And the kernel developers don't agree, and for pretty good reason. This is not part of the hardware abstraction. The fact there is software mixing in ALSA itself is already controversial enough, but needed to have a common ground between cards that support hardware mixing and those that don't.
No app should have to worry about anything put pushing its waves out.
I don't understand how that is related at all.
Pulseaudio simply provides a control panel that allows you to control the volume of every audio stream connected to the daemon. ALSA can't and shouldn't do that. That's definitely the job of an user-space daemon.
Piracy is bad. Bad for the developers earning less and eventually bad for the gamers getting worse products. Moreover small companies are hurt alot more by this, resulting in less competition and less innovation. Therefore I don't quite understand, why you list privacy as a con.
Pulseaudio is a bit strange, but nothing requires it's use, and IMHO there is no real reason for it to be used unless you want to do somewhat strange things
So application-level mixing is strange? To me that's a basic feature every desktop should have. Being able to reduce or shut the sound of a single application is priceless.
Gosh, gee-wilikers, I wish I had such an in-depth knowledge of fantasy as you. Piss off. If you have a different taste in books that's fine. If I happen to like something you don't, that's fine too.
While I do feel bad for his family, I certainly wasn't pleased as a reader. I had spent countless hours reading the series, and years (17, to be exact) awaiting the conclusion of his books.
So you read books to reach the conclusion? Reading must be quite disappointing for you then, since conclusions are hardly ever exciting.
The conclusion of The Wheel of Time appears quite deductible anyway, from all the elements and prophecies that were given throughout the books.
You realize the first few books were standard cliche childish random-guy-gets-taught-he's-special-and-how-to-use-his-powers-to-save-the-world-against-the-reviving-evil-lord? If you think *that* is fantastic, you must have a very shallow knowledge of fantasy.
What made the series good is the different simultaneous point of views and the interacting actions of each character and entity in the world (which simply weren't there in the first books, where Rand was the main protagonist). Those makes the world and story much more dynamic, alive, and attracting to the reader who can then feel entwined in the plot between the various parties. Also, when Rand gets serious instead of being an emo teen, it becomes quite more interesting since there are bits of strategy involved and his actions have a lot of influence on all other point of views of the series. The fact that the chapters he's the main character of are very scarce and sort of cliffhangers or arc finishers puts a fairly nice touch to the books too.
Sure, the series is still fairly manichean, but the distinction gets a bit fuzzier, in particular as mis- and dis-information is spread thanks to those crazy women and their secrecy.
Book 13 came and went with no conclusion to the story in sight, and Jordan seemed to be milking descriptions of everything in his world for all they were worth in order to extend the series.
Since when is expanding a world to make it have more content and be more vivid a bad thing? The goal is not to close up the series as quickly as possible, but to make it an interesting read.
People certainly don't think Tolkien's work -- which truthfully is way overrated -- sucked because he spent a lot of time furthering the world instead of making stories.
Good thing not all books are made to fulfill your opinion of what is good, then. I found the first 3 or 4 books very so-so and only the later volumes to become quite good.
Certainly, it's still not as awesome as A Song of Ice of Fire -- the best fantasy series in my opinion -- but it's still quite good.
most also really enjoy and appreciate the better flavor when someone takes the time to teach them to cook.
Most people seem uninterested in knowing how to use a computer properly. It's not just that they don't care, they really don't want to know how "a computer" works.
Imagine that you install Linux for your mom, and she can't get so and so program to work
My mom has problems making things work all the time, and it's certainly not OS-related. In any case, whenever she has a problem, she asks me to fix it (even when the problem is "where is the program that I minimized?"), so it's not like it makes a difference anyway.
On the contrary, using Linux keeps her safe from virii, which, for some arcane reason unknown to me, she managed to catch a lot while on Windows.
What you don't seem to understand is the *reason* why people want to run Linux on it. That's because the Cell is an incredible architecture that has a lot of processing power. Putting Linux on it is basically a requirement if you want to do any high-performance computing with it.
A lot of research institutes made whole clusters out of PS3s, since they're the cheapest way to acquire Cell processors, to explore the computing power of such a beast.
The real motive is that, since Sony doesn't earn any money by selling the console and that all the money they get comes from games, and since those buyers are not going to buy games anyway, there is no use in providing support to those users. So if you just invested a few millions into buying a cluster, you just got pwned by Sony who decided they didn't care about you anymore and that you'll have to solve the bugs of the platform yourself.
Given that the license terms for OsX force (by the terms, nothing else) the user to run it on Apple hardware
Terms which are not valid in several parts of the world.
Apple hardware; expensive and nice
Apple hardware certainly isn't that good. They're higher middle-end, no more. Also, I didn't find Mac laptops to be that expensive compared to equivalent laptops; the mac tax has quite lowered since the new line of macbooks.
How is the fact that a flight simular for whatever government's defense is made of Linux and OpenGL news? You'd have to be completely out of your mind to pick any other solution. Don't tell me in the US they use Microsoft Windows?
There are a lot of declarative languages for UIs out there. The most popular one must be HTML/CSS.
There are also, in non particular order, XUL, XAML, Bling, JavaFX, Adam&Eve, Tk, REBOL, Shoes... Functional languages such as Haskell or OCaml also have tons of declarative UI libraries based on Functional Reactive Programming. (Fudgets, Fruit,...)
A lot of such libraries are also in development and research at the experimental stage.
[quote]It's essential that all the capabilities of Qt are exposed, but not necessarily in the exact same form. (ie. fields vs setters/getters, signal/slot objects vs signal/slot strings).[/quote] The C++ Qt interface sucks from a C++ point of view too. The reason it's like this is historic.
It depends whether they want to design an API for stuff that already exists or one that would only work for new projects. But if I were to make a new project, personally, I'd certainly not use Qt but rather a much more modern technology.
Can someone explain to me how a company can ask a judge to not apply the law for purely commercial reasons? Why not let proven big drug dealers go free because they fuel the economy while they're at it?
He's not saying it's a good thing, he's saying he's not sure it's necessarily a bad thing. That actually says a good thing for him, that he's not restricted by stupid prejudice inflicted by our society.
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And the kernel developers don't agree, and for pretty good reason.
This is not part of the hardware abstraction. The fact there is software mixing in ALSA itself is already controversial enough, but needed to have a common ground between cards that support hardware mixing and those that don't.
I don't understand how that is related at all.
Pulseaudio simply provides a control panel that allows you to control the volume of every audio stream connected to the daemon.
ALSA can't and shouldn't do that. That's definitely the job of an user-space daemon.
Are you confusing piracy and privacy?
So application-level mixing is strange? To me that's a basic feature every desktop should have.
Being able to reduce or shut the sound of a single application is priceless.
Changing the size of the terminal doesn't change the size of the "video".
You forgot a few things in cons:
- less privacy
- dependence over an online service for your enjoyment (which is quite a huge con)
Also I don't see how this helps fight piracy. Are you suggesting only providing games this way, making piracy impossible?
It's not a matter of taste.
If you find something that is cliché to be fantastic, then that necessarily mean you have a very shallow knowledge of the domain that even prevents you from seeing it is cliché.
So you read books to reach the conclusion?
Reading must be quite disappointing for you then, since conclusions are hardly ever exciting.
The conclusion of The Wheel of Time appears quite deductible anyway, from all the elements and prophecies that were given throughout the books.
You realize the first few books were standard cliche childish random-guy-gets-taught-he's-special-and-how-to-use-his-powers-to-save-the-world-against-the-reviving-evil-lord?
If you think *that* is fantastic, you must have a very shallow knowledge of fantasy.
What made the series good is the different simultaneous point of views and the interacting actions of each character and entity in the world (which simply weren't there in the first books, where Rand was the main protagonist). Those makes the world and story much more dynamic, alive, and attracting to the reader who can then feel entwined in the plot between the various parties.
Also, when Rand gets serious instead of being an emo teen, it becomes quite more interesting since there are bits of strategy involved and his actions have a lot of influence on all other point of views of the series. The fact that the chapters he's the main character of are very scarce and sort of cliffhangers or arc finishers puts a fairly nice touch to the books too.
Sure, the series is still fairly manichean, but the distinction gets a bit fuzzier, in particular as mis- and dis-information is spread thanks to those crazy women and their secrecy.
Since when is expanding a world to make it have more content and be more vivid a bad thing?
The goal is not to close up the series as quickly as possible, but to make it an interesting read.
People certainly don't think Tolkien's work -- which truthfully is way overrated -- sucked because he spent a lot of time furthering the world instead of making stories.
Good thing not all books are made to fulfill your opinion of what is good, then.
I found the first 3 or 4 books very so-so and only the later volumes to become quite good.
Certainly, it's still not as awesome as A Song of Ice of Fire -- the best fantasy series in my opinion -- but it's still quite good.
IMAP push requires nothing of the carrier, it only requires your IMAP server to support it.
Huh? "Call features" doesn't say anything.
You should look at "Data network", which clearly states it's a 3.5G phone.
Most people seem uninterested in knowing how to use a computer properly. It's not just that they don't care, they really don't want to know how "a computer" works.
My mom has problems making things work all the time, and it's certainly not OS-related. In any case, whenever she has a problem, she asks me to fix it (even when the problem is "where is the program that I minimized?"), so it's not like it makes a difference anyway.
On the contrary, using Linux keeps her safe from virii, which, for some arcane reason unknown to me, she managed to catch a lot while on Windows.
What you don't seem to understand is the *reason* why people want to run Linux on it.
That's because the Cell is an incredible architecture that has a lot of processing power. Putting Linux on it is basically a requirement if you want to do any high-performance computing with it.
A lot of research institutes made whole clusters out of PS3s, since they're the cheapest way to acquire Cell processors, to explore the computing power of such a beast.
The real motive is that, since Sony doesn't earn any money by selling the console and that all the money they get comes from games, and since those buyers are not going to buy games anyway, there is no use in providing support to those users.
So if you just invested a few millions into buying a cluster, you just got pwned by Sony who decided they didn't care about you anymore and that you'll have to solve the bugs of the platform yourself.
So that all platforms get a win32-biased UI? No thank you.
Terms which are not valid in several parts of the world.
Apple hardware certainly isn't that good. They're higher middle-end, no more.
Also, I didn't find Mac laptops to be that expensive compared to equivalent laptops; the mac tax has quite lowered since the new line of macbooks.
Well, they've been releasing the same game every year for fifteen years.
You'd expect they end up with a decent title.
Yet, in my opinion, all those sports game are still crap.
How is the fact that a flight simular for whatever government's defense is made of Linux and OpenGL news?
You'd have to be completely out of your mind to pick any other solution. Don't tell me in the US they use Microsoft Windows?
There are a lot of declarative languages for UIs out there.
The most popular one must be HTML/CSS.
There are also, in non particular order, XUL, XAML, Bling, JavaFX, Adam&Eve, Tk, REBOL, Shoes... ...)
Functional languages such as Haskell or OCaml also have tons of declarative UI libraries based on Functional Reactive Programming. (Fudgets, Fruit,
A lot of such libraries are also in development and research at the experimental stage.
Such as a declarative one.
The future Qt declarative UI system is a step in the right direction, but not really there yet.
[quote]It's essential that all the capabilities of Qt are exposed, but not necessarily in the exact same form. (ie. fields vs setters/getters, signal/slot objects vs signal/slot strings).[/quote]
The C++ Qt interface sucks from a C++ point of view too.
The reason it's like this is historic.
It depends whether they want to design an API for stuff that already exists or one that would only work for new projects. But if I were to make a new project, personally, I'd certainly not use Qt but rather a much more modern technology.
Can someone explain to me how a company can ask a judge to not apply the law for purely commercial reasons?
Why not let proven big drug dealers go free because they fuel the economy while they're at it?
The sad thing is that, had it been an Arabic country, they would quite likely have been war.
He's not saying it's a good thing, he's saying he's not sure it's necessarily a bad thing.
That actually says a good thing for him, that he's not restricted by stupid prejudice inflicted by our society.
Are you on 28.8k or something?
It's more like 30 seconds.