Actually, by the time a music format like this catches on, we'll all have faster computers with more storage & more bandwidth - we'll just move to a variation of mp3 or something similar which uses more bandwidth & has most of the quality of the new music format.
Make all moderation actions public knowledge. What I mean is that any reader should not only be able to read scores and filter by scores, but be able to read a list of which moderators performed which actions.
The reader should have the option to keep a "Moderation Killfile". If a particular moderator is being unfair in his moderation actions or if the reader doesn't like that particular moderator, the reader could put that moderator in his killfile (with the obligatory *PLONK* sound), and Slashdot would ignore that moderator's actions when peforming the moderation processing for that user.
For that matter, Slashdot could have Usenet style killfile capabilities in general for those who like to use that sort of thing.
The contest judged not only which iMac was the most realistic, but which Jello iMac could best survive a drop from a second story window. I'd hate to be the one to clean up after that contest;)
I ended up getting the mpeg version of the Star Wars Trailer. Xanim will not handle this version though, so I had to get mtv & endure it's bugs & obnoxious nagware/crippleware behavior. I will pay for shareware if it's good & useful, but I get so annoyed when a program is designed to tease you with a vital feature & then not let you use it in a useful situation) (mtv won't let you start in DGA full screen mode from the command line (at least that's not documented) & when you start it up from it's GUI interface, it cuts the sound off after 90 seconds & throws a nagware message on the screen. That irritated me so much that I will not pay for that program, I'm looking for alternatives.
I think that we really do need a good Open Source video format, then we can simply convert from the proprietary formats & watch our movies in peace. (MPEG comes closest - since it is an industry standard, it's easier to get specs for its codecs, but it's algorithms are still patented & can become lawsuit magnets...)
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Actually, by the time a music format like this catches on, we'll all have faster computers with more storage & more bandwidth - we'll just move to a variation of mp3 or something similar which uses more bandwidth & has most of the quality of the new music format.
Make all moderation actions public knowledge. What I mean is that any reader should not only be able to read scores and filter by scores, but be able to read a list of which moderators performed which actions.
The reader should have the option to keep a "Moderation Killfile". If a particular moderator is being unfair in his moderation actions or if the reader doesn't like that particular moderator, the reader could put that moderator in his killfile (with the obligatory *PLONK* sound), and Slashdot would ignore that moderator's actions when peforming the moderation processing for that user.
For that matter, Slashdot could have Usenet style killfile capabilities in general for those who like to use that sort of thing.
The contest judged not only which iMac was the most realistic, but which Jello iMac could best survive a drop from a second story window. I'd hate to be the one to clean up after that contest ;)
This assumes that the final version of Starbuck/Redhat 6 includes Qt 2.0, which is the version that uses the QPL license.
QT's QPL license is Open Source, stop beating this dead horse, you're making a mess.
Cool stuff I saw in this release:
Let me know when it's tested & ready for prime time.
I ended up getting the mpeg version of the Star Wars Trailer. Xanim will not handle this version though, so I had to get mtv & endure it's bugs & obnoxious nagware/crippleware behavior. I will pay for shareware if it's good & useful, but I get so annoyed when a program is designed to tease you with a vital feature & then not let you use it in a useful situation) (mtv won't let you start in DGA full screen mode from the command line (at least that's not documented) & when you start it up from it's GUI interface, it cuts the sound off after 90 seconds & throws a nagware message on the screen. That irritated me so much that I will not pay for that program, I'm looking for alternatives.
I think that we really do need a good Open Source video format, then we can simply convert from the proprietary formats & watch our movies in peace. (MPEG comes closest - since it is an industry standard, it's easier to get specs for its codecs, but it's algorithms are still patented & can become lawsuit magnets...)
When is xanim going to fully support mpeg? The last version I got only supports mpeg 1 - with certain frame types, with no sound.
Oh... And if Bill Gates wasn't around, Steve Jobs would take his place as the Computer Industry Anti-Christ.