If you like that, might I suggest going to Twitter? You'll get much better coverage from many more people in a medium made for that kind of communication.
It's been a staple food of humanity for 10,000 years. It's the reason civilization exists. Liquid bread that keeps for a long, long time.
Of course humanity only recently started living past 35.
Ummm... I just took the ten seconds to install the Moonlight plugin for Firefox 3 (running under Ubuntu 8.04 i386). After I'm done watching the presidential inauguration, what precisely is stopping me from continuing to use the plugin to interact with other Silverlight-based content?
Perhaps other content requires features not yet implemented. Are they using DRM for the inauguration? I doubt it. Do most silverlight videos use DRM? Yes. That's kind of it's selling point right now due to Adobe's buggy easily circumvented DRM.
I love Linux and run it on many computers at home, and have never been particularly fond of Microsoft, but you really have to give this to them. It's more open than what Adobe have to offer and they're being far more cooperative than Adobe generally were. Remember, mono/moonlight are *open source*.. not even just a binary blob provided by Microsoft.
More open that what Adobe has to offer? Microsoft isn't offering Moonlight, so that's not really a fair comparison.
There have been open source Flash implementations for years. The only reason they aren't at feature parity with proprietary Flash is that Adobe actually releases it's software on Linux. Had they not, then Gnash would probably be much further along, if not at total feature parity.
In essence you're giving credit to Microsoft for not releasing Silverlight for Linux.
Well Gnome's entire existence owes itself to reinventing the wheel.
It's kind of ironic now that QT is going LGPL and Gnome has come down with a bad case of Mono.
There's no reason that version of DirectX can't run on XP. If you want to let microsoft extory money out of you by holding your games hostage, be my guest.
I'm buying OpenGL games.
That's why I originally installed an Ampache server. It's Cross-platform, uses mysql, and has most of the features I want.
Now that Amarok itself is cross-platform, I just hooked my Ampache to it (only works on the newest version), and now I have the best of both worlds.
I could just move my data off the Ampache server, but I have become accustomed to being able to play music on my friends' Ampache servers as well.
Now my music is portable AND I can use Amarok. Best of both worlds.
There's no reason to wait until summer, unless you think you'll finish and release your app by then. Write it with QT, then fix whatever breaks (likely nothing at all).
Your solution to the need to bundle codecs with apps is to use an app that comes with a bundle of codecs? Won't pretty much all of them need to do that now?
VLC might just lose one of it's strongest distinctions.
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If you like that, might I suggest going to Twitter? You'll get much better coverage from many more people in a medium made for that kind of communication.
They're already blind.
Yep, all this fanfare for nothing.
I have one word for you: microfiche.
And where else can partisan zealots harp on and on for 40 years about a single traffic fatality? Seriously, it's been 40 years. Let it go already.
Slashdot is not Twitter. We don't care.
It's been a staple food of humanity for 10,000 years. It's the reason civilization exists. Liquid bread that keeps for a long, long time. Of course humanity only recently started living past 35.
Case about what? Reinventing the wheel? Gnome abandoning it's original reason for existence? The tables turning?
Ummm... I just took the ten seconds to install the Moonlight plugin for Firefox 3 (running under Ubuntu 8.04 i386). After I'm done watching the presidential inauguration, what precisely is stopping me from continuing to use the plugin to interact with other Silverlight-based content?
Perhaps other content requires features not yet implemented. Are they using DRM for the inauguration? I doubt it. Do most silverlight videos use DRM? Yes. That's kind of it's selling point right now due to Adobe's buggy easily circumvented DRM.
I love Linux and run it on many computers at home, and have never been particularly fond of Microsoft, but you really have to give this to them. It's more open than what Adobe have to offer and they're being far more cooperative than Adobe generally were. Remember, mono/moonlight are *open source*.. not even just a binary blob provided by Microsoft.
More open that what Adobe has to offer? Microsoft isn't offering Moonlight, so that's not really a fair comparison. There have been open source Flash implementations for years. The only reason they aren't at feature parity with proprietary Flash is that Adobe actually releases it's software on Linux. Had they not, then Gnash would probably be much further along, if not at total feature parity. In essence you're giving credit to Microsoft for not releasing Silverlight for Linux.
Well Gnome's entire existence owes itself to reinventing the wheel. It's kind of ironic now that QT is going LGPL and Gnome has come down with a bad case of Mono.
You could use Pentaho with one of the SAP plugins.
So remove IE and replace it with wget.
Inkheart premiered in Berlin on December 6th.
The technique is outlawed TODAY. It's never been legal.
There's no reason that version of DirectX can't run on XP. If you want to let microsoft extory money out of you by holding your games hostage, be my guest. I'm buying OpenGL games.
Alcohol IS food.
Troll...
Use != distribution. That's not hair splitting.
That's why I originally installed an Ampache server. It's Cross-platform, uses mysql, and has most of the features I want. Now that Amarok itself is cross-platform, I just hooked my Ampache to it (only works on the newest version), and now I have the best of both worlds. I could just move my data off the Ampache server, but I have become accustomed to being able to play music on my friends' Ampache servers as well. Now my music is portable AND I can use Amarok. Best of both worlds.
There's no reason to wait until summer, unless you think you'll finish and release your app by then. Write it with QT, then fix whatever breaks (likely nothing at all).
(the GPL isn't "give back your changes to my code", which would be fine, but rather "give me your code")
The GPL doesn't affect the ownership of code at all, you still own the copyright and thus still own the code.
The GPL doesn't tell you what you can do with your code. It doesn't cover use of the code at all, only distribution.
Motorola is focusing on Android and Windows Mobile.
Your solution to the need to bundle codecs with apps is to use an app that comes with a bundle of codecs? Won't pretty much all of them need to do that now? VLC might just lose one of it's strongest distinctions.