Many people here are saying that the the Sparc computers from Sun are much better than standard PC hardware. What exactly is the benefit. It doesn't seem to be speed/price.
Strange. If you are right why did SuSE, Mandrake, Debian all agree to the LSB specifications? You should read the facts. SuSE 8.0 is as LSB compatible as Redhat 7.3. So there is no problem here.
KDE/Gnome: Why can't you accapt that Free Software/Open Source means that EVERYONE is allowd to change something. If Red Hat wants to make the two desktop easier to use for new users wheres the problem? Will somebody be killed because of this?
You are perhaps right with the non-open source software they sell. But SuSE for example sells much more closed source. If this is a problem for you try Debian.
Did you ever tried Ogg and compared them? Ogg encoded Music sounds so much better you will not believe it. It's much biggger than between PNG and Gif/Jpeg. You can compare a q 0 Ogg (~ 60 kbps) with a 128 kpbs MP3. If you think that is not a difference why don't you use Mp2 files. Mp3 files are also not 10 times smaller if you think that is needed to be noticeable.
What, Mplayer is not stable? You must have something wrong. My Mplayer plays even totally corrupted AVIs and Video CDs with which Windows Media or the DivX Playa crash instantly! And I use gcc 2.96 which should not work with Mplayer!
Just read the documentation before installing it.
I thing especially Ogg Vorbis support is important. More and more music I have is in this format. So a MP3 only player would be useless for me. Perhaps it would help when more people ask e.Digital to add Ogg Virbis to Odyssey. You can send them mail here: http://www.edig.com/contact/index.html
I think your arguments are not correct if I got it right from other pages:
Quicktime is just the container for video, audio and other media formats. You can put anything in this like a mpeg movie, a Sorenson movie, a Ogg Vorbis audio file or plain text. Avi is another container which much less features (index gets corrupted when file is not complete...). So the Sorenson codec has nothing to do with the quicktime container. Ogg is producing another container to have an alternative to Quicktime. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Yes I agree Real is not a very good codec and closed. But the same thing could be said about quicktime before Version 6 and the mp4 codec. It's a closed format which should not be supported because many people are not able to view it. Even now the Apple mp4 movies seem to need Quicktime and can't be played with another mp4 player!
Re:"I belong to Jesus" / "Jesus Loves You"
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Exactly. There is no sense in believing what humans (!) wrote many years ago and then say this is true and all the facts which are able to be tested are wrong. The world is bad and many people are bad, religion does not change this. Moreover religion often makes the world even worse. Do something good instead of believing that somebody else will do it for you!
Re:"I belong to Jesus" / "Jesus Loves You"
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So this is why they kiss the "golden cow" (world cup) and hold it above every player, to show that Jesus is more important than the world cup?
There are already many good Windows programs for GnuPG. Look at the fine WinPT program which let you encrypt texts with every mail program available. Not as comfortable as a build in program but still easy to use. For key management you can use GPA. In Germany there is already a project which combines all these programs in one windows installable program with a very good documentation: GnuPP. There is also a plugin for Outlook available (not Express).
I agree. This can't be true. How can a simple Action/Sci-Fi movie beat these two classics. The story is just so simple in Matrix with no real suprising moments. But I still think Clockwork Orange is no Sci-Fi film. It's a critic of the society. The futuristic elements are only to not accuse people directly. So this list is really wrong in my opinion.
I really like these devices and want to try them. But I need Debian Woody on it. So had anybody already tried one of the new IBooks with Woody? Are there any special components (like soundcard) or ports (like usb) which don't work at the moment?
Can this behaviour be confirmed with other OS, like GNU/Linux or Solaris implementations from Sun?
And what about ports which based on the Sun source like Blackdown?
I think this is really bad and if it's true it shouldn't be only mentioned here on the developer page. Java users are also affected! So if this is really true and sends data like visited URL's everyone has to know it!
Perhaps it would be better to use and support free Java implementations like Kaffe than this.
Have you ever tried Mozilla and compared the compatibility to the official W3C standards? Or did you just take some sites which use special IE only tags? Yes IE ist the best "Microsofts own web standard" browser but Mozilla is the best official web standard browser.
And why is Mozilla not fest enough developed. They started from scratch with no code (they decided to not use the Netscape code) in 1999. At this time Microsoft already developed their IE for years and the initial code base has been bought from another company! And now Mozilla is much more compatible to the web standards and has much more features (tabs, better security/cookie handling, zoom...).
With the agreement about free Java implementation I wonder how Sun's relation to Kaffe is. Will they get the free compatibility test kit? I think they are very inportant for Sun because Kaffe is definetely the most portable VM today.
Perhaps you should read before writing a comment like this. Sharp didn't scre the OS because they did not so much to it they only build the hardware. The Qtopia UI and the Sync program is from Trolltech and the Linux Kernel and drivers are from Lineo.
Even if he already tested many PDAs there are still big faults in his description:
1. I don't think the UI is complicated. It is indeed very similar to other PDAs. But this is only a personal point of view and not very objective. For nearly every PDA OS I can find somebody who completely loves the UI or hates it more than anyhing else.
2. He wasn't really interested in the available software at all. He only looked at the offical Sharp site but compares the amount of this software to all the Palm/WinCE programs which can be found somewhere in the internet. If he would look at zaurus.sourceforge.net and zauruszone.com he would find some other programs. Also the KDE project begins with porting desktop applications. I can already play Quake and Nethack on the Zaurus!
Additionally every new PDA OS lacks programs. Why had anybody bought thinks like Palm OS or even Windows 95? In the beginning there were no good applications for them? With this in mind you cannot really critisize the lack of software (perhaps when you still use DOS because there are no really good win applications you can:-)
Additionally Ikeya-Zhang will meet the Andromeda Galaxy tomorrow (April 4th and 5th) and the moon will cover Jupiter this month (16.04) Now I only need a better Sky. Light pollution is really a problem for all these fine objects which are near the horizon.
The is a really fantastic idea. Lets show the entertainment industry how this works. Or even better get rid of the complete indutry: When every artist will sell their stuff over independent sites there is no longer any need for an industry which only wants to squeeze money out of the artist and destroying user rights.
But don't only think of music and movies. Also poems or even books should be interesting.
I would propose something slashcode based because it would be really great when every artist can submit the music/movie/book like a story and others can discuss the content. If you put the disfferent genres into subsections like the sections here on/. (apache, developers...) it will be very easy to use for everyone!
Perhaps a irc channel would be good for discussion in the beginning?
I hope this will happen. With this agreement and Jim Pick as the new maintainer of kaffe there is a good chance for a better free jre.
Which other free jre's are in development?
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@ebbv: This is not completely true what you say. There are still improvements especially in the sector you criticize. Look at the latest Mandrake release. It autodetects your graphic card and installs Xfree/Mesa/DRI correctly. You can play 3D Games just after the start. Or the new SuSE 7.3 it has easy configuration utilities for Scanners and TV-Cards which is also important for the desktop.
The real problem I see are the recent layoffs of the DRI crew from VA Linux. There is no one left to pay for the extremely difficult 3D driver development. Perhaps it would be good to establish a possibility for users to fund the DRI project.
I think 2MB Flash is nor enough to have really good (additional) applications. But for the Agenda there is already a huge list of free applications available. So this should be better to increase the productivity:
http://supermegamulti.com/agenda
I agree. These many licenses could become a problem. It is also quite risky to use some of the newer licenses because this could lead to a problem with some laws or someone could interpret this in another way. Even the old GPL just had the first real life law test with the RTLinux patent.
Using more than one license like mozilla will try now could be a good idea for some projects.
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Many people here are saying that the the Sparc computers from Sun are much better than standard PC hardware. What exactly is the benefit. It doesn't seem to be speed/price.
Strange. If you are right why did SuSE, Mandrake, Debian all agree to the LSB specifications? You should read the facts. SuSE 8.0 is as LSB compatible as Redhat 7.3. So there is no problem here.
KDE/Gnome: Why can't you accapt that Free Software/Open Source means that EVERYONE is allowd to change something. If Red Hat wants to make the two desktop easier to use for new users wheres the problem? Will somebody be killed because of this?
You are perhaps right with the non-open source software they sell. But SuSE for example sells much more closed source. If this is a problem for you try Debian.
There is a project xalled easysearch on mozdev.org. It supports google, search within site....
Did you ever tried Ogg and compared them? Ogg encoded Music sounds so much better you will not believe it. It's much biggger than between PNG and Gif/Jpeg. You can compare a q 0 Ogg (~ 60 kbps) with a 128 kpbs MP3. If you think that is not a difference why don't you use Mp2 files. Mp3 files are also not 10 times smaller if you think that is needed to be noticeable.
What, Mplayer is not stable? You must have something wrong. My Mplayer plays even totally corrupted AVIs and Video CDs with which Windows Media or the DivX Playa crash instantly! And I use gcc 2.96 which should not work with Mplayer! Just read the documentation before installing it.
I thing especially Ogg Vorbis support is important. More and more music I have is in this format. So a MP3 only player would be useless for me. Perhaps it would help when more people ask e.Digital to add Ogg Virbis to Odyssey. You can send them mail here: http://www.edig.com/contact/index.html
I think your arguments are not correct if I got it right from other pages: Quicktime is just the container for video, audio and other media formats. You can put anything in this like a mpeg movie, a Sorenson movie, a Ogg Vorbis audio file or plain text. Avi is another container which much less features (index gets corrupted when file is not complete...). So the Sorenson codec has nothing to do with the quicktime container. Ogg is producing another container to have an alternative to Quicktime.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Yes I agree Real is not a very good codec and closed. But the same thing could be said about quicktime before Version 6 and the mp4 codec. It's a closed format which should not be supported because many people are not able to view it. Even now the Apple mp4 movies seem to need Quicktime and can't be played with another mp4 player!
Exactly. There is no sense in believing what humans (!) wrote many years ago and then say this is true and all the facts which are able to be tested are wrong. The world is bad and many people are bad, religion does not change this. Moreover religion often makes the world even worse. Do something good instead of believing that somebody else will do it for you!
So this is why they kiss the "golden cow" (world cup) and hold it above every player, to show that Jesus is more important than the world cup?
There are already many good Windows programs for GnuPG. Look at the fine WinPT program which let you encrypt texts with every mail program available. Not as comfortable as a build in program but still easy to use. For key management you can use GPA. In Germany there is already a project which combines all these programs in one windows installable program with a very good documentation: GnuPP. There is also a plugin for Outlook available (not Express).
I agree. This can't be true. How can a simple Action/Sci-Fi movie beat these two classics. The story is just so simple in Matrix with no real suprising moments. But I still think Clockwork Orange is no Sci-Fi film. It's a critic of the society. The futuristic elements are only to not accuse people directly. So this list is really wrong in my opinion.
I really like these devices and want to try them. But I need Debian Woody on it. So had anybody already tried one of the new IBooks with Woody? Are there any special components (like soundcard) or ports (like usb) which don't work at the moment?
Can this behaviour be confirmed with other OS, like GNU/Linux or Solaris implementations from Sun?
And what about ports which based on the Sun source like Blackdown?
I think this is really bad and if it's true it shouldn't be only mentioned here on the developer page. Java users are also affected! So if this is really true and sends data like visited URL's everyone has to know it!
Perhaps it would be better to use and support free Java implementations like Kaffe than this.
Have you ever tried Mozilla and compared the compatibility to the official W3C standards? Or did you just take some sites which use special IE only tags? Yes IE ist the best "Microsofts own web standard" browser but Mozilla is the best official web standard browser.
And why is Mozilla not fest enough developed. They started from scratch with no code (they decided to not use the Netscape code) in 1999. At this time Microsoft already developed their IE for years and the initial code base has been bought from another company! And now Mozilla is much more compatible to the web standards and has much more features (tabs, better security/cookie handling, zoom...).
With the agreement about free Java implementation I wonder how Sun's relation to Kaffe is. Will they get the free compatibility test kit? I think they are very inportant for Sun because Kaffe is definetely the most portable VM today.
Perhaps you should read before writing a comment like this. Sharp didn't scre the OS because they did not so much to it they only build the hardware. The Qtopia UI and the Sync program is from Trolltech and the Linux Kernel and drivers are from Lineo.
Even if he already tested many PDAs there are still big faults in his description: :-)
1. I don't think the UI is complicated. It is indeed very similar to other PDAs. But this is only a personal point of view and not very objective. For nearly every PDA OS I can find somebody who completely loves the UI or hates it more than anyhing else.
2. He wasn't really interested in the available software at all. He only looked at the offical Sharp site but compares the amount of this software to all the Palm/WinCE programs which can be found somewhere in the internet. If he would look at zaurus.sourceforge.net and zauruszone.com he would find some other programs. Also the KDE project begins with porting desktop applications. I can already play Quake and Nethack on the Zaurus!
Additionally every new PDA OS lacks programs. Why had anybody bought thinks like Palm OS or even Windows 95? In the beginning there were no good applications for them? With this in mind you cannot really critisize the lack of software (perhaps when you still use DOS because there are no really good win applications you can
Additionally Ikeya-Zhang will meet the Andromeda Galaxy tomorrow (April 4th and 5th) and the moon will cover Jupiter this month (16.04)
Now I only need a better Sky. Light pollution is really a problem for all these fine objects which are near the horizon.
The is a really fantastic idea. Lets show the entertainment industry how this works. Or even better get rid of the complete indutry: When every artist will sell their stuff over independent sites there is no longer any need for an industry which only wants to squeeze money out of the artist and destroying user rights.
But don't only think of music and movies. Also poems or even books should be interesting.
I would propose something slashcode based because it would be really great when every artist can submit the music/movie/book like a story and others can discuss the content. If you put the disfferent genres into subsections like the sections here on /. (apache, developers...) it will be very easy to use for everyone!
Perhaps a irc channel would be good for discussion in the beginning?
I hope this will happen. With this agreement and Jim Pick as the new maintainer of kaffe there is a good chance for a better free jre.
Which other free jre's are in development?
@ebbv: This is not completely true what you say. There are still improvements especially in the sector you criticize. Look at the latest Mandrake release. It autodetects your graphic card and installs Xfree/Mesa/DRI correctly. You can play 3D Games just after the start. Or the new SuSE 7.3 it has easy configuration utilities for Scanners and TV-Cards which is also important for the desktop.
The real problem I see are the recent layoffs of the DRI crew from VA Linux. There is no one left to pay for the extremely difficult 3D driver development. Perhaps it would be good to establish a possibility for users to fund the DRI project.
I think 2MB Flash is nor enough to have really good (additional) applications. But for the Agenda there is already a huge list of free applications available. So this should be better to increase the productivity:
http://supermegamulti.com/agenda
I agree. These many licenses could become a problem. It is also quite risky to use some of the newer licenses because this could lead to a problem with some laws or someone could interpret this in another way. Even the old GPL just had the first real life law test with the RTLinux patent.
Using more than one license like mozilla will try now could be a good idea for some projects.