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The player walk-off led by AC Milan's Ghana midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng last week to protest racist abuse during a friendly match against a lower-tier Italian club could mark the beginning of a player revolt against the ineffective anti-racism efforts by soccer's international administrators. Until now, players have been required, under threat of cards and suspensions, to take no action in response to racist abuse from the crowd, but instead to leave it the issue to the referee and match officials. But the efforts by FIFA and its affiliates — wrist-slap fines imposed on teams and national federations whose fans have transgressed being the strongest sanction used thus far — haven't stopped the abuse. Boateng's action was a defiant rebuke, not only to the racists in the crowd, but to the officialdom that has failed to effectively tackle the problem. If walking off becomes a trend, which it threatens to do, it will present a profound crisis for the game's administrators.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter expressed ambivalence in his first public response to the Boateng incident: In comments reported Sunday, he told Abu Dhabi's National newspaper that he supported Boateng and that FIFA would maintain a zero-tolerance policy on racism, but added that "I don't think [walking off] is the solution." He continued: "I don't think you can run away, because eventually you can run away if you lose a match. This issue is a very touchy subject, but I repeat there is zero tolerance of racism in the stadium; we have to go against that." The only solution, Blatter, said, was "to be very harsh with the sanctions – and the sanctions must be a deduction of points or something similar." Meaningful sanctions would mark a shift, rather than continuity of the currently policy, however. Until now, teams have faced only small-change financial penalties when their fans have racially abused players.
As things stand, Boateng would face punishment if he left the field in a competitive game, but the player has warned that he intends to repeat his action if encountering similar abuse. "I don't care what game it is, a friendly, Italian league or Champions League match, I would walk off again," he told CNN on Friday.
And the huge outpouring of support from fellow players — and even from AC Milan's owner, a certain Mr. Silvio Berlusconi — underscores the view that Boateng's action was a moment of rupture: "I was angry and I was sad, but it all came together and I said I don't want to play anymore," he told CNN. "It's not the first time in my life that I've heard these things, but I'm 25 now and I've had enough this bullshit."
They had initially tried to restrain him from leaving the field, but when he walked, Boateng's teammates followed, and even many in the crowd applauded. If it had been a competitive fixture, UEFA would be in a quandary: The European body actually suspended two black players from England for gesturing angrily at the crowd after suffering a whole game of racial abuse, and then being assaulted by Serb players and officials. Some of the Serb players and coaching staff involved were given longer suspensions, but their federation's only punishment was a $105,000 fine. More activist football personalities such as former France captain Lillian Thuram suggested at the time that Serbia should be warned that any racial hostility from their fans in any future game would result in ejection from international competition.
Given the storm of protest over the Serbia-England verdict, both FIFA President Sepp Blatter and UEFA President Michel Platini urged UEFA's disciplinary committee to revisit their findings.
FIFA and UEFA have long sought to protect their multibillion dollar franchise from association with racism, which might unsettle some of their global consumer-brand sponsors. But despite repeatedly denouncing racism, they haven't managed to stop it from being a problem in stadiums, and have effectively tied the hands of players in responding. Blatter had been at the center of an earlier firestorm after appearing, in a CNN interview, to diminish the impact of racism in the game.
Now, Boateng has potentially created a turning point.
"He's raised the bar by taking this action and being so widely praised for it, because other footballers in the same situation will now have to respond to his lead," says Duke University historian Laurent Dubois, who has written extensively on soccer and blogs at Soccer Politics . "It's a pivotal moment because Boateng has introduced a new option, which creates a moral quandary for his fellow players. Many black players believe that only when football clubs and federations are made to pay a price for racism in the stadium will they act decisively to resolve it. The next step will be doing it in a place where it really hurts a team or a tournament — in a competitive match. That would create an institutional crisis for FIFA."
(VIDEO: Mario Balotelli On Soccer Racism)
Some football pundits — and even Boateng's former teammate and fellow black player Clarence Seedorf — repeated the argument that stopping the game simply rewards the racists. But the Ghanaian's action drew a huge outpouring of support from some of the game's most celebrated players. "It was brave of Kevin-Prince Boateng to do what he did today, and it was the right thing," tweeted former French World Cup winner and Arsenal legend Patrick Vieira. "We need to stand up and stand together. Well done."
There were also salutes from, among others, Manchester City and Belgium captain Vincent Kompany and Manchester United and England defender Rio Ferdinand. Former AC Milan and Dutch legend Ruud Gullit tweeted: "Great action of #princeboateng and again the referee didn't do anything. Very proud of #milan who support boateng…" Nor was the support confined to black players.
Boateng and the players who're supporting him have put the onus on fans and officials to stamp out racism, just as they have stamped out other forms of hooliganism at European stadiums two decades ago. That's a course of action Thuram has been urging. Interviewed last year over racist comments attributed to French football officials, Thuram said:
"Imagine if all those players on the French national team today declared that, until something is done about this case, they'll refuse to wear the jersey. You'd see things get worked out very quickly. Rosa Parks left a mark on history because one day she, and African-Americans, said: 'We can't sit in any seat we'd like? Well, then we won't get on the bus.' If players did the same thing, the French Federation would take the problem of racism in football much more seriously… That's why I think they need to stand up and say, 'If that's the way it is, then you can go on without us.' And you'll see, there will be a response. Because at that point you'll be hurting the money men behind sports, and they won't accept it."
Boateng has acted on Thuram's call to rebellion — and his stance has been greatly amplified and reinforced by social media. "Thanks to social media, the whole football world has seen the video of Boateng's action, and that has allowed an event in an irrelevant game at a marginal club to potentially start an international firestorm," says Sean Jacobs, a professor in International Affairs at the New School for Social Research and editor of the Africasacountry blog. "Then, Twitter became the vehicle for dozens of other top players to come out and back Boateng's action, creating a groundswell of support for a challenge to the status quo of football's handling of crowd racism."
Sepp Blatter should be worried. FIFA is viewed by many players as feckless in dealing with racism in the game. Just five years from now, the Federation will stage its multibillion-dollar quadrennial centerpiece World Cup tournament in Russia, which remains a hotbed of racist and fascist mobilization in football stadiums. Three weeks ago, Russia's top club, Zenit St. Petersburg hit the headlines when their largest fan organization demanded that only white footballers play on the team, and racial abuse of black players is commonplace in the country's professional league. Zenit will be in the spotlight on Valentine's Day when English club Liverpool visit for a Europa League match, with the Reds expected to start three or four black players. If footballers elect to draw a line in the sand by warning that crowd racism will bring an end to games, FIFA could be put in an untenable position. Or, at least, it will be unless the game's administrators find the courage to start imposing some real pain on clubs and federations that fail to stamp it out before then.
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5That year, two elders of the people were appointed judges, of whom the Lord said, "Lawlessness has come out of Babylon, that is, from the elders who were to govern the people as judges." 6These men, to whom all brought their cases, frequented the house of Joakim. 7When the people left at noon, Susanna used to enter her husband's garden for a walk. 8When the elders saw her enter every day for her walk, they began to lust for her. 9They perverted their thinking; they would not allow their eyes to look to heaven, and did not keep in mind just judgments. 10Though both were enamored of her, they did not tell each other their trouble, 11for they were ashamed to reveal their lustful desire to have her. 12Day by day they watched eagerly for her. 13One day they said to each other, "Let us be off for home, it is time for the noon meal." So they went their separate ways. 14But both turned back and arrived at the same spot. When they asked each other the reason, they admitted their lust, and then they agreed to look for an occasion when they could find her alone.
15One day, while they were waiting for the right moment, she entered as usual, with two maids only, wanting to bathe in the garden, for the weather was warm. 16Nobody else was there except the two elders, who had hidden themselves and were watching her. 17"Bring me oil and soap," she said to the maids, "and shut the garden gates while I bathe." 18They did as she said; they shut the garden gates and left by the side gate to fetch what she had ordered, unaware that the elders were hidden inside.
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22"I am completely trapped," Susanna groaned. "If I yield, it will be my death; if I refuse, I cannot escape your power. 23Yet it is better for me not to do it and to fall into your power than to sin before the Lord." 24Then Susanna screamed, and the two old men also shouted at her, 25as one of them ran to open the garden gates. 26When the people in the house heard the cries from the garden, they rushed in by the side gate to see what had happened to her. 27At the accusations of the old men, the servants felt very much ashamed, for never had any such thing been said about Susanna.
28When the people came to her husband Joakim the next day, the two wicked old men also came, full of lawless intent to put Susanna to death. 29Before the people they ordered: "Send for Susanna, the daughter of Hilkiah, the wife of Joakim." When she was sent for, 30she came with her parents, children and all her relatives. 31Susanna, very delicate and beautiful, 32was veiled; but those transgressors of the law ordered that she be exposed so as to sate themselves with her beauty. 33All her companions and the onlookers were weeping.
34In the midst of the people the two old men rose up and laid their hands on her head. 35As she wept she looked up to heaven, for she trusted in the Lord wholeheartedly. 36The old men said, "As we were walking in the garden alone, this woman entered with two servant girls, shut the garden gates and sent the servant girls away. 37A young man, who was hidden there, came and lay with her. 38When we, in a corner of the garden, saw this lawlessness, we ran toward them. 39We saw them lying together, but the man we could not hold, because he was stronger than we; he opened the gates and ran off. 40Then we seized this one and asked who the young man was, 41but she refused to tell us. We testify to this." The assembly believed them, since they were elders and judges of the people, and they condemned her to death.
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44The Lord heard her prayer. 45As she was being led to execution, God stirred up the holy spirit of a young boy named Daniel, 46and he cried aloud: "I am innocent of this woman's blood." 47All the people turned and asked him, "What are you saying?" 48He stood in their midst and said, "Are you such fools, you Israelites, to condemn a daughter of Israel without investigation and without clear evidence? 49Return to court, for they have testified falsely against her."
50Then all the people returned in haste. To Daniel the elders said, "Come, sit with us and inform us, since God has given you the prestige of old age." 51But he replied, "Separate these two far from one another, and I will examine them."
52After they were separated from each other, he called one of them and said: "How you have grown evil with age! Now have your past sins come to term: 53passing unjust sentences, condemning the innocent, and freeing the guilty,a although the Lord says, 'The innocent and the just you shall not put to death.' 54Now, then, if you were a witness, tell me under what tree you saw them together." 55"Under a mastic tree,"* he answered. "Your fine lie has cost you your head," said Daniel; "for the angel of God has already received the sentence from God and shall split you in two." 56Putting him to one side, he ordered the other one to be brought. "Offspring of Canaan, not of Judah," Daniel said to him, "beauty has seduced you, lust has perverted your heart. 57This is how you acted with the daughters of Israel, and in their fear they yielded to you; but a daughter of Judah did not tolerate your lawlessness. 58Now, then, tell me under what tree you surprised them together." 59"Under an oak," he said. "Your fine lie has cost you also your head," said Daniel; "for the angel of God waits with a sword to cut you in two so as to destroy you both."
60The whole assembly cried aloud, blessing God who saves those who hope in him. 61They rose up against the two old men, for by their own words Daniel had convicted them of bearing false witness.b They condemned them to the fate they had planned for their neighbor: 62in accordance with the law of Moses they put them to death. Thus was innocent blood spared that day.
63Hilkiah and his wife praised God for their daughter Susanna, with Joakim her husband and all her relatives, because she was found innocent of any shameful deed. 64And from that day onward Daniel was greatly esteemed by the people.
* [13:1–14:42] The short stories in these two chapters exist now only in Greek and other translations, but probably were first composed in Hebrew or Aramaic. They were never part of the Hebrew-Aramaic Book of Daniel, or of the Hebrew Bible. They are excluded from the Protestant canon of Scripture, but the Catholic Church has always included them among the inspired writings; they existed in the Septuagint, which was used as its Bible by the early church.
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The KDE Release Team has decided to release KDE 4.0 this coming January. The release was originally planned for mid-December. The KDE developers want to solve a couple of essential issues before releasing. Having solved some of those issues, among which were glitches in the visual appearance, and in Konqueror, the KDE community hopes to have a KDE 4.0 that will live up to the high expectations for it. Read on for more details.
Meanwhile, the progress towards KDE 4.0 is astonishing. Most parts, such as the KDE Development Platform and a lot of applications are considered stable and well-usable.
Some parts of the desktop experience do not yet meet the KDE community's quality standards and expectations for a stable release. There are also some issues which need to be addressed upstream, for example a bug in certain codecs of xine that cut off audio fragments prematurely. The developers are confident to be able to release a more polished and better working KDE 4.0 desktop in January. The changed plans involve releasing on January 11th, 2008.
At the same time, the release team's call for participation is repeated. To make KDE 4.0 a success, your effort is needed. An overview of current showstoppers can be found on Techbase, KDE's knowledge platform.
This is also a call to the wider Free Software community, and also to companies working with KDE. If you have the resources to contribute, assistance in fixing the remaining bugs is most welcome.
Comparing KDE4 to Vista ?
Its not even finished yet !! You know the team are doing the best they can to make the best software they can. You know they do it with passion. You know its not going to be like Vista and yet you spout this kind of crap. Its a complete waste of space. Seriously, you find KDE4 isn't ready for general release yet, that it has some issues and suddenly "oh gee its like Vista !!". I deal with enough idiots at work so its disappointing to find them on dot.kde.org as well... Try saying something constructive or go elsewhere you dumbass nubs.
I wasn't talking about the real state KDE 4.0, I was talking about the public perception of it's quality, and made that quite clear 24 hours before you wrote this impolite reply. my original comment was not clear, but you should have read my clarification.
I'm quite certain that when KDE 4.0 comes out it will be top notch quality within the features it offers, although from what I've heard there will be regressions in that regard as well as new features that were planned but whose implementation has been delayed to the 4.1 release.
My first major problem with Vista occurred on Friday. my computer became almost completely non-responsive for approximately 15 minutes. before that I was quite pleased with the implementation of Vista, although I think it's design is far from perfect. I experienced no performance problems what so ever, except for randomly and mysteriously not being able to use my computer for about 15 minutes.
The only mistake that was made is to try and "sell" this as an "RC1" version. (Remember, release dudes: "RC" is means "Release Candidate". And a Release Candidate of a software is meant to say to its prospective users: "We, the developers aren't aware of any major bugs any more [apart from the one or two we've documented in the release notes, and which we will fix before the '$Final']. Now you, dear users, tell us what we overlooked so far. If you don't, we'll release as-is [plus, the bug-fixes we promised in the release notes]. And, users! Be damned if you miss to tell us the remaining bugs in time...". Why, oh why does this primitive release naming rule need to be hammered home to the KDE release dudes??)
Other than that, David: this isn't 'crap'. It's just a technology preview. Something that soon may be called an alpha or even a beta. And after some more time, even a "Release Candidate". It's not crap, it's the best what can be expected. And the result of hard work of many developers. And something that is the basis to grow a magnificent KDE4 platform from, no doubt about that!
> The only mistake that was made is to try and "sell" this as an "RC1" version.
What do you think how many time is left for "real" release candidates!? ;-) Even the postponed release date in january doesn't match my idea of a decent (pre-)release cycle, given the current state. I think the dot zero release will actually be the release candidate.
Yes, it is the "RC1" part that causes me the frustration. I would have been much more lenient if it has been a tech preview or even a beta. But this is supposed to be a *release* candidate, which means the core developers think it's ready.
I went and rebuilt last night on ArchLinux (so as to avoid any kubuntu weirdness), and while some of the minor issues had been fixed, it larger usability issues are still there. In addition, core components were crashing every couple of minutes.
> And something that is the basis to grow a magnificent KDE4 platform from, no doubt about that!
Well, up to know, from what I've seen I'd like to complain about things here and there and remain sceptic, especially about the default interface. But saving my energy for actually contributing to 4.1, I have to totally agree with this statement. KDE4 is about to be the best desktop ever done, whatever its current state. Let's go and do this.
1) - 3) are already solved, 5) is work-in-progress, the other two are useless rants (useless as in too vague to do something about it, or just not above 'eh sucks' level of quality). Also, calling it crap and the apologizing for being negative, and then calling it crap again doesn't score you any credibility points.
So you switch to blackbox, and we get _productive_ people to use bugs.kde.org instead of ranting on the Dot. Makes both of us happy. And as a 'side-effect', those that *really* care will be more considerate towards those that put lots of work and energy into KDE.
Really, if those people that are so negative would:
- think twice about how they say things (Hint: Imagine someone comes with the exact same wording ranting about your work, what would you think?)
- Channel their stop energy into assisting developers to fix problems
- Get their hands dirty and just start fixing things
- or at least try to explain the problem in detail, along with (a proper bugreport) so there's a straightforward way to fix it
So yeah, you can all complain because you fear that your pet peeve is not addressed, that something doesn't match your taste or that things are simply a bit different, but at the end of the day, it counts how you communicate that.
Ranting drives people away, it kills motivation to fix bugs. Constructive feedback, using the right channels (BKO for example!) and being actually interested in fixing stuff and not just venting some rants is what makes the release stable and users happy.
So stop pissing off people, start doing something for "a desktop you love".
I personally think what drives people away is the attitude that all comments must be positives, slap on a fake smile, and pretend comments, and that anything that isn't positive is point down. There was nothing wrong with the original posters comment except people like you go and have a little tantrum if the post isn't kissing your butt.
You can have real posts or you can fake the world and only have positive posts.
As for reporting bugs, I would place money that the vast majority of KDE users now, who are not geeks or nerds, but have come over from windows, know nothing of the bugs reporting method as all they are used to is windows. It's prolly something that dot could have an article on and explain to people. Instead of people like you getting all anal when some one makes a post like above.
Positive and constructive are two very different things.
Actually any criticism on the dot has been uniformly blasted for months that I've seen.
See, I don't mind people pointing out problems, I *do* mind how we communicate with each other. That's why I'm pointing out the problems of the tone of the original post. And it's not just me, it's about being nice in general. An important point of our community is 'being nice to each other', 'being productive and getting things done' is another attitude you encounter very often within the KDE community.
On the other hand, I think calling our work 'crap' repeatedly is something that just does not cut it when it comes to 'being nice'. So you enter the KDE community via the Dot, then you see people insulting other people's work, this does not reflect what KDE is. It's fine if you as a poster don't care about the wording, but it's important to respect other's feelings and how you represent (as a poster on the Dot) the KDE community.
You started this by communicating a release that wasn't an RC as an RC. Do you know what RC is? Send the right message in the first place and maybe you'll get better response... basic marketing, ya?
Except that if it hadn't been labeled RC, the amount of testers would have been much less. Note, I don't know if that was the rationale for choosing it, but I think it's the most logical (and understandable) ne.
P.s.: Care to vaoid such messages? I don't think anything productive will be gained by this attitude.
> Except that if it hadn't been labeled RC, the amount of testers would have been much less.
Lying about the stability of the code to trick people into testing it for you is hardly good communication.
There are lots of people willing to test something that is almost finished to sweep up the remaining minor bugs. Presenting them with something that is half-finished only alienates them and makes it far less likely that they'll be willing to test release candidates in future.
The release has been delayed now, ie, you got what you wanted. Can't you just leave the developers to their work? What more do you want?
Huh? Luca made a silly excuse and I disagreed with it. Am I not allowed to talk? How am I stopping the developers from working?
People are beating the same dead horse over and over again here about stuff which is now past history. If you keep doing this you are just sapping people's motivation to work on the project.
I am singling you out, by the way, because you continue to try to cast a bad light on this RC naming issue. There was no conspiracy to deceive and nobody lied. Not to mention that naming it an RC did achieve an actual result - it became clear that it wasn't ready for release and therefore the release date was moved.
Do we really need to discuss this any further?
> People are beating the same dead horse over and over again here about stuff which is now past history.
Imagine that; a story about the release being postponed, and people are discussing why it happened. How outrageous!
> I am singling you out, by the way, because you continue to try to cast a bad light on this RC naming issue.
Sure I do. I think the release schedule for KDE 4.0 has been abysmal, it has burned a lot of bridges, disappointed a lot of people and resulted in nothing but pain. The KDE project has used up a lot of good will and it will be difficult to regain that trust.
And if I see people making excuses for it, damn straight I'll reply to disagree. If you don't like that, don't make excuses for it. You can't express your opinion and deny me the right to mine.
Hopefully lessons will have been learnt from this and future releases will not become the debacle this one has.
> There was no conspiracy to deceive and nobody lied.
Luca said that it was the most logical and understandable rationale for what happened. I replied saying why I thought that was bad. If it's your opinion that this didn't happen, then simply disregard my comment, I was talking to somebody who does think that trying to maximise testers in this way is a good approach, so my point stands regardless of whether or not it actually happened.
> Not to mention that naming it an RC did achieve an actual result - it became clear that it wasn't ready for release and therefore the release date was moved.
If you think this wasn't clear already, you are kidding yourself. At no point have the developers considered Plasma-based components feature complete, it's *still* listed as "work to do". The developers already knew that RC1 wasn't a release candidate.
> Do we really need to discuss this any further?
Apparently so, because you are still playing apologist. If you don't want to discuss it any further, stop making poor excuses that don't hold up to the slightest scrutiny. But don't expect to say what you like without any kind of rebuttal.
OK, Jim, let me put this to you another way: either you are trying to help, or you are just trolling. If you are trying to be helpful, then let me tell you directly: you are not helping. Right now you are not saying anything that nobody else hasn't already said _including yourself on multiple occasions_. So please, just stop.
> ither you are trying to help, or you are just trolling.
Or I'm thinking about what people say and responding with my opinion.
> Right now you are not saying anything that nobody else hasn't already said _including yourself on multiple occasions_.
So? I am limited to saying something once now? Just because I've said it before, it doesn't mean that Luca or anybody else reading this thread has read it. What you and Luca have said is also unoriginal, but that didn't stop you or Luca, did it? If Luca repeats something people have already said that I disagreed with, I'll repeat what I said when I originally disagreed with it.
Stop trying to shut me up by calling me names and guilt-tripping me. It won't work. What you seem to want is a place where people can defend this atrocious situation ad nauseum, but anybody who disagrees should just be quiet. That's not going to happen.
++ from me.
We're seeing some weird behaviour on the Dot of late: first of all, there was the Rise of the Whinging Critic, where there was a sudden surge of people throwing tantrums and making threats to stop using KDE(!) unless they got their way: rightly, people discouraged this kind of behaviour, as it is wholly unconstructive and just pointless.
But now pendulum has swung too far, and some people seem to find that any dissent at all - no matter how civilly expressed, or well-argued - also needs to be squashed and the devs "shielded" from it, and so we get the bizarre apologism of Paul et al.
Hopefully once 4.0 has been released (and probably mildly publicly savaged by reviewers, both professional and armchair) and the devs start hacking on the rough edges and integrating everything for a much, much improved 4.1 we can look at 4.0 as what it really is - the difficult *beginning* of an awesome KDE4 cycle, of historical interest only, and get some semblance of sanity here on the Dot.
> first of all, there was the Rise of the Whinging Critic
You know what, I'm usually one of the first to argue against whinging. I do that with other projects. I used to do it with KDE. I'm certainly no fan of it. I think the "Rise of the Whinging Critic" is in large part a direct response to how more reasonable criticism has been handled throughout the latter part of KDE 4.0's development.
People like to say that there was whinging for previous major releases, but it was absolutely nothing compared with this. Sure, there will always be whingers regardless of what you do, but the sharp increase in whinging didn't come out of nowhere, and some of the KDE developers and fans seem to be writing off this criticism without looking at the causes behind it, and if you try to talk about the causes you get flamed. Sometimes it feels like people need to praise the developers if they want to talk about problems without being called a troll.
I had hoped that lessons would be learnt for the next release, and the delay is an encouraging point in that respect, but the attitudes of some people make me worry that exactly the same thing is going to happen in future.
And you started saying that KDE is not in RC state, when *most* of it, really is. Sure, Plasma is not as mature as the rest of KDE, and is the most visible part (because is the first thing you see), but the libraries, and many many many applications are in a really good shape.
You are correct. The libraries seem to be in great shape. But I titled my post "Usability nightmare". The "visible part" is indeed relevant.
Get real. There is nothing wrong with negative comments if they are constructive, and I saw nothing in the response that I would call a rant. On the other hand, the original poster was definitely ranting. Calling someone's work "crap" isn't constructive, and it isn't merely negative. It is downright disrespectful.
But since you don't see a problem with the original poster calling the hard work of the developers crap, it shouldn't bother you much when I say your post was crap.
Dude, come on. David is a long time poster here. I totally trust his judgment and input. Instead of getting angry about it, you should read what he is writing and his frustration.
You're a marketing a guy, so I'll put this in marketing terms -- You opted to call this an RC. This is the result. Call something that should be alpha an RC just for publicity and you'll put yourself under scrutiny.
David did the right thing. I'm glad he voiced his frustrations because I don't want KDE4 to be a piece of garbage like GNOME2 was.
I'm sorry, but in no way he should be allowed to call it "crap" and hoping to get away with it, long time poster or not.
People, do you understand you're bashing the work of volounteers? There are other ways to express criticism without affecting morale.
I'm sorry, but in no way should we call it an RC and hoping to get away with it, long time project or no.
Calling something "RC" instead of "Beta" has no negative meaning. "Crap" on the other hand, does have a disrespectful meaning.
"Calling something "RC" instead of "Beta" has no negative meaning.""
What? Really?? What about misleading the user base and raising confusion among the developers on the intent of the release? Was it meant as a release candidate, or as a beta build?
But sure, I guess this is one of those things that have negative implications if Microsoft does it to push a product. Then it's always wrong if they call a beta a RC. Always.
the fact you consider it Alpha and we consider it RC doesn't make anyone wrong. You just seem to have a different standard here. We've tried to communicate that everything except a few parts of KDE is ready for testing. Has been for a while, but the users didn't seem to test it so we didn't get much useful feedback (besides from ppl calling it crap, but that's pretty useless feedback). Now we decided 95% of KDE is in RC mode, so we released an RC. And some feedback came, though still mostly 'it sucks'. At least we got SOME bugreports, besides all the time-wasting ranting...
I've been using KDE as my primary desktop since 0.99. I did not use the word "crap" lightly. In retrospect I agree that it was too provocative a word. But that does not diminish the fact that this "RC1" looks and feels like a pre-alpha snapshot, with many poor or questionable usability decisions.
It all depends on what part you are testing. As has already been said, 95% of KDE4 is quite RC quality. I am posting this from Konqeror 4 and have a quite good experience.
He may have done a pretty bad job of communicating, but I agree with his overall point. KDE4 is not of "Release Candidate" quality, and I think the KDE community is doing itself a disservice (and disappointing a lot of users) by calling it so.
"Release Candidate" is supposed to imply feature-complete and mostly bug-free. Even aseigo notes that Plasma is not feature-complete, and Plasma is a pretty central part of KDE4.
I've been trying to use KDE4 (built from SVN) as my desktop on and off for the past few days. Each time I've given up and gone back to KDE3 after about 15 minutes. Contrast this with the KDE3 RCs, which I was using stably and productively for days at a time.
For example, Plasma crashes constantly (there are a few specific cases -- I'm still trying to pin them down and convince gdb to give me a usable backtrace so I can file a proper report). Konqueror still doesn't work on a number of websites (in particular, it can't view any LiveJournals -- again, going to try to narrow it down). The IMAP ioslave "quits unexpectedly" when I try to get my mail with KMail.
When I have time, I'll be tracking these down and filing bug reports (or generally helping to get them fixed). I'll do my best to provide productive feedback.
But the simple fact remains that KDE4 RC1 is just not of Release Candidate quality. And I think a lot of us (or at least, I do) feel misled by the developer community for calling KDE4 something it's not.
So I would urge you and the rest of the developers not to take criticisms like these personally -- ranting right back at him isn't at all useful.
For people like me that read the Dot and the Planet, the fact that this RC1 is in fact a "Beta 5" was not a surprise but instead a well established fact. I therefore didn't approach RC1 as release candidate at all, and I fully expected things to break here and there. I was therefore not disappointed.
However, this does not detract from the fact that calling this an RC was SERIOUS BLUNDER. In fact, I expect that most of the "bad vibes" that've been circling around the dot and the Planet are in large part because of this.
KDE is an open-source project, for goodness sake! It should be ready when it's ready (within reasonable limits, of course!). Though I understand that the release team would like for things to be on schedule, sometimes that's just not possible. I am confident that people would've been understanding if the release team would have chosen to issue still a couple of more betas and to delay the RC until it was in fact a RELEASE CANDIDATE! By calling the current version a RC, you have made a mockery of well established practices and lost a lot of good will from the community.
Point is that most of KDE (eg 95%) is in RC mode, just some parts aren't. And we need feedback. So we had to call it RC to get ppl to seriously try and test it... The mockery is only that 5%, and frankly, I don't care about that. If we would have decided to call it another beta, there wouldn't be as much feedback, and we would just be wasting time for all those apps which are ready and need some user input!!!
> Point is that most of KDE (eg 95%) is in RC mode, just some parts aren't.
That in my eyes does not merrit it calling a RC, unless those 5% are well hidden and not likely to be encountered. No, I take that back. If those 5% are well known, then unless you plan to release those the way they are, it should not be called RC.
> And we need feedback. So we had to call it RC to get ppl to seriously try and test it...
Aargh. I seriously ponder now if I should try and test it again at all. After all, by testing I am also volunteering time. And seriously, I do not like it if people try to trick me into it by labeling things differently than they are. I might just decide to not trust them anymore and spent my time on something different. And by reading the dot, I do get the impression I am not the only one not liking this form of marketing. You might - for a single time - trick some more people into testing it. At the same time you might alienate a large part of those gained (there might be a reason why they did not test it before) and loose them for the future. Being honest usually is the better thing in the long run.
And something else about the missing feedback:
I have been compiling the source once a week for maybe half a year by now. I always did so with the hones wish to test it and report things I find. Each and every time until very recently, I was just driven away by the state of plasma and oxygen at once. If I stayed a little longer, I usually found that
the application I am usually using were in a pretty bad state as well (from konqueror, konsole, kmail, kopete, akregator and knode only konsole worked nice from the beginning, the others all had issues a week ago that would prevent me from calling them a release candidate). Since there were a lot of really visible problems I usually wondered what I should actually try to report, as chances were pretty high that I would report a dupe. Thus I was driven away from further testing.
And I guess I am not the only one driven away by the state of the desktop itself. It is unfortunate, but I guess if kwin and plasma (I do not know if the overall slowness is a kwin or a plasma problem) would have been in a better state earlier, you would most likely have had a lot more people actually testing kde4.
It is a long time since then and my expectations might be different now but trying and using kde 2.0 betas did not seem to be nearly as bad. In the past I always switched to the new kde version somewhere in the betas and never went back. Now, for the first time ever I have not even done so with the first RC, the desktop just feels to much like an obstacle. I did not (and do not) mind beta applications crashing or a glitch here and there, but windows opening below others (even some which I needed to access next to continue working with that application), a slow desktop (I get 5-6 fps with glxgears, as opposed to 9800 at my kde3.5 install), invisible boxes (within konqueror), nonconfigurable taskbar (and no selfexplanatory way to have the finally working pager in there) just does not do it for me.
Seriously though, calling something that is not quite ready (and known to be so) a RC just in order to get more users testing - that seems quite disrespectful to me, if not lying. And it is quite discouraging. Did you even consider the idea that the lack of testing might have some other reasons than the name of the release?
I agree that using the word "crap" was rather harsh. However I am a long time <1998> kde user and I simply love the project, I just don't have enough skills to contribute any meaningful code but I have done my share of converting many a user and company to linux/kde. Recently however I don't know what has happened to kde I call it gnomification coz its beginning to feel a hell of a lot like gnome - restrictive and unacrobatic, taking away from the original beauty of kde. For exapmle I have tried hard but unsuccessfully for a long time to convince myself of the wisdom of creating dolphin as a default filemanager and okular as documnent viewer instead of adding enhancements to konqueror - new kde users just love konqueror's abilities, and love the single app that can make their lives so much simpler. kde3 has a beautiful philosophy, why reverse this unique philosophy in kde4?
> Hint: Imagine someone comes with the exact same wording ranting
> about your work, what would you think?
that I must have done something really wrong if he is so pissed off ...
but no, this idea does not ever come to your head, you just say that he is impolite and uncostructive so it is not worth to take his opinion into account, while you are the perfect one, sigh
This is why it is delayed. (Btw some of the problems are already fixed, try a more recent build.)
For the love of God can some take that menu setup out back and shoot it.
KDE does rock, and thanks
Who really cares about the menu anymore? The run dialog has been beefed up. I doubt I'll find myself clicking that blue K more than once per month.
It's so much faster to hit a few keys instead of hunting through menus.
But they did a usability study!
I think the menu is terrible, and so do most people who use it, but everyone throws that study out there.
The study was a joke. I'm just glad we'll have menu alternatives in time.
Is the problem that most people think that it is terrible, or is it the minority of people who think it is terrible are really vocal? How many times do people go around posting what they *do* like vs posting what they don't like.
criticizing is more fun!
but seriously, when people point out the bad, I think the hidden assumption is that everything else is OK, which is why I would count any post of a person who tried out the release candidate and complained about something but didn't complain about the menu as someone who at least doesn't find it a notable or bothersome problem and can live with it when using KDE. I think maybe there should be a poll of what is the all-time favorite KDE menu that people want to see in their KDE. maybe include main menus frome other desktops as well in the poll.
The majority of people think it is bad. They just do not post about it. Fact is in the middle of trying to post about how bad it is most people just sigh and give up. It is like they have lost the will to live. Please bring us back the 90s menu we all so love. Please.
... just after they got their 90s menu back, they started to grow fur and climbed back on their trees.
Happy to stay there, waiting for the things to come and complain about
I, personaly, will just wait and see. I'll try the new menu for a month or so and if i cannot get used to it i'll install the classic-menu-port wich most likely is created by someone by then. I might even attempt to port it myself :D
Seems like all the critique is either "the new menu sucks" (should be fixed within a month or so after the release, if it turns out to be a problem), "the RC was a really beta" (marked UNFIXABLE) and random bugs already fixed.
Logically, how can something that hinders productivity be a boon for usability?
It is slow, cumberbsome, and difficult to navigate. Everyone says, "but it has search!"
So add search to Kmenu like Suse did, or develop a new menu with search. But Kickoff, while it looks good in a screenshot, is an absolute pain to use.
I agree 100%. In fact I hereby ask the Kickoff supporter's to STOP saying that its design has been validated by user testing. It hasn't. The tests that were done have ZERO statistical significance, and the methodology used has serious flaws too. The problem with developers repeating the "it has been tested for usability" mantra is that they come across as a) not really knowing much about usability testing, b) not knowing much about statistics, and c) not having a mind of their own.
It would actually be very helpful to this discussion if a new (independent!) usability test could be done on Kickoff. And remember kids: if you want people to take you seriously instead of just coming across as a cargo-cult usability tester, make sure you read on your statistics!
Having said that, I actually think there is some goodness in Kickoff. It's only that insane navigation menu that kills the whole thing. It honestly feels like I am playing Doom inside the menu, navigating through mazes like a mad man looking for the exit! (and obviously often getting lost in the process). Have you at least considered adding a couple of demons to shoot? That would make the menu navigation in Kickoff slightly less boring.


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This is a complete list of the protocols that we follow on the farm. Please note that every protocol does not apply to every animal on the farm (there are a few pig specific protocols and others that are cow specific). To help clarify what protocol applies to what product we sell, we have added a list of product specific protocols to each product in our store. Also please do not hesitate to reach out to us for clarification, or to visit the farm this growing season during one of our farm tours.
Animal Husbandry Protocols
Grass-Fed, Grass Finished (No Grains)
The cattle on our farm only eat grass. When they are young they drink milk from their mother, but other than that they eat fresh grass in the summer and either dried grass (hay) or fermented grass (haylage) in the winter. Our cattle do have free access to 20 different minerals that they use to balance any nutritional short-comings. Our cattle are slaughtered in the fall—when they are naturally at their fattest as they have built up fat reserves to get through the winter—when they are between 24 to 26 month of age and physically mature. Our cattle never receive grain.
All meat that Grazing Days sells comes from animals that were raised on pasture. This means that they have the space to move freely and they also have a choice of what grasses, legumes, and weeds they eat. It also means that they live in fresh air and in a bio-diverse environment with plenty of sunlight.
Certified Organic Grains for pigs
Since pigs do not have the physiology that will allow them to live, grow and thrive on grass alone like cattle are able to do, we do supplement their diet of grasses, legumes, weeds and pasture rooted goodness with a grain ration from time to time (when things like whey or spent grains are not available in sufficient quantities). We make sure to only feed grain that is certified organic.
Certified Organic Grains for Chickens
Since chickens do not have the physiology that will allow them to live, grow and thrive on grass alone like cattle are able to do, we do supplement their diet of grasses, legumes, weeds and grubs with a grain ration. We make sure to only feed grain that is certified organic.
Cheese Waste Recycling (Whey)
Protein is the principal nutrient that pigs are unable to get from eating grass. Luck would have it that our local artisanal cheese maker used to dump about 7000 litres of protein rich whey down the drain every week. When we feed this whey to our pigs, not only are we able to balance the pig's nutritional requirements with their grass intake, we are also returning valuable nutrients back to the land by closing the land – grain – cow – milk – whey – pig – manure/urine – land cycle.
Vegetable Waste Recycling
Rooted Oak is a certified organic vegetable operation that grows vegetables on our farm. They use manure from our animals to fertilize their fields and in return any vegetables that don't meet Rooted Oak's excellent quality standards go to the pigs, who gladly take those vegetables and turn them into manure. The only downside is that sometimes the pigs have onion breath...
Beer Waste Recycling (Spent Grains)
From time to time, a local brewery calls and asks us to take away the spent grains that are left over from their beer making. Since spent grains are high in fiber and digestible protein, they make a great addition to the pig diet and it also allows us to bring valuable nutrients back to the land (that would otherwise be land-filled) by closing the land – grain – spent-grain – pig – manure/urine – land cycle.
No Antibiotics, No Pharmaceuticals
Under normal circumstances we do not use antibiotics nor pharmaceuticals on our animals. We never use antibiotic or pharmaceuticals prophylactically.
Having said that however, from time to time (in about 3% of animals on the farm) we do use antibiotics for the therapeutic treatment of an infection to ensure animal well-being AND if there are no other treatments available. In the cases where we do use antibiotic or other pharmaceuticals, we remove that animal from our regular meat production stream.
We have also made a commitment to the animals that we husband on the farm, that we will never ship them off to a feedlot elsewhere if they are no longer part of our "no antibiotics" production stream. Instead, we keep them on the farm, and raise them until they are mature and market their meat through a different production stream.
All meat that we sell through the "Green Production Stream" has never had antibiotics.
Meat that is sold through the "Blue Production Stream" either comes from animals who received a therapeutic treatment of antibiotics, or comes from animals who were not born on the farm and we don't know their treatment history.
All this to say, we will be transparent through our Blue and Green production streams whether the meat comes from an animal therapeutically treated with antibiotics.
No Growth Hormones
We do not give our animals any artificial growth hormones or any substances that may help them grow faster than they would normally. We allow our animals to mature at the rate their bodies naturally mature.
No GMOs
We do not feed any GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) to our animals.
No animal by-products
We never feed any animal by-products.
Animal Welfare
We do our utmost to ensure that all the needs of the animals are met to be healthy, to grow, to thrive, to be stimulated, to relax and to express their species appropriate behaviour (ie – pigs root, chickens scratch, etc.) We care about these animals deeply and we know a lot about how our animals are doing by observing their body language and can adjust our management accordingly.
When our animals leave the farm to go to the abattoir, we thank their spirits for their sacrifice to feed and sustain us and we re-commit ourselves to the unwritten contract between domesticated animals and human beings – where we will ensure the survival of their species in return for their sacrifice in feeding us.
Mimic Nature
Mimicking nature is a guiding principle on our farm. We look to how the wild cousins (such as caribou, buffalo or wild boars) of our cattle or pigs would behave in the wild in order to determine how we manage them on our farm. We know for example that in nature, in this part of the world, calves and fawns are born in June and so we aim to have the calves on our farm start being born in June.
Low Stress Handling (incentive Based)
The most stressful time for farm animals is when they are being handled or moved (think going to the doctor or dentist). We take great care to think through ways that we can use an animal's instinct to achieve the outcome that we would like to achieve. For example, when we need to sort some animals in the corral, we take a few days / weeks to graze the whole herd towards the corral, rather than chasing them there, or we make a cozy pig nest inside the trailer a few days before we want to load the pigs into the trailer so they get used to it and start sleeping in the trailer prior to them needing to be loaded into it.
Outdoor - Raised
Our cattle live outdoors every day of the year. We ensure that the cattle have access to fresh water, fresh grass or hay, and shelter from the wind. In the summer they live on fresh pasture and in the winter they live on snow-covered pasture. These animals are well insulated (they are wearing thick leather coats and have a fluffy hair coat) – so much so that often when it is snowing, snow will accumulate on their backs. As long as they have protection from the cold, and access to good quality feed, cattle are quite comfortable and thrive in the cold. Being outside in the fresh air and in the sunlight is an excellent way for us limit disease and pathogens and enables us to keep our herd healthy. The cattle on our farm live a winter life very similar to their wild buffalo and caribou cousins.
Land Management Protocols
Regenerative Practices (Builds Soil)
Our livelihood depends on the quality of the soil on our farm. Prior to our farming this land, some of the agricultural practices used on this land (such as the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, tilling the land, continuous grazing practices, etc) depleted the health of the soil. Through the use of our managed grazing techniques, we are able to restore the balance in our soils between its physical, biological and chemical properties, to a place where the soil ecosystem can thrive. A thriving soil ecosystem can filter and infiltrate rain water to rejuvenate aquifers, can sequester carbon, can provide a buffer against too much or too little rainfall, and can provide the plants that grow on and in it with the nutrients they need to grow and be healthy. Healthy and nutrient dense plants feed our animals and keep them healthy and nutrient dense as well. Although this process of soil regeneration takes years, five years into this process, we are starting to see the results of our efforts.
Sequesters Carbon
The thing that we find most exciting about what we do is the sequestration of carbon in the soil. Climate change is real and we as living beings on this planet are feeling the effect of too much carbon in the atmosphere – carbon that had been locked away in the Earth's crust in the form of fossil fuel, and carbon that had been locked away in soil, but has been released into the atmosphere through destructive agricultural practices (such as tillage, leaving soils exposed to the elements, the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, etc). With the managed grazing techniques we use on the farm (mob grazing or sometimes called adaptive multi-paddock grazing) however, we work with our grasslands and animals to capture carbon from the atmosphere (in the form of carbon dioxide and methane) and sequester them in the soil. Early research (Stanley, 2018) shows that grazing techniques such as ours can increase the soil carbon by 3.5 tonnes of carbon per hectare per year, which on our 320 acres (130 hectares) of grassland, could mean 448 tonnes of carbon that we can sequester in a year. That is a pretty hopeful proposition: we can grow delicious food that is healthy and combats climate change at the same time – awesome.
Processed Product Protocols
This product is does not contain gluten.
Nitrite/Nitrate Free
This product is made without nitrates and without nitrites period – neither from artificial nor from natural sources. As a result, you will find that our version of ham, bacon, or pâté has a brown colour instead of the pink that you may be used to from the store-bought version. You will also find that the nitrate-free and nitrite-free version has a slightly different texture.


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The kidneys in Traditional Chinese Medicine are a vital energy system. They are the root of all yin and yang in the body, and they store our essence. They govern growth, reproduction and healthy progression through the different cycles of life. They play a role in healthy aging and preventing lots of age-related decline. They also control the bones, the low back and the knees. On a mental-emotional level, the kidneys are associated with fear – an imbalance in the kidney energy often leads to irrational or pervasive fear. On a spiritual level, the kidneys are the source of our Zhi, or will-power – our drive to succeed, to thrive and to be alive.
So a weakness in the kidney energy can create any number of problems in the body. An accurate diagnosis of a kidney weakness requires evaluation by a practitioner of TCM, but most people can benefit from some kidney tonification, particularly if trying to get pregnant, when healing from a chronic illness and after the age of 65. Chinese Herbs are safe and effective when prescribed by a licensed practitioner. Below are some of the most common tonic herbs we prescribe in TCM to nourish the kidneys.
Shu Di Huang (Rehmannia Root, Chinese Foxglove Root): Shu Di Huang tonifies and nourishes the yin aspect of the kidneys. It also strongly nourishes the blood energy of the body. Shu Di Huang is used in many herbal formulas for insomnia, hot flashes, night sweats and anxiety.
Gou Qi Zi (Chinese Wolfberry Fruit, Goji Berries): Gou Qi Zi nourishes the yin and blood of both the Kidneys and the Liver. It benefits the essence stored in the kidneys, and has a specific function of brightening the eyes. It can be used in the appropriate formulas for issues such as weakness in the low back, trouble sleeping, dizziness, blurry vision, nocturnal emissions and infertility.
He Shou Wu (Polygonum, Fleeceflower Root): He Shou Wu is another herb to nourish the yin and blood of the liver and kidney. It has a specific function of nourishing the hair to prevent premature thinning and graying. It can also be used in formulas for chronic constipation, dizziness, vertigo, blurry vision, infertility or weakness in the low back and knees.
Rou Cong Rong (Broomrape Stem): Rou Cong Rong strengthens the yang aspect of the kidneys, or the source of warm, fiery energy in the body. As such, it is used in formulas for infertility, impotence and urinary disorders such as urinary dribbling or incontinence. It also has a function of moistening the intestines and can be used for certain types of chronic constipation.
Rou Gui (Dried Cinnamon Bark): Rou Gui also strengthens the yang of the kidneys, and warms the kidneys and the channels. It is used in formulas for symptoms such as a deep feeling of cold, cold limbs, weakness in the low back, impotence, frequent urination, chronic pain worse in the cold, wheezing and certain types of menstrual pain.
Most of these herbs need to be prescribed by a licensed practitioner of Chinese herbal medicine. If you want to nourish the kidneys on your own, consider adding Shan Yao (Chinese Yam) into your diet, and picking up some Goji Berries at your local health store. You can also incorporate kidney-nourishing foods into your diet, such as fish, seaweed, miso, kidney beans, black beans and bone broth.


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