Winamp brought us the shittiest interface a media player ever had. Tiny unreadable fonts, with no way to resize any part of it (don't tell me about that double size crap). No decent menu, no decent playlist, no nothing. Too bad so many FOSS programs are still trying to imitate it.
Thanks for the usual Spam Form Response. I think it is remarkable that very few choices are marked on it this time around. And if you read the Frequently Raised Objections page, you may well end up with no marks left at all. So this hashcash idea does sound really interesting.
If we spelled it Colombia then people would pronounce it Co-lohm-bia, which would sound terrible.
Actually it's the other way around: because you spell it wrong (because you think it's the same name as DC or the one in the Carolinas or whatever), you also pronounce it wrong. The Co-lohm-bia pronunciation would be far better (or at least more correct).
The simple fact is: Where there is enough demand, there will also be enough supply. If you want to control illegal drugs, the demand is what you really need to be looking at.
So please leave Colombia alone. You can't even spell the country name.
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Is your setup CLI-only? I'm asking because fonts got FUBARed like three times in the last few weeks.
Applets are very ofton baddly written, the language can not protect you (the end user) from very bad developers.
That would've been a good excuse if you could say "some applets are badly written". Bad news is, in reality nearly all applets are resource hogs, and I only say "nearly" in case there are exceptions, of which I know of none. Same goes for non-applet Java programs. Do you still want to blame it all on bad developers? And I won't even get started on the GUI...
All of the multimedia mime things work in Konqueror (that I could see).
Yep, this is my favorite one! With KPlayer installed, you can play nearly any online content, be it Windows Media, RealMedia, QuickTime or anything else, whether embedded in the page or given as link, even those stupid JavaScripts can't mess it up.
KPlayer right now I think is the only player that detects playlist files as opposed to direct links, so it starts MPlayer with the correct options, and it all just works!
This is generally a move in the right direction, but if IBM is really serious about basing part of its business on Linux, this will not be enough.
The reason being, unsurprisingly, there will be companies that will not follow their advice, and when Linux starts to really threaten their business model, will use their patent "portfolio" against it.
At that point someone with a comparable size portfolio will have to stand up and politely ask that compan(y|ies) to please be nice to Linux.
Maybe you should say "Government will be computerless". Because it seems to me the Munich guys forgot to ask themselves the obvious questions: "How many of those idiotic patents does Microsoft violate?" and "How can we use computers when there is not a way to write software that does not violate many many patents?"...
Yes, Kaffeine is a fine program. It has two problems though.
One is the choice of backend. So it inherits all the problems with CPU usage, A/V going out of sync and so on and so forth. Hope we aren't going to start a flamewar here. Yes, MPlayer has its own problems, but I personally prefer it over Xine.
Second, it opens separate windows for some of its controls, while KPlayer keeps everything in one window by default.
So I have no problem with Kaffeine, but KPlayer is by far the best choice for me. The new File Properties thing is really cool, it remembers whatever options you set for each individual file. So normalizing the volume of audio files is as easy as holding shift while dragging the volume slider.
Why would I even consider using Real stuff when there are so many excellent free players?
Just to give one example, KPlayer at version 0.5.1 is already light years ahead of any Real stuff and plays RealMedia just like any MPEG, AVI, MP3 or Ogg Media. It's MPlayer based, and its KDE interface is absolutely awesome.
Somehow I thought this whole problem was gone long time ago. For me it just disappeared the moment I installed KDE 3.0. Maybe Debian packages somehow magically did the trick for me, I don't know. But since then only Konsole copies on selection, and it copies to its own internal buffer rather than the global KDE one, so it all just works.
Unfortunately it is not free enough. When it is people will be able to fix it so a lot of programs out there that are otherwise great programs but for Java's terrible slowness and resource consumption will finally become usable.
FreeNet I think is the most important example. They overcame their design problems lately and now it may be well on its way to mass usage.
I think we are already past the point where a compromise with the RIAA is still possible. Most people will simply not accept any plan where the RIAA or its successor or anything similar to it is allowed to exist in any form.
An acceptable compromise would be one where the artist is the one in control of the distribution of their work, and also the one who actually gets paid. Which is exactly the opposite of the current situation.
There are quite a few programs that are officially not part of KDE but are excellent KDE based programs nevertheless. For example KPlayer is a superb mplayer based media player I use on a daily basis, and I heard good things about Kaffeine as well (but that one is xine based).
Because KDE is based on Qt, if TT stops offering Qt under GPL, KDE will simply take the last free Qt version and keep on developing it from that point. So that is not much of an issue.
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Winamp brought us the shittiest interface a media player ever had. Tiny unreadable fonts, with no way to resize any part of it (don't tell me about that double size crap). No decent menu, no decent playlist, no nothing. Too bad so many FOSS programs are still trying to imitate it.
Thanks for the usual Spam Form Response. I think it is remarkable that very few choices are marked on it this time around. And if you read the Frequently Raised Objections page, you may well end up with no marks left at all. So this hashcash idea does sound really interesting.
Wrong. Look in the dictionary.
If we spelled it Colombia then people would pronounce it Co-lohm-bia, which would sound terrible.
Actually it's the other way around: because you spell it wrong (because you think it's the same name as DC or the one in the Carolinas or whatever), you also pronounce it wrong. The Co-lohm-bia pronunciation would be far better (or at least more correct).
So please leave Colombia alone. You can't even spell the country name.
Is your setup CLI-only? I'm asking because fonts got FUBARed like three times in the last few weeks.
I wish I had points to mod you up.
Right, but... oxygen supply to what? FOSS or the codec? Hopefully the latter.
That would've been a good excuse if you could say "some applets are badly written". Bad news is, in reality nearly all applets are resource hogs, and I only say "nearly" in case there are exceptions, of which I know of none. Same goes for non-applet Java programs. Do you still want to blame it all on bad developers? And I won't even get started on the GUI...
All of the multimedia mime things work in Konqueror (that I could see).
Yep, this is my favorite one! With KPlayer installed, you can play nearly any online content, be it Windows Media, RealMedia, QuickTime or anything else, whether embedded in the page or given as link, even those stupid JavaScripts can't mess it up.
KPlayer right now I think is the only player that detects playlist files as opposed to direct links, so it starts MPlayer with the correct options, and it all just works!
The reason being, unsurprisingly, there will be companies that will not follow their advice, and when Linux starts to really threaten their business model, will use their patent "portfolio" against it.
At that point someone with a comparable size portfolio will have to stand up and politely ask that compan(y|ies) to please be nice to Linux.
Maybe you should say "Government will be computerless". Because it seems to me the Munich guys forgot to ask themselves the obvious questions: "How many of those idiotic patents does Microsoft violate?" and "How can we use computers when there is not a way to write software that does not violate many many patents?"...
One is the choice of backend. So it inherits all the problems with CPU usage, A/V going out of sync and so on and so forth. Hope we aren't going to start a flamewar here. Yes, MPlayer has its own problems, but I personally prefer it over Xine.
Second, it opens separate windows for some of its controls, while KPlayer keeps everything in one window by default.
So I have no problem with Kaffeine, but KPlayer is by far the best choice for me. The new File Properties thing is really cool, it remembers whatever options you set for each individual file. So normalizing the volume of audio files is as easy as holding shift while dragging the volume slider.
Just to give one example, KPlayer at version 0.5.1 is already light years ahead of any Real stuff and plays RealMedia just like any MPEG, AVI, MP3 or Ogg Media. It's MPlayer based, and its KDE interface is absolutely awesome.
Bye-bye Real!
Somehow I thought this whole problem was gone long time ago. For me it just disappeared the moment I installed KDE 3.0. Maybe Debian packages somehow magically did the trick for me, I don't know. But since then only Konsole copies on selection, and it copies to its own internal buffer rather than the global KDE one, so it all just works.
Well, they are complaining about lack of progress bars, so I wonder if they ever heard about KPlayer.
FreeNet I think is the most important example. They overcame their design problems lately and now it may be well on its way to mass usage.
So please everyone support freeing Java!
I think we are already past the point where a compromise with the RIAA is still possible. Most people will simply not accept any plan where the RIAA or its successor or anything similar to it is allowed to exist in any form.
An acceptable compromise would be one where the artist is the one in control of the distribution of their work, and also the one who actually gets paid. Which is exactly the opposite of the current situation.
There are quite a few programs that are officially not part of KDE but are excellent KDE based programs nevertheless. For example KPlayer is a superb mplayer based media player I use on a daily basis, and I heard good things about Kaffeine as well (but that one is xine based).
I thought it was more like seven trillion.
Great idea! Perens LLC and all the Gnome folks will be extremely piss^H^H^Hleased.
There we go. It creates a marketplace!
If it didn't, wouldn't it be one worthless invention?
Because KDE is based on Qt, if TT stops offering Qt under GPL, KDE will simply take the last free Qt version and keep on developing it from that point. So that is not much of an issue.
Well then maybe you've been watching the wrong kind of football to begin with?