if we drop a boatload of cash into a bunch of Solaris boxes, and MSFT buys up and dissolves Sun tomorrow, then what?
And what about all those users who are buying Microsoft products ? What happen if Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates die in a plane crash the day where Microsoft is punished in court and must stop all selling activities ?
It's POSSIBLE !!! (perhaps only at 0.001% but POSSIBLE)
If the Fraunhoffer institute decides that every MP3 decoder must buy a very expensive lisense, you will not be able to listen legally to your music for free. Dont say "it will never happen !". It CAN happen.. Look at the Movable Type story.
It's why MP3 codec is not available in the default Fedora system.
If you convert all your music to Ogg Vorbis (like I do and there's more and more Ogg Vorbis compatible player), you can be sure that in 100 years you will be able to play your music legally for free !
It seems that a lot of people aren't aware of the difference between a "Standard" and a "De facto standard"... There's a huge difference...
Well, I think it's feasible to have in Gimp the features you want.
Is there somes really big differences between The Gimp and Photoshop that you can't ever think about switching to Gimp ? (I don't talk about the interface, just about features)
I've installed a Debian Woody 2 years ago. Now it's a Sid. But I've never reinstalled it..
The first 10 things I install on a new computer ? Well : apt-get dist-upgrade && apt-get install gnome
So, students teach that in space the space shuttle make a loudly noise and run with his main engine on ?
They learn that ET follow RFC for networking and that our software (virus) run perfectly on their hardware with their OS. But their screens are VGA compatible !
So they learn physic with movies ?
But why those movies ? The only space movie physically true is 2001 as far as I know...
you are very lucky... There's no way for me to see the video under Linux.
(but it's normal.. The page itself doesn't render perfectly. Just take a very brief look at the code:
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Mmmm.... this is so cute ! With standards attributes like "MS_POSITIONING"
I've seen a lot of Intel8x0 fixes in the changelog.
Am I the only one with a Nforce2/Intel8x0 soundcar who cannot change the volume and must use OSS emulation for all applications since direct alsa doesn't work ? (2.6.3 kernel)
Does the 2.6.5 fix those problems (I don't understand fully the changelog).
Well, I prefer spending my time to develop applications using gstreamer and feeding the gstreamer's bugzilla.
I've seen some mail about helix on the gstreamer and on the matroska dev list.
It's very interesting, because the only thing that helix folks can say is : "Helix is really better because we have the best codec ever made : RV9. And if you join Helix, you can build a player that play RV9 file. If you don't join Helix, your player will suxx because it will not be able to play proprietary encoded RV9 videos and RV9 is the best codec that everybody will be using."
I maybe wrong because my english is not perfect. I hope to be wrong... If not, please forget helix. it's disgusting...
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Well, we need to wait for the jury but this is perhaps the quickier Goldwin point ever seen on slashdot...
The question is : can we give a goldwin point to this comment or not?
I just want to mod this comment as "funny"...
if we drop a boatload of cash into a bunch of Solaris boxes, and MSFT buys up and dissolves Sun tomorrow, then what?
And what about all those users who are buying Microsoft products ? What happen if Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates die in a plane crash the day where Microsoft is punished in court and must stop all selling activities ?
It's POSSIBLE !!! (perhaps only at 0.001% but POSSIBLE)
IMHO, you are wrong.
If the Fraunhoffer institute decides that every MP3 decoder must buy a very expensive lisense, you will not be able to listen legally to your music for free.
Dont say "it will never happen !". It CAN happen.. Look at the Movable Type story.
It's why MP3 codec is not available in the default Fedora system.
If you convert all your music to Ogg Vorbis (like I do and there's more and more Ogg Vorbis compatible player), you can be sure that in 100 years you will be able to play your music legally for free !
It seems that a lot of people aren't aware of the difference between a "Standard" and a "De facto standard"... There's a huge difference...
I like /.
/. effect).
/. will be the empty story, not-new-news.
The story talk about an interview and somes others things not avalaible (because of
But people don't feel the need to read the interview to comment it and to begin flamewar about wine-not wine, Msoffice standard or not, etc...
Funny (already more than 50 comments)
Well, moderator, I think that the next step of
Simply put a subject and we can troll on it. Today : "WINE" !!! Yeah...
Why not the reverse way ?
Learn another Office app (openoffice) under windows.
Then switch to Linux..
Well, I think it's feasible to have in Gimp the features you want.
Is there somes really big differences between The Gimp and Photoshop that you can't ever think about switching to Gimp ? (I don't talk about the interface, just about features)
Well, with $15k, you can hire some opensource developpers and start your own image editor (by forking the Gimp).
Or, better, you hire somes developpers to work on Gimp.
Is it really more expensive to do that ?
I'm sure that the foot icon for the humor section would be very appropriated to this news :-)
It's really funny...
As far as I've always been concerned, something either is or it is not.
You're a one or a zero... Dead or Alive... (a famous-for-geeks movie)
I don't like programming in Java, but having a free Java (as in speech) would be really great !
Think about how it can be easy to include Java in a Linux Distro.
If Java becomes free, I can imagine a lot of thing. Why not bindings with GTK for example ?
Once a month ???? Is this masochism ?
I've installed a Debian Woody 2 years ago. Now it's a Sid. But I've never reinstalled it..
The first 10 things I install on a new computer ? Well : apt-get dist-upgrade && apt-get install gnome
it's indeed the first statement that comes to mind when reading this story...
Unbelievebale !
So, students teach that in space the space shuttle make a loudly noise and run with his main engine on ?
They learn that ET follow RFC for networking and that our software (virus) run perfectly on their hardware with their OS. But their screens are VGA compatible !
So they learn physic with movies ?
But why those movies ? The only space movie physically true is 2001 as far as I know...
The highest human elevation using a Rocketbelt is funny.
;-)
The dumbest human fall that follow this record is even funnier
you are very lucky... There's no way for me to see the video under Linux.
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(but it's normal.. The page itself doesn't render perfectly. Just take a very brief look at the code
body MS_POSITIONING="GridLayout"
form name="Form1" method="post" action="Default.aspx" id="Form1"
input type="hidden" name="__VIEWSTATE" value="dDw4ODMzMTM3NjU7dDw7bDxpPDM+Oz47bDx0PDtsPG
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g=="
Mmmm.... this is so cute ! With standards attributes like "MS_POSITIONING"
Someone can explain what is a "Technical evangelist" or a "longhorn evangelist" ?
Are they really paid to sing all the day : "Microsoft is good and they are friendly" ?
well... don't take it bad, but I've looked a lot around me before posting on slashdot ;)
1) my card is not working perfectly : I cannot change the volume 2) somes applications use ALSA and crash with OSS (totem for example)
I've seen a lot of Intel8x0 fixes in the changelog.
Am I the only one with a Nforce2/Intel8x0 soundcar who cannot change the volume and must use OSS emulation for all applications since direct alsa doesn't work ? (2.6.3 kernel)
Does the 2.6.5 fix those problems (I don't understand fully the changelog).
In order to see divx or xvid movie on Windows, you have to download and install the codec. Am I wrong ?
It really like what I was saying a few months ago.
I just focused on Debian..
I'm not sure at all, but can we excpect improvements in linux video editor with this code ?
I don't know, I just ask.. I just imagine, for example, using some codes to build a NLE editor under Linux... Is it possible ?
Does it runs wine ?
...
Because some people want wine, so I wonder if it possible to run wine under colinux.
And, wait, what about colinux under wine ?
Well, I prefer spending my time to develop applications using gstreamer and feeding the gstreamer's bugzilla.
I've seen some mail about helix on the gstreamer and on the matroska dev list.
It's very interesting, because the only thing that helix folks can say is : "Helix is really better because we have the best codec ever made : RV9. And if you join Helix, you can build a player that play RV9 file. If you don't join Helix, your player will suxx because it will not be able to play proprietary encoded RV9 videos and RV9 is the best codec that everybody will be using."
I maybe wrong because my english is not perfect. I hope to be wrong... If not, please forget helix. it's disgusting...