...gets keyboard navigation working sometime soon. If KDE is being 'phased out' in a major distribution, that is.
As a sysadmin, I have to look after legacy windows machines as well as linux boxes.
While overall the linux boxes are much easier to administer in large volumes than their Win2000/XP counterparts, the ones running GNOME lose out big time.
In windows I can navigate the whole machine entirely by keyboard. For example, I can shut down a group of logged-in machines by walking up to each one, hitting CRTL-ESC, UP, ENTER, 'S', ENTER. (there may be another 'S' in there, depending on where "Stand by" sits). This takes about two seconds per machine. I don't even have to look at the screen.
On the GNOME machines, I can try as many hotkey combinations as I can think of, and the bottom-left menu icon just sits there smiling at me. Eventually I give up in disgust and sit down to use the mouse.
This is one area where KDE is streets ahead of GNOME, although even it has a long way to go.
Of course, we'll have to get to work on porting the really cool KDE applications that (AFAIK) have no GNOME equivalent, such as Kstars and Kalzium. Maybe we could even give them sensible names? No, I don't mean Gstars and Galzium:)
Perhaps KDE is faster than GNOME, but if that's true, we're in a lot of trouble.
Try opening kcalc, a basic scientific calculator. On my Athlon 2000XP it takes 6 (six!) seconds for the window to appear. On my old Windows 95 machine (pentium 133), launching the calculator applet took approximately half a second.
Sure, both KDE and GNOME are nice, but they still have a long way to go before they're what I would consider usable.
... storage-wise. They just don't have enough capacity to hold enough music for a decent walk/car ride/whatever.
Music recorded at say 180Kbps will give 97 minutes on a 128MB player.
I'm looking for a good ogg player in a discman form factor. Pop in an ogg-encoded CD, and get hours of good-quality music.
Heck, a motor/laser assembly is probably cheaper than flash ram these days anyway. (must be, considering the number of sub US$20 discmans I've seen in stores lately).
Thing is, portable mp3 players are 10 a penny. Hell, I can walk into my local computer store and find at least three different flash drives, all with inbuilt mp3/wma players.
If they want their product to sell, why not make it worthwhile and put in stuff that tech-savvy people would use, like Tremor (integer Ogg Vorbis decoding) support for those who don't want to pay Fraunhoffer.
Are there actually any tools out there that can take advantage of bitrate peeling? I know that Vorbis can toeoretically support it, but has it ever actually been implemented?
And there was'nt really anything he could'nt draw/model/create with a computer (or with a simple pencil for that matter), but belive me, he wound'nt be able(nor interested) to script ANYTHING.
I don't think it was the cost of the drives that killed them - I know plenty of people/companies that bought zip drives with big expectations.
IMO, it was the media - NZ$28 for a single disk? You've got to be kidding! Their production costs were low enough that they could have sold them much cheaper, and consequently all those who had zip drives would find themselves buying more disks, and expecting their colleagues to be able to read them. Simple marketing - the more widgets visible, the better.
For those who recall, the "click of death" didn't help them much, either.
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...gets keyboard navigation working sometime soon.
:)
If KDE is being 'phased out' in a major distribution, that is.
As a sysadmin, I have to look after legacy windows machines as well as linux boxes.
While overall the linux boxes are much easier to administer in large volumes than their Win2000/XP counterparts, the ones running GNOME lose out big time.
In windows I can navigate the whole machine entirely by keyboard. For example, I can shut down a group of logged-in machines by walking up to each one, hitting CRTL-ESC, UP, ENTER, 'S', ENTER. (there may be another 'S' in there, depending on where "Stand by" sits). This takes about two seconds per machine. I don't even have to look at the screen.
On the GNOME machines, I can try as many hotkey combinations as I can think of, and the bottom-left menu icon just sits there smiling at me. Eventually I give up in disgust and sit down to use the mouse.
This is one area where KDE is streets ahead of GNOME, although even it has a long way to go.
Of course, we'll have to get to work on porting the really cool KDE applications that (AFAIK) have no GNOME equivalent, such as Kstars and Kalzium. Maybe we could even give them sensible names? No, I don't mean Gstars and Galzium
That said, KDE is faster. Much, much faster;
Perhaps KDE is faster than GNOME, but if that's true, we're in a lot of trouble.
Try opening kcalc, a basic scientific calculator. On my Athlon 2000XP it takes 6 (six!) seconds for the window to appear. On my old Windows 95 machine (pentium 133), launching the calculator applet took approximately half a second.
Sure, both KDE and GNOME are nice, but they still have a long way to go before they're what I would consider usable.
FSF/EFF: +1 Informative
Bill Gates: -1 Overrated
Only the three that armed Iraq
What, they're excluding themselves?
Luxury.
Pity they didn't put in Ogg Vorbis encoding support into the free one, no royalties need go to Fraunhofer/Thomson.
Perhaps they need the fuel to get home themselves.
...the iRiver iMP-400 looks promising
No uploading required. Just pop in your OGG/MP3 CD and you're away.
Ogg Vorbis support is in the works (via afirmware update), and can happily co-exist with the other codecs in firmware.
These guys seem pretty serious about vorbis. It's great to finally see a manufacturer taking this position.
Now that Richard Morrell (the projects founder and by far the worst troublemaker) has left the project, things might not be as ugly as they once were.
Does anyone know whatever came of Mr Morrell? Perhaps Microsoft hired him.
OpenGL can be compared to Direct3D.
As for DirectX itself, well that's what SDL is for.
... storage-wise.
They just don't have enough capacity to hold enough music for a decent walk/car ride/whatever.
Music recorded at say 180Kbps will give 97 minutes on a 128MB player.
I'm looking for a good ogg player in a discman form factor. Pop in an ogg-encoded CD, and get hours of good-quality music.
Heck, a motor/laser assembly is probably cheaper than flash ram these days anyway. (must be, considering the number of sub US$20 discmans I've seen in stores lately).
Luxury.
Thing is, portable mp3 players are 10 a penny.
Hell, I can walk into my local computer store and find at least three different flash drives, all with inbuilt mp3/wma players.
If they want their product to sell, why not make it worthwhile and put in stuff that tech-savvy people would use, like Tremor (integer Ogg Vorbis decoding) support for those who don't want to pay Fraunhoffer.
That supports all currently released radeon cards.
With full acceleration?
If so, then that's great!
There's a few here who do.
So, uh, where's a DivX version? Or any version, for that matter, that I can play without having to install some proprietary hack.
They all use proprietary music storage formats.
Maybe that's okay for the masses, but I just can't afford to pay Thomson/Fraunhofer every time I want to encode or play my music.
Show me a compact portable player that supports Vorbis, and I'll show you a player I'll consider buying.
Are there actually any tools out there that can take advantage of bitrate peeling? I know that Vorbis can toeoretically support it, but has it ever actually been implemented?
And there was'nt really anything he could'nt draw/model/create with a computer (or with a simple pencil for that matter), but belive me, he wound'nt be able(nor interested) to script ANYTHING.
Really? So how did he make things move?
a smattering of teenagers too young to work at Redmond
... or just too ethical. Or sensible, take your pick.
I don't think it was the cost of the drives that killed them - I know plenty of people/companies that bought zip drives with big expectations.
IMO, it was the media - NZ$28 for a single disk? You've got to be kidding! Their production costs were low enough that they could have sold them much cheaper, and consequently all those who had zip drives would find themselves buying more disks, and expecting their colleagues to be able to read them. Simple marketing - the more widgets visible, the better.
For those who recall, the "click of death" didn't help them much, either.
Two words: Education pricing.
Two more words (and a mathematical symbol):
Educational pricing > State funding
We're up to version 7, pal. All major bugs are fixed. All minor bugs are fixed. We're in the "continuous improvement" phase now.
Really?
It must be cosmic rays then that keep quietly screwing up my multi-layered images then.
And they somehow know not to penetrate my computer when it's running the GIMP.
Since so many people use photoshop, but a minuscule proportion of those actally pay for it:
/submitting bug reports on) the GIMP.
After this, there'll be a whole lot more people using (and hopefully developing for
Honestly, why does anyone still take these clown seriously?