You know that the movie is only encoded at 30 fps, right? I never saw any spots in it that I'd describe as "into the toilet"; there were some minor skips, but they can probably all be attributed to the video encoding.
Your original, presumptuous, contention was I said that Linux was expensive because you had to buy hardware.
Actually, my main point of contention was that you said Windows crashed with regards to sound issues, which is unfounded hearsay. It's good to see you've dropped that, though.
I know I've spent less on hardware than you have because I get fine performance from less than "top-of-the-line" hardware.
'kay, just keep telling yourself that if you ever have to do something like video editing and encoding, DVD mastering, or working with images for professional printing.
Even outside of the professional world, good luck trying to play high-end games like Unreal Tournament 2004 or Farcry on a 1 GHz system.
If you've been ISA free for six years, you threw away hardware that I did not have to.
What makes you think I throw old hardware away? That particular motherboard is now working in a router with FreeBSD on it. I gave the sound card to a friend who didn't have one, although I don't know if he still has it now. The last time I threw hardware away was when I had a CD writer turn into a brick because of a bad firmware flashing -- the manufacturer would've charged more to replace the firmware than it would to just buy a new drive.
Coincidentally, the last time I had an ISA sound card was when I was using Windows 95. It's entirely possible that XP would have no problems with it. I haven't even had any ISA slots on my motherboard for at least five or six years.
I also get an educational discount on Microsoft software. Windows XP cost me $5.
Why do you assume I would spend less on hardware if I was using Linux? Top-of-the-line is top-of-the-line, and if you do any kind of serious work on your computer, you'll want the best hardware you can get, regardless of what operating system you're using.
"The great thing about Linux is that it's free! Except for the new hardware you'll have to buy."
I'm told that Windoze typically blue screens if you try to play music while playing games.
No, in fact, it doesn't, and modern sound cards have had the capability to mix streams of audio from multiple applications for years now. The last time I ran in to problems with multiple sounds playing at once was when I had an ISA Sound Blaster AWE 32.
You've got nothing to lose! Want to make a lot of geeks happy and release that final patent into the public domain?
What would make me happy is not for IBM to release the patent, but to go lawsuit-crazy and start filing litigation against any web site that uses GIF. Maybe that would actually encourage people (*coughSlashdotcough*) to switch to PNG -- which, as other people have stated, is better for everything but animation, and that's only because the MNG format has almost no support.
Why is Slashdot, bastion of open source and opponent of software patents, still using GIF anyway?
2) IE is wildly used, so very attractive to find a security bug in it (for malicious activities).
I see this argument used a lot, but it's wrong. You're confusing correlation with causation; IE is widely used, and a lot of security flaws are found in it, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the flaws are found because it's widely used.
For a counter-example, take a look at web servers. 67.05% of web servers run Apache, according to Netcraft. In comparision, 21.48% of web servers are using Microsoft's IIS. Why is it, then, that new security flaws are constantly found in IIS, but flaws in Apache are discovered much more rarely?
The thing is, names don't translate. Or, at least, in languages where the names actually mean something, literally translating the names would sound incredibly awkward. For example, take a common Japanese name like "Tanaka," which literally means... "Field center." What is there to "understand" about somebody's name, anyway? Typically, a name is a name, with no special meaning behind it.
"absolute" positions a box with respect to its containing object; "fixed" positions a box with respect to the viewport. In other words, an object that has its position specified with "absolute" will move when the user scrolls the page, whereas a "fixed" object will always remain in the same spot in the browser window.
For an example, take a look at http://finkcommander.sourceforge.net/. The navigation bar on the right is fixed in browsers that support the element, and absolute otherwise. Load the page up in IE and Mozilla, make the windows small enough that a scrollbar appears, then scroll up and down and watch what happens.
That would be nice, if IE supported very much CSS. For example, its support of the positional part of CSS2 is awful. Try using the "position: fixed" element; it doesn't work. The only other way I've found to replicate its behaviour is ugly hacks with tables and frames.
Many services don't need to run in series. For example, the random number generator can be started while ethernet discovery is taking place, or sendmail can start up while X is probing the monitor. Similar reasons why a 'make -j4' runs so much faster than 'make'; the two bottlenecks when compiling (or loading an OS), cpu and disk, just aren't being used the whole time, one is usually waiting on the other at any given time.
Yes, actually, that's the largest reason why XP boots up so fast; it does everything that it can in parallel, whereas your typical Linux system starts one thing and waits for it to finish before starting another. OS X also paralellizes its runtime services, and it starts quite fast.
In all fairness, I don't think that your second and fourth points are very valid.
Yes, WinXP broke a lot of compatibility with DOS and older Windows apps, and in my opinion, it was far overdue; supporting the legacy APIs was hurting Windows. To put things in perspective, the majority of the software that it broke compatibility with was written for Win95 or earlier; the Linux kernel was still in 1.x in 95, and I doubt that you could find any Linux program compiled for a 1.x kernel that would run on a modern system.
Also, saying that you can't program without spending cash on a compiler and libraries is just wrong. I am familiar with at least two free C++ compilers that run under Windows, DJGPP and MinGW. Dev-C++ is also a fairly popular development environment. You don't even have to use Microsoft's libraries, if you don't want to; while I believe the DirectX SDK can be downloaded for free or bought on CD for a nominal fee, you could, alternatively, use SDL or wxWidgets or any number of other graphical libraries.
Actually, there used to be an Area 52 near my hometown of Pampa, Texas. Well, I'm not sure if it's still there anymore or not; at one point on the highway there was a simple sign that read "Area 52" next to a small road that went off the side, but I noticed a few years ago that the sign isn't there anymore.
Actually, in Japanese, units of time always go from largest unit to smallest unit. So, it'd be:
juuichigatsu itsuka (month day)
Or, a more general order: year month day hour minute second
Of course, if that was all there were too it, it'd be far too easy -- you also have to remember that the first nine days of the month, plus day 20 and any day ending in a 4 use an alternate counting system.;-)
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Neither Mozilla nor Opera's homepages use tables, but they do use CSS.
Oops! Looks like I completely misinterpreted what you meant.;-) But, you still might give Cygwin a shot -- I almost never use Windows' DOS shell anymore.
It doesn't have one installed by default, you mean. Try Cygwin. I remotely log in to my Windows XP machine on a regular basis via Cygwin's SSH; in fact, even when I'm at it I connect to itself through PuTTY, since I like its terminal features much more than WinXP's normal DOS emulator.
If you really want, though, you could log in via Remote Desktop Connection and open a DOS window that way. Believe it or not, it's quite usable even over a 56k modem.
I like the idea of Torrent, but it simply doesn't work.
Yes, it does.
The protocol is designed to make your download rate roughly proportional to your upload rate; however, when you start a file you have nothing to upload, so it lets you download for a while with no consequences. Shortly afterwards, however, it begins uploading rapidly in order to make up for that. If you were to leave it on for longer than 15 minutes, it probably would've began improving rapidly. Also, if you're behind a firewall, you should forward incoming connections on ports 6881 through 6889 to your computer.
Also, if you have a connection where the upstream is much lower than than the downstream -- such as a typical ADSL or Cable connection -- keep in mind that if your upstream bandwidth is saturated, you won't be able to download anything with any success. If you need to restrict your upstream bandwidth, try this alternate client. I find that a cap of 10 or 15 kB/s is good on a connection with 128kbps upstream.
Here's a Windows program called IrfanView. No Linux version, but I can verify that it runs very well in Wine. While it can't add borders around an image, it does have a graphical Batch Conversion/rename tool that can do everything else you've described.
Close... "seiyuu" is a voice actor, in particular; one who doesn't actually perform with their body. "dan'yuu" would probably be better, but "karadan'yuu" is a bit of a mouthful.
Mail.app under OSX is quite nice too, though I don't like the way that it won't check IMAP servers automatically when it checks your main Inbox. I always have to syncronize my folders. Also, it should display the number of new messages that you have in total in all of your folders (excluding the spam folder) if you want it to.
I've got a PowerBook with OS X 10.3 that I use Mail.app on all the time to connect to two IMAP servers, and it automatically checks them -- if you go to the "General" section under the preferences, you can change how often it checks for new mail. Is that not what you want? I don't use any POP3 servers, so I'm not sure if having one of those would cause strange behaviour... There's even an option in the advanced section of the individual server settings to automatically synchronize changed folders.
It would be nice if the dock icon displayed the sum of all unread messages in every folder, though.
If you buy a GBA with the intention of playing NES games on it, you are wasting money (and probably need to be smacked in the head). I'd say it's still a good deal if you want to play GBA games, though.;-)
That's right, when you move out, why don't you try living WITHOUT internet access at all?
You'll find you have more time for other interests and more time for new interests.
Instead of lusting after a broader connection to collective conscience, why don't you try and understand your own? The internet is a waste of brain cycles, friend; resist the temptation to allow this device (and its webmasters) to do your thinking for you.
You sound like this might be your first place On Your Own (?); try moving somewhere urban and interesting. Live life, don't be a passive observer.
Happily Internet free for 4 years.
I fixed your post for you! There was a lot of incorrect punctuation.
But seriously, a while back I noticed that I wasted a lot more time on the internet than watching TV (yes, with a cable connection). Then a two-week long DSL outage occured; at first I thought I was going to go insane, but since then I've found a lot more free time for other activities, such as reading books, practicing Aikido, and learning to make chain mail.
At least television is passive, so I can work on something else while idly paying attention to it; the internet demands that you pay full attention to it while you waste your time.
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You know that the movie is only encoded at 30 fps, right? I never saw any spots in it that I'd describe as "into the toilet"; there were some minor skips, but they can probably all be attributed to the video encoding.
Eek, I should've read this first. I'll stay out of this thread now.
Your original, presumptuous, contention was I said that Linux was expensive because you had to buy hardware.
Actually, my main point of contention was that you said Windows crashed with regards to sound issues, which is unfounded hearsay. It's good to see you've dropped that, though.
I know I've spent less on hardware than you have because I get fine performance from less than "top-of-the-line" hardware.
'kay, just keep telling yourself that if you ever have to do something like video editing and encoding, DVD mastering, or working with images for professional printing.
Even outside of the professional world, good luck trying to play high-end games like Unreal Tournament 2004 or Farcry on a 1 GHz system.
If you've been ISA free for six years, you threw away hardware that I did not have to.
What makes you think I throw old hardware away? That particular motherboard is now working in a router with FreeBSD on it. I gave the sound card to a friend who didn't have one, although I don't know if he still has it now. The last time I threw hardware away was when I had a CD writer turn into a brick because of a bad firmware flashing -- the manufacturer would've charged more to replace the firmware than it would to just buy a new drive.
Coincidentally, the last time I had an ISA sound card was when I was using Windows 95. It's entirely possible that XP would have no problems with it. I haven't even had any ISA slots on my motherboard for at least five or six years.
I also get an educational discount on Microsoft software. Windows XP cost me $5.
Why do you assume I would spend less on hardware if I was using Linux? Top-of-the-line is top-of-the-line, and if you do any kind of serious work on your computer, you'll want the best hardware you can get, regardless of what operating system you're using.
If Knoppix won't work, get another sound card.
"The great thing about Linux is that it's free! Except for the new hardware you'll have to buy."
I'm told that Windoze typically blue screens if you try to play music while playing games.
No, in fact, it doesn't, and modern sound cards have had the capability to mix streams of audio from multiple applications for years now. The last time I ran in to problems with multiple sounds playing at once was when I had an ISA Sound Blaster AWE 32.
You've got nothing to lose! Want to make a lot of geeks happy and release that final patent into the public domain?
What would make me happy is not for IBM to release the patent, but to go lawsuit-crazy and start filing litigation against any web site that uses GIF. Maybe that would actually encourage people (*coughSlashdotcough*) to switch to PNG -- which, as other people have stated, is better for everything but animation, and that's only because the MNG format has almost no support.
Why is Slashdot, bastion of open source and opponent of software patents, still using GIF anyway?
2) IE is wildly used, so very attractive to find a security bug in it (for malicious activities).
I see this argument used a lot, but it's wrong. You're confusing correlation with causation; IE is widely used, and a lot of security flaws are found in it, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the flaws are found because it's widely used.
For a counter-example, take a look at web servers. 67.05% of web servers run Apache, according to Netcraft. In comparision, 21.48% of web servers are using Microsoft's IIS. Why is it, then, that new security flaws are constantly found in IIS, but flaws in Apache are discovered much more rarely?
The thing is, names don't translate. Or, at least, in languages where the names actually mean something, literally translating the names would sound incredibly awkward. For example, take a common Japanese name like "Tanaka," which literally means... "Field center." What is there to "understand" about somebody's name, anyway? Typically, a name is a name, with no special meaning behind it.
"absolute" positions a box with respect to its containing object; "fixed" positions a box with respect to the viewport. In other words, an object that has its position specified with "absolute" will move when the user scrolls the page, whereas a "fixed" object will always remain in the same spot in the browser window.
For an example, take a look at http://finkcommander.sourceforge.net/. The navigation bar on the right is fixed in browsers that support the element, and absolute otherwise. Load the page up in IE and Mozilla, make the windows small enough that a scrollbar appears, then scroll up and down and watch what happens.
That would be nice, if IE supported very much CSS. For example, its support of the positional part of CSS2 is awful. Try using the "position: fixed" element; it doesn't work. The only other way I've found to replicate its behaviour is ugly hacks with tables and frames.
Many services don't need to run in series. For example, the random number generator can be started while ethernet discovery is taking place, or sendmail can start up while X is probing the monitor. Similar reasons why a 'make -j4' runs so much faster than 'make'; the two bottlenecks when compiling (or loading an OS), cpu and disk, just aren't being used the whole time, one is usually waiting on the other at any given time.
Yes, actually, that's the largest reason why XP boots up so fast; it does everything that it can in parallel, whereas your typical Linux system starts one thing and waits for it to finish before starting another. OS X also paralellizes its runtime services, and it starts quite fast.
In all fairness, I don't think that your second and fourth points are very valid.
Yes, WinXP broke a lot of compatibility with DOS and older Windows apps, and in my opinion, it was far overdue; supporting the legacy APIs was hurting Windows. To put things in perspective, the majority of the software that it broke compatibility with was written for Win95 or earlier; the Linux kernel was still in 1.x in 95, and I doubt that you could find any Linux program compiled for a 1.x kernel that would run on a modern system.
Also, saying that you can't program without spending cash on a compiler and libraries is just wrong. I am familiar with at least two free C++ compilers that run under Windows, DJGPP and MinGW. Dev-C++ is also a fairly popular development environment. You don't even have to use Microsoft's libraries, if you don't want to; while I believe the DirectX SDK can be downloaded for free or bought on CD for a nominal fee, you could, alternatively, use SDL or wxWidgets or any number of other graphical libraries.
Actually, there used to be an Area 52 near my hometown of Pampa, Texas. Well, I'm not sure if it's still there anymore or not; at one point on the highway there was a simple sign that read "Area 52" next to a small road that went off the side, but I noticed a few years ago that the sign isn't there anymore.
Actually, in Japanese, units of time always go from largest unit to smallest unit. So, it'd be:
;-)
juuichigatsu itsuka
(month day)
Or, a more general order:
year month day hour minute second
Of course, if that was all there were too it, it'd be far too easy -- you also have to remember that the first nine days of the month, plus day 20 and any day ending in a 4 use an alternate counting system.
Neither Mozilla nor Opera's homepages use tables, but they do use CSS.
Not to be a Nitpick, but can I download the KDE environment for Win32, so I can compile KMail on my workmachine running Windows XP?
Yes, you can.
Oops! Looks like I completely misinterpreted what you meant. ;-) But, you still might give Cygwin a shot -- I almost never use Windows' DOS shell anymore.
It doesn't have a remotely useable shell
It doesn't have one installed by default, you mean. Try Cygwin. I remotely log in to my Windows XP machine on a regular basis via Cygwin's SSH; in fact, even when I'm at it I connect to itself through PuTTY, since I like its terminal features much more than WinXP's normal DOS emulator.
If you really want, though, you could log in via Remote Desktop Connection and open a DOS window that way. Believe it or not, it's quite usable even over a 56k modem.
Orchestral Game Concert, Volume 1.
There were five volumes in the series, and they're all incredibly good; sadly, they're also all out of print and very hard to find.
I like the idea of Torrent, but it simply doesn't work.
Yes, it does.
The protocol is designed to make your download rate roughly proportional to your upload rate; however, when you start a file you have nothing to upload, so it lets you download for a while with no consequences. Shortly afterwards, however, it begins uploading rapidly in order to make up for that. If you were to leave it on for longer than 15 minutes, it probably would've began improving rapidly. Also, if you're behind a firewall, you should forward incoming connections on ports 6881 through 6889 to your computer.
Also, if you have a connection where the upstream is much lower than than the downstream -- such as a typical ADSL or Cable connection -- keep in mind that if your upstream bandwidth is saturated, you won't be able to download anything with any success. If you need to restrict your upstream bandwidth, try this alternate client. I find that a cap of 10 or 15 kB/s is good on a connection with 128kbps upstream.
Ok.
Here's a Windows program called IrfanView. No Linux version, but I can verify that it runs very well in Wine. While it can't add borders around an image, it does have a graphical Batch Conversion/rename tool that can do everything else you've described.
Close... "seiyuu" is a voice actor, in particular; one who doesn't actually perform with their body. "dan'yuu" would probably be better, but "karadan'yuu" is a bit of a mouthful.
Mail.app under OSX is quite nice too, though I don't like the way that it won't check IMAP servers automatically when it checks your main Inbox. I always have to syncronize my folders. Also, it should display the number of new messages that you have in total in all of your folders (excluding the spam folder) if you want it to.
I've got a PowerBook with OS X 10.3 that I use Mail.app on all the time to connect to two IMAP servers, and it automatically checks them -- if you go to the "General" section under the preferences, you can change how often it checks for new mail. Is that not what you want? I don't use any POP3 servers, so I'm not sure if having one of those would cause strange behaviour... There's even an option in the advanced section of the individual server settings to automatically synchronize changed folders.
It would be nice if the dock icon displayed the sum of all unread messages in every folder, though.
If you buy a GBA with the intention of playing NES games on it, you are wasting money (and probably need to be smacked in the head). I'd say it's still a good deal if you want to play GBA games, though. ;-)
That's right, when you move out, why don't you try living WITHOUT internet access at all?
You'll find you have more time for other interests and more time for new interests.
Instead of lusting after a broader connection to collective conscience, why don't you try and understand your own? The internet is a waste of brain cycles, friend; resist the temptation to allow this device (and its webmasters) to do your thinking for you.
You sound like this might be your first place On Your Own (?); try moving somewhere urban and interesting. Live life, don't be a passive observer.
Happily Internet free for 4 years.
I fixed your post for you! There was a lot of incorrect punctuation.
But seriously, a while back I noticed that I wasted a lot more time on the internet than watching TV (yes, with a cable connection). Then a two-week long DSL outage occured; at first I thought I was going to go insane, but since then I've found a lot more free time for other activities, such as reading books, practicing Aikido, and learning to make chain mail.
At least television is passive, so I can work on something else while idly paying attention to it; the internet demands that you pay full attention to it while you waste your time.