People probably hate the idea due to the drugs part. The airliners would get the cheapest drugs they could legally use, and you'd have much more to worry about than a terrorist attack...
Same in the US, same in most countries. Besides being a safety problem, you'd think the person would want their baggage back if they're not going on that plane.
...it's a lot easier to fly a Boeing 767 into a building...
Do you know how to fly a 767? Or a Boeing airplane? Or even an airplane in general? It takes far more than a couple hours to figure it out, even with proper training. Now if you've flown airplanes before, sure, you should be able to figure it out pretty quickly, but my guess is that it'd be easier to sneak in and blow yourself up than somehow jack an airplane and fly the damn thing. Even the 9/11 jackers at least had a lot of flying experience beforehand.
Yes, but many people would have to agree that the binary codecs MPlayer supports really suck compared to the native ones. Besides, DLLs (common usage) only work on x86 processors, yet MPlayer is cross platform (so is Helix), so that doesn't solve the problem completely.
I dunno about the "no portable player" bit; MPlayer seems to be the most portable media player on the planet. Transcoding FLV to anything else is trivial via ffmpeg or MEncoder.
Matroska has wide support on Linux. MPlayer and Xine both support it, so that covers a majority of the media players on Linux (most are based on one of the two or at least use their libraries).
I'm sure the judge would get irritated with you real fast as you don't follow proper court procedures. This is especially true for busy judges (i.e. basically all of them).
I dunno, but both Red Book CDDA and MPEG-1 are quite old (I know MPEG-1 dates back to the 80's sometime, and Red Book possibly the 70's, but Wikipedia or something should give a more accurate timeframe); they still had time to "protect" CDs before they became big after MPEG-1 was standardised.
The "tubes" comment was only the tip of the iceburg when it came to the ignorance of his longwinded speech before the Senate.
Also, since the "tubes" are technically optical fibre lines, you can't fill them up with light until you've used every possible wavelength of light that can safely stay in the fibre without radiating through (e.g. gamma radiation).
I'm pretty sure Adobe is actively working on a Linux-compatible plugin for Flash 8 or 9, but they were going with some new technologies to do so (e.g. V4L2, ALSA). Also, GNU is actively working on a Flash player known as Gnash (or Klash for KDE), and since that's one of GNU's top priorities at the moment, we can expect a decent cross-platform Flash player which supports several different backends for renderring and playing Flash (e.g. Cairo, OpenGL, SDL, gstreamer).
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Right, but there's almost no SVG adoption.
Wait, do you mean actual use of SVG, or support? I would have to disagree with the latter as pretty much all web browsers support SVG now (including IE via an Adobe SVG plugin). Within the next year, I'm sure SVG should start to get some better use on the web, possibly along with the canvas element to provide for advanced vector animation.
Also, I'd have to clarify that Flash video is only good for streaming content. Otherwise, I'll take it in other standard formats instead (e.g. MPEG-4 inside the MOV container for something current).
If God has always been, then the only way for that to happen is for there to have been a beginning of the universe where He was the universe. I'd say He still is the universe (God == light and energy), but that's just my belief.
An aggregator that parses HTML with mshtml.dll would be the worst security hole imaginable. libkhtml.so or libmozjs.so/dll (? I don't remember if that contains all of Gecko) might be an improvement, but parsing HTML in a feed (other than the markup I mentioned) is stupid anyhow.
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People probably hate the idea due to the drugs part. The airliners would get the cheapest drugs they could legally use, and you'd have much more to worry about than a terrorist attack...
I think an endothermic reaction in this case would be an implosion. Muahaha
Oh, oh, is that a jab at Dell? ;p
Same in the US, same in most countries. Besides being a safety problem, you'd think the person would want their baggage back if they're not going on that plane.
...it's a lot easier to fly a Boeing 767 into a building...
Do you know how to fly a 767? Or a Boeing airplane? Or even an airplane in general? It takes far more than a couple hours to figure it out, even with proper training. Now if you've flown airplanes before, sure, you should be able to figure it out pretty quickly, but my guess is that it'd be easier to sneak in and blow yourself up than somehow jack an airplane and fly the damn thing. Even the 9/11 jackers at least had a lot of flying experience beforehand.
I actually prefer Matroska, but I'd also like to mention that Apple's MOV container is pretty open and well documented (PDF warning), unlike Microsoft's crap.
Yes, but many people would have to agree that the binary codecs MPlayer supports really suck compared to the native ones. Besides, DLLs (common usage) only work on x86 processors, yet MPlayer is cross platform (so is Helix), so that doesn't solve the problem completely.
I dunno about the "no portable player" bit; MPlayer seems to be the most portable media player on the planet. Transcoding FLV to anything else is trivial via ffmpeg or MEncoder.
Trolltech is sort of a "green" company...
Sure it does; just use 0.\overline{285714}.
A nibble is half a bite (note the spellings to see the bad pun if you hadn't already).
Matroska has wide support on Linux. MPlayer and Xine both support it, so that covers a majority of the media players on Linux (most are based on one of the two or at least use their libraries).
I'm sure the judge would get irritated with you real fast as you don't follow proper court procedures. This is especially true for busy judges (i.e. basically all of them).
I dunno, but both Red Book CDDA and MPEG-1 are quite old (I know MPEG-1 dates back to the 80's sometime, and Red Book possibly the 70's, but Wikipedia or something should give a more accurate timeframe); they still had time to "protect" CDs before they became big after MPEG-1 was standardised.
The "tubes" comment was only the tip of the iceburg when it came to the ignorance of his longwinded speech before the Senate.
Also, since the "tubes" are technically optical fibre lines, you can't fill them up with light until you've used every possible wavelength of light that can safely stay in the fibre without radiating through (e.g. gamma radiation).
I'm pretty sure Adobe is actively working on a Linux-compatible plugin for Flash 8 or 9, but they were going with some new technologies to do so (e.g. V4L2, ALSA). Also, GNU is actively working on a Flash player known as Gnash (or Klash for KDE), and since that's one of GNU's top priorities at the moment, we can expect a decent cross-platform Flash player which supports several different backends for renderring and playing Flash (e.g. Cairo, OpenGL, SDL, gstreamer).
Right, but there's almost no SVG adoption.
Wait, do you mean actual use of SVG, or support? I would have to disagree with the latter as pretty much all web browsers support SVG now (including IE via an Adobe SVG plugin). Within the next year, I'm sure SVG should start to get some better use on the web, possibly along with the canvas element to provide for advanced vector animation.
Also, I'd have to clarify that Flash video is only good for streaming content. Otherwise, I'll take it in other standard formats instead (e.g. MPEG-4 inside the MOV container for something current).
You know you could just search for "545000000..574000000" to do the numerical range thing, right? Works in Ruby, too, IIRC.
You don't see the karma bonuses on your own posts.
It's obviously C++ at fault, eh? ;p
Or stick them in the console like single user mode does.
If God has always been, then the only way for that to happen is for there to have been a beginning of the universe where He was the universe. I'd say He still is the universe (God == light and energy), but that's just my belief.
With all those 9's, you could have just said you were going 299792457 m/s (1 m/s less than c).
Nice to see that they forgot that the MIME type for JavaScript is "application/javascript"...
An aggregator that parses HTML with mshtml.dll would be the worst security hole imaginable. libkhtml.so or libmozjs.so/dll (? I don't remember if that contains all of Gecko) might be an improvement, but parsing HTML in a feed (other than the markup I mentioned) is stupid anyhow.