Except, of course, that the inclusion of flash redistribution in Ubuntu breaks the ridiculously specific OS requirements of Adobe's Player Distribution License.
Still, as long as some people are happy to sell their Freedom for the shiny I guess Ubuntu will thrive.
I'm typing this on a Dell laptop running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 WS - but then I chose to order one with an Intel wireless card and a Nvidia GPU, so it works. The reason your laptop is more annoying to use under Linux than under Windows is that you chose to buy one with a Broadcom wireless chip and an ATi GPU - which would be the same if it was a Lenovo or Sony or HP with those parts installed, and so absolutely not "because of Dell". Any suckiness is down to ATi, Broadcom and your own choices.
Except, of course, for Windows Media Player which already has (i) patches every few weeks or months anyway (and so its mean time between patches << the probable mean interval between key revocation and 99.99% of customers purchase of a new disc); and (ii) a mechanism for patch delivery that most users are already using and comfortable with.
I'm sure Microsoft would be very upset if 99.99% of the population's perceptions were that every other software movie disc player had issues playing some, mostly new, discs but WMP worked fine all the time. Especially after a couple of years when word of mouth had lead to no-one actually using any other movie player software (can you see Dell or HP or any other PC builder shipping a media player which incurs many, many, more support calls than if they'd just left it off?)
Both Microsoft and the big content cartels have a vested interest in ensuring that cracked keys are revoked, and for that reason it will happen.
Dell ships workstations and servers with Red Hat Enterprise Linux preinstalled and re-sells the support contracts.
End-user boots up, configures their system (as they'd have to do with Windows on first boot) and logs in. The RHN updates icon tells them when patches are available (if they don't have a sysadmin to take care of all that). Easy as pie.
More like you're running the water into your washing machine in the corner of the basement; it's spilling out and the whole floor is covered. You've known the floor's wet for ages, and you're 99.9% sure it's due to the washer thing, but there's some guy from the water company outside with a megaphone telling everyone it's groundwater rising up, which it does every 1500 years or so, and there's nothing you can do about it. (You have a pay-per-gallon water meter in your house.)
The water is up to your crotch. Do you:
turn the washing machine off, bail out the floodwater, and fix it so it doesn't flood your basement again;
think it's okay because in "the future" washing machines will be better designed and not flood your basement;
keep on going with it, because you need to get that laundry done and it's not your fault you're going to drown?
Wii Play sucks ass.
There are 15 games available, most of which suck.
All the major retailers (in London) have ceased selling GC games, so there's no back catalogue as there was when the PS2 launched.
This sucks. I love Monkey Ball Banana Blitz, but where's Wario Ware or Mario or Mario Kart? Dammit.
ditto, though my original plan was to get a ps3 (love my ps2).
and this article's pure BS: they say they're "here to help determine whether either of these launches warrants your cash and effort", but every thing else is pure PS3 hype or just made up.
Most likely, you'll only be able to play against players who give you 'friend codes' first, just like with the DS.
say, wtf?
course, about 3 people will actually rtfa anyway...
Based on the data from SCEI and Microsoft's quarterly reports, PS2 shipments over the last quarter (July, August and September) were 5 times that of the 360. PS2's are shipping at a higher rate than in the previous 2 quarters (pre-Xmas stock build-up) and at about 82% of last year's levels.
Average daily shipments of 360 are at the lowest rate since launch - half that of the preceeding 2 quarters, while PS2's are double that of the preceeding 2 quarters. This tells us that either (i) retailers have more 360 stock than they can shift; (ii) Microsoft can't produce enough 360's; or (iii) Microsoft are deliberately creating shortages in the channels now to build up demand and ensure they can meet it for the Xmas rush.
The observed PS2 seasonal fluctuations are normal, and Nintendo haven't released the actual numbers yet for GameCube shipments this quarter so we can't see how they've done pre-Wii.
My guess is they don't - they certainly don't list it on the product pages in the links - so 360 owners will need to pony up for another cable, one capable of the 124MHz signalling needed to do 1080p/60 (so spec'd at ~350MHz).
Another question is, what about 1080p movies (if Microsoft sell a lot of the HD DVD add-on drives)? There's no HDCP path on the 360, so either the movie studios forget all about their latest copy-protection scheme and don't set the ICT flag on the discs (sh'yeah, right) or 360 owners could have an Xbox HD DVD player that does 1080p but have to watch the movies they buy at 480p. Ouch.
Okay, I suppose I asked for that, but last quarter's sales were (just) over 95% of the previous quarter's, so it's not much of a decline - and it's still the 3rd best quarter ever for iPod sales - behind the 2 previous quarters - and 31.8% up on the same period last year (6,155,000). I wasn't ignoring the decline, just trying to say that the claiming the death of the iPod when it's doing so well is silly...
Of course. Because the iPod only sold 1/3 more in both the first and second quarters than last year. But wait - it's down on last year's Christmas rush sales!!!! It's in decline!! The death of the iPod is here!!!!!!! Oh wait. WTF??
Come on people, your supposed to be geeks and nerds and so inclined to actually care about real figures. Or is that not cool any longer?
Anyway, Aaron Margosis has some informative comments on fixing non-admin bugs in this month's TechNet magazine. This was originally 3 entries in his "non-admin" blog but has been taken up to get it to a wider audience.
And yes, I hate to link to the great Satan, but sometimes some of those are actually useful (at least to those of us who do occasionally have to deal with Windoze crap)...
Well, starting out developing using a proprietry environment such as Matlab is not the smartest move if it's so easy to implement your code in C++. What happens if TheMathWorks double their licensing fee? Triple it? Go bust?
Using a properly-defined (ie. by an ISO/IEC standard) language is a much smarter thing to do. Choosing one with several available compilers, supported on different OS / CPU platorms helps too.
Try to make your project as independant as possible, and it will stand a much better chance of both flourishing and enduring.
But I want Fedora to be a testing place for the next RHEL. I run Fedora on my home network, and 41 (soon to be 89) RHEL boxes at work, plus 3 Fedora Core ones, and widespread testing of packages before they get into RHEL is a Good Thing (TM)
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Yep. And s/five/seven =)
Except, of course, that the inclusion of flash redistribution in Ubuntu breaks the ridiculously specific OS requirements of Adobe's Player Distribution License.
Still, as long as some people are happy to sell their Freedom for the shiny I guess Ubuntu will thrive.
Asshole Limbaugh thinks with his mouth.
I'm typing this on a Dell laptop running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 WS - but then I chose to order one with an Intel wireless card and a Nvidia GPU, so it works. The reason your laptop is more annoying to use under Linux than under Windows is that you chose to buy one with a Broadcom wireless chip and an ATi GPU - which would be the same if it was a Lenovo or Sony or HP with those parts installed, and so absolutely not "because of Dell". Any suckiness is down to ATi, Broadcom and your own choices.
Except, of course, for Windows Media Player which already has (i) patches every few weeks or months anyway (and so its mean time between patches << the probable mean interval between key revocation and 99.99% of customers purchase of a new disc); and (ii) a mechanism for patch delivery that most users are already using and comfortable with.
I'm sure Microsoft would be very upset if 99.99% of the population's perceptions were that every other software movie disc player had issues playing some, mostly new, discs but WMP worked fine all the time. Especially after a couple of years when word of mouth had lead to no-one actually using any other movie player software (can you see Dell or HP or any other PC builder shipping a media player which incurs many, many, more support calls than if they'd just left it off?)
Both Microsoft and the big content cartels have a vested interest in ensuring that cracked keys are revoked, and for that reason it will happen.
Dell ships workstations and servers with Red Hat Enterprise Linux preinstalled and re-sells the support contracts.
End-user boots up, configures their system (as they'd have to do with Windows on first boot) and logs in. The RHN updates icon tells them when patches are available (if they don't have a sysadmin to take care of all that). Easy as pie.
The numbers on that site are are wrong, in Nintendo's favor - the latest official published figures are:
You're right about past sales though - the Wii's initial period rate is very impressive compared to all past launches.
More like you're running the water into your washing machine in the corner of the basement; it's spilling out and the whole floor is covered. You've known the floor's wet for ages, and you're 99.9% sure it's due to the washer thing, but there's some guy from the water company outside with a megaphone telling everyone it's groundwater rising up, which it does every 1500 years or so, and there's nothing you can do about it. (You have a pay-per-gallon water meter in your house.)
The water is up to your crotch. Do you:
I don't get it: you're not new here but don't realise that, for most Slashdotters, MMO problems >> RL money problems ?
Wii Play sucks ass. There are 15 games available, most of which suck. All the major retailers (in London) have ceased selling GC games, so there's no back catalogue as there was when the PS2 launched. This sucks. I love Monkey Ball Banana Blitz, but where's Wario Ware or Mario or Mario Kart? Dammit.
Current bid: US $99,000,100.00
ditto, though my original plan was to get a ps3 (love my ps2).
and this article's pure BS: they say they're "here to help determine whether either of these launches warrants your cash and effort", but every thing else is pure PS3 hype or just made up.
say, wtf?
course, about 3 people will actually rtfa anyway...
Does it matter?
Based on the data from SCEI and Microsoft's quarterly reports, PS2 shipments over the last quarter (July, August and September) were 5 times that of the 360. PS2's are shipping at a higher rate than in the previous 2 quarters (pre-Xmas stock build-up) and at about 82% of last year's levels.
Average daily shipments of 360 are at the lowest rate since launch - half that of the preceeding 2 quarters, while PS2's are double that of the preceeding 2 quarters. This tells us that either (i) retailers have more 360 stock than they can shift; (ii) Microsoft can't produce enough 360's; or (iii) Microsoft are deliberately creating shortages in the channels now to build up demand and ensure they can meet it for the Xmas rush.
The observed PS2 seasonal fluctuations are normal, and Nintendo haven't released the actual numbers yet for GameCube shipments this quarter so we can't see how they've done pre-Wii.
To avoid this, check out the schedule - though of course this should be easier to find from the Fedora site's front page...
switch?
'course, Slashdot is awful in Lynx. All the stuff in the sidebars goes to the top of the page.
And the comment entry is sucky too...
Do either the Xbox 360 Component HD AV Cable or Xbox 360 VGA HD AV Cable support 1080p ?
My guess is they don't - they certainly don't list it on the product pages in the links - so 360 owners will need to pony up for another cable, one capable of the 124MHz signalling needed to do 1080p/60 (so spec'd at ~350MHz).
Another question is, what about 1080p movies (if Microsoft sell a lot of the HD DVD add-on drives)? There's no HDCP path on the 360, so either the movie studios forget all about their latest copy-protection scheme and don't set the ICT flag on the discs (sh'yeah, right) or 360 owners could have an Xbox HD DVD player that does 1080p but have to watch the movies they buy at 480p. Ouch.
Okay, I suppose I asked for that, but last quarter's sales were (just) over 95% of the previous quarter's, so it's not much of a decline - and it's still the 3rd best quarter ever for iPod sales - behind the 2 previous quarters - and 31.8% up on the same period last year (6,155,000). I wasn't ignoring the decline, just trying to say that the claiming the death of the iPod when it's doing so well is silly...
Of course. Because the iPod only sold 1/3 more in both the first and second quarters than last year. But wait - it's down on last year's Christmas rush sales!!!! It's in decline!! The death of the iPod is here!!!!!!! Oh wait. WTF??
Come on people, your supposed to be geeks and nerds and so inclined to actually care about real figures. Or is that not cool any longer?
We all know that Linux isn't a platform for gamers, but still there are a few games for GNU/Linux.
They're mostly retarded though.
Anyway, Aaron Margosis has some informative comments on fixing non-admin bugs in this month's TechNet magazine. This was originally 3 entries in his "non-admin" blog but has been taken up to get it to a wider audience.
And yes, I hate to link to the great Satan, but sometimes some of those are actually useful (at least to those of us who do occasionally have to deal with Windoze crap)...
Mod this sick fuck down!
Well, starting out developing using a proprietry environment such as Matlab is not the smartest move if it's so easy to implement your code in C++. What happens if TheMathWorks double their licensing fee? Triple it? Go bust?
Using a properly-defined (ie. by an ISO/IEC standard) language is a much smarter thing to do. Choosing one with several available compilers, supported on different OS / CPU platorms helps too.
Try to make your project as independant as possible, and it will stand a much better chance of both flourishing and enduring.
Good luck!
But I want Fedora to be a testing place for the next RHEL. I run Fedora on my home network, and 41 (soon to be 89) RHEL boxes at work, plus 3 Fedora Core ones, and widespread testing of packages before they get into RHEL is a Good Thing (TM)
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