The thing I'm most concerned about with the HHG movie is that they try to translate the book too literally. There are two great aspects of the book; the character interaction and the narative. DA's description of even everyday objects makes the book so entertaining and funny. It's nigh-on impossible to translate that sort of thing into a movie.
I seem to recall KeithP once mentioning that, in order to implement transparency, he would have to break the XFree driver ABI. For this reason, it was originally planned for XFree5, but it seems the problems this year has forced a rather unpleasant fork situation.
Eh? You'll simply get some applications that'll make use of transparency, and some that won't. The imaging model is transparent to the application, as far as I'm aware.
Keep in mind that KDE doesn't do real transparency, it takes a screenshot at creation time and blends the images together. Thus, you can get menus that look out of place, such as when there's a periodically updating window behind the transparent object.
There was a time when Apple annoyed Acorn fans by claiming to have the first 32-bit RISC personal computer (Or something like that) a good 5 years or so after Acorn did it.
No, the real difference would be the speed of the actual system.
It's not the world's fastest personal computer
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You can buy Athlon and P4 based computers that'll stomp on the G5 for certain tasks (Such as playing some games). Thus, I think Apple is misleading the consumer, since their advertising seems to lead the consumer thinking it's the fastest in general, which it clearly is not.
I think the ITC is right to ban the advert, but then again, I think there are a lot of adverts on British TV that should be banned.
Sorry, JACK is what I meant. However, remember that,these days, an OS is more than a kernel. Old software that wants to open/dev/dsp are becomming more and more rare. After all, there's OpenAL now and JACK is getting more and more attention.
I'll agree with you about arts and esd though, they're awful. I can't remember the number of times I've had to do "killall -9 artsd" because it's once again gone into an infinite loop when Konqueror's generating a thumbnail.
However, I do feel that kernel-mode software mixing is a bad idea. When you do mixing, there's little harm in making it powerful and flexible, one example being per-application volume/EQ control. If you have that stuff in user-space and it dies, your system is still usable, whereas a kernel panic is considerably worse.
IIRC, there was conversation on this in LKML a while back. I think the conclusion was that software mixing is a user-space job, rather than a kernel-space one. If the hardware can handle multiple streams at once, then all well and good, but otherwise, use something like JACKS to do the mixing.
Windows is not designed by users. Users are absolutely awful at design. Being designed for users is fine, but being designed by users would produce a haphazard mess designed to work only for the user who designed it.
I've got Fedora on my laptop. It never needed me to do anything to support power management.
As for DVDs: Install Xine package Install libdvdcss package Run Xine Click on "DVD" button
One of those steps is required because your government saw fit to push stupid laws that made decrypting DVDs by any other means than the "sanctioned" means illegal.
Regarding your last point, the limitations of the OSS system have been apparent for a while now, which is why the 2.6 kernel is deprecating OSS in favour of ALSA.
Why? That's a dumb idea. It's so much easier to just open an e-mail, click the button to add a group of contacts to the BCC list, compose the e-mail and send it.
What if your ISP blocks outbound SMTP? What if your ownly access to the internet is through a locked down computer? What if you just don't want to deal with naive and short-sighted "solutions" to problems, especially when the solution is easily worked around?
It was a very interesting twist at the end of season 4, but I think you may be right about season 5. After the first episode, I thought they could make a go of it, but it seems to be drifting of late. I hope they'll turn it around, since it has promise.
Still, I have to give them props for trying to keep the show fresh, rather than running with the same theme for another 3 seasons.
I doubt it'll get changed to have a completely different spirit. Whilst judges may be able to alter a contract, they'll be changing: "you may redistribute this software if you do this, this and this" to: "you may redistribute this software" It's an absolutely massive change in not only the word of the contract, but the spirit. I'm from the UK, so I can only speak from that perspective, but the Human Rights Act is supposed to have similar intentions to the constitution and I imagine one could argue (in the UK) that the Human Rights Act combined with copyright law would make such a change in intent illegal.
I'm quite afraid of the GPL failing in court, but I'm comforted by the fact that nobody has managed to come up with a convincing reason that it is invalid.
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Well, 2 out of 3 Americans think I'm immoral without having even met me, so it's not like he's the only one to make blanket judgements.
He's talking about hicksdesign.com. Pay attention.
I don't know about other IM networks, but Jabber places no hard limit on the number of contacts you can have.
The thing I'm most concerned about with the HHG movie is that they try to translate the book too literally. There are two great aspects of the book; the character interaction and the narative. DA's description of even everyday objects makes the book so entertaining and funny. It's nigh-on impossible to translate that sort of thing into a movie.
Eh? Even bush admitted there was no firm evidence linking Iraq to 11/9.
And yet gaming is what an awful lot of people do with their personal computer.
I seem to recall KeithP once mentioning that, in order to implement transparency, he would have to break the XFree driver ABI. For this reason, it was originally planned for XFree5, but it seems the problems this year has forced a rather unpleasant fork situation.
Eh? You'll simply get some applications that'll make use of transparency, and some that won't. The imaging model is transparent to the application, as far as I'm aware.
Keep in mind that KDE doesn't do real transparency, it takes a screenshot at creation time and blends the images together. Thus, you can get menus that look out of place, such as when there's a periodically updating window behind the transparent object.
Actually, they do. All it takes to disprove a general rule is one counter-example.
There was a time when Apple annoyed Acorn fans by claiming to have the first 32-bit RISC personal computer (Or something like that) a good 5 years or so after Acorn did it.
No, the real difference would be the speed of the actual system.
You can buy Athlon and P4 based computers that'll stomp on the G5 for certain tasks (Such as playing some games). Thus, I think Apple is misleading the consumer, since their advertising seems to lead the consumer thinking it's the fastest in general, which it clearly is not.
I think the ITC is right to ban the advert, but then again, I think there are a lot of adverts on British TV that should be banned.
Sorry, JACK is what I meant. However, remember that ,these days, an OS is more than a kernel. Old software that wants to open /dev/dsp are becomming more and more rare. After all, there's OpenAL now and JACK is getting more and more attention.
I'll agree with you about arts and esd though, they're awful. I can't remember the number of times I've had to do "killall -9 artsd" because it's once again gone into an infinite loop when Konqueror's generating a thumbnail.
However, I do feel that kernel-mode software mixing is a bad idea. When you do mixing, there's little harm in making it powerful and flexible, one example being per-application volume/EQ control. If you have that stuff in user-space and it dies, your system is still usable, whereas a kernel panic is considerably worse.
IIRC, there was conversation on this in LKML a while back. I think the conclusion was that software mixing is a user-space job, rather than a kernel-space one. If the hardware can handle multiple streams at once, then all well and good, but otherwise, use something like JACKS to do the mixing.
Windows is not designed by users. Users are absolutely awful at design. Being designed for users is fine, but being designed by users would produce a haphazard mess designed to work only for the user who designed it.
You missed the "install 3rd party DVD player" part.
I've got Fedora on my laptop. It never needed me to do anything to support power management.
As for DVDs:
Install Xine package
Install libdvdcss package
Run Xine
Click on "DVD" button
One of those steps is required because your government saw fit to push stupid laws that made decrypting DVDs by any other means than the "sanctioned" means illegal.
Regarding your last point, the limitations of the OSS system have been apparent for a while now, which is why the 2.6 kernel is deprecating OSS in favour of ALSA.
Here you go:
http://www.cairographics.org/
Why? That's a dumb idea. It's so much easier to just open an e-mail, click the button to add a group of contacts to the BCC list, compose the e-mail and send it.
What if your ISP blocks outbound SMTP? What if your ownly access to the internet is through a locked down computer? What if you just don't want to deal with naive and short-sighted "solutions" to problems, especially when the solution is easily worked around?
Back when I used to run a society, I made at least one e-mail a week that had 50-100 people in the BCC, so such a rule would have screwed me.
I'd rather find a better way to solving the spam problem than placing arbitrary limits and annoying legitimate users.
It was a very interesting twist at the end of season 4, but I think you may be right about season 5. After the first episode, I thought they could make a go of it, but it seems to be drifting of late. I hope they'll turn it around, since it has promise.
Still, I have to give them props for trying to keep the show fresh, rather than running with the same theme for another 3 seasons.
I doubt it'll get changed to have a completely different spirit. Whilst judges may be able to alter a contract, they'll be changing:
"you may redistribute this software if you do this, this and this"
to:
"you may redistribute this software"
It's an absolutely massive change in not only the word of the contract, but the spirit. I'm from the UK, so I can only speak from that perspective, but the Human Rights Act is supposed to have similar intentions to the constitution and I imagine one could argue (in the UK) that the Human Rights Act combined with copyright law would make such a change in intent illegal.
I'm quite afraid of the GPL failing in court, but I'm comforted by the fact that nobody has managed to come up with a convincing reason that it is invalid.