Actually it looks like XFCE4 with a new Launch button and a slightly customized Panel, and a desktop manager from KDE or something. Of course, not having seen KDE at work in quite a while I could easily be fooled into thinking that.
Unless this thing will be able to hotsync to a Palm Pilot or a Pocket PC, I see little use in actually using this calendar. I hope that is planned, and I could find a single reference to that sort of thing in the article (by word-search). It's a little length, so - if anyone's already read all through or has some more background info, please tell us wether this is a planned addition or already within it's options.
If I get this right, and spatial navigation is nothing more than showing every directory in it's very own window, then this innovation is really very old.
Actually, it can be a good thing. With many file managers, you can have it both ways. ROX for example, would open another window for everything if I use the middle mouse button instead of a normal single left click.
I've been using this to sort files on a regular basis, but I too have very deep directory structures (e.g. ~/library/media/text/books/Author/ or ~/library/media/images/Art/Author/ often with more directories used for category organisation and so forth).
Besides, I haven't ever used any graphical Filemanager that was as fast or as slick as Rox is, so....
I love Weasel Reader, have been using it to read a lot of books by now, and I wrote some of the articles on the Forum of your sourceforge project page for WR. I wonder when/if the changes from the russian version get incooperated into the official version, and when this nice piece of software might get updated. Keep up the good work! =)
I haven't seen more cluttered menus in all my life! Why on earth are the color equalize, color normalize other colour tools in the _Layers_ menu? You would have to expect to find those in the Colour tool menus, or the Filter menus, _anywhere_ but the Layer menus.
This was far better with The Gimp 1.2.
But still, I love this thing. But for sanity's sake, please give all the menus a new better structure.
People say the TV programme consists to 99% of high evolution crap. And they are right. There is nothing left on TV that would draw my attention, save the news. And those I can retrieve on the Internet.
If I still had a TV, I would have to pay about 30+ $ in a month just for the sole purpose of having a receiver. Because TV nowadays sucks, and because it is way too expensive (you get ripped off in this country by some awkard company called 'GEZ'), I got rid of it once and for all, years ago.
There are a few repeats that I miss, but I might be able to get those on DVD eventually.
Am I the only person who belives that all the massive online roleplaying Ultima episodes are not what the majority of players where hoping for?
As a matter of fact, Ultima's been left to die after the Ascension desaster, and every effort after that was lost on online episodes. All the years I was hoping for another sequel - one what fixes/finishes/answers and heals at least half of what harm has been done with Ultima 8 and 9.
But instead, we're going to get more of the same - and it's all online.
This ain't flamebait or trolling - I recognize the love for the Online episodes that quite a lot people share. It's just that this is - to me, and to most of my friends, not the real Ultima, and it won't ever be. Ultima has to be a single player role playing/adventure experience.
That open letter about the US constitution is from the 4th of february, and I can load it just fine.
Seems like it's quite now, and it's about copyright rather than trade secrets. I wonder if that was written in support of their latest quick draw (& miss) to go for copyright issues rather than patent law.
http://sco.com/copyright/
I've skimmed through the text, and had a hard time to stiffle annoyed giggles rather than happy ones. It's just such utter crap.
Even though it might not come across as a full blown "map editor" or even "mod maker" that you might expect - with plenty of time and creativity you can build somewhat primitive but awesome looking and playing maps in the plain deathmatch environment of Cube.
The project is free and hosted here, screenshots are right on the front page.
http://wouter.fov120.com/cube/
The actual editor works in-game, and while playing the game in single player mode, you can press E to switch to editing mode. The README explains what the keyboard functions are. Basically, you mark things in the map and shrink/grow them, and everything is built out of cubes that can be 'bent' to your liking in various ways.
In my opinion the argument given is bogus. For some oddball reason german state TV news channel declared that the Real Player is the "most popular".
I could not help but snicker at that, honestly. Having never - ever - met anyone who does appreciate their player software before in my life, I cannot help but guess that the "masses" that make this player popular (if at all) are the masses of online TV and radio channels that use it for streaming. As a streaming format, the real format is actually pretty good, if not the best suited - at least when it comes to audio PLUS video. But even that may be wrong.
I'll get to the point now.
Realplayer uses the Realformat. MS Media Player does not know this format.
Is the codec question excluded? The WMP does not play Real format - at all! You _need_ the Real player in order to play it.
How can the WMP endanger or drive out the Real player if it does not even play the one big strong format that this player does focus on? The single purpose for most people to ever use Real Player One is that single format! There is no competition between the two players - they don't even touch each other.
That Linux version got scrapped. I heard that the only person who was responsible for doing all the work of porting Winamp 3 over to Linux, got fired by AOL. Brendan was his name, I believe. As far as I learned, the port was well underway, except that it was less of an actual buisness effort, but something more true to "scratch your own itch". In short, a hobby. Sombody - correct me where I'm wrong.
There still is an effort underway to port some of what was called Winamp 3 over to Linux, and it's called "wasabi" or something such. You can find the "project page" over here:
There's been one that was actually only shown once, as far as I know, probably on BBC.
"Laputa" is yet another Myazaki movie that seems to have been massively undermarketed by Buena Vista.
Since Buena Vista bought the rights or license to distribute Myazaki's movies they have made a real effort of not actively marketing them, advertizing for them, and kept those great anime flicks mostly undercover for the most part. I bet it came to no surprise to even them that "Spirited Away" was a great hit, so that they were forced to react with more advertizement for the soon after that released DVD.
Actually, I've never seen them actually marketing one of these movies until Spirited Away was such a success despite of nobody having heard of it before in several countries where it was shown. I guess they have their reasons, but the most prominent of those must be the greed of other companies such as Disney.
Now, where can you find that absolutely perfect british dub of Laputa, today?
Some fans have recordings on video tapes I guess. But you can't buy it anywhere. Not that I'm a fan of dubs - especially the anime dubs made in Germany after the eighties suffered a lot from the "it's kids stuff so we don't need to put effort or money into it" approach of dub studios. What you can see on TV here today is quite the horrors when you have heard the orignal voices before.
The difference between a graphicall shell or window manager as opposed to an actual desktop environment are it's capabilities to provide You with the necessary sources and standards to write up your own applications that meets them, and integrates seamlessy with them.
XCFE *has* all of that, and you can write your applications for it just as well as you could for Gnome or KDE.
This is a fully featured Desktop Environment, and I've been using it since it's earlier 4b betas, and think very highly of it. In the betas the file manager xffm is - while being very capable - somewhat slow on my computer, but ROX Filer together with XFCE desktop are a valuable combination.
I suggest you try it, if you are looking for something that is clean, and does not depend on all too many libraries.
Many solutions compete over how perfectly they blend into foreign environments, save and load most common commercial file formats.
The masses that use Linux aren't locked out of MS file formats anymore since years, and Microsoft file format users aren't tied to their lock-in files as much anymore either.
The open sourced alternative ways of loading and saving foreign format files bypass problems of the past with elegancy that is unmatched in the commercial world (where is dead project won't rise from the ashes without money involved).
The "scratch your own itch" way works out neatly. Whoever feels the desire to do so canl pick whatever _they_ think is best for them. Craig's warning is unnecessary and feels a little out of place.
Perhaps there are circumstances when sponsoring comes into play. Or maybe...
Schwartz sounds so sure of his company and the incredible amount of 'sold-out's that it makes me think he is perhaps ordering a squad of buisnessmen infantry go into town every morning and hand out all-free Sun gift baskets along with Solaris CDs & Support coupons to future customers.
How much cheaper than 'free' can you go? Some of the answers given in his interview make only sense when you remember that Sun and IBM are competitors engaging in a publicity war.
Only though, IBM wins my sympathy. They stay cool.
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Actually it looks like XFCE4 with a new Launch button and a slightly customized Panel, and a desktop manager from KDE or something. Of course, not having seen KDE at work in quite a while I could easily be fooled into thinking that.
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Unless this thing will be able to hotsync to a Palm Pilot or a Pocket PC, I see little use in actually using this calendar. I hope that is planned, and I could find a single reference to that sort of thing in the article (by word-search). It's a little length, so - if anyone's already read all through or has some more background info, please tell us wether this is a planned addition or already within it's options.
If I get this right, and spatial navigation is nothing more than showing every directory in it's very own window, then this innovation is really very old.
Actually, it can be a good thing. With many file managers, you can have it both ways. ROX for example, would open another window for everything if I use the middle mouse button instead of a normal single left click.
I've been using this to sort files on a regular basis, but I too have very deep directory structures (e.g. ~/library/media/text/books/Author/ or ~/library/media/images/Art/Author/ often with more directories used for category organisation and so forth).
Besides, I haven't ever used any graphical Filemanager that was as fast or as slick as Rox is, so....
Atern as well. Even some hacked version of rxvt.
I love Weasel Reader, have been using it to read a lot of books by now, and I wrote some of the articles on the Forum of your sourceforge project page for WR. I wonder when/if the changes from the russian version get incooperated into the official version, and when this nice piece of software might get updated. Keep up the good work! =)
I haven't seen more cluttered menus in all my life! Why on earth are the color equalize, color normalize other colour tools in the _Layers_ menu? You would have to expect to find those in the Colour tool menus, or the Filter menus, _anywhere_ but the Layer menus.
This was far better with The Gimp 1.2.
But still, I love this thing. But for sanity's sake, please give all the menus a new better structure.
People say the TV programme consists to 99% of high evolution crap. And they are right. There is nothing left on TV that would draw my attention, save the news. And those I can retrieve on the Internet.
If I still had a TV, I would have to pay about 30+ $ in a month just for the sole purpose of having a receiver. Because TV nowadays sucks, and because it is way too expensive (you get ripped off in this country by some awkard company called 'GEZ'), I got rid of it once and for all, years ago.
There are a few repeats that I miss, but I might be able to get those on DVD eventually.
Am I the only person who belives that all the massive online roleplaying Ultima episodes are not what the majority of players where hoping for?
As a matter of fact, Ultima's been left to die after the Ascension desaster, and every effort after that was lost on online episodes. All the years I was hoping for another sequel - one what fixes/finishes/answers and heals at least half of what harm has been done with Ultima 8 and 9.
But instead, we're going to get more of the same - and it's all online.
This ain't flamebait or trolling - I recognize the love for the Online episodes that quite a lot people share. It's just that this is - to me, and to most of my friends, not the real Ultima, and it won't ever be. Ultima has to be a single player role playing/adventure experience.
That open letter about the US constitution is from the 4th of february, and I can load it just fine. Seems like it's quite now, and it's about copyright rather than trade secrets. I wonder if that was written in support of their latest quick draw (& miss) to go for copyright issues rather than patent law. http://sco.com/copyright/ I've skimmed through the text, and had a hard time to stiffle annoyed giggles rather than happy ones. It's just such utter crap.
Even though it might not come across as a full blown "map editor" or even "mod maker" that you might expect - with plenty of time and creativity you can build somewhat primitive but awesome looking and playing maps in the plain deathmatch environment of Cube.
The project is free and hosted here, screenshots are right on the front page.
http://wouter.fov120.com/cube/
The actual editor works in-game, and while playing the game in single player mode, you can press E to switch to editing mode. The README explains what the keyboard functions are. Basically, you mark things in the map and shrink/grow them, and everything is built out of cubes that can be 'bent' to your liking in various ways.
In my opinion the argument given is bogus. For some oddball reason german state TV news channel declared that the Real Player is the "most popular".
I could not help but snicker at that, honestly. Having never - ever - met anyone who does appreciate their player software before in my life, I cannot help but guess that the "masses" that make this player popular (if at all) are the masses of online TV and radio channels that use it for streaming. As a streaming format, the real format is actually pretty good, if not the best suited - at least when it comes to audio PLUS video. But even that may be wrong.
I'll get to the point now.
Realplayer uses the Realformat.
MS Media Player does not know this format.
Is the codec question excluded? The WMP does not play Real format - at all! You _need_ the Real player in order to play it.
How can the WMP endanger or drive out the Real player if it does not even play the one big strong format that this player does focus on? The single purpose for most people to ever use Real Player One is that single format! There is no competition between the two players - they don't even touch each other.
That Linux version got scrapped. I heard that the only person who was responsible for doing all the work of porting Winamp 3 over to Linux, got fired by AOL. Brendan was his name, I believe. As far as I learned, the port was well underway, except that it was less of an actual buisness effort, but something more true to "scratch your own itch". In short, a hobby. Sombody - correct me where I'm wrong.
There still is an effort underway to port some of what was called Winamp 3 over to Linux, and it's called "wasabi" or something such. You can find the "project page" over here:
http://www.wasabidev.org/
There's been one that was actually only shown once, as far as I know, probably on BBC.
"Laputa" is yet another Myazaki movie that seems to have been massively undermarketed by Buena Vista.
Since Buena Vista bought the rights or license to distribute Myazaki's movies they have made a real effort of not actively marketing them, advertizing for them, and kept those great anime flicks mostly undercover for the most part. I bet it came to no surprise to even them that "Spirited Away" was a great hit, so that they were forced to react with more advertizement for the soon after that released DVD.
Actually, I've never seen them actually marketing one of these movies until Spirited Away was such a success despite of nobody having heard of it before in several countries where it was shown. I guess they have their reasons, but the most prominent of those must be the greed of other companies such as Disney.
Now, where can you find that absolutely perfect british dub of Laputa, today?
Some fans have recordings on video tapes I guess. But you can't buy it anywhere. Not that I'm a fan of dubs - especially the anime dubs made in Germany after the eighties suffered a lot from the "it's kids stuff so we don't need to put effort or money into it" approach of dub studios. What you can see on TV here today is quite the horrors when you have heard the orignal voices before.
They do do it all perfectly in Japan.
The difference between a graphicall shell or window manager as opposed to an actual desktop environment are it's capabilities to provide You with the necessary sources and standards to write up your own applications that meets them, and integrates seamlessy with them.
XCFE *has* all of that, and you can write your applications for it just as well as you could for Gnome or KDE.
This is a fully featured Desktop Environment, and I've been using it since it's earlier 4b betas, and think very highly of it. In the betas the file manager xffm is - while being very capable - somewhat slow on my computer, but ROX Filer together with XFCE desktop are a valuable combination.
I suggest you try it, if you are looking for something that is clean, and does not depend on all too many libraries.
Many solutions compete over how perfectly they blend into foreign environments, save and load most common commercial file formats.
The masses that use Linux aren't locked out of MS file formats anymore since years, and Microsoft file format users aren't tied to their lock-in files as much anymore either.
The open sourced alternative ways of loading and saving foreign format files bypass problems of the past with elegancy that is unmatched in the commercial world (where is dead project won't rise from the ashes without money involved).
The "scratch your own itch" way works out neatly. Whoever feels the desire to do so canl pick whatever _they_ think is best for them. Craig's warning is unnecessary and feels a little out of place.
Not only proofread it, but also give their grandma a go at reading and also understanding what's being said, and the point of it.
There are way too many acronyms and abbreviations that may or may not confuse the targetted audience.
Perhaps there are circumstances when sponsoring comes into play. Or maybe...
Schwartz sounds so sure of his company and the incredible amount of 'sold-out's that it makes me think he is perhaps ordering a squad of buisnessmen infantry go into town every morning and hand out all-free Sun gift baskets along with Solaris CDs & Support coupons to future customers.
How much cheaper than 'free' can you go? Some of the answers given in his interview make only sense when you remember that Sun and IBM are competitors engaging in a publicity war.
Only though, IBM wins my sympathy. They stay cool.