Two things to add. DirectX took off because of the ubiquity of Windoze on PCs AND M$ kept improving it and adding nifty-spiffy features and capabilities as well. OpenGL lacks many of the newer wizzibangs that DirectX includes and as a result, it is actually getting better (from a game design point of view) than OpenGL.
It would be nice if OpenGL would keep up and even add gizmo capabilities of its own but the truth is, the people who work the design spec of OpenGL are too damn slow.
This pains me to say because I frickin' hate M$ and Gates and all things windoze but I cannot deny facts.
You're kidding right? VMWare still requires that you have a full copy of Windoze. It also requires huge system resources and is dog slow for games. It may be fine for playing older games or games that are not graphics-intensive, but is NOT for games.
At least with wine, you don't need a copy of windoze. Better yet, if a game is native linux, it will be faster and better still.
Though I like and use wine for some games, because I have no choice, emulation as a means of using apps is not beneficial. OS/2 had this problem (among others). It had Win-OS2, giving it the ability to run many then extant windoze apps. Then came Windoze 95 and Win-OS2 couldn't deal with those apps.
IBM then had a choice, update Win-OS2 to support the latest win95 stuff or encourage native apps. By this time, BECAUSE of Win-OS2, there was an extreme lack of native OS/2 apps and support. Why would a software company make OS/2 apps when their Win3.1 apps ran under OS/2 just fine?
Chaotic "support" from IBM and the existence of Win-OS2 prevented the production of OS/2 apps early on. There was no foothold established for OS/2 apps. When Win95 came along, it was all but over. Apps came out for doze but not for OS/2 and Win-OS2 couldn't handle Win95 apps either - the end.
The linux community must be careful and learn the OS/2 lesson. Do NOT count exclusively on wine to bring games to linux. It is a tightrope. One false calculation and all linux will be left with are legacy windoze games as M$ changes something so that it is unusable on linux. It is also NOT a good position to be in vis a vis games to ALWAYS play catchup.
Ultimately, I was responding to the ridiculous claim made in the slashdot article reference that there were these meanings in 2001: bullcrap references to exhaust nozzle shape = bathroom tile shape = ship is human, and the rest.
If I had the compunction, I could probably sit down with ANY book, no matter how simple or complex, and in a twisted way find reference and meanings that the author NEVER intended and NEVER even had. References and allegorical statements about the Praying Mantis, or homosexualities place in MacArthyism, allegories to the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Yeah, I'm sure I could find all of this in even a Barney the dinosaur movie. It would be twisted and painful stretching but I could do it - and it would be total nonsense and pointless.
Kind of like all the crap about all the "hidden meaning and allegory" in Kubrick's 2001.
Ahem...it wasn't several billion years ago. It was 65 million years ago. The earth itself, and the Sun, are themselves only several billion years old.
In any case, it needn't be a huge extinction asteroid in order for it to be a HUGE problem and danger. Even a relatively smallish asteroid impacting in the wrong place could be devestating globally. Don't think in terms of ONLY big-ass dinosaur killers. Just a big rock or comet, too small to devestate the world the way the dinosaur killer did, would still be a horrible danger and have disastrous consequences. Such smaller objects are more likely than a dinosaur killer but still important to know about in advance...and easier to deal with.
The more modern a nuke, the less powerful it is. As the guidance technology improves, you no longer need big megatonners, a few kilotons will do because you can get a direct hit.
The main reason earlier nukes were of multi-megaton design was because the circular error probable (CEP) was quite large. In order to destroy your target, you NEEDED a big-ass nuke to make up for the inaccuracy. Now, with pinpoint accuracy, it really isn't even alwaysnecessary to use a nuke against hardened targets. A well-designed and accurate conventional weapon can be made to take out many hardened targets.
To take out an area, say to eliminate a huge host of an army in place, you can use a fuel-air weapon. Such weapons produce a shockwave blast equivalent to small nukes but leave no radioactive residue anywhere. They would liquify anyone within their effective radius, turn railroad cars into smashed aluminum cans, and do the job nicely...and ANY country, rich or poor can make these weapons.
No one need read it, it still has meaning - because the author imbued it with meaning. He or she experienced the writing/creating of it and therefore knows what it means - and one way or another it has meaning to them. After the author's death, if no one ever sees it again, it then lacks meaning at that time, but it will always have HAD meaning at its inception.
"It" could sit for 200 years in a diary never read except at the time of writing it by the author...and it still has/had meaning.
That was/is not its reputation. It WAS more stable than Windoze up to and including win98 (and probably doze ME). It WAS a beautifully executed system with a nice GUI, object oriented design, and so forth.
What it never got was full IBM support and, therefore, never got decent applications made for it, nor device drivers, etc.
I used OS/2 up to and including Warp 4.0. After that, it just didn't have the legs to continue so I jumped ship to linux. No matter what, I can't see ever going back to it (under any name), and certainly not for $279. That's like buying windoze, which I have never done. You pay that price for no software (game or productivity), limited drivers...what's the point?
Doh! I meant your ENGLISH teacher was loaded with crap with that statement that "there is often meaning there that even they weren't aware of", to paraphrase.
I repeat, the meaning in with the viewer, not the work...unless the artist/creator put it there. If there are author notes, diaries, comments, etc, that indicate that this may have been the case, THEN and only then can it be reasonably claimed that this or that meaning exists in the work.
If the author didn't put it in there, then it isn't there. The READER/VIEWER may "see" it in there, which is merely a reflection of their own minds, but the work itself, and the intent of it's creator was not to put it there.
You can overanalyze anything. All it comes to is mental masturbation and self-examination and gameplay. Nothing different than looking at clouds and seeing a horse or a screaming eagle. Neither is really there, the cloud contains nothing but microscopic particles and water vapor and a few other trace chemicals/elements. It's shape is not allegorical and has no intrinsic meaning. You the view embue it with a meaning.
It can be fun but it is also a load of crap...if you try to go on to say the meaning YOU "see" is really there.
Most of that crap in the "analysis" of Kubrick's 2001 wasn't there and wasn't intended to be there. Bathroom tile rocket nozzles implying the ship was human? Pa-leeze. More likely it had to do with materials available for making an interesting plastic model for filming. The author could go through a twisted series of nonsensical arguments to make the same point no matter what shape the nozzles were (round nozzles "obviously" signify toilet bowels, hence the ship is human!).
Hate to say it, but your art teacher was full of crapola. If the creator of a work didn't place a meaning or reference in their creation, then it isn't there, period. You the viewer may see meaning never intended or imagined by the original artist, but that is beside the point. The work doesn't intrinsically contain that meaning. You do.
Yet...the information was released for ALL to read and make use of in the proper, NORMAL, scientific fashion. The field of science does not accept "closed source information".
The M$ model would hold that Watson and Crick should have taken out an IP on their correct calculation and thereby charged a fee for anyone who made use of, or spoke of, the double helix.
Science is all about "find out what's up and publish it for the world to see", not, "find out what's up and patent it before anyone else does and charge anyone who makes use of the information."
Like installing a little software is such a big freaking deal for someone who obviously thinks they are cthulu's gift to sysadmins.
Man...you are missing an "h" in your blasphemous statement. It's - dare I write His name?- Cthulhu. Capital C and a second h. You risk a visit from Nyarlathotep for speaking (okay...WRITING) His name in vain - and misspelling it at that! We'll see how well you sleep now as the blaring horns wail in the night as His minions approach to kick your ass.
Whoa. I think you need to rethink your website color scheme. That blue text on a black background is hard to read. When I first got to your site I thought is was mostly blank, except for some white dates text on the left side.
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But...with linux (and others I presume) one can password protect single user mode. I would assume that this could be done with MacOS X too(?)
Of course, it is likely that most people do not enable the password protection...and what happens when you lose/forget your password? It isn't like forgetting a bios password where all you have to do is open the case and blank out the bios and start over.
No, no, no. It should not in any way be OK for federal, state, local governments to use computer software which, at the very least, produces documents that are only viewable or usable by those who have, let's say, Windoze on them.
Anything that any public service entity produces, from informational documents to forms, which is presented in an "e-format" should be in a format that ANYONE can view and use regardless of OS or CPU. The government's job is NOT to serve the best interests of M$, but to serve the best interest of the citizens to which they are beholden. Open standards (REAL, not "de facto" standards) that ANYONE with a standards-compliant browser, wordprocessor, or what-have-you, should be able to painlessly view or use these documents.
The best way to ensure this IS to use opensource at best, or, if you MUST use closed source sh*t like windoze, then anything presented to for public consumption should be REQUIRED to be in open format. HTML(true, HTML, not HTML with M$-specific extensions), XML (TRUE XML), java (TRUE java, not C# or M$Java).
So...you wont mind if I just walk into your home at any time, go through your drawers, watch you have sex, etc.
Privacy is necessary - psychologically. People seek out time for themselves if they do not have it. They seek privacy if it is not available to them on a normal basis. So do you. You NEED privacy every bit as much as you need socialization.
Has there been ANY opensource game of a modern design that has actually gotten anywhere?
Golgotha Forever is FOREVER in development and by the time it gets anywhere near a 1.0 level of development, commercial games will leave it in the dust of graphics development.
New commercial games use the latest super-duper capabilities of the newest graphics cards. Soon, games will be wowing people by taking advantage of the Geforce 3. Golgotha? It will continue to be developed and developed, always 3 generations behind the newest and best commercial game as far as AI and graphics tech. Why? Because open source sucks? NO. It is because a commercial game developer does just that, GAMES. It is the sole job of the coders to make great games. With open source projects, it is a hobby, a night-time sideline that the coders are doing on their spare time after finishing a day at their real job.
It is too slow...and games are THE leading edge, cutthroat, fast-paced development arena. It is not a very good place for hobbyists to hope in any way, shape, or form to make a MODERN, graphics-intensive game that compares with the products of full-time commercial game companies.
Good luck (I exclusively use linux, afterall, so I am not some M$ hack/apologist/cheerleader), but I really don't see it having a chance against M$ or Sony. If they consider it a resume filler, then it has a value there, as you may well get snatched up by a game software development company, but beyond that? It may be a "game console" in theory, but it wont really be a game console.
If they prove me wrong, I'll make tea out of my dirty underware right here on slashdot.
Get off it. I am SOOOOO tired of the "guv'mnt spying on everyone - evil guv'mnt". Shit, the "guv'mnt" is made up of regular ole people, like your cousin, your neighbor, your best friend's father or mother. All evil people by association.
Sure, I do not want to be spied upon by anyone, but the guv'mnt has all my vitals already since I have a security clearance. What I want to know is why is it that you all always and ALMOST exclusively hate the guv'mnt (your neighbors, friend's, cousins, etc) doing anything but do not shit all over corporations for doing the same stuff. Corporations are, BY FAR, the most agregious violators of privacy and the biggest threat, not the "guv'mnt". Sure, limit guv'mnt info collection on people to that required for proper law enforcement (with valid court order) or properly providing services, but REALLY put the crimp on nefarious corporate privacy desecration too. THAT is the big problem.
Which is why we can look forward to NEVER having a linux version of Halo, inspite of how "independent" Bungie thinks they still are after being bought out by M$. Dickwads.
This is obviously a hypothetical question to the extreme since with the new illegitimate administration, with its tongue probed so far up corporate ass that it is tickling tonsils, there is a snowball's chance in hell of ANY adverse action against M$. That and the botch-job Judge Jackson did by blabbing to the media the way he did, there is no chance whatsoever of a breakup.
The last best hope is a host of state initiated lawsuits, those already extant and any that can be brought up in the near term.
It would be foolish to try to wrest desktop market share from Apple with their MacOS X. Why? Unlike a PC, a Mac ALWAYS has some form or other of MacOS on it. It is even more pervasive than Windoze on the PC side (and at least recently it is possible to get linux installed rather than doze - or if you build your own, as I do, you don't have ANY os installed and get to do it all yourself with a virgin system).
On the Mac, even if you install linux, you still always have MacOS - there is no choice. Your ONLY choice is dual boot. With a PC it IS a choice. So, in order to compete with MacOS X, linux would have to actually offer more of value to the Mac user than MacOS X can. I don't see it. Sure, linux is free if you wish to download it yourself or VERY cheap if you want to buy from cheapbytes, but it is still more effort and offers nothing especially compelling over and above MacOS X to make this worthwhile. They also have more game companies on board. With linux, we have, let's see, Loki and iD (after a fashion).
There IS an argument for fighting for desktop from M$ on the PC side but it is lost on the Mac side vs OS X...unless OS X remains buggy and slow, which isn't likely.
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Of course you can save it. It is buffered to your harddrive, in a temp directory under some bizarro name. All you have to do is NOT close your player after viewing it and do a search of your temp files looking for a big file in the many megabytes range. Chances are that is the video. Copy it to another name somewhere and you have it.
Uh...it's called PROFIT. You are permitted to gain a profit. Or are you against making ANYTHING on the sale of your house.
Then there is depreciation. Unless your car is a real nice classic that you fixed up from crap to jewel, your car is depreciating. You cannot sell it for what you paid for it. You must take it in the ass and accept MUCH less than you paid for it.
That all said, the record companies can kiss my lilly white ass. I'll do my thing just to screw them over.
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Two things to add. DirectX took off because of the ubiquity of Windoze on PCs AND M$ kept improving it and adding nifty-spiffy features and capabilities as well. OpenGL lacks many of the newer wizzibangs that DirectX includes and as a result, it is actually getting better (from a game design point of view) than OpenGL.
It would be nice if OpenGL would keep up and even add gizmo capabilities of its own but the truth is, the people who work the design spec of OpenGL are too damn slow.
This pains me to say because I frickin' hate M$ and Gates and all things windoze but I cannot deny facts.
You're kidding right? VMWare still requires that you have a full copy of Windoze. It also requires huge system resources and is dog slow for games. It may be fine for playing older games or games that are not graphics-intensive, but is NOT for games.
At least with wine, you don't need a copy of windoze. Better yet, if a game is native linux, it will be faster and better still.
VMWare was never intended for games in any case.
Though I like and use wine for some games, because I have no choice, emulation as a means of using apps is not beneficial. OS/2 had this problem (among others). It had Win-OS2, giving it the ability to run many then extant windoze apps. Then came Windoze 95 and Win-OS2 couldn't deal with those apps.
IBM then had a choice, update Win-OS2 to support the latest win95 stuff or encourage native apps. By this time, BECAUSE of Win-OS2, there was an extreme lack of native OS/2 apps and support. Why would a software company make OS/2 apps when their Win3.1 apps ran under OS/2 just fine?
Chaotic "support" from IBM and the existence of Win-OS2 prevented the production of OS/2 apps early on. There was no foothold established for OS/2 apps. When Win95 came along, it was all but over. Apps came out for doze but not for OS/2 and Win-OS2 couldn't handle Win95 apps either - the end.
The linux community must be careful and learn the OS/2 lesson. Do NOT count exclusively on wine to bring games to linux. It is a tightrope. One false calculation and all linux will be left with are legacy windoze games as M$ changes something so that it is unusable on linux. It is also NOT a good position to be in vis a vis games to ALWAYS play catchup.
Ultimately, I was responding to the ridiculous claim made in the slashdot article reference that there were these meanings in 2001: bullcrap references to exhaust nozzle shape = bathroom tile shape = ship is human, and the rest.
If I had the compunction, I could probably sit down with ANY book, no matter how simple or complex, and in a twisted way find reference and meanings that the author NEVER intended and NEVER even had. References and allegorical statements about the Praying Mantis, or homosexualities place in MacArthyism, allegories to the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Yeah, I'm sure I could find all of this in even a Barney the dinosaur movie. It would be twisted and painful stretching but I could do it - and it would be total nonsense and pointless.
Kind of like all the crap about all the "hidden meaning and allegory" in Kubrick's 2001.
Ahem...it wasn't several billion years ago. It was 65 million years ago. The earth itself, and the Sun, are themselves only several billion years old.
In any case, it needn't be a huge extinction asteroid in order for it to be a HUGE problem and danger. Even a relatively smallish asteroid impacting in the wrong place could be devestating globally. Don't think in terms of ONLY big-ass dinosaur killers. Just a big rock or comet, too small to devestate the world the way the dinosaur killer did, would still be a horrible danger and have disastrous consequences. Such smaller objects are more likely than a dinosaur killer but still important to know about in advance...and easier to deal with.
The more modern a nuke, the less powerful it is. As the guidance technology improves, you no longer need big megatonners, a few kilotons will do because you can get a direct hit.
The main reason earlier nukes were of multi-megaton design was because the circular error probable (CEP) was quite large. In order to destroy your target, you NEEDED a big-ass nuke to make up for the inaccuracy. Now, with pinpoint accuracy, it really isn't even alwaysnecessary to use a nuke against hardened targets. A well-designed and accurate conventional weapon can be made to take out many hardened targets.
To take out an area, say to eliminate a huge host of an army in place, you can use a fuel-air weapon. Such weapons produce a shockwave blast equivalent to small nukes but leave no radioactive residue anywhere. They would liquify anyone within their effective radius, turn railroad cars into smashed aluminum cans, and do the job nicely...and ANY country, rich or poor can make these weapons.
No one need read it, it still has meaning - because the author imbued it with meaning. He or she experienced the writing/creating of it and therefore knows what it means - and one way or another it has meaning to them. After the author's death, if no one ever sees it again, it then lacks meaning at that time, but it will always have HAD meaning at its inception.
"It" could sit for 200 years in a diary never read except at the time of writing it by the author...and it still has/had meaning.
That was/is not its reputation. It WAS more stable than Windoze up to and including win98 (and probably doze ME). It WAS a beautifully executed system with a nice GUI, object oriented design, and so forth.
What it never got was full IBM support and, therefore, never got decent applications made for it, nor device drivers, etc.
I used OS/2 up to and including Warp 4.0. After that, it just didn't have the legs to continue so I jumped ship to linux. No matter what, I can't see ever going back to it (under any name), and certainly not for $279. That's like buying windoze, which I have never done. You pay that price for no software (game or productivity), limited drivers...what's the point?
Doh! I meant your ENGLISH teacher was loaded with crap with that statement that "there is often meaning there that even they weren't aware of", to paraphrase.
I repeat, the meaning in with the viewer, not the work...unless the artist/creator put it there. If there are author notes, diaries, comments, etc, that indicate that this may have been the case, THEN and only then can it be reasonably claimed that this or that meaning exists in the work.
If the author didn't put it in there, then it isn't there. The READER/VIEWER may "see" it in there, which is merely a reflection of their own minds, but the work itself, and the intent of it's creator was not to put it there.
You can overanalyze anything. All it comes to is mental masturbation and self-examination and gameplay. Nothing different than looking at clouds and seeing a horse or a screaming eagle. Neither is really there, the cloud contains nothing but microscopic particles and water vapor and a few other trace chemicals/elements. It's shape is not allegorical and has no intrinsic meaning. You the view embue it with a meaning.
It can be fun but it is also a load of crap...if you try to go on to say the meaning YOU "see" is really there.
Most of that crap in the "analysis" of Kubrick's 2001 wasn't there and wasn't intended to be there. Bathroom tile rocket nozzles implying the ship was human? Pa-leeze. More likely it had to do with materials available for making an interesting plastic model for filming. The author could go through a twisted series of nonsensical arguments to make the same point no matter what shape the nozzles were (round nozzles "obviously" signify toilet bowels, hence the ship is human!).
Hate to say it, but your art teacher was full of crapola. If the creator of a work didn't place a meaning or reference in their creation, then it isn't there, period. You the viewer may see meaning never intended or imagined by the original artist, but that is beside the point. The work doesn't intrinsically contain that meaning. You do.
Yet...the information was released for ALL to read and make use of in the proper, NORMAL, scientific fashion. The field of science does not accept "closed source information".
The M$ model would hold that Watson and Crick should have taken out an IP on their correct calculation and thereby charged a fee for anyone who made use of, or spoke of, the double helix.
Science is all about "find out what's up and publish it for the world to see", not, "find out what's up and patent it before anyone else does and charge anyone who makes use of the information."
Like installing a little software is such a big freaking deal for someone who obviously thinks they are cthulu's gift to sysadmins.
Man...you are missing an "h" in your blasphemous statement. It's - dare I write His name?- Cthulhu. Capital C and a second h. You risk a visit from Nyarlathotep for speaking (okay...WRITING) His name in vain - and misspelling it at that! We'll see how well you sleep now as the blaring horns wail in the night as His minions approach to kick your ass.
Whoa. I think you need to rethink your website color scheme. That blue text on a black background is hard to read. When I first got to your site I thought is was mostly blank, except for some white dates text on the left side.
But...with linux (and others I presume) one can password protect single user mode. I would assume that this could be done with MacOS X too(?)
Of course, it is likely that most people do not enable the password protection...and what happens when you lose/forget your password? It isn't like forgetting a bios password where all you have to do is open the case and blank out the bios and start over.
No, no, no. It should not in any way be OK for federal, state, local governments to use computer software which, at the very least, produces documents that are only viewable or usable by those who have, let's say, Windoze on them.
Anything that any public service entity produces, from informational documents to forms, which is presented in an "e-format" should be in a format that ANYONE can view and use regardless of OS or CPU. The government's job is NOT to serve the best interests of M$, but to serve the best interest of the citizens to which they are beholden. Open standards (REAL, not "de facto" standards) that ANYONE with a standards-compliant browser, wordprocessor, or what-have-you, should be able to painlessly view or use these documents.
The best way to ensure this IS to use opensource at best, or, if you MUST use closed source sh*t like windoze, then anything presented to for public consumption should be REQUIRED to be in open format. HTML(true, HTML, not HTML with M$-specific extensions), XML (TRUE XML), java (TRUE java, not C# or M$Java).
I know the X-box will get it first. I also know that there will never be a linux version, ESPECIALLY now.
The X-box will have it and then the WindozeXP will get it. After that, a LOOOONG delay before the Mac may get a port. Never will linux get one.
So...you wont mind if I just walk into your home at any time, go through your drawers, watch you have sex, etc.
Privacy is necessary - psychologically. People seek out time for themselves if they do not have it. They seek privacy if it is not available to them on a normal basis. So do you. You NEED privacy every bit as much as you need socialization.
Has there been ANY opensource game of a modern design that has actually gotten anywhere?
Golgotha Forever is FOREVER in development and by the time it gets anywhere near a 1.0 level of development, commercial games will leave it in the dust of graphics development.
New commercial games use the latest super-duper capabilities of the newest graphics cards. Soon, games will be wowing people by taking advantage of the Geforce 3. Golgotha? It will continue to be developed and developed, always 3 generations behind the newest and best commercial game as far as AI and graphics tech. Why? Because open source sucks? NO. It is because a commercial game developer does just that, GAMES. It is the sole job of the coders to make great games. With open source projects, it is a hobby, a night-time sideline that the coders are doing on their spare time after finishing a day at their real job.
It is too slow...and games are THE leading edge, cutthroat, fast-paced development arena. It is not a very good place for hobbyists to hope in any way, shape, or form to make a MODERN, graphics-intensive game that compares with the products of full-time commercial game companies.
Good luck (I exclusively use linux, afterall, so I am not some M$ hack/apologist/cheerleader), but I really don't see it having a chance against M$ or Sony. If they consider it a resume filler, then it has a value there, as you may well get snatched up by a game software development company, but beyond that? It may be a "game console" in theory, but it wont really be a game console.
If they prove me wrong, I'll make tea out of my dirty underware right here on slashdot.
Get off it. I am SOOOOO tired of the "guv'mnt spying on everyone - evil guv'mnt". Shit, the "guv'mnt" is made up of regular ole people, like your cousin, your neighbor, your best friend's father or mother. All evil people by association.
Sure, I do not want to be spied upon by anyone, but the guv'mnt has all my vitals already since I have a security clearance. What I want to know is why is it that you all always and ALMOST exclusively hate the guv'mnt (your neighbors, friend's, cousins, etc) doing anything but do not shit all over corporations for doing the same stuff. Corporations are, BY FAR, the most agregious violators of privacy and the biggest threat, not the "guv'mnt". Sure, limit guv'mnt info collection on people to that required for proper law enforcement (with valid court order) or properly providing services, but REALLY put the crimp on nefarious corporate privacy desecration too. THAT is the big problem.
Which is why we can look forward to NEVER having a linux version of Halo, inspite of how "independent" Bungie thinks they still are after being bought out by M$. Dickwads.
This is obviously a hypothetical question to the extreme since with the new illegitimate administration, with its tongue probed so far up corporate ass that it is tickling tonsils, there is a snowball's chance in hell of ANY adverse action against M$. That and the botch-job Judge Jackson did by blabbing to the media the way he did, there is no chance whatsoever of a breakup.
The last best hope is a host of state initiated lawsuits, those already extant and any that can be brought up in the near term.
Planet OOG is not taken yet, thankfully. I vote that the planet with the circular orbit in the habitable zone be called "OOG".
It would be foolish to try to wrest desktop market share from Apple with their MacOS X. Why? Unlike a PC, a Mac ALWAYS has some form or other of MacOS on it. It is even more pervasive than Windoze on the PC side (and at least recently it is possible to get linux installed rather than doze - or if you build your own, as I do, you don't have ANY os installed and get to do it all yourself with a virgin system).
On the Mac, even if you install linux, you still always have MacOS - there is no choice. Your ONLY choice is dual boot. With a PC it IS a choice. So, in order to compete with MacOS X, linux would have to actually offer more of value to the Mac user than MacOS X can. I don't see it. Sure, linux is free if you wish to download it yourself or VERY cheap if you want to buy from cheapbytes, but it is still more effort and offers nothing especially compelling over and above MacOS X to make this worthwhile. They also have more game companies on board. With linux, we have, let's see, Loki and iD (after a fashion).
There IS an argument for fighting for desktop from M$ on the PC side but it is lost on the Mac side vs OS X...unless OS X remains buggy and slow, which isn't likely.
Of course you can save it. It is buffered to your harddrive, in a temp directory under some bizarro name. All you have to do is NOT close your player after viewing it and do a search of your temp files looking for a big file in the many megabytes range. Chances are that is the video. Copy it to another name somewhere and you have it.
Uh...it's called PROFIT. You are permitted to gain a profit. Or are you against making ANYTHING on the sale of your house.
Then there is depreciation. Unless your car is a real nice classic that you fixed up from crap to jewel, your car is depreciating. You cannot sell it for what you paid for it. You must take it in the ass and accept MUCH less than you paid for it.
That all said, the record companies can kiss my lilly white ass. I'll do my thing just to screw them over.