I agree as a simple and robust internet and file server nothing out there compares to BSD for multicasting. If BSD devs and hackers could help develope a decent and stable a/v studio recording/ server that could be pared down to just the essential setup then I would jump ship in an instant. I would love to be able to serve up realtime high bit rate pod casts with 24 48000 flac in ogg container sound and lower bit rate video at something like good old pal 480 p in on demand realtime webm multicast streams. A pipe dream but a beautiful one if you want to run an internet open stage coffee house for musicians.
Given the support of a major ISP to do it and some major sponsors like Gibson Guitars and the like. Wouldn't it be nice if the high tech industry started to pay back to the world of the arts for a change instead of sucking on its teats like a little infant.
What does all this have to do with the 3.14 Linux Kernel? Well, considering the fact that Linux has taken over the RT embeded device industry and the days of pirate music are over the net is going silent. I can watch YOUTUBE ON MY FREAKING TV WITHOUT A 'PUTER because of an RT embeded version of the Linux Kernel. BUT YOU CANNOT TAKE A VID CAM AND MIC AND PUT YOURSELF OR ANYONE ELSO ON THE NEIGHBOURS TV IN REALTIME. And this is where the future lies, you see Microsoft advertising the hell out of someone using SKYPE but you do not see them SKYPING TO THE NEIGHBOURS TVs. And multicast is completely the domain of the broadcast industry, WELL this is where both BSD AND LINUX can shine with setups for little local subscription based multicasts from places like old school coffee houses. Music schools, public schools, private schools, neighbourhood pubs with stages, local small concert halls, old tv studios that once did OTA broadcasting of local talent. AND THE LIST IS ENDLESS. We could see a real renaissance and it would be wonderfull.
Bach and his wives would be delighted, as they absolutely loved hosting their coffee house and show casing local musicians in a friendly social environment. Yes You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one" RIP John L
BSD AND LINUX could help undo the harm that DRM, SONY, MICROSOFT, RIAA, APPLE USA, (not Lennon's real original one) and the greed of the recording industry in general has done to the arts and our shared culture.
I'm currently doing my daily emerge (update \in Gentoo) on a Powerbook, so obviously my testicles are larger.
I don't complain an old 14 incher is plenty even if it is non pae! Obviously your wallet is thicker than mine though. This little romance only cost 75 bucks. A roll in the hay with a good serviceable IBM CHIPPY powerbook from the same time frame in computing history is usually 3 to four times that much. With or without hdd jobs.
And here we have the crux of the Mac v. Linux argument.
Well not really. I'm not the kind of person who believes that CPU speed is the only spec that matters,
A 7 year old machine is getting quite long in the tooth. At 7 years old, compared to a new machine, it will be slow, limited RAM, heavy, have a completely usless spinning optical drive, a slow, spinning hard disk near the end of its servicable life on the end of a slow SATA link almost certainly an ageing battery and by modern standards a rather anemic sceen resolution and the backlight will be faded out considerably. And it will be heavy too.
At 7 years on it won't be a good machine in any regards, unless the author has spent a good deal on upgrades in which case it's hardly a 7 year old machine and substantially more expensive too.
Also, I frankly don't believe the author that it "looks like new" unless he's never used it as a laptop (i.e. carried it around). Cases (even metal ones) get scratched. Keys get dirty because even clean fingers have grease on. Things get worn if they're exposed to the environment. And if it hasn't been, well, my that's a pointless statement since anything untouched will look like new in 7 years except food.
Further to your points about the stylish mac users comments right now I am running Mint 16 DEBIAN on an IBM T42 from 2005. It has 1.5 meg of ram a long in the tooth 48 meg onboard radion 7500 vid. The processor is not even pae for crying out loud and I can still run GOOGLE EARTH 6.386 AND SPIN THE GLOBE ON LINUX WHILE I POST THIS DITTY RUNNING SPINNING GLOBE ON A SECOND DISPLAY FROM THE VGA PORT.
The nine cell aftermarket battery still gets me 4-6 hours depending on air time with the agb wireless. MIND you I only do this at a maximum 1024x768 as I write music notation or whatever on this little gem of a computer with Open Source Software or do whatever kind of correspondence in any file format you want. PDFs, XLS,.DOCX it does not matter I can create it all effectively with several different pieces of software, heck I can even transcode short.MOV vids in 720p on this little gem without taxing the proc too much
EAT YOUR HART out Windows and MAC users. I am not kidding... LINUX IS GETTING THAT FAR AHEAD OF YOU. And with the addition of stable 3.14 RT kernel out of the box it will only get better.
And that is the beauty of Linux in general the more you keep up with the Jones' Apple and Windows users sell off your old 'puters dirt cheap the better Linux gets! OUT OF THE BOX with Linux this little laptop (tm)Linux Just Works with a well done nonpae capable distro. Of course if you do not understand what I just posted take off your glasses and read it carefully for it is the truth. Linux users can do stuff with older hardware that you can without paying a frigging fortune to do it!! And that is why helping out the people who build OSS like Linux is a great thing. PERIOD EOF
Out of the box rt YAHOO. Let the games begin...OR more to the point for those who could care less about gaming but record music, stream transcoded AV and do serious studio work LINUX will knock it out of the park! Provided ALSA, THE PULSE MONSTER, Rosegarden, Audacity, Ardour retool to use the rt headers correctly so the linux install does not have to have a hacked up security_limits.conf and a patched kernel. HALLELUJAH I say. Mind you one still might have to increase the frequency from stock 250 to 1000 for their install. Modern systems with higher bus speeds should handle this change but it might not sit to well on slower older hardware like a year 2000 P111 or older.
I have been running rt since the early days and have always felt like having to tweak a kernel just to obtain low latency was a road block for the future of Linux.
PS MR MOD MANIAC the Edgar Cacye and reference to being transported to tralfamdor for the purpose of reproduction of the human species elsewhere other than on EARTH OR IN earth quake prone Californica, was humor, something which seems to go woosh over your head LOL. Call me back when the big one hits the west coast, but I suspect the net will be down and you might have to access my g-mail routed through the Google backup servers on TRALFAMADOR.
That rock in WA State wasn't stable, and hasn't been for quite a LONG time (at least 100+ years). It's not a good example of stable rock getting wet - it's an example of thick soil and lots of trees (roots breaking up rock) on steep bedrock in very wet conditions - continual slides. Saw it happen an awful lot when hiking in the back country off of Stevens Pass (I was born and raised in Seattle).
Up here in BC we have an unstable hill that could in theory slide into a lake and cause a huge disaster the likes of which would make the slide in Washington state look like a minor event! There is a whole huge hill that could slip into Harrison Lake, the result would be a major flash flood of a huge portion of Chilliwack BC and a backup of the Fraser river all the way up to Yale and major flooding of lowlands in Richmond.
The volume of Harrison Lake has no where to go but straight down a short river to the Fraser. There is one study that claims that an earth quake over 5 in the lower mainland of BC could cause the hill to slide, it is very close to a critical slope angle and is huge. The area that would slide is as large as the historic Frank slide that wiped out an entire community in the East Kootneys. So like Naples with Vesuvius the lower mainland of BC could have a major natural disaster that cannot be prevented.
The only solution is to move to somewhere like Saskatchewan if you are scared of earth quakes and even there DON'T by the dirt cheap land that has a potash mine under it if you are afraid of earth quakes and other natural disasters.
As long as I get a room with a playboy bunny I could care less what happens to mankind.
If our existence is to have any consequence and purpose then we must look beyond the earth.
Every time I have been in an earth quake I wonder when the tenth prediction of Edger Cacye is going to occur, as soon as the sky clears at night I feel like going out and looking at the stars after a quake. Or listening to the sounds of the Northern Lights like I did when I was a child. Many intelligent people do hear them Scroll down to a question posed by someone,,,Not me, but there is much that we do not know about ourselves as a species fearing the future when an earth quake occurs is a natural response and seeing a post about an inconsequential event like a 5.1 event in California only goes to show how the human brain works.
Curiosity is a good thing and those who dissuade others from speculating in why things occur are a curse and usually wind up in positions of authority! It is disheartening to see the parade of nihilists dumping on slashdot lately.
The numbers and nature of the anon coward posts lately on this web site is getting stupid. I have given up trying to help mod!! Seeing that I have Karma to burn I might just change my rating prefs to plus one and keep it there. However even though my KARMA ALLOWS ME TO SHUT OFF ADVERTISING I WILL LEAVE IT ON UNTIL IT STARTS TRYING TO SELL ME VIAGRA ONLINE AGAIN AT A DISCOUNT FROM SOMEONE IN CALIFORNIA.
NA maybe I will just register here and troll around this forum UNTIL THE TENTH PREDICTION OF EDGAR CACYE HAPPENS. By the time California slips beneath the waves and his tenth prediction happens the NIHILISTS here on./ might just as well stick their collective heads between between their legs and kiss.......
Our problems, considering what Putin might do in the Ukraine. Especially if the response ramps up to the use of neutron bombs to protect property values but kill off the invading armies. We do not deserve to survive if we get into another war this time around if the result of this little conflict turns out to be another major world war.
One suggestion is to take Putin some US Republicans and a few Ukraine red necks on a fishing trip to a certain river in the Ukraine close to the most famous smoking ghost town on earth and leave all of them there until they resolve the problems they are creating.
If a little shake rattle and roll scares you? Take a time trip back to Naples in the year 79 AD. We are all at the mercy of Gaia and perhaps she is getting pissed at our insolence and stupidity again. I would not at all be surprised if the Earth is due for another major ice age that verges on a snowballing. Caused by something like an unforeseen coronal mass ejection that reduces the mass of the Sun and in so doing fundamentally changes the physics of our solar system and decreases the output of the Sun. Are we absolutely certain these kind of events cannot occur in the natural progression of a solar system like ours? Perhaps stars the size of our sun change habitable zones in a succession inward, this could explain why there was once water on mars.
The time of man on Earth might just be coming close to an end and we might not even know it. The shameful thing is that in our arrogance we believe intelligence is uniquely human and perhaps for this very reason we will not survive as a species. We are far to anti-social and aggressive to advance past our current state. Unless we get our shit together and learn how to expand (evolve) into a cooperative non aggressive outer space species human kind may not survive.
even the four-way hazards should trip the computer into resetting the throttle algorithm.
Whoa... lots of idiots turn on hazards while moving, in the middle of a highway. I saw this in Virginia during snowstorms.
Not saying it's right or good, it just happens a lot.
Holy Crap nardo don't come up to Canada and drive stay south of the friggin' border please! Suppose you are in a situation where you come around a corner and you have a white out crossing the road and you know there is a large 18 wheeler only 300-400 yards behind you. When you hit the white out on the corner you need to slow down to squat mph to see where the hell you are going and your tail lights will dissappear. WHAT SHOULD YOU DO? ONE: immediately hit the ditch, TWO: Stop in the middle of the road and get out to see where the ditch is. THREE: Speed up lose control as your wheels hit the ditch and flip your car and kill your wife and kids. FOUR: Slow down, carefully watch for the sholder of the road and increase the luminosity of your tail lights by pumping the brake lights to warn the semi. FIVE: Slow down, watch the edge of the road carefully and turn on your flashers to warn the semi that you have slowed down due to visibility difficulties.
Chances are if you are a moron who is not accustomed to driving according to the conditions you will just wind up going in the ditch at 70 miles an hour, or worse getting rear ended by the semi!
Yes the Bugatti beta from 1939 is designed to dupe anon cowards into registering as/. members. This design is to win the "Beta Battle" for smart phone interfaces. If/. had this "Beta" back in 1939 it could have won the iPad/iPhone forum interface wars!
In a nutshell make the batteries themselves removable and generic, but what do I know.
They are removable. The battery pack is roughly like an armored skateboard bolted to the bottom of the car. A mechanical swap takes 90 seconds.
As for generic, Tesla uses more or less standard 18650 cells from panasonic, basically the AA of LiIon rechargable batteries. The pack itself is propriatory at the moment, but what can you do? From what I understand the 'same' pack with generational improvements are going to be used with the Model X.
Thank you and it is good to see some people actually using their brains for a change. A method to save solar power and transport it is the key to the energy problems of this planet. Oil is only a very dirty and slow way of doing the job. No difference except that the sun shines mostly on deserts and methods of transmission must be addressed adequately. By covering a small part of the deserts some reversals of the CO2 caused changes in Ocean PH and the current thaw in your polar regions can also be addressed before the actions of corporate greed and wars cause another mass extinction.
Jake Fisher, CR's head of auto testing, put even that drawback in context when he enthused: "If it could recharge in any gas station in three minutes, this car would score about 110."
In a nutshell make the batteries themselves removable and generic, but what do I know. Like everything that requires a standard it ain't gonna happen any time soon until some level of extreme public input makes it happen. The oil companies would crap if all of a sudden there was a simple way to store huge amounts of solar power in local automobile service stations. UNTIL WE GET TOGETHER and stop sucking on the teat of big oil and the industry of wars we will not mature as a civilization deserving of this planet. This is ET is calling and if you don't hear the call you will be left in the dust.
In London, the actual proper Daemon, I know its BSD licence but that was a bit of a shocker. Oh this is about Linux?
The BSD girls have got Linux geeks balls to the wall always has always will! Nothing sexy Linux geeks or penguins for that matter unless you are really kinky.
" But as TFA shows the sad thing is you WILL get COPD, doesn't matter how long ago you quit as you WILL get it if something else don't get you first. So if you are quitting do it because you don't want to be smelling like smoke or be out of breath, because if you have smoked more than a couple of years you might as well accept COPD is in your future regardless."
Negative thinking is a large part of what causes the addiction to be so difficult to break. Beat me it feels good syndrome. IT IS NOT true that you are doomed even if you quit. Also the only attitude to take is that you will be tempted for the rest of your life to smoke. The difference is that you need to make a habit out of not smoking. Don't get all sweated up there is no doubt that in the first week after quitting it will be difficult, such is the nature of the drug. Another misconception about tobacco is the fact that it calms your nerves. THE BULLSHIT fact is that it is essentially a speed ball concoction, at first the carbon monoxide brings you down as does the reduction of 02 in your blood stream. Yes it calms your nerves and the nicotine acts initially as a sedative as well, but the fact is that then after about 4 minutes it actually increases your heart rate and in reality nicotine is a form of speed as well. Most people are not aware of these facts and think that they are actually settling their nerves by havin' a butt. BUT IT IS A LIE, and you fool yourself into believing the soothing tones of the Marlboro Man lighting up on horseback.
Remember dada, dada dada, --dada, dada dada. As Yule Brynner rides off into the sunset. The tobacco companies up in Canada actually own part of one of the largest drug store chains, they did not suffer, but their victims do every day.
DON'T GIVE UP THE FIGHT and roll over and play dead, it can be beaten. Besides the more you try to quit the more you will learn how not to smoke and also reduce the insult to your body. But don't be negative to others about quitting it is just plain wrong and I am sure Mr. Spock and even the Marlboro man would agree.
That jump all over how terrible Tegra SOCs are, the chips still power a crapload of cheap devices all over the planet. What opening up the source on these chips will do is make it easier for smaller companies to create Android and other OS based devices for the expanding cheap device market. What some here refuse to realize is that China is a have and have not market. Those who cannot afford iPads and iPhones will go for the best cheap alternatives and Samsung's products are not significantly cheaper than Apple products. The stuff that they make that is low end could easily be blown out of the water by other companies that clone both the iPad the iPhone and high end Samsung products like the top end Note series and Galaxy 4 phones. You can bet within a very short period of time there will be a flood of cheap knock offs that do everything that these devices do and with just as much grunt but much cheaper.
The high end portable device market that is run by SOCs is undergoing the same thing the pc market went through, aggressive competition and a patent portfolio will not adequately stop the production of knock offs. This is most likely what NVidia is counting on happening, all they care about is selling a gazillion SOCs as fast as they can, just like everybody else that relies on sales of hardware for revenue. NVidia realizes that their SOCs are not going to make it into iPads and Win8 RT is a complete bust so they are instead taking a run at Samsung by opening up their software specs and making cheap but much more powerful versions of Android and even things like Firefox OS and Ubuntu on arm a real possibility. No doubt this will make many more powerful cheap devices possible than what we currently see coming out of the east. This sort of game change is only to be expected, even if many would like to see NVIDIA FOD they are in a position to change the game simply by not playing by the old closed source software design rules that killed many manufactures in the PC market place. My prediction is the next company to bite the dust will be Creative unless someone like NVidia buys them out and teams up with someone like Lenovo to produce killer pro devices and the like as well as consumer do dads. There will be a huge consolidation in the industry and this time Microsoft and their so called "hardware partners" could be left in the dust, perhaps NVidia sees the writing on the wall this time and is breaking free from Redmond's apron strings for a change.
Every time a government anywhere in the world decides to threaten a drop of Microsoft software you can bet that their seat license agreements are coming up for renewal. And the threats to migrate are only a ploy to cut a better deal. You can bet the Microsoft rep has already been authorized to sweeten the coffers of some politicians pet riding fund raising or do what ever is necessary to very quickly ensure that the by the time a real decision is taken that MS office and MS server products are the ones the government chooses. Same thing here in Canada, but with our government the decision to go all MS is a forgone conclusion there is no such thing as "looking for alternatives to save money", we just contract out every service possible and kill off labour unions like the CUPE instead and spec that contractors use nothing but MS office and server software compatible with existing government servers. We, unlike Great Britain have public money to burn now that Harper has gutted government services and pushed just about everything out to contract.
Invest in the country of Belize, one of the last countries that is banking friendly, or so the sly adds on TV tell us. I guess the banks in the Caymans now have competition. I am sure that the investors in the banking sector of the Caymans are the very same group that are screwing over the economies of the USA and Canada in the first place. As usual the real estate and banking sector controlled by the rich is still hosing the economies of North America and the rich are busy taking their capital off shore or buying gold as they are want to do whenever it seems that the majority are start getting tired of working for them for nothing. "go on take the money and run" seems to have become a credo.
GREED IS GREED and it will lead to a state of affairs that will make the dirty thirties look like good times. As long as economies can be effected by a few controlling a growing majority of the wealth then there will intentional economic down turns to lower wages. This time around because the obvious stampede of the rich to get their capital out of the economy of the US and Canada the ensuing depression will be catastrophic. Starvation for some is only a few pay checks away as it is and the majority of the population realizes this fact. Bitcoin is not the answer to this. Now we have the rich accusing the poor of being prejudiced against them and creating an economic holocaust for them by design when the truth is, it is their manipulation of the economy that is causing the chaos in the first place.
That's OK, parent was offtopic too. And hasn't the slightest clue about what Canadian Content Regulations were, or the impact that they had.
Then again, who needs intelligence or knowledge when you can write (scribble?) "BARF CHUNDER PUKE FART, HAND ME a shotgun and that big fat reefer, I think I need a toak of some good stuff man."
You is taking this FAR too seriously. I am well aware of what CCR did and all the bands that got air time because of them. Currently too busy studying some of Miguel Llobet's Canciones Populares Catalanas to even consider the insult. Some people actually play instruments and music others comment upon the music industry and have not got a freaking clue which is only to be expected on Slashdot. My comment was a really old school JOKE EH
So, basically a gun to people's heads while the other hand rifles through their pockets.
Greed. The one thing that's in truly infinite supply.
Hey it is called CCR, you see we here in the Great White North have always had red necks its called scarf burns, And we created CCR not some bunch of rockabilly yahoos from south of the Mason Dixon line..EH?
Naturally you realize that CCR is not what most people believe it to be. It is really a Canadian band that at one time consisted of the Guess Who, Terry Jacks and Edward Bear played endlessly on FM radio. The band was subtitled CCR or CANADIAN CONTENT REGULATIONS.
Nothing has changed except the only one of the bunch that was worth listening to was the Guess Who and every once in a blue moon, just for old times sake I put on a ripped copy of them in FLAC because MP3 audio is for idiots and earbuds! EAT MY SHORTS YOU HALF DEAF MORONS in the entertainment industry. GOOD MUSIC and QUALITY RIPS STILL EXIST REGARDLESS OF CCR or the idiots of today that try to kill music for the listener. NOW GOOD NIGHT AND GO TO HELL WHERE YOU BELONG. SONY, CCR, RIAA, CRIA and the other idiots that are trying to kill music you will loose PERIOD. BARF CHUNDER PUKE FART, HAND ME a shotgun and that big fat reefer, I think I need a toak of some good stuff man.
yes, the religious nutjobs have moved north, and are basically doing to the Conservatives what they did to the Republican party.
Not religious nut jobs, we had one years ago out west by the name of Bible Bill. He like the tar sands was from Oilberta, his religion was GIVE PEOPLE ENOUGH CASH AND THEY WILL BE HAPPY. It was called Social Credit. Now it has morphed into a dysfunctional party that took over from what was left over after the alcoholic bindges of Sir John A MacDonald, the sales of Canadian assets to the United States by Dief the Chief, the all out fire sale of any remaining assets within the economy by phoney baloney Mulroney. Then after going and having some sort of sex party with some separatists in Quebec and getting an almost fatal dose of the clap in the process they realized that they would have to go back to basics and horn swauggle con the people with economic hogwash fears of "THE SKY IS FALLING YOUR NOT SPENDING ENOUGH SO BORROW CASH AND HELP THE POOR BANKS!!!" Social Credit style economics disguised as sensible economic policy. In the mean time cutting funding for education, science, culture, the arts, and every other possible thing they could.
In the mean time they reduced individual income tax only a fraction and shifted it to an even greater extent upon the working poor and small business. Increased subsidies to the oil industry to build and expand the oil sands, pipe lines, reduced Arctic costs by creating tax incentives for those who drill in the far north, reduced lease cost for drilling rights to huge swaths of everything north of 60. Pretended to help small native communities where there is extreme poverty with all sorts of fanfare about how the jobs created in the petro and mining sector were going to help our native peoples to suddenly become "productive citizens" under the Harper dynasty. THE BULLSHIT FROM THE, reformed Social Credit, Conservative Zombie undead party of Canada is spectacular, and THE PEOPLE ARE STILL LAPPING IT UP LIKE kitty milk.
Maybe in a hundred years some comedic genius, perhaps even the re-incarnation of Mel Brooks might make a movie out of the bullshit that goes on in Canadian politics and how they get away with the smoke and mirrors act so easily.
Gentoo isn't actually that bad, though it does require a little more understanding of how the system works than something like Ubuntu. It does have a fairly decent package management system though, and because most of what you're using is compiled it tends to be a fairly fast system to use.
Each to their own. For me, computers have gotten fast enough that I don't really care about a few milliseconds here or there, and am currently using a Ubuntu derivative now for ease of package management (and because this particular one has a DE that I can't find elsewhere yet, as it's too new). But I did use Slackware for nearly 15 years before I decided I wanted something that was less involved for the package management. That's the beauty of the system -- you can do what you want with it, and there's many many different paths to accomplishing the same goal.
Ya same thing here oddly enough. I still yearn for the simplicity and stability of Slackware. Trouble is I do audio recording (high bit rate) and there is no stock setup for compiling audacity, jack and ardour in rt prio modes in Slackware. I had it working a few times but talk about self punishment. First recompile the kernel with a rt optimization and 1000hrz, then setup so that alsa audio has rt prio with a config file change. Reset user privileges to allow for software with higher privileges to all work correctly. Could be a fantastic system but I didn't want to create my own distro so I switched to those who already did it.
and therein lies the problem if there are security updates, or critical fixes you have to be the distro manager for all your chosen software. BUT AT LEAST WITH LINUX IT IS POSSIBLE. I am now of the opinion that if you create a distro which is stable enough, secure enough IE can updated browsers independently of everything else by doing it in a non system wide way and just from a home directory, then can and bottle up the thing for your hardware and dupe it so that you can just re-install exactly the same thing without having to go through the agony of updating software at all. This is exactly what I do now with Debian. I freeze a good install and just use firefox current installed and updated independently of/usr. WORKS LIKE A HOT DAM and is very secure as long as my core c libs are current which they are. I have gotten over 4 years out of a Debian audio setup that way and am still on the 2 series kernel. But am going to do up a separate 3 series shortly WHEN I HAVE THE TIME!
and this is exactly why I don't allow auto updates. I take the time to read up on the vulnerabilities but as I tend to run Gentoo,
You got me, as soon as you said GENTOO. Ok another self flagellating penguin. Either that or a frustrated MSCE that moved over to Linux a few years back just to really experience some excruciating pain instead of hearing others scream in agony all the time to tech support about WINDOWS UPDATE. Oh the irony.
Fair enough and I agree with your point about network tv and the advertising cash cows. However I will point out that the latest generation Smart TVs do have interfaces for the new cash cow streaming media services and they have them big time.
The streaming media services would have to be co-opted into not releasing interfaces for Smart TVs and if that happens it could easily spell one hell of a set of legitimate law suits against the digital media industry for collusion. Nutflax already has apps on most of the top end tvs and there are pay streaming services a plenty ready for the consumer to sign up for right on their tvs, no need for a set top box in the living room at all. AND this was the whole point. The games on Smart TVs are still rather primitive but that is changing like I said as the processor tech for the TVs reaches high through put standards up there with PCs. This is why I said most so called tech gurus cannot see the forest for the trees. The networks are getting scared just look at what ABC is trying to do with their latest salvo of law suits against a streaming service.
But this discussion is particularly about the gaming industry so IMO they will be in trouble very soon if they do not include streaming games and apps for Smart TVs My prediction is that TVs will soon have the ability to have high speed access storage attached with high bit rate binary execution capabilities in the not very distant future. Perhaps this is the real reason why Microsoft extorts every manufacturer with their FAT PATENTS??? Especially the ones that use add on storage devices and OSS Linux kernel based firmware like Samsung Smart TVs???? This is my crystal balls at work if it does not happen then it will only be because the industry will block it the same way they block sales of high definition studio digital audio recordings.
All I am saying is the media consuming public will go where the very best bang for the buck is and an all in one Smart TV that can be run from a simple tablets, smart phones as well as sophisticated remotes seems to be the answer to having streaming internet based services as well as user created content in the living room. Essentially Playstations, Xboxes, SteamBoxes, AppleTV and all the other add ons that send out HDMI might all be brushed aside in the very near future judging from what Samsung is up to. YES I AM A GRUMPY SOB but the point is when I smell very well politically connect collusion, I don't just shut up and not say anything like some do.
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Hey doofus my crypto libraries on a debian laptop and our server is patched already.. How you doing with Windows? ASSHOLE
*BSD - Diesel truck, for industrial work.
I agree as a simple and robust internet and file server nothing out there compares to BSD for multicasting. If BSD devs and hackers could help develope a decent and stable a/v studio recording/ server that could be pared down to just the essential setup then I would jump ship in an instant. I would love to be able to serve up realtime high bit rate pod casts with 24 48000 flac in ogg container sound and lower bit rate video at something like good old pal 480 p in on demand realtime webm multicast streams. A pipe dream but a beautiful one if you want to run an internet open stage coffee house for musicians.
Given the support of a major ISP to do it and some major sponsors like Gibson Guitars and the like. Wouldn't it be nice if the high tech industry started to pay back to the world of the arts for a change instead of sucking on its teats like a little infant.
What does all this have to do with the 3.14 Linux Kernel? Well, considering the fact that Linux has taken over the RT embeded device industry and the days of pirate music are over the net is going silent. I can watch YOUTUBE ON MY FREAKING TV WITHOUT A 'PUTER because of an RT embeded version of the Linux Kernel. BUT YOU CANNOT TAKE A VID CAM AND MIC AND PUT YOURSELF OR ANYONE ELSO ON THE NEIGHBOURS TV IN REALTIME. And this is where the future lies, you see Microsoft advertising the hell out of someone using SKYPE but you do not see them SKYPING TO THE NEIGHBOURS TVs. And multicast is completely the domain of the broadcast industry, WELL this is where both BSD AND LINUX can shine with setups for little local subscription based multicasts from places like old school coffee houses. Music schools, public schools, private schools, neighbourhood pubs with stages, local small concert halls, old tv studios that once did OTA broadcasting of local talent. AND THE LIST IS ENDLESS. We could see a real renaissance and it would be wonderfull.
Bach and his wives would be delighted, as they absolutely loved hosting their coffee house and show casing local musicians in a friendly social environment.
Yes You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one" RIP John L
BSD AND LINUX could help undo the harm that DRM, SONY, MICROSOFT, RIAA, APPLE USA, (not Lennon's real original one) and the greed of the recording industry in general has done to the arts and our shared culture.
I'm currently doing my daily emerge (update \in Gentoo) on a Powerbook, so obviously my testicles are larger.
I don't complain an old 14 incher is plenty even if it is non pae! Obviously your wallet is thicker than mine though. This little romance only cost 75 bucks. A roll in the hay with a good serviceable IBM CHIPPY powerbook from the same time frame in computing history is usually 3 to four times that much. With or without hdd jobs.
And here we have the crux of the Mac v. Linux argument.
Well not really. I'm not the kind of person who believes that CPU speed is the only spec that matters,
A 7 year old machine is getting quite long in the tooth. At 7 years old, compared to a new machine, it will be slow, limited RAM, heavy, have a completely usless spinning optical drive, a slow, spinning hard disk near the end of its servicable life on the end of a slow SATA link almost certainly an ageing battery and by modern standards a rather anemic sceen resolution and the backlight will be faded out considerably. And it will be heavy too.
At 7 years on it won't be a good machine in any regards, unless the author has spent a good deal on upgrades in which case it's hardly a 7 year old machine and substantially more expensive too.
Also, I frankly don't believe the author that it "looks like new" unless he's never used it as a laptop (i.e. carried it around). Cases (even metal ones) get scratched. Keys get dirty because even clean fingers have grease on. Things get worn if they're exposed to the environment. And if it hasn't been, well, my that's a pointless statement since anything untouched will look like new in 7 years except food.
Further to your points about the stylish mac users comments right now I am running Mint 16 DEBIAN on an IBM T42 from 2005. It has 1.5 meg of ram a long in the tooth 48 meg onboard radion 7500 vid. The processor is not even pae for crying out loud and I can still run GOOGLE EARTH 6 .386 AND SPIN THE GLOBE ON LINUX WHILE I POST THIS DITTY RUNNING SPINNING GLOBE ON A SECOND DISPLAY FROM THE VGA PORT.
The nine cell aftermarket battery still gets me 4-6 hours depending on air time with the agb wireless. MIND you I only do this at a maximum 1024x768 as I write music notation or whatever on this little gem of a computer with Open Source Software or do whatever kind of correspondence in any file format you want. PDFs, XLS, .DOCX it does not matter I can create it all effectively with several different pieces of software, heck I can even transcode short .MOV vids in 720p on this little gem without taxing the proc too much
EAT YOUR HART out Windows and MAC users. I am not kidding... LINUX IS GETTING THAT FAR AHEAD OF YOU. And with the addition of stable 3.14 RT kernel out of the box it will only get better.
And that is the beauty of Linux in general the more you keep up with the Jones' Apple and Windows users sell off your old 'puters dirt cheap the better Linux gets! OUT OF THE BOX with Linux this little laptop (tm)Linux Just Works with a well done nonpae capable distro. Of course if you do not understand what I just posted take off your glasses and read it carefully for it is the truth. Linux users can do stuff with older hardware that you can without paying a frigging fortune to do it!! And that is why helping out the people who build OSS like Linux is a great thing. PERIOD EOF
Out of the box rt YAHOO. Let the games begin...OR more to the point for those who could care less about gaming but record music, stream transcoded AV and do serious studio work LINUX will knock it out of the park! Provided ALSA, THE PULSE MONSTER, Rosegarden, Audacity, Ardour retool to use the rt headers correctly so the linux install does not have to have a hacked up security_limits.conf and a patched kernel. HALLELUJAH I say. Mind you one still might have to increase the frequency from stock 250 to 1000 for their install. Modern systems with higher bus speeds should handle this change but it might not sit to well on slower older hardware like a year 2000 P111 or older.
I have been running rt since the early days and have always felt like having to tweak a kernel just to obtain low latency was a road block for the future of Linux.
PS MR MOD MANIAC the Edgar Cacye and reference to being transported to tralfamdor for the purpose of reproduction of the human species elsewhere other than on EARTH OR IN earth quake prone Californica, was humor, something which seems to go woosh over your head LOL. Call me back when the big one hits the west coast, but I suspect the net will be down and you might have to access my g-mail routed through the Google backup servers on TRALFAMADOR.
That rock in WA State wasn't stable, and hasn't been for quite a LONG time (at least 100+ years). It's not a good example of stable rock getting wet - it's an example of thick soil and lots of trees (roots breaking up rock) on steep bedrock in very wet conditions - continual slides. Saw it happen an awful lot when hiking in the back country off of Stevens Pass (I was born and raised in Seattle).
Up here in BC we have an unstable hill that could in theory slide into a lake and cause a huge disaster the likes of which would make the slide in Washington state look like a minor event! There is a whole huge hill that could slip into Harrison Lake, the result would be a major flash flood of a huge portion of Chilliwack BC and a backup of the Fraser river all the way up to Yale and major flooding of lowlands in Richmond.
The volume of Harrison Lake has no where to go but straight down a short river to the Fraser. There is one study that claims that an earth quake over 5 in the lower mainland of BC could cause the hill to slide, it is very close to a critical slope angle and is huge. The area that would slide is as large as the historic Frank slide that wiped out an entire community in the East Kootneys. So like Naples with Vesuvius the lower mainland of BC could have a major natural disaster that cannot be prevented.
The only solution is to move to somewhere like Saskatchewan if you are scared of earth quakes and even there DON'T by the dirt cheap land that has a potash mine under it if you are afraid of earth quakes and other natural disasters.
How's the weather on Tralfamador?
As long as I get a room with a playboy bunny I could care less what happens to mankind.
If our existence is to have any consequence and purpose then we must look beyond the earth.
Every time I have been in an earth quake I wonder when the tenth prediction of Edger Cacye is going to occur, as soon as the sky clears at night I feel like going out and looking at the stars after a quake. Or listening to the sounds of the Northern Lights like I did when I was a child. Many intelligent people do hear them Scroll down to a question posed by someone,,,Not me, but there is much that we do not know about ourselves as a species fearing the future when an earth quake occurs is a natural response and seeing a post about an inconsequential event like a 5.1 event in California only goes to show how the human brain works.
Curiosity is a good thing and those who dissuade others from speculating in why things occur are a curse and usually wind up in positions of authority! It is disheartening to see the parade of nihilists dumping on slashdot lately.
The numbers and nature of the anon coward posts lately on this web site is getting stupid. I have given up trying to help mod!! Seeing that I have Karma to burn I might just change my rating prefs to plus one and keep it there. However even though my KARMA ALLOWS ME TO SHUT OFF ADVERTISING I WILL LEAVE IT ON UNTIL IT STARTS TRYING TO SELL ME VIAGRA ONLINE AGAIN AT A DISCOUNT FROM SOMEONE IN CALIFORNIA.
NA maybe I will just register here and troll around this forum UNTIL THE TENTH PREDICTION OF EDGAR CACYE HAPPENS. By the time California slips beneath the waves and his tenth prediction happens the NIHILISTS here on ./ might just as well stick their collective heads between between their legs and kiss.......
Our problems, considering what Putin might do in the Ukraine. Especially if the response ramps up to the use of neutron bombs to protect property values but kill off the invading armies. We do not deserve to survive if we get into another war this time around if the result of this little conflict turns out to be another major world war.
One suggestion is to take Putin some US Republicans and a few Ukraine red necks on a fishing trip to a certain river in the Ukraine close to the most famous smoking ghost town on earth and leave all of them there until they resolve the problems they are creating.
If a little shake rattle and roll scares you? Take a time trip back to Naples in the year 79 AD. We are all at the mercy of Gaia and perhaps she is getting pissed at our insolence and stupidity again. I would not at all be surprised if the Earth is due for another major ice age that verges on a snowballing. Caused by something like an unforeseen coronal mass ejection that reduces the mass of the Sun and in so doing fundamentally changes the physics of our solar system and decreases the output of the Sun. Are we absolutely certain these kind of events cannot occur in the natural progression of a solar system like ours? Perhaps stars the size of our sun change habitable zones in a succession inward, this could explain why there was once water on mars.
The time of man on Earth might just be coming close to an end and we might not even know it. The shameful thing is that in our arrogance we believe intelligence is uniquely human and perhaps for this very reason we will not survive as a species. We are far to anti-social and aggressive to advance past our current state. Unless we get our shit together and learn how to expand (evolve) into a cooperative non aggressive outer space species human kind may not survive.
even the four-way hazards should trip the computer into resetting the throttle algorithm.
Whoa... lots of idiots turn on hazards while moving, in the middle of a highway. I saw this in Virginia during snowstorms.
Not saying it's right or good, it just happens a lot.
Holy Crap nardo don't come up to Canada and drive stay south of the friggin' border please! Suppose you are in a situation where you come around a corner and you have a white out crossing the road and you know there is a large 18 wheeler only 300-400 yards behind you. When you hit the white out on the corner you need to slow down to squat mph to see where the hell you are going and your tail lights will dissappear. WHAT SHOULD YOU DO? ONE: immediately hit the ditch, TWO: Stop in the middle of the road and get out to see where the ditch is. THREE: Speed up lose control as your wheels hit the ditch and flip your car and kill your wife and kids. FOUR: Slow down, carefully watch for the sholder of the road and increase the luminosity of your tail lights by pumping the brake lights to warn the semi. FIVE: Slow down, watch the edge of the road carefully and turn on your flashers to warn the semi that you have slowed down due to visibility difficulties.
Chances are if you are a moron who is not accustomed to driving according to the conditions you will just wind up going in the ditch at 70 miles an hour, or worse getting rear ended by the semi!
FUCK BETA.
Yes the Bugatti beta from 1939 is designed to dupe anon cowards into registering as /. members. This design is to win the "Beta Battle" for smart phone interfaces. If /. had this "Beta" back in 1939 it could have won the iPad/iPhone forum interface wars!
In a nutshell make the batteries themselves removable and generic, but what do I know.
They are removable. The battery pack is roughly like an armored skateboard bolted to the bottom of the car. A mechanical swap takes 90 seconds.
As for generic, Tesla uses more or less standard 18650 cells from panasonic, basically the AA of LiIon rechargable batteries. The pack itself is propriatory at the moment, but what can you do? From what I understand the 'same' pack with generational improvements are going to be used with the Model X.
Thank you and it is good to see some people actually using their brains for a change. A method to save solar power and transport it is the key to the energy problems of this planet. Oil is only a very dirty and slow way of doing the job. No difference except that the sun shines mostly on deserts and methods of transmission must be addressed adequately. By covering a small part of the deserts some reversals of the CO2 caused changes in Ocean PH and the current thaw in your polar regions can also be addressed before the actions of corporate greed and wars cause another mass extinction.
Jake Fisher, CR's head of auto testing, put even that drawback in context when he enthused: "If it could recharge in any gas station in three minutes, this car would score about 110."
In a nutshell make the batteries themselves removable and generic, but what do I know. Like everything that requires a standard it ain't gonna happen any time soon until some level of extreme public input makes it happen. The oil companies would crap if all of a sudden there was a simple way to store huge amounts of solar power in local automobile service stations. UNTIL WE GET TOGETHER and stop sucking on the teat of big oil and the industry of wars we will not mature as a civilization deserving of this planet. This is ET is calling and if you don't hear the call you will be left in the dust.
In London, the actual proper Daemon, I know its BSD licence but that was a bit of a shocker. Oh this is about Linux?
The BSD girls have got Linux geeks balls to the wall always has always will! Nothing sexy Linux geeks or penguins for that matter unless you are really kinky.
" But as TFA shows the sad thing is you WILL get COPD, doesn't matter how long ago you quit as you WILL get it if something else don't get you first. So if you are quitting do it because you don't want to be smelling like smoke or be out of breath, because if you have smoked more than a couple of years you might as well accept COPD is in your future regardless."
Negative thinking is a large part of what causes the addiction to be so difficult to break. Beat me it feels good syndrome. IT IS NOT true that you are doomed even if you quit. Also the only attitude to take is that you will be tempted for the rest of your life to smoke. The difference is that you need to make a habit out of not smoking. Don't get all sweated up there is no doubt that in the first week after quitting it will be difficult, such is the nature of the drug. Another misconception about tobacco is the fact that it calms your nerves. THE BULLSHIT fact is that it is essentially a speed ball concoction, at first the carbon monoxide brings you down as does the reduction of 02 in your blood stream. Yes it calms your nerves and the nicotine acts initially as a sedative as well, but the fact is that then after about 4 minutes it actually increases your heart rate and in reality nicotine is a form of speed as well. Most people are not aware of these facts and think that they are actually settling their nerves by havin' a butt. BUT IT IS A LIE, and you fool yourself into believing the soothing tones of the Marlboro Man lighting up on horseback.
Remember dada, dada dada, --dada, dada dada. As Yule Brynner rides off into the sunset. The tobacco companies up in Canada actually own part of one of the largest drug store chains, they did not suffer, but their victims do every day.
DON'T GIVE UP THE FIGHT and roll over and play dead, it can be beaten. Besides the more you try to quit the more you will learn how not to smoke and also reduce the insult to your body. But don't be negative to others about quitting it is just plain wrong and I am sure Mr. Spock and even the Marlboro man would agree.
That jump all over how terrible Tegra SOCs are, the chips still power a crapload of cheap devices all over the planet. What opening up the source on these chips will do is make it easier for smaller companies to create Android and other OS based devices for the expanding cheap device market. What some here refuse to realize is that China is a have and have not market. Those who cannot afford iPads and iPhones will go for the best cheap alternatives and Samsung's products are not significantly cheaper than Apple products. The stuff that they make that is low end could easily be blown out of the water by other companies that clone both the iPad the iPhone and high end Samsung products like the top end Note series and Galaxy 4 phones. You can bet within a very short period of time there will be a flood of cheap knock offs that do everything that these devices do and with just as much grunt but much cheaper.
The high end portable device market that is run by SOCs is undergoing the same thing the pc market went through, aggressive competition and a patent portfolio will not adequately stop the production of knock offs. This is most likely what NVidia is counting on happening, all they care about is selling a gazillion SOCs as fast as they can, just like everybody else that relies on sales of hardware for revenue. NVidia realizes that their SOCs are not going to make it into iPads and Win8 RT is a complete bust so they are instead taking a run at Samsung by opening up their software specs and making cheap but much more powerful versions of Android and even things like Firefox OS and Ubuntu on arm a real possibility. No doubt this will make many more powerful cheap devices possible than what we currently see coming out of the east. This sort of game change is only to be expected, even if many would like to see NVIDIA FOD they are in a position to change the game simply by not playing by the old closed source software design rules that killed many manufactures in the PC market place. My prediction is the next company to bite the dust will be Creative unless someone like NVidia buys them out and teams up with someone like Lenovo to produce killer pro devices and the like as well as consumer do dads. There will be a huge consolidation in the industry and this time Microsoft and their so called "hardware partners" could be left in the dust, perhaps NVidia sees the writing on the wall this time and is breaking free from Redmond's apron strings for a change.
Every time a government anywhere in the world decides to threaten a drop of Microsoft software you can bet that their seat license agreements are coming up for renewal. And the threats to migrate are only a ploy to cut a better deal. You can bet the Microsoft rep has already been authorized to sweeten the coffers of some politicians pet riding fund raising or do what ever is necessary to very quickly ensure that the by the time a real decision is taken that MS office and MS server products are the ones the government chooses. Same thing here in Canada, but with our government the decision to go all MS is a forgone conclusion there is no such thing as "looking for alternatives to save money", we just contract out every service possible and kill off labour unions like the CUPE instead and spec that contractors use nothing but MS office and server software compatible with existing government servers. We, unlike Great Britain have public money to burn now that Harper has gutted government services and pushed just about everything out to contract.
GREED IS GREED and it will lead to a state of affairs that will make the dirty thirties look like good times. As long as economies can be effected by a few controlling a growing majority of the wealth then there will intentional economic down turns to lower wages. This time around because the obvious stampede of the rich to get their capital out of the economy of the US and Canada the ensuing depression will be catastrophic. Starvation for some is only a few pay checks away as it is and the majority of the population realizes this fact. Bitcoin is not the answer to this. Now we have the rich accusing the poor of being prejudiced against them and creating an economic holocaust for them by design when the truth is, it is their manipulation of the economy that is causing the chaos in the first place.
That's OK, parent was offtopic too. And hasn't the slightest clue about what Canadian Content Regulations were, or the impact that they had. Then again, who needs intelligence or knowledge when you can write (scribble?) "BARF CHUNDER PUKE FART, HAND ME a shotgun and that big fat reefer, I think I need a toak of some good stuff man."
You is taking this FAR too seriously. I am well aware of what CCR did and all the bands that got air time because of them. Currently too busy studying some of Miguel Llobet's Canciones Populares Catalanas to even consider the insult. Some people actually play instruments and music others comment upon the music industry and have not got a freaking clue which is only to be expected on Slashdot. My comment was a really old school JOKE EH
So, basically a gun to people's heads while the other hand rifles through their pockets.
Greed. The one thing that's in truly infinite supply.
Hey it is called CCR, you see we here in the Great White North have always had red necks its called scarf burns, And we created CCR not some bunch of rockabilly yahoos from south of the Mason Dixon line..EH?
Naturally you realize that CCR is not what most people believe it to be. It is really a Canadian band that at one time consisted of the Guess Who, Terry Jacks and Edward Bear played endlessly on FM radio. The band was subtitled CCR or CANADIAN CONTENT REGULATIONS.
Nothing has changed except the only one of the bunch that was worth listening to was the Guess Who and every once in a blue moon, just for old times sake I put on a ripped copy of them in FLAC because MP3 audio is for idiots and earbuds! EAT MY SHORTS YOU HALF DEAF MORONS in the entertainment industry. GOOD MUSIC and QUALITY RIPS STILL EXIST REGARDLESS OF CCR or the idiots of today that try to kill music for the listener. NOW GOOD NIGHT AND GO TO HELL WHERE YOU BELONG. SONY, CCR, RIAA, CRIA and the other idiots that are trying to kill music you will loose PERIOD. BARF CHUNDER PUKE FART, HAND ME a shotgun and that big fat reefer, I think I need a toak of some good stuff man.
yes, the religious nutjobs have moved north, and are basically doing to the Conservatives what they did to the Republican party.
Not religious nut jobs, we had one years ago out west by the name of Bible Bill. He like the tar sands was from Oilberta, his religion was GIVE PEOPLE ENOUGH CASH AND THEY WILL BE HAPPY. It was called Social Credit. Now it has morphed into a dysfunctional party that took over from what was left over after the alcoholic bindges of Sir John A MacDonald, the sales of Canadian assets to the United States by Dief the Chief, the all out fire sale of any remaining assets within the economy by phoney baloney Mulroney. Then after going and having some sort of sex party with some separatists in Quebec and getting an almost fatal dose of the clap in the process they realized that they would have to go back to basics and horn swauggle con the people with economic hogwash fears of "THE SKY IS FALLING YOUR NOT SPENDING ENOUGH SO BORROW CASH AND HELP THE POOR BANKS!!!" Social Credit style economics disguised as sensible economic policy. In the mean time cutting funding for education, science, culture, the arts, and every other possible thing they could.
In the mean time they reduced individual income tax only a fraction and shifted it to an even greater extent upon the working poor and small business. Increased subsidies to the oil industry to build and expand the oil sands, pipe lines, reduced Arctic costs by creating tax incentives for those who drill in the far north, reduced lease cost for drilling rights to huge swaths of everything north of 60. Pretended to help small native communities where there is extreme poverty with all sorts of fanfare about how the jobs created in the petro and mining sector were going to help our native peoples to suddenly become "productive citizens" under the Harper dynasty. THE BULLSHIT FROM THE, reformed Social Credit, Conservative Zombie undead party of Canada is spectacular, and THE PEOPLE ARE STILL LAPPING IT UP LIKE kitty milk.
Maybe in a hundred years some comedic genius, perhaps even the re-incarnation of Mel Brooks might make a movie out of the bullshit that goes on in Canadian politics and how they get away with the smoke and mirrors act so easily.
Gentoo isn't actually that bad, though it does require a little more understanding of how the system works than something like Ubuntu. It does have a fairly decent package management system though, and because most of what you're using is compiled it tends to be a fairly fast system to use.
Each to their own. For me, computers have gotten fast enough that I don't really care about a few milliseconds here or there, and am currently using a Ubuntu derivative now for ease of package management (and because this particular one has a DE that I can't find elsewhere yet, as it's too new). But I did use Slackware for nearly 15 years before I decided I wanted something that was less involved for the package management. That's the beauty of the system -- you can do what you want with it, and there's many many different paths to accomplishing the same goal.
Ya same thing here oddly enough. I still yearn for the simplicity and stability of Slackware. Trouble is I do audio recording (high bit rate) and there is no stock setup for compiling audacity, jack and ardour in rt prio modes in Slackware. I had it working a few times but talk about self punishment. First recompile the kernel with a rt optimization and 1000hrz, then setup so that alsa audio has rt prio with a config file change. Reset user privileges to allow for software with higher privileges to all work correctly. Could be a fantastic system but I didn't want to create my own distro so I switched to those who already did it.
and therein lies the problem if there are security updates, or critical fixes you have to be the distro manager for all your chosen software. BUT AT LEAST WITH LINUX IT IS POSSIBLE. I am now of the opinion that if you create a distro which is stable enough, secure enough IE can updated browsers independently of everything else by doing it in a non system wide way and just from a home directory, then can and bottle up the thing for your hardware and dupe it so that you can just re-install exactly the same thing without having to go through the agony of updating software at all. This is exactly what I do now with Debian. I freeze a good install and just use firefox current installed and updated independently of /usr. WORKS LIKE A HOT DAM and is very secure as long as my core c libs are current which they are. I have gotten over 4 years out of a Debian audio setup that way and am still on the 2 series kernel. But am going to do up a separate 3 series shortly WHEN I HAVE THE TIME!
and this is exactly why I don't allow auto updates. I take the time to read up on the vulnerabilities but as I tend to run Gentoo,
You got me, as soon as you said GENTOO. Ok another self flagellating penguin. Either that or a frustrated MSCE that moved over to Linux a few years back just to really experience some excruciating pain instead of hearing others scream in agony all the time to tech support about WINDOWS UPDATE. Oh the irony.
Fair enough and I agree with your point about network tv and the advertising cash cows. However I will point out that the latest generation Smart TVs do have interfaces for the new cash cow streaming media services and they have them big time.
The streaming media services would have to be co-opted into not releasing interfaces for Smart TVs and if that happens it could easily spell one hell of a set of legitimate law suits against the digital media industry for collusion. Nutflax already has apps on most of the top end tvs and there are pay streaming services a plenty ready for the consumer to sign up for right on their tvs, no need for a set top box in the living room at all. AND this was the whole point. The games on Smart TVs are still rather primitive but that is changing like I said as the processor tech for the TVs reaches high through put standards up there with PCs. This is why I said most so called tech gurus cannot see the forest for the trees. The networks are getting scared just look at what ABC is trying to do with their latest salvo of law suits against a streaming service.
But this discussion is particularly about the gaming industry so IMO they will be in trouble very soon if they do not include streaming games and apps for Smart TVs My prediction is that TVs will soon have the ability to have high speed access storage attached with high bit rate binary execution capabilities in the not very distant future. Perhaps this is the real reason why Microsoft extorts every manufacturer with their FAT PATENTS??? Especially the ones that use add on storage devices and OSS Linux kernel based firmware like Samsung Smart TVs???? This is my crystal balls at work if it does not happen then it will only be because the industry will block it the same way they block sales of high definition studio digital audio recordings.
All I am saying is the media consuming public will go where the very best bang for the buck is and an all in one Smart TV that can be run from a simple tablets, smart phones as well as sophisticated remotes seems to be the answer to having streaming internet based services as well as user created content in the living room. Essentially Playstations, Xboxes, SteamBoxes, AppleTV and all the other add ons that send out HDMI might all be brushed aside in the very near future judging from what Samsung is up to. YES I AM A GRUMPY SOB but the point is when I smell very well politically connect collusion, I don't just shut up and not say anything like some do.