Thats just part of what the english language has become. When you're referring to inanimate objects or things, like and love are interchangeable. (Interestingly, Japanese is the same way)
Personally I believe this is primarily due to the lack of words that show varying degrees of like or dislike as other languages have. Weird things happen when people have to work around a deficiency in the language.
Sure, go download a program called Wipe and use it on the entire device. According to the DOD 5220.22-M specification, overwriting a file 5 to 7 times with random data is sufficient to prevent recovery. Wipe does it 34 times by default. When you use this program on a file or filesystem, it is gone. Period.
After looking through the docs again I see you are right. I stand corrected. Unfortunately there is also the dependancy on proprietary, third-party codecs that could limit its usefulness when packaged officially, but its still one of the best options out there. Xine works well too, but personally I hate UIs that mimic the layout of a set-top box.
Plus Mencoder is indeed the best of the meager selection of video encoders for linux.
Crossover lets you use the netscape plugin, though, through your favorite web browser. The actual windows application is one of the worst media player interfaces I have ever used and it's even worse under wine. Thats what I meant.
That is true, but it is also true of every other universal media player. It's the people using these proprietary codecs which are the problem, not the players.
For instance, if I wanted to watch a Sorenson Quicktime file, I have only two options: Codeweavers crossover plugin (which is excellent) and MPlayer. (I don't consider running the quicktime player through wine an option worth even considering. If you've ever done it you'd understand) I'm not aware of any other media players that support Sorenson, but if there are they'd be no better.
The most likely reason why most ditros don't include MPlayer is because in order to fully utilize it, you need to compile from source. A lot of the optimizations have to be configured at compile time and the developers are against binary distributions of MPlayer. Even though I prefer it above any other media player, I think they need to address this issue before most distros will adopt it.
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That nothing compared to "The remake will tell the story of a bike gang leader who must rescue his younger brother from his involvement in Akira." Where did they get the idea Tetsuo and Kaneda are brothers?
AVI is a specific type of container format. The OGG specification is likewise a container format, which is similar to AVI but much much better. AVI can only multiplex one video and one audio stream, whereas OGG is capable of multiplexing one video stream with any number of audio streams, subtitle streams and chapter breaks. AVI and OGG are mutually exclusive formats and calling an OGG file AVI would be misnaming.
Ogg is merely the container format that both Vorbis and Theora use. Just like Mov is a quicktime container that can be any number of different codecs, as well as avi, asf and wmv. Calling a Theora file.ogg is perfectly valid and calling a vorbis file.ogg is just as valid.
Even better, why not go to LucasArts' own store and buy it there? They have most of their classic games still available to buy. I've recently picked up new versions of Day of the Tentacle and Sam n Max, and I'm thinking about picking up Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. Never did completely finish that one...
XVID and Divx4 are both branches from Project Maya's OpenDivx codec. When OpenDivx stopped being GPL software and was relicensed as a proprietary codec, non-Maya people who were helping developement got mad about that and created XVID from the latest GPL OpenDivx code. Divx4/5 and XVID have been developed in parallel since then.
Those who say.Net needs a long time to grow up were probably burned on java's early versions
I would be more inclined to say they have been burned on every single product Microsoft has ever made. Especially for undertakings the magnitude of.NET, Microsoft needs at least several years and 4 or 5 major versions before it's a viable product. Before that, people will use it anyway because its Microsoft and they will be burned horribly because of it.
Compared to the differences between the movie and print versions of Akira, the changes in GiTS are absolutely trivial.
Akira and Ghost in the Shell both sufferend from typical compression that all movie adaptations go though. But in GitS, they completely changed the main character. I wouldn't call that trivial.
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Disney didn't dub Spirited Away, John Lasseter from Pixar was in charge of that.
Most of the highly rated ones are far better than the default module that comes with the game.
They're going to implement a way for your to flag yourself as a Linux (and, I would presume, Mac) user in the nwn community.
Personally I believe this is primarily due to the lack of words that show varying degrees of like or dislike as other languages have. Weird things happen when people have to work around a deficiency in the language.
I don't think that movie got a single tiny detail correct.
Sure, go download a program called Wipe and use it on the entire device. According to the DOD 5220.22-M specification, overwriting a file 5 to 7 times with random data is sufficient to prevent recovery. Wipe does it 34 times by default. When you use this program on a file or filesystem, it is gone. Period.
Mozilla is just as fast to load as IE if you use quicklaunch. And Gecko renders web pages a hell of a lot faster than IE.
Dax: That is a Klingon?!
Worf: We do not talk about it!
I realize that whole episode was tongue-in-cheek, but boy did that make the continuity problems even worse :)
Plus Mencoder is indeed the best of the meager selection of video encoders for linux.
This is either something configured wrong on your machine, or something to do with the files you're playing. I've never had this problem.
Crossover lets you use the netscape plugin, though, through your favorite web browser. The actual windows application is one of the worst media player interfaces I have ever used and it's even worse under wine. Thats what I meant.
For instance, if I wanted to watch a Sorenson Quicktime file, I have only two options: Codeweavers crossover plugin (which is excellent) and MPlayer. (I don't consider running the quicktime player through wine an option worth even considering. If you've ever done it you'd understand) I'm not aware of any other media players that support Sorenson, but if there are they'd be no better.
The most likely reason why most ditros don't include MPlayer is because in order to fully utilize it, you need to compile from source. A lot of the optimizations have to be configured at compile time and the developers are against binary distributions of MPlayer. Even though I prefer it above any other media player, I think they need to address this issue before most distros will adopt it.
There is a very lengthy node on Everything2 regarding this, called Why Strapping Buttered Toast to a Cat Will Not Produce Infinite Power
You need to look closer. At the bottom of the download page there is a button for a preview release of the RealOne player.
That nothing compared to "The remake will tell the story of a bike gang leader who must rescue his younger brother from his involvement in Akira." Where did they get the idea Tetsuo and Kaneda are brothers?
The original post is wrong, he doesn't die.
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AVI is a specific type of container format. The OGG specification is likewise a container format, which is similar to AVI but much much better. AVI can only multiplex one video and one audio stream, whereas OGG is capable of multiplexing one video stream with any number of audio streams, subtitle streams and chapter breaks. AVI and OGG are mutually exclusive formats and calling an OGG file AVI would be misnaming.
Ogg is merely the container format that both Vorbis and Theora use. Just like Mov is a quicktime container that can be any number of different codecs, as well as avi, asf and wmv. Calling a Theora file .ogg is perfectly valid and calling a vorbis file .ogg is just as valid.
Even better, why not go to LucasArts' own store and buy it there? They have most of their classic games still available to buy. I've recently picked up new versions of Day of the Tentacle and Sam n Max, and I'm thinking about picking up Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. Never did completely finish that one...
XVID and Divx4 are both branches from Project Maya's OpenDivx codec. When OpenDivx stopped being GPL software and was relicensed as a proprietary codec, non-Maya people who were helping developement got mad about that and created XVID from the latest GPL OpenDivx code. Divx4/5 and XVID have been developed in parallel since then.
I would be more inclined to say they have been burned on every single product Microsoft has ever made. Especially for undertakings the magnitude of .NET, Microsoft needs at least several years and 4 or 5 major versions before it's a viable product. Before that, people will use it anyway because its Microsoft and they will be burned horribly because of it.
Akira and Ghost in the Shell both sufferend from typical compression that all movie adaptations go though. But in GitS, they completely changed the main character. I wouldn't call that trivial.
I like to think of it as "the future" ;-P
At any rate, Mozilla will certainly outlive IE through pure portability.