Avidemux might work out. It can load and edit avi or mpeg, and save to either as well as traditional vcd. Unfourtunatly I can't say how it works since for some reason on my system it's not seeing the libraries needed for that.
I'm sure it's been said before, and probaly will many times now, but seriously...KDE 2.2? While I can see the point that using older software will decrease the possibility of having to deal with bugs, does KDE 3.0 even have enough bugs to bother worrying about. I've been using it since 3.0.1 and in all versions it's seemed more stable than windows explorer. It just seems rather a damper on the whole experience of using Linux on the desktop. Part of the fun for me was finding and playing around with the various themes, most of which are kde3 oriented now. I'd find it rather annoying to shell out that much money only to find that my system was uglier than someone who'd just downloaded theirs from the internet.
can be stored in a large pocket or small backpack As can a PDA. The difference being I can carry a bookshelf worth of books in my pocket.
and its cheap enough that if it gets lots, you don't care I'll give the advantage there to books on paper as opposed to pda. But if something's valuable to me I'm not going to lose it.
So if I have a reader for my ebook, I'm getting a fragile device I've been carrying around my ipaq in my pocket for about two years now, and it's never gotten so much as a scratch from the wear in a tiny case. While I don't get out as much as I'd like, I'm in woods and parks enough that I'd hardly call it fragile. Heck, it's lasted longer than my rice cooker.
that will have DRM built into it I admit that part I'm not so fond of. While it dosn't make it any more legal, I usually just buy the paperback and download the ebook from a binary group. I wouldn't mind the DRM angle so much, but the publishing of ebooks is so sporatic that I'll often find a series with only a couple books of it in ebook form.
will require electricity Not significant enough to really matter for me at least. I usually get about a seven to ten hour charge if reading under good lighting, and in low or dark light I wouldn't have been able to read it at all. Four rechargeable double A bateries are enough to just about double the time as well for long trips, so all in all it's a slight advantage in my opinion.
nd will be difficult to read. A lot of people have good eyesight:)
For me, the small size of my pda is one of the best points for reading ebooks. I couldn't fit a novel in my pocket, but I can carry a bookshelf full of text around in my ipaq. It took a little time getting used to the screen, but at this point I'd much rather read off it than paper.
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Mandrake has for years now (with the exception of the 8.1 release, I believe) gone one step further by using a kernel patched with "Supermount", which is a "true" automount like you are probably thinking of.
Though for me at least it seems to be broken in 9.0. Whether I'll actually be able to get any data from my cd drive seems almost random at this point, while it worked find in 8.2.
You might not be able to recompile the source, but IE is fully customizable by using ActiveX, maybe not as easy as it is in Mozilla, but still possible.
I hope this doesn't sound like a troll, I'm actually curious. If this is true, why do all the solutions for IE's terrible png and nonexistant mng rendering force you to write your pages for the plugins rather than use a normal img tag? Or have I only been stumbling on the less successful plugins?
What somewhat saddens me is just how many BeOS projects are being worked on, and that so many seem to be making progress. What excited me about BeOS back in the day was that companies were just starting to take serious interest in it. I think anything more than one new version of BeOS though will imediatly give the stock reply to Linux development, "Which Linux are we support to write for then?". And that's with products that are pretty much the same aside from some software locations and kernel versions. I personally don't see any chance of something like Photoshop in the present situation of multiple implementations, while back in the day I was quite hopeful for it.
Ah well, I wish them all luck nonetheless and hope strongly to be proven wrong.
In windows I've heard Tara's realplayer plugin for winamp should handle video as well as audio. You have to have realplayer installed, but the startcenter can always be diabled, and then the realplayer program directory deleted.
And in Linux apparently mplayer will do pretty much the same thing as of a few releases ago, though I've never tried doing so myself.
Is it just me, or is Bluecurve the ugliest theme ever? Heck, I prefer the KDE2 default theme...
I have the same reaction when everyone begins marveling over how great it looks. Better than say, the default kylix theme...but only by a matter of degrees. Seems very subdued, where I usually much prefer more 'in your face' bright themes like keramik or orbit.
Still, enough people seem to love it that I'd say it's filling a large artistic prefrence somwhere.
I tried a little before the story was posted on slashdot and found all the ftps full, and reports from one person who had gotten in that they were getting 4kbs. Surprisingly there were only three mirrors listed at the time I looked.
Answering my own question here - MNG format appears to be an alternative, but MSIE doesn't seem to support it out-of-the box.
Really a pity too. I was lucky enough to have a significant enough lack of IE users on my page to be able to use mng. The extra space saved by using mng instead of gif builds up surprisingly fast.
_Nobody_ uses browsers like Netscape or IE or Opera or Mozilla or any of the other browsers that support png.
IE (for windows) and png support are two things I very rarely see in the same sentence unless poor is in there as well somewhere. Though I'm more annoyed by it's total lack of mng support than it half assed png support.
Strangely enough, the diet proposed above espouses the very thing that various studies have shown to be healthy: whole grains, lots of fruits and vegetable, lean protein (from lean meats and legums), and some amount of "healthy" fats such as monounsaturated oils.
It's kind of a weird situation where I find myself eating more and varied foods than when I wasn't on it. I think that's the reason I've been able to stay on this. Junk food isn't a good idea with it, but pretty much anything else that isn't empty calories is fine. As long as one goes with what you mention, moderation.
I've had a lot of the same situation you mention with nuts as well. They really seem to have gotten a very bad rap, despite being great for quite a few things including their fat content. As weird as it is coming from someone on a rather extreame diet with the caloric restriction, I really agree that moderation is the key.
So who's really pulling the strings? The dairy and beef council or the cereal council?
The The Egg Council/Advisory Board of course!
Homer: So one of those Egg Council creeps got to you too, huh?
Lenny: Aw, you've got it all wrong, Homer. It's not like that.
[a man in an egg costume creeps, then runs, away]
Homer: You'd better run, egg!
Caloric restriction with optimal nutrition. Currently this is the only method shown to extend the maximum lifespan of a variety of mammals. While it still can't be verified to extend maximum lifespan of humans, the current ongoing primate studies have so far shown the same effects as in mice and other animals. Humans on it have also shown the same changes in their body function as the other primates. If ones needs to improve their eating habits, might as well gain as much additional benifit from it as possible.
Of course, when it comes to evolution, if you use 1337 $p33k and 9 out of 10 people you write to can't understand a thing you just typed, guess who needs to do the evolving!
It might though serve to isolate those people enough that they're unable to mate with anyone but the other speakers. Then given enough time we might see some real, and depressing evolution taking place!
Our perspective is incredibly skewed because of our expertise.
Not to be overly cynical, but I think the perspective is rather skewed due more to an enjoyment and willingness to learn when confronted with the unknown. Which is something I've found somewhat lacking on average in most people. It's not just in tech, but I think in most aspects of life where we find ourselves ignorant the more geekish will enjoy digging up information and figuring it out. While most people would much rather remain ignorent and have the solution handed to them.
Zeplin shleplin, I'd get me a house with a hot chicks room preinstalled! Not only that, but fund a mission to get the bucket of truth out of orbit to furnish the place with!
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Avidemux might work out. It can load and edit avi or mpeg, and save to either as well as traditional vcd. Unfourtunatly I can't say how it works since for some reason on my system it's not seeing the libraries needed for that.
I'm sure it's been said before, and probaly will many times now, but seriously...KDE 2.2? While I can see the point that using older software will decrease the possibility of having to deal with bugs, does KDE 3.0 even have enough bugs to bother worrying about. I've been using it since 3.0.1 and in all versions it's seemed more stable than windows explorer.
It just seems rather a damper on the whole experience of using Linux on the desktop. Part of the fun for me was finding and playing around with the various themes, most of which are kde3 oriented now. I'd find it rather annoying to shell out that much money only to find that my system was uglier than someone who'd just downloaded theirs from the internet.
It fits comfortably in hand
:)
As does a pda.
can be stored in a large pocket or small backpack
As can a PDA. The difference being I can carry a bookshelf worth of books in my pocket.
and its cheap enough that if it gets lots, you don't care
I'll give the advantage there to books on paper as opposed to pda. But if something's valuable to me I'm not going to lose it.
So if I have a reader for my ebook, I'm getting a fragile device
I've been carrying around my ipaq in my pocket for about two years now, and it's never gotten so much as a scratch from the wear in a tiny case. While I don't get out as much as I'd like, I'm in woods and parks enough that I'd hardly call it fragile. Heck, it's lasted longer than my rice cooker.
that will have DRM built into it
I admit that part I'm not so fond of. While it dosn't make it any more legal, I usually just buy the paperback and download the ebook from a binary group. I wouldn't mind the DRM angle so much, but the publishing of ebooks is so sporatic that I'll often find a series with only a couple books of it in ebook form.
will require electricity
Not significant enough to really matter for me at least. I usually get about a seven to ten hour charge if reading under good lighting, and in low or dark light I wouldn't have been able to read it at all. Four rechargeable double A bateries are enough to just about double the time as well for long trips, so all in all it's a slight advantage in my opinion.
nd will be difficult to read.
A lot of people have good eyesight
and they are too small.
For me, the small size of my pda is one of the best points for reading ebooks. I couldn't fit a novel in my pocket, but I can carry a bookshelf full of text around in my ipaq. It took a little time getting used to the screen, but at this point I'd much rather read off it than paper.
Mandrake has for years now (with the exception of the 8.1 release, I believe) gone one step further by using a kernel patched with "Supermount", which is a "true" automount like you are probably thinking of.
Though for me at least it seems to be broken in 9.0. Whether I'll actually be able to get any data from my cd drive seems almost random at this point, while it worked find in 8.2.
Ummm, sir, could you explain to me exactly what a "strategic business strategy" is?
Cromulant?
You might not be able to recompile the source, but IE is fully customizable by using ActiveX, maybe not as easy as it is in Mozilla, but still possible.
I hope this doesn't sound like a troll, I'm actually curious. If this is true, why do all the solutions for IE's terrible png and nonexistant mng rendering force you to write your pages for the plugins rather than use a normal img tag? Or have I only been stumbling on the less successful plugins?
Don't you think it more likley that these folks were simply coached before and during the filming?
I think that the original poster was talking about *most* people, not uber-geeks. *
Who knows. He first said most, then changed it to a broad inclusion of everyone on the planet.
Someone mentioned Photoshop
What somewhat saddens me is just how many BeOS projects are being worked on, and that so many seem to be making progress. What excited me about BeOS back in the day was that companies were just starting to take serious interest in it. I think anything more than one new version of BeOS though will imediatly give the stock reply to Linux development, "Which Linux are we support to write for then?". And that's with products that are pretty much the same aside from some software locations and kernel versions. I personally don't see any chance of something like Photoshop in the present situation of multiple implementations, while back in the day I was quite hopeful for it.
Ah well, I wish them all luck nonetheless and hope strongly to be proven wrong.
Mono will open .Net programs for linux execution.
As I understand it, won't that only be aplicable for the most part if a program is written specifically with cross platform performance in mind?
Everyone: Who are you? Euphoria: I Have No Idea What's Going On.
In windows I've heard Tara's realplayer plugin for winamp should handle video as well as audio. You have to have realplayer installed, but the startcenter can always be diabled, and then the realplayer program directory deleted. And in Linux apparently mplayer will do pretty much the same thing as of a few releases ago, though I've never tried doing so myself.
If that happened, someone [apple.com] would be very happy. And very happy to sell you a computer without DRM.
And microsoft would likley be very happy to pull out apples life support of microsoft products if they tried.
Is it just me, or is Bluecurve the ugliest theme ever? Heck, I prefer the KDE2 default theme...
I have the same reaction when everyone begins marveling over how great it looks. Better than say, the default kylix theme...but only by a matter of degrees. Seems very subdued, where I usually much prefer more 'in your face' bright themes like keramik or orbit.
Still, enough people seem to love it that I'd say it's filling a large artistic prefrence somwhere.
like illegal drugs- you tamper with the way your body is ordered in an attempt to produce more pleasure and get all sorts of negative effects.
Unlike legal drugs such as alcohol, soda and cigarettes, which have a generally positive effect on the body?
I tried a little before the story was posted on slashdot and found all the ftps full, and reports from one person who had gotten in that they were getting 4kbs. Surprisingly there were only three mirrors listed at the time I looked.
Answering my own question here - MNG format appears to be an alternative, but MSIE doesn't seem to support it out-of-the box.
Really a pity too. I was lucky enough to have a significant enough lack of IE users on my page to be able to use mng. The extra space saved by using mng instead of gif builds up surprisingly fast.
_Nobody_ uses browsers like Netscape or IE or Opera or Mozilla or any of the other browsers that support png.
IE (for windows) and png support are two things I very rarely see in the same sentence unless poor is in there as well somewhere. Though I'm more annoyed by it's total lack of mng support than it half assed png support.
Strangely enough, the diet proposed above espouses the very thing that various studies have shown to be healthy: whole grains, lots of fruits and vegetable, lean protein (from lean meats and legums), and some amount of "healthy" fats such as monounsaturated oils.
It's kind of a weird situation where I find myself eating more and varied foods than when I wasn't on it. I think that's the reason I've been able to stay on this. Junk food isn't a good idea with it, but pretty much anything else that isn't empty calories is fine. As long as one goes with what you mention, moderation.
I've had a lot of the same situation you mention with nuts as well. They really seem to have gotten a very bad rap, despite being great for quite a few things including their fat content. As weird as it is coming from someone on a rather extreame diet with the caloric restriction, I really agree that moderation is the key.
So who's really pulling the strings? The dairy and beef council or the cereal council?
The The Egg Council/Advisory Board of course!
Homer: So one of those Egg Council creeps got to you too, huh?
Lenny: Aw, you've got it all wrong, Homer. It's not like that.
[a man in an egg costume creeps, then runs, away]
Homer: You'd better run, egg!
Caloric restriction with optimal nutrition. Currently this is the only method shown to extend the maximum lifespan of a variety of mammals. While it still can't be verified to extend maximum lifespan of humans, the current ongoing primate studies have so far shown the same effects as in mice and other animals. Humans on it have also shown the same changes in their body function as the other primates. If ones needs to improve their eating habits, might as well gain as much additional benifit from it as possible.
Of course, when it comes to evolution, if you use 1337 $p33k and 9 out of 10 people you write to can't understand a thing you just typed, guess who needs to do the evolving!
It might though serve to isolate those people enough that they're unable to mate with anyone but the other speakers. Then given enough time we might see some real, and depressing evolution taking place!
Our perspective is incredibly skewed because of our expertise.
Not to be overly cynical, but I think the perspective is rather skewed due more to an enjoyment and willingness to learn when confronted with the unknown. Which is something I've found somewhat lacking on average in most people. It's not just in tech, but I think in most aspects of life where we find ourselves ignorant the more geekish will enjoy digging up information and figuring it out. While most people would much rather remain ignorent and have the solution handed to them.
zeppelins full of hot chicks
Zeplin shleplin, I'd get me a house with a hot chicks room preinstalled! Not only that, but fund a mission to get the bucket of truth out of orbit to furnish the place with!
Yes, I have watched the ucb a few times too many.