Just a thought: How is the sound played on your system? Directly to/dev/dsp or through Esound (Gnome) or ARTS (KDE)? The two latter options can add lag from the application to the soundcard, especially esd, is my experience.
This definitely looks like a "Must See". I hope it will be available on DVD in Europe so I will not have to resort to... hrhhrmm.. 'alternative sources'.
Re:Linux Has Travelled Far... In The Wrong Directi
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Linus on Linux in 1994
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Linux would benefit more if people would look at it as simply an OPERATING system, rather than a (religious) BELIEF system.
So, since I believe that Linux and other free software is better for mankind than proprietary systems, I am hurting Linux? How is this?
Before you go ripping me about my opinions on Java, ask yourself: Can you program in Perl or Python?
I code C, Ruby, Perl (when I have to), Java, on a daily basis and I still disagree with you. Before you go making uninformed statements, ask yourself: Have you actually any foundation to make claims about Java?
I agree (except I didn't know all the fancy words:) ). I think the main point is, that nothing can be considered fact about these licenses until they are tried in court.
I agree completely with your statement that license monocultures are wrong. Openness includes accepting that everyone has the freedom to choose the license for their software that they feel is best.
That is why I am confused about your statements. You maintain that the FSF want to force the world to use GPL, thereby eradicating all other software licenses - a statement which is completely false in my honest opinion - yet you yourself are on the barricade, battling the GPL with every bit of retorical strength you can muster.
I mean no offense, but how do you handle this contradiction?
Freedom is a highly relative term. What I want is different from what you want. Whatever stops us from doing our respective things hinders our freedom. The GPL ensures the freedom that I want. Therefore it is my license of choice. Please stop trying to limit my freedom by bashing my preferences into the ground.
if the Apache people say you can relicense their software as GPL then you can.
Actually, as far as I can tell, it is all theoretical until somebody does it and the case goes to court. What Apache says is insignificant. Only the content of the license counts.
[The GPL is] about doing everything possible to prevent anyone, anywhere, from selling software.
Erhm, I beg to differ. As zealot-like and wrong as it may sound to you, I have personally sold software under the GPL several times. I do this by charging for the coding and not for the exclusive rights.
Notice, I do not think you an idiot, merely that you are uninformed.
You know those Chinese multiply like rabbits: 2, 4, 8, 16...
Technically, that's not "breeding like rabbits". Your series is polynomic. A rabbit population will increase exponentially, given the resources and space.
Personally, I was hoping to see diagrams, calculations of inertia, stone-against-water friction formulas, chaos theories, stuff like that. I mean, 20 degrees...? Is that all there is to it?!??!!
It occurs to me, that while suing individuals is far more cumbersome than just getting the billion dollar check from Kazaa, getting good at collecting from individuals is better business in the long run since there are so many of them.
I mean, done right, this could be an endless source of money for Kazaa.
No offence, I am all for space programs and travelling to the stars and all that, but when is mankind gonna realize that the moon is just a broken down, worn out, airless lump of dirt that just happens to have come into existence under such accidental circumstances that it was caught in orbit?
I mean, it's nice to look at and all that, but why would anyone want to go there?
Well, I would think back to the good eighties, when the original true non-conformists in modern time (the hippies were just riding the post-war peace-craze), the Punks had they're... well, time.
The whole idea of being a punk is to wreck the conformist and turn non-conformism into an ideal. Since punks share this common ideal it is natural for a very few symbols to become common, for instance the anarchy symbol.
I can certainly identify with having a common goal, which is not to have the same goals as everyone else. "Hackers, Unite!" is an idiotic statement but "Hackers, Identify!" I can understand.
Java itself as a technology is a solution in search of a problem. Yeah, it is everywhere. Should it be? Is it really the correct solution to most of the problems? No, not by a long shot.
I am not trying to offend you, but these sound very much like the words of a man who has tried Java, did not like it, and is now trying to proclaim that his views apply universally.
Personally, Java and the "Sun Way" have solved a lot of my problems in creating enterprise level applications. It works very well if it suits your thinking. In stead of making sweeping statements, maybe you should have said that it does not work for you as a developer. Speaking as an C++ programmer (yes, I still code in the Old Languages) I prefer Java any day, for "real" large scale programming.
Well it bothered me a lot. I had two excruciationg minutes the other day, while trying to figure out why a hostname had an A record but the domain had no NS entry. Then I remembered the DNS wildcard and damned Verisign to hell.
Do not fuck with the infrastructure of the internet. It is the life blood of successful networking.
Who should that install process be "easy" for? If I find it easy and you do not, is it easy enough? Should my Mother be able to install it? Even though the complexities of the program are too difficult for her to understand?
In MPlayer's case, it is my honest opinion, that the compilation process is mostly as easy as it can be given the circumstances. MPlayer combines software modules from countless sources and makes it all play nice inside one little binary. I think the complexity of the situation awards some understanding.
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Mplayer Revisited
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A slight correction: Developers can flame other developers, since they can apreciate the problems involved.
Idiot lusers who do not know the difference betweeen C and csh scripts should not flame developers since they will invariably make asses of themselves. They can flame the distro makers, who get paid for helping (or at least, the idiot lusers should pay them for the priveledge of flaming them).
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Just a thought: How is the sound played on your system? /dev/dsp or through Esound (Gnome) or ARTS (KDE)? The two latter options can add lag from the application to the soundcard, especially esd, is my experience.
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6. You can share the joy of your PS2 with your friends
That's why we need this ported to x86 hardware right now!
[Bitchslap] Ow...!
Two words: The Core
Having that would be so cool, just like in the comics! How fast can one of those dig, like, 80, 90 mph?
I wonder if it has one of those underground radar thingies...
This definitely looks like a "Must See". I hope it will be available on DVD in Europe so I will not have to resort to... hrhhrmm.. 'alternative sources'.
Linux would benefit more if people would look at it as simply an OPERATING system, rather than a (religious) BELIEF system.
So, since I believe that Linux and other free software is better for mankind than proprietary systems, I am hurting Linux? How is this?
Before you go ripping me about my opinions on Java, ask yourself: Can you program in Perl or Python?
I code C, Ruby, Perl (when I have to), Java, on a daily basis and I still disagree with you. Before you go making uninformed statements, ask yourself: Have you actually any foundation to make claims about Java?
I agree (except I didn't know all the fancy words :) ). I think the main point is, that nothing can be considered fact about these licenses until they are tried in court.
I agree completely with your statement that license monocultures are wrong. Openness includes accepting that everyone has the freedom to choose the license for their software that they feel is best.
That is why I am confused about your statements. You maintain that the FSF want to force the world to use GPL, thereby eradicating all other software licenses - a statement which is completely false in my honest opinion - yet you yourself are on the barricade, battling the GPL with every bit of retorical strength you can muster.
I mean no offense, but how do you handle this contradiction?
Freedom is a highly relative term. What I want is different from what you want. Whatever stops us from doing our respective things hinders our freedom. The GPL ensures the freedom that I want. Therefore it is my license of choice. Please stop trying to limit my freedom by bashing my preferences into the ground.
if the Apache people say you can relicense their software as GPL then you can.
Actually, as far as I can tell, it is all theoretical until somebody does it and the case goes to court. What Apache says is insignificant. Only the content of the license counts.
[The GPL is] about doing everything possible to prevent anyone, anywhere, from selling software.
Erhm, I beg to differ. As zealot-like and wrong as it may sound to you, I have personally sold software under the GPL several times. I do this by charging for the coding and not for the exclusive rights.
Notice, I do not think you an idiot, merely that you are uninformed.
You know those Chinese multiply like rabbits: 2, 4, 8, 16 ...
Technically, that's not "breeding like rabbits".
Your series is polynomic. A rabbit population will increase exponentially, given the resources and space.
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http://www.wulffmorgenthaler.com/log/OI23012004.g
You said 100% better what i wanted to say. I reached for mod points but i had none.
Somtimes I think I would subscribe to Slashdot if one could buy mod points for cash.
Personally, I was hoping to see diagrams, calculations of inertia, stone-against-water friction formulas, chaos theories, stuff like that. I mean, 20 degrees...? Is that all there is to it?!??!!
It occurs to me, that while suing individuals is far more cumbersome than just getting the billion dollar check from Kazaa, getting good at collecting from individuals is better business in the long run since there are so many of them.
I mean, done right, this could be an endless source of money for Kazaa.
No offence, I am all for space programs and travelling to the stars and all that, but when is mankind gonna realize that the moon is just a broken down, worn out, airless lump of dirt that just happens to have come into existence under such accidental circumstances that it was caught in orbit?
I mean, it's nice to look at and all that, but why would anyone want to go there?
I'm not calling you an idiot or anything, but exactly how is the acronym RPM recursive?
I mean no offense, but my first response was also, "ewwghghggh" and rapid eye-brow twitching.
...or maybe I just have a phobia of those sixties' "soft shapes".
Well, I would think back to the good eighties, when the original true non-conformists in modern time (the hippies were just riding the post-war peace-craze), the Punks had they're... well, time.
The whole idea of being a punk is to wreck the conformist and turn non-conformism into an ideal. Since punks share this common ideal it is natural for a very few symbols to become common, for instance the anarchy symbol.
I can certainly identify with having a common goal, which is not to have the same goals as everyone else. "Hackers, Unite!" is an idiotic statement but "Hackers, Identify!" I can understand.
Java itself as a technology is a solution in search of a problem. Yeah, it is everywhere. Should it be? Is it really the correct solution to most of the problems? No, not by a long shot.
I am not trying to offend you, but these sound very much like the words of a man who has tried Java, did not like it, and is now trying to proclaim that his views apply universally.
Personally, Java and the "Sun Way" have solved a lot of my problems in creating enterprise level applications. It works very well if it suits your thinking. In stead of making sweeping statements, maybe you should have said that it does not work for you as a developer. Speaking as an C++ programmer (yes, I still code in the Old Languages) I prefer Java any day, for "real" large scale programming.
But that's just my opinion.
Well it bothered me a lot. I had two excruciationg minutes the other day, while trying to figure out why a hostname had an A record but the domain had no NS entry. Then I remembered the DNS wildcard and damned Verisign to hell.
Do not fuck with the infrastructure of the internet. It is the life blood of successful networking.
"Easy Install". You make that sound so absolute.
Who should that install process be "easy" for? If I find it easy and you do not, is it easy enough? Should my Mother be able to install it? Even though the complexities of the program are too difficult for her to understand?
In MPlayer's case, it is my honest opinion, that the compilation process is mostly as easy as it can be given the circumstances. MPlayer combines software modules from countless sources and makes it all play nice inside one little binary. I think the complexity of the situation awards some understanding.
A slight correction: Developers can flame other developers, since they can apreciate the problems involved.
Idiot lusers who do not know the difference betweeen C and csh scripts should not flame developers since they will invariably make asses of themselves. They can flame the distro makers, who get paid for helping (or at least, the idiot lusers should pay them for the priveledge of flaming them).
Geez, cant everyone just get along?