Yes, the cheap Dell is better in some ways then the cheap Apple. But then again, you forgot to add the video editing bundle and the CD burner, which bumps the price up somewhat. Besides, I'd pay $200 extra to use OS X.
As for the high end - dual 1.25Ghz G4s aren't "vastly slower" than dual 2.4Ghz P4s. For your average office app or game, you won't notice a difference. For multimedia purposes, the G4s are probably at least as fast, due to Altivec. Yes, I know, Altivec isn't an omnipotent silver bullet, but it still kicks ass.
And if I have the choice between a Dell 20" flat panel and an Apple 23" flat panel, I think I know what I'd take.
Apple hardware usually costs maybe $100 more than comparable PC hardware. If you configure a PC from a major retailer with similar specifications to an iMac, you'll see that. Just because a homebuilt PC with cheap parts costs half as much as an Mac doesn't mean an Mac is expensive.
It's called an Edit Decision List (EDL). Most major video editing programs can import and export them.
Unfortunately, that would involve importing the movie onto your computer and exporting it back to tape/DVD, which not everyone has the equipment to do.
You really think we're gonna slashdot sourceforge?
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Netscape 6.2 was based on a development version of Mozilla. It was, nonetheless, perfectly stable and functional on every computer I've tried. In fact, I'm typing this on 7.0 right now, and it seems slightly buggier and slower (strange, Mozilla improved a lot in those areas from 0.9.4 to 1.0).
Regardless of what it was based on, Netscape advertised Netscape 6.2 as a stable browser version, and as its recommended browser.
There's no increase for hardware decoders, anyway. They've been being charged for a long time, as have commercial software companies. The only thing this change affects is free-as-in-beer software.
I just don't buy the blanket argument that lossy -> lossy has to produce even more lossy.
You're wrong.
Ogg and MP3 are different. They compress different ways. MP3 may take out one portion of the sound, and Ogg another. If that happens, you are now missing two parts of the sound instead of one, with noticably lesser quality.
Even within the same lossy format, reconverting causes problems. Try this command:
for i in `seq 1 100`; do jpegtopnm file.jpg | pnmtojpeg > file.jpg; done
There should be a noticable difference in file.jpg.
Starcraft uses p2p, and it's almost completely unhacked after four years (yeah, I know about maphack, but that's not much compared to the hacking in a lot of other games).
The majority of existing games are already mostly p2p. You usually have to connect to a server to find other players, but then the game itself is handled between the clients.
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Sarge isn't unstable. Only fully tested packages make their way into sarge. Whatever they do to fuck up sid shouldn't affect sarge.
Besides, I've used sid since gcc 2.9.5, and I've never had any problems with gcc migrations.
You can easily set that up with Sawfish, the GNOME 2 default wm. In the GNOME menu, go to Desktop Preferences > Advanced > Sawfish > Key Bindings, and bind whatever shortcut you want to "Iconify workspace windows", or whatever you want.
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How long would it take the average gas-powered car to cross Australia along that route?
Anyway, for what it's worth, the last issue of Consumer Reports rated Apple flat panels as the best monitors available to consumers.
As for the high end - dual 1.25Ghz G4s aren't "vastly slower" than dual 2.4Ghz P4s. For your average office app or game, you won't notice a difference. For multimedia purposes, the G4s are probably at least as fast, due to Altivec. Yes, I know, Altivec isn't an omnipotent silver bullet, but it still kicks ass.
And if I have the choice between a Dell 20" flat panel and an Apple 23" flat panel, I think I know what I'd take.
Apple hardware usually costs maybe $100 more than comparable PC hardware. If you configure a PC from a major retailer with similar specifications to an iMac, you'll see that. Just because a homebuilt PC with cheap parts costs half as much as an Mac doesn't mean an Mac is expensive.
That has to be one of the best trolls I ever read.
Unfortunately, that would involve importing the movie onto your computer and exporting it back to tape/DVD, which not everyone has the equipment to do.
It's likely that they just have some perl script that identifies itself as IE.
You really think we're gonna slashdot sourceforge?
Regardless of what it was based on, Netscape advertised Netscape 6.2 as a stable browser version, and as its recommended browser.
The majority of Mozilla coding is done by payed Netscape programmers. Keep that in mind.
Excuse me? Netscape 6 has been out for two years, and 6.2's been around for at least 10 months.
I believe that all non MS/Apple desktops currently come out to something like 1.5%. Those numbers could easily be right (or at least close).
Ummm... did you even click the link?
Nullsoft already has a blanket license for distributing MP3 decoders. This change does not affect Winamp.
There's no increase for hardware decoders, anyway. They've been being charged for a long time, as have commercial software companies. The only thing this change affects is free-as-in-beer software.
You're wrong.
Ogg and MP3 are different. They compress different ways. MP3 may take out one portion of the sound, and Ogg another. If that happens, you are now missing two parts of the sound instead of one, with noticably lesser quality.
Even within the same lossy format, reconverting causes problems. Try this command:
There should be a noticable difference in file.jpg.
Kazaa doesn't include an MP3 player (IIRC), it just embeds Windows Media.
I'd kill for any of the setups depicted on that page.
I'd certainly hope so.
Well, even on /. trolls do have a lot to do with goats (what they collect from them I'll leave to your imagination).
Starcraft uses p2p, and it's almost completely unhacked after four years (yeah, I know about maphack, but that's not much compared to the hacking in a lot of other games).
The majority of existing games are already mostly p2p. You usually have to connect to a server to find other players, but then the game itself is handled between the clients.
Besides, I've used sid since gcc 2.9.5, and I've never had any problems with gcc migrations.
A lot of people do prefer RMS's OS to Linus's.
You can easily set that up with Sawfish, the GNOME 2 default wm. In the GNOME menu, go to Desktop Preferences > Advanced > Sawfish > Key Bindings, and bind whatever shortcut you want to "Iconify workspace windows", or whatever you want.