I really don't like the idea of using a database where not even the developers have a firm understanding of the source;
On the plus side, they claim they do understand it now. Its possible that the even the mighty Oracle's developer team doesn't know what everything does.
You can't invite friends over to your house and play CD's for them.
You know those white bits of polystyrene that your CD player came in.... Thats not ctually packing material, but earplugs. Break them in half and give them to all your friends in case you want to listen to a CD when friends visit
Berlin probably won't become popular because many folks will say, "Gee, why code for it? There aren't any apps yet"
This could be solved quickly by porting gdk/gtk to it. Suddenly we have Gimp, a web browser, and - the most important addition ever to the modern GUI - Minesweeper.
As for the point about gtk, Windowing systems are different from toolits. You can easily use several toolkits, but using several GUI's is a lot harder.
Well, on the plus side, my C64 takes a lot less time to start up than X. And its much more memory efficient. And Spy Hunter is more fun than any of the games I've seen for X. And my TV gave hardware anti-aliased fonts.
How about support for multiple desktops at different resolutions and some decent stuff for full screen games and video. And I'd quite like to have Windows style subwindows.
Not quite the same situation. Wrap it up and sell it as a word processor. (It will process precisely 2 words) and mention in the licencing that this product is not guarenteed to do anything.
IIRC David Lynch's original cut of the Movie was some 5 hours long I heard that 5 hours of footage were shot, but no film is ever made with the intention of using everything that was filmed.
In particular they removed the subplot involving Paul having to kill a Fremen A part of the book that I feel is essential to establishing Paul's character. Its also a good action scene that would have made that whole chunk of the film less dull.
I think a bigger problem was that the plot compression was so unbalanced.
It takes a lot of story telling and hanging around just getting to the goddamn planet, then when we get into the actual story, Paul Atreides is immediately made leader of the Fremen without virtually no effort.
It wouldn't have hurt the plot significantly to have started about 100 pages into the book, with a couple of the important scenes moved to Arrakis.
Strictly speaking, yes this is a copyright violations. Since they aren't actually getting any money from the music though, it isn't really doing them any harm, and nobody would buy a game purely for the music. If the publishers asked people to stop copying this music then it should stop. They seem to turn a blind eye to this sort of thing though.
Hardly a fair comparison though. The SID was a much better sound chip.
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The observation about colors is that sometimes picture on buttons are drawn in grey rather than the user colours. I can't think which apps do this (Which I realise kind of scuppers my argument) but it looks ugly when it happens.
The problem with the ways to regain screen space is that you lose the functionality, or increase the time it takes to perform an operation. I want to have both space and functionality. Or at least a more customizeable tradeoff. Something like allowing the taskbar to be half a screen wide, and the option to shrink the toolbar buttons to any size.
if you're ticked you can't play DVDs in Linux... why not go out and buy a cheep $180 player
Pigheadedness. Its not so much that Linux users want to use their machines to play DVD's. Its more that they object to somebody else telling them that they can't use a piece of software for legal reasons.
This is very easy to do on a lot of models. It's almost as if they think that they can sell more players if they are multi region.
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This is mostly subjective and caused by my running at a low resolution, but I really hate the fact that the menubar, titlebar, toolbar, taskbar and launchbar take so much space, and all the frames on KDevelop really reduces the amount of space you have to work in. VC++ does at least let you move these around but kdevelop doesn't.
There's other little things like cryptic key combinations (Why is alt+f4 close window?)
Then there's the little things like not all applications expect people to customize their colours, so widgets are sometimes surrounded by a grey box.
I know these aren't really major problems for most people, but I don't see why a total clone of Windows is needed.
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Didn't they also go after Aqua over the Barbie Girl song
Yes, but MCA fought the battle. The judge ruled it was a parody. Also threw out a countersuit by MCA. Reference here
And the RIAA and Mattel clashed and the sounds of battle were heard across continents.
I really don't like the idea of using a database where not even the developers have a firm understanding of the source;
On the plus side, they claim they do understand it now. Its possible that the even the mighty Oracle's developer team doesn't know what everything does.
And while we're at it, doesn't calling it NetPD violate XemiComputer's intellectual property rights?
You can't invite friends over to your house and play CD's for them.
You know those white bits of polystyrene that your CD player came in.... Thats not ctually packing material, but earplugs. Break them in half and give them to all your friends in case you want to listen to a CD when friends visit
Berlin probably won't become popular because many folks will say, "Gee, why code for it? There aren't any apps yet"
This could be solved quickly by porting gdk/gtk to it. Suddenly we have Gimp, a web browser, and - the most important addition ever to the modern GUI - Minesweeper.
As for the point about gtk, Windowing systems are different from toolits. You can easily use several toolkits, but using several GUI's is a lot harder.
Well, on the plus side, my C64 takes a lot less time to start up than X. And its much more memory efficient. And Spy Hunter is more fun than any of the games I've seen for X. And my TV gave hardware anti-aliased fonts.
How about support for multiple desktops at different resolutions and some decent stuff for full screen games and video. And I'd quite like to have Windows style subwindows.
Name another protocol that works localy and over a network, that takes less ram.
Can't the Amiga do this using RTG? Probably less efficiently in terms of bandwidth though.
X on a network is truly impressive (I had great fun playing Doom on two different machines using each other's monitors)
The thing is that not many people use their machines on a network. X really needs some optimisations to improve local display support.
These guys are being quite clever, but they really ought to change "For Dummies" to "For People like those complete idiots at IDG".
Shlashdot story about doubleclick and a patent I hope I got that link right anyway. I'm half asleep here.
Not quite the same situation. Wrap it up and sell it as a word processor. (It will process precisely 2 words) and mention in the licencing that this product is not guarenteed to do anything.
No, because MS is still making money from Windows 98.
IIRC David Lynch's original cut of the Movie was some 5 hours long I heard that 5 hours of footage were shot, but no film is ever made with the intention of using everything that was filmed.
In particular they removed the subplot involving Paul having to kill a Fremen A part of the book that I feel is essential to establishing Paul's character. Its also a good action scene that would have made that whole chunk of the film less dull.
Not you again!
Ummm.... I though Slashdot was about geeks, and not about Linux. So stop complaining about being pertrayed as a geek here.
I think a bigger problem was that the plot compression was so unbalanced.
It takes a lot of story telling and hanging around just getting to the goddamn planet, then when we get into the actual story, Paul Atreides is immediately made leader of the Fremen without virtually no effort.
It wouldn't have hurt the plot significantly to have started about 100 pages into the book, with a couple of the important scenes moved to Arrakis.
Strictly speaking, yes this is a copyright violations. Since they aren't actually getting any money from the music though, it isn't really doing them any harm, and nobody would buy a game purely for the music. If the publishers asked people to stop copying this music then it should stop. They seem to turn a blind eye to this sort of thing though.
Hardly a fair comparison though. The SID was a much better sound chip.
The observation about colors is that sometimes picture on buttons are drawn in grey rather than the user colours. I can't think which apps do this (Which I realise kind of scuppers my argument) but it looks ugly when it happens.
The problem with the ways to regain screen space is that you lose the functionality, or increase the time it takes to perform an operation. I want to have both space and functionality. Or at least a more customizeable tradeoff. Something like allowing the taskbar to be half a screen wide, and the option to shrink the toolbar buttons to any size.
Its wrong to ban people from using something simply because other people will use it in an illegal way.
Besides, it would be easier to import a video CD verion of the film (These are quite popular in parts of Asia) and pirate that
if you're ticked you can't play DVDs in Linux... why not go out and buy a cheep $180 player
Pigheadedness. Its not so much that Linux users want to use their machines to play DVD's. Its more that they object to somebody else telling them that they can't use a piece of software for legal reasons.
This is very easy to do on a lot of models. It's almost as if they think that they can sell more players if they are multi region.
This is mostly subjective and caused by my running at a low resolution, but I really hate the fact that the menubar, titlebar, toolbar, taskbar and launchbar take so much space, and all the frames on KDevelop really reduces the amount of space you have to work in. VC++ does at least let you move these around but kdevelop doesn't.
There's other little things like cryptic key combinations (Why is alt+f4 close window?)
Then there's the little things like not all applications expect people to customize their colours, so widgets are sometimes surrounded by a grey box.
I know these aren't really major problems for most people, but I don't see why a total clone of Windows is needed.
Ever notice how the freshmeatisms seem to come in batches? I think the last kernel revision story came the same day as a KDevelop revision story too.