If I were to get a laptop, it would be an Apple. That's not because of OS X, it's because the hardware is just as good, if not better than a similarly priced x86 laptop.
iRiver support Ogg, so much so their new iHP players come with a big label on the box about it. iRiver are very well regarded in the portable media player field. Then there's the Neuros, and an excert from an e-mail I got from Frontier Labs says "The firmware will be ready within this year" (With regards to Ogg support, sent in September).
So, I can have Ogg support in everything from HD-based players to small solid-state players. There's no good reason for me to use MP3, my player supports Ogg, which are definitely better quality. There's no reason for me to use AAC, not even my desktop machine's media player can play them. There's no reason for me to use WMA, Ogg is arguably at least as good and my iRiver plays them. I'm also not going to tie myself to an Ms solution when I'm primarily a Linux user.
The iPod-Linux folk have had Oggs playing on the iPod and there's still plenty of room on the iPod's firmware for it.
I find it interesting you listed the VHS/Betamax war as a parallel, since the format with the most liberal licensing won...
That's simply not a scalable solution, not with current hardware. Take a 10GB MP3 collection, that's around 6-7 days of solid playtime. Now, a 2GHz P4 or XP-2000+ is pretty standard fare, and that would take around 1-2 DAYS to transcode the files.
As much as I like and use Ogg, an Ogg-only player isn't feasible in the current market. I personally like iRiver's method, when there's limited room in the firmware, give the user choice. With the iFP-300 and 500 series players, they give you a choice between MP3+Ogg and MP3+WMA firmwares.
Would it? Would it really be too much effort to have a hidden div that has a randomly generated e-mail address in it? After all, each page would have something unique like asdasdasD@gfdgdfgdfgdf.com on it and the automated tools would just scoop it up unless it was smart enough to check the validity of the domain, which seems not to be the case at the moment.
If you had enough web sites doing it, it could poison the pool for a little while, at least.
Currently, Firebird (And the Mozilla classic theme) use the native widget painting code where possible. On Windows, they use the theming API when available, otherwise the default is to look like the old/standard Win32 widget set. On Unix, they use Gtk's widget painting code, so it looks somewhat like a Gtk application. Unfortunately, it's not complete, menus don't look native, for example. On MacOS X, they do now use Carbon's widget painting API IIRC. They also use a skin tailored for the Mac to make Firebird obey the MacOS X UI guidelines better.
I'll agree that Konqueror 3.2 is quite good, but I'd not say it's up to par with Mozilla. For example, why does this misrender in Konqueror, but works fine in Opera, Mozilla and even Safari?
To be fair, the XP firewall is pretty basic, and I've not heard that Microsoft intend on fleshing it out that much. It pretty much does its job, prevent incoming connections, which is what most people want.
Considering the official bittorrent client has the --max_upload_rate option, it's not much of a hack. I normally set it to around 15K/sec, to prevent it flooding my upload and making ping times bad for my housemates.
How's this for a reason: you can't support both IE's DOM model and the W3C one, which is what Mozilla uses? They'd only be able to get part of the way there, which is arguably worse than not bothering at all. I've seen problems with web sites on Konqueror because it supports document.all but not other IE features.
With my 20GB iRiver, I can stick my entire music collection on it and listen to any of my music, whenever I want. I don't need to plug it into my computer and mess around whenever I fancy a change. That's the appeal of a big hard disk to me.
The lack of a concept of "code ownership" simply doesn't scale. The more developers you have, the more likely they are to trample over each other unless there is some concept of "code ownership".
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The Unreal engine only supports Ogg these days, Epic won't support MP3, AAC or WMA because of the licensing.
It may not be being phased out, but pretty much every DVD player in the UK is advertised as "multi-region" these days.
If I were to get a laptop, it would be an Apple. That's not because of OS X, it's because the hardware is just as good, if not better than a similarly priced x86 laptop.
iRiver support Ogg, so much so their new iHP players come with a big label on the box about it. iRiver are very well regarded in the portable media player field. Then there's the Neuros, and an excert from an e-mail I got from Frontier Labs says "The firmware will be ready within this year" (With regards to Ogg support, sent in September).
So, I can have Ogg support in everything from HD-based players to small solid-state players. There's no good reason for me to use MP3, my player supports Ogg, which are definitely better quality. There's no reason for me to use AAC, not even my desktop machine's media player can play them. There's no reason for me to use WMA, Ogg is arguably at least as good and my iRiver plays them. I'm also not going to tie myself to an Ms solution when I'm primarily a Linux user.
The iPod-Linux folk have had Oggs playing on the iPod and there's still plenty of room on the iPod's firmware for it.
I find it interesting you listed the VHS/Betamax war as a parallel, since the format with the most liberal licensing won...
Would you care to provide links to any studies that have shown WMA to be better than Ogg?
That's simply not a scalable solution, not with current hardware. Take a 10GB MP3 collection, that's around 6-7 days of solid playtime. Now, a 2GHz P4 or XP-2000+ is pretty standard fare, and that would take around 1-2 DAYS to transcode the files.
As much as I like and use Ogg, an Ogg-only player isn't feasible in the current market. I personally like iRiver's method, when there's limited room in the firmware, give the user choice. With the iFP-300 and 500 series players, they give you a choice between MP3+Ogg and MP3+WMA firmwares.
iRiver and Rio are hardly obscure.
Would it? Would it really be too much effort to have a hidden div that has a randomly generated e-mail address in it? After all, each page would have something unique like asdasdasD@gfdgdfgdfgdf.com on it and the automated tools would just scoop it up unless it was smart enough to check the validity of the domain, which seems not to be the case at the moment.
If you had enough web sites doing it, it could poison the pool for a little while, at least.
Try this...
open up Konqueror
Press ctrl-N
see what happens
I imagine Safari behaves the same way. I do agree that Mozilla/Firebird could use a keyboard shortcut configuration panel though.
Currently, Firebird (And the Mozilla classic theme) use the native widget painting code where possible. On Windows, they use the theming API when available, otherwise the default is to look like the old/standard Win32 widget set. On Unix, they use Gtk's widget painting code, so it looks somewhat like a Gtk application. Unfortunately, it's not complete, menus don't look native, for example. On MacOS X, they do now use Carbon's widget painting API IIRC. They also use a skin tailored for the Mac to make Firebird obey the MacOS X UI guidelines better.
XServer is not based off XFree, it differs quite substantially.
I'll agree that Konqueror 3.2 is quite good, but I'd not say it's up to par with Mozilla. For example, why does this misrender in Konqueror, but works fine in Opera, Mozilla and even Safari?
Red vs. Blue was mildly entertaining at best. Hysterically funny, it was not. Most of the jokes were obvious and too in-your-face.
He's not. A friend of mine applied SP1 and rendered his system unbootable.
You can get IE to display transparent PNGs properly, but you have to do it in the most bone headed way imaginable.
To be fair, the XP firewall is pretty basic, and I've not heard that Microsoft intend on fleshing it out that much. It pretty much does its job, prevent incoming connections, which is what most people want.
Considering the official bittorrent client has the --max_upload_rate option, it's not much of a hack. I normally set it to around 15K/sec, to prevent it flooding my upload and making ping times bad for my housemates.
How's this for a reason: you can't support both IE's DOM model and the W3C one, which is what Mozilla uses? They'd only be able to get part of the way there, which is arguably worse than not bothering at all. I've seen problems with web sites on Konqueror because it supports document.all but not other IE features.
Rhythmbox and netRhythmbox. You could consider EGCS and GCC a merge, although it was more that EGCS took over GCC.
Unless somebody cries "Terrorist" and you're wisked off to Guntanamo Bay...
With my 20GB iRiver, I can stick my entire music collection on it and listen to any of my music, whenever I want. I don't need to plug it into my computer and mess around whenever I fancy a change. That's the appeal of a big hard disk to me.
Seeing as I've run KDE applications with only KDELibs installed, which doesn't include Konqueror, I'm pretty confident.
The lack of a concept of "code ownership" simply doesn't scale. The more developers you have, the more likely they are to trample over each other unless there is some concept of "code ownership".
When do MS guarantee that a patch will be ready within a set period of time?
Actually, you're wrong. I could do an "apt-get remove konqueror" and my KDE apps would still work fine.