You are not bound by more restrictions. Which is freer for you? More restrictions or less restrictions?
This is the dumbest line of thought that I continually hear. If you're going to try and distill your argument to fundamentals, you've got to make sure your argument makes sense in the first place.
Do you think we would be more free if there were no laws? Sure, we would be free to do some things which the law currently prevents us from doing, but do you think you'd have the freedom to walk to the end of the street without getting mugged at knifepoint?
Or as it as been put more concisely: "Without rules, we have no freedom."
It was more like he was incredibly desperate to get his software onto those machines so that he could lock in the entire next generation of the third world.
Yep. That's what it's about. Most of the websites that you visit every day that need dynamic image generation just have a desperate need to increase their 'E-Penis' size. It's an inadequacy thing.
Shut up and die.
Hey, you know what thats a great idea - I will shut up and die. Great suggestion, dude.
Only much slower, much less flexible, tied to a GUI, tied to a proprietary platform, needing a software license for each machine and only working with applications that support it.
What is it with Opera fanatics having a chip on their shoulder about Firefox?
Opera just might disappear, being squeezed to death by the big 3 browers: Safari, Internet Explorer, Firefox.
Well that's how business works. Live by the sword, die by the sword. They chose to use the old proprietary software model, they run the risk of being squeezed out and extinguished by the marketplace. Free software doesn't come under this restriction - due to the licensing it can't be extinguished no matter what company goes bust.
Remember - if you're a capitalist - no business has a god given right to success.
For an even better experience, try ipython. Python prompt with tab completion, coloured output, dynamic introspection, debugger integration, nicer backtraces and much more.
Security should be implemented and considered at a much more fundamental level. If installing a silly little freeware userland app can 'breach' that security, then it's your own fault.
The only parties that decry new media are those that don't understand the Internet. Apple understands it. That's why iTunes is so successful. Microsoft understands it. That's why Xbox Live is so successful.
Really? In what way does iTunes or Xbox Live allow you to contribute to the system as a whole? I can't see it doing anything other than letting you play your silly games, twitching your little buttons, or line up and purchase your music, like a good little consumer.
Most of X already has the capability to go vector based. Widgets can now be drawn in cairo and text is of course truetype. The problem is rerendering the truetype is very expensive. It's not like it's possible to vector render every character every frame (there are probably ~5000 visible characters in your browser window as you're reading this). In desktops typically a font is rendered into one pixmap per character when the app is first started, and then those pixmaps are used. The font is 'cached' at one resolution.
Constantly changing resolutions would be a huge load, so it's not at all practical.
Other than that it's theoretically possible, X would just need extensions to indicate when a window was being resized and when it was being 'zoomed'. And window pixmaps would keep having to be reallocated at different sizes.
Don't worry, the article title is just a bit misleading. All this really is is hooks being built into HAL (dynamic hardware framework) so that users can mount crypted filesystems with a pretty frontend.
What you're saying is like saying "My OS shouldn't ask me with a GUI bubble what to do with a memory stick. That's part of the filesystem layer. Much lower layer than the GUI."
This isn't using gnomevfs.
And when it comes to building 'secondary' VFSs, there's a good argument for keeping things out of the kernel. It's supposed to be a unix kernel, not a plan9 kernel.
Now that DVB subtitles are available, can you imagine OCRing the (image based) subtitles, saving them into the recorded stream and having full-text-searchable tv programmes?
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This is the dumbest line of thought that I continually hear. If you're going to try and distill your argument to fundamentals, you've got to make sure your argument makes sense in the first place.
Do you think we would be more free if there were no laws? Sure, we would be free to do some things which the law currently prevents us from doing, but do you think you'd have the freedom to walk to the end of the street without getting mugged at knifepoint?
Or as it as been put more concisely: "Without rules, we have no freedom."
It was more like he was incredibly desperate to get his software onto those machines so that he could lock in the entire next generation of the third world.
It means that if you can't figure out how to do it, it's not ready for you yet.
...in a five year timewarp?
ps- 'Enterprise' doesn't mean anything.
Hey, you know what thats a great idea - I will shut up and die. Great suggestion, dude.
Gamers will just end up voting in some 'badass' woman with huge breasts, tattoos, ridiculous 'mega cool' body armour and holding three massive guns.
'Rad'.
Only much slower, much less flexible, tied to a GUI, tied to a proprietary platform, needing a software license for each machine and only working with applications that support it.
Well that's how business works. Live by the sword, die by the sword. They chose to use the old proprietary software model, they run the risk of being squeezed out and extinguished by the marketplace. Free software doesn't come under this restriction - due to the licensing it can't be extinguished no matter what company goes bust.
Remember - if you're a capitalist - no business has a god given right to success.
For an even better experience, try ipython. Python prompt with tab completion, coloured output, dynamic introspection, debugger integration, nicer backtraces and much more.
I have little sympathy for the IT departments.
Security should be implemented and considered at a much more fundamental level. If installing a silly little freeware userland app can 'breach' that security, then it's your own fault.
Most of X already has the capability to go vector based. Widgets can now be drawn in cairo and text is of course truetype. The problem is rerendering the truetype is very expensive. It's not like it's possible to vector render every character every frame (there are probably ~5000 visible characters in your browser window as you're reading this). In desktops typically a font is rendered into one pixmap per character when the app is first started, and then those pixmaps are used. The font is 'cached' at one resolution.
Constantly changing resolutions would be a huge load, so it's not at all practical.
Other than that it's theoretically possible, X would just need extensions to indicate when a window was being resized and when it was being 'zoomed'. And window pixmaps would keep having to be reallocated at different sizes.
Don't worry, the article title is just a bit misleading. All this really is is hooks being built into HAL (dynamic hardware framework) so that users can mount crypted filesystems with a pretty frontend.
What you're saying is like saying "My OS shouldn't ask me with a GUI bubble what to do with a memory stick. That's part of the filesystem layer. Much lower layer than the GUI."
This isn't using gnomevfs.
And when it comes to building 'secondary' VFSs, there's a good argument for keeping things out of the kernel. It's supposed to be a unix kernel, not a plan9 kernel.
This is a demonstration of a developer framework with some placeholder animations.
This would result in semmingly randomly sized widgets and incredibly poor font rendering.
Guess what some of that innocent sounding 'signalling' consists of.
Along those lines, anyone interested in this subject may enjoy this short film.
So you think messages to the 'authorities' can't be stacked up until you're connected again?
After all, you don't have the source to your OS, anything could be happening.
Yeah, I mean, how could Debian ever afford to offer refunds for their products?
"enterprise" == "My needs are (penis is) bigger than yours."
I've never heard more bullshit in a summary.
Perhaps there is more than one type of DVB subtitle?
Now that DVB subtitles are available, can you imagine OCRing the (image based) subtitles, saving them into the recorded stream and having full-text-searchable tv programmes?