But when I'm playing my first-person shooter at 1280x1024 on my flicker-free 21" monitor, getting 100fps at 100Hz refresh...... well let's just say you can keep your little game console.
...you'll see that there is 3 Linux-FastIntro-demos and Four Win32-Fast-Intro-demos, hence, nearly equal numbers...
Just took a look at them. I guess they were done in a big hurry. They're not really up to any kind of decent demo standard, Linux or otherwise. Crappier demos have been seen, but not by reliable witnesses.
Why would the mythical Joe Sixpack be managing a computer or domain with 500 users
Because Joe's lodge buddy whispered in the ear of the CEO, who shelled out for him to get an MCSE (ie just enough knowledge to be dangerous) and made him CTO.
Honestly, it's positively scary to see what type of people are in positions of immense responsibility.
Stupid stupid stupid. 1.4 MB written to the start of my hard drive. Of course the system still worked until the next reboot, and I was able to reconstruct the MBR after much tearing of hair. Miraculously an fsck managed to fix the inode table on hda1. I now have several backups of my MBR.
I don't know where you live, but in NZ a semi-tech news site has put up a Hall of Shame, to which you can submit URLs of sites that lose some level of functionality if you don't use IE.
What I meant I guess was that there would be nothing stopping the powers that be from making the player show only in a window if, say for example, the MPAA deem that 'all those bloody linux users are pirates' and decide to make the linux dvd experience a little less pleasant.
I agree that not having full-screen playback is stupid, but tell that to the likes of Apple (who didn't put it in Quicktime/Win32 until recently).
Just my way of re-iterating that we would be at the mercy of whoever does the approving, stupid or otherwise.
Your point re. #5: Just OSS advocacy, nothing to see here, move along. Let's just say that Stallmans "If I can't share it with you then I won't take it" sounds more appealing than Gates' "If you won't give me money, then you can't have it".
After seeing the appalling quality of "approved" Windows DVD players, I don't *want* an approved one under Linux.
This is for a number of reasons:
You can be sure that such a player would be closed source because of imagined "intellectual property" contained in the DVD standard. Development would be only done by commercial interests and would most likely stagnate.
In order for it to be approved, it will have to obey silly restrictions like DRM, no full-screen and mandatory no-skip tracks (for trailers, FBI warnings, etc).
Putting aside that it's actually illegal in many countries, it will impose DVD zones back into players. Something I haven't needed to deal with for a number of years now.
There will likely be a crackdown on the "unauthorized" players that actually work. This would also include all command-line DVD tools, such as DVD ripping software which lets you back up your movies (so your 3-year-old doesn't get vegemite on your original Ice Age video).
Any free version would be crippled unless you pay $$$ for the "full" version. Another remnant of outdated business models that I haven't had to worry about for a while.
No thanks, I'll stick with Ogle, Xine and MPlayer.
Printing was done at 72dpi. Hello, my printer is 1200 dpi, can you please take advantage of it?
You're getting dpi and dpi confused.
Your 1200dpi printer can only print black (or CMY) dots on a (usually) white background. You see, it needs to use all those 1200 dots per inch to render halftones, so that if you stand back far enough an area will look kind of like the approximated colour and not just a collection of dots.
These labels are formatted at 72 dpi. That's 72 full-colour 24-bit fully-toned dots per inch, not a collection of dots that differ only in size.
There is a formula somewhere that converts perceived dpi to perceived dpi, but I can't recall it...
Uh, I think you'll find that it was Digital Video Disc originally, but was changed when some bright spark figured that people might want to store data on these things too.
Why versatile? What is versatile about them? They don't seem to last any longer than CD's, and have about the same number of practical uses.
They may as well have dubbed it HDCD or something equally obscure if it wasn't meant to be marketed to the general masses like VCRs.
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Can't we just flag the RIAA as damage and route around them?
/. musicians, submit your work under a Creative Commons licence and sell it somewhere like here or that other one whose name escapes me.
Come on,
Perhaps.
... well let's just say you can keep your little game console.
But when I'm playing my first-person shooter at 1280x1024 on my flicker-free 21" monitor, getting 100fps at 100Hz refresh...
Suddenly I picture a hooded Steve Ballmer in his grotto:
"I will make it legal"
gq is a great LDAP editor that I use to edit LDAP entries for users.
Just curious:
Can you change a users password from within gq without seeing it, and without having to paste in an md5 hash?
Okay,
But just have a little think about why on earth someone like Microsoft would sponsor you.
To encourage innovation? I hope you're not that naive.
...you'll see that there is 3 Linux-FastIntro-demos and Four Win32-Fast-Intro-demos, hence, nearly equal numbers...
Just took a look at them. I guess they were done in a big hurry. They're not really up to any kind of decent demo standard, Linux or otherwise. Crappier demos have been seen, but not by reliable witnesses.
With apologies to the Douglas Adams estate.
... is a major sponsor.
I guess there's not much hope of seeing Linux demos this year.
*sigh*
See this post about return values.
Of course, if you had stated your target platform and that you weren't coding for portability, then yes it would be 100% bug-free.
In ANH:
Imperial Officer: "Where are you taking this.. thing?"
Luke: "Prisoner transfer to cell block 1138"
In ESB during the battle of Hoth, Rogue 11 is ordered to sector 38.
1138 was printed in whole and half-circles on the back of the "all broken" battle droid after the battle of Naboo in TPM.
Sorry, your K jokes are used up.
1 Kredit to Kontinue.
Darn tootin'
I used to get quite annoyed when I'd read Windows articles about DOS being text mode command-line driven only.
Nearly everything I did in DOS was graphical.
In every MB I've bought since 2001, you can tell the BIOS at what temperature the machine will turn itself off at.
Any other problems (like missing RAM, bad video card, etc) and the speaker just beeps at you.
Then again, nearly every motherboard in the South Pacific has an Award BIOS so it might be a bit different to your part of the world.
Why would the mythical Joe Sixpack be managing a computer or domain with 500 users
Because Joe's lodge buddy whispered in the ear of the CEO, who shelled out for him to get an MCSE (ie just enough knowledge to be dangerous) and made him CTO.
Honestly, it's positively scary to see what type of people are in positions of immense responsibility.
dd if=BootFloppy.img of=/dev/hda
Stupid stupid stupid. 1.4 MB written to the start of my hard drive. Of course the system still worked until the next reboot, and I was able to reconstruct the MBR after much tearing of hair. Miraculously an fsck managed to fix the inode table on hda1. I now have several backups of my MBR.
I don't know where you live, but in NZ a semi-tech news site has put up a Hall of Shame, to which you can submit URLs of sites that lose some level of functionality if you don't use IE.
... I want one of these so I can trace thepaths of cables and pipes inside my friggin walls!
What I meant I guess was that there would be nothing stopping the powers that be from making the player show only in a window if, say for example, the MPAA deem that 'all those bloody linux users are pirates' and decide to make the linux dvd experience a little less pleasant.
I agree that not having full-screen playback is stupid, but tell that to the likes of Apple (who didn't put it in Quicktime/Win32 until recently).
Just my way of re-iterating that we would be at the mercy of whoever does the approving, stupid or otherwise.
Your point re. #5: Just OSS advocacy, nothing to see here, move along.
Let's just say that Stallmans "If I can't share it with you then I won't take it" sounds more appealing than Gates' "If you won't give me money, then you can't have it".
This is for a number of reasons:
No thanks, I'll stick with Ogle, Xine and MPlayer.
You're forgetting the *nix philosophy on the role of programs:
"Do one thing and do it well"
Printing was done at 72dpi. Hello, my printer is 1200 dpi, can you please take advantage of it?
You're getting dpi and dpi confused.
Your 1200dpi printer can only print black (or CMY) dots on a (usually) white background. You see, it needs to use all those 1200 dots per inch to render halftones, so that if you stand back far enough an area will look kind of like the approximated colour and not just a collection of dots.
These labels are formatted at 72 dpi. That's 72 full-colour 24-bit fully-toned dots per inch, not a collection of dots that differ only in size.
There is a formula somewhere that converts perceived dpi to perceived dpi, but I can't recall it...
I hear that KDE 5 is going to be navigated fps-style, ie with a mouse and WASD key combo.
Kidding.
Uh, I think you'll find that it was Digital Video Disc originally, but was changed when some bright spark figured that people might want to store data on these things too.
Why versatile? What is versatile about them? They don't seem to last any longer than CD's, and have about the same number of practical uses.
They may as well have dubbed it HDCD or something equally obscure if it wasn't meant to be marketed to the general masses like VCRs.
As Homer is walking through a landfill:
... but good luck getting Debian people to swallow their pride and incorporate it into Stable/Unstable/Testing.
Debian must be one of the purest distros out there, but do they have to be so darn elitist?
It would be so much easier to believe you if you would just show us the code you used to perform the tests.