Er, do you have your PC hooked up to a TV, with a console controller attached, with an easy way to switch games without going back to your keyboard/mouse?
Cool! So I can choose to not have my taxes pay for Welfare moms to have more children that they shouldn't be having? I've got some hefty refunds coming my way I guess. And while we're at it, does that mean I can be sure that I can get accepted to the college of my choice based on merit, and not whether or not I'm a minority?
The reason for YOU, perhaps. Probably me too. But while I have no hard numbers to back me up, I bet a majority of people with DVD players do not have 5.1-capable stereo systems Or progressive-scan TVs. Their major reason for buying DVDs are probably random access (like CDs), plus all of the extras that come with DVD movies.
If they were to dare to pull that, hopefully there will be an uproar. But you know what? I bet it won't make much of a difference. Better sound quality was probably the LAST reason people switched to DVDs. Random access was probably the first readon, followed by much less degradation over time.
Look at MP3s. Many people still use 128kbps, and that's less quality than CD. The portability, ability to store more than CDs can, and the availablility of free songs is what made MP3s succeed.
Damn you slashdot! Whenever I actually have mod points, I never seem to come across a post I'd want to mod up. Of course, when I do, the points are gone. Grumble.
Anyway, I agree with 100% of what you said, and I've been saying the same thing for years now. DVD and CD succeeded because they had more than one thing going for them, and its competition paled in comparison. Any futute format that expects to replace them are going to have to pony up more than just one new 'cool' feature in order to find a viable marketplace.
It was easy to make cassettes and VHS tapes look bad. It will be much harder to do the same with CDs and DVDs.
I record Shoutcast streams using X-Box Media Center. Using 160kbit streams you cannot tell the difference from a regular mp3. sometimes i do it while I hear a song I like just so I know what the name of the song is (it saves it as the filename). Then I can go online and search for the extended versions online.
Er....for the latter, you can easily do this in iTunes, for the former, you already knew that iTunes files will not play on Linux before you even bought them, so why did you buy them in the first place?
I foolishly signed a 2-year contract with AT&T in 7/02 since it included a free Motorola v60 phone which I read can act as a modem. Unfortunately I did not do enough research and did not discover until I signed up that AT&T disabled data access on their model. My own fault I guess. But now I have a 12 inch Powerbook that I'd really like to take on the road, and a bluetooth phone with data capabilities is a must. Until my contract expires in July I am stuck. I'm looking at T-Mobile with their unlimited data plan.
All I know is there was a G4 tower out in the field running Jaguar Server with no monitor attached, and I could not get VNC to find a GUI session to connect to.
Fine, but what if I want to use the GUI via my Linux box at home? Sure I can ssh in, but the Server I have is a Jaguar server, so not everything is doable by the command line. That's why I want to use VNC. but without the GUI layer loading, VNC has nothing it can attach itself to.
I can't believe that OSX refuses to start it's GUI if there is no monitor attached on bootup. That means you can't start a VNC server to remotely use the GUI tools. There's a dongle you must buy in order to fool the server into thinking that a monitor is attached. I can see if it's done to protect the end user, but there should be a selectable option to turn this off, especially on the server version. Apple does not sound like much of a server company if they can't think about these things.
It does what I need it to. The shortcut to the Desktop and my home dir is very useful. I dont know why they are trying to re-invent the wheel, and why they are taking so long to do it. Even though they are up to 2.4 I still use Ximian's 2.0 because I don't want to lose their file selector.
Does anyone know of a way I can replace the one in Gnome 2.4 with Ximian's without breaking anything?
Ack, the inforation on that page is very out of date. Basically I need to do what I've been trying to do all along - build Evolution and its depencencies from scratch. But one of them bails with compile errors, so I can't get any further.
What terrorists set off bombs in Nagasaki and Hiroshima? After the US attack of nearly 60 years ago, I would have thought a second attack would have made the news or something.
i use my Powerbook primarily at home hooked up to an external monitor. I've recently started taking out the battery and leaving it out while i continue to use the supplied plug. I hope I'm not wrong, but I figue that wiil help prolong the battery life even further.
Agreed. I hope I'm not proven wrong here, but I don't think a Sept.11-type attack is going to ever be possible again. The next time some Arabs try to threaten passengers with boxcutters and take over the plane, either 1) the passengers will more quickly revolt and beat the shit out of their attackers (see Richard Reid) or 2) The pilot will just run the plane into the ground early, figuring they are dead anyway.
I don't see life in prison as revenge. Though I do see a bit of "eye for an eye" in it, though not exactly literally. To me, life is pretty sacred (though while I am not a fan of abortion I am pro-choice, go figure), since I do not believe in heaven. I feel that our time on this earth is very limited in the big picture and that there is no coming back. So for me cutting that time shorter for an innocent life is the worst crime you could possibly commit. So I'm beyond wanting rehabilitation for someone who takes an innocent person's life. I don't care if the person now regrets what he/she did or not, that does not bring the victim back to life. I guess I'm a bit of an objectivist in that way ("A is A, murder is murder").
But I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. In any case, I appreciate your keeping this intelligent and completely flame-free.
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Cingular does, though I admit they are not international.
I thought "Crazy Taxi" fit the bill too. Damn, that's still one of my most favorite games ever.
I'm really starting to hate that I never have mod points when I actually want to USE them......
Er, do you have your PC hooked up to a TV, with a console controller attached, with an easy way to switch games without going back to your keyboard/mouse?
Alright! 2 more of my '90210' brethren.
For street address, I always use "1313 Mockingbird Lane".
Cool! So I can choose to not have my taxes pay for Welfare moms to have more children that they shouldn't be having? I've got some hefty refunds coming my way I guess. And while we're at it, does that mean I can be sure that I can get accepted to the college of my choice based on merit, and not whether or not I'm a minority?
The reason for YOU, perhaps. Probably me too. But while I have no hard numbers to back me up, I bet a majority of people with DVD players do not have 5.1-capable stereo systems Or progressive-scan TVs. Their major reason for buying DVDs are probably random access (like CDs), plus all of the extras that come with DVD movies.
Er, %s/DVD/CD/g above.....
If they were to dare to pull that, hopefully there will be an uproar. But you know what? I bet it won't make much of a difference. Better sound quality was probably the LAST reason people switched to DVDs. Random access was probably the first readon, followed by much less degradation over time.
Look at MP3s. Many people still use 128kbps, and that's less quality than CD. The portability, ability to store more than CDs can, and the availablility of free songs is what made MP3s succeed.
Damn you slashdot! Whenever I actually have mod points, I never seem to come across a post I'd want to mod up. Of course, when I do, the points are gone. Grumble.
Anyway, I agree with 100% of what you said, and I've been saying the same thing for years now. DVD and CD succeeded because they had more than one thing going for them, and its competition paled in comparison. Any futute format that expects to replace them are going to have to pony up more than just one new 'cool' feature in order to find a viable marketplace.
It was easy to make cassettes and VHS tapes look bad. It will be much harder to do the same with CDs and DVDs.
Er, Microsoft is not a hardware company, so they could care less that system you run an OS you bought from them on. A sale is a sale.
I record Shoutcast streams using X-Box Media Center. Using 160kbit streams you cannot tell the difference from a regular mp3. sometimes i do it while I hear a song I like just so I know what the name of the song is (it saves it as the filename). Then I can go online and search for the extended versions online.
Er....for the latter, you can easily do this in iTunes, for the former, you already knew that iTunes files will not play on Linux before you even bought them, so why did you buy them in the first place?
I foolishly signed a 2-year contract with AT&T in 7/02 since it included a free Motorola v60 phone which I read can act as a modem. Unfortunately I did not do enough research and did not discover until I signed up that AT&T disabled data access on their model. My own fault I guess.
But now I have a 12 inch Powerbook that I'd really like to take on the road, and a bluetooth phone with data capabilities is a must. Until my contract expires in July I am stuck. I'm looking at T-Mobile with their unlimited data plan.
All I know is there was a G4 tower out in the field running Jaguar Server with no monitor attached, and I could not get VNC to find a GUI session to connect to.
Fine, but what if I want to use the GUI via my Linux box at home? Sure I can ssh in, but the Server I have is a Jaguar server, so not everything is doable by the command line. That's why I want to use VNC. but without the GUI layer loading, VNC has nothing it can attach itself to.
I can't believe that OSX refuses to start it's GUI if there is no monitor attached on bootup. That means you can't start a VNC server to remotely use the GUI tools. There's a dongle you must buy in order to fool the server into thinking that a monitor is attached. I can see if it's done to protect the end user, but there should be a selectable option to turn this off, especially on the server version. Apple does not sound like much of a server company if they can't think about these things.
It does what I need it to. The shortcut to the Desktop and my home dir is very useful. I dont know why they are trying to re-invent the wheel, and why they are taking so long to do it. Even though they are up to 2.4 I still use Ximian's 2.0 because I don't want to lose their file selector.
Does anyone know of a way I can replace the one in Gnome 2.4 with Ximian's without breaking anything?
Ack, the inforation on that page is very out of date. Basically I need to do what I've been trying to do all along - build Evolution and its depencencies from scratch. But one of them bails with compile errors, so I can't get any further.
Thanks, dude!! You're a lifesaver!! I'm going to try this out tonight.
Can you tell me where you found it? I've been looking for it for months!!! It's no longer available via Fink :(
What terrorists set off bombs in Nagasaki and Hiroshima? After the US attack of nearly 60 years ago, I would have thought a second attack would have made the news or something.
i use my Powerbook primarily at home hooked up to an external monitor. I've recently started taking out the battery and leaving it out while i continue to use the supplied plug. I hope I'm not wrong, but I figue that wiil help prolong the battery life even further.
Agreed. I hope I'm not proven wrong here, but I don't think a Sept.11-type attack is going to ever be possible again. The next time some Arabs try to threaten passengers with boxcutters and take over the plane, either 1) the passengers will more quickly revolt and beat the shit out of their attackers (see Richard Reid) or 2) The pilot will just run the plane into the ground early, figuring they are dead anyway.
I don't see life in prison as revenge. Though I do see a bit of "eye for an eye" in it, though not exactly literally. To me, life is pretty sacred (though while I am not a fan of abortion I am pro-choice, go figure), since I do not believe in heaven. I feel that our time on this earth is very limited in the big picture and that there is no coming back. So for me cutting that time shorter for an innocent life is the worst crime you could possibly commit. So I'm beyond wanting rehabilitation for someone who takes an innocent person's life. I don't care if the person now regrets what he/she did or not, that does not bring the victim back to life. I guess I'm a bit of an objectivist in that way ("A is A, murder is murder").
But I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. In any case, I appreciate your keeping this intelligent and completely flame-free.