I really dislike chocolate. I've disliked it since I was very young. The best I can tell people is that it has a medicine-ish taste to me that is really unenjoyable.
They're all high-end Intel Core CPU laptops. If they want to pick out some laptops that actually run cool, rather than merely having lots of fans and heat sinks, they should have included some based on VIA Antaur designs.
I don't watch any of the channels that broadcast in 1080. There's only one channel in 1080 I'm interested in, and I'm not interested enough to pay the $10/month extra the satellite company wants to charge me, plus however many hundred for a new DVR. I did look at a few minutes of a couple of shows in 1080, and Dave Letterman's coffee mug was very clear and sharp, but I still don't think that kind of resolution is a necessity for video games.
As to almost every PC monitor supporting 1080p... Again, I think not. None of the computer displays in our house (4 of them) can show 1080p without downscaling.
I think you have a strange idea of what most people's equipment is like. 20" LCD computer monitors and 50" TVs are not the norm.
Most 480p content is NTSC video after a 3:2 pullup. With square pixels, 480p is *never* 16x9. It is 640x480. 720x480 with rectangular pixels is as good as 480p gets. Simple math. You've got both horizontal and vertical resolution loss between 480p and 720p no matter how you get your signal.
The anamorphic DVD is 720x480. That's a 16:9 image with (almost) square pixels. The image is sent down the HDMI cable to the TV, which displays it on the 1280x720 screen by scaling to 1.5x original size. Where is this "horizontal and vertical resolution loss" supposed to be coming from?
480p content is good enough for me, but I'm not going to say I can't tell the difference. I can, and very easily. Anecdotally, I'll say that most people can.
Most people can't even adjust the brightness, contrast and color appropriately on a regular TV, so I kinda doubt it.
"You must purchase a Qt Commercial License from Trolltech or from any of its authorized resellers before you start developing. The Commercial license does not allow the incorporation of code developed with the Open Source Edition of Qt into a proprietary product."
That's exactly the opposite of my experience. True 1080 line resolution was very rare on LCDs and plasmas until recently, so I don't know where you get the idea that most HDTVs out there are 1080i. Even today, sets under 46" (which make up the majority of the market) aren't 1080i.
As for DVD vs HDTV... To repeat what I've said elsewhere, comparing a Faroudja-upscaled HDMI-connected 480p 16:9 DVD with 16:9 OTA 720p HDTV, on a normal size set, I really don't see a big difference. It's funny that you should mention film, because even on upscaled DVD, the limits of the film source are often a much bigger restriction on image quality than the video signal format.
I dunno, maybe you have a bad upscaler, or a bad DVD player, or are using component video, or have a huge TV or something. Or maybe you've only seen badly encoded DVDs. DVD is actually capable of some beautiful images.
Most 480p content is 4:3? Since when? Most DVDs I have are 16:9 or wider, and the other major use for my TV is the PlayStation 2, which has widescreen support in most games.
I was comparing 16:9 480p Faroudja-upscaled DVD with 16:9 720p OTA HDTV. On a normal size screen (under 46") with a good upscaler, at regular viewing distances, I still maintain that there's no major quality difference between upscaled 480p from a good source, and 720p.
Sure, if I position my eyes a foot from the screen I can see the difference. But I don't play games or watch movies that way.
I have an HDTV, and 720p vs 480p is a marginal upgrade. A well encoded 480p DVD is practically indistinguishable from OTA 720p HDTV, because my TV has a good upscaler.
The early adopters who bought HDTVs with poor upscalers may notice a massive difference, people with huge 50"+ sets may notice a difference, but the majority who only started buying HDTVs recently and who buy regular size sets should have no problem.
Regular Ubuntu includes the GNOME desktop, which includes Mono, which is almost certainly the Microsoft IP Ballmer is referring to.
Alternatively, you can go with regular Ubuntu and then strip out Mono. For now, GNOME still runs without it.
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The problem with webmail, is that encryption will never (can never) be trustworthy, since it needs to be implemented on the server, rather than on the user's trusted, known-uncompromised workstation. [...] the very fact that companies like Symantec and McAfee are in business, suggest that millions of users can't even trust a computer inside their own house to not be compromised [...]
Which kinda undermines your first point.
I suspect that the average webmail user's workstation is (as you suggest) a virus and spyware ridden Windows system, which is far less trustworthy than (say) Google's servers. So I don't see any rational security-based objection to S/MIME on webmail systems.
You seem to presume the "Linux community" is going to seamlessly move as a herd from GPL v2 to GPL v3 for all of those things
No, I merely presume that the software which the FSF owns the copyright on will move to GPL v3.
I'm sure the Linux kernel, Perl, and a bunch of other stuff will stay with GPL v2, but that's irrelevant if you can't put together a working Linux system without using a ton of GPLv3 code or maintaining your own separate toolchain.
Thunderbird, OS X Mail, Lotus Notes, Exchange and Outlook all support S/MIME out of the box. If we could get webmail users using it, we might have a chance to get other people using it.
I understand why you listed Google and IBM. But why is Sun in your list?
You should find out more about IBM. Eclipse, Apache Derby, EVMS and JFS in Linux, just to name a few contributions. IBM has more people working on Linux code than RedHat does.
Netcraft confirms: IBM, Sun, and Google make boatloads of money off of the countless unnamed and unpaid developers who write the code that they use. Does the amount they contribute back exceed the amount they gain by benefiting from the work of others?
Meanwhile, Eben Moglen, the FSF general counsel, promises that GPLv3 will explicitly outlaw deals like this. (Of course everyone's on v2, so calling the Novell deal "DOA" would be premature.)
Yeah, Novell might decide to fork the entire GCC toolchain, the standard C libraries, the file utilities, the shell, the bootloader, and go it alone maintaining the entire system without the benefit of the Linux community. Yeah, that'll work well for them.
This copybot thing hasn't hit me too hard directly because the copybot doesn't copy scripts, only models. But it is hitting me hard in the sense that most of the content creators in SL are closing shop, which closes down the whole world as we knew it.
All those people closing up shop means less competition. If you provide a good customized product at a reasonable price, you should see sales increase.
If governments choose to borrow from private foreign banks then that is their problem.
No, it's the country's problem. Even when the corrupt dictator who borrowed and squandered the cash is long gone, the people are left starving for decades.
Sure, it may technically be the dictator's fault, but don't you think a little blame should go to the people who lent him amounts of money they should have known he could never repay?
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In my experience IBM is 9 to 6, weekends off. Home office, even.
I want a prescription of whatever you're on.
They're all high-end Intel Core CPU laptops. If they want to pick out some laptops that actually run cool, rather than merely having lots of fans and heat sinks, they should have included some based on VIA Antaur designs.
I don't watch any of the channels that broadcast in 1080. There's only one channel in 1080 I'm interested in, and I'm not interested enough to pay the $10/month extra the satellite company wants to charge me, plus however many hundred for a new DVR. I did look at a few minutes of a couple of shows in 1080, and Dave Letterman's coffee mug was very clear and sharp, but I still don't think that kind of resolution is a necessity for video games.
As to almost every PC monitor supporting 1080p... Again, I think not. None of the computer displays in our house (4 of them) can show 1080p without downscaling.
I think you have a strange idea of what most people's equipment is like. 20" LCD computer monitors and 50" TVs are not the norm.
The anamorphic DVD is 720x480. That's a 16:9 image with (almost) square pixels. The image is sent down the HDMI cable to the TV, which displays it on the 1280x720 screen by scaling to 1.5x original size. Where is this "horizontal and vertical resolution loss" supposed to be coming from?
Most people can't even adjust the brightness, contrast and color appropriately on a regular TV, so I kinda doubt it.
Trolltech commercial licensing page.
That's exactly the opposite of my experience. True 1080 line resolution was very rare on LCDs and plasmas until recently, so I don't know where you get the idea that most HDTVs out there are 1080i. Even today, sets under 46" (which make up the majority of the market) aren't 1080i.
As for DVD vs HDTV... To repeat what I've said elsewhere, comparing a Faroudja-upscaled HDMI-connected 480p 16:9 DVD with 16:9 OTA 720p HDTV, on a normal size set, I really don't see a big difference. It's funny that you should mention film, because even on upscaled DVD, the limits of the film source are often a much bigger restriction on image quality than the video signal format.
I dunno, maybe you have a bad upscaler, or a bad DVD player, or are using component video, or have a huge TV or something. Or maybe you've only seen badly encoded DVDs. DVD is actually capable of some beautiful images.
Most 480p content is 4:3? Since when? Most DVDs I have are 16:9 or wider, and the other major use for my TV is the PlayStation 2, which has widescreen support in most games.
I was comparing 16:9 480p Faroudja-upscaled DVD with 16:9 720p OTA HDTV. On a normal size screen (under 46") with a good upscaler, at regular viewing distances, I still maintain that there's no major quality difference between upscaled 480p from a good source, and 720p.
Sure, if I position my eyes a foot from the screen I can see the difference. But I don't play games or watch movies that way.
One ridiculous part of the QT commercial license is that you can't buy it for existing open source applications.
In other words, if you've written something as open source using Qt under GPL, and now want to make a commercial version of your product, you can't.
I have an HDTV, and 720p vs 480p is a marginal upgrade. A well encoded 480p DVD is practically indistinguishable from OTA 720p HDTV, because my TV has a good upscaler.
The early adopters who bought HDTVs with poor upscalers may notice a massive difference, people with huge 50"+ sets may notice a difference, but the majority who only started buying HDTVs recently and who buy regular size sets should have no problem.
I hope the speculators get stuck with consoles they can't shift. I have plenty of money, but I'm not buying from a speculator. I'll just wait.
It's like domain name parasites. Don't feed them, people, you're only making the problem worse.
PGPfone was around way before 2000.
Yup, definitely a case of DFKDFC.
I get to play video games without supporting the evil Microsoft monopoly.
Kubuntu.
Regular Ubuntu includes the GNOME desktop, which includes Mono, which is almost certainly the Microsoft IP Ballmer is referring to.
Alternatively, you can go with regular Ubuntu and then strip out Mono. For now, GNOME still runs without it.
Which kinda undermines your first point.
I suspect that the average webmail user's workstation is (as you suggest) a virus and spyware ridden Windows system, which is far less trustworthy than (say) Google's servers. So I don't see any rational security-based objection to S/MIME on webmail systems.
No, I merely presume that the software which the FSF owns the copyright on will move to GPL v3.
I'm sure the Linux kernel, Perl, and a bunch of other stuff will stay with GPL v2, but that's irrelevant if you can't put together a working Linux system without using a ton of GPLv3 code or maintaining your own separate toolchain.
I'd love it if Gmail supported S/MIME.
Thunderbird, OS X Mail, Lotus Notes, Exchange and Outlook all support S/MIME out of the box. If we could get webmail users using it, we might have a chance to get other people using it.
You should find out more about IBM. Eclipse, Apache Derby, EVMS and JFS in Linux, just to name a few contributions. IBM has more people working on Linux code than RedHat does.
How would you even begin to measure that?
Yeah, Novell might decide to fork the entire GCC toolchain, the standard C libraries, the file utilities, the shell, the bootloader, and go it alone maintaining the entire system without the benefit of the Linux community. Yeah, that'll work well for them.
All those people closing up shop means less competition. If you provide a good customized product at a reasonable price, you should see sales increase.
No, it's the country's problem. Even when the corrupt dictator who borrowed and squandered the cash is long gone, the people are left starving for decades.
Sure, it may technically be the dictator's fault, but don't you think a little blame should go to the people who lent him amounts of money they should have known he could never repay?
Though bleeding third world countries dry via interest repayments and taking their natural resources certainly helps.