I'm amazed people have been so brainwashed into not knowing anything other than wmv.
There are a lot of open solutions that are far better than wmv.
MPEG4 is obviously the quick answer (for now). You can use either ffmpeg or xvid to encode a nice ISO standard mpeg4 stream.
If you're looking for standalone files, avi is perfectly decent. It ain't great, but it's the most widely understood wrapper around. But you could also easily use.mp4. (Or ogg/ogm or mkv if you're looking for a really good but quite obscure container).
MP3 is the quickest easiest and most widely understood audio codec for now.
If you want streaming you could go for anything from the quick and simple ffserver (comes with ffmpeg) all the way to darwin streaming server. Both of which work well.
If you're worried about windows users, a link do get vlc is just as easy as getting a user to install quicktime. And it'll be more useful to them.
It just really riles me how companies pushing proprietary systems can push themselves into these markets.
The market isn't the same as it was in 1994. And it has little to do with the number of competing companies.
In 1994, writing games for the pc was completely different from writing games for a console. Little to no code could be reused. In 1994 console SDKs were all about assembler assembler assembler.
These days, console SDKs are about having developer APIs. Writing an xbox game is little more work that just pulling across your directx based code. It is highly likely that the PS3 will be using some sort of OpenGL/OpenML type API.
If you don't have a comprehensive developer API with some kind of large developer base you're going nowhere.
You're working on the underlying assumption that where YOU can spot a true techie coder for whom coding is a passion rather than a job, Microsoft can't.
Yep. It's called an opinion. I mean, why for instrance should anybody be able to criticise a government when they've got thousands of officials making decisions for them and you're just a little nobody. Who would have the sheer vanity to do that?
If you're saying that having an opinion is vanity, then yes, you're probably right. Because the idea of an opinion is that you think you're right and that the other person is wrong.
Microsoft can afford as good a development team as anyone else.
It's not about money, it's about culture. Microsoft can spend all the money on developers as they want, but it doesn't make any difference if they don't care.
All the people I've ever known who've gone to work at Microsoft haven't really been into computers much. Sure, they probably got very high marks on their course, and that's why they're being headhunted and paid a fortune. But they're usually in my experience the sort of people who turn up to the first day of their compsci course never having touched a compiler before. The sort of person who only ever knew enough about computers to complete the course and doesn't fiddle with them in their spare time.
I'm not saying this is a bad thing, but you do end up with people who don't have as much pride in their code. It's just a job to them.
Microsoft hires the students with the highest marks, but in reality, the most talented hackers often don't get very good results.
As Robert Love said recently, "...This was a year before I nearly failed a test in Operating System Design (excuse: I had kernels to make preemptive). The following semester, the course adopted a textbook that I reviewed and technical edited."
It also doesn't help that the culture at Microsoft is to have a very inflated, blaze opinion of your own coding skills.
You need to hear the whole reason for IE being produced in the first place.
Back when the web was new and exciting, Netscape was making waves with its browser. They predicted that web based apps would be the future, and all apps would therefore be client system agnostic. The head dude of Netscape said something along the lines of 'In 10 years, windows will be reduced to nothing but a buggy set of device drivers'. This pissed Microsoft off.
So they pumped huge amounts of money into IE to try and make it a better browser. Of course the idea of something being system agnostic really scares Microsoft. So to stop customers being able to just switch away from using IE and more importantly windows (the thing you give them money for) on the clients, they added a bunch of crazy features that would make webapp code that used said features not work with other browsers. Bingo. Clients have to stay running win/IE. One of these features was ActiveX which was touted as improving application interactivity.
So you see, this is/was not really about the web at all, but webapps.
No. These are just the instructions on which pins to solder to which pins of the parallel port. Most distros will probably have the gamecon module built and ready to use.
For anyone wanting to play SNES games I highly reccomend looking in your kernel documentation about how to hook up your SNES controller to work with the gamecon driver. Only takes about 10 minutes.
There's a difference between doing occasional jobs in Photoshop whilst giving it a handjob and trying to use it professionally i.e. for 10 hours a day. I have used Photoshop professionally for 10 hours a day. It was the bane of my existance. I am glad to be able to use the Gimp when I'm at home.
I've never got why people call enlightenment beautiful. Every time someone has described an enlightenment screenshot as beautiful I've thought it was hideous.
It's like enlightenment's attitude is "Hey, let's put pixmaps everywhere!".
Windows handles it better? By basically not having a versioning system at all. Lib versioning on windows as far as I can remember is yelling: "Hey, Installshield, overwrite any of my dlls you want with your own crazy version, I don't care!"
Unix's.so system of libwhatever.x.y.z.so and symlinking is very clever. And works very well.
And if you're going to criticize someone over their coherency, you should check the grammar in your sig.
Recently it's started looking like (from my perspective at least) Novell intend to make the newly bought Evoultion the de facto groupwise client. This is probably why.
The funniest thing is if you follow that link, you'll see that he's trying to get suckers to sign up under his referral by telling them that 'it really works' and that he's already received an iPod and a flatscreen. Nice try buddy.
If you are going to do this, make sure you don't leave the disc mounted except when you're explicitly using it. Otherwise, an accidental rm -rf/ will wipe out both the real copy and the backup.
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So why are you complaining? You yourself said "Well, the data is lost anyway, so why not?". It was worth a try, but it's not always going to work. If it did, WD would print on the side of their drives "If malfunctioning, stick in freezer.".
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Replying to self, but I forgot that the videolan project has some very good streaming tools. Hence the name. Duh.
I'm amazed people have been so brainwashed into not knowing anything other than wmv.
.mp4. (Or ogg/ogm or mkv if you're looking for a really good but quite obscure container).
There are a lot of open solutions that are far better than wmv.
MPEG4 is obviously the quick answer (for now). You can use either ffmpeg or xvid to encode a nice ISO standard mpeg4 stream.
If you're looking for standalone files, avi is perfectly decent. It ain't great, but it's the most widely understood wrapper around. But you could also easily use
MP3 is the quickest easiest and most widely understood audio codec for now.
If you want streaming you could go for anything from the quick and simple ffserver (comes with ffmpeg) all the way to darwin streaming server. Both of which work well.
If you're worried about windows users, a link do get vlc is just as easy as getting a user to install quicktime. And it'll be more useful to them.
It just really riles me how companies pushing proprietary systems can push themselves into these markets.
You are full of shit and/or don't understand how to use ffmpeg.
The market isn't the same as it was in 1994. And it has little to do with the number of competing companies.
In 1994, writing games for the pc was completely different from writing games for a console. Little to no code could be reused. In 1994 console SDKs were all about assembler assembler assembler.
These days, console SDKs are about having developer APIs. Writing an xbox game is little more work that just pulling across your directx based code. It is highly likely that the PS3 will be using some sort of OpenGL/OpenML type API.
If you don't have a comprehensive developer API with some kind of large developer base you're going nowhere.
Unfortunately.
But then why is his job to continue working on Firefox?
You've got a little bit of shit left on your nose.
But no, in all fairness we can all understand you wanting to justify your lifestyle decision. Sorry, purchase.
You're working on the underlying assumption that where YOU can spot a true techie coder for whom coding is a passion rather than a job, Microsoft can't.
Yep. It's called an opinion. I mean, why for instrance should anybody be able to criticise a government when they've got thousands of officials making decisions for them and you're just a little nobody. Who would have the sheer vanity to do that?
If you're saying that having an opinion is vanity, then yes, you're probably right. Because the idea of an opinion is that you think you're right and that the other person is wrong.
Microsoft can afford as good a development team as anyone else.
It's not about money, it's about culture. Microsoft can spend all the money on developers as they want, but it doesn't make any difference if they don't care.
All the people I've ever known who've gone to work at Microsoft haven't really been into computers much. Sure, they probably got very high marks on their course, and that's why they're being headhunted and paid a fortune. But they're usually in my experience the sort of people who turn up to the first day of their compsci course never having touched a compiler before. The sort of person who only ever knew enough about computers to complete the course and doesn't fiddle with them in their spare time.
I'm not saying this is a bad thing, but you do end up with people who don't have as much pride in their code. It's just a job to them.
Microsoft hires the students with the highest marks, but in reality, the most talented hackers often don't get very good results.
As Robert Love said recently, "...This was a year before I nearly failed a test in Operating System Design (excuse: I had kernels to make preemptive). The following semester, the course adopted a textbook that I reviewed and technical edited."
It also doesn't help that the culture at Microsoft is to have a very inflated, blaze opinion of your own coding skills.
You need to hear the whole reason for IE being produced in the first place.
Back when the web was new and exciting, Netscape was making waves with its browser. They predicted that web based apps would be the future, and all apps would therefore be client system agnostic. The head dude of Netscape said something along the lines of 'In 10 years, windows will be reduced to nothing but a buggy set of device drivers'. This pissed Microsoft off.
So they pumped huge amounts of money into IE to try and make it a better browser. Of course the idea of something being system agnostic really scares Microsoft. So to stop customers being able to just switch away from using IE and more importantly windows (the thing you give them money for) on the clients, they added a bunch of crazy features that would make webapp code that used said features not work with other browsers. Bingo. Clients have to stay running win/IE. One of these features was ActiveX which was touted as improving application interactivity.
So you see, this is/was not really about the web at all, but webapps.
No. These are just the instructions on which pins to solder to which pins of the parallel port. Most distros will probably have the gamecon module built and ready to use.
Troll.
For anyone wanting to play SNES games I highly reccomend looking in your kernel documentation about how to hook up your SNES controller to work with the gamecon driver. Only takes about 10 minutes.
Why don't you do something about it then instead of sitting in your armchair?
There are a lot of us who use the gimp every day and are really quite fond if its interface.
It's hard to know what you're talking about without an illustration.
There's a difference between doing occasional jobs in Photoshop whilst giving it a handjob and trying to use it professionally i.e. for 10 hours a day. I have used Photoshop professionally for 10 hours a day. It was the bane of my existance. I am glad to be able to use the Gimp when I'm at home.
I've never got why people call enlightenment beautiful. Every time someone has described an enlightenment screenshot as beautiful I've thought it was hideous.
It's like enlightenment's attitude is "Hey, let's put pixmaps everywhere!".
It isn't open source: So what. It's close enough.
Worst argument ever.
Because "users running as root" and "robust administration" don't go hand in hand.
legacy DOS applications (that run without emulation)
Oh, so that means you won't be able to run them on Windows 2000/XP.
Windows handles it better? By basically not having a versioning system at all. Lib versioning on windows as far as I can remember is yelling: "Hey, Installshield, overwrite any of my dlls you want with your own crazy version, I don't care!"
.so system of libwhatever.x.y.z.so and symlinking is very clever. And works very well.
Unix's
And if you're going to criticize someone over their coherency, you should check the grammar in your sig.
Recently it's started looking like (from my perspective at least) Novell intend to make the newly bought Evoultion the de facto groupwise client. This is probably why.
The funniest thing is if you follow that link, you'll see that he's trying to get suckers to sign up under his referral by telling them that 'it really works' and that he's already received an iPod and a flatscreen. Nice try buddy.
If you are going to do this, make sure you don't leave the disc mounted except when you're explicitly using it. Otherwise, an accidental rm -rf / will wipe out both the real copy and the backup.
So why are you complaining? You yourself said "Well, the data is lost anyway, so why not?". It was worth a try, but it's not always going to work. If it did, WD would print on the side of their drives "If malfunctioning, stick in freezer.".
What is it about audio software that the programmers always have to use their own crazy non standard widgets?
It is not an expensive piece of hardware. You're not going to trick us into thinking it is by using strange pixmapped widgets.
Always cool to see more Free audio software though.
How many OSS Windows apps are compiled using a warezed version of Visual Studio?
I guess quite few. I'd bet most are done on student editions.