If it's a *fine* rather than damages, then it goes to the EU. I think some damages go to real, who lost money because people used windows media for their streaming and not real because windows media player was on every windows pc and real player wasn't. Or something like that.
I don't remember real sucking that much. I really don't. There was the buffering...buffering business back in about version 6 when you tried to play radio over a 14.4kbps modem, but really I don't see what they could have done about that.
What do you use then? Windows media? It's actually the best tool for the job I've found, but it seems strange for a slashdotter to be choosing MS alone. Theora and Dirac aren't stable enough yet, are they?
It does contribute though, because it raises the possibility of a downloadable distro for joe average with mp3 playback out of the box. Which will make linux more popular.
Dubious or not, it's caused big name distros (I'm thinking fedora mainly) to be unable to play mp3s out of the box. Which will be a big turnoff for normal people trying linux.
I have. It's not there any more, and I've never seen anything really bad, except in the download accelerator bit which was inherited from another program they brought. They set an agent program to run at startup, so what, so does winamp. They make it a bit non-obvious which is the free version, which is a bit nasty, but as long as you read a little bit rather than just madly clicking you're fine, and winamp does the same there as well. Even if they used to be an evil company, so did IBM, remember? The slashdot crowd seems to have accepted that they've turned over a new leaf, so why not real?
I'd say give emerde a try. One change to por2pkg and everything becomes completely reversible, so you can use packages for both. Just make sure you don't let it install pam and it works fine. And you don't need to worry about install defaults if you already have a working system.
Portage doesn't need that much horsepower, just leave it on overnight. I can't do that, but 4 hours a day is quite enough to keep my 800mhz Duron up to date (and it has pretty much everything major installed). nice -n 19 emerge -u world, then your system is just as responsive and it's upgrading. Slackware is still a nice distro, but its lack of a dependency manager hurts it.
I think Debian and Gentoo are the obvious alternatives. Slackware people tend to compile a lot of their own stuff anyway since the default distribution is a bit light on the packages (no OOo for example), and there's a very nice port of emerge to slackware. Debian is quite slack-like but may be too political for many slackers.
We like standards more than we like diversity. All this will do is dilute the openpgp standard. There are dozens of openpgp compatiable programs and few enough people use pgp as it is. The last thing we want is another program to confuse users. Make openpgp easy for average joe to use and we'll applaud you. Make an incompatiable app that's easy for average joe, or another openpgp app, and we'll be happy. But this program does nothing worthwhile.
I don't think it was years, and I suspect it was because very few people knew or cared that you could use that particular algorithm to sign as well as encrypt. Yes, it is a major issue, but the number of people actually affected by it is very small.
The millions of children were killed by the sanctions. Saddam had the chance to save them and didn't, yes, but it's not him who's responsible for their deaths, it's the people who put the sanctions in place in the first place.
I would still be anti-war, for one simple reason. Iraq was a fucking SOVEREIGN NATION. No matter how bad the situation in Iraq was, the US did not have the right to go invading them. There is one, and only one, body with the authority to invade a nation, and that is the UN. Anyone else invading another country which has not committed an act of war against them is wrong. Period. End of story.
From the screenshots on the site, it does look really nice. I doubt it will immediately replace KDE and GNOME, but if enough of a developer community springs up around it, it has the potential to do so.
For example, the bytecode for a Python method call is very different from the bytecode for a C# method call
Really? Since the whole point of.net is that you can call a Python method from C#, and subclass a C# object in Python, etc., I assumed the bytecodes for objects and functions would have to be the same across languages, and if that much of the language is going to come out the same, with luck loops and variables would look the same in bytecode too. I know going c#-IL-same C# program is very hard, but I'd have thought C#-IL-C# code that is obviously machine generated but nethertheless does the same thing and could be edited by a human was reasonably doable.
But if you can convert c/C#/Perl/whatever source to bytecode, surely you could then convert it back to source in one of the other languages? Not necessarily the best source for doing the algorithm, but some source that does it.
Slashdot just appears anti-MS because you won't find Linux zealots anywhere else. Really, try any other discussion forum on the web. A few Linux zealots get visible posts on OSNews, but they usually get modded down. When I was IP-banned for a month or so I spent days looking for a site like it, but there isn't one. Here are a bunch of people who believe that Linux is superior to Windows. This really is a unique situation. And so we appear to outsiders to be anti-MS.
Someone will work out what method they're using to select their keys and distribute a keygen. Or else he'll crack their site and get the whole key database.
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If it's a *fine* rather than damages, then it goes to the EU. I think some damages go to real, who lost money because people used windows media for their streaming and not real because windows media player was on every windows pc and real player wasn't. Or something like that.
I don't remember real sucking that much. I really don't. There was the buffering...buffering business back in about version 6 when you tried to play radio over a 14.4kbps modem, but really I don't see what they could have done about that.
What do you use then? Windows media? It's actually the best tool for the job I've found, but it seems strange for a slashdotter to be choosing MS alone. Theora and Dirac aren't stable enough yet, are they?
Nowhere to be seen. And yet slashdot still seems to adore apple. Crazy.
It does contribute though, because it raises the possibility of a downloadable distro for joe average with mp3 playback out of the box. Which will make linux more popular.
Dubious or not, it's caused big name distros (I'm thinking fedora mainly) to be unable to play mp3s out of the box. Which will be a big turnoff for normal people trying linux.
Neat. Still nothing revolutionary.. think Firefox.
If it's configureable by non-admin users, then this is a big plus. I hate that about firefox and opera.
I have. It's not there any more, and I've never seen anything really bad, except in the download accelerator bit which was inherited from another program they brought. They set an agent program to run at startup, so what, so does winamp. They make it a bit non-obvious which is the free version, which is a bit nasty, but as long as you read a little bit rather than just madly clicking you're fine, and winamp does the same there as well. Even if they used to be an evil company, so did IBM, remember? The slashdot crowd seems to have accepted that they've turned over a new leaf, so why not real?
I'm more amazed that you can still get modded up with that joke. It must be older than I am.
I'd say give emerde a try. One change to por2pkg and everything becomes completely reversible, so you can use packages for both. Just make sure you don't let it install pam and it works fine. And you don't need to worry about install defaults if you already have a working system.
And yet the slashbots will still find a way to make them appear evil. After all, they're competing with apple.
No. We don't need a new word for astronauts from every nation. Astronaut will do just fine.
Portage doesn't need that much horsepower, just leave it on overnight. I can't do that, but 4 hours a day is quite enough to keep my 800mhz Duron up to date (and it has pretty much everything major installed). nice -n 19 emerge -u world, then your system is just as responsive and it's upgrading. Slackware is still a nice distro, but its lack of a dependency manager hurts it.
I think Debian and Gentoo are the obvious alternatives. Slackware people tend to compile a lot of their own stuff anyway since the default distribution is a bit light on the packages (no OOo for example), and there's a very nice port of emerge to slackware. Debian is quite slack-like but may be too political for many slackers.
We like standards more than we like diversity. All this will do is dilute the openpgp standard. There are dozens of openpgp compatiable programs and few enough people use pgp as it is. The last thing we want is another program to confuse users. Make openpgp easy for average joe to use and we'll applaud you. Make an incompatiable app that's easy for average joe, or another openpgp app, and we'll be happy. But this program does nothing worthwhile.
I don't think it was years, and I suspect it was because very few people knew or cared that you could use that particular algorithm to sign as well as encrypt. Yes, it is a major issue, but the number of people actually affected by it is very small.
The millions of children were killed by the sanctions. Saddam had the chance to save them and didn't, yes, but it's not him who's responsible for their deaths, it's the people who put the sanctions in place in the first place.
I would still be anti-war, for one simple reason. Iraq was a fucking SOVEREIGN NATION. No matter how bad the situation in Iraq was, the US did not have the right to go invading them. There is one, and only one, body with the authority to invade a nation, and that is the UN. Anyone else invading another country which has not committed an act of war against them is wrong. Period. End of story.
From the screenshots on the site, it does look really nice. I doubt it will immediately replace KDE and GNOME, but if enough of a developer community springs up around it, it has the potential to do so.
Really? Since the whole point of .net is that you can call a Python method from C#, and subclass a C# object in Python, etc., I assumed the bytecodes for objects and functions would have to be the same across languages, and if that much of the language is going to come out the same, with luck loops and variables would look the same in bytecode too. I know going c#-IL-same C# program is very hard, but I'd have thought C#-IL-C# code that is obviously machine generated but nethertheless does the same thing and could be edited by a human was reasonably doable.
But if you can convert c/C#/Perl/whatever source to bytecode, surely you could then convert it back to source in one of the other languages? Not necessarily the best source for doing the algorithm, but some source that does it.
Read what he's saying. The problem is not that the bass isn't being compressed well, it's that the ipod doesn't have enough power to make it sound ok.
Much as I appreciate the song, how could you make something like that without reference to Natalie Portman?
Slashdot just appears anti-MS because you won't find Linux zealots anywhere else. Really, try any other discussion forum on the web. A few Linux zealots get visible posts on OSNews, but they usually get modded down. When I was IP-banned for a month or so I spent days looking for a site like it, but there isn't one. Here are a bunch of people who believe that Linux is superior to Windows. This really is a unique situation. And so we appear to outsiders to be anti-MS.
Someone will work out what method they're using to select their keys and distribute a keygen. Or else he'll crack their site and get the whole key database.