And face a lawsuit from Unisys. But s/gif/png/ and you're fine; however, single-pixel PNGs are a bit bigger (byte-wise).
Anyway, what are you going to set as the alt="..." text (now a required attribute in <img> elements) for such a web bug? A more l33t way to do this would be to make your site logo a web bug; users wouldn't notice as much. This also sidesteps the "1-pixel PNGs are huge" problem.
For $15 you can get the barebones edition with stereo audio and no special features (plus a load of pre-movie advertising like on VHS). Then for $30 you get
Even more pre-movie advertising that you can't even skip. DVD has a "legal notice" function (designed for displaying FBI Warnings) that disables fast-forward while it is set. Some DVDs start with ten minutes of commercials and mark them as "legal notices" so you have to either watch them, turn off the TV, leave the room, or use some DeCSS-type software.
What part of "It's an add-on to Windows Media Player that allows it to play full-length motion pictures" wouldn't Joe Sixpack understand?
They have to go and find it and download it.
Same thing for Winamp, to play MP3 audio.
There's no paper manual
File | Print... (The only paper manuals you need are those for your computer and printer.)
and no tech suport number to call.
Ever try calling Microsoft tech support?
And when they install it, no "DiVX" icon appears on their desktop leading to a screen with a colourful and intuitive user interface.
So have the codec's installer make a shortcut to WiMP and label it DivX. WiMP 7 is colorful enough (but I wouldn't say all that intuitive). Who'll know the difference?
The most expensive part about producing a stand-alone player that can decode an MPEG-4 encoded disc is the decoding circuitry itself.
Unless the decoding circuitry is just a CPU (such as Emotion Engine, TI DSP, AMD Duron, or Crusoe) customized for DSP. It would just read encoded data, decode it, and blast it to the framebuffer.
Does it require people to manually update their master certificates? This usually doesn't go down too well with joe-sixpack.
Then provide an "installer" program to update the certs. If Joe Sixpack will run elfbowl.exe or sextris.exe, then he'll probably run install-certs.exe. And if you play some cheesy animation while the certs are being updated, this program will spread just as fast as elfbowl.
Even with the 3d generated characters, its likely bluescreens
Not if they're using Linux or some other *nix on the render farm;-)
they'd end up paying more for animation artisits, modelers, renderers, hardware, software, than they'd pay an up and coming actor.
Unless they want a character that doesn't look like Homo sapiens. (For instance, I stopped watching Trek because all the aliens looked like humans with makeup and suits on.) Or perhaps they want to do something else that cannot be achieved with living human actors.
"So use puppets for those." No. Lucas commented that Yoda the muppet was the only "fake" looking character in Episode 5.
Also, X is ugly as sin, and no Window Manager can hide that.
What's so ugly about X11? It's just a graphics subsystem (equivalent to Win32's GDI). I can see your point if you're talking about Motif and CDE, or the default configuration of a particular distribution, but slap a decent theme onto GTK+ and Sawfish and it's no longer ugly. If you really want it, there's a theme that looks almost pixel-perfect like Microsoft Windows. (Are Windows's widgets any less ugly than Motif's?)
Yes, X only takes 30MB. But your GNOME session adds another 30MB, and your window manager adds anywhere from 10MB (for FVWM, the Fuckingugly Virtual Window Manager) to 512BM (for Enlightenment; the window manager which proves that enough eye candy can make up for any lack of usefulness).
Provided you believe top, which double- and triple-counts shared memory. For example, when some drivers map video card memory three times, top counts it three times. GNOME isn't as bloated as you think; a lot of the memory that GNOME programs appear to use is in.so (shared library) files (which also are multi-counted). Mozilla isn't a hog either; top overcounts any multithreaded app.
If you think a WM is ugly, design a new color scheme and post it somewhere. You bash GNOME for being bloated, but is KDE any better? (Please take this flamewar to the NES if you must continue it.)
GTK+ features a very nice feature of keyboard-bindings-on-the-fly. Simply move your mouse over the menu item (without clicking it), press the desired key combination - and there you have it. Wish to erase the combination? Move the mouse above the menu item, and press Del.
Which leaves 127 typeable characters (C-space C-a C-b C-c C-d... { | } ~) and 127 more with the Alt key (C-M-space C-M-a... M-| M-~). What if you have more filters installed than 254?
And still, how do you bring up a contextual (right-click) menu from the keyboard? (In Windows, it's Shift+F10 or the key between RWin and RCtrl.) Seeing as how some apps stuff most of their interface under contextual menus, this can get in the way.
What does the former East Germany have to do with RAM?
Nothing to my knowledge, but I can see how you'd think that (Deutsch Democratic(sic) Republic). This is what all that alphabet soup really means:
RAM: Random Access Memory
DRAM: Dynamic RAM (information contained in one capacitor as opposed to several transistors, but each row of the memory matrix must be refreshed a couple hundred times a second)
EDO: Extended Data Out (accesses are pipelined to an extent; one can start as another is finishing)
SDRAM: Synchronous DRAM (uses a clocked protocol to expand on EDO)
DDR: Double Data Rate (the internal bus is twice as wide, and the external bus is multiplexed so as to send a word both on the rising and falling edge of the clock)
DRDRAM: Direct Rambus® DRAM. According to this Hardware Central report, "Its goal is to get rid of the latency." I don't think it has achieved that goal in the slightest.
I hope this clarifies what "DDR" means. Of course, I could be talking out of my proverbial ass.
What would be even more insane is if they released [Windows] under a BSD license.
Except there's already a Windows-compatible OS under a BSD-style non-copyleft license, and Microsoft wouldn't be "innovating" anything by copying FreeBSD (BSD2 licensed) plus XFree86 (MIT licensed) plus Wine.
If it's called "Black and White" why are the screenshots in full color? Don't the game developers remember that some of us still have grayscale, greenscale, or amberscale monitors? All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
Well apparently the lamers at progeny don't think so seeing as they are anti-kde
Well, something has to go on the second CD. There is more stuff in Debian GNU/Linux than can be bzip2 compressed into 650 megabytes. The installer most likely needs both discs anyway. How do you know the criterion wasn't "a-j first CD; k-z second CD"?
>>GNOME bashing
>KDE bashing
This flamewar is over. If you wish to continue fighting about GNOME vs. KDE, I suggest you look at Battle of the Desktops. All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
Ever since I realized that command.com was a domain as well as a shell, I've envisioned TLDs that parallel filename extensions. For example, NetNames.pl already sells Perl-related domains; see also St. Pierre and Miquelon. Shell-related sites go in St. Helena, audio goes in australia or a new.mp3 domain, etc.
OpenNIC already has the.null TLD, which is similar to the alt.* hierarchy of Usenet. The.parody domain could cut down on reverse domain name hijacking by parody targets.
HTTP already has Content-Encoding: gzip. But the bulk of HTTP transfer (on a kilobyte basis) is already tightly compressed (PNG and JPEG images; MP3 audio; Flash, MNG, and MPEG animations; bzip2 tarballs) so this will help only for HTML and MIDI.
It would obviously require a compatible browser
Or a compatible proxy. But AFAIK Mozilla and IE (two biggest browsers) already support it.
Slashdot Mirror
Then you have the cgi return a single pixel gif.
And face a lawsuit from Unisys. But s/gif/png/ and you're fine; however, single-pixel PNGs are a bit bigger (byte-wise).
Anyway, what are you going to set as the alt="..." text (now a required attribute in <img> elements) for such a web bug? A more l33t way to do this would be to make your site logo a web bug; users wouldn't notice as much. This also sidesteps the "1-pixel PNGs are huge" problem.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
If the scenes are cut maybe they were not so important to the artistic value of the movie?
Three words: Eyes Wide Shut.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
is there even any debate
It's a toss-up between GNU/Linux and *BSD, the Free operating systems with the greatest device support.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
I know I am going to rip CD's to no end once vorbis support compression of the redundancy between audio channels
Are you thinking "mid-side stereo" like FM and MP3 use? The mid-side equation (a + b) + (a - b) = 2a is patented when used in digital audio coding.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
For $15 you can get the barebones edition with stereo audio and no special features (plus a load of pre-movie advertising like on VHS). Then for $30 you get
Even more pre-movie advertising that you can't even skip. DVD has a "legal notice" function (designed for displaying FBI Warnings) that disables fast-forward while it is set. Some DVDs start with ten minutes of commercials and mark them as "legal notices" so you have to either watch them, turn off the TV, leave the room, or use some DeCSS-type software.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
They won't understand conceptually what it is
What part of "It's an add-on to Windows Media Player that allows it to play full-length motion pictures" wouldn't Joe Sixpack understand?
They have to go and find it and download it.
Same thing for Winamp, to play MP3 audio.
There's no paper manual
File | Print... (The only paper manuals you need are those for your computer and printer.)
and no tech suport number to call.
Ever try calling Microsoft tech support?
And when they install it, no "DiVX" icon appears on their desktop leading to a screen with a colourful and intuitive user interface.
So have the codec's installer make a shortcut to WiMP and label it DivX. WiMP 7 is colorful enough (but I wouldn't say all that intuitive). Who'll know the difference?
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
The most expensive part about producing a stand-alone player that can decode an MPEG-4 encoded disc is the decoding circuitry itself.
Unless the decoding circuitry is just a CPU (such as Emotion Engine, TI DSP, AMD Duron, or Crusoe) customized for DSP. It would just read encoded data, decode it, and blast it to the framebuffer.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
What about the concept of a Set-top DivX box? in theory, this could work, and it might work very nicely, if done properly.
In practice, you better change the name. The name "DivX ;-)" is too close to "DIVX", a word associated in consumer minds with "hassle."
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
So if I download a Divx:-0 movie and burn it to a CD, it'll play on my DIVX player
Completely separate technology. Circuit City DIVX uses MPEG2 compression (as does DVD), whereas DivX ;-) uses something more akin to MPEG4. MPEG2 players can't interpret MPEG4 usefully.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
So energetic/enthuiastic users develop drivers so that larger companies can "sell" support to less energetic/enthusiastic users.
So why don't hardware makers publish drivers for their hardware?
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
Does it require people to manually update their master certificates? This usually doesn't go down too well with joe-sixpack.
Then provide an "installer" program to update the certs. If Joe Sixpack will run elfbowl.exe or sextris.exe, then he'll probably run install-certs.exe. And if you play some cheesy animation while the certs are being updated, this program will spread just as fast as elfbowl.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
Even with the 3d generated characters, its likely bluescreens
Not if they're using Linux or some other *nix on the render farm ;-)
they'd end up paying more for animation artisits, modelers, renderers, hardware, software, than they'd pay an up and coming actor.
Unless they want a character that doesn't look like Homo sapiens. (For instance, I stopped watching Trek because all the aliens looked like humans with makeup and suits on.) Or perhaps they want to do something else that cannot be achieved with living human actors.
"So use puppets for those." No. Lucas commented that Yoda the muppet was the only "fake" looking character in Episode 5.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
Also, X is ugly as sin, and no Window Manager can hide that.
What's so ugly about X11? It's just a graphics subsystem (equivalent to Win32's GDI). I can see your point if you're talking about Motif and CDE, or the default configuration of a particular distribution, but slap a decent theme onto GTK+ and Sawfish and it's no longer ugly. If you really want it, there's a theme that looks almost pixel-perfect like Microsoft Windows. (Are Windows's widgets any less ugly than Motif's?)
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
Yes, X only takes 30MB. But your GNOME session adds another 30MB, and your window manager adds anywhere from 10MB (for FVWM, the Fuckingugly Virtual Window Manager) to 512BM (for Enlightenment; the window manager which proves that enough eye candy can make up for any lack of usefulness).
Provided you believe top, which double- and triple-counts shared memory. For example, when some drivers map video card memory three times, top counts it three times. GNOME isn't as bloated as you think; a lot of the memory that GNOME programs appear to use is in .so (shared library) files (which also are multi-counted). Mozilla isn't a hog either; top overcounts any multithreaded app.
If you think a WM is ugly, design a new color scheme and post it somewhere. You bash GNOME for being bloated, but is KDE any better? (Please take this flamewar to the NES if you must continue it.)
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
dude. why don't you splurge and buy a $40 card that is supported?
Because some of us are on a laptop or other computer whose video subsystem can't be replaced easily. Does XFree86 support PCMCIA video cards?
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
if a reference to the content creator was included with a file -- where you could give money to the content creators
Then use the format's tagging facility. For tarballs, use a text file named README. For MP3 audio, use ID3v2.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
GTK+ features a very nice feature of keyboard-bindings-on-the-fly. Simply move your mouse over the menu item (without clicking it), press the desired key combination - and there you have it. Wish to erase the combination? Move the mouse above the menu item, and press Del.
Which leaves 127 typeable characters (C-space C-a C-b C-c C-d ... { | } ~) and 127 more with the Alt key (C-M-space C-M-a ... M-| M-~). What if you have more filters installed than 254?
And still, how do you bring up a contextual (right-click) menu from the keyboard? (In Windows, it's Shift+F10 or the key between RWin and RCtrl.) Seeing as how some apps stuff most of their interface under contextual menus, this can get in the way.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
What does the former East Germany have to do with RAM?
Nothing to my knowledge, but I can see how you'd think that (Deutsch Democratic(sic) Republic). This is what all that alphabet soup really means:
I hope this clarifies what "DDR" means. Of course, I could be talking out of my proverbial ass.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
What would be even more insane is if they released [Windows] under a BSD license.
Except there's already a Windows-compatible OS under a BSD-style non-copyleft license, and Microsoft wouldn't be "innovating" anything by copying FreeBSD (BSD2 licensed) plus XFree86 (MIT licensed) plus Wine.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
If it's called "Black and White" why are the screenshots in full color? Don't the game developers remember that some of us still have grayscale, greenscale, or amberscale monitors?
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
Well apparently the lamers at progeny don't think so seeing as they are anti-kde
Well, something has to go on the second CD. There is more stuff in Debian GNU/Linux than can be bzip2 compressed into 650 megabytes. The installer most likely needs both discs anyway. How do you know the criterion wasn't "a-j first CD; k-z second CD"?
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
>>GNOME bashing
>KDE bashing
This flamewar is over. If you wish to continue fighting about GNOME vs. KDE, I suggest you look at Battle of the Desktops.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
MOV for movie sites
Apple would love this.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
Like USENET, DNS needs a .ALT top level domain
OpenNIC already has the .null TLD, which is similar to the alt.* hierarchy of Usenet. The .parody domain could cut down on reverse domain name hijacking by parody targets.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
HTTP already has Content-Encoding: gzip . But the bulk of HTTP transfer (on a kilobyte basis) is already tightly compressed (PNG and JPEG images; MP3 audio; Flash, MNG, and MPEG animations; bzip2 tarballs) so this will help only for HTML and MIDI.
It would obviously require a compatible browser
Or a compatible proxy. But AFAIK Mozilla and IE (two biggest browsers) already support it.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.