I would like to see more direct support for linux for these players. The format issue to me is a non-issue - its well understood that mp3 is the de facto standard and regardless of comments here, it is how 99% of music files are encoded.
Right now I am getting good use out of gnupod/gtkpod for my iPod, but would love to see more vendor support from day one for linux.
Limiting a ports-like system to only Savannah-hosted projects would be of little utility. The joy of ports is that you can find every supported port, regardless of origin.
I applaud the Ogg effort, but lets be real - Ogg is a non-starter. Okay, the sound quality is better than mp3, but not audibly better to most people. mp3 is far more ubiquitous - it is supported by EVERY major portable device (even if it is shunned by the pay-for-play services).
The issue at the end of the day is this - when I go on Kazaa and download a song - what format is it likely to be in?
Stop by the Walden Books in your local airport for some other great drivel to sit aside Da Vinci code on your shelf. You might like the Nancy Drew or Hardy Boys series as well - the mysteries are about as complex as the moronic tripe in the Da Vinci Code.
The fact that so many people lauded this airport-bookstore drivel tells me just how low-brow the reading audience has become. From the mindless cliff hangers (resolved in three pages for the idiots who can't track a plot) to the impossibly silly puzzles to the hocus-pocus Templar BS plot (which has been around for decades)...I kept looking for the "Nancy Drew" logo on the side of this "young readers" crap.
Note to Neal Stephenson - if you are going to write a Proust-like "brick", you had better find a willing audience of dilletantes to get unemployed rapido to digest it.
Quicksilver was a disaster of writing and editing.
My other quip with Stephenson is how pseudo-intellectual the books are. Okay, the "CS for idiots" in Diamond Age was bearable, but all of this "degree in a can" low-brow history/science is tiresome for those of us who have it from original sources.
Chuck Palahniuk's DIARY is without a doubt the worst of 2003 as it had such very high expectations (well, Chuck's expectations are dropping rapidly).
All I can say about Quicksilver is that it is tedious and unfocused. You could have easily pulled 200+ pages out of this and told a compelling story. Neal - hire an editor who isn't in awe of you.
Perl programming bought my house, cars, retirement. We gave you some stock Larry but not enough. If you are reading this you know what company I am talking about.
We built a world-class business on the back of Perl. Nothing else would have done the trick.
Abiword and Gnumeric are much stronger than their KOffice counterparts. Mozilla/GTK2 and its variants (Epiphany etc) destroy Konq. From an end-user app selection, there is no comparison. KDevelop is the only KDE app I know that destroys its GNOME competition.
Do you expect a succesful CEO in a cut-throat business to be a cheerful guy? Ellison is paranoid (San Jose airport out to get me), arrogant (we're going to take on Microsoft) and often clumsy (Peoplesoft), but he is also still the king of database software (for the time being).
The only thing that separates Larry from the other ones is the neato cars he buys for Oracle employees who happen to be his ex-girlfriend.
Before you plonk down $100k for a piece of paper, remember you will be competing against the guy who graduated from Harvard MBA and moved back into mom's basement. Don't tell me he doesn't exist - BusinessWeek profiled him.
The "MBA as admission to the boardroom" idea was outdated five years ago and is a leftover from the 80s when it was valid.
There have been complaints about the stability of some Fedora 1 components but by and large I commend RedHat for further freeing their user-oriented distro by unencumbering the copyright issues that caused PinkTie etc to spring forth.
I think/. should replace the RedHat logo since there is a clear distinction between the Fedora product and RedHat's primary branded offering, and this would also recognize the community of non-RedHat employees contributing to Fedora.
Congrats to all the people who worked hard on 2.6. I will be a happy user I am sure.
Its great to see this go out in 2003, capping off a stellar year for open source. Mozilla 1.4/5, Gnome 2.4, KDE 3.2 (almost), Apache 2.x...and countless other pieces of the puzzle coming together in an awesome ecosystem.
Corporations haven't just 'taken notice', they are actively pushing this stuff. They are amping up great services behind the new commodity - software.
RedHat and IBM and Novell are leading the charge from the.com side while a huge developer community has taken root in the volunteer ranks.
2.6 was the icing on the cake - the version that really challenges the most established kernels across the entire spectrum. BRAVO!!
Ogg files do not decompress as simply as MP3s. More processing activity == more power used == less battery life. So Ogg is dead in the portable market.
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Sun just wants to inject Java into yet another domain space where it isn't needed or wanted. Let me guess - the Sun proposal will be Java bytecodes.
I thought an open, peer-reviewed, high performance IL/runtime was exactlywhat Parrot was trying to accomplish.
i don't care how it happens, i just want these players to allow me to copy music from my linux box.
Because there aren't good apps to connect to all of the major players.
Because manufacturers should cater to growing markets with out-of-the-box support.
Right now I am getting good use out of gnupod/gtkpod for my iPod, but would love to see more vendor support from day one for linux.
Limiting a ports-like system to only Savannah-hosted projects would be of little utility. The joy of ports is that you can find every supported port, regardless of origin.
The issue at the end of the day is this - when I go on Kazaa and download a song - what format is it likely to be in?
Doesn't count.
Stop by the Walden Books in your local airport for some other great drivel to sit aside Da Vinci code on your shelf. You might like the Nancy Drew or Hardy Boys series as well - the mysteries are about as complex as the moronic tripe in the Da Vinci Code.
The fact that so many people lauded this airport-bookstore drivel tells me just how low-brow the reading audience has become. From the mindless cliff hangers (resolved in three pages for the idiots who can't track a plot) to the impossibly silly puzzles to the hocus-pocus Templar BS plot (which has been around for decades)...I kept looking for the "Nancy Drew" logo on the side of this "young readers" crap.
Quicksilver was a disaster of writing and editing.
My other quip with Stephenson is how pseudo-intellectual the books are. Okay, the "CS for idiots" in Diamond Age was bearable, but all of this "degree in a can" low-brow history/science is tiresome for those of us who have it from original sources.
All I can say about Quicksilver is that it is tedious and unfocused. You could have easily pulled 200+ pages out of this and told a compelling story. Neal - hire an editor who isn't in awe of you.
IM, VOIP, email...we're still looking for a unified inbox here folks. If its all IP packets, it can all be managed in one place.
It is the APPS remember? How much time do you spend fiddling with crap in your UI??? I spend my time in applications, not preferences dialogs.
We built a world-class business on the back of Perl. Nothing else would have done the trick.
THANKS LARRY.
Why are you presuming that GNOME apps must be written in C?
The Gimp has zero competition in KDE land.
Mozilla/GTK2 destroys Konq (although this is arguable, maybe).
KDevelop is the only app for KDE that I know of that kills its GNOME parallel.
Abiword and Gnumeric are much stronger than their KOffice counterparts. Mozilla/GTK2 and its variants (Epiphany etc) destroy Konq. From an end-user app selection, there is no comparison. KDevelop is the only KDE app I know that destroys its GNOME competition.
The only thing that separates Larry from the other ones is the neato cars he buys for Oracle employees who happen to be his ex-girlfriend.
The "MBA as admission to the boardroom" idea was outdated five years ago and is a leftover from the 80s when it was valid.
I think /. should replace the RedHat logo since there is a clear distinction between the Fedora product and RedHat's primary branded offering, and this would also recognize the community of non-RedHat employees contributing to Fedora.
If you plug peripherals into your computer, you are better off with this kernel.
Its great to see this go out in 2003, capping off a stellar year for open source. Mozilla 1.4/5, Gnome 2.4, KDE 3.2 (almost), Apache 2.x...and countless other pieces of the puzzle coming together in an awesome ecosystem.
Corporations haven't just 'taken notice', they are actively pushing this stuff. They are amping up great services behind the new commodity - software.
RedHat and IBM and Novell are leading the charge from the .com side while a huge developer community has taken root in the volunteer ranks.
2.6 was the icing on the cake - the version that really challenges the most established kernels across the entire spectrum. BRAVO!!
Ogg files do not decompress as simply as MP3s. More processing activity == more power used == less battery life. So Ogg is dead in the portable market.
Save yourself $30.