"Back in the mid-late 80's, I remember taking some computational math and fluid dynamics classes. Part of the projects involved writing FORTRAN code and the professors used Vi."
Wow! Dating yourself, eh? Wait, no, I just finished an Aircraft Structures III undergraduate course in which we used...FORTRAN and vi:-) Funny how times have changed.
What are you suggesting, that everyone make their sites using large Java applets, because Swing was designed for UIs? I mean, it works on every major platform, right?
"AFAIK it's the only *legal* way to listen to MP3s in the US under Linux"
Technically yes, though I have an email in my possession from Thomson's legal dept. saying that it's ok for people to encode/decode with non-licensed software for their own personal use. Still though, the licensed player is a good step.
Yeah, it'd be great if they made it work with the gstreamer framework instead of having their own. But as far as the codecs that come with it already, it works fine here.
Just tried it - awesome! I might subscribe if I use it enough.
One request (besides the standard "make it open-source" ones): can I use it in Epiphany? I get a browser error when I try, but I'm not sure if that's due to some UI detection, or if it really is a Firefox-only thing.
Ever used their Linux player? It's very simple, doesn't do any unwanted things, fits in with the rest of the GNOME desktop, and is open source (except for the codecs in the commercial version). Real's the only major online media company out there paying Linux any attention at all. I say we keep them around.
"This is a bad sign for the gaming industry if a medical site is beginning to take the anti-gaming studies this seriously."
What? Why shouldn't they take them seriously? Are the studies with merit, or without? If they are, it's the gaming industry that should be taking them seriously.
It's probably simple ignorance or apathy, really. Read the interview with the MPAA chairman and some college newspaper a while back (search Slashdot). It's probably too much to ask to picture the MPAA sitting around a giant shiny conference table rubbing their hands together and muttering to themselves "How can we take even more money from the People's grubby little hands? I know! We'll prevent playback on Linux!" They're probably not fully aware of the issue, or don't care because of Linux's diminutive user base.
Well, how much space is left, and what's the current growth rate? Is it asymptotic (never reaching the limit because people keep implementing local workaraounds)?
According to my ex-NASA professor, Marshall uses metric because that's what the rest of the world uses (as you say), but Johnson uses Imperial because they deal directly with astronauts, and they think (or have historically thought) in Imperial units.
Same here. I like the integrated development tools that let me explore the code of various apps and poke around. I like that most of the programs out there are free and are community-developed. I like that I can dive right into the heart of the system if I want to. I like that I can watch it gradually move from rough around the edges to completely kick-ass.
I don't like that I'm only one of a handful I know using it. I don't like that it sucks for laptop wireless.
So I dual-boot, and hope that one day Linux and the rest of the world will meet in the middle.
Pushing Linux to someone it's not right for, or who's not ready for it, is a good way to turn them off of it for a lot longer than they would be if you hadn't said anything at all. Tact and timing plays an important part in advocacy.
My mother does spreadsheet manipulation of survey data. She got a new laptop for the project, but it didn't come with any office suite. So, I told her she could get OpenOffice for free, downloaded it and walked her through the setup, and told her a bit about how to use it. The next time I came home (a month or two later), she told me she got fed up with it after having to re-learn how to do some of the stuff she took for granted with MS Office. So she just dropped the $100 for the academic ed. and went with the tried and true.
The academic edition (Student and Teacher) very clearly state, on the outside of the box, in large letters, in plain language, that you can install it on 3 different computers in the same household. This was really good. My fiancee bought it for her new laptop, and I got to upgrade my copy for free.
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"Back in the mid-late 80's, I remember taking some computational math and fluid dynamics classes. Part of the projects involved writing FORTRAN code and the professors used Vi."
...FORTRAN and vi :-) Funny how times have changed.
Wow! Dating yourself, eh? Wait, no, I just finished an Aircraft Structures III undergraduate course in which we used
They also own Rhapsody, one of the more popular subscription music services around.
What are you suggesting, that everyone make their sites using large Java applets, because Swing was designed for UIs? I mean, it works on every major platform, right?
Real didn't pick it - Listen.com did, before they were bought by Real.
"AFAIK it's the only *legal* way to listen to MP3s in the US under Linux"
Technically yes, though I have an email in my possession from Thomson's legal dept. saying that it's ok for people to encode/decode with non-licensed software for their own personal use. Still though, the licensed player is a good step.
Yeah, it'd be great if they made it work with the gstreamer framework instead of having their own. But as far as the codecs that come with it already, it works fine here.
Just tried it - awesome! I might subscribe if I use it enough.
One request (besides the standard "make it open-source" ones): can I use it in Epiphany? I get a browser error when I try, but I'm not sure if that's due to some UI detection, or if it really is a Firefox-only thing.
Ever used their Linux player? It's very simple, doesn't do any unwanted things, fits in with the rest of the GNOME desktop, and is open source (except for the codecs in the commercial version). Real's the only major online media company out there paying Linux any attention at all. I say we keep them around.
"This is a bad sign for the gaming industry if a medical site is beginning to take the anti-gaming studies this seriously."
What? Why shouldn't they take them seriously? Are the studies with merit, or without? If they are, it's the gaming industry that should be taking them seriously.
It's probably simple ignorance or apathy, really. Read the interview with the MPAA chairman and some college newspaper a while back (search Slashdot). It's probably too much to ask to picture the MPAA sitting around a giant shiny conference table rubbing their hands together and muttering to themselves "How can we take even more money from the People's grubby little hands? I know! We'll prevent playback on Linux!" They're probably not fully aware of the issue, or don't care because of Linux's diminutive user base.
here's one from 1997.
Well, how much space is left, and what's the current growth rate? Is it asymptotic (never reaching the limit because people keep implementing local workaraounds)?
Well, mine's called 'linksys', but it's got WPA turned on. I just couldn't think of a better name.
How do I do that? Is there a simple HOWTO?
According to my ex-NASA professor, Marshall uses metric because that's what the rest of the world uses (as you say), but Johnson uses Imperial because they deal directly with astronauts, and they think (or have historically thought) in Imperial units.
Same here. I like the integrated development tools that let me explore the code of various apps and poke around. I like that most of the programs out there are free and are community-developed. I like that I can dive right into the heart of the system if I want to. I like that I can watch it gradually move from rough around the edges to completely kick-ass.
I don't like that I'm only one of a handful I know using it. I don't like that it sucks for laptop wireless.
So I dual-boot, and hope that one day Linux and the rest of the world will meet in the middle.
Pushing Linux to someone it's not right for, or who's not ready for it, is a good way to turn them off of it for a lot longer than they would be if you hadn't said anything at all. Tact and timing plays an important part in advocacy.
How's SPSS doing in popularity?
My mother does spreadsheet manipulation of survey data. She got a new laptop for the project, but it didn't come with any office suite. So, I told her she could get OpenOffice for free, downloaded it and walked her through the setup, and told her a bit about how to use it. The next time I came home (a month or two later), she told me she got fed up with it after having to re-learn how to do some of the stuff she took for granted with MS Office. So she just dropped the $100 for the academic ed. and went with the tried and true.
In short, YMMV.
Opera stopped spoofing itself as IE by default a while ago (before it went free, even).
t op-spoofing-user-agent-as.html
http://operawatch.blogspot.com/2005/07/opera-to-s
I got a Nielson survey once. It was just a 'viewing log' that asked you to write down what you watched and when for a week.
The academic edition (Student and Teacher) very clearly state, on the outside of the box, in large letters, in plain language, that you can install it on 3 different computers in the same household. This was really good. My fiancee bought it for her new laptop, and I got to upgrade my copy for free.
Not quite sure what you're getting at, but WINE has support modes all the way up to Server 2003.
No, my post was the original one, and it just said Excel is better than OOo for graphing, no qualifiers attached.
I only wish OOo's graphing features could live up to the rudimentary, poorly designed ones of Excel.