Ah, sorry, didn't notice that part of your post somehow. I do run an ALSA system too, though, and don't have that problem; could be because my sound card is an emu10k1?
Download Realplayer for Linux (noting that the Linux version is a lot nicer than the Windows version, completely lacking ads, annoying "REGISTER NOW" screens, etc.)
Install.
Run Realplayer
Open the video.
I'm not sure if Real supports multiple architectures, but as you were talking about using DLLs anyway, this isn't important.
Load as in correctly render, or load as in load at all? If the latter, I think it's been taking a bit of hammering; I've had trouble accessing it with Opera 8 and Firefox at different times.
Gah! Teach me to hit "Submit" instead of "Preview"...
In terms of "hard to block ads" I agree. I've seen some solutions, but they all seem pretty complex to me.
Lack of plugins, I disagree. Opera can use Netscape plugins just fine. Unless you mean extensions, in which case I also agree with you - I would prefer it if Opera were more extensible.
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I believe that Opera has Windows and Mac support for native look and feel (pick a skin which says it uses native skins). Unfortunately it doesn't support native Qt/GTK themes on Linux (which is annoying), but as you didn't bring that up I guess that's not a problem.
In terms of how it actually feels, it feels just like a Windows app on Windows to me (am I missing something?). Opera 6 feels like a Mac app on my newest Mac, but that is a Power Macintosh 8500/180; I have no idea how Opera 8 feels on Mac OS X.
But people who get free keys don't have the full benefits of a paid for Opera reg. I registered Opera just to support them (though I do use it on my laptop, for memory usage), but I still have things that free key people don't - discounted upgrades, free premium support, more keys (I don't remember seeing OS/2 or Mac OS classic keys when I gave it a go, though I may be mis-remembering:P), and that warm fuzzy feeling from supporting an innovative company.
SDKs, which aren't the full source code, are released to allow modders to write mods. This is the full source release. In addition, these aren't released under the GPL.
I'm sure someone else could give a better description than me though.
id's FTP server doesn't need to have the/. effect to be really slow, in my experience. I tend to treat it as a last resort, when nobody else has the file I need (which is basically hardly ever).
I agree that intentionally breaking IE's rendering isn't a good thing to do (I give a message and link to IE users), but the attitude of "IE is good enough for me" is one of the reasons why IE is (perceived to be) good enough for many people. As long as the majority of people say that IE is good enough for them, people won't use the standard features which IE doesn't implement, thus meaning that the users do not see the advantages gained by using a better rendering engine.
It is painful to get a page to work in IE after you've got it working in Gecko, Opera and KHTML, at least in my experience.
Knew I forgot to mention something; Wikimedia Commons also has freely licenced art; unlike Open Clip Art, it's not all public domain, but it also has quite a few photos.
For Firefox, you can download search plugins for just about anything you want, and if you can't find one, writing them is pretty simple. To switch between the engines once installed, in Linux it's ctrl+up/down. I have Google, MSN and AllTheWeb in my Firefox. I'd imagine Safari has a similar way to change it.
Do you have examples of so-called "Open Source Free-Loaders"? In my experience, people who use OSS are more likely to pay for their commercial software, as there's less that's needed to be paid for, and so it's a case of "I'll buy this useful app that I like", rather than "Holy crap I can't afford all of this software I use!". I realise that anecdote does not counter anecdote, but I'm interested in sources for your claim.
There's a far better way of doing this that I've seen some projects use. Display the GPL as normal, but have forward/back, rather than "I agree"/"I disagree".
Google isn't the best any more (although this is debateable, the gap between it and other search engines has definitely shrunk). It's wise to use a combination of search engines. I tend to use AllTheWeb and MSN Search (yes, it actually gives useful results now, even if at one point it ranked my personal music collection extremely highly) in addition to Google in order to give a wider selection of results.
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Ah, sorry, didn't notice that part of your post somehow. I do run an ALSA system too, though, and don't have that problem; could be because my sound card is an emu10k1?
I'm not sure if Real supports multiple architectures, but as you were talking about using DLLs anyway, this isn't important.
Load as in correctly render, or load as in load at all? If the latter, I think it's been taking a bit of hammering; I've had trouble accessing it with Opera 8 and Firefox at different times.
Gah! Teach me to hit "Submit" instead of "Preview"...
In terms of "hard to block ads" I agree. I've seen some solutions, but they all seem pretty complex to me.
Lack of plugins, I disagree. Opera can use Netscape plugins just fine. Unless you mean extensions, in which case I also agree with you - I would prefer it if Opera were more extensible.
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I believe that Opera has Windows and Mac support for native look and feel (pick a skin which says it uses native skins). Unfortunately it doesn't support native Qt/GTK themes on Linux (which is annoying), but as you didn't bring that up I guess that's not a problem.
In terms of how it actually feels, it feels just like a Windows app on Windows to me (am I missing something?). Opera 6 feels like a Mac app on my newest Mac, but that is a Power Macintosh 8500/180; I have no idea how Opera 8 feels on Mac OS X.
But people who get free keys don't have the full benefits of a paid for Opera reg. I registered Opera just to support them (though I do use it on my laptop, for memory usage), but I still have things that free key people don't - discounted upgrades, free premium support, more keys (I don't remember seeing OS/2 or Mac OS classic keys when I gave it a go, though I may be mis-remembering :P), and that warm fuzzy feeling from supporting an innovative company.
zerowing.idsoftware.com is TTimo's; he generally only puts up torrents for his things, in my experience.
SDKs, which aren't the full source code, are released to allow modders to write mods. This is the full source release. In addition, these aren't released under the GPL.
I'm sure someone else could give a better description than me though.
id's FTP server doesn't need to have the /. effect to be really slow, in my experience. I tend to treat it as a last resort, when nobody else has the file I need (which is basically hardly ever).
If you don't want to register, but also don't want a capped download: Demon FTP.
I agree that intentionally breaking IE's rendering isn't a good thing to do (I give a message and link to IE users), but the attitude of "IE is good enough for me" is one of the reasons why IE is (perceived to be) good enough for many people. As long as the majority of people say that IE is good enough for them, people won't use the standard features which IE doesn't implement, thus meaning that the users do not see the advantages gained by using a better rendering engine.
It is painful to get a page to work in IE after you've got it working in Gecko, Opera and KHTML, at least in my experience.
Knew I forgot to mention something; Wikimedia Commons also has freely licenced art; unlike Open Clip Art, it's not all public domain, but it also has quite a few photos.
You may want to take a look at Open Clip Art - public domain clip art.
For Firefox, you can download search plugins for just about anything you want, and if you can't find one, writing them is pretty simple. To switch between the engines once installed, in Linux it's ctrl+up/down. I have Google, MSN and AllTheWeb in my Firefox. I'd imagine Safari has a similar way to change it.
I just wish Opera made it so simple.
http://search.yahoo.com/ is probably what you're looking for.
Simple workaround for that; don't copy that floppy.
Because the native client was released 2 months after the game. :P
I now use the native binaries (thanks TTimo), but at the time it was all that was available.
I don't see why it should be out of the question; Wine ran Doom 3 (with some slight graphical glitches), for example.
/me smashes ADSL modem
HAH! 56k dial-up.
512/256 here.
Damn, beat me by a minute.
Yes; to add to what others have said, Microsoft even distribute (pd)ksh as part of Services for Unix; see "Robust Scripting Environment" on this page.
Do you have examples of so-called "Open Source Free-Loaders"? In my experience, people who use OSS are more likely to pay for their commercial software, as there's less that's needed to be paid for, and so it's a case of "I'll buy this useful app that I like", rather than "Holy crap I can't afford all of this software I use!". I realise that anecdote does not counter anecdote, but I'm interested in sources for your claim.
There's a far better way of doing this that I've seen some projects use. Display the GPL as normal, but have forward/back, rather than "I agree"/"I disagree".
IE was better than Netscape, too.
Google isn't the best any more (although this is debateable, the gap between it and other search engines has definitely shrunk). It's wise to use a combination of search engines. I tend to use AllTheWeb and MSN Search (yes, it actually gives useful results now, even if at one point it ranked my personal music collection extremely highly) in addition to Google in order to give a wider selection of results.