Because you have to make a trade off between the size and the quality. He probably doesn't want a 50mb file, but rather somewhere between 2-10mb file. Therefore, he's testing those formats that provide that size, to determine the one with the best size to quality ratio.
Chimera...err...Camino for OSX does source in a tab. Phoenix Tab Switching is CTRL + Tab or CTRL + SHIFT + Tab depending on which way you want to cycle.
Yes, but this engineering to reduce the need for pesticides has actually driven up the purchase of pesticides. Because now farmers simply cover entire fields with them, knowing that they will not kill their crops.
And it has only really come to the spotlight since Apple adopted the KHTML renderer. Granted, this is a testament to the efforts of the KDE team, but most geeks I knew didn't know that KHTML existed.
We definitely are the free-est country. But we are by no means 100% free. And we shouldn't be. But we should be free to assume that those who are keeping track of our every move are keeping track of this accurately. And the arguement that something is the XXX-est doesn't mean that it could be more of XXX. In the 60s, we had the most civil rights, but that didn't stop people from demanding more. Just because you're number 1 doesn't mean you should stop pushing forward. Isn't that what we always say to a certain Redmond-based company?
How bout a Windows one that does that? Christ, I just want applications to use the *standard* GUI toolkits, whether it be on my XP box, my OSX laptop, or my SuSE box. Christ on a stick, is it that hard?
To keep this on topic, man this sounds like a neat plugin, doesn't XMMS support using Winamp Plugins somehow? and doesn't Winamp3 have a similar feature?
And with Norton Ghost, a floppy bootdisk, and a server set up somewhere else, you can make an exact copy of any hard drive/partition to a remote computer. This isn't big news. This is just the reality that physical access is a security hole.
I own a 12in iBook. Trust me...the screen res is only 1024*768 and you wouldnt want it smaller. Aqua is unusable at 8*6. Buy the PBook. It looks sweet, but it will blister your crotch with its heat.
I completely agree with you. Until you talked about the Windows side. You can get free (even some OSS) titles for Windows. Outlook Express comes with it, and it's probably one of the better stripped down email clients I've ever used. Or try Pegasus Mail, it's completely free as well. As for the word processing, it's interesting that you chose Abiword and OpenOffice.org for Linux but not for Windows. As both of these are available for WinXP, your point in software becomes moot. Honestly, I have used the Linux, Win32, and MacOSX (XDarwin and Native) versions of both programs, and think that the Win32 is the best implimentation so far. AbiWord on Linux was always a headache for me. AND XP has a built in Remote Help/Desktop, so you can help her out from far away. Plus you can install any number of free Telnet/SSH servers if you so wish.
I think you are close to being correct, but make sure that next time you present the options fairly. However, your point does stand. And since the programs are available on both OS's, you have the ability to ease a user into a switch much easier than you may think.
Just take one of the many LAME mp3 scripts for iTunes and edit it to use the OGG encoder instead! It launches the terminal, but I like the LAME codec more than the Fraunhoffer one, so I deal.
No it doesn't. And I can't find this update that the person is talking about. I think he may be mistaken, because the component that he was talking about has always allowed you to play.OGG files in iTunes. Maybe he's just never tried it. Can we get a URL for the update?
Actually that's one of the two paradoxes of Capitalism. The other is that it makes more sense for the Entrepeneurs (spelling is horrid) to pay the workers less, but they must depend on the workers to buy their products. Political Science classes taught by liberals teach you wonderful things.
Exactly. The Packeteer ( http://www.packeteer.com/ ) is what my college uses. And when configured properly it can choke a p2p connection all the way or down to 2k a person or connection. Not too expensive if my school bought it, cause they are cheapskates. The problem is that people still try to connect, and it can end up choking the whole connection, because of so many repeating connections. But if it's tweaked properly, it can work.
Here's some candy, there may be rat poison in the ingredients...
Your analogy assumes the fact that you'll be able to open the box. You have to realize that the OSS Movement's definition of "Free" is not always the the one that the dominant forces of the world use. Free to most people means "lacking cost" rather than an equal access to the source. While I don't agree with this always, it's what the majority of people mean by "free".
It doesn't mean you get to check the ingredients of the candy, you just get to eat it without being billed.
What does Office have to do with IE. IE is faster than Moz due to disk caching, OS integration, etc. But Phoenix is faster than both without any of that. Go take it for a test drive.
Ok, the text size and a few other things have been covered. You are right about the MIME types, I have to say...that gets quite obnoxious. The "Luna" theme for Phoenix rocks, most of my friends had thought I had gone back to IE after 6 months of Moz/KMeleon/Phoenix use.
As for the UI. You can customize EXACTLY which and where each button, the bookmarks, the address field, the throbber, etc. are in the View->Toolbars->Customize menu. I think it seriously rocks. I have a setup that I used in IE6 forever and could never do it in Moz. Kemeleon could imitate it, but now with Phoenix I've taken the tweaking that I did in IE6 and made it look like the browser was always meant to have UI like this. I will give XUL and Phoenix's use of it that, it definately has been able to make a very adaptable GUI.
As for the edit button. I design webpages all the time. The edit button was always the first thing to go from IE. I never ever used it. I would never use it now. Open up DWMX, HS5, Notepad or whatever yourself. I really don't understand the reliance on this feature, but it must just be a difference in terms of the design workflow.
Trust me, download Phoenix, the Luna IE Theme, and the Tabbed Browsing Extensions. You won't go back.
My point exactly. Opera was great last year or the year before, but now it's just bulky, buggy and costs money! Phoenix (albeit only being in 0.4) is one of the most stable browsers I've used (Mozilla, KMeleon, Chimera, Omniweb, Konqueror, IE, etc). Opera's day is done. It definately helped inspire a lot of the "slim trim" browsers coming out now, but it itself has turned into a dinosar.
When you first logged into your email account, you probably hit "Yes Remember this Password". If you go into your profile directory, i bet deleting the "formdata" directory should fix this. The profile dir will be something like:
C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Phoenix\Profiles\PROFILENAME\SEEMINGLY__RANDO M_CHARACTERS.slt\
I'll be straight edge till the day I die. I sure as hell don't like earth crisis though. It's not about any music or "rules" for me, just a personal choice.
And if you think music and politics should be kept seperate you're wrong. That's all.
Who cares?
It's music man. It's about entertainment, and in the case of "real punk" (such a retarded label), an attitude and a commitment to changing the world. Honestly, PunkRock and the Open Source Movement are kindred spirits. The DIY ethic, the distrust of large corporations and the "scene" support all mirror each other.
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I am hoping to god it doesn't look/feel like QT for windows. That is a very poorly ported application.
Because you have to make a trade off between the size and the quality. He probably doesn't want a 50mb file, but rather somewhere between 2-10mb file. Therefore, he's testing those formats that provide that size, to determine the one with the best size to quality ratio.
Chimera...err...Camino for OSX does source in a tab. Phoenix Tab Switching is CTRL + Tab or CTRL + SHIFT + Tab depending on which way you want to cycle.
Yes, but this engineering to reduce the need for pesticides has actually driven up the purchase of pesticides. Because now farmers simply cover entire fields with them, knowing that they will not kill their crops.
And it has only really come to the spotlight since Apple adopted the KHTML renderer. Granted, this is a testament to the efforts of the KDE team, but most geeks I knew didn't know that KHTML existed.
We definitely are the free-est country. But we are by no means 100% free. And we shouldn't be. But we should be free to assume that those who are keeping track of our every move are keeping track of this accurately. And the arguement that something is the XXX-est doesn't mean that it could be more of XXX. In the 60s, we had the most civil rights, but that didn't stop people from demanding more. Just because you're number 1 doesn't mean you should stop pushing forward. Isn't that what we always say to a certain Redmond-based company?
KILL WHITEY!!!!!
oh...not that kind of Cracker.
Alan Moore + Sean Connery + Campy Phantom-esque antics = FUCKING GOOD.
How bout a Windows one that does that? Christ, I just want applications to use the *standard* GUI toolkits, whether it be on my XP box, my OSX laptop, or my SuSE box. Christ on a stick, is it that hard? To keep this on topic, man this sounds like a neat plugin, doesn't XMMS support using Winamp Plugins somehow? and doesn't Winamp3 have a similar feature?
And with Norton Ghost, a floppy bootdisk, and a server set up somewhere else, you can make an exact copy of any hard drive/partition to a remote computer. This isn't big news. This is just the reality that physical access is a security hole.
I own a 12in iBook. Trust me...the screen res is only 1024*768 and you wouldnt want it smaller. Aqua is unusable at 8*6. Buy the PBook. It looks sweet, but it will blister your crotch with its heat.
I completely agree with you. Until you talked about the Windows side. You can get free (even some OSS) titles for Windows. Outlook Express comes with it, and it's probably one of the better stripped down email clients I've ever used. Or try Pegasus Mail, it's completely free as well. As for the word processing, it's interesting that you chose Abiword and OpenOffice.org for Linux but not for Windows. As both of these are available for WinXP, your point in software becomes moot. Honestly, I have used the Linux, Win32, and MacOSX (XDarwin and Native) versions of both programs, and think that the Win32 is the best implimentation so far. AbiWord on Linux was always a headache for me. AND XP has a built in Remote Help/Desktop, so you can help her out from far away. Plus you can install any number of free Telnet/SSH servers if you so wish.
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I think you are close to being correct, but make sure that next time you present the options fairly. However, your point does stand. And since the programs are available on both OS's, you have the ability to ease a user into a switch much easier than you may think.
I should know, I just bought a mac.
Just take one of the many LAME mp3 scripts for iTunes and edit it to use the OGG encoder instead! It launches the terminal, but I like the LAME codec more than the Fraunhoffer one, so I deal.
No it doesn't. And I can't find this update that the person is talking about. I think he may be mistaken, because the component that he was talking about has always allowed you to play .OGG files in iTunes. Maybe he's just never tried it. Can we get a URL for the update?
Actually that's one of the two paradoxes of Capitalism. The other is that it makes more sense for the Entrepeneurs (spelling is horrid) to pay the workers less, but they must depend on the workers to buy their products. Political Science classes taught by liberals teach you wonderful things.
Exactly. The Packeteer ( http://www.packeteer.com/ ) is what my college uses. And when configured properly it can choke a p2p connection all the way or down to 2k a person or connection. Not too expensive if my school bought it, cause they are cheapskates. The problem is that people still try to connect, and it can end up choking the whole connection, because of so many repeating connections. But if it's tweaked properly, it can work.
I think here it would be more like
Here's some candy, there may be rat poison in the ingredients...
Your analogy assumes the fact that you'll be able to open the box. You have to realize that the OSS Movement's definition of "Free" is not always the the one that the dominant forces of the world use. Free to most people means "lacking cost" rather than an equal access to the source. While I don't agree with this always, it's what the majority of people mean by "free".
It doesn't mean you get to check the ingredients of the candy, you just get to eat it without being billed.
What does Office have to do with IE. IE is faster than Moz due to disk caching, OS integration, etc. But Phoenix is faster than both without any of that. Go take it for a test drive.
Ok, the text size and a few other things have been covered. You are right about the MIME types, I have to say...that gets quite obnoxious. The "Luna" theme for Phoenix rocks, most of my friends had thought I had gone back to IE after 6 months of Moz/KMeleon/Phoenix use.
As for the UI. You can customize EXACTLY which and where each button, the bookmarks, the address field, the throbber, etc. are in the View->Toolbars->Customize menu. I think it seriously rocks. I have a setup that I used in IE6 forever and could never do it in Moz. Kemeleon could imitate it, but now with Phoenix I've taken the tweaking that I did in IE6 and made it look like the browser was always meant to have UI like this. I will give XUL and Phoenix's use of it that, it definately has been able to make a very adaptable GUI.
As for the edit button. I design webpages all the time. The edit button was always the first thing to go from IE. I never ever used it. I would never use it now. Open up DWMX, HS5, Notepad or whatever yourself.
I really don't understand the reliance on this feature, but it must just be a difference in terms of the design workflow.
Trust me, download Phoenix, the Luna IE Theme, and the Tabbed Browsing Extensions. You won't go back.
My point exactly. Opera was great last year or the year before, but now it's just bulky, buggy and costs money! Phoenix (albeit only being in 0.4) is one of the most stable browsers I've used (Mozilla, KMeleon, Chimera, Omniweb, Konqueror, IE, etc). Opera's day is done. It definately helped inspire a lot of the "slim trim" browsers coming out now, but it itself has turned into a dinosar.
When you first logged into your email account, you probably hit "Yes Remember this Password". If you go into your profile directory, i bet deleting the "formdata" directory should fix this. The profile dir will be something like: C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Phoenix\Profiles\PROFILENAME\SEEMINGLY__RANDO M_CHARACTERS.slt\
I hope Opera 6 is better than Gecko. According to nearly every source I've read, Gecko is the most standards compliant renderer yet.
And it has it. Http://www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/extensions /. Go get Phoenix and this and goto town.
I'll be straight edge till the day I die. I sure as hell don't like earth crisis though. It's not about any music or "rules" for me, just a personal choice. And if you think music and politics should be kept seperate you're wrong. That's all.
Who cares? It's music man. It's about entertainment, and in the case of "real punk" (such a retarded label), an attitude and a commitment to changing the world. Honestly, PunkRock and the Open Source Movement are kindred spirits. The DIY ethic, the distrust of large corporations and the "scene" support all mirror each other.