Re:Maybe in 10 more years I can watch it on Linux
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The Future of Flash
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I'm on Linux/ppc with no binary codecs and I can play WMV9 and QT7 with open-source bits just fine. Admittedly the WMV9 bit of the equation is very recent:)
Oh, please, there's not even an OS X download which doesn't need Windows to extract it, never mind a Linux/x86 download. Heck, there's no Linux/x86 build of Flash Player 8 yet. Presumably they've just decided to desert the Linux platform, so I can't imagine you're going to get a lot of support on slashdot.
I'm personally stuck on linux/ppc right now, and that means that Flash crap is completely fucking useless to me. If Real can manage to provide an up-to-date linux/ppc version, why can't Macromedia release *something*?
A national goverment policy locking schools into buying from a single company if they want funding is quite different from a group of schools deciding independently from the national government which machines to purchase, to be fair.
As I'm sure you know, generally the argument revolves around the basis of consent.. the argument in our society is that underage children aren't able to consent to sex in an informed manner, and that animals aren't able to consent to sex with humans at all.
Obviously homosexuality doesn't figure into that at all, because all people involved are obviously just as capable of consenting as heterosexual partners.
No. By that logic, the taxpayer should be able to see information about how the selection of doctors is made, and which prescriptions should be prescribed, and generally how Medicare money is spent.
moonedit is what I've been using instead of subethaedit when I've wanted to do collaborative editing with those poor souls who have Macs. It's closed-source, Windows/Linux x86 only, is a terrible editor, the UI is horrible and it's generally a pain to use in comparison to subetha which Just Works, but it's a lot better than nothing.
I assume another possible alternative is to try using the crazy emacs mode where it can connect to multiple displays.
They've ripped their commitment to keeping the site as Free Software out of their social contract (which they've renamed to 'guiding principles' anyway).
You still need at least Visual Studio if you're wanting to develop Windows applications with Qt, realistically. Many developers feel it's worth paying the Qt license fee for their Windows-only development, which makes porting over to other platforms an awful lot cheaper and easier; if you don't, there are many alternatives, including of course what you note in your post, web-based scripting.
'quick, free fix'? Hah! My G3 iBook logic board failed about once a month for the last 9 months or so.. I got it in November 2002, first failure was in late 2003. They kept replacing the board for free, only for it to fail again a month later. 'temporary hack', perhaps, but not 'fix'.
Mind you.. phoned them up last time it failed and asked if they'd replace it (hadn't asked before because I didn't want to be without the iBook, and they were giving me 3-day turnarounds on the repairs), they took one look at my repair history and agreed, and I'm now typing on a brand new 1.2ghz iBook G4.
Admittedly my history is much worse than all the other iBook owners I know who own machines from the serial number range, but most of them have had at least one logic board failure. Note that the serial number range covers *years* worth of the iBook models, it's not just a single batch.
Windows XP and Office 2003 recently became available in Welsh, there's a free patch to the English version in the Microsoft internationalised bits somewhere.:)
Mac OS X has a default smb.conf the same as any Linux/etc distribution, a config file - which is REQUIRED for OS X's samba to work, shock! - and in order to edit it for your needs you have to, guess what, customise the configuration file! Whether using a pretty GUI tool, the samba web interface, or using an editor.
Ranting about how Mac OS X does everything 'without any configuration' is bullshit. Yes, it has much much nicer defaults and much much nicer software for most things, but that doesn't mean you don't need to dig into the configuration at times.
To all the software which includes the phrase in the license information that the GPL requires in order for the license to be upgradable, anyway. This doesn't mean everything, and the Linux kernel even has a note reminding people that only GPL v2 can be applied to it.
It's your problem for using fucking Gentoo and not a distribution which actually manages upgrades properly, to be quite honest. If you're using Gentoo, you've made the decision to make such things your own responsibility.
You have a fair argument in the latter half of that, but, no, I'm afraid not all iTunes users are iPod users, as much as I'd like Apple to start bundling iPods with the free iTunes download..
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I'm on Linux/ppc with no binary codecs and I can play WMV9 and QT7 with open-source bits just fine. Admittedly the WMV9 bit of the equation is very recent :)
Google Earth is a cross-platform codebase written using Qt, apparently. Don't know why it took them so long to port it..
What are you on about? If you want the Linux/sparc version of Opera 9, go download it. No emulation required.
iCab was the first browser to pass the ACID2 test, even if it doesn't manage to render a lot of pages correctly :) http://www.icab.de/
Oh, please, there's not even an OS X download which doesn't need Windows to extract it, never mind a Linux/x86 download. Heck, there's no Linux/x86 build of Flash Player 8 yet. Presumably they've just decided to desert the Linux platform, so I can't imagine you're going to get a lot of support on slashdot.
I'm personally stuck on linux/ppc right now, and that means that Flash crap is completely fucking useless to me. If Real can manage to provide an up-to-date linux/ppc version, why can't Macromedia release *something*?
A national goverment policy locking schools into buying from a single company if they want funding is quite different from a group of schools deciding independently from the national government which machines to purchase, to be fair.
As I'm sure you know, generally the argument revolves around the basis of consent .. the argument in our society is that underage children aren't able to consent to sex in an informed manner, and that animals aren't able to consent to sex with humans at all.
Obviously homosexuality doesn't figure into that at all, because all people involved are obviously just as capable of consenting as heterosexual partners.
No. By that logic, the taxpayer should be able to see information about how the selection of doctors is made, and which prescriptions should be prescribed, and generally how Medicare money is spent.
So you have a magical web browser which can make HTTP requests without any idea what IP address to send them to?
Those poor souls who don't have Macs, even.
Googling for the emacs stuff produces lots of links to the emacs documentation for it, such as this, if anyone is interested.
moonedit is what I've been using instead of subethaedit when I've wanted to do collaborative editing with those poor souls who have Macs. It's closed-source, Windows/Linux x86 only, is a terrible editor, the UI is horrible and it's generally a pain to use in comparison to subetha which Just Works, but it's a lot better than nothing.
I assume another possible alternative is to try using the crazy emacs mode where it can connect to multiple displays.
A Radeon 9200 doesn't support PS2.0.
They've ripped their commitment to keeping the site as Free Software out of their social contract (which they've renamed to 'guiding principles' anyway).
Details of the change are here.
OS X's "admin" users are just users with access to sudo rather than users with admin rights.
You still need at least Visual Studio if you're wanting to develop Windows applications with Qt, realistically. Many developers feel it's worth paying the Qt license fee for their Windows-only development, which makes porting over to other platforms an awful lot cheaper and easier; if you don't, there are many alternatives, including of course what you note in your post, web-based scripting.
AppleCare policy is that four 'major component failures' are required before they'll replace it, apparently, so you should be fine.
'quick, free fix'? Hah! My G3 iBook logic board failed about once a month for the last 9 months or so.. I got it in November 2002, first failure was in late 2003. They kept replacing the board for free, only for it to fail again a month later. 'temporary hack', perhaps, but not 'fix'.
.. phoned them up last time it failed and asked if they'd replace it (hadn't asked before because I didn't want to be without the iBook, and they were giving me 3-day turnarounds on the repairs), they took one look at my repair history and agreed, and I'm now typing on a brand new 1.2ghz iBook G4.
Mind you
Admittedly my history is much worse than all the other iBook owners I know who own machines from the serial number range, but most of them have had at least one logic board failure. Note that the serial number range covers *years* worth of the iBook models, it's not just a single batch.
*looks at Linux/ppc box* *looks at Macromedia site* So, yeah, I *can't* use your site, which is a pretty good argument against it, right?
.. can I open links on your website in a new tab? Can I customise it with a stylesheet to make it easier to read? etc.
Plus
I think some government branch funded most of the translation effort, actually, so it's definitely not Microsoft being nice.
Windows XP and Office 2003 recently became available in Welsh, there's a free patch to the English version in the Microsoft internationalised bits somewhere. :)
Mac OS X has a default smb.conf the same as any Linux/etc distribution, a config file - which is REQUIRED for OS X's samba to work, shock! - and in order to edit it for your needs you have to, guess what, customise the configuration file! Whether using a pretty GUI tool, the samba web interface, or using an editor.
Ranting about how Mac OS X does everything 'without any configuration' is bullshit. Yes, it has much much nicer defaults and much much nicer software for most things, but that doesn't mean you don't need to dig into the configuration at times.
To all the software which includes the phrase in the license information that the GPL requires in order for the license to be upgradable, anyway. This doesn't mean everything, and the Linux kernel even has a note reminding people that only GPL v2 can be applied to it.
It's your problem for using fucking Gentoo and not a distribution which actually manages upgrades properly, to be quite honest. If you're using Gentoo, you've made the decision to make such things your own responsibility.
You missed the AAC requirement.
You have a fair argument in the latter half of that, but, no, I'm afraid not all iTunes users are iPod users, as much as I'd like Apple to start bundling iPods with the free iTunes download..