This article really makes me want to bring out an old trolling account...
Miro is not quite ready for prime time:
1) It uses GTK on Windows. This makes the app look childish. Why couldn't they use internal Windows decorations? 2) The interface is not up to snuff. It looks unprofessional.
Now, the good stuff:
1) I can finally use it as a replacement for iTunes to listen to my podcasts. I have tried this with each major Miro release and this is the first one that does what I would expect it to. If only it did this without looking as ugly as sin.
If I was a troll I might throw in something about how Gnome used to use GTK and how this made it also look childish. It wasn't until Ubuntu switched Gnome to something other than GTK that it began to look usable.
The summary is very misleading. If you actually go in and read the article it is talking about a subscription service. You won't get to keep what you download.
Except console (and computer RPGs) are hardly CYoA. There is no consequence for walking down the left alley in Final Fantasy. Ever. You don't have to start over, and if you run into a fight and die, well, just continue from the alley entrance where you were smart enough to save your game on the world map.
This just shows that even though we've moved on technologically, that the closed-endedness is still there.
Thank goodness nothing can replace the classics. I'd much rather read Don Quixote than a CYoA or play through the worthless drek that is Oblivion.
This is an interesting comment. It speaks a little bit of truth, but does more harm than good. It is important for people to learn how to figure things out for themselves. What TMM suggests here will lead to people that are unable and unwilling to experiment with software. Half of what I have learned regarding software has been trial and error.
In the Linux world the software UI can be vastly different across all applications. There is no standard interface, and so the user gains much by experimenting with all portions of the software. Even then there are some similarities, such as command line switches. Teaching a user to read the documentation (hopefully it has been well written) will do them a better service then giving them the answer. If the documentation is poorly written (I have seen poorly written documentation in both Windows and Linux) it may be necessary for the user to ask for assistance. In that case (and only in that case) please try to be hospitable.
You've been around a little longer than I have, but still, that should be no excuse for practicing what you accuse others of practicing...
If Apple had to shut down iTMS in France, its competition would have to shut down for the same reason
Apple won't have to shut down, they will have to comply. Apple would only shut down to preserve what it already has.
Not legally. The music is still protected by copyright law. Currently, the DRM can be removed illegally, and then the music can be illegally shared. Making the first step legal doesn't make the second step legal.
What it does is make it easier for those that would trade the songs illegally. Are you suggesting that people should not protect what is theirs from those that would give it away to others?
Anyways, next time, think a little before you write something like that.
Could you please at lest proofread the submission? If you aren't going to change the spelling and put an "edited by" addition could you please at least put "(sic)" after the mistake?
Except Firefox is known to have a huge memory leak. I've had it up on my laptop for 2 days now and it is currently consuming 144,956 K of memory. This is up from the approximately 139,000 K that was being consumed when I last checked on it 10 minutes ago.
I fail to see the logic in your post. Just because the Windows interface is not drawn suing OpenGL does not mean that what is inside that interface (the windows) cannot be drawn using OpenGL. I am pretty sure that if you use an nVidia graphics card (and even an ATI one) that you will still be able to run OpenGL applications as the hardware drivers will support OpenGL.
Go back in your hole and quit trying to troll the/. community. There is enough FUD coming from Microsoft without you Free Software fanbois adding more fuel to the proverbial fire.
assign to every submission. Will this solve world hunger? Will this make Linux truly ready for the desktop? No, it won't do any of those things. It will be a step in the right direction.
Also, Taco, the reason that no one allows "micro payments" is that it would be prohibitively expensive. It would easily cost more than a penny for me to send you one penny, and so why should someone want to give me the chance to do that?
Topics like those listed in the article summary are maybe only vaguely interesting once. I know I get bored discussing that stuff over and over again. The geeks that do discuss things like that repeatedly are the ones that bore my socks off. Imagine what the general public must think when they come across something like that.
Will this thing index Outlook journals for me? I know MSN would do this, but I uninstalled that because the sidebar is so freaking cool. Will the sidebar ever match the installed theme in Windows XP? Will they ever include automatic update with this stuff?
to make one company (not to mention every other anime distributor in North America) decide to switch their distribution model from the current one to Bit Torrent. Bit Torrent is really nice. It works well for Linux Distributions and other things that are given away for free. Hell, it even helps save the distributor some bandwidth. This is a good thing. However, given the popularity of BT programs like Azureus I can hardly see BT being popular as a for-pay distribution method. Azureus can be used to circumvent any distribution restrictions that a torrent publisher attempts to put on a torrent. This is not a good thing for those that believe that information does not want to be free (unfortunately a goodly number of slashbots subscribe to that newsletter).
No, but strangely the icons in Nautilus are looking more and more like they were ripped straight off from KDE. Come on guys, if you're going to rip ideas (and artwork ideas no less) from your only direct open source competition, at least have the balls to admit where the idea came from. If Gnome used QT perhaps the icons and the window decorations wouldn't make me gag, but until that point I'm stuck using KDE even if it did come from Germany.
My buddy and I only have two weeks and $100 to outfit our server room. If we don't we stand to lose countless customers and may no longer be able to support all the computers that are in need. Others do this for thousands of dollars. We only have 2 weeks and $100.
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This article really makes me want to bring out an old trolling account...
Miro is not quite ready for prime time:
1) It uses GTK on Windows. This makes the app look childish. Why couldn't they use internal Windows decorations?
2) The interface is not up to snuff. It looks unprofessional.
Now, the good stuff:
1) I can finally use it as a replacement for iTunes to listen to my podcasts. I have tried this with each major Miro release and this is the first one that does what I would expect it to. If only it did this without looking as ugly as sin.
If I was a troll I might throw in something about how Gnome used to use GTK and how this made it also look childish. It wasn't until Ubuntu switched Gnome to something other than GTK that it began to look usable.
--Tim
The summary is very misleading. If you actually go in and read the article it is talking about a subscription service. You won't get to keep what you download.
It would be really nice for Google to finally do this as well. I wonder if they would be able to roll it out to everyone at the same time?
Something about this doesn't seem quite right to me. The grammar in this letter is should not be coming from a respected legal firm in California.
Is this truly real?
How does this compare to the amazing OpenSUSE 10.2?
It looks even worse than the original. Anyone else agree?
Except console (and computer RPGs) are hardly CYoA. There is no consequence for walking down the left alley in Final Fantasy. Ever. You don't have to start over, and if you run into a fight and die, well, just continue from the alley entrance where you were smart enough to save your game on the world map.
This just shows that even though we've moved on technologically, that the closed-endedness is still there.
Thank goodness nothing can replace the classics. I'd much rather read Don Quixote than a CYoA or play through the worthless drek that is Oblivion.
This is an interesting comment. It speaks a little bit of truth, but does more harm than good. It is important for people to learn how to figure things out for themselves. What TMM suggests here will lead to people that are unable and unwilling to experiment with software. Half of what I have learned regarding software has been trial and error.
In the Linux world the software UI can be vastly different across all applications. There is no standard interface, and so the user gains much by experimenting with all portions of the software. Even then there are some similarities, such as command line switches. Teaching a user to read the documentation (hopefully it has been well written) will do them a better service then giving them the answer. If the documentation is poorly written (I have seen poorly written documentation in both Windows and Linux) it may be necessary for the user to ask for assistance. In that case (and only in that case) please try to be hospitable.
"An great"?
How difficult would it have been to change this to "A great"?
I'm guessing very as it didn't happen.
You've been around a little longer than I have, but still, that should be no excuse for practicing what you accuse others of practicing... If Apple had to shut down iTMS in France, its competition would have to shut down for the same reason Apple won't have to shut down, they will have to comply. Apple would only shut down to preserve what it already has. Not legally. The music is still protected by copyright law. Currently, the DRM can be removed illegally, and then the music can be illegally shared. Making the first step legal doesn't make the second step legal. What it does is make it easier for those that would trade the songs illegally. Are you suggesting that people should not protect what is theirs from those that would give it away to others? Anyways, next time, think a little before you write something like that.
I know I misspelled "least" in one of the sentences above.
Yarkstick?
Excuse me?
Editors?
Could you please at lest proofread the submission? If you aren't going to change the spelling and put an "edited by" addition could you please at least put "(sic)" after the mistake?
Thanks.
First, the dafault UI is terrible. Firefox is very minimal, only showing you what you need.
Second, SeaMonkey 1.0 is incompatible with a number of great Firefox extensions. This may be easily fixable, but I don't know how to do that.
It's tough to decide between this and Firefox 1.5 with its huge memory leak. Oh well, I'll stick with Firefox 1.0.7 for now.
Except Firefox is known to have a huge memory leak. I've had it up on my laptop for 2 days now and it is currently consuming 144,956 K of memory. This is up from the approximately 139,000 K that was being consumed when I last checked on it 10 minutes ago.
As I typed this it just hit 144,972 K.
Way to go Open Sores!
I fail to see the logic in your post. Just because the Windows interface is not drawn suing OpenGL does not mean that what is inside that interface (the windows) cannot be drawn using OpenGL. I am pretty sure that if you use an nVidia graphics card (and even an ATI one) that you will still be able to run OpenGL applications as the hardware drivers will support OpenGL.
/. community. There is enough FUD coming from Microsoft without you Free Software fanbois adding more fuel to the proverbial fire.
Go back in your hole and quit trying to troll the
assign to every submission. Will this solve world hunger? Will this make Linux truly ready for the desktop? No, it won't do any of those things. It will be a step in the right direction.
Also, Taco, the reason that no one allows "micro payments" is that it would be prohibitively expensive. It would easily cost more than a penny for me to send you one penny, and so why should someone want to give me the chance to do that?
I haven't seen Hemos post this many articles in a row since the early days. Where are the E2 links, H-dawg?
Topics like those listed in the article summary are maybe only vaguely interesting once. I know I get bored discussing that stuff over and over again. The geeks that do discuss things like that repeatedly are the ones that bore my socks off. Imagine what the general public must think when they come across something like that.
Will this thing index Outlook journals for me? I know MSN would do this, but I uninstalled that because the sidebar is so freaking cool. Will the sidebar ever match the installed theme in Windows XP? Will they ever include automatic update with this stuff?
to make one company (not to mention every other anime distributor in North America) decide to switch their distribution model from the current one to Bit Torrent. Bit Torrent is really nice. It works well for Linux Distributions and other things that are given away for free. Hell, it even helps save the distributor some bandwidth. This is a good thing. However, given the popularity of BT programs like Azureus I can hardly see BT being popular as a for-pay distribution method. Azureus can be used to circumvent any distribution restrictions that a torrent publisher attempts to put on a torrent. This is not a good thing for those that believe that information does not want to be free (unfortunately a goodly number of slashbots subscribe to that newsletter).
I've been Googling for this Savage game and haven't found a link. Where can I find more info?
No, but strangely the icons in Nautilus are looking more and more like they were ripped straight off from KDE. Come on guys, if you're going to rip ideas (and artwork ideas no less) from your only direct open source competition, at least have the balls to admit where the idea came from. If Gnome used QT perhaps the icons and the window decorations wouldn't make me gag, but until that point I'm stuck using KDE even if it did come from Germany.
My buddy and I only have two weeks and $100 to outfit our server room. If we don't we stand to lose countless customers and may no longer be able to support all the computers that are in need. Others do this for thousands of dollars. We only have 2 weeks and $100.
If you really needed that $20.00 then you wouldn't have bought the software. What a stupid question.
And you think the KDE code is better documented? I doubt it. People who get paid for the code that they write tend to actually document their code.