Not being able to have propritary applications run/interact on KDE without a license to TrollTech is a problem.
This is completely wrong.
You don't have to pay fees per unit shipped. Qt license fees are tied to the number of developers using it
You can use more than one toolkit without a problem (I'm currently running WinXP -CivIV =)-, I write this on Firefox, I have an XChat window open, Winamp and a AV prog that looks like it was written for Win3.1. Even on the corporate desktop you use at least Office which has its own toolkit).
You didn't understand the GP. Most of Novell's Linux business comes from SuSE and most SuSE customers are in Europe. Together that means most of them use KDE. Now to save a few bucks (either for Qt licenses or a developer to perfect a Qt-GTK-compatibility lib -- all it'd really take is a themeing engine which already exists and an abstraction so you can change some common properties of Gnome programs like the button order with a simple setting like in KDE) Novell decided to screw over the part of their company that actually makes a profit and instead switch over their user base to a new Desktop environment.
Imagine the sales pitch when they tell the customer that they have to retrain all their staff for the next upgrade. Microsoft, RedHat and every other competitor probably opened a bottle of LouisXIV 1714 in celebration =)
Well I assume they either wouldn't use a source that's always on -- as long as it refreshs the image at about 100Hz there's no problem because that's what current CRTs do and burn-in hasn't been a problem with CRT displays for quite some time -- or (which is IMHO more likely) they'd use electron emitters that are a lot weaker and a coating that's optimized for longer but less intensive light emission -- because today the phosphor is optimized for pulsed activation (hit->strong light->short cooldown->next hit) while in a SED it could be active all the time. Also, instead of 3 emitters you suddenly have a million which limits the power of the individual emitters.
The greens countered that they were also trying to address the demand side of the energy problem, unlike the nuclear lobby who seek only to replace existing supply.
Yeah, because demand's gonna go down when countries with more than 2 billion additional people make the transition from agrarian to industrialized nations and we start to replace oil (and coal and natural gas) as energy sources for heating and transportation. We just got to remember to switch off the lights when we leave a room.
Of course they're right to a degree. If the Chinese and Indians consume energy like the Japanese instead of the USians in 50 years we're gonna be *a lot* better off and in the long run higher efficiency will save huge amounts of ressources and money but nevertheless I don't see how solar should provide all that (unless it's in space), there's a natural limit to hydroelectric and wind has some major environmental drawbacks, probably even more serious ones than the other two.
IOW Warner (they were HD-DVD IIRC) can sell you...
I could've at least read the blurb, sorry. =)
Btw.:
HP also asked Blu-ray to support a feature called iHD, which provides for new interactive features and is slated to be implemented in Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating system.
They could really beat MS at their own game with this. Blu-Ray uses Java for interactive sh*t but why shouldn't they add the MS thingy too to lure in those who absolutely have to use MS technology. Then make sure iHD is broken in some subtle ways (*cough*MS-JVM*cough*) and watch as Ballmer loses it and demolishes the MS campus.
However, in HD-DVD, "Managed Copy" is a mandatory feature of every disk
Yes, it is mandatory but it doesn't have to be free. IOW Warner (they were HD-DVD IIRC) can sell you the HD-Super-Hyper-Special-DVD of Matrix for $40 and then charge you another $20 if you want to watch it on your TV (with an Xbox360 which is connected to a PC that has an HD-DVD drive) instead of on your computer monitor.
Kompose does the same thing but groups windows by virtual desktops (if you have different wallpapers for the desktops it can also display those) and overlays the window title and icon. It can also use Composite but unless you need the latest and greatest IMHO it's better not to use the Composite extension at all; it's slow (unless you use the NVidia drivers afaik), buggy and crash prone.
MPEG-4 video: up to 2.5 mbps, 480 x 480, 30 frames per sec., Simple Profile with AAC-LC up to 160 Kbps, 48 Khz, stereo audio in.m4v,.mp4 and.mov file formats
XviD supports Simple Profile but videos you've "found" "somewhere" are most likely Advanced Simple Profile or more at resolutions beyond the 480x480 supported by the iPod.
I'd love to know the zombienet operators' take on the conversion to IPV6.
United Zombienet Operators issued a press release today adressing fears about increased zombie activities following a theoretical switch to "Eye P-V6". Only one line long, it reads "Please remember the codewords are 'Klaatu Verada Snugglesworth'." Asked for an official statement a spokesdead of the Army of the p0WneD just said "Urgh...MUST...EAT...BRAIN". We will continue to report this story as it develops.
The government should make a law that every car has to have an impact zone more or less the size and position of the bumper on current cars (perhaps a bit higher) but all around the car. Now all crash tests are made with a steel bar that represents this impact zone and not only does your car have to resist being hit by it, hitting it also has to completely absorb the impact of all new cars without them running over it or parts of the chassis sticking past it.
That way everyone could drive whatever they want to because a well-defined "crash interface" would mean that you don't have to take into account the vehicles the rest of the country is driving.
Therefore, people used to ride on the left, so that if for whatever reason you needed to attack the person coming towards you, you could reach across to your left, yank out your sword, and then swipe at the assailant on your right.
OTOH if you had an Ox cart (or drove a carriage or whatever) you normally held the reins in your right (because most people are right handed) and the whip in your left. So if you met someone else driving in the other direction it was much easier to move to the right to let him pass (ditto for the other guy).
In other words in England the aristocrats/soldiers won, in the rest of Europe it was the farmers.
Is there finally a way to change your monitor settings without using a text editor? Every Ubuntu I've tried set my monitor to some safe settings which meant unusable 60Hz (WinXP OTOH auto-detects the correct settings, SuSE gives me a dialog where I can choose vendor and model).
You are perpetuating the myth that DVD drives can play HD-DVD discs.
Could you show me the line where I state that nonsense? I specifically wrote that MS said they might start shipping HD-DVD drives in the future, why would they do that if you could play HD-DVDs in DVD drives?
so they had to go with HD-DVD to give more room for the programmers to give game content.
Xbox360 games use DVDs.
Which is the reason MS supports HD-DVD. They've got nothing to lose. They announced their intent to think about the possibility to include an HD drive for movie playback at some time in the future or not. So if Blu-Ray wins big deal, MS simply puts a BR drive in their consoles. On the other hand if they can kill Blu-Ray, they negate one of the main advantages of the PS3 (i.e. the one that it is a HD player. Sony sold a lot of PS2s that way when stand-alone DVD players were still expensive) one Sony will use to justify the (supposedly) higher price of their console
At least with Konqueror the standard identification never worked for me, posing as Mozilla worked until recently but doesn't now while setting the user agent to Safari didn't work then but does now.
More about that here (well more about GMail support but afaik it's the same problem)
While it probably was a mistake in the beginning the official explanation (Kessel is/is near a number of black holes that make up the center of the Star Wars galaxy. The faster you are the closer you can make it past the black holes and the shorter the Kessel Run) makes sense. There are a lot of terms floating around that are not 100% correct or are a bit strange but that are used for historical reasons (American Football? Broadband? etc)
The article was biased, content, structure and choice of words make that clear. *But* that doesn't necessarily mean it was wrong.
The article says that he was fired after he reported his findings to the European aviation authorities.
TTTech says he reported them after it was clear that he was going to be fired.
There is nothing in the article that hints he was going to get fired before he blew the whistle.
Well, then it has to be true. We all know there is no way the LA Times would ever publish a less-than-perfect article.
Nor is there any evidence that he was blackmailing them other than their baseless claim in court
You should contact the Austrian authorities and inform them of your verdict, we all know your decisions based on newspaper articles are infallible.
In fact I wonder why those Senator guys went through all the troubles with finding a new Chief Justice. All they have to do is post Roe v. Wade on/. and a day later they can read what Lord of Truth and Justice Macka(9338) decrees.
There has got to be something to what this guy is saying. Why else would any sane individual put himself and his family through this kind of financial hell and risk his own liberty?
There has got to be something to what Darl McBride is saying. Why else would any sane CEO put himself and his company through this kind of financial hell and risk his own... well perhaps not the last part. OTOH he would only go to prison because he can't pay the fine for violating the gag order. If there is a out-of-court settlement with TTTech (which they offered but three months pay doesn't sound like much) or some organisation (say "Aviation Industry Officials for Truth and Security" with its seat in Everett, Washington) pays him a few millions for his just fight...
He's not the one spreading FUD here, its his former employer!
Any proof? Evidence? Anything beyond "the article says so"? Hey if you believe everything you read in articles you're probably very confused if we get new studies by Microsoft and IBM on the same day.
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This is completely wrong.
Imagine the sales pitch when they tell the customer that they have to retrain all their staff for the next upgrade. Microsoft, RedHat and every other competitor probably opened a bottle of LouisXIV 1714 in celebration =)
Well I assume they either wouldn't use a source that's always on -- as long as it refreshs the image at about 100Hz there's no problem because that's what current CRTs do and burn-in hasn't been a problem with CRT displays for quite some time -- or (which is IMHO more likely) they'd use electron emitters that are a lot weaker and a coating that's optimized for longer but less intensive light emission -- because today the phosphor is optimized for pulsed activation (hit->strong light->short cooldown->next hit) while in a SED it could be active all the time. Also, instead of 3 emitters you suddenly have a million which limits the power of the individual emitters.
You must be new here.
http://www.blu-ray.com/media/
Yeah, because demand's gonna go down when countries with more than 2 billion additional people make the transition from agrarian to industrialized nations and we start to replace oil (and coal and natural gas) as energy sources for heating and transportation. We just got to remember to switch off the lights when we leave a room.
Of course they're right to a degree. If the Chinese and Indians consume energy like the Japanese instead of the USians in 50 years we're gonna be *a lot* better off and in the long run higher efficiency will save huge amounts of ressources and money but nevertheless I don't see how solar should provide all that (unless it's in space), there's a natural limit to hydroelectric and wind has some major environmental drawbacks, probably even more serious ones than the other two.
It is included in both. But noone has to use it. Both also support MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 (AVC aka H.264).
I could've at least read the blurb, sorry. =)
Btw.: HP also asked Blu-ray to support a feature called iHD, which provides for new interactive features and is slated to be implemented in Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating system.
They could really beat MS at their own game with this. Blu-Ray uses Java for interactive sh*t but why shouldn't they add the MS thingy too to lure in those who absolutely have to use MS technology. Then make sure iHD is broken in some subtle ways (*cough*MS-JVM*cough*) and watch as Ballmer loses it and demolishes the MS campus.
Yes, it is mandatory but it doesn't have to be free. IOW Warner (they were HD-DVD IIRC) can sell you the HD-Super-Hyper-Special-DVD of Matrix for $40 and then charge you another $20 if you want to watch it on your TV (with an Xbox360 which is connected to a PC that has an HD-DVD drive) instead of on your computer monitor.
Kompose does the same thing but groups windows by virtual desktops (if you have different wallpapers for the desktops it can also display those) and overlays the window title and icon. It can also use Composite but unless you need the latest and greatest IMHO it's better not to use the Composite extension at all; it's slow (unless you use the NVidia drivers afaik), buggy and crash prone.
Fear not, there's apparently gonna be a cool new feature called "systray". It's rumored to ship with Win95 or 98.
XviD supports Simple Profile but videos you've "found" "somewhere" are most likely Advanced Simple Profile or more at resolutions beyond the 480x480 supported by the iPod.
That way everyone could drive whatever they want to because a well-defined "crash interface" would mean that you don't have to take into account the vehicles the rest of the country is driving.
OTOH if you had an Ox cart (or drove a carriage or whatever) you normally held the reins in your right (because most people are right handed) and the whip in your left. So if you met someone else driving in the other direction it was much easier to move to the right to let him pass (ditto for the other guy).
In other words in England the aristocrats/soldiers won, in the rest of Europe it was the farmers.
"My HD is my castle," or
"~/, sweet ~/"
Is there finally a way to change your monitor settings without using a text editor? Every Ubuntu I've tried set my monitor to some safe settings which meant unusable 60Hz (WinXP OTOH auto-detects the correct settings, SuSE gives me a dialog where I can choose vendor and model).
Almost all movie trailers you're gonna find on the internet is either asx or mov I don't see why this one shouldn't be, too.
Sorry, despite my sig that reply probably comes across as harsher than I intended it to be =)
Could you show me the line where I state that nonsense? I specifically wrote that MS said they might start shipping HD-DVD drives in the future, why would they do that if you could play HD-DVDs in DVD drives?
Xbox360 games use DVDs.
Which is the reason MS supports HD-DVD. They've got nothing to lose. They announced their intent to think about the possibility to include an HD drive for movie playback at some time in the future or not. So if Blu-Ray wins big deal, MS simply puts a BR drive in their consoles. On the other hand if they can kill Blu-Ray, they negate one of the main advantages of the PS3 (i.e. the one that it is a HD player. Sony sold a lot of PS2s that way when stand-alone DVD players were still expensive) one Sony will use to justify the (supposedly) higher price of their console
At least with Konqueror the standard identification never worked for me, posing as Mozilla worked until recently but doesn't now while setting the user agent to Safari didn't work then but does now.
More about that here (well more about GMail support but afaik it's the same problem)
Go to the official download page.
Now what do you find there?:
Download the latest Ubuntu!
Ubuntu 5.10 "The Breezy Badger" Preview Release
Ubuntu 5.04 "The Hoary Hedgehog"
MS never put their codenames on the boxes
While it probably was a mistake in the beginning the official explanation (Kessel is/is near a number of black holes that make up the center of the Star Wars galaxy. The faster you are the closer you can make it past the black holes and the shorter the Kessel Run) makes sense. There are a lot of terms floating around that are not 100% correct or are a bit strange but that are used for historical reasons (American Football? Broadband? etc)
The article says that he was fired after he reported his findings to the European aviation authorities.
TTTech says he reported them after it was clear that he was going to be fired.
There is nothing in the article that hints he was going to get fired before he blew the whistle.
Well, then it has to be true. We all know there is no way the LA Times would ever publish a less-than-perfect article.
Nor is there any evidence that he was blackmailing them other than their baseless claim in court
You should contact the Austrian authorities and inform them of your verdict, we all know your decisions based on newspaper articles are infallible.
In fact I wonder why those Senator guys went through all the troubles with finding a new Chief Justice. All they have to do is post Roe v. Wade on /. and a day later they can read what Lord of Truth and Justice Macka(9338) decrees.
There has got to be something to what this guy is saying. Why else would any sane individual put himself and his family through this kind of financial hell and risk his own liberty?
There has got to be something to what Darl McBride is saying. Why else would any sane CEO put himself and his company through this kind of financial hell and risk his own... well perhaps not the last part. OTOH he would only go to prison because he can't pay the fine for violating the gag order. If there is a out-of-court settlement with TTTech (which they offered but three months pay doesn't sound like much) or some organisation (say "Aviation Industry Officials for Truth and Security" with its seat in Everett, Washington) pays him a few millions for his just fight...
He's not the one spreading FUD here, its his former employer!
Any proof? Evidence? Anything beyond "the article says so"? Hey if you believe everything you read in articles you're probably very confused if we get new studies by Microsoft and IBM on the same day.