Basically what you're saying is that the typical computer user (who uses word processing software and participates in forums where they have to--*gasp*--type!) is *incapable* of using a command prompt!
No. I'm saying they don't have the inclination to do that.
Windows, you may be right. But on Linux with KDE? It's a friggin' built-in: Press ALT-F2, type "emerge foo". How hard is that? You type more when you log into Slashdot!
Ahh! The user-friendly ALT-F2 dropping to a CLI and typing some command the user is supposed to know from Reading TFM. Coz everyone knows that the first thing the average user does is RTFM. I take it all back.
RIM (specifically Mike Lazaridis) put a lot of effort into perfecting that keyboard for thumb typing and it is what the blackberry was built around. So yes, there was a lot of innovation there. It seems simple now, but at the time, it was a novel idea.
Ohh! A novel implementation of a keyboard. Wowie zowie! Heard of the "twiddler"?
Just because you've invested a lot of time reasearching something you don't have an automatic monopoly on it.
Can you imagine if Fender had patented the Stratocaster guitar shape? Or Microsoft with the mouse scroll wheel?
The problem here is greedy people with delusions of their own self-importance.
Apple's Darwin Streaming Server [apple.com] is the OSS port of their QuickTime Streaming Server. Apple even provides binaries for Red Hat and Solaris. It is trivial to port.
OK, so where do I download Apple Quicktime for Linux?
You're completely right that they're unrelated, apart from the trivial detail that money spent on one can't be spent on the other.
There are multiple departments with their own budgets. To some extent they will affect each other but I'd hope there would be multiple positive initiatives running concurrently.
"Fixing the water in India" is a great goal but it's not like the entire country needs to hunker down to fix that one (large) problem.
Yes it's called a solar chimney. A prototype was built in Manzanares, Spain that apparrently ran with minimal maintenance for a number of years.
It apparently generates power throughout the night too:)
Googling for "Solar Chimney" will give you plenty of results.
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Argh!
s/avifile/libavcodec
Sorry
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To get many windows media movies to play you have to borrow DLLs from windows.
Not true. From my extensive testing I've found that avifile seems to handle more audio and video formats than WMP. It's suprisingly good.
However if RH wanted to distribute it in Fedora they would probably have to organise a royalty scheme with Thomson and other relevant patent holders.
From the ffmpeg site:
Commercial use of FFMPEG: Few people has asked about using FFMPEG usage in commercial (closed source) applications. While you can definately use FFMPEG for those purposes (don't forget to follow the LGPL license), you still need to contact the MPEG-LA or other patent holders in order to license the patents which covers the various codecs you want to use. Most of the Patent holders know about FFMPEG and they follow the development, and so far none of them sued or asked to remove any code, but that doesn't mean you don't need to pay them if you're using this code commercially.
I agree that clean water ought to be higher on the priority scale than Linux migrations =)
Governments don't work that way: they don't do things sequentially. There are departments worth of people handling their own issues, which is obviously a lot more effective than doing things sequentially.
Have you been to India? There are many other serious problems apart from the water and a helluva lot more important than Linux migrations. However why should people who want to do something positive with their IT infrustructure be held up by some sort of "need clean water" dependency? They're unrelated.
1) Dudes provide free software 2) Somehow, according to Bill Gates, free hardware comes about
Also speech and handwriting recognition will somehow happen (probably from MS, that'd be good). We'll be using basically free but not actually free tablet pc-thingies. Bill has forseen it.
Uh. Who's the "consumer" again? Oh, right, me. And I *WANT* my computer to perhaps give me a clue about what's going on. That's why I use Debian.
Yeah fair enough, especialy the "consumer" bit. Perhaps "user" would have been a better choice of word.
In many sections of the IT world, prompting unnecessarily tends to be frowned upon. This is especially true in the unix world: programs that don't prompt are prevalent because they're a lot simpler to use in scripts and are fundamentally more enjoyable to use.
If it's not absolutely necessary to prompt, don't. Don't output information that's not _vital_ for the user to know. The output should be quiet except when something goes wrong or the program cannot continue. Verbose details can be written to a log, in a format that's simple to parse by humans and software.
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Absolutely. Also, don't forget that tracking cookies work on Firefox.
Since I found a couple of tracking cookies in FF, I've configured FF to prompt before accepting cookies.
We're not immune from the dregs of the Internet. How sucky.
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Man, you so obviously don't play RTSes.
Armour upgrades rock. The longer my tanks stay alive, the more damage they do.
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Hey be fair, Clippy wasn't exactly a mascot.
These dudes, OTOH...
They sure look happy. =) I wonder if they're also coming on tour.
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Basically what you're saying is that the typical computer user (who uses word processing software and participates in forums where they have to--*gasp*--type!) is *incapable* of using a command prompt!
No. I'm saying they don't have the inclination to do that.
Windows, you may be right. But on Linux with KDE? It's a friggin' built-in: Press ALT-F2, type "emerge foo". How hard is that? You type more when you log into Slashdot!
Ahh! The user-friendly ALT-F2 dropping to a CLI and typing some command the user is supposed to know from Reading TFM. Coz everyone knows that the first thing the average user does is RTFM. I take it all back.
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Stor
that there actually exists some code!?
Yes! It's available here.
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Money is overrated when you're an ugly bastard. It only serves to help you forget the fact that you're an ugly bastard.
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Congratulations on writing the only funny "Profit!" post ever. Good use of recursion. Truly novel. You should patent it.
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RIM (specifically Mike Lazaridis) put a lot of effort into perfecting that keyboard for thumb typing and it is what the blackberry was built around. So yes, there was a lot of innovation there. It seems simple now, but at the time, it was a novel idea.
Ohh! A novel implementation of a keyboard. Wowie zowie! Heard of the "twiddler"?
Just because you've invested a lot of time reasearching something you don't have an automatic monopoly on it.
Can you imagine if Fender had patented the Stratocaster guitar shape? Or Microsoft with the mouse scroll wheel?
The problem here is greedy people with delusions of their own self-importance.
Cheers
Stor
Apple's Darwin Streaming Server [apple.com] is the OSS port of their QuickTime Streaming Server. Apple even provides binaries for Red Hat and Solaris. It is trivial to port.
OK, so where do I download Apple Quicktime for Linux?
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Now explain to me, Mr. Troll Guy, just exactly what is insane about that?
I'll explain it: a newbie doesn't want to drop to the CLI and type emerge whatever.
It's like expecting a Windows user to drop to an MS-DOS shell to type "addprogram bonzi"
Of course, this is after they've added http://www.bonzi.com/bonzibuddy/ to their c:\Progr~1\addremoveprogs\sources.lst mirror list using dos "edit".
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"Got Mono?"
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Today Nmap confirmed that XFree86 is dying....
What option to do you need to supply to nmap to have it obtain that information?
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You're completely right that they're unrelated, apart from the trivial detail that money spent on one can't be spent on the other.
There are multiple departments with their own budgets. To some extent they will affect each other but I'd hope there would be multiple positive initiatives running concurrently.
"Fixing the water in India" is a great goal but it's not like the entire country needs to hunker down to fix that one (large) problem.
So how's that water where you live? 8)
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And i forgot: I was born in India, and stayed here most of my life. Love it and hate it etc etc :)
No kidding? Sorry if I offended. =)
I do understand what you mean with the love/hate relationship. It's a challenging place but so unbelievably beautiful in its own unique way.
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Yes it's called a solar chimney. A prototype was built in Manzanares, Spain that apparrently ran with minimal maintenance for a number of years.
:)
It apparently generates power throughout the night too
Googling for "Solar Chimney" will give you plenty of results.
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Stor
Argh!
s/avifile/libavcodec
Sorry
Cheers
Stor
To get many windows media movies to play you have to borrow DLLs from windows.
Not true. From my extensive testing I've found that avifile seems to handle more audio and video formats than WMP. It's suprisingly good.
However if RH wanted to distribute it in Fedora they would probably have to organise a royalty scheme with Thomson and other relevant patent holders.
From the ffmpeg site:
Commercial use of FFMPEG: Few people has asked about using FFMPEG usage in commercial (closed source) applications. While you can definately use FFMPEG for those purposes (don't forget to follow the LGPL license), you still need to contact the MPEG-LA or other patent holders in order to license the patents which covers the various codecs you want to use. Most of the Patent holders know about FFMPEG and they follow the development, and so far none of them sued or asked to remove any code, but that doesn't mean you don't need to pay them if you're using this code commercially.
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Stor
Romit,
I agree that clean water ought to be higher on the priority scale than Linux migrations =)
Governments don't work that way: they don't do things sequentially. There are departments worth of people handling their own issues, which is obviously a lot more effective than doing things sequentially.
Have you been to India? There are many other serious problems apart from the water and a helluva lot more important than Linux migrations. However why should people who want to do something positive with their IT infrustructure be held up by some sort of "need clean water" dependency? They're unrelated.
I do get your point though.
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Can people only do one positive thing at a time?
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It's a two-pronged attack:
1) Dudes provide free software
2) Somehow, according to Bill Gates, free hardware comes about
Also speech and handwriting recognition will somehow happen (probably from MS, that'd be good). We'll be using basically free but not actually free tablet pc-thingies. Bill has forseen it.
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It is the sheerest sophistry to pretend otherwise.
:)
Ahh sophistry, the gentleman's word for troll
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Not sure about the network hardware vendor but the official software vendor would have to be These Guys.
Don't tell anyone.
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I get your point but don't think it's particularly positive.
People shouldn't pirate because it's using someone else's product illegitimately, not because they might get a virus.
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thank god I'm not the only one who's used crisco!
+1 Funny
every time I mention it I get some strange looks, but it's the best!
+1 Informative
i've even been nicknamed the "crisco cowboy", which i'm somewhat proud of, for some reason or other.
+1 Interesting
we really do have no shame. at least I don't.
-1 Redundant
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Yeah fair enough, especialy the "consumer" bit. Perhaps "user" would have been a better choice of word.
In many sections of the IT world, prompting unnecessarily tends to be frowned upon. This is especially true in the unix world: programs that don't prompt are prevalent because they're a lot simpler to use in scripts and are fundamentally more enjoyable to use.
If it's not absolutely necessary to prompt, don't. Don't output information that's not _vital_ for the user to know. The output should be quiet except when something goes wrong or the program cannot continue. Verbose details can be written to a log, in a format that's simple to parse by humans and software.
Cheers
Stor