The Wii is theoretically powerful enough to do a better game than anything ever made for the PS2.
The dreamcast was physically able to make a game twice as good as the PS2. In every way. The PS2 shipped with joke hardware and a DVD player. But release first and somehow you win.
But most importantly one is 270$ and all your friends have it, the other is 400$ for a console that can't even play last generation's games, or 700$+ for one that can (80GB PS3 is worthless).
And it can work just fine with component. And it does 480p just fine, too. Only one of my TVs does 720p/1080i. The other is still 480i (at least I haven't noticed any component connectors in the back).
Expect the next game in the series to have all that.
Vice City was different from GTA3, and introduced a lot of new and interesting features. The new engine was then used again, in GTA: San Andreas, and it featured three large sprawling cities in a desert, with jetpacks and parachutes, and actual planes, and bicycles, and other such stuff that VC lacked.
Tales of Symphonia had something like that. Depending on who's your soulmate entire scenes would change to match that. And then some scenes the least liked characters (as in those who like you the least, not the other way around) would stick behind. At one point your soulmate even gets kidnapped, leading you to the climax of the game as you watch everyone else fight their fears.
That's nothing though. That's very light AI. At one point (spoilers!) you get the choice to refuse all three of your "best friends" (three who like you the most) and go for a walk with your father. There's a scene much later on, where one of your friends betrays you, challenges you to a duel, and you kill him, and your father returns to your party after saving you later on. As opposed to ninjas from a local village who come and defend you, and your friend was just tricking the enemies to get something for you.
That is a pretty radical change, because tons of sidequests no longer apply now that you've lost the friend forever. And his sister takes on the title of "Chosen of Mana".
A lot of his positions are reasonable and are the best paths. However this is the last straw, imho, because the rest of his stances could be adopted by Obama. Namely listening to the generals in Iraq before withdrawing so quick, to see how many to remove and when to start the withdrawl. Of course that's within the few-months-of-being-elected window, not years.
Mission will never be complete. "They"'ve already won with Europe cultural and the US's mind as their battlefield. As much as we hate to deny it this isn't even war, it was a fucking massacre in all the wrong ways.
A friend of mine who's into the breaking-encryption scene tells me it is possible, but I have no idea how, unless I took apart the cablebox.
The cablebox has a coax output and svideo/composite, but I'm pretty sure that only outputs as analog cable... I don't think they'd make it export to unencrypted cable all things considered (yeah my cableco is beyond evil. they make comcast look like Verizon). I haven't tried it yet (seeing if it's decrypted and sent as digital), though, which is why I really don't know at this point. And even then how am I supposed to control the HDHomeRun? I'd have to constantly grab the box's remote to flip channels...
Digital cable in Canada was never well-thought out. If we had US companies 'round here we'd have service like what I hear the europeans have. It's just because Shaw, Rogers, and Videotron have monopolies in their respective areas that we have shit TV...
I'm wondering though, how would I get my hands on a cableCARD, and would it do what I'm looking for? (decrypt the DTV cable signal)
If I can do that I don't see the need for the PVR... Although it would be nice, having MPEG2 streams over ethernet going to all my computers would be nicer... Of course if CableCARD won't do that I guess my only choice is the PVR... Thanks though for helping me out.
Hmm, it's just I'm thinking my digital cable connection is encrypted... It's unlikely a company like Rogers would leave it unencrypted.
That HD Home Runner looks very interesting, thanks for the link, it looks perfect for what I need, especially since it seems like the first 70 or so channels with my company are analog, so if it can do that I'll be gold (and if it is digital it should be encryption-free). That means I don't need a TV tuner here and there, just stick in my cable connection and antenna, and bang it's everywhere. For that device do I just like get MythTV to load it up, sort of like how you'd SSH into a machine and tunnel stuff? (minus using SSH... I guess more like internet radio? but just connect and go?)
But my router is kind of nearing full right now; half the ports are used (it's wifi enabled though). The other two would be used for another computer I'm in the process of building (but the other computer I might hook up I'll probably just use Wifi or sneakernet, because I can't run cables through the walls) and either the mythbox or this. Unless you think it's smart/reasonable to run a stream via 802.11g? It would only be for the normal cable though, OTA HD content likely being recorded and then sent over the LAN to it as a normal file, or with the use of some hacked together ethernet/firewire cables...
Oh, and since HD over the air is just digital it applies too... I get it... But what about digital cable? Doesn't look like Rogers will let me access it without their cablebox any time soon. =/ (unless I can get them to give me a box with firewire...)
Could live TV be streamed across the LAN? Would it be too slow? And are there USB TV tuners (and just plain "views tv and that's it" type) that work well with MythTV/Linux? I'm considering a miniITX system, and it would be nice if I could drop the cable box, get a PCIE card to play some games with, and still have live TV... Of course live TV isn't essential, I don't mind having to switch on the cable box, but then it starts to get redundant, and the computer's only purpose is to play recorded shows and movies... So I'm jumping back and forth between devices...
If you don't mind buying OEM, there's "solutions" like the eeePC Desktop, and the Dell Studio PC. But they can only work with USB tuners, it seems. Might not be your best bet. But if you have digital cable it should have firewire.
If you could go mATX, there's the C7-D board from Everex. C7-D 1.5GHz, CN700, but all it does for XvMC is MPEG2, and doesn't do higher than 1024x1024 it seems (no idea if it can do 1280x720, IE it's just a matter of surface, or if either side can't exceed that) It's 49$ 'round these parts:
LogicSupply.com is running a few promotions to clear its C3 stock. The C3 with CN400 is supposed to be able to do XvMC with MPEG4 decoding at 2048x2048. It can do MPEG2 right now. But I have no idea if it can really deliver on MPEG4, with or without MPEG4. (This whole market is really stupid.) It's only 88$ right now. Pricey to be honest, but better than 200$+.
PCIE x16. MiniPCI. C7-D 1.5GHz. CN896. The only downside to this little thing is that it isn't a Nano. But for 144$? Pretty damn great for miniITX. Just missing firewire. And hdmi. And TV out. But most new TVs come with VGA. If not monoprice.com has VGA --> component boxes. It has a S/PDIF connector you just need to pipe it out to the back of the case yourself.
You can even stick in a discrete card, like the HD3450 for some gaming.
For PSUs PicoPSU is the staple PSU. Cases, I don't know. You'll have to look around. And watch out, some motherboards only accept SODIMM.
With firewire though does the remote work fine? (like IRBlaster or whatever they call it)
And does the firewire mandate apply in Canada too? (stupid question but with our current government everything we do is a stupid version of what you've done. =/)
It's too bad it can't do encoding by itself, though...
Of course, why bother? You could always encode the nice stuff there, and use a mATX/miniITX board to watch stuff live.
That's the sort of setup I've considered. My PC records HD shows, and I have a C7 or C3 (or *crosses fingers* Nano) frontend with a PVR150 or something. I watch shows with the computer and they get recorded by the other computer with MythWeb (or on this one but it wouldn't be too great, unless 480i is really not intensive to record), and then played across ethernet to the mythbox. The only problem is with digital cable, but I can see there's barely anything interesting on there.
The extra computer would be nice to have, too. Need to look something up quick? Hit the TV and go.
But if I had the choice, to be completely honest, I'd get a FiOS line, strike a deal with somebody in the UK, and get BBC here via an SSH tunnel or something, like someone reccomended in a different article...
No, don't worry about me pal, I started using them a VERY long time ago for cable TV, and pretty damn long for cable internet.
I like the look of Lite but I can't really convince myself it's worth it. Especially since I'm not the one calling the shots right now. I'd go Teksavvy if I could understand their bandrates.
I loved Rogers before they turned damn near evil. Throttling, no encrypted traffic, my signal lately and that of a friend go down once in a while, and the caps that may or may not go into effect. Personally, if it wasn't for the lack of encrypted traffic, and that they cap me at 60GB with no real way to buy more bandwidth cheaply (of course it would take my ~512k connection running 17/7 to get like 60GB...) I'd stick with them. In the long run yelling at them and getting free stuff > changing something that isn't broken yet. And one bill for almost everything (cell is from there too, but home phone is from Bell) is useful.
But what's with CableCard? Is it just so you can get digital TV on your computer? And really, other than the pay-for channels, has anybody seen interesting stuff worth paying that ~4$/mo for? Pretty much everything is time-shifted for me, everything else is locked out.
I'm with rogers and they shafted me with digital cable, (pretty much). Because they can't seem to keep the same channels. So they drop one of the CNNs (international I think, or whichever features Glen Beck, Erica Hill, etc. not the other one with Wolf Blitzer and Anderson Cooper and Larry King) and a number of other channels like Speed. And since those were pretty much the only channels I cared about they tried pushing me into digital cable.
Long story short I'm still not paying for it but recieving it. I'm still waiting on an apology for them being total dicks (especially on internet. 2GB a month bw cap? What the fuck?)
Why not? I admit, it's not a perfect solution, but it works. And it seems Apple and Microsoft keep trying to copy it.
Configuration still handled with text files, with front-end tools that try to conceal them but never quite do it all. No, most front-ends do a good job. Which ones are bugging you? And text > database. I just love the way the windows registry works, don't you?
Ugly icons. More like stupid distros. Have you seen Tango icons? They're very nice.
Inconsistency between GUIs of applications. Your fault for using random applications.
Everything is beaufitul and consistent in Windows land, right? (don't even get me started on OSX. there's an image floating about for that too. and I mean, wood and chrome?? what the fuck?)
Too much need for the command line. You're trying too hard to find it. =/
Even more kernel bloat. Become a kernel maintainer?
Linux needs to stop preaching about free software and get back to work
No thanks. Use a proprietary software if you want your freedom to crumble. I mean, nobody's stopping you from using binary shit in your kernel/userland, go ahead. But don't bitch that we won't support it. $OEM won't support a computer if you've messed with the insides, we won't either.
For the next point, users need to push developpers a bit more, but in the right direction. We can't do everything but explain it and we'll try. And sometimes it doesn't make sense or we're too tired. If you have 129$ left from not buying OSX, why not bribe your local nerd to write up whatever you need?
(But I do agree that sometimes it is a bit extreme... But it is necessary.)
And ubuntu is pretty much that. Unless you're using it with unsupported hardware. Yet nobody complains when their mac doesn't work with whatever device, or whatever software, they just buy new ones or go mute. Is it because we're free that we need to do more? =/
What I've always wanted to see, and I don't have the technical expertise to do, (but please don't steal it and prove it's bad / make it commercialware:() is to have a metadata browser. Example:
But what about files that fit in multiple places? Maybe something is a music file to go on the web, and for whatever reason should be in both (maybe you run a mpd server). So why not tag everything (somehow, I'm not a metadata person). (tags in brackets) (dates should be in the file)
logo.png [image png web logo] scienceproj.rtf [science chemistry projects schoolwork paper rtf] notesonfightclub.txt [notes fightclub books txt] clockwork-orange.pdf [book ebook clockworkorange burgess] alice-in-wonderland-summary.latex [book summary schoolwork paper latex] forever.mp3 [music mp3 pop ne-yo]
When you launch your browser, you can see these sorted out by their metadata.
So you have ~/mp3 ~/music ~/schoolwork ~/fightclub etc
But not like ~/Desktop, ~/web, etc. Normal browsers work with the files just fine, you can't cut/pasta/copy/etc. within the browser just rename, and when you save a document it just uses its save function as normal.
No, doubtful. At thing point Linus is mostly sitting at the top, trying to manage what gets put in, what gets rejected, what needs work, etc. as opposed to funding the project and writing large parts of it.
I don't really know what Andy does to be honest, but I'm thinking it's similar. We just need more entry-level kernel hackers, you know, newbies. People who just sit around and observe as the "Real hackers" work and learn how to do it, so that when the real hackers are out, the newer ones know what to do... And not left in the dark with half the skills.
I hate to say it but Aubrey de Grey still needs time, a bit too much of it. And lowering the bar for kernel hacking can't be a bad thing if it's properly managed.
When I'm walking around malls and such I often pass by toystores, and they have these small computers intended for kids, often shaped like laptops or iMacs (G5+). I've always wanted to see someone make on, but more functional. Nicer screen, actual OS, ability to write documents and export over USB.
This is not like someone in his garage working away, this is like somebody building a PC that can play every PS3, Wii, and 360 game near-flawlessly and is selling it less than those consoles.
The OS is embedded for Apple, in a sense. You buy mac hardware for OSX, you buy OSX for mac hardware. Nobody buys a DS to play PSP games, nobody sticks DS firmware on other devices.
(SERIOUSLY! WTF GUYS? Let's mind our own business. If you were a Russian, how would you feel about the USA right now?)
If you were a Georgian how would you feel when you knew Russia had an army amassed just outside the border ready to mess your shit up?
South Ossetia was attacking the rest of Georgia. Chechnya did the same. When Chechnya wanted independance the Russias moved in with all their force and did the typical russian-army move. When Georgia doesn't want to lose a part of its country to an oppressor funding domestic terrorism, Russia is somehow good for moving in and attacking the country IN TOTALLY UNRELATED PROVINCES??
This is an idiot's war but damnit, it's like Ontario would demand to be part of the US, and for 10 years launch attacks across Canada, then finally when the rest of Canada turns against it to shut it up the US comes in to "liberate it" and everybody lets them do that.
(And now I've got to go sit in my corner and cry about how I'm too good at predicting the future...)
Where was Russia when Chechnya wanted independance?
Right there, with tanks, planes, and guns. Parent deserves +5 Insightful but is not correct in this case. Georgia was aggressed by Ossetia, and has every right to move into its own territory. When Russia moved in and continued past South Ossetia, and even entering with such force without a word beforehand, is an act of war.
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The Wii is theoretically powerful enough to do a better game than anything ever made for the PS2.
The dreamcast was physically able to make a game twice as good as the PS2. In every way. The PS2 shipped with joke hardware and a DVD player. But release first and somehow you win.
The Wii is innovative, the PS3 is definately not.
But most importantly one is 270$ and all your friends have it, the other is 400$ for a console that can't even play last generation's games, or 700$+ for one that can (80GB PS3 is worthless).
And it can work just fine with component. And it does 480p just fine, too. Only one of my TVs does 720p/1080i. The other is still 480i (at least I haven't noticed any component connectors in the back).
GTA VC lost a lot of things that were in previous games.
And VC is a lot smaller than say the original GTA, where you could go to all sorts of cities.
Expect the next game in the series to have all that.
Vice City was different from GTA3, and introduced a lot of new and interesting features. The new engine was then used again, in GTA: San Andreas, and it featured three large sprawling cities in a desert, with jetpacks and parachutes, and actual planes, and bicycles, and other such stuff that VC lacked.
Tales of Symphonia had something like that. Depending on who's your soulmate entire scenes would change to match that. And then some scenes the least liked characters (as in those who like you the least, not the other way around) would stick behind. At one point your soulmate even gets kidnapped, leading you to the climax of the game as you watch everyone else fight their fears.
That's nothing though. That's very light AI. At one point (spoilers!) you get the choice to refuse all three of your "best friends" (three who like you the most) and go for a walk with your father. There's a scene much later on, where one of your friends betrays you, challenges you to a duel, and you kill him, and your father returns to your party after saving you later on. As opposed to ninjas from a local village who come and defend you, and your friend was just tricking the enemies to get something for you.
That is a pretty radical change, because tons of sidequests no longer apply now that you've lost the friend forever. And his sister takes on the title of "Chosen of Mana".
No, he's not a big loser on every front.
A lot of his positions are reasonable and are the best paths. However this is the last straw, imho, because the rest of his stances could be adopted by Obama. Namely listening to the generals in Iraq before withdrawing so quick, to see how many to remove and when to start the withdrawl. Of course that's within the few-months-of-being-elected window, not years.
Mission will never be complete. "They"'ve already won with Europe cultural and the US's mind as their battlefield. As much as we hate to deny it this isn't even war, it was a fucking massacre in all the wrong ways.
A friend of mine who's into the breaking-encryption scene tells me it is possible, but I have no idea how, unless I took apart the cablebox.
The cablebox has a coax output and svideo/composite, but I'm pretty sure that only outputs as analog cable... I don't think they'd make it export to unencrypted cable all things considered (yeah my cableco is beyond evil. they make comcast look like Verizon). I haven't tried it yet (seeing if it's decrypted and sent as digital), though, which is why I really don't know at this point. And even then how am I supposed to control the HDHomeRun? I'd have to constantly grab the box's remote to flip channels...
Digital cable in Canada was never well-thought out. If we had US companies 'round here we'd have service like what I hear the europeans have. It's just because Shaw, Rogers, and Videotron have monopolies in their respective areas that we have shit TV...
I'm wondering though, how would I get my hands on a cableCARD, and would it do what I'm looking for? (decrypt the DTV cable signal)
If I can do that I don't see the need for the PVR... Although it would be nice, having MPEG2 streams over ethernet going to all my computers would be nicer... Of course if CableCARD won't do that I guess my only choice is the PVR... Thanks though for helping me out.
Hmm, it's just I'm thinking my digital cable connection is encrypted... It's unlikely a company like Rogers would leave it unencrypted.
That HD Home Runner looks very interesting, thanks for the link, it looks perfect for what I need, especially since it seems like the first 70 or so channels with my company are analog, so if it can do that I'll be gold (and if it is digital it should be encryption-free). That means I don't need a TV tuner here and there, just stick in my cable connection and antenna, and bang it's everywhere. For that device do I just like get MythTV to load it up, sort of like how you'd SSH into a machine and tunnel stuff? (minus using SSH... I guess more like internet radio? but just connect and go?)
But my router is kind of nearing full right now; half the ports are used (it's wifi enabled though). The other two would be used for another computer I'm in the process of building (but the other computer I might hook up I'll probably just use Wifi or sneakernet, because I can't run cables through the walls) and either the mythbox or this. Unless you think it's smart/reasonable to run a stream via 802.11g? It would only be for the normal cable though, OTA HD content likely being recorded and then sent over the LAN to it as a normal file, or with the use of some hacked together ethernet/firewire cables...
Oh, and since HD over the air is just digital it applies too... I get it... But what about digital cable? Doesn't look like Rogers will let me access it without their cablebox any time soon. =/ (unless I can get them to give me a box with firewire...)
Could live TV be streamed across the LAN? Would it be too slow? And are there USB TV tuners (and just plain "views tv and that's it" type) that work well with MythTV/Linux? I'm considering a miniITX system, and it would be nice if I could drop the cable box, get a PCIE card to play some games with, and still have live TV... Of course live TV isn't essential, I don't mind having to switch on the cable box, but then it starts to get redundant, and the computer's only purpose is to play recorded shows and movies... So I'm jumping back and forth between devices...
If you don't mind buying OEM, there's "solutions" like the eeePC Desktop, and the Dell Studio PC. But they can only work with USB tuners, it seems. Might not be your best bet. But if you have digital cable it should have firewire.
If you could go mATX, there's the C7-D board from Everex. C7-D 1.5GHz, CN700, but all it does for XvMC is MPEG2, and doesn't do higher than 1024x1024 it seems (no idea if it can do 1280x720, IE it's just a matter of surface, or if either side can't exceed that) It's 49$ 'round these parts:
http://pccyber.com/?v=product&i=MB-VIA-PC2500E
LogicSupply.com is running a few promotions to clear its C3 stock. The C3 with CN400 is supposed to be able to do XvMC with MPEG4 decoding at 2048x2048. It can do MPEG2 right now. But I have no idea if it can really deliver on MPEG4, with or without MPEG4. (This whole market is really stupid.) It's only 88$ right now. Pricey to be honest, but better than 200$+.
And you know what? I don't explore much...
http://www.logicsupply.com/products/vb7002g
PCIE x16. MiniPCI. C7-D 1.5GHz. CN896. The only downside to this little thing is that it isn't a Nano. But for 144$? Pretty damn great for miniITX. Just missing firewire. And hdmi. And TV out. But most new TVs come with VGA. If not monoprice.com has VGA --> component boxes. It has a S/PDIF connector you just need to pipe it out to the back of the case yourself.
You can even stick in a discrete card, like the HD3450 for some gaming.
For PSUs PicoPSU is the staple PSU. Cases, I don't know. You'll have to look around. And watch out, some motherboards only accept SODIMM.
With firewire though does the remote work fine? (like IRBlaster or whatever they call it)
And does the firewire mandate apply in Canada too? (stupid question but with our current government everything we do is a stupid version of what you've done. =/)
It's too bad it can't do encoding by itself, though...
Of course, why bother? You could always encode the nice stuff there, and use a mATX/miniITX board to watch stuff live.
That's the sort of setup I've considered. My PC records HD shows, and I have a C7 or C3 (or *crosses fingers* Nano) frontend with a PVR150 or something. I watch shows with the computer and they get recorded by the other computer with MythWeb (or on this one but it wouldn't be too great, unless 480i is really not intensive to record), and then played across ethernet to the mythbox. The only problem is with digital cable, but I can see there's barely anything interesting on there.
The extra computer would be nice to have, too. Need to look something up quick? Hit the TV and go.
But if I had the choice, to be completely honest, I'd get a FiOS line, strike a deal with somebody in the UK, and get BBC here via an SSH tunnel or something, like someone reccomended in a different article...
Package it, then. It'd be doing everyone a great service. Then one less "Joe User" needs to "suffer".
No, don't worry about me pal, I started using them a VERY long time ago for cable TV, and pretty damn long for cable internet.
I like the look of Lite but I can't really convince myself it's worth it. Especially since I'm not the one calling the shots right now. I'd go Teksavvy if I could understand their bandrates.
I loved Rogers before they turned damn near evil. Throttling, no encrypted traffic, my signal lately and that of a friend go down once in a while, and the caps that may or may not go into effect. Personally, if it wasn't for the lack of encrypted traffic, and that they cap me at 60GB with no real way to buy more bandwidth cheaply (of course it would take my ~512k connection running 17/7 to get like 60GB...) I'd stick with them. In the long run yelling at them and getting free stuff > changing something that isn't broken yet. And one bill for almost everything (cell is from there too, but home phone is from Bell) is useful.
I have the exact same set up as the parent...
But what's with CableCard? Is it just so you can get digital TV on your computer? And really, other than the pay-for channels, has anybody seen interesting stuff worth paying that ~4$/mo for? Pretty much everything is time-shifted for me, everything else is locked out.
I'm with rogers and they shafted me with digital cable, (pretty much). Because they can't seem to keep the same channels. So they drop one of the CNNs (international I think, or whichever features Glen Beck, Erica Hill, etc. not the other one with Wolf Blitzer and Anderson Cooper and Larry King) and a number of other channels like Speed. And since those were pretty much the only channels I cared about they tried pushing me into digital cable.
Long story short I'm still not paying for it but recieving it. I'm still waiting on an apology for them being total dicks (especially on internet. 2GB a month bw cap? What the fuck?)
X-Windows forever.
Why not? I admit, it's not a perfect solution, but it works. And it seems Apple and Microsoft keep trying to copy it.
Configuration still handled with text files, with front-end tools that try to conceal them but never quite do it all.
No, most front-ends do a good job. Which ones are bugging you? And text > database. I just love the way the windows registry works, don't you?
Ugly icons.
More like stupid distros. Have you seen Tango icons? They're very nice.
Inconsistency between GUIs of applications.
Your fault for using random applications.
http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/microsoft-learn-from-apple-II.media/vista.png
Everything is beaufitul and consistent in Windows land, right? (don't even get me started on OSX. there's an image floating about for that too. and I mean, wood and chrome?? what the fuck?)
Too much need for the command line.
You're trying too hard to find it. =/
Even more kernel bloat.
Become a kernel maintainer?
they're optimised to run on Apple's own hardware.
And linux is optimised for linux's own hardware.
Stop buying crap non-"optimised" hardware and coming back to complain to us. As Anon said, did OSX install great on that Toshiba?
Linux needs to stop preaching about free software and get back to work
No thanks. Use a proprietary software if you want your freedom to crumble. I mean, nobody's stopping you from using binary shit in your kernel/userland, go ahead. But don't bitch that we won't support it. $OEM won't support a computer if you've messed with the insides, we won't either.
For the next point, users need to push developpers a bit more, but in the right direction. We can't do everything but explain it and we'll try. And sometimes it doesn't make sense or we're too tired. If you have 129$ left from not buying OSX, why not bribe your local nerd to write up whatever you need?
(But I do agree that sometimes it is a bit extreme... But it is necessary.)
And ubuntu is pretty much that. Unless you're using it with unsupported hardware. Yet nobody complains when their mac doesn't work with whatever device, or whatever software, they just buy new ones or go mute. Is it because we're free that we need to do more? =/
What I've always wanted to see, and I don't have the technical expertise to do, (but please don't steal it and prove it's bad / make it commercialware :() is to have a metadata browser. Example:
A typical /home generally looks like so:
documents/
received/
music/
notes/
coloured/
games/
computers/
photos/
Desktop/
web/
But what about files that fit in multiple places? Maybe something is a music file to go on the web, and for whatever reason should be in both (maybe you run a mpd server). So why not tag everything (somehow, I'm not a metadata person). (tags in brackets) (dates should be in the file)
logo.png [image png web logo]
scienceproj.rtf [science chemistry projects schoolwork paper rtf]
notesonfightclub.txt [notes fightclub books txt]
clockwork-orange.pdf [book ebook clockworkorange burgess]
alice-in-wonderland-summary.latex [book summary schoolwork paper latex]
forever.mp3 [music mp3 pop ne-yo]
When you launch your browser, you can see these sorted out by their metadata.
So you have
~/mp3
~/music
~/schoolwork
~/fightclub
etc
But not like ~/Desktop, ~/web, etc. Normal browsers work with the files just fine, you can't cut/pasta/copy/etc. within the browser just rename, and when you save a document it just uses its save function as normal.
No, doubtful. At thing point Linus is mostly sitting at the top, trying to manage what gets put in, what gets rejected, what needs work, etc. as opposed to funding the project and writing large parts of it.
I don't really know what Andy does to be honest, but I'm thinking it's similar. We just need more entry-level kernel hackers, you know, newbies. People who just sit around and observe as the "Real hackers" work and learn how to do it, so that when the real hackers are out, the newer ones know what to do... And not left in the dark with half the skills.
I hate to say it but Aubrey de Grey still needs time, a bit too much of it. And lowering the bar for kernel hacking can't be a bad thing if it's properly managed.
Cheap netbooks from mcdonalds maybe?
When I'm walking around malls and such I often pass by toystores, and they have these small computers intended for kids, often shaped like laptops or iMacs (G5+). I've always wanted to see someone make on, but more functional. Nicer screen, actual OS, ability to write documents and export over USB.
This is not like someone in his garage working away, this is like somebody building a PC that can play every PS3, Wii, and 360 game near-flawlessly and is selling it less than those consoles.
The OS is embedded for Apple, in a sense. You buy mac hardware for OSX, you buy OSX for mac hardware. Nobody buys a DS to play PSP games, nobody sticks DS firmware on other devices.
(SERIOUSLY! WTF GUYS? Let's mind our own business. If you were a Russian, how would you feel about the USA right now?)
If you were a Georgian how would you feel when you knew Russia had an army amassed just outside the border ready to mess your shit up?
South Ossetia was attacking the rest of Georgia. Chechnya did the same. When Chechnya wanted independance the Russias moved in with all their force and did the typical russian-army move. When Georgia doesn't want to lose a part of its country to an oppressor funding domestic terrorism, Russia is somehow good for moving in and attacking the country IN TOTALLY UNRELATED PROVINCES??
This is an idiot's war but damnit, it's like Ontario would demand to be part of the US, and for 10 years launch attacks across Canada, then finally when the rest of Canada turns against it to shut it up the US comes in to "liberate it" and everybody lets them do that.
(And now I've got to go sit in my corner and cry about how I'm too good at predicting the future...)
And twenty years later, the Russian Empire is formed once again.
Calling all bets, come on boys lay the cash!
Where was Russia when Chechnya wanted independance?
Right there, with tanks, planes, and guns. Parent deserves +5 Insightful but is not correct in this case. Georgia was aggressed by Ossetia, and has every right to move into its own territory. When Russia moved in and continued past South Ossetia, and even entering with such force without a word beforehand, is an act of war.