This has nothing to do with the bullies or who uploaded the video but rather our corrupt politicians and their never ending fear of the Internet as a mean for free expression and communications.
You may be Italian, but you don't seem to know a lot about our system.
Prosecutors are completely independent of the government. This case has nothing to do with politicians, and everything to do with the fact that there was a privacy infringement and Google was - willingly or otherwise - instrumental in perpetrating it. Worse, they were turning a profit while doing it.
This means that - at the very least - there must be a trial.
This is just nonsense. The differences between the two interfaces are minor to nonexistent. Where they do differ, they differ because VLC actually supports more features. The UI is different because the featureset of VLC is a superset of the QT player.
LOL! Gimme a break, fanboy. VLC can't even loop a clip while maintaining the same zoom, speed, or fullscreen state. Where in VLC can you select part of a movie and only play or loop the selection? Where in VLC can you select a section of a movie and export it as a new movie? Can you drag a frame from VLC to the desktop and have it converted to a picture? You really don't know what you're talking about, do you?
The one use I have for VLC on my Mac is watching the occasional DVD with a foreign country code.
Try to find it. Play something in Linux, Windows or MacOS and see what happens.
No, I'm not playing anything on Windows. I use OS X and Linux.
Your comments about DIVX and OGG sound like you read it off of that site.
No, my comments sound like I've installed exactly those 2 extensions to play those formats. No, they weren't automatically spoon-fed to me by the player, I found them via macupdate.com or versiontracker.com, as anyone else with a working brain can do without much effort.
I use VLC on my Linux laptop and, although the thing plays pretty much everything you throw at it, the user interface and the stability still aren't as good as Apple's players. Not even close.
Also, on Mac OS X (dunno about Windows) you can extend QuickTime with 3rd party extensions that enable it to play formats that it won't play out of the box (DivX, OGG, etc). And not through some hack, either, but simply dropping the extension in the "QuickTime Extensions" folder. So I really don't see how the "walled garden" comparison is justified.
Yes, Apple renamed it "AppleWorks" sometime in the late 90's when they shut their Claris subsidiary company. Unfortunately, AppleWorks has been discontinued: the latest version works on PPC Macs with OSX.
On my Linux laptop, I use the BasiliskII Mac emulator, which provides an emulated 680x0 CPU, so I run ClarisWorks 5, which is compatible with the 68k architecture.
OpenOffice, in addition to not being as good as CW, launches and runs much slower than System 7.5 + ClarisWorks do in an emulated environment. Quite an achievement.
please get a copy of ClarisWorks from the '90s and CLONE IT. ClarisWorks on System7 in the BasiliskII emulator puts your product to shame in every respect.
If there are no copyrights whatsoever, then people will have a much harder time getting the things that are BEING copied right now, as without the financial incentive, there will be much less interest in making things people WANT to copy.
No need to use the future tense. I used to be able to support myself by working as a recording musician. Now I can't anymore.
I sincerely wish every musician out there would quit releasing records.
When all the dickheads who think they have a "right" to enjoy someone else's work for free must pay a fucking ticket just to hear some new music once, I'll go back to being a musician. He who laughs last, laughs best.
KDE still looks to Windows for How It Is Done, insofar as basic look and functionality goes.
It does, but thankfully it can be configured to act and look a lot less like Windows. With KDE4, you can clearly see that more and more developers are looking at Mac OS X as a model.
The HomerCar was one man's vision. This is supposed to "harness the wisdom of crowds" or something similarly buzzwordy.
This of course assumes several things:
1) A representative cross section of the user community responds
2) the developers can implement the suggests in a meaningful timeframe.
Standard reply to anyone who dares criticize Wikipedia. Wikipedia cannot be criticized. If you do, you will be criticized for not contributing to Wikipedia. Isn't that funny?
When talking about Wikipedia editors, there is no "them"
Yeah, sure, LOL! I've lost count on the times I've corrected an article and had my changes undone, most likely because I was unknown to the editors or someone was really in love with his own contributions and couldn't stand to see them changed.
Wikipedia is hopeless and, as any serious scientist or even student knows, is never to be trusted. Bring on Citizendium.
to make your Linux system do what you want/need it to do you have to delve a little into the "customization" piece.
What do you do when you need to customize Windows beyond what its GUI tools allow you to do? You don't, that's what. That's why Windows is "easier" than Linux.
There's also cases where you want to do something the gui doesn't provide for, or if something breaks in a way not fixable by the gui.
Exactly. Since the Linux GUI tools still use the command line stuff under the hood, this means that at best they can provide the same features than the CLI, but in fact they rarely do.
Case in point: I've yet to find a Linux GUI tool that supports WPA-PSK (wifi encryption protocol). So, when I installed my first Linux distro 2 years ago, I had two choices: switch my home wireless network to wimpy WPE encryption, or investigate if I could get Linux to deal with WPA-PSK using CLI tools.
I went with the latter, which means I can now quickly set up any Linux distro (or even the BSDs) for the better form of encryption.
At the end of the day, I think a big GUI vs. CLI philosophical debate is pointless until both camps provide the same degree of functionality. Right now they certainly don't.
I won't comment on Digikam as I've never used it, but I find that iPhoto does what it's supposed to. As for iTunes: I really don't see how it is "a cripple". Amarok pales in comparison from every point of view. iTunes has a great equalizer, Amarok has a wimpy one. iTunes organizes your music library on disk automatically (if you want it to), with Amarok you must to tell it to do it (and it's 1000 times slower). iTunes can match the loudness of your songs, Amarok has no such feature.
You need to give the native tools a chance. If you insist on doing things "the Linux way" because that's what you're used to, you'll have a disappointing experience on the Mac.
Slashdot Mirror
An anonymous coward wrote:
You may be Italian, but you don't seem to know a lot about our system.
Prosecutors are completely independent of the government. This case has nothing to do with politicians, and everything to do with the fact that there was a privacy infringement and Google was - willingly or otherwise - instrumental in perpetrating it. Worse, they were turning a profit while doing it.
This means that - at the very least - there must be a trial.
FTFY.
LOL! Gimme a break, fanboy. VLC can't even loop a clip while maintaining the same zoom, speed, or fullscreen state. Where in VLC can you select part of a movie and only play or loop the selection? Where in VLC can you select a section of a movie and export it as a new movie? Can you drag a frame from VLC to the desktop and have it converted to a picture? You really don't know what you're talking about, do you?
The one use I have for VLC on my Mac is watching the occasional DVD with a foreign country code.
No, I'm not playing anything on Windows. I use OS X and Linux.
No, my comments sound like I've installed exactly those 2 extensions to play those formats. No, they weren't automatically spoon-fed to me by the player, I found them via macupdate.com or versiontracker.com, as anyone else with a working brain can do without much effort.
I use VLC on my Linux laptop and, although the thing plays pretty much everything you throw at it, the user interface and the stability still aren't as good as Apple's players. Not even close.
Also, on Mac OS X (dunno about Windows) you can extend QuickTime with 3rd party extensions that enable it to play formats that it won't play out of the box (DivX, OGG, etc). And not through some hack, either, but simply dropping the extension in the "QuickTime Extensions" folder. So I really don't see how the "walled garden" comparison is justified.
QuickTime is a LIBRARY. I'm talking about THE PLAYERS.
QuickTime player and Apple DVD Player are very good, at least on OS X (dunno about Windows).
I tried both and, honestly, VLC sucks less than *mplayer.
And both don't come close to Apple's DVD Player and QuickTime Player.
No, it's not.
The charts say otherwise.
ROTFL! You really don't know what you're talking about.
Yes, Apple renamed it "AppleWorks" sometime in the late 90's when they shut their Claris subsidiary company. Unfortunately, AppleWorks has been discontinued: the latest version works on PPC Macs with OSX.
On my Linux laptop, I use the BasiliskII Mac emulator, which provides an emulated 680x0 CPU, so I run ClarisWorks 5, which is compatible with the 68k architecture.
OpenOffice, in addition to not being as good as CW, launches and runs much slower than System 7.5 + ClarisWorks do in an emulated environment. Quite an achievement.
please get a copy of ClarisWorks from the '90s and CLONE IT. ClarisWorks on System7 in the BasiliskII emulator puts your product to shame in every respect.
No need to use the future tense. I used to be able to support myself by working as a recording musician. Now I can't anymore.
I sincerely wish every musician out there would quit releasing records.
When all the dickheads who think they have a "right" to enjoy someone else's work for free must pay a fucking ticket just to hear some new music once, I'll go back to being a musician. He who laughs last, laughs best.
Hands on demonstration on dark matter? That's it, I'm moving to Canada.
Please ./ gods, I desperately need a "-1, Unfunny" moderation tag.
Wikipedia is hopeless and, as any serious scientist or even student knows, is never to be trusted. Bring on Citizendium.
Case in point: I've yet to find a Linux GUI tool that supports WPA-PSK (wifi encryption protocol). So, when I installed my first Linux distro 2 years ago, I had two choices: switch my home wireless network to wimpy WPE encryption, or investigate if I could get Linux to deal with WPA-PSK using CLI tools.
I went with the latter, which means I can now quickly set up any Linux distro (or even the BSDs) for the better form of encryption.
At the end of the day, I think a big GUI vs. CLI philosophical debate is pointless until both camps provide the same degree of functionality. Right now they certainly don't.
Ubuntu 6.10 uses SysV-style boot scripts.
I distinctly remember Mac OS 8 & 9 having an extension called "SOMobjects", which was used by/for a lot of different things, not just OpenDoc.
I won't comment on Digikam as I've never used it, but I find that iPhoto does what it's supposed to. As for iTunes: I really don't see how it is "a cripple". Amarok pales in comparison from every point of view. iTunes has a great equalizer, Amarok has a wimpy one. iTunes organizes your music library on disk automatically (if you want it to), with Amarok you must to tell it to do it (and it's 1000 times slower). iTunes can match the loudness of your songs, Amarok has no such feature.
You need to give the native tools a chance. If you insist on doing things "the Linux way" because that's what you're used to, you'll have a disappointing experience on the Mac.