You don't need to "unseat" anything. All the audio for which I had a lossless source is now in Vorbis, and it works great in my Sansa Clip, my phone and pretty much anything else. Same for mp3.
I much prefer a 16:10 display, and not necessarily for movies. I've always found myself wanting more horizontal space on 4:3 displays, which is solved on 16:10. 16:9 is going a bit too far, but doesn't bother me much.
Indeed. They had the chance to give me a way to pay them. Unless paid content is higher quality and more convenient than free content, people obviously won't bother.
Until 5 years ago, phones were getting smaller and smaller, sometimes embarrassingly so. People realised smaller than palm-sized is useless and they've been getting a tad bigger. It's unlikely they'll get much smaller anytime soon.
That's largely because most of the low-hanging fruit has been picked, and also because of the stronger focus on efficiency there is now. I think it's good, we don't need more powerful machines. My 800mhz ARM netbook is fast enough for most things, and a 2.4ghz dual-core CPU is good enough for anything.
Actually, that's not really true. Consoles are extremely underpowered (yes, even PS3 and Xbox) and they're often the quality bottleneck for crossplatform games (PC and consoles).
Their customers don't care. They're finding excuses for Sony and threatening to kill the developers that worked on restoring OtherOS on the PS3.
Sony'll be fine.
Look at Android. If you refuse to share your location with google, you can still use your phone just fine. Google's mapping services do lose some accuracy in areas you frequent, and you may have slightly worse service for it. That's about it.
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I read that as "Jaffa CAKE". Now I'm hungry.
Yes, it is stupid.
No. And what they're doing is stupid. You should have a password which you type in AND a memorable info, which you get asked letters of.
You don't need to "unseat" anything. All the audio for which I had a lossless source is now in Vorbis, and it works great in my Sansa Clip, my phone and pretty much anything else. Same for mp3.
Their HTML5 video player is a bit crappy, it doesn't seem to negotiate streaming with the client very well.
Feel free do to it for linux. On the other hand, you could use shaders or GPGPU to achieve similar results.
I don't really know, I think they're just not very well funded. I have an OLPC XO and it's great in sunlight.
Try Pixel Qi, if you can find it. The OLPC XO is great in sunlight.
I much prefer a 16:10 display, and not necessarily for movies. I've always found myself wanting more horizontal space on 4:3 displays, which is solved on 16:10. 16:9 is going a bit too far, but doesn't bother me much.
The point is, many people would pay for DRM-free, fairly priced downloads. I sure would. As long as they don't offer that, I won't buy from them.
Indeed. They had the chance to give me a way to pay them. Unless paid content is higher quality and more convenient than free content, people obviously won't bother.
I suppose it might be a national thing. Where I come from, one chooses a specialisation in high-school.
Until 5 years ago, phones were getting smaller and smaller, sometimes embarrassingly so. People realised smaller than palm-sized is useless and they've been getting a tad bigger. It's unlikely they'll get much smaller anytime soon.
That's largely because most of the low-hanging fruit has been picked, and also because of the stronger focus on efficiency there is now. I think it's good, we don't need more powerful machines. My 800mhz ARM netbook is fast enough for most things, and a 2.4ghz dual-core CPU is good enough for anything.
Actually, that's not really true. Consoles are extremely underpowered (yes, even PS3 and Xbox) and they're often the quality bottleneck for crossplatform games (PC and consoles).
I also disagree with him. Most of my classmates can barely program, if at all.
I've also had to waste an entire year with silly introductory courses that didn't teach me anything new. That should be done in high school.
Fork one of KDE 3.5 or Gnome2. Or build a plasma profile that emulates KDE 3.5. Or port the Gnome2 shell to GTK3 & friends.
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Up until you said "And yes, I am a Christian" I thought you were joking. I'm not entirely convinced you aren't even now.
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GoG games are awesome on my OS X laptop, with wine. I've yet to have one not work, but I may have been lucky.
Their customers don't care. They're finding excuses for Sony and threatening to kill the developers that worked on restoring OtherOS on the PS3. Sony'll be fine.
Look at Android. If you refuse to share your location with google, you can still use your phone just fine. Google's mapping services do lose some accuracy in areas you frequent, and you may have slightly worse service for it. That's about it.
I'm pretty sure Google's opt-in on Android as it is now can be considered to offer informed consent.
I tend to have the same experience with Vim. I'm very much used to its modal editing, and use it even in the rare cases when I use Emacs (viper mode).