Well, the last news I saw said that Linux on the desktop was growing. It should be for the content providers to reach their audience, not for the consumers to 'fit into' whatever niche the content providers want.
If Linux gets say 5% of the desktop then that's quite a big market, especially if that market is in developing economies.
The content should come to us, we shouldn't come to the content. That's the battle I'm fighting, what's yours.
Having a company, especially one as large as MS developing software for Linux has to be a good thing...... So long as they don't try to 'impose' their crippled formats on you.
'You don't like MS, don't install the software and there is no harm done.' I'd rather protect the foolish by not having MS write the software in the firstplace. You can't shoot yourself in the foot if you don't have a gun.
Well I mean, Standard as in measure, not Standard as in when the normal use.
Most people still use MP3, most people buy DVD's in MPEG format often encapsulated in CSS encryption.
Microsoft is the de-facto standard for desktop operating systems and office productivity software. Microsoft 'standards' arn't de-facto for media, and I shall boycott any media that come out if non standards based[pref free for free use] format.
If someone uses a nasty non-standard format then you don't want there content.
No DRM Enabled player makes boycotting easy.
OGG Yes, MP3 yes MPEG yes, non-standard formats no, it doesn't matter how good your format is, I wont use it unless you release it to a standards body.
What ever happened to FIF &co.... good formats, yep, standards based, nope.
What are farms and the like called, do they have a number?
Most houses outside large towns or not in block housing have names not numbers. I've never lived in a 'town' and have no plans to either. Maybe it's a townie, yocal thing?
Umm.. It can do. There are a lot of places where the houses only have names, infact my current address is the only address I've ever lived at that has a house number.
you run you own DNS and yet, you don't know how DNS works?
Right, simple version assuming no cache.
I look up you.com a request is sent to.com TLD and a NS lookup is performed on you.com it returns the NS you registered with.com peeps (verisign). I use this NS record (which should point to your DNS server) to lookup the A or MX or watever record for the you.com domain.
Verisign (.com) hold a record on there name server for you.com that points to you name server.
Even more interesting, My brothers a post man, and reciently one of the houses he delivers to changed it's name to that of the house next door.
In the UK you must inform the post office if you change the name of your house (maybe seek permission), but no-one ever bothers and no-one is ever prosicuted.
"You can train the other children that if their watch opens the door for him then their priveledges of moving freely (ie, having a 'working' watch) will be limited for a period of time. They will learn to protect and secure their watches after a time."
You nasty bastard, Let's say that the other two children have an 'issue' with the Autistic child, becuase of attention, 'nauty ness/getting away with more' or whatever kids have issues with. Your 'training' aproch will just engcourage them the be nasty.
Now on the birghter side, lets say that's not the case and all the kids are happy. when one of them want to go out, but isn't alowed to what are the other kids going to do, help them, be upset?
I'm no child expert, but it looks like your suggesting kiddy war.
I would do something like, Go out any play with the kids a bit more (or play indoors), yeh it takes a lot of time and can be frastrating but your kids will love it.
Have a system were only 'you/a trusted adult' can open the door from the inside but the kids can still get back in. That way your not enforcing any kind of predudice in the kids.
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I believe that Universal Pictures (Trainspotting and Lock Stock and Two Smoking barrels) don't use CSS on their DVDs. At least not on the ones I have.
Not in 2.6, those tables in the kernel that allow modules to play with core functions (like IO &co) arn't available to binary modules in 2.6.
Well, the last news I saw said that Linux on the desktop was growing.
It should be for the content providers to reach their audience, not for the consumers to 'fit into' whatever niche the content providers want.
If Linux gets say 5% of the desktop then that's quite a big market, especially if that market is in developing economies.
The content should come to us, we shouldn't come to the content. That's the battle I'm fighting, what's yours.
How did you know that's all I use realplayer for?
Sorry to burst your bubble, but it looks like it's a story about an interview, not a 'usuall rule apply' /. interview.
Don't, things are sure to 'break' if you hit Ctrl+C.
Funny you should say that.....
I have 3 dvd's, two have no CSS, and the other I have on video(but I got rid of my TV).
Having a company, especially one as large as MS developing software for Linux has to be a good thing......
So long as they don't try to 'impose' their crippled formats on you.
'You don't like MS, don't install the software and there is no harm done.' I'd rather protect the foolish by not having MS write the software in the firstplace. You can't shoot yourself in the foot if you don't have a gun.
Well I mean,
Standard as in measure,
not
Standard as in when the normal use.
Most people still use MP3, most people buy DVD's in MPEG format often encapsulated in CSS encryption.
Microsoft is the de-facto standard for desktop operating systems and office productivity software. Microsoft 'standards' arn't de-facto for media, and I shall boycott any media that come out if non standards based[pref free for free use] format.
If someone uses a nasty non-standard format then you don't want there content.
No DRM Enabled player makes boycotting easy.
OGG Yes, MP3 yes MPEG yes, non-standard formats no, it doesn't matter how good your format is, I wont use it unless you release it to a standards body.
What ever happened to FIF &co.... good formats, yep, standards based, nope.
If the code is well written for a parrell architecture then the compiler should be able to do a reasonable job at sorting things out.
A compiler that can understand locks would be handy, a more fine-grained locking mechanism would be useful too.
No lets hope that developers pop there minds out of the linear programming concept for a while.
A good bit of prolog and Lisp should help in the training, then drop what they've learnt back into more predictable languages like C.
Someone doing something worthwhile in the multi-processor field.
Maybe now people will start to write propper multi-threaded apps.
More seriously, this should be great for AI's, streams of N dimensional data e.g. video
, synthsised sound and DSP (think reason), etc.....
The whitehouse?
What are farms and the like called, do they have a number?
Most houses outside large towns or not in block housing have names not numbers. I've never lived in a 'town' and have no plans to either.
Maybe it's a townie, yocal thing?
Well, you could use random block allocation and send/recieve lists of blocks from other clients now and then to reduce the amount of 'duplication?'
Umm.. It can do. There are a lot of places where the houses only have names, infact my current address is the only address I've ever lived at that has a house number.
you run you own DNS and yet, you don't know how DNS works?
.com TLD and a NS lookup is performed on you.com .com peeps (verisign).
Right, simple version assuming no cache.
I look up you.com
a request is sent to
it returns the NS you registered with
I use this NS record (which should point to your DNS server) to lookup the A or MX or watever record for the you.com domain.
Verisign (.com) hold a record on there name server for you.com that points to you name server.
Even more interesting,
My brothers a post man, and reciently one of the houses he delivers to changed it's name to that of the house next door.
In the UK you must inform the post office if you change the name of your house (maybe seek permission), but no-one ever bothers and no-one is ever prosicuted.
Put an entry in your hosts file and then tell me the domain is property.
Me an a group of friends could setup our own domain registiry, it would only work for people who pointed to it.
I beleive that there are several free 'underground' domain name registries about. All you have to do is point to them.
There selling the service of linking the domain name to an ip address. (or a DNS server anyhow).
There not really selling a domain name, you can't take it away with you i.e. it's useless without a TLD entry.
I can run slashdot.org on my home inntranet and even provide alternade DNS services if I want, no-one 'owns' slashdot.org.
Umm... in that case you'd be buying a service from Verisign. I don't think the class action would get anywhere.
Besonic will let you pay per file or ...... or yearly if you want
done that once tonight thanks, it's hitting -10 here and a lot of rain yesterday.
Well more like 90 but it was fun.
"You can train the other children that if their watch opens the door for him then their priveledges of moving freely (ie, having a 'working' watch) will be limited for a period of time. They will learn to protect and secure their watches after a time."
You nasty bastard,
Let's say that the other two children have an 'issue' with the Autistic child, becuase of attention, 'nauty ness/getting away with more' or whatever kids have issues with.
Your 'training' aproch will just engcourage them the be nasty.
Now on the birghter side, lets say that's not the case and all the kids are happy.
when one of them want to go out, but isn't alowed to what are the other kids going to do, help them, be upset?
I'm no child expert, but it looks like your suggesting kiddy war.
I would do something like,
Go out any play with the kids a bit more (or play indoors), yeh it takes a lot of time and can be frastrating but your kids will love it.
Have a system were only 'you/a trusted adult' can open the door from the inside but the kids can still get back in. That way your not enforcing any kind of predudice in the kids.
Use MP3 downloads from besonic, about $90 for a year, or something like that.
I sometimes pay for music from besonic too.