Well, I would not be that sure that economy can't grow. Take, for example, a complex SW system. There's not too much that is material in it - if you even consider the disk space it uses it certainly needs raw resources to reproduce than a simple hammer yet it represents much bigger value in our economics. Indeed, IT is a key factor to our economic growth - producing more value using less raw materials. The same goes for cell phones - add new feature, add more complexity, reduce size - you have a more valuable phone and if you got it right, the consumers want to change their old, obsolete phone. Of course, some people may say that we don't need this - but at some point ppl said that there is no point in having a computer at home.
Well, I am a sober owner of an Aureal card. Aureal practically has died. OK, how does this relate your point?
Aureal is dead because Creative Labs sued them to death. Although Aureal came out as a victor from the courtyard, it was Pyrrhic victory - it cost them too much both in money and in consumer trust. They have died, and here am I, with a great card and no support. And here we are, PC users in general with practically no choice but Creative. (And yes, I DO believe that Creative is evil - I blame the withdrawal of Gravis Ultrasound from the soundcard market largely on Creative's foul tactics (yes, I have a GUS too))
So, companies acting this way should be pointed at, should be shouted , their practices should be talked about - for the good of all consumers. If you accept such outrageous acts by saying "everyone's doing this", you are making no good to the society. Stand up and let your voice be heard!
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"Sabotage to nature's law"? Evolution is not a law, it is just a result of nature's laws and the circumstances. (But if you insist on your views then medicine is also a sabotage - guess most of the/.'ers would have died before reaching age 10 if it were not for today's medicine (no insult on/.'ers, just look what were the infant mortality rates a couple hundred years ago) and thus they could have not breed) You can not sabotage nature's laws, that's what distinct them from human laws:)
Another guy mentioning the awful spelling got +3 insightful. And I think it is worth to have your voice to be heard not only closely on topic, but also on "meta-topics" (such as bad spelling on the front page) BTW, I DO have moderator access right now, too bad I can't moderate myself;)
Perhaps I should submit the question in my original post and then I could do on-topic posting:)
It is nothing like good news, not even remotely. What happened is: 1. it was proved once again that censorware is crap - and with the pending legislations it implies that people will be forced to use crap 2a. censorware producers are pointing fingers at an innocent bystander (akamaitech) and make him looking guilty 2b. the media happily accepts this nonsense and makes the public think that it is really akamai's fault, not the censorware producers'.
Making braindead products, suing everyone and pointing fingers at innocent bystanders - I guess the censorware industry makes perfect use of today's major business practices. I think we should applaud 'em.
There was a press release that Precision Insight will do DRI drivers for G400 (most probably under the GPL), and they promised them for this summer. Wonder what happened to them.
I have problems seeing that as a feature:) BTW, my experience shows that installing/maintaining a Win9x system is much harder than my Debian (DLL hell, anyone?)
Humm, I think there is a company (from Norway, IIRC) who did an open source implementation of OpenInventor. Does anybody happen to know something more? (how does the two compare?)
Well, you should learn more about UNIX history. It was NOT designed for mainframes. The first versions ran on DEC PDP machines and they were the thing most closely matching today's PCs. And yes, it was meant as a desktop OS, serving the needs of the programmers of the Bell Labs. I DO use Linux as my desktop OS (both at work and at home) and I am very happy with it while Win9x (the supposed REAL desktop OS) keeps constantly annoying me. My mother (well, she is not exactly a hardcore computer geek) uses Linux as her desktop OS. She is quite happy with it. And anyway, I just see no reason to NOT to use Linux as a desktop OS. Could you mention just ONE feature that shows that it should not be used for that? (Remember, in the old DOS days people whined about having to shut down Linux as opposed to the 'just switch it off' method of DOS - and see, what happened in Win9x)
As an interesting note: here, in Hungary, our copyright law says that copying is illegal if it hurts the copyright owner's interests. While that is quite vague, SW publishers still would have a hard time proving that a freely accessible copy of a SW that they do not sell any more, does hurt their interests.
Besides, I think that morality prevails over legality (God, Jehva, Allah or your own conscience can be much worse than a jury:) and I see no moral problems with freely distributing abadonware.
And, as a last point: was I the only one who felt that this article was a little biased?
I am somewhat perplexed. OK, our current package system (I'm using Debian) has its own problem if you install stuff (especially libs) from tarballs. That's clear. But how on the earth could it be solved using self-extracting archives? And why on earth would you want to do a self-extracting archive anyway? It is not secure, you need some installer anyway to remove the packages and it just does not make sense at all. What we need is an easy way to register manually installed software. Something like stow, but much more powerful. Yeah, that's what we need, not self-executing archives.
Well, it is not necessarily piracy. For example, some of my friends bought similar devices to develop some (free) software - their music editor has become somewhat known.
Of course, this helps piracy - but nearly everything that relates to computers helps it, so...
It always surprises me that the US laws has so little about personal privacy and the protection of personal data. I guess something like this could never happen in Europe because we HAVE laws protecting one's data (to collect data about someone, you need his/her consent or you must have some law backing you (e.g. police, etc)) - and then, you can keep the data only so long as it is needed and you may not pass it on. Time to wake up, and create some laws those only purpose is not to provide a living for lawyers but actually making the citizen's life better.
People seems forgetting that excellent performance is not just high FPS but also high picture quality The author of the article seems somewhat clueless on this issue, and although he mentions that V3 can't do all the things that should be done in high quality setting, yet he finally skips the issue Indeed, it is quite unfair to compare the speed of the v3 and f.e. G400 in HQ as V3 just skips most of the things that would make the setting HQ. [ Go, get a G400;) it will have DRI support in Xfree86 4.01 ]
There's something about this CPhack issue that really disturbs me. One of the guys creating cphack is from Sweden and the other is from Canada. Note that neither of these two states belong to the USA. The DMCA is a US law and as such it is supposed to be valid only for US citizens. Yet it seems that this case heavily involves DMCA that is not supposed to be valid for these guys? What's next? An american entity suing dutch coffee shops on the basis that marjuana is illegal in the US, or what?
there was something about "support for multiple processors" being under development, but on my ABIT BP6 motherboard with two Celerons it worked OK so far.
Aspirin will not give us world peace, the internet will not make an end to human sufferings and most importantly, no amount of complaining/. posters will make JonKatz any smarter.
Next time he should write something about how xmas presents are not brought to you by Santa Claus.
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Well, I would not be that sure that economy can't grow. Take, for example, a complex SW system. There's not too much that is material in it - if you even consider the disk space it uses it certainly needs raw resources to reproduce than a simple hammer yet it represents much bigger value in our economics.
Indeed, IT is a key factor to our economic growth - producing more value using less raw materials.
The same goes for cell phones - add new feature, add more complexity, reduce size - you have a more valuable phone and if you got it right, the consumers want to change their old, obsolete phone.
Of course, some people may say that we don't need this - but at some point ppl said that there is no point in having a computer at home.
Well, I am a sober owner of an Aureal card.
Aureal practically has died.
OK, how does this relate your point?
Aureal is dead because Creative Labs sued them to death. Although Aureal came out as a victor from the courtyard, it was Pyrrhic victory - it cost them too much both in money and in consumer trust. They have died, and here am I, with a great card and no support.
And here we are, PC users in general with practically no choice but Creative.
(And yes, I DO believe that Creative is evil - I blame the withdrawal of Gravis Ultrasound from the soundcard market largely on Creative's foul tactics (yes, I have a GUS too))
So, companies acting this way should be pointed at, should be shouted , their practices should be talked about - for the good of all consumers.
If you accept such outrageous acts by saying "everyone's doing this", you are making no good to the society. Stand up and let your voice be heard!
"Sabotage to nature's law"? /.'ers would have died before reaching age 10 if it were not for today's medicine (no insult on /.'ers, just look what were the infant mortality rates a couple hundred years ago) and thus they could have not breed) :)
Evolution is not a law, it is just a result of nature's laws and the circumstances. (But if you insist on your views then medicine is also a sabotage - guess most of the
You can not sabotage nature's laws, that's what distinct them from human laws
Another guy mentioning the awful spelling got +3 insightful. And I think it is worth to have your voice to be heard not only closely on topic, but also on "meta-topics" (such as bad spelling on the front page) ;)
:)
BTW, I DO have moderator access right now, too bad I can't moderate myself
Perhaps I should submit the question in my original post and then I could do on-topic posting
It is nothing like good news, not even remotely.
What happened is:
1. it was proved once again that censorware is crap - and with the pending legislations it implies that people will be forced to use crap
2a. censorware producers are pointing fingers at an innocent bystander (akamaitech) and make him looking guilty
2b. the media happily accepts this nonsense and makes the public think that it is really akamai's fault, not the censorware producers'.
To me, this all sounds disturbing.
Making braindead products, suing everyone and pointing fingers at innocent bystanders - I guess the censorware industry makes perfect use of today's major business practices.
I think we should applaud 'em.
There was a press release that Precision Insight will do DRI drivers for G400 (most probably under the GPL), and they promised them for this summer.
Wonder what happened to them.
I have problems seeing that as a feature :)
BTW, my experience shows that installing/maintaining a Win9x system is much harder than my Debian (DLL hell, anyone?)
Humm, I think there is a company (from Norway, IIRC) who did an open source implementation of OpenInventor.
Does anybody happen to know something more? (how does the two compare?)
Well, you should learn more about UNIX history. It was NOT designed for mainframes. The first versions ran on DEC PDP machines and they were the thing most closely matching today's PCs. And yes, it was meant as a desktop OS, serving the needs of the programmers of the Bell Labs.
I DO use Linux as my desktop OS (both at work and at home) and I am very happy with it while Win9x (the supposed REAL desktop OS) keeps constantly annoying me.
My mother (well, she is not exactly a hardcore computer geek) uses Linux as her desktop OS. She is quite happy with it.
And anyway, I just see no reason to NOT to use Linux as a desktop OS. Could you mention just ONE feature that shows that it should not be used for that?
(Remember, in the old DOS days people whined about having to shut down Linux as opposed to the 'just switch it off' method of DOS - and see, what happened in Win9x)
As an interesting note: here, in Hungary, our copyright law says that copying is illegal if it hurts the copyright owner's interests. While that is quite vague, SW publishers still would have a hard time proving that a freely accessible copy of a SW that they do not sell any more, does hurt their interests.
:) and I see no moral problems with freely distributing abadonware.
Besides, I think that morality prevails over legality (God, Jehva, Allah or your own conscience can be much worse than a jury
And, as a last point: was I the only one who felt that this article was a little biased?
But DOS is not gone - it is still the heart of WinME, it's just hidden - so some functionality is crippled and they sure need an excuse for that.
I am somewhat perplexed. OK, our current package system (I'm using Debian) has its own problem if you install stuff (especially libs) from tarballs. That's clear. But how on the earth could it be solved using self-extracting archives? And why on earth would you want to do a self-extracting archive anyway? It is not secure, you need some installer anyway to remove the packages and it just does not make sense at all.
What we need is an easy way to register manually installed software. Something like stow, but much more powerful. Yeah, that's what we need, not self-executing archives.
Well, it is not necessarily piracy.
...
For example, some of my friends bought similar devices to develop some (free) software - their music editor has become somewhat known.
Of course, this helps piracy - but nearly everything that relates to computers helps it, so
It always surprises me that the US laws has so little about personal privacy and the protection of personal data.
I guess something like this could never happen in Europe because we HAVE laws protecting one's data (to collect data about someone, you need his/her consent or you must have some law backing you (e.g. police, etc)) - and then, you can keep the data only so long as it is needed and you may not pass it on.
Time to wake up, and create some laws those only purpose is not to provide a living for lawyers but actually making the citizen's life better.
People seems forgetting that excellent performance is not just high FPS but also high picture quality The author of the article seems somewhat clueless on this issue, and although he mentions that V3 can't do all the things that should be done in high quality setting, yet he finally skips the issue Indeed, it is quite unfair to compare the speed of the v3 and f.e. G400 in HQ as V3 just skips most of the things that would make the setting HQ. [ Go, get a G400 ;) it will have DRI support in Xfree86 4.01 ]
There's something about this CPhack issue that really disturbs me. One of the guys creating cphack is from Sweden and the other is from Canada. Note that neither of these two states belong to the USA. The DMCA is a US law and as such it is supposed to be valid only for US citizens. Yet it seems that this case heavily involves DMCA that is not supposed to be valid for these guys? What's next? An american entity suing dutch coffee shops on the basis that marjuana is illegal in the US, or what?
there was something about "support for multiple processors" being under development, but on my ABIT BP6 motherboard with two Celerons it worked OK so far.
Aspirin will not give us world peace, the internet will not make an end to human sufferings and most importantly, no amount of complaining /. posters will make JonKatz any smarter.
Next time he should write something about how xmas presents are not brought to you by Santa Claus.