once iTunes supports Vorbis, then all the major players will support it. that means it will be ubiquitous, and anyone will be able to use.ogg without worrying about if someone has an ogg player.
talk to Apple if you want to see it happen: feedback page
You do realise that/. is frequented by folks who know what "it's an Alpha version" means, yet will still download and try it? Ya, them "geek" types.
for every one of those, there's five who don't know their ass from their elbow.
or, to put it less flamaciously, the geeks who knows and care what an alpha release is should check NewsForge for announcements like this. NewsForge is a generally higher-level forum for this sort of thing.
sure, you lose some tactility, but you gain the ability for the table to launch balls for you. what you lose in good old-fashioned feeling can easily be regained by shaking the table a little harder.:)
i'm sure there are plenty of KDE fans here and all, but this isn't even beta yet. if Slashdot announced every alpha release of every decent-sized Open Source project... Ohwait, theydo.
perhaps the best thing to come out of Episode I was one of the last production pinball games, Star Wars Episode I Pinball 2000. totally cool tech (Pinball 2000 is the name of the pinball tables containing a video monitor in the back), a fun playfield and very, very few Jar Jar noises.:)
back when i was the site developer for a porn company (streaming online video of 24-hr live cumshots and barely-legal type stuff.... quite an operation) i regression-tested the whole darn thing. it was a hell of an operation but the finished product is worth it in the end.
i just did what i learned in Software Engineering Lab class:)
As any reasonably intelligent and non-pedantic slashdot reader knows, the process of a star's supernova has a beginning, which one might call the "birth" of the supernova, and an end.... which might be called the "death" of the supernova.
The pictured supernova is near its end, or "death". That means, one might say, it's "dying".
I'm sick of nit-picky dorks karma-whoring with word games. We knew what the phrase meant... let it drop.
seeing as an NSA supercomputer could only refute the hypothesis, and out of the billions of numbers it's already tried there have been exactly zero refutations, i'd put my money on the mathematicians.
specifically, i'd place my bets on the smelliest and most Russian of them.
i don't buy $200 shoes. i wear DC shoes (made in USA, quality skate shoes) when i wear shoes at all, which is not often. i know damn well that Nike is a ripoff -- i just choose to "protest" them in a way that affects them (like not giving them my money), instead of whining like a brat at "unfair conditions" but not actually doing a goddamn thing about it.
i live in a country with natural resources. i am lucky. Nike's employees are not, but at least they're earning money and eating.
You conservative fool. If Nike wasn't employing the peasant children, they could get a basic education
at which schools? you mean the ones that have never existed?
and find a job that paid above their minimum wage, rather than learning no skills and working long hours in unsafe environments.
their "minimum wage"? i'm sorry, you must be confusing them with a country with a labor movement. Jack Shit is their minimum wage. Nike's their maximum wage, that's my point.
you liberal fool. if Nike weren't employing the peasant children, they'd be either working elsewhere for 1/10 the pay, or starving along with their families who no longer have supplemental income. ever stop to think that if there were better jobs around there, that people would take them?
i'm getting a little sick of spoiled Westerners applying their rosy ideals to a completely different world. "Twenty cents a week?? But how can they afford latté??"
i started using Macs in 1989, and continued straight until 1997, when i installed NetBSD on a IIvx. that led me down the slippery slope of x86 hardware, mainly because i couldn't afford a Mac.
when i finally got a Mac again in 2000, i had forgotten how much i appreciated having a computer that was beautiful, in its designs and GUI. it really drove home the fact that the UNIX desktop is neither consistent nor pretty (usually).
now that OS X is here (read: now that i can pull up a Terminal window), i can't see a reason to use anything else.
first of all, the Ford Taurus is not a stupid name. naming a car after a bull is a fine idea in any case, especially when the name also refers to a constellation and a zodiacal sign.
second, the Taurus is a great vehicle for its purpose (a family car). it's been in the Top Ten vehicles in sales since it was introduced, and regularly scores highest marks in crash tests. it's about $20000 brand new, which is a very good price.
GC: has fun games PS2: has fun games Xbox: does not have fun games
Xbox is all shoot-em-up and boring sports games. PS2 and Gamecube both feature bunches of fun games which are cool to look at and smooth to play.
if that's the case then why care what's under the hood? it's not like the console programmers are pulling their hair out trying to overcome the system's limitations.
Was there any reason not to think that a standards-compliant, easily embeddable, open-source HTML renderer wouldn't eventually become a great choice for network software?
it's awfully convenient that it's the code base for the browser AOL owns, the only remotely viable alternative to MSIE. i think AOLTimeWarnerNetscape finds it useful to give MS the finger.
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once iTunes supports Vorbis, then all the major players will support it. that means it will be ubiquitous, and anyone will be able to use .ogg without worrying about if someone has an ogg player.
talk to Apple if you want to see it happen: feedback page
not hard.
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it's an old joke any damn way.
16"? jeez, people can hardly fit a TiBook into their bags with their large screens.
just because laptop screens *can* get bigger, doesn't mean they should. work on better resolution instead.
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You do realise that /. is frequented by folks who know what "it's an Alpha version" means, yet will still download and try it? Ya, them "geek" types.
for every one of those, there's five who don't know their ass from their elbow.
or, to put it less flamaciously, the geeks who knows and care what an alpha release is should check NewsForge for announcements like this. NewsForge is a generally higher-level forum for this sort of thing.
sure, you lose some tactility, but you gain the ability for the table to launch balls for you. what you lose in good old-fashioned feeling can easily be regained by shaking the table a little harder. :)
...is Slashdot the place for alpha announcements?
i'm sure there are plenty of KDE fans here and all, but this isn't even beta yet. if Slashdot announced every alpha release of every decent-sized Open Source project... Oh wait, they do.
perhaps the best thing to come out of Episode I was one of the last production pinball games, Star Wars Episode I Pinball 2000. totally cool tech (Pinball 2000 is the name of the pinball tables containing a video monitor in the back), a fun playfield and very, very few Jar Jar noises. :)
Williams knew how to make 'em.
back when i was the site developer for a porn company (streaming online video of 24-hr live cumshots and barely-legal type stuff.... quite an operation) i regression-tested the whole darn thing. it was a hell of an operation but the finished product is worth it in the end.
:)
i just did what i learned in Software Engineering Lab class
everyone uses AOL IM.
ICQ, Yahoo! messaging, etc. are not even second-best. AIM is so dominant that they are third-best, at best.
AIM is simple and powerful. free clients exist. why use anything else?
from this post, we can ascertain that the tag is HTML 4.0 compliant.
Flash is the bane of search engines. If the web all moved to Flash, we could kiss the harvesting of useful information from the web goodbye.
Also consider that 98% of the time, Flash is the wrong solution and only gets in the users' way.
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As any reasonably intelligent and non-pedantic slashdot reader knows, the process of a star's supernova has a beginning, which one might call the "birth" of the supernova, and an end.... which might be called the "death" of the supernova.
The pictured supernova is near its end, or "death". That means, one might say, it's "dying".
I'm sick of nit-picky dorks karma-whoring with word games. We knew what the phrase meant... let it drop.
seeing as an NSA supercomputer could only refute the hypothesis, and out of the billions of numbers it's already tried there have been exactly zero refutations, i'd put my money on the mathematicians.
specifically, i'd place my bets on the smelliest and most Russian of them.
i don't buy $200 shoes. i wear DC shoes (made in USA, quality skate shoes) when i wear shoes at all, which is not often. i know damn well that Nike is a ripoff -- i just choose to "protest" them in a way that affects them (like not giving them my money), instead of whining like a brat at "unfair conditions" but not actually doing a goddamn thing about it.
i live in a country with natural resources. i am lucky. Nike's employees are not, but at least they're earning money and eating.
You conservative fool. If Nike wasn't employing the peasant children, they could get a basic education
at which schools? you mean the ones that have never existed?
and find a job that paid above their minimum wage, rather than learning no skills and working long hours in unsafe environments.
their "minimum wage"? i'm sorry, you must be confusing them with a country with a labor movement. Jack Shit is their minimum wage. Nike's their maximum wage, that's my point.
you liberal fool. if Nike weren't employing the peasant children, they'd be either working elsewhere for 1/10 the pay, or starving along with their families who no longer have supplemental income. ever stop to think that if there were better jobs around there, that people would take them?
i'm getting a little sick of spoiled Westerners applying their rosy ideals to a completely different world. "Twenty cents a week?? But how can they afford latté??"
it's not "bad"; just discouraged. but that's ok... Pudge is a professional writer. he must know what he's doing.
(grammar errors in the above text: improper capitalization, semicolon follows quote)
i started using Macs in 1989, and continued straight until 1997, when i installed NetBSD on a IIvx. that led me down the slippery slope of x86 hardware, mainly because i couldn't afford a Mac.
when i finally got a Mac again in 2000, i had forgotten how much i appreciated having a computer that was beautiful, in its designs and GUI. it really drove home the fact that the UNIX desktop is neither consistent nor pretty (usually).
now that OS X is here (read: now that i can pull up a Terminal window), i can't see a reason to use anything else.
first of all, the Ford Taurus is not a stupid name. naming a car after a bull is a fine idea in any case, especially when the name also refers to a constellation and a zodiacal sign.
second, the Taurus is a great vehicle for its purpose (a family car). it's been in the Top Ten vehicles in sales since it was introduced, and regularly scores highest marks in crash tests. it's about $20000 brand new, which is a very good price.
third, Sexual Asspussy and Proctal Relapse have it right about you.
--krog, who drives a 1974 Chevy Step Van
hardware, software, fuck it. how about these:
GC: has fun games
PS2: has fun games
Xbox: does not have fun games
Xbox is all shoot-em-up and boring sports games. PS2 and Gamecube both feature bunches of fun games which are cool to look at and smooth to play.
if that's the case then why care what's under the hood? it's not like the console programmers are pulling their hair out trying to overcome the system's limitations.
Was there any reason not to think that a standards-compliant, easily embeddable, open-source HTML renderer wouldn't eventually become a great choice for network software?
it's awfully convenient that it's the code base for the browser AOL owns, the only remotely viable alternative to MSIE. i think AOLTimeWarnerNetscape finds it useful to give MS the finger.
i would expect nothing less from Babelfish.
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