And in fact, any minimally workable MIME system that interoperates is better than sophisticated ones that don't interop
No. I'd rather have an advanced mime system that works properly and doesn't interoperate than one thats stupid and just minimally workable but interoperable.
I don't give a rat's ass about my mime system interoperating with GNOME. Its not a big deal if they are different. Its a mime system, how many times do you really have to have both DE's work with it. Chose a DE and stick with it, you won't have any problems.
Any anyway, right now, what does the GNOME MIME system interoperate with? Just as much as the KDE system, which is, only with itself. So any claims of interoperability are BS.
My initial reaction to this project was "Bah, who cares about open source, my NVidia card works fine for under 100 bucks canadian".
But the more I read about this, the more enticing it sounds. I don't play games on Linux at all, so I don't care about that. And to have a nice driver, that is optimized for the new features in X11 like XRender and stuff would rock. The longer I use Linux, the less I want to bother messing around with compiling modules, so I don't even bother using the official NVidia drivers. Sounds like this will perform much better than the generic, 2D only, NV drivers.
Who knows. Might actually buy one of those. But his projected price point at $200 is too high. Even in my best "Stallmanesque" spirit, I can't justify spending over $300 canadian on this card.
Indeed. It's a little sketchy. But I've read a lot of reviews of the service, and none of them have ever mentioned being ripped off. I dont think it would be in allofmp3s best interest, like any other retailer.
In any case, you can use paypal and just transfer 5 bucks at a time. No big loss if they pack up shop and dissapear.
No. Legal music (albeit a loophole, but it's legal for me to download in canada) and I avoid the hassle of sorting bad songs from kazaa, and I avoid paying an arm and a leg.
Am I ripping the artists off? I don't think so, the alternative is not listening to any music because I can't afford it or pirating it entirely.
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Thanks, I will try this when Debian Unstable gets X.org instead of XFree.
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Well in the case of KDE, flickering problems were caused by multiple repaints when only one was actually necessary.
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Yes. I notice this too. I have no idea what causes it exactly, but you can definitely tell that MS Windows or OSX has a better "feel" to it than the Linux desktop (I haven't tried WindowMaker). I think it has something to do with the way redraws are done. KDE has long had problems with flickering, which have been fixed to a large extent in recent releases, but some problems still remain.
The thing is, it's so hard to quantify so its impossible to file any meaningful bug reports. My best guess right now is that Windows seems to draw things to the screen when it is fully rendered so the entire menu/window/dialog will appear at the same time. In KDE I notice that sometimes windows will appear but will be drawn a second time after they are displayed. Perhaps it displays the text first and then redraws the icons or something.
Well this comment is starting to sound like meaningless blather, but I can't describe the problem much better.
FYI I almost exclusively use Linux, so no I'm not a microsoft troll.
Why? Who cares. It's called product branding. Everyone's beloved Apple is as guilty of it as the KDE/Gnome community. Does it really cause you that much inconvenience to have it named that? Microsoft gets bitched at because their names are actual words (word, windows, excel) and KDE/Gnome get bitched at because they have a lot of K's/G's in their app names. In the end, who cares what the name is.
So.. What exactly is so great about the iPod Shuffle? Seems like they threw away all that was unique to the ipod. No more cool click wheel, no more quality GUI interface.. So what's left? A small usb player with not even a one line song title display and no OGG support.
Great, there's a million of that type and most of them have at least either a rudimentary display for the song title or support for more formats.
(Yes I realize the normal iPod is still available, I'm saying the new one is pretty stupid)
Something better/faster/cheaper than LCDs?? Damnit! And I was just contemplating dumping my 1993 Nec Multisync CRT (seriously!) for an LCD screen.. But if these are gonna be so much better I wouldn't want to waste my money now....:)
I don't really care if they talk to eachother or understand their respective formats. I suspect that the vast majority of users out there probably feel the same way.
Wrong. Integration is absolutely essential for an Office suite. Every single document I create (mostly technical reports) have some sort of embedded graph or table. Without that feature, the word processor is useless for me.
I dunno, I've never had any problems with the cards I owned. The binary NVidia drivers sometimes create problems but for 2D, the nv drivers seem just as fast so I use those instead. They're looking to solve a problem that doesn't really exist. In my experience, any modern distribution has no problems with the basics of video cards anymore.
The only reason that I would want a graphics card with open specs is so there could be an opensource driver for 3d acceleration. Every major card works without issue in 2d mode. It's the 3D acceleration support that's flaky! So unless they make a card that can play doom3 on linux as fast as some of the new nvidia cards they're out of luck.
What's the point of using a second rate graphics card just because the drivers are open? I'm better off buying a cheap Geforce, using the open 2d drivers and still having the option to reboot into windows and play games.
I use allofmp3 a bit and for me it's not really a question of ethics. More convenience. Downloading from kazaa is a pain and gets you inconsistant quality and no access to the rarer tracks. From allofmp3 I get top notch quality in a format and bitrate that I specify, I get complete albums, I get live tracks, I get consistant file names and id3 tags, I get a guarantee of no poison copies. All for pennies. It's definetly worth it for me just for the time savings. And since I live in canada I think it's even legal for me to download from the site. When I'm not a starving student anymore, I'll make sure to contribute more to the artists that I like, but for the moment, allofmp3 is the best way to go.
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Please... Common mime system is a tiny issue. If it doesn't get implemented, big deal. 3 people will care, nothing will get fragmented.
And in fact, any minimally workable MIME system that interoperates is better than sophisticated ones that don't interop No. I'd rather have an advanced mime system that works properly and doesn't interoperate than one thats stupid and just minimally workable but interoperable. I don't give a rat's ass about my mime system interoperating with GNOME. Its not a big deal if they are different. Its a mime system, how many times do you really have to have both DE's work with it. Chose a DE and stick with it, you won't have any problems. Any anyway, right now, what does the GNOME MIME system interoperate with? Just as much as the KDE system, which is, only with itself. So any claims of interoperability are BS.
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While it looks cool, it seems more vapourware than anything else, as other posters have mentioned.
Which company in their right mind plans 3 models of a phone, with the only difference being the OS?
And since "large number of trials to find a collision" is one of the major selling points of an algorithm like that, they effectively broke it.
Yes its still mostly secure, but do you really want to trust that "mostly"? Better to go to something better before the shit hits the fan.
The iPod looks pretty awesome. The digital clock, however, is pretty uneven. Easy to read but part of the 8 is very faded.
Can't wait until this sort of technology becomes more widespread. Less power consumption for small devices is always good.
"There is no such thing as a "career path" except for people with very narrow minds."
BS. For every crazy story like you told there are a hundred about people doing fine because they devoted themselves to a career and stuck with it.
My initial reaction to this project was "Bah, who cares about open source, my NVidia card works fine for under 100 bucks canadian".
But the more I read about this, the more enticing it sounds. I don't play games on Linux at all, so I don't care about that. And to have a nice driver, that is optimized for the new features in X11 like XRender and stuff would rock. The longer I use Linux, the less I want to bother messing around with compiling modules, so I don't even bother using the official NVidia drivers. Sounds like this will perform much better than the generic, 2D only, NV drivers.
Who knows. Might actually buy one of those. But his projected price point at $200 is too high. Even in my best "Stallmanesque" spirit, I can't justify spending over $300 canadian on this card.
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Indeed. It's a little sketchy. But I've read a lot of reviews of the service, and none of them have ever mentioned being ripped off. I dont think it would be in allofmp3s best interest, like any other retailer.
In any case, you can use paypal and just transfer 5 bucks at a time. No big loss if they pack up shop and dissapear.
No. Legal music (albeit a loophole, but it's legal for me to download in canada) and I avoid the hassle of sorting bad songs from kazaa, and I avoid paying an arm and a leg.
Am I ripping the artists off? I don't think so, the alternative is not listening to any music because I can't afford it or pirating it entirely.
Thanks, I will try this when Debian Unstable gets X.org instead of XFree.
Well in the case of KDE, flickering problems were caused by multiple repaints when only one was actually necessary.
Yes. I notice this too. I have no idea what causes it exactly, but you can definitely tell that MS Windows or OSX has a better "feel" to it than the Linux desktop (I haven't tried WindowMaker). I think it has something to do with the way redraws are done. KDE has long had problems with flickering, which have been fixed to a large extent in recent releases, but some problems still remain.
The thing is, it's so hard to quantify so its impossible to file any meaningful bug reports.
My best guess right now is that Windows seems to draw things to the screen when it is fully rendered so the entire menu/window/dialog will appear at the same time. In KDE I notice that sometimes windows will appear but will be drawn a second time after they are displayed. Perhaps it displays the text first and then redraws the icons or something.
Well this comment is starting to sound like meaningless blather, but I can't describe the problem much better.
FYI I almost exclusively use Linux, so no I'm not a microsoft troll.
Why? Who cares. It's called product branding. Everyone's beloved Apple is as guilty of it as the KDE/Gnome community.
Does it really cause you that much inconvenience to have it named that? Microsoft gets bitched at because their names are actual words (word, windows, excel) and KDE/Gnome get bitched at because they have a lot of K's/G's in their app names. In the end, who cares what the name is.
What exactly is a good name in your opinion?
So.. What exactly is so great about the iPod Shuffle? Seems like they threw away all that was unique to the ipod. No more cool click wheel, no more quality GUI interface.. So what's left? A small usb player with not even a one line song title display and no OGG support.
Great, there's a million of that type and most of them have at least either a rudimentary display for the song title or support for more formats.
(Yes I realize the normal iPod is still available, I'm saying the new one is pretty stupid)
Something better/faster/cheaper than LCDs?? :)
Damnit! And I was just contemplating dumping my 1993 Nec Multisync CRT (seriously!) for an LCD screen.. But if these are gonna be so much better I wouldn't want to waste my money now....
Goddamn technology *mumble mumble*
>>Can I be so bold to suggest that this lack of innovation might be due to the lack fo significant competition for Palm?
Ever heard of PocketPC?
I don't really care if they talk to eachother or understand their respective formats. I suspect that the vast majority of users out there probably feel the same way.
Wrong. Integration is absolutely essential for an Office suite. Every single document I create (mostly technical reports) have some sort of embedded graph or table.
Without that feature, the word processor is useless for me.
Plenty of interesting jobs?
All I see is code and webmonkey jobs.. Not exactly what I'd call interesting.
I dunno, I've never had any problems with the cards I owned. The binary NVidia drivers sometimes create problems but for 2D, the nv drivers seem just as fast so I use those instead.
They're looking to solve a problem that doesn't really exist. In my experience, any modern distribution has no problems with the basics of video cards anymore.
The only reason that I would want a graphics card with open specs is so there could be an opensource driver for 3d acceleration. Every major card works without issue in 2d mode. It's the 3D acceleration support that's flaky!
So unless they make a card that can play doom3 on linux as fast as some of the new nvidia cards they're out of luck.
What's the point of using a second rate graphics card just because the drivers are open? I'm better off buying a cheap Geforce, using the open 2d drivers and still having the option to reboot into windows and play games.
I use allofmp3 a bit and for me it's not really a question of ethics. More convenience. Downloading from kazaa is a pain and gets you inconsistant quality and no access to the rarer tracks. From allofmp3 I get top notch quality in a format and bitrate that I specify, I get complete albums, I get live tracks, I get consistant file names and id3 tags, I get a guarantee of no poison copies. All for pennies.
It's definetly worth it for me just for the time savings.
And since I live in canada I think it's even legal for me to download from the site. When I'm not a starving student anymore, I'll make sure to contribute more to the artists that I like, but for the moment, allofmp3 is the best way to go.
Nice.. except it doesn't actually work (anymore).
I like that once in a while the phrase ;)
"Why are you watching?"
scrolls past. A new symptom of the slashdot effect I guess