What the heck, this is/. so I can nitpick as much as I want.
The OP you referred to said "decoding of HD video... absent on AMD hardware in Linux" not "from". There's a difference and it's enough to understand his statement correctly (as he meant it).
But actually, yes, all things that you mention are perfectly legal! NOBODY prevents you from tinkering with your car. You just have to look at all the custom built cars that exist. You just have to make sure everything works according to the rules once you make use of a public road. Even rolling back an odometer isn't illegal... of course if you sell the car it would be fraud to pass the number on the odometer off as being correct.
In this case the modding of the console should be perfectly legal... what the owner of the console does with it afterwards is his/her resposibility (and if illegal face the consequences).
I read something about the different words used in different languages some time ago, but I can't find it anymore. So if you live in the US you'd should probably trust your instincts instead of me.
This is/. , I'm probably wrong, most likely even:)
At that time (13th century) Belgium didn't exist and Bruges was still part of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands and therefore it's inhabitants were still Dutch.
Ehm of course it's much more difficult to make the PC game. There are no PC games anymore that haven not taken large groups of people many years to create. The iPhone isn't even on the market long enough yet to have invested that kind of time. Most of the programs you see have been made in a matter of weeks or months. The fact that for some programs you can find literally dozens of version is proof of that: there would be no reason to invest years of work if there are already many alternatives, but there _is_ a reason if the effort is small enough and the pie (the market) big enough.
There was JQuake (http://fragisland.fragzone.se) but it doesn't seem to exist anymore unfortunately. And this was many years ago. Java has gotten much faster in the mean time. But your right of course that nobody is going to do software rendering when you have all that Gfx hardware, even in modern mobile phones.
Software does occasionally improve. You might be surprised at recent releases of GNOME
"Undoubtedly" and "I doubt it";)
Do you regularly try KDE to see if it finally is better than Gnome so you can switch? Neither do I.
But I'm really not here to turn this into a flamewar, my example was just one of many that I encountered during the years. Exactly the same when others say that after trying KDE for a while they switch back to Gnome it's the other way around for me.
And in the end I just try Gnome once every year or 2 years out of curiosity because unless they come up with some mayor improvements over KDE I just see no reason to change.
I do wish the freedesktop people would come up with a way so each application can use the standard services of each desktop (like file dialogs);)
Well for one, the completions sucks! (Or it used to suck at least, haven't tried Gnome for a while)
Completion has to work when you are looking at it or not. So if I type/usr/bin it should show/usr/bin, but in Gnome it would decide that because there is only one entry beginning with U you must mean/usr so in the end it would show/usrsr/bin. Auto-complete is nice, but it has to complete WHEN I SAY SO (by hitting TAB or ENTER or whatever key is defined).
And of course Gnome is supposedly easy to use, so why did I have to look for ages to find the Search function in the file dialog? There was no Search bar, no button, nothing in the right click menu... no you just have to type and the search box pops up... assuming the file list has focus. Pfff, that is SO easy it becomes difficult again!
You like it, that's great, really, but it drove me nuts. I prefer KDE _exactly_ because it shows the options that it supports, it doesn't try to hide it in clever ways. Do I think that sometimes the interfaces are cluttered? Yes, but I don't want less features. It's a price I'm willing to pay. And if some day somebody comes up with a way to have lots of features and still have an uncluttered , easy to use interface, well all the power to them. Until then I will happily use KDE:)
Well I'm no desktop bigot either, heck I use Fedora, there's almost no way around using Gnome apps with that distro:)
But I do look out for KDE alternatives, because the integration is quite important for me. The different look doesn't bother me at all (the "feel" on the other hand does).
In the end I'm happy that, typical for the Free/Open software world, there are options to choose from.
the different File Open/Save dialogue boxes grate on me
Which is exactly one of the reasons why I prefer KDE. I don't know how you can stand the Gnome requesters! They seem horrible to me.
But at the same time it grates that some applications only exist in their Gnome version, Firefox for example.
Although most of the time I just look for a KDE version of the application (like using Kopete instead of Pidgin, although it is not as feature rich it at least integrates perfectly with KDE)
True, even the earliest Disney cartoons gave cars faces (well, they gave faces to just about anything but that's beside the point, my point anyway)
But come on, don't tell me car designers, at least nowadays, don't know perfectly well that people see faces in their cars... because they put them there!
The study should have been backward: do car designers make cars look to have human facial expressions?
The value of the study would have been the same though: null, void, zilch. God what a waste of time.
Well yes, if you use Totem. Seems silly that you need to use a specific player to get that functionality. Well, as long as they include another way to get those codecs I don't care.
VNC, Remote Desktop, Citrix etc are just kludgey ways to get X-like remoteness for systems that were never meant for it and it's noticeable because they come with severe limitations.
And for Gnome and KDE being "monstrosities" I don't know where you got that idea from, their respective developers seem to be pretty pleased with them. And Qt, which is one of KDE's pillars, is widely seen as one of the most powerful and easiest to use GUI toolkits. Ah, yes, it's cross-platform as well, which seem to defeat your "broken foundation" statement.
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I still think they should just integrate it somehow with GMail like they did for Buzz
Don't worry, in 10 years they'll happily sell it to you again as a "Vintage Game" for Windows 12.
Yeah I'm sure cursive writing is an indispensable survival skill ;)
Basically ALL the software you use works like this.
Welcome to the real world, no need to feel bad.
Errr, ATI actually HAS opened up their documentation for some time now.
But like was said before, the devs are concentrating on getting things to work before making things more efficient.
What the heck, this is /. so I can nitpick as much as I want.
The OP you referred to said "decoding of HD video ... absent on AMD hardware in Linux" not "from". There's a difference and it's enough to understand his statement correctly (as he meant it).
Oh great, a car analogy! Finally! :)
But actually, yes, all things that you mention are perfectly legal! NOBODY prevents you from tinkering with your car. You just have to look at all the custom built cars that exist. You just have to make sure everything works according to the rules once you make use of a public road. Even rolling back an odometer isn't illegal... of course if you sell the car it would be fraud to pass the number on the odometer off as being correct.
In this case the modding of the console should be perfectly legal... what the owner of the console does with it afterwards is his/her resposibility (and if illegal face the consequences).
I read something about the different words used in different languages some time ago, but I can't find it anymore. So if you live in the US you'd should probably trust your instincts instead of me.
This is /. , I'm probably wrong, most likely even :)
He might not be an American, seems that the term "texting" is mostly used in the US.
Sorry, don't agree, for me VLC holds that candle :)
I stand corrected :)
At that time (13th century) Belgium didn't exist and Bruges was still part of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands and therefore it's inhabitants were still Dutch.
"I'd prefer to see App Bundle distributions similar to OS X"
Such a thing actually exists:
http://klik.atekon.de/
Ehm of course it's much more difficult to make the PC game. There are no PC games anymore that haven not taken large groups of people many years to create. The iPhone isn't even on the market long enough yet to have invested that kind of time. Most of the programs you see have been made in a matter of weeks or months. The fact that for some programs you can find literally dozens of version is proof of that: there would be no reason to invest years of work if there are already many alternatives, but there _is_ a reason if the effort is small enough and the pie (the market) big enough.
There was JQuake (http://fragisland.fragzone.se) but it doesn't seem to exist anymore unfortunately. And this was many years ago. Java has gotten much faster in the mean time. But your right of course that nobody is going to do software rendering when you have all that Gfx hardware, even in modern mobile phones.
Software does occasionally improve. You might be surprised at recent releases of GNOME
"Undoubtedly" and "I doubt it" ;)
Do you regularly try KDE to see if it finally is better than Gnome so you can switch? Neither do I.
But I'm really not here to turn this into a flamewar, my example was just one of many that I encountered during the years. Exactly the same when others say that after trying KDE for a while they switch back to Gnome it's the other way around for me.
And in the end I just try Gnome once every year or 2 years out of curiosity because unless they come up with some mayor improvements over KDE I just see no reason to change.
I do wish the freedesktop people would come up with a way so each application can use the standard services of each desktop (like file dialogs) ;)
Well for one, the completions sucks! (Or it used to suck at least, haven't tried Gnome for a while)
Completion has to work when you are looking at it or not. So if I type /usr/bin it should show /usr/bin, but in Gnome it would decide that because there is only one entry beginning with U you must mean /usr so in the end it would show /usrsr/bin. Auto-complete is nice, but it has to complete WHEN I SAY SO (by hitting TAB or ENTER or whatever key is defined).
And of course Gnome is supposedly easy to use, so why did I have to look for ages to find the Search function in the file dialog? There was no Search bar, no button, nothing in the right click menu... no you just have to type and the search box pops up... assuming the file list has focus. Pfff, that is SO easy it becomes difficult again!
You like it, that's great, really, but it drove me nuts. I prefer KDE _exactly_ because it shows the options that it supports, it doesn't try to hide it in clever ways. Do I think that sometimes the interfaces are cluttered? Yes, but I don't want less features. It's a price I'm willing to pay. And if some day somebody comes up with a way to have lots of features and still have an uncluttered , easy to use interface, well all the power to them. Until then I will happily use KDE :)
Well I'm no desktop bigot either, heck I use Fedora, there's almost no way around using Gnome apps with that distro :)
But I do look out for KDE alternatives, because the integration is quite important for me. The different look doesn't bother me at all (the "feel" on the other hand does).
In the end I'm happy that, typical for the Free/Open software world, there are options to choose from.
the different File Open/Save dialogue boxes grate on me
Which is exactly one of the reasons why I prefer KDE. I don't know how you can stand the Gnome requesters! They seem horrible to me.
But at the same time it grates that some applications only exist in their Gnome version, Firefox for example.
Although most of the time I just look for a KDE version of the application (like using Kopete instead of Pidgin, although it is not as feature rich it at least integrates perfectly with KDE)
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Next time check his /. ID first ;)
No need to wonder, Fedora 9 had it already back in may: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/FeatureList
True, even the earliest Disney cartoons gave cars faces (well, they gave faces to just about anything but that's beside the point, my point anyway)
But come on, don't tell me car designers, at least nowadays, don't know perfectly well that people see faces in their cars... because they put them there!
The study should have been backward: do car designers make cars look to have human facial expressions?
The value of the study would have been the same though: null, void, zilch. God what a waste of time.
And even then only on some, none of the newer cards work for example (and newer is from the last 1-2 years or so).
Well yes, if you use Totem. Seems silly that you need to use a specific player to get that functionality. Well, as long as they include another way to get those codecs I don't care.
Boy are you wrong, NoMachine _is_ X! They just use very clever compression schemes to make it usable over slow connections. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NX_technology
VNC, Remote Desktop, Citrix etc are just kludgey ways to get X-like remoteness for systems that were never meant for it and it's noticeable because they come with severe limitations.
And for Gnome and KDE being "monstrosities" I don't know where you got that idea from, their respective developers seem to be pretty pleased with them. And Qt, which is one of KDE's pillars, is widely seen as one of the most powerful and easiest to use GUI toolkits. Ah, yes, it's cross-platform as well, which seem to defeat your "broken foundation" statement.