I use and like MPlayer for playing media files, but I've found it awful for playing DVDs (in my case anyway). As the movie progresses, the sound drops up to 2 seconds out of sync with the picture. This is on a 2000+ Athlon with UDMA enabled.
And I don't want to have to sit with my fingers on the 'increase lag' 'decrease lag' keys while watching a movie.
Ogle however works great, and it supports menus. The CVS version has full AC3 surround for multichannel cards like the SBLive 5.1 too!
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That day may be coming rapidly, but so far it is STILL possible to produce patentable ideas and put them out unfettered into the world- like academics used to do before academia became a profit center.
You're assuming that prior art is still a valid means for refusal of a patent. Recent cases have proven that to no longer be the situation.
If you conceive an idea or make an invention and release it to the world then there is nothing I know of to prevent a greedy corporation from patenting it and claiming complete ownership, as there is no prior patent (and therefore no prior art as far as the USPO is concerned).
Which is why we desperately need some kind of antipatent. A method of legally declaring "I invented this, and I release it for whoever to do whatever with".
In other news, the once monolithic software giant Microsoft has been ordered to make good on prior rulings by the US supreme court, declaring Microsoft an illegal monopoly and a threat to global security. The groundbreaking trial lasted three months, as witness after witness presented evidence on the 874 claims made against the corporation, ranging from freelance programmers whos works had been stolen, to schools and hardware vendors who had been forced to submit to Microsofts "bully tactics" with software licensing.
The judgement was effective immediately: All trading by Microsoft is to cease and the company is to be completely dissolved. At 9am eastern time, all assets held by Microsoft, including reserves, were confiscated and distributed to the benefactors of the Gates Foundation and other charities.
All patents owned by Microsoft Corporation and its subsidaries which were issued under the old "stop-people-using-it" patent system are to be released to the Free Software Foundation under the new GPL Patent, preventing the witholding the technology from other developers.
The board of directors and lead programmers of Microsoft, now unemployable in the technology industry, have been offered positions in parking lots and soup kitchens around the country. All other employees have been given redundancy of 1 years full pay, and some have already started rebuilding their former businesses which were bought out or squashed by Microsoft over the last twenty years.
This news follows eight years of steadily dwindling interest in Microsoft, as the corporation has not managed to adapt to the market, and their policies on such software as their legacy flagship "Windows" has steadily been replaced with the Open Source business model.
William Henry Gates III, who has been under house arrest since June for attempting to bribe the Chief Justice with a large Hawiian island, was unavailable for comment.
People who use linux are too cheap to buy an operating system, they aren't going to pay for software.
This is a gross overstatement. At my place of work, and at home, we use Linux not because it is cheap (free), but because it is the best tool for the job. Period.
This does not mean that we should or do expect all applications to also be free, in fact we have several licensed packages installed, again running on linux.
Some applications we have no need to buy, such as Photoshop (the GIMP does everything we need in that department) and Office (openoffice does a better job than MSOffice, imo), but commercial analysis packages such as Matlab and Mathematica are a worthwile investment for R&D.
China has the technology to start up their own chip manufacturing plants. There are plenty of open source cpu designs that can be incorporated into new processors.
If the major US players all employ DRM, you can bet your boots that another nation will start producing uncrippled chips and practically overnight become one of the worlds most popular cpu manufacturers.
I used to repair PS1 systems for a living, and never had any problems with the connectors. The cables however were another story.
At the end nearest the hand control, the stresses on the wire would cause a breakage after a relatively short time. I used to have a great big box filled with 'broken hand controllers', which would often mean a saturday of cutting and splicing faulty cables.
I work with computers. A lot. One of the things that makes my job difficult is connectors which rely solely on friction to maintain contact. I'm talking about connectors such as where the external power lead connects to your computer, and the 5.25" +/-(5/12)V connectors for hard drives and the like.
The mains connectors have a habit of just falling out of the back of computers and monitors. The number of times I have had to troubleshoot someone's monitor only to find the power cable was semi-attached is staggering. And those little 5.25" drive connectors either fall out or are jammed in so tight that they're the devil to pull out again and I wind up knocking my hand on the adjacent video card. Those things can be quite sharp.
I have seen a few PCs that have a metal 'gate' on the back, which clicks into place over the AC power plug. This I like.
I'd love to see more sensible connectors in PCs such as the 3.5" drive connectors which seem like a good idea, or even the spring-loaded squeeze-the-sides connectors you see on some modern HP printers.
Catches typos. When you're typing really fast you don't always have the time to review everythting that si being typed, even if you're a really good speller you stil dont' want to have to re-read EVERY single word in a message before sending.
This could be one reason to use NS7 over Mozilla 1.1.
This has been a show-stopper for many people I have shown Mozilla to; tell them that to all intents and purposes there's no spell-checker, and they say "You're kidding! See you later".
Sure, there's a plugin called MozillaSpell or something, but it's buggy as heck and crashes more often than Starbug.
I don't know about decoding, but it's been well-known that all mp3 encoding has involved a mandatory payment to Thomson/Franhofer for years. People who have encoded mp3s over the last five years on their PCs, have been in full knowledge that this is a proprietary technology, and fortunately many have moved to ogg vorbis.
The thing that boggles the mind is that some people (many of them freedom/GPL advocates) still use this mp3 technology even today.
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I use and like MPlayer for playing media files, but I've found it awful for playing DVDs (in my case anyway). As the movie progresses, the sound drops up to 2 seconds out of sync with the picture. This is on a 2000+ Athlon with UDMA enabled.
And I don't want to have to sit with my fingers on the 'increase lag' 'decrease lag' keys while watching a movie.
Ogle however works great, and it supports menus.
The CVS version has full AC3 surround for multichannel cards like the SBLive 5.1 too!
A rose by any other name would still have thorns.
Just like every night has it's dawn.
"operant conditioning"?
That day may be coming rapidly, but so far it is STILL possible to produce patentable ideas and put them out unfettered into the world- like academics used to do before academia became a profit center.
You're assuming that prior art is still a valid means for refusal of a patent. Recent cases have proven that to no longer be the situation.
If you conceive an idea or make an invention and release it to the world then there is nothing I know of to prevent a greedy corporation from patenting it and claiming complete ownership, as there is no prior patent (and therefore no prior art as far as the USPO is concerned).
Which is why we desperately need some kind of antipatent. A method of legally declaring "I invented this, and I release it for whoever to do whatever with".
In other news, the once monolithic software giant Microsoft has been ordered to make good on prior rulings by the US supreme court, declaring Microsoft an illegal monopoly and a threat to global security. The groundbreaking trial lasted three months, as witness after witness presented evidence on the 874 claims made against the corporation, ranging from freelance programmers whos works had been stolen, to
schools and hardware vendors who had been forced to submit to Microsofts "bully tactics"
with software licensing.
The judgement was effective immediately: All trading by Microsoft is to cease and the company is to be completely dissolved. At 9am eastern time, all assets held by Microsoft, including reserves, were confiscated and distributed to the benefactors of the Gates Foundation and other charities.
All patents owned by Microsoft Corporation and its subsidaries which were issued under the old "stop-people-using-it" patent system are to be released to the Free Software Foundation under the new GPL Patent, preventing the witholding the technology from other developers.
The board of directors and lead programmers of Microsoft, now unemployable in the technology industry, have been offered positions in parking lots and soup kitchens around the country. All other employees have been given redundancy of 1 years full pay, and some have already started rebuilding their former businesses which were bought out or squashed by Microsoft over the last twenty years.
This news follows eight years of steadily dwindling interest in Microsoft, as
the corporation has not managed to adapt to the market, and their policies on
such software as their legacy flagship "Windows" has steadily been replaced with the Open Source business model.
William Henry Gates III, who has been under house arrest since June for attempting to bribe
the Chief Justice with a large Hawiian island, was unavailable for comment.
d'oh, I see someone beat me to it :)
5. Profit!!!
It would be nice if Taco and Co. would retool /. to follow some decent standards. I mean, dear God man, they're still using font tags.
Forget font tags, they're still using GIFS!
as Laplace put it, je n'ai pas besoin de cette hypothese
For the non-french speaking, I believe this translates to:
"Sire, I have no need for that hypothesis"
This was in reply to Napoleons rebuttal of his theory on Celestial Mechanics for failing to mention God in his calculations.
However, I strongly suspect Monseur Laplace wishes to retract that statement now.
Yoda trained Qui-Gon ... who trained Obi-Wan, who trains Vader. And if Yoda trained Sidious!!!
Yoda trained Dooku, Dooku trained Qui-Gon.
People who use linux are too cheap to buy an operating system, they aren't going to pay for software.
This is a gross overstatement. At my place of work, and at home, we use Linux not because it is cheap (free), but because it is the best tool for the job. Period.
This does not mean that we should or do expect all applications to also be free, in fact we have several licensed packages installed, again running on linux.
Some applications we have no need to buy, such as Photoshop (the GIMP does everything we need in that department) and Office (openoffice does a better job than MSOffice, imo), but commercial analysis packages such as Matlab and Mathematica are a worthwile investment for R&D.
I'm more interested in their "16x9 aspect ration panel".
The mind boggles.
China has the technology to start up their own chip manufacturing plants.
There are plenty of open source cpu designs that can be incorporated into new processors.
If the major US players all employ DRM, you can bet your boots that another nation will start producing uncrippled chips and practically overnight become one of the worlds most popular cpu manufacturers.
... the amount of energy required to manufacture and erect such an array of wind turbines?
With the turbines running at full-pelt, how long will it take them to break even?
It looks surprisingly similar to the KDE Kernel Configurator.
Control Center->System->Linux Kernel Configurator
That word has been literally picked up and thrown around until its significance is literally reduced to the size of a grape.
... and it absolutely, positively will not break.
Pity about the cables.
I used to repair PS1 systems for a living, and never had any problems with the connectors. The cables however were another story.
At the end nearest the hand control, the stresses on the wire would cause a breakage after a relatively short time. I used to have a great big box filled with 'broken hand controllers', which would often mean a saturday of cutting and splicing faulty cables.
I work with computers. A lot.
One of the things that makes my job difficult is connectors which rely solely on friction to maintain contact. I'm talking about connectors such as where the external power lead connects to your computer, and the 5.25" +/-(5/12)V connectors for hard drives and the like.
The mains connectors have a habit of just falling out of the back of computers and monitors. The number of times I have had to troubleshoot someone's monitor only to find the power cable was semi-attached is staggering.
And those little 5.25" drive connectors either fall out or are jammed in so tight that they're the devil to pull out again and I wind up knocking my hand on the adjacent video card. Those things can be quite sharp.
I have seen a few PCs that have a metal 'gate' on the back, which clicks into place over the AC power plug. This I like.
I'd love to see more sensible connectors in PCs such as the 3.5" drive connectors which seem like a good idea, or even the spring-loaded squeeze-the-sides connectors you see on some modern HP printers.
Mocha P4 is a PC that is so flexible, efficient, compact and portable technically knocks down all existing desk top PCs
Efficient? Are you sure it's still running a P4?
This only applies to DECODERS. If you're using an ENCODER you're screwed.
What they're basically saying is, "Don't make any mp3's but it's okay if you play them."
Catches typos.
When you're typing really fast you don't always have the time to review everythting that si being typed, even if you're a really good speller you stil dont' want to have to re-read EVERY single word in a message before sending.
This could be one reason to use NS7 over Mozilla 1.1.
This has been a show-stopper for many people I have shown Mozilla to; tell them that to all intents and purposes there's no spell-checker, and they say "You're kidding! See you later".
Sure, there's a plugin called MozillaSpell or something, but it's buggy as heck and crashes more often than Starbug.
I don't know about decoding, but it's been well-known that all mp3 encoding has involved a mandatory payment to Thomson/Franhofer for years. People who have encoded mp3s over the last five years on their PCs, have been in full knowledge that this is a proprietary technology, and fortunately many have moved to ogg vorbis.
The thing that boggles the mind is that some people (many of them freedom/GPL advocates) still use this mp3 technology even today.
What can I say? Fools!
I know what maked geckos stick:
Pins!
Pity that the linux version still crashes dead when trying to load the Flash 5 plugin.
Still have to revert to Flash 4 *sigh*
Otherwise, Go Mozilla!