I can't speak Japanese. However, if I were trying to sell a product in Japan, I would have a native speaker look over it. I'd expect that Japanese would have the good sense to do likewise when selling products in English-speaking countries (and, usually, they do).
You can write to a FAT, ext2/3, reiserfs, XFS, hfs, etc. partition (and Knoppix 3.4 will include full NTFS write support). You can save files to hard drives (including iPods and the like), USB keys, and network drives. You can surf the web, play games, edit OpenOffice docs, edit photos, run servers, and do almost anything else you could on a regular install. With the transparency kernel module (enabled in Morphix by default, don't know about Knoppix), you can even apt-get install any Debian software onto the ramdisk. I recently had a hard drive die, and Morphix was a major lifesaver while I was waiting for a replacement.
Last time I checked, Opera's already gargantuan toolbars were stretched even further by the 60-pixel-high ad. In contrast, Firebird's toolbar/tabbar/statusbar are tiny. I prefer to get the most content on the sceen possible, which is one of the reasons I don't use Opera.
The native Gamecube FS may not support more than 127 files on a card, but I don't think that would stop you from using Linux to reformat it as FAT and putting however many files you want on it.
That's not the same thing. Currently, distros that provide automounting of removable media do it by continuously polling the device to see if there's something there. That's an enormous hack, and rather inefficient. What Love is doing allows the kernel to pass a signal to a userland process whenever a device is inserted, without the process having to keep polling the kernel.
So if I understand. Jpeg2000 format is layered, with each additional layer delivering higher detail, when you downloaded all the layers you have the full high resolution image.
The same is true of current JPEG, PNG, and GIF. It's called a progressive or interlaced image - as it loads, it starts as a blocky blur and sharpens into the image. The effect is much more noticable when browsing the web with a 56k modem.
Doesn't Ogg Vorbis do something like this, your bandwidth determines how many layers you can stream at once, the more layers you can download at once, and the higher quality the stream.
Not really. Theoretically, the Ogg format supports bitrate peeling - taking a high quality original and "peeling" it down to a lower compression level without reencoding. In practice, the code to do this hasn't yet been written - apparently it's not a big priority.
JPEG has adjustable compression. It's possible to create a near-lossless JPEG image (at enormous file sizes), and it's possible to compress a 25 megapixel photo down to 2 kilobytes (at horrendous quality). Most people, when compressing JPEGs for the web, attempt to get the smallest possible file size while retaining reasonable quality. JPEG2000's better compression allows for the same good-enough quality at much lower filesizes. That's why it's useful.
That works great, until you get to pointers, classes, enums, templates, structures, etc. While I have no doubt that some nine-year-olds are capable of wrapping their heads around those concepts, the vast majority would be better starting off in a higher-level language.
While a catchy phrase, it's still bullshit. I know plenty of perfectly decent programmers who started with BASIC, and quite a few more who have "had a prior exposure to BASIC". An intelligent person can learn BASIC quite easily, and it does not destroy their mind.
I'm not objecting to the entire concept, I was objecting to the statement that, "The way I see it, if it's from somebody that doesn't know the capital of New York, I don't want to read it."
While one can obviously look such things up, the grandparent poster implied that the words of anyone who didn't know it off the top of their head were worthless.
Play a Blizzrd game right after launch. Then, play another company's game (of similar magnitude) after launch. I guarantee you, the Blizzard game will be significantly less buggy.
Essentially there is no MDI in gtk, for good or bad.
While that's true, GTK was created to serve GIMP. If they wanted MDI, they could have added it. I think the "no-MDI" thing was a conscious decision and not a toolkit limitation.
Gaim is actually not a GNOME app, technically, it's a GTK app, as are Abiword, GIMP, and Mozilla. However, just about every feature that used to be in libgnomeui is being moved into libgtk, so the line is quite blurred. Since GTK apps (or, at least, these GTK apps) tend to look like GNOME apps and respecdt the GNOME HIG, I'd say it's not a stretch to call them GNOME apps (except maybe Mozilla, but it's more a GNOME app than a KDE app).
Theoretically comparable, but Word documents generally import better into Abiword (in my experience), because its featureset is more in line with Word's.
Firebird on my system is faster (and renders better) than Konq. No, it doesn't have a filemanager, but why would you want a filemanager in your browser?
Abiword has always been the best stand-alone Linux wordprocessor. Sure, OO.o Writer is slightly more featureful, but Abiword is lightning-quick, and does almost anything I'd want it to do (aside from writing major treatises, but you'd use Latex for that anyway).
Grip is not a gnome program, and has been pretty stagnant for a long time. Look at this list of major gnome/gtk apps: Abiword, Gnumeric, Epiphany, Evolution, Planner, Rhythmbox, AisleRiot, Anjuta, Dia, File-Roller, Gnucash, Bluefish, GIMP, gedit, Mergeant, Metacity, Mono, Nautilus, Inkscape, Totem, Yelp (obviously, "major" apps are subjective and I probably forgot a few). Of those 21 apps, 4 have names starting with 'g'. Contrast this with KDE, where just about everything starts with a K (obviously, with some exceptions). I'd say that, while GNOME isn't innocent here, KDE is far worse in the stupid-k/g-name department.
Probably because some moderators feel that QT isn't "so much easier to code in than GTK/GTK+/Glib/Bonobo that it isn't funny". While some people may feel that way, others don't. If you're a moderator, and you see someone making a blanket statement, expressing opinion as fact, and you disagree with them, you're likely to mod them down.
Actions on the part of one politcal administration do not counteract 200 years of law. The US invasion of Iraq (which, let it be known, I disagreed with) probably saved more innocent lives than it cost, if you agree that Saddamm Hussein did kill thousands of his own people (fairly well-documented) and would have killed more over time. The people held in Guantanamo are (correct me if I'm wrong here) not US citizens, so however badly they may be treated, it's not relevent to my point - which is that, in the US, citizens are legally assumed to be innocent until proven guilty.
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Most filtering proxies block Google cache, for that very reason.
I can't speak Japanese. However, if I were trying to sell a product in Japan, I would have a native speaker look over it. I'd expect that Japanese would have the good sense to do likewise when selling products in English-speaking countries (and, usually, they do).
You can write to a FAT, ext2/3, reiserfs, XFS, hfs, etc. partition (and Knoppix 3.4 will include full NTFS write support). You can save files to hard drives (including iPods and the like), USB keys, and network drives. You can surf the web, play games, edit OpenOffice docs, edit photos, run servers, and do almost anything else you could on a regular install. With the transparency kernel module (enabled in Morphix by default, don't know about Knoppix), you can even apt-get install any Debian software onto the ramdisk. I recently had a hard drive die, and Morphix was a major lifesaver while I was waiting for a replacement.
Many computers these days have multiple CD/DVD drives. My main box has 3 (a CD-RW, DVD-ROM, and then an older CD-RW).
I'm sure the ram had the shit tested out of it on Earth, but testing on Earth and operation on Mars are two different things.
Last time I checked, Opera's already gargantuan toolbars were stretched even further by the 60-pixel-high ad. In contrast, Firebird's toolbar/tabbar/statusbar are tiny. I prefer to get the most content on the sceen possible, which is one of the reasons I don't use Opera.
The native Gamecube FS may not support more than 127 files on a card, but I don't think that would stop you from using Linux to reformat it as FAT and putting however many files you want on it.
That's not the same thing. Currently, distros that provide automounting of removable media do it by continuously polling the device to see if there's something there. That's an enormous hack, and rather inefficient. What Love is doing allows the kernel to pass a signal to a userland process whenever a device is inserted, without the process having to keep polling the kernel.
The same is true of current JPEG, PNG, and GIF. It's called a progressive or interlaced image - as it loads, it starts as a blocky blur and sharpens into the image. The effect is much more noticable when browsing the web with a 56k modem.
Doesn't Ogg Vorbis do something like this, your bandwidth determines how many layers you can stream at once, the more layers you can download at once, and the higher quality the stream.
Not really. Theoretically, the Ogg format supports bitrate peeling - taking a high quality original and "peeling" it down to a lower compression level without reencoding. In practice, the code to do this hasn't yet been written - apparently it's not a big priority.
JPEG has adjustable compression. It's possible to create a near-lossless JPEG image (at enormous file sizes), and it's possible to compress a 25 megapixel photo down to 2 kilobytes (at horrendous quality). Most people, when compressing JPEGs for the web, attempt to get the smallest possible file size while retaining reasonable quality. JPEG2000's better compression allows for the same good-enough quality at much lower filesizes. That's why it's useful.
That works great, until you get to pointers, classes, enums, templates, structures, etc. While I have no doubt that some nine-year-olds are capable of wrapping their heads around those concepts, the vast majority would be better starting off in a higher-level language.
While a catchy phrase, it's still bullshit. I know plenty of perfectly decent programmers who started with BASIC, and quite a few more who have "had a prior exposure to BASIC". An intelligent person can learn BASIC quite easily, and it does not destroy their mind.
Yes, because it's so tremendously easy and reliable to do DV over USB, and there's no reason whatsoever to want to output audio to a non-USB device.
So you're offering your backyard for the waste dump then?
While one can obviously look such things up, the grandparent poster implied that the words of anyone who didn't know it off the top of their head were worthless.
Relying on (rather useless) trivia to determine the value of what someone has to say is a rather arrogant form of (non)communication.
Play a Blizzrd game right after launch. Then, play another company's game (of similar magnitude) after launch. I guarantee you, the Blizzard game will be significantly less buggy.
While that's true, GTK was created to serve GIMP. If they wanted MDI, they could have added it. I think the "no-MDI" thing was a conscious decision and not a toolkit limitation.
Gaim is actually not a GNOME app, technically, it's a GTK app, as are Abiword, GIMP, and Mozilla. However, just about every feature that used to be in libgnomeui is being moved into libgtk, so the line is quite blurred. Since GTK apps (or, at least, these GTK apps) tend to look like GNOME apps and respecdt the GNOME HIG, I'd say it's not a stretch to call them GNOME apps (except maybe Mozilla, but it's more a GNOME app than a KDE app).
Theoretically comparable, but Word documents generally import better into Abiword (in my experience), because its featureset is more in line with Word's.
Abiword has always been the best stand-alone Linux wordprocessor. Sure, OO.o Writer is slightly more featureful, but Abiword is lightning-quick, and does almost anything I'd want it to do (aside from writing major treatises, but you'd use Latex for that anyway).
As for OpenOffice, Ximian has already done some GNOMEification, and more is on the way. KDEification is also happening.
GAIM's ugliness is subjective. I think it's both better-looking and more featureful than Kopete. Your milage may vary.
Grip is not a gnome program, and has been pretty stagnant for a long time. Look at this list of major gnome/gtk apps: Abiword, Gnumeric, Epiphany, Evolution, Planner, Rhythmbox, AisleRiot, Anjuta, Dia, File-Roller, Gnucash, Bluefish, GIMP, gedit, Mergeant, Metacity, Mono, Nautilus, Inkscape, Totem, Yelp (obviously, "major" apps are subjective and I probably forgot a few). Of those 21 apps, 4 have names starting with 'g'. Contrast this with KDE, where just about everything starts with a K (obviously, with some exceptions). I'd say that, while GNOME isn't innocent here, KDE is far worse in the stupid-k/g-name department.
Probably because some moderators feel that QT isn't "so much easier to code in than GTK/GTK+/Glib/Bonobo that it isn't funny". While some people may feel that way, others don't. If you're a moderator, and you see someone making a blanket statement, expressing opinion as fact, and you disagree with them, you're likely to mod them down.
If it's obvious that you had nothing to do with its destruction, than (IANAL) I think you're okay. Otherwise, I'd think you're in trouble.
Actions on the part of one politcal administration do not counteract 200 years of law. The US invasion of Iraq (which, let it be known, I disagreed with) probably saved more innocent lives than it cost, if you agree that Saddamm Hussein did kill thousands of his own people (fairly well-documented) and would have killed more over time. The people held in Guantanamo are (correct me if I'm wrong here) not US citizens, so however badly they may be treated, it's not relevent to my point - which is that, in the US, citizens are legally assumed to be innocent until proven guilty.