Now if only they'd bother to fix the of tons bugs, and terrible GUI.
As someone who has literally used VLC for thousands of hours of content: I've accrued over a dozen bugs. I'm putting together a video on it.
A few gems:
- Complete disrespect for monitor gamma. Everything looks better in MPC. In VLC, everything is white washed.
- Incorrect use of streams. Ignores "disabled audio streams" which exist as secondary streams (other languages, as opposed to 5.1 and 2.0 of the primary language). VLC plays the first stream, so if you have content with RUSSIAN as the first track (even though it's disabled, per proper spec), enjoy manually switching the audio track every episode. But "Just press b!" the choir moaned! I guess my media center needs a full keyboard to make it useful then.
- And why the hell is there no Randomize playlist? They got room for useless features like AtmoLight but a shuffle mode that doesn't have a chance of replaying the same episode three times in a row--that's too much to ask.
- Oh, and don't you just love the complete lack of "default units" in the GUI? Sure, you can change gamma, contrast, and brightness, but if you dare to you better pray you remember where the normal values are because there's no digital readout, and no markers to show you defaults positions. And the scale of the GUI sliders is insane. The useful region of the Sharpness effect is between 0% and like 10%. The other 90% is useless over-sharpening. So that means you get to use a slider with a region of about a quarter of an inch. So you're stuck using the keyboard to fine-tune a control that should be mouse controllable.
- Post-processesing? Right-click you can set the post-processing. But the top menu shows post-processing as greyed out. Why? Because they broke post-processing in one update long ago and never fixed it. But not only that, they only disabled ONE of the two menus that allow you to adjust it. So they literally have broken GUI menus they never bothered to fix in "stable" versions.
Ugh. As a programmer, I have to ask? What the hell happened to VLC? Did their programmers all move on and get replaced with a bunch of people who have no idea what they're doing? (Happens more often then you think with open-source projects.)
If they wanted quality code, they should have paid for the time to create it correctly in the first place.
Since nobody wants to pay for quality code, then they get exactly what they paid for. Something that gets assembled as quickly as possible to maximize the return on investment.
It's like people are so used to computers and interacting with the face of monolithic corporations, that they've forgotten that fallible people are on the other side flipping the bits with spatulas... and sometimes those bits might get a little overcooked.
Your logic doesn't actually refute the previous post.
There is nothing in the list of examples that you mentioned, which were physical constraints, and intentionally single-threaded modal menus, that have anything to do with turning on a pre-amplifier and DAC (
You may be entirely correct, but your post does nothing to achieve that.
You have assumed that there is a direct correlation between false stories, and the proliferation of those stories. It's entirely possible that say, the left pushed more of a fewer number of false stories and would still have the same market penetration.
This doesn't negate what you're saying, but keep that in mind.
If I get radiation exposure and develop a superpower of "3 penises", you can bet your sweet apple that I'm gonna die from simultaneous orgasms long before the cancer gets me.
Then what was the reason for us NOT executing Emperor Hirohito? Japan committed tons of horrific war crimes under him. But they choose to keep him in power (and he got till live till freaking 1989).
By your logic then, we DIDN'T blame the leaders so we COULDN'T get over hating each other.
I've been saying for years that tablets are a bubble waiting to pop. They don't "do" anything new, and worse, they can't do many things that computers can, and they're less productive than a computer at the things they CAN do. (see Data entry) They're an entertainment device, but mostly a novelty. If you're only target is mobile games... well, 99% of those are complete crap. You can't list on your two hands 12 mobile-only games that have changed the industry.
Nobody is developing new software on them (that is, a compiler/Visual Studio), so that means they're a target platform--not a replacement for computers. Nobody is doing CAD on a tablet. A touch screen is a horrible device to use for long lengths of time. There's no tactile feedback and using the 'keyboard' uses up your bloody screen space! Anyone who tried to play an adventure game on the iPod touch know what I'm talking about. You have to touch the screen to move around and now your hand is obscuring what's happening in the game.
Laptops will keep getting smaller and will have touch screens standard, and operating systems will eventually get better at being "dual purpose" (ala Windows 8/10 with their "tablet mode"). And then what will tablets offer anymore? The best games are on PC, and dedicated game systems with dedicated controllers. PHONES may make home consoles obsolete one day, but tablets? Absolutely not.
Joe Blow doesn't want to play Call of Duty with a touch screen, and he doesn't want to write use Office on one either. (Trust me, I've seen clients do that and the line workers absolutely HATE having to enter thousands of numbers into spreadsheets with no mouse and no keyboard.) And I haven't even mentioned the amount of carpal tunnel syndrome holding a crappy tablet in the air for hours on end (or pushing your hand against a flat surface instead of an ergonomic keyboard).
Oh, I forgot to stress. An SSD is a life-saver. They're rapidly coming down in price so if you get a laptop without one, just buy one already. 32 GB in my Chromebook is too small for media at times, but modern SSD's are comparatively huge, and cost next to nothing. I got a 250 GB for my computer for $45 shipped and it's not the "fastest" SSD (I've got faster ones in my computer as well), but it was cheap and it's still (actual) 15x times faster than my next physical hard drive. SSD's are night-and-day difference in computer response these days and worth every penny.
I've been running an Acer C720 chromebook for years. I bought it off a friend for $75. Now I use it for work, and for fun at home.
It's got SeaBIOS hack, and Ubuntu 14 with ZSWAP (compress RAM as a "Swap" to increase your effective RAM). It "was" running Huge Green Bug ( https://github.com/hugegreenbu... ) but either the guy stopped updating it, or, he upgraded the only distro he supports and all my repos stopped working. So I told it I was actually running Ubuntu and ran a full distro upgrade. It broke some of the special fixes he added, like the mousepad scroll rate is super fast, and a couple other things. But I mostly got it running fine again.
Now back to usability. Ubuntu with Unity freaking rules. I'm NO canonical fanboy but Unity has absolutely beautiful hotkeys for a Netbook once you get used to them. With different combinations of SUPER + ALT/CONTROL I can easily run four virtual desktops, move windows between them, INVERT a Window (or all of Linux) for easier-than-Windows night mode browsing. (I hardcoded Ctrl-Alt-Shift-N to "negate" a window, and Cltr-Alt-Shift-I to "negate" the entire system.) I also use Guake which is a drop-down console like Guake has. The key thing about Guake is, it _doesn't_ change with virtual desktop, so I've got a drop-down terminal (with tabs) that stays the same at the push of a button and it's always there regardless of what "task = virtual desktop" that I'm working at. So I'll have personal stuff on one virtual desktop, then one or more independent tasks in the rest. So I can have gmail on one, then work notes on the next, and Audacity on the next for recording a conference call, and work internet on the last desktop. AND, Guake then has three or four tabs that have random terminal stuff as well as htop (task manager), Wavemon (Wifi manager), and a custom bash script with various statistics like RAM availability.
Now, flaws? Other than some initial setup issues, my biggest and only real flaw is: LACK OF RAM. Mine only has 2 GB of RAM. For the LOVE OF GOD, get more than 2 GB of RAM if you plan to use multi-tasking AND internet. A single Google Document webpage is a RAM whore and will eat up at least 200MB. And once you hit the end of RAM (and ZRAM), you are SCREWED and the system will start lagging and if you don't hurry and stop the "too many tabs", the system will completely halt to the point it's faster to reboot than to recover. On the brightside, the SSD on that laptop means it reboots in less than eight seconds!
So, get a 4 GB RAM laptop, and any Netbook with the CPU of an Acer C720 or later should be more than enough. (C720 has an i3 model but I think it's only 2 GB. So you have to decide between 4 GB or a better CPU.) There _should_ be better netbooks out there these days though. But mine is just fine. It also has a battery life of eight to ten hours!
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
I love how people say artificial sweeteners are harmless, but whenever I accidentally ingest one I get a headache, become nauseous, a sharpness around my heart, and almost vomit.
What terrible thing did I eat to make me feel so sick? A can of PEACHES. That's right, it had sugar but was also laced Sucralose.
Thanks to a complete failure of the media, I didn't know Sucralose could make me sick until after it happened and I started doing some digging. Tons of people apparently have similar reactions:
Slashdot Mirror
Now if only they'd bother to fix the of tons bugs, and terrible GUI.
As someone who has literally used VLC for thousands of hours of content: I've accrued over a dozen bugs. I'm putting together a video on it.
A few gems:
- Complete disrespect for monitor gamma. Everything looks better in MPC. In VLC, everything is white washed.
- Incorrect use of streams. Ignores "disabled audio streams" which exist as secondary streams (other languages, as opposed to 5.1 and 2.0 of the primary language). VLC plays the first stream, so if you have content with RUSSIAN as the first track (even though it's disabled, per proper spec), enjoy manually switching the audio track every episode. But "Just press b!" the choir moaned! I guess my media center needs a full keyboard to make it useful then.
- And why the hell is there no Randomize playlist? They got room for useless features like AtmoLight but a shuffle mode that doesn't have a chance of replaying the same episode three times in a row--that's too much to ask.
- Oh, and don't you just love the complete lack of "default units" in the GUI? Sure, you can change gamma, contrast, and brightness, but if you dare to you better pray you remember where the normal values are because there's no digital readout, and no markers to show you defaults positions. And the scale of the GUI sliders is insane. The useful region of the Sharpness effect is between 0% and like 10%. The other 90% is useless over-sharpening. So that means you get to use a slider with a region of about a quarter of an inch. So you're stuck using the keyboard to fine-tune a control that should be mouse controllable.
- Post-processesing? Right-click you can set the post-processing. But the top menu shows post-processing as greyed out. Why? Because they broke post-processing in one update long ago and never fixed it. But not only that, they only disabled ONE of the two menus that allow you to adjust it. So they literally have broken GUI menus they never bothered to fix in "stable" versions.
Ugh. As a programmer, I have to ask? What the hell happened to VLC? Did their programmers all move on and get replaced with a bunch of people who have no idea what they're doing? (Happens more often then you think with open-source projects.)
Which is it? Do the AIM's create electricity (generator), or do they drive shafts? (motor) How do you do both at the same time?
If they wanted quality code, they should have paid for the time to create it correctly in the first place.
Since nobody wants to pay for quality code, then they get exactly what they paid for. Something that gets assembled as quickly as possible to maximize the return on investment.
What about proof-of-concept malware?
It's like people are so used to computers and interacting with the face of monolithic corporations, that they've forgotten that fallible people are on the other side flipping the bits with spatulas... and sometimes those bits might get a little overcooked.
"IT WAS JUST A PRANK, YO"
Well, they seem to be getting smaller every four years.
Somehow, I'm not surprised that an unstable liberal would get their knowledge of guns from video games like Call of Duty.
Since he's never purchased or used one, then the chances of him hitting anything at range is basically zero.
Something malformed my post.
Pre-amp and DAC will take less than 50 milliseconds to warm up.
Your logic doesn't actually refute the previous post.
There is nothing in the list of examples that you mentioned, which were physical constraints, and intentionally single-threaded modal menus, that have anything to do with turning on a pre-amplifier and DAC (
You may be entirely correct, but your post does nothing to achieve that.
You have assumed that there is a direct correlation between false stories, and the proliferation of those stories. It's entirely possible that say, the left pushed more of a fewer number of false stories and would still have the same market penetration.
This doesn't negate what you're saying, but keep that in mind.
If I get radiation exposure and develop a superpower of "3 penises", you can bet your sweet apple that I'm gonna die from simultaneous orgasms long before the cancer gets me.
Would people be running these stories if Hillary Clinton was elected?
And it's finally come through. Salt, glorious salt, as high and far as the eyes can see.
Then what was the reason for us NOT executing Emperor Hirohito? Japan committed tons of horrific war crimes under him. But they choose to keep him in power (and he got till live till freaking 1989).
By your logic then, we DIDN'T blame the leaders so we COULDN'T get over hating each other.
Something doesn't add up here.
I was going to vote for Trump, but after seeing this, THIS is crazy and unacceptable. I'm going to vote for Hillary now.
Keep up the great work! And let me know any other things you want me to believe without critically analyzing it first.
Thanks!
I've been saying for years that tablets are a bubble waiting to pop. They don't "do" anything new, and worse, they can't do many things that computers can, and they're less productive than a computer at the things they CAN do. (see Data entry) They're an entertainment device, but mostly a novelty. If you're only target is mobile games... well, 99% of those are complete crap. You can't list on your two hands 12 mobile-only games that have changed the industry.
Nobody is developing new software on them (that is, a compiler/Visual Studio), so that means they're a target platform--not a replacement for computers. Nobody is doing CAD on a tablet. A touch screen is a horrible device to use for long lengths of time. There's no tactile feedback and using the 'keyboard' uses up your bloody screen space! Anyone who tried to play an adventure game on the iPod touch know what I'm talking about. You have to touch the screen to move around and now your hand is obscuring what's happening in the game.
Laptops will keep getting smaller and will have touch screens standard, and operating systems will eventually get better at being "dual purpose" (ala Windows 8/10 with their "tablet mode"). And then what will tablets offer anymore? The best games are on PC, and dedicated game systems with dedicated controllers. PHONES may make home consoles obsolete one day, but tablets? Absolutely not.
Joe Blow doesn't want to play Call of Duty with a touch screen, and he doesn't want to write use Office on one either. (Trust me, I've seen clients do that and the line workers absolutely HATE having to enter thousands of numbers into spreadsheets with no mouse and no keyboard.) And I haven't even mentioned the amount of carpal tunnel syndrome holding a crappy tablet in the air for hours on end (or pushing your hand against a flat surface instead of an ergonomic keyboard).
When I read the title I first thought mines as in land mines, and then I thought, "Yeah... that's kind of the point..."
Oh, I forgot to stress. An SSD is a life-saver. They're rapidly coming down in price so if you get a laptop without one, just buy one already. 32 GB in my Chromebook is too small for media at times, but modern SSD's are comparatively huge, and cost next to nothing. I got a 250 GB for my computer for $45 shipped and it's not the "fastest" SSD (I've got faster ones in my computer as well), but it was cheap and it's still (actual) 15x times faster than my next physical hard drive. SSD's are night-and-day difference in computer response these days and worth every penny.
I've been running an Acer C720 chromebook for years. I bought it off a friend for $75. Now I use it for work, and for fun at home.
It's got SeaBIOS hack, and Ubuntu 14 with ZSWAP (compress RAM as a "Swap" to increase your effective RAM). It "was" running Huge Green Bug ( https://github.com/hugegreenbu... ) but either the guy stopped updating it, or, he upgraded the only distro he supports and all my repos stopped working. So I told it I was actually running Ubuntu and ran a full distro upgrade. It broke some of the special fixes he added, like the mousepad scroll rate is super fast, and a couple other things. But I mostly got it running fine again.
Now back to usability. Ubuntu with Unity freaking rules. I'm NO canonical fanboy but Unity has absolutely beautiful hotkeys for a Netbook once you get used to them. With different combinations of SUPER + ALT/CONTROL I can easily run four virtual desktops, move windows between them, INVERT a Window (or all of Linux) for easier-than-Windows night mode browsing. (I hardcoded Ctrl-Alt-Shift-N to "negate" a window, and Cltr-Alt-Shift-I to "negate" the entire system.) I also use Guake which is a drop-down console like Guake has. The key thing about Guake is, it _doesn't_ change with virtual desktop, so I've got a drop-down terminal (with tabs) that stays the same at the push of a button and it's always there regardless of what "task = virtual desktop" that I'm working at. So I'll have personal stuff on one virtual desktop, then one or more independent tasks in the rest. So I can have gmail on one, then work notes on the next, and Audacity on the next for recording a conference call, and work internet on the last desktop. AND, Guake then has three or four tabs that have random terminal stuff as well as htop (task manager), Wavemon (Wifi manager), and a custom bash script with various statistics like RAM availability.
Now, flaws? Other than some initial setup issues, my biggest and only real flaw is: LACK OF RAM. Mine only has 2 GB of RAM. For the LOVE OF GOD, get more than 2 GB of RAM if you plan to use multi-tasking AND internet. A single Google Document webpage is a RAM whore and will eat up at least 200MB. And once you hit the end of RAM (and ZRAM), you are SCREWED and the system will start lagging and if you don't hurry and stop the "too many tabs", the system will completely halt to the point it's faster to reboot than to recover. On the brightside, the SSD on that laptop means it reboots in less than eight seconds!
So, get a 4 GB RAM laptop, and any Netbook with the CPU of an Acer C720 or later should be more than enough. (C720 has an i3 model but I think it's only 2 GB. So you have to decide between 4 GB or a better CPU.) There _should_ be better netbooks out there these days though. But mine is just fine. It also has a battery life of eight to ten hours!
Wow... you are heading right into a Upright Citizens Brigade skit. http://www.cc.com/video-clips/...
> no one is even coming for anyone.
Tell that to Brendan Eich.
Actually, it's pretty pathetic that C++ doesn't give you a stack trace for exceptions.
Though, as an aside, that just reminded me of the equally-as-pathetic amount of Stockholm Syndrome exhibited by C++ programmers on Stack Overflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/quest...
You don't need it! They're useless! If you use it you're not a good programmer! Why would you want C++ to be like other languages?!
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
I love how people say artificial sweeteners are harmless, but whenever I accidentally ingest one I get a headache, become nauseous, a sharpness around my heart, and almost vomit.
What terrible thing did I eat to make me feel so sick? A can of PEACHES. That's right, it had sugar but was also laced Sucralose.
Thanks to a complete failure of the media, I didn't know Sucralose could make me sick until after it happened and I started doing some digging. Tons of people apparently have similar reactions:
http://www.consumeraffairs.com...