LiVES (http://lives.sourceforge.net) is designed for neither accountants or squares !
It is designed for digital video artists and VJ's.
The same tool will allow you to work both in real time (for VJing and presentations), and in non-real-time (video editing). It can encode to over 50 different formats/quality levels, and can be controlled remotely via UDP.
As another aside, the Germans call it Fussbol, and the Dutch call it voetbal, both of which are direct translations of foot-ball. There is even a Dutch verb voetballen, which means "to play football".
The average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans is showing a rapid upward trend. The polar ice caps are melting due to temperature rises. The sea level is rising due to melting polar ice and thermal expansion of the oceans. The evidence for this is readily available.
Have you ever considered, perhaps if France had a thriving Free Software community, unemployment might fall below 10%, and there might not be so many riots ?
But this is RMS, arguably one of the most important figures in modern computing , and one of the most prominent figures in the field of "Practical Philosophy" (i.e. author of the GPL).
Can you even name the French Prime Minister without refering to TFA ?
And yet RMS is widely known even by his initials !
Well, they can always upgrade to Linux. Last I checked, you could still get Ubuntu for free, and installation was as easy as putting a CD in the CD ROM drive.
I guess people without CDROM drives are SOL though.
If that were the case (and I don't particularly agree with your analysis), then that would indicate that Slashdot as a whole is biased, not that this particular editorial is biased.
I don't agree anyway, because for example when tabbed browsing first appeared in mozilla, the Slashdot stories mentioned that it was first in Opera.
Besides, I can't think of any occasion where a feature appeared in Linux which was in a Microsoft OS first, or a feature in mozilla/firefox which was in IE first.
The review is of Vista, Microsoft's latest and supposedly greatest OS, which has some new features. The editorial was just noting that those features already exist in another OS. How is that biased ?
If the mozilla developers announced some new feature in Firefox version 2.0, and the editorial pointed out that such a feature was already in Opera, would it be biased towards Opera ?
If, as you say, you are genuinely interested in the progress of computing, why aren't you interested to know if a feature is really "new" or existing in some other application ?
"What you're trying to do is guide light around an object, but the art is to bend it such that it leaves the object in precisely the same way that it initially hits it. You have the illusion that there is nothing there"
just off the top of my head: 1986 - 2006 development of: modern word processors, spreadsheets, relational databases, audio and video applications, mp3, mpeg video codecs, the world wide web,graphical email applications, p2p, perl, php, flash, javascript, java, Linux, BSD, xml, html, desktop publishing, photo and image editing software, the web browser, wireless and mobile applications, etc, etc.
In fact almost everything in computing except the commandline has been developed over the last 20 years.
...and someone responds with, 'That's not true! That feature was fixed in CVS four weeks ago!' [...] I bring up the CVS cop-out not because I have an answer for it, but to air it out. Sometimes, giving a problem a name helps to foster discussion that leads to resolution."
You mean it leads to retrospective resolution ? That is indeed strange !
Old hardware is going to become more important as Intel/AMD work to shut out non-Windows OSes.
I don't think that will ever happen, as Intel and to a greater extent AMD make about 40% (and increasing) sales for Linux servers, and probably 5-10% (and increasing) sales for Linux desktops.
DRM might be mandatory for Vista, but locking out Linux would be corporate suicide.
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Well done for spotting the catch. They pay you in SCO shares !
Why are we STILL waiting for 10GHz CPUS ?????
LiVES (http://lives.sourceforge.net) is designed for neither accountants or squares !
It is designed for digital video artists and VJ's.
The same tool will allow you to work both in real time (for VJing and presentations), and in non-real-time (video editing). It can encode to over 50 different formats/quality levels, and can be controlled remotely via UDP.
As another aside, the Germans call it Fussbol, and the Dutch call it voetbal, both of which are direct translations of foot-ball.
There is even a Dutch verb voetballen, which means "to play football".
The average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans is showing a rapid upward trend. The polar ice caps are melting due to temperature rises. The sea level is rising due to melting polar ice and thermal expansion of the oceans. The evidence for this is readily available.
There, I just proved global warming.
Now it's up to you to disprove it.
4) Open up the wmv and wma formats, so that Free Software can play/encode to it.
5) Make a promise they will not use or allow any of their patents to be used offensively against the Linux kernel or other Free Software projects.
Have you ever considered, perhaps if France had a thriving Free Software community, unemployment might fall below 10%, and there might not be so many riots ?
But this is RMS, arguably one of the most important figures in modern computing , and one of the most prominent figures in the field of "Practical Philosophy" (i.e. author of the GPL).
Can you even name the French Prime Minister without refering to TFA ?
And yet RMS is widely known even by his initials !
If you are running a 1,000 node cluster, do you really want each node to be wasting resources running a GUI ?
If the nodes aren't running a GUI, then would you rather be running DOS or bash on them ?
Take a look at Skolelinux as well:
http://www.skolelinux.org/portal/
Well, they can always upgrade to Linux. Last I checked, you could still get Ubuntu for free, and installation was as easy as putting a CD in the CD ROM drive.
I guess people without CDROM drives are SOL though.
It's a simple equation for Microsoft:
if (revenue_from_supporting_OS - cost_to_support_OS - revenue_from_OS_upgrades > 0) {
support_OS;
}
else {
drop_OS;
}
I think I'll stick to web 1.0
Not a lot, since it is NOT A VIRUS. It doesn't infect any system files, nor can it reproduce itself. Read the other comments above.
If that were the case (and I don't particularly agree with your analysis), then that would indicate that Slashdot as a whole is biased, not that this particular editorial is biased.
I don't agree anyway, because for example when tabbed browsing first appeared in mozilla, the Slashdot stories mentioned that it was first in Opera.
Besides, I can't think of any occasion where a feature appeared in Linux which was in a Microsoft OS first, or a feature in mozilla/firefox which was in IE first.
Because Microsoft is a monopoly.
The review is of Vista, Microsoft's latest and supposedly greatest OS, which has some new features. The editorial was just noting that those features already exist in another OS. How is that biased ?
If the mozilla developers announced some new feature in Firefox version 2.0, and the editorial pointed out that such a feature was already in Opera, would it be biased towards Opera ?
If, as you say, you are genuinely interested in the progress of computing, why aren't you interested to know if a feature is really "new" or existing in some other application ?
Too late, Monty Python already beat you to that one !
A little further down, they say:
"What you're trying to do is guide light around an object, but the art is to bend it such that it leaves the object in precisely the same way that it initially hits it. You have the illusion that there is nothing there"
The UK uses 240V on the pole. And it is 50Hz as opposed to 60Hz in the US. In continental Europe, 220V/50Hz is more common.
It's very simple. I can make a living selling software. Copyright law gives me enough protection, I don't need to patent my inventions as well.
You are rather simplifying things.
,graphical email applications, p2p, perl, php, flash, javascript, java, Linux, BSD, xml, html, desktop publishing, photo and image editing software, the web browser, wireless and mobile applications, etc, etc.
just off the top of my head:
1986 - 2006
development of:
modern word processors, spreadsheets, relational databases, audio and video applications, mp3, mpeg video codecs, the world wide web
In fact almost everything in computing except the commandline has been developed over the last 20 years.
You mean it leads to retrospective resolution ? That is indeed strange !
That's what I'd like to know as well.
Or more precisely, if you absorbed the backwards going pulse on its way back, would that cause the pulse that emerged to disappear ?
I don't think that will ever happen, as Intel and to a greater extent AMD make about 40% (and increasing) sales for Linux servers, and probably 5-10% (and increasing) sales for Linux desktops.
DRM might be mandatory for Vista, but locking out Linux would be corporate suicide.