I suspect ScummVM drives more purchases of Lucasarts software than people using the original software, given that ScummVM works better in a modern computing environment, works on Linux, etc.
Just for once, can we have a KDE article or a GNOME article where instead of bashing the other Linux desktop UI, we bash the Windows UI instead? The common enemy?
What certain things that break consistency? There's a bunch of UI guys in both the KDE and the GNOME teams who would probably appreciate your bug reports...
I like the P2P idea, but with a different network.
Put out the vast majority of the archive *only* on Freenet. A nice big distributed caching proxy network, browsable with a web browser, and growing in content every day....and it could use a valuable, exclusive resource like your own.
It all depends on how you value things. Matrox has consistently put out better Linux support than Nvidia (with their binary drivers) and ATI (which certainly takes their time getting support to cards). They also came to Linux early on, and do a good job of releasing tech specs. There's special Matrox drivers in mplayer for Matrox cards that write directly to the card for even more speed -- something that exists for no other card. Xv and 3d support are solid, without crashes or weirdness.
I've used both a G200 and a G450, and as long as Matrox continues to be the most pro-Linux of the major graphics card vendors, they'll keep my business (by the same token, if they turn away from Linux, I'll find another vendor).
Why is it that almost every media player under the Sun has to have a stupid bitmap skin? Does anyone actually *like* these things? You used to never see them until the "multimedia revolution" when CD-ROMs were introduced. Every piece of software started having bitmap elements, and it took years for consumer dissatisfaction to beat that back down into the woodwork. Now the relatively new media player environments are doing the same stupid thing.
He said the resolution, not the desktop size, which is exactly what I told him how to change. Changing the desktop size is a fairly useless operation -- once you have the one you want (presumably the highest your monitor can handle) why would you ever change it? The reason people change the desktop size at all in Windows is because you *must* do so to change your resolution, which you want to do to play games, which X does fine, or because different people use the computer and some have a hard time seeing text (which should be fixed by increasing font size, not decreasing resolution), which isn't an issue on the account-based UNIX environments.
And I have a very difficult time believing that you're running in a lower bit depth than 24 or 32. The last computer I used in lower-than-32 bit mode at all in anything other than games was my Power Mac 6100/60, which is now something like ten years old. The last big game I can think of that ran in 8 bit mode is the now elderly Starcraft.
The existing stuff is powerful. You may not like the UI, but the foundation is not bad.
color management
Fair enough
Alpha blending support
This is in already
Usable configuration
There are plenty easy-to-use front ends for this. Try installing a random distro...Mandrake or RH.
Changing resolutions on the fly
You can change resolutions even more easily than in Windows, via ctl-alt-kp+ and ctl-alt-kp-. Also, apps in DGA mode can change resolution and (IIRC) color depth, though only for the DGA mode. The color depth thing isn't really an issue any more -- no one runs in anything but 24/32 bit color.
vnc server support
If not already done, this is really easy to do -- you can dump an X desktop image easily, and feeding it into VNC isn't rocket science.
So what you want is a boss key, or a "switch to specific app" feature.
This isn't a benefit of MDI...it's a kludge that you're using MDI to get around a feature gap in Windows.
Grab a copy of sawfish and Linux, and use an SDI UI, and bind gnumeric being brought to the front to a key or key combination, and you can do the same thing.
With Word, these 'yuppie' managers now have to type their own memos (although you could argue that e-mail was the final catalyst in this trend).
This lead to the immediate drop in admin salaries and training costs, which from a business standpoint was a good thing
And let to the complete collapse of correct spelling and grammar in memos and letters.
So, yeah, it's possible for people to learn (say) Emacs. But what's the point in doing so?
Emacs is a lot more powerful and comfortable to use than any Windows-based editor if you're coding. So for developers, Emacs is an easy choice. I wouldn't bill it as a Word alternative -- TeX is definitely not worth the investiture for most people.
I don't understand how they can have a bigger index -- google's bot regularly hits the sites that I have access to the weblog on, but alltheweb's doesn't.
Maybe alltheweb is just out of date, and only indexes things once?
BTW - Google Rocks! I never use anything else anymore
Hotbot supports searching for pages with links to a file of arbitrary extension (see the advanced search page), which Google does not currently do.
Google does not provide an FTP search engine, which other search engine providers do (Lycos used to run one).
Other than that, yeah, Google is great. It's absolutely incredible that the best search engine out there shares my philosophy that pages should be simple and small.
Some native populations have an amazing capacity for rebounding
Okay, fine. At least the major P2P networks (Gnutella, Napster) have a fair amount of diversity, providing resistance against a community-wide single attack wiping out the community.
Furthermore, all of them can rebound quickly. A patch can be distributed across the network very quickly -- in a week or so, updates can be installed by the majority of users. That's *fast* compensation, allowing easy rebounding.
Slashdot Mirror
That's 3100 people who wouldn't have had a problem were they using Linux instead of Windows.
Just a thought.
Nah. Use xqf :-)
Yes, but the X-box flopped
it definitely "felt" slower than my 400mhz celeron vaio in OSX
Quick fix for slow feel: replace Windows with Linux.
KDE will use any window manager, but prefers those that are GNOME compliant
Oh it does, does it?
I suspect ScummVM drives more purchases of Lucasarts software than people using the original software, given that ScummVM works better in a modern computing environment, works on Linux, etc.
Just for once, can we have a KDE article or a GNOME article where instead of bashing the other Linux desktop UI, we bash the Windows UI instead? The common enemy?
DivX is a lot more sane. MPEG 2 is designed for really high bitrate stuff...I'd rather *not* have someone streaming it, thank you very much. :-)
You bought an S3 card over a Matrox?
What certain things that break consistency? There's a bunch of UI guys in both the KDE and the GNOME teams who would probably appreciate your bug reports...
I like the P2P idea, but with a different network.
Put out the vast majority of the archive *only* on Freenet. A nice big distributed caching proxy network, browsable with a web browser, and growing in content every day....and it could use a valuable, exclusive resource like your own.
That would only be valid if the only colors you were counting were pure red, pure blue, and pure green.
this card is not woth the asking price
It all depends on how you value things. Matrox has consistently put out better Linux support than Nvidia (with their binary drivers) and ATI (which certainly takes their time getting support to cards). They also came to Linux early on, and do a good job of releasing tech specs. There's special Matrox drivers in mplayer for Matrox cards that write directly to the card for even more speed -- something that exists for no other card. Xv and 3d support are solid, without crashes or weirdness.
I've used both a G200 and a G450, and as long as Matrox continues to be the most pro-Linux of the major graphics card vendors, they'll keep my business (by the same token, if they turn away from Linux, I'll find another vendor).
They have to enforce contracts like these or they will be invalid
No. The enforce-or-lose rule *only* applies to trademarks. Not patents, licensing agreements, copyrights, etc.
Why is it that almost every media player under the Sun has to have a stupid bitmap skin? Does anyone actually *like* these things? You used to never see them until the "multimedia revolution" when CD-ROMs were introduced. Every piece of software started having bitmap elements, and it took years for consumer dissatisfaction to beat that back down into the woodwork. Now the relatively new media player environments are doing the same stupid thing.
He said the resolution, not the desktop size, which is exactly what I told him how to change. Changing the desktop size is a fairly useless operation -- once you have the one you want (presumably the highest your monitor can handle) why would you ever change it? The reason people change the desktop size at all in Windows is because you *must* do so to change your resolution, which you want to do to play games, which X does fine, or because different people use the computer and some have a hard time seeing text (which should be fixed by increasing font size, not decreasing resolution), which isn't an issue on the account-based UNIX environments.
And I have a very difficult time believing that you're running in a lower bit depth than 24 or 32. The last computer I used in lower-than-32 bit mode at all in anything other than games was my Power Mac 6100/60, which is now something like ten years old. The last big game I can think of that ran in 8 bit mode is the now elderly Starcraft.
And a widget-based approach would have *less* extensions?
can't it query the current monitor like Macs and Winders do (DPMS)
DPMS is related to power saving, not querying.
There is support for this...see matrox-i2c.
Frankly, given that I can run at a higher reresh rate by ignoring what my monitor says I should run at, I'm pretty happy with things as they are.
Why would you ever want to decrease the resolution of your monitor?
font support
The existing stuff is powerful. You may not like the UI, but the foundation is not bad.
color management
Fair enough
Alpha blending support
This is in already
Usable configuration
There are plenty easy-to-use front ends for this. Try installing a random distro...Mandrake or RH.
Changing resolutions on the fly
You can change resolutions even more easily than in Windows, via ctl-alt-kp+ and ctl-alt-kp-. Also, apps in DGA mode can change resolution and (IIRC) color depth, though only for the DGA mode. The color depth thing isn't really an issue any more -- no one runs in anything but 24/32 bit color.
vnc server support
If not already done, this is really easy to do -- you can dump an X desktop image easily, and feeding it into VNC isn't rocket science.
So what you want is a boss key, or a "switch to specific app" feature.
This isn't a benefit of MDI...it's a kludge that you're using MDI to get around a feature gap in Windows.
Grab a copy of sawfish and Linux, and use an SDI UI, and bind gnumeric being brought to the front to a key or key combination, and you can do the same thing.
With Word, these 'yuppie' managers now have to type their own memos (although you could argue that e-mail was the final catalyst in this trend).
This lead to the immediate drop in admin salaries and training costs, which from a business standpoint was a good thing
And let to the complete collapse of correct spelling and grammar in memos and letters.
So, yeah, it's possible for people to learn (say) Emacs. But what's the point in doing so?
Emacs is a lot more powerful and comfortable to use than any Windows-based editor if you're coding. So for developers, Emacs is an easy choice. I wouldn't bill it as a Word alternative -- TeX is definitely not worth the investiture for most people.
I don't understand how they can have a bigger index -- google's bot regularly hits the sites that I have access to the weblog on, but alltheweb's doesn't.
Maybe alltheweb is just out of date, and only indexes things once?
BTW - Google Rocks! I never use anything else anymore
Hotbot supports searching for pages with links to a file of arbitrary extension (see the advanced search page), which Google does not currently do.
Google does not provide an FTP search engine, which other search engine providers do (Lycos used to run one).
Other than that, yeah, Google is great. It's absolutely incredible that the best search engine out there shares my philosophy that pages should be simple and small.
Some native populations have an amazing capacity for rebounding
Okay, fine. At least the major P2P networks (Gnutella, Napster) have a fair amount of diversity, providing resistance against a community-wide single attack wiping out the community.
Furthermore, all of them can rebound quickly. A patch can be distributed across the network very quickly -- in a week or so, updates can be installed by the majority of users. That's *fast* compensation, allowing easy rebounding.