The biggest impediment to FLAC is the fact that player manufacturers do not usually include support for it in their devices.
I recently had to buy an "MP3" player, and the reasons for choosing a cheap chinese device over an iPod or equivalent were: a) 5x cheaper; b) the cheap chinese ipod ripoff supports many other formats, including FLAC.
Most people have other priorities, though...
To those who might think otherwise, I'm not complaining about the presence of ads, but about an anedoctal situation, created by the fact that Slashdot's ads are clearly not targeted to the audience in question, or... they're rather targeted to disagree with the latter. It's a case of destructive advertising: instead of advertising products that might interest to Linux users, they're advertising products that are themselves an alternative to Linux, in a not very ethical way (at least that's my point of view).
Cheers,
Pedro
Yeah, I agree with that. But it's hard to ignore the political implications of such a presence in such geographical location.
And isn't North Korea a sovereign nation as well (in spite of being governed by a maniac)? Why bother with the weapons they possess?
Isn't Iran a sovereign nation? It's up to them where they place their missiles... why bother with it? And why such a complication around their nuclear program? Isn't it up to them the weapons they have and where they aim them to?
I think that the US should be placing missiles in their territory, not in... for god sake... Poland? It is a clear provocation, since it is a former russian "puppet state". We should be fighting for neutrality and demilitarization, not for some paranoid anti-missile system...
Well... middle school students will get access to porn anyway... I don't believe this will work, but at least it will cause a lot of trouble to them...
There's already one for Firefox. It's called "Tools --> Clear Private Data"... or Ctrl-Shift-Del for the lazy. You can even set the options to do it when the browser closes, with or without user confirmation.
So... what's the big deal bout this new "browser"?
Bullshit...
and a 2nd analogy:
We should ban *any* anti-abortion group because people who go to those meetings, and watch their literature might kill doctors who perform abortions.
You can't ban things based on what people do after the fact. Can 'environment' increase a 'bad' persons tendencies? sure. But I don't want my choices restricted to only the lowest common denomenator safe for everyone. We wouldn't be able to do anything.
I agree. It's very similar to the "oh, death penalty is good because that way people won't even think about doing the same" argument... when will people realize that this kind of crime is most of the times due to psychopathologies? It's not a matter of more or less examples: if we thought that way, every Chuck Norris movie would be banned.
What I find sad is the gradual loss of liberties that we are suffering nowadays.
Visual Studio 2005 just rocks.. I only wish there was something remotely similar for Linux.
Well, I believe Eclipse/CDT does the job pretty well, essentially in what relates to version control (which VS sucks at...). VS has a far better debugger, however.
Why not create an extension for an existing browser (Firefox?), instead of making a whole new software product? I mean... when I read the title, I thought about any new miraculous anonymity mechanism...
People love to "sell" existing things as if they were new concepts...
And... what's this article doing here?
Well, I haven't explained myself very well. I meant that we need something like swf, but with unconditionally open specs.
Yeah, Gnash is a wonderful effort, but will be forever condemned to be several steps behind the official player, unless Macromedia changes the licensing on the specifications.
Why is iPod the issue? I use my iPod on Linux, without any problem...
OK, it's not officially supported, but he could choose a better example (graphic drivers, printer drivers...).
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The biggest impediment to FLAC is the fact that player manufacturers do not usually include support for it in their devices. I recently had to buy an "MP3" player, and the reasons for choosing a cheap chinese device over an iPod or equivalent were: a) 5x cheaper; b) the cheap chinese ipod ripoff supports many other formats, including FLAC. Most people have other priorities, though...
"shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll have landed among the stars."
Whoever said this didn't have a very good sense of distance :)
To those who might think otherwise, I'm not complaining about the presence of ads, but about an anedoctal situation, created by the fact that Slashdot's ads are clearly not targeted to the audience in question, or... they're rather targeted to disagree with the latter. It's a case of destructive advertising: instead of advertising products that might interest to Linux users, they're advertising products that are themselves an alternative to Linux, in a not very ethical way (at least that's my point of view). Cheers, Pedro
why do we find ads like this one in linux.slashdot.org (it happened right now)? http://spe.atdmt.com/ds/NMMRTUMISITP/mrs06256_news_336x280.jpg?spd=104 Ironic, no?
Yeah, I agree with that. But it's hard to ignore the political implications of such a presence in such geographical location. And isn't North Korea a sovereign nation as well (in spite of being governed by a maniac)? Why bother with the weapons they possess? Isn't Iran a sovereign nation? It's up to them where they place their missiles... why bother with it? And why such a complication around their nuclear program? Isn't it up to them the weapons they have and where they aim them to?
Even so... what do they want to intercept? Iranian missiles? Please...
I think that the US should be placing missiles in their territory, not in... for god sake... Poland? It is a clear provocation, since it is a former russian "puppet state". We should be fighting for neutrality and demilitarization, not for some paranoid anti-missile system...
> Yep. And the documentation at CERN is done using TeX :-)
http://twiki.cern.ch/
Doesn't look like TeX ;)...
Well, I believe they should weigh her, and if she weighs the same as a duck, she's guilty...
Well... middle school students will get access to porn anyway...
I don't believe this will work, but at least it will cause a lot of trouble to them...
This is sooo american... it doesn't look european at all. Well, I doubt that someone would take this seriously...
Society is too dangerous... let's keep them from speaking with other kids, too...
Why not create an extension for an existing browser (Firefox?), instead of making a whole new software product? I mean... when I read the title, I thought about any new miraculous anonymity mechanism... People love to "sell" existing things as if they were new concepts... And... what's this article doing here?
Well, I haven't explained myself very well. I meant that we need something like swf, but with unconditionally open specs. Yeah, Gnash is a wonderful effort, but will be forever condemned to be several steps behind the official player, unless Macromedia changes the licensing on the specifications.
People need an open clone. Or else, we'll be condemned to wait for the whole eternity...
Why is iPod the issue? I use my iPod on Linux, without any problem... OK, it's not officially supported, but he could choose a better example (graphic drivers, printer drivers...).