essence, carriers are doing with Android phones what they've been doing with other phones for ages, installing stuff that makes them money with minimal added utility for the user. Color me surprised.
Consequently, the solutions are what they've always been: modify the phone in some non-supported way, or buy a non-carrier-branded, non-contract phone for loads more than what you'd pay otherwise. And like most of everything else on /., this becomes non-news.
This horribly wrong use of technical terms really should not be showing up on the site that proclaims itself as "news for nerds, stuff that matters".
Have you been living under a rock? Fodder like this has been the vast majority of slashdot for years, it feels. Being about an Apple product just means it got to the front page even quicker.
Ok, so we suddenly now have a way to make really reliable online polls? I don't know about you, but I wouldn't trust a party with no real platform and outsourcing all policy decisions to whoever has the best poll-spamming software.
This is worse than the current system, in which only the richest people are able to influence policy? At least this lowers the bar, anyone with a $300 computer and a $20 internet connection can spam votes.
A 2006 investigation by the Discover America Partnership found that tourism to America had sunk due to “a climate of fear and frustration that is turning away foreign business and leisure travelers from visiting the United States and damaging America’s image abroad.” No less than a third of tourists vowed never to return to America after experiencing the treatment of Homeland Security officials at ports of entry.
Indeed, it's bad enough as a citizen; I can't begin to imagine how it is as a foreigner. On returning from vacation from Montreal (flew as I live in the midwest), I couldn't believe the amount of grief the woman at border patrol was giving me. I'm an American citizen, I'm innocent until proven guilty and I certainly can't be compelled to incriminate myself, so stop treating me like a criminal. Of course, if I were to mention any of that, I'd immediately be further probed, so I was polite and answered her questions. Some beacon-of-freedom country this is, and electing the so-called man and party of change to power hasn't seemed to help.
Anyway, it was bad for me, as an American citizen. I completely understand when friends abroad hesitate to come to the US.
They can't just do it the way, say, PayPal, does it and make a very small debit (or deposit) with a unique authentication key in the memo line? I've done this with a couple of different companies, and I really can't imagine doing it the way you describe, it just seems silly. Just accounting for all the different ways a bank could do an HTML login process (mine will ask you a series of personal questions if you haven't authenticated with the same computer recently and told it to remember the computer) would be a nightmare.
Granted, they way PayPal now does the above process reeks of dung, as they process a small debit with the key and when you authenticate they credit that amount to your PayPal account instead of sending it back to your bank, but that's just an implementation detail.
Theories are nice, concrete proof is nicer.
Unfortunately, the Battlefield and Call Of Duty series are fairly different shooters. The loss of Call Of Duty would be noticed, as much as I do like Battlefield.
but I'm not eligible due to a stupid law.
This pretty well sums up the entire program. It looks like more of an Obama government PR stunt, being able to claim "hey, we paid $4,500 of your new ride!". Of course it will have little real benefit in the long term, just as Bush's stimulus check to every house didn't make an ounce of difference. And hell, I voted for the man (although buyer's remorse has long ago kicked in).
And honestly, the fact you can even buy an SUV or light truck with this money is insane. A 2 mpg increase is nearly statistically insignificant, and one or two extra MPG on a 30 gallon tank is 30 or 60 miles. You're still using a lot more gas (and petroleum) to get you, your spouse and your 2.2 kids around town than you would with a nice Camry. Hey Obama government, if you want to use tax dollars to fund our automobile addiction, at least try to legislate some morality into it. The soccer mom SUV is a pinnacle of the self-centered, sedentary American lifestyle.
Microsoft's Zune is nearly impossible to control without looking at it. About all the touchpad is good for is games and library searching, and those both require looking.
Even then, clicking often works better. It's lazy, but if you've got a long way to go, you don't want to have to keep flicking your thumb.
Are you suggesting citizen's arrest?
companies like Apple who take massive amounts of GPL code to build their empires and give NOTHING in return.
... except the huge advances Apple has given KHTML in the form of WebKit.
This is probably why there will never be a year of the linux desktop.
Nonsense, 2009 is the year of the linux desktop!
As an undergrad working in IT as a student job, I can confirm that it is, in fact, boring. Infinitely more boring and less enjoyable than the other part-time jobs I've worked including apartment cleaning, table waiting, bussing and food delivery. At least I didn't have to deal with 5 30 ton A/C units constantly whirring in the background at the restaurant. Oh, and my coworkers had more depth in both jobs than comic book movies and WoW.
Those of us really interested in little more than a jewel-cased CD without the RIAA flavoring? I don't really want to pay $80 for the premiums of the box set (a lack of a turntable explains the majority of this), but also really like the whole CD, jewel case and booklet combo and am willing to pay for it -- name a base price for the cost of creating the physical package and let me tack on dollars as is done with the digital download. Are those of us in the middle of the road left out in the rain?
I almost signed on to go to KU next semester.
Now the decision seems all the more intelligent.
There's nothing like capitalizing on the stupidity of others!
It could be worse; walking outside was my trigger.
http://nyu.facebook.com/s.php?q=Ashley+Heyer
120 hours? I can throw away hundreds of letters per minute; do they insist on giving them a proper burial or what?
I'm guessing what really happened was they jerked off for 119 hours and 58 minutes, and when it came time for evaluations they reported the jacking-off hours as dealing-with-RIAA-letters hours.
I hope my dislike for university IT departments isn't showing.
That's called extortion, and it's illegal. I would hope the DoJ steps in at that point.