The "Minimum font size" feature is what made me finally make the move from Netscape 4. Since doing that I've discovered the many other benefits of Mozilla. My own web pages even use CSS now!
I dunno about you, but I'm leaning towards the don't have so many damn babies solution.
I used to believe that. Then I realised that only intelligent, concerned people do think like that - the less so will keep on pumping babies out. I'd say that if intelligence starts implying non reproduction, that's a pretty strong evolutionary pressure to lower the average intelligence and/or concern about our surroundings.
I also realised that without offspring of my own to care about, why should I be that bothered about the future of the planet? Plus I just reckon I'd like to raise a child (or two) as part of a loving relationship, blah blah blah.
Not speaking for the original poster, but whoever is in opposition will usually make criticisms of the current government that anyone would agree with. It's important to not let that sway you and bear in mind what their own policy would be (and of course what you know of their party). In the case of the Conservatives, they've proven in the past that they're just as bad. The Lib Dems have always seemed to at least talk the right sort of talk, and in local councils where they've had control (that I've lived in, anyway) they've done a reasonable job too so that choice is probably a "less bad" one.
You see in a sense you americans are lucky to have such a delay before seeing this 'phone - when it came out here, no such code was available.
I tried one out as a sort of beta tester for the office and really didn't like it. The cursor keys were all bundled together so that you constantly hit two at once, the screen becomes unreadable in bright sunlight (unlike the 9110 which gets better), there was no way of syncing up to our Unix-like OSs and, of course, there was no ssh. Other little niggles like the fact there seemed to be no type-ahead once you'd selected "Write SMS" (and despite the faster CPU it takes just as long as the 9110 to start up, so the type-ahead mattered!), and you seemingly couldn't reorder the dialing list order of GSM/non-GSM numbers for people in the contacts section meant I reverted to the 9110.
Now a lot more software has been released - and the shareware authors are really taking advantage of the fact it doesn't come with ssh, a necessary tool (I mean who used these other than sysadmins anyway?), and you can NFS mount them onto a Unix-a-like box, the rest of the people in the office have switched. I probably would too, if I still worked there.
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and don't get me started on Ogg Vorbis
Well at the risk of actually doing so, I'd note that the word "Ogg" is much easier to say than "Em Pee Three". Now that almost everyone I know that does these things talks of "Ogging" things, I can even say that it sounds better in conversation too.
Actually I'd say that was less true of Windows. There are generally far more differences between Windows releases that affect compatibility than there are between releases of the Linux kernel. The tools that sit on top of Linux, be they GNU, BSD or whatever (mostly GNU, hence the argument), tend to introduce less problems still.
I know I am not looking forward to the day RMS is unable to continue his mission with the open source movement
That's "Free Software Movement". The Open Source Movement is concerned more with saying "This is better because it works better" (which is often the case), the Free Software Movement is concerned more with saying "This is better because you have more rights" (which is always the case). Making that distinction is what gets so many people het up about it.
No, I still don't get it. All your scientific explanation taken into account, I still don't see how "H" translates to "Heroin". I've never seen that abbreviation before. Am I just weird or something? Ok, I'm British, but I read enough yank diatribe that I usually know how to translate it into English - but this one doesn't even tap quietly on a triangle... And "X" definitely means "X Window System", sorry. Maybe I'm too geeky or something:/
I thought Pan & Scan information could be
encoded into it so that it would be widescreen
on a widescreen telly, and P+S on a 4x3 one.
I've certainly got DVDs that do this, but not sure
if it takes a lot of extra space on the disc.
Are they just ripping people off by releasing
separate versions? Or is there actually a lot more overhead to encoding the P+S information?
Presumably being PalmOS based that means you can get ssh for it. However the keyboard doesn't look up to much and it doesn't look hi-res enough to do 80x24. I don't think this will replace the Nokia 9[12]10 for remote Unix administration, and to be honest that and checking Railtrack for alternate train times when the train companies fsck up *again* mid-journey are the only things I tend to use portable dial-up for.
RMS is one of the clearest speakers I've seen - he always goes to great pains to explain exactly what is meant by what he says - far more so than most other people - and still people manage to make him one of the most mis-quoted people around. How is that? Has nobody realised that each time someone claims he's denounced this good thing or supported that evil thing or whatever, that he can almost without fail raise his hand, point to a transcription of exactly what he said and go "No I didn't - look!"?
I've installed FreeAmp twice now on Windows systems (I try to avoid them), but it's worked alright on both. It sometimes crashes, or just plain disappears, leaving a process hanging around, but for the most part it plays.
If you want a not-completely-free player, the plugin for WinAmp is also directly linked off that page.
Actually, any decoder after beta4 (ie,
RC1 up) should work. The new features are in the
encoder - the decoder has been functionally complete for some
time.
The Radio 4 stream is limited to 44kbps. This is over a
window of a few seconds, so you may see peaks that
high, but the average over that few seconds should
never be higher than that. Radio 1 is similarly bounded, but at 63kbps (should just fit down single channel ISDN with nothing else going on) because it's stereo.
This bounding is made possible with the new RC3 code currently in CVS - thanks Monty!
Actually I can't see a reason for connections to
have slowed down so much. First thought: clients
acquiring locks on global data in icecast2. Checking it out tho.
The idea is that the server peels according to desired bitrate. Apparantly this is still not trivial in RC3 (allegedly possible, just not as
easy as it will be) but should be there by 1.0.
This would either work by the client requesting a particular maximum bitrate, and the server detecting when it couldn't send fast enough (already possible, though might get a bit confused by proxies).
Eww. Does anyone else wish they'd make a version
of the Happy Hacking normal or Lite with USB?
Those recessed cursor keys really turn me off
buying the Lite 2.
There was a programme on BBC2 the other day about Japanese culture, and they covered this. It said there was a certain "cool" factor about the Final Fantasy films being in English and subtitled.
There's no reason you have to be doing all that stuff with the mouse. I'm sure there are plenty of window managers out there that give good keyboard shortcuts and don't get in your face (of course, some may be <COUGH>evil</COUGH>).
What I want to write some day is my (and probably many other people's, though I don't see anyone writing one) tool builder idea: executables represented as icons on the desktop, with 3 nodes (stdin, stdout, stderr), each of which you can drag a line from, to a similar node on a different executable.
Some sort of selection on the elements would allow you to set command options (incl all standard shell position expansion etc). Once the tool's complete, you group them together and it writes a little shell script that calls things in the right way, which itself then becomes a little icon with 3 nodes.
Whether it would work or not, I don't know. I'll write it some day. Unless someone beats me to it (likely).
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The "Minimum font size" feature is what made me finally make the move from Netscape 4. Since doing that I've discovered the many other benefits of Mozilla. My own web pages even use CSS now!
I dunno about you, but I'm leaning towards the don't have so many damn babies solution.
I used to believe that. Then I realised that only intelligent, concerned people do think like that - the less so will keep on pumping babies out. I'd say that if intelligence starts implying non reproduction, that's a pretty strong evolutionary pressure to lower the average intelligence and/or concern about our surroundings.
I also realised that without offspring of my own to care about, why should I be that bothered about the future of the planet? Plus I just reckon I'd like to raise a child (or two) as part of a loving relationship, blah blah blah.
There's no reason that all Linux venders can't use the same base for rpm compatibility, etc.
You're not helping stop any potential flame war there, y'know. Some of us much prefer debs.
Shouldn't you vote for who you agree with?
Not speaking for the original poster, but whoever is in opposition will usually make criticisms of the current government that anyone would agree with. It's important to not let that sway you and bear in mind what their own policy would be (and of course what you know of their party). In the case of the Conservatives, they've proven in the past that they're just as bad. The Lib Dems have always seemed to at least talk the right sort of talk, and in local councils where they've had control (that I've lived in, anyway) they've done a reasonable job too so that choice is probably a "less bad" one.
You see in a sense you americans are lucky to have such a delay before seeing this 'phone - when it came out here, no such code was available.
I tried one out as a sort of beta tester for the office and really didn't like it. The cursor keys were all bundled together so that you constantly hit two at once, the screen becomes unreadable in bright sunlight (unlike the 9110 which gets better), there was no way of syncing up to our Unix-like OSs and, of course, there was no ssh. Other little niggles like the fact there seemed to be no type-ahead once you'd selected "Write SMS" (and despite the faster CPU it takes just as long as the 9110 to start up, so the type-ahead mattered!), and you seemingly couldn't reorder the dialing list order of GSM/non-GSM numbers for people in the contacts section meant I reverted to the 9110.
Now a lot more software has been released - and the shareware authors are really taking advantage of the fact it doesn't come with ssh, a necessary tool (I mean who used these other than sysadmins anyway?), and you can NFS mount them onto a Unix-a-like box, the rest of the people in the office have switched. I probably would too, if I still worked there.
Erk, unless you meant they don't give free ISOs just like Red Hat do and I mis-parsed.
All those companies mentioned don't give free ISO's just like RedHat (and Debian for that matter, ...)
No free ISOs for Debian? There's some right here!
and don't get me started on Ogg Vorbis
Well at the risk of actually doing so, I'd note that the word "Ogg" is much easier to say than "Em Pee Three". Now that almost everyone I know that does these things talks of "Ogging" things, I can even say that it sounds better in conversation too.
Actually I'd say that was less true of Windows. There are generally far more differences between Windows releases that affect compatibility than there are between releases of the Linux kernel. The tools that sit on top of Linux, be they GNU, BSD or whatever (mostly GNU, hence the argument), tend to introduce less problems still.
I know I am not looking forward to the day RMS is unable to continue his mission with the open source movement
That's "Free Software Movement". The Open Source Movement is concerned more with saying "This is better because it works better" (which is often the case), the Free Software Movement is concerned more with saying "This is better because you have more rights" (which is always the case). Making that distinction is what gets so many people het up about it.
No, I still don't get it. All your scientific explanation taken into account, I still don't see how "H" translates to "Heroin". I've never seen that abbreviation before. Am I just weird or something? Ok, I'm British, but I read enough yank diatribe that I usually know how to translate it into English - but this one doesn't even tap quietly on a triangle... And "X" definitely means "X Window System", sorry. Maybe I'm too geeky or something
Except for their mice, oddly enough.
I thought Pan & Scan information could be encoded into it so that it would be widescreen on a widescreen telly, and P+S on a 4x3 one. I've certainly got DVDs that do this, but not sure if it takes a lot of extra space on the disc. Are they just ripping people off by releasing separate versions? Or is there actually a lot more overhead to encoding the P+S information?
Presumably being PalmOS based that means you can get ssh for it. However the keyboard doesn't look up to much and it doesn't look hi-res enough to do 80x24. I don't think this will replace the Nokia 9[12]10 for remote Unix administration, and to be honest that and checking Railtrack for alternate train times when the train companies fsck up *again* mid-journey are the only things I tend to use portable dial-up for.
RMS is one of the clearest speakers I've seen - he always goes to great pains to explain exactly what is meant by what he says - far more so than most other people - and still people manage to make him one of the most mis-quoted people around. How is that? Has nobody realised that each time someone claims he's denounced this good thing or supported that evil thing or whatever, that he can almost without fail raise his hand, point to a transcription of exactly what he said and go "No I didn't - look!"?
I've installed FreeAmp twice now on Windows systems (I try to avoid them), but it's worked alright on both. It sometimes crashes, or just plain disappears, leaving a process hanging around, but for the most part it plays.
If you want a not-completely-free player, the plugin for WinAmp is also directly linked off that page.
Actually, any decoder after beta4 (ie, RC1 up) should work. The new features are in the encoder - the decoder has been functionally complete for some time.
The Radio 4 stream is limited to 44kbps. This is over a window of a few seconds, so you may see peaks that high, but the average over that few seconds should never be higher than that. Radio 1 is similarly bounded, but at 63kbps (should just fit down single channel ISDN with nothing else going on) because it's stereo.
This bounding is made possible with the new RC3 code currently in CVS - thanks Monty!
Actually I can't see a reason for connections to have slowed down so much. First thought: clients acquiring locks on global data in icecast2. Checking it out tho.
The idea is that the server peels according to desired bitrate. Apparantly this is still not trivial in RC3 (allegedly possible, just not as easy as it will be) but should be there by 1.0.
This would either work by the client requesting a particular maximum bitrate, and the server detecting when it couldn't send fast enough (already possible, though might get a bit confused by proxies).
Eww. Does anyone else wish they'd make a version of the Happy Hacking normal or Lite with USB? Those recessed cursor keys really turn me off buying the Lite 2.
Sounds a bit like the ALTAIR - a research project at Aberystwyth University (Wales).
Er, "film" singular, of course :)
There was a programme on BBC2 the other day about Japanese culture, and they covered this. It said there was a certain "cool" factor about the Final Fantasy films being in English and subtitled.
There's no reason you have to be doing all that stuff with the mouse. I'm sure there are plenty of window managers out there that give good keyboard shortcuts and don't get in your face (of course, some may be <COUGH>evil</COUGH>).
What I want to write some day is my (and probably many other people's, though I don't see anyone writing one) tool builder idea: executables represented as icons on the desktop, with 3 nodes (stdin, stdout, stderr), each of which you can drag a line from, to a similar node on a different executable.
Some sort of selection on the elements would allow you to set command options (incl all standard shell position expansion etc). Once the tool's complete, you group them together and it writes a little shell script that calls things in the right way, which itself then becomes a little icon with 3 nodes.
Whether it would work or not, I don't know. I'll write it some day. Unless someone beats me to it (likely).