I'm a game collector. I'm a collector that actually plays games rather than just collecting for the sake of collecting them; thus I'm not particularly concerned about condition of the games as long as they are in good enough condition to work in somewhat foreseeable future. As such, flea markets and second-hand stores are good sources for games, and I'm happy for every cool game I've found there. A lot of games I have come from second-hand market, mostly because the current games have so amazingly short shelf life that I just can't grab them when they're released and it's often easier to find an used copy from a local store, than order a new one from some God-forsaken store online.
If they try to stop me from playing second-hand games, I won't be getting this console then. That just means I can't find the games I'm interested of unless I'm really really lucky. No used games = More pain to find the games I'm interested of.
Also, I can't see why the heck would the game companies not like second-hand game sales. For example, it helps reduce piracy. I've often been playing a ROM, until I do a tiger-leap to grab a copy of the game in question from a flea market. Whoops! I then have a fully licensed, authentic copy. If they're claiming that's not so, then I justly claim there's Something Very Lunatic Going On and they're not really doing what's in their best interests. I just got a copy of the game! Real media, real manuals, real box! Are they claiming the thing somehow turns into a non-legit copy if you sell it? Are we witnessing the miracle of, er, reverse... transubstantation in corporate setting, or something? How do I tell the difference anyway - a while ago I bought an used game and it was definitely physically indistinguishable from a new game, aside of the price tag that was 10€ off the usual prices and said "Used", too. It was in pristine condition. What if the store had lied and charged full price? They could have done that and I would have never noticed, the game was in so good condition...
OK, enough rambling... I can't seem to get anywhere today.
<fanboy type="nintendo"> Not that PS has that many interesting games anyway... =) </fanboy>
Might not be exactly the solution you look for (as in "I really want WordPress"), but try Typo - a lot of people are switching to it from MT and even WP. And yes, it's mightily cross-DB, too.
And actually, I wouldn't entirely blame MySQL for how it's hard to move away (though given their history, they've certainly contributed a lot) - it's also PHP's fault. MySQL had issues with weird syntax gotchas. PHP made things worse by encouraging people to use DB-specific functions. Meanwhile, other languages encourage DB abstraction (Perl/Ruby DBI's, for example), and other DBs have strived for ANSI compliance for quite a while now. Of course, PHP now encourages DB neutrality (at leas to bigger extent than before), and MySQL now tries to be ANSI compliant, but the mountains of existing code kind of need to be taken care of...
Now someone please get MediaWiki running on PostgreSQL. I regrettably accept no substitute what comes to the (theoretically optimally) elegant MediaWiki interface and wikisyntax...
and soon BPL will make power lines network aware too...
But the US government won't allow The Working Implementation of BPL (as in no funny interferences whatsoever) to be deployed, because the flying bovines could possibly be used by the Terrorists as some sort of terrifying biological weapon... =)
I'm not a MW guru, but does the article's idea of <PHP> tag really do what I think it does?
As in "raw code in a a place where people can edit it?"
Doesn't matter they are trying to limit the wiki's edit access only to registered users - this is wrong.
Ugh. You know, one of the reasons why I like MediaWiki is that it does well with separating the page code from the HTML. And now these people want to sprinkle random PHP crap in the pages again. Argh.
And as an additional bonus, you get to store your mysql_connect() parameters to the page source. Whee. Realllly smart.
Somebody please submit this to TheDailyWTF...
The real way to do this is to write a MediaWiki extension, of course (look at ParseFunctions for an example of something simple), which is then accessed through the usual hooks, like {{foo:...}}, but don't ask me, I don't know that much about MW's internal structure. I just know bad ideas when I see them. =)
A bit misdirected comment, as I personally don't care a lot what format the movie is in as long as I can watch it =)
Anyway, "just grab the high-res version" isn't a solution - both video and audio are compressed with lossy codecs. A transcoded clip wouldn't do justice to the OSS codecs, right? The movie makers didn't provide a high-res, lossless version. Thus, at this time, the only really cool option would be to render the whole thing again... which may not be plausible because people don't have the computing power for that, and I'm not sure if that even can be done without extra tools, as I haven't looked at the provided source files.
Well, I thought the animation was... well, not really stellar, but passable. All other parts of the thing considered, the movie was definitely tolerable.
If there's anything bad to say about this thing, maybe the biggest flaw of this thing is that it tries to be all, shall we say, artful. The thing is, people don't care much about really "artful" short movies, for the reason that they're difficult to grasp - or, alternatively, they can grasp the Big Point and then think it wasn't really worth the effort. (My first thoughts about this movie: "Okay, there's two fellows who imagine things and this one doesn't like the other's ideas. Cool. Now what the heck else does this animation offer?" I liked the basic premise. It was just that there wasn't much juice besides that in this short space.) Thoughtful movies rarely work really all that well in short form.
But the movie did show me one thing: We Have the Technology. Compare this thing to @ndy's "Mindfields" (a likewise short thoughtful movie that, I think, works a bit better what comes to stretching its central idea through the whole thing) and we see that there's definite refinement. Even if the movie isn't The Greatest Short Movie Ever, it's wonderful as a tech demo!
(...and then, think again, really hard: Have you ever truly seen a 3D animation that didn't suck at some level? CGI is Stuff People Complain About. It's stuff that makes us afraid.)
Before the movie site went all bare-bones, I recall reading somewhere that they did consider making Theora / Vorbis files, but making the "common" formats available first was of higher priority. I guess they'll get Theora/Vorbis stuff out eventually.
As for Dirac, the website doesn't really tell, apart of "some ffmpeg support" and "yes, there's a DirectShow filter", though the FAQ was updated over an year ago... though apparently VLC is supposed to support it now, too. Not sure about anything else.
"How long is it?" 10 minutes plus end credits. "If it was created using a "community process," how did the writing and direction work?" Uh, looks like they, like, picked a writer and a director and stuff? You know, "benevolent dictator" stuff and all? "Who does the voice acting, if any?" Fellows by the names of Cas and Tygo, apparently. "Where did the music come from?" There was this composer, you see, and apparently he got the bright idea to make some Music, you know. "WTF is it about?" Well, good question. 3D artists tend to love Weird Dream Stuff. This is just that! And I kind of liked it.
It's like Realplayer suddenly supporting OGG or something.
Last I checked, Xiph.org and the Helix Community folks were working pretty close, and (at least the Linux) RealPlayer has played Vorbis files for quite a while now, and a while ago I heard some very encouraging news from the Theora front on RealProducer's ability to encode that, or something along those lines...
So you run an ancient OS on an ancient CPU and you expect what to happen exactly?
My old P3-600 decoded MP3, DivX and even DVD video at a quite tolerable speed, thank you very much. Okay, full-quality DVD stuff was a bit slow and you can probably forget H.264, but still, it's not completely worthless.
However, if the player software is sluggish to use for anything at all, it's probably an indication of something sinister. Plenty of media player software worked just fine on that thing: XMMS, Xine, mplayer, VLC, just for starters...
Same would go with operating systems: Never rely on an OS that refuses to boot on a "relatively useful" computer, like the P3 in question... =)
On Linux: obtain DVD-playing software. Install. Find out that your DVD is "copy protected" and doesn't play on Linux anyway. Find out that there is a solution, but it is illegal to use it.
On Windows: Obtain the manufacturer-supplied DVD-playing software. Find out it is slow to start, has a choppy playback, awful video playback quality, UI is generally steaming pile of whatsit and visually offensive too, and doesn't have rudimentary (and legal!) features like capturing a still frame of video to a picture file (for Personal, Educational, Critical or other Fair Use). Do market research and find out that all of the other "legal" programs have, ahem, similar issues. Download VLC (with the supposedly illegal features enabled) anyway.
Directories: Well, in Linux we have this thing called "package management". You don't need to care about which particular/lib the stuff goes; the package manager sticks them where they work.
Permissions? We've had Windows-like ACLs for quite a while (or rather, Windows has had big-boy-like ACLs for quite a while while Linux got them a bit later). "man setfacl". Assuming you aren't using a stone-age kernel/filesystem.
They usually also have an option here to launch a terminal, but that only seems to be available from time to time.
Okay - I don't use Nautilus to draw the desktop, so I didn't remember. I find it much faster to simply hit shift+ctrl+n or shift+ctrl+t in an existing terminal...
...and in Window Maker, you use right-click-on-desktop to Launch Everything In The Whole World anyway, so I definitely get every X shell that way in any case. =)
But I dunno, I just like ranting on and on about these little quirks.
As do I. But at least I realise that ranting about little quirks in the Competiting System(tm) has absolutely no effect and will only annoy people. As soon as I get back from a trip I'll file an enhancement suggestion regarding kfmclient packaging. That's how things get fixed, not by flaming the thing down, you know.
Even if I use GNOME and a little bit of KDE apps doesn't mean that I simply polarize the thing; I'd rather use the proper apps for the job. Qt folks don't have anything quite as good as Firefox or GIMP. GTK+ folks don't have anything that's quite as good as Scribus. KDE doesn't have anything quite comparable to Nautilus. GNOME doesn't have anything quite as good as amaroK or Psi. KDE folks can't come up with a good multimedia architecture so they also support GStreamer in amaroK - best of the both worlds! I want both work, and as far as I can see, they both do their things wonderfully. All apps have their stupid sides.
Okay, so you're a moron who complains about your incomplete installation, got it.
I'm a moron who doesn't want to install a program I'm not going to use anyway. Maybe I'm just a moron for not wanting to buy a bigger hard drive and waste bandwidth for all those starving third world countries to use.
And I'm a complete fucking utter moron for suggesting that maybe we could ask Debian to put kfmclient in "kde-core" instead of "konqueror", just like they put gnome-moz-remote in "gnome-bin" instead of "epiphany-browser". At least until upstream screws it up again. But of course, we can't expect KDE to concentrate functionality that should be in core somewhere to illogical places like the core! Things like accessing the Web Browser have to be integrated to the Web Browser!
I'm cured! Let's waste disk space in harmony, joy, and capitalistic orgastic joy of mass hysteria or something! And finally, we can expect Microsoft to join the Linux desktop projects! They know all about wasting disk space, maybe they can offer us some expert advice!
How do you make the autohide feature on the GNOME panel show only 1 pixel width?
No idea. I prefer my Window Maker icons 64 pixels.
How do you tell Nautilus which applications it should use for certain filetypes? Looks like they might have finally fixed this in 2.14. AFT!!!
Puzzled me for a while, but someone told me the answer: they're using the Freedesktop.org shared-mime-info standard for MIME associations. Just use all the usual tools for that stuff.
What happened to the right-click terminal option in GNOME 2.14 in FC5? I noticed KDE brought it back.. hrmmm..
"Right click terminal option"? Eh? I don't quite follow.
I don't run gnome, but I use some gnome apps. I have to use gconf-editor way too much.
Then do yourself a favor and install the gnome-control-center. I have the same situation with KDE, and even I was clueful enough to install kcontrol, even when I don't use the majority of KDE apps.
4. Choose "Web browser" from the list of components. (ouch. KDE control center is a mess:)
Yeah, says/usr/bin/gnome-moz-remote in the text field. Trust me, I found this thing it really easily.
Next I say, for example, Help - About KDE... and then click on the kde.org web link. "Could not find service 'kfmclient'."
Okay, maybe it just got mad because I wanted it to use the default GNOME browser, me heretic me. I change it to say/usr/bin/firefox like all people who prefer to configure each damn thing differently, and hit Apply.
Help - About KDE... click on the link: "Could not find service 'kfmclient'."
And I did research a bit: kfmclient is in, you guessed it, konqueror package, which I don't want to install because I don't need several web browsers and file managers, let alone ones I don't use. gnome-moz-remote, which is the proggie GNOME apps use to open web links, is in gnome-bin, the generic package that has a lot of other generically useful binaries.
Honestly, why have emblems and then take them away and bring them back?
To my knowledge, they were never removed. I've always seen the emblems in Nautilus...
And what about web browsing? Everyone knows filemanagers like Explorer are really just web browsers.
I'm not quite following your rhetorical points. Is GNOME's copying of Windows a good thing or a bad thing? Is KDE's copying of Windows good thing or a bad thing? You seem to think KDE is good, then recommend GNOME for most dists because it "suits them". Logic hoy...
Anyway, "Everyone knows filemanagers like Explorer are really just web browsers" just hints You Must Be New Here. I might say that in Slashdot, everyone knows that integrating MSIE to Windows was the most colossal mistake Microsoft has made in recent history, from legal, security, and UI design points of view.
GNOME folks tried integrating web browser to Nautilus too, back in Nautilus 1.x. They realised it wasn't the way to go. Luckily.
I have yet to need to edit any sort of KDE database to configure my desktop or apps.
And I haven't had to use gconf-editor for pretty much anything at all since 2.6 or so, can't be too sure but it's sure been heck of a long time...
And on the other hand, I have given up trying to figure out how the heck to not make KDE to use Konqueror (which I don't have installed) to open web links. Any help on how to get rid of the dreaded "could not find service 'kfmclient'" would be appreciated. And don't say "install Konqueror". GNOME can open links in Firefox just fine without either Nautilus or Epiphany installed! Maybe I'll need to write a 5-minute shell hack to replace kfmclient... oh, wait, writing shell scripts to bypass idiocies of the desktop environment is so GNOME user stuff, isn't it?
"The computer will always retreat when I do this."
"If I go just a little bit here, it won't attack me!"
I've always thought that AI is bad when you can clearly figure out a pattern to exploit the AI's weaknesses. This especially in games like RPGs where you aren't supposed to pay attention to the weaknesses of game mechanics; you're supposed to sit back and do strategic moves and situational choices, not think of what flaws of the system to exploit.
At some point, we might grow tired of beating human players who are dead predictable - same goes for computer opponents too, though they're even more predictable.
Wow, I knew this thing was registered, but appears they have a whole search code for "Humans composed of letters or numerals; Letters forming human beings; Numbers forming human beings; Punctuation forming human beings". Not only are smileys then trademarkable there, but it's frequently enough done to warrant a category of its own =)
Wow. First >2 modded comment in Finnish that I've seen in Slashdot, and it demonstrates that, for some reason I cannot possibly comprehend, Slashdot's mysterious comment filter thingy, known for various interesting character-set mutilations, does let character ä through.
OpenGL ARB is a group that is independent of SGI. They will keep on going on; with folks like Apple, Sun and IBM, and the major card manufacturers behind them, I don't think Unix folks have anything to fear. I wonder what major stuff SGI was contributing lately, anyway?
Didn't take long after Neverwinter Nights was released before someone made the first nude hak/override. Heck, they probably figured it out before the game was released...
It spawned an, ahem, incredible mod content industry (to put it in modest terms), all the way to detailed counter-points (module obviously NSFW, though if you intend to play NWN during the W, that's probably NS also). Yet I saw no one crying to get its ESRB T rating pushed upward.
Being a non-American I wondered a bit what the heck the stunningly obvious "game experience may change during online play" comment meant - well, duh, single player games are controlled environments, and going online means they aren't. Maybe ESRB will be demanding "game experience may change in custom modifications" warning next, otherwise they'll be rating every game AO soon.
They know very well that KOffice, the Free & Open Source office suite that comes with the KDE desktop environment also supports the ODF format.
There's just one thing in Open Source projects that might hamper the argument. AbiWord, as I recall, uses its own format, and merely uses OpenDocument as a supplementary format because apparently OpenDocument may or may not fulfill the program's capabilities. The referenced post says something about suitability for serialising the internal state of the program, which would indicate there's internal stuff that can't be easily serialised; I also remember them claiming OpenDocument doesn't support everything AbiWord does. Yes, the exact same argument Microsoft uses.
And didn't they already, back in the day of the antitrust trial, try to present AbiWord as their direct competitor? "Look, people, our fiercest competitor since way back in 1990s can't use OpenDocument as a storage format to full extent, what makes you think we can?"
(The answer, of course, is that AbiWord does support natively ODF at least on import/export level - so should Microsoft...)
And let's not even speak about versioning. 20 year old CVS beats it with one arm tied behind its back.
Yep, I already use Subversion with OpenDocument files and it's much better than OpenOffice.org's built-in versioning, and undoubtedly much better than Word's equivalent. Now, having an OpenDocument text diff display support in Trac would kill Word dead =)
Speaking of which, has anyone written external diffing tools for OpenDocument files?
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I'm a game collector. I'm a collector that actually plays games rather than just collecting for the sake of collecting them; thus I'm not particularly concerned about condition of the games as long as they are in good enough condition to work in somewhat foreseeable future. As such, flea markets and second-hand stores are good sources for games, and I'm happy for every cool game I've found there. A lot of games I have come from second-hand market, mostly because the current games have so amazingly short shelf life that I just can't grab them when they're released and it's often easier to find an used copy from a local store, than order a new one from some God-forsaken store online.
If they try to stop me from playing second-hand games, I won't be getting this console then. That just means I can't find the games I'm interested of unless I'm really really lucky. No used games = More pain to find the games I'm interested of.
Also, I can't see why the heck would the game companies not like second-hand game sales. For example, it helps reduce piracy. I've often been playing a ROM, until I do a tiger-leap to grab a copy of the game in question from a flea market. Whoops! I then have a fully licensed, authentic copy. If they're claiming that's not so, then I justly claim there's Something Very Lunatic Going On and they're not really doing what's in their best interests. I just got a copy of the game! Real media, real manuals, real box! Are they claiming the thing somehow turns into a non-legit copy if you sell it? Are we witnessing the miracle of, er, reverse... transubstantation in corporate setting, or something? How do I tell the difference anyway - a while ago I bought an used game and it was definitely physically indistinguishable from a new game, aside of the price tag that was 10€ off the usual prices and said "Used", too. It was in pristine condition. What if the store had lied and charged full price? They could have done that and I would have never noticed, the game was in so good condition...
OK, enough rambling... I can't seem to get anywhere today.
<fanboy type="nintendo"> Not that PS has that many interesting games anyway... =) </fanboy>
Might not be exactly the solution you look for (as in "I really want WordPress"), but try Typo - a lot of people are switching to it from MT and even WP. And yes, it's mightily cross-DB, too.
And actually, I wouldn't entirely blame MySQL for how it's hard to move away (though given their history, they've certainly contributed a lot) - it's also PHP's fault. MySQL had issues with weird syntax gotchas. PHP made things worse by encouraging people to use DB-specific functions. Meanwhile, other languages encourage DB abstraction (Perl/Ruby DBI's, for example), and other DBs have strived for ANSI compliance for quite a while now. Of course, PHP now encourages DB neutrality (at leas to bigger extent than before), and MySQL now tries to be ANSI compliant, but the mountains of existing code kind of need to be taken care of...
Now someone please get MediaWiki running on PostgreSQL. I regrettably accept no substitute what comes to the (theoretically optimally) elegant MediaWiki interface and wikisyntax...
Bzzzzzzt!
eval($Content);
You don't see eval() too often in syntax highlighting code, now do you? =)
But the US government won't allow The Working Implementation of BPL (as in no funny interferences whatsoever) to be deployed, because the flying bovines could possibly be used by the Terrorists as some sort of terrifying biological weapon... =)
I'm not a MW guru, but does the article's idea of <PHP> tag really do what I think it does?
As in "raw code in a a place where people can edit it?"
Doesn't matter they are trying to limit the wiki's edit access only to registered users - this is wrong.
Ugh. You know, one of the reasons why I like MediaWiki is that it does well with separating the page code from the HTML. And now these people want to sprinkle random PHP crap in the pages again. Argh.
And as an additional bonus, you get to store your mysql_connect() parameters to the page source. Whee. Realllly smart.
Somebody please submit this to TheDailyWTF...
The real way to do this is to write a MediaWiki extension, of course (look at ParseFunctions for an example of something simple), which is then accessed through the usual hooks, like {{foo:...}}, but don't ask me, I don't know that much about MW's internal structure. I just know bad ideas when I see them. =)
A bit misdirected comment, as I personally don't care a lot what format the movie is in as long as I can watch it =)
Anyway, "just grab the high-res version" isn't a solution - both video and audio are compressed with lossy codecs. A transcoded clip wouldn't do justice to the OSS codecs, right? The movie makers didn't provide a high-res, lossless version. Thus, at this time, the only really cool option would be to render the whole thing again... which may not be plausible because people don't have the computing power for that, and I'm not sure if that even can be done without extra tools, as I haven't looked at the provided source files.
Well, I thought the animation was... well, not really stellar, but passable. All other parts of the thing considered, the movie was definitely tolerable.
If there's anything bad to say about this thing, maybe the biggest flaw of this thing is that it tries to be all, shall we say, artful. The thing is, people don't care much about really "artful" short movies, for the reason that they're difficult to grasp - or, alternatively, they can grasp the Big Point and then think it wasn't really worth the effort. (My first thoughts about this movie: "Okay, there's two fellows who imagine things and this one doesn't like the other's ideas. Cool. Now what the heck else does this animation offer?" I liked the basic premise. It was just that there wasn't much juice besides that in this short space.) Thoughtful movies rarely work really all that well in short form.
But the movie did show me one thing: We Have the Technology. Compare this thing to @ndy's "Mindfields" (a likewise short thoughtful movie that, I think, works a bit better what comes to stretching its central idea through the whole thing) and we see that there's definite refinement. Even if the movie isn't The Greatest Short Movie Ever, it's wonderful as a tech demo!
(...and then, think again, really hard: Have you ever truly seen a 3D animation that didn't suck at some level? CGI is Stuff People Complain About. It's stuff that makes us afraid.)
Before the movie site went all bare-bones, I recall reading somewhere that they did consider making Theora / Vorbis files, but making the "common" formats available first was of higher priority. I guess they'll get Theora/Vorbis stuff out eventually.
As for Dirac, the website doesn't really tell, apart of "some ffmpeg support" and "yes, there's a DirectShow filter", though the FAQ was updated over an year ago... though apparently VLC is supposed to support it now, too. Not sure about anything else.
Quick questions warrant quick answers!
"How long is it?" 10 minutes plus end credits. "If it was created using a "community process," how did the writing and direction work?" Uh, looks like they, like, picked a writer and a director and stuff? You know, "benevolent dictator" stuff and all? "Who does the voice acting, if any?" Fellows by the names of Cas and Tygo, apparently. "Where did the music come from?" There was this composer, you see, and apparently he got the bright idea to make some Music, you know. "WTF is it about?" Well, good question. 3D artists tend to love Weird Dream Stuff. This is just that! And I kind of liked it.
Last I checked, Xiph.org and the Helix Community folks were working pretty close, and (at least the Linux) RealPlayer has played Vorbis files for quite a while now, and a while ago I heard some very encouraging news from the Theora front on RealProducer's ability to encode that, or something along those lines...
Be afraid. =)
My old P3-600 decoded MP3, DivX and even DVD video at a quite tolerable speed, thank you very much. Okay, full-quality DVD stuff was a bit slow and you can probably forget H.264, but still, it's not completely worthless.
However, if the player software is sluggish to use for anything at all, it's probably an indication of something sinister. Plenty of media player software worked just fine on that thing: XMMS, Xine, mplayer, VLC, just for starters...
Same would go with operating systems: Never rely on an OS that refuses to boot on a "relatively useful" computer, like the P3 in question... =)
On Windows: Obtain the manufacturer-supplied DVD-playing software. Find out it is slow to start, has a choppy playback, awful video playback quality, UI is generally steaming pile of whatsit and visually offensive too, and doesn't have rudimentary (and legal!) features like capturing a still frame of video to a picture file (for Personal, Educational, Critical or other Fair Use). Do market research and find out that all of the other "legal" programs have, ahem, similar issues. Download VLC (with the supposedly illegal features enabled) anyway.
Directories: Well, in Linux we have this thing called "package management". You don't need to care about which particular /lib the stuff goes; the package manager sticks them where they work.
Permissions? We've had Windows-like ACLs for quite a while (or rather, Windows has had big-boy-like ACLs for quite a while while Linux got them a bit later). "man setfacl". Assuming you aren't using a stone-age kernel/filesystem.
Okay - I don't use Nautilus to draw the desktop, so I didn't remember. I find it much faster to simply hit shift+ctrl+n or shift+ctrl+t in an existing terminal...
...and in Window Maker, you use right-click-on-desktop to Launch Everything In The Whole World anyway, so I definitely get every X shell that way in any case. =)
As do I. But at least I realise that ranting about little quirks in the Competiting System(tm) has absolutely no effect and will only annoy people. As soon as I get back from a trip I'll file an enhancement suggestion regarding kfmclient packaging. That's how things get fixed, not by flaming the thing down, you know.
Even if I use GNOME and a little bit of KDE apps doesn't mean that I simply polarize the thing; I'd rather use the proper apps for the job. Qt folks don't have anything quite as good as Firefox or GIMP. GTK+ folks don't have anything that's quite as good as Scribus. KDE doesn't have anything quite comparable to Nautilus. GNOME doesn't have anything quite as good as amaroK or Psi. KDE folks can't come up with a good multimedia architecture so they also support GStreamer in amaroK - best of the both worlds! I want both work, and as far as I can see, they both do their things wonderfully. All apps have their stupid sides.
I'm a moron who doesn't want to install a program I'm not going to use anyway. Maybe I'm just a moron for not wanting to buy a bigger hard drive and waste bandwidth for all those starving third world countries to use.
And I'm a complete fucking utter moron for suggesting that maybe we could ask Debian to put kfmclient in "kde-core" instead of "konqueror", just like they put gnome-moz-remote in "gnome-bin" instead of "epiphany-browser". At least until upstream screws it up again. But of course, we can't expect KDE to concentrate functionality that should be in core somewhere to illogical places like the core! Things like accessing the Web Browser have to be integrated to the Web Browser!
I'm cured! Let's waste disk space in harmony, joy, and capitalistic orgastic joy of mass hysteria or something! And finally, we can expect Microsoft to join the Linux desktop projects! They know all about wasting disk space, maybe they can offer us some expert advice!
No idea. I prefer my Window Maker icons 64 pixels.
Puzzled me for a while, but someone told me the answer: they're using the Freedesktop.org shared-mime-info standard for MIME associations. Just use all the usual tools for that stuff.
"Right click terminal option"? Eh? I don't quite follow.
Then do yourself a favor and install the gnome-control-center. I have the same situation with KDE, and even I was clueful enough to install kcontrol, even when I don't use the majority of KDE apps.
Yeah, says /usr/bin/gnome-moz-remote in the text field. Trust me, I found this thing it really easily.
Next I say, for example, Help - About KDE... and then click on the kde.org web link. "Could not find service 'kfmclient'."
Okay, maybe it just got mad because I wanted it to use the default GNOME browser, me heretic me. I change it to say /usr/bin/firefox like all people who prefer to configure each damn thing differently, and hit Apply.
Help - About KDE... click on the link: "Could not find service 'kfmclient'."
And I did research a bit: kfmclient is in, you guessed it, konqueror package, which I don't want to install because I don't need several web browsers and file managers, let alone ones I don't use. gnome-moz-remote, which is the proggie GNOME apps use to open web links, is in gnome-bin, the generic package that has a lot of other generically useful binaries.
To my knowledge, they were never removed. I've always seen the emblems in Nautilus...
I'm not quite following your rhetorical points. Is GNOME's copying of Windows a good thing or a bad thing? Is KDE's copying of Windows good thing or a bad thing? You seem to think KDE is good, then recommend GNOME for most dists because it "suits them". Logic hoy...
Anyway, "Everyone knows filemanagers like Explorer are really just web browsers" just hints You Must Be New Here. I might say that in Slashdot, everyone knows that integrating MSIE to Windows was the most colossal mistake Microsoft has made in recent history, from legal, security, and UI design points of view.
GNOME folks tried integrating web browser to Nautilus too, back in Nautilus 1.x. They realised it wasn't the way to go. Luckily.
And I haven't had to use gconf-editor for pretty much anything at all since 2.6 or so, can't be too sure but it's sure been heck of a long time...
And on the other hand, I have given up trying to figure out how the heck to not make KDE to use Konqueror (which I don't have installed) to open web links. Any help on how to get rid of the dreaded "could not find service 'kfmclient'" would be appreciated. And don't say "install Konqueror". GNOME can open links in Firefox just fine without either Nautilus or Epiphany installed! Maybe I'll need to write a 5-minute shell hack to replace kfmclient... oh, wait, writing shell scripts to bypass idiocies of the desktop environment is so GNOME user stuff, isn't it?
And typically, Slashdot added this fortune cookie to the end of the page:
Coincidence? I think not...
"The computer will always retreat when I do this."
"If I go just a little bit here, it won't attack me!"
I've always thought that AI is bad when you can clearly figure out a pattern to exploit the AI's weaknesses. This especially in games like RPGs where you aren't supposed to pay attention to the weaknesses of game mechanics; you're supposed to sit back and do strategic moves and situational choices, not think of what flaws of the system to exploit.
At some point, we might grow tired of beating human players who are dead predictable - same goes for computer opponents too, though they're even more predictable.
Wow, I knew this thing was registered, but appears they have a whole search code for "Humans composed of letters or numerals; Letters forming human beings; Numbers forming human beings; Punctuation forming human beings". Not only are smileys then trademarkable there, but it's frequently enough done to warrant a category of its own =)
Wow. First >2 modded comment in Finnish that I've seen in Slashdot, and it demonstrates that, for some reason I cannot possibly comprehend, Slashdot's mysterious comment filter thingy, known for various interesting character-set mutilations, does let character ä through.
Lähtekäämme lennättämään leijuvia lehmiä!
OpenGL ARB is a group that is independent of SGI. They will keep on going on; with folks like Apple, Sun and IBM, and the major card manufacturers behind them, I don't think Unix folks have anything to fear. I wonder what major stuff SGI was contributing lately, anyway?
Didn't take long after Neverwinter Nights was released before someone made the first nude hak/override. Heck, they probably figured it out before the game was released...
It spawned an, ahem, incredible mod content industry (to put it in modest terms), all the way to detailed counter-points (module obviously NSFW, though if you intend to play NWN during the W, that's probably NS also). Yet I saw no one crying to get its ESRB T rating pushed upward.
Being a non-American I wondered a bit what the heck the stunningly obvious "game experience may change during online play" comment meant - well, duh, single player games are controlled environments, and going online means they aren't. Maybe ESRB will be demanding "game experience may change in custom modifications" warning next, otherwise they'll be rating every game AO soon.
There's just one thing in Open Source projects that might hamper the argument. AbiWord, as I recall, uses its own format, and merely uses OpenDocument as a supplementary format because apparently OpenDocument may or may not fulfill the program's capabilities. The referenced post says something about suitability for serialising the internal state of the program, which would indicate there's internal stuff that can't be easily serialised; I also remember them claiming OpenDocument doesn't support everything AbiWord does. Yes, the exact same argument Microsoft uses.
And didn't they already, back in the day of the antitrust trial, try to present AbiWord as their direct competitor? "Look, people, our fiercest competitor since way back in 1990s can't use OpenDocument as a storage format to full extent, what makes you think we can?"
(The answer, of course, is that AbiWord does support natively ODF at least on import/export level - so should Microsoft...)
Yep, I already use Subversion with OpenDocument files and it's much better than OpenOffice.org's built-in versioning, and undoubtedly much better than Word's equivalent. Now, having an OpenDocument text diff display support in Trac would kill Word dead =)
Speaking of which, has anyone written external diffing tools for OpenDocument files?