Watch -- the Slashdot groupthink will moderate me down into oblivion.
Because you're the only person here able to form an independent decision right? If anyone disagrees with you it's not because different people value different aspects of story, or even God forbid that opinions other than yours might have been arrived at from a valid position. No, anyone disagreeing with you is obviously simply a mental incompetent. Must be a very comfortable view of the world.
While I admit that there is a lot to learn from many of the past philosophers, I think your argument is somewhat flawed. Alchamists and shamans both were responsible for a lot of scientific advancement as well, but it doesn't automatically validate either as being applicable to our current understanding of the world.
What bugged me was that sci-fi had the gall to put farscape in their new comercials. Well, that and the fact that they apparently had the money to start yet another invevitably quickly canceled series (tremmors), and yet cancel the best show they had. I actually kind of liked the movies, but given the choice betwean farscape and tremmors I don't think it's much of a decision which I've enjoyed more.
Don't take this too seriously since it's just something I heard someone mention on a DivX message board. But, for what it's worth someone there mentioned he'd gotten mplayer compiled on the ps2 linux, and was getting something along the lines of 8 fps.
I've noticed this problem as well. It's almost a given at this point that the best *nix software will eventually be ported to windows. A friend of mine made a good point when he came over and pointed out that almost all the programs I had open were available for windows, in addition to all the windows software. It's the OS2 problem all over again.
It becomes even more of a problem because if you're a windows developer who dosn't release source and states that you'll never port outside windows very few people will have a problem. But if you're not developing for windows and you either don't release the source, or you forbid windows ports...well, you've seen what happens already in this small thread.
We're planning instead on making the non windows versions of our game just a little bit better. The unregistered windows versions would have a couple less levels, an occasional "please register" nag screen on startup, and a release date a couple months later than the registered windows version and the *nix releases.
The hope is that it'd be too much trouble for too little to even bother compiling the *nix version for windows, and there's even a small chance some of the windows users might shell out a few bucks instead of warezing it.
I veiw it more as giving the thing out for free to people of a like mind than crippling the windows version. We'll probaly still get labled elitist bastereds for it, but it's the best way I could think of to support diversity in OS use and not screw over the windows users.
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That'd have my vote, in fact I was just about to suggest it myself! It might serve as a lesson to companies whose legal departments take too strong a leaning to the assinine.
On the other hand it might be more advertising, good or bad, than they've gotten in a long time.
Of course. The marijuana is far more dangerous than any gun. Just one toke, and they could go into reefer madness, suddenly possessing the strength of five gorillas!
Yes, I could put it on, but haven't the time right now.
Wait, you've got time to complain about it on slashdot, but spending that same amount of time installing a rpm with the source would be too wasteful a use of that time?
I don't understand where all these people are getting this big RTFM blowoff. I switched over to Linux about two years ago and in that time I've only been told to go read the documentation for something once, just this week in fact. That it wasn't in the documentation is what prompted me to ask the question in the first place, so I can at least understand how frustrating this would be to someone starting out and getting this answer over and over again. But aside from that one instance, I've found nothing but a lot of nice people more than willing to donate some of their time to help someone out. Heck, even the near RTFM laid out a solution to the problem I was having.
On the other hand I've always used newsgroups rather than irc, so that might be the solution to a more civil line of help right there.
Frankly, I don't see why people dont just buy a PS2, install Linux for PS2, and use that as the basis for their media player.
I've only heard this second hand, but apparently DivX playback under ps2 linux gives a fps in the single digits. A wallmart pc with an ebayed all in wonder card on the other hand seems a lot more suited than an xbox for a media or emulation center.
I've been surpressing a desire to get an xbox soley for the emulators and media player for a while now. Then it hit me that with one of the wallmart PCs I'd be getting something better suited for the task. Spend a couple days writing a nice gui, get a cheap remote controll, throw in an old ati all in wonder I have lying around, and get an adapter for console controllers. It'd cost the same or less for me than an xbox, but would aditionally give tv recording, playback of closed formats (real,quicktime-s3), and access to consoles not emulated on the xbox.
On the other hand I can't spare the money for either choice, but it's clear to me which option would best suit my needs when I can.
Would spending Christmas with Vader be better or worse than spending it with Chewies family?
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Same here. I came through a recent accedent without a scratch, but my car was totalled. Walking hasn't been a problem, but the groceries are murder. Bumming rides off friends is uncomfortable, and it's a big waste of time having to make frequent trips for food. I too would kill for something like this where I live right now.
If you think you're going to make a difference with this attitude think again.
I think he's going to make a big difference. Not in his old cards support of non microsoft browsers, but in the fact that he's going to be able to access the services he wants. Ditching the company that dosn't meet his needs is going to have a whole lot more impact on his ability to use his credit cards site than getting a few form letters from his old in reply to his requests for them to meet his needs.
Plus I still haven't found a VB equivilant for another OS.
Aside from Kylix, wxpython might be close enough to what you're looking for. Python itself I've found to be a pleasure to work with, and the ability to just plop the resulting program down on any platform is great. There's also a couple IDE's which give form designers and component drag and drop. The downside is that there's not much documentation around for it at the moment.
When your government says (and enforces that) there is no such thing as the thing that is the most obvoius, and most likely correct, answer (God), you have to resort to aliens or something equally as unlikely.
If you're talking about the USA, what the heck? Mainstream Christianity is threaded throughout American rituals. Heck, just flip your money over and take a look at the writing on the back of it for the most obvious example.
I think whether an UI is good or bad depends to a large extend on the audience. Most open source projects don't really need an ultra easy to use gui because Random J User isn't going to be using it, that's what windows is for.
I'll agree for buisness use quite a bit of the GUI's would be inapropriate, but for home use I don't know that I could really call it bad if it's just as good as it needs to be for the average person who will be making use of it.
Not exactly what you're asking and I don't know if this is common knowlege to everyone but me, but I only recently found out that you can drag and drop edk links from mozilla to the gtk edonkey gui.
Weird, I just heard Patrick Stewart talking about the moon on the discovery channel. I half expect the next time I turn on the tv Shatner will be selling moon property via priceline if this theme keeps up.
They have a right to not support anything but Internet Explorer, but we have the same right to know about it when making a choice of whether to use their bank. If they don't support a browser I can actually use I'd say I have a right to make an informed choice to instead use one of their competitors who can.
I had a very refreshing experience with them. I started a new account there about a year ago, and a few months later someone called me up to make sure I was aware of their online banking. I'd had so many bad experiences with banks and non IE browsers that I hadn't even bothered trying. He actually quickly mentioned that their banking will work fine with Mozilla under Linux.
I know it's just one guy rather than some all reaching Linux education program there, but it was still very refreshing to not have someone in that position telling me that I should upgrade to Internet Explorer.
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Watch -- the Slashdot groupthink will moderate me down into oblivion.
Because you're the only person here able to form an independent decision right? If anyone disagrees with you it's not because different people value different aspects of story, or even God forbid that opinions other than yours might have been arrived at from a valid position. No, anyone disagreeing with you is obviously simply a mental incompetent. Must be a very comfortable view of the world.
While I admit that there is a lot to learn from many of the past philosophers, I think your argument is somewhat flawed. Alchamists and shamans both were responsible for a lot of scientific advancement as well, but it doesn't automatically validate either as being applicable to our current understanding of the world.
What bugged me was that sci-fi had the gall to put farscape in their new comercials. Well, that and the fact that they apparently had the money to start yet another invevitably quickly canceled series (tremmors), and yet cancel the best show they had. I actually kind of liked the movies, but given the choice betwean farscape and tremmors I don't think it's much of a decision which I've enjoyed more.
Don't take this too seriously since it's just something I heard someone mention on a DivX message board. But, for what it's worth someone there mentioned he'd gotten mplayer compiled on the ps2 linux, and was getting something along the lines of 8 fps.
Windows Media player... They should be IN SOVIET RUSSIA.
In SOVIET RUSSIA, movie player watches you!
I've noticed this problem as well. It's almost a given at this point that the best *nix software will eventually be ported to windows. A friend of mine made a good point when he came over and pointed out that almost all the programs I had open were available for windows, in addition to all the windows software. It's the OS2 problem all over again.
It becomes even more of a problem because if you're a windows developer who dosn't release source and states that you'll never port outside windows very few people will have a problem. But if you're not developing for windows and you either don't release the source, or you forbid windows ports...well, you've seen what happens already in this small thread.
We're planning instead on making the non windows versions of our game just a little bit better. The unregistered windows versions would have a couple less levels, an occasional "please register" nag screen on startup, and a release date a couple months later than the registered windows version and the *nix releases.
The hope is that it'd be too much trouble for too little to even bother compiling the *nix version for windows, and there's even a small chance some of the windows users might shell out a few bucks instead of warezing it.
I veiw it more as giving the thing out for free to people of a like mind than crippling the windows version. We'll probaly still get labled elitist bastereds for it, but it's the best way I could think of to support diversity in OS use and not screw over the windows users.
That'd have my vote, in fact I was just about to suggest it myself! It might serve as a lesson to companies whose legal departments take too strong a leaning to the assinine.
On the other hand it might be more advertising, good or bad, than they've gotten in a long time.
Of course. The marijuana is far more dangerous than any gun. Just one toke, and they could go into reefer madness, suddenly possessing the strength of five gorillas!
There's something very sad in the fact that difficulty in watching comercials on an OS is seen as a disadvantage.
Yes, I could put it on, but haven't the time right now.
Wait, you've got time to complain about it on slashdot, but spending that same amount of time installing a rpm with the source would be too wasteful a use of that time?
I don't understand where all these people are getting this big RTFM blowoff. I switched over to Linux about two years ago and in that time I've only been told to go read the documentation for something once, just this week in fact. That it wasn't in the documentation is what prompted me to ask the question in the first place, so I can at least understand how frustrating this would be to someone starting out and getting this answer over and over again. But aside from that one instance, I've found nothing but a lot of nice people more than willing to donate some of their time to help someone out. Heck, even the near RTFM laid out a solution to the problem I was having.
On the other hand I've always used newsgroups rather than irc, so that might be the solution to a more civil line of help right there.
Frankly, I don't see why people dont just buy a PS2, install Linux for PS2, and use that as the basis for their media player.
I've only heard this second hand, but apparently DivX playback under ps2 linux gives a fps in the single digits. A wallmart pc with an ebayed all in wonder card on the other hand seems a lot more suited than an xbox for a media or emulation center.
I've been surpressing a desire to get an xbox soley for the emulators and media player for a while now. Then it hit me that with one of the wallmart PCs I'd be getting something better suited for the task. Spend a couple days writing a nice gui, get a cheap remote controll, throw in an old ati all in wonder I have lying around, and get an adapter for console controllers. It'd cost the same or less for me than an xbox, but would aditionally give tv recording, playback of closed formats (real,quicktime-s3), and access to consoles not emulated on the xbox.
On the other hand I can't spare the money for either choice, but it's clear to me which option would best suit my needs when I can.
Would spending Christmas with Vader be better or worse than spending it with Chewies family?
Same here. I came through a recent accedent without a scratch, but my car was totalled. Walking hasn't been a problem, but the groceries are murder. Bumming rides off friends is uncomfortable, and it's a big waste of time having to make frequent trips for food. I too would kill for something like this where I live right now.
If you think you're going to make a difference with this attitude think again.
I think he's going to make a big difference. Not in his old cards support of non microsoft browsers, but in the fact that he's going to be able to access the services he wants. Ditching the company that dosn't meet his needs is going to have a whole lot more impact on his ability to use his credit cards site than getting a few form letters from his old in reply to his requests for them to meet his needs.
Plus I still haven't found a VB equivilant for another OS.
Aside from Kylix, wxpython might be close enough to what you're looking for. Python itself I've found to be a pleasure to work with, and the ability to just plop the resulting program down on any platform is great. There's also a couple IDE's which give form designers and component drag and drop. The downside is that there's not much documentation around for it at the moment.
When your government says (and enforces that) there is no such thing as the thing that is the most obvoius, and most likely correct, answer (God), you have to resort to aliens or something equally as unlikely.
If you're talking about the USA, what the heck? Mainstream Christianity is threaded throughout American rituals. Heck, just flip your money over and take a look at the writing on the back of it for the most obvious example.
I think whether an UI is good or bad depends to a large extend on the audience. Most open source projects don't really need an ultra easy to use gui because Random J User isn't going to be using it, that's what windows is for.
I'll agree for buisness use quite a bit of the GUI's would be inapropriate, but for home use I don't know that I could really call it bad if it's just as good as it needs to be for the average person who will be making use of it.
Not exactly what you're asking and I don't know if this is common knowlege to everyone but me, but I only recently found out that you can drag and drop edk links from mozilla to the gtk edonkey gui.
What, no robot monkeys?
Weird, I just heard Patrick Stewart talking about the moon on the discovery channel. I half expect the next time I turn on the tv Shatner will be selling moon property via priceline if this theme keeps up.
They have a right to not support anything but Internet Explorer, but we have the same right to know about it when making a choice of whether to use their bank. If they don't support a browser I can actually use I'd say I have a right to make an informed choice to instead use one of their competitors who can.
I had a very refreshing experience with them. I started a new account there about a year ago, and a few months later someone called me up to make sure I was aware of their online banking. I'd had so many bad experiences with banks and non IE browsers that I hadn't even bothered trying. He actually quickly mentioned that their banking will work fine with Mozilla under Linux.
I know it's just one guy rather than some all reaching Linux education program there, but it was still very refreshing to not have someone in that position telling me that I should upgrade to Internet Explorer.
Well, the typical upgrade for Girlfriend 1.0 is actually Wife 1.0
Though some might say it's an upgrade similar to going from Windows 98 to Windows ME.