Non-Windows users can't just switch to a maintained version of IE (assuming that's the browser required by a bank, which I believe used to be the case with mine), thus for those people, switching browsers would require a considerable investment of money and time. I wouldn't say that someone's strange for switching away from a non-responsive bank that only supports IE; I know I would.
Of course, my bank also doesn't support Opera, and I'm not going to switch away from them for that (I can just fire up Firefox on machines where I'd normally use Opera), but I'm saying that there are some very real cases where lack of browser support could be a major factor in switching away from a bank.
RealPlayer on Linux is actually quite a nice app. It's basically Helix Player with their codecs and some branding. The only real quibble I have with it is that it only does OSS output.
I don't like using RealPlayer on Windows though, that's just painful.
Ah, that would be why then; presumably on Windows it uses whatever's in the clipboard, whilst on Linux (or X11, I guess) it uses the highlight/middle-click buffer. It's always been non-default on Win32 for that reason.
As to it being off, that's strange. Perhaps the setting was set in your profile by Ubuntu's build, then this was inherited by your stock install? Or maybe upstream's just changed it, I'm not sure.
As for how it works, theoretically it should just send "Linux" through Google, and that's what it does with my install here. If you were to clear the "Location" bar, middle click in there, and press enter, exactly the same process should occur, which may show why it did that. Perhaps some extra text got highlighted (thus copied into the copy/paste buffer).
FWIW, the "middle click loads a URL" behaviour has been around since before Mozilla existed (in Netscape) I believe, which is why I'd be surprised to see it disabled recently.
That's because the Ubuntu FF maintainers change the default setting. Download a stock Linux FF build, extract it into ~/, then run it and see. Alternatively, open up about:config, and set "middlemouse.contentLoadURL" to true.
It's nothing to do with MPEG, no, since there are open source codecs available; this was about the win32 codecs package. If the DLLs were open source, then the developers would've properly ported them, so that anyone can use them, not just i386 users (AMD64 or PPC users can't use the win32 codecs).
I don't know the exact MP3 issue, especially not at this time of night, but the MP3 licensing site doesn't seem to mention any exemptions, on a brief, extremely tired glance.
It uses modified versions of the original DLLs. If they could make their own implementations, why would they write them for Windows, compile them to Win32 code, then add Wine code to the mplayer source? They'd just add it to ffmpeg and be done with it.
Two bits of that I want to draw attention to; 1) the path in the mplayer source tree showing that it contains wine code, 2) I doubt if it were a re-implementation it would include an 11 year old reference to Intel.
As for patents, I believe that the reason why lame can be distributed is that it's in source form; I think that anyone distributing binaries in software-patenty countries would have to pay up, but, again, IANAL. XviD is basically the same; whilst the XviD creators don't hold any patents, it's (based on) MPEG4, thus various MPEG4 patents apply.
He said "Free", not "free"; i.e. free as in freedom. The Win32 codecs are closed, and distributing them would probably be a violation of copyright law ("probably" because IANAL), and MP3, XviD et al. have patents associated with them.
MS Antispyware/Windows Defender were never available pre-WGA, and - regardless of the previous status - being able to access those resources is theoretically an advantage of having a genuine copy of Windows. Note that it's the advantage of having a genuine copy of Windows, not an advantage of using WGA.
It's "Genuine Advantage" in that A) you can get non-critical updates from Windows Update, and B) you can get software such as Windows Defender that requires WGA. Of course, there are probably cracks for these things already, but I've not really looked into it hugely.
Quite a number of GAIN installs are probably from GAIN-supported software, such as DivX Pro (I have no idea if they still bundle GAIN for the free version still, but they used to). Gator itself is a data remembering app. Bonsai Buddy provided a talking ape. Thus yes, spyware does tend to give you something. Whether it's worth it is another matter.
By the way, if you do have this problem, stay away from the radio controlled car game Re-Play.
Do you mean Re-Volt? A quick search for Re-Play didn't find anything related. If so, I personally never actually had problems with that (N64, mind), and I do get motion sick with older games (and, more recently, FEAR at full spec on a widescreen LCD, but that was in a very hot "cubicle" on one of the hottest days of the year...)
Indeed, I also have experienced that at one point... but think of when Woody was released, and consider that they don't release new versions within a stable release.
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The mix-and-match nature of GStreamer is a good thing here. I want a DVD player that has a legal MPEG decoder, but is in all other ways free software. As a specific example, I do not want my DVD player to honor the "force user to watch this" bits on a DVD; if I want to skip past the FBI warning, I should be able to do it. (I don't want to infringe on copyrights or commit piracy, but I also don't want to see the same warning over and over and over.) There is no law that says a DVD player must honor those bits.
I believe that any licenced DVD player with CSS support is required to implement unskippable sections as a licence term - no unskippable sections, no CSS licence.
Of course, I could've just pulled this out of my arse, but that is - I believe - why everyone does it, and thus a licenced MPEG2 decoder would be somewhat pointless with a non-licenced CSS library.
Woody probably had an ancient version of libvorbis or something - try again with a modern version.
(This is just guessing, I don't actually know exactly what it would have.)
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id have ported their games since the original Doom, with the original Doom porter putting in the README:
I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody. It doesn't generate revenue. Please don't call or write us with bug reports. They cost us money, and I get sorta ragged on for wasting my time on UNIX ports anyway.
(grab it yourself if you don't believe me). Of course, that was many years ago, however I doubt the profit motives have hugely changed since then.
Epic believe that giving a Linux dedicated server but no client is unfair to Linux users, though I can't find the interview to back that up at the moment (and I've searched quite a bit).
These are the two major game companies who tend to be most friendly to Linux, and in neither case does it appear to be for profit reasons, and that's why companies don't tend to write cross-platform code; they know DirectX, and they know that Win32 has the majority of the PC game playing public behind it.
I doubt that Rare developing games for Nintendo handhelds has much of an impact as to whether they'd contribute to the Revolution's library of games; Microsoft don't compete in the portable gaming device space. After all, they (Microsoft) advertise the iPod connectivity features of the Xbox 360, and they compete with Apple on the desktop market.
(And yes, this is where my argument falls apart as MS write software for the Mac, but only really that which helps keep their lockin in place, such as Ofice.)
Woo, someone else who actually remembers/enjoyed Re-Volt!
I find myself frustrated with MK:DD's Shine Thief mode, I wish they'd used Re-Volt's idea of having 2 totally different timers, rather than the weird thing they use.
Given that Acclaim died, though, I somewhat doubt it'll be making a comeback.
But it's not an either/or situation: as I stated in an above reply, MS Word has a lot of functionality, but it's still faster and less demanding than OOo (and this is not at all due to hidden APIs or preloading at startup - MS Word in CXOffice is still faster/less demanding than OOo in my experience).
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The Real codecs are not open source.
IHBT, IHL, IWTTHAND?
(I COULD be wrong, of course, but icculus is a fairly major native Linux porter, so I'd doubt that he'd be working on a wine port.)
Non-Windows users can't just switch to a maintained version of IE (assuming that's the browser required by a bank, which I believe used to be the case with mine), thus for those people, switching browsers would require a considerable investment of money and time. I wouldn't say that someone's strange for switching away from a non-responsive bank that only supports IE; I know I would.
Of course, my bank also doesn't support Opera, and I'm not going to switch away from them for that (I can just fire up Firefox on machines where I'd normally use Opera), but I'm saying that there are some very real cases where lack of browser support could be a major factor in switching away from a bank.
RealPlayer on Linux is actually quite a nice app. It's basically Helix Player with their codecs and some branding. The only real quibble I have with it is that it only does OSS output.
I don't like using RealPlayer on Windows though, that's just painful.
Ah, that would be why then; presumably on Windows it uses whatever's in the clipboard, whilst on Linux (or X11, I guess) it uses the highlight/middle-click buffer. It's always been non-default on Win32 for that reason.
As to it being off, that's strange. Perhaps the setting was set in your profile by Ubuntu's build, then this was inherited by your stock install? Or maybe upstream's just changed it, I'm not sure.
As for how it works, theoretically it should just send "Linux" through Google, and that's what it does with my install here. If you were to clear the "Location" bar, middle click in there, and press enter, exactly the same process should occur, which may show why it did that. Perhaps some extra text got highlighted (thus copied into the copy/paste buffer).
FWIW, the "middle click loads a URL" behaviour has been around since before Mozilla existed (in Netscape) I believe, which is why I'd be surprised to see it disabled recently.
That's because the Ubuntu FF maintainers change the default setting. Download a stock Linux FF build, extract it into ~/, then run it and see. Alternatively, open up about:config, and set "middlemouse.contentLoadURL" to true.
It's nothing to do with MPEG, no, since there are open source codecs available; this was about the win32 codecs package. If the DLLs were open source, then the developers would've properly ported them, so that anyone can use them, not just i386 users (AMD64 or PPC users can't use the win32 codecs).
I don't know the exact MP3 issue, especially not at this time of night, but the MP3 licensing site doesn't seem to mention any exemptions, on a brief, extremely tired glance.
As for patents, I believe that the reason why lame can be distributed is that it's in source form; I think that anyone distributing binaries in software-patenty countries would have to pay up, but, again, IANAL. XviD is basically the same; whilst the XviD creators don't hold any patents, it's (based on) MPEG4, thus various MPEG4 patents apply.
He said "Free", not "free"; i.e. free as in freedom. The Win32 codecs are closed, and distributing them would probably be a violation of copyright law ("probably" because IANAL), and MP3, XviD et al. have patents associated with them.
Not everyone has free dial-up access, not everyone has multiple phone lines...
You can get pretty safe write support now via ntfsmount (FAQ entry).
MS Antispyware/Windows Defender were never available pre-WGA, and - regardless of the previous status - being able to access those resources is theoretically an advantage of having a genuine copy of Windows. Note that it's the advantage of having a genuine copy of Windows, not an advantage of using WGA.
It's "Genuine Advantage" in that A) you can get non-critical updates from Windows Update, and B) you can get software such as Windows Defender that requires WGA. Of course, there are probably cracks for these things already, but I've not really looked into it hugely.
Quite a number of GAIN installs are probably from GAIN-supported software, such as DivX Pro (I have no idea if they still bundle GAIN for the free version still, but they used to). Gator itself is a data remembering app. Bonsai Buddy provided a talking ape. Thus yes, spyware does tend to give you something. Whether it's worth it is another matter.
Most likely illegally?
Indeed, I also have experienced that at one point... but think of when Woody was released, and consider that they don't release new versions within a stable release.
I believe that any licenced DVD player with CSS support is required to implement unskippable sections as a licence term - no unskippable sections, no CSS licence.
Of course, I could've just pulled this out of my arse, but that is - I believe - why everyone does it, and thus a licenced MPEG2 decoder would be somewhat pointless with a non-licenced CSS library.
Woody probably had an ancient version of libvorbis or something - try again with a modern version.
(This is just guessing, I don't actually know exactly what it would have.)
(grab it yourself if you don't believe me). Of course, that was many years ago, however I doubt the profit motives have hugely changed since then.
Epic believe that giving a Linux dedicated server but no client is unfair to Linux users, though I can't find the interview to back that up at the moment (and I've searched quite a bit).
These are the two major game companies who tend to be most friendly to Linux, and in neither case does it appear to be for profit reasons, and that's why companies don't tend to write cross-platform code; they know DirectX, and they know that Win32 has the majority of the PC game playing public behind it.
Are you running the latest drivers? I had the same issue with some 7xxx drivers, but the latest ones appear to have solved it.
I doubt that Rare developing games for Nintendo handhelds has much of an impact as to whether they'd contribute to the Revolution's library of games; Microsoft don't compete in the portable gaming device space. After all, they (Microsoft) advertise the iPod connectivity features of the Xbox 360, and they compete with Apple on the desktop market.
(And yes, this is where my argument falls apart as MS write software for the Mac, but only really that which helps keep their lockin in place, such as Ofice.)
Woo, someone else who actually remembers/enjoyed Re-Volt!
I find myself frustrated with MK:DD's Shine Thief mode, I wish they'd used Re-Volt's idea of having 2 totally different timers, rather than the weird thing they use.
Given that Acclaim died, though, I somewhat doubt it'll be making a comeback.
But it's not an either/or situation: as I stated in an above reply, MS Word has a lot of functionality, but it's still faster and less demanding than OOo (and this is not at all due to hidden APIs or preloading at startup - MS Word in CXOffice is still faster/less demanding than OOo in my experience).