Linus is very authoritative, and has yet to form an official public community/legal entity that develops and protects the kernel in the 10 year+ that he has been doing it.
Like OSDL? It doesn't get much more official than that.
What happens if he gets hit by a bus?
The succession has been arranged, but it's based on people, not organizations, since the Linux community is based on personal respect, not respect for an organization.
No one except goverment purchasing people care about whether it's UNIX(TM) or not. But given Sun's obsession about backwards compatibility, you can bet that it will be.
Being somewhat proficient in electronics won't get you real-time compression, which you need to make it feasible. (If you don't have compression, you need $10,000 of disks...)
The MPAA doesn't want to sniff Internet2; as you pointed out that would be really expensive. They just want to log on to I2Hub and see who's sharing what.
It's the "human shield" theory of software development. If P2P features are incorporated into lots of "innocent" software, then the INDUCE act becomes a sort of doomsday device -- it can only stop P2P by stopping the entire software industry.
First you pay for the box, then you pay $10/month just to allow the box to work, then you pay for whatever you want to watch. It might be cheaper than digital cable with VOD, but with such a big upfront cost, many people will never take the chance.
Asterisk is a soft PBX; normal people don't have PBXes, thus normal people would never install Asterisk.
If you want to call other people for free using the Internet standard SIP protocol, FWD provides some free, apparently easy-to-use software to do it. If you want to call real phones, several non-shady VoIP companies offer SIP softphones, although it looks like most people who are paying for SIP service prefer to have a hardware ATA.
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Lots of ISPs implement egress filtering these days to reduce forged IP source addresses.
Linus is very authoritative, and has yet to form an official public community/legal entity that develops and protects the kernel in the 10 year+ that he has been doing it.
Like OSDL? It doesn't get much more official than that.
What happens if he gets hit by a bus?
The succession has been arranged, but it's based on people, not organizations, since the Linux community is based on personal respect, not respect for an organization.
In what way? IWill doesn't have any Intel/nVidia stuff.
You can get a Socket 939 processor for $150, not $500. FUD will get you nowhere.
Advanced SATA RAID far past what Intel has is good.
It's all software RAID; who cares?
GigE superior to Intel or any other chip maker is good.
Is the nVidia GigE really better than e1000? And even if it was, would anyone notice?
Hardware and software firewall superior to what Intel or any other chipmaker has is good.
I'd rather keep the firewall in the OS where it belongs. If I used a firewall at all, that is.
Pretty much all the chipset reviews on the hardware sites confirm this; the different in performance between chipsets is a few percent at most.
Those are based on Blu-ray-like technology, but they aren't Blu-ray compatible and they won't ship any time soon.
No one except goverment purchasing people care about whether it's UNIX(TM) or not. But given Sun's obsession about backwards compatibility, you can bet that it will be.
Yes, you can still play your DVDs. Heck, you can still use your DVD player to play your DVDs; it won't self-destruct if you buy a Blu-ray player.
For the nth time people, there are no cartridges.
Being somewhat proficient in electronics won't get you real-time compression, which you need to make it feasible. (If you don't have compression, you need $10,000 of disks...)
Is Internet2 just going to become a huge VPN over the Internet or is it a completely segregated network infrastructure?
It's physically separate; that's why it's faster.
The MPAA doesn't want to sniff Internet2; as you pointed out that would be really expensive. They just want to log on to I2Hub and see who's sharing what.
I2Hub only allows clients on I2 to connect. I'm not sure how they do it; maybe with WHOIS data or a BGP looking glass.
Great, show us a system that converts analog HD component to a usable digital signal. Oh wait, it costs $10,000...
If the "satellite/cable box" can decode it, and doesn't cost $2000 why isnt there a card that can do the same thing?
DRM.
Sure, but what good is that? You'd need some special hardware to play it back, you can't edit it, etc.
The challenges for most would be (A) will they authorize CableCard for PC-based DVR setups
No. The OpenCable spec is full of paranoia, like you can never allow an unencrypted version of the stream to exist outside a chip.
Why aren't there inexpensive real-time or faster MPEG encode/transcode boards for the PC?
Supply and demand? The cycle of reincarnation?
But do you tax the Segway owners more or less than pedestrians? Oh wait, they banned the Segway, didn't they...
When you buy NDS, Red Hat doesn't make any money. Case closed.
I think the real solution is to pick a HIG and remove anything that doesn't comply with it. But nobody has the guts to try that...
It's the "human shield" theory of software development. If P2P features are incorporated into lots of "innocent" software, then the INDUCE act becomes a sort of doomsday device -- it can only stop P2P by stopping the entire software industry.
I think they're planning to offer that; it just hasn't been released yet.
First you pay for the box, then you pay $10/month just to allow the box to work, then you pay for whatever you want to watch. It might be cheaper than digital cable with VOD, but with such a big upfront cost, many people will never take the chance.
Asterisk is a soft PBX; normal people don't have PBXes, thus normal people would never install Asterisk.
If you want to call other people for free using the Internet standard SIP protocol, FWD provides some free, apparently easy-to-use software to do it. If you want to call real phones, several non-shady VoIP companies offer SIP softphones, although it looks like most people who are paying for SIP service prefer to have a hardware ATA.