128kbps AAC is not "much higher quality" than 192kbps MP3. It's somewhat better than 128kbps MP3, but that's about the only generalization you can make.
The iPod has more buttons than a Gameboy. It already comes with several games. The limiting factors are the screen and processing power, not buttons.
An input method would be fairly easy to devise. There's the obvious (and cumbersome) method of moving through a virtual keyboard with the scroll wheel (as most game consoles do). But more importantly, the iPod has Firewire and USB connectivity. Given the opportunity to write the software for it, it'd be trivial to hook up any old USB keyboard and type whatever you want.
Wrong - Apple's Fairplay and Veridisc's Fairplay are completely different, and Veridisc's site hasn't been updated in years (their domain is now controlled by a porn site). Fairplay DRM belongs to Apple to license however they wish.
Slashdot doesn't even need a T3, I'd think. Most of the content is plain text, and most readers only view the frontpage. The major bottlenecks are in the http and database servers, not whatever network connection/. might have.
It's really hard to know what updates to provide without seeing a list of software packages installed.
Debian works just fine the other way - instead of uploading a list of installed packages, you download a list of available packages, and apt picks locally what to upgrade. There's no privacy loss involved.
Presumably Epic keeps a whitelist of keys that have been assigned (a tiny portion of the keyspace). That's what Blizzard does on battle.net, and it works quite well - you can play in singleplayer with a keygen, but multiplayer requires a valid key.
His point, which you would see if you looked past the simplicity of the way in whcih he makes it, is that US culture is horribly puritanical. People think that the sight of naked bodies will hurt kids in some undefined way (it's as if they think kids don't have their own naked bodies). Similarly, in ages past, people thought that exposure to black culture was a corrupting influence. His point was the solution to porn is to accept it, not attempt (ineffectively) to sequester it.
If Starcraft hadn't been made, WCIII would have been considered an awesome game. The only reason it gets so much flak is because it's not as good as Starcraft. In its own right, it's still better than 95% of the other games out there.
bnetd wasn't sued because they were open source, they were taken down (never actually sued) because their software enabled the pirating of the Warcraft III beta. Blizzard has nothing against open source (although probably no great love for it either). Like all companies, their job is to make money.
The CD is downsampled as it is made from the master. The AAC is also downsampled, in addition to being compressed. If the AACs were distributed at the same depth and frequency as the original master, you'd have a point. As it is, AAC have all the quality loss of CDs in addition to being lossily compressed.
Don't knock it until you use it. I'm not sure whether I'll like it or not, but I'm reserving judgement until after I see more than just a screenshot.
Also, remember that most of the work that's gone on here is in the underlying API. It's now possible for someone to completely redesign the dialog without breaking existing programs. Changes in UI can and probably will be made much more easily now. The current "new" design, therefore, is not set in stone to nearly the same extent as the last one.
Actually, if you don't like the spatial metaphor, you can enable the/apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_browser GConf key and go back to the navigational setup.
As much as I hate to perpetuate the streotype of unhelpful zealot, it doesn't help when people post rants on Slashdot while being utterly wrong about the subject they're ranting on.
They've really done it with 2.x this time, something major changes with each "minor" version is released.
I have several apps originally written against GTK 1.3 (a prerelease of 2.0). They compile perfectly against GTK 2.4. Nowhere has backwards compatibility been broken.
Now not only do I probably have to learn a whole new set of interfaces to get desktop integration going for programs that I write for Gnome
The Nautilus changes are irrelevent to other GNOME apps. Unless you've was jimmying around with Nautilus internals, nothing has changed.
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128kbps AAC is not "much higher quality" than 192kbps MP3. It's somewhat better than 128kbps MP3, but that's about the only generalization you can make.
iTunes does not lose money. It doesn't make substantial profit (maybe 5c per song), but Apple is most certainly not taking a loss on it.
An input method would be fairly easy to devise. There's the obvious (and cumbersome) method of moving through a virtual keyboard with the scroll wheel (as most game consoles do). But more importantly, the iPod has Firewire and USB connectivity. Given the opportunity to write the software for it, it'd be trivial to hook up any old USB keyboard and type whatever you want.
Normal AAC has no DRM either. Apple wraps it in Fairplay, and they could easily do the same to Vorbis if they wanted.
Wrong - Apple's Fairplay and Veridisc's Fairplay are completely different, and Veridisc's site hasn't been updated in years (their domain is now controlled by a porn site). Fairplay DRM belongs to Apple to license however they wish.
Don't use FM transmitters. The quality loss is quite audible, even with higher-quality ones such as the iTrip.
Slashdot doesn't even need a T3, I'd think. Most of the content is plain text, and most readers only view the frontpage. The major bottlenecks are in the http and database servers, not whatever network connection /. might have.
Yes, but Photoshop's automation features are much more accessable and easier to use (for example, you can record macros).
Unless your boss is a) ultraconservative and b) constantly looking over your shoulder, I don't see how a "fuck" in size-12 Times is gonna hurt you.
Enriched uranium doesn't grow on trees, even in Kentucky.
Debian works just fine the other way - instead of uploading a list of installed packages, you download a list of available packages, and apt picks locally what to upgrade. There's no privacy loss involved.
Presumably Epic keeps a whitelist of keys that have been assigned (a tiny portion of the keyspace). That's what Blizzard does on battle.net, and it works quite well - you can play in singleplayer with a keygen, but multiplayer requires a valid key.
His point, which you would see if you looked past the simplicity of the way in whcih he makes it, is that US culture is horribly puritanical. People think that the sight of naked bodies will hurt kids in some undefined way (it's as if they think kids don't have their own naked bodies). Similarly, in ages past, people thought that exposure to black culture was a corrupting influence. His point was the solution to porn is to accept it, not attempt (ineffectively) to sequester it.
Winamp will decode oggs and output to a WAV file. So will the standard reference command-line Vorbis utilities.
If Starcraft hadn't been made, WCIII would have been considered an awesome game. The only reason it gets so much flak is because it's not as good as Starcraft. In its own right, it's still better than 95% of the other games out there.
The point of an iPod is to have access to your entire collection. Otherwise, why not just get a (much cheaper) flash player?
bnetd wasn't sued because they were open source, they were taken down (never actually sued) because their software enabled the pirating of the Warcraft III beta. Blizzard has nothing against open source (although probably no great love for it either). Like all companies, their job is to make money.
The CD is downsampled as it is made from the master. The AAC is also downsampled, in addition to being compressed. If the AACs were distributed at the same depth and frequency as the original master, you'd have a point. As it is, AAC have all the quality loss of CDs in addition to being lossily compressed.
Also, remember that most of the work that's gone on here is in the underlying API. It's now possible for someone to completely redesign the dialog without breaking existing programs. Changes in UI can and probably will be made much more easily now. The current "new" design, therefore, is not set in stone to nearly the same extent as the last one.
Except it would be a Mastercard commercial.
What you mean is that Apple's low-end implementation of an MPEG-4 encoder is a low-quality encoder. But we already knew that.
Actually, if you don't like the spatial metaphor, you can enable the /apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_browser GConf key and go back to the navigational setup.
As much as I hate to perpetuate the streotype of unhelpful zealot, it doesn't help when people post rants on Slashdot while being utterly wrong about the subject they're ranting on.
I have several apps originally written against GTK 1.3 (a prerelease of 2.0). They compile perfectly against GTK 2.4. Nowhere has backwards compatibility been broken.
Now not only do I probably have to learn a whole new set of interfaces to get desktop integration going for programs that I write for Gnome
The Nautilus changes are irrelevent to other GNOME apps. Unless you've was jimmying around with Nautilus internals, nothing has changed.
If you'd RTFM, you would've seen that there is a gconf key that reverts Nautilus to the old behaviour.
Knoppix/Debian fits your criteria fairly well.