They would not be forced to remove anything, but to add other choices for media players for instance.
Give the user the choice, rather than forcing ONE browser and ONE media player on the user. Plus there should be an easy way to uninstall the BROWSER and the MEDIA PLAYER.
Since a good number of DVD players sold on the market are made in China/Taiwan etc themselves, I think they would be able to play them. It's like the SVCD situation in the past.
Well I think there are television sets with digital processing, 100Hz, widescreen which are good enough for the time being. Ok they are not HDTV so far. They give a very clear picture.
Amazon.co.uk has some odd classifications with regards to countries, for instance it classifies Malta (soon to be a full EU member country) as outside Europe. Outside Europe???? And as a result they charge us more for postage and they got a bad rap about this from The Times of Malta. They do send books, videos and dvds at least.
When I checked with them, they told me it was due to Royal Mail and DHL. I checked with the websites of the latter two companies, and Malta is classified as being part of Europe, western europe even. I informed Amazon.co.uk, but they did nothing about it.
The point is that the closed source version will likely be accessing services which are not free. So how can the Open Source version access the same services without passing the cost to the user?
More likely I would imagine it calling an alternative free web service (an equivalent to the 'open source' library).
Paypal does not accept credit cards from many international countries, in fact. Also if you don't have a credit card you have to have an account in a US bank, so it's even more US oriented.
Also see NoPaypal.com for information on Paypal's activities which put your credit card and bank accounts at risk...
It seems that non-americans such as myself can't pay as there is no country field. And paypal is not an option for most countries (it doesn't accept our countries....)
I remember NT, a few years ago, used to have to be reinstalled every week because it couldn't handle a class of students compiling with Delphi... it would be too much of a load for it and it would die and corrupt itself so much that it would not even boot.
The most recent JAVA (binary) SDK has problems with older versions of Solaris, and I discovered that a number of countries including Malta are not allowed to download the source code for the SDK (because recompilation would fix the incompatibilities with libraries).
I also would have similar problems with the Linux version on the Linux systems I'm running - since I don't happen to have the same version of the libraries their binary sdk uses!
The problem is that Sun should have a statically linked version, but they don't care!
I wrote to them and they told me to look at the list of countries. Thank you - as if I had not seen it before.
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They would not be forced to remove anything, but to add other choices for media players for instance.
Give the user the choice, rather than forcing ONE browser and ONE media player on the user.
Plus there should be an easy way to uninstall the BROWSER and the MEDIA PLAYER.
No, you would have a choice at installation time,
ideally. The user would choose what packages to install.
It isn't puzzling at all.
I never use Media Player.
I use Zoom player mostly. I could also use Gabest's Media Player Classic, or BsPlayer.
Windows should come with a choice to install either Media Player or one of these other players.
Since a good number of DVD players sold on the market are made in China/Taiwan etc themselves, I think they would be able to play them. It's like the SVCD situation in the past.
Then that would be Matroska, wouldn't it?
Well I think there are television sets with digital processing, 100Hz, widescreen which are good enough for the time being. Ok they are not HDTV so far. They give a very clear picture.
Use BeSweet to convert to Ogg. It's faster than what you describe...
AS far as I am aware, he's a police sergeant in Miami Vice....
Amazon.co.uk has some odd classifications with regards to countries, for instance it classifies Malta (soon to be a full EU member country) as outside Europe. Outside Europe???? And as a result they charge us more for postage and they got a bad rap about this from The Times of Malta. They do send books, videos and dvds at least.
When I checked with them, they told me it was due to Royal Mail and DHL. I checked with the websites of the latter two companies, and Malta is classified as being part of Europe, western europe even. I informed Amazon.co.uk, but they did nothing about it.
I thought JSP referred to Jackson Structured Programming... A different JSP used in software development.
No, God made it open source. You can make as many copies as you like.
The point is that the closed source version will likely be accessing services which are not free. So how can the Open Source version access the same services without passing the cost to the user?
More likely I would imagine it calling an alternative free web service (an equivalent to the 'open source' library).
Good idea but how much would it cost to somebody to use it on their site? I don't think they give you this for free, not in my part of the woods...
But it would be a great idea if it the costs were low or inexistent... perhaps as an ad for the mobile phone company (Vodafone?)...
Paypal does not accept credit cards from many international countries, in fact.
Also if you don't have a credit card you have to have an account in a US bank, so it's even more US oriented.
Also see NoPaypal.com for information on Paypal's activities which put your credit card and bank accounts at risk...
It seems that non-americans such as myself can't pay as there is no country field. And paypal is not an option for most countries (it doesn't accept our countries....)
At least Nvidia's Geforce graphics cards work... I'm happy I bought a Geforce 4 rather than an ATI then....
Many don't use Exchange at all, just Outlook - so switchover isn't that difficult for those folks.
I know of NT servers which were replaced by Linux servers years ago, plus NT workstations which were replaced by Win2k stations.
I remember NT, a few years ago, used to have to be reinstalled every week because it couldn't handle a class of students compiling with Delphi... it would be too much of a load for it and it would die and corrupt itself so much that it would not even boot.
I'd like something based on Pascal, or a nice combination of Pascal and C.
That would be ideal...
The most recent JAVA (binary) SDK has problems with older versions of Solaris, and I discovered that a number of countries including Malta are not allowed to download the source code for the SDK (because recompilation would fix the incompatibilities with libraries).
I also would have similar problems with the Linux version on the Linux systems I'm running - since I don't happen to have the same version of the libraries their binary sdk uses!
The problem is that Sun should have a statically linked version, but they don't care!
I wrote to them and they told me to look at the list of countries. Thank you - as if I had not seen it before.
Al Gore wasn't even in politics in those days!
There is another suffix for Ogg - OGM - that's for when you play movie files using the Ogg Vorbis container format.
There's an alternative being coded called Matroska. Would MATROSKA be easier as a name?
For me it already has. It's my archival format for audio.
Only in linux.
No - I actually use ogg in Windows.
Winamp 2 plays them, and I encode them using
BeSweet