I you're calling live concerts high-fidelity, you're the one that's high -- on crack. Like that other AC says, sound reinforcement at concerts has awful quality. Well below the quality of any professionally produced CD. I suppose the quality of a CD must be a tiny bit lower than unamplified concerts (although not noticeably so), since they do exhibit aliasing at the upper limit of human hearing, but the mix is most likely clearer. In short, CDs are fine. I'd blame your sound system, if anything. I'll concede that it might be worth it to move up to 96kHz sample rates and 24-bit bit-depth, just to be on the safe side, but going further than that is overkill. More dynamic mixes would do more than an imperceptible increase in fidelity ever could.
That's the beauty of Web 2.0! Don't you see? Now you can be part of the new community-driven Internet by adding social tags to suit your whims! Tags with rounded corners! And gradients! If I use another exclamation point I will asplode! Uh oh....
No, he means that a certification based on adhering to the API is bogus, and since Microsoft created the certification, it is their fault (assuming that's what it's based on).
Really? I've never played a game that allowed that (not that I'm saying you're wrong). In that case, I may be wrong about mice. It's been my experience that fancy mice need fancy software to do their fancy stuff in Windows.
Hm. That would have been good to know yesterday when I was setting up Arch on a computer that had not been blessed by it before. I had to copy and modify an old xorg.conf.
Except most of us are hoping not to go extinct. Tell a dinosaur that the eventual extinction of its species is a good thing and it'll bite your head off! Or whack you with its tail, or headbutt you, or do some other dinosaury thing. Shriek at you: "Skreeeeee!"
"When you run into a problem, if its simple hey no problem. People will line up to give you a quick response that will send you on your way. If its anything less than that you could spend days and weeks and longer finding an answer."
Well, yeah. If you've got a difficult problem on your hands no one else wants to spend days on it any more than you do. If you're lucky the one guy who knows the answer shows up, but if a problem is uncommon you can't expect everyone to know the solution.
The community may want to be helpful, but that doesn't mean everyone knows how to fix your computer.
4. Don't forget that X isn't all you're running. You've also got all of Gnome running on top of it (or so I assume from your mention of Nautilus). Metacity (Gnome's window manager) may well be slower than Windows, but that doesn't mean X itself is. For me, Gnome and KDE are way too bloated. I don't want all the junk they include, so I just run X with a simple WM on top of it. Usually Ratpoison, although I'll switch to Windowlab if I'm running a program like The Gimp which doesn't play nice with Ratpoison's tiling system. You can strip it down considerably if you like.
5. I'm pretty impressed by Konqueror, KDE's file manager. Kparts and KIOslaves allow it to do neat stuff like display files right in the file manager and access special directories in special ways, like displaying an audio cd as a few folders holding the CDs contents in different formats (i.e. Ogg Vorbis and.wav) which can simply be dragged to another folder if you want to rip them. I'm a shell guy myself though. No reason to complicate things.
Convenient GUI tools that you have to install. It's not like Windows will do anything with extra mouse buttons out of the box either. It bugs me when Microsoft gets credit for making things "just work" when they don't at all. Manufacturers *make* them work on Windows (while generally ignoring Linux).
It depends on what's installed by default, of course, but I need to have
vim -- need a good editor from the start screen -- so I never need a bunch of virtual terminals, and can detach my session tar/gzip/bzip2 -- basic and necessary X.org -- for obvious reasons ratpoison -- my WM firefox w/ adblock -- so I feel like a cool kid aterm -- preferred over xterm because of its fake transparency. C/C++/perl emacs -- I'm scared to hack in vim
I think people are complaining about when flash is used specifically to annoy: ads. I saw the Internet without Adblock the other day, and it was mightily irritating. I was forced to run from the room and scrub my eyeballs with Fast Orange. Flash is cool, but looking at every Flash ad on the Internet is not.
We should surround the Earth with a protective blanket of some sort to protect ourselves from such an event! Of course, it would need to be transparent and not inhibit our movement. I wonder if we could use gases for that purpose.
Actually using GPLed code is only a tiny part of interoperability. Microsoft is perfectly capable of writing software -- that's what they do. They could write software for Linux just as easily as for Windows, especially since many libraries are LGPL. There is absolutely nothing, technical or legal, stopping them from producing Linux software. Likewise, OSS writers are perfectly capable of writing software that works with Windows.
If Microsoft really wanted to be friendly they would open their formats, which has zero do do with some sort of certification and everything to do with documentation and being *legally unencumbered*. OSS writers would be perfectly happy writing their own implementations, but Microsoft either won't let them or won't tell them what it is they're trying to implement.
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I you're calling live concerts high-fidelity, you're the one that's high -- on crack. Like that other AC says, sound reinforcement at concerts has awful quality. Well below the quality of any professionally produced CD. I suppose the quality of a CD must be a tiny bit lower than unamplified concerts (although not noticeably so), since they do exhibit aliasing at the upper limit of human hearing, but the mix is most likely clearer. In short, CDs are fine. I'd blame your sound system, if anything. I'll concede that it might be worth it to move up to 96kHz sample rates and 24-bit bit-depth, just to be on the safe side, but going further than that is overkill. More dynamic mixes would do more than an imperceptible increase in fidelity ever could.
I have a friend with a computer so bright that its lights are visible outside his house on his garage. Ridiculous.
That's the beauty of Web 2.0! Don't you see? Now you can be part of the new community-driven Internet by adding social tags to suit your whims! Tags with rounded corners! And gradients! If I use another exclamation point I will asplode! Uh oh....
Truly this is the only way to go.
They don't.
No, he means that a certification based on adhering to the API is bogus, and since Microsoft created the certification, it is their fault (assuming that's what it's based on).
Perhaps a crashed system sends data on all its hardware. If they know which driver crashed the system then they also know which ones didn't.
Really? I've never played a game that allowed that (not that I'm saying you're wrong). In that case, I may be wrong about mice. It's been my experience that fancy mice need fancy software to do their fancy stuff in Windows.
Hm. That would have been good to know yesterday when I was setting up Arch on a computer that had not been blessed by it before. I had to copy and modify an old xorg.conf.
Except most of us are hoping not to go extinct. Tell a dinosaur that the eventual extinction of its species is a good thing and it'll bite your head off! Or whack you with its tail, or headbutt you, or do some other dinosaury thing. Shriek at you: "Skreeeeee!"
Could you at least upgrade to paragraphs soon?
"When you run into a problem, if its simple hey no problem. People will line up to give you a quick response that will send you on your way. If its anything less than that you could spend days and weeks and longer finding an answer."
Well, yeah. If you've got a difficult problem on your hands no one else wants to spend days on it any more than you do. If you're lucky the one guy who knows the answer shows up, but if a problem is uncommon you can't expect everyone to know the solution.
The community may want to be helpful, but that doesn't mean everyone knows how to fix your computer.
4. Don't forget that X isn't all you're running. You've also got all of Gnome running on top of it (or so I assume from your mention of Nautilus). Metacity (Gnome's window manager) may well be slower than Windows, but that doesn't mean X itself is. For me, Gnome and KDE are way too bloated. I don't want all the junk they include, so I just run X with a simple WM on top of it. Usually Ratpoison, although I'll switch to Windowlab if I'm running a program like The Gimp which doesn't play nice with Ratpoison's tiling system. You can strip it down considerably if you like.
.wav) which can simply be dragged to another folder if you want to rip them. I'm a shell guy myself though. No reason to complicate things.
5. I'm pretty impressed by Konqueror, KDE's file manager. Kparts and KIOslaves allow it to do neat stuff like display files right in the file manager and access special directories in special ways, like displaying an audio cd as a few folders holding the CDs contents in different formats (i.e. Ogg Vorbis and
Convenient GUI tools that you have to install. It's not like Windows will do anything with extra mouse buttons out of the box either. It bugs me when Microsoft gets credit for making things "just work" when they don't at all. Manufacturers *make* them work on Windows (while generally ignoring Linux).
It depends on what's installed by default, of course, but I need to have
vim -- need a good editor from the start
screen -- so I never need a bunch of virtual terminals, and can detach my session
tar/gzip/bzip2 -- basic and necessary
X.org -- for obvious reasons
ratpoison -- my WM
firefox w/ adblock -- so I feel like a cool kid
aterm -- preferred over xterm because of its fake transparency.
C/C++/perl
emacs -- I'm scared to hack in vim
After that, I can install stuff when it's needed.
Because I know Google won't let me, that's why.
And ugly chicks who do.
Flock is hard to pronounce? What the hell are you talking about?
Yeah, except alongside is a word. Most often used with boats, it seems.
I think people are complaining about when flash is used specifically to annoy: ads. I saw the Internet without Adblock the other day, and it was mightily irritating. I was forced to run from the room and scrub my eyeballs with Fast Orange. Flash is cool, but looking at every Flash ad on the Internet is not.
And you have a nice time with your lock-in.
Whoa! Is that even possible?
We should surround the Earth with a protective blanket of some sort to protect ourselves from such an event! Of course, it would need to be transparent and not inhibit our movement. I wonder if we could use gases for that purpose.
Spoken as someone who hasn't tried it.
Actually using GPLed code is only a tiny part of interoperability. Microsoft is perfectly capable of writing software -- that's what they do. They could write software for Linux just as easily as for Windows, especially since many libraries are LGPL. There is absolutely nothing, technical or legal, stopping them from producing Linux software. Likewise, OSS writers are perfectly capable of writing software that works with Windows.
If Microsoft really wanted to be friendly they would open their formats, which has zero do do with some sort of certification and everything to do with documentation and being *legally unencumbered*. OSS writers would be perfectly happy writing their own implementations, but Microsoft either won't let them or won't tell them what it is they're trying to implement.