what about running a server on it, its great value for money, probably better than a homebuild, defiantly better than most stuff you can buy. just like the xbox was a good file server back when xbox-linux was about, because they make thier money on games they you give fairly good hardware for the price.
1) XBMC does not play anything. 2) if VLC isn't playing something your not doing it right or try mplayer. 3) using that much caps for a completely pointless post makes you a retard. 4) being an 1337 XBOX gaming 14 y/o should take up enough of your time, if not spend more time using your 1337 halo skillz. 5) come back to slashdot when your balls drop. 6) if you choose to ignore 5 remember to remove your finger from the shift key sometimes.
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There are these magical things called photocopiers or scanners, in which you can put a book and get out a copy. This means that when an author publishes they also lose control.
The reason there is little book piracy is because: 1) books are reasonably priced 2) people like reading paper copies 3) few people will download a book to 'check it out'
A lot of pirates music is gained listens but not necessarily lost sales, for non-textbook books id guess this number rises to above 90% as people will read the book AND buy it, but will rarely download a book they would have otherwise bought.
its available but the added value to owning a book, mainly being able to carry it around, is significant whereas that of a movie or CD is not (same applies to vinyl).
For something designed for more than 2 buttons this system wouldn't work that well though, obviously, You'd have to move to using 3 finger clicks and maybe even 4 finger clicks, which could get confusing or simply inconvenient, especially if you don't have 5 fingers:P 3 fingers is doable, I just often drop back to the actually button because i forget. Unfortunately by default ubuntu hasn't set-up button4 so im not sure if im doing it right or its detecting it as 3 fingers anyway.
If you put down 2 fingers on the pad and then move them around then it allows you to scroll - not just up and down either, it also does left and right:) Much better than a scroll wheel IMO, it's very natural feeling. I always find the dragging much more annoying than running my finger down the side/bottom of a touchpad, but I think apple supports that too.
Obviously a mouse is still preferable for some tasks, but I just thought I'd point out how great Apple's trackpads are because of the multitouch thing. I hope more manufacturers copy (or license?:/ ) this. I never quite got the fuss behind them, i never wish that some obscure feature was doable with just mouse buttons and everything 'intuative' can be done with left/right click and drag or modifier+scroll wheel. As for copying them, I think their already out there its just that there is little demand for them and as such few manufactures use them.
How is that a problem when 2 mice buttons are normal? id rather all my features were hidden being right/left/middle clicks that use an over the top interface like itunes. Its more like forcing a single button means that lazy developers dont bother implementing useful actions for right and middle click.
Man I wish one of the Linux distros had that working by default IMwheel allows you to set any mouse button to any global action. But do that few mac application make use of middle click you'd rather rebind it globally, as linux distros make much better use of the middle mouse button by default, on both application & a global select and paste level, crippiling it would be fairly stupid
has anyone seen a good, universal way to use mouse gestures across Ubuntu (not just in a specific application)? As for mouse gestures I dont know about Ubuntu, but KDE3 features global mouse gesture settings, and it can even set them up for non-kde apps.
Also, does anyone know if Ubuntu is going to get support for two finger tapping/dragging on the track pad? Tapping is already possible and universally used on every linux distro out there. Does anybody know if apple opened up their specs for the hardware implementation? otherwise reverse engineers will be along shortly, but may take a bit longer
Hope that answer's your questions, od right you were YAMFBT nvm.
That's interesting as i was under the impression that due to bad bad drivers for stuff it generally performs than windows (even vista once you figure out to save its power). This said my acer aspire 5101 performs reasonably at 2hrs, but I broke vista on it almost immediately so cant compare.(~ 20W (2.0 hours) from powertop normally)
I dunno about your definition of washed-up is but playing major festivals and doing tours while producing a new album, means id quite like to be washed up too.
You even save mouseclicks when using a full non-windows interface: Focus follows mouse, Scroll working over systray, e.g 0 clicks to change volume,brightness,etc vs 3.
funny thing about producing studies, is that we can take a look at their methods and findings and decide what its worth, e.g Microsoft finds linux suxxors because it doesn't use a shiny logo study = FUD. but Microsoft finds RSI is bad = maybe FUD to sell their stuff, maybe useful research.
Given that I spent my day battling a Linux x86_64 I doubt that non-x86 architectures are widely used by end users. Just because Linux runs on non x86 in no way means people are willing to support/use/accept it on anything else.
Being open source does mean that the code can be ported, doesn't guarantee it will compile & be stable on all architectures. Even in the kernel non-x86 is generally 1-2 kernel releases behind before new features are properly supported and there's a lot more to an OS than the kernel.
focusing on 2, is there any info on what adhesive they use? My guess would be once you get that you can figure out what it sticks to and dunk them in a solute more concentrated than the dvd and just use it as a cheep supply of DVDs
When did the apple fanboys get mod points? iPhones dont have some magical improved security and are certainly not more secure against remote attack (Browsers run as root IIRC).
You dont even need MSNP14 to be properly supported to handle off-line chat support, sure kopete just has some 'hack' to do it but at least it works (a la beryl vs compiz). I'm a KDE user but i always favour cross platform apps so that I'm not tied to Linux, but since my brother showed me that kopete can handle fake off-line MSN users I've finally stuck with kopete, which actually seams to improve instead of regress.
Given that many people use their office suites as much as their web browsers isn't it about time that the interfaces became as themeable & easily customisable as web browsers?
on hardware that I own, the lockout chip will keep it from running.
Without this freedom, "ownership" becomes more like rental than ownership. Don't by a TiVo box if you dont want one then.
Why should the manufacturer, and not the owner, have this freedom? Why should the owner and not the manufacturer have this freedom?
How does one build a home-built DVR that recreates the exact hardware environment of a TiVo DVR, including proprietary software whose ordinary interactions with the free software must be tested? The same way one goes about building a super computer, you buy the parts and then the software. The GPL isn't a free lunch, if the software isn't available then you have to write your own. The GPL guarantees the freedom of code that has been GPL'd nothing else.
But per the GPLv3, there is an obligation to let someone who buys a laser shark tweak the pulsing controller of the laser or give the shark its shots. Yes but that is GPL3 not GPL2 which is what the linux kernel is and (hopefully) always will be under. Under GPL3 you'll never get any scientist developing laser sharks (they wont want you to use laser sharks against them), and so you'll never get any improvements to the code, one of the many reason GPL3 is flawed.
Given that no closed source game is going to GPL themselves instead of pay for a license why didnt they just GPL the thing and let open source games benefit? I'm no Stalmanist but in this case there is no down-side to GPLing it only extra geek credit.
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what about running a server on it, its great value for money, probably better than a homebuild, defiantly better than most stuff you can buy. just like the xbox was a good file server back when xbox-linux was about, because they make thier money on games they you give fairly good hardware for the price.
1) XBMC does not play anything.
2) if VLC isn't playing something your not doing it right or try mplayer.
3) using that much caps for a completely pointless post makes you a retard.
4) being an 1337 XBOX gaming 14 y/o should take up enough of your time, if not spend more time using your 1337 halo skillz.
5) come back to slashdot when your balls drop.
6) if you choose to ignore 5 remember to remove your finger from the shift key sometimes.
I'm sorry for commenting inside a restricted zone, I hereby arrest you for breaching the Serious Organised Crime and Policing act.
Sure you can claim you wern't even in london, but now I have logs that show your packets clearly entered the zone.
Please report to your favourite detention centre for a punishment of 42 days or whenever somebody notices your missing (whichever is greater) or your ID card will be revoked.
I nominate winFS , its both MS bashing and vaporware.
There are these magical things called photocopiers or scanners, in which you can put a book and get out a copy. This means that when an author publishes they also lose control.
The reason there is little book piracy is because:
1) books are reasonably priced
2) people like reading paper copies
3) few people will download a book to 'check it out'
A lot of pirates music is gained listens but not necessarily lost sales, for non-textbook books id guess this number rises to above 90% as people will read the book AND buy it, but will rarely download a book they would have otherwise bought.
its available but the added value to owning a book, mainly being able to carry it around, is significant whereas that of a movie or CD is not (same applies to vinyl).
And being able to search for a term with \ is more convenient than using even a good index.
Its also the slowest tho
How is that a problem when 2 mice buttons are normal? id rather all my features were hidden being right/left/middle clicks that use an over the top interface like itunes. Its more like forcing a single button means that lazy developers dont bother implementing useful actions for right and middle click.
Hope that answer's your questions, od right you were YAMFBT nvm.
That's interesting as i was under the impression that due to bad bad drivers for stuff it generally performs than windows (even vista once you figure out to save its power).
This said my acer aspire 5101 performs reasonably at 2hrs, but I broke vista on it almost immediately so cant compare.(~ 20W (2.0 hours) from powertop normally)
I dunno about your definition of washed-up is but playing major festivals and doing tours while producing a new album, means id quite like to be washed up too.
Turns out end users like sucky products and backwards compatibility, it means they dont need to worry about stuff as it just works.
see also windows.
You even save mouseclicks when using a full non-windows interface:
Focus follows mouse,
Scroll working over systray, e.g 0 clicks to change volume,brightness,etc vs 3.
I just wish more programs used these.
funny thing about producing studies, is that we can take a look at their methods and findings and decide what its worth, e.g
Microsoft finds linux suxxors because it doesn't use a shiny logo study = FUD.
but
Microsoft finds RSI is bad = maybe FUD to sell their stuff, maybe useful research.
Apart from flash which is a major issue if you market as a machine for browsing the web.
Given that I spent my day battling a Linux x86_64 I doubt that non-x86 architectures are widely used by end users. Just because Linux runs on non x86 in no way means people are willing to support/use/accept it on anything else.
Being open source does mean that the code can be ported, doesn't guarantee it will compile & be stable on all architectures. Even in the kernel non-x86 is generally 1-2 kernel releases behind before new features are properly supported and there's a lot more to an OS than the kernel.
focusing on 2, is there any info on what adhesive they use? My guess would be once you get that you can figure out what it sticks to and dunk them in a solute more concentrated than the dvd and just use it as a cheep supply of DVDs
When did the apple fanboys get mod points? iPhones dont have some magical improved security and are certainly not more secure against remote attack (Browsers run as root IIRC).
You dont even need MSNP14 to be properly supported to handle off-line chat support, sure kopete just has some 'hack' to do it but at least it works (a la beryl vs compiz). I'm a KDE user but i always favour cross platform apps so that I'm not tied to Linux, but since my brother showed me that kopete can handle fake off-line MSN users I've finally stuck with kopete, which actually seams to improve instead of regress.
Given that many people use their office suites as much as their web browsers isn't it about time that the interfaces became as themeable & easily customisable as web browsers?
One size doesn't fit all.
Given that no closed source game is going to GPL themselves instead of pay for a license why didnt they just GPL the thing and let open source games benefit? I'm no Stalmanist but in this case there is no down-side to GPLing it only extra geek credit.
In that case i apologise for my troll accusation, interesting i always thought debian were quite strick on the freeness.