Most of the time I'm not listening to it on a portable music player. But sound quality is not the only advantage, I've found Ogg Vorbis files are also slightly smaller. Though of course the big advantage is that ripping to Ogg Vorbis works out of the box. I have to do zero configuration.
"Well that was pretty stupid of you. If you would've ripped the music in MP3 format you could listen to it on nearly anything. The only people that use Ogg Vorbis are open source fanatics."
That's a pretty stupid thing to say. It sounds better than MP3 and its legal to play on my operating system of choice, it also works fine on my audio player of choice. All it shows is a limitation of the ipod. All that matters to me is that my collection of music is in the best format for me, I couldn't really give a toss that your favourite format is MP3. For me Ogg Vorbis was the sensible choice. Whatever happened to the concept of personal choice?
While coincidentally wearing those nice white stylish earphones that signal to everyone that you're listening to an ipod;-) I might have got one but have about 9Gb of music in Ogg Vorbis format and they don't support it. So about as much use as a brick to me. Fortunately though, plenty of other players do.
That's how bookmarks have worked in Epiphany for a long time. When you type in the toolbar it matches the keywords you have defined, and automatically groups bookmarks in a hierarchy based on the tags. It's one of the reasons I still use Epiphany rather than Firefox (on Linux).
It's not really possible as there is not enough information for the other side. MS is holding all the cards to their chest. Such an article would need to list all those patents and that simply isn't going to happen. It's also very hard to defend the old, "you're infringing our IP but we won't tell you what" approach they're taking. The pro-MS comments I have seen have been inflammatory nonsense and I doubt if you'll get much else until Microsoft shift from its protection racket stance.
"Here's the reason: the shooting took place in a gun free zone. According to school rules, no one was allowed to have guns, making them all sitting ducks."
His point was you don't have to be sitting ducks, use a bit of ingenuity. If you're all carrying guns the gunman doesn't even need to have to smuggle his in anymore. He can just take yours. If you don't have the instincts to cope with a gunman unarmed then a weapon probably won't do you much good as he's likely already got yours.
"If the situation were reversed (e.g. all the clueless users running Linspire, which to the best of my knowledge still, in pure Windows-pre-Vista style, has the user run as root by default)"
I'm pretty sure they changed that while it still called Lindows, i.e. quite a long time ago.
Well the US is not the World Police. He also broke Australian law, and the crime was committed on Australian soil, so should have been charged and tried there. A sovereign country's citizens should be tried under that country's law, unless the US fancies an international court to handle international crimes.
I addition I'd say that copyrights and patents to something should belong to their creator and any corporations wanting to use them should be required to licence them. These things should be in the hands of individuals and not corporations. In the case where someone has created something as part of their employment then perhaps a free licence (one year being exclusive) would be appropriate, but for the term of the copyright/patent protection the creation should belong to its creator(s).
"If what you cared about was writing and giving aware software for free then you wouldn't need a license at all. What you want is other people's software for free."
No what you want is for users of the software to always have full access to the code they are running on their machines so they have the freedom to modify it. Stop trying to obfuscate what is quite a simple difference in how the two licenses consider which freedoms are important. The GPL values the freedom of the user to always have access to the code they are using, the BSD values the freedom of the developer to distribute code however they like.
That has to be one of the most nonsensical analogies I have ever heard.
1) Entrench the proprietry platforms and make sure Linux is always seen as an outsider. The Mac is fine as its part of the club.
2) Promote Windows as the place to be for open source software. So they can say Windows runs proprietry software and open source software. Hence the Windows & Mac plugins for Firefox create gaps between the capabilities of a piece of open source software on a proprietry platform and the same piece of software on an open platform.
Of course 2) could backfire by undermining some of their proprietry partners, or even themselves, but they want to make sure popular Open Source applications are available on Windows.
"Well, if you're going to split hairs to load the dice, Netcaptor was not a browser, it was a shell. I remember Opera 3 had what I, and most people would call tabbed browsing, but you're trying to be a jackass."
I'm not actually, I'm being completely serious (yes despite it being the first). I'm just recovering from a nasty bug and don't feel all that silly. And yes, I'm aware Netcaptor was a shell, but it was also the inspiration for a lot of the Mozilla based tabbed browsing efforts. The earliest I can remember being Skipstone in 2000.
I used Opera 3 and used to like the raised display they used for hyperlinks (instead of underlines). The way you could easily link one window to another so that links from one window would open in a specified child window. Setting up real parent-child relationships.
Yet despite that familiarity, tabbed browsing still felt like something new when I used it. The so called tabbed browsing in Opera was never referred to as such, and was never promoted as a feature, it was simply recognised as standard MDI. You could have all the pages as tiny little windows overlapping one another, that's hardly a tabbed interface. It's only people after the fact that are trying desperately to promote it as an Opera invention. I have no idea why.
"Opera had it long before any other browser, so I had my hackles up when this popped up in the RSS feed."
No it didn't, Netcaptor did. And if you search google groups you'll see people asking for tabbed browsing in Mozilla like in Netcaptor. Not Opera. Opera didn't have true tabbed browsing until after a few others had implemented it (Skipstone, Galeon, Mozilla). For a start, at which point in Opera could you have multiple windows with multiple tabs in them, rather than the fairly typical MDI interface they had?
"They put a lot of thought into that controller. Not like PS2. Where's the square button again? is R1 on the top, or is that R2?"
Muscle memory picks this stuff up very quickly. To answer your question: Left and Top;-) Are you still hunting and pecking on your keyboard? I found the playstation controller very easy to pick up, but never got on with the ABC buttons on some of the older Nintendo controllers. I did only play those consoles once, the N64 and the one before that. Haven't tried the GC or Wii. I much prefer the north/south/east/west layout of buttons rather than having them in a horizontal row.
"It's not entirely clear that YouTube has a viable business model without violation of reasonable copyright law, setting aside for the moment the DMCA. Of all the YouTube links sent to me by friends, probably 8 of 10 are links to copyrighted material."
That's not correct, close to 100% of the links sent to you are copyrighted material. The fact someone has made a video with a camcorder and uploaded it to YouTube makes it no less copyrighted material than if some big corporation creates it. I've also seen examples of big corps using YouTube to submit their videos. So only the copyright holder knows if a piece of work is infringing or not, by uploading something you are in effect claiming that you have rights to the material you are uploading.
"For some reason, people have gotten the idea in their head that there's some kind of huge Christian uprising or takeover happening in the US, and it's simply not there at all. Sorry. Given that you don't bother to support your initial point, I'm going to just ignore the rest of the post. Hope you don't mind."
Well if that shrinking minority of Christians just happens to be running the country, driving policy (banning gay marriage?) then people may well get that impression. Maybe less a growth in numbers and more a growth in power and influence. I suspect as the number of practising Christians continues to drop that desire to grab power and influence will only increase as an attempt to stop the slide.
all these different internets will merge into just one internet. To stop the confusing situation where you never know which of the internets you should connect to. My modem is always connecting to the wrong internet and I have to keep hitting it until it finds the right one. I think I need to upgrade to a rooter. Maybe a radio one.
This was already done a few years ago, there was a company that did a complete desktop environment based on Mozilla. I was sold as a kind of appliance PC for the living room.
"will be the minute YOU post a comment telling us how they abuse their monopoly to push their own development tools."
Their you hit the nail on the head, "their own development tools". What if they install Perl, Ruby, Python out of the box? Do you really think people would make those complaints then? Of course if they did it would be IronPython, Ruby.Net and Perl.Net.
That is *the* complaint about Microsoft. They are only willing to bundle things that lock you into their technology. They don't ever take a neutral stance. So you get Windows media player to lock them into their codecs, IE to lock you into their internet technologies, Microsoft Works to lock you into their document formats. Different clients to lock you to their servers. It's the same story all the time. It makes them look tired and afraid to compete on merit.
"hey will have to sudo at some point, and there will be times when they will want to do more than a one off command."
And that's just what "Applications -> System Tools -> Root Terminal" is for. A root account is easy to set up if you know what you're doing and not really necessary for someone who doesn't.
Sudo can do more than one command, you enter the password only the first time you use it. After that it's like "simon says" until the time limit expires.
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All calls from agencies get redirected to one person who manages an approved short list of agencies. The list gets populated through a tender process.
/dev/null as soon as they call. It completely wrong foots them when they phone.
We used to get tons of these, now they simply get pushed off to
Most of the time I'm not listening to it on a portable music player. But sound quality is not the only advantage, I've found Ogg Vorbis files are also slightly smaller. Though of course the big advantage is that ripping to Ogg Vorbis works out of the box. I have to do zero configuration.
"Well that was pretty stupid of you. If you would've ripped the music in MP3 format you could listen to it on nearly anything. The only people that use Ogg Vorbis are open source fanatics."
That's a pretty stupid thing to say. It sounds better than MP3 and its legal to play on my operating system of choice, it also works fine on my audio player of choice. All it shows is a limitation of the ipod. All that matters to me is that my collection of music is in the best format for me, I couldn't really give a toss that your favourite format is MP3. For me Ogg Vorbis was the sensible choice. Whatever happened to the concept of personal choice?
While coincidentally wearing those nice white stylish earphones that signal to everyone that you're listening to an ipod ;-) I might have got one but have about 9Gb of music in Ogg Vorbis format and they don't support it. So about as much use as a brick to me. Fortunately though, plenty of other players do.
That's how bookmarks have worked in Epiphany for a long time. When you type in the toolbar it matches the keywords you have defined, and automatically groups bookmarks in a hierarchy based on the tags. It's one of the reasons I still use Epiphany rather than Firefox (on Linux).
It's not really possible as there is not enough information for the other side. MS is holding all the cards to their chest. Such an article would need to list all those patents and that simply isn't going to happen. It's also very hard to defend the old, "you're infringing our IP but we won't tell you what" approach they're taking. The pro-MS comments I have seen have been inflammatory nonsense and I doubt if you'll get much else until Microsoft shift from its protection racket stance.
"Here's the reason: the shooting took place in a gun free zone. According to school rules, no one was allowed to have guns, making them all sitting ducks."
His point was you don't have to be sitting ducks, use a bit of ingenuity. If you're all carrying guns the gunman doesn't even need to have to smuggle his in anymore. He can just take yours. If you don't have the instincts to cope with a gunman unarmed then a weapon probably won't do you much good as he's likely already got yours.
I thought that girl was a dig at the Wii. And that was before I saw the end of the advert,
You might want to read this as a companion piece.
The sunspots stuff was discredited years ago, I'm sure you can find the information easily enough if you have a look.
"If the situation were reversed (e.g. all the clueless users running Linspire, which to the best of my knowledge still, in pure Windows-pre-Vista style, has the user run as root by default)"
I'm pretty sure they changed that while it still called Lindows, i.e. quite a long time ago.
Well the US is not the World Police. He also broke Australian law, and the crime was committed on Australian soil, so should have been charged and tried there. A sovereign country's citizens should be tried under that country's law, unless the US fancies an international court to handle international crimes.
I addition I'd say that copyrights and patents to something should belong to their creator and any corporations wanting to use them should be required to licence them. These things should be in the hands of individuals and not corporations. In the case where someone has created something as part of their employment then perhaps a free licence (one year being exclusive) would be appropriate, but for the term of the copyright/patent protection the creation should belong to its creator(s).
"If what you cared about was writing and giving aware software for free then you wouldn't need a license at all. What you want is other people's software for free."
No what you want is for users of the software to always have full access to the code they are running on their machines so they have the freedom to modify it. Stop trying to obfuscate what is quite a simple difference in how the two licenses consider which freedoms are important. The GPL values the freedom of the user to always have access to the code they are using, the BSD values the freedom of the developer to distribute code however they like.
That has to be one of the most nonsensical analogies I have ever heard.
1) Entrench the proprietry platforms and make sure Linux is always seen as an outsider. The Mac is fine as its part of the club.
2) Promote Windows as the place to be for open source software. So they can say Windows runs proprietry software and open source software. Hence the Windows & Mac plugins for Firefox create gaps between the capabilities of a piece of open source software on a proprietry platform and the same piece of software on an open platform.
Of course 2) could backfire by undermining some of their proprietry partners, or even themselves, but they want to make sure popular Open Source applications are available on Windows.
"Well, if you're going to split hairs to load the dice, Netcaptor was not a browser, it was a shell. I remember Opera 3 had what I, and most people would call tabbed browsing, but you're trying to be a jackass."
I'm not actually, I'm being completely serious (yes despite it being the first). I'm just recovering from a nasty bug and don't feel all that silly. And yes, I'm aware Netcaptor was a shell, but it was also the inspiration for a lot of the Mozilla based tabbed browsing efforts. The earliest I can remember being Skipstone in 2000.
I used Opera 3 and used to like the raised display they used for hyperlinks (instead of underlines). The way you could easily link one window to another so that links from one window would open in a specified child window. Setting up real parent-child relationships.
Yet despite that familiarity, tabbed browsing still felt like something new when I used it. The so called tabbed browsing in Opera was never referred to as such, and was never promoted as a feature, it was simply recognised as standard MDI. You could have all the pages as tiny little windows overlapping one another, that's hardly a tabbed interface. It's only people after the fact that are trying desperately to promote it as an Opera invention. I have no idea why.
"Opera had it long before any other browser, so I had my hackles up when this popped up in the RSS feed."
No it didn't, Netcaptor did. And if you search google groups you'll see people asking for tabbed browsing in Mozilla like in Netcaptor. Not Opera. Opera didn't have true tabbed browsing until after a few others had implemented it (Skipstone, Galeon, Mozilla). For a start, at which point in Opera could you have multiple windows with multiple tabs in them, rather than the fairly typical MDI interface they had?
"They put a lot of thought into that controller. Not like PS2. Where's the square button again? is R1 on the top, or is that R2?"
;-) Are you still hunting and pecking on your keyboard? I found the playstation controller very easy to pick up, but never got on with the ABC buttons on some of the older Nintendo controllers. I did only play those consoles once, the N64 and the one before that. Haven't tried the GC or Wii. I much prefer the north/south/east/west layout of buttons rather than having them in a horizontal row.
Muscle memory picks this stuff up very quickly. To answer your question: Left and Top
I can insert video in presentations in OpenOffice 2.0.4 in Linux. The video API it uses probably just isn't available on Windows yet.
"It's not entirely clear that YouTube has a viable business model without violation of reasonable copyright law, setting aside for the moment the DMCA. Of all the YouTube links sent to me by friends, probably 8 of 10 are links to copyrighted material."
That's not correct, close to 100% of the links sent to you are copyrighted material. The fact someone has made a video with a camcorder and uploaded it to YouTube makes it no less copyrighted material than if some big corporation creates it. I've also seen examples of big corps using YouTube to submit their videos. So only the copyright holder knows if a piece of work is infringing or not, by uploading something you are in effect claiming that you have rights to the material you are uploading.
"For some reason, people have gotten the idea in their head that there's some kind of huge Christian uprising or takeover happening in the US, and it's simply not there at all. Sorry. Given that you don't bother to support your initial point, I'm going to just ignore the rest of the post. Hope you don't mind."
Well if that shrinking minority of Christians just happens to be running the country, driving policy (banning gay marriage?) then people may well get that impression. Maybe less a growth in numbers and more a growth in power and influence. I suspect as the number of practising Christians continues to drop that desire to grab power and influence will only increase as an attempt to stop the slide.
all these different internets will merge into just one internet. To stop the confusing situation where you never know which of the internets you should connect to. My modem is always connecting to the wrong internet and I have to keep hitting it until it finds the right one. I think I need to upgrade to a rooter. Maybe a radio one.
This was already done a few years ago, there was a company that did a complete desktop environment based on Mozilla. I was sold as a kind of appliance PC for the living room.
Here's an article on it (from 2002).
If I remember correctly that was where the original calendar code came from.
"will be the minute YOU post a comment telling us how they abuse their monopoly to push their own development tools."
Their you hit the nail on the head, "their own development tools". What if they install Perl, Ruby, Python out of the box? Do you really think people would make those complaints then? Of course if they did it would be IronPython, Ruby.Net and Perl.Net.
That is *the* complaint about Microsoft. They are only willing to bundle things that lock you into their technology. They don't ever take a neutral stance. So you get Windows media player to lock them into their codecs, IE to lock you into their internet technologies, Microsoft Works to lock you into their document formats. Different clients to lock you to their servers. It's the same story all the time. It makes them look tired and afraid to compete on merit.
"hey will have to sudo at some point, and there will be times when they will want to do more than a one off command."
And that's just what "Applications -> System Tools -> Root Terminal" is for. A root account is easy to set up if you know what you're doing and not really necessary for someone who doesn't.
Sudo can do more than one command, you enter the password only the first time you use it. After that it's like "simon says" until the time limit expires.
"One large volcanic eruption produces more CO2 than we would produce in a hundred years at our current rate of production."
Did you just make this up? I'd use your own advice and look it up. You're in for a big surprise.