Comment Re:This is nowhere near alpha quality (Score 1) 120
Just one. There's no reason for fluff. Modern NLEs only have 1.
Comment This is nowhere near alpha quality (Score 1) 120
I'd say it's more pre-alpha.
I can't take seriously these project properties shown in the screenshot. "30 frames per second"? How do I use 29.97 exactly? 23.976? Where do I setup in the project properties that I want global de-interlacing using interpolation or blend fields or yadif? Or that it's progressive? Where do I tell the editor what the aspect ratio of my footage is?
And TWO preview panes? This is so last century.
That UI needs serious love btw, it looks extremely bad. Huge icons on the side of the pref dialogs, stretching the dialog UI vertically making it look super-ugly.
Submission + - App Rejected on AppStore Following Complaint by Co (osne.ws)
Little Sheep writes: There's now a new issue we can add to the list of problems with the App Store and its governance: Are you an iPhone developer? Do you want a similar, competing application out of the App Store? All you need to do is send an infringement claim to Apple, and they'll happily threaten to remove the competing application without a second thought.
Submission + - Review of Newly Released Haiku Alpha 1
Eugenia writes: "Haiku, the OSS next generation version of BeOS, has just released its first major version, alpha 1, after 8 years of development. OSNews also published an article describing the history of the OS, along a review of the alpha version."
Comment Songbird is the answer (Score 4, Interesting) 841
Palm should go with Songbird. Songbird is not 100% stable and bug free (I have been testing it lately), but if they offer a bit of assistance to the SF-based team, they could make it work for them just fine.
And in the process, maybe they would be able to open the doors for more smartphones/players who are in need of a capable mp3 organizer.
Submission + - KDEnLive: Most Promising, But Not Quite There Yet
PostThis writes: KDEnLive, the actively developed KDE video editor, released a new version recently, and OSNews took it out for a spin. They found the editor very promising as it supported many formats, and it had pretty good usability compared to other Linux editors, but the application was also mighty unstable and with limitations.
Review of GNOME 2.26 and GTK+ 2.16 140
devg writes "The GNOME development community recently announced the official release GNOME 2.26, the latest version of the open source desktop environment for Linux. It adds the Brasero disc burning software, UPnP support in the Totem media player, and basic support for video chat in the Empathy instant messaging client. GNOME 2.26 will be shipped in upcoming Linux distributions, including Fedora 11 and Ubuntu 9.04. Some early reviews show that it is an incremental improvement with some good additions. GNOME 2.26 is accompanied by the release of GTK+ 2.16, a new version of the widget toolkit that is used to build the desktop environment. Ars Technica has published a detailed programming tutorial with code examples that demonstrate how developers can use the new features of GTK+ 2.16 in their own applications. Users can test GNOME 2.26 by downloading one of the official Foresight-based VM or ISO images via BitTorrent."
Comment server slow (Score 5, Informative) 90
Their server is extremely slow right now that Slashdot's linking it. Here's some binaries:
Win: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wesnoth/wesnoth-1.6a-win32.exe?download
OSX: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wesnoth/Wesnoth_1.6a.dmg?download
and the source code:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wesnoth/wesnoth-1.6a.tar.bz2?download
The Linux binaries page doesn't load right now to get more links, sorry.
Comment Re:Bull (Score 4, Insightful) 830
Rewriting the same file over and over is known for being risky. The proper sequence is to create a new file, sync, rename the new file on top of the old one, optionally sync. In other words, app developers must be more careful of their doings, not put all blame to the filesystems. It's so much that an fs can do to avoid such bruhahas. Many other filesystems have similar behavior to the ext4 btw.
Comment Warcraft II had the BEST music ever for video game (Score 1) 119
The Warcraft II (Tides of Darkness) music from 1995 was the best music ever written for any video game. When the new Warcraft versions came out, I was really disappointed that the music did not have the depth and melody and uplifting of that version.
I looked at Youtube a few months ago, and there are A LOT of people who have the exact same opinion as well. I really wish someone could license that music and create a proper classical album out of it (the original was lower-quality electronically-created audio you see).
Check here for more info on how to download the music http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2008/05/17/warcraft-ii-music-part-2/ (from what I can gather, Blizzard released the music free of charge, legally).
Submission + - Community and fan promotion for indie bands?
Posture writes: Most independent musicians like myself dislike the RIAA as much as anyone else, but truth is, the major labels behind the RIAA have the advantage of promoting their signed bands in ways that most indies can't do for themselves. I was glad to see an OSNews editor jumping into a new territory to promote her favorite local band: by shooting a music video clip for them. She even described the process. In this youtube/internet age, what other ways are there for the fans to promote indie artists and help them compete with major label artists more fairly?
Submission + - HD Video Editing with Blender
Posthis writes: While the VSE sequence module has been part of Blender for a while, the upcoming version v2.46 comes with some new powerful video editing features, like Proxy editing, optimized FFmpeg support, and more. Not many use Blender strictly as a video editor because it's not very straight-forward, but given the fact that it now deals with HDV and 24p footage much more comfortably compared to other OSS video editors, it makes it a sound contender. This new tutorial shows the basics of how to use it as a video editor and put your masterpiece together.
Submission + - Top Five Predictions for Blu-Ray, now that HD-DVD (hexydes.com)
Hexydes writes: "HD-DVD is gone. Nothing can change that now. Now that it has dispensed of the more consumer-friendly technology, what can we expect to see from Blu-Ray in the next year or two? These are my top five predictions of what I think we will see."
Submission + - Utah to make free and open wifi illegal
thisplaceisalmostout writes: State Representative Brad Daw from Orem Utah, is introducing HB 139.
Among other things, this legislation will make it against the law for any person to offer free and open wireless internet access, for instance a business to it's customers, or the public at large.
This law says in effect, that to offer wireless internet access to your customers, they must first prove that they are an adult, by providing either a government issued ID, or a Credit Card. Failure to do so would result in a fine up to $25,000.00
Furthermore the bill states "A person may not provide wireless Internet access to the public unless the person restricts access to prevent a minor from accessing material harmful to minors."
Additionally HB 139 makes it illegal for any retailer to sell a device capable of accessing the internet wirelessly, without it being clearly labeled as such.
Pete Ashdown the President and CEO of XMission the states largest internet provider, says that he will "shut down all XMission free wireless and cease expansion of this service." if this legislation is passed.
XMission provides a completely free wireless network that covers a substantial portion of down town Salt Lake City, and another similar one that is being constructed in Ogden will benefit the residents of that city as well.
If you live in Utah I urge you to contact your legislators and ask them to stop this bill, the potential long term damages from this bill are staggering.
Among other things, this legislation will make it against the law for any person to offer free and open wireless internet access, for instance a business to it's customers, or the public at large.
This law says in effect, that to offer wireless internet access to your customers, they must first prove that they are an adult, by providing either a government issued ID, or a Credit Card. Failure to do so would result in a fine up to $25,000.00
Furthermore the bill states "A person may not provide wireless Internet access to the public unless the person restricts access to prevent a minor from accessing material harmful to minors."
Additionally HB 139 makes it illegal for any retailer to sell a device capable of accessing the internet wirelessly, without it being clearly labeled as such.
Pete Ashdown the President and CEO of XMission the states largest internet provider, says that he will "shut down all XMission free wireless and cease expansion of this service." if this legislation is passed.
XMission provides a completely free wireless network that covers a substantial portion of down town Salt Lake City, and another similar one that is being constructed in Ogden will benefit the residents of that city as well.
If you live in Utah I urge you to contact your legislators and ask them to stop this bill, the potential long term damages from this bill are staggering.
Submission + - The Air Force Now Claims Texas UFOs (cnn.com)
An anonymous reader writes: With very little media attention, the air force now claims the UFOs seen in Texas were their planes. Why did they deny any aircraft in the sky for days? Isn't it a convenient way to close the story?
