Adobe Flash is not only an establishment, it's also as open as it gets. Not open source, but open and free documentation.
The Flash player is a.swf player. The streaming protocol RTMP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Time_Messaging_Protocol) and the Sorenson codec (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorenson_codec) are missing from the spec, but Gnash (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnash) is clean room reverse enginering this, making that open too.
It's just Microsoft is exaclty what it is; Create new, totally uncalled for software duplications done wrong in order to screw every standard/open establishment in order to gain more lock-in and control and in the end more money.
It is and shall always remains "just Microsoft" for me.
EU want MS to include a choice in the Win7 installer that gives a user the choise to install either EI, Firefox or Opera. Instead MS just went out to remove the choice of having a brower entirely.
Even if Microsoft is forced to stop their anti-competitive practises they still don't give the user the choice of a different browser. Microsoft knows that nobody bought the Windows XP version without the Windows Media Player so they know that by removing IE from the European version of Windows7 people are still only going to see IE from an imported version of Windows 7.
Fsck them. Fsck them hard in their ass EU! I hope they'll bleed. And stop whining about the EU only wanting to make money because their fines are a tiny drop in the financial ocean. Ever cared to look at how much money the EU has? Well do it then and stop whine...
Perhaps they even did this in conjuction with Palm... if you think about it they would have been smart to do so.
Exactly what I was thinking as Motorola even had a complete iTunes version of a Razr once. You know; the one that is famous for being "the iPod of mobile phones".
Dude.../. is a newsified message board. Nerd stuff ok, but if someone is stating the obvious then it can be fscking irritation to get the "Citation needed" whinetrain going by ever freaking statement. Either disprove or shut up because there is thing thing called Google and it can search for you.
What you basicly saying is: "Google for my lazy ass please, because no reasob given"
Can it be more anti-Microsoft than this? Let's go through the video, shall we?
1) Why is the mother laughing at the Windows boot screen? Is it booting 10x longer than her previous Ubuntu 9.04 install? I don't have a clue...
2) Why is she closing the lid after having done absolutely nothing with the EeePC? Tired of waiting for it to boot? Isn't Windows productive, or just plane useless? You tell me...
3) The people in this 'commercial' are supposed to be representative Windows users. Now what mother gives her kids their laptops to s
chool but forgets to give them bread/sandwiches and drinks?!
4) After school, presumably, the kids go to the beach to make photos with a mobile phone. Now why on earth would hey do that? Isn't there a 1,3 megapixel (can't be better than that ancient phone) webcam on the EeePC? Doesn't Windows have photo capturing software? Ubuntu/Linux -> Cheese for Gnome. So Windows lacks software. Wow how bad can advertising be? But it doesn't stop there;
5) The kids need to usb-cable-transfer the picture from the phone to the EeePC while there is a cardreader slot. Except for plane stupidity on behalf of Windows users, doesn't the commercial say Windows redefines mobility/Wireless? Strange... Why don't they do it via bluetooth file transfer? Or isn't that supported in Windows either? Talking about compatibility with devices here... (that accounts for bith the phone and the bluetooth dongle.
6) After transfering the picture (mobility equals taking cables with you?) to the EeePC they can use some Live app to cut the picture. Wow! Totally can't do that with Gimp! Try to red eye correct that picture on Windows, morons. And no, Photoshop is not a part of Windows and no it doesn't run on a EeePC, but Gimp does.
7) The Business guy is spilling coffe over himself. Is Windows targetted for idiots? Nice move Microsoft marketing dicks...
8) After that incident he can share it with Live Messenger. Wow! Webcamming is the killer feature for Live Messenger? Except for the fact that it aint, the Windows marketing dicks suck balls.
9) Then the representative Windows user also like to laugh at himself for spilling coffee all over himself and enjoyes being lauched out loud by the people who he's webcamming with. Windows is targetted for loser? FAIL!
10) Redefining mobility? Like what the hell? Given the fact that this is a commercial for not using Linux and instead using Windows, what kind of redefining is going on here? Ubuntu 9.04 works completely out of the box with the EeePC (I am typing from one) and Windows sucks at connecting to wireless. Speed eh? NOT! Ubuntu 9.04 remembers you connections and auto-connects to one, and when you lost connection (because you're on the go) you can just click on the wireless icon in the system tray and click on a network from a dropdown list and you're finnished before you can say "right-click". No fscking around with settings and no BS.
11) Microsoft works... yeah... OpenOffice 3.1 'nuff said... Don't even try running the latest Office 2007 with that ribbon crap (fills the entire screen)
Ok so that pretty much nailes it: "Are you a loser, bad mom and/or plane stupid? Do you want a sucking EeePC experience? Install Windows XP with Live and Works!
Why don't you talk to the KDE Marble team? http://edu.kde.org/marble/
This way the entire world could benefit from this as Marble is cross-platform.
Once you got the software in place, you could then also talk to the OpenStreetMap project. http://www.openstreetmap.org/
Together with the two linked projects you could figure out a cheap setup that everyone could follow, so we can see more of this stuff happen and you could share your streetview with the rest of the world!:D
An Apple iWhy? I don't know HOW they do it, but they just keep on surprising me with their intuitive design!
"It's a total waste of your monÃh; the iWhy? Never again was it so easy to just ask yourself why the hell you paid for the latest incarnation from Apple... again! Something ofcourse that's not so easy for the PC, but to hell with it! PC's suck at everything and not just at wasting time alone. Redmond start your photocopiers! Oh it was actually a joke but they took it quite seriously. Let's have a look at Windows 7. Dell even copied the expensive pricetag, but they didn't did that quite well".
Follow the growth of consumer computers and follow it to current time. Do that minus the amount of OS X installs and minus the amount of Windows installs. Now you have Linux and everything else.
Look at that number and think... Now do that minus the amount of BSD retail CD's and multiply that by 0,95 for accuracy and you'll have an acurate number X.
Do f(x)=x(100/y),where y=amount of consumer pc's @ current date and you'll have the percentage of Linux desktops.
I tried the latest KDE on a 2.4 GHz, 512MB RAM system with an on board graphics card and I must say I was underwhelmed. The system (Kubuntu) was so slow.
FWIW... I have a AMD Phenom 9950 X4, 8GB RAM and an ATI Radeon 4870x2 with 2GB RAM and it runs slow on my PC too. Kubuntu 64bit with latest proprietary driver... What the? Must be some kind of flow of code problem instead of performance...
Why do the menus and widgets have to be huge...wasting space?
KDE scales to the size of your resolution. That means that if you are used to 1280x1024, and you buy a new monitor that is 1680x1050 you can still read it in the same size (portion of the screen).
You can see it when a fullscreen Windows application with a different resolution run in Wine crasheh to the desktop. You need to switch back to your native res and then the configuration menu is super tiny.
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Adobe Flash is not only an establishment, it's also as open as it gets. Not open source, but open and free documentation.
The Flash player is a .swf player. The streaming protocol RTMP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Time_Messaging_Protocol) and the Sorenson codec (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorenson_codec) are missing from the spec, but Gnash (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnash) is clean room reverse enginering this, making that open too.
Here you have the documentation: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/swf/
It's just Microsoft is exaclty what it is; Create new, totally uncalled for software duplications done wrong in order to screw every standard/open establishment in order to gain more lock-in and control and in the end more money.
It is and shall always remains "just Microsoft" for me.
EU want MS to include a choice in the Win7 installer that gives a user the choise to install either EI, Firefox or Opera. Instead MS just went out to remove the choice of having a brower entirely.
Even if Microsoft is forced to stop their anti-competitive practises they still don't give the user the choice of a different browser. Microsoft knows that nobody bought the Windows XP version without the Windows Media Player so they know that by removing IE from the European version of Windows7 people are still only going to see IE from an imported version of Windows 7.
Fsck them. Fsck them hard in their ass EU! I hope they'll bleed. And stop whining about the EU only wanting to make money because their fines are a tiny drop in the financial ocean. Ever cared to look at how much money the EU has? Well do it then and stop whine...
No, the Motorola razr v3i, itunes edition or something... but yeah that's the same software on that rokr
Perhaps they even did this in conjuction with Palm... if you think about it they would have been smart to do so.
Exactly what I was thinking as Motorola even had a complete iTunes version of a Razr once. You know; the one that is famous for being "the iPod of mobile phones".
Lol are you trying to lure IE6 users into watching porn? XD :'D
Dude... /. is a newsified message board. Nerd stuff ok, but if someone is stating the obvious then it can be fscking irritation to get the "Citation needed" whinetrain going by ever freaking statement. Either disprove or shut up because there is thing thing called Google and it can search for you.
What you basicly saying is: "Google for my lazy ass please, because no reasob given"
Citation needed.
"Generally it's up to the one who makes the claim to provide the evidence, but whatever floats your boat."
Dude, without Christ we wouldn't be having free days off....
640k is never enough
Handing out Buray versions of a Live Rick Roll concert?
So how's that new Eminem album working out for you?
Can it be more anti-Microsoft than this? Let's go through the video, shall we?
1) Why is the mother laughing at the Windows boot screen? Is it booting 10x longer than her previous Ubuntu 9.04 install? I don't have a clue...
2) Why is she closing the lid after having done absolutely nothing with the EeePC? Tired of waiting for it to boot? Isn't Windows productive, or just plane useless? You tell me...
3) The people in this 'commercial' are supposed to be representative Windows users. Now what mother gives her kids their laptops to s
chool but forgets to give them bread/sandwiches and drinks?!
4) After school, presumably, the kids go to the beach to make photos with a mobile phone. Now why on earth would hey do that? Isn't there a 1,3 megapixel (can't be better than that ancient phone) webcam on the EeePC? Doesn't Windows have photo capturing software? Ubuntu/Linux -> Cheese for Gnome. So Windows lacks software. Wow how bad can advertising be? But it doesn't stop there;
5) The kids need to usb-cable-transfer the picture from the phone to the EeePC while there is a cardreader slot. Except for plane stupidity on behalf of Windows users, doesn't the commercial say Windows redefines mobility/Wireless? Strange... Why don't they do it via bluetooth file transfer? Or isn't that supported in Windows either? Talking about compatibility with devices here... (that accounts for bith the phone and the bluetooth dongle.
6) After transfering the picture (mobility equals taking cables with you?) to the EeePC they can use some Live app to cut the picture. Wow! Totally can't do that with Gimp! Try to red eye correct that picture on Windows, morons. And no, Photoshop is not a part of Windows and no it doesn't run on a EeePC, but Gimp does.
7) The Business guy is spilling coffe over himself. Is Windows targetted for idiots? Nice move Microsoft marketing dicks...
8) After that incident he can share it with Live Messenger. Wow! Webcamming is the killer feature for Live Messenger? Except for the fact that it aint, the Windows marketing dicks suck balls.
9) Then the representative Windows user also like to laugh at himself for spilling coffee all over himself and enjoyes being lauched out loud by the people who he's webcamming with. Windows is targetted for loser? FAIL!
10) Redefining mobility? Like what the hell? Given the fact that this is a commercial for not using Linux and instead using Windows, what kind of redefining is going on here? Ubuntu 9.04 works completely out of the box with the EeePC (I am typing from one) and Windows sucks at connecting to wireless. Speed eh? NOT! Ubuntu 9.04 remembers you connections and auto-connects to one, and when you lost connection (because you're on the go) you can just click on the wireless icon in the system tray and click on a network from a dropdown list and you're finnished before you can say "right-click". No fscking around with settings and no BS.
11) Microsoft works... yeah... OpenOffice 3.1 'nuff said... Don't even try running the latest Office 2007 with that ribbon crap (fills the entire screen)
Ok so that pretty much nailes it: "Are you a loser, bad mom and/or plane stupid? Do you want a sucking EeePC experience? Install Windows XP with Live and Works!
Why don't you talk to the KDE Marble team?
http://edu.kde.org/marble/
This way the entire world could benefit from this as Marble is cross-platform.
Once you got the software in place, you could then also talk to the OpenStreetMap project.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/
Together with the two linked projects you could figure out a cheap setup that everyone could follow, so we can see more of this stuff happen and you could share your streetview with the rest of the world! :D
Yes! And put it vertically on the FSCKING LEFT!.
Ooooh... the MS design horrors... the pain! (widescreen for those morons...)
Yup. It comes from Latin.
Welcome to the English Oxford Online Dictionary: http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/gratis?view=uk
Oh and welcome to Latin BTW...
That's because Gratis means Free of charge...
Gratis of Charge means Free of charge of charge...
Free isn't even the correct English word for 'free of charge'... It's the word 'gratis', which IS an Enlish word (look it up).
I doubt that they will make a "Apple iWii"
An Apple iWhy? I don't know HOW they do it, but they just keep on surprising me with their intuitive design!
"It's a total waste of your monÃh; the iWhy? Never again was it so easy to just ask yourself why the hell you paid for the latest incarnation from Apple... again! Something ofcourse that's not so easy for the PC, but to hell with it! PC's suck at everything and not just at wasting time alone. Redmond start your photocopiers! Oh it was actually a joke but they took it quite seriously. Let's have a look at Windows 7. Dell even copied the expensive pricetag, but they didn't did that quite well".
Yeah OK but but peer review groups are also reality distortion fields.
Follow the growth of consumer computers and follow it to current time. Do that minus the amount of OS X installs and minus the amount of Windows installs. Now you have Linux and everything else.
Look at that number and think... Now do that minus the amount of BSD retail CD's and multiply that by 0,95 for accuracy and you'll have an acurate number X.
Do f(x)=x(100/y) ,where y=amount of consumer pc's @ current date and you'll have the percentage of Linux desktops.
Latest KDE4. Unlock widgets. Bottom right Plasma icon. Click. Change size of the taskbar. Click on 'X'. Lock widgets. Done.
I tried the latest KDE on a 2.4 GHz, 512MB RAM system with an on board graphics card and I must say I was underwhelmed. The system (Kubuntu) was so slow.
FWIW... I have a AMD Phenom 9950 X4, 8GB RAM and an ATI Radeon 4870x2 with 2GB RAM and it runs slow on my PC too. Kubuntu 64bit with latest proprietary driver... What the? Must be some kind of flow of code problem instead of performance...
Why do the menus and widgets have to be huge...wasting space?
KDE scales to the size of your resolution. That means that if you are used to 1280x1024, and you buy a new monitor that is 1680x1050 you can still read it in the same size (portion of the screen).
You can see it when a fullscreen Windows application with a different resolution run in Wine crasheh to the desktop. You need to switch back to your native res and then the configuration menu is super tiny.