well, the second one is true (at least on my machine) and the third is arguably true - it seems that the OpenGL version runs a bit faster, I'm not sure about "better".
However, both differences are fairly marginal, so I doubt they'll get people changing their OS just for that.
No kidding? Slashdot uses perl... Slashdot being a relatively complex application (arguably), and the post being about perl being used for nothing but scripting... is a certain sense of irony starting to settle in? If so, we have arrived to the point of my original post.
Whatever you say about applets (and most of it will probably be true) there are some excellent Swing applications out there. NetBeans (for example) is one of those things you'd have to pry from my cold, dead hands to take away from me; and nothing beats being able to run the same IDE at work (Windows) and at home (Linux).
And Swing is still great when you need a quick, thin (logic-wise) UI that's doing something just out of reach of HTML's capabilities. (native widgets or not, speed and look are often just not important)
The problem is very simple, the "This is what free/OS software advocates are supposed to think and say" pamphlet hasn't been handed out to everybody that it should have, and these stubborn people continue to have individual opinions. Very bad taste, really.
just because the required featureset (ASP, database connectivity, CGI) demands IIS
I don't mean to start a Linux vs whatever thing here, I'm just curious (really).
How are databse connectivity and CGI something that's specific to IIS? (ASP is a bit different, I could see situations where it was in fact a requirement, but I'd imagine usually a server-side scripting language is needed and not specifically ASP).
I'm just wondering because these things are what I do for a living, and I've never used IIS in my life.
PS This "right tool for the right job" thing has just been ridden to death - it doesn't even apply here, your main claim is that MP3 is well entrenched, how does that make it the right tool?
human interaction is the last thing I want when buying things - I go to bars for human interaction, at a store, I just want to get my stuff and get out, as quickly as possible. the less semi-literate abrasive humans stand between me and my purchase, the better.
um, why exactly are we "fighting" people who want money for their product? The whole P2P/DRM/RIMPAA debacle is one thing, but what's wrong with this? they used to provide their product for free, now they don't want to anymore, it's probably not the "nicest" thing anyone's ever done, but it's certainly not wrong in any way.
converting from MP3 to Ogg is a horrible nasty thing to do, and the quality will definitely suffer - what you want is to rencode your music to Ogg from the original media (since you obviously own all those CDs, otherwise I doubt you will care about $.75 licenses). it's that whole "copy-of-a-copy" kind of thing... not exactly, but similar.
Slashdot Mirror
However, both differences are fairly marginal, so I doubt they'll get people changing their OS just for that.
#2 keeps popping up - what's considered to be their #1 show then?
you are right, this week Intel is faster again... I can never keep up with these things.
speaking of which - they are something like $700 short of their goal right now - so, donate people, donate!
no one will ever need more than one page of text
though you often can.
Do not even tempt me :)
Though personal experience usually comes up as a good reason against it.
No kidding? Slashdot uses perl... Slashdot being a relatively complex application (arguably), and the post being about perl being used for nothing but scripting... is a certain sense of irony starting to settle in? If so, we have arrived to the point of my original post.
http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/0 9/06/1343222&mode=nocomment&tid=145
But is it the most powerful destructive force in the two universes?
yeah that was tough - the Borg are just cool!
And Swing is still great when you need a quick, thin (logic-wise) UI that's doing something just out of reach of HTML's capabilities. (native widgets or not, speed and look are often just not important)
The problem is very simple, the "This is what free/OS software advocates are supposed to think and say" pamphlet hasn't been handed out to everybody that it should have, and these stubborn people continue to have individual opinions. Very bad taste, really.
I don't mean to start a Linux vs whatever thing here, I'm just curious (really).
How are databse connectivity and CGI something that's specific to IIS? (ASP is a bit different, I could see situations where it was in fact a requirement, but I'd imagine usually a server-side scripting language is needed and not specifically ASP).
I'm just wondering because these things are what I do for a living, and I've never used IIS in my life.
PS This "right tool for the right job" thing has just been ridden to death - it doesn't even apply here, your main claim is that MP3 is well entrenched, how does that make it the right tool?
Out of curiosity, why is RedHat a "product" and not a product?
hmm... card goes in, card comes out, receipt comes out - yeah, it's just horrible
human interaction is the last thing I want when buying things - I go to bars for human interaction, at a store, I just want to get my stuff and get out, as quickly as possible. the less semi-literate abrasive humans stand between me and my purchase, the better.
um, why exactly are we "fighting" people who want money for their product? The whole P2P/DRM/RIMPAA debacle is one thing, but what's wrong with this? they used to provide their product for free, now they don't want to anymore, it's probably not the "nicest" thing anyone's ever done, but it's certainly not wrong in any way.
what's a gif?
converting from MP3 to Ogg is a horrible nasty thing to do, and the quality will definitely suffer - what you want is to rencode your music to Ogg from the original media (since you obviously own all those CDs, otherwise I doubt you will care about $.75 licenses). it's that whole "copy-of-a-copy" kind of thing... not exactly, but similar.
I obviously didn't read the article, but I would think the fees were not retroactive... cause, well, you can't do things like that.
faster Ogg adoption - can't say this is anything but good news.
I kinda don't like it all that much - does that count?
Which pill do you take if you want to learn to read good and do other things good too?
wow.