I wish their market share would either reach monopoly status or dwindle into distant hopeful, but not niche status. If they were a monopoly, we could all band together and sue them into licensing 3rd party cartridges. If their market share dropped significantly, they would need a competetive edge, and probably at least reduce the price of their own cartridges. If they were a niche market they could keep prices artificially high due to lack of competition.
Dell was selling Latitude's with Red Hat pre-installed in the late nineties, lasted until at least 2002, then they canceled it due to lack of customer interest. I hope Lenovo sees better results (they should given how much Linux has improved since then).
So, what if a state decides to [outlaw... not being a Christian]?
They would be smacked down by the federal Supreme Court for violating the establishment clause of the 1st amendment.
I, for one, want a government that is restrained by the inertia of having to persuade a nation.
I'd rather be able to move to a different state than have to move to a different country. The problem with this is Congress has abused the commerce clause to use things like highway funding to homogenize states on issues that aren't really federal issues.
I think switching the presidency to a direct national vote is a solution to a problem which is in fact just a symptom of an entirely larger issue. I think you should argue why you want to move power to the federal government instead of advocating this one facet of that larger idea.
In the 2004 election*, 28.4% of the vote was cast in California, Florida, New York, and Texas (each of the four individually had over 5%) Another 13.5% was cast in Illinois, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania. Throw in another 19.6 % for Georgia, Massachusets, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Virginia, and Wisconsin. That's 61.5% of the vote from 30% of the states. I don't want to see presidential campaigns turn into battles for who can pander to the issues of less than 1/3 of the states in the union. The problem isn't so much that people can't figure out the Electoral College, but rather the federal government is so bloated beyond what it is supposed to be that the Electoral College starts to look counter-productive to democracy. If the federal government were returned to it's intended scope the Electoral College wouldn't look as obstructive as it does to some.
I have an HP nw8240 laptop with a FireGL v5000. I've been running Ubuntu since I got it in November. I can't recall if I started with Breezy or a Dapper beta, but I've been using the fglrx drivers the whole time, and it's been fine for me. The only time I had to download the drivers from ati.com was to get an ACPI related fix that wasn't in the Ubuntu packaged version. Once that was included, I've been using the fglrx from the restricted repo, and that was during the Dapper beta, back in November/December. I was running Xgl during the beta, too, and still am. It did crash at first, but again it took less than a month to get an update pushed out to the repos that fixed it. I don't do any gaming, though.
If you move your files around it forces to rediscover the files one by one. So if you move a whole directory, you have to tell it where each file is even though all the files were moved to the same place. Not too bad, but then try to see what fun you have if you mount your files off of a shared drive and the letter gets changed.
Depending on how many files in your library, the quickest change is to export the library to an xml file, clear out your whole library including playlists, open Library.xml with a text editor and find/replace the new location, and then import the new Library.xml file. I've done thi multiple times to copy my library onto multiple computers. If you don't delete your playlists before importing the new Library.xml file, they'll all be duplicated.
Microsoft is the mafia boss running the protection racket, the OEM vendors are the shop owners, and the EU is the FBI coming in to tell Microsoft to just not set fire to business who don't buy into the 'insurance' plan. To be fair, I can see the point you're trying to make, but Microsoft would have had to have been playing fair and not abusing a monopoly position for them to be the shop owners paying protection money to EU mafia.
In fact the large companies stand to lose a lot if obvious patents are struck down.
I'm guessing Microsoft would have preferred that the USPTO declined the Eolas patent for broswer plugins, since that petant cost Microsoft ~0.5 billion dollars. Large companies will lose a number of patents, but so will the IP companies who use the sue-rich-companies-for-infringing-absurdly-broad-a nd-obvious-patents business plan. So it evens out with the effect that all companies, large and small, don't have to worry about how many clicks it takes a customer to buy something from their web site.
I've always been under the impression that audio compression looked for certain digital representations of particular audio characteristics, and chunked the ones considered imperceptible. So at some point, all such bits will no longer be present, resulting in no more quality loss, just plain data compression.
No it doesn't. Going from a lossy compressed format to CDDA gives the save audio content. If you turn around and go back down to another lossy compressed format, it will potentially (probably) lose quailty from the original uncompressed copy that was used to generate the lossy compressed copy you bought from iTunes. (master DAT -> aac -> CDDA/wav -> mp3). Since the CD was made from a lossy compressed copy, it may have already lost everything that the mp3 compression of the original DAT would have lost, so going from the CD to mp3 might not lose anything. But just going from aac to cd won't lose anything.
Personally I don't eat in restaurants pretentious enough to call snail 'escargot'.
There's nothing pretentious about it. It's French for snail, and is served as French cuisine. You don't order a tortilla at an Indian restaurant when you want Nan do you? What about asking for a calzone at a Mexican restaurant when you want a calzone?
With the current file chooser in GNOME you can just start typing to specify a file in the currently viewed folder. Or you cna hit ctrl+l and type in an absolute path to any file.
I had some stress fractures in my L5 vertabra, took a long break from everything (snowboarding, hockey), got back into it a few years back but didn't really have the nerve for it anymore. then I broke my heel bouldering at Bull Creek in Austin, TX. Haven't ventured out since.
The worst part is that Hymn by itself was crummy for pirating since it left a big fat signature on the files that Apple could track back to your Credit Card. It was only really useful for people who wanted to play the music on their Linux machine.
I think that was intentional as proof that they weren't producing the tool for the express purpose of copyright infringement.
IIRC, iTunes won't even play the files that were decrypted that way, you have to use something like aacplay. Such a shame.
That's incorrect, every file my wife bought from iTMS still played in iTunes (multiple versions on Windows and Mac) after having the FairPlay stripped. I don't think I even have the encrypted files anymore. Neve bothered to authorise any extra computers either.
If they have to make the source available under the GPL, then it's child's play to unhook the DRM, yes?
Gstreamer is LGPL for the express purpose of allowing closed source plguins for various media formats to be distributed legally. I believe Totem and rhythmbox with the gstreamer backend are the default video/audio players on all popular gnome distributions. Does SuSE default to gstreamer for the backend to amarok/kaffeine?
I've found that the biggest complaint for the integration of the two functions (web and file browsing) is that it's not really configurable to be good at both unless you like the exact same behavior in both, mostly regarding MIME type handling. For example, I want the file manager to open a standalone image viewer when I double-click on an image file, but I want a web browser to just load the picture in browser. The last time I tried KDE (3.5.1 on Ubuntu Dapper) there was no way to set separate this setting for web vs. file. You had to change the preferences everytime you switched from file to web and vice versa. Everybody on #kde and #konqueror agreed that it was the biggest weakness.
It's not the existence of the patent, it's the license that the patented algorithms are offered under. That license is not compatible with the GPL for MP3 and CSS.
The problem isn't distributing a codec, the problem is you can't legally have a GPL implementation in a jurisdiction where the patents on those formats applies (like the US). In the example of MP3, the patent holders grant free license for ditributing a decoding implementation, I believe. But that's not liberal enough to be compatible with the GPL, because the license could be revoked.
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shift+ctrl and either pgup or pgdn
ctrl+tab and ctrl+shift+tab would sure be more consistent with all the other gnome apps and firefox, though.
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I wish their market share would either reach monopoly status or dwindle into distant hopeful, but not niche status. If they were a monopoly, we could all band together and sue them into licensing 3rd party cartridges. If their market share dropped significantly, they would need a competetive edge, and probably at least reduce the price of their own cartridges. If they were a niche market they could keep prices artificially high due to lack of competition.
Just the Bothans.
Intellitype and Intellipoint 6.0
Dell was selling Latitude's with Red Hat pre-installed in the late nineties, lasted until at least 2002, then they canceled it due to lack of customer interest. I hope Lenovo sees better results (they should given how much Linux has improved since then).
They would be smacked down by the federal Supreme Court for violating the establishment clause of the 1st amendment.
I, for one, want a government that is restrained by the inertia of having to persuade a nation.
I'd rather be able to move to a different state than have to move to a different country. The problem with this is Congress has abused the commerce clause to use things like highway funding to homogenize states on issues that aren't really federal issues.
I think switching the presidency to a direct national vote is a solution to a problem which is in fact just a symptom of an entirely larger issue. I think you should argue why you want to move power to the federal government instead of advocating this one facet of that larger idea.
In the 2004 election*, 28.4% of the vote was cast in California, Florida, New York, and Texas (each of the four individually had over 5%) Another 13.5% was cast in Illinois, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania. Throw in another 19.6 % for Georgia, Massachusets, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Virginia, and Wisconsin. That's 61.5% of the vote from 30% of the states. I don't want to see presidential campaigns turn into battles for who can pander to the issues of less than 1/3 of the states in the union. The problem isn't so much that people can't figure out the Electoral College, but rather the federal government is so bloated beyond what it is supposed to be that the Electoral College starts to look counter-productive to democracy. If the federal government were returned to it's intended scope the Electoral College wouldn't look as obstructive as it does to some.
* Census Bureau data, PDF
I have an HP nw8240 laptop with a FireGL v5000. I've been running Ubuntu since I got it in November. I can't recall if I started with Breezy or a Dapper beta, but I've been using the fglrx drivers the whole time, and it's been fine for me. The only time I had to download the drivers from ati.com was to get an ACPI related fix that wasn't in the Ubuntu packaged version. Once that was included, I've been using the fglrx from the restricted repo, and that was during the Dapper beta, back in November/December. I was running Xgl during the beta, too, and still am. It did crash at first, but again it took less than a month to get an update pushed out to the repos that fixed it. I don't do any gaming, though.
Depending on how many files in your library, the quickest change is to export the library to an xml file, clear out your whole library including playlists, open Library.xml with a text editor and find/replace the new location, and then import the new Library.xml file. I've done thi multiple times to copy my library onto multiple computers. If you don't delete your playlists before importing the new Library.xml file, they'll all be duplicated.
Microsoft is the mafia boss running the protection racket, the OEM vendors are the shop owners, and the EU is the FBI coming in to tell Microsoft to just not set fire to business who don't buy into the 'insurance' plan. To be fair, I can see the point you're trying to make, but Microsoft would have had to have been playing fair and not abusing a monopoly position for them to be the shop owners paying protection money to EU mafia.
In fact the large companies stand to lose a lot if obvious patents are struck down.
a nd-obvious-patents business plan. So it evens out with the effect that all companies, large and small, don't have to worry about how many clicks it takes a customer to buy something from their web site.
I'm guessing Microsoft would have preferred that the USPTO declined the Eolas patent for broswer plugins, since that petant cost Microsoft ~0.5 billion dollars. Large companies will lose a number of patents, but so will the IP companies who use the sue-rich-companies-for-infringing-absurdly-broad-
I've always been under the impression that audio compression looked for certain digital representations of particular audio characteristics, and chunked the ones considered imperceptible. So at some point, all such bits will no longer be present, resulting in no more quality loss, just plain data compression.
Second off, buring to CD loses quality.
No it doesn't. Going from a lossy compressed format to CDDA gives the save audio content. If you turn around and go back down to another lossy compressed format, it will potentially (probably) lose quailty from the original uncompressed copy that was used to generate the lossy compressed copy you bought from iTunes. (master DAT -> aac -> CDDA/wav -> mp3). Since the CD was made from a lossy compressed copy, it may have already lost everything that the mp3 compression of the original DAT would have lost, so going from the CD to mp3 might not lose anything. But just going from aac to cd won't lose anything.
The Mac Mini, iMac, and MacBook Pro all have dual-layer DVD burners available.
There's nothing pretentious about it. It's French for snail, and is served as French cuisine. You don't order a tortilla at an Indian restaurant when you want Nan do you? What about asking for a calzone at a Mexican restaurant when you want a calzone?
With the current file chooser in GNOME you can just start typing to specify a file in the currently viewed folder. Or you cna hit ctrl+l and type in an absolute path to any file.
I had some stress fractures in my L5 vertabra, took a long break from everything (snowboarding, hockey), got back into it a few years back but didn't really have the nerve for it anymore. then I broke my heel bouldering at Bull Creek in Austin, TX. Haven't ventured out since.
that's awesome. i miss climbing.
Great day in the morning. What once was lost now is found.
I thought [Latin] was extinct.
I think that was intentional as proof that they weren't producing the tool for the express purpose of copyright infringement.
IIRC, iTunes won't even play the files that were decrypted that way, you have to use something like aacplay. Such a shame.
That's incorrect, every file my wife bought from iTMS still played in iTunes (multiple versions on Windows and Mac) after having the FairPlay stripped. I don't think I even have the encrypted files anymore. Neve bothered to authorise any extra computers either.
Gstreamer is LGPL for the express purpose of allowing closed source plguins for various media formats to be distributed legally. I believe Totem and rhythmbox with the gstreamer backend are the default video/audio players on all popular gnome distributions. Does SuSE default to gstreamer for the backend to amarok/kaffeine?
I just bought one from newegg a few weeks ago for like $340. I've been really happy with it.
I've found that the biggest complaint for the integration of the two functions (web and file browsing) is that it's not really configurable to be good at both unless you like the exact same behavior in both, mostly regarding MIME type handling. For example, I want the file manager to open a standalone image viewer when I double-click on an image file, but I want a web browser to just load the picture in browser. The last time I tried KDE (3.5.1 on Ubuntu Dapper) there was no way to set separate this setting for web vs. file. You had to change the preferences everytime you switched from file to web and vice versa. Everybody on #kde and #konqueror agreed that it was the biggest weakness.
It's not the existence of the patent, it's the license that the patented algorithms are offered under. That license is not compatible with the GPL for MP3 and CSS.
The problem isn't distributing a codec, the problem is you can't legally have a GPL implementation in a jurisdiction where the patents on those formats applies (like the US). In the example of MP3, the patent holders grant free license for ditributing a decoding implementation, I believe. But that's not liberal enough to be compatible with the GPL, because the license could be revoked.
shift+ctrl and either pgup or pgdn
ctrl+tab and ctrl+shift+tab would sure be more consistent with all the other gnome apps and firefox, though.