How is it different from the OpenBrick ? Mh this mini-box seems to run a 800 Mhz x86 processor (OpenBrick has a 300 Mhz Geode processor). I heard the OpenBrick could not play DivX smoothly, maybe this is the solution ?
Sounds interesting, has anyone gotten one already ?
The quality of screener divx is just crap. I'm not watching a movie I'm dying to see in this quality. And I'm not watching divx of movies I'm not dying to see. That's just about it.
So keep the SuperAgents out of the theatre, please.
Geez, then where do they put books like American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis) ? On the secret underground cellar police-protected shelf ? In the porn section ?
Play it in CD-ROM on computer (or in portable CD player), plug into output sound, tell recorder to directly record digital output. Encode. Share.
No
It may as well be a bug, but I'll tell you a story. I recently bought Massive Attack's latest album, as well as Air's recent City Reading. Both are "copy-protected". Fine. I boot under Windows (98), put the CD in, and the D: shows somes files (no audio tracks!), including a player.exe. I execute it : it's an ugly CD-player that plays the audio tracks of the CD. No way to play those with winamp AFAIK. Ok the point is, the sound degraded ! No kidding, not my speakers, no. They volontarily degraded the sound of the CD when playing with that player on windows. Hell. This is why you cannot record the line from your computer.
Now let's try that on linux. Boot, plug the cd in, start xmms, play the cd. The sound is normal, no degradation, no problem. Ok let's go, I abcde the CD, and I have my oggs I can listen to on my Zaurus and everything. Sounds like linux people don't have to worry, yet.
I'm just wondering when they will volontarily bitch the sound on my HiFi (because as you said, you can link it directly through a digital link to your computer).
Now, don't tell me to buy more CDs from people who have such low interest in providing music to people, whatever they use to listen to it.
This could be true, but how many writers are there out there ? Few.
What most people use Word for is basic text edition. This can be done by OpenOffice or any other good Office Suite. Advanced text edition can be tricky, but for the regular l-user, this just doesn't matter.
We are not talking about some special cases here, but most of the time, it's *really* like bolding two words and enlarging one title.
This is why they start to sell PC with StarOffice actually...
The MusicBrainz Tagger application allows you to automatically look up the tracks in your music collection and then write clean metadata tags (ID3 tags or Vorbis comment fields) to your files. As you tag the files in your collection that MusicBrainz didn't recognize, you submit the acoustic fingerprints (TRM ids) of your files back to the server. Submitting acoustic fingerprints will allow MusicBrainz to automatically identify these tracks in the future, so that other people using the Tagger can benefit from the work you have done. This sounds really nice, but it works only on Windows ! The code being GPL, I hope it will soon be ported to other free OSes.
Or does anybody know such a tool working under Linux ?
it needs to break out of the adolescent fantasy genres and actually produce serious, adult plots. And I just don't see it happening. Heard about Miyazaki ? Ever seen a real anime other than DBZ ?
Too bad Howard Shore already won the Oscar last year for The Fellowship of the Rings, no doubt he could have won it again with The Two Towers soundtrack.
The big winner this year seems to be Gangs of New York anyway, though it is deserved.
LOTR-TTT was great, and had great FX. SW-Ep1 was crappy, and had great FX.
I don't think the quality of special effects is related to the quality of movies. Let the FX guys do their jobs well, and let the screenwriters do theirs. There already are plenty of screenwriters schools anyway.
My friend doesn't waste time and energy investigating people who steal his money. Instead, he just earns more money. I guess you have not understood what GNU and GPL is all about...
Mh, from the preview homepage, looks like they hired the same webdesigner as for the well-known website. I'm really looking forward to new stupid Harry-oriented GIF animations.
The Playa crashes more often than I launch it, so let's not talk about it. WMP ? Yeah, I really miss a player that takes 30% of the screen with useless menus and stuff, even though I have to admin that Realplayer is the absolute winner on these grounds.
There exists a simple GUI for mplayer which can be "plugged in" for mouse-addicts; aviplay has a simple but nice UI too.
I'm not saying Linux video softwares have a better UI, but their UI is absolutely usable, functionnal. Too bad he didn't mention the great features included in mplayer or aviplay (changing sound & subtitles delay, multi-channel audio, etc). Most of the common video players on other OSes just don't have all these, sorry.
I never managed to install this game (not cracked, the original CD) on any of my PCs (3 so far), and I have heard of people running it who told me it was the buggiest thing ever done, though the game was (supposed to be) really nice.
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How is it different from the OpenBrick ? Mh this mini-box seems to run a 800 Mhz x86 processor (OpenBrick has a 300 Mhz Geode processor). I heard the OpenBrick could not play DivX smoothly, maybe this is the solution ?
Sounds interesting, has anyone gotten one already ?
... if there were a Mac Version but no Linux version, it wouldn't be on Slashdot.
The quality of screener divx is just crap.
I'm not watching a movie I'm dying to see in this quality. And I'm not watching divx of movies I'm not dying to see.
That's just about it.
So keep the SuperAgents out of the theatre, please.
Geez, then where do they put books like American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis) ? On the secret underground cellar police-protected shelf ? In the porn section ?
Play it in CD-ROM on computer (or in portable CD player), plug into output sound, tell recorder to directly record digital output. Encode. Share.
No
It may as well be a bug, but I'll tell you a story. I recently bought Massive Attack's latest album, as well as Air's recent City Reading. Both are "copy-protected". Fine.
I boot under Windows (98), put the CD in, and the D: shows somes files (no audio tracks!), including a player.exe. I execute it : it's an ugly CD-player that plays the audio tracks of the CD. No way to play those with winamp AFAIK. Ok the point is, the sound degraded ! No kidding, not my speakers, no. They volontarily degraded the sound of the CD when playing with that player on windows. Hell. This is why you cannot record the line from your computer.
Now let's try that on linux. Boot, plug the cd in, start xmms, play the cd. The sound is normal, no degradation, no problem. Ok let's go, I abcde the CD, and I have my oggs I can listen to on my Zaurus and everything. Sounds like linux people don't have to worry, yet.
I'm just wondering when they will volontarily bitch the sound on my HiFi (because as you said, you can link it directly through a digital link to your computer).
Now, don't tell me to buy more CDs from people who have such low interest in providing music to people, whatever they use to listen to it.
The mere fact of thinking about using such a tool is enough to know you are a geek. Sorry.
Finally, we'll be able to use 3dwm in its full glory !
This could be true, but how many writers are there out there ? Few.
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What most people use Word for is basic text edition. This can be done by OpenOffice or any other good Office Suite. Advanced text edition can be tricky, but for the regular l-user, this just doesn't matter.
We are not talking about some special cases here, but most of the time, it's *really* like bolding two words and enlarging one title.
This is why they start to sell PC with StarOffice actually
How about a Linux program that's not an interface clone ...
You have to try mpg123/ogg123 !
The MusicBrainz Tagger application allows you to automatically look up the tracks in your music collection and then write clean metadata tags (ID3 tags or Vorbis comment fields) to your files. As you tag the files in your collection that MusicBrainz didn't recognize, you submit the acoustic fingerprints (TRM ids) of your files back to the server. Submitting acoustic fingerprints will allow MusicBrainz to automatically identify these tracks in the future, so that other people using the Tagger can benefit from the work you have done.
This sounds really nice, but it works only on Windows ! The code being GPL, I hope it will soon be ported to other free OSes.
Or does anybody know such a tool working under Linux ?
it needs to break out of the adolescent fantasy genres and actually produce serious, adult plots. And I just don't see it happening.
Heard about Miyazaki ?
Ever seen a real anime other than DBZ ?
Too bad Howard Shore already won the Oscar last year for The Fellowship of the Rings, no doubt he could have won it again with The Two Towers soundtrack.
The big winner this year seems to be Gangs of New York anyway, though it is deserved.
the acting (particularly Duke Leto) was like watching Al Gore. ...
Could have been worse then, like GW Bush or something
LOTR-TTT was great, and had great FX. SW-Ep1 was crappy, and had great FX.
I don't think the quality of special effects is related to the quality of movies. Let the FX guys do their jobs well, and let the screenwriters do theirs. There already are plenty of screenwriters schools anyway.
My friend doesn't waste time and energy investigating people who steal his money. Instead, he just earns more money. ...
I guess you have not understood what GNU and GPL is all about
People who license their code under the BSD License don't waste time and energy investigating these types of issues. Instead, they keep coding.
... which had been sort of noisy, hadn't it ?
This reminds me of the story of the "borrowing" of the IP Stack by Microsoft
Two word file in Word 2002, single letter file in Word XP ?
I guess (hope) not, it runs as a CGI, thus the shell should be run as the user running the webserver, hopefully not root.
This sounds like a nice voluntary security hole to me anyway.
Don't you watch X-Files ?
Hired? I hope to god that their webdesigner isn't paid..
Schh ! It was Harry who did it, 10 years ago !
Mh, from the preview homepage, looks like they hired the same webdesigner as for the well-known website. I'm really looking forward to new stupid Harry-oriented GIF animations.
The Playa crashes more often than I launch it, so let's not talk about it. WMP ? Yeah, I really miss a player that takes 30% of the screen with useless menus and stuff, even though I have to admin that Realplayer is the absolute winner on these grounds.
There exists a simple GUI for mplayer which can be "plugged in" for mouse-addicts; aviplay has a simple but nice UI too.
I'm not saying Linux video softwares have a better UI, but their UI is absolutely usable, functionnal. Too bad he didn't mention the great features included in mplayer or aviplay (changing sound & subtitles delay, multi-channel audio, etc). Most of the common video players on other OSes just don't have all these, sorry.
Modding the parent as 'Informative' is just the best joke of the day.
Bullshit : The Sims it the more popular game ever. Unless you consider it as violent ...
I never managed to install this game (not cracked, the original CD) on any of my PCs (3 so far), and I have heard of people running it who told me it was the buggiest thing ever done, though the game was (supposed to be) really nice.
Ultima IX really ought to figure on the list.