Speaking of computers making sounds--- I once had my Mac set up so that when you put the floppy in, it played a portion of the diner scene from "When Harry met Sally".
We still have and use a rotary phone. The thing is built like a tank and refuses to break. Yes, I did have to show my kids how to use it. They thought it was very strange.
The problem is that Microsoft uses unfair business practises to advance it's share of market.
I'll give you a for instance. We just shipped a product that needed to have a tabbed window with the tabs at the bottom. Hey MSDN describes how to do that with the common tab control. The problem is that in order to get that functionality, you have to have a fairly recent version of the comctl32.dll. How do you get one of those? You download the latest version of IE. Can you get it any other way? No. Can I ship the dll to my customers? No. But you can ship the full install of IE and have them install that.
That's the kind of thing that is pissing people off.
Easy to use is not the issue for Linux. Most users could get used to E or kde or whatever manager. Heck, lots of people got by with DOS for years before Windows 3.1 came along.
The problem with Linux is that it's just too darn hard to install - if you want sound, scanner, email, games etc. working.
"Irony! Oh, no, no, we don't get that here. See, uh, people ski topless here while smoking dope, so irony's not really a, a high priority. We haven't had any irony here since about, uh, '83, when I was the only practitioner of it. And I stopped because I was getting tired of being stared at." -- From the movie Roxanne
No. He gave examples of competing rights. Do I have the right to shout "Fire!" in a crowded area? Don't you see that my right to shout "Fire!" has to be balanced with the rights of others sharing that crowded area?
If you think the answer is simple, you need to look a little closer.
I use gramofile to record and split the wav files. But it didn't work very well for me in the de-pop and de-click area. What I currently do is to move the files to Win98. I remove the worst clicks/pops using Wave Repair. Then get rid of the bacon-frying using WavClean. Then I move everything back to Linux and burn using cdrecord.
If anyone knows of a combination of tools on Linux that work please post! I'm particularly interested in an alternative to Wave Repair where I can manually redraw a wave to remove the big pops.
It annoys me when authors feel the need to change fiction to take account of real world progress
I agree. Heinlein repackaged his future histories as alternative histories. A better approach, I think. Plus, I believe "The Past Through Tomorrow" still sells well - when it's in print.
Linux is hampered by a lack of drivers for some pc devices, notably printers.
Huh? Certainly ghostscript and printing can be a bear to set up, but most printers have a number of standard protocols that they conform to - which are well described. Which printers do they have in mind?
I got the feeling from looking at their web site that these guys are just looking for business.
I don't worry about the religious implications so much as the possibility of something going horribly wrong. What if our Frankenstein's monster turns out to be virus-sized?
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Think xeyes. We've had shaped windows for years.
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I'm not sure I'd like that. I'd hate it if I was feeling blue and the music tried to cheer me up. At least I hate it when people do that.
On the other hand if you're already down and the it plays depressing music - you could spiral right on down to suicide.
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Speaking of computers making sounds--- I once had my Mac set up so that when you put the floppy in, it played a portion of the diner scene from "When Harry met Sally".
"Oh yes. All wisdom will die with you." -- Job
Hahahahahahah. Heh. Humm.
Sorry. Someone mod the parent up as funny.
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We still have and use a rotary phone. The thing is built like a tank and refuses to break. Yes, I did have to show my kids how to use it. They thought it was very strange.
Looks interesting. I particularly like the family license concept
Off the wall -- given their society, I think we should haul the guy to a hospital, give him a sex change and dump him back where he came from.
No messy assasination and he's out of the power picture.
Not really. There's no way to force a line break in Wordpad. Makes it practically unusable for anything longer than a letter.
I'll give you a for instance. We just shipped a product that needed to have a tabbed window with the tabs at the bottom. Hey MSDN describes how to do that with the common tab control. The problem is that in order to get that functionality, you have to have a fairly recent version of the comctl32.dll. How do you get one of those? You download the latest version of IE. Can you get it any other way? No. Can I ship the dll to my customers? No. But you can ship the full install of IE and have them install that.
That's the kind of thing that is pissing people off.
But they can rule that MS has to put out a new unbundled version of XP and make the upgrade free.
I'd agree on .net, but I know of two large grocery store chains in the area that use Windows based cash-registers.
Hey, this is code, remember? Any code that can be done, can be undone.
The problem with Linux is that it's just too darn hard to install - if you want sound, scanner, email, games etc. working.
"Irony! Oh, no, no, we don't get that here. See, uh, people ski topless here while smoking dope, so irony's not really a, a high priority. We haven't had any irony here since about, uh, '83, when I was the only practitioner of it. And I stopped because I was getting tired of being stared at." -- From the movie Roxanne
"I don't sink this word means what he sinks it means." -- Inigo
No. He gave examples of competing rights. Do I have the right to shout "Fire!" in a crowded area? Don't you see that my right to shout "Fire!" has to be balanced with the rights of others sharing that crowded area?
If you think the answer is simple, you need to look a little closer.
We're gonna need those hard-lines for the Matrix sequels.
If anyone knows of a combination of tools on Linux that work please post! I'm particularly interested in an alternative to Wave Repair where I can manually redraw a wave to remove the big pops.
Well here you go - abiword. Last I heard they were setting up optional vi keybindings.
It annoys me when authors feel the need to change fiction to take account of real world progress
I agree. Heinlein repackaged his future histories as alternative histories. A better approach, I think. Plus, I believe "The Past Through Tomorrow" still sells well - when it's in print.
Linux is hampered by a lack of drivers for some pc devices, notably printers.
Huh? Certainly ghostscript and printing can be a bear to set up, but most printers have a number of standard protocols that they conform to - which are well described. Which printers do they have in mind?
I got the feeling from looking at their web site that these guys are just looking for business.
Can't agree with this. Some is. But some of the funniest stuff I've heard has a bite to it.
Mr. Dvorak thinks that either Bill Gates or Steve Jobs should have been Person of the Year in Time?
He was being sarcastic.
I don't worry about the religious implications so much as the possibility of something going horribly wrong. What if our Frankenstein's monster turns out to be virus-sized?