text: Friday, December 16, 2011 HHS Issues Proposal to Define Essential Health Benefits The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today issued its long-awaited proposal to define essential health benefits (EHB) under the Affordable Care Act. Of particular importance to physical therapists is the agency's proposal to cover the 10 categories of services identified in the statute, which include rehabilitative and habilitative services and devices. Under the intended approach, states have flexibility to develop their plans around 4 benchmark plan types: 1 of the 3 largest small group plans in the state 1 of the 3 largest state employee health plans 1 of the 3 largest federal employee health plan options the largest HMO plan offered in the state's commercial market HHS believes this will allow states to tailor their plans based on its population's unique needs. The agency states, "To meet the EHB coverage standard, HHS intends to require that a health plan offer benefits that are "substantially equal" to the benefits of the benchmark plan selected by the state and modified as necessary to reflect the 10 coverage categories. This is the same equivalency standard that applies to plans under CHIP. Similar to CHIP, HHS intends to propose that a health insurance issuer have some flexibility to adjust benefits, including both the specific services covered and any quantitative limits provided they continue to offer coverage for all 10 statutory EHB categories." Specific to habilitative services, HHS is considering 2 options if a benchmark plan does not include coverage for habilitative services: (1) Habilitative services would be offered at parity with rehabilitative services -- a plan covering services such as physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech therapy for rehabilitation must also cover those services in similar scope, amount, and duration for habilitation; or (2) As a transitional approach, plans would decide which habilitative services to cover, and would report on that coverage to HHS. HHS would evaluate those decisions, and further define habilitative services in the future. Based on the states' ability to tailor the plans and consider adding optional services or increased numbers of visits, it is important that APTA's state chapters continue to educate and foster relationships with their state agencies to ensure that rehabilitative services are optimized in the plans. APTA will respond to the HHS bulletin before the January 31, 2012, deadline. The association also will provide resources to members to use at the state level.


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JetBrains has announced the availability of AppCode 2.0, a new release of its Objective-C IDE. The software is designed to ease the everyday routine for Objective-C developers as they build apps for Apple devices.
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JetBrains is essentially allowing Objective-C developers to get the most out of popular unit testing frameworks, documentation browsers, and web development tools.
"We received tons of valuable feedback from developers who already used AppCode 1.x, and we did our best to bring the IDE to the next level," said Anton Makeev, AppCode project manager. "We've added new refactorings like Move Members and Extract Superclass, implemented new code generations options, and greatly improved TDD experience so that you can instantly run any test under your fingertips. Along with Darcula, our striking new UI theme, AppCode 2.0 is a huge leap forward."
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- Even more code generation options: now you can easily surround code with
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- Over 2,000 code inspections and error diagnostics notes from the Clang compiler, now displayed right in the editor.

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Why Is Exact Floating-Point Output So Hard?
Last week, I observed that every binary floating-point number has an exact decimal representation with the same number of digits after the decimal point as the binary version has bits after the binary point. Since then, I have thought of an easier way to explain this phenomenon.
We can think of a binary floating-point number as comprising a fraction, which we can think of as a binary point followed by some number of bits, together with an exponent, which we can think of as the number of bits that we should move the binary point to the left or right to obtain the final value. As a result, every binary floating-point number is equivalent to what we might call a binary fixed-point number: a sequence of bits with a binary point separating the integer part from the fractional part.
Let's pick a binary fixed-point number to represent in decimal:
If we were to remove the binary point from this number, we would have
1001001011 , which, of course, is an integer. Like all integers, it has an obvious, exact decimal representation — in this case, 587. In order to see that it has an exact decimal representation even if we put the binary point back in, let's take
1001001011 and move the binary point one bit to the left to get
100100101.1. Doing so effectively divides our value by 2, so we get (exactly) 293.5.
More generally, if we have a value that is represented as a decimal number with n digits after the decimal point, and we divide it by 2, the result of the division can always be represented exactly as a decimal number with n+1 digits after the decimal point. We can see this by noting that dividing by 2 is equivalent to multiplying by 5 and then dividing by 10. Multiplying by 5 yields a number with n digits after the decimal point; dividing by 10 is equivalent to moving the decimal point one position to the left, putting one additional digit after the decimal point. In other words, if we multiply 587 by 5, we get 2935; moving the decimal point one position to the left gives 293.5.
Similar reasoning allows us to divide by 2 four more times, yielding 146.75, 73.375, 36.6875, and, finally, 18.34375. We have learned that
10010.01011 in binary is exactly equivalent to 18.34375 in decimal, and both numbers have exactly the same number of positions after the radix (decimal or binary) point. We note in passing that all of these decimal digits are necessary; the only way for the last such digit to be zero would be if that digit were an even number before we divided it by 2; but this case cannot happen because the last bit after the binary point in a binary fixed-point number is 1 by definition. In other words, if we were to try to express
10010.0101100 in decimal, we would start by discarding the two irrelevant zeroes at the end of the fraction, after which we would get exactly the same result as we did before.
Because of this discussion, it might appear that converting a binary floating-point number to its exact decimal equivalent is a fairly easy problem. However, this belief runs into trouble because of floating-point numbers' exponents. Floating-point numbers are intended to be able to encompass a substantial range; to which end they are typically defined so that the exponent can be large. For example, the 64-bit floating-point format most widely used these days allows 11 bits for the exponent, including the sign, and therefore allows for floating-point numbers with exponents as small as -1023. Representing such a number exactly therefore requires a number of digits after the decimal point equal to 1,022 plus the number of bits in the fraction (perhaps plus or minus 1 or 2 to account for fine points, such as denormalized numbers, in the floating-point format's definition). Computing such a representation is not exactly a quick or simple computational task.
Of course, it is safe to say that very few programmers would ever want to print a floating-point number with more than a thousand digits after the decimal point. For one thing, most of the time, almost all of those digits will be zero. Moreover, even if they are not zero, such a large number of decimal digits is a gross misstatement of the amount of precision that is inherent in the binary number to begin with. In fact, the very reason for using floating-point arithmetic in the first place is to decouple a number's precision from its magnitude. In practice, then, there does not seem to be a pragmatic need to use that many decimal digits to represent a binary floating-point number.
Unfortunately, even though we can say with some confidence that we do not have a pragmatic need to use more than a thousand digits after the decimal point to represent a 64-bit floating-point number, it is a much harder problem to decide just how many digits we do need to be able to produce. To get a handle on this problem, we can start with a few desirable properties:
- A given floating-point number should always produce the same decimal representation whenever we print it with maximum precision.
- Two different floating-point numbers should always produce different decimal representations in maximum precision.
- If we write a floating-point number in decimal, and then read it back in, we should get exactly the same floating-point number back again.
It may not be immediately obvious that we can implement all of these properties; but at least we should try. Because the last of these properties involves reading a floating-point value, our next order of business will be to understand the problems that surround floating-point input. As we shall see next week, these problems turn out to be quite different from the problems surrounding floating-point output.


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"How to Write Animation Scripts
In writing animation scripts, there are two pages written for one minute of viewing time. This is done because you have to call the camera directions, angles, and scenes. In contrast, when writing cinematic scripts, you write one page of script for each minute.
That's why many cinematic scripts with live action run 90 pages in length for 90 minutes of viewing. With animation scripts, a 12 minute script runs about 24 pages in length." Yikes!!!
It's actually the complete opposite. Animation writing should be short, because you have artists to fill out the visual details. Animation scripts are always too long and storyboard artists have to draw hundreds of extra scenes just to have them all cut out by the studio when they figure out that the show is too long.
Sometimes the whole show gets animated before the producers figure out they have wasted a hundred thousand dollars animating 10 minutes that doesn't fit into the half hour. This happens all the time and it seems no one will tell the writers to write shorter scripts. (I've done it myself and learned my lesson now!)
Every script page equals about 2 minutes of screen time, the way animation writers write.
Complicated backgounds and scenery:
as they enter a brightly lighted room. There is a huge swimming pool surrounded by classical Roman and Greek statues. The pool
is rimmed by turquoise, blue and white mosaic tile. There are
tall, gothic windows. The white marble statues circle the large, kidney-shaped pool. The walls are tiled in the blue, white and turquoise fleur-de-lis mosaic tile. The pool has an open skylight
roof--an atrium where the sun's rays shine down into the pool
to show hazy beams of light."
Millions of characters to animate:
That statue's pointing to the light
The two scramble in the direction the statue is pointing.
They stumble upon a huge aviary filled with the eaglets
and other very rare birds, including blue macaws, green parrots, red cardinals, etc. The aviary is perched on a ledge high on the
stalagmites and under the stalagtites. Brainy climbs up on the
ledge and unlocks the birdcage door.
Okay eaglets and other birds.
You're free now, and big enough to fly away home.
All the BIRDS make an exit from the huge cage, except for the
eaglets. They look up sadly and vulnerable at PICKLES."
PICKLES takes the bracelet from Fledgling's outstretched wing and punches a white button on the bracelet. It lights up and pulsates for a moment. Then in an explosion of light, all the
statues are restored to life. The statues run free in all directions, cheering and shouting.
as all statues with the exception of TWO scatter to the light at the end of the cave.
(scattering wildly)
We're free at last,
after all these years."
Here's a real dandy scene to animate:
"Suddenly a travelling mound of black CROWS and toucans approach from the east. From the west a mountain of HAWKS approach the battle from the west, each aimed at a head-on collision with HAWK's flying dinosaur bird. These two humongous clouds of BIRDS both speed into shot at the same time with GARGAMEL caught in the middle as the two giant flocks of birds are headed for collision.
Look! Up in the sky.
It's every bird in the land.
PICKLES points to the tornado of birds, now turned into a cycloning whirlwind of two different flocks. Then that becomes four flocks, eight flocks. The entire sky fills with flocks of all different types of BIRDS."
This person needs to be locked in a room with a pencil for 3 years until she finishes animating this one scene.
Wait, she's not finished!!
Just before they hit the tops of the trees a thick flock of TOUCANS suddenly rise from the Parrotberry Treetops and berry bushes and rise up to the occasion forming a thick crazyquilt of colored, feather carpet that allows PICKLES and PAPA YELLOW NAPE to float on this magical carpet of TOUCAN'S wings. The TOUCANS carry Parrotberries in their beaks as they head for home.
WIDER ON PICKLES and FLEDGLING
as they ride the carpet of toucans slowly floating to land in front of their own home."
The responsible way to write for animation is to keep the average amount of characters down to 2 per scene. Especially in TV animation. More characters per scene equals less time to animate each character. This results in cheaper faster crappier animation and no personality animation at all.
Of course in order to write a cartoon about 2 characters, you'd have to understand how to write for personality, and I've yet to meet a non artist who could write believable, entertaining characters.
Hey, all you storyboard artists and animators, feel free to add your horror stories in the comments!


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KDE Desktop Environment of the Year 2007, Apps Finish Strongly
The 2007 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award winners have been announced. KDE leads the popularity list in the category Desktop Environment with a rocking 52% percent of the votes leaving competing contenders in its dust. Among the users on Linuxquestions.org, KDE is being praised for its high level of integration, for the number of applications and of course for Konqui being the cute mascot it is. But also KDE applications have been very popular among the voters on Linuxquestions.org. Read on for more details.
KDE applications also score very high in users' popularity. KDE's CD and DVD burning application K3b has won in the category of multimedia utilities with nearly 2/3 of the votes: 63%. Amarok continues to amaze its users. 57% of the sample in the Linuxquestions survey prefer Amarok above other tools, making it the clear winner in the category Audio Media Player. Konqueror wins as most famous filemanager with 38% of the votes.
The KDE community is really happy about all the awards and the confidence users have in KDE4 living up to everyone's expectations. Congratulations to everyone involved in those projects!
Congratulations to KDE, Amarok, K3b, Konqueror, and all other KDE applications who win the 2nd place! (And of course to all involved in those projects!) Anyway, is this the 4th times KDE wins the award? or 5th? (Clearly KDE always wins the best DE award from Linuxquestions.org :D)
Unfortunately, they've decided to merge best IDE with best Web Development software, which resulted in Quanta only in 2n position after Eclipse. Otherwise, Quanta would have won 4th consecutive award!
By fred at Thu, 2008/02/28 - 6:00am
Re: Kongratz!
Nevermind, I've found the answer: KDE won the award in: 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007.
By fred at Thu, 2008/02/28 - 6:00am
Re: Kongratz!
I am curious to see if KDE will win next years edition as well with KDE 4.
By Andre at Thu, 2008/02/28 - 6:00am
Re: Kongratz!
Ah well, if not, KDE 4 might be second after KDE 3.5.9 ;-) gnegne.
By Matthias Logghe at Thu, 2008/02/28 - 6:00am
Re: Kongratz!
Unless Gnome 3 is released LOL. KMail surprised me though, did it beat Evolution to it?
By Bobby at Thu, 2008/02/28 - 6:00am
Re: Kongratz!
Last time I used Evolution it was not able to display CSS formated HTML mails. That's why I dropped it for KMail back then. Sometimes it is such as simple.
By thomas at Fri, 2008/02/29 - 6:00am
Re: Kongratz!
The only ting surprising regarding Evolution was that it had gained some since last year, when KMail beat it with a greater margin. From last year it seemed Evolution lost most of it's users to Mozilla Thunderbird. I guess this years increase is a response to Evolution being more actively developed again.
By Morty at Fri, 2008/02/29 - 6:00am
Re: Kongratz!
> Unfortunately, they've decided to merge best IDE with best Web Development software, which resulted in Quanta only in 2n position after Eclipse. Otherwise, Quanta would have won 4th consecutive award!
Not that I was taking it for granted, but I was a bit surprised when I didn't get notified of a win, until I looked closer. Interestingly Quanta and KDevelop together did take more votes than the winner, which has financial and community backing that utterly dwarfs ours. In KDE4 Quanta and KDevelop are working off a common platform, so I will petition Jeremy if he wants to do things this way to make it a joint entry. I'm happy to share the award with the KDevelop guys, My was was getting crowded anyway. ;-)
On a serious note, looking at comments there in past years it was pretty clear that there was no competition for Quanta. That makes a boring contest. The irony is that due to us being bound through the 3x series to desktop release schedules we were never able to do the larger things I wanted to do. By this time next year I hope to have made a huge jump. I don't feel any need to rest in first place just to "play nice". Our objectives are set against our own measure.
Thanks to all our supporters and don't forget to drop by our site and read the news if you are interested in our project. http://kdewebdev.org
By Eric Laffoon at Fri, 2008/02/29 - 6:00am
Re: Kongratz!
I second that:
KDE is making the world a better place. (at least for us geeks :p )
Can't wait to share it with the rest of the uninitiated world. (let's start them slowly with KDE on Windows, and slowly have them come over to our side..)
By Max at Fri, 2008/02/29 - 6:00am
Re: Kongratz!
Congratulations on this historic event.
Now I'm going to vote for Kubuntu. Others please join me.
By Steve at Sun, 2008/03/02 - 6:00am
Cool to see how over 2 year old KDE tech beats the latest & greatest the competition can throw at it ;-)
Wait until KDE 4.x gets a bit more complete, and we can beat our proprietary competition hands down.
By Jos Poortvliet at Thu, 2008/02/28 - 6:00am
Re: cool
"Wait until KDE 4.x gets a bit more complete, and we can beat our proprietary competition hands down."
The axe is already at the tree. Let's start with hasta la Vista and the MACies better watch out ;)
By Bobby at Thu, 2008/02/28 - 6:00am
Re: cool
Personally, I wouldn't mind if even were just Mac OS-X and KDE/Linux.
The Mac'ies are almost cousins. They're BSD'ies, sort-of. Besides, if we work together with #2, we can get closer to beating #1 Vista. :)
By Max at Fri, 2008/02/29 - 6:00am
Re: cool
Wait a minute
xfce will forever remain light weight so it will never be a legit competition.
that leaves gnome. So its only kde vs gnome actually. (ede is way too tiny)
And gnome has so many problems, i dont even know where to start:
- The components are harder to compile AND run. When i started kde, it just worked. When i started gnome, i had nautilus problems, gconf problems, libbonobo(and libbonoboui) problems... googling to resolve these errors didnt help. So many errors that i gave up.
But the way gnome forces its users to accept its default choices is an idiot-developer attitude. I hate this attitude.
Gnome devs need to fix these two problems if they ever want me to "convert" to gnome. Kde is a lot better in this regard, big props to the kde devs (and I know not _every_ gnome dev has this attitude, just some gnome devs...)
By she at Sat, 2008/03/01 - 6:00am
Re: cool
I would love for KDE 4 to beat proprietary software. At any rate it will offer consumers more choice.
By Steve at Sun, 2008/03/02 - 6:00am
Hooray Kate
I've always found the vi vs. emacs debate very tiring. It's like an 80's historical re-enactment.
So huzzah for Kate's second place finish. Kate vs. Vi is a debate I can live with. ;)
By Ian Monroe at Thu, 2008/02/28 - 6:00am
Re: Hooray Kate
When was the last time you actually saw any of that debate? I read a lot, but I can't seem to recall anything of that for the last 5 years at least. I think the debate died a long time ago, just nobody noticed.
And, Kate is my favorite editor only as long as I don't need scripting. When will I be able to script Kate in Python, can Kate 4.0 do that?
Cause recently I read that Emacs can now be scripted in Python, and it made me consider to go back.
Currently I am a vi user on the terminal, and Kate (or in its KPart form at least) for graphical editing, depending on what I do.
By Debian User at Thu, 2008/02/28 - 6:00am
Re: Hooray Kate
I saw it in #ruby-lang about a week ago.
By Ian Monroe at Thu, 2008/02/28 - 6:00am
In the dust?
By Ross at Thu, 2008/02/28 - 6:00am
Re: In the dust?
So you say it's rigged, because it totals to more than 100%? ;-)
No, honestly, GTK+ based vs. Qt based, doesn't make a lot of sense. While it's interesting to note that there is no alternative Qt desktop, what does it give when entirely different desktops use the same or a different underlying toolkit, it matters how the desktop present the interface.
So well, you ought to compare the numbers for every 2 desktops. Forming groups on technical implementation details won't make sense.
By Debian User at Thu, 2008/02/28 - 6:00am
Re: In the dust?
> While it's interesting to note that there is no alternative Qt desktop [...]
There is! Well, sorta: XPDE http://www.xpde.com/
By panzi at Fri, 2008/02/29 - 6:00am
Re: In the dust?
unmaintained and...
By Debian at Fri, 2008/02/29 - 6:00am
Re: In the dust?
It's close.. But we're getting there.. :)
By Max at Fri, 2008/02/29 - 6:00am
Summer of Code?
Is KDE going to be at this years Google Summer of Code again?
I'm very curious. Looking forward to the results.. :)
By Max at Thu, 2008/02/28 - 6:00am
Re: Summer of Code?
Yep, we will.
Think of some good ideas, and get all your friends to apply as well. :)
By Ian Monroe at Thu, 2008/02/28 - 6:00am
Re: Summer of Code?
Already ahead of you. :)
By Max at Fri, 2008/02/29 - 6:00am
KDE System tools lacking
KDE may have great specialty apps, but when it comes to integration with system tools like ConsolieKit, Apt, PackageKit, NetworkManager it's seriously behind the competition.
This is largely thanks to Red Hat and Canonical, who are throwing money behind the competition because it chose a licensing model that sucks up to closed source proprietary ISVs. The same ISVs that want to use Linux without giving anything back.
We see the same troubling attitude from the competition when it's leaders in the form of the GNOME Foundation decided to stab the open standards community in the back and give legitimacy to M$'s patent-poisoned OOXML.
KDE, on the other hand, it fully protected by the best copyleft Free Software licenses: GPLv2 and recently GPLv3.
The KDE community has got to do better in spreading the word that if developers want to promote Free and Open Source Software, they should help out KDE and shun the competition sellouts.
By Tray at Thu, 2008/02/28 - 6:00am
Re: KDE System tools lacking
> KDE may have great specialty apps, but when it comes to integration with system > tools like ConsolieKit, Apt, PackageKit, NetworkManager it's seriously behind
Funny you should say that, I'm sat here at midnight working on NetworkManager 0.7 support as I have been doing all week in my day job at Novell. We had knetworkmanager as soon as NM was in openSUSE. This afternoon I spoke on IRC with one of my counterparts on the KDE Team at RedHat on how we could complete Admin mode support in KDE 4 using PolicyKit. And at the weekend I and several other openSUSE guys had a discussion with the PackageKit guy at FOSDEM.
Apt, I don't care about, libzypp in openSUSE 11.0 is going to make it look like your grandad's package tool
My point? KDE (and its distro backers) are actively supporting these technologies, as they mature.
By Will Stephenson at Fri, 2008/02/29 - 6:00am
Re: KDE System tools lacking
I'm impressed how the KDE team at Novell/OpenSUSE has indeed remained supportive of KDE despite detracting forces like Migues de Icaza and the Ximian people. Keep up the good work!
As for Red Hat, at best they're all talk and no action when it comes to KDE, and at worst they're actively badmouthing and crippling it to make it look bad compared to GNOME. How long has it been since a Red Hat employee has committed something to KDE's SVN? Months if not years. This isn't necessarily a reflection of individual developers' desires, but rather of Red Hat's business agenda for the past six years:
By Tray at Fri, 2008/02/29 - 6:00am
Re: KDE System tools lacking
to be honest, Novell has taken a lot of ignorant statements because of their deal with microsoft, but if it wasn't for all the hard work that Novell has done, the linux community would be years behind where they are now. It is the hard work of the novell teams that are bringing some amazing features to KDE and to the linux world. I take my hat off to you Novell/opensuse teams, you have truly benefited the linux community more than some people would like to acknowledge.
I've recently decided to try a few other distro's again, all the alpha's and without a doubt, opensuse is still years in front of the competition.
By anon at Fri, 2008/02/29 - 6:00am
Re: KDE System tools lacking
The Linux community would be far more advanced if not for uncompetetive behaviour from the competition.
This competition is IBM, HP, Sun. The last of them actually vowed recently to support Linux against Patent attackers with its own Patents.
And that competition is Microsoft who is in standby mode of attacking Linux and doing everything to forbid competition with its products.
The truth of fact is that in make its deal with Microsoft, the only thing Novell did achieve was to weaken the general pressure to open Microsoft information to everybody. The longer that takes, the more beneficial to Microsoft, and Novell let Microsoft buy out of that for, granted, a lot of money for its share holders.
I am never going to thank Novell for the buy out. Not for the FUD that it helped spread, and for the idea that patent protection for unspecified patents is needed and worth some money. I am not going to thank them for helping to force smaller Linux companies into deals with Microsoft that hurt their bottom line.
And while your at it. Try out Kubuntu or Fedora with KDE. Those guys did not see a need to help Microsoft out of its anti trust problems with EU, because those are well deserved.
That said, thanks for the good things people at Novell do. But I am not going to put up good things against bad things. If an entity does evil or helps evil, it can no longer pay through other deeds and get to heaven. Not even in Church anymore. Even there you have to regret.
By Debian User at Fri, 2008/02/29 - 6:00am
Re: KDE System tools lacking
You "forgot" to mention Mandriva.
Look at the commits, Brazil + France = Mandriva.
By reihal at Fri, 2008/02/29 - 6:00am
Re: KDE System tools lacking
Thanks for the addition, you are right. They too were clear about not conspiring against the users.
By Debian User at Fri, 2008/02/29 - 6:00am
Re: KDE System tools lacking
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/09/26/kde_red_hat_spat_escalates/
Yawn, that 2002 news about RHL 8.0 again! :-( I really don't see how that's relevant to the current state of Red Hat, Fedora, RHEL or anything else. A lot has changed since then.
> How long has it been since a Red Hat employee has committed something to
Less than one day: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=780193
Kevin Kofler
By Kevin Kofler at Fri, 2008/02/29 - 6:00am
Re: KDE System tools lacking
> Less than one day: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=780193
That's a translation commit, no code.
Sure translations are very important, but it doesn't bring new or improved technology to KDE.
By coward at Fri, 2008/02/29 - 6:00am
Re: KDE System tools lacking
That's a particularily dumb and dividing comment. It implies many things, none of which you probably can confirm.
The strength of KDE does in particular come from the fact that is is localized so well. Look on the commit map and ponder how few people that commit are native English speakers. The whole KDE project was started by Germans.
And in order to give KDE to their dads, friends, etc. the developers need it to be localized here in Europe. That is why KDE not only has the most localizations and best technology to achieve that. That is why e.g. in KDE 4 we are going to see spellcheckers with automatic language detection per paragraph.
Then of course, if Redhat helps Gnome, what's wrong with that? How is that not helping KDE? Last I listened to e.g. the KDE developers, people said that Gnome was not as good as KDE, but still Free Software and respectable and welcome allies in the battle for Free Desktop Standards.
Out of historic reasons - at the time you had _no_ license to distribute KDE binaries, Redhat had to focus on Gnome initially. And once liberated by Trolltech, the decision was already done. With Redhat for the longest time not being interested in the desktop at all, why should they
You can hardly ask them to care about investing in 2 desktops. A decision that Novell announced as well, just didn't get away with.
By Debian User at Fri, 2008/02/29 - 6:00am
Re: KDE System tools lacking
There is an issue with system tools, which is that different distributions do things differently. KDE developers debated this and decided as a whole to leave it to the distributions as no "one size fits all" solution would work. It's a wise choice.
Having said that, look at qtparted, which I don't think there is another graphical tool quite like. Along with which I've seen some others incliding info-systema (sp?) which is based on Kommander. I did an etc-update graphical tool for Gentoo with Kommander.
Here is either a wonderful solution or a "what are you still don't warming the couch" idea... Most system configuration is just text files. If you have a clue how to set them you can point and click an interface together in a few hours with Kommander and distribute it. Since it doesn't need to be compiled every user who has it on their system can run it right away and typical small configuration dialogs tend to run under 100KB. In fact most are under 40 KB and can be posted on our user list to ask questions.
Given that you have a Function Browser to point and click your way to finished scripts and you can also add any other scripting language you like, and you can draw your interface... Seems to me anything missing could be made by the average guy in a few hours. In fact many distributed programs are done by people who never wrote a line of code in their lives.
By Eric Laffoon at Fri, 2008/02/29 - 6:00am
Ubuntu Brainstorm and KDE (Kubuntu)
It's great to hear that my favorite desktop environment is winning in the polls. Congrats to all the hard working KDE devs out there, and a big thanks! I wanted to also let everyone know about Ubuntu Brainstorm at http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com. Right now "improving KDE support" only has 18 votes. Please vote that up so that Kubuntu can be more of a first class distro (I love Kubuntu, and all of the work put into it, and my hats off to Jon Riddell and all his fantastic work, but I'd love to see at least one more full time developer, and other stuff like a KDE interface to TimeVault coming out at the same time as the Gnome version). Maybe if enough of us vote this up, more support will be thrown Kubuntu's way. Thanks again to all the KDE folks for the best desktop hands down. Take care.
By scanady at Fri, 2008/02/29 - 6:00am
Re: Ubuntu Brainstorm and KDE (Kubuntu)
By Bráulio at Fri, 2008/02/29 - 6:00am
Re: Ubuntu Brainstorm and KDE (Kubuntu)
I voted too!
Unfortunately some people (who do not like KDE?!) voted against the proposal.
By HVB at Fri, 2008/02/29 - 6:00am
Re: Ubuntu Brainstorm and KDE (Kubuntu)
I voted, too.
I didn't know about this brainstorm thing, before. It might be a good idea to put these badges on a few websites. Maybe even at kubuntu.org...
By Sepp at Fri, 2008/02/29 - 6:00am
Re: Ubuntu Brainstorm and KDE (Kubuntu)
Totally agree!!!
By Max at Sun, 2008/03/02 - 6:00am
Re: (Kubuntu) - PLEASE VOTE
No kidding..
We need to vote on that.
Maybe Kubuntu won't be the red-headed-stepchild of Ubuntu anymore, and more people with flock to KDE.. :)
By Max at Fri, 2008/02/29 - 6:00am
Re: Ubuntu Brainstorm and KDE (Kubuntu)
I wonder if it isn't there on purpose on Kubuntu.org? This way less people show interest in Kubuntu. *conspiracy theory*
In other news.
By Max at Fri, 2008/02/29 - 6:00am
Re: Ubuntu Brainstorm and KDE (Kubuntu)
"I still haven't received my login password. I've been waiting 5 minutes for it now. Anybody else experience the same problem?"
Took me 15 minutes to get mine.
By anon at Fri, 2008/02/29 - 6:00am
Re: Ubuntu Brainstorm and KDE (Kubuntu)
I voted even though I'm an Ubuntu user.
What's up with their web site? why doesn't the Kubuntu one look like the nice Ubuntu one (with Kubuntu colors, of course)?
By yman at Fri, 2008/02/29 - 6:00am
Re: Ubuntu Brainstorm and KDE (Kubuntu)
My guess is because almost no staff is dedicated to the Kubuntu project.
By Max at Sun, 2008/03/02 - 6:00am
Re: Ubuntu Brainstorm and KDE (Kubuntu)
I think it's because they cite that there is "no demand" for KDE on Ubuntu/Kubuntu.
Part of it is because how well hidden it is. i.e.: The link is on Ubuntu, and NOT the Kubuntu website.
By Max at Sun, 2008/03/02 - 6:00am
Re: Ubuntu Brainstorm and KDE (Kubuntu)
Yeah, rocK on Kubuntu! Though, I really don't understand why some people say it is not pollished. Perhaps I am just a grateful user from the the RedHat 3 days. ;) It'll take a lot to get me to use an RPM based distro again. I don't care about all the YUM hype and what else they've got to make RPM functional. At least, it's competition.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed to KDE. KDE is a pleasure to use.
By winter at Sat, 2008/03/01 - 6:00am
Re: (Kubuntu)
I'm going on that website, as soon as I finish reading the dot.
Hope a lot of people here voted already.
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Kopete: Instant Messaging for KDE
After using Kopete 0.7 for a while, I decided to write a brief review of this instant messenger and its features (Spanish and Catalan editions also available). The article has even been updated now that Kopete 0.7.1 has been released. Thanks to Jason Keirstead for correcting mistakes in the article. Hope you enjoy it!
Excellent work!
I've been using Kopete ever since 0.6 and while it still crashes on occasions, it's pretty stable overall.
As far as the Ctrl+Enter behavior goes; I think you should allow the user to specify that in each plugin module. I for one like to hit enter and that's it; and I wasn't able to figure out how to do that so I got used to ctrl+enter now :)
I hope you support file transfer (send and receive) in all protocols.
Good luck!
By Jasem Mutlaq at Mon, 2003/08/18 - 5:00am
Re: Excellent work!
when in a chat window, go under the settings menu, select Configure Shortcuts and you can set the shortcut for Send message
By Aaron J. Seigo at Mon, 2003/08/18 - 5:00am
It is really getting better
Thanks for the great work, it used the crash quite often in the past, but since release 0.6 I am really happy with it. Being invited to a yahoo group chat still crashes kopete 0.7.1 though.
Regards, Joerg.
By Joerg Morbitzer at Mon, 2003/08/18 - 5:00am
There are many similar intant messenger tools for KDE, hmm? Which are usable?
By Gerd at Mon, 2003/08/18 - 5:00am
gaim vs kopete??? (feature sets)
ok, i dont wanna start a flamewar, but, i use gaim, and i find it pretty good... so why should i try kopete... real question, no trolling, no flaming...
i mean, if its got something that gaim doesnt, then maybe i should switch... superficially, kopete's icon looks a lot better than gaim... but i wanna know feature set difference...
im not kidding guys about this question... neither am i trolling or hoping to start a flamewar... just a real question...
By :-) at Mon, 2003/08/18 - 5:00am
Re: gaim vs kopete??? (feature sets)
Why? KDE look-n-leel and integration like the upcoming addressbook integration.
By Anonymous at Mon, 2003/08/18 - 5:00am
Re: gaim vs kopete??? (feature sets)
Because kopete is 10 times better (to me). It fits in to my KDE desktop far better. It responds to all my kde settings, it matches the look and feel, the way it works. It's prettier. It has those really nice notifications when I get a message. Basically, it's just a really cool program, and I can't even imagine the torture of having to use gaim after having used kopete.
Ok, ok - I guess you can tell that I really like it. But it's important to me that it fits into my kde desktop.
By TomL at Mon, 2003/08/18 - 5:00am
Re: gaim vs kopete??? (feature sets)
I like kopete better than gaim, but i find myself using gaim because kopete still crashes a lot.. I can't keep it up for more than a few hours! I know that gaim has been around for five years and kopete is quite immature, and I think it's a wonder that kopete has gotten so far in such a short time, but I'm waiting for a stable release of kopete before I switch full time from gaim.
By anon at Mon, 2003/08/18 - 5:00am
Re: gaim vs kopete??? (feature sets)
I have not used gaim in ages, but a couple of thoughts.
Kopete integrates nicely with KDE.
Still an alpha level. Tried conference on yahoo the other day. quick death
So why do I keep useing it.
By a.c. at Mon, 2003/08/18 - 5:00am
Re: gaim vs kopete??? (feature sets)
What a waste...Kopete still stinks, but it's an awesome test bed for new KDE integration. The program just stinks right now. Gaim is amazing, but doesn't integrate that well with KDE. Oh well, I will continue using it, because:
A.) It's a much more mature product, and works accordingly.
Pros for Kopete:
Ok, then, in the future I may use it, but for now, I'll go with the product that works better with a proven track record.
By Joe at Tue, 2003/08/19 - 5:00am
Re: gaim vs kopete??? (feature sets)
hell, i'd even use kopete right now if it didn't randomly crash :(
I know it's gone through a lot of big architectural changes, but I think it's time for a stablity track for 3.2 :)!
By anon at Tue, 2003/08/19 - 5:00am
Re: gaim vs kopete??? (feature sets)
I'm using Kopete exclusively for more then a month now. It crashed maybe 3-4 times, but I just restart it and continue the conversation :) it's much more stable then Licq which is what I used before.
By Anonymous at Tue, 2003/08/19 - 5:00am
Re: gaim vs kopete??? (feature sets)
I use Kopete all the time and it hardly ever crashes. Of course I only use one account on it (MSN).
But again, you guys are just saying what you do or don't like and nothing about why you like or dislike them or much of anything about the features. I'm going to have to look elsewhere to get more information.
By Anonymous at Sat, 2007/04/07 - 5:00am
Re: gaim vs kopete??? (feature sets)
idealistically you should get both, try them both out for a while and ditch one of them after a while. Trying out new things is what makes the computer industry so popular
By linux student at Tue, 2004/01/20 - 6:00am
Re: gaim vs kopete??? (feature sets)
I used to use Gaim. But then I compiled KDE 3.2. It really is beautiful. Hallelujah... Thanks KDE peeps. The arts issue does suck though. Well, I'm not really into sounds on my pc.
So Kopete is running flawlessy now. I notice no bugs yet. I'm not a major chatter. So you better find out yourself.
By on the edge at Mon, 2004/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: gaim vs kopete??? (feature sets)
I think one of the biggest hassles with instant messaging is that its tied to the computer. If Im away from the computer, like watching tv, I may miss an important IM. I can leave the speakers on the PC really loud, but then Im always jumping up and running back to the PC to read an incoming IM in case its important. Most of the time its not. I can subscribe to a service with my cell phonebut that costs money. So here is (I think) the perfect solution, and a good GAIM plug-in thats not too much work.
I just installed a Pluto Home system (plutohome.com). Its a free, open source smarthome and media server. You put Bluetooth dongles on all the pcs in your house, and then when you enter a room your Symbian Bluetooth phone turns into a remote control for everything in that room. It already tracks your movementif you start listening to music in 1 room, your music will follow you as you move with your phone to another room. And it already sends messages to the phone based on events. For example, when the song changes, the cover art shown on my phone changes to show me whats playing.
So that got me thinking Why not make a GAIM plugin for pluto so that whenever I get an IM, I see it on my Bluetooth phone? That way I can either type a reply on the phone, or go back to the computer if I want to use the keyboard, or ignore it if its not important. And Im not having to run back and forth to the computer to check IM. And its free since it uses Bluetooth! Plus, I think its such a real convenience it would be a great way to get people to switch to GAIM.
I talked to the programmers at Pluto and they said it would be really easy since their stuff is already written in small modules and plugins. However, since were all open source, we could also just take whatever pieces were useful and do something completely new using the same concept.
Many of the other GAIM projects listed are either specific for only some users (like Apple iChat), or would only be used by geeks (like the Perl interpreter). But not having to run back and forth to the computer is something everybody wants (imho). I dont see how to recommend a new idea for GAIM, so Ill just try the forums and hope somebody else likes it too.
By laurac at Wed, 2005/06/22 - 5:00am
Re: gaim vs kopete??? (feature sets)
I hope you are aware that 1) you are responsing to a two years old article and 2) that this site is not about GAIM at all.
By ac at Wed, 2005/06/22 - 5:00am
Re: gaim vs kopete??? (feature sets)
i liked that idea. and there should not be a time limit imposed on thoughts. if i had a bluetooth phone i'd go for it. i would love to play music on one , travel to the next room and it picks up where i left off (AND recieve the IMs im getting from the next room)
By Xander at Sun, 2005/07/24 - 5:00am
I can't seem to get to the article
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: page_header() in /home/httpd/vhosts/badopi.org/httpdocs/node.php on line 6
By TomL at Mon, 2003/08/18 - 5:00am
Sorry :-(
Sorry :-( Now it should work.
The webmaster was absent those days, and he returned just yesterday night, when I sent the new to the dot.
I'm talking with him just now (using kopete, of course ;-) ), and he told me that he's upgrading to drupal 4.2. The theme still doesn't works well.
Sorry for the inconveniences. Best regards.
By Alex at Mon, 2003/08/18 - 5:00am
Now it works
It's just that we were upgrading drupal 4.1 to 4.2.
I didn't know the article by Alex was hot.
By trukulo at Mon, 2003/08/18 - 5:00am
Re: I can't seem to get to the article
By jerry at Mon, 2003/08/18 - 5:00am
New URL!!!
Sorry!! :-(
As I said, the webmaster updated to drupal 4.2 recently, and the URL has changed a bit:
Sorry for the problems you have experienced.
By Alex at Mon, 2003/08/18 - 5:00am
IM ioslaves
I tried kopete 0.6 and there were some problems, but I hope they are fixed now (reading on the comments it's far more stable now), and when I boot to lin i will be able to use kopete instead of aim.
I like the integration that Netscape7 does and you have integrated borwser, mail and messenger. I will probably continue to use Netscape7 because I run on all platforms one and the same app with one and the same profile.
Let me explain what Netscape7 does, they have protocol aim: may be also they have icq: since it also supports icq. Also I am reading on the dot that kopete will be the "official" IM for KDE in the upcomming 3.2. I would be happy if konqueror has kioslaves/protocols for aim: icq: msn: yahoo: etc. Just like it does with mailto: protocol.
I am staying still crossplatform guy but want to feel comfortable when booting to linux, and of course will be waiting for the moment when konqueror will be ported to other platforms (+kopete eventually) and load the profile remotely exactly as NS does, for now NS is the crossplatform winner. (for now we have only KHTML/KJS, thanks to Apple)
Anyway, I beleive this ioslaves will be nice for kde, more than that kde has ioslaves for anything you guess, so it's some kind of tradition to make slave something:.
By Anton Velev at Mon, 2003/08/18 - 5:00am
Re: IM ioslaves
Integration should be what KDE gives you better for your desktop experience. Maybe just not yet?
Yours, Kay
By Debian User at Mon, 2003/08/18 - 5:00am
Re: IM ioslaves
By anon at Mon, 2003/08/18 - 5:00am
I've been using kopete for a while, but I discovered a wonderfull QT client named SIM (http://sim-icq.sourceforge.net/).
I just love it, even if it's only for ICQ.
By Philippe at Mon, 2003/08/18 - 5:00am
Re: SIM
I really have to agree here - SIM is a really, really great, just outstanding client. But altough it is around for awhile now it still seems to be a bit unknown so I am not ashamed to do a bit of promotion here. :)
On the one hand it is kept as "simple" as former ICQ Versions (pre 2k) were but on the other hand you don't miss a single feature - chat, filetransfer, SMS, you name it, it's there. (just saw in CVS that even ICQ2Go alike visualization if the other side is just typing has been implemented...
So for everyone out there who hasn't at least tried it yet - http://sim-im.sf.net and give it a try. I would even prefer it over Trillian and the official ICQ Win clients.
Oh, and sure - it has got a QT GUI and integrates very nice into KDE!
By Anonymous Coward at Mon, 2003/08/18 - 5:00am
Re: SIM
SIM has a lot of features... just look around ;)
By Crissi at Mon, 2003/08/25 - 5:00am
Re: SIM
Sorry - SIM is a cool application for ICQ but doesn´t work for yahoo.
By Franklin Weng at Tue, 2005/02/01 - 6:00am
Not ready yet, but getting there!
I really want to replace gaim with kopete on my KDE desktop. However, yahoo plugin obviously needs some more work (too many bugs). Maybe a childish request but smileys also need improvement; they are an integral part of IM experience. People complain about stability but due to bugs and lack of functionality, I had not the opportunity to try it over significant amounts of time.
In its current form (0.7.1), Kopete is not ready for prime-time. I think it is getting there fast though, and it is nice to hear that many developers are working on it.
Waiting for a stable fully featured version. Go Kopete team!
By tarelax at Mon, 2003/08/18 - 5:00am
Re: Not ready yet, but getting there!
I've noticed that PhpBB and some other open-source apps also have ugly smilies. What's with the smilies we see in UBB and in other IMs? Are they copyrighted or something?
By Anonymous at Tue, 2003/08/19 - 5:00am
Re: Not ready yet, but getting there!
What issues do you have with the yahoo plugin? IIRC, there are only approximatly 5 or so bugs and wishes, and I'm in the process of fixing the smiley issues right now (I'm the plugin maintainer). If you see bugs with the yahoo plugin, please file a bug if one doesn't exist or vote for one if you're having the same problem (Don't send bugs to me directly, since I can't keep track of them all).
By Matt Rogers at Tue, 2003/08/19 - 5:00am
Re: Not ready yet, but getting there!
My main problem with yahoo is it's lack of firewall support.
Thanks for your work so far.
By E Soder at Wed, 2003/08/20 - 5:00am
Pet peeve
A little pet peeve of mine regarding Kopete:
From the Kopete FAQ (http://kopete.kde.org/index.php?page=faq)
"Kopete's name comes from the chilean word Copete."
Copete is a spanish word. In Chile they speak spanish. Maybe that's where the confusion came from.
Here's the link to the entry for 'copete' in the Real Academia dictionary:
By the way, Kopete, the program is really nice. Has not crashed on me yet.
By Ariel Arjona at Mon, 2003/08/18 - 5:00am
Re: Pet peeve
Copete is surely spanish, but Kopete was named not in that context.
By Duncan Mac-Vicar P. at Wed, 2003/08/20 - 5:00am
Re: Pet peeve
I have a question. Are the creators of Kopete Chileans???
By CAMILO at Wed, 2008/07/23 - 5:00am
Re: Pet peeve
The original author is indeed Chilean, though he hasn't been around much the last few years.
By SadEagle at Wed, 2008/07/23 - 5:00am
Re: Pet peeve
Erm, and he would be the one whose post you replied to.
By SadEagle at Wed, 2008/07/23 - 5:00am
Re: Pet peeve
I think this word is really funny in my language (Indonesia). If you take the "pete" out of the word (scientific word: Parkia speciosa), it will mean a plant used in culinary. When u eat this "pete" (actually, the official word is "petai"), you will get bad breath and sometimes when u (sorry) pass a gas, it will be very terrible.
By Alvin at Wed, 2008/11/19 - 6:00am
Re: Pet peeve
You should lobby the Royal Academy to include the Chilean slang meaning of "copete" in their dictionary. :-)
By Jordi Gutiérrez... at Sat, 2008/04/12 - 5:00am
How about an option to embed Kopete in a Konqueror sidebar? That'd be awesome :D.
By Sho at Mon, 2003/08/18 - 5:00am
Re: Idea
Yes, that'd be nice indeed. Especially now due to bugreport 56945 which Joseph realized by creating a sidebar applet for Kicker in CVS. =)
By Datschge at Tue, 2003/08/19 - 5:00am
Re: Idea
I'd just *love* to surf around with Konqueror and have Kopete in a sidebar panel of the same window.
By Sho at Tue, 2003/08/19 - 5:00am
Kopete still doesnt do file transfers!!!
Even at the KDE 3.2 kopete level, you still dont get file transfers.
I mean, i love kopete, the way it works the way it looks, but cmon!!!! An instant messenger MUST have file transfers, its not an option, its a requirement!
Until Kopete gets file transfers, noone will take it seriously.
And for all of you who are planning on replying that there are file transfers in kopete, the Send File feature hardly ever works. If i send lets say 5 files, usually only one gets through. And even with that feature, its still only send! You cannot receive any files.
I think when this program was created, file transfers should have been one of the first features implemented next to sending messages. How anoying is it to constantly have to go to email to send someone a mp3 or a picture.
By Euphorix at Sat, 2004/01/03 - 6:00am


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Is there a God? Where do the animals, plants and human beings come from? Are scriptures the words of gods? Does religion teach us to live moral lives? Why do so many people kill and are killed over it? How should we live our lives if God exists? How should we live it if God does NOT exist?
This book explores the truth behind our beliefs in God and the propensity of human beings to be religious. In an honest attempt to seek the answers to life's deepest questions, I probe into how life began. I then progress to investigate the true nature of religions and their impact on our lives and the rest of humanity.
The main purpose of this book is not to argue against religion. Rather, it tells our story and how we have come to oppress ourselves with the tyranny of our own beliefs. I wrote this book to include everything I discovered to be relevant in my search for the truth, not just the truth behind God and morality, but also behind us and our existence. Instead of reading this book with the expectation that it is trying to prove the tyranny of God, I would like to recommend you read it as a story book: as a book that tells the story of humanity from the Big Bang.
"While Comelab's writing is always moderate in tone, its message clearly undermines current distractions with accommodationist arguments towards presumed religious "moderates". It is written with the fresh confidence of a young man who has had early success in his adopted country and only recently come to realise the truth of atheism. For those like me whose only worry about Atheism has long been its faultering progress, Comelab reminds us that much of the energy must continue to come from those who have more recently learned the truth. He seems more than bright enough to soon progress to seeing atheism not as an end but as a starting point to the kind of understanding that should enable us to work towards a future incomparably better than any heaven the faithful can imagine."
Its beyond my imagination that you can put it all together in a book. Two thumbs up! You can not imagine what happen when I first read the title of your book, and got excited about it and kept reading until dawn. I commend you in putting so much effort to collecting data and put it together to support your idea.
How can I say this... your book is really ME in here, existing to tell, spread, and contradict but in very small area only (very limited, considering my country religion majority). Most of it can only be talked between my family member and close friends. Your book provides BEAUTIFUL BITTER TRUTH : that is how I would sum it up.
I called it beautiful because it opens up the very shell of a religions and the implications it caused over the past hundred, even thousands of years. I cannot describe with my limited english skill the insight your book has shown. But I am AFRAID your book WILL NEVER SPREAD TO MY COUNTRY. It will cause a massive attacks and chaos from the religious majority. I feel happy but the same time sad, really sad...Well again I cannot say THANK YOU ENOUGH.
- J. A. (Indonesia)
This book has taught me so much about evolution, the history of religions and the effect is has on our modern day society! The author shares his personal journey as a believer and provides much needed "food for thought". I recommend this book to all those who want to form their own opinion about believing or not believing.
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The Fit Expert
Rebecca, Dustin & Laura from our Chicago store says:
Stunning as always, the Paris is one sexy yet easy to wear heel thanks to cleverly hidden platform and incognito rubber sole. Very true to size in length with a delicate toe box that will need to break in. Stepping up in size is not recommended.
Since the invention of the very first tiny black dress, the classic pump has been the perfect accompaniment and the combination even inspired the very first eyebrow raise from the Royal Court. John drew the Paris with an understated, timeless rounded toe, tunite soles and a sensible & elegant 4" curvy leather wrapped heel, complete with a small platform for comfort as you walk your small dogs down the Champs Elysees. Featuring leathers in smooth or faux-devilfish finishes, or in embossed patterned suedes, The Paris attracted unrelenting attention. With these pumps, John brought back the true pret-a-porter experience!
Rebecca, Dustin & Laura from our Chicago store says:
Stunning as always, the Paris is one sexy yet easy to wear heel thanks to cleverly hidden platform and incognito rubber sole. Very true to size in length with a delicate toe box that will need to break in. Stepping up in size is not recommended.
Please Bring These Back!!
SUPER CUTE!! Fits Tight.
Lovely Shoes!
I own these in every color
Color not pink/flesh
love these - so comfortable!
review and question
Fibromyalgia Sufferer Finds Love With Heels Again!!!
Sexy Mama
Sizing is all over the place, but...
Ok, so I wanted these for an event and of course I waited until the last minute, finding that the red (my desired color) was only available in a 10.5 (my usual 'Vog size in Bellevues, Minis, and Baroques). I called Rachel in Chicago bc her name and store were listed in the comments regarding these running true to size (my *true* size is a 10). Rachel was really worried these would be too big, but I didn't have time to risk a return (and there were no 10s in the red anyway). We talked it over and I ordered the 10 in burgundy and the 10.5 in red, both from Union Square, and overnighted them (with the intention of returning the ill fitting one)
Imagine my surprise when BOTH fit
The red leather is really tough, and there is no way a 10 would have fit. The length and width are fine at that size. The 10 in purple was a little tight in the toe box, but length was still perfect (so strange). This was suede, though, and suede will stretch. After 90 minutes wearing them in my living room, they were loosening up. I still wore the reds to the event, and they didn't seem to loosen much. After 4 hours in them, my feet weren't terribly uncomfortable. This is the first 4" heel I've been able to walk in, EVER. It has no arch support, and after several hours you will start getting aches (but, guys, its a 4" heel... What do you expect?). Overall, a beautiful shoe with a drop dead gorgeous silhouette. The wood heel on the purple embossed suede makes it look like a royal piece of furniture, something to be displayed in a curio cabinet, not on the feet. I love them! Thinking of getting a 3rd in the devilfish...
Thanks, Rachel, for being so helpful!!
Getting Married In these beauties
Fit pretty much true to size(I often have to go up a size in vogs), leather is very comfortable and the platform makes all the difference. They cost more than my wedding dress and are more than worth it!
wicked stepsister moment
Too narrow
Very sad. If you have average to wider feet, make sure to try these on first as chances are they'll be too narrow.
beautiful shoes, a pinch too high for me
Sexiest Pump Ever!!
Drool Worthy
Bought these for my wedding
LOVE these shoes!
I'm a 6.5 in the Teapots so the 6.5 worked for me in these as well.
Cannot wait to wear these out an about some more!
Gorgeous, but odd sizing for sure.
They're not quite as sparkly as I thought they'd be, which is honestly a point in their favour - actual sequins would have been over the top I think.
Fit is pretty standard "runs small" for me, I got them in a 9.5. I tend to order operetta and mini heels in a 9, while skinnier heels like teapots and bellevues I go for a 9.5. My foot is shorter and wider than average and a 9.5 in these fit nicely.
Pink Paris
I don't wear alot of heels but from the look and the raving reviews I thought these would be just perfect!! They arrived today and I could not wait to try them on....I couldn't even get my foot into them!
I normally wear a size 8 so I bought an 8 1/2 to make sure and honestly I feel like one of the ugly step sisters trying to squeeze my big fat foot into these Cinderella worthy shoes!
I don't have wide feet and always fit comfortably into store bought 8's...why are these so incredibly tight?
Huge HUGE let down as these are my very first pair of Fluevogs (:`(
sexy, stunning, yet suitable for work!
These shoes are conservative enough for my office, but the sexy curve of the heel gives them a beautiful look that always gets compliments. (Actually, ALL my Fluevogs get compliments in the office, on the street, etc., haha!) They give me long, slender-looking legs. I really want them in the devilfish colours now, for after work!
I did NOT have to order up a half size -- if anything, these fit a bit big on me, but some nice gel cushions on the heels and in the toes ought to solve that.
So bummed!
Best Impulse Buy Ever
Classic and Beautiful
The Perfect Shoe
Absolutely fabulous!!!
This is the first slip on pump that has ever actually worked on my tricky feet!
The Spring 2011 edition of this style is amazing! The toebox top is a little higher, meaning I can actually fit my feet into them (in my "true size" even!)AND the sole is now RUBBER, not a "hard sole" which means they are really cushy! The leather is beautiful too, it's hard to really see it in the photos, in person it is suede with shiny "dots" meant to simulate sting-ray skin (or a really groovy Formica counter-top!)If you passed these by last year because of the smallish, tight fit, do yourself a favor and try the new ones! I love "Paris" in the springtime, and you will too!
Some like it hot...
Great shoe!
Do they get more comfortable?
Sexy, Sexy shoes. On or off!
As for size: Generally speaking, whatever your in between sizes are, take the half up.
Though I'd definitely prefer to be sitting with these on, I absolutely need to be seen in them. They're just gorgeous and they make me feel like a princess! ]:o)
Comments everywhere!
Definitely grabs attention...
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In the world of financial planning, it appears that Father really does know best — if he's a qualified advisor.
Financial planning writer Emily Guy Birken reminisced recently on personal finance website Wise Bread about the money wisdom that her dad, a certified financial planner, passed on to her before he died earlier this year. Birken's father, Jim Guy, a first executive vice president and chief marketing officer at Cambridge Investment Research in Fairfield, Iowa, joined Cambridge's executive group in 1999, and served at the broker-dealer level while continuing to lead his Baltimore-based independent practice alongside his wife and business partner, Helen.
What strikes Guy's daughter today, even though she is now a 34-year-old woman who "grew up imbibing financial wisdom with my applesauce," is how incredibly intimidated she felt the first time she met with an advisor who was not her father.
"No matter how much you may already know before you set foot in an advisor's office, you will still probably encounter unfamiliar financial jargon and advice whose soundness you feel like you have no way of judging," Birken writes in "Investment Advice You Should Never Hear From Your Financial Advisor." "Trusting an advisor with your finances is no time to pretend you have knowledge that you don't."
Birken's first advice for investors is to arm themselves against bad or inappropriate advice by asking a lot of questions before making a decision.
"My dad really taught me to be cautious," Birken said Monday in a phone interview with ThinkAdvisor. "I'm very cautious almost to the point of being paranoid about risk. You really have to know a person's motivation to know why they're offering you something."
Clearly, her thoughts struck a chord: Birken's blog post has already been shared 22 times on Twitter, and one of those tweeters is Rick Kahler, president of Kahler Financial, Rapid City, S.D., a well-known and respected name in the advisor industry.
"She nailed some major issues to look out for," Kahler said Monday in a phone interview. "I'm in financial therapy, and I've seen tremendous sadness in people over what their parents didn't tell them about money, and they feel totally unprepared for life in the 21st century, where money is so important."
Kahler added that he also liked Birken's blog post because she talks about the relationship that can occur between a child and a parent who is an advisor. "She said things my kids could totally relate to," he said, then joked, "My kids will be doing therapy over the excessive amount of information I give them and the fact that their dad can turn any conversation into money."
Keep reading to learn about Emily Guy Birken's "Investment Advice You Should Never Hear From Your Financial Advisor" and Rick Kahler's thoughts on Birken's tips for investors.
1. "You can assume an X% return on your investment."
"You may recall the brouhaha over financial guru Dave Ramsey's claim that investors can expect a 12% return on their investment over time," writes Emily Guy Birken in her Wise Bread blog post, "Investment Advice You Should Never Hear From Your Financial Advisor." "While many have (rightly) criticized the math (or lack thereof) that Ramsey uses to make such a claim, the bigger problem with this kind of advice is the fact that it's making assumptions that no one can guarantee. As every financial advisor worth his salt will tell you, past performance does not guarantee future results."
Kahler Financial President Rick Kahler agrees that guaranteeing a return is always problematic.
"It depends how it's framed, and it's important to say there are no guarantees," Kahler said in a phone interview. "To tell somebody you may expect a good return over 20 to 30 years if you have a diversified portfolio and leave it alone, that's fine. But it's another thing to say you can go to the bank with a 6%-8% stock fund, which Dave Ramsey still stands by today. I've taken him to task on that." 2. "Don't worry about the cost of this product! You pay nothing."
"There is nothing wrong with working with a planner or advisor who is commission-based — but every client needs to know how their planner is getting paid," Birken writes. "If all you hear from your advisor is that you don't need to worry your pretty little head about payment, then it's time to head off into the sunset. Because generally the only reason your advisor will harp on the fact that you pay nothing out of pocket is because they want to conceal their sales incentives."
Kahler noted that every time he writes about annuities, he gets hate email from both advisors and clients who object to his assertion that it's impossible for the cost of a financial product to be zero:
"I asked one advisor, 'who pays you?,' and he said, 'the company,' and then I asked, 'and who pays the company?' and he said, 'it's none of your business.' I analyzed one annuity with an annual fee of 7.04% — and yet some people believe they're 'not paying anything.' If someone says there's no fee, it's time to run away." 3. "I can customize a stock portfolio for you."
The average financial planner isn't in the business of stock-picking, Birken writes. Even with mutual funds managers whose job it is to pick stocks, she adds, evidence suggests that in many years, passive investing in index funds can beat more than half of active managers.
"Stock picking is not an exact science, and even the people who do it (and nothing else) for a living are wrong about half the time," she says. "If your advisor tells you she can do this for you, then prepare for disappointment."
Kahler agreed with Birken, and like her pointed to the value of a good asset allocation strategy.
"I served on the South Dakota Investment Council," Kahler noted, "and the analysts there followed 150 companies at that time, and they felt overworked, because the average Wall Street analyst followed only 20 or 30 companies. How can one retail broker advise anybody on which stocks to invest in when there are thousands of them? The research leans toward the best choice being a passive strategy in an index fund with periodic rebalancing of the asset allocation." 4. "There is no risk!" or "You really need to act now."
Both of these phrases are hallmarks of a hard sell rather than "legitimate advice you could expect to hear from a financial advisor," Birken writes. "Saying that any particular investment strategy is completely risk-free is an out-and-out lie. All investing involves some risk, and a good advisor will help you to figure out your level of risk tolerance and customize your investment strategy based on what risk you are willing to accept."
As for Kahler's thoughts on the hard sell? "There is risk in everything," he said. "There is risk in putting money in a bank. Maybe you don't have a default risk, but you have inflation risk. Those are runaway words. Every guarantee costs you something."
– Check out Top Advisor Blasts RIAs, Brokers in New Book on ThinkAdvisor.


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Doppler Tuning Algorithm for Gpredict
- 1 Objectives
- 2 Requirements
- 3 Configurations
- 4 Operating Modes
- 5 The Controller Algorithm
- 6 Implementation
- 7 Tests
- 8 Conclusion
The first beta version of Gpredict 1.0 included a simple Doppler tuning algorithm that could adjust the receiver frequency and even take external frequency changes (e.g. tuning dial) into account. While it was a very good first cut at automatic Doppler tuning, the shortcomings were quickly identified. For example, it didn't take the PTT status for simplex radios into account and so Gpredict kept on sending RX correction commands to the radio even when the user was trying to transmit.
Clearly, a more sophisticated algorithm is needed and this page describes the design and prototyping of that algorithm.
- Gpredict shall be able to perform Doppler tuning for both uplink and downlink.
- Gpredict shall be able to take external frequency changes into account, e.g. when the user turns the dial.
- Gpredict shall be able to perform Doppler tuning using a receiver, a transmitter, a simplex transceiver, a duplex transceiver — or any combination of these (i.e. separate device for uplink and downlink).
- Gpredict shall take into account that there might be transverters in the loop.
In order to configure a radio device for use, the user has to specify:
- The host name where rigctld is running
- The port number of the rigctld server
- The radio type, i.e. whether it is RIG_TYPE_RX, RIG_TYPE_TX, RIG_TYPE_TRX or RIG_TYPE_DUPLEX
- The conversion frequencies for the transverters, if any.
Operating Modes
The operating mode for the controller depends on what kind of radio is used. For now, the following options are considered:
- Receiver Mode
- The radio is only a receiver or a transceiver where tuning via CAT is only possible in receive mode. In this case, Gpredict shall perform Doppler tuning on the downlink only.
- Transmitter Mode
- The radio is only used as transmitter only. Tuning via CAT must be possible in transmit mode. Gpredict shall perform Doppler tuning on the uplink only.
- Simplex Mode
- The radio can be tuned via CAT both in receive and transmit modes. Gpredict will perform Doppler tuning on the downlink and uplink depending on the PTT setting.
- Duplex Mode
- The radio is a full duplex transceiver like the IC-910H or FT-847. Gpredict will perform continuous Doppler tuning using VFO_MAIN for uplink and VFO_SUB on the downlink regardless of the PTT setting.
- Dual RIG Mode
- This mode has been introduced to allow using two different radios at the same time: One for downlink (primary device) and one for uplink (secondary device). This is kind of full duplex mode
The Controller Algorithm
The control algorithm will need the following parameters:
- Doppler
- The current Doppler shift at 100 MHz.
- SatRX
- The downlink frequency at the satellite. This is set by the user on the Gpredict control panel or automatically if the uplink and downlink frequencies are locked, or if RadioRX is changed externally (e.g. via tuning dial).
- SatTX
- The uplink frequency at the satellite. This is set by the user on the Gpredict control panel or automatically if the uplink and downlink frequencies are locked, or if RadioTX is changed externally (e.g. via tuning dial).
- RadioRX
- The downlink frequency of the radio.
- RadioTX
- The uplink frequency of the radio.
- RadioPTT
- The PTT status of the radio. When available, this is used to switch between RadioRX and RadioTX tuning on simplex radios.
- UsePTT
- Flag indicating whether the PTT status on the radio should be polled and taken into acount (i.e. don't set RadioRX when RadioPTT = true).
- PrevRX
- The RadioRX frequency set during the previous cycle. This can be different than RadioRX in that the user may have turned the tuning dial since the last cycle.
- PrevTX
- The RadioTX frequency set during the previous cycle. This can be different than RadioTX in that the user may have turned the tuning dial since the last cycle.
There are also other user interface parameters like Engage and Track that influence the overall functionality, but these parameters are outside the scope of the controller algorithm.
Receiver Mode
In this mode the radio is used for reception only even if it is a transceiver. The reason could be that frequency setting via CAT is not possible in transmit mode as would be the case for the FT-817.
Pseudo code
/* Receiver chain */ read RadioRX; if (RadioRX != PrevRX) update SatRX; calculate SatTX if locked to SatRX; PrevRX = RadioRX; else /* update Doppler correction */ RadioRX += SatRX * Doppler / 100 MHz; PrevRX = RadioRX; write RadioRX; endif;
Transmitter Mode
In this mode the radio is used for uplink only even if it is a transceiver. A prerequisite for this mode is the the frequency can be adjusted via CAT in transmit mode.
Pseudo code
/* Transmitter chain */ read RadioTX; if (RadioTX != PrevTX) update SatTX; calculate SatRX if locked to SatTX; PrevTX = RadioTX; else /* update Doppler correction */ RadioTX += SatTX * Doppler / 100 MHz; PrevTX = RadioTX; write RadioTX; endif;
Simplex Mode
In this situation the user uses the same radio for uplink and downlink but in simplex mode, i.e. can not receive and transmit at the same time. The prerequisites for this mode are:
- Radio is set to split mode. Gpredict will not care about VFO A and B — it will simply send uplink or downlink correction to the active VFO.
- RadioPTT can be read
- Radio can receive SET_FREQ commands via CAT in both receive and transmit modes.
Pseudo code
/* Are we in RX mode? */ if (RadioPTT = false) read RadioRX; /* did user change RX frequency on dial? */ if (RadioRX != PrevRX) update SatRX; calculate SatTX if locked to SatRX; PrevRX = RadioRX; else /* update Doppler correction */ RadioRX += SatRX * Doppler / 100 MHz; PrevRX = RadioRX; write RadioRX; endif; else /* we are in TX mode */ read RadioTX; /* did user change TX frequency on dial? */ if (RadioTX != PrevTX) update SatTX; calculate SatRX if locked to SatTX; PrevTX = RadioTX; else /* update Doppler correction */ RadioTX += SatTX * Doppler / 100 MHz; PrevTX = RadioTX; write RadioTX; endif; endif;
Note that it is left to the user to set the split mode up on the radio.
Full-Duplex Mode
In this mode, gpredict updates both uplink and downlink frequencies continuously and at the same time regardless of the RadioPTT setting. To implement this algorithm, the current full-duplex radios were investigated.
- Rig must be in duplex mode but not SAT mode to avoid auto-tracking by the radio. VFO_SUB is used for reception VFO_MAIN is used for transmission. In hamlib this can be done calling set_vfo before set_freq / get_freq – it will not toggle the vfo on the radio but simply change the target VFO in the rig.
- Rig must be in SAT mode but TRACKING disabled! VFO_MAIN is RX and VFO_SUB is TX.
- something
Pseudo code
To be written
Dual RIG Mode
This is a full duplex mode using two radios. The controller algorithm is very simple:
Execute RX mode controller using primary device Execute TX mode controller using the secondary device
However, in reality there needs to be an interaction between the uplink and downlink controller, in particular if a particular frequency in the transponder passband is tracked. For example, if the user changes the dial on the receiver, the uplink shall follow along. So the complete logic for dual RIG mode is:
- If RX dial has changed
- Update downlink transponder frequency
- Update uplink transponder frequency
- Update transmitter frequency
- Else
- Perform forward tracking on downlink
- If uplink dial has changed
- Update uplink transponder frequency
- Update downlink transponder frequency
- Update receiver frequency
- Else
- Perform forward tracking ono uplink
- Endif
- Endif
Okay, the logic is slightly complicated, but if it works it will surely kick some ass!
Tests on the RX, TX, and Simplex modes were carried out using an FT-817 (RX only), as well as an IC-765 (RX, TX, Simplex). The FT-817 supports get_ptt via CAT, while the IC-765 does not. However, the IC-765 was connected using a microham USB II interface, which support PTT via the RTS line. The hamlib setup for this was:
rigctl -m 329 -r /dev/ttyUSB0 --set-conf=dtr_state=OFF,rts_state=OFF --ptt-file=/dev/ttyUSB0 --ptt-type=RTS
Unfortunately, this allows PTT to be set and read, but it does not read correctly when PTT is set using the radio front panel. So this option was abandoned.
Later I have found out, that I can use the
get_dcd command to read a kind-of PTT status. Kind-of only, because the microham USB II interface actually returns the status of the squelch on the CTS line, and squelch is closed during transmission. To configure hamlib:
rigctld -m 329 -t 4533 -r /dev/ttyUSB0 -d /dev/ttyUSB0 --dcd-type=CTS --set-conf=dtr_state=OFF,rts_state=OFF -vvvvv
– that is use /dev/ttyUSB0 as DCD device and make DCD type CTS.
Radio Confiogurations
Note that the screenshot below does not reflect the IC-765 being set up as a simplex transceiver (that happened later in the test campaign).
RX Only Test
This option was tested using:
- FT-817 with PTT feedback ON
- IC-765 with PTT feedback OFF
During the test and error was discovered that caused the controller to be very confused and go into a mode when it was continuously updating the downlink frequency. This was only observed on the FT-817; both the Dummy backend and the IC-765 worked fine. Investigations showed that this was because the smallest tuning step the FT-817 can take is 10 Hz, thus the read frequency was almost always different from the one that has been set in the previous cycle.
The problem was solved by adding an extra
get_freq_simplex() right after setting the new frequency, and using the read back value as
The updated version of the code is available in r238.
TX Only Test
This mode was tested using the IC-765 configured as TX only device, no PTT feedback.
After a minor correction was made (ptt = TRUE by default), the controller worked just fine as it should!
Simplex Test
Setting up hamlib to read CTS signal as DCD:
rigctld -m 329 -t 4533 -r /dev/ttyUSB0 -d /dev/ttyUSB0 --dcd-type=CTS --set-conf=dtr_state=OFF,rts_state=OFF -vvvvv
The Simplex TRX controller was thus tested using the IC-765 and it worked perfectly! Works using both split or same VFO.
Duplex TRX Test
To be done
Dual RIG Test
Receiver: FT-817
Transmitter: IC-765
Works fine!