A non commercial open standard can't "fail" since there is no minimum amount of users needed to be profitable. No profit is needed and thus even one user is a success.:-)
And even if half the people who now compress their audio in mp3 format start using vorbis, you probably wont know the difference since the most popular mp3players are capable, or soon will be, of playing vorbis files.
Just my 2c.
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The need, as I've understood it, was to have two ports on separate switches with *the same* IP-address. Is this possible to achive in Linux with two NIC's?
But there are lot's nlot's of great games for Playstation that probably won't be ported to the dreamcast That's reason why people use emulators. To be able to play your old favorites without cluttering your desk with 10's of old computers and consoles. Let's hope that the C64, Nes, Snes, Amiga, Atari, etc, etc emulators out there get ported too. Wouldn't *that* be a treat? Just put in a cd and get access to 600MB's of C64 games!!!>br>
Well, it depends. Look at att det games that are being ported to GNU/Linux. I bet every one of those gamehouses are wishing that they didn't need to reprogram for a new api. Or even worse, program for direct access to/dev/*putyourhardwarehere
And if *I* were to create a small shareware, GPL or maybe even commercial game, I would opt for a api that easily would let me port it to other OS'es than GNU/Linux...
Great! Ive just started to explore BeOS so I didnt know of those features. Now, if only there where some drivers for my graphics-card I'd start running it fulltime.:-/ But maybe its worth going back to my old card just to be able to run it...
Yes, the hardware and the Amiga OS is hopelessly outdated, and creating a new machine would only make it an Amiga to the *name* *But!* In this case it sounds (to me) like they are going to port the UI of AOS to Gnu/Linux.
As this is one of the best UI's I've used, imho way better than gnome, kde, windows, etc, it doesn't sound as such a bad idea.
As long as they don't make it incompatible with standard Gnu/Linux programs.
Ok, so it needs to be updated a bit. The 15 years of the general interface *do* show.
Porting the datatype system and some of the other stuff, like screens would also be a nice idea. Since other OS'es has taken so much ideas from it allready, I can't understand why nobody has created a datatype-like system on any other platform. There are somewhat similar stuff, but not as powerful and easy to use.
For those who never used AOS 2.x and newer, datatypes are small "plugins" that are used by the OS and all datatype-enabled programs to handle different media-formats. If I added a datatype for, say, the PNG format all datatype-enabled gfx-viewers, word processors, web-browsers, etc that can handle pictures would be able to read PNG even if the program is older than the format. If I added a WAV datatype, all programs that can play digitized sound would be able so play Wav-files. The same would apply to datatypes for AU, MP3, Word-documents, PDF, etc. Simply copy the datatype to the datatypes catalog and the OS and all you programs will support the format.
Screens is a bit like the dragable workspaces of Enlightenment, but every screen can have it's own resolution, refreshrate and bit-depth. You can also make a programs open it's own screen on startup and still easily switch between screens with the "switch-screen" button in the top right corner or with a key-combination.
There's some very intelligent people on the loose out there. One of them will probably come up with a quantum-safe crypo when they get their hands on a couple of quantum-computers.
The very same thing was said about the 386, the 486 and the first pentiums when they first came out. But one year ago, you had to pay as much for a 400 MHz system as you do for a 800 MHz today. If faster processors wasn't released, you would *still* be paying the same high price for the 400 MHz. There is a reason why they put ridicous prices on the newest processors, and that is to get as much money from them as possible before being forced by competition to lower them. In a year and a half you will probably be able to buy 1GHz systems as a cheap low end system, if you are able to find such a slow processor in stock somewhere. But personally, I'll stick to my overclocked 300 (now 450) celeron until it burns or slot1 compatible processors are going out of stock. Then I'll buy a (at that time) slow low end processor cheap and use it until it's to slow for what I want to do. At that time I'll be forced to upgrade my motherboard, memory and all my old isa cards. Just like I have been doing for the last couple of processor generations. So, imho, ridiculously fast and expensive stuff is great because it makes the cheap stuff faster. =-)
There are three bigger standards for digital connection of lcd-displays. P&D, DFP and DVI. P&D and DFP can only handle up to 1280x1024 resolutions while DVI can handle up to 1920x1080 (which, to my eyes, seem like a mighty strange resolution...) All three are restricted to either 12 or 24 bit colour-depth. (These specifications are for revision 1.0 of all three, so they might have changed since I read them...)
As for the refresh-rates, they are emulated as 60Hz/31KHz, if I'm not remembering it wrong. All pixels on a TFT-screen a lit all the time, so the refresh-rate doesn't need to be high. Of course, since you only update the screen 60 times a second, a higher framerate than that in a game would be useless... =) But that goes for analog monitors too. A 200fps in , say, quake is useless if you only change the picture on your monitor 100 times per second... And since todays TFT's are actually quite slow on changeing pixel-state, a higer refreshrate would only result in a blurry picture... TFT's aren't yet a very good alternative for applications where you move stuff very fast on the screen... Like games and movies... IMHO, of course...
Yes! Do away with the bitmap oriented os! Give us a 2D-vector-GUI! That way there would be no large chunks of bitmap graphics in the os and you could choose the scale at which to view things by yourself.
Would take one hell of a gfx-card to be able to draw all those vectors fast enough at 200+ dpi, though...:-/
Well, playing or decrypting a DVD that you have bought is not piracy... Reading the video file from your DVD disk is not piracy. To copy it to your harddrive and decrypt it is not piracy.
To copy the videofile to someone else, *that* is piracy, even if he doesn't decrypt it! Too bad DVD movies are a bit cumbersome to handle of the disk. (Well, for me anyway. My largest free space is about 8 - 900MB right now... Not even enough to copy an entire VCD movie.)
What they *should* do is to sue the first company that creates a DVD burner. That piece of equipment would make it possible to copy a DVD *without* DeCSS. Just copy it and then play it in any player.
So DeCSS is *not* a DVD copy program and therefor anti-piracy measures should have nothing to do with it...
Yepp. A ethernet port, a built in modem, a radio joypad and a radio keyboard with built in trackpoint...
Then a cd/dvd with a browser, a irc clien, a icq client and a telnet client on it. (Or possibly in flash memory for instant boot.)
With the games-performance promised by sony (if they are up to par) it would ba a perfect "home entertainment" machine. If combined with deascent dvd/vcd/mp3 playback and a look that fits in the tv-bench, that is...
I would buy one. =) (Too bad Commodore was out too early with their CDTV.)
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It would also be a lot more costeffective to build an orbiting lunar station (with materials and construction on the moon) than a earth one. Travel to and from it and supporting it with food, water and oxygen from a lunar ground base would also be much cheaper than doing it in a earth->orbit->earth fashion. Crew could rotate on the orbiter and take leave on the ground where there would be more space.
There are a lot of benifits to gain from having a permanent moonbase before starting to build orbitals...
Well, I don't know how old you have to be i Norway to be a minor. But if he *is* a minor, they probably wanted to arrest someone who they could throw into jail, even if he has *nothing* at all to to with creating the nonillegal software in question.
"And we should arrest people who make cars, for they can be used to kill people. An a pen can be used to poke someones eyes out, so let's arrest people who make pens too. And you can choke on food! Let's arrest people who make foodstuff!"
If they *do* opensource it, how will they sort out "false" clients from "real" clients? How can they be sure that all different versions that will appear treat the data with the exact same algorithm? Remember that they beta tested the current incarnation of the client for over a year (and during that time, you *could* download the source) before releasing it. If someone starts sending incorrect data back to them, they will have to start over again or simply stop the whole project. So the security concerns they are talking about are not "we're afraid to be hacked". It's "We're afraid that someone will make a really fast client that everyone will use but which returns unreliable (not proven) data."
(Actually, there are hacked clients which are faster but returns unreliable data allready...)
Well, I'm not religious, but didn't the christian god, accordingly to the bible, also create the earth?
Now, *that* would be an achivement. =)
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Well... Example: Web-server in 100% asm. Mail-server in 100% asm. Database-engine in 100% ams.
Even though it's intel only it makes sense. If I buy a cheap intel machine to run my mail-server, I'd like it to run as fast as possible. Today the fastest alternetive is a smalltrimmed linux. An asm only OS and Mailserver would, if optimised, probably be considerably faster.
The easiest way is simply to ignore the licence...
I've read a few licences in my life and most of them are not possible too agree with. After some reading between the lines, they all seem to say: "Allthough you have payed for this product *WE* still own it and you can only do what we *allow* you to do with it. And since you are reading this, you've opened the package and therfore allready agreed to this licence-agreement. Mouhahahaha! (evil laughter)"
Who in his/hers right mind would agree to something like that? Who in his/hers right mind dreams up a licence like that? The evil cat in Dilbert?
Ok, for a company it is hard to ignore a licence-agreement, but I've nerver heard of anyone who's been sued for using a product without agreeing with the licence at home.
In this case I would say that a virus (or trojan horse) is a program that is *hidden*.
A program that you download and install on purpose to monitor a computer (like VNC, SMS, etc) is *not* a virus, since it doesn't hide what it is doing. It doesn't say "I'm program that will speed up you network" and then monitor it instead.
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A non commercial open standard can't "fail" since there is no minimum amount of users needed to be profitable. :-)
No profit is needed and thus even one user is a success.
And even if half the people who now compress their audio in mp3 format start using vorbis, you probably wont know the difference since the most popular mp3players are capable, or soon will be, of playing vorbis files.
Just my 2c.
The need, as I've understood it, was to have two ports on separate switches with *the same* IP-address.
Is this possible to achive in Linux with two NIC's?
But there are lot's nlot's of great games for Playstation that probably won't be ported to the dreamcast
That's reason why people use emulators.
To be able to play your old favorites without cluttering your desk with 10's of old computers and consoles.
Let's hope that the C64, Nes, Snes, Amiga, Atari, etc, etc emulators out there get ported too.
Wouldn't *that* be a treat? Just put in a cd and get access to 600MB's of C64 games!!!>br>
Opps... Sorry for the really crazy spelling. I'm tired like *beep*
It's supposed to be:
Look at all the games...
Well, it depends. /dev/*putyourhardwarehere
Look at att det games that are being ported to GNU/Linux.
I bet every one of those gamehouses are wishing that they didn't need to reprogram for a new api. Or even worse, program for direct access to
And if *I* were to create a small shareware, GPL or maybe even commercial game, I would opt for a api that easily would let me port it to other OS'es than GNU/Linux...
Well... Just my two c...
Great! Ive just started to explore BeOS so I didnt know of those features. :-/
Now, if only there where some drivers for my graphics-card I'd start running it fulltime.
But maybe its worth going back to my old card just to be able to run it...
Yes, the hardware and the Amiga OS is hopelessly outdated, and creating a new machine would only make it an Amiga to the *name*
*But!*
In this case it sounds (to me) like they are going to port the UI of AOS to Gnu/Linux.
As this is one of the best UI's I've used, imho way better than gnome, kde, windows, etc, it doesn't sound as such a bad idea.
As long as they don't make it incompatible with standard Gnu/Linux programs.
Ok, so it needs to be updated a bit. The 15 years of the general interface *do* show.
Porting the datatype system and some of the other stuff, like screens would also be a nice idea.
Since other OS'es has taken so much ideas from it allready, I can't understand why nobody has created a datatype-like system on any other platform.
There are somewhat similar stuff, but not as powerful and easy to use.
For those who never used AOS 2.x and newer, datatypes are small "plugins" that are used by the OS and all datatype-enabled programs to handle different media-formats.
If I added a datatype for, say, the PNG format all datatype-enabled gfx-viewers, word processors, web-browsers, etc that can handle pictures would be able to read PNG even if the program is older than the format.
If I added a WAV datatype, all programs that can play digitized sound would be able so play Wav-files.
The same would apply to datatypes for AU, MP3, Word-documents, PDF, etc.
Simply copy the datatype to the datatypes catalog and the OS and all you programs will support the format.
Screens is a bit like the dragable workspaces of Enlightenment, but every screen can have it's own resolution, refreshrate and bit-depth.
You can also make a programs open it's own screen on startup and still easily switch between screens with the "switch-screen" button in the top right corner or with a key-combination.
The palm has got a serial port, although you need an adapter to use it with other stuff than the cradle.
The whole idea, i think, with modifying the palm was to have the sensor internally and thus leaving the port for other uses...
There's some very intelligent people on the loose out there.
One of them will probably come up with a quantum-safe crypo when they get their hands on a couple of quantum-computers.
The very same thing was said about the 386, the 486 and the first pentiums when they first came out.
But one year ago, you had to pay as much for a 400 MHz system as you do for a 800 MHz today.
If faster processors wasn't released, you would *still* be paying the same high price for the 400 MHz.
There is a reason why they put ridicous prices on the newest processors, and that is to get as much money from them as possible before being forced by competition to lower them.
In a year and a half you will probably be able to buy 1GHz systems as a cheap low end system, if you are able to find such a slow processor in stock somewhere.
But personally, I'll stick to my overclocked 300 (now 450) celeron until it burns or slot1 compatible processors are going out of stock.
Then I'll buy a (at that time) slow low end processor cheap and use it until it's to slow for what I want to do.
At that time I'll be forced to upgrade my motherboard, memory and all my old isa cards.
Just like I have been doing for the last couple of processor generations.
So, imho, ridiculously fast and expensive stuff is great because it makes the cheap stuff faster. =-)
I saw this at Cebit.
It was really cool to see x11amp with graphical plugins playing on a little pda. =)
Wonder what else compiles on it.
There are three bigger standards for digital connection of lcd-displays.
P&D, DFP and DVI.
P&D and DFP can only handle up to 1280x1024 resolutions while DVI can handle up to 1920x1080 (which, to my eyes, seem like a mighty strange resolution...)
All three are restricted to either 12 or 24 bit colour-depth.
(These specifications are for revision 1.0 of all three, so they might have changed since I read them...)
As for the refresh-rates, they are emulated as 60Hz/31KHz, if I'm not remembering it wrong.
All pixels on a TFT-screen a lit all the time, so the refresh-rate doesn't need to be high.
Of course, since you only update the screen 60 times a second, a higher framerate than that in a game would be useless... =)
But that goes for analog monitors too. A 200fps in , say, quake is useless if you only change the picture on your monitor 100 times per second...
And since todays TFT's are actually quite slow on changeing pixel-state, a higer refreshrate would only result in a blurry picture...
TFT's aren't yet a very good alternative for applications where you move stuff very fast on the screen... Like games and movies...
IMHO, of course...
Yes! Do away with the bitmap oriented os!
:-/
Give us a 2D-vector-GUI!
That way there would be no large chunks of bitmap graphics in the os and you could choose the scale at which to view things by yourself.
Would take one hell of a gfx-card to be able to draw all those vectors fast enough at 200+ dpi, though...
Well, playing or decrypting a DVD that you have bought is not piracy...
Reading the video file from your DVD disk is not piracy.
To copy it to your harddrive and decrypt it is not piracy.
To copy the videofile to someone else, *that* is piracy, even if he doesn't decrypt it!
Too bad DVD movies are a bit cumbersome to handle of the disk. (Well, for me anyway. My largest free space is about 8 - 900MB right now... Not even enough to copy an entire VCD movie.)
What they *should* do is to sue the first company that creates a DVD burner.
That piece of equipment would make it possible to copy a DVD *without* DeCSS.
Just copy it and then play it in any player.
So DeCSS is *not* a DVD copy program and therefor anti-piracy measures should have nothing to do with it...
Well, I shouldn't even honour this with a reply, but...
//The Dumb Fuck
I was describing what I think it *should* implement...
*Not*, as you seem to belive, what I've read it *will* include..
Ok?
Yepp. A ethernet port, a built in modem, a radio joypad and a radio keyboard with built in trackpoint...
Then a cd/dvd with a browser, a irc clien, a icq client and a telnet client on it. (Or possibly in flash memory for instant boot.)
With the games-performance promised by sony (if they are up to par) it would ba a perfect "home entertainment" machine.
If combined with deascent dvd/vcd/mp3 playback and a look that fits in the tv-bench, that is...
I would buy one. =) (Too bad Commodore was out too early with their CDTV.)
It would also be a lot more costeffective to build an orbiting lunar station (with materials and construction on the moon) than a earth one.
Travel to and from it and supporting it with food, water and oxygen from a lunar ground base would also be much cheaper than doing it in a earth->orbit->earth fashion.
Crew could rotate on the orbiter and take leave on the ground where there would be more space.
There are a lot of benifits to gain from having a permanent moonbase before starting to build orbitals...
Ooh! A large selflearning neural network running on "idle cycles"!
See if we can get it to become selfaware. =)
Well, I don't know how old you have to be i Norway to be a minor.
But if he *is* a minor, they probably wanted to arrest someone who they could throw into jail, even if he has *nothing* at all to to with creating the nonillegal software in question.
"And we should arrest people who make cars, for they can be used to kill people. An a pen can be used to poke someones eyes out, so let's arrest people who make pens too. And you can choke on food! Let's arrest people who make foodstuff!"
If they *do* opensource it, how will they sort out "false" clients from "real" clients? How can they be sure that all different versions that will appear treat the data with the exact same algorithm?
Remember that they beta tested the current incarnation of the client for over a year (and during that time, you *could* download the source) before releasing it.
If someone starts sending incorrect data back to them, they will have to start over again or simply stop the whole project.
So the security concerns they are talking about are not "we're afraid to be hacked".
It's "We're afraid that someone will make a really fast client that everyone will use but which returns unreliable (not proven) data."
(Actually, there are hacked clients which are faster but returns unreliable data allready...)
In my oppinion, a date version number would be better, like:
Windows 95-03-16 (Replace date with actual compile date)
Well, I'm not religious, but didn't the christian god, accordingly to the bible, also create the earth?
Now, *that* would be an achivement. =)
Well... Example:
Web-server in 100% asm.
Mail-server in 100% asm.
Database-engine in 100% ams.
Even though it's intel only it makes sense.
If I buy a cheap intel machine to run my mail-server, I'd like it to run as fast as possible.
Today the fastest alternetive is a smalltrimmed linux.
An asm only OS and Mailserver would, if optimised, probably be considerably faster.
The easiest way is simply to ignore the licence...
I've read a few licences in my life and most of them are not possible too agree with.
After some reading between the lines, they all seem to say:
"Allthough you have payed for this product *WE* still own it and you can only do what we *allow* you to do with it.
And since you are reading this, you've opened the package and therfore allready agreed to this licence-agreement. Mouhahahaha! (evil laughter)"
Who in his/hers right mind would agree to something like that?
Who in his/hers right mind dreams up a licence like that?
The evil cat in Dilbert?
Ok, for a company it is hard to ignore a licence-agreement, but I've nerver heard of anyone who's been sued for using a product without agreeing with the licence at home.
In this case I would say that a virus (or trojan horse) is a program that is *hidden*.
A program that you download and install on purpose to monitor a computer (like VNC, SMS, etc) is *not* a virus, since it doesn't hide what it is doing.
It doesn't say "I'm program that will speed up you network" and then monitor it instead.