Generally, when I'm on a site, I'm not there to view ads or be advertised to; usually I'm there to read the content and/or post there. If I want to find out about products, usually getting a personal recommendation from somebody (or at least from someone who's experienced with it) is much more effective than $random_google_ad. Also, it's obvious that the ads were bought (kinda hard to get ads without paying, eh?), so there's always that lack of real product advertising for a quality product. Google's the closest so far to making non-shitty advertising, but really, most advertisements are both shitty and for shit-quality products, usually in which I know of a better product along the same lines as the advertised one. Also, advertisements don't really help me find open source software or help regarding said OSS.
Don't you mean it's a whitelist instead of a blacklist? They control what you can do with it, effectively blocking out everything else, thus being a whitelist.
Man, the PlayStation was only made because Nintendo refused to let Sony make the N64 use their CD format. Nintendo and Sony used to be good pals y'know, but Nintendo wanted to continue usage of flash-based cartridges rather than dealing with this new-fangled format Sony was trying to push into the marketplace. I absolutely loved the immediate loading from solid-state media rather than the CDs, and you couldn't really scratch a cartridge. You could also save games onto the ROM of the cartridge, something which was impossible (and now just inefficient) with CDs and DVDs.
If only Nintendo didn't make a controller for the aliens that most likely replaced Sony for helping Nintendo make the N64, it may have been more successful (as well as a cheaper way of making cartridges, but that's more economic rather than ergonomic).
I like OpenOffice's equation editor better because is uses plain old [La]TeX if I remember correctly. Makes it easy to write equations in OOo and in LaTeX without remembering different syntaxes.
One step forward in the right direction. I'd like to see an Acid test that relies on proper renderring of CSS and [X]HTML. Being able to degrade gracefully or handle problems correctly is fine and dandy, but how about being able to render supported things correctly?
Let us count the audio formats that iTunes supports:
AAC (With DRM or without DRM, MPEG-4 Audio)
AIFF (Apple's raw audio format analogous to WAV or just plain RAW PCM)
MP3 (Love it or hate it, at least it supports the most widely used format as defined in MPEG-1, Layer 3 Audio)
WMA (Non-DRM'd Windows Media Audio can be converted to AAC or MP3)
ALAC (Apple's Lossless Audio Codec)
Tell me, where's the native (or even modular) support for Vorbis, FLAC, Monkey's Audio, Musepack, etc? I encode most of my music in either Ogg FLAC (if space allows) or Ogg Vorbis (generally between q6 and q7), but iTunes supports neither. Hell, they'd be more likely to support ATRAC3 than go and use an existing public domain format like Ogg. Yes, I commend Apple for using MPEG-4 as their primary audio format, so when I use ourTunes at a uni, I can generally get decent quality music rather than the shitfested 128k CBR MP3 or WMA commonly found on some P2P networks, but I prefer to use FLAC over ALAC and Vorbis over AAC. Don't get me wrong, I do generally buy old CDs and whatnot and rip those to FLAC, but if I want to "sample" some new stuff or things I've never heard of, I'd like to at least get a good quality sample (i.e. a song or 2 from that artist) rather than some 64k WMA that's only playable 5 times and only contains 60 seconds of the song before I go and buy more music from that artist. Also, iTunes needs to be made for Linux and *BSD at the least considering Darwin is a *BSD, so I'm sure Apple would have no problems making native versions for other operating systems.
I hate to say it (well, not really:P), but KHTML and Opera, although both quite good standards-following renderring engines, still lack an enormous amount of support for any "advanced" standard. Gecko [1.9a1] wins hands-down for support, and it's only a few bugs away from passing Acid2 (it's almost a smiley face as of today!), and it renders plenty of the more "advanced" XHTML and CSS 2/2.1 correctly (or at all). There is something with lists in Opera that make it not want to allow "list-style: none" when trying to present a list of links for instance as a navigation bar for GUI browsers.
I would seriously love to see an open source email client that can do all that Gmail does before I go back to LDAP or *cringe* POP3. Anyone have any recommendations as to a client that does this? I've used Thunderbird in the past, but Gmail is becoming so useful nowadays...
Well, it's still 2001 technology; it's not like the iPod has gotten much better other than slimming down and featuring more space. The iPod Photo is a step forward towards catching up with established players like the iRiver, but it's no longer "the best" as Apple has lagged behind in the feature support like decent battery life, audio formats, the ability to turn the screen and/or player off when not in use, and other internals. Back in 2001, sure, I'd place it in the top 100 (probably even top 10), but now it's outdated technology.
Yeah, but there are several MIDI editors that work based on musical notation. I don't remember any offhand, but I do recall working with them before. You could export the score as a MIDI.
I'm assuming you don't want MIDI despite its wide range of support and whatnot. It is limited, however, so I can see why you'd like something better. Honestly though, have you tried using MIDI? It's decades old and still used widely.
But the delay is in the about:config preferences, so I don't see why you'd need an extension to change one single preference (unless you're talking about the MR Tech Local Install extension).
If you're looking for any public domain audio or video that was created on a computer, you may not find any due to the 70+ year copyright bullshit in the US.
<script type='application/x-javascript'><![CDATA[ // stuff here and whatnot ]]></script>
Also, I do recall seeing something about application/javascript being accepted as a standard MIME type, but I'm not sure about its acceptance in browsers yet.
If they wanted to do that, you'd think they'd simply not show a Submit button until after the first Preview.
No, that is a design flaw present in way too many sites. Slashdot's method, also used commonly with other well-designed sites, is indeed the best. Users who don't check their posts get flamed anyhow, so that encourages previewing.
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Generally, when I'm on a site, I'm not there to view ads or be advertised to; usually I'm there to read the content and/or post there. If I want to find out about products, usually getting a personal recommendation from somebody (or at least from someone who's experienced with it) is much more effective than $random_google_ad. Also, it's obvious that the ads were bought (kinda hard to get ads without paying, eh?), so there's always that lack of real product advertising for a quality product. Google's the closest so far to making non-shitty advertising, but really, most advertisements are both shitty and for shit-quality products, usually in which I know of a better product along the same lines as the advertised one. Also, advertisements don't really help me find open source software or help regarding said OSS.
-Junx
Don't you mean it's a whitelist instead of a blacklist? They control what you can do with it, effectively blocking out everything else, thus being a whitelist.
Same goes for Microsoft; just because a corporation treats its customers like shit doesn't mean they ignore their employees as well...
Man, the PlayStation was only made because Nintendo refused to let Sony make the N64 use their CD format. Nintendo and Sony used to be good pals y'know, but Nintendo wanted to continue usage of flash-based cartridges rather than dealing with this new-fangled format Sony was trying to push into the marketplace. I absolutely loved the immediate loading from solid-state media rather than the CDs, and you couldn't really scratch a cartridge. You could also save games onto the ROM of the cartridge, something which was impossible (and now just inefficient) with CDs and DVDs.
If only Nintendo didn't make a controller for the aliens that most likely replaced Sony for helping Nintendo make the N64, it may have been more successful (as well as a cheaper way of making cartridges, but that's more economic rather than ergonomic).
I like OpenOffice's equation editor better because is uses plain old [La]TeX if I remember correctly. Makes it easy to write equations in OOo and in LaTeX without remembering different syntaxes.
Oh! Oh! Follow the hurricane naming convention for viruses!
+5 Awesome Idea right there, seriously...
Lately, new and highly anticipated PC games have been released in America at around the equivalent of £30+. :/
Yes, but that's only because he's from the Redundancy Department of Redundancy.
One step forward in the right direction. I'd like to see an Acid test that relies on proper renderring of CSS and [X]HTML. Being able to degrade gracefully or handle problems correctly is fine and dandy, but how about being able to render supported things correctly?
Nah, I have ggv for that. Besides, I don't really use GhostView. And by symbolic link, I actually meant alias. >_>
Yes, it's quite the predicament, isn't it? =/
Why must you do this to us, Apple? You were supposed to destroy the subpar products, not make them!
- AAC (With DRM or without DRM, MPEG-4 Audio)
- AIFF (Apple's raw audio format analogous to WAV or just plain RAW PCM)
- MP3 (Love it or hate it, at least it supports the most widely used format as defined in MPEG-1, Layer 3 Audio)
- WMA (Non-DRM'd Windows Media Audio can be converted to AAC or MP3)
- ALAC (Apple's Lossless Audio Codec)
Tell me, where's the native (or even modular) support for Vorbis, FLAC, Monkey's Audio, Musepack, etc? I encode most of my music in either Ogg FLAC (if space allows) or Ogg Vorbis (generally between q6 and q7), but iTunes supports neither. Hell, they'd be more likely to support ATRAC3 than go and use an existing public domain format like Ogg. Yes, I commend Apple for using MPEG-4 as their primary audio format, so when I use ourTunes at a uni, I can generally get decent quality music rather than the shitfested 128k CBR MP3 or WMA commonly found on some P2P networks, but I prefer to use FLAC over ALAC and Vorbis over AAC. Don't get me wrong, I do generally buy old CDs and whatnot and rip those to FLAC, but if I want to "sample" some new stuff or things I've never heard of, I'd like to at least get a good quality sample (i.e. a song or 2 from that artist) rather than some 64k WMA that's only playable 5 times and only contains 60 seconds of the song before I go and buy more music from that artist. Also, iTunes needs to be made for Linux and *BSD at the least considering Darwin is a *BSD, so I'm sure Apple would have no problems making native versions for other operating systems.I hate to say it (well, not really :P), but KHTML and Opera, although both quite good standards-following renderring engines, still lack an enormous amount of support for any "advanced" standard. Gecko [1.9a1] wins hands-down for support, and it's only a few bugs away from passing Acid2 (it's almost a smiley face as of today!), and it renders plenty of the more "advanced" XHTML and CSS 2/2.1 correctly (or at all). There is something with lists in Opera that make it not want to allow "list-style: none" when trying to present a list of links for instance as a navigation bar for GUI browsers.
I would seriously love to see an open source email client that can do all that Gmail does before I go back to LDAP or *cringe* POP3. Anyone have any recommendations as to a client that does this? I've used Thunderbird in the past, but Gmail is becoming so useful nowadays...
Not to troll or anything, but I like my program to be able to go fullscreen without having to spend $30 or whatever on a license, thank you very much.
My favourites? mplayer, VLC, XMMS (although XMMS2 is much-needed)
Because Google's Adsense and Adwords reach more people and make more money than Slashvertising. :P
Well, it's still 2001 technology; it's not like the iPod has gotten much better other than slimming down and featuring more space. The iPod Photo is a step forward towards catching up with established players like the iRiver, but it's no longer "the best" as Apple has lagged behind in the feature support like decent battery life, audio formats, the ability to turn the screen and/or player off when not in use, and other internals. Back in 2001, sure, I'd place it in the top 100 (probably even top 10), but now it's outdated technology.
zsh?
There are plenty of shells, but I've preferred using bash so far.
Yeah, but there are several MIDI editors that work based on musical notation. I don't remember any offhand, but I do recall working with them before. You could export the score as a MIDI.
I find myself typing "cd 'somewhere, probably with a tab auto-completion'" followed by an immediate "ls" or "ls -l".
Next most use(d|ful) would be tar, grep, and info/man. Oh yeah, and "gv", my own symbolic link to gvim. Of course, you can't forget sudo...
I'm assuming you don't want MIDI despite its wide range of support and whatnot. It is limited, however, so I can see why you'd like something better. Honestly though, have you tried using MIDI? It's decades old and still used widely.
But the delay is in the about:config preferences, so I don't see why you'd need an extension to change one single preference (unless you're talking about the MR Tech Local Install extension).
If you're looking for any public domain audio or video that was created on a computer, you may not find any due to the 70+ year copyright bullshit in the US.
If they wanted to do that, you'd think they'd simply not show a Submit button until after the first Preview.
No, that is a design flaw present in way too many sites. Slashdot's method, also used commonly with other well-designed sites, is indeed the best. Users who don't check their posts get flamed anyhow, so that encourages previewing.