Yes. My very powerful tower can play 1080p x264 just time on VLC. It's my laptop and media PC that needed the help. But for the media center I switched to XBMC, which works great.
Those little floating toolbars are the most annoying things in the world. Every time I try to do something they're in the way. And I find docked to be much more elegant than something that you can't figure out where to put so you just leave it floating.
I was sooo happy when Photoshop (CS3?) moved to dockable toolbars. They even did a really nice job of it. And they left the choice open to the user. Why restrict someone that might have a different working style?
This is also one of the big things keeping me from using OSX as my main OS. That and the common ribbon menu at the top... Apps should be in their single main window, with the occasional popup.
But I do love the contextual inspector palettes like in M$ Office and SolidWorks.
The people behind Wikileaks aren't anonymous, don't need to be, and have chosen not to be. They are trying to provide a way for whistleblowers to be anonymous, which is what would keep someone from coming forward with whatever leak.
So yes, it IS really anonymous for those that want/need to be.
I found a piece of software available for purchase on eBay once. The seller had taken screenshots of some software for simple image editing (or something similar) and blurred out the title bar trying to hide the name. There was still enough information to find out that software he was selling was open source and freely available on sourceforge. I confronted him, using the "Ask seller a question" feature and he replied saying the GPL (or similar) allowed him to charge a fee for providing the software.
This will be a completely different class of iPhone. They don't want to make a small iPhone, they want a cheap iPhone. That means say goodbye to all the fun UI stuff that has made the iPhone so good because they'll probably make it an iPhone wheel (think MacBook wheel).
Then they will be pushed to developing games for linux.
With games developed for a linux based console, it would be an easy switch (if not trivial) to distribute them to linux PCs. That's part of why the windows + xbox releases are so easy to make.
Though M$ likes that they have control over industry and won't give it up without a fight.
Maybe not as easy as you think. Watch the videos; they've come up with some very clever ways that the voting machines can tamper with the paper trail.
This was just an exploit of crappy programming and an ineffective paper log on Sequoia's part and not an indication that the principle of a paper trail is flawed. For instance, in the case when the voter leaves before actually casting their vote and it is then voided could easily be avoided by making the voter aware that their vote hasn't been cast until X. If they don't bother to ensure that X happens, it's their fault. It's equivalent to handing your ballot to someone without staying to watch them drop it in the machine. If that is still too complicated for people, there can still be an optional paper equivalent.
A catalyst is something that helps a reaction but has no net effect on the reaction. In this case it would get used to convert the water to H2 and O2 but then still be the catalyst that it started as.
From wiki: "What makes a catalyst different from a chemical reagent is that whilst it participates in the reaction, it is not consumed in the reaction."
I am not advocating that this car will run forever as I for the time being believe in conservation of energy but that 'catalyst' is the wrong word if it is consumed.
The web tells them where all the pieces are. Fanning out, each terrorist has a specific piece to retrieve. Back at the base (that doesn't exist), they reassemble the pieces. Some are discarded because they don't quite fit so they need to go out and get better copies.
Every once in a while, the US pretends to be selling pieces only to turn around and tell them to stop building WMDs. They cut their internet connection temporarily until they call the security office and have their service reconnected.
After each WMD is assembled, they are watched and then stored until later when they want to watch that WMD again.
This entire time, they get credit with their group for making copies of all the pieces.
After a very long time, they are simply discarded.
Some WMDs never get completed, no one has the final piece that is needed to complete it, so they sit collecting dust until they are finally discarded.
This is what I did with my first Gentoo install. At first I had no idea what was going on. People that only follow the instructions never find out what's happening. But if you explore a little and try some different things while installing you figure it all out.
I am not a professional IT guy (I host my home server as a hobby and service for friends and family) but I am confident in dealing with Linux (maybe just Gentoo for now) instead of only knowing the ins and outs of Windows (Isn't that MS wants?)
My friend wanted to have his own small server and tried to get Debian to work... Dependency failures everywhere never got the system booting off the HD. I got him to try Gentoo and it worked the first time.
At first I thought the compiling for speed was sweet and that I could brag about how efficient I was running but then I realized how little that mattered. It's really just the ease of use of Gentoo that makes it so powerful.
(My first Linux box I ran from a RedHat CD I bought. What a disaster. Then again, I was still in middle school.)
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Yes. My very powerful tower can play 1080p x264 just time on VLC. It's my laptop and media PC that needed the help. But for the media center I switched to XBMC, which works great.
Yes. 1080p is the one thing that VLC has trouble playing.
For that I use CoreAVC Pro. It's a codec for Windows Media Player, which can then play 1080p without any trouble.
How much of this does VLC do?
All of it.
Once you pop your VLC keyboard shortcut cherry, you'll understand.
The MPAA downloaded them all. All of the copies.
Or like Half Life 2...
I played with the leaked alpha... I wish they hadn't changed so much... The took out some of the coolest guns...
MDIs and dockable toolbars are ugly and annoying
Those little floating toolbars are the most annoying things in the world. Every time I try to do something they're in the way. And I find docked to be much more elegant than something that you can't figure out where to put so you just leave it floating.
I was sooo happy when Photoshop (CS3?) moved to dockable toolbars. They even did a really nice job of it. And they left the choice open to the user. Why restrict someone that might have a different working style?
This is also one of the big things keeping me from using OSX as my main OS. That and the common ribbon menu at the top... Apps should be in their single main window, with the occasional popup.
But I do love the contextual inspector palettes like in M$ Office and SolidWorks.
the fact that Windows is the most widely used OS, suggests that backward compatibility matters.
Because M$ has never had issues with compatibility...
Well yes. That's my point.
The people behind Wikileaks aren't anonymous, don't need to be, and have chosen not to be. They are trying to provide a way for whistleblowers to be anonymous, which is what would keep someone from coming forward with whatever leak.
So yes, it IS really anonymous for those that want/need to be.
It is anonymous. The point of wikileaks is to keep the whistle blower's identity private.
This naming scheme is obviously not as good for interchangeable or cluster machines. You use unique names for unique computers.
However, combining the two works well. If you have a cluster of computers, give the entire a cluster a name, then each machine is named as <name>-xx.
Our plotter's name is Gutenberg. Maybe we should have used that name for the photocopier...
Quick, file a feature request ticket.
could be powered by batteries, radio waves, or solar power
Or wave power! like the Google data centers!
I found a piece of software available for purchase on eBay once. The seller had taken screenshots of some software for simple image editing (or something similar) and blurred out the title bar trying to hide the name. There was still enough information to find out that software he was selling was open source and freely available on sourceforge. I confronted him, using the "Ask seller a question" feature and he replied saying the GPL (or similar) allowed him to charge a fee for providing the software.
This will be a completely different class of iPhone. They don't want to make a small iPhone, they want a cheap iPhone. That means say goodbye to all the fun UI stuff that has made the iPhone so good because they'll probably make it an iPhone wheel (think MacBook wheel).
Then they will be pushed to developing games for linux.
With games developed for a linux based console, it would be an easy switch (if not trivial) to distribute them to linux PCs. That's part of why the windows + xbox releases are so easy to make.
Though M$ likes that they have control over industry and won't give it up without a fight.
OVER NEGATIVE TWENTY DAYS
You mean "less than" right?
Ps. Damn filter isn't letting me post this without this ps. b/c you're quote has too many caps...
Use eject -T to open AND close the tray.
Maybe not as easy as you think. Watch the videos; they've come up with some very clever ways that the voting machines can tamper with the paper trail.
This was just an exploit of crappy programming and an ineffective paper log on Sequoia's part and not an indication that the principle of a paper trail is flawed. For instance, in the case when the voter leaves before actually casting their vote and it is then voided could easily be avoided by making the voter aware that their vote hasn't been cast until X. If they don't bother to ensure that X happens, it's their fault. It's equivalent to handing your ballot to someone without staying to watch them drop it in the machine. If that is still too complicated for people, there can still be an optional paper equivalent.
A catalyst is something that helps a reaction but has no net effect on the reaction. In this case it would get used to convert the water to H2 and O2 but then still be the catalyst that it started as.
From wiki: "What makes a catalyst different from a chemical reagent is that whilst it participates in the reaction, it is not consumed in the reaction."
I am not advocating that this car will run forever as I for the time being believe in conservation of energy but that 'catalyst' is the wrong word if it is consumed.
Torrents are an excellent way to distribute WMDs.
The web tells them where all the pieces are. Fanning out, each terrorist has a specific piece to retrieve. Back at the base (that doesn't exist), they reassemble the pieces. Some are discarded because they don't quite fit so they need to go out and get better copies.
Every once in a while, the US pretends to be selling pieces only to turn around and tell them to stop building WMDs. They cut their internet connection temporarily until they call the security office and have their service reconnected.
After each WMD is assembled, they are watched and then stored until later when they want to watch that WMD again.
This entire time, they get credit with their group for making copies of all the pieces.
After a very long time, they are simply discarded.
Some WMDs never get completed, no one has the final piece that is needed to complete it, so they sit collecting dust until they are finally discarded.
This is what I did with my first Gentoo install. At first I had no idea what was going on. People that only follow the instructions never find out what's happening. But if you explore a little and try some different things while installing you figure it all out. I am not a professional IT guy (I host my home server as a hobby and service for friends and family) but I am confident in dealing with Linux (maybe just Gentoo for now) instead of only knowing the ins and outs of Windows (Isn't that MS wants?) My friend wanted to have his own small server and tried to get Debian to work... Dependency failures everywhere never got the system booting off the HD. I got him to try Gentoo and it worked the first time. At first I thought the compiling for speed was sweet and that I could brag about how efficient I was running but then I realized how little that mattered. It's really just the ease of use of Gentoo that makes it so powerful. (My first Linux box I ran from a RedHat CD I bought. What a disaster. Then again, I was still in middle school.)
I was at the Paris Air Show a few years ago. One company had on display a MIG cockpit. They had retrofitted it with modern avionics.
The problem was that the display model, that was at the show, was running Windows and had BSODed. I wonder how many they sold...