Except when it's released by Apple in which case it must be as simple and good-looking as possible. Shit like MySpace just confirms your comment, but even that is starting to die down after Fox bought them.
You could say the same thing about the 360 regarding HDTV (have you tried playing Xbox 360 games on an SDTV? good luck reading the text if you don't have an enormous TV in the first place).
Only if anyone on/. gave a shit about the PS3 in the first place could I agree with that. After the PS3 flopped, there aren't any more supporters of it here...
You can print out web pages on letter-sized paper, too! Besides, I think letter-sized paper is only used in the US since there's some international standard you may or may not have heard of (ISO 216) that the rest of the world uses. Perhaps the US population is growing at about 10% per year?
What do video framerates have to do with books? (Telecine is a method of changing a film's original framerate (e.g., 24000/1001 fps) to a different one (e.g., NTSC 30000/1001 fps (or 60), or PAL 25 fps (or 50)))
This sounds like an interesting thing to try with Plan 9 From Bell Labs. It's supposed to be extremely machine-independent (goes all the way with the "everything is a file" concept) and could probably be extended (if it doesn't do so already) to do clustering and virtualising (at the same time!).
That was the UNIX version of cc I believe. GCC doesn't work that way; instead, it bootstraps itself using a simple C compiler written in assembler (or something like that). Basically, if you can trust the compiler that compiles the compiler, and you can trust the new compiler, you're good to go. I trust the FSF more than that asswipe from Bell Labs.;)
One thing I learnt due to Comcast's shitty DNS servers is that you can use any DNS server (including one you run on the same computer that you're using) provided you either know its IP address or one of the root DNS server IP addresses (there's like 13 of them IIRC).
Lucky for me, I signed up back when they were called Excite @Home or something like that, and it required absolutely no software whatsoever to install (unless you needed drivers for an ethernet card or something; the CD mostly had documentation which was already in the book). So, one day when I wasn't using Windows at all anymore (sometime during the Comcast name), I never had to deal with this bullshit.
We switched to AT&T as well, but they also required Windows to set up the DSL. I've only got a Mac and a few Linux boxes in my house, so I had to get my friend to bring over his Windows laptop (now that I think about it, most of my friends have Macbooks if they have laptops in the first place for some reason) in order to set it up. The only thing I miss about Comcast was getting much higher download speeds since it seems I'm the only techie in the whole neighbourhood (thus had burst == sustained most of the time).
Which is why they've already made a converter that is licensed with a BSD-like license instead of a GPL'd one, right? They definitely don't like free software due to the GPL, but they've been known to release some things under an open source license (and I'm not talking about their bullshit attempt at open source software with the shared source license or whatever it's called).
That sort of thing has absolutely no basis in the federal government. Unless it was a bridge from one state or country to another, the federal government should stay the fuck away. This was an Alaskan issue that should have been dealt with and paid for by the Alaskan government. Where in the Constitution does it give the federal government the authority to construct such a bridge in just Alaska? Don't cite the state commerce clause because that is in between states, not just a single state.
Ubuntu has Sun Java packages available (not installed by default), so you can get automatic updates with that. I don't know if Debian still has those packages in non-free, but when Sun JDK/JRE 7 come out (GPLv3), they should be included in main. Gentoo has an ebuild for it already, so just hope that the ebuild gets updated as usual. I don't know about the Red Hat family of distros, but they're probably covered just as well.
Bring in an expert witness that explains how DRM is fundamentally flawed and only increases the likeliness that people will turn to piracy for the content in question. Besides, anyone redistributing copyrighted material (e.g., via BitTorrent) is already breaking the law which should not be BBC's fault, full stop.
Yeah, if only it were that simple to get a good quality rip of a DVD. The process I follow (which is influenced by the MPlayer developers' documentation in the first place) usually involves making a copy of the VOBs from the DVD (dvdbackup is good for this, but you can just rip a straight MPEG-2 VOB via MPlayer and -dumpstream), then transcoding the video (with -oac copy) along with any filters to fix the asinine usage of hard telecine in many DVDs (especially anime which royally fucks up the video so that it's nearly unwatchable without an interlaced TV) and fix other encoding oddities (including black bars on anamorphic widescreen movies), then remuxing it into a modern file format (like Matroska) rather than be stuck with an AVI file that can't support subtitles or VBR audio (although I usually just copy the AC3 audio when available in 5.1) to say the least.
Makes me want to tell the people who use some autoconfiguring GUI to do this to get off my damn lawn!
You do know that proper isn't a release group, right? It's a tag for a release of something that was already released by another group, but the group doing the proper feels that the original release wasn't up to par with their standards. To prevent clutter, the first group to release a movie/whatever is the one that gets credit for it, but if it's a shitty release, someone else can step up and take credit for the movie with a proper release.
Usenet. You know, the thing we used for this sort of thing in the first place, but nobody seems interested in anymore (other than for warez and whatnot). Perhaps an updated version of NNTP that supports Unicode, binary attachments, and better measures to thwart spammers is in order?
Unless you have some recent and accurate numbers regarding the popularity of Hotmail, I would say you're full of shit. There are probably more Yahoo! or AOL users than there are Hotmail users nowadays.
Why won't the fonts look beautiful by default? Why, after all these years Linux has existed, do we have to seek help from Microsoft with its fonts in order to have a desktop that is a pleasure to look at? I'm going to assume here that you prefer to look at aliased Arial and Verdana rather than a modern anti-aliased font family such as DejaVu/Bitsream Vera? That's personal opinion, and any Mac user, graphic artist, or people with good eyesight would prefer to have anti-aliased font families, and in the case of graphic artists, especially ones that aren't a cheap ripoff of Helvetica that don't look good on paper nor displays.
Besides, if you want to have your Microsoft fonts, you go to "Add/Remove Programs", find the "Microsoft Core Fonts" (or search for microsoft) package, and install that. Voila, you've got your shitty fonts.
And yes, I am bitter about Microsoft's fonts, especially Arial considering they ripped off Linotype's Helvetica but forgot to make it look any better.
Since you've got quite the hefty list of complaints, would you please report them to the relevant website? Some of these issues may be known, and others might not be, so it would be very helpful for you to report them all. Thanks!
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Except when it's released by Apple in which case it must be as simple and good-looking as possible. Shit like MySpace just confirms your comment, but even that is starting to die down after Fox bought them.
How the fuck did this get modded informative? It's all fake spoilers for a completely unrelated topic anyhow.
You could say the same thing about the 360 regarding HDTV (have you tried playing Xbox 360 games on an SDTV? good luck reading the text if you don't have an enormous TV in the first place).
Only if anyone on /. gave a shit about the PS3 in the first place could I agree with that. After the PS3 flopped, there aren't any more supporters of it here...
You can print out web pages on letter-sized paper, too! Besides, I think letter-sized paper is only used in the US since there's some international standard you may or may not have heard of (ISO 216) that the rest of the world uses. Perhaps the US population is growing at about 10% per year?
What do video framerates have to do with books? (Telecine is a method of changing a film's original framerate (e.g., 24000/1001 fps) to a different one (e.g., NTSC 30000/1001 fps (or 60), or PAL 25 fps (or 50)))
Combine that with ccache and the pains of compiling large C/C++ programs will slowly disappear right before your eyes. :)
This sounds like an interesting thing to try with Plan 9 From Bell Labs. It's supposed to be extremely machine-independent (goes all the way with the "everything is a file" concept) and could probably be extended (if it doesn't do so already) to do clustering and virtualising (at the same time!).
That was the UNIX version of cc I believe. GCC doesn't work that way; instead, it bootstraps itself using a simple C compiler written in assembler (or something like that). Basically, if you can trust the compiler that compiles the compiler, and you can trust the new compiler, you're good to go. I trust the FSF more than that asswipe from Bell Labs. ;)
One thing I learnt due to Comcast's shitty DNS servers is that you can use any DNS server (including one you run on the same computer that you're using) provided you either know its IP address or one of the root DNS server IP addresses (there's like 13 of them IIRC).
Lucky for me, I signed up back when they were called Excite @Home or something like that, and it required absolutely no software whatsoever to install (unless you needed drivers for an ethernet card or something; the CD mostly had documentation which was already in the book). So, one day when I wasn't using Windows at all anymore (sometime during the Comcast name), I never had to deal with this bullshit.
We switched to AT&T as well, but they also required Windows to set up the DSL. I've only got a Mac and a few Linux boxes in my house, so I had to get my friend to bring over his Windows laptop (now that I think about it, most of my friends have Macbooks if they have laptops in the first place for some reason) in order to set it up. The only thing I miss about Comcast was getting much higher download speeds since it seems I'm the only techie in the whole neighbourhood (thus had burst == sustained most of the time).
Which is why they've already made a converter that is licensed with a BSD-like license instead of a GPL'd one, right? They definitely don't like free software due to the GPL, but they've been known to release some things under an open source license (and I'm not talking about their bullshit attempt at open source software with the shared source license or whatever it's called).
That sort of thing has absolutely no basis in the federal government. Unless it was a bridge from one state or country to another, the federal government should stay the fuck away. This was an Alaskan issue that should have been dealt with and paid for by the Alaskan government. Where in the Constitution does it give the federal government the authority to construct such a bridge in just Alaska? Don't cite the state commerce clause because that is in between states, not just a single state.
The "TV tax" funds the BBC. The BBC is streaming content over the Internet using their own equipment. Therefore, the "TV tax" is indeed paying for it.
Ubuntu has Sun Java packages available (not installed by default), so you can get automatic updates with that. I don't know if Debian still has those packages in non-free, but when Sun JDK/JRE 7 come out (GPLv3), they should be included in main. Gentoo has an ebuild for it already, so just hope that the ebuild gets updated as usual. I don't know about the Red Hat family of distros, but they're probably covered just as well.
Bring in an expert witness that explains how DRM is fundamentally flawed and only increases the likeliness that people will turn to piracy for the content in question. Besides, anyone redistributing copyrighted material (e.g., via BitTorrent) is already breaking the law which should not be BBC's fault, full stop.
At least MPlayer is well-documented! :)
Yeah, if only it were that simple to get a good quality rip of a DVD. The process I follow (which is influenced by the MPlayer developers' documentation in the first place) usually involves making a copy of the VOBs from the DVD (dvdbackup is good for this, but you can just rip a straight MPEG-2 VOB via MPlayer and -dumpstream), then transcoding the video (with -oac copy) along with any filters to fix the asinine usage of hard telecine in many DVDs (especially anime which royally fucks up the video so that it's nearly unwatchable without an interlaced TV) and fix other encoding oddities (including black bars on anamorphic widescreen movies), then remuxing it into a modern file format (like Matroska) rather than be stuck with an AVI file that can't support subtitles or VBR audio (although I usually just copy the AC3 audio when available in 5.1) to say the least.
Makes me want to tell the people who use some autoconfiguring GUI to do this to get off my damn lawn!
You do know that proper isn't a release group, right? It's a tag for a release of something that was already released by another group, but the group doing the proper feels that the original release wasn't up to par with their standards. To prevent clutter, the first group to release a movie/whatever is the one that gets credit for it, but if it's a shitty release, someone else can step up and take credit for the movie with a proper release.
Usenet. You know, the thing we used for this sort of thing in the first place, but nobody seems interested in anymore (other than for warez and whatnot). Perhaps an updated version of NNTP that supports Unicode, binary attachments, and better measures to thwart spammers is in order?
Unless you have some recent and accurate numbers regarding the popularity of Hotmail, I would say you're full of shit. There are probably more Yahoo! or AOL users than there are Hotmail users nowadays.
Why, after all these years Linux has existed, do we have to seek help from Microsoft with its fonts in order to have a desktop that is a pleasure to look at? I'm going to assume here that you prefer to look at aliased Arial and Verdana rather than a modern anti-aliased font family such as DejaVu/Bitsream Vera? That's personal opinion, and any Mac user, graphic artist, or people with good eyesight would prefer to have anti-aliased font families, and in the case of graphic artists, especially ones that aren't a cheap ripoff of Helvetica that don't look good on paper nor displays.
Besides, if you want to have your Microsoft fonts, you go to "Add/Remove Programs", find the "Microsoft Core Fonts" (or search for microsoft) package, and install that. Voila, you've got your shitty fonts.
And yes, I am bitter about Microsoft's fonts, especially Arial considering they ripped off Linotype's Helvetica but forgot to make it look any better.
Beginner users don't use RAID, thanks for playing. ;)
Since you've got quite the hefty list of complaints, would you please report them to the relevant website? Some of these issues may be known, and others might not be, so it would be very helpful for you to report them all. Thanks!