Best of luck. Promoting Linux on the desktop is good, but I'm tired of broken packages pushed out as stable (latest kate in Ubuntu locks up on file open) and I highly value graphical network transparency. It's back to Debian for me.
That's not bullshit at all. A woman may say stop at any point during sex and you stop, you don't keep on going, if you do, I'm sorry but you're a rapist. I thought this was a pretty well known and accepted fact.
Quite true, yet baseless allegations will not do - evidence is required. For example, evidence of physical injury, cuts, bruises etc, or testimony from witnesses.
..but those trees look very lame. Compare to Speed Tree which looked ten times better five years ago. Back to the drawing board, smart people. Or just do what I suggested a couple years ago and license Speed Tree. This is not the sort of development work that is every going to get done satisfactorily by the smart-but-lazy. NIH, just don't do it.
Maybe there's room for a more open, PC-like solution to consoles that will also help displace MS from gaming-on-the-PC? Given the current level of graphics-card development, would a micro-PC be able handle a card capable of matching or exceeding current gen consoles?
An ordinary PC will do. Today a $100 graphics card outperforms both XBox and PS3 by a multiple. No console manufacturer can beat the economies of scale of the PC industry or match the rate of progress.
There is now very little difference between a PC and a current gen console, except for access restrictions. About the only hardware difference I can think of is the PS3's automatic power on when inserting an optical disk. I would not call that the biggest issue in the world, but perhaps that is something PCs should be able to do. Historically, Microsoft has driven PC hardware standards but I expect no interest from that quarter in a feature clearly targeted at console replacement. Perhaps some game oriented manufacturers could be induced to do this on their own initiative, for example Shuttle or Alienware. I have a feeling it would catch on pretty quickly.
The only thing standing in the way of content availability on Linux is absolute numbers of users. Now, we can play the Google card. Obviously, any game that runs on Android can run on any Linux distribution. There soon will be a deluge of Android games, mostly pretty awful at first, but then becoming increasingly more real. Two relatively minor obstacles are: 1) mouse not standard on Android and 2) Java. The rise of Android tablets will fix the first one and Oracle will fix the second one by driving Android development away from Java into the arms of C++ where it belongs.
I feel abused and mistreated by Sony. Sony demonstrated to me a solid record of not admitting to any hardware defects and not standing behind just-out-of-warranty hardware that died multiple deaths. Customer contact policy is beyond condescending. Their next console could be the best in the universe, the aggravation will never be worth it.
Not there's a snowball's chance I would buy from Microsoft either. As far as I'm concerned this is the end of the line for consoles in my home, period. I fondly hope that the PC gaming scene will get out from under the dead hand of Microsoft in time to pick up the slack. If not, I have better things to do with my time.
I would be extremely surprised if Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and just about any other ally of the United States were not also spying on the US
So your defense is "they do it too"[1] which somehow makes it ok in your mind.
Regardless of validity or value, patents in Microsoft's hands are far more dangerous than copyrights. By abusing legal process as has been its habit Microsoft can employ its huge cash reserves to cause a great deal of trouble for honest competitors, including volunteers.
In my opinion, Microsoft gaining control of Novell's patent portfolio is a gross violation of antitrust law and this violation should be pursued vigorously and immediately, not in reaction to dirty tricks that are sure to follow (caveat: I am not a lawyer).
all that mattered in that day and age were the visuals, so the games were stunning successes
It was fun too, but after five more generations of "things jumping at your face" it got old, very old. Hence Id got absorbed by a company with more of an clue how to involve the player.
Look at even the best Rage screenshots. It's Quake with a sky box instead of a ceiling.
For quite some time, Paul Otellini, board member of Google, was also sitting on Intel's board while Eric Schmidt sat on Apple's board. While this linking of boards in itself is not proof of anything it is suggestive that some "out of band" communication may have been taking place. (In my opinion, Google as a huge consumer of data center hardware should be expected to avoid on its own recognizance all appearance of bias towards one processor manufacturer or another.)
Maybe AMD is getting involved because one, it can. It's pretty much the only real open source project for mobile that is being worked on.
Wow, mod insightful! Indeed, because of open source AMD can invite itself to the party. It's amazing how open source can get the bitterest enemies to cooperate. This also happens in the film business where the competing studios all contribute to key production tools running linux. And incidentally, also run Linux on their IT servers and artists desktops (PHBs still run window$).
Linux is a server OS that has been migrated to desktops, cell phones, set-top boxes, and tons of other devices. Frankly I don't think there's anything wrong with Android. The primary issue is that most manufacturers can't put together a decent hardware/UI package. I had an opportunity to play with a soon-to-be released Android tablet device and I was taken aback at how atrocious the feedback was on the touchscreen. I thought the iPad was horrible with being responsive to touch/slides but wow. Is that Google/Android's fault? No, it's the touchscreen manufacturer's fault.
No so. Linux is a terminal emulator that has migrated not just to desktops and servers, but practically every other kind of machine that can think, with the possible exception of pen clocks.
I love me some AMD, but this is just confirmation that mobile is where the money is at, and Intel and AMD are both out of the running compared to ARM-class chips (power usage), and are struggling to keep relevant.
Specifically the "iPad cannibalization" meme is probably scaring the pants off the x86 chipmakers, who hope to stave off (or take relevant share) of the nascent tablet invasion.
Bingo. Specifically, AMD and Intel are taking a competitive stance against Apple and Google. And all are doing their damdest to promote Linux! Who woulda thunkit.
And there is another big theme here: anti-Java, pro native. Java on cell phones is just, in a word, idiocy. It introduces startup lag which people don't want, sucks more battery to do the same job, and has legal problems. This new situation should help Google get a clue and offer a proper native environment for Android development, as opposed to that weird malformed JNI silliness. With JNI you can in theory write native apps but they use Java as a launcher which introduces nasty startup latency, and its far harder to debug JNI apps than native. Plus the JNI interface is just sickening to work with.
IPv6 is exactly that: IPv4 with an extended address field.
Incorrect. An IPv4 packet is not recognized as a valid IPv6 packet, therefore IPv6 is not just extended IPv4. It is a different, incompatible protocol. That was a huge mistake and the resulting epic fail inevitably followed.
Throwing out backward compatibility. Rule number one: just don't do it.
If IPv6 had not been horribly misconceived in the first place there would be no dual stack and there would be a much less painful transition path. By extending IPv4, not by trying to leave it behind.
It is in fact not too late to go back to IPv4 and extend it. Maybe the time is about right to do that.
one of the many faults of capitalism is that those with a ton of money can do the stupidest shit and still come out okay.
It's actually supposed to be illegal to fund an attack on a new market by selling for less than cost, subsidized by profits from an existing monopoly. It's called dumping. Of course, Microsoft has always just thumbed its nose at the law, and for the most part, profited thereby. I see nothing on the horizon to change that. Fortunately, Microsoft is busy imploding due to its own internal diseased organizational dysfunctionality. While still capable of great harm in its typically hamhanded way, its days of dominating any market segment outside its illegally maintained desktop and office software are over forever.
The G2 keyboard is pretty nice, but Goog totally dropped the ball on handling special symbols. You simply cannot enter the special symbols with the keyboard and the cursor control is way broken. These are software issues. Just one of a huge list of little warts marring a decent product.
If the Android project were truly open such issues would be well on their way to being fixed by now. But it is not truly open and satisfactory solutions will therefore not come from Google, they will come from people who like to fix things for the love it, not just to pull down a paycheck. And that in a nutshell is why root access and community built roms are essential to the continued success of Android.
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Best of luck. Promoting Linux on the desktop is good, but I'm tired of broken packages pushed out as stable (latest kate in Ubuntu locks up on file open) and I highly value graphical network transparency. It's back to Debian for me.
That's not bullshit at all. A woman may say stop at any point during sex and you stop, you don't keep on going, if you do, I'm sorry but you're a rapist. I thought this was a pretty well known and accepted fact.
Quite true, yet baseless allegations will not do - evidence is required. For example, evidence of physical injury, cuts, bruises etc, or testimony from witnesses.
How do you feel about Hillary Clinton ordering illegal spying on the Secretary General of the United Nations?
Why in the end we will have to move to IPv6 ? Why not now ?
Because nobody wants to be on the internet all by themselves.
..but those trees look very lame. Compare to Speed Tree which looked ten times better five years ago. Back to the drawing board, smart people. Or just do what I suggested a couple years ago and license Speed Tree. This is not the sort of development work that is every going to get done satisfactorily by the smart-but-lazy. NIH, just don't do it.
Maybe there's room for a more open, PC-like solution to consoles that will also help displace MS from gaming-on-the-PC? Given the current level of graphics-card development, would a micro-PC be able handle a card capable of matching or exceeding current gen consoles?
An ordinary PC will do. Today a $100 graphics card outperforms both XBox and PS3 by a multiple. No console manufacturer can beat the economies of scale of the PC industry or match the rate of progress.
There is now very little difference between a PC and a current gen console, except for access restrictions. About the only hardware difference I can think of is the PS3's automatic power on when inserting an optical disk. I would not call that the biggest issue in the world, but perhaps that is something PCs should be able to do. Historically, Microsoft has driven PC hardware standards but I expect no interest from that quarter in a feature clearly targeted at console replacement. Perhaps some game oriented manufacturers could be induced to do this on their own initiative, for example Shuttle or Alienware. I have a feeling it would catch on pretty quickly.
The only thing standing in the way of content availability on Linux is absolute numbers of users. Now, we can play the Google card. Obviously, any game that runs on Android can run on any Linux distribution. There soon will be a deluge of Android games, mostly pretty awful at first, but then becoming increasingly more real. Two relatively minor obstacles are: 1) mouse not standard on Android and 2) Java. The rise of Android tablets will fix the first one and Oracle will fix the second one by driving Android development away from Java into the arms of C++ where it belongs.
"His plan involves the creation of a dns root server to begin with that uses PEER-TO-PEER technology and is SECURE"
uh...I'm pretty sure those two things normally don't go together...
I don't know where you got that idea from, have you never heard of network of trust?
The US government is not a bunch of teenagers.
I feel abused and mistreated by Sony. Sony demonstrated to me a solid record of not admitting to any hardware defects and not standing behind just-out-of-warranty hardware that died multiple deaths. Customer contact policy is beyond condescending. Their next console could be the best in the universe, the aggravation will never be worth it.
Not there's a snowball's chance I would buy from Microsoft either. As far as I'm concerned this is the end of the line for consoles in my home, period. I fondly hope that the PC gaming scene will get out from under the dead hand of Microsoft in time to pick up the slack. If not, I have better things to do with my time.
I would be extremely surprised if Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and just about any other ally of the United States were not also spying on the US
So your defense is "they do it too"[1] which somehow makes it ok in your mind.
[1] Bare assertion without supporting evidence
For the most part, most of us live long enough...
A fine troll indeed. Most of us will miss you when you die.
Because taking apart a screwdriver is such an enriching experience.
Give him a damn baseball or something, the last thing he needs in his formative years is to vegetate in front of a screen.
My kid learned to read the spell lists in Oblivion at the age of three, how is yours doing with the baseball?
Regardless of validity or value, patents in Microsoft's hands are far more dangerous than copyrights. By abusing legal process as has been its habit Microsoft can employ its huge cash reserves to cause a great deal of trouble for honest competitors, including volunteers.
In my opinion, Microsoft gaining control of Novell's patent portfolio is a gross violation of antitrust law and this violation should be pursued vigorously and immediately, not in reaction to dirty tricks that are sure to follow (caveat: I am not a lawyer).
all that mattered in that day and age were the visuals, so the games were stunning successes
It was fun too, but after five more generations of "things jumping at your face" it got old, very old. Hence Id got absorbed by a company with more of an clue how to involve the player.
Look at even the best Rage screenshots. It's Quake with a sky box instead of a ceiling.
For quite some time, Paul Otellini, board member of Google, was also sitting on Intel's board while Eric Schmidt sat on Apple's board. While this linking of boards in itself is not proof of anything it is suggestive that some "out of band" communication may have been taking place. (In my opinion, Google as a huge consumer of data center hardware should be expected to avoid on its own recognizance all appearance of bias towards one processor manufacturer or another.)
I'm not one of those people who mindlessly bashes on Microsoft for being Microsoft.
I'm not either. I bash Microsoft for having no respect for the law and not a shred of moral fiber, as well as creating horrible buggy software.
At some point in the future or past even, someone will write a totally new OSS OS and everyone will like it...
At some point pigs may fly.
Seriously, a ground up totally new OS just isn't a practical proposition compared to improving the existing one.
Maybe AMD is getting involved because one, it can. It's pretty much the only real open source project for mobile that is being worked on.
Wow, mod insightful! Indeed, because of open source AMD can invite itself to the party. It's amazing how open source can get the bitterest enemies to cooperate. This also happens in the film business where the competing studios all contribute to key production tools running linux. And incidentally, also run Linux on their IT servers and artists desktops (PHBs still run window$).
Linux is a server OS that has been migrated to desktops, cell phones, set-top boxes, and tons of other devices. Frankly I don't think there's anything wrong with Android. The primary issue is that most manufacturers can't put together a decent hardware/UI package. I had an opportunity to play with a soon-to-be released Android tablet device and I was taken aback at how atrocious the feedback was on the touchscreen. I thought the iPad was horrible with being responsive to touch/slides but wow. Is that Google/Android's fault? No, it's the touchscreen manufacturer's fault.
No so. Linux is a terminal emulator that has migrated not just to desktops and servers, but practically every other kind of machine that can think, with the possible exception of pen clocks.
I love me some AMD, but this is just confirmation that mobile is where the money is at, and Intel and AMD are both out of the running compared to ARM-class chips (power usage), and are struggling to keep relevant.
Specifically the "iPad cannibalization" meme is probably scaring the pants off the x86 chipmakers, who hope to stave off (or take relevant share) of the nascent tablet invasion.
Bingo. Specifically, AMD and Intel are taking a competitive stance against Apple and Google. And all are doing their damdest to promote Linux! Who woulda thunkit.
And there is another big theme here: anti-Java, pro native. Java on cell phones is just, in a word, idiocy. It introduces startup lag which people don't want, sucks more battery to do the same job, and has legal problems. This new situation should help Google get a clue and offer a proper native environment for Android development, as opposed to that weird malformed JNI silliness. With JNI you can in theory write native apps but they use Java as a launcher which introduces nasty startup latency, and its far harder to debug JNI apps than native. Plus the JNI interface is just sickening to work with.
IPv6 is exactly that: IPv4 with an extended address field.
Incorrect. An IPv4 packet is not recognized as a valid IPv6 packet, therefore IPv6 is not just extended IPv4. It is a different, incompatible protocol. That was a huge mistake and the resulting epic fail inevitably followed.
Throwing out backward compatibility. Rule number one: just don't do it.
If IPv6 had not been horribly misconceived in the first place there would be no dual stack and there would be a much less painful transition path. By extending IPv4, not by trying to leave it behind.
It is in fact not too late to go back to IPv4 and extend it. Maybe the time is about right to do that.
one of the many faults of capitalism is that those with a ton of money can do the stupidest shit and still come out okay.
It's actually supposed to be illegal to fund an attack on a new market by selling for less than cost, subsidized by profits from an existing monopoly. It's called dumping. Of course, Microsoft has always just thumbed its nose at the law, and for the most part, profited thereby. I see nothing on the horizon to change that. Fortunately, Microsoft is busy imploding due to its own internal diseased organizational dysfunctionality. While still capable of great harm in its typically hamhanded way, its days of dominating any market segment outside its illegally maintained desktop and office software are over forever.
The G2 keyboard is pretty nice, but Goog totally dropped the ball on handling special symbols. You simply cannot enter the special symbols with the keyboard and the cursor control is way broken. These are software issues. Just one of a huge list of little warts marring a decent product.
If the Android project were truly open such issues would be well on their way to being fixed by now. But it is not truly open and satisfactory solutions will therefore not come from Google, they will come from people who like to fix things for the love it, not just to pull down a paycheck. And that in a nutshell is why root access and community built roms are essential to the continued success of Android.