You do realize that it is sort of suspicious when Bush's brother is in charge of the disputed state?
And you do realize it's more than a little suspicious to have Bush's Florida campaign manager play a major role in the recount?
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Imagine this wasn't an interview by the founder of Linux. Imagine (most) everyone on this forum didn't already despise Microsoft, and/or love Linux.
Now, is Microsoft a monopolist? Before you answer, read up on your history. Have they used this monopoly power to hurt consumers, by locking them in, by limiting choice?
If that's the American Dream, then I maybe its time to revise the American Dream.
By the way, from here, an ecosystem is "a community of organisms." There isn't much of an ecosystem if one of the "organisms" has absolute power over every other one.
Wow, that sounds like what I did. I have input boxes that lead to searches on google, amazon (music), ebay, imdb, and dictionary.com. Very handy. I might add some more later, but thats what I use now mostly.
A friend brought over his Midi/USB keyboard, and it worked great in GarageBand. But I'm not that much of an audio head to drop significant cash on a Midi/USB keyboard...
The built-in Keyboard thingy in GarageBand kind of sucks, because you have to use the mouse to hit the keys... or do I? Does anyone know of a way to use the actual (qwerty) keyboard to record in notes?
I hope its not an obvious solution, because I looked around in the docs and couldn't find it.
I don't get your argument, man. They are not saying anything about Mario 128, and you're critiziing them. They did mention hints about Sunshine, and that was a bad idea because it took away from the surprise/mystery of the idea. What exactly should they do?
Cg is first thing I thought of when I saw this post... I need to read the project page, but it seems to me, Cg would be the technology to learn given it's strong corporate backing and maturity.
I don't know if the SVG project is still maintained at Mozilla. I don't think its that high of a priority anymore... The last SVG-enabled build I tried sucked anyway.
The adobe plugin is not *that* much of a pain to install, though. I read somewhere that it gets sneaked on to your system with every new Acrobat install as well. Hopefully, we'll see more SVG adoption in the coming 1-2 year span.
Actually, I've found that both players can play all the porn^W videos I through at them... I've stuck with mplayer simply because I started using it first, despite the *random* bugs that crop up with every new release (screen turning black when playing every third file in the playlist? a few versions ago, mplayer would play the first file in a playlist twice? wtf?)
I think I've just convinced myself to use xine more often...
Yes Nintendo is not a poor company, and yes they make A-list games, but aren't you being near-sighted if you think the company is doing great? The author's main point is that there's no such thing as the "Video Game" industry, at least in terms of consoles. Consoles are becoming more and more powerful, and he argues that the consumer is going to see machine A which plays games, and machine B which is $80 more, but plays dvd's, goes online, etc., not to mention the fact that it has a game library at least an order of magnitude larger than any other machine.
Nintendo makes great games. Sony makes a popular machine, so that other developers make great games for it, so they really don't have to produce A-list titles. What's the difference in these strategies? The way I see it, Nintendo can't make a dozen A-list titles every year. They just can't do it themselves. Sony can just sit back and watch the hits roll in, because developers want to target PS2, because it is the most popular, because its a more versatile machine. Makes sense to me.
The damn adobe plugin is mostly unmaintained, as far as I know. The last update to the Windows version was recent, but before that it was like a good 2 years before they updated it. That being said, I think it is still the only real SVG plugin worth a damn. (There's batik, but that's not a browser plugin.)
I don't know why it doesn't work under mozilla, I don't remember having tried it under windows. But the windows adobe plugin works under mozilla on linux, using Crossover. The only thing I can think of is if you have the SVG-enabled mozilla (which sucks), while trying to run the plugin too.
Try the usual things: moving the plugin DLL's from mozilla's plugin directory, reinstalling it, etc.
People who compare SVG to Flash directly are missing the point. The real strength of SVG is not vector graphics (which its pretty good at). The real strength of SVG is that since its an XML-derived schema, all the available tools for dealing with and transcoding XML documents (XSLT, et al) can be used to generate SVG documents. The implications of this are slowly beginning to be understood. Imagine how many XML derivations could use this. Anything from business documents (graphs, etc), to medical records (graphically showing the timeline of a patient's medical operations, for example) can utilize these techniques.
The coolest example I can point you to is this. An XSLT stylesheet is used to transform a chess markup language into a animated SVG image. Beyond cool.
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You do realize that it is sort of suspicious when Bush's brother is in charge of the disputed state?
And you do realize it's more than a little suspicious to have Bush's Florida campaign manager play a major role in the recount?
Imagine this wasn't an interview by the founder of Linux. Imagine (most) everyone on this forum didn't already despise Microsoft, and/or love Linux.
Now, is Microsoft a monopolist? Before you answer, read up on your history. Have they used this monopoly power to hurt consumers, by locking them in, by limiting choice?
If that's the American Dream, then I maybe its time to revise the American Dream.
By the way, from here, an ecosystem is "a community of organisms." There isn't much of an ecosystem if one of the "organisms" has absolute power over every other one.
We have indeed arrived at a truly sad state of affairs, if "telling the truth" is indistinguishable from "calling someone a dick."
Actually, I think the poster was referring to Stewart calling the hosts political hacks, and declaring that their show does nothing for the public.
But I think you knew that, and instead decided for the sensationalistic comment above. Nice spin.
Let's set the record straight - Microsoft won the browser wars over the Netscape, because it delivered a better product with IE 4 and IE 5.
Let's set the record a little straighter - are you sure bundling the browser had nothing to do with its popularity?
Hey! I've had a lap dance there! Small world...
This eventually meandered (alcohol was involved) into a much larger topic:
What the hell is going on with independent development & the Mac?
ONLY geeks talk about Macs and technology when they are drunk!
Wal-Mart is at least as bad as Microsft. I remember reading about this, it took me a while to dig up this link, but it is very telling: http://fastcompany.com/magazine/77/walmart.html
Wow, that sounds like what I did. I have input boxes that lead to searches on google, amazon (music), ebay, imdb, and dictionary.com. Very handy. I might add some more later, but thats what I use now mostly.
Ya, I can't imagine why they'd like to prevent the proliferation of a competing company's formats. Very strange...
Dude, you are wasting all kinds of space and probably annoying lots of people with your sig.
A friend brought over his Midi/USB keyboard, and it worked great in GarageBand. But I'm not that much of an audio head to drop significant cash on a Midi/USB keyboard...
The built-in Keyboard thingy in GarageBand kind of sucks, because you have to use the mouse to hit the keys... or do I? Does anyone know of a way to use the actual (qwerty) keyboard to record in notes?
I hope its not an obvious solution, because I looked around in the docs and couldn't find it.
I don't get your argument, man. They are not saying anything about Mario 128, and you're critiziing them. They did mention hints about Sunshine, and that was a bad idea because it took away from the surprise/mystery of the idea. What exactly should they do?
IIRC, Sojourner landed base petal down too. If it is all by chance, then we've had some very good luck so far with landers!
How is that a myth, exactly?
Cg is first thing I thought of when I saw this post... I need to read the project page, but it seems to me, Cg would be the technology to learn given it's strong corporate backing and maturity.
I don't know if the SVG project is still maintained at Mozilla. I don't think its that high of a priority anymore... The last SVG-enabled build I tried sucked anyway.
The adobe plugin is not *that* much of a pain to install, though. I read somewhere that it gets sneaked on to your system with every new Acrobat install as well. Hopefully, we'll see more SVG adoption in the coming 1-2 year span.
I'll throw VideoLAN into the mix. It succeded with some files (read: Paris Hilton video) where other players failed.
Actually, I've found that both players can play all the porn^W videos I through at them... I've stuck with mplayer simply because I started using it first, despite the *random* bugs that crop up with every new release (screen turning black when playing every third file in the playlist? a few versions ago, mplayer would play the first file in a playlist twice? wtf?)
I think I've just convinced myself to use xine more often...
It took me a sec, but after that, I laughed hard. Nice job.
Yes Nintendo is not a poor company, and yes they make A-list games, but aren't you being near-sighted if you think the company is doing great? The author's main point is that there's no such thing as the "Video Game" industry, at least in terms of consoles. Consoles are becoming more and more powerful, and he argues that the consumer is going to see machine A which plays games, and machine B which is $80 more, but plays dvd's, goes online, etc., not to mention the fact that it has a game library at least an order of magnitude larger than any other machine.
Nintendo makes great games. Sony makes a popular machine, so that other developers make great games for it, so they really don't have to produce A-list titles. What's the difference in these strategies? The way I see it, Nintendo can't make a dozen A-list titles every year. They just can't do it themselves. Sony can just sit back and watch the hits roll in, because developers want to target PS2, because it is the most popular, because its a more versatile machine. Makes sense to me.
well, you can imagine my results.
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I can't... how about some links?
Nit #3: There's no such character as 'Gondalf'
The damn adobe plugin is mostly unmaintained, as far as I know. The last update to the Windows version was recent, but before that it was like a good 2 years before they updated it. That being said, I think it is still the only real SVG plugin worth a damn. (There's batik, but that's not a browser plugin.)
I don't know why it doesn't work under mozilla, I don't remember having tried it under windows. But the windows adobe plugin works under mozilla on linux, using Crossover. The only thing I can think of is if you have the SVG-enabled mozilla (which sucks), while trying to run the plugin too.
Try the usual things: moving the plugin DLL's from mozilla's plugin directory, reinstalling it, etc.
I'll take a Microsoft standard, which at least is answerable to market forces; over stuff published by unimaginative committees anyday
It is to laugh! Unimaginative committees? Microsoft is damn near duping a standard created through the W3, and you call the committee unimaginative?
You're right, though. Who nees open standards and peer review, when there's a monopolist we can all follow like sheep.
People who compare SVG to Flash directly are missing the point. The real strength of SVG is not vector graphics (which its pretty good at). The real strength of SVG is that since its an XML-derived schema, all the available tools for dealing with and transcoding XML documents (XSLT, et al) can be used to generate SVG documents. The implications of this are slowly beginning to be understood. Imagine how many XML derivations could use this. Anything from business documents (graphs, etc), to medical records (graphically showing the timeline of a patient's medical operations, for example) can utilize these techniques.
The coolest example I can point you to is this. An XSLT stylesheet is used to transform a chess markup language into a animated SVG image. Beyond cool.