Now, if only supporting Linux didn't require the developer to provide packages for 20 different versions of all the major distros (apparently autopackage is working on this sort of thing, I haven't tried it yet).
Last I went to Best Buy, they had blank DVD minidisc thingies there. Not the CDs, but the bigger DVD equivalent, like Gamecube uses.
No, they're not "like Gamecube uses". Gamecube discs are non-standard and written differently than normal mini-DVDs (although they do spin the same way, contrary to popular opinion). No publicly-available product is physically capable of burning them. So they're pretty much unpiratable.
Then again, that's only a strong point if it encourages third-party game development. As of yet, it doesn't seem to have done so. While a Gamecube is worth owning if only for the (excellent) Nintendo titles, it's never going to be popular in the US marketplace without much stronger developer support.
FWIW, I've had four different Windows machines on my home network at various points, and none of them has ever reliably been able to access each other's SMB shares. Linux and OSX, using Samba, both work perfectly on the first try. So OSX works better better for me at accessing Windows shares than Windows itself does (this is XP, 2000, and 2003).
Open source software can be reviewed by thousands of people but I have yet to meet anybody who is actually doing so.
That means nothing. Imagine that 1000 people regularly review Firefox code (which is probably a gross overestimate, but still). Out of 300 million people in the US, that means that any given person still has a 99.9997% chance of not reviewing Firefox code. If you know 5000 people, the odds of you not knowing anyone who reviews Firefox code are 98%, even if there are actually 1000 people doing it.
Yeah, I know, that argument doesn't prove that people do audit open-source software. But you can't categorically declare that they don't, just because you don't know anyone who doesn't.
Because sometimes you want/need to see flash. Flashblock replaces Flash objects with a blank rectangle that you can click to play the animation; which is far more useful than just removing them like AdBlock does.
The parent said "I actually bought Codeweavers and have installed mplayer," not "I bought Codeweavers to install mplayer." Codeweavers can do stuff that mplayer can't, and vice versa, so it's perfectly logical to install both of them if you're looking for an ideal multimedia experience.
Anyone should be able to play pretty much anything without looking. I'm a passable violinist (just got back from the Tennessee All-State Orchestra) and the only time I actually need to use my eyes when playing is if I'm reading music. Sometimes it helps in practice to see exactly where you're putting your bow or something, but that's about it. You definately don't need to be able to see to place your fingers; I don't think I could even tell you what note someone was fingering just by looking at them.
Guns don't kill people, either, bullets do. Right? No, the gun contributes to the death by shooting the bullet. Likewise, all military projects, whether they are weapons systems or communications systems, are intended to further military goals, which basically involve killing people. What level the involvement is at is irrelevent, if you want to be idealistic and take a complete no-war stance.
Or, you could be sane, and realize that the military is going to kill people no matter what, and it might as well use safe, reliable, accurate, well-built systems to ensure that it kills the right people and no more people than necessary. In that sense, Linux is a good thing.
Yes, because they'd only need to show 1/25 the ads in order to make the same money. Either that, or keep the same ads and make shows with 25x higher budgets. Either way, the viewer wins. (not that it would actually work out that way, of course;-)
True, but you don't actually owe a debt to Taco Bell until they physically give you your food. Up until that point, they can refuse any currency they like.
30KB/s is quite accessible to even most current broadband links, let alone the type of connections people who can afford motion capture studios would have. There are all sorts of technical issues associated with this sort of thing, but I don't think bandwidth is one of them.
I'm looking out of my window right now at a Prius and Corolla parked side by side. The Prius is undeniably bigger than the Corolla. Having driven and ridden in both of them, I can also say that the Prius has significantly more interior room, especially in the backseat, which is cavernous compared to a Corolla.
It's interesting to look at theactualnumbers. The Prius is shorter lengthwise and heightwise then both the Corolla and Camry, but the wheelbase is almost that of the Camry (106" to 107", with the Corolla at 102"). The luggage capacity of the Prius (16.2 ft^3) is much closer to a Camry (16.7) than a Corolla (13.6). Curb weight and passenger volume for the Prius are about halfway between the Corolla and Camry. Interior dimensions are all over the place - the Prius has less headroom than the Corolla (and Camry), but more legroom than either. Overall - I'll agree with you that the Prius isn't quite as big as a Camry, but it's definitely larger than a Corolla.
The biggest surprise was how BAD the original fuel consumption on the Prius was before the modification. 40-45mpg? That's the same as a typical small car would get - and the Prius *is* a small car. So why pay so much money for all this technology which amounts to a car that's LESS fuel efficient than a lot of normal petrol cars at half the price which can easily get 65+mpg?
The Prius is not a small car. It's not an Expedition, but it's at least as big as a Camry or Accord, both of which are considered mid-sized sedans. 50mpg (about normal for the Priuses I've seen) is excellent for a car of that size. My Corolla (a typical "small" car, and quite a bit smaller than the Prius) averages 35mpg. Where are you finding all these "normal" gasoline cars getting 65mpg?
Version numbers are completely arbitrary. The differences between point versions of OSX are at least as significant as the differences bewteen major versions of Classic OSs. So it makes perfect sense to consider them as OSs 11, 12, 13, 14 if you like. No one said there has to be a "complete overhaul" between major version number bumps, as shown by the original Mac OS, which went for twenty years and 9 major version without a complete overhaul.
Up until Google removed OS stats from its Zeitgeist last year, Macs were pretty consistently listed at 3% (this is of active web users, not based on sales stats or anything like that). If anything, that's an overestimate, because Mac users are more likely than PC users to use Google (IE by default nudges people towards MSN, whereas Safari has a Google search box built in).
The point is that it gives your info to the prefetched site, even if you never go there. So if a site is prefetched by Google for a certain search, then they have in their logs the IP addresses of every Firefox/Mozilla user that ran that particular search. It's probably not a big deal in most cases, but there are occasions where that could be a bad thing.
Google does use a redirect script, but only for a small percentage of sessions. And you probably wouldn't notice; they use Javascript to display the original URL in the status bar. (IIRC)
Debian doesn't "make partitions". It just pops up cfdisk, a fairly standard tool, and you can partition however you like. If cfdisk only let you make 250MB partitions, then that's a serious bug; you should report it.
In any case, it'd be trademark infringement. Any GPL violations CherryOS has committed would be irrelevent in such a case, because they do in any case have a legitimate trademark on "CherryOS".
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Now, if only supporting Linux didn't require the developer to provide packages for 20 different versions of all the major distros (apparently autopackage is working on this sort of thing, I haven't tried it yet).
No, they're not "like Gamecube uses". Gamecube discs are non-standard and written differently than normal mini-DVDs (although they do spin the same way, contrary to popular opinion). No publicly-available product is physically capable of burning them. So they're pretty much unpiratable.
Then again, that's only a strong point if it encourages third-party game development. As of yet, it doesn't seem to have done so. While a Gamecube is worth owning if only for the (excellent) Nintendo titles, it's never going to be popular in the US marketplace without much stronger developer support.
FWIW, I've had four different Windows machines on my home network at various points, and none of them has ever reliably been able to access each other's SMB shares. Linux and OSX, using Samba, both work perfectly on the first try. So OSX works better better for me at accessing Windows shares than Windows itself does (this is XP, 2000, and 2003).
That means nothing. Imagine that 1000 people regularly review Firefox code (which is probably a gross overestimate, but still). Out of 300 million people in the US, that means that any given person still has a 99.9997% chance of not reviewing Firefox code. If you know 5000 people, the odds of you not knowing anyone who reviews Firefox code are 98%, even if there are actually 1000 people doing it.
Yeah, I know, that argument doesn't prove that people do audit open-source software. But you can't categorically declare that they don't, just because you don't know anyone who doesn't.
Because sometimes you want/need to see flash. Flashblock replaces Flash objects with a blank rectangle that you can click to play the animation; which is far more useful than just removing them like AdBlock does.
The parent said "I actually bought Codeweavers and have installed mplayer," not "I bought Codeweavers to install mplayer." Codeweavers can do stuff that mplayer can't, and vice versa, so it's perfectly logical to install both of them if you're looking for an ideal multimedia experience.
Anyone should be able to play pretty much anything without looking. I'm a passable violinist (just got back from the Tennessee All-State Orchestra) and the only time I actually need to use my eyes when playing is if I'm reading music. Sometimes it helps in practice to see exactly where you're putting your bow or something, but that's about it. You definately don't need to be able to see to place your fingers; I don't think I could even tell you what note someone was fingering just by looking at them.
Or, you could be sane, and realize that the military is going to kill people no matter what, and it might as well use safe, reliable, accurate, well-built systems to ensure that it kills the right people and no more people than necessary. In that sense, Linux is a good thing.
Yes, because they'd only need to show 1/25 the ads in order to make the same money. Either that, or keep the same ads and make shows with 25x higher budgets. Either way, the viewer wins. (not that it would actually work out that way, of course ;-)
While it's a nice quote, it's a bit too long to fit in a sig. :-)
You have a link to that law? As stupid as the guy may have been, last time I checked people were allowed to inform the police of their suspicions.
True, but you don't actually owe a debt to Taco Bell until they physically give you your food. Up until that point, they can refuse any currency they like.
30KB/s is quite accessible to even most current broadband links, let alone the type of connections people who can afford motion capture studios would have. There are all sorts of technical issues associated with this sort of thing, but I don't think bandwidth is one of them.
I think the point is that the act of producing plant-based fuels removes CO2 from the atmosphere.
It's interesting to look at the actual numbers. The Prius is shorter lengthwise and heightwise then both the Corolla and Camry, but the wheelbase is almost that of the Camry (106" to 107", with the Corolla at 102"). The luggage capacity of the Prius (16.2 ft^3) is much closer to a Camry (16.7) than a Corolla (13.6). Curb weight and passenger volume for the Prius are about halfway between the Corolla and Camry. Interior dimensions are all over the place - the Prius has less headroom than the Corolla (and Camry), but more legroom than either. Overall - I'll agree with you that the Prius isn't quite as big as a Camry, but it's definitely larger than a Corolla.
The Prius is not a small car. It's not an Expedition, but it's at least as big as a Camry or Accord, both of which are considered mid-sized sedans. 50mpg (about normal for the Priuses I've seen) is excellent for a car of that size. My Corolla (a typical "small" car, and quite a bit smaller than the Prius) averages 35mpg. Where are you finding all these "normal" gasoline cars getting 65mpg?
Version numbers are completely arbitrary. The differences between point versions of OSX are at least as significant as the differences bewteen major versions of Classic OSs. So it makes perfect sense to consider them as OSs 11, 12, 13, 14 if you like. No one said there has to be a "complete overhaul" between major version number bumps, as shown by the original Mac OS, which went for twenty years and 9 major version without a complete overhaul.
Up until Google removed OS stats from its Zeitgeist last year, Macs were pretty consistently listed at 3% (this is of active web users, not based on sales stats or anything like that). If anything, that's an overestimate, because Mac users are more likely than PC users to use Google (IE by default nudges people towards MSN, whereas Safari has a Google search box built in).
By "control panel" on top, are you referring to the menu bar? If so, WTF are you doing that you need to hide it?
Just like the next Harry Potter book has been at the top of Amazon's book sales for a while.
The point is that it gives your info to the prefetched site, even if you never go there. So if a site is prefetched by Google for a certain search, then they have in their logs the IP addresses of every Firefox/Mozilla user that ran that particular search. It's probably not a big deal in most cases, but there are occasions where that could be a bad thing.
Google does use a redirect script, but only for a small percentage of sessions. And you probably wouldn't notice; they use Javascript to display the original URL in the status bar. (IIRC)
Debian doesn't "make partitions". It just pops up cfdisk, a fairly standard tool, and you can partition however you like. If cfdisk only let you make 250MB partitions, then that's a serious bug; you should report it.
Links?
In any case, it'd be trademark infringement. Any GPL violations CherryOS has committed would be irrelevent in such a case, because they do in any case have a legitimate trademark on "CherryOS".