so in typical MS fashion, they re-branded it Holey Hell 1.0 must have been a hell of a memory leak. not to mention it resulted in hell freezing over... which explains why the Eagles broke out into song:) which drove MS to release security updates....
So how can the average consumer make a difference? Is there an email address/mailing address to write to? Would complaining about DRM to retail stores like Walmart help? I mean, what can the average joe, not necessarily in the US, do to send a clear message to these companies? If enough people do it, they will have to see the sense. So what can we do about it and where do I sign up?
The multiple cores of the cell processor seem like a good place for stuff like video/audio encoding/decoding. Hehe...how about throw some good speech recognition engine in there just for kicks to see how good it is at making subtitles from your home video camera?:) Heck, go even one step further and throw in some face recognition on each frame...ok i'm dreaming...time to get back to work.
Why does it have to fit the established norm?
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What is the function of your desktop in your OS from a user point of view? Just a convenient place to access things. Methinks the browser IS the desktop for a web based OS. Your tabs are your windows. Websites offer you different types of functionality. I think what Google is trying to do is simply eliminate the need to have additional applications installed on your machine - you can get everything done on the web - now, just about every single OS ships with a browser, so booting the computer and allowing it to connect to the net is not the problem any more.
They're currently addressing the needs of the majority with their web based office apps. They started with the most basic - a unified browsing experience - search and email. If they could do something like Photoshop for the Web, that would be huge and would get another chunk of users.
Sure, they could release a Google Live CD that you pop into your computer etc etc, but why bother? That isn't the need anymore. The need of the day is portable information. If they can accomplish that in six months - something like a web based version of what it feels like to work with OS X, then they would have created a web OS.
Why does this only apply to online gaming? Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Net Neutrality, "an idealized concept of network design which has been defined by Tim Berners-Lee as "If I pay to connect to the net with a given quality of service, and you pay to connect to the net with the same or higher quality of service, then you and I can communicate across the net, with that quality of service.""
So, why aren't the VoIP telcos crying hoarse? What about companies that rely on video streaming? Why only online gaming? This story seems to me to be a plant just to get the average gaming geek up in arms.
I mean, if everyone suffers the same fate, isn't everyone else gaining as well? What's the problem?
Look at the distros for example. Lots of em out there and then Ubuntu comes along - when it did, we were like, "who needs ANOTHER one" - and does something right. People notice that and move to it. Other distros try to adopt some of the plus points. That's not wasted effort. I guess evolution of a species is the closest I analogy I can get to. The best survive.
So if Krita comes along and even though it duplicates 90% of the functionality, if Krita gets it right, then all that 90% of the effort is worth it.
It's diminishing returns, yes, but in the end, its the extra mile that distinguishes the leaders from the also rans. It may not be any extra functionality at all - just the way its been put together that makes it a winning combination. Then the power of open source takes over and everyone benefits.
I think thats great and thats kinda what evolution is - varying the combination of a lot of existing stuff ever so slightly to see which one produces the best. So its a double edged sword - a freakin amazing one at that:)
Thanks, but I'll wait. Am writing this comment using Firefox 2 RC3. Am really happy the way its working so far and will gladly wait a few more hours and receive my new browser via automatic update. I guess I just want to be sure that I'm counted as a Firefox user. I mean, come on, its the market share and the numbers that make M$ sh*t their pants right? and this is Slashdot right? So....we can kinda give them some real numbers for their release figures. I mean, if you simply MUST have Firefox 2, go and download RC3 and then just let it update itself in a few hours.
I think you hit the nail on the head - whats scary is the word commercial. What was that triangle again that the engineer shows his boss? The one with cost at one end and safety and security at the other? Yeah...applying THAT to this scenario is what makes it scary.
Tell you what though, is scarier: think about throwing PR/Marketing/sales guys in the mix down the line;)
what if we could anchor a nuclear barge 50 miles off a foreign shore to power troop deployments? Or to power parts of our enemies country after we take out all their power plants.
Now you know why your foreign policy has such a bad reputation. Not trying to flame, just making a point. Look at your mindset.
I think anyone capable of writing a filesystem is capable of killing a person. But also anyone writing an open source software is too kind to kill a person.
Exactly. Therefore, I believe temporary insanity is the only defense that applies.
Yep. Agree with parent. Choice is good. GNOME and KDE are so different that each appeals to a certain demographic of user. There's no point in uniting the user interfaces because you result in a diluted version of both. Developers, on the other hand produce apps, or TOOLS, that users USE to perform TASKS. Taking the headache off developers is good. Maybe farther down the road we can see projects like Firefox, MPlayer, Kopete and Amarok not look like fish out of water after a clean vanilla install. That would really do a lot of good in terms of creating an overlap of consistency between the desktop the user has running and the popular app he/she wants to use . I don't know much at all about the LSB, but could someone tell me if it would be a good idea for something like this, given the fact that it accumulates enough steam to power itself, be integrated into the LSB?
Duke Nukem Forever developers announced a complete re-write of the game to take advantage of 80 cores. An inside source revealed that the plan is to have the TV sets in naughty mode show HD content with one core per TV. Our inside source (who asked to remain anonymous) also mentioned that there is a reason the initials of the game are DNF.
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so in typical MS fashion, they re-branded it Holey Hell 1.0 :)
:)
must have been a hell of a memory leak.
not to mention it resulted in hell freezing over...
which explains why the Eagles broke out into song
which drove MS to release security updates....
i know, i know...
just taking a break from work
which is actually a good thing in these days of hot processors..
What he means is....attach a fan to your perpetual motion machine in the summer :)
Which kinda explains why America is so focussed on oil and British ideas never float....
:)
*ducks* hehehe
So how can the average consumer make a difference? Is there an email address/mailing address to write to? Would complaining about DRM to retail stores like Walmart help? I mean, what can the average joe, not necessarily in the US, do to send a clear message to these companies? If enough people do it, they will have to see the sense. So what can we do about it and where do I sign up?
Yeah, but the photon is GPL. So is any derivative work :)
Got my units for accelaration wrong. should be m/(s^2). ;)
1 g = approx. 9.8 m/s
:)
1 light year = 299798452*3600*24*365.25 = 9460919628835200 m
1 light year / year^2 = answer/(3600*24*365.25)^2 = 9.5000396734859431642456967576749 m/s
Interesting
I do have one question though - at 1 g accelaration, it would take :
299792458/9.8 = 30591067.142857142857142857142857 seconds = 354.0632771164021164021164021164 days
So, in less than a year, you would hit the speed of light. How would you be able to accelarate past it?
Now THAT'S something. Birds using tools.
The multiple cores of the cell processor seem like a good place for stuff like video/audio encoding/decoding. Hehe...how about throw some good speech recognition engine in there just for kicks to see how good it is at making subtitles from your home video camera? :) Heck, go even one step further and throw in some face recognition on each frame...ok i'm dreaming...time to get back to work.
What is the function of your desktop in your OS from a user point of view? Just a convenient place to access things. Methinks the browser IS the desktop for a web based OS. Your tabs are your windows. Websites offer you different types of functionality. I think what Google is trying to do is simply eliminate the need to have additional applications installed on your machine - you can get everything done on the web - now, just about every single OS ships with a browser, so booting the computer and allowing it to connect to the net is not the problem any more.
They're currently addressing the needs of the majority with their web based office apps. They started with the most basic - a unified browsing experience - search and email. If they could do something like Photoshop for the Web, that would be huge and would get another chunk of users.
Sure, they could release a Google Live CD that you pop into your computer etc etc, but why bother? That isn't the need anymore. The need of the day is portable information. If they can accomplish that in six months - something like a web based version of what it feels like to work with OS X, then they would have created a web OS.
Why does this only apply to online gaming? Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Net Neutrality, "an idealized concept of network design which has been defined by Tim Berners-Lee as "If I pay to connect to the net with a given quality of service, and you pay to connect to the net with the same or higher quality of service, then you and I can communicate across the net, with that quality of service.""
So, why aren't the VoIP telcos crying hoarse? What about companies that rely on video streaming? Why only online gaming? This story seems to me to be a plant just to get the average gaming geek up in arms.
I mean, if everyone suffers the same fate, isn't everyone else gaining as well? What's the problem?
Works in India. Sure, we have traffic signs and stuff, but nobody follows them. Here 's an example</a>. Try imagine yourself driving there. Here's the basic rule : Assume everyone else is mad and drive. You end up making no assumptions and being a lot more cautious. On the other hand, determining whose fault it is when there is an accident (and there are many) becomes a nightmare.
Well, I agree with you and I don't.
:)
Look at the distros for example. Lots of em out there and then Ubuntu comes along - when it did, we were like, "who needs ANOTHER one" - and does something right. People notice that and move to it. Other distros try to adopt some of the plus points. That's not wasted effort. I guess evolution of a species is the closest I analogy I can get to. The best survive.
So if Krita comes along and even though it duplicates 90% of the functionality, if Krita gets it right, then all that 90% of the effort is worth it.
It's diminishing returns, yes, but in the end, its the extra mile that distinguishes the leaders from the also rans. It may not be any extra functionality at all - just the way its been put together that makes it a winning combination. Then the power of open source takes over and everyone benefits.
I think thats great and thats kinda what evolution is - varying the combination of a lot of existing stuff ever so slightly to see which one produces the best. So its a double edged sword - a freakin amazing one at that
Save the world from WMP 11.
Thanks, but I'll wait. Am writing this comment using Firefox 2 RC3. Am really happy the way its working so far and will gladly wait a few more hours and receive my new browser via automatic update. I guess I just want to be sure that I'm counted as a Firefox user. I mean, come on, its the market share and the numbers that make M$ sh*t their pants right? and this is Slashdot right? So....we can kinda give them some real numbers for their release figures. I mean, if you simply MUST have Firefox 2, go and download RC3 and then just let it update itself in a few hours.
I think you hit the nail on the head - whats scary is the word commercial. What was that triangle again that the engineer shows his boss? The one with cost at one end and safety and security at the other? Yeah...applying THAT to this scenario is what makes it scary.
;)
Tell you what though, is scarier: think about throwing PR/Marketing/sales guys in the mix down the line
...to wonder why a company would give such a strange name to a device. I mean, what are the odds?
Yep. Agree with parent. Choice is good. GNOME and KDE are so different that each appeals to a certain demographic of user. There's no point in uniting the user interfaces because you result in a diluted version of both. Developers, on the other hand produce apps, or TOOLS, that users USE to perform TASKS. Taking the headache off developers is good. Maybe farther down the road we can see projects like Firefox, MPlayer, Kopete and Amarok not look like fish out of water after a clean vanilla install. That would really do a lot of good in terms of creating an overlap of consistency between the desktop the user has running and the popular app he/she wants to use . I don't know much at all about the LSB, but could someone tell me if it would be a good idea for something like this, given the fact that it accumulates enough steam to power itself, be integrated into the LSB?
Well I believe P.I. is going high tech these days... ;)
come to think of it, Leisure Suit Larry would be a nice name for Bush :)
Duke Nukem Forever developers announced a complete re-write of the game to take advantage of 80 cores. An inside source revealed that the plan is to have the TV sets in naughty mode show HD content with one core per TV. Our inside source (who asked to remain anonymous) also mentioned that there is a reason the initials of the game are DNF.
Think of all those Sony Execs blowing Ray....makes you feel sorry for him :)