Being a videophile, first I encoded everything to divx, then I transcoded to h.264. Now I suppose I'll turn them all into h.265 - it'll be the best quality yet.
A videophile maybe, but a clueless one indeed. You lose quality on each transcode, you don't gain any.
However, a $100 graphic card of today is most likely going to leave any high end card of 5 years ago well back in the dust. Probably worth sticking one in, should be good enough for most games.
Your plausible sounding rhetoric runs aground in the face of reality. Did you see Apple lose 12% today? Triumph of open over closed, pure and simple. Another one. In a long long string. More coming, heading your way.
I quit Linux development 10 years ago and I never looked back. You get your life back. Hell perhaps you even *get* a life. Linux can be fun but it can also seriously bad for your health, wealth and fun factor.
Something about your ten year claim and your Slashdot ID in the two millions does not add up. Smells like troll to me.
Not at all. I did mention there are a lot of candidates for the title of biggest Red Hat suckage? But dropping the ball on network configuration arguably overshadows those two, disgusting outrages against sanity though they be.
Huh? The database isn't there just to store data. It offers indexing, structured queries, etc. Usually, when people implement that functionality on top of a filesystem, it ends up as a yet another me-too half baked "database"...
You sum up perfectly why this idea looks so good on a Presenter slide. Never mind that the reality sucks. Because in real life, the database is a whole lot slower than the filesystem and introduces a lot of new boundary conditions that tend to completely overshadow the shiny new functionality introduced. Sorry, but there's a big gap between the way you imagine the the universe, and how it actually is. You'd have done well on Bill Gate's Vista design team. Entirely designed on Powerpoint slides I understand.
RedHat drives and influences much of what goes on out there...
Ah, your list wasn't long enough. More like: drives, influences, bullies, cajoles, ignores, undermines and works at cross purposes with...
In the end, Red Hat cares about its support contract revenue and view the community as merely a tool to keep that flowing, to be used and occasionally abused in whatever way the illustrious leaders of Red Hat see fit.
That sounds so appealing, isn't it a wonder that all the non-geeks in the world aren't interested in switching to Linux? I mean how could they not want to go through a process of installing, testing, uninstalling and re-installing to find an operating system that works when they want to use their computer?
Oh yeah, it's so much more wonderful to not have any choice, and when it doesn't work you're just fucked.
I'm running a Redmond distribution, Windows 7 I think it's called. It's not bad, reasonably stable, the installer works just fine, has a nice polished look to it, and seems to have built-in Wine support because Office runs fine on it. I've heard it's been forked into something called Metro/Win8 which is pretty unpleasant, so I'll be sticking with the current distro for awhile.
I tried that same distribution, I tried really hard to like it, I really did, but it just didn't work out. After a couple of weeks of constant irritations like being nagged about viruses and rebooting in the middle of important work I just gave up. That Windows distribution is trying hard to imitate Linux but just can't seem to get the details right.
THAT POS came with the bastardized !GCC 2.96, totally butchered by RH.
The most egregious abuse that Red Hat has perpetrated upon the Linux community in my humble opinion - and this is hard because there are just so many candidates to choose from - but the worst of the worst in my opinion is using script files for network initialization instead of designing some sane file format as Debian did. Thou shall not excute thy data unless thou be a LISP interpreter. Red Hat guys, please stop that crap, it's the level of design competence we might expect from Microsoft.
It's certainly part of the problem. The database may be fast, but it isn't anywhere near as fast as the underlying filesystem. And you are right, the basic design flaws are compounded by very obvious inexperience at designing and developing multitasking applications.
KDE devs: Please do not screw up Kmail more than it already is. In fact, please put serious thought into restoring the good old filesystem-based folder database and just do away with that horrible Akonadi mistake that is dog slow, when it works at all. Running critical apps on top of a full blown database may look like a good idea on a Presenter slide, but in reality it is just cruel and unusual punishment.
I know this isn't strticly related to Qt5, but just try to keep it in mind ok? Thxbai.
You would think, logically, that Microsoft would have no problem releasing such information if said information were correct. Then again, it's also entirely possible that there is no study, never was, and that they're pulling the numbers out of thin air.
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Being a videophile, first I encoded everything to divx, then I transcoded to h.264. Now I suppose I'll turn them all into h.265 - it'll be the best quality yet.
A videophile maybe, but a clueless one indeed. You lose quality on each transcode, you don't gain any.
Anything else will be never go anywhere outside geek circles like Vorbis or Theora.
Please watch those overly broad claims. Vorbis is now well established in a number of niches, notably video game sound content.
However, a $100 graphic card of today is most likely going to leave any high end card of 5 years ago well back in the dust. Probably worth sticking one in, should be good enough for most games.
He definitely was a git about the whole larry mcvoy thing.
Alan is very good at thinly cloaking malice with wit so you're never sure if it really was that.
Your plausible sounding rhetoric runs aground in the face of reality. Did you see Apple lose 12% today? Triumph of open over closed, pure and simple. Another one. In a long long string. More coming, heading your way.
I quit Linux development 10 years ago and I never looked back. You get your life back. Hell perhaps you even *get* a life. Linux can be fun but it can also seriously bad for your health, wealth and fun factor.
Something about your ten year claim and your Slashdot ID in the two millions does not add up. Smells like troll to me.
As of yet, I have never, ever had a problem with PulseAudio, not even when it was first introduced on Ubuntu.
Nice anecdote. Right now, pulseaudio is using 2.5% cpu with nothing generating sound.
You are forgetting systemd and pulseaudio...
Not at all. I did mention there are a lot of candidates for the title of biggest Red Hat suckage? But dropping the ball on network configuration arguably overshadows those two, disgusting outrages against sanity though they be.
Huh? The database isn't there just to store data. It offers indexing, structured queries, etc. Usually, when people implement that functionality on top of a filesystem, it ends up as a yet another me-too half baked "database"...
You sum up perfectly why this idea looks so good on a Presenter slide. Never mind that the reality sucks. Because in real life, the database is a whole lot slower than the filesystem and introduces a lot of new boundary conditions that tend to completely overshadow the shiny new functionality introduced. Sorry, but there's a big gap between the way you imagine the the universe, and how it actually is. You'd have done well on Bill Gate's Vista design team. Entirely designed on Powerpoint slides I understand.
RedHat drives and influences much of what goes on out there...
Ah, your list wasn't long enough. More like: drives, influences, bullies, cajoles, ignores, undermines and works at cross purposes with...
In the end, Red Hat cares about its support contract revenue and view the community as merely a tool to keep that flowing, to be used and occasionally abused in whatever way the illustrious leaders of Red Hat see fit.
That sounds so appealing, isn't it a wonder that all the non-geeks in the world aren't interested in switching to Linux? I mean how could they not want to go through a process of installing, testing, uninstalling and re-installing to find an operating system that works when they want to use their computer?
Oh yeah, it's so much more wonderful to not have any choice, and when it doesn't work you're just fucked.
You're delusional... forgot to take your meds again?
Then there was EGCS. But actually, that ended rather well, with a remerge followed presently by world domination. Actually, also true of libc.
I'm running a Redmond distribution, Windows 7 I think it's called. It's not bad, reasonably stable, the installer works just fine, has a nice polished look to it, and seems to have built-in Wine support because Office runs fine on it. I've heard it's been forked into something called Metro/Win8 which is pretty unpleasant, so I'll be sticking with the current distro for awhile.
I tried that same distribution, I tried really hard to like it, I really did, but it just didn't work out. After a couple of weeks of constant irritations like being nagged about viruses and rebooting in the middle of important work I just gave up. That Windows distribution is trying hard to imitate Linux but just can't seem to get the details right.
You do know that RH 7 came out in 2000 and was discontinued after RH 9 in 2003 for Redhat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) version 2.
Oh, and wasn't that about the time they forked the kernel, landing Alan in eternal doodoo with Linus?
THAT POS came with the bastardized !GCC 2.96, totally butchered by RH.
The most egregious abuse that Red Hat has perpetrated upon the Linux community in my humble opinion - and this is hard because there are just so many candidates to choose from - but the worst of the worst in my opinion is using script files for network initialization instead of designing some sane file format as Debian did. Thou shall not excute thy data unless thou be a LISP interpreter. Red Hat guys, please stop that crap, it's the level of design competence we might expect from Microsoft.
Alan Cox: Ubuntu "Most useless and senseless desktop ever," Switches to Gentoo
You obviously don't know him. He will install xfce as soon as he figures out how apt-get works, which will take him about 2 nanoseconds.
Not really, panels can be configured to auto-hide. Sure, a button is not left anywhere but do you really care?
Bzzzt. No cigar. Autohiding is not the same as "sliding off to the side".
I don't think that the database is the problem.
It's certainly part of the problem. The database may be fast, but it isn't anywhere near as fast as the underlying filesystem. And you are right, the basic design flaws are compounded by very obvious inexperience at designing and developing multitasking applications.
I wouldn't count on that restricted definition if I were you.
...it would be easier if KDE and GNOME and Ubuntu Unity had a fallback 2D mode that was friendly for remote viewers...
A fallback text mode for remote access would be really sweet. How hard could that be? <runs away>
KDE 4 is still missing the much loved KDE 3 feature of being able to slide the task bar off to the side.
KDE devs: Please do not screw up Kmail more than it already is. In fact, please put serious thought into restoring the good old filesystem-based folder database and just do away with that horrible Akonadi mistake that is dog slow, when it works at all. Running critical apps on top of a full blown database may look like a good idea on a Presenter slide, but in reality it is just cruel and unusual punishment.
I know this isn't strticly related to Qt5, but just try to keep it in mind ok? Thxbai.
You would think, logically, that Microsoft would have no problem releasing such information if said information were correct. Then again, it's also entirely possible that there is no study, never was, and that they're pulling the numbers out of thin air.
Isn't that called fraud?