It seems that America is going to be left behind again in terms of commercial use of technology to Asian countries... this time because silly companies wish to maintain their source of revenue. It's not really dissimilar from what Microsoft is doing in the software industry, except that the recording industry was smart enough to get it put into law. (Must've made some legislators rich, though).
I know that several Korean radio stations broadcast on the Internet as well as OTA... and they are getting a LOT of listenership. They've got settop Internet boxes which can now function as radios! I also know that a lot of Koreans working abroad (specifically in north America) "tune in" to these radio broadcasts.
Alas! Americans have been left out again (See cellphone short-messaging)
I am rooting for you, Loki, both because I believe in the Linux gaming community and I like what you are doing as a company. However, the news I read over at LinuxToday has me feeling troubled. Please, PLEASE shape up and try to make prudent decisions. You have a respomsibility both to your clients/fans as well as to your employees. Companies who don't deal fairly with their own people nor who make unnecessary blunders won't have the support of their customers for long.
I think what the OpenGL ARB are doing is just right: they're introducing as part of the OpenGL standard features that the current crop of hardware vendors can support. In the case of texture shaders, I've only heard of two companies (ATI and NVidia) supporting it in their hardware. Come the time when more vendors support it, I'm sure it'll find its way in the specs.
Contrast this with D3D in DX8. If the hardware doesn't support acceleration of this feature, would it do it in software? If it did, would users want it? Is there a way to choose that if a feature is implemented only in software, that it not be used at all?
It's simply these game authors who charge exorbitant rates to allow Loki to port their games. The reason they're charging so much is that they're assuming the games are worth that much because of how much they make on Windoze.
Linux users should rally behind Loki and petition game software authoring companies to charge a fee that's according to the Linux market. They have nothing to lose and much to gain if the Linux gaming industry grows.
They never charged that much 5 to 7 years ago when the Windows market wasn't as big as it is today
The reason MP3 picked up quickly was because everyone was sharing their music as MP3. If you build it, they will come. In the same way, convert all your MP3s to OGG (which is a good idea) and share them as OGGs.
I'm sure P2P systems will include support for OGG sharing shortly.
Speaking of which, what current P2P networks support OGG files in their search mechanism for Audio files?
How in heaven's name did an app lock up your system?? O/Ss aren't supposed to allow that!
I've been running the latest Mozilla snapshots on x86/Linux and SPARC/Solaris (using XWindows), and Mozilla (or any non-privileged app, for that matter) has hung my system.
What O/S are you running on? (in defence of Mozilla)
I'd love to develop the software for you (web-based, SQL-backend, three-tier, etc.) because I live in Calgary. One thing that's kept me from going at it is Interac. Practically all businesses in Alberta (Canada?) rely on Interac or on a credit card system to support payments.
I've checked it out with Interac and it seems that the only way one can hook up is by working with the merchant bank or other Interac members. Unfortunately, these institutions usually have their own POS systems that they market.
I wouldn't mind writing software if it was just Inventory, POS, etc. for pay. Then you can release it as open source. Or I write the software to release it as opensource but you agree to pay for installation and training.;-)
I've been reading a lot of comments comparing NS6 to current Mozilla... and of course current Mozilla works heaps better!
Netscape may have jumped the gun, but would someone who uses NS4.7x care to make a comparison of the two browsers (and mail readers)? I remember it was the same people here who had been asking Netscape to pull out and stop supporting NS4.7x. Now that NS6 is out, why don't you compare that with the old browser and tell us whether it's an improvement or not and how is it an improvement, if ever???
I would suggest using a Handspring Visor! It's got 8MB RAM and you can store files in it. I'm not sure if an application exists to store arbitary files there, but I'm sure it's easy to develop one. Not only a good file repository but an indispensible tool as well.
Cisco has what it calls its Open Forum where one can post a question in the hopes that one of its multitude of engineers would pick it up and post the correct answer.
I mean... why not? Microsoft may have done a lot of immoral things but you have to admit that they've done quite a bit right... probably enough to let them garner the said 63%:
1) They've seemed to satisfy the techs and upgrade kiddies by supplying a lot of innovation (albeit bulky and mostly unnecessary) in their products. I remember a time when I used to use Windows and I'd always try to be the first to have the latest OS or application in school.
2) Their GUI does make it pretty easy for people to use compared to the UN*X of yesteryear, and their competition (Mac, NeXTSTEP, etc.), which are arguably better, were prohibitively expensive.
3) They've used their knowledge of the internal workings of their OS and a lot of feedback from users to leverage their apps and worked hard on making their products aesthetically attractive (I mean compare IE5's widgets to Navigator's). To a majority of American's (and people in general), these are what matter.
So it's entirely possible and probable that they do rate that much because there's not much competition that offers all of the above... at least not until now.
Personally, I don't care if a lot of people don't use the OS and system of my choice (unless it's someone at management who decides what a company uses), but if I did, I'd make sure I'd have the proper munition before trying to convince people to see things differently. Right now, I don't think I'd be able to satisfy that 63% of American's with what Linux (my personal choice) has to offer, which is why I'm so anxious for companies to accelerate their development of apps and software for it.
I had this idea that I'm hoping could get to one of the Cisco IOS engineers out there. If the source to the Seti@Home client were to be opened, wouldn't it be neat if someone would add a feature set for Cisco's IOS to function as a Seti@Home client. There are a lot of companies out there who have spare routers sitting idly by and a Motorola MC680x0 isn't that shabby. Of course, there isn't much memory to play with, but there are a LOT of idle routers out there.
You have the freedom to follow the standards or not. 8^) Personally, I'd follow the standard if only to be assured that more people will be able to use my program. Aren't YOU glad that people are standardizing to autoconf, automake, etc.?;^)
Dialogic has one of the better cards for CTI development. I asked them casually several weeks back if they would support Linux and they said they were "looking into it". I then asked a friend who worked very closely with Dialogic on MS-DOS and NT (I should mention he tries to avoid this because it necessitates a reboot once a week), and he showed me an email from Dialogic stating they were NOT yet supporting Linux.
There's a survey at http://www.dialogic.com/uk/forms/ossu rvey.htm which asks what OSes we use (and perhaps would like to use CTI on). It says UK on the URL and Diaogic customer on the page, but I'm sure they won't mind if we showed them our support for our favorite OS. If you would like to see a Dialogic SDK for Linux, please sign up!
On the bad side, it was as slow as mollasses, the sidebar on apprunner couldn't be dragged out (it had to be nudged out), lots of sticky graphics clutter (have I said slow already?)... BUT,
It hasn't crashed on me, yet; XUL works; GTK themes worked (I cycled throught 6 different GTK themes and it didn't crash the browser)
Would really love to use the different modules in my own programs but they're too complicated to learn!
I emailed a question to AskSlashdot which hasn't gotten posted. The question goes: are there any combination hardware-API packages available for developing CTI on Linux?
Our choice platform used to be Dialogic with their nice hardware or Talking Technologies, Inc. with their Powerline II card on MS-DOS (the Windows NT platform was never stable enough and we used to get complaints about that), but I can't seem to find an API/lib for Linux.
Is there anybody out there doing CTI/Linux right now? Our company is willing to try any hardware that supports a stable and free OS such as Linux.
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It seems that America is going to be left behind again in terms of commercial use of technology to Asian countries ... this time because silly companies wish to maintain their source of revenue. It's not really dissimilar from what Microsoft is doing in the software industry, except that the recording industry was smart enough to get it put into law. (Must've made some legislators rich, though).
... and they are getting a LOT of listenership. They've got settop Internet boxes which can now function as radios! I also know that a lot of Koreans working abroad (specifically in north America) "tune in" to these radio broadcasts.
I know that several Korean radio stations broadcast on the Internet as well as OTA
Alas! Americans have been left out again (See cellphone short-messaging)
I am rooting for you, Loki, both because I believe in the Linux gaming community and I like what you are doing as a company. However, the news I read over at LinuxToday has me feeling troubled. Please, PLEASE shape up and try to make prudent decisions. You have a respomsibility both to your clients/fans as well as to your employees. Companies who don't deal fairly with their own people nor who make unnecessary blunders won't have the support of their customers for long.
Here's to more games for Linux!
I think what the OpenGL ARB are doing is just right: they're introducing as part of the OpenGL standard features that the current crop of hardware vendors can support. In the case of texture shaders, I've only heard of two companies (ATI and NVidia) supporting it in their hardware. Come the time when more vendors support it, I'm sure it'll find its way in the specs.
Contrast this with D3D in DX8. If the hardware doesn't support acceleration of this feature, would it do it in software? If it did, would users want it? Is there a way to choose that if a feature is implemented only in software, that it not be used at all?
It's simply these game authors who charge exorbitant rates to allow Loki to port their games. The reason they're charging so much is that they're assuming the games are worth that much because of how much they make on Windoze.
Linux users should rally behind Loki and petition game software authoring companies to charge a fee that's according to the Linux market. They have nothing to lose and much to gain if the Linux gaming industry grows.
They never charged that much 5 to 7 years ago when the Windows market wasn't as big as it is today
The reason MP3 picked up quickly was because everyone was sharing their music as MP3. If you build it, they will come. In the same way, convert all your MP3s to OGG (which is a good idea) and share them as OGGs.
I'm sure P2P systems will include support for OGG sharing shortly.
Speaking of which, what current P2P networks support OGG files in their search mechanism for Audio files?
Additionally, your middle name wouldn't happen to start with a "D", would it? (Sam D. Lantinga)
How in heaven's name did an app lock up your system?? O/Ss aren't supposed to allow that! I've been running the latest Mozilla snapshots on x86/Linux and SPARC/Solaris (using XWindows), and Mozilla (or any non-privileged app, for that matter) has hung my system. What O/S are you running on? (in defence of Mozilla)
I'd love to develop the software for you (web-based, SQL-backend, three-tier, etc.) because I live in Calgary. One thing that's kept me from going at it is Interac. Practically all businesses in Alberta (Canada?) rely on Interac or on a credit card system to support payments.
;-)
I've checked it out with Interac and it seems that the only way one can hook up is by working with the merchant bank or other Interac members. Unfortunately, these institutions usually have their own POS systems that they market.
I wouldn't mind writing software if it was just Inventory, POS, etc. for pay. Then you can release it as open source. Or I write the software to release it as opensource but you agree to pay for installation and training.
I've been reading a lot of comments comparing NS6 to current Mozilla ... and of course current Mozilla works heaps better!
Netscape may have jumped the gun, but would someone who uses NS4.7x care to make a comparison of the two browsers (and mail readers)? I remember it was the same people here who had been asking Netscape to pull out and stop supporting NS4.7x. Now that NS6 is out, why don't you compare that with the old browser and tell us whether it's an improvement or not and how is it an improvement, if ever???
I would suggest using a Handspring Visor! It's got 8MB RAM and you can store files in it. I'm not sure if an application exists to store arbitary files there, but I'm sure it's easy to develop one. Not only a good file repository but an indispensible tool as well.
Cisco has what it calls its Open Forum where one can post a question in the hopes that one of its multitude of engineers would pick it up and post the correct answer.
Works for them.
I mean ... why not? Microsoft may have done a lot of immoral things but you have to admit that they've done quite a bit right ... probably enough to let them garner the said 63%:
... at least not until now.
1) They've seemed to satisfy the techs and upgrade kiddies by supplying a lot of innovation (albeit bulky and mostly unnecessary) in their products. I remember a time when I used to use Windows and I'd always try to be the first to have the latest OS or application in school.
2) Their GUI does make it pretty easy for people to use compared to the UN*X of yesteryear, and their competition (Mac, NeXTSTEP, etc.), which are arguably better, were prohibitively expensive.
3) They've used their knowledge of the internal workings of their OS and a lot of feedback from users to leverage their apps and worked hard on making their products aesthetically attractive (I mean compare IE5's widgets to Navigator's). To a majority of American's (and people in general), these are what matter.
So it's entirely possible and probable that they do rate that much because there's not much competition that offers all of the above
Personally, I don't care if a lot of people don't use the OS and system of my choice (unless it's someone at management who decides what a company uses), but if I did, I'd make sure I'd have the proper munition before trying to convince people to see things differently. Right now, I don't think I'd be able to satisfy that 63% of American's with what Linux (my personal choice) has to offer, which is why I'm so anxious for companies to accelerate their development of apps and software for it.
I had this idea that I'm hoping could get to one of the Cisco IOS engineers out there. If the source to the Seti@Home client were to be opened, wouldn't it be neat if someone would add a feature set for Cisco's IOS to function as a Seti@Home client. There are a lot of companies out there who have spare routers sitting idly by and a Motorola MC680x0 isn't that shabby. Of course, there isn't much memory to play with, but there are a LOT of idle routers out there.
You have the freedom to follow the standards or not. 8^) Personally, I'd follow the standard if only to be assured that more people will be able to use my program. Aren't YOU glad that people are standardizing to autoconf, automake, etc.? ;^)
There's a survey at http://www.dialogic.com/uk/forms/ossu rvey.htm which asks what OSes we use (and perhaps would like to use CTI on). It says UK on the URL and Diaogic customer on the page, but I'm sure they won't mind if we showed them our support for our favorite OS. If you would like to see a Dialogic SDK for Linux, please sign up!
On a PII-300 using Linux:
... BUT,
On the bad side, it was as slow as mollasses, the sidebar on apprunner couldn't be dragged out (it had to be nudged out), lots of sticky graphics clutter (have I said slow already?)
It hasn't crashed on me, yet; XUL works; GTK themes worked (I cycled throught 6 different GTK themes and it didn't crash the browser)
Would really love to use the different modules in my own programs but they're too complicated to learn!
I emailed a question to AskSlashdot which hasn't gotten posted. The question goes: are there any combination hardware-API packages available for developing CTI on Linux?
Our choice platform used to be Dialogic with their nice hardware or Talking Technologies, Inc. with their Powerline II card on MS-DOS (the Windows NT platform was never stable enough and we used to get complaints about that), but I can't seem to find an API/lib for Linux.
Is there anybody out there doing CTI/Linux right now? Our company is willing to try any hardware that supports a stable and free OS such as Linux.