Yes, mplayer has got to be one of the most successfull media players available for Linux. Although, in the typical Linux fasion, it is not easy to get setup correctly, once it is configured for use with Nautilus it is the best movie player around. I have found only a very slim few formats that don't work, and it is fast, too. Mplayer is one open source application with dependencies on closed source librarys that I do keep on my system and use regularly.
other than the fact that what would be dangerous size lengths of this for most material, are extremely light with carbon nano tubes. this ribbon is suppose to be only a few microns thick. This would be like a long sting of news paper falling to the earth. while it might make a mess it won't do much damage.
This material is quite a bit different that what conventional wisdom would think it to be. The weight compared to the size is the reason it would be used for this application.
my debian system does it everyday, sometimes twice a day if I feel like getting something new to play with.
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One of the advantages to open source is that when that new OS comes about programs will just need to be ported to it, and anyone that can write an OS will have this ability. The only thing that would cause a problem with this is if the new OS has a completely diffrent paradigm that wont allow standard C/C++ applications to run. If there is a benifit to this it will happen otherwise we are blessed with software from now on.
my home phone rings several times a day. I use my cell phone exclusivly and have never given out my home phone number. I only have a home phone for my Tivo and for quick outgoing calls if my cell is dead. Every call that comes through is a telemarketer and it's not like my number is a hot ticket as I have completely stop answering it.
100% of my 3-5 phone calls a day are telemarketers.
Yes, I understand where you are getting with this. If roads are bad then people will vote more money to the DOT; good except now what incentive does DOT have to make good roads? so let's not give them money; now what do they make new roads with?
We would have to have a 3rd party auditing group, such as mass media or something to insure that these places are doing the best they can with my/our money.
This sadens me, not because of the lives lost, they knew the risk, but because of the stagnation of space traval that is going to haappen for at least the next year. The public will have an adverse reaction, asking the question "Is space worth the risk?" While my answer to this question has been not only is it worth th risk, but we should take more risks. These people know what they are doing. All recent NASA mistakes aside, we have had very few lives lost and much money spent.
I fear for the public reaction agenst NASA and space traval from this day forward.
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someone really did imagine a beowulf cluster of these xboxes.
guess that -1 redudntant/offtopic/whatever post that always gets modded down was on topic this time.
Most all dual licensed software is an 'or' not an 'and' license. this means that you can distribute your software as either the propritary license or the GPL license. Typically for the company to include the patches with the main product you will have to license it under the propritary one that will usually include the GPL license as the dual portion.
This is similar to the open source engine stratigy of the few game companys that are open sourcing game engines. let the backend be maintained by the community and keep the graphics and sound files as something you have to buy.
but then again, MacOS X is about like a video game anyway:)
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Yes, mplayer has got to be one of the most successfull media players available for Linux. Although, in the typical Linux fasion, it is not easy to get setup correctly, once it is configured for use with Nautilus it is the best movie player around. I have found only a very slim few formats that don't work, and it is fast, too. Mplayer is one open source application with dependencies on closed source librarys that I do keep on my system and use regularly.
How's it go?
Pete and Repete submitted a story,
Pete's got posted, who else's did?
WOW!! who would have thunk it?
Debian!
You make it sound difficult or something. I mean it's not rocket science.
You don't think that Christian terrorists wont try to attack this as being some sort of tower of babalon thing?
other than the fact that what would be dangerous size lengths of this for most material, are extremely light with carbon nano tubes. this ribbon is suppose to be only a few microns thick. This would be like a long sting of news paper falling to the earth. while it might make a mess it won't do much damage.
This material is quite a bit different that what conventional wisdom would think it to be. The weight compared to the size is the reason it would be used for this application.
I know mine were many times. Trying to contact an ebay seller today kept getting rejected due to my email address not being regestered to ebay.com.
AOL probably thinks spam is all the improtant email going over their servers and the junk mail that they make money off of is the non-spam email.
Ohh, is that what my boss ment when he asked if i could build a server on the fly...
Are you saying 640MB of RAM should be enough for anybody?
j/k
and exclude irix
my debian system does it everyday, sometimes twice a day if I feel like getting something new to play with.
One of the advantages to open source is that when that new OS comes about programs will just need to be ported to it, and anyone that can write an OS will have this ability. The only thing that would cause a problem with this is if the new OS has a completely diffrent paradigm that wont allow standard C/C++ applications to run. If there is a benifit to this it will happen otherwise we are blessed with software from now on.
my home phone rings several times a day. I use my cell phone exclusivly and have never given out my home phone number. I only have a home phone for my Tivo and for quick outgoing calls if my cell is dead. Every call that comes through is a telemarketer and it's not like my number is a hot ticket as I have completely stop answering it.
100% of my 3-5 phone calls a day are telemarketers.
regional or not, that is unreasonable.
angry, pitchfork wielding, mobs. much more civilized and effective.
ohh, and cheaper, too.
2. How the heck is a newborn supposed to be able to read, let alone understand, let alone be able to agree to something like that?
We could say the same about many users who have opened srink wrap software.
Yes, I understand where you are getting with this. If roads are bad then people will vote more money to the DOT; good except now what incentive does DOT have to make good roads? so let's not give them money; now what do they make new roads with?
We would have to have a 3rd party auditing group, such as mass media or something to insure that these places are doing the best they can with my/our money.
This sadens me, not because of the lives lost, they knew the risk, but because of the stagnation of space traval that is going to haappen for at least the next year. The public will have an adverse reaction, asking the question "Is space worth the risk?" While my answer to this question has been not only is it worth th risk, but we should take more risks. These people know what they are doing. All recent NASA mistakes aside, we have had very few lives lost and much money spent.
I fear for the public reaction agenst NASA and space traval from this day forward.
someone really did imagine a beowulf cluster of these xboxes.
guess that -1 redudntant/offtopic/whatever post that always gets modded down was on topic this time.
and 6 out of 5 of them have no basis in reality what so ever.
I can see the repetitive motion lawsuites allready being stacked up agenst the first person to release something like tihs.
wow, thats some good shit I tell you.
Most all dual licensed software is an 'or' not an 'and' license. this means that you can distribute your software as either the propritary license or the GPL license. Typically for the company to include the patches with the main product you will have to license it under the propritary one that will usually include the GPL license as the dual portion.
This is similar to the open source engine stratigy of the few game companys that are open sourcing game engines. let the backend be maintained by the community and keep the graphics and sound files as something you have to buy.
:)
but then again, MacOS X is about like a video game anyway
I think you are missing the point of market choice. The choice is to buy one or the other not one or none.
saying you can either buy bios with this in it or you can not buy any bios is not a market choice.
if they find a way to make sure no one is allowed to make/market bios without drm/palladium in it then you no longer have a real choice.