So? Microsoft have teams of testers and their stuff is still unstable as hell. Spend the time on new features is what I say! It's *cultural* now to not expect stuff to be stable. Not that that is a good thing mind....
I've been using QEMU for developing disk image cloning systems. It's absolutely brilliant! I can edit my CD file system, create an ISO and boot it directly in QEMU. I even ran the latest Suse 9.3 Live DVD in it! The one thing I wish it could do is interoperate with the native clipboard.
The solution I see is the reverse of what most people think: Create an OOo import/export plugin for word! Then you can push the OOo fileformat and not necessarily the program.
What I don't get is why Suse CAN'T include the mp3 codec as standard. Is it becuase they don't want to pay the $0.50 licence fee per copy? If Suse can charge for the distro why not just pass that on to the customers who are willing to pay? Crippling your distro which you charge money for is a negative practice in my book. I can download free distros with all the codecs in (legal or not) right now. So quite why I can't get the same facilities on a PAID distro is beyond me.,,
Thats because FOSS software rarely have release version. Sure, they have stable versions but that means that the code will compile and be fairly stable. That in itself != a release version.
This is why I have so much respect for the people at xiph. All my music is in ogg format and I know some scum sucking leach of a patent holder cant extort money from the creators of ogg players. I seriously hope that Xiph will patent their algorithms before anyone else does. Just like copyleft protects, so should another form of patenting.
Undoubtedly, this studio will be running windows only libraries, IE Direct X or whatever it's called these days. This is daft in this day and age as there are fantastic crossplatform libraries that enable you to target multiple platforms. I recently bought "Darwinia" (which is an absolutely fantastic game!) and noticed that they had done a linux version. The installer asked for the game CD and off we went! I checked the libraries and they used SDL, vorbis, PNG and a few others.
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So? Microsoft have teams of testers and their stuff is still unstable as hell. Spend the time on new features is what I say! It's *cultural* now to not expect stuff to be stable. Not that that is a good thing mind....
I've been using QEMU for developing disk image cloning systems. It's absolutely brilliant! I can edit my CD file system, create an ISO and boot it directly in QEMU. I even ran the latest Suse 9.3 Live DVD in it! The one thing I wish it could do is interoperate with the native clipboard.
I thought this was *current* policy?
The solution I see is the reverse of what most people think: Create an OOo import/export plugin for word! Then you can push the OOo fileformat and not necessarily the program.
What I don't get is why Suse CAN'T include the mp3 codec as standard. Is it becuase they don't want to pay the $0.50 licence fee per copy? If Suse can charge for the distro why not just pass that on to the customers who are willing to pay? Crippling your distro which you charge money for is a negative practice in my book. I can download free distros with all the codecs in (legal or not) right now. So quite why I can't get the same facilities on a PAID distro is beyond me.,,
I wish IBM UK would remake those ads for the UK market. The ads are just SO tacky and look so out of place next to UK ads.
Thats because FOSS software rarely have release version. Sure, they have stable versions but that means that the code will compile and be fairly stable. That in itself != a release version.
Dont you mean "Firebird"? You're at least a year late dude!!!
At least now we know it wont be the OS that's at fault when that dude turns to the systems and goes "WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR MALFUNCTION?!?!?!?!"
This is why I have so much respect for the people at xiph. All my music is in ogg format and I know some scum sucking leach of a patent holder cant extort money from the creators of ogg players. I seriously hope that Xiph will patent their algorithms before anyone else does. Just like copyleft protects, so should another form of patenting.
Undoubtedly, this studio will be running windows only libraries, IE Direct X or whatever it's called these days. This is daft in this day and age as there are fantastic crossplatform libraries that enable you to target multiple platforms. I recently bought "Darwinia" (which is an absolutely fantastic game!) and noticed that they had done a linux version. The installer asked for the game CD and off we went! I checked the libraries and they used SDL, vorbis, PNG and a few others.
It has Lee Bowyer and Kieron Dyer dualing to the death! Aah! How we love the toonarmy! Oh wait.....!
Cul? I don't get it?!?!
Who cares?!?! They can't even win the Six Nations! Grandslam! Grandslam! :D
And our problems will be solved! :D
I thought it already was neutered, sans media player or not!
No, it is actually a screenshot. These bugs will get fixed in SP1!
What it needs is an IDE like netbeans. Netbeans for Mono would make it *the* development platform on linux.
This is the obligatory "All your pages are belong to us" quote.
"We don't control the internet, but we want to"
Well I for one couldn't think of another way to bastardise the films. That's lateral thinking for you...
If the US isn't run by feckless meglomaniac nutters, then pleases explain what this is all about. Read their "statement of principles".
why the hell would you care?