"The latest version of the controversial MPlayer program for Linux"
Mplayer is controversial for three things:
Their attitude towards users The mplayer devs seem to take pleasure in responding "RTFM" to any question that could have been partially answered in the past 100 years... whether it's actually in their docs or not. They view ordinary users who don't know some technical things as inferior people who shouldn't be using linux, yet they seem only concerned in building mplayer's "reputation".
Their stance towards GCC 2.96 It is of the Mplayer's opinion that 2.96 is bug ridden and unworthy of use, and they feel the need to press that opinion on others. When presented with views that 2.96 is nowhere near as buggy as claimed(and in fact, quite good), they resort to it not being "official". Of course, they have admitted GCC 3 to be buggy, but because it's "official", they neglect to "warn" others like they have with 2.96.
Their mixture of licenses Mplayer contains both GPLed and proprietary code in the same source tree, and when compiled... the same executable. Mplayer's wishy-washy license(except for "no binaries") has led people to doubt that it's even open source.. even to the point of questioning if mplayer might be in violation of the GPL.
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When talking about merging both the projects and mindshare, Linus has a lot to say. Sure you can fork Linux and merge it with HURD, but unless you gather much support you are only merging them in the technical sense.
One thing Adams seems to be unable to realize is that any explanation of gravity must account for all effects of it. This includes the orbits of planets. His theory in Dilbert future claimed that gravity is just the effect of everything growing in size. While that _may_ explain why things fall straight to the ground, it does not explain why the Earth orbits the sun in circular motion or why light bends around massive objects.
Although I haven't read God's Debris, claiming it all to be a matter of probability is less founded than the previous theory... as it doesn't even explain simple attraction well. "It happens just because... IT HAPPENS!" Then he goes off to claim religion is off base? At least religion has the benefit of involving non-testable topics. His pseudoscience has no such excuse.
2. There are developers who suggest that WINE should build a graphics subsystem directly into WINE (bypassing X) and do a lot more of the basic Win32 API closer to the kernel. They claim that this way, WINE could probably be more stable and faster. What is your opinion?
Alexandre Julliard: I think this would be a complete waste of time. X overhead is fairly small, so you wouldn't gain much performance, and you would lose a lot in stability (not to mention network transparency). If there are really places where X performance is a problem, the effort is much better spent fixing X than trying to bypass it.
I guess it'll take more than this to turn down the FUD on X.
"If games had the concept of supply lines, morale, and other such ignored aspects of battle mechanics, then maybe this would be different."
If you want supply lines and morale, Kohan does a pretty good job at implementing it. Take out several of a persons' mines, and their econ goes to pot trying to make up for the material defecit. Keep beating down on an army, and their morale will go to pot as well and they will rout very quickly... even if they are OK hp-wise. So anyways, give Kohan a shot, it does a pretty good job at implementing actual strategy and addressing the "blitzfest"(if you rush, you leave yourself WIDE OPEN to attack if you fail)... and although it doesn't fix it completely, the developers of the game try to fix what they can in each patch.
If you don't want to wait for the next game (Ahriman's Gift or something like that), pick up Immortal Sovreigns and patch it up.
Even if the stuff about scripting is true, mozillaquest exists solely to bash the efforts of those who spend their time working on the mozilla project. Don't vindicate that troll who runs it.
This seems very unlikely.
The NCC-1701 that Captain Kirk commanded was the very first starship enterprise... and even the Enterprise B and C have been given crewnames(not matching that list).
Also, didn't the producers previously deny the 22ng century setting?
Seems like in their jihad to crush all piracy even at the expense of their customers... they choose to break the law. IANAL, but I'm positive the Home Recording Act says this kind of BS is illegal.
Maybe this will be the issue that'll bring the DMCA under judicial review, I certainly hope so.
Even if you own the windows version Q3A cd, you can still install it in linux. All you need is to download the latest pointrelease, copy the two.pk3 files to quake3/baseq3/, and then run the pointrelease. Your CD Key works just as well... open an X term and run./quake3.x86
If it fails to load then something isn't set up with your 3d card, but that's about it.:)
With the rapid(and fortunate) acceptance of Linux across the world... It becomes easier for countries other than america to construct their part of the internet.
However, and correct me if I'm wrong on this, it is unfortunate that the Linux kernel(and everything else for that matter) only natively accepts 1 byte encoded european languages. For example, you cannot have a linux box completely in Japanese from boot. It's hard enough to contruct a box that'll work with japanese after starting X, much more the console, which does not support such 2 byte fonts natively.
Yes, unicode is being implemented, but it's still more of an addon than anything else... and there still is a majority of documents and html pages in (referring to previous example)EUC and SJIS.
Once you can boot and run linux completely in any language you want, then we'll see both a significant increase in Linux usage, and the fall of English as the dominant language on the internet.
[Note: These are all from memory, I forget the original sources, and I'm most likely wrong with one or two of them]
Actually, we are coming out of a mini-ice age... I remember reading a record somewhere that 150-250 years ago... the Thames froze over!
We also need to take into account that the sun, our ultimate source of all heat... has been gradually increasing in activity over the period that we've been able to record it.
There is also the gradual shift in the Earth's axial plane (the closer to 90, winter and summer get more mild and we get an ice age, and further from 90, the warmer the summer and colder the winter).
There are just too many factors in global weather patterns, espeically ones that span mellenia, for us to pin one sole reason. It's even more ignorant to soley blame humans.
Now, I'm all for efficient and clean technology... it's just good practice (economic and otherwise...). However, threatening the world with dire (and false) blame is helping no one. for example, if those scientists want CFCs out of use, they should work on a replacement that's better. Right now, a group of other scientists are developing sound engines that have great refrigeration capacity and only use Helium.... yet the environmentalists just continue to collect money from the scared masses and spout more doom prophesies. Let's be sensible about this.
BTW, warmer weather won't cause more severe storms... in fact it will decrease them. It's having a larger contrast between warm and cold air that creates stronger storms.
*deep breath* It is a variation of the english "animation"... the original japanese loanword is "ANIMESHON", look in any japanese dictionary. The japanese like to shorten words, so it became "ANIME".
The so-called fact it's from the french is a lie. Complete untruth, complete FUD. The japanese language is based on pronounciation, their alphabet, kana... each express a specific and contstant sound. They don't use phonetic lettering like english does, it's much more direct. Kanji are a kind of shorthand for kana, in a litteral sense.
If the japanese loaned the word from French it would be "einaimu". I kid you not, "einaimu". However, since they borrowed "animeshon" form the english word "animation" instead, that's how it is in the dictionary. It's even listed as english in origin. "Anime" is a contracted version of "animeshon".
Sorry to sound forceful on this point, but this is foolishness I HATE for people to continue, just because other people do. Imaging people saying Linux was made by J Edgar Hoover... people who know linux would know it's an outright lie, but what would Windows users know? This is the exact case of the word "anime", people in the US think it's from french, but had you actually LEARNED the japanese language you'd know it's from the english.
I'm going to volunteer my knowledge of the japanese language here, so grab some japanese fonts for your browser then come back... ok, here it is:
"Washu"(hH) written in kana is: íã Litterally, this is romanized as wa-sh+u-u, or Washuu. You can also romanize the 2nd and 3rd characters as syu... if you think of it as si+yu, but the 4th character means this is a long "u", so you can either do a double "uu" or do a u with a line over it.
For the heck of it, here are the rest: "Ryoko"(éOEÄ) is èå± in kana, and 'Ryouko' in romaji. This isn't disputable, it's in clear furigana on the 1st OVA ep title screen. Go watch the DVD set if you want confirmation.
"Ryo-Ohki"(écS) is èå in kana and "Ryou-ou-ki" in romaji. In the furigana for ep 3's title.
"Tenchi", "Sasami", "Nobuyuki", "Mihoshi", "Kiyone", and "Katsuhito" are all correct.
The names I haven't mentioned I've forgotten exactly or aren't really in any dispute:)
BTW, I've never seen your FAQ, but you might want to add this info to it. Also... The names I referenced with("ayeka" etc) are the official "english" names of the characters.. and you will see them in japanese books on the show... but.. if you want the japanese names, refer to the above
The japanese word "anime" is not by ANY MEANS WHATSOEVER a loan word from french. It is their own abbreviation of the loan word "animeshon" which is taken from the english. The japanese only care about how the word is pronounced, not how it is spelled. The french "anime"(said "A-nim", like "A mime") is pronounced completely different from the japanese "anime"(said "ah-nee-meh"). This false info needs to stop spreading. Consider yourself educated.
Well, the plasma you speak of there refers to the state of matter in which all electrons lose their bonds to nucleuses, and produce a sea of free electrons(metals only give a few electrons for free movement). Your flourecent light bulb isn't remotely capable of generating this. Another thing to note is that this kind of device isn't practical for something in relative motion.. like a car or plane.. the plasma would instantly blow off. But then again, who says somebody won't devise actual and working cold fusion out of this.;)...although I'd rather they work on the translucent holographic terminal:D
More specifically, the PS2's I/O chip IS the psx cpu.:) It even has it's own 2mb of on chip RAM as well. In reality, PS2 has a PSX on it's mb, but with the abilty to optionally use faster CDROM speeds and texture filtering as well.
Then they contain a lot of Iridium, an element that is extremely rare on this planet, but common in metorites. Iridium is a very tough metal, and the higher the concentration of Iridium in a blade, the hotter it has to be and the harder you have to beat it to get it shaped correctly.
Sorry, but according to US law, you can transform any image into a derogatory one. This is possible by the Fair Use clause, providing for criticism and parody. They are still trying to censor people, just not as drasticly as we first thought.
There are more permutations of a set than there are numbers in a set. Thus, as you expand the set of integers and the set of real numbers from 0 to infinity using 1 integer at a time then all real numbers which use that integer... each expansion yeilds far more real numbers than integers, and infinitly more so as well... thus, at that ratio, the function of which diverges in relation to the integers. Of course, given you accept the values of Omega and Iota, the surreal value of infinity and it's reciprocal, this explanation is valid. Maybe that's where we disagree. Or perhaps you don't realize that using that method, it would take the entire infinite set of integers just to define the possible real numbers between 1 and 2! This is why I say the set of real numbers is square of the set of integers.
I tried to like KDE, but couldn't, because it had one nagging thing MS Windows has, the taskbars are pretty much rigid and uncustomizable. GNOME on the other hand, allows lots of flexibility with panels, that and GTK+ themes. Now, I probably just overlooked junk in KDE that would allow me to do that kind of stuff, but still... Also, I'm quite sure X windows had one of the first taskbars and so called "start" menus. Heh, yeah, I'm sure they innovated that, just like the innovated symbolic links (featured in Win2k, and yes, they claim to have invented them). Remember, as a rule of thumb, if you see it in a Micro$~1 product, it's been around for a while. Do some research, they innovate little more than new ways to further tangle up spaghetti code.
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"The latest version of the controversial MPlayer program for Linux"
Mplayer is controversial for three things:
Their attitude towards users
The mplayer devs seem to take pleasure in responding "RTFM" to any question that could have been partially answered in the past 100 years... whether it's actually in their docs or not. They view ordinary users who don't know some technical things as inferior people who shouldn't be using linux, yet they seem only concerned in building mplayer's "reputation".
Their stance towards GCC 2.96
It is of the Mplayer's opinion that 2.96 is bug ridden and unworthy of use, and they feel the need to press that opinion on others. When presented with views that 2.96 is nowhere near as buggy as claimed(and in fact, quite good), they resort to it not being "official". Of course, they have admitted GCC 3 to be buggy, but because it's "official", they neglect to "warn" others like they have with 2.96.
Their mixture of licenses
Mplayer contains both GPLed and proprietary code in the same source tree, and when compiled... the same executable. Mplayer's wishy-washy license(except for "no binaries") has led people to doubt that it's even open source.. even to the point of questioning if mplayer might be in violation of the GPL.
Can you run linux on it?
When talking about merging both the projects and mindshare, Linus has a lot to say. Sure you can fork Linux and merge it with HURD, but unless you gather much support you are only merging them in the technical sense.
Why does he keep saying that only root can mount filessytems? Sure that's the default mount behavior, but certainly not the rule.
The problem being that Linux is largely monolithic in design while HURD is almost completely modular.
Besides, Linus hates the HURD design.
One thing Adams seems to be unable to realize is that any explanation of gravity must account for all effects of it. This includes the orbits of planets. His theory in Dilbert future claimed that gravity is just the effect of everything growing in size. While that _may_ explain why things fall straight to the ground, it does not explain why the Earth orbits the sun in circular motion or why light bends around massive objects.
Although I haven't read God's Debris, claiming it all to be a matter of probability is less founded than the previous theory... as it doesn't even explain simple attraction well. "It happens just because... IT HAPPENS!" Then he goes off to claim religion is off base? At least religion has the benefit of involving non-testable topics. His pseudoscience has no such excuse.
2. There are developers who suggest that WINE should build a graphics subsystem directly into WINE (bypassing X) and do a lot more of the basic Win32 API closer to the kernel. They claim that this way, WINE could probably be more stable and faster. What is your opinion?
Alexandre Julliard: I think this would be a complete waste of time. X overhead is fairly small, so you wouldn't gain much performance, and you would lose a lot in stability (not to mention network transparency). If there are really places where X performance is a problem, the effort is much better spent fixing X than trying to bypass it.
I guess it'll take more than this to turn down the FUD on X.
"If games had the concept of supply lines, morale, and other such ignored aspects of battle mechanics, then maybe this would be different."
If you want supply lines and morale, Kohan does a pretty good job at implementing it. Take out several of a persons' mines, and their econ goes to pot trying to make up for the material defecit. Keep beating down on an army, and their morale will go to pot as well and they will rout very quickly... even if they are OK hp-wise. So anyways, give Kohan a shot, it does a pretty good job at implementing actual strategy and addressing the "blitzfest"(if you rush, you leave yourself WIDE OPEN to attack if you fail)... and although it doesn't fix it completely, the developers of the game try to fix what they can in each patch.
If you don't want to wait for the next game (Ahriman's Gift or something like that), pick up Immortal Sovreigns and patch it up.
Stop posting stuff from mozillaquest.com!
Even if the stuff about scripting is true, mozillaquest exists solely to bash the efforts of those who spend their time working on the mozilla project. Don't vindicate that troll who runs it.
This seems very unlikely. The NCC-1701 that Captain Kirk commanded was the very first starship enterprise... and even the Enterprise B and C have been given crewnames(not matching that list). Also, didn't the producers previously deny the 22ng century setting?
Seems like in their jihad to crush all piracy even at the expense of their customers... they choose to break the law. IANAL, but I'm positive the Home Recording Act says this kind of BS is illegal.
Maybe this will be the issue that'll bring the DMCA under judicial review, I certainly hope so.
Even if you own the windows version Q3A cd, you can still install it in linux. All you need is to download the latest pointrelease, copy the two .pk3 files to quake3/baseq3/, and then run the pointrelease. Your CD Key works just as well... open an X term and run ./quake3.x86
If it fails to load then something isn't set up with your 3d card, but that's about it. :)
Maybe the downfall of the P4 will convince Intel to rethink their plans, maybe not... either way both Intel and AMD are still rehashing the x86.
You'd think after this Microsoft would actually INSIST Outlook be secure, and other such things as removing scripting support...
...but alas, they probably won't, as they'd think it easier to just sue instead of rewrite.
With the rapid(and fortunate) acceptance of Linux across the world... It becomes easier for countries other than america to construct their part of the internet.
However, and correct me if I'm wrong on this, it is unfortunate that the Linux kernel(and everything else for that matter) only natively accepts 1 byte encoded european languages. For example, you cannot have a linux box completely in Japanese from boot. It's hard enough to contruct a box that'll work with japanese after starting X, much more the console, which does not support such 2 byte fonts natively.
Yes, unicode is being implemented, but it's still more of an addon than anything else... and there still is a majority of documents and html pages in (referring to previous example)EUC and SJIS.
Once you can boot and run linux completely in any language you want, then we'll see both a significant increase in Linux usage, and the fall of English as the dominant language on the internet.
[Note: These are all from memory, I forget the original sources, and I'm most likely wrong with one or two of them] Actually, we are coming out of a mini-ice age... I remember reading a record somewhere that 150-250 years ago... the Thames froze over! We also need to take into account that the sun, our ultimate source of all heat... has been gradually increasing in activity over the period that we've been able to record it. There is also the gradual shift in the Earth's axial plane (the closer to 90, winter and summer get more mild and we get an ice age, and further from 90, the warmer the summer and colder the winter). There are just too many factors in global weather patterns, espeically ones that span mellenia, for us to pin one sole reason. It's even more ignorant to soley blame humans. Now, I'm all for efficient and clean technology... it's just good practice (economic and otherwise...). However, threatening the world with dire (and false) blame is helping no one. for example, if those scientists want CFCs out of use, they should work on a replacement that's better. Right now, a group of other scientists are developing sound engines that have great refrigeration capacity and only use Helium.... yet the environmentalists just continue to collect money from the scared masses and spout more doom prophesies. Let's be sensible about this. BTW, warmer weather won't cause more severe storms... in fact it will decrease them. It's having a larger contrast between warm and cold air that creates stronger storms.
*deep breath*
It is a variation of the english "animation"... the original japanese loanword is "ANIMESHON", look in any japanese dictionary. The japanese like to shorten words, so it became "ANIME".
The so-called fact it's from the french is a lie. Complete untruth, complete FUD. The japanese language is based on pronounciation, their alphabet, kana... each express a specific and contstant sound. They don't use phonetic lettering like english does, it's much more direct. Kanji are a kind of shorthand for kana, in a litteral sense.
If the japanese loaned the word from French it would be "einaimu". I kid you not, "einaimu".
However, since they borrowed "animeshon" form the english word "animation" instead, that's how it is in the dictionary. It's even listed as english in origin. "Anime" is a contracted version of "animeshon".
Sorry to sound forceful on this point, but this is foolishness I HATE for people to continue, just because other people do. Imaging people saying Linux was made by J Edgar Hoover... people who know linux would know it's an outright lie, but what would Windows users know? This is the exact case of the word "anime", people in the US think it's from french, but had you actually LEARNED the japanese language you'd know it's from the english.
I'm going to volunteer my knowledge of the japanese language here, so grab some japanese fonts for your browser then come back... ok, here it is:
:)
"Washu"(hH) written in kana is: íã Litterally, this is romanized as wa-sh+u-u, or Washuu. You can also romanize the 2nd and 3rd characters as syu... if you think of it as si+yu, but the 4th character means this is a long "u", so you can either do a double "uu" or do a u with a line over it.
For the heck of it, here are the rest: "Ryoko"(éOEÄ) is èå± in kana, and 'Ryouko' in romaji. This isn't disputable, it's in clear furigana on the 1st OVA ep title screen. Go watch the DVD set if you want confirmation.
"Ayeka" is ¦© in kana and "Aeka"... We agree on this point, but for reference, it's in the furigana in the title of ep 2.
"Ryo-Ohki"(écS) is èå in kana and "Ryou-ou-ki" in romaji. In the furigana for ep 3's title.
"Tenchi", "Sasami", "Nobuyuki", "Mihoshi", "Kiyone", and "Katsuhito" are all correct.
The names I haven't mentioned I've forgotten exactly or aren't really in any dispute
BTW, I've never seen your FAQ, but you might want to add this info to it. Also... The names I referenced with("ayeka" etc) are the official "english" names of the characters.. and you will see them in japanese books on the show... but.. if you want the japanese names, refer to the above
The japanese word "anime" is not by ANY MEANS WHATSOEVER a loan word from french. It is their own abbreviation of the loan word "animeshon" which is taken from the english. The japanese only care about how the word is pronounced, not how it is spelled. The french "anime"(said "A-nim", like "A mime") is pronounced completely different from the japanese "anime"(said "ah-nee-meh"). This false info needs to stop spreading. Consider yourself educated.
Well, the plasma you speak of there refers to the state of matter in which all electrons lose their bonds to nucleuses, and produce a sea of free electrons(metals only give a few electrons for free movement). Your flourecent light bulb isn't remotely capable of generating this. Another thing to note is that this kind of device isn't practical for something in relative motion.. like a car or plane.. the plasma would instantly blow off. But then again, who says somebody won't devise actual and working cold fusion out of this. ;) ...although I'd rather they work on the translucent holographic terminal :D
More specifically, the PS2's I/O chip IS the psx cpu. :) It even has it's own 2mb of on chip RAM as well. In reality, PS2 has a PSX on it's mb, but with the abilty to optionally use faster CDROM speeds and texture filtering as well.
Then they contain a lot of Iridium, an element that is extremely rare on this planet, but common in metorites. Iridium is a very tough metal, and the higher the concentration of Iridium in a blade, the hotter it has to be and the harder you have to beat it to get it shaped correctly.
Sorry, but according to US law, you can transform any image into a derogatory one. This is possible by the Fair Use clause, providing for criticism and parody. They are still trying to censor people, just not as drasticly as we first thought.
There are more permutations of a set than there are numbers in a set. Thus, as you expand the set of integers and the set of real numbers from 0 to infinity using 1 integer at a time then all real numbers which use that integer... each expansion yeilds far more real numbers than integers, and infinitly more so as well... thus, at that ratio, the function of which diverges in relation to the integers. Of course, given you accept the values of Omega and Iota, the surreal value of infinity and it's reciprocal, this explanation is valid. Maybe that's where we disagree. Or perhaps you don't realize that using that method, it would take the entire infinite set of integers just to define the possible real numbers between 1 and 2! This is why I say the set of real numbers is square of the set of integers.
I tried to like KDE, but couldn't, because it had one nagging thing MS Windows has, the taskbars are pretty much rigid and uncustomizable. GNOME on the other hand, allows lots of flexibility with panels, that and GTK+ themes. Now, I probably just overlooked junk in KDE that would allow me to do that kind of stuff, but still... Also, I'm quite sure X windows had one of the first taskbars and so called "start" menus. Heh, yeah, I'm sure they innovated that, just like the innovated symbolic links (featured in Win2k, and yes, they claim to have invented them). Remember, as a rule of thumb, if you see it in a Micro$~1 product, it's been around for a while. Do some research, they innovate little more than new ways to further tangle up spaghetti code.