Comment Re:Use email as the backend (Score 2) 70
https://delta.chat/en/
That messaging app has already existed for years, the hard part is convincing everybody else to use it.
Comment Gnome 2 was fine (Score 1) 818
I've used Gnome ever since Red Hat Linux (not RHEL) more than 10 years ago. Switched to Ubuntu about 6 years ago. Gnome 2 worked fine.
Then came that mess Unity. And the Gnome 3 monstrosity.
I've tried KDE in and out. KDE 1. KDE 2. KDE 3. KDE 4. Always bloated, slow, buggy. Even the late, considered good KDE 4.6 and 4.7 releases. It would crash even with just a Konqueror file browser window. It sucked.
After Unity and Gnome 3, I've used KDE 4.6 and 4.7 exclusively last year, both in Ubuntu (always the latest version) at home and Fedora 15 and 16 at work. I swear I've tried. But I couldn't stand the bloat and the bugs.
So I've switched to XFCE, and never looked back. Simple, fast, customizable enough, just like Gnome 2 was.
Comment Re:Wht not sound? (Score 1) 128
I've been using Ubuntu/Xubuntu for the last 6 years, and I like playing games in emulators like MAME and Mednafen. Pulseaudio causes delays, sometimes of several seconds, with the libsdl pulseaudio package installed.
I have a simple 14 dollars Sound Blaster Audigy SE PCI card.
Purging Pulseaudio and using plain ALSA makes all of my sound problems go away.
The sound lag in some emulators is gone. I can even watch movie files with 5.1 surround sound without any problem, and several sound outputting applications such as the flash plugin under Firefox work simultaneously.
Comment Re:Maemo - Nokia N900 (Score 1) 400
If the ads are what bother you, root your Android phone and install Adfree from Google Play. It installs a frequently updated hosts file that resolves almost every ad server to 127.0.0.1 (or another IP address of your choice).
And about the Google account privacy problem, you can have as many bogus accounts as you want. After all, they are "free".
G.I. Joe Game On the Way 37
Electronic Arts has revealed that they are developing a G.I. Joe video game that will be launched alongside the G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra movie later this year. According to the announcement, the game "picks up where the live-action movie leaves off, allowing players to re-create and re-live the greatest moments from the film, cartoon series and action figure toy line." The game is planned for the PS2, PS3, PSP, mobile devices, Xbox 360, Wii, and DS. EA confirmed that there would be a co-op mode, but it's unknown whether there will be an online component.
Sound Bites of the 1908 Presidential Candidates 410
roncosmos writes "Science News has up a feature on the first use of sound recording in a presidential campaign. In 1908, for the first time, presidential candidates recorded their voices on wax cylinders. Their voices could be brought into the home for 35 cents, equivalent to about $8 now. In that pre-radio era, this was the only way, short of hearing a speech at a whistle stop, that you could hear the candidates. The story includes audio recordings from the 1908 candidates, William Jennings Bryan and William Howard Taft. Bryan's speech, on bank failures, seems sadly prescient now. Taft's, on the progress of the Negro, sounds condescending to modern ears but was progressive at the time. There are great images from the campaign; lots of fun."
Comment Re:There can be only ONE (Score 1) 816
What about the thousands (or even more) apps already written in VBScript+Access in business places all around the world? You can't seriously be thinking your average office worker drone would have more exposure to Python+SQLite reading material ("for dummies" books) than there are for MS Office apps (I fully agree that Microsoft is the devil, monopolists bastards etc).
Some people here on /. seem to have very little connection to the real world... and I'm not that new here.
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