Let's look at it this way. This is what we need to do:
We will develop technology that transcends the individual big money hungry corporations. We will firewall the PS2 online service at source -- we will block it at your cable company, we will block it at your phone company, we will block it at your [Internet-service provider]. We will firewall it at your corporate Sony laptops.
At least he's not worried about satellite service...
If they can do this to music, what's to prevent them from doing it to any type of file?
In negotiations to consult on the story's various creative aspects is cyberpunk sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson (''Cryptonomicon'').
Wouldn't that mean that he's not writing it, but just being like an advisor? I think it all makes sense though. Stephenson can have a vision of certain aspects of cyberpunk and it would fit the future setting of the Beyond series.
The thing I don't understand is that companies like Indrema are already making linux DVD players. There are even some opensource projects floating around. How can they get by with this. Were they able to license the code? And from whom?
but if KDE is not scared, then why make a big fuss about it?
Has anyone taken a look at KDE.org lately? The last couple of days news appear to be in defense or "we're not worried" quotes.
I'm a GNOME user, and I'm a KDE user.
They're both great desktops, but what I really want is that little damn penguin or an avatar of some type play around on my desktop, fetch my mail and news, compile my programs, and learn from my user preferences and keep things all neat and tidy...
But for heaven's sake, don't make it a paper clip!
I agree with you, CrusadeR. I'm just glad that the games are being made. Sure, the delay is pretty long for some of them, but the games are really good.
You have to give Loki credit for even doing games that didn't sell all that well (Heretic II, Heavy Gear II). They noticed the quality in those games and they did them. There has not been one game yet from them that has been disappointing.
That's a lot for an OS that was never inteded to play games. They've done so many things for the linux gamming community that people don't even know about. Better yet, they even take those tools and release them to the community.
Heavy Gear 2 is a directX game and they completely made the conversion, flawlessly I might add.
I don't want to be the bad guy, but I do want to point out that not all opensource softaware is a great thing.
Yes, there anre many truly great projects out there, but how many of them have an outrageously long dev cycle? How many of them are riddled with bugs?
The plus side being that you can take the source and fix the problems yourself (if your ambitious enough)
Remeber when the Quake source was released? Dozens of people tried to find ways to exploit the game. Definitely not a plus. I'm really anxious to see some really great games built off the source. Something truly phenominal like Half-Life. (Remind you though, I think Half-Life ended up being 80% of its own code.)
All we've really seen are some minor modifications here and there. I'd be curious to see what massive projects are in the works.
Hmmm...playing the MP3 on the fly would be a pretty hard thing to do without some wicked code then? I imagine then that the file would have to somehow be buffered.
This is all fine and dandy, but why does it have to be a connected device to transfer files?
Apple has the AirPort, and there are plenty of other wireless devices running around. I'll be honest and state that my PC does not sit next to my stereo system. (See, there's this wonderful thing called magnetism.)
On another side note, put a zip disk, superdisk, click disk, or some other type of storage medium into the stereo unit and let us tansfer files that way. We really haven't seen much of that. Have we?
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I can live without their products.
Let's look at it this way. This is what we need to do:
We will develop technology that transcends the individual big money hungry corporations. We will firewall the PS2 online service at source -- we will block it at your cable company, we will block it at your phone company, we will block it at your [Internet-service provider]. We will firewall it at your corporate Sony laptops.
At least he's not worried about satellite service...
If they can do this to music, what's to prevent them from doing it to any type of file?
In negotiations to consult on the story's various creative aspects is cyberpunk sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson (''Cryptonomicon'').
Wouldn't that mean that he's not writing it, but just being like an advisor? I think it all makes sense though. Stephenson can have a vision of certain aspects of cyberpunk and it would fit the future setting of the Beyond series.
A Nintendo machine powered by a PowerPC chip called the N-Cube?
I've seen all this before.
sigh.
Hey, this is great news to hear just when I wiped win98 off my harddrive and went with a straight linux distro.
Now, if there was only a Mac version besides Netscape's...
Ok. I did some more research. It'll probably get all lost in this thread.
However, imaclinux has reported that it's possible to watch DVDs on LinuxPPC.
They link to this location.
I only have ydl, so I'm not able to give it a spin.
As another note, could I get in trouble for posting this? I guess it's too late if your reading it.
The thing I don't understand is that companies like Indrema are already making linux DVD players. There are even some opensource projects floating around. How can they get by with this. Were they able to license the code? And from whom?
..but I will when they can get Gimp running on it and I can use the pen to draw with it
Worry about the dog?
I'd be more worried about the postal carrier who the robots soon might replace...
but if KDE is not scared, then why make a big fuss about it?
Has anyone taken a look at KDE.org lately? The last couple of days news appear to be in defense or "we're not worried" quotes.
I'm a GNOME user, and I'm a KDE user.
They're both great desktops, but what I really want is that little damn penguin or an avatar of some type play around on my desktop, fetch my mail and news, compile my programs, and learn from my user preferences and keep things all neat and tidy...
But for heaven's sake, don't make it a paper clip!
I agree with you, CrusadeR. I'm just glad that the games are being made. Sure, the delay is pretty long for some of them, but the games are really good.
You have to give Loki credit for even doing games that didn't sell all that well (Heretic II, Heavy Gear II). They noticed the quality in those games and they did them. There has not been one game yet from them that has been disappointing.
That's a lot for an OS that was never inteded to play games. They've done so many things for the linux gamming community that people don't even know about. Better yet, they even take those tools and release them to the community.
Heavy Gear 2 is a directX game and they completely made the conversion, flawlessly I might add.
Wow! iD sells an item and they don't even have to pay for advertising.
I don't remember any mods to Red Alert. Got any links?
It seems that for some games releasing all the specs would lead to cheating or at least the destruction of part of the mystery behind the game engine.
This is what I meant in my previous post. Without some type of validation, people will be looking to exploit things.
I don't want to be the bad guy, but I do want to point out that not all opensource softaware is a great thing.
Yes, there anre many truly great projects out there, but how many of them have an outrageously long dev cycle? How many of them are riddled with bugs?
The plus side being that you can take the source and fix the problems yourself (if your ambitious enough)
Remeber when the Quake source was released? Dozens of people tried to find ways to exploit the game. Definitely not a plus. I'm really anxious to see some really great games built off the source. Something truly phenominal like Half-Life. (Remind you though, I think Half-Life ended up being 80% of its own code.)
All we've really seen are some minor modifications here and there. I'd be curious to see what massive projects are in the works.
Wasn't this in a /. quickie not to long ago (like yesterday)?
Hmmm...playing the MP3 on the fly would be a pretty hard thing to do without some wicked code then? I imagine then that the file would have to somehow be buffered.
Then again, it is playing video....
Interesting, but does the TiVo have the processing power to play MP3s?
This is all fine and dandy, but why does it have to be a connected device to transfer files?
Apple has the AirPort, and there are plenty of other wireless devices running around. I'll be honest and state that my PC does not sit next to my stereo system. (See, there's this wonderful thing called magnetism.)
On another side note, put a zip disk, superdisk, click disk, or some other type of storage medium into the stereo unit and let us tansfer files that way. We really haven't seen much of that. Have we?
I remember listening to it as well. Do you remember the URL for the organization that goes out a make parodies and pranks?
It was artmark.com or something like that?