You are not comparing free software against proprietary software. You compare FOSS against MS apps (with the exception of AIM).
Music - XMMS (WinAMP on Windows), is there even a comparison to Windows
Media Player here?
WinAMP ist not FOSS. It's a free (beer) closed source app.
Both are just a joke comparing to iTunes.
Video - MPlayer, it even runs without X Window. Can Windows Media Player
run video in MS-DOS?
What kind of argument is this? Who cares about DOS? WMP is OK when you install
the missing codecs. (I prefer VLC
though)
Web Browser - Mozilla FireFox. Internet Exploder doesn't even compare.
And Opera? Firefox is also my favourite
browser, but Opera has many interesting features that you can't find anywhere
else. Opera is commercial or free (beer) software, but not FOSS.
File Browsing - Nautilus, Konqueror. They crash 100% less of the time that
Windows Explorer crashes.
What are you doing with Explorer? I didn't see it crash the last couple of...
er... years.
And no annoyingly built-in Internet Explorer that's available even if I
denied access to iexplore.exe (which I do on spyware-infested clients' computers).
How about blocking Explorer.exe and deleting iexplore.exe? (That's what I do
when I have do mess with Windows.)
And let's not mention the horrid Mac OS X versions of MS Office.
Yeah, MS Office:mac is sooo bad when compared against GNUmeric and OpenOffice.
OK, GNUmeric and OpenOffice only run in an X-Window, don't support drag&drop,
looks ugly-as-hell, etc. while MS Office supports all that stuff. Wow, GNUmeric
and OpenOffice are soooo superior.....
(BTW: Yes, I know about NeoOffice/J
- it's my main Office suite. But NeoOffice is != OpenOffice)
Abiword compares to Wordpad, not Word (or OpenOffice Writer).
Instant Messenger - Well, GAIM may be missing some features of proprietary
AOL AIM, but one of those features missing is the spyware.
Programming - Do I even need to compare the long list of free, open-source
and standardized Unix/Linux tools to the not-quite-as-affordable MS Visual Studio??
A lot of developers say that VisualStudio is the best programming environment.
Others say it's Xcode.
Both aren't FOSS.
PS: No, I'n not bashing FOSS. Most apps I use are FOSS like Firefox, Thunderbird,
or Fire Messenger, but theres more closed
source software that's better than it's FOSS counterparts than just Photoshop
and Dreamweaver. Opera is cool. Trillian is cool. MS Office:mac, Explorer (not IE), or
Windows Media Player not so bad either.
I don't see a codec called HP4X in the article and if you actually read the article (yeah, I know... this is/.) you'll see that the simmilar named HDX4 codec is an ASP (not AVC) codec.
(HP4X has something to do with calculators from HP.)
Argh, I don't like to reply to myself, but check out the first page: "I've re-included Microsoft's WMV9 (...)" This means that WMV9 was dropped in the past, too.
It contimiues: "(...) especially since it is part of the specification of HD DVD and Blu-ray. There have been some improvements in WMV9 (...)"
So this means that Theora is not dropped forever. When Theora hits a significant milestone (1.0?) and shows improvements in quality over VP3, it's likely to be tested again.
Theora is based on On2's VP3 and this codec was removed from Doom9.org's codec comparisons long ago, because it's old and didn't have significant (if any) improvement in quality. The same thing happend with "DivX;-) 3" (the hacked MS codec). These codecs have not been removed, because the Doom9 guy hate them or something, but because the old test results still apply and testing them over and over again would just be a waste of time.
IIRC VP3 (and DivX 3) was removed in 2003. So check out a comparison from 2003 to see how it performs.
Hell no! Steam makes it impossible to sell HL2 once you completed it. This alone is a good reason to hate Steam. And that's not the only reason for me to hate it, but it's the most important.
It's beacuse it is still single-user-oriented. If you cannot be root (ahem,
Administrator) you cannot do much with it.
Of course you can do much with it. Problems with non Admin accounts result
from bad Win9x programming habbits. If the developers take care and write their
apps in a correct way.
I don't think that the whole system needs to be rewritten from scratch to support
clustering. Maybe 5% of Windows (Just a guess).
I don't say that Windows will be the best clustering OS ever, but clustering on Windows is possible.
Mac OS X is sitting on top of a UNIX kernel -- a modified FreeBSD.
Wrong. OSX' kernel is XNU - a modified version of Mach. OSX (or better Darwin)
includes a lot of FreeBSD code, but it's not just a modified FreeBSD.
There's also a difference between Windows as a whole and just the NT kernel.
The NT kernel isn't that bad. Most problems with Windows result from problems
in the higher levels of the system - eg. IE.
Problems with higher levels of the Windows OS are not necessarily a reason against
clustering on NT based Windows systems.
Huh? Mac OS X is also very GUI-oriented, but that doesn't make it bad for clusters. I've only read positive feedbacks about Apple's Xgrid. http://www.apple.com/acg/xgrid/ So that's not really a reason why a Windows Cluster won't make sense. Licensing costs are also not the biggest concern from big corporations.
I saw the hype surrounding Halo 1. According to those fanboys it was the greatest game of all times. Usually I don't fall into hypes, but such a huge hype made me interested in Halo. Hey, it must be good, if every Xbox owner says it's great, right? Well, last year I finally had the chance to play it. Gawd, I was so bored, I couldn't even believe! This crap should be the king of all games?!? Quake 1 is way more fun than Halo 1... not to mention Half-Life 1 and both games are older than Halo.
Now Halo 2..... Wow, the hype is even bigger. But this time I don't fall into the hype. Halo 1 was overhyped and Halo 2 is likely to be overhyped as well. From what I've read, Halo 2 isn't really that different from Halo 1 and I also read that Halo 2 is too short. So Halo 2 does not have many new features and is short. IMHO these are 2 aspects of a cheapo mission pack.
You say that nobody is using a past-1.0 nightly of Firefox? Honestly, I don't find this believable, because - while not perfect - they don't have the annoying slashdot bug. BTW: Now you should have at least one hit from past-1.0 Firefox.;)
Motion doen's even run on current (!!) iBooks, because an ATI Radeon 9200 is not fast enough (I checked mine with the Motion Compatability Checker from http://www.apple.com/motion/trial/). No way a 500$ Mac could run Motion.
It's been years ago when ZNES was 100% asm. IIRC in ZSNES was the emulator for Super Mario Kart's DSP chip (co-developed with the SNES9x team). that must have been in 1998 or something...
I think ZSNES and SNES9x are on the same level in terms of functionality and compatibility - no suprise, because both teams worked together on important tasks. I use SNES9x, because it runs on my Mac. On Windows I prefered ZSNES, because I liked the GUI better, but that's just personal preference.
Don't know if there's a Linux port. IIRC SNES9x had a Linux port when ZSNES was still DOS-only.:)
Wouldn't the same principles forbid use of CSS to charge different prices for DVDs in different regions?
No, because there's only a single DVD region for the EU (and even other countries outside the EU, like Switzerland). The iTunes case is about different prices inside the EU. A German guy is free to buy a car in Spain. A UK resident can't buy a song from the French iTMS. That's likely to be illegal.
Quote from http://kmgerich.com/archive/000079.html and I think it hits the nail on the head: "At first I found it hard to get around the "Netscape Messenger 4" feel of Thunderbird. I wish that the UI had been burnt down and redesigned from the ground up as Firefox was. There seem to be many opportunities for simplification in the menus, preferences and settings windows. Perhaps this is coming."
While the default theme has changed, the structure of the UI is more or less still the same old shit. Just look how to configure multiple SMTP servers in TB - it's a mess. TB is nice, but its UI really needs work. I'm hoping for TB 1.1 in March 2005...
I'm sorry, but this IS a joke. From what I've read, the NDS has only 4 MB RAM and that's a pretty much hard limit. Well, there are Linux distros like SmallLinux http://www.superant.com/smalllinux/ that somehow work with such an amount of RAM, but it's shell only and stuff. That's far from "limitless". IIRC Qtopia requires at least 16MB RAM.
Why do so many/.ers whant Linux everywhere? For tasks like this, you need a highly specialized software, if you want PDA funktionality and that's not Linux.
Maybe it's possible to put extra RAM in a cartridge and uns that as swap, but that won't be cheap.
"I can guarentee Retro isn't allowed to take their Metroid games and port them to another system, even though they developed it seperately from Nintendo."
Developed it seperately from Nintendo? Check the facts. Retro is Nintendo (a part of it). Just like NST or Intelligent Systems, Retro is "just another development studio" (not meant in a negative way). http://www.retrostudios.com/ says: "Retro Studios, founded in 1998, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nintendo Company, Ltd." The lead producers of Metroid Prime 1 and 2 are from Nintendo Japan. The music was composed by Kenji Yamamoto (also Nintendo Japan).
BTW: Microsoft did not buy Rare. They bought 49% of Rare. Do you really think that MS would allow them to develop games for GBA, NDS, and PSP, if MS owned 51% or more of Rare?
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Music - XMMS (WinAMP on Windows), is there even a comparison to Windows Media Player here?
WinAMP ist not FOSS. It's a free (beer) closed source app.
Both are just a joke comparing to iTunes.
Video - MPlayer, it even runs without X Window. Can Windows Media Player run video in MS-DOS?
What kind of argument is this? Who cares about DOS? WMP is OK when you install the missing codecs. (I prefer VLC though)
Web Browser - Mozilla FireFox. Internet Exploder doesn't even compare.
And Opera? Firefox is also my favourite browser, but Opera has many interesting features that you can't find anywhere else. Opera is commercial or free (beer) software, but not FOSS.
File Browsing - Nautilus, Konqueror. They crash 100% less of the time that Windows Explorer crashes.
What are you doing with Explorer? I didn't see it crash the last couple of... er... years.
And no annoyingly built-in Internet Explorer that's available even if I denied access to iexplore.exe (which I do on spyware-infested clients' computers).
How about blocking Explorer.exe and deleting iexplore.exe? (That's what I do when I have do mess with Windows.)
And let's not mention the horrid Mac OS X versions of MS Office.
Yeah, MS Office:mac is sooo bad when compared against GNUmeric and OpenOffice. OK, GNUmeric and OpenOffice only run in an X-Window, don't support drag&drop, looks ugly-as-hell, etc. while MS Office supports all that stuff. Wow, GNUmeric and OpenOffice are soooo superior.....
(BTW: Yes, I know about NeoOffice/J - it's my main Office suite. But NeoOffice is != OpenOffice)
Abiword compares to Wordpad, not Word (or OpenOffice Writer).
Instant Messenger - Well, GAIM may be missing some features of proprietary AOL AIM, but one of those features missing is the spyware.
Trillian? How about that?
Programming - Do I even need to compare the long list of free, open-source and standardized Unix/Linux tools to the not-quite-as-affordable MS Visual Studio??
A lot of developers say that VisualStudio is the best programming environment. Others say it's Xcode. Both aren't FOSS.
PS: No, I'n not bashing FOSS. Most apps I use are FOSS like Firefox, Thunderbird, or Fire Messenger, but theres more closed source software that's better than it's FOSS counterparts than just Photoshop and Dreamweaver. Opera is cool. Trillian is cool. MS Office:mac, Explorer (not IE), or Windows Media Player not so bad either.
I don't see a codec called HP4X in the article and if you actually read the article (yeah, I know... this is /.) you'll see that the simmilar named HDX4 codec is an ASP (not AVC) codec.
(HP4X has something to do with calculators from HP.)
Argh, I don't like to reply to myself, but check out the first page:
"I've re-included Microsoft's WMV9 (...)"
This means that WMV9 was dropped in the past, too.
It contimiues: "(...) especially since it is part of the specification of HD DVD and Blu-ray. There have been some improvements in WMV9 (...)"
So this means that Theora is not dropped forever. When Theora hits a significant milestone (1.0?) and shows improvements in quality over VP3, it's likely to be tested again.
Theora is based on On2's VP3 and this codec was removed from Doom9.org's codec comparisons long ago, because it's old and didn't have significant (if any) improvement in quality. The same thing happend with "DivX ;-) 3" (the hacked MS codec).
These codecs have not been removed, because the Doom9 guy hate them or something, but because the old test results still apply and testing them over and over again would just be a waste of time.
IIRC VP3 (and DivX 3) was removed in 2003. So check out a comparison from 2003 to see how it performs.
Hell no! Steam makes it impossible to sell HL2 once you completed it. This alone is a good reason to hate Steam.
And that's not the only reason for me to hate it, but it's the most important.
Acclaim went out of business, because their games sucked and nobody bought them.
It's beacuse it is still single-user-oriented. If you cannot be root (ahem, Administrator) you cannot do much with it.
Of course you can do much with it. Problems with non Admin accounts result from bad Win9x programming habbits. If the developers take care and write their apps in a correct way.
I don't think that the whole system needs to be rewritten from scratch to support clustering. Maybe 5% of Windows (Just a guess).
I don't say that Windows will be the best clustering OS ever, but clustering on Windows is possible.
Mac OS X is sitting on top of a UNIX kernel -- a modified FreeBSD.
Wrong. OSX' kernel is XNU - a modified version of Mach. OSX (or better Darwin) includes a lot of FreeBSD code, but it's not just a modified FreeBSD.
There's also a difference between Windows as a whole and just the NT kernel. The NT kernel isn't that bad. Most problems with Windows result from problems in the higher levels of the system - eg. IE.
Problems with higher levels of the Windows OS are not necessarily a reason against clustering on NT based Windows systems.
An idling GUI takes almost no CPU performance and, if well configured, the memory consumtion of a GUI is not so big either.
Huh? Mac OS X is also very GUI-oriented, but that doesn't make it bad for clusters. I've only read positive feedbacks about Apple's Xgrid. http://www.apple.com/acg/xgrid/
So that's not really a reason why a Windows Cluster won't make sense.
Licensing costs are also not the biggest concern from big corporations.
I saw the hype surrounding Halo 1. According to those fanboys it was the greatest game of all times.
Usually I don't fall into hypes, but such a huge hype made me interested in Halo. Hey, it must be good, if every Xbox owner says it's great, right?
Well, last year I finally had the chance to play it. Gawd, I was so bored, I couldn't even believe! This crap should be the king of all games?!?
Quake 1 is way more fun than Halo 1... not to mention Half-Life 1 and both games are older than Halo.
Now Halo 2.....
Wow, the hype is even bigger. But this time I don't fall into the hype. Halo 1 was overhyped and Halo 2 is likely to be overhyped as well.
From what I've read, Halo 2 isn't really that different from Halo 1 and I also read that Halo 2 is too short.
So Halo 2 does not have many new features and is short. IMHO these are 2 aspects of a cheapo mission pack.
You say that nobody is using a past-1.0 nightly of Firefox? Honestly, I don't find this believable, because - while not perfect - they don't have the annoying slashdot bug. ;)
BTW: Now you should have at least one hit from past-1.0 Firefox.
Motion doen's even run on current (!!) iBooks, because an ATI Radeon 9200 is not fast enough (I checked mine with the Motion Compatability Checker from http://www.apple.com/motion/trial/). No way a 500$ Mac could run Motion.
As you may know SNES9x is based on SNES96 (with Code from a different emulator called SNES97).
Here's a quote from the change log:
Initial release 0.1
- Ported Windows 95 version of Snes96 to Linux on a PC and Solaris on a
SparcStation.
It's been years ago when ZNES was 100% asm. IIRC in ZSNES was the emulator for Super Mario Kart's DSP chip (co-developed with the SNES9x team). that must have been in 1998 or something...
I think ZSNES and SNES9x are on the same level in terms of functionality and compatibility - no suprise, because both teams worked together on important tasks. I use SNES9x, because it runs on my Mac. On Windows I prefered ZSNES, because I liked the GUI better, but that's just personal preference.
:)
Don't know if there's a Linux port.
IIRC SNES9x had a Linux port when ZSNES was still DOS-only.
Qt is GPL for X11 Unices (incl. Linux) and Mac OS X.r es.php
There is an unofficial, but incomplete GPLed Windows port: http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/qt3-win32/featu
Wouldn't the same principles forbid use of CSS to charge different prices for DVDs in different regions?
No, because there's only a single DVD region for the EU (and even other countries outside the EU, like Switzerland).
The iTunes case is about different prices inside the EU. A German guy is free to buy a car in Spain. A UK resident can't buy a song from the French iTMS. That's likely to be illegal.
Quote from http://kmgerich.com/archive/000079.html and I think it hits the nail on the head:
"At first I found it hard to get around the "Netscape Messenger 4" feel of Thunderbird. I wish that the UI had been burnt down and redesigned from the ground up as Firefox was. There seem to be many opportunities for simplification in the menus, preferences and settings windows. Perhaps this is coming."
While the default theme has changed, the structure of the UI is more or less still the same old shit. Just look how to configure multiple SMTP servers in TB - it's a mess.
TB is nice, but its UI really needs work. I'm hoping for TB 1.1 in March 2005...
Because Babelfish says so.g econtent?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scei.co.jp%2Fproduct s%2Fpsp.html&lp=ja_en
"Main I/O:
IEEE802.11b conformity (Wi-Fi)
USB2.0 (mini-B)
Memory stick PRO duo
IrDA
IR remote"
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pa
The possibilities would be nearly limitless
/.ers whant Linux everywhere?
I'm sorry, but this IS a joke. From what I've read, the NDS has only 4 MB RAM and that's a pretty much hard limit.
Well, there are Linux distros like SmallLinux http://www.superant.com/smalllinux/ that somehow work with such an amount of RAM, but it's shell only and stuff. That's far from "limitless". IIRC Qtopia requires at least 16MB RAM.
Why do so many
For tasks like this, you need a highly specialized software, if you want PDA funktionality and that's not Linux.
Maybe it's possible to put extra RAM in a cartridge and uns that as swap, but that won't be cheap.
Prolly it will ship with plugins like RealPlayer, Sun JavaVM and stuff.
"(...) later games like Metroid Fusion (...)"
In Europe (and AFAIK also in Japan) Metroid Fusion was released *before* Metroid Prime. In the USA both games where released on the same day.
"I can guarentee Retro isn't allowed to take their Metroid games and port them to another system, even though they developed it seperately from Nintendo."
Developed it seperately from Nintendo? Check the facts. Retro is Nintendo (a part of it). Just like NST or Intelligent Systems, Retro is "just another development studio" (not meant in a negative way). http://www.retrostudios.com/ says: "Retro Studios, founded in 1998, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nintendo Company, Ltd."
The lead producers of Metroid Prime 1 and 2 are from Nintendo Japan. The music was composed by Kenji Yamamoto (also Nintendo Japan).
BTW: Microsoft did not buy Rare. They bought 49% of Rare. Do you really think that MS would allow them to develop games for GBA, NDS, and PSP, if MS owned 51% or more of Rare?
All ive seen in the last couple of months is sequels
What about Geist (coming soon), Baten Kaitos, Second Sight,...?