This is the problem with free software, you can't give the stuff away, people align pricetag with quality, especially the non technical end users i know. They all need windows XP professional, not home mind, that's not good enough, they all need the latest and greatest M$ office professional release, and wont be happy unless the DVD playback software is pirated, even if the graphics card in the machine came with a CD containing a more up to date version of the same f***ing software!!?!?!?
of course, microsoft have no problem with people pirating their software if it maintains this thought process in the minds of consumers.
it's possible that this is largely a UK thing, for one, Software freedom day seemed to be far better recieved in other countries.
Well, they certainly like things to have the labels too, "Alpha" "Beta" and "Preview" are all very popular with windows kids, while build numbers and "for internal use only" labels are really cool.
maybe Linux would be more popular if you could only get the latest versions through p2p networks and IRC, and even then were told that you weren't alowed to use it.
Itanium for apple desktops doesn't sound like a good move to me, after shifting to x86(32?) to then move over to a totally alien and extremely expensive server CPU archicecture(and a very troubled one at that), IA64, just doesn't make sense. They may well go for Xeon in high end units though. Just wondering what they plan to do with their server line now.
for me, and probably others, it's the other way around, PowerPC made Macs cool, granted, never cool enough to warant actually buying one, but still interesting. I've exactly zero interest in over priced designer intel x86 boxes.
I'm not really interested in winamp in particular, however, AVS and Milkdrop are very nice indeed, it would be great to have these vis systems available on the linux players. As for video playback, XMMS certainly used to do it, I don't know the current status of the SMPEG plugin but it was good at the time. really though, who would want to play videos in a winamp style interface? if you need help finding alternatives head over to this page, totem's nice.
but you're scaling the image twice in software, it's just software on the monitor the second time. when it comes to emulation sometimes the most pleasant results, on LCDs, are achieved by emulating scanline effects while running at native resolution.
maybe extremely low quality videos could benefit from the reduced definition, but not everyone is fond of the soft results that an LCD's scaling would tend to produce.
So are you suggesting that the playback software's scaling to 1600*1200 would be of lower quality than having the software scale the video to 1024*768 and the LCD screen interpolating that output to 1600*1200?
Yep, choice is a great thing, but when a website you visit tells you in large lettering that the browser you're using is out of date and gives you five reasons why you need to download their browser instead, that must be pretty compelling for some end users. Importantly, the browser isn't actually outdated.
In the flash demo it states that"If Netscape isn't sure about the trustworthiness of a site, it uses the Firefox method for rendering the pages, which is safer but might have compatibility issues"
Wonderful, make users go off Firefox by making them worry about compatibility, i guess they really need to reclaim some of the marketshare lost to Firefox.
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But it shouldn't be assumed that the user will want to browse a site they trust with a broken rendering engine, are trustworthy sites not about to make use of CSS?
Afterall, Linux can not only run a wide variety of windows software using WINE, but it can run more than 3 win32 processes at any given time, putting it miles ahead of WXPSE. I guess i wouldn't be able to run GIMP, script-fu and a plugin on it, not and have a browser open.
giving them an overly technical distro with an unpleasantly cluttered desktop and menu system with KDE on Knoppix surely wouldn't help. Maybe Gnoppix would be rather better, that or the Ubuntu LiveCD. Even then i'm not sure that a system which they can't really use for anything productive is of great benefit... but I supose it does have AisleRiot.
TightVNC is certainly the option i'd choose, i've heard from some users that UltraVNC is an impressive system but i've heard an awful lot of complaints about it too, with steady and well tested improvements, such as the driver hook, working their way into TVNC, UVNC's losing any advantage it may have once had.
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My first thought was "Some new and macabre kind of bio diesel production facility?"
Unfortunately the best i can do at home is A. Paeonifolius
This is the problem with free software, you can't give the stuff away, people align pricetag with quality, especially the non technical end users i know. They all need windows XP professional, not home mind, that's not good enough, they all need the latest and greatest M$ office professional release, and wont be happy unless the DVD playback software is pirated, even if the graphics card in the machine came with a CD containing a more up to date version of the same f***ing software!!?!?!?
of course, microsoft have no problem with people pirating their software if it maintains this thought process in the minds of consumers.
it's possible that this is largely a UK thing, for one, Software freedom day seemed to be far better recieved in other countries.
That 70's show scoring anything above about 0.02 is very wrong indeed.
Well, they certainly like things to have the labels too, "Alpha" "Beta" and "Preview" are all very popular with windows kids, while build numbers and "for internal use only" labels are really cool.
maybe Linux would be more popular if you could only get the latest versions through p2p networks and IRC, and even then were told that you weren't alowed to use it.
seriously, try reading it again.
work on the boot loader and kernel
i didn't say that the difference between a generic x86 PC and a Mac is only the processor, that's what you implied.
Erm, no, i don't think that's what i said.
Itanium for apple desktops doesn't sound like a good move to me, after shifting to x86(32?) to then move over to a totally alien and extremely expensive server CPU archicecture(and a very troubled one at that), IA64, just doesn't make sense. They may well go for Xeon in high end units though. Just wondering what they plan to do with their server line now.
but getting it to boot on commodity hardware probably only requires work on the boot loader and kernel.
for me, and probably others, it's the other way around, PowerPC made Macs cool, granted, never cool enough to warant actually buying one, but still interesting. I've exactly zero interest in over priced designer intel x86 boxes.
I'm not really interested in winamp in particular, however, AVS and Milkdrop are very nice indeed, it would be great to have these vis systems available on the linux players.
As for video playback, XMMS certainly used to do it, I don't know the current status of the SMPEG plugin but it was good at the time. really though, who would want to play videos in a winamp style interface? if you need help finding alternatives head over to this page, totem's nice.
but you're scaling the image twice in software, it's just software on the monitor the second time. when it comes to emulation sometimes the most pleasant results, on LCDs, are achieved by emulating scanline effects while running at native resolution.
maybe extremely low quality videos could benefit from the reduced definition, but not everyone is fond of the soft results that an LCD's scaling would tend to produce.
So are you suggesting that the playback software's scaling to 1600*1200 would be of lower quality than having the software scale the video to 1024*768 and the LCD screen interpolating that output to 1600*1200?
indeed, now a nice mini PC based on one of VIA's offerings would be of interest, but i don't really much care for intel's mobiles.
Yep, choice is a great thing, but when a website you visit tells you in large lettering that the browser you're using is out of date and gives you five reasons why you need to download their browser instead, that must be pretty compelling for some end users. Importantly, the browser isn't actually outdated.
In the flash demo it states that"If Netscape isn't sure about the trustworthiness of a site, it uses the Firefox method for rendering the pages, which is safer but might have compatibility issues"
Wonderful, make users go off Firefox by making them worry about compatibility, i guess they really need to reclaim some of the marketshare lost to Firefox.
But it shouldn't be assumed that the user will want to browse a site they trust with a broken rendering engine, are trustworthy sites not about to make use of CSS?
NS8 looks like a really bad idea to me.
the vogon strategy you suggest doesn't sound terribly vogon to me, more like terrestrial bypass planning.
Afterall, Linux can not only run a wide variety of windows software using WINE, but it can run more than 3 win32 processes at any given time, putting it miles ahead of WXPSE. I guess i wouldn't be able to run GIMP, script-fu and a plugin on it, not and have a browser open.
I haven't seen the nescafé variety(330ml can style) for quite a while now but there are still worse tasting varieties available.
giving them an overly technical distro with an unpleasantly cluttered desktop and menu system with KDE on Knoppix surely wouldn't help. Maybe Gnoppix would be rather better, that or the Ubuntu LiveCD. Even then i'm not sure that a system which they can't really use for anything productive is of great benefit... but I supose it does have AisleRiot.
you'd likely be much better off picking up something like BMP to use for the port since GTK2 is far better than 1.x on win32.
TightVNC is certainly the option i'd choose, i've heard from some users that UltraVNC is an impressive system but i've heard an awful lot of complaints about it too, with steady and well tested improvements, such as the driver hook, working their way into TVNC, UVNC's losing any advantage it may have once had.