> Ok, let's see how fast I can get rid of all my karma....
Hey! Why does post starting like this are alwas modeed up? I think slashdot must have a.sig like feature (but at the top) so I can also boost my karma like this guy.
Sorry I forgot to say, I know this is offtopic and I can see my KARMA DRAINING:)
"Beta" == not ready for production use. Despite what you want it to mean in your little fantasy world.
Beta == Complete, but not heavily tested software. It may contain bugs, it its supposed not to do so.
What's your point? Didn't have the guts to compare to an NT-kernel based Windows?
Comparing NT to linux...
NT is crashes more often. (CNet had a test for web servers. Over one year two Linux servers did not require "reboot", where NT based servers had to be rebooted every two weeks)
NT is less scalable (try to run Win2K on 486!)
But Linux can run on handleds to IBM supercomputers
Linux is POSIX compilant where NT is "trying to be" POSIX compiant. (UNIX is the one true way TM)
Linux is open, one can change it to his special needs and exploits can be fixed much quickly. (You do not have to wait for one year for service pack 7)
"Microsoft sponsering Windows helps improving it"
I think you did not get it. Sun distributes some set of standard tools (c compiler, shells, etc). Where most of the Sun admins do not use their Sun versions but install GNU versions instead. because they are more robust, they have more features. This is like everyone installing WinAmp instead of WM7 crap, because it loads faster and it has more features.
I am not talking about this. The US seems to be "rushing" to attack. Some previous events has proved that US can be "misleaded". If "this" happens, and US attacks a country which was not guilty, WW3 begins.
If you follow the news, top level goverment officers (even Bush) does not "name" a target, but does say "we will crush them". Most of the others name "Bin Ladin".
But US is not cautious this time. Because attacking on "false" target (even %90 of the evidents directed that way) is unacceptable.
It's already too late. Pakistan has nukes. Iraq may have also.
On the other side it does not matter. Because, if it would turn out to be a WW3, some contries will ally with "non-US" side. And those may include france, russia, china, japan, germany, etc.
If it will become a WW3, there is no way to stop the nukes. It will never be one-sided. Even if you "flatten" your enemies, a few hundred of their children will "flatten" US in no more than 20 years.
It's already mentioned many times, but I fear like Einstein that the WW4 will be done with stones.
Actually frech news site AFP says that a japanese terrorist group, called "Red Army" has claimed that they have done this as a conter to the nuclear attacks which are infameous.
The site is down. Even the google cache does not work. So I cannot add any more details. Anyway Filistin, Usame bin Ladin or Japanese, this even is NO GOOD!
I will not be a troll, but i'll be a little bit bitter:)
Well there is long-lasting wine project that is capable of running windows apps. It has been developed for many years, but we're still far from running "most" windows apps on linux.
Windows Replacement Project: I could not access their site
Freedows: preliminary code no longer available
ReactOS: preliminary code
WinFree: dicontinued
Wabi: sun's binary interface. site now registered by microsoft!
AllOS: no longer interested in windows compatibility
These are the dead or very slow projects. The statistics can be wrong, but usually this is not the case.
There are also "alive" projects. One is twin, but it's slow. Another is odin which was former OS/2-WIN code. But I do not know much about that one.
'nuff said.
Hey it IS CLOSED SOURCE!
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DivX;) Goes Legit
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They can easily satisfy MPAA and other movie companies. Because the codec includes "content protection" and "pay-per-view" facilities. How can thay do this with an open codec? They cannot! But the codec (DivX4) is pretty much closed now...
When I first saw the article, I thought the discussion would include the (lack of) "openness" of the codec.
I think it did not make many noise, but they have closed the codec, and halted the open version. Proof?
their post on their forum!
Well, let's realize this. The used idealist open source hackers to make their closed source codec and also money. Their license was less acceptable even than the darwin license!
What did they do? They make a "reference" implementation open. It contained all the features needed for MPEG4 except any optimizations. But then they did learn how to make a codec, they made another indoor version (which we do not know to contain code from open version). And they made it "faster" and "more reliable".... The open one? it's a joke now! Disgusting, but true...
No it is not necessary. The site can have two "frames". One of them would be the main frame filling the entire window, the other will be the tracking frame, which is insivible (or 1 pixel high).
Then the javascript code in the main window will fill a string with your mouse movement like:
(100,100)-(110,100)-(110,109)-...
After the buffer is filled enough, it will update the hidden frame with a code like:
I totally agree. You cannot use Yahoo! mail attachments without javascript popup windows. You cannot use freshmeat (efficiently) without cookies. It will be too hard to browse cartoonnetwork.com without images.
And single pixel images are used in many sites. Again, freshmeat uses single pixel images for thin lines. (I also use them too).
Anyway, forget it. Web is no longer a medium to distribute content, but now formatting and layout.
You cannot remove konqueror from KDE. That's right. Because it's the file manage/viewer. But you can remove KHTML support from konqueror. Or even add mozilla support to konqueror.
One can even write another browser on top of KHTML (like some flashy IE4 clones:)
Hey! I cannot remember the name of that browser. It was a Cnet thing and was popular (once). Does anyone remember that?
There is a menu item called "customize" when you right-click on the toolbar. Ther yocan assign "any" key to "any" ever. you want c-f to move forward. here you go!
But i cannot remember exacpt position and usage of that dialog box, since I am using a Sun at the moment:)
Are all these >300 registers "general purpose" or do we still have CISC "features" like doing divisions with only DX? If so this "is" a performance enhacement (also answers power problem).
L3 is 6MB, OK. But what about L1 and L2. Also is L1 unified or seperated?
Is this a complete RISC design (ie: there is no DIV operation)?
Will we be able to do "microprogramming"?
What about floating point? Does anyone know FLOPS rating of Itanium? (FLOPS: Floating point instructions per second)
I think I am in the middle of a flamewar. Bt I "have to" reply.
For me moz is very stable. even 0.9.1 did run for 3 days without any crashes. (it did not crash after then, i logged off...:).
Another point is moz is actually useable under kde. i do not mean like another gtk program. there is a qt version of moz which was mentioned on slashdot previously. maybe a kparts port of moz can replace khtml in konqi. i really would like to see that:)
I heard that someone got a copy of a GPL'ed program under another license. Is this possible?
The GNU GPL does not give users permission to attach other licenses to the program. But the copyright holder for a program can release it under
several different licenses in parallel. One of them may be the GNU GPL.
The license that comes in your copy, assuming it was put in by the copyright holder and that you got the copy legitimately, is the license that applies to your
copy.
This means they can release newer version (or even repackage older versions) under a propitary license as long as they have the copryright. But if they have any user contributed parts (including.diff patches), the contributer holds the copyright of that part. This may cause GPL violation, but not repackaging your code under.. say.. QPL.
I do not want to start a flamewar, but i want to say that 64Kbit is not "good" for me. For MP3, even 160Kbit is not good for me. But it depends on what you expect and also on your sound hardware.
With higher compression tenchniques (like WMA, DivX, etc) you can achive "good" quality on "low" bitstream. (For example 64Kbit WMA is "listenable" up to a certain extent).
But these compressions usually involve many "roundings" in order to decrease "compression artifacts". What I think about this 28K stream is (since I cannot test it) it will probably be "good" or "avarage" but never "perfect".
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Hey! Why does post starting like this are alwas modeed up? I think slashdot must have a .sig like feature (but at the top) so I can also boost my karma like this guy.
Sorry I forgot to say, I know this is offtopic and I can see my KARMA DRAINING :)
Beta == Complete, but not heavily tested software. It may contain bugs, it its supposed not to do so.
What's your point? Didn't have the guts to compare to an NT-kernel based Windows?
Comparing NT to linux...
But Linux can run on handleds to IBM supercomputers
"Microsoft sponsering Windows helps improving it"
I think you did not get it. Sun distributes some set of standard tools (c compiler, shells, etc). Where most of the Sun admins do not use their Sun versions but install GNU versions instead. because they are more robust, they have more features. This is like everyone installing WinAmp instead of WM7 crap, because it loads faster and it has more features.
It's up now. Maybe they rebooted the servers :)
If you follow the news, top level goverment officers (even Bush) does not "name" a target, but does say "we will crush them". Most of the others name "Bin Ladin".
But US is not cautious this time. Because attacking on "false" target (even %90 of the evidents directed that way) is unacceptable.
On the other side it does not matter. Because, if it would turn out to be a WW3, some contries will ally with "non-US" side. And those may include france, russia, china, japan, germany, etc.
If it will become a WW3, there is no way to stop the nukes. It will never be one-sided. Even if you "flatten" your enemies, a few hundred of their children will "flatten" US in no more than 20 years.
It's already mentioned many times, but I fear like Einstein that the WW4 will be done with stones.
There are severeal reasons:
There may be several other reasons as well...
there may be other reasons as well.
The site is down. Even the google cache does not work. So I cannot add any more details. Anyway Filistin, Usame bin Ladin or Japanese, this even is NO GOOD!
Netscape.com says White House has also been attacked on their front page. but the thier story page does not contain this. It this true?
They're much more "intelligent" than you think.
Well there is long-lasting wine project that is capable of running windows apps. It has been developed for many years, but we're still far from running "most" windows apps on linux.
Here is a list from their "competitors" page:
These are the dead or very slow projects. The statistics can be wrong, but usually this is not the case.
There are also "alive" projects. One is twin, but it's slow. Another is odin which was former OS/2-WIN code. But I do not know much about that one.
'nuff said.
When I first saw the article, I thought the discussion would include the (lack of) "openness" of the codec.
I think it did not make many noise, but they have closed the codec, and halted the open version. Proof?
their post on their forum!
Well, let's realize this. The used idealist open source hackers to make their closed source codec and also money. Their license was less acceptable even than the darwin license!
What did they do? They make a "reference" implementation open. It contained all the features needed for MPEG4 except any optimizations. But then they did learn how to make a codec, they made another indoor version (which we do not know to contain code from open version). And they made it "faster" and "more reliable".
The code from their site:
:)
[TABLE cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"]
[TR bgcolor="#6f6f6f"]
[TD valign="bottom"][IMG src="/img/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1" alt=""][/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
The one pixel image is scaled to fill an entire line. (I had the change < > to [ ]. I was lazy
Then the javascript code in the main window will fill a string with your mouse movement like:
(100,100)-(110,100)-(110,109)-...
After the buffer is filled enough, it will update the hidden frame with a code like:
TrackerFrame.URL = "http://server/track.cgi?" + str;
That's it. That's all. Your tracking is complete.
And single pixel images are used in many sites. Again, freshmeat uses single pixel images for thin lines. (I also use them too).
Anyway, forget it. Web is no longer a medium to distribute content, but now formatting and layout.
Thus it's NAWnCAT now
One can even write another browser on top of KHTML (like some flashy IE4 clones
Hey! I cannot remember the name of that browser. It was a Cnet thing and was popular (once). Does anyone remember that?
But i cannot remember exacpt position and usage of that dialog box, since I am using a Sun at the moment
Thanks for the answers
For me moz is very stable. even 0.9.1 did run for 3 days without any crashes. (it did not crash after then, i logged off...
Another point is moz is actually useable under kde. i do not mean like another gtk program. there is a qt version of moz which was mentioned on slashdot previously. maybe a kparts port of moz can replace khtml in konqi. i really would like to see that
Ok let's make this HTML+MathML+SVG... They are "editable". But I also understand what you mean. PDF is the format I distribute my latex work.
But i cannot be edited with open source (or even with closed source) software. When I receive an attachment I cannot open, I want a HTML version.
This means they can release newer version (or even repackage older versions) under a propitary license as long as they have the copryright. But if they have any user contributed parts (including
Didn't get it? So go see QT or Kylix!
I do not want to start a flamewar, but i want to say that 64Kbit is not "good" for me. For MP3, even 160Kbit is not good for me. But it depends on what you expect and also on your sound hardware.
But these compressions usually involve many "roundings" in order to decrease "compression artifacts". What I think about this 28K stream is (since I cannot test it) it will probably be "good" or "avarage" but never "perfect".