Safari is definitely not a closed source browser. It's based on KHTML, from the Konqueror open source browser. Apple gives its changes back as required by the license to the Konqueror group.
I have the ATI TV Wonder, and the included software is terrible. It hijacked my other media players, it's clunky, and it looks horrible. The best solution (for Windows) is Dscaler, no other programs I've seen come close to the great simplicity of dscaler. Best of all, it's open source.
Standalone DVD recorders are not expensive anymore. I saw a DVD recorder for $200 at costco a week ago. Firewire in, remote, all the bells and whistles. I might just get that pretty soon, it even had a TV tuner. It only supported DVD+R(and RW) (why?) and was some brand I'd never heard of. But hey it's Costco, no stupid restocking fee if you don't like it.
Attention Slashdot Newbs: If you feel the need to be modded up, the secret is to add the phrase "Well, that and moving my home PC to Gentoo" at the end of your post. Some examples:
"Well, I myself can't wait to go through the Saturn rings one day. How Cool Would that be? Well, that and moving my home PC to Gentoo."
Or maybe:
"I think it's unfortunate that they caught that guy by using Night Vision goggles. Myself, I'll be watching it on DVD. Well, that and moving my home PC to Gentoo."
My old professor at Occidental College Michael Shermer started the great Skeptic magazine. They debunk crying Jesus statues, UFO pictures, that Jonathan guy that talks to dead people, etc. Check out this article on Creating your own UFO pictures.
The latest version of Real Player for Windows is actually pretty nice. I installed it the other day, and they've really made progress on the whole adware/hidden opt-in fiasco. The player defaulted to the minimum no frills compact mode, and I've found real video's video codec to be very competitive with quicktime. I'm the one who made the buffering joke, but Real has been trying to clean up their act lately (link to free player on main page), and I support them for that.
The next iMac has been redesigned with the motherboard behind the LCD, but don't tell anyone.
While I completely agree with you, the biggest draw of the iMac to me is OS X. But I'd have to say that it would be cool to have an all-in-one machine with an LCD that was cheap, linux or OS X. The iMac is not cheap at 1200 dollars. The flat screen accounts for just 300-ish dollars of the price.
With all those zombies mailing out spam, I have to wince at the possibility of removing the 128k upload bottleneck. Stay in your seats, more spam is on the way. On the good side, with a static IP address you can now host an (amateur) radio/video site from home, thats important to me and my band.
True story, one of my friends makes a fortune re-packaging star wars figures into custom boxes that are similar to when the action figures were still hanging out at Kmart. He doesn't pass them off as originals, part of the value is to have a different package on your figure. I don't get it, but he was getting 300 bucks a pop for these things. It's very difficult to find the clear plastic to glue to the cardboard.
They may have upped the service and lowered the price, I don't know. I know that last year it was 80 bucks a month for 1.5 down. Oh, and the 45 bucks I pay now includes phone service - the actual DSL is only 30 bucks, and I'm happy with it. Your mileage may vary.
As a california customer of SBC DSL/phone service, let me tell you something you may find interesting - I pay 45 bucks a month average for combined services, and I get 1.5 download, 128 upload. It never goes down, except once when my modem died. SBC has not cooperated in giving out the identity of their customers to the RIAA.
What's so evil about SBC? Should I pay charter cable the same price for half the service (768k down)? It's a free market. I can choose another provider if I want, and I choose not too.
If there's others that don't have a choice - look at at Directway, Sprint Vision, etc. Oh wait thise are even more expensive.
Actually Netscape was not free when IE came out, it was one of IE's selling points. Netscape was free for non-commercial users, but there it required a license for commercial use. It was basically honorware, anyone could download it for free.
I hope these new players are backwards compatible with everything - DVD's, CD's, VCD's, etc. Otherwise I'm not buying it. The thing is, I like movies on DVD pretty much the way they are now - The Quality is great on my TV, and I can play movies on my laptop. I don't see myself playing these new formats on my powerbook any time soon - Unless they have a DVD layer on the disc too - now that would be cool.
My Yahoo Email is down this morning, first time I can remember this happening. At least gotapex, techbargains and dealmac still work, otherwise I'd have to actually start working!
Seems like a great opportunity for open source software - the resources of the university, developers at large and oracle could work together. One of the problems noted in the article is that the oracle software was customized so heavily, future upgrades to the main project can't be applied to Stanford's version. Open Source it and some of these might be solved faster. I'm sure oracle makes a nice pile of dough on the consulting / integration.
One of the hardest lessons to learn when I grew up was discovering that most people just don't care about anything except what's in their little circle. I don't even consider people sheep anymore - sheep require more work to move around. Today's society are more like Lemmings, happilly jumping over the cliff, because the view looks nice.
What is our culture going to give to the world? Avril Lavigne, 50 Cent? Where's *our* Aretha, our Doors, our Zeppelin?
I don't care about Payola anymore, because I don't care about Radio anymore. OK, except for Indie 103.1 in LA (their commercials are handled by Clear Channel!), and several college stations. I hope my contempt cathes on with High School kids and their parents, because then Radio just might come back one day and blow us all away with all the good music that's being made everywhere but ignored by the only 5 labels that really matter to radio.
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Safari is definitely not a closed source browser. It's based on KHTML, from the Konqueror open source browser. Apple gives its changes back as required by the license to the Konqueror group.
I have the ATI TV Wonder, and the included software is terrible. It hijacked my other media players, it's clunky, and it looks horrible. The best solution (for Windows) is Dscaler, no other programs I've seen come close to the great simplicity of dscaler. Best of all, it's open source.
Standalone DVD recorders are not expensive anymore. I saw a DVD recorder for $200 at costco a week ago. Firewire in, remote, all the bells and whistles. I might just get that pretty soon, it even had a TV tuner. It only supported DVD+R(and RW) (why?) and was some brand I'd never heard of. But hey it's Costco, no stupid restocking fee if you don't like it.
Well, I invented it, so now I have to live with my troll.
I'll let you know as soon as I finish loading Red Hat on my work computer, Well, that and loading Gentoo on my home PC.
(Cue Beavis and Butthead Laughter)
Uhh Huhh...I don't know about the Pentium chip but I've got an unlicensed weapon in my pants. Uhh Huhh...
Attention Slashdot Newbs: If you feel the need to be modded up, the secret is to add the phrase "Well, that and moving my home PC to Gentoo" at the end of your post. Some examples:
"Well, I myself can't wait to go through the Saturn rings one day. How Cool Would that be? Well, that and moving my home PC to Gentoo."
Or maybe:
"I think it's unfortunate that they caught that guy by using Night Vision goggles. Myself, I'll be watching it on DVD. Well, that and moving my home PC to Gentoo."
My old professor at Occidental College Michael Shermer started the great Skeptic magazine. They debunk crying Jesus statues, UFO pictures, that Jonathan guy that talks to dead people, etc. Check out this article on Creating your own UFO pictures.
The latest version of Real Player for Windows is actually pretty nice. I installed it the other day, and they've really made progress on the whole adware /hidden opt-in fiasco. The player defaulted to the minimum no frills compact mode, and I've found real video's video codec to be very competitive with quicktime. I'm the one who made the buffering joke, but Real has been trying to clean up their act lately (link to free player on main page), and I support them for that.
Wow, that's really great ne[BUFFERING...]
He should have asked for the money in non-expiring gift certificates.
Now instead of saving new York city, Spiderman dances around buffet trays for 3 hours while the wedding guests clap in unison!
I didn't RTFA (this is /.), but I wonder what the breakdown is for diferrent operating systems: Linux, Mac OSX, OS 9, Windows flavors.
Where I work the primary reason for PC's going down is hardware, not software.
The next iMac has been redesigned with the motherboard behind the LCD, but don't tell anyone.
While I completely agree with you, the biggest draw of the iMac to me is OS X. But I'd have to say that it would be cool to have an all-in-one machine with an LCD that was cheap, linux or OS X. The iMac is not cheap at 1200 dollars. The flat screen accounts for just 300-ish dollars of the price.
With all those zombies mailing out spam, I have to wince at the possibility of removing the 128k upload bottleneck. Stay in your seats, more spam is on the way. On the good side, with a static IP address you can now host an (amateur) radio/video site from home, thats important to me and my band.
Download Firefox and enjoy.
True story, one of my friends makes a fortune re-packaging star wars figures into custom boxes that are similar to when the action figures were still hanging out at Kmart. He doesn't pass them off as originals, part of the value is to have a different package on your figure. I don't get it, but he was getting 300 bucks a pop for these things. It's very difficult to find the clear plastic to glue to the cardboard.
They may have upped the service and lowered the price, I don't know. I know that last year it was 80 bucks a month for 1.5 down. Oh, and the 45 bucks I pay now includes phone service - the actual DSL is only 30 bucks, and I'm happy with it. Your mileage may vary.
As a california customer of SBC DSL/phone service, let me tell you something you may find interesting - I pay 45 bucks a month average for combined services, and I get 1.5 download, 128 upload. It never goes down, except once when my modem died. SBC has not cooperated in giving out the identity of their customers to the RIAA.
What's so evil about SBC? Should I pay charter cable the same price for half the service (768k down)? It's a free market. I can choose another provider if I want, and I choose not too.
If there's others that don't have a choice - look at at Directway, Sprint Vision, etc. Oh wait thise are even more expensive.
Actually Netscape was not free when IE came out, it was one of IE's selling points. Netscape was free for non-commercial users, but there it required a license for commercial use. It was basically honorware, anyone could download it for free.
I hope these new players are backwards compatible with everything - DVD's, CD's, VCD's, etc. Otherwise I'm not buying it. The thing is, I like movies on DVD pretty much the way they are now - The Quality is great on my TV, and I can play movies on my laptop. I don't see myself playing these new formats on my powerbook any time soon - Unless they have a DVD layer on the disc too - now that would be cool.
My Yahoo Email is down this morning, first time I can remember this happening. At least gotapex, techbargains and dealmac still work, otherwise I'd have to actually start working!
I'll share something that was told to me here on slashdot: When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
Seems like a great opportunity for open source software - the resources of the university, developers at large and oracle could work together. One of the problems noted in the article is that the oracle software was customized so heavily, future upgrades to the main project can't be applied to Stanford's version. Open Source it and some of these might be solved faster. I'm sure oracle makes a nice pile of dough on the consulting / integration.
One of the hardest lessons to learn when I grew up was discovering that most people just don't care about anything except what's in their little circle. I don't even consider people sheep anymore - sheep require more work to move around. Today's society are more like Lemmings, happilly jumping over the cliff, because the view looks nice.
What is our culture going to give to the world? Avril Lavigne, 50 Cent? Where's *our* Aretha, our Doors, our Zeppelin?
I don't care about Payola anymore, because I don't care about Radio anymore. OK, except for Indie 103.1 in LA (their commercials are handled by Clear Channel!), and several college stations. I hope my contempt cathes on with High School kids and their parents, because then Radio just might come back one day and blow us all away with all the good music that's being made everywhere but ignored by the only 5 labels that really matter to radio.
UHF? Love that movie.