Correct me if I am wrong, but there are tuner cards since I don't know when that are perfectly capable receiving radio (like my Miro PC TV Pro). Of course, none of them is shark-fin shaped, but does it really matter?
"when showing images such as some of the nature type pictures included in xp as default desktop backgrounds
(...) So that was 5 years ago."
I hate to point out that five years ago it was 1999 and we did not have Windows 2000 - let alone XP. Also, the good quality of a high-end, probably insanely expensive TFT does not mean much about the stuff we have to use in our lives - for example, the TFT in my Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook has very sucky viewing angles.
"When will we see fully improved network/remote access?"
What's wrong with ssh (besides the occasional "oops, wrong machine" moments:) )?
"When will we see some innovation instead of eye candy?"
In case you missed the point, this is about innovation, eye candy is just a nice side-effect. For example, XDamage improves X over slower network connections.
"The hooks for modular gui plugins should be there"
You mean something like the extensions for X?
"Why not work on something to compete against microsofts new gui/api interffaces based upon 3d rendering instead of pixel rendering? why not kill 2d before the competition and work on an graphical interface that is competitive instead of intriguing."
Well, it would be time to make up your mind on eye-candy. 3D desktops so far were nothing but neat eye-candy, from a usability point of view they have added nothing (one can argue that in fact they are worse than 2D ones). But anyway, I had the impression that the people of X.org are working on something like that. If you want something to change, help them - but first, please, get your facts right, because spewing uninformed bullshit on slashdot does not help anyone.
Well, it's not like the varios MPEG levels are not patented. And as long as algorithms are not patentable in the EU (and I hope it remains so), mplayer will implement it without worries.
Could you point to a burner that does support both DVD-R9 and DVD+9? Or, could you point to a drive that supports DVD-9R? No? Thought so. Currently there are only DVD+R9 drives on the market and that makes choice pretty simple.
Well, I guess preserving the "American Way of Life" is not the primary concern of the people of Dubai, but preserving the "Dubai Way of Life". And with oil running out in the foreseeable future they have to do something about it, like building a very strong industy on tourism - you know there is a reason that the world's only seven-star hotel is in Dubai.
Well, that's a very good word-for-word translation except that a Hochschule is a university or college, not a highschool (just like "high time" and Hochzeit (=wedding) are two different things)
"if I were designing a satellite or space probe I would use a good ol Intel 486 processor. Low heat, low voltage, very reliable, and if the fan goes out...who cares?"
I would venture to guess that with an ambient temperature near to 0 K, cooling a CPU is not a real issue.
"I agree. When you're thrown in jail for being convicted of a crime, they don't let you go just because you're put in for an appeal."
Well, they don't throw you in jail until there is a final rouling - i.e. no more appeals. It is possible that you get arrested as a suspect to prevent escape and destruction of evidence but that is in no way related to a court decision that is being appealed.
May I point out that - under the hood - company.com is also a number? We have this DNS thingie that turns names into numbers and it seems that we all are fine with this. I am also fine with having "Bob" in my phone('s phonebook - that sounds silly, doesn't it?) and it does not bother me at all if it resolves to a number.
Take this weekend's United States Grand Prix. 73 laps: if you can save 0.88 s each lap that means 64.24 s for the whole race. There was a difference of 2.9 s between the first two racers (M. Schumacher and Barrichello) and 37.5 s between the first and the fifth (Panis), so that 0.88 s is a pretty significant amount. (Of course, in a race situation it would be less, since the presence of the other racers)
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I think that factor that you miss is that the content on the blogs can (and WILL) be spread easily if there is something worth noticing. So if Joe writes something interesting, then in a few hours Mary and Bob will link to him in their blogs and in the next day you will receive the entry (or just a link to it) via email from Suzy because she saw it linked on Bob's blog and thinks that all her friends just have to read it.
MLDonkey (an E-Donkey 2000 client) had web and a telnet interface for ages. (The telnet port is bound to localhost, so it is accessible only locally (so it is not a big, gaping sec. hole))
"I bet most of us would barely notice a copy restriction that explicitly allowed the making of first generation copies"
Well, you know the funny thing is, there IS such a mechanism for CDs and it is actually enforced in stand-alone consumer CD copiers (BTW those things only accept "audio" CD-Rs).
But - what license? You know, none of the stuff that you have listed needs any license since the right to do so is already granted by the current copyright laws (or at least in most countries - the UK may be an exception) The "content industry" is trying to brainwash us into thinking that we do not have any right to copy. But we have.
Absolutely true. Hungary - as a newcomer to the EU - had no MEPs at the time of the vote, but we had the chance to vote in the European Council. The official stand was that "we don't need no stinkin' SW patents" (as it was expressly stated by an undersecretary in our Parliament) and it seemed very likely that we would vote against the Irish proposal. Yet we have voted "yes" and - to confuse things even more - the Minister of Informatics and Telecommunications made a press release about the victory over SW patents. So now I really can not decide if they are corrupt to the bone or simply too stupid - although both alternatives are very disturbing.
Time for Eco101. If a good sells for more (corps just pass the price of the electricity to the consumer, profits remain the same), less is bought (so profits fall). If they sell it for the same price (even if they manage to sell as much as previously - and that's unprobable, since the higher cost of energy means that the whole economy will suffer), they have to lower their profit margins so profits also fall. There are in-between solutions too, but in the end, there WILL be a hit in the profits.
You are right, I just wanted to point out that the reasoning "it is mentioned in some ancient story so it must be myth" is invalid - but so is the "it is mentioned in some ancient story so it must be real" reasoning.
I had the exact opposite experience. My current sound card (Monster Sound MX300, based on an Aureal Vortex chipset) is fully supported on Linux - but unfortunately, the Win2k/WinXP driver has issues - I guess mostly because Aureal went out of business around 2000. I guess that shows that RMS had some right ideas about this free software.
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Correct me if I am wrong, but there are tuner cards since I don't know when that are perfectly capable receiving radio (like my Miro PC TV Pro).
Of course, none of them is shark-fin shaped, but does it really matter?
And even moire, in reality, the relation seems to be linear as a 3D object's size is its volume.
"when showing images such as some of the nature type pictures included in xp as default desktop backgrounds
(...)
So that was 5 years ago."
I hate to point out that five years ago it was 1999 and we did not have Windows 2000 - let alone XP.
Also, the good quality of a high-end, probably insanely expensive TFT does not mean much about the stuff we have to use in our lives - for example, the TFT in my Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook has very sucky viewing angles.
Yeah, I was listening to it :)
If you happen to be a C= fan, then check out http://remix.kwed.org/ for some great stuff.
There's also a webradio of this stuff: Slay Radio
"When will we see fully improved network/remote access?"
:) )?
What's wrong with ssh (besides the occasional "oops, wrong machine" moments
"When will we see some innovation instead of eye candy?"
In case you missed the point, this is about innovation, eye candy is just a nice side-effect. For example, XDamage improves X over slower network connections.
"The hooks for modular gui plugins should be there"
You mean something like the extensions for X?
"Why not work on something to compete against microsofts new gui/api interffaces based upon 3d rendering instead of pixel rendering? why not kill 2d before the competition and work on an graphical interface that is competitive instead of intriguing."
Well, it would be time to make up your mind on eye-candy.
3D desktops so far were nothing but neat eye-candy, from a usability point of view they have added nothing (one can argue that in fact they are worse than 2D ones). But anyway, I had the impression that the people of X.org are working on something like that.
If you want something to change, help them - but first, please, get your facts right, because spewing uninformed bullshit on slashdot does not help anyone.
Well, it's not like the varios MPEG levels are not patented.
And as long as algorithms are not patentable in the EU (and I hope it remains so), mplayer will implement it without worries.
Could you point to a burner that does support both DVD-R9 and DVD+9? Or, could you point to a drive that supports DVD-9R?
No?
Thought so.
Currently there are only DVD+R9 drives on the market and that makes choice pretty simple.
Well, I guess preserving the "American Way of Life" is not the primary concern of the people of Dubai, but preserving the "Dubai Way of Life". And with oil running out in the foreseeable future they have to do something about it, like building a very strong industy on tourism - you know there is a reason that the world's only seven-star hotel is in Dubai.
"Highschool = "Hochschule""
Well, that's a very good word-for-word translation except that a Hochschule is a university or college, not a highschool (just like "high time" and Hochzeit (=wedding) are two different things)
"if I were designing a satellite or space probe I would use a good ol Intel 486 processor. Low heat, low voltage, very reliable, and if the fan goes out...who cares?"
I would venture to guess that with an ambient temperature near to 0 K, cooling a CPU is not a real issue.
"I agree. When you're thrown in jail for being convicted of a crime, they don't let you go just because you're put in for an appeal."
Well, they don't throw you in jail until there is a final rouling - i.e. no more appeals. It is possible that you get arrested as a suspect to prevent escape and destruction of evidence but that is in no way related to a court decision that is being appealed.
"Well, I can understand the appeal making sense in witholding the source code"
Yeah, that's reasonable since they were not required to release source code in the first place. They have to release the API.
May I point out that - under the hood - company.com is also a number? We have this DNS thingie that turns names into numbers and it seems that we all are fine with this.
I am also fine with having "Bob" in my phone('s phonebook - that sounds silly, doesn't it?) and it does not bother me at all if it resolves to a number.
Take this weekend's United States Grand Prix.
73 laps: if you can save 0.88 s each lap that means 64.24 s for the whole race.
There was a difference of 2.9 s between the first two racers (M. Schumacher and Barrichello) and 37.5 s between the first and the fifth (Panis), so that 0.88 s is a pretty significant amount. (Of course, in a race situation it would be less, since the presence of the other racers)
I think that factor that you miss is that the content on the blogs can (and WILL) be spread easily if there is something worth noticing.
So if Joe writes something interesting, then in a few hours Mary and Bob will link to him in their blogs and in the next day you will receive the entry (or just a link to it) via email from Suzy because she saw it linked on Bob's blog and thinks that all her friends just have to read it.
MLDonkey (an E-Donkey 2000 client) had web and a telnet interface for ages.
(The telnet port is bound to localhost, so it is accessible only locally (so it is not a big, gaping sec. hole))
"I bet most of us would barely notice a copy restriction that explicitly allowed the making of first generation copies"
Well, you know the funny thing is, there IS such a mechanism for CDs and it is actually enforced in stand-alone consumer CD copiers (BTW those things only accept "audio" CD-Rs).
But - what license?
You know, none of the stuff that you have listed needs any license since the right to do so is already granted by the current copyright laws (or at least in most countries - the UK may be an exception)
The "content industry" is trying to brainwash us into thinking that we do not have any right to copy. But we have.
Absolutely true.
Hungary - as a newcomer to the EU - had no MEPs at the time of the vote, but we had the chance to vote in the European Council.
The official stand was that "we don't need no stinkin' SW patents" (as it was expressly stated by an undersecretary in our Parliament) and it seemed very likely that we would vote against the Irish proposal.
Yet we have voted "yes" and - to confuse things even more - the Minister of Informatics and Telecommunications made a press release about the victory over SW patents.
So now I really can not decide if they are corrupt to the bone or simply too stupid - although both alternatives are very disturbing.
Time for Eco101.
If a good sells for more (corps just pass the price of the electricity to the consumer, profits remain the same), less is bought (so profits fall).
If they sell it for the same price (even if they manage to sell as much as previously - and that's unprobable, since the higher cost of energy means that the whole economy will suffer), they have to lower their profit margins so profits also fall.
There are in-between solutions too, but in the end, there WILL be a hit in the profits.
For some reason it is the same with my wife, she's also a huge SG fan :)
You are right, I just wanted to point out that the reasoning "it is mentioned in some ancient story so it must be myth" is invalid - but so is the "it is mentioned in some ancient story so it must be real" reasoning.
But don't forget, not so long ago Troy was also believed to be non-existant.
I had the exact opposite experience.
My current sound card (Monster Sound MX300, based on an Aureal Vortex chipset) is fully supported on Linux - but unfortunately, the Win2k/WinXP driver has issues - I guess mostly because Aureal went out of business around 2000.
I guess that shows that RMS had some right ideas about this free software.