Man I wish I could find Ebert's post on that idiotic copyright screen. IIRC, he basically adds up all the time that has been wasted by humanity staring that that red screen that has never, *ever*, prevented a single case of movie copying.
I have some DVDs by Rhino, and they get it... they are required to put the copyright notice up, but they always put it at the *end* of the movie when they can get away with it. When they have to put it at the beginning, they draw glasses and a mustache on the FBI director's photo and play goofy music, at least they're making fun of it.
(As a side note, I could never understand how the station was able to rotate under the support struts when the station was obviously move massive.)
You're just thinking of it backwards. The support struts were kept in place *despite* the rotation of the station. The rotation of the station was normal; the rotation of the support struts was artificial. (Or in other words, it's not like some invisible hand was holding the struts in place; left to its own devices, it would eventually have begun to spin with the rest of the station.)
Anyway, only the human ships really respected physics in that show, and even then it was only to a limited degree. For some reason, alien ships seemed immune. (And of course, all races had ships that could enter hyperdrive.)
If your enemy is smart enough to put one fleet directly in front of you while having another flank from the top or bottom, all you've done is make your ships easier to hit.
Yes, well, the genetic engineered brain apparently didn't think of that, it was too busy quoting Shakespeare.
If you're looking at it purely from the perspective of presenting the smallest profile possible, your best bet would be a needle-shape.
Those guys were bastards in Homeworld. They actually weren't too bad, until they suddenly turned-tail and tried to ram and one-hit-kill your capital ships.
The problem is that we don't necessarily want this MS-driven environment to become popular among devs.
Then build something better. If the developers only choice is this MS-driven environment, or nothing, they're going to choose the MS-driven environment. And let me tell you: Flash? Ain't something better.
This is where all the talk about open source innovation needs to turn into actual projects-- where are they at?
Likewise, I have to hand-write a check for my rent every month, rather than just going online and clicking a button to transfer a pre-registered amount to a pre-determined destination account (or just setting up a completely automatic monthly transfer).
What's stopping you from using your bank's Bill Payer tool to do that online?
Please tell me it's not just "I didn't know it existed!"
Because I do exactly what you described every month with my bank, and my bank sucks ass.
It's a pain in the ass, you can't even plug a lamp into an outlet without filling out a form and having a Lollipop Guild member come in to do it for you. And it takes them like 4 hours to show up. I'd recommend holding your conferences in Narnia, which is non-Union.
I joke but human redundancy is probably your best bet and pretty reassuring considering I've seen Dr. Strangelove twenty times or so.
On the 19th viewing of Dr. Strangelove, human redundancy isn't your best bet. Apparently? (I don't see how the beginning of the sentence relates to the end of it.)
I just want AdBlocker Plus to have an option where it stays off all the time, except you can blacklist certain (content) domains to block ads on. Right now, it only has the opposite functionality.
1) OS X is good at backwards compatibility 2) But your glad OS X has no backwards compatibility 3) Even if the program still runs in Windows for the next 20 years, if there are no active developers it's dead anyway 4) The word "dead" as used in this thread means something different than the word dead
Point 4 is the only one that's making any sort of sense to me. But thanks for the long-winded, self-contradictory response. I hope you receive your Steve Job Happy Fun Bux soon.
All the noise here is that if VLC loses its active developers, that it's "dead." It's only "dead" because Apple doesn't do backwards compatibility, that's all I'm saying... otherwise, Mac users could just keep running the current version until the end of time. (Which is what would happen on Windows.)
Well, I have both installed and it don't do jack for decoding DVDs. Maybe there's some menu option or something to tell it where the VLC install is located and I haven't set that? I dunno.
It's not that big a deal, since AnyDVD works fine with it and I have a license for that anyway.
Bugzilla has awful usability, unless it's improved by leaps and bounds in the last 2 years.
I'm not sure what to recommend, but using Bugzilla always felt like more of a awful chore to be avoided. And if I find a bug in a program, and they're using Bugzilla to track them, I'll usually just pass on reporting it.
It wouldn't "die" on Windows, since Microsoft actually gives a crap about backwards compatibility.
I think it says a lot about OS X that a program with no active developers "dies." If only Apple gave half-a-crap about old apps running, that wouldn't be an issue!
It used to. The newer Handbrake versions, including the one that just came out recently, just fail to work with copy-protected DVDs, which sucks (but I can understand why they distribute it that way.)
Only Linux users, from my experience, still hold the illusion that "friendly to newbies" is somehow mutually-exclusive with "powerful". Also, that "increasing usability" is somehow the same thing as "making software look pretty."
You won't find that attitude in Windows users or OS X users.
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Man I wish I could find Ebert's post on that idiotic copyright screen. IIRC, he basically adds up all the time that has been wasted by humanity staring that that red screen that has never, *ever*, prevented a single case of movie copying.
I have some DVDs by Rhino, and they get it... they are required to put the copyright notice up, but they always put it at the *end* of the movie when they can get away with it. When they have to put it at the beginning, they draw glasses and a mustache on the FBI director's photo and play goofy music, at least they're making fun of it.
(As a side note, I could never understand how the station was able to rotate under the support struts when the station was obviously move massive.)
You're just thinking of it backwards. The support struts were kept in place *despite* the rotation of the station. The rotation of the station was normal; the rotation of the support struts was artificial. (Or in other words, it's not like some invisible hand was holding the struts in place; left to its own devices, it would eventually have begun to spin with the rest of the station.)
Anyway, only the human ships really respected physics in that show, and even then it was only to a limited degree. For some reason, alien ships seemed immune. (And of course, all races had ships that could enter hyperdrive.)
If your enemy is smart enough to put one fleet directly in front of you while having another flank from the top or bottom, all you've done is make your ships easier to hit.
Yes, well, the genetic engineered brain apparently didn't think of that, it was too busy quoting Shakespeare.
If you're looking at it purely from the perspective of presenting the smallest profile possible, your best bet would be a needle-shape.
Those guys were bastards in Homeworld. They actually weren't too bad, until they suddenly turned-tail and tried to ram and one-hit-kill your capital ships.
Wait... what were we talking about?
The problem is that we don't necessarily want this MS-driven environment to become popular among devs.
Then build something better. If the developers only choice is this MS-driven environment, or nothing, they're going to choose the MS-driven environment. And let me tell you: Flash? Ain't something better.
This is where all the talk about open source innovation needs to turn into actual projects-- where are they at?
It's a joke. Asshole moderators.
Likewise, I have to hand-write a check for my rent every month, rather than just going online and clicking a button to transfer a pre-registered amount to a pre-determined destination account (or just setting up a completely automatic monthly transfer).
What's stopping you from using your bank's Bill Payer tool to do that online?
Please tell me it's not just "I didn't know it existed!"
Because I do exactly what you described every month with my bank, and my bank sucks ass.
It's a pain in the ass, you can't even plug a lamp into an outlet without filling out a form and having a Lollipop Guild member come in to do it for you. And it takes them like 4 hours to show up. I'd recommend holding your conferences in Narnia, which is non-Union.
I joke but human redundancy is probably your best bet and pretty reassuring considering I've seen Dr. Strangelove twenty times or so.
On the 19th viewing of Dr. Strangelove, human redundancy isn't your best bet. Apparently? (I don't see how the beginning of the sentence relates to the end of it.)
When I used to run XP, I ran as Admin. I shouldn't have, but that is just the way that system was designed, unless you really really fight against it.
"The system" wasn't designed that way, and hadn't been since NT4.
"Shitty third-party apps made for Windows 98 and never updated" was your problem. Don't blame Microsoft or Windows.
Amen. I feel the same way.
I just want AdBlocker Plus to have an option where it stays off all the time, except you can blacklist certain (content) domains to block ads on. Right now, it only has the opposite functionality.
Here's the link to the original video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPvmIxu-LSA
(NFSW language. If you work in a lame place. My co-workers laughed their asses off.)
So to summarize your post:
1) OS X is good at backwards compatibility
2) But your glad OS X has no backwards compatibility
3) Even if the program still runs in Windows for the next 20 years, if there are no active developers it's dead anyway
4) The word "dead" as used in this thread means something different than the word dead
Point 4 is the only one that's making any sort of sense to me. But thanks for the long-winded, self-contradictory response. I hope you receive your Steve Job Happy Fun Bux soon.
All the noise here is that if VLC loses its active developers, that it's "dead." It's only "dead" because Apple doesn't do backwards compatibility, that's all I'm saying... otherwise, Mac users could just keep running the current version until the end of time. (Which is what would happen on Windows.)
Well, I have both installed and it don't do jack for decoding DVDs. Maybe there's some menu option or something to tell it where the VLC install is located and I haven't set that? I dunno.
It's not that big a deal, since AnyDVD works fine with it and I have a license for that anyway.
Bugzilla has awful usability, unless it's improved by leaps and bounds in the last 2 years.
I'm not sure what to recommend, but using Bugzilla always felt like more of a awful chore to be avoided. And if I find a bug in a program, and they're using Bugzilla to track them, I'll usually just pass on reporting it.
It wouldn't "die" on Windows, since Microsoft actually gives a crap about backwards compatibility.
I think it says a lot about OS X that a program with no active developers "dies." If only Apple gave half-a-crap about old apps running, that wouldn't be an issue!
It used to. The newer Handbrake versions, including the one that just came out recently, just fail to work with copy-protected DVDs, which sucks (but I can understand why they distribute it that way.)
He's already in prison. It's not like he has anything to lose, really.
It seems like "filing pointless/bogus lawsuits" is one of the major hobbies for prisoners.
Last time I played WOW, the "activate Add-Ons" screen came up *before* you logged-in with your account. It's been awhile, so maybe my memory is fuzzy.
Either way, I'd much prefer WOW being compatible with the system as it's designed to be used. Their work-around to a non-issue is stupid.
I've gone my entire life on ATT/Cingular and I think I've had one dropped call... ever. Maybe two.
What are you guys doing to get dropped calls? Or is it extremely location-specific? I've never understood this complaint.
Funny how the rest of you who sit on your butts don't hesitate to enjoy the fruits of our labors....
Your "labor" is downloading YouTube videos for an hour? That counts as "labor" now?
This whole thing is pathetic.
Only Linux users, from my experience, still hold the illusion that "friendly to newbies" is somehow mutually-exclusive with "powerful". Also, that "increasing usability" is somehow the same thing as "making software look pretty."
You won't find that attitude in Windows users or OS X users.
Or what if I want to install a particular Add-On, but another user of the computer does not? Impossible with the current implementation of WOW, AFAIK.
and the fact that they [Microsoft] don't write software for anything but Windows,
They don't? That's a huge news flash, you should submit it as an article!
Yah.
I'm wagering there were $0 in claims before the news of the earthquake was published in the local newspaper.