I've read all 150+ comments on here so far, and have yet to see one thing noted:
Part of the deal is they get a crap-load of stock in SonicBlue.
SonicBlue has hardware/software out there in virtually every thing that reads/writes CDs/DVDs, as far as embedded systems go (like your home CD-Recorder or DVD-Recorder, and players, and such).
Someone should google around for SonicBlue's profits, and see what type of a good thing it's going to be for them to still be making money off the stock part of SonicBlue, WHILE using this mega cash infusion to put some work into securing hopefully good stuff on the Napster side of things.
Could you explain why, when I go looking for an image viewing program for my debian installation, I have a selection of some 82,000(*) different programs that will display a JPG in a window on X?
(*) this number pulled out of my ass, but let's just say.. there were a LOT of them
It didn't say the original investors were being sued.. it said that there were lawsuits still in progress with the music cartel, to determine if the users of Napster are guilty of stealing from them, basically.
RTA, it says so right in it. I don't have it up on screen to cut and paste, but yes they will be retaining the Roxio name, and "most of" the employees.
The Audio subsystems are junk. Mixing should be handled intelligently by the drivers, and it should be standard unix systems used to access it. You want to play a file, you dump it to/dev/audio, you want to record something, you open/dev/mic or/dev/linein and and record it.
Additional controls should be handled by ioctls to the special devices.
The weapon SOUNDS don't do it. The shotgun and the rocket launcher are especially disappointing. And the rocket launcher feels like the Quake 2 rocket launcher, like lobbing water balloons around instead of explosives.
It might be the slightly underpowered system I was using, it was only pulling about 20fps in most cases, but the weapon graphics don't look right to me. The POWER of the weapons is fine.. they just don't LOOK/SOUND right...
And the damage appearances didn't really do it for me either.. dump a couple shotgun blasts into a marine, and his skin falls off? I wanna see some freakin gibs..
I haven't seen any problems with the wireless networks, but i have seen the networks cause big problems for the phones.
My roommate's bf claims that if he walks by his laptop with his 2.4G cordless turned on, his laptop drops link, but I haven't seen it. I know it'll definitely cause the phone's range to suck, though.
I know you really don't care to hear people's subjective opinions.. but..
Doom 3 is scary as hell. That's great.
The weapons SUCK. It feels like I'm playing with Unreal's weapons. The feedback sucks, the damage is way off, and the lack of prevalent gibs is just not right for an id game.
hmm. can i find these at some local retailer, like compusa or something? i'd seriously love one that is Linux compatible and is 16-bit, cuz my old laptop won't take the 32-bit ones...
Probably likely that no one still using that hardware is involved with development.
My hardware is "older", being a 600MHz P3, that doesn't even have an AGP slot.. and every thing is supported straight up.. I've been running the bleeding edge kernel since 2.5.53, and have had zero hardware problems. I also have kernel 2.6.something on my 400MHz webserver, and on my 133MHz email server. No new hardware in any of that, either. All old stuff.
Aha! The fractal compression program! I remember seeing that, and playing with it. Was fun! Especially when I showed it to my friends, after I'd figured it out.
I could be wrong, but I thought that it also intercepted the get-free-space call, and reported your free space + the amount of stuff stored in the hidden directory.. maybe different version?
Ya know, I think that it DID actually install some TSR that would identify your processor as having the FUNCTIONALITY of a 486, allowing you to run certain programs that would refuse to run if you had a 386.. So I think there was SOME actual use to this program.. though a real chip ID would still tell you you had a 386, there was some function or other that was called to determine if your processor had the capabilities of a 486, and some programs refused to run if you didn't have them.
Something like that, anyway.
There was also a similar program that would boost the refresh timing on your memory.. didn't show a LOT of speed improvement, but it could actually help on some machines, though most people thought it was complete BS..
really, you'd figure that it would be able to make semi intelligent guesstimations of what resources are available just by inspecting the files within the system. god only knows what it's really doing.
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I dunno if anyone has anything to do with this website around here, but.. trying to go there.. I'm getting a page that looks really screwed up in IE 5.5...
I think that Autoconf is about a bazillion times more complex than it probably needs to be. Perhaps one day I'll get to looking at it, and seeing what it really does, because it appears to do a whole bunch of mostly trivial junk, but everyone says it's insanely complex.
I'm not saying that it's confusingly similar, or not.
I'm saying that it's likely the guy that owns it, wanted to invoke thoughts of Google.
Really, he should be after Google for using Froogle, but I don't think that he should win that one, either, since froogle would be an obvious for google to go into.
i'd say it's more of a mistake on someone's part than anything.
I think the original guy (froogles) by using that name would have been trying to invoke the good name of google, without copying them (since obviously at the time google wasn't in the esales business).. and that google thinks that he is going straight after their service.
Obviously, "Froogles" was an attempt to make people think of "Google", otherwise why would you misspell "frugal" in that fashion? Same reason why google wanted to use "froogle".. because it makes it obvious that it's related to google.
Just because Google didn't have a web shopping business before doesn't mean that it's ok to use a name potentially confusingly similar, without being related.
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Yes, I agree completely.. the c0st of being 0wned is totally different...
nice, people. way to cut and paste. lol
I've read all 150+ comments on here so far, and have yet to see one thing noted:
Part of the deal is they get a crap-load of stock in SonicBlue.
SonicBlue has hardware/software out there in virtually every thing that reads/writes CDs/DVDs, as far as embedded systems go (like your home CD-Recorder or DVD-Recorder, and players, and such).
Someone should google around for SonicBlue's profits, and see what type of a good thing it's going to be for them to still be making money off the stock part of SonicBlue, WHILE using this mega cash infusion to put some work into securing hopefully good stuff on the Napster side of things.
many less risky ways...
you mean, like, dumping it all into the state Lotto?
Could you explain why, when I go looking for an image viewing program for my debian installation, I have a selection of some 82,000(*) different programs that will display a JPG in a window on X?
(*) this number pulled out of my ass, but let's just say.. there were a LOT of them
It didn't say the original investors were being sued.. it said that there were lawsuits still in progress with the music cartel, to determine if the users of Napster are guilty of stealing from them, basically.
RTA, it says so right in it. I don't have it up on screen to cut and paste, but yes they will be retaining the Roxio name, and "most of" the employees.
The Audio subsystems are junk. Mixing should be handled intelligently by the drivers, and it should be standard unix systems used to access it. You want to play a file, you dump it to /dev/audio, you want to record something, you open /dev/mic or /dev/linein and and record it.
Additional controls should be handled by ioctls to the special devices.
The sound system in Linux is a nightmare.
The weapon SOUNDS don't do it. The shotgun and the rocket launcher are especially disappointing. And the rocket launcher feels like the Quake 2 rocket launcher, like lobbing water balloons around instead of explosives.
It might be the slightly underpowered system I was using, it was only pulling about 20fps in most cases, but the weapon graphics don't look right to me. The POWER of the weapons is fine.. they just don't LOOK/SOUND right...
And the damage appearances didn't really do it for me either.. dump a couple shotgun blasts into a marine, and his skin falls off? I wanna see some freakin gibs..
id CREATED gibs.. we need more gibs.
(and some more cowbell too)
That's very interesting, considering I didn't even READ the other story...
I haven't seen any problems with the wireless networks, but i have seen the networks cause big problems for the phones.
My roommate's bf claims that if he walks by his laptop with his 2.4G cordless turned on, his laptop drops link, but I haven't seen it. I know it'll definitely cause the phone's range to suck, though.
I know you really don't care to hear people's subjective opinions.. but..
Doom 3 is scary as hell. That's great.
The weapons SUCK. It feels like I'm playing with Unreal's weapons. The feedback sucks, the damage is way off, and the lack of prevalent gibs is just not right for an id game.
hmm. can i find these at some local retailer, like compusa or something? i'd seriously love one that is Linux compatible and is 16-bit, cuz my old laptop won't take the 32-bit ones...
In the kernel help for PCMCIA, it says that ISA is required to operate 16-bit PCMCIA cards, I think.
What 802.11 cards are 16-bit? All the ones I've found are 32 bit..
Probably likely that no one still using that hardware is involved with development.
My hardware is "older", being a 600MHz P3, that doesn't even have an AGP slot.. and every thing is supported straight up.. I've been running the bleeding edge kernel since 2.5.53, and have had zero hardware problems. I also have kernel 2.6.something on my 400MHz webserver, and on my 133MHz email server. No new hardware in any of that, either. All old stuff.
I'm sure Windows already does this, and I'm also sure that people could find a better way to do it than what Windows already does..
How many times has scheduling been re-written or at least different algorithms attempted, in Linux? Just to see if it gets any better.
Virtually everything can stand to be improved upon..
(no, i'm not defending this dubious looking piece of software)
Aha! The fractal compression program! I remember seeing that, and playing with it. Was fun! Especially when I showed it to my friends, after I'd figured it out.
I could be wrong, but I thought that it also intercepted the get-free-space call, and reported your free space + the amount of stuff stored in the hidden directory.. maybe different version?
Ya know, I think that it DID actually install some TSR that would identify your processor as having the FUNCTIONALITY of a 486, allowing you to run certain programs that would refuse to run if you had a 386.. So I think there was SOME actual use to this program.. though a real chip ID would still tell you you had a 386, there was some function or other that was called to determine if your processor had the capabilities of a 486, and some programs refused to run if you didn't have them.
Something like that, anyway.
There was also a similar program that would boost the refresh timing on your memory.. didn't show a LOT of speed improvement, but it could actually help on some machines, though most people thought it was complete BS..
really, you'd figure that it would be able to make semi intelligent guesstimations of what resources are available just by inspecting the files within the system. god only knows what it's really doing.
I dunno if anyone has anything to do with this website around here, but.. trying to go there.. I'm getting a page that looks really screwed up in IE 5.5...
I'm thinking this is going to turn out to be some sort of version of that mystery game that EA did that played in real life.. hmm..
I think that Autoconf is about a bazillion times more complex than it probably needs to be. Perhaps one day I'll get to looking at it, and seeing what it really does, because it appears to do a whole bunch of mostly trivial junk, but everyone says it's insanely complex.
I'm not saying that it's confusingly similar, or not.
I'm saying that it's likely the guy that owns it, wanted to invoke thoughts of Google.
Really, he should be after Google for using Froogle, but I don't think that he should win that one, either, since froogle would be an obvious for google to go into.
Booble is still up and running...
i'd say it's more of a mistake on someone's part than anything.
I think the original guy (froogles) by using that name would have been trying to invoke the good name of google, without copying them (since obviously at the time google wasn't in the esales business).. and that google thinks that he is going straight after their service.
mistakes on both parts.
Obviously, "Froogles" was an attempt to make people think of "Google", otherwise why would you misspell "frugal" in that fashion? Same reason why google wanted to use "froogle".. because it makes it obvious that it's related to google.
Just because Google didn't have a web shopping business before doesn't mean that it's ok to use a name potentially confusingly similar, without being related.