This is very impressing, and also very interesting, but I really think the Laser-based Virtual Retinal Display seems to have a better sollution for the virtual reality systems of the future. But I guess what we all want is a way to interface the computers directly into the brain. It will come, but it might take a few more years. 2 or 3 or something like that:=).
I really don't see what you mean by that. As far as I can see, Distributed just keeps gaining speed. The plots show that the curves just go up, up and away.
Acctually there are more 'useful' projects coming up on distributed as well. The project is about finding 'Optimal Golomb Rulers'. More info can be found here.
I think you might be missing the point here. Sure many will not care whether emulators are illegal or not, the way they use them right now is clearly illegal anyway. The problem is for the developer of the emulator. I think that most of those who write emulators do it not to make it possible to play pirated roms, but that they do it to learn more about programming and the system they are emulating. That Nintendo want emulators to be illegal makes it harder for the developers of emulators to cooperate with others, and to get feedback from the users.
Software piracy should not be supported the way you seem to think, and Nintendo is probably correct when they say that copying of rom images is piracy. However, emulators should not be illegal. I can understand that companies such as Nintendo do not like them, but they should be going after the roms instead.
This is a step in the right direction by Creative, but the driver still needs a lot of work.
As the README states, it currently only supports kernels 2.0.36-0.7 and 2.2.5. I tested the driver on my system with kernel 2.2.5, but the result wasn't very useable. The install worked fine, but the sound was only unrecognizable noise, that also seemed to be lagged a few seconds.
I hope that they work out the problems quickly, and that they will support all the features they have under Windows.
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This is very impressing, and also very interesting, but I really think the Laser-based Virtual Retinal Display seems to have a better sollution for the virtual reality systems of the future. But I guess what we all want is a way to interface the computers directly into the brain. It will come, but it might take a few more years. 2 or 3 or something like that :=).
I really don't see what you mean by that. As far as I can see, Distributed just keeps gaining speed. The plots show that the curves just go up, up and away.
Acctually there are more 'useful' projects coming up on distributed as well.
The project is about finding 'Optimal Golomb Rulers'. More info can be found here.
I think you might be missing the point here. Sure many will not care whether emulators are illegal or not, the way they use them right now is clearly illegal anyway.
The problem is for the developer of the emulator. I think that most of those who write emulators do it not to make it possible to play pirated roms, but that they do it to learn more about programming and the system they are emulating.
That Nintendo want emulators to be illegal makes it harder for the developers of emulators to cooperate with others, and to get feedback from the users.
Software piracy should not be supported the way you seem to think, and Nintendo is probably correct when they say that copying of rom images is piracy.
However, emulators should not be illegal. I can understand that companies such as Nintendo do not like them, but they should be going after the roms instead.
I guess I should have done some more testing, I only tried playing an mp3 using mpg123, and since that didn't work I reverted back to my old sb-16.
I'll have to try more stuff later, but since I use mpg123 alot I really hope they will fix the bugs soon.
This is a step in the right direction by Creative, but the driver still needs a lot of work.
As the README states, it currently only supports kernels 2.0.36-0.7 and 2.2.5. I tested the driver on my system with kernel 2.2.5, but the result wasn't very useable. The install worked fine, but the sound was only unrecognizable noise, that also seemed to be lagged a few seconds.
I hope that they work out the problems quickly, and that they will support all the features they have under Windows.