I use my laptop as my "desktop" and did as soon as I could afford a sufficiently powerful laptop. MacBooks are Apple's biggest seller, much bigger than towers or iMacs or Minis. The distinction is artificial.
It's a superior delivery mechanism for lots of content because it's effectively multicast. IP television (e.g. YouTube, Hulu, the iPlayer) is a single connection that has to be served individually per user, not once for millions of users. So broadcast (which includes most cable television) is superior from the viewpoint of serving millions of viewers, if you already have the infrastructure and don't have to build your own Akamai.
DEFINED FREEDOM, Gnuisance, Monday (NNGadget) - The Free Software Foundation (NASDAQ: RMS) has announced the Free Software alternative to the evil, DRM-infested, locked-down, defective-by-design iPhone: the GNUPhone.
The key technical innovation of the GNUPhone is that it is completely operated from the command line. "What could be more intuitive than a bash prompt?" said seventeen-year-old Debian developer Hiram Nerdboy. "The ultimate one-dimensional desktop! Just type dial voice +1-555-1212 -ntwk verizon -prot cdma2000 -ssh-version 2 -a -l -q -9 -b -k -K 14 -x and away you go! Simple and obvious!"
The phone will also serve as a versatile personal media player. "I can play any.au file or H.120 video with a single shell command! The iPod could never measure up to this powerful ease of use." Video is rendered into ASCII art with aalib. "If blocky ASCII teletype softcore pinups were good enough for 1970s minicomputer operators, they're good enough for you. Respect your elders."
The KDE project will be bringing its next-generation KDE 4 desktop to the GNUPhone. "You can flip, twirl, dice, blend, fold, spindle and mutilate your terminal windows to your heart's content," said developer Aaron Seigo. "Look at that cool effect! Any complaint that basic functions don't actually work is ignorant of the intrinsic beauty of the Plasma API and is just more FUD spread by haters like Stevie Ray Vaughan-Nichols and Novell Corporation."
Actual successful voice calls are expected by 2011 to 2012. Regulatory approval is proving problematic in the corrupt, corporate-captured US environment. "The FCC said that if we dared switch on this, uh, 'piece of shit' in a built-up area in its present form, they'd break all our fingers with a fourteen-pound cluebat," said Nerdboy. "They're obviously shilling for Apple, Nokia and Microsoft."
The second version of the GNUPhone will run EMACS on the HURD kernel and be operated by writing eLisp macros on the fly. "It's the clearest, most elegant and natural operating environment anyone could conceive of," said Nerdboy. "Really, we're not out to destroy Apple; that will just be a completely unintentional side effect."
I mean in the sense of "a website you go to and watch video on." e.g. BBC iPlayer would be an example. I'm sorry, I should have spoken much more vaguely and generally.
In that delivering a firehose flow of bits by radio transmission is still cheaper for the broadcaster than streaming, and easier on the users' bandwidth caps (where applicable).
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People were buying computers in the late 1990s specifically to access eBay.
In my house it's already come completely true. We each sit comfortably in the lounge on our own laptop. Even broadcast television (BBC Cbeebies for the toddler) is streamed live over the net.
I have a television (and proudly pay my licence fee). I can't remember when I last switched it on.
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It works really well in Britain - digital is just superior in every way, and set-top boxes are more or less free with cereal - but Britain is rather more densely populated than the US. Even then, the BBC has had to start doing Freesat to fulfil its universal service obligations to areas that can't get a good terrestrial signal. In the US, I expect they're reluctant to compel TV stations to provide universal service at all.
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It's like the Internet... except shit!
I work in media. The future of television is YouTube or similar. We know this. It'll take a few years before the Internet is a better television than television, i.e. when your connection is a better delivery mechanism than DVB-T over the air. OTOH, convenience beats quality every time.
Srsly - any compact camera from the last three years also makes an excellent video camera. How about the Canon PowerShot D10, which is also waterproof and drop-resistant?
Some say this has already happened: The ones who held up RIM and threatened to shut down Washington's BlackBerrys. Even THAT case didn't trash the US's fucked-up patent system.
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The US is a socialist state or it wouldn't have an income tax.
I use my laptop as my "desktop" and did as soon as I could afford a sufficiently powerful laptop. MacBooks are Apple's biggest seller, much bigger than towers or iMacs or Minis. The distinction is artificial.
It's a superior delivery mechanism for lots of content because it's effectively multicast. IP television (e.g. YouTube, Hulu, the iPlayer) is a single connection that has to be served individually per user, not once for millions of users. So broadcast (which includes most cable television) is superior from the viewpoint of serving millions of viewers, if you already have the infrastructure and don't have to build your own Akamai.
Because of course everyone has cable.
Thank you! Here's the text. Link.
DEFINED FREEDOM, Gnuisance, Monday (NNGadget) - The Free Software Foundation (NASDAQ: RMS) has announced the Free Software alternative to the evil, DRM-infested, locked-down, defective-by-design iPhone: the GNUPhone.
The key technical innovation of the GNUPhone is that it is completely operated from the command line. "What could be more intuitive than a bash prompt?" said seventeen-year-old Debian developer Hiram Nerdboy. "The ultimate one-dimensional desktop! Just type dial voice +1-555-1212 -ntwk verizon -prot cdma2000 -ssh-version 2 -a -l -q -9 -b -k -K 14 -x and away you go! Simple and obvious!"
The phone will also serve as a versatile personal media player. "I can play any .au file or H.120 video with a single shell command! The iPod could never measure up to this powerful ease of use." Video is rendered into ASCII art with aalib. "If blocky ASCII teletype softcore pinups were good enough for 1970s minicomputer operators, they're good enough for you. Respect your elders."
The KDE project will be bringing its next-generation KDE 4 desktop to the GNUPhone. "You can flip, twirl, dice, blend, fold, spindle and mutilate your terminal windows to your heart's content," said developer Aaron Seigo. "Look at that cool effect! Any complaint that basic functions don't actually work is ignorant of the intrinsic beauty of the Plasma API and is just more FUD spread by haters like Stevie Ray Vaughan-Nichols and Novell Corporation."
Actual successful voice calls are expected by 2011 to 2012. Regulatory approval is proving problematic in the corrupt, corporate-captured US environment. "The FCC said that if we dared switch on this, uh, 'piece of shit' in a built-up area in its present form, they'd break all our fingers with a fourteen-pound cluebat," said Nerdboy. "They're obviously shilling for Apple, Nokia and Microsoft."
The second version of the GNUPhone will run EMACS on the HURD kernel and be operated by writing eLisp macros on the fly. "It's the clearest, most elegant and natural operating environment anyone could conceive of," said Nerdboy. "Really, we're not out to destroy Apple; that will just be a completely unintentional side effect."
Some say this has already happened.
Dude. The GNUphone is the way to go! The only phone any righteous Slashdot reader could use!
Really, weâ(TM)re not out to destroy Apple; that will just be a completely unintentional side effect.
The year of the Linux desktop was 2008, when netbooks gave Microsoft actual OS competition for the first time.
World Service is paid for directly by the Foreign Office as cultural propaganda ;-)
I mean in the sense of "a website you go to and watch video on." e.g. BBC iPlayer would be an example. I'm sorry, I should have spoken much more vaguely and generally.
In that delivering a firehose flow of bits by radio transmission is still cheaper for the broadcaster than streaming, and easier on the users' bandwidth caps (where applicable).
People were buying computers in the late 1990s specifically to access eBay.
I stopped watching TV around 1990 because of the ads. I only watch TV now on YouTube and streaming BBC live or iPlayer.
In my house it's already come completely true. We each sit comfortably in the lounge on our own laptop. Even broadcast television (BBC Cbeebies for the toddler) is streamed live over the net.
I have a television (and proudly pay my licence fee). I can't remember when I last switched it on.
It works really well in Britain - digital is just superior in every way, and set-top boxes are more or less free with cereal - but Britain is rather more densely populated than the US. Even then, the BBC has had to start doing Freesat to fulfil its universal service obligations to areas that can't get a good terrestrial signal. In the US, I expect they're reluctant to compel TV stations to provide universal service at all.
It's like the Internet ... except shit!
I work in media. The future of television is YouTube or similar. We know this. It'll take a few years before the Internet is a better television than television, i.e. when your connection is a better delivery mechanism than DVB-T over the air. OTOH, convenience beats quality every time.
And I use my Ixus 50 (PowerShot SD400) as a video camera all the time. It's fantastic. Sound is pretty good too.
That's the ruggedised version I linked to :-D It's a bit big. But I think it's smaller than an Ixus/Elph in a waterproof housing.
Srsly - any compact camera from the last three years also makes an excellent video camera. How about the Canon PowerShot D10, which is also waterproof and drop-resistant?
Second link on "gpl court germany". Harald Welte, of course, kicking D-Link's arse.
It has indeed been tried in court! In Germany. The violator got their arsch handed to them, as you would expect.
Suggestion: Check over boycottnovell.com's coverage as well.
Some say this has already happened: The ones who held up RIM and threatened to shut down Washington's BlackBerrys. Even THAT case didn't trash the US's fucked-up patent system.
Found: the original Hitlercat. (The blog went down long ago.)