I find it interesting how easily someone could be confused by the fact that FLAC and Speex just as easily can get confused with Vorbis - they fit in Ogg containers, they are audio codecs, and generaly, any sufficiently powerful player that supports the Ogg container also supports FLAC and Speex.
I also find it interesting that most people leave FLACs in raw bitstreams - you rarely, if ever, see Ogg FLACs in practice.
Hey now, even Con says he only makes it available for testing. His patches against release kernels are generally quite stable, and he rarely has to fix anything. What I'm talking about is a problem I've been having with the 2.6.19 series specificaly that other people are complaining about in 2.6.20-rc. What I clearly failed to mention is that this is a mainline problem.
On 2.6.19-ck1, I ran into a number of show-stopping problems with I/O resulting in several severe hangs (which I never bothered to debug) which I have linked to I/O. I've been hearing reports from other users of the -ck patchset that they are experiencing similar problems with 2.6.20-rc5/6.
I think I'll wait a bit and stick with 2.6.18 for now.
No game company, AFAIK, is as clear about their stand on it as Blizzard is with WoW. The EULA specifically states that buying or selling virtual goods with real currency is a bannable offense. They don't enforce it very well, but they do enforce it. No one else, AFAIK, does.
Please do. I've looked long and hard for laptop OEMs and have only found a precious few. (Emperor Linux and Linux Certified come to mind, but I like to shop around.)
Damn the security issues. That's exactly what I want, but I can't find any recent (read: modern) client that supports a Vim mode (or even Vim as an editor).
Word is that we're getting an Exchange server to replace our Qmail system, by corporate mandate. So, the two of us using Thunderbird and the two people not using Windows in our office of 8 are basically screwed.
Oh, yes, this news about Outlook makes me happy. Now they just need to break the rest of it, make it even more unusable and I don't have to switch!
Well I tend to use the DOM with as little branching as possible (between Firefox, Safari and IE). I must admit I don't tend to spend much time looking into the problems Opera has with scripts, as most of my current code is for CMS GUIs[...] The 3 main browsers all work with the code flawlessly. It'd be nice if Opera supported the DOM as well as the other browsers, but it just plain doesn't, and it's not worth branching code for no purpose.
Are you sure? In my testing, Opera 9 has as complete an implementation of the DOM as Firefox does. In fact, I've been relying on that for most of what I do - which includes work on a CMS GUI.
As for the other issues you note, I do recall seeing them in pre-8.0 versions, but since 8.5, I've never seen even one such problem. Nearly everything is complete and fixed as of 9.0, and Opera is already at 9.10.
No, they don't forbid. They DON'T IMPLEMENT such a stupid idea. Microsoft had to go out of their way to ADD this "feature".
The "feature" in question is the following JavaScript snippet:
document.execCommand('paste', false, false); // where document is any document object having designMode="on"
Firefox throws an exception "Access to XPConnect service denied" and Opera 9 claims no support (throwing "NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR"). 'copy' and 'cut' throw similar exceptions.
So, yes, Mozilla DOES IMPLEMENT this "stupid idea". They have gone OUT OF THEIR WAY to protect your clipboard contents by disabling it by default. The IE team has done NOTHING to protect your clipboard from sniffing.
This feature has limited usefulness and it's stupid to rely on it for anything. But, if you really need it to work, you can turn it on in Firefox. I'm not at all surprised Opera 9 doesn't support it. I wouldn't.
Yes. I do a significant amount of my testing in Opera 9 and Firefox, and am in fact developing a full-featured RTE based on designMode that currently works in IE, Firefox, Opera 9, and Safari 2.
It's not a bad browser for rendering CSS layouts, but its JS engine sucks and has always sucked. Basic AJAX... simply fails with it to the point all the sites I work on actively sniff for Opera and remove Javascript beyond basic rollovers and form validation. This isn't a troll, as I still test CSS layouts with Opera to ensure templates look correct, but I doubt anyone uses it for its scripting capabilities!
It reads like a troll, since you clearly haven't done much testing with Opera 9. Their DOM implementation is complete through most of level 2, and is in line with Firefox 2. Their new designMode stuff is very complete, with behavior similar to Firefox's Midas. The XMLHTTPRequest stuff that everyone relies on so much now has been well-supported for a very long time.
The reason Opera doesn't work on so many "AJAXy" applications is, simply, because of the fact that developers with your mentality either do sniffing of the navigator object (which is Wrong, a Bad Thing, bad practise, and just plain idiotic) or are just too shortsighted to see that Opera is improving with every new release (version 8.0 notwithstanding).
I do the bulk of my Javascript testing now in Firefox, but use Opera 9 as a test environment to verify results. I test in IE only to see what other kinds of idiotic things its half-assed "DOM" implementation does wrong.
Just because I have issue with evolution in general (as it applies as an absolute theory) doesn't mean I don't have a strong belief that natural selection applies to humans equally as well as it applies to the natural order of biological development.
I just happen to be of the mind that whether or not stupidity is hereditary, stupid people need not reproduce.
I personally have a lot of trouble supporting the theory of evolution, but I can't help but think that eugenics is a good thing where stupid people are concerned.
I agree with both GP and parent post. Let them all get themselves killed and the problem sovles itself - and the lawyers all starve in the process.
I know this will look like a troll, but hear me out.
Maybe it's time to cut.au off for a while. All of the.au businesses and consumers, just cut them off the 'net until the idiot judge's decision is overturned or overruled. Except for throx. He can stay. I like his sig. (I do know his kind of fear.)
But anyway, just cut them off until they fix things. Having no access to the rest of the 'net would certainly satisfy that judge's decision, and it would show everyone just how much of an impact that decision has.
Then, when that judge is removed from a position in which he is clearly incompetent, and when his decision is struck down, we can bring back our.au friends and all wil be right with the world.
You can't build general software with XNA. It's tuned for games. It's also only really useful to anyone with a Creator's Club membership.
You CAN build general software on PS3 Linux. It's not tuned specifically for any one purpose. It's useful to anyone, anywhere, anytime, and doesn't require additional investment to share in its benefits.
Of course it's not a competitive solution. THERE IS NO CONTEST.
I prefer windows because I get notified in a uniform manner when hardware is added. I prefer windows because there aren't fifty ways to access the same device. I prefer windows because it's easier to develop software for. Have you ever written dynamic hardware detection software for Linux/Solaris?
If you have to recompile the god damn kernel just to see your storage it's not user friendly.
Most distros provide kernels pre-compiled with everything available as modules. D-Bus auto-loads modules as needed when new hardware is detected.
Windows is like a Honda Accord, not very exciting, but it works, Linux is like a Ferrari...that's mailed to you in pieces over the course of a year, each piece comes with a manual of how it works and what it does, but gives no instruction on how to use it with other components.
There're these new-fangled things called "desktopdistributions." They're mail-order Ferraris that cost less than a Honda Accord (most even free) that come pre-assembled with a dashboard computer that asks you your name when you first get in and helps you tailor itself to your needs. You can even fix the engine yourself if you're so inclined - unlike that Honda that comes with non-standard, esoteric parts that amaze you that it works every time you think you've figured out how it's put together; and you'll be threatened with a lawsuit or jail time if you try to change anything under the hood.
This is possibly the worst solution I could imagine to the problem of complex software that is intended for normal users. Can you point to any examples of general-use software (open or closed source) that have successfully implemented a basic/intermediate/advanced toggle switch for its main interface?
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I find it interesting how easily someone could be confused by the fact that FLAC and Speex just as easily can get confused with Vorbis - they fit in Ogg containers, they are audio codecs, and generaly, any sufficiently powerful player that supports the Ogg container also supports FLAC and Speex.
I also find it interesting that most people leave FLACs in raw bitstreams - you rarely, if ever, see Ogg FLACs in practice.
I shal begin this practice henceforth.
Hey now, even Con says he only makes it available for testing. His patches against release kernels are generally quite stable, and he rarely has to fix anything. What I'm talking about is a problem I've been having with the 2.6.19 series specificaly that other people are complaining about in 2.6.20-rc. What I clearly failed to mention is that this is a mainline problem.
On 2.6.19-ck1, I ran into a number of show-stopping problems with I/O resulting in several severe hangs (which I never bothered to debug) which I have linked to I/O. I've been hearing reports from other users of the -ck patchset that they are experiencing similar problems with 2.6.20-rc5/6.
I think I'll wait a bit and stick with 2.6.18 for now.
No game company, AFAIK, is as clear about their stand on it as Blizzard is with WoW. The EULA specifically states that buying or selling virtual goods with real currency is a bannable offense. They don't enforce it very well, but they do enforce it. No one else, AFAIK, does.
Please do. I've looked long and hard for laptop OEMs and have only found a precious few. (Emperor Linux and Linux Certified come to mind, but I like to shop around.)
That's one thing I want to see rewritten in several different languages.
Just so I can make sense of the damn thing and I won't look at my call to ITPLBV() and wonder, "What the fuck does THAT do?"
Coincidentally, I'm using Kmail. I hate it, but it does most of what I want. There's a yzis ebuild for Gentoo, so I'll check it out. Thanks!
I've had flash 9 beta working in Opera since 9.01. What're you talking about?
Tell that to good Mr. Knuth, who wrote (and maintains) TeX.
A trivial problem. Light-weight coolant suits have been made by NASA contractors for years and could be trivially adapted to this new armor.
Damn the security issues. That's exactly what I want, but I can't find any recent (read: modern) client that supports a Vim mode (or even Vim as an editor).
Word is that we're getting an Exchange server to replace our Qmail system, by corporate mandate. So, the two of us using Thunderbird and the two people not using Windows in our office of 8 are basically screwed.
Oh, yes, this news about Outlook makes me happy. Now they just need to break the rest of it, make it even more unusable and I don't have to switch!
Neat. But no GPRS and it looks like my ass.
I want to see more stuff not designed by two-bit designers who wish they worked in Cupertino. They're all useless.
Are you sure? In my testing, Opera 9 has as complete an implementation of the DOM as Firefox does. In fact, I've been relying on that for most of what I do - which includes work on a CMS GUI.
As for the other issues you note, I do recall seeing them in pre-8.0 versions, but since 8.5, I've never seen even one such problem. Nearly everything is complete and fixed as of 9.0, and Opera is already at 9.10.
Indeed. That's the only clipboard I trust and rely on.
:wq!
The "feature" in question is the following JavaScript snippet:
Firefox throws an exception "Access to XPConnect service denied" and Opera 9 claims no support (throwing "NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR"). 'copy' and 'cut' throw similar exceptions.
So, yes, Mozilla DOES IMPLEMENT this "stupid idea". They have gone OUT OF THEIR WAY to protect your clipboard contents by disabling it by default. The IE team has done NOTHING to protect your clipboard from sniffing.
This feature has limited usefulness and it's stupid to rely on it for anything. But, if you really need it to work, you can turn it on in Firefox. I'm not at all surprised Opera 9 doesn't support it. I wouldn't.
Yes. I do a significant amount of my testing in Opera 9 and Firefox, and am in fact developing a full-featured RTE based on designMode that currently works in IE, Firefox, Opera 9, and Safari 2.
It reads like a troll, since you clearly haven't done much testing with Opera 9. Their DOM implementation is complete through most of level 2, and is in line with Firefox 2. Their new designMode stuff is very complete, with behavior similar to Firefox's Midas. The XMLHTTPRequest stuff that everyone relies on so much now has been well-supported for a very long time.
The reason Opera doesn't work on so many "AJAXy" applications is, simply, because of the fact that developers with your mentality either do sniffing of the navigator object (which is Wrong, a Bad Thing, bad practise, and just plain idiotic) or are just too shortsighted to see that Opera is improving with every new release (version 8.0 notwithstanding).
I do the bulk of my Javascript testing now in Firefox, but use Opera 9 as a test environment to verify results. I test in IE only to see what other kinds of idiotic things its half-assed "DOM" implementation does wrong.
Just because I have issue with evolution in general (as it applies as an absolute theory) doesn't mean I don't have a strong belief that natural selection applies to humans equally as well as it applies to the natural order of biological development.
I just happen to be of the mind that whether or not stupidity is hereditary, stupid people need not reproduce.
This is why I advocate passive eugenics.
I personally have a lot of trouble supporting the theory of evolution, but I can't help but think that eugenics is a good thing where stupid people are concerned.
I agree with both GP and parent post. Let them all get themselves killed and the problem sovles itself - and the lawyers all starve in the process.
I know this will look like a troll, but hear me out.
Maybe it's time to cut .au off for a while. All of the .au businesses and consumers, just cut them off the 'net until the idiot judge's decision is overturned or overruled. Except for throx. He can stay. I like his sig. (I do know his kind of fear.)
But anyway, just cut them off until they fix things. Having no access to the rest of the 'net would certainly satisfy that judge's decision, and it would show everyone just how much of an impact that decision has.
Then, when that judge is removed from a position in which he is clearly incompetent, and when his decision is struck down, we can bring back our .au friends and all wil be right with the world.
Then it's little more than an unsupported rumor.
You can't build general software with XNA. It's tuned for games. It's also only really useful to anyone with a Creator's Club membership.
You CAN build general software on PS3 Linux. It's not tuned specifically for any one purpose. It's useful to anyone, anywhere, anytime, and doesn't require additional investment to share in its benefits.
Of course it's not a competitive solution. THERE IS NO CONTEST.
Don't need to. We have HAL/D-Bus now.
Most distros provide kernels pre-compiled with everything available as modules. D-Bus auto-loads modules as needed when new hardware is detected.
There're these new-fangled things called "desktop distributions." They're mail-order Ferraris that cost less than a Honda Accord (most even free) that come pre-assembled with a dashboard computer that asks you your name when you first get in and helps you tailor itself to your needs. You can even fix the engine yourself if you're so inclined - unlike that Honda that comes with non-standard, esoteric parts that amaze you that it works every time you think you've figured out how it's put together; and you'll be threatened with a lawsuit or jail time if you try to change anything under the hood.
Toyota.
There are others, but you said "one."
Yes.