Anyone else here in Canada willing to join a class action lawsuit against the recording industries to reclaim our recordable media taxes?
Hmmm...I've bought CD recordables in Canada, but I'm a U.S. citizen (I'm 20 mins from the Canadian border) I wonder if I could legally enjoin such a lawsuit?
Ehhh...IMHO, you shouldn't hold an audio driver to the standard that it should work with broken hardware. The only bad design I could see there is that the driver should report the bad port and then at very least disable itself if the design is such that it can't continue with the broken port. It shouldn't just hang. That's how *I* think the driver should handle it. But on the other hand, sound hardware isn't *generally* a mission-critical component, unless of course we are talking a professional audio studio, then it's another story. So it comes down to a design decision, really, and what side you err on depends on what your goal is.
Now, a RAID driver should definitely work with a broken a hard drive -- but it should report that error immediately, of course, giving the administrator ample opportunity to replace the bad drive.
1. High Latency when performing other tasks such as opening windows or moving windows around. This leads to stutters in Audio and MP3 Playback.
I don't have any problem with this on my Athlon XP 1800+ running Gentoo Linux. Although I did have some problems with these on my old Mandrake 8.1-based AMD K6/2 400, the problems were *more* pronounced in Windows 98 and Windows 2000 on the same hardware than they were in Mandrake.
Now I'm not sure whether the lack of these problems is due to Gentoo's high-level of optimization or my faster processor, but I suspect it's some combination of the two.
I paid less than $600 for the components to build the Athlon box last year.
Poor compatibility with Professional and New hardware. Realistically, although most people use SB AWE64 and SB Live! sound cards, most Professionals use newer cards and many new computers have other cards. Linux is not compatible with hardware that is newer, cheaper or more expensive.
I don't know about higher-end hardware than the SB AWE64 and SB Live! cards, but you say that Linux doesn't work with hardware that's cheaper. I say sure it is. The aforementioned Athlon has integrated SiS 7018-based sound hardware that works absolutely fine and has 100% functionality with ALSA.
Best Stability on Linux audio drivers. Other Operating Systems have drivers that crash less for Audio Hardware. Linux is a very much more stable Operating System in most respects, but the lack of stability in audio drivers is Irritating
I've never had any audio driver crash on Linux, but then again I've only used 3 different drivers so what do I know?;)
Well, first off, the parent poster was talking about Gentoo's portage package system. Gentoo's package system, while it *can* handle binary packages, isn't geared around that. It's a source-based package system -- an.ebuild file contains the commands needed to fetch the tarball, extract it, compile the source and install the resulting binaries.
The.ebuild file also lists what other packages the package depends on. The Perl scripts that make Gentoo's portage, such as emerge, check these dependencies and then go out and grab and install those packages, if necessary, prior to installing the requested.ebuild.
Also, there is a facility for adding global 'make' parameters so that you can add things like CPU-specific optimizations to the make commands portage executes. This gives you a system that feels like it's optimized for the hardware that its running on, much like Solaris on Sparc -- because it *is*.
So gentoo's package system is much more than a 'simple packaging with tar'. It's a system for building and installing stuff that is packaged with tar.:)
Yep. In fact, as a former contractor for General Motors, I knew about all of this almost 2 years ago. I was quite bewildered by the appearance of this article.
you ever worked retail? you evern have to do inventory yourself, instead of having the luxury of a contractor doing it for you? it kinda sucks. becing able to query a transmitter for physical inventory counts is a lot cooler that couting everything by hand/scanner.
I dunno...I kinda doubt it will help *that* much. (I *have* worked retail:) The problem will be that the RFID tag is probably going to fall off a whole bunch of clothes. A quick scan will reveal that there is a whole lot of clothes in the dressing rooms, only to find that there is NO clothes in the dressing rooms. Get the picture?:-P
But you're right, this isn't a privacy issue. If you're really paranoid, I suppose you could just microwave all your clothes.;)
Sure, it did, but then you would just need to look at the docs (not that anyone would actually RTFM:-P) and determine for yourself what changes you need to make PHP3 code work on PHP4.
Yeah, but that didn't stop Oppenheimer from having some serious doubts either. Serious enough doubts that they had him investigated.
Besides, there are always races, as another poster pointed out, and there's always ways the government makes people feel that it is their "patriotic duty" to help out. You think the guys who wrote Echelon or Carnivore have any trouble sleeping at night? I doubt it.
Yeah, but how do they know that this *particular* asteroid wiped out most of the species on the planet 65 million years ago? As the parent poster pointed out, there have been many such asteroid impacts discovered, and there's no proof one way or the other that one or any of them caused the extinction of the dinos. It's not like anyone was around 65 million years ago to see it.
Yup. There's an (admittedly somewhat out of date) bio on his web site here. Mitch was pretty much the guy that ripped off Dan Bricklin's VisiCalc...errr..I mean designed Lotus 1-2-3 and co-developed it along with Jonathan Sachs.
Kapor wasn't always considered one of the good guys, either. Many in the software industry considered him to be somewhat obnoxious and it was widely grokked that at least some of Lotus' downfall in office suites can be attributed to Kapor's bad decisions. In retrospect, I'd say Microsoft just ate their lunch by being the first to market with a Windows-based office suite, personally.
But yeah, Kapor made his fortune by cocreating the PCs first killer app.
I wouldn't say totally obsolete, no. Much of what's in a PHP 4 book will be totally applicable to PHP 5. Much like PHP 3 books are still applicable to PHP 4. Sure, things get changed and added and such with each rev of the language, but the vast majority of concepts don't get totally obsoleted each time. To do so would be suicide for the project: the people who will work with PHP 5 are the same people who are working with PHP 4 now, and many of those are the same people who used PHP 3.
Actually, the NO CARRIER jokes may in fact originate from that. It wouldn't surprise me in the least. A lot of people who were big into the BBS scene in the 80s really dug Monty Python. In fact, a friend of my ran a board called "Quest for the Holy Grail" which was named after "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" (obviously). His board was the first place I saw the NO CARRIER jokes, but that doesn't mean that they started there (though I'd like to think that in my own self-delusions.:)
SCO wants to be bought. Either by M$ or by IBM.... Only Satan know what will M$ do with this if they buy SCO... If IBM buys them... well thats another story.
Hey! Don't go giving them any ideas! They're evil enough without your 2 cents!:-P
Um.... not quite. McDonalds is successful due as much to CONVENIENCE as anything else. They're everywhere, fast, cheap, and you basically know what you're going to get at any one of them.
I can tell that
A) you didn't read the article:) (yeah, yeah, what am I new here... nah, check my uid #, you'll seem I'm not)
and
b) you didn't even read all of my comment
The convenience of just being able to push one button your remote control to try the thing out is what's going to sell it.
Note that I said if you make anything convenient, easy and cheap enough, people will buy it.
Yes, they're removing one convenience but they're adding another convenience.
As far as useless gadgets not living long, I consider Microsoft Windows to be pretty useless, but it hasn't gone away yet.:-P
I there was some way to give you a 6 for that comment!
That's exactly it. Mundanes use what came with the computer. The attitude is often "Well, this is what came with the computer, it works, why switch?" They don't know what software is on there, nor do they even care.
However, if you give them a compelling enough reason to switch, they will. Everyone who has ever complained to me about popup ads I've showed them Mozilla or Phoenix. Most of those people ended up adopting the alternative browser. Why? Because popups were a big enough pain to cause the switch. Did most care about tabs or standards compliancy or a skinnable GUI? Not really.
People *will* switch -- there just has be a good enough reason...
I think not. The whole point of TiVo is that it lets users reschedule shows and skip commercials to their ***own*** liking.
It comes down to marketing. AOL/TW has wayyy more marketing power than Matsushita (ReplayTV) or TiVo.
Nobody thinks that McDonald's has the greatest hamburgers in the world, yet they are the number 1 hamburger-based fast food chain in the world. Nobody (not even many of AOL's own users) think AOL is a great ISP, yet it's number 1.
Make something convenient, easy and cheap enough, back it with some good marketing and you can sell sand to Arabs.
Anytime you run emulation of any kind there is a considerable amount of overhead, even in the case of emulating an 8-bit computer on a 32-bit platform.
BTW--links has a smaller footprint than lynx and supports graphics under SVGAlib or X.
1) GalCiv does not cease to operate if no serial is provided.
Okay, but...
2) StarDock will not sick the law on you if no serial is provided.
How do you know?
3) StarDock will not deny patches if no serial is provided. 4) StarDock will provide additional goodies if a serial is provided
And? Microsoft will deny patches if no serial is provided, and StarDock will NOT provide additional goodies if a serial is NOT provided. However, Microsoft WILL provide additional goodies with or without a serial number. (Last I checked, anyone with a Web browser could download the XP PowerToys, for instance). Six of one, half-dozen of the other.
Looks like the method and intent of StarDock in no way resembles what MS is doing, barring the fact that they both use serial numbers with otherwise unprotected software.
I'd say your conclusion is predicated on faulty logic.
Fucking wah. They deserve it in spades.
I never said they didn't. I'm not a big fan of Microsoft myself. I run Linux. I just think that the whole StarDock thing is a double standard, that's all. I'm calling a spade a spade.
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Anyone else here in Canada willing to join a class action lawsuit against the recording industries to reclaim our recordable media taxes?
Hmmm...I've bought CD recordables in Canada, but I'm a U.S. citizen (I'm 20 mins from the Canadian border) I wonder if I could legally enjoin such a lawsuit?
Ehhh...IMHO, you shouldn't hold an audio driver to the standard that it should work with broken hardware. The only bad design I could see there is that the driver should report the bad port and then at very least disable itself if the design is such that it can't continue with the broken port. It shouldn't just hang. That's how *I* think the driver should handle it. But on the other hand, sound hardware isn't *generally* a mission-critical component, unless of course we are talking a professional audio studio, then it's another story. So it comes down to a design decision, really, and what side you err on depends on what your goal is.
Now, a RAID driver should definitely work with a broken a hard drive -- but it should report that error immediately, of course, giving the administrator ample opportunity to replace the bad drive.
Oh yeah, of course *those* aren't supported. ;)
Come to think of it, so does ALSA.
mumbles somethign about stupid 20 second limit...
OSS supports many Yamaha sound cards. Look here.
1. High Latency when performing other tasks such as opening windows or moving windows around. This leads to stutters in Audio and MP3 Playback.
;)
I don't have any problem with this on my Athlon XP 1800+ running Gentoo Linux. Although I did have some problems with these on my old Mandrake 8.1-based AMD K6/2 400, the problems were *more* pronounced in Windows 98 and Windows 2000 on the same hardware than they were in Mandrake.
Now I'm not sure whether the lack of these problems is due to Gentoo's high-level of optimization or my faster processor, but I suspect it's some combination of the two.
I paid less than $600 for the components to build the Athlon box last year.
Poor compatibility with Professional and New hardware. Realistically, although most people use SB AWE64 and SB Live! sound cards, most Professionals use newer cards and many new computers have other cards. Linux is not compatible with hardware that is newer, cheaper or more expensive.
I don't know about higher-end hardware than the SB AWE64 and SB Live! cards, but you say that Linux doesn't work with hardware that's cheaper. I say sure it is. The aforementioned Athlon has integrated SiS 7018-based sound hardware that works absolutely fine and has 100% functionality with ALSA.
Best Stability on Linux audio drivers. Other Operating Systems have drivers that crash less for Audio Hardware. Linux is a very much more stable Operating System in most respects, but the lack of stability in audio drivers is Irritating
I've never had any audio driver crash on Linux, but then again I've only used 3 different drivers so what do I know?
Well, first off, the parent poster was talking about Gentoo's portage package system. Gentoo's package system, while it *can* handle binary packages, isn't geared around that. It's a source-based package system -- an .ebuild file contains the commands needed to fetch the tarball, extract it, compile the source and install the resulting binaries.
.ebuild file also lists what other packages the package depends on. The Perl scripts that make Gentoo's portage, such as emerge, check these dependencies and then go out and grab and install those packages, if necessary, prior to installing the requested .ebuild.
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Also, there is a facility for adding global 'make' parameters so that you can add things like CPU-specific optimizations to the make commands portage executes. This gives you a system that feels like it's optimized for the hardware that its running on, much like Solaris on Sparc -- because it *is*.
So gentoo's package system is much more than a 'simple packaging with tar'. It's a system for building and installing stuff that is packaged with tar.
True, but there is a already a burgeoning market for cell phone and PDA-based games.
I have a couple of games on my PDA, no first-person shooters mind you, but still very playable.
I'd like to see someone develop some of the old classics for PalmOS-based devices...there's plenty of market for it...look at mame.
Yep. In fact, as a former contractor for General Motors, I knew about all of this almost 2 years ago. I was quite bewildered by the appearance of this article.
you ever worked retail? you evern have to do inventory yourself, instead of having the luxury of a contractor doing it for you? it kinda sucks. becing able to query a transmitter for physical inventory counts is a lot cooler that couting everything by hand/scanner.
:) The problem will be that the RFID tag is probably going to fall off a whole bunch of clothes. A quick scan will reveal that there is a whole lot of clothes in the dressing rooms, only to find that there is NO clothes in the dressing rooms. Get the picture? :-P
;)
I dunno...I kinda doubt it will help *that* much. (I *have* worked retail
But you're right, this isn't a privacy issue. If you're really paranoid, I suppose you could just microwave all your clothes.
Sure, it did, but then you would just need to look at the docs (not that anyone would actually RTFM :-P) and determine for yourself what changes you need to make PHP3 code work on PHP4.
Yeah, but that didn't stop Oppenheimer from having some serious doubts either. Serious enough doubts that they had him investigated.
Besides, there are always races, as another poster pointed out, and there's always ways the government makes people feel that it is their "patriotic duty" to help out. You think the guys who wrote Echelon or Carnivore have any trouble sleeping at night? I doubt it.
Yeah, but how do they know that this *particular* asteroid wiped out most of the species on the planet 65 million years ago? As the parent poster pointed out, there have been many such asteroid impacts discovered, and there's no proof one way or the other that one or any of them caused the extinction of the dinos. It's not like anyone was around 65 million years ago to see it.
Good thing they weren't BOTH AMDs then, huh? :-P
Yup. There's an (admittedly somewhat out of date) bio on his web site here. Mitch was pretty much the guy that ripped off Dan Bricklin's VisiCalc...errr..I mean designed Lotus 1-2-3 and co-developed it along with Jonathan Sachs.
Kapor wasn't always considered one of the good guys, either. Many in the software industry considered him to be somewhat obnoxious and it was widely grokked that at least some of Lotus' downfall in office suites can be attributed to Kapor's bad decisions. In retrospect, I'd say Microsoft just ate their lunch by being the first to market with a Windows-based office suite, personally.
But yeah, Kapor made his fortune by cocreating the PCs first killer app.
Hey...I live in Michigan...I should try that...might lower my gas bill. :)
I wouldn't say totally obsolete, no. Much of what's in a PHP 4 book will be totally applicable to PHP 5. Much like PHP 3 books are still applicable to PHP 4. Sure, things get changed and added and such with each rev of the language, but the vast majority of concepts don't get totally obsoleted each time. To do so would be suicide for the project: the people who will work with PHP 5 are the same people who are working with PHP 4 now, and many of those are the same people who used PHP 3.
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Nothing happens.
Actually, the NO CARRIER jokes may in fact originate from that. It wouldn't surprise me in the least. A lot of people who were big into the BBS scene in the 80s really dug Monty Python. In fact, a friend of my ran a board called "Quest for the Holy Grail" which was named after "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" (obviously). His board was the first place I saw the NO CARRIER jokes, but that doesn't mean that they started there (though I'd like to think that in my own self-delusions. :)
SCO wants to be bought. Either by M$ or by IBM.... Only Satan know what will M$ do with this if they buy SCO... If IBM buys them... well thats another story.
:-P
Hey! Don't go giving them any ideas! They're evil enough without your 2 cents!
Um.... not quite. McDonalds is successful due as much to CONVENIENCE as anything else. They're everywhere, fast, cheap, and you basically know what you're going to get at any one of them.
:) (yeah, yeah, what am I new here ... nah, check my uid #, you'll seem I'm not)
:-P
I can tell that
A) you didn't read the article
and
b) you didn't even read all of my comment
The convenience of just being able to push one button your remote control to try the thing out is what's going to sell it.
Note that I said if you make anything convenient, easy and cheap enough, people will buy it.
Yes, they're removing one convenience but they're adding another convenience.
As far as useless gadgets not living long, I consider Microsoft Windows to be pretty useless, but it hasn't gone away yet.
I there was some way to give you a 6 for that comment!
That's exactly it. Mundanes use what came with the computer. The attitude is often "Well, this is what came with the computer, it works, why switch?" They don't know what software is on there, nor do they even care.
However, if you give them a compelling enough reason to switch, they will. Everyone who has ever complained to me about popup ads I've showed them Mozilla or Phoenix. Most of those people ended up adopting the alternative browser. Why? Because popups were a big enough pain to cause the switch. Did most care about tabs or standards compliancy or a skinnable GUI? Not really.
People *will* switch -- there just has be a good enough reason...
I think not. The whole point of TiVo is that it lets users reschedule shows and skip commercials to their ***own*** liking.
It comes down to marketing. AOL/TW has wayyy more marketing power than Matsushita (ReplayTV) or TiVo.
Nobody thinks that McDonald's has the greatest hamburgers in the world, yet they are the number 1 hamburger-based fast food chain in the world. Nobody (not even many of AOL's own users) think AOL is a great ISP, yet it's number 1.
Make something convenient, easy and cheap enough, back it with some good marketing and you can sell sand to Arabs.
Anytime you run emulation of any kind there is a considerable amount of overhead, even in the case of emulating an 8-bit computer on a 32-bit platform.
BTW--links has a smaller footprint than lynx and supports graphics under SVGAlib or X.
1) GalCiv does not cease to operate if no serial is provided.
...
Okay, but
2) StarDock will not sick the law on you if no serial is provided.
How do you know?
3) StarDock will not deny patches if no serial is provided.
4) StarDock will provide additional goodies if a serial is provided
And? Microsoft will deny patches if no serial is provided, and StarDock will NOT provide additional goodies if a serial is NOT provided. However, Microsoft WILL provide additional goodies with or without a serial number. (Last I checked, anyone with a Web browser could download the XP PowerToys, for instance). Six of one, half-dozen of the other.
Looks like the method and intent of StarDock in no way resembles what MS is doing, barring the fact that they both use serial numbers with otherwise unprotected software.
I'd say your conclusion is predicated on faulty logic.
Fucking wah. They deserve it in spades.
I never said they didn't. I'm not a big fan of Microsoft myself. I run Linux. I just think that the whole StarDock thing is a double standard, that's all. I'm calling a spade a spade.