Her theft insurance must work like Mafia fire insurance: You pay us and nothing will happen to identity. Don't pay us and "things will get worse than they are now."
Helix is more friendly to proprietary codecs than anything else I listed.
GStreamer and aRts arguably don't allow proprietary codecs at all because of GPL linking issues.
The mplayer people seem to be quite vigilant in defending their license.
Xine I admit I'm not sure of.
I think you confuse patented formats with proprietary codecs. It's possible to have a free-software implementation of a proprietary format. It's possible to have a proprietary implementation of a proprietary format.
In the case of Helix, the whole idea is to wrap as much free software as possible around the proprietary implementation (binary codec) of the proprietary format (Real's formats).
What's going on here is that Real is trying to win over the Slashdot crowd. People who don't like MS Windows itself, but do like the Microsoft/proprietary software business model. The people who get worked up over Crossover Office, Doom III, and NVidia drivers.
What also might be going on is that Real is trying to siphon developer support from Mplayer, Xine, and GStreamer, so that Real binary codecs will be "first class citizens" in the community.
Well, why don't you just look back to the time when Jobs wasn't at Apple? Let's see... their OS stopped advancing, their profits disappeared, and people were predicting their collapse all the time.
Jobs comes back, and you get iMac, OS X, servers, iPod, and good times.
And MS just warned that they favor MSNBC on their site. Of course, it doesn't really take one, because MS and MSNBC's names mark them as clearly linked.
Besides, Hemos doesn't put disclaimers on his Everything2 links.
All of my PostgreSQL code is in GNU Arch with no problem, complete with unit tests, and without restrictive licensing.
I like them for one reason: I put all data sanity checks in one place. The database keeps the data sane, and my applications do the work keeping the data up to date. It's a clean, clear division of responsibility.
Most of them just emulate the same mappers, because they have the same information available to them, so greater choice doesn't bring greater coverage. Remember that with the NES, you're not just emulating the console. You have to emulate the hardware in the cartridge, too.
The death of the cartridge was a sad day for consoles. Cheapo CDs and DVDs are slow and unexpandable. This almightly playstation 2 can't even run lowly old Chrono Trigger without regular slowdowns because the DVD can't keep up with the dedicated hardware of the old cartridge.
You also omitted nofrendo by the way, which I got involved with doing an SDL version of because it had the best sound I'd ever heard from an NES emulator.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, then the slashdot horde will throw a fit because they're criminalizing useful tools.
Witness the reactions to the proposed Induce act and the enacted DMCA, where Congress made new laws because the old ones were unenforcable.
Big market moves come in response to external unforeseen events.
Terrorist attacks threaten oil supplies? Sell.
Tax laws change to ease growth? Buy.
Election result makes massive spending impossible? Buy.
Top accounting firm is found to have aided in massive fraud? Sell.
No mathematical model of the highs and lows of the market will predict these.
Her theft insurance must work like Mafia fire insurance: You pay us and nothing will happen to identity. Don't pay us and "things will get worse than they are now."
Linux 2.6 is not a minor upgrade to Linux 2.4. It's a major new version.
The jump between 2.4.0 and 2.4.15 would be more like a service pack.
Thank you.
Unfair comparision between YDL and OSX. For YDL, you choose what "it" you want to work. For OSX, Apple chooses for you.
What can Ingres do for me that Postgres cannot?
I ask this question hoping an Ingres fan was waiting for this opportunity.
You'd be amazed at how much non-portable garbage GNU-using developers cram into applications. Gratuitous GNUisms all over the place...
Just browse through the patches in a BSD ports collection sometime if you want to see what I mean.
FreeBSD's ports collection is the biggest. If you use that, stick with FreeBSD. If you don't, you probably should try other OSes.
Helix is more friendly to proprietary codecs than anything else I listed.
GStreamer and aRts arguably don't allow proprietary codecs at all because of GPL linking issues.
The mplayer people seem to be quite vigilant in defending their license.
Xine I admit I'm not sure of.
I think you confuse patented formats with proprietary codecs. It's possible to have a free-software implementation of a proprietary format. It's possible to have a proprietary implementation of a proprietary format.
In the case of Helix, the whole idea is to wrap as much free software as possible around the proprietary implementation (binary codec) of the proprietary format (Real's formats).
I'd say it's time to start making printing noises with your CV on a laser printer.
CmdrTaco a while back posted what User Agents are most popular. MSIE was well on top.
The beginning of a proprietary codec-friendly one, yes.
But GNU users have already had multimedia frameworks available in aRts, Xine, MPlayer, and GStreamer.
What's going on here is that Real is trying to win over the Slashdot crowd. People who don't like MS Windows itself, but do like the Microsoft/proprietary software business model. The people who get worked up over Crossover Office, Doom III, and NVidia drivers.
What also might be going on is that Real is trying to siphon developer support from Mplayer, Xine, and GStreamer, so that Real binary codecs will be "first class citizens" in the community.
No, "blame" the American voter. They've supported the politicians that supported these policies.
Well, why don't you just look back to the time when Jobs wasn't at Apple? Let's see... their OS stopped advancing, their profits disappeared, and people were predicting their collapse all the time.
Jobs comes back, and you get iMac, OS X, servers, iPod, and good times.
And MS just warned that they favor MSNBC on their site. Of course, it doesn't really take one, because MS and MSNBC's names mark them as clearly linked.
Besides, Hemos doesn't put disclaimers on his Everything2 links.
Oh no! Next they'll tell us that Slashdot editors like to link to Everything2 and Newsforge!
Why would that look different? The slashdot admins have confirmed that MSIE is the most popular client used by the readership.
Why else do you think there are so many stories about MS software, "migration" from MS software, MS security holes, and so on?
How can I be right when I didn't say anything? I called for debate on whether things would be "better/worse/the same."
Let the debate begin: Life would be better/worse/the same if 90% of users used HTTP clients based on Mozilla because...
All of my PostgreSQL code is in GNU Arch with no problem, complete with unit tests, and without restrictive licensing.
I like them for one reason: I put all data sanity checks in one place. The database keeps the data sane, and my applications do the work keeping the data up to date. It's a clean, clear division of responsibility.
Why is that a valid patent?
Isn't using OCR to extract text data an obvious application to an expert in the field?
You're running MS Windows and worried about saving money on compression?
I've tried them all and more.
Most of them just emulate the same mappers, because they have the same information available to them, so greater choice doesn't bring greater coverage. Remember that with the NES, you're not just emulating the console. You have to emulate the hardware in the cartridge, too.
The death of the cartridge was a sad day for consoles. Cheapo CDs and DVDs are slow and unexpandable. This almightly playstation 2 can't even run lowly old Chrono Trigger without regular slowdowns because the DVD can't keep up with the dedicated hardware of the old cartridge.
You also omitted nofrendo by the way, which I got involved with doing an SDL version of because it had the best sound I'd ever heard from an NES emulator.