I think Bill Joy deserves more credit than he gets. After all, he invented "vi", part of the FreeBSD release. Without vi, no source code would ever have been written!
Do you pimple-faced geeks really think your half-baked naive political thoughts are really that profound?
Keep the subject to TECHNOLOGY. In the few cases where Tech and Politics meet, that's fine, but I don't want to go to/. to see people argue Bush vs. Kerry vs Nader.
I had the JVC on loan. It wasn't very good; one problem is that all of the camera's special features (titles, fades, in-camera edits) didn't work in HD mode. It wasn't even 720p/60 it was 720p/30 or equivalent to 720i, if there was such a thing!
doesn't support OS X
I think you mean OS-X doesn't support the JVC! What is it with you Mac folks that tries to spin everything wrong?
Microsoft's "Virtual PC" for Windows. It gives you a complete virtualized PC that you can run on top of Windows. We use it a lot to test installs, to give ourselves a "clean machine" to make sure there are no dependencies that we didn't think of, and to test unknown software.
You *sure* it's not your speakers? I don't notice anything unusually bad. Those cheap sub-sats that people tend to use with PCs are probably doing more to screw up the audio than the sound card. D/A conversion is pretty much a solved problem....
My Soyo Dragon came with output jacks for 5.1. We do some pro audio work in our shop, so we've got them connected to some Mackie studio monitors: two HR824's for the front left/right, an HR626 in the center, two HR624s in the rear, and one of their subwoofers.
It works pretty well. We use Adobe audition for the audio editing, and we have a near-pro setup for well under 6K total. Quite a bit cheaper than the old days!
Our shop will not use J*va. Why? We don't want to enrich the developers of the language, who still many royalties from books and publications. If you chose to support the sexual molestation of young girls, that's your problem. I feel sorry for you.
What Java really needs to be taken seriously is a standard! Like the ECMA standard for C#. And it would help if there was native Java support for the most popular computing platforms. Instead Sun choose to sue Microsoft to get them to remove Java from their OS.
Why were all these folks on/. telling me it was a problem with WINDOWS (see my other thread with this topic) when from the bug report (thanks!) that's clearly not the case?
You Mozilla folks will never win the hearts and minds of Windows users with that attitude!
I switched to Mozilla Firefox a couple of months ago only to switch back. Why? It was too buggy!
The most interesting thing is that slashdot is one of the sites it has the most trouble with. Take a look at the screenshot
on this page! Most of the time it will render/. like that until I hit reload and that will fix it.
I've seen this behavior on Mac, Windows, and Linux. And there's a bug posted on it in the Firefox bug database. What perplexes me is why the/. folks with the necessary skills haven't fixed this problem yet!
Microsoft had always had a practice of seeing what's out there,
Exactly right!
In fact, that was one serious problem I noticed with Apple when I worked there. Nobody believed they had any competition, and nobody ran competitors products. Folks there really beleived, for example, that if you tried to plug a digital camera into a Windows XP machine you'd have to spend hours downloading drivers and dealing with BSOD.
It's SMART to know what the competition is doing. I'd be disappointed in Microsoft if they didn't keep abreast of the competitors.
Songs bought from Windows Media Player based music stores work in and only in Windows Media applications such as WMP.
I have a set-top DVD player that I bought from Costco for $49. It plays WMA audio files just fine!
Many new DVD players play WMA, for example this mid-range Toshiba model. How many DVD players can play Apple's AC3 format? I'll give a gmail account to anyone who can email me a link to a commercial set-top DVD player that can play Apple AC3 files.
You're being silly! WMP is software meant to be run on a desktop or laptop machine. And because there are lots of tiny PC options that can run WMP (unlike iTunes), using it in the park is a lot less silly than running iTunes when jogging in the park!
Since I know you Mac people get off on "thinness" you should really like Sony's 1.85 pound laptop that runs XP! You can run WMP 10 just fine on this, whereever you are.
Slashdot Mirror
...not a Thumboard? Just wonderin'!
Or for that matter the ORIGINAL goal of the Gnu project?
What's your point here? Why are you trying to bash Microsoft just because they decided to delay or abandon something?
I think Bill Joy deserves more credit than he gets. After all, he invented "vi", part of the FreeBSD release. Without vi, no source code would ever have been written!
I'm glad to see more interest in Real Unix instead of Linux! Maybe it's a sign of things to come!
Useless? If Avid and Premier Pro support it, you have the majority of the market covered! Seriously.
Do you pimple-faced geeks really think your half-baked naive political thoughts are really that profound?
Keep the subject to TECHNOLOGY. In the few cases where Tech and Politics meet, that's fine, but I don't want to go to /. to see people argue Bush vs. Kerry vs Nader.
doesn't support OS X
I think you mean OS-X doesn't support the JVC! What is it with you Mac folks that tries to spin everything wrong?
Microsoft's "Virtual PC" for Windows. It gives you a complete virtualized PC that you can run on top of Windows. We use it a lot to test installs, to give ourselves a "clean machine" to make sure there are no dependencies that we didn't think of, and to test unknown software.
You *sure* it's not your speakers? I don't notice anything unusually bad. Those cheap sub-sats that people tend to use with PCs are probably doing more to screw up the audio than the sound card. D/A conversion is pretty much a solved problem....
It works pretty well. We use Adobe audition for the audio editing, and we have a near-pro setup for well under 6K total. Quite a bit cheaper than the old days!
Our shop will not use J*va. Why? We don't want to enrich the developers of the language, who still many royalties from books and publications. If you chose to support the sexual molestation of young girls, that's your problem. I feel sorry for you.
But for desktop applications development, or scientific systems development, C# has more traction than J*va.
What Java really needs to be taken seriously is a standard! Like the ECMA standard for C#. And it would help if there was native Java support for the most popular computing platforms. Instead Sun choose to sue Microsoft to get them to remove Java from their OS.
What! No Floppy Drive!? Didn't Steven learn *anything* from the NeXt Cube?
It seems that all Computer Scientists of a previous generations, like Don Knuth, Alan Kay, and of course myself all play the pipe organ.
I don't know why the current generation of Computer Scientists don't.
You Mozilla folks will never win the hearts and minds of Windows users with that attitude!
You mean it looks like this? I know what you're talking about, but every time I mention it here, they tell me it must be *my own* fault!
That screen shot was LINUX running QvWM! You don't know what the heck you're talking about!
So what do you think is the cause of this?
The most interesting thing is that slashdot is one of the sites it has the most trouble with. Take a look at the screenshot on this page! Most of the time it will render /. like that until I hit reload and that will fix it.
I've seen this behavior on Mac, Windows, and Linux. And there's a bug posted on it in the Firefox bug database. What perplexes me is why the /. folks with the necessary skills haven't fixed this problem yet!
Exactly right!
In fact, that was one serious problem I noticed with Apple when I worked there. Nobody believed they had any competition, and nobody ran competitors products. Folks there really beleived, for example, that if you tried to plug a digital camera into a Windows XP machine you'd have to spend hours downloading drivers and dealing with BSOD.
It's SMART to know what the competition is doing. I'd be disappointed in Microsoft if they didn't keep abreast of the competitors.
you could have said what it was! I clicked on the link saying to myself "Please! Let it be a calendar app!" and, fortunately, it was.
I have a set-top DVD player that I bought from Costco for $49. It plays WMA audio files just fine!
Many new DVD players play WMA, for example this mid-range Toshiba model. How many DVD players can play Apple's AC3 format? I'll give a gmail account to anyone who can email me a link to a commercial set-top DVD player that can play Apple AC3 files.
Since I know you Mac people get off on "thinness" you should really like Sony's 1.85 pound laptop that runs XP! You can run WMP 10 just fine on this, whereever you are.
Thanks! A lot of people here just don't "get" me, but that's OK!