Ah, ok. I should have thought it might be something along those lines.
At any rate, the files in the torrent look a lot better. Well, things like text are blurrier, but there aren't the annoying scanline-like distortions and choppy frames. Thanks!
This is the first Theora file I've tried, but it doesn't seem to be too hot quality-wise. I sort of hoped for more, but I will grant that it's still alpha.
Not quite. See here and here. In the US, only the "music" CD-Rs are taxed. The only reason to buy those is for a personal CD recording device anyway. Stick with data CD-Rs and you're fine.
The vernacular language is one thing. You or I could call it "aiustfasing" for all the judge cares. However, legal terminology is not so arbitrary -- specific words have specific meanings, and "piracy" does *not* legally apply here.
There are still a few nitpicky things with the SuSE packages for 3.2 -- kdebase-suse hasn't been updated, so you'll get a conflict between it and kdebase. You can remove kdebase-suse and packages that depend on it, losing things like suseplugger and susewatcher, or you can ignore the conflict, which hasn't caused any problems for me, nor for anybody else I've heard from. It seemed to muck with my K menu stuff (various Gnome items are no longer there, some things like kmail and juk are in the wrong places), but I still haven't really figured out how I want that organized, so I was going to have to move things around anyway.
The new icon theme for 3.2 is a lot nicer as well, but doesn't have all the icons that SuSE's did.
Overall though, everything works nicely, and I expect all the little nitpicky issues to be worked out for SuSE 10, whenever that is. Along with YaST support for configuring devices for the 2.6 kernel.
If it's just a color scheme, it goes in [prefix]/share/apps/kdisplay/color-schemes/ for all users, or ~/.kde/share/apps/kdisplay/color-schemes for just one user. Note that for KDE, you can also create color schemes on-the-fly in Appearance & Themes -> Colors in the Control Center.
If it's a whole theme engine, untar wherever you prefer, configure with the proper prefix, make, and make install. It should appear in Appearance and Themes -> Style.
I believe that for Fedora the proper prefix is simply/usr.
Personally, I think the Plastik style, which is now included with 3.2, beats all others available anyway.
LJ didn't start out as invite-only, and the invitation system wasn't ever intended to make it "exclusive" in any way. It was simply a way of throttling the load a little. Now that their capacity has expanded, they've removed the invite system.
It's not like it was ever that hard to get yourself a code, anyway.
Office 97. It's the one that *didn't* share a year with a release of Windows.
Though a quick search seems to indicate that it was Office 2000 that first had this feature, not 97. At any rate, unless Macs had this type of filepicker before OS X and I just didn't notice, MS was still the first to have this type of filepicker.
(And considering that it took Apple until X to finally realize that a 2-pane file browser is a good idea, something which Windows (and probably other OSes) had had for a long time, it seems to me that Apple did some "borrowing" back of ideas for OS X.)
I was going to say lack of always-on-top, but I just decided to do a little research and it appears that 2.4 has this. About time. I ought to give it a try soon.
I can still complain about gconf though.
And really, the fileselector is only one example of Gnome's general faults -- so much focus is placed on accessibility and the HIG and not enough on usefulness.
The documents one is one I generally don't use, but I've found the location bar to be quite helpful in encouraging me to keep my files (relatively) organized. In KDE, you can set the bar on an application-spcific level, which makes it even more useful.
Are you kidding? I know many people who loved it. Then again, my friends tend to like really uncommon stuff, considering how many of us are avid Breath of Fire fans.
Still, Hook has it's cult following out there. I ought to see it again sometime.
Alexander wrote some pretty damn nice short stories as well. There was one in particular I read in middle school, but I can't recall the name of it for the life of me.
Prydain movies don't seem too likely given how vastly underrated the series was, but maybe if the fantasy movie fad is still going strong when they've run out of other series, they can pick it up. Wishful thinking, I know.
The Horse and his Boy seems the most likely candidate for omission, and probably The Last Battle. I really hope they don't leave that one out though. Who knows, they might do what was done for the previous set of movies and combine Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Dunno if that'd fly for a big-budget film though, as it still is a bit disjointed that way.
Almost, but Magician's Nephew was written before Last Battle. It'd have been pretty odd to do it the other way around, since Polly and Digory were in it along with all the Friends of Narnia, and that wouldn't have worked if their story hadn't been told.
I can see that telling the Magician's Nephew first might take away from the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, but as long as it's in there I'll be happy -- it was my favorite story.
The first time I tried to read The Horse and His Boy, I couldn't stand it. Ditto for the second time. I was pretty young those two times though, and eventually I tried a third time and finally got it. Pretty much the same thing happened with The Last Battle, actually.
Yeesh, have you ever used anything other than a Windows PC? Only the windows version of Photoshop uses an MDI interface.
You might just as easily say that only the Mac version doesn't use an MDI interface. Wow, look at how non-informative saying either is.
Except that that'd be more correct since Photoshop was designed with MDI in mind, then adapted to fit the Mac idea of what's "usable." Also, even the non-MDI Mac interface of Photoshop isn't as bad as the GIMP. At least when you bring Photoshop to the front on a Mac you bring the entire application to the front, which is actually useful, as opposed to just bringing the tool palette to the front and having to raise all the other windows individually.
That may be (I don't exactly have the DVD region system memorized) but they'd essentially be making a special version just for Britain, which they're not likely to do.
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Ah, ok. I should have thought it might be something along those lines.
At any rate, the files in the torrent look a lot better. Well, things like text are blurrier, but there aren't the annoying scanline-like distortions and choppy frames. Thanks!
This is the first Theora file I've tried, but it doesn't seem to be too hot quality-wise. I sort of hoped for more, but I will grant that it's still alpha.
I can't get the first one to play at all either.
The old one had four clauses, the fourth being the advertising clause. The new one has only three.
Not quite. See here and here. In the US, only the "music" CD-Rs are taxed. The only reason to buy those is for a personal CD recording device anyway. Stick with data CD-Rs and you're fine.
The vernacular language is one thing. You or I could call it "aiustfasing" for all the judge cares. However, legal terminology is not so arbitrary -- specific words have specific meanings, and "piracy" does *not* legally apply here.
Nobody is disputing his right to speak freely. However, everybody *else* is just as free to call him an idiot. Freedom of speach works both ways.
There are still a few nitpicky things with the SuSE packages for 3.2 -- kdebase-suse hasn't been updated, so you'll get a conflict between it and kdebase. You can remove kdebase-suse and packages that depend on it, losing things like suseplugger and susewatcher, or you can ignore the conflict, which hasn't caused any problems for me, nor for anybody else I've heard from. It seemed to muck with my K menu stuff (various Gnome items are no longer there, some things like kmail and juk are in the wrong places), but I still haven't really figured out how I want that organized, so I was going to have to move things around anyway.
The new icon theme for 3.2 is a lot nicer as well, but doesn't have all the icons that SuSE's did.
Overall though, everything works nicely, and I expect all the little nitpicky issues to be worked out for SuSE 10, whenever that is. Along with YaST support for configuring devices for the 2.6 kernel.
If it's just a color scheme, it goes in [prefix]/share/apps/kdisplay/color-schemes/ for all users, or ~/.kde/share/apps/kdisplay/color-schemes for just one user. Note that for KDE, you can also create color schemes on-the-fly in Appearance & Themes -> Colors in the Control Center.
/usr.
If it's a whole theme engine, untar wherever you prefer, configure with the proper prefix, make, and make install. It should appear in Appearance and Themes -> Style.
I believe that for Fedora the proper prefix is simply
Personally, I think the Plastik style, which is now included with 3.2, beats all others available anyway.
LJ didn't start out as invite-only, and the invitation system wasn't ever intended to make it "exclusive" in any way. It was simply a way of throttling the load a little. Now that their capacity has expanded, they've removed the invite system.
It's not like it was ever that hard to get yourself a code, anyway.
Does your game specifically say it contains an amount of platinum though? Probably not.
About halfway through the first season they started providing all the downloads in BitTorrent. Not sure why that's not happening this time.
Yeah, the kcontrol integration seemed to break in 9.0. I'm slightly disappointed, but it's nothing major.
I get about 5 minutes. Maybe you misplaced a decimal point.
Office 97. It's the one that *didn't* share a year with a release of Windows.
Though a quick search seems to indicate that it was Office 2000 that first had this feature, not 97. At any rate, unless Macs had this type of filepicker before OS X and I just didn't notice, MS was still the first to have this type of filepicker.
(And considering that it took Apple until X to finally realize that a 2-pane file browser is a good idea, something which Windows (and probably other OSes) had had for a long time, it seems to me that Apple did some "borrowing" back of ideas for OS X.)
I was going to say lack of always-on-top, but I just decided to do a little research and it appears that 2.4 has this. About time. I ought to give it a try soon.
I can still complain about gconf though.
And really, the fileselector is only one example of Gnome's general faults -- so much focus is placed on accessibility and the HIG and not enough on usefulness.
The documents one is one I generally don't use, but I've found the location bar to be quite helpful in encouraging me to keep my files (relatively) organized. In KDE, you can set the bar on an application-spcific level, which makes it even more useful.
Except that KDE is getting the same accessibility support as GNOME, the OO.o KDE integration project is alive and well, WalMart has already been selling KDE systems in the form of Lindows, and many of the articles you link don't even mention GNOME, or don't exist.
Are you kidding? I know many people who loved it. Then again, my friends tend to like really uncommon stuff, considering how many of us are avid Breath of Fire fans.
Still, Hook has it's cult following out there. I ought to see it again sometime.
Alexander wrote some pretty damn nice short stories as well. There was one in particular I read in middle school, but I can't recall the name of it for the life of me.
Prydain movies don't seem too likely given how vastly underrated the series was, but maybe if the fantasy movie fad is still going strong when they've run out of other series, they can pick it up. Wishful thinking, I know.
The Horse and his Boy seems the most likely candidate for omission, and probably The Last Battle. I really hope they don't leave that one out though. Who knows, they might do what was done for the previous set of movies and combine Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Dunno if that'd fly for a big-budget film though, as it still is a bit disjointed that way.
Almost, but Magician's Nephew was written before Last Battle. It'd have been pretty odd to do it the other way around, since Polly and Digory were in it along with all the Friends of Narnia, and that wouldn't have worked if their story hadn't been told.
I can see that telling the Magician's Nephew first might take away from the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, but as long as it's in there I'll be happy -- it was my favorite story.
The first time I tried to read The Horse and His Boy, I couldn't stand it. Ditto for the second time. I was pretty young those two times though, and eventually I tried a third time and finally got it. Pretty much the same thing happened with The Last Battle, actually.
Still, I think Horse is most likely to be cut.
Yeesh, have you ever used anything other than a Windows PC? Only the windows version of Photoshop uses an MDI interface.
You might just as easily say that only the Mac version doesn't use an MDI interface. Wow, look at how non-informative saying either is.
Except that that'd be more correct since Photoshop was designed with MDI in mind, then adapted to fit the Mac idea of what's "usable." Also, even the non-MDI Mac interface of Photoshop isn't as bad as the GIMP. At least when you bring Photoshop to the front on a Mac you bring the entire application to the front, which is actually useful, as opposed to just bringing the tool palette to the front and having to raise all the other windows individually.
That may be (I don't exactly have the DVD region system memorized) but they'd essentially be making a special version just for Britain, which they're not likely to do.
If Britain used NTSC, it might be in Region 1. Since it uses PAL, it gets shoved in with the other PAL countries.
Yes, I realize that there are TVs that accept both NTSC and PAL, but the standard for Britain is still PAL.