Technology has traditionally been terrible at attracting anyone but the technically minded. Seen by many as incredibly dull and exclusive, the industry most needs the influence of those who give it the least thought. Even the best technical process could benefit from a little humanity.
About 3 years ago at a windows software packaging contractor this packager submitted a package for QA review. The QA was a female in her early twenties, having worked there for half a year before most packagers came aboard. Get this: she FAILED the package because she didn't like what some aspect of the application looked like. After being told that the original application's dialogs haven't been modified at all, she still ordered the packager to change it to something 'prettier', to which he ironically suggested that he should also change the background color and maybe add some flowers. She actually considered it (for about 5 seconds) before she realized he was joking.
Yeah, fuck that! I don't need this kind of 'humanity'.
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- nVidia GeForce 5900 XT with livna driver works flawlessly with compiz-fusion. The only complaint I have regarding effects is that nobody from Fedora cared enough to package the compiz-fusion-icon and the compizconfig settings manager (ccsm). Hopefully soon though.
- I have a mixed sata/pata environment at home where the sata drive has:/boot,/,/home and the pata one has: winxp and/export. Never had a problem regarding this setup at install time.
However, what I did have trouble with was the Upgrade old installation feature on the DVD. It just plainly didn't work. Anaconda was eating 100% CPU for 90 minutes while 'resolving dependencies' on an AMD64 3000+ Venice. I said 'fuck it' and did a fresh install. The root cause was probably the alien repos I had installed on the old system.
You should really try it before asking all those questions. VLC is one of the few players that can handle most types of media out of the box. In addition, it's open source and cross platform. You may well see the occasional bug, but it's a small price to pay for such a great piece of software.
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Soo untrue
It's there: "Out of cake?"
About 3 years ago at a windows software packaging contractor this packager submitted a package for QA review. The QA was a female in her early twenties, having worked there for half a year before most packagers came aboard. Get this: she FAILED the package because she didn't like what some aspect of the application looked like. After being told that the original application's dialogs haven't been modified at all, she still ordered the packager to change it to something 'prettier', to which he ironically suggested that he should also change the background color and maybe add some flowers. She actually considered it (for about 5 seconds) before she realized he was joking.
Yeah, fuck that! I don't need this kind of 'humanity'.
- I have a mixed sata/pata environment at home where the sata drive has:
However, what I did have trouble with was the Upgrade old installation feature on the DVD. It just plainly didn't work. Anaconda was eating 100% CPU for 90 minutes while 'resolving dependencies' on an AMD64 3000+ Venice. I said 'fuck it' and did a fresh install. The root cause was probably the alien repos I had installed on the old system.
Actually, it's like asking if the car comes with "the road".
Get a clue.
You're missing the point. Viacom wouldn't have sued YT if Google hadn't bought it in the first place.
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That's cute. Someone spam him please.
Might and Magic VI through IX. You'll find the graphics are sucky though.
I'm just curious, how does a 2D observer perceive a circle if they're both on the same plane ?
You should really try it before asking all those questions. VLC is one of the few players that can handle most types of media out of the box. In addition, it's open source and cross platform. You may well see the occasional bug, but it's a small price to pay for such a great piece of software.