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The Situation of Helping
Posted by The Situationist Staff on February 29, 2008
Psychologists Rachel Manning, Mark Levine and Alan Collins challenge the factual accuracy of the infamous 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese in an American Psychologist article excerpted below. The Genovese murder, a legend in social psychology courses, stands for the proposition that people are more likely to exhibit helping behavior when alone than when in crowds (the "bystander effect"). Excerpts from the article follow:
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The story of the 38 witnesses who watched from their apartments (and then failed to intervene) while Kitty Genovese was murdered on the street below, has an iconic place in social psychology. [It led to the development] of the idea that bystanders do not intervene because of a diffusion of responsibility, and that their perceptions of and reactions to potential intervention situations can be negatively affected by the presence (imagined or real) of others. And yet, as we will show with extracts from transcripts of the trial of Winston Mosley for the murder of Kitty Genovese (and other legal documents associated with the case), the story of the 38 witnesses is not supported by the available evidence.
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Kitty Genovese was murdered and sexually assaulted early in the morning of March 13th, 1964 in the Kew Garden's District of Queens, New York. While a report of the killing appears the same day in the Long Island Press ("Woman Knifed," 1964), the story of the 38 witnesses was developed by two journalists, Martin Gansberg and A.M. Rosenthal. Gansberg wrote the first article on the 38 witnesses for the New York Times two weeks after the Genovese murder. Gansberg's now famous article, published on March 27th on page 1 of the New York Times, opened under the headline '38 Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police. Apathy at Stabbing of Queens Woman Shocks Inspector':
For more than half an hour thirty-eight respectable, law abiding citizens in Queens watched a killer stalk and stab a woman in three separate attacks in Kew Gardens. Twice the sound of their voices and the sudden glow of their bedroom lights interrupted him and frightened him off. Each time he returned, sought her out and stabbed her again. Not one person telephoned the police during the assault; one witness called after the woman was dead.
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All [psychology] textbooks give the impression that Kitty Genovese was killed on the street where the murder could be seen by others. Almost all texts suggest that the 38 witnesses watched from their windows as the murder unfolded before them . . . . All claim that nobody intervened, or called the police, until after Kitty Genovese was dead…
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An analysis of the court transcripts from the trial of Winston Moseley, plus an examination of other legal documents associated with the case and a review of research carried out by a local historian and lawyer (Joseph De May Jr.), suggests a rather different picture of the events on that night . . . . De May Jr. has identified errors of fact and misleading wording in the original report by Gansberg.
[A detailed analysis of the factual inaccuracies is given by the authors, but we omit it here.]
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We argue that stories like Kitty Genovese and the 38 witnesses play a key role in populating the psychological imagination in a way that precludes thinking about the positive contributions that groups can make to intervention. The point here is not to challenge the findings from the wealth of research that has led from this story. Rather that by problematising the story that has such a conceptual grip on the discipline, the power of the story itself is challenged, and we might begin to look at this area of inquiry in new ways . . . . By debunking the myth, and reconsidering the stories that we present in textbooks, we might open up the imaginative space for social psychologists to develop new insights into the problem of promoting helping in emergency situations.
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MEXICO CITY — Enrique Pena Nieto took the oath of office as Mexico"s new president Saturday vowing to restore peace and security and take on the vested interests that have hindered economic prosperity.
As several hundred protesters threw fire bombs at police and smashed plate glass windows, Pena Nieto marked the return of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, with a 13-point plan heavy on old-party populist handouts but with reforms designed to boost the economy and modernize the education and justice systems.
"Mexico has not achieved the advances that the population demands or deserves," Pena Nieto said in an inaugural speech unusual for its heavy emphasis on policy. "It"s time for us together to break the myths and paradigms and all else that has limited our development."
Inaugural events were marred all day by protesters opposed to the return of the PRI after a 12-year hiatus.
Inside and outside the congressional chambers where he took the oath of office, his opponents called his inauguration an "imposition" of a party that ruled for 71 years using a mix of handouts, graft and rigged elections. At least four demonstrators and four officers were injured as protesters clashed with tear-gas wielding police, and 65 people were detained.
Vandals smashed windows of stores, banks and a hotel and made bonfires of furniture dragged into the streets. One downtown bank office where all the windows were broken had the words "Welcome Pena" painted across the facade in green.
Pena Nieto countered with a speech full of specifics, from creating an integrated crime prevention program to ending the patronage and buying of teacher positions that rule the public education system.
He said he will put security at the center of all policies for Mexicans and their families and will work to ensure that roads and cities are again "peaceful areas where Mexicans can travel safely without fear of loss of their liberty or life."
Mexico has suffered a spike in violence since outgoing President Felipe Calderon launched an offensive against organized crime upon taking office six years ago. Some 60,000 people have been killed by drug violence since then, according to some estimates. While officials first said most of the victims were involved in organized crime, the killings and kidnapping spread to innocent civilians as drug gangs came to rule entire towns and even parts of some states.
Pena Nieto turned to his usual style of result-oriented governing with the list, having started his term as governor of Mexico State with 608 projects that he promised to complete.
The tone of his speech was conciliatory, an attempt to alleviate fears about a return to the PRI"s autocratic past.
"I will respect every voice," he said. "I will run an open government that speaks with honesty, seeks opinion, listens to its citizens … I will be a president who is close to the people."
Many of his proposals harkened back to the old populist PRI, promising pensions for the elderly, life insurance for single mothers to support their children through college, a program to end hunger and a new system of passenger trains.
Political analyst Jesus Silva-Herzog Marquez marveled at the specificity.
"It was as if the president took a pencil and drew the train route and how much it would cost to Toluca," Silva-Herzog said. "It was very concrete, very practical, zero ideology … this is Pena Nieto. I think Pena Nieto is not a person who thinks in abstract terms."
Many remain to be convinced.
Before he took the oath of office, leftist congressional members inside the chamber gave protest speeches and hung banners, including a giant one reading "Imposition consummated. Mexico mourns."
"One word sums up Dec. 1: The restoration. The return to the past," said Congressman Ricardo Monreal of the Citizens Movement party.
Pena Nieto, who assumed office at a midnight ceremony at the National Palace, campaigned as the new face of the PRI, repentant and reconstructed after being voted out of the presidency in 2000.
Before his public swearing-in at midday, hundreds of opponents banged on tall, steel security barriers around Congress, threw stones, bottle rockets and firecrackers at police and yelled "Mexico without PRI!" Police responded by spraying tear gas from a truck and used fire extinguishers to put out flames from cocktails. One group of protesters rammed and dented the barrier with a large truck before being driven off by police water cannons.
"We"re against the oppression, the imposition of a person," said Alejandro, 25, a student and protester who wouldn"t give his last name, saying he feared reprisals.
"He gave groceries, money and a lot more so people would vote for him," the student added, referring to allegations that the PRI gave voters gifts to encourage them to cast ballots for Pena Nieto.
Protesters trailed the new president from the Congress to the National Palace, trying to break down the barriers set up in the Zocalo, Mexico City"s giant central plaza in front of the palace.
"The president is like Salinas: "I don"t see you, I don"t hear you,"" said Aurelio Medina, 64, a vendor and protestor referring to PRI President Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
Lines of riot police closed down streets around the Fine Arts Palace near where Pena Nieto gave his speech. Police arrested a few protesters who were throwing rocks or pieces of wood. Windows of a Sears departmental store were smashed and its outside walls splashed with white paint.
Despite the protests, the atmosphere inside Congress during the swearing-in ceremony was far less chaotic than six years ago, when a Calderon security unit literally had to muscle him past blockades and protesters to get him into the building so he could take the oath of office after a razor-thin, disputed victory over a leftist candidate.
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TORONTO — NHL labor negotiations will resume today, with mediators rejoining the talks at an undisclosed location in an effort to save the hockey season.
The Canadian Press reported Tuesday about the restart of bargaining between the league and union, citing unidentified people on both sides of the lockout.
U.S. federal mediators Scot Beckenbaugh and John Sweeney are to return to the process. They took part in sessions Nov. 27 and 28 before deciding they couldn't help.
The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, based in Washington, also was involved during the lockout that canceled the 2004-05 NHL season, with Beckenbaugh attending sessions.
As recently as last week, Commissioner Gary Bettman indicated he didn't think mediators would be able to help bridge the gap.
"We're not interested in mediation," he said Thursday. "We went through it a week and a half ago. It was of no value because of the position of the parties."
Tuesday marked the 87th day of the lockout. Today's session will be the first meeting since the sides blamed each other after talks broke off last week.
Until then, they appeared to be making progress during three days in New York in which they exchanged proposals. Union executive director Donald Fehr maintains there are agreements on almost all the important issues.
From the league's point of view, three main issues remain: the length of the collection bargaining agreement, rules governing term limits on contracts and the transition rules to help teams get under the salary cap.
There are also secondary issues yet to be agreed on, including the continued participation of NHL players in the Olympics, the international calendar and drug-testing rules.
In all, more than 40 percent of the regular season that was scheduled to begin Oct. 11 has been scratched.
The NHL eliminated 16 more days from the regular-season schedule Monday, canceling games through Dec. 30 in addition to the New Year's Day Winter Classic and the All-Star Game, which were already wiped out.
The latest cancellations generally were regarded as both bad news and good news.
While losing another two weeks hurts the league and the players, the fact that the NHL did not take more games off the schedule sparked speculation owners are holding out hope of making a deal that could start the season in early January.
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The designers behind the Miami-based collection are known for their abbreviated bikinis.
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The combined KDE/Amarok booth and developer room at the annual Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM) in Brusssels was a great experience (as usual!). Many people showed up from the KDE and Amarok communities, and we had a hard time fitting all our cool hardware and people in the booth. Luckily, the talks drew quite a crowd, and the booth became less busy as the day progressed. Read on for an overview of FOSDEM 2008 from the KDE perspective.
FOSDEM started out with a large group of KDE and Amarok people working like crazy to get the booth set up. We had all kinds of weird (and more standard) hardware, from a KDE-branded SUN-based thin client and a small VIA box, to large and small monitors connected to laptops - and all of it running KDE, in some cases the bleeding edge of development (destined to become KDE 4.1). Meanwhile, the Amarok people showed off their latest work on Amarok, with an appearance of their Mascot, Mike, who came in from the woods to 'Rok with the crowd.
After our group photo and a short welcome by Bart Coppens, Nikolaj Hald Nielsen gave a talk about Amarok 2.0 - the new way to "rediscover your music". Nikolaj also introduced a new friend, the Amarok Wolf Mike. Nikolaj then gave an outline of the history of Amarok, mentioning Free Software and the new trend which is going on besides the Free Software movement itself, the Free Culture movement - think Creative Commons or the rise of more open music sites such as Magnatune. Nikolaj is employed by Magnatune now, and he discussed some details of their contributions. It is great to see a company who really gets Free Culture and Free Software! In the future, thanks to the support from Magnatune, Amarok will support a variety of different music stores.
In the next talk, Bart Coppens started to show us some cool and less cool things about KOffice 2. Starting with the bad, he told us how, due to the developers having less time to work on KOffice, the current state of several applications was disappointing. The developers therefore recently decided to restrict their release goals, focusing on the applications they can make stable for KOffice 2.0. Those applications will most likely be KPresenter, KChart, KSpread and Karbon. Yes, KWord and Krita both might not make it for the first KOffice 2.0 release! This is an very unfortunate state of events for the one of the most innovative office suites, and there has been talk of hiring someone to get KWord into a usable state for the release. Meanwhile, Krita is very complete in terms of architecture and features, but those features aren't reflected in the interface yet - and that may not change any time soon either.
Now, on to the good stuff: the target of the big refactoring of the KOffice codebase, getting a tighter, lighter and more integrated KOffice is finally starting to bear fruit. Two technologies were presented by Bart to illustrate his points. To explain the idea behind Flake, imagine rough terrain which is flattened out and made more consistent by snow flakes. With Flake as the backend technology for KOffice 2, the similarities between many different components are put into a common core. This makes the components much more lightweight, more flexible, and easier to write. Another technology is Pigment, the color management system which now allows all KOffice applications to have proper color management - something very interesting for people working with graphics professionally.
Bart showed elements from Karbon and KWord, and he talked a few minutes about KPresenter and the plans for that application. Apparently, Aaron Seigo has promised to work on it to ensure it works nicely with Xinerama and generally does what he needs it to do while giving talks all over the world. Unfortunately, earlier experiments with sound & video in KPresenter failed, mostly due to Phonon not being ready for Flake shape integration.
After Bart, Sebastian Trueg entered the stage to talk about the Nepomuk project. Nepomuk is a research project with more than 20 organisations from across the European Union. Sebastian is mainly tasked with integrating the results of the research into KDE. The target of the Nepomuk project is to create a Social Semantic Desktop. Explaining, Sebastian gave the example of a file you once received from someone by mail and then saved somewhere. It can be difficult to find the file with current technologies, as that specific piece of information is lost when you save the file. Semantics are about relationships - and this file had a relation with the email. Nepomuk integration in KDE will allow you to find the file when looking for files related to the person you received the mail from. The Semantic Desktop will try to gather this kind of information automatically, or allow you to easily augment it so it can help you find your data or accomplish tasks easier.
Sebastian provided examples, explaining the benefits of these technologies and then continued to talk about the current state of Nepomuk in KDE. Currently, we have basic tagging, rating and commenting in Dolphin, and a basic search interface with a nice syntax. It allows you to search for rather specific things, but is not very easy to use yet. A final thing we will see soon is the ability to browse through the tags as if they were folders in Dolphin.
Similar functionality is planned for KDE-PIM, which Sebastian Kuegler now turns to. During a recent meeting, the KDE-PIM people decided they would love virtual folders (or live searches) within KMail. Such folders can show, for example, emails from a certain person or about certain subjects - and are updated live when new emails arrive or become tagged. Better search is generally something the PIM hackers want, and doing so by tightly integrating Nepomuk sounds like a smart move. All in all, the compelling vision behind Nepomuk left us impressed again.
Free software in Telecommunications focusing on Qtopia
Knut Yrvin works as community manager at Trolltech's office in Oslo. He started his talk by telling the crowd inside the developer room about the history of both Qt and KDE. Then, Knut started to explain the concepts behind Qtopia, Trolltech's extention framework which has its focus on developing applications for mobile and embedded systems. Qtopia allows developers to deploy quite advanced applications everywhere. The ease of porting desktop applications to Qtopia, especially with Qt 4.x is really amazing! We can only agree: as at the KDE booth Marijn Kruisselbrink (of KOffice fame) was showing KStars on a NEO1973 phone - and according to him, he only had to recompile it!
After the technical description of Qtopia, Knut went over the actual implementation of Qtopia running on hardware. Knut started showing off the Trolltech Greenphone (A developer tool which has been discontinued) and explained its advantages and disadvantages. Trolltech decided that they are actually not a hardware company and therefore shouldn't be really providing hardware but instead software that runs perfectly on it.
After the Greenphone went through the rooms and the usual "ooh" and "aaah" responses were expressed, Knut started talking about the next generation Open Source mobile appliances. The next phone running Qtopia is going to be the NEO1973, manufactured by a partner vendor with quite a few differences in comparison with the Greenphone. For example, the NEO is being developed very closely with the community. Another nice thing Knut mentioned was that Trolltech is also sponsoring the OpenEmbedded project.
KDE on Windows
Later, Holger Schröder gave a talk about KDE on Windows, starting with its history and progressing to the current status. Holger gave a demo to the crowd and showed off KDE applications running on Windows and interactively asked the public to ask him to show their favorite KDE program of choice. After the demo, he discussed the technical difficulties the team had to face when getting kdelibs ported to the (non-POSIX) Windows platform and explained the distribution system they had to set up for getting all KDE software distributed in a centralized way.
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On Sunday, the KDE Devroom turned into a shared room with GNOME and other projects as it became the "Cross-Desktop" room. Unfortunately, we were unable to cover all talks going on, but we do have a short overview for you. After another warm welcome by Bart Coppens and Christophe Fergeau, Kurt Pfeifle and Simon Peter gave us an overview of the current status of KLIK on KDE and GNOME.
And during these talks, our booth received many interested visitors asking about KDE 4.x and the upcoming stuff, or looking at Amarok. Some were even working on code or hunting bugs - or blogging about the event. And, of course, discussing important issues like beer or things of less importance like code. We saw a few cool new things, like Marijn Kruisselbrink demonstrating Plasma running on Mac OS X and many different checkouts that each looked totally different... And don't forget about the neat Sun-provided thin client running Solaris and KDE. Or the fact we ran out of merchandise again ;-)
And of course, both days ended with lots of beer, fun and good food in Brussels! Until next year...
update kgpg and integrate it with kmail please, so we don't have to use thunderbird and a plugin for gpg. thank you.
But kmail can use GPG without any problems. Am I missing something?
There is one problem: you cannot use the group encryption mechanism. In gpg.conf, you can define groups of keys. Now, when you have a mailing list with the same name, you ought to simply encrypt emails which you send to the mailing list address. Kmail now refuses to encrypt the email as there is no *single* key with the mailing list email address. Kmail does not honor the gpg groups.
KMail does not honor gpg groups, because the Author of GnuPG believes this should be solved on the MUA side. It is a too less known funcationality that you can select several keys in KMail. I am using Kontact and create a contact with my mailinglist as email address and then add all the encryption keys in there. This basically is the "group" feature, but it is implemented in a higher layer just has Werner Koch recommends.
I have helped someone testing the (then new) GPG support in Thunderbird using KMail - it has had excellent KGPG support for years... So unless you are talking about KDE 4 (but KDE PIM hasn't released for 4.0 yet) I wouldn't know what you want.
What a post! Aaron, we need a huge event in canada!
"[...] Due to the developers having less time to work on KOffice, the current state of several applications was disappointing."
How many are developers are exactly working on KOffice?
Right now, about a dozen.
(At most one of which are paid - contrast with OO.o's sprawling and horrific codebase, which has about *50 *full-time* programmers working on it).
A really sad mis-allocation of funds if you ask me: if I was rich, I'd definitely be putting money into KOffice rather than OO.o. It's amazing how far the KOffice team have come on a non-existent budget, and a real testament to how good the devs and underlying technologies are.
Keep up the excellent work, KOffice devs! :)
50? There are about 10 full-time folks in o.org from SUN and who knows how many in Novell (not counting marketing and lawyers ;) ). You can find not that many commiters with 2000+ commits (http://www.ohloh.net/projects/29/contributors). Most of the code still comes from closed source development at StarDivision.
Thanks for the offer and we all are waiting for you when you got rich :)
est. KOffice project cost: $16,478,614 ;)
According to this http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2005/09/opening_the_potential_of_o...
it's 1 RedHat, 80 Sun, and 8 Novell developer. So by now it will probably be more than that.
They most likely count the translation teams and we are not. 100k LOC per dev could mean a lot of code nearly unmaintained too.
I doubt they count the translation teams either when talking about numbers of developers. About 120 developers for OpenOffice sounds about right to me -- it's what I'd expect for a codebase of that size.
"[120] it's what I'd expect for a codebase of that size."
But much of the code has been provided by StarDivision. The question is about actual # of devs, not history. While oo.org 2.0 alpha/beta stage, the team has been complaining about shortage of manpower.
my guess - that includes testing, user experience and whatnot teams as well.
The news about KOffice are a bit sad, though not exactly new : KOffice has always lacked developpers, it seems.
It's probably too late for KOffice 2.0, but maybe there could a good focus on KOffice for the Summer of Code to attract young dev to this office suite?
I really wish it to grow, as the latest Alpha version I've tested was very promising.
By the way, I've read the blog on planetkde about MS binary format and why they're so complicated. I promise I'll never ask again for better MS filters in KOffice. :-)
Would be nice to have a command line tool using OOo filters to immediately convert to ODF without having to load and save in OOo though...
I wonder if one of the problem of KOffice isn't the rewrites, I don't follow its development closely but each time, there's talk about 'ground rewrites'.
If memory serves, KWord has been rewritten from scratch, which explain that it may not be ready soon..
I agree with your point about using OOo as a filter: no need to waste development hour on this point, it may be a bit big in disk space but stripping everything not needed from OOo could reduce this point.
KWord had some problems with text rendering in 1.x which couldn't be solved without rewritting of some parts.
so kword might not make the first offical release. Hmmmm. That's not exactly a smart idea, especially when a word processor is the main reason people have for office software.
Personally I tried KOffice 2, what ever alpha or beta it is up to now, and it really was a waste of my time. It's like comparing an apple (microsoft office) to a peach (open office novell edition) to a sour old dried up lemon (koffice) I really do not think any windows users will be using that software, and the vast majority of linux users wont either, it's so lacking, and well, ugly. The GUI looks dated a decade compared to how office suits look now.
What do you expect from ALPHA quality software? It is lacking feautures and the GUI indeed needs some attention, but they are working on that. And if you've got good ideas... just let them know by bug reports.
Although I agree that a word processor is the key element of an office suite it might be usefull to have the base libraries and base programs (without kword then) out, just to make other developers aware of the infrastructure, IIRC Koffice 2 is using new baselibs and infrastructure, just like KDE 4 is using a new base.
I do like though that kpresenter has gotten a bit of love, the 1.6 version wasn't that great at all.
Just my 0.02€
With "how office suits look now", do you mean these cluttered icon conglomerates and menu trees? If you think this interface is bad, improve it, or at least make suggestions, or shut up.
I really don't get how you got to that impression. Didn't you by any chance try OpenOffice and mistake it for KOffice? I mean, that one looks like MS Office 96, sure. But KOffice looks rather different, and has a few pretty cool things. I just gave the latest SVN a try. It's not ready for use, sure, but some stuff is incredibly cool - esp vector graphics stuff in there. I'm really looking forward to a more stable KOffice.
FIrst i would like to show my appreciation to the KOffice devs for the wonderful work that they are doing, for their time sacrificed and their talents. They are few and therefore have come a long way but it's just not enough compared with openOffice like you pointed out.
I am just wondering if it wouldn't be a smart idea and more productive to join force with the openOffice guys. I mean, openOffice is improving so fast that I think it will be impossible for KOffice to catch up with it's present resources.
I am not a coder so forgive me if I am wrong but wouldn't it be easier to develop a Qt interface for openOffice and have it better integrated in KDE than to programme a whole office suite?
I personally think that there is too much duplication of efforts and wasting of resources in the opensource world.
OO.o's codebase is so huge and wretched that I honestly can't imagine anyone volunteering to work on it on their own time, and there's no guarantee at all that Sun would grant commit-rights to outsiders (OO.o is developed very much in a Cathedral-style). Frankly, I consider working on KOffice a vastly more appealing prospect, *and* in terms of technology it is by far the "best bet" if you want to make rapid progress. The lack of money spent on it is the *only* thing keeping it from absolutely crushing OO.o, in my opinion.
No, it would be much harder to rewrite OpenOffice with Qt. OpenOffice.org codebase is so complex that it will really take away good developing time only to port it to Qt. In contrast, KOffice 2.0 is being rewritten and easier for developers to code (cleaner code base as well).
I believe currently KOffice has a very good technology (flake, pigment, etc) that will create a superior office suite in the future (given enough developers to pursue the dream). For example, using Flake technology you can embed any shape (chart, spreadsheet, vector graphics) in any KOffice application. This technology enables good component reuse and also better interaction among application.
1.) I don't think OOo is improving fast. They have to invest huge efforts to clean up the code and architecture (there a lot of work left for several years). And to be honest, I didn't see a lot of real improvements from 2.1 to 2.3 (and even the upcoming 2.4).
2.) Imagine the few KOffice developers helping the huge OOo team. That wouldn't make a lot of difference for OOo. Especially as the KOffice's developers expertise is in slihgtly differnent topics.
3.) KOffice has a extremely nice basis. Just a little bit more development power, and it would show up as a nicely polished Office package.
4.) It's very nice to have several different office packages. They can serve different purposes and thus have differnet focus/strengthes/GUI (does OOo have something like Krita, KPlato or Kivio?). And having different bases helps to detect defects (like ODF support in the past in OOo an KOffice). Imagine a piece of software that has no competition - progress stalls!
To sum it up: If KOffice would "join" OOo, it would mean very very little gain, but a big loss.
Meh, something went wrong - apparently I send the wrong file to DotMaster Danny. The last paragraphs aren't what they should be ;-)
Aaah well...
There was repeated paragraphs in the file... it was confusing ;)
Definitely some hacking and slashing needed!
I post this with the demobrowser that comes with Qt4.4, and while typing in this textarea is slow, and takes around 30% CPU, I have to say painting is soooo fast now, the browser feels more lightweight than whatever I have seen in 8 years of linux.
Also, the speed of painting is very fast visibly when hovering over the open menu in the browser.
I like it, it looks that Qt is finally faster than everything else in painting :-)
Where can I purchase (in the U.S.) some of the KDE clothing and other gear thats shown in the last picture above?
I'm looking forward to it. Hopefully they'll have T-shirts in black.
Not only would I get a great T-shirt, it would also raise some money for the Amarok team. (hopefully) :)
Is KDE going to feature their clothing more prominently in the future as well?
I would love a KDE on Windows T-shirt. I think it would bring more awareness to the uninitiated. :)
I put some buttons and stickers on cafepress long ago. some of them are using the old kde3 logo, others are using the generic two-colour one.
given the amount of effort it took to tweak the images into looking decent on cafepress, I don't think I'll bother updating it with the kde4 images.
disclaimer: I did put a markup of a few cents on each item (I didn't see any rules disallowing this where I got the logos). I'm planning to use the money to buy more of the mini-buttons - there's almost enough for a pack of ten now :) http://www.cafepress.com/chanika
Are you going to do KDE 4 in the future? (when demand increases?)
Could you make T-Shirts about KDE on Windows?
Like "Switch... or don't... Use KDE anyway :) "
Does anyone know what amount of money would be required? Is there a plan to set up a fund?
As far as I know money isn't a problem. Thomas Zander(?) wrote on the mailing list that he secured a sufficient amount of money to pay a full-time developer for several months (I think it was 2-3). The difficult part is finding someone who is very familiar with the KOffice codebase and willing to work on it in the time span before the 4.1 release (after all, most people probably already have a day job are are otherwise impeded by other commitments).
I loved the last release of KWord and the gang. It'd be a huge shame if the base office apps were not available with 4.1, especially in regards with the offerings of KDE for OS X and Windows.
That's really a shame, then. Oh, how I wish I hadn't taken this new Job two weeks ago! :-)
Where and when did Thomas announce it, anyway?
He didn't say that the money was already there.
"The money is mostly a done deal, now we need to find a qualified person
that can drop everything he is doing for the next 3-4 months. Thats the
hard part :)"
The Amarok mascot is cute :)
It's called Mike :)
Shouldn't the developers develop instead of watching Stargate Atlantis... (just kidding).
Mike's really cute indeed.
Haven't gotten in to Stargate Atlantis yet. (it's on my todo list, first Star Trek Enterprise (the new-old Enterprise :p) )
Not enough time for TV. :(
Hopefully I'll get the reference then. :)
It's a reference to Mike Oldfield (the composer of the namesake album Amarok).
I wonder if we could get some Trance/Techno composers to name songs after Amarok.
That would be really cool.
Does anybody know any composers/DJ's that could do that? Unfortunately I live in the land of country music and alternative rock. I don't have access to any.
the merchandise looks really nice! Is there an online shop where i can buy it? Or is it only available at trade shows?
Great links. Next paycheck gets spent there.. :)
Please feature this more prominently. It's hard to find. Most will agree: It's a great way to promote KDE/Amarok.


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Colon's boys' basketball team lost on a buzzer beater 60-59 on Thursday night to Hillsdale Academy.
The Magi were led in scoring by Arron Balizet's 19 points. Brother Ryan Balizet tossed in 11 points for the Magi.
Colon led 11-8 after one quarter of action, but Hillsdale Academy out-scored them 17-13 in the second quarter. The Colts led 25-24 at halftime.
In the third Hillsdale Academy edged Colon as well, 17-16, to hold a 2-point advantage heading into the final eight minutes.
Tyler Schipper added nine points for Colon while Anthony Saxman had eight points.
Brad Brittingham had five points, Chase Morris added four points and Ryan Johnson had three points.
Hillsdale Academy was led in scoring by Charles Blood's 23 points while Adam Krutsch poured in 22.
Lakewood Park 74, Lakeland 46
Lakeland's girl's basketball team dropped a 74-46 decision to Lakewood Park on Thursday.
Lakewood led 19-12 after a quarter of action and built a 41-19 advantage at halftime.
During the second half, Lakewood out-scored Lakeland 33-27 to pick up the win.
The Lady Lakers were led in scoring by Abi Thompson's 13 points.
She added 10 rebounds and two steals.
Becca Levits had 11 points, seven rebounds and five assists while Sammy Thompson tossed in 10 pints and pulled down seven rebounds.
Carlee Richardson had four points, six rebounds and five assists while Ashtin Kaminer had four points, five rebounds and three steals.
Mendon 40, Bronson 31 (JV)
Mendon's junior varsity girls' basketball team topped Bronson 40-31 on Thursday night.
Alexa Ratkowski led the Lady Vikes with 11 points while Kirin Cekander tossed in six points, adding nine rebounds.
Adriana Sanchez had four points and four boards while Maritza Hernandez and Kelsey Robinson each added four points as well.
Makayla Sikorski pulled down 14 rebounds and had two points.
Mendon was led in scoring by Jenna Gales with 11 and Rachel Frisbie with 10.
Jackie Friel tossed in eight points, Brandy DeLeeuw added six, Madison Haynes had four points and Emma Eberstein made a free throw.


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Jacobi forms are holomorphic functions in two complex variables. They are modular in one variable and abelian (or double periodic) in another variable. The theory of Jacobi modular forms became an independent research subject after the famous book of Martin Eichler and Don Zagier "Jacobi modular forms" (Progress in Mathematics, vol. 55, 1985) which was cited more than a thousand times in research papers. This is due to many applications of Jacobi forms in arithmetic, topology, algebraic and differential geometry, mathematical and theoretical physics, in the theory of Lie algebras, etc. The list of mentioned subjects shows that my course might be useful for master and Ph.D. students working in different directions. Motivated undergraduate students can also study this subject. To follow the course one has to know only elementary basic facts from the theory of modular forms (for example, the paragraphs 1-4 of the chapter VII of Serre's "A Course in Arithmetic" are enough). The main hero of the course is the Jacobi theta-series. Using it we will construct a lot of concrete examples of Jacobi forms in one or many abelian variables, in particular, Jacobi forms for root systems. For some of you, who will be successful with the theoretical exercises of the course, I am ready to formulate research problems for Master or Ph.D. thesis. (Ph.D. support might be available at CEMPI in Lille or at the Faculty of Mathematics of National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow).


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TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — A powerful car bomb exploded Wednesday near Libya's Foreign Ministry building in the heart of the eastern coastal city of Benghazi, security officials said, exactly one year after an attack there killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans.
The early morning blast targeted a building that once housed the U.S. Consulate under the rule of King Idris, who former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi overthrew in a 1969 bloodless coup. The explosion caused no serious causalities, though several passers-by were slightly wounded, officials said.
The bomb blew out a side wall of the building, leaving desks, filing cabinets and computers strewn among the concrete rubble. It also damaged the Benghazi branch of the Libyan Central Bank along a major thoroughfare in the city.
People gather to look at the site of a car bombing in Benghazi, Libya, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013. A powerful car bomb exploded Wednesday near Libya s Foreign Ministry building in the heart of the eastern coastal city of Benghazi, security officials said, one year to the date after an attack there killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans. The early morning blast targeted a building that once housed U.S. Consulate under the rule of King Idris, who former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi overthrew in a 1969 bloodless coup. (AP)
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. The security officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to journalists.
Gadhafi was killed after eight-month uprising that descended into a civil war in 2011. Since then, successive Libyan interim governments have failed to impose law and order. The country remains held hostage by unruly militia forces initially formed to fight Gadhafi. The militias, which have huge stockpiles of sophisticated weaponry, now threaten Libya's nascent democracy.
Car bombs and drive-by shootings since the end the civil war routinely kill security officials in Benghazi, the birthplace of the uprising.
Tawfiq Breik, a lawmaker with the liberal-leaning National Forces Alliance, said that the attacks will continue as long as Libya lacks a strong national army and police.
"Even with so many officials assassinated, no one held accountable," Breik said. "No one arrested. The state is disabled."
The car bombing comes exactly one year after al-Qaida-linked militants stormed the U.S. mission in Benghazi and a nearby U.S. building, killing U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. Both Wednesday's bombing and last year's attack on the American consulate took place on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The attack sparked a wave of criticism toward President Barack Obama and his administration for its handling of the attack and its aftermath. The administration closed 19 diplomatic posts across the Muslim world for almost a week last month out of caution over a possible al-Qaida strike — likely in response to the Benghazi criticism.
On Aug. 9, Obama told reporters that the U.S. was still committed to capturing those who carried out the deadly consulate assault. Obama said his government has a sealed indictment naming some suspected of involvement. Officials said earlier that the Justice Department had filed under seal the first criminal charges as part of its investigation of the attack.
The Associated Press reported in May that American officials had identified five men who might be responsible for the attack. The suspects were not named publicly, but the FBI released photos of three of the five suspects, asking the public to provide more information about the men.
Some in the photographs are thought to be members of Ansar al-Shariah, the Libyan militia group whose fighters were seen near the consulate prior to the violence. Other witnesses reported seeing the leader of an Islamist militia group called Abu Obaida Bin Jarrah, whom U.S. officials told the AP is among the suspects in the sealed indictment. The leader has repeatedly denied being involved and says he abandoned the militia and now works in construction.


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American Idol: Are You Team Nicki or Team Mariah?
The fight heard 'round the world was showcased on Wednesday's episode of American Idol, which flashed back to the auditions in Charlotte, N.C., where the snide banter between judges Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey first escalated into their now-infamous public feud.
After a long day of (sometimes painful) auditions, the tension boiled over at the end of contestant Summer Cunningham's performance, when Carey, Keith Urban and Randy Jackson were trying to debate whether or not Cunningham's voice lent itself to country music or not. The trio of judges debated back and forth as Summer looked on, horrified (and Minaj looked on, bored). Though Cunningham was eventually sent on to Hollywood, the awkwardness stayed right at the table, with an exasperated Minaj shouting that it didn't matter whether she fell into a country category or not, and criticizing Carey and Jackson for trying to pigeonhole her.
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"I'm trying to help her instead of just looking at her outfit," Carey shot back at the fashion-conscious Minaj. Then Jackson chimed in, pointing out that he was also trying to help, and has 30 years of industry experience to back it up.
"Oh, I can't help her," a frustrated Minaj retorted, getting up and stomping away from the table. "Maybe I should just get off the f---ing panel."
And thus ... a rivalry was born. The exchange ended production on the first day of auditions in the city and caused a significant delay on Day 2, according to the episode - with even some of the hopefuls asking the judges to please stop fighting.
But, as anyone who's been following Idol's offseason knows, the sparks are only going to get bigger. What do you think? Are you Team Nicki or Team Mariah?
American Idol returns Thursday at 8/7c on Fox.
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'My love will never die': Mom writes to kids while stuck in snow
Drivers in NY tell of hours stranded on snowy roads
Stranded for hours on a snow-covered road, Priscilla Arena prayed, took out a sheet of loose-leaf paper and wrote what she thought might be her last words to her husband and children.
She told her 9 1/2-year-old daughter, Sophia, she was "picture-perfect beautiful." And she advised her 5 ½-year-old son, John: "Remember all the things that mommy taught you. Never say you hate someone you love. Take pride in the things you do, especially your family. ... Don't get angry at the small things; it's a waste of precious time and energy. Realize that all people are different, but most people are good. "
"My love will never die - remember, always," she added.
Arena, who was rescued in an Army canvas truck after about 12 hours, was one of hundreds of drivers who spent a fearful, chilly night stuck on highways in a blizzard that plastered New York's Long Island with more than 30 inches of snow, its ferocity taking many by surprise despite warnings to stay off the roads.
Even plows were mired in the snow or blocked by stuck cars, so emergency workers had to resort to snowmobiles to try to reach motorists. Four-wheel-drive vehicles, tractor-trailers and a couple of ambulances could be seen stranded along the roadway and ramps of the Long Island Expressway. Stuck drivers peeked out from time to time, running their cars intermittently to warm up as they waited for help.
With many still stranded hours after the snow stopped, Gov. Andrew Cuomo urged other communities to send plows to help dig out in eastern Long Island, which took the state's hardest hit by far in the massive Northeast storm.
In Connecticut, where the storm dumped more than 3 feet of snow in some places, the National Guard rescued about 90 stranded motorists, taking a few to hospitals with hypothermia.
The scenes came almost exactly two years after a blizzard marooned at least 1,500 cars and buses on Chicago's iconic Lake Shore Drive, leaving hundreds of people shivering in their vehicles for as long as 12 hours and questioning why the city didn't close the crucial thoroughfare earlier.
Cuomo and other officials were similarly asked why they didn't act to shut down major highways in Long Island in advance of the storm, especially given the sprawling area's reputation for gridlock. The expressway is often called "the world's longest parking lot."
"The snow just swallowed them up. It came down so hard and so fast," explained Suffolk County Executive Steven Bellone.
"That's not an easy call," added Cuomo, who noted that people wanted to get home and that officials had warned them to take precautions because the worst of the snow could start by the evening rush hour. Flashing highway signs underscored the message ahead of time: "Heavy Snow Expected. Avoid PM Travel!"
"People need to act responsibly in these situations," Cuomo said.
But many workers didn't have the option of taking off early Friday, Arena noted. The 41-year-old sales account manager headed home from an optical supply business in Ronkonkoma around 4 p.m. She soon found her SUV stuck along a road in nearby Farmingville.
"Even though we would dig ourselves out and push forward, the snow kept piling, and therefore we all got stuck, all of us," she recalled later at Brookhaven Town Hall, where several dozen stranded motorists were taken after being rescued. Many others opted to stay with their cars.
Richard Ebbrecht left his Brooklyn chiropractic office around 3 p.m. for his home in Middle Island, about 60 miles away, calculating that he could make the drive home before the worst of the blizzard set in. He was wrong.
As the snow came rushing down faster than he'd foreseen, he got stuck six or seven times on the expressway and on other roads. Drivers began helping each other shovel and push, he said, but to no avail. He finally gave up and spent the night in his car on a local thoroughfare, only about two miles from his home.
"I could run my car and keep the heat on and listen to the radio a little bit," he said.
He walked home around at 8 a.m., leaving his car.
Late-shifters including Wayne Jingo had little choice but to risk it if they wanted to get home. By early afternoon, he'd been stuck in his pickup truck alongside the Long Island Expressway for nearly 12 hours.
He'd left his job around midnight as a postal worker at Kennedy Airport and headed home to Medford, about 50 miles east. He was at an exit in Ronkonkoma - almost home - around 1:45 a.m. when another driver came barreling at him westbound, the wrong way, he said. Jingo swerved to avoid the oncoming car, missed the exit and ended up stuck on the highway's grass shoulder.
He rocked the truck back and forth to try to free it, but it only sank down deeper into the snow and shredded one of his tires. He called 911. A police officer came by at 9:30 a.m. and said he would send a tow truck.
At 1 p.m. Saturday, Jingo was still waiting.
"I would have been fine if I didn't have to swerve," he said.
In Middle Island, a Wal-Mart remained unofficially open long past midnight to accommodate more than two dozen motorists who were stranded on nearby roads.
"We're here to mind the store, but we can't let people freeze out there," manager Jerry Greek told Newsday.
Officials weren't aware of any deaths among the stranded drivers, Cuomo said. Suffolk County police said no serious injuries had been reported among stuck motorists, but officers were still systematically checking stranded vehicles late Saturday afternoon.
Susan Cassara left her job at a Middle Island day care center around 6:30 p.m., after driving some of the children home because their parents couldn't get there to pick them up.
She got stuck on one road until about 2:30 a.m. Then a plow helped her get out - but she got stuck again, she said. Finally, an Army National Guardsman got to her on a snowmobile after 4 a.m.
"It was so cool. Strapped on, held on and came all the way here" to the makeshift shelter at the Brookhaven Town Hall, she said. "Something for my bucket list."


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Editorial: Monsters and the Middle East
It's an old story, but all hell is breaking loose in the Middle East. Nowhere is that more so than in Syria, where U.S. intelligence suggests that an increasingly desperate Bashal al-Assad is preparing to turn chemical weapons on his own people, whom he's already butchered by the tens of thousands in an ongoing civil war invited by his repressive government's own brutality.
Specifically the Syrian military is said to be mixing the components necessary for sarin, a deadly nerve gas. The terrorist group Hezbollah, financed largely by Iran and allied with the Syrian government, is said to have set up training camps near chemical weapons depots. There have been reports of the Syrian military firing on civilians fleeing to Jordan. That is apparently in response to rebel progress on the Syrian capital of Damascus, where they're trying to take the airport.
As a result American leaders are speaking aloud about more overt intervention in Syria, with President Barack Obama saying the threat of chemical warfare might compel him to "change my calculus" toward the conflict, with some members of Congress also beginning to suggest the U.S. rattle some cages there and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton noting that the "future ... cannot possibly include Assad." The European Union already has formally backed the rebel effort. Even Russia, whose willful look the other way at the war crimes occurring there have arguably enabled them, is starting to change its tune toward Assad.
Reportedly several nations have offered Assad asylum. If he's not utterly mad, he should take them up on it, while he still can. This is not going to end well for him.
The Obama White House sometimes gets grief for leading on these matters from behind, at least publicly, but Americans arguably should be more alarmed by an administration eager to commit more U.S. troops to a faraway conflict after more than a decade of war. The Pentagon has informed the president that it could take upwards of 75,000 soldiers to seize Syria's chemical weapons stockpile. Beyond that, a big part of the risk is not exactly knowing whom we may be crawling into bed with by supporting these rebels. See Libya. See Egypt.
Indeed, Egyptians and many in the U.S. government were not sorry to see Hosni Mubarak go, but look at who's replaced him. Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi is reportedly preparing to inflict martial law on his nation of 82 million people.
Meanwhile, Khaled Meshal, Hamas' leader in Gaza, used the 25th anniversary of his organization's founding on Saturday to say Palestinians should not rest until Israel no longer exists, "no compromise on any inch of land." And Iran continues to pursue nuclear weapons, which if successful will almost certainly spark an arms race in the Middle East, with no shortage of tyrants intent on exporting those to terrorists.
These are turbulent times, and these are not easy calls.
Journal Star of Peoria, Ill.