Wish there was a way to see it, touch it, and goof with it to verify the hardware and see how polished their software build is.
For me the hw is the main issue (and the lack of need for a netbook), as I'd probably throw out their software and switch to a distro with ARM support debain, ubuntu, chromeOS maybe even android depending on my mood/use
They don't really address that, I can see it as: 1) Great advertising for the companies other games! 2) Get OSS development kickstarted on their engine, once they have a kickass engine they can release 100 A.D with proprietary game-data. 3) Package and see this in shops, the uninformed masses will probably buy it anyway, many of the informed will anyway just to support the company.
The don't really lose much either, so even if the gains are marginal the loss is just the cost of some bandwidth.
It depends what you are doing. shutdown != hibernate/suspend. suspend is used as a workaround for slow boot, hibernate is also used but even that can only be so fast ~2.5s per gig of ram in use when hibernated. But both are just ways to save power while and allow you to continue your current task later and should not be considered replacements for shutdown/startup when your done.
I wouldn't think devices w/ embedded Linux would shut down regularly,
Embedded linux can go everywhere, in this specific case its a car system that 1) has very low power usage requirements (no suspend) 2) has no permanent storage (no hdd or battery backed ram)
Thats one of the things i love about this, the screen comes of entirely and i assume/hope that you can just flip it over entirely so there is no joint to break.
1) Produce new tool to hide data 2) Produce new tool to decrypt single items of data easily, but don't include a batch mode 3) Wait for RIAA to understand whats going on (this step may take years as the still don't get DHT) 4) ???? 5) No profit for RIAA
If they produce a plugin for firefox and the tool was shipped with most bt clients, anybody with a bt client installed could be notified that there is a torrent available whenever they see an image containing one, the RIAA then have to develop a tool to scan not just a few sites that allow.torrent files, but any site that allows images. In addition torrent sites can (could always be may not have realised) upload capatchas with the.torrent file embedded and require users to use a capatcha to get the.torrent data, this would require the RIAA to invest a lot of time to get the files
The music industry needs serious reforms, appeasing to just the fact that music is incredibly overpriced and DRM laden is a start, but the corporate top-down make/break has far too much fat.
Now just bring the same for movies
The movie industry isn't really suffering, between box-office taking and tv rights there hardly about to go bankrupt. I've never heard actors/producers/etc complain about piracy, in fact I've heard a few actually embrace it!
and games
The game industry needs to stop charging £30 for crappy games, other than that its already learning that DRM doesn't work and i really fail to see how you could stream videogames!
I read it as GP, probably too used to slashdot summaries trolling, but I think MS will been keen to avoid behaving like apple because anything even close to the lockin that apple use on their portable products would definitely land MS with an antitrust suit.
ERM, no evidence is as good as the evidence is. Facts are as valid as they are, it doesn't matter if a compulsive liar tells you the sky is blue, his past history of compulsive lying doesn't affect weather the sky is blue or not. It never matters where you get your evidence/facts/data if you can verify it yourself, assuming nobody you trust can find the evidence valid/invalid themselves *then* (and only then) would evidence only be as good as the people obtaining it.
I think government funded TV works (with varying degrees of unbias) in much of the western world (BBC,ABC,TVE,etc), i do agree that trying it in America would cause hell though.
According to this EPL and GPL are incompatible due to diferening patent restrictions, however if there are no patents covering the code (or the patents are invalid), could the code be linked and redistributed under either
they'll find that a real full-featured modern operating system (not just a glorified web browser) is a lot more difficult to create than they think. Even if they pulled it off, breaking into an OS market dominated by a single player with a huge entrenched base of applications is hard, and even Google may find it more trouble than it's worth.
I agree with everything else, but i think a glorified web browser + a big local appsever could could compete with microsoft for most office computers (especially if chromeOS breaks window's 'monopoly' on home computers), because it's a lot easier to maintain good security on one server* than over hundreds of dekstops.
*one server may be a cluster of them but running with tools from google to make it maintainable as just one webappsite
OS-X is not a competing product, it has a sliver of windows market share (nothing to do with software but computers that run windows are a lot cheaper than those running os-x!).
While MS did some bad things in the past (using their power to ensure retailers only sold their OS) this has pretty much gone the way of the doe-doe bird.
They still own the office space by: 1) producing the best office suite 2) locking down all their formats anyway sure ATM its mostly 1 that keeps their OS top, but pretending that just because they don't hassle OEMs any more [citation needed] they don't do bad things is naive.
And if your an idiot you'll follow all this MS v google journalism and ignore the fact that, chromeOS isn't designed as a competitor to windows, its designed to exploit a growing market, sure that market may grow and start shrinking Microsoft core market (corporate desktop) but that's not it's primary aim! When Microsoft started producing software for ibm-clones, where they attacking ibm's core market (mainframes), hell NO, they were taking advantage of a strong emerging market, killing IBM was not their aim, making money way!
Sure hurting microsoft's psuedo-monopoly operating systems that people are used to will, indirectly hurt their main market, but if google want a war they would have gone straight to businesses and started selling a corporate OS.
Microsofts search/email doesn't need to be better than googles, it just has to be close enough that people stick to the defaults rather than switching. ChromeOS, has a clear uperhand in many markets, especially their initial market and is clearly capable of generating revenue by switching people to very light systems that default to google web apps!
People, especially on journalists like to play any move by google/microsoft as malicious acts aimed at the other, when almost all of them are much more to do with simply making more money: google release web apps -> oh noes they are attacking microsoft office!!! -> looking for more ad-revenue from people who dont need a full office suit google work to stop the deal -> they did it cuz they hate ms!!! -> its easier to take on yahoo & microsoft than yahoo+microfo ms release bing -> OMG they are attacking teh google!!! -> they are expanding thier web search/ads buisness google annoucne chromeOS -> OMG google are gunna pwn MS!!!1 -> its a relatively easy way to get lots of netbook users hooked on google apps
A mistake in implementation is very different from systematic design problems. Chrome has been designed in a way that even with this code bug it held its own in every hacking competition. desktop linux has its own share of design problems running X as root isn't a serious problem because there are plenty of checks done, however it would be better if X was designed to not need root at all!
How do you handle per-application volume levels in alsa?
softvol, isn't perfect but surely its better than this and can be improved on, OSS4 also implements per-app volumes at API level.
How do you use another machine on the network as a sink in alsa?
google it. Outside of thinclients i don't see how that is particularly useful anyway, so giving everybody else glitchy audio, instead of just using PA on thin clients seams stupid.
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Wish there was a way to see it, touch it, and goof with it to verify the hardware and see how polished their software build is.
For me the hw is the main issue (and the lack of need for a netbook), as I'd probably throw out their software and switch to a distro with ARM support debain, ubuntu, chromeOS maybe even android depending on my mood/use
They don't really address that, I can see it as:
1) Great advertising for the companies other games!
2) Get OSS development kickstarted on their engine, once they have a kickass engine they can release 100 A.D with proprietary game-data.
3) Package and see this in shops, the uninformed masses will probably buy it anyway, many of the informed will anyway just to support the company.
The don't really lose much either, so even if the gains are marginal the loss is just the cost of some bandwidth.
It depends what you are doing. shutdown != hibernate/suspend.
suspend is used as a workaround for slow boot,
hibernate is also used but even that can only be so fast ~2.5s per gig of ram in use when hibernated.
But both are just ways to save power while and allow you to continue your current task later and should not be considered replacements for shutdown/startup when your done.
I wouldn't think devices w/ embedded Linux would shut down regularly,
Embedded linux can go everywhere, in this specific case its a car system that
1) has very low power usage requirements (no suspend)
2) has no permanent storage (no hdd or battery backed ram)
But this is already out (well beta-testing/first shipment) costs $400 ($300 without the keyboard)
Thats one of the things i love about this, the screen comes of entirely and i assume/hope that you can just flip it over entirely so there is no joint to break.
If you want power efficiency why use x86? This comes in cheaper ($299-$399), has a battery life of 10+hrs (3-5 for the cheap one)
1) Produce new tool to hide data
2) Produce new tool to decrypt single items of data easily, but don't include a batch mode
3) Wait for RIAA to understand whats going on (this step may take years as the still don't get DHT)
4) ????
5) No profit for RIAA
If they produce a plugin for firefox and the tool was shipped with most bt clients, anybody with a bt client installed could be notified that there is a torrent available whenever they see an image containing one, the RIAA then have to develop a tool to scan not just a few sites that allow .torrent files, but any site that allows images. In addition torrent sites can (could always be may not have realised) upload capatchas with the .torrent file embedded and require users to use a capatcha to get the .torrent data, this would require the RIAA to invest a lot of time to get the files
if only there was user contributed website that contained listings of most media content!
This *IS* what music industry needed
The music industry needs serious reforms, appeasing to just the fact that music is incredibly overpriced and DRM laden is a start, but the corporate top-down make/break has far too much fat.
Now just bring the same for movies
The movie industry isn't really suffering, between box-office taking and tv rights there hardly about to go bankrupt. I've never heard actors/producers/etc complain about piracy, in fact I've heard a few actually embrace it!
and games
The game industry needs to stop charging £30 for crappy games, other than that its already learning that DRM doesn't work and i really fail to see how you could stream videogames!
I read it as GP, probably too used to slashdot summaries trolling, but I think MS will been keen to avoid behaving like apple because anything even close to the lockin that apple use on their portable products would definitely land MS with an antitrust suit.
ERM, no evidence is as good as the evidence is.
Facts are as valid as they are, it doesn't matter if a compulsive liar tells you the sky is blue, his past history of compulsive lying doesn't affect weather the sky is blue or not.
It never matters where you get your evidence/facts/data if you can verify it yourself, assuming nobody you trust can find the evidence valid/invalid themselves *then* (and only then) would evidence only be as good as the people obtaining it.
This report uses actual evidence! (A strange concept in the US, i know)
You can have your stupid country we just want Hugh Laurie and Jon Oliver back!
p.s we'd settle for getting rid of Madonna and their being a court injunction against her using that stupid British accent!
Zed's dead baby, Zed's dead.
I think government funded TV works (with varying degrees of unbias) in much of the western world (BBC,ABC,TVE,etc), i do agree that trying it in America would cause hell though.
According to this EPL and GPL are incompatible due to diferening patent restrictions, however if there are no patents covering the code (or the patents are invalid), could the code be linked and redistributed under either
I'm just pointing out, if Google missed something that basic in their browser what are they going to miss in their OS? Is it a risk you want to take?
Microsoft fit 3 security holes in 512 bytes of xbox firmware, does that mean i shouldn't trust them with my os?
what/who is unity a fanboy of? Christ, you trolls are out in force today...
they'll find that a real full-featured modern operating system (not just a glorified web browser) is a lot more difficult to create than they think. Even if they pulled it off, breaking into an OS market dominated by a single player with a huge entrenched base of applications is hard, and even Google may find it more trouble than it's worth.
I agree with everything else, but i think a glorified web browser + a big local appsever could could compete with microsoft for most office computers (especially if chromeOS breaks window's 'monopoly' on home computers), because it's a lot easier to maintain good security on one server* than over hundreds of dekstops.
*one server may be a cluster of them but running with tools from google to make it maintainable as just one webappsite
OS-X is not a competing product, it has a sliver of windows market share (nothing to do with software but computers that run windows are a lot cheaper than those running os-x!).
While MS did some bad things in the past (using their power to ensure retailers only sold their OS) this has pretty much gone the way of the doe-doe bird.
They still own the office space by:
1) producing the best office suite
2) locking down all their formats anyway
sure ATM its mostly 1 that keeps their OS top, but pretending that just because they don't hassle OEMs any more [citation needed] they don't do bad things is naive.
Oh, please. Google OS is a glorified web browser tailored to netbooks. It will own Windows' on the netbook market.
And if your an idiot you'll follow all this MS v google journalism and ignore the fact that, chromeOS isn't designed as a competitor to windows, its designed to exploit a growing market, sure that market may grow and start shrinking Microsoft core market (corporate desktop) but that's not it's primary aim! When Microsoft started producing software for ibm-clones, where they attacking ibm's core market (mainframes), hell NO, they were taking advantage of a strong emerging market, killing IBM was not their aim, making money way!
Sure hurting microsoft's psuedo-monopoly operating systems that people are used to will, indirectly hurt their main market, but if google want a war they would have gone straight to businesses and started selling a corporate OS.
Microsofts search/email doesn't need to be better than googles, it just has to be close enough that people stick to the defaults rather than switching. ChromeOS, has a clear uperhand in many markets, especially their initial market and is clearly capable of generating revenue by switching people to very light systems that default to google web apps!
People, especially on journalists like to play any move by google/microsoft as malicious acts aimed at the other, when almost all of them are much more to do with simply making more money:
google release web apps -> oh noes they are attacking microsoft office!!! -> looking for more ad-revenue from people who dont need a full office suit
google work to stop the deal -> they did it cuz they hate ms!!! -> its easier to take on yahoo & microsoft than yahoo+microfo
ms release bing -> OMG they are attacking teh google!!! -> they are expanding thier web search/ads buisness
google annoucne chromeOS -> OMG google are gunna pwn MS!!!1 -> its a relatively easy way to get lots of netbook users hooked on google apps
A mistake in implementation is very different from systematic design problems. Chrome has been designed in a way that even with this code bug it held its own in every hacking competition. desktop linux has its own share of design problems running X as root isn't a serious problem because there are plenty of checks done, however it would be better if X was designed to not need root at all!
nice X troll, but chrome OS is going to be a way to run an easy way to run google apps, rather than a linux desktop.
How do you handle per-application volume levels in alsa?
softvol, isn't perfect but surely its better than this and can be improved on, OSS4 also implements per-app volumes at API level.
How do you use another machine on the network as a sink in alsa?
google it. Outside of thinclients i don't see how that is particularly useful anyway, so giving everybody else glitchy audio, instead of just using PA on thin clients seams stupid.