Widgets for Konfabulator are a lot easier to make. This encourages a lot more community than the Apple widgets. However, since they are easier to make, you also see quite a few buggy widgets (although there are by no means a shortage of good widgets). You might as well give it a try, see if there are widgets out there that you like better than the apple ones.
I'm a pretty serious konfabulator user, and I also write some widgets, which gives me a bit of insight into the inner workings and bugs. This is a pretty major upgrade, but mostly bug fix wise. The old 2.1.1 version was pretty buggy (javascript wise), although there were plenty of workarounds. The newer version has many less missing or incorrectly implimented javascript commands, although 2 minutes of testing revealed several major things they still havent fixed. If it were only the bug fixes, I would wholeheartedly recomend the upgrade, but as is, they added some obnoxious warning messages about using "non-yahoo supported" widgets, which discourages third party widget designers. You can't argue with free though.
Because we don't regard the actions of the fanatical religious minority (unless they blow something up). Its when the fanatical minority becomes a fanatical majority that people start to get worried. When an entire state (or enough of it that the government of that state becomes representative of these people) becomes religiously fanatical, it is cause for concern.
Anyone remember Robert A. Heinlein's fictional future, where the United States became a fanatical christian controled monarchy in the year 201* ? I used to think that was bogus.
Probably not. Laptop screens are a lot more compact, and therefor use much more specialized components. Since the space is tight, you probably can't fit a random cathode ray tube in there. Also, I'm not sure, but don't some laptop screens use LEDs instead of cold cathode tubes?
Great, an even bigger waste of bandwidth than sending 192kps audio over a 11Mbps connection. Honestly, you could send MP3s in smoke signals or morse code more efficiently.
I would agree with you, if the kid took it like a man. Instead, he said he didnt know stealing was wrong, and that all hewanted was to go home to his bed and his mommy. Maybe they should go along with his ploy, and commit him to a home for the mentally challenged.
Don't feel sorry for this kid. He is 19, and smart enough to get into college. He did something terribly illegal, stealing, which any 4 year old knows is wrong. What is more, he stole quite a lot ($370). He claims he didnt know that what he was doing was wrong and illegal. Bull. Then he's like "Please let me go home and sleep in my own bed!" It makes me sick.
Thats because everybody else got sick of saying it 6 months before that. Sorry to be rude, but look at the archvives of thinksecret. Every 5th story is something about how Apple is going to kill MCE, or merge with some other media company (TiVo, XM, Sirus, ect...)
Come on everybody! Geeze, whats with you?!?! I think the people who spend their time, not getting paid, to write a browser for your whiney lazy asses deserve some comendation. Thank you very much Firefox guys/gals, if you happen to read through this. I used to write OSS software, but I stopped, because NO ONE ever thanks you, all I got were bug reports (useful), already addressed complaints (useless), flaimbaits (annoying), and even several random death threats (kinda scary). So I no longer write OSS, as people who pay for software actually seem to have some perspective. This post revealed to me that this problem still exists with what is probably the biggest, most popular, and most useful OSS project out there today (Firefox has 10% market share, growing monthly, can Linux say that?).
I would buy it. A cheap media center PC? Who cares if Windows doesn't come installed, if the mac software sucks, then I can install Windows XP MCE. It would have to have a 3.5" drive, not a wimpy 2.5" drive, but if they are using a Pentium M, they can probably get away with a smaller motherboard and cooling. Sure, it wouldn't be that fast, but it would be killer to have a real computer, wimpy or not (at least by todays standards) in my AV cabinet.
Media center requires absolutely no work, at least no more than TiVo, which I take is your standard for "usability, not features". Just boot the thing, enter your area code, and choose from a list of TV providers (Satilite, Cable, ect...). Its all set then. If you want your music, video and picture collections to show up, its another 30 second wizard for each of them. MCE is INSANELY easy to use, just not very customizeable. MythTV can be changed all you want, but it takes a rocket scientist to get it running properly.
Seen this one so many times I'm not even going to read it. Here is what it says:
Most people use windows, and are ignorant. Linux used to be rough, but is growing fast. Linux is better than Windows in 4 of 5 ways (take your pick). People should use Linux. It is now Linux's time to shine, in fact, 112% of computer users will switch to Linuxin the next 4 hour.
Saved you 15 minutes.
Go ahead, mark me a flamebait, but even I (I use OSS software and OS all the time) get tired of these repetitive and incredibly biased compairisons.
I did it! I found all the security stuff difficult, so I replaced the hardware with my Pentium D desktop. Now, the XBox 360 will boot Suse, BSD, Windows XP, and even BeOS with little or no configuration. Then I decided that hacking the Xbox 360 alone was too easy, so I decided to write an XBox 360 emulator for my new hacked XBox 360. This was easily accomplished by subsituting the original scrapped hardware for the new hacked version. Spread the news.
Soundblaster 16s are crap, there is your problem. You can dig newer cards out of the trash, ones that won't burn your house down, and don't have ground loop issues.
You must have a really quiet TV and burn $20 bills for electricity. A midrance P4 system will run at about 70-100 watts idle, my high end system runs 170 watts idle, 220 watts full tilt. As for fans, just get a well designed case and quality fans, and you won't hear them.
Problem is, Sony is a multinational corporation. They are gonna protect their own. Plus, who knows if it was any one person, it may not have been. Sony has certainly been heading down the track it is on for a long time.
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Widgets for Konfabulator are a lot easier to make. This encourages a lot more community than the Apple widgets. However, since they are easier to make, you also see quite a few buggy widgets (although there are by no means a shortage of good widgets). You might as well give it a try, see if there are widgets out there that you like better than the apple ones.
I'm a pretty serious konfabulator user, and I also write some widgets, which gives me a bit of insight into the inner workings and bugs. This is a pretty major upgrade, but mostly bug fix wise. The old 2.1.1 version was pretty buggy (javascript wise), although there were plenty of workarounds. The newer version has many less missing or incorrectly implimented javascript commands, although 2 minutes of testing revealed several major things they still havent fixed. If it were only the bug fixes, I would wholeheartedly recomend the upgrade, but as is, they added some obnoxious warning messages about using "non-yahoo supported" widgets, which discourages third party widget designers. You can't argue with free though.
Because we don't regard the actions of the fanatical religious minority (unless they blow something up). Its when the fanatical minority becomes a fanatical majority that people start to get worried. When an entire state (or enough of it that the government of that state becomes representative of these people) becomes religiously fanatical, it is cause for concern. Anyone remember Robert A. Heinlein's fictional future, where the United States became a fanatical christian controled monarchy in the year 201* ? I used to think that was bogus.
Anyone got pictures?
Probably not. Laptop screens are a lot more compact, and therefor use much more specialized components. Since the space is tight, you probably can't fit a random cathode ray tube in there. Also, I'm not sure, but don't some laptop screens use LEDs instead of cold cathode tubes?
Great, an even bigger waste of bandwidth than sending 192kps audio over a 11Mbps connection. Honestly, you could send MP3s in smoke signals or morse code more efficiently.
I know about this virus, it takes a few 1/10s of a cent from each transaction, and puts it in a bank account. Ya, it was in Superman III.
I would agree with you, if the kid took it like a man. Instead, he said he didnt know stealing was wrong, and that all hewanted was to go home to his bed and his mommy. Maybe they should go along with his ploy, and commit him to a home for the mentally challenged.
Don't feel sorry for this kid. He is 19, and smart enough to get into college. He did something terribly illegal, stealing, which any 4 year old knows is wrong. What is more, he stole quite a lot ($370). He claims he didnt know that what he was doing was wrong and illegal. Bull. Then he's like "Please let me go home and sleep in my own bed!" It makes me sick.
Thats because everybody else got sick of saying it 6 months before that. Sorry to be rude, but look at the archvives of thinksecret. Every 5th story is something about how Apple is going to kill MCE, or merge with some other media company (TiVo, XM, Sirus, ect...)
Come on everybody! Geeze, whats with you?!?! I think the people who spend their time, not getting paid, to write a browser for your whiney lazy asses deserve some comendation. Thank you very much Firefox guys/gals, if you happen to read through this. I used to write OSS software, but I stopped, because NO ONE ever thanks you, all I got were bug reports (useful), already addressed complaints (useless), flaimbaits (annoying), and even several random death threats (kinda scary). So I no longer write OSS, as people who pay for software actually seem to have some perspective. This post revealed to me that this problem still exists with what is probably the biggest, most popular, and most useful OSS project out there today (Firefox has 10% market share, growing monthly, can Linux say that?).
Today: Miracle Hypersonic siren drives away teens and children. Tomorrow: Modern teens going deaf, lets blame iPods.
Today: Miracle Hypersonic siren drives away teens and children. Tomorrow: Modern teens going deaf.
I would buy it. A cheap media center PC? Who cares if Windows doesn't come installed, if the mac software sucks, then I can install Windows XP MCE. It would have to have a 3.5" drive, not a wimpy 2.5" drive, but if they are using a Pentium M, they can probably get away with a smaller motherboard and cooling. Sure, it wouldn't be that fast, but it would be killer to have a real computer, wimpy or not (at least by todays standards) in my AV cabinet.
Media center requires absolutely no work, at least no more than TiVo, which I take is your standard for "usability, not features". Just boot the thing, enter your area code, and choose from a list of TV providers (Satilite, Cable, ect...). Its all set then. If you want your music, video and picture collections to show up, its another 30 second wizard for each of them. MCE is INSANELY easy to use, just not very customizeable. MythTV can be changed all you want, but it takes a rocket scientist to get it running properly.
Wait, are you quoting the article, I can't tell.
Seen this one so many times I'm not even going to read it. Here is what it says:
Most people use windows, and are ignorant.
Linux used to be rough, but is growing fast.
Linux is better than Windows in 4 of 5 ways (take your pick).
People should use Linux.
It is now Linux's time to shine, in fact, 112% of computer users will switch to Linuxin the next 4 hour.
Saved you 15 minutes.
Go ahead, mark me a flamebait, but even I (I use OSS software and OS all the time) get tired of these repetitive and incredibly biased compairisons.
Also, an ogre guards the DMA access.
I did it! I found all the security stuff difficult, so I replaced the hardware with my Pentium D desktop. Now, the XBox 360 will boot Suse, BSD, Windows XP, and even BeOS with little or no configuration. Then I decided that hacking the Xbox 360 alone was too easy, so I decided to write an XBox 360 emulator for my new hacked XBox 360. This was easily accomplished by subsituting the original scrapped hardware for the new hacked version. Spread the news.
Which is less than the average cable bill, or 4 tanks of gas. Which do you want more? Remember, this IS slashdot.
P.S. I live in a dorm, which means free electricty. Feel free to stop by with an extension cord.
Soundblaster 16s are crap, there is your problem. You can dig newer cards out of the trash, ones that won't burn your house down, and don't have ground loop issues.
You must have a really quiet TV and burn $20 bills for electricity. A midrance P4 system will run at about 70-100 watts idle, my high end system runs 170 watts idle, 220 watts full tilt. As for fans, just get a well designed case and quality fans, and you won't hear them.
Your DNA says you don't have a bomb, so go right ahead and board! Have a nice day!
Problem is, Sony is a multinational corporation. They are gonna protect their own. Plus, who knows if it was any one person, it may not have been. Sony has certainly been heading down the track it is on for a long time.
Very true. The problem with this camera is that in order to get a good image out of it, you have to have a supercomputer crunch numbers for awhile.