Actually it's good that they are using Flash Video. Any web browser that supports Javascript and Flash can play the videos. No messing around with codecs, media players and plugins. One simple solution that works for most people with Linux, OSX, Windows and possibly more.
And, on video.google.com, if you really must have the original file you can click a small link and download it - in the original format.
Cross-platform streaming video playback without the mess? That'll be the Google.
"The company, which was formerly known as Lindows, has gotten a lot of press for including their OS with pre-bundled computers"
Talking of which, now that Tiny computers have gone bust - who will bundle Linspire on PCs in the UK? Tiny was the only PC manufacturer in the UK to do this.
I wonder what Linspires plans are for this...?
One of my fears was that people would run OSX on generic PCs. The biggest part of the Mac 'experience' is the operating system. And I'm very happy that it will only run on Apple computers, not generic PCs. Let the PCs run Windows, and the Mac's run OSX - that's what it was designed for.
or even the kind of Star Wars crap where women are seen as bearers of future Jedi who stay home and get all emotional and lose the will to live when their partners turn to the Dark Side
I'm happily running Windows XP SP2 on an AMD K6-2 300 with 196mb ram, and it performs very very well. Although I cheated a little and used a great tool called XP Lite to remove all the stuff I don't need from XP.
XP can run on low-end PCs fine, just remove the bulk nobody really needs.
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People will watch these and wonder what Firefox is. A quick type on google and bammo. Ads that don't tell you exactly what a product is makes people want to find out for themselves.
Shame these 'funny' commercials are nowhere near funny. They suck, sorry.
These days I don't reccomend anyone to buy cheap no-name unbranded RAM. Of all the PC hardware problems I've had over the years, about 80% are down to bad faulty generic RAM. I know only use Crucial or Kingston. They check the RAM, I know the RAM I buy is going to be working. RAM is one of the most important parts of any computer system.
Is it really worth saving the £3-£5 by getting cheap unbranded RAM? As the saying goes, you get what you paid for.
I recently tried the RC release on my blue & whie G3 and ran into a lot of problems.
1) Booting into X, the colours are wrong (lots of red and pink). Switching into a vterm then back into X fixes this but why is it doing it in the first place? 2) HAL errors. No sound in Gnome. KDE has limited sound but playing anything intensive like MP3 causes the machine to hang. 3) Shutdown hangs. No idea why.
I appreciate the Ubuntu developers working on the PPC port but they really should try the distro out on other machine apart from G5 and G4's. There is nothing special about my G3, it's standard spec. But it doesn't work.
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Actually it's good that they are using Flash Video. Any web browser that supports Javascript and Flash can play the videos. No messing around with codecs, media players and plugins. One simple solution that works for most people with Linux, OSX, Windows and possibly more. And, on video.google.com, if you really must have the original file you can click a small link and download it - in the original format. Cross-platform streaming video playback without the mess? That'll be the Google.
I second that. Avast is an excellent antivirus! I've reccomended it to everyone I know that uses Windows operating systems.
The most popular IM in China is QQ, sort of based on ICQ but incompatible. After QQ a lot of people use MSN, followed by Yahoo.
Google: Hahaha
Actually, Chinese hardly ever bow. Maybe you are thinking of Japanese who almost always bow.
Why not just be honest and say "Hey, guys! I just ripped this news off from NewsForge and submitted it to slashdot"
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The original post was made by Tom Chance one of the members of the NewsForge team here: http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/09/19/1
Clinton, next time try and credit the original writers...
Slashdot probably get's referral payments
I wonder if they will add Google-style spellchecking... omfg lol rofl - Did you mean "I'm a sad script kiddy?"
the point is... google is teh cool
Now that's one video tombstone I don't want to see...
"The company, which was formerly known as Lindows, has gotten a lot of press for including their OS with pre-bundled computers"
Talking of which, now that Tiny computers have gone bust - who will bundle Linspire on PCs in the UK? Tiny was the only PC manufacturer in the UK to do this. I wonder what Linspires plans are for this...?
More like a shot in the mouth The Mac Mini bukkakes now? What an upgrade!
Will it overheat? Oh well, no 'ARM in trying
One of my fears was that people would run OSX on generic PCs. The biggest part of the Mac 'experience' is the operating system. And I'm very happy that it will only run on Apple computers, not generic PCs. Let the PCs run Windows, and the Mac's run OSX - that's what it was designed for.
Because with VHS tapes you can 'Re-record, not fade away'
Rumania? Is that where the Rumans come from?
or even the kind of Star Wars crap where women are seen as bearers of future Jedi who stay home and get all emotional and lose the will to live when their partners turn to the Dark Side
Damn you spoiled the movie for me now!
I'm happily running Windows XP SP2 on an AMD K6-2 300 with 196mb ram, and it performs very very well. Although I cheated a little and used a great tool called XP Lite to remove all the stuff I don't need from XP. XP can run on low-end PCs fine, just remove the bulk nobody really needs.
People will watch these and wonder what Firefox is. A quick type on google and bammo. Ads that don't tell you exactly what a product is makes people want to find out for themselves. Shame these 'funny' commercials are nowhere near funny. They suck, sorry.
Goatse is more open than Microsoft
These days I don't reccomend anyone to buy cheap no-name unbranded RAM. Of all the PC hardware problems I've had over the years, about 80% are down to bad faulty generic RAM. I know only use Crucial or Kingston. They check the RAM, I know the RAM I buy is going to be working. RAM is one of the most important parts of any computer system. Is it really worth saving the £3-£5 by getting cheap unbranded RAM? As the saying goes, you get what you paid for.
Is this where the engineer arrives at your home in the nude?
I recently tried the RC release on my blue & whie G3 and ran into a lot of problems.
1) Booting into X, the colours are wrong (lots of red and pink). Switching into a vterm then back into X fixes this but why is it doing it in the first place?
2) HAL errors. No sound in Gnome. KDE has limited sound but playing anything intensive like MP3 causes the machine to hang.
3) Shutdown hangs. No idea why.
I appreciate the Ubuntu developers working on the PPC port but they really should try the distro out on other machine apart from G5 and G4's. There is nothing special about my G3, it's standard spec. But it doesn't work.
Immaculate conception?
Now everyone will try and hack Linux to get hold of her naughty pictures.