Just buy a head unit that has an AUX input, I got an Aiwa something-or-other down at Best Buy for $100. Now you can just plug your portable MP3 player in (iPod in my case). Take it inside to load up your tunes, throw it in the glove box when you're not using it.
Let's see, setting up Fink is too complicated for the target market, but editing/etc/apt/sources.list isn't?
Besides that, you left out the most important thing for which x86 notebooks have no equivalent: Mac OS X. I used Linux exclusively since pre-1.0 days up until I got my iBook, and you couldn't pay me to go back now. Whatever few-$100 premium you pay for a Mac is well worth it.
Well, when I go to the Downloads area I see Linux and Windows versions but nothing for Mac OS X. Don't you feel stupid for pulling the tired 'Bzzt. Wrong.' routine now?
OK, this has been bugging me. Is a "Karman filter" just a misspelled (or differently-transliterated?) "Kalman filter" or is it a different algorithm altogether?
You people have totally reached a new low. First you bawl around about Apple driving you out of the Mac browser market, when in reality you were never really in it at all due to Opera for OSX being a steaming pile of crap that no one in his right mind would ever use. That was bad enough, but now you resort to astroturfing allegations against Slashdot ACs? The mind boggles...
He apologized, big deal that costs nothing. He acted like a total jerk with the lawyers bit, ignored the bug for three months, and it's still not fixed after all this time. What's so praiseworthy about that?
I'm not talking about whether BSD-licensed code can be relicensed as GPL, I'm talking about whether code under the Watcom license can be relicensed under BSDL. You claimed that the advertising clause prevents the latter, but I just don't see how that can be so.
I don't know if the Watcom license allows relicensing as BSDL, but I can't imagine how the advertising clause would prevent it. That only kicks in when you incorporate code already licensed under BSDL, right? Also, wasn't it removed awhile ago anyway?
I don't know for sure because I don't know much about Windows, but I'd wager that it's swapping out rarely-touched pages so it can use them for disk cache.
Quicktime has always been a completely open format, and is the industry standard for editing tools. Programs like xanim could open and play Quicktime since many years ago. Now, the Sorenson codec is proprietary, but if you're making your own video just don't use it. You'll want to keep the video in DV format anyway while you're editing, then at the end export it into any format you want. What is it with you guys, you act like the whole world revolves around surfing the web on your Linux box downloading LOTR trailers. Somebody makes those videos you know, and for them Quicktime is great. Stop all the hating.
From the blurb (can't get to the article) it sounds like there's no use of the Sorenson codec here. They're just putting the DV format video from the camera into a Quicktime wrapper, which is exactly what it was designed for.
WTF are you talking about? This very article is about people who are using Quicktime without the Sorenson codecs. There's a lot more to digital video than trailers for crappy movies, you know.
Well, I just tried out Opera 6 for Mac OS X and it was extremely slow, especially scrolling pages. Granted, I'm on a puny 500 MHz G3 iBook but still, it was bad. Much worse than either Chimera (for tab-lovers) or Safari (what I'm using these days). Probably the Windows version is a lot faster but on OS X it's not even in the race.
Grab yourself a DEC Alpha machine of some sort off eBay and head over to http://www.montagar.com/hobbyist/ to find out how to get an OpenVMS license for free.
If they used SVG, people using the official Mozilla builds wouldn't be able to view it. How well do you think that would go over? Everyone would be crying about how they were locking out open-source browsers.
I used to help maintain a VMS cluster when I was a student, and we always joked about how it didn't matter if someone got unauthorized access. I mean really, how many script-kiddies would know what to do at a DCL prompt?:-)
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Just buy a head unit that has an AUX input, I got an Aiwa something-or-other down at Best Buy for $100. Now you can just plug your portable MP3 player in (iPod in my case). Take it inside to load up your tunes, throw it in the glove box when you're not using it.
Let's see, setting up Fink is too complicated for the target market, but editing /etc/apt/sources.list isn't?
Besides that, you left out the most important thing for which x86 notebooks have no equivalent: Mac OS X. I used Linux exclusively since pre-1.0 days up until I got my iBook, and you couldn't pay me to go back now. Whatever few-$100 premium you pay for a Mac is well worth it.
Right now, tell me what is meant by 'memory scalability'. You can't, can you? You know why? Because it's meaningless gibberish, that's why.
According to Troll's website the Qtopia SDK goes for $195, not $2000+.
Well, when I go to the Downloads area I see Linux and Windows versions but nothing for Mac OS X. Don't you feel stupid for pulling the tired 'Bzzt. Wrong.' routine now?
Does this remind you of anyone, Skippy?
Geez, don't take it so personally. It's not like he insulted your mother or dissed Perl or something. GET SOME PRIORITIES! :-)
OK, this has been bugging me. Is a "Karman filter" just a misspelled (or differently-transliterated?) "Kalman filter" or is it a different algorithm altogether?
You people have totally reached a new low. First you bawl around about Apple driving you out of the Mac browser market, when in reality you were never really in it at all due to Opera for OSX being a steaming pile of crap that no one in his right mind would ever use. That was bad enough, but now you resort to astroturfing allegations against Slashdot ACs? The mind boggles...
It's funny at first but gets old pretty quick, then you've just got to watch out when typing up an article that you don't have any Freudian slips.
One time I went to a seminar and the guy had some stuff on his transparencies about 'dada analysis'. We thought that one was pretty good.
He apologized, big deal that costs nothing. He acted like a total jerk with the lawyers bit, ignored the bug for three months, and it's still not fixed after all this time. What's so praiseworthy about that?
I'm not talking about whether BSD-licensed code can be relicensed as GPL, I'm talking about whether code under the Watcom license can be relicensed under BSDL. You claimed that the advertising clause prevents the latter, but I just don't see how that can be so.
I don't know if the Watcom license allows relicensing as BSDL, but I can't imagine how the advertising clause would prevent it. That only kicks in when you incorporate code already licensed under BSDL, right? Also, wasn't it removed awhile ago anyway?
I don't know for sure because I don't know much about Windows, but I'd wager that it's swapping out rarely-touched pages so it can use them for disk cache.
Quicktime has always been a completely open format, and is the industry standard for editing tools. Programs like xanim could open and play Quicktime since many years ago. Now, the Sorenson codec is proprietary, but if you're making your own video just don't use it. You'll want to keep the video in DV format anyway while you're editing, then at the end export it into any format you want. What is it with you guys, you act like the whole world revolves around surfing the web on your Linux box downloading LOTR trailers. Somebody makes those videos you know, and for them Quicktime is great. Stop all the hating.
From the blurb (can't get to the article) it sounds like there's no use of the Sorenson codec here. They're just putting the DV format video from the camera into a Quicktime wrapper, which is exactly what it was designed for.
WTF are you talking about? This very article is about people who are using Quicktime without the Sorenson codecs. There's a lot more to digital video than trailers for crappy movies, you know.
How can it be a drop-in replacement if you're changing the API?
Well, I just tried out Opera 6 for Mac OS X and it was extremely slow, especially scrolling pages. Granted, I'm on a puny 500 MHz G3 iBook but still, it was bad. Much worse than either Chimera (for tab-lovers) or Safari (what I'm using these days). Probably the Windows version is a lot faster but on OS X it's not even in the race.
Ladies and gentlemen, your new lead developer, Flip Wilson!
Wasn't that the villain that Superman had to trick into saying his name backwards to send him back to his own dimension?
Did you recompile your MP3 encoder using an EPIC compiler or did you just run the same x86 binary on it that you used on your Pentium?
Grab yourself a DEC Alpha machine of some sort off eBay and head over to http://www.montagar.com/hobbyist/ to find out how to get an OpenVMS license for free.
If they used SVG, people using the official Mozilla builds wouldn't be able to view it. How well do you think that would go over? Everyone would be crying about how they were locking out open-source browsers.
I used to help maintain a VMS cluster when I was a student, and we always joked about how it didn't matter if someone got unauthorized access. I mean really, how many script-kiddies would know what to do at a DCL prompt? :-)