I can't talk about any of the other programs you mention, but Winamp can indeed play Ogg Vorbis files with the correct plugin, can't remember if it's supplied as standard now, or if you have to download it from the Ogg Vorbis website...
"worth it" comes down to exactly what you are trying to do with the computer.
For instance, if you perform non-linear video editing at full resolution (720x576) with a high quality (but still compressed) codec, your gonna need to read about 1 gigabyte of data off of the drive every five minutes, and that's a minimum - you'll want a faster drive to avoid the movie from skipping.
On a computer I use for this very purpose, we have a SCSI drive for editing, and IDE drives for sheer capacity.
But for non-intensive disk I/O situations (i.e. pretty much any desktop), I can't see the point in having a drive that fast.
Re:Its not faster than MOziilla, its not more stab
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Get some sample HTML files and so on, and see which one renders fastest, I'll bet money on Mozilla.
This is the only point I truly have a problem with.
Firstly, I should point out that KHTML, konquerors default renderer loads up faster (as in from the point I open the program) than Mozilla does (as of version 0.94, haven't downloaded the most recent one yet but I don't expect drastic changes).
Mozilla does tend to display pages slightly faster, but that doesn't bother me because my browsing speed is slowed down by my 56k modem, not my processor.
The Mozilla interface is not as fast as Konqueror. Period.
I should also point out that Konqueror itself is not (or at least is not just) a web browser - it is also a directory browser, a file viewer, etc. This is not feature bloat, this extra functionality is all modular - you install what you want and access it through a single interface. It also mean that if you want, you can use the mozilla rendering engine from within Konqueror.
Which browser do I prefer? Konqueror, obviously. Which browser sits on my system in case Konqueror doesn't work for some reason? Mozilla, naturally.
All of the office apps are neatly tucked away under a single entry in KDE's task window. I click that open, and I can see every one of my documents in a neat little desktop.
You can set KDE to do this with any similar program. right-click on the two lines to the left side of the task window, and select preferences. Select "Group similar tasks", and there you have it.
The trouble for me with SO5.2's desktop is... I already have the KDE one - why on earth do I need another desktop sitting on top of it?
Hint of advice - adequacy.org is a great site to go to if you want to get your blood pressure up.
I haven't figured out yet whether or not it is "for real" or if it is just a place to go to insult people, troll and generally be a bastard. Still, I'm guessing on the latter:-)
Out-moneying everyone would strengthen the case against open source that it does cost more in the long run.
What you really want to do is earn more per hour, but have to do less work overall. The company wins (Only need one sys-admin to to the job of two), you win (you earn more money doing less work), open source wins (because it get's proved as a better sort of software).And of course, all that extra time could be used devloping more software!
So the question is, which system requires more on-hand work?
I think the main problem is that depressurising too quickly causes The Bends, normally associated with divers, which can be brought on by a sudden decrease in pressure.It causes bubbles to form in the blood, causing pain and if serious enough, death.
I'm not sure at exactly what pressure change it happens though, nor the difference in pressure between the inside and outside of an aircraft when it is flight, so whether or not it actually causes an effect, I don't know.
As I understand it, the GPL license applies to everyone. Therefore, anyone who you "distribute" it to in the company has the right to distribute it on to other people. If everyone in the office freely decides (the company would not be allowed to force them) to not distribute the content outside of the company, then there would be no problem with that.
The question I would like to ask is to any lawyers or wannabe lawyers out there. If you were in a position to defend a company against a GPL copyright infringment, how would you go about attacking the GPL?
For the same reason that until recently I though Mozilla was written in java (I'm still not 100% convinced that it isn't) - it's slow, uses hideous amounts of memory, and even basic things such as making a selection off of a menu make you believe that your running it on a ZX81.
I'm a great fan of not having to upgrade my computer due to bad design (hell that's why I switched from Windows 98 to Linux in the first place)
Question - why use GPS at all? I'm sure that at any given location a mobile phone is in touch with more than one mobile transmitter within reach. Why could these not be adapted to triangulate the position of a mobile?
A lot of web designers don't go to the extents that you have - in particular, Here is a particular example of a bad site, that will show NOTHING if your browser doesn't identify itself as either netscape or MSIE. (Take a look at the dsocument source and you can see why...)
If you do, then fair play. Shame more web designers do not have that kind of dedication really.
I watched the television non-stop for the first 16 hours or so, and then went to bed, to wake up and start watching it again, but then the news had dried up, and I turned to alternative forms of media.
For those who haven't checked, google has a news page which contains links to numerous news sites and newspapers from around the world. From these, you can get a view of what media from the rest of the world is saying about this.
I would appreciate it also, if when the page goes static, there was a warning that you could not currently post, because clicking the "reply" button and getting sent back to the homepage is annoying.
Or, thinking about the problem a little more, perhaps under times of high stress, could you change to a system where one server is dedicated to posting comments and updating the database, whilst the other servers serve static pages which are updated every couple of minutes from the dynamic server?
CNN should be rolling out a Slash-based discussion forum for top stories. Heck, so should Whitehouse.gov!
If I was a mod at the moment I'd mod this up as insightful.
I love Slashdot, yet I yearn for a site of the same magnitude which covers the major news stories of every day, many of which are not computer based, and allows the same level of discussion by anyone who visits the site, and with the same level of moderation which helps keep the signal-to-noise ratio at a more acceptable level.
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I first heard what was going on from Slashdot, and I had to turn the television on to believe it - it sounded too much for a prank story when I first read it.
For me, the television was more important than Slashdot for recieving information on what was going as and when it happened.
But for me, Slashdot has been much more important as a place where I could see what other people from all over the world were thinking about this tradegy. I hope that the different pesrpectives and posts which I have read have allowed me to more maturely handle how I feel about the situation than I otherwise would have been able to.
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I can't talk about any of the other programs you mention, but Winamp can indeed play Ogg Vorbis files with the correct plugin, can't remember if it's supplied as standard now, or if you have to download it from the Ogg Vorbis website...
"worth it" comes down to exactly what you are trying to do with the computer.
For instance, if you perform non-linear video editing at full resolution (720x576) with a high quality (but still compressed) codec, your gonna need to read about 1 gigabyte of data off of the drive every five minutes, and that's a minimum - you'll want a faster drive to avoid the movie from skipping.
On a computer I use for this very purpose, we have a SCSI drive for editing, and IDE drives for sheer capacity.
But for non-intensive disk I/O situations (i.e. pretty much any desktop), I can't see the point in having a drive that fast.
Get some sample HTML files and so on, and see which one renders fastest, I'll bet money on Mozilla.
This is the only point I truly have a problem with.
Firstly, I should point out that KHTML, konquerors default renderer loads up faster (as in from the point I open the program) than Mozilla does (as of version 0.94, haven't downloaded the most recent one yet but I don't expect drastic changes).
Mozilla does tend to display pages slightly faster, but that doesn't bother me because my browsing speed is slowed down by my 56k modem, not my processor.
The Mozilla interface is not as fast as Konqueror. Period.
I should also point out that Konqueror itself is not (or at least is not just) a web browser - it is also a directory browser, a file viewer, etc. This is not feature bloat, this extra functionality is all modular - you install what you want and access it through a single interface. It also mean that if you want, you can use the mozilla rendering engine from within Konqueror.
Which browser do I prefer? Konqueror, obviously. Which browser sits on my system in case Konqueror doesn't work for some reason? Mozilla, naturally.
You mean a battery?
Or was that a joke and I missed it?
All of the office apps are neatly tucked away under a single entry in KDE's task window. I click that open, and I can see every one of my documents in a neat little desktop.
You can set KDE to do this with any similar program. right-click on the two lines to the left side of the task window, and select preferences. Select "Group similar tasks", and there you have it.
The trouble for me with SO5.2's desktop is... I already have the KDE one - why on earth do I need another desktop sitting on top of it?
Hint of advice - adequacy.org is a great site to go to if you want to get your blood pressure up.
:-)
I haven't figured out yet whether or not it is "for real" or if it is just a place to go to insult people, troll and generally be a bastard. Still, I'm guessing on the latter
Out-moneying everyone would strengthen the case against open source that it does cost more in the long run.
What you really want to do is earn more per hour, but have to do less work overall. The company wins (Only need one sys-admin to to the job of two), you win (you earn more money doing less work), open source wins (because it get's proved as a better sort of software).And of course, all that extra time could be used devloping more software!
So the question is, which system requires more on-hand work?
Aww hell, and here's me trying to be funny as well.
Yeah, but it doesn't have a paper clip telling you what to do, does it?
Nah, I'd mod it up as informative!
:-) )
(trolling since ooh, about 5 minutes ago
Great, does that mean I'd get decent pings when playing Counterstrike on an American server (I'm in the UK)?
I think the main problem is that depressurising too quickly causes The Bends, normally associated with divers, which can be brought on by a sudden decrease in pressure.It causes bubbles to form in the blood, causing pain and if serious enough, death.
I'm not sure at exactly what pressure change it happens though, nor the difference in pressure between the inside and outside of an aircraft when it is flight, so whether or not it actually causes an effect, I don't know.
As I understand it, the GPL license applies to everyone. Therefore, anyone who you "distribute" it to in the company has the right to distribute it on to other people. If everyone in the office freely decides (the company would not be allowed to force them) to not distribute the content outside of the company, then there would be no problem with that.
And now for the usual disclaimer,IANAL.
The question I would like to ask is to any lawyers or wannabe lawyers out there. If you were in a position to defend a company against a GPL copyright infringment, how would you go about attacking the GPL?
How convenient, and people accuse Microsoft of releasing software in a beta stage.
You miss the point - Microsoft portays the image that the software isn't in the beta stage.
And much as I _hate_ Mozilla, I use it as my backup for any page which for some reason or other konqueror doesn't render properly.
And I also have to say, the latest version hasn't crashed on me once yet...
For the same reason that until recently I though Mozilla was written in java (I'm still not 100% convinced that it isn't) - it's slow, uses hideous amounts of memory, and even basic things such as making a selection off of a menu make you believe that your running it on a ZX81.
I'm a great fan of not having to upgrade my computer due to bad design (hell that's why I switched from Windows 98 to Linux in the first place)
Question - why use GPS at all? I'm sure that at any given location a mobile phone is in touch with more than one mobile transmitter within reach. Why could these not be adapted to triangulate the position of a mobile?
Ok I admit it - I was trying to be funny.
A lot of web designers don't go to the extents that you have - in particular, Here is a particular example of a bad site, that will show NOTHING if your browser doesn't identify itself as either netscape or MSIE. (Take a look at the dsocument source and you can see why...)
If you do, then fair play. Shame more web designers do not have that kind of dedication really.
How can we optimize our HTML code to render correctly in your browser, if you lie to us about what browser you're using?
OMG your code must be _horrendous_ if you optimise for every browser.
I mean, surely your not one of these people who writes code which _only_ works on netscape and IE, are you?
You mention these features that other email clients don't have. Would you care to elaborate on what they are?
I watched the television non-stop for the first 16 hours or so, and then went to bed, to wake up and start watching it again, but then the news had dried up, and I turned to alternative forms of media.
For those who haven't checked, google has a news page which contains links to numerous news sites and newspapers from around the world. From these, you can get a view of what media from the rest of the world is saying about this.
I would appreciate it also, if when the page goes static, there was a warning that you could not currently post, because clicking the "reply" button and getting sent back to the homepage is annoying.
Or, thinking about the problem a little more, perhaps under times of high stress, could you change to a system where one server is dedicated to posting comments and updating the database, whilst the other servers serve static pages which are updated every couple of minutes from the dynamic server?
CNN should be rolling out a Slash-based discussion forum for top stories. Heck, so should Whitehouse.gov!
If I was a mod at the moment I'd mod this up as insightful.
I love Slashdot, yet I yearn for a site of the same magnitude which covers the major news stories of every day, many of which are not computer based, and allows the same level of discussion by anyone who visits the site, and with the same level of moderation which helps keep the signal-to-noise ratio at a more acceptable level.
I first heard what was going on from Slashdot, and I had to turn the television on to believe it - it sounded too much for a prank story when I first read it.
For me, the television was more important than Slashdot for recieving information on what was going as and when it happened.
But for me, Slashdot has been much more important as a place where I could see what other people from all over the world were thinking about this tradegy. I hope that the different pesrpectives and posts which I have read have allowed me to more maturely handle how I feel about the situation than I otherwise would have been able to.
I think it's worth mentioning that if this is likely to cause a worldwide recession, we should watch out for more countries gaining fanatical leaders