Heh, you know, you are right! I'd much rather have a digital copy of a painting than the actual thing: The colors are generally more vivid(and can be adjusted on the fly), you can resize it to fit any screen, and you can have *any number* of paintings taking up the same physical space.
And that's not even mentioning how much/nicer/ a well-drawn digital painting is than the same thing done with traditional media - it's usually higher resolution and pixel-perfect(well, at some size, anyway).
Not really; The paints are made from different materials which may or may not do the same thing in the ultraviolet range as the real objects he was painting.
In that case, I already have that on my several-year-old N900! I have a nice Debian chroot integrated into the environment, with a full X desktop, and I can access it just like a native application(which, in most respects it is).
But who installs extra packages outside of the package manager unless they *have* to? I sure as heck don't! Sure, there are a couple of needed 3rd-party bits, like the Nvidia drivers, but those are few and far between. For Chrome on my Linux desktops, I just install chromium. I don't use it much though - just for Google's free calling in gmail, and testing etc.
Sadly, I agree with you to some extent. Maemo, I like. It brought major power to a hand-held device, had a full Linux stack, could run chroots of other OS's, and allowed custom kernels etc. It also has a *great* multitasking ability, though, obviously, leaving things running eats battery life.
MeeGo... As far as I can tell, it has none of the benefits of Maemo, and with a lot of drawbacks including being locked down with digital signatures.
Also, as far as a rollback button? Two points: 1, I did something similar for the N900. Nice OS images that could restore the machine(and all data) to the exact config you had when you made the image. People *love* it. 2, isn't that what ChromeOS has?
Some do, but aside from Google(which I block as well, on 3rd party sites), I don't know/any/ other site that has anywhere near the reach of FB. It's interesting watching the list of sites shown with NoScript when they are automatically blocked in the way I described - you can tell which sites have a lot of trackers, and which don't.
...Aside from the fact that as this story proves, they gather *other* information as well! Personally, my plan is as follows: 1. No FB account. Period. 2. RefControl set to fake referrers for 3rd party sites, which means that any FB image buttons that load won't send back the URL of the page I'm visiting(Instead it'll send back the root of the site, xyz.facebook.com). 3. NoScript set to block 3rd party scripts by default, which blocks FB *scripts* from running.
And I *should* be deleting any FB cookies as well... but even if not, *all* they have is a list of the times a FB image has been loaded and my IP.
*sigh* See, that's what you are missing with DRM: It's not inherently bad, so long as you, the owner of the machine in question, have complete control over it. If I chmod something on my machine, it may be drm, but it's DRM *I* control. However, have you *ever* seen a DRM system that put the *user* in control? No. Using the car analogy, it would be like having a black-box in your car that would only allow it to drive a certain number of miles, or only start at certain hours of the day... That being said, you might even be happy with the restrictions... Until you *have* to get somewhere and the car says "It's 2am. Sorry, this car won't start until 6 AM"... at which point you'd be screaming bloody murder about it.
Yeah, I know it's possible and already in use... but, as you said, that was an optional second system. But either way, the OP's saying he'd pay the extra fee so it'd be in *his* control instead. At least for some things.
No, this isn't a way to prevent Linux... It's a way to provide a proper end-to-end lockdown for DRM purposes. Remember, as it is today, we can just run the "secure" OS in a VM, and get access to the memory that way, no matter what restrictions are placed on it. But now, with a TC chip in every computer, there will finally be a way to properly lock our DRMed content away! Oh, sure, you'll be able to install Linux... with a lot of hassle, and giving up access to any DRMed content you had! Hooray!
Aside from the fact that the places that *have* the drout are far away from the places that have huge amounts of fresh water... which is otherwise getting wasted because we can't do anything with it and so just let it go into the ocean without gaining anything from it.
Obviously, you wouldn't use this where there's a lack of water.. but where there's a *huge* amount going into the ocean(like, say, Washington state, etc... it could be practical.
But, and this is the OP's point, the electric company is the equivalent of a "common carrier": It can shut off power to *all* of your stuff, or none. It can't choose to shut off power to X or Y, which it *could* with a smart control.
N900's 800x480, actually... Thyat being said, I *do* use it for development, at least tweaking bits of code on the fly with VIM.
But I, for one, would *love* a 200-dpi(N900 is ~230, regular monitor ~100), 20' or so monitor, because it would mean you could use anti-alised fonts and such without it looking blurry and odd. It'd also reduce the need for AA in games, though the total number of rendered pixels would make up for that.
Yeah, I know, I shouldn't be feeding the trolls. - - - Thing is, I don't *need* numbers. Why in the heck should I care whether 5;000 people use it or 500,000,000? So long as it does what I want, I see no reason to use something else. And until I see stuff like Teamspeak *dropping* support instead of adding it... I have no need to worry.
Also, please realize that I am not "the linux community". I have never provided code to an existing product, or properly compiled my own kernel. I'm just a guy. I have no real say in much of anything, Linux OR Windows. Yet you seem to believe that I could change something if I wanted to. *sigh*
Oh, and BTW, I *have* windows 7 on my laptop. I also have Debian LXDE. I find Debian starts quicker, stops quicker, runs apps quicker. W7 is shinier, yes... but it's also way slow(even with Aero disabled). And my laptop's no slouch - 4GB of ram, 2.4GHZ C2D, ATI mid-range graphics chip(it'll run TF2 at 50fps, 1920x1080, mid settings, no AA). And yet, when Linux runs what I need far faster, why would I want to run Windows?
Believe me, you're better with the N900. Mainly because there's no Aegis(look it up). And the default browser won't have flash. N900's awesome. N950/N9 will take ages to be "usable", and, because of Aegis, will never be as open as the N900.
Yes. Well, perhaps optimized or something, but fullly X compatible(at least in the N900). It's just that the window-manager uses GLES and there's nice hardware acceleration for that.
However, I have to say... Running a stock Debian LXDE chroot works fairly well, and that's using software rasterization. It's not as responsive as the tweaked, native, GLES-accelerated environment, but it's plenty usable.
Of course, applications like LibreOffice take ages to start and isn't great as far as interfacing... but hey. It runs. Which is more than you can say for most phones and tablets.
Sounds to me like SSHFS/NFS on Linux. My N900 will allow my to use both, so I can simply mount any of my networked machines folders, and copy files on or off. I can also do the reverse, mounting my N900 as a directory on my desktop/laptop.
Well, see.. I, for one, don't care. It works for me, and I'm just as glad not to have to provide support for the idiocy I see in a number of the unwashed Windows-using masses. I will put my coding time into making tools/I/ want to use, and if they happen to require some CLI to use, well, so be it.
If you, or anyone else wants to make a noob-friendly version, I'm not stopping you. You can take from the massive amounts of applications, desktops and other things, choose whatever you want, patch it, and distribute it(Just so long as you keep it open source). I suppose the problem is simply that there's only a few companies willing to do it(for desktops) -- like Canonical -- and most don't have the funds to do it. So we wait. And make it better for us. And endure comments such as yours which make us believe more in our position because, really, do we/want/ to be doing the same things as the unwashed masses?
Recording audio from "what you hear" Ah... Memories. I never could get it working in ALSA. It just... wouldn't. I could record from the synth channel of my Audigy 2, just nothing on the wave in channel.
PulseAudio, however... it was easy. One google search and I had a nice record command that'd record any applications audio out, and it seemed to work nicely. Not that PA doesn't have its own problems
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We're still seeing 50% marketshare for XP... Even at 30%, it'd still be a signifigant fraction.
Heh, you know, you are right! I'd much rather have a digital copy of a painting than the actual thing: The colors are generally more vivid(and can be adjusted on the fly), you can resize it to fit any screen, and you can have *any number* of paintings taking up the same physical space.
And that's not even mentioning how much /nicer/ a well-drawn digital painting is than the same thing done with traditional media - it's usually higher resolution and pixel-perfect(well, at some size, anyway).
Again, I have to say... I agree. Give me what I want, and I won't mind paying a reasonable amount for it.
Not really; The paints are made from different materials which may or may not do the same thing in the ultraviolet range as the real objects he was painting.
In that case, I already have that on my several-year-old N900! I have a nice Debian chroot integrated into the environment, with a full X desktop, and I can access it just like a native application(which, in most respects it is).
But who installs extra packages outside of the package manager unless they *have* to?
I sure as heck don't!
Sure, there are a couple of needed 3rd-party bits, like the Nvidia drivers, but those are few and far between. For Chrome on my Linux desktops, I just install chromium. I don't use it much though - just for Google's free calling in gmail, and testing etc.
Sadly, I agree with you to some extent. Maemo, I like. It brought major power to a hand-held device, had a full Linux stack, could run chroots of other OS's, and allowed custom kernels etc.
It also has a *great* multitasking ability, though, obviously, leaving things running eats battery life.
MeeGo... As far as I can tell, it has none of the benefits of Maemo, and with a lot of drawbacks including being locked down with digital signatures.
Also, as far as a rollback button? Two points:
1, I did something similar for the N900. Nice OS images that could restore the machine(and all data) to the exact config you had when you made the image. People *love* it.
2, isn't that what ChromeOS has?
Some do, but aside from Google(which I block as well, on 3rd party sites), I don't know /any/ other site that has anywhere near the reach of FB.
It's interesting watching the list of sites shown with NoScript when they are automatically blocked in the way I described - you can tell which sites have a lot of trackers, and which don't.
...Aside from the fact that as this story proves, they gather *other* information as well!
Personally, my plan is as follows:
1. No FB account. Period.
2. RefControl set to fake referrers for 3rd party sites, which means that any FB image buttons that load won't send back the URL of the page I'm visiting(Instead it'll send back the root of the site, xyz.facebook.com).
3. NoScript set to block 3rd party scripts by default, which blocks FB *scripts* from running.
And I *should* be deleting any FB cookies as well... but even if not, *all* they have is a list of the times a FB image has been loaded and my IP.
*sigh* See, that's what you are missing with DRM: It's not inherently bad, so long as you, the owner of the machine in question, have complete control over it. If I chmod something on my machine, it may be drm, but it's DRM *I* control. However, have you *ever* seen a DRM system that put the *user* in control? No. Using the car analogy, it would be like having a black-box in your car that would only allow it to drive a certain number of miles, or only start at certain hours of the day... That being said, you might even be happy with the restrictions... Until you *have* to get somewhere and the car says "It's 2am. Sorry, this car won't start until 6 AM"... at which point you'd be screaming bloody murder about it.
Yes!
Yeah, I know it's possible and already in use... but, as you said, that was an optional second system. But either way, the OP's saying he'd pay the extra fee so it'd be in *his* control instead. At least for some things.
No, this isn't a way to prevent Linux... It's a way to provide a proper end-to-end lockdown for DRM purposes.
Remember, as it is today, we can just run the "secure" OS in a VM, and get access to the memory that way, no matter what restrictions are placed on it.
But now, with a TC chip in every computer, there will finally be a way to properly lock our DRMed content away! Oh, sure, you'll be able to install Linux... with a lot of hassle, and giving up access to any DRMed content you had!
Hooray!
Aside from the fact that the places that *have* the drout are far away from the places that have huge amounts of fresh water... which is otherwise getting wasted because we can't do anything with it and so just let it go into the ocean without gaining anything from it.
Obviously, you wouldn't use this where there's a lack of water.. but where there's a *huge* amount going into the ocean(like, say, Washington state, etc... it could be practical.
But, and this is the OP's point, the electric company is the equivalent of a "common carrier": It can shut off power to *all* of your stuff, or none. It can't choose to shut off power to X or Y, which it *could* with a smart control.
Mod parent up. I wouldn't be surprised...
Mod parent up!
Of course, I prefer restive(at least, the one in my N900 is great).
N900's 800x480, actually...
Thyat being said, I *do* use it for development, at least tweaking bits of code on the fly with VIM.
But I, for one, would *love* a 200-dpi(N900 is ~230, regular monitor ~100), 20' or so monitor, because it would mean you could use anti-alised fonts and such without it looking blurry and odd. It'd also reduce the need for AA in games, though the total number of rendered pixels would make up for that.
Posted from my N900. :P
Yeah, I know, I shouldn't be feeding the trolls.
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Thing is, I don't *need* numbers. Why in the heck should I care whether 5;000 people use it or 500,000,000? So long as it does what I want, I see no reason to use something else. And until I see stuff like Teamspeak *dropping* support instead of adding it... I have no need to worry.
Also, please realize that I am not "the linux community". I have never provided code to an existing product, or properly compiled my own kernel. I'm just a guy. I have no real say in much of anything, Linux OR Windows. Yet you seem to believe that I could change something if I wanted to. *sigh*
Oh, and BTW, I *have* windows 7 on my laptop. I also have Debian LXDE. I find Debian starts quicker, stops quicker, runs apps quicker. W7 is shinier, yes... but it's also way slow(even with Aero disabled). And my laptop's no slouch - 4GB of ram, 2.4GHZ C2D, ATI mid-range graphics chip(it'll run TF2 at 50fps, 1920x1080, mid settings, no AA). And yet, when Linux runs what I need far faster, why would I want to run Windows?
*sigh*.
Believe me, you're better with the N900. Mainly because there's no Aegis(look it up). And the default browser won't have flash.
N900's awesome. N950/N9 will take ages to be "usable", and, because of Aegis, will never be as open as the N900.
Yes. Well, perhaps optimized or something, but fullly X compatible(at least in the N900). It's just that the window-manager uses GLES and there's nice hardware acceleration for that.
However, I have to say... Running a stock Debian LXDE chroot works fairly well, and that's using software rasterization. It's not as responsive as the tweaked, native, GLES-accelerated environment, but it's plenty usable.
Of course, applications like LibreOffice take ages to start and isn't great as far as interfacing... but hey. It runs. Which is more than you can say for most phones and tablets.
Sounds to me like SSHFS/NFS on Linux. My N900 will allow my to use both, so I can simply mount any of my networked machines folders, and copy files on or off. I can also do the reverse, mounting my N900 as a directory on my desktop/laptop.
Interoperability is nice.
Mod parent funny!
Well, see.. I, for one, don't care. It works for me, and I'm just as glad not to have to provide support for the idiocy I see in a number of the unwashed Windows-using masses. /I/ want to use, and if they happen to require some CLI to use, well, so be it.
I will put my coding time into making tools
If you, or anyone else wants to make a noob-friendly version, I'm not stopping you. You can take from the massive amounts of applications, desktops and other things, choose whatever you want, patch it, and distribute it(Just so long as you keep it open source). /want/ to be doing the same things as the unwashed masses?
I suppose the problem is simply that there's only a few companies willing to do it(for desktops) -- like Canonical -- and most don't have the funds to do it.
So we wait. And make it better for us. And endure comments such as yours which make us believe more in our position because, really, do we
Recording audio from "what you hear" Ah... Memories.
I never could get it working in ALSA. It just... wouldn't. I could record from the synth channel of my Audigy 2, just nothing on the wave in channel.
PulseAudio, however... it was easy. One google search and I had a nice record command that'd record any applications audio out, and it seemed to work nicely.
Not that PA doesn't have its own problems