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Comment on Addenda by herbie.livejournal.com/

herbie.livejournal.com/ — Fri, 14 May 2010 10:20:05 +0000

testing 3

Comment on Addenda by herbie.livejournal.com/

herbie.livejournal.com/ — Fri, 14 May 2010 10:16:43 +0000

Testing 2

Comment on Addenda by Aprotim Sanyal

Aprotim Sanyal — Fri, 14 May 2010 00:35:10 +0000

Testing.

Comment on On Giving the People What They Want vs. What They Deserve by Shadows and Images :: Addenda

Shadows and Images :: Addenda — Thu, 13 May 2010 21:59:07 +0000

[...] been discussing and re-reading my previous post, and realize that I may have left people with the wrong impression of my opinion. So here, in a [...]

Comment on Tim James is a Xenophobe by Aleks

Aleks — Wed, 12 May 2010 16:07:37 +0000

There was a interesting segment on recent TDS (Within last week or so) where someone (White, balding senator) was defending that type of attitude profiling by saying that he’d support it if people who looked like him flew into american buildings. Jon countered that by showing the picture of the man who flew into IRS building that looked more like the ‘senator’ than archeotype he was trying to show.

Comment on Tim James is a Xenophobe by Rosalie

Rosalie — Wed, 12 May 2010 11:27:12 +0000

If I were in charge, I would make uttering the phrase “learn English” punishable by at least one semester of twice-weekly English tutoring.

Comment on Gmail, and Dealing With Notifications by aprotim

aprotim — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:46:03 +0000

I’m actually finding that I’m tempted to add more and more things to the top pane – order confirmations? Sure! Alumni newsletters? Why not? Spammy deal newsletters? Put ‘em there.

Comment on Gmail, and Dealing With Notifications by Darius K.

Darius K. — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:08:52 +0000

Just enabled this system — we’ll see how it goes!

Comment on Mac Software by George Austin

George Austin — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:49:45 +0000

Wow - I had no idea MPlayer was shady. Could you give me a link? Should I recommend xine ports instead? Other than major problems with soft subtitles in Matroska files, VLC just drops frames (though there are a few workarounds maybe), especially with HD video. And (as far as I know) VLC doesn't do GPU-accelerated HD playback (not that it matters for the discussion at hand - GPU acceleration isn't happening for non-Apple applications anytime soon. I guess that last point is more a reason why I recommend MPC-HC to Windows users.).

Comment on Mac Software by aprotim

aprotim — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:56:25 +0000

George, why “wave people off” of VLC? I used to be an mplayer user exclusively, but those guys do some truly shady things with let’s call it ‘borrowing” other people’s code (proprietary, open source, it doesn’t matter – they flatly ignore licensing provisions and are generally asses when people call tham on it). Also, I haven’t use Mplayer OS X Extended, but I used a different OS X port, and I felt like the UI was very hacked-on. These days I use mplayer almost exclusively for basic video editing (extracting audio, etc.)